The
U.S. Navy constructed Building 213 in 1944 to store steel blanks for guns. At
the time, no one could have foreseen that the building, on the corner of First
and M streets at the Navy Yard in Southeast Washington, D.C., would become home
to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC). But in January
1963, shortly after the Cuban Missile Crisis, NPIC moved into Building 213. The
new facility was such an improvement over NPIC’s previous home at Fifth and K
streets NW that employees nicknamed it “Lundahl’s Palace,” for Arthur C.
Lundahl, founding director of NPIC (the same man whose legacy is honored by
USGIF’s Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement Award). From
1963 until it was vacated in 2011,
Building 213 reIt was an anonymous box on
the oldest Naval reservation in the nation: the Washington Navy Yard. Building
213 is gone now, part of the re-development of the Washington Navy Yard. I had
been meaning to tell you story, but did not get around to it. I am in a cab
shortly to Dulles and points west, and this is the easy way out for a harried
scribbler this morning.
They
did all sorts of imagery exploitation- from all the sources. Aircraft- first
high-flying military ones like the Mosquitoes that overflew Germany daily
throughout the war, flying so fast and so high that they could never be shot
down or intercepted.
He
remembered I remember the first time he visited there, indoctrinated into the
mysteries, and it was pretty much the same for all of us who worked in the business.
Those
were the days that the drunks hung around the oil drums filled with burning
scrap wood, the women who worked in the building were escorted by armed guards
to their cars, and the sound of gunfire on M Street was the norm in the evening
when the powers of darkness were exalted.
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a fixture in the Intelligence Community—as NPIC was absorbed into the National
Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA) in 1996 and even when NIMA became the
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) in 2003.
Today,
Building 213 awaits demolition, a gradual process that will take place
throughout the first half of 2014. Real estate developer Forest City is
revitalizing the Navy Yard Park neighborhood surrounding Nationals stadium with
“The Yards,” a waterfront community of residences, offices, restaurants, and
retail businesses. Throughout November and December, Forest City invited seven
local and international artists to use Building 213’s facade as a canvas in a project
called Art Yards DC. In addition to creating three murals, Art Yards included
opportunities for children to draw with chalk in the parking lot and a
culminating light show.
PIC
Reunions
Tuesday,
December 1, 2015
The
following is a list of Deceased NPIC/Building 213 Employees taken from the NPIC
Reunions Database.
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It was an anonymous box on the oldest Naval reservation in the
nation: the Washington Navy Yard. Building 213 is gone now, part of the
re-development of the Washington Navy Yard. I had been meaning to tell you
story, but did not get around to it. I am in a cab shortly to Dulles and
points west, and this is the easy way out for a harried scribbler this
morning.
Building 213 was a fascinating place- the center of photographic
interpretation, jointly operated by the CIA and the Department of Defense. It
was called the National Photographic Interpretation Center. It was a nice
facility and very hush-hush. It was much better than the old Ford Dealership
building that had been used in WWII days in DC, with the Spooks coming and going
and no new cars for sale anywhere due to the War Effort.
They did all sorts of imagery exploitation- from all the sources.
Aircraft- first high-flying military ones like the Mosquitoes that overflew
Germany daily throughout the war, flying so fast and so high that they could
never be shot down or intercepted.
Then came the Cold War birds, the U2 Dragon Lady and the SR-71
Blackbirds, the coolest airplane that ever took to the skies.
And then, in parallel, came the really big secrets: the amazing
capabilities of the space-based systems that turned science fiction into the
daily business of the craft of intelligence.
I got a note f
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Building 213
Standard / by rlasche / June 8, 2016 / No
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It was an anonymous box on the oldest Naval reservation in the
nation: the Washington Navy Yard. Building 213 is gone now, part of the
re-development of the Washington Navy Yard. I had been meaning to tell you
story, but did not get around to it. I am in a cab shortly to Dulles and
points west, and this is the easy way out for a harried scribbler this
morning.
Building 213 was a fascinating place- the center of photographic
interpretation, jointly operated by the CIA and the Department of Defense. It
was called the National Photographic Interpretation Center. It was a nice
facility and very hush-hush. It was much better than the old Ford Dealership
building that had been used in WWII days in DC, with the Spooks coming and going
and no new cars for sale anywhere due to the War Effort.
They did all sorts of imagery exploitation- from all the sources.
Aircraft- first high-flying military ones like the Mosquitoes that overflew
Germany daily throughout the war, flying so fast and so high that they could
never be shot down or intercepted.
Then came the Cold War birds, the U2 Dragon Lady and the SR-71
Blackbirds, the coolest airplane that ever took to the skies.
And then, in parallel, came the really big secrets: the amazing
capabilities of the space-based systems that turned science fiction into the
daily business of the craft of intelligence.
I got a note from our pal Point Loma when I was talking about the
removal of the ex-USS Barry from her ceremonial birth at the Yard, and he
reminded me of how it was in SW DC back in the day.
He remembered I remember the first time he visited there,
indoctrinated into the mysteries, and it was pretty much the same for all of
us who worked in the business.
Those were the days that the drunks hung around the oil drums
filled with burning scrap wood, the women who worked in the building were
escorted by armed guards to their cars, and the sound of gunfire on M Street
was the norm in the evening when the powers of darkness were exalted.
Point Loma was the presiding at a military retirement in 2011on Barry. They
local officials said it was in danger of sinking at the pier them, then so
imagine what that would have looked like? It would have been a metaphor, for
sure…
The Yard is an interesting place- here’s a great story about how
60 Minutes ‘outed’ Building 213. If you recall, it had no sign on it and we
weren’t allowed to name it in public. Correspondent Morley Safer goes down
there with a camera crew:
“What is this building in the Washington Navy Yard, with the
bricked up windows, massive security, and people who come and go so quickly
and quietly? Could this be another top secret facility of the US intelligence
community? We’re here to find out.”
He then tries to stop and interview people going to and coming
from 213 but no one will talk about it. he then went across the street where
this old wino was sitting on a park bench in front of a liquor store.
“Sir, can you tell me something about that building across the
street? what is it?”
The wino squinted up at him.
“That one there? that’sh NPIC.”
It had a sign on it by the end of the week after the 60 Minutes
segment had run.
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