so i’m looking at the cia world fact book, wondering if a) they have bloody, stumpy little pension-protected fingertips from updating this thing weekly, or if b) they just buy the data from hoovers or the economist intelligence unit and import it all (honestly, i think that the eiu has some equally interesting and timely data)

i was kinda expecting to come back to this site and see some totally neoteric approach to information presentation- like terrorism data, attempted foreign leader murder attemps, number of organs sold through prison system, number of (insert really hard to find out data item here), or just more really detailed ‘cia-knows-it-all’ type crap… versus ‘most of their money comes from selling fruit and cheap electronics under the iron-fisted rule of this dickbag, and a lotta people are on the internet’ or ‘more data on religions, hiv and literacy’ - because that’s info that’s found elsewhere in (often) much richer detail…then again, if it were *really* of value to the intelligence community, would it be on a public website (that’s a trick question, btw, take a look at OSINT in the researcher web guide for an illustrative example)

however - this other thing on there is actually a very useful item - it’s the ‘chiefs of state’ database, which must be a wicked assache to update regularly ’cause so many leaders die, get killed, vanish, or otherwise turn up in foreign soap operas (btw, i could not find erik estrada of CHiPs fame on here, thought he was el jefe…) - link is here… Chiefs of State…gotta add that to the OSINT repository as well (there are many other foreign leader resources as well)

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