CIA spied on Brit Hume
Just killing time at the airport.
According to the "Family Jewels" documents released today, the CIA spied on Britt Hume. This was back in the seventies when Hume was a reporter working as a "leg man" for columnist Jack Anderson. The operation was code named CELOTEX II.
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During the Nixom administration, surprise, surprise. I wonder how many reporters/people/groups have spied on during the next 20-30 years. Probably alot.
Posted by: Count Zero | June 26, 2007 at 04:55 PM
Reckoning by the subjects' current efforts, one wonders that he had ever done anything worthy of being spied upon.
-GFO
Posted by: GuyFromOhio | June 27, 2007 at 03:12 PM
This has been common knowledge for a while. Walter Isaacson mentioned it in his Kissinger biography that I'm reading now, and that was published in 1992
Posted by: INotI | June 27, 2007 at 05:55 PM