Editing James Jesus Angleton (section)

=== CIA Family Jewels ===
{{main|Family Jewels (Central Intelligence Agency)}}
A set of highly sensitive Agency documents, referred to as the "Family Jewels," was publicly released on June 25, 2007, after more than three decades of secrecy.<ref name="WaPoJun27">{{cite news |first=Karen |last=DeYoung |author-link=Karen DeYoung |author2=Walter Pincus |title=CIA Releases Files on Past Misdeeds |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/26/AR2007062600861.html |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=2007-06-27 |access-date=2017-10-26}}</ref><ref name="NYTJun26">{{cite news |title=C.I.A. Releases Files on Misdeeds From the Past|url=https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-CIA-Family-Jewels.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2007-06-26 |access-date=2007-06-26}} {{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=RjwilmsiBot}}.</ref> The release was prompted by an internal CIA investigation of the 1970s [[Church Committee]] which verified the far-ranging power and influence that Angleton wielded during his long tenure as counter-intelligence czar. The exposé revealed that Angleton-planned infiltration of law enforcement and military organizations in other countries was used to increase the influence of the United States. It also confirmed past rumors that it was Angleton who was in charge of the domestic spying activities of the CIA under [[Operation CHAOS]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://washington.blogs.nytimes.com/|title=Perspective on the Jewels From the C.I.A.'s Chief Historian|work=Washington — [[New York Times]] Blog|access-date=2 December 2010|first1=Mark|last1=Mazzetti}}</ref>