Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (1976)

Government Record · Tier 1 — Primary Document · Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee) · April 23, 1976

The Church Committee's detailed staff reports on COINTELPRO, the FBI's covert campaign against Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the Black Panther Party, CIA mail opening, NSA surveillance and the CIA's Operation CHAOS.

In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action designed to 'disrupt' and 'neutralize' target groups and individuals.

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