Secret CIA Museum's Prize Find: Bin Laden's AK-47

The secret museum in the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters outside Washington, D.C., has a new prize possession: Osama bin Laden's AK-47. "This is the rifle that was recovered from the third floor of the Abbottabad compound by the assault team," curator Toni Hiley said. The Russian-made assault rifle, marked with counterfeit Chinese, is displayed next to a post-9/11 al-Qaida training manual from Afghanistan. The agency has not commented on how the gun was brought to the CIA headquarters. The museum, which is not open for public, has 70 years of spycraft from World War II to the War on Terror. Artifacts in the museum include a drone resembling a catfish and the movie script, stationery and a company briefcase used for an operation to rescue Americans from Iran in 1979. Among the other loot from the 2011 raid on bin Laden's compound now displayed in the museum are a brick and a chest full of blue and white lapis lazuli stones that were used to pay fighters.

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