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CIA's "Family Jewels"--All 702 Pages of Them

Poison pills, mafiosos, casinos, and Cuba—sound like the plot of a mobster flick? Nope. How about the elements of the CIA's plot to assassinate Fidel Castro that began in 1960? Shady dealings carried out by the U.S. intelligence agency surfaced decades ago through leaks and disclosures made to the Church Committee, but today we get the full 702-page story. With the declassification of the "family jewels"—an internal accounting done in the wake of Watergate to document a quarter century of nefarious activities that were "outside the legislative charter" of the CIA—comes the indisputable proof that CIA leadership oversaw years of murderous schemes, kidnapping, domestic spying, and human experimentation.

Last week, CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden called the release "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different Agency." But it makes you wonder what the U.S. government will be releasing forty years from now. Probably then the revelations will be less like the Godfather and more like a creepy Orwellian thriller.

—Celia Perry






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You missed the most important part. The part about UFO's. They are really amongst us. I know. It is not the "full", there are over 100 pages that are blank. At least 20 that are redundant. Read the whole thing, not just parts.

Posted by: Reptilian ET on 06/27/07 at 9:54 AM  Respond

Are these "Family Jewels" in any way related to "The Gemstones"?

Posted by: James Anderson Merritt on 06/27/07 at 5:23 PM  Respond

In this week's Time magazine it is reported that JFK regarded the CIA and other intelligence agencies as "rogues" and equivalent to criminal organizations with regards to moral conduct and reliability. These guys were good at reading people. I'm certain that they didn't take too kindly to this attitude from their "boss". It's amazing how easily these "rogues" could undermine a president who has a serious "attitude problem" - like having a moral compass. Admittedly, Kennedy had a minimal moral compass, probably due to his "traditional" upbringing.
Did the CIA participate in the plot to kill Kennedy? More likely: did they spot the danger from nutcase snipers who worked at book towers and blithely ignore them? Was the CIA involved in the Kennedy assassination? Was their role active or passive? Fast forward to 911: was the Bush administration involved in the three plane wreck and was it passive or active? Certainly they wouldn't set up a president who had the "right attitude" towards their criminal inclinations!

How edifying to know about these "jewels". Only a sick mind can think of them as worthy things and call them so. It is shocking to know that they -these criminals who now walk America's streets- even dared experiment with children! Where is the much vaunted law-abiding American society? Why aren't these monsters taken to trial and locked? In Argentina and Chile they have sent their criminals to jail. Even Videla and Pinochet had to face a court. Will Bush and Co ever will?

Posted by: Jaime Galarza on 06/28/07 at 8:42 PM  Respond

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