by Geoffrey Grinder, Now The End Begins:

“Attention, city dwellers! We’re interested in identifying university-owned or commercially managed underground urban tunnels & facilities able to host research & experimentation,” the DARPA tweet read, adding, “It’s short notice, we’re asking for responses by Aug. 30 at 5:00 PM ET.” The tweet included a link to a Request for Information (RFI) form and some stark images: a subway station devoid of humans, a dark parking garage and some type of underground bunker. The government agency elaborated a bit in a second tweet. One person responded, “This sounds both exciting and ominous,” to which the DARPA account replied, “Even to us.”

Secretive U.S. government agency DARPA that birthed the network which ultimately became the Internet is apparently in need of an underground lair. And fast — by today, to be specific.

DARPA is one of those groups responsible for keeping the conspiracy theory business alive and kicking, and over the years we have reported to you fairly heavily on their activities. Projects like the 6-state balloon surveillance systemso the government can monitor its citizens, placing microchips in people’s brains, creating soldier robots called’ Atlas’, and so much more fun and games. You can view the full list here.

Now they have tweeted out that they need to make an ‘immediate purchase’, by today actually, of a lightly-used massive underground tunnel complex so they can “help first responders” who answer calls in tunnels. Hmm.