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Date: June 28, 2007 12:28:29 PM PDT
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Subject: "Family Jewels" -- No Pearls, Just Swill before Swine
Rightwing Media Reports That "Family Jewels" Say RFK Plotted Castro
Assassination, but Nothing IN the "Family Jewels" Supports That Claim
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?
s=552308f60f782f20a8aeed231e556ab3&showtopic=10323&st=0
... After scanning 700 + pages without finding one that mentions
RFK's operations to kill Castro, it appears that Dr. Kiss[inger]
was repeating the CIA director's hearsay about RFK and Castro plots
in order to ensure that the records remained sealed.
This was the same tactic used to keep the MLK records of the HSCA
and DOD After Action Reports sealed -- because "they contained
reports of King's hanky panky with white women."
If anyone reading these recently released pages of the Family
Jewels actually comes across a reference to RFK and Castro
assassination plots, please share.
...
Bradley Ayers doesn't say anything about Bobby and killing Castro,
that's Roselli talking.
Bradley Ayers says that RFK approved the economic sabatoge
operations, the paratroop operations, etc., nothing about killing
Castro.
Kissinger says Helms said the Family Jewels has RFK trying to kill
Castro -- but now we're reading the Family Jewels and there's
nothing there about RFK killing Castro.
There's RFK saying stuff like, "If you go out and hire the mafia to
kill Castro in exchange for wiretapping some girlfriend Vegas
bedroom, I hope you'll tell the Attorney General about it," but
nothing about RFK ordering maritime missions to Cuba to kill
Castro, like Kiss said there was, and Helms and Lansdale and Ramsey
Clark said there was. "Blood will flow in the streets." BS.
Where's the smoking gun documnents on this? They don't exist,
because if they did we'd have them by now. Just like EHH having to
fake JFK and Diem coup docs. If they existed, he wouldn't have had
to fake them.
They tease us for years, float a balloon days before the release of
the Family Jewels, and then when they're released -- nothing there.
Where's the beef?
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http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm
Today's release includes a re-censored version of a memo first
released 30 years ago in 1977 with fewer excisions (see comparison
below).
1977 release
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CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden announced today that the Agency is
declassifying the full 693-page file amassed on CIA's illegal
activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in 1973
-- the so-called "family jewels." Only a few dozen heavily-censored
pages of this file have previously been declassified, although
multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have been filed over
the years for the documents. Gen. Hayden called the file "a glimpse
of a very different time and a very different Agency." The papers
are scheduled for public release on Monday, June 25.
"This is the first voluntary CIA declassification of controversial
material since George Tenet in 1998 reneged on the 1990s promises
of greater openness at the Agency," commented Thomas Blanton, the
Archive's director.
Hayden also announced the declassification of some 11,000 pages of
the so-called CAESAR, POLO and ESAU papers -- hard-target analyses
of Soviet and Chinese leadership internal politics and Sino-Soviet
relations from 1953-1973, a collection of intelligence on Warsaw
Pact military programs, and hundreds of pages on the A-12 spy plane.
The National Security Archive separately obtained (and posted
today) a six-page summary of the illegal CIA activities, prepared
by Justice Department lawyers after a CIA briefing in December
1974, and the memorandum of conversation when the CIA first briefed
President Gerald Ford on the scandal on January 3, 1975.
Then-CIA director Schlesinger commissioned the "family jewels"
compilation with a May 9, 1973 directive after finding out that
Watergate burglars E. Howard Hunt and James McCord (both veteran
CIA officers) had cooperation from the Agency as they carried out
"dirty tricks" for President Nixon. The Schlesinger directive,
drafted by deputy director for operations William Colby, commanded
senior CIA officials to report immediately on any current or past
Agency matters that might fall outside CIA authority. By the end of
May, Colby had been named to succeed Schlesinger as DCI, and his
loose-leaf notebook of memos totaled 693 pages [see John Prados,
Lost Crusader: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby
(Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 259-260.]
Seymour Hersh broke the story of CIA's illegal domestic operations
with a front page story in the New York Times on December 22, 1974
("Huge C.I.A. Operation Reported in U.S. Against Antiwar Forces,
Other Dissidents in Nixon Years"), writing that "a check of the
CIA's domestic files ordered last year… produced evidence of dozens
of other illegal activities… beginning in the nineteen fifties,
including break-ins, wiretapping, and the surreptitious inspection
of mail."
On December 31, 1974, CIA director Colby and the CIA general
counsel John Warner met with the deputy attorney general, Laurence
Silberman, and his associate, James Wilderotter, to brief Justice
"in connection with the recent New York Times articles" on CIA
matters that "presented legal questions."
Colby's list included 18 specifics:
1. Confinement of a Russian defector that "might be regarded as a
violation of the kidnapping laws."
2. Wiretapping of two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul
Scott.
3. Physical surveillance of muckraker Jack Anderson and his
associates, including current Fox News anchor Brit Hume.
4. Physical surveillance of then Washington Post reporter Michael
Getler.
5. Break-in at the home of a former CIA employee.
6. Break-in at the office of a former defector.
7. Warrantless entry into the apartment of a former CIA employee.
8. Mail opening from 1953 to 1973 of letters to and from the Soviet
Union.
9. Mail opening from 1969 to 1972 of letters to and from China.
10. Behavior modification experiments on unwitting U.S. citizens.
11. Assassination plots against Castro, Lumumba, and Trujillo (on
the latter, "no active part" but a "faint connection" to the killers).
12. Surveillance of dissident groups between 1967 and 1971.
13. Surveillance of a particular Latin American female and U.S.
citizens in Detroit.
14. Surveillance of a CIA critic and former officer, Victor Marchetti.
15. Amassing of files on 9,900-plus Americans related to the
antiwar movement.
16. Polygraph experiments with the San Mateo, California, sheriff.
17. Fake CIA identification documents that might violate state laws.
18. Testing of electronic equipment on US telephone circuits.
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http://www.argusobserver.com/articles/2007/06/27/news/05.txt
... As censored by the CIA, many of the most sensational events are
mentioned in little more than one, sketchy paragraph apiece. The
new documents devoted two paragraphs to the programs that opened
mail between U.S. citizens and the Soviet Union and China.
One paragraph says ‘‘Project WESTPOINTER,’’ from the fall of 1969
through October 1971, was based in the San Francisco area and the
‘‘target was mail to the United States from Mainland China.’’
By contrast, the Senate committee headed by Frank Church, D-Idaho,
which spent two years investigating these documents, produced a
book-length study of 12 CIA and FBI mail opening programs from 1940
to 1973. It found that the CIA alone had opened and photographed
almost 250,000 first class letters in the United States and
produced a computerized index of 1.5 million names.
The agency’s new documents contained an unsigned three-page memo
that described CIA’s program code named Operation CHAOS as a
worldwide effort to collect information ‘‘on foreign efforts to
manipulate U.S. extremism.’’ It said some American extremists had
been recruited by the CIA and sent abroad as contract agents, but
asserts that CHAOS ‘‘has not and is not conducting efforts
domestically for internal domestic collection purposes.’’ Another
1973 memo to Colby from the CIA inspector general expressed concern
over CHAOS ‘‘because of the high degree of resentment we found
among many agency employees at their being expected to participate
in it.’’
But in 1976 the Church committee had already reported that, between
1967-1973, in the course of its surveillance of civil rights and
anti-Vietnam war protesters, the CIA compiled a computerized
database of 300,000 individuals, including 7,200 Americans and more
than 100 domestic groups.
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