Posted on 06/21/2007 4:08:07 PM PDT by RDTF
The Central Intelligence Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots, and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden announced today that the Agency is declassifying the full 693-page file amassed on CIA's illegal activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in 1973--the so-called "family jewels." Only a few dozen heavily-censored pages of this file have previously been declassified, although multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have been filed over the years for the documents. Gen. Hayden called today's release "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency."
"This is the first voluntary CIA declassification of controversial material since George Tenet in 1998 reneged on the 1990s promises of greater openness at the Agency," commented Thomas Blanton, the Archive's director.
Hayden also announced the declassification of some 11,000 pages of the so-called CAESAR, POLO and ESAU papers--hard-target analyses of Soviet and Chinese leadership internal politics and Sino-Soviet relations from 1953-1973, a collection of intelligence on Warsaw Pact military programs, and hundreds of pages on the A-12 spy plane.
The National Security Archive separately obtained (and posted today) a six-page summary of the illegal CIA activities, prepared by Justice Department lawyers after a CIA briefing in December 1974, the memorandum of conversation when the CIA first briefed President Gerald Ford on the scandal on January 3, 1975.
Then-CIA director Schlesinger commissioned the "family jewels" compilation with a May 9, 1973 directive after finding out that Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and James McCord (both veteran CIA officers) had cooperation from the Agency as they carried out "dirty tricks" for President Nixon
(Excerpt) Read more at gwu.edu ...
>>>WIlliam Clinton-not dangerious, appears only to be a part of the anti-war movement so as to “pick up chicks” and get “stoned”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209454/posts?page=1#1
Clinton’s ROTC Letter As Entered in Congressional Record (Page: H5550) 7/30/93
Excerpt:
I have written and spoken and marched against the war. One of the national organizers of the Vietnam Moratorium is a close friend of mine. After I left Arkansas last summer, I went to Washington to work in the national headquarters of the Moratorium, then to England to organize the Americans here for demonstrations October 15 and November 16.
More at link
>>>>However, has been seen with a femine looking boy (or perhaps masculine girl) suspected of marxist ties.
Perhaps both. David Mixner AND Hillary Rodham :)
Oh thank you!
A-12 aircraft. SR-71’s dad.
A comment related to the CIA: Ronald Reagan, in his diary, makes reference to the CIA becoming effective again, under Bill Casey, after its neutering under Carter.
bump!
In an effort to stay way ahead of our domestic enemies, I always like to know what potential ammunition they’ll be trying to use against us.
Every presidential election year, the Dems feel compulsed to drag out Watergate and Richard Nixon. Do they really want to do this with Hillary running for president, after we just heard about how she listened to cell phone calls of people on her enemies list?
1973 was only 34 years ago. Many of the people involved with events described will still be alive. I hope people don’t start turning up dead around the world because of this.
>>>>Every presidential election year, the Dems feel compulsed to drag out Watergate and Richard Nixon. Do they really want to do this with Hillary running for president,
Since she is running for President, it is important to review her record. She was involved.
FWIW, I don’t think the timing is an accident for either sets of releases.
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Thanks much! Yes, I was recently reviewing the previously-released version of this, I’ll be interested to see what else is released.
I wonder if it will have Kerry’s CIA buddy who gave him the cap?
ha!
I wonder what it may contain about Kerry and other Socialist Democrats.
LOL, as if I have to ask.
CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry
Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed
By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 22, 2007; A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/21/AR2007062102434_pf.html
So begins the efforts by our domestic enemies...
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