When Ford learned as president that the #CIA had engaged members of the #Mafia in a failed effort to kill #FidelCastro during the #Eisenhower & #Kennedy years,he was dismayed & decided to form a special commission to investigate abuses by the intelligence community & suggest reforms. Days after announcing the formation of the #RockefellerCommission in Jan 1975, Ford accidentally shared at an off-the-record lunch with execs & editors from NYT that his concern about abuses involved #assassination.

When Ford learned as president that the #CIA had engaged members of the #Mafia in a failed effort to kill #FidelCastro during the #Eisenhower & #Kennedy years,he was dismayed & decided to form a special commission to investigate abuses by the intelligence community & suggest reforms. Days after announcing the formation of the #RockefellerCommission in Jan 1975, Ford accidentally shared at an off-the-record lunch with execs & editors from NYT that his concern about abuses involved #assassination.