CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed

Source: Washington Post

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; Page A01

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.

In anticipation of the CIA's release, the National Security Archive at George Washington University yesterday published a separate set of documents from January 1975 detailing internal government discussions of the abuses. Those documents portray a rising sense of panic within the administration of President Gerald R. Ford that what then-CIA Director William E. Colby called "skeletons" in the CIA's closet had begun to be revealed in news accounts.



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Think it will get the Kennedy assassination thing stirred up again?

not the domestic ones or attempts (coughREAGANcough).

excuse me. I also like how it seems they 'stopped' infiltrating leftist groups in the 1970's. Sure they did.

Personally I wonder how much political/election/regime engineering they will admit to. Not much, I imagine, but I bet there are more than what is currently known/suspected.

And will Iran/Contra be in there in more detail?

expose all of Bush 41's misdeeds, crimes when he was head of the CIA?...and can we haul his old ass off to jail for his crimes...

BROTHERS

The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years


By David Talbot

That would be one skeleton they left in the closet IMO. But it sure would be interesting to see what happened if that one did get into the released papers. My mind is just swimming with the things that could be in there. Were there aliens at Roswell NM? Who killed the Kennedy's, Carnahan and Wellstone? 9/11 is an entire multi-volume set in itself. Afghanistan and the training of bin-Laden. All of the cold war stuff that I can't even remember. Cuban missile crisis. Imagine how many official statements will be laid to waste by these documents and the truth.

there will be anything on that.

With luck we'll get Ike's letter to his brother and Dulles on the destruction of Democracy in Iran for US control of oil, perhaps the confession that not only was Patrice Lumumba, the first elected prime minister of the Congo, in our possession and control when killed - but that we killed him, Mabutu's rise to power and similar in various countries.

But I suspect we will get half stories of CIA encouraging others to do things - with the CIA hands clean as if they never did "wet work". :-( ?

like, extraterrestrial cover-ups and presidential assassinations. But, the truth will be equally disturbing. Such as, as you mentioned, information on the CIA backed coup that removed Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh as prime minister in Iran.

Many of the problems that exist in Iran today are due, I believe, to the removal of Mossadegh and the subsequent monarch rule of the Shah. In a way, we helped create not only Ayatollah Khomeini, but the current state of Iran (axis of evil, indeed).

until his directorship. (Guess it was just a coincidence that the bay of pigs ships were named Zapata, Barbara and Houston-right?)

:evilgrin:

Good one!:)

n/t

I mean, why would they? This will probably just confirm things that everyone already knows happened.

They'll admit to drug running by the KMT in the 1950s, but not by the Northern Alliance in 2007.

Bill

although history will still show he was the worst Decider ever.

Meanwhile,
the intrepid U.S. :hide: Congress will sit back
and scratch themselves.

We now have PMC's like never before.

Blackwater is just one of many.

The New World Order needs a New World Army and they need to be tested, trained and battle experienced. Iraq is just a training ground.

Yep, that is tin you see up there. All I got left is this scrap of tin and a cup...

Peace.

I feel this release of papers, documents whatever is fodder to keep us busy.....let's not let our guard down. I doubt there will be a release of any earth shaking documents. Sorry.

Being kept at Area 51. But that is just my mind on a fantasy. Except for that I see it as interesting reading, but not earth moving.

it would be nice to know all the dirt that the CIA has been involved in, but how cool would it be if there were really aliens?

On a more serious note, I would like to know what all the CIA has been up to.

I agree. I have my suspicions about the horns and whistles accompanying this.

I'm far more interested in Cheney's attempt to shut down the National Archive.

What's done is done and cannot be changed.

What's being done is happening under our noses and can be stopped, if we'd just stop oohing and aahing over our flat-screens and political gossip.

Code Name: Lets Say We Told Everyone Everything, What Would Happen?

By Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 6, 2005; Page A21

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/05/AR2005050501860.html

...just in time for the Democrats coming to town. Wild Bill Donovan, Allen Dulles, James Jesus Angleton, and the rest of the SMOM-crowd who set up the CIA, they'd all be SOOOOO proud of how things turned out.

Surely, U.S. empire justice must prevail...

Tis a modern, well educated, civilized society, ain't it...?

Probably Japanese too.

I remember they let a Japanese Chemicals industrialist off the hook - in exchange for his research data on the effects of extreme freezing on captured GIs.

so, no omar trujillo, salvador allende??

I wonder if there'll be any new information on Allende's death. I mean, does anybody actually believe that he shot himself?

:shrug:

I know we admitted to overthrowing their government, but I thought they were still sticking with their B.S. suicide story.

it just seems to be such common knowledge.....

About nothing.

It is probably a small exercise by the power behind our government to restore some confidence by partial disclosure, of history well past individual consequence, if not influence.

I doubt very much there will be anything released without redaction if individual accountability is still possible. This would include the perception on influential families, whose children continue to carry the torch.

I also doubt the CIA will release any information admitting to or adding to, what is already known about the domestic assassinations, that have diverted and shaped our history.

What might come from this is a little more common knowledge that the CIA has less to do with the physical defense of our nation, than being the offense of our marauding economy. The many interventions economic and military into sovereign nations politics, cultures, and economies, have been for the intentional manipulation of the economic environment for US and later multinational corporations, to secure present and future markets. These interventions have been many times planned years in advance, when foresight determined the need for resources or cheap labor, and often manipulated factions within a country, or neighboring countries, into positions and actions against each other using propaganda, economics, warfare, and/or terrorism.

Prior to the CIA the defense intelligence was handled by the various branches of the services, but the National Security Act of 1947, completely changed the method and ultimate purpose of gathering and acting on intelligence. It is public knowledge, but not common knowledge, that the number two position in the CIA has always been filled by a big time Wall Street player. The main thrust has been toward manipulation of the global economic geography and climate, with the side benefits of the corporate militarization of our society. One might say the teeth that bite when the propaganda falls short of desired effect.

The best that might come from this is five or six very informative books that expose the incestuous relations between the CIA, Wall Street, politics and capitol hill, all funded by the peoples taxes. A realization that the rational behind many of our most destructive actions, has not been about the charades trumpeting national security or self defense as a nation, but rather has been motivated in protection of profits present and future, of the wealthiest people on the globe.

The problem is now, are the people too addicted to the economic social lifestyle this perversion has enabled, to admit to being a part of a society that has ruthlessly conquered the global economy while securing the elite lifestyle on a planet largely living in poverty and misery; and if a significant portion can secure the enlightenment, will they choose to make the sacrifice to act for change? Of the latter, I doubt.

edit for: word order and clarity.

The CIA must feel that this administration has stacked the courts enough that nobody will be able to sue them. It just seems suspicious that all of a sudden information is being released about experimenting on US citizens.

Few people who vote are aware who sets the political agenda, and that the choices they are given, are often no choices at all.

As to the human experimentation, one of the grand experiments has been to demonstrate how creating the desire for comforting and often frivolous consumption, can shape mind numbing aspirations of a society intent on self gratification and self justification, masquerading as success. How easily material desire can cloud common sense and compassion. How the passive will of the people can be uncritically bought with pleasure, and occasionally incited with pangs of patriotic nationalism.

As a nation of people we no longer need, we want.

Pleasurable consumption allows the apathy supporting status quo.

Gosh I'm feeling cynical today.

:cry:

i thought all the cia's alleged "misdeeds" were crazy tinfoil talk that belongs in the dungeon. :sarcasm:

Remember, _Bush already bought the ranch in Paraguay, near the vast holdings already bought long ago by _{George H. W. Bush's} friend, Sun Myung Moon, right above one of the world's lagest supplies of fresh underground water, the Guarani Aquifer, near the Mariscal Estigarriba air base, which is large enough to handle the largest U.S. transport planes.



_Bushes celebrate with Moon



Mariscal Estigarriba air base

Ah, Paraguay, the final hideout of Josef Mengele, after the Second World War, invited there by right-wing U.S. friendly dictator, Stroessner:

Monday, September 25th, 2006
Press Releases, Paraguay
Paraguay-U.S. Post-Stroessner Relations
Death of notorious Paraguayan dictator General Alfredo Stroessner at age 93 barely causes a stir
Life and Times of a Dictator

~snip~
Stroessner seized power in 1954, after leading a golpe de estado against President Federico Chávez. His subsequent decades as the perpetual leader of the Asociación Nacional Republicana/Partido Colorado were characterized by massive corruption, endemic human rights abuses and systematic acts of violence against purported “enemies of the state.” Stroessner also provided hospitality to a wide array of former Nazi leaders following World War II, including the concentration camp experimenter Dr. Josef Mengele, whom he personally protected despite repeated international demands that he be extradited to Israel. Stroessner routinely imprisoned scores of Paraguayan political opponents, some of whom later insisted that they had endured unethical medical experiments under Mengele’s jurisdiction. The strongman also was notorious for his role in Operation Condor, a computerized network of intelligence agencies linking Southern Cone right-wing dictatorships via a U.S.-supplied station, whose purpose was to root out and eliminate exiled political dissidents who sought refuge in nearby nations.
(snip)

http://www.coha.org/2006/09/25/paraguay-%E2%80%93-us-post-stroessner-relations/

Considering the source, I'm not getting any hopes up.

But I guess something is better than nothing.

Reagan was shot by a nutjob who was caught immediately. Democrats are always killed under suspicious circumstances.

Just another coincidence no doubt.

They said that Seymour Hersh's story about the warrantless wiretapping during the Nixon admin sparked a CIA official to consolidate all the "bad news" stories in the CIA.

They wanted to know all the bad stories before the press discovered them.

and now they are just preemptively putting them out there for the public?

I'm having a hard time figuring this one out...

It was never meant for outside consumption.

Some CIA official said he got "tired of hearing about CIA information leaks in the press". Sort of a pre-emptive leaking so they could be ready with justifications, explanations, blah, blah, blah.

So, he ordered this report. He asked each section chief to detail any operation that looked bad (or would look bad in the press).

And he got more than he bargained for. There were CIA ops in that report that even the official had never heard of, and he was in intelligence his whole career.

I mean, why would they? What would be the benefit for them? Like someone said above, this is just another one of thier operations to make it look like they are open or something... I dunno, that doesn't even make much sense because anyone capable of basic thought would be able to figure out they wouldn't do anything stupid like release everything they have done...

What they are REALLY doing would be the interesting story, and no one's going to learn what the hell that is.

Who among us is impaired enough to imagine this signals the beginning of a new era for them, that they are "turning a new leaf," and "putting it all behind them now?"

Substitute "unflattering" with "treasonous" and that might be closer to the truth, especially where the drugging of Americans is concerned.

n/t