[DRB]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19360920/

The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.

The documents, to be publicly released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests on U.S. civilians, including the use of drugs.

"Most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech to a conference of foreign policy historians.

 

[fluff]

I can't think of any other nation that is so revealing about its own dirty laundry. It is one of the good things about the USA that this kind of information is eventuallly released.

 

[ohio]

Wow. Great, but very surprising, news. I wonder what prompted this at this time?

 

[valve bouncer]

I can't think of any other nation that is so revealing about its own dirty laundry. It is one of the good things about the USA that this kind of information is eventuallly released.

Agreed, but our lot and your lot have that 30 year rule on cabinet deliberations that's always pretty interesting when it comes out on New Years Day.

 

[JRogers]

I can't think of any other nation that is so revealing about its own dirty laundry. It is one of the good things about the USA that this kind of information is eventuallly released.

Really? I was always under the impression that the US was more guarded than others. Maybe I'm wrong about that...

 

[kidwoo]

Wow. Great, but very surprising, news. I wonder what prompted this at this time?

We started bombing Iran this morning.


but keep your eyes on the shiny object of here in the corner

 

[DRB]

http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp?doc_no=0001451843&title="FAMILY+JEWELS"&abstract=&no_pages=0702&pub_date=5/16/1973&release_date=6/18/2007&keywords=FAMILY+JEWELS&case_no=F-1992-00353&copyright=0&release_dec=RIPPUB&classification=U&showPage=0001

Wow

 

[ohio]

http://www.foia.cia.gov/browse_docs_full.asp?doc_no=0001451843&title="FAMILY+JEWELS"&abstract=&no_pages=0702&pub_date=5/16/1973&release_date=6/18/2007&keywords=FAMILY+JEWELS&case_no=F-1992-00353&copyright=0&release_dec=RIPPUB&classification=U&showPage=0001

Wow

Any surprises there?

 

[DRB]

Any surprises there?

Brit Hume was under surveillance when he worked for Jack Anderson in the early 70's. Funny now that he is always defending the Patriot Act. But it appears that it was done because of the amount of fairly classified materials that they were quoting. I'm not sure they identified the leak but oddly enough the Vice President's staff was mentioned prominently.

There is a lot of detail about the Castro assassination stuff.

Some of it is inane and kinda dumb that they even bothered keeping it secret.

I think that there are still a lot of pages totally blanked out is telling.

I'm still reading.