Thread by @JoseJuMarti, Map of Latin America produced by the CIA in 1981 showing "strategic [...]

Map of Latin America produced by the CIA in 1981 showing "strategic resources" of each country. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175515469

Another map from the same year, "Middle East Oil." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175515453

"Middle East Petroleum Industry," also from 1981. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175515314

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Syria - Principal Arab and Kurdish Tribes, 1951. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175515101

"Independent Caribbean - Source Areas of Selected Strategic Materials with Related Transportation." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175515001

"Venezuela - Source Areas of Selected Strategic Materials with related Transportation." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514989

There are loads of these in-depth "strategic resources" maps for every country in Latin America here.

Maps showing railroads in Iran, areas favorable for oil and gas, and principal oil pipelines in the Abadan Area.

1: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514931
2: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514945
3: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514943

Intrigued that the CIA made a map of the Long March. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514818

I've hit the jackpot: two entire pages with 20 entries per page showing nothing but maps of Cuban cities.

Here's a fun one: "Soviet Penetration in the near East, Middle East and East Africa Through the Media of Hospitals and Medical Missions."

Building hospitals is considered "penetration" by the CIA. What might direct invasion & bombing be called?

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514357

"Iran: Metallic Mineral Deposits and Nonmetallic Mineral Deposits." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514209

CIA map showing petroleum resources of Venezuela. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/175514207

Another jackpot: five pages with twenty entries each showing more maps of Cuban cities. Here is Havana. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159085016

Never mind, pages 38-57 (out of 149)—in addition to the above, are all maps on Cuba; it truly does haunt them that, as Fidel said, "That is why they cannot forgive us, that we are right there and that we have made a socialist revolution right under the nose of the United States!"

All that being said... https://twitter.com/JoseJuMarti/status/969974578599604224?s=20

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Map of Iran. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159084055

"Beirut: Town Plans of Syria and Lebanon." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159084015

"Tehran: Town Plans: Persia." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159084017

"Iran: Gendarmerie [Police] Units - February 1951." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083919

"Iraq Oil Fields and Petroleum Handling Facilities." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083661

CIA maps showing the strengths of Communist Parties outside the USA from 1950, 1951, 1952, and 1953 respectively.

1: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083629
2: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083631
3: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083633
4: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083635

Here is 1955. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083637

In 1950, even two years after the foundation of the state of "Israel" and its immediate recognition from the US government, CIA maps referred to the region as Palestine. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083581

"Communist China 14 December 1949," two months after the foundation of the People's Republic of China. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083371

There's a surprising amount of maps of Canada. Here is one showing Canadian land use and natural resources. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083380

General economic map of Egypt produced by the CIA. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083272

Telecommunications map of Palestine. Again, interesting to note that the CIA refers to the region as "Palestine" and not "Israel." https://catalog.archives.gov/id/159083157