CIA puts a ton of papers on line for public review

[RICHARD BARTH]

>From the Sophos newsletter:



CIA puts huge trove online

Perhaps rather than wait for them to be stolen and leaked, the CIA has published 13m pages https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive  and 50 years’ worth of declassified documents that include records of UFO sightings, discussions about assassinating Fidel Castro and – of particular interest to conspiracy theorists – Project Star Gate, a study into telepathy.


Although the documents have been available and searchable since 2000 after an order by Bill Clinton in 1995 when he was president, they were until now only available between the hours of 9am and 4.30pm on just four computers at the US National Archives in Maryland.

The documents are a treasure trove for researchers, as they also include Henry Kissinger’s papers from when he was secretary of state, documents on Nazi war crimes – and recipes for invisible ink.

The publication online is the result of a 2014 lawsuit by Muckrock https://www.muckrock.com/ , a non-profit that campaigns for open government, and pressure from transparency advocate Michael Best https://glomardisclosure.com/2016/10/30/coming-soon-775000-cia-papers-crest/ , who just over a year ago started scanning and uploading the documents one by one.


https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive
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