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CIA helps museum open door on spying
By David Wastell in Washington
(Filed: 27/01/2002)
THE long shadows of some of the world's most notorious spies and
double-agents, from Anthony Blunt to Aldrich Ames, will be cast over
Washington in June with the opening of the world's largest museum
dedicated to the history of espionage.
Former members of the KGB and CIA have been recruited to give advice
on exhibits ranging from special "escape boots" designed for British
pilots in the Second World War to a concealed camera used to monitor
East German hotel bedrooms.
In a city that has seen more than its fair share of spies and is
still, presumably, home to hundreds of them, the museum will
acknowledge the work done by the world's secret agents and by
America's much- maligned �21 billion-a-year intelligence effort.
"Intelligence officers do not usually want or seek banner headlines,"
said Peter Earnest, a former career CIA officer who spent 20 years
running clandestine networks behind the Iron Curtain.
"The Cold War was an intelligence war, and it was intelligence that
stopped it from becoming a hot war, but there were no parades of
intelligence officers at the end of it.
"People often talk about intelligence failures but they don't hear
about many of the successes - embassies that have not been bombed,
airports that have not been attacked - and one of our aims is to get
people thinking about the role that intelligence has played in
history."
Officially, the CIA has no view on the museum, which will be housed
in a group of 100-year-old buildings in what was once the bustling
heart of Washington. Unofficially, the agency, whose headquarters are
a few miles up the Potomac River in Langley, Virginia, has been
encouraging it.
As well as Mr Earnest, who is the museum's executive director,
members of its advisory board include Judge William Webster, the
former director of the FBI and CIA, Antonio Mendez, who was the CIA's
chief of disguise, and a string of other intelligence experts.
For balance, there is one Briton, Christopher Andrew, the spy
historian, and a Russian who defected: Oleg Kalugin, a former KGB
major-general who ran the Soviets' counter-intelligence wing.
The museum is being financed by Milton Maltz, a wealthy broadcasting
executive and businessman of Cleveland, Ohio, who once worked in
America's National Security Agency.
Many more spies and former spies, including some still in prison,
have been interviewed on video to provide realistic accounts of their
operations.
The museum will acknowledge British and American traitors, including
Blunt, who was stripped of his knighthood when revealed as a double-
agent, and Ames, regarded as the most damaging CIA turncoat for his
betrayal to the Russians of dozens of American agents, many of whom
were executed.
It will also examine the spycraft of the traitor Robert Hanssen, who
overlooked the site of the new museum from his fourth-floor office at
FBI headquarters until he was arrested, last February, for selling
secrets to Moscow for 15 years.
Hanssen used what Mr Earnest described as "classic techniques" to
pass information to his KGB contacts, such as secret "dead drops" for
leaving documents in parks and public places in the Washington area.
Artefacts on display will include a "Kiss of Death" KGB lipstick
tube, designed to fire a single bullet when twisted, an Enigma code-
breaking machine and a range of fake warts used to smuggle microdots
of secret information.
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External links
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