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Winchester’s records coup

Virginia Business
March 2004

Apparently, by FBI standards, Frederick County is close enough to Washington, D.C., for convenience but far enough away for comfort. The law enforcement agency recently tapped the area as the future location for an office and high-tech repository complex that would house its records management division and store and maintain all FBI records. Currently, records are kept at individual FBI offices around the world.

Northern Virginia Congressman Frank Wolf (R-10th), who announced the FBI’s decision to an audience of Frederick County officials earlier this year, said that the complex could be built either inside Winchester city limits or out in the county and estimated that 500 to 700 new jobs could be created. The FBI records complex is expected to open in 2009 or 2010.

Virginia Business - March 2004