--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Except that, as I noted a few posts back, virtually
> > > everyone who wasn't explicitly aligned with the U.S.
> > > government suspected the CIA was spying on them.
> > > 
> > > It didn't have anything to do with wanting to believe
> > > one was important, of course.  To the contrary--it
> > > reflected the common judgment that the CIA was so
> > > insane it didn't know the difference between what/who
> > > was important and what/who was not.
> > 
> > I'm sorry, but this is such bullshit I have
> > to speak up.  Anyone who was an activist back
> > in the late 60s and early 70s might have 
> > suspected that *some* US government agency
> > was monitoring their efforts, but almost no
> > one (except, seemingly, Judy Stein) was crazy
> > enough to believe it was the CIA.
> > 
> > You see, back then (and now, although now the
> > lines have been blurred by the Reagans and
> > Bushes) the CIA was forbidden by law from
> > investigating anything that was taking place
> > in the United States.  It *had* to concern 
> > itself with things going on outside the 
> > country.  The FBI and the NSA handled internal
> > security matters in the U.S.  All of us who
> > were activitists knew this, and so the thought
> > that we were being monitored by the CIA would
> > *never* have occurred to us.  T'would seem 
> > that Judy missed that particular civics lesson
> > during her paranoid 70s.  :-)
> 
> When did the CIA get forbidden to dabble in domestic affairs? 
> Was it before Kennedy or after?

The CIA has *always* been forbidden to work within the
United States.  It's part of the organization's charter.
I thought everyone knew this.







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