Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search For Bin Laden--From 9/11 To Abbottabad - Plot & Excerpts
Casual visits are not encouraged. To reach the main building, you negotiate first the visitors’ center—where machines constantly sniff the air for chemical and biological toxins and guards bristling with automatic weapons direct traffic—then walk for fifteen minutes down a narrow road screened off from the surrounding woods by high fencing topped with barbed wire, then pass the CIA’s own dedicated water tower and electrical plant. At the end of the road is a seven-story modernist glass-and-concrete building, the main headquarters, erected in the 1950s, its lobby paved with slabs of white marble. Emblazoned in the marble floor is the great seal of the Central Intelligence Agency, and engraved on a wall are words from the Gospel According to John: “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.” On one wall of the lobby are dozens of gold stars that represent CIA officers killed on the job since the Agency was founded in 1947. Beneath the gold stars, the names of the fallen are inscribed in black ink in a glass-encased book.
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