CIA Won’t Confirm Or Deny It Runs Site Trump Tried to Sell (1)

The Central Intelligence Agency won’t acknowledge whether it runs a secret northern Virginia complex that appeared briefly on a list of “non-core” federal properties that the Trump administration tried to sell last month.

“The CIA can neither confirm nor deny the existence or nonexistence” of records related to the sale, the agency said Monday in response to a Freedom of Information Act request about the proposed sale of the Parr-Franconia warehouse complex, a reputed CIA facility.

The spy agency frequently uses such language — called a “Glomar” response, after the secret 1974 operation to recover a Russian submarine — to ...