CIA Airs Its Dirty Laundry
Other cases include:
*Reporters being put under physical surveillance, including Brit Hume (now at Fox News, but then working for legendary muckraker and perennial chronicler of CIA misdeeds Jack Anderson).
*CIA operatives recruiting agents to monitor "dissident" groups in the Washington area that were considered to be a threat to CIA personnel and installations.
*Project Westpointer, which was a CIA operation in San Francisco to open and review postal mail going to and from the People's Republic of China. A separate operation at JFK International Airport in New York targeted mail bound for and coming from the Soviet Union.
*A memo from the CIA inspector general that makes an oblique reference to an IG report that found that the CIA had "quite extensive" involvement with plots to assassinate Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo. A separate memo notes that a top CIA official once launched an effort to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, a controversial prime minister of the Congo. (The CIA did plot against him, but was apparently not connected to his eventual assassination. (U.S. News explored this case.)
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