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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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The CIA’s Family Jewels — first page

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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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