The CIA has posted a short institutional history of its Cartography Center, which reaches back before the CIA was created: in 1941 the Office of the Coordinator of Information (COI), which*was replaced by the CIA’s forerunner, the*OSS, hired a young graduate student named Arthur Robinson*to start its*cartography section. Small world.
Another CIA page looks at its first female cartographer,*Marion Frieswyk, whom Robinson recruited in 1942.
The CIA also has a Flickr account, where they’ve posted a number of their maps in various albums sorted by decade*(all of which are labelled “Cartography Maps,” which sounds dumb*until you realize they probably mean Cartography*Center Maps). I think the Cartography Tools*album is even more interesting than the maps.
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