"The CIA declassified nearly 700 pages of secret records Tuesday recording its illegal activities during the first decades of the Cold War, publishing a catalog of adventures that run the gamut of spy movie clich?s from attempts to kill foreign leaders and intercept domestic mail to garden-variety break-ins and burglaries.
The papers reveal some new details about the CIA?s plots to assassinate foreign leaders. Among them were Cuban President Fidel Castro; Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator."
CIA opens the book on a shady past
It would be interesting to know what previously unknown detail(s) of the CIA's assassination plot against Trujillo has been released.
-NALs
The papers reveal some new details about the CIA?s plots to assassinate foreign leaders. Among them were Cuban President Fidel Castro; Patrice Lumumba, the democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; and Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator."
CIA opens the book on a shady past
It would be interesting to know what previously unknown detail(s) of the CIA's assassination plot against Trujillo has been released.
-NALs