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Potential Illinois site for agency relocation identified

Posted December 05, 2014 12:01 am

Associated Press

MASCOUTAH - A site near Scott Air Force Base in southwestern Illinois has been revealed as a potential relocation spot for a secret government agency that helped coordinate the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

The Belleville News-Democrat reports acreage for the future home of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is owned by St. Clair County and is adjacent to the air base's northeast boundary.

It's among four finalists in the competition for the agency that employs roughly 3,000 people and is now located along the Mississippi River in St. Louis. It is a combined defense and intelligence agency responsible for collecting, classifying and analyzing human activity and showing that activity in the form of maps, charts and imagery intelligence.

The move is not expected for another seven or eight years.

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