Police carried out a midnight raid on RGHQ Chilmark, an underground bunker constructed in the 1980s in Wiltshire to house and protect government officials and dignitaries in the event of a nuclear attack.
The site is no longer owned by the Ministry of Defence but the bunker is still intact and the nuclear blast doors are in place.
Wiltshire Police attended the site after gathering intelligence.
A spokesman said officers knew the bunker was ‘almost completely impenetrable’ so they waited outside for three people to leave.
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The three men, aged 27, 30 and 45, from Somerset, were detained and officers used their keys to enter the bunker, where they found three more males, aged 15, 19 and 37, all of no fixed address, believed to be working as gardeners.
They discovered several thousand cannabis plants at various stages of growth, worth more than £1 million.
Detective Inspector Paul Franklin said: ‘There are approximately 20 rooms in the building, split over two floors, each 200ft long and 70ft wide.
‘Almost every single room had been converted for the wholesale production of cannabis plants, and there was a large amount of evidence of previous crops. This was an enormous set-up.
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