The Founding Father of American Counterintelligence
The evolution of espionage in America is also the story of the evolution of counterintelligence efforts. The Wall of Spies Experience pays tribute to one of our nation’s founders, John Jay, who in addition to being the sixth President of the Continental Congress, a drafter of the Federalist Papers, and the first Chief Justice of the United States, also led our first major counterintelligence operation. This included the unravelling of a British plot to kidnap—or kill—General George Washington.