WASHINGTON, June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence officials next week will unseal long-secret records on illegal actions by the CIA that include assassination attempts, the CIA director said.
The so-called "family jewels," as the agency calls the report to be released will also include information on illegal domestic spying on antiwar activists, journalists and the actress Jane Fonda, The Washington Post reported Friday.
"Most of it is unflattering but it is CIA 's history," CIA Director Michael Hayden said in a speech to foreign historians Thursday, the Post reported.
The CIA is prohibited from undertaking domestic spying but the report will describe how agents screened and sometimes opened Soviet mail for 20 years beginning in 1953 and intercepted mail to and from China between 1969 and 1972, the Post said.
Hayden said the documents "provide a glimpse of a very different time and a very different agency."
But National Security Archive Director Thomas S. Blanton told the Post the past details "are pretty resonant" today.
"It's surely part of (Hayden's) program now to draw a bright line with the past," he said. "But it's uncanny how the government keeps dipping into the black bag."
