Full CIA “Family Jewels” Report Released
The so-called “Family Jewels,” an internal report on CIA misdeeds that Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director James R. Schlesinger had ordered compiled on May 7, 1973, was released on this day.
The documents in the Family Jewels report confirmed CIA misdeeds that had been known or rumored about for many years. Read the report, below.
The New York Times exposed CIA spying on Americans on December 23, 1974, and the resulting public uproar led to the Senate Church Committee (January 27, 1975) in the Senate and the Pike Committee in the House of Representatives (February 19, 1975), which investigated and exposed many abuses by the CIA and the other intelligence agencies. This day marked the official release of the report.
National Security Agency (NSA) documents released by Edward Snowden included information about the funding of the sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies. Go to August 29, 2013 for the story on the budget documents. The combined budgets for the sixteen agencies in fiscal year 2013 was $52.6 billion. The previously secret CIA budget for that year was $14.7 billion, with $2.3 billion for human intelligence (HUMINT in CIA lingo) and $1.7 billion for signals intelligence (SIGINT). Security and logistics for CIA missions around the world was budgeted at $2.5 billion. Various “covert action programs” cost $2.6 billion.
Read the full “Family Jewels” report at the National Security Archive:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htmLearn more: Hugh Wilford, The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America (2008)
Watch a documentary on The Family Jewels: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR0YxDDE804&list=PLB626FC04B76FFF8A
Read: James Risen, State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration (2006)