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This is the National Intelligence Survey Gazetteer for Mexico, published by the Central Intelligence Agency in March 1956 and prepared by the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior. It contains about 53,000 entries for places and features in Mexico. It gives official standard names approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names along with unapproved variant names, and lists coordinates, feature designations and map references. It is marked for official use only and has no UFO content.
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# CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Washington, D. C. March 1956 This Gazetteer is issued as a standard component of the National Intelligence Survey for Mexico and lists official standard names approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names. These names supersede all previous decisions on geographic names in this area. This Gazetteer also lists the variants of official standard names for reference purposes. These variants are not approved as standard names. This Gazetteer will be adequately maintained by published revision. Distribution of this publication is made by the Central Intelligence Agency and is for official use only.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 757 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.