steven scully: how so? by 1975, the cia which has, for most of its existence, been trying to avoid permanent congressional investigation of its activities, finds itself under investigation by two different committees in the two houses of congress. the church committee and the pike committee. that really turned out a lot of the cia's -- i don't want to call it during laundry. dirty laundry. there is a cia report that was a collection of questionable cia activities that went on from 1959 until 1972. because therely is a greater willingness on the part of the press to challenge the cia. the entire thing starts because 1974,r hersh, in december publishes a story about the cia has a massive- domestic surveillance campaign going on in the united states which is a direct contravention of the agency charter as it is prohibited from operating within the confines of the united states. on c-span radio a couple of weeks ago we played the audio of senator church from idaho. and if you listen to what you said back then a