This unidentified facility may be a CIA station among the many intelligence
and military communications stations in the Miami vicinity.
Miami Station - CIA
Although the CIA station in Miami [AMCA] is today but a pale shadow of its
Cold War zenith, CIA retains an active presence in Miami. AMCA includes the
CIA Office of Communications OC/MIAMI facility, which as of January of 1986
employed some fifteen people. In addition, the OC regional Miami facility
is a regional management facility, located several hundred yards from AMCA
away in another building, oversees OC/MIAMI as well as all of the SPARS
communications link facilities throughout Latin America.
This location is known as Atlantic Relay Facility I (ARF1) within the SIO
structure, and is also known as OC/MIAMI within the CIA [and as BYJURY],
and is identified as RRF Miami in the cover USARCA/NCS system. This station
is part of the Continuity of Government program, which was originally designated
as NEISO and was later changed to NEISS and still later the designator became
SIO. This project, which was known by the identifiers CHALLIS (CH), Festive
(FS), Fedder (FD, FD-C), Fencer (FN) and Zeus was ostensibly organized as
a means of ensuring the survivability of the intelligence community and has
several domestic field locations in the US. Telecommunications activities
which were conducted in support of Challis operations include not only normal
relay activities, but we also had an uplink to the Pegasus satellite (this
project was also called Alice in sanitized channels). The CPIC/East site
which is also known as an element of the US Army Seventh Signal Corps which
is located on the same compound as OC/Miami. This was a facility is primarily
designed to be a mobile facility and all of the telecommunications and other
equipment was mounted in a series of trailers which could be mobilized on
short notice.
Additional associated facilities include the Bend (CPIC/West), Oregon facility
and at least some activities at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. Additionally, the
Challis project has overseas locations in Bangkok (BYJINC), Nairobi, New
Delhi, Pago Pago (PRF II), Hawaii (PRF I) Brasilia, and Kinshasa and there
are other facilities which was are located on Andros Island and on Bermuda
(ARF II).
