National Security Archive, George Washington University
The CIA’s Family Jewels
The agency’s own internal catalogue of activities it believed fell outside its charter, compiled in 1973 and released in 2007. It includes domestic surveillance, surveillance of journalists, and human experimentation.
- Archive
- National Security Archive, George Washington University
- Date of document
- 21 Jun 2007
- Pages
- 702
- Classification
- Declassified
- Reference
- Electronic Briefing Book No. 222
- Licence
- Public domain — US federal government work
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Extract
The compilation documents twenty-five years of activity the agency itself identified as potentially outside its charter, including illegal domestic surveillance, the wiretapping of journalists, assassination planning and human experimentation.
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