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Summary
This CD-ROM collects together electronic copies of all 14 hard-to-find
published reports of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental
Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activites. In the mid 1970s,
the so-called Church Committee documented a variety of abuses by
the intelligence agencies.
Also included is over 1000 pages of Church Church Committee documents
released under the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Some
of these records were declassified as recently as the summer of
2000.
Detailed List of Contents
Electronic copies of all fourteen Reports of the Church Committee:
- Interim Report: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign
Leaders, Foreign and Military Intelligence
- Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents
- Volume 2: Huston Plan
- Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service
- Volume 4: Mail Opening
- Volume 5: The National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment
Rights
- Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Volume 7: Covert Action
- Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence
- Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
- Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence
Activities and the Rights of Americans
- Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign
and Military Intelligence
- Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President
John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
- Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities
Additional Reports and Documents:
- Rockefeller Report. Report by the President's Commission
on CIA Activities Within the United States (Rockefeller Report)
- Finding Aids. Table of contents of all 56 boxes of Church
Committee records declassified under the 1992 JFK Assassination
Records Collection Act. Nine of these boxes were released as recently
as the summer of 2000.
- Church Committee depositions:
- Thomas Parrott, head of the White House "Special Group"
from 1957 to 1963
- David Phillips, CIA propaganda specialist and founder of
the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers
- James Angleton, chief of CIA's Counterintelligence Division
from 1954 to 1974
- Jane Roman, subordinate of Angleton and handler of cables
related to Lee Oswald's purported trip to Mexico City in the
fall of 1963
- CIA case officer for AMLASH, the code-name for a Cuban official
recruited by CIA to kill Fidel Castro
- Other Church Committee files:
- References to FBI Review of Tapes of Oswald's Oct. 1, 1963
Mexico City Conversation
- Committee Report: The Intelligence Agencies and the Assassination
of President Kennedy
- Preliminary Report of Investigation into the Assassination
of President Kennedy
- Oswald in New Orleans
- J. Lee Rankin Letters to CIA (Correspondence File)
- J. Lee Rankin Letters to State Department
- and more....
Features
- High-quality scanned images. Documents are stored in
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which features exact visual
reproduction in combination with text searchability. The Adobe
Acrobat Reader is used for viewing.
- Instant text searching. Full-text search of the entire
collection of reports and documents (over 6000 pages in all).
- Help tutorial, historical overview, and more. Helpful
tutorial pages, a brief history of the Church Committee, information
on the AARC and the National Archives, and more
- Print Options. Print individual pages or entire documents
System Requirements
- PC with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, or 2000, or Macintosh
- Web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator)
- Adobe Acrobat Reader (included)
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