There's something that just seems a bit unwise about downloading a PDF file hosted at cia.gov and opening it in your browser.
It looks like you can google the title and get the same thing at archive.org though
It looks like you can google the title and get the same thing at archive.org though
Anything posted on the CIA website will be thoroughly analyzed by state agencies that are well funded and well equipped to find shenanigans. If the CIA were really doing something to US citizens via something on their public site, it would come out very quickly as it would be an embarrassment to the agency.
Unless you mean that the mere act of visiting the CIA website would be suspicious because you are in a country that might frown upon that, like China? But wouldn’t the CIA site be blocked there anyway?
I'm not saying you shouldn't check it out for yourself though. While you're at it, maybe the NSA has interesting looking .swf .vbs or MS office documents sitting around at their domain.
The uproar if their malfeasance is detected is far more than the value of any information they would gain.
Wouldn’t it be far simpler and more direct for them to go to Google or Facebook and ask them to hand over everything they have on you, at which point those companies almost certainly comply?
...though I imagine they have several illegal methods.
Comedy gold.