Forty years ago today, Bobby Kennedy was assassinated

Forty years ago today, just after midnight, 42-year old Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a presidential candidate (who was on fire, with the most exciting, hope-filled campaign of my lifetime so far), was shot three times in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Five other people were wounded. The senator had just finished his speech after his win in the California presidential primary.

The shooter, a Palestinian, Sirhan B. Sirhan, is still in prison in California today, and will again be eligible for parole in 2011.

Senator Kennedy fought for his life over the next day, but died on the morning of June 6th. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, not far from his assassinated older brother, JFK.

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The spooks come clean: CIA to release details on decades of secrets

The Central Intelligence Agency will soon declassify thousands of pages of documents on spook operations from over three decades ago. The , CIA Director Michael Hayden said according to Reuters.

The "Family Jewels" documents chronicle foreign assassination attempts, domestic spying, kidnapping and infiltration of leftist groups from the 1950s to the 1970s. . .according to a summary posted on the National Security Archive site.

The documents to be released next week also include accounts of break-ins and theft, surveillance of U.S. journalists, the agency's opening of private mail to and from China and the Soviet Union, and "behavior modification" experiments on "unwitting" U.S. civilians.

"Much of it has been in the press before, and most of it is unflattering, but it's the CIA's history," Hayden said in a speech on Thursday to the American Foreign Relations Conference.
"This is about telling the American people what we have done in their name," Hayden said.

The CIA chief said the documents provide a glimpse of "a very different time and a very difference agency." Hayden said 11,000 pages of analysis from would be available on the CIA's Web site.
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