The CIA flashes "family jewels"
"CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry"
Oooh, assassination plots, human experimentation and illegal wiretaps Oh My!
No kidding, why now? They certainly aren't doing this out of the goodness of their black little hearts .. or some sudden conversion to an open government. So what's the real reason? This kinda creeps me out ..
Are we being told this to distract us from something else .. to buy them cover time for something else about to hit the fan? You can be sure it wasn't done just to enlighten history professors and we the people.
It's probably intended to be a titillating distraction .. maybe to try and make the sins of today's CIA and the Bush administration seem less oppressive by comparison.
"See .. look what happened before .. so it's okay for us to do .. uh, what we do now."
Sad to say it might be another 40 or 50 years before we fully know what the Bushies were really up to as they careened along their unconstitutional and criminal path.
Like today's CIA operating secret prisons in Eastern Europe, handing over terror suspects to rogue states like Egypt to be tortured for information .. spying on American citizens, etc. .. etc. .. etc.
From the Washington Post:
"The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses -- the so-called "family jewels" documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday.
The documents, to be publicly released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests on U.S. civilians, including the use of drugs.[..]"
Here's a link to The National Security Archives:
