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To: Ken who wrote (7613)	8/2/1999 7:37:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

For Martial law? or what? Federal Pen Houses: UN White Vehicles - clink on the link and see some amazing photos, links there will bring up more 8-1-99 UPDATE Date: 8-2-99 From: (on file) Subject: Bastrop vehicles A friend who is a former employee of the Federal Prison System tells me that Bastrop and Terre Haute have government contracts for inmates to re-fit the inside of prison transfer vans...all federal prison vans and possibly other agenies such as Immigration send their vans there to be modified. He knew this immediately when I mentioned it. Just thought you might want to know before you end up going too far out on a limb, here. Carole -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Photo's taken from the air Ground Photos... coming Monday alltexas.net 8-1-99 Bastrop.. AllTexas News Nestled behind a hillside, just out of sight from busy Highway 95 in Bastrop County, Texas, lies a growing fleet of nearly a thousand showroom-new SUVs, 4WD pickups, suburbans and vans. These vehicles are not overflow storage for an overstocked dealer. This fleet is owned by the federal government. All the vehicles are U.N. White. Rumors have been floating in the area for months about a fleet of suspicious vehicles being outfitted with prisoner cages, shackles and insignia such as "U.S. Police Force" and the U.N. roundel. None of the vehicles observed in the storage area appeared to have any markings at all other than window stickers with equipment data. However, prison officials did confirm that the SUVs and vans were in fact being outfitted with prisoner cages and shackles. When pressed for information on the intended users of these vehicles, a prison spokesman said they were intended for the Immigration and Naturalization Service. However, vehicles assigned to the INS are predominantly painted green and those assigned to the Border Patrol are blue in color. The suitability of a high-visibility color such as white for either agency is in question. Large, white vehicles can be seen approaching from miles away. This $30 million fleet of unused government vehicles has been steadily growing, but has not been deployed. It seems the vehicles keep coming in, but none go out to user agencies. This field-full of top-of-the-line utility vehicles, bought with taxpayer dollars, is sitting idle, soaking up Texas sun. The site is located a few miles North of the city of Bastrop on U.S. Prison property. The high-security prison itself takes up the Southern part of the property. The area where the vehicles reside is fenced-off from the public road with no more precaution than a farmer might use to keep his cattle from straying. The unguarded entrance warns that the area is U.S. Prison property and trespassing is prohibited. Another sign strangley warns of "Poison Gas." More photos: alltexas.net