Background The United States President’s Commission on CIA Activities within the United States was set up under President Gerald Ford in 1975 to investigate the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency and other intelligence agencies within the United States. The commission was led by the Vice President, Nelson Rockefeller, and is sometimes referred to as the Rockefeller Commission. The commission was created in response to a December 1974 report in The New York Times that the CIA had conducted illegal domestic activities, including experiments on U.S. citizens, during the 1960s. The commission issued a single report in 1975, touching upon…
Author: John Greenewald
Background The Alsos Mission was an organized effort by a team of British and United States military, scientific, and intelligence personnel to discover enemy scientific developments during World War II. Its chief focus was on the German nuclear energy project, but it also investigated both chemical and biological weapons and the means to deliver them. The Alsos Mission was created following the September 1943 Allied invasion of Italy with a twofold assignment: search for personnel, records, material, and sites to evaluate the above programs and prevent their capture by the Soviet Union. It was established as part of the Manhattan…
Background USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) Sailors demonstrate helpful ways to fight the spread of COVID-19. This video was created and published in May of 2020 in order to help provide better understanding of fighting the spread of COVID-19. Video Archive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ozkvxrdmxjc
Background The following was released on December 22, 2020, by the Department of Justice: Today, following months of virtual meetings, testimony and study, U.S. Attorney General William P. Barr submitted the final report of the President’s Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice to the White House. This report represents the first comprehensive study of law enforcement in more than 55 years. On Oct. 28, 2019, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order No. 13896, which directed the Department of Justice to establish the “Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice.” The purpose of the Commission…
Background Below, you will find the passed copy of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which includes the Coronavirus Stimulus package. It is added here without editorial for reference purposes. Document Archive Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 [5,593 Pages, 9MB]