Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

===Rumored coup d'état and assassination plot===
A report by the [[United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations|US Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] said that shortly after the presidential election, a group composed mostly of retired colonels and generals organized a revolutionary junta with the aim of discrediting and killing Marcos. The group was headed by Eleuterio Adevoso, a Liberal Party official. A document given to the committee by a Philippine government official alleged that Vice President Fernando Lopez and Sergio, Osmena Jr. were key figures in the plot.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/us-killer-reported-hired-in-a-plot-against-marcos-details-reported.html|title=U.S. Killer Reported Hired In a Plot Against Marcos|last=Finney|first=John W.|date=February 18, 1973|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 7, 2017|archive-date=September 19, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170919052555/http://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/us-killer-reported-hired-in-a-plot-against-marcos-details-reported.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

As early as December 1969 in a message from the US Ambassador to the US Assistant Secretary of State, the ambassador said that most of the talk about revolution and even assassination had been coming from the defeated opposition, of which Adevoso was a leading activist. He also said that his information on the assassination plans was 'hard' (well-sourced) and he wanted it to reach President Marcos.<ref>{{cite book|title=Foreign relations of the United States, 1969–1976, V. 20: Southeast Asia|publisher=Government Printing Office|url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=F5r7jrDoHM4C|page=429}}|isbn=9780160876387|access-date=October 25, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107163429/https://books.google.com/books?id=F5r7jrDoHM4C&q=Eleuterio+Adevoso+marcos&pg=PA429#v=snippet&q=Eleuterio%20Adevoso%20marcos&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=August 2020}}<ref name="auto1">{{cite web|url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v20/d202|title=Foreign Relations of the United States, 1969–1976, Volume XX, Southeast Asia, 1969–1972 – Office of the Historian|website=history.state.gov|access-date=December 6, 2016|archive-date=December 20, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220120950/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v20/d202|url-status=live}}</ref>{{Primary source inline|date=May 2022}}