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==The Survivor List==
     
In 1975 General Bray told the Senate that the Mount Weather 
survivor list had sixty-five hundred names on it. Who might be 
included?

The president, of course, provide he survives his Kneecap 
command. The vice-president and Cabinet members are on the list 
because they take part in the annual dry runs. Beyond that, little 
is known and the few existing accounts conflict.

For instance, what about Congress? General Bray said that his 
responsibilities included the executive branch only, not Congress 
or the Supreme Court. But in an interview in 1976, Senator Hubert 
Humphrey insisted that he had visited the shelter as vice-
president and seen "a nice little chamber, rostrum and all," for 
postnuclear sessions of Congress.

Furthermore, Earl Warren is said to have been invited when he 
was Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Warren refused because he 
was not allowed to take his wife. The protocol for ordering 
persons to Mount Weather specifies that messages not be left with 
family members answering the phone.

The vast majority of the persons on the list are believed to 
be ranking bureaucrats from the nine federal agencies with 
branches at Mount Weather. Pollack said he heard stories that some 
construction workers were on the list "because, the Mount Weather 
analysts reasoned, excavation work for mass graves would be needed 
immediately in the aftermath of a thermonuclear war." General Bray 
admitted that some others such as telephone company technicians 
are included.

Each person on the survival list has an ID card with a photo. 
The card reads: THE PERSON DESCRIBED ON THIS CARD HAS ESSENTIAL 
EMERGENCY DUTIES WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. REQUEST FULL 
ASSISTANCE AND UNRESTRICTED MOVEMENT BE AFFORDED THE PERSON TO 
WHOM THIS CARD IS ISSUED.