Wikipedia inspired American intelligence to create a similar resource for its own needs. Referring to the Encyclopedia Intellipedia, which is located outside the www, experts of the CIA, the FBI and other departments will be able to receive, publish and edit information of a secret nature. The resource is used by people who have access to the US government network Interlink Web and those who receive special data to enter Intellipedia, reports CyberSecurity.ru .
According to the head of the National Intelligence (DNI) of the USA, John Negroponte, 16 government departments of the country turn to the secret encyclopedia, and it contains about 28 thousand articles. The number of its users is 3600 people. The project was launched on April 17, 2006, but it was announced just now.