“The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency’s worst illegal abuses — the so-called ‘family jewels’ documenting a quarter-century of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s.”
Jason Zengerle has found this among many interesting tidbits in the story by Karen DeYoung and Walter Pincus that fronts today’s WaPo:
Personal surveillance was conducted on [Jack] Anderson and three of his staff members, including Brit Hume, now with Fox News, for two months in 1972 after Anderson wrote of the administration’s “tilt toward Pakistan.”
Somewhat ironic, I suppose, given Fox’ position on electronic surveillance in the War on Terror.
