Historic Congressional Committee Hearings and Reports

This guide will point you to publications of the United States Congress (House of Representatives and Senate) available online and in libraries.

Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws

While not as well known as its counterpart in the House of Representatives, the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Senate, too, investigated internal security issues, the main one at the time of the passing of the Internal Security Act in 1950 being the issue of Communist infiltration and the potential for a takeover by the Soviet Union.

Below are links to hearings by the committee digitized by the Boston Public Library.

21 Year Index- Combined Cumulative Index, 1951-1971, to published hearings, studies, and reports. (BPL only holds v.1, A-K).

Control of Subversive Activities (1948)
Control of subversive activities. Hearings before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-first Congress, first session, on S. 1194 and S. 1196, bills to protect the United States against certain un-American and subversive activities. April 29, May 4, 6, 18, 19, and 20, and June 10, 1949
Subversive Control of the United Public Workers of America (1952)
Institute of Pacific Relations
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- Part 2
- Part 3
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- Part 6
- Part 7 and 7-A (Appendix II)
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- Part 9
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- Part 11
- Part 12
- Part 13
- Part 14
- Part 15 (Composite Index to Hearings and Report)
Subversive Influence in the Dining Car and Railroad Food Workers Union (1951)
Subversive Control of Distributive, Processing, and Office Workers of America (1952)
Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments (1953-1956)
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- Part 11
- Part 12
- Part 13
- Parts 14-15
- Part 16
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- Parts 19-20
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- Part 23
- Part 24-27
- Parts 28-30- not scanned
- Committee Print
Subversive Influence in the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, Pittsburgh and Erie, Pa. (1954)
Subversive Influence in Certain Labor Organizations (1954)
Subversive and illegal aliens in the United States; progress report (1951)
Strategy and Tactics of World Communism (1954-1956)
- Parts 1-5 (83rd Congress)
- Parts 1-2 (Significance of the Matusow Case)
- Parts 3-4
- Parts 5-6
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- Parts 9-10
- Parts 11-12
- Part 13
- Part 14
- Part 15
- Part 16
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Scope of Soviet Activity in the United States (1956-1959)
- Parts 1-6
- Parts 7-7A
- Parts 8-10
- Parts 11-12
- Parts 13-16
- Parts 17-20
- Parts 21-23
- Parts 24-26
- Parts 27-30
- Parts 31-33- not scanned
- Parts 34-37
- Parts 38-40
- Part 41
- Part 42
- Parts 43-45
- Parts 46-49
- Parts 50-54
- Parts 55-57
- Parts 58-61
- Parts 62-66
- Part 66
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- Part 70
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- Parts 72-75
- Parts 76-82
- Parts 83-86
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- Part 90
Communist Threat to the United States through the Caribbean (1959-1961)
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
- Part 6
- Part 7
- Part 8
- Parts 8A & 9
- Part 10
- Parts 11-13
Freedom Commission and Freedom Academy (1959)
Fair Play for Cuba Committee (1960-1961)
- Parts 1 & 2
- Parts 3 & 4
Testimony of Frances G. Knight (1972)
Hashish smuggling and passport fraud : ''the brotherhood of eternal love'' (1973)
Marihuana-hashish epidemic and its impact on United States security (1974)
State Department bombing by Weatherman Underground (1975)
The nationwide drive against law enforcement intelligence operations (pt.2 only)(1975)
The attempt to steal the bicentennial--the Peoples Bicentennial Commission (1976)
Control of explosives : administration and execution of the laws pertaining to the control of explosives (1976)
- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
Threats to the peaceful observance of the Bicentennial (1976)