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
# Rockefeller Panel is Checking JFK Angle Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller has continued that the White House commission investigating illegal domestic activities of the CIA is trying to find out if the agency had any connection with the assassination of the late President John F. Kennedy. But Rockefeller told reporters after the 13th session of the blue ribbon commission, which he heads, that there is no thought of re-examining the assassination. Rockefeller explained that the commission mandate required it to investigate any illegal operations of the C.I.A. and he said that whoever knows not overseas is attracting nations and the new case of evidence is discovered that there was an I. knowledge or par- tition. NNS. Judge indicated the commission has no evidence contrary to the findings of the Warren Commission, which concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone when he fatally wounded the president in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. HOWEVER, there are reports that the commission is questioning former CIA personnel about knowledge the agency had of Oswald, an ex-Marine who served for some time in the Soviet Union and therefore would have been recorded by intelligence agencies as a detector. It is also known that CIA operatives in Mexico were aware of Oswald's movements there prior to the assassination when he went to both the Cuban and Soviet embassies in an attempt to obtain permission to enter those countries. Rockefeller was pressed closely on the assassination aspect of its investigation and insisted the mandate of the commission was un carmed. He explained that any criminal act of the Court presupposes the disclosure of plans or things would be within scope of the query whether the assassinations took place overseas or domestically or even if they were never sus- cessful carried out. YESTERDAYS leading witness at the closed-door hearing of the commission was Nick George Bundy, national security adviser from 1911 to 1959 to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and now president of the Ford Foundation. While Bundy was in change of national security and intelligence matters at the White House, a number of reported plots, possibly involving the CIA, were discussed, involving Gen. Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. President Francis Duvalier of Haiti and Prime Minister Fidel Castro of Cuba. Trujillo was assassinated in 1901 and Duvalier died of natural causes several years ago. Bundy refused to discuss his testimony with reporters after the hearing. But he did declare he was not aware of any serious assassination talk while he was national security adviser to the White House.
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