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Released by the Freedom of Information Act. This document is a thorough description of how the CIA recommends interrogating a subject. To get the information that is needed there is nothing withheld short of torture.

The World Factbook is the basic source of reference on the countries of the World.

From the Foreword: It is a rare season when the intelligence story in the news concerns intelligence analysis, not secret operations abroad.

These are experience-based constructs of assumptions and expectations both about the world in general and more specific domains.