Crucible of Antiterrorism: Political Violence and Backlash Against U.S. Intelligence Reform

Olin Hall, 129

In the mid-1970s, following the Watergate scandal and U.S. defeat in Vietnam, a powerful coalition of intelligence operatives, conservative politicians, and rightwing activists mobilized to oppose government reforms to the FBI and CIA. Amid a backdrop of bombings and other political violence, members of this coalition called for reviving covert operations and broad surveillance powers […]