Opinion

Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone

The Trump administration has shut down the CIA World Factbook, and there's much lamenting about the demise of a free source that many people used to check basic facts about countries.
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The Central Intelligence Agency, history and documents / edited by William M. Leary

Part one : The Central Intelligence Group and the Central Intelligence Agency, 1946-52 -- Part two : The Dulles era, 1953-61 -- Part three : Change and routinization, 1961-70 -- Part four : The recent ...