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Index: CIA
Mar 12,
1947
Cold War Begins: Truman Doctrine Announced
Jul 26,
1947
President Truman Signs National Security Act – Creates CIA
Sep 18,
1947
National Security Act in Effect on This Day: Decades of Lawless Abuses Begin
Dec 14,
1947
National Security Council Issues First Covert Action Order to CIA
Dec 17,
1947
National Security Council Authorizes CIA Covert Actions
Jun 18,
1948
CIA Gets Covert Action Authority
Jun 20,
1949
Congress Explicitly Grants Secrecy to the CIA
Jun 26,
1950
Anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom Formed
Aug 19,
1953
CIA-engineered Coup Overthrows Government in Iran
Feb 18,
1954
Cover-up: CIA Not Required to Report Criminal Conduct
Sep 30,
1954
Rationale for Secrecy and Lawlessness: The Cold War is “A Different Kind of War”
Apr 11,
1956
CIA Narrowly Escapes Closer Senate Oversight
Jun 9,
1964
CIA Pressures Publisher of Second-Ever Book on Agency
Sep 3,
1964
Secret CIA Funding of Private Foundations Revealed, But No Outrage Follows
Feb 15,
1967
“Ramparts” Magazine Exposes Secret CIA Funding of U.S. Student Group
Mar 29,
1967
LBJ Bars Secret CIA Funding of Private Groups
Nov 15,
1967
CIA Delivers LBJ-Ordered Report on U.S. Peace Groups
Dec 22,
1967
CIA Delivers Second Report on Anti-War Dissent
Aug 5,
1968
CIA Memo Explains Co-opting Universities, Professors
Sep 4,
1968
CIA Delivers “Restless Youth” Report on U.S. Peace Groups
Jun 25,
1974
Supreme Court Rejects Taxpayer Challenge to CIA Secrecy
Dec 22,
1974
New York Times Exposes Massive CIA Spying on Americans
Jan 27,
1975
Senate Creates Church Committee to Investigate Abuses by Intelligence Agencies
Jan 29,
1976
House Suppresses Pike Committee Report on CIA Abuses
Feb 18,
1976
Cover-up Ends: CIA Required to Report Criminal Actions By Agents to DOJ
Jan 22,
2009
President Obama Bans Torture
Jul 10,
2015
American Psychological Association Aided CIA/Military Torture Program
Oct 10,
2015
CIA Documents Reveal Role of Chile in 1976 Assassination on U.S Soil and CIA Role in Cover-Up
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