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Great victories in intelligence are, by definition, usually destined to remain secret. But inside its headquarters in Virginia, the CIA keeps its own little oil-and-canvas shrine: 16 pieces of art commemorating important moments in intelligence history. Up until this month, only CIA employees and VIPs had access to the 8220 ecure gallery, according to the AP. But a permanent exhibit at Birmingham Southern Museum of Flight has collected high-quality prints of the pieces at Langley. The show is called Shadow Gallery, The Art of Intelligence, and it just as strange as you might expect art about modern war to be. For example, in a 2008 oil painting called Cast of a Few, Courage of a Nation, artist James Dietz depicts a CIA-owned, Soviet-built Mi-17 helicopter supplying U.S. troops in Afghanistan with supplies. The painting is a piece of extremely detailed
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