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Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975...Led By Cheney - NEW
They removed a Section on CIA Assassination Plots. New info here at the National Security Archive.
http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB543-Ford-White-House-Altered-Rockefeller-Commission-Report/
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Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975...Led By Cheney - NEW (Original Post)
Mark 750
Apr 2016
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elleng
(141,926 posts)1. 'White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report,'
a pretty significant fact your OP omitted.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,158 posts)3. Yeah but it is in the article:
Washington, DC, February 29, 2016 The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org).
The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney.
Todays posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheneys handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.
The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney.
Todays posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheneys handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)2. No doubt JFK, Bobby and MLK was in there.