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1865
Jul 5, The US Secret Service began operating under
the Treasury Department. The Secret Service Division began in
Washington, D.C., to suppress counterfeit currency. Chief William P.
Wood was sworn in by Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCulloch.
(MC,
7/5/02)(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1867 US Secret Service
responsibilities were broadened to include "detecting persons
perpetrating frauds against the government." This appropriation
resulted in investigations into the Ku Klux Klan, non-conforming
distillers, smugglers, mail robbers, land frauds, and a number of other
infractions against the federal laws.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1870 US Secret Service
headquarters relocated to New York City.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1874 Secret Service headquarters
returned to Washington, D.C. after 4 years in NYC.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1875 The first commission book
and a new badge were issued to operatives of the US Secret Service.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1877 Congress passed an Act
prohibiting the counterfeiting of any coin, gold or silver bar.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1883 The US Secret Service was
officially acknowledged as a distinct organization within the Treasury
Department.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1893 Apr 7, Allan W. Dulles, US
diplomat, CIA head (1953-61), (Germany's Underground), was born.
(MC, 4/7/02)
1894 The Secret Service began
informal part-time protection of President Cleveland.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1895 US Congress passed
corrective legislation for the counterfeiting or possession of
counterfeit stamps.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1901 Congress informally
requested Secret Service Presidential protection following the
assassination of President William McKinley.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1902 The Secret Service assumed
full-time responsibility for protection of the President. Two
operatives were assigned full time to the White House Detail.
(http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/history.shtml)
1908 Jul 26, US Attorney General
Charles J. Bonaparte issued an order creating an investigative agency
that was a forerunner of the FBI. Until this time Pinkerton had served
as the America’s unofficial national law enforcement agency.
(AP, 7/26/97)(ON, 7/06, p.12)
1913 Mar 13, William J. Casey,
headed CIA during Iran Contra scandal (1981-87), was born.
(MC, 3/13/02)
1917 Jul 26, J. Edgar Hoover got
job with the Justice Department.
(MC, 7/26/02)
1919 Nov, Attorney Gen'l. A.
Mitchell Palmer ordered anti-Communist raids supported by his assistant
J. Edgar Hoover. The Palmer raids led to the arrest of over 450 members
of the Union of Russian Workers. [see Jan. 1920]
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.M6)
1920 Nov, The US Palmer raids led
to the arrest of some 10,000 members of radical clubs. [see Nov. 1919]
(SSFC, 1/11/04, p.M6)
1921 Aug 22, J. Edgar Hoover
became asst. director of FBI.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1924 Mar 6, William H. Webster, US
judge, head FBI and CIA, was born.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1924 May 10, J. Edgar Hoover was
appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation at age 29.
(TMC, 1994, p.1924)(AP, 5/10/97)(HN, 5/10/98)
1924 Jun 15, J. Edgar Hoover
assumed leadership of the FBI. [see May 10]
(MC, 6/15/02)
1933-1935 The US Justice Department’s War on Crime
took place. In 2004 Bryan Burrough authored “Public Enemies: America’s
Greatest Crime Wave and the Birth of the FBI, 1933-1934” a
reconstruction of this period based on FBI files.
(WSJ, 7/15/04, p.D8)(SSFC, 7/25/04, p.M3)
1934 May 15, US Dept. of Justice
offered $25,000 reward for John Dillinger, dead or alive.
(MC, 5/15/02)
1934 Jul 22, A man identified as
bank robber John Dillinger (33) was shot to death by federal agents
outside Chicago's Biograph Theater. FBI agent Murray Faulkner, brother
of William Faulkner, helped in the killing. In 1924 Dillinger was
sent to the Indiana State Reformatory for holding up a grocer, and was
later transferred to the Michigan City, Indiana, State Prison, where he
hatched a plan for a mass breakout with a group of other infamous
convicts. When Dillinger was paroled in 1933, he robbed several banks
to provide money for his friends’ escape. He was caught in Ohio, but by
then his friends had escaped and they helped him break out. Dillinger
was famous for the size of his penis, which was "reportedly" severed
and shown at exclusive viewings. Dillinger’s supposed death remains
mysterious. Anna Sage, the "Lady in Red," had agreed to deliver
Dillinger to the FBI if they would stop deportation proceedings against
her. The setup went as planned, and the FBI shot the man with Anna
Sage. By some accounts, the man was not John Dillinger.
(AP, 7/22/97)(SFC,12/26/97, p.C22)(HNPD,
7/22/98)(HN, 7/22/99)
1935 Jan 16, US federal agents
killed gangsters Ma Barker and Freddy, one of her 4 sons, at Lake Weir,
Florida.
(AH, 2/05, p.16)
1936 May 1, FBI's J Edgar Hoover
arrests Alvin Karpis.
(MC, 5/1/02)
1936 Aug 24, FDR gave the FBI
authority to pursuit fascists and communists.
(MC, 8/24/02)
1939 Edwin Sutherland, sociology
prof. at Indiana Univ., coined the term white-collar crime.
(WSJ, 10/15/03, p.B1)
1944 Jun 20, The US Congress
chartered the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
(MC, 6/20/02)
1945 Nov 9, FBI agents staked out
a house in Berkeley, Ca., to watch George Eltenton, a suspected Soviet
spy. In 1946 Eltenton admitted that he had tried to obtain secret data
on Berkeley’s radiation lab. Eltenton moved to Britain in 1947.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F2)
1945 Russian code clerk Igor
Gouzenko defected to Canada and Elizabeth Bentley changed her role from
Soviet courier to FBI informant. They helped the West gain an
understanding of Soviet spy rings in North America. In 2003 Lauren
Kessler authored "Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered
in the McCarthy Era." Bentley provided the FBI with the names of 150
spies.
(WSJ, 9/22/99, p.A22)(SSFC, 8/17/03, p.M2)(SSFC,
1/11/04, p.M6)
1945 John S. Service (d.1999 at
89), one of the US "China hands" experts, participated in the "Dixie
Mission" as a US Foreign Service officer, and visited Mao Zedong at
Yanan. He reported that Chiang Kai-shek was vulnerable due to
corruption and that the Communists would win the war. The US ambassador
to China, Army Gen'l. Patrick Hurley, ordered him back to the US and
later accused him of handing secret US documents to the Chinese. In the
US Service was arrested by the FBI in the Amerasia affair and became a
target of Joseph McCarthy. He was dismissed from the State Dept. in
1951 but later vindicated.
(SFC, 2/5/99, p.D4)
1946 Jan 22, President Truman set
up the Central Intelligence Group. In late 1945 he had coordinated
various intelligence reform plans considered in the drafting of the
directive that created the CIG. In 1947 it was re-named the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA).
(http://tinyurl.com/l3go2n)
1946 Mar 2, Kingman Douglass
became deputy director of CIA.
(SC, 3/2/02)
1947 Jul 26, President Truman
signed the National Security Act, creating the Department of Defense,
the National Security Council, the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA,
FBI, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The act forbade the CIA from
operating within the US. The CIA was transformed from the Office of
Strategic Services (OSS), founded by Gen. William Donovan (1941), and
was led by Adm. Walter Chilcott Ford (d.1999 at 96) until 1949.
(SFC, 11/23/96, p.A2)(AP, 7/26/97)(SFC, 11/25/99,
p.D9)(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.P8)
1947 Frank Wisner was recruited by
Dean Acheson to join the US State Department's Office of Occupied
Territories. In 1948, the CIA created a covert action wing, innocuously
called the Office of Policy Coordination (OPC). Frank Wisner was put in
charge of the operation and recruited many of his old friends from the
NYC Carter Ledyard law firm. Wisner later coined the term “mighty
Wurlitzer” to describe the orchestration of the agency’s activities.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wisner)
1949 The National Council for a
Free Europe was set up, seemingly the initiative of American
philanthropists, to help refugees. It was later revealed to be a CIA
front group.
(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.D8)
1950 Mar 14, The FBI began its "10
Most Wanted" list after a reporter asked for the names and descriptions
of the "toughest guys" the FBI would like to capture.
(SFEC, 4/30/00, Par p.4)
1951 Mar 10, FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover declined the post of baseball commissioner.
(MC, 3/10/02)
1953 Feb 9, General Walter Bedell
Smith, USA, ended term as 4th director of CIA. Allen W. Dulles, became
acting director of CIA and served to 1961.
(MC, 2/9/02)(SFC, 5/29/97, p.A4)
1953 Feb 26, Allen W. Dulles was
promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA.
(SC, 2/26/02)
1953 Mar, The US CIA’s Tehran
station reported that an Iranian general had approached the US embassy
for support in an army-led coup. Based on this information Allen
Dulles, director of the CIA, approved $1 million to be used to help
bring about the fall of Prime Minister Mossadegh. Pres. Eisenhower gave
the CIA the ok to overthrow the elected government of PM Mohammad
Mossadegh. Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. after
Britain refused to compromise and split profits 50-50. In 2003 Stephen
Kinzer authored "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of
the Middle East Terror."
(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A18)(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.M6)
1953 Aug 19, Gen'l. Zahedi ousted
PM Mossadegh and became the Premier of Iran in a bloody coup that left
300 dead. Britain and the US CIA under Allen Dulles planned a secret
mission to overthrow the government. PM Mossadeq had sought to
nationalize the Anglo-Persian Oil Co. The US government made a formal
apology for the coup in 2000. A 1954 CIA description of the coup was
made public in 2000. In 1979 Kermit Roosevelt (d.2000) published
“Countercoup: The Struggle for the Control of Iran,” an account of his
role in the coup.
(SFC, 11/20/53, p.A1)(SFC, 11/15/99, p.E6)(SFC,
5/29/97, p.A4)(WSJ, 3/20/00, p.A1)(SFEC, 4/16/00, p.A18)(SFEC, 6/11/00,
p.D6)(WSJ, 4/2/07, p.A6)
1953 Pres. Eisenhower gave the CIA
the ok to overthrow the elected government of PM Mohammad Mossadegh.
Mossadegh had nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. after Britain
refused to compromise and split profits 50-50. In 2003 Stephen Kinzer
authored "All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of the
Middle East Terror."
(SSFC, 8/24/03, p.M6)
1953 The first issue of the US CIA
sponsored British magazine "Encounter" was published under Irving
Kristol and Stephen Spender. It became the West's most important
vehicle for highbrow anti-Marxist commentary. The funding source did
not become known until 1966/7.
(WSJ, 3/27/00, p.A46)(Econ, 6/19/04, p.81)
1953 Frank Olson, US Army chemist,
jumped to his death from a hotel window while under the influence of
LSD. He was an unwitting subject in the CIA MKULTRA mind-control
project. In 1976 Congress approved a $760,000 payment to his widow.
(SSFC, 7/14/02, p.A4)
1954 May 19, Postmaster General
Summerfield approved a CIA mail-opening project.
(MC, 5/19/02)
1954 Jun 2, Senator Joseph
McCarthy charged that there are communists working in the CIA and
atomic weapons plants.
(HN, 6/2/98)
1954 Jun 27, CIA-sponsored rebels
overthrew the elected government of Guatemala. A US supported force of
Guatemalan mercenaries invaded from Honduras. Pres. Arbenz was toppled
and replaced by 30 years of military rule. He spent much of his exile
in Cuba. Arbenz died in 1971 in Mexico City. It was disclosed in 1997
to have been motivated by US economic interests with 58 Guatemalan
politicians put on a list of potential targets for political killing.
In 1982 "Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in
Guatemala" by Stephen Schlesinger and Stephen Kinzer, was published by
Doubleday.
(NG, 6/1988, p.783)(NG, 10/1988, member’s
forum)(SFC, 5/24/97, p.A1)(HNQ, 1/30/99)(WSJ, 3/3/99, p.A18)(SC,
6/27/02)
1955 Apr 18, Albert Einstein (76),
physicist, died in Princeton New Jersey. Dr. Thomas Harvey, chief
pathologist at Princeton Hospital, performed Albert Einstein’s autopsy.
He removed the brain and took it home. In 2000 Michael Paterniti
authored "Driving Mr. Albert: A Trip Across America with Einstein’s
Brain." In 1999 it was reported that Einstein’s inferior parietal lobe
was larger than normal. In 2000 Amir D. Aczel published "God's
Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe." [see Apr
15] In 1983 Abraham Pais (d.2000 at 81) authored "Subtle Is the Lord:
The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein." In 2000 Dennis Overbye
authored "Einstein In Love," on Einstein’s 1st marriage with Mileva
Maric. In 2002 Fred Jerome authored "The Einstein File: J. Edgar
Hoover’s Secret War Against the World’s Most Famous Scientist."
(EnRoute, 11/’95, p.111)(AP, 4/18/97)(SFC, 6/18/99,
p.A18)(SFEC, 1/9/00, BR p.4)(SFC, 8/1/00, p.B2)(WSJ, 10/20/00,
p.W10)(SSFC, 3/18/01, BR p.6)(SFC, 9/15/02, p.M5)
1955 Aug 4, Eisenhower authorized
$46 million for the construction of CIA headquarters.
(MC, 8/4/02)
1956 John Kerry King (d.2003 at
86), CIA official and consultant (1956-1979), authored "Southeast Asia
in Perspective."
(SFC, 4/12/03, p.A18)
1956 The FBI created its “Reserve
Index,” a list of people who did not meet standards for another
detention list approved by the Justice Department. By 1959 the reserve
index totaled 12,784 names.
(SFCM, 10/10/04, p.20)
1956 Winston Scott (1909-1971) was
appointed as the American CIA station chief in Mexico.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKscottW.htm)
1957 Mar 13, The FBI arrested
Jimmy Hoffa on bribery charges.
(HN, 3/13/98)
1957 Jul 22, In El Segundo, Ca., 2
police officers were shot and killed after pulling over a car for
running a red light. Gerald Mason (68) was arrested in 2003 following
fingerprint ID from a new FBI database.
(SFC, 1/30/03, p.A5)
1957 The FBI closed its
investigation on Jay Lovestone (d.1999), a former Communist turned CIA
informer, after 6 years of wiretaps. Lovestone worked as an executive
secretary for the AFL's Free Trade Union Committee which was primarily
supported by CIA funds.
(WSJ, 5/19/99, p.A20)
1957 The first team of 6 Tibetans
trained at a Saipan US CIA base and then airdropped back into Tibet
with modern weapons and radios.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.A8)
1958 A secret war in Indonesia
ended abruptly when Allen Pope, a CIA contract pilot, was downed in a
dogfight. Pope was carrying a trove of documents that revealed the
extent of US involvement. The CIA had been sending weapons and advisers
to anti-government rebels on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island as mercenaries
mounted combat sorties in a fleet of unmarked B-26 bombers. Indonesia
later received a batch of 10 C-130 transport planes from the US in
exchange for Pope’s release.
(AP, 4/24/05)(AP, 5/20/09)
1958 The US CIA began airdropping
weapons over Tibet.
(WSJ, 8/30/08, p.A8)
1960 May 9, US sent a U-2 over
USSR.
(MC, 5/9/02)
1960-1979 The US CIA launched a secret domestic
spying program dubbed MHCHAOS aimed at the US anti-war underground
press. The events were later described in the 1997 book by Angus
McKenzie (d.1997): "Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home."
(http://archives.cjr.org/year/98/2/books-cia.asp)
1961 Apr 17, About 1,500
CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion
of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel
Castro. The US clandestinely invaded Cuba in the Bay of Pigs operation
and the operation failed completely without any of the promised air
support from the United States. Cuban forces killed 200 rebels and
captured 1,197 in less than 72 hours. 26 survivors were rescued after 3
days of fighting. A single copy of a CIA report written by inspector
general Lyman Kirkpatrick was made public in 1998. The operation, which
had been devised during the Eisenhower Administration, was nonetheless
endorsed by the new president, John F. Kennedy. In 1979 Peter Wyden
wrote “Bay of Pigs: The Untold Story.” Portion of the 1961 Taylor
Report was made public in 1977 and 1986. Most of the report was made
public in 2000 and it showed that the CIA knew that the Soviets knew
the exact date of the attack. In 2009 Guadeloupe apologized to Cuba for
allowing the CIA to train Cuban exiles on its soil.
(AP, 4/17/97)(TMC, 1994, p.1961)(SFEC, 2/22/98,
p.A19)(HNQ, 4/11/00)(SFC, 4/29/00, p.A7)
(AP, 2/18/09)
1961-1973 The CIA backed a secret army in Laos to
help fight the communist Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese. An estimated
50,000 Hmong civilians died over this period. CIA director William
Colby acknowledged the US and Hmong alliance in 1994.
(SFC, 6/14/04, p.A1)
1962 May, A memo from the CIA
briefing for Attorney Gen’l. Robert Kennedy revealed that $150,000 was
offered to the US mob for the assassination of Fidel Castro. The mob
insisted on doing the job at no charge.
(SFC, 7/2/97, p.A5)
1963 Feb 11, A CIA Domestic
Operations Division was created.
(MC, 2/11/02)
1963 George Joannides, a CIA
agent, was in charge of the Revolutionary Students Directorate (DRE),
one of the most powerful Cuban anti-Castro organizations in Miami. A
few months before the assassination of JFK the DRE had significant
contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald and Oswald tried to infiltrate the New
Orleans branch of the DRE.
(SSFC, 5/13/07, p.M5)
1963 Winston Scott served as
American CIA station chief in Mexico during the time that Lee Harvey
Oswald visited the Cuban Embassy there. In 2008 Jefferson Morley
authored “Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of
the CIA.” Morley proposed that Scott later covered up CIA operations
that involved Oswald.
(www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKscottW.htm)(WSJ,
3/20/08, p.D7)
1963-1973 The 1975 US Church committee report on CIA
activity in Chile included a chronology that covered this period.
(http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/churchreport.htm)
1964 Jan
16, Pres. Johnson approved OPLAN 34A-64, calling for stepped up
infiltration and covert operations against North Vietnam to be
transferred from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to the military."
(http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/lbjohnson)
1964 Feb, Yuri Nosenko
(1927-2008), Soviet KGB officer, defected under CIA guidance in Geneva.
He had begun passing information in June, 1962. He was incarcerated for
his first 3 years in the US and settled there under a new name in 1969.
(Econ, 9/6/08,
p.101)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Nosenko)
1964 Nov 18, FBI Director J. Edgar
Hoover described civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. as "the
most notorious liar in the country" for accusing FBI agents in Georgia
of failing to act on complaints filed by blacks.
(AP, 11/18/04)
1964 Nov, The US HONETOL committee
was formed to look into the question of a mole in the CIA, based on
information from Soviet defector Anatoly Golitsin. It was in existence
to April 1965, and consisted of James Jesus Angleton, Newton S. Miler
and Bruce Solie from the CIA's Office of Security, FBI domestic
intelligence chief William C. Sullivan, FBI CIA liaison Sam Papich and
two others. The investigations damaged many careers including that of
case officer Richard Kovich (1926-2006). In 1992 David Wise authored
“Molehunt: The Secret Search for Traitors that Shattered the CIA.”
(http://tinyurl.com/lqo6j)(SFC, 2/27/06, p.B5)
1964 Fred J. Cook (1911-2003)
authored "The FBI Nobody Knows."
(SFC, 5/5/03, p.B4)
1964-1987 FBI agents in Boston used hit men and mob
leaders as informants and shielded them from prosecution in exchange
for information on the Mafia. This allowed the Winter Hill Gang to rise
in power as the prosecutors brought down the Patriarcha crime family.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A5)
1965 Mar 12, The SF FBI sent
bureau headquarters a secret 33-page report on Mario Savio, leader of
the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
(SFCM, 10/10/04, p.18)
1965 Mar 12, Edward "Teddy" Deegan
was found dead in an alley in Chelsea, Mass. A week later an FBI memo
named 6 men, including Vincent J. Flemmi and Joseph "The Animal"
Barboza, as the killers. Barboza became a star witness and provided
false testimony to convict 4 innocent men. The New England Mafia
shotgunned Barboza in SF in 1976. Over the next 3 decades FBI
informants in Boston murdered over 20 people.
(SSFC, 7/28/02, p.A5)(SFC, 11/21/03, p.A3)
1967 Feb 14, Ramparts Magazine
published an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post saying “In its
March issue, Ramparts magazine will document how the CIA has
infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over
the past fifteen years.”
(WSJ, 1/23/08,
p.D8)(www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html)
1967 Sidney Gottlieb (d.1999 at
80) rose to the top of the technical services division of the CIA. For
22 years he experimented with LSD and participated in the MKULTRA
program of secret experiments with mind-altering drugs.
(SFC, 4/6/99, p.)
1967 Luis Posada Carriles,
Cuban-born CIA agent since 1965, moved to Venezuela and rose to become
head of a government counterintelligence security agency.
(SFC, 5/18/05, p.A9)
1967 Feb 14, Ramparts Magazine
published an ad in the NY Times and Washington Post saying: “In its
March issue, Ramparts magazine will document how the CIA has
infiltrated and subverted the world of American student leaders over
the past fifteen years.”
(WSJ, 1/23/08,
p.D8)(www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/mackenzie-secrets.html)
1968 May 10, FBI director Hoover
sent all field offices an urgent memo escalating the FBI’s attack on
dissent. It authorized an operation called “Counterintelligence Program
– New Left.”
(SFCM, 10/10/04, p.23)
1968 Jul 31, In Boston 4 men were
convicted for shooting Edward "Teddy" Deegan in a Chelsea, Mass., alley
in 1965. In 2007 a federal judge in Boston ordered the government to
pay a record nearly $102 million for the FBI's role in the wrongful
murder convictions of the 4 men. Two of the men convicted, Louis Greco
and Henry Tameleo, died behind bars. The others, Peter Limone (73) and
Joseph Salvati (74) spent three decades in prison.
(www.justicedenied.org/issue/issue_27/fbi%27s_legacy_of_shame.html)
1968 The A-12 Blackbird spy plane
was retired. Lockheed Martin had built 15 such planes, a forerunner to
the SR-71 Blackbird. It had originated as part of the CIA’s
“Oxcart” program.
(WSJ, 1/26/06, p.A1)
1969 Jan 29, Allan Welsh Dulles
(b.1893), US diplomat, director (CIA 1953-61), died.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_Dulles)
1969 Jul 16, Vu Ngoc Nha (d.2002),
top aide to presidents Ngo Dinh Diem and Nguyen Van Thieu, was arrested
in Saigon. The CIA uncovered him as the head of a Communist espionage
ring. He and 2 others were convicted of treason and sentenced to
life in prison.
(SFC, 8/13/02, p.A20)
1969 Jul 17, An FBI memo titled
"New Left and Extremist Movements" revealed Gov. Reagan’s plans for the
destruction of disruptive elements on California college campuses
through "psychological warfare" and other methods.
(SSFC, 6/9/02, p.F8)
1970 Sep 22, President Richard M.
Nixon signed a bill giving the District of Columbia representation in
the U.S. Congress. Pres Nixon requested 1,000 new FBI agents for
college campuses.
(HN, 9/22/98)(http://tinyurl.com/5qrct8)
1971 Mar 8, Catholic radicals in
Media, Pa., broke into the local FBI offices and stole documents that
revealed the agency’s illegal activities against radical groups and
leaked them to the media.
(SFEC, 2/16/97, BR p.8)
1971 Aug 20, FBI began a covert
investigation of CBS journalist Daniel Schorr.
(www.theatlantic.com/politics/polibig/wisepres.htm)
1971 US CIA funding for Radio Free
Europe and Radio Liberty was disclosed. In 2000 Arch Puddington, deputy
director of RFE/RL’s new York bureau from 1985 to 1993, authored
"Broadcasting Freedom." The Munich headquarters were closed in 1994 and
the organization moved to an afterlife in Prague.
(WSJ, 6/5/00,
p.A30)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe)
1972 May 2, J. Edgar Hoover, head
of the FBI (1924-72), died in Washington at age 77. Hoover had come to
the forefront of federal law enforcement during the "Red Scare" of 1919
to 1920. The Watergate affair subsequently revealed that the FBI had
illegally protected President Richard Nixon from investigation. Ronald
Kessler later published "The FBI: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law
Enforcement Agency."
(AP, 5/2/97)(SFEC, 6/6/99, p.A19)(MC, 5/2/02)
1972 Jun 17, Chile president
Allende formed a new government and the CIA prepared to oust him.
(MC, 6/17/02)
1972 Jun 19, Two days after the
botched Watergate break-in, FBI official W. Mark Felt secretly assured
Bob Woodward that The Washington Post could safely make a connection
between the burglars and a former CIA agent linked to the White House,
E. Howard Hunt. Woodward’s secret source for information became known
as Deep Throat, and Felt’s name was not made public until 2005. In 2006
Mark Felt and John O’Connor authored “A G-Man’s Life: The FBI, Being
“Deep Throat,” and the Struggle for Honor in Washington.”
(http://tinyurl.com/cva26)(SSFC, 5/21/06, p.M3)
1972 Jul 17, The first women since
the 1920s were officially hired as special FBI
agents.
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/dillinger/peopleevents/p_women.html)
1973 Mar 11, An FBI agent was shot
at Wounded Knee in South Dakota.
(HN, 3/11/98)
1973 Apr 2, ITT pleaded guilty to
asking CIA to "influence" Chilean presidential elections.
(MC, 4/2/02)
1973 Apr 27, Acting FBI Director
L. Patrick Gray resigned after it was revealed that he had handed over
bureau files on the Watergate burglary to the Nixon White House.
(AP, 4/27/08)
1973 May, CIA director James R.
Schlesinger (b.1929), in response to the unfolding Watergate scandal,
ordered employees to report activities which might be construed to be
outside the legislative charter of the agency.
(AH, 10/07, p.16)
1973 Jun 7, Pres. Nixon nominated
Clarence M. Kelley (1911-1997), chief of police in Kansas City, to
succeed J. Edgar Hoover as director of the FBI. Kelley retired in 1978
when Pres. Carter selected William Webster to serve as the director.
(SFC, 8/6/97,
p.A14)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_M._Kelley)
1973 Jul 2, CIA director James R.
Schlesinger (b.1929), nominated on May 10 by Pres. Nixon, became the
12th US Sec. of Defense.
(www.defenselink.mil/specials/secdef_histories/bios/schlesinger.htm)
1973 Jul 13, In Chile a strike
began that lasted until the September 11 coup. More than a million
workers were on strike demanding that Allende go. American CIA funding
was involved.
(WSJ, 10/30/98,
p.A19)(http://foia.state.gov/reports/churchreport.asp)
1973 Sep 4, William E Colby
(1920-1996), became the 10th director of the CIA.
(http://ngothelinh.tripod.com/wcolby.htm)
1973 Oct 24, John Lennon sued the
US government to admit FBI was tapping his phone.
(http://tinyurl.com/4xox8x)
1974 Columnist Jack Anderson blew
the cover of CIA agent James Lilley, attached to the US representative
office in Beijing. In 2004 James and Jeffrey Lilley authored “China
Hands: Nine Decades of Adventure, Espionage and Diplomacy in Asia.”
(WSJ, 5/6/04, p.D10)
1974 The CIA attempted to recover
the Soviet submarine that had sunk in the Pacific on March 8, 1968. A
100 foot section was pulled in by the Glomar Explorer with 2 nuclear
tipped torpedoes and the bodies of 6 Russian sailors. In 1996 it began
under going remodeling for work as a deep-sea drilling ship. The US
Navy’s fully submersible dry dock, called the Hughes Mining Barge, was
used under the Glomar Explorer to position a claw to recover the
submarine. The barge was later used to house the Navy’s $195 million
Sea Shadow, an experimental stealth ship made public in 1993. In 2006
the barge and Sea Shadow were put to rest in Suisun Bay, near San
Francisco.
(SFC, 7/15/96, p.A6)(WSJ, 2/24/09, p.A6)
1975 Jan 4, Pres. Ford’s signed
Executive Order No. 11828 on CIA Activities within the US. He directed
the Commission, chaired by VP Nelson A. Rockefeller, to determine
whether or not any domestic CIA activities exceeded the Agency's
statutory authority and to make appropriate recommendations.
(www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/1975.html)(http://tinyurl.com/5ukhxo)
1975 Jan 27, The US Senate voted
to establish a special 11-member investigating body to examine FBI and
CIA activities. Under the chairmanship of Idaho Senator Frank Church,
with Texas Senator John Tower as vice-chairman, the select committee
was given nine months and 150 staffers to complete its work. On
November 20 the committee released a report, charging both US
government agencies with illegal activities.
(http://tinyurl.com/2tb7rc)(http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Church_Committee)
1975 Jun 2, Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller said his commission had found no widespread pattern of
illegal activities at the Central Intelligence Agency.
(AP, 6/2/97)
1975 Jun 10, The Rockefeller panel
reported on illegal CIA files on Americans.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975)
1975 Oct 5, Democratic Senator
Frank Church of Idaho charged that the CIA tried to kill Cuban
President Fidel Castro during the administrations of three US
presidents. The 1975 Church Committee hearings revealed the FBI’s worst
secrets of surveillance and intimidation.
(MC, 10/5/01)(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.D12)
1975 Dec 23, Richard S. Welch, the
Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Athens, was shot and
killed outside his home. The left-wing November 17 urban guerrilla
group was responsible. In 2002 Pavlos Serifis was arrested in
connection with the murder.
(AP, 12/23/00)(SFC, 7/5/02, p.A9)
1976 Jan 30, George Bush became
the 11th director of the CIA replacing William E. Colby. Bush revived
the reputation of the organization and left it Jan 20, 1977.
(SFEC, 1/16/00, Par p.2)(http://tinyurl.com/2mm8r9)
1976 May 19, The US Senate
established congressional oversight over the CIA with the permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI).
(SFC, 9/17/97, p.A3)(http://tinyurl.com/3cc2yh)
1976 Aug 8, John Roselli, hired by
CIA to kill Castro, was found murdered.
(MC, 8/8/02)
1977 Mar 9, Admiral Stansfield
Turner took office as head of the CIA under Pres. Carter.
(www.espionageinfo.com/Cou-De/DCI-Director-of-the-Central-Intelligence-Agency.html)
1977 Jul 14, US House established
a permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1977 Christopher Boyce was
convicted of espionage. He had gained access to CIA communications
during his job at TRW and sold classified documents to the Russian
Embassy in Mexico City. His story was told in the 1985 film "The Falcon
and the Snowman." Boyce was paroled in 2003.
(SFC, 3/15/03, p.A2)
1978 Jan 7, Michael Josselson
(b.1908), Estonia-born director of the Congress for Cultural Freedom,
died. The organization was a CIA front to gain the support of the
non-Communist left for the US. In 2000 Frances Stonor Saunders authored
"The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters."
(SFEC, 7/16/00, BR p.4)
1978 Aug 18, Bechtel Corp. hired
Richard Helms, former director of the CIA, as a consultant. Former
government officials George Shultz and Caspar Weinberger were also
recently hired.
(SFC, 8/15/03, p.E9)
1980 Feb 2, Reports surfaced that
the FBI had conducted a sting operation targeting members of Congress
using phony Arab businessmen in what became known as "Abscam," a
codename protested by Arab-Americans.
(AP, 2/2/00)
1980 Oct 24, David H. Barnett,
former CIA agent, was indicted. He pleaded guilty to spying for the
Soviet Union from 1976-1979 while based in Indonesia. He admitted to
exposing the identities of 30 US agents.
(SFC, 11/19/96,
p.A17)(www.agentsnotes.com/spycases.html)
1981 Jan 28, William J. Casey
(1913-1987) became the 13th director of CIA replacing Adm. Stansfield
Turner.
(www.espionageinfo.com/Cou-De/DCI-Director-of-the-Central-Intelligence-Agency.html)
1981 May 1, Harrison Williams
(Sen-D-NJ) was convicted on FBI Abscam charges.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam)(AP, 5/1/01)
1981 Dec 4, President Reagan
broadened the power of the CIA by allowing spying in the U.S. This was
Executive Order on Intelligence No 12333.
(HN, 12/4/98)(www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo12333.htm)
1981 Roger Wheeler, chairman of
Telex Corp. and owner of World Jai Alai, was shot execution style at a
Tulsa country club. In 2001 2 reputed Boston mobsters, James Bulger and
Stephen Flemmi, were charged. Jai Alai executive John B. Callahan was
murdered in Aug 1982 in Miami. In 2001 hitman John Vincent Martorano
(60) pleaded guilty to wheeler’s murder and was sentenced to 15 years
in prison. In 2003 former FBI agent H. Paul Rico (78) was arrested and
charged with murder for helping to setup the hit.
(SFC, 3/15/01, p.A8)(SFC, 5/4/01, p.D5)(SFC,
10/10/03, p.A3)
1982 Jun, "Farewell," a C.I.A.
campaign of computer sabotage, stayed secret because the blast,
estimated at three kilotons, took place in the Siberian wilderness,
with no casualties known. "The pipeline software that was to run the
pumps, turbines and valves was programmed to go haywire," writes Reed,
"to reset pump speeds and valve settings to produce pressures far
beyond those acceptable to the pipeline joints and welds. The result
was the most monumental non-nuclear explosion and fire ever seen from
space." "At the Abyss," by Thomas C. Reed, was published by Random
House in 2004.
(http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/02/opinion/02SAFI.html)
1982 Jul 31, Jai Alai executive
John B. Callahan (45) was fatally shot in Miami by mob hit man John
Martorano. Callahan’s body was found Aug 2 in the trunk of his
Cadillac. In 2008 former FBI agent John Connolly was convicted of 2nd
degree murder for leaking information to mobsters that led to the
shooting death of Callahan. In Jan, 2009, Connolly was sentenced to 40
years in prison.
(SFC, 11/6/08,
p.A9)(http://mafiatoday.com/?p=442)(SFC, 1/16/09, p.A2)
1983 Jul 19, In Honduras Reyes
Mata, a Cuban-trained doctor and guerrilla leader, led a unit of 96
Nicaraguan-trained rebels and Rev. James F. Carney into the Olancho.
They were routed by the Honduran army. American CIA records, disclosed
in 1998, reported that Mata was tortured and executed by the Honduran
army.
(SFC, 11/5/98,
p.C4)(www.fas.org/sgp/congress/hr051198/valladares.html)
1983 Edwin Wilson was convicted of
running arms to Libya. In 2003 the conviction was thrown out because
prosecutors knew he worked for the CIA and misled the court.
(WSJ, 10/29/03, p.A1)
1984 Apr 13, Christopher Wilder,
FBI's "most wanted man," accidentally killed himself.
(MC, 4/13/02)
1984 May, Marta Healy, a
Nicaraguan exile, contacted George Morales, a champion power boat racer
and big-league drug trafficker under indictment in the US, to arrange a
meeting with contra rebels at her Miami home. Her aim was to broker a
deal to help the rebels financially. The rebels got an ok from the CIA
to accept airplanes and cash from the drug dealer while still receiving
CIA money under the table.
(SFC, 10/31/96,
p.A7)(www.usdoj.gov/oig/special/9712/ch11p1.htm)
1984 Oct 2, Richard W. Miller
became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage.
Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison,
but was released after nine years.
(AP, 10/2/04)
1984 Oct 15, The Central
Intelligence Agency's Freedom of Information Act was signed into law by
Pres. Reagan.
(www.asne.org/index.cfm?ID=453)
1984 Nov, The CIA told the US
Congress in 1987 that it had concluded in Nov., 1984, that it could not
resume aid to the Costa Rican-based Contras because "everybody around
Pastora was involved in cocaine."
(SFC, 10/31/96, p.A7)
1985 Mar 6, Mexican authorities
found the body of US drug agent Enrique C. Salazar.
(MC, 3/6/02)
1985 May 20, FBI arrested John A.
Walker. US Navy Chief Petty Officer Walker began spying for the Soviet
Union in 1968 for $1,000 per week. Walker’s ex-wife turned him into the
FBI.
(www.dss.mil/training/espionage/1985.htm)
1985 Jun 3, Jerry A. Whitworth was
arrested by the FBI, accused of being part of a spy ring headed by John
A. Walker Jr. Whitworth was later sentenced to 365 years in prison.
(AP, 6/3/05)
1985 Aug 9, A federal judge in
Norfolk, Va., found retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker, brother of
John A. Walker Jr., guilty of 7 counts of spying for the Soviet Union.
(AP, 8/9/97)
1985 Oct 28, The leader of the
so-called "Walker family spy ring," John A. Walker Jr., pleaded guilty
to giving U-S Navy secrets to the Soviet Union.
(MC, 10/28/01)
1985 Sep, Edward Lee Howard, CIA
officer, vanished from Santa Fe, NM. He fled the US to Russia while
under FBI investigation for spying for the Soviet Union. He was accused
of disclosing CIA agents in Moscow. Howard died in 2002 of a broken
neck from an accident at his residence outside Moscow. In 1995 Howard’s
memoir "Safe House" was ghost written by Richard Cote.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)(SFC, 7/22/02, p.A6)
1985 Oct 7, The United States
announced it would no longer automatically comply with World Court
decisions. This was in response to a June 25, 1985, World Court ruling
that U.S. involvement in Nicaragua violated international law. The
ruling stemmed from a suit brought in April 1984 after revelations that
the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan ports. The U.S. later
vetoed two U.N. resolutions calling for compliance to the World Court
ruling.
(HNQ, 6/9/99)
1985 Nov 23, Retired CIA analyst
Larry Wu-tai Chin was arrested and accused of spying for China. He
committed suicide a year after his conviction.
(AP, 11/23/97)
1985 Four off-duty US Marines and
9 others were killed at sidewalk restaurants in the Zona Rosa section
of San Salvador. Pedro Antonio Andrade Martinez (aka Mario Gonzalez), a
Marxist guerrilla, was one of the reputed masterminds of the massacre.
Andrade later became an informant for the CIA and sought US asylum.
Andrade was deported from the US in 1997.
(SFC, 11/22/96, p.A21)(SFC,11/6/97, p.C3)
1985 American CIA clerk in Ghana
Sharon Scranage pleaded guilty to disclosing the names of US agents to
her Ghanaian boyfriend. She was prosecuted under a 1982 federal law
called the Intelligence Identities Protection Act.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)(LAT, 7/15/05)
1985 The American CIA rewrote its
1983 training manual for security forces after public uproar over
another manual that taught Nicaraguan contra rebels about neutralizing
enemies and holding demonstrations that could provoke violence.
(SFC, 1/28/97, p.A3)
1985-1986 Celerino Castillo III, a US agent for the
DEA, reported Contra drug flights from Nicaragua to the US to US
Embassy officials. His testimony in 1996 followed reports that the CIA
was involved in smuggling drugs to southern California with the
proceeds going to support Contra forces at war with the Sandinista
government.
(SFC, 9/24/96, p.A7)
1985-1994 Aldrich H. Ames, a CIA counterintelligence
official, passed over this time information to the Soviet Union that
included the names of US agents. The deaths of at least 9 agents were
blamed on his disclosures. In 1994 Ames and his wife, Rosario, pleaded
guilty to spying for the Soviet Union.
(SFC, 11/19/96, p.A17)
1986 Jul 11, President Ronald
Reagan placed the Contras, who were fighting the government of
Nicaragua, under CIA jurisdiction.
(HN, 7/11/98)
1986 Jul 14, Richard W. Miller
became the 1st FBI agent convicted of espionage.
(MC, 7/14/02)
1986 Osama bin Laden began
building a tunnel complex under mountains in Afghanistan near Pakistan
as part of a CIA-funded project.
(SSFC, 5/9/04, p.M6)
1987 Apr 15, A jury in
Northampton, Mass., found Amy Carter, Abbie Hoffman and 13 other
protesters innocent of charges stemming from a demonstration against
CIA recruiters at the University of Massachusetts.
(AP, 4/15/97)
1989 May 5, A federal judge
ordered sweeping changes in the FBI's promotion system, months after
the judge found that the bureau had systematically discriminated
against its Hispanic employees in advancements and assignments.
(AP, 5/5/99)
1987 May 6, William J. Casey, CIA
Director (1981-1987), died at age 74.
(AP, 5/6/97)
1987 Jul 10, Lt. Col. Oliver North
told the Iran-Contra committees that the late CIA director William J.
Casey had embraced a fund created by arms sales to Iran because it
could be used for secret operations other than supplying the Contras.
(AP, 7/10/97)
1990 May 24, Darryl Cherney and
Judi Bari (11/7/49-3/2/97), environmental activists in the Earth First!
movement, were injured after a pipe bomb exploded in their car as they
drove through Oakland, Ca. They were arrested while in the hospital on
charges of transporting a bomb but the charges were never filed. They
later filed a suit against the FBI and Oakland police for false arrest,
illegal search and seizure and conspiracy to violate free-speech
rights. Bari died of liver cancer in 1997. In 2002 a jury awarded $2.9
million to Bari’s estate and $1.5 million to Cherney saying the FBI had
framed them as eco-terrorists. In 2004 the government settled civil
suits for $2 million.
(SFC, 3/1/97, p.C2)(SFC,10/21/97, p.A20)(SFC,
6/12/02, p.A1)(SFC, 4/23/04, p.B1)
1991 May 8, CIA Director William
H. Webster announced his retirement; he was eventually succeeded by
Robert Gates.
(AP, 5/8/01)
1991 The president of Rochester
Inst. of Technology (RIT) resigned following a scandal over CIA
influence on research and curriculum, and his own work for the agency.
(WSJ, 10/4/02, p.A1)
1993 Jan 23, FBI Director William
S. Sessions dismissed a Justice Department report accusing him of
ethical abuses, accusing former Attorney General William P. Barr of a
"crassly calculated attack."
(AP, 1/23/98)
1993 Jul 18, FBI Director William
Sessions continued to resist White House suggestions he step down,
saying he would resign only if President Clinton asked him to. Sessions
was fired by Clinton the next day.
(AP, 7/18/03)
1993 Aug 6, Louis Freeh won US
Senate confirmation to be director of the FBI.
(AP, 8/6/98)
1993 Aug 8, Freddie Woodruff
(b.1947), CIA agent chief in Tbilisi, Georgia, was shot and killed
during an outing with friends. Georgian authorities charged Anzor
Sharmaidze (20), a volunteer soldier, with the murder. Sharmaidze
confessed under torture and later said he was framed for the murder. In
2008 Sharmaidze was granted parole from prison.
(WSJ, 10/18/08,
p.A1)(http://public.cq.com/docs/hs/hsnews110-000002604568.html)(WSJ,
10/27/08, p.a12)
1993 Sep 1, Louis Freeh was sworn
in as director of the FBI.
(AP, 9/1/99)
1994 Jun 4, Gregory Scarpa,
nicknamed The Grim Reaper, died in a Minnesota prison. He was a soldier
for the Colombo crime family and an informant for the FBI.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Scarpa_Sr.)
1994 Sep 11, Anthony Marceca
visited Craig Livingstone at the White House and secretly perused his
own personal FBI file. He obtained the names of 2 women, Lanny
Stephenson and Joyce L. Montag, who had provided the FBI background
information and sued them for slander.
(WSJ, 6/28/96,
p.A9)(www.judicialwatch.org/archive/ois/cases/filegate/SubCertBrief.htm)
1994 Dec 23, John Connolly, FBI
agent, came to the Winter Hill gang’s headquarters in a Boston liquor
store and warned Kevin Weeks of pending FBI arrests for mobsters James
Bulger, Stephen Flemmi and Francis Salemme. Connolly was convicted for
corruption in 2002 and sentenced to 121 months.
(SFC, 5/29/02, p.A3)(SFC, 9/17/02, p.A5)
1995 Jan, James “Whitey” Bulger,
top mobster of Boston’s Winter Hill Gang, disappeared with his
girlfriend just days before a warrant was issued for his arrest. He was
linked to 21 murders and in 2000 became a fixture on the FBI’s “Ten
Most Wanted” list.
(SSFC, 1/30/05, p.A13)
1995 Mar 11, President Clinton
nominated Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch to be CIA director.
(AP, 3/11/00)
1995 Apr 20, In the aftermath of
the Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI announced it was looking for two men
suspected of renting the truck used to carry the explosive; rescue
teams suspended the search for survivors so that the remaining
structure of the Alfred P. Murrah Building could be shored up.
(AP, 4/20/00)
1995 Jul 14, Under pressure from
Congress, FBI Director Louis Freeh removed his friend Larry Potts as
the bureau’s deputy director because of controversy over Potts’ role in
a deadly 1992 FBI siege in Idaho.
(AP, 7/14/00)
1995 Aug 22, FBI agent Lon
Horiuchi shot at Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho.
(MC, 8/22/02)
1995 Sep 13, The FBI made at least
a dozen arrests, capping a nationwide two-year investigation of
pedophiles and pornographers using the America Online computer network.
(AP, 9/13/00)
1996 Feb 23, FBI agents arrested
Robert Lipka, a former army clerk at the National Security Agency, for
espionage in the late 1960s.
(WSJ, 11/21/96, p.A1)
1996 Apr 3, FBI agents arrested a
suspect thought to be the Unabomber. Theodore John Kaczynski was
arrested near Lincoln, Montana on a tip from his brother. His mail
bombs had killed 3 and injured 23 over the last 17 years. An original
draft of his manifesto "Industrial Society and Its Future" was found
some days later.
(WSJ, 4/4/96, A-1)(SFC, 4/13/96, p.A-1)(AP, 4/3/97)
1996 Apr 27, William Egan Colby
(76), CIA Director, died. In 2003 John Prados authored "Lost Crusador,"
a biography of Colby.
(MC, 4/27/02)(WSJ, 6/5/03, p.D8)
1996 May 5, The FBI released
preliminary figures showing that serious crimes reported to police fell
for the fourth straight year in 1995.
(AP, 5/5/97)
1996 May 6, The body of former CIA
director William E. Colby was found on a riverbank near his southern
Maryland vacation home, eight days after he'd disappeared.
(AP, 5/6/97)
1996 May 24, The Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church in Lumberton, N.C., burned down. Arson was suspected and
investigations by the FBI and ATF were later begun.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A16)
1996 The CIA obtained an al-Qaida
training manual that suggested a 10-position leadership structure for
members held in prison. In 2006 a report was made public that said
prisoners at Guantanamo followed this structure.
(SFC, 7/20/06, p.A12)
1997 Mar 10, The White House and
the FBI clashed in a rare public quarrel after President Clinton said
he should have been alerted when the bureau told national security
officials that the Chinese government might be trying to influence U.S.
elections.
(AP, 3/10/98)
1997 Apr 9, The CIA announced that
its own errors may have led to demolition of an Iraqi ammunition bunker
filled with chemical weapons at Kamisiyah in 1991. The CIA apologized
to Gulf War veterans for failing to do a better job in supplying
information to U.S. troops who blew up an Iraqi bunker later found to
contain chemical weapons.
(SFC, 4/10/97, p.A1)(AP, 4/9/98)
1997 Jun 5, Harold J. Nicholson,
the highest-ranking CIA officer ever caught spying against his own
country, was sentenced to 23 1/2 years in prison for selling defense
secrets to Russia after the Cold War. Officials later claimed that he
and his son continued to make contact with Russian operatives. In 2009
Nicholson and his son were arraigned on charges of money laundering and
acting as agents of a foreign government.
(AP, 6/5/98)(WSJ, 1/30/08, p.A3)
1997 Jul 16, Hundreds of FBI
agents, some handing out photos in gay bars and hotels, blanketed south
Florida in the continuing hunt for alleged prostitute-turned-serial
killer Andrew Phillip Cunanan, who was suspected of killing designer
Gianni Versace.
(AP, 7/16/98)
1997 Aug 15, The Justice
Department decided not to prosecute senior FBI officials in connection
with an alleged cover-up that followed the deadly 1992 Ruby Ridge siege
in Idaho.
(AP, 8/15/98)
1997 Aug 27, A secret CIA report
acknowledged that the CIA knew of human rights abuses by the Honduran
military in the 1980s. It was declassified in 1998.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A3)
1997 The FBI began Operation Black
Widow to infiltrate the Nuestra Familia gang. This led to indictments
of 22 members in 2001.
(SFC, 11/29/03, p.A15)
1998 Jan 23, A judge in Fairfax,
Va., sentenced Mir Aimal Kasi to death for an assault rifle attack
outside CIA headquarters in 1993 that killed two men and wounded three
other people. Kasi was executed November 2002.
(AP, 1/23/03)
1998 Feb 27, FBI arrested
suspected serial killer Tony Ray Amati, their 10th most wanted.
(MC, 2/27/02)
1998 Mar 20, George Tenet,
director of the CIA, disclosed that $26.7 billion was the 1998 budget
secret intelligence activities, one-tenth the overall US military
budget.
(SFC, 3/21/98, p.A4)
1998 Apr 3, Douglas Fred Groat, a
disgruntled spy fired by the CIA, was charged with espionage and
extortion. Groat later pleaded guilty to extortion, and was sentenced
to five years in prison.
(AP, 4/3/03)
1999 May 16, The Justice
Department said preliminary figures from the FBI indicated a decline in
serious crime in 1998 for the seventh consecutive year.
(AP, 5/16/00)
1999 Aug 20, In a highly unusual
move, the CIA pulled the security clearances for former Director John
Deutch for keeping secret files on an unsecured home computer.
(AP, 8/20/00)
1999 Aug 25, The FBI, reversing
itself after six years, admitted that its agents might have fired some
potentially flammable tear gas canisters on the final day of the 1993
standoff with the Branch Davidians near Waco, Texas, but said it
continued to believe law enforcement agents did not start the fire
which engulfed the cult’s compound.
(AP, 8/25/00)
1999 Aug 26, Attorney General
Janet Reno pledged that a new investigation of the 1993 Waco, Texas,
siege would "get to the bottom" of how the FBI used potentially
flammable tear gas grenades against her wishes and then took six years
to admit it.
(AP, 8/26/00)
1999 Sep 1, Attorney General Janet
Reno ordered US marshals to FBI headquarters to seize an infrared
videotape containing a recording of FBI communications made during the
1993 FBI assault of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas. FBI
officials had stated that no tape of that stage of the operation
existed.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A3)(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Gary Webb (1955-2004), San
Jose news reported, authored “Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and
the Crack Cocaine Explosion.”
(SFC, 12/13/04, p.B3)
1999 The FBI helped launch the 1st
Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory (RCFL) to support federal, state
and local law-enforcement agencies. By 2005 there were 6 such labs.
(Econ, 3/12/05, TQ p.32)
2000 Apr 8, The Central
Intelligence Agency confirmed that personnel action had been taken
following the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy during the NATO
war against Yugoslavia; one employee was reportedly fired.
(AP, 4/8/01)
2000 Apr, The FBI issued an alert
to American agencies warning of a possible al Qaeda attack. It was
based on allegations by Niaz Khan, a Briton of Pakistani descent who
turned himself in to US authorities.
(WSJ, 6/7/04, p.A8)
2001 Jan 5, In 2007 it was
reported that a French intelligence document dated to this day warned
that al-Qaida was at work on a hijacking plot. The information was
passed on to the CIA. Documents on Osama bin Laden's terror network
were drawn up by the French spy service, the DGSE, between July 2000
and October 2001.
(AP, 4/16/07)
2001 Feb 18, Robert Philip Hanssen
(56), senior FBI agent, was arrested for spying. He had allegedly
passed information to the Russians for 15 years. It was believed that
he had betrayed the construction of a tunnel under the Soviet Embassy
in Washington. He pleaded guilty July 3 to avoid execution. His
disclosures were later reported to have played a role in the execution
or jailing of at least 3 Russians and threatened the identity of
another 50 people. In 2002 David A. Wise authored: "The Bureau and the
Mole." Hanssen was sentenced to life in prison on May 10, 2002.
(SFC, 2/21/01, p.A1)(SSFC, 3/4/01, p.A6)(SFC,
7/4/01, p.A3)(WSJ, 1/8/02, p.A16)(AP, 2/18/02)(SSFC, 4/7/02,
p.A14)(SFC, 5/11/02, p.A3)
2001 Mar 23, It was reported that
the Bush administration had removed the CIA as a broker between Israeli
and Palestinian security services.
(SFC, 3/23/01, p.D4)
2001 May 14, The FBI found in
Baltimore another batch of undisclosed records on Timothy McVeigh.
(SFC, 5/15/01, p.A1)
2001 May 16, Former FBI agent
Robert Hanssen was indicted on charges of spying for Moscow. Hanssen
later pleaded guilty to 15 counts of espionage and was sentenced to
life in prison without parole.
(AP, 5/16/02)
2001 Jul 5, Kenneth Williams, an
FBI agent in Phoenix, Arizona, wrote to bureau headquarters that al
Qaeda could be sending terrorists to train as student pilots. He urged
the investigation of Middle Eastern men enrolled in American flight
schools. [see Jul 10]
(SFC, 5/17/02, p.A19)(SFC, 5/22/02, p.A18)
2001 Jul 10, George Tenet,
director of the CIA, allegedly met with Condoleeza Rice and warned her
of an imminent al-Qaida attack. News of the meeting was only made
public in 2006.
(SFC, 10/2/06, p.A4)
2001 Jul 17, John Ashcroft, US
Attorney Gen’l. reported that 184 FBI laptops and nearly 450 guns were
stolen or lost over the last decade.
(SFC, 7/18/01, p.A1)
2001 Aug 16, Zacarias Moussaoui
(33), a French citizen of Moroccan descent, was arrested in Eagan,
Minnesota, on immigration charges. He was taking lessons on flying
Boeing jets with no interest in taking off or landing. He was later
suspected as a 5th member of one of the Sep 11 WTC attack teams. In Nov
the FBI reported that Moussaoui wanted to learn how to take off and
land but not to fly. Mueller also said Ramzi Omar of Yemen, aka Ramsi
Binalshibh, may have been the 20th hijacker. The local FBI contacted
the CIA for action on Moussaoui when FBI managers failed to take
action. Agent Coleen Rowley later charged that senior officials fumbled
an opportunity to possibly prevent the Sep 11 terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 11/8/01, p.A7)(SFC, 11/15/01, p.A12)(WSJ,
2/4/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 5/24/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/25/02, p.A1)(SFC, 6/6/02,
p.A14)
2001 Aug 23, Brian Regan (38),
retired US Air Force master sergeant and cryptanalyst, was arrested by
the FBI at Dulles Int’l. Airport on charges of spying. In 2002 Regan
was accused of trying to spy for Iraq, Libya and China. On February 20,
2003, Regan was found guilty of three charges of attempted espionage
including two counts of attempted espionage related to attempts to sell
information to Iraq and China, and one count of gathering national
defense information. He was acquitted of attempting to provide US
secrets to Libya. On March 20, 2003, Regan was sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
(http://cicentre.com/Documents/DOC_Regan_1.htm)(SFC,
8/29/01, p.A6)(WSJ, 2/15/02, p.A1)
2001 Sep 10, Attorney General John
Ashcroft rejected a proposed $58 million increase in FBI financing for
counter-terrorism programs.
(SFC, 6/1/02, p.A1)
2001 Oct 26, Pres. Bush signed a
sweeping anti-terrorism bill into law. It gave police and intelligence
agencies vast new powers to fight terrorism. The USA Patriot Act
included Section 215 that gave the FBI authority to obtain library and
bookstore records without evidence of wrongdoing.
(SFC, 10/27/01, p.A3,6)(SSFC, 6/23/02, p.A5)
2001 The FBI tracked 8,322 US bank
robberies this year, up 17% from 2000.
(WSJ, 10/8/02, p.A1)
2001-2002 The US Navy Engineering Logistics Office
issued at least 10 classified contracts to US aviation companies to fly
terror suspects to countries known to practice torture. The CIA also
played a role in the operations.
(SSFC, 9/25/05, A4)
2002 Mar 18, The FBI "Operation
Candyman" snared over 90 people following a 14-month investigation of
child pornography over the Internet.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A3)
2002 May 29, FBI Director Robert
Mueller acknowledged that the bureau did not pursue "red flags" in the
weeks before Sep 11, and suggested for the first time that
investigators might have uncovered the plot if they had been more
diligent about pursuing leads. A reorganization plan for the bureau was
announced with a focus on terrorist attacks.
(SFC, 5/30/02, p.A1)(AP, 5/29/03)
2002 Jun 4, Pres. Bush said the
CIA and FBI had failed to communicate adequately before the Sept. 11,
2001, terror attacks; Congress began extraordinary closed-door hearings
into intelligence lapses.
(AP, 6/4/03)
2002 Jun 17, A converted C-130 air
tanker crashed over a flaming ridge near Walker in Mono County, Ca.,
and 3 crew members were killed. It was later reported that the 1956
plane had been used by the CIA and lacked maintenance records.
(SFC, 6/17/02, p.A1)(SFC, 1/7/03, p.A3)
2002 Sep 3, Louisiana State Univ.
fired Dr. Steven J. Hatfill after the Justice Dept. said the school
could not use him on grants funded by the agency. The firing came
following FBI investigations of Hatfill and naming him as a "person of
interest."
(SFC, 9/5/02, p.A6)(WSJ, 9/4/02, p.A1)
2002 Oct 22, Richards Helms (89),
CIA director who was fired by Richard Nixon, died. In 2003 his
autobiography "A Look Over My Shoulder," co-written with William Hood,
was published.
(WSJ, 10/24/02, p.A1)(WSJ, 6/5/03, p.D8)
2002 Nov 12, Former FBI Director
William Webster resigned under pressure as head of a special accounting
oversight board created by Congress to rebuild public confidence shaken
by a cascade of business scandals.
(AP, 11/12/03)
2002 Feb, Joseph C. Wilson IV,
former US diplomat and veteran of the diplomatic wars of Iraq and
Africa, was sent on a secret mission to Niger to determine if Iraqis
had tried to purchase yellowcake uranium from Africa to build nuclear
weapons. Wilson spent a week in Niger chatting with locals about the
allegation, coming to the conclusion that the yellowcake charges were
probably unfounded. His wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative.
(WP, 7/17/05)(WSJ, 7/18/05, p.A4)
2003 Feb, American CIA operatives
snatched Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr (Abu Omar) from his house in Milan
and took him to Egypt, where he was jailed, tortured and released. In
2005 an Italian judge ordered the arrest of 13 American suspects on
charges of kidnapping.
(Econ, 7/2/05, p.48)
2003 May 8, A federal grand jury
indicted Chinese-born California socialite Katrina Leung on charges
that she'd illegally taken, copied and kept secret documents obtained
from an FBI agent. A federal judge later dismissed the case against
Leung, rebuking prosecutors for misconduct.
(AP, 5/8/08)
2003 Mar 19, EU officials found
electronic bugs in a building in Brussels where a summit was set to
open the next day. Belgian police suspected the US.
(WSJ, 1/20/02, p.A1)
2003 Apr 9, James Smith (59), a
senior FBI counterintelligence agent, was arrested in LA along with
Katrina Leung (49), prominent venture capitalist, for the alleged theft
and transfer of a classified defense document to the Chinese
government. In 2004 Smith pleaded guilty failing to disclose his 2-year
sexual relationship with Leung.
(SFC, 4/10/03, p.A9)(NW, 4/21/03, p.6)(SFC, 5/13/04,
p.A3)
2003 Jun 23, Judith Miller,
reporter for the NY Times, met with Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of
staff for VP Dick Cheney, who gave her information about CIA operative
Valery Plame. Reporter Bob Woodward also spoke with Libby on this day
and on June 27 and in 2005 testified that Libby made no mention of
Plame. Woodward did say another senior government official told him
about Plame and her role in the CIA in mid-June.
(SFC, 10/22/05, p.A3)(SFC, 11/17/05, p.A3)(WSJ,
11/17/05, p.A5)
2003 Jul 6, Joseph Wilson, former
American ambassador, alleged that Pres. Bush had falsely accused Iraq
of trying to buy uranium from Niger. Two White House officials soon
called at least 6 Washington journalists and told them that Wilson’s
wife, Valerie Plame, was an undercover CIA agent who had worked in
Niger. [see Jul 14]
(Econ, 8/21/04, p.28)(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A4)
2003 Jul 9, Karl Rove, senior
advisor to Pres. Bush, spoke with syndicated columnist Robert Novak
about diplomat Joseph Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame. About this
same time Rove also spoke with Matthew Cooper, Time’s White House
correspondent, and mentioned Wilson and Plame. In 2006 Novak
acknowledged that 3 administration sources, including Rove and CIA
spokesman Bill Harlow, had provided him information.
(SFC, 7/16/05, p.A4)(SFC, 12/12/05, p.A3)(SFC,
7/12/06, p.A3)
2003 Jul 11, CIA Director George
Tenet took blame for Pres. Bush's State of the Union discredited claim
that uranium from Africa had been shipped to Iraq.
(SFC, 7/18/03, p.A14)
2003 Aug 12, The FBI arrested
Hemant Lakhani, an Indian-born British arms dealer, in a sting
operation in New Jersey and foiled a contrived plot aimed at smuggling
a shoulder-fired missile for some $80,000 to US-based terrorists. It
involved cooperation between the intelligence services of the US and
Russia.
(AP, 8/13/03)(WSJ, 8/13/03, p.A1)(SFC, 8/14/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 29, US The Justice
Department launched a full-blown criminal investigation into who leaked
the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame, the wife of ex-Ambassador Joseph
Wilson, and President Bush the next day directed his White House staff
to cooperate fully.
(AP, 9/30/03)(WSJ, 10/1/03, p.A1)(SFC, 10/4/03, p.A3)
2003 Sep 30, The FBI began a
full-scale criminal investigation into whether White House officials
had illegally leaked the identity of undercover CIA officer Valerie
Plame.
(AP, 9/30/08)
2003 Oct 25, In Afghanistan CIA
operatives William Carlson, 43, of Southern Pines, N.C., and
Christopher Glenn Mueller, 32, of San Diego were ambushed and killed
near the village in Shkin in Paktika province while "tracking
terrorists."
(AP, 10/29/03)
2003 Oct, Donald Rumsfeld approved
a CIA request to hold a suspected Iraqi terrorist in secret and shield
his detention from the Red Cross.
(WSJ, 6/17/04, p.A1)
2004 Mar 12, An FBI proposal was
made public to require all broadband Internet providers to support easy
wiretapping.
(SFC, 3/13/04, p.C2)
2004 May 26, The FBI issued an
alert warning of a possible major terrorist attack in the US this
summer. Photos of 7 suspects were released.
(SFC, 5/26/04, p.A1)(SFC, 5/27/04, p.A1)
2004 Jun 3, Pres. Bush said CIA
Director George Tenet, has resigned for personal reasons.
(AP, 6/3/04)
2004 Jun 3, FBI Director Robert
Mueller proposed the creation of an intelligence service within the FBI
with clear authority over all FBI activities.
(SFC, 6/4/04, A5)
2004 Aug 10, Pres. Bush nominated
Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican congressman, to head the CIA. Goss
spent most of his career as a clandestine operative in Latin America.
(AP, 8/11/04)(WSJ, 8/11/04, p.A1)
2004 Nov 4, John H. Waller
(b.1923), CIA official and historian, died. His books included “Beyond
the Khyber Pass: The Road to British Disaster in the First Afghan War”
(1990).
(SSFC, 11/7/04, p.A23)
2004 Nov 12, John McLaughlin,
deputy director of the CIA, resigned after a series of confrontations
over the past week between senior operations officials and Patrick
Murray, the CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff. The riff
left the agency in turmoil.
(SFC, 11/13/04, p.A6)
2004 Nov 15, Top CIA officials,
Stephen Kappes and Michael Sulick announced their resignations after
reported disputes with new Director Peter J. Goss.
(SFC, 11/16/04, p.A1)
2004 Dec 8, The US Senate approved
an intelligence restructure bill. The legislation called for a new
director of national intelligence.
(SFC, 12/9/04, p.A3)
2004 Victor Cherkashin, former KGB
chief at the Soviet embassy in Washington, authored “Spy Handler: The
True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames.”
(WSJ, 12/30/04, p.D8)
2004 Richard Gid Powers authored
“Broken: The Troubled Past and Uncertain Future of the FBI.”
(WSJ, 10/27/04, p.A1)
2005 Jan 14, The US Justice
Department's Office of the Inspector General released an unclassified
summary of its investigation into the March, 2002, termination of Sibel
Edmonds. She had discovered and reported several problems inside the
FBI, including shoddy translation work, a large backlog of untranslated
documents and employees with questionable alliances. The report
concluded that Edmonds was fired for reporting serious security
breaches and misconduct in the agency's translation program, and that
many of her allegations were supported.
(www.fbi.gov/pressrel/pressrel05/011405.htm)
2005 Jan 19, It was reported that
the FBI had shelved its surveillance technology, once know as Carnivore
and later renamed DCS-1000, and switched to unspecified commercial
software to eavesdrop on computer traffic.
(SFC, 1/19/05, p.A3)
2005 Jan 24, Jeffrey Royer, former
FBI agent, and Anthony Elgindy, Internet penny stock advisor, were
convicted for mining government computers for confidential information
to manipulate stocks.
(SFC, 1/25/05, p.E3)
2005 Jan, Lindsay Moran authored
“Blowing My Cover: My Life As a CIA Spy.”
(WSJ, 2/4/05, p.W12)
2005 Jun 30, Time editor Norman
Pearlstein agreed to hand over notes relating to the CIA-leak probe.
The next day Lawrence O’Donnell broke the story that the e-mails that
Time turned over to the prosecutor that day reveal that Karl Rove is
the source Matt Cooper is protecting. [see Jul 14, 2003, Sep 29,
2003]
(WSJ, 7/1/05, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/83v7r)(SSFC,
7/3/05, p.A8)
2005 Jul 6, NY Times reporter
Judith Miller was jailed for refusing to name her CIA-leak source
(2003) for a never-written article on CIA officer Valerie Plame.
(WSJ, 7/6/05, p.A1)
2005 Jul 20, A Milan prosecutor
sought arrest warrants for six more purported CIA operatives, accusing
them of helping plan the kidnapping of an Egyptian radical Muslim
cleric.
(AP, 7/20/05)
2005 Admiral Stansfield Turner,
former CIA chief (1977-1980) authored “Burn Before Reading,” an
examination of how American presidents have interacted with their
intelligence chiefs.
(WSJ, 10/11/05, p.D8)
2005 The US CIA destroyed at least
2 videotapes documenting the interrogation of 2 al-Qaida operatives,
including Abu Zubaydah, dating back to 2002. CIA lawyers had told
federal prosecutors in 2003 and 2005 that the CIA did not possess
recordings of interrogations.
(SFC, 12/7/07, p.A6)
2006 Apr 20, The CIA fired Mary
McCarthy, a top intelligence analyst, who admitted leaking classified
information about a network of secret CIA prisons. She had provided
information that contributed to a Washington Post story last year
disclosing secret US prisons in Eastern Europe.
(AP, 4/22/06)
2006 Apr 26, EU Parliament
investigators said the CIA has conducted more than 1,000 undeclared
flights over European territory since 2001, a clear violation of an
international treaty.
(AP, 4/26/06)
2006 May 30, US Air Force Gen.
Michael Hayden was sworn in as CIA director.
(AP, 5/30/07)
2006 Jun 7, Swiss senator Dick
Marty, the head of an investigation into alleged CIA clandestine
prisons, said 14 European nations colluded with US intelligence in a
"spider's web" of secret flights and detention centers that violated
international human rights law.
(AP, 6/7/06)
2006 Jun 22, In Florida FBI agents
arrested 7 people in the Liberty City area of Miami in connection with
a nascent plot to attack the Sears Tower and federal buildings in south
Florida. Narseal Batiste (32), the alleged ringleader, called the group
“Seas of David.” In 2009 five Miami men were convicted of plotting to
start an anti-government insurrection by destroying Chicago's Sears
Tower and bombing FBI offices. One man was acquitted.
(SFC, 6/23/06, p.A10)(Econ, 7/1/06, p.26)(AP,
5/12/09)
2007 Feb 13, Brent Wilkes, a
former CIA official, was indicted on corruption charges related to
ex-Congressman Randy Cunningham and defense contractors.
(SFC, 2/14/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 13, David Passaro, a
former CIA contract employee, was sentenced to 8 ½ years in
prison for beating Afghan detainee Abdul Wali in July, 2003. Wali died
48 hours after interrogation.
(SFC, 2/14/07, p.A3)
2007 Feb 16, An Italian judge
indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in the abduction of an Egyptian
terror suspect on a Milan street in what would be the first criminal
trial stemming from the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.
(AP, 2/16/07)
2007 Mar 9, The top two US law
enforcement officials acknowledged the FBI broke the law to secretly
pry out personal information about Americans. They apologized and vowed
to prevent further illegal intrusions.
(AP, 3/10/07)
2007 Apr 3, An AP investigation
said CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of
Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries
held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and
abuse.
(AP, 4/3/07)
2007 Jun 8, A European
investigator issued a report saying the CIA ran secret prisons in
Poland and Romania from 2003 to 2005 to interrogate detainees in the
war on terror.
(AP, 6/8/07)
2007 Jun 8, In Italy the first
trial involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program opened in the
absence of all 26 American defendants accused of kidnapping an Egyptian
terrorist suspect.
(AP, 6/8/07)
2007 Jun 27, A Swiss investigator
said European governments have built a "wall of silence" surrounding
their complicity with a CIA program that included holding terrorist
suspects in secret jails.
(AP, 6/27/07)
2007 Jul 19, A federal judge
dismissed a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame, who
was demanding money from Bush administration officials she blamed for
leaking her agency identity.
(AP, 7/19/08)
2007 Jul 24, Chinese officials
said the FBI and Chinese police have busted two software piracy gangs
and seized programs worth an estimated $500 million in a joint campaign
that began in 2005.
(AP, 7/24/07)
2007 Sep 6, FBI agents arrested 12
people, including 11 public officials, in New Jersey on charges of
taking bribes in exchange for influencing the awarding of public
contracts. Mims Hackett Jr., mayor of Orange, was among those arrested.
(SFC, 9/7/07, p.A3)(WSJ, 5/27/08, p.A2)
2007 Nov 19, The FBI reported hate
crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent in 2006.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2007 Dec 7, US Congressional
Democrats demanded a full Justice Department investigation into whether
the CIA had obstructed justice by destroying videotapes documenting the
harsh 2002 interrogations of two alleged terrorists.
(AP, 12/7/08)
2007 Dec 11, The US Senate
Intelligence Committee took closed-door testimony from CIA Director
Michael Hayden on how videotapes of terror suspect interrogations were
made, then destroyed.
(AP, 12/11/08)
2007 Joseph Dominick Pistone
(b.1939), alias Donnie Brasco, authored “Donnie Brasco: Unfinished
Business.” Pistone, a former FBI agent, worked undercover for six years
infiltrating the Bonanno family and to a lesser extent the Colombo
Family, branches of the Mafia in NYC.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie_Brasco)
2007 Tim Weiner authored “Legacy
of Ashes: The History of the CIA.”
(WSJ, 1/14/07, p.P8)
2008 Jan 16, CIA analyst Tom
Donahue disclosed that criminals have been able to hack into computer
systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities outside the
US. He offered few specifics on what actually went wrong.
(www.pcworld.com/article/id,141564-c,hackers/article.html)
2008 May 18, A Yemeni-American on
the FBI's Most Wanted list of terror suspects was jailed in Yemen after
an appeals court upheld his 10-year prison sentence. Jaber Elbaneh has
been accused of belonging to al-Qaida, convicted of plots to attack oil
installations in Yemen and of involvement in a 2002 attack on the
French tanker Limburg off Yemen's coast that killed one person. On
November 8 Elbaneh’s sentence was cut to 5 years after winning an
appeal.
(AP, 5/19/08)(AP, 11/8/08)
2008 May 30, In Florida 2 veteran
police officers were charged with providing protection for purported
shipments of cocaine and stolen goods in what was actually an
undercover FBI operation.
(AP, 5/30/08)
2008 Sep 17, A CIA missile
strike in South Waziristan killed 6 people as US Adm. Mike Mullen
assured Pakistan’s leaders that the US respects Pakistan’s sovereignty.
(SFC, 9/19/08, p.A6)
2008 Sep 29, Kyle Dustin Foggo
(53), former executive director of the CIA, pleaded guilty to
defrauding the government. His guilty plea to a single charge wiped out
27 additional counts. The case was linked to the corruption scandal
involving Randy Cunningham, former Republican congressman from San
Diego. In 2009 Foggo was sentenced to 37 months in prison.
(SFC, 9/30/08, p.A3)(SFC, 2/27/09, p.A5)
2008 Sep, From Algeria Andrew
Warren, a CIA station chief and a convert to Islam, was sent back to
the United States after two women came forward with charges of rape
after lacing their drinks with a drug.
(AP, 1/29/09)(SFC, 7/1/09, p.A4)
2008 Oct 2, The US FBI arrested
Puerto Rico Sen. Jorge de Castro Font (45) for providing political
favors in exchange for cash and services totaling roughly half a
million dollars. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on 31 criminal
counts including bribery, wire fraud and money laundering.
(AP, 10/2/08)
2008 Oct 27, An FBI spokesman said
642 arrests in 29 cities were made last week during a 3-day sting
operation, Operation Cross Country II, focusing on people who forced
teens into prostitution. 100 adults were arrested in the SF Bay Area.
(SFC, 10/28/08, p.B1)
2008 Nov 19, An FBI agent was shot
and killed while serving a warrant at a home near Pittsburgh. A roundup
of drug suspects was happening in the greater Pittsburgh area.
(AP, 11/19/08)
2008 Dec 18, W. Mark Felt (95),
former FBI second-in-command, died. He revealed himself as "Deep
Throat" in 2005, 30 years after he tipped off reporters to the
Watergate scandal that toppled Pres. Nixon.
(AP, 12/19/08)
2008 John Diamond authored “The
CIA and the Culture of Failure: US Intelligence From the end of the
Cold War to the Invasion of Iraq.”
(SFC, 9/7/08, Books p.1)
2008 Hugh Wilford authored “The
Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America,” an account of the CIA’s
post war front groups.
(WSJ, 1/23/08, p.D8)
2009 Jan 5, Pres. Elect Obama
named William Panetta (70) to head the CIA.
(SFC, 1/6/09, p.A1)
2009 Feb 23, The FBI said it has
rescued more than 45 suspected teenage prostitutes, some as young as
13, in a nationwide 3-night sweep, Operation Cross Country, to remove
kids from the illegal sex trade and punish their accused pimps.
(AP, 2/23/09)
2009 Mar 2, The Obama
administration threw open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets,
revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure
powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of
interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.
(AP, 3/2/09)
2009 Mar 6, The CIA destroyed a
dozen videotapes of harsh interrogations of terror suspects, according
to documents filed in a lawsuit over the government's treatment of
detainees. The 12 tapes were part of a larger collection of 92
videotapes of terror suspects that the CIA destroyed. The extent of the
tape destruction was disclosed through a suit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union against the government.
(AP, 3/7/09)
2009 Mar 11, Italy's highest court
sided with the government and threw out key evidence in an alleged CIA
kidnapping of an Egyptian terrorism suspect in Italy, dealing a blow to
the trial of 26 Americans charged in the case.
(AP, 3/11/09)
2009 Apr 2, In Puerto Rico FBI
agents and police arrested at least 35 suspects in an alleged drug
trafficking ring blamed for seven murders.
(AP, 4/2/09)
2009 Apr 9, FBI hostage
negotiators joined US Navy efforts to free an American ship captain
held captive on a lifeboat by Somali pirates. A US destroyer and a spy
plane kept close watch in the high-seas standoff near the Horn of
Africa.
(AP, 4/9/09)
2009 Apr 16, President Barack
Obama announced his decision not to prosecute CIA operatives who used
interrogation practices described by many as torture. He condemned the
aggressive techniques, including waterboarding, shackling and
stripping, used on terror suspects while promising not to legally
pursue the perpetrators.
(AP, 4/17/09)
2009 Jun 23, CIA director Leon
Panetta, learned of a nascent CIA counterterrorism program within the
CIA, terminated it and the next day called an emergency meeting with
the House and Senate Intelligence committees to inform them of the
program and that it was canceled. Former Vice President Dick Cheney had
directed the CIA in 2001 not to inform Congress about the nascent
counterterrorism program, which developed plans to dispatch small teams
to kill senior Al-Qaida terrorists.
(AP, 7/12/09)(SFC, 7/14/09, p.A4)
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