Frank Church

Wilderness begins where the road ends; and if the roads never end, there never will be any wilderness.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public.