[Scan-DC] Tysons Dig Disturbs Classified Communications Equip.

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This part happens all the time: A construction crew putting up an office
building in the heart of Tysons Corner a few years ago hit a fiber optic
cable no one knew was there.

This part doesn't: Within moments, three black sport-utility vehicles drove
up, a half-dozen men in suits jumped out and one said, "You just hit our
line."

Whose line, you may ask? The guys in suits didn't say, recalled Aaron
Georgelas, whose company, the Georgelas Group, was developing the Greensboro
Corporate Center on Spring Hill Road. But Georgelas assumed that he was
dealing with the federal government and that the cable in question was
"black" wire -- a secure communications line used for some of the nation's
most secretive intelligence-gathering operations.

"The construction manager was shocked," Georgelas recalled. "He had never
seen a line get cut and people show up within seconds. Usually you've got to
figure out whose line it is. To garner that kind of response that quickly
was amazing."