'MOTHER' AT HOME CIA INVITING PUBLIC IN FROM OUT OF COLD

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100100118-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
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F WASHINGTON (UPI)-The CIA : is -,: official are trying ts-decide-just what- the
coniing"partw-ay in from the cold and join. visitors will be allowed. to see and what
ing-he Washington public tour circuit.=::: ` ealiibits"might be appropriate for display:
:.A : spokesman =_ said .Wednesday: ;the-- said the plan is still :"at?the drawing
publicity-shy spy agency, getting. in step board stage" and no inaugural date has been
with Jimmy Carter's preference for "open :. set for the tours,' which will take place only
government,'.' .will. soon allows "private citi.. _on.Saturdays
zees to take carefully controlled tours of its Thee visitors, presumably, would require
headquartzrssia suburban Langley; Va: special tickets; perhaps to be doled out by
-- :: is.qute This a step for an outfit that, .; their congressmen. - _ _-- 1
until. dust a .few years ago,.. played. the .In any case, the spokesman said, visr?_
"cover" game to the. point --that highway;. tors will not be "allowed to roam: freely
signs identified the CIA exit only as: "The' through an office building occupied by many
Bureau of Public Roads." who-do not care to-:be;=seeq.`"much less
..The: spokesman said Adm_-.Stansf eld - photographed.
Turner; appointed by President Carter as':- :_-"The -tours will -probably.-start. with a.
the agency's new director, decided`the taboo -film:'or lecture on the.-:history of: the U.S.-
against visitors should be relaxed slightly. '-intelligence"effort in an auditorium known
"He instituted a"more open policy," the as ."The Bubble:"; then proceed-through a'
spokesman said. '.'He thought it would be tunnel" into the, lobby where 33 gold stars,
good idea" ~~--: ".-graven into the marble walls, honor agents
"Tbe?WhiteHonse does it T'hi-FBI does . killed in the line of duty:
jt. Why not us?" he quoted Turner as saying. " Other stops, the spokesman said, might
But letting?tourists -into the modern; .include the librarg^and-the-cartography-
guarded, seven-story headquarters : of :U.S:t,_ room, where maps are made by computers -
intelligence; where mee- with.: mysterious `?= ? `But as for all the otheirspaces behind;
code, names like "Mother'-' and "dojo" plot the locked, guarded doors,'they will remain
ted Cold ? War spy capers jreseats. special =-? taboo.
. problerm. t , =;, "Offices," "the ,spokesman ~ said. "Just
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