PROGRESS REPORT

Document Text:
June 1, 1985

MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director
FROM: Secretary, Executive Office
SUBJECT: Progress Report Week 10 – Test Site [REDACTED]

It was a big week down here in West Virginia. Our cover story went live in the town of [REDACTED], where the citizens were informed the nuclear power plant had experienced a tower failure and was leaking.

At this time, most of the town has been evacuated and placed in lodgings one county over. We’ve established a “Disaster Relief Fund” in coordination with the local government (the County is thankful for the generous donation from the “Jerry’s Kats for Kids Foundation”), we expect relocations and payments to begin in two weeks.

As you predicted, a few locals weren’t exactly keen on giving up their land and are asserting their “Rights as American Citizens” to protect their property. We’ll see how they feel once we start construction on The Wall.

Three additional “venture companies” have been established so we can begin to move supplies in, including a shipping company at the West Virginia Public Port Authority, which is crucial to the 5,000 tons of steel we are expecting to be delivered next week.

We are still dealing with a shortage of boring machines on the East Coast (which is surprising, we are in Coal Country), which is now impacting the build schedule for our tunnel network. I’m seeing what we can do to acquire machines from the Midwest (Milwaukee and Indianapolis still owe us a favor), but it will take time to arrange.

Lastly, this week was orientation week for our latest batch of new hires – 53 scientists, 32 military personnel, 18 operations personnel, 4 custodians, and a partridge in a pear tree. We’ll see how many make the month – our retention rate is up to 30% after the latest round. Improvements!

That’s all for now. Looking forward to your arrival, sir.