AS CONGRESS RESOLVES SO DID PROPOSED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200025-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2007
• Sequence Number: 25
• Publication Date: May 5, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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Approved For Release 2007/06/15: CIA-RDP99-00498R000100200025-5
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wall. Citing "tactics ,.unworthy of a
democracy. and occasionally remini-
scent of the-?tactics; of. totalita'rianre -:
gimes,' the-- Church-..committee laid
out a. record. of,, goy ernment -lawless-
ness over a ":4O-year-period - under-:
both - Democratic - ' and::'' Repuhlican'--
presidents.-.- .
The committee's reports mentioned -
CIA attempts to:, murder foreign
leaders, and literally thousands' of
covert actions carried out without any'
White House scrutiny.
At home, the reports -chronicled a
steadily expanding-'pattern-on -the
part of, both the- FBI and the, CIA--
of .'invasions of privacy; manipulation
of the press. and=violations of consti
tutional -and- statutory -rights.
Improprieties-were found at every;:
level sometimes' ordered by ,the:
White House, ; sometimes . condoned-
by attorneys general sometimes con-
ceived by. underlings.-'who concealed:.
their misdeeds from- their superiors
The Church - reports "':draw -.scant.
mention in Corig ess=.these.days It
is no longer fashionable' to- "dwell' on-
them. Ever since the-"".'Inve'stigations
closed down, the -Senate, :and ?to some
extent the House Intelligence commit
tees, have been more-,concerned, ;as:::
Sen.. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) recently put
seemed-to ave'their backs.-to-,the
They-.blew taps on Capitol Hill last,
week, for, the., congressional resolve'-
. to "reform the- practices of ameri
.ca's spies and counterspies-a charter-
for,
the CIA.-
It? was more 'of a' belated memorial'
service --than-., a-, funeral.. More than.
four.. years- have passed . since ths'
.Senate Select. Committee. on Intel
ligence,'headed by, Frank Church-(D-,
Idaho), concluded its. unprecedented
investigations of the nation's' intel=
ligence agencies with an :uncontested
catalogue of.-iilegality, waste and mis
managerrient. in'the name ofnational,"
'security: ,.. ;