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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 17:28, 24 June 2015: 1,300 × 1,670, 703 pages (23.68 MB): Airwave2k2 {{Information |Description ={{en|1=partly censored Version of the CIA Report of illegal aktions between 1950s and 1970 also know as the family jewels of the Central Intelligence Agency revealed by Seymour Hersh}} {{de|1=teilgeschwärzter Bericht der...
Partly sanitized page from the "Family Jewels" files. The "Family Jewels" is the name of a set of reports detailing illegal, inappropriate and otherwise sensitive activities conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency from 1959 to 1973. [1] William Colby, the CIA director who received the reports, dubbed them the "skeletons in the CIA's closet ...
Knowledge of Project Mockingbird was made public in June 2007 when the CIA declassified a 702-page document widely referred to as the Family Jewels. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The document was compiled in response to a May 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking CIA employees to report any past or present activities ...
In 1973, a document referred to as the "Family Jewels" [2] was published by the CIA containing a reference to a different operation named "Project Mockingbird", which was the name of an operation in 1963 which wiretapped two syndicated columnists, Robert Allen and Paul Scott, "from March 12 to June 15, 1963". [3]
At the time of the Senate hearings to confirm his appointment, Colby was relentlessly grilled about The Family Jewels, a secret 693-page report ordered by Schlesinger, directed by Colby, and compiled by CIA's own Inspector General's Office. It dealt with what Colby calls "some mistakes," specifically CIA abuses ranging from assassination plans ...
The first collection, the "Family Jewels," consists of almost 700 pages of responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger requesting information about activities inconsistent with the Agency's charter. [9]
According to the CIA documents, the so-called Family Jewels that were declassified in 2007, one assassination attempt on Fidel Castro prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion involved noted American mobsters John Roselli, Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante. [9] At least some of the CIA assassination attempts on Castro were given the CIA project name ...
A set of highly sensitive Agency documents, referred to as the "Family Jewels," was publicly released on June 25, 2007, after more than three decades of secrecy. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] The release was prompted by an internal CIA investigation of the 1970s Church Committee which verified the far-ranging power and influence that Angleton wielded during ...