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- Church Committee Book III: COINTELPRO (1976)
Government Record · 1976
U.S. Senate Select Committee; AARC Library reproduction
Senate Church Committee, 1976: COINTELPRO was a set of secret FBI programs against domestic groups meant to "disrupt" and "neutralize" targets. It found many methods would…
- Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence (1976)
Government Record · 1976
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)
Book I of the Senate Select Committee's final report on U.S. intelligence agencies. It covers the CIA's drug and behavior-control testing, including MKULTRA, and the CIA's…
- Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (1976)
Government Record · 1976
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)
Book II of the Church Committee's final report: its findings on domestic intelligence abuses, including the FBI's COINTELPRO program and the Bureau's campaign against Dr. Martin…
- Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (1976)
Government Record · 1976
Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee)
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…
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 10 (Congress for Cultural Freedom)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The CIA's own declassified history of its covert Cold War funding: the agency quietly took control of the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a front that backed…
- CIA History: Hearts and Minds, Covert Support of Anti-Communist Groups, Part 12 (the 1967 exposure)
Government Record · 1999
Michael Warner / CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
The same CIA history on 1967, when news stories exposed the agency's secret sponsorship of dozens of American academic, labor and cultural groups within a week.
- CIA Inspector General: Report of Audit, CIA Processes for Engaging With the Entertainment Industry (2012)
Government Record · 2012
CIA Office of Inspector General
The CIA Inspector General's 2012 audit of how the agency deals with Hollywood. It found the CIA's records could not show its entertainment requests were handled…
- CIA Studies in Intelligence: Review of the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom (2017)
Government Record · 2017
Compiled and reviewed by Hayden Peake
CIA's Studies in Intelligence reviews a book on the CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom, including the 1967 scandal that exposed the covert funding.
- CIA v. Sims, 471 U.S. 159 (1985)
Court Filing · 1985
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court, CIA v. Sims (1985): records that MKULTRA researchers secretly gave LSD and other dangerous drugs to unwitting people. The case was about keeping the…
- CIA: Examples of CIA Entertainment Industry Outreach
Government Record · 2019
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA document listing examples of its work with the entertainment industry: script advice, meetings, tours and some script review. The CIA says the list is not…
- CIS Combination 10 fact sheet (2023)
Government Record · 2023
North Carolina Medicaid (NCDHHS)
North Carolina Medicaid's fact sheet for the same HEDIS Combo 10 measure states explicitly that NC Medicaid does not withhold funds directly from providers — a…
- CISA: Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbance
Government Record
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
CISA: an EMP from an enemy with basic nuclear weapons would likely be regional, not a continent-wide grid collapse. It warns more advanced attacks could do…
- Citigroup Advisory Services Agreement (BlackRock)
Government Record · 2008
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and BlackRock Financial Markets Advisory
The New York Fed's December 2008 agreement hiring BlackRock to value assets in the government's backstop of Citigroup. GAO-11-696 (table 19) classifies this contract as noncompetitive…
- Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010)
Court Filing · 2010
Supreme Court of the United States
Supreme Court opinion holding that the federal ban on corporate and union independent expenditures from general treasury funds violates the First Amendment, overruling Austin v. Michigan…
- City Clerk Anna M. Valencia and Mayor Lightfoot Announce Historic City Sticker Debt Relief
Government Record · 2019
Office of the Chicago City Clerk
The 2019 reforms introduced sticker debt relief and changed enforcement policies. Later 2019-2021 reforms altered fees and boot practices, so historical fine and impound figures should…
- City of Chicago v. Fulton, 592 U.S. 154 (2021), No. 19-357
Court Filing · 2021
Supreme Court of the United States
The Court ruled for Chicago on the §362(a)(3) question and vacated the Seventh Circuit judgment. It did not resolve every automatic-stay or turnover theory.
- Civil Asset Forfeiture
Government Record · 2026
Circuit Court of Cook County
The official page confirms Calendar 13 civil asset forfeiture proceedings in Daley Center Courtroom 1707.
- Civil Division FY 2009 Performance Budget Congressional Submission
Government Record · 2008
U.S. Department of Justice
DOJ records Purdue Frederick’s felony plea and three executives’ misdemeanor pleas, accepted July 20, 2007. It reports fines, penalties, and restitution totaling $634,515,475.
- Classified Activities (SFFAS 56)
Government Record · 2018
Federal Accounting Standards Advisory Board
The October 2018 federal accounting standard that lets agencies change what their public financial statements show to protect classified programs: moving amounts from one line item…
- Clinton Foundation: Bono and Featured Participants at CGI 2022
Document · 2022
Clinton Foundation
Clinton Foundation, 2022: Bono and (RED) took part in the Clinton Global Initiative meeting.
- Clinton v. City of New York (1998)
Court Filing · 1998
Supreme Court of the United States (Stevens, J.)
U.S. Supreme Court, June 1998: struck down the Line Item Veto Act, which let the President cancel parts of signed laws. Justice Kennedy's concurrence quoted Madison's…
- Clinton: Statement on Signing the Telecommunications Act (1996)
Government Record · 1996
President William J. Clinton
President Clinton, February 8, 1996: signed the Telecommunications Act, noting it raised the national TV audience cap from 25 to 35 percent. A Clinton-era law, not…
- Codex Alimentarius Commission: Ractopamine Residue Vote (2012)
Government Record · 2012
Codex Alimentarius Commission
UN Codex food standards body, July 2012: adopted residue limits for ractopamine in meat by 69 votes to 67, with 7 abstentions. China, Norway and the…
- Comcast Corporation Form 10-Q for quarter ended September 30, 2026
Corporate Filing · 2026
Comcast Corporation
Comcast’s dual-class structure gives the Chairman/Co-CEO substantial influence through Class B, separate from the Big Three’s Class A managed positions.