The news item, in turn, was drawn from the recently released report of the Rockefeller Commission on CIA activities.
Ford mentioned that the Rockefeller Commission had access to various CIA documents, including those referring to political assassinations.
By the time the Rockefeller Commission began its investigation, the activity had been shut down.
In addition, President Gerald Ford created the Rockefeller Commission, and issued an executive order prohibiting the assassination of foreign leaders.
Neither the Clark Panel nor the Rockefeller Commission undertook to determine if the X-rays and photographs were, in fact, authentic.
The Rockefeller Commission was supposed to examine the malfeasance of the intelligence agencies and make recommendations about how they could be reorganized and reformed.
The Rockefeller Commission concluded that neither Hunt nor Frank Sturgis were in Dallas on the day of the assassination.
The 1972 Rockefeller Commission on Population and the American Future is one of the better known early versions of this claim, but it was not the first.
On June 6, 1975, the Rockefeller Commission recommended a joint committee on intelligence.
Rockefeller Commission can refer to either of two commissions in U.S. history, although it is not the proper name of either: