Church Committee
Congressional hearing
| Church Committee link () Powerbase | |
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| File:Church Committee.jpg | |
| Formation | 1975 |
| Extinction | 1976 |
| Interests | Project MKULTRA, Mind Control research, CIA/Assassinations |
| Membership | Frank Church, Philip Hart, Walter Mondale, Walter Huddleston, Robert Morgan, Gary Hart, John Tower, Howard Baker, Barry Goldwater, Charles Mathias, Richard Schweiker, William G. Miller, Frederick A. O. Schwartz, Curtis Smothers, Audrey Hatey |
| Set up as a result of growing concern about the activities of the CIA, and led to revelations about many of the dark secrets within the CIA. As a result, it contributed impetus to the offshoring of the US deep state. | |
The Church Committee was the informal name of the US Senate's Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activities. It was set up as a result of growing concern about the activities of the CIA, and "led to revelations about many of the dark secrets within the CIA."[1] As a result, it contributed impetus to the offshoring of the US deep state.
Staffing
The Church Committee contained lawyer Charles Mathias, who was well known to the Bilderberg group, having gone there already in 1967[2], 1968[3], 1970[4], 1972[5] and 1974.[6]
Conclusions
The Church Committee warned that covert operations had developed a dangerous "bureaucratic momentum." Numbering some 900 between 1960 and 1975, such operations were becoming "increasingly costly to America's interest and reputation," the committee concluded. But instead of proposing truly meaningful reforms-other than the creation of permanent oversight committees-the panel merely implored that covert operations be reserved for "grave threats to American security" and be "consistent with publicly defined U.S. foreign policy goals." New York Times columnist Anthony Lewis called its recommendations "a gamble that the American system of checks and balances can work even in the powerful secret world of intelligence."[7]
The Church Committee recommended (like the Rockefeller Commission and the Pike Committee) strengthening the CIA Office of Inspector General. This was not followed.[8]
References
- ↑ Document:Fifty Years of the Deep State
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1967.pdf
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1967.pdf
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1970.pdf
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1972.pdf
- ↑ File:Bilderberg-Conference-Report-1974.pdf
- ↑ http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Ronald_Reagan/Deeper_Malady_TICC.html
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/docs/v44i5a02p.htm#AuthorR