U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities

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.

U.S. Intelligence Agencies and Activities is the title under which the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Intelligence printed its inquiry into the country’s intelligence services. This volume prints the committee’s own proceedings: Part 6 of the series it called Committee Proceedings II, from the second session of the Ninety-Fourth Congress.

It covers ten days: January 20, 21, 23, 26, 27 and 28, and February 3, 4, 5 and 10, 1976. For anyone following how Congress examined the intelligence agencies in the middle of the 1970s, it is the record as the Government Printing Office printed it at the time.

This copy is in its original light tan government wrappers, toned with age and worn at the edges from handling. The pages inside, and any folded exhibits, have not been checked.