After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies ...

The Factbook survived the Cold War and became a hit online. It mixed quirky cultural notes and trivia with maps, data, and ...

The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, ending more than six decades of regularly updated country profiles. The post Goodbye, Factbook: CIA shuts down world reference publication after six decades ...

The publication provided a detailed, fact-based picture of foreign countries, their economies, militaries, resources and ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency is ending one of its popular services, The World Factbook. Over the decades, this ...

The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, ...

A statement on the CIA's website does not give a reason for the decision, simply stating that the publication has "sunset" while encouraging readers to "stay curious about the world and find ways to ...

For over 60 years of existence, the CIA manual went from being reference material for intelligence officers to one for the ...

The decision to end the publication also comes as the White House moves to reduce staffing at the CIA and the National ...

The CIA has announced the closure of its long-standing World Factbook, a popular reference manual. Launched in 1962, the Factbook transitioned from a classified tool to a public resource available ...

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced Wednesday it is halting the publication of a decades-old intelligence resource. The CIA wrote ...

Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you locate specialized data like the Thomas Register, the EE and IC Masters ...