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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00001R000100020096-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 6, 2000
• Sequence Number: 96
• Content Type: NSPR

PYRGHT
here is an amusing irony surrounding the se-
crecy of the CIA-amusing because an adven--
turous tourist can spend an interesting morning
or afternoon penetrating it.
The recommended method for getting into spy head-
quarters is of prime importance and, interestingly enough,
the least expensive. Note: it is not by automobile.. Al-
though you could ask a gas station. attendant fora D.C.
roadmap and spot the multi-acre estate astride the
Potomac in suburban McLean, Virginia, in a twinkling
(it is clearly marked on all the maps as the CIA), actually
finding it is a different matter. The most common ap-
proach, west out of Washington along the George Wash-
ington Parkway, would yield nothing but frustration in
? terms of locating it.
The exit from the Parkway which leads to the side
entrance to the CIA is, clearly marked "Fairbanks High-
way Research Center," a Bureau of Public Roads facility.
Approved For Release 2000/06/'3
There actually is a small BPR tenant on the large CIA
estate, so no official lying is involved.
Story has it that in the early '60s Attorney General
Bobby Kennedy, who passed by this way each morning,
ordered that the CIA sign be taken down and a substitute
put in its place.
The main entrance is located just off Route 123, which
also is accessible from, the George Washington Parkway.
At the second light from the Parkway exit a road curls off
to the right to yard CIA. A short distance. up that road,
however, of a is greeted by a sign warning that a' federal:^'
installation is ahead and that entry is authorized only to
those on official government business.
At each gate, a guard stops-would-be tourists by simply
asking a few questions and showing them where to turn
their cars around to correct their "mistake. There is:
really no way around this, and the whole process is cited
only to show you that you shouldn't expend a lot ? of
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