By now you may or may now have heard that the CIA is going to declassify roughly 700 pages of, the family jewels as they call it. Well, here they are.
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The CIA said Thursday it has decided to declassify most of a voluminous 1973 file known as “the family jewels,” which details some of the agency’s most notorious operations.
Assassination plots, human experimentation, illegal wiretaps and surveillance of journalists in the 1950s through the early 1970s are among the activities documented in the 693-page file, according to previously released documents about “the family jewels.”
“Much of it has been in the press before, and most of it is unflattering, but it is CIAs history,” CIA director Michael Hayden, who announced the decision in a speech to the Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations.
“The documents provide a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency,” he said.
Former CIA director James Schlesinger ordered the unearthing of the agency’s skeletons in 1973.
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