Question

The Church Committee revealed that since the beginning of the Cold War A. the CIA and FBI had engaged in abusive actions. B. the Catholic Church had secretly channeled funds to Third World countries fighting communism. C. every administration had traded arms for hostages behind the back of Congress. D. the Ku Klux Klan had been receiving funds from the FBI to sabotage the civil rights movement. E. the draft process had unfairly drafted the poor and minorities, while white, middle-class men were often exempt.

Answer 1

Answer:

A. the CIA and FBI had engaged in abusive actions.

Explanation:

By the early years of the 1970s, a series of troubling revelations had appeared in the press concerning intelligence activities. First came the revelations by Army intelligence officer Christopher Pyle in January 1970 of the U.S. Army's spying on the civilian population and Senator Sam Ervin's Senate investigations produced more revelations.Then on December 22, 1974, The New York Times published a lengthy article by Seymour Hersh detailing operations engaged in by the CIA over the years that had been dubbed the "family jewels". Covert action programs involving assassination attempts on foreign leaders and covert attempts to subvert foreign governments were reported for the first time. In addition, the article discussed efforts by intelligence agencies to collect information on the political activities of US citizens.