#MailOpening

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Organizations (1)

CIA Office of Security CIA support component that cleared employees and contractors and, by its own 1973 accounting, hired the Mafia against Castro, tapped newsmen, opened Soviet mail, penetrated Washington dissident groups, and watched reporters for the director.

Programs (1)

HTLINGUAL HTLINGUAL was the CIA's covert mail-opening program that operated from 1952 to 1973, intercepting and photographing approximately 215,000 pieces of first-class mail between the United States and the Soviet Union at the New York international mail facility without judicial authorization, in violation of federal postal statutes.