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Collection of Assorted Newspaper and Magazine Clippings: Jfk Assassination, Conspiracy Theories, Etc

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 83 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 17 …Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King-was the subject of a conference on the…
  • p. 22 …And while there have been kingkillers ever since there have been kings, the enormity of the…
  • p. 27 …It is an unsettling development, sho- king to the American people, doubly shocking to those in…
  • p. 29 …the assassination of two Kennedys and a King was once signalized by the flag they printed…
  • p. 31 …Warren Commission critics became "paramoid conspiracy freaks" and, by the time Martin Luther King and Robert…
  • p. 33 …wanted for the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. In 1972, after years of trying…
  • p. 46 …the Bay of Pigs, Dallas, Martin Luther King, R.F.K., LSD, hippies, Vietnam, campus unrest…
  • p. 65 …framed by unnamed conspirators in Martin Luther King's slaying, and to reopen the Robert Kennedy…

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Nexico before the Kennedy murder.

President Johnson, who learned about CIA plots against Castro from the FBI, of all places, he was convinced the Dallas assassination resulted from Castro's belief that President Kennedy was out to get him. That according to Joseph Califano, Mr. Johnson's Chief-of-Staff.

The Castro reprisal idea may or may not hold water. But what the CIA's being criticized for is withholding information to protect itself that could have helped the investigation.

Daniel Schorr, CBS News, Washington.

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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.