WASHINGTON—The transcript of former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) counterintelligence chief James Angleton’s testimony to the Senate Church Committee in 1976 was discovered in the locked stacks of the National Archives by The Epoch Times.
Long sought by historians, the 72 pages of transcription from the hearing remained classified and hidden from the public for nearly 50 years.
The committee, chaired by Sen. Frank Church, informally known by his surname, was founded to investigate intelligence abuses by federal agencies.
Some of the topics covered are still hot-button political issues nearly half a century after the hearing took place.
Committee members expressed concern that hostile foreign nations’ intelligence services were involved in covert espionage activities targeting U.S. elections....
