. >> so, rob byer, we're at the beginning of the museum. it's 1947. what's going on with the cia? does it exist? >> well, before we get to the emergence of cia, we actually have to go back to 1941, pearl harbor. there are dots of intelligence all throughout the u.s. government, but they're not able to be put together in order to warn the president of an incoming attack. because of pearl harbor, the office of te strategic services is created. >> oss. >> the oss. or major general donovan is in charge, and basically, they create the modern intelligence apparatus. all of llthe directorates that are here at cia are created during world war ii, and a lot of the ways that we do our operations today, the lineage g goes all the way back to the oss. one of our great stories is about the gold coins of the oss, that we now have on display. these are $20 gold coins from the 1800s. go there were thousands of dollars now, debut back then, in world war ii, donovan created or collected almost $2 million worth of these gold coins, with the idea that in denied areas in france and norway, all uy thro