Released: CIA Spooks Gone Wild!

[zengrifter]

"The Good Shepard" NOT. zg

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Detailed Report of CIA's Wiretapping of Americans and
Dirty Tricks To Be Unclassified

By Ryan Singel
June 21, 2007



In its first 25 years, the Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter by plotting assassinations, funding behavioral and drug studies that included "unwitting participants," opening U.S. mail, creating dossiers on nearly 10,000 American dissidents, wiretapping journalists to root out their sources, and interrogating a Soviet defector against his will for two years, according to a summary of a decades-old CIA report on the agency's activities released Thursday by the National Security Archive, an open government group.

Simultaneously, the head of the CIA, General Michael Hayden, made an unexpected announcement Thursday at the annual convention of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations that the agency would declassify the full 693-page report on CIA wrongdoings and release it Monday.

That report was compiled in 1973 at the order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger, following revelations that the Watergate burglars had CIA help. The existence of report, referred to as the "Family Jewels" has long been known, but only a few bits have been revealed through open government requests.

Thomas Blanton, the Archive's director, called the declassification the "first truly controversial declassification since 1998."

...more - http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...eep-secre.html

[zengrifter]

Here it is - "The Family Jewels" - 702 pages online. On page 5 it mentions Johnny Roselli in a Castro murder plot. zg

CIA - FOIA - THE FAMILY JEWELS

Top Ten Most Interesting "Family Jewels"
Released by the CIA to the National Security Archive, June 26, 2007

1) Journalist surveillance - operation CELOTEX I-II (pp. 26-30)
2) Covert mail opening, codenamed SRPOINTER / HTLINGUAL at JFK airport (pp. 28, 644-45)
3) Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt requests a lock picker (p. 107)
4) CIA Science and Technology Directorate Chief Carl Duckett "thinks the Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this program" (Sidney Gottlieb's drug experiments) (p. 213)
5) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) reflecting Agency employee resentment against participation (p. 326)
6) Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba (p. 464)
7) Report of detention of Soviet defector Yuriy Nosenko (p. 522)
8) Document describing John Lennon funding anti-war activists (p. 552)
9) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) (pp. 591-93)
10) CIA counter-intelligence official James J. Angleton and issue of training foreign police in bomb-making, sabotage, etc. (pp. 599-603)
Plus a bonus "Jewel": Warrantless wiretapping by CIA's Division D (pp. 533-539)

Seymour Hersh broke the story of CIA's illegal domestic operations with
a front page story in the New York Times on December 22, 1974.


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[MEDITANK]

Espionage is a very dirty business. No glamour in it at all from all of the stories I've read. Ask Aldrich Ames, Christopher Boyce, Hanson, the wonderful Walker family. To deal with scum, you have to become scum yourself and that is what the CIA does. You can't use the Pope to infiltrate a drug smuggling ring or to stage buys with druglords. You can't use Eagle Scouts either especially if they are wearing their uniforms. It's called reality.

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Agency's Strangeloves altered mind of a girl aged 4
Robert Lusetich, Los Angeles correspondent
28jun07

EASILY lost, on page 425, in the mass of the CIA's notorious "Family Jewels" files is a short paragraph outlining "potentially embarrassing Agency activities".

"Experiments in influencing human behaviour through the administration of mind- or personality-altering drugs to unwitting subjects."
Of all the heinous acts committed by the CIA in the name of national security, these experiments, done on the agency's behalf by prominent psychiatrists on innocent victims - including children as young as four - may be the darkest.

...more - http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...0496%2C00.html