NBC Evening News for Thursday, May 13, 1976
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(Studio) Senate Intelligence Committee wants investigation of motives of the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. Committee to give its evidence to new oversight committee Committee says government agencies didn't give Warren Commission the full report
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) CIA didn't tell Warren Commission of their plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. FBI didn't tell Commission how agent destroyed note from Oswald threatening FBI for harassing him. Senator Gary Hart says commission's conclusion that Oswald murdered JFK not disproved. [HART - says doubts remain as to Oswald's motive.] Some of JFK assassination documents locked up in archives. Some of CIA internal documents with regard to assassination released under Freedom of Info. Act. CIA considered killing Castro and other Cuban leaders before Bay of Pigs invasion. Robert F. Kennedy adamant in calling for covert actions and sabotage against Castro regime.
REPORTER: Ford Rowan
(Studio) CIA head, Allen Dulles, was member of Warren Commission Dulles knew about CIA efforts to kill Castro, but he never told commission
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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