Costco Is A Secret Melonhead Food Repository For Elite Apocalypse Fallout Shelters?

Editor’s note – Vault-Co’s site has been forced to be taken down, so these links are non-functional.

Vault-Co Stumbles on the Costco conspiracy:

I’ve been going to CostCo to eat lunch most days because it is so cheap.

Today after finishing off my delicious bean bake burrito I decided to go for a little exploration.

I had been looking at the elevated concrete deck and stairs over a story high for weeks outside of CostCo. I had walked the perimeter a few times and looked at this colossal building from every angle….

I had suspicions. I thought something might be going on there. I have read a lot about the bizarre closings of Walmarts across America, the midnight demolitions and the rumors of underground storage facilities, possibly to provide resupply to elites after a nuclear war.

Somebody was driving a pallet of consumer goods through one of the access doors to the warehouse and I waited until they passed. I walked down the ramp inside the storage center to a bunch of corridors and then down a flight of stairs. I was planning to tell anybody who asked I was looking for the restroom if discovered. I didn’t see anybody for a minute or two and I was quite deep underground. Nobody would dream from the outside it went this far down.

I passed a break office with a glass window and some employees sitting inside eating lunch. I strode past and reached the corner just in time to get a look at a long corridor leading back towards the parking lot except two stories underground. It had big double doors. An entrance to something even larger.

One of the people came out of the break office and yelled at me, asking me what I was doing. I shrugged and asked where the men’s room was. He gestured angrily and pointed back up the stairs. I nodded and walked meekly back the way I came.

Part II was here.

Might be, might not be.

But there are several lessons for the aspiring Apocalypse survivalist seeking to set up their own such sophisticated operation after the collapse.

If this were a covert government facility across the street, setting up by a building like a Costco offers several advantages. First, setting up by a Costco does offer the advantage of a great food stash, constantly rotated with the latest dated items. Imagine what it would cost to maintain constantly updated food stores like that otherwise. But it offers other great advantages too.

The second advantage it offers is cover for tractor trailers to deliver goods to the building. Wherever anything big and important is set up you will need consumables delivery and trash removal. If you have a small shack over a massive subterranean building out in a rural area, and tractor trailers constantly pull up to it and leave it, people will talk. But if there is a Costco there, nobody will think twice.

Costco also offers cover for people walking around as customers.

There was an episode of the TV Show Burn Notice where the hero had finally tracked the big multinational intelligence corporation that was wrecking havoc across the world to a nameless storefront in town. Somebody commented it didn’t have any security, so the protagonist ordered a pizza delivered to an alcove behind the building, in an alley. As the pizza guy closed in to do the delivery, landscapers all around the building pulled weapons and jumped into action to intercept him.

The portrayal was great for TV, but in real life it would have been different in a couple of ways. Covert operators who loiter need cover for action and cover for status. Cover for status is who you are, cover for action explains exactly why you are there. Landscaping is bad cover for status for 24/7 operation, because it only offers limited cover for action. You can be there for an hour or two, but after the fifth straight day that landscapers have been standing around 24/7 blowing leaves that aren’t there and mowing grass that was already mowed, they will produce more suspicion than they allay.

But if you have a Costco there, you can have people in plainclothes walking around all day through the parking lot and nobody will ever look at them twice. Toss on a Costco vest, and now you are an employee, and you don’t even have to swap people out. It offers great cover for a covert security option, as well as lot of parking and cover for the movement of employees in and out. (Interesting side note – In a real case of surveillance, around when it began one of the first things noted was how many people were suddenly walking around with their noses buried in cell phones and talking on them in cars. Cell phone usage is a great tool to subconsciously lead a target to disregard you as a threat – how could you be paying attention to them when you are buried in your phone? Notice both Vault-Co and Alex Jones have noticed tons of people around them lost in cell phones, to the point they actually write about it on their sites, and ponder what it could mean about society. For me, if that suddenly started up around me when it wasn’t common a little while back, I would do a double take.)

You tend to think Vault-Co getting as far into such a complex as he did would be a sign of either bad security, or a non-covert building, but actually it wouldn’t be. Covert security will have redlines you can’t pass. The security will be layered. But as you approach those layers, the first goal will be not letting you know they exist for as long as possible – or that the people overseeing them have noticed you.

If this was a highly covert government facility, you would not get to poke around and enter secure areas without them seeing it coming. The first time Vault-co walked around the building, a guy on a monitor would be reporting his unusual interest up the chain in real time, and if he wasn’t already under surveillance, they would probably immediately deploy a surveillance team to quietly follow him home and see who he was. At worst it would be a useless training operation on some random jackass poking around, but at best they would get up on a threat before the threat knew it had been identified and set up upon.

On his return, he would be immediately ID’d (if 24/7 surveillance didn’t call ahead to say he was heading their way), and they would pay close attention. When he slipped in behind the forklift, he would be allowed to go as far as he wanted up to the redline, because they would want to see what he was trying to do. Maybe he’d hop on a forklift and drive a pallet out to his van, and drive off with some stolen goods. Maybe he walks past the pallet with $100,000 of laptops on it, and tries to duck down toward the secure levels. Then you let him head for the redline.

If at the redline he tried to go kinetic and it was a sensitive facility, then he would meet the SWAT team, but if he played it cool, he isn’t going to get grabbed up and interrogated.

Rather, at the redline they would arrange an “accidental” challenge by some “random” guy who just happened along by “coincidence,” who would send him on his way in a way that he would feel meant he had not been discovered, or recognized as a probe. If he was an attacker then when he got home, in his mind, he had gotten pretty far and security was lax.

Back at the facility, he would have four twelve man mobile surveillance teams reporting his movements in real time as they tried to track him back to all of his co-conspirators, and unravel the entire extent of the threat, as their data guys pulled everything they had on his name.

It is funny, because when you get to the top of the game, everyone is lying all the time. Vault-Co has his set reply that he is looking for the bathroom, and they know it is bullshit while they have their own lie when they pretend to believe him and send him on his way without caring.

The chances are likely this is just a Costco, maybe with a backup plan to use it to keep some nearby communications center up and running in the Apocalypse. But use the example, and notice both the advantages of sophisticated covert security, and how it is difficult to run really sophisticated security in an Apocalypse scenario if you do not have manpower. Most of us want to pull back to a rural compound, where we crudely meet force with force every time. Being out in the boondocks will be a requirement in the Apocalypse, due to the risk of pandemic. But manpower has its own advantages, in facing enemies who want what you have. Join with your neighbors out there, and prepare to make use of deception and camouflage to gain as much advantage as you can.

Spread r/K Theory, only because there is no advantage to deception about what is coming