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• Case Number: F-2013-02277
• Publication Date: August 22, 2013

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Thanks Is there a plan to eventually post all four interviews? In this one, might we want to take
the opportunity to add in parens that the original model is at NGA (with their permission).. .and that ours is
a copy of the original made expressly for CIA by NGA for the historical record? There is a needed
clarification in the OXCART segment as well. Let me know if you need anything from me. Thanks much,
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We would like to make your NBC interview the featured story next week. We have done this before, but
making the interviews press releases and not a featured story, but this was such a good interview we
would like it to be move visible than a release. OGC has looked at the agreement with NBC and has
agreed that we can share the video with the public.
I will embed the video and include a transcript with links back to the museum. I wanted to check and
make sure you are OK with this. Thoughts or issues?
(Posted with permission from NBC. Watch the interview at LINK [external link
disclaimer])
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Central Intelligence Agency Museum Director, Toni Hiley, appeared on NBC Nightly
News on July 24, 2013. Below is the transcript of the interview.
Brian Williams: Finally tonight, if Washington, D.C. is the capital of all museums, and
considering this is the height of summer tourist season, we wanted to show you one
place not on the tour where the public is not allowed. But it contains vast treasures
nonetheless of a secret variety; specifically the tools of the trade of the CIA. Tonight our
Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel has been offered a rare look.
Richard Engel: It's the greatest museum you'll never see. And it's filled with secrets -
hidden cameras, weapons, decoding machines.
Figuring out how the Enigma worked is one of the turning points of the war.
Toni Hiley: Absolutely
Engel: World War II when the CIA began as the OSS, the Office of Strategic Services.
Ever since, the agency has created tools for spies. Not James Bond. Not Maxwell
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These are for real, vintage pistols with silencers, a camera carrying pigeon, a 70s era
drone the size of a dragonfly, the lnsectothopter, coin sized Cold War camera.
Hiley: This is a microdot camera; the film pack is this disk.
Engel: It's American history but no visitors allowed. The secrecy protects CIA officers
undercover.
I love this. Even in your own museum to celebrate the accomplishments, their faces are
blurred out. The killing of Usama Bin Ladin is represented here too. This is the mock
up. I recognize this from seeing it so many times. This is Bin Ladin 's compound.
Abbottabad.
Hiley: The original was used for briefing policy makers. To brief the President.
Engel: Brief the President?
Hiley: Absolutely. The assault team used it to plan their raid.
Engel: So tell us more --
Hiley: We had hundreds of pieces of all source intelligence to make it accurate as
possible.
Engel: Including the internal spaces?
Hiley: I can't talk about that.
Engel: Can't talk about that?
Hiley: No.
Engel: They can talk about this, Usama Bin Ladin 's personal AK-47, recovered by
Navy Seals on the night of the raid, much like in the movie "Zero Dark 30." The real
one, this one, has never been seen until now.
Hiley: Yes, this is the rifle that was recovered from the third floor of the Abbottabad
compound by the assault team. It's a Russian AK with counterfeit Chinese markings.
Engel: on the night of the raid, bin laden never fired a shot. Now he is gone and his gun
is a museum piece. One of thousand here, for private viewing only. Richard Engel,
NBC news.
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