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Church Committee: The Growth of Domestic Intelligence, 1936-1976
Kissinger and the CIA discussed ways to limit Congressional access to information regarding the Agency’s activities
Topics included NSA spying on Americans, selectively leaking less damaging info, and how much blame could be shifted to the FBI Leaks from the government and even Congress itself are nothing new. As …
Government Propagandists in Corporate Media
The US Senate Church Committee disclosed in 1975 that more than over 400 government propagandists had infiltrated American corporate media to manipulate public opinion on key policies, including war…
Public Menace-Private Profit: America's Biowarfare Alliance
The close proximity of U.S. biological warfare programs and the pharmaceutical industry is hardly an historical accident. From its inception, American research drew from a rich pool of biomedical r…
The Secret Government
By Christopher Hayes Chaired by Idaho Senator Frank Church in 1975-76, the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities labored for sixteen months to p…
Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s, too
The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President Gerald Ford and Rumsfeld was Ford’s secretary …
Richard Helms Testifies at The Church Committee Hearings - 1975
Beginning in 1975, a series of hearings took place in an attempt to investigate certain "illegal goings on" within the CIA, It ran the full gamut from wiretapping, domestic espionage, ass…