</s>157-10005-10297 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 NEV4 NE/94 19/4 1970 6/9/18 Date: 10/05/93: N/64 1965 JFK ASSASSINTATION SYSTEM fage:1 IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION: LOK AGENCY : SSCIA RECORD NUMBER : 157-100055-1029-7 CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RECORDS SERIES : RELEASE OF CIA INFORMATION IN THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED AGENCY FILE NUMBER # DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR : SSCIA FROM : TO : SELECT COMMITTEE : ASSASSINSTATION REPORT (UPDATED OCT 16, 1975) TITLE : DATE : 09/01/75 PAGES : SELECT COMMITEE : AB : PROTOLITEE ASSASSIMATION REPORT(CLASSIFIED) TABS A-J TAB B: INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY TAB A: COVERT ACTION TAB C: CUBA: TAB G: EXECUTIVE ACTION CAPABILITY TAB H: CHILE TAB D: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TAB F: CHILIE TAB J: FINDING AND CONCLUSIONS TATAB H: RECOMMENDATIONS TAB L: EPELIGUE DOCUENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUENT CLASSIFICATION : T CURRENT STATUS : REFERRED DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 10/06/93 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : COMMITTEE'S DRAFT REPORT : (UPATED OCTOBER 16,1975) NW 50995 Doc:32220487 Page 1 [R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED

Key points:

* The CIA considered using QWIN for an assassination capability or even viewed him as such.
* Hedgman supervised WIRQUE directly and did not put him in touch with O'Donnell.
* The chief of Station described WIROGUE as "a man with a rather unsavvy reputation, who would try anything once".
* A report on agent WIROQUE described his training and tasking, including being sent to the Congo after plastic surgery and a toupee were given to him by the CIA.

The CIA was interested in removing Lumumba from a position of influence. The Special Group meeting on August 25, 1960, discussed the consequences of getting rid of Lumumba and agreed that planning for the Congo would not rule out considering any particular kind of activity that might contribute to his removal.

Allen Dulles sent a personal cable to the Chief of Station in Leopoldville on August 26, stating that Lumumba's "REMOVAL MUST BE AN URGENT AND PRIME OBJECTIVE" and that it was a high priority of their covert action. He also gave wider authority for aggressive action if it could remain covert.

A CIA scientist arrived in the Congo on September 21, provided poisons to the Chief of Station, instructed him to assassinate Lumumba, and assured him that there was Presidential authorization for this mission. Marion Boggs wrote a memorandum of the discussion on September 21, but did not interpret Dulles' remark as referring to assassination.

Other Eisenhower Administration officials stated they did not recall any discussion about assassinating Lumumba. Richard Bissell testified that despite his lack of specific recollection, he "strongly inferred" that the assassination effort against Lumumba was authorized by President Eisenhower and Allen Dulles.

Bissell's testimony on this subject is problematic, as he insisted that he had no direct recollection of receiving such authorization and that all of his testimony on this subject "has to be described as inference." However, he concluded that an assassination attempt had been authorized at the highest levels of the government.

The CIA's Technical Services Division discussed the feasibility of creating a capability for "executive action" on January 25 and 26, 1961. William Harvey testified that he was almost certain that these meetings took place after his initial briefing by Bissell in early January 1961.

Bundy said he received a briefing from Bissell but gave no urging, though he raised no objections. Rostow said he never heard of the project.

The CIA discussed a coup against South Vietnamese President Diem, with the President authorizing support for a successful coup but not direct involvement in assassination.

Allen Dulles authorized the plot to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, with the President urging "straightforward action" against him. The juxtaposition of discussions concerning "disposing of" Lumumba and taking "straightforward action" against him at NSC and Special Group meetings with Dulles' cable to the Congo, Bissell's representation to Gottlieb about "highest authority", and the delivery of poison to the Congo can be read to support an inference that the President and the Special Group urged the assassination of Lumumba.

The chain of events revealed by the documents and testimony is strong enough to permit a reasonable inference that the assassination plot was authorized by the President.

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