Please join Chesapeake Region friends for an informative tour of the National Cryptologic Museum located adjacent to the National Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD. This unique museum explains the history of government and military code-making and code- breaking shown by several exhibits dating back to the colonial period and Civil War through both World Wars, and the Korean and the Vietnam Wars. Other exhibits include the attack on the USS Liberty, the concealment of electronic devices, Russian shoot- down of a U.S. Air Force reconnaissance plane over Soviet Armenia, and the only working German ENIGMA machine accessible to the public. We will have a guided tour beginning at 10:30. Depending on how many we have, we may be divided into two groups. There will be time afterward to look around on your own and visit the gift shop.

GPS address for the NCM: 8290 Colony Seven Rd. Annapolis Junction, MD 20701

Upon entering the NSA compound from MD Route 32, follow the signs for the Museum. Stay left along the exit ramp taking care as east and west traffic merges. Turn left at the light onto Colony Seven Rd. Do not proceed through the employee entrance or you will be delayed by NSA police verifying your identity.

Around 1:00 we will drive a few miles up the Baltimore-Washington Parkway for lunch at the Timbuktu Restaurant.

Timbuktu is located at 1726 Dorsey Rd., Hanover, MD 21076

Please reply to event POC, Tony Wilner, at twilner@verizon.net or 443-514-6695 (text too) by March 31.