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Newspaper Clippings on Jfk Assassination

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 24 pages · text from the file's own layer

This CIA release, dated 2025-06-12, is a file of newspaper and magazine clippings from April and May 1975. They cover former CIA Director Richard Helms testifying before the Rockefeller Commission on alleged CIA assassination plots and denouncing CBS reporter Daniel Schorr. Other items include commentary defending or questioning the Warren Commission, calls to reopen the Kennedy assassination case, a book review, and L. Fletcher Prouty's account of a CIA team sent to kill Fidel Castro. None of the clippings concern UFOs.

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Parliament Mrs. Gandhi gave
no indication how long the
emergency would’ last; but
of situation to last foreverfi’
Mrs. Gandhi also said even
pre-emergency days of total
license and political permis-
siveness.”
Mrs. Gandhi, in a speech
that provoked a brief uproar
in the lower house, claimed
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legislative days before it be-.
comes law. With Congress on
the verge of a summer recess
until after Labor Day, it is
not expected that a perma-
nent bill could become law‘
intil late October, Mrs. Win-
.er said.
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test facility and'head of the
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those involved in the program
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drugs and chemicals and will
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security of this country."
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acknowledgement that Army
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still going on.'.'I‘he National
Research Act of 1974, which
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experimentation with drugs by
government agencies, does_not
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1959 and 1967 and" about 900
civilians were dinvglgedt itn
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