June 5, 1970
President Richard Nixon convened a meeting with the heads of all the intelligence agencies and demanded new measures against anti-Vietnam war protests and what he saw as other threats to an orderly society. The meeting was prompted by the massive anti-war demonstrations that swept the country following the invasion of Cambodia by U.S troops, which represented a significant expansion of the Vietnam War. The attendees at the meeting formed the Interdepartmental Committee on Intelligence, directed by White House aide Tom Charles Huston and called for a range of illegal actions against the anti-war movement, providing the basis for subsequent abuses by the Nixon Administration.
