
The International Spy Museum
@IntlSpyMuseum
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International Spy Museum is the only public museum in the U.S. dedicated to the tradecraft, history & contemporary role of espionage.
Washington DC
Joined May 2009
A new SpyCast episode is out! 🚨. It’s been 50 years since the assassination of the CIA’s former Station Chief in Athens, Richard Welch. At the time, he was the agency’s highest-level officer killed in the line of duty. A Marxist terrorist group called 17 November claimed
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We tracked down an OSINT expert to answer your burning questions about Open Source Intelligence. Dave Cook sat down with us in our new SPY Vault to give you the behind-the-scenes intel on the subject. Watch here: Want to learn more about OSINT? Check
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We're thrilled to announce Dawn Meyerriecks as one of our 2025 Hidden Hero Awardees!. For over 40+ years, Meyerriecks pioneered technical innovation across the CIA, DoD, and private sector. She led the CIA's Directorate of Science and Technology from 2014-2021, spearheading the
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BIG NEWS, Dragon Ball Fans!.Pre-register now and join Goku on day one!.Get exclusive launch rewards and rare items.Will you be the first to experience it?.
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This solar-powered concealment device was used to intercept radar & communications signals. US intelligence designed the device to look like a tree stump and then planted it in a wooded area near Moscow. Why? A bug inside eavesdropped on radar and communications from a nearby
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CALLING ALL TEACHERS! With students back in school, it's time for teachers to go on their own secret mission! Join us for Educator Night Out 2025 on Thursday, September 25th, from 5:30-8:30 PM! We're opening up the museum exclusively for teachers to explore the secret history of
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This is your last chance to see #BondInMotion at the Spy Museum!. You don’t need to go undercover to check out these 17 iconic vehicles from the James Bond film franchise. See them in person before they drive off on September 1st. 🏁. @007. #SpyMuseum #WashingtonDC #JamesBond
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RT @myanimelist: 🎁 Giveaway Alert!. It's National Hotel Employee Day!.Together with Apocalypse Hotel & CA Anime, we're giving away a poster….
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A new SpyCast episode is out now!. This week, we continue the conversation with Tony Mendez and Mark and Cora Lijek as they run us through the next phase of the exfiltration from Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis. The Lijeks, two of the six Americans who escaped the US embassy
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#TodayInHistory: August 28, 1963 - The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. On this day 62 years ago, over 250,000 people gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for one of the most pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement. Among the few women permitted to speak was Josephine
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RT @washingtondc: Our weekend picks for Labor Day Weekend (Aug. 29-Sept. 1) in #WashingtonDC! 🙌. 🎶 DC JazzFest at @TheWharfDC .🎩 DC Festiva….
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We're honored to announce Virginia Hall (1906-1982) as one of our 2025 Hidden Hero Awardees!. Hall's WWII story reads like fiction, but it's all real. She disguised herself as a milkmaid to scout D-Day landing sites, coordinated resistance operations behind enemy lines, and
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Pick your poison babe, I’m poison either way 🧪 . All this talk of rings makes us think of the KGB poison ring in our SPY Vault! This clandestine assassination device from the Cold War is made with a blue carved stone scarab that unscrews to reveal a short spike, which would be
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There’s only 1 week left to see #BondInMotion at the Spy Museum! . See the iconic 1999 BMW Z8 used in The World Is Not Enough and 16 other vehicles from the Bond franchise before this exhibit leaves the Museum on September 1st. 🕵️♂️. @007. #SpyMuseum #WashingtonDC #JamesBond #BMW
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What does paranoia smell like? When the Stasi secret police wanted to sniff out dissenters, they collected the smells of suspicious citizens so that they could track them with trained dogs, if needed. Stasi offices in East Berlin stored thousands of these airtight scent jars.
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A new SpyCast episode is out!. We'll go back in time to November 1979, when radical Iranian students seized the US Embassy in Tehran and took dozens of Americans hostage. Six US officials managed to find refuge with Canadian embassy staff, and on January 28, 1980, the CIA ran a
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During WWII, when tanks and bombers weren't enough, Nazi Germany added economic warfare to its sinister plans. Operation Bernhard aimed to cripple Britain by flooding the country with counterfeit currency. In 1945, as defeat loomed, the Germans tried to destroy all evidence of.
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RT @KalshiSports: HATER: Someone just put over $52,000 on the Eagles to LOSE tonight. It'll payout more than $209,000 if they're right🤯 htt….
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Join us for SPY with Me, an interactive virtual program for individuals living with dementia and their care partners. We will use music and artifacts to explore our favorite spy stories. 📆 Tuesday, August 26, 2025.⏰ 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM.📍 Virtual. Information on Registering
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There’s only 12 days left to see #BondInMotion at the Spy Museum!. Come see 17 spy vehicles from the James Bond film franchise before the exhibit leaves the Museum on September 1st. 🕵️♂️. @007. #SpyMuseum #WashingtonDC #JamesBond
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The "crime of the century." 📰❗. That's what they called Leon Trotsky's assassination in Mexico City in 1940. The weapon? An ice-climbing axe that vanished for 65 years. This notorious artifact's location was unknown for years, only to resurface in 2005. Now it's on display at.
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A new SpyCast episode is out now! 🚨 . What happens when a dual US-Iranian citizen abandons his comfortable life in tech to become a weapons procurer for Tehran?. In this gripping episode, former DEA Special Agent @JeffreyJHiggins sat down with @SashaIngber to reveal how he.
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Join former Assistant Secretary of State @_EMcCarthy1 in conversation with bestselling author @ErikaRobuck as they discuss her new novel, The Last Assignment, bringing to life the true story of combat photojournalist Georgette "Dickey" Chapelle. From the Cuban Revolution to
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