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church links
links from the wikipedia article on the church commission, archived in countelpro.

COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program) was a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. Although covert operations have been employed throughout FBI history, the formal COINTELPRO operations of 1956-1971 were broadly targeted against organizations that were (at the time) considered to have politically radical elements, ranging from those whose stated goal was the violent overthrow of the U.S. government (such as the Weathermen); non-violent civil rights groups such as Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and violent groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party. The founding document of COINTELPRO directed FBI agents to "expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize" the activities of these movements and their leaders.

Sections of the Church Committee report.

Interim Report: Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Foreign Leaders (Index Only, in text form) (364 pages)

Volume 1: Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents (249 pages)

Volume 2: Huston Plan (409 pages)

Volume 3: Internal Revenue Service (128 pages)

Volume 4: Mail Opening (264 pages)

Volume 5: The National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights (169 pages)

Volume 6: Federal Bureau of Investigation (1010 pages)

Volume 7: Covert Action (234 pages)

Book I: Foreign and Military Intelligence (659 pages)

Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (412 pages)

Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans (989 pages)

Book IV: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence (181 pages)

Book V: The Investigation of the Assassination of President J.F.K.: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies (112 pages)

Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities (384 pages)

Books II and III "Church Committee" report

Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. United States Senate, 94th Congress, 2nd Session, April 26 (legislative day, April 14), 1976. [AKA "Church Committee Report"]. Archived on COINTELPRO sources website. Transcription and HTML by Paul Wolf. Retrieved April 19, 2005.

• Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans, Book II

I. Introduction and Summary

II. The Growth of Domestic Intelligence: 1936 to 1976

III. Findings

(A) Violating and Ignoring the Law

(B) Overbreadth of Domestic Intelligence Activity

(C) Excessive Use of Intrusive Techniques

(D) Using Covert Action to Disrupt and Discredit Domestic Groups

(E) Political Abuse of Intelligence Information

(F) Inadequate Controls on Dissemination and Retention

(G) Deficiencies in Control and Accountability

IV. Conclusions and Recommendations

• Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports, Book III    

• COINTELPRO: The FBI's Covert Action Programs Against American Citizens
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Case Study
• The FBI's Covert Action Program to Destroy the Black Panther Party
• The Use of Informants in FBI Intelligence Investigations
• Warrantless FBI Electronic Surveillance
• Warrantless Surreptitious Entries: FBI "Black Bag" Break-ins And Microphone Installations
• The Development of FBI Domestic Intelligence Investigations
• Domestic CIA and FBI Mail Opening
• CIA Intelligence Collection About Americans: CHAOS Program And The Office of Security
• National Security Agency Surveillance Affecting Americans
• Improper Surveillance of Private Citizens By The Military
• The Internal Revenue Service: An Intelligence Resource and Collector
• National Security, Civil Liberties, And The Collection of Intelligence: A Report On The Huston Plan