The Church Committee was a United States Senate select committee that investigated abuses by the Central Intelligence Agency, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service. The most shocking revelations involved the drugging and torture of unwitting U.S. citizens as part of human experimentation on mind control; the surveillance and infiltration of American political and civil rights organizations; and a CIA program to covertly assassinate foreign leaders.
2014 Pete Seeger died at the age of 94.