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James Bond-style spy gadgets, specialised weapons, models of hideouts belonging to the most-wanted people on the planet – welcome to the world’s most secretive museum.
Until now the public had no idea what lay behind the walls of the Central Intelligence Agency Museum, an ultra-private enclave filled with artifacts from espionage missions and misadventures in Langley, Virginia. But to coincide with its 75th anniversary, the CIA revamped its museum and recently allowed a select group of journalists and photographers inside to share fascinating details of the agency’s covert operations.
Robert Byer, the museum’s director, says it “isn’t just a museum for museum’s sake”. “This is an operational museum. We take CIA officers through it, exploring our history, both good and bad. “We make sure our officers understand their history, so that they can do a better job in the future. We have to learn from our successes and our failures in order to be better in the future.”
