Gallery: Making Sense of Secrets

How does secret information get turned into useful intelligence? Try your hand at code-cracking, think like an analyst, and experience how decision-makers use intelligence.  

FEATURED EXHIBITS

  • Codes
  • Analysis
  • Decision Room

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

Code Making, Code Breaking

Exhibit

From ancient devices to quantum computers, people have devised ingenious ways to hide the real meaning of messages. Cryptologists like Alan Turing, try to crack these puzzles. The success or failure of codemakers and breakers has reshaped battles and changed the course of history.

Analysis

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How do analysts make sense of collected intelligence and assess issues? Visitors are challenged to think like an analyst by exploring three stories highlighting different types of intelligence problems.

Decision Room

Exhibit

Experience Red Teaming, a dramatic virtual interactive in which visitors participate in an exercise that CIA analysts used in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.