United States Senate
Huston Plan: Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2
Hearing · written September 1975 · released 1976
Why this matters
Hearings on the 1970 'Huston Plan', a White House proposal to lift limits on domestic burglary, mail opening and electronic surveillance of anti-war activists. Nixon approved it and then rescinded it within days after J. Edgar Hoover objected. The testimony shows how close the U.S. came to formally authorizing illegal domestic intelligence.
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https://archive.org/details/Church-Committee-Hearings-Volume2-Huston-Plan
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Watching the Watchers
1970: a plan to legalize the illegal, rescinded in five days.
Cite
United States Senate. "Huston Plan: Church Committee Hearings, Volume 2." September 1975. Released 1976. https://archive.org/details/Church-Committee-Hearings-Volume2-Huston-Plan (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0063).
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