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    Going Back In Time With The CIA

    The CIA posted almost 12 million declassified online for the first time this past January. Since Glenn Greenwald wasn't around to show me what to read first, I started with reading Presidential Daily Briefs dated September 24 (my birthday). The first one I read was from 1965.

    1. India and Pakistan were in the midst of a fragile cease-fire.

    2. Communist China was asking for India to return "kidnapped" Chinese nationals and animals.

    3. Learned nothing about North Vietnam.

    4. An outpost in South Vietnam was attacked by the Viet Cong.

    5. Panama's President talked about a new canal treaty.

    6. The ex-President of the Dominican Republic was planning to return to his country.

    7. Bolivian college students held a peaceful anti-government, pro-tin miners demonstration.

    8. Zimbabwe used to be an unrecognized state called Rhodesia.

    9. The Shah of Iran purchased a steel mill complex from the Soviets.