Summary
"According to the minutes, [William] Colby, who replaced [James Schlesinger], said some US citizens had been subjected to 'unwitting' CIA drug experiments to induce Tsehavior modification,'" the Guardian reported. The CIA had also illegally amassed 9,900 files on Americans involved in Vietnam-related anti-war activities.
In an interview in 1997, attorney Kathleen Cleaver, the ex-Black Panther, offered this comment: "The FBI had its police against us. The CIA had its police against us. The DIA had its police. The police have its own squad. So the forces arrayed against us - not to mention our own internal confusion and dissension - so the forces arrayed against us, a youth organization, coming into being in 1966, in which maybe less that one per cent of the people were over 25 - we would have had to expand, incorporate broader and broader segments of the black community, align ourselves with broader and broader segments of the working class and radical white community. We would have had to take two and three or four generations to do this."See the full content of this document
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Cia Files Declassified
For several years, and most evidently since 1993, the CIA has been declassifying secret records. This week the agency will release a substantial amount of records detailing illegal domestic surveillanc...
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