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.
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# C.L.A. PLOT TO KILL CASTRO DESCRIBED ## A. View 2. A. Cuba. Ex-Colonel Says WASHINGTON, April 27, (AP) at the verbal abuse directed — the Central Intelligence Monday at Daniel Schorr, a Agency flow a two-man assailant, newsman, by Richard Alimation team into Cuba in Helms, former Director of Consuccessful attempt to Killral Intelligence. Premier Fidel Castro, a retired Mr. Helms, who had Just Air Force colonel said Tuesday emerged from three and a half Air Force colonel said Tuesday emerged from three and a half The colonel, L. Fletcher hours of questioning by the Prouty, said that in "late 1959 Pockefeller commission, de or early 1960," while he was counced the newsman and reserving in the Defense Department to him as "Killer ment's Office of Special Opera Schorr" for reporting that the tions, he handled a C.I.A. re "C.I.A. goes around killing quest for a small, specially people." equipped Air Force plane that Mr. Schorr has reported on was used to land two Cuban a number of occasions that exiles on a road near Ha President Ford is concerned vana. The two exiles were "equipped of C.I.A. activities could un- with a high-powered rifle and cover agency involvement in telescopic sights" and "knew foreign assassinations. how to get to a building in Havana which overlooked a building where Castro passed daily." Colonel Prouty, now an addiz that he was "positive" official with Amtrak, said in a Mr. Helms know about the telephone interview. The plane, an L-23 "helio courier," returned safely to Elijin Air Force Base in Florida. he said, but the "Cuban exiles" as far as I know were picked up between where they were. But Colonel Prouty said left off and Havana." He said that one of the would-be assassins was named Mr. Oscar Spijo and that the plane had been flown by "mercenaries" on the C.I.A. payroll of clandestine operations. Colonel Prouty added that he against Cuba. know of "one or two" other Mr. Bissell, who left the assassination attempts against agency after the Bay of Pigs the Cuban Premier after the operation, said in a recent in Bay of Pigs operation in 1961. interview that there had been but said he did not know the high-level discussions about details of those missions be killing the Cuban Premier but cause he had not worked on that the plans had been vetoed them directly. by Alien Dulles, then Director Colonel Prouty retired from of Central Intelligence.
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