On 1/16/16, Michael Best <[email protected]> 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 <[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 >>> >> >> >
