CIA dirty laundry aired next week

According to The Los Angeles Times, the CIA is set to de-classify much of its sordid past:

The CIA will declassify hundreds of pages of long-secret records detailing some of the intelligence agency's worst illegal abuses — the so-called "family jewels" documenting overseas assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden said Thursday.

The documents, to be released next week, also include accounts of break-ins and theft, the agency's opening of mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, wiretaps and surveillance of journalists, and a series of "unwitting" tests — including the use of drugs — on U.S. civilians.