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Keith F. Lynch (kfl@access.digex.net) wrote:

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

   *Is* there a "Langley" in NOVA? If so, where is it? I have a 
particular mental block with this: I spent my high school years
in the Denbigh section of Newport News, Va., an area (slightly)
closer to Williamsburg than it is to the center of downtown
Newport News. A couple of high school friends were sons of the
"original seven" astronauts, who lived in Denbigh but who were
stationed at *Langley* Air Force Base on the other side of
the peninsula in Hampton, Va. (Other friends' fathers worked there,
also, of course, but none of you would be familiar with them.) 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 (we'll ignore the Williamsburg location for 
purposes of this post); it takes me a second or so to realize
what the author is talking about.
   I don't see Langely on local maps. I'm curious about the
history of the place.
      -- David