Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report; Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report

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http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB543-Ford-White-House-Altered-Rockefeller-Commission-Report/

Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975; Removed Section on CIA Assassination Plots

White House Aide Dick Cheney Spearheaded Editing of Report to Dampen Impact

New Documents Cast Further Doubt on Commission’s Investigation, Independence

National Security Archive Briefing Book No. 543
Edited by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi
Posted - February 29, 2016

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.

Today’s posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney’s 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.

This evidence has been lying ignored in government vaults for decades. Much of the work of securing release of the records was done by the John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Board in the 1990s, and the documents were located at the National Archives and Records Administration at College Park, Maryland; or at the Gerald R. Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Additional mandatory declassification review requests filed by Archive fellow John Prados returned identical versions of documents, indicating the CIA is not willing to permit the public to see any more of the assassinations story than we show here. The documents in this set have yet to be incorporated into standard accounts of the events of this period.

Among the highlights of today’s posting:

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[yurbud]

1. essential reading

[hlthe2b]

2. when that b'tard finally dies, the floodgates are going to open...

As much as I think I won't be surprised at any of the Cheney-related horrors revealed, I surely may be proven wrong.

Historians will decry and forever be ubable to explain how the PTB decided Cheney should remain untouchable for his countless crimes.

[LiberalArkie]

4. Probably because the has the dirt on everyone in Washington and else where like Hoover did.

On edit: he probably has a deadman file out somewhere, and that is what is keeping him alive.

[Angry Dragon]

3. a good time for dirty dicks

[Octafish]

5. Thank you, bananas. That is must-read.

NOW. Thank you for the heads-up. This was not mentioned in my high school or college history class.

OF course, it still hasn't been mentioned on my television screen.

[JEB]

6. K&R for exposure.

[FlatBaroque]

7. I do NOT think that it was an accident or a coincidence that Gerald Ford was

not an elected Vice President (Spiro Agnew), nor an elected President (Nixon). Only time in history that's happened. You know who became embedded in the government at that time through Ford? George Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[AwakeAtLast]

11. And who had direct ties to the CIA?

It's a big tangled mess of PNAC Alumni.

[jalan48]

8. The CIA was working at the behest of American corporations in countries like Chile.

This is what our secret government does-makes sure the big corporations get what they want.

[RufusTFirefly]

9. Of course, there's always the risk of making logical leaps...

... but if you think through the ramifications of these revelations, deliberately and dispassionately, the conclusions you are apt to arrive at are pretty fucking scary.

Yet they come as no real surprise to some of us.

Thanks for posting, bananas!

[Raster]

10. ...Shocked! I tell you, shocked!

Darth Cheney* rewriting "independent" Commission investigation reports to suppress "controversial" information????

Again, SHOCKED, I tell you, Shocked!

[RufusTFirefly]

12. Rest assured, he recognized the error in his ways...

... and never made the same mistake again.

(If anyone retains any hard feelings about this, the Vice President has graciously offered to take him or her duck hunting.)

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

13. Important stuff.

Thanks for posting.