Intelligence Related Commissions, Other Select or Special Committees and Special Reports

Commissions

Report of the National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community

The National Commission for the Review of the Research and Development Programs of the United States Intelligence Community was established pursuant to Public Law 107-306, as amended by Public Law 111-259, to review and report on the status of the research and development programs within the United States Intelligence Community. Linked here, the Commission completed the report on May 29, 2013.

Report to the President by the Commission on CIA Activities Within the United States, 1975 (Rockefeller Commission)

Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community, 1996 (Aspin - Brown Commission) 

National Commission on Terrorism: Countering the Changing Threat of International Terrorism, 2000 (Bremer Commission) 

U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century, 2001 (Hart-Rudman Commission) 

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States, 2001 (9/11 Commission)

Report of Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2005 (Robb - Silberman Commission)

Reports of Other Select or Special Committees 

Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 1975-76 (Church Committee)

Rules and Authorizing Resolution

• Rules of Procedure and S. Res. 21, 94th Congress

Interim and Staff Reports (1975)

• Interim Report, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, S. Rep. No. 94-465
• Staff Report, Covert Action in Chile, 1963-1973

Final Report, S. Rep. No. 94-755 (1976)

• Book I, Foreign and Military Intelligence
• Book II, Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
• Book III, Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans
• Book IV, Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Foreign and Military Intelligence
• Book V, The Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Performance of the Intelligence Agencies
• Book VI, Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities

Hearings

• Volume 1, Unauthorized Storage of Toxic Agents (September 16, 17, and 18, 1975)
• Volume 2, Huston Plan (September 23, 24, and 25, 1975)
• Volume 3, Internal Revenue Service (October 2, 1975)
• Volume 4, Mail Opening (October 21, 22, and 24, 1975)
• Volume 5, The National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights (October 29 and November 6, 1975)
• Volume 6, Federal Bureau of Investigation (November 18, 19, December 2, 3, 9, 10, and 11, 1975)
• Volume 7, Covert Action (December 4 and 5, 1975)

Additional Links

• Collection of Church Committee Reports and Hearings

Subcommittee to Investigate Individuals Representing the Interest of Foreign Governments, Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Inquiry Into the Matter of Billy Carter and Libya, S. Rep. No. 96-1015 (1980)

Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair, 1987 

Report of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, 1993 

Staff Study, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, IC21: The Intelligence Community in the 21st Century, 1996 

House Select Committee on U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Repbulic of China, H. Rep. No. 105-851 (1999)

Special Intelligence Community Reports

Special Advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence, Comprehensive Revised Report with Addendums on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2004 (Duelfer Report)