The Church Committee was a US Senate select committee in 1975 that investigated abuses by the CIA, NSA, FBI, and the IRS. The committee was part of a series of investigations into intelligence abuses in 1975.

The most shocking revelations of the committee include Operation MKULTRA involving the drugging and torture of unwitting US citizens as part of human experimentation on mind control; COINTELPRO involving the surveillance and infiltration of American political and civil-rights organizations; Family Jewels, a CIA program to covertly assassinate foreign leaders; Operation Mockingbird as a systematic propaganda campaign with domestic and foreign journalists operating as CIA assets and dozens of US news organizations providing cover for CIA activity.

It also unearthed Project SHAMROCK in which the major telecommunications companies shared their traffic with the NSA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYISgHPymEE

Famtastik!! This community is so well-informed and has archived so many things that have disappeared. I am 52 years old and this shit (the really specific stuff) is so new to me and it makes me angry because my dad who was born in 1939 was so awake to what was happening through "newsletters" but we lost him too early 💔🇺🇸