Cryptonym: KWCEILING
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury,_Nevada
1950-1992: Mercury is a closed village in Nye County, Nevada, United States, 5 miles (8.0 km) north of U.S. Route 95 at a point 65 miles (105 km) northwest of Las Vegas. It is situated within the Nevada National Security Site and was constructed by the Atomic Energy Commission to house and service the staff of the test site. The specific site was known as Jackass Flats and nearby Nevada Test Site 400. Today, the site is governed by the United States Department of Energy. As part of the test site, the village is not accessible to the general public. It was named after the mercury mines which flourished in its general vicinity... History: The village started in 1950 at the beginning of operations of the Nevada Test Site as Base Camp Mercury, a military-style encampment built to provide basic facilities for personnel involved...beginning in 1951 a $6.7 million construction project was undertaken to provide adequate individual housing, office, and service structures with a civilian village-like design. With the acquisition of a full-service post office in the mid-1950s, Base Camp Mercury was formally renamed Mercury, Nevada. In 1957, the US Navy launched nine atmospheric sounding rockets to measure nuclear radiation and other atmospheric data, using Mercury as a staging area... In the early 1960s the village population grew to over 10,000, and further construction work was undertaken to upgrade the permanence of the village. A school was established, and numerous recreational and shopping facilities were added...In 1962, the Desert Rock Airport was added...The village flourished until 1992, when all but subcritical nuclear testing ended at the Nevada Test Site, as a result of the United States honoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (even though the U.S. has not yet ratified the treaty). The population shrank rapidly thereafter, leaving most of the facilities abandoned."
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP81B00961R000100140223-4.pdf
8/6/63 memo: "Memorandum for Chief, Materiel Division, OSA. Subject: E & E Seat Kit Components. 1. It is requested that twelve (12) 9' by 10' green and white Litzlon tarpulins and twenty (20) 9' by 10' all green Litzlon tarpulins be procured for use in the survival/E & E program. Disposition: KWCEILING 12 green and white, REDACTED 12 all green REDACTED 6 all green. (Signed by) REDACTED, Chief, Intelligence Division, Office of Special Activities."
104-10110-10389: SHEET CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
10/9/63: Claude Capehart, born in Okemah, OK, arrived at KWCEILING on October 9, 1963.
104-10110-10388: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART
Claude Barnes Capehart, Office of Security Number 377 288, date of birth 10/15/24. Marital partner - Roberta Battey. Note 104-10110-10384, which gives his birth year as 1929, not 1924.
104-10110-10381: EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION TO OFFSHORE REDRILLING OCEAN TECHNOL
1963: Appears that he was working in Mercury, Nevada from March-October 1963 for Wheeler Trucking and again from December 1963-January 1965 for Reynolds Electrical. Left in October 1963 due to "labor dispute" and worked for Monolith Portland Cement Company during this October-December 1963 period. Page 2 provides his birthdate as 10/15/24 - in his own handwriting. Page 10 reveals that he had a security clearance working at the Nevada Test Site for Reynolds E & E in 1967.
104-10110-10386: FORM - REQUEST FOR SECURITY ACCESS APPROVAL `(`CAPEHART)
11/11/63-12/20/63: On 11/11/63, Security Access Approval to Subject (Capehart) to Project R was requested
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0322/ML032200298.pdf
Page 13 of 119, Civilian Radioactive Waste Management System Management & Operating Contractor Regional and Local Wind Patterns Near Yucca Mountain: "1.2 PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES The purpose of this report is to characterize atmospheric dispersion and airflow patterns in the vicinity of the proposed Yucca Mountain geologic repository for high-level radioactive waste. The atmospheric dispersion and airflow pattern characteristics are a fundamental step in assessing impacts of potential releases of airborne radioactive material. The specific purpose of this report is to provide the dispersion and airflow characteristics described in Task 2 of the SIIP for Regional Meteorology (CRWMS M&O 1995b). This report does not attempt to repeat the wind characteristics information presented in Section 5 of the SCP (DOE 1988) nor in the original indepth report on the area (Eglinton and Dreicer 1984). The objectives of this report are to: * Describe local atmospheric dispersion characteristics. * Identify regional airflow patterns relative to local population centers. The scope of this study includes analyses of meteorological data taken by the Yucca Mountain Project R/EFPD, data taken at the Nevada Test Site (NTS), and the National Weather Service data."
104-10110-10382: EMPLOYMENT VERIFICATION LETTER: CLAUDE CAPEHART
1971: Letter from Reynolds Electrical and Engineering Co. stating that Capehart has been hired intermittently by this firm since 1961.
104-10110-10373: BIOGRAPHICAL DATA: CAPEHART
1973 biographical data sheet for Capehart, refers to having a California residence from 1955 to September 1964. Social Security number 566-22-5896.
104-10110-10371: FORM - APPRAISAL SUMMARY.
August 1973: Capehart has a security approval as a crane operator/driller. Appraiser was Donald C. Francis, CD/4. Also see 104-10110-10368 - where in October 1973 Capehart of Global Marine of Los Angeles, DOB 12/15/24 was hired for Project Azorian, the CIA project with Harold Hughes to raise a Soviet submarine from the ocean floor.
"The Capehart case: What is the CIA hiding?", Santa Barbara News-Press, 10/10/21, David Minier: https://aarclibrary.org/the-capehart-case-what-is-the-cia-hiding/
Editor’s note: David Minier served as the Santa Barbara County district attorney in 1967-75. He also served as the district attorney and a judge in Madera County. The Central Intelligence Agency doesn’t want you to know the truth about Claude Barnes Capehart. Mr. Capehart claimed to have been a CIA asset present at the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The CIA has hidden the truth about Mr. Capehart for almost 60 years. Claude Barnes Capehart was living in Chowchilla in California’s Madera County in 1978. When most newspapers printed a government request for information about three persons of interest in a photograph taken at the assassination scene (note: the "Three Tramps photo", discussed in the book by A.J. Weberman and Michael Canfield), Mr. Capehart’s girlfriend, Faye Weaver, recognized him as one of them. Mr. Capehart first denied, then confirmed it was he. He told her he had worked as a “hit man” for the CIA on numerous occasions, retiring in 1975. He told Ms. Weaver he was present with Lee Harvey Oswald at the scene of the J.F.K. assassination. He said two others were with Oswald, and it was not Oswald who shot the president. Ms. Weaver related this to Chowchilla’s resident deputy sheriff, Sgt. Dale Fore. She told Sgt. Fore that Mr. Capehart was “paranoid” about his photograph in the newspaper and left Chowchilla a few days later, after threatening her not to talk. Ms. Weaver said Mr. Capehart had passports bearing his photo but assumed names, and numerous firearms, including a high-power rifle with scope and a silenced handgun. She also saw items taken from the CIA spy ship Glomar Explorer and the Soviet nuclear submarine K-1