Central Intelligence Agency

aid: central-intelligence-agency
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/central-intelligence-agency/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Central Intelligence Agency
tags:
- Federal Government
- FOIA
- Government
- Intelligence
- National Security
- Open Data
- World Factbook
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/central-intelligence-agency.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-03'
modified: '2026-07-25'
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
description: The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is the United States' civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal
  government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world. While
  the CIA does not maintain a formal public developer program, it publishes a small number of digital resources of interest
  to civic technologists and researchers, including the CIA.gov public website, the FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST) of
  declassified records, the World Factbook country profiles (open dataset, public domain), the CIA Museum digital collection,
  the Studies in Intelligence journal archive, and the agency's careers portal. Note that the World Factbook web product was
  discontinued on 4 February 2026, but a CC0-licensed JSON dataset of all 260 Factbook entities is preserved on GitHub by
  the community.
apis:
- aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-foia-reading-room
  name: CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)
  tags:
  - Declassified
  - Documents
  - FOIA
  - Records Search
  - Transparency
  humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
    type: Website
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/search/site
    type: Search
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/collections
    type: Collections
  description: 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.
- aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-world-factbook
  name: CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)
  tags:
  - Country Profiles
  - Demographics
  - Geography
  - Open Data
  - Reference
  - World Factbook
  humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
    type: Website
  - url: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
    type: OpenData
  - url: https://github.com/factbook/factbook.json
    type: GitHubRepository
  description: The CIA World Factbook is the long-running unclassified almanac of reference information on 260 world entities
    including all sovereign countries, dependencies, and oceans, organized into the categories of Geography, People and Society,
    Environment, Government, Economy, Energy, Communications, Transportation, Military and Security, Space, Terrorism, and
    Transnational Issues. The web product was discontinued 4 February 2026; the community-maintained `factbook.json` GitHub
    project preserves a CC0 / public-domain JSON dataset of all entities for programmatic access.
- aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-museum
  name: CIA Museum Digital Collection
  tags:
  - Artifacts
  - History
  - Museum
  humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/
    type: Website
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/artifacts/
    type: Catalog
  description: The CIA Museum digital collection is the public-facing online catalog of artifacts, exhibits, and stories from
    the CIA Museum, including historical espionage tools, declassified mission gear, and curated narratives about agency history.
- aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-studies-in-intelligence
  name: Studies in Intelligence Journal
  tags:
  - Analysis
  - Intelligence
  - Journal
  - Publications
  humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/
  properties:
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/studies-in-intelligence/
    type: Website
  - url: https://www.cia.gov/resources/csi/
    type: CSI
  description: Studies in Intelligence is the CIA's professional journal published by the Center for the Study of Intelligence
    (CSI). The site provides unclassified articles, book reviews, and historical analyses on the intelligence profession in
    PDF and HTML formats.
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/central-intelligence-agency-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/central-intelligence-agency
- type: Website
  url: https://www.cia.gov/
- type: About
  url: https://www.cia.gov/about/
- type: News
  url: https://www.cia.gov/stories/
- type: FOIA
  url: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/
- type: WorldFactbook
  url: https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/
- type: Museum
  url: https://www.cia.gov/legacy/museum/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.cia.gov/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.cia.gov/contact-cia/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.cia.gov/privacy-statement/
- type: NoFearAct
  url: https://www.cia.gov/no-fear-act/
- type: AccessibilityStatement
  url: https://www.cia.gov/accessibility/
- type: Tor
  url: http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/
- name: ProgramAreas
  type: ProgramAreas
  data:
  - name: Foreign Intelligence Collection
  - name: All-Source Analysis
  - name: Covert Action
  - name: Counterintelligence
  - name: Counterterrorism
  - name: Cybersecurity
  - name: Science and Technology
  - name: Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT)
- name: PublicResources
  type: PublicResources
  data:
  - name: World Factbook (Discontinued)
  - name: FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)
  - name: CIA Museum
  - name: Studies in Intelligence Journal
  - name: News and Stories
  - name: Careers Portal
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com