U.S. Commission on CIA Activities within the United States records
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12700
Subjects: Human rights; United States; Postal service; Governmental investigations; National security; Torture; Civil rights; Assassination; Right of Privacy; United States. Central Intelligence Agency; Intelligence service; Defectors; Government policy; Dissenters; Human experimentation in medicine; Detention of persons
Description: Testimonies, documents, and staff interviews with witnesses regarding the full range of subjects covered by the commission's final report concerning activities of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) within the U.S.  Subjects include the infiltration of dissident groups, opening of private mail, testing of behavior-inducing drugs on citizens, and subjecting foreign defectors to physical abuse and prolonged confinement.  Also includes files on other subjects studied by the commission but not included in its final report such as assassinations of foreign leaders.
Notes: Restrictions apply.

Classified.

Transfer, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Vice President of the United States, Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C., 1977.

Ad hoc commission, created by President Gerald R. Ford via Executive Order 11828 on 4 January 1975, charged with determining whether the CIA conducted domestic surveillance and other activities.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and on Internet.