“Operation Mockingbird” is remembered as a CIA media plot. CIA records show Project Mockingbird was a wiretap on two columnists to find their sources.
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Project SHAMROCK: The NSA’s Telegram Program
From 1945 to 1975 the NSA got copies of Americans’ overseas telegrams from three cable firms, without warrants. The Church record and NSA’s own history.
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Project MINARET: The NSA’s Watch List of Americans
Project MINARET, the NSA’s 1967-1973 watch list, put King, Ali and two senators under warrantless surveillance. Its history, from declassified records.
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COINTELPRO: The FBI’s Five Domestic Programs
The FBI’s five COINTELPRO programs, 1956 to 1971, in one table: dates, 3,247 proposals, 2,370 approved actions, and where Senate and FBI records disagree.
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The CIA’s Founding-Fathers Spy Story Was Also a 1975 PR Plan
Washington ran spies, and the CIA made sure you knew it. Files show how the agency and Ford White House used the Bicentennial against the Church Committee.
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The CIA’s Own 693-Page Account of Its Abuses
The CIA’s 1973 “family jewels” file, declassified in 2007: its own account of spying on journalists, opening mail for two decades, and assassination plots.
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Sidney Gottlieb’s Own Account of MKULTRA, Declassified
Declassified 1975 Church Committee transcripts hold Sidney Gottlieb’s own account of MKULTRA, the Castro assassination plots, and Frank Olson’s death.