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.
“Nevers”28 pages
# Panel Aide Comments # No CIA Link To Killing Found New York Times News Service The Rockefeller commission investigating the Central Intelligence Agency has received "no credible evidence" that the CIA had any involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy or that Lee Harvey Oswald was not, as the Warren Commission found, the fone assassin, the panel's executive director said yesterday. The assertion by David W. Belin was a departure from the commission's policy of not commenting on its investigation. Belin said he had chosen to speak out because of a comment by President Ford in San Diego Thursday and several press reports that might lead to speculation that there was substantive new evidence of CIA involvement or a conspiracy plot in the murder of Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. Bellin said the commission, under its charge from President Ford, had an obligation to investigate every allegation of illegal domestic activity by the CIA and that an allegation that the agency was involved in Kennedy's death was clearly in that area. It was in this regard that the commission took evidence from a group headed by Dick Gregory, the comedian, regarding an assertion that E. Howard Hunt Jr., a figure in the Watergate case, had been seized near the Kennedy assassination site within minutes of the shooting in Dallas. Gregory submitted to the commission photos purporting to show that Hunt and Frank Sturgis, another figure in the Watergate cast, were picked up by Dallas police and jailed. Hunt denied the allega tion in testimony before the commission. Belin declined to catalog all the evidence regarding Gregory's allegations but said that the commission would continue to accept any evidence that might be brought forth. He said, however, that nothing so far had disputed the Warren Commission conclusions. AT HIS press conference Thursday, Ford, who was a member of the Warren Commission as a congressman, said that he had seen no evidence that would contradict the Warren report, although he went on to note that the Rockefeller commission was investigating it. Belin, who served as counsel to the Warren Commission, later wrote a book, entitled "You Are the Jury," which detailed how the commission had reached its conclusion. He said that after he completes his present assignment on the Rockefeller commission, he hopes to be able to discuss the Kennedy assassination allegations more fully.
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