Church Committee Hearings - Tom Charles Huston
Church Committee Hearings - Tom Charles Huston
Church Committee Hearings - Senate Hearings on Intelligence Activities - Tom Charles Huston, Nixon White House Aid - Houston Plan Senate Caucus Room, Washington DC
Church Committee Hearings - Tom Charles Huston
(00:48:33) Schwarz and Huston discuss Hoover's relationship to the Huston plan - Huston says that the plan was presented to all other agency heads before Hoover and Schwarz says the most likely reason Hoover was against the plan was because of its call for a permanent interagency committee
Church Committee Hearings - Tom Charles Huston
(00:51:01) Baker asks Huston why Hoover put down the Huston plan - Huston responds that Hoover was not against the new tactics the plan called for in principle he just didn't want his agency involved in them, Huston gives the example of having FBI collegiate informants under the age of 21 (00:53:19) Baker asks Huston why everyone was so scared of Hoover - Huston responds it was because Hoover was a very influential man in the government