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The Federal Government's $15 Million Cat

The Federal Government's $15 Million Cat

07/26/2023 in DC by Isabel Sans

It's no secret that the CIA sometimes thought more about whether it could and less about whether it should. Project Acoustic Kitty was one of those times. Does "trained cat" sound like an oxymoron to you? It should, but it cost the CIA $15 million to find out the same thing!

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How Washington's Modern Art Movement Became Cold War Artillery

How Washington's Modern Art Movement Became Cold War Artillery

07/14/2023 in DC by Jane Winik Sartwell

Alma Thomas, the African-American abstract artist and the subject of a recent WETA Arts episode, had many fans in Washington, D.C., but was her biggest fan the CIA?

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Secrets in the Forest: A Virginia Summer Camp Becomes a Playground for Spies

Secrets in the Forest: A Virginia Summer Camp Becomes a Playground for Spies

10/04/2021 in DC by Dominique Mickiewicz

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to begin your training as a World War II spy in the forests of Prince William County, Virginia.

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Julia Child's Washington Roots

Julia Child's Washington Roots

04/26/2017 in DC by Claudia Swain

Julia Child was a giant of French cooking, but before she became a legend in the kitchen she worked in the Office of Strategic Services -- the precursor to the CIA -- in Washington, D.C.

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Designing America's Spy Headquarters

Designing America's Spy Headquarters

10/06/2015 in DC by Richard Brownell

Can you imagine the world’s most powerful clandestine intelligence agency spread out across a series of ramshackle offices in and around Washington, DC? Well, that’s what constituted the Central Intelligence Agency in 1953, the year Director of Central Intelligence Allen Dulles announced a plan to build one large, secure campus that would be home to the rapidly growing spy agency.

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