The Act effectively eliminated aid and military funding for South Vietnam.

Direct US involvement in Vietnam was already prohibited under the Case–Church Amendment, and the termination of US funding and indirect support for South Vietnam was a significant factor leading to the Fall of Saigon.

The Act also included the Hughes–Ryan Amendment, which required the President to report all covert operations of the CIA to Congress within a set time limit, and placed limits on the funding of such operations.

The Act also included other amendments, including, among others, appropriation of funds to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, and the suspension of funds to Turkey due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.

[1][2][3] The Foreign Assistance Act of 1974 declared that it was the sense of the Congress that: The Act goes on define the term “gross violations of internationally recognized human rights” as including: