The Crown Jewels: A History of the CIA's Domestic Spying on Anti-War Demonstrators and Civil Rights Activists

The CIA's domestic spying on anti-war demonstrators and civil rights activists led to directly to the creation of the church committee in January 1975. James Schlesinger who was a newly appointed CIA director found out about this in 1973 she began to demand that all CIA officials tell him everything that might be a problem or might be a scandal That they had done previously not just things about Watergate but he wanted to get a handle on everything what did we ever do that might come out that might be considered illegal now or a scandal.