At a time of assassinations, leaked communications, and abuses of executive power, it might be good to reflect on the legacy of the Church Committee investigations. Last week, I recorded a @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social episode with @mguariglia.bsky.social and @brianhochman.bsky.social.
The great @mguariglia.bsky.social and I talked with @lawfaremedia.org about the Church Committee Report and its legacy. A terrific conversation.
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On Lawfare Daily, @michael-feinberg.bsky.social sat down with @brianhochman.bsky.social and @mguariglia.bsky.social to discuss their new book, “The Church Committee Report,” on law enforcement and intelligence community’s Cold War excesses and what we can learn from that era. youtu.be/Fgi3SaHA-Xw
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Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America.
The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today.
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Happy Publication day to the Church Committee Report!
Published for the first time in an abridged format and by a major press for it's depressingly relevant 50th anniversary.
Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America.
The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
PUBLICATION DAY IS TOMORROW!
Get a copy and read about how the CIA and the Mafia were basically entwined to in order to infiltrate Cuba and assassinate Castro with an exploding cigar. How the FBI tried to bully MLK into committing suicide. How the IRS was deputized to spy on Black Panthers.
2013: After NSA revelations, I ran a Twitter account posting quotes from the Church Commitee Report that were still relevant.
2022: I meet @brianhochman.bsky.social after he published his history of wire tapping The Listeners.
2026: Our abridged version hits stands for it’s 50th anniversary.
If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.
The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.
One month until the release of the Church Committee Report!
For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
a poster for an event "executive power and the fate of democracy: lessons from the Church Committee at 50" to be held at Georgetown on January 23, 2026 at 4pm.
DC area: For the upcoming release of The Church Committee Report from @wwnorton.com, @brianhochman.bsky.social and I are hosting an event on the past/future of civil liberties & unaccountable government with a panel of heavy hitters, Pulitzer prize winners, and a staffer of the Church Committee.
People of DC and beyond: we have a Dream Team lined up for the launch of the Church Committee Report at Georgetown on 1/23. Mark your calendars! @mguariglia.bsky.social @wwnorton.com
Just when you thought the academic job market couldn't get more dystopian: an ad for an opening at . . . ICE.
“Defend the District” protest and Go-Go concert against Trump’s takeover at 14th and U St:
The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.
Our edition of The Church Committee Report has a cover. Coming Jan '26. @mguariglia.bsky.social and I both hope its relevance diminishes between now and then.
I don't know, I'm no expert. But now is probably the time for universities in so-called Red States (and also maybe, um, Catholic and Jesuit schools too) to start standing the fuck up.
At the pitch meeting with studio execs...
Once again, I hope this whets your appetite, because @brianhochman.bsky.social and I’s 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report on unlawful and political activity of the CIA/FBI/NSA will published by Norton early next year.
Bro we know who this is and she teaches at the "University of Austin."
This is gutting news. Sterne was a once-in-a-generation mind. How many careers did his *footnotes* launch, much less books like Audible Past and MP3?
they’ve detained a postdoc here at georgetown
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Amid a nationwide push to denigrate and erase Black contributions to US history, it makes perfect sense that the unrepentant racists would end up right back here.
It was 1983, and Helms wanted to make sure that MLK Day wouldn’t become a national holiday. The recordings were his “proof” that King’s image was fraudulent.
