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AI Summary
- CIA released 693 pages of classified documents on June 25, 2007, revealing decades of illegal operations against American citizens beyond what anyone imagined
- Family Jewels documents exposed mind control experiments using LSD on unwitting subjects, surveillance of 300,000 innocent Americans, media manipulation turning journalists into assets, and government-approved assassination plots
- Originally intended as damage control after Watergate, documents became most comprehensive confession of government crimes showing agency designed to protect America became its greatest threat
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