Official documents referred to the site as “Detachment Hotel,” and the government didn’t formerly acknowledge its existence until 1974.įortunately, Kennedy never had to use the bunker, but it still stands today and has been open to the public for tours since 1999. It took the SeaBees less than two weeks to complete the underground bunker, which consisted of a corrugated steel shelter covered with 25 feet of concrete, earth and lead. Kennedy, who often spent his winters at a nearby estate on Palm Beach. Known as “Operation Hotel,” the SeaBees actually built a secret nuclear fallout shelter for president-elect John F. Navy’s construction force - supposedly began the mundane task of building a munitions depot behind the Coast Guard station on Peanut Island, Florida.
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