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 <[email protected]> wrote: > Can anyone access the CREST db? Do I need any specail permission? > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Michael Best <[email protected]> > 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 >> > >
