# Frank Church > [!note] Stub — fill out Democratic U.S. Senator from Idaho (1957–1981) who chaired the 1975 Senate select committee on intelligence abuses — the [[Church Committee]] — whose revelations about [[COINTELPRO]], CIA assassination plots, and domestic surveillance drove sweeping reforms. Those reforms, by barring official agencies from domestic political-intelligence gathering, are the backdrop against which the private operation [[Western Goals]] was founded.