In the corridors of the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, the agency’s recently renovated museum, though still closed to the public, has revealed some recently declassified memorabilia from major CIA operations since its founding 75 years ago. .
Perhaps the most important of these memorabilia, along with former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden’s rifle, which was found with him on the night of his targeting, and former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s jacket during his arrest, is a miniature model just over 30.5 centimeters long for a compound in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where a drone launched an attack that took me The killing of former Isis leader Ayman al-Zawahiri Just two months ago.
from 3 floors
He posed this anthropomorphic that he embodied Three-storey building with balconywalls covered with barbed wire, along with an array of guns and spy cameras.
While museum director Robert Baer explained that he had previously used the flags of US President Joe Biden with the details of this targeting process, which took place on July 31 (2022), which dealt a severe blow. to the organization.
He also indicated that it was used in discussions at the White House when planning the murder operation, which was carried out using a drone that fired two Hellfire missiles, without the house collapsing or killing anyone in the house except the head of Qaeda.
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The complex where bin Laden was targeted
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Janelle Nezes, the museum’s deputy director, said it was “unusual to declassify something so quickly”. “We use our memorabilia to tell our stories, to be honest and transparent about the work of the CIA, even if it is sometimes difficult,” she said.
Bin Laden’s rifle and Saddam’s jacket
Additionally, the finds included an AKM assault rifle that bin Laden was carrying the night he was killed by US Marines in a raid on the Abbottabad complex in Pakistan in 2011 and a leather jacket found with Saddam Hussein when he was captured in 2003. .
Some of these memorabilia are available to view online and are part of a wider effort to expand the reach and recruitment by the secret agency, known in some quarters for its scandals as much as its intelligence achievements.
CIA officials often say the agency’s successes are “secret,” but its failures are sometimes public.
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