Open Sources | Rodrigues & Urlocker » Off-topic: CIA Family Jewels (The Mafia was hired to kill Castro?)

June 26, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Off-topic: CIA Family Jewels (The Mafia was hired to kill Castro?)

TAGS: Random

This CIA "family jewels" data dump is completely nuts.

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)

Noah Shachtman at Wired is blogging the good stuff. I love that the Mafia was brought in to eliminate Castro. You really can't make this stuff up.

Posted by Dave Rosenberg on June 26, 2007 07:59 PM

RATE THIS ARTICLE: