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Phoenix666 - Training - Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents

posted by Subsentient on Wednesday March 18 2015, @07:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-million-monkeys-typing-on-a-million-typewriters dept.

prospectacle writes:

The National Archives are asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents. The endeavour is part of Sunshine Week, which is an open-government initiative started by a group of newspaper editors to educate people about the importance of government transparency and the dangers of excessive state secrecy.

You can browse some of the raw documents here.

[Editor's Note: The dates on most of the CIA documents are 25 years old or older, so perhaps are of more interest to amateur historians than government transparency watchdogs.]

 
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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by janrinok on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:08AM

    by janrinok (52) on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:08AM (#28296) Journal

    They are all obviously highly talented and well worth the money we pay them. Indeed, they should be rewarded with expensive holidays accompanied by hookers and bags of blow.

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by mrcoolbp on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:36AM

    by mrcoolbp (68) <mrcoolbp@dev.soylentnews.org> on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:36AM (#28300)

    Hear hear!

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:40AM (#28302)

      There there! 12367890

      • (Score: 1, Redundant) by janrinok on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:46AM

        by janrinok (52) on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:46AM (#28304) Journal

        Funny? You don't know the meaning of the word. This is obviously a flamebait post because the AC can only count up to 10.
        What kind of AC do you think you are?
        Get back to /.!

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      • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:57AM

        by janrinok (52) on Wednesday March 04 2015, @11:57AM (#28309) Journal

        I hate you all and I have never met any of you.

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