Documents / FOIA release
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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'29 APR 1975
Helms Terms Newsman‘Killer’
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 24 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.