drinkypoo's Journal: Downloading the CIA's Crown Jewels

While a few of the gems are missing from the crown (in the form of marked out passages) you can get the CIA's "crown jewels" documents, 701 pages of dirty tricks (although the most interesting is marked out completely, as usual) which were recently released - previously "EYES ONLY" documents. It only takes one command:

for i in `seq -w 1 701`; do wget http://www.foia.cia.gov/docs/DOC_0001451843/0001451843_0${i}.gif; done

I apologize for any misformatting courtesy slashdot. Suffice to say there are no spaces in the URL, but there are a dollar sign and a set of braces (it's a shell command, after all).

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[drinkypoo]

I downloaded 'em (got something like 33kB/sec, not bad) and have flipped through them a bit. Just the open admission that they were trying to use a mobster to assassinate Castro is pretty amusing to read (and they talk about some details of how they went about it, too.) I didn't download it hoping to find a gem in there; the gems were covered up with opaque white tape. I just wanted some amusing reading, and found it. Some nice supporting material for Machiavelli, basically.

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[WGFELyL5]

leave the real computing work to the people whose trains of thought haven't been permanently derailed.

Haha. His posts were right on except I think he missed the sarcasm in your post [slashdot.org] (or I read sarcasm that wasn't there).