Special Service Staff organization
also: SpecalServiceStaff, special compliance group, Special Service groups, Special Services Staff, SSS, that committee
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Internal Revenue Service founded
Special Service Staff documented
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“In 1969 the IRS established a Special Service Staff to gather intelligence on a category of taxpayers defined essentially by political criteria…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.110
Senate Committee on Government Operations funded
Special Service Staff documented
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“The SSS originated as a result of pressure from the permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.110
Richard Nixon funded
Special Service Staff documented
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“The SSS originated as a result of pressure from ... President Nixon acting through White House…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.110
Federal Bureau of Investigation did_business_with
Special Service Staff documented
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“After the SSS was established the FBI and the Justice Department's Interdivisional Information Unit (IDIU) became its largest sources of names…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Interdivisional Information Unit did_business_with
Special Service Staff documented
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“After the SSS was established the FBI and the Justice Department's Interdivisional Information Unit (IDIU) became its largest sources of names…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Linus Pauling documented
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“Names on the SSS list included Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Charles Goodell documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... Senators Charles Goodell...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Ernest Gruening documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... Senators... Ernest Gruening…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Charles Diggs documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... Congressman Charles Diggs…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Joseph Alsop documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... journalists Joseph Alsop...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Jimmy Breslin documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... journalists... Jimmy Breslin…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Mitchell Rogovin documented
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“Names on the SSS list included... and attorney Mitchell Rogovin…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
John Birch Society documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included political groups ranging from the John Birch Society...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Common Cause documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included political groups ranging from the John Birch Society to Common Cause…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
B'nai B'rith Antidefamation League documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... religious organizations such as the B'nai Brith Antidefamation League…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Associated Catholic Charities documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... religious organizations such as... the Associated Catholic Charities…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
American Law Institute documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... professional associations such as the American Law Institute…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Legal Aid Society documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... professional associations such as... the Legal Aid Society…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... private foundations such as the Carnegie Foundation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Playboy documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... publications ranging from "Playboy"...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
Commonwealth documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... publications ranging from "Playboy" to "Commonwealth"…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Special Service Staff spied_on
United States Civil Rights Commission documented
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“Organizations on the SSS list included... government institutions including the United States Civil Rights Commission.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.111
Donald Alexander dissolved
Special Service Staff documented
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“Upon discovering that its functions were not tax-related new IRS Commissioner Alexander ordered the Special Service Staff abolished…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.112
Internal Security Division did_business_with
Special Service Staff documented
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“the FBI and the Internal Security Division of the Justice Department gave SSS lists of taxpayers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.184
Federal Bureau of Investigation supplied_arms_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“The FBI was also the largest source of political targets for tax investigations by the Special Service Staff of the Internal Revenue Service…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.271
Inter-Division Information Unit did_business_with
Special Service Staff documented
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“The IDIU sent the same material to the Internal Revenue Service's Special Service Staff which used the information as part of its program for initiating tax audits.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.275
Special Service Staff member_of
Internal Revenue Service documented
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“Another controversial aspect of IRS intelligence operations involves the now defunct Special Service Staff established within the Compliance Division…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.293
Special Service Staff renamed_to
Activist Organizations Committee documented
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“Initially created in July 1969 as the Activist Organizations Committee the unit came into existence apparently in response to pressures emanating from the White House and from Congress…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.293
Arthur Burns founded
Special Service Staff documented
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“Dr Arthur Burns Counselor to the President and Tom Charles Huston a White House staffer concerned with security programs began urging IRS to establish a special political intelligence component to deal with these tax matters.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.294
Tom Charles Huston founded
Special Service Staff documented
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“Dr Arthur Burns Counselor to the President and Tom Charles Huston a White House staffer concerned with security programs began urging IRS to establish a special political intelligence component to deal with these tax matters.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.294
Special Service Staff spied_on
Black Panthers documented
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“The SSS was to "coordinate activities in all Compliance Divisions involving ideological militant subversive radical and similar type organizations to collect basic intelligence data and to insure that the requirements of the Internal Revenu…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.294
Special Service Staff did_business_with
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“It appears from the staff's examination that the day-to-day focus of the SSS was largely determined by information it received from other agencies as the FBI and the Inter-Divisional Information Unit of the Justice Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.294
Special Service Staff did_business_with
Inter-Division Information Unit documented
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“It appears from the staff's examination that the day-to-day focus of the SSS was largely determined by information it received from other agencies as the FBI and the Inter-Divisional Information Unit of the Justice Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.294
Donald C. Alexander removed_from_power
Special Service Staff documented
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“In May 1973 (one day after he was sworn in) Commissioner Donald C Alexander met with top IRS personnel with respect to the SSS and directed that the SSS actions were to relate only to tax resisters…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.295
Special Service Staff member_of
Internal Revenue Service documented
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“the Special Service Staff was set up at the initiative of the IRS personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.18
John Ehrlichman member_of
Special Service Staff documented
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“That includes Mr Thrower Mr Barth Mr Green Mr Bacon Each one of these people by affidavit have indicated that the Special Service Staff was set up at the initiative of the IRS personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.18
Charles Colson member_of
Special Service Staff documented
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“That includes Mr Thrower Mr Barth Mr Green Mr Bacon Each one of these people by affidavit have indicated that the Special Service Staff was set up at the initiative of the IRS personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.18
John Dean member_of
Special Service Staff documented
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“That includes Mr Thrower Mr Barth Mr Green Mr Bacon Each one of these people by affidavit have indicated that the Special Service Staff was set up at the initiative of the IRS personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.18
John N. Mitchell member_of
Special Service Staff documented
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“That includes Mr Thrower Mr Barth Mr Green Mr Bacon Each one of these people by affidavit have indicated that the Special Service Staff was set up at the initiative of the IRS personnel…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.18
Internal Revenue Service founded
Special Service Staff documented
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“What we got instead was the creation of this Special Service Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2: The Huston Plan · p.35
Special Service Staff member_of
Internal Revenue Service documented
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“December 1 1969 and November 2 1970 examples of bi-weekly reports of the Specal Service Staff of the Internal Revenue Service to Assistant Commissionr (Compliance)…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.4
Donald C. Alexander dissolved
Special Service Staff documented
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“It was abolished by Commissioner Alexander shortly after he took officein 1973…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
American Civil Liberties Union linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list the American Civil Liberties Union…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
American Library Association linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the American Library Association…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
Conservative Book Club linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the Conservative Book Club…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
Ford Foundation linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the Ford Foundation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
NAACP linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the NAACP…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
University of North Carolina linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... the University of North Carolina…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
National Urban League linked_to
Special Service Staff documented
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“Let me refer to some of the organizations that were on the list ... and approximately 50 branches of the National Urban League…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.6
William Alexander dissolved
Special Service Staff documented
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“And when I found out it was a National Office memorandum rather than an aberration in the field I ordered the Special Service Staff abolished…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.12
Internal Revenue Service founded
Special Service Staff documented
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“Functioning under the Assistant Commissioner (Compliance) a special compliance group was established in August 1969to receiveand analyze all available information on organizations and individuals promoting extremist views and philosophies…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13
William Alexander removed_from_power
Special Service Staff documented
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“I ordered the Special Service Staff abolished That order was given on August 9 1973…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.14
Special Service Staff supplied_arms_to
Irish Republican Army reported
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“Included are those who... aid in funding the sales of firearms to Irish Republican Army…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13
Special Service Staff operated_in
Cuba reported
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“Included are those who... travel to Cuba Algeria and North Vietnam in defiance of existing statutes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13
Special Service Staff operated_in
Algeria reported
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“Included are those who... travel to Cuba Algeria and North Vietnam in defiance of existing statutes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13
Special Service Staff operated_in
Vietnam reported
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“Included are those who... travel to Cuba Algeria and North Vietnam in defiance of existing statutes…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.13
Internal Revenue Service funded
Special Service Staff documented
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“dispose of aberrations in the tax system as we find them such as the Special Service Staff…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.28
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation investigated
Special Service Staff documented
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“As noted in the June 5 1975 staff report of the investigation of the Special Service Staff for the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation the examination which began in 1961 of the 22 organizations was largely completed in 1963…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.109