Posts Tagged ‘Church Committee’
Snowden: COINTELPRO, Surveillance State
Posted: February 12, 2017 in -Tags: 4th amendment, Church Committee, CIA, cointelpro, Edward Snowden, fbi, history, national security, NSA, protest, repression, STASI state, war on dissidents, watch lists
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CIA Admits Planting US News Stories (1975)
Posted: January 15, 2015 in -Tags: Church Committee, CIA, congress, conspiracy, crimes, domestic, information, journalism, journals, news, newspapers, oversight, planted, stories, tv
Question: “Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to a major circulation — American journal?”
Answer: “We do have people who submit pieces to American journals.”
Question: “Do you have any people paid by the CIA who are working for television networks?”
Answer: “This I think gets into the kind of uh, getting into the details Mr. Chairman that I’d like to get into in executive session.”
(later)
Question: “Do you have any people being paid by the CIA who are contributing to the national news services — AP and UPI?”
Answer: “Well again, I think we’re getting into the kind of detail Mr. Chairman that I’d prefer to handle at executive session.”
