Nixon-Era CIA: More Scruples Than Bush's Spies?

Nixon-era spies, it seems, were less inclined to spy on Americans than many Bush-era ones.

Let me explain: During the 1960s and 1970s, newly-released CIA documents reveal, the Agency mingled with mafiosi to off Fidel Castro, routinely spied on reporters, and detained a Soviet agent for more than five years. But even at the heights of all that questionable and illegal activity, the CIA's "family jewels" documents show, there was one operation that made Agency officials particularly uncomfortable: widespread electronic surveillance of American citizens -- the kind of activities that federal agencies have routinely been engaged in since September 11.

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