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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