from SLATE:> The Washington Post leads with word that next week the CIA will release a series of records that detail the agency's assassination attempts, domestic spying, and other such highlights from the 1950s to the 1970s. Many have been trying to get their hands on the documents, which are known as the "family jewels," for years. ...
CIA Director Michael Hayden said the documents will provide "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different agency" and emphasized that "most of it is unflattering, but it is CIA's history." The documents were first compiled in 1974 at the request of then-CIA Director James Schlesinger, who was concerned by accounts that the agency was involved in Watergate. Although most of what the documents contain is already known, the release will no doubt add detail to a period in the CIA's history that many would rather forget. <
or the spooks could use the files as a source of ideas for future action... -- Jim Devine / "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin
