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The
CIA's Family Jewels
Agency
Violated Charter for 25 Years,
Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
Update
- Full Report Now Available and Full Text Searchable
CIA
Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File,
Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975,
With White House Memcons on Damage Control
National
Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222
Edited by Thomas Blanton
Posted
- June 21, 2007
Updated - June 26, 2007, 1 p.m.
For
more information contact:
Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000
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.
In
the news
"Files
on Illegal Spying Show C.I.A. Skeletons From Cold War"
By Mark Mazzetti and Tim Weiner
New York Times
June 27, 2007
"CIA
Releases Files on Past Misdeeds"
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus"
Washington Post
June 27, 2007
"CIA
discloses past abuses"
By Richard Willing
USA Today
June 27, 2007
"CIA
Releases 700 Pages of 'Family Jewels'"
All Things Considered (National Public Radio)
June 26, 2007
"CIA
to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry"
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post
June 22, 2007
"CIA
Kidnapping, Wiretapping of '60s, '70s Revealed"
Morning Edition (National Public Radio)
June 22, 2007
"C.I.A.
to Release Documents on Decades-Old Misdeeds"
By Scott Shane
New York Times
June 22, 2007
Chronology
of the CIA's record on declassification
CIA
Proposed Rule on FOIA Fees Would Burden Requesters and the Agency
February
7, 2007
CIA
Had Single Officer in Hungary 1956
October
31, 2006
CIA
Claims the Right to Decide What is News
June 14, 2006
Secret
Understanding Between National Archives and CIA Exposes Framework
for Surreptitious Reclassification Program
April 19, 2006
CIA
Wins 2006 "Rosemary Award" for Worst Freedom of Information
Performance by a Federal Agency
March 13, 2006
Declassification
in Reverse
February 21, 2006
PDB
News - The President's Daily Brief
January 27, 2006
Judge
Refuses In Camera Review of CIA Estimate on Iraq
October
21, 2005
Public
Interest in Hidden CIA Operational Records Is High
January
21, 2005
Professor
Sues CIA for President's Daily Briefs
December 23, 2004
Archive
Calls on CIA and Congress to Address Loophole Shielding CIA Records
From the Freedom of Information Act
October
15, 2004
CIA
Whites Out Controversial Estimate on Iraq Weapons
July
9, 2004
Dubious
Secrets
May
21, 2003
The
Secret CIA History of the Iran Coup
November
29, 2000
Lawsuit
calls CIA secrecy claims "facially incredible"
August 2, 2000
Archive
Sues CIA
May 13, 1999
CIA's
Broken Promises on Declassification
What
Others Say about CIA's Promises
"C.I.A.,
Breaking Promises, Puts Off Release of Cold War Files"
By Tim Weiner
New York Times (Select)
July 15, 1998
Update
- June 26, 2007, 1 p.m. - The
full "family
jewels" report , released today by the
Central Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency
misdeeds, is now available on the Archive's Web site. The 702-page
collection was delivered by CIA officers to the Archive at approximately
11:30 this morning -- 15 years after the Archive filed a Freedom
of Information request for the documents.
The report is available for download in its entirety and is
also split into five smaller files for easier download.
ALL
FILES NOW FULL TEXT SEARCHABLE!
CIA's
"Family Jewels" - full report (24 MB)
CIA's
"Family Jewels" - Part
1 | Part
2 | Part
3 | Part
4 | Part
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)
Today's release also includes a...