Στο Langley της Virginia των ΗΠΑ βρίσκεται ένα τελείως διαφορετικό μουσείο, που θυμίζει κάτι από ταινία... James Bond! Πρόκειται ασφαλώς για το μουσείο της CIA, στο οποίο έχουν πρόσβαση μόνο εργαζόμενοι στον οργανισμό.

Το διαφορετικό αυτό μουσείο, το οποίο είναι κλειστό για το ευρύ κοινό, διαθέτει μια σειρά εκθεμάτων που θα έκαναν και τον καλύτερο μυστικό πράκτορα να τα κοιτάζει με τις ώρες.

Κρυφές φωτογραφικές μηχανές, έντομα- κοριοί, όπλα, οχήματα και πλήθος άλλων συναρπάζουν, ενώ εκτίθενται και κάποια πολύ σπάνια αντικείμενα όπως το καλάζνικοφ που βρέθηκε δίπλα στο πτώμα του Οσάμα Μπιν Λάντεν!

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Weapon: This is the very gun found by the body of Osama bin Laden after the raid on his compound in Abbotabad, Pakistan in May, 2011

Recovered: In 2001, US intelligence officers picked up this al-Qaeda training manual outside Kandahar, Afghanistan. The officers found the manual while searching the ruins of a suspected chemical processing site. US ordnance that damaged the site caused the handbook's burn marks. The manual includes instructions for firing Stinger missiles

Heartfelt: As Americans celebrated victory in Europe in May 1945, Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer Richard Helms wrote this touching and eloquent letter to his young son on a captured sheet of Adolf Hitler's personal stationery. Helms's words captured the meaning of the war, not only for OSS but for many others who had fought against Hitler. Helms would later become Director of Central Intelligence

During World War II, the Germans used the Enigma, a cipher machine, to develop nearly unbreakable codes for sending secret messages. The Enigma's settings offered 150,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible solutions, yet the Allies were eventually able to crack its code. The machine was developed by the Dutch to communicate banking secrets. The Germans bought the patent in 1923 for intelligence purposes. Polish intelligence was able to purchase an Enigma at a trade fair and procure a codebook from a French agent. When Poland was overrun in 1939, the Poles realized they wouldn?t have capabilities to solve the code and gave the information and machine to the Allies. By end of the war, the British were reading 10 percent of all German Enigma communications at Bletchley Park, in England, on the world?s first electromagnetic computers. This is a three-rotor Enigma. The Germans eventually added two more rotors, and with each change, Allies had to obtain a new machine and codebooks.

Charlie: CIA's Office of Advanced Technologies and Programs developed the unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) fish to study aquatic robot technology. The UUV fish contains a pressure hull, ballast system, and communications system in the body and a propulsion system in the tail. It is controlled by a wireless line-of-sight radio handset

Early drone: Developed by CIA's Office of Research and Development in the 1970s, this micro unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was the first flight of an insect-sized vehicle (insectothopter). It was intended to prove the concept of such miniaturized platforms for intelligence collection

Stealth: The semi-submersible was small and quiet. The craft was made of wood and aluminum, with plywood sheathing on the bottom, sides, and deck. This construction made sonar or radar detection unlikely. The semi-submersible could be sunk without personnel in depths of up to 30 feet

Pigeon cam: CIA's Office of Research and Development developed a camera small and light enough to be carried by a pigeon. With the camera strapped to its breast, the bird would be released. With the camera running, the bird would fly over a target on its return home. Being a common species, the pigeon concealed its role as an intelligence collection platform among the activities of thousands of other birds

Minox B Camera: In 1936, Walter Zapp, a Latvian engineer, developed a portable camera that would fit easily into the palm of the hand and yet take high-quality, spontaneous pictures. The Minox subminiature camera, in its various models, was the world's most widely used spy camera. When it first became available, the camera was considered a marvel of technology; it was originally made from steel in Riga, Latvia, from 1937 to 1944

Identification Card of Allen W. Dulles: Allen W. Dulles started his career in the US Diplomatic Service in 1916. He joined the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during WWII. As a member of the OSS, he directed intelligence operations from Switzerland. Through a series of personal contacts and difficult negotiations, he helped bring an early end to the Allied forces? Italian campaign in 1945. Through his work, he helped save hundreds, if not thousands, of lives. In 1951, Dulles joined the newly created Central Intelligence Agency. President Eisenhower appointed him CIA Director in 1953. During his tenure, Dulles approved the development of the U-2 spy plane

Catch the pigeon: Pigeon imagery was taken within hundreds of feet of the target so it was much more detailed than imagery from other collection platforms. Aircraft took photos from tens of thousands of feet and satellites from hundreds of miles above the target

Spy smoke: Miniature spring-wound 35-mm film camera in a modified cigarette pack. The Tessina?s small size and quiet operation provided more options for concealment than most commercially available models

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