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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# ASSIGNATIONS # By GLA? Holmes # Doubts Reports ## 2.10. JOSEPH VOLZ Washington, April 28 (News Bureau)--Former CIA Director Richard M. Helms was examined for hours today by the Rocketeller Commission about charges that the spy agency had carried out assassinations of foreign leaders. Afterward, the bitterly denounced a TV newsman who had reported the story. "As far as K know," he said. "the CIA was never responsible for the assassination of any foreign leader. That is my honest belief." Helms, now U.S. ambassador to Iran, spent 34 hours before the commission, the long before the commission, the longest time of any of the 44 witnesses who have testified during the panel's 16-week probe of the agency. Helms was followed to, the witness chair by the present CLA director, William E. Colby. Helms bristled when reporters asked him if there had ever been discussions in the CIA plotting the assassinations of foreign leaders. "Killer Schorr! Killer Schorr!" Helms said loudly as he walked down the hallway with reporters, following his appearance before the Rockefeller commission. "That's like asking me if I've stopped beating my wife," Helms said. "There were always discussions of everything. Two men may have sat in the State Department or the Defense Department and discussed things that may not be acceptable to the American people. That happens all the time." Later, during a press conference when Schorr asked a question on a subject unrelated to the assassinations. Helms would only reply: "I don't like some of the lies you've been putting on the air." ## Bristles at Question Sees False Reporting CES reporter Daniel Schorr of false reports concerning CIA involvement in foreign assassinations. It was Schorr who first reported that Presidetn Ford, was concerned that the CIA investigation would disclose that the spy agency had a role in the assassination of three foreign leaders. the for a CIA plot aimed at Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. "I don't know why President Johnson said these things." Heims said. Heims was asked to comment on reports that former President Johnson told several colleagues he believed the assassination of John F. Kennedy was in retaliation. Helms said he had been quizzed on a wide range of subjects by the commission. He did not elaborate. However, the commission staff has had a chance to analyze Helms' previous testimony and there may have been some discrepancies that they wished to question him about
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