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found this while reading about krinks, its probably a repost but if not its interesting anyways.
SEE IT: Osama Bin Laden?s AK-47 displayed in ultra-secret CIA Museum: report - NY Daily News
SEE IT: Osama Bin Laden?s AK-47 displayed in ultra-secret CIA Museum: report - NY Daily News
Osama bin Laden's AK-47 is now displayed in the CIA Museum at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Va. It is closed to the public.
The Russian-style rifle found near Osama Bin Laden's body after he was killed in a raid by Navy SEALs now hangs in a super-secret museum in the belly of the CIA's headquarters, NBC News reports.
The AK-47, taken from the third floor of Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout, lay just out of reach for the 9/11 mastermind when SEAL Team 6 members stormed his bedroom just after midnight on May 2, 2011, and felled him with a blast to the forehead.
The rifle was recovered from the third floor of Bin Laden's Abbottabad hideout after he was killed by Navy SEALs on May 2, 2011.
The gun is one of the most recent additions to the CIA Museum in Langley, a thrilling archive of spycraft memorabilia dating back to the agency's birth during World War II.
The museum contains memorabilia, tricks of the spycraft trade and other artifacts dating back to the agency's beginnings in World War II.
It is closed to the general public.
Bin Laden's AK-47 is in working condition, the museum's curator said. It is displayed alongside an Al Qaeda handbook found in Afghanistan sometime after 9/11.
Then-CIA Director Leon Panetta requested for the Kalashnikov to be fished from agency's shadows so it could be displayed as one of the premiere trophies of the War on Terror, NBC News reports.
Mounted on pegs behind a glass case, the rifle is identified by a brass plaque that reads "Osama bin Laden's AK-47."
An Al-Qaeda training manual found in Afghanistan after 9/11 sits beside it, while the mock-up of Bin Laden's compound used to plan the raid lies a few steps away.
AP
Bin Laden was killed by SEAL Team 6 commandos on May 2, 2011.
CIA museum curator Toni Hiley told NBC Bin Laden’s rifle still works but, in true spook fashion, declined to describe the details of its recovery or whether it was loaded when found.
"I just know that I have it in my museum and I'm happy to have it," she said.
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