CIA’s darkest secret
Boston Globe
by James Carroll
07/02/07
Every so often, the front page trumpets ethical and legal lapses committed by US intelligence agencies. In Iraq, they have run the gamut from pre war falsification of weapons data to surveillance of American citizens to kidnapping to torture of prisoners. During the Cold War, it was ‘black operations’ that included staging coups, assassinating foreign leaders, infiltrating American organizations, conspiring with Mafia groups, spying on journalists — perhaps even murder. Last week, the latest paroxysm of revelation announced, as a New York Times headline put it, ‘CIA Skeleton … [A] Catalogue of Wiretaps, Assassination Plots, and Mind Control.’ But the so called ‘family jewels’ of the CIA’s hidden abuses may not enshrine the deepest and darkest secret...
http://tinyurl.com/2s67yu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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American Torture: the US and the abuse of prisoners
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=11283
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=family+jewels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll
by James Carroll
07/02/07
Every so often, the front page trumpets ethical and legal lapses committed by US intelligence agencies. In Iraq, they have run the gamut from pre war falsification of weapons data to surveillance of American citizens to kidnapping to torture of prisoners. During the Cold War, it was ‘black operations’ that included staging coups, assassinating foreign leaders, infiltrating American organizations, conspiring with Mafia groups, spying on journalists — perhaps even murder. Last week, the latest paroxysm of revelation announced, as a New York Times headline put it, ‘CIA Skeleton … [A] Catalogue of Wiretaps, Assassination Plots, and Mind Control.’ But the so called ‘family jewels’ of the CIA’s hidden abuses may not enshrine the deepest and darkest secret...
http://tinyurl.com/2s67yu
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
American Torture: the US and the abuse of prisoners
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=11283
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=family+jewels
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=James+Carroll
rudkla - 3. Jul, 11:56
