Documents reveal Gerald Ford’s effort to block report on CIA assassination plots

<p>Release of documents comes amid conjecture Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuelan president</p><p>The White House under Gerald Ford tried to block a landmark Senate report that disclosed the CIA’s role in assassination attempts against foreign leaders and ultimately led to a radical overhaul in how the agency was held to account, documents released to mark the 50th anniversary of the report’s publication reveal.</p><p>The documents, dating from 1975, were posted on Thursday by the <a href="https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2025-11-20/cia-assassination-plots-church-committee-report-50-years">National Security Archive</a>, an independent research group, as it sought to highlight the report’s significance amid conjecture that Donald Trump may have authorized the agency to assassinate Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, amid a massive US military build-up against the country.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/20/senate-report-cia-assassination-plots-gerald-ford">Continue reading...</a>