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• Digital Collections: Newly Digitized Papers Shed Light on WWII Internment

  05-02-2026 18:18 via infodocket.com
  From the Stanford Report
  Stanford University Libraries have digitized the Kazuyuki Takahashi papers, an “extraordinary collection” of letters and photographs that expand the historical record of wartime incarceration in the United States.
  Kazuyuki Takahashi (3rd row, second from left) poses with the Stanford Japanese Student Association, 1941. Like Kaz and Soyo Takahashi, Stanford history Professor Yamato Ichihashi (1st row, second from right) and his wife, Kei, were also incarcerate
  
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• AP: “CIA Ends Publication of Its Popular World Factbook Reference Tool”

  05-02-2026 13:06 via infodocket.com
  From the Associated Press:Capture From Feb. 1, 2026; via The Wayback Machine
  Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual.
  The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook, but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.
  First launched
  
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• AP: “CIA Ends Publication of it’s Popular World Factbook Reference Tool”

  05-02-2026 13:06 via infodocket.com
  From the Associated Press:
   Close the cover on the CIA World Factbook: The spy agency announced Wednesday that after more than 60 years, it is shuttering the popular reference manual.
  The announcement posted to the CIA’s website offered no reason for the decision to end the Factbook, but it follows a vow from Director John Ratcliffe to end programs that don’t advance the agency’s core missions.
  First launched in 1962 as a printed, classified reference m
  
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