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Organization: Archive Team

Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.

History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.

The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.

This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.

Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.

The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.

Collection: Archive Team: The CIA CREST (CIA Records Search Tool)

Since 2000, CIA has installed and maintained an electronic full-text searchable system named CREST (the CIA Records Search Tool), at NARA II in College Park, Maryland. The CREST system is the publicly accessible repository of the subset of CIA records reviewed under the 25-year program in electronic format (manually reviewed and released records are accessioned directly into the National Archives in their original format). Over 11 million pages have been released in electronic format and reside on the CREST database, from which researchers have printed about 1.1 million pages.

Previously, in order to directly access CREST, a researcher was required to visit the National Archives at College Park, Maryland. CIA recognized that such visits were inconvenient and presented an obstacle to many researchers. Therefore, in January 2017, the CIA published the records of the CREST collection online.

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The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20170124131543/https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp83-01042r000800010003-1

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PROJECT BLUEBIRD

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Document Type:

CREST

Collection:

General CIA Records

Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):

CIA-RDP83-01042R000800010003-1

Release Decision:

RIPPUB

Original Classification:

T

Document Page Count:

29

Document Creation Date:

December 15, 2016

Document Release Date:

August 27, 2003

Sequence Number:

3

Case Number:

Publication Date:

April 5, 1950

Content Type:

MEMO

File:

Attachment	Size
CIA-RDP83-01042R000800010003-1.pdf	1.32 MB

Body:

' mOra UNITED. STAT GOVERNMENT
Din-yntor of Central Intelligence
FROM chief, Inspection and Security Staff
SUBJECT: Project Bluebird
DATE: APR 5 1950
There is subnitted for your approval and authorization for allocation
of funds Project Bluebird. in view of the extreme sensitivity of this project
and its covert nature, it -t_s deemed advisable to submit this project directly
to you., rather than ftrou ;h the channel of the Projects Review Committee.

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