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Study: Oppression is Stronger Than the Internet

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The Internet can be as potent a tool to oppress and control a national population as it is a way for the oppressed to communicate secretly and foment rebellion against dictatorial authorities according to a new study. Widespread assumptions and anecdotal.

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Do UFOs fascinate you? Are you a history buff who wants to learn more about the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam or the A-12 Oxcart? Have stories about spies always fascinated you? You can find information about all of these topics and more in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Electronic Reading Room.

What is the Electronic Reading Room? Welcome to the Central Intelligence Agency’s Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room. The FOIA Electronic Reading Room is provided as a public service by the Office of the Chief Information Officer’s Information Management Services. It has recently been enhanced and updated, and while many of the updates happened behind the scenes, we’d like to highlight several of the changes.

Additional processing power and capacity have been added behind the scenes, which will allow for faster document searching, load times, and the ability to upload larger collections of released documents.

Search functionality has been enhanced to allow searching across all document collections, within document collections, and with additional filtering options for better targeted results. We continue to plan for future search enhancements such as searching for only documents with PDFs as well as other options for further refining searches. For those of you familiar with our previous searching capabilities, steps are being taken to restore the functionality to search and display documents by date.

FOIA requests can now be made online in addition to the alternate options of submitting via fax and US Postal Service. This electronic format has been designed to assist our FOIA requesters in providing the necessary information CIA needs to process public access requests. Although these requests can now be made online, CIA will continue to respond through the US Postal Service.

Here you can view documents released through the FOIA and other CIA release programs. If you would like to view our previously released documents and collections, visit our Frequently Requested Records, our Historical Collections, and our CREST: 25-Year Program Archive. You can search all the documents by using the search bar at the top of the page, or you can browse individual collections of documents on historically significant topics compiled by our office. Please note that not all documents reside in collections, so you may wish to perform an overall document search as well as browse the collections you are interested in. Because of CIA’s need to comply with U.S. national security laws, some documents – or parts of documents – cannot be released to the public. Specifically, the CIA has the responsibility to protect intelligence sources and methods from disclosure.