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ANGELES STREETS, SECRET UNDERGROUND BUNKER HOUSES COMMAND CENTER
**Exclusive**
Under L.A., ready for Y2K! Five stories below the Federal
Building in downtown Los Angeles there is a secret computer command center
-- a command center that has enough power, food and water to sustain 50
people for two years!
The DRUDGE REPORT has learned, the bunker, named
ATSAC [Automated Traffic Signal And Control], would become a high-tech
command center used to monitor any civil unrest during a Y2K breakdown!
The compound is reached by a secret elevator located on the parking level
of the Federal Building.
In order to gain access to the ATSAC area you
must pass through 4 bank-style vault doors.
The city's high-tech bunker
has been designed to survive a San Andreas rip and a nuclear explosion.
The main area of the complex is a large space with one 180 degree
semi-circular wall stretching along one half of the room.
Feeling and
looking like a STAR TREK set, the lower work area has dozens of computer
consoles, which will be powered by diesel fuel generators if power is cut.
The upper wall is filled with two rows of 40 large flat panel display
screens -- screens that monitor views from remote controlled cameras placed
throughout the Los Angeles area.
"These cameras are our eyes," one
government source tells the DRUDGE REPORT.
One camera pans across the
infamous Florence and Normandie intersection. One camera is mounted on the
South East corner of the MTA building; another is on the North West. One
camera is at the corner of Cesar Chavez and Vignes looking out on the
intersection by the new city jail.
One camera placed on the roof of a
28-story building has demonstrated dramatic zoom capabilities. With the
camera, you could spot a pimple on someone's face on street level.
The
DRUDGE REPORT has not been able to learn how many cameras have been placed
throughout the city, but most appear to be mounted on public buildings.
The city council and the mayor would ride out a social breakdown episode
inside of ATSAC, according to one emergency plan.
Suggestions that
officials should be moved to the bunker before New Years Day Y2K, so far,
have been met with complete resistance.
"Nobody in their right mind wants
to watch the dawn of a new century from five floors below Los Angeles,"
laughed one well-placed City Hall source.
The bunker, built with local
and federal tax revenue, is strictly off limits to the general public. |
