After decades of serving as a reliable, authoritative public repository of basic information about countries, their economies, and their people, The World Factbook disappeared from the internet on ...

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

CIA Shuts Down World Factbook After More Than 60 Years ...

The CIA has shut down The World Factbook, ending more than six decades of regularly updated country profiles. The post ...

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

The CIA shut down its World Factbook resource Wednesday, after it spent more than six decades in existence. The agency announced on its website that the World Factbook “has sunset” without providing ...

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

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years ...

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 ...

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

Before the Internet, there was a certain value to knowing how to find out about things. Reference librarians could help you ...