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- From: gloster@INFERENCE.COM ("Vance M. Gloster")
- Subject: Where to get CIA World Fact Book ?
- Message-ID: <9207271800.AA10575@quaestor>
- Sender: CD-ROM <CDROM-L@uccvma.ucop.edu>
- Reply-To: "Vance M. Gloster" <gloster@INFERENCE.COM>
- Organization: FUNET-NGW
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:00:45 GMT
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- >Recently I saw a title called "CIA/KGB fact book something", is it a superset
- >of the original CIA World factbook? How many different versions of CIA blah
- >blah are there? I remember Jerry Pournelle (sp?) entioned CIA world factbook
- >includes the national anthems of each countries, does this title still exist?
- >
-
- There are three CDs altogether. Two are titled The CIA World
- Factbook, and the text portion is the same. I believe the one from
- Quanta Press is the one that has the national anthems, maps, and flags
- in the current release. They have done a release each year (the CIA
- does a release of the info each year) for the past several years.
- Another company has recently released a CD with the same text
- material, but without the anthems, etc. It is about $15 cheaper
- around here. Quanta has this year also released the KGB World
- Factbook which contains a translation of recently unclassified KGB
- documents of a similar nature. Hope this helps.
-
- -Vance Gloster
- gloster@inference.com
-