The CIA plans to activate a redesigned and expanded public Web site next Monday, with improved graphics and navigation features tested by focus groups to assure their clarity and usability, agency officials said.
“We worked closely with the agency’s four major directorates and independent offices to make the site much more informative and detailed,” said public affairs officer Elizabeth Tascione Licamele.
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“We have split the Web site into seven areas,” Tascione Licamele said, to reflect the major categories of information it presents. For example, links to key information such as methods of contacting the CIA, how to apply for employment, how to access research information in the agency’s online library and its kids’ site appear prominently on the opening page.
The CIA has added new categories of public information to the site to help explain its missions and activities more clearly to its various audiences. For example, a section describing the CIA museum includes photographs of clandestine gadgets, such as a specially-designed cosmetic compact case and a submersible vehicle, that previously were only displayed at agency headquarters.
The museum photographs form part of a virtual tour that provides unprecedented online access to explanations of CIA operations, in line with a “social contract” doctrine adopted by central intelligence Director General Michael V. Hayden, USAF over the past year.
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The site’s kids’ area includes materials suitable for use by teachers and students at various levels starting in the elementary grades. The kids’ section, mandated by a 1997 government directive to Web managers, also includes some games that illustrate the principles of codebreaking and similar covert work.
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The CIA Web site received an average of 3.7 unique visitors and 24 million page views per month, on average, during 2006, officials said. Those statistics exclude “visits” by Internet automata such as Web crawlers, worms and similar software. The site also receives hacking attacks about once every second around the clock, all year, they added.
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