Tuesday, June 26

Back in Action

Sorry for the long overdue update to the CC. Hope you didn't miss it too much.

Not your average family jewels



Today the CIA did a weird thing. It told the truth. Due to numerous requests citing the Freedom of Information Act, the usually very secretive goverment agency released hundreds of pages of internal reports detailing all of the things "outside the legislative charter of the agency." Apparently the law establishing the CIA barred it from conducting spying inside the United States. Hmmm.... interesting. Also, perhaps more interesting, is the activities reported about in the released documents detailing such clandestine operations as assassination plots against foreign leaders (such as Cuba's Fidel Castro) and the secret testing of mind-and-behavior altering drugs like LSD on unwitting U.S. citizens. So all those spy flicks weren't too far off...




The George Washington University archives has a copy of the 703 page report that you can read here