God, this online trove of CIA documents is the gift that won't stop giving. Check out this Agency's now-declassified reports on:
* Iraq's attempted hit on George Bush Sr.
* How "no security breach [was] involved" in the publication of Flying Saucers from Outer Space.
* Alleged death threats to then-Congressman (now former New York mayor) Ed Koch. "The Agency obtained information that during a social event in late July 1976, a Latin American military official, reportedly in a state of intoxication, commented that the military was extremely irritated with your proposed amendment to restrict U.S. military assistance to Latin American countries due to alleged human rights violations by the military. This military official is also reported to have remarked that maybe 'he would have to send someone to the U.S. to get Congressman Koch.' The Agency's initial analysis was that they represented nothing more than alcohol-induced bravado."
* "Soviet Options for a Manned Mars Landing Mission," December 1989. "We believe the Soviets are planning for a manned Mars landing mission some time after the year 2000," agents report. Six months later, the newly-formed Russian Congress started superseding Soviet laws. By late 1991, the USSR was no more.
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