Committee investigating governmental abuses in the US intelligence community
Not to be confused with the 2005 Church Report about US detention operations.
Church Committee report (Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence; PDF)Church Committee report (Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans; PDF)
The most shocking revelations of the committee include Operation MKULTRA, which involved the drugging and torture of unwitting US citizens as part of human experimentation on mind control;[1][2]COINTELPRO, which involved the surveillance and infiltration of American political and civil-rights organizations;[3] and Family Jewels, a CIA program to covertly assassinate foreign leaders.[4][5][6][7]
It also unearthed Project SHAMROCK, a program in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA, and officially confirmed the existence of this signals intelligence agency to the public for the first time.
^"The CIA's Family Jewels". National Security Archive, George Washington University. May 16, 1973. Archived from the original on August 20, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2021.