My research question will examine the proceedings of the Church Committee during the Cold War, as its aim was to look into alleged misconduct committed by United States secret agencies such as the CIA and FBI. This research shows the changes in the United States – Latin American relations throughout history, specifically from the Cold War to present day, and what events and people influenced these relationships. Within this topic, the study of the relationship between the United States and Latin America is very understudied compared to the study of CIA operations and specific examples of misconduct, both domestically and abroad. I will focus my analysis of the Church Committee on CIA dealings with Latin American countries such as Chile, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, and fit this within the larger context of US and Latin American relations. My work fills this gap by taking the examples of misconduct and CIA operations and showing their significance in a larger, global context. I chose my primary sources so that the time before the Church Committee functioned would be covered to allow for historical context and understanding of the events that led to the creation of the Church Committee. The primary sources cover the 60s, a critical time during the Cold War for both the United States and Latin America, the mid-seventies, during which the Church Committee was formed, and the 80s, to give context to the events that followed the investigations of the Church Committee. The significance of my research is to examine, explain, and eventually understand the effects that the Church Committee had on the relations between the United States and Latin America, and how the actions of the CIA and FBI played into the necessity of the Church Committee itself. It also points out the differences between these relations now, juxtaposed to those of the Cold War