28-10-2016, 03:09 AM
Putting this here as I gather the documents contained reach back into the era prior to 1963, and apparently contain a great deal of interest.
Posted this morning by Douglas Valentine on Facebook.
Michael Best from Glomar Disclosure had been running a crowd-funded FOIA program to get them to print out each document. This was apparently costing the CIA money, so it helped tick the box for approval of the documents to finally be released.
An additional note -
Posted this morning by Douglas Valentine on Facebook.
Quote:CIA WILL PLACE ITS CREST DATABASE ONLINE
https://fas.org/blogs/secrecy/2016/10/cr...go-online/
The Central Intelligence Agency said this week that it will post its database of declassified CIA documents online, making them broadly accessible to all interested users.
The database, known as CREST (for CIA Records Search Tool), contains more than 11 million pages of historical Agency records that have already been declassified and approved for public release.
Currently, however, CREST can only be accessed through computer terminals at the National Archives in College Park, MD. This geographic restriction on availability has been a source of frustration and bafflement to researchers ever since the digital collection was established in 2000. (See CIA's CREST Leaves Cavity in Public Domain, Secrecy News, April 6, 2009; Inside the CIA's (Sort of) Secret Document Stash, Mother Jones, April 3, 2009).
But that is finally going to change.
The entire contents of the CREST system will be transferred to the CIA website, said CIA spokesperson Ryan Trapani on Tuesday.
"When loaded on the website they will be full-text searchable and have the same features currently available on the CREST system at NARA," he said.
CIA was not able to provide a date for completion of the transfer, but "we are moving out on the plan to make the transition," Mr. Trapani said.
In the meantime, "The CREST database housed at NARA will remain up and running at least until the website is fully functioning," he said.
Michael Best from Glomar Disclosure had been running a crowd-funded FOIA program to get them to print out each document. This was apparently costing the CIA money, so it helped tick the box for approval of the documents to finally be released.
An additional note -
Quote:Notes Glomar Disclosure - "I'm pleased to say Wikileaks is interested in partnering to make the pending release of 775,000+ CIA documents (13,000,000 pages) as searchable and accessible as possible."