1967 Hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Declassified transcripts of dozens of closed hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1967 have now been published.
The hearings feature testimony by Director of Central Intelligence Richard Helms and other Johnson Administration officials on Soviet nuclear weapons policy, anti-ballistic missiles, Vietnam, the Middle East, and other topics of contemporary concern.
See “Executive Sessions of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Together with Joint Sessions with the Senate Armed Services Committee (Historical Series),” Volume XIX, 1967, made public in 2007.
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