# CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-foia-reading-room/  
**Provider:** Central Intelligence Agency — https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/  
**Documentation:** https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/

CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST) is one of 4 APIs that [Central Intelligence Agency](https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Declassified, Documents, FOIA, Records Search, and Transparency.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **Website** — https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
- **Search** — https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site
- **Collections** — https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collections
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/central-intelligence-agency/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Central Intelligence Agency APIs (3)

- [CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-world-factbook/)
- [CIA Museum Digital Collection](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-museum/)
- [Studies in Intelligence Journal](https://apis.io/apis/central-intelligence-agency/cia-studies-in-intelligence/)

## Tags

Declassified, Documents, FOIA, Records Search, Transparency

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