CIA's Big Naughty List Released - Wash Post (or "Tell me something I didn't know")

autorank

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Jun-26-07 10:54 PM
Original message

CIA's Big Naughty List Released - Wash Post (or "Tell me something I didn't know")

Edited on Tue Jun-26-07 11:09 PM by autorank

Here�s the big list, doesn�t come close to

LYING THE COUNTRY INTO A NATION RUINING WAR AND THE DEATHS OF 3500 AMERICAN SOLDIERS,
600,000 IRAQI CIVILIANS AND THE RUINATION OF THE COUNTRY�S REPUTAITON.

Assassination Plots, Domestic Spying Cited

By Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, June 27, 2007; Page A01

Current CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said yesterday that the papers include "reminders of some things the CIA should not have done." He told agency staff members that the internal reforms and increased oversight after the Watergate disclosures gave the CIA "a far stronger place in our democratic system."

Some documents resonate with recent intelligence controversies. Several dealt with the agency's domestic spying on anti-Vietnam War groups during the Johnson and Nixon years. One described an operation, begun under President Richard M. Nixon in late 1972, to track telephone calls between people stateside and overseas, and foreign calls routed through the United States.

A one-paragraph memo recounts planning for a "project involving the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then premier of the Republic of Congo. According to , poison was to have been the vehicle . . ." A Belgian commission later attributed Lumumba's 1961 death to local rivals who had imprisoned him.

In October 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson requested an interagency survey of possible foreign connections to U.S. groups opposed to the Vietnam War and worldwide student movements with communist links. Then-Director Richard M. Helms tasked the agency to do it, and the main input came from "sensitive intercepts" produced by the National Security Agency, according to another memo.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.