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Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller Commission

Conway, Catrina M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461264101

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2016, Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, History (Arts and Sciences).
In 1975, allegations by journalist Seymour Hersh in the New York Times of CIA domestic spying program launched a year of investigations into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The accusations led to the establishment of the Rockefeller Commission by President Gerald Ford, the Church committee by the Senate, and the Pike committee by the House. A great deal of scholarship has analyzed the impact of the congressional committees, however, the Rockefeller Commission has largely become a historical footnote to their investigations. Utilizing research conducted at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and the Rockefeller Family Archives, my work reconsiders the Rockefeller Commission and how the Ford administration utilized the Commission in an attempt to preempt the congressional investigations. Although the Commission, at first, failed to achieve Ford’s goals, by the end of 1975 Ford used the Commission’s work to legitimize his reforms to the U.S. intelligence community.
Chester Pach (Committee Chair)
Paul Milazzo (Committee Member)
Ingo Trauschweizer (Committee Member)
120 p.
History
Rockefeller Commission; President Gerald Ford; Year of Intelligence; Church Committee; Nelson Rockefeller; Commission on CIA Activities within the United States

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  • Conway, C. M. (2016). Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller Commission [Master's thesis, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461264101

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Conway, Catrina. Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller Commission. 2016. Ohio University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461264101.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Conway, Catrina. "Some Secrets You Keep: Reconsidering the Rockefeller Commission." Master's thesis, Ohio University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1461264101

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