reply to post by I B Dazzlin
The big question is all that road building at Groom. Where do you get a road crew with top secret clearance! Then there is the bartender at Sam's
Place. Does he wear hearing protectors? Blinders? The very routine is not so routine if you have to maintain some level of secrecy.
EG&G billing
Note the EG&G billing. Some is basic hardware store merchandise. Now in the case of EG&G, they had the clearance, so getting paid by the CIA wasn't
that odd.
I have to assume Edwards or Nellis fronts a lot of the Groom Lake purchases. The TTR, not being a secret, can simply buy what the need, but they too
can be fronting for Groom.
Tonopah (the town, not the base) had one hell of a Radio Shack. Actually a combination Radio Shack and Western Auto. It was the best stocked Radio
Shack regarding parts that I ever saw. It turned out the TTR would pick up parts at the "shack". IIRC, the guy who ran the Radio Shack was a former
base employee.