Comments on: CIA Updates Digital Archive, Restricts Access http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/cia_digital_archive.html Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:23:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: » Kwik Hits - Entropic Memes http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/cia_digital_archive.html/comment-page-1#comment-3155 » Kwik Hits - Entropic Memes Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:03:10 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2406#comment-3155 [...] From Secrecy News, double-plus unfun shennanigans at the CIA; [...] [...] From Secrecy News, double-plus unfun shennanigans at the CIA; [...]

]]> By: Allen Thomson http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/03/cia_digital_archive.html/comment-page-1#comment-3021 Allen Thomson Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:30:26 +0000 http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/?p=2406#comment-3021 > In other words, researchers who find a document of interest on the CREST search engine but who cannot get to College Park, MD to physically access the CREST archive will tend to request the declassified record under FOIA instead, thereby increasing demand on the already backlogged CIA FOIA process. Might I suggest this might be a way for people who live in the area to pick up a few bucks? Set up a business that will access requested documents and mail them to the requester for the aforementioned few bucks. Or use area grad students, summer interns, retirees, etc. as slave/volunteer labor. It would be excellent if someone, maybe FAS or GWU, could offer to PDFify documents so obtained and put them on line. > In other words, researchers who find a document of interest on the CREST search engine but who cannot get to College Park, MD to physically access the CREST archive will tend to request the declassified record under FOIA instead, thereby increasing demand on the already backlogged CIA FOIA process.

Might I suggest this might be a way for people who live in the area to pick up a few bucks? Set up a business that will access requested documents and mail them to the requester for the aforementioned few bucks.

Or use area grad students, summer interns, retirees, etc. as slave/volunteer labor.

It would be excellent if someone, maybe FAS or GWU, could offer to PDFify documents so obtained and put them on line.

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