cia.gov
All blocked
Every URL under cia.gov that we can reach a verdict on — 19 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://cia.gov, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 950 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-05-04, the most recent on 2026-08-17.
The site itself
http://cia.govas of 2026Blockedhttps://cia.govBlockedhttp://www.CIA.govas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.govas of 2026BlockedPages and subdomains (15)
https://www.cia.gov/index.htmlas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/zh/index.htmlBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbookas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/estoniaas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbookBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/taiwan/mapBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/indonesia/as of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/%E2%80%8Eas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.htmlas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ch.htmlBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.htmlBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.htmlas of 2026Blockedhttps://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP89G00720R000800040003-6.pdfBlockedhttps://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/british-indian-ocean-territoryBlockedAbout cia.gov and the Great Firewall
Every URL under cia.gov that we can reach a verdict on — 19 of them — is blocked in mainland China. The site itself, https://cia.gov, is blocked. The Great Firewall poisons its DNS, silently drops its packets so requests time out and breaks its TLS handshake. 950 tests have been run under this domain since 2011-05-04, the most recent on 2026-08-17.
A VPN or another circumvention tool routes the request outside mainland China, past the filtering that blocks cia.gov. GreatFire runs GreatFire VPN; the Analyzer also tests the domains of many VPN and proxy providers, so you can check whether one is reachable before relying on it.
Elsewhere on the site
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