When you enter the Spy Museum, you will be asked to pick an alternate identity.

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The U.S. capital is also home to the International Spy Museum.

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The design team has worked on other successful interactive theme museums including the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland and the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.

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It was one of the messages communicated by a panel of officials, past and present, from the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security, among others, at the opening of a new exhibit on cybersecurity called "Weapons of Mass Disruption" at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.

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In an era of "peace dividend" budget cuts and criticism of the security services, the museum presents a story of how the spy wars helped avoid the need for a "hot war" between superpowers.

BBC: Museum entrance

He was the driving force behind the rebuild of the famous Colossus computer and one of the founders of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, as well as being a British spy-catcher.

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And at the end of the museum there is a reconstruction of the secret tunnel built by British and American secret services to spy on the Soviet military headquarters in East Berlin.

BBC: Museum entrance