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[Swoftu]

Swoftu

Wow... CIA to release documents of decades of ab...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19360920/

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.

"Most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech to a conference of foreign policy historians. The documents have been sought for decades by historians, journalists and conspiracy theorists and have been the subject of many fruitless Freedom of Information Act requests.

DevoutFolloweroftheWeasel just busted a nut all over his computer screen.

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that these documents are going to be pure black pages.

[MG-Zero]

MG-Zero

Re: Wow... CIA to release documents of decades o...

Sounds like it's gonna be a fun week...

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[NeoGeo-x]

NeoGeo-x

Re: Wow... CIA to release documents of decades o...

I really wonder if there is anything about the murder on JFK in the files... I'm not really sure the CIA was particularly innocent in the whole affair.

Still, good call for releasing it.. this is democracy.

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