
The main cafeteria at the underground bunker for members of Congress under the Greenbrier Hotel.

It housed an auditorium big enough to hold full congressional sessions, a broadcast centre, a dormitory to sleep 1,000 people, a kitchen and hospital stocked up with 30 years of supplies. The congressmen would have then proceeded to the massive bunker through a blast door that was hidden in plain sight behind a false wall, covered in elegant wallpaper in keeping with the hotel’s decoration.Ĭode named “Project Greek Island”, the bunker served as a government continuity program which would enable Congress to not only survive a nuclear attack, but continue functioning. In preparation for a nuclear attack, every last member of the legislative branch would have ‘checked in’ through the Greenbrier hotel’s main reception desk while bewildered guests would have been swiftly checked out.

For thirty years, a luxury resort hotel in West Virginia played host to the world’s wealthiest holidaymakers, all the while covertly moonlighting as the secret underground bunker built to house the United States government in the event of a nuclear fallout…
