Spy museum planned for Washington

Developers plan to open an International Spy Museum in Washington. Espionage, where fantasy overlaps with fact, is reckoned a crowd-puller by Malrite Company, which plans to open the museum early next year.

First World War spy Mata Hari will feature, as will the Enigma code-breaking machine of the Second World War, secret cameras used by the Soviet KGB and techniques of America's Central Intelligence Agency.

In a building just one block from FBI headquarters, the new museum will tempt tourists away from the White House, the Mall and Capitol Hill, Malrite says.