The CIA World Factbook Is Dead. Here’s How I Came to Love It

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it

When one of the world’s most secretive and far-reaching organizations offers to share how it sees the world, it’s worth taking a peek.That’s the thought I had when I dove into the CIA World Factbook for the first time as a young editor at CNN International in the early 2000s. If journalists aim to write the first draft of history, I figured, then the Factbook, culling data from Cabinet agencies and other official outlets, could be a reliable pri…

The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here's how I came to love it

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week.

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The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and photos taken by CIA officers. But it was discontinued this week. The post The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it appeared first on TPR: The Public's Radio.

Spotlighting The World Factbook As We Bid A Fond Farewell

One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. The World Factbook served the Intelligence Community an ...