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Print: $20.57 Download: $12.50 Project MKULTRA was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in 1950. The Deputy Director of the CIA revealed that over thirty universities and institutions were involved in an "extensive testing and experimentation" program which included covert drug tests on unwitting citizens "at all social levels, high and low, native Americans and foreign." Several of these tests involved the administration of LSD to "unwitting subjects in social situations." At least one death, that of Dr. Frank Olson, resulted from these activities. The Agency itself acknowledged that these tests made little scientific sense. The agents doing the monitoring were not qualified scientific observers. This is the final volume of hearings on the CIA's program of human drug testing, which features as its centrepiece the testimony of Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, the head of the MKULTRA project and several other related programs.
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Print: $17.24 Download: $6.25 The Winter Soldier Investigation was a media event sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War intended to publicize allegations of war crimes and atrocities by the United States Armed Forces and their allies in the Vietnam War, while showing their direct relationship to military leadership and the foreign and "anti-Communist" policies of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon Presidential administrations. The three-day gathering of 109 veterans and 16 civilians took place in Detroit, Michigan, from January 31 to February 2, 1971. Honorably discharged soldiers, as well as retired civilian contractors and medical personnel, all gave testimony about war crimes they had allegedly committed or witnessed during the years of 1963-1970. The FBI monitored the event as part of an ongoing investigation into the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
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Print: $19.06 Download: $6.25 A collection of secret U.S. Government documents on coercive interrogation, including manuals intended for overseas use and internal memos, concerning efforts in Vietnam in the 1960s, Latin America in the 1980s, and the War on Terror in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo Bay.
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Download: $6.25 The committee held public hearings on the involvement of the United States in covert activities in Chile from 1963 to 1973. President Ford defended covert U.S. activities in Chile during 1970-73 as "in the best interest of the Chilean people and certainly in our best interest." The hearings were an attempt to know the reasons why the U.S. first undertook extensive covert operations within a democratic state and to overthrow a popularly elected government. Secretary Henry Kissinger argued that it would be inappropriate to appear before Congress to discuss covert action operations in which he was involved. "If the Secretary can give speeches on covert action," Senator Frank Church said, "I believe he should be prepared to answer questions before Congress and the people of the country."
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Download: $6.25 These Select Committee hearings review the major findings of the Committee's full investigation of FBI domestic intelligence, including the COINTELPRO and other programs aimed at domestic targets, FBI surveillance of law-abiding citizens and groups, political abuses of FBI intelligence, and several specific cases of unjustified intelligence operations. The staff's presentation touches upon such controversial topics as confidential sources, informants, indexes, general warrants, disruptive techniques, "black bag" jobs, COINTELPRO, and subversive activities. Widely divergent concerns are covered, including the Communist Party, Black Hate, the Ku Klux Klan, Women's Liberation, the New Left, and radical terrorism.
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Download: $6.25 The discussions in these hearings involved efforts to identify publicly certain activities undertaken by the NSA which were of questionable propriety and dubious legality. Like the CIA and the IRS, the NSA also had a "watch list" containing the names of U.S. citizens. "We have a particular obligation to examine the NSA," Senator Frank Church said, "in light of its tremendous potential for abuse. It has the capacity to monitor the private communications of American citizens without the use of a 'bug' or 'tap'...our investigation has revealed that the NSA had in fact been intentionally monitoring the overseas communications of certain U.S. citizens long before the Huston plan was proposed--and continued to do so after it was revoked. This incident illustrates how the NSA could be turned inward and used against our own people."
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Download: $6.25 For over two decades, the Federal Government opened the mail of American citizens, a policy fundamentally at odds with freedom of expression and contrary to the laws of the land. Mail opening offers the most revealing look into the inner life of the CIA and the FBI. In the instance of the CIA, their mail program was allowed to continue despite the harshest criticism of it from investigators within the CIA Inspector General's Office, and despite the fact that it was not very productive in terms of intelligence information. Moreover, throughout the 20-year period, many senior Government officials were not told of the mail openings or were misinformed about them. The Select Committee convened to explore the decision-making process within the CIA, to ascertain how valid these public allegations were.
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Download: $6.25 The principal area of inquiry the committee considered was the scope of intelligence practices required by the IRS to do its job of collecting taxes and to what extent it was employed in the service of objectives which fall outside the strict realm of tax compliance. For example, a branch of the IRS, called the Special Service Staff (SSS), now defunct, had the task of investigating political activists. It was abolished by Commissioner Donald C. Alexander shortly after he took office in 1973.
There were some 8,000 individuals and 3,000 organizations on the SSS list. Organizations on the list included the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Conservative Book Club, the Ford Foundation, the Headstart program, the NAACP, the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the University of North Carolina, and approximately 50 branches of the National Urban League.
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Download: $6.25 On June 5, 1970, President Nixon called in J. Edgar Hoover of the FBI, Richard Helms of the CIA, and others from the military intelligence agencies. He charged them with getting better information on domestic dissenters, and directed them to determine whether they were subject to foreign influence.
After a series of meetings throughout June 1970, a special report was prepared for the President. It set forth several options which ranged from the innocuous to the extreme, from doing nothing to violating the civil liberties of American citizens. In a memorandum, White House aide Tom Charles Huston recommended the extreme options to the President. These recommendations have become known as the Huston plan. The President approved the plan, and it was sent to the FBI, the CIA, and the military intelligence agencies for implementation.
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Download: $6.25 The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities opened public hearings with an inquiry into a case in which direct orders of the President of the United States were evidently disobeyed by employees of the CIA.
The particular case under examination involved the illegal possession of deadly biological poisons which were retained within the CIA for 5 years after their destruction was ordered by the President, and for 5 years after the United States had entered into a solemn international commitment not to maintain stocks of these poisons except for very limited research purposes.
The main questions before the committee were why the poisons were developed in such quantities in the first place; why the Presidential order was disobeyed; and why such a serious act of insubordination could remain undetected for many years.
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Download: $6.25 This reports covers allegations of United States involvement in assassination plots against foreign political leaders. The evidence establishes that the U.S. was implicated in several assassination plots. Among the cases examined are:
- Patrice Lumumba (Congo/Zaire) - In the Fall of 1960, two CIA officials were asked by superiors to assassinate Lumumba.
- Fidel Castro (Cuba) - U.S. Government personnel plotted to kill Castro from 1960 to 1965.
- Rafael Trujillo (Dominican Republic) - Trujillo was shot by Dominican dissidents supported by the U.S. Government on May 31, 1961.
- Ngo Dinh Diem (South Vietnam) - Diem and his brother, Nhu, were killed on November 2, 1963. The U.S. Government supported the coup.
- General Rene Schneider (Chile) - On October 25, 1970, General Schneider died of gunshot wounds inflicted three days earlier while resisting a kidnap attempt.
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Download: $6.25 This book contains two studies: the first is entitled "The Evolution and Organization of the Federal Intelligence Function: A Brief Overview (1776-1975)" and was prepared at the Committee's request and under its direction, by Dr. Harold C. Relyea of the Congressional Research Service. It provides a comprehensive compilation of public, unclassified, sources of information on American intelligence activities, and includes a full bibliography. The second study is entitled "Executive Agreements: A Survey of Recent Congressional Interest and Action" and was prepared by Marjorie Ann Brown of the Congressional Research Service. The survey was intended to help the American people understand an important means used by the Government in the execution of its foreign policy and the efforts made by Congress to ensure that its constitutional responsibilities in foreign affairs are properly executed through the appropriate use of executive agreements and treaties.
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Download: $6.25 The Select Committee's investigation of alleged assassination attempts against foreign leaders raised questions of possible connections between these plots and the assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Questions were later raised about whether the agencies adequately investigated these possible connections and whether information about these plots was provided to the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (the Warren Commission).
Contents include:
- Background for the Warren Commission Investigation: Cuba and the Intelligence Agencies
- U.S. Government Response to the Assassination: CIA Response and FBI Response
- The Intelligence Agencies and the Warren Commission: Unpursued Leads, Knowledge of Plots to Assassinate Castro
- Developments After the Warren Commission: Termination of the AMLASH Operation, Allegations of Cuban Involvement in the Assassination
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Download: $6.25 Two detailed staff reports which supplement Book I of the Committee's final report, entitled Foreign and Military Intelligence. In addition, this Book contains the addenda to the Committee's Interim Report on Alleged Assassination Plots and a composite of written interrogatories submitted by the Committee to former President Richard M. Nixon and his responses.
Contents include:
- History of the CIA
- Part One: The Central Intelligence Group and the CIA, 1946-52
- Part Two: The Dulles era, 1953-61
- Part Three: Change and Routinization, 1961-70
- Part Four: The Recent Past, 1971-75
- Part Five: Conclusions
- Intelligence and Technology
- Addenda to the Interim Report on Alleged Assassination Plots
- Schneider Case
- The "Special Operations" Unit
- The Question of Discrediting Action Against Jack Anderson
- Select Committee Interrogatories for Former President Richard M. Nixon
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Download: $6.25 Contents include:
- 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
- Warantless FBI Electronic Surveillance
- Warantless 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
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Download: $6.25 In 1975, the U.S. Senate established a Select Committee to conduct an investigation and study of the intelligence activities of the United States. The inquiry arose out of allegations of abuse and improper activities by U.S. intelligence agencies, and great public concern that the Congress take action to bring the intelligence agencies under the constitutional framework.
Contents include:
- The Foreign and Military Intelligence Operations of the United States
- The Origins of the Postwar Intelligence Community
- The Response to the Soviet Threat
- Korea: The Turning Point
- The “Protracted Conflict”
- Third World Competition and Nuclear Crisis
- Technology and Tragedy
- CIA: Clandestine Collection of Intelligence, Covert Action, Domestic Activities
- Testing and Use of Chemical and Biological Agents by the Intelligence Community: CIA Drug Testing Programs, Covert Testing on Human Subjects by Military Intelligence Groups
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Download: $6.25 In January 1975, the Senate resolved to establish a Committee to conduct an investigation and study of governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities and the extent to which illegal, improper, or unethical activities existed. The Committee conducted a year-long investigation into the intelligence activities of the U.S. Government, the first substantial inquiry into the intelligence community since World War II. The Committee's investigation confirmed substantial wrongdoing, demonstrating that intelligence activities have not generally been governed and controlled in accord with the fundamental principles of the U.S. constitutional system of government.
Contents include:
- Covert Action: The FBI's COINTELPRO; Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Illegal or Improper Means: Mail Opening, NSA Monitoring, Electronic Surveillance, Political Abuse, Surreptitious Entries, Informants
- Media Manipulation, Distorting Data to Influence Government Policy and Public Perceptions
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Print: $18.95 Download: $12.50 In 1965, Allen Ginsberg travelled to Cuba to participate as a poetry judge in an international contest held by the House of the Americas. This activity earned Ginsberg an FBI file, the Bureau sending details of Ginsberg's travels to the U.S. Secret Service due to his "past associations, activities and obvious friendship on behalf of the current Cuban Government and his connection with other Communist organizations and/or individuals." The FBI concluded that "his activities, while extremely eccentric, apparently lack any specific direction." The FBI declined to interview Ginsberg "in view of his narcotic and sexual proclivities, his psychiatric history and his connections with mass media."
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Print: $27.77 Download: $15.00 Phil Ochs was one of the greatest folk singers of the 1960s. Ochs was first investigated by the FBI early on in his career, after writing a favorable article on Woody Guthrie in Mainstream magazine in 1963, which also brought another name to the attention of the FBI: Bob Dylan. The FBI attended political rallies where Ochs played, and he began noticing the attention, telling an audience in 1966: "I'm a folk singer for the FBI." The FBI’s investigation intensified after the DNC riots in Chicago in August 1968. The FBI attempted to build a case against Ochs and other members of the Youth International Party (Yippies), but the indictment against Ochs never materialized due to a lack of evidence. Ochs instead later testified at the Chicago Seven trial for the defense. Despite the hundreds of pages in his FBI file, Ochs never committed a federal crime. He continued to be under investigation until his death by suicide in 1976. This volume contains commentary and the complete FBI file.
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Print: $20.89 Download: $12.50 Featuring Senate testimony from:
-Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
-Philip Goldman, Former Employee, Central Intelligence Agency
-John Gittinger, Former Employee, Central Intelligence Agency
Information regarding:
-The CIA's opinion on the existence of "truth serums"
-Testing and use of chemical and biological agents by the intelligence community
-Project CHATTER
-Project BLUEBIRD/ARTICHOKE
-MKNAOMI
-MKULTRA
-QKHILLTOP
-MKSEARCH, OFTEN/CHICKWIT
-The testing of LSD by the Army
-The rationale for the CIA drug testing programs
-The death of Dr. Frank Olson
-The surreptitious administration of LSD to unwitting non-volunteer human subjects by the CIA after the death of Dr. Olson
-Monitoring and control of the testing and use of chemical and biological agents by the CIA
-Covert testing on human subjects by military intelligence groups
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Print: $23.99 Download: $12.50 John Lennon began his career as an ordinary pop star who made extraordinary music. He slowly began to evolve as his fame grew and became radicalized through meetings and associations with sixties activists. During this time, John referring to himself as a "revolutionary artist."
The Revolutionary Artist is an examination of Lennon’s forays into activism, his political views, and the music he created during the period. Specific areas of focus include:
- An in-depth look at the 1969 Montreal bed-in, with extensive and wide-ranging interviews
- A previously unreleased transcript of peace seminar Lennon attended at the University of Ottawa
- Discussions between John and Yoko recorded during their Primal Therapy sessions in 1970
- A song-by-song analysis of Lennon’s first three major solo releases, with commentary from John
- Lennon in 1972 running through and offering commentary on all of the songs that he and Paul wrote as the Beatles
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Print: $12.62 Download: $6.25 Brainwashing consists of any effort aimed at instilling certain attitudes and beliefs in a person — sometimes unwelcome beliefs in conflict with the person's prior beliefs and knowledge. This study, prepared by the CIA in 1956, was developed in response to "increasingly acute interest in the subject throughout the intelligence and security components of the Government."
The study itself represented "the thinking of leading psychologists, psychiatrists and intelligence specialists, based in turn on interviews with many individuals" and "extensive research and testing." CIA Director Allen Dulles wrote to J. Edgar Hoover that the study reflected "a synthesis of majority expert opinion."
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Print: $21.96 Download: $6.25 In August 1996, the San Jose Mercury News published the "Dark Alliance" series of articles alleging, among other things, that cocaine was "virtually unobtainable in black neighborhoods before members of the CIA's army"--the Nicaraguan Contras--started bringing it into South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s. The articles stated that Danilo Blandon, identified as a former Contra leader and a supplier of cocaine to Los Angeles drug dealer Ricky Ross, had testified in court that his cocaine profits supported the Contras, and that Blandon's attorney had concluded that Blandon was selling cocaine for CIA.
A CIA Inspector General team reviewed 250,000 pages of documents and conducted over 365 interviews, most under oath, including current and former CIA employees, as well as private citizens, officials, and foreign nationals. The principal individuals discussed in the San Jose Mercury News articles, including Ross, Blandon, Meneses, Lister, Zavala, and Cabezas, were among those interviewed.
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Download: $12.50 The Nixon White House Tapes consist of approximately 3700 hours of recordings containing approximately 2800 hours of recorded conversations between President Nixon, his staff, and visitors at locations in the Oval Office (OVAL); the President's Executive Office Building hideaway office (EOB); the Cabinet Room (CAB); various White House telephones at the Oval Office, EOB and the Lincoln Sitting Room (WHT); and at various Camp David locations (CDHW, CDST, and CDSD). These recordings were produced surreptitiously, without the knowledge of most of the participants.
This volume contains nearly 3,000 pages of detailed transcripts of conversations related to the Watergate break-in and ensuing cover-up. These transcripts were previously prepared for use in either legal proceedings or Congressional hearings related to Watergate.
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Print: $24.84 Download: $6.25 The CIA Family Jewels is a set of reports that detail activities conducted by the United States Central Intelligence Agency. Considered illegal or inappropriate, these actions were conducted over the span of decades, from the 1950s to the mid-1970s. William Colby, who was the CIA director in the mid-1970s and helped in the compilation of the reports, dubbed them the "skeletons" in the CIA's closet.
The reports describe numerous activities conducted by the CIA during the 1950s to 1970s that violated its charter. According to a briefing provided by CIA Director William Colby to the Justice Department on December 31, 1974, these included 18 issues which were of legal concern.
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Print: $22.80 Download: $6.25 Volume 4 of a top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. The documents gained fame when they were leaked to and published in The New York Times during early 1971 by former State Department official Daniel Ellsberg.
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Print: $24.34 Download: $6.25 Volume 3 of a top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. The documents gained fame when they were leaked to and published in The New York Times during early 1971 by former State Department official Daniel Ellsberg.
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Print: $25.52 Download: $6.25 Volume 2 of a top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. The documents gained fame when they were leaked to and published in The New York Times during early 1971 by former State Department official Daniel Ellsberg.
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Print: $24.26 Download: $6.25 Volume 1 of a top-secret United States government report on the history of the internal planning and policy-making process within the government itself concerning the Vietnam War. The documents gained fame when they were leaked to and published in The New York Times during early 1971 by former State Department official Daniel Ellsberg.
"Truman lied from 1950 on, on the nature and purposes of the French involvement, the colonial re-conquest of Vietnam that we were financing, and encouraging. Eisenhower lied about the reasons for and the nature of our involvement with Diem and the fact that he was in power essentially because of American support and American money and for no other reason. Kennedy lied about the type of involvement we were doing there - about our own combat involvement, and about the recommendations that were being made to him for greater involvement...Johnson of course lied and lied and lied..."
-Daniel Ellsberg
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Download: $6.25 The U.S. President's Commission on CIA activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford in 1975 to investigate the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies within the United States. The commission was led by the Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller.
The commission was created in response to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission issued a single report in 1975, touching upon certain CIA abuses including mail opening and surveillance of domestic dissident groups. It publicized Project MKULTRA, a CIA mind control study. It also studied issues relating to the John F. Kennedy assassination, specifically the head snap as seen in the Zapruder film (first shown on television in 1975), and the possible presence of E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis in Dallas, Texas.
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Print: $24.95 Download: $12.50 MKULTRA was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program that began in the early 1950s. Some of the project work included:
- Studying the effect upon human behavior of the repetition of verbal signals ("16 hours a day for six or seven days")
- A review of recording, analysis, and interpretation of bioelectric signal from the human organism and activation of human behavior by remote means
- Drug testing of substances such as LSD on unwitting subjects.
- "Hypnosis as a tool of the clandestine services"
- Open and surreptitious drug testing on criminally insane inmates along with hypnosis as aids to interrogation
This book provides an overview of all 149 subprojects of MKULTRA. It contains all known information on the subprojects, including the individuals, research institutes, and universities involved, and the extent to which humans were subjected to experimentation.
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Download: $12.50 Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) is a non-profit organization that was created to oppose the Vietnam War and is widely considered to be among the most influential anti-war organizations of that era. The group was extensively monitored by the FBI and infiltrated by informants. According to the Church Committee, "Investigations of groups deemed potentially dangerous -- and even of groups suspected of associating with potentially dangerous organizations -- have continued for decades, despite the fact that those groups did not engage in unlawful activity. Groups and individuals have been harassed and disrupted because of their political views and their lifestyles...Unsavory and vicious tactics have been employed -- including anonymous attempts to break up marriages, disrupt meetings, ostracize persons from their professions, and provoke target groups into rivalries that might result in deaths. Intelligence agencies have served the political and personal objectives of presidents and other high officials."
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