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CIA abandoned logic to clear Soviet defector Yuri Nosenko
Eleven years before the House Select Committee on Assassinations declared they were “certain Yuri Nosenko lied about Lee Harvey Oswald,” the Central Intelligence Agency’s internal security report ignored evidence and abandoned logic to conclude that the Soviet defector was a trustworthy individual who hadn’t been sent over by the KGB.
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The CIA’s six most dangerous FOIA topics
In a 1978 memo urging the curbing of the newly-empowered Freedom of Information Act, the CIA compiled a list of six FOIA request topics considered to be the most potentially dangerous to the Agency’s reputation.
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Help release the FBI file on Watergate burglar (and alleged CIA asset) Frank Sturgis
While won’t know the full extent of Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis’ 75,000 page FBI file until it’s released, but there are a number of things that are certain to be in it - paramilitary activities in Cuba, his ties the Kennedy assassination, confirmation of his employment of the CIA - very little of which has had any official documentation made available to the public.