۱۳۸۶ تیر ۷, پنجشنبه
۱۳۸۶ تیر ۶, چهارشنبه
The CIA's Family Jewels
Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years,
Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents
Full Report Now Available and Key Word Searchable
CIA Announces Declassification of 1970s "Skeletons" File,
Archive Posts Justice Department Summary from 1975,
With White House Memcons on Damage Control
Update - June 26, 2007, 1 p.m. - The full "family jewels" report, released today by the Central Intelligence Agency and detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds, is now available on the Archive's Web site. The 702-page collection was delivered by CIA officers to the Archive at approximately 11:30 this morning -- 15 years after the Archive filed a Freedom of Information request for the documents.
The report is available for download in its entirety and is also split into five smaller files for easier download.
CIA's "Family Jewels" - full report (24 MB) NOW KEY WORD SEARCHABLE!
CIA's "Family Jewels" - Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Top Ten Most Interesting "Family Jewels"
Released by the CIA to the National Security Archive, June 26, 2007
1) Journalist surveillance - operation CELOTEX I-II (pp. 26-30)
2) Covert mail opening, codenamed SRPOINTER / HTLINGUAL at JFK airport (pp. 28, 644-45)
3) Watergate burglar and former CIA operative E. Howard Hunt requests a lock picker (p. 107)
4) CIA Science and Technology Directorate Chief Carl Duckett "thinks the Director would be ill-advised to say he is acquainted with this program" (Sidney Gottlieb's drug experiments) (p. 213)
5) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) reflecting Agency employee resentment against participation (p. 326)
6) Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba (p. 464)
7) Report of detention of Soviet defector Yuriy Nosenko (p. 522)
8) Document describing John Lennon funding anti-war activists (p. 552)
9) MHCHAOS documents (investigating foreign support for domestic U.S. dissent) (pp. 591-93)
10) CIA counter-intelligence official James J. Angleton and issue of training foreign police in bomb-making, sabotage, etc. (pp. 599-603)
Hanging out its dirty laundry from the 1970s
Last Updated June 27, 2007
CBC News
After a generation of delays and denials, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has confirmed what had long been suspected or leaked — that it repeatedly broke its own rules a generation ago.
The CIA has now published 703 pages of internal memos, first written in 1973 when it looked like the agency might be dragged into the Watergate mess. The media were reporting leaks and hounding anyone who might have been involved with the break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters in Washington in 1972.
The ripples from the expanding scandal that would eventually drag down Richard Nixon had Washington politicians and bureaucrats excavating old memos to see if they had any skeletons in the closet — particularly illegal activities — that could tarnish the participants if revealed.
Against that backdrop, then CIA director James Schlesinger ordered the agency to report anything that could be construed as illegal, including operations within the United States, which are beyond its mandate. The resulting memos, covering incidents between the late 1950s and 1973, came to be known within the CIA as the "family jewels." They range from the mundane — disposing of top-secret garbage for other government agencies — to the explosive: confirming that the CIA plotted to assassinate at least three world leaders.
Some of the incidents covered in the file were reported on in the 1970s; in fact, much of the file relates to efforts to find out where reporters like syndicated columnist Jack Anderson were getting their information. But the CIA fought for years to keep it secret. And no wonder: William Colby, who succeeded Schlesinger as CIA boss, called the file "the skeletons in the closet."
In June 2007, the National Security Archive (NSA), an independent university-based organization, published a summary of 18 files, calling it "25 years of agency misdeeds." A week later, the 703 pages were made public by the CIA, although with many blank sheets, and many names and paragraphs deleted.
The NSA outlined 18 items that it dubbed misdeeds. They can be categorized by type, including assassination plans; drug and other tests on unwitting subjects; spying on U.S. dissidents; spying on reporters and even its own agents; spying on mail in the U.S. destined for Russia and China; and spying technology.
Assassination plans
Fidel Castro at the UN in Sept 1960 as a CIA plot to "remove" him was in full swing (Associated Press)
After years of denying, at least explicitly, that it had made any attempt to assassinate foreign leaders, the CIA now acknowledges that it had hatched plots to eliminate Cuban President Fidel Castro, Congo leader Patrice Lumumba and Rafael Trujillo, a cruel dictator in the neighbouring Dominican Republic — and someone the CIA had helped to power.
The summary of the documents say the agency had "no active part" but only a "faint connection" to the wealthy families who organized the shooting of Trujillo as he was driving in his car on dusty back road in May 1961. However, as you read into the documentation, senior directors of the agency report that the CIA had "quite extensive involvement" with the Trujillo plotters.
That corresponds to news reports that came out in the mid-1970, which said CIA operatives had supplied the guns to the plotters and other strategic advice.
The Castro plots, on the other hand, were all well documented before the Senate investigative panel known as the Church committee in 1975. The CIA, it was reported, had explored the possibility of "removing" Castro with poisoned cigars and even a specially rigged diving suit.
These documents go into greater detail over the attempt to use the Mafia, which had its own reasons for wanting back into the lucrative Cuban casino business, to take out Castro. The contacts began during the last of the Eisenhower years and the plan became directly approved by then CIA director Allen Dulles, one of the deans of American foreign policy.
According to the documents, a CIA operative met with Mafia contact Johnny Roselli in Las Vegas in 1960 and told Roselli the agency would be willing to pay up to $150,000 to have Castro dealt with. Roselli, initially, didn't want any part of the idea but he helped make the connection to top mobsters Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante, both then on the FBI's wanted list.
Patrice Lumumba, leader of the Congo National Movement, formed the Congo's first national government in June 1960, but was overthrown a few months later by a CIA-backed coup in 1960. He was killed under mysterious circumstances while in jail. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Giancana, according to these documents (and according to news stories earlier), didn't want the money for carrying out the deed. Instead, he wanted the agency's help, which was forthcoming, in spying on his girlfriend, Phyllis McGuire, a singer who Giancana feared was having an affair with comedian Dan Rowan of Rowan and Martin fame.
Many of these details have been the stuff of TV documentaries over the years but successive CIA directors, from John McCone to William Colby, routinely denied any direct involvement by the agency.
The same with the death of Congo's anti-colonial leader Patrice Lumumba in January 1961. These documents now say the CIA was involved in his ouster and had authorized a senior operative to develop plans for his elimination. But they claim the CIA wasn't party to the actual killing of Lumumba, which took place in a prison cell after what has generally been referred to as a CIA-sponsored coup.
Tests on unwitting subjects
In 1963, the CIA conducted experiments on influencing behaviour "through the administration of mind or personality altering drugs to unwitting subjects." The memos claim the experiments were part of a "defensive" program to test drugs on armed forces volunteers so the agency could identify the symptoms if the drugs were ever used against the U.S.
According to the documents, it turns out the drugs used were ones rejected by commercial manufacturers because of bad side effects.
The documents don't take responsibility for the controversial psychiatric experiments funded by the Canadian government and the CIA in Montreal in the 1950s and 60s. These are currently the subject of a long-standing lawsuit against the agency.
Spying on American protesters
In the late 1960s, as America was wracked with demonstrations by students, peace activists and blacks, the CIA was asked by the FBI to look into possible international links to American radicals. The CIA went on to amass files on almost 10,000 Americans in the peace movement, a massive domestic spying operation on people who opposed — mostly peacefully — the U.S. Vietnam policy.
It went so far as to infiltrate the peace movement, claiming it needed to do that so its agents could get credentials to travel overseas, and then presumably meet foreign radicals. One of the documents suggests that undercover CIA agents had set up an operation in Ottawa to monitor U.S. draft dodgers in Canada, which would have been no surprise to most Canadians at the time.
Rafael Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961.
(Archive Photos/Getty Images)
There was nothing about how successful the offshore effort was, but the CIA did observe that the Soviets were not interested in using American radicals for sensitive operations; they felt them too "unruly."
However, one of the CIA U.S. agents was so useful that the FBI took her over. The CIA claimed it never used wiretaps on peace activists, and that it monitored groups in Washington because they may have posed a threat to CIA installations.
One of those caught up in the monitoring was the late Beatle John Lennon. According to the CIA, Lennon had given financial support to certain peace groups and individuals, some of whom were planning to attend the Republican convention in 1972 to protest against the Vietnam War.
Spying on reporters
From the early 1960s, the CIA has been trying to close leaks on sensitive government information to journalists. Between March 1963 and June 1963, Project Mockingbird wiretapped two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott, after they disclosed national security information in a column.
The CIA failed to nab the source, but it did record senators, members of Congress, and many other bureaucrats and political operatives talking to the columnists.
The taps were approved by then CIA director John McCone, who claimed to have discussed them with then attorney general Robert Kennedy and secretary of defence Robert McNamara. According to some historians, both Robert and John Kennedy had no qualms about bugging journalists but their family members today deny that was the case.
Muckraker Jack Anderson and three associates were watched for three months in 1972, after Anderson wrote columns about Pakistan.
Washington Post reporter Michael Getler was subjected to "physical surveillance" in late 1971 and early 1972 as the CIA tried to find his secret sources. Ditto for former CIA officer Victor Marchetti, who in 1974 published a critical book about the agency, The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence.
نامه ابراهیم نبوی به محمد جواد لاریجانی
حضور انور جواد آقا لاريجاني
من را مي شناسيد، من هم شما را مي شناسم. شما پشت صحنه مسائل کشور را مي دانيد، من هم از آن بي اطلاع نيستم. ممکن است فکر کنيد چرا براي شما نامه مي نويسم، يک دليل بيشتر ندارم، اين که مدتي پيش شما گفتيد که مسوولان مملکت به جاي اينکه اين همه کار کنند، کمي هم فکر کنند. هم به اين دليل و هم به دليل اينکه شما را مي شناسم، احتمال مي دهم ممکن است جزو معدود کساني باشيد که به اين موضوع فکر کنيد. ضمنا فرض کنيم که فقط خودمان در يک اتاق نشستيم و من با شما حرف مي زنم، نه لازم است شعار بدهيم و نه چيزي را براي ديگران اثبات کنيم. به همين دليل سريع مي روم سر اصل قضيه. علت اينکه نامه را روي اينترنت منتشر کردم اين است که آدرس تان را ندارم و اينطور مطمئنم که آن را مي خوانيد. نمي دانم پيش نويس قطعنامه سوم را که انگليسي ها تهيه اش کرده اند، خوانديد يا نه؟ حتما خوانده ايد، من از وقتي آن را خواندم حالم بدجوري خراب است و احساس مي کنم از بغل گوشم خمپاره اي رد شده است. جواد آقا جان بچه هايت به اين چيزهايي که مي گويم فکر کنيد.
اول : اين پيش نويس قطعنامه خيلي خطرناک است. و من فکر مي کنم اگر 20 درصد احتمال بدهيم که همين پيش نويس برود به شوراي امنيت و ما هم که به جزهمين يک پوتين پاره جرخورده بي وفا در ميان همه اعضاي شوراي امنيت کسي را نداريم. تازه فرض کن دو تا هم داشته باشيم، وتو که نمي کنند، گيريم با يک اکثريت پائين تصويب شد و قرار شد اجرا شود، مي دانيد معني آن يعني چه؟ فکر نمي کنيد معني اش اين است که مملکت سوت مي شود و مي رود هوا؟
دوم: شما که فکر نمي کنيد تا شش ماه ديگر نهضت جهاني اسلام اتفاق بيفتد و با اين همه رهبران اسلام آمريکايي و آن شواليه بن لادن که مثل سيف الله رشدي چند سال است جرات حضور در مقابل ديگران را ندارد، جنگ را شروع مي کنند؟ ملکه اليزابت که اين همه به او اميد بسته بوديم که توي کاخش نمازخانه دائر کرده بود، آخرش شد رفيق سلمان رشدي، اين مرکل و بلر و پوتين که مار نخورده افعي اند و ما هم که به جان عزيزتان اگر يک واقعه اي خداي ناکرده رخ بدهد، اصلا شوخي است که فکر کنيم که برادران سپاه و رزمندگان سابق بتوانند آمريکا را زمينگير کنند. طرف که مغز خر نخورده وارد خاک ايران بشود. از راه دور همسايه ها را جلوي چشم مان مي آورد.
سوم: پارسال که 70 ميليارد دلار پول بي زبان دست آدم زبان دراز بود، همه اش دود شد رفت آسمان، حالا با اين تحريم ها پول از کجا بياوريم که رئيس جمهورمان کمک کند به صندوق سرخ براي نجات آفريقا و آمريکاي لاتين؟ اگر تصويب کنند که ديگر هواپيما و کشتي حرکت نکند و مسوولان مملکتي ممنوع الورود به جهان بشوند، بکلي بيچاره مي شويم. ملت گرسنه را کي مي خواهد جمع کند؟ به نظر شما اگر اوضاع همينطوري پيش برود و ملت زير فشار اقتصادي قرار بگيرند، فکر مي کنيد مردم پشت سر دولت مي ايستند؟ فکر مي کنيد اين تاوان زيادي براي حضور آقاي احمدي نژاد و يک مشت شعار نامربوط و بي حاصل، مانند مديريت کردن جهان و توليد انرژي هسته اي و صدور انقلاب و رسيدن به قله هاي علمي و حذف اسرائيل از روي نقشه اتاق آقاي احمدي نژاد، که نه به بار است نه به دار است و نه قرار است اجرا شود، نيست؟ جواد آقا امروز دومين سال روي کار آمدن احمدي نژاد است، وقتي روي کار آمد، فکر مي کردي آدمي به آن لاغري بتواند در اين حجم وسيع مملکت را گلکاري کند؟
چهارم: در تمام دنيا اين همه کشورها اورانيوم غني شده و ضعيف شده دارند و بيست سال مي گذرد و کسي روحش خبردار نمي شود که چنين چيزي وجود دارد، بايد کلي جاسوس بفرستند تا چنين اطلاعاتي را بدزدند و تازه بايد کلي زحمت بکشند تا اثبات کنند که اين موضوع واقعيت دارد. آن وقت وزير کشور مملکت، آقاي پورمحمدي عقلش را مي بندد و دهانش را باز مي کند و چون در دهلاويه است، فرض را بر اين مي گذارد که کسي نيست و مي توان براي يک عده مردم بي خبر لاف زد و شعار خريد و مانند رييسش که گفت دختر سيزده چارده ساله در حوض خانه شان انرژي اتمي درست کرده، فکر کرد اين هم خربزه است و گفت صد کيلو داريم آن هم اورانيومي که هنوز خود شوراي امنيت ملي نمي داند چند درصد غني شده است. خلاصه زرتي خبرش را اعلام مي کند. خبر هم هنوز از دهان آقا درنيامده مي شود تيتر يک رسانه هاي دنيا. حالا اگر چنين چيزي را علاء بروجردي گفته بود، آدم مي گفت طرف دهن لق است و همينطوري يک چيزي صادر مي کند، يا اگر زريبافان گفته بود، مي گفتي نمي فهمد، بالاخره همه که نابغه نمي شوند. گفتن اين حرف توسط آدمي مثل پورمحمدي که از وقتي ريشش درآمده مسوول اطلاعاتي مملکت بوده، چه معني دارد؟ و تکذيب آن توسط وزارت کشور به چه معني است؟ من کاري ندارم که اصلا انرژي هسته اي حق مسلم ماست يا حق مسلم بقيه است، اصلا مهم نيست. ولي وقتي يک وکيل مثل آقاي عبدالفتاح سلطاني را 290 روز زنداني مي کنند به اتهام لو دادن اسرار اتمي و مجاهدين خلق که انشاء الله به زمين گرم بخورند، کارشان مي شود اثبات اين که ايران مشغول غني سازي است، گفتن اين حرف توسط کسي که کارش سالها اطلاعات خارجي بوده يعني چي؟ يعني اين اخوي حضرتعالي نمي تواند در آن شوراي امنيت ملي اعلام کند که آقايان زيپ دهان شان را بکشند؟ چطوري بايد مسوولان مملکت حرف وزير کشور را که مسوول امنيت کشور است، تکذيب کنند؟ چه کسي بايد تکذيب کند؟
پنجم: يک سال است که داريم مي گوئيم مواظب باشيد، اين دنبکي که داريد مي زنيد اگر صدايش دربيايد گوش فلک را کر مي کند، رئيس جمهور که عسس مرا بگير، را جهاني کرده و دنيا را به تجاوز دعوت مي کند و اميدش هم اين است که قبل از حمله اسرائيل يا امريکائي ها امام زمان تشريف بياورند و اوضاع را درست کنند. رئيس جمهور سابق که با چهار تا خانوم در مملکت غريب دست داده، حالا مي خواهند لخت مادرزاد ولش کنند وسط زباله داني تاريخ. هاشمي رفسنجاني که يک فاطمه اره جلوي در خانه شان چادر به کمر بسته و جرات نمي کند از خانه اش بيرون بيايد و از ديوار شکسته و سگ هار و خانم رجبي پرهيز مي کند. علي آقاي شما هم که يک سال است دارد با سولانا شام مي خورد و هي عکس مي گيرند، اين شام تمامي ندارد؟ شما که بزرگترش هستي بزن توي سرش، جلوي دهان اينها را بگيرد، جواد آقا مملکت به باد مي رود ها گفته باشم. وقتي ملکه اليزابت سر هشتاد سالگي از سلمان رشدي حمايت مي کند، يعني انگليس دارد شمشير را از رو مي بندد. خودت را جاي استکبار جهاني بگذار، ببين اگر يکي از کله سحر تا بوق سگ دائم دادار دودور کند که الدرم و بلدرم و مي زنم و مي کشم، بالاخره طرف هم مجبور است جلوي در و همسايه خودش آبروداري کند. البته من شنيدم که مرحوم سيد قطب گفته است که آمريکا نابود مي شود، ولي اگر قبل از نابود شدن زد دهان ما را سرويس کرد چکار کنيم؟ آدمي که دارد نابود مي شود عقل ندارد ها گفته باشم.
ششم: ترسيدن شرط عقل است، آدمي که چيزي براي از دست دادن دارد و جانش را دوست دارد و به آينده اش فکر مي کند بايد بترسد. بايد از اين وضعيت بترسيم. جواد آقا! مملکت به يک باد بند است، شما هم بلانسبت سادگي نکني فکر کني اين شير شدن ذوالقدر و رحيم صفوي پشيزي مي ارزد، فردا روز يک تحريم سوم را که بگذارند توي کاسه جمهوري اسلامي، ملت ايران اصلا ملتي که سختي بکشد و تحمل کند نيست، از اين اوضاع بترسيد. تمام اين بساط حزب الله بازي و عمليات استشهادي و اين حرف ها مزخرف است، اگر در سال 1359 ملت ايران در دوره آقاي خميني مقاومتي در مقابل عراق کرد و ملت هم گاهي از خودشان رشادتي نشان دادند، که چندان هم چيز عجيبي نبود و تازه کلي اش داستان است و به قول حاج آقا معزي اين دروغ ها را خودمان درآورديم که برادران مان روي مين مي رفتند، حالا به خورد خودمان مي دهيد؟ اصلا روي سپاه پاسداران و بسيج حساب نکنيد که از صدر تا ذيل آن ها( البته ذيلش را مطمئن نيستم) شکمشان گنده شده است. ممکن است براي کتک زدن زن و بچه مردم در تهران شير باشند، ولي براي جنگ آن هم جنگ نظامي سنگين اصلا روي اين موجودات حساب نکنيد. ممکن است فکر کنيد که براي چي من دارم خودم را جر مي دهم که حکومت از بين نرود، راستش را بخواهيد من هم مثل شما از اين علماي اعلام خوشم نمي آيد، ولي فکر کنم تغيير يک حکومت هزينه اش براي ايران خيلي سنگين تر است تا اصلاح آن . اين چيزها را که گفتم برويد و ببينيد اگر کسي عقلش هنوز کار مي کند، به آقايان بگوئيد.
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