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 CIA releases papers that set off scandal
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Posted on 06-26-07 1:50 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer

The CIA released hundreds of pages of internal reports Tuesday on assassination plots, secret drug testing and spying on Americans that triggered a scandal in the mid-1970s.

The documents detail assassination plots against foreign leaders like Fidel Castro, the testing of mind- and behavior-altering drugs like LSD on unwitting citizens, wiretapping of U.S. journalists, spying on civil rights and anti-Vietnam war protesters, opening mail between the United States and the Soviet Union and China, break-ins at the homes of ex-CIA employees and others.

The 693 pages, mostly drawn from the memories of active CIA officers in 1973, were turned over at that time to three different investigative panels — President Ford's Rockefeller Commission, the Senate's Church committee and the House's Pike committee.

The panels spent years investigating and amplifying on these documents. And their public reports in the mid-1970s filled tens of thousands of pages. The scandal sullied the reputation of the intelligence community and led to new rules for the CIA, FBI and other spy agencies and new permanent committees in Congress to oversee them.

Among the more famous misdeeds were these:

_Castro plot: In August, 1960, the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu, who was a top aide to Howard Hughes in Las Vegas, to approach mobster Johnny Roselli and pass himself off as the representative of international corporations who wanted Castro killed. Roselli introduced Maheu to "Sam Gold" and "Joe", who were actually 10-most wanted mobsters Momo Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago, and Santos Trafficant. The CIA gave them six poison pills, and they tried unsuccessfully for several months to have several people put them in the Cuban leader's food. This particular plot was dropped after the failed CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, but other plots continued against Castro. Details of this plot first appeared in Jack Anderson's newspaper column in 1971.

These documents also were one of the products of the Watergate scandal. Then-CIA Director James Schlesinger was angered to read in the newspapers that the CIA had provided support to ex-CIA agents E. Howard Hunt and James McCord, who were convicted in the Watergate break-in. Hunt had worked for a secret "plumbers unit" in Richard Nixon's White House. The unit originally was tasked to investigate and end leaks of classified information but ultimately engaged in a wide range of misconduct.

In May 1973, Schlesinger ordered "all senior operating officials of this agency to report to me immediately on any activities now going on, or that have gone on the past, which might be construed to be outside the legislative charter of this agency." The law establishing the CIA barred it from conducting spying inside the United States.

The result was 693 pages of memos that arrived after Schlesinger had moved to the Pentagon and been replaced as CIA chief by William Colby. Colby ultimately reported the contents to the Justice Department.

"These are the top CIA officers all going into the confessional and saying, `Forgive me father, for I have sinned,' " said Thomas Blanton, director of the private National Security Archive, which had requested release of the documents under the Freedom of Information Act.

Inside the CIA, Colby referred to the documents as the "skeletons." But another name quickly caught on and stuck: "family jewels."

They first spilled into public view on Dec. 22, 1974, with a story by Seymour Hersh in The New York Times on the CIA's spying against antiwar and other dissidents inside this country. The agency assembled files on some 10,000 people.

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CIA documents: http://www.foia.cia.gov
 
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That page takes forever to load and the "Family Jewels" link times out. The whole world must be trying to access it right now
 
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And its all image files ... which slows it down even more I guess. Oh well, it's be on the news tonight I suppose and maybe on the Daily Show in a day or two
 
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Yeah JUst came out maybe getting too many hits at themoment ??? Maybe ??
 
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Its 702 pages long thats why it timed out. :-)
 
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Have you ever read the assassination manual first published by the CIA. How far they have moved in terms of assassination planning.It reminds me of one of the faith based elite of USA ( forgot the name) who publicly announced to terminate the President Hugo Chavez.President Truman had reluctantly established this CIA out of fear of soviet which emerged after world war II even though this work of intelligence collection had been carried out since the day of George washington. I still doubt this is fair enough and has limited to the task of traditional foreign intelligence assessment and foreign espionage
 
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That wus Pat Robertson who called for Assasination of Hugo Chavez. :-)
 
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Thank you bathroomcoffee!
 
Posted on 06-26-07 4:16 PM     Reply [Subscribe]
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Wow!!! Things that happen behind the curtains...... us poor people have no idea.
 
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I wonder if they already have an assassination plan made out for Prachanda...
Let me know if you find the mention of our Late King Birendra in there...
 


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