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Tools of Tyrants
CIA Operations and Projects — Part Two
Michael T. Flynn LTG USA (RET)
Today’s report is the second addressing some of the various “Operations” and “Projects” which the CIA has conducted around the world. It has always been difficult to reconstruct CIA activities, as it routinely classifies everything it even thinks about doing, and refuses to disclose documents exposing its activities under the Freedom of Information Act. Sadly, judges are afraid to overrule claims that CIA documents are classified no matter how weak the justification may be.
On June 26, 2007, the CIA released a limited number of documents admitting to some of its activities, posting them on a website entitled The Family Jewels, providing this description of its contents:
Widely known as the “Family Jewels,” this document consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter.
The private National Security Archive, founded in 1985, has long pressed for the CIA’s disclosure of over-classified documents, and serves as a repository of what is available in the public sphere. It described what it viewed as the Top Ten Most Interesting Family Jewels:
1) Journalist surveillance - operation CELOTEX I-II
2) Covert mail opening, codenamed SRPOINTER / HTLINGUAL at JFK airport
3) Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt requests a lock picker
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)
5) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) reflecting Agency employee resentment against participation
6) Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba
7) Report of detention of Soviet defector Yuriy Nosenko
8) Document describing John Lennon funding anti-war activists
9) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent)
10) CIA counter-intelligence official James J. Angleton and issue of training foreign police in bomb-making, sabotage, etc.
Continuing from last week’s Part One, presented here is an overview of another group of CIA Operations and Projects, as best as can be understood from public sources.
Project MKUltra (1953-72)
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