A statue of legendary abolitionist and military spy Harriet Tubman now stands at the CIA
CIA employees proposed the statue project after attending a team-building program in Maryland, where Tubman was raised and where she eventually led scores of enslaved people to freedom. It is a reproduction of a statue by artist Brian Hanlon that stands in front of theThe statue joins two others on the CIA campus that depict Nathan Hale, an American spy killed by the British during the Revolutionary War, and William J. Donovan, considered the “founding father” of the CIA.
Since 2018, the CIA has taken some employees on “Leadership Ethos Rides” retracing the path of Tubman’s Underground Railroad missions along the Eastern Shore. On these missions, she led enslaved people to safety and freedom — actions that in the intel community would be classified as “exfiltration from a denied area,” Byer said. The rides highlight Tubman and the CIA’s shared traits, Byer said, like “dedication, sacrifice and stewardship.
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