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The “Family Jewels”: CIA internal compilation of questionable activities

Report · written May 1973 · released 25 June 2007

Why this matters

A roughly 700-page dossier assembled in 1973 at the order of Director James Schlesinger, listing CIA activities that may have broken the agency's charter: domestic wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, mail opening, and assassination plotting. It fed the Rockefeller Commission and Church Committee, yet the full text stayed secret until 2007. The official scan has no text layer; the National Security Archive's OCR copy is linked as an alternate.

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https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001451843.pdf

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Watching the Watchers

1973: the CIA lists its own transgressions.

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Central Intelligence Agency. "The “Family Jewels”: CIA internal compilation of questionable activities." May 1973. Released 25 June 2007. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0001451843.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0001).

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