[mad_as_he$$]

Aw geez not this $hit again!!! I have been to three supposed “camps”. One is a Fallon NAS (which is usually referred to as Stillwater), the camp near Elko, NV and one in Idaho. Fallon NAS is a relatively small base with the Top Gun operation being based there. Fallon is a redneck farm and ranch town. There is no way the base is equipped - nor could it easily be - to handle a large number of civilians. The one near Elko is a cow pasture in a valley that has been there for over a century. I talked to the owner and he laughed. He hates the Feds and routinely runs them off his land. The third near Idaho Falls is an old WW2 facility that is deteriorating badly. The reason it has fences and an occasional guard is because it once MAY have had nuclear material stored there.

[Quix]

It’s comforting that 3 out of how many purported . . . 800???

are not, per your, kind assessment qualifying.

That’s comforting.

797 is better than 800.

Maybe you could keep investigating and we could cross some more off the list.

How many did Germany have, anyway?

[Quix]

I don’t really recall what the most plausible, likely number of the camps would be. I’ve seen several different figures.

I think 800 is the highest I’ve seen.

Even a dozen would be a dozen too many.

[RJS1950]

Yep, this $hit again! The “camp” at Eglin is old and pretty open. It was used to house pretty much minimum security, mostly white collar criminals who raked leaves and sand on the base and did other chores. If I remember correctly some of the Watergate guys went there and I believe at least one was there when I was at Eglin AFB in the late 70s. The fed prison at Lompoc adjacent to Vandenberg AFB is a bit more secure, newer and located in a canyon area if I remember correctly. Christopher Boyce of “Falcon and the Snowman” fame made an escape from Lompoc in 1980 but was later captured.

These facilities have been there for years. If BO Plenty wanted to set up a gulag these would not be the places he would reasonably select since many are located in or near large metro areas or at least reasonably populated areas.