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157-10014-10242/ 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F_ KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
JFK Assassination System Date: 7/712015
Identification Form
Agency Information
AGENCY SSCIA
RECORD NUMBER : 157-10014-10242
RECORD SERIES MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTEE
AGENCY FILE NUMBER : 07-M-147
Document Information
ORIGINATOR SSCIA
FROM
TO
TITLE :
DATE : 00/00/1975
PAGES 690
SUBJECTS
ANTH-CASTRO ACTIVITIES
ORGANIZED CRIME
CIA
ASSASSINATION, KENNEDY , JOHN
DOCUMENT TYPE REPORT
CLASSIFICATION Declassified
RESTRICTIONS IB; IC; 3
CURRENT STATUS Redact
DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 03/31/2000
OPENING CRITERIA
COMMENTS CCBOX 441
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Date 08 /09/95
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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
IDENTIFICATION FORM
AGENCY INFORMATION
AGENCY SSCIA
RECORD NUMBER 157-10014-10242
RECORDS SERIES MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS OF THE CHURCH COMMITTEE
AGENCY FILE NUMBER 07-M-147
DOCUMENT INFORMATION
ORIGINATOR SSCIA
FROM
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TITLE
DATE 00/00/75
PAGES 690
SUBJECTS ORGANIZED CRIME
ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES
CIA
ASSASSINATION KENNEDY JOHN
DOCUMENT TYPE REPORT
CLASSIFICATION TOP SECRET
RESTRICTIONS REFERRED
CURRENT STATUS POSTPONED IN FULL
DATE OF LAST REVIEW 01/21/99
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COMENTS CCBOX 441
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The Uerlia & Wper; forilcr Gerqian Aaled lu #efine bcr sclalio 'hio
~i (#nt_ Mcidricb Lorcuz Jojiled with Caslro dejing: this pogioa. Irio
Vir ihaaa Lo Wr cckaixs beiJ; "[ Wur 1 prisanr. W03 F4e e - diaukr ard ht
'uera3usd &rai
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Jarous [X-ycaf-Qh aauchter Marij 'Wcre Y 0 4" 0 ? € [ In love ( wlth
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0{ alung wei wlh (aptro, Bleric vld No; memer
Ltow cam You be Jove
his rcworict. "Ile took Cuxero R{e when yuu're #frhid_ when you're Rited
nerb on {our uf tha " ahip,] ehcn #iked liku Pies'€ ol furollure #hcn Ivu re
I7m Io psuse Icave their Aune 01' : e #lexping Wilh live Inznoka un | Lna
'1 dinink rio10b bIvre 8#t Auwn i~4 wham} you"r4 Jiving In ruum with
fk dinnor. kung o1 cve'F Llle end cistr butf all
"Caetro sujd they 'didne] Iecl cale over thc {lour 1
jehoul Fmms_ {0 ftber all#ved Aly WaY n2' thinl:ing . wns Geri'an Em @ kerp ihcur pietols; tut he Gade Bhd} Cuu tinued #Kverrtbing _ in In} life U%m lgre the {n#chine guilm eulj L had beren wery orelecly , very neal at;d
I0 rile atd grenaale in Ule smoking clean_ #lvlr reulize anyume, CRI ciub
T4m_ I; pritue minisler_ coull be 80 sor-
J,l88' at the caplaine Lable, enizea tkou;he hc woul naye hatoesn Imrn: anal Marie: }Duaing tha Jeyfru) oflicen with dk0. chnirde' an
Imaa_ #nailedl frequtntly #0 Barie, tchapbone#. Aii he had, at thi# Oimt, n 0 ] sho 144 0s hapresstd 04 Bny MuF. Wa} site 0{ Tuwims et the Iten, nfef {tWie wduid be by @mpli- #hare ha lived #ndi workel 5b/ keut m6m, Ion, Iha Marnboyene Itero 0 the Im Viig 0l the rooios The duor the
('oln r Velutian_ hwll #28 tackad oul side Sh 'lcSsg ronnderEazlirh: Iietbualux 08 vigitors mere in Ihrf A chance meolitn} i Havana harbor aboerd cruiso ship c-ptained by her #kich ~Re bad roaln; bul eht: door be Ween the
€am1 wolher Castro snid he nctded W49 kep} lucked 1011e Iathor broughi Marie Lorenr and Fidel Castzo lagother. If began
#acrre tt who culd write lettut3 in All roul do W#} na4 Joke lieisom destined to heve infernational repercussions:
thexc Iuosu8ke8_ Beore the Wetl Me9 #epr, he bflered Ibe job to Blerie: #tuxdy Spanish, walk Ick and lurth_
Too} Oter Ae Joke
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{outhealic cr kiavulhe Mrttv mhcre Jictetor Fulgencia Tatisd e hza cape: whilt ne Wra Dul 87 lhe Count Ovcr ##8
Io Iavana mixrabl. {uthee tricd to tin4 out iaprinanaal #ielcl % m d Rnal #iate) '$ viiting {ha" Vmteh Sute$ end South Ma' eaked Ine 80 stay whdt nud hxppined Lu 1e Me cunfact- brether Yeer? In{ore _ wrni into {iv" Am*7ia afl xOtk fur him #he said: #Ely {#. 8a lhe Amnericel Kenhazsy Iu= Feii L0 Ivok #[ bronze pl#e' {mt Onv nipht tha #04 #in Caalro , and
tt 0{st| Iontb laugha: by father Merie Joro
aican ~iiurn} well: They ghut t#6 dr ar loked im# Mr hodeuards In (he Iobby 0} the
#8 iu 0u$ ening back to Germany Io but wu# u4} A the e#S Tlr't Ihsy Wrnt' %#3 Inrtm Motel 0 hot han -0mA ##dv- {iniah m} "tcerion; 01o1 hin;; happued. M
'0alfo pTumixce (o wrile t0 her; 80 "Thc ouly dthex haa wite what' S#c Wosn" $ Pampercd h;srr" 9017J1 ~"r.ue heel wF . Ia #ate
hrourht with I4t Tuim New Yotk_ tite: ulse-"rre" Tox [ uxiform Rnd Ch0 ahiv K#v# hmm t06 addresyed_-her R; coulln' R {Mae 6u/ Iay anything Fidcl #pcat #ttk thet, Fating thas Ba*tktir 0( 0 Mij 0i the ( uten Bir IntJ homne in Itremen_ GermeIbY + (urce' _ Mr bruther" "purlnint in Nem York, huad J0e meeaure"l {er uiformt Fo 4aMe (dut 0# the "ther Drirapt
#hete Bn10 platueal 10 Bloy sken ehe wauli Ivok ike meinher 0f Ihe "lth black# Icuus. icv slele Dre #u} ena] cof Whilc (autfo #44 conferring #itb
(#rathcan ctuinl foaled. Shc Devcp ez" ol July Muvafia nat . An olive-EIce#I uni- Iee: Ax (uf 0# knw #03 Ihk Onlv his madlas on Mt other side 0/ tke
pectdto p" or henr Iom Filel ugain: {crin with # lieuteugnt' 0 atr woiaen thtre_ lobbn _ the' c#ilmin Epingled wita tke
Ahone {00 Wtrk? latcp Iwu Cuhan "hust Wmy, wacm Wxs eflowed Due Evcry piorning W# woul hcar the burf udue efuumi Batic ena] wlispered
officers called on Aiarie ia New York, undcr he thoughe peopla vuld firing equuds, A; SDtn 04 il liche_ la 4n English: kauw uinue Yor_
Thcy cerricd mceje Iron} 'hink VvnA #{ haie 0 f(ictr 0 Wue thc birdb woulal a| singing. Then thee "Cen You help 7t' she_rcsponded
#aYmk it wa8: in despcratm uced
C5
oK elanont Ilavane housewife bcurd Kianb would Qu #[I. Thcn 4801 rrhiea eud "('An Fmc O1nt 6f mete
Kmlish-Grrman eranalutor Mle had Bcnl Fwarburs thue Ca#tro Wba Beeping 4uice Then brcnk{est end ~chi checke Ye3. 126 wjth 0 $ Amaricej
Cuhana Airlince plane 0 bring her picnfr, 0m8 Americun Kirl; && the Mllltdn Thc guardls wouke check t0 eee i{ You d Emlwxsy. 1l 4"t yiu oul"
back: to Havana_ wu} bceoting; preblci 1 hit. hanited Zuuraelt during the night Or i( This W#s ht Mlrotluction lo Com-
nime big Inintake, Bfurle seid4 Vna [wo barbudWs crie to ehe You 4 duce aumethlng Wfurik in thcue maaniuntt Frana Fiorini {(lules knvwn
"[ on that plauic Fooim whila Fidc[ w0, Oul They auid whcrc Were W03 harally Touiib to turu 81 Frunk Seursim) , Ca#Erd confldene
During thc night to Muvana, ake they wera lhaie to kelp 0io_ 'Chey (uvk eround Ie #83 hoi rible. ate hirea) 0#e#t the U (enerel
tried lo imakine her hle iu Custruland_ Ine O0 "0-einal: AM6 rido lo the Ifp 84Ven ma; taken Qu Intelligauce Axeney.
Sme thon;he 8he wl! #t0 dork in Iowcd Ino the and Ilowa back t Uuvuna Ayrccs 10 Spy 00 Fld:i
ehe premir'9 9cta4.32imi uool sed b-uulaful blea i L_a,/" I;ach lhtre atld Hc+in #4# @uys€ twld why Gh00 #38
#ll 8-ritnent 62 her Own, She Miay thcn drove Mo hy Jeep o thte buse loiked Shte nv# Ixlievos Cuslro had nef Yor the nvnl {cw meaks Frank &ene
#ven dresmed pt ronince with prisoo complex. They skowaa nil cchl ed U8 t0 meke bura ehe didn t *8- In confact with her io MTbum end
threuxh Caalre oflicet# # h 0 were
wot Ains {ot him_ Matie efreed {0 Bpy
0t aslrar Sha Iilchrd aTCftl documenle
n4 N porteal Cauntre'9 Cvnveraations
W jh important Wi"lofr overheard
thronh tho hntel w#lla. Hly njw ehe
cou rred Rbd #ek Spumish 'iairiy
wi
That #vife V'09 foell ol Fuiig an4
Pojcra, ahc a#it, #Fia hed Pacets
#lri"Wi aml ovtt the @bcs_ thc Mloor,
the Ix4, the dresser;' Iit !u Gile filing
rabinee thu} W4] H6$ r € leckcd. 1e was Discovery of missile fuli 6f money, [#hda:t m documeded sil{hin Cuba provokod Iaap8. J ioinr Vapeem oue ald' sliopcu
Culj-war ghowdown hctn Eu Frank. Fidcl ncvof mtibred
bofkoca Ilin Pcezidene lhc"rauk gai,, 'Get all thee dete Yom Jakn F Kcnody sud cnm, and dial. 0iu reculus Eale
#hon Soviat Premier Meri_
Nixita KhruahclJva Tncn Merle becamu_Rick; 'and Frenk
coi rontation Ihal Had ett#nfei her racapl Twa} Cuban otii-
cets Iuuk hcr Que ot Vhe hott} #bile Ihe wolJ Cuatte W4? 0wuy #n pue tr Od
ils broath; Cubuue Airlincs flicht to New York:
Abot thul inie , Krunk elgo ace Ip
the Pac#pe# #f lwo top Cuhan Bif, Iora
"{it{o, praje "t that {arced him {0
leave cula_ Me neveJ hie buae of
operaliai; 10 Mieti_ bul Jues La'pt In 0 touch with him #7ent? on thie islur} end
his (IA cuptaat0 in Meveng Wesh -
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nosb. Mlerie ncd hian In #loridu arad
vwluntcetea
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UNDA+ NRWS, JUNE' 18; 1976
CIA Sent Bedmate
To Kill Castro in '60
P'AT'MSK
fnin; :" M} The ( 'ntral Inlelligenca . gency sent
a1 shapl Mata Iari (0 ( 'ha i#
19650) Lo kill her former lorer, Fidlel (stre.
[etails of this (s€ WeT M'{ee d he Ve "Wa/ 9 SWU ; Ir!eIli;"e I
('omiitee inestirator #ho
learued that 2 my stery
Toma hacl imolvedl
The Memo That Started It
in a assssinatic plot (n Iv:: 1 . 195. ('. . ( ' K:nz, Hie:l 1?" Ui' { 0.1
aalinsl the ('nlr dlictator, M fmr M;'If,H Iww M"i mch '; WM
Diredtor Aml O)ail: ~ Acrme {"> "1 S':" ("imiil It W2s (he first 0f seVerl prt . Wiv : ; tlv 'ft rrim :1 (; !R::?:_ (I:-sponsorel #ltemets to "Xl -
cate ( :stro. "mMne ":Wr Ldn 1mwri (is Lik;
afainst MWVt1h Iwo rmflumlel h; The msters Woa ha s nim (hiei-Mi M" 2'i (0 Ue #liminatwn o ben icle'neifiel bs he ctmmittee Voni' +f Io- ("' Fxk[, sUch ; kxi ` niw "Md/ The Ns "5 Marie T.renS mq";on, 'r_ i:i W: Siie 'mho:W( iI aMratie (;*rman-Ameri : th :: H:? MMv, pe Pl Beivo " 'ila? hrunette who shared (astro' $ " or n Wviikl pn:h aehrate Tall :;
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0 Maaa hote[ suite fvr sueral Koem
"temth; in 1954 . When m "uit - Mte ~; 'iy n: i Eax: #o K;= t. imretiror confronted[ 11r "proved Vi# 'm Miati'n wl "6 6`[ 1:';'0 with eilenee linking he to) (he :siii {:n "painst {ur {.ll i:iv a : Salt p'lot , she almittee| five :e Ti` cile' &Xcim-ie #ny Ll: :N ii_ Hat sh hzul he"en reertitedl Vr"
he" #tte mpte l hit ,
Kxelusive Account
TWn, Iast wek; she fe this
reDrtr "I exelsiv a(nt (f'
missin 40 40rd hat siw'
1vi''!' mentinel it'to aWone Tw
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Ms 4renz 1h1o nobf" livi: : it
0'" Hvk. til:' dlatughier
fv Iate. (eriain
Menrich Loren am[ his Amer
('XM wir'e_ After Horkl M
Vrn herume skipper th-
luxury liner Irlin. {=
Marie aonx 4 ( 'ahiea
('1*f1*0 in 1.. "f 1934 ,
MM} h wTx 1*' M4 40"t*2'
{3 "; ni
1~ ( v 1n 3 iman: iarbor al dine | "ith
M'! eaiv al[ 1w < "iracious
tc"AAt 'atehte'r . Me later
'leii aric to returm :0 Hav -
Mt 10 Work 4; his personal inter-
mr 2'8'_ HheA= shc: arrived fhe
9: instulleeel {t Castro < "4th-
Slitn at the Ha Vaa Hiltan
~m realized se 1s A
"rtual prisone'!_
(uinued hy FKI
Frauk Fivrin, aM American
"w ha ! fw"u # (uhan Re{V-
imn Ar "fiet aMl 8 ('N acet, contate her aa
psude"i her to photorraph
astr {@'ret papers. He' later
heIpel he't" escpc'_
We Ver Havan:t in Januars
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CIA Sent a Bedmate
Ta
Kill Castro in '60
4T Dre ,3 ) Fiorini Fane her (wu) capgules
(ull 0[ poixe Dowaler. She 0m#
Hork M;l Maldl (o sprink: the powaler in
Ioxtal 0 (:str $ {let
Miimtm "1 Kup'#4 th cemmmny (GIA )
Nii'( M? ~elin he'm_ Krank sid it Ivas
V Mi,1 . oN operetion:
1*:m/0 $ j'ackinx Ive olive-drah unf-
M i270 formn thxl (astro had given her
Fork"_ 4esixnal her 9 lieulenant im
1( orkei the Revolmtionary Army Ma_
" Iw FM. L.tu" fle hk (o) HnVutna ()m
siw (lML 4irlim $ Kelieving ehe
MAfWs mirht hae srelet #t the #irpert,
Mi; al 3
Tc she hid thu "psules in 8 jar "f
{1MMile'Mli: cd (Te'fi in ner purse. When
Ia' 6s shte arrive in Havana she Ila Al"ekedl into 41 fourisl hote,
!M;| chanfel Into her Ficlelista uni-
'Wldl (Urm #d went tu Ihe Hilton.
i1t 3" MM'Mloa
{V:i0 ('mn ( 'old-( 'ream (#per
(v Vv FM vCnic "The lohlyy Wm$ full of report-
1 Xt_ 1~ M ( ers xud] other trying to
"'Mi`j} 17*!; '1' 1i9' u;enls who 3e0 ('aytr but he wuJm't there.
Iw p: 4ii?- Ume of his aideg recoknized Im@
'1I~ andd txk me U[ to) Piclel' & suile- it
"w: m a{ti- Kntering the lio-room suite, 3 she saiai, she s4w that not had chaug- [o
V;; Willing ed in her absenee The sitting
'W Fel M8 room ##g crowalea wilh Castra 3
~Ml) #l bea rdleel, pcking retain-
4r4. The
Bistco-
Wny litteredl
'ahe Mt h#y 0 Joke with ppers, cifar bulls and
ia' _ X oll ke-k Eunx.
~€ eerehei; She waited nerresly In (as=
( _wuxht hue: tro s private rhm 1 he (mc
kept (0M in 8 few hours later. 49 goon 49
M realizeel he smile anl hurredl her, she
knew he dian't suspect shle had
Hiw ('t u kill "isite tie suite 3 fet mlonthy
I: l" knew hot, previously 8na} stolen his secrets,
h all {" 8m arommd hlm _ And he creainly dlidn't sugpect
Dd/ t:in: 1w ic it'3 'in ne to she had come back t0 ki:l himn.
i kin: !u- Io Vet Wixturb
';h" jealois "[e asked why I left hit) andl
'iu %i:l :m Kwi:[ [ sai il Ias hecse missedd
Iwin ' Ilo sl, 1 IY mtler ana] m hone. He
3 ~a, '[m Mvi slarted talkina #bout (uba anl
WMwMr ;'is[ 4am:is the problems_ the lnck uf money ,
he Ewr: the shortare_ He talkedl 8 lonx
JV_ Lww M lir 0e:7a time He said he #*49 expecting
#a w"; {}v iE 4L "ilic
#n jwportant phone "ll but he
5X kin; (J took the receiver off the hook
J: ' f ;~{ ana[ he: sheutedl Eo the harbulos
"#inally 'vilel on (beardledl OnCS in the next
9m'1. Th; s;i: iekl he Pa9f r)om: No Mt wualeste (Don't
M {: ni, [ol (t' hoiher me)
nuj Wiu: are 5 !
1v down "Finally he orilcreel fooe} and
'hl' : Lo) coffee sent u[) When it cames he
#k] kill him fell #sleep) on the hed, in his
Ar" '1 #vll chaze
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:ami' to do It but" knew this wa9 the &hance
They duln't teHi me t0 alo it.
0[' Met 9 ii) it TTw 84id if [
11{'/it 1 1 Ww prefeeted but who "[went Into the bathroom anl
ckl xuarantat [ l et opened the ja r of cokl cream_ [
stuck MV finger In it a nd the Methel Rrady whole thing (#me out like
''i: 7l ial she tinally [ couldn't find the capsules.
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{'} M M:[ {[1*i "( Iib 0LL'i ~ :i X im ui. room W#y crowald ivith Castr 8
'{iiv|_ sa; bea rdeel, pistol-packing retain-
erS 'The bedrotn Mny litteereel
'[hh Mt 0 Joke with pepers, cifar butls and
i o knenk guns.
iehv She waite"d nesly In
iwught In tro'< prirate remn unti (4mne
kp: C0m in 8 few houra Imter. As Achoi 0S
Tea'iz 4 ho smilcel a mal huxredl her, she:
knew he didn t 8mspct sie had
Io"( ov kill visitel the swite # fet mlonths
Iw kumow how previously &nd stolen his seerels_
!1 #; arol}id hlm_ And he "rtainly dlidn t suspect
MW (; ~;#w it 3 in me t0 she had come back t0 kil himn .
i;: Ww Io Wt Disturb
(w jrloy "He askedl #hy 1 left hlm
' i;1 #M F;i sj il #n$ hernuse missed
Vo sW, 'li IW} mother anl honie. He
:. ['m Mo: startel talkina &bott (ubn ona]
4:s thu problems. the Jack of money,
1i the shortaees_ He talked a Iong
W M;o 1**[ time _ He sid he W#9 expectina
': M: Mt1 Hn impurant phene cll. but hxo'
took the reivo'! iff the hank
A] he' shutel to the rbulos
F'iM: 'ido on bereled OWte $ in the nexi
Rn. 7 6; sW Weldl he "AS] roa No JWt: moleste Don [
M6 h;: fv) {/' bofher me )
driwk H #re f) 1
'ei MMt' 7v Ku dvw# Finally he ordlered fooal and
: coffee sent UD. When it camie he KlL I;im
jex ~i, 'W wkl ch:mz fel asleep on the hed, jn his
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su. W WL I don't fatigues 8 nd with 8 cigarin his
hislry_ mouth. 1 hadl no con fidensa left,
1:;/;
teHl me to do Jt but T knew this 'Was the "chanee The7 din"
il_ The 8aid if 1 to do it.
{11' ml V0
T"'t 1 he proteeted, but who 4[ went Into the bathroom anl
{hl rntee F 4 opened the jer of coll cream,
stuck my finger In il and the Methal Ready whole thing cume out like
Vrs orenz #aid] she Iinally I couldn't find the cajisules.
t Ko} 1v Miami with had] meltetl.
Fo}' I"et wich Fiori- 1 was like an onen:
M,a "i. . S he h;l 0 to do "[ couldln't just dump 8 glob
( of cold cream in his coffee, 90 I
~ne 9aj/ she Rjwnt three shut the jer and wet back to
J ei:s in " (IA safe house" In the bedroom am 1 wa cheal him
Meei_ smin Wa) ae lt Fori- sleeping: Finall lay" dlomn on
V: #M #orke. The kent talk- the hedl besidle hin_
if:c" M:0 int" it. T said, You
T: do i; . }{+ the only One 6'] ( hought. To h}l #ieh It.
W 1 " (4m dv it, et histor; take ils course.
Azkolif she nom @ liercs she "Stupid, Stupld"
""$ hrinwashed, she replied: "] Frank nnd Alcx met me when [
F'o~$ Su, She sid #ppe"r]- fle te) Miami next morning
1"1 W} har narietism #n lokl her They #sked ne whut happened
X6' wwukl thousands, #ml [ said the capsules melted.
"i to retire; if she buc- Frank #as very unset. Ne geld,
70* {lS
If hen she fi:lly #eree to a(-
Stupid, Rtupid, atupid. Why did
0'1 tiw. Mamme'm she saic, von put them in thc eldl crexm ?
T said Where elsc ? It #ay the
only place to txink of where no Aria Floors 0w1e would flnd them.
Ms. Tarenz Ks not asked to
try aguin: Opera Singer
{4 Wvuld have killed him 1
the cupsules hadn't meltedl the
1.oaln. Ji-ne 12 (UPI ) interriewcr asked. "No, Bhe
4 ({io1m >nn/ Tvcheel for 8 replied. "Prohably not .
Inaeh n; + tIxe Koyal Operx Alex Rorke later disappeared
se im Londlon last nirht on a nstery flight to Nicara -
Ae] fell hrouh the floor , gua, Frank Fiorini, now known
He xtuck there_ in the per- 83 Frank Sturgis, continued to
9( 0f ~inzer Rugrero Rai- perform odd jobs for the CIA
Deali_ { rppee ta his waist unti] his arrest in 1972 a8 one of
anl singing fwr dear Jife. Sir the Watergate burglars_
(raint Kans a!il his other Informed of Ma_ Lorenz' AC-
(*a) < performers stih Rnziaf:
count of the ass&Ssination at- JKA] a)l pllckl. tempt; he verified her story.
Iv Raimoncli climhed out, un:
hrt hut shaken with his word Soon after her murder migsion
bent into a curve. fsiled, the CIA recruited Mafiu
The Vere magnificent P} mobsters including John
waid critic Hilton Tims_ who Roselli 0f Lag Sain Gien-
mas in the aUelience "They cane Of Chicego and Santo Tret-
carried on without Jetting the ficante 0f Tampa, Fla to kill
incident unset their voca] Cagtro. But wero no more equilibriuni. successful than the bexy Mata
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SJNDAY, JUNZ 1475.
Daily ICc_Suzduy 25c Jls; Yuar-_-Niunbr;
CIA, Mobsters LLimk:e
Cuba Raid plaw
Newspaper Nares 4Mafia Figures;
bccame obvious that world: Infornation; &9 dccliala thing; Ike that;,Mfyaneci-y le,
{CRAMENIU 4) -i wben -t
contirnj 0r deny lba pobublv not %4;cu {6 ecuta}
(entral Iiellsctex' A%0ucy i1a + invaslon 0l 1,400 cxlles to Whev you [ellece un %t,lt=
re had 011 {Our 'underworid wes, * fallure, the mobsler iccounts.
that Hous_ Jot &n hnpla;sible: ziquctac:
Wlesters (or Wpt Italligence boai returned {0 Plorida. The Bee reported
b 1t?' 1 In planning Uhs"UF-tated 1031 Walsh identifiod tha . Bource The Bee gxld k%t" € I!te toxr
of Piga invasion?# Cuba, hia Information &9 & ormer Related Story Page A5
niuhstere brvanlved wih ` the
Ike Sacramenio Bea.sald; b employe o Ahe CIA_ Hc did
0l _ CIA, in ithe 0f lea ##
day- #5o not . identify tba] cniploye in tcn, retired gcueral counscl
sill abve_
CLA & underworld im,
"dlie story , which tarried a Las the CIA, said of Lhe story: It said o Ly Euss?l!_Butcit
Tbe
ali faamper Havara_ Vegas, Nev_, dateluie: "I d nt 'recollect such 0 no; 74,descril :as ? Zuin Casinansx se f
ked buried Hle Lamcncc R thing, but lhat doesn"t mean it
Teo Tortl:3: T Rcunsyl 0; Sasio b sCuba F%an
tiey _ Joustod; daacribad G: lhe CIA didn't happen. [ ion"t &etty It,
Tut Tu.42, Col'5)
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pinpointed , troop ad " naval
vessel posilions;' Beo Investi" -
galive Teporter Denmy Walsb
wrote in tho Sinday edition:
More unportantly per-
haps, thd mlobsters also Ie
ported Ahat many o" Mtta peo ,
ple % Havana- were 'lisym:
pathetic' lG Castro and iould
elmost : certainty: rise up io
support & 0 counler-ravolut
tonary {orce' once Il hadtes;'
(abhlahod 8 beechhead;
Walsh corttrlucd:
Jo exchenge for theic:help =
Uie houdlumy bad:been prom:_
ised /hcy #ould' be: allwed io
racuvcr lhei: bricd cacte
huindered, Welanseitt;
Jlo sald Uq 'I Uai J8d
{lielr apr buat CIA
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abourd; btanding %lt tha
Cubep ebore when itha Epy o
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The Iour 48 {ormer cesdo GA-Mafia gLink] boages '#gnade periodic Te
ports to thc CIA until just
'(Conlloucd Frop Pakc At)".
bclorc thc abortivo;: Boy 04
I3 Afafie : base ' no Avas cona invasion. Mcied; just boforo lis -hookup
#Bct wc € m M45,0
Alln;Wpc CIA oE' conspiting to: 60,C00 waa by tbe: {owr
osstruct jusuico in lylg abput _
Dingstei: _ 'ta Informata 3
u 1957 Maila gummle mcct- Cuha Ivt Aho infortaatiol =
Ing at Apalac j, N.Y iThc Inuncy came, et leese
Tnd newapdpor gaid Lhe oth- in art, (rom @ 5750,000'ceche
6p Uvlng Anformont (s-Gcorle wropjxx Iua . oilcloth and burv
Liwlen;' lso Jmown m Gorw Icd il thio Ground by Uraiollo =
Dwo wbo was dcacrilcu a eiu [A)vino just bcfore, tholr
07 ovccecBr]_nnu ibiomigot Ul . hnsly dopatturo Iroin Cube
Volle Gambung ' Inloresta Ja} durlng Iho Lutbulcut 02
pre Caetr Caba; 'Ihiol Dce tha Castro lokcovcr.
eald ho is roportedly: Uving ia "It Mas thc rest ot this
Cral Geblea; Fle: moncy Iliat `'Granello, Levinc,
The other two Tvere Jemez Dufalino und Plumcri were
Ehert Identlilcd 00 0 forv' asuurcd thcy would bc ablc t
@ar Malia: hlfackor; : labor: rccovcr unhindercd I( thc Cas-
ratketecr and ` gamdent dlsa tr Govtrumcnt was Lopplcd
Get etrongmad; and ; Selve; SThcy mnnagcd to got Wora =
diote Grenello; Idcnlillicd 05 0 to 'hoodlutas Inslde' Cuba ` who
Annra70ruon180' and: goni: kocw thc wlcrcabouts o lhe
Aler. moncy lo stert buying stra"
Plumeri and Grenello' wcre legjc Infornation. Othcr Cua
#ictlms' geveral ycars EgD; 0L ban associales of the {our
@hjelated ` Gagland 0 < ec u# gangstcrs were dispatched :o
Uons; Walan;wtolo: 44 thc islaud [rom Florlda on
Bcr6" . ! js the= #ccouni 0} intelllgcnce-gathering sorties;"
CIA-Mulia -W; Intrigio' 08' Id6 Lartcr published rcports
fibed ' byv Walsh : irouft his bave said that in preparution
aldentiled {ormcr CIA tor the Bay o Plgs Ivagion,
viource: CLA Director Allen Dullcs ro
Durlng the prc-1959 Tes. licd heavily 0n reports whlch
'61 Wno i orInci:: Cubeh stressed the unpopularity of
Aaliatetor Fulgenclo K Bulista , tho" Castro rcgimc and the
En ro. gambilng Ilourished In expectation, nevcr reallzed , of
Whu country undcr- thc direc" magsivc rebellion at, the time
Jop and contro} O the .U.S: ol & strike_
organized crime uoderivorld:
The: C estr0 rcvolution
jouted the mob 'along _ wvith
#Balista;' and: the Cuban ' pre-
Iir's_ Communist Covcrila
Zineutbas baver . alowed tho
Tezumptlan & Mob_acllvues
thdres:
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to Sovio} Union (righi}:
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1uMi J3 #e Evft Maranz wm{h hig "SM#] #2 'l Airhl '[ mmf I" M: Ut: Im 7) (} 'bre: 4*06 0Ml
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fht_ Jniitk Ma R# Ammrican {ourise el. #h} tohal the stuff #39 Ftm_ it Ahl {ichling_ is Itnh Tf} 1w!
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los led mrrolver In her Oernikht hux craecnt Iy "ry hapny_ tien diwtrarted the 0. Ikh l 'I Iub
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DAIL NEWS_MOVDA, APRIL 21, 1975
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Helzad Hszt (~1o
By PAUL Meskil Stcord 0| & serlet
F wag a sp;, Frank Sturgig te Waler#arc Sturgis
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1 Fa3 iuvoled in essassina- those of any {ictional 2Y [o;lerrimn| 4: litn plots and couspir;ries to over- the: office of his Mianj la#>er, Fllis throw Severul fureign Xorcrn - Rubin_ and et other placcs in Nem Fork s€ned iu} security unit that hsn-lledl
Ient:_ including Cuba, Fanam; and Florida_ he cndijly top-secret repurts {romi AMae intelli-
(uatemala_ the details Ut his culurul Noreah many Kenae "Gents ai O"er Eurspe_ Thie #49 Dumninican Fepub- rirrr 84 47 his introduction Io the dart wurk 0( lic and Haiti. hefo_ ca{Pf s-stealer_ 4hin TMar ruer ~spion#Fe und intrigue
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QULs; iLlkike-_ {Slzlc" INN HAVANA
Frent Sturgis in Cube: sfole and pholographed hundreds of secret Jocument;
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A-Missicn {2 Cuba: Tale of 42 Booued Rcizsrs
By Paul Mesxil 4(14/75
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On Mareh 17, 1960, Cresileut Opetution 40 02 a[ anebssnntien Eiscithouer authorized 'thu CA t S]bu4 Sturges Fon" &6 kt faf TCJz Cia
form 3 guerrilla urmy of Cuban 'It *39 top CIA: Pro; €, he 978.
refugees &ne inrade < uha, Shortly "Host 0l Iae nicn I#} it #ft uWs #ko ted Iren alre4 hy the Ls thcreafter, h e CIA dlispatehca Arny_ 8m nel 9Ryink thal Oerwtion SW{ munercds 6l Ballsta loyal,,
agent.Frank Sturgis to (uatcmala 4( Ked #0 85fsmn8fien 6qua4 There tu iAc Jiring squad3, aad (aro 9 {ir-}
to con{er with Frevidant Migued] bre "cporis 'hot thcfe #03 vue pwt [ Jinister un cwicullure Dut Ly 1Gl k YJlgoras ahout getting Wp training Rul ##yine *0 had t#rnd aj inse tle Cuatro fegima
bases in thal country_ To laliltrate H;s partncrs In the enti-Ces ro [un.
Thls "gecret' nissivn Wa} qulckly "Tha prime purpore Wa9 infiitretien, 'piracy incladed oher Cubxn Rfm>
dlscovered not os.e3sina&ion. Tney (group 117#MAI nary and elr Mce commandcrs, the en4 reported by the Guate- bera) were to infikra:e Cuba and shix 0 Cstoe Gecrel bolce #8 %074
malan ncws ni lia. Act $mti-( agtro nixitsry icank' {alil: ' Xx finance minister and the heid 6 the
I had plenncd {0 hrcak Inlo the ral leatere and undgygtoung'; propls Lulan 30 Institute Tncy mluancd Cuban mb 0 > $ rhile 099 In AnJ thcy cou}l kil--;f thcy ku4 t0,#
amary #Orisins durir: #kich Castra
Gueteenela toll Ihis Te: It wjs fcally #ecessar} J4 hs Comniist #dfi.crs #twlj le
porter recenily, "but the presidcnt #ur Chiet 0l,Opetatinn 40 w8s Jnse klad
Rreted I Jcas& the counify brcouje {8 fanjenie_ Tcrmer Castra ai.e 49 spon 09 % CIa learax RLal o}l tke publicity. The nen #pJners end
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end Wrrama (IA #hio they were Up {o, Qperstion #0
4vt 18:# TV rcported 041 CIA #ESnt en of Tousing algonmoicy {uFrGL Trv 9 €!'n, Agents slipped in/o} Calm (ie wa} trylng fo obealn bese& for the ry_ tke &' n- '4r:rj (he conspirg:ors ar: a 'ken Cuben invaslon.' Early In,106l, Ihe C1A lcarnrJ 'ne the misry rrl 7> 0c ade Ovcr thc nert senr, the CI. tralned uf t0at Ah thc 6f in";aio: Cuhan reruits In Guatemnla. Fauuto, PloKrgng (uban mi;ary eff1. 4'29 4 I.oath bclore fk Fucno Rico end tho Unitral Stalcs Jverthrew a/tro. The Ivml nrolt Mavn
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S1.00 DECEMBER 6,1976
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SPECIAL REpORT Cuban Extremists in U.S.
^ GrOWiNG TERROR THREAT
Miami
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CUBA DOMINICAN Rico
HAiTI REPUBLIC BARBADOSs
JAMAICA
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VENEZUFLA
Out from Miami spreads a wave of vio- Hiami, where Cahan religees
lence. Terrorists' aim is to topple Castro, free are concentrated:
Cuba Nearly all Cuban refugees share this ity ofthe CubvhchniNK ajoe
iire dream_ But the acts of a few zealots create strongly anti-Castro_ That $
why Calme [o i:uni in trouble for fellow exiles and for the U.S_
the first plaee are also
Iawv-alidling citizens who, #ith
minor exceptions, manilest
Reported from their opposition to Castro in
MIAMI and WASHINGTON legal ways_
Tcrrorism by racic:l Cuban refugces has become u thorny Hoivever there are & smaall
problem in the concluct of U.S. foreign policy and, it the
"lnber of individuals whaose'
vicw' o somne #uthorities, " potential threat to the lives ol
hatrerl of Cub:n Prinie Winis-
Amnerican leaders.
ter Fidlel Castro and Conu-
The terrorists Dr, Orlando Bosch, a anti- nism has led themn to engage is to wrest control of Cuba away (rom Castro leader, is accused in in ext ralegal actions ancl to its Communist dictator, Fidel Castro. plane bombing fatal t0 73. violate the lvs of the country In pursuit of that goal, they have blazed & trail of violence
Ihich Iroin Miami across tlc Caribbean Seu, not only to Culyt hut galve then Salnnctuary
ilso to |exico,_ Barbaidos, Jamaica and Panamu These indlivicluatls lse Dacle:
~eren ucross County "IS hase for international terrorism agalinst the South Atlantic to Argentin:
They have governments allied with Cub:, Cubin shipping; Cmmi}-
e"gaged in # series of bombings in the U.S. anc nists, purported Commuinists andd incliyiclks who tukc "l ahroad. They hae Carried out military-style attatcks (n1 statnd #gainst their terrorist-type attacks:
Communist Thcy are strongly suspected ol setral Cnbaen groups purporting to he involedl in terror- killings
ist-lype altacks against the (uban Coverument #re h20 mr€ 1 federal grand jury in Miami is investigating their activi-
Or no less than outright criminuls, feecling "pon the Culxmu
ties and their leaders population and dliverting 1 he collectec funcling Tor Thei OT/-
Vow ils a1 nei- Administration prepares to take over in purposes WVashington, it is feared that the Cubail tcrrorists Will
up Other investigators charge that the terrorists, to finance their attacks in an effort to thwart any turn toward reconcili their crusade, have dealt in cocaine und prostitution and in -
ation with Castro extortion from wealthy fellow refugees:
Oflicials larniliar 'ith thcir operations Warn that somc' &l The nimbcr of hard-core" terrorists is+- small; oflicially
the Cuban extremists will "t not ot eim l estimatedl at lewcr than 300. But their reach is wicle. In this
#SSalssinating members of the Carter Acministration veatr alonc they have either bragged about or been accusec
"The Cubun terrorists are the most highly trained ass:ssins of such acts as:
intthe world today,' Says one U.S. official. Hachine-gun attacks 0n the high se"ls #gainst vessels Vany Of the terrorists were trainle'd by the Ccntral Intelli: from ( ub:t andl other Conmimist nations:
gence Agency in the clys #hen this country 1is trying t Iombing " wicle varicty ol targets in the Unitedl Stales;
overthrou' Cstro, or kill hirn. Lttin America and Portugal.
The Seiate Internal Security Sulcommittec recently hell Planting - 3 boml; that Calsed the cratsh ol il Culjatn)at hearings 0n thc Cuban-terrorist threat. lt heard this testimno Airlines plane near Barlbaclos o1-October 6,_with the loss of
"y (rom Lt. Thomas Lyons, head of' 31 special antiterrorist 73 lives
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CUBAN EXTREMISTS
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tember 21.
Washington, D.C, on
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Kidnaping tivo Cuban officials in Argentina: Fl
Attempting to kidnap 4 Cuban consul in Mexico
tisl A Relentless Who are these terrorists? What motivates them? How do
operate? And are U.S; ofliciuls so concernedl about
Mil Pursuit what Inay do in the future?
To ,nSer such #ucslions; Orr Kelly and Curl j: Migdail of on
On Jan. 1 1959, Fidel Castro took the US News & World Report staff decply into the he
the first wvave of refugees fled
ZCubeowes_ and Fecords, interviewed Cubm relugecs Who share Yhe
COI Gumber Of the 600,ogeeilesevhasettled isrhe though not thc methocls of thc tcrrorists, and mfkedcloo
SUS U.S; have become extremists the enlorcement oflicials who arc trying to stem thc xiolcncca
bt: Highlights of events in those 18 years, some BREEDING GROUND FOR ter invoiving law-abiding exiles, others involvingothe
Alter Ficlel Castro
TERRORISM
extremists _ took over Culu in 1959 and it became
uSS SpParent that he intended to establish # Communist
stalte Wl 1961: A 1,300-man_Cuban Brigade, armed and 800,000 Cubans voted with their feet' and Iledl their nt trained by the U.S in Florido; Guatemala and Nica: homeland. Soine 600,000 ol them settled in the United ot}
ragua, landed at the of on Cuba's south
States: and their children nOw total 750,000.
Most of Cil: shore. The invasion was
a failure. them live in the Miami area:
C"lt 1962: Survivors of the of were released
The, majority of these immigrants
are law abiding; But
by Castro after payment of a 53-million-dollar Miami '$ Little Havana provicles 4 culture in which the Fe;
som in food, medical ran: virus of violence can grow_
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supplies from
"pdivatediconteduipiorent 'Fesadeat
~In Miami, explains one refugee leadler , the Cubans att- Joln € KeonedyPTivatiamonpbuged to thtecident
their national identity, their herilage, traditions, ter
exiles that the Brigade would one fly over &
hatreds_and their hopes ol going buck to their homelona;
of
liberated Cuba. Aud know cun't go back until Castro is gone So uC( U.S. launched its secret "Operation Mongoose'
they dreumn o toppling Castro What is clcurlyranregOistic 5o
in
a plan to use Cuban exiles in paramilitary
other places in the United Stutes seems very possiblc in
the
against Castro while U.S. maintained
an
War atmosphere in Miumi
On blockade t9 shake the island a econeay. Theatacks In thc early 1960s, the overthrow of Custro seemedl to the
Fil
generally failed: attacks Cubuns i%c exile to be not only possible but _lonoe mccviabhe
1964: Cuban extremists in York fired
It Was U.S. policy to drive him
power There Wvais iU) Brt mortar shell at United Nations a8 Coxs Che Cdea attempt to invade Cula at the of in ]96 | with a wh
vara addressed the Cenerul Assembly. Gmy Th Cuban cxiles recruited und trained in secret by thc
ralc 1967: Cuban exile specialists and U.S-trained
CIA The invaders werc not given the #ir cover nccesswry loC
gt! Bolivian troops trapped and killed Guevara and
il successful attack, and the operation
Wals 2 disaster. Only
some of his Communist guerrillas in Bolivia: 180 of about 1,300 invuders escu=
death or caplure. The ane 1968-72: Cuban-exiie extremists bombed Cubans felt betrayed
of aations consideredeto bexitiendst; bocbecshers Then came other American
moves against Castro. There plo
rorized other exiles to them in line: Wals : secret "Operation Mongoosc, which incluicledl efforts An
1972: Cuban exiles trained by Central Intelli- t0 assassinate the Culan leader The United Slates hackedl an1 Pre
gence Agency took part in Watergate break-in, later Sconoic blockade of Cub; in an attempt (o prevent (stro
tI}:
testified that thoughlit Ivould help their anti-
Irom ohtuining sorely necdcd supplics and eqjipment Turo
Wil_
Castro campaign #hroudl; Later; Cubun relugecs 'ere ysed {0 cuTTy Oln SuCoon
1973: U.S und Cuba signed agreement aimed operations not only in the Caribheau also in olher parts
controlling hijacking of aircraft and at ol Latlin Americu-_and even in Africu:
at sea,
piracy of ships To mny Cuhun relugces, attacking Castro and
1974+76: Cuban extremists nismn hecame & way of life. Comnt-
mat J00 bombs i" Cioai ereremisoeyelodediodreithng Since then, however American policy has failed t2 Iateh # oflices %f the FBa State attorneyraperice hittini in intensity the fierce anti-Castro pussion Of the more
mili- shi
police department: tant relugees: In recent yeairs, prominent members of the i2):
Exile terforists attacked airline olfices and consul- U.S Senate huve visited Culu. In 1973, Cuha mladle itfl ates of governments that have diplomatic relations agreement with the Unitedl States to curh the airplatne ~rel
with Castro; Bombings took place in Jamaica, Mexis hijackers Iho hud been using Cuba a5 asyluri Therepvare irr
co; Portugal, Puerto Rico, Panuma, other countries moves Um1 both sides towarc nornalization of relations he. coi Fishing-boats based: in Cuba
and Soviet
tween (ula and thc U.S. des
were_attacked_by high-speed motor cargo As thcir hopes of American action #gainst Custro ebbed, Cu;
manned by TLD exile extremists
launches somne (uban refugees turned to violence on their own .The
Terror reached its reak Iith the bomb hox On this Dage gives the chronology o devclopments: "Fel
~of a Cuban dirliner and the death of 73
sabotage
we"_
and crEwv last October 6 near
Barbadosscrolcce TERRORIST LEADERS AND TACTICS
seized Cuban exileg 0nCarucasc Venczbedoon Polje Though their numbers ;re smaell; the 300 or fewer uctive Ut
cion of involvement in the sabotage.
Casorossp- terrorists have organized themselves into many grouins oui
celed U.S:Cuba hijacking agreement: 44 of one group chalked on the wulls in Little Havanu" act
havc i 'rely to facle helore 'they are replaccc
the
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Sep-
they why
they
dug
hope s
They Bay Pigs
Bay Pigs
drugs,
keep
flag day they they
fromn New City
Fay Pigs `
ped
keep
they
pol
but
hitting
ships
Slog:e: '
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and
named in of yet
66 'are: the groups
a
Or
for in Alpha
means de {scemed possible;
dle
A it sounds and
marked for itself
issued ~pragmatists
on the and, a 'death
of soon died to people
several
he 's anti persons
stopped
to
head,
Ites on track of the Says suspected of to solve the groups und insteas
is a
committed
He hus are
in the sample of the no of
years: 0f
to unsolved a
been to
in Miami is
viewved a5 directed #gainye at seven terrorists.
were
{todeonents of the
who
to
Other attempted
was 8 redtside the U.S To
caster lost failed,
a
by a for formed with the
the activ
car apart. the
prominent in Spanish de initials
which
On a Or stand
bombs
ripped his
in of
of
blasted the
CORU
English;
a Social
oflice of the have the
and post a
the governments of powerfui farcthat'
of A the a
of the accused of a State
the
in some even
are of
acquitted and also the armed for a5 at in in a
recently in a months terroristic and I
4
court, court He is to the June as in are well
num of
be tried again
4 wave of on page 32,
Fifth out the window 0 exploded in Tivo
Jid beyond swept
On Feb. the
the "conselateooh
On were Jamaica and
12,
a
St; Patrick s on 23, in
was freighte5; coflee cuns who
its tanks were 35 off
the with plastic
caced close to the S north coast He
erelosive "ttcmpraairg
gun fire. No and raked it 4 small
most escaiped,
4 in
On April 6, wus injured with
a act of expert Wus
and & Cuban off DC-8 on
killed
On vas 73
exploded in 6
ploded 21, 1976,
in
attacked persons plane fell
in a and killed DC_ of the the
to the U.S, a ex
In
to
national
a
msolved,
the
regime of the crash of of Xoth CORU and El
;s planted the crime is late
Dr.
the plane. cluimecl
"
'olice of by rociistest reportsithat the
ently aho hus traveled for the
present as 2 46
provided by
on to the secret anti-= Castro of
NEW in 2 was WIs Picked up in
"ophc
of the the_plane crush with and 0n
Jn emerged as an are hard to arrests of Dr. men are
iig conncction With
pedial
He
apparent leader: D;
one and his
p) in harboras {96ght
3
Orlando
El actually instead of 1968 and WBS
at a Polish on
in 4 more 'r
Ivas
sentenced to 10 ycisb
19, said to the United
rreleased on parole convicted, are innocent
und
the
men held by
st in
returned to the years, but will be at
planes of the warned
if
the
charged He is
he
it
On the same are
with the Iith under Iould join CORU ribed AS the_leader Qther
~in in attacks with the sent 8 message-
tna offthe Dr. flights-to on
is that June of itself_Accion plun . excursion_
getheb;; Bosch called 'of in 71
ogetherzin the a small_group of-his Castro denounced thee of veterans of the
ie wanted_ con and Republic
Saicl_
all itened attacks
It aids to avoid-the like mad
and to attacks in the
both here_ oiit {or against last BY LAW
3 their 4 3 to % in the
ZS &
agrecment !Vas reached ciee .$ to thecesslul
counterattack be as
in
{Dec, 6, policy that WIS by much
an by agen-
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organivol
slogans
initials
another testimony Subcommit group: before Among ttee' Senate Accion Internal Cubana, name Security adopted Cubaln FLNC, when Action; victory standing 1966 Frente which
Liberacion Cuban National Nacional tistas, which Liberation Cubal, means Front, what group Pragmna- calling like _ Zero
killing
list' list according
officials, violent Dade deaths: County'
terrorist has
Lieutenant trying concentra keep Lyons, trying
having crimes business: that Here they
terrorists shortalge Automobile last bombing violence two Since that attributed killed February, many Cuban 1975, assassination crimes refugee there attributed have attempts onb were anti-Castro least
refugee men focus leaders their shot terrorists" efforts death: One tactics. new Three group killed killings Wals direct bomb Coordinacion both but Three legs vities, below CORU, Organizaciones_ radio knees broad - when Co-ordinating Revolucionaires bomb tionary Dec: Organizations Committee 3-4, Unidlas 1975, Federal American United Bureau Revolu- law-enforcement Investigation, State Miami
unemployment officials backing Security; office, attorney' $ two office office, members offices, forces, ters. themsel- Miami America. bank, man ves, perhaps police-department The terrorists those coun Miami bom! Domninican headquar- tries described bings, International Lattin Republic, home' Airport Nicaragua_ bombing Taiti, two Chile. federal State Since acts, They earlier, shown was the meeting, box across the ber new Caribbean bombs One Cubun terrorism have blev been airline has facilities Bombs
Avenue, New have Cuban Barbados, damaged Venezuelan officials across street kidnaped July from Panata. 1976, three Bruno, Argenti three Soviet men Cathedral: inal. had sitting flown filled motionless fromn while kidnap Dzhordano Miatmni Cuban miles carrying Consul Cuba" being Mexico. Daniel cleaned: Ferrer Suddenly freighter Fernandez but The Cuban Mericlu, boat one fisheries serious heavy when Cubana terrorism machine- 1976, Airlines two cume taking fishet October fishing from man boats Barbados. killed. flight Sept: were The shortly including after into team- Washington; members sed, car killing Cuban Imbassador Orlando bomb messages Letelier, fencing President former news under group media, Salvador Chilean unheard Marxist Allende. previously, Although there Condor, have been responsibility Bosch, officially Cuban
terrorists the bomb freely Favor" officials documents anti-Cominunist
Covernments Government movement, November_ friendly Chile. TerrORIST charged Leaders Venezuel:t STRATEGY homicide terrorist Three has bands The other
similarly identify: reclucing Bosch trician. charged . But terrorist was cohorts, violence, violence. Miami firing Bosch, may Condor, bazooka Internal :rison; stimulate tional message November Venezuelans Bosch Press four vrtedly
after four that; Venezwelan Venezuela, movement. they tacked: International saying ection along nowv Aifivays Jay, three _ Cuban Alliance airliner Honduran men bombing:
Anti-Communist three Bosch Havana_ airlines group calling Roberto this Carballo,
militant Pigs activists leader valsion,
sharply:' by Dominican divided threat making Bay Carballo Cuban policy exiles TThey look strat tegy. States bomnbers, ~riskszof further concentrate CRACKDOWN this their country efforts-' Others_held" Since ies Ciistro OFFICERS spring, and-abrowd: terroristic there continuing has heated_irgument been violence sharp. due Miami reduction sshaky area. That may WORLD the ReporT; law-enforcement Farly 19-76 this adopted yeatr, CORU antiterrorist last
force wats
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CUBAN EXTREMISTS from the CIA. Said Castro: From the very moment when he
[continued {rom preceding page] was recruited by the CIA and overza period of 10 years, the
supposed agent has kept the Cuban Covernment lully in-
includes representatives {rom Dade County and Miami pO- formed of all his contacts with [the CIA] and of the equip-
lice, the US Customs Service and the U.: Bureau of ment and instructions he has received.
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms: Although the Federal Bu- Castro blained the CIA for the airliner bombing and other
reau of Investigation is not formally a part of this task force, acts of violence: Who else but the CIA can carry out
its agents !ork closely with it. these acts? Castro asked,
With co-operation from Cuban refugees who are sick of Sccretary of State Henry Kissinger has flatly denied U.S
the terrorist violencc, luwv officers have arrested a number of involvement in the airliner bombing; He said: "[ cun state
suspects. Police also have learned enough about other SuS- categorically that no official 0f the United States Govern-
pects so that their {reedom to engage in new acts of violence mcnt, nobody paid by the American Government; nobody in
can be limited even though there is not enough evidence to contact with the American Government has had anything to
prosecute them: do wvith this crash of the airliner. WVe consicler actions like this
A federal grand jury is interrogating witnesses Iho might totally reprehensible.
somne knoivledge of terror operations The CIA declines to discuss Cuban refugee terrorismn.
Efforts of law-enforcement oflicials to deal with the terror- Olficials of other Government agencies say they seriously
ist groups face formidable handicaps, however: The terrorists donbt that the CIA, after &ll the criticism it has received for
seem to know what police are Lieutenant Lyons some of its earlier activities, is still involved in operalions
relates that one suspect identified one of my officers who against the Castro regime: However, the agency is described
had never met him before; called him by name and told him aS providing very little help in combatting the terrorist
wvhat:section he worked in and Ihat his duties were_ groups. We have absolutely no contact with the CIA,' Suys
Terrorists are protected by & web of old loyalties Most of Lieutenant Lyons Td like but don't talk to us One
them worked at one time or another for 'the U.S: Covern- reason for that attitude may be that bar the CIA from
ment: Many have had several roles: members of the US. domestic law-enforcement activities.
Army, CIA operatives and FBI informants. One refugee Other laws, or the lack of thein, also complicate the light
leader suggests that law-enforcement officials have not found #gwinst the terrorists U.S: agencies cannot becomc involved
the killers of Cubans 'because don t want to. in investigations of terrorism outside the United States unless
A further complication is the heavy -infiltration of the the crime involves violations of neutrality laws making it
terrorist movement by members of Castro s intelligence illegal to conspire in this country to commit crimes abroud or
corps: They not only gather intelligence but sometimes act as to export arms without a license.
agents prococateurs; instiguting terrorist acts designed to Although shocked by the October 6 airliner bombing, US
discredit the refugees and influence American policy. officials reluctantly decided there was nO authorization for
The Cuban Prime Minister has 'surfaced" enough of such the FBI to enter that case
agents to reveal their pattern of operation Early this year, With such handicaps as these, laW-enforcement officiuls say
for example, Manuel de Armas, & Cuban refugee who was they can look forward to only limited success against the
named in Senate committee testimony as having been in- lerrorists_ real solution to the problem must come from
volved in terrorist activities in Miami, showed up in Havana: within the Cuban relugee community__und investigators
In an April 22 broadcast by Radio Havana, De Armas said state that the CO-operation they get there does not extend to
that he had supplied the explosives used in the killing of & cases of violence committed outside the US
man named Rolando Masferrer and that a CIA had
provided him with the explosives. WHAT HAVE TeRAORISTS GAINED?
In a8 speech on October 15, Castro boasted of a double As officials size up the effects of the terrorist campaign:
agent who Castro claimed had passed on coded instructions The only tangible accomplishment has been t0 push Castro
into renouncing the antihijacking
treaty, thus discouraging efforts to-
ward & diplomatic reconciliation be-
tween the United States and Caba TERRORISTS' ARSENAL:
Despite all the terrorist plots and
PLANES TO CANNONS attacks, Castro remuins firmly seut-
ed as head of a Communist regime
One measure of the military equipment A further mneasure comes from this tally in Cula: And it appears to the refu-
that ic-acailable_to Cuban -terrorists is of extremists Ucu 'pous onfiscated :by Mi- gees almost inevitable that the_
provided: by thisspattial-incentoryzcou= ami;-lowzen forcemcutscffiqetyn-fo fa mgyement toward-some kind: of_ac
~piled by authorities: 1975.76: commodation ivith Castro:" will?Ie
Eesuned Anierican__policy mik
40 10 Or more high-speed-motorzlaunches 2O-mm_cannon with-1Q0: rounds ~f ers; Tlroughout Eittle Havana
Itt abour J0 Teel Tong; wilEspecial Iuel: Em explosive ammunition
~the-fear_is_widespreud_that Jiinmy-x
tanks for extra range-=
044
498_submachine guns; 480.ol Jhem-with Carter, when he becoines Presi
Anumber of small, spotter aircrait silencers'
dent; will givve newv iinpetus_to" this
movement;and that-their-homeland -Large:caliber-recoilless riiles 82 explosive devices_
will-neverrbe liberated-froi Com Missile-antitank weapons 3,265 pounds uf dynamite and TNT
munist rule Wide assortment ol smaller weapons
Rr"# 4 boxes ofnapalg;
4+ To-both, officitls and-Cuban-refr Large-quantities of C-4_explosives devei: 6 rilfles
"oped by Ihe U.S: Army 20 handguns
gee leaders,it-seems inevitable that
the terrorists will continule their at: Thousands of rounds of ammunition_
teipts to keep . the two countrics
cpact byithe:zonly method_they
knowv Zfiirther-acts 8l violeiice:
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doing:
they to,
laws
they
Any
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Ly
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'
4'
MMORANDUM
TO RECORD
FROM HOWARD S LIEBENGOOD
SUBJECT JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INFORMATION OF JANUARY 19 1977
I called Larry Callahan at 2:00 P.m . to advise him that
the Commiteee desired to interview Mr Gene A Boren _ of
the IRS at the earliest available opportunity and requested
his advice and assistance to accomplish this Callahan was
nervous about the Comittee S eagernes8 to proceed in response
to the memorandun for fear that we would be interfering with
an on-going criminal investigation _ He noted the FBI was
looking
into this and he would have to check with the Bureau to
ascertain the feasibility of proceeding unilaterally. I told
Callahan we did not want to interfere with a criminal investi-
gation and that I did not feel that our interview of the IRS
employee would fall into that category Callahan referred to
a
possible obstruction of justice on the part of that employee
in that the information had been withheld for approximately
five years _
At 2:30 P.m I received 3 telephone call from Paul Daly
urging Comittee restraint in unilaterally investigating
subject matter Daly noted the Bureau had just received this
information and was
intending to interview the IRS employee-
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and other individuals in question today or tomorrow Daly
noted that he was disturbed that Callahan had brought the
memo to the Comittee S attention So promptly , a3 the Bureau
had intended to brief the Comittee at the coriclusion of their
investigation _ seened most concerned that the IRS delay
in bringing the matter to the Bureau S attention and assured
uS that the Bureau was desirous of cooperating fully. He
noted the information had been furnished by Justice absent
3
specific inquiry from the Comittee and that we were being
unreasonable if we desired to pursue the matter further at
this time - I asked Daly what information was available at the
Bureau on
Brading and Hint . He said there was a large quantity
of information available on both and that he felt he could
that material which related to the assassination quickly , but
would be reluctant to produce the information in its entirety
I told him to ascertain this afternoon what information could
be produced imediately and he said that he would:
At 2:45 P.m_
I talked again with Callahan who indicated
that Daly would be calling _ Callahan said he thought the
Bureau was eager to redeem itself in this area and we' should
them that opportunity_ I told Callahan that I was con
cerned about the
nunlele
Ircation of
1eaks ,
a
position which Callahan
thinks is ridiculous Callahan , however
2
did state that this
information was not as old as it looks at the Bureau_ to-wit:
While the Justice received the IRS meno on December 30 , 1976 ,
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congiderable time went by before Attorney General Levi could
address the issue of whether or not to entrust this matter to
the Bureau_ Approximately one week ag0 , Justice went to Jim
Adans of the FBI with the request to look into the allegation
and was
surprised to find that Adans was
already apprised of
the situation and investigating, 1.e. general indexes
Apparently , Adams had been in receipt of similar information
in recent days _
Yesterday_ in response to the Attorney General ' s request
for information Paul Daly hand carried to Callahan the Bureau S
response (which is dated January 14) and today Callahan hand
carried the package to uS over Assistant Attorney: General
Uhlmann; S signature_ Callahan advised that Daly was upset that
the Committee had been S0
promptly advised for fear that we
would interupt the Bureau S inquiry Callahan apologized for
the lack of responsiveness on the part of Justice and the Bureau
but things are in disarray with Levi about to depart I assured
Callahan we did not desire to interfere in the investigation
but desired to be promptly informed of any developments and
that we would stay_ in touch with Paul Daly in that regard
Callahan promised to
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0 Paul called at 3 : 10 P.m to advise that the powers
that be" at the Bureau were upset with the possibility that the
Committee was considering going to Dallas and interfering with
the investigation He specifically that the Director be given
an opportunity to talk with Inouye prior to any such action
I told that it was merely the Comittee' s desire to g0
to Texas ; I had heard no discussion of going regardless of
the Bureau 8 position_ promised to together without
the need for a written ' request , all available information on
Brading for Comittee review Ehis afternoon if at all possible_
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CRS MAIN, FLLE COPY
JUL 2 3 1975 0.33
'HE NEW_YORK TfuES;
Hunt Sons Charge
CLA. Used Agents]
To Embezzle Funds
KFFee #t
DALLAS; July 22 (UPI-Two
H L Hunt; the, late
sonsy contending they {breronaiserinionteadnainst bee
were
cause of their
the that
views, Agency in: Senated Tcheigency oseranpin:|
filtrated the and used secret Agents to-helz
emibezzle : more
than , S50-mii:
lion from them _ The brothers. Nelson Bunker
HHunt and W Herbert , Hunt
Said
Tew; Federal charges 'that
they had tried to _ cover up
a
family wiretapping_ scheme
were 8
further result Qf an
aeempt by theci Ato disctey|
it the Hunt oil They
said they held , the CLA: re-
sponsible _ for earlier Federal
that they had spied
gharides Giatheita fatheru
said_ their refusal to
Icheythea
CIA: to use their
allow Hunt Oit Company &f;
overseas bad Jed
filiate for espionge
to the Federal: charges
them. 2 6 YRt
After turing down 'the
CIA- 0_
massive embezzlement
scheme invoiving Toseson ?if
SGoemiilion 'trom theeHunt ie
uncovered; 9} the Company were brothers saidin : Hews {elesea
16 An
investigation disclosed
that some % the Hunt employes
linvolved ir the scheme Were
Secrer Goverment €ents,head:
A
spokesman at GA
quarters outside Washington
Said, `"Since it @ppears such 0
complicated ' matter; the dgekel Ci
cy'$
Tocaind oplevhzould is 4i "dony
time to
{; about;
A chedeed {nardun J4 roesees;
day charged of Houston; a Percy Foreman
three other
criminal lanzes;
8 retired: Texas
attorneys
with obstruction ladjusticuistor itlegobstreczia
@ thwart ghe wiretap investiga|
tion.
Lof
chargheirtocfosenazttne]
empire:
against
tko
ever
would
yester! grand
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"sts down, deal with labor problems unt Oil Lamar gay3. "Our ig an oft-delayed Itrial ahead for amarlg low-keyed personal style philosophy is not one of promotion of Bunker and Herbert Hunt on the wire
Steadman says Lamarhas never given] stock'and promotion to the puhlic;' he tapping charges, but there is also the
im a direct order in the 15 years 0f5 say8 'Each of us has his own ihterests. threat of more indictments againgt
heir association) tends to make somel All of u9 operate in the oil business them by & federal grand jury that has
eople think of him as a gort of a Mr F gometimes together,. sometimes a8 an been sitting in Dalias for more than
a 'eepers with & yen to be & jock "hAc independent oil operator: Hunt Oil, year; The Hunts claim; their wiretap
ually,' gays Maxfield, "he'g Clark wHich was my Dad3 company will be ping activities were} aimed at uncov-
{ent: He is a mild-mannered, meek rin basically by employees of the com- guspected embezzlements from veryddy guy. But when money needs] pany; We all will continue to operate their father's food concer_ In their
0 be committed, he goes into that little out of the Hunt Oil office: only statement on the matter, over a hone Booth and comes out with ad S Maxfeld, who has been observing year ag0, they cited 'extensive, unex-
n his shirt. the Hunts for nine years a8 Lamar' 9 plained losges' 99 suffered by the com- partner, believes that Hunt Oil and pany; 'We oly sughtkto protect our
lucky 11 bruste Placid Oil will carry on the monolithic father and his propertye 28 any Others
bage of the family fortune "It's like a would have done;' said_
The Bedrock of Lamar's personal for-:' tree trunk, with each brother But one of the wiretappers, Jon Jo
une is/the trust that his father set up his own branch; he says "Oil ig not an seph Kelly= says that the tapping was
Or bim in 1935 as part of a tar: expression of the personality of the prompted by Bunkers land Herbert's
trategy planned with the aid of Yet-:; sons a8 it was of the old man_ The ex- guspicions that someone was trying to
ran Hunt attorney J. B McEntire_ At pression of the brotherg will be in the influence H. L. Huntjtolleave the bulk
hat time, a trust wa9 established (for branches in real estate; Lamar of hig estate to the Second Mrs. Hunt
ach ofjthe Hunt children: In 1958,/the gports; Bunker horses, commodities, and her children: Threelof the wiretap
attern wag repeated when the elder' and agriculture; Herbert in real estate, victimg back up Kellys version:
[unt established trusts for each of lthe' residential development, and commodi: Just two weeks &g0, in their syndi
2cond Mrs. Hunt'g children, calling ties. And while the brothers are cated column; Jack Anderson and Les
hem Loyal Trusts 1, 2, 3, and 4. Except bfanching out, Maxeld believes, Whitten aired 2 recurring Dallas ru- Jr Hunt Oil which went entifelyi will run the oil companies collectively mor that the grand jurylis looking into
) Mrs | Hunt, H. L: Hunt left the bulk' with a professional staff," an alleged "850,000 to,860,000 payoff"
f his personal holdings to the Loyal
from Bunker to the' chairman of the
rusts, whose beneficiaries are Stormy Weather closee In Senate Judiciary Committee, James 0.
[unt, Ruth Jane Hunt, Mrg Randail Eastland of Missigsippil in return for
(Helen LaKelley) Kreiling: and Mrs; MMeanwhile, a threatening cloud Eastland's assistance ir' getting a pa- Iark 4. (Swanee Grace) Meeks. looms on the family's horizon. Not only role for the other wiretapper, Houston
The Size of these trugts is private eye Patrick Wi McCann III.
nknown, but one of the Eastland wrote a letter.on McCann's
roblems facing the Hunt 2 behalf, but Bunker has denied that
xmily lis how to commingle
1 there was any payoff}
1 separate fortunes (thoge The Dallas grand jury, is` said to be_
f the 10 children plus the mulling the Eastland` 'connection, a9
uth Hunt Trust) to well as the circumstances surrounding
1aximum advantage: Dallas the three-year lapse between the wire-
riends of son-in-]a w tappers arrest and thel indictment of
Randy" Kreiling say the Herbert and Bunker on Feb. 28, 1973.
uestion i8 debated Hunt family lawyer told Dallas Morn-
armly within the family. News investigative] reporter Earl
Ithough Kreilings role in Golzthat Bunker managed to strike a
ie Great Western United bargain with the Justice Dept; in which
Ikeover was relatively mi- "there would be no prosecution of the
or, ic did demonstrate a Hunts if they performed certain ac illinghess between the two tions; they performed the actions, but
groups to cooperate there was an indictmentianyway: )}
Lamar Hunt observes The actions, reportedly made after
1at, since the bulk of H. L 1972 meetings with {former President
unt'g estate was left to Richard M; Nixon and former Attorney
N. Hunt, "it was a natural General Richard Kleindienst, included
for to be the per- Bunker's providing Justice with a list
'n wko looks after it;" La- of Al Fatah agents in the U.S. He had
1ar adds: "It does not mean secured the list privately because he
nat will run the busi- feared he was on the Al Fatah death
e99. He will be making &n list because of his Libyan holdings
rderly transition, & change For the Hunts,the wjretapping epi:
whatever happeng He will sode has proved disastrous Bunker and
Mv0 Ihe responsibility of Herbert could receive prison sentences:
decisions in relation- And, 'more than anything else in the
hlp + Dade property, but family's history, it has 'torn the tightly
6 'add certion w89 much woven curtain of secrecy behind which
impc; 247 the family hag lived and worked for T0ea EW b Do move to Hunt (right) Iooks over hle Dellas development: more than four decades |
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PART TlO : JIM BRADEN
One of the most incredible bodies of recent; information
concerning the alleged corspiracy to asslssinate President
Kennedy is largely based on the investiglative rresearch
done by' Pelter Noyes , a former CBS Producer and top inves_
tigative #eporter
Last year Noyes published a book Leqacv_ of Doubt which
summed up of his findings_ and which generally outlines
what Noyesl believes was heavy Mafia invovement in the
assassi at8_ The Noyes book is almost entirely factual
and is fedgfag based on substantiated information such as
police provided by the FBI the Los Argeles Police
Department the California Attorney General S Office and
Texas police officials:
Though thel Noyes_ book (like most recent assassination books)
did not sej1 1 well or receive much press attention it has
been regarded as a valuable contribution by most of author
Noyes ifelllo1 Warren Commission critics_
It can definitely be said that alnost all of Noyes' findings ,
particulafly With respect to his main character Jin Braden
have been [factually substantiated and are
solidly established
by officiafl police records
Basicalify the Noyes book outlines the background of a
mysterieus man Who Was picked up the police; at the scene
of President Kennedy' s assassination just minutes after the
shooting llthe man was apprehended" by a Dallas |policeman who
thought he was behaving suspiciously. The man who identified
himselff unlder the false nanc of Jim Bracen, 'was released
shortly thercafter following brief questioning; by the Dallas
Sheriff S iloffice.
Author Noyes uncovered the story of Jim Braden and his
true identity during five years of investigative research.
And it is|ljim Braden' s true identi and his {ironic misfortune
of being Ricked up at the scene of the assassination for
"looking {uSpicious" that the Warren 'Commission critics now
believe ranks ith James McCord ' s mistake of (leaving masking
tape on tke' doors during the Watergate break-in as the ultimate
fatal slip-ups in the two conspiracies_
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For Jin Blr aden whose true idlentity. is Eugenel Hale Brading_
is a man Wiih' singul awesome direct ties lto the highest
levels ofl tjje Mafia_ Of all the Mafia figuresL connected to
the syndicatel' s crucial security and enforcenent activities
of coercion haiming_ intra-syndicate assassihation and
outside murider contracting_ Jim Braden appears to be an
indispensabi link
# or leader of organizedp crine' s
far flung nletivork of "controlled violence" specialists
and professlional hit men
Braden' s inlvollvenent With the Mafia' s hiqhest' lechelon
"enforcers" has spanned the continent from coalst to coast
and covers Iv iftually every national crime syndicate
juris_
diction . ording to federal authorities workling With the
Justice rtment' s organized crime strike forcc units and
according pther high government sources citled by author
Moyes Jim fpraden is now serving
as personal Courier for
Meyer Lanskk
The importalc? 0f this nysterious nan who Nas
picked
up
under 3 fallse name across the street from thc TTexas Book
Depository ust noments after the shots were flired on
November 22| 1963 cannot be overemphasized_
TThough there Nerc several innocent Witnesses or bystanders
in the arealiof the assassination Who Iere also arrested or
brought in fior questioning by the Dallas 2l1 of fhom
were shortly released like Jim Braden his presence there at
that precise monent docs in fact raise an incredible specter _
0 and nay indeca have been the monumental slip-Up that critics
of the Marren Commission non attest to _
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On Lovenber
22
9fficefs
on
tgeis
was one of the followfng scene at Texas
Dallas police
assassination_ School Book
Mithin just @zewi-nioutcs after
the
Book Deposi confronted
2 nan across
shots were fired
suspi=
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a man Whom Lewis the strect
from thought
was
the
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him
togunetScaed
man for The man
#ifhedShesef;s Sffice sevcral minutes
in the oil
hinself
23 Jim
for fur-
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in
Braden
and said
iiterrogation_
tried td
even hore Suspiciouj Hills Cali
that he
licensc himsclf_ over thc
fornia.
out
the common Instead
of
the man first
a galsolinc arediteaas
of
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card instead_
tion the man S
The man
pulled
idcitificd himself
furtker
Lewis told him a3 Jim Draden
interrogationm that he would
'deve stcongly protested
At thc
take him
in StatbacrterBff': office,
Jim
Dallas
Braden then
Braden
agreed
said onl 0il business told the Police
nake
a
he wals and had been
there
that he
was in the Scenc
of
at the Cabana
Hotel Fc
dotn
the
2553ssination_ 5 short
time
of the by the
Braden said he Zen Bcadchocarthss G2iio5
and had
Depositocyhad been
Lewis inside stated that
been at the
a he was confron a taxi cab.
an across the ted
make
a tel-
street from
the ephone call Deposi
Braden
Fas
the
office_
Braden
was
thereafter
released of Dossible criminalotcfingerprintes, by thc Dallas
records nor Ivas
Sheriff' 8
months to him.
check
made interonchsdlnter_
in late
by two FBI
agents
cf 1964 Jim
and wi
lcommission-
&
at his office
in
Braden
Was
thc
Fitnanac:l
to the
"ruievinailon ve_
Mas then in
gave the
othcr Juthoriticn were fuli
the
ofafcc account
as he had
his
forcinfo uccit;oBcadb"
Braden ' s the asga3sination_ given to the Dallas Braden
infocnationtcorogationnatfencr Thcat8i': officDa} police
on
Oswald
and the
stated that
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and both
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distance street away
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for building during by attenpt Deputy to shooting.
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Jin Braden 3 Truc Ilentity Dnerses
In early 1969 = Peter Noves the investigativc reporter
whose book covers nuch 0f the information regarding Jin
Braden_ bcgan investigating the mysterious California
"0il nan 01
Woycs originally received a about Braden fron 4
former FBI agent who [as then aiding District Attorney
Jim Garrisonl S investigation of the Kenncdy assassination.
The TBI man ttola Noyes of Braden S presence at the scene of
the assassinktion at the tine of the shooting.
Ioyes soon found that Jin Braden was no longer at cither
of the addrelsses that he had given the Dallas police,' and
had left no forwarding addresses .
Ioye: then hjad the California Department of Motor Vehicles
run 2 check 'on the license number that Braden had given to
the Dallas Policc at the Sheriff' s office following the
assascination Hotor Vchicles told Noyes that Braden 5
license (F75/1 755) had been renewed by Braden in San Diego
countv in Nojvcnber of 1966 . Braden has Jlso listed nei
business and hone addresses Ihich interestingly [ere over
3 hundrcd nilles apart .
The Departneht of Kotor Vehiclcs' rccords on JiIn Braden
also showed lihat "Jim Braden" was not really his original
nane The lilcense had actually been issued in the 1950' 5
to Euaene Hail c @radinq which is Braden 5 true iden
On Septenber 10 196.3 just ten weeks before the assa5sination,
%ugenc ale lrading had notified the Department that he had
legallv changed his nane to Jin Braden andl he requested 2
new license lunder that nane . The license was granted
Intrigued by the fact that Jin Braden Gas really a false
identity assumed Eugene Brading _ investigator Noyes
contacted the Intelligence Division of the California
4ttorney General' : Office_
8
and had a check; run on the
nysterious Brading.
Koves was told that Eugene Hale Brading "is a real bad guy
Ne 3 got a Yong rap sheet and apparan has Mafia connections . 1
Foyes shortly thercafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading' s
(Jim Braden';s ) police records
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ih2 Brading "rap shect" cont?ined an incredlible 35
scperate enitries covering virtually every phase of crininal petivity including mail fraud embezzlenent ,
operating' a ; gambling house in Niami
0
car theft, shop
lifting_ Irecciving stolen property and sclling Iartine
gas ration coupons 0n the black market.
Kost of thesc arrcsts had been nade under thc nanc of Zugenc Iallc Drading but the police dossier on hin also
showed 2 Ihanalful of other aliases including Harry
Bradley lGene Brady , James Lee
Coie-
James Bradley
Eugene
and incvitably ,
Jin Braden .
"Jin Bradeny; Fs the last entry shown on
Brading' s
records _
Incrediblk, investigator Noyes found that clue to: the fact
that the Dallas Folicc had not fingerprinted Jin Braden or
run 2 nalic ony hin his truc identity of Eugene ' Brading
was
never discovered the FBI or the Iarren Commission at the
tine of thcir investigation 0f the assassination The Farren Commissicn' Jad only routinely includled Braden 3 short state
nent about; being in Dallas on "oil business" in 3 police
cxhibit ictnesses contained in Warren Conmission Hearing' $
Volune X1 Jin Braden and his story had been accepted at
face value
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Jin Bracen Euaenc Bradina ) Anc The liafia
Investigator Woyes began :a thorough investigation of
Braden bazedl upon 2ll available police records and
docuncnts
What soon cilearlv cnerged was a lonc record of involvcment
Braden Brnding) With many of the nost notorious Mafia
leaders in thhc nation 3 record of close association With
kcy figures in the national crine syndicate_
Following a Istring of arrests in the 1940 ' s dating all
the wav backl to his young adulthood Eugene Brading had
movec to 11 Texas_
0
in 1950
BRDIiiG AKD PZREIRA )
In El Pas}
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lBrading became closely associated with Victor
Pereira man Iho Mas a close associate and confidante of
scveral Nafila nenbers Brading and Pereira becane involved
in a nunber of schemes involving marriage to and embezzlement
0f wealthy Widows
In 1951 Bralding: and his close friend Dercira wcre arrested
the Fbf in New York; on 2 fugitive Barrant issued in Texas .
The t1o Men were charged with embezzling over S50 000 from
2 wcalthv wido1 whon' Pereira had marricd 'shortly beforc
flecing with hcr moncy. Brading and Pcrcira Mere soon con-
victed of thie charges and pcre each scntenced to 12 years
in prison
Iowevcr _ Brading and Pereira Mere out free during the three
ycars of theif appeals_ and Brading was later paroled in 1959
after having served just five years of nis sentence
BRADING AND THE SFLDONES )
During the three ycars of Ereedom under thcir appeals_ of the
convictions Brading and Pereira lcft Texas (following still
another ficecing of another Ieal widow) and moved to
Denver Colorado .
In Denver} prading became very closely associated Mith
two leading] Nafia bosses in the. Rocky Kountain area, Clyde
and Genc Smaldone _
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'Thc Snaldone brothers who Bere also known 45 Checkers
and Flip Flop ,
1 Nerc the Nafia lcaders in charge of the
syndicate Si vending-machine market Which stretched fron
thc Rockies all thc, way to Chicago _ Police records shom
that at one, time_ the Smaldones virtually controlled the
cntire Pueblo arca of Colorado .
The Smaldone brothers pere notorious for thc brutal brand
0f violence. thcy practiced in their opcrations Brading
(Craden ) beczne involved in many transactions Bith the
Scaldoncs and bccame 2 close personal friend _
0 Several ycars
later aftcr Brading finally cnt to jail for the enbezzlement
of thc Tcxas Wiclow the Smaldone brothers regularly wrote
to hin in prison_ secking his advicc on various financial
natters .
BRADIXG 1ED CLANK AND BUiiAlT )
Drading and" his friend Pereira later Foved to feverly Mills
in California Shortly. thercafter Brading incyitably
came
under inveciigation by the Los Angelcz Police Department
Intelligence Division S Kafia specialistsa
In
particular
thc LAPD intercst in Brading was focused on
h1is ciose association in Bevcrly Hills Iith two oil specu-
lators" from Miamj Arthur Clark and Rogcr Bauman_ Clark
and Baunah Mere notorious Mafia figures Nith 1ong police
records
Brading "s friend Clark had been one of the top leadcrs of
the famous Purple Gang of the Kafia which had opcrated
out 0f Dctroit and Youngstown The
ios
Angeles Dolice had
placcd Clark and Baunan under tight 'survcillanee and had
compiled cxtensive information 0n their friendship .with
Brading.
In_ 1956 thc Chicf of Intelligencc of the LAPD Captain
Jamcs Fanilton sent a lettcr to the Crime Commission Qf
Greater Miani seeking infornation about Clark: , Bauman and
Brading _
Captain Hamilton who was known as one of the foremost
cxperts on the Mafia in the nation_ asked thc Tiiami Conmission
(which Mas conducting cxtensive investigations of the Mafia)
to inforn him as to the involvement 0f several associates of
Clark and Bauman _=
Among those named Fas Zugene Brading.
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lctter stated:
"This Departnent has under investigation lrthur Lelvis Clark Sr . FBI 3709258 and 7 Roger Bauman.
These
men arc representing thcnsclves as officials
of
tlc
Sunbcan 0i.1 Company 212 Poosevclt Theatcr
Building Fiiami Beach
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and both are spending noncy
vcry lavishly.
"Clafk has becn arrested severzl timcs and has been
associated with many confidence nen and hoodluns such
ac Janes Fratiinno Victor Fereira Euqene Bradinq,
clarence Rhodes Stepheri Sanbor and the Sualdone
brothers of Denver . 0t
15 investiaator Peter ioves points out , the nen listed
[ith Brading in the letter , rcpresent a virtual "Fho ' s #ho"
of organized crimc leaders betiveen California and the Nidwest.
(BRDIG AiD FRATIliio )
Of thesc top Nafia men listed with Bradling Braden ) perhaps
the most imbortant one is Jamcs Fratianno Jlso widely
known
as "Jinmie The Ncasel 0 Fratianno was known Js perhaps the
Mafia' s higlest ranking cxecutioner in the nation .
In 1959 inlhis testinony bcforc tne Rackcts Cennittee of
the
Califoriia
legislature Captain Kamilton
P
the Chief of
LAPD In telligence_
stated thate
"Ne have considered Fratianno to
bc lc executioner for tne Hafia on
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Captain Hamilton told the Rackets Committee that his Intelligence
Division haa iinked Jimnie Fratiznno to at least sixteen Mafia
exccutions
Fratianno hacl once been arrested for thc attenpted assassination
of Los ngelcs Mafia hcad Mickev Cohen in 1949' Cohen haa
survivcd the bloody shooting which took the lifc of one 0f
nis licutennts_ Fratianno nas later releascd due to insuf-
ficient cyidencc Fratianno used the alibi that he had been
at the honc of :afia associate Nick Licata the night of the
shoo Licata later becane the nel head of the Los Angcles
Hafia and perhaps significantly, was later given control of
the Mafia in Dallas Texas
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Jinmie Fratianno Mas also susncctcd 0f complicity in
the murders o'f two men in 1951 Tivo men who made the
mistakc of robbing the Wafia' s Flaningo Fotel lini Las
Vegas Ierc Ifouncl dead in 2 parked car following thc
robbery . Bokth of thcir skulls had bcen shattered'
bullcts fired' bchind the ear apparantl in true Mafia
fashion
Fratianno had' al3o been linked t0 the famous murder of
Tarry "HookV 6} Rothman who had been another closc
associate 0f Tiickcy Cohen the Los Angeles Hafia head
iilso Fratianno was also
'iinked
to the disappcarance of another
topi mcmber of the Fickcy Cohen Gang Frank Niccoli:
Niccoli hadj mysteriously vanished folloling 3 ate dinner
at Fratiano home one night
Fratianno; whas; also linked to the brutal murderk of 2 business_
nan in northern California in 1952
0 Thonas Keen a wealthy
gambler _ had pparantly welched on 3 s38,000 ghmbling debt
that he ofckl the iafia and Tvas blown to bits irom a dynanite
charge hiddcnj undler the hood of his car
Fratianno later scrved a Six year prison term 1954-1960 ) for
extortion: In' later years Fratianno bccane thel central figure
involvedl in LOOK magazine' $ "exposc" of San Francisco Kayor
Joseph alietel = allegcd Mafia connections _ I.Ooi alleged that
Fratianno ilad becone 2 close friend of Hiayor Allito and that
thc Kayor hjadd arranged for Fratianno to receive lons of over
S105 000 from" ank wherc 1liot0 scrvcd 25 Chlirman of thc
Board_ 4lioto adnitted that Fratianno Ma; 2 "casual acquaintance"
0f his butl dlenicd that he had used any influence in the loans
'Thc Mcyor ailso said that he had not known: that the notorious
Fratianno Ia $ a nember of the Mafia.
BRIDIIG i]TD} HELTZER )
Rhile in Lois Kingeles Brading (Jin Braden) als0 became
connected; Mith top Mafia leader Narold 'Iarry Neltzer_
TThe LAPD Intclligence Division had oricinally 'bbccome
2varc 0f Jrading S closc relationship with lielltzcr Nhen
Brading' s Yane wJs found on Neltzer S Christnals card list.
Meltzer was Midclv known Js one of the most pojverful Mafia
leaders in the entire nation .
Th0 U .S'. 'Scnate Racket: Comnittee identified Brading' s
frienc Neltzer a9 0 top Nafia boss in the areals of union
racketeering and narcotics
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report of the Senate Rackeis Conmittee from 1964 states:
"Mcltzcr now is reported to opcrate 2 large
bookmaking and prostitution syndicate in
California_ 1 najor figurc in the organized
underworlcl he is known to all thce inportant
narcotics traffickers throughout thc United
statesj c has also. operated in Ok: lahoma
Te:qs Baltinorc_ Miani Las Vega5 5 Boston
and various areas of Canada Cuba Hong Kong ,
Japan :Hawaii and the Philippines 16
DRADIiG Ain} TiE SICAS )
In Los Angelles Brading also becanc closely associated With
yet anotlcr top Kafia operation_ Brading becanie a close
friend] ana isgociate 0€ thc notorious Sica brothers
Frcddie ancl Georgc. The Sica brothers were particularly
brutal syhdicate nenbers specializing in narcotics
In .1950 ithe U . 5 . attorney in Los Angeles accused Brading' s
friends oc an Frcddie Sica of heading the lsingle largest
narcoticas ring in the United States.
The Sica brjothers wcrc shortly thereafter brought to trial:
On the nilglt beforc the trial opencd the government' s
star witredsh an informant namcd Abe Davidizn wJs mysteriously
shot to eath in his mother;' : honc in Fresno. The nurder Ivas
never 3olcd and the Sica brothcrs Iere soon released for
lack of cvicencc.
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Jin Draden Possible Link 0 Jack Rubv
'The samc nadequate investigativc work which led the Marren Commission
to largely overlook Jack Ruby' s solid
Nafia involVenent_
appears also to havc becn responsible
for the fGilure
to uncover Jin Braden' s truc
ligcntity o1
Zugenc Brgding
cluring the official invcstigation into the Kennedly igsasination_
1s shown n the prcvious account of Jack Ruby very
substantial ties to the fiafia Ruby Was particularly
involved n the syndicate areas of. gambling an& narcotics .
Dut bevond clic multiplicity of evidence 1hich lindicates
that Jackl Rubi, and Jin Braden were both impoftant Mafia
figures ojpcrating in the sanc general areas a thc same
generel times thcre is anothcr sincle piccc o8 evidencc
which nlages both Ruby and Braden at thc same place on thc
day bcfore thc ass ssination
Evidence indicatcs that both Jin Braden and Jack Ruby
visited +h Dallas officcs 6f thc H.I. {unt Qij' Conpany
on the afternoon of Fovenber 21 1963 F just twenty four
hours bcfore; thc President is murdlered Olvioysly any
link which places oth Braden and in the Isane place
a % the sanc time on the day beforc the nssasgination does
of courseilraise further significint questions about a
possible #elationship betleen the tio nen .
Jiin Eraden received permission from the U.5 _ Board of
Parole in J,os iingeles t0 make 2 trip to Dallas Tcxas on
Novcrber 13 1963 four days before thc assasslination
Braden was required to report all of his travels to his Parole Boara following
his parole in 1959 for ithe enbez -
zlement conviction.
On November 211 1963 the before the assa3sination
Jim Draden checked in with the U . S . Parole offlice
in
Dallas . Aecoraling to Roger Carroll thc Chief
Fi
Rarole
Officer in pallas_ Braden (Brading 00 advised that ne
planncd t6. sce Lamar funt and other 0il specuilators while
hcre 0 Lamar' Junt i5 the son of Hi.L Funt , the f2nous
right-Wing 0il billionaire
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'u1 Fo therzel 0 formcr 111 awent Alio BZs Director of
Security ihc Tiunt Oil Comnany in Dallas alkiehat tinc,
has recaljcd that he distinctly rencmbers Braden .visiting
tne
Hunt &ffices
on November 21 in the companyi 0f three
other nen Rothernel has stated that the office log for
iovenbcr 21 showed that Roger Bauman_ (Brading 5 old Mafia
fricnd) and Torgan Brown and Duanc Wowlin 41 ana friend"
Visitedd tijc {Juint office on that aftcrnoon Ro thermel states.
that Braden mas defini the "friend 09
(Security chicf Paul Rothcrmel was later fircdlby IaLa Eunt' 5
sons aftef rerorts allegedly surfaced that Ro tilernel was "suspicious of a possible Kunt connection toi {tnc assassin-
ation Fofiowing
his termination by the ITunts Rothermel
found that he 1a; being illegallv wiretapped IRothermel
filed suj cinst Lamar Funt and anothcr one 84 K.L Flunt' s
sons charsing chem Jith the Miretapning and sking for
scvcral n#ifion dollars in dlanages The' suit mhich has
prorluczd er dawaging cvidence against the Hunt brothers
i3 still n thc courts. )
Also on Novenber 21 the day before thc nss S3ination
accordingl to 2
conciusion
of thc Warrenn Cornisgion Jack
Rnbyy IJs alzh' on his Tay to thc N.I Tunt officcs in Dallas
The Warrep Commission concluded that Jzck: drove 2 woman
friend ofl hiils to thc Uunt offices sometine that sanc after-
noon Thel WOlnan who had dcclined Nork in Ruby s nightclub
a3 2
archpoet drovc with Ruby to the Iunt offjices apparantly
in scarchl enployneni _ This does coincide wiih Braden' s
Visit to iheel came offices on that same aftcrnoon
The Marrcn 'Commission investigated scvcral otlcr possible
links 0f faci Ruby to the {iunts including thc still
unexnlainkd [fact that Lamar Hunt' 8 name was foknd inside
onc 0 [ Rukyl notebooks But of thesc possible links the
Werrcr Commission concluded only that cviclence dia indicate
that Ruby iaa; driven to the Mlunt offices on #bVember 21
Thus 3 rossjible Fuby-Braden connection Oi) the beforc
tixc Presildent' s assassination does indeed arise
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Jin Drndicn: Poszible Link 4'0 David Ferric
Investigator Pcter Noyes has turnecl p several pieces
of infornation which indicate 7 possible connec tion betieen
Jim Drader and thc mysterious David Ferrie .
Davic Fcreic Was thc homose:ual cirlinc pilot and private
invcs lor Ihor? Jim Garrison accused of participa
in tile plot to assassinate Prcsident Kennedy Six days aftcr
District ttorney Garrison' 5 chargez Ferc
nadd"
public David
Ferric Was founcl rlead in his apartment in #c1 Orleans Nis
nysterious 'death I2s finally ruled to have beep a suicide
Davic Fcraic has bccn 2 tarcct of inves tigotion 1y critics
0f the Hasrcn Comnission ever sincc the ?35?55 nation In
fact thc ZBI and Secrct Scrvice both investigated a possible
Ferrie rolc inmcdiatclv aftcr thc 2s3as5 It Was
widely ruored in Hew Orleans_ 2nd Dallas that 1as to
have flown the allered assassins out of thc coun following
the assassination Tnc Warren Commission decided no t to include
the 0fficjal Secrek Gervice and FBI reports or Pcrric in the
26 Volumcs o { Wearings which Berc rclcased nfter khe Xarrcn
Kenori Ws issued However the Justicc Department didl finallv
relea;? tlose rcnorts io thc National rchives in 1967 following
Grrison S public accusations .
thor Hoyes has since chat hoth 'Jin Draden
Davocl Fcrrie worked out
cxtablevhioot'
of of officcs in 2 building
in Nct Orfeans in the month or two immediatelY| preceding
the
assassination _
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?his is Particularly significant due to the that at that
time the David Ferrie Was cmplovccl as 2 privatc
investica
Eostoviour
Carlos Narcello the top Hafia kingpin. It
i5 widcly believed by nost federal authoritics that Czrlos
Xarccllo rank:s with his close friend Ieyer Lans}v 25 one 0f
thc two 5 ingle nost poverful: leaders 0f the Wafia' s national
and intcrmational crimc syndicate _ Carlos Eorcello heads the
Fafia entic re centered in New Orleans Iouisiana_ and controls
nost of Mafia activity in thc southern part of the United
States .
In Septenbcr and Octobcr 0f 1963 just Nceks before the
2ssascination David Ferrie was working out 0f thc offices
of Carlos| Miarcello' s crininal attorney- G _ wray Gill Ferrie_
Iho was deing investigative work on a perjury |Gharge that his
boss Fiarcello ws then facing_ worked out of Roon 1707 in the
Lere_Llorquette_Juildinq in New Orleans
At this same timc in Septembcr ond October of 1963 _ Jim
Braden was operating out of Roon 1701 in the Perc Narauette
Buildina -
have President Kennedy and his lbrother murdlered Reid has
writtcn that he was told of Marcello' s threat, by an infornant
Tho attenaec a secret meeting with Marcello in' New Orleans in
Septenberl of 1962 _
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Accordina Rejc' s informant_ Marcello tolcl his top
lieutenanis "'Jon t worry about that little
sonofabitell Ic ' $ Going to be taken care of ." The
informant stated that Narcello said that President
Kennedy himsc]f would have to be killed first and
that his brother would then follow_ 'The informant
further staitec] that Marcello spoke of using somc "nut"
to do thc Killings
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Jim radew
Au Pe Hoves And Juclae
Petef
most 9f the
the investigative
is a
Zormbe Cltssicl-fcggrding jimogted Iho,uncovercd
classmate
and close
Braden
over
the U . S_ District friend of
Brading) _
Court Matthew
is now
trial Idse yescsided
wel]
against
Plumbers-
#
after
he
18 8ynoc; dismisserl
the case
S
had once
burgiorizcaa
the white psychiatrist. the ! oEficc
of
1 short time
had it became
instructed John known that 'President
che the course 0f
Ehrlichman to Nixon
Polsition
of the %ll
adtoachc
Fefusea
has been of the FBI 'This_ and him bndocr
some sritics
regarded
as a
Potcdiefsf
Ihich
inves tion
of President
act of by the Soccial and is
It haskbecn Frosecutor'
5
in the olutconc
0f
assunecl that Mixon
been the
moeivafiohbcliozecution
of
forvcnt intcrest
behlind his-opprojchltocjg
have iuthor {oyes
has
to
involvchent
in
'hiaritton
of his friend
hac] accumulatcesejcch
on
'Jigioradoudg;k ByGc;' s_
thc Eysterious much of his In 1969 after
fricnd
Katt
Bracen he took
'ihcilfecno
regording
Califorria_
wes
"ChenhG.infoEtation
to hjs
that
was
had sevcral
talks Ivith
for southern Yhich #oes
harl
43
inpressed
the @ ancl has said
ana another
FBfraa
onc of
Subttonlivc cvidenca
the FBI man thesq
that Jim] tola
that the
had invilted
to
ith
JaGesjingEioden
thc man
FBI had nevcr Sefose attend_
FBI nan
€ion in 1963
a
'asracstcd
at the sccha known
in
saic that the
of the
"hcTPHI
Braden nust have nadc J
The
naln was 3 true identity nistak?
Braden. incredulous
over
and policc
record. Woycs evidence
on
in
C3.nAntbiesechad discovcred
in
Angeles
on the night
thzt-Jin Bradenl kad
of 1968 _
that Robert Konncdy also been
was 'Though assassinated
Braden
coulcln' +
find
friend
Matt
kconncction
to the
'Ycconaificant information
Special Unli
of the
E~ENc5ded
the information murder he and his Ihich
was on Bradcn
to the investigating
the RFK dcath_
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Wyrne
Noyes _
Byrne iugene Jr_
Eilsbera, Judge the
Judgc Pentagon who Papers
1s
kno;n Judge
rllsherg
ouse
Ellsberg thaj
Jater _
tivice
Byrne Klring
Judge sberq ircctor Byrne
offer
bv Judge
tiga
Wixon
currcntly
Office. wicicly
'5
may
Judgc Byrnc .
foyes
tion
Cyrne Tho
Voyes Attorney Byrine
very Byri
by
Tvrnc During
whom tectings han_ Byrne Noycs
actually
Eugenc Dureau Brading tracing
dovn big
nearly
Foycs
early June
#oyes
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'Thc Specikj Unit of the 1,:121} accordirg to Yojjes cis-
countccl tih informtion rcganinc tlic R!] nsj7ssintion
but: Was indleccl inpressed by thc Braden connection to the
1963 assals;ination Noyes Writes that Judge 'Byrne never
heard] anynore about it after he forwarded the information
to the RFI 1 nvestigators_
Lcter_ ~tlterncy Gcncral' John Nitchcl] slectccl; |Dyrne to
bc Zrccutlvc Direclor for the Scranton Commils: ion that investicaied student unrest scveral years 3g0 Following
his work Kef the Scranton Commission U.5. Attorney Bvrne
N2s arpointed U.5 District Court Judgc bv Plresident Nixon
the positlion he held at the time of the Ellsberg trial
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Immediatel- following the assassination of Fresident
Kennedy Rugene Bradling (Jim Braden) nad an upturn in
his pcrsenal finances
Brading 3 renorted a lafge increas? jn revenuc fron
2n 0il. wc]j; hc hacl an interest in back: n Louisiana Nc
rcportedl large incrcase in rcvenue from the Wcll for
thc nonth of rovember 1963 _
4 nonth Iater in Decenbcr of 1963 Brading became 2 charter Fe er of thc cxclusivc (anrl very cxpensive )
Ia Costa Country Club in southcrn California Jater that
year 1964 Brading ancl his old syndicate oil friend
Fogcr m2 estohlishedl the "3 Ancl 3"'Cattle Comnany . 10
The connariy wns set 41) in Chicago and Nos nrcsunably
naned afEcr them "B Ancl 5 , though neithcr Qf the tio
ncn arc liated 25 corporate officcrs. It Nas also during
this sane Rerioc that Brading made 2 substantial investnent
in two 18#3 in Coral Gables Florida e
In 1965 Irjading' : lengthy parole Ma3 finally terninated.
!Ic ;oo:1 boucfht 2 new home near the La Costa Coun club
ihic! Xie ltal joinecl 2nd he also boucht 7 house for his
parents 1n Isanta Barbara
End it is the La Costa Country Club that the nysterious
trail of n Braden or Lucenc Vale Brading . finallv ends
Ihe 1,. cestla Coun Club which Brading harl joined 43 one of its 100 lcharter ncmbcrs in Jenuary of 19611 i: one of
the morc 'noltorious ilafia propertics in the nation
'Tie To3t rojr crful forcz behind_ La Costa iS Koe Dalitz one
of Hlevcr Ilajsky' s singlc closest associctes INoc Dalitz
had
becn the I1ejader of the early Mayficld Roadl Gai; in Cleveland
and nad kech the fourder oi the actual Cleveland syndicate
one of the nost Dowerful forces in the natioral' crine syndicate_
0
ioc Valitz Jad cwn onc of thc Nafia'[ biggcse linvestors in
Las Vegas Jnc it had been Dalitz Tzho h12a personally helped
sct LP thc Kowara [lughes empirc
in LJs Vecas Vpalitz hza
sola nuci 0f is own holdings to Hoiard Tughes in the late
1960' s .
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The L,a Co; Country Club had become _ undcr tihe direction
of Mioc Dallitz and Tiever Lansky , J
kcy "watcribg;
hole" of
the syndileatle Ia Costa wa3 originally financled through a syndicate |deal Bith James Hoffa of the Teamstcrs Onc .of
the Teansters Union' s billion dollar Pension FFunds was used
in the fixancing of the project_ La Costa becjane what is
knoln in lthe; Kiafia as "open tcrritory" neaning that no single Mafia family controlled it. La Costa Ma $ _ open to al1
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In telligeree authorities in southern Californlia, have long
recardcdl La Icosta 25 a nrime hangout for thc Mafia: Some
officials have dubbed it "Apalachin West. 00
The syndicatle had originally given Charter membershipS
in
La Costa '& number of Follywood celcbritiesd S0 a3 to
soften thep inage 0f the plush resort Among the menbers
erc Frank Sjinatra Bob Ilopc _ and Bing Crosbyl
cmbcrs !resident Nizcon' s inner circle also became
frecucnt iclsts 2; 1,a Costa Which is just twentv miles
away fronlisan Clcmentc
Eariy
in the Nixon Adhinistration_
in 1952- Hpsl ng2le3 Policc 'werc astonishedh to fincl Nurray
Ciotiner one 0f the President' s closest confidantes living
it 0p at 3; Costa while the Prcsident Wa: in San Clemente
In Februaky bf 1973 Thile President nixon Tas at San Clen-
ente; H.R [hldenan John Zhrlichman Richard "oore and
John DcanF helld 2 serics of meetings at La Costa:to discuss
the Waterdat? conspiracy hich bas then beginning to
unravel
John Dcank krmie 1 engthy testimony durin?j th2 Srvin Cornittec
henrings 2? rding thc L,a Costa nectinga . 0 These ncetings
at I, Cost? hhave sirc? encreed 73 perhans chc most crucial
stratery pxsions involved in the alleged cover-u? of
Natergnte by thc Drcsicent' s closcst aidcs_ Dcan tcstified
tht thc kosen mee tings took Dlace ovcr a perior] of two
days Febr 10 1973' Dean testificc that the sessions
Mere held in; a special villa at La Costa tbat mas used by
{aldenan
It has ba huring this s2me ncriod of tine 1t thc last
several_ 33 that Eugene Brading (Jin i3raden') has bccome
one Oi the most important Nafia operatives atLa Costa_
Accordingi to nunerous in tclligence reports EEom California
#evada aini- fedleral authorities Brading is noi,' suspected of
heing thc personal courier for national crire Isyndicate boss
Ieyer Lansky
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The Xcvaci Ganing Moarcl is continuing an investigation
into Braden' 5 alleged role a3 syndicate courier for
10 Skinmcci 0 Igamhl_ revenue from Las Vcgas . Investigator
Noyes wa siz Itold 'several high qovernment officials that
Jim Draden had indecd heen identified Js the persoral
couricr for Hever Lansky One official discloscd that
Braden Xas sispected of
taking
over 372 nillion out of
thc countiy for the syndicate_ Another official said
that Was "lor estinate
In the sunmcr of 1971' Draden cane under renewed investi-
gation byi Falifornia Juthorities folloving
an incident at
La Costa
1 janitor ti 1,3 Conta; opened Braden' ; coJ { Jocker to Iakc
a routinc in;pection Out of thc locker tunbled u bundle of
wcll ovcr S1n0,0on in cash
~hox :o esi [a, inforned onc official tha thc bundle
had conteine: c Jest 3120 Qno in cn;h wnd nother Cal t0 ifornia 0fficial put the anount at closer to 8200 _ 000 .
During qucftioning regarding thc incident Craden stated
that he haa reccivec thc noncy {ron an
oii
transaction
and tlat li,d tcppotari stored it in thc Docker _ Later
one 0f kle officials {orkinc on that pnrticul?r investigation
of Jrzoc;x #olr !ovc; thct Braden Ia al,0 bcen given tne use
of two lincs owned oward Hughes to Mafia ganbling
cash out 8f, Kevada and the country.
At prescnt Rugenc Brading alias Jim Draden is still
opcrating ouit 0f Ia Costa
Michael
Hwghes offce
June ; /974
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON Dc. 20505
30 March 1976
Mr Frank Sturgis
2515 NW _ 122nd Street
Miami FL 33167
Dear Mr _ Sturgis
We have recelived your request under the Freedom of Infor-
mation Act for information pertaining to You This is to advise
You that as of 27 'September 1975 the Privacy Act of 1974 took
effect _ This act and pertinent CIA regulations established
requirements and procedures for access by individuals to infor-
mation pertaining to them _ CIA Regulations were
published
in the Federal Register on 28 August 1975 and may be found in
Title 32T.FR 79OT
Since the Privacy Act requires _ federal agencies to ensure
that improper disclosure
of ppersonally identifiable_ information
will not be made and further provides_ criminal penalties for
improper disclosure CIA Privacy Regulations section 11901.13_
9
sets forth the ifollowing requirements
for identification of
individuals making requests
An
individual seeking access to_ or notification of
the
existercel of records about hinself shall provide_ in the
letter of Irequest his full name address date ard place of
birth togeither with a notarized statement swearing to or'
affirm Vnis identity If such individual is an alien
lawfully aditted for permanent_ residence , his or her
alien
registration number must be also provided_
Before we
may begin processing your request _
9 we must receive
from You a notarized statement as
explained above The, statement
should verify that You are a U.S. citizen or an
alien admitted for
permanent _ residence It is also requested that you
provide any
additional
information concerning yourself which #ight facilitate
our search of records Unless You
identify specific records You
be looking for, we will conduct a search of all Agency records
Thxtb@ign€
contain informatiion that pertains to You_
ncerely
Gene F Wilson
Information and Privacy Coordinator; '1778-1976
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2515 NafT122nd Street
iijni, Florida 33167
7 1975
r_ Gene Hilson
Infornation and {rivacy Coordinetor
Central Intellizencel :gency
Meshington, D C_ 2505
Re : Pre-freedon of infornation requeat
notice of charges
Dear Nr. {ilson
Before exercising wy right to 2 freedon of information request for copies
of 2ny and 2l1 avdilable ( in accordence with the declassification processes
stipulated in Ziecutive Order 11652 and its anendnent of January 1974 ) files
of records and docuents , both (computerized &nd nanual apposite of me and ny
activities under DY: {present former nanes and pseudonyms f bereby request
the conplete and final estimate of charges for gearch and duplication services ,
As regards the 'charges for these services , two matters Dzy be worthy of
considerationa Ttie |first of them is that, given the proper acces8 codes , the
execution of a conputer search is neither difficult nor Cos And the second
is that in light 6f the controversial nature of ny Past, 2 wjiver Or reduction
of charges nay conduce to the furtherance of the public intereste I therefore
respectfully rejiest_that these factors be considered in the making of 8 decision
as to the cost of services_
In copliaiceivith your request for identity verification pursuant to
provisions of tlle
'1974" trovacycgce;
section 552
9
subsections' b and d ) I
hereby Swear be a notery Public 23 to my name and forner nemes , my present
eddress , Dy
date Gs wel1 as place of birti, and my citizenshipe Thenking you
for jour cooperetion, I am
Ypurs truly
STATE OF FLORIDA
Abs
COUNTY OF DADE Frank Sturgis
Before me personally appeared 2 kea : Erank Angelo Fiorino
Frank Sturgis
t8
me werr knaen and Frank Angelo Fiorini
known Eo me Eo be the person de- Frank A Fiorini
scribed in ana Who executed the fore- Irank Anthony Sturgis
going instrument for the{ purposes Erank A. Sturgis
Frank Sturgis
therein expressed _
Frank: Bonnelli
Frank Campbell
witness my Jand and official seal
code name8' Federini
this 19th 8f May,
A.D. 1976 _
Barbarossa
Samson {L
bopn 9 Decenber 1924
Notary:" Pubilc State of Florida
at Large in Norfolk,
At LARGE My' coNrtaHisvt
E
48 1l888
22 1970 United States of Anerican citizen-
@ONDED IHRU GENERAL INSURANCE_UNDERWRWTEER
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CEONOLOSIC: . 3ZTC 0F ZSIDSCES 1d ZZLOYZITS OF : Frank Sturgis
present address:
2515 N- lZZnd Street
Miani , Florida 33167
also Inown Js: Frank Anthony Sturgis
Frank 42 Sturgis
Frank Anzelo Fiorini
Frank: 40 Fiorini
Frank Fiorini
Frank: Angelo Fiorino
1924, Dec . bora in Norfolk, Va &
1930-1942 resided at 510 Iligh Street
9
Gernntown,
zhiladelphia, 2a.
1942-1945 _ U.SaMarine Corps Reserve
(Z2ris I3
0 9
S_Ca; Pacific theatre)
1945. honorable discharge -Klamouth Falls, Orea
1945_
#
#Hiani Florida
C.1945-1943_ Norfollc, adrs: Bank etce
joined Norfolk: Zolice Depte
attended Nillian and Mary College
2lso attended Virginia: Polytechnic Ingtitute
c .1946-employed a8 of the Virginia
Tavern on East Main
"3tzeee
c.1949-employed 33 oner and manager of
The Mhitehorse Tavern Ort East Hain Street
c.1948 enlisted in the UeS & Naval Reserve
at the Norfolk Naval Air Station
c.1949 honorable discharge
c.1949-1950_ US , Merchant Harine travelling to and fram
Europe
1950-1952 UeS & arny stationed in Germany
Ca 1952_ honorable discharge
C 0 1952-1954 oer-menager of Tophat Nightclub in
Virginia: Beach , Va e
C& 1956-1961_ Cuba(Sierra Maestra); MLamf , Florida;
ilexico; Venezuela; Costa Rfca; Guatemala;
Panama; Honduras; Bahara Is
1958: contact with CIA at US Consulate #
Santiago, Cuba
1959: contact with CIA at US Egbaeey-
Havana,Cuba
1959: contact with FBI HQ
#
Vashington,DC
1961:-1970: Bay of
CLA control officer Sam Jenis
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CiRROIOLOGICAL SIZTCU cont' d
1963 contact Iith FBI and CLA
1968 travel and business (operation Stord) Mexico and
Honduras
1968-1972. mechanic and salesman for the Pan-American: Aluninum Corpe
185th Sta
9
Miani, Florida
June 17
9
1972 adventure : Hatergate Office Buf
June-July 1972_ moved to Vashington, DIC.
January 8
9
1973 Watergate trial: O Sor: .G Gordon Liddy et ale
Jenuary 15, 1973 of guilty entered
ca"ay 1973 moved to Federal Zrison Insta in Danbury , Conn &
then noved to Cglin 4ir Force Bese
Exence moved to Dede County Jail
Jenuzry 1974.& released on appeal bond
1974_ salesman for Hezvy Equipment Conpany, Miami Florida
1974-1975 salesmanager for Dodge Is Repairs , Miani Florida
1975_ salesnanager for Continental Egg Miami , Florida
1974-1975_ salesnanager for Miani Book Dfga Company
4460 N.:l.37th fveave
Niami Florida
Thank you,
Yic Q
Frank Sturgis
STATE OF PEORTDA'
COUNTY OF DADE
Before Me personally appeared Frank Sturgis to me well known
ana known to me to be the person described in and who executea
the foregoingl instrument for the' purposed therein expressed
Witness my hana ana official seal this 19th day Qf May, A.D.
1976 _
Uil~ Uliu)
'Notary Publid Ystate of Florida
at Large
NCT,A:: {' STATECfOidA AT LARGE
MY CCNN!: 623.2 AUGUST 22 1970
My commission |expires_
BANDED THEU DEnez_ INSURANCE UNDEEWRIJER?
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON; Dc 20505
2 6 MAY
Mr Frank Sturgis
2515 N . W 122nd Street
Miami FL 33167
Dear Mr Sturgis
This acknowledges receipt of Your letter dated
requesting access under the, Privacy Act for information
pertaining to You There is no charge for processing (Privacy
Act requests
We are therefore processing your request: and will provide
You with the results under the Privacy Act as soon a5 lpossible
Sincerely ,
7ze
Gene F Wilson
Information and Privacy Coordinator
1778-1976
1976
May ,
RevoluTioN
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OFFIce: Of TBE DIBECTOB
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIN
WASHINGTON, D.C_ 20535
April 12 , 1976
Mr Frank: Sturgis
2515 Northwest 122nd Street
Miami Floriida 33167
Dear Mr Sturgis:
This is to acknowledge receipt by the FBI; On
March 23 , 1976 _
0
of your Freedom of Information-PriVacy
Acts (FOIPA) request dated March 13 1976 _
Based On the limited information you provided,
it is not Bossible to make an accurate search of our
records _ To insure an accurate search Of ur records ,
Please furnish Your complete name date and place oE
birth, prior addresses_
0
employments and any specific data
that would permit us to locate the documents you seek .
An exceedingly heavy volume of FOIPA requests
has been received these past few months . Addi tionafly,
court deadlines involving certain historical cases of
considerable scope have been imposed upon the FBI Despite
successive expansions oE our staff responsible or FOIPA
matters substantial delays in processing requests continue .
Since January 1, 1975 , the FBI has recelvea
a total of {17,204 FOIPA requests. Of these our Present
backlog is /6 782 In an effort to deal fairly with any _
request reguiring the retrieval, processing and duplication
of documents each request is being handled in chronological
order based On} the date of receipt- Please be assured
that your request is being handled a3 equitably
as possible
and that all documents which can be released will be made
available at the earliest possible date.
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Mr Frank Sturgis
Prior to the processing or release oE anyi docu-
ments which/may, pertain to you, it will be necessary for
you to submit Your notarized signaturea This procedure
is designed (to insure that information concerning an
individual is released only to that person .
Your
patience and cooperation will be appEeciated_
Sincerely yours,
@nklly
Clarence Ma Kelley
Director
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FRANK . STURGIS
2515 N.W _ 122 STREET_
MIAMI _ FLORIDA 33167
May 3, 1976
The Honorakle 'Clarence Ma Kelley, Director
Office Of. the DDirector
Federa 1 Bureau of Investigation
Washington Da C.
RE : Freedom of Information Request
Dear Mr . Keiley:
Thank you #or your recent letter in which you requestea More
specific information to help in the search, collection and
duplication of records indicated in my recent Ereedom OE infor-
mation regyest_ I am sending
a chronological sketch of My
residences and employments prefaced by 3 list: of name8 under whfah
I have been known I hope this profile will aid the Bureau in its
search for my records Notarization of this letter and the sketch
will attesti'to the verification of my identity-
Considering the voluminous quantity o€ material that may have:
to be read ana screened, I would be: pleasea in the interest of
fairness to afford the Justice Department whateve5 reasonable
extension 8'f time is needed to comply with DY freedom Of infor-
mation reqyest_
Thank you for:your kind cooperation.
STATE OF FLORIDA
COUNTY OF DADE Very truly |yours _
0
Before me personally ppearea FRANK STURGIS Manl
to me well known ana @nown to me- to be the
person described in ana who executea the
foregoing instruent Bor the purposes there
Frank' Sturgis
in expressed _
Encl/
FS:S WITNESS my hana and oEficial sear this
6th of May; A D: 1976
2uLi
Notary Publia
State of Florida at Largery PUBlIC Siate Of FLORidA Av-iAroe,
Wy cOMMiSS J^ ExFiess AUGUST 3 .1970
My commission expiresEONDED THRU GENERAL 'NSURANC_LNDERWRITR_
Stf
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MEMOEANDU oacobar_29 1976
T0 Mlke Madtgan,
9
Boverd; Ltebergoed Mke Epecetn
FROH Rick Inderfurth_
In caee you nLeged- the: atcached _eTctele 0
Ruasell BufalIno
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The_Washington Post
October 28 1976
Reputed Crime Chief
Accused of Extortion
In Collecting a Debt
Aasociated Ptebe
Russell Bufalino, 8 reputed organ-
ized crime leader, has indicted
on federal charges O conspiracy and
extortion for using threats 0 violence-
in trying to collect a debt, the Justice
Department announced yesterday.
Bufalino and three other men, were
named defendants in a sealed' Indict-
ment returned by a federal grand jury.
in New York City.Tuesday' and une
sealed yesterday.
Bufalino, 71, of . Kingston; wag
ldentified by federal officiala in 1973
a8 the head.Of one 0f five Cosa Nostre
families operating In Pennsylvania.
The Immigration' Service hag at-
tempted for nearly 20 years to deport
Bufalino to Sicily, saying he was born
there and brought to the: United
'States' as an infant He' says, he wab
born in this country
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ATTORNEY_GENERAL-LEVI
RE: RABHAEL: GENEE;
October 26 , 1976
IN: REPLY IPLEASE:
REEER To. |#R
5080
Honorable Eduerd
Aa Levt
Attorney Cenera]
of the
United Staces
Depaztuent 0f Juatice
D. C
Dear Attorney Generel Levi
Aa Jou knov the Intelligence
teb tinony vith Eegard
to John
Coruittee has taken:
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and: the: @9oe081-
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InveariEatiopreagecateveec 98 the Zederal
the completion 07 Ehie He_ are reque? thac
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occesaftdeafi f8f %atee357on7
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re to M
We ere hopefui that Comalttee ateft
gentativee utli Be able Co Nork
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the 8am8 mener 60 we heve
In theee matters to appreciate: your: a88i8tance
Aloha
Danlel R .
Chalruan
Howard 4. Beker ; Jr
Vice Chairuan;
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Washington,
by:
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LIEBENGOOD ROUTH NOTES FROM U S _ V_ VECIANA ET AL
DATE December 1 , 1976
Veciana was represented by Barry L Garber 1040 City National
Bank Building 25 West Flagler Street , Miani Florida 33130
(305-377-4963)
Veciana became implicated
a8 the result of a drug bust
of one Augustine Barres a/k/a/ Emidigio Augustine Barres Fangul
("Gus Barres") The bust resulted from an seareh warrant of
23 July 73 for Barres attache case at the Taft Hotel in New
York The police
were acting on an informant tip to an under -
cover agent who arranged for 3 from Barres of seven kilograms
of Cocaine at the Taft The police understood that Barres was to
M be with 3 "female courier Barres advised DEA task force re-
presentative Eugene W Flynn a detective sgt with the NYPD =
that he purchased the seven kilos from Antonio Veciana in Miami
on
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Barres owns a home in Puerto Rico and travels to New York
every two weeks on business
A co-defendant of Veciana $ in the case was Ariel Pomares
who is the President of Occidental Investment a real estate
firm owned by Barres located at 1186 J T Pinero Avenue
Miami Pomares is
aiso
involved with FRECA Imports in Puerto
Rico This is also a Barres enterprise_
The DEA Miami regional office cables that Veciana is the
subject of INS File No _ A12-490987 and that he C laims to be a
lic accountant_
According to the Miami Herald of July 25 973 Barres was
Assistant Secretary of Comunications under Casitro and later the
general manager of the Havana Health Department He fled Cuba
in 1961 for_agylum in" Puerto Rico_ He becane United States
citizen in 1970
A cable from Ivan Wurms the Chief Investigator of the DEA
Task Force to Durkin at DEA headquarters Washiigton states that
Veciana was arrested without incident on 7/24/73 and signed 3
"consent to search" form _ Miscellaneous papers and numerous
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foreign passports belonging to several subjects were seized _
Swiss bank account deposit slips were seized and are to be
followed by IRS Veciana claims to be an anti-Castro fund
raiser_ FBI confirms this
A
July 1973 TWIX from DEA in New York to DEA,headquarters
Washington (attention Daniel P Casey Acting Chief) referenced
as subject Gl-73-X093
(presumably Veciana)
and states "during
d ebriefing of the defendant in New York on
July 25 1973 it was
learned that Antonio Carlos Veciana 811 North Southwest 3Oth
Court Miami is a member of an anti-Castro group which he has
stated intends to blow up a number of Cuban properties and/or
embassies in foreign nations 1.e Spain Mexico Peru and France _
0} Bombings originally scheduled for July now delayed until August _
Subpoena of August 14, 1973 exists for a tellegram billed to
Veciana at 649-1226 and sent to Barcelona Spain on 5/26/73 _
Barres implicates
a Paraguyan diplomat formerly assigned
to LaPaz Bolivia and reassigned to Spain in the" drug traffic.
DEA 18 discretely checking his identity_ A follow-up cable
from DEA indicates that they have failed to identify the Paraguyan
diplomat isent to Spain but do indicate that 3 Pedro P Medina
a Paraguyan assigned to LaPaz is believed to be involved in
Cocaine smuggling_
Barres admitted that he was responsible for bringing Pomares
an employee of his , into illegal drug activity_
Veciana' clained to be without funds and destitute and was
not fined_ The U S Attorney was concerned that he posted a
S100,000 bail | imediately_ However after initial concern being
shown in the file the U S the U S Attorney later
writes the Judge that: s80,000 of
2ctoenaloo;=
the 000 bond was furnished
by Veciana 8 cousin Dr Peeblo Zalduendo a
phycian from Detroit,
Michigan _ The remainder of the bail money was furnished by Veciana 8
uncle and other family members and friends who 'cashed insurance
P olicies closed children S savings accounts eEc _ U_ S . Attorney
concluded that Veciana was
possibiy telling the truth when he advised
the Court that he wasi destitute
Jose
One Hecaa Lopez is a character reference for Barres on
appeal _
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Barres says he requested the government to imunity to
Veciana in order to destroy the traffic of Cocaine from Bolivia
Barres studied at Columbia Military Acadeny in Columbia
Tennessee in 1951
A taped transcript of Barres debriefing by detectives
Flynn and Scamardella on July 25 1973 reveals #he following:
Barres got involved in' drugs through his friend:lVeciana who was
an officer of the International Development Bank in the U.S
Embassy in Bolivia _ Some people think Veciana is with the CIA
but Barres does not know_ Barres dealt with Veciana regarding
an attempt to kill Castro in Chile He says Veeiana did a
job of transferring everything into Chile (1970-1971) Barres
gave Veciana 82,000 in support of this assassination effort
About this time Veciana said that drugs could be smuggled out of
Bolivia through diplomatic pouch Barres ebouglised this was how
Veciana had sent weapons into Chile Barres that the head
of Interpel in Bolivia gets a cut of drug money for protection on
the Bolivian end and tthat a Secret Service Agent and two Paraguyan
diplomats were also involved . They handled_ the transfer to
Veciana in Miami Beach of the drugs from Bolivia
Barres thought that the individual he was
"selling the drugs
to in New York was a mafia type It appears this is the indi
vidual who informed the police_ He is known only
a3 Tony in the
transcript_ The police were aware of his identity but did not
desire Barres to discuss it
Pomares coungel Gustavo Del Toro _ urged (he DEA in San
Juan at the time of the arrest of Pomares to consider imunity
for Pomares because Pomares possessed valuable' Jinformation re-
garding international narcotic trafficing including the impli-
cation 0f diplomats in places such a3 Bolivia JParaguay and
Nicaragua
The file contains cancelled Veciana checks drawn on the
account of Antonio Sira Veciana at the Fidelity National Bank
5880 Byrd Road Miami Florida in May and Jure 1972= for Sl 000
each Payable to the Swiss Bank Corporation for account EF558230 _
These checks were obtained through subpoena on ICatherine Hune
Vice President and Cashier of the Fidelity National Bank in Miami
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MEMORANDUM: TO : File
RE Antonio Veclana
FROM: Ton Moore
DATE Jan 3 , 1977
Telephoned Veciana to ask 1f he recalled any attempts on
his life In late 1962 or 1963. He answered that; Ithere were
three attempts
on
his life, but none in 1962 or {1963 . The
first attempt
9
he sa1d occurred In a stadium In PPuerto
Rico 1n 1967 when a bomb exploded approxlmately 210 meters
away He said he belleved Puerto Rican communistls were
responsible for this attempt The second attempt} occurred
in Bolivia in approximately 1970
when some men with weapons
appeared at a home where he was supposed to be . He said a_
woman who owned the home called him to warn him_ He said
he thought this attempt was related to a revolution which
was taking place at that time The third attempt he said ,
occurred In Caracas , Venezuela in 1971. He added that he had
received information within the past three: months that Castro
wanted to kidnap him.
The relevant incident in late 1962
or 1963 was that
an Isobel Zarate began imaking inquirles about hi in Miami He
said many . people in the Cuban community informedl he FBI she
was a Castro spy and that she subsequert ly escaped to Cuba via
Mexico .
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I Carry-over from Church report
A Relationghip between agencies and Warren Commission
1 Warren Com . staff has never been interviewed in
depth Many have not been interviewed at all The
Commission haa' particular staff assigned to (a) Cuba
and (b) organized crime They especially , shoula be
fully debriefed about everything that happened in their
contacts with the agencies their frustrations unful #u
filled leads inability to get access questionmarks
and what they knew heard or suspected about contacts
at high- level beeween Commission members and top agency
officials This would include leads to additional
documents memoranda and people and is especially
important in the time-frame just before the Commission
issued its report _ i.e as final drafts being written
0 when staff learned for the first time about Castro' s
threat_ (Willens staff director said there were staff
pushing hard to re-open this subject , but pressure of
getting the report out prevailed 9
2 _ Look for all other memoranda of contacts between
McCone and CIA re how to structure questions
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etc
3 We now know that Ruby
was contacted svereal times
by FBI to inform on @XErIzedxErtnextaxBatIaRXIrRX
{" criminal element" in Dallas area All we ve seen
is the cummary meno in which Wareen Commission was
So informed Get each memorandum of contact between
FBI agents and' Ruby_
.
1 e underlying materials which
0 08 support the summary meno
B . The inter-agency committee which met to develop
continegncy BTans in Ehe wake Ot Castro S threat .
1 Numerous documents were sought fron FBI CIA
Defense State etc but never received by Church
Committee before our final report Was issued. Must
follow-through and then go deeper into it.
2 What else was known besides Castro S retaliation
threat? What facts went into the assessment that
Castro might retaliate against U.S leaders in Latin
America but not U.S leaders in the (J.S .? Precisely
wbat accounted for thelf original inclusion of
a concern about retaliation in the U.S but the sub _
sequent deletion of that prospect? Who was responsible
for the deletion and what impact , if any did that
have on the later $r withholding of info' from the
Warren Commission and on the agencies failure to
investigate retaliation?
3 . We must find out exactly who was on this Committee
at each meeting get all back-up materials
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and interview _
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C FBI jinvolvement in % Bay of Lansdale planning, etc_
1 IAs Church was being completed we were just
beginning to
fencrt_
about how deeply the FBI was apparently
involved in U.5 anti-Castro action Possibility
here that %Kg this could provide another clue in re
FBIL 5 original reluctance to investigate retaliation
more fully For instance we now know that FBI had
learned about CIA S interest in using organized
crime to kill Castro long before RFK toldxkawpxx
Hoover about it (Hoover had professed surprise in
196135 but there S some indication he may have already
known) One FBI witness even told us that a high FBI
offiicial 4 had even proposed the plot idea 08 in jest"
At minimum the paper record shows FBI wasxearraered
raxpzaxidexeubarxtazettt informed about idea of using
orgl: crine figures to provide Cuban intelligence and
that according to the paper record FBI recommended
agalinst it_ Trafficante has now claimed that FBI agents
cane to him seeking Cuban intelli ence This must be
followed Up , agents interviewed and FBI memo 5 , etc _
examined _
D. CIA {iles
I always had the impression that Jim Johns ton felt
there were more CIA documents which he hadn t seen
We mst go over the itmes one by one with Johnston
to find out just where we stand on the question of
whether or 3 not weve seen everything = Do any of uS
really fully understand the entire CIA filing system
So as to know wlther we vew been shown everything , or
indeed whether they have even dg g-ne looking for
everything ? And how about the field office files,
1.e JMWAVE files in Miami New Orleans and Mexico
coty| files DC local CIA station files
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and FBI field
office files?
II Rossellikerganized crime-Trafficante-Cuba
A Or ganized crime files
1 A full assessment of all travel contacts relation-
ships etc of all major organized crime figures in
andf around the time of the assassination: of JFK This
wouia include 3 review (with appropriate prieaxxxx
system for' pritecting privacy interests) of all
microphone suryeillance logs on organized crime figures
during key
months in 1963 e g.. Fred Black Trafficante ,
Rosselli Giancana Las Vegas ERxtbe@x casinos etc _
(Rosselli was XerEXX very defensive in his testimony
about sone comment he says he made on
the phone to
someone upon first learning that JFK had been killed;
he indicated that he had been
coominiseut out of a deep
sleep and said someting about commun did it Of
orse he now Knows that that call may have been 2p tapped
and; is trying to_explain_ No one had ever asked for
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that log _
2 Alllnew analysis of all the long distance toll calls
0s Jack Ruby in the daps around Nov 22 Warren Conm
records show he made calls to Chicago 0.6_ figure
Barney Baker and Teamster heavy Dusty Miller plus
others Does the explanation for these calls really
wash ' (i.e S union troubles in re his nightclub)
Has 'this whole 0 sumbject been exhausted by Warren
Comm. or not Is there more (interviews etc.) that
should be done here?
3 _ Someone should literally live in Miami area for
a mon'th immerse in the community get to know the
whole scorecard (maybe hire a local Spanish-speaking
cop with good local contacts) 4 More fully debrief
Trafficante for his version of events and people
Follow up with icontacts with all the Cubans involved
Has Miami pulled all the significant: toll records
for |period of 'time around Rosselli 0 S death (Cubans
O.C ifigures
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'garage owner etc.) and followed up
4 . A full tracking of what happened when Church reports
were released jreactions contacts concerns who
were the key filgures who actually got the reports and
whp- 'did they 'sppeak to about the Etategx contents
Review our owni mnailing records if exist 4 showing who
asked for reporits Local HEZx news weIx media for leads
in re reactions' of the community . Travel records of
0. C and Cuban; lleaders in and around that time as well
as in; and around time of Rosselli's death
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MEMORANDUM
TO MKE MADIGAN
TOM MOORE
BLL MILLER
FROM: HOWARD S LIEBENGOOD
DATE DECEMBER 27 1976
SUBJECT MARITA LORENZ
Ms Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire
to come to Washington and tell us "all the things held back
1 on in New York _ Her desire to cooperate has been engendered
by two events i.e. Sturgis told the German press of her
FBI spying on the head of the Soviet U. N . Mission and she
had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which
frightened her She claims to want her information in
responsible hands a3 soon a3 possible and requests we subpoena
her (i_e Ray her way) here and make one night S accomodation
for her What do you think? I am to call her back on Monday
January 3 at 212-534-2412 . My personal opinion is that we
have little to lose if we have time to listen to her
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MEMORANDUM
TO MMIKE MADIGAN
TOM MOORE
BJLL MILLER
FROM: HOWARD S LIEBENGOOD
DATE [DECEMBER 27 1976,
SUBJECT MARITA LORENZ
Ms JLorenz called this afternoon to express her desire
to come to
Washington and tell us "all the things held back
1v on in New York. Her desire to cooperate has Reen engendered
by two events ie_, Sturgis told the German press of her
FBI spying on the head of the Soviet U . N . Mission and she
had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which
frightened her She claims to want her information in
responsibillel hands as soon as possible and requests we subpoena
her (i.e_ Pay her way here and make one night; accomodation
for her . What do you think? I am to call her' Iback on Monday =
January at 212-534-2412_ My personal opinion is that we
have little_ to lose if we have time to listen to her
Howard I have no objections to her coming down, but
would be
personally
hesitant to invest any more of my Own time unles s
she can provide at least ia speclfic adjenda of new information she
will discuss
One poss1ble tactilc is to tell her that we are extremely
pressed for time and cannot 'subpena her until late February unless she
give u8 specific areas that Would allow uS to show "ouff_ superiors"
that tadlazaee to ber should bel given a @gkm ' hlgher @ra Priority 010
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MEMORANDUM
TO MIKE MADIGAN
TOM MOORE
BILL MILLER i
FROM_ HOWARD S LIEBENGOOD
DATE DECEMBER 27 1976
SUBJECT : MARITA LORENZ
Ms [Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire
to cone to Washington and tell uS "all the things held back
0 $ on in New' York _ Her (desire to cooperate has been engendered
by twO events ; i.e. Sturgis told the German press of her
FBI spying on the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she
had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which
frightened her She claims to want her informaEion in
responsibje hands as soon as possible and requests we subpoena
her (i.e pay her way) here and make one night accomodation
for her What do you think? I am to call her back on
Monday ,
January 3' at 212-534-2412 My personal opinion is that we
have little to lose if we have time to listen to her
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MMORANDUM
To : Mike Madigan
From
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Ed Greissing
Date: Sept. 16 11976
Subject: Review 0f CIA docuents presented the SCI by Jack Anderson
The documents recently received by this Comitteel from Jack
Anderson had Previously been reviewed by the Church Committee staff_
The documents appear to be a few of those requested for FOIA review
by David Belin it i8 my understanding , after these documents were
declassified David Belin furnished copies to both David Martin (AP)
and Jack Anderson
The Church Committee was permitted to review the 'entire Oswald
201 file the AMASH file Garrison files and selected Office of
Security files The Comittee primarily concerned itself with the
early period of the investigation (November 1963 October 1964) a3
it believed the information to be received from this Eime Period
co be more relevant in evaluating the performance of 'the intelligence
agencies with resPect to their investigation
Dan Niescher the Church Committee contact at the CIA was the
individual responsible for the declassification of documents
relating to the assassination of President Kennedy _ During this
declassification/ Process Dan Niescher consulted the Committee staff
o make sure that we were aware of certain documents In addition,
Mr Kaleras had | given the staff unlimited access to al1 files we
believed necessary to conduct our investigation
Yet = the possibility still remains that the staff was not
shown everything he CIA has maintained throughout that the Oswald
201 file was a complete copilation of the material reiated to the
assassination of President Kennedy However information relating to
who Lee Harvey Oswald was and what he wa8
doing
are not included_ in
their files The
Oswald 2o1
does not attempt to question Oswald S
connection with both pro-Caatro and anti-Castro groups or any of
the AMLASH information The most notable subject missing was inform-
ation relating co CIA/U.S_ Government attempts to assa8sinate Fidel
Castro.
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I apologize for not being able to help you _ Yoj know . the
ground rules and they haven t changed . Right
I can t say I don t know _ You indicated that you
Are you stiil working Rosselli? You getting anywhere?
You got a pretty source on that? On the fact that
they were having dinner together on many occasions before
he was murdered?
I just can you because of the ground rules _ I'd
like to have a copy of your piece, or two for je and
Inderfurth here Just drop a copy in the mail 'and I 11
appreciate it_
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place_ I can t tell you whether you-re right
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By RON LaBRECQUE sought to determine whether the the CTA Castro plotting and the &&
Herald Stam Wrifer murders of the two men were con- sassination of John F. Kennedya Florida s reputed organized nected in any way,with their testi- Revelations of the Senate commit
crime boss, Santos Trafficante of mony or potential testimony before _ tee were 2 key factor in the tre
Tampa and Miaml, made a secret, the committee. ation of the new House 0f four-hour October appearance be- GIANCANA; WHO was
1 Mafia ` sentative investigation, whlch i fore the Senate Intelligence Com:
mittee to answer questions, about boss in Chicago or many vears; taking & new look at the JFK mu
his role in a CIA assassination plot_ was killed in June 1975. at the der _
investigation soutces have dis- same time Senate investigators Trafficante reportedly has told
closed were preparing t0 contact him. The investigators that be first met Rocr
Trafficante, 62, had not previ- gun used to kill Giancana, found selli about 1956. It was in the early
ously been questioned by the com- discarded ou 4 roadside several 1950s that Florida Jaw- enlorce
mittee Or its staff in the two-year- miles from_ Giancana'$ house a ment officials estimated that & Bo
oid investigation of CIA activities: month after the murder, Was lita opertion run by Trafficante end
Of the three Mafia figures in-
traced to & Mlami gunshop: but the his brother netted $2 million annu
volved ip the early 1960s plot to trail stopped there. ally _
kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro , Investigators said the gun was Trafficante was a major
only Trafficante is still alive. Both part of a shipment purchased in figure in
gatt
Sam Giancana and John Rosselli 1965 by the Tamiami Gun
where
pre-Castro Havana,
but there are no records to indicate he ran a casino. In 1959 It
were murdered within the last 16 John Rosselli where it went from there, accord- was estimated that S] million Or $2
months: to investigators and gunshop
million was bet nightly in all tka
The murders are unsolved_ dined with Trafficante
owners.
Mafia-run casinos in Havana The
INVESTIGATORS ALSO said years has maintained a home at Rosselli, whose most powerful
gonbliveg iustoBged when Castio
that Trafflcante had dinner with 740 NE 155th St in North Dade, Mafia days were reportediy in the
Rosselli at The Landings, a Fort could not be reached for comment 1950s and early 1960s in Las Vegas Rosselli was . the first Of tho
Lauderdale restaurant; in mid-July, Trafficante was identified as the and Los Angeles; did appear before three Mafia figures to be recruited
less than two weeks before Rossel- head of a South Florida Mafia fam- the committee at least three-times by the CIA in 1960 in its plot to ax
li disappeared Rosselli s body, ily in testimony in 1963 before 2 in the 12 months before his death- sassinate Castro.
stuffed in an oil drum: floated to U.S- Senate subcommittee- In Washington, 'the committee
the surface of Dumfoundling has kept & tight clamp on comment IN A CIA memo quoted in abx N
the first week Of August. HIS ATTORNEY, Henry Gonza- about the investigation, and only terim report of the committee
Trafficante reportedly has told lez %f Tampa, who accompanied one member, Robert T_ Stafford year ag0, it was said that Tratll
police that the July dinner with Trafficante when he went to (R_ Vt) acknowledged the Traffi- cante s role was to "serve a5 & Cor
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Rosselli as well aS several other Washington; according to sources; cante session; saying SI was not rer to Cuba and make arrange
38 meetings previously at the Cordoba would not comment on either the present when the witness you ments there
Restaurant in Miami. fcrmerly Senate appearance or Trafficante s speak of was in front of the com- Rosselli
owned by the husband of Rosselli' s past activities: When first asked mittee. told his CIA Iaison that
niece, according to police were about the Senate appearance, he Sen Daniel Inouye (D-, Hawaii)
"Trafticante beliened Cubar certain
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"friendly social events with no said, "Yqu realize you re treading tthe committee chairman who,
figure the exile
business - 'op_dangarere greta #atiar_ along with Sen. Howard Baker (R , movement might be able
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Investigators in recent weeks A committee source said that Tenn:) pressured for Justice De-
the assassination_ An intere
have centered their efforts on trac- Trafficante had not been ques- partment and FBL ` involvement ` in
nal CIAinvestigation In 1967
ing the whereabouts of Traffi- itioned previously by the committee the Rosselli murder case, said *[
gests that this Cuban may
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cante's associates at the time Ol because his role in the plot had have never met Mr . Trafficante. been recei funds from Trafn-
Rosseili s disappearance a sourc heen considered secondary _ That's as far as I'Il go_ cante and Other racketeers interest
said Interest was renewea Irthe piot 4 PRIME interest of the commit-
ed in securing 'gambling, prostitoa
Trafficante Vm Int Kaep 430 after Rosselli 's death. Investigators tee has been possible links between tion and dope monopolies' In Cuba
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Attempis to Kill Castro Laid to CIA
By Juck Anderaon lor before the molley Invad: iale against Presldent Ken | comglete wh sceret (rysts at
ers landed on the islana. Thelr/nedy. glltierlng Mlaml Beach holele
Locked In the darkest Ie arrival was expected (o Iouch To set up tile Caslro assassi- |and] mIdn ieht powerboat
cesbce o[ the Central Intelll- |oft
4 general uprlslng, whlch nalion, the CIA enllsted Rob: dashes '0 scret Janding epots
gence Agency Is the story ot
the Communist mllitie would erl Mahcu former Tb[ on {Ne Cuhan coasl. Once, Ioa
slx assassiration attempls have had more trouble puiling agent Wth shadowy contacts, | selli & boat #as shot out from
agalnst Cuba's Fidel Castro. who had handled other under under hlm.
For J0 years, only a few key down without' the charismatic cover assignments Ior the CIA For Ihe flrse Ihe CIA_
people have known the terri-|Castro to Jead them: out ot his Washington publlc furnished Roselll W Ith speclik;
ble secret; They have bworn "Afler the Lirst ettempt relalions office: He Jater/poison capsules t0 Inlo
never to folk: Yet We have/tailed, flve more assassination movcd to Las Vega t0 head| Castro'# tood The polson wna
learned the detalls Irom WP billionalre Howard Hughes' |supPosed to take #hree days lo
teams were sent to Cuha The
source? whose credentials are Nevada operations act By the lime 'aslro dled
beyond qucstlon: Jast team reportedly made Jt Maheu recrulted John Ro hls system would Ihrow ot all
We spoke t0 John McCone_ lo 8 rooflop wlthin shooting |selli, 8 ruggedly handsomeliraces o[ the poison, 90 Jie
who headed the CIA 8t the distance of Castro before they | gambler with contacts In both |woula appear to he the victim
time 0l the assasslnallon et- werc apprehended: This thc American and Cuhan un-|ot 2 |natural it mysterlous ail
tempts. He acknowledged 'the pened around the last] offFeb |derworlds, l0 arranfe thc 03 ment
Idea had becn discusgcd inslde rwary Or (irst of March; 1963. sassinalion. The dapper, hawk- Rosclll arranged slth #
the CIA but insisted It had Nine montha Jater} Iresi: faced Roselll, formerly Mar: Cuban_ rclated (0 one 0f Cas:
heen "reJected Immedi-| dent Kennedy Wa6 sunned ried to movie actregg June tro # {chels, lo plant the deadly
alely. 0p He vgorously denied|down In Dallas by LeelHarvey |Lang; was a power Jn the (pelleis In Ihe dictalor'9 food.
that the CIA had ever partlci- |Oswald, 8 fanatic who Ipre: movie industry until hls con- On IMarch 13, 1081, Rosclll de-
paled in &ny plot on Castro'8 viously had agitaled forlcas #icllon withrecketeer: WIllle llvered the capsules to hls con:'
Ille. Asked whether the at-|tro In New Orleans and] had Bioff In & mOlion-dollar Holly-|tact] at Mlami Beach s clamor-
tempte could have been madekmade & mysterious Grlp to thelwood Jebor shakedown. Thekous Fontalnebleau Hotel:
with his knowledge, he re: | Cuban Embassy Jn Mexico]CIA essigned (wo ol Its most couple of weeks Iater, just
plied: "1t could not have hap:|Clty: trusted operatives, Willian aboui lhe right time. Ior ths
pened. Among those privy to} the|Harvcy and James (Blg Jlm) | plot fo have bcen carrlcd out
We have complete confi-|CIA consplracy, thcre is sli}l a ('Connell; to the hush-hush 8 report out 0[ Haane selc/
dencc, ho w eser; in Our n & g & / n & suspicion-_unsup- murder mlsslon: Using phony |Castrjo wa# JI: Bul he r1
sources: ported by the Warren Com- names lhey nccompanlcd Ro-|covered beforc Ihe Bay % F:/ ;
The plot lo knock ol Castro mlsslon'8 findings-Ihat Cas |selli on trips to Miaml to Ilne invasion on Aprll 17, 1964,
begen 08 Daret of the Bay o |tro became aware 0f (helU.S: up the assassination teams. Four More altcmpls "/$
Ples oprrntion Te Inlent 09; plot upon hls lifsa ankt Rime: The full gtory reads Wke Ihe !made on Castro'9 Mle .
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Four andla/ha & years/aige= I broke a story that nowllis belatedly rocking
Washington. I reported that the Centra[ Intelligence Agency had recruited two
Mafia figures' John Roselli/and Sam Giancana , to assassinate Cuban Premier
Fidel Castro.
I
tracked'down Rosell and questioned him about the' story- He had nothing
to say. He promised me, however, that he would give me his exclusive story
if he should ever be free toltakk.
Yesterday, John Roselli told his story first,to the Senate Intelligence
Committee in Secret session_ then to me a8 he had promised four and a half
years ago.
Roselli is 2 dapper, hawk-faced man with 3 thatch '8f white hair. He has
been disciplined {a LL his life to keep his mouth shut. His Mafia partner,
Sam Giancana;_
wag Slain bef8re Senate investigators coufa serve him with
3 subpoena _
So it was' obviously paikful for Roselli to ta kk. I sed [ would make
clear that he revea led no names , except for the CIA contacts whose identities
the Senate a [ready knew .
So here jisiRoselli '8 Qwn account of a rea [-life "Mission Impossible"
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the attempt to kil Castro. It is a story of cash paymentz poison pellets ,
high-powered fifles and powerboat dashes to Cuba.
The 'against Castro, Roselli said, began in 196 when Dwight
Eisenhower wasi President Richard Nixon was Vice Pregident and Allen Dulles
was the CIA chief.
Roselli 'wa8 recruited in Los Ange les , he said, by Robert Maheu, then an
aide to billionaire Howard Hughes. Previously, Maheu jad operated a CIA
front in Wa shington.
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Accordingi to Roselli the murdered mobster, SamkGiancana , never became
involved in thelassassination' plot. He knew about it; he even have suggested
a
Cuban contalct; nothing more_
Roselli identified thel CJA project officer, in charge of the Castro
assassination 3$ Jim 0'Conne [L: Maheu Rose[li in contact with
0'ConnelL, as Roselli remembers it, in New York on September 14, 1960-
Thereafter, Roselli flew to Miami and recruited the assassination squads .
At first, they plotted to poison Castro. Poison pe llets were supplied by the CIA .
They were delivered to the Plotters in a Miami hotel roor, according to Roselli ,
by Maheu. Hel dramatica opened his briefcase, reveafing $10,000 in cash
and the fata[ Pellets .
The money was distributed tothe Cuban plotters. Roseli swore he never
took any money 'from the CIAI except for some incidenta expenses . He the
big expenses he said, outlof his own pocket.
The son were supposed to take three days work. Supposedly,
this would the poison time work its way out of CaStro's system before
he died, and his death woufd pbe attributed to natura[ causes ,
Roselli never found out what happened to the Plotters or the pellets But
they tried later with a Stronger dose of son, N8t long afterward, reports
reached thern that Castro was desperately iLL: Roselli doesn't know whether the
illness was
caused by the poison or a virus. But Castro survived, and the
plotters appa did note
Toselli; Gaid he a [s0 picked up intelligence, which #e submitted to the CIA
both during the of Blanningjand the Later Cubanimissile crisis. After
the of Roselli said_ Maheu wa$ out of the lot. Thereafter,
Roselli reported to a CLA #gent named William Harvey-
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There ere four r 25sa3Sination attempts , tke plotters were smuggled
into Cuba witHj high
~ powered'rifles The last assassination squad, Roselli heard,
made it a (Havana rooftop before
were caught.
This was around Ma #ck 1, 1963 . Then the projeet was abandoned. Roselli
saw Harvey for the last time in June, 1963. Five months later, Lee Harvey Oswa
gunned downlPresident Kennedy in Da Llas .
Oswa ld hadlbeen active in the
Pro-
Castro moverent. Shortiy before that dreadful
in Pallas , Oswald had made
3 mysterious trip to Mexiko where he visited the Cubanfemba ssy -
The Warren
Cormission found no evidence, however, that Oswa [d was in the hire of Havana,
Yesterday, Roselli made no apology for his CIA role. U.5. authorities
ca [l him a mobster. He regards himself a8 a patriot.
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1 1 ~udnv. Ssptember 1% /976 The Calculated Rise
And Abrupt Descent
0f Johnny Roselli
lives in a sprawling white home that
By Rudy Mara at first glance; resembles every othe:
bouse in tbe neighborhood
Until last month; Jobnny; . Rosejli But it is difterent: the carefully cuI
lived comfortably with his Sigter ada tained' windows, the extra lock on tb:
brotber-in-law in a, Miami suburb IA front door; and spotlights o all side
friend estimated he earned about $25, of the bouse give it the look Of & subui
010 annually {rom a git_shop he ban. fortress Inside; the furniture 1
owned in tbelobby 0f Las egas' Fron; blue Mediterranean; the carpet j
tier Hotel thick white:
last wben his &t
Rosellis killers did not ambush th
Fe rugged year. bouse; Roselli went to them; He lef torney suggested he hire 2 bodyguard:
Plantation at 1 pm. On July 28 wearin after the murder of Chicago mobster
shirt, his clubs: in his ca Sam Giancana, his partner in CIA plots Ergok Kol: fertoldi golister be wouid &
to kil Fidel Castro. If anybody wants_
for dinner: Tbat afternoon 0 to kill meat my age;the 71-year old Ro home
killed, probably by su'
selbi 'said, wbat difference does it evening he was
make? So be played several times focation, perhaps after being torture
white wine with din" ~early reports said his legs were bri
8 week, sipped
decided len: _ Heavily cbained, Rosell wa
ner, and-unti oomeboda
in an stuffed in a 55-gallon ' oildrum an SohuavreoseliNiaould Wunatonndhug
dumped into the ocean:
oil barrel in Miami's His brotber-in-law found Roselli's si Bay-considered employment in the
ver colored 1975 Chevrolet Impala se
new ` gambling casinos ` beginning Ito eral days later, parked at the Miami h
opep in the OL-rich Middle East
ternational Airport;
Ten days atter Roselli's disappea
In the late 1920s Al Capone and #is ance something went wrong; The 0
friends chose Miami as: Ibe chic spot drum tbat was meant to keep his deat
for organized crime figures to tpyo: a a secret Iloated to the surface of Dun
winter ' home; Just across a strip_ foundling Bay; buoyed by the gases
ocean was Cuba, & gambling and vice Roselli s decaying body:
mecca The mobsters Trom the notth The holes in the side 0 the' drul
were treated like visiting , celebrities and the placing O his Chevrolet at tb
by Florida press and while airport convinced investigators b
some members Of tbe local
cacjiolce
fOrce_ corpse was meant never to be disco'
began developing & taste for the fiter. ered; history was supposed t0. recor
things in life that dapper Johnny Roselli , facing d
In the 19405 tbe sberift of Dade portation proceedings that the gover:
County (which includes most %f the Mi:= ment bad threatened ot and on I(
area) admitted t0 tbe Kefauver or: years, decided to disappear on a ai
ganized crime committee that; since plane tlight to who-knows-where
be bad become sheriff on an' annjal
salary: of 812,000 five earlier;Ibis "Cutting up and disposing of bodi
fortune had' increased from
is not necessarily new t0 our depar Be5onad
to 370,000., One o the sheriff's
ment;; Says the man who is directit
deputies: said he collected s50,@/ in tbe search for Roselli's killers Lt; Ga
bribes in nine months spent as a bag- - Minnium; bead of the Dade Coun
man fOr: Miami Beach gambling Con- bomicide squad, is a well-muscled m;
cessions: In 1943 & bookmaker $ opera-
with a aquiline nose that separates
tion in 'Miami grossed 626 millior} It Of hard blue eyes: On, the pa
was the kind O place that made a rack- wal] o his bare office is a sm: green eteer feel at bome card that reads "DYNAMITE _DON
For the Jast two years, Jobnny gRo
SHAKE ME UP selli felt at bome in Plantation a bed-
He and another police ' officer [ room suburb porth 0 Mliami that Ro count the solving Of some ' ot Da'
selli made `his retirement haven be County's more brutal: murders wi
cause he bad family there: His brother:.
i-law, & government missile exflert; See ROSELLI, LA, Col. 1
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ROSELLI,From was lound restiig #gainst a dike and vow wth a schoolboy's sincerity tha
the enthusiasm of twg football players justicelwas eventually done they Won"t rest until Roselli s murdel
recalling their favorite bowl games Minnium is not pleased by such vio- is solved. In the last four weeks, witb
The headless, handless body that lent antics: the heip o Washington agencies, Za:
floated into a Miamilcanal last month %We |don't appreciate , people com- trepalek and Ojeda bave reconstructed
reminded Minnium % that other, simi: mitting murder and dunping & body Rosellis lite in hopes Or understanding
larly_mutilated body that' turned up in 'our Icounty, regardless of who the bis death: the third time in eigbt
last December. And| who can forget people are; but especially if it's organ- years 01 marriage Zatrepalek worked
the man who got angry with his room- ized crime;' Minnium says out of town on his wedding anniversa-
mate, sliced him uR and: tGssed the His Idepartment: handled j88 homl- ry; because O the "awesomeness" of
parts along a highway? cides iast year and boasted an 85 per this care Ojeda spent bis Labor
As it turned 0ut, Roselii's Wasn't the cent Iiclearance record: As o8 July, holidaylat work.
first body to float into the angals o Mi- 1976, the percentage was even higher; "Maype 10 years trom now;' 0P Ojeda
ami' crime in a drum, Minrium sys standing at about 92 per cent. says, "I want someone to look at my
Ten years ago 2 lovers' quarrel re: IE 'Charles Zatrepalek and Jullo Iile end say, be talked to every-
sulted in & man stuffing his girl friend Ojeda Ihave_anything to say about it, body:' IAnd maybe he' l hear some:
into a drum; filling it/ with cement and Roselli $ killing is not going to dimin'- thing and BANGi tbat's the arresti"
Aqua Velva ` shave ltion The drum ish {those percentages Both Men are
28-Yearold homicide detectives wbo Thatkohnny Roselll was destined to
walk 0n the dark Side, ot life never
seemedin doubt As & teen-ager In Bos-
ton; wlen his name was Filippo Sacco,
Roselli lwas & runner for the numbers
recket |He helped his stepfather burn
down his home for the insurance mon-
ey. He was arrested at age 22 for steal-
about $25 from someone: Then be
changed his name and left for Chica-
80:
It would be 40 years until; In the late
1960s, obnny Roselli would see his
motherlagain, though he sent money
to his family through an intermediary
In Chiczgo $0 hbis Bisters could attend
collegel
By the late 1920s AI Capone was well after a
establisked in Chicago Newspaper:
work-a-day, men, pofiticians and cops were on the
Capone (payroll and a young man with
a
velvety Roselli sjstreet savvy had little trouble
finding Suitable employment; he hired
juniorjump} $58 on 33 alrumrunner with the Capone
gang; At age 26 Roselli was arrested
A be-devlllng shImme gilmmer for sellitg morphine t0 an undercover
You; 8et for champagne or a great agent He was acquitted because; after
beail One-piece cottop veiveteen, ready Roselli slarrest, no one could seem to
to layer black Or browin; 5,03: Core find thefarresting Officer Or informant
Write % phone:. in the Case: They still haven't been
found
In thel mid-1930s Roselli; by now a mature and charming man, lucky with
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ernment and (named Roselli as & Chi
cago mobster who bad helped''him SIn the 19408 the sheriff of Dade County (which shako dooselmovebaudiost Gohs: testi-
1943 Ro-
selli was sentenced to 10 years in 'includes most of the Miami area) admitted to the
on. When helgot out he returned to
Hollywood to make pictures 0 prison Kefauver organized crime committee that, since and gangster Iife But publicity about a
secret, appearance before the Kefau-
he had become sheriff' on anannual salary' of ver crime committee ruined his rela-
tionship with most studios Even Cobn
re fused to hife him_"The stockhold 812,000 five years; earlier, his |personal fortune
ers would scalp me; E Cobn told a bitter
Roselli
had increased from $2,500 to|870,000. 99 It was during his years in the Los
Angeles and Las Vegas areas that Ro:
selli met tbe Iman who would make
him 3 household 'name later in . life
Robert Maheul the ex-FBI agent ;who
parlayed 3 Washington private'' eye
women, Iriendly with men o /money, cluded a check for 6 per cent interest; business into : stormy career as How-
moved to Los Angeles; He worehand- Cohn.magnanimously tore up the in- ard Hughes' man in Las Vegas, @p
tailored suits and, by all accounis;' was terest check } proached Roselll on bebalf 0f the CiA
'easygoing; mild-mannered. Ho was Roselli bought twin star rubies, had in 1980.
married fOr a time to an actress;; but them set 'In; (rings and gave One to (Another person Roselli met in that
they had no children: He became a Cohn; who considered it a good luck era who would later surface t0 talk 0f
close friend Of Harry Cohn,the legend- charm until his death: Once; when Chi: Roselli; Giancana and John F. Ken-
ary head of Columbia Pictures: }{ The cago mobster Willie Bioff moved to nedy was a young party girl named Ju-
two men sometimes vacationed Ito- Hollywood and began making lite mi dith Campbell)
gether and Roselli always seemed |to serable for movie studios by shaking Maheu_and Roselll would later tell
know how to place a bet should Cohn down executives in return for labor Frank Church s Senate Intelligence
care to wager On a horse: peace Rosellj ' stepped in and saved Committee theldetails of their plots to
According to Bob Thomas' 'biogra- Cohn from a Jengthy strike kill Castro: Mabeu told investigators he
phy of Cohn, "King Cohn;' the Imovie When Cohn refused to pay tribute to had known Roselli since the late 1950s
mogul once offered Roselli a job as a Bioff and his union; Bioff tried to halt and, while he didn t know Of his un-
producer. (In his book, Thomas! dis- production at Columbia Eeohalial 2 derworld connections, "it wag cer- guised Rosellis identity at Rosellis re- sudden strike: Desperate, called tainly evident t0 me that (Roselli) was
quest) Roselli wbo marched into Bioff's Office able to accomplish things in Las Vegas
"What would you pay Roselli and' confronted the hoodlum who sat when, nobody else seemed to get' the
asked Cohn: behind his desk wearing 8 hat and same kind of attention.
"Five hundred dollars a weer; coat, chomping on & cigar; a gun rest- Over dinner at the Brown Derby in
Cohn said. on the desk in front of him. Beverly Hills 16 years ago, Maheu ex
4 get ihat much trom waitresses 'Listen, Willie; I don t know wbat plained to Roseili that his government
who take bets for me; Roselli is said to you re trying t0 prove but it isn't going needed his services: Roselii, who was
have replied: to work; Roselli told him. "This is a born on July 4, 1905, was nothing if not
Besides being a handy man With the spite and youre not going to get patriotic (Sam| Giancana once said,
placing of bets, Roselli purchased (al26 away withjit; You meet with Cohn and Just wave a and Johnny'IIl follow
per cent interest in % Tijuanall race- get it settled;' you to any canal") Mabeu recalled that
track with $25,000 Cohn loanedlhim: Bioff
backed down and called oft his:
Roselli paid him back promptly iin- 'pickets. After he was sent to jail for ex See ROSELLI, Ls, Col. 1
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past operational activity with the CIA the opening of gambling casinos dancer's position %f sometimes receiv-
tbat migbt occur i{.deportation pro in the land of the new oil millionaires
Kowedgeresthe iaag kcsrasde0? gois
ceedings were. pursued: The INS In Tampa, Santos_Trafficante, an- knowledge Of the darkest gov-
agreed to keep the CIA informed, but Other Of the origina: Nneugroup; alsol ernment
have speculated that he
at his death" Rosell' and his Jawyers refuses to talk with the press. But un While some
much to
were still tighting deportation: like the others, he did not testify be was killed tor talking too' gov-
fore the Church committee SO the ernment investigators, Roselli was
"Bob Maheu must be running scared lic bas nO inkling o his thoughts on bardly & loudmouth in tbe league Of a
~I thought about;that-just-the Other; tbe Castro assassination attempts _
Soeatehehringhon %g Mofia elevised
Jesus} wbate Maheu thinking?' Whether Roselli s killing was one o Senate bearings on the
in
83 gaid another 0 Roselli's brothers-in- retribution tor a public or a private Fourteen years ago Roselli confided_
law; Peter Cardillo O New Jersey: matter, Johnny Roselli was a testa-
his lawyer, Washington attorney Ed-
The public doesntt know wbat ment to an era that bas passed: His life; ward Morgan;, that hebad been told by
heu is thinking; whether he worries if whicb would have remained largely Cuban sources in Miami that John
pro-Castro Cubans are eacting retri- unnoticed save for the Senates CIA Kennedy's killing was ordered and a5
pealed to Harvey Ior neip and Harvey bution for sins 0 16 years ag0. Maheu's hearings, seemed straight Irom the ranged by Castro, but he lived with bis
recommended to the CIA that it try to secretary in Las Vegas says she doesntt pages of a Mafia novel: allegedly secret:
Roselli's body was
prevent prosecution, but Roselli was know where ber boss is or when he l brought into the United States illegally Tbe day after
coffin; his
convicted of violating interstate be returning 't0' his Office: He report- at the turn 0f the century, Roselli scooped_ from its crude
Peter bling laws He went to jail, returning edly bas some business interest in cla wed his way from the mean streets brother-in-law in NDowlerdeep
in 2
in 1974 to Plantation to do battle Egypt; a part of the world that seems of Boston and Chicago to the relative Cardillo, told me: donnected
against government efforts to deport" to hold some Iascination for the Castro glamor or Hollywood, Las Vegas and, way, [ probably hope it was
him: plotters; Giancana kept an apartment finally, Miami Along the way, a simple with (the Castro affair) At least then
In 1971 the CLA asked the Immigra-' in Beirut and, just' before his death strain Of patriotism-_which impressed Johnny, he would have died for a
tion and Naturalization Service to told a friend he had some sort 0 deal the CIA enough to mention it to the ceuse:
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By ROjABREcQUE;
Maa#sbm #to0t
Sef:-Gar;; Hant
@., Golo,) made
an,unanhounced frip 16.
FOCTHE NURDER % Rotell;_ swh?
Miai Friday for a trivete /meating with homicide delectives %o
HntConiehaes7n;
underecoe Ihe slrong intetest %1 the Senate Seleci Intelligence
46i5333 Sorcnoie;
Qf {rime_
Coxinitles in _be Jokn Roseju murder ineesilgatin and to insiue 386,3chitigono%inteea G
that iederal #gencies cooperite #ltb;local police Enc3tn tes' sho: I0 :calh .in; his
The FBJ wes ordered:Jito the cise Jast #ek by Auotsey home. $0 . Juae 0{ Rac; Cormnitee
General Edward Levi alter pressire froj the Senale commiftez iincen Sn Wire CracLOn;r
him
We're not }ere io:sql5 thz 0 Han 4d wadt [0
inwcieaigs stere
Iind oui df there Js &hy' codrection be}ween (Roselli'$) death ana @oxccomtinitg Han Fnisyis
bis {cstimony before tbe Commitlee 1% 3hicc;e;"{ajinng; 47Co7moteee4%s
{ornky Xho; @ Juze 2/915wE
HART sAlb T; ale hopedF 16 ~Ptepirine 16 . interviewe Giancena
Mte: with Jocol &flicha}s 0/ 02,FBI RtoulTk intol enev; titb Rc#elu
and Immigratino an4 NulurAlza- _ jn ta Casro Plot
tion snire- & Cientana Fampa 6genlztd'
RoM 7}, @TEAnized crine g
clme' Iigufe
Santo ~Tralficanle
tre U' po {esijfies Ihree ficesj2 acconadyIne roles% . i0
Jort tXF senale Inlelligcnrs: Cbm"
Beaix-E55O 387 65a7
Tiret in Ike Pas} Ytar #rojthie tpn
antithef Zommitice ial
"sutmani W!ha CIA iv } @Jofo: Ieoe Ievellog. wim Hant; faid
Kill }:el Ctsuu #'88 Iqui 3p4 47
tso #46 "70, silled Jn # oL'
FainozhnZn aes "condd:
6rum #oing in Dumlounckpg ~bunnr! TZnicenie. ihe
C3 1 #al 8
Cpaior &ic bu: Trallie
K4;l180.0 {carahathhe Iqiej Gte Fieneve; [ Uec_scay &e
"cpce Com;aifiee js Ccrtned_ Ginlie cinticered Roscllis !6
Scou: #6 {~sib:lity Jnit Roeltts u3opy Uc 1nost Imrotant
cfa;h is (annrted I0 his tesyrp ;
& 23 ; 2v, amhoreh he 0i4 52) Uneeeen ~cmicaGo AREA jaresiizelots_
0o '0 jeeniet" {indlcating Rofeju
tha:
"Ciadtana $' ae2th-:
nighe have %erh Kllied (0, prevtpi
Szlart 0
3 in/e7na] . ganglend :
Wm {toFo tjlklnt #bu1 Dibe;, Cua Kas
#FErinrd dine Fecs;; sreleuheless, Hen % @ef;
1 noh of no Pans Phnsner Met
that #b Ros Jh g
16 hrt #m {om8 hact," Maniaja ed Friday Austors eoit
Aum tmel? Toi 1C &$ #e #oifann destb. roaNice
~TN? €o
1e cll:d hi;a bac} i[ Oht De
8n7ns E4i 8n8erin?
mhem'
Jat!s &6s8.% incidfnts'bsin hoski
Whc J472,
Bur m %uuld# Trfching i0 #es J~86158;/
{a3bi65 Iord
4Z hie xe iditalon ,: he Naa
denfia] faanpxicn
{no "tf Wsfied #Xo:) evicenee
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{he Gintimic3 aeslh in;;%o;
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Wlore Vhe "tommitlet;; Hant sid
"Uhare 1 Urabrnce Df an9 CoFTO
Koreting €vicence #mch
Jo Fagt 28 Col
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I Irom Eovie bezosd rpuke:
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pI .&6-; Giencant s deatb Iat
Hls apkealenec b{ore ike corjtit-,
88 ~25 [rninent Fp7e Toi Inpe
That #Jrur indcites, # #3redo.
Yha Giwesce' : deat T3 Doi , %}:
tretly relited t0 hls Pist CLA iix:
dcetlor:
Ne RNALLY 60; Gibieni ?
mme bumbir me 'het #a
Aeliled;% MadEan. saj0
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46 spie} dilfebley tacbog #in
'owp"in Rouaon ibeze Glaneana
}ad Kta /* the Bonllu) W Kd
td decided; tbe} ] R&s Si0g f0'
inlerview jaim -t Zt8 wtheher /
TTUId Mo ivorh it to c2} im a< Cafifle $ body }lonted 16 4h8 #ure' _
silesc; Ne Wfd Bot bitn cotced Jaa %I New York Harhor olf Ste"
and N neg e3 0ftz suhpca t2d Jsland 05 Aug: 1. ble bdy
n? 4d,"Kasepsid 1r: ?50 In # padlached ckaln ard
Xonejl |5t3" bd B#s srp #eeyred by two. Js Tound boae
652d d0 mly%& ahe fird tie ##CMOIS Fclcc I to nad becn
Jow 4 8rier Gienesra 52s &bot #raceled Ro"i= beer asphyz-
Tht Comntcs 76 btaded Ny
Iaetcd, pcsehly bx atrangilr&: Ecv
Ss0: fjk Guel 4nd re '"#nce
cin:llnz 10 Inverlicalors here.
bed teNebdiby 2 3ly Jorned
Nex%ek;Cy de;rcuves #ld
commitiee [pered br Sen: Daalal thal Ca;plle ,#new Glncana" bue
inciiye (D-Tiiwal) and Sep: Herc Ihcy bevo bot bred a9l0 t0: pla
ad faker ( Ttbo } : Jo ix @bl down & rotlve In hls deeth;
"pot Wec: {oranr conmltde
The Washingion Slof, qeouing #0
stopEli ized &e DGX Scnite Mnkcon: {led, FBI soufce ; fepotled
16 Oonlizue Lbe Investigation & 4 Ihat Cejoila had met with Roselll
vn CLA Actvic' 4 #ej @2 C03+
Ja Chlcago aboue two moatheesgo'
2oetong buteen the Cestro Msd-
Eanion plt{zcd Ihe e3tassinaUou &
John F Ebuzy-
WAKT SAiD +41Dir tkere &8]
ah Unyea wefed Suestions ahxrtt"
Lte Bute o ek& Ioive; Pan;
tiexlatIsi ' seietrE ibe #-callx]
~reitliadraikoon Ihet Camto
0 Qo eeerts ed ;JF
Xilea botelee/e 1 CLA #ledpts
on Csto'shi:e
Kart - ptervevtd Rcsem tetjce
9 0 rezikef!Q} te ormer Cory
"mittie a04 he Is #ko # penbtr 0-
tb 2et Intelugence Coniittce
$ Roscli Px very cladid Dut be
8;4 notzroluiler Wdntot 7
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4 Commlitelinnesctalon_ T
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dealy RTrb
Jex:zed 8 gabizug
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tobjertons Kbo Glrd Nndr
ordit5 EWecriousy coibd:
~feau;c Rozeils #4tt
Gral 37. #4 #epone mii
tiJ k7 0J July 28, {e
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By ROx L,BREcQUE'
Pa#hsrm %9 rer
Sen Ga5' Hart @; Colo,)"
made an unaanounred .irip 10 RY TKE URDER 61 Rose)l, who
Miami Fridey for a privete]mezting with homiciae delecijves 1p
IIHEConmieee 6s6#
underscoje lhe strong inferest' pf the Senate Salect Inlelligsnce.
Sclics?c? CSicmit &
Benized rjme
Comigittee in Jbe John Roselli murder intsgilgalfon and to Jnsuc' 3e,3chic:sPo8 '
Gienc2ce;' CK_
that iederal #gencies cooperste #ith Jocel police | Indes
#e$' shot I0 death .in, hts
The ' FBI wes %rdered Jild_lhe case last] Wek by Auornty home $:Juse 0l 1975,' just 0 .18
Genersl Edward LeW alter pressire #rojo the Senale commiftee
hozenageti5 77 c85ni645;
~We're nof }ere to:solfe the Har td, wadt: [0
In05i3 i978 Wyre
finid' oui df there Js UnJ' coanectlon belWcen (Roseli's) death and @owccomjantg Han Rrisdss
his {cstImony pelore_ Corimittee*$ 'Xiceee; Raainen; 4 Connieee46
{orncy #ho; W Juze 01/815 Wi
HARf SAID K; alo hoped' 16 ~pteparire Io . interwiew' Gianceha
Mt} with Jocal flicials 0l tp8 FBI Rtop Hs intoltmen:_with Rcte}u
Jnd Winmigration 0n4 Naturalza Jo t8 Cbso
Ljon Semire- i~
Gjantana
Fampa' 0 genlzed
Roelli 7}; Oresnited crime J2;;
&lme Ieufe
Santo -Trafticante
tire who {esiifie& lhree fimes bc} {ccompan>Ing roles Jn
ost the Seeale Jnleiligenselcam-
Beaix-L55OTR'808 6AnZ
sittet in ite pssi Ytar 2bout hls
ihe iancfhe; Zommityee Giati
neriunmpni by me CL ix 8 iJo:]t0
Snolgaothe; #it Hari tid
Kiii F:cel Cssbb; ##6 Jcund #40
47
E_
{Ko ~0k6 #sd, #ulfed 4n a8,
Mour cenn badaic ""cdcsda
6fuso #eading in Dumlounakpg erco SosnewG
TzMicemle. the
27 JJl VJo orizalor sid but Trafli ,
HA; {nede f "21+arehit ihi Jquei Gnte %keneve Sajed Arcause bhe
Wsce Commninted Js Cictned cinltee contidersd Rosellis%7
G ut t#c {Ksibilily Dat Roceibs" Uaory tbc 1o5t Jmponant
8tath is {cnntrted I0 his tesyro-
44" J/ sthoveh bb 0i4 #0 thete #es_ invesiigators
nQ evidente' indlcating Rotell
OcciucAGGharEdh
"Ciancana % aeztba}
Tiekt kave. +7h Rilled 10 Pisvehi
Sr/5r 61
40
infezal. ganglend .
him {ro7o tjlklne ab3u1 P1be; CZa 4ab:
arcebitrd cime peds, sUNegleunekess, Ham %k tefc
1 know ci no ?lens Xhaiseecer_ Ner
that Vib Rosel"s
Ib here !lm (O7Phach E Nant Lja ehd Fridiy Autzons"
"Pu| thel $ #o:jo 898+e Wtxdn [ deetb, tropblice
~Th? co
2ve callca hi;a back j[ spme |nex
S4nanas Futiar,Gnserin?
Whem
Jetls %{s2."#; Incidemues bgin to
ahc J872
But 6i #oula 1 TrreAing {c se5 Gc8+95et+ sM
Jora
#eha? Xne tditslon , haihad'
pecs eeniii fa mbNen Tatbler_
(n6 #fied. #Hi) evidtnce
835 e{hFtz; Sueicd
#uh
jmporianft0 4s F KfTaid Sske W Je
DJ invewza:o;s
thc contjishone
{Ht Sift;cans < death %8; ndi con-
Dtried 10 his jrentiu efaj;n?n}
Mlone the comritict; Han? &id
"Uhfe# U; abfoce Dr an8 torIs
porajinf €vidence shic. Prfitob
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FROAPAEEE
t Itot povfg bexpnd Mzoue:
Wo1
Fadizan s4id Ihe widesp-edd 6
Jler Giencang: detth IM} Eis upraeenGieBE;Oze L4e chuie:
88 #825 jnminant te7e tol lrpe
TMI WWiruer; indltatss, #e are d
hr Giwucise & deabh' #as ' 0A We
tucdy Telted o his Pust CLAa
idatlons
X #we" nrally {0;; Gabeedn?
mone 'pumbe,aue d},#8} #4g
Eiiled; 7 MsdEzn: Eaja Fwe
00 Spie dlleoly tracbine tm
"6uD J4 Fouron wbsie Gtaneeba
ha Kajb the fooltu) ] Ed_
bea dccided 'thel 1 #ts goipg @3'
Jilerview |him-16 Zt0 #e Her |it '
woul bajorth [ to call bim & 2
"Caratle $ body tloated 1 th8 Dure
witncso; Ke Ned Cot bicn Ooetaced Sca' 0[ Now: York Karhor Oli Str-
and Ke #ed iot ?itc subica I0 Jsland 0m Awg; 4 hle body
n2 4" 58jd
wrcnA I0 $ Pndlocked chaln end
'RofeJll; #bJ Md Bvg we'E ed by two J5-[und bone
7hed didetsmify I& #he frx/tne AncbOns Fchce Aid te td becn
Jow dey4 Mier Gienefra W25 Ehol #raeelcd Roxaki %Hed bess Asphyza
Tk: cojonittet W65 beaded Fy
Irtcd, pcsB}hly by stroagllr& #c0
Sn, Raok Gum 40d Res sincs
cidlns !0 Inverulators here:
ted tNMoud >Y 2 Drwly lotmtd
Nex Yerk;Clly deitcuvce #ld
ccnimtiee]fefded br $: Dai thsl Ca;elle "#new Giaikcana but _
incpye (Dy%ia#eli) end Sea; Boxe Ihcy bev0 nol _ bced #Wl0 t : fla"
a Eakerj (R,, Teno:} :Jo ix @ipy down @ motlve In Mls deeth:'
Yepotl that= Jord1tf conmlice
The Washington Slef, quoun? am
sroretz Wged te Dcw corninee uinld eneltled FBI bonfce; repozted
40 Oonliue Lbe [nvestiextion & c Ibot Ceralle had met wlth Roselil'
~ert CLA actiiit' 2 #e @0 Cox+
I Ciiczgo about two moauajo;
3#tons buteen the Cestro AS14-
eation pbtlzcd 42 #.3ssinatp 6
Jphn F. Ddy
WAKT {h1D #RIDA ters @e
#th unpsa weted questions #ie
Lse Wuvy Omweke njive; Aara
ticwbathy; Iele ~o ihe #c1llg4
'ret#lia cx @ntoy Ihet Cisio
Gr pnCexo Sernts sed JFR
Xined AFaks & &t CLA Lebpts
Dn Crstro'sje
Hart I rigrvertd' Rosem tuce
4 & Rezthy 0 tw Aorer Com
jittie adie % tlo ? oenbtr Q_
the :ex[ie Czence Connitce
Rorali %* ~ery cladid DuI Ne;
8 Do} ialaterr idrnate
RettRlL; 0
4 Connittsaves:talor #e%
d8y u5 #ve Jouit 20
{5oeo Rosa #na Evgede M. Cer
T& [ RoreWue M6_ aoticue %u#0
dealy Rn jexized o-Sabized
Gine
tol3ertipis Iho dlrd unde
dordasioreriousy ccibd:
AEqt0 Roetug *estb
3neii137.%45 #rone ri
{ by H #i%e 03 July . 28,; {He
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By ~ROtLABREcQUE
eetem;em tv ier
Sen;-Garj; Xart (D {colo;) made
an uneanounced _rip 1Q MFTHE YURDER 0f Zarellceho
Miami Fridey for 8 privete mesling with homnicide dtlectives:1o Jast . exilied. in
KeSAR
underscore the stront inietesl % the Senate Salect Tnfelligence Semeac? Coicsno &_
srjre
Committes in Jbe John Roselli jurder invgsllgallon ana to insue Rade3.5h 6u8pn8" 76652 G
that iedere! azencles cooperate #ltb Jocal police Ende;
wes' shot {0 dealh in; his
The ' FBI wAs ordered Jilothe 'case last' Wtek by Atorney: hone" I June 0l 1975,' just 2 48 :
General Edward Levi alter lpressure Iroj the Senale committee
6ozeekhnie' "Erack8r,nifin
~We re not }ere 1o solye the # Har &4 wabl: l0
Ainsesipzaiozs Were
find oui I there }s an}' cobnectlop be}wcer GRoseli $) death ana- Wowb:: Nccompan; Hun Fadueo 4
bis | ~Stlmony petore tbg Conimitlee € "Zhicce" sdinnd; 47Co7ntite4
X Luo
{omncy Xho; "n Juze %/915~es
HARf SAID he Siso hoped
16 ~preparire I0 #nferview Gianceie
nft} with Jocal dfichals 0 Le FBI Rtoptmhx intolcemen; xitb Rctelu
and Immisration 304 Nuluralzi- Jn the Caxro plot
tion Senyce- 7 0h Gientana
Tainpa' 6 genlzcd
Roselli 7}; Oreenized crime] pe
crlne igufe:
Santo ~Tralficante
Lre 4o Iesifiea Ihree fices "ccompanying joles % in
Ieut the Senale Jnleiligcnce: Com-
Reaa-[58G; Casio essasginaz
sirtet Ir Ike P4si Ytar ahojbhle
{0 Bkiupotte; Cormitar tiad
{eriuilmeni &0 he CIA iq & pJoi; mie Ivellng Wjp Hart; @id,
me Ki F;eel Crsub, W#f Joumd 830 47 47
Iq #Mr6 "F09 #ulfed In 2kkc1L' Fuex ehnqu alfo "conid:
67u;0 #osiing in Dunlounains Txe
Subpeniing Treilicesie the
2ay'.
844 Jabere0 # bur Tratn;;
Fan InideJ: a1caracit hc Iqiei Snte %eneye CrWedRooauethei
Wsce Commitee Js Ccocme_ dpimltee Consideted Rozcllig
stoun {c {rsibilily Iit Roselie utopy lbc Io61 Important
ctfh is (Onnsed J0-his tcunoz
1 4 2" aMhoweh be 06 5),Lhcte 69 ~CMCAGO-AREA investigefot8
no '#ricemtt ndicating;
Ronec;
u5t that
CiaDcana $" aeztb;:
Tieh: }are 08 Rilled i0 prcveaI corctl
p}
3.i0fer58/ . ganglead .
him , IroFo tlklnt #boul pibe,CIA Was
@igeninrd tine hids;: suNNef eunekes:; Han te @e As
2 Know o 0? ?l25 #misener Ne;
#mlb :Rosculi s
"(6 hsve Hlm fone 6a76," Matiaka 2ld Friday That #ooin`
04 pun thants 7oi t0 %} Fe Wo#Mol
dek Sroatiine 8unsennsThetcot
Lve called hiro back i[ sme me;
Giencane& Iculder Jinget:
them
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incdtnts tgin -to sirin?
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sel€s #cbeanE{c ~0 si Ihe
But 1t #uuld t Trething i0 AN menber Jord
#ehee #mne iditavon :hehidl
PIcxceniiai fa.nErie?
{not Vef ~fied; #bm) evieedee
8o38 e7sFtec Suidhca
#uh :
jmjorianflo ji " Htfjaid Sied W J
Di invenizaiofs
the ranciusonb
{H: Gian tens $ death #8 Rdi con"
DFed 10 Ns 8esti:non)
Mlofe the tomnitict; Han sjd
TE;b: brnce Plan9 toTro
poraiint_ eiidence "blch Ptftgts -
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poi #ler Gjencana deatb' I}
Mls appearencr bflore Wke cot-
00 #2s [cnirent F7e Dot truea
TML @r:er jmjitates, he /J8ree
Ghar Giestca:e'$ eath Iu 0ot , d<
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datioi;
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0ne Dumbi ,e d}. bev' i#
#p Aitileta Medean. 5aja Fraey:We_
48 spm8' dffieblly tacking }im
3oup in Rougon { ybgie Giateana
nad bol b #he boolidl W Nd_
bs decidod tbe} ] #ts going t'
julerview] Aim 80 It0 Whenber it "Catsdle s body floated (6 th8 J5<.
~ou} blyorh it to cal bimju
Fitocss, Ke FeG Cot Wan Qticed I8c0 0f New: York Herhor ol1 Sta"
and be had.iot #tz: tuhpz tcp Jslard 0n 1 ble body
9380, Kddean ssid
Wfi?EcA In ? padloched chaln aria
RokWuint Nd Ba R7x "c E#ed by two J#fonnd bont
tkei djdastily Ici &t Tirst U5; #OchOnS: PcHcc Fedcsju Fea to #ud becn
Jow dayr er Gieresra w2s sko2
#celed brer AJphys:
Isfcd, pcsw!bly by strsngllcg ac" Thaf 'cinittet wa beedtd hy cur:llng 4 InVerlicators heze
Ssm; Ra Gweh 208 hes {0ri5 New York: dcircuvce Jld
bed #Ne :y # o&sly tal Cafalle, #ncw Glncsna" but_
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MZMORANDUIILOEE TEELRECORD
Michael Madlgan'
Augwat13 i976
I receat]y; dlgcuaged; M1th: Agent Ricbard: Taylog of
Ohe
Federala Bureay Of: InveatLgatfon-ny; recollecetongeof
Pre
teatLmony: LncervLeva:NLtb; Mr John: Rosbellf:; prLor to;-RoseeIl
teatLfying Indegtoath 10 Juna: of 1975 It Lox "I.recollectLon
thet therb Vere beverel meetInge between: myeelf
80 couneelzfoce
the Coralttee ad Roaeelll end' hle attorueye # Roeseluf andahto
attorneye expreeged O numerous occastone-Gear for ]cbeapelEbetng
of . RogeellI Inotaced and 'the-Coutttedi agresa that I
wouLd-conduct InteryLeva iprior; to the: bworo#teattmguy 8u5e
locatLon;arey Aromecher Senace 80,a0 to: avoidzany Publictty
Dur: treeo nncervic7eenodeellL,` on: morettheg 6n0 Odce6ion
atatedethat; he Cu
Caking @ gread rlek;-n ce3t1Ey136 ua Kee:
vorrLed ebouthrete1t38o God peFtIcularly worzred jboue:h1o:
reletlveesElcn Uhon %C Vae
living In: FloFtda I Cemnorerecair
Bobeelli QPec B31ng eracC1y who: he: Nae: @oat efrat 32 but; be:
declined o
teatLEy abouckGLencana (utfr aEtertGhane 46 0
deatb)
# refuged: to Ideptkey; aN 88 thbe; Cubans Mbo Neres Involved I
as8e8efnetton plote; and Vab reluctent to-mene_on:Senced
Trafffcante byanape Invfect, I cannot-recaf e Rogdg1 87705
mencfoning Trefficanterby Dane: and very veguet e fponding
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to queattonq LE ther queatfoner: uaed the penes Traercante"
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It 10 Erecolledttop tbetcop 40 leaue Wueta oacattone 1
the pregence OE: Senacor Boward H Beker Je; 'Rageeryco2d
#2
the Senecori chat he_
0
Ro88e11+; Ma8: concerned_for Hiqer @afety Gid
hle life and 'that he: vag -Leking his well-being 6yr teet1fyIns;
befores the Conkttee: I a0-
ucertaln 1p yireco lectton 88'to
vhether-tbet; convergatlon took: place 4p: thez Senece Incer-6e
room O5' eleeuhere:
Throughout hfs} ceeclmony RossellI decltned Fo-Glvetbfez-
eract; addrege #iPlorIda;{for reasone:;of safety 156: Le aleo my
recollectioa thac: Rovaez+1 8: demgenor; Vao , va1bly lafgocted:
whenever: tepetnony oreintervlew: focueed 0g ateempredeco:focuo
on, Sancos | Trefficance:
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MEMORANu+IFoR THE RECORD
Michael Madzgan
Auguet 13_ 1976
I recently digcusged with: Agent: Rlcherd' Taylof: of the
Federal Bureau. of. InveetLgatlon my: recoliectiong 08 Pres
testimony Lntervfewe wtth M John Roasellf prLor Co Rogeellt' &
teetifylng uder oath In June of 1975,- Ic L0-my- recolleetion
that there Were 8everal meeEinge betveen mygele 48,, cou6e_for
the: Conlttee and Rogeellt|and: hla' etcorneye
0
RodaeLf: and -hia
attorneye expreeged On nimmeroug occablong fear; Eor#Ehe; well-being
of Roagellf IngLeted |and: the: Countttee:: egEeed thatz:I;
would condiict Lntervlewe: prior to the 80nl cestloony Qe 0
locatlon: away; from: che Senece 60' 28 Co avo1d' any: Publicicy
Dur: thege Intervierg : Rosgelli_ Ort: more_ than Ore occeeton
8tated that he- Vaer taktng: & (great rlsk: tn: testifying He Vee
worrled: about recalfacion" and perticularly-worried @boutxhfe
relativee Wlch whom: he; was [iving: In FlorLda I cannor recall
Rossellt: gpecifylng: exact Iwho he va8 most: afrald 08 buc:'he"
declined: co
testLfey; aboug Giancana: (unttf after Gioncane 0 death)
refuged to Identify; any: of the Cubane Who: were Involved
a88a881natlon plota_ and w80 reluctanc €oy Bentlon: Janeog
Trafflcante name In fact; I cannot: recell Roggelt ever;
menttoning Trafficante" by: nane and only: very vaguely reoponding
to questtope] Lf: the questiorer used the name-Trafficante
They
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It.fbtEyrrecolfeceton_ that' on .eC: legoe-One Oocacton In
the preeence 6f Senator Hovard H:s Baker Jte Rooselz4; tol
the Senacor that he
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Roeaelli_
L
wag-concerped Eoreh1s;oafetyz'end
hie lfe and that he: wesl Xieking hLe` vell-betnb tescifylng
before: the; Comittee . em Uncertaln in myareco_leccLon_ 28- Eo
whether: that; conversatlop took: Place: up Loftho- Senate: intervier
roon Or eleevhere
Throughout hle: testimony Rosgell:: decltned to etve: hfg:
eract- addreea In Florida' for: reagons of} Bafety TG r6 aleo: @y
recolleceton' chat: Roageiit
0 deneano= Vaa;
FIRIbLy affocted
whenever testimony-or: Intervler:' focuced OrbaccempcedcEo- Focus
on_Santog: Traffteance
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MEMORADULJFFQB TE; RECORD
Michael MadLgan:
Auguet-13; 1976
I recently dLecueeed with Asenc Lohar4eza or-88 tbe
Federal Bureau:0 Invegt-getfon myerecollectfobae,OE Pe
teacimony Intervieve]ecb; M JobaRo8C[A eEior t Rossellt
ceettfypng {under Oech InJune;ef7975 3Cn-a nyarecollacttons
tha there Nere @eveFal neetIngcabet eec yeels
DC couneel 50r
the; Conntttee and-Rogaellt andelts 0584100 Roa8a1z aabhtt
S6
attorneyetetpreeded 0u Dtmerou d4tro {tn Co5 CChe de '42b845g
6E Roagelll; J7tz8ted andethe Celeitceceagrecd thac
vould: conduae Inccrievor prior tC 0 a L 4914627248
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declied FO
Ceet_ey akout Gfancana (3c,548C6 Gloncene:' 0 dench)
refubed Fo 1denttezeny: %8 the_Clkenc L4Q 03 Evclvede Ina
a80a8e1nafonploto and Nad relucq4449 Dtiod 8entop
Trafffcencesby nage Intfact; Exce7trttCUL4o3n214 ever
nentfoning Tafficqnte by: nane an4 06t verVagualyerespondtag
cozquegtLone Wf; Ete questioner, ueedhche 3eZOte cante _
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the preaence:: of Senator Hovard B Bater Jr Roogel1t
F colo
the Senacor that: he Rosgellf Naa copcerredi Co= hfexdafoty end
his lffe' ana;that he 0ab
rieking bla Nell-Belng 6y4ceecLEytng
before: the: Comittee:: I a lncertaln" Ln DerecollectLon eeteJ
whether_that : conversacLon took: place" Wp0in the; Sehate: LncervVied
roamOr' elaewhere_
Tbroughout nio testtnony Rojcelll;decltned opgtvebte
exact addrege: In Florfda "Eor-reeeone offgefety Qi +akeo: my
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recollectlon that:Rooseilr
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WEMORANU
To: RIck . Inderfurth
From:_ Mtke Madlgep
Dace: Auguje;43 1976
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buggestion- a8 'Co hov: begt: to: @er-verhlmxVibr#
gubpoena)
(2) Detectivee: Wolf endeZatrepallet: Daqe
County: Sherdff 0'{Offfce telephone:number; 305-547-7456
(they are the deteeelves: investigeting tna Rogeeltt
murder forv the {Locale) (E have: been-pucging hen;
off about vhether -they can" haye accebe_ EQ_ ehe;
crangcripte: lyou" need to talk EQ BtlL Miler: and:
abouc thte)
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hla i Ke, need; Ithe; FBI co locate:Trafficence
By_ the cime: you:returt Fwtll have: teken_Preperetory 9 Eepe
to set up. Inferylewa: ;Ith the:Miamt: poltce peopfe e0
76le 88
begun &n effort4 to: locate} Trafficente_ After;telking with
you: wtll need to: follon Wp and: conftru @ll tesendkt teek: &s
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W1ll be In Kangaa; from: Monday: through Thuraday} Tvill be;
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THUR S DAY,
A
@e Ivashington Wost
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
Who Killed John Roselli?_
ERE GOING TO tell you a little story now. amount to a system of justice which 1) only affects
Once there was a President who was murdered. those dumb enough to get involved in it in the fIrst
His brother was murdered to0. A long time after they place and 2) tends only to punish those who have
died some strange facts came t0 light: It turned committed what the rest %f us would regard as hei-
out that while they were running the government, nous crimes anyway. Not that these are things people
the government was frying to get two Mafia mobsters say__they're things people can be expected to a5-
to arrange the murder of someone else-the head of sume But we think in this case the assumptions have
a small, hostile neighbor state: It also turned out that even less validity than they would have on a clear
one brother_the one wbo was President--appar- day, which isn't, much: And that is because if we
ently had & girlfriend who was the girlfriend as well know anything; we know that the Mafia operations in
of the mobsters: And Orte of the mobsters, whose which Messers. Giancana and Roselli figured had be-
nickname was Momo, was prominent on the list of come intertwined with the operations of the United
criminals the President's brother was trying to put in States government: Never mind that the decisions o
jail. The story may sound complicated; but life is com- the early 1980s which made this so may rank among
plicated, ad the complications in this case got even the most abominable decisions ever taken in the U.S:
more SO_ For when 0 committee of the Congress government: The plain fact is that, given the provoca-
wanted the two mobsters t0 come and tell them ome tive and suggestive history ot the two men, it is not
thing about all this, only one 0f them__the one possible for either Congress Or the Executive Branch
named Johnny_ came: The. Other one, Momo, was to look the Other way Or to complaisantly accept the
murdered in his house a week before they wanted earmarks-o.-a-gangland-slaying bromide
him to testify. Johnny, however, told his story to one
committee in the Congress and then came back_qui- After Mr: Giancana was killed, the Church Commit-
etly__to tell some more things to another committee tee inquired o the FBI whether its proposed meeting
which was in fact looking into_the murder of the with him had figured in his murder_ The FBI re
President: Then Johnny went to Florida Then no one ported that it had no evidence to this effect; The
could find him: Then some fishermen found him then-director of the CIA; William Colby, felt obliged
Dead. In an oil drum_ to state that the CLA had had nothing to do with the
But we haven't told the strangest part of all murder--and Mr_ Colby ` likewise pronounced the
yet; the part you're really not going to believe: It is other day that he was certain the CIA had not done in
tbat when the great national political community of Mr, Roselli. The mere fact that the questions, to
solons, scribes, policemen, spies and managers Of the which these were meant t0 be the answers, had been
general: wellbeing heard about poor Johnny, they raised tells US, anyway, that much more in the way of
said: "Oh, my goodness ' Some O them went farther inquiry is wanted: The newly formed Senate Select
of course. They said: "Fancy thatl" But most of them Committee on Intelligence has now asked the Justice
didn"t say anything at all except: "Yawn; 9} Department to make an investigation of Mr. Roselli'$
Forgive us for lapsing into storybookese: We do it death_ We think the Department should comply and
for a reason which Is that the simple unadorned facts that the investigation; despite FBI Director Ciarence
0f the John and Robert Kennedy-Fidel Castro-CLA- Kelley's .disclaimer of jurisdiction, should have the
Mafia-Momo Giancana-Johnny Roselli-Judith Exner: Attorney Generals personal attention. Such atten-
Church Committee-Schweiker Committee saga need tion is needed because of the elaborate and not en-
to be put: Iorward in stark outline for their magni- tirely reassuring history of relationships between the
tude to be understood: Is it really, as the sophisticated FBI and the CIA and the various participants in the
wisdom goes, 'paranoid" on our part to brood about whole sorry saga We are not, suggesting that any
the suggestive and possibly monstrous interconnec agency of government-or even any 0f those agen-
tions between all these facts and to wonder why they cy's fringe retainers -_were the murderers We are
are not the object f intense press and government suggesting that there is an overlay o potentially em-
scrutiny? What accounts for the general indifference barrassing information sufficientiy pervasive to keep
in high places? What accounts for the eagerness with an awful lot of. people from wanting to have this
which we all seem to accept that familiar tipoff that thing aired. We also think that the Select Committee
we shall be hearing no more about the latest crime should reserve the right to pursue the matter _ Con-
i.e,, the pronouncement that Mr. Rosellis dispatch to gress, after all, can hardly be expected to sit idly by
an Oil drum and Beyond had "all the earmarks 0f a3 while its witnesses are being done in; Nor do we see
gangland slaying: Those are the good . old "ear- how the public in general and the political establish-
mnarks 'we only hear about when it is next to, certain; ment in particular can turn 'their attention dway un-
that we shall hear nothing more; til we are all satisfied that a much greater effort has
The supposition of course is that the Gang which been made by the government__which means both
runs gangiand has its reasons and its methods and the Executive Branch and the Congress-to discover
that, disagreeable as these may be, they really lie out: what elements were at play in this series of appalling
side the proper realm of public concern because they crimes and scandals:
The Data From M
K HAROLDKLEIN_Ane Reinntict andour best_thearied
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ROSSELLI CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
1955 Meets Maheu at insurance friend S home _
1960 Late July/early August _ Maheu calls - Working for government _ Recruit
Rosselli only _ Meet Brown Derby , L.A. for luch. Long talk about
project in Cuba . Rosselli wants verification.
Znd meeting, L.A.
9
discuss further details no discussion of specific
techniques Plan to meet in N.Y. for verification.
Sept _ 14 1960_ First meeting in N.Y. at old Plaza Hotel. Rosselli
introduced by Maheu to 0'Connell- Rosselli knew" 0 'Connell worked
for the CIA: Rosselli agrees to work on Cuban project.
Sept . 25, 1960_ Maheu ad Rosselli travel to 'Miami to begin making
contact with Cubans to be recruited for mission.
(Between Sept . 25 and the of a series of recruitments meetings ,
and arrangements were made_ The foilowing is an outline of events that
is not necessarily in chronological order. )
Meeting where Maheu is introduced to Trafficante Meeting
where Maheu is introduced to Giancana _ Giancana was according
to Rosselli, to be a back up man. Rosselli states
Giancana had nothing to do with the actual operation. Trafficante
was used,, according to Rosselli as a translator_
Meeting with 0'Connell Maheu, Rosselli adto4da
discuss the Cuban project_
Rosselli, in his contact with the Cubans "invents" the cover
story that he represents some Wall Street business interests who
want to see Castro eliminated. Rosselli trusts Cubans he has
recruited because are part of the of operation _
Ist attempt at assassination involved the use of pills_ Maheu
and Rosselli met with Cuban #1 and #2 (2) Maheu opened up his
briefcase and gave the pills with instructions for their use to
Cuban #1_ Maheu also had $10,000 he the Cubans for doing
the project. Rosselli did not know of the money _ Rosselli states
he received no remuneration for his work on the project
}
in fact,
he out $800 for gas for a speed boat to deliver two or three
man parties for guerrilla raids into Cuba.
Prior to of Pigs there was no discussion of using guns to
assassinate Castro
Rosselli 5 cover name was "John Ralston e
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At different times
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Cuban #1, #2 , or #3 would propose different
projects_ These would range from plastic explosives to
booby trapping Castro S desk. Rosselli would relay these on
to Maheu, who . in turn would contact the CIA_ Most projects
were vetoed but the CIA did supply a short wave radio to the
Cubans in Fiorida, to try ad make contact with their people
in Havana.
Eventually Rosselli felt the project had failed There was no specific point when it was announced . But at sometime Rosselli
assued the project
$
for whatever reason , had not succeeded .
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C H R 0 N 0 L 0 G Y
(ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY
U.8 , INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS _
DATE EVENT OR ITEM SQURCE Where Necessary)
1959 Richard Bissel becomes DDP
(head of Plang Directorate)
October Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Date and Rosselli role from
1960 Vegas allegedly (a) favor Government Opposition paper
to Giancana
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and . (1) done by to Rosselli motion for
Rosselli) reduction in sentence, 1971
1961 Feb. Lumumba mysteriously killed Wash.Post & Star contempor
during Congolese strife. aneous accounts
News reports of CIA consideration Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
of Lumumba plot
9
but claim it Lardener and Greider Tab A
was done by others,e.g. Belgians?
Early 1961 Attempts to kill Castro before Jack Anderson 1967, `1971
of Pigs landing by Rosselli and 1975 columns;
team Watergate Helms memcon
April 1961 of Pigs Landing
May 31 .
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1961 Trujillo assassinated; charge Jack Anderson column (1/19/
of U.S. involvement 71 ) on Smathers coversation
with JFK . Agee book obvious
ly suspect in some respects)
Rest of 1961 sibly ongoing efforts to last attempt by
and 1962 Kill @astro by Rosselli team Rosselli team in 1963_
9
infra_
Sometime in RFK quashes prosecution- of Hatergate memcons on Keeney
early 1960's Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas and Wilson interviews
October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis for
background
Early 1963 Rosselli training a team in Miami Wash . Post Greider/Lardener
area story,supra states Army
Ranger Capt Ayree saw him
March 1963 Rosselli S last effort to J Anderson 1971 columns
kill Castro
Sometime in FFK stopped further efforts J. Anderson 1971 columns
1963
November Diem killed in Saigon coup
1963 JFK told Smathers later J, Anderson, 1/19/-1 column
he thought CIA involved
Colby head of DDP Far East articles on Colby
Division at the time
Early 1964 Howard Hunt and others from reported by Tad Szulc in
Bay . of' effort begin plot on book on Howard Hunt: (1974)
another Castro assassination
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Chronology 2
more on Hunt Castro project)
Assassination alleged to have Szulc supra
beenflanned 88 of 8 smaller
invasion effortand preparations
were allegedly made in Costa Rica
19 May 1965 Hunt Castro scheme aborted when
Dominican Republic strife broke out
(scheme also allegedly involved
McCord , Barker and Sturgis)
May 1965_ As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting Katzenbach testimony
(or later) on Domincan Republic ended
9
LBJ to Senate Belect Committ
asked Helms if CIA had ever
been involved in assassination
(of 8 leader) and Helms said "no"
1966 Cia Paisedi~s Plet 49| Hatiap
A~Aeesaj
shlr
Pees _ Dyvai,er }" boabt palaee /~ %GF
1967 Rosselli indicted for alien law Government Opposition
and interstate gambl= crimes to sentence reduction,
(Friars Club card game rigging) supra
March 3 First Anderson column on Rosselli We dont have but Andersc
1967 referred to in Hersh NY
Times story 3/10/75
In response to Anderson story,
RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman Hersh story supra
he shut it eff; Mdeesed
Yblar
1
96 ? 61e Meitcy Aesr
Rosselli sentenced to 5 years Government Opposition,
Early 1969 Asst Atty Gen Wilson asks for Keeney Watergate memcon
Justice Dept _ Rosselli file
1970 Rosselli goes before grand jury Government Opposition
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Sup2
under immunity re Giancana
1971 Jan.18 First of three Anderson columns
Jan.19
Nae (scbeduled
to go before grand Lenzner memo to SenErvin
jury on Las Vegas skimning) calls on Rosselli and phone l(
AG John Mitchell
Same 8 Haldeman'. eds Dean to inquire:
into Hughes/0 ' Brien/Maheu ties
Jan . 27 Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson
on Rosselli matter
Zeb .1 Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
involved in covert activity for CIA in
early 1960' s
Rosselli files motion for reduction
in sentence citing Anderson stories
and present_ memorandum to Court
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C_H R Q NQ LQG_Y
(ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY
U.S , INOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS )
DATE EVENT OR ITEM SOURCE Where Necessary)
1959 Richard Bissel becomes DDP
(head of Plans Directorate)
October on Dan Rowan phone in Las Date and Rosselli role from
1960 Vegas allegedly- (a) favor Government Opposition paper
to Giancana , and (b) done by to Rosselli motion for
Rosselli) reduction in sentence, 1971
1961 Feb _ Lumumba mysteriously killed Wash.Post & Star contempor
during Congolese strife. aneous accounts
News reports of CIA consideration Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
of Lumumba plot_ but claim it Lardener and Greider Tab A
was done by others,e.g. Belgians?
Early 1961 Attempts to kill Castro before Jack Anderson 1967, 1971
of Pigs landing by Rosselli and 1975 columns ;
team Watergate Helms memcon
April 1961 of Pigs Landing
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1961 Trujillo assas sinated; charge Jack Anderson column (1/19/
of U.S. involvenent 71) on Smathers coversation
with JFK. Agee book obvious
ly suspect in some respects)
Rest of 1961 Possibly ongoing efforts to last attempt by
and 1962 Kill dastro by Rosselli team Rosselli team in 1963
9
infra
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Sometime in RFK quashes prosecution of Watergate memcons on Keeney
early 1960' s Giancana for Rowan Vegas tap and Wilson interviews
October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis (date for
background reference)
Early 1963 Rosselli training a tean in Miami Wash. Post Greider/Lardener
area supra states Army
Ranger Capt Ayre8 saw him_
March 1963 Rosselli's last effort to J Anderson 1971 columns
kill Castro
Sometime in RFK stopped further efforts J. Anderson 1971 columns
1963
November Diem killed in Saigon coup
1963 JFK told Smathers later J. Anderson; -1/19/71-column
he thought CIA involved
Colby head of DDP East articles on Colby
Division at the time
Early 1964 Howard Hunt and others from reported_by Tad Szulc in
of Pigs effort begin plot on book on Howard Hunt . (1974)
another Castro assassination
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more on Hunt Castro project)
Assassination alleged to have Szulc,supra
beenflanned as part of 8 smaller
invasion effortand preparations
were allegedly made in Costa Rica
10 May 1965 Hunt Castro scheme aborted when
Dominican Republic strife broke out
scheme also allegedly involved
McCord, Barker and Sturgis)
May 1965 _ As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting Katzenbach testimony
(or later) on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ to Senate Belect Committ
asked Helms if CIA had ever
been involved in assassination
(of 8 leader) and Helns said "no"
1967 Rosselli indicted for alien law Government Opposition
and interstate gambling crimes to sentence reduction,
(Friars Club card game rigging) supre-
March 3 First Anderson column on Roscelli We dont have
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1967 referred to in Hersh NY
Times story 3/10/75
In response to Anderson story
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RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman Hersh story supra
he shut it off;
1968 Rosselli sentenced to 5 years Government Opposition,
Early 1969 Asst _ Atty Gen Wilson for Keeney Watergate mencon
Justice Dept _ Rosselli file
1970 Rosselli goes before grand jury Government Opposition
9 supr
under immunity re:Giancana
1971 Jan.18 First of three Anderson columns
Jan .19 Mayhu (scheduled to go before grand Lenzner meno to SenErvin
jury on Las S skimming) calls on Rosselli and phone lc
AG John Mitchell
Same Haldeman eds Dean to inquire
into Hughes/0 'Brien/Maheu ties
Jan. 27 Maheu interviewed by Wilson &nd Peterson
on Rosselli matter
Zeb.1 Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
involved in covert activity for CIA in
early 1960's
Rosselli files motion for reduction
in sentence citing Anderson stories
and presenting memorandun to Court
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1961 After the of (April 1961)
Rosselli felt sorry for the bastardg left' on the
beach. Rosseltt felt -indtrectly reepers bhetr
daaths_since he trad encouraged #anyef_thertopartici-
pate inthe trlaaion Two or three weeks lafter the
invasion_ Rosselli was contacted in Los Angeles by
0' Connell a meeting was arranged for at the airport
hotel in Miaml_ Rosselli went there and was introduced
to Harvey _ 0' Connell said Harvey was now in charge of
the Cuban project. Harvey told Rosselli he was to cease
all contact with Maheu and Giancana . Further Harvey
stated that the government was still interested in using
Rosselli for intelligence-gathering opefations Rosselli
would report information from the Cubans Eo Harvey about
personalities and events in Cuba. Rosselli would also
relay on to his Cuban contacts requests E81 specific in-
formation from the CIA
Sometime between the of invasion and the ` Cuban
missile crisis, Harvey gave Rosselli six poison capsules .
Rosselli, in turn, gave them to" his Cubank contacts who
were to take them to Cuba, where another Cuban or Cubans
use them to assa88inate Castro. Rogselli never
learned the details of what happened, but the project ob-
viously failed _ At one point, Rosselli remembers hearing
over the radio that Castro wag very ill 4 short tine
later, he recovered
Sometime before the misbile crisis Rosselli arranged
pursuant to Cuban 11 request , for a van| 1aded with rifles
and amunition to be delivered in Floridal 0' Connell and
Rosselli watched the Cuban contact pick uP' the van and
return itl empty . Rosselli assumed that these guns were
going to be used by the two or three-man Faiding parties
in Cuba to assassinate Castro and overthrow the government _
Dur the Cuban missile crisis Rosselli= wag in Chicago _
He contacted Harvey at Harvey" 's mother 8 home in Indian-
apolis and left his number In Chicago. Harvey then called
him, toldl hin to g0 to Washington, DaC . From Washington,
D.C . Rosselli traveled to Florida where he stayed for
the duration of the Cuban missile crisis He at times ,
would through his Cuban contacts attempt to verify the
location of the Russian missiles in Cuba_ Rosselli clained
that this had been successful. After the Cuban missile
crisis Harvey called Rosselli and told him to all
contacts wwith any 'and all persons involvea in. past Cuban
missions Harvey never stated why the missions were being
called off_
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Rosselli said that he understood that Glancana had
asked Maheu for a tap on Dan Rowan _ Maheuz gave
Rosselli two stories_ The' first was that he was
doing Giancana a favor and the second was that there
was a real intelligence value in that Maheu was
afraid that Giancana or Rowan might be giving out
intelligence information that would be of value to
enenies of the United States_ Rosselli had not heard
of the names Dubois or Belotti or Fred Harrison. He
adnitted that Harvey had discussed the tap with him,
but both Harvey and Rosselli were mad that the opera-
tion had gone' on_ Giancana obviously knew about the
tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get baii money for
the two tappers who were caught and thrown in jail_
Maheu suggested that Rosselli could a hotel to
turn over the: bail money . Finally, Rosselli arranged
to have a man with a green carnation in his lapel
meet and trangfer the bail money_ He never received
any of this money back- Rosselli clains that he did
not know what type of tap went on He admitted that
he had been questioned by the FBI but he" gave no
answers Rosselli knew that Maheu had been questioned
by the FBI
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Ibak
MEMORANDUM;
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Icc;
To Gary
From Rick
Date: August 10 , 1976
Subject : Rogelli
First some background information Yesterday ,
August 9 Senators Inouye and Baker met with Directors
Kelley and Bush to discuss Roselli' s death The FBI
doesn t want to touch this with a ten-foot At the
meeting, Jim Adans told Inouye and Baker that thel FBI had
been told by Justice (Richard Thornburg) that it had no
jurisdicEion in this case Levi had apparently , not been
consulted Senators Baker and Inouye (especially Baker)
requested Kelley to take this up directly with Levi Today ,
letter was sent to Levi, signed by {Baker and Inouye urg-
Justice to authorize FBI involvement A copy of that
letter is attached.
One other point about the meeting_ George [Bush was
extreme ly about this case and the allegations that
the CIA waS involved in Roselli' s death_ He said that he
would personally contact Levi to request that thel Depart-
ment grant jurisdiction: to the FBI to investigate
For your information Roselli appeared befere the
Comittee on four separate occasions to testify.
on three
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matters He appeared lon June 25 to discuss the| Rlots against
Castro on September 20 and 22 to discuss the Campbell affair;
and on April 25 to discuss the retaliation theory
Now for current events First, the two detectives in
Miami handling the Roslelli case are Detectives Zatrefralek
and Wolf They are with Dade County Homicide_ Their nubers
are 305-547-7456 and 5/47-7923 _ Madigan has already talked
with Detective Wolf_ Isecond in light of the Induye/ Baker
letter to; Levi I did not ask the FBI about the current
whereaboults of Santo Trafficante_ I did however ask CIA -
They havel no informatilon _ Third, Baker and Liebengood are
putting fogether a packet of information on
Roselli , which
will inclqude CIA and Select Comittee information and will
get this EO' you tomorrow
I think you already know this _ but Senator Baker does
want to #launch an informal investigation into this matter
Roselli Eold him, when' he appeared before the Committee . that
he thought his life was in danger for testifying Baker feels
a
moral 8bligation
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therefore, to look into this
I have , attached the most recent articles Oni the Roselli
death fori you.
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P. S . A le of grizzly facts : Over the past lfew years
there have been quite few anti-Castro deaths the
Miami area Car bombs and shootings have been the usual
means of death Second we received a
report today that
another body was pulled
uP in the Hudson River _ Another
gangland
6 laying . complete with cement and chains
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MNORANDUM:
TO: T0 THE FILES
FROM: PATRICK SHA AND MMICHAEL MADIGAN
Uhk
DATE : JUNE 1975
SUBJECT: SUMMARY OF A MEEETING WITH M. JOHN ROSSELLI
BEGAN} AT 111:35 a.M. JUNE 21, 1975 , IN ROOM 711 of the WATERGATE HOTEL
PRESENT: ATIT SESSION: M_ MICHAEL MADIGAN MR= PATRICKI SHEA OF TH SELECT
COMITTEE STAFF= M= ROSSELLI
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MR= THOMAS WADDEN
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M. JAMS CANTILLON , M_ LESLIE
SCHRR .
At thelieginning of the meeting_ Mr _ Madigan asked M Rosselli if he felt
a forlany protection. He stated; emphatically, No 'that he was able to
take care
ofihimse}
Mr. JMadigan made it clear that thel Senate Select Comittee
could delwrs} Marshalls Mr _ Rosselli during his Stay in Washington_
This offerlWas Fejected.
Mr _ Rosselli stated that Giancanga had no involvemenit to his knowledge
with ay odlithe attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro Maheu did' deal with
higher authotities in government but stated that Rosselli was only the contact ,
Giancana hasla backup
man. Rosselli was very . concerned about the adverse
publicity recent times , about the CIA and he thought it was ufortuate from
the Agency) S point of view that the Giancana name had been |1inked to the Agency .
Rosseilli was upset by |the harassment he had been under by the FBI He
pointed tolkthe 1966" Frier Club incident as an example= He said in 1966 he had:
been approached by,the FBI to provide information on insilde basis about organized
crime and When he had refused 18 months later he was indicted_ Again, the first
week in
Juel of 1970 , the FBI had offered him cooperation but he refused.
Rosseili first met_Maheu_twenty Years ag0. He was introduced through a
life ;rTend who 1S dead now , naned Spitzle who was in the insurance business.
This firstl meeting happened in Los Angeles in
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runing Matei Associates in Washington D.C- The meetingiWas a social
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'here was nothing specifically discussed about |activities of the CIA,
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In Julxler_AuguSt) Maheu called Rosselli and' stated that he was working for
the goverrent ad nad been 'specifically asked to recruit Rosselli Maheu NE
stressed tiat: it was to belRosselli and no one else_ agreed to meet for lunch
at the Browl Derby in Los_Angeles _ Maheu described the Project as an
intelligence
operation JVlVIng Cuba Maheu mentioned specifically Castro Che Guevara
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and
Raoul Castro It was Rosselli 5 feeling that Maheu had' Kecruited him because of
his known Icuban connections in Florida- These connections were urelated to
gambling_ [ere was no_woney_mentioned by Maheu_ to Rosselli for payment for
services_
The aileged support_of_Wall Street business men had Inot; been mentioned and
was a covef inventedby Roseelli later _ At the end of their' first meeting _ they
agreed to meet again at which time Maheu would verify to Rosselli that he was
working fof the governmentl This verification would be by introducing a
government official of-higher euthorier to Rossellis
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weekuor_ten davs later' At this point
9 Mmebi Rosselli ustructed to proceed to New York 'tor an to the
government He At]both the first ad second
mectodgstigg to
for an
#:_ hour or morel Kea various aspects of the proposed xartaxe projects,were discussed
F6+1h but nethingm mentioned of specific techniques _
Aed
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Ntv. coinciding
Rosseliil remembered his arrival in New York: #itig with' &' visit R by
Khrushchev] Eisenhower Castro, Nasser and perhaps Krushev _ He said it was noteworthy
because New; llork was crawling with officials Irom all over the world_ Rosselli
his owril kfare from Los Angeles to New York ad stayed 'at the 0ld_Plaza Hotel
on Fifth Avente 'and S7th Street _ He was given the cover name, John Ralston
The meeting in New York took place in a hotel Toom . In attendance . were
Mehel, Rossedlii and 'big"_Jin_Q'Conell and two or three_other_people who
did not expHain why they were there Jim '0'Connell was *troduced as a CIA
official IRosselli
was unclear as to whether this was stated explicitly or
whether
through the whole
context of discussions it became clear that he worked
for the CIAilllAt this point Rosselli was satisfied that Maheu was working for
the govermenti: and,therefore agreed to work % the Cuban 'mission described at
their first lllleeting. Rosselli was not sure as to the length of his stay in New
York at thisltime _ He did remeaber going to luch with Maheu' a nuber of times
and talking about the particular projects
After Jxiksstay_in _New York he traveled_ toeither Washington Da C. or
Florida: Helliwas ucertain as to Ehe exact Iocation but he and remenber tnere
were Seriesldf meetings between himself and Maheu to discuss further plans
about the adtempted assassination There was only one further meeting with
0' Connell linvoiving these preliminary: stages At this point,he discussed
techniques 0 lassassination with Maheu_ Rosselli remembered Staying in Maheu 5
Falls Churct tomec it had a tennis court)during his stays in Washington_
There stilllhad been no discussion of the cover story(that Rosselli was 3
private citilzen representing '& group of private businessmen from ru New York.)
When Rosselli_ reached_Florida_
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he made_his cotacts_with_theCubans and
then arranged
for the Cubans to meet: with waheu He trusted the Cubans he came
in contact because they = according to themselves_ werel working on the of opecatiorh
which had not 'occurred as Of There were times when would
stay at Arttf Godfrey
6 hoteli the_Kenilworth Hotel in Florida_ At times he
'registered Ilder the name_Roms Ihis was to allow him;to maintain his cover
while Maheul llstill working Jor Hughes was able to register uder his Own name ,
So that Hugiez, believed that he
was doing his work. The operation went on in
terms of Rosselli_ arranging_meetings_with his Cuban_contacts `and then having
further discussions about apecifics with Ianeu. At tines 0'Connell from
the CIA woliild visit with Maheu and Rosselli_ One time , belfore the 1960 election
M) 0' Connell
brought with him ktwo Admirals
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Rosse] li #130 was telling_his_Cubancontacts the cqver_story
namely thatlliie represenzed {Fivate_business interests in NewliYork who were interested
in seeing Cagitro done away iwith. The Cubans_ at this point hhad not met withJim
0'Connell lB#f had met with Maheu:_ Imediately after the of Pigs _ Maheu
left and Roggelli only met lonce more with 0'Connell Then ie also left for the West
Coast _ Tel
The twellattempts
at assassination both involved the ise of pills One attempt
was before |Ehe Bay oF Pigs and the Ocner was sometime after_ The first means was to
use a
capsule filled with
a special poison that could be into the food of
Castro and Icause him to die of poisoning that was not traceable and made his death
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look like al heart attack orl byi natural causes , Rosselli contacted a little
Cuban whoselteiaative was
a chef for Castro At this time Cubans could still
traveT betweettt FOrTca adcuba. t was that the CIA would manufacture
the son
"Cpsule. It woud pe_turned over to 0' Connell to Maheu _
9 to Rosselli,
and Eror -Repsiili to the Cubans T Maheu_brought_ the_capsuiel to Florida to the
Fontainehlen liotel. The' Cubans cameup to the room , Maheu opened
case with IRosselli and thel Cubans present
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and gave themkcapsule plus_$10,000
hruttdollars. Telmoney had come from the CIA and was considered partial payment
{( (s for the jobl %f assassinating Castro_ At this meeting, Maheu described the
method of uS these capsules , making sure the Cubans understood the-Cubeas
understeed could not_be_put infood that Was boiled l er ether-aspeets
7' of -tsingthFS= mae was NO discUS5S1OI wrc Cie- Cubans
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at this meeting,
about 250 100@ dollars That figure was used by Maheu affer his first meeting
with the Cubans described what the
3 CIA ight up tolhelp the families
of men injurea or killed in this?52264 gination Rosselli thinks that_
the meetingll th the money land capsules was after the election. The nuber one
Cuban Ithat Rossellil had would from time to time make requests of Rosselli
to be Ielayed
on to the CIA for equipment _ The CIA did Peqbide for instance ,
a short Wnve tadio which was supposed to be used by the in Florida to
Icontact Cubans m Cuba about ' the success or
failure of the ipoison pill mission .
Rosselli was sure that the fpills were sent to Cuba but herhas_received no
expranationias to wat hhappened,
Another project was for the Cubans to receive plastik lexlosives from the
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CIA and givel them to frogmen on their side that in turn woud place them on ships
in Havana harbor and blow them up. The CIA refused to dol this because of the
ease with Whigh plastic explosives could be traced back te Ithe government agencies
such as the @iA_ Maheu did tin doscesiifhi discuss use_
0448 #6857t3 098 make
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Acdording to the
country Another preposal was that 'there_be_a bookby_trapped desk. Each of these
latter two were
proposed by Cuban refugees whogaid Ehey_had_people
in positions
Itpiscts
a vis Castro!who could achieve the assassinatio:
Prior bc0) the of Pigs there was nodiscssio 0fams_ Rosselli clained
to have a beater Tdea ch Taied , nalekY trlac wicn rar fewer men than were involved
in the Bayi
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perhaps a hundred , they could land in' Cuba and do the job
successfull Rosselli 5 Cuban contact at the time was
traveling to New York ad
New Orleans for, meetings_ Rosselli was not sure about wHat the meetings were
about
but gaila that_ehey were related to the overthrow of Castro Another proposal
put forward Was' torpurchase a speedebqat ad use SOle #enekall
JUA
The night baforethe Pigs Rosselli went to his(nuber one Cuban S
house and SpOke with him: The Cwban contact said= "See You in Hakana Rosselli
expressed sefious reservation about the possibility f success for the operation.
Rosselli f4 Florida right after the of Pigs. His total time on this
particular ackempt at assassination in Flarida was three lor four months
8 Rosselli felt sorty for"the poor bastards left on the beach. He felt
indirectlyk responsible 'forlhaving encouraged thEn many 0f them to participate
in the_ opeFation He went/ iome and' stayed. in Las Vegas and Los Angeles for awhile.
JA few weeks lafter the of Rosselli was contacted byl Maheu or 0'Connell
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he S not surer He did meetl with Jim; 0'Connell in Floridalla few weeks later
had arrangedillto have_ rooms at' the Airport Hotel_ Rosselli was not sure a5 to what
Jic Aaner what nae he registered under but_at this meeging_inFlorida he_met &
new CIA man Qamed Harvey. The first timerne NZZ net Harvey) Rosselli was told
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Harvey torajh at Irzo this meeting to Fave no furtherl contact wi Maheu
and that hel should not talkl further with Giancana He also| Said that he Farvey
was in charge of the operation &nd that Mabelishould takel pr that Rosselli
shouid
take his orders from Harveyl iAt this pointi the originallproiect using pills _
9 was consideted defuct.
Keae
After thils first meetmg Rosselli contacted hisl Cuban people_ der
made_several tbat iel Rosselli made several_trips _With _Harey iFlorida;
some down ih the Keys to see what type of operations werelcontinuing One Of
the projects Harvey had Rosselli doing was Verifying_CIA feports by using Rosselli'$
Own people ho Were in frequent contact with Cuba _ The itelligence reports dealt
both with Personalities in the Cuban hierarchy , as well as differentongoing
operations Rosselli his own bills %it before the of Pigs but after,Harvey
would usually pick up the tab_
HarveX approached RosselZi with the proposed mission to try for a second
Castro, tie to assassinate Cube[s] HHarevcaidthat the new milis wuldreally wark
and were mchstronger Hatwozoa Rosselli Sixpills Ithen Rosselli those
"qwe
sIx piTTs tollhis Cuban contact. There were no special instructions on haw
n - to handle the pills ad his Cuban contact said that they ould be passed into Cuba
and used .
At this time Rosselli had no ongoing contact with Maheu_
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but may have r
into him il Los Angetes_ Maheu knew that Rosselli was
stil1 working o the Cuban
project ad' #hat he Maheu was out Rosselli never got report back on what
happened to: the: six but he acsumed_that_thex_had_been_unsuccessful He did
hear a rrt report over a radio or T station that Fidei ICastro was
deathly
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but then shortly thereafter he recovered.
Rosselli arranged for |the CIA to supplyl a
panel_truck loaded_with_carbines
for use bylhhis Cuban contacts to make two or; three-manneci| party raids ito Cuba ,
hopefully asgassinating Castro and overturning the government _
During ithe Cuban missile crisis Rosselli was in Chicago_ He contacted
Harvey at Harvey' s mother S home in| Indianapolis ad leftl his nuber in Chicago_
Harvey ther Icalled him, told him tdigo to Washington _
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D: C From Washington D.C.
Rosselli traveled to Florida where Ihe stayed for the duration 6f the Cuban missile
crisis He at times
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would through his Cuban contacts attempt to verify the
location of the Russian 'miSsiles in; Cuba _ Rosselli claimed that this had been
successful After the_ Cuban missile crisis Harvey called Rosselli and told him
to stop alf contacts with any ad aTT persons involved irl past Cuban missions
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Harvey neverillstated the missions were being called off
The onlyj money that Rosselli ever up was $800 to buy gas for the speed -
boat that Would deliver the two or three-man teams to Cuba to do guerrilla operations _
He stressed ithroughout the] interview that he had never received any money and that
besides thig $800 he had never any money for_ His lllast contact with Harvey
was in Juelof1t 1963 er Bhortiy tnere befere when ~Rossolwaz found out that Harvey
was being @Eransiered to Rome and hel made 1 special trip Washington to say goodby
to him.
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Ie Rowantap; Rosselli said that he understood that Giancana had asked
Maheu for a Tap on Ruz Dan Rowan . Maheu gave_Rosselli two| stories_ The first
was_that_helwasdoing_Giancana a
favor &d thc tond waslthat there was a real
intelligence lvalue in thac RSATG VEned was afral , tnatIgiancan 05 ROmn
might begivg_ou itelTigence itoration tal TouIT ba10 value to enemies of
the United Scates Rosselli had not heard of the names Dux J;or Belotti or Fred
Harrison. Hel aditted thatlHarvey Had discussed the tap him, but both Harvey
4 and Rossell# were pissed off atxtia that the operation had] gone On _ Giancana
obviously kew about the tap_ Maheu did ask Rosselli to bail money for the
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two tapperslwho were caught] and thrown in jail Maheu suggested that Rosselli
could get a
hotel to turn over the bail money _ Finally M Rosselli arranged
0 to have a man witkigreen 'carnation in his lapel_ meet withir Doakes" for a transfer
Of the baillmoney _ He never received any of this money back: Rosselli clains
that he didrot know what type of tap went on ,
He admitted that he had been
questioned bxlithe FBI but he no answers and he knew #hat Maheu had been
questioned by (the FBI =
Duringk his early contacts with Maheu in 1959 ad 60 i setting up the
Cuban operation Maheu was setting up a guard system for different Hughes
operations Such as Hughes Aircraft or other corporate interests,
Rossell Ican t remember whether he ever introduced' Giancana as Mr Sam
Gold He clais to
have nol business _relationshin_with Giancana- Rosselli' s
only busmneslslntereses waS| nle Ice| machines in Las Vegas{ e ran those by himself
and had no Fontact with Giancana. When asked about Joe Santa Tuu_ Trafficanto,
Rosselli stated that he used hin only
as an interpreter butlnot as a contact for
recrui- lther Cubans for' his mission.
Mr _ Thonas stated that he was receiving no fees fer hiscounsel
for his representing Rosselii now The status of Mr Cantiiion
r Mr _ Scherr
was not
Maclear_ There was discussion a5 to the Comitteel paying the expenses
of Mr _ Rosseiqi's transportation from Los Angeles and there was discussion as to
the limits je any to be Placed on the Comittee S inquiky] of Mr = Rosselli 5
contacts with the Cubans
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The informant was told that his offedl is outside
our
jurlddictio, whidk he aclnowledged: No comi tmcnts Tere
made to him. At this time
9 we do not plan to further pursue
the matter: Our relationship with him hs beellmost carefully
guarded ajnd we
would feel obligated Lo handle any recontact
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Book 12113 The cast of. characters surrounding
the seizure: of anti-Castro
hardware as outlined on these pages
is particularly interes
The raw' material cited in the
footnote is attacied Note
reference to Briniuer and Oswald _
Below that McLaney brothers and
Victor: Espinosa and Frank Sturgis
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FBI headquarters |jinking Briniuer
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Vew Orleans gonally adeltraitor If he dolng something wrrong In the debate When he sw the (ion 0 pboto- guidebooklltor Marines, he smiled to me, and he told me;' "Well, listen, Carlos
Orleans, La. don't keo Ido un Invasion with tbat guidebook tor Marines, because that is &1
4 gven to 0 old one. Aniahthat will be a failure_ Thut was hls Joke In that moment.
record, glven After HHME we went to the debafe; and T think tbat Jou have the whole higtory
Mp Of the delite; zou hare the transcription and everything, [s0] that I dont hove
to go Ioslaefthat; because that 18 subjective; not objective
You have tbe obl Alo the same; Jective; %udithat Ig the debate:
Mr. LIEBELER. That Is rigbt. Weido have & transcrlpt and we llstened to It on
tbe tape 9 Et nigbt over at tbe television station too.
Mr, BRiNGUIER. And there Is something that I want to show you too_ I tola >Idel Castro, to You #}eat the training camp that were across the Lake Pontcbartraln
sht to nvade Mr, LlkBEiER Yes_
ates will to Mr BR#NGUTER [Prodncing newspaper.] At the beginnlng O August In tbe; rigbt Dlario Lax amerlcas from Miaml for September 4
"y frlend to Mr. LIEBELER For September 4,/1903?
'd thle after
Mr_ BRNGUIER That Is rigbt I[Indicating photograpb.] Thls I3 tbe spy
who was hside the tra ining caip 'The Christian Demoeratic Movement turned that eonver- bim over elthe FBI, and the FBI vas questioning bim In Mlaml The Chrlstlent
Democratic hMovement found 8 etter, according to thls Informatlon; from thls ~n my frlend guy dlirectad Ito Carlos Lechuga, Cormer Cubum Ambassadqr to Mexico aud
here and he Cuban Amgassadof to the United Nations in New York: In tbat Zetter 'e spyYE
ve Fair Pley Fernando Ml Rrnendez, was warning Lechuga that they have to he alert from tha K
date to Algust 8 and the day that Oswald came trying to pfltrate my orga
horitieg, be-
nization Waelon August 5 Thls sounds for me strange In all this mattec:
[Indicdting: ) Fere is another interview from Fernandez here 3 days later _ nowledge of Mr: TEHELER You are referring to 8 'copy of the saue nerspaper but for the Front of Ed date o Se#fember 6, 1963, on the front page of which
Mr, BRHAEQUIER , (Indicating. ] Here: Fernando Fernabdez Is In favor of
coeristence} Fith tbe Communist regime Of Castro;" That Is tbe title In Councll of Spanisb
frlend and
Hler all
Mr. LIEBELER Let me gee If I can understand what you are saylog: You say the that FerndHlicz wrote
8 letter to Lechuga ?
bat Oswald Mr. BRNNaB,EB_ Fernandez wrote & letter to Lechuga In Mexico
'swald bad I W} Mr, LIEIEZER_ Lechuga 18 0 meinber of the Custro government?
Te geve all m
I, somebody Mr_ BfEEX
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Right.
!ebe
Mr; He is now Ambassador to tbe United Natlons?
te.
ot the
Mr; BRLANiER In New Xork right:
he tlme Of
Mr_ LIEBTEER Fernandez is the /xrson who wa3 the Castro' gpy wbo had ln-
sill
Altrated tiGltkaining camp In Louisiana?
Stuckey
Mr_ BRI Ha UIER. For the Christian Democratlc Movement here In Loulsiena. indicate to Mr_ LIERDLER . Now the Christian Democratic Morement ig__what ? Pro- hake handg Castro?
.t Stuckey Mr; BRINOQIEB Anti-Castro. 'elleve tbat ih Mr. LIEBELER It Is an anti-Castro organization ? to Ogwald ;f
to him 89
Mr_ BRINGUIER; Yes they wcre training Cubans over here to make 8 com-
one Com - mendo action agalnst Castro,. but they tind out that there waS 2 Castro spy
ommunism inside thei#r CAmp, and went back to Miami with the people and with
"at I don't
binl; and ithey turn him over to the FBI I think thbat after that tbe leader
:ic way 1
for the Chkis Democratic Moveuient-or that the FBI didn't found pothing,|
'omnmunist_
because Wis not against the law to sjy inside an anti-Cagtro orgunization;
It
het If any
was againstithe law to spy inside the TJ.s..Government but not inslde the anti-
somethlng
Castro organization_ And my feeling_~and this is the question thet I am Osking
'e to me,
myself_ink ewv Orleans we are about 000 miles from Miami; In Mlamf i8 wbere
1e notbing the headquarters of 0Fl (be anti-Castro gronps I could not finc amy reason
answered
for Oswuldt cone to me and offer Ime his serwice to train Cubans In gwerrilla
the wrong warfare atktpe st me gnoment when/there Was # secret anti-Castro tra ining Cmp
t moment.
In Orienns and h Castro spy was insiale that traiwing camp. That for me
lebook for
Is-_becausg %ie he #s willing to Infiltrate Olle uetive organizntion, he will g0
~ill
directly toliiami and he will offet his service over there in Minmi, but not iu bappen II;
blm per-
New Orleats where ik is not publidy knuwn tha here was sowetbing going on
at that moHent. I believe tbat that Avas tlue vuly ime here!In New Orleans that
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there Was sometblng jike that, and It wag & colncidence: And ithere I8 another Mr: LIENELER, And Mr. Fernand coincldencelloo for me; and that 1g tbat; when Oswald left}the' city he went to #ware of approximately the time Mexlco |andlbe letter iron Femnazdezftbat was intercepted bere was €o. Veexico
tor, Inellcatedl (t) Lech"Gu thatt too, and Os44ld vlsit the Cuban consulate In Mexico and the Fernandez letter dlecovered a9 an attewpted infltr;
wa9 to the KGuban Ambnssador to Mexico. For me; that Is & blg doubt Mr: BBINOUIER: I pardon ?
Mr. EEBEEER 'Go]abead Mr: LIEDELER. Ag I underatand Mr; [BBIN AUIER You see, after the debate, the game nlgbt %t tbe debete; I Iatce to the fact that Fernandez
went to the Fadlo Btation bere In New Orleans and tbe local' papers and the #IlI be In danger, Lup untll abc United] Pregghinternational offce; 4na I ga ve 9 press reledse. Il Jou want 8 anything to do with Oswald?
copy, I couldlgive you & copy: I gave # copy to the Secret Service ' Mr; BINQUIER. Well, what I thl
The (mostipteresting 'thlng I3 the four that I isked to tbe Secret On August 5 Ogwald eame to me
Service |of New Orleans I tbink that this Ig the gecond one where 1 8ald Mame perod of time: Somethin
4 Write Ito Jo4r ' Congressman askipg for . 4 full Investigation; of Mr. Lee A Orleane, tbat there Was 0 gecret Oswald; 9 Iconfessed Marxist" [produclng 'document] And that wag 3 months of thc Fair for Cubo Comn_ before the 'assassindtion, Ne Orleang. Those are the fact
Mr_ LYEBEtE%; Do Zou have anothe} copy of thlg? not Burc ubout I just wunt to S Mc; BRINGHHEB: I bave the original of that You can bave tbat. connectlon.
Mr. LIEBELEZR I Kave marked 8 copy of thbe presg release dlstributed to the Mr: LIEBELER, Now It doesn't 8ee
various coHRE
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unicationg medle bere In New Orleang, on August 18, 1983 handing out Ilterature in tbe etre
Mr; BBINdUzEBl
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N?, August 21, t Inflltrate the anti-Castro moven Mc: iJEeH August 21, 1983? Mr. BRINQUIEB. Remember that
Mc: BBINGGGEB;' Aygust 21, the nlght of the debate efter I told him that I don't ba ! Mr. LEDELEB. I mark It 88 "Exbibit; No. 3" to your depogltion and I bave that hcrc there I8 nothlng, and th
Initialed Icillicula gou Initial it?
went openly to do that before
[ThelFittess' complied ] hc went openly to do that after he M
Mr. LIEBELER Let me 80 over somel of thlg tegtimony tbet' you bave Just Mr; LIEBELER. Do you know of giren tolsealue' 1 understand Mr. Feruanalez wrote to Mr; Lechuga a letter In the pro-Castro movement and In whicb pdez gald that we_meaning the Castro people? Intormation to Oswald-conducted
Mr_ BBINdUZER Yes. Mr: BBINQUIEK. No.
Mr_ IKEbelkn Must be o guard up untll August 8? Mr_ LIEBELER. Would you bave 0 Mr. BRINOHMER | Aygust 8, that Is Fight; 08 4 result of your anti-Castro 2( Mr: ILEBEHEZI
HlIb
Of 1903? Herson a3 tbig, do you think you
Mr; EcivemER:! Tbat Is right; Mr_ BRINQUIER, sour parala
Mr. LIEBEEER Yoy Indlcated tbat] Ogwald hed come to your store Or ofces Mr; LIEBELER. If therc wert' $u(= on August % EEga3?
Castro movement who bad been
Mr; BrINAUHER' That Is rlght would beve bed accesg to tbat im
Mr; IEAtiam Oswald cane to yo4 ofering to asslst In the milltary trafnlng ,
ind out about It?
of Cubebs? Mr. BKINGUIER_ You 8ee, that Ig
Mr. BBINGUZER-
I1 WIf '|
Tbet Is rigbt bavc 0 lot of persons. There ar Mr. IUEBE#ER: At tbat time; there w88, In fact, a tralnlog camp near New who are antf-Castro Even amul, Orleang egents bere in the city and you Mr: BRiNGHiee ! That Ig right But there is gomething else Tl
Mr. EiEeriT Fockhe training okpeople tor milltary action agalnst Castro? I8 located In 1l7 Decatur Street, J' Mr: BRINGHZR. !Rlght: the owner of the Havana Bar Is
Mr; LIEBELEE And tbat weg not public knowledge at that tlme? over there, gave the informatlon
Mr. BRINGHIER , Tbat I9 rigbt before-that Oswald went to the
Mr. LIEBEEER So you 'are tying thls up In your mind by conglderlng the pog- Iemnonade He was with one Mexi sibilty thet Gunyaid %as, in fact; & Cagtro agent? drinking the lemonade, be start tv
Mr. BRINGUHER_ That Is rigbt: to be 9 Cuban capitalistic; and tlia LNuE Mr. LIEBEEEE Andl dld know about/the' exlstence of this tralnlng camp; be Ile was telling that that wves too !
cause Mt; Edundez/had already binself infltrated that training OgOp?
moment, Oswald feel bad at that
Mr. BhINodHER 'That Is right out to the sidewalk to vomit outsial
Nl Mr LIEBELER And tthat Fernandezhhad told Oswald about the exlstence of thls the Iavana Bar told me that the # camp and bYalasked Oswald himsejf to try to infiltrate that famp for Youc the same one that one time tbe FB [-
organization %ill; Immediately because that wag @ prt
Mr. BRINadHEE 'Ercuge me August 15 and August 30 wag thi:
Mr. LIEHELER Is tbat correct ? because [ start to find out &ll these'
Mr. BRINUHER Well, the only tbat I don't belleve is tbat Fernandez before, because before I did not bad told directly to Oswald. What |I{believe is that Fernardcz had informed nothing 0f this before to me: Bet
some peopie 8tside tbe United States} and these people had informed Oswald and the owner of the Havana Bar COma
had gave to @sivald tbe order to to inflltrate the Cuban group bere i New cquse alreadly. SaW one &utomol:
Orleans. one of themn the one who bad bee
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fore; Rhicatcd to Lechuga that, there woul] bt Some; da ug4 "f (swad being
#3le 2rz
discoVerea &9 an attempted infiltretor?
Mr IBRINQUIER; I beg pardon ? f'don't understand the words. { doabc Mc'|| EEBELER . Ag
I undcrstand} part 0 the hypothesis here, the theory re:
I
latesltellthe fact that Feruandez sqid to Lechura, *We mnust he crefad, VE7 WG
of tbe debate;
and the
wili BeJ@ dangcr;"_up until/ebout August 8. Now does that gtatement bave
papers anything to do with Oswald? IE Sou Tedc 8 EiNGUIER Well, what f think is this He send that letter to Lechuga and
'd to the Secret on Axsist 5 Osivald came to me offering hig scrvice to train Cubans, all {elthe:
wbere 1 said, game' of time: Something tbat newer was happening here in New
{e
0f Mr. Lee R. Orlea Iltbat tbere was 2 secret anti-Castro training camp; aud the chalrmad
It wag 3 months
02kug [Eair Play for Cuba Committee trying to join the Cuban group here' In
lorieans Those are theffacta: I don't want to tell gomething tbat |Ileu:
notl surg lubout I just want to sbow Jou that tremnendous coincidence Oni tba
co8;esrjeE;
HcLEBELER. NNow It doegn'! geem llkely, does It, tbat Oswald would go areuna
istributed to the baxditgcut uterature In theletreets Iike be dld It be wag actually attempting
uat 16, 1983 tofinfitrate tbe &nti-Castro movemebt?
Mr DEINQUIER_ Remember tbet' that wa9 after [ turned down blg offer' and
efterkhiltold hld tbat [ don't/ bave ' nothing to do with milltary actlvIties; ana
tbet #exea 45 there is notbing, anditKat I tured down completely hlm: He dlanit
( ton, end [ bave !x6 M' wentllepenly to do that before tbe attempt to Iniltrate the tralning camp
be"entlpcniy to do that after/he !as turned'down:
Kr} Do you knoi of any concelvable agsoclatlon between anybody
t You bave Jugt
D8k.3
in|the ro mnovement &nd 'Oswald that could have acted 03 A gource 'of_
echuge 9 letter to Oswald_`conducted the orderi to bim ?
Mr-IBENGUIE_ No.
Mrz EEBELER; (Would you beve any way % 'obtaining Informatlon of that gort
88/ & #eSut % Your anti-Castto activities ahd contacts? I: there were
;} personJes this_ do you think you would be 'likely to know about It?
Mr BRINGUIER. Beg your pardon ?
ME; | #FEBELER |It there were such 9 person, that Is to g0y, some agent ofkthe
store or ofceg Castf% movement who bad been working With Oswald, do you think tbat
wouldl #eve, bad access to that} informatioj Or would bave been likely Ita
fnd outabout it? ilitary tralnlng Mr |BBINGUIER. You see that/is & hard question, because bere In the city 'you
bere; 01 let o [persons There {are some who are pro-Castro, there are mang'
wbo are anti-Cistro. Even among the Cubans you Icould bave some Castro
camp dear New agentdlere; Inj the city and %ou could not: have control of everybody. Il
ButitGere Is [gomething elge The owner 0f the Havana Bar--tbe Havana Bar
0 81 l8 located In 117 Decatur Street_ just two door or three door from Iny st05S 4
agalnst Castro? tbe. oWB- 4 et of the Havana Bar ;is' 2 Cuban; and be and one of tbe employees
oPcr [iere;, gave the information to me after Kennedy's assassination-Znot:
that Oswald went tolthe Havana one time_ He asked for soind; Jezonadeh
He Fas with one IMexicun at that moment_ and when Oswald k vas
sldering: the pOg- dring nglthe lemonade; he start to say that sure, the' Owncr Of that
Eenonaac'
to beli lcdban]capitalistic, and tlat he argue about tbe price of the
He wes' lteuing that that was joo much 'for 8
lemonade, and he feel bad at 'tliag
"alnlng camp be
momciit} lleswald teel bad at |that moment-he bad some_ vomits he went
camp?
out to #he sideWalk to vomit %utside o the sidewalk: These persons here %ro#
M XAb,JI the Bor told me that/the/guy , the Mexican, who Ias with Oswald, 5
existence 0f tbis
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Jone tbat one time the FBi told them that if thiey #ill see hin, call tie#
t camp for your immeddtely because that was]&' pro-Communlst I reinember that was bctwesh_ M9
AugusEles/ and AAugust 30 was that perioq of time: [could not locate thae
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becauselz Start to find out all/these things fter the Kennedy assassination; Inof
before Meca use before 1 did] uot found ay counection: They did not toia_
thet Fernandez
nothingkof this/before to me Between tlie ,1th and the 30th the brother %oz
'ez bad informed tbe "er;/of the Favana came to my Store asking me to call the FBilsd
xzed Oswald and causeljelatreaay s4w one automobile passige by the street with two Mexicens,
roup bere In New one iBelthew the one who had; been with swald in tlie and be toldl me
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casion in
Dlliis] soetipe duringf the April 1068, 316
H Oswald's first public identificatiov awith that cause was in New Or-
leans. Thereiiin/late and early June of 1963, under the name
Lee Osbornetitelad priuted a handuill headed 'in large letters "Ilands
Off Cuba;' Upplicttion form and 0 membership card in, the
e New Orleans] Inchl of tlie Fair for Cuba Committee.917 He
first distribu Hlediiis #ndbills and other material uneventfully in the
vicinity of theljt S.S/ WVasp; whick Vas berthed at the Dumaine Street
wharf in Ne Orleazs,' 0n une 16, 1963.918 Fe distributed literature
in downtow} New Oreans on August %, 1963,,9nd was arrested becwuse
nf & dispute liku #three anti-Castro exiles, and on August
16,1963.319 #xliotvinghis arrest, He was interviewed by the police, and
@hi 320 at his own reattest; by an agent of {lie FBI On August 17, 1963, he
" appeared bri
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'on a/radio progtiin_ 321 and.on August 1963, he
clebated ovett station WDSU New Orleans, #ith Carlos Frin-
guier;. one iie} Cun exiles who had been arrested with him
on ;
August 9.322 Briiguier claimed that o August 5, 1963, Oswald had
atteinpted toltlilf rateln unti-Castro organization with which he was
associated.32
While [publicly engagediin,the activities described above; 1
his *
"otta nsiag
wiS # product of his imagination: 324 The imaginary
dent odllile poueristent chapter: Was namied
A J. Hidell,2s the
Hame that
Osililja used when he purchasedl the assassination weapon. 2
Marina Osuiiaisaid she signed that name; "pparently chosen because
it rhymed H Fidel " 327 to her] husband's membership card in the
New Orleanskchapted She testified that he threatened to beat her if
she did not 87 So.328 The chaptez, had neve5 been chartered by the
national FRGC| org inization.329 jt appears to have been
{ solitary:
operation O1 OsWald;: in spite of his misstatements to the ,New
Orleans polieekhat it iad 35 memnbejs; 5 of wbich were usually present
at meetings tick werelheld once # months30
Oswa ldl *s
Ku ftor Cub kctivitics may be viewed aS a
shrewd 88i operation in whiel one man single handedly created
publicity foclilis cause or for himself It is ajso evidence' of Oswald 's
reluctance ' t8
W4Gh8e6 'events accur tely and of his need to present
himself to otkers'
aS as to himself j a light more favorable than
WaS
justified Myltenlit This is sUl lggested by iis misleading and somne-
tine untrntiiful | statenents in His Jetters to Mr. V. T. then
nationa] director' offEPCC. In one'of those letters; dated August 1:
1063, Oswa]dyWiote }3Jt an ollice hvhich he had previously climed to
have FICC activities bad promply closec 3 dlays
Iater for' soilfe |obsure
reasonls by the renteis; said sometE
about
remonang
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"thousands kfleiicuiats were distrubed 9 332 and that he continued to
receive #fes thfoygh his post 'office box which he endeavored
"to keep
3a
the best lof ,y ability:' 98 333 In his letter to
V T: Lee, Istatec that he waS hen' alone/ in1 his efforts on behalf
of FPCC, Bielie attributed his lack Of suppoit to an attyck by Cuban
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cxiles in a street demnonsti YCion and being "oflicialy cutioned"
Folice;/events whic Fobbekt me of whGE support F Inc by the
alone 99 334 me OSWALD Distributing FAIR
In spite %f those]#iains;|khe Commission has not been ORLEAON WhCCHTHF H957
cover aQy evidence &mat able to un - Which HE HAD St.
in
anyofe ever attadked ajy street demonst "tion
which Oswald wed Ibceoired
except foy thie I3ringuier incident men-
tioned m which 8 after' Oswald
letter to V. T. Iee%] 'wrote the M bove
anti-Cast)
IBriNekeo "ho seemed'tobe familiar with {nany
ro activities Orleans, Was not aware of avy( sueh
conmission exhibit 3866 incident; 336 Police e ports aiso fail to refect acti=
part to August
91os3 ecept foxehiectevenctividsoribusionof
literatute at the inintiine Stkeet wlarf iQ June 17
Furt
ribution of HANDS
generalktenor of Osttiids nert Ietter to #eEee, Furheckoees the
ported His report onttile Bringuier incident witk .
of the
OFF
%este icinse Tin uanEd"%5eer cipent} eborcoxy.%€ evech CUBAY
( hat his previcHg 8fan attack Fy_G9bon exilese eventfleast
Join thie Fair {or greatly exaggerated| 8 Wil 1 iie the legend FPCC 544/Camp St. NETV {Cuba Committee ORLEANS, LA: 99 askstam on some/literature that Oswald had NEw: ORLEANS in kis possession atlfke tim3of his arrese i" Newy Offeans, MOMBEANBSHCHTER'
investi igation Ias llibte] 8 connect Ostvnja with ghet) exlensive
Lectutes though it did devel
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{le that #n a#ti-Gastro
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maintained offces lfor
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0 'period ejcly n 1962.339 The #ovAie has not Elielte find any %ther iudication that Osgald
406 a 0a
had rented an oflice HNew Orleans
In view %f/theliimited amount
ofpublid activity oles#cla gpart before A"gase 08 fooncetherealsc
Vernpne' welcowe/
seemg to be no basis iiis cidk3 that he lad disttibuted "thousapdso
of circulars, especialiyl
1 nce' Ig ind claimed to have printed
anc "ctuxlly had only {iodo pFited.
In
only 2,000
that he Feceived any| 9ubstantin] is no evidlence
amount (of materials; from the
na- tional hehdquarters:
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that he Iad apReiredkg}_ Nilliten Sugckey'$ 16-mjnOcetelevfite
program over W 347
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of which/he was {6 witll callers andgipvitations
"1S well . #s people ine to debate'slect:
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in joining the FPCC New Orleans branch. WDSU no pfagram of any kind ealled 'Latin Ameri-
can 99 Stuckeyhad #lidio progran called "Latin Listeneng
Post;' on]which OswaidlVas jeard for less than 5 minuites on
17, 1963.2d3 It "ppea kFackaraia had ov one cFlpHfes August
all of his FPCC cti
an ^ gent of Bringuier $
response to
more abojt the true HuFef 8f
the
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'ganization in
Oswalds statements $
gest fthat he hopedto be fiooded with callers
and invitations to debiiei [Filis tvould have made Kim } ren] center of
attention as he must peet (ten he first #Erived in the Soviet Unjon
and as hel was to somel BLeTE {Hle" he retuEned to /he juitea Stntos
The limited notorietykdine]Osijla receiveaiyas
2 restlt of the street toatisfrd.in the subseqklere] kic debute 'Yas "Dpirevdy, not exsoteec
to satisfy him He exdgget {tedlin his letters to V'T
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the Coinalidus Mankised
0
cheir
informa 8
'P'JPO , wbo nde a' tewent $n
spolcesm
IEniLe creditz fo5
the Augus;i 17 1963 attack.
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9
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detained bu: arresced,
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were involved Ind BeE
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a#Gjexpiosdvea 1
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that
MC IANEY is; well kno;t 88 a forner 2
for tbia 1 in #avana Ceba land
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to bomb Cuba ucing blrab ani
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Orlein8 , Louzzzana _
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9
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Icline guns ,
eutostic riiles
machine
ninc stb-malsbc= LAUCHLI Sold
end a
numke
1
of foreign
dod edpreasopable prices.
Jearly &ll Bf these ars
thac IAUCMLI 13 ncre
nterested
BEI 5-3 exp
lnidedlek
and ha,s no
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0f
9 trying to
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Cove rnment in
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Book :V P:5 [here was no indication that the
Castro assassilnation Plojs} were
brought
to the Warren Commission 8
lattention in anyway Tke' subordinate
officers at the FBI and the CIA who
lacted as liaison with the Warren
Commission did not know 8f: the CIA
lssassination_ attempts
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Book_ V , P . 5-6 The CIA investigation of the
assas3 ination did mot divulge
the AMLASH operatilon although
these investigators in retro_
spect jhink this iknowledge
vital "There is lalso evidence
that CIA investigators requested
name traces which should have
made them aware 0f the AMLASH
operation_ but for; some reason
did not learn of that
operation
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P 10 IEBI informantliduring
missile crisis
Isuggested that Castro couid be
a8sasSinated through undefworld channels
ihside Cuba and that the informant would
fund this if U.S government would
als sure such endeavor wouid not adversely
'elflect the national security_ See
attached Hoover memo We need to identify
and interview' informant
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V
T
To Aclorcy Conorel atb' Octobor 29 , 1962
FRO: Drector, TBI
SUJJFCT::
TIDEL CASTRO
A
2 2 1462
ENITI:NAL SECURITY
0
CUB
GENE
We have an informant Tho furnishes data conc ernirg
criminal matters and Tho is close to high official: of the
Teausters Union, He has many contacts with hooclLun and
gambling eleents throughout the United States. Ile is most
conccrned that his relationship With the TBI not be revealed
since he feel.s certain 'that, if his cooperation becomes
knowTl , he Will be killed iunediately.
On October 22, 1962
9
the informant volunteered to
our Los Angeles
9
California, Office that he believes he coulc
arrange to have Ficlel Castro 25sssinatede He explained
that some of his underworld acquaintances, such: 25 leyer Lonsly ,
in the llaive hald elosc corneclionc/ i Cuba vhorcby thzy
were abJ.e to "buyle 1 practically any Cuban official Ox to
accomplish alnost anything they wanted to do i1 Cuba, He
believes sone of these undervorld figures still have" channels
inside Cuba through which the asscssination of Castro could be
success
fully arrenged:
COJLD IDRETTI?Y CON?IDENTIAL SCC?
He said thai, iIL ihe evert the
United States Governnent is interested in having the attempt
made, he would raise the necessary money and would want nothing
from thc Governent except assurance that such an
undertal-ing
would in no way adverscly affect the national security. Ic
erpressed confidence in lis obility to accomplish this mission
without any adclitional contact with Government rcpresentalives
andl a, minimUi of contacts with vate i7cifviurirs vkh_
iihz_ "uml 7/.7-/=-/
109-539 DEPARrTKRENT OF XUSTiz
MAY
'{ 1916
ez"l;pf
:22 JAN 2
1963 '?.
1
DO J .
D irlcOku)s DRANCE
^ITOlncy GENEIL
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ATJORNEY
Pasi
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Book V , P 13 Intelligence files in mid-1963 documenting
series of meetings among major leaders
of anti-Castro movement Such a report
is attached . Attention to the cast of
characters : 1.e Artime Maceo_ Somoza _
Carlos Prio .
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Intelligezce
1963
9
A LIREDO (SER)
23 , tizit clle
On de ARTIEE _
9 of tte
of MAIJUEL
is 2
ot in
the lcccer
of $
CEzoe;h big
about
"oibete
June
2,0
9 658 that oly the time %f
at
he in
{4' % 6c3}
boax = 0 1963 releasee
the CRC
2ny
crejibility
Whzen
1A[DIN
wbdah hzve
up co CLO
68 CRC mzy
hoax ,
tkey botil
activiey
it [J88 2
the fo the CRC for
reeigoce, )leate:
Eo
createe
helped
TIAi
II. TEE in cbarge_ of
MIGUEL CARCIA_
9 9
16
9
1963
9
tbst
On July fof'the CRC;,
recently bzen ed scates
of Nicarcgua
9 fcrred in
forner Da C. ; ten days 280
Washington
9
0 Goverrrent_
of
8
9 Cuban
GARCIA
that a80
of the A:
nearly.
Lr2
meetin;s ? in be had talked *0
theze licicsl
lic3,
(orm
t bege
Ieetin;s
9 Central Cuban
in
of
to
help bese8 of
of G1e Dillingitarje equipcente
traiblne CPSi
to
the the
of
fron
tbarchis meetings
Cuba_
5 ,
REv >
W
UU ]
BORJA S
Revolucionario
Recuperacion Aexsust advieed
BORJL S Movimienco
sroup dissident Chief orgenizotion orgsniza:low,
anci-C4513O BANDIi
CARLOS B4NDIM7'
Coraidc? contacts VRR - five
'eai.d
ex0preimc Cuba tsd lsnded
Publicity organi,
11vsrija were
824 prcse
waid ele
destroyed BOR Et f
cnd tine that #scifired CARLO3 2nd had
0 stunt AITONIO
Gkcich
scandal
ces ed
pre:?
8030Z4
FORJZA LUIS
announced
had United relirions with public
ved Preaiden: con erri- reportedly
about and
0fficicls
series Zloridw.
conducced Mizmi
SOMOZA
well-knon said
att2nded_
leaders wEZch all group action
2nd and claimed Po_ SOMOZA Repub exile
American tke
exi.les tke
Preaideats and
government: Pregiderz: present
attack wizh
which
operatior i.udicated
So;OzA
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Central American Republi : 8
Precidents of the several
Cubzn exlles im Mial -
end tke leading flgures among the
to luve the sancion
New
York &nd Washincton; were knoon t
July 16
9
1963
9
of
t1g United
s3tc4 Governncdt;:o
Nica18gua _
SOgOZA left Nicml returned
On Jesly 15 , 1963 , the "Mizmi
3p" Goatiijed
article stEt1n7g that Ehere 18 growins
18 quietly
8n tolc Atcorngy Genczal ROLEBT KE TADJ
AlESE SUES:i
Mizri
Cuban eziles , 2s
FANJCL
ANUKL backing certain
SOEDZA Plan Ic 13 notcd tbss
and
the; 8o-called
head of the NIR , an
Zeci-CASIRO
ARZINE BUESA {8 the
orgagizeeion.
Fho bas
been accive
On) July 15, 1963
$
MI T-3 ,
five Year8 ,
macters for the
in Cuben revolutionary
are
ecme cf th?
Gdvised Elie
the beld 11 cedergrwho [
met wich SOFIOZA during
Cuban erile leaders
bettrecenc viGib
to
the United Staces:
hs recent
Go
ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ , Cowandos L
SA NTIA
UREANO BA TISTA FALLA ,
Movimiento Democrata
IA
Cristiano (IDC)
NIONIO VECIAN4
9
Alpha 66
SIXTO MESA
0
MRR
Cuban Comnittee
of Liberation
JOSC MORELL ROMERO ,
former President of Cuba
CARLOS
PRIO SOCARRAS ,
6
RECEIVED #R.
Mlay 1976
D 0 J
and
Newa"
suah
1
pazt
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MANUEL ARTIME
9
MRR
EUSEBIO BUJAL, labor leader
JOSE BOSCH ,
Cuban industrialist
On July 26, 1963.
9
SANTIACO ALVAREZ RODRICJEZ
62 had talked with
LUIS SO.IOZA alout four kours
advised in Miami during the middle of July, 1963.
Thile SOKOZ:I Wa8 SO[IOZA w2s actin8 62
ALVAREZ %aid ttat it ig his opinion
&d
between
the United Scale8 Covernzens
8n
interiediry
the Cuben ezile8.
On August 20, 1963 , ALVAREZ advised that tothing
concerning the SO.OZA ; i6 i8 %oj?
ta:
d:veloped
or Vllat #k2 Unised Sctes
not clear #i3L SOTOZA is offering, this Datcer. ALVAREZ
Government'8 position or actitudle is in
private
obvious SOZOZA cennoc &fford
9
either 3; 3
said it 1Lc
of thve Nicazagezn Cover_ment ,
indivldu:l or a
representative
Cuban exilez and will
to back sck 8 militory program by
Uzited 9
State?
have to
Esve the backing and support of th2
Governmenl co g0 0n with his
30 , 1963 FERMIN FLEITES
0
member of Eke
On July
9 adviced thac &boue a seek
Executlve Comittee of the MDC ,
Army officer visited tha IOC Eeadquerters,
8g0 , 2 Nicarasun
offercd cemps , ' milicary equipnent
end in the nare of SOMOZA
4l80 offered i.0
and bases in Nicaragua
'Chig individual
Nicaregua
of moving the MDC operations co
pay the expense
lained that
the MC hzd taken no
FLEITES exp
this matter
and had adopted 2
posicive action concerning 2 attitude the
woic &nd see 0 policy to
2scertain wlzt
thi:, meceer.
Covernment would take concerning
Uni- ded(SEits:
7
MY bnKS
D 0 ]
plen
yer
plan
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7
1963, KARIO DEL CAlL Executive
On August
9
Revolucioncrin, ed iaed
Secretary
83 Gexcate Demode tiicedevoltcsodurigg July
tlat wberi SO2 OZA 5a3 in elze
head of tre Reezeee
of 1963
8
ZANUEL ANIOITIO VE VAROZAA
9 confcrred with SO.OZA
Dewocrstico
Revolucionario (hoRuvicnfcoz
9 0f SOHIOzA
in Mizzl &20 Ne:w Yorl At the
1963 20
confer
WARORA lefx for licara;ua on Auguse 1;
Ilai in aboue 8
and ic
expected to return ro
with SO..0Z4 ,
week.
1963
CANAL adviced thet nothing
On
Sepeember 10,
9 resul: of VARO.: ' &
definice hxd been
established 38 0
of &9
propoged
ciiat the futuze
vieic co Niceraeaa
3 SOri0zl Plan 13, uncertain_
13 , 1963 ,
LAURCANO BAISZA FA LLA
9 On August
adviced tkae te te recently
militsry' lexder' cf the IC hsd conferred wich
retuzred Erca Niceragua
9
where he defizite
SOUOZA who Iade no
comicments
Dr indezezcdi57tde
Cuszn
eileted =
SOMOZA' ahoued greaheintoreaid
in
the way of
but offered no
positive help or
problem =
9
armg or
training camps .
EALIA gid
that CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS ,
BATISTA
in Nicarage 8t the 332
former Presldent of Cuba
9
was
receive e3y ferred with SOMOZA_
9
but did not:
PRIO time
9
con
aid. BA TISTA
explained tkat
offers 0f
positive
from
the Dominic_n Republic
had jusc
previously Rccurned JUc:Bohen
9
President of :ke
(DR)
9
end although PRIO and
PRIO Wel:z unable to
head
been Erfends for many years ,
DR ,
bases in the DR=
obtaia any milicary
1963 , RUBEN DE LEON
9
former Cuban
On August 22 ,
of
the' enli-CASZRO
Minicter of Defense
and Co-Ordinalor
8
RECEIVEW Fx
MAY
'"7 1926
Duj
ag2ii)
end
plan
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Armed Forces of Cuba Ln Eiile, staced thst
Dbugiz EogAiged
LUIS SOii0ZA told EZIILIO NUEZ PORZIO:DJO,
about 8
to che Unitcd Neclong (TN)
2
t2t
forer Cban delefete Dlited Statcs Attorsey General (Ac)
he (SO5.OZA ) had talked to
ROBERZ' KEIZNCDY
AG KCNNGDY reportedly Gal+ it Tvaz necesswry for
the Cuban lein and *o un1te C-w
SOEOZA to ouc EMUEL ARTEZ BULSA be
exiles SO:OZA reccmmended chat
83 the leader of the Cuban exiles.
designaced
advised thac there 5Jaa later a maetirc in
DE LEON Captai: JOSE ALEZREZ;
Mleni at eie honz of Niceraguzn Ary
At 6iis
between SONOZA end 3
number of Cuban ezile leaders .
8o.2Z4 s2ld chere Waa 3
possibility of Nicaregu3n_
meetint,,
Cuban exile anci-CASRRO move32n? , buf firet
support for the
ARTIIE 28 Cleir leader. There
the exiles would have co accept
by the exile
was
considerable oppogition Co tlis suggestion
leaders atcending the meetinga
On September 12 1963
PAULIRO SIERRA VARTIIEZ
9
and teztiie mill operacor {3 Cuba
9
edwized
former actorney
and conferred With LUZS
he hed
recently visited Nicaragua
SOMOZA concerjirg help to' Cuban exiles .
SIERRA said there are Do training campa in
America for Cuban exiles , &rd &11 tke
Nicargua or Central
fursher 6683 the
propoged aid and backing has progressed no
SIERRA said it seems to him tkzt everyore
tolllng 9Ga89.
Govcrrmnen: Lo ekue
10 Waiting for the United States
"green lighc"
On September 12, 1963 , M T-3 &dvised thst Gearly
811
tbkFpuORa Ric leader:
among Cuban exiles kave conferred
tbet che SOMOZA Plai Ls too for
with SOHQZAY and now
'7 1976
9 _ D 0 J
prob
work
give
big
agrec
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American Republics to into
SOMOZA and
th? Central
milicory aud
politicnl
effect Vithout United States
gupport _
the diffcrent Cuban mililery
M T-3 said thee
that SOJOZL kza no:
end
polieical lecderg now feel
from
che United Srstes
obtained 8
Posicivc conoLCiooE _1d
a
hilf mozthn o€
Goveznmen: ,
becvuse after tro Cuban exile militery
conference&
9
tkere arc noc any
a3d
"Tle SOvOzA Plasn
15 Cestral Anerica
} treining CAn?s the talking st#ge.
bas not
'progrcoeed beyond
III
ORCANIZATIQUS
Cowgudos_ L
Ccuencg L if cn?
of the leading
I T-9 aJviged that
Ic
18 neaded by
enti-CASTRO
DEgniceg_ongAnd OLio" CUESHPSand Eakov Z03
EAEIIAGO ALIAEEZ ROURIGUEZ
9
AZTONIO
such,
bu: concinues
.ion maintains 00
office 85
Miari, Zlor_da,
The
Officc
Box 66 , Rivergide Station,
to use Post
to collect
money donetions.
1963 SA NITAGO
ALAREZ RODRIGUEZ
On July 2.9
9 milicery activity_
the
orginieation hnas had no buili:sg che advised
of 1963 . The
leadership is now}
diffarenl
cince Msrck membership , establish_
organizztica to Inerease
Section,
3 Publicicy Seccion
9
bections 3#ch 48 a Women 3 orginizsticj recencly
comnitcees 9
t0 raise funds . The forth the ai1g &ud
end bookLet , setting
oue 3
tlrty-page along Wich information
pucpotca of Zhe org nilitdcy
9 of thje
organizetion_
cOrcerdi g previouj military operaciong
has two bozt8 in che
ALVAREZ admittcd his group
fucure for millgry
which will be used in Ehe
Miami RIve
RECEIVED Flo1
10 ,
MAY 7J9ys;
D 0 J
Put
Jec
organize:
put
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Book V , P. 25 Helms directed Karamessinis and Angleton
to cooperate with the desk officer
John Whitten charged with investigating
the assassination On November 24
Mexico cabled the names of known
contacts of Soviet personnel in Mexico
and AMLASH S name (Rolando Cubela)
was included on that list_ Nonetheless
neither Fitzgerald Helms Tom K or
Angleton advised the desk officer of
significance of this name
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City
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Book V , P. 25 On November 23 1963 the CIA
Headquarters asked the Mexico Station
to s top the planned arrest of Sylvia
Duran Karames sinis speculated that this
was because CIA feared Cuba responsible
for as sassination
P 29 Headquarters equally concerned with
Duran on November 27 and warned
Mexico City station chief that U.S _
Ambassador pushing Cuban theory too
hard_
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Book V , P . 27 AMLASH' s case officer omitted reference
to the poison pen in his November 25
contact report of his November 22 AMLASH
meeting on instruction from Fitzgerald
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Book V , P . 28 "D" tells his story in Mexico on
November 25 On November 26 Mexico
cables details of 'D" interroga-
tion to CIA Headquarters On December 1 ,
CIA Headquarters cables Mexico City that
the White House has been told that D' s
story is a fabrication
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City
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Book V , P . 30 On December 1 1963 CIA Headquarters
cabled Mexico that 2 sensitive
source ) has advised
that a Cubana airlines flight to Havana
was delayed in Mexico on November 22
to pick up a passenger who rode in the
cockpit without_going through custons
This cable was found in Mexico
file with no CIA headquarters record
of follow-up being found
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City
City
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Book V , Ps 35 In December 1963 Sullivan Prepared 2
memo for Hoover 8 aid in briefing the
President that stated that no evidence
had been developed which would indicate
Oswald' s assassination was inspired or
directed by Pro Castro organizations
or by any
foreign
coun
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Book V , P. 40-41 FBI Legat in Mexico City cabled
FBI Headquarters on November 24
that U.S Ambassador felt Cubans
participated in assassination
effort "Bureau may desire to
give consideration to polling
all Cuban sources in US in
effort to confirm or refute this
11 theory FBI Headquarter 8
supervisor determined this was
not desirable and would oly
promote rumors
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Book V , P _ 58 The CIA investigation reflected
a
Soviet orientation with exhaustive
studies of Oswald' s activities in
re Soviet Union There is no corres-
ponding CIA
analysis
of Oswald' s con -
tacts with pro and anti Castro groups
in U.S .
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Book V , P. 61- In December 1963 the CIA learned that
63
3 Cuban American had crossed the border
from Texas into Mexico on November 23
and arrived in Mexico on November 25
He S tayed in a hotel until the evening of
November 27 when he departed on a
regularly scheduled Cubana airlines flight
to Havana using a Cuban courtesy visa and
an
expired U.S passport_ He was the only
passenger on the` flight In March
}
1964
the Agency received a report from a
source which alleged that the same Cuban
American had received a permit_ to enter
Mexico City on November 20 in Tampa
Florida_ The S ame source said the Cuban
American was somehow involved in the
assassination
The Agency did not follow up on this
report other than to ask a Cuban
defector about his knowledge of the
Cuban American S activities The FBI
'did investigate the reported unusual
travel but did not fully report the
results of their investigation to their
Warren Commission Their investigation
showed that this individual had lived
in Tampa and West and was pro-Castro
He had traveled to Cuba in of 1962
and had a brother in the Cuban military
who was studying_ in the Soviet Union
On November 17 1963 the Cuban American
was at a get-together at the home of 3
member of the Tampa chapter of the Fair
for Cuba Comittee This was the
same Fair Play for Cuba Committee that
Oswald had possibly contacted in of
1963
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Book V, P_ 63-64 In March of 1964 _ the Warren
Commission requested from' Director
Hoover information on certain pro-
Castro and anti
98
Castro organizations
which were active in the U.S
including the Fair Play for Cuba
Committee and Alpha 66 among
others The Bureau furnished less
than a full and satisfactory
response and did not disclose the
fact that the CIA had operational
interests in certain of the entities
inquired about
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Book V , P . 65 The FBI reports On Alpha 66 furnished
the Warren Commis sion noted the attack
on the Soviet vessel in March of 1963
but did not detail that group 9
continued activity in Planning and
carrying out their military operations
against Cuba The FBI reports did not
show that Alpha 66 had been involved
with the New Orleans anti-Castro train-
camp
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Book V , P . 65 It is known that the CIA took an
interest in the Fair for Cuba
Comittee with which Oswald was
associated. According to Bureau
documents the Agency advised the
Bureau that were consi dering
the use of disinformation that' might
embarass the Committee in areas where
the Committee had support
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Book V , P 72 In late July 1964 _ an FBI informant
reported that the CIA was meeting with
AMLASH for the purpose of assass inating
Castro _ Informant also reported that
AMLASH was unhappy with the CIA S efforts
and that Attorney General Kennedy had
refused to' support the plan but that the
Plan had not been completely put to rest
This information was not disseminated
outside the Bureau at the request of the
informant But the Bureau notations
indicate that the Bureau was looking
into an underworld plot against Castro
that might be coincidental with the
AMASH Plan- The Bureau had first been
informed of AMLASH-CIA meetings in
October 1963 That information did not
indicate assassination involvement
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Book V , P 74-75 The AMLASH operation was insecure
prior to the` Fitzgerald meeting
with AMLASH a meeting that
Fitzgerald was urged not to under-
take by several in the Agency _
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Book V , PP . 77-78 Individuals outside the CIA had
been brought into the operation
9 and the Agency learned that one
of these individuals was in
clandestine contact with Cuban
inte lligence (Cable from
European station to CIA Head -
quarters 3/18/65)
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Book V , P . 78 Victor Espinosa = a Cuban exile involved
in the transporting explosives to New
Orleans in 1963 contacted INS with
information about the AMLASH operation
This information was turned over to the
FBI which informed the CIA Both
agencies interrogated Espinosa in June
of 1965 and found that he knew that
AMLASH and others were planning a coup
which involved the assassination of
Castro and that the CIA had been
involved with AMLASH and others in the
planning
Espinosa and AMLASH were life-long friends
but during the interrogation he gave no
indication that he was aware of the 1963
AMLASH-CIA mee tings Espinosa S
information noted in the 1967 IG Report
suggests a link between the AMLASH
operation and the CIA Plots to assassinate
Castro using underworld contacts
Therefore Espinosa S information raised
the possibility that underworld figures
who were aware of the Harvey plots may
have been aware of the AMLASH operation _
CIA reaction to this interrogation was
to terminate the operation immediately .
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Book 79 CLA had FBI files on Espinosa detailing
his involvement with anti-Castro exiles
and underworld figures who were operating
the guerrilla training camps in New
Orleans in 1963
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Book V , P 79 In mid-1965 the CIA interrogated Tepedino ,
New York jeweler who had been involved
with the AMLASH operation from the
beginning The report concluded that
the subject was deceptive' during the
interrogation and withheld pertinent
information in one or more relevant
areas Tepedino lied in response to
questions dealing with AMLASH S and his
ties to Cuban intelligence Tepedino
stated that AMLASH had no plan to over-
throw Castro Tepedino stated AMLASH
had strong connections with Cuban
intelligence and was probably cooperating
with it in various ways Although
AMLASH never mentioned these connections
to his CIA case officers ; Teledino
stated that AMLASH had mentioned them
to him and almost everyone else he had
met
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Book V, P_ 79 The FBI made the connection between
Espinosa $ 1963 activities and the
fact that in 1965 he was knowledgeable
of CIA involvement in plans to
assassinate Castro_ However there
i8 no evidence that either the CIA or
FBI investigated this connection
until 1967
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Book V , P 79 Although the CIA had received information
that AMLASH was a provocation there is
no evidence that the CIA investigated
the Possibility of a connection between
its fall 1963 meetings with AMLASH and
the assassination of President Kennedy
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Book V , P 80 A client of Morgan 8 had informed him
that the United States had attempted
to assassinate Castro in the early
1960 8 and that Castro had decided to
retaliate This information was passed
to Drew Pearson who in turn attempted
to have Chief Justice Warren look into
it but he declined .
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Book V , P_ 81 Supervisory personnel
as signed to the
assassination investigation have
uniformly testified do not recall
ever discussing or reviewing memoranda
which touch upon Cuban involvement
in the assassination or of Cuban
retaliation for the. CIA assassination
plots _
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Book P. 81 According
to Secretary of State Rusk
in his tes timony before the Warren
Commission 6/10/64 he stated there
was very considerable concern in Cuba
immediately following the assas8ination
as to whether Cuba would be held
responsible for the assassination and
what effect the assassination might
have on Cuba 8 position and security _
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Book V , P 84 On March 21 1967 WFO send Headquarters
10 copies of a
blind
memorandum which
stated Castro employed assassination
teams for the purpose of removing
President Kennedy Morgan 8 clients
were also aware of the iden of
individuals sent to the United States
for that purpose _ He understood that two
such individuals were now in the state
of New Jersey The transmittal is
attached to this memorandum
Neither the President nor the Attorney
General ordered 2 follow-up investigation
after receiving this memo
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Book V , P _ 92 In October 1963 Soviet experts at FBI
Headquarters were informed that Oswald
had met with Vice Counsel Kostikov at
the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City_
Kostikov was a member of the KGB and
believed to be with the KGB , department
that carried out assassinations and
sabotage _
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I, Frank Sturgis have today Pers
'onally delivered
to the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence the
following materials
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INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE
BY FRANK . STURGIS 9/2/76
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ML Selia Sanchez Haiti Santa Maria Paco
and Fidel and several of his armed guards
FS : Okay now what happened
ML Castanyava _
FS Castanyava
M Castanyava was the chief of the
FS And Fidel offered you
2 job or s ome thing, can you
g0 into that?
M Wel1 he was very fond of everything German He
said he read and my father you know tried
to pacify the tourists the passengers on the ship
because they
were terrified. They thought_they were
being invaded So I helped my father Pacify the
tourists and it was really
a funny scene Then I
steered Fidel to my father S cabin and we went to
dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the
table And this was February 28 1959 on the cruise
FS And he offered you
a job = right?
ML Yes after about 5 hours on board we went back
up to my father S cabin and had drinks and exchanged
gifts and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
very well My father is diplomatic and
exchanged plaques and my father S silver ashtray and
stuff like that _ And he asked me he asked my father
if since I was bilingual if I
couid
go come back
return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
getting German mail and he did not speak German and
he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an
office and blah_ blah blah blah And I had
friends in Cuba anyway .
FS How old were you then?
M: Nineteen nineteen years old_
FS : Did you get off the and stay there?
M I went back to New York _ Fidel on the bridge _
asked me for my phone number and address in New York
and said he would call and I just, I didn t
believe it_
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FS : When did he call
ML: The same I arrived in New York _ Because my
father took off that night for Germany again and
the phone and it rang at 1 0' clock in the
morning I guess the previous
FS : Well he went back to Germany with the right?
Where did you
ML : I was
living with my brother in New York City_
My brother was a translator for the United Nations
and I was
alone living in New York going to
the Merchantson Banker School_
FS : Wel1 how did You get back to New York from
Havana?
ML : On my father' & ship _ It was the last stop on the
cruise of about 5 or 6 stops _
FS : Oh in other words the in other words the left
that night, left Havana that night
M Yeah
FS : went over to New York and then from New York went
back to Europe right?
M Yes Yes _ I thought about Fidel and he pointed out
this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I
was young , I don t know_ And I thought that
FS : He called, he [called you he knew just about what
time you were lgoing to arrive in New York and when
you got there he called you _ what _ the same the S ame
you got there?
ML The same day Qur ship arrived _ three days later And I
just picked' uP the phone and the Havana operator said
one moment please the Prime Minister is on the phone ,
on the line and I heard some shouting and then I
00 heard 'hello"
FS : Did he speak Cuban or English to
ML: He broken English in his hoarse voice I guess
he was giving a_ lot of speeches at that time And he
asked me "He llo Marita you think I don t call? I
think about yqu very much and I call I keep my word_
I want to prove to you that one man S Cuban word I keep _ 01
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M: I wa3 as surprised, I was very surprised.
(contd.)
FS : How long was it did you leave New York to g0 to
Havana?
M Fidel said to me , I said is this really you Fidel
and he said yes I am in Havana Hilton you call
me back in room 2408 and I said no alright I
believe you I said because how else would you have
my number He said "I want you come back . I think
about you and I will send a Plane my plane and you
8i come back And it was a
joke really _ I liked the
Cocoa Glace it 3 an ice cream in a cocoanut shell
and he had sent to my father 8 ship
a case of it So
I would have enough for the return trip home because
I don t know I just talked about Havana the island
in general_ So I and I still didn t_
believe him
that he would send the plane
FS : Did he send the airplane?
ML = Yes
FS : What kind of an airplane did he send?
M A Cubana airliner with_
FS : Four engines?
ML : Yes with two men and two men came to the my door
I was
living_ at 344 West 87th Street at the time on
the second floor and my brother was at a UN party
and I was home
aione studying Oh no , in fact I was
reading 3 Herbert L Mathews article on Fidel Castro
and Cuba when the doorbell rang , and it was Jesus
and Pedro
and they showed me identification One came in military
uniform the other in civilian clothes One smiled
one didn t. One said Are you ready?" And one said_
1 "We g0 now Fidel want very much to see you .
FS : (Laughter)
M: And I said I didn t finish my homework yet I was like
in shock _ I didn t know; what to do So they said they
were staying in a hotel that they would the plane
would leave tomorrow
Piease be ready I me anwhi le I
haven t even unpacked you know from the cruise My
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ML: clothes were al1 laundered anyway from the ship and
(contd.) I hadn t even unpacked because I was worred about
missing two at school
FS : Yeah
M So I went
FS : Well these are incidentals anyway S0 , what d you
do , you went to the airport? What airport did the
airplane was the airplane at?
M Uh , LaGuard, which is not Kennedy it was at that
time named something else _ Idlewild, right?
FS : Idlewild
M And _
FS : It was Idlewild airport , that' s where they had the
airplane Cubana Airlines ?
M : Yeah _ Cubana Airlines Got on the plane
FS : How many people where on the airplane?
M = Me a steward , a
pilot and a
co-pilot and the two
guards
FS Ha
2
had that' s funny _ Go ahead .
ML So anyway I met Fidel and that 8 when I got involved.
FS : This is more or less a background S0 they know her
background_
ML Yeah that S , that' s out anyway _
(Unidentified voice: "Yeah , right.")
FS : I mean don t drag it out s0 much because the details
of all this thing is
ML : Yeah
FS : Is yours you know Go over it lightly. So you went
back co Havana, right?
M : Right _
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FS : Now when you went back to Havana you saw Fidel where?
Cause we 11 g0 over this lightly_
ML I was in the
FS : At the Hilton?
M: I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton
FS : And that 8 where Fidel was staying at the Hilton _ right?
M Yes he was having
an argument in his suite with Chez
Raoul and some Americans
FS : He was
having
s ome argument with some Americans Do
you know who the Americans were?
ML Yes
FS : Who were they?
ML One lady attorney trying to promote some thing _ Muriel
FS Oh this was more business or some thing like that?
M: Yes busines s Everybody was trying to promote this
and that with Fidel
FS : Yes well that S immaterial.
M : So then I was told to g0 in the room and wait and the
door locked. And I was in there in his suite and
Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and
the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it
FS You 11 write it don t worry . Alright now
ML: If I live _
FS : Do you know approximately when you met me ?
ML : A couple months or two months or three months after
that
FS : No That was very , I think you met me around what_ April?
M April, right_
FS : April of 1959 right?
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ML Yeah
FS : And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
lobby?
ML Yes
FS That 8 where when I saw 0'
M That' s what I said, 2 couple months
FS : Right _
ML: right after that_
FS : In April right_ And this is where we made contact
and S0 forth and then we saw each other a few times
after that
ML In the coffee shop _
FS In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited
to g0 ahead and spy for the United States and S0 forth
and, were you ever introduced or to Colonel Nickels ?
M Yes
FS Do you know who Colonel Nickels is right _ He was
the Colonel who was mi litary attache with the American
Embassy in Havana _ Cuba at that time right?
M= Yes
FS : Okay Then you_ started your spy thing and S0 forth
and S0 forth, alright?
M: Un hum_
FS : We 11 g0 ahead and jump a little bit and S0 forth
There were several meetings that Fidel had in the
Hilton with s Ome of the people of the staff_ I was
present at the meeting right?
ML Right
4 FS : And one of the time that Fidel was talking to the
staff concerned the gambling casinos and American
business interests in Cuba, right?
ML = Right _
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FS : And it was stated that he was going to run all the
racketeers out of
M : Out of Cuba_
FS : Cuba All the American businesses were going to g0.
ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
Cuba for the Cubans
M: Right .'
FS : And 80 forth And then it was suggested about well
you know the American government may not like it_
You re gonna have all the American business interests
put pressure on the State Department which would put
Pressure on hin and that would be uP in arms and
they would have the agents they , would send new agents
into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close
closely contacted at least certain people in the CIA
had contact with the 26th of July movement As a
matter of fact that they were exchanging information
with Castro
M: Uh hum_
FS : which enabled him to outwit many of the other groups
S0 really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time So
Fidel with the of CIA
M_ Yes _
FS got to be the ruler of Cuba _ Now _
M: I would what about where did Fidel get most of his
guns from?
FS : Well_ you know
ML : To lead the revolution?
FS : Right you know S0 forth That' s a story which we
won t have to g0 into and S0 forth because we just
(unintelligible) briefly
over it And then there
came a
period of time where Fidel in all his
popularity and So forth was now Fidel with you he
made approaches to you ,
right, and S0 forth?
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ML : Hon _
FS : He" told you he loved you and S0 forth
M: Yes _
FS : And he seduced you , right? And
9
which has been on
record
M : Mm-Hom
FS : You know and you liked him and you
actually in
liking him like a young girl thought for the future
that here S a man that I you admired , that you
started to get an affection for hin and S0 forth
and really you thought of marriage_ right?
ML: Mm-hm _
FS : And in the Process of being close with him being as
the man S intelligent dynamic and s0 forth_ he did
force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
you You didn t want to but it happened
ML: Yes _
FS : And you had nobody
to g0 to because you re in
his Cuba, right?
M: I was in his Cuba alright _
FS : Right now also what we were getting in this Senate
Inteliigence Comittee has got is the things that
Fidel has stated against the United States government
if they tried to interfere with the revolution and S0
forth when the new election time comes because at that
time the President of the United States was Eisenhower
and it looked like that the Democrats were going to
win the election and he felt that if a new government
which was discussed among the top military People if
the new government came in and if decided that
didn t like Fidel' 8 policy, which Fidel was saying what
he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale
that if the United States government decided to g0 and
turn against him and put pressure on him he would do
likewise to the United States government And he was
going to export his revolution in Latin America: These
are the things that you heard_
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ML Yeah _
FS A number of times I was present up there for the
ML Mm-ho
FS : in the Hilton with all the people _ Now you left Cuba
when?
M Sometime in September _
FS : In September of 1959 you came to the United States
right?
ML Yeah
FS : And when you came back to the United States you saw
me
ML 3 Yes
FS : And then arrangements were made for you to go back to
Cuba and S0 forth
M: Yes yes _
FS : And this is what happened with the attempt and S0 forth
ML: Right _
FS : Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave
there the second time?
towards
M : When exactly the end of 1959 1960 _
FS : 19592
M: '60 I'm not sure I'm no good at dates and al1 that
I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went
out _
FS : Well then was it the early part of 602
M: Yeah
FS : It had, to be the early part of 60 and you came back
to Miami right?
ML : Right _
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FS : You came back to Miami and you continued to g0 ahead
and do some work
ML : With Alex.
FS : With Alex and myself here in South Florida And then
when did you cease some work at that time?
ML : Uh , in 19-=
9
end of 1960 _
FS : End of 1960 _ When did I tell you to make contact with
Petty Humanez at his home Do you know approximately
what time that was ?
ML In 1960 61
FS : The end of 1960 ,
or the early part of '61, was that
then?
M: About the time of the of Pigs _
FS : Well '61 was the of in April_ '61 So it
had to be before the of
ML Before_ before, yes it was
FS : Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami
M: Right
FS : Beach on the island there right?
ML : Yes _
FS : Alright , and you were told by whom to g0 over to_ his
home ?
M: You _
FS : You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
with someone else?
M Should I name hin?
FS : Yeah Alex?
M: Alex York.
FS : Alright_ Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez
house right had a gathering there with some
Cubans and S0 forth and S0 forth_ Do you know who
s ome of the Cubans who were at that gathering?
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FS : Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name s ome ?
ML: Cubans in exile Prios Carlos Prios
FS : President , ex-President Carlos Prios
M: I don t know there were S0 many , God .
FS : Alright , well that' s that'8 good enough _ Anyway
Alright, that 8 when you first met Petty Humanez
alright
M: Yes
FS What was the idea of me
sending
you over there to meet
Petty Humanez?
M: Information gathering to find out how he was
sponsoring the Cuban exiles
FS : Wasn t he suspected of supplying money and other
goodies
M: yes _
FS : to groups where at?
M In Miai and outside of Miami
FS : And down in Texas right?
M: Yeah
FS: Training camps in Texas?
M Yes
FS : Alright he was
feeding money to them also in_
M : Yeah
FS : Texas right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
government right?
ML: I would presume yeah I guess S0
FS : Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them
this financial assistance?
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ML : Yeah I saw him give money to some Cubans I was with
him at the time
FS : Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez , isn' t
that correct?
M I would say S0 _
FS You would say S0 As a matter of fact _
ML : (unintelligible)
FS : As a matter of fact a' love; affair developed .
M = Yes
FS : and S0 forth and S0 forth
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alright .
ML Yeah
FS : We won t go into anything else _ We 11 g0 ahead and
jump Past that Then we lost contact with you , right?
ML Yes
FS : And in losing 'contact with you we well we mentioned
sometime when the United States State Department
sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela he went to
prison and you mentioned something about the family
wanted to break hin out and you wanted to see if I
could do it and 80 forth Alright S0 we 11 that
Anyway , I lost contact with you When was the last
time we lost contact , when was that?
M: '64.
FS : 1964 or 632 63 or 64 approximately , alright?
ML After '64.
FS : It was around , approximately 1964 .
M: (unintelligible)
FS : And you what came to New York?
ML: When the General went to jail.
FS : Yeah you went to South America and then you came back
to New York to live and 80 forth, right?
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M Yeah
FS : Then you remarried = rather you got married here in
New York?
ML : Oh some time passed , I waited for the General but
then I got married right .
FS : Who did you marry? You re gonna say_ you' re gonna g0
ahead and say he worked at the buil with you , and_
M: Yeah , I guess I have to Louis John Yurositz_
FS : Alright , nOw one time you and him did what at what
building and the address ?
ML: We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York
FS : You worked as an both of you worked as undercover
agents for the FBI in New Yor _ right?
ML = Me as a double because I had
FS : You as a double agent Now when did this start?
ML : He was
the building manager
at 250 East 87th Street
in Manhattan The building is owned by Glenwood
Management called the Newberry_ The work started
with the case agent in 1969
FS : 1969 Who was the case agent S name and what federal
agents you already told me You already told me and
it on record and this
M told me not 'to say anything
FS : Wel1 honey they it on record and you re gonna
g0 ahead and send this down there because Senator
Baker knows who your case agent is knows the CIA
agent that you were in touch with
M You know I keep remembering don t embarass the Bureau
and
FS : Honey you re not embarass the Bureau_ What: you re
doing is giving this information to Senator Baker S
Comittee to turn over to the Justice Department in
order for them to g0 ahead and say hey you worked
as an agent for them, also as a double agent
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protection for you and your kid_ and if you don t g0
ahead and tell them the name of these here people how
you gonna do it?
ML Mm
FS : You know we get back to the same thing again _ Yeah
you re
looking for protection So far the People
you' ve worked with S0 far this man Pucci who you
saved his life and saved another undercover_ agent ' $
life whose working with the FBI These people are
powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
problem that you have had right now with you three
times there 8 been an attempt on your life_ isn t
that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
an 18 story building Another time you got pistol-
whipped You did ai1 this crap for these People
here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
present time and this is on record in their own
files and S0 forth yet You cannot move then to give
you or your children any protection This piece of
tape is going to go right to Senator Baker S office,
it 11 g0 to Howard' Liebengood for him to listen to,
to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
authorities which will be the Justice Department =
You can call Howard Liebengood to see if he has
received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
me You can call him and find out and also you
can call him at the Same time
and iet him know if
a tape has been turned over to him As a matter of
fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
office I will instruct his People in the office to
get a hold of you _ because I m gonna leave your phone
number with Senator 8 Baker S people_ with Senator
Baker is on , has a Comittee on
inteiligence
M Mm-hm
FS : He S got the committee _ It' s a new Comittee that has
been formed on
intelligence_ See now I am turning this
information over to the proper authorities See And
this information is not going to g0 to any newspaper
or anybody _
M: okay Frank . I have your word. It' $ just that I
4 got a hang-up you know I guess with them working on practicaliy ail
my adult life_
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FS : Honey , I don 't want to know everything you did in 6
years I don t want to know everything
you did
because you can t
ML were like a fami ly they were like 3
family
at
one time Now when I need they don t come
through and they say it costs too much . It cost me
a lot of nights in the_garbage looking for Albanian
stuff cost me a lot of worry , cost me a lot of fear
threats
FS : Alright 80 this is
ML: (Unintelligible)
FS : I want s ome stuff on
this thing because 1f you make a
story up then how are you gonna prove for instance
you gonna g0 ahead
ML: No I'm not making anything
up . I wouldn t lie about
it_
FS : No _ no honey , I'm just saying_ If you re gonna g0
ahead and say = I broke into 33 in an apartment
building with 33 Soviet families who did you work
for we 11 I worked for the FBI They" call the FBI
the FBI said we know nothing about it Then you are
a liar_
M: No way am I going to be a liar
FS : I'm just saying they re going to say how we gonna
protect this girl when she S lying to uS because the
FBI says no. But if you name names and say I worked
with this man here it 8 my file I worked over
a six year period_ God dam it that that Justice
Department will say hey baby
we want to see you and
we want to see your files on this girl_ And baby
they got to g0 and come up with it And if they don t.
come up with it they re in trouble_ They re in
trouble Now how could they hide something when they
are working for the s ame people who are their bosses
who are their bosses ? They can tell you to go jump in
a lake over here But Washington D C says
I want to see something here haven t you given
this People protection if all this is true But if
they don t know honey , how the hell are gonna
do anything?
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ML : I guess if some thing happens somebody=
S gonna know
you know
FS : Somebody has to know Now at the beginning you and
your husband _ your husband was manager
M was the building
manager of this building-
And he
FS : Is he still building manager of that building?
ML : Yes but the way this going_
FS : Wel1_ honey forget about it right at the present tine
because we re getting at the building and we re
M Yes yes _
FS : He still manages the building_ Alright , now , how long
has he been manager of this building?
ML : We raised this building, we
FS : In other words when was the first years
M: We were the very first tenants in this building_ We
moved in there before anybody moved in there We
were the first tenants The first person to move in
was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission
FS : What was_ his name?
M: Mr _ Vittikoff_
FS : And who was Mr Vittikoff?
M : He was the first Secretary to Malek the Soviet
Ambassador to the United Nations
FS : Would you say a cesspool of spies which this cesspool
of which is the Soviet
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FS : where" you and your husband worked where he was
manager you were the first people to live in that
place?
ML = 250 East 87th Street the Newberry owned by Clenwood
Management which are crooked and that S on the
corner
of Znd
Avenue it' s cailed the Newberry
FS : now who started to move in there?
M _ Our very first tenant was Mr Ovinikoff he was the
First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
Nations (unintelligible)
FS : Alright , go ahead _ talking into there
M And he' s _ a little guy _ He seemed like normal people
but I never really
FS
:
Well how many people eventually moved in there besides
this man?
M : Oh well the first one was Mr Ovinikoff, the second
one I named The Stalker the third one I have nick-
names
FS : Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute now The
second one who moved in there you called_ you nick-
naned the
M: The Stalker
FS : The Stalker_ What was his real name ?
M Because he he was he checked on the Russians The
Russians checked on the Russians And if 3 woman
Soviet wife_ got out of. hand or went shopping by_ her -
self or did s ome thing out of the way she got pulled
back and she was under house arrest
FS : Alright , what was his name ?
M Mr Artimenko , Artimenko _ I kept , then I
FS : Who was the third one you gave a nickname to?
M: I had nicknanes for all of then_
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FS : Yeah_ but
M : Moonface _ The Stalker
FS : Yeah
M: The Shadow _ It was my Own
little thing of remembering
until I memorized. We started out with the tenants
list
FS : Alright , how many people were
on the tenants list?
M We had the building consisted of 300 units which
300 apartments my husband had access to
fiies Each
Soviet file read the Same Permanent Mission of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republic resident and I
got interested . Then one an agent came at 9 clock
in the and my husband had been previously
working with and other agencies including
this agent which I 11 name that 8 Al Chestone
FS : His first name was what?
ML Albert , Albert Ches tone
FS : What agency was he with?
ML The FBI
FS : Special Agent FBI?
M Yes counterintelligence
FS : Sector of the FBI
ML Yes political, And my husband had known him
previously working with the Polaris missile Polaris
missile thing_ This was before I met my husband or
married hin He did some - thing with the Polaris
missile thing _ And my husband was by this same
agent Anyway we he came daily and we went over the
tenants list and we sort of dissected everybody in
the building
FS : Alright now were you recruited by this agent?
ML: Yes he said are you
willing to work and I said
9
well
} not? He said it doesn t consist of much , a few
burglaries (laughter)
FS : In other words this agent _
ML: Information gather_ get close to
them, get friendly with
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FS : And they wanted you to do s ome burglaries , right?
M: Well, I, yes _
FS : Alright now these burglaries did consist of
you and your husband the burglaries
or you by
yourself?
ML Well my husband had the master keys _
FS : Right_ alright.
ML : And
FS : Well when you did these burglaries
M: We al1 did them together _
re were about 5
7 cars One stationed 'in front of the Soviet Mission _
Suppose say like they were interested in one Soviet
who lost track of who was supposed to be in Washington D C and then they found him all of a sudden in our
buiiding
because had survei llance
across the street That S the first they set
up surveillance _ a camera high-power camera across the street That we were pointed out to That
everybody who went in and out of the
buiiding
was
photographed_
FS : Including yourself
and your husband?
M: Oh yeah me especially in the morning taking
my son to
s chool and everything
FS : Right _
ML But,
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and _
FS : Alright now getting back- to the entries that you made
into the apartments Once you found out that the
people
were not in the apartments how did you find
out weren t in the apartments ?
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FS : Would you knock on the door or some thing?
ML : No_
FS : You saw them leave ?
ML No _ no were assigned first of all we were told
that we wanted wanted to hit the apartment the
Bureau and I would listen and my husband looked at me
and I
iooked
at hin but it was still in the best
interests of the country_ and this was 3 very , very top
KGB agent a Soviet General blah blah blah he was
interested_
FS : Do you know the man S name?
ML: Yes .
FS : This General?
ML : Yes _
FS : What was his name ?
M: Oleg Likichev.
FS : What S his name ?
M: Likichev.
FS : Likichev. He' s a top .
ML: KGB spY _
FS Alright , and he lived in the building?
ML = Yes , with his wife and 5 year old son
FS : Right .
ML : On the 1Oth floor
FS : Alright now you were advising them when they left
the
buiiding Naturally they had surveillance out-
side would know when he left
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FS : Friendly .
ML: Very friendly _ We exchanged gifts and we went to
dinner and we were invited to the U.N_ and we
exchanged _
FS : In other words you were being guided into doing
certain things _
ML : No
FS : This one particular FBI agent _
M This one particular agent told uS daily what to do
FS : Alright now did he you a code name or a code
any particular code
ML My name Mariuch
FS : Mariuch was the name he gave = that he gave You _ right?
ML Mariuch
FS : Alright , it sounds Italian Mariuch is Italian
ML Well he _
FS : Maria_
M He is Italian too_
FS : The agent?
M: Yes
FS : Alright , now when did you ever make an entry into
this top KGB agent 5 apartment?
ML= This one particular there were several This wasn t
the only one
FS Well , let' s talk, let' s talk about the general
M: Oleg was in other words my husband and I discussed
0 it and I said "Louis you know
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FS : It could be very dangerous
M: Yeah , yeah _ I said.
FS : You could get caught
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you could be killed.
M: I said suppose you know we re working in the precinct
on a local level that' s breaking and entering right?
And my husband and I dis you know We discussed it
Now Unc le Al as we started to call this
FS : FBI agent?
ML : FBI agent = said "Look he S a very bad person we lost
hin and we found him and he S in the building and we
want to in the apartment _ We feel he has for
national security reasons we want to enter that
apartment _ Louis will you cooperate?" You know?
0 | And my husband said_ Alright"
FS Did he said he had to discuss it with
M : discussed it in front of me
FS : I mean did your husband say he had he would discuss
it with you about
M No no , but he did but he didn t ask me because I
asked my husband later I said "'Louis if you refuse
to do what Al tells uS to do me as a
'iookout
and
Louis opening the doors for them' Louis said Louis
is my husband said "What do you want me to do , get
subpoenaed? They 11 subpoena me if I don t do it: So
I'11 g0 along with it
FS : So it was agreed.
M: It was agreed that he would do it_
FS : Alright now what did your husband do Did he open the
door for the agents ?
ML Yes he did_
FS : Did he go for what_ one agent , two agents ?
M : Two agents
FS : Two agents _ Was Uncle Al one of those agents?
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ML No he was not
FS : Do you know the name of the two agents that made the
entry?
ML = No I do not
FS : Do not
M : came on the specific morning when they had
FS : You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
were coming?
ML: Yes _
FS : Alright , on a
specific morning?
ML = Yes _
FS : Alright , and
M: They came a3 lumberjacks one as 3 refrigeration
repairman_
FS Right
M Refrigerator
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refrigeration-air conditioning repairman _
FS : Alright, now you and your husband with these two
agents went up to the 10th floor right? You were
stationed where you were going to be the lookout?
ML In the
FS : Hallway?
M: Service entrance
FS : In the service entrance Your husband had the pas8
keys?
M Yes
FS : He opened the door?
ML: Yes
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FS The two agents went in?
M: Yes
FS : Did your husband g0 in?
ML : He: stood at the door _
FS : He stood at the door?
ML = He stood at the door
FS : That is in case they d come back he d.
M Right _
FS : The fact that he is the manager of the building
standing there with two repairman
M: But that he was assured he was assured right _
FS : That these two men were repairmen?
M: That, that just in case s ome thing went wrong with the
5 cars assigned to this job that one car would radio
that Oleg Likichev
was
leaving the Mission at this
moment he is getting into his car, he is on the way
up 2nd Avenue to his residence
FS : Right and they _
ML You ' ve got approximately 7 to 8 minutes
FS : Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out
ML and get out
FS
M So my husband stood in the door and I was in the
staircase and they went in with a , a case that looks
like a television repair case which had high power
cameras
FS : Right
ML: And my husband was always annoyed because
were sloppy_
FS : (Laughter)
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ML The Soviets are very trained they would leave a
cigarette on an ashtray _ If you knocked it over
know imediately someone was in the apartment
FS : Now when the agents before your husband opened the
door with the pass key did the agents look the door
over to see if there was any powder marks tapes
hairs or anything or S Ome thing leaning against the
door to signify that possibly when the Cuban_ general
this not Cuban general
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ML Yes _
FS : wanted to see if somebody made an entry would
leave S Ome thing on the door _
M Yes
FS : They inspected the door right? And they didn't find
anything?
ML : Right_
FS : Right So they opened the door In other words what"
ever they touched_
M= But they made a mistake inside On one break-in and
that_
FS : Alright now no let S not jump _ We re
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you were on
this one particular thing_
M: Alright .
FS : These People did g0 in they did what they had to do
with the cameras and S0 forth, evidently these were
hidden
ML : Yeah
FS : cameras that they installed some place in there right?
M: it was microfiln.
FS : Well there were cameras
M: In the flour can
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Oh _ you mean what the agents brought in?
FS : What the two agents brought in _
M Yes
FS Yeah_ what did bring in with them, what in the
general' s
ML Cameras
FS : They brought cameras
M. Mn-hm
FS which were installed.
M Yeah
FS : What else did they bring in?
ML: I don t know _
FS : listening devices bugging devices?
ML I would say S0 = I think
FS You don t know for sure though?
M: I'm not sure my husband
FS : but you do know about the cameras ?
M Yes
FS Alright but there i8 a
possibility they brought
bugging devices because it' $ logical they would
bring bugging devices
ML I think sometimes plenty of times they wanted to
plant a
FS : Sure _
ML: Especially in the television the cable TV the
FS : Well they install that through the walls and So forth
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M No in the they' d hook it up to the master antenna
for the cable TV _
FS : Oh _ for the cable TV _ Wel1 yeah alright .
M: That way they thought they could tune in to them
transmitting
FS : Yeah Alright now how long did stay in to
the General S apartment?
M: In the apartment , approximately 10-15-20 minutes'
FS : Then they left_ your husband closed the door did he
his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?
ML = No , but my husband would usually put the edge of the
rug back the way he found it_
FS : Right , in other everything
ML: It was turned over .
FS : had to be placed back the Same way it was
M: And he would watch them and were rough _
FS Well_ we ' 11 forget about that part_ We re not
interested in
ML This worried my husband because this would_
FS : Yeah , it would make
M They knew_
FS : Make them know there was an entry _
ML : Right _
FS : Okay now they did that, they left Did did did the
agents ever g0 back into that apartment again?
M: No one tine
FS : Just one time and never went back into that_
ML No _
FS : that particular apartment
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ML : they were satisfied.
FS : were satisfied S0 evidently everything worked out
alright _ Even though_
M: Mm-hm
FS : your husband was on edge about the way the agents
were
M Oh
FS : Okay? Alright_ S0 we 11 forget that part _ Now how
about other entries We 11 get one at a time
ML : The other entry that 8 outstanding is Soviet
FS : Yeah g0 ahead_ keep talking.
ML : Very Americanized Soviet _ hands ome married with a 10
year old daughter I forget his name I have them
al1 at home And I nicknaned him "The Tennis Player"
because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
every to make contacts with Americans and try
to recruit guess gather information at the same
time He
spoke Engiish
without an
FS : (unintelligible)
ML : Fluently without an accent down to curses and slang
and everything else _ His wife
FS : You got friendly with him also?
M: No , he even suggested to take my husband to a mas sage
parlor and he was way out too much way out _
FS : In other words play with girls ?
M : I had his , no , I was well he was one of those
FS : He liked to play?
ML: Yeah
FS : He was a playboy
ML : He was a playboy _ That' s , they use
FS : Which is yeah _
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his apartment they did his apartment too
FS What did do?
ML They broke in_
FS : Wel1 now wait a minute
M used my husband to break in This a job I wasn t
on but
FS Well , that not breaking in now _ It' $ illegal entry.
ML Entry _
FS : Right _ In other words used your husband and you
also as a stakeout again?
M Yeah
FS : On that. particular one
ML Mm-hm _
FS : He opened the door again _ What floor did he have his
apartment?
M I don' t recall that _ I'd have to get the tenants list,
FS : Alright it makes no difference Alright don ' t
worry about that_ But they made entry into his
apartment _
ML Yes .
FS : What did they do in his apartment?
M I guess they microfilmed and planted
a device Anyway
either way , whatever they did" they did
FS : With the corpor cooperation of your husband?
ML: Cooperation of my husband _
FS : And yourself .
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ML : And they did it S loppy because this particular Soviet
the tennis player made a formal complaint to the
23rd Precinct, PIU investigation unit where I was
working_
FS : When you say PIU , what' s PIU?
M: Prisoner Investigation Unit.
FS : Prisoner or Police?
M= Prisoner Investigation Unit_
FS : Was that a ce unit?
ML: That S the 23rd precinct
FS : Police =
ML: Right,police. .
FS : Alright.
ML: artment I was working up there
FS : Alright _
ML: Now I answered the phones _
FS : Oh hn-mm.
ML : You understand?
FS : Yeah
ML: And this tennis player called uP and denanded a
detective I was working up there and the detectives
were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and
here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
complaint of breaking and entering his apartment _ I
had him on the phone
FS : And he didn t know it was you .
ML: And I died , I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
X on
talking and talking and talking and I couldn t
disguise my voice I was afraid he would know that I
it was me I took the complaint in, other words
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FS : Right.
ML : And I wrote up the 61
FS : Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here _
ML The 61 complaint report
FS : Alright = let me ask You this here You say you were
working for thispolice department in this precinct .
What was your job with then?
M : Auxiliary volunteer Photos translations rape
case8 interrogation
FS : And at that time you were answering phone calls that
were coming in?
M: And typing and doing other things but I don t really
want to get those: guys involved because
FS No _ I just wanted wanted them to know what you were
doing in the police department _
ML : I was an auxi liary sergeant _
FS : Answering the phones_ Okay _
M: Auxiliary is a volunteer police _
FS : Right enough _ Now what other entries did you make
with them_ That 8 two that you
specified.
ML: Two _ The rest I didn t want to go along with because
I was a little afraid S0 my .
FS : Things
were getting a little hot for you_
ML Yes because we had too many Russians we had the
Albanians we had the Red Chinese
FS : All living in that building?
M All living in the s ame building_ There was it was
comical The Albanians wouldn t talk to the Russians
the Russians ignored the Albanians the Red Chinese
went down the service entrance and to avoid the
Russians and the Al- it was just .the Secret Service
in the garage and in the front door The narcotics
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roon . It was it
was a merry-go-round_
FS : In other words
M We had in one about four different agencies
watching people
FS : In and out of the building_
ML: And we didn t know if we were coming or going _
FS : Yeah
M We lived on the second floor We had a view of the
street and we would signal to the across the street
surveillance apartment apartment you know We d
see the cars up and the cars leave
FS Alright now
ML My . husband did most of he d been doing it
FS : He ' d been most of the end of the
M Yes because I felt I didn t want to get caught _ I
just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck
of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived
on one floor and if anyone of them walked out when my
husband was opening the door to let those guys in my
husband would have been dead .
FS : Alright not only that I understand that you were
getting very familiar with many of the fanilies of
M I wa8 too friendly _
FS : these people
ML : with the families
FS : Right S0. you didn t want to go ahead and
ML They trusted me alone in their apartments We had many
discussions together , we exchanged medicine I gave
them medicine for one child who
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FS : At the s ame time you tried to get a3 much information
out of them a8 you can being
on that friendly basis
ML: I was on 2 very social
FS : Right
M natural basis
FS : Right .
M: And I became friendly with then_
FS : How long, how long.
ML : We even were paid money to throw a few parties _
FS : You were paid money
ML: For the Soviets
FS : You were given money the
M: By the (Justice Department_
FS : Yeah
ML To throw a few parties
FS : So the lagents could make surveillance _
ML So could make surveillance
FS : And conttact?
M: And conltact
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FS : Well, blooze can loosen a lot of people S mouths
M Well itl was mostly their vodka anyway they gave
uS
But: they suggested the agents as waiters
and barjenders and al1 that And I said that wouldn t
g0 Sojviet people are very trained _ They smell any -
thing like that And I was very open with them _ They'd
leave from the countries and I would be the first to
know would bring back gifts They babysat my
children I babysat their children We exchanged
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medicine and I just didn t want anything to g0 wrong
FS : But your husband continued to work with the agency
right?
M: Yes We = we took we ID' d photos We watched for
cars We watched their movenent It was and night _
FS : You did a lot of surveillance. work on these people
but you yourself personally , wanted to try to keep
out of the
M= Yeah
FS : operation as far as
ML : Break
FS : entering into the apartments right?
ML: Yes
FS : How did this last? Over a period of how " long?
ML = 1969 to 1976 .
FS : Al1 these years?
M: Yes =
FS : That' s doing surveillance on these people
ML: Yeah We were
FS : How about the Albanians now tell me about the code
M: The Albanians the Albanians we
got very friendly with
a Mr ani Ambassador to the Mission the U.N and
the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are
The Russians dry clean their own clothes burn their
own garbage have no photos personal things in the
apartment The Albanians are more they allow their
children to watch television The Soviets don t We
convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
mission which they blocked a complete fire exit was
on the 21st floor of the Newberry They lived in the
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they had about 30 30 families who resided there and
their mission was there And we became very friendly
with then because of one incident especially my
husband took went to see his mother and left me in
charge of the buil That same day they had a So-
called demonstration where the demonstrators had a
25-minute Picketing right to picket The demonstra-
tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags
and everything 'and the Albanians came down They al1
are armed _ They re all armed and they_agitated the
rioters out on the street And I was alone with only
my basic police training and my wits really and a
panicking doorman and my kids I was just
alone
I
the first thing I looked out the window when I heard
the shooting I called the Bureau and I said "Get me
06 Al Chestone fast I said I don t have Louis here
I said I need help I have a denons tration I don t
know what to do _ And there were about 500 people
throwing bricks bottles everything through the plate
windows Burning American flags and Albanian
flags because of some thing that happened in Albania
Those that defected here started this demonstration
So then I things got out of hand the doorman was
hurt with a brick I saw blood and the Albanian
Ambassador and five
top officiais
tated these
people from inside the lobby with fists Very
unprofessional-like-
FS : Yeah_
M= So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
them_ "Get upstairs get upstairs and get yourself
back into the mission because tenants were walking
through the lobby and we were going to getaauc be
flying_glass and everything else And had no
The police were outside of the line
FS : Marita what we re going into details is s Ome thing
that is story _
ML : Oh alright
FS : So we 11 go ahead and just bypass that_
M: Anyway the Albanians Al was interested into and
especially because they were admi the Red Chinese
into the United Nations which they did It was that
speech which I have the original copy of _ Ambassador
Rocco Nocco t
sounds crazy , but that 8 his name Rocco
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Nocco _ and they were were s loppier and the
agent Al Chestone
toid
me convince them you know
case em keep going: up and down the steps what
time throw their garbage out Garbage was
the most valuable source of information for the
Bureau and that was
FS : Garbage and trash
ML: Trash_ Chicken bones codes diapers whatever you
know and that was my job because I had the patience
Now the FBI supplied
me with bandaids and gloves
flashlights batteries and the whole thing because
I convinced the Albanians that the compacter which
was the disposal system in the building from 31 floors
down in other words when they threw their garbage
out that it would come out in brick form block forn_
brick crushed which in fact was not true
FS : But they believed it?
M They believed it trusted uS Louis and I were
the only ones
allowed in the mission : We were the
only ones
FS : Now this mission is that building you
were
talking
about
ML That 8 still there_
FS : Still there_
M Very much there That S the code that you have
FS : Right
ML : So _ I started , made it a every two hour routine to go
after midnight when they their garbage out in the
hall uP the bags Take them down to the service
entrance and take the bags at home take em home
And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
gather torn upP letters this was before they got smart
and bought a Shredder (unintelligible) And I would
turn this garbage letter in other words I would
past it together and it to the Bureau and some
of these letters turned out to be very valuable Among
then was one code now _
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FS : I would assume that these letters that were in code_
they would be classified material_ Otherwise it
wouldn t be in code
ML _ Very valuable yes The
FS : And this was turned over to who?
ML= To Al Chestone . The first code I got _ I just got on
3 hunch lucky Because it was just at the time when
the Red Chinese entered the United States first
came here Mr Huang Yua and I met them. We met
them first before anybody met them Louis and I
And that s ame night the code came down at 3:00 in the
morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
said Louis I can t S leep , I'm going down and do
08 some work _ Give me the keys to the compacter room _
So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough
around 3 : 30 these bags started to come down from the
2lst floor _
FS : 3 : 30 in the morning?
M 3:30 in the morning because Al said watch then
closely because of the Red Chinese _ And I shut
the machine off and I got these I got this code
I caught it in other words but it
M This is the code you turned over to me ?
FS This is the first code the very first code at the
risk of having my hands chopped off because if I
didn t shut that machine off in time I could have
been hurt_ But I got it. The first code was very
valuable It was sent to Washington _
(End of tape
0r
side 2)
FS : these bags of stuff and 1f you hadn t have turned
off the machine you would have got your hand either
chopped up or cut off and S0 forth. What did were
you saying about Al Uncle Al?
ML Uncle Al slept and I did the work and by the time I
got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
out of the garbage and separated the letters and
every tiny iittle piece with tweezers and everything ,
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Put it all in a box, right down to every piece I
ruined my rugs and everything And Uncle Al would
come at 8 : 30 9 :00 in the morning and I would still
be up separating the garbage and he' d be all fresh
and ready for work and I had just come back from the
garbage room And
FS : You stayed awake all night?
M: Yeah with the tweezers and I use to run out of
skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn t
stick these letters togethers without skotch tape ,
S0 he brought me a box of skotch tape which
was very kind of him_ Then I would give it to him
and he d he d have coffee tea and toast or whatever _
And I'd say , I want to g0 to sleep 10 And he d
s ay "No_ no , no wait a minute Mr So-and-s0,
or
Berzofsky ,
we want to get a line on Mr Berzofsky _
FS Who was Mr Berzofsky?
M:
Berzofsky_ the Second Secretary to the Union of the
Soviet Socialist Republic_
FS : What was his first name do you know?
ML : Mmm , I forgot_
FS : That 8 alright , it don t matter
M: I forgot really _ But we were very close to him_ His
wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was
she 3 she S adorable She S nice she S sweet and
she has a lovely daughter _ Irene who turned out to
have liver cancer She was a little when I first
met her like my daughter_ My daugher played with her
they took piano lessons together exchanged books and
the little girl at sixteen Irene was sent back to
the Soviet Union with liver cancer I got very close
to the mother the mother was heartbroken_ the father
was heartbroken I guess like any mother and father
when their oly child turns out to have liver cancer
She 8 diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they
asked me to get medicine pain killers for Irene I
do S0 and pass along to them empirin and codine #4
which is a pain kilier which they smuggled over to
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their daughter on with the permission of
the FBI We exchanged jewelry , clothes and everything
else We were just one mother to another mother
Their little in trouble mine not in trouble and
it was little things like that that I would get very
involved with_ I don t know
FS : Morita let me ask you this here did the agents ever
tell you to g0 out with any of the diplomats in the
mission?
M Well now we have to go back to Likichev_
FS : And who is he again?
ML He was the KGB spY that they lost and thought he
thought he was still residing in Washington the out-
side of Washington_ D C. in Virginia_ He was
supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
and al1 of 3 sudden picked him
up in our building=
as
being in our building They lost him and they were
furious the Bureau and they wanted uS very close to'
hin _ And he we had a lot of evenings together we
spent with him, dinners and he came to uS
FS : In other words he asked you to g0 out , did he ask
(unintelligible)
ML Well Oleg , let' s just say I don t know if it
was a
game they were Playing or if they
were doubles
or what talked a lot about the State of
Washington resi in the State of Washington_
also knew I had diamonds and he asked me
(unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds ?"
FS : What did he call
ML Ilonka Marischa Ilona Marita
FS : that' s in Russian?
M Yes And we always exchanged Russian words and I
know a few enough to get by on Al1 of a sudden
you know he was interested in diamonds He had a
fascination for diamonds His wife she was kind
of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me
and I kept telling Uncle Al this thing is going to
out of hand_ I said al1 of a sudden he wants
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diamonds and Al what do, I do _ Go ahead , talk to
him about
diamonds So I said what do you
mean by diamonds ? He said uncut stones for cash
I am a Soviet official I cannot g0 into a_ jewelry
store like you and them. I want diamonds I' m
willing to pay 3 hundred thousand dollars for then_
I said, I said tell me And he said
"Money does anybody want diamonds I said it' s
a enough reason So I said Louis what
can we do for about his diamonds ? And Louis
said we 11 figure something out And then Oleg said_
this was at a dinner party up in their house Hot
diamonds he wanted hot uncut raw diamonds So
he was serious he was dead serious He said he
would them for cash
FS How serious was he ? Did you ever get any for him?
ML Well it got this far We told Uncle Al the next
morning I said "Unc le A1 I got a surprise for
you . You re gonna have to come up with s ome hot
diamonds A hundred thousand dollars worth because
I promised that I would get them for him since
89 he can t them _ wants diamonds And I
said if you can two and two_together maybe this
guy will defect because he 8 talking about the State
of Washington _ I said but you have to be careful
I have to be careful So Al said I'11 you
the diamonds You tell him to get the cash ready_
So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and_got
the diamonds Uncle Al made a boo-boo and the
of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
in the apartment Ozefe
was at a sports meeting in
Washington D.C . Al said I ve got to give
these diamonds back to the underworld or them
the cash I said "Listen I told you tomorrow
not today Al Tomorrow because told uS he ' s
going to this soccer
meeting in Washington D. C .
Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is He is
0 in Washington D C . "Oh is he?" I said
he is Right Anyway Uncle Al started to
Panick
because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
dollars worth of uncut_ hot diamonds
FS : himself?
~
M : By himself_ and I was S upposed to get the cash from
said on a
Thursday and Uncle Al came on
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FS : So what happened?
M: fell through Al said he had to give them back to
the underworlds to his source So he took them
back and then you know I had to talk my
way out of it_ It was just one of the flubs But
anyway after I left my husband Oleg kept asking for
me
kept coming directly to the apartment and say-
ing , "Louis I don` t believe you two split you two
g0 she left I don t believe it_ And my husband
said "yes she did leave It S her own problems
18 you know forget about it_ And he said_
it S not possible _ You must stay together _
You must stay together_ he kept coming
about four times and asking
'ryy Husbende
my until my
husband made a joke of it and said wants to
see you _ I mean he S made it dam Plain that he
wants to see you _ In other words if you re
finished I'11 take over Where is she living? My
husband tells him I'm living
on 88th Street_ Now
I talked to my husband and I said what did you do
that for? Tell him I'm living on 88th Street?
You know because I know he wants to g0 out with
me You can feel' it I can feel it the you know?
So I call up
Uncle Ai
meantime is trans ferred to
Newark I get another case agent_ Louis gets a
case agent for the building and he works alone ,
without me The other agent is John Kotter
FS : With the FBI?
ML : FBI 69th Street _ I call up John Kotter_ I said
"John I hear your taking A1 S place" 00 and I meet
him things start things drop things
different assignments then we get to I said
look is bothering Louis He wants to g0 out
with me And John Kotter says "'Beautiful that is
a beautiful setup Let S call him uP I said
wait a minute Either do this sophisticated,
alright?_ First I'11 s end him a Christmas card and
sign it Ilonka Marischa you know? I 11 put my
phone number on the bottom Some thing you know?
Or I 11 happen to be there when he 8 going into the
0 building
or I'11 bump into hin_ I said you don t
just cali him up You know that S going to be like
a setup because I ve been avoiding hin So , anyway ,
he tells
9
he outlines the whole thing_ I said what
16 have you got Planned John And he says Do you
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realize what a bomb this is ? This KGB spy wants
And I said "Wel1" I say "he' s not really my
type _ I said but again _ the best interests of the
country but how far do you want me to And he
said
'ail
the way 0 $ I said what is al1 the way? He
said_ "You start with a Christmas card_ 0 Well the
Christmas card was answered by Oleg going to Louis
and saying "I got Ilonka 8 Christmas card Where is
she living Louis?" You know S0 John talked me into
calling the mission _ I call up the mission across
from 19th precinct and I said "Oleg this is Ilonka
10 Marischa Hello darling you know and this this
and this And I said oh everything is wired and
everything from the mission anyway But he S top
there He is top in the mission_ He has the
say _ He S a very important person in the Soviet
mission Anyway John okays
a telephone coil pickup
that I have on my
phone to 3 Soni tape recorder We
make a tape of this because John Kotter is sitting
on
and needles wai for me to replay that tape
on what tells me you know? Oleg doubletalks
but we get 3 message that we want to meet you know?
So they had S Qme kind of a
security council
and we
made a date and it was Postponed. Oleg called up
and apologized which I also have on tape _ And each
time the Bureau was very_happy We re gonna start a
blossoming relationship here you know and end up
with photographs and better some thing _ which I don ' t
think I would have gone all the way _ But that' s what
their idea was S0
they can exchange at a later date
FS Blackmail?
M= Well
into
FS : Blackmail hin giving them information (unintelligible)
M like they, get one of our one of our pilots right?
And if we don t get our
pilot back they expose
right? Or make him
FS : Be 3 double agent _ Blackmail him.
M: Be a double
FS : into being a double agent
ML: Right .
FS : That' $ the idea _
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M And I'm in the middle . So _ anyway , I g0 , I g0 to the
mission with my daughter who was at the time 12 years
old My daughter I guess is 3 little use to my
life She 8 use to FBI
ali
her life_ She knows not
to talk_ She knows whether we look at her when to
say some thing_ I guess she 8 the closest thing: to me
now She goes along She 8 very cool and we both
walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
to do a project for school on the Soviet Union She
needed material Now as soon as We walked into the
mission everybody there I know because they reside in
the building; And they all say Ilonka Marischa
blah blah blah blah. 00 And I m very friendly with
then al1_ all love my daughter But we re
there for other reasons We re there to g0 to see
We gather we gather the material meanwhile
I'm aware that every picture has an eye or every
Poster has a mirror or camera , you know? But my
daugher S very cool and we re left alone in the room
where the Soviet material is displayed_ But I know
we re being watched_ She knows it too and she
doesn t she s ays 'Mommy look this is beautiful
0i beautiful You know? Then I ask for Oleg to this
very_ very tough Soviet woman that said "What you
want
{"
you know I said Likichev Please _
['d like
to speak to him_ 0 And she called and he
is still in the United Nations he asks you to wait_
I refused a wire or anything like that , but
FS : What wire are you
talking about?
ML : A wire on me
FS : Oh
M: Because
FS : That the agents (unintelligible)
ML : Yes because I know likes me and if he sees me
he would me and me and that' s the Russian
way_
FS : Yeah
M: And he 11 feel that and I'm dead .
FS : Right _
M: Right in the mission That 8 not my . proper there
FS : Right
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ML And I wouldn t risk it with my daughter So anyway
we waited: We were allowed the run of the
Piace_
We
knew everyone there and _
FS : Like you say , eyes were
watching you.
ML : Oh defini definitely , because that' s how they
test you when you walk in there And you just don 't
get in there and have the run of the place you re
not left alone But I know you re
being watched_
FS : Sure
ML_ Anyway , there was this it was it was a legitimate
excuse that was tied up in the United Nations
because it was in the paper the next that it
was S Ome security council meeting And {
said
"Please this note to Mr Likichev Tell him
thank you very much for the material_ And best
wishes to his wife blah blah , blah and we left
Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested uS ,
a
uniformed police officer
FS : For what reason ?
ML He gave 4S a
dirty look and made a very S lurring
nasty remark when I left But I hate to knock the
police department because they re helping me now
But I guess he didn t know You know ?
FS : Yeah he thought you were Russians
ML : He thought I was a Russian
FS : Or a
Russian sympathizer _
M : Right , especially going in with a child and I looked
very .
FS : Yeah
M American Anyway I got home and John Kotter was
waiting in front of my door I remember it was
raining He was reading- And I said he said "Are
you going to meet Oleg? I said, "Now how the hell
can I make a date with with my daughter?"
FS Yeah
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ML I said Oleg' s in the United Nations don t you
tell me these things before that they re delayed at
a
security council meeting you know instead of me_
letting, letting me sit there You know these are
all the little things that use to annoy me
FS : Yeah
ML that they have to screen things_ first before
know check things out don t have to make a
geunder
like that Anyway I said I left Oleg
a note _ I
said now you go hone and I m going to take it easy
and they we tried and I said "You know John
you re just going to get me S0 involved with
I' m not going to end up in bed in a motel room
upstate somewhere with Oleg s0 You can come in and
19 take photographs That S not my stick_ I said
I'11 gather garbage get_ license Plates tape do
everything else but I'11 even take the mail like
I' ve been doing but I'm not going to be caught_ in
bed . I said that S too big a Pawn for me and I'm
not getting anything for it right now
They &llowed
me to take mail steam it photograph it and put it
back Some of that mail is now missing which
belongs to the Soviet people _ which this perpetrator
perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
asked the FBI to please help me with that_
FS : Who ' s the perpetrator?
ML The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano _ aka Pionne
aka David who broke into my ' apartment and . stole
this tape with Likichev these love conversations
the mail and Part of the Albanian code He has those
in his possession He threatens my life with it_ He
threatens blackmail with_ me He assaulted me He
pistol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for
FS : Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build- window?
ML : Yes
FS : He did what?
ML : Yes he tried to me out the window
FS : 18 stories ?
M: Yes and I told him stay away get back because if
anything_happens to me there 8 letters with the
Justice Department naming everything I know about you ,
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and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot my
daughter in the back He S threatening her right
now with disgrace because she is the daughter of
the of a well-known man Right now my main concern
is the these letters and the. code and the tape and
possibiy other things are in the hands of this
Guiseppi Faisiano and he wants money from me and
he S probably right nOw at the building He is
cas the Soviets and he 8 going to try to go to
the S ame people that he has on the letters to tell
them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge ,
for having him arrested on the assault charge with a
gun . He also wants money He wants to disgrace the
FBI He S
blackmailing right now my husband ny ex_
husband for the master keys of the Newberry My
husband is calling me for and I don t know what
co do I asked Frank to help me I gave him the
code because everybody refused_ I was afraid to have
anywhere I guess Frank helped me before in Gzya
and I don t I worked he worked for me and I
worked for him and I don t know where to go because
the only ones that are helping me now are the local
police in their lunch hours or when I m too afraid
to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
kids And they' 11 take the children home when I get
a threat on the phone or a box in the mailbox or get
my back door shot at I take my children and I put
them in the 23rd precinct_
FS : They even off duty.
ML : The
off-duty police, police officers take my children
home
FS : And spend time at the house ?
M : And they spend time at the house in their free time
when they should be home with their fanilies
FS : Well you have saved the life of two
people, right?
M : I would think S0 _
FS : Well you have .
ML : Yes _
FS : When one of the
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M federal narcotics informant
FS : Undercover agent_
$
right?
ML: Undercover agent Pino Cantanya and Assistant Federal
District Attorney Thomas A Puccio from Brooklyn_
FS : And you saved their lives because 3 contract was
being put out on then?
M: Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
out
FS : And even though you have saved their lives
ML: I asked them please help
me with this man he has
Soviet documents he S hurt me he S hurt my
children he almost shot my
daughter He I asked
them Please help me because I gave You information
for nothing and" they said they promised to do something
on this individual imigration-wise So far he has
threatened everybody around me My physicians my
mother my ex-husband my children my neighbors my
super
FS : He 8 an illegal immigrant?
M : He is I would say he S an illegal alien
FS : What' s his full name his real name?
M: His arrest name that he was arrested under was
Guiseppi Faisaino He has he S also known as David
He has a passport under this name He S also
knowni as Pinno and he is 3 gunman Never worked a
in his life never paid taxes he S. a gambler
he 8 a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on
organized crime at the racetrack _ Roosevelt: Raceway _
Yonkers and
FS : other agencies ?
ML : Organized Crime Commission Bureau OCCB _
FS : Ever worked with DEA ? Drug Enforcenent Agency?
M: Yes I did.
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FS : Who are the people you are in touch with?
M Two agents Murphy and Shannon This was
FS You know their full names?
M: Well I have a number and a night number and
I did s ome work in the Newberry with my husband
with them involving the Cuban narcotics connection
in South America I also worked with the organized
crime gamb
FS Now you" ve turned you want me to turn this tape
over to Senator Baker 8 committee to be turned over
to the Justice Department is that correct? Right ?
ML: Yes
FS : You want me turn the
ML : Yes I would like you Frank to turn this over just
in case s ome thing happens to me because I don t know
which way it' s going to come
FS : And you need some protection right now right?
M I need S ome type of help for my children because of
this man Pinno threatening to expose my
dealings with
the FBI and to the foreign press I just caught uP
in this thing since 1959 and I ve been with it up
until last month last week and I ve just and I need
There is no help I mean since last month and
I don t want my_ children hurt_ They" ve already been
hurt
FS : Alright = I promis e to turn this tape and the code. over
to Senator Baker S committee , right?
M: Yes
FS : Who in turn will turn the information over to the
proper officials in Washington, D C
M: Yes I don' t mean to embarass the Bureau_ I know how
important it is but at this point I need
desparately for my kids re 6 and 14 and
don t deserve what they have to go through The
whole summer locked up threatened and afraid and
my daughter of exposure
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FS : Did they every try to kidnap
ML: Yes _
FS : the kids ?
M: They threatened to kidnap my children were
once abducted by this man I had no knowledge of
it On the last of s chool and he he will
hurt them_ He will hurt them this man is sick_
He S he 8 on 10 valiums a He 8
unpredictable _
He 8 vengeful_
FS And his close association with top mobsters ?
M: Yes he has close associations
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Marita Lorenze (M) Interviewed by Frank Sturgis on 9/2/76
Frank Sturgis (FS)
ML : Marita Lorenze
FS : You an American citizen?
ML: Yes
FS : Were you born here ?
M Born in Braemen Germany on August 18 1939 and my
mother registered me at birth with the Consulate
because she was_ stuck in the war over there but I
am an American citizen not naturalized or anything_
I was registered as an Anerican citizen
FS How old were you when you came to the United States ?
M: I was about 12 came over on the U.S.S, Henry Gibbons
American troop transport because my mother worked for
the United States Army _
FS now we re going to g0 ahead and jump _ You went
to Cuba what month and what year and on what ship?
ML: I met , I went I took several trips with my father
who was Comander of the oceanliner Berlin I met
Fidel
FS What was your father' s full name?
M Comander Heinrich Frederick Lorenz_
FS : And how old was he?
M Approximately 50-something , 55 when I first, I went
on several trips _ to Cuba before I met Fidel with,
but I was a little
FS : When 8 the first time you went to Cuba after Fidel
took over the government on January 1 19592
M: I met' Fidel February 28 1959 on one of my father S
cruises where Fidel cane aboard with several of his
men He said he saw the oceanliner from the Havana
Hilton balcony and he took a launch with his Chief
of the Navy _ what S his name I forgot Castagna _
FS : Forget it forget about it
} we can g0 ahead Who
else was there besides the chief of the Cuban navy
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and Fidel and several of his armed guards
FS now what happened
ML Castanyava
FS : Castanyava
M Cas tanyava was the chief of the
FS : And Fidel offered you a job or S Ome thing , can you
go into that?
M Wel1 he was very fond of everything German He
said he read and my father you know tried
to pacify the tourists the passengers on
the . ship
because they were terrified thought they were
being invaded _ So I helped my father pacify the
tourists and it was really
a funny scene Then I
steered Fidel to my father' s cabin and we went to
dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the
table And this was February 28 1959: on the cruise
FS : And he offered you a job , right?
ML Yes after about 5 hours. on_ board ship we went back
up to my father 8 cabin and had drinks and exchanged
gifts and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
very well My father is lomatic and
exchanged plaques and my father 8 silver ashtray and
stuff like that And he asked me he asked my father
if since I was bilingual if I
couid
go cone back
return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
getting German mail and he did not speak German and
he assured me that I would be safe and set uP in an
office and blah blah blah blah_ And I had
friends in Cuba anyway
FS How old: were you then?
ML= Nineteen nineteen years old:
FS : Did you get off the ship and stay there?
M: No , I went back to New York Fidel on the bridge _
asked me for my phone number and address in New York
and said he would call me and I just I didn t
believe it
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M: The 'same I arrived in New York Because my
father took off that night for Germany again and
the phone and it rang at 1 0' clock in the
morning. I guess_ the previous
FS Wel1 he went back to Germany with the right?
Where did you
ML= I was
living with my brother in New York City _
My brother was a translator for the United Nations
and I was alone living in New York going to
the Merchantson Banker School_
FS : Well how did you get back to New York from
Havana?
M= On my father S ship. It was the last stop on the
cruise of about 5 or 6 stops
FS : Oh , in other words the in other words the ship left
that night , left Havana that night
ML Yeah _
FS : went over to New York and then from New York went
back to Europe , right?
M: Yes Yes I thought about Fidel and he pointed out
this is my Havana and I guess I wa8 impressed. I
was young , I don t know_ And I thought that
FS He called, .he called you he knew just about what
time you were going to arrive' in New York and when
you got there he called you , what the same the S ame
you got there?
ML The same our
ship arrived three later And I
just picked up the phone and the Havana operator said
one moment please the Prime Minister is on the phone =
on the line and I heard some shouting and then I
heard "hello"
FS Did he speak Cuban or English to you?
ML : He spoke broken English in his hoarse voice_ I guess
he was giving a lot of speeches at that time And he
asked me "'Hello Marita_ you think I don t call? I
think about you very much and I call I keep my word_
0 I want to Prove to you that one man 8 Cuban word I keep
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ML: I was as surprised , I was very surprised.
(contd.)
FS How long was it did you leave New York to g0 to
Havana?
ML : Fidel said to me I said 1s this really
you Fidel
and he said yes _ I am in Havana Hilton you call
me back in room 2408 and I said no alright I
believe you I said because how else would you have
my number He said I want you come back I think
about you and I will send a Plane my Plane and you
8B come back And it was a
joke really I liked the
Cocoa Glace it' s an ice cream in 3 cocoanut shell
and he had sent to my father S ship
a case of it So
I would have enough for the return home because
I don t know I just talked about Havana the island
in general_ So I and I still didn t
believe
him
that he would send the plane
FS : Did he send the airplane?
ML Yes
FS : What kind of an airplane did he send?
M A Cubana airliner with.
FS : Four engines?
M Yes with two men and two men came to the my door
I was at 344 West '87th Street at the time on
the second and my brother was at a UN party
and I was home
aione
S tudying Oh no in fact I was
reading 3 Herbert L Mathews article on Fidel Castro
and Cuba when the doorbell rang , and - it was Jesus
and Pedro
and_they showed me identification: One came in military
uniform the other in civilian clothes One smiled
one didn 't_ One said 0 Are you ready?" 1b And one said _
0 } g0 now Fidel want very much co see you _
FS (Laughter)
ML And I said I didn't finish my homework yet I was like
in shock I didn t know what to do So they said they
were staying in a hotel that they would the plane
would leave tomorrow
Piease be ceady_
I meanwhi le I
haven t even
unpacked
you know from the cruise My
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(contd,) I hadn t even unpacked because I was worred about
missing two at school_
FS : Yeah
M So I went _
FS : Well these are incidentals anyway S0 , what d you
do you went to the airport? What airport did the
airplane was the airplane at?
M Uh _ LaGuard which is not Kennedy it was at that
time named some thing else Idlewild, right?
FS Idlewild; yeah
M And
FS : It was Idlewild airport , that 8 where they had the
airplane Cubana Airlines ?
M Yeah , Cubana Airlines Got on
the plane _
0 `
FS : How many people where on . the airplane?
M Me a 8 teward , 2
pilot and 3
co-pilot and the two
guards
FS ha had
a I
that' $ funny _ Go ahead .
ML So anyway , I met Fidel and that 8 when I got involved.
FS This is more or less a background S0. they know her
background_
M : Yeah that' that' s out anyway
(Unidentified voice: "Yeah right.")
FS : I mean don t drag it out s0 much because the details
of all this thing is
M: Yeah_
FS : Is yours you know Go over it lightly_ So you went
back to Havana right?
M Right _
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Cause we 11 g0 over this lightly
M : I was in the
FS : At the Hilton?
M I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton
FS : And that 8 where Fidel was staying at the Hilton right?
ML : Yes he was
having
an argument in his suite with Chez
Raoul and some Americans
FS : He was 'having some argument with some Americans Do
you know who the Americans were?
ML: Yes
FS Who were they?
ML One lady. attorney trying to.promote something Muriel:
FS : Oh this wa8 more business or some thing like that?
ML : Yes business Everybody was trying to promote this
and that with Fidel
FS Yes
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ML: So then I was told to g0 in the room and wait and the
door locked_ And I wa3 in there in his suite and
Fidel came in and I missed hin and he missed me and
the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it
FS You 11 write it don ' t worry _ Alright now
ML: If I live
FS : Do you know approximately when you met me ?
ML : A couple months or two months or three months after
that
FS No That was very _ I think you met me around what April?
M April
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FS : April of 1959 right?
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FS : And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
lobby?
ML Yes
FS : That" where when I saw_
ML = That' s what I said, a couple months
FS : Right .
ML: right after that.
FS : In April right _ And this is where we made contact
and S0 forth and then we saw each other a few times
after that
ML In the coffee shop _
FS : In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited
to go ahead and spy for the United States and 80 forth
and = were you ever introduced or to Colonel Nickels?
M Yes
FS : Do you know who Colonel Nickels is right. He was
the Colonel who was
military attache with the American
Embassy in Havana Cuba at that time right?
M: Yes
FS : Then you_started your
spy thing and S0 forth
and So forth, alright?
M Um Kum_
FS : We 11 go ahead and jump 3 little bit and S0 forth
There were several mee tings that Fidel had in the
Hilton with some of the people of the staff_ I was
present at the meeting
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right?
M Right
FS And One of the time that Fidel was talking to the
staff concerned the ling casinos and American
business interests in Cuba , right?
M Right
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FS : And it was stated that he was going to run all the
racketeers out of
M: Out of Cuba _
FS : Cuba All the American businesses were going to g0
ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
Cuba for the Cubans
ML Right
FS : And S0 forth_ And then it was suggested about well
you know the Anerican government may not like it_
YouE re gonna have all the American business interests
put pressure on the State Department which would put
pressure on hin and that they would be up in arms and
they would have the agents they would send new agents
into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close
closely contacted at least certain people in the CIA
had contact with the 26th of July movenent As 3
matter of fact that they were exchanging information
with Castro
M Uh hum
FS : which enabled him to outwit many of the other groups
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really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time So
Fidel with the help of CIA.
M Yes
FS : got to be the ruler of Cuba _ Now
M: I Would what about where did Fidel most of his
guns from?
FS : Well you know
M : To lead the revolution?
FS : Right , you know 80 forth That' s 3 story which we
won t have to g0 into and S0 forth because we just
(unintelligible) briefly over it And then there
came a
Period of time where Fidel in al1 his
popularity and So. forth was now Fidel with you he
made approaches to you right_ and 80 forth?
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FS : He told you he loved you and S0 forth_
ML= Yes
FS : And he seduced you, right? And , which has been on
record.
ML Mm-Hmm
FS : You know and you liked him and you
actually in
liking him like a young girl thought for the future
that here 8 3 man that I you admired_ that you
started to get an affection for him and s0 forth ,
and really you thought of marriage, right?
ML Mn-hm_
FS : And in the process of being close with him_ being
a8
the man $
intelligent 'dynamic and 80 forth he did
force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
you_ You didn t want to but it happened.
ML Yes
FS : And you had nobody to g0 to because you re in
his Cuba, right?
M I was in his Cuba' alright =
FS : Right now also what we were getting in this Senate Ingeliigence
Comittee hasgot is the things that
Fidel has stated against the United States government
1f they tried to interfere with the revolution and So
forth when the new election time comes because at that
time the President of the United States was Eisenhower
and it looked like that the Democrats were going to
win the election and he felt that if a new government
which was discussed among the top military People if
the new government came in and if they decided that they
didn t like Fidel' s policy which Fidel was saying what
he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale
that if the United States government decided to g0 and
turn against hin and put pressure on him he would do
likewise to the United States government And he wa8
going to export his revolution in Latin America_ These
are the things that you heard_
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FS : number of times I was present up there for the
M : Mn-hm
FS : in the Hilton with all the people_ Now you left Cuba
when ?
ML Sometime in September
FS In September of 1959 you came to the United States
right?
ML Yeah
FS And when: you came back to the United States you saw
me
M: Yes .
FS : And then arrangements were made for you to g0 back to
Cuba and 30 forth
M : Yes , yes
FS : And this is what happened. with the attempt and So forth
ML: Right_
FS Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave
there the second time?
towards
M When exactly the end of 1959 1960
FS 1959?
M '60 I'm not sure I'm no at dates and all that
I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went
out
FS : Well then was it the early part of '602
ML: Yeah
FS : It had to be the early part of 60 and you came back
to Miami right?
M: Right _
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and do some work
M : With. Alex
FS : With Alex and myself here in South Florida_ And then
when did you cease some work at that time?
M: Uh in 19
# E end of 1960_
FS : End of 1960 _ When did I tell you to make contact with
Petty Humanez at his home Do you know approximately
what time that was ?
M In 1960 61 _
FS : The end of 1960 ,
or the early part of '61 _
was that
then?
M About the time of the of
FS : Well, '61' was the of in April '61. So it
had to be before the of
ML : Before before , yes it was
FS : Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami
M: Right,
FS : Beach on the island there, right?
M: Yes
FS : Alright , and you were told by whom to g0 over to his
hone
ML You .
FS : You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
with someone else?
M Should I name hin?
FS : Yeah = Alex?
M : Alex York_
FS : Alright , Alex went with you over to Petty Huanez
house right _ They had a gathering there with some
Cubans and 80 forth and S0 forth Do know who
some of the Cubans who were at that
Bathering?
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FS : Well when you talk about Cubans can you nane s ome ?
ML Cubans in exile Prios Carlos Prios
FS : President , ex-President Carlos Prios
ML I don t know there were S0 many , God,
FS Alright , well that' s = that S enough Anyway _
Alright , that' s when you first met Petty Humanez
alright .
M Yes
FS What wa8 the idea of me sending
you over there to meet
Petty Humanez?
M Information gathering to find out how he was
sponsoring the Cuban exiles
FS Wasn t he suspected of supplying money and other
goodies
M: Oh yes _
FS : to group8 where at?
M In Miami and outside of Miani
FS : And down in Texas right?
M Yeah
FS : Training camps in Texas ?
M: Yes =
FS : Alright he was
feeding money to then also in_
ML Yeah
FS Texas right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
government right?
ML I would presume. I guess S0 .
FS : Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them
this financial a8sistance?
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him at the time
FS : Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez , isn't
that correct?
ML I would say S0 .
FS : You would say 80 . As a matter of fact _
ML (unintelligible)
FS As 2 matter of fact 3 love affair developed .
M Yes _
FS and S0 forth and S0 forth alright .
ML = Yeah
FS : We won t g0 into anything else _ We ' 11 g0 ahead and
jump past that Then we lost contact with you right?
ML Yes =
FS And in losing contact with you we well we mentioned
sometime when ; they the United States State Department
sent Petty Humanez' back to Venezuela he went to
Prison and you mentioned S Ome thing about the family
wanted to break hin out and you wanted to see if I
could do it and S0 forth Alright S0 we 11 that
Anyway , I lost contact with you When was the last
time we lost contact when was that?
ML '64.
FS 1964 or '632 63 or '64 approximately , alright?
M: After 64 .
FS : It was around _ approximately. 1964 .
ML : (unintelligible)
FS : And you what came to New York?
M: When the General went to jail.
FS : Yeah _ you went to South America and then you came back
to New York to live and So forth
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FS : Then you remarried_
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rather you got married here in
New York?
ML : Oh S Ome time passed , I waited for the General but
then I got married_ right _
FS : Who did you marry? You re gonna say you re gonna go
ahead and say he worked at the buil with you , and _
M Yeah I guess I have to_ Louis John Yurositz _
FS : Alright , now one time you and him did what: at what
building and the address ?
ML We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York _
FS : You worked as an both of you worked as undercover
agents for the FBI in New Yor right?
ML : Me as a double because I had_
FS : You as a_ double agent Now when did this start?
ML : He was
the building manager at 250 East 87th Street
in Manhattan The building is owned by Glenwood
Management called the Newberry _ The work started
with the case agent in 1969
FS : 1969 Who was the case agent S name and what federal
agents you already told me
You already told me and
they it on record and this
ML told me not to say anything -
FS : Well honey they got it on record and you re gonna
g0 ahead and send this down there because Senator
Baker knows who your case agent is knows the CIA
agent that you were in touch with
M : You know I keep remembering don t embarass the Bureau
and
FS : Honey you re not embarassing the Bureau_ What you re
doing is giving this information to Senator Baker 8
Comittee to turn over to the Justice Department in
order for 'them to g0 ahead and say you worked
a8 an agent for then also a8 a double agent you need
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protection for you and your kid and 1f you don t g0
ahead and tell then the name of these here people how
you gonna do it?
M Mm _
FS : You know we get back to the same thing again_ Yeah
you re
looking for protection _ So far the people
you ve worked with 30 far this man Pucci who you
saved his life and saved another undercover_ agent ' s
life whose working with the FBI These people are
powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
problem that you have had right now with you three
times there S been an attempt on your life isn t
that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
an 18 story building_ Another time you got pistol-
whipped . You did all this crap for these people
here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
present time and this is on record in their own
files and S0 forth, yet You cannot move them to give
you or your children any protection _ This piece of
tape is going to go
right
to Senator Baker 8 office
it 11 g0 to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to
to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
authorities which will be the Justice Department
You can call Howard Liebengood_ to see if he has
received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
me You can call hin and find out and also you
can call him at the same time and
iet
hin know if
a tape has been turned over to him As a matter of
fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
office I will instruct his people in the office to
a hold of you because I'm gonna leave your phone
number with Senator 8 Baker 3 people_ with Senator
Baker is on has 3 Comittee on
inteiligence
ML : Mn-hmm
FS : He 8 got the committee It' s 3 new Comittee that has
been formed on intelligence_ See now I am turning this
information over to the proper authorities See _ And
this information is not going to g0 to any newspaper
or anybody
M okay Frank . I have your word. It' $ just that I
a hang-up you know I guess with them working on
practicaliy ail
my adult life_
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FS : Honey , I don ` t want to know everything
you did in 6
years I don t want to know everything
you did
because you can t_
ML were like a
family = they were like a
family at
one time Now when I need help they don t come
through and say it costs too much It cost me
a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albaniar
stuff cost me a lot of worry , cost me a lot of fear ,
threats
FS : Alright S0 this is
ML : (Unintelligible)
FS : I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a
story up then how are you gonna prove for instance
you gonna go ahead
M: No I' m not making anything up I wouldn t lie about
it_
FS : No , no honey , I m just saying_ If re gonna g0
ahead and say , I broke into 33 in an apartment
building with 33 Soviet families who did you work
for well I worked for the FBI call the FBI
the FBI said we know nothing about it_ Then you are
a liar_
ML : No way an I going to be a liar
FS : I'm just saying, they re going to say how we gonna
protect this girl when. she 8 iying to u8 because the
FBI says no But if you name names and say I worked
with this man here it 3 got my file_ I. worked over
3
six year period. God dam it that that Justice
Department will say hey we want to see you and
we want to see your files on- this girl And
they to g0 and come up with it And 1f they don t
come up with it they re in trouble They re; in
trouble Now how could they_hide S Ome thing when they
are
working for the s ame people who are their bosses
who: are their bosses ? They can tell you to g0 jump in
a_ lake over here But Washington D: C_ says
I want to see some thing here Why haven t you given
this People protection if al1_ this is true But if
they don t know honey _ how the hell are
they gonna
do anything?
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thing happens soebody
S gonna know
you know
FS : Somebody has to know . Now at the beginning you and
your husband
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M was. the buil manager of this building_
And Fe
FS : Is he still building manager of that building?
M= Yes but the way this going_
FS : Well honey forget about it right at the present time
because we re getting at the building and we re
ML Yes yes
FS He still manages the building _ Alright , now how long
has he been manager of this building?
M We raised this building_
we
FS : In other words when was the first years
M We were the very first tenants in this building_ We
moved in there before anybody moved in there We
were the first tenants The first person to move in
was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission
FS : What was his name?
M= Mr Vittikoff.
FS : And who was Mr _ Vittikoff?
ML : He was the first Secretary to Malek the Soviet
Ambassador to the United Nations
FS : Would you say a
cesspool %f spies which this cesspool
of spies which is the Soviet
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FS : where you and your husband worked where he was
manager you were the first people to live in that
place?
M : 250 East 87th Street, the Newberry owned by Glenwood
Management which are crooked and that S on the
corner
of Znd
Avenue it' $ called the Newberry
FS now who started to move in there?
ML Our very first tenant was Mr Ovinikoff he was the
First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
Nations (unintelligible)
FS : Alright , g0 ahead 'keep talking into there
M: And he ' s a little guy He seemed like normal people
9 but I never
really
FS : Well how, many people eventually moved in there besides
this man?
M : Oh well the first one was Mr Ovinikoff the second
one I named The Stalker the third one I have nick-
name:
FS : Wait a minute wait a minute_
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wait a minute now The
second one who moved in there you called_ you nick-
named the
M: The Stalker_
FS : The Stalker What was his' real name?
ML= Because he he was he checked on the Russians The
Russians checked on the Russians And if a woman
Soviet wife got out of hand or went shopping by her -
self or did something out of the way she got pulled
back and she was under house arrest
FS : Alright what was his name ?
ML: Mr _ Artimenko , Artimenko _ I kept , then I
FS : Who was the third one you gave nicknane to?
ML : I had nicknames for all of them.
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M : Moonface _ The Stalker _
FS : Yeah_
M : The Shadow It was my own
little thing of remembering
until I memorized _ We started out with the tenants
list
FS : Alright
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how many people were on the tenants list?
ML: We had , the building consisted of 300 units which
300 apartments my husband had access to
fiies
Each
Soviet file read the S ame Permanent Mission of the
Union. of Soviet Socialist Republic resident and I
got interested . Then one an agent came at 9 0 clock
in the and my husband had been previously
working with and other agencies inc luding
this agent which I 11 name that 8 Al Chestone
FS : His first name was what?
ML Albert_ Albert Ches tone
FS : What agency was he with?
M The FBI
FS : Special Agent_ FBI?
M: Yes counterinte lligence _
FS : Sector of the FBI
ML: Yes political And my husband had known him
Previously working with the Polaris missile Polaris
missile thing_ This was before I met my husband or
married him_ He did S ome thing with the Polaris
missile thing And my husband was by this S ame
agent Anyway we he came daily and we went over the
tenants list and we sort of dissected everybody in
the building
FS : Alright now were: You recruited by this agent?
ML: Yes he said are you
willing to work and I said_ well ,
why He said, it doesn t consist of much , a few
burglaries (laughter)
FS : In other words this agent .
M: Information gather get close to
them, get friendly with
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and my husband
FS And wanted you to do S ome burglaries right?
ML: Well, I] yes _
FS : Alright now these burglaries did they consist of
you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by
yourself?
ML Well my husband had the master keys_
FS : Right , alright.
ML: And
FS : Well when you did these burglaries
M We all did them together_ They re were about 5 6
7 cars One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission .
Suppose say like were interested in one Soviet
who they lost track of who was supposed to be in
Washington D C and then they found hin all of a
sudden in our
buiiding because they had surveiliance
across the street _ That 8 the first thing they set
up surveillance a camera high-power camera across
the street That we were pointed out to That
everybody who went in and out of the
buiiding
was
photographed .
FS : Including yourself and your husband?
M Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to
school and everything
FS : Right
ML But , and
FS : Alright
9 now getting back to the entries that you made
into the apartments Once you found out that the
people were not in the apartments how did you find
out they weren t in the apartments?
M Well, they would.
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FS : Would you knock on the door or something?
ML : No
FS : You saw then leave ?
M: no
They were assigned , first of al1 we were told
that we wanted _ they_wanted to hit the apartment the
Bureau and I would listen and my husband looked at me
and I
iooked
at him but it was still in the best
interests of the country and this was a very top
KGB agent a Soviet General blah blah
vez;
he was
interested_
FS : Do you know the man 3 name ?
ML = Yes
FS : This General?
ML: Yes
FS : What was his name ?
ML Likichev_
FS What' s his name ?
ML: Oleg Likichev_
FS : Likichev_ He S a top =
M : KGB SpY .
FS : Alright, and he lived in the building?
ML Yes , with his wife and 5 year old son
FS : Right_
M= On the 1Oth floor_
FS : Alright_ now you were advising them when they left
the
Duiiding_ Naturally they had surveillance out-
side they would know when he left
ML Well first we were told to close to them
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FS : Friendly _
M Very friendly_ We exchanged gifts and we went to
dinner and we were invited to the U.N_ and we
exchanged_
FS : In other words you were being guided into doing
certain things
ML : No _
FS : This one particular FBI agent_
M_ This one particular agent told u8 daily what to do
FS : Alright now did he give you a code name or a code
any particular code?
ML - My name Mariuch
FS : Mariuch was the name he gave , that he gave you, right?
M Mariuch_
FS : Alright , it sounds Italian Mariuch is Italian
ML Well he _
FS : Maria
ML He is Italian too
FS : The agent?
ML: Yes
FS : Alright , now when did you ever make an entry into
this top KGB agent 8 apartment?
ML: This one particular there were several_ This wasn't
the one
FS : Well let' s talk , let' s .talk about the
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ML was in other words my husband and I discussed
it and I said_ "Louis you know
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FS : It could be very dangerous
M Yeah , yeah I said.
FS : You could caught_
you could be killed.
ML I said suppose you know we re working in the precinct
on a local level that' 8 breaking and entering right?
And my husband and I dis _ you know We discussed it_
Now _ Uncle Al as we started to call this
FS : FBI agent?
ML: FBI agent , said "Look he ' s a very bad person we lost
hin and we found him and he ' s in the building and we
want to get in the apartment We feel he has for
national security reasons we want to enter that
apartment _ Louis will you cooperate?" You know?
20 And my husband said_ Alright"
FS : Did he said he had to discuss it with
M : discussed it in front of me
FS : I mean
did your husband say he had, he would discuss
it with you about
ML: No _ no , but he did but he didn t ask me because I
asked my husband later I said. "Louis if you refuse
to do what Al tells 43 to do me as a
iookout
and
Louis opening the doors for then' Louis said_ Louis
is my husband said "What do you want me to do
subpoenaed?. They 11 subpoena me if I don t do it So
I'11 g0 along with it.
FS : So it, it was agreed_
M : It was agreed that he would do it_
FS Alright
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now what did your husband do Did he open the
door for the agents ?
M Yes he did.
FS : Did he go in, for what
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M: Two agents
FS : Two agents _ Was Uncle Al one of those agents?
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FS : Do you know the name of the two agents that made the
entry?
M No I do not _
FS Do not
M They cane on the specific morning when they had
FS You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
were coming?
ML Yes
FS : Alright , on a
specific morning?
ML: Yes
FS : Alright and
ML: came a3 lumberjacks one a8 3 refrigeration
repairman_
FS Right _
ML : Refrigerator refrigeration-air conditioning repairman =
FS : Alright , now you and your husband with these two
agents went up to the 10th floor right? You were
stationed where you: were going to be the lookout?
M In the'
FS : Hallway?
M: Service entrance
FS : In the service entrance _ Your husband had the pass
keys?
M Yes
FS : He opened .the door?
M: Yes
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FS The two agents went in?
M Yes _
FS : Did your husband g0 in?
ML He stood at the door _
FS : He stood at the door?
ML : He stood at the door
FS That is in case
they' d come back he d .
ML Right _
FS : The fact that he is the manager of the building
standing there with two repairman
M: But that he wa3 assured he was assured, right_
FS : That these two men Were repairmen?
ML : That, that just in case some- thing went. wrong with the
5 cars assigned to this job that one car would radio
that Oleg Likichev was
leaving the Mission at this
moment he is getting into his car he is on the way
up 2nd Avenue to his residence_
FS : Right and they _
ML: You ve
got approximately 7 to . 8 minutes
FS : Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out
M : Do , and get out_
FS :
ML : So my husband stood in the door and I was in the
staircase and they went in with a,` a case that looks
like a television repair case which had high power
cameras
FS : Right _
ML And they my husband was always annoyed because they
were sloppy _
FS : (Laughter)
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ML The Soviets are very trained , would leave a
cigarette on an ashtray _ If you knocked it over they
know imediately someone was in the apartment
FS : Now when the agents before your husband opened the
door with the pass did the agents look the door
over to see if there was any powder marks tapes
hairs or anything or S Ome thing leaning against the
door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general
this not Cuban general this Russian general who is
a top KGB agent
M Yes _
FS : wanted to see if somebody made an entry would
leave some thing on the door_
M Yes .
FS They inspected the door
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right? And they didn t find
anything?
ML: Right
FS : Right So they opened the door In other words what -
ever
they touched_
M But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and
that
FS : Alright now no let' s not jump We ' re, you were on
this one
particular thing_
ML Alright
FS : These people did g0 they did what they had to do
with the cameras and_ S0 forth
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evidently these were
hidden
M Yeah _
FS cameras that they installed some place in there, right?
M it was microfilm,
FS : Well there were cameras
M In the flour can
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FS : What the two agents brought in _
ML: Yes
FS : Yeah what did they bring in with them_ what in the
general' s _
ML= Cameras
FS : They brought cameras
M: Mn-hm
FS : which were installed.
ML Yeah
FS : What else did bring in?
M: I don' t know They
FS : Any listening devices bugging devices ?
ML : I would say S0 _ I think
FS : You don t know for sure though?
M= I'm not sure, my husband
FS : but you do know about the cameras ?
ML: Yes
FS : Alright , but there is a possibility they brought
bugging devices because it' s logical they would
bring bugging devices
M I think sometimes plenty of times they wanted to
plant a
FS : Sure
ML: Especially in the television the cable TV , the
FS : Well they install that through the walls and SO forth
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M in the they d hook it up to the master antenna
for the cable TV _
FS : for the cable TV _ Well alright _
M: That way they thought they could tune in to them
transmitting
FS : Yeah Alright now how long did stay to
the General 8 apartment?
ML:. In the apartment , approximately 10-15-20 minutes
FS : Then they left, your husband closed the door did he
wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?
M: No , but my husband would; usually the edge of the
rug back the way he found it
FS : Right in other everything_
ML It was turned over
FS : had to
be placed back the same way it was
M And he would watch: them and they were rough
FS : Well_ we 1l forget about that part We re not
interested in
M : This worried my husband because this would_
FS : Yeah it would make
ML They knew
FS : Make them know there was. an entry _
M: Right _
FS : now they did that_ they left. Did did ~did the
agents ever g0 back into that apartment again?
ML: one time
FS : Just one time and they never went back into that_
ML: No
FS : that particular apartment
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ML they were satisfied_
FS : They were satisfied S0
evidently everything worked
out
alright _ Even though _
M_ Mn-hm
FS : your husband was on edge about the way the agents
were
ML = Oh yeah _
FS : Okay? Alright = S0 we 11 forget that part _ Now how
about other entries We 11 get one at a time
M The other entry that' s outstanding is. Soviet _
FS : Yeah g0 ahead _ keep talking.
ML Very Americanized Soviet = hands ome married with a 10
year old daughter I forget his name I have them
all at home And I nicknaned him "The Tennis Player"
because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
every morning to make contacts with Americans and try
to recruit_ I guess_ gather information at the sae
time He
Spoke Engiish
without an
FS (unintelligible)
ML: Fluently without an accent down. to curses and S lang
and everything else His wife
FS : You friendly with him also?
ML No , he even suggested to take my husband to a mas sage
parlor and he was way out too much way out _
FS : In other words play with girls?
M I had his , no , I wa3 well he was' one of those
FS : He liked to play?
M Yeah
FS : He was a playboy
ML: He was a playboy _ That' s they use
FS Which is very ,
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ML: They use used he was als0 3 top KGB and
his apartment they did his apartment
2
too _
FS : What did they do?
ML broke in they
FS : Well now wait a minute
ML: used my husband to break in This a job I wasn t
on but
FS : Well, that not breaking in now _ It' 9 illegal entry _
0 { 0
ML: Entry _
FS : Right _ In other words they used your husband and you
also as a
stakeout again?
ML : Yeah
FS : On that particular one
M: Mm-hm _
FS : He opened the door again_ What floor did he have his
apartment?
M: I don t recall that. I' d have to get the tenants list
FS : Alright it makes no difference Alright don" t
worry about that _ But they made entry into his
apartment _
M: Yes _
FS : What did do in his apartment?
M = I guess they microfilmed and planted a device Anyway
either way whatever did" they did
FS : With the corpor cooperation of your husband?
ML Cooperation of my husband
ES And yourself .
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M: And they did it s loppy because this. particular Soviet
the tennis player made a formal complaint to the
23rd Precinct, PIU investigation unit where I was
working_
FS : When you say PIU, what s" PIU?
ML : Prisoner Investigation Unit.
FS : Prisoner or Police?
ML: Prisoner Investigation Unit_
FS : Was that a
police unit?
ML= That' s the 23rd precinct .
FS : Police _
ML Right,police_
FS Alright _
M department . I was
working up there
FS : Alright
M Now I answered the phones _
FS Oh hn-Mm_
ML You understand?
FS : Yeah
M: And this tennis ' player called up and demanded a
detective I was working up there and the detectives
were hot: on a homicide and I answered the phone and
here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
complaint of breaking and entering his apartment _ I
had him on the phone
FS : And he didn t know it was you _
M And I died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
on
talking and talking and talking and I couldn t
disguise my voice I was afraid he would know that I,
it was me I took the complaint in other words
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FS Right _
M : And I wrote up the 61 _
FS : Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here
ML : The 61 complaint report
FS : Alright , let me ask you this here _ You say you were
working for this police department in this precinct _
What was your job with them?
M: Auxiliary volunteer Photos translations rape
cases interrogation _
FS : And at that time you were answering phone calls that
were coming in?
M: And typing and doing other_things but I don t really
want to those guys involved because
FS : No , I just wanted , wanted then to know what you were
doing in the police department .
M: I was an auxiliary sergeant _
FS : Answering the phones
M: Auxiliary is a volunteer police _
FS : Right enough _ Now what other entries did you make
with then_ That 3 two that you
specified_
ML: Two _ The rest I didn t want to g0 along with because
I was a little afraid S0 my _
FS : Things were getting a little hot for you .
ML: Yes because we had too many Russians we had the
Albanians we had the Red Chinese
FS : All living in that building?
ML= A1l living in the S ame buil There was it was
comical- The Albanians wouldn t talk to the Russians
the Russians ignored the Albanians the Red Chinese
went down the service entrance and to avoid the
Russians and the Al
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it was just the Secret Service
in the garage and in the front door The narcotics
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peddlers coming
out of the laundry room_ It was , it
was a merry-go-round _
FS : In other words
M : We had in one about four different agencies
watching people
FS : In and out of the building_
ML And we didn t know if we were coming r going_
FS : Yeah
ML: We lived on the second floor We had a view of the
street and we would signal to the across the street
surveillance apartment apartment you know_ We d
see the cars up and the cars leave
FS : Alright , nOw
ML My husband did most of, he'd been doing it.
FS : He d been . doing most of the end of the
M = Yes because I felt I didn t want to get caught _ I
just didn t want to get caught because it was a heck
of 3 chance because more than one
Soviet family lived
on one floor and if anyone of then walked out when my
husband was opening the door to let those' guys in my
husband would have been dead .
FS : Alright not only that I understand. that you were
getting very familiar with many- of the families of_
ML I was too friendly_
FS : these people _
ML with the families
FS : Right S0 you didn t want to g0 ahead and
ML: They trusted me alone in their apartuents We had many
discussions together we exchanged medicine , I gave
them medicine for one child who
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FS : At the S ame time you tried to get a8- much information
out of them as you can being
on
that friendly basis_
M I was being
on a very social
FS : Right _
ML natural basis
FS Right _
M And I became friendly with then_
FS How how long-
M We even Were paid money to throw a few parties
FS : You were money _
ML : For the Soviets
FS : You were given money by the
M : By the Justice Department _
FS : Yeah
M : To throw a few parties
FS : So the agents could make surveillance_
M: So they could make surveillance _
FS : And contact?
M : And contact , and try to get them, loosen uP , to loosen
uP
FS : Well, booze can loosen a_ lot of people " 8 mouths
ML= Wel1 it was mog tly their vodka anyway they gave us
But yeah _ suggested the
$
agents a3 waiters
and bartenders and all that And said that wouldn t
g0 Soviet people are very trained_ They smell any -
thing like that And I was very open with them. They ' d
leave from the countries and I would be the first to
know would bring back gifts They babysat my
children . I babysat their children We exchanged
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FS : But your husband continued to work with the agency
right?
ML: Yes We , we took we
ID'd photos We watched for
cars We watched their movement It was and night _
FS : You did a lot of surveillance work on these people
but you yourself personally wanted to try to keep
out of the
M Yeah _
FS operation as far as
M Break _
FS : entering into the apartments right?
M Yes
FS : How ` long did this last? Over a
period of how long?
ML 1969 to 1976 .
FS Al1 these years?
M Yes
FS : That 8 doing surveillance on these people _
ML Yeah . We were _
FS How about the Albanians now tell me about the code
M The Albanians the Albanians we got very friendly with
a Mr Koyani Ambassador to the Mission the U N and
the Albanians are not 23 elite as the Russians are
The Russians clean their own clothes burn their
Own garbage_ have no photos personal things in the
apartment The Albanians are more they allow their
children to watch television The Soviets don t We
convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
mission which they blocked 3 complete fire exit was
on the 21st floor of the Newberry They lived in the
apartments on the 2Oth floor. and the 22nd floor And
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they had about 30 30 families who-resided there and
their mission was there And We became very friendly
with them because of one incident especially my
husband _ took went to see his mother and left me in
~charge of the building That same day they had a So -
called demonstration where the demonstrators had 3
25-minute picketing, right to picket The demonstra-
tion turned into a
'bloody riot where" they burned flags
and everything and the Albanians cane down They all
are armed They re all armed and they agitated the
rioters out on the street And I was alone with only
my basic ce training and my wits really and a
Panicking doorman and my kids I was just
aione
I
the first thing I looked out the window when I heard
the shooting I called the Bureau and I said "Get me
Al Chestone fast_ I said I don t have Louis here
I said I need help I have a demonstration I don t
know what to do _ And there were about 500 people
throwing bricks bottles everything through the plate
glass windows Burning American flags and Albanian
Elags because of Some thing that' happened in Albania
Those that defected here. started this demonstration
So_ then I things got out of hand the doorman was
hurt with a brick I saw blood and the Albanian
Ambassador and five. top
officiais agitated
these
people from inside the lobby with fists Very
unprofessional
# like:_
FS : Yeah
ML: So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
them "Get upstairs get upstairs and get yourself
back into the mission because tenants were walking
through the lobby and we were going to geh hurt by
flying_glass and" everything else And had no
The police were outside of the line
FS : Marita what we re going into details is some thing
that is a story _
ML Oh alright.
FS : So we 11 go ahead and just bypass that.
M Anyway = the Albanians Al was interested into and
especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese
into the United Nations which they did. It was that
speech _ which I have the original copY of_ Ambassador
Rocco Nocco sounds crazy , but that 8 his name Rocco
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Nocco and were they were sloppier and the
agent Al Chestone
toid
me convince them_ you know
case em keep going uP and down the steps = what
time they throw their garbage out Garbage
was
the most valuable source of information for the
Bureau_ and that was
FS : Garbage and trash_
ML : Trash Chicken bones codes diapers whatever you
know and that was my job because I had the patience_
Now the FBI supplied
me with bandaids and gloves
flashlights batteries and the whole thing because
I convinced the Albanians that: the compacter which
was the disposal system in: the building from 31 floors
down in other words when they threw their garbage
out that it would come out in brick form, block form,
brick crushed_ which in fact was not true.
FS : But' they believed it?
ML believed it trusted u3 Louis and I were
the' only ones allowed in the mission _ We Were the
only Ones
FS : Now this mission is that building
you were talking
about
M That 8 still there
FS : Still there
M Very much there . That S the code that you have
FS : Right _
M So_ I started made it a every two hour routine to go
after midnight when they put their garbage out in the
hall pick up the bags Take them down to the service
entrance 'and take the bags at hone take em home
And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
gather torn up letters this was
before they smart
and bought a shredder (unintelligible) And I would
turn this garbage letter in other words I would
past it together and give it to the Bureau and some
of these letters turned out to be very valuable_ Among
then was one code now
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FS : I would assume that these letters that were in code
they would be classified material_ Otherwise it
wouldn t be in code _
ML Very valuable yes _ The
FS : And this was turned over to who?
ML To A1 Chestone The first code I got , I just got on
a_
hunch lucky _ Because it was just at, the time when
the Red Chinese entered the United States , first
came here Mr Huang Yua _ and I met them. We met
then first before anybody met then Louis and I
And that S ame night the code came down at 3:00 in the
morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
said Louis I can t s leep , I'm going down and do
W some work _ Give me the keys to the compacter room
So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough
around 3 :30 these bags started to come down from the
2lst floor
FS : 3 : 30 in the morning?
M 3 :30 in the morning because Al said watch then
closely because of the Red Chinese And I shut
the machine off and I got these I got this code
I caught it in other words but it
M: This is the code you turned over to me ?
FS : This is the first code the very first code
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risk of having my hands chopped off because if I
didn t shut that machine off in time I could have
been hurt_ But I got it_ The first code was very
valuable It was sent to Washington_
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FS : these bags of stuff and 1f you hadn t have turned
off the machine you would have got your hand either
chopped uP or cut off and 80 forth What did were
you saying about Al Uncle Al?
ML = Uncle Al slept and I did the work and by the time I
got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
out of the garbage and separated the letters and
every tiny little piece with tweezers and everything,
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Put it all in a box _ right down to every piece _ I
ruined my rugs and everything _ And Uncle Al would
come at 8 : 30 9 :00 in the morning and I would still
be uP separating the garbage and he d be al1 fresh
and ready for work and I had just come back from the
garbage room And _
FS : You stayed awake all night?
M: Yeah_ with the tweezers and I use. to run out of
skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn t
stick these letters togethers without skotch tape ,
S0 he brought me a big box of skotch tape which
was very kind of him_ Then I would it to him
and he d he d have coffee tea and toast or whatever _
And I' d say , "'Now I want to go to s leep _ And he ' d
say 'No no , no wait a minute Mr So-and-80 _
or Berzofsky , we want to get a_ line on Mr Berzofsky _
FS : Who was Mr Berzofsky?
ML: Berzofsky the Second Secretary to the Union of the
Soviet Socialist Republic_
FS What was his first name do you know?
M : Mmmm _ I forgot _
FS : That 8 alright, it don t matter
M: I forgot really_ But we were very close to him His
wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was
she S , she 8 adorable She 8 nice she S sweet and
she has a lovely daughter Irene who turned out to
have liver cancer She was a little girl when I first
met her like my daughter My . daugher played with her
they took piano lessons together exchanged books and
the little girl; at sixteen Irene was sent back to
the Soviet Union with liver cancer I got very close
to the mother the mother was heartbroken the father
was heartbroken I guess like any mother and father
when their only child turns out to have liver cancer
She 8 diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and
asked me to get medicine pain killers for Irene I
do S0 and pass along to them empirin and codine 44 ,
which is a
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their daughter on with the permission of
the FBI We exchanged jewe clothes and everything
else We were just one mother to another mother
Their little girl in trouble mine not in trouble and
it was little things like that that I would get very
involved with- I don t know
FS : Morita let me ask you this here did the agents ever
tell you to g0 out with any of the diplomats in the
mission?
M Well now we have to go back to Oleg Likichev _
FS And who is he again?
M He was the KGB spy that they lost and, thought he they
thought he was
still residing in Washington_ the out-
side of Washington D C .
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in Virginia He wa3
supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
and all of a sudden Picked him
up in our
building_
as being in our
building_ lost him and they were
furious the Bureau_ and they wanted uS very close to
hin_ And he we had: a iot of evenings together we
spent with hin dinners and he came to uS
FS : In other words he asked you to g0 out
9
did he ask
(unintelligible)
M Well Oleg, let 8 just say I don t know if it
was a game_ were playing or
if they were doubles
or what They talked a . lot about the State of
Washington resi in the State of Washington_
They also. knew I had diamonds and he asked me
(unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds ?"
FS : What did he call
ML = Ilonka Marischa_ Ilona Marita.
FS : Oh that' s in Russian?
M : Yes And we: always exchanged Russian words and I
know a few enough to get on All of a sudden
you know he was interested in diamonds He had a
Eascination for diamonds His wife she was kind
of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me
and I kept telling_Uncle Al this thing is going to
out of hand . I said all of a sudden he wants
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diamonds and Al what do I do Go ahead talk to
him about diamonds So I said Oleg, what do you
mean by diamonds ? He said uncut stones for cash
I am a Soviet official I cannot g0 into a jewelry
store like you and them _ I want diamonds I m
willing to pay a hundred thousand dollars for then_
I said_ I said tell me why_ And he said
1B 'Money does anybody want diamonds I said it' $
a good enough reason So I said Louis what
can we do for about his diamonds ? And
Louis
said we 11 figure some thing out And then said
this was at a dinner party up in their house Hot
diamonds he wanted hot uncut raw diamonds So
he was serious he was dead serious He said he
would them for cash
FS : How serious ~was he? Did you ever get any for him?
ML Well it got this far We told Uncle A1 the next
morning_ I said_ "Uncle Al I got a surprise for
you . You re gonna have to come uP with some hot
diamonds A hundred thousand dollars .worth because
I promised Oleg that I would get them for him since
he can t them = Oleg wants diamonds And I
said if you can two and two together maybe this
guy will defect because he S talking: about the State
gf' Washington _ I said but you have to be careful
I have to be careful no? So Al said I'11 get you
the diamonds You tell him to the cash ready _
So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and got
the diamonds Uncle A1 made a boo-boo and 0leg, the
of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
in the apartment Ozefe was at 2
sports meeting in
Washington D.C Al said "'I ve got to give
these diamonds back to the underworld or them
the cash _ I said
9
"Listen I told you tomorrow
not today Al Tomorrow because told 43 he ' s
going to this soccer meeting in Washington D. C .
Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is He is
in Washington D C_ "Oh is he ?" I said "Yes
he is Right Anyway Uncle Al: started to
Panick
because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
dollars worth of uncut hot diamonds
FS : By hinself?
ML himself_ and I was supposed to-get the cash from
Oleg said on a
Thursday and Uncle Al came on
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a Wednes- and the whole thing-
FS : So what happened?
M: fell through Al said he had to give them back to
the underworlds to his source So he took them
back and then
"oieg,
you know I had to talk my
way out of it_ It was: just one of the flubs But
anyway after I left my husband kept asking for
me kept coming directly to the apartment and say-
"Louis I don t believe you two split you two
M g0 she left I don t believe it_ And my; husband
8aid
yes she did leave It S her own prob lems
M Oleg,,you know_ forget about it_ And he said ,
"No , it 8 not possible_ You must stay together
You must stay together_ Anyway , he kept coming =
about four times and asking my husband , until: my
husband made 3 joke of it and" said Oleg wants to
see you _ I mean he 8 made it dam Plain that he
wants to see you In other words if you re
finished I 11 take over Where 18 she living? My
husband tells him I m on 88th Street Now
I talked to my husband and said what did you do
that for? Tell hin I'm living on 88th Street?
You know because I know he wants to g0 out with
me You can feel it I can feel it the you know?
So I call up
Uncle Ai
meantime is transferred to
Newark I another case agent _ Louis a
case agent for the building and he works alone
9
without me The other agent 18 John Kotter
FS With the FBI?
M FBI 69th Street. I call up John Kotter _ I said _
"John I hear your taking Aj's place" and I meet
hin_ Drop things _ start things drop things
different assignments then we to Oleg I said
look Oleg 18 bothering Louis He wants to go out
with me And John Kotter says: F "Beautiful that is
a beautiful setup _ Let 8 call him up I said
wait. a minute Either do this ticated,
9
alright? First I'11 send hin a Christmas card and
sign it Ilonka Marischa you know? I 11 Put ktowy
phone_ number on_ the bottom_ some thing you
Or I 11 happen to be there when he = 8 going into the
00 building or I'11 bump into hin I said you don t
just caii him up
You know that. 8 going to be like
a setup because I ve been avoiding him So anyway ,
he tells he outlines the whole thing_ I said what
have you got planned John And he says "Do you
Irerrl ,
FS : That 8 the idea _
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M And I'm in the middle So_ anyway I g0 , I g0 to the
mission with my daughter_ who was at the time 12 years
old My daughter I guess is a little use to my
life She S use to
FBI ali
her life= She knows not
to talk She knows whether we look at her when to
say some thing_ I guess she 8 the closest thing to me
now She goes along She S very cool and we both
walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
to do a project for school on the Soviet Union She
needed material Now as soon as we walked into the
mission everybody there I know because they reside in
the building And they all say 01 Ilonka Marischa
blah blah blah blah 1 And I m very friendly with
then all al1 love my daughter But we re
there for other reasons We re there to g0 to see
We gather we gather the material meanwhile
I n aware that every picture has an eye or every
Poster has a mirror or camera you know? But my
daugher 8 very cool and we re left alone in the room
where the Soviet material is displayed _ But I know
we re being watched _ She knows it too and she
doesn t she say8 "Mommy look this is beautiful
00 beautiful. You know? Then I ask for to this
very very tough Soviet woman that said "Wat you
want
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you know I said Likichev please
I'd like
to speak to him 01 And she called and he
is still in the United Nations he asks You to wait
I refused a wire or
anything iike that but
FS : What wire are you talking about?
M: A wire on Me
FS : Oh
M: Because
FS : That the agents (unintelligible)
M: Yes because Oleg I know likes me and if he sees me
he would grab me and me and that S the Russian
way
FS : Yeah
ML And he 11 feel that and I'm dead .
FS Right .
M Right in the mission That S not my proper there
FS : Right
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ML And I wouldn t risk it with my daughter So anyway
we waited. We were allowed the run of the
Piace-
We
knew everyone there and
FS Like you say , eyes were wat ching you_
M Oh definitely definitely because that 8 how they
test you when you walk in there And you just don t
get in there and have the run of the place you re
not left alone But I know you re
being watched_
FS : Sure _
ML : Anyway there was this it was it was a legitimate
excuse that was
tied up in the United Nations
becaus e it was in the paper the next day that it
was some security councii meeting And I said
"Please give this note to Mr Likichev_ Tell him
thank you. very much for the material And best
0}0 wishes to his wife _ blah blah blah and we left_
Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested uS
a
uniformed police officer
FS : For what reason?
ML: He gave us a dirty look and made a very S lurring_
nasty remark when I left. But I hate to knock the
police department because they re helping me now
But I guess he didn t know you know?
FS : Yeah , he thought you were Russians
ML : He thought I was a Russian
FS : Or a Russian sympathizer_
M: Right , especially going in with a child and I looked
very _
FS : Yeah
ML American Anyway I got home and John Kotter was
waiting in front of my door I remember it was
raining_ He was
reading And I said he said "Are
you going to meet Oleg?# I said
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"Now how the hell
can I make a date with with my daughter?"
FS Yeah
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ML I said Oleg' s in the United Nations Why don t you
tell me these things before that they re delayed at
a security council meeting you know instead of me
letting,_letting_ me sit there You know these are_
all the little things that use to annoy me
FS : Yeah
ML = that they have to screen things_ first before_ you
know check things out don t have to make a blunder
like that Anyway I said I left Oleg
a note . I
said now you g0 hone and I'm going to take it easy
and they = we tried and I said "You know John
you re just going to get me 80 involved with Oleg.
I'm not going to end up in bed in 3_ motel room
upstate somewhere with Oleg s0 you can come in and
0 take photographs That 3 not my stick_ I said
I'11 gather garbage license plates tape do
everything else but I'11 even take the mail like
I've been doing but I'm not going to be caught in
bed_ I said that 8 too big 3 Pawn for me and I m
not getting anything for it right now They allowed
me to take mail steam it photograph it and put it
back Some of that mail is now missing, which
belongs to the Soviet people _ which this perpetrator
perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
asked the FBI to please help me with that
FS : Who ' s , the. perpetrator?
M The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano_ aka Pionne
aka David who broke into my apartment and stole
this tape with Likichev these love conversations
the mail and part of the Albanian code He has those
in his possession He threatens my life with it: He
threatens blackmail with me He assaulted me He
tol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for help
FS : Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build- window?
M : Yes
FS : He did what?
ML Yes he tried to push me out the window
FS 18 stories ?
ML: Yes: and I told him stay_away get back because if
anything_happens to me there 8 letters with the
Justice Department naming everything I know about you ,
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and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot my
daughter in the back He S threatening her right
now with disgrace because she is the daughter of
the of a well-known man Right now my main concern
is the these letters and the code and the tape and
possibiy other things are in the hands of this
Guiseppi Faisiano and he wants money from me and
he 8 probably right now at the building_ He is
casing the Soviets and he 8 going to try to g0 to
the Same that he has on the letters to tell
them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge
for having him arrested on the assault charge with a
gun He also wants money He wants to disgrace the
FBI He ' s blackmailing right
now my husband my ex-
husband _ for the master keys of the Newberry_ My
husband is calling me for help and I don t know what
to do I asked Frank to help me I gave him the
code because everybody refused_ I was afraid to have
any- anywhere I guess Frank helped me before in
Cuba and I don t I worked , he worked for me and I
worked for him and I don" t know where to g0 because
the only ones that are helping me now are the local
police in their lunch hours or when I m too afraid
to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
kids And they' 11 take the children hone when I get
a threat on the phone
or a box in the mailbox or get
my back door shot at_ I take my children and I put
them in the 23rd precinct _
FS : even off duty.
M :
The off-duty police, police officers take my children
hone
FS : And spend time at the house?
M And ' they spend_ time at the house ini their free time
when they should be hone with their families
FS : Well you have saved the life of two people _
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right?
ML : I would think S0 _
FS : Well, you have
ML : Yes .
FS : When one of the who are the two people you saved
their lives ?
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ML = A federal narcotics informant
FS : Undercover agent = right?
ML: Undercover agent Pino Cantanya and Assistant Federal
District Attorney Thonas A Puccio from Brook
FS : And you saved their lives because a contract was
being put out on then?
ML : Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
out
FS : And even though you have: saved their lives
M I asked them please help me with this man he has
Soviet docunents he 8 hurt me he 8 hurt my
children he almost shot my daughter He I asked
them please me because I gave You information
for nothing and' they said they promised to do something
on this individual imigration-wise So far he has
threatened everybody around me My physicians my
mother my ex-husband
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my . children
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neighbors
my
super
FS : He S an illegal imigrant?
ML: He is I
would say he
S an illegal alien
FS : What' s his full name his real name ?
M: His arrest name that he wa8 arrested under was
Guiseppi Faisaino He has he 8 als0 known as David
Ring He has a passport under this name He 8 also
known a3 Pinno and he is a gunman Never worked a
in his life never Paid taxe3 he 9 a gambler
he 3 a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on
organized crime at the racetrack _ Roosevelt: Raceway ,
Yonkers and
FS : Any other agencies ?
ML= Organized Crime Commission Bureau OCCB _
FS : Ever worked with DEA ? Drug Enforcement Agency?
ML : Yes I did.
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FS : Who are the people you are in touch with?
M : Two agents Murphy and Shannon _ This was
FS : You know their full names ?
M: Well I have a number and a night number and
I did S Ome work in the Newberry with my husband
with them invo lving the Cuban narcotics connection
in South America_ I also worked with the organized
crime
FS Now you" ve turned you want me to turn this tape
over to Senator Baker 8 committee to be turned over
to the Justice Department is that correct? Right?
ML= Yes _
FS : You want me turn the
ML: Yes I would like you_ Frank , to turn this over just
in case some thing, happens to me because I don t know
which way it 8 going to come
FS : And you need some protection , right now right?
M : I need s ome type of help for my children because of
this man Pinno threatening to expose my dealings with
the FBI and to the foreign press I just caught uP
in this thing since 1959 and I ve been with it up
until last month last week and I ve just and I need
There is no help I mean since last month and
I don t want my children hurt They ve
already been
hurt
FS : Alright I promise to turn this tape and the code over
to Senator Baker S. comittee, right?
ML : Yes
FS : Who in turn will turn the information over to the
proper officials in Washington_ D C .
ML Yes I don t mean to embaras s the Bureau_ I know how
important it is but at this point I need
desparately for my kids They re 6 and 14 and they
don t deserve what they have to g0 through_ The
whole sumer locked up threatened and afraid and
my daughter of exposure _
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FS Did every try to kidnap _
M: Yes _
FS : the kids?
ML: They threatened to kidnap my children were
once abducted by this man I had no
knowledge of
it On the last of school and he he will
hurt then _ He will hurt them this man 1s sick
He 3 he 8 on 10 valiums 2 He 8 unpredictable _
He S vengeful_
FS : And his close association with top mobsters ?
M Yes he has close associations
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D. C. 2o505
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Hororaile Iuiel Inouye, Chairman
Select Comril:ee On Intelligenc e
United Statos Senate
Washington, Da C_ 20510
Dear Mr . Chairman:
I n1] s ending you a copy of my letters to
Senators Mansfield and Scott extending the moratorium
'n the destruction 0f certain records until 10 December
1976, [do hj: lhat this action and the procedures
"'ullined in PY letters are fully responsive to the
interesls ol your Conn:ittee.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON; D.C. 20505
2 2 JUN 1976
Honorable Mike Mansfield
United States Senate
Washington, D C. 20510
Dear Senator Mansfield:
In accordance wvith your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
extendedl the period of the moratorium" on the destruction of certain
records which
vere the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975
in connection Ivith S_ Res. 21 _ The moratorium will expire on
10 Decembe'r 1976 .
[n aclclition, before any such records are destroyed, we
shall transnit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence copies
of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives
and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
recorda- The same Will be done wvith respect to those routine_
administrative records which, although not involved under S_ Res. 21 _
were withheld from routine destruction during the life of that Resolution:
Iam
confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of
documents hefore are destroyed if this is the desire of the Select
Committee.
It is noped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
the wishes of you and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
as outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's
letter of 8 June to you.
Sincerely,
George Bush
Director
Cc:
Chairman Daniel Inouye
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WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 _
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Honorable Eugh Scott JUN 1976
United States Senate
Washington, D C. 20510
Dear Senator Scott:
In accordance with your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
extended the period of the moratorium on the destruction of certain
records which were the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975
in connection with S_ Res. 21_ The moratorium will on
10 December 1976 .
In adldition, hefore any such records are destroyed, we
shall transmit to the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence copies
of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives
and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
records_ The same Will be done with respect to those routine_
administrative records which, although not involved under S: Res 21,
were "ithheld from routine dlestruction during the life of that Resolution-
I am confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of
documents before they are destroyed if this i8 the desire of the Select
Committee.
It is
hoped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
the wishes of Yo ;nd the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
2s outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's
letter of 8 June to you.
Sincerely:
George Bush
Director
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Chairman Daniel Inouye
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Copy for Senator Baker
#Hnited Sstates Senate
(9ffice of tlze &Hajority Hender
Jashinytort @.G 20510
June 7,.1976
Honorable Deniel K Inouye
Chairmen
Select Comittee On Intelligence
United States Senate
Weshington, De C ,
Dear Mr Chairman:
We have received 8 letter from the Honoreble George Bush,
Director of the Centrel Intelligence Agency, reletive to the destruc e
tion of pepers and material which he has held for sometime relative
to our request _ Our action wab taken to facilitate the inquiry being
undertaken by your predecessor committee under the cheirmenship of
Senator Frank Church.
In view of the fect, 08 we e8swe, that ell of Senator
Church 8 comittee recorde have been turned over to your permanent
Select Committee, we would @ppreciate your advibing uB 8b to whether
or not you went Our originel letter to stend end the pepers end other
meteriele to 0t1l1 be held = Could You give 49
tbe Judgment o2
end your Committee On thie matter?
Witb beat wishe8, we are
Ikk-Ei
HUGH SCQT VIKE MANSFIEDD
REPUBLICN IDADER MAJORITY LRADERR
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WABHINGTON,D.C: 20505
2 June 1976
Honorable Mike Mangfield
United States Senate
Office of the Majority Leader
Washington D.C _ 20510
Dear Senator Mansfield:
On 27 January 1975 following adoption' of S_ Ree 21 creating the
Select Conmitte OnyIntelligence, You and Senator Hugh Scotomedts]ted
Central Intelligence Agency "not destroy_ remove from [its] pog-
that the Otherwise dispose or permit the disposal of any
session or control or
have a
bearing on the subjects under
records or documents which might
all records or documents per-
investigation_ including but not limited to
M1 to the matters set out in section 2 of S Res . 21,
taining in any way
to thig request, the Agency Placed in effect & complete
iures)onbe testructeon 0 records including normal administrative
moratorium on the
records scheduled for routine destruction _
of this letter is to advise you that it is our intention to
The purpose
of records now that the Select Committee has
proceed with destruction
final We have &0 adviged
its investigation and issued its report.
Senator Church.
with the backlog of routine administrative records theeAgency
eslcoy recbrtdhe bhichogece collected and maintaiced br the iGgOcy
will destroy by the Rockefeller Commission
and which were subject to investigation
to destroy much of
and the Select Committee
The Agenc ofsl9qqued'
93-579) and by ths latter material by the Privacy Act of 1974 (_
Order 11905 _ Of course_
all records destruction will be fully
Executive
laws Presidential directives and the
consistent with other
applicable
and Justice Department investigations_
ements of pending litigation
that this action is now necesgary and appropriate,
Itruet you agree of thig understanding and I would appreciate your confirmation
I &m
sending a duplicate of this letter to Senator Hugh Scott,
Sincerely ,
1A
Gedge Bush
Director
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FRANK CHURCH, IDAKO, CHAIRMAN
JohN @ TOwER, TEXAS, Vice CMAIRMAN
Philip A. HART , Mich: HOwARD H BAKER, Jr:, TENN,
WALTER P MONDALE; MiNN_ DARRY GoldwaTeR, ARIZ.
walTeR D. HUDDLESTON; KY CHARLES McC. MATHIAS,JRI MD
Robert MOROAN Nc RIChard 9. SCHWEIKER_ Pab
CARY HART S Colo;
?llnited States Senate
WILLIAM @, Miller; STAETT DireCTOR
frederick 0. SCHWARZ, Jr., chiep COUNsEL SELECT COMMITTEE curtis R. SMotheRB; Minority CQUNSEL STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS with
RESPECT To INTELLIGENCE Activities
(PURsuaNT To 8. Re8- 21, BeTh CoNcRe8s)
WASHINGTON,Dc. 20510
February 1l, 1976
Professor Ea W. Pfeiffer
University of Montana
Missoula , Montana 59801
Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
Senator Mansfield ha s informed me that you did not
receive my letter to you of December 19, conc erning the
work of the Select Committee. I am therefore enclos
a copy for your information:
Sincerely ,
William G_ Miller
Staff Director
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MONTANA
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Jashingto, @.E. 20510
I!e_LISENCE },MVITIES
December 15 , 1975
Profesgor E. W , Pfetffer
University of Montana
Misgoula, Montana 59801
Dear Profeggor Pfe:ffer:
Thie MLll acknowledge your letter of Dec ember 2
I will be glad to contact M_ Miller again and ask hta to
respond to your request.
Must cloge now , but with best personal wLehes , I am
Sincerely yours,
CC William Ge Miller
5 Juelci
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January *8, 1976
Senator Mike Tiansfield
Wnited States Senate
Wash ington, LC 20510
Dear: Senator Mansfield:
Thank you for your letter of Lecember l5th in which you state that you
would contact Miller and ask him to respond to my request I am sorry
to bother you biit I have had no word fron Mr. Miller. As you know
I feel that the matter 1S of su_ ficient importance that it deserves a reply
or at least an acknowledgement of a receipt of my letter from Mr Miller
Sincerely yours ,
E. #_ Pfeiffer
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cers you_ Thls does not deny itb Lmportance I hope one
0f che other comnittee3 may better be able to you.
Sincerely,
Willian G . Mller
Staff Director
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cerns you. Thfs does not deny its Lmportance I hope one
of the other comittec3 may better be able co You.
Sincerely,
Nilllam G . Mller
StafE Director
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December 19 1975
Professor E W . Pfel€fcr
Universicy of Moncana
Misgoula 5
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Montana 59801
Dcer Profesgor Pfeiffer:
the delay in replying to your
inquiries _
Pleage: forgive
the Select Comitcee hab been ex-
The press of busine88 On
cessive
has Indeed congidered a number of problemg
The Comlttee intelligence agencies in Indochina _
concernin? the role of U.S_
segsion On CIA Paramlitary
For example there was an
execbervehaee=
also inves tigated bev-
operetiong in Laog ,
Staff member8
eral cage3 related co Vietnam.
che Comlctee hag been forced co 8et some
Unfortuately
There are a Vast number of important
1imlts co ics inquiry the intelligence agenciee - To do
Legues in the activties of
comendationg for
legislation
8n
effectlve Job of Presenting re-
time allotted co the Con-
concerning
the agencles within the
attention On certain
nittee we have had to concentrate our
hag concluded thac
0 rather than ochers The Comittee
of lc8 Logue8
of
herbicides Will not
be Wichin che
purview
che uge
Inve8
tlgation _
committee
for overgight of the intelligence
A
Permanent
cablished to follow
the Select Comittee
agencieg may be e3
would be new
opportunicies to pursue many
In chie case there
issues wich remain_ The
problen
of€ the lingering
"Eexbicide;rirolvaochisuesicht
also be
congidered with-
of use of
of the Comittees On Forelgn Relationg or
in the
Jurisdictions
Arwed Services_
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University 0 Montana
December 2, 1975
missoula, Montana 59801
(406) 243-0214
Senator Mike Mansfield
E.S Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C . 20510
Dear Senator Mansfield:
Iou may recall that some weeks ag0 you were kind enough to arrange a
meeting between myself and Mr _ William Miller, of the staff of the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence TIou arranged this meeting for me So that I could
present documents, which I showed you , relating to possible CIA illegal activ-
ities in Indochina. Specificelly , as you know I have been interested in
the problem of who carried out the massive defoliation raids against Cambodia,
one year prior to the TT.% _ incursions into that country and during a_ time when,
formally, there were normal relations between the (nited States and the Royal
government of Cambodia. After talking with you about the matter,_ I met , for
about one-half hour, with fir _ Xiller and showed him the documents I showed you .
He made some notes and assured me that the question of possible illegal activ-
ities of the CI4 in Indochina, including Cambodia, was on the agenaa of his
committee . Sometime ag0 , I wrote kr_ Miller to find out when he expected the
committee might look into Indochina. However as has been the case since
"ugust__with_respect to communications from this comnittee , I have as re-
ceived no answer, not even an ackowledgement of receipt = I have just read
in the press that the Senate Intelligence Comittee expects &gain to look at
Chile, etc_
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but there is no indication of any interest in Inaochina
I would Freatly appreciate your in learning whether , in fact , the Senate
Select Cormittee on Intelligence will look into possible illegal cokert opera-
tions of I, intelligence agencies in Indochina I would also appreciate
your views as to what I should do to an investigation of the massive clan-
destine herbicide attack on Cambodia 1969) _ This was a unique operation in
technological history of foreign relations and as a biologist I am most inter-
ested and concerned to the full story on this bizarre incident_ If the
Senate Select Comnittee will not ask obvious questions of the intelligence
community _
9
I would greatly appreciate your views on whon I should turn to
ask these questions_
I want to thank again for your hel;) on [0y last trip to Washington. I
regret that I have to keep bothering Tou about this matter
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but I do hope Jou
understand my concern, bazed on my personal ohservations in Indochina, tnat
the facts about cdert operations there be publically deterninea .
"1NK76
Ej W . Pfeiffer
Equal Opportunity in Education and Employment
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December 19 1975
Professor E_ W_ PfelEfer
University of Moncana
Miegoula
0
Montana 59801
Dar Professor Pfeiffer:
Please forgive the delay in replying
to your inquiries .
of busineg 9 On
the Select Comittee he8 been ex"
The Presg
cessive
Comlttee
has Indeed congidered 8 number of problemg
The
che role of U.S.
intelligence,agencies In Indochina _
fozcexazpie
there was an
executive se8sion On
CIA Paramnlitary
For examp in staff rembers have also inves tigated sev-
operationg Laos ,
erel caseg relaced to Viecnan.
the Couittee hag been forced co set some
Unfortunately
There are 8 vast number of important
liolts co
its inquiry_ intelligence agencie8 _ To do
Legueg in the activities of the for legislatlon
an
effective Job
0xcleesenithirchomendatioc
allotted to che Con-
concerning the agencies within che
attention On certain
nitcee we have had to concentrata our
concluded that
0 cher than others The Comittee hab
Lbgue8 ra
herbicides Will not be Wfchin the purview of Lc8
che uge of
Inve8 tlgatlon _
A
rmanent committee
for oversight o€ the intelligence
Pe
be es
tablished co follow the Select Comittee _
ogencieg may
there would be new
opportunities to pursue many
In this cage
iggues wich remain The Problem
of the lingering "Eerbicideare;olvda
Indochina might al80 be congidered with-
of use of
of the Committees On
Foreign Relationg Or
In
the Jurisdictions
Arwed Services _
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Frofeeeor B} H; Ne ffer
Unlverelty 6r iontere
MLeeoule , Moutara 59801
Deer Frofeedor Pfelffer
Berator Manefield ba Inforaea ma tbat jou d1d not
recelve W latter t9 you ok Becerber 19, concerkeg the
Dort Or the' Belect Cernlttee: I em tberefore @roloo-
0 Cor for Your Inlorauloda
81ncerely,
Willled 0: Mlller
Beft Drectot
bc : Serator #lte #nefteld
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Met with_Senator _Frank_Church_regarding
44 Professor E W. Pfeiffef of the University of
3
letter he had written' to
information that Air stating that Senztor Church had reliable
Montana, for defoliation operations in Cambodia_ A
America wzs re
sponSible
to the Director for corment
of Senator Chureh's lettef had been sent
copy
Arthur]. Westing, Windhar College in Vermont_ I
by Professor were much concerned over this allegation and
explained to the Senator we
authorized me to deny it categorically: Iadded that while we
the Director
tbe identizy of the Senator'$ source; we were curious
were not pryirg into
based on honest mistake or 2s to whether this source's allegations vere
If the former, I
suggested the Senator might wish t straighten
malice. Church said he couldn't remember off hand where he
him outa Senator
but would check his files- He said he accepted
learned this inforration
our denial:
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Profesgor {E.
Pfeiefcr
Univedgity_ of Montana
Ms8ouia Montana
59801
Dearl eLofesgor Pfeiffer:
the delay in replying to your inquitiles _
Please forgive
che Select Comlctee hes been 61
The Ze8g jof pbusinegs On
cessve -
has indeed congidered a number of proklems
The ComiLttee intelligence [agencies in Inkdchina
con rnlng the role o€ :U.S.
se88ion on CIA
Parambiitary
For
Fram?Le there was an
executive
also inves bev-
Cions in Laos _
Staff members heve
ope:
Ieases re
lated to Vietanz
the Comictee hag
been forced co 8et sone
lunfortujately
There are a
vast/number of impotEant
linlts co
its inquiry:
of the
intelllgence ; agencie8 To do
1884e in the activities
comendationg for legil{iation
an
Job of presenting re
cime allotced co
Ene Con- condefeffgve
che agencies within che
attention on
cedeain
nitdee we
have had to concentrata our
has concluded] that
isslel rather than ochers The Comnihtcechefpcowiewaed
lt8
the uge
af ferbicides wili not be Within
ioveeElgation_
committee for overgight of the intelligence
PemaxheetescabiEshed
to follow the Select Comietea
may be
would be new
opportunities to purbue many
In
Ehis case there isgues which redain: The
[Problem
of
Ec 3f Eerbicidc;te; Lxao:
Indochina might
als0]be congidefed with-
of of
of the Committees On Forelgn Relatibng or
In
Ede seuviceiccions
Arve Services _
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Page Tio
regrec (chat we s imp ly do noc have che time or re
sourdes; to investipate the matter whfch unders candably On
cerns Iyou _ Th1s does not deny its_importance I hhope one
of tHel ther comittec3 may better be able to lhelp you_
Sincerely
Willian Mfler
Staff Director
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON; D;C. 20505
Review Staff: i76-02/lg / 2
27 February 1976
Mrl Wnilliam G . Miller
Stlaff Director
Hm Select Committee To Study Governmental
pile rations With Respect To Intelligerce
Avlt ivities
Rdkml G - 308
Dilrkisen Senate Office Building
Wasihington D C . 20510 Attn Mr Ralskton
De Mr Miller:
In response to requests about Agency involvement
in ICambodia the attached statement is forwarded for
ydur' information
Sincerely ,
6eot ldas
Walter Elder
Review Staff
tlachment
Deniaj of CIA involvement in the
resistance and dissident activities
which occurred in Cambodia since the
fall of that country to . Communists
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he Central Intelligence Agency has not been involved
in' anx lay in the resistance and dissident activities whikh
have ecurred in Cambodia since the fall of that country to
the Cdmmun iis ts
RECH
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. ~20505
Review Staff: {76 - 0 2/2,9/1
23 February 1976
Mrl WWilliam G . Miller
Stla fif Director
Selllect Committee To Study Governmental_
Operations With Respect To Intelligence
HAlctivities
Rdom G - 308
Dilrksen Senate Office Building
Washington D. C . 20510 Attn: Mr Ralston
Delar' Mr Miller:
In; response to your recent request abqut allegatlions
0# Agency involvement in Cambodia, please be advised that
'Ralston was given a copy of a 1971 letter from
Senator' Chyrch to Professor Pfeiffer and a Icopy of a
memorandum for the record reflecting a conVersation
between Senator Church and our Legislative Counsel: about
tkel specific a ]legation conce rning the use of herbicildes
in Cambodia in 1969
These |memoranda were furnished Professor Pfeiffer
in response to his FOIA request
Sincerely ,
Uank Edeta
Wa lter Elder
Review Staff
RECF'YSD] FROHA `
+yy 24/1976
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December 19 1975
Professor E. W PfelEfer
UniveBeLty of Montana
Miesoulla_
0
Montana 59801
Dear Erofesgor|Pfelffer,
Elease forgive the delay in replying to your Inquiries
The of busineg 8 On the Select Comittee hag been: er7 Zee_Byess
Tne Coulttee has Indeed congidered 8 number of probiems
conce=
Fring the role of U.S . intelligence agencie? in Indochina _
For ezample there was an executive segsi0n On
CIA ParamnlLtary
operaFions in Lao8 _ staff nembere heve el30 iovestlgaced Bev-
erel c ge8 relaced to Vietan.
Unfortunaely the Coulctee ha8 been} forced co Bet 3u2
lioit? to its inquiry_ There are 8
vast number of important
Legue? In the activtieg
Sf the intelligence agenciee_ To do
an effeettve of presenting re= comendations for legLsfation
concetaing thel agencies within che cime allotced to che Con-
nittee we have had to concentrete Our attention On certain
Lsguel rather Ithan Others The Comnlttee jhas concluded that
the 4b0
of herbicidee WLll not be wfthin the purview of ite
InvegfcLgation
permanent comlttee for oversight Of the 'IntellLgerce:
egencies nay. be escablLshed co follow the iSelect Comittee
In thli? case
there would be new opportunities ico purgue many
of che lingerlng uresolved 1ggue9 wich remain _ The
PERbien
of use] of herbicides In Indochina might als0 be conaidered with-
In thlel
jurisdlctiong of the Comlttees On
[Foreign Relati8js
Or
Arved Services
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December 19 , 1975
Pege 00
JC regret Ithat we 9imply do not have Che time re
gourceg co investLgace the natter which uderatandably con
W cerne %ou_ THls does not deny lt8 Lmportance I hope one
of thef other comittee8 may better be able to help You.
Sincerely
William G_ Mller
Staff Director
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ZHluslington, ZUC. 20510
LLREXESECTNIIES
December 15 = 1975/
Professor E_ N Pfelffer
University of Montana
[Missoula Montana 59801
Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
Thilg will acknowledge your letter 0f December 2
I Will be glad to contact Mr Millerl agath and ask himl to
krespond tto your request.
Musjt close now , but with best pergonal wighes , an
Sincerely yours,
CC Willian G. Miller
[JA
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of
montana
Jlecemuer 2 1975
missoula montana 59801
(406) 243-0214
Senator Mike Mansfield
UaS_ Sennte Office !ilding
Washin;ton D.( 20510
Dear |senater Mansfield:
Tvu recall tlat sone weeks a60 You were kind enough to arrange
meeting between myself ana Ilr_ Willinm Hiller, of thc stafr' of the Senate Select
Comrilttee Gn Intelligence Tou arrunred this Mne etir;] for Jne 50 that Ilcould
present ecuments, which I showed you, relatin; t.o {asible CIG illegal activ-
ities in lndochin;. Specifically, 715 Yo1l know 1 H:i"e lon; been linterested in
the 'Brobler of who Carried out the wassive defolintion raids against Cgmbodin,
one :Year to the I,= incursions into that country ana during 3 time when,
formally
lkyiere
were normal relations between tho Mnited States and the' ioyal
e llof Camhodia_ After tnlking with Jov about the matter,F I met , for
aboi
thoadt
onel half honr _ with [ir_ :iller andl showed him the documents I showec Jou
Ile made some notes and assured me that the question of posSible illegal activ-
ities of Illhe CI4 in |Indochina, including Gambodin
) wag 0n the agenca of His
committec (Sometime ag0 , I wrote Iir. Willer to finc out when he /e xpected the
committeel mirht look into Indochina. However a15 has] been] the case since.
kuust,, W
Uh respect to cOnnunications from thi:; corun} t leel I have as Jet re-
ceived no aswer
9
not even 81 "cknovledgement of receipt. II havel just read
in the press thnt the Senate Intellivence Con; ittee exects to l8ok at
(hile' etc
9
but there is no indicntion of any interest in [Inuochina
I wou
id
appreciate your help in learning whether, in fact the Senate
Select
'Comdittee
ttee on [Intell:gence will look into poxsible iilegal kcoert epera-
tions of intelligence agencies in Iridochina I would also appreciate
your"views is to what I should do to HJ) inveslipition 6f the massive |clan-
destine herbicide attack On Camboaia (1969) Tiis Wa; 2 Aique Qperatiori ir
technological history of foreigri relations Jrd a5 7 hiologist I a41 most inter-_
ested and) Concerned i0 the full story on Lhis bivarre inc ident If the_
Senatie Sclect Comnittee will not sk ohvious quentions of' the intelligence
communityl I would {reatly appreciate your views 0m whon I shoulc iturn td to
ask theselquestions
I want Ite thank lyou ain for your l;) On [yi lat trip to
Washinglyk_ I
regret that I have tb kcep. botherint You ahoul. tljs mntter but 'I do Jou
understana
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espectfully referred to
Mr_ Willfam G: ller
Staff Drecttor
Select Committee
on Inteligence Activitiles
U . S. Senate
Correspondence Erom Professor E. W .
Pfetffer
I would apprec{ate your replying to
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ThE MissouLiAN P 0_ Bx 1535 500 N_ Higgins AVE_ MiSSoULA. MONTANA 59801 TEL. (406} 542.0301
Oct. 23, 1975
Mr Willian G, Miller
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Staff Director
Select Comittea to Study Covernmental Operat ions
With Respect to Intelligence Activitieg
Room Capitol Hill Hotel
Washington,. D,C_ 20510
Dear Mr Miller:
Recentl y I discusged with Dr E. In , Pfeiffer, Tniverg ity of Montana
zoolosist, an incident in which he has had an abiding concern the
herbfcide attack that occurred in aagtern Cambodia in the spr ing of
1969.
As I understand from my talks with Dr Pfeiffer and f rom my
revie W of the correspondence he ha $ received from various ajjenci08 ,
there i9 no doubt that the attack aC tually OC curred that' it wag
large and 9 iGnificant and that the nature of the chemicals and
aircraft
involved indicate
that the Ua S , had: & direct role in
carr 'ying it out .
Yet it seems the State and Defense depa rtment s , the CIA and the
11 "private CIA-affiliate Air America heve al1 denied in ona wey or
another that they conducted the a ttack.
The obvious question i9 wh 0 did make the attack? bhho ordered it,
wag it or dered and under what authority? Dr Pfeiffer has
indic ated your committee i9 looking into this matter and that the
affair may ultimately be discus sed in the course of Sele ct Committee
hearings at 9ome point .
Ig it nossible for you to tell me the status of Jour inquiry? Would
it be anpropria te at this time for our newspaper to interview Dr
Pfeiffer and write .a newg story on the documents he has re ceived
or would such 8 S tudy benefit from naw information your committee
efforts may regurrect within the near future ?
Thanks in advance for your int erest _ We have followed' with great
interest the Select Committee efforts to date .
7 For TF Sincerely ,
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Dear Mr _ Miller:
Through the offices of Senator ilansfield, we met some
weeks ag0 to discuss certain problems related to
possibldCIA
activity in Cambodia _ As you know,I am particul= icterested
in why the CIA cannot or will not find out who carried out the
massive herbicide attack against Cambodia in the spring of 1969.
The CIA has under the Freedom of Information Act provided me
with some docuents from my file which bear directly upon this
strange episode and Senator Church S efforts to find out information
for me . When we met you indicated that CIA activities in Indochina
were to be investigated by the Select Comittee = I would greatly
appreciate krowing about when you think this subject will come
upa I: would also very much like to submit some of the documents
I have received from the CIA and my personal testimony to_ the
Comittee. I believe that Professor A. Westing &d myself_ were
the last official guests of the Sihanouk regime before it was
temporarily deposed.
I look forward to hearing from on thege matters .
Sincerely yours,
E aW Pfeiffer
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University of Montana
missoula, montana 59801
(406) 243-0214
6, 1975
Mr, Paul Wallach
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Room G Dirksen Building
Washington, D.C . 20510
Dear Mr Wallach:
As decided in our phone conversation I am
writing to you about a conversetion I had last week in
Paris with an official of the Royal Government of Cambodiae
He informed me that CIA-directed activities hostile to his
government are presently occurring in his country, and that
these activities are launched from bases in Thailand.
I would greatly apreciate your assistance in finding out for
me Thether any agency of the U.S, Government is presently
carrying out activities against the Royal Governnent of
Cambodia.
I greatly appreciated the opportunity to talk with
you in person recently, and thank you for your interest
and
Sincerely, Yours
E.w.Pfeiffer
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Please forgive my . deley in replying to YD1
las+ letter cf March 29, 1971 iltholgh the De 6
partment of Stete nas brfered to Gake the Seventh
Ait Force' Sticy evaileble to %2 8t the Departuert,
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Memorandum
2/14/74
To: Terry Lenzner
From 8 Jim Moore
Subject: Robert Maheu John Roselli
Hereis 2 summary of what I have done on the Roselli-Maheu
connectiona
Yesterday I spoke with David Nissen, who prosecuted Roselli in
1968 for_being an uregistered alien and for being involved with hidden
owners in the Friar'8 Club case, Nissen never met Maheu or spoke with
him: However, he did remember that gtoriee about_Maheu and Rogelli
being involved in anti-Castro did come to his attention when he wa8_
investigating and prosecuting Roselli. He couldn't remember the source
of those storie8, saying that his information came from many people,
including Justice Department lawyers in Washington and the FBI: One
story he heard w a8 that Maheu tried to. intervene in Washington, either
through direct contacte_in the FBI or at Justice or:through Edward P
Morgan; to kill the Roselli prosecution on the bagig that Roselli had helped
the United Statee in Cuba. Mabeu wa8: reportedly an old CIA agent, Niegen
remembers hearing at gome point that Rogelli had gone to Cuba in an atterpt
to a9sa8inate Cabtro:
Niggen gaid that there are extengive file8- on Roselli maintained by
the FBI 0;'the Department. Nissen had a vague recollection that the files
contained a gtory about Maheu gomehow being involved in a wiretap on Sam
Giancona, for whom Rogelli worked: Nissen also remembered information
about a meeting between Maheu and Giancona regarding Cuba, but he couldn't
remember any of the Bpecifice.
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When Robelli came up for sentencing, he w28 represented by Tom
Wadden, who had been a8sociated in eome capacity with Edward Bennett
Williamb . Wadden filed a motion to reduce sentence and included with iit
two coljumng by Jack Anderson that recounted the story of Roselli and Maheu
trying to assasinate Castro. Nissen thought the motion might also have
included an affidavit from Edward P. Morgan. The government succes sfully
resisted the motion on the grounds of fraud, since Wadden produced no
witnesse8 or documentation to support hi8 claim; I called the Federal Court
in Los Angele8, and they have gent the motion for reduction 'of sentence and
attached paperg to u8_ The Clerk there told me that in addition to_the Anderson
column8; the motion included affidavits Anderson and Les Whitten
vouching for: the unnamed source-% the columng
Roselli is now in Florida s0 he can be reached, but; according to
Nissen, Giancona i8 in exile somewhere in Mexico_
FRANTLER CASE
Nissen never heard about Maheu being questioned in Washington in
Futier
lieu of the Grand Jury appearance. Nissen did not the/case, becauge he
had been promoted to supervisory capacity. However; he. Seemed surprised
that he had rever heard of such 2 meeting. He gave me the nameg Sf
three: lawyer8 who handled the cabe after he gave up direct responsibility-
forit My phone interview with the firbt of them;: Jerry Ullman, i8 written
up-a8 &- geparate interviewa The second: Lawyer; John Hornbeck, hab not
returned my phone call. The third; Tom Kotoskijactually tried the case:
He i9 now an a88istant United Statee Attorney in Lo8 Angele8 and about to
become head of the San Francisco Strike Force. He will be in Washington
Thur8 and Friday, February 14 and 15, and Ihave asked him to call me
38. 80nn 28 posBiblea
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One final note Nissen gaidkhe RogeBlilin the Justice Department
containg many references to Maheu. He never, however, 8aw or heard about
3 file kept on Maheu himself.
Richard Crane, hea d of the Organized Crime office in Los Angeles,
i8 also in town until thef end Of this. week. He may know something about
Maheu and Roselli, 29 well a8 about Dalitz_coming back to_the
Desert Inn. He Should call me this evening or tomofrow morning: Also
Mike head of the Kansa8 Strike Force} will be in town tomorrow
and Friday- He, according to Crane, might know something about the Dunes:
In addition, Will Wilson mentioned the strike fzuce man from Kansas
a8 the one who: get,uP the Maheu interview at the Jugtice Department: I
spoke with DeFeo today and he will call me tomorrow to arrange a meeting
time before he leaves town.
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NAM Sam GIANCANA
ALIASES Sam Mooney _
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Sam One
DESCRIPTION 8 Born 7-16-08, Chicago, Ille;
5'9"_ 175 Ibs., hazel eye8,
dark chestnut hair, fair
camplexion and iediun builde
IOCALITIES Resides at 1lL7 Nenonah Ave_
FREQUENTED Oak Park, Ille Frequents
the- Lounge, Norwood
House, Villa Venice, all of
Chicago, Illinoise
FARILI Wife, Angeline DeTolve .
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died in 195k. Has three
BACKGROUND daughters, Annette, Bonita Lou and Francine_
Mother deceased, father 1s Giancana, and
sisters are Josephine and Victoriae Sam
consort is Ladana Collins, 20 Ea Delaware, Chicago,
Illinoise
CRIMINAL Tony Accardo, Paul Ricco, willie Baddone: Nicholas
ASSOCIATES D'Ami- Sam Battaglia and Leonard Cianola, all of
Chicago, Illinoisa
CRMMINAL FBI #58137, Chicago. PD #E-27L65. Subject has re
JISTOR cord of 13. arrests dating frcm Septe 1925, on such
charges as mrder , grand larceny, auto theft,
burglary and liquor law violations with two felony
convictionse
BUSINESS Owns the Forest Lounge , the R & $ Liquor
9
the
Iohmar Diste Chnicago, Ill., and has gambling
interests and an interest in the shrimp business
in Cubae
MODUS A ranking member of the Mafia in the State of
OPERANDI Ila &nd a director of the organization' 9 activi-
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NAIE Giovannt ROSELLI
ALIASES Joha. RosellL,' John Rusaelll,
John Kasgelle, John' Pagselll
DESCRIPTTON * Born 7-i-Ok Chlcagos. Dl,
5'80
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IOCALITIES Resides 1251 Noa Crescent
FREQUENTED Ktse, Hollyuoods Cal, Fre-
quents gambling Casinos .at_
Las Vegas were be has room
at Tropicana Hotela Travels
frequently all parts 0U,Sa
FAHII Divorced: froa novle actrese June Langt fathere
BACKGROUND Vlncenzo; @othert Haria Rugso (both; daceaged)}
cougin: Jogeph Evangelistae
CRIML Dragna fanily, Philip Kastel, Harold Heltzers
ASSOCIATES Francisco Costigkla, Charles Fischettl, Louls
Piscopoa
CRIMINAL JBI "3339986. LoAa Sher-ff'g Office #51247-
HISTORZ Record dating fron 1926 includes arrests for
guspiclon %f robberys vagrant]} interfering wlth
trade, nail fraud & vlolatia of: parolea
BUSINESS Vice-President Monte Frosser Prodictions and
varied other interestse
HODuS 8 "A: Mafia flgure at Los Angeles and Las
OPERANDI Actlve in labor racketeering and control, Of gamb
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DePuty couxsel PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIEs
(PURSUANT T0 %. RES: &, OiD CONGRESS)
WASHINGTON: D.c 20510
MEMORA N DU M
PERS ONA L A ND CoNFID EN TIAL
To: Senator Ervin
From: Terry Lenzner and Marc Lackritz
Subject: Relevance to 8_
Res 60 of John Rosselli's
testlmony about hls CIA activities
Summar:
John Rosselll and his attomey _
Tom Wadden _
tes tlfying about Rosselll 's Involvement #
object to
with Robert Maheu in
a: :: Ce-obanced plot to assassinate Fidel Castro inethe earey 1960's_
The obJection is based upon
national securlty grounds:
an assertion by Mr Wadden that the as well as
material is not relevant to
our Inquiry under 8 _ Res . 60 .
Testimony of Mr _ Rosselll about this matter is relevant
and necessary to our Investigation
a varlety of reasons_
Facts:
60 2] Wilea:
During the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, the
CLA apparently financed and organized a plot to assasssnate Fideh
Casto_ Anong the Partlcipants in thls plot were Robert Mahe
John Rosselll Maheu had a public relations business and
and Rosselhl was associated with
at tme
some alleged organized crime
figures (e:g. Sam Giancana) who had lost substantial
Investments when Casto came to power_ gambling
Apparently , the plot
continued Into the early 1960's even after the abortive
of Invaslon but It falled In attaining Its objective of killing
Casto.
a few officials in the goverment knew of the exis-
tence of the plot at that time_
Justice Department officials stumbled across thls Infor-
mation about the plot as
a result of their investigation Into
Illegal wiretap by Sam Glancana In the
1960's .
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The sensitive information was brought to the attention of
FBI Director J _ Edgar Hoover _ and either he or then-Attomey General
Robert Kennedy ordered the prosecution of Giancana dropped in order
not t8 compromise national security considerations_
The,information about the alleged assassination plot then
dormant in & secret flle in the Department of Justice until
1969 when Assistant Attomey General WIli Wilson requested the
file from the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Section_ The flle
was returned to Central Files shortly after it was taken out.
X {f8r 2 0ism
7Lt €;0 Assistant Attorney Generai Wwilson next requested the secret
Justice file in early 1971 in connection with his interview of Robert
Maheu; on January 27 1971 (see attached chronology) This Interview
at the Department of Justice_ in leu of a grand jury appearance, was
arranged by a telephone call to Attorney General Mitchell on January 19
1971, only one after Jack Anderson publlshed his first column linking
both Maheu and Rosselll to the CIA plot to kill Castro. (see attached)
However the significance of Anderson 8 column on January 18
1971 . was that onthe same Haldeman requested Dean:to flnd out
what he could about the Hughes Maheu 4
0'Brien relationship _
In the follow-up memos from Caulfield to Dean on the Maheu-
0'Brien link Caulfield notes Maheu's prior "covert activities 00 for the
CIA and advises Dean that a check into CIA _ FBI _ and IRS files on Robert
08 Maheu is advisable to avoid a "counter-scandal_
In addition _ Assistant Attorney Geneal Wilson showed the
sensitive "Castro flle" to Attorney General Mitchell_ In January 1971,
and discussed with him the political implications of the information _
Following the on-the-record Interview of Maheu on January 27 1971 ,
by Lynch , Wilson and Petersen Maheu was interviewed privately by
Wilson concerning his prlor CIA actlvitles with John Rossell_ Maheu
was not_ forthcoming with information about the plot at that time_
Attorney General Mitchell discussed the contents of the sensitive flle
with President Nixon according to Wilson, who had advised him to do
So.
Conclusion;
Therefore , the obsession of the Administration in keeping tabs
on Lanry 0'Brien in 197] and 1972 was in part motivated by a "fear that
Maheu would impart some of this sensitive information about the plot
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was to discover if there was
ay Information about the Plot that might be damaging to the Democrats
that 0'Brien might possess from Maheu
And these concerns could
have been a possible motivation for the break-in to the offices of the
DNC and 0'Brlen by four Cuban-Americans on June 17
1972
especially since their directions
were to photograph any documents =:,
rela to Cuban contributions or Cuban Involvement in the 1972
Democratic campaign _
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about the nature and scope of his activitles_
with Robert Maheu In the
1960's .
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Thanksglving _ 1970 Hughes leaves Las Vegas:
December 4, 1970 Maheu Is flred.
January 18_ 1971 Jack Anderson column published linking Mal
and Rosselli to plot to kill Castro_
January 18 , 197] Haldeman sends memo to Dean requesting ir
mation on 0'Brien-Maheu-Hughes relations}
January 19 1971 Jack Anderson column ~6.;& 2 with
itcmrc-) "'{.
appears more det
on Maheu S Involvement In plot to assassini
Castro_
January 19 _ 1971 Attomey_General John_Mitchell called_Robed
Maheu in Las Vegas at 5:12 p.m_ and taked
January 25, 197] : Caulfleld to_Dean memo discussing Danner
Ao rela tlonship with Maheu,
8
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and request for investigation Ir
CIA FBI IRS files for information to avoid €
"counter-scandal 00
January 25 = 197] John Rosselil enters prison-
January 26 , 1971 Dean to Haldeman memo on Maheu-0'Brien-
Hughes relationship
January 27
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1971 Maheu Interviewed at Department of Justice ]
A.A.G WIIl Wilson
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Henry Petersen and Bil]
Lynch ; In leu of an appearance before the
Grand Jury: Interview is about "skimming 88 11
Las Vegas
January 27 1971 A.A.G_ WIlson and Petersen meet with Mahei
privately to discuss: Maheu's prior CIA activi
February 1, 1971" Caulfield_to_Dean_memo noting that Maheu
WZ
involved in 8p covert actlvities m for the CIA in
early 1960's .
February 12_
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197] Rosselli's attorney flles a Motion to Reduce
Sentence based on Rosselli" S prior CIA activi:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
06 2 COUNTY OF
3 am the
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5 in tke above entieled action ; have read ghe Joregoing
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7 and know the contents thereo]; end certily ehat the same is erue o/ my own knowledge; except &s t0 those malters which
8 are therein stated upon my inJormation or belief, and &s t those matters believe it t0 be {rue:
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11 [ certify (or declare) , under penalty o perjury,# #hat the foregoing is &rue and correct:
12
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14 Signature
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16 (PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL 10l3e, 30185 C C P)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
17 COUNTY OF Los Angeles 82
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0rr8 0 citizen o} tke United States and & resident o the county @foresaid; [ Gt8 erer Ike @ge 0} eighleen years end not
0 persy t0 !he within entitled action My business address is:
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9601 Wilshire Blvd_ Suite 400, Beverly Hills, California 90210
21 Oe
June 25
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served the within _
Notice of Motion For Reduction
22 of Sentence_(Rule 35_FRCP); Points_and_Authorities Affidavits in
Tupport Thereof
23
O tke_
Plaintiff
in said action, by placing 0 true .copy thereol encloscd en sealed envelope witk postage thereon fully prepaid , in the
24 United States mail at
Beverly Hills, California
adaressed @s Jolloes:
25 DAVID R. NISSEN
Assistant U.S_ Attorney
26 Chiefe Criminal Division
1200 U.S_ Courthouse
27 312 North Spr St_
Los Angeles, Calif 90012
28
29 I certily (er declere) , under penalty o perjury,# &hat the foregoing is &rue and cerrea
30 Erecuted on June_25 1971 Beverly Hills California
(date) Ipace)
31
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
25th of June 197
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
National Archives and Records Service
Co all to
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tlpcsc prcscuts slull coic, Grecting:
By
of the authority in Me by the Administrator 0f General Scrvices,
certify Or his pchall , under the scal of the United States Gencral Scrviccs Administration,
that thc ach rcproduction(s) 6 1 {ruc and correct cOpY_%f documents in his custody:
Sigmaturc
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Center Manager
NAME AND AddRcSS Of DEPOS ToRy
General Services Administration (9NC
Federal Records Center, NARS
4747 Eastern Avenue
Bell, CA 90201
Form
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ROBERT L, MEYER
United States Attorney 7ed
2 DAVID Ra NISSEN
Assistant U. S_ Attorney
3 Chief Crininal Division Fea I7 4 Y6 El 5
1206
U_ 8 . Courthouse Building
4 312 North Sprcafiforeet Street 6 T cojn
Los Angeles 90012 4761 CALI?_
5 Tel:
888-2406
Attorneys for Plaintiff,
United States Of America.
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 9
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
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11 WNITED STATES OF' AMERICA, No.;.1175-PI-CD
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Plaintiff,
GQVERNENT' S OPPOSITION TO
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DEEENANT' S MOTION IQ
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JOHN ROSSEZLI, REDUCE_SENTENCE
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Defendant_
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18 Plaintiff, United States of America, 3 trongly opposes
19 defendant 8 Motion to Reduce Sentence based upon the files and
20 records in the case and the attached Memorandum.
21 Respectfully submitted,
22 ROBERT L. MEYER
United States Attorney
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Jobn Rossellt 18 actually Filippo Sacco, born July 4, 1905,
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in Italy of' parents Vincenzo and Marla Saccoa Vincenzo Sacco
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cawe to the United States after the blrth of his oldest
5 child, and in 1911, Mr8 , Sacco and Filippo joined Vincenzo in
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the United States where they restded 23 allens in Eabt Bostone
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Filippo Sacco completed the s1xth grade In the public
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schools of East Boston &d was discharged from school In 1917
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By this tine Fllippo had two younger brothers end two yotnger
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sister8 & In 1918, Vincenzo- Sacco dieda Ats wfe Maria ad the
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five children moved into the regidence of Liberato CLanclulli
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and 8 daughter Va} bora_ In 1920 . In 1922 , Maria &d Cianciullf
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were marrieda
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In 1922 , Filippo had 8
job driving 8 borse-drarm milk
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wagon and was nicknaned "MIlky" However
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In additfon to his
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legitinate occupation, FIlippo had made connections vith the
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crininal element In East Boston Was engaged inrarcotic
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traffic with hie headquarters in and around Maverick Square .
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On September 14, 1922, Filippo sold morphine to 2 governnent
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inforwant pamed Flsher while under survefllance by a
narcotic
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agenta On tember 19, 1922 , Filippo arranged for
a Large
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sale frow hib "gource" and va8 present and under agent 8ur"
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veillance wben tbe morphine was delivered. On September 29,
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1922 , Filippo Sacco and his "source" were arrested by Federal
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narcotics agentsa On October 18 , 1922 , che Federal Grand Jury
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in Boston indicted Sacco for the sale of narcotic drugs and
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tho
days later he Va8 released on batla Hbile awaiting trial
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in the narcotics cage, in Federal Court, Sacco 7a3 arrested ad
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indicted in Massachusetts State Court for grand larceny and
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was released on bail on]July 2, 1923,
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In 1923, while he a; On batl awaiting trlal In the
narcotics and larceny cases, Filippo Sacco jumped baLl in boch
3 cabes and disappeared from East Bostona Tbe Government narcotics
4 informant, Fisher
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dlsappeared about the Sane time and Government
5 sources belleve that he may have been killed to.prevent him fror
6 testifying. Because of his fugitive status, both indictments
7
agalnst Sacco were dropped.
8 After Sacco' 8 fllght_ frow hi8 hone in 1923, he spent some
9 time in Nev York and ChLcago, and fnally made hL8 appearance in
10 Los Angeles In 1924 under the fictitious nane 00 Joh Rogellt. "-
[ Sourees indlcate that Sacco engaged Ip bootlegging ad hljacking
12 during this period and police records bhou he was frequently
13 arrested On such charges as carrying concealed weapons
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and 8us -
14 picion Of robbery.
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After 1930 , Sacco became asgociated Nith the Al Capone
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gang in Chicago and wae elso closely associated vith organized
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crime in Los Angeles _
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Reliable source? relate that he 7a8 a
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executioner for tbe crintnal organfzations in both cities & In
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1936 , by demande and threats , Sacco forced: hls way into part
20
owership 0f '"Nationwlde Nevs Service," a horseracing information
21
service used by booknakers acto88 the country_
22 After prohibition
23 repealed, Sacco left the bootlegging
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busine8s and a8socLated hinself with Columbia Picture Studios &
24
Ag a close frlend of Lo8 Angeles underworld leader Jack Dragna,
25
Sacco Sood becene kom 28 8 labor muscleman and racketeer for
26
the movie studios . In 1943, Sacco wa; indicted O 2 charge of
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conspiracy to extort nlllions of dollare from movle producers
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and 8 labor union, Also indicted were union cfficials Browme
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and Bioff, and the following ranking members Of the Chicago La
30
Cosa Nostra fanily: Frank Nitto (aka Nittt)
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Louis Campagna,
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Paul DeLucia (aka Papl "the waiter" Ricfa) , Phil D' Andrea,
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M Francis Menitote (ake Frank Damond)
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and Charles "Cherzy Nose
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Gioe. In 1944, Sacco and the Chicago defendants vere convicted
2 and all were sentenced to ten yers in prison.
3 In 1947, Sacco and all bis co-defendants Mere
paroled
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Inmediately upon their becomning eligible therefore There were
5 indicacions that
their release had been secured by bribery but
6 adissible evidence sufficient for prosecution was not obtained.
7 In July 1948, Sacco" 8 parole was revoked because Of bls Con"
8
tinued assoeiation vith know crininal: ad he wa8 {mprLsoned
9 November 1948, wen his parole was reingtated: Shortly
10 after Sacco 8
parole terminated In March 1954, Williem Bioff, 8
11 key Covernment Mite38
at the extortion trLal wag murdered by
12 the bombing of hle vehiclea (The trial judge reportedly had
13 warned the defendants that if anything happened to Bioff whlle
14 they were Oa
Parole he would hold tbea responsible.) Two other
15 co-defendants of Sacco" have also been victims of gang slayings.
16 Opon 'bie release from prison, Sacco returned to Los Angeles
17 ad
associated hinself with 8
movie studio- Reltable
18 sources report that tbls was 8
front and in fact, through his
19 close assocLation Gitb Saa Giancana of Chicago, Sacco received
20 the responsibility Of overseeing the concealed interests in
21 Las Vegas casinos of the Chicago underworld. Sacco {mmediately
22 became 0
powerful fLgure in Las Vegas. Fe travelb back and
23 forth between Las Vegas
Los Angeles extensively and 8880"
24 ciates witb the kom Cosa Nostra members Dajor lers
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25 Rosselli appeared before tbe Kefauver Committee investl-
26 gating organLzed crine falgely testified concerning his
27 asgociation with undervorld figures and even his Oh personal
28 background .
29 During tbe perlod 1956-1958 , Sacco wa3 very active in
30 tbe construction
and pre-opening operation of tbe Tropicana Hotel,
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Nevada Ganing Control Board refused to allov the . Troplcana to
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Open 28 23 Sacco 7a8 associated with its. operation, where_
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upon the hotel ownerb were forced co buy back the gift lease
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at 8 cost of $180, 000 , reportedly about thtfty tines the amout
5
for the lease,
6 During the above . perLod, Sacco also involved himself In the
7 productlon of sbovs for the Tropicana, but agatn the Ganing
8 Control Board refused to' allov hic to participate in any capaclty
9 and be sold his interest. Followlng hls Ouster from the
10
Troplcana, Sacco sold Lce nachines to most of the Las Vegas hotele:
11
at prices Ear n excebb of prices Od the open market- Sacco has
12 also received 'numerous "finders feea" from various Las Vegas
13
botels and casinos for wtich fen if an) service8 vere performed
14 In October 1960,- Sacco and Ta @a Richardson vere involved
15
In placlng: & wire tap On tbe telephone of comedian Dan Rorjan in
16
Las Vega8 at the request of Chicago gangster Sam Giancane.
17
In 1968, Sacco Vag convlcted of failing to register 88
18
an allen and report hLe address annually . In the course Of that
19
trial, Ic Va8] bhort that birth recordb In Chicago IllInote had
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been forged In M effort to nake It appear that Sacco had been
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born there 28 Joha RoegellL. Sacco has long been 2 cloge friend
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of Eduard Ja Barrett, County Clerk, Cook County
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Illinois, fn
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wbose office the birth recorda . for Chicago vere kepta
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Anong Sacco' $ udervorld as8ociates are the following:
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Al Capone
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bead of the Chicago underworld gang;
26
Charles F . Fischettl a Capone lieutenant;
27
Micky Cohen gambler and racketeer;
28
Jack Dragna #
leader of the Cosa Nostra, Los Angeles,
29
Dou deceased;
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Benjamin '"Bugsy" Slegel
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member of Murder, Inc
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murdered June 20 , 1947;
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Allen Sniley gambler, bookmaker, racketeer;
2 Tony Accardo
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ranking Cosa Nostra figure;
3 Mono Adams ranking Cosa Nostra figure; and
Frank Costello
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Numerous prospective witnesses In tbe course of investiga-
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Efons concerning Sacco" 8 criolnal activitles have expressed
Or
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dLoplayed fear at the prospect of being called to testtfy
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agaLnet. and 8 number of eitnesses bave refused to testify
9
In tbe Friars Club trial, It was apparent that 8 nmber 0f
10
Nitnesses dellberately perjured themselves in order to exonerate
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Sacco, including Friedman,, Vinnie Donato
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Lee Deer, and Nat Ross .
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Defendant Sacco Wa8 convicted in the Frlars Club case in
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December" 1968 Of interstate travel in aid Of 8 racke teering
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enterprise and interstate transportation of fraudulently obtained
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securitles . He Vab al8o convicted of making 8 false statezent in
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his incone tar reture & Secco has had 8 long prectice of concealing
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tbe sonrce ad nature 0f. hls income _
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Fe 0a8 sentenced to five years
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in prison.
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In vlers Of Sacco" 8
extensive crininal record extending back
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wore than::40 years, 23 well 83
bis nembership and participation
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In the organized criminal syndLcate know 28 Cosa Nostra, Ne
strongly urge thac defendant Sacco' s sentence Dot be reduced for
23
24 any reason Ghatsoever, He 18 a genuine nenace to society ad,
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In particular, to tbose witresseb vho have testified against him.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE BY MAIL
I, JNE S TOKIYYAMA declare :
That I an 2 cltlzen of the Unlted States and resident or em -
ployed In Log Angeles County , Californla; that my business address 19
Office of Unlted states Attorney , United States Courthouse, 312 North
Spring Street , Iog Angeles, Californta 90012; that I am over the age
of elghteen years, and" a not 2 party to the above-entitled action;
That I am employed by the United States Attorney' for the Cen-
tral Dlstrlctof CalLfornla Who 1g a member of the Bar of the Untted
States Dlstrlct Court for the Central Datrict Of , Californie, at whose
direction the servlce by matl described: In' thIs: Certlflcate wa made;
that On February 17 l971 I deposited In the United_
states malls in the Unlted States Courthouse at 312 North Spring St , ,
Los Angeles , California, In the above-entitled action, In an envelope
bearing the requlsite postage,
3 copy of
GOVERNMENT S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT' $ MOTION
To REDUCE SENTENCE
addressed to Adrian Marshall
0
at Law 9668-w8lshire
9601 Blvd _ Suite 400
Beverly Hills, California
90210
at his last Iown address, at which place there Ls a delivery Ser-
vice by United states mall_
Thls Certificate 18 executed on February 17 1921
at Los Angeles , California.
I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing 18 true
and . correct _
4 AZara
JE S TOKUYAMA
USA-12c-240,
Rev .
10/19/67)
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To Terry lenzner
Fron Bob Muse
Subject: Interviev of John Roselll
On Wednesdey February 20, 1g74_
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Scott Arustrong, Marc Lackritz and Bob
Muse interviewed John Roselll at the office of Roselll' 8 attorney , Ton Wadden,
888 17th Street, N . Ha , Washington, Da C . , telephone 833-14h0. Also present were
Wadden 8 associates Bryan B. McMenanin and Ieslle Scherr .
Wadden began the interview by nting that for the first tIme,_ he, had
discussed with Roselll the 'Maheu 'Cuban matter with" vhlch ve vere concernea; an
found thet it presented 8 great problem of national security. Accordingly he had
tried to reech Senetor Ervin, en old ecquaintance, and 8ee 1f he could persuade the
Serator fron ellowing this intervlev_ to 80 forward, Fe di not get In touch Mtb
Ervln directly but talked to 0 staff member In Ervln'8 offlce, vhon he vould nt
identify. Fe
further noted thet; Robelli Wa8 insistent upon not glving any Inforvatior
about hle Cuban activitiee and vould rather_80 to jell thad be compelled to testify
about the matter_ Thub the Interviev_ Vab not productiye Ingofer &8 Rosell 8
Involvenent
vith Mebeu in 3960 Yes concerned, However" Wadden did allov 48 to inter-
vie Roselll aboit hi8 beckgrouna ,and_ we _reserved the right to heve; 8d executive
session before 8 Senator vhere John Rogelil might be compelled to" testify @bout hie
Involvement vlth Maheu In Cube . (It Bhould be poted tht Wadden voula not identlfy_
4 hls privilege clelm other than saying It related to netional 8ecurity-)
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John Roselli presentlye resides Hithb hle B1ter ena brother-In-Jav, 0 Mr ,
end M3 . Joseph Dalgle at 522 Southwest' TempCorner,~Plantation, Florida 33314. Bie
telephone number there 18 aree
305 581-6585 He hae been lving 10 retirement #th
then since he left jafl at the end of last Gummer , Prior to moving to Floride he
had been Ip the federal prison for thirty-three months , heving been convicted In the
Frier' 9 Club case, 8 conspiracy In which he was charged along Wth Maurice Friednap,
Benjenln Teitlebaum, end Mepuel Jacobs _ Fe noted that Hank Greenspun haa no iovolve-
ment efther 88 8 co-defendant or
unindicted co-conspirator In thet cese. )
With regard to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for; the firgt time In the mid-50'8
In elther Hashington Or,.Celifornia through e mutual acquelntance , Herman Spitzele
Whep questions vere asked 88 to #hat hls subbequent Involvenent uitb Maheu
Roselll'0 attorney instructed,him not to ensver any questione _ On tbe" ground or
national securitye
Rogelli &id hovever: Indicate hov he en Naheu had made arrangemente for
Rughes to 1ve et the Degert Inn when Bughes first arrived there I0 lte 1966. Fe
safd thet he had recelved 0 cell fror Meheu_
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who peeded to make arrengemente fOr
Hughes to move to Ias Veges from Bostone According to Maheu , no one anted to g1ve
roomb Rosell at the request of Nabeu left hle residence In [pa Angelee
Fughes any Ruby Kolod_ Vho owned 13$ o
ena vent uP to Ias Veges and asked his acquaIntance
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the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes end allov hin to take tvo of the pepthauses
et the Degert Inna At the tine Maheu' wab
10 charge Of gecurity and regpons Ible for
seeing that Rughes errived unnoticed In Ias Veges _
Kolod acguiesced and tola
Robelll that the floor of the Desert
Inn woula be evallable at tbe golng rete,
but thet vould have to leave the hotel by. Nev Years Wben the Rev Years dete
Maheu ca Lled end said
that they had recelved ntice froa Koled end
was approechlng, elll ther convinced Kolod t0 ellou them
were buppobe to leave their prenlses _ Ros. the Botele_ en evold
to steya At tbe bame tine he told Mabeu
that Hughes ghould buy
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any problens Maheu responded that he was of
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Yent to Iovolved 10 eny Of the gambling busInesses end vould not therefore went
to purchase the hotel, It wab et thle point that Roselll concelved or the Idea or
trying to gell the hotel, and approached Kolod and asked if he would be WIlllog to
sell It0
Kolod replled that if Roselll could make errangenents to sell It he woula
recelve 8 finder 0 fee& Roselll then turned eround end asked Maheu if he vanted to
purchase It0 Meheu responded that he would and Rosell turned the matter Over to
hi8 attorney Fd Morgar who then hendled the metter untll the end, Rosell aleo
instigated bome talk about the pO88lblllty of purchesIng the Sande end wile be da
pot negotlete It, recelved at 0 later dete fron E4 Morgan 8 check for $95,000 yhleb
represented hle finder 8 fee for the bele or bboth the Degert Inp end the Sande
Roselll noted that whfle Moe Dlltz Va8 the owner of the Degert he
did mot negotlete wIth hin beceuse he found him lese agreeable then Kolod . He se1d
that he had Sone nlnor deallnge Uitb Dalltz but Done or then related to mattero
Co- ncerning the Ies Vegae hotel Indubtry-
With regard to E4 Morgan, Robell met hlm in the" miadle 50'8 . SInce that
time Morgan has represented hio In different Las Veges Intereste He noted tht
Morgan dia not represent hlo i0 hle Frlers' Club defense(but didarrange€or Jtu
Cantillion, 8
Ios Angeles attorney t handle' the matter) Fe seld thet be had Do
trouble wlth Morgen'8 handling of tbe Desert Ind finder 8 B1nce he trueted
Morgan impllclty. He mted that Morgan had erranged for Jobn Roselll to be represent
by Tom Wadden,. hib present attorney. Thig representatlon first began On the eppeel
fron the Frler 8 Club .
Roselll indicated 'that hig only pregent Interebt In Ias Veges concerna
hib boldlnge In the &ft shop at the Frontler hotele Hle involvement there started
In 1967 whed he hed 8d errangement ulth Mr . Frledman: Te set-up dia Dt vork Out
er Roselll resigned a8 Prebident of the glft Thereafter he mde en erranbe
ment uItb 0 Mr , Breen whereby he vould furnloh Breen wtb money en Indemnify hin
ageInst any logse8 1f Breen woula rud the shope Thle errangenent has vorked
out feirly well and he continuea to recelve hle Bhare of the profits each fron
the gift shopa Ee mentioned thet it wab hle opinion that Breen had been poorly
treated by the Hughes enterprises , since Hughes first purchased the Frontier. Fe
recelle, at hle lagt meetlng with Meheu, asking Maheu to lend Breen $60 ,0OO for the
gift shopa Maheu" beid be: would get back t hin but never dida Ultimately 8 loen
Ha8 arranged through Perry Thomas a the' Valley Bank of Nevade ,
Since 1967 Robelll has- 3een Maheu only once: And ublle he doeb not recell
the dte of tbat meeting be reremere tbet 16 wad 1n Ios Angelee before Maheu had
terminated utb Bughes & Ee recello thet Mebeu Wad In Ios Angelee et the tlre mlle
hie ufe was havlne 0 foot operation; end tbet he called Rosell to have supper&
Roselll bee po recollectlon Of the conversatlon thet tbe two hed et bupper other
then thet discusged, 88 noted above, the possibllity of arranging 8 loan for
Breen at the Frontler' Hotel Gift Shopa
Fe gafd he neb known Peter Maheu BInce the miaale 1950'8 en that be vent
to Peter'8 wedding reception. His only Involvement Hith Peter occurred #henever
Robert Maheu vented 8 messege conveyed to Roselll. He recalle no euhaequent
Svesta-fiv
discussions vltb Peter Maheu&
Re Indlcated be knev pothing abaut Larry 0'Brlen, Tony Hats1s , or Jeck
Cleveland , Sinllerly, be hag no recollection ot ever baving met Bebe Rebozo, an
knovs or the person only through newspaper articles .
With regard to his appearance before the Frontier Fotel grand Jury In
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Io8 Angele8 , he remember8 belng represented by Jamee Centillon 8 Lo8 . Angeles attorney
Fe remembers that thle gran Jury Veb convened bometime I0 the summer of 1970 end
that his appeerance took place before he vent to jall, Vhich wag Januaty 25, 191.
Fe heg no recollection Of Tavid Niesen, the prosecutor,ever having made 0 conment
about Maheu; nor d1a he qestion Robellt ebout hlb recollection or hle involvement
wlth Naheu 10 the Cuban undertakInga Roselll had very bed worde about Nissen end
mentioned that Niseen had once filed with Judge Grey an unsIgnea and undeted state-
ment discus8ing Roselll @ background, which Roselll, and Wedden both 8e1d wes very
Inaccurate_
Roselll has 6o recollection Of beIng asked to be an Informer by Nissena
Hedoe8 remember, however; being approached by two FBI agenta 10 1966 about the
possibility Of being 80 Informer This, possibllity 18 discussed I0 the Court fllee
Rogelll_recells appearing four or fIve timeg before the Frontler Rotel
grard' jury: Ee' ensvered questions extenslvely_only_on th firet end thereefter
appeared ` at the 4 requeet of Niegen en weited afound, Hadden indicated that We Bhoula
make 8
request of_Judge' Byzpe Or ioever else mlght heve 8ccebs to those gram jury
minutes to Roselll 8 testimony about the Frontier Roselll does nt recall
having talkea to Bob Maheu abaut hls appeerance before the grand jury . Fe se1d he
had no" recollection of Maheu appearing there but, after being advlsed by Wadden
tht Meheu" 8 eppeerance, Vas vell noted Lo the Peper, he 88ld he may have read @bout
It
Fe sa44 he heg no recollection or knowledge of Bob Maheu ever makIng a0
appiication
On Roselll' 8 behel for reduction ot sentence,
With regara to politicel contributions
9
he heg never had any discuss1ons
Kith Rebozo, or had any conversations vitb enyone
about any contributions (of over
810,000) to 8 Presidentlel campelgn. Fe has no recollection or the Teamstera makLng
any substantiel contributions to the Presidentlel Cempelgn. Sinllerly he has no
knowledge of ferry Thomas making eny contribution:
Rosselli has Do recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
Meheu 8 problems or contacts vIth the Admnlstration. Specificelly, he doeg
rot_recall Maheu ever talking about Stans or. any involvements- Stans may bave
bed with Thomas or Greenspun:
Fe knev pothing about eny ub6 of stolen stocks
With regara to Jim Crosby, Jeck Davlg apd Mary Certer Paolot Co. he
knev nothing. Sinllarly be knev nothlng about Jim Goldena
Be bed no knovledge of Bob Pellquln or Intertel'8 involvement et
Paradise Islard: Hadden cblued In by notlng that he had been en old assaciete
of Hundley ard had Bone to Peradise Islend with Fundley about 7 yeers ego to
loor &t tbe Paradise Iblend set-up.
Roselll bes never talked with or met Jack Caulfiela_ Nor does he
recall ever having eny vate indlviduals interviev him wlle be wa8 10 jefla
He ' recelle bovever, that three officers fron the Imnigration Departmebt once vIs-
Ited hln^end tola hm about the detainer thet Has being beld on" him. Sinllarly,
#hle he Va8 In,Jell, the IRS Intervlewed hlm in LoB Angeles ebout the finder'8
fee he recelved 1n the Frontier Hotel. The inveetlertlon may beve related somewhet
to Maheu, but, since It wae 80 short, he does Dot recall wet the dlscussion
about Meheu concerned&_ Be poted thet Do one bas ever asked hlm ebout Danner ,
Rebozo or any membere ot the Adninistratione
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With regard to Henk Greenspun, Roselll hes knova nlo Bince the 50 '8 .
The last tlme he met Greenspun wa8 when he ren Into Greenspun 10 Io8 Angeles shortly
efter he out of prison, at wlcb time they talked @ fev nuteg , No questlons
were esked and there wes D discussion with Greenspun about hle Involvement Kith
Mabeue Fe noted that Greenspun hae never questioned him about any matters .
He noted thet be hes never met Gordon Liddy , Hovard Funt Or any Of the
Cuban Americena wbo were involved 10 the Watergate break-Iua Fe sald however thet
he heg been Liddy once, and that was et Teruinal Islend Hen he vea acting &8 0
prison llbrarlene There here Do discuss iona with Liddya Be 18 fafrly certalo be
has never met Bunt with regard to any CIA Involvement of hlb Ohne He el8o poted
that he has never had any property or bubine88 deal Inga 1n Cuba .
The intervler concluded with the gerving of 8 subpoena upon Mra Rosell
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From Bob Muse
Subject: Interview of John Roselll
On Wednesday February 20, 1974 , Scott Armstrong, Marc Lackrttz end Bob
Muse interviewed John Roselll et the office of Rosellf'8 ettorney , Tom Wadden,
888 17th Street , N . W. , Washington,_ DS C., telephone 833-1440 ._ Also present were
Wadden 8 associates Bryan B. McMenanin and Ieslfe Scherr.
Wadden began the interview by noting that for the first time, he had
discussed vith Roselll the Maheu Cuban matter with which we were concernea; an
found thet it presented 8 great. problem of national security. Accordingly he_had
trfed to reach Senator Ervin,, ep old acquaintance, and see if he could persuade_ the
Serator from ellowing thls_ Intervlew to go forward _ Fe did not get In touch uith
Ervin directly but' talked to 8 staff member in Ervin'8 office, whon he woula not
identify. Fe further noted that Roselli was insistent upon not giving any informatior
about his Cuban activities and ,would rather_ g0 to jail than be compelled to testify
about the matter_ Thus the Interviev wes not productive insofar_&8 Rosell 8
involvement with Mahey in 3960 was concerned, However Wadde5 did allov ub to Inter-
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vlev Roeelll about hi& backgrouna and we res ervea; the right to have in executlve
session before 8 Senator vhere John_ Roselif might be . compelled to" testify about his
Involvenent wlth Maheu in Cuba _ It should be noted that Wadden would" not Identify
0. his privilege clain other than saying it related to natlonal-security.
John Roselll presently resides vitb h8 8ister and brother-in-law, 0 Mr &
and Mra , Joseph" Dalgle et 522 Southvest Temp Corner;_ Plentation, Florida 33314. Bio
telephone nuber there 18 area
305 581-6585: Fe ha8 been lving In retlrement vith
then since he left jail at the end of last 8umer . Prior to moving to Floride he
had been in the federal prison for thirty-three months , heving been convicted Jn the
Frier' 8 Club case, 8 conspiracy in which he wa8 charged along with Maurice Frledman,
Benjanin Teitlebaum, and Manuel Jacobg Fe noted that Hank Greenspun had no involve-
ment either 83 8 co-defendant or unindlcted co-conspirator 1n thet cese.)
With regard to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for the firgt time In the mid-50'$
in elther Washington or Callfornie through 8 mutual acquaintance, Herman Spttzela
When questlons were asked 68 'to Vhat hib subsequent involvement_ ulth Maheu
Roselli'8 attorney instrctea him not to answer any questione OD the' ground or
national securitye
Rosell dia however indicate hov he and Maheu had made arrangemente for
Fughes to 1ve et the Degert Inn vhen Bughea. firbt errived there in late 1966. Fe
sald thet he had recelved 8 cell fron Maheu , who needed to make arrangements for
Fughes to move to Ias Vega8 from Boston , Accordlng to Maheu , no One vanted to g1ve
Fughes any rooms Rosell at the request of Mabeu left hls residence In IoB Angelee
end went up to Ias Vegas and asked hi8 acquaintance Kolod, vho owned 13$ of
the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes end ellov hin to take tvo of the penthause8
at the Desert Inn. At the time Maheu Yias in charge of becurity en regponsIble for
seeing that Hughes arrived unnoticed in Ias Veges _ Kolod acquiesced en tola
Roselll that the floor of the Desert Inn Vould be evallable at tbe golng rete,
but that vould have to leave the hotel by. New Years , Wben the Nev Yeara date
was approeching, Maheu ca lled apd Bald that had recefved motice fron Kolod and
were suppobe to leave thefr premlses _ Rosell ther convinced Kolod to ellou' thea
to stey. At tbe bame time he told Mabeu
that Hughes should buy the Fotele em avold
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want to Iovolved 1n eny of the gambllng businesses ana wou ld not therefore want"
to purchase the hotel It was at thie point that Rosell concelved of the Idea of
trying to 8ell the hotel, and epproached Kolod and esked if he woula be Willing to
sell ite Kolod replied that if Roselll could make arrangements to sell 1t he woula
receive a finder 8 fee. Roselll then turned eround and-asked Maheu If he wapted to
purchase it. Meheu responded that he wou ld end Roselli turned the matter over to
his attorney Fa Morgan who then handled the matter until the end . Rosellt also
instigated some talk about the possibility of purchas the Sandg end while he did
not negotiete it, recelved at 8 later date fron Fd Morgan 0 check for
7895,000
whlcb
represented hi8 finder 8 fee for the sele of both the Desert Inn end the Sands
Roselll nted that While Moe Dalitz was the owner of the Desert he
did mt negotiate with hin because he found him les8 agreeable than Kolod Fe seid
that he had some mlnor dealings uith Dlltz but Done of then related to mattera
concerning the Ies Vegae hotel Industry-
With regerd to Ed Morgan, Rosell met hin In the middle 50'8 . Since that
time Morgan has represented him in different Ias Vegas Interest8 He noted tht
Morgan did not represent him In hls Frlars Club aefense(bub didarrange-for #tm
Cantillion, 8
Io8 Angeles attorney t handle' the matter) Re seid that he haa no
trouble wlth Morgen'8 handling of the Desert Inn finder 8 a1nce he trusted
Morgen impllcity: Fe poted that Morgen had arranged for John Rosell to be represent
by Tom Wadden, hib present attorney. Thls representation first began On the appeel
fron the Friar' 8 Club .
Roselll indicated' thet hig only present Interest In Las Veges concerng.
hi8 poldings In the gft at the Frontler hotele Hi8 involvement there started
in 1967 when he had an errangement with Mr , Frledman. This set-up dia mt work out
an Roselll res igned as President of the shop . Thereefter he mde a0 arradge-
ment Htb 8 Mr . Breen whereby he would furnlsh Breen with money an iademnify him
egalnst any losses if Breen would run the shopa. This. arrangement has worked
out feirly well ana he continueb to receive hls share of the profits each year fron
the gift shope He mentioned that it was his opinion that Breen had been poorly
treated by the Fughes enterprises , slnce Hughes first purchesea the Frontier. Fe
recalls, at bis lebt meetlng with Meheu , asking Maheu to lend Breen $60,00O for the
Maheu seia he; would back to hio but never did. Ultimately 8 loan
was arranged' through Perry Thomas at the Valley Bank of Nevade ,
Since 1967 Roselll be8 geen Maheu only once . And vhlle he does not recall
the date of that meeting he renembere tbat 1t Ve8. In Ios Angeles before Maheu had
terminated with Bughes He recelle that Mabeu Va8 In Ios Angeles at the tlme wlle
hi8 wife we8 havIng 0 foot operation, end tbet he called Rosell to have bupper &
Roselll has no recollection of the conversatlon thet the two had at supper other
than that they dIscusged, 88 noted above, the possibility Of arranging 8 loen for
Breen at the Frontler Hotel Glft Shopa
Fe said he hes known Peter Maheu since the middle 1950's an that he vent
to Peter'8 vedding reception. His only involvement with Peter occurred whenever
Robert Maheu wanted 8_ message conveyed to Roselll _ Fe recalls
no Guhsequent Svbsfa~fav
discubslong with Peter Maheu_
He indicated he knew pothing abat Iarry 0'Brien, `Tony Hatsls
9 or Jack
Cleveland , Sinilarly, be has no recollection of ever having met Bebe Rebozo , an
knows or the person only through newspaper articles =
With regard to his appearance before the Frontier Hotel grand jury Io
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Io8 Angelee , he remembers belng represented by Jame8 Cantillon 8 Ios Angeles ettorney
Fe remembers that this grand jury was convened bometlne In the sumer of 1970 and
that hle eppearance took place before he went to jeil, which wes January 25, 1971.
Fe hag no recollection of Tavid Nissen, the prosecutor,ever having made 8 comment
about Maheu; nor did he qestion Roselli about his recollection of hib involvement
with Maheu In the Cuban undertaking. Roselll had very bad words about Nissen and
mentioned that Niswen had once filed with Judge Gray an unsigned and undated state-
ment discussing Roselll'g background, which Roselli, and Wadden both said was very
Inaccurate
Roselli has no recollection of being asked to be an informer by Nissene
Hedoes remember , however, being approached by two FBI agents in 1966 about the
possibility %f being.an_ Informer This possibility 18 discussed in the court fileb
Roselll_ recalls eppearing four or five times before the Frontler Fotel
grand jury He answered questlons extens on th firbt thereafter
appeared_ at the request: Of_Nisser and_ waited arounda Hadden Indicated that we should
make 8
request of_Judge_Byzne Or whoever else might heve' access" to those grend jury
minutes to Roselll 8 testimony about the Frontier Roselli does mt recall
having talked to Bob Maheu about his appearance before the grand jury. Fe seld he
had no recollection of Maheu appearing there but, after being advised by Wadden
that Meheu' 8 eppearance was vell noted 1n the paper , he sald he may have read about
It
He said he hag Do recollection or knowledge of Bob Maheu ever making &n
appiication on Roselll 8-behalf for reduction of sentence.
With regard_ to politicel contributions , he ha8 never had eny discussiona
vith Rebozo, or had any conversations with anyone about any contributions (of over
$10,000) to 8 Presidential campaign. Fe has no recollection of the Teamsters making
any substantiel contributions to the Presidential Campaign. Sinilerly he has no
knovledge of ferry Thomas making any contribution.
Rosselli has no recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
Maheu " 8 problens or contacts with the Administration. Specificelly, he does
not recall,Maheu ever talking about Stans or any involvements Stans may have
bad Wlth; Toma8 or Greenspun.
Fe knev nothing about eny use of stolen stocks
With regard to Jim Crosby, Jeck Davig and Mery Carter Paoint Co. be
knew nothing. Similarly he knew nothlng about Jim Goldena
He had o knovledge of Bob Peliquin or Intertel'8 Involvement at
Paradise Island;' Wadden chimed In by noting that he had been en old associate
of Hundley and haa gone to Paradise Ieland with Hundley ebout 7 years ag0 to
look at the Paradise Iblena set-up.
Roselll has never talkea with or met Jack Caulfield: Nor does he
recall ever having any private individuals Interviev hin wlle he was in jeila
He recelle bowever, that three officer8 fron the Imigration Department once vis_
Ited him and tola hin about the detainer that was belng hela on" hin, Simlarly,
vhile he Vas In jeil, the IRS: interviewed hlo in IoB Angeles about the finderE 8
fee he recelved in the Frontier Hotel. The investigetion may have related somewhat
to Maheu, but , since it wa8 80 short, he does mt recall what the discussion
ebout Maheu concerned,. He poted thet Do one bas ever asked him about Danner ,
Rebozo or any menbere of the Adninigtration,
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With regerd to Henk Greenspun, Roselll hes knowa hlo 8ince the 50 ' 8 ,
The last tlme he met Greenspun was when he ran into Greenspun In Iob Angeles shortly
efter he Qut of prison, at whlch time they talked 8 few mnute8 , No questions
were asked end there wab Do discussion with Greenspun about hib Involvement #Ith
Maheu_ Fe noted that Greenspun hag never questioned hin about any matters
He noted that he has never met Gordon Liddy, Howara Funt Or any of the
Cuban Americens wo were involved in the Watergate break-Ina Fe sai however that
he has been Liddy once, and that was at Terninal Is land when he wes acting 88 8
prison llbrarien. There were no discussions with Liddy- Fe 18 fairly certain he
hes never met.Hunt with regard to any CIA involvenent of his Own& He also noted
that he has never had any property Or bubiness dealinge In Cuba .
The interview concluded with the serving of 8 subpoena upon Mr . Rosell
and the declsion to hold 8 further meeting under oeth et 8 lter date.
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po FILED
DEC 2 1 1967
CLerk, U. S_ bystrict court
CENTRAL' DiSjRicT] Qf CALIFORNUA'
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UNITED STATES DISTRICT ` COURT
CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
11 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, NOa_
1432
12 Plaintiff, In @ I @ I % E n %
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V 0 [18 U.S.C. 8371: Conspiracy;
14 MAURICE_H. FRTEDMAN;
18 U.S.C. 5i952: Interstate
MANUEL JACOBS (aka RICKY
Transportation in Aid of
15 VICTOR G LANDS
JACOBS) ; Racketeering; 18 U.3.C_ S2314:
T . WARNER
8 Interstate Transportation
of
16 RICHARDSON
9
Funds Obtalned by Fraud;
FILIPFO SAcCO (aka JOHN ROSSELLI) ; 47 U.S.c. S502: Operating Unv
17
BENJAMIN TETTELBAUM,
certified Communication Devicef
26 U.8_C: S7206 (1) Subscribing
18
Defendants , False Tax Return:]
19
The Grand Jury charges :
20
COUNT ONE
21
[18 USC 8371 ]
22
Commenc_ prior to June 15, 1962, and continuing to the
23
date of the return of thls indictment, defendants MAURICE Ha FRTEDMAN
24
MANEEL JACOBS (also known a3 RICKY JACOBS ) , VICTOR G LANDS ,
25
T . HARNER RICHARDSON
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FILIPFO SAccO (also known a8 JOHN RASSELLI) ,
26
EENJAMIN TEITELBAUM, and their unindicted co-conspirators Ernest
S
27
Allen, Vernall Furlong (also kown as William G Douglas) , Edwin
28
Nathaniel Gebhard (also known as Pete Pete Peterson, and
29
George McFarland) , Alfred Mathes, George Ee Seach, and Albert Snyder
30
agreed, confederated and conspired together to commit offenses
31
2salnst the United States as follows :
(a) To travel in interstate: commerce and use facilities
DRV :mln:nt
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ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN WALL & RUDY
2 9601 Wilshire Blvd_ FRLEd
Suite 400
3 Beverly Hills, California 90210
Jun 28 9 31 Hm 'Tl
4 272-9211
Clese U.6 f.:fCT ;3M7
Attorneys for Defendant cerTCITO lfclUF
Filippo Sacco, also known a8
John Rosselli
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIORNLA
10
11 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
NO: 1432 Criminal_
(wPc )
12 Plaintiff,
NOTICE OF MOTION FOR
13 VS_ REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
(RULE 35 FRCP); POINTS AND
14 FILIPFO SACCO, also known as AUTHORITIES; AFFIDAVITS
JOHN ROSSELLI; et al, IN SUPPORT THEREOF
15
Defendants
16
27
18 TO DAVID R. NISSEN, Chief, Criminal Division; Uwited States Attorneys
19 Office, Los Angeles , California:
20 PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that.On July 6, 1971, at 2:00 0'clock P.M:
21 Or a8 soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, at the Courtroom of the
22 Honorable William P. defendant; Filippo Sacog} also known as
23 john Rosselli, will move the Court for a reduction of sentence entered in this
24 case_ Said motion will be based upon the grounds stated herein, the
25 affidavits attached hereto, additional affidavits defemant proposes to file
26 before the date of the hearing, oral testimony to be pesented at the hearing,
27 and all of the files, records, pleadings and other douments in this case_
28 Defendant was convicted of one count of vilation of 18 U.S.C.
29 5371, one count of violation of 18 U.S.C. 81952, thrfe counts of violation of
30 18 U.S.C. 82314 and one count of Violation of 26 U.S.C. 87206 (1)-
31 Defendant was sentenced to three years iprisonment and & fine
32 of $10,000.00 on Count two years [0 run consecutively to Count One and
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a fine of $1O, 000. 00 for Count Six, and two years imprisonment to run
2 concurrently with Count Six &nd a fine of $10,000.00 for each of Counts
3 Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen of the Indictment, and one year imprisonment
to run concurrently with Count One and & fine of $5, 000. 00 for Count
5 Twenty-Two. The total imprisonment was five years ad the total fine was
6 S55, 000. 00.
7 On January 18th and '19th, 1971, there appeared in newspapers
throughout the country nationally syndicated articles by columnist
Jack Anderson alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence
10 Agency of the United States Government a8 set forth in said articles_
11 The affidavits of Jack Anderson and his assistant Les Whitten; are
12
attached hereto and included therewith are copies &f te columns ,
9
set forth
13 as Exhibits A and B= Exhibits A and B were publisbed on the l8th and 19th
14 of January, 1971_ Attached as Exhibit C is a follow-up column which
15 appeared o February 24, 1971, and Exhibits D and E which are copies
16 of the office records of columnist Jack Anderson, which were releaged
17 and published on April L8th and April 27th, 1971.
18 The undersigned is informed that at nO time prior to the
19 sentenc of defendant were the matters set forth in Exhibits A and B
20 of the attached affidavits brought to the Court's attention. It is the belief
21 of the undersigned that had these matters been brough to the Court'8
22 attention would have materially affected the sentence handed down
23 by the Court in this case_
24 Defendant proposes to file and serve additonal affidavits in
25 support of this written motion and to present the testimony of at least one
26 wimess at the hearing on July 6, 1971. The additional affidavits and/or
27 testimony to be produced at the hearing relate to te financial ability
28 of defendant to pay the fine of $55,000. 00 as well as te condirion of
29 defendant's health.
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POINTS AND AUTHORITIES 2
1 Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure. ;
2. United States_V-_Ellenbogen (2nd Cir.) 390 F _ 2d 537
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DATED: June 25, 1971=
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Respectfully submitted,
11 ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN, WALL & RUDY
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14 By_
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ADRTANMARSHATC
15
Attorneys for Defendant,
16 R 'ilippo Sacco,_also known
a8 John Rosselli
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AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
AND REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING
CITY OF WASHINGTON
830
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
JACK' ANDERSON _
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being swOrT , deposes and say8 the
following:
1 I a a nationally catea columnist writing
under my own by-line. For many Years prior to the death of Mc .
Drew Pearson _
8
he and I wrote a column knowa 28 the "Washington
Merry-Go-Rouna" _
2. I wrote the. articles attached hereto as Exhibits
A and B pertaining to certain activities performed by John
Rosselli
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the Defendant herein
8.
on behalf of the United States
Government.
30 The information contained in said articles was
made available to me by persons employea by the United States
Government who , in the past , have supplied Me with accurate and
truthful information as pertains to other smjects _
4 After receiving said basic inormation
8
my staff
and I conducted an impartial and independentt investigation
regarding John Rosselli 5 activities 35 described in Exhibit A,
which were
performed at the behest of Agents of the United
States Government.
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5 0 The aforementioned investigation satisfied me that
the facts set forth in Exhibit A are a truthful account of Mra
Rosselli 8 activities as described . therein_
JAT ANDERS
Sworn to before me this 17th' day of Bune
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1971_
Aw
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NOIARY PODEIC
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AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OP MOTION
FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
AND REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING
CITY OF WASHINGTON
88 ,
DISTRICT OrF COLUMBIA
LESLIE WHITTEN being duly SWOr , deposes and says the
following:
12 I am employed as principal associate of nationally-
syndicatea columnist Jack Anderson
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writer o&; "Washington Merry-
Go-Round"
2 . I worked on certain articles relating to John
Rosselli
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and services performed by him On behalf of the Central
Intelligence Agency ,
an organ of the Onited States Federal Gov-
ernment.
3, As Part of my investigation , I twice called William
K Harvey , 2 retired Central Intelligence Agency official_
0 now Of
Indianapolis _
#
40 On my first call_
0
in January_
0
I asked Harvey if it
were not true that he had personally' intervened with the Justice
Department in order to mitigate the government 8 prosecution of
Rosselli on the basis that Rosselli had done 2 formidable service
for his coutry- Harvey said "this is a long story I don '&
think it ought to be printed_ # I asked him whether it was not
true that he had a high regard for Rossellia "I still do , " he
earnestly repliea.
5 , In pursuing the story furtherv I called Harvey
again in Indianapolis in February and asked bin whether he coula
conment On our story about Rosselli which by now has been
lished widely in the United States He declinea to comment But
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he twice reaffirmed his "high regara 10 for Rosselli.
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I advised
him I was making an affidavit on Rosselli's behalf and he ex
pressea concern for Rosselli, asked his present status and saia
he would 0 follow up on Rosselli S behalf from his end.
Based On my part of the investigation =
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I am satis_
fied that the facts set down in Exhibit A , appendea to the Affi-
davit of Jack Anderson
# are a truthful account of Rosselli 9
activities On behalf Of the United states
ZZ
LESLIE THITTEN
Sworn to before me this 17th Of June , 1971_
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ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN
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WALL & RUDY
9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 400
Beverly Hills, California 90210
3
272 9211
4
Attorneys for Defendant
5
6
7
8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
9 CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
10
11 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; NO. 1175- PH
12 Plaintiff, MOTION FOR REDUCTION
OF SENTENCE AND
13 VS.
REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY
HEARING
14 FILIPPO SACCO, also known
28
JOHN ROSSELLI;
15
Defendant.
16
17
18 Defendant FLIPPO SACCO, also known a8 ROSSELLI,. by his attorneys,
19 ADR IAN MARSHALL and WADDEN,
9
WALL & RUDY requests this Court
20 to grant a hear for the presentation of oral testimony and other evidence
21 in support of defendant's Motion for Reduction of Sentence entered in this
22
case.
As grounds therefor defendant alleges:
23 1. Defendant was convicted of six counts of violation of Title 8
24 U.S.C. Sections 1302 and 1306 (a) and Title 8 U.S. C. Sections 1305 and
25 1306 () and sentenced to six months on Count 1 and thirty days o Counts
26 2 through 6, all to run concurrently.
27 2, On January 18, 1971, the mandate was spread and defendant was
28 ordered to surrender tO the United States Marshal at noon on January 25, 1971,_
29 for direct delivery of defendant to Terminal Island for service of his sentence.
30 3. On January 18 and 19, 1971, there appeared in newspapers through
31 out the country nationally licared articles of columnist Jack Anderson
32 alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in an
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assassination attempt against Fidel Castro. Attached hereto as Exhibits A
and B are Xerox copies of said publications
3 4 At no time prior to the sentencing of defendant were the
4 matters referred to in Exhibits and B brought to the Court'g attention_
5 5. At &n evidentiary hearz defendant will pregent oral testimony
and other evidence in support of this motion related to the matters set forth
in Jack Anderson'$ column which defendant feels will materially affect the
Court's reconsideration of the gentence entered in this case:
6. On or before February 19;-1971, defendant-proposes t file
10 and serve additional affidavits in support of this written motion_
11
12 Dated: February 12, 1971
13 Respectfully
8 ubmitted,
14 ADRIAN MARSHALL
WADDEN
9
WALL & RUDY
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ADRIAN MARSHALL
18 Attorneys for Defendant:
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June 24= 1970 Testimony of John Rosselli before Comittee
Senator (Church presiding
P Z-8 Los Angeles
Rosselli first met Maheu in approximately 1960
pursuant to a telephone call from Maheu_ At their first
meeting Maheu told Rosselli that a high government official
had requested that Maheu recruit Rosselli to "fight Communism
90 miles away from Florida to recruit Cubans to assassinate
Castro
New York
P. 10-11 Rosselli had second meeting with Maheu and went to New York
in September under the alias of John Rawlston [Castro was
in New York at this time] Rosselli met Jim 0 ' Connell of
U CIA three others
Florida
P 12-15 0 ' Connell Maheu and Rosselli met in Florida hotel approxi-
mately one week after New York Rosselli introduced Giancana
to Maheu _ Also introduced X (Trafficante) to Maheu Obtained
permission from Maheu to bring Giancana into project .
P_ 17 Rosselli recruits Cuban #f1 Rosselli' s cover was a8 Wall Street
businessman Rosselli and Maheu agree on 3 S250,000 price tag
for the job _
P 20 0' Connell never met Cubans Trafficante Cubans and Maheu met
Maheu brought 810,000 and poison capsules
P 26 Rosselli told Giancana about CIA involvenent to keep his mouth
shut Rosselli only had one discussion with Giancana _
P 27 0 ' Connell called Rosselli after of Met in Florida
not long after Bay of with William Harvey 0 ' Connell and
Rosselli Harvey told Rosselli that he wanted Rosselli to
have nothing to do with Maheu and not to use Giancana connections
P 35 Rosselli indicates that pro-Castro people in Florida probably
had inkling of assassination attempts
M 1 B
P. 44 During Missle_Crisis Harvey asked Rosselli to see if 'they'
had any inte lligence on 43 on the missiles
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P _ 68-70 FBI agents Hill and Dodge met with Rosselli and his lawyer
Cantillon At this time Dodge informed Ros selli that the
FBI was aware that he was not a U.S _ citizen indicated
something about Nevada and some other secret organizations
P 71-75 Rosselli met with Sheffield Edwards in 1966 for some drinks
and discussed his problems with the FBI
P . 76-78 Rosselli received a telephone call from an FBI agent Jack
Barron in June of 1970 The agent informed Rosselli that his
appeals can be reversed . He was told that his lawyers and
friends can t do anything for hin in Washington
P 79-80 Rosselli talked with Bill Harvey prior to his testimony before
the Select Comittee to see if Harvey had objections and
Harvey only suggested that Rosselli protect those People whose
lives and whose families might be jeopardized by his testimony _
Pa 81 Rosselli stated he did not know the five so-called Watergate
burglars Hunt McCord Barker Martinez or Sturgis
P. 82 Roselli had no doubt that the Cuban operation was on behalf
of the CIA and not Mr Hughes
P 84 Rosselli stated that his Cuban contacts were never informed
that this was a CIA project , but that he represented a Wall
Street business :
In the period 1967-1968 Rosselli failed to
register as an
alien and faced
criminai
charges
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Maheu' s contact: and 0' Connell' s satisfying him that they
were government representatives
P . 88 Rosselli stated that Sheffield Edwards was not overly concerned
with the FBI 3 contacting Rosselli_
P_ 89 Rossell' s reason for not iefoembegievedE his sources that it was
a CIA operation was because he he would be more
successful doing what he was doing by representing
bus iness
P 90 When the FBI contacted Rosselli in both 1966 and 1970
they hinted that they wanted Rosselli to provide information
about United States ling interests
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P. 44 After the Cuban Missile Crisis the whole operation came
to a halt and Rosselli said he was never in contact with
the Cubans again
P
45-46 Rosselli met Harvey at Dulles Airport in Washington after
the Missile Crisis in June 1963 and had dinner with him
in Washington that night
P. 47 Rosselli mentions FBI had him under surveillance for several
years
p 47 Roselli has two stories re Rowan wiretap from Maheu Maheu
told him he wanted Rosselli to get some bail money for two
guys in Las Vega8 who were in trouble and he had Placed some
taps in Rowan 8 room because 1) Maheu was doing Giancana a
favor and 2) Maheu had the authority to see if Giancana was
leaking to. his girlfriend .
P_ 52 Rosselli arranged bail money for the two men who were caught
tapping Rowan 3 room
P _ 52 Giancana laughed when Rosselli discussed tapping incident with
him but gave no clues to the reason for the tap
P 54-55 Rosselli met in New York with 0 ' Connell and Harvey in April
1962
P 58 Rosselli states to the Comittee that he felt the CIA came
to him because he has contacts in Cuba _
P 59 Rosselli states he took on "project" because it was the
government ; he was patriotic _
11
Ps 61 Rosselli knew Trafficante before "operation started.
D 62 Rosselli maintained some contact with Maheu after Harvey took
over
P . 64 Rosselli still is social friends with Harvey_
P 66 In April or of 1966 _ Rosselli was stopped in the street
by two FBI agents with note saying to meet him later Rosselli
referred them to his attorney , Mr Cantillon
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RICnite) States Senate
SELECT COMMITTEE To
STudy GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS with
RESPECT To INTELLIGENCE Activities
(PuRSLANT To $. Reb. 20, BathI Concaess)
WASHINGTON, D.c, 20510
Howard-_
"battle #B memo to Hart
In re your
and Garn I think You
Shoula conSider,possible
wis @m of our
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low-key anouncement that we re doing
senethongs
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prevent getting wholly co-opted new
House' Committee (and agencies making a
claim that since House is doing it
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they can
uS-_-also to put House on notice there
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area we have carved and will
continue to carve out for ourselves) Most
important we must do something afffrmative tc
insure that the saurces out there come to us
If we say nothing potentials which just go
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thing going on
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also ene or Mr Roseeli S murder
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DeLo c4 to Mohr 12-12-63
Re: Assassinalion 0l llic Prcsidcnt
Itold Ford in strict conlidence that the Dircclor concurred with lis
viewpoint. I mentioncd that our investigation thus (ar had conclusively shown that
Oswald operated by himscll and that Ruly additioilally Wis a loner. Iowever, FBI
investigation Wals still pending on a large number O rumors, speculation and gossip
and it, thcrcfore_ would Ie quite unfair fOr the Commission to take 1 Stand prior to
jLl the evidencc being turncd in. Fordl staled this was his point entircly and that
hllhough he was & minority ol one he intenced to slick to lis point.
Ford told mc that Joln :cCone; Director of CIA, had; approximately
ore wcck ago, goile Up to his Oflicc andl told him that CLA had uncovercd some
"startling information 11 in the Oswald casea McCone proceccled to tell Ford that a
source Of CLA 's in Mexico had seen money exchange hands between Oswalcl and 212
JnkiOwnl Cuban Ncgr% Ford stated this excitecl him greaily inasmuch as it cefinitely
:cndecl to show lhcre Ivas an,international connection involved in the assassination
(f
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mentioned that CLA S source hac recantecl his_story and had inclicated_that_it_Is__
icment cl_his j043T3ET4
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ie sourcehad 1212r_elain:ec that_he was actuallv telling thc truih I pointcd out that Wp
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insi @ or soncwhat Qf 2 Dsychcpathic liar . stated he cculd_certainly see tlis.
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t the aciivilics of
c Conmission. He statedl this woulcl have to be on 2 conficlential basis, however he
hought it shouldl be clone. He also askcd if he could call mc [rom time t0 time and
traighten out queslions in his mind ccnccrning Our investigalion:
I told himn by all
Acans hc shouldl clo thisa He reiteratedl ihat our relalionship would, of course, remain
:onfidential_
We have had excellent relations with Congressman Ford for many years.
Ie has becn givcn an autographed copy ol the Director's book "'A Study of Communism
M1
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0$# J7 49 UNTTEI) STAYES CO!IRAENVT'
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SUBJECT :
ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT
Ihad a long talk this morning with Congressman Gerald R (Gerry) Ford
his olicce
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(I2 , Niciligan) in
of confidencea This was agreed to.
told nic he wanted to talk in the strictest
Forai tolld me he wJs somcwhat
'clisturbed about thc manncr in which
carrying
0n1 his Cilirmanship Of thc Prcsiccntial Commission:
Chicf Juslice ;iarrcn Vas macic Wils his atlempt to establish &
He expliincd that the L-st inislake that Viarren
linat wis his OWTJ
conmission
by appointing a Chief Counsel , Warreit. Olney,
"onc man alter the mentioi ol Olney's name by thc Chicf Justicc; at
prolcge. Ford stalecl Lhat Director ol CIA, protested quite violently_
Itheir [irst neeling: Alicn Culles, former
told Warren that thcy would like to know
Because o[ Dulles' protest: the other members
[more about Olney lo giving their consent.
On thc occasion of their second meeting,
Ford and Hale Soggs joined
{ola Warrcn lzlly ihat Olncy ould not hc icccptable znd that
W
Dulles. Hale Boggs
wilh Olney. Warren Uj) 3 still
he
(Toggs) wculd not iork on Lhc Commission
of Lee Rankin was
mentioned.
mlcnt but 2
compfomisc WaS mnacie when thc hame
argu Sated he knew Rinkin and could work with him:
('i"
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Warrcn
a Ford told me ihat hc Was currenlly having problcms inasmuchas tc
mncmbers
'e[ tthc Commsssion dcsired to go along With the recommenchtic
majority of the OntZCubch' S Loiter_to Lhe Commission cted 12-9-63
madc in Deputy Atlorncy General
Coinission makean ininecate 3
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there was no
internationai
press rclcase pointing that thc
FBI rcport clcarly showed
2
ninority o&
ancl that Oswaldl was 2 loner.
Ford stated he was
conspiracy or" collusicn rclcilsc until Lhc Commission hacl had &
one {hat clic nol want t8 givc out any press
(I noted that the rcport was}
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DeLuach to Molr 12-12-63
Re:l Assassinalion of lhlc President
I told FArd in strict conlidence that the Dircclor concurred with his
viewpoint. I mcntioncd that our invcstigation thus far had conclusively shown that
Oswald operatcd by himscll and that Ruly additionally wis & onef.
However, FBI
invcstigation WalS still pending on & large number of
ru mors, speculation and gossip
{and it, thcreforc_ wvould he quite unfair for the Commission to take
1 stand prior to
juil the evidence turncd in. Fordl stated this was his point entirely and that
Llthough he was 2 minority of
one he intencied to stick to hs point.
Ford tolld me that Joln #icCone; Director of CIA, had; approximately
one wcck ag0, gOnle 4pto his ollice and told him that CLA had uncoveredl sone
"startling information' in the Oswald case. McCone proceccled to tell Ford that a
source Of CLA 's in #exico had seen money exchange hands belween Oswald and a1
Jnknown Cuban Ncgr : Ford Stated tiis excitedl him greatly inasmuch J5 it celinitely
:cndecl to show lhcre wis an,international connection involved in the aSsassination
(f
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I told Forct tiat apparcntly McCohe had failed to follow up on this matter.
mentioned that CIA 's Bource had recantecl his and had_inclicated_tlat_it_Ias_
icment cl_lis i040z";440 However ; to prove ilic unstaUlc lendencics 0[ lhs
sourcc:
ne 80Wce_hd laler_elinec that_he vas actuallv telling thc truih; I pointed out that we
Kt@ 'SliilcieeeWEjue h"gies UlIhi3; Towever; Zhc Ci SGurce Was olwviously eililei
insi e OI sonewhat ol7i Dsychepathc lizr._ stated hle could_certainly see tlis.
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n1c Conmission. He stated this woulcl hare to be
On1 2 conficlential basis, however_ he
hought it should be cone He also asked if he could call 10 [rom time to time and
traighten out queslionslin his mind ccnce
Oux" investigalion: I told him by all
ncans he shouldl clo this He reiteratedl that our relalionship would, of course, remain
confidential_
We have had excellent relations with Congressman Ford for many years.
!c has been givcn an aulographed copy 0l the Direclor's book "4 Study
o[ Communism
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onspiracy theories #Fe lashionable . to diseuss the prospect of negotiations with their revolu-
C
sometimes even fruitful, as in the By early November; Kennedy had de- tionary , brethren in
case of Watergate. So it is not surprising eided to toward an opening with other lands. But ul-
that recent revelations of the Senate Iux; Cuba jn hopes oftaking Castro out ofthe timately, each n8-
Committee have resurrected Soviet fold and erasing the memory of tion would have to teloxeqce Commiteccoavectiouredted
the of The Americans sought & determine its Own dn3le Gasto gowemmenttave with de meeting to draw up an agenda for later destiny, and 'if
assassination of John F; Kennedy? discussions. On Nov. 18, this message choose regimes oth"
Curent speeulation is that the Cuban Was transmitted to Hevana. Shortly er than ours, this is not our business
tlictato)r; having leamed of CIA plots thereafter, Lechuga was instructed to set This was two to Presldent
"Gainst his life, decided to strike back: forth such a plan for U.S. consideration. Kennedy' $ death
returning violence for violence, with Even as these developments were un- [ mention these developments be-
cnsequences that are now history: In- folding;" a second dialogue waS taking cause provide an important = and
cleed, the recent report ofthe Schweiker; place through an unofficial envoy__the perhaps crucialframe of reference for
Hart task force = while finding no hard French joumalist Jean Daniel; On Oct Congressional investigetors and the
idence to support this theory; did un- 24, Kennedy had received Daniel.in the lic alike: They are not, of course, of
cover some interesting new leads: More White House: The President; it seems, innocence, But @re suggestive:
than that, it established that & CIA-FBI had learned of the Frenchman'$ forth- would Castro have 80 Intent On
had deprived the Warren coming visit to Cuba and had decided to coming to ters with 8 Man he was
cwvnission
of vital infomation that pre- seize tfe occasion t0 send Castro & mes- conspiring to kill? One may seriously
vented it from - seriously exploring the sage. The essence %f this communication doubt it; In point of fact the assessina-
mssibility of Castro's involvement and was @ strong hint that the United States tion would bring & quickend to Washing-
that consequerity_there is no longer any would be willing to normalize relations ton"$ interest in accommodation:
Tcason to have faith in its picture of the providing certain conditions were met: possible Scenario8
Keunedy assassination What were those conditions? One, clear-
Andl so we may well have & reopening ly, wes an end t0 Castroite subversion. Still, this is not t0 rule out the possibil-
ol the At last: The U.S; had & special responsibility to ity of & "Cuban connection. Gover;
&eenalitigat orseetsstppropriate t9
contain 'Communist expansionism:` As ments often behave in inconsistent and
eXamine the" record ofthe period A small long as Havana continged to expert revo self-defeating ways. Indeed even as the
hxit interesting body o published testi; lution, the economic blockade" of the Kennedy Administration was taking
ManY aud reminiscences describes and island would remain in effect: these frst covert steps towerd Tap
wnply dlo unents 4 little-known Cam-
prochement the CIA was engaged in an
launched by
ACCOHMODATIONS attempt on Castro' s life- IC, due to & lack
paign nxtocaamodetioa
Havana in the weeks Beyond this, not much was definite of political control and & prevailing at
jabdg "handtely
in November The American negotiating_position had mosphere of cold-war hostility: U.S
195613 , Actually, the origins of this tenta- not been worked out Even so, hints agents could be conducting such activi-
tive and ultimately ill-fated rapproche- of_ possible Cuban participation in the ties in direct conflict with Presidential
m'mt be traced to the previous Alliance for Progress and ofthe desire of policy, it is not difficult to imagine simi-
when. Castro , de- the United States to See 0 decline in Iar distortions on the Cuban side. Only &
1rideut heh Cssviet inoonsorglkoadd
sponsors,
Soviet infuence on the island suggested few weeks earlier, Castro had publicly
{imnseifobliged toembrace the bannerof further avenues for discussion: denounced U.S -sponsored assassina"
peaceful coexistence in order to obtain Bearing this messege and an invitation tions and even threatened retaliation.
(cunainic and military agreements need- to revisit the White House upon his Fe- Might not some overzealous security %f
4 the continued development tum, Daniel set off for Cuba There he ficials have taken this for tacit authority
("( to assure Fidel Cas- to set a 'program of elimination ?
"f his revolution: In practical terms; this found a remarkably receptive
of six- But
YR chi8rcegain? speculationn It is
mncnt the nomalization of relations tro. Indeed, during the course 8 number of sce-
Ivitk the United States. hour interview the lder marimo found possible to envision any
occasion to praise the Americen Presi; narios that might have led to the fatal
A MeSsAGE For CASTRO dent for his sincerity, realism and 'good events of Nov. 22. In lieu of hard evi-
It was ntt September 1963, how- ideas Kennedy might understand dence, however;it seems only fair to give
to show that there could be coexistence be- Castro the same benefit of the doubt that
#Ver that this campaigq began
capitalists and socialists, even in Kennedy has been accorded--namely_
Tesu its. At that time, William Attwood, an tween
convinced that he be considered innocent
adviser to the U.S. delegation to the the Americas_ Castro ivas
restored proved guilty. It is hoped that the inves-
United Nations, told his superiors he had that noral relations could be
wiil proceed on the ward that Castro wanted an accommoda; on the basis of mutual respect for sover- tigations to come
tion: John Kennedy the message and eignty_ His country needed peace in basis of that assumption.
approved 4 disereet contact' with the order t0 concentrate on the socio eco Ph.D. candidate in political
Cuban U.N. representative, Carlos Le- nomic tasks of the Tevolution The issue Schulz, 0
communications of subversion would not be an obstacle: science at Ohio State Unlversity, Is writ-
shuga e Subifsheentlnd
meetings held Cubans would naturally 'feel solidarity 0 book On the Cuban revolution.
we'Tc"
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PART TRO : Jin BRADZi
One of the most incredible bodies of recent information
concerning the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President
Kennedy is largely based on the investigative research
done by Peter Noves 3 former CBS Producer and top inves-
tigative reporter_
Last year _ Noyes published
a. book, Legacy 0f Doubte which
summed up many of his findings and which generally outlines
what Noyes believes was heavy
'%afia
involvenent in the
assassination The Noyes book is almost entirely factual
ana is largely based on substantiated information such as
police records provided by the FBI the Los Angeles Police
Department the California Attorney General' s Office and
Texas police officials.
Though the Noyes book (like nost recent assassination books)
did not sell well or receive much press attention it has
been regarded as a valuable 'contribution by most 0f author
Noyes fellow Warren Commission critics_
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It 'can definitely be said that alnost all of Noyes findings ,
particularly Gith respect to his main character Jim Braden
have been factually substantiated and are solidly established
by official police records
Bzsically the Noyes book outlines the background of a
mysterious man Who Was
picked up by the police at the scene
of President Kennedy ' s assassination just minutes after the
shooting_ The man as apprehended by a Dallas policeman who
thought he was behaving suspiciously The man who identified
himself under the false nane of Jin Braden, Ias released
shortly thercafter following brief questioning by the Dallas
Sheriff' s Office.
Author Noyes uncovered the story of Jim Braden and his
true identity during five years of investigative research .
And it is Jim Braden' s true identity and his ironic misfortune
of being picked up at the scene of the assassination for
"looking suspicious" that the Warren Commission critics now
believe ranks With James McCord' s mistake of leaving masking
tape on the doors during the Watergate break-in as the ultimate
fatal slip-ups in the two conspiracies .
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For Jin Braden , Ihose true identity is Eugene Hale Brading_
is a man with singularly awesone direct ties to the highest
levels of the Kafia Of all the Mafia figures connected to
the syndicate' s crucial security and enforcenent activities
of coercion maining _ intra-syndicate assassination and
outside murder contracting_ Jim Braden appears to be an
indispensable link
# or leader Vel of organized crime' s
far flung network of "controlled violence" specialists
and professional hit men
Braden' s involvenent With the Mafia' s highest echelon
"enforcers" has spanned the continent from coast to coast
and covers virtually every national crime syndicate juris_
diction According to federal authorities working With the
Justice Department' s organized crime strike forcc units and
according to other high government sources cited by author
Noyes Jim Braden is now serving as personal courier for
Meyer Lansky .
The irportance of this cysterious nan who Nas picked up
under a false name across the street fron the Texas Book
Depository just nonents after the shots were fired on
November 22 1963 cannot be overemphasized.
Though there Mere several innocent Witnesses or bystanders
in the area of the assassination who Iere also arrested or
brought in for questioning by the Dallas police _ all of whom
were shortly released like Jim Braden his presence there at
that precise monent docs in fact raise an incredible specter ,
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and nay indeed have been the monumental slip-up that critics
of the Marren Commission now attest to,
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Jin Draden ' s Arrest On Hovenber 22
Deputy C.L. Lewis was one of the first Dallas police
officers on the scene at the Texas School Book Depository
following the assassination.
Hithin just minutcs after the deadly shots were fired
Deputy Lewis confronted 2 nan across the street: fron the
Book Depocitory , 2 man whon Lewis thought Nas "2cting
suspiciously. 0
Deputy Lewis questioned the man for several minutes before
taking hin to the Sheriff" s office for further interrogation .
The man identified hinself 23 Jim Braden _ and said that he
Bas in the 0il business in Beverly Iills California. Deputy
Lewis bccame even nore suspicious over the way the man first
tried to identify hinsclf Instead of producing his driver' s
licensc the common neans of identification
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the man pulled
out 3 gasoline credit card instead_
The man Iho identified himself 23 Jim Braden strongly protested
when Deputy Lewis told him that he iould have to take him in
for further interrogation
nt the Sheriff' s officc _ Jim Braden agreed to nake a voluntary
statenent. Braden then 48 told the police that he Fas in
Dallas on 0il business and had been there for two days _ He
said he was staying at the Cabana Motel 5 short distance away
fron the scene of the assassination
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Braden said he had been
walking doin the street by the Texas Book Depository at the
tine of the assassination and had been looking for a taxi cab:
Jin Braden further stated that he was confronted by Deputy
Lewis inside 2 building
across the street from the Depository
during an attenpt to make a telephone call following the
shooting.
Braden Tas shortly thereafter released thc Dallas Sheriff' $
office_ Braden was not fingerprinted _ nor Ias any check made
of possible criminal records relating to hin
Two nonths later in late January cf 1964 Jim Braden was
interviewed tio FBI agents at his officc in Beverly Hills.
The Flarren Comgission' 3 investigation Mas then in full Siving
and witnesses to the assassination were being questioned bv
thc FBI and other authoritics_ In_ his FBI interview , Braden
gave the sane account 23 he had given to the Dallas police on
the of the assassination The FBI 5 official report on
Braden S interrogation further stated that "Braden has no
infornation concerning the assassination and both Lec Harvey
Oswald and Jack Ruby are unknown to hin.
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Jin Braden'3 True Identitv Energes
In early 1969 Peter Foves the investigative reporter
whose book covers nuch of the information regarding Jim
Braden bcgan investigating the mysterious California
W "0il man .
Voycs originally received a tip about Braden fron a
former FBI agent who WJs then aiding District Attorney
Jin Garrison S investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
The FBI nan told Noves 0f Braden S presence at the scene of
the assassination at the tine of the shooting.
lioyes soon found that Jin Braden Was no longer at cither
of the addresses that he had' given the Dallas police_ and
had left no forwarding addresses _
Noves then had the California Department of Motor Vehicles
run 3 check on thc license number that Braden had given to
the Dallas policc at the Sheriff' s office following the
assassination Hotor Vehicles told Noyes that Braden S
license (#751755) had bcen renened by Braden in San Diego
countv in #ovcnber 0f 1966 . Braden has als0 listed new
business andl hone addresses which intcrestingly were over
2 hundred niles apart:
The Departnent o f Kotor Vehicles' rccords on Jin Braden
lso shoned that "Jin Braden" was not rcally his original
nane The license had ac tually been issued in the 1950' s
to Eugene Jiale @rading_ which is Braden' $ true identi
On Septenber 10 1963. just ten wecks before the assassination
Xugene {ale Brading had notified thc Department that he had
lcgallv changed h1is nene to Jin Braden ancl he requested a
nelv license under that nane 'The license was granted.
Intriqued by the fact that Jin [Sraden was really a false
icentity assumed by iugene Brading , investigator Noyes
contacted thc Intclligence Division of the California
4ttorney General' : Office
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and had a check run on the
mysterious Brading.
Foves was told that Eugene Fale Brading "iS a real bad guy
Ie S long rap sheet and apparan has Fiafia connections , Jb
Nojes shortly thcrcafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading' $
(Jim Braden 5 ) police records .
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0 The Brading rap shect" contained an incredlihle 35
scperate entries covering Virtually every phase of
crininal activity including mail fraud cnbezzlenent ,
operating 3
ganbling house in Miani car theft
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shop
lifting rccciving stolen property and scllirg wartine
gas ration coupons on the black narket .
{ost o2 thesc arrcsts had been nade under thc nanc of
Zugenc Hale Drading _ but the police dossier on hin clso
showed a handful of othcr aliases including Harry Eugene
Bradley Gene Brady , James Lee
Coie-
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James Bradley
and incvitably , Jin Braden
"Jin Draden" was the last en try shorn on Brading' s
records
Incredibl investigator Moyes found that due to the fact
tiat the Dallas Police had not fingerprinted Jin Braden or
run 2 nake on him his truc identity of Eugene Brading was
nevcr discovered the FBI or the Karren Comnission at the
time of thcir investication 0f the assassination The Warren
Commission had only routinely included Braden S short state_
nent about bcing in Dallas on "oil business" in a police
cxhibit on Witnesses contained. in Warren Connission Bearing' s
Volunc XIIS Jin Braden and his story had been acceptea at
face value
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Jin Bracen (Zuaene Bradina ) Jnd The Liafia
Investigator Foyes began 2 thorough investigation of
Braden based upon al1 available police records and
docunents
What soon clearlv cnerged as a lonc record 0f involvenent
Braden (Brading ) With many of the nost notorious Mafia
leadcrs in thc nation a record of close association With
key figures in the national crine syndicate.
Following
2 string of rrests in the 1940 ' s 'dating all
thc wav back to his young adulthood, Eugene Brading had
moved to 1l Texas , in 1950_
( DRADIiG AFD PEREIRA )
In El Pa3o _ Brading became closelv associated with Victor
Pcreira 7 man Iho s a close associate and confidante of
scveral Mafia nenbers . Brading and Pereira becane involved
in a nunber of schenes involving marriage to and embezzlement
of Ieal thy Widlows
In 1951 Brading and his close friend Fercira wcre arrested
the FZI in Newi York on 2 fugitive warrant issued in Texas_
The two Mzn were chargedl with embezzling ovcr S50 000 from
2 wcalthy widow whon Percira haa marricd shortly beforc
flecing with hcr moncy. Brading and Percira Vere soon con-
victed of the charges and bcre each sentenced to 12 years
in Drison_
owevcr Brading and Pereira Vere out frec during the three
ycars of their appeals , and Brading was later paroled in 1959
after having served just five ycars of nis sentence
BRADING Ai9D IHE SHALDOLTES ) .
Durinc the three years of freedom under thcir eppeals of the
convictions Brading ana Pereira left Texas (following still
anothcr flcccing of another weal Widow) and moved to
Denvcr Colorado
In Denver Drading becane very closely associated Iitn
two leading Nafia bosscs in the Rocky Nountain area Clyde
and Gene Smaldone
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he Snaldlone brothers Iho Nere also knowin 25 "Checkers
and Flip Flop_ Merc thc Nafia lcaders in charge of the
syndicate S vending-machine aarket' which stretched fron
the Rockics all thc way to Chicago _ Police records show
that at one time the Snaldones virtually controlled the
entire Pueblo arca 0f Colorado.
The Smaldone brothcrs Mere notorious for thc brutal brand
0: violence thcy practicec in their 'opcrations_ Brading
(Craden ) becane iavolved in nany transactions with the
Scaldoncs and bccane a close personal friend. Several Years
later aftcr Brading finally Ient to jail for the enbezzlement
of thc Texas Wicow the Smaldone brothers regularly Brote
to hin in prison seeking his advice on various financial
natters.
BRADING 17D CLAFI AITD BURillT )
Bradirg and his friend Pereir? later Eoved to Bcverly Fills
in California Shortly thereafter Brading inevitably cane
under investigation by thc Los Angeles Police Department
Intclligence Division 5 Mafia specialists.
In particular_ thc LAPD interest in Brading was focused on
his close association in Beverly Wills with two "oil specu-
lators" from Miami Arthur clark and Rogcr Baunan . Clark
and Bzunan were notorious Nafia figures Iith- long police
records
Brading' $ friend Clark had been one of the ton leadcrs of
the famous ?L Gang' of th1e Kafia which haa opcrated
out 0f Dctroit and Youngstown The Los Angcles policc had
nlaced Clark and Baunan under tight survcillance and had
compiled cxtensive information 0n their friendship with
Brading_
In 1956 the Chicf of Intelligence of the GAPD , Captain
Jancs Fanilton sent 3 letter to the Crimc Conmission of
Greater Niiani seeking infornation about Clark: , Bauman and
Brading =
Captain Hamilton :ho ws known 23 onc 0 f thc foremost
experts on the Mafia in the nation _ asked thc Miani Connission
(which Mas conducting extensive investigations of the Mafia)
to inforn hin as to thc involvenent 0f several associates of
Clark and Baunan _
Among those named Fas Zugene Brading.
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Captain Hamilton' & lctter stated:
"This Departnenti has under investigation Arthur
Lewis Clark Sr. FBI 3709253 and 2 Roger Bauman-
These men arc representing thensclvcs as officials
of the Sunban 0i1 Company 212 Poosevclt Thcater
Building Kiami Beach and both are spending moncy
01 very lavishly.
"Clark has been arrested severzl times and has been
ajsociated Mith nany confidence nen ard hoodluns such
a3 Janes Fratianno Victor Pereira Eugene Brading,
Clarence Rhodes stephen Sanbor and the Snaldone
brothers of Denver. M1
As investiqator Peter ioves points out , the nen listed
Mith Brading in the letter , represent 3 virtual "Tho ' s Nho"
of organized crinc leaders betieen California and the Nidwest
BRDIiG IitD FRAiTI ilio )
Of thesc top Mafia nen listed with Brading Braden ) perhaps
the nost inportant one is James Fratianno also Widely known
2s "Jimmie Thc Acasel. 0 Fratianno [as known 23 perhaps the
Xafia' s highest ranking executioner inl the nation
In 1959 in his testinony beforc the Rackcts Connittee of
the California lcgislature Captain Hamilton , the Chief of
LAPD Intelligence stated that
"ie have lonc considered Fratianno to
bc thc exccutioner for tne Mafia on
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Captain Hamilton told the Rackets Connittec that his Intelligence
Division hac linked Jimnie Fraticnno to at least sixteen Mafia
exccutions
Fratianno had once been arrested for the attenpted assassination
of Los lngeles Xafia hczd Mickey Cohen in 1949 Coien had
survivea the bloody shooting which took the lifc of one of
nis licutenants Fratianno WJs later released dlue to insuf-
ficient cvidence Fratianno used the alibi that he had been
at the hone of fiafia associate Nick Licata the night of tnc
shooting Licata later becane the nel head of the Los lngeles
Hafia and perhaps significantly, was later given control of
the Mafia in Dallas Texas .
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Jinmie Fratianno [as also susncctcd of complicity in
the murders: of tio men in 1951 Two men Iho nade the
mistake of robbing the Mafia' s Flaningo Fotel in Las
Vegas were found dead in a parked car following thc
robberv . Both of thcir skulls had been shattered
bullcts fired bchind the apparantly in true Mafia
fashion
Fratianno had S0 bcen linked to the famous nurder of
Iarry "Wooky" Bothman who had bzen another close
associate of Mickcy Cohen the Los Angeles Nafia head
Also Fratianno Bas also
'iinkcd
to the disappcarance of
another top mcmbcr of the Mickcy Cohen gang .
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Frank Wiccolia
Niccoli haa mysteriously vanished following a late dinner
at Fratianno S hone one night
Fratianno Was also linked to the brutal nurder of 2 business-
nan in northern California in 1952. Thonas Keen . a Ieal
gambler , had apparantly welched on a s30, 000 gambling debt
that he Owcdl the Mafia and Wvas blown to bits from a dynanite
charge hiddcn under the hood of his car,
?ratianno later scrved 2 Six year prison term (1954-1960 ) for
extortion- In later years Fratianno becane the central figure
involved in LOOK magazine' $ "exposc" of San Francisco Kayor
Joseph ilioto' = allegcd Mafia connections_ IOox alleged that
Fratianno had becone 2 close friend of Hayor Alito and that
thc Kayor had arranged for Pratianno to receive loans of over
S105 000 from 3 bank where 1lioto scrvedl 23 Chairnan of the
Board. Alioto adnitted that Fratianno Nas 2 "casual acquaintance"
0f his but dlenicdl that' he had used any influence in the loans_
Thc Fiayor als0 s2id that he had not known that the notorious
Fratianno Tas 3 nenber of the Nafia.
BRADING 13D) MELTZzR)
#hile in Los ingcles Brading (Jin Braden ) 2ls0 beczme
connccted with top Nafia leader Iarold "Nanpy" Neltzer.
The LiiPD Intclligence Division had oricinally becone
2ware oi Brading 5 closc relationship With eltzcr Tnen
Bradling' s nawe Tas founa on Neltzer' : Christras card list.
Mcltzer !as Midely known as one of the most powerful Mafia
leaders in the entire nation .
Thc U,S Scnate Racket Comnittce identified Brading' s
friend Nicltzer 29 2 top Mafia boss in the areas of union
rackcteering and narcotics
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4; report 0f the Senate Rackets Conmittee from 1964 stites:
"ficltzcr now is reported to operatc 2 large
bookmaking and prostitution syndicatc in
California 4 najor figure in the organized
underworlal I1e i5 }nowmn to 3ll the inportant
narcotics traffickcrs throughout the United
Statcs #c has also operated in Ok-lahona
Te:as Baltinorc
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Mizni Las Vegas Boston
and various areas of Canada Cuba Iiong Kong ,
01 Japan Hawaii and the Philippines .
BRADIirG AiID TiIE SICAS )
In Los Angeles _ Brading also becane closely associated With
anothcr top Gfia operation Brading becane a close
fricnd and associate 0 € tie notorious Sica brothers
?rcddie and Gcorgc The Sica brothers were particularly
brutal syndicate menbers specializing in narcotics
In 1950 the U .3 . attorney in Los Angeles accused Brading' $
frierd: Joc and Freddie Sica 0f hcading the_ single largest
narcotics ring in thc United States.
The Sica brothers werc shortly thereafter brought to trial
On thc night before the trial opencd thc governnent' s
star witncss an infornant ramed Abo Davidicn wos nysteriously
shot to death in his mother' 3 hone in Fresno . The nurder Ias
never solved and Lhie Sica brothcrs were soon released for
lack o{ cvicencc.
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Jin Eraden : Possible Link T0 Jack Ruby
'The samc inadequate investigativc work which led the
Marren Conmission to largely overlook Jack Ruby ' s solid
Mafia involvenent aprears also to havc been responsible
for the fjilure to uncover Jin Braden' $ true identity of
Eugene Brading cluring the official investigation into tne
Kennedly assassination
15 shown in thc prcvious account 0f Jack Ruby' s very
substantial ties to the Mafia, Ruby Was particulerly
involved in the syndicate areas of gambl_ and narcotics .
Dut bevond thc nultiplicity. of evidencc which indicates
that Jack Rubv and Jin Braden wcre both important Mafia
figures opcrating in the sane general areas at thc sane
general tincs thcre is another single piccc of evidencc
which places both Ruby and Braden at thc samc place on thc
bcfore thc assossination
Evidence indicatcs that both Jir Braden and Jack Ruby
visited the Dallas officcs of thc H. La Munt Oil Conpany
on thc afternooi? Of Fovenber 21 1963 just twenty four
hours bcfore thc President Was murdered Olbviously any
link Which places both Braden and Ruby in thc sane place
a* the sanc time on the day beforc the assassination does
of course rjise further significant qucstions' about a
possible relationship between the two nen
Jim Eraden received pernicsion from the U . 5 _ Board of
Parole in Ios fingelcs *0 nake a trip to Dallas Tcxas on
Novccber 13 1963 four days before thc assassination
Braden was required to report all of his travels to his
Parole Doard following h1is parole in 1959 for the enbez _
zlement conviction
On Novenber 21 1963 the day before the assassination ,
Jin Braden checked in with the U , 5 . Parole Office in
Dallas: Accorling to Roger Carroll the Chief Parole
Officcr in Dallas Craden
(Bradingu
"advised that ne
planned to Sce Lamar Fiunt and other 0il speculators while
here 60 Lanar Munt i3 te son of H.L Hunt , thc f2mou5
right-Wirg oil billionaire.
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F2ul Rotherne] 2 forner PI agent :ho wos Director 0f
Security for
thc
Tiunt Oil Connany in Dcllas 2t that. tinc
1
has recalled that hc distinctly rencnbers Braden visiting
tne Funt offices on Novenber 21 in the company of threc
other nen Rotherael has stated that thc office log for
iovenber 21 showed that Roger Bauman (Brading' s old Mafia
friend ) and Iorgan Brown ancl Duane fowlin 01 anr fricnd"
visited the Vunt office on that afternoon. Rothernel states
10 that Braden Mas definitely the "friend
(Security chicf Paul Rothernel Vas later fircd by I-L Funt' s
sons after reports allegedly surfaccd that Rothernel was
0}8 suspicious" of a possible Iunt connection to thc assassin-
ation Following his ternination by the Tiunts Rothernel
{ound that hc Naj bcing illegally :iretapped_ Rotherccl
filed suit against Lanar Fiunt and anothcr one 0f NaL, Funt' s
sons charging then With the miretapning and asking for
scveral million dlollars in danages The cuit mhich has
proclucza very danaging cvidence against te #unt brothers ,
i3 still in thc courts )
11s0 on November 21 the day before thc ass S5ination
according to 2'
conciusion
of thc Warrcn Cornission Jack
Rulyy Ws aljo on his MJy to thc N.L nt officcs in Dallas.
The Varren Comnission concluded that Jzck: Ruby drove 3 woman
friend of his to thc Munt offices sonctine that sanc cfter-
noon T'he Ioinan who had declined work in Ruby' s nightclub
as 3 stripner E drovc with Ruby to the Iunt offices apparantly
in scarch 0 f employnent This does coincide with Braden ' $
visit to the same offices on that same afternoon
The Marren Comnicsion investigatedl scvcral other possible
links 0f Jack Riby to tlle {iunts including th? still
unexnlaincd fact that Lamar Hunt' s nane NJs found insidc
onc of Ruby 3 notebooks But 0f thesc possible links the
Werrer Comnission concluded only tiat evicencc did indicate
that Fuby hac ciriven to thc Iunt offices on fovenber 21
Thus a possiblc Zuby-Braden conncction on the before
ti;c President' s assassination does indecd arise.
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Jin Cracen: fo3ible Link 20 David Ferric
Investigator Peter Noyes has turned up several pieces
of infornation Bhich indicate 7 possiblc connection bctieen
Jin Braden and the mysterious David Ferrie
David Ferric Tas thc homose:ual airlinc nilot and private
invcsticator Whor Jim Garrison accused of participating
in tic plot to assassinate Prcsident Kennedy . Six days after
District .ttorney Garrison' 5 charges serc nade public David
Ferric Mas founal dead in his apar tment in sef] Orleans His
nysterious death 12s finally ruled to have been a suicide.
Davic Ferrie has bcen 2 tarcet of investication ! critics
of thc Warrcn Comnission ever sincc thc ass2ssination In
fact the 2BI and Sccret ervice both investigated a possible
Ferrie rolc inmcdiatclv after thc asscssination It Iv?s
Nidely rumored in New Orleans Znd Dallas that Ferrie Nas to
have flofn th1e alleced assassins ou t of the country following
the assnssination Tnc Farren Cocnission dlecidec no t to include
the oificial Secreb Service_ and FBI rcports or Fcrric in the
26 Volumes o f !enrins which Mcrc relcascd 2fter the Xarren
Lenori was issued onever the Justice Departnent did finally
relecc; thosc rcnorts to the National rchives in 1957 following
Garrison 5 public accusations
Author Noyes hvs sinco establ that hoth Jin Braden and
Davod Ferrie worked out of
tkashioot]
of offices in 2
building
in New Orlecnc in the month or tio immediately preceding the
assassination
Tlis is particul significant due to the {act that at that
time the nystcrious Dzvic Ferrie Mas cmplovcal 23 2 private
invcsticator by Carlos Marccllo , the top Mafia kingpin_ It
is widely bnclievec by Rost fedcral cubhoritics that Czrlos
Karccllo ranks with his closc fricnd Iicyer Lans}v a5 one of
thc two single nost powerful lcadcrs 0f tic ~afia's national
and internation;l crime syndicate Carlos Xarcello heads the
Nafia cmpire centered in New Orleans Louisiana and controls
nost of the Nafia activity in the southern part of the United
States.
In Septenber and Octobcr of 1963 just wceks bczore the
assascination
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David Ferrie Was: torking out of tinc offices
of Ccrlos Miarcello' s crininal attorney G _ wrav Gill Ferrie
who was doing investigative work on 3 ncrjury charge that his
boss Harcello Ws then facing_ worked out of Room 1707 in the
Pere jarauctte Duilcin in Nei Orleans
nt this same timc in Scptember and October of 1963 Jim
Braden was operating out of Roon 1701 in the Pere Harcuettc
Building
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Braden 6as then commuting hetwcen Wew Orleans anc
Beverly [iills With thc approval of his Parolc Doard_
Draden was working a5 a rcpresentative of his Kafia
Eriend Rogcr Baunan tne 0il spcculator Braden Forked
out of Room 1701
Mlich
Tyas thc office of his associate
Victor Nain, Jr_ an oil geologist_ This Nas just a short
Ivay down thc
haii
fron David Ferrie in Foom 1707 .
Intcrestingly in onc visit to his Parole Officc, Breden
"nistakenlv"
iold
his Parole Officcr tht h1c ~as working
out of Roor 1706 which would have heen the roon nezt
door to Ferric instead of Room 1701
'Thus 2 possiblc Braden-Ferrie connection in thc Ieeks
just beforc the assassination docs indeed arise in addition
to the rossible Braden-Ruby connection [o &h connections
definitely do secn to fall outside of or beyond thc arca
Which coule rcasonbly be attributed to coincidencc cnance
or circumstancc
Bcyoncl scveral sct? 0f inforntion which tend to indicate
that David Fcrric had some contact Iith Lce Oswalcl at
various tincs thc ciitics of thc Karren Comnission have
particularly focused 0n Ferric' s ties to Carlos Marcello
and the Narcello Kafia empire.
In facl, in his interviers with the FBI and Secret Service
aftcr the assassination Ferrie clained that he was With
Marcello at the very tine of the 2ssassination Ferrie
statec that he W2s in court with Karcello on the afternoon
of fovember 22 Ihich does appear to be true
Carlos %arccllo , along Iith Heyer Lans}v had beconc' the
central targcts 0f thc Justice Departrent' 5 Orcanized
Crinc Division in the early 1960' s, under thc vigorous
direction of attorncy General Robert Kennccy.
Karcello }nomn 2s ie Little an becane one of nttorney
General Kennedv ' < most fierce enenies during that pcriod
iiarccllo oncc claincc that he had becn kicnapped under orders
'0i Robcrt Kennedy and the Justice Departnent
Zd Rcid avthor of 3h2 Greenfelt Juale and widcly recognized:
as one of thc Rost respected experts 0n thc Mafia in the
nation has Written that Carlos Narcello once threatened to
hrave President Kennedy and his Drother murclered _ Reid has
Written that he was told of Marcello' s threat bv an infornant
Itho" atbended 0 secret neeting with Marcello in Nel Orleans in
September of 1962 _
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Accordina to Reicl' $ informant _ Narcello tolcl his top
lieutenants "Jon t worry about that littlc Bobby
sonofabitch IJc ' s soing to be taken `care 0f . 0 | The
informant stated that Marcello said that President
Kennedy himself would have to bc killed first and
that his brother rould then follow 'ihe informant
further statedl that Marcel lo spoke of using somc "nut"
to do thc killings_
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Jim Braden: 4uthor Peter Koves And Judae Evrne
Peter Noyes _ the investigative reporter Ivho uncovered
most of the material regarding Jim Braden (iugene Brading)
is 2 former classmate and close friend of Judge Katthew
Byrne Jr_ the U , S District Court Judgc Tho presided
over the
Eilsbcrg
Pentagon Papers trial last Year
1s i5 now Nel) known , Judge Byrne dlismissed the case
against_ Zllsherq Jfter he Ves notified that thc white
[ousc 010 Plumbers" had once burglarizcd the office 0f
Ellsberg' s psychiatrist.
1 short tire Jater it becane known that Fresident Nixon
had twice instructed John Ehrlichnan to anproach Judge
Byrne dlurina the coursc of the %llsberq trial and offer hin
che position of Dircctor of the FBI 'This offer , Ihich Judge
Byrne refused has becn regardcd 25 a potential act of
bribery Jy sone critics of President Mixon and i3 currently
undcr investigation by the Spccial Frogccutor' Office.
It has been wicclv assuned that Mixon 3 fervcnt interest
in the outcone 0: thc prosecution 0 € Ellshcrc nay: have
been the motivation behind his approach to Judgc Byrne _
Author Noyes has written of his friend Judge Byrne ' s
involvenent in his research on Jim Bradlen In 1959 after
foyes hacl accumulated much of his information regarding:
thc rysterious Bracen he took the infornatioi to hjs
Tricnd Natt Fyrne Iho wcs then U.S . Attorney for southern
California !oyes had several talks with Byrne and has sjic
that Byrne was very inpressed the substantive cvidence
which Foyes harl gathered During ona of thesc ncctings with
Tvrnc ana another 7BI man whom Byrne had invited to attend
the FBI nan told Woycs that the FBI had never before known
that Jim Craden A thc man arrested at- the sccn? of the
assancination in 1963
Ma Vas actually Sugcnc Erading e
FBI nan said that the Durcau nust have nadc 2 nistak?
in no t traciig dovn Braden S true identity and policc record.
The FBI man Mas nearly incredulous over Noyes' cvidence on
Braden
Voyes ncznnlile had dliscovcred that Jin Braden had also becn
in Los ingeles on the night that Robert Kennedy was assassinated
in early June of 1968
'Though xoyes couldn' t find any significant information indicating
any Braden connection to the sccond Kennedy nurder he and his
friend Matt Byrnc forwarded the information on
Braden
to the
Special Unit of the LAPD Which Ias investigating the RFX death.
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'The Special Unit of the 1,331} according to %oyes dis_
countcdl thc infornation rccarlinc the Rvh assnssination
but Tvas indecd impresscd by the Braden connection to the
1963 assassination Boyes writes that Judlge Byrne never
hearrl anynore about it after he forwarded the information
to the RFX invcstigators
I:cter Jttorncy General John Nitclcll slectccl Byrne to
bc Eccutivc Dircctor for the Scranton Conmission that
investicated student unrest scveral years 290 . Following
his Nork for the Scranton Commission U.3. attorney Byrne
was arpointed U.$ District Court Judae v President :ixon
the position h1c helcl at thc tine of the Ellsberg trial
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Jin Braden: nere Tc Is Zoex
Imnediately Eollowing the assassination 0f fresident
Kennedy Eugene Brading (Jim Braden ) nac an upturn in
his personal finances
Jrading later reported 2 larg? ircrens? in revenuc fron
2n 0il Jc]] he hadl an interest in back; in Louisicna :c
rcnorted the larg? incrcase in rcvenue fror tke wcll for
thc mon&h of Kovember 1963
4 Fonth lnter in Decenber of 1963 Bradinc became a
ciarter Feaber of thc cxclusive (andl very cxpensive)
Ia Cost7 Country Club in southcrn California Later that
year 1964 Bradling and his old syndiccte oil Eriend
Rogcr Gaunan estoblished Lhc "3 And D"' Cattle Comnany. 0
The connany Wns set u!> 112 Chicago ana} Nos nrcsunablv
nanec aftcr then 01 B and 5_ 10 tkough neithcr of the two
nen arc listcd 23 corporate officcrs. Jt was also curing
this cane period that Brading nade 2 substantial investncnt
in two lots in Coral Gablcs , Floridz .
In 1965, Drading 3 lengthy parole Ia; finally terninated .
!Jc soon bought 2 ncw home near the La Costa Country club
Ihic he Jvacl joinec] and hc also boucht 7 house for his
Darents in Santa Barbara.
And it is at the Ia Costa Country Club that the Gysterious
trail of Jin Braden or Eucenc ale Erading, finally ends
he L,c} Costa Country Club which Pracing Imal joined 23 one
0f its 100 Charter Jembers in Jcnuary of 196A1 is one of
thc Forc notorious fafia propertics in thc nation
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'ihe most rorcrful forc? behind I,c Costa i3 Ioc Dalitz ore
of Heycr Ingky' € single closest associctes Noc Dali
tz
had
becn the lcader of the early Mayficlcl Foadl Gang in cleveland
7n0 noa heen thc iounder 0f the Gctual clcvcland syndicate
one of the nost Dowcrful forces in the national crine syndicate.
ioe #flitz had] bcen onc of thc Miafia' [ biggcct investors i7
Las Vcgas ana it ha} bneen Dalitz who h1al pcrsonally helped
sct up thc Towara Ilughes empire in Las Vegas_ Dalitz hcd
Sold nuch of his own noldings to Iowvard Tughes in the late
1960' s.
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The La Costa Country Club had becone under the clirection
of Moc Dalitz and Iiever Lansky "atcring hole" of
the syndicate Ia Costa was
"riginafly
financed through a
syndicate deal With James Hoffa of the Teamstcrs Onc of
the Teansters Union' s billion dollar Pension Funds 12s used
in the financing of thc project_ La Costa bccare what is
known in the Nafia a$ "open territory" neaning that no
single Mafia fami controlled it La Costa Was open to all
Intclligence authorities in southern California have long
regarded La Costa as a nrime hangout for thc Mafia Sone
officials have dubbed it "Apalachin West. 088
The syndicatc had originally given Chartcr memberships in
La Costa to 1 rumbcr of Follywood celeiritie: S0 73 to
soften the inage of the plush resort
Imong the
menbers
werc Frank Sinatra Bob Ilopc = 2rd crosby .
Tcnbcrs of President Mixon ' 5 inner circle also became
frequent gucsts 23 ,a Costa Which is juzt twen giles
away {ron San Clenentc Eariy in the Nizon Adninistration
in i962 Los angelcs Police werc istoniched to finc] Xurray
Cbotiner one of the President' 3 closcst confidantes_ living
it u? at La Costa while thc Presidert Ma: in San Clenente.
In February 0f 1973 while President Fixon [Js at: San Clen-
ente, HaR Ialdenan John Zhrlichman Richard "oore and
John Dcan helc 2 serics of meetings at Ta Costa to discuss
the Watergate conspiracy , Ihich was then beginning to
unravel -
John Dcan T?v? langthy testimony durin? thc Srvin Connittcc
08 hcnrings rcgording "tlc L,a Costa nectings rhese ncetings
at I,a Costa h2ve sirce cncrced 23 perharz khc nost crucial
stratcr;? sensions involved in the allened cover-un of
Nateroate bw the Cresicent' s closest aidcs_ Dcan testified
that thc 1.2 Cosin nectings took place ovcr a reriod] of two
cays February 10 12 1973_ Dean testificc that the sessions
iere hcld in 2 special villa at La Costa txat Mas used by
:aldenan
It has bccn dluring this s3me pcriod' 0 f tine i7 +h12 123t
several vcars that Eugene Brading {Jin i3raden ) has becone
one 0i the most irportant Hafia operalives at L,a Costa
Accoraling to nunerous intclligence reports fron Californi?
Fevada and fetleral authorities Brading i3 non cuspected of
being thc personal courier for national crice syndicate boss
Ieyer Lansky.
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he Xovacia Ganinr Donrc] is con tinuing an investigation
into Braden' s a]leged rol e Js syndicate courier for
"skinmed" gambling revenue from Ias Vegas Investigator
Noyes was told bv several high government officials that
Jim Braden nad indecd hcen identified as the personal
couricr for Fever Ionsky. One official discloscd that
[raden XRs suspected of taking over 372 nillion out 0f
thc country for thc syndicate. finother official said
that Has 2 "low cstiate_ 18
In the cunmcr of 1971 Draden care under renewed investi-
gation by California authorities following an incident at
La Costa
2 janitor at 1,3 Costa oncned Braden' : co] [ Jccker to mnake
a routinc inmnectionl Qut of thc locker tunbled 8 buncle 0E
Icll over sl00 002 in cash
~uthor "0.23 1A; inforneal one official tivt thc bundle
had conteine:] ~t Jeast >120,cnQ in cnch and 'nother Cal #
ifornia official Put *he anount at closer to s200 ,000 _
During questioninq regarding thc incident: Craden stated'
that h12 had received the Goncy fron an
oii
transaction
Qnd twat H12 h1?d tcpporarily stored it in thc locker Later
one 0f khc officials workinc on that pnrticular investigation
of Prcd22 t0ln orc: thct raden haa 2l5o bcen (iven *he use
0 € two planes Olned b: Wolvard Hghes to Mafia ganbling
czsh out of Xevada and the country.
It prcsent Rucene Brading alias Jin Draden i3 still
opcrating out o 1a Costa
Bnaden is how in A+lanta
M;Ke
Sen, Hughes office
June
[
1974
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RICHARD L THORNBUEGH
RE : JKF ASSASSINATION
January 21, 1977
IN REPLY PLEASE
RZFER To R.
3350
Honorable RIchard L. Thoruburgh
Actlog Attorney Ceneral
Departmenc o€ Jueclce
Habhingcon , D.C.
Dear General Thorburgh:
The Senete Select Couatttee Od IncellLgence Bould
Most "PprecLace Ptompe aceebs to Federal Bureau of
InvestlgacLon materlal digti5/k78
co Kr _ Nelaon Bunker
Hunt and K_ Eugene BradLng, Jlo Braden .
Your a9eLetance and cooperatlon Mtth the Select
Cormlttee: Le Dobe appreclated.
Alohe ,
DANIEL K, InQue
0
Chalrman
HSLI dr;
cc: 1 euthor- ffle
1 subject' Datter ffle
Wiliian C, Mller
1 Michael J Madigan
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DONALD F MASSEY
RE : LEE HARVEY ONALD
December 8 , 1976
IN REPLY PLEASE
REFER TO RIGZ<_
Mr _ Doneld F Maseey
Aeeletant Couneel
Central
"{ntefiizeccee
Agency
Waahlogcon
0
D.C
Dear Don :
Ag I @entioned brfefly thie afcernoon the Select
Comalttee bae expreesed 80 Intereet 10 recent Prebe: @ccoudce .
guggeetlng the exiscence Of' cranacripte of Lee Harvey
Orwald converietLone In Mexlco I would bo pleesed
Lf you would adulee 80 Eo che ezLacence of oucb' tranacrIpts
and their avallabillty for revlev by che Senete Select
Commlttee_
Thank You I0 advance for Your atcenclon co thle
request.
Sincerely,
KOHARD 8. LIEBENCOOD
Moority Staff Director
KSL d
cc : Autbor File
Subject File
1 Minority Counsel
1 Scaff Director
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Schulz Jack Anderson end Les_Whitter
AM
2
CIA Withheld Data in JFK Probe
} After President John E. Kennedy 1962 Yet neither Kennedy
1 was struck down on Nov. 22, 1863, the later divulged this nor Hoover ganbas waived the confidentiality we
Central Intelligence Agency received {doe) Sindged teis Cononissionatorma::
had promised him:
evidence suggesting tbat Cuban Pre
mier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi- Ot course, various CLA ofticials also Morgan told uS in January;- 1987,
hation bn retaliation for attempts o knew about the assassination scheme about tbe CIA-Mafia assassination plot -
bis Jie: Not the least Of them was the iate CIA against Castro. He raised the possibil;
Yet sources privy to the secret dis- chiet Allen W Dulles; who approved ity tbat the plot could have backfired;
rudeau cussions at the highest Tevels 0f the the original Eomnmneslaer He later served on against President Kennedy. There
CIA during those hectic now tell
the Warren he sat were suspiclous circumstances, be
us tbat the CIA deliberately withheid silently tbroughout the investigation pointed out, indicating that Castro
TAI the evldence from the Warren Com- without mentioning the Cuban angle may have learned O the attempts on
Mle
mission investigating Kennedy's death: Within hours % President Kenne_ his life and may bave retaliated
MP: Our sources cite . two , reasons for dy"s death; the U.S; embassy cabled in- against Kennedy.
boiding back this evidence One wasoa formation from Mexico
suggest-
Morgan refused to identify his
resolve to cover up the secret that the that the Cubans may bave been be _
sources because it would have violated'
CIA bad enlisted Mafia mobsters to kui hind the assassination; Our sources the attorney-client privilege But he;
Castro. that tbe CIA developed similar say was attorney O such Stature that
There also was & legitimate concern mation in Washington
infor- we didn't doubt his word He bad been
that the Castro revelations might in; The first"
chiet inspector O the FBI He had d1;
flame the American people whose
Kennedyrs idersoer th= reach Robert rected the historic congressional inves:
grier could have turned into & terrible cenDedectoidohftet {eConotirgowes tigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing
wrath that might: bave" precipitated mained alone with
McCone; who re- Later; he ran tbe investigation into the
some rash action. eral at
the_Attorney Gen- excesses Of tbe late Sen Joseph
Only a few people knew about
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McCone
We got Morgan$ permission; to
was Attorney General Robert F_ Ken- swore to uS that Castro's write a cautious story. We confirmed
urtim nedy: wbo was his brother'$ personal Jame was never mentioned during the the general outlines trom a CIA watchdog over tbe CIA; It has now
three hours But CIA records show source Then on March 3, 1987 , we been established that Robert Kennedy that the next McCone not only wrote that Robert Kennedy 46_ have
was briefed on 7, 1962, about the mentioned Castro to the new Presi- approved an assassination plot; which
attempt to use underworid killers to_ dent; Lyndon B Johnson; but briefed then possibly backfired against his late
knock Off Castro him 0n the information irom Mexico brother
Twodays later, Robert Kennedy cau-
Yet no one
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tioned the CIA not to g0 ahead with
connection to
brought the Cuban now available ' Kennedy s secretary.
the assassination without consulting the attention of the War called tor a copy of the 7, 1962,
bim; Slnce Robert Kennedy rode herd ren Commission We were the first to: memo,which summarized the
on the CLA it must be assumed that he get word of the, anti-Castro plot to he bad received on tbe assassination
was kept advised %2 subsequent assassi- Chiet Justice_Earl Warren; the com- plot
nation attempts: However; there Is-Do misoarchaomaree four years later: On March 7, 1967, we reported documentary evidence Of this in Wee danow Twoe ot? ouevconadenoke details ATeported cie Fepo"i249u9fo
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of our confidential assassinate Cubas Fidel Castro;
WB Robert Kennedy informed FBI chief j soaceobsCer: Jotge Rosseiliare deadex wrote; may have resulted in
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August 22 1976
Slain Mobster Claimed
Cuban Link to JFK Death
By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
Washlneton Post Jtaff Writers_
Long bcfore his recent murder; 'His (Morgan's) clienls were aware
John Rossclli. the CIA's underworld of the identity 0f some of the individ-
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas- uals who came to the United States
tro, had been privately claiming that for this purpose and he understood
agents of the Cuban premier, in' retali: that two such individuals were now in
ation; were involved in the assassina: the state of New Jersey," the FBI in-
tion of President John F. Kennedy. terview summary stated.
Rosselli's belief in a Cuban connec A long-time associate of Rosselli
tion to the Kennedy assassination was who was interviewed separately by
expressed through his attorney, Ed- The Washington Post, said there was
ward P; Morgan; to the FBI a5 long m10 question in the slain mobster's
ag0 as March, 1967, and also in private mind that President Kennedy was
conversations with a longtime associ- killed 0n Castro's behalf in reprisal
ate of Rosselli who participated in Tor the CIA schemes against the Cu-
meetings between Rosselli and the ban leader:
CIA. "He was positive; he was sure; said
An FBI "blind memorandum" on the associate, who knew Rosselli well
an interview with Morgan dated and was in contact with him before
March 21, 1967, was iIncluded, without Rosselli disappeared from his Florida
identification 0f the ` interviewee in home on July 28. The associate who
last June's Senate Intelligence Com- docs not want to be identified pub-
mittee's report On the role of the in- licly, is scheduled to be interviewed
telligence community in the Kennedy this week by Dade County; Fla. homi-
assassination investigation cide detectives He was a party to Ros-
Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli selli's contacts in the early 1960s th
and another Morgan client had in- CIA case o[licers overseeing the at:
formed him that Castro became aware tempts to assassinate Castro
of CIA assassination conspiracies Despite occasional speculation, the
against him and "thereafter employed collective conclusion of all official
teams of individuals who were dlis: U.S. government investigations into
patched to the.United States for the the Kennedy assassination--including
purpose of assassinating Mra Ken- the Warren Commission, the FBI and
nedy thc CIA-~has been that there was n0
Because neither Morgan nor Ros: evidence that implicated the Castro
selli was idelitified in the Senate government or any of its agents
port; the significance of that portion However, the CIA'$ inyolvement in
of the 106-page clocument was clis- the schemes to assassinate Castro
counted at the: time it was published was not divulged to the Warren Com
In June, before Rosselll's disappear- mission, and knowledge of them was
ance and the subsequent discovery of confined until 1967 to 2 small, elite
his body in an oil drum in Florida circle of the U.S. intelligence commu-
waters The Washington Post; however nity. President Johnson apparently
has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli first learned about the schemes only
were the sources of the testimony that after a March 7. 1967 , column by the
suggested & Cuban role in the Ken- AJate Drew Person; which prompted
nedy murder. Johnson to order a CIA investigation
Morgan's account, according _ to a
of the highly sensitive episode:
summary of the FBI interview_ was
Full details of the CIA-underworid
that Rosselli had reached his conclu- collusion in the plols to kili Caslro
sion about & Cuban connection to the: did not surface publicly until the
Kennedy assassination from lication last year 0f .the Senate Intelli-
sfeedback" furnished by sources close gence Commitlee': assassination re:
to Castro who were involved in the CIA port and the ensuing report last June:
plots to assassinate the Cuban leader. 0n1 (he possible role of the intelligence
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agencies in the Kennedy assassination Hoover scnt,the Rowley letter to six committee concluded was "puzzling
and investigation senior burcau officials on an "eyes: because it was the Domestic Intelli:
of Rosselli, who lived only hasis. There is no record of FBI gencc Division which had heen aS- The body
in a world of mobslers_ meelings or discussions of those alle- signed responsibility for investigating flamboyantly
was found gations At lhat point the sensitive let- possible foreign involvement in the politicians and playgirls,
ter bounced back and forth in the assassination. tivo weeks ag0 in an inverted ol drum
higher reaches of the FBI bureauc: Neither was privy to the weighted with chains but buoyed by
from decomposition on the racy. knowledge; confined to Hoover and
gases The job of responding to Rowley's his top aides, of the CIA's assassina-
Or 'ean'8 surface off Lhe coast of Miami. letter was assigned to the supervisor tion plots against Castro. Both agents The specific cause of death was deter- of the FBIs General Investigative Di-
mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia- vision who was given responsiility for testitied eight years laler that they
tion. were surprised" when Morgan al- the overall assassination investigation luded during the interview to U.S. at-
Last year, an underworld colleague in March 1964.
:of Rosselli; Sam (Momo) Giancana, This official's job was complicated' tempts' to assassinate Castro.
who also had been recruited by the by the fact that he had never been in: #These agents stated that they
CIA in the cffort to kill Castro was formed of what Hoover and his closest could not evaluate the lawyer's
[ound shot to death in his Chicago circle of confidants in the FB[ learned "(Morgan's) allegations or question him
hnome in what police described a5 a early in (962_that the CIA was in detail on them, since they had not
highly professional job by assailants' deeply involved in assassination been briefed on the CIA assassination
whio penetrated the mobster's per- altempts against Castro_ and promi- efforts; the Senate committee ob
sonal security screen: Giancana was nent American underworld figures; in; served.
due 'to testify before the Senate Intel: cluding Rosselli and Giancana; had On March 21, 1967 , the FBI's WVash-
ligence Committee shortly after hjs been recruited for the attempts ington Field Office sent headquarters
demise So on Feh. 15, 1967, the FBI official ten copies of a blind memorandum
Neither murder Has been solved. prepared &' draft reply to the Rowley' summarizing the interview with Mor-
ietter Eor his superiors saying "our in- gan. The possibility that Rosselli's mur- vestigation uncovered no evidence in-
der might have been related to his dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
In a Senate Intelligence Committee
Senate testimony on the CIA schemes summary of the FBI interview, Mor:
to kill Castro has brought the FBI
Cuban Covernment were involved
gan was reported to have acknow-
into the investigation at the request
with Lee Harvey Oswald in the assas- edged that his clients: were Son the
of Attorney General Edward H. Levi
sination of President Kennedy. This fringe of the underworld" and that
bureau is not conducting any investi:
The involvement of Rosselli. Gian- gation regarding this matter; The they faced 'possible prosecution in a
crime not related to the assassination cana and other underworld [igures FBI official added in Iater testimony
principally Santos Trafficante of that "everyonein .the higher echelons
Tampa, Fla: , whose one-time Havana read this
Morgan said his clients "were called
gambling enterprises fell hostage in Drew Pearson went ahead and upon by a governmental agency to as-
1959 to the Cuban revolution-_in plots lished a column on March 7, 1987, ref- sist in a project which was said to_
against Castro had been a closely held erring to reports that CIA schemes have the highest governmental ap
secret within the top echelons of the against Castro's life in 1963 proval: The project had as its purpose
CIA and FBI until recently. have resulted in a counterplot by Cas- the assassination Of Fidel Castro.
tro to assassinate President Kenne- Elaborate plans were made_ includjng
The tangled chronology of suppres the infiltration of the Cuban Govern-
sion and eventual disclosure, although_ dy
ment and the placing of informants
detailed in the June report, has re- Ten days later, Marvin Watson, one
ceived Jittle public attention: Rossel- of Lyndon Johnson's chief deputies,; within key posts in Cuba:
called FBI assistant director Cartha Morgan also told the FBI, according
li*s murder adds signilicance to those
DeLoach with the message that "the to the summary, that Castro had em-
evcnls:
to: President had instructed that the FBI ployed "teams 'of individuals who
Here is the sequcnce, pieced
interview (Morgan) concerning any were dispatched to the United States
scther from the testimony given to knowledge he might: have regarding for the purpose of assassinating Presi-
Senale intelligence investigators:
the assassination of Pregident Ken- dent Kennedy.
Columnist Drew Pearson went to
'nedy It was not *clear then-_nor is it to:
tinc late Chief Justice Of the United DeLoach lold Watson that it ap day_why Morgan came forward at
Slates Earl Warren late. in January_ peared Morgan "did not want to be in- that time to hring Rosselli'$ slory to
1967 , and lold him that a Washington terviewed_ and even if he was inter- thc ears of the nation's highest law
lawyer had confided to him 'that one 'viewedl he would probably not divulge enforcement authorities
0[ his clients said the United States the identitv of his sources Wal- It may be relevant that Rosselli had
'had attempted to assassinate Fidel son persisted, however 'serious legal' problems at the time_
Castro in the early 1960s and Castro 6 Under thc circumslances De: In May, 1986, the FBI. threatened to
had decided t0 retaliate. Loach concluded in a memo for the deport him for living in the United
files, vit appears that we have no a)- States under an assumed name unless Warren declined Pearson $ sugges- ternative but to interview (Morgan)' he cooperated in an investigation of tion that he see the lawyer; who was and then furnish the regults to: Wat: the Mafia (his true name was Filippo Edward Morgan Warren referred the son in blind memorandum form_ Saco) At the time; he reached a CIA
matter to then Secret Service Direc:
The interview was assigned to two contact from the antl-Castdo conspir:
tor james J_ Rowley, who on Feb. 13, agents fron} the FB's General Investi: acy days, CIA security director Col: 1967 , wrote FBI Director J_ Edgar Ho: gative Division; which the Senate Sheffield Edwards, who informed the
over, informing him Of the allegations
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FBJ that Rosselli wanted" to #keep Gastro's lifc Irom 1960 to . 1985_to a3-
square with the bureau" but was sassinate the Cuban leader through 'Another CIA official who worked
afraic that the mob might kill'him for 'the employmcnt of an agent with the
with Rosselli, James 'P. O'Connell was
talking. cryptonymn AMLASH, His identity asked if he knew whethe: the agency
In 1967 , after he was arrested 'for was revealed as Rolando Cubela.
transmitted information to the mob-
gambling fraud at the Friars Club' in 1961 CIA "recruit" owithacclosebeccesa ster on possible Cuban involvement Jn
Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached his to Castro. the Kennedy assassination He rcplied
former CIA case- officer, William Har- CIA operatives turned over assassi- that he was out 0f the Gountry at the
vey who sought unsuccessfully fo `in- nation' equipment to Cubela during 2
time Kennedy was killed, and had no
lercede in the prosecution_ Paris mee on November 22, 1963 further comment_
l was against this background that the day President Kennedy was killed Two months before the Kennedy as-
Morgan went; first to Drew Pearson, in Dallas There has been subsequent sassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, who
and then the FBI, with Rosselli's Scn- speculation that the mercurial and was identified by the Warren Commis-
salional allegalions of" CIA plotting 'talkative Cubela was either a double sion as Kennedy's mufderer; had trav-
against Castro and the Cuban counter; agent or monitored .by Cuban eled to Mexico City-'in an attempt to
cspionage directed against 'President intelligence: entry to Cuba. According to the
Kennedy_ During the later days: of his presi '. Warren Commission; Oswald repre-
Last April; Rosselli told the Senate dency,` Mr; Johnson: spoke cryptically sented himself as the head of the New
Intelligence Committee he had no rec of a "Caribbean Murder Incorpo: Orlcans branch of the Fair Play for
ollcction. of either receiving informa- rated" targeted 'against Fidel Castro: Cuba organization and a friend of the
tion that Castro retaliated against The inspiration for that statement un- Cuban Revolution:
President Kennedy or of; having 'dis- doubtedly wns the CIA inspector gen- Some three months before Kennedy
cussed it with Morgan_ This meant ei:' eral'$ report he ordered Helms to have was killed, Castro told Associated
ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic Aprepared. Press reporter Daniel Harker that
memory loss or that Morgan's ' state: Within the past year Rosselli ' and U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
ment to FBI agents nine years earlier two of his co-conspirators in the Cas- eliminate Cuban leaders would them-
was a pure invention, a serious risk tro assassination schemes have died, selves not be safe
for an established Washington lawyer: Giancana at:' the hands of a profes: A U.S. government commiltee sional hit man and Harvey as the re- coor-
No committee source could explain sult of a "massive heart attack"' last
dinating policy toward Cuba at the
the discrepancy, and Morgan declined June. time agreed there is & strong liklihood
to confirm that Rosselli was the client Mrs: William Harvey the widow of that Castro would retaliate in some
in question or to discuss either his the deceased CIA official , said she fashion However, it concluded Castro
allegations against the Cuhan govern- suspected m0 Foul play in her hus: would not risk 4 major confrontation
ment or his recent testimony. pand's death. She did, however; tell _ with the U,S. by attacking U.S. lead-
The internal FBI memo on the 1967 The; Washinzton Post: that she re-
ers:
interview with Morgan was sent to ceived & call after Rosselli's disappear: On the same day Kennedy was a5.
headquarters with 3 transmittal slip ance in late July warning her that Cu-'
sassinated,. a CIA officer met with 8
saying: "No [urther investigation is bans appearcd to be attempting to
high-ranking Cuban official, who had
conducted by the Washington wipe out all those who participated in said he would kill Castro, to tell him
field office unless it is advised to the the anti-Castro plots the U.S. would provide him with ex-
contrary by the Bureau:" plosives and a poison pen device_
The Senate intelligence committee The call, she said, came trom an old While the Senate Intelligence Com-
in commenting on this position; said friend who as acquainted with Ros- mittee said it found no evidence sufli-
that 'had the interviewing agenls sellixs sister; #hose name is Edith Dai- cient to justify a conclusion that the
known 0f the CIA-underworld plots
gle: Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs Daigle Kennedy aSsassination was part O 2
against Castro, they would have been
told the mutual acquaintance that the conspiracy, it also said U.S 'agencies
aware that the lawyer had clients who
Rosselli family had_ received a tele- did not properly investigale the assas-
had been active in the assassination phone threat from unidentified Cu- sination ;or tell the Warren Commis
plots.
bans prior to Rosselli's disappearance sion about the CIA plots on Castro's
On March 21, ;FBI headquarters for-
She also said that Rosselli had gone to life.
warded the Washington fleld office
meet the Cubans in an effort to "There is no indication that the FBI
memo to the White House the attor
tect his family_ or the CIA directed the interviewing
ney general and the Secret Service It Mrs Daigle could not be reached by- of Cuban sources or sources within
did not recommend any [urther in- The Washington Post But another sis- the Cuban exile community;' the
vestigation of Morgan's allegations ter of Rosselli said she had heard of ate committee said.
On the evening of the following no such threals 0r warnings According to
3 former, FB[ official
day, President Johnson called CIA Di- Harvey, who died at age 60 and in charge of aspects of the FBTs
rector Richard M Helms to the White whose exploits as a clandestine opera- probe of the Kennedy murder _ the
House_ The next morning; March 23 , tor are both legendary and controver- FBI never satislactorily determined
Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen sial within the agency, testified to the what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
eral to prepare a report on the CIA Senate Intelligence Committee. He what he had done in Russia:
invulvement in the assassination plots had become Rosselli's case officer in
_Operation Mongoose- _of which Operation Mongoose and supplied the
Fclms had full knowledge at the time mobster' with poison pills, explosives,
they were executed_ detonators; rifles handguns, radios
By 22; Helms briefed President; and hoat radar for transmission to
Jolasoi1 on the results. There is_ how anti-Castro Cuban agents Harvey and
ever no evidence that Helms briefed Rosselli, 'a CIA superior testified to
thc President on the November, 1963 the Senate , committee, "developed a
plot_one of eight major schemes_ on close friendship
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September 12 1976
Illun
The JFK Assassination: Curiosityain Havana
An inquisitive Arerican learns many things On a onie; Castro almost certainly knew Of it The CLA even-
visit to Cuba: One O the most surprising is that high tually concluded that the AMLASH activity was "inse
otficials in Favana seem genuinely bopeful that the cure' and terminated it. Among Other discoveries,
investigation of the Kennedy assassination will be re- within two ot tbe assassination it was known (but
opened, They are convinced tbat there was 2 Cuban not t9 the Warren Commission) that AMLASH hbad
lactor in the murder. been in contact with Sovlet personnel in Mexico City,
Conversations with . senior officials of the Cuban wbere Oswald bad gone in September 1e83 to visit'
goyernment; including Deputy Prime Minister Carlas hoth_tbe Cuban and Soviet consulates Whether tbese
Ratael Rodriguez make clear that tbey have followed facts ere signitlcant o merely coincidental, One can-
closely the disclosures by the 'Senate Intelligence not tell , In retrospect; Cuban authorities note with
Committee casting doubt upon the Warren Commis: some reliet tbat Oswald was denied permlission to visit
sion jnvestigation The Cubans are well aware that the Cuba; Implying thac, had bis request been granted;
doubts center on the Iailure O the CLA and the FBI to tbe Iinger % Buspicion would surely have pinted at
itorm the Warren Commission Of the several plots Havana.
mounted by the CLA to kill Fidel Castro. Knowledge
ot these plots appears to have been withheld even Perbaps more suggestive o direct Jeak Irom AM:
trom the FBI and CLA ofticials who were responsible LASH to Castro wasihe sequence of events on Sept 7,
tor Investigating the President'8 murder and for gup 1883, wben tbe CLA re established contact with the Cu:
porting the work Of the Warren Commission: As a re ban conspirator Ior the tIrst tlme since the preceding
sult; there was no gpecial etfort to explore the possi- Year: Late that evening, Prime Minister Castro called
ble involvement o either tbe Cuban government or in Associated Press reporter Daniel Harker for an un-
Cuban exiles in the assassination: Evidence developed expected interview. Only three Western reporters.
by tbe Senate committee makes both hypotbeses plau- were based in Havana at the time and their contact
sible-and a new inquiry imperative. with Castro was quite limited Evidently, the Cuban
The situation is murkier and more perplexing than
leader bad & measage he Wished to get On the record
ever: ' Those 'who are resistant t0 conspiracy theories
tbrough Harker: He charged that the United States
and who have been prepared_even ,eager ~to be-
W2b aiding terrorist plots in Cuba and warned US _
lieve, that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone can: no
leaders that " are aiding terrorist plans to elimi-
nate Cuban leaders, themselves wili not be safe 0} Jonger rely on tbe Warren Commission report as,an This tbreat O reprisals seems less inflammatory
and more understandable now that we know what
9 'The writer is & scnior fellow Qf the Council on For-: Castro kew at the tlme; namely, that the United
States was In {act stepping up its covert operations_
cign Relations: against Cuba during the summer and tall of 1983, Yet
it seems an exception t0 the main Iines Of Cuban pol:
25 It was then evolving: adequate prop Ior their predilections: Tbe conunis-
montbs afer the missile crisis o 1962, Castro sion did not know that on Nov. 22, 1883, at about the had been
very hour Oswald struck in Dallas, an agent o the displeased with the Soviets, and there are
Central Intelligence Agency was meeting with a rank-
sigps tbat he was interested in an opening to Wash-
ing Cuban Official . (code-named AMLASH and re
ington: 'On 5, thbe Cubans quietly proposed talks:
cently identified as Roland Cubela) to plan the mur
with the Americans at the United Nations;and Ken-:
der o Castro: Simultaneously, in Cuba, a French re- soon responded with interest: Also, in early
tember ' the Time magazine bureau chief in ,Buenos
porter , Jean Danlel, was spending the with Cas-- Atres; Gavin Scott; travelling On & Canadian
to, conveying %0 the Cuban leader views expressed
spent two weeks in Cuba. Aithough
Uux oxzicoals
by President Rennedy in a briet interview at the bave no recollection o consulting with Scott On that
White Housc on Oct; 74, persuading Castro tbat Ken-` occasion, the Cubans recall his questions and com-
nedy. wanted to explore waya to normalize relations: ments 28 ot American interest in 2-possible ac Thus, at the moment the Presidene was killed, U,S. commodation; much a8 were later pollcy: toward Cuba appeared to be moving not only {@uodations Bercheen Ihey Dyelieilatd € unterpret .
on two tracks but in opposite directions, &nd move Then and now the Cubans' attitude toward Ken-'
ment on either track could have provoked violent re: nedy bas been a compound O political antipathy and
sponse by one or another Cuban taction personal admiration While critical 0f Kennedys role
Perceptions inside the Cuban government Te: in varlous counter-revolutionary efforts, Castro and
sponded to both tendencies in U.S policy. There is his associates Voice & warm; almost al ectionate re:
reason to suspect that the AMLASH operation" gard for the Presidents courage and realism. They
involved a double agent, or at least & singularly inept
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protess to bave seen his death as & grave setback to
more hopeful relations between the two countries.
Jobn Kennedy o 1983 was not; in thelr judgment;
the same man wbo was inaugurated in 1881, but &
more mature, poised and {orward-Iooking leader wlth
whom they could have done business.
Wlth this trame ot rclerence; Cuban Otticials specu-
late that the real origin Of tbe assasgination lles in an"
ti-Castro circles, wlth which Oswald also was in touch;
They emphasize that assassination is incompatlble
with thetr own revolutionary doctrine and that
never contemplated it even agatnst Batista, the pre .
vlous Cuban ruler And they volunteer the susplcion
tbat tbe recent murders 0 Sam Glancana and Jobnny
Rosselli; tbe Matia tigures who consorted with the_
CLA to kill Castro, surely bave some connection with `
Luban exile politics and the Kennedy murder:
Castro bas said publicly that bc bas no proof "count:
er-revolutionary elements" planned tbe axsassination;
but that is clearly the consensus in Havana Further
investigation: may still be inconclusive; but; Iar {rom-
seelng It as an Impediment t0 Cuban-American rela-
ttons, the Castro reglme welcomes such a0 inguiry.
Thetr curiosity seems greater than their complcity
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September 19 1976
Could Rosselli Have Linked:
Castro Plot to JFK
Death?
By RON LaBRECQUE Scems ironic in retrospect. His greater role' as-evidenced by
Merald Stafe Wrifef Robert Kennedy's passionate ef- fwo convictions, his associations
forts to disable organized crime are and to some extent ' his own com- In 1960, when the CIA was try- well documented. ments, was as an influential, 'if to set up a delicate attempt on publicly lesser known, organized _
the life of Fidel Castro; it turned t0 IN 1960 when Robert Kennedy crime figure.
a man once described as "the big- wrote about what he had learned
gest waving SOB in the coun- of or ganized crime in America HIS ASSOCIATION with other
try West Coast underworld from his years as chief counsel to identified underworld menbers figure Johnny Rosselli. the Senate Rackets Committee, he was monitored by law enforcement
Rosselli a seemingly improba- too quoted Giancana to make 2 agencies as recently as several ble conspirator in a government weeks before his July 28 disap-
plot got the flag-waving' label He told about Giancana's inter- 'pearance. from 'Salvatore (Momo) Giancana view at his local draft board at the By all accounts, Rosselli was a. then Chicago'$ top crime boss and outbreak of World War II, when charming man, dressing in expen-
a man Rosselli brought into that he was asked what he did for a liv- clothes, married for only two
same plot. years in the early 1940s and Now both are dead, murdered in '[ steal," Giancana is said to iknown most of his life aS one who
the past year, and investigators are have replied. leasily attracted women
wondering whether their plotting So Sam Giancana didn't go to He was an 'immigrant who told
led to their deaths and whether the war and years later would boast to [in a short autobiography written
CIA Plots against Castro only 'Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that iabout 1967 that his 'life of crime"
recently made public and even kept he stayed out 'of the Army la- zbegan as 4 teenager in Boston, at- [rom the Warren Commission tun beled unfit by telling the truth ftempting arson for his stepfather
are vitai clues to the John F. Ken- "What's wrong with the syndi- vand stealing $50 on his own: As he":
nedy assassination. 'cate?" Kennedy quoted Giancana_ traveled west, finally to settle in -
The aeaths 0f Giancana, in' June "Two or three of us get together California, his attention turned to of 1975, and Rosselli, this summer, 'on a business deal and everybody pbootlegging; gami and dab-
have aroused a renewed concern in says it's a bad Businessmen bling in the movie business-
Washington, where
on Friday the do it all the time and nobody
squawks: IT IS said that Rosselli' guarded
House of Representives voted to re-
A Senate committee began stu-: Ihe West Coast_gambling interests
open the investigation of the Ken- dying the Kennedy. questions more Ifor Giancana'$ Chicago syndicate
nedy murder. than a year ag0 as it looked at CO- Why Rosselli was chosen by the
vert CIA activities. CIA for a Castro plot in 1960 is un- REP: THOMAS N; Downing (D. clear, although CIA officials have Va.), who will be chairman Of the IN AN addendum to the Senate 'since testified that wanted the
panel, said he is convinced a con- Intelligence Committee'$ interim kind of contacts in Cuba which Or-
spiracy was involved-in Kennedy'$ report last November, Sen. Howard 'ganized crime had made during the
death_ Baker (R Tenn.) said, t is my pre-Castro days when Havana was Now, in the aftermath of the vi-= personal view that On balance the 'a; gamblers' haven:
olent' deaths of , Giancana and Ros- jikelihood that presidents (the re- Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
selli, the question arises 'of what dealt with Dwight Eisenhower 'li because he had influence with
role, if any, the. Kennedy White and Kennedy) knew of the (Castro) Florida's Santo Trafficante; consid-
House played in the early 1960s assassination plots is greater than ered the key underworld gambling
"deal the CIA made with the two the likelihood that did not. figure in Havana_
underworld figures to have Castro Just to trace Rosselli's history The unraveling of CIA and un- murdered_ with the CIA is mind-boggling for derworld conspiracies an awesome Whether the Kennedy Y White the investigators. Yet, it is just one web spanning decades is left to a House knew 'about about the. CIA '$ aspect of the search for his killer. Jeamn of nine in the, Metro Homicide
plotting (Robert F Kennedy found Johnny Rosselli born On the Division_ It is a leam) now clearly
out after the contacts were ended); Jourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and consumed by the task which has
the CIA's use of the urderworld '71 when he died was not first been a full-time operation since
and foremost a CIA operative: Rosselli 's body Ivas pulled from
Dumfoundling Buy on Aug: 7.
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THAT THE Metro team is even ~There was never 'the slightest Morgan was told about the pend-
Involved is happenstance. Rosselli doubt in John $ mind that Castro ing investigation by Rosselli and
lived in Plantation; Broward Coun- was responsible for the assassina- Robert Mahue, 3 former FBI
ty. with his sister and brother-in- tion of Kennedy said Edward P agent-turned Howard Hughes aide
law It's just that his killers chose Morgan;, the attorney referred to in who was the CIA's. initial link to
to dump his body in Dade the report. Rosselli.
While several detectives say Morgan is an attorney of no Mahue told Morgan that both he
their instincts lead them to con- mean stature in Washington; He and Rosselli had been subpenaed to
clude that the Rosselli murder was served as chief counsel to the joint appear before the committee Mor-
an internal underworld affair, all congressional committee which gan said he called Lawrence Hous-
on the team are aware of the pres- studied the Pearl Harbor attack, ton, the CIA general counsel. Hous:
sure on them to search clue counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela- ton went to Long and the investi-
that leads back to the CIA-Castro tions Committee and for seven gation was dropped.
affair . years was chief inspector of the
With Rosselli s death this sum- FBL: MORGAN SAID he knew, as the
mer, the newly appointed Senate Senate committee recently `empha" -
committee S&W its Jist of knowl-
ROSSELLI told Morgan about sized as well; that all information
edgeable witnesses further trim- the CIA plot in 1967, when the De- about the CIA plots which could
med Some of those witnesses have partment of Justice was vigorously have been the incentive for pro-
died violently and some from natu- attempting deport Rosselli for Castro forces to kill Kennedy
ral causes. an illegal alien. had been kept from the Warren
When Giancana was murdered in Rosselli, Morgan said, 84 = was cer- Commission.
of 1975, before he could even tain that the people he (Rosselli) 4[ was an admirer of Earl War-
be questioned by the committee around Castro in the CIA plot ren, Morgan said. "(His) report
staff , authorities attributed it to an turned right around and killed Ken- said that Oswald alone killed
internal gangland struggle even
nedy: The people he still knew (in Kennedy. It kept bugging me after
though: the' murderer is still un:
1967) did it. SO gruesome a detail from Rosselli .
known. Rosselli, according to_Morgan;, that the Chief Justice could his
The death of Rosselli, who had decided t0 talk about his CIA activ- name on a report which didn't as-
appeared hefore the committee ity in hopes of decreasing the pres- sess the most significant piece of
three times in the past year with- sure from the FBI and Department evidence bearing on the killing of
out immunity, caused greater con- of Naturalization and Immigration; Kennedy _
both Justice Department agencies: The information Morgan had
cern on Capitol Hill: Several friends of Rosselli, in- was passed to Warren via colum-
THE SAME night Rosselli's body
cluding Morgan, they are con- nist Drew Pearson, 4 mutual
was identified the legs hacked vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli friend. Eventually, it reached the-
off and stuffed along with the body to become' an organized crime- in- FBI; but, remarkably, even after di-
into an oil drum Baker, vice formant by threatening to have rect orders from President Lvndon
chairman of the Senate Intelligence him deported if he didn t coopera-. Johnson in the spring of. 1967, in-
Committee called for the FBI to te: vesti gation was not vigorously pur-
sued. get involved in the case (Several IN 1961, through a bungled days later; Attorney General Ed- wiretap effort, the FBI became THE SENATE Intelligence
ward Levi ordered FBI involve- aware Of Rosselli'$ CIA activities: mittee compared that apparent in-
ment.) While Giancana and Rosselli action with a statement former FBI
It wasn't until several weeks were in Florida planning the opera- director J Edgar Hoover made 'to later, however, that what was tion, Giancana wanted to return to the Warren Commission on May 5,
known to Baker became public Las Vegas to check on his girl 1964. Hoover said, *well, [ can a5- knowledge: friend, Phyllis McGuire; whom he sure; you so far as the FBI is con: A section of the former commit- suspected % dating comedian Dan cerned the case will be continued: tee'$ April report told 0f a Wash- Rowan. To keep Giancana in. Flori- jn an open classification for all: ington attorney who in .1967 went 'da, it was agreed that & would 'time. That is, any information com-
to Supreme Court Chief Justice be placed in her hotel room and her to uS or any report coming to:
Earl Warren (chairman of the conversations monitored_ uS from any source will' be thor-- then-disbanded Warren Commis- But the vate detective they oughly investigated, SO that we sion) to say that two' of his clients hired,,with CIA money it has since will be able" To prove or disprove}
believed they knew about Cuban been learned, was discovered and the allegation. 2 ? agents in the United States who arrested: Eventually.the police in- A Senate Committee staff memt
conspired in the assassination of vestigation led back to the Castro ber commented recently #what is John F Kennedy. plotters:: really happening is that the investi-
THE INFORMATION; eventually Prosecution was avoided when gation which the FBI should have
the CIA intervened and said the done in 1967 and no one can reached the FBI; but as the Senate "national interest" would be dam- come close to explaining why it committee concluded this year, the aged if the plot information be- wasn t is actually ` being done 1967 FBI probe was slipshod and came public. now incomplete_
One of the clients referred to in WHEN THE wiretap case was HART, AS have local investiga- the report has since been identified again to be investigated in 1966, tors, has established three possible as Rosselli_ And it has since 'been this time by a Senate committee scenario's for Rosselli's death: his learned that Rosselli was con- headed by the late Sen. Edward recent organized crime activity, re-
vinced he held a vital clue t0 the (D,, Mo.) the CIA again step- taliation for his Castro assassina- JFK murder. in to stop it. tion efforts Or the information he
held concerning the JFK assassina-
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"Maybe Rcajeili's information Kennedy discussed the ramifica- As 2 condition to his appear-_ was the vital nerve of the Kennedy'
tions 0f a Castro assassination_ ances before the Senate Committee-
assassination; a Senate source.told Smathers has since said in the past year, it was agreed that
The Herald. Kennedy Rosselli would not state the High officials in the Cuban gov- rejected the idea and that the dis- names or confirm the existence Of
ernment also reportedly feel there cussion was more O[ & "brain-pick-
those agents whom he knew
was a "Cuban factor in the JFK ing' session.
about; Rosselli's attorney Leslie
death, but they see it as a result of At LEAST one Scheer said.
exile politics, according to a recent official did testify
higheleeveed Che
The friends and acquaintances of:
article by Alton Frye, a senior fel: White House was briefed on Rosselli who could be contacted by
low of the Council Foreign Rela- the Plots but according to Richard The Herald all said they never tions in Washington.
Bissell, one of the officials who heard the names of the Cuban
Frye wrote that he visited Ha- originally decided t0 use Rosselli, it agents;
vana recently and met with Cuban_ was through the method of 'plau- But a committee source cau"-
officials including Deputy Prime sible deniability: tioned; "they (Cuban agents) read
Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez: That, according to the recent the committee's report, they know
they volunteer the suspicion Senate report, "can also lead to the who's being referred to."
that the recent murders of Sam Gi- use of euphemism and circumlocu-'
ancana and Johnny Rosselli tion, which are designed to allow
ANOTHER Rosselli attorney
surely have some connection with the President and other senior offi- Tom Wadden; a partner Of Edward
Cuban exile politics and the Kenne- cials to deny knowledge of an Op-
Bennett Williams, said, Yes,
dy murder;" Frye wrote. eration should it be disclosed.' think he had more knowledge"
than he testified to.
THERE HAVE been theories re-
Another alleged ink between' Searching Rosselli' s more recent the White House and the under- cently propounded to show why world plotters; first made public by past for enemies also presents'
both pro and anti-Castro forces the Senate Committee, has also
problems, investigators Say.
could have wanted to get JFK out been denied by virtually The decline of . John Rosselli ap-
of power in 1963. involved_ Judith
everyone pears to begin in the late 1960s. In
On the one hand, there is the re-
Campbell Exner, 1967 , he was convicted in a card- the woman who claims to have port of French journalist Jean Dan- been friend and lover to both Gian-
cheating scandal at the posh, celeb-
iel, who was the bcarer to Castro cana and JFK, introduced to both
rity-filled Friar'$ Club in Los An-
of an offer from JFK for calmer re- by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in_
geles where the influence of Sina-
lations. Castro was reportedly the Castro those tra had made him a member ac"
agreeable The report stated that both
plotting; close"to cording to investigators.
Daniel later was 'lunching with:
Giancana and Kennedy have Deportation pressures were also said. Castro when word came that Ken- mounting at this time:
nedy had been shot. Daniel de- A MAN with access to Kenne-
scribed the Cuban leader as genu- dy's closest advisers told The Her- ROSSELLI entered prison on the
inely shocked by the news_ ald recently, "The Giancana-Ros-
conviction in 1970 where he would
It has since been learned that selli is unrelated to the Exner serve three years of a five-year_
probably in the very hour JFK was [ was there. Sure JFK knew sentence.
shot, a one-time Castro supporter her, but he was naive about those In 197], 'he was brought td a. was receiving a poison pen device kinds of things' federal grand jury in Los Angeles from a CIA agent in what was {4 There is documentation to show which was probing whether some long-running anti-Castro effort_ that on March. 22, 1962 , Hoover indentified_Detroit_Organized crime
That Cuban agent was code-named lunched privately with Kennedy
AMILASH, and he has since been and presumably gave him his first leaders conspired with the Emprise:
identified as Rolando Cuebala; now information linking Exner with the Corp: 2 giant firm with nation-:
imprisoned in Cuba [or his assassi- gangsters_ The final . recorded
wide race track and sporting event
nation plotting: phone call between the White concessions 'to hide financial in-
House &nd Exner was made only & terests in the Frontier Hotel.in'Las:
WHETHER , JFK had knowledge few hours later. Vegas.
of , or perhaps even approved; any Another possible link discussed Rosselli, too, had, an interest in
of the assassination plots will prob- in the Senate report shows that the the Frontier_ which opened in 1967
ably never be known: same unidentified Cuban to whon He owned the gift shop concession
His ' closest advisers, who testi- Rosselli passed the poison pills along with a partner named Joe
fied before the Senate Committee_ prior to the Bay of Pigs operation Breen: How Rosselli obtained the
all said he had no knowledge of in April of 1961 was among 8
concession is unclear, but- Breen:
such plots and would never have group of Cuban' exile leaders who
said it gave Rosselli an' income of
approved of them_ met with JFK following the inva- about $60,000.
The same month Rosselli was sion fiasco- ROSSELLI at one time hdd been
passing poison pills to his Cuhan
a major influence in Las Vegas:
contact at 2 meeting at the Fon- IT IS known that several 0f the Several sources sajd that when the
tainebleau, March of 1961, former Cubans with whom Rosselli owners Of the Desert Inn wanted
Florida Sen; George Smathers, a worked have been identified, but Howard Hughes to move out of the
friend of Kennedy, said he and investigators say that not all are penthouse because his special
known. needs were costly and putting
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some "high rollers" in would be
more profitabie it was Rosselli
who patched things up. One (riend said that just before
Hughes eventually bought the Giancana 's death, Rosselli had ac-
Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier. cepted Giancana'$ offer of money.
What Rosselli told the federal The friend was tolact aS.the inter-
grand Jury about the Frontier_ in mediary . Let melfigure out what
1971 is unknown: Rosselli didn't my next (attorney's) tab will be,
testify later at the trial at which the friend quoted! Rosselli as say-
Anthony J, Zerilli and Michael Pol-
izzi and the Emprise.Corp-, among Rosselli is described as a man
others; were convicted. with a sense of humor who did lit-
ZERILLI and Polizzi are ' still in tle offending:
jail, In 1973, the House , of Repre- A California woman who had
sentatives Select Committee on known Rosselli for about 40,years
Crime' probed the influence of Or- told The Herald , MIf you were
ganized crime in sports and one around him for 30 minutes you'd
area they looked at was' Emprise like him because he would regard
and the Frontier Hotel case= you as a human being:
At the time of the conviction, the "If you had a headache he would
federal prosecutor asked that Poliz , either get you an aspirin or send
zi and Terilli be jailed immediately, someone to One. said - some-
because monitored, wiretapped' thing significant there he would
conversations showed that the two it or he would send someone
had talked about murder, the kill- he wasn 't a pansy,{but he wasn E a ing of certain individuals: toughguy either:
An intimate associate of Rosselli,
however, discounts the possibility
that Rosselli's grand jury. appear-
ance could have led to his death.
"They know Johnny didn't talk to
the grand jury, the associate said.
JOE BREEN said Rosselli hadn't
been to Las Vegas for nine years;
that "he's never even seen the
shop
Since his prison release and
move to Plantation, Rosselli wasn t
trying to regain,power; according
to his friends. He had no muscle
said an associate,"[ can't believe
Rosselli was getting back into' mob
stuff.
But at the same time, `many of
the associates were surpised to
learn about Rosselli 's recent visits
with alleged , organized crime
ures on the West Coast_
Several associates speculate that
Rosselli wanted to get involved in
casino gambling; preferably in the
Middle East, and was looking for
someone with money to back him:
SMY IMPRESSION was that he
was broke;, Morgan said ~He told
me last year; 'm in. bad financial,
straits_
Scheer said Rosselli '$ income in-
cluded about $60,000 from the gift
shop and about 83,500 in social se-
curity _ most of which went for
back fees to attorneys and for gOV-
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ON TIE ACSAS INATION Or 1-Mr Kalley
PRESIDINT KENNEDY 1-Mr Shroder
1-Mr Rogge
PURPOSE: y
To advise you that an Agent of the Secret Service wihen
testifying before the President 8 Commission , denied making certain
statements to FBI Agents which were subsequently reported to the
Commission
DETAILS:
In Volume II of the hearings before the President' s
Comission conmencing oh page 61 there appears the testimony
of Roy HI Kellerman Assistant Special Agent Thite House Detail,
U. S ; Secret Service on 3-9-64 _ #In Charge
Under questioning by a Connission menber , Kellerman
was asked about certain statements reportedly ma de by hin on
11-22-63 , to SA 's Francis X_ 0 Neill, Jr and Jares M Sibert ,
0f our Baltimore Office , which appear in the 12-10-63 Da llas
report of Special Agent Robert P Genberling (page 3 , paragraph
4) SA S 0 ' Neill and Sibert were under orders to be observers
during the autopsy 0f President Kennedy at the Mational Naval
Medical Center Bethesda Haryland, Fihich comnmenced op the
evening of 1l-22-63, to be of assistance to the Secret Service
and to look after the Bureau S interests.
Our Agents in conversation with Kellerman sometine
during the evening 0f 11-22-63
9
Zearned of certain informtion
portions of which were reported as follows; Sara Eu owj
132
"He adviscd he heard 3 shot and.j edig pE?_
turned around , lool.ing past Govcinor Counally
who was seated directly in back
82 Jin; to_tid
REi President Je observed tle President slumped
0 6 forward and heard him say , Get Ie to 1 hospital
Jir Kellerman then heard Hrs Fennedy say ,
'Ql, 25 the president lcaned towards her .
Ie iunediately advised tho clriver to take the
01 President to the nczrest hospital
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RE : PRESIDENT s CONIMISSION
The Commission in questioning Kellerman made specific
reference to thc underscored portions of the above paragraph
as it contradicts some of Kellerman' s testimony . Kellcrman
claims he did not car the President nor Mrs Kennedy say
these things and had never told our Agents that he had In
part of Kellcran S denial he stated "I don t know where they
got those quotes _ 10
OBSZEVATIONS :
Kellerman is claiming 0ur Agents furnished inaccurate
accounts of a conversation with hin It is to be remembered
that at the time this conversation with our Agents reportedly
took place 11-22-63 Kellerman had been 3 security guard in
thc Prcsiden t 's car and more than likely was upsct and feeling
remorse over the days episode_ In his testimony before the
Commission hciendeavored to give the impression that he acted
calmly and immediately took commnand issuing lozical instructions
aftcr thc Presiddnt was hit The conversation reported by
our Igents made it appear Kellerman reacted norinally to the
tragcdy and not dramatically 25 indicated in his testimony
aS he didn t orrler the driver to the hospital until after the
President had so directed_
It is felt our Agents reported accurately what
Kellermin told them on 11-22-63
9
and that Kellerman ' s testimony
32 months later is the result of considered deliberation, on
his part, to paint the most favorable picture possible, under
the circumstances, for the Secret Service .
Consideration has been given to discussing this matter
with Chief Rowley of Secret Service, howcver, sincc it 15 the
word of our Agents against Kellerman 'S, it is not felt any good
purpose would be served by this course of action_
RECONXIENDATION
Affidavits ar@ being obtained from our Agents Sibert
and 0'Notll attesting to the accuracy of their report and
rcfuting Kellerman Sc that we will be in 3 position to show
any future inquirer that we recognized this contradiction and
did womcthing about it.
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Kouu'd_
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505
Rcviel Staff: 76 - 0 29 8 /1
11 March 1976
Mr William G. Miller
Stalf € Dircctor utr_
Sc lcct (ommittce To Study Governmenta]
Operations With Respect T0 Intelligcnce
Activities
Rooin G- 30 8
Dirksen Senate 0ffice Building
Wash ton , D C. 20510 Attn : Mr . Johnston
Dear Mr . Miller:
Lll:
In responsc to a request datcd 9 March 197 6 about
thc Oswald filc he ld by the- Agency , thc attached is
forwarded for your information
Sincerely
Ucstdlle _
Wa ltcr Flder
Review Staff
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Attachment to:
Review Staff: 76- 0070/1
1 The ` following CIA Staff Employees , al1 of whom
are nOw
retired, participated in the preparation of DIR
86054 on 30 November 1963 :
Originator: Mr Louis Armstrong
Coordinators: Mr _ John M. Whitten , Mr . William
B Tyng , Ms Sue L Darling
Authenticator: Mr . William B _ Tyng ("for"
Desmond FitzGerald)
Releasor: Mr _ John M . Whitten ("for" J.` C . King)
2 _ WVe believe that the Italian diplomat on the Cubana
flight No . 465 on 22 November 1963 from Mexico City to Havana ,
Cuba was Mario MAURI who was accompanied by his wife , Maria
Antonieta MAURI We have been unable to determine who trans 4
mitted the information contained in DIR 86054 to CIA and we
have not been able to locate any docunents relating to this
matter in Latin America Division files or the Oswald files
3 , We: have been unable to locate any documents which
would indicate that there was response to DIR 86054 from
Mexico City.
4 Assuming there was no /response to
DIR 86054 , the
originating Headquarters componenf should have initiated
follow-up action if a response was not received _
5 . We have been unable to find any further information
relating to DIR 86054 in Latin America Division files
RECET: <! FECSc
FEb 5 1976
Cia
SECREZ/STSIZIVI
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6 We do not have 3 copy of the Cubana manifest for
the 22 Novenber 1963 flight from Mexico City to Havana , but
Wve
have determined that the following persons Ivere on that
flight:
NAME
NATIONALITY OCCUPATION
Jakob ETT Swiss Diplomat
Hector LEMIEUX_ Canadian Unknown
Joseph POULIOT Canadian Unknown
Donald George CAMERON Canadian Unknown
Wvilliam POULIS Canadian Unknown
Thomas Clark OSULD Canadian Unknown
MCPHERSON Canadian Unknown
Dungan Canadian Unknown
Leo John DEST
Unknown
Thomas MURPHY Canadian
Arthuc EDMONDS British Unknown
James DISINOP British Unknown
Venancio OLIVAREZ Villaverde Spanish Unknown
Jose Luis CACHO y Barcha 'Spanish Unknown
David FLOR Lechago Spanish Unknown
Maria Antonieta MAURI Italian Unknown
Mario MAURI Italian Diplomat
Maarten Van DERPLAAT Dutch Diplomat
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HOTRS _ Yod MAY FROV IDE QUESTTONS To IEXICAM ITERRCGATORS BIT : DO NOT
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ARICANS BEHTND HER RZARREST _ @OTHER IORDS , TE HANT IXICAI AUTHQRITIES
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Comment: #Mexican authorities should interrogate Silvia Duran to
extent necessazy to clarify outstanding points which hawe been ratsed
MEXI may provide questions to Mexican interrogators, but does
not want any Americans to confront Duran or be in contact with her
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Lee Hzrvey Osvzli
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5o8 13 Octobef 1939
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UNITED STATES DE?:::TNE:T 0f JUSTECE
FEDERAL BURE U: 07 INYESTiC.TIo.
74sunctoy 25.D_ C.
June 9 , 1964
EY COIRIER SERVICZ
Zonorzole J: Lee Rarkin
General Couzsel
Tbe President'S Comnission
200 Uarjlard Avecpe Northezst
Nasjington, D. C .
20002
Zea? Mr . Rankin:
Your letter of Juze 1954, reguestizz su_zzri2s
cf =31 repor-S vito resard &0 ted n23ed rersoms jd certain
inforjation zegjrdizg +52
contact b7 Sp2cial igent Caerles T ,
Z1j0n Fith Jeck L. Rubj on
Harch 1l,.1953, is beremith
2creowledgea.
As you nere 2dvised by ny letter of febr_azt 27 ,
1354_ Jack Puoy 725
contacted by Specizl Agent Ca2rles %i _
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0f tha D2llzs 0zfice O1 Elarca 11, 1253
0
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the crisidal elzcent in Dzllas Tbe QupoSe 0z t2is contaci
to deteraice woetber or not Fuby did ave such kzowledse,.
735
if if be would be Tillicg to fizniso inforwatioa to
2ed
Euby 72s
advised Of
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tbis Eureau ,
a 9iili23023s tlizish
czijizal Dattars, 2ed je expressed
Apforatio. A
personal descriptlon 0f Ruoj wz5 ootezzed by
Sseciai Agent Flyon on the occasion 0z this cjztzct on
1959 but co
inforz2tion or other results vere
Earch
1 uzrzn 11,.1559 and Cctobzr 2 , 1959, Ru5t
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Ta? Fersonzl description 0f Ruby 25 obtaized" by
Szecizi Azeni Fljnj 02 Zarci 11, 1359 did 2ot !- itself contai_
tce reaerk "rjomm Dzll2s crijinal 9 This rec2rz Ti2s 2dd2d to
tra description by Specizl' Agect Louis 3 _ Zzlley 2t t2e €ize
woej he RaS 2ssisti23 i2 tbe preparation of th2 report 0f Special
Agent Jznjijz C . Clezenss 3t Dall2s cated #ozecber 30 , 1963
Zaclosed herenitb is the 2fficavit 0f Specisl Ag2nt Lcuis 1.
Kelley Jt Little Rock, Arkzcszs, :dated Jun? 4, 1964, setticg
forth his basis for 2dding: the rezark "kao Dall2s area
crioioal" to the description 0f Ruby as it appears io th2 report
of Special Agent Haajizg C: Clezents at D2llzs dzted fioyzmbar 30 ,
aj i0 tbe enclosuze +0 Dy letter to Jou Of April 7 1964.
2
The suaz2ries cozcerjing tje ten nzaed iwaivicuals i0
Your l2ttzr 0f Juza 1, 1964,
2fe currently beijg prepa-ed 32
7ill be forarded to Jou prooptly upo1 cozpletion-
Sincerely yours,
Hca-wj
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i3v27b27 1963 _ to
asist in the investigztion 0f the Js323siE2tion 0f ?resiceet
Jonn Zitzzerila {ecnedy 2rd felzted m2tt2rs. On or Jbout
foveroer 24 1933 I 12s assign2d to review Jll previously
eristi2g fil2s 2nd currznt inforaatioj as io Jack L Ruby ?rd
22 insert based on zuch 1il2 review for inclusioc
to Ffeparz
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17 2n
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Jhysicel descri?tion 2nd biogr2phical
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inforzation develoned 07
liovenber 24 1963_ I had before 02 2 & 6n2 tize I dictated
the insert
inzor_ition wbich had 022n 0oi1in2d 0n Xiovenoer
1953 , bw otter Special igents of the 731 2w2 iron ihe
Icentizicz-ion Division files 0f th2 Ca lls Police Depertzent_
0
7he Dillzs Police Departaeri recorzs, urcer Cailzs ?olice
30 . 22255 included inioriztion concernin? ~rrests
92 9Zubyez:
&ti.g iron februat; 4, 1949, to Earch 1963
In dictoting
the Dhysiczl descriotion 2nd biogrz2hic1l
dzta concerting Ruby I
possiblg incleced ucder the headiug
M 1| %nown
Dall2s
arej crizical, ss2d on tre f2ct I
"ad before
Nl 2
Ruby' s identificztion record Iron tie Dallzs
nad
which listed severil arrests irl t 1e Z2ll15
?olice Departaent,
Deen tne only thing on
which such 37
arej Tnis could have
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Notzry PubIic
Esie: ju. 22, %663
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Jl Washingten Werry 6;dIleund
FBl Withheld Data on JFK Slaying
Jack Anderson 'The confidential notcs qua,e pruinbled Hoover, how" could #ith all raw materials and
ane es Wlitten Toovcr aS instructing hc he sccuritv risk ? No i0- rcprts rclating to (he "ork of
7"
suhordinalles I0 gel the rev 'rt dication of violence s0 Iar aS lhe commission since Ihc (lalc ics (l27 1 6zoui of thc Justice
rlncat o( and all Thc FBI withheld from thc "before gcts back:
our records show Oswald any carlier reports.
Warren Commission hundreds Apparently the FBI chief
could have hollered false J Lee Rankin, the general
of documenls about the also feared Deputy ^ arrest if we had arrested counsel; followed up wilh 2
assassination of President Gencral
dcbopulydeBORc
him, 'Dear Edgar" letter lo , the
Kenncdy . zenbach might The FBI chief commentcd EBI chicf requesting the' [ull
Zcatapbrt birbre forwara with that Chief Juslice Earl files as promptly a3 These arc raw FBI files_ forwarding it
Warren. who headed the
possible But" were which the coimission to (he Warren Commission
commission, ncver delivered.
requcsted but nevcr rcccived, Hoovcr told his aides t0 alert "would have
A commission la
contain no startling President Johnson's major-
been Iirst one l0 holler" about
rem
wyer,
information that wil} overturn domo, Waller Jenkins Oswald's rights. Ihe
more
embchang those
thc commission'$ verdict; but "Let Jenkins know after criticism of the FBI, Hoover
told
7 decade ag0,
thcy revcal intimatcly how the report is Out 0f our hands 1}
commented: This is one of FOBd us; "Nobody ever got ihe
FBI handled ils most im- Hoover directed "Let Jenkins the rough ones. own files:" In 1963-6+,
know what Kalzenbach is
He felt, lherefore; that another stalf member pointed
porlant case. Presidcnt Johnson should out, the FBI "could do no
In thc margins ol somc Might cause delay.
have endorsed the FB[ report. wrong; so no one pressed Ioo
suppressed memos, the lale Must_ not consider any Presidcnt should have hard for their internal
FBI chief , J. Edgar Hoover, alleration.
backed up report; com-
records.
scribbled caustic coniments in Thirleen days afler plained {auuver "based Now 12 ~ears afler the
bluc ink; He was critical 0f President Kennedy was evidezze gathered
tbe 'Kennedy assassination, a
almost everyone involved in gunncd down in Dallas, FP;.
by [ascinating story is Sfill locked
the investigation, from Dallas Hoover delivered a detailed
In private remarks that
in FBI files awaiting a public
police chief Jcsse Curry to
rcport lo Katzenbach naming
were never intcnded to be rcopening: Wc will tell part of
Prcsident Lyndon Johnson. Lee Harvey Oswald as the; repealed outside his inner Ihe story in future columns.
Confidential notes kept by
assassin. Katzenbach kept it
circle, hc made deprecating Sen. Richard Schweiktr (R-
onc lop FBI official, for
four days belore submilting it
remarks not only ahout Pa.) , chairman 0 the Benate
cxample_ quotc Hoover a5
Io the commission;
Prcsident Johnson but about intelligence subcommittee
warning: Johnson
The crusty old G-man was Scn; Barry Goldwater (R invesliga the
bccome very dictatorial. We
furious at the Dallas police
Ariz.) who was thcn assassination, is seeking the
inust kecp our guardup.
chiess meanwhile lcaking
preparing to run against LBJ Iull story from the FBI.
slory Ihat the FBI had [or the presidency. Footnote: FBI spokesmen Sources {amiliar wilh the invesligated. Oswald but had sloutly defended the FBIs suppressed documents say the failed lo alcrt the Secret
"'Goldwater has no sound
conlents were summarized Servicc. advisers around him, Hoover findings and Ihe thoroughness
and submilled t0 Ihe Warren "This is the lowest level in noled_ But his comment on
of the investigation,
Commission But therc were history of Bureau since [ have Johnson was more deadly: conceded that informative
some subtle_ perhaps been director Hoover
"LBJ's specches are dull, and "deliberative" memos
delilerate, omissions, lamented, The Warren Commission were not given t0 the com- according lo the adopted a resolul
mission But "everything (
Thc documents show that confidential notes. meanwhile, needed was given them. They
Hoovcr brought pressure on He conlended that ' Oswald
calling (or 'the
had all wanted to make his subordinaies l0 rush out a had never been scen with
raw materials upon which
thejr
preliminary report on the FBI firearms, had writlen no hate reports given to the com-
hei,united Feain dynaks=
investigation before the lelters against U.S leaders mission are based, together Syndicafee Inc.)
murdered President' s As a former defector, hc also
brolhcr, Robert F, Kennedy, kncw he was a marked man
returned to his desk a8 whom the FBl was wa tching;
Atlorney General. "With that background,'
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Contact Covered
Andcreon
1 fhe and Lcs Whiltcn (150 Shanklin (elcphoned Ial suimary of Oswald '
The late J. Edgar Hoovcr , Dallas police and
hc notebook_ The summary But in a later letter t9 Ihe
hisZeal (0 prolccd hisoeloved
whether y
codlda$ed Conveniently omilted the
April
Commission,
dated FBI, engineercd & covere-upaz licipale in the tion
that Hosty'$ name, telephone ca
6,, 1964,
stated
years ag0 to keep the Hosty 'later questioned
and license tag had been In Che
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Itegorically: 4 wish to Commission from Oswald at police
nolebook evalhabize "ihat#the.sact?
about the ties between FBi ters, Oswald, who had been commission found out lable t0 the FBI con-
agent James Hosty and oul calm_ suddenly about the omission and prior
Lee Oswald '
assassin Lee Oswald. me agitated, 'Iknow
demanded an explanation Oa
not
lo the assassination did
The formidable you he shouted. 'I
Jan_ 27 1964 , Hoover was
indicate i#any way inatdid
whose
had you! You're lhe One who &c- acknowledged that Hosoves Fresident ateaned
0 6o become a national symbol af costed my wife twicel 99
name had been in the 9$
law and order, intervencd. The incident
notebook The truth is, of
personally when the however, passed The G-man alo gave what the FBI had
that
Commission t0 zero in of the
ihrcholnany "ertion purporled (o be & fuil account Gramatic evidence leseceaved
on tening letter , of FBI's contacts with week before the
than &
Now_ 12 years later ,
Ofshe Ds confided i% a friena Oswald The last contact; ha that Oswald
assassination
has admilted Dallas police force; Lt. reported, had been on prone:
was violence-:
destroying
a Jack Revill, that ihe FBI had 1963, "We did not
10,
Oswald deli which a file on Oswald. Revill Oswald in
interview On April 24 the Dallas
office
ivered to the FBI repeatcd the conversation Texas, or in News reported
in Dallas a few superior who
lo & Texas, prior to the had tola the Dallas
Jefore shooting Presideve
put it in
ordered him lo assassination ' 0r President lieutenant Jack police
John F Kennedy
Kennedy , PB added. the FBI
Revili " that
November , 1963 , The
in "Special Agent Interestingly, he used the "capable' 9}
knew Oswald was
threatened to blow uphne FAG relaled t0 this Officer. word "our' to describe the
theaPzesidentof
'office and Dallas police
Revill
the
last contact with the FBI, Bue
im headquarters if Hosly didn't
Federal
of
on Feb. 6, in a sworn affidavit, word to the sent
his wile.
Subestigation wasaware of the changed the mission that Com-
The FBI should have`
subject ( Oswald) and that in 8 curious way . He swore "Talse" and 'the a3
Dotified 'he Secrer Servaice had information that this that Oswald thad
no contact
aterd oltoved up three
that Oswald, a misfit who hae subject was capable 0f
with FBI 'agents" 9} after
ietter deleereathy a personal
(hreatened violencc,
was in
cPriiting Khe asspasinatio 10, 1963. "Special
by courier.
the Dallas area The Secret
of Presideni Kennedy:s'
It Is now known; unequevocallyA genti Hosty
Service routinely would €erve was when he that Oswald of course; radellne deateen ever
checked his whereabouts
learned of loose talk:
FBioilice id Dalesreew dahe
in
Uthe stateicent e,
thepresidential visit,
nolcs
to confidentia]
before ICeein aSsalsinaeor_ Jeotced =
the FBI _
article:.
This might have saved
taken at the
the that just as
tion At ~CSpreiahe ge dioscyoro
President Kennedy s lifes {izzleastgI caiet complained he did not speak with said, out that prior
points
When the FBI learned that a had "diarrhea 0f 04 agents. But he any FBI assassination of to the
suspect named Lee words But the old mah, ah FBI
recepteospoke wih John Fitzgerald President'
Oswald had
picked up,
YOvbe Felcser
sought to cover passed on his
Fepesening {over haderald ieoredtion:
Hosty reminded his boss
FBI' s embarrassment. to the agents. note
potentia]
tion
Gordon Shanklin; that he nad BaVe the 23, 1963, (he FBI Fetis imposisible to know on the
"perpodentiee Yofere;
Warren Comnission & suhether the late FBi chder Oswald.
switched the word
There'$ more to Hoover'$ "our"; to 'agents" in order to great cover-up, which we' U hide his 'ledge of
report in a future column;
Oswald' $ violent threat United Syndicste Ine
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course ,
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began
the Hosty; Hosty
Hosty
Aug:
threa tening note,
Dallas,` Morning_
[rving: Hosty
days
wriling: Hoover
Hosty
assassinating
wrote, "that Hoover tely media Bureau
Warten Hoover stop ' bothering wording
Story
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days
Aug:
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Hosty's
According during days
lime, time, Hoover Hosty
Hosty
Harvey who been
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Dec .
Harvey
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IC nrlcd In havc cookcd "p 3
cqunecrplst "zainst P'rcsidcut
Kcnncdy.
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hamcd Frcsilcmi lobnsan 0
mCiO rcposiin; Ihal Cahan
Icadcrs hil hej"a ;ar Kennc-
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thou;ht tho dctaulx ctc {0
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0 6 nicmm1o 'mcaningless.
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Somnc Rourccs considcr Roh-`
crt Kcnmcily' s beharior allcr tho assinjtinn Io he sicmii:
cani, Ma sccfne Io hc lormenlcd, s", by morc
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nwurdlcr 0( !is brotncr.
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#lo Kol inlorma!wn cicl:
Iy Koin Kenncale cotrolled
Soiitces porita}s Ininb 0 ; chracler of (rani (lrin;
thos0 traric dl,: mjt othcrs had 3 Jiliercnt mp'ressinn.
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Jack: Anderson L Qct.7/21
Did the Castro Plot Backfire?
The Jate Rohert Kcnnccly
#a5 tor- mented by thc :crrihle thousht, aC: knew hin At cortling t? intimales, (lal he may irc
only tas he [ully aiore of thc CIAfs
stances chl
#nclcrstvodl thc cir ith
hclped trigzer thc assaSsination 0f hig
Ilamcdl
emoush _ {o rcalize he
brother:
himsclt C01 his hrother s Cewln (Hlempus to Iill Gustro, bul after Presidlcnt
'Therc was littlc couht, they SW it Tc raiscd {his possibility in Janunry hc helievcd {he CIA's allcmpls ;36
1971, #hcn wc Iirst rcvcnled that Uhe
Kennedy
1cals Casiro put into mation the forces thzt
CIA had plotted (o assnssinale Cuban
gumnecl dloicn in Dullas, Robert
hrought abuut his brothers mrtr Premier Fidel Castro, It has taken uS
dlom
4' ycars to gct the rcst of the story.
Kenncdly irus glevastated by (he pussibility Ilat
On January 13, 1971, Trc reportcd:
Loval associales 0f Robert Kcnnedy, : those privy to the CI: cJf- rushing to defend his memory, have
thc CIA plot may hate backfired
cion"cunshororiedii!
3 nagzing aspi-
SOrn that hc knew noth:ng about {hc
(gainst his
5nogjo""ssKPorte] b" thc Warren Coni:
#ssassination attempts and; contratlic-
brother _
amarc
'85 {iheingss_;blo Castro bcc3mg
torily, that kc put
7 to them; Both and
the U.S. plot Mpon his life
accoints 2re incorrcct,
somchow recruitcd Oswald 10 rc-
sources Iith
according t0 ialiate agninst President Kcnncay
tha crents.
an ictimate knowledlse 0f
IL has Moi bcen discloscd ilat
Not only ws he fully
aciivitics Jginst Castro.
Onc in:ider; within rinze 08
Warren Commission "as toldl
Hoihihg
CI: 's wirare f thc former Dcplily Dcfense Sccretary ]es;
about
Castros movcments, ahout thc CH's plot to kill Catro attcmnpts to Kill Castro, hut after well Gilpairic, told us the focus 'on
March 1, 1363: @rch 1 hough the late Allen Dulles, Prcsident Kennecy
#s guned clown thc Cuban situation" W35 Ieusificcl The Cuban premicr_ in an interriciv CI: chief #ho initiated the the
ix Dallas , Robert mas derastaled by 1261 ai Robert Kennedy'$ in wiih Associaical Press corresoncnt thc commizsion:
plot, sa: on
#e Doss:b;lily tiat thc CJA" plot may Thc Presidcnt eveue
"iusistence Danicl Harker thc folloing Scpten} According Ivc backfired aginst his brother: in charge of a tually pat Iohert bcr; warned that U.S lceders WOulel
to thc final rcport, ihc
Thc preparations to knock Off Castro miltcc,
collcdcolhecr SneciScrcy com- find themsclves in dangcr if they' at
co5oissicc
of
investigated "literally .oz
hcgan the lzst months #hich concentraledl
Special Group, temptedl to do away iith Cuhan Jead:
allezalions of a conspiratorial
Eisenhowcr of the upon harassing ers_
contact heticen Oswald and the Cuban
arlministration as part: of Castro, Onc member; fornicr CIA chicf
United {orcramcnl" but. found no substance the of Pigs planning: Presicent John McCone, Jckroiricdzcd (hat
the
States lceders shonld think
lo aIy of them: Kennedly, #ho inheritedl the fiasco, Sroup had "direeted that if are aidling {crrorist plans
The #fore 10 Iricadls afterward lhat he against Castro
dke nischiatous to eliminate Cuhan leadlcrs; thcn-
Cuthzn Prcmier himself, in an in
would like splinter thc CIA in saboieurs, hlowing (p
Infiltraling sehes #ill not be sfe,' Castro told;
terriew "ith Frank Mankicwicz 2nd
{housand pieces and scatter it
a 503Cn ecnoranzontusiodges ad
car Harker: Kirhy Joncs, emphatically dlenicd h3c
winds
to the ion: Two months anything to do withn thc Kenncds- cCone insisted, howeier, that "the
"cdv
President Ken" aszassination:
Instead, he appointed his hrother;, Sroup at no time gave any conlsidera:
"as shot dlown in the streets of
'It is
Robert, to orersec the CI:, with in-
tion t0 any assassination plot
Dallas. The accuscd assassin, Lee Har- man Oswald,
interesting that this
structions t0 shake it hare establishcd that We "ey Oswald, hdl bcen ative in
who was inrolred in tieg
elly, Robert "p_ Characterisli-
action plan"
the 'exccutive pro Castro morement and had trarcled assassination trarcled to Mcxico & {cwa
investigat= the was directed by Willian lo Merico to "sit months prior to the assassination and6
unlcrcorer operations from top (0 bot Harrey the CI: opcrative shon Je 3
wcakSocarsierthc Cuban cmbassy applicd for a permit at thc Cuban en His purpose #as t0 prevcnt an-
linked io thc assassination plolon
our The first bassy to travcl to Cuba, and 5 Other Bay of Pigs origimal 1971 slory mre also
person {0 rcach Robert not given the permil; sait
"st
He became fascinated, learned that he rcported to the lato
Kennedys :ide Aller ihc shooting Ws
But 1
ask %eclfithyai ouasira_ 4
sources, with sJy our Desmond Fitzgcrall in CI.A CIA director John McCone, Iho re: who commits a mana
the CIA's ccvert aclivi- ters. We have
headlquar: mained alonc with Robert at his Mc
such an act try to comc tics. Eagerly, he pursucd the details becn unable; how;ercr; to Lean, home for
hcre_ Sometimes re ask oursclres if
throuzh the lowcr-levels 45 one
idenlify thc next link in the chain of Al others.
ncarly thrce somconc tlid not Wish to inrolve Cuba
surcc put il, "He Was likc
a wide eyed
command. hoicss, merc Olerca iaudBiz Robcrt's in hceause I am under ( impres-
schoolboy:' ~everthcless, "holly reliahle sources
siore to
3way. But MeCone sion that Kennedy's assassination was
In the process, hc learned
insist that Robert Kenncdly Knew ncier
US thal Castro's mame ias organized by reactionaries in the
continuing eflort to about thc about the plot against Castro
and did three
nctioned Luring the gonizing
United States and that it was all a re:
eoperation
"Korowt? Slinaqakc 8;lrg nothing to stop it: The intendcd tar Other sult of,a conspiracy IFe have nevrer
"cxcculire
the CI:] 35 get, Fidel Casiro_ also knew about it sotrccs say that' Robert, bcliercd jn carrying out this aclion plan In fact; One assassination squad
deeply despondent; "ent into semi-se;
0f activity of
3ss stination (p3
!obert took 9 special interest in the was apprehended
reportedly _ clusion for the next [cw AL adversaries 3
of
on a Iarana roof though he hottled up his Icclings, thcy
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Jack Andergon end _Leg Whitten
CIA Withheld Data in JFK Probe
After President John E; Kennedy - 1982. Yet neither Kennedy nor Hoover gan, has waived the was struck down on Nov. 22, 1983, the later divulged this important informa-.
Eag promisivedtmhe contidentlality we
Central Intelligence. Agency received tion to the Warren Commission
evidence suggesting that Cuban Pre
Of course; various CIA officials also Morgan told US bn January, 1987,
mier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi:
knew about the assassination scheme
about tbe CLA-Mafia assassination plot
nation i retaliation tor: attempts on
Not the least 0 tbem was the late CLA
against Castro: He raised the possibi;
hie life:
chiet Allen W: Dulles;, wbo approved Ity that the plot could have backtired,
Yet sources privy t0 the secret dis-
the original He later served on
against President Kennedy. There
cussions at the highest levels Of the
tbe Warren
Ebanmuessaoe;
yet he sat were suspicious circumstances, be CLA during those bectic now tell silently throughout the_investigation
pointed out, indicating that Castro
us that the CLA deliberately withheld] without mentioning the Cuban angle: may bave learned o the attempts o
tbe evidence trom the Warren Com-| his lite and May have retaliated
mission investigating Kennedys death Within bourz 0 President Kenne against Kennedy.
Our souces cite two reasong {or dy's death; the U.S: embassy cabled in- Morgan refused to identify hig
bolding back this evildence: One was & tormation Irom Mexico suggest; sources because It would have violated
resolve to cover Up the secret that the that tbe Cubans may bave beed be the attorney-client privilege But be
CLA had enlisted Mafia mobsters to kill hind the assassination: Our sources say was an attorney O such stature that
Castro: tbat the.CLA developed gimilar Infor we didnt doubt hls word He bad been
There also was a legitimate concern mation in Washlngton chief inspector Of the FBL He had di-
that the Castro revelations might in" The Iirst t0 reacb Robert rected the bistoric congressional inves
Ilame tbe American people; wbose
Kethedirstidersoer tGe eacbtingbers
tigation Of the Pearl Harbor bombing:
griet could have turned into a terrible CLA Director John A McCone; wbo re Later; he ran the investigation into the
wrath that might bave precipitated mained alone with tbe Attorney Gen- excesses 0f the late Sen: Joseph McCar:
sone rash action: eral at his ' McLean, bome or tby
Only 2 few people knew: about nearly tbree hours We got Morgan's permission; to tbe CiA plot to assassinate Castro. One McCone swore to uS that Castro's write a cautious story: We confirmed
wag Attorney General Robert F. Ken- name was never mentioned during the the general outlines from a CIA
nedy: who was his brother'3 personal three bours But CIA records Show ource_ Then on March 3, 1967, we watchdog over the CA It bas
dow that the' next day . McCone Dot only wrote that Robert Kennedy 'may have
been established that Robert Kennedy mentloned Castro to the new Presi- approved an assassination plot , which
was brleted on May 7, 1962, about the dent; Lyndon B Johnson; but briefed then possibly backfired against his late
attempt to use underworld kdllera to hm On the information Irom Mexico brother _
bnock OIf Castro: Clty: The next day, according to records
Two days later, Robert Kennedy cau- Yet no one brought the Cuban Dow available, Kennedys secretary tioned tbe CA not to g0 ahead with connection t0 the attention Of the War called for a copy' Of the 7 1962, tbe assassination without consulting ren Commission We were the first to memo, which summarized the briefing
bim; Since Robert Kennedy rode herd get word of the anti-Castro plot to be bad received on the assassination on the CIA, it must be assumed that he Chief Justice Earl Warren, the com- plot:
wae kept advised Of subsequent assassi: mission chairman, four years later. On March 7, 1967 , we pation attempts: However; there is no We are now tree to reveal our role details:
rcheported ce Fep0 tedG89t8
documentary evidence of tbis in the drama Two of our confidentia] assassinate Cuba's
plan in 1983 to
Records now available show tbat sources; CIA agent William Harvey wrote;
Fidel Castro;' We
Robert Kennedy informed FBI chiel J and mobster John Rosselli, are dead A
may have resulted in 3
Edgar Hoover O the plot on 10, third source; attorney Edward P. Mor-
foesicenlot by Castro to assassinate
Kennedy.
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TE HASWGTO Tueadas; Scpainlr ;, 1976
POST G1O
Juck_Anderson_wud Les_WhiLlew
Behind Tohn F Kennedy's Murder
Mafla mobster Jobn Roselli may They_were under the loose control
bave taken the secret o the John F_ 0l Florlda s Mafia chieftan;
In a impromptu, tbree-hour inter-
Kennedy assassination with him to bis Tralficante His
Santos view witb Associatled Press reporter
death: He was brutally murdered a
{ralvantehads beenbdiosec dorpzise/ Daniel Harker, Castro indicated that
few weeks ag0, his backed-up body Castro after tbe
e9s9lceedldion b he knew about the attempts On his life
stuffed into 3 0l drum and dumped
fact, Trafficante bad
revolution In and warned that U.S: leaders also
into Miamis Blscayne_ period In a
Cubbad becn odadgoilv might not be sate. That was Sept:
Before he died, Roselli hinted to a5- tbat didn't endear
jail, an indignity 1803.
sociates that hc knew who had ar-
Atfed Trandeat Cmace t8 back Accordlng to Roselli, Castro enlisted
ranged President Kennedys murder. Florlda
made it back to his the same underworld elements whom
It was the same conspirators, he
haunts; he left part 0 his or. be bad caught plotting against
gested, whom he bad recruited sug- ganization behind in Havana. Some of
supposedly were
him;
to kill Cuban Premier Fidel
earlier hls benchmen even managed
to de the old Trafiicante
Cubans from
By Roselli"s cryptic
Castro. contacts in Castros inner circle with Cuban
organization:
learnedosee identYNtc deourderCzoria Tbese were the people Roselli wanted
'allegedly lined up an
intellacencsh
contacts in Havana wbo bad been
to use to knock off Castro shooter,Lee Harvey Oswald,
trying to knock him Off, He But Roselli didn't have the stature been active in {hey procldurwbaovd
not altogether without
believed, inside the Mafia to make Lhe necessary
ment. move {dni oeetbey withoet inaishetpopres arrangements with Trafficante So According to Rosellis
The Cuban leader, as the
plot: Roselli called in bis_patron; tbe Chi:
Oswald may have shot
version;
decided"eadeurna {beeablesrene {geaodia heaficanteomo) Giancana,
may have acted as 3
tecoyernid ox8r
use the sme crowd to arrange Kcn-
dealoselh 'Srassociates ers amhushed hlm (rom closer range
nedy's aSsassinatlon; according t0
suaded?Geducansociates ewouidoeeo Whed Oswald was picked up, Roselli
Roselll's scenario; To save their skins, thelr ad
tbat it wouid be to suggested _ the underworid conspira-
tbe-plotters lined up Lee Harvey Os
tbetradvarogeincedn Giarcodawilee; tors Ieared he would crack and
dis- wald to pull tbe trlgger:
devTIo rlciincenaGeatte p_ flew close Informatlon tbat might lead to
Roselll could never be pinned down pary arrangements
tbe prelmj: tbem: Thls almost certainly would
on names or detajls. It was also diffi Oce Giancana and Trafflcante set it bave brought a massive U,S. crack-
Eult to assess whetber be knew wbat up; Roselll used the Havana under-
down 0n the Mafia.
he was talking about
Or whether he world to plot Castros demise At first; So Jack Ruby was ordered lo
merely dcscribed wbat he thought tried to_plant poison pills,
sup Inate Oswald, making it elim-
migbt have happened Certainly there plied by the CIA, in Castros food. The acr o reprisal "gaing ihe peesiden:s
is no real evidence to support Rosellis pills would bave made it appear that Adieo. reptesat aGainst hbe Frosederxs
story. But tbere arc enough curious he died % natural causes When ibis plaetedtheexsgediy I DailasRoselli ex:
circumstances to justify Jt. Here failed, snipers were dispatched to a Several CIA Officials beliered
are the fascina bighlights. Havana roofe were caught: tbat Castro was bebind the Kendedy
The ruggedly handsone Roselli,
a
The word reached Roselli that some aseassination:
flamboyant mobster With underworld ot tbe_plotters had been tortured and
It bas also been established
contacis In Havana, was recruited by
that Castro had . learned about the
"{ndecdeeacsteelished bbt Jand
thie Central Intelllgence Agency in
whole Zeraaicea had connectionsad teetavaGubnded
1960 t0 assassinate Castro. ile had no
tion in
called Oft the Roselli opera- world One CIA cable, dated Nov_ 28, authority, however;
over tbe under-
March, 1963, but ecruited
a 1963, reported that world elements In Havana Castro_ assoclate Rolando Cubela, to
gangster type named
American
murder Castro Ruby" had vis-
ited Trafflcante in his Cuban prison
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TIE WASHINGTON POST Frldoya Auguse 27, 1976
Jack Anderson_and Les Whitten
Smudge Only Clue in Rosselli Case
It was & grlsly end for John Rosselll Iidence; %0 be came to trust 48: We gave' Information; , according 'to our
tbe dapper; debonair mobster about were tbe only reporters be would talk sources; which resulted In a grand Jury
town; wbo had been & tamlllar (igure to. confrontation tor Tony Accardo Te
In tbe gllttering spots ot Holly: So wben he vanlsbed last month bis surly mobster took tbe IUtb: But Ac
wood; Las Vegas
a8hi
Havane assoclates came to UB Ior belp: We cardo grumbled to associates tbat be
His killers shot or stabbed hlm in the were guapicious; 0 course, that bis dls; would Ouddezy _ back Rogselli eome
stomach: The autopsy Indicates they appearance wag Iinked t0 the Castro wee also blamed tor passtng
may bave gbot him and then dug out caper, But our Investigatlon bas nOW inlormatlon to the government; which
the bullet with & knite: Then they bru- produced evldence to the contrary; led t0 the conviction 0 Detroit mob
tally backed otf hls It Is possible We have learned, %or example; tbat ster Antbony Zerllu He [s now servlog
that be was Btu] alive wben they Rosselll was not the amiable; retired_ 4 tour-year sentence at Sandstone {ed"
stufted bis body into & 55-gallon drun old duller he pretended to be. He be eral penitentlary {Or recketeerdng:
They wrapped cbalns eround the: gan In the blg time &4 @ bookkeeper Ior Perbapa the last stree wes Roaselll"8
drum t0 welght It down and tossed It Chicagos notorlous Al Capone and be testtmony In the Castro case He Identt
Into Biscayne Bay; The autopsy sug: came 0 specialist bn whlte collar {led two mobsterg; the ate Sam Glan-
gests he may bave dled of asphyxiatlon 'crimes: It'e 8 protesslon; apparently, cana and Santo Traltlcante as being
ingide the drum before It blt tbe wa" tbat he never gave up: involved In tbe aggaesinatlon attempts:
ter. The gases trom tbe decomposing Competent bourced bay tbal be It'e nO gecret In the underworld thet
body Iloated the heavy container to tweed rounds on tbe Florida Traftlcante detests publicity:
tbe suriace: It was dlscovered, with Its 'courges, Rosselll was lvolved Ia stolen Our sources belleve that the Mefle
@gbtmarlsh contents 10 deye after 'gecurltles and IInencal gwlndles.` Hls bosges IInally became Seauia witb Roz
Rosselli bad disappeared trom ble sb , 'operatlong_reportedly were. resented A ,8ebl His ' execution bave re
er s home in Plantation; Fla: by Santo Traflicante; wbo hee been quired the approval 0 the top leaders
The pollce withheld the gruesome jdentiled In Senate testimony & the our sourceg say, because It was almost
detalle 02 hls deatb whle tbey Malla chlet In Florlda certaln to bring the tederal govern-
searched for his killers We began our Rosselll came t0 Florida Irom Las ment Into the case:
own investigation, meanwblle; atter an wbere be allegedly represented Wbo were tbe viclous killers? The
appeal trom his assoclates tbe Chicago riob Our sources say that only clue Is & Imudge spot on tbe win
We Iirst encountered Johnny Rob he bandled mIllons in Illegal gambling dow 01 Rosselll'8 car. One 0f bls ascal-
gelll more than Iive ag0. We: money, which he lorwarded t0 the ant probably had 8 greasy hatr
were investigating bls role In the Cen- Chicago underworld: There are Te pomade:
tral Intelligence Agency'= plot to &88a8 ports that Chicago crime lord Tony Ac:
8inate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro: cardo Ielt be had beea bbort-changed
The CZA case Olficer, Willlam Harv: by Rogselll:
ey, told us that Rosgelll bad been the Stil earller, Rosselll spent time i
bero 0t the ebortive adventure: tbe glammer, lirst, tor extortlon and,
Harvey broke hls oath 0 secrecy be later {or @ card gwindle: Those wbo
cause he thougbt It might help Rossel: know bim say he had developed & taste
w; wbo was Jn trouble with tbe law. Ior tbe good Ilte: He dressed in tbe lat;
The CLA bad nothing but est gtyles, dined at the best restaurants
Ior Rossellle daring and dated beauttul womed: Te
In the strictest 0 conlidence, Ros thought 0l going beck W prison,
selll hlmselr contirmed that be bad d: Iriends s8y, borrified him:
rected six aesassination attempts To avold prison; he began to talk to
against Castro We protected bls con- tbe government & early & 1970 He
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1 JE WASHINGTON POST Tuesday, Feb.23,1931 114 {uslro Stallser WW
rled for tlte CIA
Jack |andorsan_ Job hy Robert Maheu, & for
JbeW
The mystcrylan whom the
mer FBI #gent Fho adnlttod |cayalles "ith deadly polson | Is stiu on the CIA payroll:
Central Intelllgence to u8 that he had handled UD` wach be trled| Both admltted to
W8 0 trlend:
recrulled
Aubey dercover assignmendn through % reltlve o Ceatro? fhip wlth Rosell_but refused
to a8sasalnate Cuba':|CLrc tor the/cbe: t0 plant Iu the dletator-o dlscus: ibeir CLRucteiuea
Fldel Castro been Jald uP|CscusHebee ieedishcheves; rekkood'
marksmen Harvey cald he had # Oughles
In the slck ward of the Los tbe detalis Thls [ the wtb blgh-powerea" arzed |gard" for: Rosel and
Angeles County Jall iame Minveolveccldent uy"heka attenpteet Belzhu #/theFrir: citeucasad %tlea
He Is handsome, hawk-{aced nom Involved In & legai bat- |closa
cdouca
to. Infultate |rap::
Said Harvey: John Roselll, once 8
dashfeg/ Ho over Phanton bulionatre (down to, Eua Castro|friare
Club
"Tho
erroundG lollywoodhnd/Htonard Hugbea' Nevazaopere
'Alltold gr a88a5inatiod
pbor:RGeli hndleo_eore %
yearold
now 0 gray, 68 Rogell was
Kecpua~ervFade; inotion Ika Rriti that thana f na"S
Inmate wlth & respira:
aaked
50 flattered over /tho rlng o
1883; . Through"| Roselll'& Jawyere ere Dow allment
cret misaton
to periorz # slout thliperlod Roceui nuedkizvhs: t0 get clemency" for Conirdeatial FBI #lles Iden-(cretnent Ior the US: gov-|uader te: dlrect; tbelr cllent' clting our
tlfy
18
hlm 89 *a Mafia tout ho Peld u hikgzueo AecedCI^ #goetav Wor: (about hus seccet CEA uer"tceie
ure sho watched over
expenses out o2 ble owz | Mam aeonte, WIk:
concealed Interests In
Enaekpocethand ciskea hia neci te/jin? OCondeuand Janea Firearms Fiasca
Zaslnos o the Chlcagc|ond the assassinatlon teama
underworld. 00 on the Cuban coast Roeelli' 2 Under pressure trom the
Roselll hes admltted to
In James. Bond {ashlon; be
The-
0 Reward flrearma lobby, the Treasury
trlends that he was & FUfd rutc held_ whlspered meetlnga ln |tbe
EBIizalcb%ot]wind '% Department has falled ea
ner during the Roaring Twen- Miaml Beach hotels with Cu; dhied %opumptioloE plot ' has force
8 vital
ena
Ues. Operatlng Rhe Eest | bana. willing to make 80 et
Pumap Rosein ior Jn:/1968 sectlon , o tha
Coast, he learned how to evade tempt On Castro's Ilfe fo,iezot But be was gworn federal flrearms act.
Coast Guard cutters
and po
he called On Chlcago racket "llence by the CIA and up The law was passed afler Uce patrols. boss Sam Glancana to lind W Jenhte moment, he basn t bro |the murdere ot Sen: Robert
His neme later bccame 2 contact The confldentlal Kennedy and Dr Martln Lu: linked Rith the bIGgest namee files report that
bad
Mearwhlle; the. Justlce De
ther It authorizes Je tha Chicagee IndEEot mnte: |Eeresbling rntere _ "rangtad %ortmevs 88 Part 0t Ite crack- Treasury Secretary t the
leg underworids . He
alsonde: | tcrest in,the shrim? buslness triea On ORoaetid ueire|Fileportsorelatrearreguna
veloped contacts In the Cuban |In Cuba' F0 However, the Chi: t0 nal 0inFBi|ammunition sales_
underworid before Castro took/cago gangster took
noedirec-|dirtcoveecor that
3
Cilicego For the two years that the
over the Havana gambling ca- part In the assassination plot
tbee
records had_ forged, law has . been In force, slnos: Roselll mede mlanlght bla name Wa8 reall) Fi Treasury Department the
He had the rlght
back-| dashes t Cuba wlth hls hired] and that he had nored this
Proeisiona The
ground for 0 hush-hush mis
assassing In twln powerbored |jone to thls_ country Iram gun Inde
The
slon that the CIA wag plan-
Once 0 Cuban 'patrol
abipk ictec 28 e chlld, He wab con-/it would be 8
complained
ning In 1981. Aa
part oDtae: | turned Its 8uns on
672, daxl? |ucticror to regleter e |nightmare.
bookkeeping
%t Pigs Invaslon, the CIA ened boat, tore 8 bole ;Ln the
@Ridlen_
The federal government hoped to knock %ff Castro and| bottom and sank the boat Ro Fas also convlcted for]whlch would have t0 complle;
leave Cuba leaderless; selll wag flshed oue ol the @t
cnsplracy to rlg card games] all the sales has also} csatereb7ihe %ther boat Ohlce #tiarloc Angelee- excluslve| been reluctant to spend the (Rieks Ncck escaped Into the shadows
Of
0 Club. 8100 million It would cost
Roselll was rccruited for the In earlier columns,
Vo re:
eldes Riaevey CIA asso-|computers and staff to malnt ported how the CIA furpisbed / t Harvey has retlred/teln the firearms files Indlanapolis and O'Conneld_
1971, Bell-McClure Byndlcate In
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'{YI9qu Waslaiuxtag Herry-Go-Edweaa TTIF WASIINGTOV POST Tuesdoy, Jan, 19_ 1031 Dls
Castro Plot Iaises 'Jgly QQuestions
By Jack iLuderaon _ behind the Trujillo and Diem ment and had traveled to|sion, there wa 0 wide Dpec:
assassinations. Mexlco t0 visit tbe Cuban/trumm ot]plans randng Irom
The . plot to kill Cubad dic
3. Did the late Robert Ken-(Embassy 8 Iew weeks before/one extre m 0 t] another;'
tator Fidel Castro, hidden torknedy know about the assassina-|tbe
dreadsul day Jn Dallee McCone admltted. "Whedever
10 years from the publlc, raises/tion attempts? After the Bay Could Bob Kennedy have/thls subject (assasslnatlng Cas
some ugly questions that hlgh(ot fiasco, Pregident Ken-(been plegued by the terriblegtro) w88 brought UP_804 Jt
officials would rather keep nedy
swore to frlends he/thought that the CIA plot, was S't was rejected Jmtc
huried dcep inside the Central which be must at least have
would like spllnter the CIA condoned, Into
motlon| dletely on two grounds Flit,
Intelligence Agency.
In 8 thousand picces,and scat (forces that may have broughthIt would not be condoned Bv
1. Has the CIA tried to as-/ter It'to the wlods" 98 He about hls brother'8 martyr |anybody _ Second, It wouldn t
sassinate any other leaders? his brother, Robert, in charge/dom?
have achleved anythlog: 0 John McCone; who headed thelof the CIA wlth Instructlons Tbe_last gurvlving brother; |
CIA during the six attempts/to shake it up. The CIA madelsen: Ted Kennedy (DMaesl There was al8o talk ln hlgb
to knock off Castro, denied|five attempts on Castros Ite/could give W9 00 Insight His (places; McCone acknowledged,
emphatically that the CIA has/after the Bay' 0 Plge wblle/brothers hed never spoken tokot' supporting 3 coup to oust
tfied to kill anyone But ex-| Robert Kennedy wa rdlng/hlm about any
assessinatlon| Dlem: The {ormer CIA di:
Sen. Gcorge Smathers, one oflherd on. the agency. attempte agalnst Castro, hefrector eald he bed argued
John F Kennedy's closest 4 Could the plot against(said. He was aware he volun-|against thls at & secret sesslon
friends, told us the late Prest-|Castro have backflred agalnst (teered, only that Sen; Smath-| wlth both Kennedy brothers:
dent suspected that the CIA President Kennedy? The latefers had talked to the Iate] He bad contended that there
had arranged the shootings o President Wab murdered nine|President about eliminating Was no one strong enough to
Ihe Dominican Republic's Ra- months after the last assasst-|Castro. take Dlem's place end that 8
[ael Trujillo in 1961 and South/nation team wag caught on 8
Smathers told us that Presl-|coup , theretore;_ would bring
Vietnam'$ Ngo Dinh Diem infHavana rooftop with high-|dent Kennedy seemed "horri-| "poiitical upheaval:
1963. powered rifles: Presumably,|tied" at the Jof . polltlcal "I told the President and
2 Did President Kennedy they were subjected to flend: A Kemember| Bobby together; recalled Mc-
personally sanction the plot/ish torturcs until they told all/him saying recalled Smath-| Cone; "that It [ were running
against Castro? The prepara-| they knew None of the assas-|ers, "that the CIA frequently 8 baseball team and had only
rations t0 assasslnate the Cu-|sination leams_ however; had |did things he dlan t know one pitcher I wouldn" take
ban dictator hegan during the direct knowledge o the CIA/about, and he was
unhappy/him out %f the game
last months ot the Eisenhower Involvement The CIA Instl-|about It. He complained that The November; 1963 , coup
administration as part of thefgators had represented them-|the CIA wa8 elmost
autono-|caught the United States com-
Bay of scheme. All six |selves a8 oilmen seeking re-|mous. pletely by surprise , he sald:
attempts, however, were made]venge against Castro' Ior hls "He told me he belleved the Whlle the plotters were move
during 1961-63 when M:: Ken-|seizure' of oil holdings CTIA had arrangcd to have on the palace, he sald,
ncdy occupied the White
Diem and Trujillo bumped ofi |then-Ambassador Henry Cabot
PLOT BACKFIRE? He was pretty well shocked| Lodge was visiling Dlem:
House_ Smathers told u9 he Adm. Ulysses Sharp, then our
once spoke m the late` Prest-
Former essoclates recall]ebout that. He thought It Wa9
that Robert Kennedy, deep-|e stupid thing to and he(Peciflc commander, had also
tlent ahoul assassinating Cas-liy despondent, went into semi-|wanted to get control of whatkbeen present, but had Jeft
tro. Mr, Kennedy m erely/seclusion after his brother's the CIA wa3 doing: early to go to the alrport;
rolled hack his eyes, recalled|assassination Could he have But McCone_ disagreeing McCone sald President
Smathers, as if to indicate thefbecn tormented by
more than]vigorously , told uS that "nolDiem escaped through 8 tun
idea was t0o wild to discuss|natural grief? He certalnly plot was authorized Or
imple-Inel but was caught in nearby
Subsequently, Mr. Kennedyliearned that the assassin, Leegmentcd" to assasainate Castro,| Cholon,and "shot in 0 statlon
0} toldl Smathers of his suspicion Harvey Oswald; had been ac-|Trujillo, Diem or anyone else: | wegon:
thal the CIA Inay have been|tive in the pro-Castro move- "During thoge' days o tcn 4978. Bell-McClure Byndlcete, [86,
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HashiWg e_Merry-G-Konaal TF "ASMIGTO,I Post Moa_ Ja. 1 1""31 1}7
Alemnpts to Kill Custro Luid w CIA
By Jack (Anderson tor before the motley Invad-, late agalnst President Ken- ; complcte with sctret
ers Janded on the island. Their nedy. Irysts at
Locked In the darkest re glitlering Miaml Beach hotels
cesses 0[ the Central Intelll-
arrival was expected to touch To set up the Castro assassi- and m id n !g h t powerboat
gence Agency Is the story 0t
oll 8 general uprislng; whlcb nation, the CIA enlisted Rob- dashes to sccret Janding
slx assassinatlon
the Communlst miutle would ert Maheu, 8 formcr FBI on the Cuhan
spots
agalnat Cublratfodel €tterots (have had more trouble putting |#gent Vith shadowy contacts |sellis boat coast, Once, Ro-
who had handled other under: was sbot out Irom
For 10 years, only & Iew down wlthout the charlsmatlc under him
people have known the terri-|Castro to lead them; cover assignments for the CIA For the tirst the CIA
ble becret_ They have bwor After the
out fonbis Wlichingtoe Publeckturnished Roseili With"epeciai
never to telk; Yet we heve]
Itret attempt | relations oflice. He Jater/poison capsules to sllp Into
learned the detalls
from| talled, flve more assasslnatlon moved to Las Vegas to head/ Castro's food The poison
sources whose credentlale are teams were sent to Cuba. The up billionelre Howard Hughes' supposcd dake fhroesaay8;8
beyond question. lest team reportedly made It Nevada operatlons
act . By the time Castro died,
We spoke to John McCone,/to 0 rooltop
within shooting (selliaheu recruited John Ro: his system would throw off ali
who headed the CIA at the| distance o Caslro before sembler ruggedly handsome traccs of the poison, SQ he
time of the assassinatlon ata were spprehended. Thls hap the A
with conlacts In both would appear to be the victim
templs. He acknowledged the ered tetandediaShe; beb:|Gecworiasican and Cuhan un: of 4 nalural if mysterious ail:
idea had been discussed Inside ruary or first o March, 1963.
sessinaldn tSH arrange the a5- ment.
the CIA but Inslsted Jt had Nlne months later; Presl: faced
'HoselThe forpeeiyhmar:
Roselli arranged with a been 'r e Jected Immedi-| dent Kennedy Wa# gunned ried to
rvie focrressy Mara Cuban, related {0 one of Cas:
ately. 0} He vigorously denled down In Dallas by Lee Harvey |Lang;
Wa3
actress June (rn'9 chefs (0 plant (he deadly
that the CIA had ever partlcl: | Oswald, 8 tanatlc who pre: movie
0 power In the| pellets ' in dictalor's food.
paled In any plot on Castro'& vlously had agitated Ior Cas
Ficvion Indutra Facketeenhis con On March 13, 1961, Jroselli de:
life _ Asked whether the al-|tro In New Orleans &nd had
Bioronn % milliockeoeear Hollye {ivcred Ihe capsules 0 his con-
tempts could have heen made]made & mysterlous trip t0 thefwood labor
IBoakdalar Hlolle'cart at Miami Beach's glamor-
with hls knowledge, he re- Cuhan Embassy Jn Mexico CIA assigned two of
The/ous Fonlaineblcau Hotel
plled: "t could not have Clty. trusted
ils most 4 couple o wecks later; Just
pened ' Among those prlvy to the/ Harvey
anaerJamcs William about The rieht time for the
We hare complele confi-(CIA conspiracy, there is still & /0'Connell,
t0 Ihe
(Big Jim) plot to, hare heen carried out_
dence, ho w e v er, In our n & 8 8 n 8 suspiclon_unsup: murder mlsslon:
hush-hush
a report out Of Iarana gnid
sources_ ported by the Warren Com: names, they
Using phony Castro was il. But he
The plot to knock 0lt Castro mlssion's tindings_that Cas: | selli on
accompanied Ro: corered before the Baj of
began as part 0f the Bay o8 /tro became aware 0/ thle U,S,
Ihenassagsina ioriatarto Iine invasion %n April 17,(961.
operation: The Intent was plot upon hls life and Bome
"PIlhe {S9255659 icBds %k5 Four more aftempis wcre
to eliminale the Cuban dlcta-/how recrulted Oswald t0 retal: script of James
like the made on Cnstro's Jile,
0 Bond movie, 6 1071, Beli-McClure gyndleate Ine.
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BY JACK ANDERSON pcllets In the ,dictator'& fod, On:March 13,
with Les Whitten 1961 , Roselli delivered (he capsules t hi;
WASHINGTON_Press accouni: have contact et Miami Beach's glamorous Fon Identified Cuba' 8 Fidel Castro as (i target tainebleau Hotel_
of an unsuccessful CIA assassinati'm plot. A couple weeks later; just about the right
The headlines couldn't have Cr; at 8 time for the plot to have becn Carried
worse time {or Secretary of Slate Henry Kis report Out of Havana said Castro
out &
binger; He is in the thick o 4 8 most :Julicale But he recovered in time
was III:
to rout the OI negotiations; according to our Whiti: House invasion on April 17, 1961: sources; t0 restore some Although both the murder plot and the in
kind & diplomatic rela- vasion failed, the ,CIA continued trying to tionship with Cuba. get rid ol Castro: The Cuban who had Actually, we reported sneaked 'the poison into Havana was never
89 lar back as Jan. 18, seen ageln.
1971, that the CLA had ar Roselli erranged for triple-strength cap_
ranged six assassination sules to be slipped into Castro'9 food severa]
attempts' against Castro weeks afterthe of But once again,
in the early 1960s. Now tbe plot, Iailed and the conspirators
that the story has been peared"
revived; it might be use" Fovr More attempts were made on Cas Iul t recount the details. tro' s life thereafter: using
The plot began as part Anderson teams equipped with
assassination
O1 the discredited Bay of 'Operation. high-powered rifles,
The strategy was to eliminate the Cuban
explosives and twoway radios. Roselli per-
leader before the CLA invasion force Janded _
sonally made midnight powerboat dashes to
on tbe island.
deliver the teams at secret landing spots o
To carry Out the ' assassination, the CIA the Cuban coast
selected an underworld figure who could be The . assassination teams never got a shot
disowned. He was hawk-faced John Roselli, at Castro, alihough the CIA Ieared that the
identified in confidential FBI files as "a top last `group reached 2 rooftop within range:
Malia ligure" who watched over the con- This' occurred around the last of February
cealed interests in Las Vegas casinos Of the or first of March; 1963.
Chicago underworld" 88 Nine months la President Kennedy
Roselli represented himself as an oil man was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey
seeking revenge against Castro for his sei- Oswald, & fanatic who had been active in the
rure 0l oil holdings. pro-Castro movement and had
8 myste-
For the first the CIA furnished Ro rious call upon the Cuban embassy in Mex-
selli with special poison , capsules t0 slip ico City & few weeks before the dreadful day
into Castro' $ Iood. The poison was supposea io Dallas.
to take tbree days t0 act. By the time Cas- Soutces familiar with the CIA conspiracy
tro died , his syster would throw off all can't shake 4 nagging suspicion-usup
traces 0 the poison, s0 he would appear to ported by the Warren Commission's findings
be the victim Of & natural i{ myslerious aik ~that Castro may have become aware Of
ment the U,S: plot upon his lile and, therefore;
Roselli arranged with a Cuban,related to may have recruited Oswald to, retaliate
one af Castre'8 chefs, to plant tne deadly against President Kennedy.
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TTE TASIILNGTON POST
Mlondey. Marrh 10, 1935
ICxA Plzts Aguinst Castro Recounle
Jack Anderton
who #atched ovcr con-Iiets in' thc
und Lcs Whitten ccalcd intercsts in Ias March
dictator s food. On spols 0 'the Cuban
Press casinos
o the Chicago undcrs|erechhezz 1961., Rosclli deliv
Te assassinatiom accounis hnve iclenti-| World:" capsules to his contact
(icd Cuba'$ Fidel Castro a5 thc al Miami Bcach '$ Fontaine-knerer Kot 3 shol at Casr
(arget o[ an unsucccsslul
Eosclli'$ CIA conlacls #erc blcau Hotcl. thouch the CIA learned th
assassinalion plot_
CIA |willian Harvey and James 4 couple o wceks last Kruup reached 4 ro Tirs hcadncs couldu" have/"iGous who
TconpanicHk,t^ucenplsish: Umesontee ptstkGSha
rangc_ This occi
coine :f " worse timc (or
him O# hush-hush to Miami |to been carried around the ast o Fcbrua
Scte- tu line up assassinatiol porl
out, 3 re-|first ol Merch, 1963 . of Slale Hemry 4 Kissingec: |ems
No onc clsc
Qut v Ulavana Said Castro
Tle !s in thc thick o "mosl deli-|hcrer,o( was told, was ill Eut he recovered in timc Nine months laler; Pres,
cate ncgotiations, accori to Iminlcr
Ihc CIA's role in the lo rout (hc 0f invusion | #ennedy was Gunned dou
'r Whitc Ilouse sources, T0T6
Iolctnissiore=
O)m April 17, 1064_ Dallas by Lee arvcy Os!
storc somc kind 0f cliplomatic "S "n
Oilurerscekied himsclt _ Alhough hoth he wurder 4 (aualie who had "cui
relationship with (ub:_ axaist
Sceking revenge/lot and the invasion G 4iled,theihe
[ra-Castru Movenent
Actually_ Ie reporled
as (ar/GisdinssrEive his seizure % Ci conlinued tryin? ( eci fickhad Iid
4 msterious (all
hack Js Jan. 18, 1971, thal the we poms
TThe assassinalion o Castro; The Cuhan who had kthe Cuban Embassy in Me'
CHA had arranged 5ixassnssin-|Ieczea "ere #lso corclullyse-/sncakec the poison int,'ovana city fcw Wceks helore
tion attcmpts #Gainst Casfro im mostly
fromn foreign makcs, Ias nerer seen agin. Therc-|dreadful day in Dallas
SeEly ,o6u6a1864 CJGF%nC |Rkto Re{iincdSLtcvcnt anykfore,ihu ClA; "KSuSan hcinec
Sources familiar #ith !he
story has heen revived, it muizht kach attempt
"Slaket the plullers had failed or thefeenspiracy cun | shake J be useful to rccount the dlet ils_
Ms mnei
kill Castro/poison hadn € hcen stromg ging suswicien_unsupporte
Thc plot as parl e Un "
"pictitulaosy hoarwed Ikc/Enwugh Gecided
{o Iry' again]ehe Warron Cwnmission'$
dlisereditcd o {8 Irom thc TV draina with a more Jwerful dlase. ings-lhat
tio
Figs Ora-|:Mission Impossiblc" For the Hoselli
(astru nay hare
The slrateey was 40 €[imi- lirst the CIA furnished arra "gcd tor triple-|come 4 are of the US
male Ihc (uban lcader hclore scli 'sith
Ro-Istrength c"psules i bc slipped
uDom his lile "nd theref
the CIA invasion force laneled|sulcs (9 special pisou eap iuto Caslra' [ood sevcra weeks niay harc rcruded ()sual,
en the island, Without the char:
"lhc olsoinwasa5un's o24 aflter thc Iay o{ Bul once retaliale against President }
ismalic Castru, it Wis thourht,]take thrcc was supposed to/again, the plot Iniled #nd the |nedy.
tho defenders "ould -hccomc
days !0 ac4 By the/conspirators disappcared
dlemoralizcd anal linne Castro died , his system Four more 7 ttempts
Footnote: Suurees Ia!m|
disorganizcd. would throw of all traces of the made
were with thc secrcl reriew 0 Tecrry outthe assassinalio".hpoison; 5o hc would Oil Castro"s life, therealter |ciA s
acticities hare nuif he (TA selceted an unacrworlei hc thc victim 0f
appear to/using assassination teams knowledlgcd that Castro,
(ivure Iho /uld he disownca a natural il mys-|cquipped with high-powered 8$
lerious ailment rifles, cxplosives reperted four ycars #u, Was hawk-Iaecd Jhu Io) Koseltj arrangcd with Cua
and: (Wo-way marked for assassination h;
wlli; identifivd in conficentiabkan;, relited t 3 radios. Roselli personally made CIA. 1 (IA spokesman rcfiu:
FKI {iles as #{op Mafia ligure" |chets, to Sne ([ Gastro s/midnight powerhoat Jashes {
t0 commnent plant the dcadly pel-{deliverthe (eams apsecrenfna
076 l'mled Fealure Syndiraic, 0s
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a
Ho-ITum
By Russell: Corner greasy spoon
slzls
L
'home-style can bn
The gangsters
Sam: The one speclal
the
"Gosellinvho were aSsacicaed and victim who is
0
bonequderert_
Is 4
N.ctsvi
Fidel in 8 scheme to
with gangland citizen 'of
have Doth beeispatch husband cannot do Yn 8
Mure 40 years 0 wife 0r taqrise withateufited beat
en- the police
"gangland-style"e
not to and expect
and the police States Senate;
the
lift an eyebrow, Ux-
incidents
00
ronounced" the 10 svbiec: Yorthe reae gongluzi
The
'gangland-style won't .work
hashee Plozse exonagland-style killing"
gangland 08 this fact' &
48
Zerhapg abeea@se honestryic
able t0
people are peculiarly
gest the
0f
both devious
E-gglglandele" murdelney
wlth nobody but
US
end fire right to
Z01 gwaglander ;
who have R
ruad and ese welcorathered
This nust be it
meddled affairs ere,
o7colage; Imagine
you are'
75 tej
into by the tiortesaan 0r ganglandre eminent _
rerely much enthusia but tion becomes ` and the !vexa"
This be Iasm. titely becepaced "8nbeste "You
are env at police success land-style"" to be sent off
00
style
perpetrators of
04 'gargland- by your "gang-
to
has never are the rules of the Iane: Those
get them into the such &s
with the world series of
you
if complete the
sant failure result that inces
lice
wouldn't dream of Job,
appetite for: the their
ldhodid it even if yoe the.po:
Or;
hunt, would the could: That _
it be because manship of the sports:
believe the subjects %€
08
policemen {aaashioodovporis? donEiaad %a Borts;
killings" aren"t
worth
'gangiand-style
But
Oxhavorsordon" cell'
time for: [ don't overa outer some alien the don't mean
to
ard :
in who straight-Jake cous-
Or
idilferetceeither; wants his share % yoercovill
homicide squads,
[
to America'$
that once
3
adurder simp bepoint 9u5
"gangland-style; has been called
OBSERVER
perpetrators Wmost Ppvehetsion % the
occur: to
prematurely,
This raises your sideburns -to havet who hates'
01
the _question' whether this do the job on "baygbnaaiyle" murdertiomight
with it you &nd get
sibly be PoS-
}9
it's 04_ don't from people who style" _Ah_ friend,aonat "stgland"
the Roselli gangland Consider cruel injustice. must seem
the
Zase The body is foundae ISich 9 bad egg as that
with the CuS-
surely
to the you ' would
SRter It Weezrss; in the it would be if How infuri-
holes.
bears the
bullet barrel, the Jooked at the
Roselli"s publicized bullet holes and the the gangland seems to leave ar in 0 'quietly the case with
shut case, the eolice wOEquiead; ganguaerdstvter Killing
enother shut as soon
a3 possible:.
quietly
You P0
If you and [
this,
onlyoof wiUI been the victim not
it not follow that it is also does
for it
als0 of discrimina-
let us say, some by;" in
is only your membership
whom Roselli
has
hot-tempered waiter irorgarglterddirhat prevents rere bposthie
for years?
consistently Your persendiog .Chesticlves; t
Jf that waiter
wanted I do
to justice.
revenge &nd get to' take his
about
not policemert feel
not logical that he with it is it aboglanonmenecs O gangicea
land-style;' 08
would do it 04 'gang- members 06
it, rather
a the police could forget but my is . that
'gangland-style;
death in
than by
Roselli to sterner view
of it than'
'take' 0
bisque?
public with & tureen.of lobstec:. gangland men bumping off do 0
each other:
ghis is not to suggest Lhat the not theeraid COR Dtobably thirks i6
ought to be giving Roselli's police
ought to be decent people
the third
but _
waiters
[
out ganiglend bat haeelnato point:
don't
very well
gangland folks
oly on have no theprove of it; and to make 'gangland-style
9}
'that ' there is
no sure bodapaciou bartel, tome concrete
want to assure [
a capacious expanse and tre
them that [ "haven't
engage in jt,,just
08
of can _ whareanorc Fvet
4 fly; mysell, .and,
2g:your with concrete. never, any gqod
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Baker
engage cooking:'
Giancane John
fide
Obviously. Castro Phllandering now dered after loyal 1) discussing
CI.A:
Jess have
thing;::
killings.
The corollary
cozy that
cooking;' vulner- 41 because
Intlmacy sug"
hearth
away with nobody
infuriating welcome; These family them: that
constabulary, with
may because nabbing
colleagues: killings"
been
Moreover; detection; they
telling may have dulled:
violate rules may
working
from know,' worid-~some certainly
impute timidity danguor;
invariably _ fails some barber
somebody Jike
because away done catching _ among my come
customary barrel; betray tomary Cops: ating customary they .
customary concrete,
water; standing closed
"Just which
killing.'
have
know reader, murder, but 'tion, known
been : extending undertipping bring
know how
away
killing
hunch
they scalding
they
The average
thing
doing:
degree; know that that
monopa
killing:" Any- misunderstanding;
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a
Ho-Hum Murder
slzilz
Russell Corner greasy spoon can engage In Baker 'homc-style cooking:'
The gangsters Sam Giancana
victha one special requirement Is 8
N.[evk
John Roselli who and who is a bona fide citizen of
the CIA, in
were associated with gangland Obviously;
2 phllandering
Fidel Castro
0 scheme to dispatch husband cannot do in
# loyal wife 0 44)
have now both been mur- 40 years "gangland-style" and dered after discussing their CIA; en- the police not to lift &n expect
terprise with the United States Seuate, Jess the subject is the
eyebrow . Un-
and the police have pronounced: the #t won't work
real ganglardd
incidents 'gangland-style
00
The corollary of this fact ' Ig that haShaepcozse- 'gangland-style killing" gangland people are peculiarly vulner:
the resonance of 64 'home-style _ able t0 t0 'gangland-style" cooking;' A# perhaps because both gug" devious murder ` by _
gst the Intlmacy o hearth and fife
Sgvious Rot Ewglander i who have no
wlth nobody but uS tamly gathered This nust be
Intithattng
mund and nobody else welcome; Jack Imagine that
t0 them:
These family affairs you are an emlnent.
je; 0fcourse; statesman o gangland, and the Vexa:
neddled into by the constabulary, bu? tion becomes manifest. You 8re en- rarely with much enthusiasm: tirely prepared to be sent Off 40 This may be because police success Jand-styie" FedYou bcoicetgoet " Faag
at nabbing perpetrators of
'gargland- are the rules of the land
style killings" has never been such &s Moreover; if
to get them into the world series of
you . wouldn't
complete the job,
detection, with the result that inces
lice who
dream of the .po-
sant failure may have dulled - their
did it; even if you could. That
appetite for: the hunt; would violate the rules o the sports:
Or; it may be because policemen
manship goverring gangland, In gang;
believe the subjects of 04 'gangland-style
Jand, good sports dont tell
killings" aren't worth working over: But to have some alien Irom the
time for: [ dont know, ard I certainly
outer world-some straight-Jake couS-
don't mean: to impute either
in who.wants his, share: 0f your `Wil.
languor,
timidity O indifference to
America' ?
homicide ` squads. I simply 'point out OBSERVER:
that once a murder has been calied
06 'gangland-style; #8 apprehension of the
perpetrator: almost invariably fails: to prematurely, some barber who hates
occur: your sideburns-to have somebody like
This raises the question '` whether this do the job' o you and get away
04 'gangland-style" ` murders- with it because it's done 10 'gangland-
sibly be
"auntdcg peiphe Bho style" my friend;, that must seem
don't come from ` gangland: . Consider 0 cruel injustice:
the Roselli case The body is found in Such 0 bad: egg as that you ' would
the customary barrel; with the cuS-
surely betray to the cops: How infurs
tomary weights, in the customary it would be if looked at the
water; It the , customary bullet
barrel; the . concrete, the water;. the
holes; Roselli"$ publicized standing i bullet holes and closed the case' with'
gangland seems to leave.an open-and- 8 quietly murmured, "Just enother
shut case, which the police will quietly gangland-style P9
shut &s soon a8 possible-: You will have been the victim;' not
If you and [ this, reader; does
only 0 murder; but also of discrimina-
it not follow that it is also known by, tion, for it is only your membership
let uS say, some hot-tempered waiter
in 'gangland that prevents: the police
whom Roselli has been consistently from extending themselves: to bring
undertipping for years? your persecutor to justice:
Je that waiter wanted t0' take his
I do not know.how policemer teel
revenge and get away with it, is 'it
about nonmembers of gangland
not logical that he would do it 46 'gang-
gangland members 0 $ 'gangland-style,
land-style;' so the police could forget
but ` my hunch is . that 'take #
it, rather than by; scalding Roselli to sterner view of it than do o
death in public with & tureen of lobster
gangland men bumping off each other:
bisque? The average Cop probably thinks it is
This is not to suggest that the police not the kind of 'decent people
ought to be ought to be giving ` Roselli s waiters Iknow very well that gangland {olks the third degree but merely.to point:
don't out that gangland can have no monop- approve of it, and t0 make sure
oly on 'gangland-style killing:' JB
that ` there is no misunderstanding I
body with & barrel, some concrete and want to assure them that 1 haven t
8 capacious expanse of water can
tre heart to swat 2 fly: mysell, and,
engage in jt just &s readily: &9 your whats more; Ive never-beerz any gqoa
with concrete.
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Neu'
Terrorist Activities
xx/7L
Charged to Cubans
By Police in Miami]
WASHINGTON, Aug: 22 (UPD)
~Militant pro-Castro and anti" The Federal Bureau o Inves-|
Castro groups in the Miami tigation and the Secret Service]
area are engaged in terrorist- were notified, he said,
A well-
activities both in and outside)
lknown fugitive exile, Orlando]
the United States, to
Bosch War jailed aiter_illegaty]
tes- sbimony given before
a
Costa Rica There
no
ate subcommittee and released]R incidents the
(today. #
visit_
The testimony came last Mayfr He did not mention the Cen-|
before a Judiciary subcommit W
tral _ Intelligence Agency'$ ef:
tee on internal' headedlge forts to use Cuban exiles in]
by Senator James 0 land, at
IFlorida and American gangsters
Democrat of Mississippi. It saidri to kill Prime Minister Fidel Cass
that as many 89 50 Cuban] tro.
groups of various shadings hadjti Two weeks agothe body o]
been opera in Miami at any 2
an underworld John
one time, many of bhem en-It Roselli was found stuffed in
3 gaged in violent plots involvingfre ibain-weighted, 55-galloca druma]
local actions and activities in I
floating in
4 near Miami,
Mexico, Central and Southlv Mr. Roselli had" testified last
America and Cuha itself. year before the Senate Select
Lieut. Thomas Lyons, who
5 Committee on Intellegence Ac:
has been with the Dade Countylo itivities that he and 1 Public , Safety Department forlh Rangster; Sam-Giancana, were
more than nine years, end Raul c by the C.IA, to recruit J. Diaz: of, the department'$ or- Cubans to kill MI,
Mr_ ganized crime, terrorist and se-| Giancana was shot and killed]
curity unit, told of efforts to
byt Unknown persons last Kyeed
track down terrorist elements just before he was testify" be-
in the greater Miami area: fore the
panel_
Lieutenant Lyons said most
Cubans in the area were hard-
working and industrious; but
some individuals "use Dadek
County aS a base {or interna-
tional terrorism 'against allied]
goverrments of Cuba; Cuban)
shipping; Communists Purport
ed Communists and individuals
who take a stand against their]
terroristic-type tactics
During the last two years
Lieutenant Lyons said , there
have been four homicides "with
strong indicators on each ` that
the motivations were political
in nature and terroristic by
P0_ sign;
Mr. Diaz 'said that: some. Cas.
tro groups had infiltrated exile
organizations and that there
were plans t0 assassinate Latin-
American diplomats and for-
eign Ininisters.
Lieutenant Lyons said hls)
unit received Informalion fromF
a confidential source early this
year" that there #ouldn
atleinpt on the life o Secretary
0f Slate Henry Ac Kissinger
during his February ' visit tol
Costa Rica.
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Lll)
accordingen:|
entering
during Kissinger|
secvoityas
figure ting
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Chicago
hired
Castro:
Washington
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}he ton
23, 19(6 19 X JACA_ANIEIRSON crs whoad coned Bosch as
0f the
a
conspircl to kill US 18 ani-
1a and
con icted in 1968 te
Icaders pron
zooka
it
of
a b,
parole and fled moored in
8
to kill
ths
to
ir 1974.
He jumped
tected by he was reported to
reports, of his
14
gunmen. He be in
Pr
and protection I0 t}
of the
ties population in be
terrorist expert; America. In early has excellen
fying Lynch; picked976 soe counter
up some
hlocked
He told the
te
es,
Peyswwe recteived
tion
about it in secret tes-
life of
of State to be an
A 'on to the We
on the
of reported plot to
and and had passed the
ag0 was blocked Kissi iPCost? Ricassinate Scc- the protecidvevdut? idied the Secred feceived the
before it by US and Costa Rica six months for the as was supposed to be
la
Plot was linked to of State:
We pieced
carried out. and
ny the
together the
from
held on
0 false was picked up and in Cos-
from secret out of the passport ques He interviews
with ty until
sources: exiles and US ttee and Bosch
A terrorist with
a false
"My only
Ported to be named Orlando pcoved in court thats passport the
for re- at he to it was never_
reports,
life was expected, on the
somewhere in off
He is his visit to to underground
Rica
Costa
'before
on a false arrival,
had been alerted Pfheort;
the
slipped into
the traced and Ser-
sin was arrested au thorie Its and
and clapped into
a
suspected assasa
got to jail cell four
plot to kill
in
to rela
apparently grew out of
1972, This with his
band,
a8
ubaorKedio,4pser in Cub-Casird Castro
We which terrorist
Lengthy Feverted art %f the
Nov, 12,
Ition in Miami In years after a
planned an we warned
"thln columnns on
and
and
aBainginArCeastro (errorisd
men who
had supported
a
congress-
in touch with We noted
targets that
later himself was one of
elected t the the
active in
the
presidency of
in
son of the
anti-Case 1958,
But he underground in was re-delected %o
"[
he gave &
have
the plan to Privatelysince 1972,"
he the plot hadi te the US '(about)
of "actualized" bya K974, form" by 1973*and He said
had
in 3 to our 1974
corroborated [ repeal, known he
by the US journalis privately,
been Jack
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Hos Glone monday_ Augusl
Rivcro
onc
ing Castro Cuban-AE other merican deten Bosch a/rcady shelling Plot had while Polish freighter was with Miami:
Venezuela Fede Mon later,
Chilean
Curacao, bragged, Kissinger money, friends according
Florida's Dade County cause Public Safety huge Cuban Department; throughout Latin Miami,
Ll' Thomas
news_
electri -
Sena Subcommil timony. #We ittee
informal from that confidential there
Secretary was sourc- going
information attempt Henry WASHINGTON Kissinger FBI, retary information, State they Henry also have inger
Service, duty days Secretary they Rican The authorities four Rica, Kissinger' $ have Bosch two-day stay before story Senate tioned: Intcrnal testimo- charge Securit wa} country. Kissinger Subcommit Cuban was safely
Jater intelligence insisted: country Cuban crime was entering
Certainly, Bosch" gunning Avila Secretary' $ hoped Kissinger: now was large knock The Kissinger. attempt Latin during America: according
Costa
Shortly Jast February. Kissinger'$ Rica Bosch vice But FBI They Secret notified Bosch's Costa Rican movemen ties. The
before Kissinger tiny
town: days The
Kissinger overtures
improve back tions Cuba'$ Fidel known Cuban Action,
Bosch headed
story investigat tWo Jater 1974,
Sept:
"assassination men businessr American that Kissinger been thaw.'
The Castro: first hint
Kissinger , came from Carlos man Rivero Collado,
Cuba
Rivero Havana. tro
later Miami'$ fascinating little: interview. Cuba where
known
assassina said,
Secretary taken State: "certain
been Then,
reference "This fact which; columns, added: Ive
has
Anderson:'
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s I2l Sluin Mobster Claimed
ixasls-i Tton
Cuban Link to JFK Death
By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
ilo)irication o[ thc WashIngton Post Stal! Writers' Jast June's Senate
intervicucc, in
Long before his recent murder; millee's report 0m1
tlnterdiceoce(heoin;
John Rosselli, the CIA's underworld' telligence comimiunity in the Keunedy
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas asgassination investigation.
tro, had been privately claiming that Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli agents of the Cuban premier; in retalf: and another Morgan client had in- ation, were involved in the 'assassina- formed him that Castro became
tion Of President John F. Kennedy. of CIA assassinalion
aware
conspiracies Rosselli's belicf in a Cuban connec- against him and 'Lhereafter employcd
tion to the Kennedy assassination was teams of individuals who were dis- expressed_ through his attorney, Ed: patched to the United States for thc
ward P; Morgan;, to the FBI as long purpose of assassinaling Mr; Ken:
ag0 as March, 1967, and also in privatc necly.
conversations with a longtime' associ- Because neilher Morgan
"r Ros- ate of Rosselli who parlicipated in sclli was identified in thc Senate meetings between Rosselli and the port_ the Signilicance of that poftion
CIA: of the 106-page _ document was dlis: An FBI "blind memorandum" On counled at the time it was publishec
an interview with Morgan dalcd in June, before Rosselli's disappear-
March 21, 1967, was included, withoul Sce ROSSELLI; A8; Col, 1 ROSSELLL, Fron AL
However; the CIA's involvenent in
hlcebods ihe subsequent discovery the schemes to assassinate Castro his body in
an oi drum In
of wascnot divulged to the Warren Com:
ewaters The evashivigton Fostrhowevel; {ission , and knowledge o them wan
"terconeraed that Morgaroand Gosveni zonfined until 1967 to 8 small, elile Jugrestedsources %f che testinony 'circle % the U.S intelligence commue
0
suggested a Cuban role in Tioey Ken:
President Johnson apparently nedy murder: jirst learned about the scheines only
Morgan'8 eccount; , according to
after a March 7, column by the_ UhatnRay % Ghe; TBL intervier , Jate Drew which prompted _ zsioat Rosselli had reachedehis was 'Johhson to order " CIA investigation
%ion about & Cuban conclu: Qf the highly sensitive episode,
Rennedy connection to the
"teedback"
assassination irom Fulledetalls % the CIA-underworld
{to Castro
hfurnished by sources cioe 'collusion in the" plots to kil Castro
Iplols to
were involved in Uhe CIA "Jid not surface publicly_until the pub-
ASsasginate the Cuban leader ficalion Jast ycar % the Senate Tntelti:
Jot thesideorgan':) clients Were awere gence Conimitlee's assassination re: the Vhdentity %f some & therendivid Port and lhe ensuing report last June
tuals who, came to tbe United enethe Possible role of the intelligence
Sfor this purpose
and he
States' JGencies in lhe Kennedy assassinalion
that such
Ondivials werdenotood
and inyestigation:
state of New Jersey,
F8
were now in The body 0f #terview the FBI in: Rosselli, who liyed summary stated? Hlamboyantiy in
a world of mobslers,
4 long-time associate ,Of Rosselli politicians and playgirls, was found who was interviewed separatels Swo weeks ag0 in an inverted oil drum
{The Washington
said
by #eighted with chains but buoyed by no question in the slain was gases 'from decomposition on_ the' mind that
Prestdeet slaenneobsteras
ocean'5 surface off theicoast of Miami;
#llled 'on Castro's ' behalf in was The specific cause Of death was deter;
'ban leedCIA schemesenaainst {eeica;" nined by an aulopsy to be asphyxia-
ban leader: Gion;
"He was positive; he was sure" Lastiye8r , a01 underworid colleague ahd associaie who knewaRosuedl"" weid: [ Rogselli , Sam (Momo) Glancana,
'and was In contact with him
well: ho also: had' been recrulted by lhe Rosselli disappeared {rom his before CIA i thefetfort to KIll; Castro; :ae /
on
Juxearecherossociatelorido
lound . shot to dealh in Ihis Chicago
'does not want to be identified who home in whal police described a8 4 is scheduled to tennteeviewed professional job by assailants
tids week by Dade Counly, @ho penetraled the mobster's pert side deiectives He woun parly t8o13: Jona] gecurily screen; Giancana was cil: coniacts in theagaria 19608 due to testlfy before the Senate Intel:.
CIA case Officers overseeing with Sgence Committee 'shortly after his
sempts to assassinate the at qemise,
Castro.
Decpite occasional speculation: the' Neither murder has been slved
collective conclusion of all official The,possibility that Rosselli's
Mur th.5 Kgovernment investigationg
into der might have been related to his the Wenned" cossassinatiogatiociudng Senate testimony on the CIA schemes
the Uarrenasbamission the "Bldang Fo kill Castro has brought the FBI CIA-~has been that {here was
no
Into the investigation at the request 'ecidenceechat implicatednehe "CastIo 3f Attorney General Edward H, Levf'
'government Or anv Ofmfa
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v"mbling entcrpriscs fell hostage i01 Presicent haal ja 'ructcdl Ihat the FB[
4pn/16
'J59 to the Cuban revolution__in plols interricw (Moi ! concerning any
#Kainst Castro had heem a closely held knowledge hc Mi ht hare regarding
within the top echelons of the thc assassinalicm of President Ken-
Yesk
11 and FBI unlil recently ned]
The tangled chronology' of ~uppreg: uiLoaeh lol Valsun that il ap.
on and eventual disclosure; allhvough pcaiedl Morgan '#clnol want to he im-
dv!ailed in thic June reporl, has re:
lervicwed, and "201 if he was inter
ccived little public atlention: Rossel- viewed he would urobably not divulze
[i*s murder.adds signiflcance to .those the identity 0f his sources Wal:
Gvents: son persisted, however.
Herei is tbe sequence,| pieced to-
"Under the circumstances, De:
gether ' from the testimony given to
Loach concluded in a memo for, the
Jenate Intelligence {lles, "it appears that we have no al-
Columnist
Eerece 'Peestoratorer
went lernative bul to interview (Morgam)'
to and then furnish the regulls to Wat:
Chief Justice of the United son in blind memorandum form_
the late
Warren late in' January, The interview was assigned to two S96tea naarold hincrhaa
a WVashington agents from lhe FBI's General Investi- 1967 , and
conlided to hini thal one gative Division, which the Senale It was not clear then-_nor i6 iL to:
lawyer had said thle United States committee concluded was "puzzling" day_why Morgan came forward at
0f his clients to assassinale Fidel because it was the Domestic Intelli: that time to bring Rosselli's story 10
"had aatreraneedaric 1960ssiande Casteo
gence Division which had been as: the ears of the nation'g_highest_law
r7 Castro in the 1 decided to retaliale:" signed responsibility for investigating enforcement authorities
had
Pearson's sugges- possible foreign involvement in the it may be relevant that 'Rosselli had
Warren declined
who was assassination_ serious legal problems &t the time:
tion that be gee therrenyeeferrod Whe
Neither agcnt was privy to the In May 1966, the FBI threatened t0
Edward Morgan ecetesereiecroiree knowledge. confined lo Hoover and deport him for . living in the United
matter to theRoSeeretwvierviceebres, his top aides, of the CIA's assassina: States under &n assumed name unless
tor James J. Rowley,
J; Edgar Ho- tion plots againgt Castro Both agents he cooperated in an investigation of
1967, wrote FBI Director
the Mafia (his true name was Filippo over; iniorming him of the allegations:_
that they_ Saco}. At the time, he reached 8 CIA
Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six testified eight JeqletMoraan'
al: contact from the anli-Castro conspir-
senior bureau officials on an "eyes-
were
"surprised" when
to U.S, at acy days, CIA security director Col
basis; There is no record o FBI Jucted during the Intervicir
Sheffield Edwards, .who informed the
meetings or discussions % those alle- tenepis to assassinate Castro:
FBI that Rosselli wanted lo "keep
gations At that the gensitive let:
'These
'stated that thcy
with the bureau" bul was
ter bounced back and forth in the
could nol evaluate lhe lawyer'$ Squa8thaithhe nob )uight kui him for
higher reaches of the FBI bwreauc alle gations or 9uestion hiot
racy.
{aegan en teem, since they had not talkings7 ,
after he was arresled for
The job of responding to Rowley's beeltarieded on the CiA assasseation
gambling_fraud at the Friars Club iin
Jetter
was assigned to the supervisor
efforts;'
Ehe Senate commiltee ob Beverly Hills; Rosselli approached his
Of the FBls General Investigalive Di: fornier CIA case' officer, William Har: visiom Who was given responsiility for March 21,,1967, the FBIs Waehs vey, who sought unsuccessfully to in- the overali assassination ipvestigation On Fieid: Oitice sent headquarters tercede in the prosecution;
in March 1984. complicated
ieglocopies
of a
blina' memorandum
Il was against this beckground that
This official's job was
in-
ten the Wuterview with Mor:
Morgan went, first to Drew Pearson; by ihe fact that he had never been summarizing
and then the FBI; with Rosselli's sen- formed of what Hoover and Qis closest gan: Committee sational allegations of CIA plotting corclee oi conjidants in the FEI Jearwed In a Sera Ghate Bgencercemr
Mor- against Castro and the Cuban counter;
early In 1962__that the CIA gummary of the
to
have acknowl- espionage directed against President _
decply involved in assassinalion
gan was were son the attempts against Castro; and edged that hes undentsoriere
and that
Kenedxpril Iosselll told the Senate
nent Amcrican underworld figures ini fringe of the prosecution in a
Last
Committee he had no rec
cluding Rosselli and Giancana, had they faced "possible
assassination Inlelligence receiving intorma-
been recruited for the attempts: crime not related to the ollection of .either
So on Feb
15, 1967. the FBI official
9} called tion that Castro retaliated_ against
3 draft reply {o the Rowley Morgan said his cllents "were President Kennedy or of"baving dis: Peteerrdd #idtamereory {cyine "our i
a
governmental agency Id? t8 cussed it with Morgan: This meant ei-
ietter for uncovered no evidence in: by which was sald to ther that Rosselli suffered 0 dramatic
vesti officials of the sist in a governmental ap 'dicaling Fidlel Castro
involved have the ` highest had as its purpose
Cuban Covernment were The project
Castro: Iith Lee HarVey Oswald; In the' ess88 the essassination ' of Fidel
sination of President" Kennedy. This Hhaborsassolans were madcarncladerg
blureau is not conducling any_investi:' Eaboriealion 0f Che Cuban Coverts
regarding this matter_ The the placing of informants
FBI official added in iater_testimony ment in Cuba
that "everyone in the higher echelons within key asstGold {he FBL; according
read lhis
Noe gasaYidhateCastro Iad eho
Drew
Pearson went ahead and to the
"leams
ol; . individuals_ who
lished a colum 0m1 March 7, 1967, dispaeched i0 the Unlted Szesi
erring lo reports ,that' ClA schemes were parpose of assassinaling Presi:_
Castro'& life 'iin 1963 "may for the
#8 egainst in a counterplot by Cas dent Kennedy:
have resulted _
President Kenne:
tro Jo=
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cstallished Washineton {awyer:
(mnitlee source culd explain
#xrepancy, and Morgan declined 1
seslkl {es/
mfhr that Fossclli was ( client
w::tion Or to tliseuss eilher his
allo#lions against lhe Cuhan govern
37
recent testimiony.
Iie internal FBI memo on the 1967
interriew wilh Morgan was sent to
headquarters with a transmittal slip Rosselli; ` & CIA superior lestified .to
saying: "No further investigation is chesSenate committee; "developed
0 being conducted by the Washington close Irlendship '
field office unless it is advised to the Another : CIA ` offlcial who'
contrary by the Bureau
with Eosselli Jarcedf : O'Coaneldrked
w88 The Senate intelligence commiltee; Erked If he knew whether the agency
in commenting On} this tion, said transmitted Information" to the mob
that "had lhe interviewing agenls Ster on possible Cuban involvementOn
known of the CIA-underworld plots the Kennedy assassination, He replied
against Castro; they would have been that he was out o the country &t thee
aware that the lawyer had clients who time Kennedy was killed and bad ne
had been active in the assassination further comment.
plots:' Two months before the Kennedy as
On March 21, FBI headquarters for- sassination; Lee Harvey Oswald( who
wearded the Washington field ' office Yas identified by the Warren Commig
memo to,the White House, the attor- sion a8 Kennedy g murderer; had trav-
ney
general and the Secret Service It eled to Mexico City in an attempt to
did not recommend any further ina entry to Cuba According to the
vestigation % Morgans allegations; Warren Commission; Oswald repre:
On lhe evening of the following sented himself as the head O the New
day, President Johnson called CIA Di: Orleans branch of the Fair Play €Or
rector Richard M Helms to the While Cuba organization and
8 friend of the
House. The next morning, March 23, Cuban Revolution
Helins ordered the CIA inspector gen- Some three
eral t0 prepare a report ,on the CIA
wab killed,
months before Kennedy
involvement in the assassination plots Castro told Associated
~Operation Mongoose_of which reporter Daniel Harker thet
Telms had full knowledge at the time'
glimineadecubad leader;oriouliane t
they were executed selves
Cuban leaders woula them;
By May 22, Helms briefed President not be safe.
'Johnson on the results Thcre is how; The
A U.S; government commlttee coor:
erer. n10 ericlence that Felms bricfed
ceivedWashingtcer Post that she re:
dlnating policy; toward Cuba
at the
the President on the November, 1963, a call after Rosselli's disappear: time agreed there Is & strong liklihood
plot-_one of elght major' echemes :on ance in late July warning her that Cu that Castro would retaliate in some
Castro's life from 1960 to 1985_to as
bans appeared to be attempting to fashion However; it concluded Castre
sassinale the Cuban leader through wipe out all those who participated in would not risk a major , confrontatlon
the employment o an agent with the
the anti-Castro plots: with the U.S by attacking U.S, lead:
cryptonymn AMLASH His identity The call she said came from an old ers:
was revealed a8 Rolando Cubela; a friend ,who was acquainted with Ros- On same Kennedy was
as
1961 CIA "recruit" with close access selli's sister, whose name is Edith Dai: sassinated, & CIA officer met with &
to Castro. gle; Mrs Harvey said that Mrs Daigle highranking Cuban official, who had
CIA operatives turned over assassi- told tle mutuai acquaintance that the said he wouid kill Castro, to teli
nation equipment to Cubela during a Rosselli family had received
2 tele:
the U.S. would provide' him with ex
Paris meeting on November 22, 1963 _ phone threat from unidentified Cu.
plosives and 2 poison pen device:
the day President Kennedy was killed Sans Prior t8 Rosselli's disappearance While the Senate Intelligence Com:
in Dalias There has been subsequent She als0 said that Rosselll had gonecto mittee said It found
no evidence suffi:
speculation that the mercurial and meet the Cubans in an effort t pro" cient to justify a conclusion that the
talkative Cubele was either 8 double tect his family. Kennedy assassination" was part of & agent or being monitored by Cuban 'Daigle could not be reached conspiracy, it also said U.S, agencies
intelligence: Washington Post, But by did not properly investigate the assa8
During the later days of his ter of Rosselli said she another sis- sination Or teli the Warren Commis
dency, Mr Johason spoke cryplically no such freats Oidahingad heard o sion about the CIA plots on Castros
of a "Caribbean Murder Incorpo life:
raled targeted against Fidel' Castro. Harvey, who died at age 60 and "There Is no indication that the
The insplratlon for tbat statement un- whose exploits as a clandestine opera: or the CIA, directed the FBI
doubledly was the CIA inspector gen- tor are 'both legendary and of Cuban sources or
interviewing
eral's report he ordered Helms to have 'sial within the agency, tesdifeattovee ihe Cuban suceommunuyces withln
prepared
Senate ` Intelligence Committee: He ate committee Said
the Sen:
Within the year; Rosselli and
bperbecom ongocse &naase oiticer 6 According to
a former FBI official
two of his co-conspirators in the Cas mobster
Mongoose and supplied the in charge % key aspects 0f the FBrs
tro assassination schemes have died; with, Poison pills, exploslves; probe of the Kennedy
Giancana at the hands of 8' profes detonators,_ rifles handguns;
radios FBI never
eatiseactediy Mletdeminee
sional hit man and Harvey a8 the re: and boat , radar for transmissiou to what Oswald planned
determined
sult of 4 'massive heart attack" last anti;Castro Cuban agents Harvey and
what he had done in
to do in Cuba or
Russla:
June:
Mrs. William Harvey: the widow of
the deceased CIA official, said sher
suspected no toul play in her hue
band's death: She did, however,
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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
# #
WASHINGTON, DC: 20535
62-116395
February 24 , 1976
U _ S . SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Reference is made to SSC letter to the U_ S
Department of Justice dated January 14 , 1976
requesting access to certain material and
deiivery
of
other material maintained by the FBI
Pursuant to request item numbered 17
}
we
currently have one abstract covering the areas of
inquiry ava ilable for review at FBI Headquarters by
approved personnel of the Committee
Pursuant to request item numbered 18 , we were
not able to locate 2 copy of a cable dated on or about
November 28 1963 from Director FBI to Director
CIA regarding interrogation of witnesses concerning
Lee Harvey Oswa ld 's activities in Mexico City_ We are,
however furnishing a copy of an FBI to CIA teletype
da ted November 27 1963 captioned "Lee Harvey Oswald ,
which advises that the interrogation of Oswa ld between
his arrest and murder had not extended to his travel to
Mexico or his contacts with Soviet establishments The
teletype classified "Secret, 0 also contains details
from an Oswa ld letter to the Soviet Embassy ,
Washington
9 D , which were obtained from 2 highly
sensitive source
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U . 8 SENATE SELECT COUMITTEE TO
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MITH RESPECT T0 INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Fe are also furnishing 3 Bureau memoranda in
response to the latter part of request item 18 asking
for a11 memoranda prepared between Novenber 22 1963
and December 30 , 1963
9
wbich relate to the interroga tion
of witnesses concerning Oswa Id 8 trip to Mexico
including his visits to the Soviet Embassy and Cuban
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON, D.c. 20530
FEB 2 6 1976
Honorab le Frank Church , Chairman
United States Senate Select Comnittee
on Intelligence Activities
Washington , D . C_ 20510
Dear Senator Church:
Transmitted herewith 1s a memorandum with SECRET
enclosures Prepared by the Federal Bureau 0f" Investigation
in respons e to the request in Items 17 and 18 of a letter
dated January 14, 1976 from Mr Paul Wallach of Your
Comnittee staff
Sincerely, MZ:c &.
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MICHAEL E SHAHEEN JR _
Special Counsel for Intelligence coordination
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ThE WhItE HOUsE
WASHINCTON
SECRET EYES ONLY January 9 1964
MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
SUBJECT : Sabotage against Castro
Three small-scale sabotage operations have been approved by the
Special Group, but this recommendation is based on a routine con
tinuation of broad cy dance which I think you may wish
to review. The three operations involved are:
(1) a commando sabotage operation against a coastal
warehouse and pier;
(2) 3 sabotage attack against naval or patrol vessels in
3 harbor; and
(3) 3
sabotage operation against a fuel barge procee
in coastal waters
All of these operations would have been approved three months ago,
and indeed one of ther is 3 resche duling of an operation aborted
because of high seas While it is always hard to predict the noise
level in these matters, the se operations seem comparable to the
small attack on a Cuban naval patrol which occurred in late December
which Castro promptly blamed on you (in fact it was an operation
approved before November 22 and not cancelled thereafter because it
seemed to fall within the dance you expressed in your first review
of the Cuban problem) _
The policy question now is this: If we continue these even small
sabotage operations, Castro will certainly know it. Equally, if we
call them off_ he will know it, and s0 will the Russians. Wel thus
have an opportunity to choose_
I doubt if this choice_should be made on momentum alone.
[ therefore recommend a Cabinet-level review of the whole principle
of covert sabotage against Cuba. I know that Rusk has never liked it
and that McNamara thinks it does very little Mc Cone and the CIA
are for and S0,are most of the middle-level officers dealing with the
Castro problem. I myself consider the matter extremely evenly balanced,
SECRET; EYES ONLY
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but before hearing full argument, my guess is that in your position
I would stop sabotage attacks on the ground that are ille gal,
ineffective, and damaging to dur broader cy. I might then wish
to make a
little capital from this decision with the Soviet Union.
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MEMORANDUM
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TO : Senator Hart (Colorado) and Senator Schweiker
FROM: Jim Johnston
Dan Dwyer
Ed Greiss
DATE January 27 1976
SUBJ : Connection Between Amlash Operation and Investigation
of JFK Assassination
Background
The staff' 8 memorandum of January 5 1976 _ postulated that the
Anlash operation might have had s ome effect on CIA 8 response co
the investigation of President Kennedy 8 assassination On January
9 1976 _ the.staff asked for access to the Amlash file at CIA; and
after a delay which was not explained_ the staff was permitted to
review the file on January 23 and 26
Summary of Amlash File
Amlash initially contacted by ' CIA in 1961 met occas ionally with
case officers through Augus t 1962 at which time he was given instruc-
tion in secret wri and explosives Interest in Amlash continued
after the August mee tings but there 7a8 no further direct contact by CIA
agents until mid-1963 Why there was a year lapse in contact with An-
lash cannot be determined the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962
undoubtedly made CIA cautious in dealing with Amlash _
*
In any event DIR 48198 to Rome of 19 June 1963 states that
Amwhip
a Cuban exile who assisted CIA had sent a letter a8 part of
1B N an activation effort to reluctant dragon Pres umab ly Amlash was
6 "reluctant dragon and was_ this letter asked to. recontact CIA_
In: late August Amlash trave led with a con tingent of Cuban
officials and athletes to Porto Alegre Brazil He cabled Amwhip
about his arrival on August 29 This cable apparently was the signal
that he was prepared to meet Amwhip in Porto Alegre _
Amwhip' and two CIA case officers met with Amlash in Porto Alegre
be tween tember 5 and 8 The two case officers have testified to
the Committee about their understanding of events at this series of
mee tings which they viewed essen tially
as a get acquainted session
CIA messages tell 3 different 8 tory Porto Alegre 0704 to DIR Gf 7
September stated that Anlash told Amwhip he felt' there were only two
ways of getting rid of Castro The first was an invasion by U.S _
forces which Amlash knew was out of the question and the second was
1b an "inside job Amlash indicated he was awaiting a U.S_ of action _
He referred co the explosives demonstration CIA gave him a year earlier
0 } as coo cumbersome for his purposes
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Ac the conclusion of the mee tings with Anlash Headquarters
cabled on 9 September that based on what little feel Headquarters
had Amlash appeared hopeless a3 an inte lligence performer and should
be approached as a chief conspirator allowed to recruit his own Co -
horts He should be urged to recruit a few trus ted friends to assist
1 him, initially in FI and Ops reporting" and then progress co sabotage
and more serious matters on an or derly basis (DIR 67110 to Porto
Alegre JMAVE and Rio . )
On 11 September Porto Alegre 0708 to DIR S umarized the intel-
ligence information Amlash had given On Soviet units in Cuba saying
all IRBM and bombers had been removed By this time Amlash had left
Brazil apparen heading for 3 vacation in Europe
A document in the file dated 16 tember and marked OFPA 72775
appears to be a trans cript of 2 conversation obtained by covert means
There is no indication as to where the conversation cakes place but
it probably is in the Cuban Embassy in Paris
"Mary=
8 I don t want to imagine things but
this thing of Amlash
Moreno : It is either a tremendous secret or a
top secret matter (unreadable) then the
10 81 word treason or reason")
Be I believe it is a top secret matter 1i
By letters of September 14 and September 16 , Anlash: stayed in
contact with Auwhip_ Paris station apparently was picking
up responsi-
bility for Amlash at this time since Paris '0706 to DIR dated 19
tember asks for some background material on Amlash
On 19 tember JMAVE 4580 to DIR warns that Amlash is part of
an anti-communist group in Cuba and details the Me
mbership of his group
as well as a comunist group The message also notes that Fidel is
allege= aware of the two groups and acts as moderator between then
in order to maintain cohesion in the Government of Cuba .
Nevertheless Amwwhip is asked to continue to work with Amlash
and is assigned to accompany him around Europe According to Paris
0934 to. DIR dated 7 October Anlash met with case officer 0* on 5
October Case officer 0 sat and listened permit Amlash to get
eve rything off his chest Anlash seemed to be complaining about the
low level espionage matters that had been discussed at the September
mee in Brazil implying he had a more valuable role Case officer
0 "provided necessary assurances his feelings not in fact true and
that his case receiving consideration highest levels (emphasis added) !"
"With this problem which had undoubtedly Jeen oche Anlash con
The files do not accurately identify these case officers
and however were the principal case officers
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his desire return Cuba to undertake the big job: - 000
On October 15 London 5224 to DIR states case officer 0 met with
Anlash and Amwhip
on 13 October_ Although_ the case officer had been forewarned by Amwhip he was not successful in discouraging Amlash 8
request for a high level mee Amlash con vinced that if such meet does not take Place at this time it will be almost imposs ib le come out again and we will be in same situation as last year with no definite
decision Also finds it difficult to believe RFK who receives many
Cubans would refuse to see 3 major" such as Amlash The message notes
the fact remains that Amlash does "have excellent entree to highest
target level which believe we cannot afford overlook 0
This message seemingly moved Headquarters to re-evaluate Anlash 8 role DIR 75683 co London 'on 15 October directed case officer 0 to
return headquarters soonest for discussions of all phases of the case
The next mee apparently took place on October 29 One case
0 fficer me€ Anlash holding himgelf
out as the personal representative
of RFK _ He informed Anlash according
to a 13 November MFR _ that
0 ' the U.S was prepared to render all necessary assistance to any anti-
comunist Cuban group which succeeded in neutralizing the present Cuban leadership and which assumed significant control co invite the U.S
to render assistance He emphasized that U.$ support could come only
after a succes sful coup Anlash responded by saying that without Fidel
the military would break up into 4 or 5 groups and the regime would
disintegrate He also said he was satisfied with the policy discussion
but desired to know what: technical support he could get _
Since Amwhip
was closer to Amlash than the case officers he was asked about Anlash S reaction to the mee His reactions are
8 uarized in Attachment A to
Amwhip
$ Memo of Meeting dated 14 Noven-
ber Amwvhip said Anlash was still not Pleased with support from U.S
government While Amlash was satis fied on policy grounds he was not
at all happy with the fact that he still was not given the technical
assis tance for the operation plan as he saw it_ Amlash could not under-
stand why he was denied certain small pieces of equipment which promised
a final solution to the problem while on the other hand the U.S_ gave much equipment and money to
exiie
groups: for their ineffective excurs ions
against Cuban coastal targets Anlash had accepted the fact he had to
work with the CIA but CIA might_ lose him if it continued to tin_>
ate Amlash talked about going Eo Ehe French terrorise
drEan?EAGa?
the OAS but realized that was not feasible The memorandum ends with
what apparently is the author S conclusion: 18 hoped that he does
realize that Havana must first be taken or failing that a
truly sizeable piece of land (say , almost an entire province) which
0 could be true rallying point_
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In a Memo for Record dated 19 November , one case officer s umarized
the actions to be taken at the next mee with Anlash _ Amlash was to
be told the U.S was prepared to give full support to Amlash 8
He would be shown President Kennedy S speech in Miani of November:
eou8:
and told this reaffirmed support for Anlash 3 Proposal Headquarters
had approved gi Anlash scopes and rifles and other equipment The
memo ended by stating that "C/SAS* requested written reports on Amlash
operation be kept to a_ Minimum _ 18
Pari 1564 to DIR of 20 November indicated Amnlash had been called
on the night of November 20 and had agreed to Postpone his return co
Cuba in order to see case officer 0 "if it 3 Ome thing interesting _ 01 The
CIA officer said he could not assure it was interes but that it was
to be 3 Mee ting which Amlash had requested . (Obviously CIA wanted co
ve Amlash the technical $ upport" he felt he had not been promised in
the 29 October mee ting.)
Cage officer 0 flew from the U.S _ So as to arrive in Paris on the morn -
of November 22 for this mee ting.
Pari 1607 co DIR received at Langley at 6 :25 a.m = on 23 November
is the only message in Anlash S
file reflecting the fact the mee ting
had taken Place It indicated that Anlash was anxious co return to
Cuba and that case officer 0 was to arrive in Washington at 1810 that
The file contains no outgoing cable to Paris on November 23 or
any other time telling Paris to break contact with Anlash *X
On 25 November 3 contact report was prepared; There is reason
to question the authenticity of this document which is three pages
and reports the 22 November Mee ting with Anlash The first cwo pages
have dark cype as though Prepared on a typewriter with a new ribbon
The type on the third page is much lighter as though PreRereds on a
typewriter with an old ribbon It made no mention 0 the Passing
Qf a poison pen to Anlash_
On November 27 Pari 1669 to DIR reports information obtained
in October possibly by clandestinely listening devices A source com-
Plained bitterly about official (Cuban) visitors co Paris and how they
denigrate the revolution The source said she wished she had a con -
cealed tape recorder to record these conversations She name d Anlash
a3- one of these visitors
x Desmond Fitzgerald
xx In its 1967 report , the IG stated such a message had been sent
but could not be found
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the fact that he had bcen promised "full U.S _
support if he is succes sful in a real coup against the Castro re gime
He was also promised arms which will have co be furnished, through
JMAVE 3 operations
A series of confus cables passed between Headquarters
and JMAVE
on December 6 7 and 8 Apparently Headquarters first gave JMWAVE
authority to drop 3 cache of arms in Cuba _ Then Headquarters called
off the operation _ In DIR 87615 of 7 December it is noted 'major
level Cuban / Caribbean policy review S
cheduied early
next week which
should provide basis for decision 0}
JMAVE comp lained about the change in orders in 3 cable of 8
December JMAVE 8702 pointed out that one Headquarter 8 message
indicated December infiltration operations_ were approved by higher author-
ity but 2 second. message indicated
a scheduled operation should be de -
layed and not run ini December
Headquarters responded in DIR 87880 = Headquarters procedure
was to present infiltration operation plans to 'higher authority
even though there is a reasonable chance operation may be postponed
or delayed as- was case with the scheduled operation This procedure
will secure approval for the operation with only teiephonic
reconfirma-
tion needed when previous relaxed. operation finally mounted_ 0 1 Head-
quarters recomended delay until January after consi dering and equating
objectives against risk factors for Anlash and others _ "Believe by
January_ CIA should be in position better evaluate status of internal
assets
Pari 1914 of 13 December Paris reported that Anlash left
Paris for Prague on November 27 but did not seek recontact with case
officer_ DIR 90966 to JMWAVE of 23 December reported that Havana radio
on 2 December s tated Amlash arrived Cuba on 1 December
The last document in Amlash' s file for the Period ending De cember
1963 is a long report on Amlash but it doea noc contain information
relevant to the October-November activities Nevertheless in red Pen
on the cover Page appears Dec 1963 Not to leave this office on Nestor' s
(Sanchez) orders followed by initials that 'appear to be "GM. 1
One later document in the Anlash file contains more information
about the November 22 1963 mee ting That. document a rough draft of
3 biographical information sheet on Anlash (no finai
'draft was found)
appears to have been preparedi.in 1966 at the time of Anlash S arrest
for a
later plot against Castro It states "22 Nov 63 Mr Fitzgerald
and Mr Sanchez assured subject that this Agency would give him e
thing he needed: (telescopic sight silencer al1 the money he
maetea
The situation changed when Mr Sanche z and Mr: Fitzgerald left the meet-
to discover that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Because
of this fact plans with gubject changed and it wa3. decided that this
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Agency could have no Part ib the as8assination of a government leader
(including Castro) and it Would noc aid 'subject in his attempt _ This
included the following- "We would not furnish the silencer nor scope
nor any money for direct assassination ; furthermore we
wouid
not lift
a finger to help S ubject escape from Cuba should he as sassinate Castro 00
The same document states this message was comunicated to Amlash
in November 1964 by Mr _ Sanchez
Despite this decision the CIA in fact continued to assist Amlash
through a cut-out until Amlash 8 arrest in 1966
Later docuents, on Amlash are also relevant to; the September-
November 1963 Amlash operation Several such documents report informa-
tion received to the effect that Fidel Castro had been aware of
Anlash 8 plots against hin For example Amlash S one time Cuban
mistress was believed to be' working for Cuban inte lligence and her
brother was known to be with Cuban inte lligence Pari 8242 co DIR
in December 1964 warns that Amlash 3 objective may be known to too
many Cubans And_ one CIA informant reported in 1966 on one known
doub le agent of Cuban intelligence working for CIA and said the CIA 8
Cub operations had been penetrated at a high leve l by Cuban intel-
ligence He identified this latter individual only ag one of the Cuban
exiles who was knowledgeable of a number of the most important opera-
tions Nevertheles s Anlash 8 file contains nothing to indicate any detailed analysis of these possible penetrations of the CIA 8 Anlash
operation although a cryptic handwritten note on at least one re-
Port rejects the suggestion that Amlash was himself repor to Castro
One other document bears on the tes timony Anlash ' s case 0 fficers
gave before the Select Comittee to the effect that Amlash was given
a poison pen for self-protection That document reports that Anlash
and other Cuban officials in Paris in 1963 were carrying pistols for
self-protection throughout their travel in Europe
Finally_ although the staff has not reviewed all possible CIA
files to determine what other operations Castro might have been re=
ferring to in his September 7 statement the Amlash file indicates
that some coastal landings of supplies in August were the only other
CIA operations conducted against Cuba in this time period_
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Thlo doctrine 13 baged on the propogition that
the doclelon haa been reached tbat the UaSe canrot llv0
eltb 8 Caatro/ comunlst regine in Cube Whfch continueg
its Prebent Coutad of Bubveralon and aggresaon In Latin
Anerlcs and tbat 06'#0 deteralned t0 take approprlate
action to put a end to these acts.
1 In the Yenezuelan ar0 cache Ca9e no before
tho 048 hold out for 8 'lank check" resolutiona Settle
for 8 13 vote majority regardless 0f Mesican, Brazilian,
or Chilean Support ,
2 . If, desplte 1. above, OAS waters down reeolu
tion, vote ageLnst the vatered-down verbion.
3 , If "blank check " rebolution pasbed, proceed
to 50 belov .
48 If watered-dorn resolution passed over Our
protest , announce publlcly that OAS no longer represonts
ad adequate benlapheric gafeguard and therefore that tbe
Oolted Statea must ullaterally declaro (800 5 9 below) .
5 0 Doclare publicly that furtbor eggre3sion and
subverslon by Cagtro In Latin America Fould be Intolerable
t0 tbe United States and, 1n the event of 0 dow act On tbe
part of Castro Of tbo nature ad_magnftude of tbe Vanezuelan
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are tbe 0-3. 0111 take Buch meagures agalnst
the Castro/conmunlst regine In Cuba 88 It deene approe
priate In tho circungtanced .
6, Eaplaln carefully through dlplomatic
channols to the Sovlet Unlon that the Unfted Stated
fLndg tho probent behavlor of the Caatro/ comunlst
regine Jn Cuba intolorablo, that Cuba !g actlvltfes In
Venezuela prove thls to bo B0 and thet furthor actb
0f vlolence Of comparable danger Or potential danger
O tho part of Cuba E1li Caubo the U.8. to feel no
longer bound by ay Inhfbitlons agalnst Invaglon Or
otber approprlate actton, Urge the Sovlet Unlon , Io
ordor to reduce tenslons In the Caribbaan and permlt
tbe 0.9, to llve peacefully Fltb the Castro/ connunlst
regane 1n Cuba, to 88 u6 that Cube 19 restralned
fom ropaeting 1t8 dangeroug practices. Hake 1t Plain
to tbe 8ovlot Unlon that further bebavior or thie gort
by Castro W1ll cozpel the 0.8, to adopt drastic @eburob ,
Point Qut t0 the 8ovtet Onion the phyeical vulnerabllity
Of Cube 83 70ll 23 the #ffect 4 fallure to reeolve tbe
Cuban problom 01ll bave {on tbe traditlonal policy vhich
tbe D.S hae pursued of not Brort pressureb upon tbe
Sovlets' European gatelllteb. Make It platn that the U.9,
desiros Peace Ln the Cartbbean and expects tbe Soviet
Onlon to achlove good behavior on the part of Cagtro_
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7 , Declde upon the .type 0f actlon On the pert
0f Castro wbleh would trlgger action On the part of tbe
U,8. A rule of tbumb could bo : sucb action 28 Fould
represent gerlous, realized Or
potential, danger to the
stabillty Of 2 Ltlo Anerlcan state, By thls criterion
20 Cagtro_tralned Ren and four tona o8 U3 Introduced
Into northeest Brazll nlght not congtitute 8 trigger
9
wbereas tbe 8870 effort by Caatro 1n 2 Central Anerican
country nlght. Tbe judgment can be untletoral and
Subjective Od the part 0f tbe U.8.
8 . Foruulate @ PTogTad for 0 pobt-Caatro Cube
g1v1ng full velght to' tbe real cbanges which bave taken
place there drlng the past fIve Yeers and, full recob-
nitlon to tbe need for channeling Cagtro 8 ufinlahed
revolutlon Into conatructlve lin08.
The ebove gcenarto ghould not be conmenced wnlegs
lt 19 recognlzed that, although tbese actlons ae
prieartly de8tgned to doter Caatro {ron bla progent course ,
be Dey 7er]- 7ell Persov0rG 10 blg pollcy. Under guch
clrcuagtarced the 0 baving publlely erberked Or the
doctrino, cannot tbon nithdrev fron the congequences.
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A dvantagee Digadvantages
2&
Probably feaslble 2 . Coes not attack prIn_
Vitbio 049 cipal problem of
Castro 9 gubverslon
be Surv0illance con~ 1n Latin Amerlca .
Pletely legal ad
lov nolze lovel
0 b Caatro may returd to
policy of non-Bhlpment
of arma,
Probably will not regult
10 apprehending arng
carriers.
d. Expenglve.
6 , Ip addition to actions In 3, , 4. and 5 , above ,
engag0 In soft sabotage_'@peratfong by_gupporting
"autonomous ezII groupe and conI5zs to Oncourage
TStarnal acts 6x 33bo7ag6_ by moang 0f radlo, prege and
leaflet campelgn8,
Advantages Dlgadvantageg
20 Some econonlc advan - 2, Results comengurate
tages and lnlted witb limited Skills of
encouragement to 0x1le gtoupb ,
anti-Castro gontt-
ment. Though fact of 0.8.
Support carefully
b, Denlabillty by 0. 8. guarded ,
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Pergonnel not uged,
Sone Dolse level
7: In eddltlon to actiong ln 49 , 5 , and 6 , above,
engage In Boft gabotage operations employing CIA-controlled
Cuban groupa agalnst Belected targeta end at spaced
Intervaly ,
Advantagee Digadvantagee
8 0
More professional
8 & Constant danger of proof
operations tbat a0 op' U.S. Jnvolvement
targetted and Cod =
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b. Improvement of morale b. Continued exacerbatlon
among internal ant1_ of Castro FIthout cbance
Caatro elemente. of delfver 2 mortal
Better donestic poll- blow .
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result of Increaged
noige 10v0l
8 In addftion to actions In 6 and 7
above, relar tbe present policy banning independent Cuban
0x1le Daritlze raldg and afr Btrikes agalnst Cuba Iron
0,s , tortitoty .
Advantageg Disadvantageg
Inprovenent 02 0xile a , General ineffectivenegg
mora l0 and Internal agalnst targeta;
rebistance gpirit.
b, Obvious employnent of
U,8, 8011.
Alr strikes homever
ineffective begin to
arouge' Sovlet responbo &
B, Can ' Ldve #ltb Cagtro
(It 18 aggumed tbat; narlnum Intelllgence collectdon
0111 bo continued . )
1. Engago Ip CIA-controlled 48 w01l 88 "autononoua"
covort sabotage ectfong_against Zarger ecoronlc Iopact
but Zgh0r riar tazget Bua a3 Santiago rerTnery ,
Izanzas power PTZAT , employing Cuban pergonnel
only .
Advantages Digadvantagez
Thla o88entially @Inimun Hlgh rlak of capture
Plan evolved June and expoburB ,
but_ navor pernltted to
develop, baving
30*6 ba High nolse level_
cbance to ovorthrov
Cagtro , Pogsibility Or Bom6
Sovlet regponse
0 be Meagurable econonic Inpact
and strong encouragement.
to anti-Caatro elements.
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2 Inetitute 2 @cononlc denlal progran beged upon
tbe eetabllabaent 0z 8 "Proclalaed Llat" undor the Tradtng
wltb the EnenyAct togethor 7it6 alT 6766r TeaGTFT6 .ctTons,
Ovort and Covort, to deny to Cube ltema crttical to Its
Bconony _
0
Advantagez Digadvantagez
Congiderable Incr9eae lfultiplication of U.8_
10 Cuba '9 dlffloulty 1p problens witb
bajor #illee
procuring koy lports. including poasible lo88 of
e l2les' Support of V.8,
b, 0,8, obvioualy B0 dolng dollar .
06 sonothing about Caatro ,
b. Logs of trade.
Wi11 Dot e980 overthron
ar Cagtro ,
3. Engage Io gabotage_operatfons 29 In B.1, above
ue128 pot only Cuban Bu€ Other nafionalTEIes inaluding
03 , STdTer 67 fortue toa5b.
Advantagez Digadvantages
Improved operatlong and Technical denlability
greater econonlc damage. only and very blgh
nolge level,
ba R11l not a9pue OvBr =
thror 0f Caatro,
4, Engage 1n vdolent large-gcale_DOn_deniable
gabotage_actfv4tle3, USIng U28
0
Borvice porsonnel Mbere
6ocosaaty, 626 087 @Inipg Cuban barbors, attacking Cuban
@bLpping Od tbe blgb 8088 and Lp tbe barborg using drone
burface craft) aeak afr attacka On key Ingtallations, etc
Advantzgee DLeadvantageg
Hueb Wore @ffectivo Opora = 8 & No deniabilltya
tiong and real @conoalo
damege: b. Very bigh Dolge level.
C0 If does pot result
rapidly in 211 of
Caatro, 51ll result 1n
Bay of type of
criticis.
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5 , 049: ullatera1 Cloge-in ship2ini,'oatongfbly
for 7h6
quarantine 0f_Cuban
Bxport or arzb to Latin
pWspos6 Oi provontIng
lating
and degradlng
Anerica wlth the a1 Or buml_ Castro .
Advantagez
Dieadvanteges
Proof of U,8. Iotention
to Caatro. 8 , BIll Probably
pot catch
contraband.
b If vigorouely
purgued
againet all Cuban
shipping,
may provoke Soviot response.
expenelve Vithout
agguring Zall Of Caotro.
6_ Gutoff of 211 connunl and out 83 Cuba Inaludioz
a
cationg (except radlo)
Into
Janalca cablo. aandeatine cutting 0? tha
Advantagee
Digadvantagee
F11l at leaat for 8
Period digrupt Cuba '8 Congiderable outcry
diplomatic
and econoalc
fron Europe
and Latio
offengive and binder America
# Subveralve efforts.
b Not fatal
to Fidel.
7 & 4 Pree-dentfal
that tbe U,8,
"~oo3ide} Pub3-3odec-4rutton
clear
Castro regize
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Ei th 1t ad encouraging
barrins an7 fapprochezent
elenente Fithin
tbe Cuban
AntfaCd"tooeeonnuni"P
disg1dent
{orcea to carry out' 0 Coup . Advantagee
Digadvantegez
and
@"ccectsieg %o de,Gube
}tust ba followed to Latio forn 01
by gome America. effective action.
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8 , An offlcfal declaration thet Bbould Castro
engage In certaln Bpecified proscribed ections tbe
U.8_ 7111 ln Bacb Ingtance deetroy 3 major ingtallatlon
inad Cuba (the 0 Rostom Dctrine") .
Advantagez Disadvantageg
80 Hey forca Cagtro to 2 , May provoke Soviet
Btop hls subversive responge either before
actiong. Or
after retallatory
actlon taken .
ba Mhether retallation py
tbe U,8, 19 required} b, Difficulty In plnnlng
Or It 0411 bave down clear-cut vfolae
profound effect on tiona by Castro,
anti Caatro porale .
C 0
Clzficulty In avolding
cfvilian casualties.
9 Anpounce_publicly and inforn the Soviet Unton
through 6Igh Tovol dTpTonazic Cnannels Ehat furtnor Sub=
veraton by Caatro Lo Latin America 19 ictolerable and
tbat 1f Caatro perslsts Ip bls pregent courge the Unfted
States 7111 Do longer feol bound by ary innibitiong
agalnat Invagion of Cuba and 511l tako sucb meaguea 28
1t deens approprlete. See Annex A
Advantagee Dgadvantageg
Proper bagig for 8 Difficulty of clear
future actione. proof =
be Poggible deterrenco b Poggible Sovlet
of Cagtro, reactiong.
Best metbod of mInle
@iaing Sovlet reaction,
10 , After baving @gtablished the approprlate be918
for sucb action, 1@poge 2' total blockade of Cuba
Advantagez Digadvantageg
Tbe Dat effective method Possible 8ovlet reactlons.
of bringing dov Caatro
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for Ecb action, Invade; Cube .
Advantaged Digadvantagee
0111 briog down Caatro , Pogalble Sovlet
reaction ,
ba Probable heavy
cabualtles Or botb
81dea.
Increased difficultios
In poat-Cagtzo Cube .
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FOR Cuba
BROADWAY NEW YORK 3, N: 48293
to 2 mineo nachinc t0 prepare public mterial if you are going to operatee A
tpewritee 1s ossential and above &ll perple that will carry Qut the million
and one mechanical functions necessary-to make it a Eoing operation:
5
} Note: when contact people by mail ve rec cmnend that only first class be
used and that no full name go on the return address on the outside of the enve loreE
8
You mill notice how Ie Frork our! 5 here on the national levela people will re
spond better with this type of protection against nutty neighbors and over curiou 0
postment These may sound. like Small ta you, but . I can assure you that wa #
gone throuth thi a thousand and more time the th and breadth of the country # r
have learned a great deal ofar the last three years; through some bittor experiene
Naturally , I mould like to communicate with YQu a grjat deal more concernirg Ue
yourself So that WB can to know yQU and possibly be of sone assigtence to yrs 0 €
85 we mora informationa
Gc'
Fe njpe to hear from you very soon in this regard and ara loking formard +
a wor king relationship for the futurea Please ; fell free to discuss thi9 za82
quite thoroughly with me
Fraternally,
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SP3CTRUU Or COUBSES 0F ACTION MIT BESPECT T CUBA
Accepting 88 valld tbe Attorney Ganeral '3 Btatement
that tbore 19 no polnt ln discusaing Cout30b of action
Fith rebpect to Cube until tbe fundamental dectston 19
nade 18 to whetbor Or not 1t 13 poaaible for tbe Unfted
8tates to llve witb Castro , the following pobsible
coujos 0f ection #G listed uoder tbe beadings "Can
Llve Fitb Cagtro" and "Can 't Llve eitb Castro, " Neither
of thesa beadings 1g abeolute; the Cours0b of action
listed wder each 80 indicative of degrees of accepta-
bility 02 tbe Castro regime Or conversely tbe urgency
to ovorthrom 1t0
COURSES Or ACTION
Can Mve with Castro
1. Negotlate 8 detento with Fidel looking tomards
full recozzITTon Or 2SZegtne and "OTinTted Erado
bot7eon 756 Uztod Statas Sna Cuba . TTho negotTazor of
766 Totont0 FouId 0ndeavor To Secure fron Castro' con
@ltzenta not to engage Ln gubverg17e activities dn
Latlo Anerlc? and Dot to engage In polenics agelnst
tbe Uolted 8tat0s, Be would a13o endeavor to reduce
Or eltolnate 80 2 regult of Our concegalons , Sovlet
Prebence In Cube ad reduce the Cuban ailitary machine
to Odo compatible Jitb the reguiremente of 2
peaceful
Latln Anorlcan IBland republlc.
No covart #ctlviti0g would be undertaken ad
Intelllgence operatlons would be of 8 nature compet-
Ible #Ith our relationa Fitb 0 noutral power ,
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If tbe plan worke, tbis As plan alnoat; bure pot
mould represent 8 Batlg - to work , It would have grave
factory Bolution ot tbe conBequencea throughout
Cuban probled, Bapeclally Ltln Anerlca 88 w01l 88
if tbe Sorlet Prebodce serloue domestio polltical
could tbereby b ellalnated. repercubalone,
be Evon 11 plan ultinately
Succegbful there would
be abort terd doneetic_
political 108ges and
abort term weakenlng
U.8 & posltion Jn Latlo
America .
3, Do_pothlpga No' speclflo effortg mill ba made
to artango 8 Topprochement eith Fidol but 76 would'
remaln receptive to ady advances made by bim. No
Covort operationa would be udertaken and Intelligence
operations mould not include black naritine operations
Into Cube . It muld bo' hoped tbat Fidel
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recognIzing
the good falth and good 0i1l Of the Dew
Adninistratlon,
mould Dako blb Owd advances leadipg towards 8 sat1g_
factory detento,
Advantagee Dieadvantages
4g 10 1, above , 8 & 4g l0 1. above but 10gg
Bbort tera donebtic and
Letin Anerlcan lobees,
ba Evon l0sa chance of
Bucco380
3, The_pregent level Of Antell-gence_ogeratfong,
Anolud1ng 03ZOvOTHIT2t WouTd o ContIued Bla?
DaTTTTS TSzTTtrazIona and OZITTtratons 61 agents and
caobes 0f Intelllgence gear would contioue but Do' action
operations mould be conducted _ Me would be "keeping @r
ejo Fldel botb 10 Cuba end abroed but would be naklng
Do effort t0 biodor blg Lnterna] development .
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Malau effort would be made to Increage tbe
counteraubverslon capabilities of Fidel'9 fore1gn
target countrieg .
Advantages Digadvantageg
He pould be maintadning}
0 _ Evidence of Anerican
0 clean handa attitude Inactlon would be
towards Castro and Our domegtically asgailable,
pollcy would be DorB would be gulckrly gensed
compatible with tbat of by Latlo_ dmerlcan coud~
Our @jor 2llles, tri0g and Fould furthor
demorallze tbe ex1le
community.
be Re would be 1n effect
belping Cagtro to con ~
solldate bls position
at bone and establiab
bls Image ebroad .
4. In addltion tol intelligence collection 13 1n
00 would engage 1n 8 "persuaglve" econonlc denial
Progrz employing d1plosatIc OfTorts and tho Coopera =
ETon 67 U.8, corporatiops.
0
Covert Bubtle sabotage
against selected Cuban !loporte (e.g. contanlnation of
lubricant eddltives)
0
Advantagez Digadvantagez
A carefully targetted We F11l renaln at adda witb
denlal Program Fith 0ffOc = ou #ll189 On Cuba trade.
tivo eubtle Babotage 10 cape_ He may delay but pot prevent
ble of at least dlsrupting Castro'0 PrOgTB8B ,
tbe tlolog of Caatro 9
econonlc efforta. It Gay
bave 2 neegurable effect
On Cube '9 Ode domegtlc
Boutce O} econonic atrength
Bugar ,
5 , In addltion to actiong In 3. and 40 above ,
engage 1p survelllance of guspected vessels Or afrcraft
catty12g Cuban ang 367pn2nts by means 07 BITatoral
agreementa Fltb Individual countrieg 10 Latto Anerica,
Bucb surveillance to be accomplished Without tbe ub0 of
force Io internatlonal wators and tbe 480 of force 1n
national Raters,
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FOR Cuba 46i7/6 Qr nat'M
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Ttank you for your prompt reply. Enc losed are yowr card and receipta &long
with 0ir thanksi and welc orzc
experie
Your interest in helping to form an FPCC Chapter in Now 'Orleans 18 gratedully
raccivede I shail to give You some basic information now so that Tou may have
Xo
8 botter nicture of what this entailse
6 do 7f
For one thing, Ia7 encloging a copy of oir Constitution and Ly-lawa for all
thich i: apters and Stident Councils. You 71ll note that there is considerable autonay
for an organization our 31z00 Te try and let &ll Chapters operate according to the Jen for-
local requirenonts. Naturally, ttere a mininul regulations which must ba mata 'ere In
All Chapters can receive litercture in bulk at 3 discounted rate and resell at "es our
tt3 rateil price and use the proceecis for further Chapter activitiess} Credit i8 mvered t
C% tonded and payzont is not requirad writh the order, Te do expec + paymcnt within & for 3
recsonabie period So thit Ie may continue our] end of the operatione rzanizat
It wald be hard t0 concieve of 3 ctapter with 88 few @embers a9 geem to ezist ould MO;
in tha New drleans areae I have ' juat gone throu;h our Files and find that Lousiana Pceedure
sceris somewhat restricted for Zair Play activitiee&. Horaver with what 10 there eporters
pcrhapg you could build 3 larger group if 2 few people would undertaka the disciplined easily ic
responsibility'of' concreta organizational work tomnlend
"e certainly are not at all advcrse to very sma ll Chapter but certainly would
prate in
expect that thero woild be a3t least twice tha amount needed to conduct 0 legal executive
"ie wili
bojrd for the Chapter. Should this be reasonable we could roadfly issu9 9 charter f&
lcca
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'ev ~rleans Chapter of ZPcc. In fact, #re wrou ld oe very , very pleased Sc0 this
39, 196}
take place and vould like to do everything possible to assist in bringing it about.
7e fcel that the soutk-east is a very difficult area to work because of our lack of
contacts. Our only 'southeastern Chapter right now is that in Florida Ihich
I originally organized before com up to work in the Na ticnal Office
Recaipte 0 long
I for cne am convinced of the possibility of such an enterprise but ow from
experience that it i9 quite 3" problen and requires sane sacrifice on the part of
Jang 10 grateiully
those inv ,lved.
the& You May have'
You mst realize that you will cone under tromendous pressures with any attenpt
to do FFCC Frork in that arca and that you will not be able to operate in the nanner Ad By-lama for all
which is c >nventional here in the north-caste Even most of our city Chapters nave conalderable eutonoy
the
been forced to abandon the idea of opera an office in public. The national offica te according to
moto
here In Mew York is the only one in the: 'today and the lew York City Cnapter mbich muet ba
rate &nd resell at uses our office too So it is the Chapter with an office. Kost Chapters havo dis- Jeoqunted
Crcdit is covered that it is easier to operate scmi-privately out of 2 home and maintain 3 Pa Q. 4 activitiee:}
~t paymont within 8 jox for all mailings amd public noticesa ((4 P.O. Box i9 a must for any Chapter in tile
operd #4 Onla
organization to Guarnatee the contined contact with tha national even if an indivicuual
{07' menbers 89 se0m to erist should move or drop 'out,
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'Je do have 3 serias and often violent Opposition ani this
{Iles ar find that Lousiana proceedure helps prevent many unnecessary incidents which frighten away prosoective
sevar , #ith #hat 18 there supporters . I definitely would not recaend &n office, at least not one that will
#Juld undertake the disciplined bc easily identifyable to the lunatic fringe in your canmunity. Certa I would not
rec omnend that you engage in one at the very baglnning but wait and see how can
1 Chapter but certainly #auld onerate in the conminity through several public experiencese
~ded to conduct a legal executive
"ie will ba able , to give you sona assiatence from here, but not mucn. It is up
ld roadfly issue charter fc 6 tha lccal Chaptersto_handle_their nm affalrs_ You shaould have at least access
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 1
Deputy Director (Plans)
Cost of Cuban_Operations
Fiscal Years 1960 1964 7
Fiscal Year
Suppor- Covertbl
Covert_Actionc/
1
Collection @ Pos t-InvasionE/
1 PA/Propd/ PoramiLitarye DELeade_Support_
Total
1960 8319,534 8131,063 81,677 161
8 1962 6,293_ 580 457 633 5,168 584
30,364,698
698
52,446 ,167
J
3,599 274 793 , 8245/ 6,444,098.
81,627 ,824 43 712,319
1963 5 ,343 973 1,738,9775/
2,975,635 4,176 0oo 17,988 831
1964 (est.) 5,030,000
5,786 ,797 5 , 038 , 880 3,899 ,830 808 ,457 1,267 500 3 520,000 23175004/
565 Qoo 20 200,000 #
Total 20,586 ` 361 4,888,997 22,596 640 47 815 122 10,268,654 106 155 274
Spport: Includes S tiff salarics purchasc
of/adrinistrative administrativc
1
facilities etc
eq"ipment andl supp [ies rcntal of broperEle: 4u24
5 b Covert: Collection: Includes Eoreign Inte
operations involving the us@ of
Elasgtel ic cedcollection
operationg and counter-intelligence
of third-country intelligencc
and
agent operalions 'audio and oeher technical dcvices usc
c/ Covert Action: Includes
security serviccs rcfugcc dcbrlcfiug"
etc _ the broad field oE psycholocical warfaro and paramlli encompassed by NSC 5412 Lary activitics
J PAI - Includes Folitlcal action and
magazines _
)
other licationg radio
Propagandla operattons invo the use of ne1spapers
9
[
television
9 etc e Faramilitary: Includes maritime operations afr opcrations formation development and dispatch of in
training, military hardware ,
the
E/ Brigade Support: Includes
groups paramilitary operations
ac medical and
payments to dependents of Brigade 2506 woundcd missing ,
or kflled In rehabilitation costs of releaged Brigade members dircct mCmbcrs ctc_ paynicnts to Brigadc
El Includes a totai of $345,000 for the operation of thc Opa Locka , Florida: S95,000 Cor Eiscal
Intcr-Agency Caribbcan Admisstons . Centcr
at
W Includeg s5,000,Ooo for
yeer 1962 aud $250,000 for Eiscal ycar 1963
June 1963 ,
support of autonomous Cuban groups under the covert progra approved in
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COVERT _CTI3I ACAINSI CWJR4
Ize, faqe
I meCuzeat Szatlon 4nCuba
Burlng 1963 tbe #twaclon In Cuba ateadily vorgencd . T
ecopor conticued Ita decline and Caatro 5as nct able to halt
the dotward Orve , Eurrleana Flora LotensfEfed Cuba' s. ecanoaic
problens _
0
Disilluslorent and apatby &onz tha geat cajortty
O2 tha populazion contlzued to gro, a0d exthuslasz V33 Joczezs trgly
rebtricted to a brd Core. 43 populir support waced, coercton and
tertor vere Eployed Dore ard Dore to calatain the rezize 8 cortrola
Castro' 8 drive co cotvert Cuba Into 0 atandard cozzzjnlat prototy?e
caubed Increas dlsllluslorzert #nP1S bls origlool follovers_
Bla 8Narre Ln tie eyes of pany Cubang and Latio Laericana 8uffered
uicb tba realizaticn, f the afteztnth Of tke Octobzr alasLle crisie,
that Cuba had b60 a Fatm} snd Castro 2 dupo 0f Sovlet polcya
Despfte extraordinary effort?; Castra baa pot been able to-
sto? acca Of deflance against hla regtms- CuertIlla activltya
alchough gcattered ad uncoordlraced, ecaeirues , Spontanooua
acts OE sabotaza Z78 co_ on througtout cha Lgland, Ac Eteat
rlsk zefugees %till elgce bls secuzity forces a4 sc3 ?etrole
t ebczpe frcd Cux, In thls atrospterc, Gxternally Ecunted
ralds #gongt Cbaj tarzets bave added to Csszzo'3 Sc3ee O2
frnstation and helped sustaln bope &0n3 the Dary Cbans d8-
Llneloned uLtb blo zegtae.
0 During 1963 Cuba" 8 Loteroxtional #tuatlon Jeeczd alcoat 43
pad 29 the dozebtic& Althouga eliaks appeazcd L tha Nall, the
0,Sa palicy of ecanoale ad dfploxatlc Leoletlon oE Cusa 310
blding 62 fafrly Nell. Soviat-Cuban roletloas cleerly %ere tlder
etalo, Castzo gcored Do forelgn Polley victorics to provlde 4
meh needed Psyeholozical boost_ His pajor effore to #ticalato
Caatzooty?e arned [prlalngc thzoughout Lattn Anerica fafled t
dlsrupt the Venczuelen 'electlon? or Decctber and Retted 0 potanttally
ecbarzogrg expojure 'that Cuba %ad ahtpzed arna cleazestirely to
Venezuela , Theze Jatorral ad {nternational trenda and develo?-
deats' brought Cuba to 8 134 point iuring 1963.
Aithlo the pest %ev veeks, hozaver,
#
Ilve develop ents have
Bven the Caa o rezza Jn Isportaat polltical-paychalozical
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1Let > @re 8
10 Toe real_eatlon I0 tk0 Cobaa Govertoenc tbat the
conclculng blgh gu5ar prices In tic world corket
bave ezabled Cuba to Cxpand Its corrertible
cittercy 783877o3 Eren atout 820 oLllion to
alroat 81OO ailllon durirg tbe year.
Te Sovlet-Cuban trzde protocol for 1964, s1gued
Op Jzctry 11, acd tka Khrushchevaseurarces 02
Jeruaty Geconstzeced 2 Sovlet Villic_tesa
6
enlctaln Lt3 afd ard trade progzaa a8 8 vzry
gubatantlal level &rd to Bupzort Culan €u32r
prices - Zna protoool cally E3r Cban-Sovict trade
to Lccreasa by 22 Pez ecar ver 19636 Scvict
exporta, axcu2 Lo Pez cent 0f wbicb Mllz be Or
credic, wfll Inzzease~by at leaet ZO per czRE&
3 Tbe dlatlact poss_btllt thae tba Uofted Statea
polcy O2 econcelc and dlolorate Lsolation 0f Cuba:
Dy Cot be alle to stard i0 the face 0f Lncreacing
Pressi-ee [rCa Weatera ccuntrias to ezpand trade
Gith Cubz, Gtcrdicg crodlt L2 prcessory. Tha
BrItisb bug dcol, Nlth Pajfent spread Over 8
flve-Jeaz Perlod, 19 an irrortant palltcol and
Pszebologlcal trlrt?b for Catro, Ic? ercsive
effecta Oa
pogentia] Cubaa guPplLera
E2
already
eleaz,
Tho recaat riotlc3 and violedce &a Zazs a, t wblek
Castro bad 8oza L3zd, #ll injoat pem TCo Wtlooary
Ecrwor Into Castrolce #cclvidlese In ad8do,
Pnceo md {t3 afcerioth #ll teke tbe play away
Eroa tbe Iceleent 0f the Vezazuela 0rta cachae
Sv The revolt &n Zaazlkar, In wleh Castra 2lgo had 8
bana; L9 bztcd tD Izpzesa Latin dzerica 33 %ell 39
other unbtable azaas %ith tba length Qf Fidel'&
ard erd the Poterzy Qf hia doetrtces
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Tese rrcenc dsvelorcent3 bive provided the %p4 zd
poLltical and psyelological thrust Casto 0 redlzz badly-
nraded , Ila Dov bas 2 Elrocr bisa for bta repeated clalna
tbat Cuba has gurvived tie Eull bract 0f 0 Dajoz Coited Statce
effort-to destoy tre Cuban rcvolutlop, cloina likely tD 1
Press Qary Ladio Azqrlcans 03 Gell 39 Catan?
0
In edltlon,
Canto Dou baj tbe Fossibfllty af pzoduciog 3048 cangible EvLdence
Ebae hla zegtze can rastore Zorvjrd CoCntm L3 the ecods_
#
Conseguently, tbc geceral positlon of tic Caatro rczina #0
eeb {~proved over tbat PE tbree or fqur Zonths ezo&
I Cuzzent 0 E,EolLez 21LP2r1n2
Ibe ultitata U S. objectivo $9 &ba replacenent o2 bbe
Preacot sover_mare In Cuba b7 Ord
Eully corpatlbla etth the
Epals p8 tha Dalted Statea..
Ta attain thl9 objectlve, 8Q
are tjtpg, by ezertiog
adm preasuze tkzorgh al1 mernd short '02 cbe u3c of Olll-
tart iozce, t0 Create 4
dczzes %f disorganizztlon, ucertainty
aad &laccutent 1n Cuba whlca #Lll (4) predLspose elezent? 1n
tbe nilitary &nd ottcr PO&er centera o2 tbe regica co brles
at3ut tba Overtkron oE tbo CactzolcaZmlsc 5-cup Z2 tho
elialratio? of thc Sovfet preseace _n Cuba; (b) wcalen tha_
page for 6liverslon In the Kic lopgerc; and (6) es3lat 1
cerwvinciog the Sovlets thac thcy er0 cktrg < loalng and
expensLva toxse:
In Orzer tD create tba optlam Jtnatioa just descrtbed,
50 bava teen carzying Quc 8 PIcgran 0f iotcgztzd, 5
Qally
retnforciag and Eybually dopecaene co.r8ca Of action}- Tbaga
cagrise:
@eecztanle_mlitiel E4osrcholorienl _tsoletton
Df Cuiba Erzaa the fzaa rzli
Dsntal o8 fzee-osldEzot?erd3t:2c_0z
24327 t2@: &2 bave uaceztaicd 2 Vazogy
Dr overt a3J Cowcrt #ctivitiee desiz2d D
Zicuce Erce-world trads with Cuba &zd, especlelly;
5o Cetry Cuba 828638
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Proposela tor expandirz and Lntensl_
fyin? these actlvftLea_ @re Dod} being presented -
Tbo ezccutioa 0 tlesa addltLoral zeasures depera
tasically
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poLLtical Cost? ard rtcts txc 44 entallede
Ie_reduetc 2E fzes_torld_etinztny_ 10 tha Cbz
S22: hie hve Giictalced dpluzatic Pressure
On fzce-borld pationa to reduce ana eventoally
ellaifato thelr ships & ttc Cuea trade, 50 bave
denied' 0S& ficancsd car3oes L U.S. Parts to
sa1p8 Ln tbe Cubu tradg (Ma1[ 220, 23 arended)
To the 87l Gencrol end, va bave cxployed oalatins
legislaclen; zd tba threat o2 edditiozal legts-
latico, restricttog econoatc ard u1lltary ass1st-
anve ta countzies Nltb 9hlpa t0 tbo Cuba trade.
J8 I2redcelog gE Ereeworld 20 the cantadnesnt
9E Seuiee B122 alr serulca to Cjba : Cc bave
plntetzad dipl estlc Pressures On Ereeetorld
ccimerles bevinge Or #shdca co eatablisa, atr
sezvLce to Cuba, #e @r0 Iovokins rcccat iegls-
Iatlva denying agalatarca to coutriea Vboge
shtpa azd alrcraEt carzz corodicle? to aad frca
Ciba. In addlcfoa, Fe bzve exrted Ciplonatlc
Pressutes 02 Erceerorld colatries tD dery theiz
facflltfes to Sovlat Bloc ard Cubaa alrlloee
zervins Ar tryijs to Berve 0= karaee sbch
afllnes,,
0
mo Laltztion 02 EzeZlddoicnatis_reletfong
5LC; 43 ozportinlty Raa offered, Ve bzve
ezettco Presjuzc to Persuade Erec-world Ccuatrlea
to bzeak diplozatlc rclatfon? with Cuba Or tD
T7gvent tbe estcblielanztof Such raletioog Eth
Cubaa
Sa Ezforto to tnderine theCzztzoWEzce_abrcad,2d
5221252t0031 ~ttzuts te eckexz: tlr izue8
57 FCoa Of dialcultlc, 1rcpnzand2 Jra covert
Eeagurea ve kave endeavored to doronatzate tbe
seatn3a8, falluzea and betzayals 02 tbe Castzo
rezieo .
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D9 Mefeagezaznt Castre-Conntae _Sotyezalon
10 Elehio As #adicated abave, 4ll Cur efozta
ta 6zi23 abcut disorgtalcatlcz, Uocer ":zinty a4
discortcnt Jn Cutz sre Lntecdcd t0 Keakca che
Cuban base for Castro/Cratsz euxyeralona
20 Oetzd2Quba;
@ltzlatorl: He tvo gcuzut, througb tbe C4S,
to cbtala Ecaeral Latfn #cerican recosaltlou
02 tba Beriousrec? DE tka subvcrzivo tbzeer
ond approvel 02 reco mandetiocg 02 Feasured
to llalc trzvel to and Ezca Cubz, 1d te
terafer 0z furda and propamada
0
Ac che
present tlzc, ve Intcnd 89 exaod and Ictenotsy
tnig effozt thraugh ictiona Cp Le caked Dy the
Qis Od tbe tagi? 02 tto Vecezuelen coplalne
egi5st Cuba- Eeycnd ta activitie? Ln tre
Be
bave mde speclal effarta wlth the Certzal
Etezicjn couctzies &d Piaana to *vz t6
tlgkten Czntrol? Qx tne aetlultles Znd DvZene
cf guivcraive?, Co develc? tolore 234 Icskore
suzcillance CapabLlltic?, t3 Grceza effective
latellLgsuce organtzations ad Co estabLLsi &
syaten JE Intelllzeace exehange.
Bllatezel : Tarcugh tralninz: caterlal @36iat-
Oceo aj czehznge 02 intcllicercza
2
%0 Aave
Borscd to Ltzcva thc Inteznal 6824157
cepabilleies 6f tadivldral csuatitoga
@Eilererl: In edditlon to pultllateral 874
bilateral tcasures, va bave contiued t
Eatatala oxr 8urfdc2 pattola Ju the vicloity
Q2 t? [rrove 0 0at cozrlcatiana
eystaas end Eo dave_ 00? Owa Icte Llgene?
cupobilities ognina€ eubvrrslve ectivitiaa
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Ie reduatlon_erdIv2ntl e:Ztocti_e8 ta Soxtat
424023Z 2z83f28 L0
Ke bave Qaiatajaed diploratlc preasura an tbe Sonicta
t3 contloue troopswltbdrzxalo and xe bave waroed tra
Sovleca that wo 91ll pot tolerate tke use Qf Sovlec
forces 1n Cuba to slppra39 popular uprLslaga
1e_sellectkon28 Wntellgeree
We bave Lalotalned ard Itproved cur Overt a8 Covert
collestlon 0f Intelllgence te Deet Dot U,8,
statcgic rcguirccents tuc al30 operaticral requlre-
menzs Cotectcd sith Or covert ectlvitles vithln Cubaa
We have Tintaired perlodic blgh-level overflLghca
supple ented oa & f€a Occaalana b] lor-levcl fllghts.
Ha bave warncd the Saviets apd Cubans agaln3€ Later-
fczerce uth these f1zhts:_
Conezt _lazztlom to weaz4 22d dgrtte tha C2gtz2
Reale
4 detalled, dlscnaalon Qf te Covert @lezents 02 Dur
Ptog-I eppearg In Section IIL _
8
47 stnced atoves 24l cnasc coutjed 0z action lotezaet 27
#0 {Atezdependcrc# Fc? exrolc, D covere @Concaic dcnlal
operation? are desizred to rolreozce 434 ba relcforced by D.5z
Gvert Dajrzes 02 ecoronlc prcbsirey %oth tyrcr of actlvities
dlrected agalcat Eha ecorcd; orc interded to agzravate exLsttog
erorcalc dff2lcultles &4 touz ta ICeese thc level 0f di-
eEfectioa Dt oly 43 txe pozular 6a03 bnt particularly In
bba power csnter? 0f the regLrc, Tbls dieaffectton cnbiree?
G ablty tD eatablah ncaai-zful contacc with flzures In
ta nllltary and pthez poner centez? @n] to davelop intelll -
8Encc boutc2b& 7ula degaffxctloa 10 Lo tra LoteceLfled by
tre evteecce 0f. Vulnerablity ta autsido cttacks provlded
b thbho Succe93 DE covert Babota3e ad baressment ectivltles#
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Eutpally supportios Coursea QE ectlon Jeoprrdized the otbcra
Qnd tbus corprcal3ed tha entito prograna
Tnrough 1963, tbese couraes 02 aetlon Rare bavias &
mezetter
able poaltive Isqact, Wia Ors DoM confronted, boveves, by &
aerles 0f developuents, described fp Sectiou I, whicb tbreaten
t Attejt Or evc reverje ou forward povoteet? Tze sfotation
1 pezticulorly acta ulth rejpect tv tha malatererce 02 Dur
ecoronlc presaizes: Thlg fact rakea tils revlev o€ Or covert
Operatlona parcicularly tirely &d important-
ITI, Conege 02 the Covezt Acttan Erez
The CLA covert Jetton prorran a139 &t zalctoinioz all
EcasIble presst-es 03 Cuba &d 38 crcating and cxploitiog
aitationg in Cuta caleulazed to stlzulato dLasiacnt elerenta
Uthin the regise, perticularly t the ar7ed forces, ED catty
Gt 6 Co1?- Ibo oSjectlve Of the ccup would ba t? reole
tbe CaatiolCor olat frco tre resize ax4 ro ellaizato tbe
entira Sovict pzestnco froz Cuba, Recogllag tkat the 0,S _
13 enzzged In 4 Tica azz1nzt tlzc &leh Ciba 2nd its Savlet
olly ta obstruct tho concolfdctlon pZ Coetzo'; rcctg2 B€ b 9
8d to proviot bic; frza acilievicg bls eoitio33 15 Lztin
Incr Se sat tko Elce fzjce $or thig prograa at abonc
elghtoen Rcatha Erta Jeno 1963,
Aq or-gnally coucelved &nd opproved In June 1963, the
covezt JcElon D7Q3z4 Faa based 82 tbo #3aption that 0,8,
gollc] pzccludea 0 nllitry Icvesica Or 2 Eull blockzde 02
Cuba uhick could lead to 2 conEroatatlon with tba Sovlec Upfoz;
Ip adaitlo0, tbe covert action prog-aa wag ard Lg predicated
00 tka ttejta tbat Its ckazce of suceess Uould dczecd beavily
0 0 sustairer Bod Iotonalvo effort In obhor gectozs, Partl-
eularly the &vcrt eccronlc &cnlal and Political Iaoletlon
Progra s, by all elcreuta of the Unlted States Covertcocnt,
IC9, tba intcreectlon O2 tbe ovcr€ &nd Covert effcrt egairst
Gula I9 rogasdcd
05 a vital ocd Lrzeplaceable Eactcr 1€ there
0 t b any trpa 0f eccoplishing the overall nisalon;
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CLA'9 iateg-aced covert @ction prozrar consista 02 tbe
Eolloudng Interdependant couraeg D2 action}
10 Sqvert_colleatien 22 Antelltaence to rect 0.S,
Datlonal {ecitity reqolrents &nd tp Buprort
crrent ad plarned cavert Operationsa It gbould
ta poted ctat clandestlac rarftire Operations 80
8
{ategtal part 01 Latelllzonea collcctlon,
Paeag2nd1 2e54202 toattewlate_len-rdsbsLz2ke
53620222 ad other forns O2 actlve @nd passive
Zeaiatlcca 4jtn30 tho rerdme.
Ecercate_deblactkong Ia cupport 02 goverteont-
UZdo ovart QfElclal 0,S4 ecaronle Iaoletion
Deaelze? $
Ezzlottetion_ajdotlrkatton ef_@tsgfestton t2
tne LyLjD 33021 437821 224 other ZZz2r CuEt8re 02
the T2utz2 t encourege tkcse elezenta to Cty cut
9 ccup agnisst th: Castzolcorzelse factions
0
CIA
L9 Ldeatifying: contactinz &rd ettcrptirz to e36
tablish cbarels Of Corr-nlcatioa ~ith tlece iodl-
vIduals-
36 Gereral2ate225244h3Z8352n€ *3 a econcolo deapoa
Bd 20 0 gticulus to Loteraal resiotencc, As 0
ecazcalc Ieapon, 1€ f3 dealgned ta Suppleaent &n4
srreozt the Overall ccozcoic denlal prPzraa by
8.3a3tng economically Izportaaz Lostallatlora and to
eda ta Cagzo'& appaoalc problees by Ecrcing hia to
dvert Eoncy ,. Danpower aud regources frod ccoocale
to interpal eccurity octivlcleg; Ag 2 attrulus 60
resiatance,Sabotaze and phyaical boregszCzz oporations
Provlde VLaibla Jnd drzaatic eviderca 0z the exlotonee
and cspablllty of organized resLetaace agx1n31 tbe
rozimas To &h8 extert that tbese Cpcroticas 0r0
encceggful, tkcy olco demonstrate to tbe Cuban
populatloa &nd ellte gzoupa the Vulrerability % tbe
to '@llltant actioo? Ic 19 recogalzed tbst 70
Blagle acC o2 eaiotaga by ItselE 632 caterlolly afzece
tha Rcorozy or atirlata reslstancc but wa tellcve
Eh3c &
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that tke Crzeulatlve pszctolozeal and golitical
Ipact uthla Cuba Pf gugtaired jalotzzo cperationa
10 3 neceasary elentnc In tbe aecorpllatnrat Jf
O0t
nlsaloda
gyoxzt e2 ertonzzcug_mt_-Castzz Cuban ezlo
EC4ize Tnase Operatiana are #Rtecded Lo prSvlde
0 deniable activltye 2 Feana OE supplercrtinz a
ezdandlng Qrt covert capabtlizy eJ 4 Crajg Q2 tatl-3
cdvantase Qf Ltapped polltical ad reaLstance rescurcas
02 the exdle czCziity, Zhe Prczan 1c7 includes t0
autcrocoug groups wtoce credlbilicy 04 to autonody 10
8tcnsthenea by tie 'facta tbat:
Tney e10 Led by Rca sbose praulnanca ard etatus
t3 tbe Cuban ezLle ccranity Gakres plaustble trels
@ecez3 to Eunds, eguierect &d Eacpower qulte i-
dependept 08 tha 0.3.}
Eoth a78 based In tbe CarIbbeen @re1 Outatde 0f
0.S. terrLcory;
Eoth bzvo ra" tural, MLllIng allles $5 pober Ln
geveral Latin Ercricmn countrles;
Botb are Cuben and (rlpy Culad nationala
exclualvely;
Every ittr Df flnanclal _24 logtotlc gupport he3
teca baadled 10 0 Datrer 38 0 provIde mzlz
protcction eglnst PTDOE Df CIA or 0.S < parti-
eipatlon&-
The toltlal at. of thase Cjeretlcns 13_ to strcrgtbaa
tha NLLl to reslsz ty increaslnz tre tCt0 Og Ebe
vezsion and Babotcgc larzely Calazalrcd tnttl 7ot
by CZA; &b8 crcateal a3 & ta tat te Etche
fro3 tba coagtlide to the Interloz 0f Cuba ;
5ho dlsadvzatag? o8 &r extorocua' cprrctlocs L9
tbat 1€ 13 Occesznzy to accspt 0 Iovbr Order Of
efficiency and ccntrol tkzen %culd ba canaldozed
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Cf tbe foregotng Inter-loclung couraes of action; ` Itera
(1) md (2) ar0 Jc tain ard Do pollcy problara regazalog ttza
070 O7ectede ItE" (3) 49 tba cubjec: Af aocther pazer whiea
0 boing Pzoscotad for cazerteut consideratloa, Ited (6)
5 te eg8e2c8 Qf cur prosram @d L0 dependont fOr Ita cucce85
00 tho regules pf all other overt ao covert cour8e? Of actiona
Item (S} haa beca the Bubjeet OE coutlrul roviem o1rce tha
Irceptlon o8 tho progrza mnd 13 tbo primary aubject o2 thlo
Papez, Conaideratlon Qf Iccr (6) (autoaoccus opezatlons) sould
taxa Placa witb 0 dscusaion Of eatotaga ard barceczent (Itz 5)-
Ibesa lattez Lo Itera Qra dLscnased L Zore dotail ta Sectlon D
belou}&
Iv. . DeEatetag 222744 /1 8etesget
We RT} Qf' at least 80 acta 0 irtcrusl gabotage &d 60
erzed clashea betzeen Cuban sccuzity forceg and insurgents
alce 1 Juze, InsuF;Crcy and sabotage iceide Cuzs ate Dot
Part QEe a coordlatod progzzm; tbey &76 act3 02 individal
Or grall &o*p dcfLarce, Tccy ar0 gtia1loted by Ciry factors,
and To Qpe Zectcr C2 ba a33Lzned cntire crcdiea Sabotage
Jacldents, %bich Includs 8 blzb pzozortioo of
Gr2Z2r cire
biradvzs, bzvz 2 terdancy t9 t eeaecnal, 3 facc cbicb {7tber
Obsctzea statistical analysks & Although c L3 tlc cnac Ezcn
0 1m polnc In saboraze Ircidenta arrlag tbe szer Of 1963
tere Nda 8 bexvy Iocreaae durlng tba fall (followic; the
Co DotceZent Of O0r taiding activlty), sc belleva ctct clezzaz
ILght $ shed Ca tbe effecta Qf ots bardssent prCzram b} t&0
atzeerents of vitZesges Of veryng polots 0€ vtea Kithio Ckuba
Id by tho acta 02 the Cuban rzzioe itzele -
3Lac0 1 Argust 1953, flve satoraga reLds have bcen
atearptad_1 411 veze successfula: Tbeze wag Fubstantlal
danga to' the tarzet; all pazticipants were @afely recovercd
and tue plauslblo dentability 0f tbe operationa Waa pot
coproniecd
{z let
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Cartzo frou cbezzi-g the CLA with Tespcnslbillty_ Indeed,
alos€ evary #et 62 defiance agalnst bla regite has tee
Cedlted ta tbe Agercya
Cagtzp'8 €roltonal rescticc? to real pr Iuzorcd cecurtty
tbreata point Up hta aeute gersieivity to Izterzal resLatance
and sosjestb cbat ba feels blo scgica t be Eaz frca seGIe
Eroa extertal thrcat?a The Sovlet Unlon, 0 tra other band,
haa reacted Eo thc gabotago reida Mlth cch leg3 Vger and
bloster tiz 55 177 tlcipatede Iicls only sbrp rcacttod,
asic0 frco tke czpected propogandz, followeri & scrieg O2 alr
Talds & ing 01318€ and Septaabcr Sporacred by Cuban ezlle
3zoup9 opcrStin3 f130 Plorida &nd for khich the Azzncy bad
Co
respoasLbllity_
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Ilcy did m real duncge, trt tkey dd
denouat-Jte that tke Cuban afr defense bg8tca could be
breacked, and they e8dcd eubstsatlally to ta paychologLcal
I7paet Qf 8u2 Elrac tuo ralda _
#
Ie Azercy sabotae ratds prodiscd 802 very ?peclfio
reanlta& Foz ExCole, in tae politieal &nd prycholozical
reals, Canadian Lzia3gdor ELea reportcd in latz Auzuut
tat the dncidcats ttat Conth, includicz tha Sacta Lucta
and Cnsildn Operationa "alsturbed the Eeelinz cf ccagoll-
Gtion Za tzorquility which tha Castzo rczicc bad aucceaded
Ja Cre3cd-? In recert Coaths 10 Be Iczarted tiwt tna Cubang
wera pnccztaio ard epprebensive Over tha poaaibility of 0
0,50 Caccolsn 08 Bubversiou &nd salotczc tecause % Cuba' 8
vulrcrcbility to cuch 0 camalgn &ue to tbe "lou ebb" o2
cttuciosa foz tbe Ceatro rcalzce 4nong the people . Vo &40
ataced.tbzt tka ralda bad "roised bopcs o2 tbo3e opposed
0 the rezize N End tbat "dispirited Orpcaltioa bad received
{LlLp t Lta @orale;"
I 4 Septcaber report; Aabaszador Kled stated thzt
tbe TLoat iZccdiate effect a sc} ati3c3 L9 ctz psychor
Iogeal blox dcalt to the stability O8 the Cactzo
gith conaequent toost n ozpccitioav' 90 Zov Gozzla jnd
dejection in tke Cuatorrevolutionary rdbka oE sj22 Eaaths
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a30, ta mtd, "ba8' given 5ay [o 4
Rave Q2 optloiz thaz tbe
Kozina Leads Is 3o loazcr vecesaardly 3 PcTCJrant ffztrea"
Labaszador Kiad elao rcporzed tbat Che Cuavazra tad indlcated
concer? ' thac tla ralda votld dlvczt such reeded Datporer
and scaources frr tbe ecoronle to tbe ollltary coctote
0o 4 8cpteobcr 3 relLable claadestlue sure9 Id Cwba
Teported' tbat the reaction o8 ta average %n oa tbe strcet *
Eavara to the rewa 02 tba ertacks Oa Casilca ad Sactz Lprla
V09
Yaatourdlnz-# Erior to thc Cuban govarzmant 0 3 #otce
Bcat 02 the raide, the averagz Dan Op tha strcet seered
spetbetic, &cpresaed ana $n 2 1w 8t2t0 Of marale, FoLloving
eba aouncerant tkcir rzod cbanged 10 ope Of plcacurc, Joz,
Ed Loze, Ine obgarratiozg cf thla Boutce %are >einzorced
by tba ataternto %f Cubn zofugcea #o erzLved 15 the 0.8.
obortly after tka Cuban andolncezent Q€ tke ratdo _
0
Eoraer Najor In tho Cubah Rebel so broze #ith
Cestso rcportcd after bt: ezflltratlon fron Cuba In Janpazy
1966 that che .23 Deccrter Sizunnea zald which &cstroyed 8
2-6 Petrol boat 040
6 great boobt to porale &uorz dLaaffected
Cubane &
4 Cuban Lawyez uith esteratve connectians 850nz Cuba
govertrent offielals end $0 tbe Westera coxrlty In Baveze
ba8 Just reported thaz tbe "rprelo effecta 0f tba recezt
eebotag? operacions 278
Epod anonz ratf-reglca sczcnts oE
the ropuletion. Socl afes , to thca; Ladicata thjc €Xe outelda
sorld 13 cot farzetting tbe Cubao prople, tbat tho fighc CCn#
Eirres ecd.#u5za5t3 0
Poasible pralude Co 80re
Elitary Bction
againat Castro- Opposite morale cffecta ara boted jwng the
Pro-regine seg ents wlo have tended to rerao mtably
but tba zcaice eftez sucecgsful sobotage oporetions_
#
4 Cutaa couatcetioza techalckan cplojed. by the Cubox
govetracnt repottrd On 1 January thar tha 02 cabotage
again30 the torzcdo boat on tbe Isle Q Pines 088 Very Bucc238+
Eul * tbe opialco 02 tbe
Fespla &nd,for Surc, public %,oizn
pacded sorthing to slzulaca Its Fbat bozpaoed 31 11 S13-3n84
bad scca 0 efzcct?: Althauzh at tizes #allrea cr3 eufferd
rbieb dcpresa the People, tkoz are axlous for 8658 thiog to
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Tbe ralds also bad aD [Spact On tho Cuban Llitary ard
ecurlty forcea- Certatn areas and ports Kere Placcd
Ou
Speclal clort statas_
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Forcca aro often >ughed to &efedatve
Positions; grolzd, Raval, and air patrols are fzcquecely
larzehed 07 Joteos Lfled; and dezcasive pozleicna in Industrlal
D
agricultral cczplezc: aza maraed to Ezet tba rcal Or
Lagtoed tbrest?a The raldj intezfere Dot oply with routioe
mlitary talalo3 but elv? with Bork Or ccnatuctton ad
ez-Lcplttzal projecto walcb u5e alLtary perconnzl
#
Bant
Giatro persopally Lovastlcated tha Stguarca inciccrt .
In addition, Castso empandod hts Cpa3t watehirz natwork
{zor 46.obgervacion posta Jt tha end o2 Juas t 103 et tbe_
Ed OE Octdbeze Ibose posta have radto comamicatlons and are
manncd by 1O t 25 full-tlzs perzorrel_
0
In 0 furtter offott
6 gcal Cub9'& stores, at least 10 surfaca gearch radar attlo03
bave beea established @ince Juree End J0 bave evidcnce tectae
tvely Ldeptfftlog 7 tore$
Castzo'9 fear Of rlaing dLaaidenco end Jnsuzecncy L4
reElectod $ kio Ioltlatlon Qf 4 #ice varfety of repzesslve
Seteues $ Ea] aro bound to tave adverze Folltical, Psyehos
Iolcal Or ecorr alc rcpercuoslona Inslen Cubx. E ta Coze
Gcted al ogt con3tant actf-insuzgcat operatlona Irvolvlog
mIta 02 np tQ 2,500 ren _ naval &U ground {orce
elezecta bavo been put o special alert, eleber Cr 4 local
r Island-uice basts, DR '2€ loast 35 occaalons Eurz 1963
80
a resulc af rrcorcd cr actual naritlac opcratlons . Bcal -
deata 1 35015 02 3uerrIlla activit# havc bccn fcrcibly
relocated, cad restrictfoas hve beca placed
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13 su37ect 07018 , In Lugust 1963 4 Rcr Iatezoal 2cf1t7
{orce, the Licka Ccntra Firata3, wea forted to alterpt ta
eope Nith OfE-abora roiding Paztie? - In Scpt_rbcz Tew
trainlos
Dottse:
Vera toltlated fcr 6 macd cadrea Of "pczulor deferzo
Dlca_" Tha Parzose Of thase talta 18 t organize tbe people
t3 dezcnd tbeagclvcs agalnst cnery attack ana to Protact
{odnatrlal centza and Lnstallatlona fror qabocoge&
DerpIta. tbese Fcarure? t? incrcase Cuba'9 deEcnsive
64p2b1lity a2i53f r3lds, Ke bave cootized to ixprove cor
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Gua delenges uth gpod rcznlarit}- Raiding oporations of
thlo art, briaaver, altnya pzeaent rlak and We #Jc Jg3de
that cptrcd Cuban agants Will rrvesl WS, icwolvznont &8
bave &t0 in tbo past givizg Castro tbe cpporbnity Eo Dake
voclfarcug propagarda agalnst U.Sa agrresalon. In addltloc,
Jleouah Ehrusbchov bas pot pace Ageacy harnastzg ratds Che
mbjece 0f spcctal protest (2s he dfd ,n' &b0 cage o€ tbe
alle alr zaids Lp Auzust #nd Septenber) , 0 mjor stepato
4a the {reguens} Or 8cal Eoz Instance, Gr aetzck O0
8 zajor accpcolc taraef sucb & Matinzas Dr 82ntog?, Alght
bring atout a Savloc protesta Tae chazce O2 8 phyzical
retallatfco by Castzo foz Lnstanco; Q0 attjck Lpon 8
0a9 , Iootallatiox La t10 Caribbean; altbedcb ultkely,
Onzot be entirely dlscouated.
L Castro $3 to ba brougbe do pttbout overt @Lutary
actlon txe raln effozt NtlI bve & Coca Erca inside Ouba0
do belleva trat tbere L9 suEziclont evldence to shae tbat
ea8t3ga rafds, dsplte thc rLok Lnvolved, are # Decedanry
atltlig to iatetral actLon waLcb &LlI pced t0 ba contioued €o
conaidcrabla Pazlod to perule the tcrpo of Intorzal Bet8 C
rpach & potce heza Lt can beccus c0lf-5u5t31ed.
7, L3st 0f_ Cegcat_en_oE_Sabotegs0rgratken
Pecausa oE &bo vlgtblo Gnd dreratic pituo Of pabotage
Operati9as, tbeir cosgat437 woula aoon b noted by all
Interedted Parcle? to ard obbervere Df 0,%Ceban relations &
Ia cessaelcp Of] thesa ratdo, boucvcr
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dicclaizzbla by tha
D,S. the rald thengelves €7 gould probably ts intere
preted Jo Latia Arertea _Zd certalnly In3lde Cxio 40 8 Dultek
Of. U.Sa pollcy fIcc ORe Of dlacreet Cacouzagcnect &nd ouppot
08 a8zressiv0 actton agl3st the Cnatzo rcgita to Ora D2
#cootiotanco" 90 074 eventral Aee Zodatloz with 0 CaatrolceZnlat
Caba # Kitbcue con3tant pnd vislalo slgna of OEfenatve actiaa
exadnst Cata, 4 ealenicg prccesa would te set I Ztlon
tbleh cculd 2ell lood tha countzfes 08 Latio Acerica to drov
tatr Duna Conclu3lzng Errm tbese Iadicator8 &74 erbark Od
eccorRreticn Folicies Gf thair Tdoge govert Cent3 In
Latio #cozlej ilzency chreatenad bJ Cnatzoltea 1 thor CnD
cotattica at3
Lkely to be aabjectad to 0vea atronzer dopestlo
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4s ta13 tellef gpreade, Wester Buropcan and ather Ezee
mold ccuntrlej 032 to tada Vlth Cuba uIZ 672 to feel
Ebat thoy 5ay safely LgRore &nd evade, €o 8r WQ groatet
eatent tha the] d2 pow, O.8. appcals foz tbe ecorcale and
pllticel Lsolatlon of Cuba . Aa Icportant additioral ecopoala
aifect aould be tba rolease Iato pOrtal ecorcale acelvity oE
Earooer and funds Pov ticd 52 la defensa egatnst raldsa
Finally, aad Eobt Importat; &hla developent & tlZs
L boend t9 tave 4
Beveze dororailetcg eEfeet on the {ntarnal
realotaace ezalnst Casttoa The Cubaa exlla c runlty end
Partlcblarly ita allitant and ortlculate elcranta Foula b8
actely senaftlve to 0 cegsatlon 02 raldc a2d can ba exected
t5 react vocLfcrouslye Judslng f504 past ezperlence, Ne
E expect 8 nev jurte 0f dozestlc political agitetlon
0r
ta part Dz tba
Cudgzouj Curaa exllc8 who bave politieal
conpectlons #1thla tba UaSe
Zn tha evcat tbac It L9 decided to tarudnate CIA-
eoutrolled Babotage &nd baraw;n nE operations, It Canaot be
aas5Ded tkat tbe aetcnorons EICU??: dezpite tba greater
dealebillty 02 thais actino8, coula taia over catirely tbo
Elagida 6f furulsbing ProoE of vlstble resLatanee ta Cabtro
Bad Lospirinz tatezral elezeac? b tayo the pezacnal rieka
Decessary t 9e0 2 cotp In Eoeloz, Autoroiou? EfcuPS 8r0
B3 yot uazosted I0 thcir czzib1u7 tn cojdzet eucccssful
eatot030 Jad barnsscdt cperatlona Qn & 8ustaincd bagls
@
Ie 4 ulitely tbat % the Dezt rontbs the autozozoua @oup?
0Ill dGvalop te cblulty to matcb CLA-contzolled operatlora,
etthes La quantity Gr Gulltyo
If sbtage &nd bgrassacot Operatlons wcre to ba tezaicated
fr the atoronoua g7cop? 83 well a8 foz the Agercy, Ita
epart t0 tha cntonozoue 6701728 E3e alzo te terzioated
eupletely 09 obborulso 02 suld Dot bo In 0 Poaition 6
Lnaro tbat thoy pould dlsccattque zaids jod satotzga:
Suchb terooution pould cozzoinnd the cffectz o8 tho ceagattoa
02 D OizD rald3,| partlculazly ia those 37ea In the Carbbbem
@beze tho autopoiqua grcup3 buvo boen rast ectIves
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13 tea evect' Lc L3 declded to abandan ce care or tbe
cotert PrDSTZ Be Alll be 0bligcd to f4ll peck On
eaecttally
Gott courses o2 actioa wblch aze already operatkng but tieh
Can ba rafled acd IntonsLfled, Providad tbe pollticel rioka
Ed coat? ara Judged acceptabla and Vd recolve adequate
coxpertlon frczr pur allfes.
Astkon_gratuet_free-jrldecczouic tLee uthOtb
Bocause o2 tha recent eroaicn O2 or efforts &n thlo
caetor end tha elear Ictantlon of the Cubana and Sovlets to
expend Cubaa @Coronlc rclaticcs Nitb the freo world, 2 pertes
0f receendattons to tntenaley chls couzze D€ actlon bs been
eade and 1 D botrg pregeatad: Ibe tasic 133u40 $ the
racorendatlons 19 Or
abtllty &d plllicgness to Incu the
pLltlcal costa @nd rloka tbac belghterea econalc presare
vould Irwolvea Evea L€ tho recprendatlona Bra adopted
coapletely, Ve conld hive Do real assurznce tbat our &ttemta
crtail Cuban-freg world ecpacalc tles Hould be cuccesafule 8
tbe other bazd; 4 thc actlons end cozicrerts Ireludcd
Ln the reccr rcnratlons Br8 coE edopted, LE %0 4 pear certaloty
tbac; tder Pzesent cIzcratjnccse PuF oconcolc prcssuroa will
ta reduced ta {ceffcctLvencsa; In ay czae, it Cusc bo clcarly
recognizad that Co erount Of eccponlc preasure 07 by Icsele
brdo3 #n the Castzo goveztzcet, ar Lea8t 87 loag &s che
Sovloc9 &o Prcporcd to subaidize tbe Cuban ecanomy_ The
curtallcant And dLsruptLon of Cuban econoale tles wita tha
Ezed world 637 oaly coatributea and tbsr Only avor tlse, 6
tba creation 02 tha optie. gItuatlon Ve @Ic trylng t devc
ta efEect_peness O8 tbia contzlbutloa would ba at 10230
abarply dnpllred by tha rolavation o2 tho Pr38qure creatad
by covert Operattonss Ecyond theao conjLdcratlons, Ea Cdd
Duvor hav0 a855Z0ce tbaz 8 foreLgn govertrent ccojcrating
Jn tbo ecencule progtan #Ill poE out &od virtuclly
Ollapae tha Prozzz=}4 Entlro Or Em Ieportant rellanca;
6a ecorcalc ProsSura 88 8 eubstltuto for tbe CovcIt PrOgrt
eould t to deliver the fat0 Qf Gor polc] Jnto tho uncertzln
bands 0f govertaenta whlch &o Doe akare Dr couvLctlona @d
aenea OE priortt th rospoct t Cubs;'
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Lva tha grra cache discovery , wa bava been cons_derirg # scz+0a
62 _a9ze9 #blcb ra #Duld geeie In the 043; It stculd be noted
thbat tha atrospkere for 01S adoptton of 8tzo0s peagurea bas
dacerdoracad a9 a result 0E tbe Panxnter erLsLs.
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De Eeaqurea wbLeh Ve bave been atncytng Include}
bregk i1dlpletlorelatonz
Tla pr nclgal effect? 62 thls ceasnze: vhich roula
Terj @ctich by flvo ccuntrica, Lncluding Zrazll,
Catla end Mezico, wculd fe Co provide rather drazstlo
eviccnco Qf Castto 8 Laplatton and to dcny tbe Cubz
raglza subvezvivc Eacilitiee Offered by 179 rezaining
ijafons An Latla #rarfcz. Tte Danauro would ceet
keavy realatance &roa Maaleo: Chile and partIcularly
Crastlm;
4breekWn_econoalcrelatkozs
Altbough thla wuuld tave ittle pzactLeal egfeet
econonlcallyo I€ #ould b3ve 800} utlllty 03 8 Delnd
08 _otal Pzzazuto 0
othez Ereeatorld ccontzlea
trading BLch
A bsak (u4t5 ,tenececgartcatLocr
Dvcr t3e thlo gcpld Jead t0 & zaductio? J tbe
Ceba ab llty to Eme subveroLvea t ad frcc Latio
SSarlcaa Ic Mould ba u3cfu1 88 0 Iaang 0f moral
Przasuze Qa other free-horld coutries bzvlnge Or
#lgblng to establIsb; air perviceg ulth Cuba. 62
tha regctive alde It Eould Eean the,trroorary 1o3?
02 Latelllgerce fncllities and vcald hav: C4 @dver3e
efeect 6a Cubcn erlle porala by clostrg &n erlstlng
escspe reute for persona Laslde Cubaa
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Arronl for_coutertkue sutyeL LenceDezsge2
ez3Lnat PuZer: Of ar23 and Gez
The sogle rp9t daraglng OAS ectlon to Castzo would 6
ap authorLeatlon Eor tha aa DE force In couectton
dcb the tovecent 0z 8569 a7d Ned: T8 cbances O2
gettiaz 0 politlcally ecctptable eajozity for euch
07 3ar eatIrated to ba lega tkan evea beiora the
eventa In Pepmna ard tbe proepects bave dladoLahed
aloce pbene Such 0as actica woald alrost certatoly
drasatize tba Cubn Isqua Jacesttcally and Lnter-
patlonallya At tha prasenr tl7, 1C appeara tbat tbe
eurvtllarco oyst2a Ltlch pLght ba antbcrtzed by the
CAS tpuld Irvolve tbe Ube O2 fzrca only In tbe
territorial watezo QE cha CCWaCzica foz whlcb te
QfEcdlnz ahlpentJ azo destined. Trua the quesclop
P2 08 atorization {~r the n30 6E force Ca tho_
bigh sea9 #LLL npt arLse,
Soncemt-puoL_theCe3Ee Iedte
Inta scold N # E42 {0n2 astlox, %lth &nly Italted
PojebolozLeol {orce,
Bfftratlon e2zadousCtS_nensures 01
centzolilog
Cban-bared @nd042222tgd 64F2z2 2a
Tnli tld be of velus @8 a Deans QE ralnforcdng
0
Caperal 022ot La chts gector (s00 € balon) - I La,
botavora 0 purely Gofenaive peastre -
In B3; thly berfe? Of OaS peanuzes %ould certatoly b
beloftl and &culd constitnea Isportant tltlataral 27ogre3s-
Iho actlons; borever, 8o prtzarily Pajebologteal and
defeaslvea
Ce Zzeqtelcffotg22221et Jbjerla
Ha can probably Increase ad @xpand &ri Iultilateral,
bllaceral and unllaceral efforts 62 {ncee the ab1lty of
Latio Aarlc te raslot guv2roiod2' Such efforta are purely
efcnsive and extarnal ta Ccka: Eo Certala 'renllta Caa ba
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pertatred, In 80] 6a3e, L4 tbe Caban base Vera [D *o
etezthened by tka rela_ation o2 covert preasutes Or 01
tbe veakcnlns 62 ecancole prozantess ve wLLl be Elghtlos
#ealnst Inereaslnz odds ,
Da Lnsreaged_pgzchelegtcal end_enoagrand efgotz
Ba Ea Intenstfy Our Seasures Lo thta gector, Lneludtoz
IAjor pollcy declaratkon} 00 Cuba b7 tbe Pregidant ad other
bentot Qffieers Of the Coverubent. Tbe effIcary 62 sucb
AEforta 1a entlrely dpcncent, trever, Upga tio substanca
khind tkeza 4 propaganda offcnalve would be proauetive
only L€ there wato Credible evldence tbat Qur borda
werd
belng accoroanicd by bucceasful acLiona Id ocber gectora.
NII, Conclualo
Ibe rastdual Hrograa Bet Qut ebova $ subatantlally
Ueaker than tha pzasent progTama Accordingly, tbe Droopecta
for atta1nlog Qu5 ultinzte Objectlve O2 roplactng tho Castzol
Cozemlst restze, whleh bave been by 05
Dejng certaio 0m
deder tbe pzeseat PrOgTzZ, would to vcry Ceasurably dlelalshad
pndcr tbo reaLaual PrOZICC. The elioloatlon 02 tba Coro 02
tbe prescn: covett PtogIZ ; especlelly L eccorpanLed by &
rejcctlon Or Eatluze 0f the propoaed expanded Ceans 0f econcalc
PraztzC, would zatse Ia shap tcroa the Gcestion o2 che peod
D &le tbe 10 baslc alterpatlves: the psa af force
0
@ccorndatton;
VIIIa Eesqarendaceea
It tbe covert prOUrd. ba contInded tn at Jeaat Lri
7radenE %pra and scop84
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T {v0 catotage rlda _ by CIA:
On 18 'Auzut the FOL 8torago tauks at CasIlda; Las
Vllaa Rravoca ucre actackad psko3 4.2 zortara:
0re tank car #aa degtroyed and Oto #terago tark
broaphad;. Canal53 considarable ftre danage,
Oa 19 Aoguse the culphurle aetd plant @E Saats
Lucla, Ploar dl Rio Province Had attacked,
Thce 33] constdcrable ffre dazag0 acd fuel
lipes wero broken, Ke have reports tbat e2fd
Eound Lta waj Into tke turblnes_ 2 4 resule
02 tba reld caualng addlclonal d1mazaa
Caa 30 8epterbar & Labermlll &t Bahla &a
Zaravt, Orlenta Proviico, 8 2oor Ingoallatioa
of Iocal ecaponle {zportance; Bas 70 Per_ cede'
deotroyed b] & raldlng party ~
Da 21 Octobar a mdertater derolttton t027
aceackrd 0
dredge In tho bartor et Le Isabalay";
Laa Vfllac Provloce? Ihe 7eb80} ea0 grrk ,
Qa 23 Pecembar @n Ldertater deolltion tca7
ettaeted 4 Cuban prval R 6 patzol boat I0 tha
Slgu28, Iala 0f Pines9 Dvol baae . #e
Patrol boar %ax serlous]y danaged and Day bave
euaka Ilree Cubap naval poraounel wera kIlled
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tive.' Second question: What clecs the American %01'- crS writers and painters, nilitants and counter-revo-
ernment expcct to Fron the blockade? [s the lutionarics, ministers and ambassadirs but Fidel rc- economic isolation of Cuba J
punishment or a
political mained inaccessible: Ihad been warned: he was snowved
maneuver? under with work; Js a rcsult of the hurricane, the
Kennedy's reply: " Are you suggesting that the Cuban government had been obliged to revise its whole
ical effectiveness of the blockade is uncertain (smilc]? planning program; and then, above all, he no
You will see Ivhen you g0 to Cuba whether it is or not. had any desire to receive any journalists, least oF all
In any case, we can't let Communist subversion win in WVestern newvsmen. 1 had practically Up
the other Latin American colntries_ Two dikes are ~hen, on the evening oE_wbat_Lthoueht_wos_to be_my
needed to contain Soviet expansion: the blockade on dcparture dulc_Uthe cauricious plane ahich links
the one hand; 3 tremendous effort toward progress
0n1 Huan]with Mexico happily did not leave the next
the other; This is the problem in
01 nutshell; Both battles after_all)EideLcame_to my hotel He hadheard Qf y
are equally difficult." (Silence.) Then, 2 last comment: intcrview with the Eesident; We went up' to my
"The continuation of the blockadc depends on the con-
r0um at 10 in the evening and did not leave until 4 in
tinuation of subversive activitics." the following morning: Here, I shall only recount that
The interview !vas over_ I did not really wvish to sug part of that interview wvhich constitutes & reply to John
gest anything since hac never bcen to Cuba and_ F Kennedy'= 5 remarks.
on the other hand, U had heard from all sides tales of Fidel listened with devouring and passionate inter-
the vations the Cuban people were suffering cst: he at his beard, yanked his parachutis:' $
to their isolated economic situation. But [ could see beret down over his eyes, adjusted his maqui tunic, all
plainly that John Kennedy had doubts, and was the while me the target of 1 thousand malicio:
a way out: cast by his deep-sunk, lively eyes. At one
That same recounted this conversation in [Felt as though I were playing the role of that partner
detail to an American colleaguc C an intimate friend of with wvhomn he had as
1 desire to confer as to do
President Kennedy, through whom
1 had obtained this battle; as though T myself were in 1 small way that
interviewv and to the editor of The New Republic. intimate cnemy in the White House wvhom Khrushchev
Both my confidants, Iho knew the President
2 thou- dlescribed to Fidel a5 someone with whom "it is pos-
sand times better than [ agreed that John F_ Kennedy sible to talk: Three times he had me repeat certain re-
had never before expressed hinsak_so and marks, Particularly those in which Kennedy expressed
with such on his understanding of the first his criticism of the Batista regime, those in which Ken-
of the Castro revolution: hesitated to draw nedy showed his impatience with the comments attrib-
any political conclusions from his remarks. Hoivever, uted to General de Gaulle, and lastly those in Ivhich
were not surprised at Kennedy' $ invitation to Kennedy accused Fidel of almost caused a war
come and see him agin when 1 rcturned from Cuba_ fatal to all humanity.
In effect, John Kennedy displayed two basic charac- When I stopped I expected an
explosion.
teristics in his exercise of power: first, an overwhelming Instead) [ wvas treated to a lengthy silence and, at the
degree,of empiricism and realisni A man without 1 end of that silence, to a calm, com 'posed, often humor-
Particular doctrine, he reacted decisively to events, and
ous, always thoughtful exposition. don't know wheth-
only to events. but the shock of collision with er Fidel has changed, or whether these cartoons cari-
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problem was sufficient to make hin come to 7 dleci- Ca him J5 a ranting madian which appear in the
sion, and because of this, his decisions 'vere unpredic- Western press_perhaps correspond to
a Former
table. At that he had a
consuming necd For [ only know that at no tjme the two complete
information, and this need had increased
1 deal I spent with him (and which 2 deal
since experience had taught him not to rely solely on happened) , did Caslro abandon his composure and
official channels. Here too, ] shall let Castro For himself ,
After this, [ went to Havana. rescrving only the possibility of correcting certain judg-
ments on these two itical leaders based on my own
Night Session
AAC
experiences in Cuba
I believe Kennedy is sincere,~ Fidel dleclared. '[
In the "Pear] of the Arnlleva rum-perfumel and also believe tht the expression of fls sincerity
steeped in triumphant sensuality; Js Cuba is described could have tical significance: IIL what
in those American tourist Folders still lying.about in mean. haven't Fogotten_that_Kennedy centered_his
the hotels of Havana, [ spent three closely anc electoral Canpaien aginst_ Nixen AnL tbe bbeme_ of
intensive Ieeks, but thinking all that [would firmess toward Cuba_ have not forgotten_the_Ma-
never to meet with Fidel Castro: [ talked wvith farm- chiavellian tactics and the equivocation, the attempts at
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inusiol_ths_PECSSUECS thc _blackuail_the_rgizlL"" upon and [at this Castro emphasized his state-
of a ceuter-tEyolutioLathe DeckadeJnd,abovc e' r;- mcnt by pronouncing each syzble separately] Ken-
Fg-the_tetaliatoty uSSUIAS IhicEYcre [nzed iedy remindcd thc Russians that the United States
before, before_ttherc _1stho_rctcxtand_alibi of had uot intervened in Hungary, Ihich sa5 obviously
munism}; But feel that he inheritedl 1 difficult a way of demanding Russian non-intervention in the
situation; don't think 4 Prcsident of the United States event f a possible invasion: TobeSue_theactual_
is ever really free, and believe Kenncdy is at present: 'invasion was not mentioned_aod Adzhubei JLthe
the impact of this Iack of freedom; Ialso believe time_@acking_Y_background_inforpuatien seuld_Rot
he nom understands the exlcnt to which he has been draw the same coclusions a5 we did: But when we
misled, especially, for Cxa mple, Cuban reaction at communicated to Khrushchev all our previous informa-
the time of the attempted of invasion. Ialso tion, the Russians too began to interprct the Kennedy-
thinkheis &rcalist: he is now registering that it T5 im- Adzhubei conversation as we saw it and went to
possible to simply wave 7 wand and cuse us, and thc the source of our information. Bythc endof & month;
explosive situalion throughout Latin America, to dis- the RussiauandCuban_govcrnmcnts_had_reached thc"
appear. deliuic_cuwiction_that an inuasion_might_take place
Fcon one_moment Jo thenext_This is the truth_
Why the Missiles Were Installed "What was I0 be done? How could e prevent the
invasion? We found that Khrushchev Ias concerned
'Thcre is one on nhich I want to give you ncW' about the same that were worrying us_ He askcd
information right away. [ have rcfraincd from uS what Ive wanted. We replied= do_ulatgucr is necded
this until nOw; but an attempt is made to to couiucg t_ Uuitcd States _thatauv_atadOliCuba
frighten all mankind by propagating the idca that is tlsuc as Jattack Qu tle Sauiot }Juion. And how
Cuba, and in particular T, might provoke & nuclear war, Io realize this objective? AlI our thinking and discus-
SO I feel the world should know the true story of the sions revolved around this We thought of 3
missilc cmplacement proclamation, an alliance, conventional military aid.
"Six WQuhs bcfere ( hesQissilcs_WVCG inslallcd in The Russians to us that thcir concern was
CuycLLccLLluuatiolcfinforuation twofold: first, wanted to save the Cuban revolu-
Wvaruig Us ba J nciv invatiun o theislud 4s tion (in other words, their socialist honor in the cycs
prepared undcr_sponsorshise Lhc Central Intclliccucc of the world),. and at thc samc timc wished to
AgencYwhoso_ddninistrabos_LAra hlialcd the avoid 3 world conflict. rcasoncd that if conven-
Bay_of Pigs_disaster and by thc_scchacle_of bcing tional military aid was the extent of their assistance,
ridiculed in the eves of theweld heralodiUS the United States might not hesitate to instipte 03
goyernment_cicles We also knew that the Fentagon invasion, in !hich case Russia would retaliate ard this
as vesting, the CIA prcparations with thc mantle of would inevitably touch off 2 world wvar:
its authority, but !ve_JLad_deubts a5 to_thc attitude_of At this [ interrupted to ask how Cub: coull
the Eresident: Therg_WErg_those_Qmong our iformants have been . absolutely certain of Sov iet intervention.
evc thoucbt itouldsufficc to Jlert the Prcsident After all, [said, Stalin certainly "let down 11 Markos ,
andcivs him causs _for_conccrn inordcr_ oarrest thcsc the Chief of the Greck Communist Resistance, because
Preparations: Then one Khrushchcv s son-in-law, such hclp would have conflicted with prevailing zones
Adzhubei , came to pay uS a visit before going 0n1 to of influence.
Washington at the invitation of Kennedy' s associates "[ know_ Castro "but the two situations
Immediately upon arriving in Washington, Adzhubei cannot ba compared: Then he continued;
had been received by the American Chicf Excculive_ 'Russia was much too deeply committed to us More-
and their talk centered particularly on Cuba: A wcck over, since thcn We have had every of the im-
after this interview, we received in Hivana 7 copy of mcnse solidarity of the Soviet pcople and its leaders
Adzhubei's report to Khrushchev , Jt Mjs this rcport You (an sc? for yourself how clcarly this solidarity is
which tri iggered the Ivhole situation. manifest here. Then there is. something else
"What did Kennedy say to Aczhubci? Noi" listen lo cally apropos of Stalin. When as in the USSR and
this carefully, for it is Very TmpoTTant? hc LdLsidthat others, outsiclc Ruissia, ere rcprojching Khrushchev
the_ncy_situationiu Cuki45 iutolcrablc for Lhc Unit for 4 more conciliatory standthan Stalin toward
Sttes, ( btthe Americn sovernent lud_decided the cpitalists, Khrushchev confided to me several ex-
iwolduot takrate t QeV onxer; he had said that which wvill not repeat to illustrating the
peaceful coexistence was scriously compromised by thc prudence, cven the abdication of Stalin. He told me
Fact that 'Soviet influences in Cuba altered the balance and belicve him that Stalin would never em-
of strength, was destroying the equilibrium placed missiles in Cuba.
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'It is true that it 125 saicl thcn by other Factions xill causc m1oTC conimolion on thc &civ York stock
that . the real reason For thc missilcs Was Cichange than Castroism! The Catholic anl
because certain internal problems were thc Rus- concervatires of Argentina, the faclions most
military:
sians to use us to provoke the United States. 1 7011 here linked with American interests!
FThuoc s Task cleschy
na- to tell You that the Russians dicn't mant ad do not tionalization of industries thcrc , of Icform
want ar. One only nccd "isit thcm on thcir there well ,nd
Tf (hecAliance" Focn
home territory, watch thcm
at work, sharc their cco-_ provokes these developments, then it' s not
Progress
So nomic concerns, admire their intcnse efferls to raise the
all thcsc are consonant #ith the workers" standard of Fo understand right away tions of the people. ( Ivok buck to the
Isssirof
that are F,very far, From any idea of provocation Eisenhower, Or rathe: of Nixon, and recall thc furore
or domination. However, Soviet Ruissia
Wvas confronted which brake out when thc United States and Cuba to-
by Fio alternatives:
an absolutely inevitable
Wvar (bc - Gether dectecd an Jgrarian relorm which
Ms t0
cause of their conumnitments and their tion in: thc mark this well, only to landowners of over socialist world), if the Cuban revolution WJs .tfcked; hcctres Yes, 2c0,ooo!
Yer dhcvrerctiof oferhcoousg
or the risk of 1 wvar if the United States, to w45 terriblc &/ that timc Nowadays, in thc other Latinn
retreat before the missilcs, would not give up thc
at- American countrics, because .the Communist banncr is
tempt to destroy Ciba: They_chosc_socialist_solidarity uscd a5 2 bogeymzn, the rcaction of the American
andthe_risk of Mar trusts is shrcwdler. are going to choose strawmen,
"Under t circumstances, how coulcl Ive Cubuns s0 JS to rulc indirectly. But there will be difficulties.
have refused to share the risks faken to save us? It "This is #hy Kenncdy's ideas aren't going to
Was; in the final analysis, a question of honor, don't vicld any results. It is very casy to understand and at
you agree? Don't vou believe that honor plays 2 rolc this hc surely.is aware of this because, &5 I told
in tics? You think We arc ronantics, don't you? you, he is 4 realist. For years and years American policy
Perhaps we
are_ And ihy not? n JY cvent, M'€ arc nof ( he government, but the trusts and thc Pentagon
militants. In J word, then, Wc to the has supported thc Latin American oligarchies. All the
ment of the missiles. And might add here that For u: prestige, thc dlollars, and the power 1;S held by a class
Cubans it didn' t really make L0 much difference ihich Kenncdy himself has described in speaking of
whether we died by conventional
Or 0 hydro - Batista_ Suddenly
7 President arrives on the sccne wvho
gcn bonib. Nevertheless,
ive 'erealt Sambling with
tries to support thc inlerests of another class (which
the peace of the wvorld. The United Statcs wvas the onc has no access tu any of the levers of power) tu give the
to jeopardize the peace of mankind by the threat various Ltin American countries the impression that
of war to stifle revolutions. the United Sates no longer stands bchind the dictators,
"And so in June, 1962, my brother Raoul and Chc and s0 there is n mnorc need.to start Castro-type fevo-
Guevara went to Moscoiv to discuss wvays and mcans lutions' What happens then? The trusts see that their
of . installing the missiles. The convoy arrived by sea in interests arc 1 little compromised (jus: barely,
three weeks. The United States vas ablc to find out but still compromised) ; thc Pentagon thinks the strate-
that weapons Ivere shipped of coirse; but it xic bases are in danger;the powertul oligarchies in all
took them tivo months to discover that these weapons
the Latin American countrics alert their American
ivere missiles. Two months in other words, friends ; sabotage thc
neiv and in short ,
longer than Ive had calculated. Bccau*c, of course,
we Kennedy has everyone him. The Few liberal or
were intimidation, not aggression,' allcgedly liberal presidents who were chosen Js instru-
mcnts of the neiv policy arc 'swept out of office, like
~Alliance for Progress Bwsch in Santo or: else are transformed.
Belancourt, for example, Wals not 4 Balista; noiv he The conversation noiv_ turned to the Alliance For has become one
ress "In 3 Iay, Castro said, "il IalS 2 idea, it In viewv of all hcsc how caln thc Amcrican
marked progress of a sort: Evcn if it can bc said that il govcrnment seriously belicve that Cuban subversion is
was overdue, tinicl , conccivedl 0)01 Ihc spur of the 4f the root of explvsions place all over the
moment, under constraint decpile &ll that [ am 'ill- Scuth Americ-n continent? In Venezuela, fo,cxample,
to agree_that the idea in-oett donstitutedl an effort are yqu Familiar with the situation there? Do You think
Fo to the extraordinarily rapid course of events in the Venezuclans need US to understand what's going
Latin America; Such 4s, for example, what wC rcad in on in thcir courtry? Do you think IC don' t have
he papers this morning did you sce the ncws? That cnoush problems of
our Oin? Right nowv ask only
Argentina is nationalizing the oil industry? The Argen-
onC Leave US in peace to bctter our country' $ tine government! Do You: realize what that means? This economic situalion; to put our planning into cffect, to
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driving
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juadly; things
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Culucate Ot youns Comatcros This docsn't mcan WC which dliplomalic rclations with thc Unitcd Statcs
do not Icel solidaritv toward nations that are struggling "ould posc! Thc Siviss Ambassador representing thc
and suffering; like fhc Venezuclan pecple. But it is Up US at [ t0 do busincss with him than
to those nations to decide what t want, and if thev with 200 members of an Embassy among whom surely
choose other regimes than ours, this isn't our business_ somc spics ,would be spotted.
'TIhave just talkcd t0 You Js J
Cuban revolutionary:
"We Have Alwvays Lived with Daiiger" Cut should also speak to you as 2 pcace lover, and
From this vieivpoint believe the Unitcd States is too
asked Fidel ivhcre is this all going to end? How will important 0 country not to have Jn influence on world
the situation develop? Even if thc United States ISCS peace. [ cannot help hoping; thcrefure, that d leader
you what You call the alibi of Communism, it will come t0 the fore in North America (why not Ken-
still remains frue th:t yon haie chosen Commism, nedy, there arc in his Favor!), who will be
that your economy and security depend on the to brave unpopularity, fight the trusts, tell the truth
Soviet Union, and that even if you have no ulterior mo- and, most important, Ict the various nations act as
tivcs in this association, still the United States considers SCc fit. [ask nothing: neither dollars, nor assist -
fhat You are part of an international strategy, that you anC@ _ nor diplomats, nor bankers, nor military men
constitute & Soviet base in 1 orld where peace depends but peace, and t0 be Jccepted J5 #e arel We
on mutual respect for 1 tacit division of zones of in- arc socialists_ thc United States is 4 capi:alist nation ,
Aluence the Latin American countries will choose what
"[ don' t Mant to discuss our tics ith the Sovict WVant_ All the same, at 1 time wvhen the United States
Union, Fidel Castro cut me short. "[ find this indecent is vheat to the Russians, Canada is with
We have nonc but of fraternily and profound, China, de Gaulle respects Ben Bella, should it be
total gratitude .toward thc USSR. The Russians atc inpossible to make the Americans understand that
extraordinary efforts on our behalf , efforts socialism leads, not to hostility toward them, but to co-
which sometimes cost theni dear. But we havc our own cxistence? Why am not Tito or Sekou Toure? Because
policies which
are perhaps not always the same (we the Russians have never done us any injury such a5
have proved this!) Js those of the USSR. [refuse to the Yugoslavians and the Guineans have complained
dwvell on this point, because asking me to say that I am of in the past, and because the Americans have never
not 1 pawn on the Soviet ches:brazLis something like given us any of the bencfits For which these tio nations
a Ioinan to shout aloud in the squarc congratulatc themselves
that she is not a prostitute: As to this mattcr of Soviet intentions in
'If the United States sees thc problem as you have Latin America through Cuba' s subversive Jctivitic:
it, then you arc right, there is no wvay out. But this is just attributing to others one'$ Oivn desire to
Iho is the loser in the last analysis? have tried dominate. You said yourself just & little while ag0 tha:
everything I5 , cverything; absolutely the Riissians have had enough of their Cuban involve-
and WvC are still alive and getting better by ment, Economically this is obvious. This is why,
we are still standing upright, and 've plan to cele- ing From 7 viewpoint, it is better not to forcc
brate with greater festivities than usual, on January 1 , nations io turn to the Russians For help. Really, it
1964, the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution! seems to me that i man like Kennedy is of
The United States' policy of isolating us economically that it is not in the United States' interest to
is less effective with each passing ie are increas- pursue & policy_which can lead only to a stalemate. So
ing our trade with the rest of the world. Even with Far a5 we are concerned, evcrything can be restored to
Spain! We have just sold 3 shipment of 3oo,000 tons normalcy the basis of mutual respect of sover-
of sugar to the Spaniards. Far From ' discouraging Us, eignty
the blockade is maintaining the revolutionary atios- In conclusion, Fidel Castro said to me: "Since YOu
phere we need to stiffen the country' $ backbonc: Are wvc arc Eoing to sce Kenucdy bc an emissary of
in danger? We have alvays lived wvith danger: To say peace, despite everything: [ wvant to make clear:
of thc Fact that you have no idea how many don' t want anything, 1 don't expect anything and
Friends onc discovers in the world wvhen onc is 45 4 revolutionary thc present situation does not dis-
cuted_by_the United Stalere Nxk For all these please me. But as 3 man and as 2 statesrn, it is my
reasons, ive are not suppliants,
Ive ask [II duty to indicate what the bases For understanding
tell you something else: since the rupture and the could be:'
blockade, wc have for thc Unitcd States. We fcel All this ivas sjid to beFore President Ken-
neither hatred nor resentment any more_ WC simply s death:
don't think about the US. When I think of the problems
dUSA: The Ncw Rcpublic a" Jca" Dmicl
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January_ 19 1964
MMO to Boonatre,_ od to CoS from LEGAT Subject: OSHALD It 19 to & noted ihit trv wite
Houge wes In receipl of paper entitled "Poggible_Peychologicgl Uotivations i: the ec518srz-
Gce
tion Of Preg . Kennedy" ' written by Joge I_ LASAGA of Micmi, Flo iGs spzcillalivz }~r @ttenp-ed
7
to estoblion tho; tho motivatfon of -OSMALD-Ih the 7ssi83inoEion of K #0; Fidei `AEZRO
or @
CASTRO &gent and thit OSHALD w28 motivated during hls trip to Mexi tetw}e 27 st erd'
2.Oct 63: The poper alleged that 'OSNALD held an extended interviev WIth tie Caban Ab in
Mexi whom he met Jn 2 rebtaurent on the outskirts of Mexi from which restiisa tre; boch
leter left In the Amb !s cer for 8 tolklvithout bz ove rkeard, / Sou:: of" t1i5 lateer ifo 1
waS elleged to pz Selvador DIAZ Verson 'Chl8 irdividual Wzs intervle;: 2t Xiesi :i: stised
tht whfle In Mexi 29-29 Nov 63 attending-the Congrese of the Ite1t_cral -2erilun- of
8 ProfesBfonal Nejopoper Orgonizations_
9
be w28 at the offices of the nieMcparer Excele:jr cn
the night of 25:Nov 63, 'There he Jearned through the Mexl presg tkt tke :1 Eov La :rrestei
one Silvic 'DURAN; tbet DURAN. allegedly hed OSHALD 23 4 guest in he ;' kou:e :v vlsit
to Mexl; and that DURAN pleced ' OSWALD In contact With officfals of ~{i9 Cut :; 2 {i
DIAZ Versor went on o clalm thot he wed 1 told by Dr BORRELL Novczzzc F' #xfle2 Juljn
3
newopaperman, employed by 'Excelgior
8
that OSALD and DRAN on the {Gllozl-e CSwkJ'3 arri:z?
in Mexi werit to 2 resteurant celled the Cabello Blanco or' poss ibly the Cab2llo Ji;?x2
mat an/ official' of the Cub. Emb_ DIAZ Verson claimed that he Jcvs noc:ing :toit Os a) Jnj
the Cub, official leaying thc restouront togcther in 8 cer, 1 It wos e72rr3132 cia Dr _
Eduerdo PORRCLL:' Noverto, 2 former Cubar Cabinet Minister who 0!l occnsio W74:2€ "2a+:re
ertfoles fo1 the Muxi City Excelsior, Surrently rdsid28 at 1503 Hoi:ro Et_ ixrt 301_ Mxl
BORRCLL-Neverro[1a8 #ntervieved-on' ll-jan et_Vhich time_ he furniched the follq; eo;
Selvador DIAZ Verson_ weg In' Mexi 08 claimed;: and discusged OSWALD Vith} TORRzL_; &rd cii r Cuban
exilegt DIAZ Vergon' elso vieited BORRELL in BORFELL 'g' lcme BOREZLL ' iid nat #ell tb stor;
credited to himgby_DIAZ Vergoul concern the visit to. @ Mexi City #astair?? @E;Als Ll
4
Silvlaj DRAN_ BORRCLL. had nevar heerd thib' 8torv or any @ Imilor Stos +2i?_ 1 @u3 %ex
2
of no meeting bctween OSHALD and Cub Emb offlclals other tlon tha meting; Iieb occuri-d
af the time OSWALD vigited tha Cub' Con |in Nexl_ BOFZLL knew nothb:z ccering G:; {3it
by OSMALD to thc hor? of VDURAN & 1 It i0 to be noted thut DJN Kag , GWestioza: hy N'4 nithortfea
On 25 Nov 63 _ At thet' tim Bhe confirmed that 'OSHALD vioited: ti Cub Emb In Nczi during #afiA
tima he in Mcrl from' 27 8ept to 2 Oot, 8he ' alleged that tho purposo of hio vie ite to
Cuban Emb was to obtein 4 Cuben viea She 8tatcd Bho had glvcn him 8 tclephon? numbcr to u60
L
in calling hcr concdrning the Vicd, but donicd that he hed over vibftod in hcr hor On F
17.Jen 64 4 8ource advised that he} had bccn unabla to locitc 0 Cabillo Blano rcotauront
in Mext, but Btated ithexe 10 4 Caballo; Bayo rcgtaurabt locetcd on' 'Outskirta _ cf Merl_
8ourcc wcut to reetaurent, ahoved 'photo? Of formcr Cub Con Eugcbio AZCUE Lopcz ; who wag in
te
cbarge Of Cub Con et thc; #ime of OSIALD'8 Vislt; there , of Cub: Amb HERNANDEZ Armag of" Silvia
DUDAN end %f_OSWALD ito employees of regtaurent and conducted extenbivc !intcrvicwg Of thcsa
Qwloyece He"tes unable tq find anyono 4mong 'tha cmployecs; Mbo oould rccgll ony of the
retaona e3 hevdng bees et reotourent
~re8
ing
3
d2y
Bay c they
ing
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BOX 4 ; MISCELLANEQUS
From the listing of files contained nothing appeared likely
to contain relevant information Therefore
0 the files in this
box were not examined
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NOVEMBER 24 , 1961 DECEMBER 31 1964
REFERENCES TO CUBA ASSASSINATIONS
WARREN COMMISSION MATTERS
BOX 2 : MEMORANDA FOR RECORD
File: November 29 1961 April 5 , 1962
December 5 , 1961 , Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy
01 Lansdale ation" mentioned in paragraph 12
December 27 , 1961 Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy
"Lansdale operation" mentioned in paragraph 5
January 22 1962 Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy
Reference to a 08 Lansdale paper 01 to be discussed by the 5412
Committee plus Robert Kennedy.
April 5 , 1962 Memos on Special Group/Mongoose Project
General discussion of possible military intervention in Cuba
File: April 7 1962 August 21, 1962
(40) April 10 , 1962
8
phone call to Bundy explaining that
Attorney General upset that Perrez was apparently telling
people in Miami about his five meetings with the Attorney
General Cardona was to meet JFK that
(6.1) 3 , 1962 meeting with Attorney General
60 01 included a short discussion of Reuther plan for labor
operations apparently in Italy.
(86) August 21, 1962
0
meeting with Rush McNamara Alexis
Johnson the Attorney General, Director of Central Intelligence ,
General Taylor Lemnitzer , and M_ Bundy a general discussion
of Cuban situation and possible courses of action if MRBM S
are discovered in Cuba:
M McNamara expressed strong feelings'
that we should take every possible aggressive
action in the fields of intelligence sabo-
tage and guerrilla warfare
8
utilizing Cubans
and do such other things as might be indi
at
cated to divide the Castroregime
(emphasis added)
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File: August 24 , 1962 December 31 1962
(97) October 5 , 1962 _ Meeting between DCI and Bundy :
McCone wanted to be more activist toward Cuba I Bundy was
more conservative (No specifics)
(118) December 17 1962 , DCI meno re Earman Report on
Cuba [MISSING]
[Apparently not a meeting or phone call]
(Comments on Report on Missile Crisis, according to Elder)
(119) December 18 , 1962 , DCI memo re Earman Report on Cuba
[MISSING ]
(120) December 19, 1962 , DCI memo re Earman Report on Cuba
[MISSING]
File: June 1 1963
a February 9 1963
(12) January 21 , 1963 , phone call between DCI and
Eisenhower (transcript) about Cuba (No mention of
assassination.)
File: February 9 , 1963 April 9 1963
(36) March 5 , 1963 _ Memo of DCI discussion with Attorney
General [No one to see without DCI permission] [DESTROYED]
[According to Elder
8
dealt With wiretap of newsmen ]
(38) March 7 1963 _ ~,Memo of conversation with Attorney
General at Hickory Hill [No one to see without DCI permission]
[DESTROYED]
(52) March 30 , 1963 , DCI discussion with Eisenhower and
Lundahl on 00 current status of Cuba 0 [DESTROYED]
File: April 15 1963
a June 4 1963
(68 ) Memo of DCI on Cuban Policy: 18 Random thoughts
developed by DCI on various aspects of the Cuban problem
and the discussions at Standing Group prepared for: use by
representatives of DCI at meetings on
this subject during
J his absence from the country , April 25 , 1963 contains
the following:
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00 I agree with the ONE estimate that
Castro'5 political position will im-
prove within the next year (barring
01 assassination)
The context clearly indicates , however, that DCI is not
proposing this _
(77) DCI memo of 18 1963 _ on Haiti: contains this
10 statement: Apparently Duvalier , in the absence of assassi_
nation
0
will survive the {efforts of internal opposition
9 elements Context indicates DCI was not proposing or
cons_ idering assassination
(61) April 15 , 1963 _ Memo of meeting between Attorney
General and Director of Central Intelligence about 0 Helns /
Angleton operation _
8
Cuban sabotage proposals I [DESTROYED]
(62) April 17 , 1963 _ Meeting of DCI and Rusk about:
80 m Helms/Angleton Project. [DESTROYED]
File: June 5 , 1963 July 20, 1963
Nothing Relevant
File: July 23 _ 1963 November 26 _ 1963
(133) August 20, 1963 Luncheon with DCI Colonel Grogan
Ton Ross of Chicago_ Sun Times [MISSING]
(138) September 5 , 1963 DCI and Bundy , 0 After Special Groupe m
[MISSING]
(138) September 7 , 1963 , DCI and Papich [MISSING]
(138) September 12 1963 DCI and J Edgar Hoover at
Justice Department [MISSING]
(158 5) October 24 , 196,3
0
DCI/Robert F Kennedy 'lunch at
Kennedy S house [MISSING]
(168) November 26 1963;_ DCI and on message about
Kennedy assassination [MISSING]
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8
1963
0
DCI and Rusk: Sukarno had said
that British and CIA were plotting to kill him_ Rusk asked
if CIA had any information about a
plot by British. DCI
said no.
File: November 27 = 1963 December 31, 1963
[Entire contents of file missing. ]
From titles, nothing here' appears relevanta
File: January 1_ 1964 February 11 1964
Nothing relevant_
File: February 12
0
1964 April 5 , 1964
[Entire contents of file missing.]
(25 . 5) February 19 1964
9
DCI and Fitzgerald: "White House
Meeting Situation Room Re : Cuba" [DESTROYED]
(36.1) March 14 , 1964 , Meeting of DCI Bundy , Helms [DESTROYED ]
(46) April 5 , 1964 , Meeting of DCI ana Rusk: 06 EYES ONLY
NO DISTRIBUTION FSO Richard Fredericks ; Carl Rowan ;
00 Republican Platform of 1960 _ [DESTROYED]
File: April 6 , 1964
nt
July 8 , 1964
(49) April' 16 , 1964 , Meeting with: DCI Justice Warren
Senator Cooper
0
Stern , Rankin, Willens of subject: "Met in
DCI S Office" [MISSING]
(58 ) May 14 , 1964 , DCI Rankin, Helms Subject: "Warren
Commission (accompanied by Mr Helms)) Helms saw commission
10 0 transcript and returned it to the commission. No MR
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m (69) June 12 1964 DCI
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Mr and Mrs Henry Luce : Memos
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File: September 11 1964 October 31, 1964
(138), October 15, 1964 ; DCI Sam Papich "NO DISTRIBUTION
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(143) October. 22 , 1964 , DCI
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File: November 1, 1964 December 31 1964
Nothing relevant.
BOX 8 : MEMORANDA OF MEETINGS WITH THE PRESIDENT
File October 25 1961 July 31 1962
(B) December 14 , 1961, 'at a
meeting with the President
and General Taylor DCI advised Kennedy that there were
possible dangers that he might be the subject of an assassi- t
nation attempt on
his planned to Colombia and Venezuela
which the CIA could not guarantee the safety of _
(6) February 1962 'at a
meeting with the President: ,
Bundy = and Taylor DCI discussed efforts to convince one
Charles Murphy not to write a certain article for Life
magazine on some subject related to Cuba Apparently , the
article was revised to DCI S satisfaction and then published_
(12) May 7 1962 , at a
meeting with the President and
Taylor DCI discussed Operation Mongoose in some detail
No mention of assassinations_
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through Dec . 18 1962]
(28 ) July 20 , 1962: At a meeting with the President ,
Taylor and Alexis Johnson , Mongoose was discussed _ No
mention of assassination_
(52) October 26 , 1962: At a meeting of NSC Executive
Committee , DCI discussed Mongoose- No mention of assassination
(55) October 30 , 1962 : 0 Memo to DDCI outlining Presidential
Directive to CIA; no provocative actions by refugee groups ;
estop Alpha 66 ; stop Mongoose Ops ; no contact with Press . 0
[MISSING]
(70) November 29 , 1962 : At a meeting of the NSC
Executive Committee (President absent) DCI discussed
Mongoose _ No mention of assassination_
File: January 1 1963 March 31, 1963
(7) January 23 , 1963 (4:30 p.m. ) : Meeting with President ,
0} DCI and Helms No memo present. Listing does not indicate
whether or not memo was prepared even though it generally
indicates when memos were not prepared. Secretary 9 note
of 1/27/72 (MB) notes : "No MR in file 01
(8) January 23 1963 (4:45 p.m: ) : Meeting between DCI
and President missing memo; same situation as # (7) above .
(28) March 25 1963 : In meeting with President DCI
01 reviewed the requirements for telephonic and audio surveillance
intelligence at selected embassies and foreign residences within
the United States President suggestea that the DCI talk
with J_ Edgar Hoover on this matter
File: April 1, 1963 July 1 1963
(33) April 16 , 1963 : In meeting with the President
0
DCI
discussed two methods of dealing with Castro: (1) 18 = Working
01 . on Castro to turn him from Soviets ; (2) Pressuring USSR to
remove from Cuba and 01 then to bring about the downfall of
Castro by means which coula be developed after the removal
0 of Soviet troops _ No mention of assassination
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(43) 1963 : In meeting of President DCI and
others , policy towards covert operations against Haiti were
discussed No mention of assassination
(50) June 19 1963 : In meeting with the President and
others DCI discussed plans for covert operations against
Cuba _
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Bl Vague memo of record
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File: July 1, 1963 November 12 1963
(74) November 12 , 1963: At a
meeting of the President , DCI
0 and others
0
'McCone emphasized that to a very considerable
extent these [Cuban exile groups] are uncontrollable and
forecast that once Artime was in business we might expect
some events to take place which were not exactly to our liking. 0
(This was in a general discussion of covert actions against
Cuba ; no mention of assassination. )
File: November 23 1963 December 31 1963
(1) November 23 , 1963 (memo of November 25) : DCI told
Lyndon B Johnson of information received from Mexico
DCI later called Rusk to tell him of information from Mexico City:
0} the holding of a Mexican employee of the Cuban embassy by
Mexican officials for interrogation concerning Lee Oswald. I
(4) November 25 and 26 '1963 (memo of November 26) : In
meetings with the President and the DCI the President expressed
m "contempt at Justice Department suggestion of independent inves-
tigation of John F Kennedy S assassination_ He instructed the
DCI to insure CIA cooperation with the FBI report.
(4) November 29 , 1963 : In a meeting with DCI Lyndon B
Johnson
0
McNamara
0
and the DCI apparently gave latest
developments in Mexico City investigation of Oswald A list
of 01 late developments 09 is in file , to be used_ for this purpose.
(Obtain CQpY: )
File: January 1 1964
Me April 2 , 1964
Nothing relevant.
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(19) April 1 , 1964 : Meeting of DCI President and others
re Cuba Covert Action
Here DCI advocates strong program to obtain overall objective
set forth in a paper of June 8 1963: "The ultimate objective
of this policy would be to encourage dissident elements in the
military and other power centers of the regime to bring about the
eventual liquidation of the Castro/communist entourage and the
elimination of the Soviet presence from Cuba 01 (emphasis added)
[OBTAIN COPY ]
File: May 21 , 1964 October 5 1964
September 30 , 1964 : Meeting of 16 DCI ; President; et al" to
discuss "Warren Commission Report (to set up Presidential
Committee) # No memo indicated to have been prepared _
File: October 6 , 1964 Decenber 28
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Nothing Relevant
BOX 1: 303 COMMITTEE COUNTERINSURGENCY , SPECIAL; GROUP
CHRONO (1962)
File: 303 January December 1963
Several sets of minutes have the following notations after
paragraphs dealing with Cuban operations: "See special
minutes for additional items 09 No such 0 'special minutes"
appear to be contained in this file_ * However this same nota-
tion appeared in connection with other subjects_
This file contains several discussions of the Haitian problem
Although it's clear the participants would like to be rid of
Duvalier , there is no mention of assassination
Nothing else relevant_
File: January December 1964
Contains discussion of Haitian problem and CIA agreed to
"explore methods of dealing with the Duvalier problem in
the immediate future_ 01 {May 12 , 1964)
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The minutes of the June 18 1964 meeting (dated June 22 1964)
contained the folTowing [OBTAIN COPY] Tsigned by Peter Jessup)
T A paper was discussed on alleged plans which involve
the underworld to assassinate certain Cuban leaders
Mr McCone was somewhat skeptical of the reported plots and
stated that he would like to go into the matter further
Others including Mr:, Bundy , felt that the United States was
being put on notice and should do everything in its power to
ascertain promptly the veracity of the reports and then under-
take prevention_ It was decided that Mr Bundy would call the
matter to the Attorney General ' s. attention as a matter Of law
0 enforcement .
Mr McCone S personal memorandum for the record on this
meeting Tdated) June 18
0
1964 , contains substantially the same
information TOBTAIN COPY ] It refers to a June 10 1964, CIA
memorandun 06 reporting_plans of Cuban exiles to assassinate
leading Cuban government Jeaders This memo apparently had
been sent to Special Group members and the Attorney General
[OBTAIN COPY] McCone S memo contains the following
8
"ACTION Discuss with General Carter and Mr Helms steps we
should take to establish 'the credibility of the report; also
communicate with the FBI ihrough Mr Papich Also I should
01 call the Attorney General; personally.
The official minutesl of the July 30 , 1964 303 Committee
meeting (dated July 31
0
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i967
IG report)
contain no mention of assassination Or even of Cuba
Mr McCone 5 personal menorandum (dated July 31 1964) had
the following reference to Cuba:
"Proposed infiltration/exfiltration operations into Cuba for
0 August were approved and the July operations were noted
File: Counterinsurgency January June , 1962
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BOX 7 MISCELLANEQUS
Envelope "Cuba Loose Ends"
Much information on Mongoose. No mention of assassination _
Envelope containing FBI report of October 16 , 1963 entitled
18 "Comminism and the Negro! Movement I A Current Analysis
contains comments on Dr King 0 S personal life_ Relayed by
J_ Edgar Hoover to McCone
01 Filea "Cuba Background Material
This file contains onl; material relating to the Cuban missile
crisis. It contains no references to any assassinations
#0 File: "White House
This file covering 1962] and 1963 contains correspondence
to, from, and of interest to the White House
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BOX 5 : MISCELLANEOUS
The file entitled "Cuba Package" does not appear to be in this
box _ The name of this file_ however appears on the page which
purports to list the files in the box
File: Cuba 1962
Nothing relevant to assassinations
File: Cuba 1964
February 21 , 1964 , memorandum for the Director of Central
Intelligence from Desmond FitzGerald , Chief Special Affairs
t0 Staff; entitled Spectrum of Courses of Action with Respect
60 to Cuba _ This nine-page memorandum outlines many possible
courses of action which the U S Government could take with
respect to Fidel Castro even inc luding measures as drastic as
an actual invasion of the island by U.S _ military forces . It,
however contains no mention or reference to possible assassi-
nation of Castro
BOX 6 : MISCELLANEOUS
File: Presidential Briefing December 22 , 1964
Nothing relevant to assassination
File: "M" File
Nothing relevant to Our subject of interest.
File: "D"File
This file contains papers dealing with the services of Allen
Dulles as a consultant ta the Agency after his retirement_
There is no mention of the subject in which we are interested
File: "W" File
Nothing relevant.
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Vhen CastroHHeard the News
{avan:;
'It mas around 1;p in the alernoon, Cuban time. We both the Amcrican continGnts_T-achievc this
were unch in thc room af the modest leader would havc"*0 arise in the United States capable
summer rcsidence which Ficlel Castro Oins on magni- of urderstanding the explosivc rcal:tics of Latin Amcr-
ficent Varadcro Beach, 120 kiloncters From Havaa. ica and of mccting them halfway. Then, suddenly, he
For at lcast the tenth time, ] was quest the Cuban had taken 7 less hostile tack: Kennedv could still bc
leader on details of the negotiations !ith Russia before this man; He still has 1 he possibility of becoming,
the missile installations last year; The telephone in the eyes of history, the greatest President of the
4 secretary in guerrilla announccd that Ms_ United States, thc leader who may at lash understand
:icos Ercsident oE the Cukan Republic_buadanzent that there can be coexistence between capitalists and
communication For_tha_Erinc MinisteL Fidel up socialists, even in" the Americas. He would then be
he ph,ne and heard him say; "Como? Un atentado?" an even grcater President than Lincoln. L know, for
{"What'$ that? An attempted assassination?") He tken examplc, that for Khrushchev, Kenncdy is
4 man you
turneri to us to say that Kenncdy had just been struck
can talk ith have this impression from all
Jown in Dallas. Then hc went back to the telcphone my conversations with Khrushchev. Other lcaders have
And 2} claimed in 2 loud voice "Herido? assurcd ne that to attain this wC must first &wait
"ientc ("Wounded? seriously?") his re-election. Personally, [ consider hin res ponsible
He came back, sat down and repeated thrce timcs for every but will say this: he has come to
1 { Le #ords: Es una mnal mioticic. " ("This is bad news ") understand many things over the past few. months;
Hle remained silent For & moment, awaiting anothcr €all and then too, in the last analysis, Im convinced that
#ith further news_ He remarked while Ie waited that anyone clse would be woise. Then Fidel had Jdded
iicre WJs Jn alarmingly sizable lunatic Fringe in Amer - with 47 broad and boyish "IF you scc hin
&an and that this decd could equally well have you can tell him that ['Frtimlling to dcclare Goldivater
0' ne work of 2 madman or of 1 terrorist. Perhaps
a my_friend if that wvill guarantee Kennecy' $ re-election!"
Yictnamese? Or a menber of the Ku Klux Klan? Tjhe This conversation was heid on Novcmber 19.
vcond call came through: it was hoped would {be Now it wJs nearly 2 0'clock and W'C up from
abic to announce that the United States President Was thc Fablc and settled ourselves in front of a radio_
'iIl aive, that there Ivas of hinz. Fidel Commandant Vallero; his physiclan, aidc-de-camp, and
Castro' s immediatc reaction wJs: "[f can, is intinate Friend; was easily &ble to get the broadcasts
iiready re-elected: He pronounced these words with from the NBC network in Miami.` As the ncws camc
safisfation in, Vallero would translate it For Fidel: Kennedy
Tlis senfence Ivas 3 sequel to & convefsation we had wounded in the head; pursuit of the assassin; murder
cld on J previous and which had turned into of a
policeman; finally the fatal announcement: Presi-
an all-night session. To be precise, it lasted from 1olin dent Kennedy is dead' Thcn Fidel stood up and said to
'he evcning until
4 in the morning: A_ part |of me "'Evcrything is changed. Everything is goin5 to
the talk rcvolvcd about the impressions [ recounted change. The United States occupies such
a position in
to him of an interviewv Ihich President Kennedy world affairs that the dleath of 1 President of that
5anted me this last October 24, and about Fidel country affccts millions of pcoplc in cvery corner of
Castro' s reactions to these impressions. During this the Thc cold war, relations with Russia, Latin
nocturnal discussion, Castro had delivercd himself Iof America, CubJ, thc Ncgro qucstion ah will havc to
relentlcss indictment of US policy, adding that in thc bc rel hought: Ill tell you onc at least Kennedy
recent past WVashington had had ample %pportunity JVaJS 1n enemy to whom Wc had become accustomed.
Io normalize its relations Ivith Cubj, but tht instead This is 3 serious matter, an extremely serious matter,
It had tolcrated 1 CIA program of training; equipping After the quarter-houf of silence observed by all
and organizing a counter-revolution: He had told me the American radio stations, wC once more tuned in
~hat he wasnt in the least Fearful of his .life, since. on Miami; the silence had only been broken by
4 re-
danger was his natural milieu, and if hc were to becon1e broidcasting ofthc Amcrican nJtional anthem; Strange
victim of thc United; States this would simply en- indeecl Ias the impression made, on this
I14. his radius of influence in Latin America J5 Icll out in the house of Fidel Castro, in the midst of
2
45 throughout the socialist world. He wJs speaking; he circl ' of worried faces. Fidel said, will
sjid, from the viewport of the inlerests of peace jn ha; t0 finad the Jssassin quickly, but very quickly,
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otherwise, watch al SeC)
know :hem, tkcy wi" he #as 4/1 agent, 1n1 accon plice, a hircd killer. In
You
tc tkc blame on {S For this But tcll 12"
saying simply that he is an 1dmirs-, this is just to
how Presidenls have bcen 1ssssin.led? Foin and makc a/1
association in pcople's minds betwzc: thc
This %smost disturbing' Vc Cubu, only
onc has bec: ; nane of Castro and the cmo:iori awkened by thc
assassinated. Yau know when wc WCCC hiding_out_j' 1ssassination. This is < publicity mcthod, a propaKunda
the_Sierra there Were some notiu 02 V Sroup_inan" device, It's terrible. But you know, I'In sure :his will
other who wanted to kill_Batista. fhought they all soon blow over Therc are too many competirg
could do Ivith a regime by decapitating it: Ihave in the United States For any single one to be
awvay
always becn violently opposed to such nicthods. First able to impose itself universally for very long;'
of ali from the vieivpoint of sclf-intcrcst, be- We arrived at the granja de pueblo, where the farm-
CJuse So far 15 Cuba is concerned, if Batista had bcen crs welcomed Fidlel. At that Very moment, 1
killed he would have been by somc military announced over the radio thaf it Ivas noiv known that
figure who would hjve (ried to make thc revolutionists the assassin is a
'pro-Castro Marxist 11 One commen-
For the martyrdom of the dictator: But I WJs also tafor followed another; the remarks became increas-
PJy
to it on
grounds; JsSassination is ingly emotional, increasingly aggressive Fidel then
opposed
08
excused himself: "We shall have to givc uP the visit
to me.
The broadcasts wcre noi tesumed. One reporter to the Farm Wewant on toward_Matanzas tronlwhere
Felt he should mention thc
difficulty Mrs. Kcnnedy becould_tclephono Erecidant Dorticas On the way he
was
having in getting rid of her bloodstaincd stockings had questions: "Who is Lyndon Johnson? What is his
Fidel "What sort of a
mind isithis!" He IC- reputation? What were his relations with Kennedy?
the remark sevcral fimes: "What sort of a
With Khrushchev? What was his atthe time of
mind is this? There is 2
difference in our civilizalions the attempted invasion of Cuba?" Finally' and most
after &ll. Are YOu like this in Europe?| For us Latin important of all: 'Wat_uuthoritydocs he_exercise
Americans, dceath is J
sacredl matter; not only docs it over_the_CIAZ Then abruptly he looked at his watch;
the close of hostilities, but it also imposes de - s4w
that it would be half an hour before wc reached
mark
There are even Istrcet urchins
Matanzas and, practically on the spot, hc dropped off to
cency, dignily, respect:
who behave like in thc [ace of death: Incidentally,
this reminds me of something else: if {you wrile &ll After Matanzas, wvhcre he must havc decreed a state
those things [ told you Jacreday Kennedy' s
of alert, wve rcturned to Varadero for dinner; Quoting
don't use his name noiv; jnstead of the the words to hin by 2 woman shortly before,
policy,
hc said to me that it Ias an
cf history for the
policy of the Unitcd Statcs government
which had been re-
Toward 0'clock, Fidel Castro declafed that sincc Cubans, in the situation to
5
I@
could do to alter the tragedy, Ie
duced by thc blockade, to have to mourn the death of
there wvas nothing
in of it He 1
President of the Unitcd States. "After all;' he added,
must try to our timc t0 usc 'spite
in the world to whom
wanted to accompany In@ in person on a visit to a "thcre are perhaps some peopie
de pucblo (state farm), where hd had bcen en-
this news is cause for rcjoicing: The South Vietnamese
granja
His obsession" is Gucrrillas, For and also, [ would imagine,
gaging in some experiments
agriculture. He reads nothing but agronomical
5 tudies Madame Nhu!"
and He dwells lyrically on the soil, fertilizers, [
thought of the people of Cuba, accustomed to the
and Teporpo
possibilitics which wvill give Cuba , enough sight of like the one depicting the Red Army
cane
by 1970 to achieve economic independence:
with maquis superimposed in front, md the scceaming
sugar
HALT, MR. KENNEDY ! CUBA IS XoT ALONE.
"Didn' t [ Tell Yo" T
thought of all those who had bcen led to associate
their deprivations with thc of President John
We went by car, with the radio on. The Dallis F. 'Kennedy.
wcre now hot on thc trail of the assassin. Hc At dinner [ Ivas able to takc up Jl[ m2y
questions;
thc nCwS commentator.. Five
What had motivated 'Castro to endangcr thc of
is 2 Russian SPY, says
marricd to 2
thc world with thc missilcs in Cuba? How dcpendent
ninutes latcr, correction: he' is. 1 spy
Fidel said: "There, didn' t 1 tell you; itIl be JvJs Cuba on thc Sovict Union? Is it not to
Russian.
Bu The next WJs: thc
envisage relations bctween Cuba and_thc United States
myturn next:' Kt }"n. the.same lines a5 those between Finland and the
ass1ssin is a Marxist deserter. Then the came
in effect, that the ass4ssin ias 4 young man Russians? How was the transition made from the
#roughs
was 3
member of the "Fair For Cuba Com- 'humanism of Sierra Maestra to the Marxism-Leninism
that he was an admirer of Fidlel Castro. Fidel of Fidel Castro, once more in top form, had an
declared:ha
had had would have said explanation For cvcrything: Then he questioned me
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Ettt tlbret_
"Ei} 7, 1965 oncc mofc on Kcnnedy, Jnd
intcllectual qualities
of
each timc [ eulogized t:c
ad
awakcncd the kccncst the JSs,ssinatcd Presiclent,
tion
Czcchoslovakian trucks,
2 certain Amcrican
The
interest in vibrated in the emo-
that
Cubans livedl Iith the Unitedl
scnimen;, of concero, Gfosphere;
compounded of re- crucl
So Familia t0 I@ of
Slatcs in everything, of
4
yct also, in spite of
Ivith hci: colonizcrs. Neverrhcless ,e the colonized
prochement.
nysterious imperceptibie
In thalt is 4n
After all, American rap-
se Ative of
Ia to
to reach aecorel with
President wvas able
turned in ti.? where
which we
Fc- liretime, said Russian friends
Ivith
t $
#le lminous signbojra: 47 Young Cadan ##eilcctual his
have replace l thc Cocn Colj 12;' It Hls almost
to me a5 [
1j5 billbojrds, in the midst o and gizing fof not rejoicins 4$ though he wore spolos
Sovict exhibits at the JssJssination.
JEaN DANIEL
ROMANS
"Robert Frost iurote 5o years
ndhiere to it
T t0 liv'e for if,
aSQ, Aols is true exccpt as
n mCn nccd this to spend #emiselves Or m1c}
een more t:an 011 it, to die for it.' We mouey or institutions Or"
-Jouv F KENNEDY, " "greements
By
Novcmber 18, 1965
night, evcn the television
out by attempt and failure and secmncd worn neivs, that is
gave over to
2
ceased to commert and
real
trying to
to newvs
Imns and the
succession of photographs of
the col-
job Was lo hear Aight control. There their
windows and thc corncrs %f Bun battle in Dallas; J had been
a and %f the shadowvs of the the White hadl taken
<7
Tatrolman was killed; the police
in Springficld
and
Great Lincoln head man in Zric theater:
to a voice "Oh,
Johnson
wJs noi the President
President
Captain.' It is to be, thcn, the Went on through Thc talk of
has not weathered grand stylc. But the
tain
and stopred only when the
not Abraham Lincoln; every Mr. Kennedy is
bcen "gaiorinter boted to s1y that thc Texv Fresidert had
he
not because he is more
or lcss,
sivorn in aboard
an aircraft. A
had
Mr.
is a remembered physical few laughed
Lincoln
an ge of the
presence and
Jsk too time is personal, plastic arts. One'$ own much of us #hen
ask
before
not historical, Just how to thc grand
We us to act Up
many of us will wvant will it bc people. And
are not an
a Ffluent
Mr. Kennedy to reacl & book about the yet some of
us was shot? Mr; Kennedy did not complained that
tedl seem quite emo
Thc neivs of tlie ctiough But noi somconc remembercd commit-
by a taxi
President's assassination
Was
affection
0 moment late in the
with special
to thrce gentlemen
45
Siven Kennedy was in , 1960 campaign; Mr.
on Street in Boston:
elt 7 hotel
crnor #ho
motorcadlc and the Dcmocratic
around and hurried back turned risht feel the
IvS ith him said how wondccful it gOV-
vestments. inside to attendl
Io) their in-
lovc ivith Ivhich thcse crovds was to
Packed 'ith studenls ncl to Ccel the louch of
( heir
pressed forward
shuttlc planc From Boston
Fo
businessmncn
a said. It
candidate
WP, Mr.
permission to take off ,hen waited for in that
sccmed now somehow
2 Special
inlercom: 'Folks,
thc captin came: on
the
hc "sed only the real in grace
"P here on thc flight cleck 'c' stined from fbric tinG thc emotion and ab-
to the ncivs and thc President ' bcen rcspect for the cxpccted. had much
was only time to hear one is dead. - There
truer to him
Stand style to counterfeit it; hooo
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Flash fiom Dallas
Just a5 Secret Service men reacted instinctively, rushing to protect the
presiclential party, reporters reactedl instinctively to) the news_sketchy
it W7s at first-to the wrll. Unitecl Press International's Merriman
Smith, dean of the White House corresponclents, descriles on pages 32-83
his frantic: rush to call the Dallas UPI lureau Reproducecl here is the result
of Swith $ first efforts-the actual Teletype cpy that almost immediately
clackedl out of hndlredls oE UPI machines in newvsroms, radio aud
television stations, pressrooms, andl business ollices all over the world.
CETECTIVES WERE THERE A.C THEY #ASKED KIM To Look IV THERE (THE BRIFF = At 12:34 the Teletype
was
caSE) TOR SOM ETHING
AND A.v ENVELOPE #as fouNc `CONTAINING 4 4 MiCo supplying copY on a
Ese FAEE_ #JASEGP SPESEY
TXE STATE had SA ID IT "OULC PR OCUCE TkaT M murder trial: P[LLS,
EVICENCE BUT It Kad Not LISTEC It As ONE #0F THE SEVEN
inneapolis
PIECE Of
THE CEFENSE Has IMPLIED It WILL TAkE THE LINE That CaROL 5
CENTS;AFTER
A SA VAGE BLUDGEONING A,VD STAB? ING IN HER HOME Vas TU
CEATH
RESULT 0F AN ATTEMPTED MOREDA 1234Pc $
UP[ AtN Da The Dallas bureau, alerted by
PROCEDE 'E2KENNEdy_THREE shots
VERE ' F [Red At PRESIDENT KENNEDY" $ Smith over radiotelephone from
Dallas:
hotorcA dE Today IN DoUNTOWN Dallas, the press car as it careered
Jtizsapcs.
toward the hospital, sends out
the first sparse news.
UpI AbN HX
Minneapolis starts t0 add more
ZNd add ZNd LEAD ThompSov #INNEAPOLIST dletails on the murdler trial. The
BUos HO
UPhOL d New York hureau, knowing
Da IT YRS NX that ace reporter Smith is covering
the President's trip, tells all
hureaus to "uphold"_get of the
0} wire: 'Dallas, it's yours "
UpT 48N AJ Atlanta tries to interrupt; but is
Day
CORRECTE
quickly squelched by the
BuoS Uphold- ~ NX New York bureau.
UP [ A8N DA The Dallas operator hegins
URGENT
IST A DD SHOTS, DALLAS (atn) KIX DouNtoun DALLAS. sending the rest of Smith's account
No CASUALTIES VeRE REPORTEDa
THE INC [DENT OcCURrED NEAR TKE county SHERIFF 5 OFFIcE On MAIN from the press car.
STREET, Just EaSt 0F AN UNDERPA SS LZA DING TowaRD THE TRAde HART VKRE
ThE PRES [deNT Vas To Ha
FLasx
FlaSH
At the hospital, Smith sees the
KENNEDY SERIOUSLY VOUNDED PERHAPS SERIOUSLY President's limp hody in the cai
Perhaps Fatally By ASSA SSINS BULLET and races to a telephone: At
'JTir9pcs
12:39, nine minutes after the
shooting; the news flashes
over the wire:
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Up] 98 Now reporter Smith is dictating
a
BuLLSfIN
LeAD Shoot ING
JOHN 8 . ConNALL Y
story ready for: printing:
Dallas, Mov , 22 ( UPI) - PRESIDENT KENNEDY aVd Gov .
0f Texas Were cutdown By AN aSSASSIn $ bulLETS 4S TkeY TOURED
DonnTow dallas Im OPEN autorobILe Toda y.
MORE JT1241Pcs
UPI aiov Da AX TODAY _
Smith rolls on, swiltly and
Add IST Lead SHOOT ING DALLAS 9N Dallas
THE PRES [ DENT, MIS LIMP BODY CRA DLED I TkE Arms 0F MIS WIFE, #as fluently, adding fresh details as
Rusked To PaRKLaND KOSPITAL _ TME GOVERNOR ALSO Vas TAKEN To ParkLANd: 'pandemonium ' breaks out
CLINT MILL' SECRET SERVICE AGENT ASS [GNED To ARs. KENNEDY , SAID
YE '5 DeE D, AS THE PRESI DENT WAS LIfted FROm THE REAR OF A VHITE HOuSE in the corridlor outside his
Ouring car; ThE FaMQuS BubILETOP" FRom VASHINGTON: HE WAS RuShEd
To An EMERGENCY Room IN Ti HOSPITALa
0F THE
telephone niche:
Other WHITE HOUSE OffIc[ALS VERE I DOU9T AS ThE CoRRIDORS
HOSP [Tal ERUPTEd IN PAVDENONIUM_
ThE INC [ DENT OCCURRED JUST EaST 0F THE TRIPLE UNdERPASS FAC ING A
Park IN DowntowV dalLas. REPORTERS About FIve CAR LENGTKS BEHIND THE CXIEF EKECUTIVE
MeA R
MorE (aApES
Up [ Aiin Da
Searching his mind for
2Nd A DD 1ST LEAD ShOotinG ( 94 DaLLA S) KKX DALLAS. impressions of the shooting,
REPORTERS About F[VE CAR LEvGThS BEHIND THE CKIEF EXECUTIVE
HEARD What VOUNdEd LIKE TK REE BuRst0F GU:S [ RE Smith adlds all he can remember
SEcRET SERVICE AgenTS IN A FollOW-U? CAR QUICKLY. UNLIMBERED ThE IR
AUTOMATIC RIFLES:
to the story: The shaken wire
Thc BubbLE Top 0f ThE PRES[ DENT *5 caR WAS DoWn. operator stumbles in the
ThET DREY THE [R PISTOLS, but THE DArAGE Vas DOME,
ThE PRESI DENT Was SLumped OveR IN THE BacKSEAT OF THE CaR face second line:
Douv; Connally Lay ON TkE Floor OF TkE REAR SEAT.
IT WaS IAPOSSI BLE To TELL AT
HorE {45PES
UPI At2v Da As yet nothing is known of the
It Has IMPOSSI3LE To TeLL At ONCE WHERE KENNEDY WAS KIT, but BULLET sniper, what kind of weapon
VOUVDS IV connalLY"s CkEST VeRE PLA I VL Y VISiBLE, NDIATING TXE GunF [RE he used, or where the
AiGhT POSSI BL Y HAVE COME from An AUTOMATIC Weapon
THERE WERE THREE Loud BURSTS _ shots came from:
DALLAS ROTORCYCLE OFFICERS EscORTING THE PRESI DENT QUICKLY LEAPED
TRoM THEIR BIKES AnD RA CED UP A GRA SSY HILL:
MORE j A6PES
UpIaisn da
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This docunent i; prcporcd { rcspors 9 rcg"cst and is {~" i / W'_
natia outsi2 wor Commi' ; ( ( Its is limnits; '' offici
''0 :inc;"
"iur c aa' (hc Co) "t nW not {c dlisclosed to Uiluhi" i-w ?uS0n - EHi
the 0x;7ess tpptroata-fthe
'atmurui
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Mr. Belmont
DATE: November 27 , 1963
Hc {{;f Sullivars
ayel FROM C. A. Evans Trotte
Tele . ?czn
Jcl , F Goldv:
SUBJECT: ASSASSNATION_QE_PRESDENT KENNEDY
He said he hejutst GtoDletedeneris! Katzenbach telephoned at 10:50 1
m_ eustetompletedtalking on the telephone with Alexis Johnso:,
Deputy Under Secretary of State:
Johnson told Katzenbach that
the investigation of this matter in Mexico is insofar &8
felt this should be coordinated and directed concerned, the State Department
position that the President"
by the FBI State took the
's directive to the FBI extended to any activity
outside of the United States,
as weli 25 within the country:
Ambassador in Mexico is Insofar &s the
informed of
concerned_ Johnson believed he should be kept
be
hay pertinent developments but that the Ambassador shjuldnot
running the investigation:
he
As to current developments Katzenbach said that the last thin:
would want would be for the FBI to take Agents
tive duties to prepare away from their investiga
reports. He requested, however, that if there were
pertinent_degelopments he be_orallybriefed
IvhSY ZCCne AiL
With further reference to his corversation with Alexis
Katzenbach said he had been asked whether the State Jolson,
3 formal inquiry Of the Soviet Government for
Department should
make
and his wife,
particulerIy .ettGoveir nctitifoesinoRUSsion concerning Oswald
question be considered the
Russia, He asked that this
by Director, &s Katzenbach felt his Views most
important.
In thinking about the matter himself, Katzenbach noted if we
8
did not ask the Soviets for information there would Se no answereshouldethe
question of Oswald's in Russia be raised, other than to admit we had
made no inquiry. On the other hand; he observed that we could not place
U
any reliance on anything the Soviets said
RECOMMENED ACTION:
k2 - /0 6*'{0
-1493
After conferring Zith Messrs Belmont.and Sullivan, the
1 0
Mr. Mohr
Mr . DeLoach
R€' :77
FROM
1 Mr . Rosen 2 tzd 27 KnG; OEC} 1953
MI3 Sulliva;
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Aemorudum to Mr. Belmont
folledng {ecommendations are submitted with reference to
raised by Mr. Katzenbach: the points
1 Insofar a8
2 formal
we believe this undesirable.
Such
approach to the Soviet Government,
will enable the Russians to
aformal Fequest from the United Sates
to them_ The United
Duilout a official statement entirely favosabte
to our formal
States will have to acdet
since it is in
request; and we won 't be in a position to response
State Department has responsib
here and
disprove it.
The
position are to but
we should not dictate the
our views should be stated
2 In connection with the
recommended Katzenbach be infor)
investigation in Mexico,
it is
Central Intelligence
'med that the State Department and
governmenteslinefe gegencY i(CIA) have jurisdiction in
with foreign Ebroadyteats deweette s investigative results and intelligence coverage
the respons)
in this
cooperating with State and CIA in Mexico,
matter should rest With State and CIA
X approved Katzenbach will be 1&_ 2 (
So advised 2 "lh3
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Tnc Honorable Otia Fiko;, Cbalaan
Iouse Select Conaitto?
or
Jatelllgence,
Rayburn Houjc Office Builoing;
Washing D. C . 20515
Dear Congressman Plke:
Concratulations on your Coxittee': groat gcryico to thc Awerican
clcce
torate in renoving &O78 0f thc mnsk 0f sccrccy fron te dcrcstic cover't
oxvraticnz ard fundirg 01 tho CIA_ Socreey protccted courtaprociuctivc
an] iridlefcnsible covert opcrations for #enbJ-Geven X{arj, Tce light
of Ecposwi and cleaising 1g Goy erharcing cur countu' % sccurity , Tno _ Fubllshing of Jour exccllent rcport
cfei CIA and khftz Hcuje objectlons
13 2n #c & of couruze thc clectorate xill Joon apprectrtc.
Reliance, howevcrz by any Congrc3sional ccrnittce on 'tanduuta fron tha
CI: ibelf, Lo likc in investigative rerortcr corpilirg his
J fron
goverrrcnt press clczzes . Welthc; 13 doing thc Job #,3 cmploye'
It &0
Findirg thg hddlen CI: budgeta for thrca
or four tircs thc billions of
dollar? udsltted to tnle. clectcrate f8 2 co er:lablc adfcveGent, Bu &
#hz & Yculd your Invcotigators haya achie ad if 2 law KlS alrcady in
forco Inponing criminal Dcraltie? uF?r CI: employej3 #0 Idakcd infor:
Ia tloi to you?, Tile CIA proposed gecrccy lov i8
1 blacsail Weapon,
Intclligencc, money a7d secrecy coabira to conctitute &ubocratic povor
in OUr scciety. 'The Corzres:' enjots ro in tolligence Ervico of it3
Own It enjcjj no -offcctivz cortrol over #pclidirg 0f furds hiacen In
tke budgets 0f non~C Ii depertwerts and agcnclcG , If E Mrronderj to
thc doctrirc of sccrecy 10 i8 powerlesz indcer , To strgthcn Congrons 0
powor I offcr Jou My Olm coun trintclligenco scrvice f placc_ Tha
soutcc? have baen cale fully tssted and accumulatcc ainc 1949.
Tne problen.ij, not leaklng intelligence
out of Comnft it 1s leaking
inali:rendent intelligercc Into it. starting exacely Orr Yoar ag0 today
I lunchcd Fcrctration Jffortj #ith 3 19 paza roport adresscd to
"Chairman and %eabcrs, Sclect Cornittees cn Intelligert Cpcrztionge
I hand delivered thfs report to evely comiittce rombers Offico. My
wife Nancy recorded the ` date, hour and pcrson ' dellvcrct to,
On Jurc 25, 1975 Edxard Docder III of your staff Icceitcd for 10}
paze: of coun tcrintelligence=
on CIA . Thfs .represented a diatillation
of 4 quartor ccntury of int& lllgence gatacrinz: CLI catrol o(" the
Matcrgate brozkin andl coverup and CIA J invcstigation d my pcnctration
of thcir secrct} $3 covrcd #ho application to thc U, S ttorny and
threc U S , Spacial Prosecutoru requeating investigatla an prosecution
of murrlcr of Anzrican citizeng within tho U.S, k, is inyour filesa
Hevertheluga nono of this inbelllgence leaked to recofsitlon or' Invoz-
tigation within thc executivo dlopartents or your Cqivzto?,
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Qn July 30, 1975 Exnily Shcketoffi of ycuz ctaff reccipted for 2 Orc pagc
hotification iistributed t0 chaiten and #cabera that fnre P, Corandlue
rao, an erplczcc 0f CIA 8 omestic #ssu3ina+loni officc, had bzen rur=
dard in kr apnrtmcnt houge swimning pool b" CI asc_3cin Eugenc Hlalo
Breadlnga
I now cnjoy tho adlitional intclligcrco that Ccvvaantiuras Ma3 executcd
ith 3 CIA dart Gun zuch lL3 that displayed t0 ncw; canra? by a Fember
of the Scnat? Intflligerce Cor:fttc?a 'Kha intclligence rapon flres 3
sliver coated with eellfigh tozij: that kills Iithin eccord:, diasolvcs
#irl leares no mare Thc CIM pr&zer:d tlclr ehellfish torin supply in
(rect contrcrention of 20] order cf trc Prczident. Your Ccmnittce filed
thia roport thout #lon #long with orcr 200 adiltional ccunterintel-
ligcnco. Id tals 3ccrecy that protccts ratioal security?
Congressman Pike; Jou have exposed #10 billicn of CIA fundling mostly
nleder In Jrotrar budgat. Mlll Yol 83 for morz ? Then examinc the
Stata Departscnt, 'Irttcry Dcpartacnt, Justice Departnent, Maltc Kouse
cnd Ccngrcss #ppropriationj_
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111 of' thesa support persoiel accopting
orers for coycrt doneztlc oporationg fwcm CIA
You kave urcovered CIA Operationg in the ccdia, Inveatigat- police
departgents trcughout thc nation furdcd by Lzl that ar2 rcsponsive to
CIA ordora In the Falrfic Cointy_ Virginia, Folica dcpartent alona
3 CIA #s32s1r ha: tillcc erployed tha badge thc &zpertzent J; cckc?
to entrancc to dor:lcfles to perfor, exccutions.
I cozed your Cozltteo for rejis tke pressure for secrecy
in publighing your Teporta I dcplore youz' resistice to thc leaking
0f in tllige:ce into youl Corriittcc. Te latter confincs Joul' Con-
Fittec' c intclligerce to officiel and unofiicial leaking chanrcl: of
tr? CIA. Pleaze corzedlc that thorc are other cftizens a3 corceinod
for the securlty of Aserica 2s You 37*0$
I respectfully rcques # tunity t) confer with you, Corgressaan Pike,
01' with your capable_
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dilieent and hozcat st2ff chief, A , Seefle Ficld,
I wint to #9mist Your Coriitt#c in rccccndlnz rezudial leglslation
besed upon 27 years of dcfiaing: the problcme
Roopcctfully subnltted,
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Amos E, Keacock
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Etcl; Lctters to" Senator
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bENAY M. MACKSON. WASM; JACOD K. Mivits, Mva Sy ` sviist kGj;
EOMind S. Muskie, Maife WilLiam Roth, Jr, Del: Ep
Lee MEtCALF_ MoNt, BILL AROCK TEMN:
JAMES ALLEN ALA: LowELL WEiCKER, JR" CONN:
LWTON Ciiles; FlA,
@lnite) States Senate
SAM MUNN;
Jobin GleNN; Ommo
RICHARD A. WEGMAN COMMITTEE ON
CieF counseL AND STAFF Director GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
WASHINGTON_ Dc. 20510
March 8 , 1976
Mr Amos E Heacock
4710 QsLethorpe Ape 208 25z-Hel/ 38
Hyates+ille_ Maryrand 20781 Fe Cacer/ La , 224*J
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Dear Mr Heacock:
Thank you
for Writing to me
regarding your knowledge_ of
the activities of the Central Intelligenee Agency . I understand
that you have discussed these questions at length with members
of the Committee staff_
On March 1 the Committee reported S , Res 400 creating
a Senate Committee on
Intelligence Activities The legislation
which was before us
concerned . Only the establishment of 3 new
congressional committee; it did not involve revisions that; would
significantly modify the structure or the powers of the CIA it-
self_ The Committee has not been authorized to hire additional
staff personnel for the purpose of this legislation _ Further-
nore, we were under instructions from: the Senate to report_ out a
formal: recommendation in the form of legislation by March 1
I am however
deeply concerned with the charges yo4
have made because if true,
they represent grave examples
corruption and criminality It is my hope and intent that the
new
committee created by: the legislation we
are considering
once it is established will have
the jurisdiction and the re-
sources co explore the kind of issues which you raise
I assure ,you that the entirety of the information you
have submitted to my committee will made available to the
new
Congressional oversight comittee
I am
sure you understand the constraints on the Govern-
ment Operations Comittee" which prevent uS:
from undertaking the
investigations you suggest
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but I shall forward the material
you submitted to the new committee as soon as it is established
For your information I an
enclosing a
copy of S , Res .
400 and a copy of the committee' $ report on this measure
Sincerely
Ck #ih;
Da
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Abe. Ribicoff
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The Kcworable Abrahan Ribicoff_ Chaltan
Corinittsc on Govcrzzat Opcrations ,
United Statea Scnata
Dirksen Scnate Office Euilding
Hashington, De C, 20510
Dear Scnator Rdblcoff:
Destiny hag choscn you tno' gecond tira in geven yeazs to chair com-
nittee "lth capabflit cf establishing lcficlativo rorcdios to provent
dozcstic Jd forctgl 3253361nati0n", hugc corruption #ithin mllitary
supply atrcars, nltl billfc @oller' curizecy mznipulation and Acsjivo
Intcrvcntion of tha CIA in dcstlc covcrt operationg_
Or 0}"
abou$ Xarch 6, 1952 You wcre thc :csing chairan of the Perralcnt
Inventigations Subcoxlttee tnat kezrd Corrcliug.Haxkridgc, my #ltnes?,
degcriba 3 multi billion dollar curtcrcy nanipula'clon Jacket in South
Viethan Camnine Eellino, steff investigtor, provartcd Hakkidge Iron
Jljo teztifying about truck convo}s 0f Jiplew) milfta: &N and 5upplles
ttat h: ooserycd heading townr: the Czxbodia border} 32 #Ivnca" for
thezc atalan Qrm9 23 th? fabulcus Soviet XGB #Cent Jarque3 Tang) dus-
criba by #taf? 1n Zour ncaring; to ba a or? Viatuamaxa coriis,aty
clorf, Thc orziszed crir? en or: of che ctolan gocd* rcachul Into
Yoiz' Comnitia i Carvno Bellino t prod lc: lilolz iucraeiye nickob
Nawkridsa later wrote You 1 lattr covarig this deficenc; Iu t236l-
Eo3. He pointad out the 83l: of a*,y Zencratc: furdu #ged 1n cur=
rancy Jonlpulatlona
I &dud the cripplod Haikrid;e abourd his flignt at Sesttle , Your Con-
aittan proyidocl 27 acbulacc t0 [a0t hij for 1t Ka$ lc;3 &3n two
#on 81s since ha Surtie 277 33J2J3in1ti0: &ttcmpt tnat kllled hfs #Ife .
Tna Soxiet XC3 let 2 con tract xith organized ctine' 3 CE; asga,ination
fecilitioj t? 'dll tnca, Tnj KGB conjidered Haxkridg? a (lefectora
Williz: 30 sood , aLias "illian Zxley, CIA alias Willice Harvey and
double #Gont for KCB fingcred Hawkzidge &n: his wif: Agola, 1 "baby
81tt rm for %cst Garii an] CIi intelllgence. I1 tne conbrivod
trcr-car "accident" Haukricze Mas crippled for Ilfe.
I net wfth CIA '0 Harvey 13 Boxlcy in Novezbor, 1968 , 11 New Orlcina
pursuaat to IJ countcrintellizcnco inveceigatlons: Ha voy , #itcaj3
bofora the Sonata Intolligenco Cozril #tce
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haz arnitted hi3 rolo 33
orzanizer of thc Zi/RIZLS Eecutivo Actin a3a3winatiun capabllity
and his contacta With John Rojjelli and Sam Giancina a" organized crino
to implcmcnt tnat capabilit; - Martey incorrectly junpd to tno conclue
gion foj thz XCB tant Haw'idge 4a3 2 cooparativo Jour-? of much of Ity
accurat# countorintalligenco on KQB,
Haw'ridge had precipitatad your invejtigation by appea ing to 3 Truasury
official_ Tho official provalled upo: Scnator John Xcclellan, thon
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Chalrman of your Ccnnitt, to conduc& it. He first ezposed tha fanoua
"? '1Jsjeen" account In 3 New York bank, It Wa? uaed to concrt South
Victnaese piasters to dollars, most of mmhich onded up in . thrce banks
in thc shiekdo: of Dubal on the Porsian Gulfe
Ky furtber investization beyonel thc Codlttac probc, 3abntaged bJ pel-
lino, eatabllshed tha dolla;s ~ori used to requisition ingots
fron the U, S . 'Traasury 4t $35 per ounce , Tneso were rcmelted to con-
venient "taels" or wafors of gold for black market trading for Indo-
china currencies at discountse 'Iia conspirator? cnj
goverment facllitie3 for converting piasters to dollars at fantagtl-
cally unrcalistic official exchange ratesa Tho exchange provlded hugc
profitj to conspiratorg and huzc 1os3es to the Trcasurja
This inflation nachino is atill at work, though at a reduced rate since
the end .0f tne war in Soutreast Asiaa The entreprencurg seek grcencr
pastures ~hora nev warj deutabilise currencies. Perhaps Angola?
Hax*Fidge' 3 real nace is Corel Solyori. His intolligence 3ctiyitles
for : decadc crc traced in 4 641 page rerort in the pogsezsion of tho
Scnate and Housc Intelligenco Coiini tteea &nd your Committee
Senator Ribicoff had the activitles of CI:-Crite doublc agent Calmine
Bellino and Hawkridge' 3 tentinony bccn exposed in the public record in
1962 the traua for You =
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for Jour Coiuzi ttsu, for the Ccngre3s ana for
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thc Arsrica clectorate would have becn %crcitully softened. Bcllino
went on to becore Caief Inventigator for thc Scnate Natergate Comnlttoc ,
Xe covozed up ths sourced of $1,0502,00 of so-called tical donor
funds I hate traced. He on to inatruct CIA Aloxander But-
terfiold in tnc mitc Iouso to rcveal the existonce of t 1} Preaident'9
tapes , thcrcby insuring hls domfall
X filo of T lettors to Senator Hcnrz Jackzon in 1969 Here sont by him
to your Cosiitte: Tho intalligence Mj:
suporessed by Ballino. Although
your Coraittsc published eiznt voluscs of hearings. in this investigation,
Hawkridgc'3 vital tostLalony Xaj calcted. My intelligenco 1a} disregardod,
Thc legislative remcrlieg no; toing propored to counter corTuption of our
intolligence Jcrvice3 can be made adequata by exposing to public
view tno dcpth of tae problez of secrccy, I 1j alaz-ed at denand? for
9ecrec to suyport CIA covert operations swch J3 thosc that led OuJ'
countrj into
the nost counterproductive covert opcration in 0u? mbion' 8
history 04 the War in Vietnana Did tho Jecrecy Imposed by Eellino with-
in your Cornittcc advance the cecurity of tho Unitcd Stato3 ? Or did It
incur*3 thc greatast huniliation 0f Ou41* foroign policy 'and our arlad
forces 3ince the birth of our
republic 200 years
I a
alarfed that; criminal: penalties are being proposcd for public
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irresponsible actiong 0f Iej] infec tcd with the arroganca of poxera I
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'Che Konorble Frak Chuzch, Chalran Ref: K lettor 1l/20/7h
Select Comnittce OI} Intelligenco & encl to Son Welkor
Uniterl Stites Souato, forwarlcd % acknoledged
Ruasell Offico Bullding, your lottor l/t/is; your
'lashington_
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5/5/15;. ry lcttcz 7/i1/75,
Doar Senator Church:
I cormend thc dligent effortj 0f you) the membera ana) the Jtaff 1u produc-
and cspecially in publishing thc Committcg J report- on "Allaged Aj3a5?-
iilation Plots Involving Foreign Leadcro. 01
Nevcrthelcss, I rst advijo you that ovcr 2C0 page3 of countcrintalligence
on dunegtic &d forclgu anJa3Jinatiori: 0f tba CLI I havc providcd or mado
availablo to ataff and memberg had becn dlarogarded O1
deliboratcly Vith-
hcld fron neaber?,
Conscquently, 43 nenber? are praparing to a final report, 5.t 1s tiely
to list so5e Of tha dijaztrous orrOr'? 0t tha intcrim raport. Tne orror}
ar3
tna ragult of intentional nleropresentation and doceit of thc Congra3?
and tllc ` Anerican electorats b the CIA, 1t8 directors and eaployecs ,
(1) Tae Zi/RIFLE Eecutive Action progran begun in 1960, headod bJ HIl-
la Harvey , wa3 dejigned a] 3 doieatic 2s9i93lnation capability.
(2) Under the direct planni:z and Implanentation of Haryey, 2 numbar 0f
donostic &nd foroign aJjagjinations ware cxecutede
(3) Harvey ' $ naws iJ Killlan 5 . wood, oliis Yillian Boxloy , alfa3
#. J , wod& His assa39inationa In VS4 I haye alrcady reportod.
(L) Aaong forcign agn88inationg with participatlon by Ycod '3 donnostic
team menbora on foreig duty" ar0 tho3o of' Lurumba ad Trujillo.
(5) Ordcro paazed by CIA for execution, rather than oxiling or kidnapping,
caused the deaths of Ngo Dien, Ngo Mhu and Rene Scknelder
(6) CIA gave tne code naze XJ (NIN to thc organized crisc &so293ination
congultant criployed to injwte thc killing of Patrica Lurcuib;, Hi.?
nama is Michacl Cenoves?, alia9 Victor Reslgnio_
0 Jon 0f Vito
Genovese, bo33 of boj3c3 of the Kaffa In iClanta fedcz"l prIzon
unt1l hc illed. Ccnovenj enjoyed ass1scinatfon authority indepcndent
of CIA directora dclczated by Koyer Lanaky , bos3 of th: Amerlcan
intarational crime #yndicato thal , Ncitlar Prejidant Elsenhoxer or
Pregidant Konnedy confe:od as3a33ination au" thority uyon CIA,
(7) Gcnovesc , 23 Victor Reslgnio, dirccted an
or3 &d supplio3 diverclon
and currercy manipulation racket in: South Viotnan in 1966-67 that cost
tho Troagury 351.8 billion, Executive DoparGnentj' total, not nlno &
(8 ) Woocl 0 crimo team Inember that aided Genozoso to ossure Lumumba' 8 death
was' codc namod WI/ICGUE & He is Frank Sturgla, Watorgat} burglar.
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(9) Sh:ffleld Edwaid:, witncj} producad by CIA a3 ita Dircctor of Secur-
ity, XZ? a 3tutiou? gubaiitution to decolve tre Ccmxnlttoa arcl: tho
Anarican clectorate, Rccruitod fron organized criae (IA cozchod
hlo to appi:ar 2$ the Ed:ardg 0z Colonel Ed:nd Ibo dincted tha
carly alleged attenpta to as3am3inat5 Fidol Caatro .
Thc 2212 E:erdg who collaborated 'ith orgonizel crimo '$ ht mian John
Rosselli, his boss Sum diaccana and Rocort .JiabEu ,' agznt of Hoxard
Hughes_
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0il tool billicnairo, wals E, Ho;ard Kaatt , Hetcrgato burglar.
Ecl;;aurd? waS Hunt's CIA ninc . Thc CIA polzonca Sheffield Eduatrda
after his appcarance to ,prevcnt his recall and pojaible cxpoJure 38
3 fraud
(10) Jchn Rosgelli accepted a283sinatlon orler; [ron rob leader Ciancana
who acceptod ozlers in tirn fron Kejer Langk.
(11) Coznittec Hitnews Roazelli wi? tlia hft Jan who Blt Giancana Wlth 3
8pecial 23*aJsintion siapon dleelcpcdl by CIIa Fb lcd thc kienappirg
od czecution of Jacs iiq on? timc Teastera Prcsident
B4 #4 even
a9 you: hoarings progrensed
(12) 'litross Fobert Hahuc exccuted te ordoru of Hovart' Fiuzheg in contact-
Rozcolli t0 inpledent
a1 dorcstic 42sa53inaticr capabillty through
oreanlzed crits Hughes laswcd ordcrs to assascira& Fronier Ngo
Dea throuzh Richard G. Dcnner, Jlle3 Gil Dunner_
Harnor precipitted tnc lughos ortler to bug Laureice 0'Bricn 3 tola-
phonc in the atergete complez by boing cauekt forrarding
2 81C0,COo
Paygent on Pregidert Hfzon'' & San Clerente ond 31scayn? hore3 for
Hugh#s to tho Preaidant' $ friend, Eebe Rebozoe Hhcs ousprctod 2
by dc ector Kakcu 0' Erien to biua the olatlcn for Hixon,
"Cil" Dannor #&s Malogcr; 0f the International Clut: in Salgor , ownod
by thz 0 . S. Erbassy . He rcprescnted Hiughes' inta0s t In thc 851.8
billion racket @naged by %ichael Cenovcse
(13) CLA in ,1949 ostablished 0 Dorcatic Intelligenco Diision for covert
2ction #ithin tha !hfto iious?, tho Executivc Depatrcnt?, Congres?,
politicul partigs and the Jcdle .
(1h) The Ccntral Intolligence Agency Act of 1949 Va8 ued a8 authorization
for Cih to Irplensrt domestic covert actions throlgh funding ard
persongel of docstic agercics of governmacnt. Thc Intelllgerce Dirc-
torate of CIA fs cover for: (lorcstic covert ectlonein the igency itsolf&
I a Jurc You wlll agrcc that hed gour staff investigatecand confired nt
counterintelligerce during the yoal 1t nas bcen avaflablc to you, tko lcgls-
lativo ramedlas reconmerded by Your pralininary report vcld have bzon fcund
unacccptably ieak by Comfttcc, Conkross and the Anerlca: ulcctorate, Please
permit mz to meot and sorve you' with coun torintelllgcrcc Inputa
Respectfully subrittcd,
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Encl: Lcttcrs to Son , Aro3 Ee Keacock, Lblo Cgle borpc, Ilyattoyllle,
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3m alanne:] that no witness had pointcd 3 finE?r of blane it thc Centrul
Intclligonce Agency Act of 194i9: It 13 ths Kaga Charta of CTA'g Dona-
estic Intelligence Dlvlsion. Ti; ac+ specifically prorieled cover for
CIA , It @ffectivcly repealcd CI.'3 restriction to [oreign opcrationg
intended by Congrens to prcvent 0 police atatee
Thc 1949 act authorized CIA to conccal huge portlons of it; budgot and
persounel within the budgets jd pezwonnel roster of dowveat;ic agencle?
of government. Tnece cJpccially iuclude cxployecs on Capltol Hill
in the %nite Houae, it} the Dcpartaent of Justice, In thc Fedcral Aviatlon
Adinistration and in the Civil Aeronauticz Eoard , Until the act iJ
repeeled Congress Nill renain ipart 'of the problen, rot part of tho
solution
When Cornaliu3 and Angela Iaxridge Fero hit bJ tha CIA $ domestic
a3sasjin3 on
January 1o, 1969% #ERr overrole If caution . I wro6o
4l1 Iiftecn [embers 0f tne Senate Forelgn Roletions Comittec February
23, 1962 . I denanded that Hawkridge bc heard by tha Senate. Although
I rcceived no replle3, thia fozced Caralne Bellino hand ad Kawk-
ridga 7a3 3ubpocnzed. The recipients roferred some lebtor" to your
Cozitbce
Six months earlicr nT
lotter of August J, 1368 to thc Forclgn Relationj
Coitte: enclojed 3
605 page stutiy entitled "Xs3assinations of the
Indiuserial Statse" It corcluded sith thc startliag preiise I am now
propared to provc to the Senate:
"It 18 my fira predic tion= that when tha Foreign Relationg,
Committzes to the botton 0f thc CIA' s conspiracy to
usurp Congre;s' forelgn pollcy outhority will algo
havc soled thc conspiraclcs behind thc con tinuing
a3sa3siati0n3 0f the incuatrial statea "
I raly your' falress for opportunity to refuto tho clals of
willian Colby, Director of Central Intclilgence, to testify and to aid
Jo1l? Coziltt;}e to drift leglolation that Kill @ffectively prevent
abuses of porer by the goveirgient' 8 intclligence agencics.
As an Air Force officor beforo, during andl after World War II, I 37
conce ned, as I know You are, that O1 countzy' 9 sccutity will be pro-
tectad, I will testfy for moro cffective lcgitimat: intclligence and
counterintalligcnce scrvices Perhapa thc most effectiva testimony I
can give is that inich ill estahlish that the CIM has bcen thoroughly
infiltrated and corrupted by double agents who OwJ thcir primury
loyalty to thc Soviet KGD&
Regpcctfully submi-
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Encl: Lettors to 'Amoj E Heacock
Senator Frank Church Wulo Oglcthorpo , Apt. 708,
and Congressni {Nyattaville Hd _ 20781
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FIELD FOPMATION REPORT
COUNTRY : Cuba REPORT NQ. HKH-1385
SUBJECT: Assassinatfon of Lt. Col'_ Antonfo DATE 'OF ImFO: 28-29 Fob erber 1956
BLAiCO Pico Solved
DATE'ACQUIPED: 29 Hovecber 1956
~PLACE ACQUIRED:Habana DATE OF: PEPORT: 30 Hoverber 1956
SOURCE SoURCE EVALLATION , APPRAISAL OF CONTENT: Cuban goverment officla] (8 )
Appraisal 0f Content:
1 Agents of the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar (SIM_ Cuban Militzry Intell gence
Service) are reported to have identified definitely tne assassins of Lt. Ccl
Antonio ELACO Pico, forer chief of SIM killed on; 22 Octcber 1SE6 at tke Ycrt-
martre nigbtclub. On 29 Moverber' 1955 SIM gents 'interrogated Dr . Artardo CAPDENAS
Aranguren instructor cf pathology at the University cf Kzbana 2rd succeeded
in obta an adnission fron CARDEIAS that Jun 'Pedro CAREJ Servja erd Folarca
CUBELAS Secades
'Zhad sought
re fuse at his house afiter the assassinaticn cf ELA"CO
Rico and hed rerained there epprox inately three or four days _ CARDE:;AS stated
during interrcgticn that CAR9) had errived at his house cerrying a sub-rech ne
gun . On the basjs Gf CARCEMAS adnissions Six Officiais are convinced that
CAPBO and CUBELAS Kere the ones Who killed ELACO ;Rico.
2 Inp]ication of CARDERAS and CUBELAS resulted fron the interception of a cable
by SIM sent fro7 Miami Florida by a friend of CUEELAS to Virginia SECASES
mother of CUBELAS
9
in Habana On 21 #ovemper 1956 Virginia SECADES Kas arrested
by SIM and taken to SIM headquarters for cuestioning concerning her son" 5 parti-
cipation in the 2ssassination ot BLANCO Rico SIM agents Were unable to obtain
any inforgation from SECADES concerning her son S ro]e in the killing but SUc-
ceeded in Tearning that CARDENAS was a close friend of her son_ On 29 #cvenber
1956 SIM agents picked up CARDERiAS who under pressure 2dmitted that he was
2 korosexua] that CUBELAS was his intimate friend and that he had,hidden
CUBELAS and CARBO in his hcne for about four days These admissions were made
at SIM headquarters in the presence of Colonel IrenaIdo GARCIA Baez deputy
chief of SIM, Lt. Co] Marcelo TASERMILLA who was wounded durirg the shooting
of BLAYCO Rico, and other high SIM officia]s
3 interrogation of CARDENAS failed to revea]' the destination of CARBO and CUDELAs
after left the home of CARDERAS On the basjs of the intercepted cable
dated 23 November 1956 however SIM officials be]ieve that CAREO and CUBELAS
fled_tq,ths by ship; s ince both possessed visas to the United
states
"edefhdfitev=
11 valid_ CARBO and CUBELAS are .believed to be in Miamt
at the present time.
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DATE 30 #ovember 1956:
SIM has trensnitted the results of' interrogation of SECADES and CAROERAS to
Presfdent Fulgencio BATISTA
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but the atter 5 reactien to these new Cevelop-
nents is not known_ Further action by the Cuban-authorities is conp] icated
by the fact that the Governtent' $ Gajn witness CRPCERIAS is of dubijous re-
Hability , because of his horosexuality CARCERAS is 2lso reported to be
the Coctor 0f the fanily of Santiego VERGEJA Ileyra, Minister of Cefense, who
vouched' for him When he was arrested by SIM.
Fteld Cozents:
1, Office files contain no prevfous record of CARDEMAS In connection with
anti-BATISTA activities_ A Dr _ Argando CARDENAS Kas isted in Hov (cefunct
newspaper of the Cuban Co-tunist Party)
9
issue 0f, 22 Apri1 1949 a$ ane
of the persons Kho sent greetiincs to the Horld Corgress of Peace Partisans,
scheduled to begin In Paris on 20 Apri} 1949_
2 2 Both CAP?O and CUBELAS have been the subjects In" the past of deruncfations
and arrests by the Cuban authorities as a result, of their anti-BATISTA
activities were accused in August 1955 by Colonel OrIando PIEDRA
chfef 0f the Department of Investigations of having fled fron the ice
from the site 0f an ams cache In February 1956. CUBELAS was arrested and
tried on charges of participating in student disorders according to articles
which appeared in Ioca) newspapers on 15 March 1956 and April i956 CARBO
Mas denounced by the Cuban ce as one of BLANCO Rico' s killers iCediately
after the shooting incident at the Montmartre nightcub_
3 Office files contain no ous record Of Virginia SECADES Habana rews-
papers 29 November 1956 carried an item in which the University of Habana
Student Federation protested against the detention of Virginia SECADES by
SIM.
4 Ffles 0f the Consular Section, United States Embassy , Habana revealed
that CARBO was issued a tourist visa on 3 June 1954 and that CUBELAS re-
ceived 3 s imilar visa on 15 October 1954 _ The files do not indicate
Whether these visas Were valid for a single entry or multiple entries but
they could stilI be ' valid,
$ on the basis of the dates of Issue.
5 _
FPoTle officials
announced immed ately after .the assass ination of BLANCO
Rico that they had information a5 to the Identity of the two assassins
A1FG 5 ng CARBO but not his accomplice_ and that they were on the traj) of
tae Iattera The Ice have failed to find the killers_ however, 2nd re- CIA
Portedly _ under pressure from Pres dent BATISTA and General Francisco
TABERMILLA_ Chief of Staff Cuban Armed Forces SIM: and the police have
been making desperate efforts to solve the BLANCO Rfco kf] It Ts
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possible that CARDEMAS may have been forced by SIM interrogators to Fake
staterents imp]icating CARBO and CUBELAS which were not a)together true.
The Ioca] press and radio reported on 29 and' 30 Moverber 1956 that United
States authorities were looking in Fex Orleans for two Cubans who were Sus-
pected of being the killers of BLA:ICO Rico_ They Kere identified by na;e 25
Rolando CUSELAS Secades and GuiMerto GARCIA' Riestra The latter nile a
student et the University 0 f Kabana was eccused of having participated in
an attempt against the ife of Rolando 'MASFERRER in Septerber 1949
9
accord-
to office files
7 Avance Habana- afternoon nexspaper; lished the officia] SI version of
TROErAs "
arrest on 30 Hovenber 1956 ; other newspaders carried it subse-
quently_ It contaired substantia]ly the sate inforcaticn aS reoorted
above
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but it also imp]icated arorg others fomner pres ident Carlos PRi0 Socarras
In the assassination of BLA;CO Rico
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I8 ,#arch 1965
HELORLYEH :
SCZJECT: Prcpcsal +0 {Eoploit L-i ajd
Jost Rebelloc 1il A Operatlon
It i6 prcposed ibat at tbe nert @oetibz wfth
uljs
wC Pass 2 Dessa;o 39 folloss:
"Abig: ccrandante r capft:n sho ecc]
to bo a leader of tkc unfvorsity sludedts
opczod 3 nizbercd (eecrcr) ecccUot i0
S_jtzcrland through,Colcabian Sujrez (3]
succeseor) Ho 74s tfavelfzz 1: Lurope 2 *
chat tizo,roughly Deceiber_ 196--Jcnuar; 1965 .
Tho dcpcsit 529 1j tbe azount 0f 810,000 .
Tho Cessnze 1s purposely So pbzased tkz.t 1t ccild :pply t0
borh L-/ and Jose. Zabollor Zotb ffa' T2ct:STCSfec; 3
0 % tzo PEJ (Fedorztfo: Ci Unfversit; Students) cce 1$ 0
conindinte and the othcr a ceptiin, 2rd bo:h t(re trvolinz
12 Eurcpe Jc Cecczber 1964-Jiruary 1965.
2 . Subjoct propogal; has taked tho follcnlng Infcrzation
into conbiceration_
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2 Floreecra: Tho f4le shcRs tbzk Jiaco
April 1959 and repeatedly ciace thon ! L-1
bits throatcred to clihiuat0 cstro _ tt kaz
not dono 50 Ho al90 was reportedly on tb?
vorgo sevarzl ticog of defectics but naver dfd_
Thero Jro rworoug repcrts 02_%rynz_crSilbilly_
tUEleZEis Ha0Zd iyEFZCESTQ_igent. Iis
cbaractor id such that ho has been descrfbed
in 2 rcport_ 18 "a pro5abie tbfef 1 possiblo
user_Qr_TArcoHIc? -Eomogaxuilzari_frfendoz
5 homogoxuals, 0$ but els0 exccedingly brave 6_
jan Warfous roports Indicate tbat ho 15
boavy drfnkor and 8 party Iovor_ rbus 3 purson
~#ttb sach trattb could rcsojably bo bolloved
to. b9 Involrod 1p Jrregular flnancfal trinsactions_
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b Favorablo fctorg (Irca 0 P5
standpoint) :
Jzi the Surzor 0f 1962 . Lrl
gave hb-| J5oo in Holsizki ro be |doposited
for {n 2 Eurcpear bank "for 2 rainy
day . 10 In Xarch 1951 2-1 shcwcd Eroat
gensitivity Cn tko subject 0f bank accounts
In Furope b Cuben officfals, Ludicatlrg tbat
bo Fight ahcot :7; officlal So involved.
C Conclusion: 6ihilo_lt_ci,cot hQ
dsccunted thst L-( F2y_he_i_Castro
Ifez+ ,-tt =y &0 tbet be h4 has beon 6incuro
fn-MIs dcalifgs #ith Rcsolution 0f
coubts tbroui;h an
Fclyoraen
intorvie; n38
boon inpossiblc sinc e L-} bit tho'
cellipg wbzo th6 catter Fas first nogtloned_
kz
Prcsurably Cia's inrcreat Jr T
L-| 15 to se0 bfz certy cut bfs Ilssion L
to ollafnte Cstk0 Tho ebore propogal
Cay ac tually sticulate tbo desired actton_
If L - i5 questfoced by tbe rcgico 1n
conrection with this charge , acd should the
investigation irvolvo 0 cortain acount af
harasszent and unpleasantness, hc olgbt Gcll 52
roach the conc lusor that the tiwe to teko
oatters Into hfs On baocs (zbfch he h13s
threatorod to co fOr sovcral years) hig at
last etrived
If L- is 7 Castro Ezent Jd:
Cistro sbould bo awaro 0f L-i 9 rolation-
Sblp wItb 21/ Castro night concludo that
-( recoivcr the Honey {roj @(A
bank:ed 1t #ftbout reportins It, and wa3 in
fact vorking cith 21A #52inst Cistro
(At tho reccnt {actings Jn_Parl? L-i.
askod 09 for_~IQ_QQQ Ta did cot glvc_ hin 6e
tbis though Lo_| Eavo blri S7,000.)
'1 L
If for a0y rcason the rcginc sbculd
do eway wltb L-| hls allegod Byepathizcrs Kin
In tbo Arcod Forco8 migbt feol tboy must rcect,
2t once to sav0 tbeir own 6kles_ Given tho
tonse political oitiation Jn Cuba today, thg
18 not out 0f . tha question and crrtrinly thl
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Rebcllcz {3 2c?-ccetrovcrci-l 5384
target for Inclusioa i0 this 0PS play for
tho follomfpg reasons
Do 1s close t6 Castro, 29 woll AS to
L - a0d b23 3 Cozuist backzround.
b . He. 1€ faailiar vith tho 830 000
sccount operiod in 2 Swiss bank by Abassador
Carrillo i2 t40 fal] 0f 1964 _ Rcballon 228
boen authorized by CaEtro to Grav O2I tbat
fund for Percb:ses rclared to Caotro'8 POt
projects Castro night thfak thet Rebellon
bed rafdod Castro 3 07n officfal fuid=
ka wIth L-(
any action by th6
rcGlro #Einst Reballon hight f4Jen splits in
Cuba and bring about further political LJeasiness
end tensions 1n interpergonal rolationships that
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MEHORANDUM FOR: The Review Staff
ATTENTION: Mr Walter Elder BEG; X)i;
VIA: SA/DDo cee ! [ [36
SUBJECT: SSC Request GU e
REFERENCE : RS 76-0083/A . (14 January 1976)
1 Re quest number 1 of reference: Attachment "A" contains
the names of Agency personnel who were in Mlexico Mexico, during
the period 1 September 1963 through 31 December 1963 and wno are still
on duty . Attachment "B" contains the names of Agency personnel who
were in Mexico City during this same period but are now retired or no
longer on duty. It is understood that these attachments will be
retained in the Headquarters building for use by the Comnittee Staff.
2 Re question number 3 (a) of reference: For your background
the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) was a Cuban student
exile entity founded in September 1960 as an anti-Communist revolutionary
organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Castro The parent
organization of the DRE was the Directorio Revolucionario (DR) a revolu-
tionary organization of Cuban students opposed to the Batista regime
which actively joined the Castro forces by organizing a guerrilla movez
ment which contributed greatly to tile collapse of the Batista
The Castro government thenselves of student origin, recognized the DR
power and by-passed them politically by forming the new regime without
their participation _ The original DR became Communist controlled and
directed While the Agency had no role in the founding the DRE was an
ertity used by the CIA as a unilateral asset in pursuing U.S _ policy
objectives _ CIA support to the DRE ceased on 30 September 1966 and formally
terminated on 1 January 1967 _ At that time DRE files were reviewed and
material dealing with CIA support and operations were eitier destroyed
or turned over the JMWAVE Station _ The DRE wJs expected to continue as
an organizational entity and continue its activities independent of CIA.
3 The DRE files of both Station JNWAVE and Hleadquarters that are
available have been reviewed and Lee Harvey Oswald 5 name does not appear
in these files. WAVE cable 8049 (in, 66782) of 22 November 1963 states
in the third sentence, "according AMSPELL files Oswald undoubtedly
refers to the DRE ' files maintained in the DREC office in Miami , Florida.
E2 IPPDET
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Tiese entity files were independent of the JMAVE Station files Had
Station JMAVE referred to its files in MAVE 8049 the cable would have
[
0 been worded "accord- NISPELL Station files. The file of AMHINT-53,
3 former executive of the DRE has also been reviewed and no reference
to Oswald was found The file number which appears on NAVE 8049 is no
longer in use and the contents o f' this former file were transferred
into Oswald S and other 201. files by the CI Stafe_ A tape of the radio
debate cited in WAVE 8049 i8 included in the Oswald 201 held by the CI
Staff.
4 Re question number 3(b ) of reference: We have been unable to
determine if Station JMWAVE was instructed co review its files for
information on Oswald_ For. many years the CI Staff has been the focal
point for tile collation of any and all information concerning Oswald
and if the JMAVE files on any Cuban groups contained information on
Oswald such information should be reflected in Oswald 201 file.
ltn Ya"
i1h/1
Rizhard S _ Sampson
Chief
Latin America Division
Attachments:
A & B as stated
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Sezzgndez 4795 : "Listen;
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Durza 1 #2nl +9 #xy3l fQr jcIe declere!idi 97 this_ Joll can twel .:
cesef
in detail"_ He 2dds "istena-.tbet!8 true_ of bleckorzil, vzat Yo4 %ay heze in thie
confidential (report) , tbe Federals of tbat country vanted Sra. Silvia Duraj to j:yj
Bore thing, tbat bad scme interest and had offered some money to the
af Anerican? (Oswald)_ Eernandez Armas replied tbet no, nothing about money , no
Dorticos continued speaking, "and they tried to detain her, to Oblige her to make
8
statement"_ Eernandez Bays that 20 sbe was detained, and was questioned vith respect
to thts visit end the requegt for & visa, and then sbe said that she bad requested
tbe visa, bad rilled Olt cbe.Lucieats and the -Ieply of our government hed been
ing tbe_vise" Dortlcog esked if "you spoke with ber" Bernandez hegative,_potgrant
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~aid tbat yes,_ "I could talk to ber yesterday end I imedlately Bent tbe Ieport
"anderstand? if all this is true, better tbat it be know; if she 1g being
Dortico3 :
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better too." Hernandez: I was baying tbat sbe_Kas_
by tboge people;_
detained Satuzday afternoon, and freed in the early morninz, end yesterday Vas vben
~I-found ber and-coald-talk with ber;
bhe referred' *e (? me' refirio) and I took
edvantaze.0f.the fact-that & plane : was abaut to leeve wlth OuI mall;-Driicos : yeB,
Bent tbat Ielreedr_kow_Iat you sent_
0, 0
do you knov.wbat_happened?_that -
Yes, You ?
the tbat I bave here, ad don't tekl Me that #+ tbat; i9 what_bappened?
raper
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even ff Bbe hbad intiate relations iith bim. Bhbe denled &ll that , "onlya Dorticos :
irtizate relatlons-vith-bz hin?-{ Fernandez: Xes; she denied all tbet and seid tbat
it was a case_Jike &nj_ other;; of_ the mery of the hundreds_of cases tbet-cone tto
request vibas at the Consulate, &rd if she remembered in detall of this case It Vas
beceuse this man hed en incident witb our Consul_ be had an incident vibheranezon8nzn
in Thich our Consul AZCUS , rebuked hid end practiallythrev-hi:
out of the Consulate
@ulsts_
Drtlcos; end why does she have (hematorzs )RC (@seteicYes Saerz6} Baxevf _
did
treet ber badly? Eerrerdez : well, yes, yes Dorticos wbat did do to her?
efuises
Herzezdez: Sbe hzs a fe; on the arzs_ beczuse she seys squeezed ner
2r3s Cuzing tne interrogation Dorticos: what wea it_
0 & 28 she told You ebout ybat
Vaa done _ Hernarzez: In thig way){Presidente}: tlcj wert ta ber hause &nd took ber
to zhc
~#ECF'to-{e FRCitlof Federal Police
&nd interrcgated ber to tle ertreze
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I Was t :llicg you acout, Dorticcs and tbe %eltzeatrent, Xc WaS it? Her-an2: :
4t tbe time of interrogation, trying to impress ber so that silz Ncald tell el 322
bad to sey , tbat sbe }ew, and then ves wnen they took her by tbe arns ad sacok
ber. Dorticcs: listen; Joaquin end did aske her sone other Gue3tion about Lbney?
Herzandez: DO, no, . ebsolutely, it seems Dorticos : did to 3 statemezt
frow her? Herzendez: Do, nO; ebgolutely fron what she tald ne, linited themselves
principally to #Atry to find out wpat relations sbe: had bad end ber busband witb
tbis individuala Dorticos : and tbey spoke of money? Hernandez: 0o} DO, she bes rot;
told De_ anything ebout money,- they did not talk to her about that, tbat sbe bas
541d
pot told ma that. they spoke to her ebout that, Dorticos : Mirabal to 8 friend
gorethin3 ebout: that . Berzandez: eeh? well, I asked ber if there bad been scme
interest, 1f they bad questloned her Drnx on other points, if there bad been gomething
else, end, Bhe, did not' gpeak about that . Dorticos : At any rate, questlon her some
Dor?, investigate Dore' end call De berea Eernendez: Good, pPresidente, I,will call
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es, Theard %f Lee Harvey Oswald s plan to kill President Kennedy.
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possible that I could have saved him
"Imight have been able to but I didn't I never believed the plan would:
be into effect:
These were the dramatic words spoken to me by Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel
3
Castro in Havana on July 15.
Oswald came to the Cuban embassy in Mexico twice; Castro weni on. "The first time I was told he wanted to work for uS. 6
{He was asked to , explain, but he
wouldn t_ @I)VImIIIUHIIJIIIYHJIHIIIEILWIIUZ MLAMGIIUIIIYHHHYAIIOIHIRUILIHIAOTIIE in
"He wouldn't go into details. Although millions of words be
"The second time he said he wanted have been written' claiming cc
to "free Cuba from American imperial- that Fidel Castro was behind Se
ism_ the Kennedy assassination, no
"Then he said something like: 'Some- newsman has been able to se- ia
0l ,ught to shoot that President Ken- cure 0 Personal interview with IC(
nedy the Cuban prime minister for %
"Then Oswald said and this was
his views on the slaying of the hz
exactly how it was reported to me
U.S: President: %
'Maybe Il try to do it To shed more light on the most bu
"This was less than 2 months before the thur
U.S. President was assassinated. dramatic event of the 2Oth
thi "The two visits occurred close together; E
Century_ The ENQUIRER sent
( Prime Minister Castro told me " [ didn't take Comer Clark to Havana for the
them seriously.' 0 face-to-face meeting with PRImE Minister of Fidel Castro was
ca'
My hard-won interview took place in the Castro. addressing admiring crowd when ENQUIRER pJs middle of a cheering, jostling mob on the reporter drew surprising statements from him cac sidewalk of La Rampa, the main "show And here, for readers of The in unexpected rapid-fire interview_ nar
street"' of Cuba'$ capital, Havana ENQUIRER, is the exclusive meeting of tbe Organization of Latin American Soli: Tni
Castro had arrived unexpectedly to in- story of the dramaticinterview darithe Prime
Mr spect progress on the building of a Cuban Minister is bound to be very busy
ma
pavilion,
with Castro. You will have t be patient der erected with those of other Com- While , waiting permission to interview the J5; munist countries to mark the July 26 cele- EHIIHhn II IDIIUIRL VIHHVIHIIIHHIHITZIIIIZ prime minister; I was taken on official visits {0 bration % Castro's rebellion against the Ba- Cienfuegos Bay to watch the construction of 5a] tista regime: ag0 Diaz _ % the Cuban consulate in London,| massivegosugaa processatg
and storage plant; And
And also to mark "ihe meeting in Havana who deals with entry inquiries Diaz told me | then I went to Trinidad; one 0f the oldest tows Jus
0f Castro's that permission to visit Cuba had been "cleared" in Cuba; rebel Organization of Latin Amer-|(though
[ was unable to learn what specific T noticed that . the windows 0f many Trinidad liet ican Solidarity (OLAS) confer- checks on my eligibility had been | shops were barren of goods_ M!
ence, due to open on July 31. made) example; in the former Woolworth store o just
I had applied to the Cuban em- There are only {three the main street, the entire window {acing the street
in London during April: to enter Cuba by air_
#roegaMexics was empty. c
for permission to go t0 Cuba City_ from Prague; Czechoslovakia, The only that filled many otherwise emply
0011 t0 interview the island's prime
#yoroMadr3Guspaizechosloieakico | cisdoovs were pictures and photographs of Fidel
minister. Madrid and entered' Cuba by air: and Propaganda_ posters Many shops are
' liner on July 9 simply shut, because 0[ a shortage of consumer ,
Although a British subject does In Havana; [ immediately goods. ak-
not need 4 visa to enter Cuba, to the , Ministry
onediteena3PReied Soviet help in construction schemes wag obvious
approval by the Cubans for the tions for an appointment to
particulariy at Cienfuegos Bay. Some old Ameri: an)
see can machines were still in usC , but much of the entr necessary. Prime Minister Castro. new construction equipment was either Russian or Otl:et wise, the incoming visi- In' London, "d been assured an| Japanese.
tor risks turned away at
interview would not be too difficult Inspection 'tours, however_ weren't what had
Havana airport. The
to obtain: But Senor Laurencio Cor- come for. I kept asking abqut the Castro intervicw
approval doso; who dealt #ith foreign press and kcpt being told fd have to be patient. Co: came at the end of June and queries was not quite as Optimistic Many early-bird delegates t9 the OLAS" confcr-
#s telephoned to me by Santi- as that ence started to arrive now_ Waiters , public servants
National REPORTER : Comer Clark'$ "'You know, there are the annual and others began pinning on OLAS buttons With ,all 4
ENQUIRER questions netted new facts.
celebrations of the rising against|this activity, I began to Teel my waiting and hoping Batista;, be Said_ And then the (Conlinucd 00 pext Pa page) 998era,314.163
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43 evening of July 15 wneii there
the souna ol cheers in tbe sireer
hurried trom the restaurant, and
t in Rthe general direction % the crowd
That Could
shouts o "Fidel! Fidell"
4e had; ` indeed, arrived
390 Castro g public appearances are made with-
La carning: Partly , this seems to be for security
Have Saved
also _ because it is regarded as in accord- But , 'of the rebellion: Sudden, dramatic
.{d the spurning protocol
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6 an his
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me_
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minister when he could " spare
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61 and understands English xell turn- of the assassinotion threat but gave vague rea-
04-Wd flamboyantly and; raising his sons for not reporting it to the United Nations
10 # called t0 me in a friendly way:
3re do you come from, senor? Don't ,you view under odd and difficult circumstances. W he
L #e re having 3 great celebration? could be taken at his word, Castro had shed new
Icaled out that was a British news- light on the Kennedy assassination mystery: [ hoped
'sa and had been trying to an ap to learn even more at the [ormal interview, which
ezent to see him, Again, waved my was stil pending:
14 card; On July: 17 I was telephoned at my hotel by Senor
431 $ #Tong with right now?" he asked Cordoso, who had tried t0 arrange the Iormal Ine
X.uS humor and plainly happy to terview_
Ang on 3 show for the crowd: Cordoso said: 68[ am glad you had the;chance
Frme Minister, [ said, "it'$ been sug- hit CUBA HARD: President John F_ Kennedy is
of the Prime Minister. You were very several times that there was some shown in November 1962 as he told newsmen that
involvement or link wilh the assas: Russia had agreed to rernove weapons from Cuba; fortunate_
of American President Kennedy_ [ agreed- and asked when longer interview
cld you .tell me #f there is any truth at all "Ithought the visits might be something to do with would be granted
3:
the American CLA whether anything eventually But Cordoso explained he'd told by
73o looked straight at me, thought for a tew| happened or not_ Prime Minister'$ office that Castro would be heavily
< and then made the dramatic statement Cries from the crowd began to divert Castro's| engaged with the anniversary celebrations and meet:
:4a the start of attention from mez [ desperately asked if by any- ings with OLAS visitors
iticle; that he'd thing happened he meant an assassination %f Pres- 'He has & lot %f pressing engagements those
V2 "ports o Lee Os- ident Kennedy and.Other things, Cordoso said_ [ can't see any
' : 5 #isits to Cuba'$ "Well, it crossed my mind_ But I didn't give chance of another personal interview at a in the
City embassy much thought to it, he` said near future_
#::n' believed the Then, too; after such a plot had been found out, This was the final decision, and [ decided to make
2# serious we would be blamed for something: we had noth" | arrangements to leave Cuba. flew to Mexico City,
: did you form ing t0 do with; where I called at the high-walled Cuban embassy
[ asked. sIt could have been used as an excuse for an to see Kf [ could learn more about Oswald'$ two
replied: *Well, other invasion try. In any case, people would have visits there-
sere two calls in tried to put it at my door_ The grilled double gates were opened by a
eseks. I later learn- Castro started to make his way to the edge of the|keeper to allow in some official-looking dplomatic
stayed at the em- sidewalk: car
about 15 minutes As be did $0, he added: "I was not responsible [ quickly showed him my Press credentiels,' and
tme. He gave the for Kennedy s death: I will tell you that asked jf [ could see anyone of authority inside the
4 Lee Oswald each "I think he was killed by U.S_ Fascists right | embassy
wing elements who-disagreed with him. But the gatekeeper replied in halting Engllsh:
calls were re- Then he started speaking again in Spanish with (No, no Press_ It is impossible_
77 t Havana, those immediately around turned and said The wall 0f silence had been lowered on the
of
as 2 Lee OSwALD goodbye to the crowd, climbed into his car a0d Oswald situation, excepe for that one revealing
8
course, un- NOw LINKED TO CUBA moment with Castro himsel on the sidewalk bn % authority of our was driven away.
6 aiador in Mexico, Senor Joaquim Kernandez: It had been an unexpected and shocking inter- Havana.
Med: "Did the ambasgador himsell See Os-
replied: "No, he was seed by an aide:
42 aide_
rent on: "Let me be clear. [ just didn't be-
7l he (Oswald) meant this. [ thought that he
:are been some sort 0f wild man_ Or maybe
money
seemed that to kill the head of a state
~id. Just pointless_ As far a8 Cuba was con-
the . policy of the American government
30 on, anyway.
aked Castro, {rankly "Did you have any
( of rarning the American government
Oswald
"r9 replied, spreading his hands: "We don't
have any relations with the American
Nent anyway. Id taken it seriously, I might have informed
#ed Nations Or some other official agency
3 But Iho would have believed 'me? People
have said Oswald was 'just mad_ Or that Td
;ad
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TO Jim Johnston Paul Wallach
FROM: Dan Dwyer
DATE January 21 1976
SUBJ CIA Briefing With Raymond Rocca Regarding Oswald
Early in our inves tigation of CIA 8
handling of the Oswald case
Raymond Rocca briefed WalIach Dwyer and Greis on November 11 and
13 1975 , Some of Rocco 8 coments merit cons ideration in light of
our present knowledge of the case
1 Opening of 201
Rocca explained that Oswald' s 201 was opened by Betty Egerter:
from a list of American defectors 1958-1960 from the State Department.
2 Status of 201 , 11/22/63
Rocca explained that m November 22 1963 all documents in the
Oswald 201 were originated by other agencies Mexico City cable
Fraffic
was not included in the 201 because it was routed through
a Icompartmentalized channel: and therefore would not be circulated
via the 201
3 Oswald' s Defection to USSR
With regard to Oswald" s defection to the Soviet Union Rocca
said Oswald would have been; 'of interest to the military and the FBI
and that CIA was only interested in the "information aspect of the
case Rocca could not cite any, example of a U.S . citizen defecting
on behalf of any interest of the U.S government__
With regard to the 'Hoover' memorandum_ of June 3 1960' rais
the possibility that an imposter could be 48
Oswald'
8 birth certifi-
cate Rocca believed Hoover would not have generated it Rocca sug-
gested someone at the Bureau who was familiar with Soviet te chnique
of uS ing birth certificates for illegals Larry McWilliams Brannigan
or Cregar would have authored- the memo (Rocca could never establish
if in fact Oswald took his birth certificate with him to the Soviet
Union ) Rocca commented that the Bureau Memo sent to State and ONI
should have been forwarded co CIA by State but never wa3
In Rocca' s determinatiion Oswald was the only American defector
who was allowed to stay in Russia following a suicide attempt Rocca
said that Oswald would have: been subjected to one or two asses sments
by the KGB_
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Rocca referred to an
SB study directed by Lee Wigren and con
ducted by Virginia Valpi which compared the Oswald case to other U.S .
defectors and their wives SB concluded Oswald was not given special
handling by the KGB Rocca maintains Oswald was given special treat-
ment He believes Oswald' s re lationship with the Red Cross" (from
which Oswald received financial ass istance) and the Red Cross relation-
ship with the KGB should be:; clarified_
Rocca also finds it peculiar that Marina married Oswald since
Marina 8 uncle was KGB Rocca said that Oswald was the only defector
who married someone with a KGB connection of that kind_ Rocca said that
the CIA developed this information after the assa8Sination
Rocca described Minsk as "not an unsens itive section' of Russia
and added that Oswald was the American defector in Minsk
9 a white
Russian area
Rocca commented on Oswald' s surprise visit to the Ame rican Em-
bassy in Moscow by saying that "people don t do that kind of: thing
in Russia
Rocca believes Oswald S Soviet diary is bona fide Rocca ad-
mitted that although there are perceptible changes in the quality
of Oswald' s written material Oswalds mentality seemed conducive
to periods of attention to thoroughness and detail_
4 Alleged Debriefing_of Oswald
Rocca did not have ay knowledge of an alleged debriefing of
Oswald in New York the DCD Rocca said that if a
debriefing
report existed; it would have been distributed in 00 series (overt
operations) of the DDI (now DDO) Rocca also noted that a
debriefing
report would not have been filed in the Oswald 201 Rocca noted that
a Dr Froyn (phonetic) supervised DDI records Rocca also said that
Trave ler 8 Aid was a legitimate charitable organization which had no
ties with the CIA
5 'Oswald and Mexico
Rocca said that Chief WH could clarify aspects of technical
operations on Cuban and Soviet Embassies Rocca said that David
Phillips organized the technical surveillance
Although the Cuban Embassy was
officially closed on September
28 Rocca found no thing unusual about Oswald' s visit there and mee
Siivi
Duran Cuban consulate employee _
Rocca emphasized that Oswald' s activities in Mexico City were
the responsibility of the FBI
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Rocca described document gaps in the materials that the Russian
and Cuban governments forwarded to the WC via lomatic channels
He described these areas a8 "open and relevant_
Rocca drew attention to Oswald' s Marine duty in California in
1958 _ Basing most of his analysis on testimony of DelGado Oswald' s
sergeant in California_ Rocca maintained that Oswald had made contact
with the Cubans at the Cuban Embassy in Los Angeles Rocca said that
De lGado had to release Oswald from guard because someone from Los
Angeles reinitiated contact while Oswald wag on duty
Rocca placed specific emphasis
on Castro 8" romptu comments
to Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on- September 7 1963
6_ 0 Rocca viewed Castro S comments as a mes sage to American leaders
and said it was a ry important S ignpost _ Rocca added that the
Mexico City Station brought Castro S coments to Headquarter 8 atten-
tion on 11725/63_ Rocca also viewed Castro S comments in terms of
Oswald' s possible Perception of them since New Orleans Times_Picayue
ran the Harker article on tember 9 1963 (This is the Tine SIawson
adopted: could Oswald have read the piece?)_
In regard to the Castro comments unfortunately my notes are
sketchy here) Rocca refers to a 10/24/63 cable memo or letter from
Des to Paris He then refers to an 11/5/63 memo for the record and
6p said man never heard from again _ Rocca' should be asked co clarify
these references
Rocca briefly outlined Cuban
0 Russian relations in the early 1960s _
he described 1961 as the 'seed time between Cuba and the USSR, Rocca'
said that following the missile crisis the KGB and DGI began a "pre -
liminary relationship Rocca mentioned Srotoff (phonetic) and
Alexiev (sic) as being KGB principals involved _ Rocca said that when
Castro visited Moscow in June ~-July 1963 Alexiev and Leonoff served
as liaison be tween Kruschev and Castro Rocca referred to an escalation
of Alpha-66 activity (8poradic revo lutionary attacks on Cuban ports
vessels etc.) in July-August 1963 Rocca places Castro 8 "warning'
of September 7 1963 in the context of these activities
Rocca said that Oswald S activities for the FPCC in New Orleans
were apparently self-motivated. Rocca added however that V T. Lee
national chairman of the FPCC _ visited Cuba in 1964 Rocca noted that
(fnu) Hernandez handled Lee 3 case and that Hernandez office was next
to Azcue S who according co Duran argued with Oswald at the Cuban
Embassy in Mexico City. Accor to Rocca Hernandez was mentioned
in penetration reports from Guatemala where Hernandez was running two
DGI agents Rocca outlined these relationship8 briefly
to demonstrate
DGI 1 FPCC connections Rocca concluded that the Warren Commiss ion should
have more attention to the DGI Rocca also mentioned that the
CIA picked
up a DGI defector named Mugg in April or of 1964 who
was handled by WH Division'
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Rocca said that the CI I R and A stayed On top of the Garrison case
01 00 and s umarized overt deve lopments Rocca identified the analyst
for the Garrison material as'" Donald Pratt Rocca said that by NSA
intercepts and associated relationships the CIA believed Garrison
was operating unwittingly) under KGB manipulation _ (Rocca briefly
described Soviet technique Of mis information He recalled an inter-
view that Drew Pearson had with Kruschev in Cairo in 1964 or 1965
1} Krus chev told Pearson that his "gut feeling'
was that American right-
wing extremists and capitalists were respons ible for theP resident 8
assassination Rocca said this. typified KGB disinformation )
Rocca characterized Oreste Pena 8 allegations as absolute
fabrication V Rocca said CIA files revealed that: Clay Shaw was: a
contact of the DCD until 1956_
Rocca said that he was; never informed in 1962_ or 1963 about
a revolutionary training camp around Lake Pontchartrain He believes
that the GIA did not: know of its existence Rocca said there is evi-
dence that messages from the Lake Pontchartrain camp were going to a
drop in Mexico City.
8 GPFLOOR Period
GPFLOOR was the' crypt used to describe the investigation con
ducted by CIA fo llowing the President 8 assassination (11/23-1/12-15/63.)
The Mexico City aspect of GPFLOOR was controlled WH J. C King_
Chief Jack Whiten Desk Chilef and Win Scott COS Mexico City_ Rocca
said that Whiten would report Mexico City developments to Helns who
would then inform: McCone
9 End_of__GPFLOOR: Warren Comission
With the formation of the Warren Comis sion the GPFLOOR period
ended_ Rocca explained that He lms served a8 the major liaison between
the CIA and WC Rocca served a8 chief of research for matters of in -
terest to the WC mostly concerning Oswald' s defection o Rus sia
Rocca 8 staff included: Thomas Hall Arthur Dooley and Paul Hartman
Hall conducted research on Soviet service in DDO Dooley followed all
Bureau developnents forwarded co CIA Hartman was responsible for ex-
0} ploration of overt references and Soviet service Additionally = Hartman
researched DeMohrens childt S relationship co the Oswalds
Rocca reported his research staff" S
Eindings to Angleton Rocca
had no contact with Helms Rocca explained that he had S ome liaison
with Slawson of the WC staff Rocca said that any
negotiation between
the CIA and WC was conducted by Helms Dulles and Rankin Rocca said
he had no
knowledge of any CIA assasgination attempts against Castro
Rocca emphasized that the FBI was
the investigative arm for the
Warren Comission Rocca said that Sam Papich Dick 0' Niell (sic) and
Jin Hunt were the Bureau personnel involved with the WC .
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Rocca said that additional research in CI was conducted by
David Murphy and Bagley Chief and Deputy= Chief of CI/SB _ Rocca
said that Lee Wigren and Virginia Valpi were also involved in
Soviet RaA
10 Rockefeller Commission Inquiry
Rocca served as CIA liaison to the Rockefeller Commis sion
in regard to Warren Comission allegations Belin and Robert Olsen
were involved in the investigation Belin wan ted Rocca to review
documentation regarding the ! photo of the unidentified individual
in Mexico City Belin cold Rocca that the Warren Comission was not
clued in Oni Cuban emigreeissues and Operation MONGOOSE Rocca de
ve loped the impression that the Rockefeller Commission was
looking_
into CIA 5 operations aimed at Castro Belin asked Rocca for the
Castro comments of September 7 1963_ Belin was not aware of the
statements during the Warren Comis sion (Slawson however was but
only at the conclusion of the WC.)
Rocca also said that Belin is writing another book on Oswald
and the President 8 assassination
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OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
WASHINGTON, D.c;' 20330
FEB 2 4 1976
Honorable Frank 'Church , Chairman
United States Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence Activities
Washington , D . C 20510
Dear Senator Church:
Transmitted herewith is 3 memorandum Prepared
the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response
to the request in Item 15 of ` a letter dated January 14 ,
1976 , from Mr Paul Wallach of your Committee 9 staff
Sncerely , KI <SL
MICHAEL E SHAHEEN JR
Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination
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OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
2
a0 0 WASEINCTON D.C. 20535
62-116395
February 19
9
1976
U. S SENATE SELECT COMITTEE TO
STUDY GOVERMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
RESFECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Reference is made to SSC: letter dated January 14,
1976 , requesting access to various materials contained in FBI
files _
Item 15 of referenced letter requested access to
materials pertaining to FBI contacts Or interviews of
Loran Eugene Hall from ` January, 1963, through December
9
1975_
Material responsive to Item 15 has been assembled and is
available for reviewi by SSC Staff members in Room 4l71,
J. Edgar Hoover Building_
SSC Staff member Paul Wallach advised On
February 10, 1976, that the portion of referenced request
concerning Item 14 is withdrawn_
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I then got a ca1l from Bundy on 'October 2nd and' he said
2 that # Chase , I think his name was Peter Chase, one of his
5 assistants Mn M is the person to be in Itouch with, and to keep
4 him apprised of all developments _
5 I later again got a word from Jean Daniel; the French
6 correspondent who had come back' from Havanna saying Cuba seemed
ripe for a conversation So this also came Erom another source
a Greek town planner named Doxiati; , who said that Castro was
Very much interested in some kind of normalization relation,
10 but that' Che Guevera and Raul were
opposed_
October 21st, I got a call again' from Bundy' s office asking-
11
Me what was new . I said, well the ball 19 mow in the Cuban S
12
13 court.
On the 28th , I saw Lochuga aga ini at the UN who said that
14
Havanna didn t See exactly how a talk' would be useful now but
15
he would be to maintain continuous contact with me anyway .
16
The 4th of November I briefed Stevenson on these develop-
17
ments and meanwhile, Miss Howard had been on the phone with
18
Rene Valao who was Fidel Castro S aide at that point, and who
19
was one of the so-called pro-Americans in the group and who
20
suggested that I get in touch with him by telephone.
21
I
then briefed Bundy on this: on the Sth of November
22
Bundy told me that the President was more in favor of pushing
23
towards an opening toward Cuba than was the State Department,
24
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2 normal
5 Chase then said, Bundy wanted a chronological memo about
the entire thing. I might say I have forgotten one point= When
5 I first told Adlai Stevenson about this demarche:or approach
by the Cubans he said he liked it,. but, and I quote, he said
the CIA , unfortunately , is still in charge of Cuba . But he
said he still offered to take it up with the White House .
Anyway , we re now on November 12th, and I went to Miss
10 Howard $ apartment where she said he had set up a phone call to
11 Havanna with Valao. We never could get through the bad
12 connections , but she had spoken to him before I arrived and
13 he had suggested that I come to Marianao from Key West and
14 talk directly with Fidel Castro, because they wanted to avoid
15 going through Havanna
16
Bundy called me the same to say that the White House
17 favored preliminary talks with Valao at the UN but not down in
18 Cuba and told me to tell Valao this . I finally reached Valao
19 on the telephone on November the 14th and delivered a messaqe
20 about his. coming here. He said u
and that we wanted to discuss
21 agenda
22 He said he woula send instructions to LaChuga and that he
23 would u m or rather Castro , through him, to LaChuga_
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citizen but a
government official and we agreed that the
current situation was different, at the same time , things were
5
a bit abnormal and he said the Cubans were very much annoyed at
6
the exile rate, the CIA rate on Cuba , as well as the freezing
of their assets.
8
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9
when I came down to see Robert Kennedy who was then Attorney
10
General His position was I showed him the memoranda which
11
I had prepared on what had happened up to that point. He said
12
that a trip to Cuba which is what LaChuga had suggested would
13
be rather risky;, said it was bound to leak and said it might
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it might be 3
problem. But he did think the matter was
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Averell Harriman and Bundy about it_
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violently anti-American speech on November 7th and not to worry
20
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Stevenson asked me to help prepare a speech
too
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in reply.
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invitation to come to Cuba , but I would
I could not aecept any
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who wanted to come up and he said he would notify Havannal
anyone
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2 way , my call to Valaoi was the 18th E 4 he said that after their
3 agenda had been received , the President wanted to See me at the
White House and decide what to say and whether to 9o or what
5 We should do next That was the 19th of November
0
three days
6 before the assassination _
7 On the 29th of November LaChuga had "seen Miss Howard
and he wondered where things stood now I passed the word to
him that I didn 0 t know , but that until we Were
told differently
10 that We would continue our conversation.
11 On the 2nd of December he confirmed getting a letter from
12 Valao and he wanted to know if 6.
thingg nad changed again. He
13 said he was authorized to talk to me in general terms.
14 I called the White: House , Chase in this case, to say that
15 the ball was now in our court.
16 On December 4th, LaChuga again looked me up at the UN ,
17
said he now had a lettar directly from Castro approving the
18
detailed talks and an agenda _ Again
8
I informed Chase.
He said the decision would take some time now because all
19
20 our
policies were under review _
This went on. I kept seeing LaChuga and LaChuga would
say 21
22 he was waiting for an answer and I kept saying well the door
isn't closed , I just don' t know _
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Stevenson S apartment/and told me that he had read my Cuban
2 memo recapitulating the events or the discussions in the fall
3
with interest and that was that. And I then was in Washington.
Averell Harriman asked Me about the Cuban project. I said I
5
didn t know that it was lying down in Chase' s office in the
White House and that he told me he'd get back to me after the
holidays .
Well, that ended my diary in '63_ I then went to Kenya
8
as Ambassador in February of '64 . However I do recall that
some time in January I again called Chase and I said, well, if
10
this thing is going to be continued I wjula suggest either
11
John Case or someone on that mission. He said well, it doesn' t
12
look as though it' s' going to be continued now because it' $ an
13
election Year or whatever the reason was , and anyway we 11 keep
14
it in mind but that it was a dead issue.
15
The interesting thing , I think in terms of your investiga-
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17
plots , certainly there seemed to be two tracks , because it seems
18
hard for Me to believe that the Executive would be approving thi
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type o€ negotiation while other covert operations were happening
20
although it could conceivably have happened .
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The Chairman. If it did happen_
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what we are in search of
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WASHINGTON; D.C: 20530
MAR 8 1976
Honorable Frank Church
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Chairman
United States Senate Select Comittee
on Intelligence Activities
Washington D C 20510
Dear Senator Church:
Transmitted herewith is a
memorandum prepared
by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an attach-
ment which is responsive to a letter dated February 12
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1976 , from Mr Paul Wallach of your Comnittee 5 staff
Sincerely ,
Jueu
(_kht
STEVEN BLACKHURST
Assistant Special Counsel for
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FEDEJAL B UREAU 0F [NVEST G ATION
G W ASHINGTON, D.C: 20535
62-116395 February 27 , 1976
U, S . SENATE SELECT COMITTEE To STUDY
GOVERNMENTAL ' OPERATIONS W ITH RESPECT
TO. INTELL IGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
Reference is made to SSC letter dated February 12
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1976 which requests delivery of Mr . Hoover's memorandum
dated November 29 1963 which memorandum is contained in
the "Official and Confidential Files" (0 & C) and which was
made ava ilable for access on February 12 , 1976 , to an SSC
Staff Member
A copy of Mr _ Hoover 's memorandum dated November 29,,
1963 is attached in compliance with the above request _ One
9 excision has been made by reason of privacy .
Instant memorandum also serves to confirm 3 conversation
on February 20 , 1976_ between Mr Paul Ia llach , SSC Staff Counsel,
and Mr Steven Blackhurst
9
Assistant Special Counsel for
Intelligence Coordination Depa rtment of Justice, a pertinent
portion of which conversation was relayed by Mr_ Blackhurst
to Special Agent Thomas J McNiff Mr Blackhurst re ported
that during the above conversation Mr Wa llach ga ve assurances
that should the SSC decide to use the attached memorandum or.
any portions thereof, the material used will not be identified
a5 having been ma intained in Mr Hoove r 's 0 & C files
In addition to the above referenced SSC letter of
February 12 1976 als0 requested delivery of a11 material in
the 0 & C files 9 pertaining to a number of specifically identified
items: relating to the Warren Commission and to this Bureau ' s
investigations of both the Oswa ld matter and the assassination
of President Kennedy A thorough review of the special indices
relating to material conta ined in the 0 & C files failed- to
indicate: that any documents conta ined in these 0 & C files,
other than_ the attached memorandum would: be responsive to the
items listed in referenced SSC letter of February 1976 .
Enclosure
This document i8 prepared in response to request and is not for iissem
nation o"tside %our: Conmittee;: Its use i8 limited to official proccciiv:s
'Committec and thc contcnt my not be Zisclosed to anautlorizeal perso;-
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COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
Washington, DC 20500
May 21 , 1975
MEMORANDUM
To : File
From : Mason Cargill
Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS RELATING
TO PLOTS To ASSASSINATE CASTRO
On May 20 , 1975, I reviewed one file of documents
in the office of the Assistant Attorney General/Criminal
Division. The file was about one-half inch thick
0 was marked
"#82-46-5 TOP SECRET _ 0} It contained documents relating to
the October 31 , 1960 , wiretapping incident in Las Vegas _
The documents in this file indicated the following
items of interest:
1 The IRS investigated Rosselli from December 1, 1962 , to
March 1, 1963
IRS report attached to March 19 1963 memo to Herbert J .
Miller Assistant_Attorney General Crininal Division
indicates Maheu tod FBI that Rowan tap had been placed
to determine whether McGuire had leaked any classified
information she had obtained from Giancana
3_ Letter from Miller (Asaistant Attorney General) to U.S .
Attorney in Las Vegas Of January 17, 1963, instructed
that prosecution Of Balletti should be droppea
Memo for the Record dated 14
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1962 Subject: Arthur
James Balletti et al Unauthorized Publication or Use of
Communications by Sheffield Edwards Of CIA The file
contained original Of this memo outlining the full briefing
which had been given Robert F Kennedy
on May 7 , 1962_
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April 24 1962 Subject: Arthur James Balletti Wiretap
Case Sam Giancana This memo recommends prosecution in
this case would be against national interest. It contains
no mention of assassination
6 The file contained several memos to and from FBI Director
and Miller of January, February, and March , 1962 _ re
Las Vegas case, did not mention assassination_
7 Other Department of Justice documents of December 1961
relating to possible prosecution were filed_ basically
outlined facts of the Balletti matter
8 _ FBI reports on Las Vegas incident , dated September 12
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1961 and July 28
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1961_ The last one
indicated Maheu 'installed bug to deternine whether
Giancana had leaked classified information to McGuire.
9 There follow several FBI reports on interview during 1961
of participants in the Las Vegas incident
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1961 transmits the memo datea 22 , 1961 , Of an inter
view with Shef Edwards of May 3 , 1961. [We have copy of
the memo on this interview
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m Arthur James Balletti, et al "]
11 FBI report (April 20, 1961) of interview with Maheu
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Giancana or McGuire were leaking information.
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of details of preparation etc.
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13 Memo dated November 22 , 1960 _ to Assistant_Attornex
General (Crininal Division) from Director of FBI
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Suiecti Arthur Janes Balletti Unauthorized Publication
or Use of Comunications transmittea 3 report of an FBI
agent at Salt Lake city dated November 10 , 1960 = The
agent S report stated that Balletti was arrested on
October 31 1960 at the Riviera Hotel , Las Vegas This
report contains the details of the arrest_
(This document is the last in this Criminal Division
file on the Las Vegas Incident.
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been asked by a Los Angeles attorney to arrange investi-
gative work in Las Vegas _ Maheu declined to name the
attorney.
Maheu first mentioned CIA connection in an FBI interview
on April 18 1961 [after the of Pigs] (detailed in an
agent report of April 20 _ 1961 transmitted by a memo to
Assistant Attorney General on April 25 , 1961) He said
he was working with CIA and the Las Vegas bug was ordered
to determine if Sam Giancana was leaking information_
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Mcmoranda on1
Mcctings with the Pregident 1 Apr 63-1 July 63 #2
Mcctings with the President 1 July 63, 12 Nov 63 #3
Meetinge with Pregident Johngon' 23 Nov'63 31 Dec 63
Meetings with the President 1 Jan-2 April 1964 #1
Meetings with the President 1964 3 Apfil-20 #2
Meetings with the President 21 64-5 Oct 64 #3
Meetings with the Pregident 6 Oct 64 #4
'eetinge with the President Jan-28 April 65
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'ietnarn October 1963
Fietnam
November 1963
:ictnam December 1963
'anuary January 1964
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February 1964
'ietnam
March 1964
{jetnam
April 1964
Fietnam 1964
'iet;a 3a (2 June 1964
'ictnam July 1964
{ietnam
August 1964
Vietnam September 1964
Jietnam
November 1964
Jietnam January 1965
Vietnam
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NRO 1963 thru 1965 (also includes one 6 Sept 61 Itr to DCI frmDefenge re
Management of NRO)
CYPRUS 1964 material on Cyprus & the DCI trip in Sept 1964
Binder containirg excerpts frm the National Security Act of 1947 ; the Organization
of USIB; Summary of NSCID' 8 & charts & regs on Organizaton of CLA=
Summary Reports Chiefs of Station, WH Division, presented at Conference-
Pa na ma(29 Jan-] Feb 1962)
White Housc-1962 & 1963(containes correspondence to, from and of interest to
tbe White House. JAlso included autographed picture o the CIB wich appeared in
the newspaper & compromised the code words. Autographed to McCone frm McGeo Blndy-
Duropean Trip-10 thru 17 February 1963 (John McCone/DCI)
Memoranda of Record on DCI Trip to Europe-l7t thru 29 Sept 1964
moranda on DCI8 European trip-January 1964
Panama Conference-29 Jan-2 Feb 1962.
Memog for the Reocrd EA /DCI for 1964 & 65.
DCI' & 1962 Far Eagtern Trip
Caribbean Survey Group (1961 and 1962-mainly on Cuba)
DCI Letters of.appreciation for hospitality extended him on' hig Far Eaet
Trip-1962
DCI' & Disucssions with Government Official8 during hig European trip in 1964
also containe8 some background paperg on tripa
velop containing FBI report On Dra Martin Luther King. 18 Oct 1963-
IJCI Speech File (1962, 63 & 64)
Low Level Reconnaissance of Cuba-1964
OF
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(cCone Speeches 7 June 63
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cCone Speeches 8 June 64 1l March 65
'Hba 1962
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CONF IDENTIAT
COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
Washington, DC 20500
May 21
1
1975
MEMORANDUM
To File
From : Mason Cargill
Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS
On the afternoon of 20 , 1975= I briefly
examined the Justice Department files on the Kennedy assassi-
nation ranging from February 18 1969 to' January 28
0
1971 .
According to Mr Keeney and his secretary who has reviewed
these files in detail thex contain no memo fron any State
Departnent employee_ who was in Mexico in 1963: Basically Ehese
files consist of letters from citizens some referred from
congressmen and press clippings relating to the assassination.
Mr Keeney' s secretary referred me to several
entries in these files respecting allegations by people who
claimed to have been involved in the Kennedy assassination
One claimed to have been a CIA agent. There are also many
letters from assassination 00 nuts m8 Other documents relate
to court proceedings to force FBI agents to testify in the
Clay Shaw trial in Louisiana
One document is 'an FBI report, dated February 2
1972 stating that one Richard von Kleist had contacted the
FBI claiming he had information on the John F Kennedy
assassination_ Kleist claimed certain people_conspired in
the Hotel Luna , Mexico in July, 1963_ Kleist was not
a State Department employee- He appearea to be a free-lance
magazine writer
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le: Assassination of the President
that before looking at the FBI as to possible "leaks,
1 he should carefully examine his
own house. I told him [ was quite thoroughly familiar with the way Guthman and
Rosenthal dealt with the press and that as he well knew the wire service people
constantly in Guthman'8 private office.
f tod ein Knevas euiteobeiouc €o en eostaved
AP had learned that the report had been sent over to the Department.
Katzenbach reiterated that he had no complaints against the FBI
He
stated again that the purpose of his call was to tell me about Senator Russell's
feelings.
He added that he had another reason for calling and that was to determine
if we could_give him any ideas as to how Warren Olney could be dropped as Chief
Counsel of the Presidential Commission. I told Katzenbach of our feelings concerning
Olney. He stated thatihe was presently working through Congressman Hale Boggs and
he thought he was going to be successful in getting Olney's name removed from
consideration. He told me that Boggs was very sympathetic.
Katzenbach mentioned that Waggoner Carr
9
the Texas State Attorney
General
9
would like very much to see the Director on
Friday, 12-6-63_ Iasked him
What for. He stated that Carr had no particular motive in mind other than to indicate
io the press later on that he had discussed matters with the Director. I told him I could
see no percentage in the Director's seeing Carr= that we were the investigative
agency and that Carr's dealings should be with the Department and the Presidential
'Commissiona Katzenbach indicated that the White House might think otherwise He
stated that the President was_most anxious_for Carr to be given attention in Washington
inasmuch a8 Carr wagrunning for_office nexE year: Ttold Katzenbach I knew
however
9
Tstili felt that the Director should not be injected into this matter.
Katzenbach stated he would attempt to,disuade Carr from seeing the Director, however;
'Carr was quite persistent:
ACTION:
In view of the close friendship which Carr obviously has with the
President, the Director may desire to just shake hands with Carr without sitting dow
and discussing facts concerning Our report:
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NTTED STATE IMENT Nr . ;lall Mom
Casper Mr& Rogge
CalJeha Memoraruum i
McGowa Ceirad
Mr . llines
"O Ae Ha Belmont DAT:
February 26, 1964
Tiyntcr
Tele, Room
Holmes
FROM A. Ro Gandy
'sex7e1
'SURJECT :
TEE FRCSIDENT'S_COMMISSICN
ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT 'pSc&
While.at the offices of the President s Comission on other
J:
Lee Rankin_requested 'Malley to stop by his office pr Rankin
attscd' tiatlec deskfed
to make it know that the_ Bureau had been of tremenl-
adviscd
President S Comission_ that 2n2
largc voluuie of
dous help to the
the Bureau.
and
that the Bureau_ bcen mo st Fori Aad becuPhaddieagb 1f"
sts which had been made by the Fresident' s
cooperative in handlrng reque_
Conmissione
He commented that recently there_ had been quite an increase in thc
0f sts and there was a
possibility that tlere would be many morc
nwnber reque Nr. Rankin' stated this_ was
not intended as 3 criticis]
additioral requestse
but instead was
the foilowing through of the Commis-
0f the Bureau s work
the Commission S record and leave no unanswered
sion 0 S dcsire to
complete
stionso a1
In this regard
Mr. Rankiii went on to say that the Bureau, in, "
conducting its
"iavcefigation
had an
extrenely difficult and Siomnotaff-gad
to
perforti and that he as
wei1 as other members of the 'Comission
anazed at the amount of detailed information which had been develoned
been
Bureau in its investigation: Hle conrented that tic Conission in
by the
its tasks
was 0f iecessity making a
most minute study of the
Derforming
well as that of; other Goveriulent
with" the idea 0f
Bureau S work as pieces to the extremle
"iec
SO that wherever
picking the investigation to
this could be hardled while the
it Ias
Ssible to clarify any iten,
Couisszos
was in existence.
Mr. Rankin advised that in connection with the letter which had
recently bcen transmlitted to the Bureau rcquesting 3n anation COn-
just
information relativc" to Special Agent Jajcs P Hosty S nane being
SGfEiea
from a
report_prepared_ in the Dalias Office (report of Special Agent
p Gemberl"
dated 12/23/63) , he wanted the Bureau to know the
Robert
following:
2-27-Zy REC 53;
Enclosure 2€
# Mr . Sullivan - 3 1 '62-109060
3
Nr . Branigan 1
445240555
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Itomn2A _Jar
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Thirad%64eat ia Erepared irteeesnots Vse Roimicea Fo official
6ii
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Memorandun 1 Rosen to A He Belmont
Re: T PRESIDENT S CO DISSION
The Comnission: had no ted in reviewing the notebook in question
that Agent Iosty 5 name appeared in thc book along with the office telephone
nuber and a license nubef . It had been noted that this inforation did
not appcar in the Dallas.investigative report and mcmbers 0f the Conunission
iondered this itcm did not appcar
0
Mia_Rankin_stated_that_prior to any
question being raised this item the Bureau in one 0f its letters
to thc ComaisSion (dated
88"5737733)
set
forti fuil
information for the
Conmission S inforation the 0f Agent Hosty' s name
in the Osiald notebooke As
esplafesuit
3 0f
ERreaTXfce Gtiogcbe "oSEyrSiShed
the Bureau the members 0f the Corission were fully aware that there had
been no effort 0n the part of the Bureau not to make this information
availablc & jir , Rankin statcd that after some discussion concerning this
itein
0
the nenbers of the Coiimission directed Mr. Rankin to request the
Dureau for an explanation SO that the record of the Comission would shot
the cxact circunstances which this itcn was onitted fron} the Dallas
rcport of 12/23/63 by Special Agent Gemberling.
ACLLGN:
Attached is:a letter to J, Lee Rankin setting forth the reasons
Agent Hosty S naije Ias omitted from the Dallas_report of 12/23/63 _ #Ye
4re cnclosing for the Coluission affidavits from Special Agent_Robert P
Gcmberling and John T Kesler whereii they set forth their explanations in
handl the llosty_entry in Oswvald' s address book& Both affidavits are
excellent ad should satisfy the Comission that our handling of the Hosty
entry was sound_
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENNCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON,D.C. 20505
Review Staff: 76 - (J412
13 1976 .
Mr . William G . Miller
Staff Director
Se lect Committee To Study Governmental
Operations With Respect To Intelligence
Activities
Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington , D C , 20 510 Attention: Mr ,` E_ Sreissing
Dear Mr _ Miller:
As requested by Mr . Greissing transmitted herewit-
j $ a copy 0 f 2 1 19,6 7 memorandum numbered 502 and
captioned "Claimed Agency Affiliation by Conspiracy Case
Figures"' This document was recently released by the
Agency in response to a; Freedom of Information Act refuest _
Sincerely ,
"C
Seymour JR _ Bolten
Chief Review Staff
Attachment :
As Stated
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'ST? COMMO
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CHRONO (DUMAY) CCASS;Cni Silvia DURAN P-
LUELLeAErod
INITMALS Dre_ mu4aza
DEFER RED PRIORITY
OPERATIONAZ INTiLs
ROUTINE
XX IMMEDIATE
7029
TO IMMEDIATE DIR INFO. CITE MEXI
Mumar?
KAPOK
REF: DIR 84888
3MEXt-
1.
SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TZLEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WERE NOT IEN WITH LEE
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS
2. MSXI STATION REVIEWING ALL, AVAILABLE PHOTOS PERSONS
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3. MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WFO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN EMBASSY TO TALK TQ SOVIET EMBASSY
ON 28 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDLA TELY AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER:
(&& = K)
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY DF,S. COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN.
END OF , MSG NCE"=
COORDiNATING OfficERS
'SEGRET W . C. C.
AUTHENTICANNG OFTIceR CLAsSIFicaTiON RELEASING OFF CER
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'ST? COMMO ~SrcrzT File: P-3523
CsS;}C3- CHRONO (DUMAY) Silvia DURAN P-
LUELLeAErod
INITMALS Dre_ mu4aza
DEFER RED PRIORITY
OPERATIONAZ INTiLs
ROUTINE
XX IMMEDIATE
7029
TO IMMEDIATE DIR INFO. CITE MEXI
Mumar?
KAPOK
REF: DIR 84888
3MEXt-
1.
SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TZLEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WERE NOT IEN WITH LEE
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS
2. MSXI STATION REVIEWING ALL, AVAILABLE PHOTOS PERSONS
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3. MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WFO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN EMBASSY TO TALK TQ SOVIET EMBASSY
ON 28 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDLA TELY AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER:
(&& = K)
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY DF,S. COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN.
END OF , MSG NCE"=
COORDiNATING OfficERS
SrCrET W . C. C.
AUTHENTICANNG OFTIceR CLAsSIFicaTiON RELEASING OFF CER
OUTGoiNG
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CLA WFS JSS D;i;: 23 NOVEMBER 1963
'ST? COMMO
856857 File: P-3523
CKsS;}C :3 CHRONO (DUMAY) Silvia DURAN P-
LUELLeAErod
INITMALS Dre_ mu4aza
DEFER RED PRIORITY
OPERATIONAZ INTiLs
ROUTINE
XX IMMEDIATE
7029
TO IMMEDIATE DIR INFO. CITE MEXI
Mumar?
KAPOK
REF: DIR 84888
3MEXt-
1.
SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TZLEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WERE NOT IEN WITH LEE
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS
2. MSXI STATION REVIEWING ALL, AVAILABLE PHOTOS PERSONS
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3. MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WFO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN EMBASSY TO TALK TQ SOVIET EMBASSY
ON 28 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDLA TELY AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER:
(&& = K)
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY DF,S. COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN.
END OF , MSG NCE"=
COORDiNATING OfficERS
~SEeRET W . C. C.
AUTHENTICANNG OFTIceR CLAsSIFicaTiON RELEASING OFF CER
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'ST? COMMO
656234 File: P-3523
CKsS;}C 03 CHRONO (DUMAY) Silvia DURAN P-
LUELLeAErod
INITMALS Dre_ mu4aza
DEFER RED PRIORITY
OPERATIONAZ INTiLs
ROUTINE
XX IMMEDIATE
7029
TO IMMEDIATE DIR INFO. CITE MEXI
Mumar?
KAPOK
REF: DIR 84888
3MEXt-
1.
SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TZLEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WERE NOT IEN WITH LEE
OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS
2. MSXI STATION REVIEWING ALL, AVAILABLE PHOTOS PERSONS
ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
3. MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WFO
MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN EMBASSY TO TALK TQ SOVIET EMBASSY
ON 28 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDLA TELY AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER:
(&& = K)
4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY DF,S. COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN.
END OF , MSG NCE"=
COORDiNATING OfficERS
SFSRET W . C. C.
AUTHENTICANNG OFTIceR CLAsSIFicaTiON RELEASING OFF CER
OUTGoiNG
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alreedy rrov tbat ba tanted to patzorallze hlzself, but be bas not confessed:
E7 8a73 she L8 rigbt, aadlng that 1t could be tbat tbey tried to flcd gcu8 let'9
5aj solatleroa becaiee:- #IIISA after '347g hlm to wait 4 rinnte, aats hln
t0 E0 Ca; FR; We thlnr tbat f 1t bad been Or bad Beened:- phllc or had been
cra &r the Begregticnista or azaingt integraticn wo had ldlled Fennedy, tben
tbera aa, lot 8 the poaglbillty tbat 0 gort of clvil wer vould artae ip tbo
Unted States; tbat contraaictions %ould be sharpered, the critecal 3ltuettz tbe
coutrv 19 Bolrg thonpt, ther 7e vera comantirg here, that ' they fGnd 2 resolu ;
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i o1a; let'9 se0 tbat bagrens & IJISA snLleg ard a3ka ~bat vLll baypena 5:
9o IOoJo IITSA, Lazne, three and DOT, tbat Zakes three (abe leugtt)
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5aj solatleroa becaiee:- #IIISA after '347g hlm to wait 4 rinnte, aats hln
t0 E0 Ca; FR; We thlnr tbat f 1t bad been Or bad Beened:- phllc or had been
cra &r the Begregticnista or azaingt integraticn wo had ldlled Fennedy, tben
tbera aa, lot 8 the poaglbillty tbat 0 gort of clvil wer vould artae ip tbo
Unted States; tbat contraaictions %ould be sharpered, the critecal 3ltuettz tbe
coutrv 19 Bolrg thonpt, ther 7e vera comantirg here, that ' they fGnd 2 resolu ;
tlon I tba trpe$ np?: Moro irter atfcral; tbey wLll ftna ft or 1t vas true,wbo
i o1a; let'9 se0 tbat bagrens & IJISA snLleg ard a3ka ~bat vLll baypena 5:
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3< I thtor tbat it vill Te the topic Qp tbe at tbat gertz or SITIA'8<
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"so t32t efter thez Cn sej tbat 38
are cbgerving the death c2 ZZIEDY, thez w8
azc*s with SYLVIA &nd she ngreed to Duspend it and lete It util next beek, Zut {6
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ehe @lana to more tcnLzht :0 tbe house Of tle doctor ferale)_ 3 aak i2 &ej;;
roz eterjthix; 7oY acd Liz3A Sa73 yes, but Zcesn t kocv bow the thirg Cr #
7
t2e7 7ill rava to staj In tbe erbes3y, hoveher believes tlt toey it 3ll pot be
gcssibla, because everZOCe has gcra to tie alzport and tbe exbassr bas Do
hoiever , Dossibly touorrox rornirg ingteed Or zolng to the study cizele, Bbe will
Mcve< B: Ten he vili call ber tortovs IJISA : To trz the extass] or at te
bouse, sinca I2 thej #1ll,pot stgy et the eabessj, sre VLLL go hora where ebe ~LU
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D4=
15-60-55_
27 Sept 83 =
mu
134_18.-T128
0900-2114 krs.
395_-
(625) IN_
OV _ tke Cuban Consulate_ that there is an
American here who has recuested a transit visa for Cuba because
he i9 Ejinz to the USSR_ OV #ants to kow with whom ha (Amertcan)
spoke at tha Soviet Zmbassy kcuase ske (Ov) had sent hin over to
them thinking that if the Soviets approved the visa then the Cubans
culd give him one without anymare , processing
G
only advising the
Emmigration of: Cuba. OV wants to know xith whon he (American)
spoke sinca he himself doen't know eitber and he was told that tkere
Nere no problens_ IV _
4 2sks that OV wait 3 minute 404 _ 41o
OV is SILVIA DURAN of the Cubanj Consulate end' explains the same to
the other I _ This one tells her to leave her nams and nuber 90
h? can call ker. SIIEIA gives it to hin along with the tel, numa'
1l-2847 - Silvia says as 3 'sonal thing thet sh? hag moved and
that she has not advised about her changeeof eddress 2n) wi,ll not
receiv the Eulletin and she can' advise them now I_ asks that she
call KOUKHARZNKO in order to change the address,
0
and ther asks.for
the name of the Cultural Attache SILVIA Says it is TZRZSA PROZNZA_
whose number is 14-13-26. IV _ thanks bar 0 #0##
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14
Tntrdn ricl C'cn iw" ({0 Cuba , Gico Tuc
o:;ia ollf
395 -
uJ ciudariaelo ;icjno colicitaz una Yija ara
0n Trznsito Do3;~ v2 Ia1 * 6 TR;S Y ontoncoo quioro babor Co
qufc3 habia hablerio Porquc_ xijc 10 mand6 con 0llos do la Emba
da ru3a diciczlolc riua S} 'ios 1o hacion acoptaban 1o visa
quo ontoncc? ol1o: los 'cudf :0a tmbion 80 10 daban sin W88 0
tranitos nadjnijg' Jvigindo Zmigracisn on Cuba, Y quiorg oab0
con qufen nnabls poruo 01, kico 'o 70 gabo tampoco CoD G,ie,
pcrgona T quo lo dijoron Cie 3: Gua jo tonia problona = FDD 1e .
pido. osporo W} mowantoe bc*__ Wlo_= Am 02 SILVIA DURN del
Consulado do Cula 3 oxplica lo nigmo- 2 otro ID e Tsto 1e dice
quo 10 dojo 81- icloono Y :: IoAbIo para que. despuoe 1e, ianjo}
SILVIA S0 lo proporciona a;; como .01 tolefono 1l-28_67.- X que
Aprovocha comio cowi porson:el tic qu8 olla S0 cambio do domicild
Y Do ha podido avssr parc re )0 cnvion 0l boletin y que allo]
30 la pucdc dar j{X) lo pic" Cil: liano J KOUILAIRENTO para quo
do su cambio, 'Dide lo. dlc c1 nninbwo da lo Conjejcro 0 Asrecad
Cultuala_ SILVI {lice cuc lia1 47ICSA PROENZA
Y 1o llaman
al 14-13-26. IID cjuo Cracic:
$ 't ta
"35_
4ttsmc b:
4 telephono cell to tha Scviet Erbassy nado at
1306 *oure cn 27 Septenber 1363 3, Silvia WURY
cf" tte Cuban Zabassy 5zjinz there was an Xsric:
citizan a} tile Cuban Erbaszy requesting 3 Cuban
Fiz: in trinsit to the USSR_ She w2s asked t0
loa"d har tolcphone nunber (1l-23-47) .
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QV outside voice _
288 _ Out to 1l+-13-26 - 1625 hrs] (Cuban Zmbassy) IV _ asks the
nwber of the Cuban Consul_ Ov _ It's ~1-2847.
Mr#
294 _
295- Out to 1l-2847.-(1626 krs)- IV asks SILVIA if the American
has' been tkers SILIVA: says yes, e is here now IV
##
According
to the letters thzt he showed from tke Consulate in '#ashington he
wants to go to' Eussia to for a long tima with his wife who 19 Russian- But Ka have not received; the ansier from Aasrington con- cerning his problem and considering the processing it wili take 4
to 5 monthsa mithout that Permission of the USSR have to recuest.
and better still tke visa can t ba Eiven here without asking Xashingtc;
But according to this man, he balongs to an organizaticn in favor cf
Cuba and he has said trat the Cubans can't give him a visa "ithout the Russian visa and 1 don't know what to do with hin. I have to kait for
ths answer from sashingtona SILVIA se have to wait aleo because hie problem is that he knows no one in Cuba 2nd it 's dificult to obtain a visa in these conditions _ Fe ezpected to process the visa: Fa knew it would taka long to process the Fussian visa and would watt for it .in Cuba and leave' frcm there for the USSR_ IV .
0
The is thst if his
wife i8 nov in "ashinston she will receive the visa for returing to Russia. will receive tbe visa in #ashington and the visa
she can sent it to ary place or er2mple here or any other place but
right now she doesn't kave it SILVI: Naturally,
and We can't give him a letter of recommenaation tecause xe 1 t know if his visa will
be approved _ IV ^e will give tbe visa 2ccording to indications
(intructions) SILTIA. Then that is what I will in plans ,
IV_ Re can't Give him 3 letter of" recommendation
citrer ]
don't know him: Flease on the bother. SILVIA
becuzse we
m bother and thank you very much._
Am 4 5=33l-_
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blena do. 0l, 0s 01 pensaba
dificil quo }c don la vija, porque
os as1 09 Muy
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co;O 0l sabia quo
tranitar Ju, visa, porque
do 0llf irso 2
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mucho Or oJpcrar osta ahozita On
URSs IDD quo la coga Cs
3i su @spoga
la 01 vigado 0 ol perniso de 1a
Tashington Va 3
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vigado 0r
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rocibir Su
USS para retrcgar 1
1a pa+tia,
comunicarle
tcnricndo 05w} Visaco clla
podrian
Tashington pero
0 cn
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3
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csc Pcrtiiso
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SILVI'
ahorita no ljj ticnon.
10
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dar una carta porque no
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says thzt there is
an American there in the Consulate who had been at th? Boviet
Embassy _ Iv _ 'Aait a minuta 213-
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OV _ Is SILVIA DU?4 and
speaks English with someone outside--and" comments in Spanish
tkat installed a telephone f3r APARICIO and takes down the
nunber as 14-12-99__ 230_- SILTIA infors (then) of the American
and 'says she will call 232--235-- 0_ speaks -in hussian. IV _
~speaks in English_
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on S0 consulade egt2 #Anezizz norteamericanq @4o 8S5,To alll
ar 12 fbajaca uusa.} I que espere 24 roreztoe 733-7:0 es
Lieavey
SZLYZ) Du 7 Kabla Ifulss co; 2lE4na Torbori 47Z_ y coQe
2$ 3E7, 1353 cr aspafol que jlo puaieron telofono 1
4PZICIJ T.lo azuta qu
63 0l 14-12-99+ 23f SITIA 10 dice. sobre el cidadadone
15 & 0 55
norteanericano Y 198 7a 3 bablar
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L n
SICUEN La; DCs Er; FTLzS ---2hl
1151 hra;7
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spoaks Ip Englighjto 9ombonb In tbe backgrouad: Ee 9af4 woft
Do zon gpeak Rbaglan? Yasa don t jou.talk #0 hfn?
I don't Inon & [Mo takes the pbone ond 3873 In broken Ru8si?
I 488 In your Eqbagsy and spoke to your consul .Just 8 mtru
HI teko? the; pbona and a9ks NO In Zozlish what does he want
MO: /1n Rusalan/ ?loese apeak Rusglan-
MI: Nbat else d0 you want?
MO: I wa9 Just now ot your Bbassy end txey took aT addrass
MI: I bov that
0
MO: /speaks torrible, hardly recognizeble Rusgfan/ I id not
know 1t then: I went; t0 the Guban Eabgs:j to ask them for
"7
eddress, because thay have It 0 >
XI: Why don't You cota agaln and leev0 Jour stcress with It
not far from_ the Cuben Emba9sy-
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Attachaete d:
4 teleprcle call t0 the Sovict Ejbassj rade at
1151 ha;r? n 3? Saptedber 1963 by Silvia DURAN
of thc Cusan Zoaszy Wno on 27 unidcntifled
nortearnrican rin tho tells the Soviet t7at he
mas just &} their Exbassy and wants to Give then
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1 October 63
126-M26-T129
1031 0
2002
^
tolks to MI
In broken Russiana
In at 1051
45. last Saturdey an I telked to
MO: Hellow & I wad
at' your
send 3 telegr8m to He-
congul- Thoy 98id that
you
1f tboro L0
enjtbing neb?
'sbington, and
I wanted to abk
to
a3k.you to call enother pbone nunber-
MI: I' 1Ike
MO: Please &
15-60-55 and e9k for 0
consul,
MI:
Please. write 1t dohn;
MO; Thenk youa
MI: Pleesee
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1 Octobor 65
In ot 1051- m0 alics to ;:, fi: p70*07 Rugoione
5 _
Mo: jollow. I wog 7& your
10m Soturdoy ana I teliod t0
your condul: 'Inay Joid tnms thoy'd sond 0
tolegram to Ka=
Jhfogton;. ond 1 wonted to aJ if thero 1 enytbing new?
MI; I'd lIko to 83k: :you to call oothor phone numbera
MO: Ploaso .
HI: Ploe8e Ttlto
1+ down; 15-60-55. ana oo for conaul
0
MO; Tank Youe
MI: 'Pleese.
Attachmen + 9:
A tolephor:; call to the Soviet Military Attache
2t 1031 bows on 1 October 1965 by 37 unidentified
man speakizz brokcn Russian who asked about 2
tclegra #ich rero to send to Washirgton-
Unidertifiod ran Said he was at tna Sovie Ztbassy
"laat Saturdari Soviet told hin to call 15-60-55-1
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'OBx: VQLODYA , cote here 09 fegt 08 You can ,
OBR$ Alright.
155. (previous] trenscribed
140 . (previously trangcribed)
In &t *68 (2 ) MO the
8ame person Who pboned 0 day Or Hs1;
0g0 and In broken Rusaiar/ apeaks to OBIEDKOL
MO: Hello, this LEE OSHAID (phon) speaklnge I t89 at yowr
last Satuday end spoke to 8
consul, and tboy ga1d that
tbey'a s0pd; 8 telegram to Washington, 30 I wanted to fIna
out Lf you bave apytbing naw? But I don't remembar the Der
Dbat consule
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Washington Post TTuesday November T9 T963 ,
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(AP) Nov 18 The following is a text
of President Kennedy"
S address
tonight before the Inter-American Press Association
"The genuine Cuban revolution because it was against the tyran-
ny and corruption_ of the had the support of many whose aims and
concepts were noble
"But that hope for freedom and progress was destroyed.
"The goals proclaime in the Sierra Maestra were betrayed in Havana _
"It is important to restate what now divides Cuba from' my country
and from all the American countries It is the fact that 3 small band
of conspirators has stripped the Cuban people of their freedom and hand-
ed over the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban nation to forces
beyond the hemisphere Thley have made Cuba a victim_ of foreign imperial-
ism an instrument of the pPolicy of others 3_ weapon in an effort dic-
tated by external powers subvert the other American republics This_
and this alone divides 4S As long as this 18 true nothing is possible
Without it everything i8 Possible_
Ready and Anxious
"Once this barrier is removed we will be ready and anxious to work
with the Cuban people in Pursuit of those Progressive goals which a few
short years ag0 stirred their hopes and the sympathy of many people
throughout the entire hemilsphere
"No Cuban need feel trapped between dependence on the broken Prom-
ises of foreign communism and the hostility of the rest of the hemisphere_
once Cuban sovereignty has been restored we will extend the hand of
friendship and assistance to a Cuba whose political and economic insti-
0i tutions have been shaped the will of the Cuban People _
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U Unofficial Envoy
An Historic Report from Two Capitals
Jean Danicl
rccent trip to the United States, followed by a jonrney to Cuha, made it
for me to estnblish & "dlalogue' betwcen the late President Kennedy an
Primc Minister Fidel Castro. Since my arrival in Mexico, where this article is
written, Iivc becn_askedyuhethcr the impressions [ derived from thesc
interviews could shed .any liglyt 0n tlic assassination of thc Presidcnt and 0h
future relations betwcen Lyndori B_ Johnson and Castro.
Last weck in these pages 7 {swered the first question by describing the
re-
actions of Fidel Castro, with 10l1om [ 1ns visiting at the time, to John Kcn-
nedy' $ death Here [ shall exklore thc sccond question by reconstituting the
Kennedy-Castro dialoguc from #lie viewpoint of onc who wns 4 witness to it,
THE AuTMoR
President Kennedy received me at the White" House like someone Iho has at last found solace in indiffer-
on
Thursday, October
24. My appointment had been ence after bcen exas perated and fascinated.
schedluled for: 5.30. I wvaited in the Cabinet Conference John Kennedy was a man who liked to to the heart
'ocm, and at 5:45 the President, Following his usual of .a matter quickly, Zt make_ decisions even more
custm, came to look for me himself so that he could rapidly. But this was not possible in dealing with de
cscort me into his office. He apologized for the Gaulle , who is more clifficult to handle than Khru-
no: so much as a courtesy or to flatter me, but' to ex- shchev, One impatient at not understanding the
Hlain the scheduling of his time, which seemed to be General' s reasoning and intent upon convincing him,
vcr: Strictlv organized. As we through the small Kennedy telephoned de Gaulle dircct - AIl in' vain. Odd-
rcoin Ivhere his secretary was
working, ive caught 7
ly enough, however; since the recent visit of de Caulle' s
glimpse of Mrs Kennedy leaving by
2 French wvindow foreign minister, Couve de Murvile . to Washington
on ker Ivay to the e of the White House. Mr. Kennedy had ceased to be So deeply concerned
The President called her back to introduce me. about Franco-American relations. The truth is, he had
It was still Indian summer in Washington' The made up his mind not to worry about them any more:
weather was very warm, and both the President and According to him, it was a wvaste of time
Mrs Kennedy were very lightly dressed, thus enhanc- "Mr, Couve de Murville and I both verified that we
ing the impression of youth, charm and simplicity didn't agree on anything; the President told me And
whih was in rather surprising contrast to the solemnity we agreed that such total disagreement was hardly cal-
of entering these august chambers The President culated to create a
flourishing Friendship betwcen two
(athletic in his well-tailored suit, speaking with Western nations. [ came to the conclusion that
quick, abrupt gestures and a mobile 'expression but, at Cieneral de Gaulle's strategy, which is hcr incom-
times, freczing up and becoming disconcertingly, a/- prehensible to me, requires a ccrtain amount of tension
moet , would completely expressionless) invited with the United States. It Ivould seem that only through
me to be seated on the semi-circular sofa which Was in this tension is it possible to restore to Europe the desire
the middle of his office. He sat in J rocking chair op- to,think For itself and renounce its dependence
posite the sofa. The interview was to last from 20 to 25 on American dollar aid and suidance
minutes, and it was interrupted only by a brief tele- President Kennedy went on to 8u17 up Tvith con-
phone call: ciseness and vigor, the of disa;reemert between
The President immediately asked me how the French the United States and France: On # 0 subject of Ger-
siiation was developing: After my reply, he many, nuclear policy, Europe; the :Jea of "indepen-
about General de Galle. He talked in a rclaxed Fashion, 'ncc;' he told me wvhat has sincc becore
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knoiledge: He addcd _ howcver, that Fnance hadl "I believe that there is no counlry in the world, in-
strange 'ay of manifesting its indcpendence, part: cluding all the African regions, any ard all
ularly, for example, Qil the subject of Vietnam ancl thc countries under colonial domination, Ivhere CcO-
Cuba, It seemed ironic and irritating to;him that the nomic colonization, humiliation and exploitation
wvere
French Chief Executive was pparently bent on
ivorse than in Cuba, in to my country' s
him how the Uni:ed States should procced, ithout the Batista regime. believe that ive assuming any risks himself Flc told me tHat no
one was created) built and manufactured the Castro movement
more Jppreciatis ve than he of advice, irformation, and out of vhole cloth and withieut realizing it. 1 bclievc
even criticism; but that these were all tHe more valucd that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardizcd
if the fricnds proffering them were themselves coin- all of Latin America_ The aim of the Alliance For
mitted to a progran of action: Progress is to reverse this unfortunate policy: This is
I then asked Mr. Kennedly what could be onc of the most, if not the most, important problems in
from General de Gaulle'$ proposed visitlto the Unitecl American foreign policy. I can assure You that I have
States next February: He AbsojYtely nothing;' understood the Cubans. [ approvcd the proclaniation
But he Followed this up immediately with a broad which Fidcl Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, whcn
as
though savoring in advance the pleasure of he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to
the impending meeting: "It will be excie just the rid Cuba of corruption: [will g0 even further: to some
same_ General de Gaulle is an historic gure= he is de- extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of 4
cidely the strangest man of our { time:' number of sins on the part of the United States. Now
we shall have to pay for those.sins. In the matter of the
Relations with Cuba Batistd regime, [ am in agrccment with the first Cuban
revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear:
the initiative at this 1 brought up the After 4 silcnce which he was able to note my
subject of Vietnam and Cuba, saying that the Gaullists surprise and my interest, the President continued: "But
were not the only ones in France who deplored certain it is also clear 'that the problem has ceased to bc a
mistaken US policies. 1 pointed out that the first timc Cuban one, and has become international that is, it
Ihad the opportunity of mecting Joki Kennedy, he has becomc 4 Soviet problem:_ am the President of the
wvas a Senator and had jusi made 7
resounding United States and not a
sociologist; [am the President
on the subject of Algeria: Tex_thc ideds set forth_in of a free nation wvhich has certain responsibilities in the
that been faithfully n Saigon and Free World. I knowv that Castro betrayed the promises
Havana? Here my notes are verv ific , and Ishall made,in the Sierra Macstra, and that he has {o)
let the late President through' them: be a Soviet agent in Latin America. I knoiv that thrswgh
"We haven' t enough timc to talk 'lbout Vietnam, his Fault' either his vill to ind lependence' , his .ud-
but Id like to talk to You about Cuba: incidentally, our ness or Communism ~
the world was on the verge of
conversation will be much more interesting Ihen you nuclear war in October, 1962. The Russians understood
return, because Ben Bradlee [of Newsieek] tells me this very well, at least after our reacticn; but.so far as
you are on your way to Cuba now. Fidel Castro: is concerned, mst say ] don't knoiv
now and then T read articles in the European whether he realizes this, or even if he cares about it:
press pointing out that we Americans were blind to A smile, then; "You can tell me whether he does Ivhen
what wvas happening in the Cuban situation_ Ihave just you come back. In any case, the nations of Latin Amer-
learned that General de Gaulle himself Com- ica are not going to attain justice and progress _that
munism in Cuba as nothing but thej accidental and way , [ mean through Communist subversion_
temporary form of a will to independence From the Ion't get there by going from cconomic oppression to
United States. Of course it is very easy/to understand a Marxist dictatorship Ivhich Castro himself denounced
this ' vill to independence' around President de Gaulle. a fewv years 4g0. The United States now has thewpos-
John Kennedy then mustered all his Persuasive force. sibility of as much in Latin Americaeas it
He punctuated each sentence with thatlbrief, mechan- has done wrong in the Past; [ wvould even say that we
ical gesture Ihich had become famous} alone have this powcr on the essential condition that
"I tell you this: we know perfectlyi what happened Communisn} does not take over there,
Jn Cuba, to the misfortnrre all, From' the beginning Mr. Kennedy then rose to indicate Ezat thejnterviewv
8 personally followed the development of these events wvas Ovei_ [ apologized for keeping him tozazveuvo
with mounting concern. There are few subjects to which questions. The first: Could thc Unjted Siates
Ihave devoted more painstaking attention. conclu- tolerate cconomic collectivism? He ansivered Mhat
sions g0 much further than the Europea } analyses. Here about Sekou Toure? And Tito? received MarshalFito
is what [ believe. three ag0; and our discussions were nost; posi-
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MEMORANDUM
To : Files
From: Mike
MadigaGWNN
Date : June 30 1975
Subj : Committee Contact with Sam Giancana
To my
knowledge the. Committee ' s first contact with Sam
Giancana occurred on June 9 1974 _
9
when Patrick Shea of the
Committee staff received telephone communication from
Robert Bennett , Assistant lDistrict Attorney , Houston , Texas
It is my information from |talking to Mr _ Shea that Mr Bennett
called the Committee to advise that Sam Giancana was admitted
to the Methodist. Hospital which was located at 6515 Bertner
Street in Houston Texas Mr Bennett' s information was that
Giancana was admitted to Room 402 of the Hospital under the
care of a Dr _ Debakey . Mr; Bennett als0 advised that Giancana
was there for a gall bladder removal operation_ I believe , al -
though I am not positive , that Bennett als0 advised that
Giancana was then under surveillance_ My recollection at this
time is not clear as to whether Bennett advised as to Which
agency or organization hadl Giancana under surveillance , but my
impression is that it was Mot the F. B.I .
At about the time of lthis communication from Bennett , as
Committee Counsel, had been' attempting to locate Mr ; Giancana
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I had discussed his poslsible testimony before the Committee
with Chief Counsel , Friltz Schwarz , and Staff Director , William
Miller. It is my recoilection that we
agreed that I should
attempt to contact Gianlcana for the purposes of interview-
ing him in order to de lermine whether he would have suffi-
cient information to walrrant an appearance before the Commit -
tee as a whole It is; my memory that we did decide that
he was of sufficient importance to be interviewed by the
Staff, 1.e. , for me to interview him.
During this same Period of time
9
I discussed with
Messrs Schwarz and Miljler whether we should consider
issuing
a
subpoena for IMr Giancana while he was in the
hospital I made this; suggestion because of an impression
I had that Giancana was difficult to locate I should add
that I see
absolutely nothing prejudicial
or improper or
discourteous in the issuing of a subpoena , but rather
regard a subpoena as a' valid method of 'obtaining testimony
before a Congressionall Committee In any event , my dis -
cussion with Messrs Schwarz and Miller resulted in a
decision to have me contact Mr _ Giancana over the telephone
and offer him an opporitunity to appear before the Committee
voluntarily and to have me interview him if he S0 agreed.
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mittee as to whether a subpoena should be issued for Mr
Giancana Because of the events that followed we never
reached the point of bringing before the Committee the ques -
tion of whether Giancana Should be subpoenaed to
testify.
After the initial phone call from Bennett to Shea , I
telephoned Bennett on two different occasions My telephone
contact with Bennett was for the purpose of our
locating
Giancana and a telephone number at which I could reach him
Bennett initially indicated to me , as described earlier in
this memorandum , that Giancana was in the hospital My recol-
lection is that on my
second telephone call with Bennett , he
informed me that Giancana was now out of the hospital and
staying at the Warwick Hotel Finally, I recall calling the
Methodist Hospital in Houston and asking to speak to Mr
Giancana I recall that the hospital authorities indicated
that they had no such person by that name in the hospital
I do not recall the precise date of this telephone communication
to the hospital It is my: recollection that the name used by
Giancana was Doc Brown am uncertain whether Bennett told me
Giancana was uS "Doc Brown" at both the hospital and the
hotel , but I believe he said that the alias was used at the
hospital Bennett advised; that Giancana had been" visited by
several relatives. and gave' 'me the names of a ouple of persons
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who he thought were Giancana S sons-in-law The only name
I remember is that of Tisci.
In either the seconld 'or possibly a . third conversation
with Bennett , he told mel that Giancana had now. checked out
of the hotel and was either on his way back to his home in
Oak Park; Illinois or with his daughter in California He
provided me with the telephone number of the daughter in
California and suggested I obtain Giancana home number from
the information directory in Illinois _
The telephone conversations with Bennett occurred , to
the best of my recollection
9
during the week of June 16 , 1975 .
It is possible , however, that the first conversation occurred
later in the week of June; 9 _ It is my recollectim that my
second telephone conversation with Bennett occurred on Thurs
June 19 _ In any event
9
I am certain that I attempted to
contact Giancana by telephone on
Thursday , June 19 _ I was
unable to, get anyone: to answer the telephone in California
and did not have an opporttunity to attempt to obtain the
Illinois number. I learned Friday = June 20 that Giancana had
been shot and killed in his home in Oak Park, Illinois on
the evening of June 19 _
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August 22 = 1976
Slain Mobster Claimed
Cuban lLink to JFK Death
By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
WeshIncton Post Stall Writerg
Long before his recent murder; "His (Morgan's) clients were aware
John Rosselli. the CIA's underworld of the identity of some of the individ-
recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas uals who came to the United States
tro, had been privately claimirg that for this purpose and he understood
agents of the Cuban premier, in' retali- that such individuals were now in
ation, were involved in the assassina- the state of New Jersey;' the FBI in:
'tion of President John F Kennedy. terview summary stated.
Rosselli's belief in a Cuban connec: A long-time associate of Rosselli
tion to the Kennedy assassination was who was interviewed separately by
expressed through his attorney, Ed: The Washington Post, said there was
ward P Morgan, to the FBI as long; no question in the slain mobster's
8g0 as March; 1967, and also in private mind that President Kennedy was
conversations with a longtime associ- killed on Castro's behalf in reprisal
ate of Rosselli who participated: in {or the CIA schemes against the Cu-
meetings between Rosselli and the ban leeder .
CIA "He was positive; he was sure' said
An FBI ~blind memorandum" on the asgociate, who knew Rosselli well
an interview with Morgan dated and was in contact with him before
March 21, 1967, was included, without Rosselli disappeared from his Florida
identification of the interviewee; in home 0n July 28. The associate, who
last June$ Senate Intelligence Com- docs not want to be 'identified pub-
mittee's report 0n the role of the in licly, is scheduled to be interviewed
telligence community in the Kennedy this week by Dade County. Fla., homi-
assassination investigation. cide detectives He was & party to Ros-
told the FBI that Rosselli selli's contacts in the early 1960s with
Morgan CIA case officers overseeing the at-
and another Morgan client had in-
formed him that Castro became aware templs to assassinate Castro.
of CIA assassination conspiracies Despite occasional speculation, the
against him and "thereafter employed collective conclusion of all official
teams of individuals who were dis- U.S. government investigations into
patched to the.United States for_the the Kennedy assassination-_including
purpose 6f assassinating Mri Ken: the Warren Commission, the FBI and
nedy . the CIA_has been that there was 010
Beca use neither. Morgan nor Ros: evidence' that implicated the Castro
selli was identified in the Senate re- government or any of its agents
port; the Significance Of that portion However, the. CIA's inyolvement in
of the 106-page dlocument was dlis- the schemes to assassinate Castro
counted at the time it was pubiished was not divulged to the Warren Com
In June, before Rosselli's disappear- mission, and knowledge of them was
ance and the subsequent discovery of confined ' until 1967 to a small , elile
his body in an oil drum in Florida circle of the U'S. intelligence commu:
waters The Washington Post,however nity. President Johnson apparently
has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli first learned about the schemes only
were the sources of the testimony that after & March 7, 1967, column by the
suggested a Cuban role; inathe Ken Jate Drew Person; which prompted
nedy murder. Johnson lo order a CIA investigation
Morgan's account, according; 'to a
of the highly sensitive episode:
summary of the FBI inlerview was
Full details of the CIA-underworld
that Rosselli had reached his conclu- collusion in the plots to kill Castro
sion about a Cuban connection to.the' did not surface publicly until the
Kennedy assassination: [rom lication last year 0f the Senate Intelli-
"feedback" furnished by sources close gence Committee's assassination re:
to Castro who were involved in the CIA port and the ensuing report last June
plots to assassinate the Cuban leader. on the possible role of the intelligence
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agencies in the Kennedy assassination Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six committee concluded was "puzzling"
and investigation. senior burcau oEficials on an "eyes- because it was the Domestic Inlelli:
The body of Rosselli: who lived only" basis There is no record of FBI gence Division which hacl heen a5-
flamboyantly in a world of mobsters, meelings 0r discussions of ' those alle- signed responsibility for investigating
licians and playgirls, was found igations At that point the sensitive let possible foreign involvement in the
ter bounced back and forth in the assassination: two weeks ag0 in an inverted oil drum
higher reaches of the FBI bureauc Neither agent was privy to the weighted with chains but buoyed by
racy. knowledge; confined to Hoover and
gases from decomposition on the- The job of responding to Rowley's his top aides, of the CIA's assassina-
ocean's suriace off the coast of Miami. Jetter was assigned to tHe supervisor tion plots against; Castro. Both agents
The specific cause of death was deter of the FBls General Investigative Di- mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia: vision who was given responsiility for
testified years later that they
tion: were surprised" when Morgan al: the overall assassination investigation luded during the interview 'to U.S. at
Last year, an underworld colleague in March 1964.
{of Rosselli, Sam (Momo) Giancana, This official's job was complicated tempts' to assassinate Castro.
who also had been recruited by the by the fact that he had never been in- "These agents stated that they
.CIA in the effort to kill Castro: was formed of what Hoover and his closest could not evaluate the lawyer's
[ound shot to death in his Chicago circle of 'confidants in the FBl learned "(Morgan's) allegations or questioh him
home in what police described as a early in 1962__that the CIA was in detail on them, since they had not
highly professional job by assailants deeply involved in assassinatfon been briefed on the CIA assassination
whio penetrated the mobster's per- attempts against Castro and promi- efforts, the Senate committee ob-
sonal security screen_ Giancana was nent American underworld figures; in- served_
duc to testify before the Senate Intel: cluding Rosselli and Giancana; had On March 24, 1967 , the FBI's WVash:
ligence Committee shortly after hjs - been recruited for the attempts ington Field Office sent headquarters
demise. So on Feb. 15, 1967, the FBI official_ ten copies of a blind memorandum
Neither murder Has been solved: prepared a draft reply to the Rowley_ summarizing the interview with Mor-
ietter for his superiors saying "our in- gan. The possibility that Rosselli's mur vestigation uncovered no evidence 'in-
der might have been related to his dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
In a Senate Intelligence Committee
Senate testimony on the CIA schemles Cuban were involved
summary of the FBI interview, Mor::
to kill Castro has brought the FBI
CithaLee ( ueveynOgtaldeTe the
assas- was reported to have acknow:-
into the invcstigation at the request sination of President Kennedy. This
edged that his clients were ton the
of Attorney General Edward H. Levi bureau is not conducting,any investi fringe of the underworld" and that
The involvement of Rosselli, Gian- gation regarding this matter The faced 'possible prosecution in a
cana and other underworld figures FBI Official added in later testimony. crime not related to the assassination
principally Santos Trafficante of that "everyone.in 'the higher echelons
Tampa, Fla-, whose one-time Havana read this Morgan said: his clients " were called
gambling enterprises fell hostage in Drew Pearson went ahead and upon by a governmental agency to as-
1959 lo the Cuban revolution_in plots lished & column on March 7, 1967, ref: sist in a project which was said to
against Castro had been a elosely held erring to reports that CIA schemes have the highest 'governmental ap-
secret within the top echelons of the against Castro's life in 1963 "may proval_ The project had as its purpose
CIA and FBI until recently. have resulted in a counterplot by Cas- the assassination of Fidel Castro:
tro to assassinate President Kenne: Elaborate plans were made includjng
The tangled chronology of suppres the infiltration of the' Cuban Govern-
sion and eventual disclosure, although_ dyfen days Iater, Marvin Watson: one
ment and the placing of informants
detailed in the June report, has re: within key posts in Cuba,
ceived little public attention Rossel- of Lyndon Johnson s chief deputies, Morgan also told the FBI, according
li's murder adds significance to those called FBI. assistant director Cartha
to the summary, that Castro had em- DeLoach with the message that "the
events President had instructed that the FBI ploved "teams of individuals who
Here is the sequence, pieced to:
interview (Morgan) concerning any were dispatched to the United States.
gether from the testimony given to knowledge he , might have regarding for the purpose 0f assassinating Presi-
Senate intelligence investigators: the assassination Of President : Ken; dent Kennedy.
Columnist Drew Pearson went to It was not clear then__nor is it to: nedy_
thc late Chief Justice of 'the United DeLoach Lold Watson , that it apa day_why Morgan came forward at
States Earl Warren late in. January_ peared Morgan "did not want to be in- that time to bring: Rosselli's story lo
1967 , and told him that 8 Washington terviewed, and even if he was inter- the ears ol the nation's highest law
lawyer had confided to him that one 'viewecl he would probably not divulge enforcement authorities:
of his clients said the United States the identity of his sources Wat: It may be relevant that Rosselli had'
'had attempted to assassinate Fidel son persisterl, however. 'serious legal problems at the time
Castro in the early 1960s and Castro "Under (he circumstances_ De: In 1966, the FBI. threatened to
had decided to retaliate Loach concluded in a memo for the deport, him for ` living in the United
files. "it appears that we have no al- States under an assumed name unless
Warren declined Pearson's sugges: ternative hut to interview (Morgan)' he cooperated in an investigation of
tion that he see the lawyer, who was and then furnish the results to Wat: the Mafia (his true name was Filippo
Edward Morgan Warren referred the son in blind memorandum form; Saco) At the time, he reached a CIA
matter to then Secret Service Direc The interriew was assigned"to two contact from the anti-Castdo conspir-
tor James J Rowley, who On Feb. 13, agents from the FBI'$ General Investi- acy days, CIA security direclor Col.
1967, wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Ho-- gative Division, which the Senate Sheffield Edwards, who informed 'the over; informing him 0f the allegations
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FBI that Rosselli wanted to "keep Castro's lifc Irom 1960 to 1985 _to as-
square with the bureau" but was sassinate the Cuban leader through 'Another CIA offiiial who worked
afraid that the mob might kill 'him for 'the employmncnt of an agent with the
with Rosselll, James R: OConnell, was
talking. cryptonymn AMLASH His identity asked if he knew whelhet the agency
In 1967, after he was arrested for
was revealed as Rolando Cubela, transmitted information to the mob-
3 gambling fraud at the Friars .Club in 1961 CIA irecruit" with close access
ster on possible Cuban Involvement in
Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached 'his to Castro. the Kennedy assassination: He rcplied
former CIA case offlcer William Har: CIA operatives turned over assassi- that he was out of' the dountry at the
vey who sought unsuccessfully fo in;: nation ( equipment to Cubela during
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tercede in the prosecution Faris meeting on November 22,, 1963 further comment;
It was against this background that the day President Kennedy was killed _ Two months before he Kennedy as-
Morgan went; first: to Drew Pearson, in Dallas; There has been subsequent sassination, Lee {Oswald, who_
and then the FBI, with ,Rosselli's Sen- speculation that the mercurial and was identified by
Haeyfaffen
the Commis-.
sational allegations of CIA plotting 'talkative Cuhela was either
4 double sion as Kennedy's mutderer; had trav-
against Castro and the Cuban counter: agent or monitored:by Cuban eled to Mexico City lin an attempt to
cspionage directed against 'President intelligence: gain entry to Cuba. According to the
Kennedy. During the later deys: of his presi- Warren Commission, Oswald repre: Last April; Rosselli told the Senate dency, Mr: Johnson: spoke, cryptically sented himself as the head of the New
Intelligence Committee he had no rec of a "Caribbean Murder Incorpo: Orleans branch 0 the Fair Play for
ollection. of either recelving informa- rated" targeted 'against ' Fidel Castro: Cuba organization and a friend of the
tion that Castro retaliated against The inspiration for that statement un- Cuban Revolution;
Presidlent Kennedy or of: having "dis doubtedly wAs the CIA inspector gen: Some three months before Kennedy
cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei:' eral$ report he ordered Heims t8 have
was killed, Castro told Associated ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic prepared:' Press reporter Daniel Harker that
niemory loss Or thal Morgan's state- Within the past: year Rosselli and U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
ment to FB[ agents tine years earlier two of his co-conspirators in the Cas- eliminate Cuban leaders would them-
was a pure invention, a serious risk tro assassination schemes have died, selves not be safe:
for an established Washington lawyer. Giancana al the hands of a profes-
A U.S. sional hit man and Harvey as the re: government committee coor-
No committee source. could explain sult `of' a ` massive heart attack" last
dinating policy toward Cuba at the
the discrepancy, and Morgan declined June. time agreed there is a strong liklihood_
to confirm that Rosselli was the client Mrs: William Harjey, the widow of that Castro would retaliate in some in question or to discuss either his the deceased- CIA official, said she fashion. Howeved, it concluded Castro
allegations against the Cuban govern- suspected no Eoul play in her hus: would not risk 3 major confrontation
ment or his recent testimony. band's death. She did, however, tell: with the US_ hy attacking U.S. lead-
The internal FBI memo on the [967 The Washington Post that she re:
ers;
interview with Morgan was sent to ceived a call after Rosselli's disappear: On the same day Kennedy was as-
headquarters with 4 transmittal slip 'auce in late July warning her that Cu- sassinated, a CIA officer met with a
saying: "No further investigation is bans appearcd to be attempting to
high-ranking Cuban Official, who had
being conducted by the Washington wipe out all those who participated in said he would kill Castro, to tell him
field office unless it is advised to the the anti-Castro plots the U.S: would provide him with ex-
contrary by the Bureau; 99 plosives and & poison pen device
The Senate intelligence committee The call, she said, came from an old While the Senate Intelligence
in ' commenting on this position, said friend who was acquainted with Ros- mittee said it found no evidence suffi-
lhat sshad the interviewing agents sellils sister; whose name is Edith Dai- cient to justify a conclusion that the
known of the CIA-underworld plots
gle: Mrs. Harvey said that Mrs Daigle Kennedy assassination was part of a
against Castro, they would have been
told the mutual acquaintance that the conspiracy, it also said U.S. 'agencies
aware that the lawyer had clients' who Rosselli family had received a tele- did not properly investigate the assas-
had been active in the assassination phone threat Erom unidentified Cu- sination ;or tell the Warren Commis-
plots:
bans prior to Rossellis disappearance: sion about the CIA plots on Castro's
On March 21, ,FBI headquarters for- She also said that Rosselli had gone to life_
warded the Washington field office meet the Cubans in an effort to pro- "There is no indication that the FBI
memo to the White House the attor-
tect his family. or the CIA directed the interviewing
ney general and the Secret Service; It Mrs; Daigle could not be reached by' of Cuban sources or sources within
did not recommend any further in- The Washington Post. But another sis- the Cuban exile community; the Sen-
vestigation of Morgan': allegations ter of Rosselli said she had heerd of ate committee Said.
On the evening of the following_ no such threats or warnings According to a tormer FBI official
day , President Johnson called .CIA Di- Harvey, who died at age 80 `and in of aspects of the FBI's
rector Richard M. Helms ta 'the White whose exploits as a clandestine opera- probe of the Kennedy murder, the
House. The next morning, March 23, tor are both legendary and controver- FBL never satisfactorily determined
Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen- sial within the agency, testified to the what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
eral to prepare a report on the CIA Senate Intelligence Committee. He what he had done in Russia:
involvement in the assassination plots had become Rosselli's case officer in
Operation Mongoose _of which Operation Mongoose and supplied the
Helms had full khlowledge at;the time mobster' with poison pills, explosives;
they were executed.' detonators, rifles, handguns, radios _
By 22, Heims briefed President' and boat radar for transmission to
Johnson on the results There is, how- anti-Castro Cuban agents Harvey and
ever_ no evidence that Helms briefed Rosselli, a CIA superior testified to
thne ,President on the November; 1963 the Senate coinmi "developed 3
plot__one 0f eight major schemes_on close friendship '
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Dzily ICc_Sutduy 25c: Tl3* Year__Nnmbe;
ClA; Molsters LLirikes
Cuba Raid; Plans
Newspaper Names 4Mafia Figures
MENTU ni0 whcn -it becamo, obvious that world: Informnution; &9 dccliar thinvg Ike that; Ny #leci #ji
#crae AQ)
iha : Anvasloa ol: I,400' cxlles Ing to conlirn} Qr dedy Wba potublv not B;c 44 eepias
Lentral Jislellueriev Ayaucy-
tile mobgter accounts.
When you fallect on Jtzelt
reld 0n1 our underwarkdr wes * fallufe, The Bee jeported that Hols . not an
lnplaibible: siurtc ee
ulubsters Ior ltellgence ueed _ baai returned l0 Mlorida.
Iy it?
1 In planning, lhe UH-Zated 1631 Walah identlficd Lhe source The Bze gaid (c & Wle touc
ot Plge invasion *4 Cuba, . U[ hia Informalion &9 @ lormer Relaled Story Page A53
Lnvoived Fwh " the
tke Sacrameno Beesald' b employe % Ute CIA . He did Gohste' ghdnEaiyedr Fn
#0;
day- not , identily tba ' cnploye in ton; retired Gcneral counscl %
Tb ` CLA'$, udcrworld in , 'Uia sto1y, which barried a Las the CIA, sid of the story: sli sld ale Ly EuEel_Eufed:
torniants, ai fondec Havana Vegas; Nev_, datellie: I[ do not 'recollect guch 8 no; 74, descrityr16 & Ziina
casino 03se3 Kad huried Fe quotod Lawcncc R. thing, but lhat doesn't mean it
Tontlk:;i a@ Rcnnsy}: #
975),03) ju Cuba : wllan . tney Houslon, ccacribed' 48 lite CIA dian t happen. I ion"t ceny It, Ivo
T0. Col 1)
fled; Fidel Cesro. Theretora bjdicie] . tecolvlng tio)uider- bu I don% {cmember Nny:: (Plese. Teut
thie} had # gaka i encourag-
trg Uw Ihited Siaies Iz. ur
dertuke (lka invasict: {& 'ovira
throw Casuv, the Bee reprt;
e.
6Me Information' tney sup
plied to tlie CLA' supposedly t
pinpointed troop- J naval
vessel pogitions,
2
Bee Investi- =
reporier, Denny' Walsb
wirote in tho Suinday ediujon:
More 'unportanely = Per-
haps, tho qlobsters 'alio Te
ported that' many o Aia pec .
ple of - Havana were , u5m-.
pathetic-lo Castro and'
almost . certeinty; rise up Io
support & 0 counier-revolur
tonary lorce' once It hadtes '
18 e b Il6h04 # beachhead;'
Welsh coritblued:
Iu exchange for tbeic;helpz:
tho moudlume had: been prom:
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recuver Lhel: bricd cact uit
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GIA-Mafja iLink beges "1nade periodic [#
(Conuoucd Froni il) ports to the CIA unti] Just
Pakc bclorc lhc ebortlud;: 0:.
Malie : base Iio !ag
Victcd; Just boforo Iila ltooltup Piga Invosion.
eed "Bet we 0 n S45,000
Glln;4pa ciA"oE 'conspiring to Gi,cod waj 4 by tbe. lour ostruct' jusuco In,Jylig abput_
gingster 'ta informmte- 0
Ut 1887 Mada summle mcot" Cuba Ior Aho infortnatiol
at Apelac jn; N.Y "The Iauncy came, at lease
Tnd nowapapor gaid tho olh" in part, Irom @ 5750,000'cache
6p Uvlng Informant Is Gcorlie wfapxd In . oilcloth . and bur
Eiexmlso also Imowd 0 Goxt"' Irxi i01 (lio GIOunal by Urwuollo +
was: dcacrilrcd'89 ab1u Lavvlua just belore. Ubolr
70 ovcfccBr]anU][8ioblax0t}ul:t hoaty doparturo Iroja Cube
Mile Ganbung Inloresle Jo during Iho ttu bulcie. 02
Pir Cestro Caba: Iid 'Jce tha Castro takcovcr _
eald he is roportedly:Ivingfin' "It was the rese o{ this
Gral Gebled; Fla. money tliat `Granello, Levlnc,
The other'two -Were Jemer Dualino end Plumcri wero
Bumerta Identiiled @8 0' fora- asdurcd would bc abla t0
Or Malie bljackor; Iabor: rccovcr unhindercd I( thc Casa
recketecr end * garent 'dlsa tra Goveriilent was topplcd_
Hect strongmad;" an' Selvac - managcd (o Eot wora
Kote Gcerello; Jdcntiled a5 0 'to `hoodlutns Inside' Cuba" who
Af01 0305uonve- end' Ioew thc .whercabouts 0 lhe
Aler. mancy to start buying stra"
Plumerl and Granelo were tegic Information. Othcr Cu-
ictlms soveral ycars ,Cgo; Ol bao associales of the {our
ahttelated +gangiand; 0 < 0 € %; gangsters were dispatched to
ions; Walgh wtolo: 170 the Island {rom Florida on
Ecrd' " [3 " the- accolne 0} Intelllgence-galhering sorties_
CIA-Molwi ~: Jntriguo" 28' ide; Eartier published rcports
cfibed"'bwv Walsh ; fromja his bave .said that in preparution
ankdentiiied {ormcr CLA for the;Bay o Pigs Ivosion,
irourca= CLA Director Allen Dullcs ro
During Whe' prc-1950 Te 'Jcd heavily on rcports whlcle
he . 01 Wo " [orice:: Cuban stresscd the upopularity 0[
i tetor Fulgenclo % Butista, tho Castro rcgianc end the
Jno. gambling Ilourishcd In expectation, ncvcr realized; of
Jhl country under-thc direc" massive rebellion et, the time
JQop end contro} 0 the, U.S: o8 a strike
Giaizedc crime _ uoderwvorld:
The: Caetro Fcvolution
fodted the mob along sith
rBolista;' and: the- Cuban ' pre-
{e's Communlst Covcrt:
Zinqut)bos @aver @iowed ebo
Tcrumpuon 0 mot;acuvues
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MEMORANUM
TO: FRITZ AND BILL
FROM: MIKE EFSTEIN
DATE: JUNE 1975
SUBJET: GIANCANA
I expect that no one will write off the &lleged Giancana murder as a
88 "third-rate homicide, and that it will grow and grow and grow . It is clearly
the most volatile media issue of the season.
Given the barest outlines of what a legedly happened , and taking them
at face value, we have a responsibility to take action under 18 U.S
Section 1505:
Whoever by force endea vors to impede any
witness in connection with any inquiry or investigation
being had by committee of either Houge or
Whoever by force obstructs, or impedes or
endea vors to 'obstruct, or impede the due and proper
exercise of the: power of inquiry under which such inquiry
or investigation ie being had by any committee of
either House
Shall be fined not' more than` $5,000 or imprisoned not more
than five years, or both_
0 In short, if Giancana was a "witness (which status he might have
achieved by mere location contacts made by staff) and he was killed to
01 prevent his appearance; or 'indeed even if he waen't 8 "witness but
38 this wa& 8 "meesage to &li, witnesses to keep quiet (e-g. Roselli and Maheu) ,
there is a violation of law which we might ha ve the reepongibility to investigate.
Beyond what our responeibility it seems clear to me that most extreme
possibilities of what might actually have happened dictate that we come up
with a
well-reagoned position &nd : plan
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consideration of all avenues of approach, pitfa suspected motives, etc .
Most important of it Seems to me, is our acceptance of the fact that
maybe we don t even have anyone on our staff with sufficient experience,
sophistication, background , and investigative maturity to deal with this
situation.
As a first I urgefyour decision to convene 0 planning session to
dec ide what the second step will be
I can t emphagize enough the need for well-thought-out nning here _
Wno knows where thie will lead 1 And at a minimum, some monthe from now,
Senator Church may be aeked, "what did you d@ the after you learned
that Giancana had been killed?"
stream of consciousness on kinds of things to coneider woula
include: What our public statenent on this should or shoula not
security for other witnesses, imediate contact with other witnesses
to reassure them), secrecy of witness lists and imunity applications,
secrecy of place, time and even fact of-interview, meetings with Justice
organized crime section, Chicago strike force, local law enforcement people
in Oak Fark: and Illinois, obtaining &1l FBI investigative reports (they re
in it per tonight's-Star), getting background on all law enforcement officials
in Illinois who will be involved whom do you trustt), is this 8 diversion
which we
re being sucked into, how do we avoid that (hire someone just for
this), how do we show we care so other witnesses (known or unknown) won t
uP, etc. etc. etc
NOTE: Mike can be reached 8fter 6:45 tonight at (802) 863-2652=
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TO : Mike Madigan
FROM: Ed Greissing
DATE August 13 1976
SUBJECT : Mention of Carlos Marcello in the 4/23/76 cranscript of
John Rosselli_
On April 23 1976 during 'Mr Rosselli' $ appearance before the
Schweiker-Hart Subcommittee, we took the opportunity to question
hin about any information he might possess regarding the New Orleans
Mafia Chieftan , Carlos Marcello
Our interest in Marcello developed from 1)rthe allegation that
Marcello wa8
tangentially involved with both Clay Shaw and David
Ferrie; the fact that Marcello was deported by Attorney General Robert
Kennedy and that the assassination of" President Kennedy wa3 8
possible
retaliation,
In my
telephone conversation with Jim Johnston 8/13/76 he could
think of no other reasons why we questioned Rosselli about Marcello.
If you would like co talk to Jim about this matter , his telephone
nuber 19 780-6203 _
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MEMORANDUM
To : Files
From Mike Madigan
Date : June 23 , 1975
Subj: Additional Roselli Questions
Inquire when in the discussions between Roselli and the CIA
did any suggestion appear]iwith regard to both Che Guevera and
Rauol Castro, in addition to the discussions involving Fidel only .
Query whether Roselii has heard the term "ZRRIFLE" note
Helms to Harvey memorandum of 12 February 1962 , giving approval for
use of unvouchered funds
I. G . Report references first delivery of the pills in early
1961 _ Second delivery of the pills in early 1962 inquire re :
Roselli S date recollection .
Jake Esterline had possession of the digars already treated
with poison in March through August 1960,in Florida_ Esterline
apparently destroyed them before he left in June of 1961 Roselli's
knowledge of Esterline or the cigars
Roselli S
knowledge of thalfum
sal operation to put in:
Castro' s shoes when left outsi hotel om on trip?
I.G. Report indicates First Phase from August 1960 through
April 1961 and Second Phase from 'April 1962 through February 1963 _
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mspector General S Report states that Maheu was instructed
to tell Roselli that Maheu represented businesses (Wall Street)
who had interests in Cuba and whc- wanted to eliminate Castro and
were Willing to pay '$150 ,000 .
Roselli Trafficante' s` gambling interests in Cuba interest
in killing Castro?
I.G . Report indicates first meeting" to be 14 September 1960
in New York City, with Maheu , Roselli and 0 ' Connell present -
I.G. Report indicates that Roselli introduced. Maheu to Giancana
and that Giancana was to: arrange contacts with syndicate elements
in Cuba meeting for Roselli/Maheu/Giancana meeting in Fountain-
bleu Hotel in Florida week of 25" September 1960 . I. G . Report
indicates that Giancana told Maheu that he had a man (Trafficante)
to serve as a courier going back and forth between Miami and Cuba .
I.G . Report indicates converstion in Roselli' s presence wherein
Giancana tells Maheu that Giancana is opposed to the use of guns
no chance. of escape?
Roselli named inside man in Cuba as Juan Orta then in
Prime Minister' s office in Havana
I G. Report indicates Dr Gunn S notation of delivery of
the first batch of pills to be 10 February 1961? Roselli timing?
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I.G. Report indicatesj that Roselli' s man, Orta, had "easy
ccess" to Castro, and that he was involved in a "rake-off on
0} Iganbling profits _
I.G . Report has Roselli giving the pills to Trafficante
rather than directly to the Cuban ?
Did Harvey actu te 1 Roselli to cut off the project
slowly So as to avoid creating hard feelings on the part of the
Cubans in the latter part of
I.G . Report in "Second Phase" indicates Roselli telling
(
0 Connell that Trafficante knew man high up in the Cuban exile
movement who could take over the job from Orta. Report indicates
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this man ' $ name is Varona , and: that Trafficante probably knew
Varona in his efforts to' take over gambling once Castro was out
Does Roselli know Edward Moss and Ithe Cellini's offer of money
to Varona to be used.against Castro?
I.G. Report indicates that Trafficante told Varona that he
(Trafficante) had clients who would pay big money to rid of
Castro
Roselli' s knowledge of this timel frame March/ April
1961 figures mentioned from various witnesses are (1) $50,000
(2) 825,000 (3) $10,00 $1,000 worth 0f communications
equipment _ NOTE ; 0 ' Connell' s testimony of $50,00 being taken
to Florida and put in a
safe deposit box to be paid C. O.D. upon
accomplishment of Castro mission _
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of the "executive action capability. 6 The Report indicates
15 November 1961 a5 date Hafvey says Bissell told him to include
Cuba in ZRRIFLE program
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syndicate connection
Roselli 1 S knowledge. of either of these dates? NOTE : Are ZRRIFLE
and Castro assassination plans synonymous?
I.G Report gives 8 and 9 April 1962 in New York-City a5 the
meeting place for the first introduction of Harvey , 0' Connell and
Roselli. NOTE 0' Conneil1 feels that Harvey met Roselli Arior
((
to this eeting meeting took place at Savoy Plaza/ Savoy Hilton
Hotet where Roselli stayed dinner at the Elk Room drinks at
the Copacabana table across from Phyllis MacGuire with Dorothy
Kilgallen and Liberace performing seats changed So that Roselli
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would, not be seen by MacGuire Roselli' s recollection?
June of 1967 Harvey left for Rome
April 18 , 1962 Dr . Treichler records showing delivery of
four pills to "OC. "
September 1961 , last casino in Havana closed .
0d
0 I.G. Report references Roselli' $ having 2 man known as "Maceo"
or "Garcia Gomez" am "Goday" The report describes him a5 a
Cuban who Italian_ Roselli' s recollection? time frame?
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the delivery of the rental truck with Che rifles , etc . Roselli' s
recollection of what was inside? Rifles with telescopic sites
for assassination purposes? Commiications equipment what type?
NOTE Roselli' s recollection regatding joint surveillance by: Harvey
and Shackley in one car and 0'Connel1 and Roselli in another car?
1962 I.G. Report indicates that Roselli reports to Harvey
that the pills
are in Cuba references to al1 calls to Roselli
going to the Friars Club and Roselli S calls going to Harvey ' s hone
number Roselli' s recollection?
June 1962 I.G. Report reference Roselli telling Harvey that
Varona had sent a three-man team into Cuba and that the pills were
0 6 "inside _
September 1962 I.G . Report references Roselli meeting Harvey
in Miami on 7 and 11 September _ Roselli tells Harvey that a second
three-man team was sent in by Varona a team of militia to infil
trate Castro' s bodyguard that the first team is already inside
and safe? Roselli' s recollection of facts?
January 1963 . I.G . Report reference Roselli telling Harvey
tha "militia team" prepared for take-off and that they never did?
Roselli' s recollection?
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and Harvey Roselli met' by Harvey at Dulles Airport Roselli
stayed at hone of friend of Harvey' s Harvey ' s home closed up
per overseas Harveycalled by FBI having
seen Roselli/Harvey
at restaurant FBI had Roselli Uder surveillance Roselli's
recollection of facts? Time perfod?
I.G. Report indicates that Maheu pit in contact with Giancana
for tap through Roselli Roselli' s advance knowledge?
0'Connell ' s_Testimonx
0' Connell' s recollection is that Orta S man would not go through
with it and that the pills were returned to 0 ' Connell by Roselli
0 ' Connell's recollection then is' that the second plan was a call
from Roselli and Maheu indicating the use of a chef. The pills
were sent down and . again returned when this plot failed .
0' Connell is unclear which of the- aforementioned schemes took
place before the of He indicates
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Varona to be after the of Pigs
0' Connell has the first introduction of Roselli and Harvey as
being in the Miami airport.
0 Connell' s testimony is that he received a call from Maheu
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Dan Rowan_ Maheu said that he had been ; requested to place a tap
for Giancana and that Giancana might "stop helping"
on the assassina -
tion if this tap was not placed _ 0 ' Connell checked with
Edwards and received the go-ahead . 0 Connell indicates that
Maheu was authorized to pay for DuBois out of the month given him
on the assassination plan .
0 ' Connell states that he recalls November 1960 as the time
period of the delivery of the pills for Roselli through Trafficante?
0' Connell recollection that "chef" incident after Bay. of
0' Connell states that Varona ' s price was $50,000 3- 810,000
worth of communications equipment in addition
0' Connell introduced by Roselli to Varona 2s "Mr Olds 1
Harvey_Testimony
Harvey places the fall of 1961 as the time period in which
ZRRIFLE was to be applied to Cuba _
Harvey reference to pressure from the Kennedys to topple the
Castro regime clandestinely and not by means of any ittack-
Roselli' $ hearsay knowledge of this?
Harvey states_ that he recalls firearms in the truck, possibly
"sniper-scope rifles _ 0
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Harvey states that as soon as the missile crisis was over ,
i.e., late 1962 , he indicated to Roselli that he wanted the
project cut off, although' gradually So as not to create hard
feelings_
Roselli' s knowledge of Greenspuk' s safe break-in in 1971
1967 meeting between Greenspan Garrikon, Roselli, etc. ?
I.G: Report reference to "aN contamination 00 in early 1960
efforts Roselli hearsay knowledge?
E. B. Willians knowledge
I
MaheuXRoselli/Greenspun meetings
in 19672
Roselli knowledge re {Angell Luis Castillo (U.S. in 1968)
and Jerry Henning (training of Cuban teams) ?
Roselli knowledge of explosives al8ng with guns valued at
$5,000 U-Haul truck delivery survelillance by Chief JMWAVE ?
Late 1962-Early 1963 Roselli knowledge of skin-diving suit
implemented with poisons?
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Dear Mr Attorney General:
I am writing you today on behalf of.the Select
Comnittee about the recent death of Samuel Giancana _ As
you are no doubt aware , his; name has been raised in the
context of allegations concerning the Central Intelligence
Agency' s possible involvement in so-called political
assassinations
Based on information available to the Committee,
it was obvious that' he might be knowledgeable about the
political assassination matter. Although Mr Giancana
had not actually been subpoenaed to testify by this Con-
mittee, he had been ' approached by members of the staff
for a possible interview . Since this might involve viola-
tlon of federal statutes pertaining to obstruction of a_
Congressional Committee investigation, the Select Committee
is requesting that you instruct the Federal Bureau of
Investigation to keep it fully informed of all information
coming to the Bureau S attention pertaining to Mr Giancana 8
death. In making this request , the Committee is not conced-
ing. its; rlght to conduct its own investigation of this
matter. However it is acting in the spirit of cooperation
on a question of mutual concern to the Executive and Legis _
lative Branches of government
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The' Committee 1s also concerned about the
safety of several other possible witnesses . Therefore ,
we request 24-hour-a-day protection by the United States
Marshall Service for the following witnesses which the
Committee has subpoenaed , intends to subpoena , has inter-
viewed , or intends to interview:
(Alternative paragraph:
The Committee 1s also concerned about the
safety of several other possible witnesses:. We would
like to discuss with members of your staff the necessity
for specIal arrangements' by the United States Marshall
Service to ensure the safety of Witnesses who have. or
might have to contact with the Committee pertaining to
these matters . )`
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NEW YORK NEWRYORK
VinCenzo MANGANO JoSEPH? PROFACL
(wiesiro: SUNCE /050) (DeCeaseD 1aa2)
THE MAFIA ORGAMIZATIQ
TAMPA
9
FLORIDA AREA
ALFoNSo DIECIDue SANTO TRAFFICANTE,SR
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1947
ELDER ELDER
SALVATORE SCAGLIONE GAETANG
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TOP MAN
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Fbi #885273 Bi '82698 Fb} 2183ts
0 7,0,/9 0 1,8,10
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ExHIBIT No.
LEGEND N ITHE
CREANAAMACT RELA Roshopships
COMMERGAL AND FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
CRIMINAL Activities
In GUrRENTL IN JAIL FoR KARCQTCS TRAFACKING
{8 Awaiting [RIAL ON NARcoMCS TRAFFICKING
IC Frevious Conviction FoR RArcoics raFFiCKiNG
ID SUSPECTED Of TRAFACKING IN NARCOTCS
3 SAMOcnGG
4 LboR RACHETEERING
Coin Machine RACRETEERING { EoTORvoCHNa RAGKEEER NGurders
7 COUNTERFEITING
8 RECEIVING STOLEN GOodS
9 BOOTLEGGING
(o BRIbERY Ti BURGLARY , RQ08ERY AND LARCENY
12 TAX EVASION
Ij AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
14 Vice ( PROSTTUTION i5 ILLEGAL RossESSioN OF WEAPONS
16 XIJACKING
17 CONTEMPT
i8 OBSTRUCTION OF JustIcE
00 CHART REFERENCE NUMBER
SAH CACCIATORE TRAFFICANTE
ToTO
Fbi #4924718
D 413,21
20,10
nick SCAGLIONE HeNRv Trafficante CENTRAL EASI
Fbi '25868++ FB / 625515 8
COSTAL AR
@ 2,12 D
201
STEFANO SCAGLONE: ALFonso SCACLONE_ SALVATORE JOe lorewzo JaMes GUIDA BRUNO SAMUEL CACCIATORE
0 STEVE AL SYNGInG SAM= "JiMMY" 'SAM
Fbi - 5136867 FBI #2924250
FBI #285845 C Fe #4031276 8 5,13 E
10 12 @ 12 078,9 8
Dm Bi1x @ 2,17,",12,18
AND
EMPLO YEES Ass OCIATES
HARLAN BLACKBURN
Rudy Mach Clyd
Don Mach Jesse
Vosc Dan Fussel Mo# Buddy Parron
Clen Brechen Julic Tommy Berny
Cliftord Bell Rat
Ceci
wneeter Clay
Max Reid mS0
Mary Cardan Geo
Phil Rife
Ral;
~Bew
Wmi
Etvi
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Hoy
Joe
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LEGEND
INTER - FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
CRIMINAL Activity RELATiONSHiPS
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
CRimiNAL Activities
IA CurRently VN JAIL For NARCOnCS IRATFICKING
18 AwAITING TRIAL ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
IC PREvIOUS CONViCTiON FOR MARCOTKS TRAFFICKING
1d SUSPECTed Of TRAFFICNING IN MARCOTICS
3 SAMBcnGG
LAbor RACNETEERING
6 COim MACHINE RACMETEERING 6 EXTORMON; MAYHEM AND MURdERs
COUNTERFEITING
8 Receiving STOLEN GOODS
9 BOOTLEGGING
10 BRIBERY 11 BURGIARY, Robbery And LARCENY
12 TAX EVASION
i AGGRAVATED ASSAULT
04 Vice Prostitumion_
15 ILLEGAL FOSCESSION 0F WEAPONS
16 HIJACKING
17 CONTEMPT
i8 OESTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
oo CHART REFERENCE NUMBER
SAM CACCIATORE TRAFFICANTE
ToTO
fbi #4024718
D 113,21
Mzo 19
nick SCAGLIONE _ HENRY TRAFFiCANTE CENTRAL EAST FLORIDA
Fbi 258684+ FBI 625515
COSTAL AREA
21
(@ 2,10
[2o
Alfowso SCAGUIONE SALVATORE JOE Lorehzo JAMes CUIda BRUNO SAMUEL CACCIATORE
I1 AL 'SINCING SAM @ JiMMY= 'SAM-
Fm*4091276 Fbi #5136882 FBi #2924250
12 0v8,9 8 5,13 0
12 d 12 Et 21,0,01,18 6 @d 2
EMPLOYEES As S OCIATES
HARLAN BLACKBURN
Rudy Mach Clyde P Lee
Don Mach Jesse Joyner
Dan Fussel Vasco Joyner
Buddy Parron Mathew Smith
Clen Brechen Macon Tribue
Julio Cipton Tommy
Cliftford Bell Anderscn
Kat Bradshow
Cecil Mexrm
Wheeler Cloyton Thowos
Max Reid 'Sonny 'Brown
Mary Cardan George Solomon
Phil Rife
Ralph Strawder
Benny White
Wm Harell
Elvic Cacroli
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Hoy
Joe
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IN NARCOTICS
HBARINGS
Dmtod
PERMANEM
SUUBCOMMiHHE1; ON IENNESG AzON
0
COiOEie: ON
GO VERNNMENT OPTRA HT0NS
JONTNEDSTATES SENATD
GETYEEIGEME CONGEESS
TTESNTEESIO
SBOREQANNTO SENMTP REsoLUTOR RtngO G2rS
BAR72
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Mr. BRowN. sir_ ORGA
Tho CAIRMIAN , Very well. And then Sergeant de la Llang, Iill
2 notoriety
you idlentify Eousseli5Rce se TE
continuous
Mr_ DE LA ick dle Ia Llana, Tampa Police Department.
I have been with the ice department for,9 years; and attached to the
ReoIc of OU
homicide division for 4 years before starting the criminal Ouficfoi
unit of the Polz Department: 1956
TEeov;
The CIIAIRMAN. Have you had previous police service ?
Mr. DE LA LLANA. first experience WJS 9 years ag0, when I
the }lafto_ I]
started first with the force_ TFa
The CHAIRMAN Chief Brown; do have & statement, a prepared
grand jury's 1
statement ? there
Mr. BROWN Ido, Senator_ and opet
The CHAIIMAN_ Ihave & copy of it before me, and I see it has several nesses interview
pages: Do you wish to read ali of it? element #bose
Mr. BROwWN . Y sir; I would like to read it to the committee Mafa a8 we unde
The CrAIRMAN well, you may proceed: Tho
MecBROwN: Mr: Chiirman and members of the subcommittee, I amn the gra]
Neil G. Brown, chief of the Police Departinent of the of you the law en
Fla- Mr:
I have been # mcmber of the Tampa Police Department for the past The `CHATRM
16 years, and I hare been chief of the department for the past 4 years existed in your €
Prior to my appointment a5 chief; I served #8 inspector of detectives Mr;
I am 4 uate of the National Police Academy_of the Federal been
Bureau Investigation, and a member of Tampa Area Chiefs CITAIRMIA
of Police Association and of the International Association of Chiefs were unable to 6
of Police: Mr BROwN T
With me hero is Sgt Jack de la Llana who; at my direction; The CHAIRMA;
formed our department s ZEst criminal intelligence unit in February sble to get it out
of 1962, and has heen its director since that time: Sergeant de ks Mr T; Llana also_holds the important of chairman of the Florida In- The CEAIRMAN;
telligence Unit,
2 statewide agency which coordinates information
re: amongst intelligence units in cities throughout the State of Florida
our In addition to Sergeant de la whose diligent work and know]: froi under ocBadsc?
edge of criminal operations has providcd much Sf the foundation for The act
my statement to you, I feel fortunato in accompanied also by
daTheromAEhaACi
Sgt. William Branch of the intelligence divisior of the Orlando Polico the C}
Department; Sergeant Branch is presently attending_the National xndonglanc
Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation:_ He has been court
only 2 0
member of the Orlando Police Department since 1951, and
1 detectire Mr_
determinatio1
sergeant since 1956 He is particularly familiag_with organized gam: Tha
operations in the central Florica and I believe his presenta give uS
CHAIGJIAN,
tion of that situation will be of material Va to this inquiry_ Mr:
some ab
I feel Bctilegea to be able to testify before today I beliere like
BROWN.
I
that the I can present here about
'obeforeed?
crime operations in The
Tampa will help you and the American public realize the seriousnes
IeSsows Ye
of this problem, and our Nation s emergent need for further Federai The
Yes;_
legislation to combat_ an evil that has clearly expanded beyond the
CIAIRIIAN .
Powers Of municipal lm enforcement to contain; suppress and elimi; just coildn of inf
nate it. in thie t
Tunpa has a Jerce_ud respected_Itelian_popilation; who are con Frolitan Chicago f
sidered In a1 respects to be an asset to our community. Unfon b solved_ It 01
tunately, & small percentage of this group of citizens have achiere " Uko
It thoroii
Yon OrEaLni:
Say
be
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Yes;_
polf
intelligence
Tampa ice
Tampa
My
you
erists Yes; The evidence
e985
therl, CHATRI
before
city Tampa;
BROWN.
BRowN_
ofEn there:
The the Bay
today
BROwN.
post
Mr: BROwN
Llana;`
being
murders,
ycrs;
BROwN.
The
bling Jacetlue idea
Chicago:
dovelopments
beliere
first-degree
alanger
SWell_ That
may true, but
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ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS 521
la Llana, will 1
notoriety greatly disproportionate to their numbers, because of their
de continuous activity in Criminal and The
I
Peoele of our city refer to this group aS
15 ckas Sicifas"
sthe Sicil
@ntederisor
world" or Police Department:
Mafia_
'
18, and attached to the
Qur growing concern with this criminal group WaS crystallized in
hhe criminal intelligence
1956 when 2 Tillshorough County jury was empaneled in
Tampa to investigate and determine the truth of allegations that
{ice service ?
I
the Nlnfia was theii operating in Tampa. The pertinent part of that
AS 9 years ag0, when
grand jury's report stated
statement; & prepared there are sdme individuals who believe that 9 Mafia or Black Haud
erists andl operates in this community but they are in the minority_
The evidence presenled, the Folume of written material exnmined, and wit-
nesses interviews Dint to the existence in this community Of an organized crime
and Isee it has several clcmnent IT' hose mnethods of operation are similar to tbe pattern of the Sicilian
Mafia aS we understand it:
it to the committee: Tho CIIATMAN_ Chief,lct me ask you prior to this development
rocced: before the jury, before the jury made this finding, were
the subcommittee, I am Jou the Iaw enforcement ofiicials o in the police department?
at of the of Tampal, Mr. BROwN. sir
The CHAIRMAN Were you suspicious that such an
organization
Department for the existed in your city ?
nent for the 4 years: Mr; ISROwN. Ol1, yes; law enforcement has been aware that this has
inspector of detectives; been there.
cadeiny_of the Federal 'The CIAIRHIA N There waS something; you felt confident; but you
Tampa Area Chiefs were unable to it out in concrete proof ; is that correct ?
al Association of Chiefs Mr. BROWN. That is correct_
The CAIRHAN So you had been trying to combat it without
"a who, at my direction, able to it out in the open ?
ligence unit in February Mr. BROWN: That is exactly right.
time: Sergeant_de_ la The CHAIRAAN, All right. Proceed_
rman of the Florida In- Mr. BrOwN reading)
coordinates information
our records indicate that the vast majority of our unsolved crimes stem #t the State of Florida. from uuderworld activity involving persons Of Sicilian or Italian ancestry
(liligent work tiontor
The CHATRMAN_ We had some startling information here the other
'ch of the fouudation
from the Chicngo chief of police tith respect to some 976
ing
38cb"8rhieda lsolicv
murders, gangland style, that had been committed over ? period of
'ion of the Orlando years; and only 2 of them had been solvedl_ That officially solved by
attending the National
court determination or court action: igntion: _ Ho has been 9 Mr. BRowN. That is typical {nce 1951, and a detective
The CIAIRMIAN What is the ratio in your community, if you can
iliar with organizcd gam-
give US some idea about it? "nd I believe his presenta
Mr_ BRoWN. I will that out in my statement, but it is just
J(;
to this inquiry like Chicago
"re you today: I believe
The CAIRMAN. Something along that line ?
nized crime operations in
Mr: BROwN_ Y sir
'lic realize the seriousness The CIAIRHIAN That struck me a8 one f the most need for further Federal developments of.information that I have heard regarding crime.
rly ex= panded beyond the just; couldn t believe that 976 murders, and apparently just_murder
atain; suppress and elimi-
in the first-dlegree fashion; conldl be coiinitted in an area like Met-
ropolitan Chicago over 7 periodl of years; and only 2 of them conld population Tho are con-
be solved It thoroughly demonstrates to me the great menace and
our community. Unfor- the_danger of organizecl mohs committing crime
of citizens have achieved
You Say SWell_ prolyably, killed' ench otherpretty much: "
That may be true, but tcy kill each other because of the extortionato
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grand
grand grand
city No,
past
past
Bay bing_
being
ret
and
day
i8,
bring
es;
frightening
they
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operations that are
engaged in to the detriment of thc Public
at large, and to the detriment of innoccnt people who cant help
themselres:
It focuscs and emplasizes how serious this menace is
Very_well,you may proceed;
Mr: IROWN Notwitiistanding these findings the jury con;
clided that there Was no national o local Mafia in Tampa would
like to submit aS exhibit 1 2
certified copy of the report of the
jury dated Mareh 30..1956_
The CHAIRHAV_ Vcry Iell, this_report of the jury will be
reccived and it may bc made exhibit No. 44, and exhibit 1 to this
witness' testimony may Iater" direct it be printed, but as of now we will just let it be
filed as an1 exhibit for reference.
(The dlocument referred t? WAS marked "Exhibit No: 44" for refer-
ence; and may b found in the files of the subcommittee_
Mr Brown_ It seems likely to me that the grand jury. failed to
acknow
Tithout qualifieation the presence of the Malizt in Tampa
becauise it sought & pattern of Mafia operations similar to the historical
Sicilian trdlition of primitire and direct extortion, rather than tho
sophisticated polished control of rackets that n0w characterize
that organization:
The CAIRHAN. I take it from that last statement that you feel
that they Ive considerably improved their techuique
Mr. IROWN. Very mueh so.
The CHAIRHAN. Of crime operations
Mr. BROwN much:
Senator MtSKIE May I ask a
question,, Chicf,,there?
As I understand what you have just testified relative to the
jury s report,they acknowled that there was some evidence Of the
existence of 'Sicilian Mafia in` the community; but apparently felt
that evidence was not conclusive; is that 2 correct suminary
Mr. Brown_ That is correct yes, Senator The Tampa Police De-
ment; however, hnas long been aware that many crimninals in our
area ha ve local reputations as Maliosi_ My stafF and I have made &
carefu] evaluation of those reputations; based "pO# personal knowl
edge, criminal records, surveillance reports, personal histories; familial
relationships, statistical analyses; reports from confidential inform-
ants, tion from Fecernl and 'Jocal Jw-en forcement agencies,
and other" customary policc intelligence sources;
It is Our considered conclsion that the Mafin exists in Tampa, that
it controls most
gambling in Tampa and central Florida, and
that its meinbers have iiiterstate and international ties to other Mafia
grfisorganization of the Mnfa in the Tamp Aea is best understood
from a chart we have formulated which I submit to this subcommittee
aS OuI: exhibit No. 2.
Senator MtSEIE Before we to that, Chief,_may I ask another
question? The jury to which you referred sat in 1956,,41n I
correct ?
Mr. BROWN That is correct, sir_
Senator MosKIE That 1s 7 years ago. Do you think you have
accumulated additional evidence as to the existence of the' Mafia in
Tampa #hich would justify a new reference to the jury?
Hr . BROWN_ Ibelieve SO.
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grand
grand
grand
ledlgc
and
Very
grand
ged
part
inforia
illegal
Ket
grand
grand
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Senator NOSKIE; Areyou planningthat?
Mr: BROWN . sir_
'The CIAIDMAN_ well TThis chart may be received as exhibit
No: 45 andl "e will direct it be printed in (he recordef it 48
far a8 it can be: The title of it is 'The Mafia be; as
Tampa, Fla,, 9
Organization in 'tho
(Thc documeut referredl to Was marked "Exlibit No 45" for refer-
e"ce and faces this page -
The CIAIIHAN_ Jrlild Jo" sythe operations of this organized
group are not confined just to the city limits of
but in the area ? are
Mr: IROwN By allmeans; the entire area
The CIAIRJHAN: Ail right This chart is now
1L part of the record Ielif you wish to coment about it, we will proceed Witl yoerecatet
ment.
dlfaBi8iniy The cht is keyed to show only the criminal, business,
anc familial interrelationships and activities of
the persons named, Othough othct criteria ligured in our CatcgorizationeoPeneses persons
Of coursc, this chart cuot he considered
aS 1 definitive stable of
organization" of the Tampa Ma because it is but a simplilied repre-
sentation ofan organization tlat is ina constant state of
andabout which re knew We still have many_ to learn_ Iowever I believe it is completely accurate in showing that Santo
Tglicante is the boss of this criminal grou
Indeed, it is to Santo
Trallicante that o"es the dubious
Ulstinctrdeec
of having beeu
representecl at the notorious crimne convention at Apalaclin; N.Y,
in November 1957
The CIAIRMAN. Inotice you desigmate o refer to this group as the
HIafia. Would you say that it is the siue group that has bzeo refegree
toby the famnous witness, Joe Valaeli?
Mr. BRowN Yes, sir; it is.
The CIAIRJIAN_ Whether he calls it Cosa Nostra or the Mnfia makes
m0 dliflerence: This is thc organized crime group to Whicli
ferred ? you re-
NIc: BRowx Thntis correct, Senator; this is the group:
Scnator MUSIIE Iask a question there ?
Undler; this group, thcre is another group which you describe as
nonmember associates and emnployecs: Is that intencled to that people who are S0 described kcnow F@olt tlte icleggest
of theiz employcrs and the organization of which iclerttity
Mr;, BROWN: ` Senator; that is
7
part Of 8hc insulatioy OF8 a part
hare
Sployees 43d %re98 1nt9nSn8 siotemenheg soo1;
how in this gainbling operation the sellcr is non-Sicilian in
Tas SAscs, and he reports to another membser "p the
and
most
Jwn Jlany of thcse pcople are nonmen
ofthe Mafia
s0 on up_
Imon Senator MUSKIE: Do aS it is_
tivities are engaged in criminal ac-
Jer
r: Browv. sir_
Senator MUsKIE know are 2 part of & criminal orga-
nization ?
AIc: BrOWA. sil
Senator MSKIE: But are nlot members ?
Mr. BROWN That is correct:
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1es,
Very
Area.
Tampa, they
fial,_
flux,
things
Tam:pa
May
the nothing
they
Thcy many
ladder,
bers
they know they
Yes;
They they
Yes,
they
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ORGA?
Senator MuSKIE What do need to do to beconie members in
he Tampa area im on Tralli
Hr: BROwN_ Well, [ (hink I can clarify tlat later 0n in the state- tho alias '13
ment; Senator: 0n night
The CAIRMAN . All right; you may procced, after Anast;
Mr. BROWN . Santo Trallicante; Was horn in Tampa on November
141914 He WaS one of five brothers: He maintains residence today organization
and jn Minmi. T[e previously lived in Havana, Cuba, fieation of th
where ho_o"nea_"nd Qrwegublig Xsiuos_udler_the_Battista lpalachin
regime When Ficlel asho took over_ Trallicante s gamblig opera- of F
Tions_Were stopped. He WaS from Cuba andreturned to Furthermo
the United States_ Ile inheritecl the control of the qumbers Tacher out-of-town I
in central Florida which his father_ Santo Traflicante, ~nle died of the
in 1954,and he innes to head this operation. ficante is aSSO
Testimony jml the 1 '48_hentings of the Senate Select Committee Louis Coticel:
on Improper Activities mTIc Labor or Managenent Fieldl idlent: 1 fied quently seen
Santo Traficante, Jr in thooperation Af the Suni Souci_cimbling boaral a pl:
casino in Havana 'That testimony stated that Traflieante took oFcr Other kno"
the Sans Soucl from the Mannarino brothers in Pittsburgh, Pa. Traflicante g:l
Gabriel Mannarino was 1
fellow delegate with Santo Traliicante, colo: and_inth
to the palachin Cr convention in 1957 . Mr: O'Dox:
Adalitional testimony named Trafficante; as the figure in nuity; so that
tho Mafia in Tampa: stating; as the Tampa police had long known 2 statement
TF"
that he succeeded his fathcr as the major racketeer in the the interest of
Other information substantiated by our' files reveals that Traflicante like to have it i
is an associate of Such notorious criininals as Mcyer Lusly, Joseph Do you have
Tlonanno; Sim Ginucala, Aniello Dellacroce; Josepn Stass5 SamMIan- Mr: DE LA Il,
narino, Joseph Arcur 1
and of Joseph Riecolono, &lso known as Staten Mr, O Doxw
Island Joe,`who had been closel a lliecl with thc elder Traficante; r. DE LA LL_
anl was also dliscoreredat the
loselYaciliiechceithg: The CIIAIRJ
When Joseph Protaei : daughter Carmell:mgrried Anthony Tocco, Mr_ DE LA Tl
FOIL of Detroit mobster TV {6 Black Bill" Tocco, in Irooklyn on
Brady, and
June 4, 1955, one of the guests at the reccption in the Iotel Com- to Our attentior
moclore in New York "aS Santo Trallicante; Jr_ Among those who record_ Ihare
als attended were 1% other persons who later attended the A -palachin The CIIAIRA
('0H1 fcrence, aS well "s other_uotorious )afia figures: Steh #s Frank No: 46 for refere
ivorsi Thomas and JJohn_Dioguardi, and Allert ` Anastasia; Doculment re
and Thomas ' Three Finger Brown" [ucchese. Inay be found in
There have been at least two known attempts 0n t he life of Santo TThe CIIAIRMIA
Trallicante On Janmary 2, 1953, he Was shotgunned in a car on the that you have m:
streets of Tapa, receivilig wounds in the arm. Later; in Cuba four Mr. DE LA LLA`
American mobsters who intended to kill Trafticante were
told by The CHAIRMI:
Cuban_police that wou ll have to do it on American soil. record, either at
Traflicante has been arrested in Tampa several times for investign- statement of the
tion; because of ou1' knowledge that he WaS deeply involved in gam; The statemeni
eren though we have not yet been able to obtain the quantum % bliogz
necessary to a suecessful prosecution: He has also beeu pickcd
"p by the police for 'juestioning abont the gangland slayings of Reue {g Tefectedhe cleaz
unez_ Angelo Giglio, and Joe Antinori As refocteerbi the
C
Tra
"ficante
was a suspect in the Alhert Anastasia murdler 0n (c Arst Comeeto the
tbe at
toher 25, 1957 in New York because he hadl in New York served hini, In
just before the murder: He was consiclered 2
"Rlceisred"
suspect becaus Diecidue; two of thc
there had been reports that Anastasia was then attempting to mnove totsabodehbz Cotic
about: bim whie
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the
Thc Dejpal] Jr ,
ampa
Tampa,
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Tampa
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{Hle members in in 0n Trallicante s_gambling operations in (ula_ Traflicante_
the alias B. IIill; stayed ith Anastasia in the latters
hotel suite;
AI in the state- on the night of October 1957, and mneredl ont approximately 1 hour
after Anastasia's murdler in & nearby barber
The Departicnt s evaluation of Traflicante as the lhoss of the Mafia
' On November erganization in Tanpa was confirmed, of couise;hy the tire iclenti-
residence today fication of the "Louis Santos of Havana, Cuba; apprehended at the
Havana, Cuba, Apalachin confcrence in Norember' of 1957, as Santo Traflicante, Jr-
'rthe Battista of Tapa, Fla. unbling opera- Furthermore; "e have witnessed anddocnmentecl many risits of
nd returned to out-of-town racketeers with Santo Traficante and his fellom hoodllums
numbers racket of the 'Tampa area; These visitors give further indications that Traf-
Sr;;, who died
ficante is associatedl with Mafia members in other cities Tor example,
Louis Coticchia of Chicago, also known as Lou Brady_ has been fre-
lect Committee
quently seen visiting Trallicante and on_ one occasion were . seen
Field identified
bon 7
planc togethcr, heading for Miami_
~ouci gambling Other known outside racketeers who have visited in Tampa with
wrante took over Trflieante gang members are Toln Joseph Vitale, Salvatore Eopic-
Vittsburgh; Pa
colo, acl Ant Giardano; all known racketeers from St. Ionis; Mo:
Trafficante, Mr_ ODoNNELL: I think at the present time, in interest_of conti-
nuity, so that the record will read properly, Sergeant de la Llana has
'0
kcy figure in
a statement with regard to a courier operation Within the Mafia: In
"d long known, the interest of time; I am not going to ask him to read it, bnt I rould
city_ like to have it introduced in the record.
that Trafficante Do you-have that?
{ssslzanoseph Mr: DL LA ILANA: Ido
sassi; Man- Mr. O DoNNELL_ How many pages does it consist of ?
hown as Staten Mr. DE L: LLANA: It is five pages:
Icler Traflicante, The CTAIRHAN. Give 2 better description of it and tell us what it is_
Mr. Dr I ILANA_ It iS with reference to Iouis Coticchia, alias
Anthony Tocco; Brady, his visits to Tampa 0 various Occasions; Thich first came
in Brooklyn on to our attention on April 13,1962 This suhject has & long criminal
he Hotel `Com -
record_ I haVe #1 FII recorcl which I will also suhmit into evidence
mong those who The CIAIIIAN. Let the FBI record be received and made exhibit
t]the Apalachin No, 46 for reference.
such as Frank (Document referred to marked Exhibit No 46" for reference and
Ilert Anastasia, may be found in the fi of the subcommittee:
'he CAIRMAN_ Now your statement, is that & summary statement
he life of Santo that you have made and prepared for the record?
in a car on the Mr. DE LA LLANA sir. 1, in Cuba: four The CIAIRAIAN it may be receivedl and printed in the
{e Trere told by record; cither at this point 01" jumediately following the prepared
'ican soil_ statement of the witness now testi
~3 for investiga- (The statement referred to follows
nvolved in gami-
the quantuin of STATEMENT' OF SGT: JACK DE LA LLAVA
:1 Iso been One Of the clear ties Of tbe Trafficante Organization with other criminal groups slayings Rene Is reflected by the contacts with Trafficante made by a man who appears to act
88 & courier for the Mafia. Louig Coticchia, alias Lou Brady, FBI No. 1427493_
murder 0 (c- Urst came to the attention Of our Department On April 13,1962, when We oh-
elin New York served him; in TTamnpa, in the company 0f Augustine ['rimo Izzara and Frank
Diecidue; tio of the men on our Mafia chart Berause of this and other con- suspect becausc tacts made by Coticchia, our intelligent unit 'developed the following inforna-
mpting to mnove tion about him which I think ig of interest to this committee in giving 2 profle
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24,
shop.
Dosi
they
ling
hony
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Yes;
Iu
and
iles
Yes;
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526 ORGANIZED CRIVE AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS
using the san]
of a hoodllum who ds entrusted by the Mafla to act as 0 courier for them betreen tbere; he #as
tra reled to T tbecticicluis grOu Sorn on Fehruary 25, 1920: iu Cincinnnti, Ohio: When he "s Mo,,to the [)ie'
arrested
i comple Of years {g0, he gare as his occujation 'iudlustria/ lina ncier_ To me it (
He is presently reported to be interested in the Operation %f 0 (pOny ofering trouble ot Alyi
rired Ilusic in the Chicago area known {8 Symphonaire Suund Systews Inc between tuo
Iis criminal record shows that he $as first arrested in 1436 [u Ohiofor significantly _
robbery_ Il 1937 hle Was arrested In Miami; Fla; for iurestigation 08 1 "shake- doubts that I}
own He "as held for 4 dajs and released #ithout charges: He was arrested These two
again in Hot Springs Ark_, i1 1938 for iuvestigatiou aud released with the uuder- connections of
stauding that he would leare the city_
the Matia grou;
In 1938, in Clereland, Coticchia #as arrested and charged rith assault with Mr. O'Dox
intent to conit rapC. He was conrieted and received 1 to 15 sears, of #hich Mr. BrOw
he serredl + years, heing released in 19+1. Ile ITa8 arrested in 1942 in Is Angeles,
Calif:, on 0 Warrant issued in Baltimore for grand theft; He was tried iu Balti- gaFe Sworn
more for receiFing Stolen goods and rereired 0jears in prison. 1953 concert
Coticchia was #gain arrested in Dallas_ Tex,, in 1961, by the U.S_ marshals been en
for Fiolation Of and for conspiring to riolate the @ederal Securities and Exchauge to testify or'
Act of 1933, which case is still pending iu the Suuthern District Court ot New
Tork: His last arrest knon to uS #as on January 4, 1463_ B} hen he as ar-
been grantec
rested in Tamy for iurestigation of grand larceny. He ws released due to those who te
insaflicient evidence. and
Nick Scaglio
Coticehia wrorked as & "pit boss in gambling Gasinos in Las Vegas, Nev; Mr. O'Dox
Ia vana_ Cula. He "s iuvolred in 0 scandlal ^ in 19C0 iu whieh wobsters at
tempted to take over a nationwide hail boud business: you hare intr
'Coticchia has Deew in and Qut OE Tamja since QUF first obserration of him and Mr. InowA
0n erery ocrasion he is in direct contaet with Traficante Diecidue On Mr. ODox
Deceiher 31, 1982, he purehased 7
nen" automobile in Tazpa, [aying the dealer Mc: Brown
83,027,.9);, i# cash He theu registered the car under the name Of Jane_Camphell cal Mafia
He rewained in Tampa several days aud ias in coustant contaet with Traficaute tech
and Diecitlue_
1963 Coticchia was arrested in Tampa on suspicion of grand
Brises hcidea;
Ou January 4
larceny and at the tile Of hig arrest he had 81,773 in cash o his Derson_ He deeply,involv
hd [apers O1 hinl that showed he had resided previously at the Aloha Motel in major interesl
Miami Under the Jlil Mc Iuiz Iaulino Iailey from Rio de Janeiro_ Brazil: He
also had 1 paper with a list of Gaubling eqquipent aud the name Emnpresg The case
W
Lines Ltd,, Nassau via WVappcn Von Iamburg__German boat loading pier olicer; Detect;
No. 3_ airfreight from
the , operation
An" inrestigation rerealed this equipment had been shipped racket of consi Ias Vegns to Aassalz ad placed in % Gert:n Fessel,thc WapDew Ton Tanburg
Thich sailg between Nassau a4d Miami, This equipment included 50 one-arm based upon inf
bandits O1 slot machines, and wras valued in excess of $65,000. The information lottery_
receivecl was that this ressel was to travel betwecn Miami and Nassau a8 0 An attempt
floating gambling casino.
the tclephone calls wcre checked at the operation of t]
After Coticchia 's arrest in Tanpa, suits ' of clothi
mnotel. It showed that he had madle sereral calls to Trafficante, Diecidue_ and
other associates of Trafficante: Ile had also made a long-distaue call to Sonny'9 with the full
Restaurant in Miai Ieach; Whieh is owed by Thomas Altamura, FBI No. had immecliato
511763. 1 Hafia mnember and another associate o€ Santo Traflicante; Jr: As a result
1 would like to suluit for thc record Coticchia's FBI record amd 0 photograph
were
of him taken by my department when he was arrested in Tampa Vnl January arrestedl
4,1463_
The CAIRML
Another example of the 'Traficante groups connections with Mlafia figures In Mr. BROWN
other parts 0f the Nation is John Joseph Vitale, FBI No_ 7932;19, of St Lonis_ The CIAIRM
Mo_ Titale is Well known to the St: Louis Metropolitan FOlice Dejartment, and he is the boss ?
is icputed to be the Malia leadler in that area He has 2 record of 13 arrests
and & conviction for Fiolating the Ilarrison Narcotics Act for which he received Mr; BROWN,
sentence of vears' imprisonment. He hag been arrestedl a$ 41 fence and i8 Each receired
belicved to deal i1l authing in Which there is a large percentage % proft viction was late Folice authorities considcr him among the most dangerous O Mafia principals and
in the St, Louis area, and he is known to have underworld counections through- indicted
bas
out the country_ He appeared twice before the Senate Rackets Committee by the
(Ansust 19, 1958, and February 11, 1930) and each tine refused to answer any We know of
questions; invoking the fifth amendment: by Santo Traflic
On Aprii 17, 1063, Vitale {lew froi St Louls to Tamna, uslng the name " Jack
Howard: Ie visited the Diecidues tor 4 bourg and tben few back to St, Loule
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V NARCOTICS
using the Sn me alias. We alerted the St. Ionis Dolice aud upon Fitale's arriral
for them betreen there; he "as interviewed by dctectires (f that eity Ile dleelared that he had "rier tra veled to Taxpa to settle 1 debt of the Loubardo Produce of St: Louis,
he "s
Mo.= to the Diceiclue Bros: of 'Tain:
Olio. WVhen
ncier:" To me it does not seem probable that Fitale would g0 to the expense and industrima{5 Reiing trouhle o€ Ilying to 'amja and relurniug the Saiue day in1 order to settle a dlebe
(f a (OWpQulS
Inc
between two prodluce COupalies with #hich he has no KnoWI connections_ More Svund S8 steuiia
for signifcantly his use Of a alias to ru this errand, tuo, points out his 0mn A1in 1436 in doubts that he was engased in 0 legitimale errand, restigation o 0 atreatea
These two examples, Cuticehia '$ mI Vitale's_ indicate to uS the interstatc
'ses_ He ws
uuder- counections of the 'iraflieinte Org#nizatiou, aud point Up the ueed for attackiug
"eleused with the the Mafia group OU & uutieual-basis:
with assault with Mr. O'DoNNELL. All right, we will continue
to 15 years, of #hich Mr. BROWN. Some of Traflicante s mcn shown herc on our chart
4
i00v2S Eried KnEoles:
gave sworn testimony before the Ilillsborough Couuty solicitor 11 He was tried i053 concerning gunl in Tampal aclinitted that they had
'risona by the U.S: marshals long been engaged in illegal gambling activities were forced
Scurities and Exchauge to testify Or face jail tcris for' cOntexpt of becatuse hadl Dotichecoket %s ewv been granted immunity frO1n prosecution for"
cosci
erimcs: Among ileras heleasea "Gue "
those who testifiecl were lrnk Diecidue, Augustiue P'rimo Lazzari;
Nick Seaglionc; Henry Trflicantc and James C. Iongo:
in Las Vegas; Nev, and Mr_ 0 IJONNKLI: Arc any of these individuals 04 the chart that
2) in Whieh mobsters at you have introduced as ehibit 2 2
observation of him and Mr. IBOWN_ are all 0 the chart.
:t "nte and Dieeidue_ On Mr. ODONNELI: ' 'Thank JOI
Tampa, [aying the dcaler Mr. BrowN_ Santo 'Tralicante has himself been caught Wp ina typi-
uawe of Itilicbete cal Malia technique of scekcing to preserve and protect its illega] enter-
: contact with Fises beidee cosuuptioriotca 0 forceilieeucud otor_Pubtcc oflicinls;
on suspicion of incident subetantiatedl Our' Jufcl Iligence Uhat Frllicante WaS
xash on his person: He deeply .involved in gumbling operations;.and it showed that he had
{xly at the Aloha Motel in majoi intcrests in gunbling outsicle tle city Of Tampa;
%9 deeianer" inprete The case was initiated in 95- by aFeteran St. police FUE hboaa Moadizg
pier ollicer, Detective Sgt: Ilarry Dietrich, "ho Id obt:
(#iteasevideucli
ined of
1I the operation of 1 Tc 'vallicante Isolta ring Ikolita 1S 71 mmbers
shipped airEreight from Facket of cousiderable importance in Florida, Tuvolving weekI payofls Iic WVappen Von Ilumburg: based upon information takten from radio reports of tle
reekxy Cxoaks
ment included 50 one-arm
Su,OOO. The information lottery_
Miawi and Nassau a9 4 An attempt Tas made to bribe Sergeant Dietrich to ignore the
operation of + ring: He waS_gircn a nleW CT a television set; some
lls were checked et #hd siits %f clothing, and cash_ Sergeant Dictrich accepted the bribes Edcle Gictidueuaye
with the full knowledlge aucl orders of_his superiors, to whom lic "Tgstxtce
Altamura, FBI No had immediately reported the-itritiF Friben "t ttenpt:
'Trafficante Jr As a result of his work, Sto Trallicante and his brothcr
' record; 1 photosraph were arrestecl: Both were charzcc T7tn bribery and were con
Iccz
Jed in Tampa on January The CIIRMIAN . When tid th2s occur?
tions with Mafia figures in Mr. BROwN. This WaS 6I ] 0n4
:[No 793259, 0 St, Lonis; The CIAIRHAN. s 1S tre Same man that is now opcrating; and
I
Police Department, and he is the boss ?
Jmas 0
record of 13 arrests Mr. BRowV_ Yes; sir:
4
Act for wbich he received
arrcsted as a fence and ig Each_eccived & pison seutence of JVears. Santo Traflicante s COTL - ae
Dercentage Qf viction WaS Tatez_Terersed iLL ligher court: Iis brother scrved his
mGerous 0f Mafia principals term and waS recently releasecl Both brothers were 'subsequently "EGlc coucectoncohoittle indicted by the Fedlera] Gorernment for tax law violations
{izetrefusekeo ,Gowerittc; We knoW o€ n0 legitimate businesses that are owned Or controlleal
iwe by Santo Trafiicante Ilo OwnS 10 real cstate, nor any other property
AmpA, uging the name " Jack
{beD few back to St, Louls
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they
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ane
grand
Na
hc
kzwJq
andl
Centha
profit.
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ORGANIZEC
real o" persoual [is house a QuobileudalLhis gtho_possessious
are hell in the uames of oher Toncrer; #e do not believe him to be Blaekburn was
destitute; Tor ns controtor gninbling in thc central I lorida arca #lone ho was convicted
must net him huge amounts of mvey: Ilis operations there show, served "ecloriaz years
also, 9
characteristic; alia mcthod of uti non-Sicilian associates the State
where it serves its eriminalohjectives
March 1056 for 0
Sergeant Branel; who has, for the years been inresti igating D 5-Jear prison sel
fing and other orgauized crimina activities in the Orlandlo area, Senator MOsKII
will describe the Ala fia S control, through the Ialan [Slaekhurn Mr: BRANCH, 1
orgranization; of lot operations i# entral Florida WVe know of Senator MOsKIE
n0 legitimate hsinesses /hat #re OW
Mr. BRANCI. N
The CAIRHAN Seygeant Brnch is here withyou ? Senator MusKI}
Mr. BRomN_ Yes; sir
Mr: BRANCH, H
O11 the lower right-hand sicle of our chart To have depicted that yes, sir
group of Trllicante #s-ociates:
The CIIAIRMAN
Sergeant Isranch ,"ill here testify alout the Blackburn group: Mr. BRANCH. N
Tho CIRAN_ Do "u golemnly swear that the testimony you are He was then inc
ahont to gire hefore tiis sulcommittce will he the truth, the whole conviction of cons
cruth; and not but the truth, so help you God ? "as most recently
Mr_ IRA VCI. [ do.
Federal wagering
trial.
TESTIMONY 0F WILLIAM BRANCH Blackburn supel
Tlorida gambling:
Tho CIAIRJAN. WVill you ideutify yourself for the record ? D Cecil Merri
Mr_ IR ANCH . I Mi2 IL SCr: gcant witl the Orlando Police Department Don Mach, Dan Ft
attached to thc intelligence division; andl I have been with them since and Clitord Bell _
1951. I havc been voiking in this type of work since 1956, with the Rifle; Clyde F. Ix
cooperation of tho Federal and State agencies in OUr {rea Macon Tribue, Jul
The (HAIHAN_ Do yon have & preparecl statement? sha W; Cecil Merrit
Mr. BRANCH . Yes, sir; Idlo.
Solombn
and] Ral
Tho CIAIRMAN: It appears to be four or five pages Do you wish and Elvin Carroll_
to read it?
With the excepti
Mr. BRANCI Yes; sir. allof these persons
In the central Florida area the main gamhling activity, is known as other crimes
bolita o Cuba_ Bolitlis : uunbcrs lottery #here the T Finning num- Ihave here copies
ber is dra wn daily. Cuba IS 2 mmbers lottery where the winning committee s record
numher is drawn weckly_ Iettors can bets on any number from The C1LAIRIAN_
1 to 100 and receive a 6)-to-1 return 1 f win. The Cuba winning reference only
numbcr' is the Iast two digits from the Cuban national lottery number (The documents
Whicl is live digits and is hroadcast over & Havana radio station each erence and may he fe
Saturday shortly after2 p.m Mr; BR.NCII . The
The is contacted by ( 'peddlers" or "sel who receive & com- operation for & num]
mission of 15 percent of their sales "Pickup" men; who take the bets of gross and net col
from the sellers to the 66 'checkup houses; receive 20 percent of what have secured from
they collect: Employecs such %5 checkup men, ,#dding machine opera from witnesses tha
tors; and supervisors above this position usually receive Salaries for gambling:
their duties. Senator MTSTTE
Lottery operations in central Florida to 1948 were dominated Mr. BRANCH. I ha
first by Charlie Wall of Tampa and then by Sam Warren;an Orlando The lottery %perat
native: In that year Harlan Blackhurn; FBI No. 1026922, 2 COn- into all of
victed came into Orlando
"began taking over bolita and
a.
From 1948 until t} Cubigmbliso1 the chartalso
that Santo Trafificani
Orlando anc
the lottery
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ilizing
past
gambe
tery
necl.
hing
Lee;
place
they
llers; public
prior
County
Georg: and felon,
visiting
ducting -
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RAFFIC IN NARCOTICS
ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT 'TRAFFIC IN and all his other possessions NARCOTICS 529
e do not believe him to be
he lackbnvictes borx in Saudl
0n central Tlorica area alone was convicted of "" 5Se Govergmentiheck ?fo: In
1( His operations there shot served 4l years in prison:
In 1943, he
check, for which he
no-Sicilian associates fhe Eoids State prison fov cattic thcfc WAeentenced to 2 years in !izing Mzrch 1056 for operating & lotteryeinl He was
#1 gnin arrested in
Ieen iuvestigating 2
2isosoptente Eut lotteslensedin ISounty, FH, 1nd received
Jivities in the Orlando area;
SGn.t Ngs1c 7 DidyoL WW iflenseacib1o59 ,
Ialan Islackhurn BRA NCII, sir. Ie is listecl
was on the chart?
gh tlioria
We know of Senator BusKIE
is not on this
in the right-hand corner
#tral Mr. BRANCI chart ?
Sena sif ; not on that one.
ro with you ? Mr:
tor MOsIE ' Blackburn is not
#L member of the BRANCI Ile is a subordinate that aS such ?
that yes; sir works under their
ehart we have depicted
CIIAIRMA)
Mr. Brt N Ishcthe same as Sam_Warren ?
"t the Blackburu group: He
NCII . . No, sir he is not. Sam Warrcn is dead.
"that the testimony you are tios then incarcerated for 60 dys in Tolk
Will De the truth; tlc whole conviction of conspiracy to violate tle for an earlier
God ?
Tas most recently arrestec 0n Nevember
lews of Florida Hc
"ou Fecleral wagering taf 5, 1962, for failure to
0L trial Ie is presently
out on bail a
IAM BRANCH
Florakburgservifes the fxe_
bankers who
8a These bankers are control centra]
1C
Irself for the rccord ? F Cecil Merritt,and Ralph Strewdec Mach, Whceler; Clyce
Orlando Police Department Don Ian Fussell Mach has in operation
'1 Dhave been with tlcm since and Clitord Iell Toe WVheclec hns
Glcn Brechen; Tommy
of work since 1956, with the Clydle F. Ie has Jesse Max Reid, Cardlen, and
Bepri
mGies
in OUT area.
shacon Triing; Iui Cipkcose
TIov
Rnasco Mathew
red statement? Ceeil Merritt 'Clayton Thous, aal Katherinc Brad'
Solomon ;
71 al Ealph Strawder has Brown, and
ir or five pages: Do you wish and Elvin Carroli White; Willinmn (Faecefc
With the exception of
Riffe allof these persons
criminal
Harrell, and
activity is known 45 other crimes records and arrests for gambling and
Fersbling ectizity ining 9; Fhave here copies of their FBI records and
iottery where the W inning committee s record, submit them for the sub-
wTS pplace bets onanynumber fron The CIIATRN:AN.
may be receivcd in bulk
win. The Cuba winning referonce only. a8 exhibit No. 47 for
Cubv
national lottery number efhe docuineuts referred t0 Fere markerl
~er & Havana radio station each erence {nd may h fo] in thc files of thee "Exhibit No. 47" for ref-
Mr, BRANCII, These five subcommittee:_
Gsellers; 9} who receive a com-
%eration foxc" numbee SfecerceRciceseraneaeer Connectedl with this
or who take the bcts af gross and net collections however,and theic names and amoutnts
Fickup" men,
of what have secured from Appeas inmuch of the evidence that
CS; receive 20 brom wi
houses: We have also we
up men,
adding machine opcra: itnesses that these
persons sworn test
ion usually receive salaries for enbling: been engaged in illegal
Mr:
NGSRTE ; What is the size of their take ?
Ia
to 1948 were dominated BRANCH; T have that fuethec
in NanbySam Warreng4n Orlando The
eperation of the Blackburn my statement; sir
Inurn; FBI No. 8~Cor" into' all of central Floridhnd {1uPleeteds from
over
ovec 9bolita CRi
into the southern State of
1l
began taking From 1948 until tho latter
4 Santo Trafficante, anarho_ Eegth0u
our rdepartment established
Orlando &nd superv
the
personally were
the that were con-
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Ike, Fla-,
1935, forging
5-year
years tor
Xestt lower
No,
Mafic airection;
The_
County
lottery
buy stamp.
aiting
lotte Xuay mbling:
Lees Joe
Mach; his Iuddy Parron,
Rifle ; Mary
Joyner Joyner Smith,
ndlerson, shaw; hias
Sonny
George Ienny
Carden, White, Ciphon; havc
ottery
They
percent checkup
imony have
Senator
prior along lottery
County Orange
Ceorgia:
Jr,,
Henry, Giting
ising checkup ecting: houses lottery
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Thc
It ls also Dccn ohvious to us that the Tralicante, organization has 8250,000 per"
thio Ilackburn operation for at least the last 10 years: From thos
controlled iOn of seizedl records, and fromn the fact that in The CIAII From OUr examinat
houscs Tro
have, arrested persons having Mr. BRAN al] raids OI) the checkup
Or' ion who were acting Orlanco. T
close family ties,with the Traflicante
has bcen heavy tele- and audlitors
aS audlitors for his interests: In addlition; therc
tO1srmhic between the Tralicantes in Tampa and the Blackburn From thes
phone heavily into
g"CVRer Silcadorn
TaS
arrested in 1053, 4 memorandum was found revenues are
whicn
numbers of Augustinc Primo LazzaraSalvaz nized crime cont "ingetelcphoc Guabeos oEH"cGusE 'nento_eolicante; Jc:7ud
addit tore ,, [renzo, and of the Nebraska and Flamingo Bars; both further restr'
Santo Trallicante; stantial blow owned by the Traficante family_
honse in Orange County by al State Senator MI
In 1957_ 2 search of a MlE Police, resultedl in the was it dlishon
oflicer, with the ' assistance of the Orlando
rest of several persons One of these wns Iorenzo another per- Mr: Buavc
12' the namc of Leto, from Tampa: both gare Sworn state- They dont
soe bg atelntmmne to Cl%e coanty solicitor tlat they Fere wrorking fof They at ments
Jr_ The CIAIR
Santo Tralicante_
another raid Tas concucted by agents %f the Mr. BRANCI ferMNi 'Rebeue Gervict
in conjunction with the Orlando Police The CIIAIR
Internal Revenue
0n a house in Orange County; There were six persons cannot get his Depstcaentd ,molouscose Cere rmanclo Rios and Sam Cacciatore: Mr: IRANCI
Tliese two were cousins of Santo Traflicante, Jr;: Thank you;
In July 1963, a raid 0n a
gambling house in Sanford, Fl; by the The CIAIGJ
IRS aeents; With thc assistaiicc of thc Orlando_Police Depatnent; be afraid to [
established that it waS another operation of Harlan Blackburn's, AIl right,
iscdl by Clyde Isce: In the records seized therc Was the Standby, Si
superv=
of Traficante s cousin; John Tarata Cacciatore, ana the Mr. BRANCII
plober ,nber
of the printing establishment employing Stefano
Scaglione, who is also 0n the chart_ TF
During the 12
tlit" we lnow of at least three murders
that hare bech dlue to
Xghts
for control of lottery operations in the it is_OoTN
is neccssary
Orlando area.
of
taken in by these lottery operations Yates from the
Th0 fantastic amount moncy
houses 1937 and 1945 has been repeatedly establislcdl By our raicls of these
Ferreri in 011 all illegal
For example; thc raid in 1957 in Qdigcosea xt %lec house nk
city was referre
and San Torenzo were ar_ restec, that the house Was
Senator
a
gross business oE$100,000 pei" Week;
papers ?
Mus
Senator MCSKIE WVhat were paying out?
Mr.
Mr. BEANCII. 'The profit on this operation rns ahont 50 percent: BROwN.
Tlc November 1961 raid in Orange County where Armando Rios the 1
and Sam Cacciatore, cousins f Santo Trallicante, 'ere arrested re-
Echesi to
vealed that operation Ias
a conservatively estimated gross of Hie Hcgastarte'
illegal_gani
8160,000 per" weel:
WVith the same ratio of half applying there ? Floricla: Ffe st
The CiIRHAN admnitted to a Ti
Mr: BrANCHI: Yes, sir.
(Gnet profit; this means after from iliegal
Senator MGSKIE When yoI_ sny by intc deductions of the commission whicl totaled 35 percent?
The elde' Tra
Mi. JRANCI: Sir. in 1904 and beca
Senator MUsKIE; the prizes. cf the
Mr. BRANCI Yes, sir
exa Ie die
Tle commission and also the and what other opcrating
arrest for Santo
penses
may have sueh as automobiles; rent, teleplone bills
In 1062, Wall
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latesi
'ganizat
Any
Jr ,
Xalmnbl
andl
They
stop
phone
past
gambli ing
doing
they
During
any g
doing
ing
'entering
Yes;
And missing
Tampa:
prizes
they
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Tho atest rid, in July of this yeat; indicated a gross revenuc of
i0
organization has 8260,000 pr" Ircek,
he last 10 Erom those figurcs
'M
the fact that in The CuAIRHAN Where Tas that raicl ?
ed persons having Mr. BRANCII: That Was in Suforck Fl-,just 17 miles north of
Ul
who were acting Orlando. These figures are established "by the Ratcrnal Revesze
#S been heavy tele and auditors agents
and the Blackburn From these figures; it is easy to sec "hy the Mafia las moved
heavily into gambling in central Florida "nd "hy SO
randum was found rovenues are universally
ackigo iccgcd to botic .]Heblood Fonbrgg
10 I.azza Salva- nized crime orga-
ralficante,
orSawd
Avy additional legislation thnt this subcommittee can promote to
'lamingo Bars; both futher Festrict ad "libit gambling Iill, in out opinio1,tomoteut?
stantial bloj to organized criie_
County by 0 State Senntot HIUSKIc; Did thcy actually pay off
0n those lottcries or
resultecl in the was it dlishonest in that respect,too?
V0 and another per- Mr. BRA NCH: Usually pay off_
h gave sworn state- don t pay ofF shen #C T rid 0n then or arrest them.
y were working for at that But are in operation the nert week:
Tie CIIAIRHIAN You mcan do not pay ofl for that 2
(l by of the Mr. IrANCII: sir dlont_
hle Orlando Police The CIAIRHIAN . It is un) fortunate for the fellow that F"01l, who
0 were Six persons cannot gct his winnings
md Sam Cacciatore: Mr. I3RANCII. Sir
Thank you, sic:
nnford, Fla,, by the Thc CiAHAx If thc lw enforccmcnt is pretty vigilant, I would
Police Departient, be afraid to #lnce a bet under thosc eircuinstances:
[arlan Blackburn AIl right; Chicf, if you wili, Jou mnay proceed
here Iras the phono Stnnd by, Sergeant, E8 ire may want to ask you some questions
(acciatore; and tho Mr. BRANCII Yes, Sif.
cmploying Stefano
TESTIMONY OF NEIL G. BROWN_Resumed
least three murders
ry operations in tho Jr; Buowx; To uderstand thc crime network Trallicantc opcrates
it is ncCCsSaTy to Graminc the modcrn erw of crinic in 'Iampn; ehices
Re
lottery operations Gtes from the early 1920*s. Its most violcnt cpisocles
were betireen
i"'se gambling honscs 1937 1945_ when 1 hc Sicilian "udegworld wus nttempting to move
#hcre Frank Ferrcri in On all gambling in 'Tampa: This period in the histoiy of our
he house was doing WaS referred to a5 "thc era ofblood
Scrator MuSEIE WVho coined that plrnsc; the gang or the news-
papers ?
#S about 50 perccnt: TIr: BRowx Ithink it was the nc"spapers, Senator_
$ here Armando Rios the 1920 $, before the Sicilian ucicrworld moved into tho
tc; were arrested re- mckets to any grent extent, onc of our most notorious Charles
y estimated gross of Jr Wrll,stacted his Fise %8 Iccomc thc acknoiledgec
cd {idlcuoz
boss most of tho gambling in the Tampa a1c central area of thc State of
'pplying there ? Florica Fc styled imself of thc underworld_ and in 1953 he admitted to a Tiillsborough County solicitor that hc Rad madc his live
this means after ing from illegal gambling During1945, Wli foxfeited hnis leadership
'ercent ?
by into a partnership vith Santo Trallicante; St:
The elde; Trallcantc was born jn Sicily in
1886 He catme to
1904 and hecame & naturalized citizcn in 1025.
In 1950, he "s Olle
f the mifsidfed witnesses 1n2 the Iiefaner crime henrings_held in2
other operating ex
Tumpa: He On August 1954. Police rccordls do not show any
bills:
urrest for Santo Traflicante; Sr
telephone In 1052, Wall declared hat he
was although hc did not
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lottery
ice;
they
They pull
They stop they
they dlay
agents No,_ they
Yes;
79,
ancl
illegai ,
city
During
illega
slean
entering
Tampa
11,
retiring,
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stato what he was retiring. from. I( April 197, Wall*s iody wa5 Sunto Trafiic:}
found in his home_ Ile had hecn hrutat Icifen and his throat had
of the
been slashed. We Iave never d iscovercd who the murderers TOndleeea m0r {ies 0 OFKeniz;
have we determined their motive adnerkteas Wall was be-
inl the United
cxuse the kiilers learned he hacl that he was Trallicante s
sizahle Sicili auteer: €1 illcgal gambling, and that hc disclosed confidential facts
I -oseph Prot
about the Mafia: fidential sonrce 0 the major lc In 1960, Sergeant de la Llana,obtainedd_Ironi # cQwE Frank Costellc
of known reliability_an feport about the Mafig and its %;
menbers of Ml
eration in Tampa: The report
"stoxtdig
'becn otained frvhin Charles Wall
Iuciano were fd
in 1945,
"approximately 6 months #fter Trallicante, Senior; hnd made
According ta
himsel € & partncr in Walls' gambling enterpriscs tinct gronps; a Well declared that from 1920 through 1045 he contrelled gambling
was that only i Tampieaudinthc Florida couuties %E ilillshoroush Ritellas Pbiice
#hile Ainerica
Hernando, Poll, and Orange His rival for (ontrol of the E ireblii&
Wall was told
rackets was the 'local Mafia organization 'This was headed, he sonter to ''ju by Sunto Trallicuntc; Sr; thc Diecidue brothers Tamcs Iuuia, Igtokic
eren though he
Antinori and Salvatore Italiano. Antinori Was murelered on October
were not dne to
22, 1940=
Lumia Was nurdlered on June 6, 1050; and Italiano fled to
can birth; but
Mexico in 1951.
hadl rcasons for going along with Trafi- ofthe proceeds
Wall admitted that he' to the e cante; Senior; in 1945 ; previously the Mafia_g%oup had miace three at-
Senator Mts
tempts on his life the first was in 1937 as Wall was leaving & bank on inner circle, Chit
the main street in Tampa
'the second try occurred as Wall was leaving
Mr. BROwN.
the garage bchind_his house the third, in 1940, happened 2 few blocks
circle.
from his house.
In the third attempt; & truck passed the automobile in
Below that_ Which Wall Was riding_und then stopped abruptly in front of +he c5;
Senator MIuSk James DeSimone and Nicola Impostato, FBI No 2716692,each
Mr; BnOwN.
with a shot stepped from the truck and fired at Wall and his
be in the inner ci
chauffeur.
tSotk
esca with slight injuries: DeSinione and Impo-
The CIAIRJIA
stato were known Mafia killers from Kansas Mo. They IFere
the Tampa area i
staying with the Antinori family at the time. BROWN. T Tle?CIAIRJAN. Is Wall stillhiving? The CHIAIRSIA
Mr: BROwN. sir; lle was killed. Mr. BROwN .
The CILARIAN: Later killed ? The CIAIRMA:
Mr. BROwN . "es, sir. organization is sei
The CIAIRHAN
These three attempts failed but later he was killed?
MIr: IRowN. '17]
Mr_ BROWN . sir_ The CIIAIRMAN Wall declared tlat tisc Mafia tried to make the pnblic beliere that
it, but who was TV
the
organization 4o Tongeg existedlin this comntry and that Hafa dere
Mr: BRowN, T bers pointed to tho end of terrorism amOng Italiau groups #S eviclence The CHATRDIAN ,
that the Mafia Tas gon@ froin the underworld sceuc Wall believed,
(Atthis point &
however; that the oiganization had merely changed its type %f operta
Mr. BROWN_ TV
tion_
He saic that other_ 1acketeers had once used the Mafia to
from 1930
monopolize rackets in major American citics; They had educated the
anO, James Lum Mafia 80 well in the proccss thatthe Sicilians had taken over the rackets 'Thomas, and Fra
themselves:
Wall stated that the Mafia learned to consider_extortion leadership of Tral
from Italian businessmen a
Snickel-and-dime" business: They had Wall that Vincen
discovered that public olicials could be corrupted by bri anc that Diecidues but that
'could orginize to take over the major 5ackets in the United States
had Joseph Profac
Wall declared that the Mafia was not dying out, but bigger Senator MusKWE
and better than ever_ 9)
Ile said that his partnee; the elder Traflicunte
Mr. BROWN. Yes
had told him that thcre, "ere some 10,000 active Mafia members in Senator MtsEiE
tho United States: Wall stated that the Mafia leader in Tampa wes any point in this h
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armed
pedl
City,
Mr_
No,
Yes,
throug
ibery
they
Stras
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'"andallSs thooxt Iad Sfnto Trwllicwite Sr;nd that hecwas well informec on thc actirities
(m and his
nor
of the %rganization i4 the Unitecl States; in Sicily and in othef inurderers renrderea
be- T ries of tlie workl 'Trallicante hadl told {Vaiisaid,that tiee SOnkia
al was
Trafliicante s
iu the]United] States %s dlirceted hy # local Boara in every
It'he confdentiac'
facts 31 sizable Sicilian population: There Iras d national board_
headea
'sed hy Joseph Profaci in1 Aew York
#hieh was composed of the heads
fidlential source
ef the njor local boarcls Traflicante is_reported to have said that
I a1 h #liclentid i0s.01 Frank Costel Vincent Jangano, and Joc_Hassie
wcre influentiel #t the
Charles Wall
members of thc natiolal Ioardl, and that Frank Nitti and edl from Luciano were formel members;
Senior; liad made According to Walls account; the Mafia
WaS composed of two dis-
'S. controlled gambling tinct gTO#pS "L #inner circle" and an "outer cirelc The general rule
he
Pasco, WLS t hat ouly nativesof Sieily wcre admittedl to the
6{ 'inner ci oFitkee gs,
while Ainerican-born Italians were recruiled into the circle_ 2} {"tros Readed Eieblii8
he
Wa/L Wats told it "as possible for a mnember to be transferred from
iX WlS "onter'= to Status ,hen he pesformed an act of specinl Jeueserea on' Bctobec
even though he hacl heen boru in the Tnited States %flseeitrictecits
1;
murderec ,0n2
fled to "ere "ot die te lack oE trust by native Italians towarc those f ions
30) and Italiano
can birth; hut lyecause the 'inner cirele ' uSually took
Ameri-
Tralli-
ofthe procecls of the Mafia s
1
"etiviticgally,toketfocenpioferzed
along with
at: to the membership. %f the
66 inner cirele " aS snall
pre
'up made three Senator MUSKIE_ Would
aS possible.
Ilwas leaving & hank on Jou Say that this chart represents the inner circle, Chief? "edopened' fes/ blockg
Mr: IROWN. At the very portion, Senator, wonld be the inner
happened 8 circle.
assed the automobile in
Below that
'ptly in front of_ cnr Senator MrSKIE By the
No. 2716692, each Mr, I3RO)WN . I wonhl inelu
do jou mean
firecl at Wall and his le in that that the three mcn would
DeSimone and Impo-
boim the inner circle and those below that "ould be in the outer cocle
Mo. They were
The CHIRMAN . 'Those wenld only be in the inner circle so far a8
City, the area is concerned ?
Mr. IROTN . That is right:
The CHAIRHAN . Not in the inner circle overall ?
Mr. BROwN . sir; this is just in the inner circle in the
area The CIAIRMIAN. But that gives an indication of
the overall
d but leter he was killed?
or{nizuoon is set up:
BROwN. Thatis correct_
believe that
The CIAIRNAN_ You may have jt in but I may have missed
30 the
Mafia mem-
it, but who was Wall to when he gave all this information? atry and that
eviclencc
MIr. IROWN. That was
1L conficlential informant;
alian groups #S The CHAIRDIAN_ I see. well
Ic] scene: Wall believed, (Atthis point Senator Javits entered the
hanged its type of epcra; Mr: BRoWN. Wali believed tienieffcentea Enlafig roonb
once used the Mafia t0 irom 1930 through 1945 were Santo
members in "8 133;
They had educatedl the Trallicante, Sr_ Salvatore
idtaken over the rackets
410, James Lumia, and the Dieciduc family ~Alfonso, oxatonio,
red to consicler_extortion
Thomas; and Frank The Diecidues and theic in-lats opposed the
business: They had ladership of Trafticante in the organization: Tralficante told
bribery and that
Wall that Vincent Mangano, of the national board, supported the 'Rces ibxheibaztedstata: Diecidues but that Trallicante, Was able to
in power because he
out, but <was bigger
bad Joseph Frofacis friendship.
ing
elcler Traflicante
Senator MOSIIE. Iask a question here?
ner; the Mr. BROwWN. sir_ active Mafia mnembers in Senator MUSKIE You refer to the national board. I do Tafia leader in Tampa was my point in this where there
not recall
was this kind of 2 direct refer-
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Kin;
city
(ify,
IJo,
Lucky
nte,
rcle; rough;
souter
sinnct
illegt fore, @ingaa keep
top
the
etop port ion; armed
top
Tampa
No; Tampa
how
here, public
talking
Very
hearing-
Tampa
{ne"
"pted he; stay
May
Yes,
hearing
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ence to a1 national organization in the Mafa. Was it referred to a8 (The docun
such ? anal may be f
Mr. IROWN. This is the information as Wall has reported that it The CIAIR
consisted of a national board is it ?
Senator MtSKI Do you know who Jle identified as members of the Mr;, O'Dox:
national board ? little dctail as
Mr. Irowv_ WVell, Joc Profaci and Vincent Mangano were two of 4 #hich willbi
the members of thc national board. The CIIAIRI
The CILAIDSAN. Thcy are shoin to be leaders of families, both of The summaf
them: That is what
Senator MSIIE But thosc same are leaders of families in Mr. BRowN;
New York as testilied by Valachi. The CHAIRS
Mr. IROWN. Yes, sir; exhibit +, your
The CHAIRMIAN_ 'So it is Your impression that the heacls of the New Mr. BROWN:
York families made "p 1L
national board that had jurisdiction over The CuAIRJ
Tampi,among %ther places ? Mr.
Mt . ISROWN. That is correct ; yes, sir: The CHAIRM'
Wall declaredl that thcre were approximately 40 mcmhers of the Exhibit 48 is
Halia living in the TTampa area ad he believec that Traficantes Mr: BRowN_
share of proceeds of their gambling operation was divided with The CITAIRMA
other mennbers of the Hafia. 0n the chart ?
Tnformation in QuI' files from another conficlential source confirms BROwN.
Walls statemcnt. In addlition it reveals that Antonio Diecidue made The CILAIRMIA
anntal trips to AIiami for the purpose of renting a house for Vincent Mc.
Mangano; "ho came dlown froin New York erery ycar to spend 2 or 3 The CITAIEMA:
months in Aiani This sourcc statecl that many important memhers (The docuen
of (hc Awlin visitedl Mlangano in Florida, but tlat Traficante never and may be foun
appCa Zccl: The CIIAIRMIA;
Senator MUSII May Iask another question on the national board? You may
WVas it YQu impression that the national board members shared in MPu BRO pIOC
the proceedls of t criminal activities in Tamnpa ? task to obtain
ei Mt: ]BOWY Sir thcy had a percentage mnem beca
Senator MCSKIE Have you any idea what that percentage was ? Tays beenbeeluse
uct Mr. ISROWN. No,sir; Ihave no idea. their fear of MI:fi
The Gray shadlings On our chart depict the influence of each of that the )afia dc
these n0n. To mC, it appcars to be n0 smnall coinciclence that in the relative infre
Tmp thc Dieciclue famil v lost staturc from at least the early 1950s successfully
when Vincent ho dlisappeared Hor" that Trallicante, the WVe prose
Profaci man; Was i4 the iinmediate vicinity, whlen Albert Anastasia 1928 to the
Tras murdered in 1957 circumstanecegeei
Sergcant dc la Llana's intelligence unit las prepared summarics of uses murder to clis
the mnen in Traflicantc s organization, with 2 commentary of lators of its code
rclevant facts abont cacl of them: So that oir information be activities and
arailable not only to the suhcommittee, but to all police units to
9 Yone
solved, A
goa
jour reports are SO valuable, I wish to submit tilese summazies and ticufa mardetio
commnentary for the_record, #S Our exhibit 3a through t; and exhibit 4. argument,
Ta
The CHAIRHAN_ The summary to whicl you have referred may be the argument. It received as exhibit 48 though the kiiler
Mr_ O'DovNELL. Chief; as I nnderstand it; these are summations; In 7
very hrief summations, of the 19 indlivicuals that are on the chart an eraminae
cont
jnsofar a5 their criminal activity, their mode of business; tleir crim- 1962 shogatiot_ 0f
inal history, et cetera is that correct ? that we
unsolved,
2 solutic
Mr. BROWN _ That is correct.
The CAIBAMAN_ It may be received as exhibit No. 48.
through 1962, all 8;
24-366 +63_pe
2
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people
BrowN.
being
Mr.
Brown_
hc
Yes; bers,
Manga Jr , have categ
along
althoug
startling
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as it referred to A5 (The documents refcrred to marked "Exhibit No. 48" for refercnce,
andl may be found in 1 he lilcs of the subcommittce
ns that it The CIAIRJAN. You make reference to ahother exhibit. WVhat
is it ?
a8 members of the Mr., O DoNNELL: WVill,You explain the other exhibit? Go into { little detail a8 to the various murders that Yol have 0n your exhibit
ungano were two of 4,uhich will be a dliferent crhibit in Ou hcarings
The CIAIRAAN Iet thc Chair get this straiglt first.
of families, both of The summary that hc referrec to has Inacle exhibit 48
That is what You referred to as "Our exhibit 33"?
adlers of families in Mr, BROWN. Yes; sir,
The CIAIRAAN_ 'Then Jou say "through t; and exhibit 4" WVhat is
exhihit 4, exhibit 4?
hc heads of the New Mc: BRowN: Exlibit 4 is a bricf summation 0n each of the subjects
#d jurisdiction ovCr The Ct-IRHAN, What is your exhibit 3 ?
Mr: BROwN. They arc airest records of eacl of the individuals
The CHAIRMAN well:
40 members of thc Exhibit 48 is the arrest records
"l that Trallicante s Mr. Brown_ Yes, sir.
being divided with Tho CAIRMAN. Your exhibit 4 is a brief summary of each person
0n the chart ?
tial source confirms Mr. IROWN. sir.
IOnio Diecidue mado The CIAIRMAN. is ofhis records andactivitics?
# house for Vincent Mr: BRowN. Sir.
Vear to 2 0r' 3 'The CuAIHIAN . It may he reccived a5 erhibit No. 49 for reference
important members (The document refcrrccl to macked 66 Exhihit No: 49" for refcrence;
't Traficante never and may be found in the liles of the subcommittce: )
The CIAIRMIAN. Now the record is straight.
the national board? You may procccd.
members shared in Mc: IRowN Our department las always found it n most dlilicult
task to obtain cvidonce sullicicnt for successful prosecution of Malia
memnhers, because tho witncsses !ho might ofler such evidencc havc a7-
p'ercentage was? "ays been reluctant to do SO. The jaramount reason_ of course; is
their fear of Malia reprisals, since it is common Kteo.soca 0 couasapis
influence of each of that the Mafia does not hesitato to usc muirdcr for such reprisals aid
coincidence that in tlie rclative infrequency with which such professional murdcrs are
Irast the early 1950*s successfully prosecuted,
'Trallicante, Jr;, tho WVe havo categorized certain homicides in the Tampa arCa, from
in Albert Anastasia 1928 to the present; aS 66 sla 4n @xamination of thc
circumstances of some
Jf isea
thesc
dltrdin emphisizcs To
the Mafia
summarics of "SCS murclcr to dliscipline its memnhership, to rcrcnge itself against vio;
h {
commentary of hators of its code and to otherwisc eliminate opposition to criminal
information may bo activities and goals Of the 23 homicides on the only 1 has been
police units to whom solved_ A ratio of less than 5 percent of solution-ad that par-
hnese summaries ticular murder was cleared up because it apparently resnltec from an1
'ugh t; and exhibit 4 argument; although it is possible that thc slayer deliberately proroked
Inve referred may bo the argument; It Tas not, there a1 typica_ gangland slaying, al-
thougl the killer and the victim Irere botil undlef Wozicl figures;
'ese are summations; In statling contrast to the Hmber of unsolved ganglaid
Imat are on the chart an examination of all other Tampa homiciclcs from 1958
slriugk
business, tleir crini- 1062 shows that Te have had 145 murdcrs and that only 4 are presently
nnsolved; 2 solution ratio of better than 97 percent; From 1960
tlrough 1962, all 83 hoinicidcs i1 Our city were solved
{o. 48. 24-366_63 pt 210
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Thc CtATRYAN: Wlat pcriod is corered by the 23 gangland slayings Mr. BR
that yqu make reference to? pertinent
Ar: BROwN. Fron 1928 t the present list a5 our
'The CIIAIRJAY; Inl a period
rlocork}
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Mr. BROWN. Yes, sir_ (The dc
The CAIRMIAN And you identify them aS #ugland slayings #S erence and
rlistinguished fron the usua [ homicicle cases that you have ? (At this
Mr. BROWN_ fes, Sir. The CHz
The CIAIRHAN_ On accordling to YQr testimony, it has been Mr: BRo
ipossible_or Yon have unsuceessful at least in So]= a5
Valachi s t
of thcm except thc on8 that appeared so O,Fions; and
it wonld not by violence
possibly comc within the category of (6 gangland slayings" At least
Mr. IXnOwN. sir_ in 1936 and
The CIIAIRMAN_ But you have included it aS the only one
rectly attri
that Was solvedl_ had given t
Mt. ROwv. That is correct_ 4 third mi
Semntor Mtsnt Wlat arc the clractcristics of the gangland slay- cago, invol
that makes it s0 dlillienlt.to xolve thein as contrasted with your ilestott,
ercellent recordl in other honiicides ? lates its
AIr: IROWN: . Of COnEsc, primarily it is hecause of witnesses who are difficulty of
relnctant to give the law enforcement any information whatsoever: Attor
In some of our killin; recall one I here we had nine witnesses in that purpose
the room and nobody actnally Sa I" thc mnurder or knew anything The Carr:
WaS going on; aspects relat
Senator MtSKIE So this fact has a dlirect hearing upon the question in the
of immunity statntes; for example_ the_Mafia an
Mr. Browv. That is right That is correct_ in Kansas Cil
'The CAIRMAN in othcr words, emphasizcs the rigid disci- Carramusa
plinc, the cocle of undcrworldl Iaw_ that cannot hc violated without eral narcotic
SI (ering the penalty of death: Impastato; F
Mr. RROWN_ That is correct_ Pat:
The CIIAIRMAN: In other words thc nine who were in the room when Fernice. Ta]
the inurder Wa5 committed, possibly erery one of them knew what ply_for the K
happened_ In Wa
Mr. RRowN . sir; I would think s0. had inherited
The CHAIENAN J would doubt that somnebody did not know it. tinori. The e
Bnt; anyway, know that the penalty for them would be 2 narcotics de
death: prosecuted SU
Mr. BROwN_ sir. cardinal Mafi:
The CIAIRNIAAN Even if werc inclined and I do not mean them at their
to say they Were inclined even if onc (f *them were inclined to Chicago with
talk; he knows what the pena woulc he. Anc that makes it a new life unde
difficult. That is you have the trouble in the gangland slayings, Three
the silence, the threat the intimidation of a death sentence. of their
PCerrai
being executed by their underworld government if talk an ASS4
Mr: BROWN. That is true_ but was himsel
Senator MUSKIE_ Then, Chiefjust to nail that point they was the same N
seem to be more than concernedl and clearly are more concerned for tokill Charles
themselves and for their allies than are about immunity In
W prosecution: of my police col
Mr. BROWN. Yes, that is true. are afraid for their lives: at tr
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IN NARCOTICS
Mr. BROWN_ I have had thcse gangland slayings listed, with a fer
{23 gangland slayings pertinent comments about each; and submit to the subcommittee this
iist a8 our exhibit 5.
The CAAIRMAAN. It may be received and be made exhibit No: 50.
(The document referred to Was marked Exhibit No. 50" for ref-
erence and may be found in the files of the subcommittee:
slayings a8 (At this point Senator Javits withdrew from the hearing
room:)
hat you have? The CHAIRMA N You may proceed,
Mr. BROWN With few exceptions; those murders well reflect Joseph
"stimony; it has Valachi's testimony that Mafia members do live by violence and die
Ivast in sol any by violence:
"s, andl it wouldl not At least two of the unsolved murders 0n our list- that of Gus Perez
slayings" 2 in 1936 and of Joe 6} Pelusa Diaz in 1958_were, in my opinion,,di-
rectly attributable to the Mafia's knowledge o belief that the victins
being the only onc had given to legal authorities evidence incriminating Mafia members
A third murdez-of Carl Carramusa, in 1945 taking place in Chi-
cago; involved some Tanpa Maliosi; and is of particular interest in
fthe gangland illistrating the Mafia zeai for vengeance against & member Tho vio
cntrastedl" with your Jates its rules: It is of further significance; in demonstrating thle
diliculty of protecting , witnesses against the Mafia--and is under-
of witnessos who are Attorney General Kennedy's request for additional funds for
'rnation whatsoever that purpose; which request Istrongly endorse.
hadl mine witnesses in The Carramusa' case dleveloped iu Kansas City, with certain
1' or- knew anything
aspects related to the Mafia organization in Tampa. principal
figuro in the case was Carl Carramus:l; known as # minor member of
ing upon the question
the Mafia and a front man for the Mafia's narcotics traffic operation
in Kansas
Carramusa was indicted in 1942 for conspiring to violate the_Fed-
1~izes the rigid,disci-
eral narcotic lawS. Iis codefendants Fere Joseph DeLuca, Nicola
violated withont Impastatoz Paul Antinori, Joe Antinori_ Charles Louis
Ventola; Patsy Ventolt, Clarles Tiabi, Samuel Pernice, and
Fernice. Tampa 's Mafia organization Wals one of the sources of sup-
rere in the room when ply_for the Kansas City group; and at that time the narcotics trade
of them knew what
1n Tampa was headed by Paul Antinori and Joseph Antinori, who
had inherited the narcotics lea dership from their father, Ignazio An-
tinori. The elder Antinori had been murdered 0 few yenrs before in
#ly did not know it.
8 narcotics deal All of the defendants in the Iansas City case were
"'m talking wonld be prosecuted successfully primarily because Carramusa violated the
cardinal Mafia code of Pomertal, '0r silence, testifying openly
them at their trial: After the trial_ Carramusa went into hiding in
and I do not mean Chicag with his wife and family, his name and beginning
'('m were inclinecl to
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under new circumstances
And that makes it Three years in June of 1945, while he was seated in his auto-
i{ gangland slayings, mobile, Carramusa 's head was blown off by 1 shotgun blast. James 'th: sentence, of their Lumia, an associate of the Antinoris Was a suspect in this killing,
if talk: but was himself murdered at Tampa in June of 1950. A prime suspect
vas the same Nicola Impastato, who had some years before attempted
mt point down,
to kill Charles Wall.
more concerned for In Tampa we have suffered a the frustration I know that many
't immunity against
of my police colleagues in othct citics have experienced-thle deliberate
fraid for their lives:
recanting at trial of the original statements of fomplaiei: { or key
witnesses; because of their fear of Mafia reprisal, clear instance
of this frustration of JaW enforcemnent effort involved three of the
ranking members of the Tampa Mafia,
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One in 1953, onc Joc Castellano went to the Italian Club in
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of the he talked to Salratorc Sca= glione privately Scaglione funds and tra
asked Castel) if he wanted to make 2 profit on { ihot load of 2. I endors
whisky: Castellano said he was interested, and agreed to meet tion before t]
later that night: wiretapping
At the meeting; Scaglione Tas accompanied by Joe Nlistretta .and 3. recomi
Angelo LoSealzo Castellano into the front seat of a car providcd house for cril
by the ot and the four mnen drore to a thickly wooded area outside crime and rac
of Tampa city limits. Castellano was then attacked with a hammer to all lvc
hit repeatedlyon the heac Ie managed to gct ot of the car= example of tk
although he Tas badly huurt: He broke Ioose from his elderly asSail- Intelligence U
ants and ran away. Ile stumbled into & nearby house and asked to in the 3 short
be taken to the constable's housc; #here he gave a statement about in uS
the ine= naming the thrce as his assailants Fe swore to the and has given
connty
isbuciton
that hc had n0 idlea he ws beaten. Scaglione; who are associ
Mistretta; and I.oScalzo were arrested and charged with assault with For examph
intent to murdcr. initiated
a pro,
Joc (astellano disappeared for 1
period 'of time. After he TraS Each mem
found,the casc went to trial_ Castellane changed his story completely dividuals in
anc[ testilied that he had injured himself while hunting on the night WVhen all of ti
of the attack The predictable result; of course; was a verdict for the of gombling
0 defendants of guilty. these operatio
this menace:
RECOMMCNDATIONS FOR rUITMER FEIERAL LEGISLATION TO FIGHIT I believe als
ORGANIZED CRINE our
I helieve firmnly that it is almost impossible for the Police Depart- The
oper:
ment of the City of Tampa, O any other municipality to cope ef: law enforceinei
fectively with thic activities of 4 national or international crime correlate the cl licate such aS these hearings show exists in the United States: ganized crime iq
One of the miin problems is that the most dedicated,, well-trained; This unit toc
and well-sta lfed police force iS almost always limited legally and thronghout Flo
financially to thc territorial bouncaries of its mnnicipality: For ligence data aly
exanyle; the Tampa , Police' Department is, obviously interested in
member is forwa
and informed about thc activities of Santo Trallicante. Horever, in Bureau; "hich
the the department 1as unable to do 1o" nsdictioou about Trafficante s Only sheriffs'
operations in Qre-Castro Cuha it has n0 or control of can become
his illegal afairs in, Aliami and elsewhere'in central Florida: The me
department could only record that he attended the Apalachin_ honest
Rcerebeysna
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jie
in November of 1957, but it could do nothing about this obvious evi- and
dlence that he WaS 2 high-ranking member of 2 nationa] crime Wonimous cocet
syndicate
1I In the light of OE, experience with the Mafia in our own city's rido operation
underworld, T submit for this subcommittee s consideration some sug more helpful in
ions for Federal legislation which I believe would certainly help of organized
crir local la w enforcement agencies to fight organized crime more beyond--our bor
eflectively. with,those juris
1
More ample funds must be obtained by local agencics to recruit crilninals O rack
high caliber police personnel and to retain superior personnel having directly into
the the experience and capabilitics to understand; investigate, and prose; our best talents
cute organized criminal conspiracies. Because of the demonstrated eliminate this
interstato nature of organized crime, Federal legislation similer to The Ce_AIRSgIV
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tember 19 , 1976
Could Rosselli Have Linked:
Castro Plot to
JFK Death?
By RON LaBRECQUE seems ironic in retrospect: His greater role as evidenced by
Merafd Staff Writes Robert Kennedy's passionate {wo convictions, his associations forts to disable organized crime are and to some extent his own com- In 1960, when the CIA was try- well documented_ ments, was as an influential, if t0 set Up a delicate attempt on publicly lesser known, the life of Fidel Castro, it turned to IN 1960 when Robert Kennedy crime figure.
organized
a man once described as 'the wrote about what he had learned
gest' flag-waving SOB in the coun- of organized crime in America HIS ASSOCIATION with other
0p try West Coast underworld from his years as chief counsel to identified underworld members figure Johnny Rosselli. the Senate Rackets Committee, he was monitored by law enforcement
Rosselli a seemingly improba - too quoted Giancana to make a agencies a5 recently 28 several ble conspirator in a government point. weeks before his July 28 disap-
plot the waving" label He told about Giancana's inter- pearance. 'from Salvatore (Momo) Giancana, view at his local draft board at the By all accounts, Rosselli was a.' then Chicago's top crime boss and outbreak 0f World War II, when charming man, dressing in expen-
a man Rosselli brought into that he was asked what he did for a Jiv- 'sive clothes, married for. only two
same plot. ing: years in the early 1940s and' Now both are dead, murdered in I steal, Giancana is Said to known most of his life as one who
the past year, investigators are have replied: Jeasily attracted women:
wondering whether their plotting So Sam Giancana didn't go to He. was an 'immigrant who told led to their deaths and whether the war and years later would boast to in 2 short autobiography written CIA plots against Castro only 'Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that about 1967 that his *life of crime
recently made public and even kept he stayed out of the Army la- began as a teenager in Boston, at- [rom the Warren Commission beled unfit by telling the truth: stempting arson for his steplather
are vitai clues to the John F. Ken- ~What'$ wrong with the syndi- pnd: slealing $50 on his own: As he
nedy assassination: 'cate?" Kennedy quoted Giancana. rttraveled west, ,finally t0 settle in The ceaths of Giancana, in June ~Two or three of uS get together KCalifornia, his attention turned to of 1975, and Rosselli;, this summer, 'on a business deal and everybody pbootlegging, gambling and dab-
have aroused a renewed concern in 'says it's a bad thing- Businessmen pling in the movie business.
Washington, where
on Friday the 'do it all the time and nobody
isquawks_ IT IS said that Rosselli guarded
House of Representives voted to re-
A Senate committee began stu-: {the West Coast_gambling interests
open the investigation 0f the Ken- Idying the Kennedy questions more for Giancana $ Chicago syndicate
nedy murder_ 'than a year ag0 as it Jooked at CO- Why Rosselli was chosen by the
vert CIA activities. CIA a Castro plot in 1960 is un- REP. THOMAS N; Downing (D. clear, although CIA officials have Va.), who will be chairman of the IN AN addendum to the Senate since testified that wanted the panel, said he is "convinced" a con- Intelligence Committee s interim kind of contacts in Cuba which Or-
spiracy was involved in Kennedy's report last November, Sen. Howard 'ganized crime had made during the
death. :Baker (R.= Tenn.) said, "It is my ipre-Castro days when Havana was Now in the aftermath of thervi-
'personal view that on balance the 3 gamblers' haven_
olent deaths 0f Giancana and Ros- 'likelihood that presidents (the re- Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
selli , the question arises 0g what port dealt with Dwight Eisenhower li because he had influence with role, jf any, the Kennedy White and Kennedy} knew of the (Castro) Florida's Santo Trafficante, consid-
House played in the early 1960s assassination plots is greater than ered the key underworld gambling
~deal 0} the CIA made with the two the likelihood that they did not. figure in Havana_
underworld figures to have Castro Just to trace Rosselli ' s history The unraveling of CIA and un- murdered. with the CIA is mind-boggling for derworld conspiracies, an awesome
Whether the Kennedy v White the investigltors Yet, it is just one web spanning decades, is left to a House knew about about the CIA '$ aspect of the search for his killer. team 0f nine in the Metro Homicide
plotting (Robert F Kennedy found Johnny Rosselli- born on the Division. It is a team now clearly
out after the contacts were ended), fourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and cOnsumed by the task which has the 'CIA's use of the underworld 71 when he died was not first been a full-time operation since
and foremost & CIA operative. Rosselli 's body was pulled from
Dumfoundling Bay on 7.
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THAT TKE Metro team is even There was never the slightest. Morgan was told about the pend-
Involved is happenstance. Rosselli doubt in John' s mind that Castro investigation by Rosselli and
lived in Plantation, Broward :Coun- was responsible tor the assassina- Robert Mahue, a former FBI
ty, with his sister and brother-in- tion of Kennedy, said Edward P_ agent-turned Howard Hughes aide
law. It's just that his killers chose Morgan; the attorney referred to in who was the CIA's. initial link t0
to dump his body in Dade: the report. Rosselli:
While several detectives say Morgan is an attorney of no Mahue told Morgan that' both he:
their instincts lead them to con- mean stature in Washington: . He and Rosselli had been subpenaed to;'
clude that the Rosselli murder was served as chief counsel to the joint: appear before the committee: Mor-
an internal underworld affair, all congressional committee which gan said he called Lawrence Hous?
on the team are aware Of the pres- studied the Pearl Harbor attack, ton; the CIA general counsel: Hous
sure_ on them to search each clue counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela- ton went to Long and the investi
that leads back to the CIA-Castro tions Committee and for seven
gation was dropped.
affair. years was chief inspector of the
With Rosselli's 'death this sum- FBI: MORGAN SAID he knew, as the
Senate committee recently empha-
mer, the newly appointed Senate
ROSSELLI told _ Morgan about sized as well; that all` information
committee saw its list of know}- the CIA plot in 1967 , when the De- about the CIA plots which could
edgeable witnesses further trim-
partment ot Justice was vigorously have been the incentive for pro med. Some of those witnesses have attempting to deport Rosselli for Castro . forces to kill Kennedy
died violently and some from natu-
an illegal alien. had been kept from the Warren
ral causes.
When Giancana was murdered in Rosselli, Morgan said, cer- Commission
tain that the people he (Rosselli) 0[ was an admirer of Earl War- June of 1975, before he could even
put around Castro in the CIA plot ren, Morgan said. "(His) report
be guestioned by the committee
turned right around and killed Ken- said that Oswald alone killed
staff, authorities attributed it to an The people he still knew Kennedy. It kept bugging me after;
internal gangland struggle even
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SO gruesome & detail from Rosselli 5 though: the: murderer is still un- Rosselli , according to_Morgan; that the Chief Justice could put his
knfhe death decided to talk about his CIA activ- name on a report which didn't as
The of Rosselli, who had ity in hopes Of decreasing the pres- sess the Most significant piece o
appeared before the committee sure from the FBI and Department evidence bearing on the killing 0f;
three times in the year with- Kennedy_
out immunity, caused greater con: of Naturalization and Immigration;
both Justice Department agencies: The information Morgan had
cern on Capitol Hill: Several . friends of Rosselli, in- was passed to Warren via-colum-
THE SAME night Rosselli s body
cluding Morgan; say are con- nist Pearson, 2 mutual
was identified the Iegs hacked vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli friend. Eventually, it reached the:
off and stuffed along with the body to become an organized crime: in- FBI, but, remarkably, even after di-
into an oi] drum Baker, vice
formant by threatening to have:_ rect orders' from President Lyndon
chairman of the Senate Intelligence him' deported :if he 'didn't coopera- Johnson in the spring of 1967, in-
Committee, called for the FBI to te_ vestigation was not vigorously pur:'
Sued involved in the case: (Several IN 1961 through a bungled_
days later; Attorney, General Ed- wiretap effort, the FBI became: THE SENATE Intelligence Com-_
ward Levi ordered FBI involve- aware 0f Rosselli's CIA activities_ mittee compared that apparent in-
ment.) While Giancana and Rosselli action with a statement former FBI
It wasn 't until several weeks were in Florida planning the opera - director J. Edgar Hoover made 'to later, however, that what was tion, Giancana wanted to return to the Warren Commission on 5,
known to Baker. became public Vegas to check on his girl 1964. Hoover said, well; I can knowledge- friend, Phyllis McGuire, whom he sure: you So far as the FBI is con"
A section of the former commit- suspected ' of dating comedian Dan cerned; the case' will be continued tee's April report told 0f a Wash- Rowan. To keep Giancana in. Flori- in an open classification for all; ington attorney who in .1967. went 'da, it was agreed that a would time. That is, any information com:
to Supreme Court Chief Justice be placed in her hotel room and her: to us or any report coming to:
Earl Warren (chairman: of the" conversations monitored. uS from any source will be thor- then-disbanded Warren: Commis: But the private detective they' oughly investigated, SO that we sion) to. say that two'o his clients hired, with CIA money. it has since TWw1II be ~able to prove or "disprove
believed ' they knew about Cubail; been ` learned, was discovered and the allegation:
agents in the United States whi arrested; Eventually the police in- A Senate Committee staff memt
conspired in the assassination- Of vestigation led back to the Castro ber commented recently, what is
Zohn F. Kennedy- plotters:' really happening is that the investi-
Prosecution was avoided when gation which the FBI should have
THE INFORMATION; eventually the CIA intervened ard said the done in 1967 and no one can reached the FBI, but as the Senate "national interest" would be dam- come close to explaining why it committee concluded this year, thel aged if the plot information bea wasn't is actually done 1967 FBI probe was slipshod and came public. now
incomplete_
One of the clients referred to in WHEN THE wiretap case was HART, AS have local investiga-
the report has since been identified again to be Investigated in 1966, tors. has established three possible
as Rosselli. And it has since `been this time by a Senate committee scenario < for Rosselli 's death: his
learned that Rosselli was con- headed by the late Sen. Edward recent organized crime activity: re-
vinced he held a vital clue to the (D Mo.) the CIA again step-- taliation for his Castro assassina-
JFK murder. ped in to stop it_ tion efforts or the information he
held concerning the JFK assassina-
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"Maybe Rcaselli'$ Information Kennedy discussed the ramifica- As 2 condition to his appeara- was the vical nerve 0f the Kennedy -
tions 0f a Castro assassination: ances before the Senate Committee
assassination; a Senate source_told Smathers has since said Kennedy in the Past year; it was agreed that
The Herald: Rosselli 8 & _ would not state the High officials in the Cuban gov- rejected the idea and that the 'dis- names .or confirm; the existence of_
ernment also reportedly feel there cussion was more Of a brain-pick- those egents: whom he knew
was a "Cuban factor' in the JFK ing" session. about; 9 Rosselli's attorney . Leslie
death, but they see it as a result 0f AT LEAST one high-level CIA Scheer said_
exile politics, according to a recent official did testify he believed the The friends and acquaintances o
article by Alton Frye; & senior fel: White House was briefed on Rosselli who could be contacted by
low 0f the Council Foreign Rela-' the Plots but according to Richard The Herald all said never tions in Washington: Bissell, one 0f the officials who heard the names of the Cuban
Frye wrote that he visited Ha- originally decided to use Rosselli , it agents.
vana recently and met with Cuban_ was through the method of 'plau- But a committee source Icau-
officials . including Deputy Prime = 'Sible deniability. tioned; (Cuban agents) read:
Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez. That, according to the recent the committee's report; koow:
volunteer the suspicion Senate report, can also lead to the who' s referred to: 99
that the recent murders of Sam Gi- use of euphemism and circumlocu-
ancana and Johnny Rosselli tion, which are designed to allow
ANOTHER Rosselli _ attorney
surely have some connection . with the President and Other senior offi-
Tom Wadden, a partner Of Edward
Cuban exile politics and the 'Kenne- cials to deny knowledge 0 an Op"
Bennett Williams; said, "Yes,
dy murder;" Frye wrote: eration should it be disclosed. 9 |
think he had more knowledge"
Another alleged link between'
than he testified to.
THERE HAVE been theories re- the White House and the under-
Searching Rosselli's more recent
cently propounded to show why world plotters, first made public by past for enemies also presents"
both Pro and anti-Castro forces the Senate Committee, has also
problems, investigators say.
could have wanted to JFK out been denied by virtually The decline of . John Rosselli apa
of power in 1963. involved. Judith
everyone pears 'to begin in the late : 1960s. In
On the one hand, there is the re- the
Campbell Exner, 1967 , he was convicted in a card-
port of French journalist Jean Dan- woman who claims to have cheating scandal at the posh, celeba been friend and lover t0 both Gian-
iel, who was the bcarer to Castro
cana and JFK, introduced to both
rity-filled Friar' $ Club in' Los- An-
Of an offer fromJFK for calmer re- by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in_
geles where the influence Of Sina-
lations. Castro was reportedly the Castro plottlog,' those close: to3 tra had made him a member ac
agreeable, The report Stated; that both Giancana and Kennedy have
cording t0 investigators
Daniel later was lunching with said. Deportation pressures were also
Castro when word came that Ken- mounting at this time.
nedy had been ` shot. Daniel de- A MAN with access to Kenne-
scribed the Cuban leader a5 genu- dy's closest advisers told The Her-
ROSSELLI entered prison on the
inely shocked by the news_ ald recently , 'The Giancana-Ros- conviction in 1970 where he would
It has since been learned that selli thing is unrelated t0 the Exner serve three years of a five-year ,
probably in the very hour JFK was thing; I was there: Sure JFK knew sentence.
shot, a one-time Castro supporter her, but he was naive about thosel In 197] he was brought ld a was recei= a poison pen device kinds of things' federal grand jury in Los Angeles from a CIA agent in what was {4 There is documentation to show which was probing whether some
long-running anti-Castro effort. that on March 22, 1962, Hoover indentified Detroit_organized crime
That Cuban agent was code-named: lunched = privately with Kennedy
AMLASH, and he has since been and presumably gave him his first leaders conspired with the Emprise
identified as Rolando Cuebala, now information linking Exner with the Corp: a giant firm with nation-|
imprisoned in Cuba for his assassi- gangsters: The final = recorded wide race track and sporting event
nation plotting: phone call between the White concessions toi hide ' financial In-
House and Exner was made 'only terests in the: Frontier Hotel in Las:
WHETHER JFK had knowledge few hours later. Vegas
of , or perhaps 'even approved; any Another possible link discussed
Rosselli, too,` had, an interest in
of the assassination plotsswill; prob: in the Senate report shows that thel the Frontier_ which opened in 1967.=
ably never be known: same unidentified Cuban-to whom] He owned the gift shop concession
His closest advisers; who testi:] Rosselli passed the poison pills
along with a partner named Joe
fied before the Senate Committee prior to the of operation Breen: How Rosselli obtained the
all said he had no knowledge 0 in April of 1961 , was among concession is unclear, but- Breen
such plots and would: never have group of Cuban' exile leaders whol
said it gave Rosselli an' income of
approved of them met with JFK following the inva about S60,000.
The same month Rosselli was sion fiasco." ROSSELLI at one time hdd been
passing poison pills to his Cuban
2 major influence in Las Vegas contact at a meeting at the IT IS known that several of the Several sources said that when the tainebleau; March 0f" 1961, former - Cubans with whom Rosselli owners Of the Desert Inn wanted Florida Sen. George Smathers, 3 worked have been identified, _ but Howard Hughes to move Out of the
friend of Kennedy; said he and investigators. say that not all are penthouse because his special
known. needs were 'costly and putting
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more profitable it was Rosselli
who patched things up. One friend said that `' just before
Hughes eventually bought the Giancana'$ death, Rosselli had aC-
Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier. cepted Giancana'$ offer of money .
What Rosselli told the federal The friend was to act a8 the inter-
grand Jury about the Frontier. in mediary: "Let me figure out what
1971 is unknown. Rosselli didn't my next (attorney's) tab will; be;
testify later at the trial at which the frend quoted Rosselli as say -
Anthony J. Zerilli and Michael: Pol-
izzi and the. Emprise,Corp-, among Rosselli is described as a man
others; were convicted: with a sense 0f humor who did lit-
ZERILLI and - Polizzi are ` still in tle offending:
jail, In 1973, the ,House %f Repre- A California woman who had
sentatives Select Committee on known Rosselli .for about 40 years
Crime: probed the influence of Or- told The Herald, MIf you were
ganized crime in sports and one around hin for 30 minutes you'd
area they. looked at was Emprise like him because he would regard
and the Frontier Hotel case_ you as & human
At the time of the conviction, the MIf you had a headache he would
federal prosecutor asked that Poliz" . either get you an aspirin or send zi and Terilli be 'jailed immediately
someone to get one [said some- because monitored, wiretapped thing significant there
# he would
conversations showed that the two it Or he would send' someone had talked about "murder the kill- he wasn't a but he wasn 't &
of certain individuals: tough guy either
An intimate associate of Rosselli,
however; discounts the possibility
that ' Rosselli's grand jury. appear-
ance could have led, to his death.
"They know Johnny didn't talk to
the grand jury, the associate said.
JOE BREEN said Rosselli hadn t
been to Las ,Vegas for nine years,
that "he's never even seen the gifth
shop.'
Since his prison release and
move to Plantation, Rosselli wasn t
trying to regain power; according
to his friends. He had no muscle_
said an associate."[ can t believe
Rosselli was getting back into' mob
9} stuff.
But at the same time, `many of
the associates were surpised to
learn about Rosselli's recent visits
with alleged organized crime
ures On the West Coast.
Several associates speculate that
Rosselli wanted to get involved' in
casino gambling, preferably in,the
Middle: East, and was looking
someone with: moneyato back him:_
"MY IMPRESSION was that he
was: broke; Morgan said: "He told
me last-year, 'Im_in_bad,financial
'straits:`
Scheer said Rosselli's income in-
cluded about $60,000 from the
shop and about $3,500 in social se-
curity_ most of which went for
back fees to attorneys and for
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18 8 1510 CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
Note 13 pretrlal was netionwlde_
perjury Involviug alleged contributiou to thougb raried certalo Bections %f the
poiicical . orgenizatior Iu return for Im- expobure
U. 8 Aitchell DCN.Y.1973 ProJudce
rwent of Securities eud Exchange Scuntyy
B "Supp: 1239, eppeel disuulssed 45 Relerance Ot goiwesstor verecsio%"eitledueo
con
{onticui
F.ed 1290. Sentence
1 wvere not Sererance {cceoziccEabge
ance 0r of Venue on ground thet, Suffictency 0:
1511.
Obstructlon o State 'or local law entorcement
8
or two Or more pergons to conspire to ob- Constlta'
(a) It' Bhall be unlawful
minal laws of 2 State Or political gubdl- Croctc
Btruct the enforcement o the cri gambllog buglnega 8' Sectfo?
10}
rision thereof, wlth the intent to facilitate an' Illegal
tion were
thousb they Je-
more 0f such
persond does any act to eftect the object ed cher:
(1) one or tlong U. €
of such a consplracy; elected, 77 F.2d 82
one or
more of such pergons Ig an offlclal or employee: 1or SEe
(2) or otherwlge, Of such State or Political gubdivlslon; and
Thls ~sect appointed,
more of such persons conducts, flnances, manages, pergon8 to (3) one or part of Iilegal gambling busi- ment or Cri
supervlse8, dlrects, Or owns a]l or cei suhalvis
cnitate Jlle;
ness. speclfied ci
(b) As used n thls sectlon -_
2 gambling business Bauees E3
(1) dIllegal gambling businegs" meang
Infringe on USCiCor whlch
vlolatlon of the law of a Stete or polltlcel gubdlvl-
process Or (4) Js 8 telly Fague
gion in whlch It is conducted;
finance, S Garr
Involves fIve or more pergons who conduct, 1112
(II)
direct, or own all or Dart of such buslness; 1. Detinit[
manage, supervige, Definltlo
neBs In tl and
has been
or remalog In eubstantially continuous opera- Teo cozct
(ILL)
Jn
excess Of thirty dayg or hag & grOgs revenue Igho
not tion for 8 perlod
th
of $2,000 In any single day- 8Z
an
(2) "gambling'
Includes but I8 not llmlted_to pool-selllng; bok- auded #8
malntalning
Blot machines, roulette wheels,_ Or dlce tables,
Rlen}; C.A maklng, lotteries, pollcy, bolita or numbers games, or selllng
10 Indlet and conducting gherf
chances therein: the District fendant,
"State" eneang any State 61 the Unlted States; wa9 Drop:
(3)
wealth of Puerto Rlco, and any territory ebafRe8s:
of Columbla, the Common en
Co}
or
poggession of the Unlted Stateg lottery, or glmflar iG3s te
(c)
Tssesection shali not #pply to any blngo gane
under para- ett, CAc
conducted by an organization exempt trom tax Indictz
game 0f chance
of gection 501 of the Internal Revenue Code to obstru
graph (3) of gubsectlon (c) receipts derlved from Buch 2,EiGuis}
of 1954, a9 amended, if no part of the shareholder, member, or enl - spire t0 activity Jnures to the benefit O any prlvate
for actual expenses Iow9 Of
ployee of such organlzatlon; except a8 compengation FEsibg
incurred by him In the conduct of guch activity.
mot cumgtanc
this gection shell be punished by & fIne of 0t ths
(4) Whoever vlolates for Dot more than flve yearg, o both E88rd2
more than {20,000 %5 'Tipesoznent 802 (%t
Oct: 15, 1970, 84 Stat: 936. " Garris Added PubL. 91-452, 'Tltle VIII; !
on the BaIne Tndicti
Ln Text Peregraph (3) of Blon 0f a State or posreieiors
8ny person o with CUI Jbsectfocefc) o scction 501 orthe inter- G4bicclizette1:' posea by @Wy aw ot 4n} or cfitui:
subsection (~ 'Code 0, j054, referred to Je any obligation politicat subdivi- 0l this
na) eevezue {S classified to section 501(c) Stote Or Jessect oossesg20l Or person8
subsec (c) Revenue Code 0f 8ion 0f @ Or jegislatire his- nent 0f of Titie ?8, Inter Legielatlve Hlstory; For see gubdivi:; 154
0f Flndlmge; and purpose of Tub.L 91-452,
Pe tate Mlle congreaslone} Etebenenti_%32 provided
t87
U.G.Code Cong: aud Adn.New8, ified @Jr
8ectlon 801 Of Eress tlnas thet Mlegel 7007. to time
that "The Gcegteidespresa Gse Of, ana section gambling Znvoives interstate commerce 02 cont
ba9 8n effcct "on, t0 Iotes dictmen and the fucilitie: ChereoE
Section 811 ot Indez applieat
Priority of Btate Laws: "No prQvi- Usc,
Fub I 91-452 proFided cthnt; tlNe Rection Admigelblllty % evldence 8 spiracy
sion OE {o4is 183e ofCRcuzE
"thle: titlc, Ing conseieationality "fther laws 84 nal Iuw end section titie aud enacting ma Construction with sectiog section 2518 8 88h otel under this Bection Definltiona 1 Jc cOnspir terie) set out 98 title} indicates Rn Diacovery end Inepectlon inal Jw} scction 1935 of this to Oc- Flomente of offenab 8 thereor
Intent Qn tieia GeGich tecl"REGeais?_
0p= Evldence 4 ga1bli; Snsbe tieta 'Excllsibu 8cb
the lew ot 0 Indlctment 10 cuista
erates to the excluslou Dolitical gubdivi- Participente In buainese 8 Conspi: State Or pogsegsion, Or & Law E 200
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18 S 1505
CRIMES Ch. 73 Ch. 73
t bitnt Historical amd Revision Notes Que m)
Koviscr g Noto: Cased on Title 18, C. 1362 Anondtnent: able wit
S.C,, 1910 ed,, 8 %1a (Mar_ 4, 1909 , c 321, stituted
Iub.Ts, 87-Ct;e sub- and#ho 0 1331, 88 addcd Jan. 13, 1046,
6. 1, &4 Stat.
the catch linc "Obstruction of ncss" tha
13 ; June 8, 1945, L, 178, $ 2 59 Stat. 234).
cicoccedd C5_ before departments_ agen - dlefendant committces" for "Influencing
Of Word "agencyE Tfas substituted for injaring sitness before gencics an
Ihen ant
thc words "Independent establishinent, committecs" and punishcd wilfa[ prosecutif
board, conmission" Jo two Instances to moral, conccalmcnt, destruction, Rtilz- and corrt:
climinate any possible ambignity a$ to tion, altcration or falsification of doct-
Talse and
sCoDe of section: (Sec dcfinitirc scction 6 ncnts #hich #cre suhjcct of de-
ate Comu
of thls titlc) mnand uuder the Antitrust Civil S C.A.C:
Act if done wich the Intcnt to
Process deuied 85
Minor chanfcs Bere made In phrazc- compliance "ith Drctent 2 706,
ologs. Soth Congrcss Iouse Teport No. mand.
civil investigatire de"
304.
6 Indictt
References In Tert. The Antitrust
Leglslatlre Ilistory For Icgislative his:
Iudictn} Civil Proccss Aet, relerrcd to in
and purpose of Pub.L. 87-804+, 340
is
the tert, 1962 U.S.Codc Cong: and Adm.Ncws, Jawfully,
classified to claptcr 34 of Titlc 15 2307 p. corruptly Commercc and Trade. aod Corrit}
struct and
Notes of Decisiong cisc of po"
citc act,
Gcnerally and partla.
Constitutionallly 1
sense, pendency throughout thc Cn - fron Scnal
Evidence 8
tire Unitcd States within meaning of this. ion Involct
Indictment 0P mntormation Section crcd criminal ofcn3e sonable rel Proceodinge Fithin scctiou 8
ageinst one sho corruptly attempta to quicy of
Questions for Jury
obstruct or Jmpede the due and prope: conccaling
Witucss within Bcction
administration of lew , undcr which such mcmorandu procecding is had bcforc dcpartineut #hich or agency of the United Statcs_ Tarn mitter of U 8, C.4.Mian.JO5o, 2C0 F2d J6L ticlenlly el Library rcfcrences_ In prosecutlon for corruptly cndeurtra ~ection dca
Obstrueting Justice 637, 21. ing to Infuencc and impede duc a#1 juring witr
C.J.S. Olstructing Justicc 83 $, 22 proner administration of Jaw in relation mittces. D.
to naluralization proceeding allcge llz 1S7 F SupD
1 Constitutionality pending before Inmigration Serrice
based on 2 falsc statement allgedlr Iudictraem
Former scction g1a of this titlc [now made In defendant'$ Iawfally, wi
this section] providing that whoercr "cor- don
applicetion for Dar- ruptly infu
ruptly endcarors to influcuce, Intimidate regarding other arrests and conri
or impcde any witness in tions ngainst "aturalization pros corruptly. e]
#s
procccding, etc. cecding Tes mot pcnding in 1951 before and impedc not unconstllutional for failure to the Service when the defendant med mwcr of in{
Up an ascertainablc standard 0f guilt the application for Jarticularly
contrary to U.SC.A.Const. Amends. 5 audh
pardon, nor IZtan tially destro 6, U 8 Fa Irum(icld, D.C.La.104V, & F.
Dardon was obtained by him, So {lS t0
Supp. C9G. authorize conriction, where at the time Scuatc Select
0l charged offense the Service had no a@- rolcc Or reco
plication in its hands, in that it rcz:rd- Iation to sub
2. Gcnerally cd thc naturalization application 3s # ale Sclect Co
This scction cofcrs any actirity #hich haring bcen entitled to be submitted & #ithholdiug
would influcnce Or intimidate wituess Who returned it to defendant, and defentaut containing
might bc called to testily aud J3 not subsequentty eubmitted 0 ncw rcasonable
limitcd to witncss who has brcn callcd to tion in 1955 havivg no relation to Trt inquiry; aud
testify with delendant's knowledgc U. S_ was donc in 1951. Id_ dlismlssed, 01
17 Battcn, D.C.D.C.19GA, 220 F.SupD. 492, judicata app
certiorari denied 85 S.Ct; 898, %SO U.S 912,
#Procccding" within this section :- icut chargiz
13 LEd.2d 709, rchcaring denied 8 S.Ct.
cludes any Inrestigation Which is direcee-l refusa] to a1:
1337, 381 U.S: 930_ 1 L.Fd.2d GSS.
by forina} order of Securities and Ex- Selcct Commi
change Commission and at which desi: "
3, Troccedings within Scctinn nated oficcr takcs testimcny under Indlctincnt
L S, F . Batten, D.C.D.C.1c;, 220 1 Sup} JawEully, Will
Thc suhmission to the Naturalization 492, certiorarl denied 85 SCt S93, 3) ruptly infuer Servicc o: an application to peti- U.S: 012, 13 I.Ed.%l 799, rehcariug denie-' corruptly @M( tion for naturalizatiou cannot; in Inga] 85 S.Ct. J3st, 381 US 14 Ikd.ed 6 and impede
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73
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE 18 S 1505
Ch_ (h.
within section power of inqniry by ccrtain specifc Jcts
#rilosss particularly altering. dcfacing and par-
2 #hom dcfendant knew was proh -
tially destroring and withholding froni sion Notes
witness before Scuate Cominittce Commnittcc ccrtain union
iutendcd to testify wag a "bit- Senate Selcct
Amcndment: Pul.T, 87-64H4 sob #ho inroice or record, which bore reasonable
ted the catchliuc "Obstructioo 4 though not der suhpoena when
rclation to suhjcct matter of inquiry ot
wlings hcforc dcparlments,, 17e8 #Jmt fare Hin false stor; to tell
Senate Select Committec, and conccatins
aud committces" for "Influencins & 00 and iE Je tcstificd, for Durnoses of
and withholding envclope and mcmoram-
Xing witness bcfore agencies 434 ~tics foz subornation of perjury
dum containing union'$ rccortls #hich
aittecs and puwished thc willful N
"orruntly infuencing witness to give
bore reasonahle relation to subjcct nat -
conccalment, destruction, mutiza a!d perjurions information to Scn-
ter of 'inquiry , and relerant to it, sould
#lteratlon or falsification 0f dorda. Coumittee investigators Stein % U.
not bc disanissed, on ground of double
which were the subject ot d (A.Cal.ldG+ 337 F2d 14, certiorari
jcopardy bccausc of prior indictmcnt
under the Antitrust Civil Proree #SJ S.Ct. SS9, :S0 U.S_ 907 , 13 Ird.
defendant with unlawful rclusal charging
iil dune with tlic inteut to presene to answer qucstion before Senate Select
iiance with ciril inrestigative 4& Committee, sincc SaIme facts would
Iulictient or inforralion prore cach case. Id_
j~ltive Ilistory Fvr legislatire hite Jinlictment charging that defcndant Min - 4n indietment for conspiracy to vi0.
and parposc of Pub I. S7-Ct, 8d fally, wilfully , and knowhngly did late crminal code hy subornation of per-
,&Cudc Cong: ad Adm.Newg, M uptly iufuencc, ohstruct and imperle
jury in procccding beforc the Fcderal
cvrruptly endearor to influence, oha Tetroleum oard Dos not subject to crit-
fut and impede due aud proper Cxcr-
'Jcisn that it mas too vaguc, contradic-
Vf Dower 0f iuquiry by ccrtain spC-
tory duplieitous, uncertain #nd indefalte_
m aets particulacly altering; dcfacing
U S. I~. Trumficld, DC,Ia.1949, 85 r sions
% puaftially dcstroy ad withholdlug
G9c. Scnete Selcct Committcc ccrtain Un - Supp.
hmwc nendency throughout the 03+ "
1nitcd Statcs sithin mncaning 0/ thle inrolce or record, #hich hore Tca - C, Eridcnce
crcating criminal ofenee #Ilc relntion to suhject natter of im - The "two witncss rule" W3 not appl - st
onc rho corruptly attempta 80 : Gf Scnate Sclcct Commitlce, and
cablc in showing that defendant violated
Tuct or impedc the due and propet oaling aud Withholding cnvelope and
this section proseribing ohstructlon of
inistration ot Jaw Jinder which suck torandum contnining uriion $ rccords
justice by influencing #itness to givc
orccding Is had before departrent "eh
Dore rcasonable rclation to subjcct
faIse testimony and information to Sen -
~CJ of the Cnited States. Taraa Xr Of inquiry ana relcrant to it, 5u0- atc Committee and its inycstigators; and
8.. C.A.Hinn.1959_ 206 F,d 661, cvnthly chargcd an oftense under this
testimory 0f one person alone was sumi-
ction dealing wth infuencing or in-
cient to conrict. Stcin 17, D. 8., C.A.Cal.
prosccution fvr corruptly endedror:: :wriug sitness beforc agencics and com - 106+, 337 F.2d 1t, certiorari denicd 85 s.Ct:
{0 imluencc and impede due an _ilee3_ U. S Y Prcsser DC,Ohio 1900, U.S 907= 13 L.kd.2d 705.
e aduinistration of Jaw in relatioa C
SS9. 380
1;P.SWDD
uaturalization procccding allegedlz Testimony of ono persom alone is
beforc Immigration Serrice ludlictment charging that dcfcndant ult- cient to conrict defendant for obstructing
0n falsc statoment allegedls fully_ Wrilfully and kuowingly did cor- fustice ju infueneing witness to gire
iu defendant's application for par" Ety infuencc, ohstruct und in aud false tegtimony to Scnatc Committec aad
resarding other arrests and Courc" ~~ruptly cndearor to iufuence; obstruct tc gire falsc and pcrjurious inforinativn
nginst hirn, maturalization Dror impede due and propcr cxercise of to conimittce {urcstigators Id
#6 1/*83 not pending in 1031 hefore. #
of iuquiry by ccrtain specific aets; sustained convictions under
wrvicc sheu thc defcndant made &rticularly altering, dcfacing and par- Eridence
inducing wit-
applieaticn [Or pardon, HOr shed. : dcstroy aad withholding from ccunts charging Zsctypibd
corruptly in.
on Was ohtained by him, So #S {0 ate Select Committee certain union in- ness to testify falsely
perjurious
"rizi conriction, where at the t.je or rccord, IFhich bore rcasonablc re- fiuencing him to give false aud
had 30" matter of inquiry of Set- informnation to inyestigators of Scnade
ir ged offensc the Servicc ivu to subjcct Id. ation in its hands_ jn that it regara #e Selcct Committee, anal conccaling and Committee.
he na trolization oPplication 48 ithholdlug envelopc and niemoraudum
#5 bceu nlitled to De submitted Jn4 etalnieg union's recordg, which borc 7, Qucstions for jury
writh Gh
"ied it to dcfendant, and defendsoe sonable relation to subject mnatter of Whethcr defendant Sccucedes "itd
Kr-
@"qentls sulmitted 0 new Inquiry_ and relcrant to it, woula not ba struction of justicc in
hs j ^
i0 19j5 haring no relation to wbsea Gj4missed, on 'ground that doctrinc ot rcs
dugc Cerso ssooutesfitrestiiseion
that m0
dvne in 1OS1. Id_ :olicata applicd hccausc of prior Indict- dueing person tertesn
sccurities throligh
scction in: Bet charging dcfendant with tnlawful Jad PErclvascd
defendant wa3 head aud rucceding" writhin this beforc Senate frmn of
Jcs #D investigation which is directeu = 3fusal to auswcr question had rcsold sccuritics to that firin fnew
tVrmlatl order of Sccurities and Er: ~dect Committec Id_ that witness woula be asked to testify
Ffc Commission and at Thich desig- that defendant un; under oath waS jury question. U. 8. Y
24 oiccr talcs tcstimony under Indictmcat charging
did cor- Batten; D.CD.C.1O6 , 226 F Supp 402, cer-
Iatten, D.C.DC.196}, 220 F.Supo HEuly,%lvobsd UctoiaGmpad €d
tiorari dcnied 85 SCt. 898, 3S0 US 91?
certiorarl denicd 85 S.Ct SIS. 3 Fuptly infuencc, obstruct
obstruct 13 ILl.ed 780, rchearing denied s S.Ct.
{12 13 IFd.d 709, rckcaring morruntly edcator t8 fraucncexebise
of 1557 , 381 U.S: 930_ 14 J Ed.ed CRS_
61 :Idfinpede due and Droper
3.Ct. Jtoz, 381 US. 930, 1 LEd.Eul 597
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1504 TITLE 18,-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE Page 4313
AMENDMENTB obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to infiluence, ob-
1908_Pub L. 90 678 substituted "Unlted Statee magis- struct, Or impede the due and proper administration
trate" and "maglstrate" Ior "Unlted Statee commlgsloner' of the law under which such proceedlng is being had
and commiesloner" In two Instances, reepectively. before such department Or agency of the United
Cross REFERENCrS States, Or the due and proper exercise of the power
Brtbery Of oflcer8, Jurora or Witnesse8, see section 301 of inqulry under Whlch such inquiry or' investigation
et seq' Of thls title. is belng had by either House, Or any committee 0f Infiuencing Juror Or Wltness &8 crlminal contempt, gee
section 401 Qf thlg title. either House or any joint committee Of the Con-
Wire Or oral communcationg_ euthorlzatlon for inter- gress
ception; to provide evtdence O ofense8 under thle sectlon, Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
See Gectlon 2516 Of thlg tltle not more then five years, or both: (June 1948,
SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER 'SECTION8 ch: 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub L. 87-864_
Thla section 18 referred to In sectlong 201, 1961 , 3516 S 6 (& ) 76 Stat. 551; Oct_ 15, 1970, Pub_ L. 91-452_
of thle tiele_ title I $ 903, 84 Stat. 947.)
8 1504. Infuencing juror by writing. LEGISLATIVE HISTorr
Whoever attempts to Infiluence the action or de- Revlser' 3 Note_~Baged On title 18_ 0. 8. C, 1940 ed,
cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the $ 2414 (Mer , 4 1909, ch_ 321 , 135a_ 48 edded Jan_ 13
1940, cn. 1 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1945 , ch. 178, 2, 59
Unlted States upon any issue or matter pending Stet_
before such juror, Or before the Jury Of whlch he Is & Word 'egency' wa8 gubatituted for the words 'Independ -
member, or pertaining to hls duties, by writing or ent establishment board commiesion In two Inetance8
sending to him any wrltten communlcatlon_ In rela - to ellminate any pogsible amblguity 48 to scope of beC -
tlon (See definitive section 6 of thla title.) tion to such issue or matter, shall be flned not more Minor changes Fere made In phrageology. than 81,000 0r Imprisoned not more than six months
RErERENC%S IN Tezt or both:
The Antltruet Civli Procesa Act; referred to In tert, Nothing in thls section shell be construed to [8 cleesifed to chepter 34 O Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
prohlbit the communicatlon Of 8 request to appear
AMENDMENTB before the grand jury (June 25, 1948 ch. 645 ,
1970_Pub. L. 91-462 added reference to becton 1988
62 Stat. 770.) Of thls tltle.
LEGISLATTvE HIstorr 1962-Pub. L 87-884 8ubetituted the catchllne "Ob-
Reviser' 3 Note._~Based on title 18, 0. 8. C,, 1040 ed: struction O proceedlnga before depertmente, agencles, end
243 (Mer_ 4, 1909 , ch 321 _ 9 137, 35 Stat. 1113) _ commlttees' {or 'Infuencing or Injuring witness before
Last paragraph was added to remove the possibllity that agencles and commltteeb" and punshed the willful Te"
0 proper request to appear before 8 grand Jury mlght be moval_ concealment; destruction, mutlletion, alteretion or
construed 28 0 technlcal violetlon Of thla section. felslfication Of documente whlch were the gubject O1
Mlnor changes were made In phraseology demand under the Antltruet Clvll Process Act 1f done with
the intent to prevent compltance Wlth 0 clvll Investigative
Caogs REFERENCEJ demand Brlbery of publtc ofcials and wltnesses, see sectlon 201 CRos? RETEBENCE?
of thla tttle_ Bribery ot publlc ofciels Or witnessee, 8ee bection 201
Minor Offenses tred by United States meglatratee 28 Of thio title. excluding offenses punlshable under tbls Bectlon, Bee
sectlon 3401 of thls tltle_ SECTION RETERRED To IN OTHER SEcrons
SECTION REPERRED To IN OTHER SECTTONB This sectlon 18 referred to In gection 303 Of thle tltle;
Thle section Is referred to In section 203 O[ thls 61tl0. title 13 Bection 1467_
8 [505. Obstruction of proceedinge before depart- 8 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; falee
ments agencies. and committees baill
Whoever corruptly, Or by threats Or force, or by any Whoever felonlously steals, tekes away, alters, fal -
threatening letter or communicatlon, endeavors to sifies, Or otherwise avolds any record, writ, process_
influence, intimldate, Or impede any witness in any or Other proceeding_ In eny court Of the United
proceeding pending before any department or agency States whereby any judgment Is reversed_ made
of the United States, Or in connectlon with any In- void, Or does not take efect; or
quiry or investigation being had by either House, Or Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
any committee Of etther House, or any Jolnt commit- edged Im any such court, any recognizance, ball, or
tee of the Congress or Judgment. In the name of any other person not
Whoever injures any party or witness In his per- privy or consenting to the same
son Or property on account 0f his attending or having Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
attended such proceeding, inqulry or investigetion; not more than fve years, Or both (June 35, 1948,
or on account of his testifyilng or having testifled to ch: 645, 62 Stat_ 770.)
any matter pending therein; or LearslaTIvE] HIBToBT Whoever, with Intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or Reviser' $ Note:-Based on title 18, 0.3.C,, 1940 ed, 6 233
obstruct compliance In whole or in pert with eny (Mer_ 4, 1000 . ch. 331, [ 137. 36 Btet; 1412)_
civil investigative demand duly and properly made The term of Imprsonment Web reduced Iror to 6
under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968 years, to conform tbe punlshment with Mke onee fOr
Bimller Ofenges. (See Bectlon 1503 Of thle title.) of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
Minor changee were made In phreseology
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
Crona RE#Erencee falsifies any documentary matertel which Is the
Conceelment, removal Or destructlon of recorde, See subject of such demand; or section 2071 of thle title.
Whoever corruptly , or by threats or force, or by Embezzlement or theft 0f recorde, generally Bee section
any threatening letter or communlcation influences 641 Of thia tJele-
25 ,
234) ~
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AMENDMENTS obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
1988_Pub_ L, 90-678 gubgtituted "Onited States magis - struct, Or impede the due and proper administration
trato'e and "maglstrate" for "Unlted States commissioner" of the law under whlch such proceeding is being hed
and commlesloner" In two [nstancee, respectively_ before such department or agency of the United
Cross RErERENCrs States, or the due and proper exercise ot the power
Bribery Of ofcer8, Jurors or mltnesbeb see bectlon 301 of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
et seq: Of thls title.
Infiuenclng Juror or witness 08 crlminal contempt, 866
is being had by either House, or any committee of
section 401 o thls title. either House Or eny Joint committee Of the Con-
Wire or Ore] communications, euthorlzatlon for Inter- gress-
ceptilon, to provilde evidence o offenses under thle 8ectlon, Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or Imprlsoned
see section 2516 Of thls ttle_ not more than five years or both. (June 25, 1948,
SECTTON RErEaRED To IN OTHER SECTION8 ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept; 19, 1962, Pub. L 87-664,
Thlg section J8 referred to In sectiong 201, 1981, 2518 8 6 (a) 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub_ L 91-452
Of this title_ title I, } 903, 84 Stet 947.)
8 1504. Influencing juror by writing: LEGISLATTvE HISTORT
Whoever attempts to influence the actlon Or de- Reviser'$ Note_~Besed on tltle 18, 0. 5. C, 1940 ed.
cislon of any grand or petit juror of any court of the 2418 (Mer _ 4, 1909 , ch. 321, 135a_ 08 added Jan. 13
1940 ch 1 644 Stat_ 13; June 8, 1945, ch 178. 2, 59 United Btates upon any Issue or matter pending Stat. 234) _
before such juror, or before the Jury 0f which he Is & Word "agency wa8 substltuted for the words "Independ-
member, or pertalning to his duties, by.writing Or ent establishment, board, commlsalon In two Instances
sending to him any written communication, In rela - to ellminate any posslble ambigulty a8 to scope Of gec-
tion. (See defnltlve gectton 8 O thle title tlon to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more Minor cbanges were made In phrageology.
than $1,000 or Imprisoned not more than slx months
REFERENCES IN Tzrt or both:
Nothing in thls section shall be construed to Tbe Antitruet Civul Procegs Act; referred to In tert,
J8 clasetded to chapter 34 Of Tltle 15 , Commerce and Trade_
prohiblt the communication of 8 request to appear
before the grand jury. (June 25 , 1948, ch. 645_ AMENDMENT?
1970_Pub L. 91-453 added reference Co Becuon 1988 62 Stat. 770.= O[ thls tltle. LECISLATTVE HIsTORT 1962 Pub. L. 87-88* bubstituted the catchllne "Ob-
Revtser' 9 Note _~Baxed on title 18, 0. 8, C, 1940 ed: struction Of proceedinge before depertments, agencles, and
243 (Mar_ 4 100d_ ch. 321, $ 137, 35 Stat. 1113 commltteeg" for 'Infuencing Or Injuring WItness before
Last paragraph wes added to remove the possibillty that agencles and commlttee:" and punlshed the willful ree
proper request to appear before 0 grand Jury might be moval_ concealment degtruction_ mutlletlon, alteration Or
construed 88 0 technical violation 0f thl8 sectlon. falblflcation Of documents whlch were the subject Of
Minor chengee were made In phrageology_ demand under the Antltrust Clvll Procees Act If done with
Cross REFERENCEB the Intent to prevent compllance with & civil Investigative
demand Bribery Of publlo Omcials and wltnecee8 see gection 201 Crogs RETERENCEB
Of thls title.
Minor Offenseg tred by Unlted States maglstrates a8 Brtbery of publlc ofciale Or witnesses, see gection 201
excluding offenges punlshable under this Bectlon, see
of thle title.
sectlon 3401 of thls title SECTION Rerzrred T0 IN OTIER SECTON8
SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHzr BecTIONB Thls sectlon J8 referred to In sectlon %03 of thla tltle;
Thia sectlon Is referred to In gectlon 203 of thls title title 12 gection 1457_
8 1505. Obgtruction of proceedings before depart- 8 1506_ Theft or alteration of record or procegs; false
ments; agencies, and committees: bail:
Whoever corruptly, or by threats Or force or by eny Whoever felonlously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
threatening letter Or; communicatlon, endeavors to sifles, Or Otherwise evoids any record writ, process_
infiuence, intimidate, or Impede any witness in any or other proceeding, in any court OI the Unlted
proceeding pending before any department or agency States, whereby any Judgment Is reversed mede_
of the United States, Or in connection with any In- void or does not take efect; or
quiry or investigation being had by either House, or_ Whoever acknomledges, Or procures to be acknowl-
any committee of either House, Or any jolnt commit- edged {m any such court. any recognizance, ball, or
tee of the Congressz or judgment, In the name of any other person not
Whoever injures any party or witness In his per- privy or consenting to the same _
son r property on account of his attending or heving Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
attended such proceeding_ inquiry or investigation, not more than fve years, or both: (June 25 , 1948 ,
or On account of his testifying or having testifled to ch 645, 62 Stat. 770.)
any matter pending therein; or
Lrdielattvz] Hibtort Whoever, With intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or Reviser' $ Note_Based on title 18, 0.8. C,, 1940 ed,, $ 233
obstruct compliance in whole or in part with eny (Mar 4. 1909, ch. 331, $ 127. 35 Btet; 1111)
civil investigative demand duly and properly made The term O Imprisonment wa8 reduced Irom 1 to 6
under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968 years to conform tbe punlshment Ritb Mke ones {or
of this tltle willfully removes from any place, con - Blmllar ofenbes (See Bection 1503 of thls tItle.)
Mlnor charges were mede In phrageology.
ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, Or by other means
falsifies any documentary materle] which is the Croas REFERENCES
Concealment, removal Or deetruction of recordb, be0 subject Of such demand or section 2071 of thte tltle.
Whoever corruptly, Or by threats or force, or by Enbezzlement Or tbelt of recorde, generelly, bee section
any threetening letter or communication influences, 841 Of thle title-
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AMENDMENTS obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
1068~Pub. L. 90-578 substituted "Untted State8 magis- struct, or impede the due and proper administration
trate" and 'magistrete {or Unlted Stetes commlssloner" of the law under which such proceedlng is being had
and commissloner"' , In two Instencee respectively before such department or agency of the United
Cross REFERENCES States. Or the due and proper exercise of the power
Brlbery of Oficers, Jurors Or wltnesseb, see Bection 301 of inquiry under whlch such inquiry Or investigation
et seq- of thls title is being had by either House, Or any committee 0f
Influenclng Juror Or wltness a8 crlminal contempt, see
section 401 of thls tltle 'either House Or any Joint committee of the Con-
Wire or oral communicatlons _ euthorlzatlon for Inter- gress
ceptlon, to provide evldence Of offenses under thls gectlon, Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprlsoned
see sectlon 2516 of thls title_ not more than fve years_ or both_ (June 25, 1948_
SECTION Rzrzrred To IN OTHER SECTIONS ch: 645_ 62 Stet: 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-864
Thls sectlon jg referred t In sections 301, 1981, 3516 86(a) , 76 Stat_ 551; Oct_ 15, 1970, Pub. L 91-452,
of thi8 tltle_ title C_ 8 903, 84 Stat_ 947.)
8 1504. Infuencing juror by writing: LEGISLATIVE HISTORT
Whoever attempts to influence the action or de- Reviser': Notes_-Baged On tltle 18, U_ 8. C, 1940 ed..
cision of any grand or pctit juror 0f any court of the 2410 (Mar 4 1000 ch 321, 5135a , 89 added Jen. 13_
1940 , ch. 1, 54 Stat_ 13; June 8 1945, ch. 178_ 2, &0 United States upon any Issue or matter pending Stat. 234)
before such juror, or before the Jury of whlch he Is & Word 'agency was substituted for the wordg "Independ-
member, or pertalning to hls duties. by writing or ent establlshment; board commlsslon In Lwo Inetences
sending to hlm any written communication, In rela- to eliminate any pogsible amblgulty a8 to scope Ol Bec-
tlon. (See defnitive sectlon 6 of thls title tion to such issue Or matter, shall be flned not more Minor changes were made In phraseology.
than $1,000 or Imprisoned not more than slk months
REFERENCES IN TexT or both_
The Antltrust Clvll Proces8 Acl; referred t Jn tert, Nothing In thls sectlon shell be construed to
18 clebelfled to chapter 34 0f Tltle 15 Commerce and Trade_
prohibit the communicatlon of & request to appear
AMENDMENTJ before the grand jury. (June 25 , 1948, ch. 645
1970_Pub. L 91-452 added reference to sectlon 1968 62 Stat. 770.*
Of this title
LECISLATTvE HISTORT 1962_Pub, L; 87-884 subatituted the catchline "Ob-
Reviser'$ Note. ~Based on title 18, 0_ 8 C. 1940 ed: structlon O proceedings before departments, agenclee; end
243 (Mar_ 4_ 1908_ ch. 321_ 6 137, 35 Stat. 1413) = committees" Ior 'Induencing or Injurlng witnesg beore
Last paragraph was added to remove the possibllity that agencles and commletees and punlshed the willful re -
e proper uest to appear before 8 grand Jury might be moval, concealment; destructlon mutllatlon; alteratlon Or
construed as 2 technical violation Of thls section. falsh flcatlon O documents whlch were the subject of 2 Minor changea mere made In phraseology_ demand under the Antitrust CIvll Process Act Mf done with
Cross REFZRENCES
the Intent to prevent compllance Wlth & clvil Inveetigattve
demand Brlbery Of publlc omcials and witnesses see gection 201 CRosg RETERENCES
0f thls tltle
Minor offenses tried by Unlted States magistrates a8
Bribery of publlc oficiele Or witnesees, 8ee Bection 201
excluding ofenses punishable under this Bection, Bee
O[ thls ttle.
gectlon 3401 Of thls tltle_ SECTION RzFERRED To IN OTHIER SecTONS
SECTION RzraED To IN OTEtR SecTow8 Thls section Is referred to In gectlon 203 or thls title;
Thls sectlon Is referred to In Bection 202 of this tltle_ title 12 sectlon 1457
8 1505. Obstruction of proceedings before depart- 8 1506. Theft or alteration of record or procese falge
ments agencies, and committees: bail:
Whoever corruptly, Or by threats Or force, Or by any Whoever felontously steals, takes away, alters, fal -
threatening letter Or communication, endeavors to sifles or otherwise avoids any record, wrtt_ process_
influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any or other proceeding, In any court f the United
proceeding pending before any department or agency States, whereby any Judgment Is reversed made
of the United States_ or In connection with any In- void, or does not take effect_ or
quiry or investigatton being had by either House, or Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknow]-
any committee O[ either House; Or any jolnt commit- edged I any such court, any recognizance, ball, Or
tee of the Congress; or Judgmenl; In the name of any Other person not
Whoever injures eny party Or wltness In his per- privy Or consenting to the same_
son or property on account gf his ettending or_beving Shall be fned not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
attended such proceeding_ inquiry or investigation, not more than fve years, Or both_ (June 25, 1948_
or on account Of his testifying or having testifiled to ch_ 645, 62 Stat. 770.)
eny matter pending therein; or
LEC8LaTIVE] HIBToRT Whoever, with Intent to avold, evade, prevent, or Reviser' $ Note. ~Based on title 18, U.3.0., 1940 ed:, 233
obstruct compllance in whole or In part with any (Mar 4,1000_ ch. 321, $ 137, 35 Btat. 1114)
civil investigative demand duly and properly made The term 0f Imprlsonment wa8 reduced Irom ,7 to 6
under the Antltrust Civil Process Act Or section 1968 yeers, to confor the punlshment with Ilke onea IOt
of thls title wlllfully removes from any place, con - Blmllar offenges. (See sectlon 1503 of this title.)
Minor changee were mede In phraseology_ ceals, destroys, mutilates alters, Or by other means
Cro38 RETERENCES falsifies any documentary materiel which is the
Concealment removal Or destruction Of recordb Be0 subject 0f such demand; or section 2071 Of tbl8 e6le.
Whoever corruptly , or by 'threats Or force, or by Embezzlement Or tbeft O recorda, generelly _ bectlon
any threetening letter or communication influences, 841 o thlg tltle:
reqe
see
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AMENDMZNT8 obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
1988_Pub, L. 90-578 gubstltuted "Unlted States magle- struct, Or impede the due and proper administration
trate" and "magiatrate" tor 'Unlted Stetes commissloner Of the law under whlch such proceeding Is being had
and "commlgsloner" In two [nstencee, reepectively _ before such department Or , agency of the Unlted
Cross REFERENCES States, Or the due and proper exercise of the power
Bribery Of oflcer8, Jurore Or witnesses, Bee section 201 of Inqulry under which such inquiry or Investigation
et seq: Of thls title is being had -by either House; Or any committee of Infuencing Juror Or witnegb a3 crimlnel contempt 8ee
section 401 Of thls tItle either House or any joint committee of the Con-
Wire or oral communicatlons, euthorization for Inter- gress _
ception, to provide evldence of offenses under this section, Shall be fined not more than 85,000 or Imprlsoned
see section 2516 Of thls title_ not more than fve yeers, or both (June 25, 1948,
SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SECTIONS ch. 645 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1982, Pub. L 87-864
Thls sectlon la referred to In sectione 201, 1981_ 2516 $ 6 (&) 76 Stat 551; Oct_ 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452_
of thls title title IX, 8 903; 84 Stet_ 947,)
8 1504. Infiuencing juror by writing: LEGISLATTVE HISTORT
Whoever attempts to influence the actlon Or de- Reviser' 9 Note~_Baged on title 18, 0. 9. C, 1940 ed_
cision of any grand or petit Juror of any court of the 9 2418 (Mar. 4 1900 , ch_ 321 , 6 1358, a8 added Jen 13_
1940 , ch. 1 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1946 , cb. 178, 2, 59 United States upon any Issue or matter pending Stat. 234) _
before such juror, Or before the Jury 0f which he Is & Word "agency' wab bubstituted tor the worde "Independ-
member, or pertaining to hls duties, by wrlting or ent establlshment board, commlsslon In two Ingtances
sendlng to him any written communlcation, In rela - to ellminate any: possible ambigulty 8a to scope of Bece
tlon: (See deflnitive sectlon 8 Or thla title. tlon to such Issue or matter, shall be fned not more MInor changes Were made In phraseology.
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than sdx months
REERENCES IN Tart or both_ The Antitruet CIpil Procese Act, referred t In tert, Nothing In thls section shall be construed to 18 clas8tfled t0 chepter 34 Of Tltle 16 , Comrerce and Trade_
prohibit the communication of 8 request to appear
before the grand Jury (June 25 , 1948 , ch: 645_ AMENDMINTB
1970_Pub. L. 91-452 added reference to section 1988 62 Etat_ 770.) of this tItle.
LECISLATIVE HISTOBY 1962_Pub, L 87-884 gubatituted the cetchline "Ob-
Reviser'$ Note__Based On title 18 0 8. C, 1940 ed- structlon O proceedlnge before departments, agenciee, end
243 (Mer. 4 1909 ch. 321, 9 137, 35 Stat 1113) commltteeb" tor "Induencing Or Injuring witnees before
Last paragraph was added to remove the possiblllty that agencies and committeeb and punlghed the willful Te-
8 proper request to appear before 0 grand Jury might be moval, concealment, destructlon, mutllation, alteratlon Or
construed 85 & technical vlolation Of thls section falslfcatlon OI documents whlch were the subject Of 0
Minor changes were made In phrageology demand under the Antitruat Clvll Procese Act 1f done Wlth
Cross REFERENCEB
the Intent to prevent compllence wlth & clvll Inveatigative
demand Brlbery of publlc oficlal8 and witnesses, gee section 301 Cro8s REFERENCEB
thlg title.
Minor Offenses tried by Tnited States magistrates 88
Bribery of publlc Ofclals Or witnesbeb, 8ee ection 301
exc] luding offenses punishable under thls Bectlon, Bee Of thle tltle_
gectlon 3401 0f thlg title. SzCTION Rrrrneed To IN OTEER SEcTiore
SECTION RErZREd To IN OTHEe Secrior8 This section Ig referred to In gection 203 Of thle tttle;
This section Is referred to In gection 202 Of thls tttle_ title 12 gection 1467_
8 1505. Obstruction of proceedinga before depart- 8 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; falge
ments; agencies, and committees: bail.
Whoever corruptly, or by threets Or force, or by &ny Whoever felonlously steals, tekes away, alters, fal-
threatening letter Or communication, endeevors to sifles, Or Otherwise avolds any record writ, process;
influence, Intimldate, or impede any witness in any or other proceedlng, In any court of the United
proceeding pending before any depertment or agency States, whereby any judgment Is reversed, made
of the United States, Or in connection with any in- void,_ or does not take edect; or
quiry or investigation being had by either House, or Whoever acknowledges, Or procures to be acknowl-
any committee of either House, or &ny jolnt commit- edged Id any such court, any recognlzance, ball, or
tee Of the Congress; Or Judgment. In the name 0f eny other person not
Whoever injures any party or witness In his per- privy or consentlng to the same_
son or property on account o{ his ettending Orheving Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or Imprlsoned
attended such_proceeding, inquiry. Or Investigation, not more than flve years, Or both. (June 35, 1948_
or on account 0f his testifying or having testified to ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770.)
ny matter pendlng therein; or
Leciblartve]Hitobr Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent Or Reviser' $ Note.-~Baged on titie 18, U.8.0, 1940 ed:, $ 233
obstruct complience in whole or In pert with any (Mar 4..1809 . ch. 331, [ 137. 36 Btat. 1114) .
civil investigative demand duly and properly made The term of Imprleonment was reduced Irom 7 to 6
under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1988 years to confor the punlshment Mitb Mlke oned I0r
of thls title willfully removes from any place, con- elmllar ofenges. (See section 1503 of tats title.)
Mlnor changee were mede In phraseology.
ceals, destroys; mutilates, alters, or by other means
falsifies 'any documentary materiel which is the Ceoss ReerenCES
Concealment, removel or destructian of records, se0 subject of such demand; or sectlon 2071 Of thls title.
Whoever corruptly, Or by threets Or force, Or by Embezzlement or thert o recorda, generally, see gectlon
any threatening letter or communication influences, 841 0f thig title_