# Central Intelligence Agency

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/  
**Website:** https://www.cia.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 9.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 9.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (4)

- **CIA FOIA Electronic Reading Room (CREST)** — 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...
- **CIA World Factbook (Country Profiles)** — The CIA World Factbook is the long-running unclassified almanac of reference information on 260 world entities including all sovereign countries, dependencies, and oceans, organ...
- **CIA Museum Digital Collection** — 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...
- **Studies in Intelligence Journal** — 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...

## Security (1)

- **Central Intelligence Agency Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Central Intelligence Agency Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Federal-Government, FOIA, Government, Intelligence, National Security, Open Data, World Factbook

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/central-intelligence-agency/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.