Ramparts organization
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Claims (20)
Ramparts exposed
CIA documented
document
“During the last eight years beginning with Ramparts magazine's exposure of CIA covert relationships with non-governmental organizations there has been a series of allegations in the press and Congress which have provoked serious questions a…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.18
CIA spied_on
Ramparts documented
document
“In an effort to determine whether there was foreign influence on funds behind the Ramparts expose the CIA in coordination with the FBI undertook through its own counterintelligence staff to prepare extensive reports on the Ramparts officers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.193
FBI spied_on
Ramparts documented
document
“In an effort to determine whether there was foreign influence on funds behind the Ramparts expose the CIA in coordination with the FBI undertook through its own counterintelligence staff to prepare extensive reports on the Ramparts officers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.193
Robert Scheer worked_for
Ramparts documented
document
“In pursuing the 'Communist ties of Ramparts magazine the 'case of managing editor Robert Scheer was one of the first to be developed...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.193
CIA spied_on
Ramparts documented
document
“Among the tax returns which the CIA obtained informally from IRS in an informal and illegal manner were those of ... Ramparts magazine which had exposed the CIA's covert use of the National Student Association.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.110
Ramparts member_of
New York mail opening project documented
document
“Among the domestic organizations on the Watch List which was supplemented by submissions from the FBI were ... Ramparts…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.225
CIA spied_on
Ramparts documented
document
“The CIA improperly obtained the tax returns of Ramparts magazine after it learned that the magazine intended to publish an article revealing Agency support of the National Student Association…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.231
Robert Scheer member_of
Ramparts documented
document
“Ramparts editor Robert Scheer who had been a member of the delegation held a press conference in New York…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.208
Ramparts exposed
CIA documented
document
“The most conspicuous intrusion into CIA operations was the 1967 Ramparts magazine article which exposed CIA funding of international student groups foundations and private voluntary organizations…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence · p.75
CIA ordered_assassination_of
Ramparts documented
document
“urged the IRS to no longer give it tax-exempt status…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.32
CIA attempted_assassination_of
Ramparts reported
document
“Now I can't imagine a more clear-cut case of the CIA attempting to use the IRS for the purpose of getting a magazine that proposed to expose activities that the CIA wanted to conceal…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.33
CIA targeted_for_regime_change
Ramparts documented
document
“I gave you an example a few minutes ago of the CIA making such a request on "Ramparts magazine because it feared that "Ramparts might print something that the CIA did not want printed…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service · p.41
Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of
Ramparts documented
“Robert Scheer. The White House wanted more, and Helms initiated an investigation of the magazine's alleged communist ties. So if you write bad about the CIA, you're a communist. They even created FBI files. There was nothing to find. The ag…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 49:51
Edmund Applewhite carried_out_attack
Ramparts book_quoted
“A 17-year agency veteran of literary bent who had once worked at Buckminster Fuller coordinated all of these schemes for the covert action. Applewhite had later said in an interview, quote, I had all sorts of dirty tricks to hurt their circ…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 46:52
Ramparts exposed
CIA documented
“that trained operatives at Michigan State and deployed them forward as part of the Phoenix program in the Vietnam. Rampart saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 44:49
Ramparts exposed
CIA documented
“Ramparts saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent events would test Helms' umbrella theory of management. The Johnston administration became perfectly aware of thi…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 49:23
Edmund Applewhite carried_out_attack
Ramparts book_quoted
“had later said in an interview, quote, I had all sorts of dirty tricks to hurt their circulation and financing. We were not in the least inhibited by the fact that the CIA had no internal role in the U.S., unquote. Applewhite was promoted t…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31B @ 51:28
Richard Helms ordered_assassination_of
Ramparts host_asserted
“By May of 66, within a month of the Times revelation, Director Helms sent the White House information about Ramparts to its editor, Robert Scheer. The White House wanted more, and Helms initiated an investigation of the magazine's alleged c…”
▶ The Colonel's Corner Safe for Democracy Part 31 (33) @ 45:22
Ramparts fiasco about
Ramparts structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Ramparts fiasco' is a work/event about 'Ramparts'…”
Ramparts Affair about
Ramparts structural
“structural link inferred from entity names (not a claim from any source): 'Ramparts Affair' is a work/event about 'Ramparts'…”
Mentions (23)
▶ 47:26
This was called pacification. Next, this appeared in a Ramparts magazine in December 1965. Quote, what we're doing, what we're really doing in Vietnam is killing the cause of wars of liberation. It's a testing ground like Germany and Spain.…
▶ 34:13
So let me go to another one. Hold on just a second. This is a CIA declassified document. And this is what the document looks like. It's from Ramparts. And we ran across lots of very interesting articles from Ramparts. This is the one I thin…
▶ 35:18
If anything, they have become stronger. But an internal power struggle, the opposition consisting of those who consider him too tame, eventually has robbed Depew of much of his authority. I met with Depew in 1966 while researching an articl…
▶ 43:56
others at NSA of the CIA connection and began talking to the San Francisco-based magazine called Ramparts. That magazine had already raised eyebrows at Langley because of an expose reporting that the CIA had hired Michigan State University …
▶ 43:56
others at NSA of the CIA connection and began talking to the San Francisco-based magazine called Ramparts. That magazine had already raised eyebrows at Langley because of an expose reporting that the CIA had hired Michigan State University …
▶ 44:49
that trained operatives at Michigan State and deployed them forward as part of the Phoenix program in the Vietnam. Rampart saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent…
▶ 44:49
that trained operatives at Michigan State and deployed them forward as part of the Phoenix program in the Vietnam. Rampart saw the opportunity to make a powerful statement against covert operations by revealing the CIA NSA links. Subsequent…
▶ 45:22
By May of 66, within a month of the Times revelation, Director Helms sent the White House information about Ramparts to its editor, Robert Scheer. The White House wanted more, and Helms initiated an investigation of the magazine's alleged c…
▶ 45:22
By May of 66, within a month of the Times revelation, Director Helms sent the White House information about Ramparts to its editor, Robert Scheer. The White House wanted more, and Helms initiated an investigation of the magazine's alleged c…
▶ 46:23
In fact, the CIA before the event acted preemptively to limit the damage that would be associated or directed at the CIA. A special assistant to the deputy director of operations ordered to pull together data on ramparts, progressed to sche…
▶ 46:23
In fact, the CIA before the event acted preemptively to limit the damage that would be associated or directed at the CIA. A special assistant to the deputy director of operations ordered to pull together data on ramparts, progressed to sche…
▶ 47:47
In early January of 67, Langley picked up rumors in New York publishing circles that Rampart's piece on the agency and the National Student Association, written by Marcus Raskin, yes, that's Jamie Raskin's dad, had been scheduled and would …
▶ 47:47
In early January of 67, Langley picked up rumors in New York publishing circles that Rampart's piece on the agency and the National Student Association, written by Marcus Raskin, yes, that's Jamie Raskin's dad, had been scheduled and would …
▶ 52:15
A couple of dozen student idealists who had began at a conference in the University of Wisconsin in the late 40s followed the group with interest. Now he expected some declaration on Vietnam. Instead, Groves told Cater that Rampart had gone…
▶ 52:15
A couple of dozen student idealists who had began at a conference in the University of Wisconsin in the late 40s followed the group with interest. Now he expected some declaration on Vietnam. Instead, Groves told Cater that Rampart had gone…
▶ 52:45
You let that feller come into your office and lay a big fat turd right in your lap. Cater knew well what was going to happen. He had been an addressee on CIA memorandum about Ramparts and Robert Scheer the previous summer and had written hi…
▶ 52:45
You let that feller come into your office and lay a big fat turd right in your lap. Cater knew well what was going to happen. He had been an addressee on CIA memorandum about Ramparts and Robert Scheer the previous summer and had written hi…
▶ 53:42
Other details of the White House activity remained obscured, but the summons to Helms came the day before any of this began, when Rampart discussed its finding in a full-page ad in the New York Times and Washington Post. The front-page stor…
▶ 53:42
Other details of the White House activity remained obscured, but the summons to Helms came the day before any of this began, when Rampart discussed its finding in a full-page ad in the New York Times and Washington Post. The front-page stor…
▶ 59:09
The whole Nixon era leading up to the mid-1970s when all hell breaks loose. But this is the first shoe to drop. And we will continue this tomorrow from where we're at now. But this whole thing is along those lines of the Rampart Magazine an…
▶ 59:09
The whole Nixon era leading up to the mid-1970s when all hell breaks loose. But this is the first shoe to drop. And we will continue this tomorrow from where we're at now. But this whole thing is along those lines of the Rampart Magazine an…
▶ 38:31
Okay. Then he goes into a little bit about how the whole thing is set up. So we're just going to jump back in to chapter one. It starts off talking about a magazine that, I mean, I went back and read some of these articles in Ramparts, R-A-…
▶ 39:51
and a covert effort during the Cold War battle to quote-unquote wins hearts and minds. Rampart's revelation with a series of articles exposing concealed the CIA subsidies to various private citizens groups, many with overseas affiliates. An…