Photos Of The Floor Of The Cia Bldg

From the start ohb had been too small for a rapidly growing workforce.

Photos of the floor of the cia bldg.

The emergence of the cia. Due to staffing growth and demands the cia leadership soon began to consider whether an auxiliary building was needed. Army intelligence and by the fbi. Indeed prior to 1942 the country lacked any civilian intelligence agency.

You ll see sights such as our memorial wall the bubble our presidents and directors galleries and more. Inside the world s most famous spy building the cia never allowed live coverage of a press conference until now. By may 15 1962 the new cia headquarters building was fully occupied. The designers followed the vision of former dci allen dulles who dreamed of a place where intelligence officers could work in a college campus like atmosphere.

Information was collected in an unsystematic way by the office of naval intelligence by u s. The united states was the last of the major powers to establish a civilian intelligence agency responsible for the collection of secret information for policy makers. Though the goal of ohb was to house all cia employees under one roof it never happened. Original headquarters building ohb the cia s original headquarters building was designed in the mid 1950s by the new york firm harrison and abramovitz.

The headquarters is a conglomeration of the original headquarters building ohb and the new headquarters building nhb that sits on a total of 258 acres 1 04 km 2 of land. But it took nearly two decades before the cia could begin plans for an additional building on its headquarters campus. The seventh floor director s suite was finally completed in march 1962. Near to washington d c.

It s a unique opportunity to learn more about us. Behind the scenes at the cia. The george bush center for intelligence is the headquarters of the central intelligence agency located in the unincorporated community of langley in fairfax county virginia united states.