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Crowdsourcing the Transcription of CIA Documents

posted by janrinok on Friday March 20 2015, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the whatever-happened-to-OCR? dept.

prospectacle writes:

The National Archives [USA] are asking for volunteers to transcribe thousands of pages of declassified CIA documents. To assist, you have to log in to the National Archives Catalog. 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.

 
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  • (Score: 1) by forkazoo on Saturday March 21 2015, @09:12AM

    by forkazoo (2561) on Saturday March 21 2015, @09:12AM (#160733)

    Given the phrasing, Nukes seem unlikely. My guess would be either chemical or biological. Nukes were already in large scale production, deployed outside of the US, and issued to combat units for decades by the time of that memo. If it were Nukes, it would have to be something very specific, but even the very classified backpack nukes were at least deployed to Germany, so it doesn't really fit. It may be "chemical/biological" but it might also be something very specific that won't be obvious without some context.