Can anyone access the CREST db? Do I need any specail permission? 

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Michael Best <themikebest@gmail.com> 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.