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List of Records from the Rockefeller Commission's Investigation of the CIA's Misdeeds
The link above will take you to a listing of 12,700 documents that have been generally unavailable until now. Thanks to DC-area researcher Michael Ravnitzky, we can now see the titles of—and request copies of—material from the 1975 presidential commission that examined CIA misdeeds. (Instructions for requesting are available on the page linked to above.) This material includes information on CIA domestic mail surveillance, human experimentation, assassinations of leaders, and the Agency's other "family jewels," plus depositions from Henry Kissinger, William Casey, and other spooks and powerbrokers.

These records are housed in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, located on the first floor of the Madison Building. Here is an introduction to this listing, entitled "United States Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States: A Register of Its Records in the Library of Congress":

The records of the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States span the years 1941-1975, with the bulk of the material concentrated in the period 1956-75. The ad hoc commission, created by President Gerald R. Ford via Executive Order 11828 on 4 January 1975, and known as the Rockefeller Commission after its chair, Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller, was charged with determining whether the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) conducted domestic surveillance and other activities. Its final report on 6 June 1975 found that the CIA had committed unlawful acts within the United States that included infiltrating dissident groups, opening private mail, testing behavior-inducing drugs on unknowing citizens, and subjecting foreign defectors to physical abuse and prolonged confinement.

posted by LoZo 11:08 AM