“…the Church Committee’s final report [which investigated the legality of intelligence gathered by CIA and FBI] called for creating a permanent oversight committee, and in May 1976, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence was formed. …But the real legacy of the Church and Pike committees [which oversees the U.S. Intelligence Community] was the empowerment of […]
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2/18/1976
President Ford issued Executive Order 11905 on February 18, 1976, which states under Section 5 part (g) Prohibition of Assassination, “No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination.” – Gerald R. Ford, “President Gerald R. Ford’s Executive Order 11905: United States Foreign Intelligence Activities,” Federation of […]
2/18/1976
President Gerald Ford “issued an executive order on February 18, 1976, that granted the National Security Council greater power over intelligence gathering, established a Committee on Foreign Intelligence and Operations Advisor Group to monitor the CIA, as well as an Intelligence Oversight Board, imposed restrictions on surveillance, and banned assassinations of foreign leaders. Ford told […]
2/18/1976
“[O]n February 18, 1976, President [Gerald] Ford issued Executive Order 11905, forbidding U.S. government agencies from undertaking assassinations.” – Gerald Posner, Why America Slept, Page 13 […]
1/15/1976
In The Iraq War Reader, Christopher Hitchens wrote: “… Committee on Intelligence Activities chaired by Congressman Otis Pike, completed in January 1976, partially leaked, and then censored by the White House and CIA. The committee found that in 1972 Kissinger had met with the shah of Iran, who solicited his aid in destabilizing the Baathist […]
11/15/1975
“The full text of the Franco-Iraqi Nuclear Cooperation Treaty [which was signed in Baghdad during November 1975] was not made public until eight months later. One of the conditions set out in the treaty was the stipulation that ‘all persons of Jewish race or the Mosaic religion’ be excluded from participating in the program, either […]
9/15/1975
During Saddam Hussein’s September 1975 visit to Paris to complete a purchase of French fighter planes, “The French officials…offered to sell him an Osiris [nuclear] research reactor and a scale model called Isis, both of which could breed small quantities of bomb-grade plutonium. Saddam agreed to buy them on one condition–that France agreed to deliver […]
9/15/1975
“Interviewed in the Lebanese weekly magazine Al Usbu al-Arabi in September 1975 shortly after the reactor deal had been concluded [in which France sold Iraq nuclear technology], Saddam proudly declared, ‘The agreement with France is the first concrete step toward production of the Arab atomic bomb.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date […]
8/21/1975
“On August 21, 1975, the Congressional Research Service presented to the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the House Committee on International Relations a document entitled ‘Oil Fields as Military Objectives: A Feasibility Study.’ ” The document explored “the possibility of seizing Persian Gulf facilities should the [OPEC oil] embargo escalate into a strangulation of American […]
7/22/1975
“On July 22, 1975, the New York Daily News charged that for at least five years the NSA [National Security Agency] routinely eavesdropped on commercial cable traffic to and from the United States. The news shocked many around the country and prompted the House Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Information and Individual Rights to launch […]