FORD ASSAILS LEAKS OF DATA ON THE CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00561R000100090106-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 24, 2012
• Sequence Number: 106
• Publication Date: June 18, 1975
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

S1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090106-5
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Washin;ton. June 1'7: (:News $tireau) The! I? Kennedy had taken the idea;
seriously, Goodwin said, the'
White House- said . today.- that: President Ford de-1 President would not have brought;
,, up the subject before a reporter.
plored the-continued leafing ?in bits-an-d pieces ! Meanwhile, Rep-. Lucien N.1
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of classified inforination about the CIA, but de-1 tiedzl (D-Mich.), whose resigns'
tion as chairman of 'the House+
dined to condemn any of- the leakers by name. Intelligence Committee was re-4
jected by ..the House yesterday,
Ron Nessen, presidential press secretarw, said that a insisted today that the House?
White House .investigation of .alleged CIA foreign-assns- intelligence investigation contin-.'
sination plots was continuing, but that it was Iimited, to ueSenior Mouse Democrats' are!
"pulling together" material requested by the Senate In- pushing to abolish or restructure!
telligence Committee, headed by Sen. Frank Church (D- the -dissension-torn committee;
Nessen said that such material,
some of it from the minutes of
National Security Council meet-
ings, was' being turned over to
the Church committee and that
he did not know whether Ford
would ever favor- making it pub-
He declined to comment when
asked if Ford was irked by Pico
President: Rockefeller's sugges-
tion on the television' program
"Meet-the Press" on Sunday that
Rockefeller had seen- unsubstanti-
ated evidence ':.that - Presiden
Kennedy and his brother Robert,
who was attorney general during
the Kennedy adminsitration, had
known of; possible- CIA- plots. to
assassinate foreign leaders..
Rockefeller headed .-the. presi=
dential investigating--commission
on the CIA,. which turned over its
material on possible assassination
plots to the President. Ford, in
turn, gave this material to the
Church committee. Nessen said
Ford thought the committee was1
acting responsibly with it.
Meanwhile, Richard Goodwin, a
Kennedy administration official,
told The News today that the;
Denies Data Is Suppressed
nessen rejected-suggestions
that this amounted to: "snpress-
Ing information."-He said tht the
President was interested in. han-.
dung the investigation . in a
,strong, orderly and responsible
way and not besmirching reputa-
tions."
but ledzi said he was opposed t
question of political assassination g`~ 'vin- the ? in vest! ation to t,.,
House Armed Services- intelli-
had come up once when he at- gance subcommittee, which he%
tended a National Security-Coun-1 iieads.
ril meeti^^ and that t h'
at a an at he had beerkl Be did "say,, ? however, that-he
startled. wanted some.: new faces _on the
Goodwin then was a presiden- ;Intelligence Committee.
tial assistant dealing with Latin' Most of- -the- senior House
American affairs and sat in oaf Democrats-Velieve that- the con-
some- council sessions -dealing! gressional investigation on the;
with Fidel Castro's takeover of CIA should be left to the Senatet
Cuba in 1959. . . - - Intelligence: Cpmaiitrze, ;hich
He said today-that he assassi- has been wo-3fnt. a etly since
nation possibility had been putt January and r5 t r.l ea.! of-its
;forward but had been quickly House counterp:3rt. .~,
dropped. He said he doubted that
there had ever been a- "presiden-
tially-sanctioned effort to assas-
sinate Castro'-
Goodwin said also that. in 1961,1
President Kennedy, in Goodwin'sI
presence, -told Ted Szulc, a re-
porter, that."I'm under quite a
[.bit of pressure from. the- intelli
gence community" to get-rid of
Castro.-- Goodwin said -' that
Kennedy-had, then dismissed then
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/02/24: CIA-RDP91-00561 R000100090106-5