Security scare shuts Kings Bay

[RBHam]

For the second time in the past two weeks Israelis in a moving van have been detained near a U.S. nuclear facility, this time at the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base near St. Marys, GA., near Sea Island, host of the G-8 Summit next month.

"Security scare shuts Kings Bay" reported the Jacksonville Times-Union on Saturday. "Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base was locked down for security reasons Friday after two Israelis were detained for questioning."

Two Israeli men attempted to enter the base about 10:30 a.m., on the pretext that that had been hired by a moving-and-storage company to pick up household goods at an address on the base, the paper reported.

One occupant of the vehicle was unable to provide base security personnel with proper credentials, a base spokesman told reporters.

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[izzie]

1. Oh dear and it sounds like just a moving at a military base to me.

Well I was moved by the Navy a lot and that is how they came. In a van with boxes, and rugs, paper work in a folder or case and radio to talk to the main company. I sure would be bad at this spy stuff.

[charlie]

2. I lived there

long ago. If they were up to some silliness, I don't know what they expected to accomplish. King's Bay is doubly-isolated. That is, there's a secure perimeter with a guarded gate, with housing and community support immediately inside. A couple miles into the base, there's a second secure area and guardhouse, which leads to the docks, where everything worth bothering with is located. The marine contingent used to regularly run surprise hostage drills -- they'd storm a section of the base and lock it down. If you were caught up inside the area they were securing, you were herded off somewhere (inside the bank, the NEX) and made to stay put, wandering off would get you carted off at gunpoint as an "unfriendly." Kings Bay back then was very much prepared for penetration by interlopers.