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Where would Salt be taken

There is no jail ward in the Washington DC area. It isn’t likely that Salt would be taken to George Washington Hospital as it wouldn’t be secure enough to guard someone who has proven to be such a threat. At George Washington she would be in a regular patient room, right next to other patients. This is also where victims of the attack were taken so they wouldn’t want her near them.

The most secure locations would be either Walter Reed Army Hospital or Bethesda Navy Hospital. Both are extremely secure military facilities very close to the White House. Both have very secure executive suites to “button her up” in. There would be the patient room, a room downstairs for family to visit and a meeting room in the suite.

Who would be there

There would be uniformed military police guarding her at both locations. Army MPs at Walter Reed (the more probable location) and Navy MPs at Bethesda.

There would also be FBI agents in suits.

At this point the Secret Service would be gone, licking wounds and trying to figure out what happened.

The Metropolitan Police would not be involved in any location (including George Washington Hospital) because this is out of their jurisdiction.

What would Salt be wearing

They would immediately take her NATO uniform away. They would want to find out where it came from, where it was made etc…

They would probably put her in a hospital gown at first just for easy access to attend to wounds. After that she could be in either scrub-like pajamas (green top and pants) or the prisoner jumpsuit.

NYPD Emergency Unit Equipment

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NYPD EMERGENCY SERVICE UNIT EQUIPMENT

1. Inside the NYPD: Emergency Service Unit(video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21gTVBYFvEM

Handheld circular glass cutter

Meter readers to detect gas or chemicals or radiation in the air

Repelling ropes and equipment

Road recue equipment (jaws that will spread, rams that push, cutters. Hurst Tools )

Concrete breaker (jackhammer)

Gas masks

Jaws of life bag that will inflate and lift 17 tons

Hard hats

Scuba equipment

Inflatable rafts

2. Anywhere Anytime on Patrol with NYPD ESU by Samuel M. Katz

Equipment in a ESU REP (Radio Emergeny Patrol) truck

2 high intensity portable lights

2 gas masks

2 sound barriers

2 goggles

jumper cables

slim jim

2 heavy vests

2 construction helmets

2 ballistic helmets

2 ballistic shields

ballistic blanket

battering ram

2 shotguns and ammunition

2 batons

2 hand lights

hazmat book

adapters and plugs

2 multiport junction boxes

40 piece tool box

2 sets bolt cutters

sledge hammers (5 and 10 lb)

Haligan tools –large and small

2 pike-head axes

2 flat-head axes

3 bow saws

carpenter saws

pry bars

lock buster (duck bill)

hydraulic bolt cutters

“rabbit” tool

gas and utility shut off keys

shovels (trench, spade, flat)

hydrant wrenches

lock puller

K tool kit

Kelly tool

Grading hooks

Hot stick

Assorted spikes and nails

Rakes and brooms

24 ft. extension ladder

pike polls

12 ft closet ladder

portable vise

winch

assorted hand tools

Truck mounted equipment:

5 ton winch

air compressor

24 kw generator

light towers

PA radio system

Spot and flood lights

Cutting torches:

1 Caldo torch with rods

1 oxyacetylene backpack

assorted tips

10 ft hoses

First Aid equipment:

Major trauma kit

Back boards

Cervical collars

Resuscitator

Spare oxygen bottles

KEDs

Blankets

Assorted splints

Burn kit

Stokes basket

Scoop stretcher

Pneumatic tools:

Pneumatic saw kit (wizard)

Paratech air gun

Pneumatic jacking bags

Control kit

Pneumatic air chisel

Hydraulic tools:

Porto power kit 10 ton

Hurst tools

Hurst 5000 gas motor

Hurst electric motor

Hurst 150 cutters

Hurst model 32-B

Hurst model 26 champ

Hurst model 16 ram

Hurst model 30 ram

Specialized equipment:

Metal detector

Train kit

2 ten ton jacks

hydraulic bolt cutters

electric jack hammer

line gun

Porta lights (hand lights)

Heavy weapons and ammunition:

Ithaca 37 pump action 12 gauge shot gun

Heckler and Koch MP-5 9 mm submachine gun

Ruger mini 15 5.5mm assault rifles

Glock and Berretta 9mm semi-automatic pistol

Federal 37 mm tear gas projectile gun

Tactical equipment:

6 ballistic helmets

6 ballistic vests

1 body bunker ballistic shield

2 ballistic barrier blankets

1 forced entry door ram

6 MSA gas masks with filters

1 Kwik-view mirror

1 spotting scope

Rope:

2 200 ft half-inch life line

1 220 ft 5/8 – inch life line

1 100 ft 5/8 inch work line

1 100 ft 3/8 inch work line

500 ft quarter inch polyprop cord

4 Morrisey Life belts

2 rescue harnesses

Hazmat Kit

Scuba equipment:

2 SCBA Scott packs in case

6 spare 60 minute bottles

6 spare 30 minute bottles

Hyraulic tools:

Hurst hydraulic manual pump

Post support plate

2 chains with Clevis hooks

2 Clevis links

Clevis pins

Assorted tips

Fuel

Oil

2 spare 16-ft hoses

Vehicle stabilization equipment:

6 6x6 hardwood chocks

6 4x4 ft hardwood chocks

assorted wedges

chocks

shoring

cribbing

Fire-extinguishing equipment:

2 pressurized water extinguishers

dry chemical extinguisher

2 carbon dioxide extinguishers

2 50-ft rolls

1 half-inch fire hose with attached nozzles

Elevator and electrical equipment:

Elevator and electric kit

Non-lethal weaponry/EDP (emotionally disturbed person):

Tasers and darts

Nova stun device and pole

Water cannon

Shepherd’s hook

Kevlar stainless steel gloves

Chemical mace

Pepper gas

EDP bar (a U shaped bar attached to a long handle that is used to pin a person against a wall)

Mesh restraining blanket

Velcro restraining straps

15-inch chain handcuffs

plastic shield

Water Rescue equipment:

2 Viking dry suits

2 open cell thermal underwear

2 AGA masks with regulators

4 80 cubic foot scuba tanks

2 BCD vests

2 sets fins

gloves

knives

compass

4 Darrell-Allen underwater lights

2 sets of 150 ft water rescue lines

2 sets of weight belts

Animal control equipment:

Assorted rigging equipment

Block and tackle

CIA Medals Research

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CIA Medals

http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/fact97/medals.htm

Distinguished Intelligence Cross

For voluntary acts or acts of extraordinary heroism involving the acceptance of existing dangers with conspicuous fortitude and exemplary courage.

Distinguished Intelligence Medal

For performance of outstanding services or for achievement of a distinctly exceptional nature in a duty or responsibility.

Intelligence Star

For a voluntary act or acts of courage performed under hazardous conditions or for outstanding achievements or services rendered with distinction under conditions of grave risk.

Intelligence Medal of Merit

For performance of exceptionally meritorious service or for an act or achievement conspicuously above normal duties.

Career Intelligence Medal

For a cumulative record of service which reflects exceptional achievement.

Intelligence Commendation Medal

For performance of especially commendable service or for an act or achievement significantly above normal duties which results in an important contribution to the mission of the agency.

Exceptional Service Medallion

For injury or death resulting from service in an area of hazard.

Badges in St Bart's

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Secret Service Pins and Badges

Everybody wears a pin. The Secret Service issues them to the Senior Staff of the White House, the President's Staff and the Vice President's staff.

They rotate the shape and design every 4 years.

They rotate the color of the pin on a weekly basis based on what is going on that week. If there is a big event they may issue a specific color to the people working that event.

The colors can be black, blue, red, green, light blue, yellow

It's primary purpose is for visual identification at a distance. This has gotten less important however because everyone is now wearing pins. It does in a crisis help to signal who's friend and who's foe.

Protectees are given pins but no one ever wears it.

Event Photo IDs

For certain events.....the Inauguration, DNC, RNC we create event specific photo IDs......this would not be one of those events......(Re: funeral at St. Barths)

Similar to the State of the Union speech, Secret Service would rely on our hard pin system for identification.

CIA Event Pins

The CIA has permanent Hard Pins, which are distinct from Secret Service, but are recognized by Secret Service (as do the WH Staff, Governor's security, the Military, etc) many pins to learn when you are new.....a photo book of them all is kept in each command post.

They are worn on the lapel of the armed agents that protect the CIA Director, etc......if Winter could convince Secret Service that he needed to be armed at this event, he would be required to wear his pin or would be denied admittance.......if he is covert, he would leave his gun behind.......maybe, if he had a lot of juice, we would give him a staff pin so he could blend in - but then, no gun.

CIA Explosive Training

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CIA Explosive Training

Bomb School: Excerpt from an article in INDY WEEK, June 5, 2002, about Harvey Point, the training facility in North Carolina used for CIA explosive training.

http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A17746

Despite the CIA's best efforts to keep its role at Harvey Point under wraps, there is a mounting body of public information about the base's secret history. The latest example: In his newly published memoir, See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, former CIA officer Bob Baer describes the "two weeks of nonstop demolition training" he received in North Carolina as a young recruit in the early 1970s:

"We spent two days crimping blasting caps to make sure we understood that if you crimped them too high, they'd explode and take your hand off. After we'd mastered that, we crimped them in the dark, by feel. Then we started blowing things up: cars, buses, diesel generators, fences, bunkers. We made a school bus disappear with about 20 pounds of U.S. C-4. For comparison's sake, we tried Czech Semtex and a few other foreign plastic explosives.

"Not that you really needed anything fancy. We blew up one bus using three sacks of fertilizer and fuel oil, a mixture called ANFO (ammonium nitrate fuel oil), that did more damage than the C-4 had. The biggest piece left was a part of the chassis, which flew in an arc, hundreds of yards away. We learned to mix up a potent cocktail called methyl nitrate. If you hit a small drop of it with a hammer, it split the hammer. Honest. We were also taught some of the really esoteric stuff like E-cell times, improvising pressurized airplane bombs using a condom and aluminum foil, and smuggling a pistol on an airplane concealed in a mixture of epoxy and graphite. By the end of the training, we could have taught an advanced terrorism course."

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For its first decade or so of operations, the base managed to maintain the covert character the CIA was looking for. But slowly, parts of the real story began to filter out. (See "The Truth About Harvey Point," p. 22.) A major, but still only partial, disclosure appeared in the April 1967 edition of Ramparts, a once popular and now defunct leftist magazine. The issue carried a testimonial from a CIA officer who had recently resigned after passing through the agency's demolitions course.

The former officer, who kept his name out of print, did not specify the location of his training. But now it's clear that the place he wrote about, the place where he ultimately soured on the CIA, was Harvey Point:

"The stated purpose of the paramilitary school was to train and equip us to become instructors for village peasants who wanted to defend themselves against guerrillas. I could believe in that.

"Some of the training was conventional: But then we moved to the CIA's demolition training headquarters. It was here that Cubans had been, and still were, being trained in conventional and underwater demolitions. And it was here that we received training in tactics which hardly conform to the Geneva Convention.

"The array of outlawed weaponry with which we were familiarized included bullets that explode on impact, silencer-equipped machine guns, home-made explosives and self-made napalm for stickier and hotter Molotov cocktails. We were taught demolition techniques, practicing on late-model cars, railroad trucks, and gas storage tanks. And we were shown a quick method for saturating a confined area with flour or fertilizer, causing an explosion like in a dustbin or granary.

"And then there was a diabolical invention that might be called a mini-cannon. It was constructed of a concave piece of steel fitted into the top of a #10 can filled with a plastic explosive. When the device was detonated, the tremendous heat of friction of the steel turning inside out made the steel piece a white-hot projectile. There were a number of uses for the mini-cannon, one of which was demonstrated to us using an old Army school bus. It was fastened to the gasoline tank in such a fashion that the incendiary projectile would rupture the tank and fling flaming gasoline the length of the bus interior, incinerating anyone inside. It was my lot to show the rest of the class how easily it could be done. I stood there watching the flames consume the bus. It was, I guess, the moment of truth. What did a busload of burning people have to do with freedom? What right did I have, in the name of democracy and the CIA, to decide that random victims should die? The intellectual game was over. I had to leave."

Secret Service Scene Comments

(Scene numbers in Bold)

120A: How the Secret Service develop our Operational Security Plan is not the business of anyone but the Secret Service…..the CIA would not ask, nor would we answer if they did.

When agent posts are selected, the USSS is beyond efficient with manpower utilization. The problem is outside the hard perimeter, not inside the venue…….anyone that double posted agents in an effort to increase security would be sent home.

If the USSS had to brief the core situation: “A hard perimeter has been established one block off the target - we have mitigated the VBIED threat. All access points are secure, the integrity of the venue has been ensured via Technical Security Division and Explosive Ordinance Disposal sweeps, everyone entering the venue will be screened/sterilized via magnetometer and x-ray.”

No one would disrespect another agencies personnel.

The security detail on Maelev would be more than two people – there would be the USSS detail plus the Russians.

121: The inferred point regarding arrivals/departures being the most vulnerable is true – referred to as the “Deadly Diamond”

128: The USSS would not escort Matveyev up the aisle at an event like this……the Detail Leader would get out front and pre-post in the row behind the protectee’s seat, the Assistant Detail Leader would work the protectee to the start of the aisle and they would “pitch and catch”.

130: POTUS never referred to as the President on the radio. All radio traffic is recorded by WHCA (White House Communications Agency) – radio discipline is key. “All posts on Yankee frequency from Command Post, Geronimo moving to the podium”.

131: The CIA is on there own net…..they would not be given access to Secret Service frequency.

135: No hard hat…..for that kind of post: blazer, kaki pants and rubber soled shoes.

radio checks only once during an event; they occur after all the perimeter agents have been posted - hours before the event begins. Radio usage/traffic is kept to a minimum so that critical information can be passed (especially once the protectees arrive)….although multiple frequencies are utilized (one for the inner perimeter {agents closest to the protectee}, one for the middle perimeter {the agents on access control points}, Technical Security, etc) it still becomes cumbersome if people are on the radio for non-critical reasons. do not check agents’ status throughout an event.

“All posts on Yankee frequency from Command Post, standby for radio checks…….Post 212, Command Post…….Command Post, 212, I copy Lima/Charlie (loud and clear)”

137: Again, this would not happen…..if you need to know an agent is down, put an alarm on his radio that activates when it goes too many degrees past vertical.

138: At an event like this, the agents would not move…..all key locations would be pre-posted with static agents……once the Assistant Detail Leader has “pitched” the protectee to the Detail Leader, he/she would move the long way around to the backstage area where they can see the protectee at the podium, but not be seen by the crowd (again, no reason to be heavy inside, if the advance was done well, inside is safe, the problem is outside).

139: If a perimeter agent is going to die – it is their job to die loudly.

142: “Post 212, Command Post…….Post 212, Command Post……Relief Post 108, Command Post - please respond to Post 212, check his status and advise…….All posts on Yankee frequency from Command Post, be advised we have multiple agent duress alarms in the crypt area – all available relief posts please respond and advise….all others maintain your posts and standby for further instructions.”

The Command Post would have NYPD and NYFD representation…..NYPD would be putting a host of assets into play.

143: Again, CIA would not be on Secret Service freq.

147: The nearest agent would be behind President Matveyev.

149A: As indicated, this situation would be complete chaos……the most senior/well trained USSS in the room would be the President’s Detail - this would be muscle memory for them and POTUS would be covered and evacuated (with the potential for a brief hold in a secure location to ensure that the vehicles are ready) fairly quickly…..the tactical team would deploy and support the egress of the President.

179: No mirrors…..Under Vehicle Inspection System……cars drive over system and technicians view undercarriage via computer monitors.

If he has worked there for 3 years WHMO (White House Military Office) would have issued Shnaider a permanent pass…….Viceks would need to be in the access control database and would be issued a temporary/visitors/escort required badge.

181: The West Lobby is where the portico is and the Marines stand……no hand held magnetometers - there are walk thru magnetometers built into the doorframes with lights that indicate to the Uniformed Division officers if there is an issue.

182: Marines are ceremonial – they do not control access or check badges.

184:…….the West Lobby is on the same level as the Oval Office – no need for stairs……if you come in off of West Executive Avenue, you need to move up one flight of stairs to the Oval Office…….there is no portico or Marines on West Exec, just a canopy off the door.

185: Are they walking out of the West Wing, down the colonnade into the Mansion? Not sure what elevator and stairs are being referenced.

187: This scene is confusing to me…..if working your way to the PEOC than need to be in the Mansion……not sure what corridor they are in…..the floors of the Mansion are big/wide……..if the explosion happens in the West Wing, there are other options for reaching the PEOC.

189: Never have weapon in your hand when touching/danger close to the protectee…….one agent would take positive control of the President with his weapon holstered….the other would lead the way.

The Command Post at the White House has a specific name…..lets go with Enterprise……”Enterprise from Smith, Geronimo stable….we are moving to Rabbit Hole ……….please advise the Utility Section”.

192: 80 feet is a long way down ……..

195: No elevator needed.

199: The door is sealed from the inside…..someone would need to wait on the other side for it to close.

202: Only the President would refer to the DCI by his first name, and maybe not even him………Winter would definitely call him Director – especially in this situation.

205: They would most certainly use the phonetic alphabet….Zulu……X-ray……Whiskey……….Juliet….Sierra…..Alpha….Tango.

206: No distress signal……die loud.

207: No more Uzi……shoulder weapons are either H&K MP-5s, SR-16s or Shotguns…..mostly MP-5s.

Presidential Protection Division agents are required to wear their bullet proof vests when off the WH grounds…..it is “personal choice” when in the WH – some would most certainly have them on……100% of tactical team members and the Uniformed Division would be wearing Kevlar.

211: No bullet proof glass in the PEOC.