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Date: June 28, 2007 10:27:10 AM PDT
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Subject: Picking through the Jewels
Family Jewels link for browsing: http://www.foia.cia.gov/
browse_docs.asp?doc_no=0001451843&title="FAMILY
+JEWELS"&abstract=&no_pages=0702&pub_date=5/16/1973&release_date=6/18/
2007&keywords=FAMILY
+JEWELS&case_no=F-1992-00353©right=0&release_dec=RIPPUB&classifica
tion=U&showPage=0001
CIA "Family Jewel" # 1 missing
On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 the CIA released a memo from the CIA
Director of Security to the CIA Management Committee ( CIA
Director, Deputy Director, etc.) The memo lists “illegal
operations” conducted by the CIA from March 1959 to June 1964.
These projects are what the CIA considers the “skeletons” in the
CIA closet. The memo entitled the list “Family Jewels.”
JEWEL # 1 is presumably the most important and egregious on the
list. Yet, 35+ years after the memo was written, it is still
censored. Given that other items on the list include CIA-Mafia
plots against Fidel Castro and the role of Attorney General Robert
Kennedy is planning assassinations, why is JEWEL #1 still
censored? Every word of the 3 page description of JEWEL # 1 is
blacked out -- every single word. What are they still hiding 35
years later?
Keeping Track of All the Redactions
By Amy Zegart
http://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/entire-category-of-
activities-still-classified/
Read the Document (pdf)
ENTIRE CATEGORY OF ACTIVITIES STILL CLASSIFIED
There appears to be an entire category of activities still
classified — the whole section from pages 8 to 10 is redacted.
Given all the illegal activities actually listed in this document,
the hidden sections are all the more disturbing.
SURVEILLANCE OPERATION
This document lays out C.I.A. involvement in a range of
surveillance activities, from monitoring journalists to breaking
into the apartments of defectors. In this case, two entire sections
— points “E” and “G”– are redacted. Notably, point “G” comes
immediately after discussion of surveillance of dissident groups.
Read the Document (pdf)
SECRET ‘EQUIPMENT’ FIELD TEST NEAR 1972 REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
According to a May 15, 1973 memo, the C.I.A. tested some
unspecified equipment in four Miami hotels just before the 1972
Republican national convention. The location, timing, and security
assigned to the field test all got my attention. At least one of
the hotels was a block from the convention hall. Security
arrangements appear to have been tight; one of the people involved
was reluctant to call another over an open telephone line. And,
according to the document, one person in the operation was in
“daily contact” with the Miami police department as part of his
“official liaison duties.” The memo contends that the activity was
“completely innocent” but “subject to misconstrual.” But if this is
true, why blacken out key details about the nature of the
equipment, its purpose, and the peculiar timing and location of the
field test?
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The Washington Daily News, Wednesday, October 2, 1963, p.3
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=7534
'SPOOKS' MAKE LIFE MISERABLE FOR AMBASSADOR LODGE
'Arrogant' CIA Disobeys Orders in Viet Nam
SAIGON, Oct.2 - The story of the Central Intelligence Agency's role
in South Viet Nam is a dismal chronicle of bureaucratic arrogance,
obstinate disregard of orders, and unrestrained thirst for power.
Twice the CIA flatly refused to carry out instructions from
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, according to a high United States
source here.
In one of these instances the CIA frustrated a plan of action Mr.
Lodge brought with him from Washington because the agency disagreed
with it.
This led to a dramatic confrontation between Mr. Lodge and John
Richardson, chief of the huge CIA apparatus here. Mr. Lodge failed
to move Mr. Richardson, and the dispute was bucked back to
Washington. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and CIA Chief John A.
McCone were unable to resolve the conflict, and the matter is now
reported to be awaiting settlement by President Kennedy.
It is one of the developments expected to be covered in Defense
Secretary Robert McNamara's report to Mr. Kennedy.
Others Critical, Too
Other American agencies here are incredibly bitter about the CIA.
"If the United States ever experiences a 'Seven Days in May' it
will come from the CIA, and not from the Pentagon," one U.S.
official commented caustically.
("Seven Days in May" is a fictional account of an attempted
military coup to take over the U.S. Government.)
CIA "spooks" (a universal term for secret agents here) have
penetrated every branch of the American community in Saigon, until
non-spook Americans here almost seem to be suffering a CIA psychosis.
An American field officer with a distinguished combat career speaks
angrily about "that man at headquarters in Saigon wearing a
colonel's uniform." He means the man is a CIA agent, and he can't
understand what he is doing at U.S. military headquarters here,
unless it is spying on other Americans.
Another American officer, talking about the CIA, acidly commented:
"You'd think they'd have learned something from Cuba but apparently
they didn't."
Few Know CIA Strength
Few people other than Mr. Richardson and his close aides know the
actual CIA strength here, but a widely used figure is 600. Many are
clandestine agents known only to a few of their fellow spooks.
Even Mr. Richardson is a man about whom it is difficult to learn
much in Saigon. He is said to be a former OSS officer, and to have
served with distinction in the CIA in the Philippines.
A surprising number of the spooks are known to be involved in their
ghostly trade and some make no secret of it.
"There are a number of spooks in the U.S. Information Service, in
the U.S. Operations mission, in every aspect of American official
and commercial life here, " one official - presumably a non-spook -
said.
"They represent a tremendous power and total unaccountability to
anyone," he added.
Coupled with the ubiquitous secret police of Ngo Dinh Nhu, a
surfeit of spooks has given Saigon an oppressive police state
atmosphere.
The Nhu-Richardson relationship is a subject of lively speculation.
The CIA continues to pay the special forces which conducted brutal
raids on Buddhist temples last Aug. 21, altho in fairness it should
be pointed out that the CIA is paying these goons for the war
against communist guerillas, not Buddhist bonzes (priests).
Hand Over Millions
Nevertheless, on the first of every month, the CIA dutifully hands
over a quarter million American dollars to pay these special forces.
Whatever else it buys, it doesn't buy any solid information on what
the special forces are up to. The Aug. 21 raids caught top U.S.
officials here and in Washington flat-footed.
Nhu ordered the special forces to crush the Buddhist priests, but
the CIA wasn't let in on the secret. (Some CIA button men now say
they warned their superiors what was coming up, but in any event
the warning of harsh repression was never passed to top officials
here or in Washington.)
Consequently, Washington reacted unsurely to the crisis. Top
officials here and at home were outraged at the news the CIA was
paying the temple raiders, but the CIA continued the payments.
It may not be a direct subsidy for a religious war against the
country's Buddhist majority, but it comes close to that.
And for every State Department aide here who will tell you,
"Dammit, the CIA is supposed to gather information, not make
policy, but policy-making is what they're doing here," there are
military officers who scream over the way the spooks dabble in
military operations.
A Typical Example
For example, highly trained trail watchers are an important part of
the effort to end Viet Cong infiltration from across the Laos and
Cambodia borders. But if the trailer watchers spot incoming Viet
Congs, they report it to the CIA in Saigon, and in the fullness of
time, the spooks may tell the military.
One very high American official here, a man who has spent much of
his life in the service of democracy, likened the CIA's growth to a
malignancy, and added he was not sure even the White House could
control it any longer.
Unquestionably Mr. McNamara and Gen. Maxwell Taylor both got an
earful from people who are beginning to fear the CIA is becoming a
Third Force co-equal with President Diem's regime and the U.S.
Government - and answerable to neither.
There is naturally the highest interest here as to whether Mr.
McNamara will persuade Mr. Kennedy something ought to be done about
it.
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