CIA human rights and international law abuses are now availible to the public

Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years,

Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents

Update - Full Report Now Available

CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File,

Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975,

With White House Memcons on Damage Control

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 222

Edited by Thomas Blanton

Posted - June 21, 2007

Updated - June 26, 2007, 1 p.m.

For more information contact:

Thomas Blanton - 202/994-7000

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The full "family jewels" report, released today by the Central
Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds, is now
available on the Archive's Web site. The 702-page collection was
delivered by CIA officers to the Archive at approximately 11:30 this
morning -- 15 years after the Archive filed a Freedom of Information
request for the documents.

The report is available for download in its entirety and is also split into five smaller files for easier download.

CIA's "Family Jewels" - full report (27 MB) NOW KEY WORD SEARCHABLE!

CIA's "Family Jewels" - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
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Top Ten Most Interesting "Family Jewels"
Released by the CIA to the National Security Archive, June 26, 2007

1) Journalist surveillance - operation CELOTEX I-II (pp. 26-30)

2) Covert mail opening, codenamed SRPOINTER / HTLINGUAL at JFK airport (pp. 28, 644-45)

3) Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt requests a lock picker (p. 107)

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) (p. 213)

5)
MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S.
dissent) reflecting Agency employee resentment against participation
(p. 326)

6) Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba (p. 464)

7) Report of detention of Soviet defector Yuriy Nosenko (p. 522)

8) Document describing John Lennon funding anti-war activists (p. 552)

9) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) (pp. 591-93)

10)
CIA counter-intelligence official James J. Angleton and issue of
training foreign police in bomb-making, sabotage, etc. (pp. 599-603)

Plus a bonus "Jewel":
Warrantless wiretapping by CIA's Division D (pp. 533-539)

Seymour
Hersh broke the story of CIA's illegal domestic operations with a front
page story in the New York Times on December 22, 1974 ("Huge C.I.A.
Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in
Nixon Years"), writing that "a check of the CIA's domestic files
ordered last year… produced evidence of dozens of other illegal
activities… beginning in the nineteen fifties, including break-ins,
wiretapping, and the surreptitious inspection of mail."

On
December 31, 1974, CIA director Colby and the CIA general counsel John
Warner met with the deputy attorney general, Laurence Silberman, and
his associate, James Wilderotter, to brief Justice "in connection with
the recent New York Times articles" on CIA matters that "presented
legal questions." Colby's list included 18 specifics:

1. Confinement of a Russian defector that "might be regarded as a violation of the kidnapping laws."
2. Wiretapping of two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott.
3. Physical surveillance of muckraker Jack Anderson and his associates, including current Fox News anchor Brit Hume.
4. Physical surveillance of then Washington Post reporter Michael Getler.
5. Break-in at the home of a former CIA employee.
6. Break-in at the office of a former defector.
7. Warrantless entry into the apartment of a former CIA employee.
8. Mail opening from 1953 to 1973 of letters to and from the Soviet Union.
9. Mail opening from 1969 to 1972 of letters to and from China.
10. Behavior modification experiments on "unwitting" U.S. citizens.
11.
Assassination plots against Castro, Lumumba, and Trujillo (on the
latter, "no active part" but a "faint connection" to the killers).
12. Surveillance of dissident groups between 1967 and 1971.
13. Surveillance of a particular Latin American female and U.S. citizens in Detroit.
14. Surveillance of a CIA critic and former officer, Victor Marchetti.
15. Amassing of files on 9,900-plus Americans related to the antiwar movement.
16. Polygraph experiments with the San Mateo, California, sheriff.
17. Fake CIA identification documents that might violate state laws.
18. Testing of electronic equipment on US telephone circuits.
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Document 1: Summary of the Family Jewels
Memorandum for the File, "CIA Matters," by James A. Wilderotter, Associate Deputy Attorney General, 3 January 1975
Source: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

On
New Years' eve, 1974, DCI Colby met with Justice Department officials,
including Deputy Attorney General Laurence H. Silberman, to give them a
full briefing of the "skeletons."

Document 2: Colby Briefs President Ford on the Family Jewels
Memorandum of Conversation, 3 January 1975
Source: Gerald R. Ford President Library

Ten
days after the appearance of Hersh's New York Times story, DCI William
Colby tells President Ford how his predecessor James Schlesinger (then
serving as Secretary of Defense) ordered CIA staffers to compile the
"skeletons" in the Agency's closet, such as surveillance of student
radicals, illegal wiretaps, assassination plots, and the three year
confinement of a Soviet defector, Yuri Nosenko.

Document 3: Kissinger's Reaction
Memorandum
of Conversation between President Ford and Secretary of State/National
Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, 4 January 1975
Source: Gerald R. Ford President Library

An
apoplectic Kissinger argues that the unspilling of CIA secrets is
"worse than the days of McCarthyism" when the Wisconsin Senator went
after the State Department. Kissinger had met with former DCI Richard
Helms who told him that "these stories are just the tip of the
iceberg," citing as one example Robert F. Kennedy's role in
assassination planning. Ford wondered whether to fire Colby, but
Kissinger advised him to wait until after the investigations were
complete when he could "put in someone of towering integrity." The
"Blue Ribbon" announcement refers to the creation of a commission
chaired by then-vice president Nelson A. Rockefeller.

Document 4: Investigations Continue
Memorandum
of Conversation between Kissinger, Schlesinger, Colby et al.,
"Investigations of Allegations of CIA Domestic Activities," 20 February
1975
Source: Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library

Cabinet and
sub-cabinet level officials led by Kissinger discuss ways and means to
protect information sought by ongoing Senate (Church Committee) and
House (Pike Committee) investigations of intelligence community abuses
during the first decades of the Cold War. Worried about the foreign
governments that have cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies,
Kissinger wants to "demonstrate to foreign countries that we aren't too
dangerous to cooperate with because of leaks."