Family Jewels

On June 26, 2007 the CIA released its “family jewels” report “detailing 25 years of Agency misdeeds”. The entire 702 page report can be

found in the National Security Archive

(http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/index.htm). This “dirty laundry” is very interesting to read. One such interesting “family jewel” is the “Plan to poison Congo leader Patrice Lumumba”. If you click on this link (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB222/top06.pdf) you can read how Mr. (blank) was direct by Richard Bissell to kill Patrice Lumumba via poisoning. Patrice Lumumba was the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of Congo. When I read this it was almost exciting (not from a sick standpoint), but that it was akin to reading a Hollywood movie script about the CIA. But, this is actual documentation of a covert operation that has been revealed! It is very interesting to read and search through the contents; there is a Top Ten list of the most interesting Family Jewels that, indeed is very interesting to read.