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 more than 60 years, people seeking raw, country-by-country economic and demographic data have turned to the CIA's World Factbook. But this week, the "gold standard" for global statistics went dark ...

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 for ...

(CNN) — Taylor Hale was in the middle of teaching a Western geography lesson on Wednesday afternoon when his sixth-grade students informed him that the online reference they usually consulted was gone ...

The Factbook, a version of which dates to 1962, provided facts, figures, maps and more to generations of economists, professors, journalists and others. By Rylee Kirk and Mark Walker The C.I.A.’s ...

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Wednesday said it is drawing the curtains on the CIA World Factbook after more than 60 years. This publication by the American spy agency served as a ...

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 ...

If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which ...

The CIA World Factbook is arguably the best value for a research almanac, bar none. The Factbook provides detailed information on the geographies, economies, populations, and militaries of more than ...