CIA Releases New Digital Collection of Declassified Maps
From National Geographic:
As with much of the CIA Cartography Center’s work, these maps were classified, seen only by people in the intelligence community and at the highest levels of the government. But in honor of the center’s 75th anniversary this year, the agency has released a remarkable collection of declassified maps that illustrate—and perhaps even played a role in—many significant events in U.S. history.
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More Direct From CIA in “The Mapmaker’s Craft: A History of Cartography at CIA”
Includes timeline.
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Direct to Digital Map Collection (via Flickr)
See Also: CIA Cartography Maps 1960s (Another Digital Collection)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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