# United States Secret Service *Federal agency; in this record, the subject of one at-issue item about the federal presence at Lake Waverly, Wright County, Minnesota, 1965–1969.* The **United States Secret Service** appears in this record in one at-issue item, AI-Humphrey-033. The item concerns a federal security and communications presence kept at a private residence on Lake Waverly in [[Wright County, Minnesota]] from 1965 to 1969, while Humphrey was Vice President.[^1][^2] The project's dossier records a Secret Service boat with two agents on Lake Waverly "twenty-four hours a day". The dossier gives its source class as local oral history and contemporaneous reporting, not an agency record.[^1] It also states: "No dollar figure for any of this has been located." It enters the cost as unverified. The record does not establish what the presence cost.[^1][^2] ## Who The dossier attributes one element directly to the agency: a U.S. Secret Service boat with two agents on the lake.[^1] The household's housekeeper, whose job required a security clearance, described the scene: "There was secret service people all over and there were people in town watching the helicopter land."[^1] The dossier also records armed personnel watching the property and the town, but does not say which agency staffed them. It identifies the helicopters as military. No agents are named in the record.[^1] ## What The dossier lists these elements at the residence:[^1] - the Secret Service boat; - armed personnel watching the property and the town; - a blue landing light on a pole that guided military helicopters to a field on the property's east side; - a direct line to the President in the home office; - a security clearance requirement for the housekeeper. ## When The dossier dates the presence to 1965–1969, the years Humphrey was Vice President, and describes it as continuously staffed for four years.[^1] It adds that helicopters carried his body out in January 1978.[^1] ## Where The residence was on private ground on Lake Waverly in Wright County. The helicopter field lay on the property's east side.[^1] ## How According to the dossier, the boat patrolled the lake around the clock. Armed personnel watched the property and the town. Helicopters carried the Vice President in and out on a regular basis.[^1] ## How much The dossier states that no dollar figure has been located for any element of the presence. That includes the Secret Service detail, the landing light, the communications installation and road work.[^1] The dossier enters this as a finding rather than an accusation and does not argue any cost figure.[^1] The at-issue item states: "There is no public accounting of what any of it cost."[^2] ## How many The record gives these counts: one Secret Service boat, two agents on it, one landing light, and four years of continuous staffing.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue item AI-Humphrey-033 (rank 33) summarizes the Lake Waverly presence. It rests on one history source, listed under the domain kstp.com.[^2] The project anchors the item to the March 2025 executive order *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse*.[^3] The project's stated reason for the anchor is that continuous federal operations without a retrievable cost record are the kind of accounting gap the order addresses. The item does not claim that the order applies to the 1965–1969 presence.[^2][^3] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *HHH Waverly Apex Dossier* §III, "The Federal Footprint on Private Ground, 1965–1969" (2026-09-02) — records the boat, two agents, armed watch, landing light, direct line, housekeeper's clearance and quotation, 1978 helicopter transport, and the absence of any located dollar figure. Source class per the dossier: local oral history and contemporaneous reporting. Validated project dossier; no primary URL for these facts appears in the pack. [^2]: Minnesota wiki project, at-issue item AI-Humphrey-033, *The Waverly Promise & the Boundary County Edition* (rank 33) — item text and source listing (one history source, kstp.com). Project record; no primary URL for its facts appears in the pack. [^3]: The White House, *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse* (March 2025) — the executive order cited as the anchor of AI-Humphrey-033. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/