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Cold War Museum Approved
for Combined Federal Campaign Designation
Number 7475.
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(Fairfax, VA - July 26, 2000)
The Cold War Museum has been selected to participate
in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). Their
CFC designation number is 7475. Starting September
12, 2000 Federal employees can donate to the
Cold War Museum through the Combined Federal
Campaign. Tax-deductible donations made by
Federal employees will be used to build a
permanent Cold War Museum and Memorial to
honor our Cold War Veterans.
Founded in 1996 by Francis Gary Powers, Jr.,
the Cold War Museum is a 501(c)(3) charitable
organization dedicated to education, preservation,
and research on the global, ideological, and
political confrontations between East and
West from the end of World War II to the dissolution
of the Soviet Union. The Cold War Museum is
currently accepting financial and artifact
donations of Cold War related artifacts and
memorabilia for display and public education.
Tax-deductible contributions to the museum
will ensure that future generations will remember
Cold War events and personalities that forever
altered our understanding of national security,
international relations, and personal sacrifice
for one's country.
A mobile exhibit about the U-2 Incident Gary's
father, U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, is
currently traveling around the world promoting
interest in the creation of the permanent
Cold War Museum, which will be located in
Washington, DC. The mobile U-2 exhibit has
been displayed at the Bodo Aviation Center
in Norway, the Central Intelligence Agency,
the United States Air Force Museum, the Allied
Museum in Berlin, Germany to name just a few.
In addition to the mobile exhibit, the Cold
War Museum hosts Spy Tours of Washington,
DC. Since its earliest days, Washington, D.C.
has been the scene of international intrigue,
espionage, and intelligence activity, as the
U.S. Government has tried to learn the plans
of other countries while keeping its own plans
secret. Key players in this non-ending drama
include personalities as diverse as Rose Greenhow,
Herbert Yardley, Major General "Wild Bill"
Donovan, and Aldrich Ames. The half-day bus
tour visits many of the locations in and around
Washington, DC that have been associated with
intelligence and counter intelligence activities
for the past two hundred years.
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