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CREST: CIA Records Search Tool
Anyone can access it, but only from NARA II at College Park, MD. I'm there
on a semi-regular basis and want to figure out a way to efficiently
liberate the docs that are only accessible from there....because that's
some weird-ass censorship.
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Martin Becze <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can anyone access the CREST db? Do I need any specail permission?
>
> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Michael Best <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> I'm spending a fair amount of time at NARA II. Any thoughts on how I
>> might be able to automate retrieval of documents from the CREST database?
>> There are about 10 million pages of CIA docs that haven't even been
>> accessed, much less made their way online.
>>
>> Since 2000, CIA has installed and maintained an electronic full-text
>> searchable system, which it has named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool),
>> at NARA II in College Park, Maryland. *Over 11 million pages have been
>> released in electronic format and reside on the CREST database, from which
>> researchers have printed about 1.1 million pages. **In order to directly
>> access CREST, a researcher must visit the National Archives at College
>> Park, Maryland.*
>> http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
>>
>
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