Exhibit 305

Foreign and Military Intelligence (Church Committee, Book I), S. Rep. 94-755: Covert Relationships with the United States Media

Exhibit 305 · Congressional report

Foreign and Military Intelligence (Church Committee, Book I), S. Rep. 94-755: Covert Relationships with the United States Media

Until February 1976, when it announced a new policy toward U.S. media personnel, the CIA maintained covert relationships with about 50 American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations.

Documents about 50 CIA relationships with U.S. journalists or media employees as of February 1976, the CIA's February 1976 policy, more than a thousand books produced or subsidized before 1967, and CIA acknowledgement that propaganda 'fallout' in the United States cannot be prevented.

Source: United States Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
Date: 26 April 1976
Quoted from: Book I, Part B, Covert Relationships with the United States Media, p. 192 (PDF p. 195)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-i.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-6.10: Primary record The Church Committee found that until February 1976 the CIA kept covert relationships with about 50 American journalists or employees of U.S. media organizations, and that it produced, subsidized or sponsored more than a thousand books before the end of 1967.
Finding POL-7.2: Primary record The Church Committee reported that the CIA's policy of 11 February 1976 barred paid or contractual relationships with accredited news correspondents and would end fewer than half of about 50 existing relationships with American journalists and media employees. The Committee wrote that "No mechanism exists to protect the U.S. public and the Congress from fallout from black propaganda or any other propaganda."