The CIA's Modified Limited Hang Out

Much has been made in the press about the CIA's declassification of the "Family Jewels"-- a nearly 700 page document listing various CIA plots and cover-ups from the pre-Watergate era. The full file, available here, is interesting but underwhelming. The file includes significant redactions and many of the so-called revelations have already been revealed elsewhere. The 1976 Church Committee findings, for instance, detail CIA human experimentation operations stretching back to the late 1940s. The "Family Jewels" gives esoteric drug research only passing reference. So far, it seems, the Jewels are nothing more than a Nixon-style "modified limited hang out."