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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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LFASHINGTON STAR ,..., .L MAY 1975 ' F GARRY WILLS ' AWo1"d for ‘vVan"en Commission It is time to say a word for the Warren Commission; Even those who believe that Oswald was the sole assassin of President Kennedy are beginning to grant that the Warren Commission did a bad job. They say we should “reopen the case," if for no other reason, just to resolve doubts caused by sloppy detec- tive work. But most doubts are caused by two classes of men - those who have not really read what the Warren Commission said and those whose doubts would not be resolved by the Sec- ond Coming (which they would treat as a CIA plot). ' . . The attacks on the Warren Commis- sion come from three main directions: 1". Some think the commission was part of the plot itself. These people are at leastconsistent. If one could mobilize all the resources most conspiratorial theories demand‘, then controlling the commission should have been no prob- lem at all. But this, like most such theories, proves too much. If one can “control” a chief justice, a future presi- dent-, a bunch of prominent lawyers on the make, an attorney 'genera.l'who hap- pens to be the assassinated man's broth- er, then one controls everything, and ithere is no _longer any need to hide - i.e., to be a conspiracy-. . _ 2.‘ Others think the CIA and/or the FBI bamboozled the commission - which is a rather touching exercise in credulity. Even if those agencies were efficient, they would have to tread care fully where so many other factions and rival interests were at play - and where the results were going to be pub- lished in 26 volumes. But. of course, the record of both the FBI and the CIA is enough to make anycriticism of the -commission look like praise. If the con- spiracy depended on the FBI and the CIA, then Howard Hunt's whole career tells us what would have happened to it. 3. Others, by far the most numerous, think the commission just fumbled the job out of haste, incompetence or uncon- scious prejudices. Most of the evidence for this is the citing of "leads" that the commission did not track down. In fact, many of these were tracked down, or .were patently false leads from the start. A fair example is Mark Lane's use of testimony by Nancy Perrin Rich. He de- voted a whole chapter of this book to this woman's bizarre tale. He neglected to tellthe readers that the same woman appeared two other times, in two differ- ent places, to volunteer evidence to the commission. The investigators listened politely, though-she told three totally di.fferent'stor_ies. At one of these appear- ances, deliberately omitted from Lane's chapter, she took (and flunked) a poly- graph test. " _ Ovid Demaris and I, back in~the*'60s, took Lane's advice and followed up this woman's testimony. We found that she was an-unstable woman, had been in and out of psychiatric care. and police stations, that she loved to "testify" about all her famous friends in mob trials and other celebrated crimes. We also found that Lane knew all this, that he told the woman's husband he would not be ‘able to make-anything of her testimony. But he made an entire ten- dentious chapter out of one third of that testimony. . - - _ ~ - ‘ 4 .-Here is a simple rule of thumb for dealing ‘with conspiratorialists: If they question.the integrity of the Warren Commission yet quote Mark Lane with approval, they are iihtellectually very ill-equipped or intellectually dishonest, _ \ i l l r
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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.