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1975
Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination
plots
A Senate committee issues a report charging that U.S. government
officials were behind assassination plots against two foreign
leaders and were heavily involved in at least three other plots.
The shocking revelations suggested that the United States was
willing to go to murderous levels in pursuing its Cold War
policies.The Senate Committee to Study Governmental Operations
with Respect to Intelligence Activities, chaired by Senator Frank
Church, alleged that U.S. officials instigated plots to
assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro and Patrice Lumumba of the
Congo. In addition, the U.S. officials "encouraged or were privy
to" plots that led to the assassinations of Ngo Dinh Diem of
South Vietnam, General Rene Schneider of Chile, and Rafael
Trujillo of the Dominican Republic. The attempts against Castro
failed, but the other four leaders were killed. There was also
evidence suggesting U.S. involvement in a number of other
assassination plots against foreign leaders.The committee
indicated that it had no specific evidence that an American
president ever authorized an assassination. However, it went on
to declare that
"whether or not the President in fact knows about the
assassination plots, and even if their subordinates failed
in their duty of full disclosure, it still follows that the
President should have known about the plots. "
The Central Intelligence Agency came in for special condemnation
for its efforts to recruit Mafia hit men to kill Castro and
mercenaries to assassinate Lumumba. In the report's conclusion,
the committee declared that,
"We condemn the use of assassination as a tool of foreign
policy [and] find that assassination violates moral precepts
fundamental to our way of life."
President Gerald Ford criticized the decision to release the
report, claiming that it would do
"grievous damage to our country and would be used by groups
hostile to the United States in a manner designed to do
maximum damage to the reputation and foreign policy of the
United States."
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