CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

[Martin Becze]

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

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