The 1995 CIA World Factbook

"The 1995 CIA World Factbook" by the United States Central Intelligence Agency is a scientific publication compiled during the mid-1990s. This factual resource provides comprehensive information about various countries, including demographic, economic, geographical, and political data. The main topic of the book revolves around offering detailed, accurate statistics and descriptions of nations around the world, aimed at government officials and the general public seeking reliable reference material. At the start of the publication, readers are presented with an organized table of contents featuring various countries and categories of information available for each. The opening details some instructions on how to search for specific data regarding nations such as Afghanistan and Albania, pointing towards the structure that includes sections on geography, people, government, economy, transportation, communication, and defense forces. This systematic approach indicates that the Factbook serves as an essential tool for quick access to global data, focussing on factual accuracy and comprehensiveness for its audience. (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.