CIA releases cold war documents

This was the subject of NPR's Fresh Air program today, an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times correspondent Tim Weiner who wrote Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA.
You can listen to it here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor … d=11509999

It only took about 30 seconds into the interview to figure out the answer to why the "family jewels" were exposed...they want us to believe that this is what used to go on, that it was wrong, deeply disturbing to the agents involved and that it's all in the past. There were a few interesting tidbits that came out in the interview, stuff about mind control experiments with LSD and the people behind it and how that information has been purged and may never come out. The author seemed genuine enough, more cluelessly patriotic than a deliberate disinfo agent.
I thought it was worth a listen, but then I was getting paid to do something else while I was listening.

Somehow it never came up that most of the domestic spying and other deviant black ops have been moved over to the far more paranoid and amoral Defense Department, where they've been expanded exponentially.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Info … _Awareness