By DAVID KLEPPER
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shut the duvet on the CIA World Factbook: The spy company introduced Wednesday that after greater than 60 years, it’s shuttering the favored reference handbook.
The announcement posted to the CIA’s web site supplied no motive for the choice to finish the Factbook, nevertheless it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to finish packages that don’t advance the company’s core missions.
First launched in 1962 as a printed, categorized reference handbook for intelligence officers, the Factbook supplied an in depth, by-the-numbers image of international nations, their economies, militaries, sources and societies. The Factbook proved so helpful that different federal businesses started utilizing it, and inside a decade, an unclassified model was launched to the general public.
After logging on in 1997, the Factbook shortly turned a preferred reference website for journalists, trivia aficionados and the writers of school essays, racking up tens of millions of visits per yr.
The White Home has moved to chop staffing on the CIA and the Nationwide Safety Company early in Trump’s second time period, forcing the company to do extra with much less.
The CIA didn’t return a message searching for remark Wednesday concerning the choice to stop publication of the Factbook.
