The Freedom of Information Act has enabled many people to request previously classified documents from federal agencies. Few agencies elicit as much interest from individuals as does the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ever since its post-World War 2 founding, the reported an update to the CIA's most requested FOIA documents, and its top 25 search queries. This update covers the month of December 2006.
Just as they did in November, UFOs topped the list of terms people hunted for at the CIA's search site. Other queries that rated highly included 'pbsuccess', which refers to a report on CIA operations in Guatemala in the early 1950s, Iran, and Web 2.0.
That latter term brings up a few references to Soviet-era Russia; maybe the CIA sees Web 2.0 as a resurgent Communism effort? Should John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly, the major drivers of the phrase Web 2.0, start looking over their shoulders for nondescript vans following them around?
The top documents searched for in December contain some interesting information, but sadly no reports of Comrades Battelle and O'Reilly meeting with Russian agents in a vegan caf in San Francisco.
One report showed a look forward from the year 2000 toward 'Global Trends 2015', where non-government experts discussed topics like future warfare and the information revolution. To say they completely missed considering a 9/11 scenario would be understatement.
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