The CIA World Factbook is dead. Here’s how I came to love it

The World Factbook’s website drew millions of views each year, according to the CIA. It’s seen here in an archived version from last month. CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR

CIA World Factbook via Internet Archive/ Screenshot by NPR

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 the first time as a young editor at CNN International in the early 2000s. If journalists aim to write the first

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