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The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, [1] is a reference resource produced by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world. The official print version is available from the Government Publishing Office.
The CIA World Factbook, as a public domain source, is widely used as a source by Wikipedia. Some of the statements in it are undisputed and can be used without further qualification. This includes: Geographic data, except in the case of certain international conflicts
The CIA's World Factbook team also has created special travel briefings for many countries. Josh's tip: Look up the State Department Travel Advisories for your destination, ...
{{#invoke:CIA World Factbook|archive|year=|date=|archive=}} Generates a link to the annual archives of the CIA World Factbook. |year= the year of the archive |date= the date of the article in the Factbook (either on the article itself, or the access date of the article) |archive= the url or date of the archive of the article.
Tim Weiner has claimed that during the Lebanese civil war that Christian leader Bashir Gemayel was on the CIA payroll and was a trusted source. [20] The 1983 US embassy bombing in Beirut killed several 8 CIA agents and in 2023 the CIA called it the "deadliest day in CIA history". [21] The role of the CIA in the 1985 Beirut car bombings has been ...
The rise of communism in Guatemala was not connected to U.S.S.R. due to statements from Nikolai Leonov the former KGB intelligence officer in charge of Central American intelligence [2] as well as push back by the Soviet union and Guatemalan ambassadors in the UN in reaction to U.S. accusations of Soviet Intervention within The Guatemalan government [3]
There is now a 2010 CIA - The World Factbook available online. Most of our entries are from the 2000 edition. Most of our entries are from the 2000 edition. Anyone with a lot of time and a sense of purpose is encouraged to update licence article's with the new data.