George Bush Center for Intelligence

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The New Headquarters Building (NHB) on the site of the George Bush Center for Intelligence

The George Bush Center for Intelligence (German George Bush Intelligence Center ) is the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency , the foreign intelligence service of the United States , which is in the unincorporated area of Langley in Fairfax County in the US state of Virginia . It is named after the former US President and CIA Director George Bush .

It is divided into the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) , which dates back to the 1960s, and the New Headquarters Building (NHB) , which was built in the 1980s, and has a total area of ​​1.04 km². In addition, it has an auditorium , the only (by CIA employees, "The Bubble" German  The bladder is) called. Also on the grounds of the George Bush Center for Intelligence is the sculpture Kryptos , of whose four messages only three have been deciphered to date.

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Coordinates: 38 ° 57 '6.1 "  N , 77 ° 8' 48.1"  W.