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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…

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Two months ago the past year, Henry Kessler quashed Telegraph plans to reelection nomination involving American and Russian submarines to join the states would damage U.S. Soviet relations, according to Defense Department sources. The Telegraph resists Kessler blocked release of facts about the CIA effort to raise the sunken Russian sub in the Pacific and news about a 1974 collision between the U.S. submarine James Madison and a Soviet sub in the North Sea. Defense officials were ready to take a bow for the recovery of the Russian sub; most accidents at sea are routinely made public.

## ARAB TANKERS?

Washington is trying to head off a new threat that could make another oil embargo even more painful than the last. The CIA has determined that oil-producing countries are now going all-out to buy tankers idled by the world's glut of oil. Fleet owners, who in the U.S. are hard-pressed even to find berthing space for unused ships, are eager to sell. To avoid the possibility of both oil and tankers

in hostile hands, the Ford Administration is considering new subsidies to the U.S. tanker industry to ensure that vessels would be available in another embargo.

## HOWARD HUGHES PROP.

Howard Hughes, the phantom billionaire, has been given a new code name at the Summa Corp., the Los Angeles firm that is his corporate alter ego. Summa executives refer to their sole owner, not by name, but simply as "the stockholder."

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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.