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[Thomas Eckhardt]

"The Chairman. We will want to know, for example, why the mail of such 
individuals and organizations in this country as the Ford Foundation, 
Harvard University, and the Rockefeller Foundation was regularly opened 
by the CIA. or why the mail coming to or from such individuals as Arthur 
Burns, Bella Abzug, Jay Rockefeller, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mrs. 
Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon himself: as well as such Senators 
as Hubert Humphrey, Edward Kennedv, even the Chairman of this committee, 
whose letter to my mother is in the file. should have been regularly 
opened and scrutinized by the CIA against the laws of the country."

p.4/571

"Senator Mondale: All right. What was your understanding of the legality 
of the covert mail operation?

Mr. Angleton. That it was illegal.

Senator Mondale: What?

Mr. Angleton: That it was illegal."

p. 29/596

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00735R000200010001-2.pdf

"'[I]t is inconceivable that a secret intelligence arm of the government 
has to comply with all the overt orders of the government.'"

p. 58/625



Am 17.01.2018 um 02:17 schrieb Joseph Tracy:
> The opportunites for abuse in these programs is enormous. You can easily 
> target international labor rights communication to open the door for 
> spying domestically on labor advocates. The same goes for human rights, 
> animal rights, environmentalists. It simply opens the door for targeted 
> spying on political dissidents or opponents . Since the FBI has a long 
> history of this kind of abuse it is not just risky but highly likely to 
> go wrong.
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