Church Committee
The Church
Committee was the United States Senate Select Committee to Study
Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, a U.S. Senate committee chaired by Senator Frank
Church(D-ID) in 1975. A
precursor to the U.S. Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for illegality
by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
after certain activities had been revealed by the Watergate affair.
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