Hanging out its dirty laundry from the 1970s

What was well known by some is now revealed. The CIA is just another KGB or Gestapo. They spy on anyone they dislike and kill anyone who is dispensible.
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That is all very well, what is despicable is their insistance that Americans are above suspicion and can lecture all others on their behaviour.
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U.S. politics---The CIA
Hanging out its dirty laundry from the 1970s
June 27, 2007
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/us-politics/cia.html