The CIA facility was on the GSA's list of US properties for sale

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On Tuesday the GSA published the list, but removed it the following day. There were more than 120 properties that had already been scrubbed, including 14 buildings that hadn’t appeared in the inventory of owned and leased properties.

WIRED has created a map and a searchable table of the government properties that were for sale and briefly listed, which also includes corresponding political representatives for each location.

The GSA published a list of non-core properties that were removed from the map, as well as the inventory of owned and leased properties. The GSA describes non-core properties as buildings and facilities that are not core to government operations and argue that the sale of them will save the American taxpayer. The IOLP, a publicly accessible database, offers detailed information on GSA-owned and leased properties across the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam, and American Samoa.

The GSA, an independent government agency, manages government IT and a significant portion of the federal real estate portfolio. In recent weeks, the agency has been decimated by forced resignations and reductions in forces, including the elimination of 18F, a GSA unit focused on government efficiency. The GSA’sPBS is planning to cut over 3000 people from it’s workforce. Elon Musk’s associates are staffed throughout the GSA, including Technology Transformation Services director Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, and X staffer Nicole Hollander. A number of young DOGE technologists also have access to the agency.

A note on the original list states that the agency will eventually reduce the size of owned real estate by 50 percent and the number of buildings by 70 percent. Reductions will be focused on the non-core general office space of the portfolio which can be replaced as needed in the private leased market. Moving forward, all non-core buildings will be disposed of and their tenants will be transitioned into leases.”

Most of the properties were labeled as either “Butler” or “Franconia.” According to public records, all of them are part of a large federal facility known as the Parr-Franconia Warehouse Complex, or the GSA Warehouse, which sits, fenced in by chain-link topped with barbed wire, at 6810 Loisdale Road in Springfield.

The vast majority of the buildings in the complex are believed to be used by various government agencies for mundane purposes, most notably the 1,005,602-square-foot warehouse that was used as a government supply depot. Right in the middle of the complex, though, next to the warehouse and catty-corner to what’s listed as Transportation Security Administration headquarters, is a U-shaped building long notorious for its alleged ties to the CIA.

“Obviously, someone did no research about the long and well-documented history of this property,” says Jeff McKay, chair of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors and a longtime advocate of redeveloping the complex, which is near a Metro station and sits in a prosperous area. Normally, a site like this wouldn’t be outed, so to speak, but everyone knows it’s here. the people who put this list together