My coworker Greg and I were discussing his upcoming “cross country” flight to the Outer Banks. He mentioned flying near a CIA base in the area. It took me a while, but I eventually recalled reading about such a base on Paul Freeman’s Abandonded and Little-Known Airfields page.
Its funny how CIA bases which “don’t officially exist” can have such publicity on the web. For instance, The Independent Weekly did a cover story on Harvey Point two years ago. As did the New York Times in 1998. Freeman has a nice picture of the 4,000 foot airstrip which doesn’t exist, not appearing on any sectional chart or map. That runway is in great shape for not existing, don’t you think?
Apparently, the base is used as “terrorism school” for foreign and domestic intelligence operatives. It chills me to think what might be taught there. As you can see by this recounting by the Independent Weekly, the base isn’t exactly used for Boy Scout summer camp. It isn’t a stretch to imagine Osama Bin Laden being trained there in the early 80’s, back when he was Our Man In Afghanistan.
Hey Mark, Greg here. I was leafing through Delorme’s mega-map of North Carolina and they have the Harvey Point airstip on the map for all to see! Yup, it’s true. I wasn’t expecting it to be there but there it was, even labeled as Harvey Point. I’ll take some pics and post them so you can img src the images, if you so desire.