https://www.rt.com/usa/374075-cia-documents-online-million/http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/12-million-pages-of-declassified-cia-f...12 million pages of declassified CIA files are now available online for everyone to view
JANUARY 20, 20176:19AMFOR 17 years, the US Army’s “Project Stargate” explored the use of psychokinesis, ESP and telepathy for military and domestic intelligence applications.
While explored in 2004 book and 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, very few details of the program had ever been easily accessible to the public.
This all changed when the CIA posted a vast cache of close to 12 million pages of declassified documents online, which include information on UFO sightings, Nazi War Crimes, Project Stargate and other once-secret files.
The information was first released in 1995 when then-President Bill Clinton ordered all documents with “historical value” that were at least 25 years old to be declassified.
However, the documents were only physically accessible from four computer terminals at the National Archives in Washington DC.
In 2000, the CIA released the documents on its electronic records search tool CREST, but the files were still only available by physically attending the Archives.
Following a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2014, the CIA said it would post the 930,000 documents online in entirety, but claimed it would take six years to scan every page.
CIA information management director said the agency was able to complete the project quicker than expected, with the official giving assurances that nothing had omitted and the half-century of data was published in entirety.
“Access to this historically significant collection is no longer limited by geography,” he said in a press release.
“We’ve been working on this for a very long time and this is one of the things I wanted to make sure got done before I left. Now you can access it from the comfort of your own home.”
While the obviously extensive cache of documents would take a long time to examine, news.com.au has picked out some of the highlights found during a quick perusal.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/collection/crest-25-year-program-archive