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History of CIA
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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's own published history of its own founding and institutional development, hosted on its official website. As an institutional self-account, it is a reliable source for the agency's own account of its organizational history and how it presents its own origins. Its limit is that it is written by the institution about itself rather than by an independent historian, so a claim touching on more contested episodes of the agency's history, including its historical involvement with religious or covert programs, is better supported by independent scholarly or journalistic investigation alongside this self-account.
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This is the Central Intelligence Agency's own published history of its own founding, hosted on its official website, the top tier reflecting that it is a reliable primary source for the agency's own account of its organizational history, notwithstanding that a claim touching more contested episodes of the agency's history is better supported by independent scholarly or journalistic investigation alongside this self-account. NotesThe Central Intelligence Agency's own history of itself; an institutional self-account, not an independent scholarly history.
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AuthorCentral Intelligence Agency
PublisherCentral Intelligence Agency
URLhttps://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/
Source Typegovernment
Claims Backed By This Source (15 claims)
This source backs 15 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Organizations, 5 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Years, 2 claims: 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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