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@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ aliases:
   - Family Jewels
   - Potential Flap Activities
 created: 2026-05-17
-updated: 2026-05-17
+updated: 2026-10-09
 category: "Intelligence Scandal"
 tags:
   - Event
@@ -16,9 +16,16 @@ tags:
   - MKULTRA
   - Watergate
   - 1970s
-summary: "The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at Director James Schlesinger's direction, partly declassified in 2007, documenting assassination plots, domestic surveillance, illegal mail interception, and drug testing programs."
+summary: "The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at James Schlesinger's direction and partly declassified in 2007, covering assassination plots, domestic surveillance and drug testing."
 start: 1973-05-09
 location: "Washington, D.C."
+relations:
+  - type: investigated
+    with: "[[Jack Anderson]]"
+    role: "CELOTEX II surveillance of Anderson and his assistants by the CIA Office of Security"
+    start: 1972-02-15
+    end: 1972-04-12
+    fn: 2
 ---
 
 The "Family Jewels" was an internal [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] document - formally titled "Potential Flap Activities" - compiled in May 1973 at the direction of Director of Central Intelligence [[James Schlesinger]], who had succeeded [[Richard Helms]] as DCI in February 1973 and was alarmed by revelations emerging from the [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]] investigation about CIA involvement in domestic political operations. Schlesinger directed the CIA's deputy directors and senior officers to report to him any activities that had occurred or were currently underway that might be "outside the CIA's legislative charter." The resulting compilation ran to 693 pages.[^1]
@@ -43,6 +50,17 @@ Colby's disclosure of the Family Jewels to the Church Committee in 1975 was part
 
 The Family Jewels was partially declassified and released by the CIA under then-DCI [[Michael Hayden]] on June 26, 2007, following a FOIA lawsuit by the [[National Security Archive]]. The released version remains redacted in substantial portions. The unredacted document can be accessed through the CIA's FOIA Reading Room: cia.gov/readingroom/collection/family-jewels.[^1]
 
+### Surveillance of Jack Anderson, 1972
+
+The compilation records a surveillance codenamed CELOTEX II. From February 15 to April 12, 1972 the [[CIA Office of Security]] watched [[Jack Anderson]] and at various times his "legmen," [[Brit Hume]], [[Les Whitten]] and [[Joseph Spear]], at the direction of the Director of Central Intelligence. An observation post was maintained in the [[Statler Hilton]] hotel directly opposite Anderson's office, to attempt to determine Anderson's sources for highly classified Agency information appearing in his syndicated columns. The preceding item, CELOTEX I, covered [[Michael Getler]] of the Washington Post.[^2]
+
+The compilation also includes a memorandum of September 9, 1972, from Richard Helms to [[Henry Kissinger]]. It states that after noting Anderson had a continuing source for classified documents on narcotics, the Agency arranged a trap so that recipients of CIA Intelligence Memoranda on narcotics could be identified. The memorandum identifies a leak to the press as having come from the [[Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs]].[^3]
+
+A separate memorandum in the compilation, signed by [[Ted Shackley]] of the Western Hemisphere Division, concerns a column by Anderson linking [[Howard Hunt]] to break-ins at Chilean diplomatic installations in Washington and New York. The memorandum states that the Agency knew of no foundation for the allegation, that any connection between ITT and the break-ins was conjectural, and that the column itself said as much.[^4]
+
 ### Footnotes
 
 [^1]: CIA FOIA Reading Room, "The Family Jewels," cia.gov/readingroom/collection/family-jewels (released 2007). Church Committee, S. Rept. 94-755, April 26, 1976. Weiner, Tim. *Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA*. Doubleday, 2007, pp. 316-327.
+[^2]: Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Security, submission of May 16, 1973 for the "Family Jewels" compilation, section "CELOTEX II," CIA Reading Room document 0001451843. https://archive.org/details/CIA-Family-Jewels
+[^3]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels" compilation, memorandum from Richard Helms to Henry Kissinger, September 9, 1972. https://archive.org/details/CIA-Family-Jewels
+[^4]: Central Intelligence Agency, "Family Jewels" compilation, memorandum on Anderson's column concerning ITT and Howard Hunt, 1973. https://archive.org/details/CIA-Family-Jewels