CIA declassified documents

[MiChuhSuh]

I can't believe no one else is posting this stuff

They released info on the people they spied on, the secret drug tests they did, the wiretapping of news reporters (some of whom just found out about it), even some plans to assassinate Fidel

[Anesis]

I think that's because we all sort of assumed/knew that stuff happened.

I do find it a little weird that they were going to use a mobster to poison Castro, though.

But, I do wonder about that it is that has been omitted.

Why did they decide to make this public? They had no legal obligation to.

[MiChuhSuh]

^ They do

The FBI also has to go through things like this, if a case is (I think) 30 years with no present relevance (hasn't been approved/renewed for classification) then they have to release it

[LcBwC]

The US has been trying to kill Fidel since JFK days...thats most def nothing new.

[MiChuhSuh]

CIA's `Family Jewels' Released

June 28, 2007

CIA Director Michael Hayden has released the "family jewels," hundreds of pages of internal reports on assassination plots, secret drug tests and spying on Americans by the agency, some dating back to the 1950s.

The view may not be pretty, but it is enriching.

The documents were the result of an 1973 order by then-CIA Director James Schlesinger. Angered by newspaper accounts that his agency had provided support to former CIA agents E. Howard Hunt and James McCord during the Watergate break-in, Mr. Schlesinger issued a CIA-wide directive telling senior managers "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."

Mr. Schlesinger later moved to the Pentagon and his successor, William Colby, reported the documents to the Justice Department.

What Mr. Hayden's decision gives the American public is a rich and remarkable watershed of confessions from a deeply troubled time. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, for example, personally managed an operation to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. CIA officials contacted a former FBI agent, who recruited two mobsters to execute the leader in 1960.

There are accounts of the CIA's testing mind-altering drugs - including LSD - on unwitting citizens. The wiretapping of American journalists. The infiltration of civil rights organizations and Vietnam war protesters. Break-ins at the homes of former CIA employees.

The documents also chronicle the rising sense of panic in the administration of President Gerald R. Ford in 1974 as many of these activities started to come to light thanks to the reporting of Seymour Hersh of The New York Times.

Why release this information? Mr. Hayden understands the material gives an unflattering view of his agency. An Air Force general with two master's degrees in history, Mr. Hayden says it's an effort to come clean about aspects of the CIA's past and to set the historical record straight.

Many of these records have been sought by historians for decades. Mr. Hayden deserves credit for his courageous decision to shed light on a troubled yet important chapter of American history.

Copyright © 2007, The Hartford Courant

They finally admit the LSD testing

[MiChuhSuh]

They have some good info here:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSA ... ll_ocr.pdf

Comparison of 1977 release and 2007 release:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSA ... elease.pdf
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSA ... elease.pdf

[Cold Bear]

I just now read up on Operation Phoenix, and CIA operated death squads in El Salvador and Nicaragua murdering whole villages. From Vietnam, to Latin America, to the Middle East, its always the same game. Propoganda, lies, secrecy, Pr spins, intimidation, and proxy wars.

Peep the book "Empire's Workshop" by Greg Grandin there's all types of info in there

[$outhPhillypuppet]

im pretty sure this isn't even 30% of the shit they did.

[Anesis]

im pretty sure this isn't even 30% of the shit they did.

The first three paragraphs (three, right?) are still hidden. So who knows what is still secret?

And I still don't think they were legally required to release this. I know there is a time limit but I'm betting if it was really "top secret" they wouldn't release it at all.

And I know they have been trying to kill Castro for years, but a mobster? I guess that's one way out of a prison sentence.