The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States; near Washington, D.C. The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) and the New Headquarters Building (NHB) that sits on a total of 258 acres (1.04 km2) of land. It was the world’s largest intelligence headquarters from 1959 until 2019 when it was surpassed by Germany’s BND headquarters. But it is still the largest intelligence headquarter in the U.S.
Before its current name, the CIA headquarters was formally unnamed. On April 26, 1999, the complex was officially named in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 for George H. W. Bush, who had served as the Director of Central Intelligence for 357 days (between January 30, 1976 and January 20, 1977) and later as the 41st President of the United States.
Colloquially, it is known by the metonym Langley. “The Farm” is not a reference to the center despite its address, but to the CIA training facility at Camp Peary.
The location of the building in Langley, Virginia has arisen to the name “Langley” being used as a colloquial metonym for the CIA headquarters, despite the presence of other non-CIA-related government buildings in the community of Langley, such as the Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. This is similar to how “Foggy Bottom” is colloquially used to identify the headquarters of the United States Department of State, despite the name also being used to refer to the neighborhood of D.C. in which the building is located.
The CIA Museum (also known as the National History Collection or National Intelligence Council (NIC) Collection) is located within the Center. The museum holds declassified items such as artifacts associated with the CIA, the Office of Strategic Services and foreign intelligence organizations, including historical spy gadgets and weapons, and photographs. As it is located within the CIA compound, it is not accessible by the general public. The Enigma machine and Osama bin Laden’s AK-47 are held in the museum.
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