Central intelligence Agency (CIA; CIA) has published online almost 13 million pages of declassified documents. Previously, access to this data could be obtained with only four computers in the National archives in College Park, Maryland.
Now the archive is
Central intelligence Agency (CIA; CIA) has published online almost 13 million pages of declassified documents. Previously, access to this data could be obtained with only four computers in the National archives in College Park, Maryland.
Now the archive is available in the online library at the CIA. «Access to this historically significant collection is no longer constrained by geography,» — said in a press release the head of the CIA information management Joseph Lambert, quoted by CNN.
According to him, before publication in a network the Department has not retroactively classify any document, writes BuzzFeed. Lambert also gave an example of a document that is often requested in the National archives. «This project «Berlin tunnel,» which bore the code name «Operation Gold, a joint venture of the CIA and the Secret intelligence service of great Britain, aimed at the surveillance of the main staff of the Soviet army in Berlin» — said the publication.
The archive covers the history of the CIA since its founding in 1947 until 1990-ies. However, no new documents declassified was not, they only put in open access.
Millions of pages of archive been amended, but only slightly, said the press-Secretary of the CIA Heather Fritz Horniak. According to her, light editing w