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Church Committee exposed
CIA documented
“Some witnesses were re-interviewed on the basis of later information that came to light. For its review of covert operations, the committee received 14 CIA briefings and conducted more than 100 staff interviews, among them 13 former ambassa…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 6:20
Marvin Otz member_of
Church Committee documented
“of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff at the time. He recalls that there was a predisposition to let Gates sell through. The committee staff and members saw the appearance of a succession of analysts who gave chapter and vers…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 5:20
David Boren member_of
Church Committee documented
“wrestled with the dilemma. President Bush intervened, invoking party discipline to ensure his nominee got backed. Oates believes Gates appealed to the White House to do this. Committee Chairman David Boren staged his own covert operation, a…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 50 (52) @ 8:06
Frank Church headed
Church Committee documented
“approved a panel on January 27th with a vote of 82 to 4, naming a select committee to study government operations with respect to intelligence activities. Frank Church would chair it. The House set up a 10-member panel in February, but this…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 44:36
United States Navy funded
Church Committee documented
“approved a panel on January 27th with a vote of 82 to 4, naming a select committee to study government operations with respect to intelligence activities. Frank Church would chair it. The House set up a 10-member panel in February, but this…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 44:36
Frank Church headed
Church Committee documented
“The 14-member panel was to be chaired by Frank Church. The House did a similar version with 10 members, and that was going to be called the Pike Commission after New York Democrat Otis Pike. In his memoirs, A Time to Heal, President Gerald …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 28:16
Frank Church headed
Church Committee documented
“A liberal Democrat with presidential aspirations hoped to ride the intelligence investigations to national prominence, positioning himself as a dark horse for 1976 with a solid bid for a president's possibility in 1980. Be that as it may, h…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 38 (40) @ 4:56
John Prados exposed
Church Committee host_asserted
“And I think the fascinating thing about it is that, you know, at least the majority of it, if not like the substantial majorities, is based on, you know, stuff that was released by the Church Commission, right? Like we're talking about Lumu…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 23 (24) @ 1:09:41
Church Committee covered_up
Assassination plots against Fidel Castro book_quoted
“It was decided it lacked evidence to conclude that either Eisenhower or Kennedy had ordered an assassination. But scattered in its reports and depositions of the Rockefeller Commission and other documents, the evidence and chronology are hi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 26 (27) @ 40:43
Frank Church headed
Church Committee documented
“excuse me, foreign countries. So they are stealing our wealth. They are doing to us exactly what we did to other countries. It's just all come home to roost. So in 1975, he chaired the Senate Select Committee on the Study of Governmental Op…”
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Frank Church headed
Church Committee book_quoted
“Richard Helms was so feared in Watergate was because he believed that the involvement of the CIA in Nixon's activities could cause a major congressional investigation into the CIA that would lead to the examination of everything that had go…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 8:43
William Corson member_of
Church Committee book_quoted
“William Corston began advising the Church Commission on how to ask for information from the CIA to avoid the ever-ending stonewalling. Corston said, quote, it was obvious that Frank Church wasn't really serious when the investigation was tu…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Prelude to Terror Chapter 7_8 @ 9:09
CIA covered_up
Church Committee documented
“Jerry Ford could not hold the line. Instead, several days after he released the Rockefeller Commission report, the president told a news conference that he would turn the assassination files over to the church committee. Confining Belen's i…”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 58:40
CIA influenced
Church Committee host_asserted
“And the heart attack gun and all that other stuff stuff. And it was making people mad at the CIA. And so they were going to start killing CIA agents. And once that assassination, which I believe to be in the house, occurred, the church comm…”
▶ Operation Gladio-Indonesia Part 6 @ 44:06
Church Committee exposed
AMLAsh documented
“The reason why all of this exposure came as a result of the Congressional Church Committee. Many of you might recognize that, too. The Church Committee was looking into and discovered all of these assassination attempts. That's where they h…”
▶ Operation Gladio - Honduras Part 2 @ 41:24
Church Committee exposed
Operation Mockingbird documented
“create press freedom and train journalists since it started in 1982. Coincidentally, this is the year before National Endowment for Democracy gets set up in 1983 while they're actually drafting the law to put up basically all of this crap h…”
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Church Committee exposed
CIA documented
“had been carried out since 1961. That's like 15 years. That's a shit ton of covert activities. The investigation was nothing if not thorough. For its interim report, the allegations of assassination plots, the church committee conducted num…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 36:33
Frank Church headed
Church Committee documented
“Isn't that irony at its finest? That's hilarious. All right. Frank Church was a liberal Democrat with presidential aspirations. Some observers believe that the church that church wanted to ride the intelligence investigation into national p…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner president’s secret wars chapter 16 @ 34:31
Walter Mondale member_of
Church Committee host_asserted
“During the Carter administration, this part I was able to figure out, they did not change a lot of the National Security Council structure. So Mondale would have been on all of those committees that approved all of the covert action. And th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner President Jimmy Carter in review @ 1:10:19
Church Committee covered_up
Lumumba assassination documented
“In its explosive 1975 report on the CIA assassination plot against former leaders, the church committee absolved the agency of any responsibility for Lumumba's murder. Quote, it did not appear from the evidence that the U.S. was in any way …”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 17 @ 56:31
Robert Maheu testified_before
Church Committee host_asserted
“he still treated the CIA like his top client. Robert Mayhew never concealed his hatred for the Kennedys. He even accused JFK of homicide during his testimony before the church committee for withholding air support at the Bay of Pigs. As far…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner The Devil's Chessboard Part 26 (Final) @ 39:54
Gerald Ford covered_up
Church Committee documented
“instances, Church did voluntarily. On October 31st, President Ford wrote members asking that the entire report be classified. Several weeks later, during a debate on the Senate floor, the committee released the report on its own authority. …”
▶ The Colonel's Safe for Democracy Part 37 (39) @ 59:09
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He's been in Congress the entire time and never did anything to hold the CIA accountable, and he knows how corrupt they are. So, again, let that sink in. Yeah, that's an interesting question. I don't know if we've talked about this on the a…
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We've got a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a House Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence. Those came after the Church Committee, so basically 79-80, right before this period of time we're talking about. And we also know that's…
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If you guys haven't seen that testimony, it's back church committee. It's really worth looking up. Maybe we should show that next time, but you've got, I forget who it was. One of the CIA muckety mucks basically brought the, the heart attac…
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the Pike Commission and the Church Commission happens and they discover about the heart attack gun and the assassinations and all that other stuff. So SAIC is set up prior to that. The guy's name that founded it is J. Robert, J is an initia…
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So it changes after World War II, and we get the Cold War era, and the CIA is very active in regime change using covert operations. The Church Committee comes around in 1975, exposes a lot of what the CIA has been doing, all under the comma…
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create press freedom and train journalists since it started in 1982. Coincidentally, this is the year before National Endowment for Democracy gets set up in 1983 while they're actually drafting the law to put up basically all of this crap h…
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is going to happen and that changes everything in the past because all of the exposures in the past were done like can you imagine having the 1975 church commission and all of those pike commission when nelson rockefeller is the vice presid…
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C. Douglas Dillon told a Senate investigating committee, which was the Church Committee, that the National Security Council and President Eisenhower had believed in 1960 that Lumumba was a very difficult, if not impossible, person to deal w…
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The assertion was at the time the Casa Vubu sat at the feet of the CIA men and there actually was an aide in his cabinet that was a CIA agent. So that part is definitely true. So the church commission said the action was taken despite the s…
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In 1975, the church committee went on record with the conclusion that Allen Dulles had ordered Lumumba's assassination as an urgent and prime objective. But that's actually not true. Eisenhower was involved in this. And in Major Gannis' boo…
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The church committee observed, however, that the CIA station in Leopoldville, quote, continued to maintain close contact with Congolese who expressed a desire to assassinate Lumumba. CIA officers encouraged and offered to aid these Congoles…
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Washington officials were more in unison when dealing with another prominent person, Antoine Gazinga, who had been the vice prime minister under Lumumba. Following the latter's dismissal, according to the church committee, the CIA station c…
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The reason why all of this exposure came as a result of the Congressional Church Committee. Many of you might recognize that, too. The Church Committee was looking into and discovered all of these assassination attempts. That's where they h…
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There are people, when they listen to these stories or these historical facts, because they're not stories, when the Church Commission was investigating the CIA in one of the only worthwhile efforts to rein in their control, you may recall …
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in the line of duty in Greece, right at the height of the church commission. And the CIA used that death, turned it around, and said the only reason the guy was gunned down was because too much was being revealed by Congress's investigation…
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And the heart attack gun and all that other stuff stuff. And it was making people mad at the CIA. And so they were going to start killing CIA agents. And once that assassination, which I believe to be in the house, occurred, the church comm…
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So my data on the church committee is that it actually was effective, but they got to Frank Church somehow. But anyway, it's why we have the intelligence committee, which is like eight senators, which tells you everything, that it's just se…
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Colonel, what's it called when you can get data, get some special access? Anyway, they are overseers. That's what came out of the church committee. Okay, Carrie, I'm going to take issue with you right now. That's absolute bullshit. Marco Ru…
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a prime member of that intel committee. What they did was put lipstick on a pig. They set up, quote unquote, oversight committees that hasn't done jack shit in holding anybody accountable in the CIA. Because after the church committee, when…
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was able to take classified information out of the CAT. And the only reason that the, not the CAT, the SCI facility, the only reason they even have that in Congress now is because of the stupid ass committee that was smoke and mirrors. So t…
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Warner was a compromised sleeping with a reporter person. You cannot hold an intelligence entity that does covert actions like the CIA accountable by corrupt politicians. It's impossible. So I know what they say came out of the church commi…
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The fact that the church committee happened in, I want to get the exact date, in 1975, and you went through the entire 1980s of the Iran-Contra selling arms, BCCI, Castle Bank, Nugent Hand Bank, and money laundering through the Vatican Bank…
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fucking person was held accountable? Don't tell me that the church committee was effective. They weren't effective in any way, shape or form. Sorry. Okay. Can I just continue though? There's one more aspect. So that was during Carter and th…
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That made the NSA. Anyway, that's and that was a direct result of the church committee. I mean, it was like a guillotine to the church committee. So anything that Reagan would have signed has absolutely zero to do with Congress. Reagan cann…
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Congress has an oversight responsibility, and it is their responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable by running investigations and things like that. The Intelligence Committee setup was just another layer of compromised politic…
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Okay. Relating to congressional oversight of CIA in this period, like 1975 to 1978, I mean, I kind of half agree with you, Colonel, and I kind of half agree with Carrie here. Why? Because the key historian, in my opinion, to read on this is…
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California Davis. Her name is Catherine Olmstead. And I put her book over in the bubble or whatever, the bullet or whatever it is down below. Okay. Because she basically is looking at the church committee, the Pike committee, which is the e…
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The death of that of the CIA agent in Greece was very useful for the CIA turning public opinion against the congressional oversight. She starts on her book by saying that the beginning of 1975, there was very massive public support that Con…
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And no intelligence committee is going to change that. Right. Well, it ended up that way, but it's very important to see how the CIA did that. And that is primarily through Operation Mockingbird. She has them just go into the New York Times…
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There was nothing that came out of the church committee that changed a single thing. And it is not like Greece is the only example. We just had another example. They sacrificed Frank Wisner and used him to the point where he has a mental br…
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a more important example of Operation Mockingbird than this period. It's the one time when Congress is- Right, so to answer this question, did anything effective come out of the church committee? Well, I would have to say yes, and then it w…
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All committees are shut down at some point. They end. They offer a report. They offered a report. What came out of it that significantly changed and held the CIA accountable? The point is that they were discovering a lot of information that…
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Well, the information was getting out into the public because Congress was investigating. It got out. We all know it. It wasn't known at that time. The reason we know it now is because Congress was investigating. And then it was shut down. …
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So you just made my point. He was the most regulatory of all of the House of Representatives. Yeah, so you just made my point. The church committee did nothing. Yeah, you made my point. The church committee did nothing. Well, it got a lot o…
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basically shut down the legislative branch. To no effect at all. If you do not have the backbone in Congress to take the information that is revealed in committees, and this is not just the church committee. The same thing happened with the…
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There was not a damn thing done. They knew damn good and well that military resources was used against federal law. Not a fucking person was arrested. The church committee, they revealed laws were broken. Not a single person was arrested. S…
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I don't give a crap how many false stories gets fed to how many newspapers. If I'm watching in my very own eyes, somebody tell me I've got evidence presented, which they did, that these things were actually happening. All of that was disclo…
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And they had the ability to do it as a result of the Pike Committee, the Church Commission, all of that stuff. And they failed to do it. And they failed to do it every year after that. And every year after that, we have found out more and m…
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that exist inside the government, all set up inside the CIA and then protected by get out of jail free cards that Congress handed to them voluntarily. There has been several laws passed, even after the church commission, that like the one a…
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It cut it off. The Office of Public Safety actually was done away with in 1974 because it came under intense scrutiny by Congress in the 1975 family jewels of the CIA investigations. No one was held accountable. As a matter of fact, when yo…
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just makes me want to talk about them even more. So I find that interesting. Now, here's something I did not know that Cartwright brought up. Did you know, we're all familiar with Frank Church, correct? We know about the role that he played…
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excuse me, foreign countries. So they are stealing our wealth. They are doing to us exactly what we did to other countries. It's just all come home to roost. So in 1975, he chaired the Senate Select Committee on the Study of Governmental Op…
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This is when Johnson is president. So Democrats is a big thing at the time. And in 1970, he ran again and won the governor race. So he's actually governor from 71 to 75. And there was a whole bunch of during the time that he's the governor.…
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uh commission committee investigating the cia we have the 1975 church commission investigating the cia and we also have the peck committee commission so there's three different major commissions and if you recall the church commission is wh…
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Paper clip. This is everything gets aired out in public in 1975. So Jimmy Carter is watching all of real quick. Colonel, which was the commission where they did the heart attack, where they disclosed the heart attack gun church, the church …
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Yeah, I wanted to bring it back to that Task Force 157, if that was right. And and it's like it's a cover name wasn't wasn't that responsible for like or leading up to the church. What's it called? The church church committee. Yeah. And all…
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that the fiercest legislative oversight of CIA in U.S. history was targeted for assassination on a Jonestown tarmac? So in addition to... That's significant. Yeah, in addition to that one, you had the Church Committee, you had the Pike Comm…
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and moved on and as a matter of fact carrie hit a lot of shit um so yeah i think i think that there was um more success in in the um house select committee on assassination said to some extent the church committee but i think they were just…
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church of the church committee was a Richie boy so I think that was a whole huge psyop and there was supposed to be a really key piece to what was supposed to happen after the church committee and that was dumped in the garbage but I don't …
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The reforms of the CIA started by the Church Committee in the 1975 hearings came to a dead halt under Bush. The goal was to hide things, not fix things, unquote. Also, William Corson said, by taking the operations and putting them in the ha…
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William Corston began advising the Church Commission on how to ask for information from the CIA to avoid the ever-ending stonewalling. Corston said, quote, it was obvious that Frank Church wasn't really serious when the investigation was tu…
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Allende Chilean operation. Church and the Democrats, sensing that many clandestine operations from the Kennedy and Johnson days might emerge in the probes, announced their own investigation with the newly appointed Senate Select Committee o…
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asking him to investigate high U.S. officials for crimes concerning Chile. Levi, a highly moral man, at once sent the Corey letter to the criminal division of the Justice Department. The result, the CIA was turned upside down. Corey's lette…
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with us on important intelligence project, unquote. So in other words, we have to keep lying to you for your own protection. Not that the oversight had been very thorough. Ford's assistant, Rod Hills, recalled a case when two senators were …
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would do significant damage, so to speak, concerning what the CIA was doing to the American people. Well, his report was so shoddy, it spawned the Church Commission. So that's my whole deal about Rockefeller becoming VP. Yeah, well said. Mi…
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If you believe that only the plan of him being poisoned was the only CIA plan, and then they tell you that Mubato and Shambi's forces got to him first, you are led to believe, as it was depicted in the church committee, that the locals who …
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the Belgian colonial government. Dylan was also an investor in the Belgian's Lawrence Rockefeller's Congolese textile mill, and they also were importing automobiles into the Congo. As the number two official in the State Department, Dylan m…
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And I think that's probably the most atrocious. That's bad. That's really bad. I won't go into what happened to the indigenous people in El Salvador right now, but I've read church committee reports and it's pretty brutal. Oh, no, we've tal…
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In the 1975 Church Committee hearing, it was discovered that illegal payments were made by Lockheed to Prince Bernhardt of the WWF. The deal was that the Netherlands buy Lockheed's Orion fighter aircraft and Lockheed would, in exchange, sen…
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He was murdered in 1975. Now, if you go back, there was a congressional investigation into the CIA. And it just so happens that his death, Richard Welch's death, was used by the CIA as a propaganda.…
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that said the investigation that Congress was doing into the wrongdoings of the CIA was putting agents at risk. There are many people that believe that Richard Welch was actually assassinated by the CIA in order to use his death as a talkin…
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And to get them to shut up because exactly that happened. There was a huge propaganda effort through the Washington Post, the New York Times, accusing Congress of endangering all of the worldwide CIA agents by this investigation. And yet no…
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someone who, you know, you would think that they're there for the good. But if the CIA wasn't doing such dirty crap, they wouldn't put any of their people at risk. So I just always found that an interesting kind of corollary to that. And I …
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COINTEL, to revelations about the U.S. Army intelligence, to concerns about covert CIA assassinations. There was a growing sense that the intelligence community, specifically the FBI, CIA, military intelligence, along with other agencies, h…
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And they didn't even pretend to be working with another domestic. MKUltra, another example of that, experimenting with LSD on unsuspecting people inside the United States. They have repeatedly operated in the United States, and Congress has…
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And these became not only, they were not only, well, this is a conspiracy. The church hearings, there were numerous Kerry hearings. It all came out about the dealings of the BCCI and the Nugent Hang Bank and the CIA. I mean, this was public…
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Now, he was scheduled to go to trial. When he found out he was being indicted, he fled to Latin America. He came back. He was scheduled for trial and later found dead in a motel room. Supposedly of a heart attack. Supposedly of a heart atta…
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During the Carter administration, this part I was able to figure out, they did not change a lot of the National Security Council structure. So Mondale would have been on all of those committees that approved all of the covert action. And th…
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The Church Committee was informed that the liquidation would be complete by 1976 and was supposed to generate $20 million. These changes progressed under William Colby. Later, Colby was appointed and then confirmed as the director. During h…
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Nelson Rockefeller, one of the guys who is in the syndicate directing the CIA's abuses. Very swiftly, Congress established its own investigative committee. The Senate approved a resolution, S-21, on January 27th by a vote of 82 to 4, naming…
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Isn't that irony at its finest? That's hilarious. All right. Frank Church was a liberal Democrat with presidential aspirations. Some observers believe that the church that church wanted to ride the intelligence investigation into national p…
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had been carried out since 1961. That's like 15 years. That's a shit ton of covert activities. The investigation was nothing if not thorough. For its interim report, the allegations of assassination plots, the church committee conducted num…
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Some witnesses were re-interviewed on the basis of information that was uncovered later. For its general review of covert operations, the committee got 14 CIA briefings and conducted staff interviews with 120 people, including 13 former amb…
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and gathered more than 110,000 pages of documentation. 60 professional staff assisted the senators with the effort. The final report was approved and released in April 1976. This report ran six volumes. I have skimmed over quite a bit of it…
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including detailed staff studies. There were seven volumes of hearings, an interim report on assassination plots, and a case study of covert actions in Chile. Six additional case studies on covert operations remained classified at the reque…
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was to balance the requirements for secrecy with American democracy. Except for we're not a democracy. From all of the millions of words in the hearings, findings, and recommendations of the church committee, one phrase in particular stuck …
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The government officials have spent years trying to live down that damning epithet. Frank Church's opinion after the investigation by his committee was the U.S. government capability for covert actions to be very sharply circumcised. The ma…
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That got a lot of people killed because they knew stuff about the JFK assassination, such as Jimmy Hoffa, for example, Sam Giancana, people who were going to testify on the subject of assassination. Would you agree? Yes, absolutely. I agree…
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So there really isn't any plausible deniability at this point because there's been too much unearthed and too many statements made. So he basically was the guy running the show in the White House for all of those actions in Vietnam as it re…
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And so you guys can just click on that and hear the audio if you want to listen, but then stay on the app in order to be able to ask questions and stuff at the end. FYI, I wish they'd stop it, but whatever. OK, so we were just talking about…
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We are up to the what the African piece of the pie, because we were talking about some of the other the family jewels and that type of exposure. So this starts with the covert action in Africa being carried out, even while the investigation…
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An internal investigation of efforts to kill Castro. And the same ground was later plowed by a presidential commission. Not really. It wasn't really plowing anything, but whatever. The Rockefeller Commission. The same Rockefeller Commission…
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And I think the fascinating thing about it is that, you know, at least the majority of it, if not like the substantial majorities, is based on, you know, stuff that was released by the Church Commission, right? Like we're talking about Lumu…
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It was like a really important platform for us to build on, you know, heading into the whole situation with Trump. And Prados, you know, there's other, you know, original stuff in here too, but a majority of what he's talking about here is …
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Sheffield Edwards rejected Bobby's demand for a written report. That wasn't CIA's practice for sensitive operations. Yeah, we don't want to put that in writing because then maybe we would be held accountable at some point. Did the Kennedys …
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Quote, I just don't recall anything at all on liquidation of leaders. That would be kind of awkward for somebody who is pretending to be military. Nor did he remember Frank Hands telling him about Harvey's phone call. Hold on just a second.…
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in the mid-1970s, specifically the disillusion of Air America and its rebranding into firms like eSystems was a classic intelligence shell game designed to bypass congressional oversight during the post-Watergate church era. It was not a ge…
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when the Church Committee and the Pike Committee began poking into the CIA's proprietary empire, which began during the Nixon administration of serious questions being asked because of Vietnam. They formally started the commissions a little…
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The funding didn't vanish. It was just put under DOD support for contingency operation, which became much more harder for Congress to audit. The CIA was the primary focus of the 1975 Church and Pike Committee, but they had already moved it …
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A liberal Democrat with presidential aspirations hoped to ride the intelligence investigations to national prominence, positioning himself as a dark horse for 1976 with a solid bid for a president's possibility in 1980. Be that as it may, h…
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about the CIA involvement in Chile. Ambitious or not, the senator was determined to follow up on several of these topics. For an interim report on alleged assassination plots, the church committee conducted numerous interviews, held 60 days…
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Some witnesses were re-interviewed on the basis of later information that came to light. For its review of covert operations, the committee received 14 CIA briefings and conducted more than 100 staff interviews, among them 13 former ambassa…
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60 professional staff were involved. A final report approved and released in April of 76 ran into many volumes, plus detailed staff studies. There were also seven volumes of hearings, an interim report on assassination plots, and a case stu…
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The committee recommended that overall CIA budget figures be made public so annual budget debates could be realistic. The fundamental issue remained one of balancing secrecy with an American democracy. Church's committee and Pikes as well r…
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of formal legislative oversight, which did absolutely nothing, as we know. From the millions of words in the hearings, findings, and recommendations of the church committee, one phrase in particular stuck in the minds of many who heard it. …
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Church's opinion after the investigation by his committee was that the U.S. capabilities for covert action should be sharply circumcised. Most of his colleagues would not go that far. Referring to the secret warriors and comments appended t…
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The latter is a bold-faced lie. And the fact that you're dropping the weapons off in South Africa or Zaire first, again, is a lie. The fact that you're not flying them directly into Angola is not the point. The operative word, of course, is…
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a specific study of Angola from the Pike Committee. The church committee had recently released its report on CIA assassination plots, opening many eyes and increasing Ford's political difficulties on the issue of Angola. As the House bill m…
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Thoroughly disillusioned, CIA officer John Stockwell resigned and went public. With the fiasco so recently revealed, it is not so surprising that Senator Church made strong charges on covert action in his committee's final report. Church al…
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The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence went on to do a year-long investigation of Project Feature. In the spring of 78, it concluded that the Ford administration had misled Congress on the scope of the operation, not revealing some act…
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That despite standing orders, U.S. personnel had served inside Angola and that the CIA had been much closer to the South Africans than they admitted. The committee also singled out Henry Kissinger's November 21st, 1975 testimony to the chur…
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with a paramilitary venture in concert with the British and, for the first time, Saudi Arabia that began in South Yemen in February of 79, when that country attacked North Yemen. Turner is reported to have thought this project ridiculous, b…
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The Senate is supposed to confirm the CIA director. But how do you do that? Because he's intimately involved in Iran-Contra. And in 1986, the Democrats had regained control of the Congress. And that made Oklahoma Senator David Boren chairma…
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to the CIA. So you go from the director of the FBI to the director of the CIA. Judge Webster came with great reviews. He appeared squeaky clean. The Senate Intelligence Committee approved his nomination. The full Senate consented to it. Rob…
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not fit to be in the field, usually were assigned to the IG from the inside. Suggestions for an independent IG appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate had been around since the church committee days in the mid-70s. Republican…
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There were lots of congressional charges being floated around that Robert Gates had basically politicized intelligence. And that took the center stage when confirmation hearings opened in September. So there was an examination and Marvin Ot…
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of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff at the time. He recalls that there was a predisposition to let Gates sell through. The committee staff and members saw the appearance of a succession of analysts who gave chapter and vers…
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between politics and intelligence and crafting intelligence to support the political agenda. The Gates presented kind of a preemptive defense, attempting to disarm his critics, basically showing how, trying to counteract the narrative that …
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Most notably among them was Mel Goodman. He had been a colleague for years. Jennifer Glodsman, a former Soviet analyst, and Harold Ford. Yeah, the same Harold Ford that we know now. Alan Fiers appeared as part of the committee's fairly exte…
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Gates himself returned for something fairly dramatic around the follow-up testimony refuting critics. The hearings became the most extensive examination of U.S. intelligence since the Church and Pike investigations. Work at Laneley basicall…
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Gates himself returned for something fairly dramatic around the follow-up testimony refuting critics. The hearings became the most extensive examination of U.S. intelligence since the Church and Pike investigations. Work at Laneley basicall…
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wrestled with the dilemma. President Bush intervened, invoking party discipline to ensure his nominee got backed. Oates believes Gates appealed to the White House to do this. Committee Chairman David Boren staged his own covert operation, a…
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to one of the most extensive committee reports on a nomination ever, in which his committee attempted to reconcile Gates' testimony with the charges against him. In other words, you have Congress actively advocating for the CIA director and…
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who thought nothing of rejecting a FOIA request for mongoose documents, whose substance was already in the church committee report, was forced to be a little bit more, less forceful in his opinions in public. The National Center to Target H…
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the CIA as there were questions about Tony Lake's nomination, which is who Clinton had nominated. So we're going to pick up from there. The major logjam for Tony Lake was Richard Shelby from Alabama. He is the Senate Select Committee on Int…
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So when Shelby, after he got the files and reviewed them, demanded another delay so all of the committee people could see it, that's when Lake threw in the towel. He withdrew his nomination and Clinton had a few choice comments about being …
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and House. Because in the past, they were perfectly satisfied with having them embedded into the staff, not the actual representative or the Senate. There's a disturbing boldness to the recent change. And Tenet is a good example of that. Te…
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on the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now, the author is also going to tell us that prior to him coming into as the deputy to Deutsch, that he was new to intelligence. You are not the senior staffer on the Senate Select Committee and not ha…
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You don't bring people in at the senior level if they've not been around intelligence before. And there's like a thoroughfare in Washington, D.C. of intelligence officials. So another guy on the Congress staff that's making a beeline to the…
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Come on. Oh my gosh. Support for military operations continued. In the 1998, the Senate committee found that the CIA's function remained flawed. In particular, the Senate committee on intelligence criticized the continued inability of agenc…