The research at Williamsburg over the decades has yielded more than 50 million fragments of items, a 500, 000-piece trove of collected items and a network of museums under Chief Curator Ronald Hurst's direction that includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, the Wallace Museum and cafe, and the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum.

CNN: Revolutionary holidays in Williamsburg

Tim Long, curator of fashion and decorative arts at the Museum of London, said he was fascinated by the CIA's use of Harris Tweed.

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