The memo also questions McCone's use of a KC-135 in July 1964 to fly Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas from Rome to Athens. McCone also is said to have pressured the publisher of "The Invisible Government" to change a few things. The publisher refused and Elder writes, "I doubt that this old saw will ever sing again." In retrospect, the CIA in the future would try and prevent the publishing of other books in their entirety or without substantial editorial changes. 

In a May 23, 1973, memo to CIA employees, William Colby, on behalf of Director Schlesinger, requested all contacts between CIA employees and the following: H. R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman, John Dean. Egil Krogh, David Young, E. Howard Hunt, G. Gordon Liddy, James W. McCord, Charles W. Colson, John J. Caulfield, Eugenio Rolando Martinez Careaga, Juan Rigoberto Ruiz Villegas, Bernard L. Barker, Virgilio Gonzales, and Frank Anthony Sturgis.

A May 8, 1973, memo to Schlesinger and Colby states that Sy Hersh stated to the CIA, "I have information that Cushman [then Deputy DCI General Robert Cushman] knew exactly what he was okaying when he gave approval to assist Hunt." The memo is called "Sy Hersh's provocative teaser for the day."

When columnist Jack Anderson caught wind of the assassination attempts against Castro and published the story in Washington Merry-Go-Round, Anderson was routinely targeted for CIA surveillance. Other journalists surveilled included Michael Getler of the Washington Post, and Seymour Hersh of the New York Times. The Anderson surveillance and that directed against his assistants Brit Hume, Leslie Whitten, and Joseph Spears, was code named CELOTEX II, The Getler surveillance was CELOTEX-I. 

A June 1, 1973 CIA memo states that then-CIA director John McCone, on March 7, 1962, agreed to tap the phones of columnists Robert S. Allen and Paul Scott uner pressure from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy because classified information was appearing in their columns.

The same memo states that Robert Kennedy and President Kennedy approved McCone injecting the CIA's Cord Meyer into the labor dispute between the AFl-CIO's George Meany and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther. Reuther, who was considerably to the left of Meany and was anti-Vietnam War and an ally of Martin Luther King, Jr., died in an airplane crash on May 9, 1970.

Surveillance of ex-CIA employee and whistleblower Victor Marchetti was code named BUTANE.

The CIA satellite surveillance of crop production and futures market estimates for "industrial exploitation." The program was called HILLTOP.

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) conducted satellite surveillance and analysis for "political leverage, industrial exploitation, and civil damage suits." The program was code-named RIVER BOAT.

Just as Bush, today, has effectively abrogated anti-political assassination Executive Order 12333, instituted as a result of CIA director William Colby's revelations about political assassinations in the 1960s, the CIA, then, oversaw assassination programs against a number of world leaders, including Fidel Castro of Cuba, Patrice Lumumba of Congo, and Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic.

A CIA memo states, "In November 1962, Mr. [redacted] advised Mr. Lyman Kirkpatrick that he had, at one time, been directed by Mr. Richard Bissell to assume responsibility for a project involving the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, then, Premier, Republic of Congo. According to [redacted] poison was to have been the vehicle as he had been instructed to see Dr. Sidney Gottlieb in order to prepare the appropriate vehicle." Frank Carlucci was the CIA's number two man in Congo and he has often been linked to the Lumumba assassination.

The documents reveal the CIA's involvement in civilian departments and agencies of the government. For example, Commerce Secretary Peter Peterson's secretary is revealed to have been a CIA employee. The CIA also maintained joint projects with the Atomic Energy Commission, Treasury Department, Customs Bureau, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Division of the Internal Revenue Service, Secret Service, Federal Aviation Agency, National Institute of Health, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Environmental Protection Agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Department of Agriculture, Coast Guard, U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force. 

The CIA concluded that none of its U-2 reconnaissance aircraft were on the East Coast during the 1972 Democratic and Republican Conventions in Miami and the Watergate break-in.

The CIA was asked repeatedly by the Nixon administration for intelligence linking planned demonstrations at the 1972 Republican National Convention, which was first scheduled for San Diego and then switched to Miami and the Democratic National Convention in Miami to foreign intelligence agencies.

A February 23, 1972, CIA memo linked John Lennon to two anti-war groups involved in anti-war demonstrations at the GOP convention in San Diego: Project Yes and the Election Year Strategy Information Center (EYSIC). Lennon was shot by Mark David Chapman in New York on December 8. 1980. The CIA concluded there is "little new evidence of foreign plans or efforts to inspire, support, or take advantage of actions designed to disrupt or harass" any of the 1972 conventions. Three months before the GOP was to hold its convention in San Diego, it moved it to Miami after it was revealed that ITT lobbyist Dita Beard offered $400,000 in sponsorship money to the San Diego convention in return for the Nixon Justice Department dropping an anti-trust suit against the firm. The Democrats also held their convention in Miami.

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