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"See that mailbox? The blue one. Standard U.S. Postal Service collection box. Nothing special about it. No plaque. No marker. Just a mailbox on a corner in Georgetown. For nine years, this was how a C-I-A officer signaled the K-G-B. Aldrich Ames. Thirty-one-year career at the C-I-A. Soviet counterintelligence division — meaning his actual job was catching people who spied for Russia."
Hear the full story in the app — narrated and timed to play right where you're standing.
The Reveal
This stop is part of the tour’s larger story. An optional reveal at the end lets you revisit which details stayed perfectly honest and which got a little extra help.
Hear the full story at The Georgetown Dead Drop
This is just one of 9 stops on the Spies, Lies & Dead Drops tour. Download the app, put in your headphones, and experience it for real.
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