Topic: CIA Abuses

Aug 17,

1915

Leo Frank Lynched – Anti-Semitism Rises

Nov 25,

1915

Cross Burned on Stone Mountain, Georgia – KKK Revived

Mar 2,

1939

Massachusetts Ratifies Bill of Rights – 148 Years Late

Feb 21,

1940

Civil Rights Leader and U.S. Representative John Lewis is Born in Troy, Alabama

Mar 12,

1947

Cold War Begins: Truman Doctrine Announced

Jul 26,

1947

President Truman Signs National Security Act – Creates CIA

Dec 14,

1947

National Security Council Issues First Covert Action Order to CIA

Jun 18,

1948

CIA Gets Covert Action Authority

Jun 26,

1950

Anti-Communist Congress for Cultural Freedom Formed

Nov 4,

1952

National Security Agency (NSA) Begins Operation

Apr 13,

1953

CIA Launches MKULTRA – Secret Drug Experiments Project

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”

Mar 15,

1960

Julian Bond Leads Atlanta’s First Sit-In

Oct 19,

1960

Martin Luther King Arrested in Georgia – Leads to Famous JFK Phone Call

Jan 9,

1961

Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, First African-Americans to Enroll at University of Georgia

Mar 7,

1961

Sit-In Victory: Atlanta Stores Desegregate Lunch Counters

Mar 13,

1962

Joint Chiefs Recommend Outrageous Anti-Castro Terrorist Acts

Jan 14,

1963

Governor George Wallace: “Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever”

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

Sep 2,

1966

Gov. George Wallace Signs Law Declaring Federal School Desegregation Regulations “Null and Void”

Dec 5,

1966

Supreme Court Orders Georgia Legislature to Seat Julian Bond

Jan 9,

1967

Civil Rights Leader Julian Bond Sworn in as Georgia State Legislator

Jan 23,

1967

Georgia’s Jury System Declared Discriminatory

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

Dec 22,

1967

CIA Delivers Second Report on Anti-War Dissent

Jan 5,

1968

CIA Sends President Johnson Third Report on Student Dissent

Sep 4,

1968

CIA Delivers “Restless Youth” Report on U.S. Peace Groups

May 7,

1973

The “Family Jewels:” CIA Director Orders Full Report on CIA Misdeeds

Jun 25,

1974

Supreme Court Rejects Taxpayer Challenge to CIA Secrecy

Dec 22,

1974

New York Times Exposes Massive CIA Spying on Americans

Jan 4,

1975

President Ford Appoints Rockefeller Commission to Investigate CIA Abuses

Jan 27,

1975

Senate Creates Church Committee to Investigate Abuses by Intelligence Agencies

Feb 19,

1975

House Creates Pike Committee to Investigate Abuses by the CIA, other Agencies

Apr 28,

1975

Daniel Schorr Reveals CIA Assassination Plots on National TV

Jul 18,

1975

Senator Church Calls CIA “Rogue Elephant”

Jan 29,

1976

House Suppresses Pike Committee Report on CIA Abuses

Feb 16,

1976

“The CIA Report the President Doesn’t Want You to Read”

Feb 18,

1976

Cover-up Ends: CIA Required to Report Criminal Actions By Agents to DOJ

Feb 18,

1976

President Ford Bans Assassinations by CIA

Jul 15,

1977

CIA Director Admits Documents on Secret Drug Experiments Were Destroyed

Sep 30,

1978

Belmont Report: Protection of Human Subjects in Research

Aug 3,

1982

Michael Hardwick Arrested in Bed for Sodomy Law Violation – Heads to Supreme Court

Feb 2,

2001

John Ashcroft, Hostile to Civil Liberties, Becomes Attorney General

Oct 26,

2001

Congress Passes the USA PATRIOT Act – Civil Liberties Violations Follow

Jan 11,

2002

Guantanamo Bay Detention Center Opens – Abuses Follow

Jun 26,

2007

Full CIA “Family Jewels” Report Released

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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