| 1987-05-05 | Televised Iran-Contra Congressional Hearings Begin, Riveting Nation
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter · George Shultz · Caspar Weinberger |
| confirmed |
| 1987-02-26 | Tower Commission Report Released, Criticized as Whitewash of Iran-Contra
3 src Ronald Reagan · Edmund Muskie · William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1986-11-21 | Oliver North Begins Systematic Destruction of Iran-Contra Evidence
3 src Oliver North · John Poindexter |
| confirmed |
| 1985-09-04 | Inslaw Files Bankruptcy Accusing DOJ of Stealing PROMIS Software for Intelligence Use
4 src Department of Justice · Edwin Meese |
| confirmed |
| 1985-08-20 | First Secret Arms Shipment to Iran Initiates Iran-Contra Scandal
3 src Ronald Reagan · Robert McFarlane · Oliver North |
| confirmed |
| 1985-05-01 | Carl Icahn TWA Hostile Takeover - Asset Stripping Blueprint
3 src Carl Icahn · American Airlines |
| confirmed |
| 1985-03-15 | Opus Dei Members Enter Reagan Administration
4 src Ronald Reagan · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Carl Icahn Phillips Petroleum Hostile Takeover Attempt
3 src Carl Icahn · Michael Milken · Drexel Burnham Lambert |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | Maxwell Begins Distribution of Backdoored PROMIS Software to KGB and China
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1985-01-01 | PROMIS Software Creates Global Intelligence Surveillance Network Through Maxwell Distribution
3 src Robert Maxwell · US Intelligence · State Department · House Judiciary Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1983-12-20 | Donald Rumsfeld Meets Saddam Hussein as Reagan Special Envoy to Iraq
3 src Donald Rumsfeld · Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-09-20 | Bamford's The Puzzle Palace Published, First Book-Length Public History of NSA After 30 Years of Denial
2 src National Security Agency · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1982-04-25 | Federalist Society Established: Conservative Judicial Pipeline Inception
4 src Steven Calabresi · David McIntosh · Lee Liberman Otis · Robert Bork · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1982-03-23 | Guatemala Military Coup Brings Ríos Montt to Power with Reagan Support
3 src Ronald Reagan |
| confirmed |
| 1982-02-09 | Reagan Appoints Robert Bork to DC Circuit Court of Appeals, Positioning Antitrust Revolution Author for Supreme Court
3 src Robert Bork · Ronald Reagan · D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals · Federalist Society · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1981-04-01 | Epstein leaves Bear Stearns amid SEC insider trading investigation
3 src Jeffrey Epstein · Bear Stearns · Securities and Exchange Commission |
| confirmed |
| 1980-06-20 | Powell creates Central Hudson test expanding corporate commercial speech rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States |
| confirmed |
| 1980-01-01 | Claim: Epstein and Maxwell Alleged Intelligence Operation (Unverified)
5 src Jeffrey Epstein · Ghislaine Maxwell · Robert Maxwell · Mossad | | disputed |
| 1979-12-27 | Soviet Afghanistan Invasion Positions BCCI for CIA Covert Operations Expansion
4 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1978-11-07 | Business Roundtable Coordinates First Major Corporate PAC Election Strategy
4 src Business Roundtable · Republican Party |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Carter Signs Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Creating FISC, Nominal Constraint on Domestic Surveillance
3 src Jimmy Carter · Ted Kennedy · Church Committee · Department of Justice |
| confirmed |
| 1978-10-25 | Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act as Executive-Power Bargain: Statutory Authorization in Exchange for Court Review Becomes Template
3 src Jimmy Carter · Edward Kennedy · Frank Church · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1978-04-26 | Powell delivers Bellotti decision establishing corporate First Amendment rights
3 src Lewis F. Powell Jr. · Supreme Court of the United States · Corporate interests |
| confirmed |
| 1978-01-01 | Clark Clifford and Robert Altman Begin Representing BCCI in US Operations
3 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1977-10-20 | Carl Bernstein Exposes CIA Media Network in Rolling Stone: 400+ Journalists Secretly Served Intelligence Agency
3 src CIA · William Colby · George H.W. Bush |
| confirmed |
| 1977-08-12 | Weinberger v. Equifax: Fifth Circuit Guts Anti-Pinkerton Act, Clearing Path for Private Intelligence Industry
5 src Government Accountability Office |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | BCCI Establishes Partnership with Pakistan's Zia ul-Haq Military Regime
6 src Agha Hasan Abedi |
| confirmed |
| 1977-01-01 | Oracle Corporation Founded to Build CIA Database, Named After CIA Project
3 src Larry Ellison · Central Intelligence Agency · Oracle |
| confirmed |
| 1976-05-19 | Senate Creates Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, First Institutional Legislative Oversight of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
3 src U.S. Senate · Frank Church · Howard Baker | | confirmed |
| 1976-03-10 | Attorney General Levi Issues First Written Guidelines Limiting FBI Domestic Security Investigations
2 src Gerald Ford · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Department of Justice | | confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford EO 11905: Executive-Self-Regulation of Intelligence Establishes Assassination Ban Without Statute
3 src Gerald Ford · George H.W. Bush · Henry Kissinger · U.S. Intelligence Community |
| confirmed |
| 1976-02-18 | Ford Executive Order 11905 Bans Political Assassination: Executive Self-Regulation Substitutes for Legislative Reform
3 src Gerald Ford · CIA · Church Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1976-01-01 | Richard Mellon Scaife Becomes Heritage Foundation's Primary Donor
3 src Richard Mellon Scaife · Heritage Foundation · Joseph Coors · Edwin Meese III |
| confirmed |
| 1975-11-20 | Church Committee Interim Report on Assassination Plots Documents CIA Foreign-Leader Targeting
2 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · +1 | | confirmed |
| 1975-07-16 | Pike Committee Investigation: House Intelligence Findings Suppressed After CIA and White House Obstruction
3 src CIA · Gerald Ford · Henry Kissinger · CBS |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-28 | Church Committee Exposes Psychological Manipulation Techniques in Government Operations
4 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · Intelligence Community · National Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-26 | Church Committee Exposes Systemic Intelligence Agency Abuses
3 src Frank Church · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1975-04-22 | Church Committee: Landmark Democratic Resistance Framework Against Intelligence Abuses
3 src Frank Church · U.S. Senate · Central Intelligence Agency · National Security Agency · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-27 | Church Committee begins exposing illegal intelligence activities
4 src Frank Church · Church Committee · Seymour Hersh · Central Intelligence Agency · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1975-01-04 | Ford Creates Rockefeller Commission on CIA Activities to Pre-Empt Congressional Investigation
3 src Gerald Ford · Dick Cheney · Donald Rumsfeld | | confirmed |
| 1975-01-01 | ALEC Registers as Federal Nonprofit and Moves to Washington D.C.
3 src American Legislative Exchange Council · Paul Weyrich |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-30 | Hughes-Ryan Amendment: Congress Requires Presidential Findings for Covert Action, Ends Plausible-Deniability Era
3 src Gerald Ford · Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1974-12-22 | Hersh NYT Expose of CIA Domestic Surveillance Triggers Church, Pike, Rockefeller Investigations
3 src Seymour Hersh · New York Times · William Colby · Gerald Ford · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1973-10-01 | Trilateral Commission Founded by David Rockefeller
3 src Jimmy Carter |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | Chicago Boys Initiate Radical Economic Shock Therapy Under Pinochet's Dictatorship
3 src Milton Friedman |
| confirmed |
| 1973-09-11 | CIA-Backed Coup Overthrows Salvador Allende in Chile: Corporate and Intelligence Interests Align to Destroy Democracy
3 src CIA · Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger |
| confirmed |
| 1973-05-09 | Acting DCI Schlesinger Orders CIA "Family Jewels" Internal Inventory of Illegal Activities
3 src William Colby · Central Intelligence Agency · Richard Helms | | confirmed |
| 1972-09-01 | BCCI Founded with Bank of America Partnership and Regulatory Evasion Structure
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-06-19 | Supreme Court Keith Decision Requires Warrants for Domestic Security Surveillance, Reserves Foreign Intelligence Question
3 src Lewis Powell · Department of Justice · John Mitchell |
| confirmed |
| 1972-05-02 | J. Edgar Hoover Dies in Office After 48 Years, Ending Longest FBI Directorship and Enabling Oversight Possibility
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Richard Nixon | | confirmed |
| 1972-03-01 | Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) Founded
4 src Agha Hasan Abedi · Bank of America |
| confirmed |
| 1972-01-01 | Jules Kroll founds innovative private intelligence firm Kroll Associates
4 src Jules Kroll · Kroll Associates · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1971-09-04 | Nixon White House Enemies List Drafted by Dean, Weaponizing Federal Agencies Against Political Opponents
3 src Richard Nixon · John Dean · Internal Revenue Service |
| confirmed |
| 1971-04-28 | Hoover Abolishes Formal COINTELPRO Operations After Media Expose, But Informal Operations Continue
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI |
| confirmed |
| 1971-03-24 | Citizens' Commission Distributes COINTELPRO Files to Press, NBC Reports FBI Surveillance Operations
3 src Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI · NBC News · Washington Post |
| confirmed |
| 1970-07-14 | Nixon Approves Huston Plan Authorizing Illegal Surveillance, Rescinded After Hoover Objects
3 src Richard Nixon · J. Edgar Hoover · Richard Helms · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-07-17 | Nixon Administration Articulates Comprehensive Executive-Supremacy Doctrine: Impoundment, Secret Bombing, Pocket Vetoes, Surveillance
3 src Richard Nixon · John Mitchell · Henry Kissinger · William Rehnquist · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1969-05-09 | Kissinger Initiates Wiretapping of 17 Journalists and NSC Staff After Hersh Cambodia Leak
3 src Richard Nixon · Henry Kissinger · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | | confirmed |
| 1968-08-01 | Robert Maxwell's Secret KGB Meeting Coincides with Czechoslovakia Invasion Planning
3 src Robert Maxwell |
| confirmed |
| 1967-08-15 | CIA Launches Operation CHAOS, Systematic Domestic Surveillance of Anti-War Movement
3 src Richard Helms · Lyndon B. Johnson · Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1967-07-01 | NSA Launches Project MINARET Watchlist Program Targeting U.S. Citizens
3 src National Security Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson · Richard Nixon |
| confirmed |
| 1967-03-01 | Ramparts Magazine Exposes CIA Foundation Funding Network, Ending Olin Money Laundering Operation
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Lyndon B. Johnson |
| confirmed |
| 1965-08-20 | CIA Begins Phung Hoang/Phoenix Program Neutralization Operations Against Viet Cong Infrastructure
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · William Colby | | confirmed |
| 1965-03-01 | McNamara and Johnson Administration Begin Systematic Deception About Vietnam War Progress Creating "Credibility Gap"
3 src Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara · Lyndon B. Johnson · U.S. Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1964-11-21 | FBI Mails Anonymous Suicide Letter to Martin Luther King Jr., Weaponizing Surveillance Material
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · William C. Sullivan · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Martin Luther King Jr. |
| confirmed |
| 1963-10-18 | Hoover Personally Briefs Johnson with King Sex-Surveillance Dossier, Weaponizing Personal Material Against Civil Rights Leader
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Lyndon B. Johnson · William C. Sullivan · Martin Luther King Jr. · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1961-04-17 | Bay of Pigs Invasion Fails: CIA Proprietary Company Model Exposed in Catastrophic Covert Operation
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · John F. Kennedy |
| confirmed |
| 1959-05-29 | Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions
3 src Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · Department of Defense |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan |
| confirmed |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank
5 src John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin |
| confirmed |
| 1957-07-08 | Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1957-06-01 | MKULTRA Subproject 68 Funds Ewen Cameron Psychic Driving Experiments at McGill
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House
3 src Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon
3 src Michigan State University · CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · Edward Bernays |
| confirmed |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins
3 src Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | | confirmed |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network
4 src Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles |
| confirmed |
| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years
3 src Harry S. Truman · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1951-12-06 | Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created
3 src Harry S. Truman · Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Council |
| confirmed |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale
3 src CIA · Allen Dulles · Michigan State University |
| confirmed |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA |
| confirmed |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies
2 src Central Intelligence Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries
3 src CIA |
| confirmed |
| 1949-05-20 | Armed Forces Security Agency Created, Failed Precursor That Drove NSA Consolidation
2 src Louis Johnson · Armed Forces Security Agency |
| confirmed |
| 1947-12-19 | NSC 4-A Secretly Authorizes CIA Covert Action Using "Fifth Function" Elastic Clause of 1947 Act
3 src Harry S. Truman · National Security Council · Central Intelligence Agency | | confirmed |
| 1947-10-01 | Federal Loyalty Program Implementation Creates Permanent Political Background-Check Regime
3 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| confirmed |
| 1947-09-18 | Central Intelligence Agency Begins Operations Under 1947 National Security Act
3 src Harry S. Truman · Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles | | confirmed |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act Establishes Permanent Warfare State and Military-Industrial Framework
5 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Defense · Central Intelligence Agency · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 1947-07-26 | National Security Act: Structural Transfer of Military-Intelligence Policy From Congressional to Executive Control
3 src Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress |
| confirmed |
| 1947-03-21 | Executive Order 9835 Establishes Federal Loyalty Program - 5 Million Screened, Guilt Presumed
4 src Harry S. Truman · Federal Bureau of Investigation · House Un-American Activities Committee |
| confirmed |
| 1946-08-01 | Atomic Energy Act Creates AEC, Establishes Unprecedented Peacetime Secrecy Regime
3 src U.S. Congress · Harry Truman · General Electric |
| confirmed |
| 1946-03-05 | US-UK Sign Secret BRUSA/UKUSA Signals Intelligence Agreement, Foundation of Five Eyes
3 src Government Communications Headquarters |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-20 | Truman Signs Executive Order 9621 Dissolving OSS: Wall Street Intelligence Elite Returns to Private Sector
3 src Harry Truman · William Donovan · Allen Dulles · William Casey |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-03 | Operation Paperclip Secretly Recruits Nazi Scientists, Whitewashes War Crimes
3 src U.S. War Department · State Department · Harry Truman |
| confirmed |
| 1945-09-01 | Project SHAMROCK Begins, NSA Obtains Copies of All International Cables for 30 Years
3 src Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Agency · Harry S. Truman |
| confirmed |
| 1943-02-01 | Army Signal Intelligence Service Begins VENONA Soviet Cable Decryption, Foundation for Post-War Counterintelligence
3 src Federal Bureau of Investigation · National Security Agency | | confirmed |
| 1942-06-13 | Office of Strategic Services Created, Wall Street Lawyers Build Intelligence Apparatus
3 src William Donovan · Franklin D. Roosevelt · Allen Dulles · Wall Street | | confirmed |
| 1941-12-07 | FBI Pre-Pearl-Harbor Japanese-American Dossier System Provides Internment Target Lists
3 src J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| confirmed |