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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He was a man of great virtue and integrity. But perhaps not exactly the kind of journalistic commitment which is needed. A person reconsents are fall of men and women who have devoted their lives to the police dead Watergate was a police story which took years to unfold; the assassination of John F. Kennedy is the biggest police story of them all. If it takes decades to tell it, then decades must be devoted to its telling. In the assassination of President Kennedy, the major question today is: Did the FBI and the CIA (or any other governmental agency) withhold important information from the Warren Commission? It is a question the press must ask —over and over again—until the people have a credible answer. # Gerald Ford's Little White Lie Classifying executive sessions of the Warren Commission meant little to one of the commission members, Representative Gerald Ford, who took the transcript of the January 27th meeting, blue-penciled all the parts of it that could have embarrassed anyone and used it as a basis for the first chapter of his book about Oswald, Portrait of the Assassin. Then he fired about it in his confirmation hearings for vice-president before the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 5th, 1973: The children: Now, Mr. Ford, it has been announced that as a member of the Warren Commission, you voluntarily accepted the constraints which all the members of the commission accepted, providing that you would not publish or release any proceedings of the commission. You did, however, in association with another, publish a book and provide material for a 'Life' magazine article on the proceedings of the commission. Do you feel this was a violation of your agreement? Mr. Ford. To my best reservation. Mr. Chairman, there was no such agreement, but even if there was, the book that I published in conjunction with a member of my staff...we wrote the book, but we did not use in that book any material other than the material that was in the 26 volumes of testimony and exhibits that were subsequently made public and sold to the public generally. The National Archives declasified the top-secret January 27th meeting seven months later, on June 12th, 1974. eight years after Ford used the transcript in his own book. -R.U.K continued
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 83 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.