The Church Committee Reports

These 14 reports were published by the Church Committee in 1975-1976. They contain a information on the formation, operation, and abuses of the U.S. intelligence agencies.

Church Committee: Reports-- 0. Interim Report

The Church Committee investigated CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders. This Interim Report, published in 1975, discussed alleged plots to kill: -Patrice Lumumba (Cango) -Fidel Cast...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book I

Foreign And Military Intelligence Along with seven volumes of Hearings, the Senate Select Committee published seven reports, including its interim report on assassination plots. Book I ...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book II

Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans Book II moves from foreign and military intelligence to domestic intelligence. The report is concerned primarily with the FBI's COINT...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book III

Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans Book III, the longest of the reports at 989 pages, consists of supplemental staff reports to a...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book IV

Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence: This set of staff reports on foreign and military intelligence in Book IV adds to the material presented in Bo...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book V

The Inverstigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies This report, often referred to as the Scheiker-Hart Report after its author...

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Church Committee: Reports-- Book VI

Book vi: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities Book VI traces the history of intelligence by the federal government from 1776 to 1975. The discussion of the years before World...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 1

Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents [September 16th - 18th; 1975] Volume 1 of the Church Committee Reports, like each of the 7 "volumes," consists of transcripts of hearings supplement...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 2

The Huston Plan [September 23rd - 25th; 1975] In June of 1970, duringg the wave of domestic protest centered around the war in Vietnam, President Nixon approved a set of recommendations...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 3

Internal Revenue Service [October 2nd; 1975] Volume 3 focuses on abuses of the Internal Revenue Service during the Nixon Presidency. Areas of abuse included misuse of tax information par...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 4

Mail Opening [October 21st, 22nd, 24th; 1975] For a period of approximately two decades, agencies of the U.S. government ran operations which opened the mail of some American citizens. ...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 5

The National Security Agency and the Fourth Amendment Rights [October 29th & November 6th; 1975] In 1975, few Americans had even heard of the National Security Agency. Created in 1952 a...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 6

Federal Bureau of Investigation [November 18th, & 19th; Dececember 2, 3, 9, 10, & 11; 1975] Volume 6, at exactly 1000 pages, is easily the largest of all the Hearings volumes. The subje...

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Church Committee: Hearings-- Volume 7

Covert Action [December 4th & 5th; 1975] The Testimony presented in this volume is from the only public hearings the Church Committee conducted on the subject of covert action. The Comm...

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