Publishing CIA's Declassified Vault

[Michael Best]

https://motherboard.vice.com/read/11-million-pages-of-cia-files-may-soon-be-shared-by-this-kickstarter-crest

Millions of pages of CIA documents are stored in Room 3000. The CIA Records
Search Tool (CREST), the agency's database of declassified intelligence
files, is only accessible via four computers in the National Archives
Building in College Park, MD, and contains everything from Cold War
intelligence, research and development files, to images.

Now one activist is aiming to get those documents more readily available to
anyone who is interested in them, by methodically printing, scanning, and
then archiving them on the internet.

“It boils down to freeing information and getting as much of it as possible
into the hands of the public, not to mention journalists, researchers and
historians,” Michael Best, analyst and freedom of information activist told
Motherboard in an online chat.

Read the rest:
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/11-million-pages-of-cia-files-may-soon-be-shared-by-this-kickstarter-crest

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/285662323/publishing-cias-declassified-vault


Negativity will be ignored, as will predictions of failure. It might not
work, but at least I'm trying. =)
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