Weneed to be familiar with the tour itself and the artifacts in the exhibits. I’m fortunate that I have a great deal of background from my time with the CIA and the FBI, so I can field most questions pretty easily. I spent 28 years with the FBI—15 of which were in New York—and 23 years with the CIAMy favorite is the Oleg Penkovsky exhibit because I can go into depth about it and draw from my FBI experience when I’m giving a tour.

In the Cold War gallery, there are two bottles of a solution that the East Germans developed. They synthesized the hormones of a female German shepherd. If you wanted to follow somebody or know where they’ve been, you would spray the solution on their clothing or shoes and use male German Shepherds to follow the scent. The spray was effective for three to five days.The best answer is on the front of the National Archives building. It says, “What’s past is prologue.” You can’t divorce yourself from the past. We have a lot of new employees and I think it’s good to have the continuity with the history of the Agency. It’s good for them to know what happened in the past.