The Museum of National Intelligence

If I were to build a museum, I would build one to the history of National Intelligence in the U.S. It would inform a misinformed or uninformed public about the CIA and its predecessors, and it would pique interest in this very crucial subject to today's world. It would illustrate the differences intelligence gathering has made on policy and diplomacy around the world in relation to us.

The museum would be divided into 5 sections, arranged chronologically. First would be an introduction to Intelligence that would give the history of intelligence gathering before the U.S. came into being. Second would give the history of National Intelligence from Revolution to Reconstruction. Next would come the section on the age of America's rise to global power, from 1876 to 1947, when the CIA was founded. The fourth section would detail Intelligence in the Cold War, 1947 to 1991. The final section would be about the present era, and how National Intelligence continues to play a huge role in our lives.