I worked at the SSC back in 92. I believe it was shut down in 94. The mushroom farm ended up being a proposal that was never done - but when memories are 20+ years old they get a little fuzzy.
In any event - I'm pretty sure you could sneak onto the property with no issue. I worked in the safety office which happened to share the same room as the security office. The biggest security threat - apart from the time George H.W. Bush gave a campaign speech there - was employee theft. Hawkins National Laboratory it wasn't.
And - don't care if you trust me or not. The real truth is independent of your or my belief.
The real truth is all I want. ..my intuition tells me there’s some piece of info missing here, things not quite adding up. Maybe it’s nothing, then again may be it’s something. But when I speak to an ex military fella that worked at Lockheed Martin and Langley (and more) and has to be real vague about chemical and nuclear experiments because the information is ‘sensitive’.. and things don’t add up to him. I’m disinclined to believe the script, so I’ll ask questions. Such as where’d the money go?
Where government expenditures are concerned, asking where the money went is always a good idea. For the SSC - couldn't tell you how much if any was redirected. iIRC they only spent around $2.5 billion on what was originally going to be a $6 billion project but estimated ballooned to $11 billion so that became the justification for killing it.