CIA Puts History Out in Open With Millions of Online Records

The Central Intelligence Agency is putting its clandestine history out in the open with a declassified trove of 12 million pages that’s available online. Documents covering the agency’s work from the 1940s through 1990s were previously accessible -- but only by visiting the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. The CIA is required to declassify most records that are 25 years or older. “This is one of the things that we think improves transparency for us, and it’s a simple thing” to make information “more widely available,” Joseph Lambert, the CIA’s director of information management, said in a phone interview.

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