CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

[Michael Best]

I'll take notes on the access and interface when I'm there next, hopefully
next week.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Martin Becze <mjbecze at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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