{"id":57423,"date":"2014-12-31T13:41:42","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57423"},"modified":"2014-12-31T13:41:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:41:42","slug":"the-cias-2014-top-10-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57423","title":{"rendered":"The CIA&#8217;s 2014 &#8220;Top-10 List&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several days, the CIA has been highlighting the most read articles it&#8217;s released this year for public consumption.\u00a0 Naturally, they&#8217;re doing this on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>However, some of their &#8220;top 10&#8221; are worthwhile reading.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37137\">I&#8217;ve written about the number one release<\/a> here at TAH already &#8211; and I also appear to have perhaps linked to a substantially less-redacted version of the document than the one the CIA references in their top-10 list.\u00a0 (smile).\u00a0\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t read it, it&#8217;s IMO worth some time.\u00a0 Be forewarned:\u00a0 it&#8217;s lengthy.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s another gem on that list &#8220;top 10&#8221; list that&#8217;s even more worthwhile IMO.\u00a0 Remember the movie &#8220;Argo&#8221;?\u00a0 Well, number 7 on that list is the official CIA history of &#8220;Argau&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence\/csi-publications\/csi-studies\/studies\/winter99-00\/art1.html\">told by the man responsible for pulling it off &#8211; <\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cia.gov\/library\/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence\/csi-publications\/csi-studies\/studies\/winter99-00\/art1.html\">Antonio J. Mendez<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p>IMO it&#8217;s just as worthy of taking the time to read.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s not as long as the other linked historical document.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>PS:\u00a0\u00a0 no, &#8220;Argau&#8221; above isn&#8217;t a misprint.\u00a0 Read the linked history.\u00a0 (smile)\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Happy New Year to all.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past several days, the CIA has been highlighting the most read articles it&#8217;s released &hellip; <a title=\"The CIA&#8217;s 2014 &#8220;Top-10 List&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57423\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The CIA&#8217;s 2014 &#8220;Top-10 List&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}