Slashdot has a post concerning the recent declassification of some CIA documents, most notably a collection commonly known as the "Family Jewels." This 700-page document, according to the CIA's Freedom of Information Act Page, is an agency-wide response to a "1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency's charter." In otherwords, it's the bad shit.
Assassination attempts using the mafia, kidnapping, wiretapping, you name it. You don't have to look to far to find all kinds of dirty little tidbits the CIA is finally admitting to. Plenty is still blocked out, but it remains fascinating to see all this stuff right there in black and white. Readers of the Principia Discordia will no doubt be unnerved by the similarity in page numbering between the two documents.
Perhaps less interesting, but also available, is the 11,000 page long CAESAR-POLO-ESAU collection. Again from the CIA FOIA page: "The CAESAR and POLO papers studied Soviet and Chinese leadership hierarchies, respectively, and the ESAU papers were developed by analysts to inform CIA assessments on Sino-Soviet relations."
Yawn. There are some curious individual document titles, however, including "The Doctor's Plot," "Indecision and Stress," and "Lin Piao and the Great Helmsman."
Could be worth a read.
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posted by dan @ 9:31 AM
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