The Central Intelligence Agency has published nearly 13
million pages of declassified documents online. These
documents were previously physically accessible only from
four computer terminals at the National Archives in College
Park, Maryland.
The published documents shed light on the agency's activities
throughout the Vietnam, Korean and Cold War conflicts.
It also includes documents pertaining to purported UFO
sightings and the organization's "Star Gate" program
investigating possible psychic abilities and what could be
done with them.
The archive touches on the CIA extensive history as an
organization, from its inception up through the 1990s. "None
of this is cherry-picked, It's the full history.
It's good and
bads" said CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz Horniak. Although
the documents are declassified, redactions do exist
throughout the millions of pages.
The redactions -- which Horniak describes as light -- were
done to protect sources and methods that could potentially
harm national security, she explained.
