Congress turns its investigators on domestic intelligence

In 1975 Congress set out to learn what the country’s intelligence agencies had been doing at home. The Senate’s inquiry is the one most people remember, but the House of Representatives ran its own, through a Select Committee on Intelligence, and this volume prints part of what that committee heard.

Part 3 covers four days of hearings, on October 9, November 13 and 18, and December 10, 1975, in the first session of the Ninety-Fourth Congress. It is testimony and questioning about what the domestic intelligence services did, how far their reach extended, and who was in control of them. For anyone studying civil liberties, or the way Congress keeps watch on the executive branch, it is the record itself rather than a later account of it.

This copy, printed by the Government Printing Office in Washington in paper wrappers, has no annotations.