NEW TOURS MAY GIVE PUBLIC BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF CIA

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• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 14, 2002
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New Tours May Give Public
fetter Understanding Of CIA
about but he ought to .come away nry. anu our >oreign poucy maxers.. A lot of old CIA hands are appre-
with a better understanding of. what :,-.'-Few people realize that the CIA hensive about opening the gates even
downtown Washin ton retrieval systems and the library to
g intarnrat than raw /iat& in wo". th.t show. The CIA reserves the right to
the gates to view the sylvam-setting federal agencies. Others use comput have been in and out of CIA for three
where the CIA is located in nearby fed the information storage and works working on a story that will be
Virginia, hardly 10 minutes from ers, part. of a forthcming "60 Minutes"
congressman will be allowed inside request. Ilan Rather and a CBS crew
Washington- who makes .the proper Tlm
eSA
aJ3'818 fore the tours begin officially. But
arrangements in- advance with his media types are being admitted on
similar to the one that the general Hundred of people (the employment Turner feels the public is paying a lot
public will receive when the CIA figure remains secret) work at desks of money for this and there is proba-
comes out of the cold later this sum- assembling data collected by other bly a, great deal. of stuff like the en-
mer. ergy report that can-be published.,,
Within a few weeks, the visitor to It will be six to eight weeks be-
By DONALD M. LARRABEE. that everybody is working- under guide of Moscow which any tourist
Times Washington Bureau cover and engaging in cloak and dag- would delight in having. The public
WASHINGTON - I have just ger activities." will be fascinated by CIa's map?mak-
come from an authorized tour of the The idea is to remove some of the ing capability.
Central Intelligence Agency head- mystique from the CIA which, for. "What we are trying to do is to
quarters in the light of day. It was a most of the employees, is essentially put out more of this unclassified in-
controlled tour, to be sure, and very ? a collectioin and processin a ency formation," Hetu said. "Admiral
`CIAisall about. He may even decille turns out some of the best maps in ; on a limited basis. There are certain
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campus of a huge university- trim uaaua from the standpoint of how it affects opening the doors at. the CIA just a
lawns and sidewalks with humanity a country's economy, its food supply, little isn't likely to tell our enemies
Criss-crossing to and from work. The and, in turn, its foreign policy as well anything they don't now - but it
place has an ambience unlike any,
as America's may tell Americans something they
is worth it. ble anywhere relating to population place.
The vista. through the main gate ' trends, worldwide weather condi But, after a small peek, without
Is not unlike that of a private garden--. tions, crop forecasts. spotting anyone I had ever seen be
ai that the investment in intelligence the world and some of the most ex people who- don't want to be pha-
hew open-ness 'policy. was for real, who are trained not as spies but as' ;-J,
reads "CIA. It used. to say "Bureau need to know at a quick glance about
, of Public Roads.") every country in the world. It's an
gate. (The sign out front now openly - gence Factbook with everything you
Herbert Hetu,, the recently;. named accountants, lawyers, computer spe-:
public. information chief, said, "Sure, cialists. Twice a year, some of them
ters, I was checked in by a recep- . - "`a......,, a... ...,..a...~,a..a ~... ~..~
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[passed a power station; a water r thrmah IC60i thwra a,aa a haaw
headquarters building, . pne of the "" ' ' `"`"? ? as , 0. c?cay
better pieces of federal architecture referred to the CIA outlook report on
the international ever it
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Although the plans are still in the the Soviet Union, an, atlas of the In-
floor but.. a,u?g vrn,. a ZUFa.a.q DIuuy V{t L11C...,.,.I
where people the .sit at;rest is' desks just , and. write offices ; Prospects for Soviet oil production
reports." .. t? There are agricultural mans of
loan from a private collection. The .
place is tidy and cheerful.
There will be maps and exhibits
along the way, including such things
as the photographs taken of Soviet -
missiles in Cuba during the 1962 mis-
sile crisis. The pictures were shot
from a balloon. There will be a walk
through the library.
What worries Hetu and the new
'
CIA director, Stansfield Turner, is
how to handle the crowds that will be
clamoring for a look. The tours will
necessarily be confined to Saturdays
when most of the employees are at
home. This means also that no more
II
than 500 persons will be shown
through the place on a given day, for 1
both logistical and security reasons. f
"At least," said AJ3pi-7ov+ecdFr]Release 2002/05/07 CIA-RDP80-00473A000600080032-7
get people inside the gate. They can
feel it and touch it and perhaps we
will correct some misconceptions.;
floor corridor which is lined with
huge indoor plantings and magnifi-
cent modern art on the walls - all on
-a small auditorium know as the
"Bubble." Then the tourists will
walk to the main building next door
and receive a guided tour of the first
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