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Frank Church

Lawyer and former U.S. senatorWikipedia

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Sep 30, 2026

Julian DoreyGUEST
45:20
There should be no room in America for something like that to happen, but the reality is, and it's been talked about on my show by guests who have been on here over the years, and they were right over the target with this.
Julian DoreyGUEST
45:28
They're like, "Look at the Church Committee." Frank Church in his next election had whatever it was.
Julian DoreyGUEST
45:33
I don't remember the millions of dollars back then in the '70s, but he had all this dark money brought in through polls that were from the intelligence agencies.
Clint RussellHOST
45:41
Yep.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:27
And I'll just give you a quick list.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:29
So the church committee set up by Senator Frank Church They delivered their findings, or maybe it all happened in the same year, but it happened in 1975, the year I was born, so I'll never forget that.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:42
They investigated the CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS, so you can imagine there was a little bit of material there.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:48
So I'm going to tell you, just very briefly, some of the findings of the Church Committee, and this will probably be familiar to your audience, but anyway.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:27
And I'll just give you a quick list.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:29
So the Church Committee, set up by Senator Frank Church, they delivered their findings, or maybe it all happened in the same year, but it happened in 1975, the year I was born, so I'll never forget that.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:42
They investigated the CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS.
Antony RotunnoGUEST
37:45
So you can imagine there was a little bit of material there.

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Antony RotunnoGUEST
63:22
And when you're on Glass Onion, you mentioned the heart attack gun, which the church committee, that's in the Parallax View, isn't it, I think? Exactly, yeah.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
63:29
Just a conspiracy theory.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
63:30
Frank Church
Antony RotunnoGUEST
63:34
had insecure attachments, apparently.
Clint SmithHOST
11:58
COINTELPRO agents managed to infiltrate events and the personal lives of prominent members of the party.
Clint SmithHOST
12:05
In the 1970s, a Senate committee led by Frank Church, a Democrat from Idaho, exposed the FBI and COINTELPRO.
Clint SmithHOST
12:13
As the scholar Peniel E. Joseph has described it, the FBI and COINTELPRO had a, quote, clandestine role in the dismantling of the Black Power, the New Left, and anti-war movements.
Clint SmithHOST
12:25
and revealed further evidence of the pitfalls of unchecked government power.
LionelHOST
16:48
Because the frightening thing about MKUltra, the frightening thing, is not that somebody invented it, you know, or anything like that, is that it's not that somebody invented it on the internet, whatever.
LionelHOST
17:09
It's the fact that, how do I say this? The funny thing is that MKUltra even existed, that the United States government as events by Frank Church and the Church Committee, documented CIA projects involving behavioral modifications.
LionelHOST
17:26
And by the way, do me a favor, lose CIA.
LionelHOST
17:30
There are 17, 17 intel agencies under the DIA, under Tulsi Gabbard before she quit, before she left or whatever it was.

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Episode 152: Operation Mockingbird — Did the CIA Control the American Press?

Sep 24 · 1 Mention

RobinHOST
3:06
The operation was formally exposed during the Church committee hearings of 1975 and 1976.
RobinHOST
3:12
Senator Frank Church's investigation into government intelligence abuses produced a finding that at the time, at least 50 American journalists were confirmed CIA assets.
RobinHOST
3:24
The CIA's director at the time, William Colby, acknowledged the relationships.
RobinHOST
3:30
The agency subsequently implemented guidelines restricting paid relationships with American journalists, though the guidelines permitted other forms of contact.
Danny SheehanGUEST
77:09
We can't let them all walk away like they did at Abu Ghraib of doing all the torture of all these people.
Danny SheehanGUEST
77:15
Let them walk away like we did with the CIA hearings by Frank Church and where nobody gets prosecuted for all the drug smuggling, the criminal assassinations that they've been engaged in, etc.
Danny SheehanGUEST
77:27
And then Frank Church ends up getting ousted from office in his very next election because millions of dollars of secret money come flowing in from the Nugent Hand Bank in Australia through these two southern African banks of the Afrikaner into his campaign to publicly reveal that he supported the Equal Rights Amendment.
Danny SheehanGUEST
77:47
Up in Idaho, you know, and they've got these covert ways of functioning.
Danny SheehanGUEST
77:53
We have to take counsel of what we've learned about this over the last 50 years and take whatever steps are necessary to bring this authoritarian national security state to heel.
RichardHOST
68:54
Uh, people think, well, it's a lot of land.
RichardHOST
68:56
Now you have a lot of mountains and on the, uh, Northeast side of where the panhandle starts, a whole big chunk of that is called the Frank church, uh, wilderness of no, there's a river of no return wilderness, no return wilderness, something like that.
RichardHOST
69:15
You're not allowed to have any motorized vehicles.
RichardHOST
69:18
There are trails where you can take horses and that kind of stuff.
Andy MergenGUEST
14:46
And so only Congress can create wilderness areas, and Congress has created a lot of stellar wilderness areas, the Bob Marshall Wilderness Area.
Andy MergenGUEST
14:55
In Montana is very famous Frank Church in Idaho.
Andy MergenGUEST
14:59
All of my students, I'm amazed that they know all the wilderness in the White Mountains, which is sort of very accessible to them.
Andy MergenGUEST
15:07
These are really important areas and it's under a different legal structure.
Danny SheehanGUEST
51:13
Millions of dollars comes pouring in mysteriously into his congressional campaign in the next term, and he's ousted.
Danny SheehanGUEST
51:21
Frank Church, who chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Danny SheehanGUEST
51:25
Very next election, people are like, out he goes.
Danny SheehanGUEST
51:27
very next election after he chaired the church committee, you know, because all of a sudden millions of dollars comes flowing into his campaign up in Idaho for the United States Senate seat, which he'd had two full terms, you know, with a 70% election.

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