“… 3. HSCA/Blakey Letter/Request, 9 November 1977 (OLC #77 4894) ....ref letter of November 3.... In light of a more careful review of the Church Committee Interim Report, it is not necessary for you to make this report available.”
“… Ed Greissing, Senate Select Committee on Intelligence staff, regarding the House Select Committee on Assassinations request for access to Church Committee transcripts of testimony by Agency employees.’ I asked him to send Ted Shackley’s testimony to me so he could review it before giving app …”
“… ce, if any, exists in a coincidence in time. The FBI investigated him and reported to the Warren Commission, judging from statements in the Church Committee report and the HSCA drafts. (U) Page 14. The Committee has no instances, documented or otherwise, of CIA deciding "to forego passing inform …”
“that: "a. The DD/P release for assignment to the Office of Security several individuals, as may be appropriate, of proven CE ability to handle and exploit all cases of CE aspect involving Agency personnel;. "b. SID and its function be eliminated from CI Staff; and "c. The ”
“… dedicated leftist who was duped The reports termed Castillo a Attorney General and the by anti-Castro exiles involved in “zombie” — a hyp- Church Committee. the conspiracy. Posing as noprogrammed robot. William Turner’s latest book. Castro G-2 intelligence agents, Double-Agent Network The Cub …”
“… CI asked HPSCI to get involved in the Charters questions at an early stage and not wait for the Senate to finish its work. Because of the Church Committee legacy there are likely to remain some important differences between the Senate and the Administration on Charters questions on which the …”
“… s written in such detail that blanket declassification would cause extensive deletions. I pointed out that when the question arose with the Church Committee it did not do so in the context of public hearings. Instead, the Committee wrote the report with the things that it wanted to say and we ad …”
“… ommittee and a House Intelligence Committee - we did lots of things just by feel, by gosh and by golly. As Larry Houston told me when the Church committee started to expose lots of things, Larry said, “Sam, I told you. You should have talked to me about a lot of these things. We wouldn't be …”
“statements done under oath before the Senate Intelligence Committee, or the Church Committee really, where at least it's being discussed. I don't see how anybody, on any of this stuff, particularly after the Bay of Pigs Operation, …”
“plotting. They didn't know what the hell they were doing. Tracy wouldn't know. The record is clear, and it's even in the Church Committee report, for Christ's sake, that a message came from headquarters to the Havana station, when it was still there, talking about assassina …”
“the Church Committee was actually a title that was prepared by the staff people months before the Church committee was even heard of or even Senator Church kn …”
“… ittees who had worked this out months before. And by the summer and early fall of '74 these guys were ready to go and when views from the Church Committee impetus came, there it was. They had the title, they had the paperwork, they had everything done, and they just pushed it through. INTER …”
“… f I can think of what the M was). But I think in looking into The New York Times in 1973 and 1974 long before the Watergate thing and the Church Committee business began, these guys were always floating around as Congressional staffers. I forget if they were the Senate or the House but”
“… hings like this." What are you going to do with them when they do when they do that? So, but that is much later. I mean, earlier than the Church Committee itself, the one we all know about. But this was all background in terms of, I think, it was the Vietnam war basically that got people ups …”
“… 't mean anything to them. For example in Colorado it seemed to be, it was perfectly all right for the students and the faculty to use the Church Committee documents to prove one of their points about how bad CIA was or how bad DIA was or what have you. But when I tried to use the same docume …”
“… of '74. But coming back to what I said earlier though, those guys who were working in the committees in advance of what later became the Church Committee on Intelligence, they were with the old crowd but they were beginning to break apart then and they were working within the framework, and …”
“… er, for example, Senator Huddleston, who was on the Church Committtee and later was on the Intelligence Committee. During the days of the Church Committee he was talking about, "You can't just have CIA or the intelligence people talk to a couple of people up on the Hill and that's it. You've …”
“… August of '74. But I think if the election had gone differently, and there had been some control under the Congress — more cohesion - the Church Committee and Pike Committee might have been prepared a little better. I don't know. I'm just guessing. Obviously we can't rewrite history. INTERV …”
“… RVIEWER: You are with the second group. MR. HALPERN: Yeah. And I will refer you to Colby's own book in which he says — this is before the Church Committee was created — January the 15th, 1975. Colby went to testify in public before the, I think it was the Armed Services, it might have been A …”
“… , may he rest in peace, also retired December 31, '74, but he went back to work right after the new year. To start, we didn't know that a Church Committee and he didn't know that a Church Committee was being created and what have you, but he knew that there 71 SECRET”
“… hese years. And so if they don't like it, that's tough. Change the system. And that's how I think - I got picked. And I remember when the Church Committee began, one of my retired colleagues, and his wife who is also a retired colleague, his wife was ■ 77 SECRET”
“13-00000 SECRET on the Committee staff. She arranged a dinner party with several of the new staff types - this is the Church Committee not the Pike Committee. Seymour Bolton called the Pike Committee guys a bunch of young whippersnapper, snot-nosed kids. Really. The staff …”
“… hey did not prove the case, that it was illegal. And take as my text the fact that the Justice Department, in looking into this after the Church Committee and after spending God knows how many months and years looking into this thing, had to decide even under the Carter administration there …”
“… eep your mouth shut. Oh brother, that guy was great. No, but I wasn't the only one personally. I was the one who testified on that to the Church Committee. I was one of the guys that testified about that to the Church Committee. AMLASH. And I know the case officer involved, the doctor involv …”
“I didn't know. I'd never heard of it until after the thing hit in '75. But I had seen the original paper, so by the time the Church Committee had announced it all, yeah, I was aware of it. INTERVIEWER: And LASH. You got involved in that one? MR. HALPERN: Oh yeah. I remember that …”
“… ised how much you need medical support in operations. And it was the doctor who came up with idea of the Black Leaf-40. I don't think the Church Committee should have published that. As it was I don't know whether it's still available but it was a publicly available poison that you could buy …”
“… en any of that kind of talk before Kennedy, in other words, the Eisenhower Administration? MR. HALPERN: Oh yeah, sure. If you look at the Church Committee report you'll see it's there. INTERVIEWER: Last time we were talking about, just as we were winding up, we were talking about assassinat …”
“… he cameras if it's executive session. If not, what the hell, make it a public session. He's doing it anyway. INTERVIEWER: What about the Church Committee and its focus on covert action? One view that was expressed is that there was a 108 SECRET”
“… ER: Very good. MR. HALPERN: Sorry. INTERVIEWER: No, very good. What about any reflections on the competence of the Senate members on the Church Committee? MR. HALPERN: Of the Committee members themselves? INTERVIEWER: Uh huh. MR. HALPERN: Well, I don't remember all the Committee members. …”
“… nd. You know. And Congress was pushing stuff into the Community. Not just CIA, but the whole Community. Look, the Pike Committee and the Church Committee, I think both of them, maybe just the Church Committee”
“… then damn it, handle the information exactly the same way the rest of us have always handled the information. INTERVIEWER: How about the Church Committee Report? MR. HALPERN: I thought that was awful. And if you read the Congressional Record, and if you haven't you should take a look at it …”
“But, you’ll get, I think, a feeling for this relationship of the serving officers versus the old hands. INTERVIEWER: All right, the Church Committee believed the overall intelligence budget should be published. Was that 151 SECRET”
“CIA evil, CIA evil. I'm not sure if it had too much of an impact on Congressional Hill. Particularly the Church Committee and the Pike Committee. Particularly the Pike Committee more than the Church Committee. It had some, but I don't think it really stopped …”
“… e got called back and rehired on January the 1st or January the 2nd, whatever it turned out to be, for this kind of stuff even before the Church Committee was created. So I guess of all of those in terms of staff officers, I guess those three were the guys who were more intimately involved …”
“13-00000 SECRET before the Church Committee, it appears in the bloody same book that the testimony of Colby's in, two days later, two or three days later. Dr. Senseney of the Specia …”
“… ng a dart gun. The gun was not a CIA gun. It was not developed in the early 60's. It was not developed as part of Operation MONGOOSE. See Church Committee Hearings, Volume I, Testimony of Charles A. Senseney, Department of Defense, Special Operations Division, September 18, 1975, Pages 159 t …”
“… s I told you about my being out in Boulder, Colorado at the World Affairs Conference. Perfect example. It's okay for somebody to use the Church Committee Reports to damn CIA, but I can't use the same bloody report to defend CIA. So where the hell .do you go? INTERVIEWER: In one hell of a ci …”
“… ct was just beginning to be used. And it's part of the whole business, it's against the establishment. And one of the guys who was on the Church Committee staff, one of the staffers, Rick Inderfurth, I think is his name. INTERVIEWER: Yeah. MR. HALPERN: Okay, you know that name? INTERVIEWER …”
“… portive if Colby had been more honest with the White House in the very beginning. And the beginning to me is January 15, 1975, before the Church Committee. And read Colby's book about that. I mean, he himself says, you know, says he was out of step, basically. And if I were sitting in the Wh …”
“… ia the radio airwaves. And I don't know if that was legal or not to this day, but I guess nobody objected. And they didn't object in the Church Committee to this thing. Except that now that it is run by another part of the US Government, that makes it okay. It's the same thing. 190 SECRE …”
“… s the record identification number, followed, where appropriate, by the date the document is scheduled to be released or re-reviewed. Church Committee Documents: Postponed in Part 157-10002-10102; 2; 10/2017 157-10004-10271; 8; 10/2017 157-10004-10280; 6; 10/2017 157-10005-10158; 5 …”
“… 194-10006-10192; 194-10006-10193 After consultation with appropriate Federal agencies, the Review Board . announces that the following Church Committee records are now being opened in full: 157-10011-10079; 157-10014-10076 NOTICE OF CORRECTIONS: On August 6, 1998 the Review Board made …”
“… shed in the September 15, 1998 Federal Register (FR 98-24741, 63 FR 12345). The following document was mistakenly included in the list of Church Committee 90”
“… 2) any records concerning the various conspiracy theories, and (3) any records within the scope of previous investigations including the Church Committee, Pike Committee, Warren Commission, or House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA),X Second, with the staff, we argue that release …”
“… d, any records concerning the various conspiracy theories, and • any records within the scope of previous investigations including the Church Committee, Pike Committee, Warren Commission, or House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA),1 Second, with the staff, we argue that release …”
“… : (a) the House Select Committee on Assassinations ("HSCA") in conjunction with its investigation into the Kennedy assassination; (b) the Church Committee in conjunction with its”
“… A. JFK Assassination Investigations: Warren Commission, 1963-64 James Garrison, New Orleans DA, 1966-68 Rockefeller Commission,* 1975; Church Committee (Senate) ,* 1975-76 House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), 1976-79 * JFK Assassination, anti-Castro plots and CIA anti Cuban …”
“… A Review and Declassification of Other Records Besides CIA records, CLA is continuing to review its equities in other records, including Church Committee records and records from the Presidential libraries. In addition, the Review Board's interviews with former CIA official Ann Goodpasture m …”
“… under the standards of the JFK Act and placed into the JFK Collection. The CIA will review the following major categories of records: a. Church Committee records identified by the Review Board in August 1998 as being assassination-related. b. Records from the files of Robert F. Kennedy, ma …”
“… nts retrieved over the course of years from earlier investigations, including the Warren Commission, the Rockefeller Commission, and the Church Committee. The Warren Commission in 1963 and 1964 was the first major review of the JFK Assassination. Existing records suggest that CIA provided …”