Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Gerald Ford White House Altered Rockefeller Commission Report in 1975; Removed Section on CIA Assassination Plots

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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

Click here to access two articles and numerous documents edited, written, and supplied by John Prados and Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi from National Security Archive.

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.

There is an abundance of information here that analysts can pour over for years to come. All the right-way suspects of that era and beyond were involved in a massive cover-up: Nelson Rockefeller, Dick Cheney, Henry Kissinger, the CIA, and others. A person most vigorously defending the public's right to know and aggressively attacked several secret agencies during his years in office was Idaho's Sen. Frank Church. Incidentally--or maybe not--he lost his next election and died conveniently a few years later.