The world's most secret museum (on display of CIA covert operations)
0The world's most secret museum (on display of CIA covert operations)
The CIA, the US Central Intelligence Agency, opened the doors of the museum inside the headquarters to journalists. Materials used in covert operations are exhibited in the museum.
This is perhaps the most unusual museum in the world. Objects related to the secret operations carried out are included in the exhibition.
The museum is located inside the US Central Intelligence Agency's CIA headquarters in Virginia.
The museum is closed to the public. Only CIA employees or special guests are allowed to tour. Finally, the CIA opened the doors of the museum to journalists on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its establishment.
In addition to the weapon that Osama bin Laden was wearing when he was killed, there is also Saddam Hussein's leather jacket in the museum.
A model of the building complex in Abbottabad, where Osama bin Laden was killed, is also on display.
The model was shown to the then US President Obama in 2011, and Obama approved the raid by looking at this model.
On July 30, the complex in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, where the new al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri is located, was targeted.
The model of this complex was shown to Biden to approve the operation. That model was put in the museum.
The museum has sections reserved for counter-terrorism and special operations.
The number of visitors to the museum is kept secret. Visitors include members of the US Congress, employees of other intelligence agencies, and foreign officials.
The CIA plans to make some of the objects in the museum visible online.