1986 Central Intelligence Agency / Domestic Operations

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During the summer of 1986, officials of eighteen metropolitan police departments were invited to the CIA's headquarters in Virginia and asked to provide experienced undercover investigators for three year tours of duty. The following document from the New York Times of November 2, 1986 proclaims that the officers were being recruited "to help fight terrorism abroad". This has always seemed to us to be unlikely, more an excuse than an explanation, and to substantiate the fear of extra-legal domestic surveillance operations which brought Admiral Inman to resign from his post as Deputy Director of Central Intelligence. Perhaps Admiral Inman's resignation caused William Casey and his sidekick, George Herbert Walker Bush, to reconsider whatever plan they had to subjugate the American people and to decide instead to employ local policemen to act for them.

The program reported in the New York Times has always been a matter of curiosity to us because of the existence of the ECCS. This program would have delivered to the CIA spies within the police departments of eighteen major cities to alert them in the event that the police were about to move in on one of their classified human research operations. Also, these operations consume tremendous quantities of background information on each subject which is used to insult, ridicule and humiliate the subject. What better way to collect this information than by dispatching police officers seconded to the CIA for a three-year tour of duty to the homes of neighbors, classmates, employers, lovers and even the family of the subject?

Suffice it to say that since 9/11 information on the domestic activities of the CIA has become quite impossible to obtain. We have tried.

Many thanks to a prisoner in the ECCS for sending us this article.

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