Church Committee

Events (8)

• May 15, 1975 and After: Investigations Probe Operation Shamrock, Lead to Passage of FISA Law 1975-05-15
• May 25, 1975: Journalist Reveals US Spy Program; Cheney Recommends Burglaries and Indictments as Retaliation 1975-05-25
• January 29, 1976: Pike Committee Report Criticizing US Intelligence Agencies Is Suppressed 1976-01-29
• Early 1975: Vice President Rockefeller Investigates CIA; Blocks Democrats from Getting Information for Better Investigation
• 1945-1975: NSA’s Operation Shamrock Secretly Monitors US Citizens’ Overseas Communications
• 1967-1975: Project MINARET Illegally Monitors American ‘Subversives’
• April, 1976: Church Committee Reports on Domestic Surveillance and Other Illegal Activities by US Intelligence Agencies
• 1978: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Becomes Law