Moving these documents online highlights the cias commitment to increasing the accessibility. The central intelligence agency this week published more than 12 million pages of declassified records online some 930,000 documents are now available to the public via the cias. Over 12 million pages of cia documents are now accessible. The declassified documents reference system ddrs has more than 116,000 declassified u. Utilizing the freedom of information act foia, the black vaults founder john greenewald, jr. Background promis is believed by some to be the forefunner to the now infamous prism program by the national security agency nsa. Hosted on the cia website, the documents were declassified under an executive order that requires what the agency. Therefore, in january 2017, the cia published the records of the crest collection online. Document number cia rdp8200038r0017001200011 declassified and released through the cia s crest database. Back in december, we wrote about how the cia would be placing its previouslyinaccessible crest database online. Cia is no exception, and it once worked on developing ways animals could help with intelligence collection.
Central intelligence agency reports about amateur radio in the former soviet union including the baltic states and warsaw pact member countries have been declassified to a new. Document number ciardp93b01194r0012001500364 declassified and released through the cias crest database. Additionally, the declassified documents reveal that early in the 1970s, the cia was exhibiting interest in extrasensory perception esp and people who apparently exhibited paranormal abilities roughly at. It provides an indepth indexing of the cia declassified documents and, where possible, also provides a link to the. They can be accessed through the cia s crest cia records search tool archive. Basically, the cia is saying that the database of declassified documents is itself classified, explains steve aftergood, a senior research analyst. The best, most comprehensive guide to citing government documents at all levels u.
The central intelligence agency moved nearly million pages of declassified documents online, previously only physically accessible from four terminals maintained at the national archives in. Cia posts more than 12 million pages of crest records online. They can be accessed through the cias crest cia records search tool archive. While many of the documents have been declassified for some time, the. Based on my own experience in applications of big data in counterterrorism, i think the cia. Hundreds of thousands of declassified cia documents now. Cia releases m pages of declassified documents online.
The move was a response to our lawsuit, handled pro bono by. Once the link is clicked, the collections will appear below. This collection consists of more than 300 declassified documents related to the. A trove of recently released cables and zubaydahs own declassified account describe what happened when the. Cia declassified documents about amateur radio available. The black vault has more than 2,000,000 pages of declassified u. Theres a whole section of the database devoted to secret writing.
Government documents ready to download on nearly any government secret you can imagine. Freedom of information act electronic reading room cia. Read 12m pages of declassified cia records software. The crest database was declassified a decade ago under a 1995 executive order issued by. One of the greatest things about cias crest database is that it isnt limited. Finding declassified documents online subscription databases. A webbased database of cia declassified documents on the. The cia has shared more than 930,000 onceclassified documents online, with ufos. The cia has declassified 99 documents describing the. After years of fighting with foia requesters, the cia has finally uploaded over 12 million pages of documents to its website. Declassified cia documents online including stargate. The center for the study of intelligence continues to work on declassifying other once highly sensitive intelligence literature.
Cia tries to edit the past with release of declassified. The cia just dumped 12 million declassified pages of. This collection of declassified documents highlights. Declassified documents online offers unique insights into the inner workings of the us government. This week, the central intelligence agency posted its cia records search tool database online, making roughly 930,000 declassified documentsover 12 million pages in allwidely accessible for. The automatic declassification provisions of executive order 526 formerly eo. Document number ciardp8200038r0017001200011 declassified and released through the cias crest database. In 1978, the agency known in some circles for masterminding nearly every world event since its inception declassified a vast number of files, hundreds of documents. Langley, va the largest collection of declassified cia records is. Responding to a white house directive, the cia declassified and is now releasing documents relating to the dirty war period in argentina. The document trove, crest, was already declassified and. Search terms search for terms in the fulltext and metadata fields. Central intelligence agency reports about amateur radio in the former soviet union including the baltic states and warsaw pact member countries have been declassified to a. The declassification of records is an important part of the archival process.
On wednesday the cia published roughly 930,000 documents online, totaling more than 1 million pages, which had previously only been accessible on computers at the national archives in maryland the. Newly declassified documents detail cias relationship. Previously available only on four computers located outside of. About million pages of declassified documents from the us central intelligence agency cia have been released online. Pitt users only usddo provides fulltext, declassified documents from u.
Hosted on the cia website, the documents were declassified under an executive order that requires. Throughout its history, the cia has been the subject of a number of controversies, both at home and abroad. Under guidelines laid out for the program, historical records are released except in. The collection brings together the most sensitive documents from all the presidential libraries and. I have done a couple of projects in counterterrorism. One example is data on the berlin tunnel project codenamed operation gold, which was a joint cia and british intelligence scheme to carry out surveillance on the soviet army hq in berlin during the 1950s. Previously available only on four computers located outside of washington d. After muckrock foia lawsuit, cia publishes declassified. Declassified documents databases international studies. Zia, bhutto and pakistans nuclear capabilities earn. The cia puts hundreds of declassified documents about ufo. In 2000, the agency created the cia records search tool crest, which is an electronic database of documents declassified under a clinton administration executive order calling for the. The central intelligence agency today declassified the united states governments six oldest classified documents, dating from 1917 and 1918.
We are for instance presented this niad nazi interrogation archiv. The central intelligence agency this week published more than 12 million pages of declassified records online. Declassified documents online provides immediate access to a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty first centuries. Index of declassified articles central intelligence agency. For cia, the 2006 deadline covered the span of relevant documents originally. Declassified documents provides access to post world war ii papers from the cia, the fbi and many other agencies, which have been gathered from presidential libraries. The central intelligence agencys cia digital release earlier this month of nearly million pages of declassified documents from the 1940s to 1990s has sparked international interest. Cia to put millions of declassified documents online fcw.
Freedom of information act electronic reading room cia foia. To get these declassified cia documents online has taken the work of many individuals and groups, including the information group muckrock. Declassified documents databases international studies subject. This collection of declassified documents highlights the diverse programs. Collection use the ctrl key to select and deselect collections select a collection or use the ctrl key to select and deselect collections. The range of documents, known as the crest cia records search tool database, covers an array of materials related to the vietnam war, korean war and cold war. Crest records are divided into collections on the lefthand side of this page.
The cias declassified database is now online muckrock. The following is a list of controversies involving the central intelligence agency cia. In june of 2014, we announced what was then our first lawsuit. Some 930,000 documents are now available to the public via the cias. The vault is our new foia library, containing 6,700 documents and other media that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.
The best of the cias 12million page crest archive wired. The move was a response to our lawsuit, handled pro bono by with kel mcclanahan of national security counselors, as well as emma bests diligence in trying to manually print and scan the archive today, were happy to announce that all 25 years worth of declassified documents. Beside from the declassified reports, we are also told that revolutionary new software contributes to new leads. Anything marked with page denied and or nr has been deemed not relevant to the argentina project, whether or not it has been previously. Databases and websites declassified and classified u. It includes only declassified documents created by the u. The 1984 series of internal memos, part of the cias recent crest release cia records search tool of over 900,000 newly declassified documents, was drafted in response to a study on. Cia cables document agencys torture of abu zubaydah.
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