It was reported in the news on June 27th of 2007 that the C.I.A. had finnaly come forward with "heaveily censored documents" about (1) SPYING ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND ANTI VIETNAM WAR PROTESTERS, (2) WIRETAPPING U.S. JOURNALISTS, (3) OPENING MAIL FROM RUSSIA AND CHINA TO AMERICAN CITIZENS, (4) TESTING MIND ALTERING DRUGS ON UNWITTING AMERICAN CITIZENS, (5) BREAK INS AT THE HOMES OF EX CIA EMPLOYEES AND OTHER AMERICANS, (6) FOREIGN ASSASSINATION PLOTS, (7) AND OTHER MISDEEDS that triggered a scandal in the mid 1970's.

        The documents in questions were known as "the family jewels" in the C.I.A. The 693 pages of written from the memories of active C.I.A. officers in 1973 were turned over to three investigative panels at that time which produced tens of thousands of pages of public reports.

        The Senate Investigation headed by Frank Church, D-Idaho produced a book length study of twelve C.I.A. and F.B.I. mail opening programs from 1940 to 1973. The C.I.A. alone had opened and photographed almost 250,000 first class letters in the United States.

        One of the most detailed descrptions in the newly released documents concerns one of the plots to kill the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro.

        Mobsters were provided with pills to poison Castro's food but Castro remains alive today.

        Castro is unpopular enough in America that few would mourn his death, but let us not mistake the danger in allowing a government agency to kill the perceived enemies of the State. What will you do when you are perceived to be an enemy of the State?

        The release of "the family jewels" demonstrates that the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. were out of control spy agencies nearly forty years ago. They not only trampled human rights in America, they committed immoral acts at home and abroad; and though they have been slowed down through the decades, they still have managed to make a reputation for America internationally that ought not to be.

        Are they still a danger? You'd better believe it. Can something be done about it? We certainly hope so.