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Trails built by the Civilian Conservation Corps lead into the shade and provide a respite from summer heat. Joggers, walkers, and bicyclists may use one lane of the paved loop road.

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There are several large fields and three softball diamonds. (From April to October these areas are associated with picnic pavilions and must be reserved.) A playground located in Area A is always open to the public.

Visitors may explore the outsides of Batteries Robinson, Sater, Porter, and Mount Vernon. The batteries are closed to the public because they were lined with asbestos during World War II and used to safeguard nitrate film rolls from the National Archives.

Concerts are held at Fort Hunt's Pavilion A on Sunday evenings from 7 pm to 8 pm in June, July, and August.

To request a ranger-led program at Fort Hunt Park please call 703‑235-1530.

Picnics at Fort Hunt

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From April to October, Areas A, B, C-1, C-2, C-3, and D are available by reservation. Reservations for the picnic season can be made beginning in January. Each picnic area offers different amenities. Please call 1-877-444-6777 or visit Recreation.gov for descriptions and reservations.

Area E is always open on a first come, first served basis; no reservation is necessary.

Please note that the park hosts a concert series in Area A during the summer. If you reserve Area A on a Sunday in June, July, or August you must end your picnic and clean up the area by 6:00 p.m.

The grounds at Fort Hunt Park are open year-round from sunrise to sunset.

Fort Hunt Park is located on the George Washington Memorial Parkway between Alexandria, Virginia and the Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens.

Address

8999 Fort Hunt Road
Alexandria, VA 22308
Tel. 202‑439‑7325

By Car

From Old Town Alexandria drive south on Washington Street and continue on the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Take the exit for Fort Hunt Park and follow signs into the park.

From Mount Vernon drive north on the George Washington Memorial Parkway. Take the exit for Fort Hunt Park and follow signs into the park.

Parking is available in each of the picnic areas from November to March. When picnic areas are reserved public parking is available in Area E and in a small parking lot at the end of the loop road near Area A.

On Foot or by Bicycle

From the Mount Vernon Trail turn onto Fort Hunt Road and follow signs into the park.

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Facilities

Public restrooms, water fountains, and trash cans are located in Areas A, B, and E. These facilities are always open to the public. Specially marked cans for ashes are available in each picnic area.

The following facilities are also available:

• ADA Access
• Parking
• Softball Fields
• Picnic Tables
• Telephone
• Small Playground
• Comfort Station
• Restrooms
• Jogging

For a complete list of rules, please read the Laws & Policies.

All catering or food service MUST go through the park's concessioner--RGI Events & Public Relations. Contact Christine Humbach RGI Event Service Coordinator, christine@rgievents.com, 202.738.4713 for your options.
Reservations are not issued for commercial use applications. It is unlawful for a business to rent a picnic area at Fort Hunt Park for the purpose of catering someone else’s event.
Recreation.gov rents the picnic areas for the purpose of having picnics (groups of people enjoying the outdoors and an associated meal.) Any additional activities (i.e. moonbounces, amusement rides, active recreational uses, or weddings) may require a Special Park Use Permit or Public Gatheirng Permit. We often find that people renting the picnic areas/pavilions do not realize that a planned activity requires and additional special use permit. If you have questions, please contact a ranger at tel. 202-439-7325.

When you reserve a picnic area at Fort Hunt Park the National Park Service issues you a permit that governs your use of the site. The confirmation email you receive from recreation.gov serves as your permit. You or someone you designate must have the permit (the confirmation email) on site for the entire event, including while you are setting up before and cleaning up after it.

Permits include a list of rules that you must follow. These rules help to protect your national park from damage. If you do not follow these rules a ranger may revoke your permit and ask you to leave Fort Hunt Park.

A Park Ranger will contact you using both the email and phone number you provided on your Recreation.gov to discuss your reservation and park rules. You may also call us at 202-439-7325. If you do not respond to the parks efforts to contact you, your reservation may be cancelled.

Permits are only in effect from 10 am until 6 pm. They give the permit holder exclusive use of the picnic area he or she reserved, but do not give him or her exclusive use of the restrooms in any area or the playground in Area A.

Reservation holders (Areas A-D) have the right to have beer and wine from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Hard alcohol is not permitted. Hired caterers that provide or serve alcohol must have an ABC banquet license from the state of Virginia.
You may not exchange any money at Fort Hunt Park. This includes collecting fees; selling food, beverages, or merchandise; fund-raising; selling raffle tickets; paying caterers; etc.

You (or your group) may ONLY reserve ONE picnic area at Fort Hunt Park per day. All picnic areas have a maximum capacity. Your group's size may not exceed the maximum capacity of each picnic area, which are as follows; A-600 people/150 vehicles, B-350 people/ 140 vehicles, C1-100 people/ 40 vehicles, C2-120 people/ 40 vehicles, C3-100 people/ 40 vehicles, D-120 people/ 30 vehicles.

Smoking is not permitted within 25 feet of any structure. Grills must be at least 10 feet away from any structure. Electrical outlets in area A may only be used with a picnic permit.
All areas have a maximum capacity. Your group's size may not exceed the maximum capacity of the area you reserved.

You must be quiet enough to not disturb other people in Fort Hunt Park or the nearby neighborhood. If park staff feels the music or sound is too loud, a Park Ranger will ask you to reduce the volume. Code of Federal regulations state no audio disturbance can exceed 60 decibels measured on the A-weighted scale at 50 feet from the source.

You may only drive on the paved loop road, in parking lots, and in designated loading zones. Vehicles may not occupy loading zones for longer than 10 minutes. You may only park in marked parking spaces. Parking off hard surfaces (i.e. grass or dirt surfaces) is prohibited, and vehicles will be towed.

If you have reserved a picnic area, you may only decorate the picnic tables and pavilion in the site you have reserved. You may only tie or tape decorations to the tables and pavilion. You may not attach decorations in a way that will cause permanent damage, such as with nails or staples. Please note that you may not attach decorations to vegetation, or put signs or decorations outside of the area you reserved, such as along the road. All picnic decorations must be removed.

You may not use anything that penetrates the ground, such as wire sign holders, volleyball poles, or tent stakes. You may only use park water for drinking, cooking, and cleaning. Recreational use such as filling water balloons or squirt guns is not permitted.

You may not bring firewood, live plants, or live animals (other than pets) into Fort Hunt Park. You must leave the area you use in the same condition that it was when you arrived. If your use of the park causes damage (beyond what is reasonably inherent in its use) you can be held financially liable for that damage. If park staff must clean up an area that you reserved after you leave, you can be held financially liable for associated costs.

You may not use motorized or wind-propelled recreational devices, such as skateboards, in Fort Hunt Park.

You may bring a pet to Fort Hunt Park, but you must keep it on a six foot long (or shorter) leash and you must clean up after it.

Failure to comply with these rules and regulations may result in the cancellation of your reservation and/or legal action.

December 7th, 1941. Pearl Harbor smoldered following intense, coordinated attacks by air forces from the Empire of Japan. Within days, Americans were embroiled in the conflict that was the Second World War, while the American military scrambled to establish a competent intelligence gathering operation on the East Coast. Carved from a portion of George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate, Alexandria’s Fort Hunt began its life as a coastal fortification during the Spanish-American War. With its close proximity to Washington, Fort Hunt became an ideal location for one of the most secretive group of programs in American history. Codenamed after its post office box in Alexandria, 1142, Fort Hunt became a secret interrogation center for high value German POWs. The layers of secrecy did not stop there. Unbeknownst even to interrogators stationed there, Fort Hunt also held a program whose mission was to communicate and aid in the escape of Allied POWs trapped in several German camps throughout Europe.

Codenamed MIS-Y, the interrogation practices at Fort Hunt began in April of 1942. Interrogators were inspired by techniques witnessed in London. Prisoners thought to hold vital information were given lavish treatment, hoping that the contrast with harsh combat conditions might help loosen tongues. German prisoners would be brought into Fort Hunt for days or weeks of questioning before being “processed” and reported to neutral arbiters in Switzerland and to the Red Cross. Because of this, Fort Hunt was in violation of the Geneva Conventions of 1929, but its role as a “processing center” rather than a camp allowed intelligence officials to circumvent the rules to a certain degree.^[1]

Despite these violations, prisoners at Fort Hunt spent their days or weeks there in relative comfort, sans the boredom of captivity. The food provided to prisoners was good and plentiful and interrogations were conducted in a relaxed and casual manner with tobacco and alcohol flowing freely. “You gained their confidence. Tell them the war was almost over and you guys are losing, so you might as well cooperate. Play chess with them. Take them shopping. Invariably they’d start talking,” states George Weidinger in an article for Cleveland.com. Interrogators used these techniques to coax details from their captives, without having to resort to torture. “We extracted information in a battle of the wits. I’m proud to say I never compromised my humanity,” said George Frenkel in an interview with The Washington Post.^[2]

Prisoners were kept apart early on, but over time, interrogators began to realize that their most important finds came from informal, recorded conversations of mixed POWs. Soon, prison cells were bugged with recording equipment. Some highly perceptive prisoners discovered this, and kept Army clerks transcribing and translating meaningless chatter about topics as mundane as their favorite German foods to as crude as their sexual exploits. Yet despite their games, German prisoners were astonished with the amount of information that interrogators knew about their operations. Information gleaned from captured German U-boat crews were compiled by the Navy into booklets known as “Post Mortems” which were sent out to offices of Allied naval commanders to help combat the U-boat threat.^[3]

German scientists were also guests of Fort Hunt in the later stages of the war. High value scientists such as Wernher von Braun spent time at Fort Hunt deciphering V-2 rocket technology that he designed for the Germans. Von Braun was part of a secret effort known as Operation Paperclip, an attempt by the U.S. to bring top German scientists stateside before the Soviet Union could get their hands on them. Von Braun would go on to be a key figure in U.S. space exploration. Another German scientist to spend time at Fort Hunt, Heinz Schlicke, developed infrared fuses which were later implemented in nuclear weapon technology.^[4]

Several thousand German POWs and scientists passed through the walls of Fort Hunt between 1942 and 1945. No prisoners escaped, though one U-boat captain named Werner Henke, fearing he would be turned over to the British, was killed while attempting to escape in June of 1944.^[5]

Besides interrogating German POWs, Fort Hunt also handled a top secret division to aid Allied POWs trapped in German camps in Europe. Codenamed MIS-X, many of the techniques used by this small group of individuals were inspired by similar programs being performed by MI-9, the British intelligence agency tasked with supplying British POWs behind enemy lines. Beginning in October of 1942, MIS-X officers helped trained servicemen in tactics for evading capture behind enemy lines, created escape and emergency kits (with money, maps, and other essentials) to be carried by all air crews, and trained specific individuals to use codes in letters going to and from POW camps in case they are captured, allowing MIS-X to stay in contact with POWs.^[6]

While training servicemen while out of captivity is all well and good, one of the challenges MIS-X operatives faced revolved around getting aid and information to servicemen already in captivity behind enemy lines. Early on, humanitarian aid packages were targeted as optimal receptacles to smuggle items to POWs. That being said, MIS-X did not want to risk actual humanitarian aid being labeled as contraband and not being delivered to Allied troops who needed it. To work around this, MIS-X created false aid organizations such as the War Prisoner’s Benefit Foundation and Servicemen’s Relief to send humanitarian packages along with packages loaded with escape aids to POW camps in German territory.^[7]

From a secret warehouse on the grounds of Fort Hunt known simply as “the Creamery,” intelligence engineers created items that today seem reminiscent of being in a James Bond movie. Articles such as shoe brushes and ping-pong paddles were hollowed out for storage of escape aids such as currency and cutting tools. Checker and chessboards were steamed to remove the top layer of the board so that items could be stored underneath. Playing cards were laced with pieces of maps that could be removed and reassembled into a full-size map for help in escape attempts. Makeshift radios were placed into the insides of cribbage boards—the cribbage pieces themselves were nails to provide contact points so that servicemen could receive broadcasts from the BBC. Baseballs were sent with aluminum cores which contained parts for radios as well. “My father loved Hogan’s Heroes. Especially when they were hiding radios in coffee pots and things like that. He used to say, ‘You know, that’s not too far off from what really happened,” said Peter Bedini in an interview with NPR, whose father worked in MIS-X. These parcels helped give American and other Allied POWs a fighting chance, allowing them to “fight the war behind barbed wire.”^[8]

P.O. Box 1142 would operate through the entirety of the Second World War. Local residents would observe unmarked buses with darkened windows entering and exiting Fort Hunt on a daily basis, all the while never realizing the scope of activities occurring there. Six days after the war ended with the surrender of the Empire of Japan on August 14th, 1945, operatives at Fort Hunt received a terse, to-the-point command: “Burn all records.” With that, all documents and correspondence related to P.O. Box 1142 was burned. Leftover escape materials were also burned. P.O. Box 1142 was erased from history.^[9]

Over the years, classified materials concerning the operations at Fort Hunt have slowly been declassified by the U.S. government. Even still, the records that remain are so cryptic that they are difficult to comb through.^[10] It seemed that the crucial work conducted at Fort Hunt would be lost to history forever. Thankfully, National Park Service employees at Fort Hunt Park have been doing their very best to chronicle the events at Fort Hunt during the Second World War. Spurred by a park visitor, Brandon Bies, the park’s cultural resources specialist, began tracking down and interviewing veterans who were stationed at Fort Hunt. Park Service employees are now racing against the clock to interview and record these accounts while the veterans are still with us, so that their stories and the stories of Fort Hunt carry on for generations.^[11]

Fort Hunt proves that history is about individuals—not events. The work that the individuals stationed at a secret military facility codenamed after its Alexandria post office box aided American forces in the Second World War and offers a lesson to today’s generation about how to conduct intelligence-gathering operations. Their work is a testament to their generation and we are so fortunate to learn of their history and give them the credit that they deserve while they are still with us.

1. ^John Hammond Moore, The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape (New York: Random House, 1978), pg. 30-33. Petula Dvorak, “Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men Break Silence on WWII,” The Washington Post, October 6th 2007. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/05/AR200710...
2. ^Moore, The Faustball Tunnel, pg. 33. “Long hidden, a Nazi-interrogation unit gets its due,” Cleveland.com, January 11th, 2008. http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/01/in_1942_a_highly_classified.html, Dvorak, “Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men,” The Washington Post, October 6th, 2007.
3. ^Moore, pg. 38-44, 48.
4. ^Pam Fessler, “Former GIs Spill Secrets of WWII POW Camp,” NPR, August 27, 2008. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93649575.
5. ^Henke was part of a false propaganda campaign from the British who claimed that his U-boat, U-515, gunned down British survivors on the British ship Ceramic. See Timothy Mulligan, Lone Wolf: The Life and Death of U-boat Ace Werner Henke (Connecticut: Praeger, 1993).
6. ^Lloyd R. Shoemaker, The Escape Factory: The Story of MIS-X (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990), pg. 11-21.
7. ^Shoemaker, pg. 29.
8. ^Shoemaker, pg. 16-21, 83-85. Pam Fessler, “Fort Hunt GIs Sent WWII POWs Care Packages,” NPR, August 19th, 2008, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93640350.
9. ^Shoemaker, pg. 199-206. Dvorak, “Fort Hunt’s Quiet Men.'
10. ^Lloyd R. Shoemaker, an operative at MIS-X who had intimate knowledge of operations, conducted research from the declassified materials to write his book about the work of MIS-X. Even he admits that the remaining records are so disconnected as to “make little sense to anyone not having prior knowledge of the MIS-X operation.” See Shoemaker, pg. 207-217.
11. ^Pam Fessler, “Breaking the Silence of a Secret POW Camp,” NPR, August 18th, 2008. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93635950

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