Which committee investigated the CIA in the mid-1970s?
The Warren Commission
The 9/11 Commission
The Church Committee
The Hoover Commission
Answer
The Church Committee was a United States Senate select committee to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and its activities in the 1960s and 1970s. The committee was established in 1975 by Senator Frank Church, a Democrat from Idaho. The committee's report, issued in 1976, found that the CIA had engaged in a wide range of illegal and unethical activities, including assassination plots, spying on American citizens, and drug trafficking.
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