Saturday, February 6, 2016

Why Is The CIA's Art Collection 'Top Secret'?

Paintings from the Melzac collection, recreated by Joby Barron for the exhibition "Chasing Justice"

Matthew Ponsford, CNN: Why won't the CIA reveal what's in its art collection?

(CNN)The CIA's fortress headquarters in Langley, Virginia is home to more than few surprises, like a branch of Starbucks where the baristas definitely don't ask names, and a museum of spying you'll never set foot in.

And those are just the details they're authorized to talk about.

Langley is the nerve center of an espionage empire with a budget in the billions. Its classified headcount of intelligence operatives are tasked with, among other things, sabotaging ISIS and waging cyber warfare -- so it is understandable that the agency is a little tight-lipped.

But few know that the HQ's halls play host to one of the world's most enigmatic art galleries.

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1 comment:

Jay Farquharson said...

WNU Editor,

The only reason to keep the art collection "secret" is because of provenance.

Make's you knida wonder if back in the OSS dat's, a bunch of Nazi War Criminal's traded the Amber Room, for safe passage and new identities in the US.