Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s
Who is the prolific author of some 26 books and about 22 behind, mom. It is these snail mail dispatches from the Eastern Front that reappear lightly edited in parts of the book and they help give the dispatches narrative some Chronological Order from 1975 when i first became, first began working in congress until 2010 when dean Harry Harding blessedly rescued me. Now in editing these papers, the great folks at bancroft press works to encourage me to leave some of that naive enthusiastic impressionable boys in and i did so what you have here are some stories about washington, about moscow, about a meeting with Andrei Sakharov and andre dmytro with jimmy carter, meetings with the nixon family, ted kennedy and with a young senator barack obama. They are stories about freshmen senators guys like howard baker, john kerry and joe biden when they first showed up on the Foreign Relations committee in the senate where i was the leadership staffer working for the committee. And there are stories