The CIA's secret public email address

Emma Best, MuckRock, Aug. 21, 2018

Somewhat infamously, the Central Intelligence Agency’s FOIA office has for years relied on a single fax machine (along with a vaguely cumbersome portal), prompting jokes and regarding the otherwise cutting-edge CIA insistence on the ‘80s technology instead of email.  The system caused headaches internally as well, with the Agency routinely complaining about the number and size of faxes that they receive.  So why, in 2016, when the CIA finally implemented an email account for FOIA for requesters to use, wasn’t there greater fanfare in FOIA community?  Because the CIA never told requesters about it.

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