Not at all weird; it seems pretty effective to me. Over 11 million pages "released" and only 10% _printed_ (as in someone would have to scan the page to get it back into electronic format) sounds like a pretty good access control system for something you don't really want to make public.
Unfortunately you're right. The weird part to me is the way it's justified and presented as a transparency tool! Double speak never dies, I suppose. =( On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Lee <ler762@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/16/16, Michael Best <themikebest@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyone can access it, but only from NARA II at College Park, MD.
If anyone can access the database from a laptop on the guest wireless then something like https://www.att.com/devices/netgear/beam.html would give the rest of the world access. But if access is allowed from only a NARA computer you're pretty much SOL..
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.
Not at all weird; it seems pretty effective to me. Over 11 million pages "released" and only 10% _printed_ (as in someone would have to scan the page to get it back into electronic format) sounds like a pretty good access control system for something you don't really want to make public.
Regards, Lee
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:05 PM, Martin Becze <mjbecze@gmail.com> wrote:
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.* http://www.foia.cia.gov/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive