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

The CIA is ending the publication of its popular World Factbook reference manual. The agency announced the decision Wednesday ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The "CIA World Factbook" was one of the oldest sites on the internet and a popular destination in its early years. On ...

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

After more than 60 years of circulation, the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) announced on Wednesday that it is shutting ...

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 announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook, but it follows a vow ...