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CIA Training Grounds in Camp Peary, Virginia

 

Training for new recruits in the CIA’s Clandestine Service Division takes place at the highly classified Camp Peary, affectionately called “The Farm.” This 9,000-acre military camp near Williamsburg, VA is boot camp for special agents. It is one of the nation’s most secret federal facilities. According to U.S. News & World Report, recruits learn “all things clandestine,” such as:

 

Bugging telephones

“Hideaway” places to pass and receive information

Marksmanship

Kinds of foreign weapons

Handling improvised explosives

Counterterrorism tactics

Evasive driving skills

Reading maps

Trailing suspects

Interrogation techniques

 

The Farm

 

Camp Peary is known as "The Farm", a training facility run by the Central Intelligence Agency for the purpose of training CIA's clandestine officers, as well as officers of other organizations specializing in clandestine activities, such as the Defense Intelligence Agency. The existence of this facility is widely known but has never been formally acknowledged by the U.S. government. Access to Camp Peary is strictly controlled, and visitors to the installation are escorted at all times. The portion of the original World War II Seabee base north of Interstate 64 has been closed to the public since 1951. However, the roads and many structures of Magruder and Bigler's Mill are still there and many are occupied. An airport with a 5,000-foot (1,500 m) runway was added to the facility near the site of Bigler's Mill. Flight records show that at least 11 aircraft that appear to be owned by CIA front companies, and are believed to have been used as rendition aircraft by the CIA under the guise of charter flights, have landed on this runway.[7]

 

Former CIA officer Bill Wagner attended a three-week interrogation course at The Farm in 1970. He claims it was the agency's "premier course", and that volunteers played the role of interrogation subjects in order to be guaranteed seats in future classes. Interrogators-in-training practiced techniques such as sleep deprivation, deliberately tainted food, and mock executions. According to Wagner, the course was dropped from the CIA training curriculum after the Watergate scandal, due to increased attention being paid to CIA practices.[8]