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Newsjock

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Wed Oct 9, 2013, 12:31 AM Oct 2013

Exclusive: Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace

Source: CBC News

While the Harper government is preaching government austerity, it is spending almost $1.2 billion on a new Ottawa headquarters for a little-known military spy agency.

It's the most expensive Canadian government building ever constructed.

Under tight security, CBC obtained an exclusive tour of the top secret complex that most Canadians will otherwise never get to see, a development even National Defence apparently thinks is so grandiose that the department dubbed the project “Camelot” in official documents.

... The nerve centre of the agency is a separate concrete bunker the size of a football field, home to what is being touted as the most powerful super-computer in the country, along with its mammoth electrical power generators and cooling systems.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/inside-canada-s-top-secret-billion-dollar-spy-palace-1.1930322

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Exclusive: Inside Canada's top-secret billion-dollar spy palace (Original Post) Newsjock Oct 2013 OP
Conservatie Canada, aka US-North blkmusclmachine Oct 2013 #1
I guess, Joe Shlabotnik Oct 2013 #2

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
2. I guess,
Wed Oct 9, 2013, 05:36 AM
Oct 2013

they had to top the $2000000 fake lake and $100000 gazebo somehow. But whats the point of open air common spaces and solariums for a bunch of creeps that avoid sunlight like the plague. Nice to see that they scrapped the fireplace, hobby garden and skating rink, surely the price tag would have been 1.7B then.

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