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The Church Committee Reports

Price: $29.95 (AARC members $24.95)

Product Code: CD-CHURCH


Summary

This CD-ROM collects together electronic copies of all 14 hard-to-find published reports of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activites. In the mid 1970s, the so-called Church Committee documented a variety of abuses by the intelligence agencies.

Also included is over 1000 pages of Church Church Committee documents released under the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Some of these records were declassified as recently as the summer of 2000.

Detailed List of Contents

Electronic copies of all fourteen Reports of the Church Committee:

  • Interim Report: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, Foreign and Military Intelligence
  • Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents
  • Volume 2: Huston Plan
  • Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service
  • Volume 4: Mail Opening
  • Volume 5: The National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights
  • Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation
  • Volume 7: Covert Action
  • Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence
  • Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
  • Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
  • Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence
  • Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
  • Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities

Additional Reports and Documents:

  • Rockefeller Report. Report by the President's Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States (Rockefeller Report)
  • Finding Aids. Table of contents of all 56 boxes of Church Committee records declassified under the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Nine of these boxes were released as recently as the summer of 2000.
  • Church Committee depositions:
    • Thomas Parrott, head of the White House "Special Group" from 1957 to 1963
    • David Phillips, CIA propaganda specialist and founder of the Association of Retired Intelligence Officers
    • James Angleton, chief of CIA's Counterintelligence Division from 1954 to 1974
    • Jane Roman, subordinate of Angleton and handler of cables related to Lee Oswald's purported trip to Mexico City in the fall of 1963
    • CIA case officer for AMLASH, the code-name for a Cuban official recruited by CIA to kill Fidel Castro
  • Other Church Committee files:
    • References to FBI Review of Tapes of Oswald's Oct. 1, 1963 Mexico City Conversation
    • Committee Report: The Intelligence Agencies and the Assassination of President Kennedy
    • Preliminary Report of Investigation into the Assassination of President Kennedy
    • Oswald in New Orleans
    • J. Lee Rankin Letters to CIA (Correspondence File)
    • J. Lee Rankin Letters to State Department
    • and more....

Features

  • High-quality scanned images. Documents are stored in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), which features exact visual reproduction in combination with text searchability. The Adobe Acrobat Reader is used for viewing.
  • Instant text searching. Full-text search of the entire collection of reports and documents (over 6000 pages in all).
  • Help tutorial, historical overview, and more. Helpful tutorial pages, a brief history of the Church Committee, information on the AARC and the National Archives, and more
  • Print Options. Print individual pages or entire documents

System Requirements

  • PC with Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, or XP, or Macintosh
  • Web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator)
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader (included)