: On February 28, 2008, the CIA added an entry for Kosovo ; before this, Kosovo was excluded in the Factbook.

* Mobile Edition of the CIA World Factbook, last updated 10 June 2008

Without Abkhazia and South Osetia, the population in the regions controlled by the central government of Georgia was 4, 321, 500 in 2005 and 4, 382, 100 in 2008 ( compare the 2008 figure with the CIA estimate of 4, 630, 841 for all of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Osetia ).

On June 11, 2008 Newsweek published an account of material from a " A previously undisclosed CIA report written in the summer of 2002 ".

The information was taken from CIA World FactBook ( March 20, 2008 ):

At the time of the last official census in Burma, 31 March 1983, the population was 35, 442, 972., this was estimated by the CIA World Factbook to have increased to 54, 584, 650 ; however, many other estimates put this much higher, at around 60 million: China's People Daily reported that Burma had a census in 2007, and at the end of 2009 has 59. 2 million people, and growing at 2 % annually, with exception for Cyclone Nargis in 2008, and Britain-based human rights agencies place the population as high as 70 million.

In 2008 it's GDP in PPP ranked between 147th ( World Bank ) and 153rd ( CIA ) largest in the world.

* CIA World Factbook, Entry for Ukraine updated May 15 2008.

CIA officials became concerned in 2008 that targets in Pakistan were being tipped off to pending U. S. drone strikes by Pakistani intelligence, when the U. S. requested Pakistani permission prior to launching drone attacks.

The Bush administration therefore decided in August 2008 to abandon the practice of obtaining Pakistani government permission before launching missiles from drones, and in the next six months the CIA carried out at least 38 Predator strikes in northwest Pakistan, compared with 10 in 2006 and 2007 combined.

His father, Miles Copeland, Jr., was a founding member of the Office of Strategic Services ( OSS ) and the Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ), according to his 1989 biography and files released by the CIA in 2008.

It has been alleged by Iran that Jaap de Hoop Scheffer has met Jundallah leader Abdolmalek Rigi while he was visiting Afghanistan in 2008 as NATO secretary general amid Iranian and some western press accusations that CIA is backing the terrorist group.

In 2008 their song " CIA Man " is featured in the movie Burn After Reading by the Coen brothers.

More evidence of Mockingbird's existence emerged in the 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate and Beyond, by convicted Watergate " plumber " E. Howard Hunt and The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America by Hugh Wilford ( 2008 ).

These attacks have produced the broadest, deepest and most rapid reduction in al-Qaida senior leadership that we've seen in several years ."< ref > U. S. Officials: Al-Qaida Leadership Cadre ' Decimated ' by Tom Gjelten, February 14, 2008 < http :// www. npr. org / templates / story / story. php? storyId = 100160836 ></ ref > President Obama's CIA Director Leon Panetta stated that SAD / SOG's efforts in Pakistan have been " the most effective weapon " against senior al-Qaeda leadership.

On 6 February 2008, the CIA director General Michael Hayden stated that the CIA had used waterboarding on three prisoners during 2002 and 2003, namely Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubayda and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri.

On 23 February 2008, the Justice Department revealed that its internal ethics office was investigating the department's legal approval for waterboarding of al Qaeda suspects by the CIA and was likely to make public an unclassified version of its report.

On 15 October 2008, it was reported that the Bush administration had issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in June 2003 and June 2004 explicitly endorsing waterboarding and other torture techniques against al-Qaeda suspects.

Settling in Washington, D. C., he wrote a book about Cold War espionage entitled The First Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West, a more recent book Spymaster in 2008, and collaborated with former CIA Director William Colby and Activision to produce Spycraft: The Great Game, a CD-ROM game released in 1996.

Philip Burnett Franklin Agee ( July 19, 1935 – January 7, 2008 ) was a Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) case officer and writer, best known as author of the 1975 book, Inside the Company: CIA Diary, detailing his experiences in the CIA.

As of February 18, 2008, carriers in the United States were no longer required to support AMPS and companies such as AT & T and Verizon have discontinued this service permanently.

* Verizon Wireless — Formerly operating an AMPS network, on February 18, 2008, Verizon has discontinued all AMPS service.

All Alltel AMPS and D-AMPS service was discontinued in September 2008

Service on the remaining 850 MHz AMPS markets was discontinued along with 850 MHz D-AMPS service on February 18, 2008, except in areas where service was provided by Dobson Communications.

The last such director, Ben Hayes, was elected in 2006 to serve until 2008, when the role was discontinued as a result of legal issues.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

Air Greenland and Continental Airlines formerly ran direct flights from the US East Coast from 2007 to 2008, but these were discontinued.

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

For the 2008 season, the Ranger III carried visitors to / from Windigo on several occasions, this proved to be a failure and was discontinued after 4 trips due to lack of interest and extremely long crossing times.

Though the Millenia ( and its Miller-type V6 engine ) were discontinued in 2002, the company has recently introduced a much smaller Miller-cycle four-cylinder engine for use in itsDemio starting in 2008.

* Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC, also known as HP-PA, ( discontinued at the end of 2008 )

The American division was discontinued in 2008.

The technology site, environment site and space site were discontinued in 2008, with the content being integrated into the main NewScientist. com site.

In 2006, it was again rebranded as the IBM System i. In 2008, almost 20 years after being introduced, the product line was discontinued and replaced by the IBM Power Systems line.

it was discontinued in 2008.

Although Yamaha used the Deagan knowledge to improve their own designs, for vibraphones they discontinued the use of the Deagan name and Deagan model legacy ; as of 2008, no visible trace to Deagan remains, although Yamaha continues to use the Deagan name for a line of orchestra bells and chimes.

Special ' Q ' or qualifying tyres of extreme softness and grip were typically used during grid-qualifying sessions until their use was discontinued at the end of the 2008 season, but they lasted typically no longer than one or two laps, though they could deliver higher qualifying speeds.

By 2008, the " Amoco Fuels " brand had been mostly discontinued in favor of " BP Gasoline with Invigorate.

In May 2008, United States BP stations mostly discontinued use of the " Amoco Fuels " logo as BP introduced its new brand of fuel, " BP Gasoline with Invigorate ".

The price was much higher than the standard trim, that made the project not as successful and led it to be discontinued in April 2008.

As of 2011, the GRP is discontinued, the final reference to it appearing in the 2008. 0 handbook.

As of 2008, they are discontinued.

North American Airlines discontinued all scheduled operations in May 2008.

On November 10, 2008, DHL announced that domestic shipping operations in the United States would be discontinued, and that the hub in Wilmington would close.