1967Primary source · 2 sourcesWell documented
Drew Pearson's Column and the CIA's Secret Report
On the timeline · around 1967 ·
What happened
In March 1967 the columnist Drew Pearson publicly alleged that the CIA had plotted to kill Castro. A rattled President Johnson ordered the agency to investigate itself, producing Inspector General John Earman's secret 1967 report — the most detailed internal accounting of the plots ever written.
Why it matters
The Earman report, kept classified for decades, became the authoritative record when Congress and historians finally forced the plots into the open.
Sources
- The National Security Archive, George Washington University. CIA Inspector General John S. Earman, 'Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro,' May 23, 1967 (1967) · Reputable source
- U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Vol. XXXII — CIA Inspector General's Report on Plots to Assassinate Fidel Castro (1967) · Primary source