The 1994 CIA World Factbook

"The 1994 CIA World Factbook" by the United States Central Intelligence Agency is a comprehensive reference work, published in the early 1990s. This factbook is a resource for statistical and factual information about countries around the world, covering topics such as geography, demographics, government structures, economies, and international relations. The opening of this factbook introduces readers to its structured format, which includes instructions on how to access information about specific countries by using designated search terms. It outlines key entries found within the publication, beginning with Afghanistan and providing detailed information on various facets including geography, population statistics, and government structure. The first portion serves to illustrate how the factbook is organized and emphasizes its utility for government officials and policymakers as a reliable source for comprehending the geopolitical landscape of the early 1990s. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

The Central Intelligence Agency, known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations. The agency is headquartered in the George Bush Center for Intelligence in Langley, Virginia.