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 image: https://kinlane-productions.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg access: 3rd-Party created: '2024-12-03' modified: '2026-04-23' 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-website name: CIA Public Website tags: - Federal Government - Intelligence - News humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/ properties: - url: https://www.cia.gov/ type: Website - url: https://www.cia.gov/about/ type: About - url: https://www.cia.gov/stories/ type: News description: >- 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 other public CIA digital properties. - 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. - aid: central-intelligence-agency:cia-careers name: CIA Careers Portal tags: - Careers - Hiring - Jobs humanURL: https://www.cia.gov/careers/ properties: - url: https://www.cia.gov/careers/ type: Website - url: https://www.cia.gov/careers/jobs/ type: Jobs description: >- The CIA Careers portal is the agency's public recruiting site, listing open positions across analysis, operations, science and technology, digital innovation, and support functions, along with eligibility, hiring process, and student/internship program information. common: - 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