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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.

> I spent my high school years in the Denbigh section of Newport News,
> ... *Langley* Air Force Base on the other side of the peninsula in
> Hampton, Va.

I was hit by the opposite side of this confusion.  A friend needed to
work at Langley AFB in Virginia, and knew I lived in Virginia, so he
asked me if I was near Langley.  I told him I lived very close to
Langley, and he was welcome to stay with me.

Needless to say, since Langley AFB is about 200 miles from Langley,
that didn't work out real well.

> Thus, whenever I see the location *Langley* in spy novels, I flash
> immediately to Virginia's peninsula, wondering if the CIA really has
> a base there

I could tell you, but then I'd have to ...

> (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.

> I don't see Langely on local maps. I'm curious about the history of
> the place.

I suspect they weren't even named for the same guy.  Langley AFB was
named for a famous early aviator, but I'm pretty sure Langley was named
long before there were any aviators.

(However, Fairfax County and Fairfax City were named for the same guy.)
-- 
Keith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com

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