well, joining us now on american history tv is robert byer. he is the director of the museum at the cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency'

well, joining us now on american history tv is robert byer. he is the director of the museum at the cia. mr. buyer. what's the point of having a music film that isn't open to the public? this is the museum for so many different parts. our agency, it's an operation or museum, meaning that we learn from the lessons of our past. so that we can become better in the future, in our operations. it's also to inform guests, people who come to headquarters, our partners, help them understand our history we've done in the past and also on shows like this, helping the american public understand the role of intelligence in our democracy. well, the cia is about 75 years old right now is just the point of opening up the newly classified parts of this museum. not only is this museum coming online just in time for the 75th anniversary of cia, it is also the 50th anniversary, three of cia museum. on the 25th anniversary of cia, we were asked to, create a museum. not that i was around for that, but that's where the museum started as a way to preserve the agency'

. >> robert byer is the museum director.lures, is the only way to learn from the past. >> when you look at the the failures of cia and then understand what you need to do in order to build upon that, you get incredible success stories. for instance red cell anasis , was accelerated after the wmd issue. what that leads to is when you get to the raid at abbottabad, we show president obama all the different possible permutations of who could possibly be at abbottabad. nick: it is not only abt lessons learned. there are the gadgets that inspired james bond. an arctic suit, boots, a helmet, and instructions for a 1962 operation called cold feet. when a low-flying ple picked up cia agents who had stolen soviet research. it was a real-life escape copy to further the end of bond's thunder ball. real spy work is not as glamorous, of course. this building used to be an annex. it used to be known as the pickle factory. this is actually commemorative from the day kennedy was assassinated, with a poem that kennedy read to reassure the pu

goodwell, joining us now on amen history tv is robert byer. he is the director of the museum at the cia.

well, joining us now on american history tv is robert byer. is the director of the museum at the cia.