The U.S. Army
Camp Stanley Storage Activity
andThe CIA
Midwest Depot
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S%mmary& The U.S. Army operates an arms depot near San Antonio' Te(as called the Camp Stanley Storage Activity )CSSA*. In 2!!' it emerged that the CIA had a presence there. There are some indications' tho%gh not concl%sive ones' that CSSA may +e the site of a facility called Midwest Depot that the CIA has %sed for clandestine acc%m%lation and dissemination of arms to vario%s parties from at least the early !,-s thro%gh 2! and pro+a+ly thro%gh 2!. Comment& If the CSSA' esta+lished in !,",' has always +een the cover for Midwest Depot' then the covert facility dates to the earliest days of the CIA and' spec%latively' may have +een created to provide an arms channel to resistance gro%ps in Soviet#occ%pied astern %rope and elsewhere. See' e.g.'
The Use of Covert Paramilitary Activity as a Policy Tool: An Analysis of Operations Conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, !"!#!$
+y Ma/or D. 0. 1erger' USMC )www.fas.orgirpeprint+erger.htm*
Camp Stanley Storage Activity
Inner Cantonment
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