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)
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
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