A Kid's Guide to Washington, D. C. by Richard Brown

Author:Richard Brown [Clark, Diane C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are more spies in Washington than in any other city in the world. So you're in the right place to see this amazing collection of spy tools, including an American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) disguise kit, a Russian spy coat with a buttonhole camera, and a pistol in a lipstick container.

Start your visit to the International Spy Museum by selecting a "cover." As a spy you choose a new identity and a "legend," the story that supports your identity Remember to stop at the marked checkpoints as you make your way through the museum, to make sure you are keeping your cover.

The School for Spies exhibit describes the skills essential to being a spy, as well as how spies are recruited and trained. Test your ability to identify someone in disguise. See how it feels to crawl through an air duct so you can listen to a private conversation in the room below.

You'll learn how long spying has been around when you see the life-size masked Ninja representing the art of invisibility in twelfth-century Japan. In the United States, George Washington was the first politician to use spying to gather information. But spying only became a formal part of the U.S. government in the early days of the Soviet Union.

World War I marked the first use of cameras for spying. Spies studied photos to learn about enemy weapons and to make maps. Often, pigeons outfitted with tiny cameras were released over military sites. While the birds flew, the cameras clicked away, snapping pictures that were developed and studied when the pigeons returned to their owners.

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