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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 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. 2 …Security Committee of the Senate of the United States." Hearsay is not necessarily true. Sarcasm is…
  • p. 4 …Participants have assured us that they have often pressed reforms upon the CIA. But apparently, these…
  • p. 7 …man with us sight into current problems United Press International Mathews, 39, who succeeds the retiring…
  • p. 8 …produced to discredit the Warren Commission findings Press secretary Ron Nessen made it clear that Mr…
  • p. 9 …In the meantime, an embarrassing visitor showed up in the United States. The Tiger Lady, the…
  • p. 10 …I cannot believe that the United States, on whose generosity, and belief in freedom, RFE depends…
  • p. 14 …According to the Associated Press, the meeting was attended by then-Secretary of Defense Robert E…
  • p. 38 …Their "evidence" is a press photo of the Dallas police with three unidentified "tramps" in tow…
  • p. 51 …The attached is a plan for the assassination of the President of the United States. While…
  • p. 66 …At His press conference Thursovav, Mr. Ford, who was a member of the Warren Commission as…
  • p. 74 …She told the press the FBI had shown her a mother of L.L. Robbe the…
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 under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 83 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.