The site first came to public attention during a 2011 lawsuit by a former CIA employee, Kevin Shipp, who alleged that he and his family were made ill due to environmental contamination of the base. Meanwhile, another former CIA employee, Allen Thomson, separately concluded that the Texas facility was the agency‘s long secret armory. (…)

Shipp‘s son Joel said his family had been housed at Camp Stanley, which he described as „a secret base which had been used for illegal arms running and chemical weapons storage,“ the Times reported.