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In article <2vsu81$d7c@access2.digex.net>,
Keith F. Lynch <kfl@access.digex.net> wrote:
>In article <2vnabv$cqt@news1.digex.net>,
>David Kirby <dbkirby@cpcug.digex.net> wrote:
>> *Is* there a "Langley" in NOVA? If so, where is it?
>
>Yes, near McLean.  Another poster described it better than I can.
>
>
>> (we'll ignore the Williamsburg location for purposes of this post);
>
>It's a closely kept secret that the CIA was founded in colonial times.
>I don't know why they finally decided to make it public in 1947.  That
>building that the Colonial Williamsburg tour guides claim was the church
>house was actually CIA headquarters in the mid 1700s.  They kept their
>files on the Guy Fawkes conspiracy (did he act alone?) there.

Well it is true that the Union was able to break the French Visionaire's
code during the Civil War which the south was using. Before that spys
seemed to be in everyone's embassy sending 'encrypted mail' to their
headquarters... seemed a big fad during the late 18th and 19th centuries.
You just never know what and where they were doing this stuff... except
I think the 'Black Vault' caper was all in New York.

-- Peter
-- 
Peter W. Brewer : Exiled from Dinosaur City "Out of the Silent Planet"
Quote: One of the biggest mistakes I made was listening to 'articulate 
incompetents..' so convincing with their viewgraphs and prose.. but they 
were wrong!!! (David Mallory on Corporate Management in the 90's)