The group, upon the issuance of its first press release on December 21, 1957, designated itself a `` Committee of Investigation ''.

In 1978 the magician and scientific sceptic James Randi and a team from the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal examined the photographs, using a " computer enhancement process ".

In The New Inquisition, Robert Anton Wilson, recognized episkopos, pope, and saint of the parody religion Discordianism, lampoons the members of skeptical organizations like the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP — now the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ) as fundamentalist materialists, alleging that they dogmatically dismiss any evidence that conflicts with materialism as hallucination or fraud.

Within five years the Rainey Committee, a Special Committee on Investigation appointed by Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo and led by Congressman T. Rainey, reported in June, 1919 that drugs were being smuggled into the country by sea, and across the Mexican and Canadian borders by nationally established organisations and that the United States consumed 470, 000 pounds of opium annually, compared to 17, 000 pounds in both France and Germany.

The hoax by Randi raised ethical concerns in the scientific community, eliciting criticism even among skeptical communities such as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), which he helped found.

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In 1939, in response to a question from the Oxford English Dictionary, the Admiralty made up the story that it stood for ' Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee ', and this is still widely believed, though no committee bearing this name has been found in the Admiralty archives.

After World War II ended, the Congressional Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack received testimony on the intelligence failure.

The most famous examples of McCarthyism include the speeches, investigations, and hearings of Senator McCarthy himself ; the Hollywood blacklist, associated with hearings conducted by the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ); and the various anti-communist activities of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) under Director J. Edgar Hoover.

Aykroyd also received a dubious honour in 1997, when the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal awarded him the Snuffed Candle award, for " contributing to the public's lack of understanding of the methods of scientific inquiry.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) connected cash found on the burglars to a slush fund used by the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, a fundraising group for the Nixon campaign.

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* William " Willie " Moretti ( 1894 – 1951 ), Mafia gangster who testified before the Anti-Crime Investigation Committee ( Kefauver Committee ) and was shot dead in a Cliffside Park, New Jersey restaurant.

It was designed by the Guernsey Flag Investigation Committee chaired by the then Deputy Bailiff Graham Dorey and first flew in the island on 15 February 1985.

She is a Fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ) and in 1991 was awarded the CSICOP Distinguished Skeptic Award .< ref > A Who's Who of Media Skeptics: Skeptics or Dogmatists ?.

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry ( CSI ), formerly known as the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal ( CSICOP ), is a program within the U. S. non-profit organization Center for Inquiry ( CFI ), whose stated purpose is to " encourage the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminate factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public.

When the organization was formed in 1976, the original name proposed was " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and Other Phenomena " which was shortened to " Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal.

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, in its report, noted the reduced risk to the crew when a shuttle flies to the International Space Station ( ISS ), as the station can be used as a safe haven for the crew awaiting rescue in the event that damage to the shuttle orbiter on ascent makes it unsafe for re-entry.

A subsequent US report by Rear Admiral William Fogarty, titled Formal Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Downing of Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3, 1988, noted that Captain Rogers received some faulty information that he used to make the decision to fire.

Even before Oppenheimer was chosen to be the lead scientist of the Manhattan Project, he was under surveillance by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), and once selected, the surveillance was intense ; every single phone call was recorded and every contact with another person noted.

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) believed the Republic of New Afrika to be a seditious group and conducted raids on its meetings, which led to violent confrontations, and the arrest and repeated imprisonment of RNA leaders noted above.

In the report into the incident, the Marine Accident Investigation Branch noted several failures associated with the incident including lack of crew management and procedures on the part of the operator, the inexperience and lack of seamanship of the master, lack of proper nautical charts and anchoring experience.

According to files declassified by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mrs. Simpson was believed to be a regular guest at Ribbentrop's social gatherings at the German Embassy in London where it was thought the two struck up a romantic relationship.

According to the Land Conservation Council Rivers & Streams Special Investigation 1990, " It is an important example of the large-scale biological systems that were once widespread in south-eastern Australia.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), although the gang makes up less than 1 % of the prison population, it is responsible for up to 21 % of murders in the federal prison system.

According to records by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, in 2002, 2008 and 2009, no murders were committed for the entire year.

According to the written judgment, Chen said that the intelligence about Soong's activity was submitted to him by Bureau of Investigation Director-General Yeh Cherng-maw.

According to Morgan, " In January 1970, Jacques Delarue, an expert on the Occupation and a commissioner of the Police Judiciaire, a sort of French Federal Bureau of Investigation, was asked by the Minister of Justice to investigate the pardon request and talk to the people who had written testimonial letters.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Lansky retained a substantial financial interest in the Flamingo for the next twenty years.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), the general definition of spree murder is two or more murders committed by an offender or offenders, without a cooling-off period ; the lack of a cooling-off period marking the difference between a spree murder and a serial murder.

According to a Colorado Bureau of Investigation report, " There are indications that the author of the ransom note is Patricia Ramsey ," but they could not definitively prove this assertion.

According to Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) surveillance reports, after midnight, he was driven to a townhouse at East 77th Street near Park Avenue where he actually lived.

According to the annual Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) Hate Crimes Statistics Report, in 2007, Hispanics comprised 61. 7 percent of victims of crimes motivated by a bias toward the victims ’ ethnicity or national origin.

According to the judicial inquiry by Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ) they could not find any substantive evidences ; the Supreme Court ruling stated that no statement even mentioned Advani's name and that evidence against him was limited to the mention of his name on a few loose sheets of paper.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, West was the District Director of the Communist Party in North Carolina., though West denied he had ever been a member of the Communist Party.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, cyberextortionists are increasingly attacking corporate websites and networks, crippling their ability to operate and demanding payments to restore their service.

According to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ), hate groups ' " primary purpose is to promote animosity, hostility, and malice against persons belonging to a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity / national origin which differs from that of the members of the organization.

" According to Turks and Caicos authorities, the charges are being investigated by local police and the U. S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

and A. D. Adler, " A Chemical Investigation on the Shroud of Turin ", Canadian Society of Forensic Sciences Journal 81-103, 1981 ) According to Shroud skeptic Joe Nickell, neither Heller nor Adler was a forensic serologist or a pigment expert.

According to the Frontline Godfather of Cocaine Investigation, Enrest " Jake Jacobsen was Seal's DEA handler during this period.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Slahi had his last Federal Bureau of Investigation interrogation on May 22, 2003.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Mexican Mafia had arranged for contract killings to be carried out by the Aryan Brotherhood, a white prison gang.

According to Rampart Corruption Task Force Detective Poole, Chief Parks failed to pursue the Hewitt Investigation for a full six months.

According to Diego Montoya's Federal Bureau of Investigation ( FBI ) profile, the U. S. government accuses him of being involved in the willing production and distribution of multiple tons of cocaine into the United States.

According to Indian intelligence agencies, such as the Research and Analysis Wing ( RAW ) and Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI ), D-Company financed the terrorist bombings in Mumbai which killed 257 people in 1993.

According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Report database, in 2010 58 % of hate crime offenders were white, 18 % of offenders were black, 8. 9 % were of individuals of multiple races and 1 % of offenders were Native Americans.