#USSenate

People (3)

• Frank Church Frank Church was a Democratic senator from Idaho who chaired the 1975-1976 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities that documented COINTELPRO, Operation CHAOS, assassination plots against foreign leaders, and illegal domestic surveillance by the CIA, FBI, and NSA.
• James Eastland Mississippi senator from 1941 to 1978 and Delta planter who chaired the Internal Security Subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee, buried over a hundred civil rights bills, and drew 100,000 dollars a year in farm subsidies.
• Paula Hawkins Republican senator from Florida from 1981 to 1987 in whose Senate office BCCI's American manager met Justice Department officials in 1984 over her allegation that the bank laundered drug money.