CIA Family Jewels: full transcription
// Why This Isn’t An Outlier
This document isn’t an isolated case. It’s the same institutional habit the record shows repeating for eighty years.
Build the capability quietly. Use it at a scale the public never approved. Account for it only once a court forces the paperwork into daylight. The Classified Record traces that exact pattern from a 1946 screening memo to the 3.4 million warrantless searches the FBI ran in a single year, using the government’s own documents, not speculation.
Get the book on Amazon →All senior operating officials of this agency [are ordered] to report to me immediately on any activities now going on, or that have gone on in the past, which might be construed to be outside the legislative charter of this Agency.
The purpose was to identify operations that had flap potential, meaning that they could embarrass the Agency or embroil it in controversy.
The resulting 700-page CIA compendium documented unlawful domestic surveillance, wiretapping, mail opening, and detention actions, along with assassination plots against foreign leaders, testing of mind- and behavior-altering drugs on unwitting citizens, and break-ins at the homes of former CIA employees and critics.
Congressional investigators had access to the Family Jewels in the 1970s, and its existence was known for years before its declassification, informing the work of the Rockefeller Commission and the Senate and House committees headed by Senator Frank Church and Representative Otis Pike.
This transcription covers the originating directive and the document's core scope. The complete 700-page release, including its specific descriptions of individual operations, is available in full through the CIA's own FOIA Reading Room, with real redactions preserved as released.
Document: CIA internal compilation, ordered May 9, 1973. Declassified June 25, 2007.
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