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The congressional '''Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations''', known during the 82nd Congress as the '''Reece Committee''', was an investigative group in the [[United States House of Representatives]] enacted to probe the activities of tax-exempt organizations for potential subversion. It was created at the advocacy of [[conservative]] [[Tennessee]] Republican [[B. Carroll Reece]] in response to the insufficient investigations, findings, and conclusions of the previous Cox Committee.<ref>FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/12/22/the-reece-committee-on-foundations-conspiratorial-nonsense-or-an-expose-of-a-threat-to-the-nation/comment-page-1/ The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref>
The congressional '''Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations''', known during the 82nd Congress as the '''Reece Committee''', was an investigative group in the [[United States House of Representatives]] enacted to probe the activities of tax-exempt organizations for potential subversion. It was created at the advocacy of [[conservative]] [[Tennessee]] Republican [[B. Carroll Reece]] in response to the insufficient investigations, findings, and conclusions of the previous Cox Committee.<ref name=fascinatingpolitics>FascinatingPolitics (December 22, 2019). [https://fascinatingpolitics.com/2019/12/22/the-reece-committee-on-foundations-conspiratorial-nonsense-or-an-expose-of-a-threat-to-the-nation/comment-page-1/ The Reece Committee on Foundations: Conspiratorial Nonsense or an Expose of a Threat to the Nation?]. ''Mad Politics: The Bizarre, Fascinating, and Unknown of American Political History''. Retrieved August 7, 2021.</ref>
Reece presented the following criticisms of the Cox Committee in urging for the re-enactment of the select committee during the 82nd Congress:<ref name=fascinatingpolitics/>
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#Time and facilities were inadequate.
#Excuses concerning grants to Communists were too readily acceptable.
#Trustees and officers were not under oath.
#Only a few Foundations were investigated.
#The propaganda activities of Foundations were not investigated.
#Foundations were not asked why they did not support projects of a pro-American type.
#Extensive evidence was not used.
#The Ford Foundation was not investigated.” (Dodd, 5)
}}
==See also==
==See also==