Central Intelligence Agency

CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)

The CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST - CIA Records Search Tool) is a publicly searchable interface to declassified CIA records released under the Freedom of Information Act. The site provides full-text search, document downloads, and curated topical collections suitable for researchers and historians.

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Website
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
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Search
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site
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Collections
https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collections

API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)
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- Declassified
- Documents
- FOIA
- Records Search
- Transparency
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  type: Collections
description: The CIA's FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST - CIA Records Search Tool) is a publicly searchable
  interface to declassified CIA records released under the Freedom of Information Act. The site provides
  full-text search, document downloads, and curated topical collections suitable for researchers and historians.