CREST: CIA Records Search Tool

[Michael Best]

>
> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/16/16, Michael Best <themikebest at 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 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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