Cia公开1300万页解密文件
About 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been released online.
美国中央情报局在网上公开了约1300万页解密文件。
The move came after lengthy efforts from freedom of information advocates and a lawsuit against the CIA.
The agency published the roughly 930,000 documents that make up the CIA Records Search Tool (Crest) on Tuesday.
While much of the information has been technically publicly available since the mid-1990s, it has been very difficult to access.
The records were only available on four physical computers located in the back of a library at the National Archives in Maryland, between 09:00 and 16:30 each day.
"Previously, in order to directly access Crest, a researcher was required to visit the National Archives at College Park, Maryland," according to the program's webpage. "CIA recognized that such visits were inconvenient and presented an obstacle to many researchers."
The Crest database features a wide range of different files, including former secretary of state Henry Kissinger's papers, and documents on Nazi war crimes. The collection also has files on UFOs, recipes for invisible ink and reports on research into telepathy.