Some of you might remember this 4chan thread suggesting people check out a tunnel in DC to find an underground tunnel at Comet Ping Pong
It caught my attention because I had done research on tunnels already regarding Oliver Miller, owner of Dr. Pong. I retraced my steps and found this document which links both James Alefantis and Oliver Miller to the Dupont Underground, which is the tunnel in question.
I posted this information on voat, but decided to also post it on 4chan which lead to these threads. I am the op in the first two, but not the third, if you want to follow my train of research. #1(http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/100550239#p100558360)) #2(http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/100566559#p100566559)) #3(http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/100578436#p100578436))
I have made quite a few more connections now, with the help of some users here, reddit, and 4chan, which I will try to summarize as best as possible. No one likes a wall of text.
Connection to Soros: In order to do research for the Dupont Underground, Provisions Library sent James Huckenpahler along with 3 other artists to Germany to find inspiration. Provisions Library is funded by Open Society Foundations, which is owned by George Soros. Also interesting is that Huckenpahler must have stayed with Oliver Miller while he was in Berlin because he is given a special thanks for his hospitality in the Metamonument document. The trip to Berlin started in June 2012, and if you remember the "secret plans..." picture from CCP's tumblr was taken in July 2012, so it is likely that they were together when that pic was taken.
Connections to Amanda Kleinman: Thanks to a user here on voat, I found out that Huckenpahler has a soundcloud account where he got friends to read chapters from his Metamonument document. One of the readers is none other than Amanda Kleinman, keyboardist for Heavy Breathing and best known for her standup at CPP where she jokes about pedophilia and killing babies. Another connection to Kleinman is that she and Marina Abromovic both attended Corcoran School of Arts at GWU where Huckenpahler was a faculty member. This one is a little tricky. In the google search results you can see both Huckenpahler and Kleinman are listed, but when you click the link you get a 'page not found' error. If you click on the 'artists' tab you will see Marina Abromovic's name listed. If this is not enough to convince you, see this link, this link, and this link.
There is a lot more information on these people that I have not included to try to keep this simple. I would suggest looking through the 4chan threads, although the discussion gets quite off-topic. This is not a smoking gun, I know, all I have done here is give some validation to the 4chan poster who suggested we check out that tunnel. I have managed to show that Oliver Miller, James Alefantis, and James Huckenpahler have direct connections to that tunnel. I have shown that Amanda Kleinman and Marina Abromovic have direct connections to Huckenpahler, and we already know their connections to Alefantis and CPP. I have also shown that the idea for that tunnel's renovation is funded in part by George Soros.
Things to look into:
Dupont Underground - This is the 501c3 working on the renovation. Their board of directors could be interesting to look at. I also found out that the original managing director left this year and is being replaced by someone else.. Who knows if that is useful or not.
The other artists who went with Huckenpahler to Berlin might also be interesting to look into. Their names are Paul M Farber, Edgar Endress, and Pam Jordan.
Please note that I AM NOT asking anyone to pester any of these people in real life or do anything illegal to get their information. I have no reason to believe that they are involved in anything wrong. I'm simply saying it might be interesting to look through public info and find connections.
Last note: Someone suggested that I not embed links into the text as it makes it hard to copy/paste. I understand his point, but I think the advantage of making it easier to read is worth it. If you want to copy/paste just right click a link and select "copy link address"
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kaelar ago
Hello I am familiar with DC's subway system and I am somewhat skeptical of the "hidden subway station" theory (from other posts on other boards) and very skeptical of the "Dupont Underground Tunnel" theory.
First, the Dupont Underground theory: The tunnels are not directly related to the Metro. They are the remnants of DC's streetcar system that went obsolete in 1962. But I don't believe that those tunnels get anywhere near Comet because of geography. The streetcar tunnels are specific to a few blocks around Dupont Circle. They would have been aboveground (being, you know, streetcars) most of the way to and past Comet because there's a geographical feature known as Rock Creek that lies between Dupont and Chevy Chase, which has cut a wide and deep canyon spanned by the Taft Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Bridge . (For reference, Comet is located well past the north (left) end of the bridge and Dupont Circle is located well past the south (right) end of the bridge. If you look at the pictures, I think you'll agree that the early streetcars did not tunnel all the way under that gorge. (And see the streetcar picture on the Taft's companion bridge for East/West traffic over Rock Creek, the Duke Ellington https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington_Bridge ).
For these reasons I do not believe that the Dupont Underground streetcar tunnel gets anywhere near Comet.
Now, to the existing Metro tunnels: You can definitely note when the northbound Red Line train makes the bend to move from running under Connecticut Avenue to running under Wisconsin Avenue. It is not impossible that they extended the tunnel to keep going under Connecticut, which would align with Comet's block. But the important thing to note about any potential abandoned Metro tunnel/station in that spot - it would be very, very, very deep. The stations on either side of Comet, Tenley to the north and Van Ness to the south, require extremely long elevator or escalator rides to descend into them. I tried to find the exact depths of the stations and couldn't, but here's a site that deals with some of the history and engineering issues. https://chnm.gmu.edu/metro/eng2.html
Footnote 5 http://ghostsofdc.org/2013/10/01/ never-built-metros-bridge-rock-creek/ at this link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taft_Bridge has some interesting info about the Metro engineers' original plan to have the tunnel at Rock Creek be somewhat shallower and come outdoors and actually PIERCE the columns of the Taft bridge. So the subway trains would emerge from the canyon wall, travel along the Taft bridge but underneath the main roadway, and go back into the canyon wall on the other end. This would have allowed the tunnel to stay a bit more shallow.
Sadly, the National Park Service, the federales who run Rock Creek Park, said hell no. So all the stations that serve the West side of the Red Line had to burrow that much deeper to get under the Rock Creek gorge.
DC absolutely is full of tunnels, some better known than others, but I just don't think that Dupont Underground links all the way to Comet.
KnowThyself ago
This is good information to consider. The DuPont Underground definitely does not reach all the way to CPP, you can see that by looking at an old map of the system. I think the theory is that there is another tunnel system that has been connected and leads to CPP. We've already seen that CPP is involved in digging tunnels. It's good to know that the tunnels would have to go under Rock Creek to get there.