CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

Martin Becze mjbecze at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 16:16:52 PST 2016


How exactly is the accesses setup? Can we arbitrary software that accesses
DB?

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Michael Best <themikebest at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 <mjbecze at 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 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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