The History of the Scattergood-Thorne Property
The white house sits back from Virginia Route 123. Many passersby might not notice it, and those that do, might not know that this house is part of the CIA and has a deep and rich history. It’s the Scattergood-Thorne property.
The Scattergood-Thorne property is now used as a conference center.
The 32-acre property once was part of 2,800 acres acquired in 1719 by Thomas Lee from the Fairfax family in England. Lee named his land, which ran along the Potomac River from Little Falls to Great Falls, “Langley.” After Lee’s death, the land passed to his son; it later was divided among the family members. By 1852, a 935-acre parcel was named Rokeby Farm. Today the CIA Headquarters occupies a large part of the original Rokeby Farm.
In 1933 Margaret Scattergood and Florence Thorne purchased a 20-acre tract of that farm, and in 1935 added an adjoining 12 acres. Scattergood and Thorne named their turn-of-the century wood-framed residence Calvert House and the property became known as the Calvert Estate.
During the 1940s, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) acquired 742 acres near Georgetown Pike to be used for a research facility.
In the 1950s, CIA obtained 225 acres of the FHWA property—including the Calvert Estate—to house its new Headquarters, with the stipulation that Scattergood and Thorne could remain on the property until their deaths. Thorne passed away in 1973 at the age of 96 and Scattergood passed away in 1986 at the age of 92.
The CIA took control of Scattergood-Thorne acreage in 1987. The CIA now uses this former residence as a conference center.
Cia Glossary
Bedroom community |
«спальный район»
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National Security Act |
Закон о национальной безопасности |
Director of Central Intelligence |
Директор центрального разведывательного управления, директор ЦРУ |
Collecting intelligence
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Собирать разведданные |
Intelligence community |
Разведывательное сообщество, система разведывательных органов, служб и учреждений, штат разведки |
Nonproliferation |
Нераспространение ядерного оружия
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National Security agenda |
Политика национальной безопасности
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National clandestine services
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Национальные секретные службы
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Internal oversight
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Внутренний надзор
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Whistleblower Protection Law |
Закон «О защите лиц, совершающих служебные разоблачения» |
EEO (Equal employment opportunities)
EEO complaints |
Равные условия трудоустройства
Жалобы на несоблюдение равных условий при найме на работу |
C.F.R. (Code of federal regulations) |
Свод федеральных правил
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Zero-tolerance policy |
Политика нетерпимости
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Checkpoint Charlie |
КПП «Чарли» («Charlie») получил свое название по алфавиту НАТО: служащие союзных войск попадали в центр Берлина через чекпойнт А (Альфа) под Хельмштедтом – КПП для перехода из Федеративной Республики Германия в ГДР, через чекпойнт Б (Браво) под Древитцем – КПП для перехода из ГДР в Западный Берлин – и через чэкпойнт С (Charlie) на Фридрихштрассе – переход из Западного в Восточный Берлин.
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Project OXCART |
More than 40 years ago, the Central Intelligence Agency completed flight-testing the A-12, the fastest and highest-flying jet aircraft yet built. On its final validation flight on Nov. 20, 1965, the A-12 flew for 74 minutes at 90,000 feet at a sustained speed of Mach 3.2 and a peak speed of Mach 3.29. Two days later, Kelly Johnson, the aircraft's designer, wrote, "The time has come when the bird should leave its nest."
An Early A-12 Test Flight The CIA embarked on the A-12 program (code-named OXCART) to provide a successor to the U-2, its first high-altitude strategic reconnaissance aircraft. The U-2 was built to fly deep inside the Soviet Union but was soon vulnerable to Soviet air defenses -- a problem demonstrated on May 1, 1960. On that day, Francis Gary Powers's craft was downed by a surface-to-air missile over Sverdlovsk. By then, however, work on the U-2's projected replacement was already underway.
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