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  KF> From: kfl@access.digex.net (Keith F. Lynch)

  KF> Brent Chivers <bchivers@mitre.org> wrote:
  > And I'd love to know exactly _where_ McLean is -- especially since I
  > live and work there.
  > 
  KF> It's a suburb of Tysons.

I thought they were going to re-name McLean "Tysons Corner East," to bring it
up-to-date and give it some class.  :)


  KF> Not to be confused with "Langley," which is a name novelists use for
  KF> the CIA when they think they're being clever.  Of course the CIA isn't
  KF> really in Langley, it's in McLean.

FASCINATING!  Not precisely correct, perhaps, but fascinating.

The CIA's mailing address is McLean, but as we've discussed, that doesn't mean
much.  A quick glance at the map shows that the headquarters is positioned so
that Langley lies between it and "downtown" McLean, making it hard to justify a
claim that it is located in McLean-and-not-Langley.  Certainly, to the extent
that /anything/ exists in Merrifield, Reston, Annandale (etc.), the CIA is in
Langley even if Langley doesn't have a mayor or a police force of its own.

I would not argue that the CIA headquarters is not in McLean, merely that it's
incorrect to claim it's not in Langley.