Spy: the Secret World of Espionage Opens Saturday!
222 NORTH 20TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103 P 215.448.1200 F 215.448.1235 www.fi.edu PUBLIC RELATIONS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: STEFANIE SANTO, 215.448.1152 STEP INTO THE SHADOWY WORLD OF ESPIONAGE! SPY: THE SECRET WORLD OF ESPIONAGE OPENS SATURDAY! EXHIBITION UNLOCKS TREASURES FROM THE WORLD’S LARGEST ESPIONAGE COLLECTIONS WITH ARTIFACTS FROM THE CIA, FBI, NRO AND RENOWNED COLLECTOR H. KEITH MELTON Philadelphia, PA, May 2, 2013 – The Franklin Institute’s newest exhibition, SPY: The Secret World of Espionage opens to the public on Saturday, May 4, for a limited time. Extraordinarily rare treasures drawn from world’s leading intelligence agencies -- the CIA, the FBI, the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), as well as the immense private collection of intelligence historian H. Keith Melton, will be unlocked and on exhibit – many for the first time ever - in the Mandell Center at The Franklin Institute through October 6. PECO is the Presenting Sponsor of the SPY exhibition, which grants unprecedented access into the highly-secreted world of the CIA and features over 200 historical artifacts and authentic espionage-related gadgets, including the scripts and studio documents from the real life mission that inspired the Academy Award winning film, Argo. To coincide with the Philadelphia premiere of SPY: The Secret World of Espionage, Melton has just published Spy Sites of Philadelphia, which takes readers through two and a half centuries of Espionage in the City of Brotherly Love. “Philadelphia has long been a hotbed of spy activity over the years, and even today our fascination with the mysterious world of espionage continues,” said Dennis M.
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