Tour Restricted CIA Museum With New Phone App

Even though the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters is located in McLean, it might as well be half a world away for most of us.

Access to the facility is so restricted that a view of the front entrance is the most that the average McLean resident will ever see.

But a new mobile phone app is trying to change that. Last week, the CIA unveiled a new site that provides "on-the-go electronic access to exhibits contained in its restricted museum at its Virginia headquarters," Government Security News reports:  

"The agency said online visitors to the new gallery can read about its role in the hunt for Usama Bin Ladin; see how the Cold War-era CIA used a disguised deep sea mining ship, the Glomar Explorer, during a highly secret six-year effort to retrieve a sunken Soviet submarine from the Pacific Ocean floor; and learn how the Agency used a carefully constructed ruse to rescue six Americans from Tehran in 1979, among a host of other things."

Go ahead. See for yourself. Visit the CIA's website.