The CIA has
published online nearly 13 million pages of declassified records,
including papers on the US role in overthrowing foreign governments
and the secret ‘Star Gate’ telepathy project.
The range of
documents, known as the CREST (CIA Records Search Tool) database,
covers an array of materials related to the Vietnam War, Korean War
and Cold War. One example is data on the Berlin tunnel project
(code-named Operation Gold), which was a joint CIA and British
intelligence scheme to carry out surveillance on the Soviet Army HQ
in Berlin during the 1950s.
In all, more
than 12 million documents are accessible, covering the history of the
CIA from its creation in the 1940s up to the 1990s – with
intelligence officials giving assurances that the half-century of
data is in its entirety, with nothing removed.
"None
of this is cherry-picked," CIA spokesperson Heather Fritz
Horniak told CNN. "It's the full history. It's good and
bads."
For
instance, details are provided on the CIA’s participation in the
1973 coup in Chile which saw the rise of the Pinochet regime, as well
as on the infamous MK-Ultra project, dubbed the CIA mind control
program, which involved experiments – some of them illegal – on
human subjects, to develop drugs and procedures for interrogation and
torture.
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