CIA to declassify its "illegal operations" papers

The US Central Intelligence Agency is to declassify hundreds of documents detailing some of the agency's worst illegal abuses from the 1950s to 1970s.

...and further down...

"Among the incidents that were said to "present legal questions" were:

* the confinement of a Soviet defector in the mid-1960s
* assassination plots of foreign leaders, including Cuba's Fidel Castro
* wiretapping and surveillance of journalists
* behaviour modification experiments on "unwitting" US citizens
* surveillance of dissident groups between 1967 and 1971
* opening from 1953 to 1973 of letters to and from the Soviet Union; from 1969 to 1972 of mail to and from China"
-from the BBC website, June 22

Much of this is already known in the public sphere. The papers' release will undoubtedly renew attention. Check back with this one.

Related edit: June 25
According to the NY Times and BBC, the U.S. government is also reclassifying many documents that were once public.

Edit: June 26
Wired's Danger Room blog coverage of the declassified info.
Something called The National Security Archive, linked from BoingBoing.