Central Intelligence Agency
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.
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CIA Public Website
The CIA's primary public-facing website at cia.gov hosts agency news stories, leadership biographies, mission statements, careers and recruiting information, and links to all ot...
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...
CIA Careers Portal
The CIA Careers portal is the agency's public recruiting site, listing open positions across analysis, operations, science and technology, digital innovation, and support functi...