"From the Archive: The report detailed an array of covert efforts to assassinate foreign leaders, including plots to kill Fidel Castro with toxic cigars, exploding seashells, and hypodermic needles disguised as ballpoint pens, and the ensuing scandal was one of several the CIA faced for its misconduct in the mid-1970s."
"Officially called the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, the Church Committee issued additional reports on the CIA's covert efforts to destabilize the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende and a set of volumes detailing the hidden history of the intelligence community, including the CIA, the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
Senate investigations in 1975 exposed extensive CIA covert operations to neutralize foreign leaders and intervene in foreign governments. The Church Committee revealed assassination plots against Fidel Castro using toxic cigars, exploding seashells, and hypodermic needles disguised as pens, among other methods. The Committee produced reports on efforts to destabilize Salvador Allende and compiled volumes on the hidden activities of the CIA, NSA, and FBI. The Ford administration, including Henry Kissinger, attempted to suppress release of the findings while Senator Frank Church defended disclosure. CIA foreign operations frequently produced domestic blowback, with Rahmanullah Lakanwal cited as a contemporary case study.
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