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Just four months after Richard Nixons resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The countrys best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seemed certain to rock the foundations of this secret government. Subsequent investigations disclosed that the CIA had plotted to kill foreign leaders and that the FBI had harassed civil rights and student groups. Some called the scandal son of Watergate. Many observers predicted that the investigations would lead to far-reaching changes in the intelligence agencies. Yet, as Kathryn Olmsted shows, neither the media nor Congress pressed for reforms. For all of its post-Watergate zeal, the press hesitated to break its long tradition of deference in national security coverage. Congress, too, was unwilling to challenge the executive branch in national security matters. Reports of the demise of the executive branch were greatly exaggerated, and the result of the year of intelligence was a return to the status quo.
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Challenging the Secret Government : The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI
author
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Olmsted, Kathryn S.
publisher
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University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin
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080782254X
print isbn13
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9780807822548
ebook isbn13
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9780807863701
language
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English
subject
Intelligence service--United States, United States.--Central Intelligence Agency, United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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JK468.I6O45 1996eb
ddc
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320.973
subject
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Intelligence service--United States, United States.--Central Intelligence Agency, United States.--Federal Bureau of Investigation, Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
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Challenging the Secret Government
The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI
Kathryn S. Olmsted
The University of North Carolina Press [ Chapel Hill and London ]
Page iv
1996 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Olmsted, Kathryn S. Challenging the secret government: the post-Watergate investigations of the CIA and FBI / by Kathryn S. Olmsted. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN o-8078-2254-x (cloth: alk. paper). ISBN 0-8078-4562-0 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Intelligence serviceUnited States. 2. United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 3. United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. 4. Watergate Affair, 1972-1974. I. Title. JK468.16045 1996 320.973-dc20 95-23354 CIP
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
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To Bill
Page vii
You peel off Watergate and you find the Plumbers and the Ellsberg break-in. Peel off the Plumbers and you find the 1970 Huston plan to use the CIA and FBI for domestic surveillance, wiretapping and break-ins. But what would you find if you peeled off another layer and had a close look at that secret world from which these things had been launched?
Daniel Schorr "My 17 Months on the CIA Watch"
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Contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1.
Secrecy and Democracy
11
The Press, the Public, and the Secret Government to 1975
2.
Trusting the "Honorable Men"
29
The Post-Watergate Press and the CIA
3.
The Meat Ax or the Scalpel
41
The Congressional Investigations Begin
4.
Sensational Scoops and Self-Censorship
59
The Journalistic Investigations
5.
Abuses and Aberrations
81
The Church Committee Investigation
6.
Challenging the System
111
Otis Pike's Investigation
7.
Counterattack
145
The Investigators under Siege
8.
Unwelcome Truths
169
The End of the Investigations
Epilogue
191
Notes
195
Selected Bibliography
237
Index
249
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Illustrations
President Gerald Ford meets with Vice President Nelson Rockefeller in the Oval Office in December 1974
50
Senator Frank Church of Idaho
54
Vice President Rockefeller presides over a meeting of the President's Commission on CIA Activities within the United States on 13 January 1975
83
A meeting of the Church committee
92
President Ford meets with members of the Church committee on 5 March 1975 to negotiate the committee's access to documents
104
Senator Church reads his committee's assassination report, which was released on 20 November 1975
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