CIA Declassifies the "Family Jewels"

An anonymous reader informs us that the CIA has recently declassified for your reading pleasure some records relating to illegal spying, assassination attempts, and other goodies. These are available from the CIA's FOIA portal. From the BBC article: " Last week, CIA chief Michael Hayden announced the decision to declassify the records, saying the documents were 'unflattering but part of CIA history.' The documents detail assassination plots, domestic spying, wiretapping, and kidnapping... Among the documents is a request in 1972 for someone 'who was accomplished at picking locks' who might be retiring or resigning from the agency."

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Small European countries are nice places to live because there are certain big countries that are non-evil and allow them to exist.

Don't kid yourself: Being small and weak may be inexpensive, but such countries are completely at the mercy of the monsters in their neighborhood. The only reason that Scandanavians don't speak Russian is because someone is willing to cowboy up and keep the peace (such as it is). If the U.S. chose to delegate that responsibility, who could we trust to pick it up?