Documents / FOIA release
This is a Central Intelligence Agency release dated 2025-06-12 under the JFK Act. It collects 1975 newspaper and magazine clippings. They include Mark Harris's New York Times Magazine essay on a UCLA "Conspiracy in America" conference and the conspiracy-theory mindset, a Jack Anderson column on stalled CIA reform, and wire reports of Richard Helms calling CBS newsman Daniel Schorr "Killer" after he testified to the Rockefeller Commission. There is also an essay on power and a publishing item about Philip Agee's book.
“United Press”11 pages
# Castro Death Plot Linked to '62 Crisis Dr. George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Mail Winter A once high ranking Defense Department official said yesterday that he drafted contingency plans for dealing with the 1962 Cuban missile crisis that "may have included Fidel Castro's assassination. The former official, Ma). Gen., Edward G. Lansdale (USAF retired), hinted strongly, but refused to confirm, that the orders to draw up the plans came from the late Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. An expert in counterinsurgency tactics with long experience in South Vietnam and the Philippines, Landale said he was told to do "some planning for the President's consideration" about how to deal with Castro in light of reports that Soviet-made nuclear missiles were about to be installed in Cuba. He said it was quite possible that the assassination of Castro was among the options he listed in a subsequent memo, but he said he no longer had a copy of the memo and thus could not definitely recall whether he included that in his suggestions. Lansdale Insisted, however, that neither President EDWARD G. LANSDALE ... hints RFK role Kennedy or any other Kennedy ever gave me any orders to plan the assassination of Castro." "All i was doing was to try to respond and come up See CASTRO, A1, Col. 7
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