Camp Stanley (Texas)
Camp Stanley, of Boerne, Texas, is a U.S. Army facility located at Leon Springs Military Reservation, twenty miles northwest of San Antonio. It operates the "Camp Stanley Storage Activity" (CSSA) as an ammunitions depot subpost of the San Antonio Arsenal. It is not to be confused with the U.S. Army's other Camp Stanley located in South Korea. Camp Stanley (Texas) was originally an infantry cantonment called Camp Funston (not to be confused with the U.S. Army's other Camp Funston, located in Kansas), and was renamed Camp Stanley on October 2, 1917, for Brig. Gen. David Sloane Stanley.
The primary missions of CSSA are receipt, storage, and issuance of ordnance material; and quality assurance testing of military weapons and ammunition. The secondary mission of the CSSA is weapons training and qualifying.
In December 2013, the CSSA was identified by former CIA analyst Allen Thomson as the probable site of a CIA arms cache known as the “Midwest Depot”, used from at least the early 1960s and probably through 2010. This would have Camp Stanley playing a role in some of the C.I.A.’s most storied operations.
References
- Texas State Historical Association. "CAMP STANLEY". Texas State Historical Association, Denton, Texas. Retrieved on 05 May 2014.
- Thomson, Allen. "The U.S. Army Camp Stanley Storage Activity and The CIA Midwest Depot", Federation of American Scientists, Washington, D.C., updated May 4, 2014. Retrieved on 05 May 2014.
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