Much of the information had been released in various congressional investigations in past years, but the pages provide detailed accounts of CIA activities, much of it against the backdrop of the Cold War. Hayden told agency employees in a statement the trove included “reminders of some things the CIA should not have done” and a glimpse “of a very different era and a very different agency.” The documents had been requested 15 years ago by a watchdog group. The CIA hauled the skeletons out of its closet by declassifying hundreds of pages of long-secret records that detail some of the agency’s worst illegal abuses during about 25 years of overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying and kidnapping.ĬIA Director Michael Hayden released the documents to lift the veil of secrecy on the agency’s past, even as the Bush administration faces criticism of being too secretive now. The CIA worked with two of the country's most-wanted criminals in a botched attempt to assassinate Castro in a "gangster-type action" in the early 1960s, according to documents released by the CIA on Tuesday. Fidel Castro at Havana's Jose Marti airport in a 1978 file photo.
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