Virtual Tour of the CIA Memorial Garden The Memorial Garden is located on a hillside between the Original Headquarters Building and the Auditorium and is one of three memorials on the CIA compound. Where the Office of Strategic Services Memorial and the CIA Memorial Wall honor specific groups in American intelligence history, the garden is a memorial to all deceased intelligence officers and contractors who served their country. Where the other memorials are set in marble within the Original Headquarters walls, this remembrance uses the beauty of nature to honor those who have died. Designed in 1995 by Sheila Brady of landscape architects Oehme, Van Sweden & Associates and dedicated in 1996, the garden is a blend of natural and landscaped plantings amid stone outcroppings from which a cascade of water continuously falls into a large fish pond providing a tranquil and reflective place for Agency employees. A brass plaque set in fieldstone and inscribed with "In remembrance of those whose unheralded efforts served a grateful nation" ensures the fallen will not be forgotten by the living. [CIA Homepage] [Virtual Tour of the CIA][Previous Photograph] [Next Photograph]