CIA "family jewels" – docs on wiretapped journos, dissidents – now online

The CIA "Skeletons" file from the 1970s is now online. Snip:

The Central Intelligence
Agency violated its charter for 25 years until revelations of
illegal wiretapping, domestic surveillance, assassination plots,
and human experimentation led to official investigations and reforms
in the 1970s, according to declassified documents posted today
on the Web by the National Security Archive at George Washington
University.

CIA director Gen. Michael Hayden announced today that the Agency
is declassifying the full 693-page file amassed on CIA's illegal
activities by order of then-CIA director James Schlesinger in
1973–the so-called "family jewels." Only a few dozen
heavily-censored pages of this file have previously been declassified,
although multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have been
filed over the years for the documents. Gen. Hayden called the
file "a glimpse of a very different time and a very different
Agency."

Link (via Danger Room)

Update: Noah Shachtman tells BoingBoing,

I'm continuing to blog my way through the
CIA "family jewels" — and already turning up some crazy stuff. Think
"behavioral drugs." And Nixon-era spies who were more reluctant to do
widespread electronic surveillance than many of Bush's spooks. Link.

Previously:

  • CIA secret documents just declassified