Per the Jan. 30th Elaine Sciolino article in the New York Times on Spain under General Franco, below, the second place I lived at in Washington, D.C., after arriving in 1988, was the neoclassical tan brick house in Tenleytown at 4100 Nebraska Ave., N.W.
That's where 1950's 'Cambridge Five' spy Kim Philby had lived in with his wife -and fellow KGB spy Guy Burgess- while chief of station for MI6.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby
According to the version of the story I was told by my then-landlord, a Georgetown University philosophy professor, the house was raided by the FBI -unsuccessfully- after Philby had just moments before made his escape, leaving a fully loaded and operational rifle in the top window
pointed at the street below.
The house is next to the immaculately-kept Japanese Ambassador's residence, a few blocks down from the Swedish Ambassador's residence, the Washington studios of NBC News, the campus of American University, and the huge Naval complex there which includes Naval Intelligence, where I think the Nazi sub codes were broken.
(My last place in the DC area was a comfy Arlington townhouse on a cul-de-sac I lived in for about seven years, which had previously been President Ford's daughter, Susan's place.
For most of the seven years, I had her old bedroom, and we still had the '70's-era Secret Service-installed intercom system, along with her trash compactor in the kitchen, both of which never worked.
Across the street from me on Woodley lived a very friendly guy who worked at the Naval Bldg. on Nebraska Avenue, doing, I presumed, NCIS type investigative work, if I recall correctly.
He even had the Mark Harmon-mustache thing going on!)
That unique combination of neighbors helped ensure that it was a VERY safe neighborhood for the year I lived there, whether going running after midnight or walking home from the Tenleytown Metro, since there were never less than about five different jurisdictional, heavily-armed police/security units patrolling the area -or taking a break at the nearest convenience store at the corner of Wisconsin & Nebraska Ave.
The store was surely the safest convenience store in all of in Washington, back when crime there was out of sight and out of control.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/business/media/29carr.html
The New York Times
David Carr
Citigroup And CNBC Cozy Up
January 29, 2007
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http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/arts/design/30cerv.html
The New York Times
Elaine Sciolino
When Reporters Chose Sides: Spain Looks Back at Its Civil War
January 30, 2007
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/us/politics/29media.html
The New York Times
David K. Kirkpatrick
Feeding Frenzy For a Big Story, Even if It's False
January 29, 2007
http://www.southbeachhoosier.blogspot.com/