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Brian Hochman

@brianhochman.bsky.social

Professor @Georgetown // Author, The Listeners: A History of Wiretapping in the United States. Cleeeeeeeeeeeevelaaaaaaaaaaaand. This is for you.

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Brian Hochman@brianhochman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America. The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State

Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State

bookshop.org

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Happy Publication day to the Church Committee Report! Published for the first time in an abridged format and by a major press for it's depressingly relevant 50th anniversary.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.
Brian Hochman@brianhochman.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Campaigns to disrupt progressive social movements. Government agencies violating the constitution. Unaccountable actions in Latin America. The Church Committee warned us fifty years ago. Our publication day is today. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State

Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State

bookshop.org

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PUBLICATION DAY IS TOMORROW! Get a copy and read about how the CIA and the Mafia were basically entwined to in order to infiltrate Cuba and assassinate Castro with an exploding cigar. How the FBI tried to bully MLK into committing suicide. How the IRS was deputized to spy on Black Panthers.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s. Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

If you've ever been curious about how the Mafia helped the CIA in Cuba, how the US government planned to smuggled sea urchin toxin in a dart gun to kill elected African leaders, the real playbook by which the US government tried to tear apart the Civil Rights and anti-war movements--this is for you.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One month until the release of the Church Committee Report! For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 8mo ago

One month until the release of the Church Committee Report! For it's 50th anniversary, published by a major press for the first time and abridged to its most jaw-dropping findings and recommendations the report chronicles the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.

The Church Committee Report book cover with a photo of Frank Church holding a CIA dark gone done in 1970s style orange. Edited and introduced by Matthew Guariglia and Brian Hochman with a foreward by Beverly Gage.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · last yr.

The Church Committee Report is, to date, the most detailed articulation of the government's playbook for disrupting, surveilling, and crushing political movements. It was written in 1975 but could not be more relevant or useful in 2025.

Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited to share the *incredible* cover for the Church Committee Report! The first version of the 1975 report on illegal surveillance & the national security state ever published by a mainstream press. Abridged/introduced by @brianhochman.bsky.social and I. Published by W.W. Norton January 2026.

A book cover for the Church Committee Report done in 1970s style with orange highlights around a photograph of frank church holding a dart gun.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · last yr.

Once again, I hope this whets your appetite, because @brianhochman.bsky.social and I’s 50th anniversary edition of the Church Committee Report on unlawful and political activity of the CIA/FBI/NSA will published by Norton early next year.

National Security Archive@nsarchive.bsky.social · last yr.

“Now that the JFK papers have revealed key secrets still hidden in the Family Jewels collection,” noted Archive Senior Analyst Peter Kornbluh, “there is no reason all those pages cannot be declassified in full, as the JFK assassination records have been.” nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-boo...

Brian Hochman@brianhochman.bsky.social · last yr.

This is gutting news. Sterne was a once-in-a-generation mind. How many careers did his *footnotes* launch, much less books like Audible Past and MP3?

m. r. sauter@oddletters.bsky.social · last yr.

this morning friends, colleagues, and students recieved an email with the sad news that jonathan sterne passed away last night in his sleep. if you would like to reach out to carrie, you can do so at the heyjonandcarrie email that was previously distributed. (dm me if you dont have this)

Kathleen J. Frydl@kfrydl.bsky.social · last yr.

The CR's effect on DC is a five alarm fire. By treating the DC as a federal agency & compelling the city to return to 2024 spending, Congress is mandating that DC cut its budget--*its own tax dollars*--by almost 20%. None of this $ will be refunded to the fed gov; it was never theirs.

Brian Hochman@brianhochman.bsky.social · last yr.

Seems impt to note, aside from the obvious, that the "NO MASKS!" bit openly confirms what activists and scholars have been saying for years: facial recognition technology is widespread and is being used to curtail constitutionally protected rights. (cc: @kashhill.bsky.social)

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last yr.

Trump thinks anyone protesting must be from another country when the right and will to protest our own government is a foundational American value.

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump 6m All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.