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The Church Committee Report : revelations from the bombshell 1970s investigation into the national security state / edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman ; foreword by Beverly Gage.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intelligence service--United States--20th century.
- Intelligence service.
- Espionage--United States--20th century.
- Espionage.
- Governmental investigations--United States.
- Governmental investigations.
- National security--United States--20th century.
- National security.
- Electronic surveillance--United States.
- Electronic surveillance.
- Civil rights--United States.
- Civil rights.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- xl, 454 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Revelations from the bombshell 1970s investigation into the national security state
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2026]
- Biography/History:
- "Matthew Guariglia is a historian and senior policy analyst at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia"--Back cover.
- "Brian Hochman is the Hubert J. Cloke Director of American Studies at Georgetown University and author of The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. He lives in Washington, DC."--Back cover.
- Summary:
- "After fifty years, this --released in a single volume for the first time--is still the most accurate account of US government spying on its own citizens. Fifty years ago, a government investigation led by US senator Frank Church uncovered some of the darkest state secrets of the twentieth century. The Church Committee confirmed the nation's worst fears about the unchecked power of its intelligence agencies: at the FBI, surveillance campaigns against civil rights leaders and clandestine attempts to disrupt antiwar protests; at the CIA, assassination plots against foreign heads of state, experiments with toxic substances and illegal drugs, and covert partnerships with the Mafia. The Church Committee's findings were so explosive that key members found themselves on the watch lists of the very government agencies they were investigating. Three witnesses who cooperated with the inquiry were murdered. Amid the creep of digital surveillance and the upheavals of social protest, this volume, containing revelations of the Church Committee investigation, sheds light on some of today's most urgent concerns"--Back cover.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Beverly Gage
- Preface: the year of intelligence at fifty
- A note on the text
- Glossary of agencies, programs, and organizations
- Dramatis Personae
- Part I: Intelligence activities and the rights of Americans. Introduction ; COINTELPRO: the FBI's covert action programs against American citizens ; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., case study ; Warrantless FBI electronic surveillance ; Warrantless surreptitious entries: FBI "black bag" break-ins and microphone installations ; CIA intelligence collection about Americans: CHAOS and the office of security
- Part II: Foreign and military intelligence. Introduction ; Alleged assassination plots involving foreign leaders ; Testing use of chemical and biological agents by the intelligence community ; National security agency surveillance affecting Americans
- Part III: Recommendations. Committee Recommendations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [437]) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781324089377
- 1324089377
- OCLC:
- 1519459370
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000318236
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