Dirty Laundry

This should be really fascinating to keep track of: The CIA is set to release a boatload of documents detailing some very unflattering incidents in the past few decades.  And a lot of it seems to bolster the investigative reporting that journalist Seymour Hersch has been doing for a long time.

CIA to Air Decades of Dirty Laundry

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 [...]

Tags: CIA, Seymour Hersch

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