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| George Bush Center for Intelligence | |
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| Langley, Fairfax County, Virginia, U.S. | |
 The entrance to the CIA New Headquarters Building (NHB) of the George Bush Center for Intelligence | |
  George Bush Center for Intelligence | |
| Type | Office building, headquarters |
| Height | Six stories above ground |
| Site information | |
| Owner |  United States federal government |
| Controlled by | Director of the Central Intelligence Agency |
| Open to the public | No |
| Condition | In service |
| Site history | |
| Built | November 3, 1959 – March 1961 |
| Garrison information | |
| Occupants |  Central Intelligence Agency |
The George Bush Center for Intelligence is the headquarters compound of the Central Intelligence Agency, located in the unincorporated community of Langley in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States.
The headquarters is a conglomeration of the Original Headquarters Building (OHB) and the New Headquarters Building (NHB) that sits on a total of 258 acres (1.04 km2) of land.[1]
Etymology
The headquarters is officially named in the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 for George H. W. Bush on April 26, 1999.[1] Bush was Director and Head of the CIA from January 30, 1976 to January 20, 1977.[2]
History
The OHB was designed by the New York firm Harrison & Abramovitz in the 1950s, and contains 1,400,000 square feet (130,000 m2) of space.[1] The ground was broken for construction on November 3, 1959, and the building was completed in March 1961.[1] The NHB, designed by Smith, Hinchman and Grylls Associates, was completed in March 1991 after the ground was broken for construction on May 24, 1984.[1] It is a complex that adjoins two six-story office towers and is fully connected to the OHB.[1]
The location of the building in Langley, Virginia has arisen to the name "Langley" being used as a colloquial metonym for the CIA headquarters, despite the presence of other non-CIA-related government buildings in the community of Langley. This is similar to how "Foggy Bottom" is colloquially used to identify the headquarters of the United States Department of State (despite the name also being used to refer to the neighborhood of D.C. in which the building is located).
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f Headquarters Virtual Tour Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved April 26, 2011.
- ^ "George Bush Centre for Intelligence". Central Intelligence Agency. 5 April 2007.
External links
Media related to George Bush Center for Intelligence at Wikimedia Commons
- Headquarters Virtual Tour - A virtual tour of the CIA headquarters
- Three Things About the CIA's Langley Headquarters