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[123]F VSUNDAY: x NS, ak
[125]wt 2 amenek,
[126]1 . aes
[128]Pe ie
[132]JBORITS 6:
[137]—F
[139]VN he > Buped (
[141]interviews with the cgents
[142]t pee
[144]a oaete
[146]jirst time of the intrigue ~
[148]ion that pushed the US; a“ Pueblo.
[149]“ot of & series, 7-4 ee" @ Secret dcals eh Ar: 1 sion mob+
[150]' wt gteng cha had lect thet mviliis eilioas -
[152]Sh. c2. 7 dolar Cuben gan ice gains. aa
[153]‘ @ Armed reics ow Cubs ord many >.)
[155]tors, cid Conan freedom fighters were shipments of cucsiils fighters, weap +
[156]cor this series. on CIA ong, explosives end other wer materic
[157]1 the Ccribbecn and the | ely to the islend hetcre end ofter the:
[159]ont 1
[161]j . ij ib : a je ech 49 ecize w .
[163]i. via | i as s clandestine aperatiors ion ge indeeaning c fometimes patrful official ; eA fantasiie scheme %O fC t £
[165]‘} t eae 1, Ue Central Intcliigence q misinte.ns; as always, a tight Kp, Due. Soviet ship ani use it to obtain th 4
[167]a ; ut td do Gre ClM's clock-and-degger - ~ Nelease of the captered Anicrican! “spy. bons
[169]work, News reporter Pat
[171]‘ . ” 2 theé suefeced
[173]lela te
[177]bie mew ON 8 oD
[179]yon
[181]JTIFUL Comer Are copionere ‘geents, Caribbean . conspiras
[183]Le mneynget:
[185]by st coling score’ the Ceribbe
[186]of their-clandesting Se=:- tree flaee
[187]toro for the Crst time,’ Day of Pigs £5259.
[188]wd fa perms
[189]icyestizated by the’. (f Marie Lezs
[190]Cateniitee oa Intel 2 -impcrtant re
[191]ce, Presiccat Reckefciler’s , 7 Caribican con:
[192]on CLA LesiviGes. -: 0 ‘a+ Her Cubsn
[193]sources, the CIA Fas. : expel eve
[195]i mesels
[196]corvien heads 2 SME Ey
[197]2, Castro of Csba,- Harecs hart?
[198]a OE toiti and Refsel -. tb ne
[199]Pow a tetecuG cf a Ceriebenn ¢
[200]yeaah CF Be Pee nt te cin, the Issac
[201]a Certroite .ttemot to a 7 breeds By
[202]. armed Ocb uh fh boards: on
[203]a and sabotage tae Pans- “rumpled | Treen -fatigacs. The’
[204]Mner’s, aetommecction taucer was
[208]Wevens hate che be
[210]z Hated CLs ante:
[214]Poe
[216]Thy mrt
[218]invace P ae
[219]ma Canal”
[223]tons thip |
[225]Stursis, 6
[227]PARE
[230]A chance meoting it Havana harbor abourd a cruiso ship captained by her
[232]. f a on
[234]FEN Se a Ar H
[236]al NG Loy.
[239]t
[240]3 i
[241]. i
[245]cape while he was out of the count y
[246]visitingg Uhe United! States and South
[247]Ameren, :
[249]Qne night she waa with Castro, and
[250]hin bodyptuards an the Tobby of the -
[251]Kiaveera Tfotel when na handweme, waves
[252]haved man anpraucbed hee, He were
[253]tie abveareen cohel uniform and’ the
[254]signia oof a vtplai om the Cuban air
[257]While Castra was conferring with
[258]his sides on the other side of the
[259]Jobby, the eaptain mingled with the
[260]bariudes around Marie and whispers
[261]tu her in English: °f know about you.” ”
[263]"Can you help awl” she responded.
[264]“Can you get me out of here?” ,
[266]“Yes. i/’m with the American
[267]Embassy. Pil get you aut.” :
[269]This was her iuitreduction te Com-
[270]mandante Frank’ Fiorini (later knuwn
[271]as Frank Sturjtis),
[272]avd hired agent foe the
[273]Jatellizence Agency.
[275]Castro confidant
[276]US. Cenzral
[278]Agrees to Spy on Fidel
[280]For the next few weeks Frank kept
[281]in contact with her in person and
[282]throush Castro ‘officers who were
[283]working for him. BMaotie agreed to spy
[284]on Castro. She filched areret documenta
[285]and reported Castru's conversations
[286]with tnpartant visiteurs overheard
[287]through the hotel walls. By now, she
[288]could Spanish fairly
[289]well.
[291]The svite eas fall of guns and |
[292]papers,” she awid. “Fidel hod pagers
[294]read and speak
[296]f a J : re! i ' { | y i .
[298]q ' wv a tne ut )} L mia J is, ty c ay VAIN Maq my
[300]: ss See ae ie id Re Leras| Laas are | Oo aie
[301]MW : fi, a ? . . bY . , 3
[302]4 4 Re ria A aos Ul . ‘
[303]. (Continua from pave 2) 1 7! “the dati, cari apie dictator, Hathher ee i od
[304]: ‘ a Pe airborne ilnsic werd shaltered 'y : Q soe
[305]“ lowered b ay batten (bess ded giilersthe plane thdee re ae “4 vo
[306]abhard i lenteds Kr o wos an
[307]jog feeim thei belts and gyiy hgh? veld “idealistic then," she ..
[308]re jpune switging a theic a 4 wna ie “°° an adventur pnd
[309]fi 1 toy First Ju; was going torhelp
[311]ann . . the! new, overn punt. Uaatead, | bepune
[312]— neath SME, GONE eased [Centre's playthiygep EE
[313]34 I oe : ine
[314]gacket: d havban “f LeKeving the ship { “f yas dei inj from the alrpolt to!
[315]wea twing raided by condi But-other, the Havana i€)}lon, where Fidel? had
[316]Arwerwan! teatists recognised the Jrader aes over ies Ath flour. For the fuext
[317]of the sinister-loskingy fund as | Fidel {tear ronths,: Fe oardly ever got git of
[318]See eee minister of'Cuhs, {the Uedtom, Whit { did set out, fl waa ,-
[319]Gaxire, the new Pp 7 \ 1
[320]eink they crowded around him for, auto- rondce guard. 12 wanted to go dopa to :
[321]: ; the pool or coffee shup, tho barivados ca
[322]Pra friend’he shoule lt! obvtansly would Ko with mb” a vee E
[323]Ce ying the rowrhotion he Piuud caused. EWed His Priloner’ ty . * :
[324], >The Hevlin’s shapper, fordier G Asled Hetine her relatio whip :
[325]Navy Capt, Ucidrich Lorenz, 1 swith Castro dufiny: this pagiod. Sais
[326]Cir Parties ty aay for carktaitey and ,ieaid: “l war ty Prisoner, | was Mrap- ’
[327]+ alitner, and he introduecd Onstro t)) hia. Uped."" tS a
[328]sifarious b-year-gid dauchter, Mang)‘ “Were youl ever in love fi pith *
[329]SLUM father Behe Spaninh ang he > Fidel?” °
[330]sot aluny well with Castro,” Barie[old “No; never. How can you be id ove ¥
[331]this reporter. “He took Castro and) hia when you're afrpid, when you're trated
[332]ign on & tour of the: ship) then ked (like @ piewe af‘ farntlure, when pyu're, *
[333]thom to please leave their guns af sihde { steeping with a live bazooka, wadeg the
[334]Ad fining room befera “ set hed, when yous diving jin. room with i
[335]of dinner, . . + UNS On Cvery e and cigdr but{s al r?
[336]. Fa ro suid they ‘didnwk feel ‘safe | over the floar?” at i
[337]without | cuns, so my: father allpved Aly way of’ thinking.was Gerijan.”; .
[338]tam to keep ther pistols, But he jade shel continued, “Everything. in inst life
[339]Liem legve the machine gus, autora had been very orderly, very neat’ and
[340]ie‘ riflea’ and grenades in the smoking clean. ( never realized anyene, esrcial-
[341]r Toate” . . ly e prime minister, could be so Te
[342]4 Paste: sat at the eaptiin’a lalles | cusined. 1 Uioueht he would have ;
[343]i bgt vent Lerens a Marie (uring the 2 sevprul offices, with dvBks, chairge and ae
[344]Jf facials he auld | rege & ate, btelephones. Ail he had, at this Joint,
[345]: nad she, wat as piapresscd a aay ne waa os suiteef rooms atthe ff 'ltan,
[346]nil teebare girk wou! e by come F where he lived andl worked 1 wadtkept
[347]: meénta foi, the flamboyant hero of the Pin uno of the roogs. Thy dvor the :
[348]ne] Caban rgvolution,! : hi . al fr . “tome _—
[349]san Pciate” German and sation, | Halts lacked frm the” ouside =
[350]which she had learned from her Atnetic | pools, but the door between the en
[351]ny can mofher. Castro said he needed @ [wis kept locked, : , father brought Maria Lorenz and Fidal Castro logother. It began a
[352]° : See ene Before the wal was f “AM 1 could do was, read Selous, liaison dostined to have international repercussions
[353]z : - : . . } :
[354]over, he offered the job ta Marie. i aed Spanish, gut ox det iain
[355]. " 4 Ql wl je Priageiay ‘ .
[356]| Took Offer As Joke any look out over Havana, {) waa where dictator Fulxencio Ratista had -
[357]{ “He asked me to stay In Havana p Miserable, My futher tried to find out imprivoncd Fidel and Rail (Fidel's
[358]i and work far him,” ake said“hy fa. | WAAt hud happened to me. He euntuct- brother) years before, 1 went into the
[359]3 thee and I both laughed, Sfy father ,¢ the American Embassy in Havana cell to look at a bronze plaque on the
[360]j said | was going back to Germany to } Marie was horn ue American citizen) wall. They shut the door and locked me
[361]| © finish my education.” : but nothing: happeued. inthe eel Thea they went away,
[362]foo j tro promised to write, ta Der 0 hrourhe only slothen F had were what t She Wasn't Pampered
[363]3 u ve ily FATE EE Sh oe i. . 7
[364]i aats' home in Nremen. Germany, and f couldn’s ko out to buy anything, Fidel “EP ogpent a week there, eating the
[365]: hee brather’s apartment in New York, ? had sme measired for a uniform jyo bo same foud as the other prineners- -
[366]eam, where she planned fo stay. when the { would look like a member of the 26th blacks beans, rice, stale bread and cof-
[367]Caribbean cruise ended. She never ex. § a July Movetuent. An olive-greentuni- fee. As fur ax | know, | was the only
[368]ucted to sce or hear fom Fidel again. 9°) form with # linutenunt’s atar. . woman there,
[369]® About two weeks later, twe Cuban “Phat way, when | was allowed out very muening we would hear the
[370]officers called on Marie in New York: | under guard, he thought people would firing squuds. As soon as it Kot Wight,
[371]They earricd a message from Castro, | think Towne of hig offtecre t+ But. the birds would start singing, Thea the
[372]saying Le was-in desperate need of an I almont every Mavana housewife ‘heard guns would go off, Then marching and
[373]English-German translator. He had sent fumurs that Castro waa beeping a for- quiet, Then breakfast and cell checks.
[374]s Cubana Airlines plane to being her eigner, an American girl, at the Hiltdn, The guards would check to see if you'd
[375]back to Havana. . _ st! bwus becoting a problem to hin. | hanjred yoursel{ during the night or if
[376]4 “Lt made a big inistake,” Marie said, “One day two bardudes came be the you'd done semething wrong in there
[378]. “Ff got on that plane.” roma while Fidel was out, They asid where there was hardly room to turn
[379]: During the flight to Havana, she | they were thee to help me. ‘They tock sround, It was hos rible. .
[380]i trivd to imugine her hfe in Castroland. me on a 20-nfinets jfune ride! bo the “itor aeven days, 1 was taken out
[381]] She thuueht she welt fave a dork in Po. «? fie 2 thy wllowed (methe and dlowa back to Havana,
[382]i ! the premier’s sccujatiat pool wad om  deaulful black saad biach there and | Mervin was ouvee told why she was
[383]i wtaal! avartinent of fher own, She may | then dreve me hy jeep to thls huve jes She nuw believes Cuatro had her
[384]mnaceammmmnme "So even have dreamed r @ romance with . prison complex, They showed mb, & colt locked up to make sure she didn’t ¢s-
[385]* : 8 necteete abe | - :
[386]' r me “4 |
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[399]a
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[409]- (Aud
[413]Discovery of missile
[414]sites in Cuba provokod
[415]a cold-war showdown
[416]balwocn than Prucident
[417]dokn F. Kennady and
[418]thon Soviat Premier
[419]Nikita Khrushclov, @
[420]confrontation that hed
[422]| |
[423]the world holding
[425]‘ Hs breath,
[427]water Te ee
[429]etrewn all over the tables, the flour, *
[430]the bed, the dresser. He had one filing
[431]cabinet that was never locked. Tt was
[432]full of money, papers, documents
[433]taps. — toos papers out and slinpe
[434]them to Frank, Fidel never missed
[435]them.
[437]“Fratk ssid, “Get all the data yoo
[438]enn’ and I did. tf was a regulur Mata»
[439]Mari.” . ~ .
[440]Vhen Marie became sick, ‘and Frank
[441]artunged her eseape. Two Cuban offi-
[442]cers took her out of the hotel while
[443]Custro was away aud put hur om &
[444]Cubana Aislines fight to New York.
[446]About that fine, Frank also set up
[448]the cacupea of two top Cuban ai
[449]officers, a project that forced
[450]leave Cuba. He nied hin base of
[451]operations te Miami, but he bept fa
[452]teuch with his agents on the island and
[453]his CIA cuntacta in Havana and Wash-
[454]inyton, .
[455]When she recovered from hee it.
[456]ness, Marie joned hin In Florida and
[457]volunteered fox on inission that meant
[458]vertain death if hac were caught.
[460]Early in locd, Castre werk ta
[464]a ne
[466]7
[468]BUND AT NEWS, JUNE LZ ‘1976
[470]by PAUL.
[472]The Central Intelligence ¢ Agency. senta shapely Mata Wari fo Cuba in
[474]1960 to kill her former lover, Fidel Cas tro.
[476]Details of this case were mncovered hs Vhe News and a Senate tritedlijrenes
[477]Committee investigator who :
[479]_ learned that a omystery
[480]7, Woman had been tnvelyed
[481]IN ah oussassination -plot
[482]vucdinst the Cuban dictator,
[484]It was the first of several
[485]CTLA-sponsored attempts te oxe-
[486]cute Castro,
[488]The mystery woman has now
[489]been identified by the committee
[490]and The News as Marie Lorenz,
[491]aa attractive German-American
[492]bronetta who shared Castro's
[493]Havana hotel suite for saweral
[494]oronths in Poi, When a cecuenit-
[495]tev investivutor confronted her
[496]with evidence linking her to the
[497]avesassinattonm plot, she admitted
[498]that she had been recruited for
[499]the attempted dit.
[501]HNP Yura Lives ti ees
[503]The Memo That Started It
[505]On Pees fio lute Cab J. oe ) fkE nay dined oof the CEA.
[506]Wiostvern Hendy ote jhevicien, Wore it peti oray
[508]4
[510]rp EY
[511]Director Aten Bailes, Aecording baa Senate Commitee ae -
[512]port. Noi
[513]COTTA te :
[514]agatise |
[516]Boothe otur fete’ region Gp Cp ba nl
[518]vee Polite American countries 4 1a
[519]esta he recotametded that:
[520]comshdierad sen ote the elimination af
[521]None of ul : te Bidel, suelt aa his t :
[522]eomnian, Che Guevara, have thas uot
[523]the arisses. Mant interned poop He etieve 1
[524]ance of Fidel would greadiy acceler
[525]prevented. ! D
[526]Dulles and ‘Pes yo PMvectar pf
[527]approved (the rec(auimmenation. snd
[528]a CAtipaten against ©
[529]fi Ris da the eXelisive story
[532]eoVedps,
[534]ai
[536]Exclusive Account
[537]Then, last we she pave this
[538]Poo reporter an exclusive account ar
[539]a Mission oso secret that she
[540]“El bever mentioned it te anyone for
[541]ya yeutg.
[542]Ms. Lorenz,,
[544]hat
[546]who now lives in
[547]New York. the daughter of
[548]the fate. German Navy Capt.
[549]thenvich Lorenz and his Ameri.
[550]ean wile, After World War lt,
[551]Lorenz became skipper of the
[552]Ener Berlin, dfe tenis
[554]al ote ont ih bean
[556]eriise in Petes a
[557]Month af over
[558]. noon
[560]Havana harbor sind with
[562]The eaptain amd his vivacious
[563]teenage slaughter. Ele later per-
[564]saaded Maric tu return to Hava-
[565]me te work as his personal inter-
[566]preter, When she arrived she
[567]as installed {no Castro’s 24th.
[568]vor sutte at the Havana Hilton,
[569]soon realized she was a
[570]: ritual prisoner,
[571]i Quizzed by FRI
[572]Frank Fiorini an American
[573]Whe had become a Cuban Reto-
[574]hitenary Army officer and oa
[575]CTA agent, contacted her and
[576]persumled her ta photograph
[577]Castro’s secret papers. He later
[578]helped her escape,
[579]She lett Havana in January
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[592]vaon, They said i weuld be easy
[594]CIA Santa
[596](ill Castro in ‘60
[598]Conti. Mn page 3) ,Viorint gave her twe capsules
[600]o_o me fall of poison powder, She was
[602]Me, ee York and | fold) te sprithes the powder in
[603]seo vo dtespitab fee Custray eotfee,
[605]1
[607]beens it 1 oP guesa the company (CLA)
[608]cred pert sapplied them. Prank san it was
[609]tee hbal ia company operation.” :
[610]Various Machine the olive-drab  unf-
[611]wetad form that Castre had given her,
[612]Eorke, ot) designiuting: her a Heulenant in
[613]»oworked the Revolutionary Arniy, Ms.
[614]wish, Lorenz flew back (o Havana on
[615]ovpes theses niissiens / Cabana Airiines, Believing she
[616]Dmight be searched at the airport,
[617]iahe hid the capsules in a jar of
[618]cold cream) in ter purse. When
[619]she arrived in’ Havana she
[621]and
[623]whe se
[627]wb PURO: 1: . .
[628]“ changed inte her Fidelista  uni-
[630]would ene [0S .
[631]cnendous ; form and went to the Hilton,
[633]this counties,” Cold-Cream Caper
[634]ote the BBE of fives “The lobby was full of report.
[635]tho St. bev a conles-) erg and other people trying to
[636]hwo acents who | sea Cagytre, but he wasn't thera.
[637]eer qreviads 4.) Une of lis aides recognized me
[638]and took me up to Fidel's suite.
[639]Entering the two-room suite,
[640]she saw that nothing had chang-
[641]fed in her absence. The sitting
[642]: ‘ room was crowded with Castro's
[643]seher se Saad, { saul, | yearded, pistol-packing — retain-
[645]ate
[646]hes
[648]clip
[651]my atti
[652]she sitd,
[653]was willing |
[654]Poeouhd get an aad
[656]1
[660]ers. The bedroom was littered
[661]Thought [1 Was a Joke with papers, cigar bulls and
[662]Ate vad, ‘Yaar could Knock | SHAS. ;
[663]wont cab save everybody She waited nervously In Cas-
[665]they kept com [in a few hours later, As soon as
[666]and io realized | he smiled and hugged her, she
[667]. . knew he didnt suspect she had
[668]vy deat vou kip | Visited “ie suite a few months
[669]Lal dow't know how, | Previously and stolen his secrets.
[671]‘ And he certainly didn’t suspect
[673]Sth ail ofhese men areund hn, uk s
[674]with a we ae ir it's in me to! she had come back to kil him.
[675]t ar uN I + .
[677]RUG Rina . Do Not Disturb
[678], y dentousy, ‘
[679]ant Faien | y
[680]aid, you
[683]eoanhiig
[685]“Tle asked why T left him anil
[686]said it was becnase | missed
[687]my mother and my home, He
[688]started talking about Cuba and
[689]the problems, the lack of money,
[690]hoor | the. shortages. He talked a long
[691]there “Wels T time. He said he waa expecting
[692]ines ab WRT an important phene call, but he
[693]kiling Oto) took the receiver off (the hook
[694]and he shouted to the barbudos
[695]' (bearded ones) in the next
[696]ge -froom: ‘No me moleste (Don't
[697]us food _ bother me)’ ;
[698]To wo down “Finally he ordered food and
[699]seat uan ' coffee sent up. When if came, he
[700]wel Kil an de owenld change fell asleep en the bed, in) his
[701]_ | New sake 1 «Wall, I don't | fatigues and with a cigar in his
[702]an aa mouth. T had no confidence left,
[703]but’ [ knew this wag the chance
[705]yo decided on pol-
[707]fer pub putbeotr at
[708]deink. b> .
[709]cote tell mae?
[711]“They didn't tell me to do it
[713]i a i ‘to do it.
[714]wonet ta co it, They. said ff 7 oO ;
[715]vent, [do be protected, but who “T went Into the bathroom and
[716]could guarantee Pd get out?” opened the jar of cold cream. |
[718]stuck my finger In it and the
[719]A Method Ready whole thing came out ke yuck.
[720]foreng said she finally|[ couldn’t find the capsules.
[721]teoyge te Minami with They had melted.
[723]Cleheeked inte on tourist hetel,|
[725]Yothought he | tro’s private reem until he came:
[727]|
[729]re
[731]1 thought he
[734]hy dent you Kil
[735]deat hnow how,
[736]mn around hyn,
[737]it's in me to
[739]jealousy,
[740]end Bsig
[741]aid, you
[742]Pin nes
[744]aL Wile
[746]> his food oor
[747]1 ocWhato are youl
[748]ioame? To go duwn
[750]and} yal ban!
[752]“Alex sa
[753]history. I
[754]wane te die
[756]“They
[758]“Well, I don’t
[759]didn't tell me to do ft!
[760]ey not to do it. They said ff
[761]Sasent Pd he protected, but who
[763]could guarantee Vd get out?’
[765]A Method Ready
[767]Teren; said she finally
[768]te yo to - Miami with
[769]we for a necting with Fiori-
[770]mt, who. said he had a way to do
[773]She osnid she spent three
[774]weers inoa CLA “safe house” in
[775]viii, seeing ma one bat Ffori-
[776]and Rorke. "They kept talk-
[777]me inte it. They said, ‘You
[778]i do it, You're the only one
[779]woe can doit”
[781]Asked if she now believes she
[782]s brainwashed, she replied:
[783]puless so," She said they Teel
[784]eda her patriotism and told her
[785]she would pret thousands,
[786]cress to retire,” {f she sue-
[787]se aready
[789]When she finally agreed to ac-
[790]evil the assienmment, she said,
[792]Aria Floors
[793]Opera Singer
[795]London, Jine 12 (UPI) —
[796]Von thevannt reached for a
[797]feeh note at the Royal Opera
[798]Hease am London Jast night
[799]nod fell throwueh the fleor,
[801]He stuck there, in the per-
[802]eo; af singer Ruggero Ral-
[803]mondi, trapped ta his waist
[804]and singing for dear life. Sir
[806]Geraint: Evans and his) other
[807]co-perfurmers, stil singing,
[808]tagied and pulled. Eventual-
[810]vy Raimondi climbed out, un-
[811]“hurt but shaken with his word
[812]bent into-a curve.
[814]~ “They
[816]were magnificent,”
[817]said critic Hilton Tims, who
[818]Was in the audience. “They
[820]carried on without letting the
[822]incident upset their vocal
[823]equilibriun:. .
[824]reenter
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[828]io] renitzed |
[830]eloanis
[831]Shere Webs
[833]t
[834]4
[835]Cased
[837]tro’s private room until he'eame
[838]ina few hours later. A& soon as
[839]he smiled and hugeed her, she
[840]knew he didn't suspect she had
[841]visited the suite a few months
[842]previously and stolen hig secrets.
[843]And he certainly didn’t suspect
[845]ishe had come back to kit him,
[847]Doe Not Disturb
[849]“He asked why T left nim and
[850]T said it was hecause ] missed
[851]my mother and my home. He
[852]started talking about Cuba and
[853]the problems. the Iack of money,
[854]the shortaves. He talked a long
[855]time. He said he was expecting
[856]Pan important phene call. but he
[858]- dewided on pof-
[859]iowenld he easy
[861]“Le weuld chanze y
[863]Page Tf
[865]took the receiver off the hook
[866]pand he shouted to the barbados
[867](bearded ones! in the next
[869]roam: “No nme moateste (Don't
[870]bother me)’ ‘ .
[871]“Finally he ordered food and
[873]coffee sent up. W hen it canie, he
[874]fell asleep on the! bed, his
[875]fatigues and with a cigar/in his
[876]mouth. I had no vonfidence, left,
[877]but [ knew this was the chance
[879]]j to do it.
[881]“Tl went Into the bathroom and
[882]opened the jar of cold cream. 1
[883]stuck my finger In it and the
[884]whole thing came out Tike ynuek.
[885]I couldn’t find the capsules.
[886]They had meltetl. -
[888]“Tt was like an omen.
[890]“T couldn't just dump a’ glob
[891]of cold cream in his coffee, so T
[892]shut the jar and went back to
[893]the bedroom and I watched him
[894]sleeping. Finally To lay down on
[895]the bed beside him.
[897]‘T thought. ‘To hell with ft.
[898]Let history take ils course,’
[900]“Stupid, Stupid”
[902]Frank and Alex met me when IT
[903]flew to Miami ‘next morning.
[904]They asked me what happened
[905]and [ said the capsules melted.
[906]Frank was very upset. He sal{d,
[907]‘Stupid, stupid, atupid, Why did
[908]you put them in the cold cream?’
[909]T said, ‘Where else? It was the
[910]only place to think of where no
[911]ona would find them.’”
[913]Ms. Lorenz was not asked to
[914]jtry again.
[916]“Would vou have killed him if
[917]the capsules hadn't melted " the
[918]interviewer asked. “No,” she
[919]replied. “Probably not.”
[921]Alex Rorke later disappeared
[922]ona mystery flight to Nicara-
[923]gua, Frank Fiorini, now known
[924]as Frank Sturgis, continued to
[925]perform odd jobs for the CIA
[926]until his arrest in 1972 as one of
[927]the Watergate burglars.
[929]Informed of Ms.
[930]count of the assassination at-
[931]tempt, he verified her story.
[933]Soon after her murder mission!
[935]failed, the CIA recruited Mafia
[936]mobsters — including John
[937]Roselli of Las Vegas, Sam Gian-
[938]eana of Chicago and Sante Traf-
[939]ficante of Tampa, Fla. — to kill
[940]Castro. But they were no more
[941]successful than the sexy. Mata
[942]ari.
[944]Lorenz’ ac- |
[946]. va dhe died dbase. big lies 1S H
[947]. : Bb room was erawded with C Castro's | tii
[948]_ 3 1 said, | hoarded, pistol-packing tetain-
[949]Wards Sc te ers. The bedroom “was littered
[950]Thought tt Was a Joke with papers, cigar butts and
[951]i Sa wald knock | BUNS. . 5 Je
[952]save fverybudy She waited nervously ti "As~
[956]pene gree a
[962]ra ier ‘ ig . .
[964]section
[966]” News spaper ‘Names. “4Mafia Fign rey >:
[968]‘world: information, as “decline
[970]thing ne that, _ My premiay fer
[971]ing to contirm or deny the, ‘
[973]DACRAMENTG CAR) = ~ vhe, hen lt became obvious that
[974]probably not a8'790g * gouges’: |
[976]Central bdellgeres (Agency “the Mavasion of 1,400 exlles
[978]~ vehed on four ‘underworld’ “was *@ failure, the mobster accounts When you rellect on ite ae
[979]cunessters for intgiligence used beat returned to Florida. “The Bee reported that Hous not an imple: squat Bo
[980]in planning the" ill-fated. 1981! “Walsh identified the source a en it?  y + " Ie :
[981]' Bay of Pigs’ invasion ‘at Cuba, Pr his. Information as a-former ‘Related Story ‘Page AS The Bee sald te cd the tout :
[982]' the Sacramento Bee. ‘to employe of the CIA. He did — .. tubsters tivoived eith” tha”
[983]not. identify ‘the employe in ton, ‘retired general counsel of. CIA cin the Bay of Ake are:
[985]i : day. ‘ 1 fan
[986]: The CIA's underworld: in.
[987]formania, all former. Havana -
[988]casino. besses,
[989]$759,009 in Cuba whan . they.
[991]“pad buried”
[993]‘tid story, which tarried a Las
[994]Vegas,: Nev., dateline. «
[996]He quoted Lawrence R.
[997]. Houston, described 6s the CIA
[999]. fled Fidel Castro. There.ore . oidictal - feeling the: under-
[1000]they had a stake it encourag: ” a . ;
[1002]_ iil alive. . :
[1003], At said one Russell Botadfe
[1004]no, 7, descrit248 9 sullac ~
[1005]“DES Torthenst tats Reansyl ae
[1006](Pleas Tana Ta Al, Col 8} ra
[1008]a ae re
[1010]the CIA, said of the story:
[1011]“fT do not recollect such a:
[1012]thing, but that doesn’t mean it
[1013]didn’t happen. I won't deny it, .
[1014]but I don’é comember gny-...
[1016]A ee
[1018]ing the United States, foun ; ; ;
[1019]dertuke the invasior to over= . ; . ‘ ; . mt
[1020]throw. Casio, the. Bee cepett it ue
[1021]ed.
[1023]“The jaformation’ tney sup
[1024]plied to the CIA: “supposedly " :
[1025]pinpointed troop. and naval oo ae
[1026]vessel positions,” Bee Investi-." a
[1027]gative reporter Denny Walsb.’.
[1028]wrote in the Sunday edition.
[1030]“More “umportantly, per
[1031]haps, tha mobsters “also “1e-
[1032]ported that many of the peo- . 4
[1033]ple of Havana: were ‘unsym="
[1034]pathetic: to Castro and, would
[1035]almost: certuialy rise up” fo %
[1036]support of a counterreVolur * ;
[1037]. tlonary force’ ence it had*es-' « : ; 7 .
[1038]_ tablished a beachhead, a os : ; . oe
[1040]Waish corithiued. ™ *
[1042]In exchange for -theie: help:
[1043]the houdlumy had. deen ‘proms.
[1044]ised they would’ be allowed to--
[1045]recover their buried cache, unr":
[1046]hindered, Walaits
[1048]lig sald thal] ag
[1049]fhelr owty bast, yeh an
[1050]a nant abdurd; standing off
[1051]Cabga short when the’
[1053]Tita sataitert:
[1055]lye ea yer
[1056]cl ;
[1058]she
[1060]ta 7 . : ae ca +e Oe
[1062]HW 50955. —
[1064]“SSiasNiatah
[1066]nn e"¢Contlaued Fron Page Aly.
[1067]4 Mati. boss who was cons,
[1068]ected: Just before Lis - ‘hooknp }
[1069]By @ith tho CIA of conspiring to;
[1070]P absttct justico in lying abput «
[1071]if the 1987 Mafia summit meet-
[1072]ing at Apalac in, N.Y.
[1073]. i: Th iewepaper said the oth-
[1074]“7 or ving inférmant {s-
[1075], also known 2,
[1076]who: was deaeribe ag,
[1077]“ge oversdar and nionaier of!
[1078]Mafia gambling Inlorests fa:
[1079]di \, preCastro" Cuba, ‘The! Bee.
[1080]“gald he is -reportetlly- living in,
[1081]. * Coral Gables; Fla.’. 4
[1082]-7' "The other two were Jamss.
[1083]7h 1 Emo dented as a for+
[1084]os Sage afia. hijackor,: labor
[1085]I rabketeer and’ garnient dis-
[1086]“I-trict strongmad, ‘and Salvar.
[1087]Sunn Saari. asa:
[1090]ced Plumeri and Granelld were
[1091]iyictims sevetal.-years Ego: of!
[1094]Sia
[1099]. deilibed by? Walsh: “front his. j
[1100]{et entified :.” former CIA
[1102]Rigel kbutleta +
[1103]‘Cabico. gambling flourished in
[1105]“ston and controt of the .U.S.’
[1106]Berganizea crime ‘underworld. |
[1107]:4The Castro: revolution |
[1108]“soiited the mob ‘along with ,
[1109]Vaegatista, aod the Cuban: pre- |
[1110]ars ! spaibr's* Communist govern |
[1111]“«Ringat bas never: alowed the ;
[1113]“ ‘ are
[1115]lee ; ; . ro
[1116]‘Docld: 32423630 Page 9." ~
[1118].
[1120]ssea “made pericdic re-
[1122]i * ports to the CIA until just
[1124]“before the abortive. ‘Bay of.
[1125]. Pigs invasion. = +
[1126]“Between $45,000 .
[1127]$50,000 waa paid-by the four’.
[1128]spastera ta informants soy
[1129]Cuba for the ‘informations
[1130]“" The tauney came, at least
[1131]| in-part, from a $750,000 cache *
[1132]: “wrapped {n-oilcloth and bure |
[1133]: fed in the ground by Granolld-r
[1134]and ‘Loving just before. thelr -
[1135]_ hasty doparture from Cuba
[1136]during the turbulent. days of! a
[1137]tha Castro takeover.
[1138]“It was the rest of this
[1139]_ imoney that ‘Granello, Levine, ©
[1140]‘Bufalino and Plumeri were
[1142]_ + asiured they would be able to »-
[1143]i recover unhindered if the Cas.”
[1145].| tro government was toppled... ,.
[1147]:4 - Thay managed to Ret word »
[1149]: to ‘hoodlutns inside” Cuba who
[1150]"know the whereabouts of the
[1152]- mdney to start buying stra-
[1154]' tedie information, Other Cu-
[1156]+ ban associates of the four ,
[1158]‘gangsters were dispatched to. »
[1160]the island from: Florida- on
[1161]+ intelligence-gathering sorties.”
[1163]:- Martier~ published. ~ reports”
[1164]|-pave said that in preparation
[1166]_¢ for the Bay of Pigs invasion, .
[1167]: CIA Director Allen Dulles re-
[1169]| lied heavily on reports which
[1170]stressed the unpopularity of
[1171]‘ the’ Castro regime and_ the
[1172]expectation, never realized, of
[1173]_ Massive rebellion at the time
[1174]" of a strike. |. Foe
[1176]~The 3 four" het “fonaet casi
[1185]el
[1187]so L
[1189]i
[1194]SOS Orgy,
[1196]Marie Loranz says tho wes told that maps she tock from Castro’s headquarters
[1197]photographing missile sites (above). Under pressure from U.S., Khrushcher order
[1198]fo Soviot Union (right).
[1200]* Zapata, a vast swamp that
[1201]bees [te ronvert te rire Gelds, As
[1202]geo ons he left Havana wath his usual
[1203]enteaurave, Marie received orders to ree
[1204]thin be Uhe Cuban enpital inuedately,
[1205]She Vaarded aw regular Cubana Airlines
[1206]fight, posing as an American tourist
[1207]atl ontrying her Castro unifurm and a
[1208]lualed revolver im her overnight bay.
[1210]Ste arcived in Havuna a few hours
[1211]after Casten deft town. Americans were
[1212]aul welvoine there in’ those days, and
[1213]Cuban eastens effieers seldom searched
[1214]tuur sts’ lus age. .
[1216]“There was ne (reuble at the alr.
[1217]pert.) Marie sed. "PE checked into a
[1218]sleazy Hie hotel in dewitown Havana,
[1219]changed inte my Hentenant’s uneform
[1220]and went direct to the Havana Hillen.
[1221]Iiyvocnm time, Carta had a home on
[1222]the oathirta af Havana, a Cajimag,
[1223]bat ft was more canvenient foe him to
[1224]keep hit puperant the Hitter,
[1226]"Hs bad Save 2408 and the adjein-
[1227]enter, fo had the hey te 24eRr,
[1228]fy orerogmired qe when 2 ctme
[1229]Mute -the betel PE ohad changed ame hair
[1230]stvie and nuebe my conmplevion darker
[1231]than 1 is tatursbly. Amd do ware dark
[1232]glneses ‘They (Castea’s people) add
[1233]were dark chases, even at nich
[1235]SUA Tat uf people were leitering in
[1236]the dobbs, burcardys and everything. I
[1237]Just t theeugia Passing: the
[1238]desk w. on tht Uist het hered
[1239]thoehrhe knew ine. f
[1240]trepesed i caliber Petective
[1241]Speco chiped te the imade af ng
[1242]waistband Nobedy ogrened le matice
[1243]me. [walked fe the elevatura and went
[1244]wypto the Oath blower,
[1246]Saw Her Opportunity
[1250]Sobudy vas aeoond When Fidet
[1251]left, chey all left weta lows hia hudy-
[1252]Koarda, his udseers, whatever, When Tf
[1253]hint laved there, [owas either all alone
[1254]att oversthiag os dead quiet or sdse
[1255]Fidel was there and there was a lot of
[1256]Bulge wil eyyar the,
[1258]“Loumlocked dour ta Suite 2408,
[1260]erst fiside aed stowble facked the door
[1261]Lebind me § felt pretty confident hee
[1262]reuse toiaew Febd wie wt Chenega de
[1263]Vupatas Whee & fe tha: suate, no one
[1264]waste gain Tl were the ordege,
[1266]“Aa uiual, the sue was littered
[1268]with papers and toe Cling calaaet was
[1269]opeo. kL coulda't crab everything, fb teok
[1270]as much as E could aad sludfed) papers
[1271]aid maps inte my uniform packets and
[1272]cfd oO T gs GUI.
[1273]gerd Tata
[1275]Uer hetel,
[1277]tH, went
[1279]a .
[1281]changed into a dress atid enught the
[1282]Meat flight to Miami.
[1284]“Frank met me at the airport and r
[1286]wave him all the papert. F never knew
[1287]exactly what information they contain
[1289]ed. fo was told the stuff was woud, t+
[1291]was fantastic, ‘the United States goy-
[1294]Among the papers were topograph:
[1295]deal rnps of Cuba oa which several
[1296]Sections of undeveluped land, mide.
[1297]away from any population center, had
[1298]heen nuked with batdedrawa circles,
[1299]The maps also had handwritten nata-
[1300]Gongs that Marie conkda’l read -heeanse
[1301]“they weee in ‘a fomiga language ~-
[1302]Creek, think.” .
[1304]Her Find Was Valuable
[1306]‘Tieo years later, anather
[1307]Kroce axent told hor the mings
[1308]he original yrowindwork plans
[1309]Soviet missiles The circled
[1310]were the specs
[1311]Iasea were lilt in setting otf
[1312]the historic showdown Between Presi
[1313]dent Kennedy and Premier Khrashehey,
[1315]From informations Aupipelicd
[1316]areuta juside Cuba amd Cubate refugers,
[1317]and from a phatox snapped fone
[1318]Ul epy planes, the CEA war able te
[1319]Pinpoint alt the ile bases on the
[1320]iedond. Hut Marie betievea her sede nie.
[1321]sion to Castru's lau pave the CA ite
[1322]first inkling of what the Wigeans were
[1323]Plotting, She alsa’ believes Cntr nace
[1324]pected sho was the hurgha whe swine
[1325]fis secrets, (The CEA hus declinea ta
[1326]comment on Murie's involventent.)
[1328]Th Mare §960, soon after she
[1330]intelli.
[1331]wore
[1332]for
[1334]had
[1336]completed this dangerous AMIE,
[1337]Marcie received wa owvstesious (ede ram
[1338]from Havana, Delivered to her tioth
[1339]ers apactinert at GER OW. kuh Sto at
[1340]sail OAL use? (Cnctrets private
[1341]mumber) LATE OAT NIGHT LCs
[1342]VERY EMPOR TANT!
[1344]Heo wae nigned OO Yanen meaning
[1345]Capt Sesue Yanez Pellets one uf
[1346]Castro's cliiest aides, Marie's frst fur
[1347]fulse was to ignore the pease, but
[1348]Curie y overemiae eb timoa seaae.
[1349]Withont mentioning the telesract to
[1350]cher brother, she deft the apurtnical
[1352]avenol wnidaight to phi a vallvt call
[1353]le tfavana from a plone de ohoon tie
[1354]corner,
[1356]As she stopped inte the small vents
[1357]fale between the outer and finer Cent
[1358]doors te the apartment whotwie, tw
[1359]xrabhed her. One of them was Viet
[1361]Pag@rd Gad pur Maio secu
[1363]“TRY were woinw fa tebe se be
[1365]went
[1367]were Factor in locating and
[1368]ed missiles removed and shipped back
[1370]Cuba. Vanes said a phare was wating.
[1371]at ddtewold Airperi. They dat ae an tbe
[1372]face and tried to drag me ont te a car,
[1374]A person wha hved on the basideng
[1376]opeted the doer sant ew nie serena
[1377]and fighling. ‘This pera fan dewn
[1378]toward Riverside livive. ‘Phe interruy
[1379]tion distracted the Cubses eneagh se
[1381]that Eo broke loose and can 1 heard ane
[1382]of them yell ‘Shoot! Showt!’ but ches
[1383]Muly't) boss vp fe Hiowdaas aid o. |
[1384]aeop there
[1386]“The Cu
[1387]all blaarty,
[1389]ane fueh off
[1394]aad for Uy
[1396]took ne tu the i
[1398]ae AVUT WE Oe eh carte ot
[1400]trivae ated fear. 1 teld eter +
[1402]wan pod Po opaye them bos tute oe
[1403]West Side hatel warn castia pe
[1404]Stayed when hos were fa 8 Y
[1405]She detectives wens there found
[1406]Vouk he thee eoakla’t sto heat
[1408]fen bad duptons immunity.
[1409]He dak a lplontatiec jurssport sayin be
[1410]sue wil the prea painter's
[1412]Hebd Veron
[1414]vee TO Ub
[1417]at Marte fastre dtad
[1418]New Ysrk cope cnuldit ste.
[1419]Vets pd eta,
[1421]Veded
[1423]pent
[1425]Discussed Killing Castro
[1427]Nehiub GD she ned a ner
[1428]elige dad
[1429]Kellan Coste, Micree
[1430]Wee all duds We wate
[1431]Tare dering one of his
[1432]wee gous ta ly aser
[1433]Tighten tep of hit,
[1435]“We haat the bub, the plane, bows
[1436]keene to gabon Mat ued ean We
[1437]were adi set) but at wie valle ott.
[1439]Aseria of
[1441]Wisin’. yw eee bisects ad
[1443]tephiedds "Sure,
[1444]omg te
[1446]apreches,
[1447]and
[1450]We
[1452]drop out
[1454]Somebads topped oot. Phats at! |
[1455]how.”
[1457]Miie nuit Oyu Alaesican agente
[1458]wenk obo Unb te man etabe Cheri
[1459]shortly hefere the ab Pigs inva
[1463]“Pout them ats dite white howe
[1464]Weopenies® a due Conan refers oun
[1465]Moana F thamk at sue tan Blaster S$:
[1467]We wookt tesce stay at oope place ten
[1468]Tern. We'd a beeusis nad mene een
[1469]Seay, UE SHS Al ote af cur meetings
[1474]1 ty oe wend halting bien,
[1476]Yhe twee Aimecieaes wint iin bit
[1477]hooey didn’t pet eat They hears,
[1478]sad fhe Cidra soldiers, bo oheard
[1480]voemat ety, vere bee de hada
[1482]&,
[1484]a 3a)
[1486]4 ae
[1488]Due
[1490]Matin sauk a ni Bleee Teak
[1491]Lops to Cubadebyeriig: yuan aid spe
[1492]gies ote gettte apecestalbae Sipe
[1493]worked woth peed Now Hecker
[1495]ef the ad they were re
[1496]Heated oar inne atl
[1498]“Peres fas conden the tae
[1499]planed, oppor dean an
[1500]freien, Vea jaet say genre deme ott
[1501]For the Grae 8 ve weomatey badd t
[1502]Handle the dere ced af ou Wao were >
[1505]‘Eduardy’ Supplied Cash
[1507]When sah waa ueelob oat sune
[1508]fro on CEN dean she anew only as
[1509]a He wonld geet Friink aint
[1511]Sy time fo tine at oa he
[1513]fn Mines
[1515]“Retgarde was fe asge
[1516]Mario said UWies we went te Wick ayy
[1517]{ho tones, Foased om the ca. daw
[1518]hime when be opened ta doug of thie
[1519]Igtle white beuse wea
[1521]Y
[1523]wun thine
[1525]a deter, whe cending akeut tha
[1527]Wartergat) dread uy Mose Won hewse
[1528]Paper pheta ot forner CEA man BL
[1529]Howard Plant aied imuiclitely recupe
[1530]fused htt as theo Wee TB ebaserete ™
[1531]She onlor ree pied aopecture of Stare
[1532]wis, When she dad hun as baat *
[1534]Peoria,
[1536]Phere oi wate ote the ve dare lne
[1538]Pew hewtbaaarters oat ph. W Niepite
[1539]complies on hime EL des of the
[1540]five Stunaiq: Bernard Karker. Magaeie
[1541]Roland Moatanes deers OW,
[1542]McCool thet fart]
[1543]Maven reelection ecanpunth conti tee
[1544]wete fates CEA enipleses.
[1546]and
[1548]Srey ooh
[1551]feet atin pueeatteny. Ten tie Wise
[1552]of Bae rt owas Hant, tine
[1553]Miten waite, Mastesminh oof bbe
[1554]Watergate huawdury. Ame he a ferred
[1555]te Stargis, Barker aad Martiaeg fn
[1557]fourth Ceatimuny as Usain af old
[1559]my
[1561]CLA contact”
[1562]SIMU Feburtes
[1565]fae Wore tainaedon Ghee
[1566]vets afber drew
[1567]aboceerrt staff
[1568]Cou. ton
[1569]ret di tet hea
[1570]ete sand he
[1571]epeaaiions tang.
[1572]Sa ee oe |
[1574]Meath
[1578]Imenyy bet other
[1579]usked abut Ob:
[1582]itihse
[1583]huateders
[1585]Clamorew: Frank Bisse Stargee,
[1587]4
[1590]HY 409545
[1592].
[1594]i,
[1596]by PAUL miesuit ae oe
[1598]Third of a teries . H j
[1599]SThe Central bitelligence Agen.
[1600]on enee divestipited Fiddi Castro,
[1601]hollering “Margot Fouteyft aut ac.
[1602]tors John Wayny and Kerol blyna
[1604]in connection avith a bigirre inva-
[1606]sion of Panaanney
[1608]1 The colorful ondt of this gomic- opera
[1609]conspire yo inichidad lieeefl: American
[1611]sWentureas, bee ud whoo wire working 9,
[1613]for the CAL Wilkiem Mogeah and Alex
[1614]Hurke, beth focmbe LES) Army pira-
[1615]fraapers, were an ‘oppusite sfdes of (phe
[1616]Pry plot And Frank Sturgis, a Mere
[1617]igs Marine Kander} was in the middie t
[1618]Ktarpé ~obeen Fasgk Fiorini, ws
[1619]run hunter ward troap-traraer (for ( {fre re
[1620]‘Ten he heeame security and prteltig:
[1621]chief of Ue Cuban Air Force meany pele
[1622]avdyings ax aseeret agent of Ue CLA, ar
[1623]Morvan was a fie toe fanispedta
[1624]intprestesd it anesey Laon heties
[1626]iaidive of Totedo, Uhio, i nf te
[1628]Caha in (958 and became seepnd in-dpi-
[1629]rand af Gan independent aehtl arn
[1631]ibd Escumbray Mountains. [This son
[1632]Cummunist feree helped ¢ oe 4 guerril-
[1634]taq overthrow the Hatista dictatorship
[1635]atgl Casha made Murcan « idajor, high-
[1636]el rank fo the revolutionary drys
[1638]S'Phe upset wiekory aver Hatislu, atl
[1639]tha vt that want with it, encouraged
[1641]Morgan fo consider eatvading the revelu-
[1642]tion to arher Latin Inuds. A few weeks
[1643]alter t . tcover in |
[1645]Morpan galled af Capt. Frank. Fioriin's
[1646]vifiee oa Cuban dtr Force headquarters.
[1648]Refused second spot .
[1650]Valuer Maryan spoke te me confidh a
[1651]tially? Storyas toke |
[1652]he was preparang an invasien ‘ot Paracas
[1653]aud the Canad Zone. He wanted ine to be
[1654]seeondaig command of the eqpeditioa, f
[1655]fald hint 1 waa interested, but not in a
[1656]Jeadership position.
[1658]TT sand, BUN: you'se got ta be erazy.'
[1660]The Amerian goyecament's got amide
[1661]tary free there, You're walling te gs
[1662]APAINAL Voor own ecaunisy 7° dhe amid,
[1663]"Well, the GUS. never i paythidg for
[1664]aM ” 7
[1666]Vhe Aunerican wnidiuary strength in the
[1667]Casal dee at that time an TNS) Lanaded
[1668]abet Lordi naen. eoitpared to 5000 in
[1669]Wookl Wael i Margan faguped
[1670]pree atach daa few hundred Cu
[1671]aoetty hy Panamanian detlists plague
[1672]pets aul a Cher disorders, would he suf-
[1675]the vital canal
[1677]sur
[1679]“The vensparatera planned to over.
[1680]throw the Pansinanman goverinent and
[1681]yrab othe Canal fer propaganda and
[1682]ertortien ers” SOs sand.
[1684]“They were gods te wend a ship,
[1685]Toasted will oxplosivep, thretyh the canal
[1686]lovks. They were goune ta blow up and
[1687]sink Lies step sanew Bere uear the lacks,
[1688]ao that the gates t fay
[1689]deri arid
[1690]pout ian
[1691]OMufyne agerat We wuukl tie ayy the
[1692]al TOP nd lease (wer months. He wee ail
[1693]set to ge He tuel the ten, seuss, ahipe,
[1694]planes. everything. -
[1698]cut
[1700]Showed planes, named names
[1702]“Doce tached tie Apberiean) kay
[1703]in Havana ard wetetied the (Cf
[1704]Mecbwrge Pte Crd Nichols (ireacon
[1705]Nichels, eer aQache at the enemas pte
[1706]the gis base ceed showed fam the esmneag
[1707]Abaya? planes Uist were le be used for
[1708]the tavaoha and Preaued aid the people
[1709]wher were seta the com garg
[1711]“hoes ines 6
[1712]Margot Fonteyn, stay
[1714]werteddy jan faded
[1716]Hoke Hallet and date venender of th:
[1717]Ordo of tne Mitt Punpae (he equiva
[1718]font of bavhahoods, gid her rich. wee de
[1719]erties bie sderenl, ieakrra Atsas, fore
[1721]gone ( Ga fortaee pretdeat of Pasansc,
[1722]Piagaie Matgee and her feeb’ were
[1723]ja Cuba wt th a Kulen Mire
[1724]feet dh che :
[1725]bhavenient allege
[1726]Morvan at ify
[1727]miliary comme tiader.
[1728]Accondnag fa
[1730]sferced with
[1731]oe ohe was
[1733]: telligetoe peports, the
[1734]iVRMIOP was te take place while Casta
[1735]was seubing the Unidat States atel Cuna
[1736]da XN speoeherd fusee of Conan nnd
[1737]Panomatiias would dando the Carb
[1738]bean coast of Puansiga A seromnd force uf
[1739]Poroinancns weetd strike inland fran
[1740]Ue Paeifie ceast, Phen the aan ivan
[1741]Avay wend satus Crom Cuba,
[1743]Police ant National Gitte) poste were
[1745]to die waitin het Bebe) dupuete faa a
[1746]hockd: 30423650 on Bag
[1748]a
[1750]‘y
[1752]7 oly Magee [bila !
[1753]hig Guintla Puls CROSS RONEG, uf
[1759]Nett hie mate
[1760]« ln Panama, part of the invasion tenn quickly yeied.
[1762]Prota by Ruel Caparres
[1764]he bnew nothing about the Unaais plot.
[1765]ol Flyni abe was asked about bis
[1766]n fete tdshigy with
[1767]together in Cubs,
[1769]Canal Zone and
[1770]ned City t te keep Panamanian me
[1771]LEER. Lregys aceupied. :
[1772]But Frank's reports ta the CLA "
[1773]vides! sufficient mbvance 3:
[1774]Custre deft Cuba en April 14, Ven
[1775]Arias and his wife Mow to Mavamu pind
[1776]et imubar Taueh
[1777]a day, saying Oey were joing tiph-
[1780]where Flyin was
[1782]no swashbuckler said
[1783]Aviat wanted to hirg
[1784]an-geing Zaca, fore trip
[1785]ing what he bat in tind,
[1787]not have attenipted the VP:
[1788]Cathe of erma
[1790]ied ety i a, Pidel insisted: “Thad nothing to de with
[1792]wulesatie itles, vevalvers, tuachir
[1793]los ind amietinitien bt wok
[1794]Hinah beet trepped §
[1796]ashore on a Sut Hlas badian reses
[1797]the CLA had # man at Cv
[1798]Alexander Rocke dr.
[1799]ist, photrarrapher wud intelligence agent.
[1801]Double doublecross
[1803]Seu ofa New YouR adie,
[1805]Lent Ga the 5 trooper aed intelbs en
[1807]Texme axhere on
[1808]und uci the, urs Jon
[1809]Dine Marget.
[1811]daughter af Stal Clab owner
[1812]panuie oa Che
[1813]i her hashand then Vesunnned ther e ruts
[1814]after receiving. aeCtA
[1815]wu ship tad sailed
[1816]rom the Cuba: pect of Bitahane tyart
[1819]Aaecicun busines.
[1820]iavelved wath Sturgis,
[1821]Margan nad Karke i cacuiny plots,
[1822]doubles basa
[1823]York and his gat
[1825]mano Cota,
[1827]whe vew bves ind New
[1828]tini-hed writing wt
[1829]Million Pyetlais,
[1830]“Patarted
[1831]“omscnneint Cwretras dn (Matt bee
[1834]“orrest. He head
[1835]ia, returned fo
[1836]and went into hid-
[1837]ing se hie Family's ranch,
[1839]Beloee dawn tect dias, the Nota abige-
[1840]Inte tha Taina Canal with ouky the
[1842]“the news on ih
[1844]bois capture or ab least subotages *
[1846]there was anything: he could de te get
[1848]the heme of hier sistersia- lew,
[1849]A few hours hater,
[1850]Miter MH. hours An juit,
[1851]hated tack to
[1852]Vets had taken ref.
[1854]allowed te leave the
[1856]freon whe was very close t
[1858]thing: but sone
[1860]the ren tetera “TE found wut that Cadiea was gong: to
[1862]‘Tramihe (Penis
[1864]Me ware Later Uietator Halae! Prupilled disut the sya
[1866]a oweoda tak
[1868]hiqe nftbe would bo atop. found thé arms
[1871]“Totalb Teajitle
[1873]un oS cat
[1875]Ameceoain friend ai ve nat bene
[1877]Peary bach fie (bar paecite
[1878]‘hea vent come
[1879]hayes Castie bs
[1881]miheu dele
[1882]cue Ga pet wl start.
[1883]ab Maegan Ro Geen
[1885]is nnd Tua.
[1886]A Wenn ape,
[1888]Spearhead blunted
[1890]Those of the mea draw in ihe svat
[1892]dent areal pat up the
[1893]Nelson sead he
[1894]plies $100,000
[1897]dnegehaes, sen
[1899]Sto be pad when
[1901]were quickly captused hy Puamie’s Nae
[1903]eM bAN ports of OF
[1905]indy find bub what was app. u
[1907]Ji we wy me inane at the Decoyed by Raul's wile
[1909]ihsaston pad cadeged the Ehree
[1911]Hes Dak te Cada Reaba wid Meo ye
[1913]TR tatebeak e
[1915]wie witesied, The worran aber Chey ane
[1917]Tree) Cadre’ wale,
[1919]Maran had told F
[1921]EC
[1922]Heat athe Hittes satd proce Margai'a 1m
[1923]Mine «the: ptt
[1925]which Paniia-
[1929]tuded te go along wilh PF
[1931]Frege Wasi’. nad Aupie-t,
[1933]Teeter ee ren Near 1
[1934]oyiatg between Ne de the chief of Ue
[1936]Vy entetbascenien
[1940]Cavan Gre acion buachkend
[1941]Ment pleted ef Homesnuin safle ts
[1943]soplaineab Gat te and Ane
[1945]SUGRUYS OF
[1946]WIE GUA
[1948]it was surrounded by 100 Cuban tr
[1949]Jed by Fitch Castro hinisel fl
[1951]The Dowinienns were yncd
[1952]TV vame@sasion theie wey te oe
[1953]denegactd Trupho end praised Morgatt
[1954]as a hete, Bess than tea sears hater,
[1955]Moran was executed by oe Caetro faring
[1956]quad for nomics tess profitable ge
[1957]Vad devised the TOU os nal
[1958]hewn, Nerther Meran’s Cab wife tor
[1959]his Minerican Gonily ever cas a cet of
[1960]aL. Nor alnd Castro,
[1962]As ston ae the Trugite macnn col
[1963]fapsed, Alex Hotke wae cedeased Croan
[1964]fall and weperted frame Cuba, Raat
[1966]before
[1967]Castre
[1969]Cuirned many tenes bev gar aid or
[1970]these ehandestiar tri he uoesl a bees
[1971]chyane Hecehsiaft plane. a Ho. bamnber
[1972]ant ya 38 foot speedboat, the V ane,
[1974]SOurgis accataparied Rib on many tay:
[1975]Lerious missions, -
[1977]Assastins fuiled
[1979]On one aveasion, Rerke repartediy
[1980]Janded an exeeution squmd Ghat teeed but
[1981]faded to hal Castro, ty un tt) the
[1982]Veolyna db owas detained aa che Eiahiancs
[1983]when a stapped be cefacl om x ii he
[1984]tween the US nad Coba. Teatish ocedte
[1985]Kenee agents questioned Karke vant ihe
[1986]17 Coben raiders whe wire wih haw,
[1987]Ttorke Cobb them the CPA ded fieneed
[1988]inany drips ef the Vielynn Hib and “the
[1989]United States yssrnment, threayh the’
[1990]Central Dntellgsenes  Vyeaes. liad ade
[1991]vance knowledye ef these trips” .
[1993]Formre CUA agente teld “bhe News
[1994]this slateuent wae crus.
[1996]tim Apes th, awe othe sal Ubece
[1997]other OFA eontraet rent Hew ower
[1998]Havana in the Beecher and (ried tp
[1999]homb twe gal refers, The booth miss.
[2000]ed Cher Gergets and caused hUthe oben
[2001]axe.
[2003]Five months iatec, Horke went sant hie
[2005]Tast mission The 7 Pocedeatiner
[2006]atul bis pas tner, Geaffeey Sadhian, 28. af
[2007]Waterbury, Conn, took arf Cran Ft.
[2008]Kauderdale, Plaga a rented fwie engine
[2009]paffoan Sept Si, Teck Pea Cue
[2010]rersepatitesd thera,
[2011]Heake ead Salivan fled a fight plan
[2012]wothes wera leannd fee Qaesce
[2013]eua, wieee they pheaaed Ge Geet ae «ar
[2014]fevncht se made tee fuel
[2015]c= at Cozanel island off Metis
[2016]atan Petinsute and of Belooe. UWeetiab
[2017]Honduras, When they deft Media, the
[2018]plane shsapueared
[2020]Vinat on 2 SEs reeereed s report
[2021]that the plane was averd ein Ne aragas,
[2022]Frank immediatedy cailed the command:
[2023]rtf vat intelleence in Masai An age.
[2025]eoseach was lanoched by the Navy,
[2026]Coast Gama aod Ace Feree A private
[2027]seacel party wns orgamaed beter by
[2028]Kent he’ Miwa lawyer ated persmnal
[2029]ve Ruben dag ne eof the
[2030]Sineraiis or them plhoae wes
[2031]ever found,
[2033]Forced onto boat
[2035]Sete tiveabinters hadiee The plane
[2036]Soaabetiaed dy Caste nageate, Brsnk
[2037]leer ties another thoors .
[2038]“When thee stepped ta sefuet at Stra.
[2039]few Fuchboanac dete Vie peta te oan
[2040]Aiteniean cotninercha puiet, Bterd Hark,
[2041]teh Nae Tee Mey seed thes were
[2042]etude feor Lote oath teapladl of the
[2043]Kepobte of Homtanal The tes af? on
[2044]the lpectiog ot : alpal put ines
[2045]Fever jot Ue
[2047]reeewed
[2049]Names mes saswwarein, the
[2050]beep ef Retee tr.
[2051]foremd be be. we Caphcces fi tere mend
[2052]thet dad polled tate shee gr Herharas
[2054]Vike fethary deat beth remo deate ts ter
[2055]“the tu Leriays ae °
[2056]os vant the ond
[2057]Sallvat. Uhes  aeser nenened toads
[2058]ERNEST ators ane ta bout Dae
[2059]Pree Cubins whe iat bored wath Terie
[2060]aed Hower TEL woth ther tbe re
[2061]the tee frat topes
[2062]Fe teperte rerreced day beth &
[2063]Steps, cme at te en ws dbase
[2064]Melina, at taae afte a peateedtiteldy
[2065]Fa tee wed ted te tie
[2068]eos cetiple
[2070]ale
[2072]ran weg
[2074]pat on
[2076]wen Were gy
[2080]Balas
[2082]net
[2084]hes
[2086]cern in Hae a Pow
[2088]tal Ameren ai Neb
[2089]eetee Meditate new bayer
[2090]ate ta hash somewhere
[2091]Fes erraal
[2093]ob hile d
[2095]At
[2097]thy Hdevse dy, 4 ohers They ow
[2098]fie feeders wyenta whee hidien
[2102].
[2104]HW 50855
[2106]By PAUL MESKIL
[2108]“E was a spy,” Frank Sturgis
[2109]admits, .
[2111]“T waa involved in assassina-
[2112]tion plots and conspiragies to over.
[2113]throw several foreign —yovern-
[2114]ments, ineluding Cuba, Panama,
[2115]Guatemala, the Duminiean Repub-
[2116]Hie and Haiti.
[2118]“1 smuggied arms and men into Cuba.
[2119]o~ for Castro and against Castro. 1 broke
[2120]into the intclligence file; of the Cuban
[2121]Army and Air Force. J stole and phate.
[2122]graphed hundreds of seeret documents,
[2124]“That's what spies do.
[2126]“1 also broke into foreign consulates
[2127]and business offices in Cuba, far the pur-
[2128]pose of obtaining information, and inte
[2129]a -import-export office in Caracas,
[2130]Menecucla, that was a front for the
[2131]iet Seeret Service).” ‘
[2133]Slorpis 8 a hized operative of the
[2134]Central Intelligence Agency for at least
[2135]a decale, Sleybe he still is, though his
[2136]cover was blown forever by the notoriety
[2137]he recrived as a Watergate burglar. He
[2138]constructed and controlled an e$piunage
[2139]network in Cuba that is still functioning
[2140]despite frantic efforts by Castro security
[2141]forevs and the KGH ty destroy at,
[2143]podtae se ses080 dU Hee AML BDurap a hich is Ceranmay, he
[2145]iin c Mf. ans TA 7 arnt 7
[2146]Cor havang Uriels
[2148]Second of @ series
[2150]the Watergate drama, Sturgis is ar
[2151]hfe James Bond whose explute
[2152]those of any fictional say. Interviewed at
[2153]the office of his Miami lawyer, Eilis
[2154]Rubin, and at ‘other places in w York
[2155]and Florida, he candidly revealed niany
[2156]details uf his culurful career ss a wat
[2157]hero, seerets-atealer, CUR Pruner, guer-
[2158]milla fyghter und professional plotter,
[2160]Changed the subject
[2162]Asked if he had alse Seen an assat
[2163]tir, he politely ‘changed the sabyees,
[2164]Sune things he will aot talk about,
[2166]A stocky, iron-jawed man who Tooks
[2167]mach Younger than his £0 years, he was
[2168]horn Fr Angelo Fierini in fol,
[2169]Va. He joined the U. farine Corps at
[2170]th. start of Worl War il vad f. ‘a
[2171]throuzh the Pacifte with the famed First
[2172]Raider Battalion. After the war. he ROTA.
[2173]ed in the Air Force, Army and Navy
[2174]Reserve,
[2176]He had the perfect training fara se.
[2177]vret agent, The Marine Corps t
[2178]judo, haife-fighting and Junle
[2179]techniques, The Air Furee tang -
[2180]fla plane and the Navy Resers
[2181]hint tu nandie small, fast ships
[2183]The Atay completed thes ¢
[2187]-
[2189]ar face
[2190]hunt pe
[2191]turned
[2195]Tf
[2197]“yf
[2200]SLSRGTS OF
[2201]TWe GIA
[2203]sicned tu a security unit that handled
[2204]top-secret reports frome Allted intelli.
[2205]Kence agents all ever Europe. This was
[2206]his introduction to the dark wurld of
[2207]espionage and intrigue,
[2209]In Berlin during the chilliest Part of
[2210]the cold war, he mct his first real spy.
[2215]bas aT bo, re Ged (CO? ifhi
[2217]She was a Leautiful actress who also was:
[2219]an arent. of Haganah, the secret army
[2220]formed to defend the new stale of Israel,
[2221]Whea he returned to civilian life,
[2222]Frank became s Haganah courier — pers
[2223]haps the only Roman Cathulic in this
[2224]group. In the 1954s, he went ty Miami to
[2225]visit an uncle had married a Coban
[2226]exile, Mer #, 7 Bas cloce to Cartss
[2227]Prio, the Cuban president whe was oust.
[2228]ed ia 1952 by a miliary coup led hy
[2229]Fulgencio Batista, Frank met Prio 1
[2230]other wealthy Cubans whose Miami man.
[2231]stuns were hotheds of anti-Natista in.
[2232]trigue.g Same of them supphed financial
[2233]suppert for a Nery your revel,. Fidel
[2234]Uastro, who was then liv in Mexico.
[2235]Ind Prig asked Frank ty “yo bo
[2236]Cuba soins) Castro's army and dor me
[2237]amow what he's daing,”” Frank sccepte £
[2239](Coanticued on mire 143
[2241]: : fv DAILY NEWS, MONDAY. APRIL 21, 1973 . .
[2243]ewe he”
[2246]1
[2247]t
[2248]el
[2249]Ye
[2251]i
[2252]|
[2254]|
[2256]| ;
[2257]“We 50955
[2259]Frank Sturgis in Cuba:
[2261](Continued from page 3) ‘
[2262]the assignment, He flew to Havana ood
[2263]Mith the help of a Cuban priest, he
[2264]quickly incated Castro's camp in ‘the
[2266]teered his seevices, I.
[2268]“Fidel remenibered me," he sald, “We
[2269]could undecaland exeh other. [apuke Ital.
[2271]ten, which ds sinsiar to Spanish, and he
[2272]spoke aeme English. { offered to help
[2273]train his troopa, but he seid, Frank, what
[2274]To need fs rete
[2276]So Frank beedme a gun runner, With
[2277]tueney eapphed hy the Castro under.
[2278]grovad in Blorich, he purchased thon-
[2279]aand of tifles wad viher weapons frum
[2280]Iniqruational Aainaroent Coop. Clater-
[2281]ari\cop of ‘Alexsbutel , Va, the world’s
[2282]largest desler inbneptos arma. He thea
[2283]aetcup an eliburute laai-sra-air amiueg-
[2285]aling network fe get tbe guns and
[2287]He Became Triple Agent
[2289]After several months at a duuble
[2290]exeat, workiig for Poe at Castra,
[2292]Prank became a@ ftiple agent. This time,
[2293]he was coccuited for ihe vane of intelli-
[2294]Kepee ty a tayoe r acuut, Park FL
[2295]Wotan, the State fh timgnat official
[2296]thet in chines uf the (ES. Consulate in
[2297]Sentiaige de Cuba,
[2299]“Went a
[2301]Grande Tiotel in
[2303]Santiuges, Wontiin kinew
[2304]ano Lowas and ue doing. He
[2305]approached ave ene introduced
[2306]ma We feat seve gal merngsa aad
[2308]he atin. dong petriate te wml so forth,
[2309]Tongresd ta wers with bane, .
[2310]“Taker, when fhe revohution waa weft
[2311]Dorecraced eahes cote y ota Wal
[2312]Tara tell nee vetlel inthe Ameri.
[2313]CHA Puntassy t "TL new contacts,
[2314]CRA
[2316]Frank saut, wee agent, une of
[2317]Wine woes the endlee og tility uke
[2320]Castro taneediately placed iby post
[2321]Crustal ai fieers an fuaand oof the
[2322]Calan uatibuy services, Mager Pedra
[2323]Prag Lane, «elie Criend of Frash’s, bee
[2324]fae comemdeg ia chief of the Ale
[2326]Foret aml Wet heether, Marcos Hag
[2327]Lane, Deentae incpector generab ef that
[2328]service :
[2330]Frank helped the bias Dane Leathers
[2332]Pecr yar the Ave §
[2333]hie Useir seermaty and on Higenee chief,
[2334]He alse became the officer in charye af
[2335]inspection amd s0petvising pad] Cuban
[2336]kambling casinos, which wera uwned wud
[2337]Operated by Ameriona mohslers,
[2339]Fraqk said his ChA- advisers “rakes
[2341]nid i : shed
[2342]Cc Hoekds a Meee, Bate
[2344]rear they nade
[2346]stole and photographed hundreds of secret Hocuments.”
[2347]1 1
[2349]le ;
[2352]oo
[2354]Nor HT EY
[2356]A bit player in the Watergate drama,
[2357]; Sturgis was a real-life James Bond when
[2358]he did his big jobs for the CIA
[2363]Sturgis and his CLA contacts devised twa
[2364]alternate plota, One was to execute Cage
[2365]tro in the second floor cunferenca roam
[2367]preshlentiat palace, in with Fidel. [res
[2368]eruited everyeur | couhl, Aaericans and
[2369]Cubana, to be undercover neegla”
[2371]faa Gorman Gonzales, a Miami bust
[2372]fesunan whe took part in clank-and-dage
[2373]ee Operations asainst both Hatista amt
[2374]taste has known aud worked with
[2375]Sturgis for many years, He saya Sturgis
[2376]fwas a CLA employee from 1959 to 1068.
[2377]The CEA asked film to participate in
[2378]Sstaasination pluts in- Cube and elae-
[2379]Where. Sturgis introduced top Cuban
[2380]ilitary and political leaders to Aiieri-
[2381]fan agents at the US, Enibassy int ava.
[2382]fa. Durie: hese visita, nee Spieacy to
[2383]aasans}nate Castro and other Cubud load: to ko &
[2384]ers developed, . Cong
[2386]WO nifempts ayainst Castre'e life
[2388]athes officers would not arrive at exactly
[2389]the sume time, it might be mors prach.
[2390]eal to wuit until they were all ansembled
[2391]around (he conference table. .
[2393]“The whole iden was to hill ail af
[2394](hen at once, Unfortunetely, if some of
[2395]Ura anli-Conumunist officers were fn
[2396]there at Uh same time, (hey would have
[2397]The hives af sume of the antl.
[2398]st commuters would have te be
[2400]were nade in the cathy part of TNs ere :
[2401]Hotty failed. The ansa se Ghent wailed The third achéme Invelyed planting a
[2402]for a green tht: foam Padak Fyorini bomb in Castro's affine. “tla averse te
[2404]Starcis.
[2406]Ao tird attempt was made ia
[2407]is :
[2409]the prime ministers uffice,' Stu
[2410]saad. “Eketew Fidelis private secretar
[2411]June Orta. 1 recruited hin te week we
[2412]the Kaubassy. 2 plarcud page ta Folvia
[2413]witiee with a dniefease full of explo
[2414]sives Which @ would deave there, When
[2415]Bidet entered the affiee, 4 angid would
[2416]be given atl the bomb would be aet off
[2417]by aa eleetromi device seruag the street,”
[2418]“The plotters watted severul manths
[2420]ik reporter asked Stuspic when the
[2421]egeucy first began Honking about assaa
[2422]ltiating Canto
[2424]The fist discussion of asaaastaation
[2425]with my (CEA) contacts wae re Pete
[2426]ery WBE he repled. “b wus an king re.
[2427]porta on ad the cummniunist wetivaly iss
[2428]the mulitury, Po sacgeted that thi would
[2430]be a good: Cae to assmasiniete Malek bE pfer the green dike from Washington,
[2431]sald Eowould organize it and follow it Pbut it never caine ey couldnt make
[2432]through, 4 Up there aninda,” Brogk sol oof the une
[2434]“Cowell avenue an hnportant cons Pseen, nla deers aniaacts. They
[2436]coabba'y decubs what Ge da.”
[2438]Asked for Green Light
[2440]Bat, according: to fasaner diteflyesiogs
[2441]needa the CRA later approved: nad
[2442]hankrolled ater plots to wage Gut Cas
[2443]tro, Ainertcan aby citurers, Csaba eat 4,
[2444]Misfit dens and bast danhing Cuban off
[2446]CUnS pI racies,
[2448]fn June, 169, Custeo fired 85 fap Air
[2449]Force wfficoun suspeeted of disdte rly,
[2450]including the Dime Lang brothera. Pedro
[2452]ferenve at Cainpo Vabertad CCwmp Liber
[2453]ty, the eonbined arnyy wer force by, anid
[2454]headquarters: formerly Lian ng Cathy
[2455]Columbiy, AW the top commnnilets
[2456]Would come fo Uke bane inthetr jeoge uid
[2457]CHER Ts going fs station gunners dn
[2458]the routs, atk up cee line. Lael
[2459]have wiped oat adel, tee hivethaee 1 i
[2460]audadl the top ¢peu vommanety mle oy
[2461]comuneiers in ce secunds 7
[2463]“tousked my contact in the in.
[2464]AY le yet a green tyht Cofficml age
[2465]alton this, Whether thie wend ha
[2467]come fram, the’ top level we Washan Dey Vaor Hem reapned fran the Ate
[2468]ey tpwer fevel, Eelom's haw 7%! do Rupee dnd: deomunee| Castte eon
[2469]Wile Wey wate fae rt oe oo soot
[2471]at Alc Force headquarters. As he nad the:
[2473]ancrificed in order Go get Castro and his
[2475]Almeida, ordered Vedeo's arrest and the
[2476]Diag hank brothers went cod: rground,
[2477]“At Gils point, Frank was pulled out
[2478]of Cuba, “I left Havana oa June 30 and
[2479]came to Minmt to arrange the escapes of |
[2481]the Hina Lang brothers and whete famt-
[2482]fies, Pedro and hls wife got out by sall-
[2483]boul, Marcos was picked up by » plane.*
[2485]‘The brothers Ned to Florida, fold all
[2486]they knew about the Castro tegime and
[2487]went to work foe Lhe CUA,
[2489]A few weeks after Frank’a abrupt
[2490]departure frum dlavane, he recelyed
[2491]sord that Casteo was avuding ao assas.
[2492]aati team after hin, Brach's fuform-
[2493]ant supplied full descriptions of the
[2494]three assagsins, who were Mexican
[2495]romanunists: The FIL posted @ raund>
[2496]Che-cloek guard on Prwuh's Miami home
[2497]aud federal agents fulluwed han where
[2498]exer he went. .
[2500]Tailed to Florida
[2502]Customs and tmidgration officers
[2503]werg alerted. Tha Mexican gunmen were
[2504]spotted when they crossed. the border
[2505]and were taled to Plormda, where they
[2506]were arcestesl, Thea ear was coufisented
[2507]and they were booted back bo Sfeaica,
[2509]Gi Get 25, TO, an Aoerican H- 3
[2510]Lomber swooped ever evace ward abrep.
[2511]fed Chouratids of ented ater leafle
[2512]Uneteo eulted thie “bombing” raid a
[2513]Culo Peart Mater,
[2515]Bedew than bs
[2516]Stari told tty
[2518]wae the pilot,”
[2519]NG TL wae the rue
[2520]beet. Mucor Dee tana mead another
[2521]Pulwgs were with us Cuba Ale Farea
[2522]fichiers came alter ua tut they natased
[2523]Wor wted otic cher phone planes
[2524]ehewan Vie hag ptt nd tie Navy slutton
[2525]vad tha Cabin fovteees aqnetieal up: but
[2526]Veatigtie af Che ane eas suet that they
[2527]were fing from the, heights tate thar
[2528]et AT feat ln penpla wete betel and
[2529]Wwougatdead
[2531]own
[2533]Vhe deaflet declordnent wee the
[2534]First af any CEY cqanaared He ets
[2535]Storgecimehe tn Cute hy Wed sea]
[2537]at wif apreeticss rate
[2538]both geen Taght ceed
[2539]a dicht Cwith and with.
[2540]eu OF Gem! approvall, Nad | anely mane
[2541]OU boat issn
[2543]TE tid fora beats
[2544]by the Garis Une
[2545]Comat thoietb catter, SA feet hong, woth
[2546]AWG OE horsepenn eukihea, Tt hae ae
[2547]HiniinUM Aperd of SO Kats Another
[2548]hont, the Cusa, was anboat (he ATP ARLE,
[2549][alse had Gwe St foot fherglats boats
[2550]with radwe wad oties aapheationted equip.
[2551]tent “Phey veut vate, 40 people and da
[2552]Miah an hee .
[2554]They were fininced
[2555]wens converted
[2557]re 7
[2559]|
[2562]7 By PAUL MESXIL 4 lay ' ie
[2563]Fifth of a secies
[2565]On March 17, 1960, President
[2566]Eisenhower authorized the CIA to
[2567]form a guerrilla urmy of Cuban
[2569]> refugees and invade Cuba, Shortly
[2570]thereafter, the CIA dispatched
[2571]arent. Frank Sturgis to Guatemala
[2573]» to confer with President Miguel
[2574]Ydigoras about setting up training
[2575]bases in that country. ~
[2577]This “secret” mission was quickly
[2579]dIscovered and reported by the Guate-
[2580]malan news mueddia.
[2581]+ “I had planned to hreak Into the
[2582]Cuban Embassy while | was in
[2583]Guetemala City,” Sturgis told this re-
[2584]porter recently, “but the president sug-
[2585]gested I leave the country becouse of
[2586]all the publicity. The newspapers and
[2587]TV reported Twas a CIA ayent and
[2588]was trying to obtain bases for the
[2589]Cuben invasion.” .
[2591]Over the next year, the CLA trained
[2592]Cuban recruits in Guatemala, Panuma,
[2593]Puerto Rico sed the United States.
[2594]Sturgis, @ marine conthat veteran of
[2595]World War Il, trained about 50 Cubans
[2596]in the Florida Everglades.
[2598]‘Sturgis wan part of the awency’s
[2599]super-secret: Operation 40, an infiltra-
[2601]. f- tien and inteligence-gathering grew
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[2605]age
[2607]B
[2609]ilissicn to Cobo: Tole of tbe
[2611]OG
[2612]that was to go Sito C hefure the
[2613]Bay cf Pigs assauh. .
[2615]Seme former CLA
[2616]Operation 46 aa an
[2617]sylad."* Sturgis won't go th far.
[2619]“It was a top CIA project,” he 3.
[2620]“Most of the men in it were Cu
[2621]who kad been trained hy othe U
[2622]Ariny., Tam nob saying that Operation
[2623]40 had an assassination squad. There
[2624]are reports thet there was one, but Pr
[2625]nat saying so.
[2627]To laliltrate
[2629]“Tha prime purpore was infiltration,
[2630]not assassination. They {group mem.
[2631]bers) were to infi
[2633]agente ch corihe
[2634]TENG ASMA tioh
[2636]leaders and undergroand peuple,
[2637]And they could ki] they kad to, if
[2638]it was really necessa y.
[2640]Chief of Operation 40 was Jose Joa.
[2641]quin Sanjenis. 9 Pormer Castro aide who
[2643]defected and ecame a CHA agent. Two:
[2644]of his cousins also worked fur the agen. |
[2646]ry.
[2648]@ yroup of Cuban mil y offers
[2649]plotting ‘o overthrow ¢. To. The de
[2650]er of this plot was Major Hum.
[2651]Sort Marin, @ former Havana
[2652]who drafted the Castro
[2653]which made Neing  syuad
[2654]legal. Sori Marin had heen adiut.
[2655]gervral of Castro's army. presiding
[2656]judg gt the 1209 “war crimes trial
[2659]Code
[2661]penal
[2664]te Cubsaland cons:
[2665]Mick ariti-Castro miitary leaders, paliti-’
[2666]cal
[2668]Farly im 1961, the CLA learned that.
[2670]Tye ¢ ,
[2671]‘Wile CIA
[2673]that sent hundreds of Batista loyal.
[2674]tu the firing squads, and Castro's first
[2675]minister uf cyticulture. But by 1901 he
[2676]had turned aguinst the Cuatro fegime,
[2677]Nis partners in the anti-Castro cone
[2678]tpiracy included other Cuban arms,
[2679]navy and ale ferce commanders, the
[2680]chief of Castro's secret bohee, the depu.
[2681]ty finance minister and the head of the
[2682]Coban Sugar Institute. They planned a
[2683]itary uprising during whieh Castes
[2684]ard hig Communist advisers weuld be
[2686]As soon as the CIA learned what
[2687]they were up to, Operation 40 wert
[2688]actin, Agents slipped into Cabs, cone
[2689]taeted the conspirators ard asked *hein
[2690]me the military revel
[2691]sith the Bay of Pigs invasior.
[2693]A month before the
[2694]revolGinvasion was ta
[2695]patral was sent to the Mi
[2696]of Havana to arrest a wor
[2697]been overheard eutnp! ir
[2698]shortages. As the mobta ve
[2699]to her house, she rag out the
[2701]ta eel:
[2703](Continued on page 64)
[2705]: Ne ampere ‘Tt oa.
[2706]Voomed Raiders
[2710]Mean ntnic be
[2712]Hehon: a velaraa conicirato
[2714]|
[2715]74
[2718]p>
[2719]L
[2720]G
[2722]es
[2724]~~ 2 ST ite et tr
[2726]i :
[2727]7 if ok
[2728]. te,
[2729]j ~ ; ua t
[2730]: . fe
[2731]j ;
[2732]Lek
[2733]; (Continued from pyae 8}
[2736]Pot fo the nearby home}of x ibe,
[2737]h
[2739]phgincer and his wif i
[2742]tentered, the encunver's hodse and slurat
[2743]ante a roam where ten qaders Qf the
[2744]* pnilit eady cunspitacy were geated drounds
[2745]“'w tabie Hittered with Havang street mapa
[2746]ipinpeinting the lecations éf key fistal-
[2747]qlatios i that were to he seisgd.
[2749]i Tht militiamen were qutranked and.
[2750]joutnuabered. They hesitaled, not sur
[2751]what fo do. Then informed sources said
[2752]‘Sort ptann pyfled bis pistol A shore
[2753]burst § frum he Zaech-miade submaching
[2754]gun wounded bir in the leg and per
[2755]cauadetl Kine stl his co-conspirators ta
[2756]“surreqder They were hauled off to La
[2757]Cabana Fortress far questioning.
[2759]Around this tine, in March 1961,
[2760]noisy puts waa held in ge email white
[2761]bungalow in Miami's Cuban section. Th
[2762]bongaiow was a CLA “safe house” any
[2763]the party was a sendolf celebration fur
[2764]equad—five Cubans
[2766]an Operation 40
[2768]and an American—that was sbout tu
[2769]invade Cuba. ¢ 3
[2770]Contact underground “
[2772]Vie suntad’2 inission was to contact
[2774]aon the north coast, to mak
[2775]Castra think a guerrilla force was Jande
[2777]lg there. The diversionary action wal
[2778]te hepa -hartly before the real favasiong
[2779]On the South ¢oitst.
[2781]Most uf the people at the Mil
[2782]jortty were Coban aefugees, Ameng the
[2783]Amarwens thers were Frank Nelson s
[2784]former Havatia  busieessman and”
[2785]an Cartbhean conspirator, and CIA
[2786]tonsk Sturgis and Alex
[2788]tors
[2790]inte conversitinn with
[2791]MeNair, lone American
[2792]ther Cubs bound seed,
[2793]Asked why he going mn sucha
[2794]damprerens miss MeoNate  vegstiod:
[2795]“Heenan eo Crxstee ed ar: Mean sol.
[2796]seer Hdd Morgan t
[2797]Morgan, a frrbaer U Army pera
[2798]tronper who alta.Bed the rank of mifer
[2800]tell
[2801]Angin
[2803]of
[2805]Neda
[2807]yong
[2808]heunber
[2810]i eastra’a retin macexerdted div ay
[2811]Cacge Gru squgbon March tH, 1MGt)
[2812]Mh genple were oat the
[2814]tater dtodd orecenthy
[2816]‘Aren't yeu nftaid of na
[2817]ath these Pew an
[2818]car omission™ He said they were
[2819]ead ore iataes af the Cubans
[2821]Mo Nair
[2823]wo peuple
[2825]were vot woth hem. Ele triste
[2826]aay Tht wae a fatad mete”
[2827]The ODN adders aot off the follow:
[2828]wig meyehe the Florsba Revs on the
[2829]AL foot Lani Meretry, 16
[2830]we Vitae fe Ws, pay
[2832]died Teves Of eevee,
[2833]vie des tirasteon wos ano inbet af Cates
[2834]Pos Hay a Head det Bie Tree,
[2835]athe Ue be hoe Eber,
[2837]Reputed CIA agent
[2842]Phe bakes
[2844]Fhe,
[2845]He aehees
[2846]Arobenaran, Boa
[2847]She owned tena
[2848]cnneind
[2850]fihdes,
[2854]mesitiaee otters ow be
[2855]a ante Catia  erap.
[2856]eatuceed, lear waaa ods
[2857]satire Gf olde Cuban
[2858]the plat aed oO they
[2859]teocary itoant. the was
[2860]He CEA OP the prairie ts
[2861]ater Fee be Puuare teed
[2863]Biesee ded Bae
[2865]Thang
[2867]Mons
[2869]vowed a
[2873]by Clperatian 1 An
[2875]Shortly afte: canietert on Mareh £9,
[2876]Mery oo tha uly bet tesa
[2877]' trail shoeeeve  MeNoaip
[2879]eortr Tbe
[2881]i
[2883]|
[2885].
[2887]oe
[2889]we a aati da)
[2891]aan? 5 Oy abate
[2893]me
[2895]Invone CIA a fo kill Castro, the rifle failed to fire.
[2897]Mews prote
[2899]Super-seeret Operation, 40 wus stymicd-
[2900]: $0 many times by the alor? Cubans that
[2901]i it begun fo sound like Catch z2
[2903]Merange aon,
[2905]warsbaderp walter
[2906]Vite feat
[2908]Reaetblioh
[2911]ohbe leach
[2912]More than 100
[2914]feud been waestoetys
[2915]> Basen ary Diep
[2916]wit ws at ther
[2918]pad Lailleed,
[2920]Nanfersen wis
[2921]fap bt oon bn. wes
[2922]Mie Seug Thes two
[2923]Hiwa hetore a diet
[2925]tao days atler the
[2927]Seven Cubans
[2928]therb, oneladinge Ga
[2929]of the deters of:
[2930]fret Cuba te ins
[2934]thew
[2936]wees
[2938]fared ot
[2941]val
[2942]Iibices isvsed
[2944]for here
[2945]wo Cte
[2946]Pere yews
[2948]Artes taf
[2949]Fe rents awe
[2950]Niet t te
[2952]Hicy of bigs
[2954]Weer or srad
[2956]hate
[2958]the
[2962]‘spilled
[2964]sarrenieled) theas,
[2966]talitiateen
[2968]fat dead,
[2973]the
[2975]e
[2978]ety,
[2983]ad
[2985]Vor
[2989]both
[2992]at
[2993]ay,
[2995]rete
[2999]t
[3001]eat
[3003]4
[3005]and the wp erney
[3007]w
[3011]Vidhecog dy CBee
[3013]Foweerd
[3017]Vee fears
[3019]boyang
[3021]feed
[3022]fob a
[3025]+ Hoda
[3027]thee
[3031]Hogcueyerte
[3033]Has of dies
[3035]work
[3037](ters
[3039]the Piston teases ceed went to
[3040]forthe OLA,
[3042]Pwelve or wud Castva py
[3043]were ever ded nextday. Api 20) Sew:
[3044]oF thins ow thet san the feet pes
[3045]tw oof Portress. Anam
[3046]them we “Sore Mara
[3047]fan whe leabied fienye \
[3048]ANN Ee Anette iae i iF
[3049]Laamelf Ratael Tia Beneen: peut
[3050]seg by PEA He reporteddy se
[3051]te baa
[3053]tie
[3055]celled
[3056]ware
[3057]rye
[3059]en betaterh Ser Marun's grey
[3061]aulvouiona
[3063]the CPA plats coatinerd
[3065]eberiuns
[3066]Dean ag
[3068]Nuvs
[3070]lunedreds ot elite
[3072]Secrmarean Cher. 1d
[3074]vontonied
[3076]thea
[3078]hosing’ Kew,
[3081]slate
[3083]Kew
[3085]aperited oul of West Palm Heach and
[3087]Bt. tauderdale, Florida, dt earried the
[3088]hatest jar wad Sonat equipment, fire
[3089]cunnens, several 30 caliber machine-
[3091]xis and two JU: fout specu boats
[3093]ite shipper Toportedty was Eugenie
[3094]Roland Martinez, a Miaui seal othe
[3095]siesman and GEA ayent whe made
[3096]Spe nectatmal rans ta Cuba.
[3097](ile taken off the offeeid CEA
[3098]payroll in W872. the dav after he was
[3099]entahton Ue Watersate freak ed)
[3100]4) ane of
[3102]Biore Ubi
[3103]ats
[3105]a Che moght of duly 21,
[3106]th Rew speedboata deposited spa aien ure
[3108]na ospidt island aff Las Ville. provines
[3110]Vhe invaders reportediy had bers sent
[3111]tae Rill Castres atoca. duly rails in
[3112]Havani’s Plaga de da Hevoheten. fe
[3114]they never vot there, They wore picked
[3115]up hy a niilitary patrol secon after they
[3117]landed.
[3118]Men coptured
[3120]On the ouch ef Qet Of 189, the
[3121]Rex seat its twin speedhoals ashore at
[3123]the wertero tp ef Cub The Landi
[3124]was observed chy a mibtia patrol and
[3125]the six mena the fost beat were car.
[3127]tured na sean as they bir the bened. The
[3128]Second Jaunel: was xunk hy oa Cuban
[3129]sunbed ss ttoreeed back toe Ue Kea,
[3130]Cunnear fite fron the Rea slave off
[3131]Cuban ve bOVbew net i the water
[3132]hailed aboard (he apg stipe. Next
[3133]tieemng. a LOS Nueg aubancine ser:
[3134]faced iuaer the Hex off the cabanas,
[3135]Five Cubans four deand, one wounded
[3136]repertally were toansferret to Che sib,
[3137]whieh then submerged atid beaded fer
[3138]Florida.
[3140]Qhe touath after this tacidest, Breese
[3141]deat kK SSR Reosinsted by bor
[3142]Ha eto whe hak visstedd tee
[3143]Cul y in Mexica @ety shortby
[3145]hae
[3146]we
[3148]Bat
[3150]before the
[3152]tan and had youd the
[3153]pro Castra Warr Vay for Cub Coa
[3154]matter Pretdent donnson dates told an
[3156]hole, Lee
[3157]Nertealy
[3158]a Cretdlation”
[3159]fentn Go Kill tis
[3161]dotos, that ha theaght the
[3162]sate nnd tesa been
[3163]for the CLA binked ef:
[3165]dansae
[3167]Kew
[3169]These ¢ffert. ecmtuntied tee
[3171]Leader of aludents
[3173]Tn the halt ef msi, CEN agente dn
[3174]Pars porte contaet with (aban Aras
[3175]Maw Rebanda Ciubslis, a her of the
[3176]Dactie pevelatien i ao teader et) the
[3177]Sede th osttsdent sepsis cetiar.
[3178]Cuban bern CLA wagers
[3180]sink Varh
[3181]sand pat te
[3183]brque Ursin
[3185]the
[3187]wath CEN apents werckiny ne
[3188]Atmercait bagloee yan Paris the fate
[3189]creme Ceautinat a few dive hater tn
[3190]Maden wt (alebis ret four aie
[3191]then. nol nee dd seerte
[3192]hte we Pistia peactoe vend he
[3194]foviter abo.
[3195]Wibe watett
[3197]div teak be
[3199]Qty. eetoctn te Phas a, ty
[3201]a hiyteowered sight.
[3202]Other
[3204]platters cated ne ane eusent
[3206]he”
[3208]Svertoobing the danddinge where the
[3209]frtine gutta ties Wee teentt
[3210]Cabelas regtagteddy atrew a be sd om CHae
[3211]Pre vene hey an pte He Lied ap the
[3212]timate hades tout agheesed Tha tigger,
[3213]Vact the rifle Guledb ge tape On tee oye
[3214]veel pein barer pot win of tle as ase
[3215]Mab rea 5 We acted abe dead Cl ediom
[3216]wed Seeen otter plotter . oath oof twa
[3217]weer saved trom tbe fen stad by de
[3220]This seay Gave hers the
[3221]leaden atte capt tee Haste,
[3222]Hat oather 4 trata taste
[3224]Pore eset braety feetig
[3228]x
[3230]By PAUL MESKIL
[3231]Fourta HY] @ serles
[3232]When Fidel Castro threw the
[3234]American gangsters out of Cuba,
[3236]they vowed to return—over his
[3238]dead bedy.
[3240]Their determingion te gut rid of
[3241]Carta was shared by nny high-placed
[3242]American ¢ffiwiis and this common
[3243]cause led eventually too an unhuly ale
[3244]Haney between the CEA and tie moh.
[3245]The strange story of CIA seents and
[3246]Mafia mubstera plotting together
[3247]against Castro was pieced tiyether from
[3248]Interviews with police, federal agents,
[3249]ex-agents and underworld sources. .
[3251]Meyer Lansky, the.crime “avndicate’s
[3252]financed genius, and Santo Trafficante,
[3253]Mufia boss of West Florida and Hava.
[3254]na, got out of Cuba immediately afte
[3255]the hasty exit of ther benefactor, dieta-
[3256]tor Fulyencia Batista, The overseers of
[3257]their gambling caninas remained on the
[3258]island, Mervausly waiting for the axe to
[3260]. fall . :
[3261]_ “L was in touch with all the easing
[3262]owners and operators in Havana,” said
[3264]tauk Sturgis, who was Castro's eusing
[3265]Inepector during this perwd. Fidel
[3266]Srdercd me to close ull the casinos for
[3267]1) days, The owners get the hint, They
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[3271]4 oA ffl oll.
[3272]lade Unto
[3274]knew he was preparing to shut
[3275]OT Permanently, }
[3277]“Phey were ver)
[3278]casinos were wort
[3279]ta the Aimerican eri
[3281]Slates had point
[3283]Upérecatage sy sn
[3285]$59,000 to 3i0duu,
[3286]“Lansky nnd Traffiounte
[3288]had direct business de
[3289]ta. Trafficante tad
[3291]Sans Souci partners
[3293]Sorman Rothman of Mram
[3295]Gabriel and Sam, Mafia
[3296]burgh, Rothman
[3297]tried tu stop the Castres
[3299]Accurding to police .
[3300]fothman was high
[3301]me syndicate and
[3303]in-taw, Gen. Robert “Fernandes
[3305]Rothman. returned, tu Flutis,
[3307]abst {a Stand
[3309]Reach, the goce
[3311]7 fi; 2. PS eRe Wines
[3312]Allisnce Wit:
[3314]W.4: Ceuby Flewo
[3315]SUSREYS CF
[3316]Wis GIA
[3318]aedels mest Chytant saute. an the
[3319]floor ovenoening the ve ty WAS
[3320]the ready fur Tratista, bat Le chose
[3321]ihe cooler ehmies of the Diminican
[3322]Iepublee, Portugal and Matera.
[3324]Sturges was on friendly terms with
[3325]several gacabling racketecrs, including
[3326]Hyman Levine, as Lars. met
[3327]tan Havana's Cumeders — ¢4
[3329]hald be wa,
[3330]Jeate to get aid of
[3331]turgis didn't rise to ths kat
[3332]schanged the subject.
[3333]tt popped up again og few weeks
[3334]er white Castro was in New Yous
[3335]ing’ & whirlwind tour of Nusti
[3336]h Amerea, .
[3337]Bidel and: eAtourave stared at
[3338]Stader-dilten, where TERRES Tegtise
[3339]under figs teal na and Cyhan
[3340]Ainitary sunk, Capt Pra
[3341]Frang was in lus ro.
[3342]when he received pie
[3343]detective captain an duty in the tobly
[3344]eS part of a beavy ecauity detail, No
[3346](Caritinued on page 471
[3349]HW 50955
[3351]Surroundod by his soldiers, Castro enters [evene in triumph after ousting the Uptista goverament.
[3353](Continued trom page 6)
[3354]viniters were allowed an the Castro
[3355]figser withat special preenissien, sf
[3357]“Phon’s w guy here ty wee you,” the
[3358]sported. “ile anys ite’a your,
[3359]" a
[3361]cop
[3364]nd ders ns.” Peaok replied,
[3366]The short, pet belied man who are
[3367]ried a few numites tater fooked noes
[3368]hae 8 gedfather than aa unele. Frank
[3369]recosmiest tant fs on anember oof the
[3371]lias Kadnblings ioph. Conunye ateniqbt
[3372]ty fhe mont, the fo offered Fratk
[3373]$1on.top te dal rr)
[3375]“Posed Hey" Frank anid, end-
[3376]ng the conversation.
[3377]When ne returned to Havana a fowd
[3379]der he coparped the offer te hey
[3380]cdntacts at Und maerican Banta.
[3382]Stutyia had no fiirther contnet with
[3383]the yangster wie ppprenched
[3385]fuew Yorn, but semecone an the intedit
[3386]Cha
[3388]venee nictarely deceded that the
[3389]wud the syaudieate sneuld join jorees
[3390]: ro, The yasbotr ween picket
[3392]THIN grujeck reportedly was Norman
[3393]Minar wan in laud with aeveral
[3394]ayrents, a foraed avert todd The
[3395]Hick reaayy, Wee Lan ge cen
[3396]Sheng Cade Aton plots aginst Cade
[3400]Amory these
[3401]reek purrleya,
[3402]were Santo
[3403]no Meuunariny
[3406]Veet derrsem, fer Learn, adiae:
[3407]RA peeus.
[3408]ine these F
[3410]snd wgpbes tC tuerbe thee
[3411]Rlated Pourne, both af New Ver, and
[3412]John (Pen Crvangip dosed of bas
[3413]Vegas,
[3415]Graneila, a mefoher of the Vite
[3416]Genovese error Canty, biel ran eases
[3417]in Cadds aed howeeck a nisqor dn fettasth =
[3418]fay operation on Manhattan's b
[3419]Teurine, an sdercibe of New ler
[3420]woh clielieiag Mogyere ¢iehe the
[3421]Hoolp  Dludieaie aed (dere)
[3422]Oalene, sine apernted Mavatia cai
[3425]Sewers sayae
[3426]Castes deme send fer
[3427]Gasgare Magouddine, a ete nan Marder
[3428]Tne. who hiflet anece than A pecple ue
[3429]vations party of the world hefare he
[3430]wad down away by a shut blast on
[3431]Hiealdya da 1d A Simliaa Matt
[3432]Maruddwin dual lived ia South Aue
[3434]aarales
[3437]fe
[3439]Were tn for
[3441]Was fe
[3443]DOPE AP I2SE BENG" Paige CIP sno. seo
[3445]bows ty the tae
[3449]q
[3456]Deprived of its Havana casinos, U.S. mob
[3457]joined CIA in series of plots fo kill Cusiro,
[3458]using everything from poison to dynamite
[3460]ani well An wag
[3461]asaanemnation
[3462]declined or
[3464]'
[3465]tro conp. He ktiew Uh
[3466]aoperfeet where tor the
[3467]AeAIK ET, but. he either
[3468]wasn'boffered the continel,
[3470]The mot and the C1A finaly gave Ht
[3471]fo Roselh, reputed Matias dust of Lea
[3472]Vegas, federal Beurees sand,
[3474]A dupper, gray-haied! man who calla
[3475]Niensetf a Hotty moves prod:
[3477]nid is henevolent patron of Vewns
[3478]shawgiris, Koselly veperted’s wag incre
[3479]duced to CPA apents on E00 by a Toward
[3480]Hughes executive at derdy worked
[3482]far the PHL Then. teder
[3483]Haeelli merecd te reeg ual oo
[3484]te gd det sha hunting Castine :
[3485]Money trom CIA ' |
[3487]Whe CIN was te lsupphy
[3488]heb Eran portatiens j
[3489]comron Maeda, blast,
[3490]And held soporte Herta. wah CON
[3491]ayents nd ‘Pratheante on the Unstre
[3493]al canner
[3495]Ley,
[3498]rete Cube th
[3499]fae of these exp
[3500]Taaided an exerution
[3501]squsud Chats atterspted bast fisdedk fo dit
[3502]Castro, Gn Ther ceenaon, the crew of
[3503]Ravelti's ti rho Congbt on muting gui
[3504]Freht with ow tobaw puctiat beat,
[3506]Coltipentat duck Anderson repoeted
[3507]Heat CEA agenta pave Bocelli ae sine pad
[3508]son ates whieh be passed atone ten
[3509]Coban wheswas redited te Cuties chet,
[3510]Vhe chef was te put thesporan in Cad
[3511]tra’s fouds The semiees interviewed dey
[3512]the News confirmed! tind nt feat ene
[3513]atte pt was miade to poscon Cate b.
[3515]Aw Aimenent who was tive in the
[3516]WHILE RS underground in Cuba at the
[3517]dean acon to kal te
[3518]Len lias af osadied
[3519]sontecn the Taye t
[3521]Federal setrees sabd
[3522]ditions reportedly
[3524]beg
[3526]bath sent te Ox
[3528]Mitten in P6b,
[3529]“Cable ordered a
[3531]rode t+
[3533]every onflernoen ine Watetea
[3534]whava dedccaeht at ta lier
[3535]CWhet the waster sae in wide
[3537]26 Nika sorb
[3538]tee bray
[3540]Goweed ali he
[3542]t matha as
[3544]Tet aehont Che
[3546]you?’ The walter sn, ‘bo dott kmaw:
[3547]maybe Pyotr fever!” Castro tut hom
[3548]arrested afd had the donk analysed
[3549]Chemists found the parser riveht away
[3551]tnoeanty Yn, 8 omae elaborate
[3552]aasascination attempt was sireeted by wo
[3553]well finaieal Amencan whe anived ia
[3554]Hlavann soon after the astra takes er
[3555]aint lived there until security police ac
[3556]cused tue of wearking for the CHA and
[3557]jdedting to oeder Castce
[3559]Workin woth apt: Caste Cuban
[3560]dnitary attieeas the Anerson phanted
[3561]severad stiches af dynamite uieler ine
[3562]warcge fuer of aul stony ariinent
[3563]buikdtage were a aetibee Uaatre
[3564]ides and Comtmuniat-hlee  diplumate
[3565]devecl wath treie fuemibies,
[3567]“Caster cine ote Ce mpasetinent
[3568]yoiwe weeks fo see ue of fon
[3569]ure af the plotters amid oie
[3570]noon the
[3573]weyutant,”
[3574]wlwuva™herived in the uftern
[3575]sume day of the week.
[3577]“Hie work dere
[3578]Kuan and yuark
[3580]im wlth bie lode.
[3582]es ear ue bee epi’
[3584]reserved far bin, We tial las sisits Uf
[3586]alwava tuok at lenst fae tenaies for
[3588]him to yet inte the sarge, mat oat the
[3590]cur and inte the freubt elecater Chat
[3591]I
[3593]togle bing apstages whace he wanted te gs
[3595]Ve ohm a dine of? four gen. tive
[3596]would sucnab fren a mecghy Wht
[3597]@asteo'a ene atatted ate 4 aye.
[3598]The signal wowhl be pac un Beer on
[3599]ecaple af puye woeld hit Ue planyer of
[3600]an ovleetronbe detonating neces Phe
[3601]detonator was i ms bated neue ipa
[3603]IneAt house,
[3604]We would
[3605]last. .
[3606]“The night hefuse
[3607]the yuys (the Cutan
[3608]final ineeting fe te ese the ate
[3610]Nobody
[3612]have hewn him fe
[3614]Vee oe Fragepeesa,
[3615]pietarer dadbow
[3619]obi ou gtenage Linear
[3621]the dynaanite, bat a boeted at tee a
[3622]fC astro'e onbediaye ace cet vert betel
[3624]atel repented at.
[3630]tote!
[3631]Geb raae feed
[3633]“They were ata
[3634]away frum the place where the
[3636]"Lhe ts :
[3641]Bintted gets ay aioe
[3643]Hteabe ela i.
[3645]rateck av erey deer dy
[3647]‘ an
[3648]f
[3649]f
[3650]‘.
[3651]i
[3653]canto Or
[3655]UPE Prate
[3657]Que of the plotters. a veune aniditary
[3658]elfices nanod feos basa, Slat rt ont
[3659]wrth the emiders and boled two of Chee
[3660]before de wa sa Et oe Metereyele
[3661]; Thies at rane tors, n't reted
[3663]the Sietin Waeeiee. site captitid and
[3664]tare: te Gat bewlacarterd They ee
[3665]caped on few hour inter, wiih the help
[3666]of Ciends a lie tetehietice service,
[3671]nid feanh refuge og the Peoxusven
[3672]Binibases
[3674]“Castro never foci out atvat the
[3675]vicar "sac souree whe dias
[3676]tleged the plet ty ws “dt’s pra
[3677]abl stil Chere,” woder the garage
[3678]floor?
[3680]Intell. genee sources tald thia report-
[3681]erthat the CHA sent an executan squad
[3682]tte Province it N we 190!
[3683]ta ambush Cusine near linge dd
[3684]Unie ashe drove ten memoret service
[3685]fur his fallen guertslina,
[3687]Salpers hid along road
[3689]Sripere heft among teres atid basher |
[3690]Timing the read te tne cemetary whee
[3691]the servne was ce te heli On the
[3692]Moorthy 60 the COPemOney, &
[3694]scheduled
[3696]Tietereade 1 five yeepa meopronchbed the
[3697]Kravevarnd Phe Gre yep was full of
[3698]seniiens. dn othe sec ab ue p om ball,
[3700]bratded maa rat peat te. rhe diver dle
[3701]Was Weare cute ae ts mish baa oe
[3702]CA Ra piel eab ot
[3704]Machine gains
[3705]seenid yeep ow
[3706]diver and tex 4
[3707]But ta be Caste e 7
[3708]faapt Vin
[3709]aavaped Seed Fe
[3713]The CPN pate ara tt
[3714]ie Ue due mg are boo awer
[3716]an
[3718]acting the
[3719]whe turned
[3720]he lypruand,
[3721]Corners
[3722]Neti Taal pratettt
[3723]thee
[3725]pe heat
[3726]hae nas
[3728]flatien aha webb oe tM reuph the
[3729]ce
[3730]Pe te ate td
[3731]shimiee s Maaafeg,
[3733]pid Nave
[3735]nit
[3737]te ie frown i
[3738]fu fete ea President
[3739]Nusen tok ofboas £ yet lew yas
[3742]Fond pet decreed
[3743]be tie me
[3745]OT ee
[3747]te
[3749]Cay we tt tbepente
[3751]: BY PAUL MESKIL :
[3753]1 hast ef 4 series 7 ‘
[3755], At 3:10 pm. on March 4, 1060,
[3756]a French munitions ship blew up
[3757]in Havana harbor, killing at Jeast
[3759]“6 people and injuring more than !
[3761]200,
[3762]The vessel, Le Cauvre, exploded dur-
[3763]“Ang the unloading of 76 tons of ammu,
[3764]Nitien and grenades intended for Fidel
[3765]Cpstro’s military 'and police forees. Cus-
[3766]tro suspected sabotage, but couldn't
[3767]prove it. The Uni States denied any
[3768]Suvelvement in the incident.
[3769]A force CLA asent told The News
[3770]recently that Le Couvre was snbutayed
[3772]by “CIA frogmien." He said an under.
[3773]vam shipped inty the
[3775]water demolition
[3777]re ns
[3779]Water at night and attached a bomb ta.
[3781]the ship's hull, under the wateriiae. The
[3782]homb, a detenator and a timing deviée
[3783]‘were in a waterpron! container, he said.
[3784]The ex-agent added that the frag
[3785]men were Cubans working for the CLA.
[3786]“Thoow defintely a CtA-eonnerted
[3787]things. he .
[3788]Another seurce gait the bemb was
[3789]Rupposed to ga off ureund 3 a m, when
[3790]] the aaterfiont was plesurted, bat sume.
[3791]Wrong eh the timer and
[3792]“Yohaues later, when the
[3793]Potsich dock weriers
[3795]thing ws
[3797]the blast
[3800]' aad harbor ty
[3801]Prt ane
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[3807]- fe
[3808]nedted with the CLA and other | Tete
[3809]vence agencies in the Caribbean aren,
[3810]blamed the hig blast on Gen. fael
[3812]Trujillo, then dictatur of the Dowrican
[3813]Republic, : ‘
[3815]eTrujllo and bis sinister foleiligence
[3816]chief, Juhnay Abbes, had MAAY enter.
[3817]encee with CIA officials and qeoret
[3818]agents, On one secasign in Ne
[3819]Trujilio offered CLA agents Frank Fu
[3820]gis and Pedro Diat Lanz, former chief
[3821]Gf Castro's Air Foree, $1 million ty irad
[3822]en javacion of Cuba from the 1) pial
[3823]van Republie, Maz Lanz ‘declined;
[3824]ing bis CLA hasees thar he dhdn't Mant
[3825]tu work for unetaee dictator,
[3827]Plotting fo kill Trujillo ‘|
[3829]While in the Dominican Repul-le to
[3830]confer with Trajille in 1861, Syrgis
[3831]aleo contacted Deminican mmittary Soff.
[3832]cers Who were plotlng to halt Tr djitle.
[3833]Phe CIA agreed to give the piowers
[3834]wuns and anjnusition.
[3836]“The pane wcrived on h
[3837]supermarket in Cridad Te
[3838]maican
[3839]Domings
[3840]American
[3842]eS SORE i a
[3844]A
[3846]7 aS — * : -
[3847]low Us & Fre
[3849]. tan
[3851]dnd RECT ER
[3852]Wied CIA
[3855]used the CIA wuns has not been dis-
[3856]claséd. Pat simular weapors figured ia
[3857]subst quent attempts to exterminate
[3858]Frasceig (Para Doe) Davalier, the voo
[3859]Joo Hither of Maiti,
[3861]On the night of Aug.
[3862]fonverted HOS hember felt Florida with:
[3863]An seme shipment for Gen. Teen Con
[3864]tava, a former Haitian Amuy command.
[3865]er who was planning to Invade his
[3866]hemeland from the Domini-an Reputlie,
[3867]Which shares the infond of Hispasicla
[3868]with Haiti, The C14 plane swooped over
[3869]& flareiit, Melt neap
[3870]mitary arport af Dajabon,
[3871]2 Weeden crites ruined down en parae
[3872]chuws, They teontained mortars,
[3873]biedohas, Meg rifles, .S0-caliber ma.
[3874]chive guns, M3 Tommy cuns, AS -catiber
[3875]Prelo.s, grenades and ammunition, Hl
[3877]The weapuns were scributed among
[3878]20)? Maitean es who compriaed
[3879]no army. They crossed
[3880]f. bordertine between
[3881]i Wabti cn
[3882]the Clliw.
[3883]fie wh Moa
[3884]tN tntiva led the gene
[3886]25, 1263, a
[3888](Cont wued vn gouge $4)
[3890]the Dominican
[3892]mn
[3894]td ha wed w Nein bs on .
[3896]Oe? GS
[3898]ae EE An Am mer eH ati i. Te 6 a
[3900]Te ere ane nee
[3902]Ducato Mac celal, gubcre ‘
[3905]4
[3906]C
[3908]Root
[3912]t
[3914]|
[3915]hoo '
[3916]; en -
[3917]— 7
[3918]ao, : ' I
[3920](Contuned rem page 4) |
[3922]o band hakgneross the riker
[3923]peat cated
[3924]S Upton a seal eraup at ilnt.
[3925]Divecg entered ats, Army 3
[3927]atal Ferra. yp at NBGh Carelina for
[3928]Tesaery ir t Wa & we Bot of
[3929]ths Waiters Seve du their eoaiy Sea anal
[3930]i online ot i Onued
[3932]sserepae tg the Ea Aitay
[3934]Aloe! cfm ting an New
[3936]Eten hand pickel( by the
[3937]Hine pre of fie brave
[3939]jotital jasasied in the
[3940]roel Caubtaan cagiape. {
[3941]He nsasion: force I. f of nie
[3942]af whoothad ben traded
[3944]prey june t ia
[3946]de
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[3954]ak ste huled one by ones nd
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[3958]fe thy Geet who gunned them dewn, The
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[3962]Pore .
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[4026]to free ite Trew Castea'a
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[4030]or Hf Cake pret aueb paisa
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[4033]uppescdly were to be freed
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[4050]clobte tite death by Papa Doe's Tyrdon |
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[4056]reds ef Duvaher soldiers, iili-
[4058]tea
[4060]Wide
[4062]Senate
[4063]jn ok.
[4064]» Trujillo, dictator of the Dominican Republic, offered $1 million for a Cul-anjinvasion.
[4066]t : : '
[4068]In the Caribbean, the CIA got involved
[4070]| in dozens of schenies, including blowiny up
[4072]' a French ‘ship and killing Trujillo
[4074]ot.
[4076]. . : t.
[4078]ane” Siaryis rad The ©1A  stefiped by the Gulu vessel, ‘The ship
[4079]vee was aware CT Se ice at the Soviet ships peuleally woah
[4080]TEN gel Cele gt he suspiedans wf an Ine ty
[4082]wearing Cuban Navy, notfarnes, \
[4084]"We would then eaptore the ship
[4085]Vie were to take Ih doom point off the
[4086]east of Venesuche Theeorders were aut
[4088]1
[4089]Veosat net to raid) Cuba
[4090]ong wile anether chap off
[4092]The
[4093]hat te ren
[4094]the coast
[4096]wf Mexicw and, with te as
[4097]sitanev uf thie ship,
[4099]Ru
[4101]seive a Russian
[4103]vesced We wete ia meet a Coban ces 10 yen inte any port tnt te stay off the
[4104]1 ake aE was a Naval vessel cam. etast, Certain officiate in the Venesue.
[4105]tmaited by Cubsit Navy officers: whe law givernine re wane af the plan,
[4106]were deenchanted witn U BAIED . hey wand E in eto tions
[4108]“The arders (far completing he for the release of de captiee abip
[4110]Bheralnny were ahead the Cuban Pip, vite crew, A statement woul be is
[4111]The acjstatw alse died ae sardine sels ale €0 the effet that we wanted. ta Q
[4112]Listing arrivals and) depaetgees eh oall chanye the ship od crew for cectain
[4114]Soviet ail Cominunist blee vessei din politiend prsunerein Cuba, ,
[4115]Carbbean and the fof Me. wm, Po VHab this wae re ruse. Then we would
[4116]wiet TE beng gb ite the ascend phan ef The opera.
[4118]tithe tm aueher wih the be ede
[4120]haa to grab og =
[4121]5 tag PHP atoll
[4123]ays do.
[4125]PUEBLO -
[4127]SS. Puedle ts eaten wel cow. whe
[4128]were GHD Ge cemfi ens ak Uae tee
[4129]Po We wee peinge te thiendea te sink
[4130]the Commmeaniot stig nnd hall all the hose
[4131]hip of nay country came
[4132]look tke a
[4133]Uiwtiean
[4134]Casio Custos
[4135]trip te Mesa
[4136]imedteine,
[4138]Vurnet
[4139]close. Ve
[4140]pitate epeeedion,
[4144]any
[4146]wat supposed te
[4147]sascennet ba
[4148]VU Em ah
[4149]In petepatations fer
[4150]AUNS. campang eanigme nt.
[4152]thee
[4154]eo,
[4156]bandaves, uiforuis nid etier cupphes
[4157]were hadden in door puiels, seats and a
[4158]false frank of @ Ut Baleon chat waa
[4159]oulltced by Che inechamiet of a Miami
[4160]Karage owned hy two CLA employes,
[4162]The viluttesrs were te peavide their
[4164]OWA transportation fi Mexico and their
[4165]own weapons and camping gear, .
[4166]“The mien bad to cet te the necting
[4167]these he
[4168]“The contract
[4169]wail they got
[4170]incre wan there
[4172]Guadalojara, at
[4173]Ga wand.
[4174]ee effect
[4176]Vaw Ket
[4178]place. wwe
[4186]thece.
[4189]Runaing oul of money
[4191]Ome of the recruits, Ratert Curtis,
[4192]later testified in a court cass resaloag
[4193]Troi the gperntin: “When we Kat te
[4194]Guadalajare, the het were oupe
[4195]posed to yo fo was torn down, We went
[4196]acrots the Lea Americanos
[4197](another hotel}, We left the car parked
[4198]out front where he (Stargied could eve
[4199]it, We waited thioe weeks, and we were
[4200]Running aut of Inaney
[4201]@ wun Shep And
[4203]we
[4204]tee
[4206]street
[4208]went to
[4209]Japanese
[4213]sold as
[4215]Namby  raatomatic pistedp fer abet
[4216]$30." . :
[4218]Prank aid tie rest. of the kang
[4219]eventually nirived quel yoocerded tae
[4220]tating camp Cotales lid set up ain
[4221]the mountains near the Goatewuda bar-
[4222]der Ut armed onech of pie tae the
[4224]weer there
[4225]Carp Mil,
[4226]After
[4228]and they called thes base.
[4230]two weeks Chere, caee ineved
[4232]fe Cua Sand en the beach near the:
[4235]Voestan fishes ace oof Pragresd,
[4236]Torw chartered the thing howe Amipe,
[4237]Froagetled guns and atone eboard, and
[4239]set off do meet the Calan ve sel But
[4240]the charts they dual abturmed ie wurde.
[4241]Neen thacugh the Gadf and Canibbeas
[4242]Were TY sears old mind tureefore, nok
[4243]vompictely eae,
[4245]SThes ciaised senth along the Yacw-
[4246]tan. i for fone abess. entered Centiat
[4248]Now towati es ctnd Chen
[4249]an tee teen quite. af Hed
[4250]ee Paetasd Tenia.
[4252]“
[4254]"Wee threw aise of sear cover the
[4255]sede Geevil s Sudo We wg waited cntel
[4256]the tide o to. Then evervbody jmp.
[4257]esboante the water en hele gat her otf
[4258]the reef Gdthouph thee were shackw
[4259]aremnend, Wao ddidne’s gtegai ras gta reatan
[4261]Helice, hut the pepe Her wut shatt we
[4263]bert, net there aas on onal le ¥
[4264]Were dabiap st water jet pe yee
[4267]When the Vinge timed ate pad,
[4269]Oymy ho thay, poke aad custanis alia
[4270]Cory boarded her Uitish Mead dat ae
[4272]Uneeties at fist theneht paws an
[4273]Jovasion flan Gustemake Stuy and
[4274]tis dirty digen weee qiestioned by Ras
[4275]sh ited igemes nyoenet Vier Ntusegses
[4276]xp Americ ceisid, and, after
[4277]a few wally Le Meyica City teed
[4278]Wi Ver consul told Hara met fa
[4279]worry. The Atedenns were rebupeed
[4280]and flawa back te Masi,
[4282]TWe wine stepped ti get FLO00 #
[4284]ionth ples 9 SH shin bonus dea conaple
[4285]Gree of they Crt. abi httee,
[4286]“Well, alt) owas dr th few te
[4287]Ret bach home (leone Mantes”
[4288]’Whidever it was, at was: dennitely
[4289]a CEA operebon” Send Mas Uuticales
[4290]nahive’ Nea Verkur Whe ax iw ie bes.
[4291]nese in, Miaing “Frouk Static wax on
[4292]CYA apent nt the tie and ot aay he,
[4293]Meo was in comin wah aiher Ca
[4294]agents ant rea nad Meeweu City
[4295]Prank never ae What oer teal aise
[4298]HW 50955 Docld:3248
[4300]EP Ahn a CO ARN NTE CNT bre, Om ae Ell pe MAL
[4305]SPciatReront Cuban Extremists in U.S.
[4307]Sh
[4309]Out from Miami spreads a wave of vio-
[4310]lence. Terrorists’ aim is to topple Castro, free
[4311]Cuba. Nearly all Cuban refugees share this
[4312]dream. But the acts of a few zealots create
[4313]trouble for fellow exiles and for the U.S.
[4315]Reported from
[4316]MIAMI and WASHINGTON
[4318]Terrorism by radical Cuban refugees has become a thorny
[4319]problem in the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and, in the
[4320]view of some authorities, a potential threat to the lives of
[4321]American leaders.
[4323]The terrorists’ goal is to wrest control of Cuba away from
[4324]its Communist dictator, Fidel Castro.
[4326]In pursuit of that goal, they have blazed a trail of violence
[4327]from Miami across the Caribbean Sea, not only to Cuba but
[4328]also to Mexico, Barbados, Jamaica and Panama—even ucross
[4329]the South Athintic to Argentina.
[4331]They have engaged in a series of bombings in the U.S. and
[4332]abroad. They have carried out military-style attacks on
[4333]Communist ships. They are strongly suspected of seversil
[4334]killings. -
[4336]A federal grand jury in Miami is investigating their activi-
[4338]ties and their leaders.
[4339]_ Now, as a new Administration. prepares to take over in
[4340]Washington, it is feared that the Cuban terrorists will step up
[4341]their attacks in an effort to thwart any turn toward reconcili-
[4342]ation with Castro. _ ;
[4344]Officials familiar with their operations warn that some of
[4345]the Cuban ‘extremists will stop at nothing, not even at
[4346]assussinating members of the Carter Administration.
[4348]“The Cuban terrorists are the most highly trained assassins
[4349]insthe world today,” says one US. official.
[4351]Many of the terrorists were trained by the Central lntelli-
[4352]gence Agency in the days when this country was trying to
[4353]overthrow Castro, or kill him.
[4355]The Setiate Internal Security Subcommittee recently held
[4356]hearings on the Cuban-terrorist threat. It heard this testime-
[4357]ny from Lt. Thomas Lyons, head of a special antiterrorist
[4358]squad of the Dade County public-safety. department in
[4360]HW 50955 \ Poorde soe ole wag oo
[4364]A GROWING TERROR THREAT.
[4365]~ |
[4368]Q
[4369]2
[4370]BARBADOS.»
[4372]o ...
[4373]a
[4375]fain
[4377]VENEZUPLA i
[4379]Miami, where Cuban refugees
[4380]are concentrated:
[4382]“The overwhelming mujor-
[4383]ity of the Cubans in Miami are
[4384]strongly anti-Castro. That's
[4385]why they came to Miami in
[4386]the first place. They are alse
[4387]law-abiding citizens who, with |
[4388]minor exceptions, manifest
[4389]their opposition to Castro in
[4391]“However, there are a smull
[4392]number of individuals whose |
[4393]hatred of Cuban Prinie Minis-
[4394]ter Fidel Castro and Commu-
[4395]nism has led them to engage
[4396]in extralegal actions and-to
[4397]violute the laws of the country
[4398]which gave them sanctuary. i
[4399]These individuals use Dade
[4400]County as a base for international terrorism . against \
[4401]governments allied with Cuba, Cuban shipping, Commu- i
[4402]nists, purported Commumists and individauls who tuke a i
[4403]stand against their terrorist-type attacks... .
[4405]Dr. Orlando Bosch, an anti-
[4406]Castro leader, is accused in
[4407]plane bombing fatal to 73.
[4409]“Some Cuban groups purporting to be involved in terror il
[4411]isi-type attacks against the Cuban Government are ne more
[4412]or no less than outright criminals, feeding upon the Cuban :
[4413]population and diverting the collected funding tor thei? own
[4414]purposes,” mee
[4416]Other investigators charge that the terrorists, to finance
[4417]their crusade, have dealt in cocaine and prostitution and. ins =
[4418]extortion from wealthy fellow refugees.
[4420]The number of hard-core’ terrorists is- smalh officially
[4421]estimated at fewer than 300. But their reach is wide. fn this
[4422]year alone they have either bragged about or been accused
[4423]of such acts as: Ooo.
[4425]* Machine-gun attacks on the high seas aguinst vessels
[4426]from Cuba and other Commimist nations. ae
[4428]© Bombing a wide variety of targets in the United States, ”
[4429]Latin America and Portugal. :
[4431]* Planting-a bomb that caused the erash of a Cubana
[4432]Airlines plane near Barbados om-October 6, with the loss of
[4436]a ne a pe
[4437]13 Lives. fowl
[4439]* Possible involvement in the stifFinsolwed bom death ¢
[4441]29
[4443]legal ways. i
[4446]_ EXILES vs, SSS
[4449]A Relentless
[4450]Pursuit
[4452]On Jan. 1, 1959, Fidel Castro took power and
[4453]the first wave of refugees fled Cuba. A smali
[4454]number of the 600,000 exiles who settled in the
[4455]U.S, have become extremists.
[4457]Highlights of events in those 18 years, some
[4458]involving law-abiding exiles, others involving the
[4459]extremists—
[4461]* 1964: A 1,300-man Cuban Brigade, armed and
[4462]. trained by the U.S, in Florida, Guatemala and Nica-
[4464]ragua, landed at the Bay of Pigs on Cuba’s south
[4465]Shore. The invasion was a failure.
[4467]1962: Survivors of the Bay of Pigs were released
[4468]by Castro after Payment of a 53-million-dollar ran-
[4469]som in drugs, food, medical equipment and other
[4470]supplies from “private contributions.” President
[4471]Jehn F. Kennedy, in Miami, pledged to the Cuban
[4472]exiles that the Brigade flag would one day fly over a
[4473]liberated Cuba. ;
[4475]US. launched its secret “Operation Mongoose’ —
[4476]a plan to use Cuban exiles in paramilitary war
[4477]against Castro while U.S. maintained an economic
[4478]blockade to shake the island's economy. The attacks
[4479]generally failed. ;
[4481]1964: Cuban extremists in New York City fired a
[4483]Mortar shell at United Nations as Cuba’s Ché Cue.
[4484]vara addressed the General Assembly.
[4486]1967: Cuban exile specialists and US.-trained
[4488]. Bolivian troops trapped and killed Guevara and
[4489]some of his Communist guerrillas in Bolivia.
[4491]1968-72: Cuban-exile extremists bombed ships |
[4493]of nations considered to be friendly to Castro, ter-
[4494]rorized other exiles to keep them in line.
[4496]1972: Cuban exiles trained by Central Intelli-
[4497]‘gence Agency took part in Watergate break-in, later
[4498]testified that they thought it would help their anti-
[4499]Castro campaign. ;
[4501]1973: U.S. and Cuba signed agreement aimed at.
[4503]“controlling hijacking of aircraft and piracy of ships
[4504]‘at sea, .
[4506]1974-76: Cuban extremists exploded more than
[4508]100 bombs in Miami area in two-year period, hitting
[4510]. Offices of the FBI-a State attorney and the Miami
[4511]police department, _
[4513]|” Exile terrorists attacked airline offices and consul-
[4515]ates of governments that have diplomatic relations
[4517]- with Castro. Bombings took place in Jamaica, Mexi-
[4519]co, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Panama, other countries,-
[4521]Fishing“boats based. in Cuba and Soviet cargo
[4523]. manned by exile extremists,
[4524]Terror reached its peak with the bomb sabotage
[4525]“of a Cuban dirliner and the death of 73 passengers
[4526]and créw last October 6..near Barbados. Police
[4527]seized Cuban exiles in Caracas, Venezuela, on suspi-
[4528]cion of involvement. in the sabotage. ‘Castro can-
[4529]F celed U.S=Cuba hijacking agreement..
[4531]HW 50955 Docld:32493630 Page 22
[4533]ships weré attacked by high-speed motor launches /
[4535]CUBAN EXTREMISTS
[4537]{continued from preceding page}
[4539]a former Chilean Ambassador in Washington, D.C., on Sep-
[4540]tember 21, ;
[4542]® Kidnaping two Cuban officials in Argentina.
[4544]* Attempting to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico.
[4546]Who are these terrorists? What motivates them? How do
[4547]they operate? And why are U.S. officials so concerned about
[4548]what they may do in the future? .
[4550]To answer such questions, Orr Kelly and Carl J. Migdait of
[4552]the US. News & World Report staff dug deeply into the
[4553]records, interviewed Cuban refugees who share the hopes
[4554]though not the methods of the terrorists, and talked to law.
[4555]enforcement officials who are trying to stem the violence.
[4557]BREEDING GROUND FOR TERRORISM
[4559]After Fidel Castro took over Cuba in 1959 and it became
[4560]apparent that he intended to establish a Cominunist state,
[4561]800,000 Cubans “voted with their feet” and fled their
[4562]homeland. Some 600,000 of them settled in the United
[4563]States, They and their children now total 750,000. Most of
[4564]them live in the Miami area.
[4566]The majority of these immigrants are law abiding. But
[4567]Miami’s “Little Havana” provides a culture in which the
[4568]virus of violence can grow, :
[4570]“In Miami,” explains one refugee leader, “the Cubans
[4571]keep their national identity, their heritage, traditions,
[4572]hatreds—and their hopes of going back to their homeland.
[4573]And they know they can't go back until Castro is gone. So
[4575]\they dream of toppling Castro, What is clearly unrealistic in
[4577]other places in the United States seems very possible in the
[4578]atmosphere in Miami,”
[4580]In the early 1960s, the overthrow of Castro seemed to the
[4581]Cubans in exile to be not only possible but almost inevitable.
[4582]It was US. policy to drive him from power. There was an
[4583]attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs'in 1961 with an
[4584]army of Cuban exiles recruited and trained in secret by the
[4585]CIA. The invaders were not given the air cover necessary for
[4586]a successful attack, and the operation was a disaster. Only
[4587]180 of about 1,300 invaders escaped death or capture. The
[4588]Cubans felt betrayed.
[4590]Then came other American moves against Castro. There
[4591]Was a secret “Operation Mongoose,” which included efforts
[4592]to assassinate the Cuban leader. The United States backed an
[4593]economic blockade of Cuba in an attempt to prevent Castro
[4594]from obtaining sorely needed supplies and equipment from
[4596]abroad. Later, Cuban refugees were uscd to carry out secret
[4598]operations not only in the Caribbean’ but alsa in other parts
[4600]‘of Latin America—and even in Africa.
[4602]To many Cuban refugees, attacking Castro and Commu-
[4603]nisin became a way of life,
[4605]Since then, however,. American policy has failed to match
[4606]in intensity the fierce anti-Custro pagsion of the more mili-
[4607]tant refugees. In recent years, prominent members of the
[4608]U.S. Senate have visited Cuba. In 1973, Cuba made an
[4609]tgreement with the United States to curb the airplane
[4610]hijackers who had been using Cuba as asyluin. There were
[4611]moves on both sides toward normalization of relations be.
[4612]tween Cuba and the U.S.
[4614]As their hopes of American action against Castro ebbed,
[4615]some Cuban refugees turned to violence on their own. The.
[4616]hox on this page gives the chronology of developinents.
[4618]TERRORIST LEADERS AND TACTICS 70 oe a
[4620]Though their numbers ure small, the 300 or fewér active
[4621]terrorists. have organized themselves into many groups.
[4622]Slogs..s of one group chalked on the walls in “Little Havana”
[4623]have barely begun te fade before ‘they are replaced by the
[4625]30 U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Dac. 6, 1976
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[4669]An
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[4674]Wit
[4675]pol
[4677]al
[4681]Wer >
[4682]Dee
[4684]out -
[4685]acti .
[4688]e Dp. Among 8roups
[4689]Numed in testimony before the Senate Interna} Security
[4690]ittee are. i ban Action; Alpha
[4692]seemed Possible.
[4693]FLNC, Standing for Frente de Liberacion Nacional de Cuba,
[4695]Which means Cuban National Liberation Front, and Pr;
[4697]Dade ounty’s antiterrorist head, Lieuten
[4698]he has Stopped trying to keep track of the 8roups ;
[4700]t they are. Automobite bombing that killed a Cuban refugee in Miami is one
[4701]Suspected of having Committed. He has ° i
[4703]no Shortage of f many unsolved Crimes attributed tg antiCastro terrorists.
[4704]Usiness, Here is @ sample of the violence ;
[4705]terrorists in the last two years.
[4707]® Since February, 1975, there have been a
[4709]t least seven to focus their efforts Sutside the US. To direct the Activities,
[4710]4SSassination attempts directed against refugee leaders who anew 8TOUD was formed With the initials CORU, Which stand
[4711]Were viewed 4S opponents of the terrorists" tactics, Three for Coor inacion de TBanizaciones Revolucionaires Unidas
[4712]men were shot to death, One was Killed by a bomb, Three in Spanish or Co-or inating Committee of United Revolu-
[4713]other attempted Killings failed, but 4 prominent radio broad. tionary Organizations in English,
[4714]easter lost both legs below the knees When a omb ripped his American law-enforcement Officials Say that members of
[4715]Car apart. ave the backing OF powerfu! forces, berhaps even
[4717]* On Dec. 3-4, 1975, bombs blasted th Miami Office of the the 80vernments themselves, in some Countries of Latin
[4718]Federat Bureau of Investigation, a Social Security office, a America The terrorists are described as‘ ome” in Haiti
[4720]tate unem loyment Office, two Post offices, a ank, a State he Ominican Republic, Nicaragua and Chile They are well
[4721]attorney’s ffice and th Miami Po, 'ce-department headquar trmed for terroristic acts, as shown j the On page 32
[4723]ers, an accused Of those Ombings, an also the b mbin Since the une mee ng, anew Wave of terrorism has Swept
[4725]Of the Miam nternational Airpor two Months earlier, was across the Caribbean and beyond, Bombs have damaged
[4726]équitted recently in q federal Court. He is to be tried again uban airline facilities in Barbados, Jamaicg and anima,
[4727]in a State court, ; Wo Cuban Officials Were kidnaped in Argentina,
[4729]* A number of bombs have been exploded in New York, — n july 23, three men who had flown rom Miamj; Carrying
[4730]One bley out the Window of the Venezuelan Consulate on three coffee cans filled With plastic explosive attempted 16
[4731]Fifth Avenue, across the Street from St. Pp. trick’s Cathedral. idnap Cy an Consy aniel Ferrer Fernandez in Mérida,
[4733]On 42, 1976 a Oviet freigh er, the Dzhordano “Mexico, He escaped, but 4 Cuban fisheries expert was killed,
[4734]Bruno, Was sitting Motionless 35 Miles off Cuba’s North coast © most Serious act of terrorism came on October 6,
[4735]While its tanks were being Cleaned, Suddenly 2 small boat When a Cubana Airlines De. exploded in ight shortly after
[4736]raced close to the freighter and raked jt With heavy Machine. taking off from Barbados. The Plane fel} into the seu, killing
[4738]“gun fire. No One was injure, . Persons including members Of the Cuban national fencing
[4740]* On April 6, 1976, two Cuban fishing boats Were attacked eam,
[4741]und a fisherman was killed, In MESsuges to news Media, both CORU and Fi Condor, 4
[4743]On Sept. 21, 1976, in Washington, D.C, a bomb ey. 8Toup unheard of Previously, claimed responsibility for the
[4744]Ploded in a Car and killed Orlando Letelier, a former Chilean crash of the plane. :
[4746]\m assador to the U.S. er the Marxist regime of the late Dr, Bosch, who has traveled freely on documents appar-
[4747]resident Salvador Allende Alt Ough th crime js officially ently Provided by Officials of Covernments friendly to the
[4748]'nsolved, ¢ er ve been Persistent reports that the bomb
[4750]] anti-Castro movement, Was picked Up in
[4751]“Us planted by Cuban terrorists a8 a “favor to the
[4753]nezuela and on
[4754]secret November 9 Was charged with homicide in “onnection with
[4755]‘Olice of the Present an 4-Commmunist Government in Chile, the plane crash, Three Other men are Similarly Charged,
[4756]The arrests of Dp. Bosch and his Cohorts, instead of
[4757]NEW TERRORIST STRATEGY reducing terrorist Violence, may actually Stimulate More
[4758]Leaders of the terrorist bands are hard te identify. But one Violence. Fy Condor, in; message to the Inited Press
[4759]2n has emerged as an apparent leader. Dr. Orlando Bosch, nlernational on November 19, said the four men held by the
[4760]Dediatrician, He was caught firing g bazooka at a Polish nezuelans are innocent and Warned that, if they ware
[4761]Din Miam; harbor in 1968 and was sentenced to 10 years Convicted, Planes of the sarne Melt Internationa ae
[4762]| Jrison, ; : will be attacked. On the same day, CORU sent a Message
[4763]’r, Bosch Was released On parole after four years, but he _ Saying it would join With the Honduran Anti. OMmunist
[4764]uttedly returned to the Movement, He is now under Alliance in attacks on three airlines that Plan excursion
[4765]| ost in enezuela, charged ; & With three other Men-in ights:to Havana. _ omer
[4766]j bing. Dy osch ig Roberto Carballo, -g Militant leader. of veterans of the Bay ©
[4767]the Broup calling itself Accion "of Pigs invasion, denounced the threatened attacks. “Pp aids...
[4768]we oes “Castro by making al} Cuban exiles look like mad bombers,”
[4769]ars Dr, ‘Bosch called a Small group dF his , Carballo Said,
[4770]Stherit the Domini¢ex;, Republic. -They
[4772]ided on Policy and Strategy,
[4774]Look - CRACKDOWN BY Law OFFICERS
[4775]ie Wanted to 2V0id- the “riskszoe further attacks in the Since Jast Spring, there has been a Sharp, reduction: in
[4776]States and to Concefitrate their efforts. against Castro terroristic Violence in the Miamj area, That May be as Much =:
[4777]is country, “Of esssheld sit" fo, continuing their due to a successful} Counterattack by law-enforcement agen-
[4778]“ies both here and-abrojwa: ; . " cles as to the Policy that Was adopted by CORU last June. _
[4779]Argument, abHitky d8reoment Was reached Early this Yeur, an antiterrorist task force WAS Organivad 9!
[4780]“us & WORLD REFORr-oue 6, 1976 5
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[4789]aad Dome
[4791]CUBAN EXTREMISTS
[4793][continued from preceding page]
[4795]includes representatives from Dade County and Miami po-
[4796]lice, the U.S. Customs Service and the U.S: Bureau of
[4797]Alechol, Tobacco and Firearms. Although the Federal Bu-
[4798]reau of Investigation is not formally a part of this task force,
[4800]_ its agents work closely with it.
[4802]With co-operation from Cuban refugees who are sick of
[4803]the terrorist violence, law officers have arrested a number of
[4804]suspects. Police also have learned enough ubout other sus-
[4805]pects so that their freedom to engage in new acts of violence
[4806]can be limited even though there is not enough evidence to
[4807]prosecute them.
[4809]A federal grand jury is interrogating witnesses who might
[4810]have some knowledge of terror operations.
[4812]Efforts of law-enforcement officials to deal with the terror-
[4813]ist groups face formidable handicaps, however. The terrorists
[4814]seem to know what police are doing. Lieutenant Lyons
[4815]relates that one suspect “identified one of my officers who
[4816]had never met him before, called him by name and told him
[4817]what section he worked in and what his duties were.”
[4819]Terrorists are protected by a web of old loyalties. Most of
[4820]them worked at one time or another for the U.S. Govern-
[4821]ment. Many have had several roles: members. of the U.S.
[4822]Army, CIA operatives and FBI informants. One refugee
[4823]leader suggests that law-enforcement officials have not found
[4824]the killers of Cubans “because they don't want to.”
[4826]A further complication is the heavy -infiltration of the
[4827]terrorist movement by members of Castro's intelligence
[4828]corps. They not only gather intelligence but sometimes act as
[4829]agents prococateurs, instigating terrorist acts designed to
[4830]discredit the refugees and influence American policy.
[4832]The Cuban Prime Minister has “surfaced” enough of such
[4833]agents to reveal their pattern of operation. Early this year,
[4834]for example, Manuel de Armas, a Cuban refugee who was
[4835]named in Senate committee testimony as having been in-
[4836]volved in terrorist activities in Miami, showed up in Havana.
[4837]In an April 22 broadeast by Radio Havana, De Armas said
[4838]that he had supplied the explosives used in the killing of a
[4839]man named Rolando Masferrer and that a CIA agent had
[4840]provided him with the explosives.
[4842]In a speech on October 15, Castro boasted of a double
[4843]agent who Castro claimed had passed on coded instructions
[4845]One measure of the military equipment
[4846]that -is~acailable_to -Cuban sterrortsts is. 0
[4848]Mitre ndanks forextra ranges oie nae
[4850]wet Ax fumber of small, spotter aircratt- : . silencers -
[4851]1A wa
[4853]“Missilé- antitank weaporis. _— eral
[4854]a Wide: assortment of-smailler. WEAPONS are
[4855]quantities otf C- -Aexplogives devel-
[4857]prime Gy oe ew
[4859]@ 20 handguns =
[4861]B20 eee
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[4865]TERRORISTS’ ARSENAL:
[4866]PLANES TO CANNONS
[4868]A further measure comes from this tally
[4870]#.498-submachine. { auns. 480. of. them: with. vet.
[4872]“amb opis, devices— Seen nen
[4874]". _. @ Thousands of rounds of ammunition.
[4876]from the CIA. Said Castro: “From the very moment when he
[4877]was recruited by the CIA and over-a period of 10 years, the
[4878]supposed agent has kept the Cuban Government fully in-
[4879]formed of all his contacts with [the CIA] and of the equip-
[4880]ment and instructions he has received.”
[4882]Castro blamed the CIA for the airliner bombing and other
[4883]acts of violence.’ “Who else but the CIA... can carry out
[4884]these acts?” Castro asked.
[4886]Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has flatly denied U.S.
[4887]involvement in the airliner bombing. Ne said: “I can state
[4888]categorically that no official of the United States Govern-
[4889]ment, nobody paid by the American Government, nobody in
[4890]contact with the American Government has had anything to
[4891]do with this crash of the airliner. We consider actions like this
[4892]totally reprehensible.”
[4894]The CIA declines to discuss Cuban refugee terrorism.
[4895]Officials of other Government agencies say they seriously
[4896]doubt that the CIA, after all the criticism it has received for
[4897]some of its earlier activities, is still involved in operations
[4898]against the Castro regime. However, the agency is cleseribed
[4899]as providing very little help in combatting the terrorist
[4900]groups. “We have absolutely no contact with the CIA,” says
[4901]Lieutenant Lyons. “I'd like to, but they don’t talk to us.” One
[4902]reason for that attitude may be that laws bar the CIA from
[4903]domestic law-enforcement activities.
[4905]Other laws, or the lack of them, also complicate the fight
[4906]ugainst the terrorists. U.S. agencies cannot become involved
[4907]in investigations of terrorism outside the United States unless
[4908]the crime involves violations of neutrality laws making it
[4909]illegal to conspire in this country to commit crimes abroad or
[4910]to export arms without a license.
[4912]Although shocked by the October 6 airliner bombing, U.S.
[4914]‘officials reluctantly decided there was no authorization for
[4916]the FBI to enter that case.
[4918]With such handicaps as these, law-enforcement officials say
[4919]they can look forward to only limited success against the
[4920]terrorists. Any real solution to the problem must come from
[4921]within the Cuban refugee community—and investigators
[4922]stute that the co-operation they get there does not extend to
[4923]cases of violence committed outside the U.S.
[4925]WHAT HAVE TERRORISTS GAINED?
[4927]As officials size up the effects of the terrorist campaign:
[4928]The only tangible accomplishment has been to push Castro
[4929]into renouncing the antihijacking
[4930]treaty, thus discouraging efforts to-
[4931]ward a diplomatic reconciliation be-
[4932]tween the United States and Cuba.
[4934]Despite all the terrorist plots and
[4935]attacks, Castro remains firmly seat-
[4936]ed as head of a Communist regime
[4937]in Cuba: And it appears to the refu-
[4938]gees almost inevitable that the.
[4941]oie | se cthe. fear nis. .w
[4942]7 Get when he ‘becomes PresiZ
[4944]“dent, will give’ new iimpetis to’ this
[4945]movement,,and.that.their-homeland
[4947]__ munist rule. Ske “
[4949]’ the terrorists will continue their ate
[4950]teinpts to keep the two countries
[4953]U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, Oac. 6, 1976
[4957]will never be liberated “from” Cori Tenner!
[4960]gee leaders,.it- seems inevitable that. _
[4963]fof t 4 b ; *
[4964]Vie tue “
[4965]Jyh! ye
[4966]pil? ga f bpte
[4967]. : 2 ~ 4h é pe
[4968]MEMORANDUM | 7 afer
[4969]: of L
[4970]TO: RECORD pie LP
[4972]FROM: . HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD
[4973]SUBJECT: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT INFORMATION OF JANUARY 19, 1977
[4975]I called Larry Callahan at 2:00 p.m. to advise him that
[4976]the Commiteee desired to interview Mr. Gene A. Boren, of
[4977]the IRS, at the earliest available opportunity and requested
[4978]his advice and assistance to accomplish this. Callahan was
[4979]nervous about the Committee's eagerness to proceed in response
[4980]to the memorandum for fear that we would be interfering with
[4981]an on-going criminal investigation. He noted the FBI was looking
[4982]into this and he would have to check with the Bureau to
[4983]ascertain the feasibility of proceeding unilaterally. I told
[4984]Callahan we did not want to interfere with a criminal investi-
[4985]gation and that I did not feel that our interview of the IRS
[4986]‘employee would fall into that category. Callahan referred to
[4987]a possible obstruction of justice on the part of that employee
[4988]in that the information had been withheld for approximately
[4989]five years. | ;
[4991]At 2:30 p.m, I received a telephone call from Paul Daly
[4992]urging Committee restraint in unilaterally investigating
[4993]subject matter. Daly noted the Bureau had just received this
[4995]information and was intending to interview the IRS employee.
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[4999]and other individuals in question today or tomorrow. Daly
[5000]noted that he was disturbed that Callahan had brought the
[5002]memo to the Committee's attention so promptly, as the Bureau
[5003]had intended to brief the Committee at the conclusion of their
[5004]investigation. Daly seemed most concerned that the IRS delay |
[5005]in bringing the matter to the’ Bureau's attention and assured
[5007]us that the Bureau was desirous of cooperating fully. He
[5009]noted the information had been furnished by Justice absent
[5011]a specific inquiry from the Committee and that we were being
[5012]unreasonable if we desired to pursue.the matter further at
[5014]this time. I asked Daly what information was available at the
[5015]Bureau on Brading and Hunt. He said there was a large quantity
[5016]of information available on both and that he felt he could pull
[5017]that material which related to the assassination quickly, but
[5018]would be reluctant to produce the information in its entirety.
[5019]I told him to ascertain this afternoon what information could
[5020]be produced immediately and he said that he would.
[5022]At 2: 45 p.m. I talked again with Callahan who indicated |
[5023]that Daly would be calling. Callahan said he thought the
[5024]Bureau was eager to redeem itself in this area and we should
[5025]give them that opportunity. I told Callahan that I was con-
[5026]cerned about the. mietitetien - ee position which Callahan
[5027]thinks is ridiculous. Callahan, however, did state that this
[5028]information was not as old as it looks at the Bureau, to-wit:
[5030]While the Justice received the IRS memo on December 30, 1976,
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[5034]considerable time went by before Attorney General, Levi could
[5035]address the issue of whether or not to entrust this matter to
[5036]the Bureau. Approximately one week ago, Justice went to Jim
[5037]Adams of the FBI with the request to look into the allegation
[5038]and was surprised to find that Adams was already apprised of
[5040]the situation and investigating, i.e., general indexes.
[5041]Apparently, Adams had been in receipt of similar information
[5043]-in recent days. |
[5045]Yesterday, in response to the Attorney General's request
[5047]for information, ‘Paul Daly hand carried to Callahan the Bureau's
[5048]response (which is dated January 14) and today Callahan hand
[5049]carried the package to us over Assistant Attorney. General
[5050]Uhlmann;s signature. Callahan advised that Daly was upset that
[5051]the Committee had been so promptly advised for fear that we
[5052]would interupt the Bureau's inquiry. Callahan apologized for
[5054]. the lack of responsiveness on. the part of Justice and the Bureau |
[5055]but things are in disarray with Levi about to depart. I assured
[5056]Callahan we did not desire to interfere in the investigation
[5058]but desired to be promptly informed of any developments and
[5060]that we would stay in touch with Paul Daly in that regard .
[5061]Callahan promised to expedite any Committee requests as
[5063]' made.
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[5067]Paul Daly called at 3:10 p.m. to advise that "the powers
[5068]that be" at the Bureau were upset with the possibility that the
[5069]Committee was considering going to Dallas and interfering with
[5070]the investigation. - He specifically that the Director be given.
[5071]an opportunity to talk with Inouye prior to any such action.
[5073]I told Daly that it was merely the Committee's desire ‘to go
[5075]to Texas; I had heard no discussion of going regardless of
[5076]the Bureau's position. Daly promised to pull together without
[5077]the need for a written request, all available information on
[5079]. i .
[5080]Brading for Committee review this afternoon, if at all possible.
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[5084]-- ORS MAIN FILE COPY
[5085]e JUL 231975 9.33
[5086]HE NEW YORK TIMES,
[5088]1C.LA. Used Agents’,
[5089]| To Embezzle Funds
[5090]THA
[5094]pe? of n 7 a
[5095]: Fentas July 22 (UPI)—-T wo
[5096]sons,,of H. L. Hunt, the, late}
[5097]bill ire “contending - they
[5098]were discriminated against be-
[5099]leause of their, onservative
[5100]views, charge: yy that the
[5101]Central Intptligen Agency in+
[5102]lgittrated the family oil empire ||”
[5104]and used secret agents to help
[5107]lion from them yee
[5108]- ‘The brothers, Neison Bunker
[5109]nd W. Herbert-, Hunt,
[5110]new: Federal charges “that
[5111]lthey had tried to “cover . uD
[5112]a family wiretapping scheme)
[5113]e a: further result of an
[5114]“hy the C.LA. to discred-
[5115]Hunt oil empire. They
[5116]y ‘held the CLA. Fee
[5117]rlier. Federal
[5118]; they had spied
[5119]on aides of their father. < s:
[5120]They said” their refusal to
[5121]‘jallow the ‘CALA, to “yse | their
[5122]overseas Hunt Oil Company af-
[5123]filiate for espionge hai
[5124]to the Federal’ charges ga
[5125]os ee
[5126]. _ turn’ down.
[5127]ICLA., a massive embezzlement
[5128]scheme involving loses of ovet
[5129]illi the Hunt Oil
[5130]° the
[5133]J the scheme were
[5134]jsecret Government agents.” J
[5135]. & spokesman at C.LA. head-
[5136]quarters outside Washington
[5137]gaid, “Since it appears such &;
[5138]complicated ‘matter, ‘the agen-
[5139]-ley’s legal people would li
[5140]. {time to find out what it-is all
[5141]m, about.” veep at de afb
[5142]. #& Federal grand ju yester-
[5143]day charged the Hunt brothers,
[5145]Percy Foreman of Houston, a
[5146]tcriminal lawyer, three other
[5147]‘attorneys and. a retired. Texas
[5148]industrialist “with. obstruction
[5149]of justice for allegedly trying
[5150]to thwart the wiretap investiga+
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[5155]eee ah 7 ip “iE # hl
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[5163]it a ra ih
[5164]. “f
[5169]&.. Hee We BE 3 a
[5170]3 hale
[5171]ie site Hy Diy:
[5172]Ll iit -
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[5176]iba ale ia i; ui! eth i
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[5180]Tee Heinll 1
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[5186]vsts down, deal with labor problems.
[5190]Steadman says Lamar has never given) |
[5191]im a direct order in the 15 years of',
[5193]t
[5194]t
[5195]heir association) tends to make some!
[5196]H
[5199]eople think of him as a sort of a Mr.
[5200]’eeperg with a yen to be a jock. “lA:
[5201]ually,"| says Maxfield, “he’s Clark!
[5203]tent, He is a mild-mannered, meek, |
[5205]veryday guy. But when money needs!’
[5207]o be committed, he goes into that little:
[5208]hone booth and comes out with an ‘S’:
[5209]nhis shirt.” ”
[5211]rlucky 11 trusts -
[5213]The bedrock of Lamar’s personal for-''
[5214]une isthe trust that his father set up.
[5215]or him in 1935 as part of a tax:.
[5216]trategy planned with the aid of vet-:
[5217]ran Hunt attorney J. B. McEntire! At’
[5218]hat time, a trust was established for.
[5219]ach of the Hunt children. In 1958, the’
[5221]attern was repeated when the elder: ;
[5223]lunt established trusts for each of ithe”
[5225]acond | Mrs. Hunt’s children, calling '
[5226]hem Loyal Trusts 1, 2,3, and 4. Except '
[5227]or Hunt Oil Co., which went entirely;
[5228]> Mrs| Hunt, HL. Hunt left the Bulk’
[5229]f his personal holdings to the Loyal ,
[5230]rusts,| whose ‘beneficiaries are Ray;
[5231]funt, Ruth Jane Hunt, Mrs. Randall!
[5232].. Helen LaKelley) Kreiling, and Mrs :
[5233]fark A. (Swanee Grace) Meeks
[5234]The Size of these trusts is _
[5235]nknown, but one of the ~
[5236]roblems facing the Hunt
[5237]amily |is how to commingle
[5238]1 separate fortunes (those
[5239]f the|10 children plus the
[5240]uth Ray Hunt Trust) to
[5241]iaximum advantage. Dallas
[5242]riends of .son-in-law
[5243]Randy” Kreiling say the
[5244]uestion is being debated
[5245]‘armly within the family.
[5246]Jthough Kreiling’s role in
[5247]te Great Western United
[5248]ikeover was relatively mi-
[5249]or, it did demonstrate a-
[5250]illingness between the two
[5251]bling|groups to cooperate.
[5252]Lamar Hunt observes
[5253]iat, since the bulk of H. L.
[5254]unt’s} estate was left to
[5255]irs. Hunt, “it was a natural
[5256]ting for Ray to be the per--
[5257]mm who looks after it.” La-
[5258]lar adds: “It does not mean
[5259]rat Ray will run the busi-
[5260]ess. He will be making an
[5261]rderly transition, a change
[5262]o whatever happens. He will
[5263]‘ave the responsibility of
[5264]raking decisions in relation- .
[5265]chip to Dad's property, but
[5267]itad’a) Operation was much
[5270]Shelly Kate
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[5274]Page 31
[5276]nolic, Lamar says. “Our
[5277]hy is not one of promotion of
[5278]- stéck:and promotion to the public,” he
[5279]gays. “Each of us has his own interests.
[5280].All of us operate in the oil business,
[5281]sometimes together,. sometimes as an
[5282]independent oil operator. Hunt Oil,
[5283]- which was my Dad’s company, will be
[5284]run basically by employees of the com-
[5285]‘pany. We all will continue to operate
[5286]out of the Hunt Oil office.”
[5288]‘Maxfield, who has been observing
[5290]“i, the Hunts for nine years as Lamar’s
[5292]partner, believes that Hunt Oil and
[5293]Placid Oil will carry on the monolithic
[5295]8 base of the family fortune. “It’s like a
[5297]tree trunk, with each brother. having
[5298]his own branch,” he says. “Oil is not an
[5299]expression of tthe personality of the
[5300]sons as it was of the old man. The ex-
[5302]| pression of the brothers will be in the |
[5304]branches— ~Ray in real estate; Lamar
[5305]‘sports; Bunker horses, commodities,
[5307]ties. ” And while the brothers are
[5309]‘branching out, Maxfield believes, “they |
[5310]will run the oil companies collectively .
[5312]with a professional staff.” ”
[5314]Stormy weather closes in _
[5316]nesnvnite, « a “threatening” cloud
[5317]looms on the family’ 3 horizon. Not only
[5319]‘prompted by Bunker's
[5321]’ and her children. Three
[5322]and agriculture; Herbert in real estate, |
[5324]residential development, and commodi- °
[5326]. tappers’ arrest and the
[5328]list because of his Libyah holdings. . F
[5330]la
[5332]is an oft- -delayed lerian ahead tor
[5333]Bunker and Herbert |Hunt on the wire-
[5334]tapping charges, but there is also the
[5336]threat of more indictments against
[5338]_ them by a federal grand jury that has
[5339]‘been sitting in Dallas for more than a.
[5341]year. The Hunts claim. their wiretap-
[5342]ping activities were; aimed at uncov-
[5343]ering suspected embezzlements from
[5344]their father’s food concern. In their
[5345]only statement on the matter, over 2
[5347]year ago, they cited: “extensive, unex-
[5348]plained losses” suffered by the com-
[5349]pany, “We only sought| to protect our
[5351]‘father and his property, as any others
[5353]would have done,” they said.
[5355]But one of the wiretappers, Jon Jo
[5356]seph Kelly, says that the tapping was
[5357]land Herbert’s
[5358]suspicions that someone was trying to
[5359]influence H.L. Hunt/ to leave the bulk
[5360]of his estate to the second Mrs. Hunt
[5361]of the wiretap
[5362]victims back up Kelly’ 8 version.
[5364]Just two weeks ago,
[5366]Whitten aired a recurring Dallas ru-
[5367]mor that the grand jury] i
[5368]an alleged “$50,000 to $60,000 payoff” —
[5369]from Bunker to the: chairman of the
[5370]Senate Judiciary Committee, James O.
[5372]' Eastland of Mississippi, in return “for
[5374]Eastland’s assistance in getting a pa-
[5375]role for the other wiretapper, Houston
[5377]' private eye Patrick’ wi McCann III.
[5379]Eastland wrote a letter on McCann’s
[5380]behalf, but Bunker has denied that
[5381]there was any payoff, |
[5383]The Dallas grand jury. is ‘said to be
[5384]mulling the Eastland: ‘connection, as
[5385]well as the circumstances surrounding
[5386]the three-year lapse between the wire-
[5387]indictment of
[5388]Herbert and Bunker on Feb. 28, 1973.
[5389]Hunt family lawyer told Dallas Morn-
[5390]ing News investigative reporter Earl |
[5391]Golz that Bunker managed to strike a
[5392]bargain with the J ustice Dept. in which
[5393]“there would be no prosecution of the
[5395]‘Hunts if they performed certain ac
[5397]tions; they performed the actions, but
[5398]there was an indictment! anyway. ”
[5400]in their syndi- a
[5401]_ cated column, Jack Anderson and Leg
[5403]is looking into -
[5407]The actions, reportedly made after) _
[5409]1972 meetings with former President
[5410]Richard M. Nixon and former Attorney
[5411]General Richard Kleindienst, included
[5412]Bunker’s providing Justice with a list
[5413]of Al Fatah agents in the U.S. He had
[5415]secured the list privately because he ||
[5417]feared he was on the Al Fatah death
[5419]For the Hunts, the wiretapping epi-.
[5420]sode has’ proved disastrous. Bunker and ,
[5421]Herbert could receive prison sentences..
[5422]And, more than anything else in the.
[5424]_, family’s history, it has: torn the tightly ;
[5426]woven curtain of secrecy behind which
[5427]the family has lived and worked for
[5428]more than four decades.
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[5588]Last year!
[5590]summed upim
[5592]what Noyes
[5593]assassinat
[5594]and is lar
[5595]police rec
[5596]Department,
[5597]Texas poli
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[5601]did notise
[5602]been regar
[5607]4
[5608]fo. l
[5609]‘Fo PART TWO:
[5611]JIM BRADEN I
[5613]i
[5615]: .
[5616]most incredible bodies of rec
[5617]the alleged conspiracy to as
[5619]largely based on the investig
[5620]ter Noyes, a former CBS Produc
[5621]ePorter.
[5625]ann
[5627]|
[5628]Noyes published a book,
[5629]any of his findings,
[5630]believes was
[5633]LON.
[5635]and whic
[5636]heavy Mafia invo
[5637]The Noyes book is almost
[5639]‘Legacy of Doubt,
[5640]ih generally outlines
[5641]Ivement in the
[5642]entirely factual
[5644]cent: information
[5645]Sassinate President
[5647]research
[5649]@r and top inves~
[5651]which
[5653]gely based on substantiated information such as
[5655]ords provided by the FBI,
[5656]| the California: Attorney General's
[5657]ce officials. ;
[5659]Noyes book
[5661]the Los’ Angeles Police
[5663]Office, and
[5665](like most recent assassination books)
[5666]ll well or receive much press attention,
[5668]it has
[5670]ded asa valuable contribution by most of author
[5672]low Warren Commission critics. , '
[5674]It can def
[5675]particular
[5676]have been ||
[5678]by officia:
[5680]Basically
[5681]mysterious’
[5682]of Preside
[5683]shooting.
[5684]thought he
[5685]himself ur)
[5686]shortly th
[5688]Sheriff! iS!
[5689]I
[5691]i
[5693]initely be said! ‘that almost all of ‘Noyes!
[5695]findings,
[5697]ly with respect, ,to his main character Jim Braden,
[5699]1 police records.
[5701]t
[5703]The man was apprehended by a Dallas.
[5704]was behaving suspiciously.
[5705]dér the false name of Jim
[5707]i
[5709]fl bey
[5711]The man ,
[5712]; Braden, (was
[5713]ereafter following brief questioning by the Dallas
[5714]| ; 2
[5715]Office. ! ;
[5717]factually substantiated and are solidly established
[5719]tie Noyes book outlines the backgtound of a
[5720]man who was picked uo by the police; at the scene
[5721]nt Kennedy's assassination just minutes after the
[5723]policeman who
[5724]who identified
[5725]released
[5727]s
[5729]be
[5731]Author soves uncovered the story of Jim Bradan: and his
[5732]true identity during five'years. of investigative research,
[5734]And it is|
[5736]lizim. Braden! s true identity and his jdropic misfortune
[5738]of being picked | up at the scene of the assassination for
[5740]“looking
[5741]believe
[5743]s
[5744]ra
[5750]tape on
[5751]fatal slip
[5753]i
[5754]|
[5756]i 50955 Docld: 32423630 ‘Page | 33
[5758]~ups in the two;conspiracies. ° ‘|
[5760]1
[5762]fa
[5763]t
[5767]Warren Commission critics now
[5768]with James McCord's mistake of |leaving masking
[5769]tHe, doors during the Watergate break-in as the ultimate
[5772]_ | a
[5774]2. | Do
[5776]For Jin Braden, whose true identity. is Eugene Hale Brading, .
[5777]isa man iwith singularly awesome direct ties jto the highest
[5778]levels of the Mafia. Of all the Mafia figures|iconnected to
[5779]the syndicatel's crucial security and enforcement activities
[5780]of coercion, maiming, intra-syndicate assassination and
[5781]outside murder contracting,: Jim Braden appears to be an
[5782]indispensable link - or leader - of organized) icrime's
[5783]far flung network of “controlled violence” specialists
[5784]and professional hit men,
[5786]Braden's involvement with the Mafia's hiqhest lechelon
[5787]"enforcers"|ihas spanned the! continent from coast to coast
[5788]and covers virtually every national crime syndicate juris-
[5789]diction. According to federal authorities working with the
[5790]Justice Department's organized crime strike force units, and
[5791]according! to other high government sources cited by author .
[5792]Uoyes, Jim Braden is now serving as personal courier for
[5793]Neyer Lansky. lo i
[5795]The importance of this nyse erious man who was: picked up
[5796]under a fallse)name across the street from the] Texas Book
[5798]Depository just moments after the shots were fired on
[5799]November 22/!) 1963 cannot be: overemphasized.
[5800]|
[5803]i : H
[5804]i
[5806]Though there were several innocent witnesses or bystanders
[5807]in the areallof the assassination who were also| arrested or .
[5808]brought in for questioning by the Dallas police, all of whom
[5809]were shortly released like Jim Braden, his ‘presence there at
[5810]that precise monent does in) fact raise an incredible specter,
[5811]“and may indéed have been the. monumental Slip-up that critics
[5812]of the Warrén Commission now attest to.
[5814]|
[5818]f
[5819]oi . i
[5820]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Palje aa :
[5822]Deputy, CLL, Lewis was One Of the first Dallas Police
[5823]officers|on the scene at the Texas Schoo] Book Depository
[5824]following the “$Sassination, ; ;
[5826]Within just Minutes after the deadly Shots were fired,
[5827]Deputy iLewis Confronted a man 8Cross the Street from the
[5828]‘Book Depository, 42 Man whom Lewis thought Was "acting
[5831]Deputy bewis’ questioned the man for 5s
[5832]taking him to -the Sheriff's Office for further interrogation.
[5833]The re adentified himsel¢ as Tim Braden, anq Said that he
[5835]VAS in the Oil business in Beverly Nills, California, Deputy
[5837]tried td identity himselg, Instead of Producing his driver's
[5838]license, the common means of identification, the man Pulled
[5840]- ‘The han who identifieg himself a3 Jim Praden strongly Protestegd:
[5841]When Deputy Levis told him that he would have to take him in
[5842]for further interrogation .
[5844]At the Sheriff's Office, Jim Braden agreed to Nake a voluntary
[5845]sapecment. Braden, then 48, told the police that he Was in
[5846]Dallas On| oi] businass and had been there for two days. Ho
[5847]Said he was Staying at the Cabana Hotel, S Short distance away
[5848]from the Scene of the 8SSassination, Braden Said he haq been
[5850]Jin Braden further Stated that he Was Confronted by Deputy
[5851]Lewis inside a building 4Cross the Street from the Depository
[5852]during an attempt to make a telephone Call following the
[5853]Shooting, ;
[5855]Braden "asi shortly thereafter Teleased by the Dallas Sheriffes
[5856]Office,. Braden WaS not fingerprinted, nor was any check made
[5857]of Possible Criminal records relating to hin, 7 ;
[5859]Two months later, in late January cf 1964. Jim Braden was
[5861]interviewed by two “PBL agents at his Office in Beverly Hills,
[5862]: The Varran Commission's investigation Was then in full Swing .
[5863]: : and witnessle. to the 46SaSsination were being Guestioneg by
[5864]j the FRI and other authoritios. In his "BI interviow, Braden
[5865]Tave the Same! account aS he had Given to the Dallas Police on
[5866]the dav oF the @SSassination, The PBI. Official Teport on
[5867]praden's interrogation further Stated that, "Braden has no
[5868]information concerning the 'SSassination 4nd both Lea Harvey
[5869]Oswald ang Yack Ruby are Unknown to hime... :
[5871]5 d 35
[5872]50955 Docld: 32423630 Page
[5873]HY
[5875]HY 50955
[5877]‘In early 1969
[5879]“sugene
[5881]4 . o . .
[5882]Jim Draden's] ‘true Identit
[5884]Peter Noves
[5886], the investigative reporter
[5888]whose book covers much of the information regarding Jim
[5890]Braden,
[5891]“oll man."
[5893]4
[5895]began investigating the mysterious California
[5897]i . :
[5898]Moyes originally received a tip about Braden from a
[5900]former FBI agent who was
[5902]then aiding District Attorney
[5904]Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination.
[5906]The FBI man itold Noyes of Braden's presence at the scene of
[5908]the. assassination at the time of the shooting.
[5910]HToves soon found that Jim Braden was no longer at cither
[5912]of the addres
[5914]Uoves
[5916]ses that he had given the Dallas’ police,
[5917]had left no Irorwarding addresses,
[5919]and
[5921]then hiad the California Department of Motor Vehicles
[5923]run a check ion the license number that Braden had given to
[5925]the Dallas police
[5927]assassination
[5929]license (H751755)
[5930]county in Hovember
[5932]business and
[5934]at the Sheriff's
[5936]Motor Vchicles told
[5937]had been reneved
[5938]Braden
[5939]home addresses, which
[5941]of 1966.
[5943]a hundred mijles apart.
[5945]The Department of
[5947]also showed
[5948]name,
[5950]i
[5951]on September
[5952]ale
[5954]new license
[5956]10,
[5958]1963,
[5960]Motor Vehicles!
[5961]that "Jim Braden" was not really his original
[5962]The license had actually been issued in the 1950's
[5963]to Eugene Nale brading,
[5965]Which is Braden'
[5967]office following the
[5968]Noyes that Braden!
[5970]by Braden in San Diego
[5971]has also listed naw
[5972]interestingly were over
[5974]records on Jim Braden
[5975]true identity.
[5977]the Department that he had
[5979]Intrigued by the fact that Jim Braden was really a.false
[5980]idgentity as ssumed by Euqene Brading, investigator. Noves
[5981]contacted the Intelligence Division of the California
[5983]Attorney Gene
[5985]mysterious Brading.
[5987]Oves Was
[5990]ms
[5991]He
[5993]ra
[5995]told that
[5997]Office,
[5999]and had a check
[6001]run on the.
[6003]Eugene Hale Brading “is a real bad guy.
[6004]got a Tong rap sheet and apparantly has Mafia connections."
[6006]and he requested a
[6007]junder that name, The license was granted,
[6009]just ten weeks before the assassination,
[6010]Brading had notified
[6011]leqally changed his name to Jim Braden,
[6013]Noyes shortly thereafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading's
[6015](Jim Braden's
[6017]4
[6019])
[6022]Docld: 32423630 | Page 36
[6024]police records.
[6026]Lent
[6029]Ly Se | Hi
[6031]The Brading, "rap sheet" contained an incredible 35
[6032]seperate ‘entries covering virtually every phase of
[6033]criminal activity, including mail fraud, embezzlement,
[6034]onerating: ai gambling house in Miami, car theft, shop
[6035]lifting, receiving stolen property, “and selling wartime
[6037]gas ration coupons on the black market.
[6040]|
[6041]po
[6042]te
[6043]1
[6047]is
[6049]4
[6053]Host of those arrests had been made under the nane of
[6054]cugenc | of, Hoke arrest but the police dossier on him also
[6055]Showed a thandful of other aliases, including Harry Eugene
[6056]Bradley, iGene Brady, James Lee Cole, James Bradley Lee,
[6057]and inevitably, Jim Braden, Bo
[6059]"Tim Braden" was the last entry shown on Brading's
[6060]records. Le :
[6061]Incredibly; l investigator Noyes found that due to the fact
[6062]that the [Da ‘las police had not fingerprinted Jim Braden or
[6063]run a male: on, him, his true identity of Eugene’ Brading was
[6064]never didcovered by the FBI or the Warren Commission at the
[6065]time of their investiqation of the as a heedoetene The Warren
[6066]Commissidn. haa only routinely included Braden's short state-~-
[6067]ment about being in Dallas on “oil business" in a volice
[6068]xhibit oli witnesses contained in Warren Commission Hearing's
[6069]Volune IRC! Dim Braden and his story had been accepted at
[6071]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 37
[6073]rene Bradina) And The Mafia
[6075]Jim Bracen |
[6076]Investigator Moves began ‘a thorough investigation of
[6078]Braden’ based upon all available police records and
[6079]docuncnts|, '
[6081]“What soon clearly emerged was a long record of involvement
[6082]by Braden} (Brading) with many of the most notorious Mafia
[6083]leaders in’ the nation, a record of close association with
[6084]hey figures in the national crime syndicate.
[6086]PFollowing}a string of arrests in the 1940's, dating all
[6087]the vav back -to his young-adulthood, Eugene Brading had
[6088]moved to Il Paso, Texas, in 1950,
[6090](BRADIG ap PEREIRA)
[6092]In El Paso, | Brading became closely associated with Victor
[6093]Percira, a man who was a close associate and confidante of
[6094]several Mafila members. Brading and Pereira became involved |
[6095]in a numbér jof schemes involving marriage to’ and embezzlement
[6096]of wealthy widows, ;
[6097]Tf. =
[6099]In 1951, Brading and ‘his close friend Pereira were arrested
[6100]by the ret in,New York on a fugitive warrant issued in Texas,
[6102]The two man were charged with embezzling over $50,000 from
[6104]a wealthy | widow whom Pereira had married shortly before
[6105]fleeing with her money. Srading and Pereira were soon con-.
[6106]victed of/ the) charges and were each sentenced to 12 years
[6107]in prisons | | ;
[6110]Nowever, Brading and Pereira were out free during the three
[6111]years of their appeals, and Brading was later paroled in 1959
[6112]after having served juste five years of his sentence.
[6114]i
[6116]( BRADING AND THE SMALDOMES)
[6118]i
[6120]During the three years of freedom under their appeals of the
[6121]convictions, DLrading and Pereira left Texas (following still
[6123]another fleecing of another wealthy widow) and moved to
[6124]Denver, Colorado. —
[6126]In Denver} Brading became very closely associated with.
[6127]two leading] Mafia bosses in the- Rocky Mountain area, Clyde
[6128]and Gene Smaldone. ;
[6132]t
[6133]i
[6134]1
[6135]t
[6136]t
[6137]'
[6140]. / |
[6141]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 | Page ae
[6144]the Smaldone brothers, who were also known as Checkers
[6145]and Flin Flon, "were the Mafia leaders in charge of the
[6146]syndicate!s: vending-ma chine market which stretched from
[6147]the Rockies all the way to Chicago. Police records show
[6148]that at ohe, time, the Smaldones virtually controlled the
[6149]entire Pueblo area of Colorado.
[6151]The Smaldone prothors were notorious for the brutal brand
[6152]of violencee. they practiced in their operations], Bradinag-
[6153](Braden) becane involved in many transactions. With the
[6154]Smaldones;and became a close personal friend. Several years
[6155]later, after Brading finally went to jail-for the embezzlement
[6156]of the Texas widow, the Smaldone brothers requiarly wrote .
[6158]to him in| prison, secking his advice on various financial
[6159]matters, :
[6161]BRADING AD, CLARK AND BAUHAI)}
[6162]i
[6163]i
[6164]Brading and’ his friend Pereira later moved to Beverly Hills
[6165]in Califotnia. Shortly thereafter, Brading inevitably came
[6166]under investiaqation py the Los Angeles Police Department
[6169]intelligence Division's Mafia specialists.
[6173]In partichlar, the LAPD interest in Brading was focused on
[6174]his close association in Beverly Hills with two "oil specu-
[6175]lators" ‘€rom fiami, Arthur. Clark and Roger Bauman. Clark
[6176]and Bauman were notorious Nafia figures with Teng police
[6177]records,
[6179]Brading's friend Clark had been one of the ton leaders of
[6180]the famous Purple Gang of the Mafia, which hadj onerated
[6184]out of Detroit and Youngstown. The Los Anceles! police had
[6186]nlaced Clark and Bauman under tight ‘surveillance and had
[6187]compiled @: ztensive information on their friendship with
[6190]to . . .
[6192]In. 1956, the Chief of Intelligence of the LAPD Captain
[6194]James Hamilton, sent a letter to the Crime Commission of
[6196]Greater Miami seeking information about Clark, Bauman, and
[6198]Brading. |
[6200]Cantain Hamilton, who was known as one of the foremost
[6202]experts on the Mafia in the nation, asked the Miami Commission
[6203](which was conducting extensive investigations of the Mafia)
[6204]to inform) him as to the involvement of severall associates of
[6205]Clark and} Bauman,
[6207]Among those named: was Eugene Brading.
[6209]HW 50955 Docld:324293630 | Page 39
[6211]HW 50955 DocId:
[6213]6.
[6216]id
[6218]+ eft
[6220]Captain Hamilton's letter stated:
[6221], I
[6222]t wf
[6223]it
[6225]“Thig Department has under investigation Arthur
[6227]Lewis Clark FBI 3709258,
[6229]Sr.,
[6231]and
[6233]a Rooer Bauman.
[6235]i
[6236]These men are representing thenselves as officials
[6238]oft: ‘the! Sunbean O11 Company, 212 P
[6239]Buildina, ‘Miami Beach,
[6241]very |lavishly."
[6243]"Clark, has been arrested several
[6244]assogiated with many confidence m
[6245]as James Fratianno, Victor
[6247]Clarénce Rhodes, Stephen Sambor a
[6248]brothers of Denver."
[6250]As investigator Peter
[6251]with Brading in the letter, represent
[6252]of organized crime leaders’ between Cal
[6254]|
[6255](BRADING AND) PRATIAUHO)
[6256]Of these bob Mafia men listed with Bra
[6257]the most imborta nt one is James Fratia
[6258]as "Jimmie The Weasel." Fratianno was
[6259]Hafia! S highest ranking executioner in
[6261]In 1959, injnis testimony before the
[6262]the California legislature,
[6263]LAPD Intelligence, stated that,
[6265]"ia ave; long considered PFratianno to.
[6266]executioner for the Mafia on
[6269]the Vest: Coas st.
[6271]Captain wdnltton told the Rackets Comm
[6273]Poreir
[6275]tioves points out,
[6277]Rackets
[6278]Captain Hamilton,
[6280]oosevelt| Theater
[6282]and both are spending money
[6284]os
[6287]times and has been
[6288]en and heodlums such
[6289]a, Eugene Brading,
[6290]net the Siraldone
[6292]the men listed
[6293]a virtual "Who's Who"
[6294]ifornia and (the Midwest
[6296]ding (Braden) perhaps
[6298]nno, also widely known
[6300]knowm as perhaps the
[6301]the nation,
[6303]Conmittee of
[6304]the Chief of
[6306]ittee that his Intelligence
[6308]Division had linked Jinmie Fratianno to at least sixteen Mafia.
[6312]executions... 4
[6315]of Los Angeles Mafia head Micke ev Cohen
[6317]had jonce been arrested for the attompted as sassination
[6319]in 1949} Cohen -had
[6321]survived the bloody shooting which took the life, of one of
[6323]his lioutenants,
[6324]ficient evidence.
[6325]‘at the home of
[6326]shooting.
[6327]Nafia, and,” perhaps significantly, was
[6328]the Mafia in Dallas Texas.
[6330]Mafia associate Nick
[6332]32423630 | Page, 40°
[6334]meatianne was later released due to insuf-
[6336]Fratianno used the alibi that he had been
[6337]Licata the
[6338]Licata later became the new head of the Los Angeles
[6340]night of the
[6342]later given control of
[6345]es . Sek a
[6346]Jimmie Fratazan
[6347]the murders)! of
[6349]mistake of robbing the Nafia's Plamingo
[6350]Vegas were found dead in a parked car followin
[6352]no
[6353]two
[6355]Was
[6357]also
[6358]men in
[6360]susnected of
[6361]1951. Two me
[6363]robberyv,. Both, their skulls had been
[6364]bullets fired! boning the ear, apparant
[6365]fashion, 1
[6368]Fratianno had, also been Linked to the
[6369]Harry "Hooky "| Rothman, who-had been an
[6370]associate of Nickey Cohen,
[6371]Also,
[6373]another top|
[6375]Nickey Cohen
[6377]at Pratianno " 'S home one night.
[6379]gambler,
[6381]that he “owl 4 t
[6383]Fratianno! later
[6384]extortion
[6385]involved in
[6386]Joseph Alio
[6387]FPratianno}| h
[6388]the Mayor) h
[6389]$105,000 fro
[6390]Board, Arboles,
[6391]of his,
[6392]The Nayor' é
[6393]Pratianno) was’,
[6395]robot
[6396](BRADING si
[6397]“hile in Lois
[6398]connected, with
[6399]The LAPD In
[6400]aware of Bradi
[6401]Brading's name
[6404]ad,
[6407]Meltzer was widelv known as one of the most po
[6409]he
[6411]served
[6412]. En later years Fratianno bechne the
[6413]LOOK Magazine!
[6415]alleged fafia connections.
[6416]becone
[6417]arranged for Fratianno to
[6418]a bank where
[6419]admitted that Fratianno was
[6420]but| denied that he had used anv
[6422]a
[6424]dngeles
[6426]top
[6429]WAS
[6431]Fratianno: whs} also linked to the brutall
[6432]man in northern California in 1952,
[6434]Th
[6436]hala ppparantly welched on a $80, 000 g
[6437]iafia,
[6438]charge hiddenj under the hoed of his car
[6440]and was blown
[6442]a six year pris
[6443]"expose" o
[6444]a close friend of
[6447]Of the Mafia,
[6449]HELTZER)
[6453]Mafia leader Narold
[6455]found on Neltzer's
[6457]leaders in the entire nation,
[6459]The U.S. So
[6460]friend Meltzer
[6462]Senate Rackets
[6463]a
[6465]As
[6467]Committee iden
[6469]top Mafia boss in
[6471]racketeering» and narcotics.
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[6488]Brading (Jim Braden) all's
[6491]de the
[6493]who ma
[6494]Hotel
[6496]n
[6498]shatter
[6501]Famous m
[6503]other cl
[6505]7
[6509]gang,
[6512]onas Kee
[6514]to "bits
[6517]7
[6519]on term
[6521]£ San Pr
[6523]Mayor ra
[6524]receiv
[6525]od
[6527]a "se
[6531]Christma
[6533]tified Br
[6536]iS
[6538]the area
[6541]urder of
[6544]the. Los Angeles Mafia head.
[6545]fratianno was also linked to the disappe;
[6546]member of the
[6547]Niccoli had) mysteriously vanished following a
[6549]n
[6550]ambling debt
[6551]£rom a dynamite
[6553]co
[6554]pe
[6556]adty in
[6558]‘an: Las
[6560]g the
[6561]ed: by
[6564]arance of
[6565]rank
[6566]‘Late dinner
[6568]Niccoli.
[6570]of a business-
[6571]a wealthy
[6573]f
[6575](1954-1960) for
[6576]central figure
[6578]ancisco Mayor
[6579]LOOK alleged that
[6580]lito and
[6581]e loans of over
[6583]as Chairman of the
[6586]influence in
[6587]also said that he had not known. that
[6588]nember
[6590]that
[6592]the loans,
[6593]the notorious
[6595]o became
[6597]Heltzer.
[6599]telligence Division had originally 'become
[6601]close relationship with Neltzer when
[6603]card list.
[6605]werful Mafia
[6607]4
[6610]of union
[6613]in.
[6615]sod . ‘ i
[6616]yoda a)
[6617]7
[6620]“& report jor/.the Senate Rackets Committee from) 1964 states:
[6621]| ae “|e
[6623]"Meltzer now is reported to operate a large
[6624]bookmaking and prostitution syndicate in |
[6626]pasting Y
[6628]California, A major figure in the organized
[6629]undervorld, he is known to all the important
[6630]narcetics traffickers throughout the -United
[6632]i
[6634]States, |e has also. overated in Oklahoma,
[6636], d / : : : '
[6637]fexas,| Baltimore, Hiami, Las Vegas, Boston,
[6638]and various areas of Canada, Cuba, Hong Kong,
[6639]eos . ‘ . a
[6640]Japan,!‘Hawaii, and the Philippines," Poy
[6642]| |
[6643]lone i
[6644]t
[6646](BRADTUG AWD: THE SICAS) |
[6648]3
[6651]In Los Ancolles, Brading also became closely agsociated with
[6652]yet another cop HNarila operation. Bradinag becane a close
[6653]friend and jassociate of the notorious Sica brothers - Joe,
[6654]Preddic, and George. The Sica brothers were particularly
[6655]brutal syndicate members specializing in narcotics,
[6657]35
[6659]In 1950, tel U.S, attorney in Los Angeles accused Brading's
[6660]friends, Joo and Freddie Sica, of heading the |single largest
[6661]narcotics! ging in the United States. ; if
[6662]. Hy
[6663]others were shortly thereafter brought to trial.
[6664]On the night before the trial -onened, the government's
[6665]star witnods|, an informant named Aba Davidian! was mysteriously
[6666]shot to geath in his mother's home in Fresno. }The murder was
[6667]never solwed) and the Sica brothers were soon neleased for
[6668]lack of ewildence. a PF i
[6671]The Sicalby
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[6696]Jim Braden: |! Possible Link ‘to Jack Ruby . - a
[6697]a NES EM LO ACK SUDY I
[6699]The same inadequate investigative work which|led the
[6700]“Warren Commission to largely overlook Jack RU mis solid
[6701]fafia invelvement, appears also to have been |responsible
[6702]for the failure to uncover Jim. Braden’s true |identity of
[6703]Bugene Br ading during the official investigation into the
[6705]|
[6707]i]
[6709]|
[6711]Kennedy assassination.
[6713]'
[6714]'
[6716]foc. : f
[6717]As shown ini the previous account of Jack Ruby
[6719]S very
[6720]substantial) ties to the Nafia, Ruby was parti ularly
[6721]involved nj the syndicate areas of. gambling a gd narcotics.
[6723]Tore
[6725]But bevond tthe multiplicity of evidence which hindicates
[6726]that Jack Ruby and Jim Braden were both important Nafia
[6727]figures operating in the same general areas, |at the same
[6728]general times, tnere is another single niece of evidence
[6729]which plages both Ruby and Braden at the same| place on the
[6730]day before: the assa 28sination. ap :
[6732]- ' Evidence indicates that both Jim Braden and Jack Ruby
[6733]visited the| Dallas offices of the M.L. Nunt oi- Conpany
[6734]on the afternoon of Vovember 21, 1963, just twenty four
[6735]hours beferg; the President was murdered. Obviously any
[6736]link waich places both Bradon and Ruby in ne Sane place
[6737]at the same] time on the day;before the as 3sasgination does
[6738]of cours e|raise further significant questions, bout a
[6739]possible Fetationship between the two men, | fe
[6740]; an
[6742]Jim Bradeh keceived permission from the U.S. /Board of
[6743]Parole iniLos Angeles to make a trip to Dallas|i Texas on.
[6744]November. 13), 1963, four days-before the assassination,
[6745]Braden was Fequirea to report all of his travels to his
[6746]Parole Board - Collowing his parole in 1959 for the embez~
[6748]al . j
[6749]—Zlement conviction, i
[6753]t
[6755]'
[6756]'
[6758]On .November| 2a, 1963, the day before the assaseination,
[6759]Jim Braden: ‘checked in with the U.S. Parole office in
[6760]Dallas Aecording to Roger Carroll, .the Chief Rarole
[6762]or ficer in Dalllas, Braden (Brading} “advisedithat he |
[6763]planned to: sue Lamar fiunt and other oil speculators while
[6764]here." bahar Tunt is the son of H.L. Hunt, the famous
[6765]right-wing, pi billionaire. ‘he
[6766]i aa
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[6785]Paul Rothernel, a former FBI agent who was Director of
[6786]Security for the Hunt O11 Commany in Dallas athithat time,
[6788]has recaltcd that he distinctly remembers Braden visiting
[6790]tne Hunt offices.on November 21 in the company) of three
[6792]other men|l -Rothernel has stated that the office log for
[6793]Uovenber 21| showed that Roger Bauman (Bradinq! Us old Mafia ‘
[6794]friend) and Norqan Brown and Duane Mowlin “andl friend" :
[6795]visited the| Mint office on that afternoon. Rothermel states.
[6797]+ ts oo L .
[6798]hat Braden. was definitely the "friend." ops
[6800](security| chice Paul Rothermel was later fired) by W.L. Hunt's
[6801]sons after reports allegedly surfaced that Rothernmel was
[6802]“suspicious! of a possible Hunt connection “toi tie assasSin-
[6803]ation, Following his termination by the [hnts, Rothermel
[6804]found that be was. being illegally wiretapped.: Rothermel
[6806]filed suit hoains t Lamar Hunt and another’ one! of HL. Hunt's
[6807]sons, charging them with the wiretapping, andl Asking for
[6808]several milion dollars in damages, The suit,:which has
[6809]produced very damaging cvidence against the Hunt brothers,
[6810]is still an the courts.) — - iby
[6812]i
[6814]a
[6818]mber 21, the day before the aS sass ination,
[6822]Also on Move ih
[6824]according! to| a concluSion of the Warren Commission, Jack
[6825]Ruby was also on his way to the H.L. ilunt offices in Dallas.
[6826]The Warren ‘Commission concluded that Jack Rubyidrove a woman
[6828]friend of
[6829]noon. Thelw
[6830]as a stripp
[6831]in search|
[6833]visit to th
[6835]he
[6837]OL OTOL
[6839]S to the nt offices sometime that same after-
[6840]Inan, who had declined work in Ruby."s nightclub
[6842]x, drove with Ruby to the Hunt offiices, apparantly
[6843]emolovnent. This does coincide with Braden!
[6845]same offices on that same netornpen:
[6847]The Warren Commission investigated soveral other possible
[6848]Links of vack Ruby to the trunts, including ca still
[6849]unexnlaingd) fact that Lamar Hunt's name was and inside
[6851]the
[6853]1
[6854]one of Rupy/ "6 notebooks. But of these possible ‘links,
[6855]Warren Commission concluded only that evidenée ‘did indicate
[6856]that R oy had, driven to the Hunt offices on #oyyenbor 21.
[6857]Thus a posible : suby Be raden connection on the May before
[6858]the Presi ilaont' s ssassination does indeed aris
[6860][ ae
[6863]4
[6865]hoy !
[6867]yds : . Vy
[6869]\ . ; : . f
[6876]| |
[6877]pe . ; ;
[6878]Jim Braden: Possible Link Yo Pavid Ferrio ik
[6879]ae babe ink “o Pavid Perric
[6881]. | i
[6882]Investigator Peter Noyes has turned up several | pieces
[6884]of information which indicate a possible connection between
[6885]Jim Braden and the mysterious David Ferrio.
[6887]David Porgic was the homosexual airline pilot jand private
[6888]investiqator whom Jim Garrison accused of participating
[6890]in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy. (Six days: after
[6891]District “ttorney Garrison's charges were madal public, David
[6892]Ferric wag found dead in his apartment in wew Orleans. Ris
[6893]mysterious death was finally ruled to have becn a suicide.
[6895]David rordic has been a taraet of investication ky critics
[6897]of the Yaxren Commission ever since the fS5G6aRS6sination., In ‘
[6898]fact the &BI and Secret Service both invosticated a possible
[6899]Ferrie role immediately after the assassination. Tt was
[6901]widely rumored in Hew Orleans: and Dallas: that \Porrie was to
[6903]have flown the alleged assassins out of the country following
[6905]the assa asdination. The Varren .Commission deciddda ‘not ta include
[6906]the offictal Secret Service and FEI renorts om; Ferrie in the
[6908]26 Volumes of Hearings which were releasod after the Narren
[6909]Report was issued. However, the Justice Denartment did finally
[6910]release those renorts to the National Archives! in 1967 following
[6911]Garrison's vublic accusations.
[6913]Author Noyes has since established that both | ‘Sin Braden and
[6914]Davod Porrie worked out of theYfloor of offices in a building
[6916]in New Orleans in the month or two immediately| preceding the
[6917]assassination, :
[6919]“This is particularly Significant due to the fact that at that
[6920]time the mysterious David Perrie was cmploved as a private
[6921]investigator by Carlos ‘Marcello, the top llafialkingpin. It
[6922]is widely Nelieved by most federal authorities! that Carlos
[6923]Marcello ranks with his close *ricnd Heyer Lanskv as one of
[6924]the two. single nost powerful leaders of the Wafiats nationa
[6925]and internationeal crime syndicate, Carlos 3 ‘arcello heads the
[6926]Maiia empire centered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and controls
[6927]nost of the Mafia activity in the southern part of the United
[6928]States.
[6930]In September and Octoher of 1963, just vwoeks before the
[6931]assassination, David Ferrie was working out of the offices
[6932]ef Carlos larcello's criminal attorney, G. Wray Gill. Ferrie,
[6933]who was doing investigative work on a nerjury | charge that his
[6934]_ boss Harcello was then facing, worked out of Room 1707 in the
[6935]: bere larguette Building in New Orleans. a ,
[6936], il. od
[6937]At this same time, in Septembor and October of! 1963, Jim |
[6938]Braden was operating out of Room 1701 in the Pere Marquette
[6939]Building. ;
[6941]have Presidant Kennedy and his brother murdered, Reid has
[6942]written that he was told of Marcello's. threat, by an informant
[6943]who attenGed a- secret meeting with Harcello in New Orleans in
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[6954]Accordinal tl Roid's informant, Marcello told his top
[6955]lieutenants, “Don't worry about that-.little Bobby
[6956]sonofabiteéh). Ue's qoing to be taken care of." |The
[6957]informant, stated that Marcello said that President
[6958]Kennedy himseJ)f would have to be killed first, and
[6959]that his brother would then follow. ‘The informant
[6960]further stated that Marcello spoke of using some "nut"
[6961]to do the} Killings, i
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[7005]Jim!
[7007]Fi
[7009]Peter Novas, the investigative Yeporter who Uncovered
[7010]MOStlofF the materia] Tegarding Jim Braden (fugene Brading) |
[7011]is altformer Classmate and close friend Of ‘Judge. tiattheyw
[7012]Byrne, Jr., the ULS, District Court Judge who Presideg
[7013]Over Ithe “llsbera Pentagon Pavers trial dase year,
[7015]As ist now Vell known, Judge Byrne dismissed the case
[7016]against “llsberq after he Vas notified that ‘the Thite
[7017]ouse| Plumbers had once burglarized the ‘office of
[7018]fllsbergts PSvchiatrist, me
[7020]A Short time Jater, it becane known that ‘President Nixon
[7022]had twice instructed John wbrlichman to annroacn Judge
[7024]Byrne during the Course of the “llsherg trilal ang offer him
[7025]the position Of Director of thea PBI, This offer, which Judge
[7026]Byrne Tefused , has beon Tegarded as a Potential act of
[7027]Bribery itics of Prosident Wixon, and is currently
[7028]under investigation by the S0ecial Prosecutor's Office,
[7030]o
[7032]rf
[7033]C
[7034]3
[7035]oO
[7036]fo)
[7037]4
[7038]rw)
[7040]Tt Nas thodn widely Assumed that Uixon's fervent interest
[7041]in the Mulcoma o« the Prosecution oF Bll sbera may hava
[7043]been thle motivation behing his appreach to Judge Lyvrne,
[7045]Author Moves has written of his friend Judge] Byrnes
[7046]involvement in his Pesearch on Jim Braden, In 1969, after
[7047]“Noyes hed accumulated’ much Of his information regarding
[7049]the RYSterious Braden, he toor the informatidn Eo his
[7050]Friend, [Mate lyrne, Who was then u.s, Attornay for Southern
[7051]California, Noyes had several talks with Byrne, ana has saig
[7052]that Byynle Was very impressed by the Substantive evidence
[7054]which Polves had Tatheroad, During One of thesa "meetings with
[7055]Dvrne "nd) another FBI man whom Byrne ‘hag invilted to attend,
[7056]the -ppy man tald Joyes. that the Fpr had never before Known
[7057]that Jim) Broaden ~ the man ®rrested at the $cens Of the
[7058]nesassination in 1963 ~' Was actually “uence |Brading, the
[7060]PBI man Said that the Bureay MUSt have made la big Mistake
[7062]in not t¥acing down Braden's true identity And police record, -
[7064]the Farr mari was nearly incredulous Over Hoyes# evidence on
[7065]Braden, | /, bef
[7067]7 i i: '
[7069]; | | cle _
[7070]Noyes meanwhile had discovered that Jim Pradeni had also boon
[7071]in Los Ancelas On the night that Robert Xennedy was 8SSassinated
[7072]in early June of 1968, yp -
[7074]Though Noyes Couldn't fing any Significant information indicating
[7075]any Braden Connection to.the Second Kennedy murder, he and his
[7076]friend Hatt) Byrne Forwarded the information on Braden to the -
[7077]Special Unli't Of the LAPD Which was investigating the RPK death,
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[7101],
[7103]The Speciad| Unit of the LAPN, according to Noyes, dis-
[7104]counted tine ‘information reaarding the REK ASsSassination,
[7105]but was indeed impressed by the Braden connection to the
[7106]1963 as salssination. Noyes writes that Judge Byrne never
[7107]heard anymore about it after he forwarded the jinformation
[7108]to the RFK inve stigators.
[7109]Later, “ttorney General John Nitchell slected |Byrne to
[7111]be Executhve Director for the Serantoen Conmilssion that
[7112]investigalted student unrest several years ad . Following:
[7113]his work rok the Scranton Commission, U.S. Attorney Byrne
[7114]was anpointed U.S. District Court Judae by vrdsident Nixon,
[7115]the position he held at the time of the Ellsberg trial.
[7117]BAT
[7119]a
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[7123]Jim Bras | vbere Ue Is tod
[7125]i
[7126]Immediately
[7127]Kennedy,
[7129]Bradina
[7130]an oil.
[7132]reportad
[7134]the
[7136]© month
[7138]charter men!
[7139]La Costa
[7140]1964
[7141]Baum
[7142]The company
[7143]after
[7144]ara lis s
[7145]sane
[7146]in two lot
[7148]year,
[7149]Noger
[7151]named
[7152]men
[7153]this
[7155]In 1965,
[7156]tle soot
[7157]which
[7158]parents
[7160]And it is
[7161]‘trail of
[7163]of its
[7165]The
[7169]of
[7171]and
[7174]oe
[7176]om
[7177]moO
[7179]es)
[7180]oO
[7182]fA
[7184]be
[7185]190
[7186]Dime an
[7188]O's,
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[7193]well
[7195]month
[7197]lie
[7199]The La Coé
[7200]10
[7201]the more
[7203]most {
[7204]of HMevor
[7205]been the
[7207]ct
[7209]|
[7211]la
[7214]Le
[7216]i
[7218]“Bo
[7220]in
[7222]J
[7224]r
[7225]ron
[7226](
[7227]mn
[7229]re)
[7230]2
[7239]3
[7243].
[7245]0
[7247]a ee a a eee
[7249]ater,
[7251]f tt
[7252]Country
[7254]e
[7256]any jwas
[7262]at
[7264]a
[7266]t
[7268]o
[7270]a)
[7272]9.0.
[7276]BRage ag'
[7278]¥ following the ass
[7279]Bugene Brading (Jim: Braden)
[7280]his personal finances,
[7282]t
[7283]Ji
[7284]He
[7287]périod
[7288]S|
[7290]L
[7291]f
[7293]Wed
[7295]“Charter members
[7297]had
[7299]| '
[7300]' PG
[7301]: | = a
[7303]I
[7304]i
[7306]i] :
[7307]boy
[7308]ps
[7311]ination of
[7312]had an
[7317]Pp
[7320]Ca
[7322]sident
[7323]turn in
[7327]| re ,
[7329]er reported a larga increase in revenue from
[7330]he had an interest in back in Louisiana. He
[7332]fos larga increase in revenue from the well for
[7334]November 1963,
[7336]7
[7338]we i
[7342]in December of 1963,. Bradina became
[7344]a
[7346]of the exelusive (and very cxpensive)
[7347]Club in southern. California, | Jiater that
[7348]iBrading and his old sy friend — ‘
[7349]Wo established the "B And B'ca ttle Comnanw.
[7350]set ub in Chicago and was presumably
[7351]then, "B And 8B," though neither of ‘the two
[7352]ted corporate officers. It was }also| during
[7354]that Brading made substantial investment
[7356]1 Gables Florida. {tt
[7358]f A
[7359]1
[7361]. ro
[7362]finally terminated,
[7364]oar
[7366]a
[7368]2S
[7371]a
[7373]in Cora |
[7374]i i
[7375]3
[7377]‘Lengthy parole was
[7378]a new home near the La Costa Country Club
[7380]‘| joined, and he also boucht a house for his
[7381]fanta Barbara,
[7383]de
[7384]T
[7385]ia
[7387]the La Costa Country
[7388]Braden,
[7390]Club that the nysterious
[7391]or Lugene Hale Brading, finally ends.
[7392]io oO . oe hou,
[7393]a Country Club, which Pradina had ijoined as one
[7394]in January of 196 is one of
[7395]torious Hafia.propertias in the nation.
[7397]te
[7398]ia
[7400]werful force pehind La Costa is Hod “‘Dalitz, one
[7401]sky's Single closest associates. IHioe Dalitz had
[7402]ader of the early hayfield Road Gang in Cleveland,
[7404]re the founder of the actual Cleveland syndicate,
[7408]nost powe yful forces.in the national crime syndicate.
[7410]. hi |
[7412]been one of the Mafia's bigaa t investors in.
[7413]it had been Dalitz who had personally helped
[7415]‘in the late
[7417]re
[7418]4
[7420]and
[7421]MH
[7422]foverd Hughes empire in Las Vacas.
[7424]] his own holdings to Howard Mughes
[7427]HW 50955
[7429]19.
[7431]I
[7432]H
[7434], ae . |
[7435]The La Costa Country Club had become, under the
[7437]H
[7439]I
[7440]1,
[7443]f
[7445]'
[7447]i ‘
[7451]direction
[7453]of Noe Dalitz and lever Lansky, a key "yatering hole" of
[7454]the syndicate. La Costa was originally financed) through a
[7456]syndicate!
[7458]deal with Janes Hoffa of the Teamsters. One of
[7460]the Teamsters Union's billion dollar Pension Funds was used.
[7461]in the filhancina of the project. La Costa became what is.
[7463]known in
[7465]ithe Mafia as “open. territory" = meaning that no
[7467]Single Magia family controlled it. La Costa ‘Was, open to all.
[7469]. \ . ty
[7470]Intelligence authorities in southern Californ ia. have long
[7471]reqarded Ma Costa as a-nrime handout for the Mafia, Some
[7473]officials
[7475]have dubbed. it "Apalachin West."
[7477]|
[7479]i
[7480]i
[7481]'
[7483]‘The syndicate had originally Given Charter memberships in
[7484]t
[7486]La Costa
[7488]soften the_
[7489]were Frank) Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby
[7491]-O @ numbor of Hollvwood celebrities, so AS to
[7493]imaqe of the plush’ resort. Anon the members
[7494]|
[7498]Membors Of; President Nixon's inner circle also.became
[7501]Frequent gues
[7502]Way from +)
[7503]in 1969, 0
[7504]a
[7506]Chotiner
[7508]a5 La Costa, which is just tubnty Miles
[7509]an Clemente, Early in the Wixon Administration,
[7510]s Angeles Police ‘wera astonished to £ind _lurray
[7512]I.
[7515]o)
[7517]“pone of the President's closest confidante S, living
[7518]it un at Le
[7520]Costa while the President was in San Clemente.
[7523]In February of 1973, while President Nixon was cat San Clem-
[7525]ente, H.R
[7527]John Dean
[7529]«| Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Richard} Moore, and
[7531]lheld a series of meetings at La Costa:to discuss
[7533]“the Watergate conspiracy, which was then beqinning to
[7535]unravel,
[7537]John Dean |
[7539]hearings
[7540]at La
[7541]strategy
[7543]| cy
[7544]qave Joangthy testimony during the cryin Committee
[7545]yerding "the La Costa meetings." These meetinas
[7546]have since emerded as perhanrs the) mest crucial
[7547]phone involved in the alleqed cover-un of
[7549]i ‘ . °
[7550]atoraatel the Prosicent's closest aides. Dean testified
[7551]that the! “Costa meetings took place over a period of tivo
[7552]days, Pobtruary 19 = 12, 1973. Dean testified that the sessions
[7554]were heldt
[7556]tlaldeman,.
[7558]It has bet
[7560]saveral. v
[7561]one of th
[7563]Tt
[7565]According: E
[7566]Revada, and federal authorities, Brading is no
[7567]being thei
[7569]leyer Lansky). i
[7571]ki
[7573]Docld: 32423630 |
[7575]EES
[7577]i
[7578]a
[7581]ini a snecial “villa at La Costa that:was used by
[7583]j ra (oo. . . _ wide
[7584]an during this same period of time, WA] the last.
[7586]ears, that Eugene Prading (Jin Braden) has become
[7588]Ye most important Nafia operatives at
[7590]La Costa.
[7591]tol} numerous intelligence reports, £
[7593]m California,
[7594].Susvected of
[7595]nelrsonal courier for national crime syndicate boss
[7597]i i ‘
[7598]ir
[7600]i
[7601]i
[7603]fpoote 5 . oy ; ch
[7604]: |
[7606]Page 50 | 7
[7608]ae a ea,
[7610]| :
[7611].
[7612]'
[7613]|
[7615]The Nevada Ganiner Roard is continuing an investigation
[7616]into Braden 's alleged, role as syndicate courier for
[7617]“skinmed"iigam)ling revenue from Las Vegas. Investigator
[7618]Noyes was:ltold by several high government officials that
[7619]Jim Braden had indeed'theen identified as the personal
[7620]courier for Never Lansky, One official disclosed that
[7621]Braden was| suspected of taking over $72 million out of
[7622]the counthy for the syndicate. Another official said
[7623]that was a\ "low os timate,
[7625]Ae
[7628]wae .
[7629]In thea summer of re71 Braden came under renewed investi-
[7630]gation byiiCalifornia authorities following an} incident ato
[7631]|
[7632]La Costa.) od fe
[7633]r . an
[7634]A janitor Intl ia Cos Tha onencd Braden's aolf lotker to make
[7635]a routine), Inspection.) Out of the locker tumbled a bundle of
[7637]I
[7638]well ove S109, 000 inm:icash.
[7640]7
[7641]i ‘
[7642]|
[7644]Suthor Votias! vas inforned by one official that the bundle
[7646]had contained at least 5120,090 in cash, ane enother Cal-
[7647]ifornia pp tetat put | the! anount at closer to- 6200, 000.
[7649]; Vi i ch
[7651]During quéstionina reqar Ging the incident, © aden stated
[7653]r .
[7654]that he had received the! moncy from an oil transaction,
[7655]and that He had temporarily stored it in the lo¢ker. Later,
[7657]one of the officials vorking on that particular investiqation
[7658]ae LL
[7661]i
[7664]of Braden! tola Moves! that Braden had also been: qiven, the use
[7665]25 owned by Howard Hughes to fly Mafia gambling
[7667]fp Fevada and the country.
[7669]of two
[7671]orn a
[7672]_ i}: : . - .
[7673]At pra sent), Nugene Brading, alias Jim Braden,; is still
[7675]aD ‘ ' :
[7677]operating! out of La Costa,
[7679]I |
[7681]A :
[7683]af ey i
[7685]4 | a | : po ,
[7687]: ! . . _ Michael Ewing
[7688]rn Sen. Hughes otfice
[7689]: a 7 Tune; 1774
[7691]a J i
[7692]H . :
[7695]: | \ 1
[7696]HW 50955 DoeTd:39493630 (Page 51 :
[7699]|
[7701]| | . i
[7702]| ; H
[7703]he a
[7704]CE TRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY -
[7705]; WasHiNeTon,D.C. 20505
[7707]ok 30 March 1976
[7708]1, .
[7711]Mr. Frank Sturgis
[7713]2515 NW. 122nd Street
[7714]Miami, FL 33167 ';
[7715]day
[7717]Dear Mr. Sturgis:
[7719]. i | | | a
[7721]We have received your request under the. Freedom of Infor-
[7723]mation Act for information pertaining to you. This is to advise
[7724]you that as of 27, September 1975 the ‘Privacy Act of 1974 took
[7725]effect. This act and pertinent CIA regulations established ~
[7727]- requirements andi procedures for access by individuals to infor-
[7728]mation pertaining to them. CIA Regulations were published |
[7729]-in the Federal Register on 28 August 1975 and may be found in
[7731]Title 32 C.F.R./ 1901.
[7732]4
[7734]an
[7736]|
[7737]|
[7738]if
[7739]'
[7740]|
[7741]|
[7742]|
[7744]_ the d |e a
[7746]Since the Privacy Act requires federal agencies to ensure
[7748]‘ that improper disclosure of personally identifiable information ~
[7749]will not be made| and further provides criminal penalties. for
[7751]improper disclosure, CIA Privacy Regulations, section 1901.13, -
[7752]sets forth the following requirements for jdentification of
[7754]individuals making! requests.
[7755]. ali |
[7757]An individual seeking access to or notification of
[7758]the existence) of records about himself shall provide in the
[7759]letter of request his full name, address, date and place of
[7760]birth together with a notarized statement swearing to or
[7761]affirming (his identity!...If such individual is an alien
[7762]lawfully admitted for permanent residence, his or her
[7763]alien registration number must be also provided.
[7767]Before we'llay begin processing your request, we must receive
[7768]from you a notarized statement as explained above. The. statement
[7769]should verify that you are a U.S. citizen or an alien! admitted for
[7770]permanent residence. It is! also requested that you provide any
[7771]additional information concerning yourself which might facilitate
[7772]our search of records. Unless you identify specific records you
[7773]may be looking. ‘for, we will conduct a search of all Agency records
[7774]that might contain information that pertains to you. |.
[7775]: thy - 4
[7777]iF gencerely,
[7778]" a
[7779]io "
[7781]|
[7782]eg
[7784]yo! “| Gene
[7785],. Information and Privacy Coordinator
[7790]cence ee on ae cee re erent te teen ceed an
[7792]wee eee geo
[7793]i
[7795]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 52
[7800]! i ' . ki
[7801]ite 2515 N..122nd Street 1 |
[7802]if Fy ant, Florida 33167
[7804]lr, Gene ‘ilson
[7805]Information and Brivacy Coordinator
[7806]Central Intellinence! Agency ;
[7807]Vashington, D.C. 210505
[7808]Me i
[7809]1 *
[7810]pi | Re: Pre-freedom of information request
[7811]Tyr notice of charges :
[7812]Dear Mre Tilson: “|
[7814]4 of |
[7815]ni
[7819]i
[7821]Before exercising my right to a freedom of {information request for copies
[7822]of any and all available ( in accordanéa with the declassification processes
[7823]stipulated in Zxecutive Order 11652 and its amendment of January 1974 } files
[7824]of recards and documents, beth lcomputerized and manual apposite of me and my
[7825]activities under my, present and former names and pseudonyms, L hereby request
[7827]the complete and! final estimate of charges for search and duplication services.
[7829]t
[7831]i '
[7832]As regards |the ‘charges for these services, tvo matters may be worthy of
[7833]consideration. The |first of then is that, given the proper access codes, the
[7835]execution of a Computer search'is neither difficult nor costly. And the second
[7836]is that in light, of |the controversial nature of my past, a waiver or reduction
[7838]of charses may conduce to the furtherance of the public interest. I therefore
[7839]respectfully re equest that these factors be considered in the making of a decision.
[7841]as to the cost of services.
[7843]i ' I al
[7844]In com pliance with your request for identity verification ( pursuant to
[7845]provisions of the 1974 © Privacy) Act, section 552, subsections band d)I
[7846]hereby swear before a notary public as to my name and former names, my present
[7847]eddress, my date as well as Dlace of birth, and my citizenship. Thanking you
[7848]for your cooperation, T am | am
[7849]- on ae 4 no
[7850]i t fo ‘ours truly,
[7851]STATE OF FLORIDA a. Gab S
[7852]COUNTY OF DADE : ; Frank Sturgis
[7853]Hl I : | vf
[7854]Before me personally appeared ; Belceae? Frank Angelo Fiorine
[7855]Frank Sturgis |co me welt /known and Frank Angelo Fiorini
[7856]known to me to ‘be the person de- , Frank AeFLorinti
[7857]: who executed the fore- _. Fran's Anthony Sturgis
[7859]scribed in and iw ee ante ;
[7862]going instrument for the! purposes Pant “Stureie
[7864]‘therein expressed. | s
[7866]on Frank Bonnelli
[7867]me | — ‘Frank Campbell
[7868]witness my jpand and official seal code named tederini
[7869]| ar 3 ¥
[7870]this 19th day of May, A D 1976. . me Barbarossa
[7871]Yi Vedas A) ny } | ai Samson
[7873]2
[7874]Notary: Worary PLY i State of Florida boon 9 December 1924
[7875]cat Large Wd ; in Norfolk, Vae
[7876]LARGE uy
[7877]My” CHS UST feu ou 1978 United States of American citizen-
[7878]BONDED [THRU GENERAL INSURANCE UNDERWRITERS . ship
[7880]de
[7882]HWY 50955 Docld:32423630| Page 53
[7884]CRONOLOSIC.L 3 1 OF RESIDINCES “I/D ELDPLOYIGNTS OF: Frank Sturgis
[7886]Wg ; 2515 UW.122nd Street
[7887]yee Miami, Florida 33167
[7889]ant .
[7890]5 - also ‘“morm as: Frank Anthony Sturgis is
[7892]: Frank A. Sturgis
[7893]i Frank Angelo Fiorini
[7894]I} fe ; : ; Frank A. Fiorini
[7895]ye ‘Frank.Fiorini |
[7896]7 , Frank Angelo Fiorino
[7897]al ‘ga cena cveseccesesesesecees 00OTl in Norfolk, Vee :
[7898]ascccccccccccscscscccsnssceresided at 510 High Street ? Germantown,
[7899]. Philadelphia, Pas
[7900]L9L2=1945 .ececesiseiceowcrecccccesacesscensne ele S.Marine Corps Reserve
[7901]ie (Paris Ig., $eCo} Pacific theatre)
[7902]DLS oc nnccccccccecisuvcccccececccscsscccsssssnonorable discharge ~Klamouth Falla, Ores
[7903]L945 cwccccecncecencocscsasccncccocssovsvocsoiiami, Florida ;
[7904]Cal 9G5-1L9L3 oa ceddccvccccevccccccccccccevesesiiorfoik, Va. .adrsi Bank Ste, etc.
[7905]joined Norfolk Police Dept.
[7906]attended ‘illiam and Mary College
[7907]also attended Virginia: Polytechnic Institute
[7908]on c.1946-employed as manager of the Virginia
[7909]- Tavern on East Main Street
[7910]a (¢.1949-employed as owner and manager of ;
[7911]ion The Whitehorse Tavern on East Hain Street
[7912]Co1948. one sesetrenscceccverececeeenseeresseenlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve
[7913]‘ RR at the Norfolk Naval Air Station
[7914]Cole cencncecdnbseccccevcccvcccccssccccscetonorable discharge
[7915]Co19L9-1 ISD ceva tpaeceneveserecsecereerescee sleds Merchant Marine travelling to and fram
[7916]. i Europe
[7917]Co 1950-1950 re edsliescaccecscscececsceecececUeSe Army = stationed in Germany
[7918]Ce 1952 we ceccce oreeeccsereccseversrecesesnonorable discharge
[7919]Ce 1952-1954... ovwner-menager of Tophat Nightelub in
[7920]Virginia, Beach, Va. ,
[7921]Co 1956-19¢LssshbesececeeceeeseeseseceeeeeesCubaCStersa Maestra); Miami, Florida;
[7922]Mexico} Venezuela; Costa Rica; Guatemala;
[7923]Panama; Honduras; Bahama Ise
[7924]1958: contact with CIA at US Consulate-
[7925]; Z Santiago, Cuba.
[7926]mine 1959: contact with CIA at US Egbassy~
[7927]Havana Cuba
[7928]1959: contact with FBI HQ - Washington,DC
[7929]1961:-1970: Bay of Pigs
[7930]; CLA control officer Sam Jenis
[7932]4, Dees Jee
[7934]192
[7935]1930 1942 wc wens
[7937]ase Beat
[7940]| HW 40955 Docld: 32423630 | Page 54
[7942],
[7945]: i
[7946]Pye
[7948]CHRONOLOGICAL sie - cont'd
[7950]mn
[7951]Hee
[7955]L9S3 cecccccssscedobdasscesseceetravel and business (operation sword) Mexico and
[7956]| Honduras
[7957]195-1972 eeesceeeeesececeseese omechanic and salesman for the Pan-American; Aluminum Corpe
[7958]; 185th St., Miami, Florida
[7960]June 17, 1972 seeveccccecccvceseadventure: Yatergate Office Building
[7962]June-July 1972eciseccccccoceeeemoved to lashington, D.C. jail
[7964]January 8, 1973.4 ecvvocesvesenatergate trial: O.Sevs:G..Gerdon Liddy et al.
[7966]anvary 15, 1973 ssseeeeccsseeeplea of guilty entered
[7967]celiay 1973 cccccevcccvevccevees moved to Federal ?rison Inst. in Danbury, Conn.
[7968]i! then moved to Eglin Air Force Base
[7969]ae Exence moved to Dade County Jail
[7971]January. 19 Th sconnlesecsceccccesreleased on appeal bond
[7973]19h veeccccceccrbebevccevecsessalesman for Heavy Equipment Company, Miami, Florida
[7974]1974-1975 wo ncscndveevcecosccccesalesmanager for Dodge Is. Repairs, tami, Florida
[7975]1975. cecwcccccoccwsscccecvcecceeSalesmanager for Continental Egg Corpe, Miami, Florida
[7976]1974019 73e.ccscechhieeseeececeesalesmanager for ifiami Book Efg. Company
[7978]yf 4460 Mw137th Aveaue
[7980]ie tiami, Florida
[7984]decovceevveeecontact with FBI and CIA 1
[7985]be
[7986]if
[7989]Frsck Sturgis
[7991]1
[7992]re
[7993]4
[7995]STATE OF PLORIDA
[7996]COUNTY OF DADE
[7998]Before me personally appeared Frank Sturgis to me well known
[7999]and known to me |
[8000]the foregoing
[8002]Witness my ha
[8003]1976.
[8005]=F nae
[8007]i
[8009], ‘Notary Publid,|/State of Florida
[8010]. at Large 7
[8013]- MY CS
[8015]a Su
[8016]My commission expires BONDED THau RANGE UNDERWRITERS
[8018]ha
[8023]|
[8025]|
[8027]4
[8029]BY 50955 Docld: 32423630 | Raye 55
[8031]f
[8033]7
[8034]|
[8036]Mr. Frank Sturgis
[8037]2515 N.W.
[8038]Miami, FL 33167
[8039], 7
[8040]Dear Mr. Sturgis:
[8042]This ackndwledges receipt of your letter, dated 7 May,
[8043]requesting access under the Privacy Act for information
[8045]pertaining to you.
[8047]Act requests. !
[8049]We are therefore processing your request: and will provide”
[8051]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[8053]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
[8055]96 MAY 1976
[8057]122nd Street
[8059]There. is no charge for processing
[8061]you with the results under the Privacy Act as soon as
[8063]Sincerely,
[8065]Anes
[8067]Gene F. Wilson
[8069]Information and Privacy Coordinator |
[8071]Privacy.
[8073]possible...
[8076]‘' OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
[8079]'
[8080]t
[8082]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION —
[8084]WASH INGTON, Dc. 20535
[8086]1
[8089]a .
[8091]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[8092]f
[8093]i . .
[8094]: April 12, 1976
[8097]7
[8098]Mr. Frank Sturgis
[8099]2515 Northwest 122nd Street
[8101]Miami, Florida 33167
[8103]Dear Mr. sturgis: — fo
[8104]anil is to acknowledge. receipt by the FBI! on
[8105]March 23, 1976, of your Freedom of Information-Privacy
[8106]Acts (FOIPA) request dated March 13, 1976.
[8108]Based on the limited information you provided, -
[8109]it is not possible to make an accurate search of our
[8110]records. To insure an accurate search of our records,
[8111]please furnish your complete name, date and place of
[8112]birth, prior addresses, employments and any specific data
[8114]that would permit us to locate the documents you seek.
[8116]An exceedingly heavy volume of FOIPA requests
[8117]has been received these past few months. Additionally,
[8118]court deadlines involving certain historical cases’ -
[8119]considerablie scope have been imposed upon the FBI.|’ rbespite
[8120]successive jexpansions of our staff responsible for) FOIPA
[8121]matters, substantial delays in processing requests| continue.
[8123]‘Since January 1, 1975, the FBI has received
[8125]a total of 17, 204 FOIPA requests. Of these, our ‘present
[8126]backlog is 6, 782. In an effort to deal fairly with. any
[8127]request requiring the retrieval, processing and duplication .
[8128]of documents,, each request is being handled in chronological
[8129]order based on the date of receipt. Please be assured
[8131]that your request is being handled as equitably as! possible
[8132]and that all documents which can be released will be made
[8133]available at the earliest possible date.
[8136]Mr. Frank Sturgis
[8137]I
[8139]wee ‘
[8141]ments which. may pertain to you, it will be
[8142]you to submit your notarized signature.
[8144]is designed
[8145]individual ts: released only to that person.
[8147]i : “t :
[8148]| Sincerely yours,
[8150]i
[8151]f
[8152]|
[8153]i
[8154]4
[8156]Hl
[8158]i
[8160]Poy Clarence M. Kelley
[8161]Pe Director
[8163]a
[8165]Prior to the processing or release of any) }docu-
[8167]necessary, for
[8169]‘This procedure
[8170][to insure that information concerning an.
[8172]io
[8173]|
[8174]your patience and cooperation will be appreciated.
[8175]|
[8176]i
[8179]i
[8181]neta H t
[8183]or | | ae
[8184]i |  FRANK.STURGIS {il =
[8186]; | 2515 NW. 122 STREET fh
[8188]L MIAMI, FLORIDA 33167. |!
[8190]i
[8191]oo . : !
[8193]May 3, 1976: . . Ih
[8194]i
[8196]The Honorable ‘Clarence M. ‘Kelley, Director |
[8197]Office of. the Director , r
[8198]Federal Bureau of Investigation 7 i
[8199]Washington, D. Cc. ; - aa
[8201]RE: Freedom of Information Request ; a
[8202]oo _ he
[8203]Dear Mr. Kelley: . a
[8205]a
[8206]Ee
[8208]Thank you for your recent letter in which you requested 1 more i
[8209]specific information to help in the search, collection and
[8210]duplication) of records indicated in my recent freedom of infor-
[8211]mation request. I am sending a chronological sketch of my
[8212]residences jand employments prefaced by a list. of names under which :
[8213]I have been| known. I hope this profile will aid the. Bureau in-its .
[8214]search for my wecords. Notarization of this letter and the ‘Sketch:
[8215]will attest to the verification of my identity. He .
[8217]Considering. the voluminous ‘quantity of material that may: have
[8218]to be read jand screened, I would be pleased in the; ,interest of”
[8219]fairness to afford the Justice Department whatever: reasonable.
[8220]. extension of time is needed to comply with my freedom of infor~.
[8221]mation request. ; i ”
[8223]i oo
[8225]Thank you for.your kind cooperation.
[8227]STATE OF FLORIDA [i
[8228]COUNTY OF DADE: ~ ft
[8230]‘Very truly yours,
[8232]y} “ , Before me personally appeared FRANK STURGE!
[8233]: be thi 7 to me well known and known to me. to be the
[8234]Ane ae _ + “ person described in and who executed the:
[8236]foregoing instrument for the purposes ther
[8237]in expressed. i 8
[8238]; th
[8240], WITNESS my hand and official seal. this
[8241]_ 6th day of May, A.D.,||1976. ve
[8242]: fog . . We
[8243]q
[8245]Frank Sturgis
[8246]Encl/
[8247]FS:s . We
[8249]Notary Publia™
[8251]‘y _ State’ of.Plorida at- agen 5 PUBLIC STATE OF FLORIDA AT LARGE
[8252]. m, oe HIUMY COMMISS:ON ExPi2=S AUGUST 92 1978-02
[8253]1 3 My commission expi reg ipNer THRU GENERAL INSURANCE UNDERWRITER:
[8256]°,
[8258]ripe ft a. ~ oe
[8261]| 4 '
[8262]ra | (
[8263]27 ay. 4 it
[8264]“ t | : } : i
[8265]tpt HY
[8266]i on Post i
[8267]a co Sp
[8268]» 1976 4
[8269]: 77
[8270]i: . ‘i :
[8272]Ye :
[8273]. _ i,
[8274]Reputed Crime. Chief | if
[8275]-. Accused of Extortion: '
[8276]: q
[8277]Th Collecting: a Debt :
[8278]. i Associated Presa “ a , ;
[8279]. _ Russell Bufalino, a reputed organ.» F
[8280]oo . ized crime leader, has been indicted + ha
[8281]mri : on federal charges of conspiracy and © ia
[8282]: : ; ny “extortion for using threats of violence =. Al
[8283]sgh : in trying to collect a debt, the Justice : 4
[8284]yt - Department, announced yesterday, 8 |
[8285]“y “Bufalino and three other men were: it
[8286]ny} | “named defendants in a sealed indict. ie
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[8288]a in New York City. ‘Tuesday and une. |
[8289]if ‘ sealed yesterday. - cod l
[8290]at a Bufalino, 71, of . Kingston, Pa, “was if
[8291]| , identified by federal officials in 1973 | ly
[8292]' ’ as the head.of one of five Cosa Nostr i ‘
[8293]. i , families operating. in" -Pennsylvania i
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[8296]he : _ Bufalino to Si¢ily, saying he was born ° il
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[8317]Attorney General
[8319]United States,
[8320]Department of Jus
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[8326]Dear Attorney General Levi;
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[8351]HL Levi.
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[8391]Fidel. Castro...
[8393]alrman
[8395]6, 1976
[8397]IN: REPLY PLEAS
[8398]_ REFER 10 |
[8400]Ag:
[8402]thie review of. testimony... eo.
[8403]to all ¥BI materials relating to
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[8406]pee staff and your repr
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[8410]| Sppreciate your assistance.
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[8602]LIEBENGOOD ‘ROUTH | NOTES FROM U. S. V. VECIANA, ET: AL
[8603]DATE: December 1, 1976 .
[8605]Veciana was represented by Barry L. Garber, '1040 City National
[8606]Bank Building, 25 West Flagler Street, Miami, Florida 33130
[8607](305-377-4963)
[8609]‘Veciana became implicated as the result ofia drug bust
[8610]of one Augustine Barres, a/k/a/ Emidigio Augustine Barres Fangul
[8611]("Gus Barres"). The bust resulted from an search warrant of
[8612]23 July 73 for Barres' attache case at the Taft) Hotel in New
[8613]York. The police were acting on an informant tip to an under-
[8614]cover agent who arranged for a buy from Barres of seven kilograms
[8615]of Cocaine at the Taft. The police understood that Barres was to
[8616]be with a "female" courier. Barres advised DEA task force re-
[8617]presentative, Eugene W. Flynn, a detective sgt. with the NYPD,
[8618]that he purchased the seven kilos from Antonio Veciana in Miami
[8619]on July 21, 1973. i
[8621]|
[8622]Barres owns a4 home in Puerto Rico and travels to New York
[8624]every two weeks on business.
[8626]A co-defendant of Veciana's in the case was Ariel Pomares
[8627]who is the President of Occidental Investment, a real estate
[8628]firm owned by Barres, located at 1186 J. T. Pinero Avenue,
[8629]Miami. Pomares is also involved with FRECA Imports in Puerto
[8631]. . ° * i
[8632]Rico. This .is also a Barres enterprise.
[8634]The DEA Miami regional office cables that Veciana is the
[8635]subject of INS File No. A12-490987 and that he claims to be a
[8636]public accountant. i
[8638]According to the Miami Herald of July 25, 1973, Barres was
[8639]Assistant Secretary of Communications under Castro and later the
[8640]general manager of the Havana Health Department. He fled Cuba
[8641]in 1961 for asylum in’ Puerto Rico. He became aliUnited States
[8643]citizen in 1970.
[8645]A cable from Ivan Wurms, the Chief Investigator of the DEA
[8646]Task Force to Durkin at DEA headquarters, Washington, states that
[8647]Veciana was arrested without incident on 7/24/73 and signed a
[8648]"consent to search" form. Miscellaneous papers/and numerous
[8650]HW 50955 Docld:32423630. Page 70 .
[8652]| -2-
[8654].
[8657]Liebengood Rough Noetes from U. S. v. Veciana, et al con't.
[8659]‘foreign passports belonging to several subjects were seized.
[8660]Swiss bank account deposit slips were seized and are to be
[8661]followed by IRS. Veciana claims to be an anti- -Castro fund
[8662]raiser. FBI confirms | this.
[8663]; |
[8664]A July, 1973 TWIX from DEA in New York to DEA headquarters
[8665]Washington (attention: Daniel P. Casey, Acting Chief) referenced
[8666]as subject: G1-73-xX093 (presumably Veciana) and| states "during
[8667]debriefing of the defendant in New York on July 25, 1973, it was
[8668]learned that Antonio Carlos Veciana, 811 North Southwest 30th
[8669]Court, Miami is a member of an anti-Castro group: which he has_
[8670]stated intends to blow up a number of Cuban properties and/or
[8671]embassies in foreign nations, i.e., Spain, Mexico, Peru and France.
[8672]Bombings priginally scheduled for july now delayed until August.’
[8674]Subpoena of August 14, 1973 exists for a telegram billed to
[8675]Veciana at 649-1226 and sent to Barcelona, _ Spain on 5/26/73.
[8677]Barres implicates a Paraguyan diplomat formerly assigned
[8678]to LaPaz, Bolivia and reassigned to Spain in the drug traffic.
[8679]DEA is discretely checking his identity. A follow-up cable
[8680]from DEA indicates that they have failed to identify the Paraguyan
[8681]diplomat sent to Spain but do indicate that a Pedro P. Medina,
[8682]a Paraguyan assigned to LaPaz, is believed to be involved in
[8683]Cocaine smuggling. i
[8685]Barres admitted that he was responsible for bringing Pomares,
[8686]an employee of his, “REO illegal drug activity.
[8688]Veci Lana’ ' claimed to be without funds and destitute and was
[8689]not fineg. The U. S. Attorney was concerned that he posted a
[8690]$100,000 baillimmediately. However, after initial concern being
[8691]shown in the file by the U. S. Attorney, the U. |S. Attorney later
[8692]writes the Judge that: $80,000 of the $100,000 bond was furnished
[8693]by Veciana's cousin, Dr. Pfeblo Zalduendo, a phyéian from Detroit,
[8694]Michigan. The remainder of the bail money was ‘furnished by Veciana's
[8695]uncle and other family members and friends who cashed insurance
[8696]policies, closed children's savings accounts, ete. U. S. Attorney
[8697]concluded that Veciana was possibly telling the| truth when he advised
[8698]the Court that he was destitute. ;
[8699]i : . au ;
[8700]One ‘Hosea Lopez is a character reference for Barres on
[8701]appeal.
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[8707]Liebengood Rough Notes from U. S. v. Veciana, et al, con't.
[8709]'
[8712]Barres says he requested the government to give immunity to
[8714]Veciana in order to destroy the traffic of Cocaine from Bolivia.
[8716]Barres studied at Columbia Military Academy, in Columbia,
[8717]Tennessee /in 1951. .
[8719]|
[8721]A taped transcript of Barres' debriefing by, detectives
[8722]Flynn and/Scamardella on July 25, 1973 reveals the following:
[8723]Barres got involved in drugs through his friend:/Veciana who was
[8724]an officer of the International Development Bank in the U.S.
[8725]Embassy in Bolivia. Some people think Veciana is with the CIA
[8726]but Barres does not know. Barres dealt with Veciana regarding
[8727]an attempt to kill Castro in Chile. He says Vediana did a good
[8728]job of transferring everything into Chile (197031971). Barres
[8729]gave Veciana $2,000 in support of this assassination effort.
[8730]About this time Veciana said that drugs could.be smuggled out of
[8731]Bolivia through diplomatic pouch. Barres thought this was how
[8732]Veciana had sent weapons into Chile. Barres advised that the head
[8733]of Interpol in Bolivia gets a cut of drug money! for protection on
[8734]the Bolivian end and that a Secret Service Agent and two Paraguyan
[8735]diplomats; were also involved. They handled the! transfer to
[8737]Veciana in Miami Beach of the drugs from Bolivia.
[8739]|
[8741]Barres thought that the individual he was selling the drugs
[8743]to in New York was a mafia type. It appears this is the indi-
[8745]vidual who informed the police. _He is known only as Tony in the
[8747]transcript. The police were aware of his identity but did not
[8749]desire Barres to discuss it.
[8750]‘ t
[8752]Pomares' counsel, Gustavo Del Toro, urged the DEA in San
[8754]Juan at the,time of the arrest of Pomares to consider immunity
[8756]for Pomares, because Pomares possessed valuable jinformation re-
[8758]garding international narcotic trafficting, including the impli-
[8759]cation of diplomats in places such as Bolivia, Paraguay and
[8761]Nicaragua. ; , 4
[8765]The |file contains cancelled Veciana checks drawn on the
[8766]account of Antonio Sira Veciana at the Fidelity, National Bank,
[8768]5880 Byrd Road, Miami, Florida,.in May and June, 1972, for $1,000
[8770]each, payable to the. Swiss Bank Corporation fox account EF558230. .
[8772]These checks were obtained through subpoena on /Catherine Hune,
[8774]' Vice President and Cashier of the Fidelity Natiional Bank in Miami.
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[8780]Liebengood| Rough Notes on U. S. v. Veciana, etal, con't.
[8782]In Veciana's appellate brief he references transfers of
[8784]drugs through the
[8786]government's "APO System". Hejindicates that
[8788]the first transaction he was involved in took place in April,
[8790]1972.
[8792]Also
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[8800]involved is someone known as "the midget". |
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[8806]TE i BO p*
[8807]MEMORANDUM'TO: File 7
[8809]RE: Antonio Veciana
[8811]FROM: Tom Moore , i]
[8813]DATE: Jan. 3, 1977
[8814]Py . . it
[8815]Telephoned Veciana to ask if he recalled any attempts on
[8817]g
[8818]i
[8820]his life in late 1962 or 1963. He answered that,
[8821]three attempts on his life, but none in 1962 or 1963. The
[8823]there were
[8825]first attempt, he sald, occurred in a stadium tn Puerto
[8827]‘Rico in 1967 when a bomb exploded approximately 26 meters
[8829]away. He said he believed Puerto Rican communist!s were
[8831]responsible for this attempt. The second attempt occurred
[8833]‘in Bolivia “in approximately 1970 when some men with weapons
[8835]appeared at a home where he was supposed to be. He said a
[8837]woman who owned the home called him to warn hinm.| He said
[8840]4
[8842]he thought this attempt was related to a revolution which...
[8844]was taking place at that time. The third attemptl, he said,
[8845]occurred in Caracas, Venezuela in 1971. He addedl that he had
[8846]received information within the past three months that Castro
[8848]wanted to kidnap him, 7 i
[8850]The only relevant incident in late 1962 or 1963 was that
[8851]an Isobel Zarate began ‘making inquiries about hil An Miami. He -
[8852]said many. people in- the Cuban community informed |the FBI she
[8853]Lh
[8855]was a Castro spy and’ that she Subsequent ly escaped to Cuba via
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[8941]Carry-over from Church report
[8943]A. Relationship between agencies and Warren Commission
[8945]L. Warren Comm. staff has never been interviewed in
[8946]depth. Many have not been interviewed at all. The
[8947]Commission had. particular staff assigned to (a) Cuba
[8948]and (b) organized crime. They, especially, should be
[8949]fully debriefed about everything that happened in their
[8950]contacts with the agencies, their frustrations, unful-'
[8951]filled leads, inability to get access, questionmarks,
[8952]and what they knew, heard, or suspected about contacts
[8953]"at high-level bewween Commission members and top’ agency —
[8954]officials. This would include leads to additional
[8955]documents, memoranda and people, and is especially
[8956]important in the time-frame just before the Commission
[8957]issued its report, i.e. as final drafts being written,
[8958]when staff learned for the first time about Castro's
[8959]threat. (Willens, staff director, said there were staff
[8960]pushing hard to re-open this subject, but pressure of
[8961]setting the report out prevailed.)
[8963]2. Look for all other memoranda of contacts between
[8964]McCone and CIA re how to structure questions, etc.
[8966]3.: We now know, that Ruby was contacted svereal times
[8968]by: FBI to inform on AXGARLZBAXEKIMBXLRXMALLARXAREAX
[8970]A" criminal element” in Dallas area. All we've seen
[8971]is the cummary memo in which Wargfen Commission was
[8973]so’ informed. Get each memorandum of contact between
[8975]FBI agents and. Ruby, i.e. underlying materials which
[8976]"support" the summary memo.
[8978]B. The inter- -agency committee which met to develop
[8980]continegney plans” in the wake of Castro's threat.
[8982]1. Numerous documents were sought from FBI, CIA,
[8983]Defense, State, etc., but never received by Church
[8984]Committee before our final report was issued. Must
[8985]follow-through , and then go deeper into it.
[8987]2. What else was known besides Castro's retaliation
[8988]threat? What facts went into the assessment that
[8989]Castro might retaliate against U.S. leaders in Latin
[8990]America, but not U.S. leaders in the U.S.'? Precisely
[8991]what accounted: for the/# original inclusion of
[8992]a concern about retaliation in the U.S., but the sub-
[8993]sequent deletion of that prospect? Who was responsible
[8994]for the deletion, and what impact, if any, did that
[8995]have on the later ¢f withholding of info ‘from . the
[8996]Warren Commission and on the agencies’ failure to
[8997]investigate retaliation?
[8998]3. We! must find out exactly who was on this Committee
[8999]at each meeting, get all back-up materials, and interview.
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[9021]C. FBI jinvolvement. ing Bay of Pigs, Lansdale planning, etc.
[9022]ia
[9023]l. As Church report was being completed ; we were just
[9024]beginning to Learn about how deeply the FBI was apparently
[9025]involved in U.S. anti-Castro action. Possibility
[9026]here that #KXé this could provide another clue in re
[9027]‘PBI! S original reluctance to investigate retaliation
[9028]moré/ fully. For instance we now know that FBI had
[9029]learned about | CIA' s interest in using organized
[9030]critie to kill) Castro long before RFK toldxHaspyx
[9031]Hoover about it (Hoover had professed surprise in
[9032]1963f, but there's some indication he may have already
[9033]known) . One FBI witness even told us that a high FBI
[9034]official A had! even proposed the plot idea "in jest".
[9035]At la} minimum, 'the paper record shows FBI wasxmentaered
[9036]kexpxouxdex@ubanxinketix informed about idea of using
[9037]org). |crime figures to provide Cuban intelligence and
[9038]that, according to the paper record, FBI recommended
[9039]against it. Trafficante has now claimed that FBI agents
[9040]came;to him seeking Cuban intellignce. This must be
[9041]followed up, agents interviewed, and FBI memo's,etc.,
[9042]examined. a
[9046]|
[9047]‘D. CIA files |
[9049]I always had the impression that Jim Johnston felt
[9050]there were more CIA documents which he hadn't seen.
[9051]We mist go over the itmes, one by one, with Johnston,
[9052]to find out just ‘where we stand on the question of
[9053]—_ whether or ¢ not. weve seen everything. Do any of us
[9054]¥ really fully understand the entire CIA filing system
[9055]so as to know whether we'vey been shown everything, or.
[9056]indeed , whether they have even Ag g-ne looking for
[9057], everything.? ‘And how about the field office files,
[9058]i.el| IMWAVE files in Miami, New Orleans and Mexico.
[9059]Céty'|files, DC: local CIA station files, and FBI field
[9060]office files?
[9064]II, Rossel iorganized) crine-Teatficante-Cubs
[9068]A. Organized crime, ‘files
[9070]fe
[9072]1. A) full assessment of all travel, contacts, relation-
[9073]ships, etc. of | all major organized crime figures in
[9074]and! around the! time of the assassination of JFK. This
[9075]would include a review (with appropriate BxXSaxxxx
[9076]system for pritecting privacy interests) of all
[9077]microphone surveillance logs on organized crime figures
[9078]during key months in 1963, e.g. Fred Black. Trafficante,
[9080]BRSSR RE reap i rere err er rpms seme te some |
[9082]Rosselli, Giancana, Las Vegas EHELGHGS casinos, etc. oan
[9084](Rosselli waS “uxgyx very defensive in his testimony
[9085]about some - comment he says he made on the phone to —
[9086]someone upon first learning that JFK had been killed; |
[9088]|
[9090]he indicated that he had been “coming out of a deep
[9091]sleep and said:someting about communists did it." of
[9093]c arse he now, knows that that call may have been am tapped | .
[9095]and, is trying | to explain. No one had ever asked for
[9097]. !
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[9102]2. _ Ai|new analysis of all the long distance toll calls
[9103]of§ Jack Ruby in the dags around Nov. 22.
[9104]records show he made calls to Chicago 0.6. figure
[9105]Barney Baker, and Teamster heavy Dusty Miller, plus =
[9106]others. Does the explanation for these calls really
[9107]wash |: (i.e. Ruby ' s union troubles in re his nightclub).
[9108]Has| this whole si suybject been exhausted by Warren
[9109]Comm. or not. ITs there more (interviews, etc.) that
[9110]should be done here?
[9112]i
[9114]3. Someone should literally live in Miami area for
[9116]a month, immerse in the community, get to know the
[9117]whole scorecard, (maybe hire a local Spanish-speaking
[9118]cop with good local contacts). ¢@ More fully debrief
[9119]Trafficante for his version of events and people.
[9120]Follow up with icontacts with all the Cubans involved.
[9121]Has | ‘Miami pulled all the significant: toll records
[9123]for | ime around Rosselli's death (Cubans,
[9124]on Cc. ‘figures, garage owner, etc.) and followed up.
[9126]4. A full tracking of what happened when Church reports
[9128]were, released,| reactions, contacts, concerns, who
[9129]were ‘the key figures who actually got the reports and
[9130]whp" ‘did they speak to about the gekmkemex contents.
[9132]Review our own, mailing records, if exist, da showing who
[9133]Local n#=x news me@xx media for leads
[9135]asked for reports.
[9137]in re reactions’ of the community. Travel records of
[9138]G.C. and Cuban; leaders in and around that time,
[9139]as in and around time of Rosselli's death.
[9141], Tres Ltrea whe CSS oak terbnsy emu Tad
[9143]FA te
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[9145]Lan Veger casitee’s 4 his con taal
[9147]Combines, Liarven Comms, mot stey sty, emedeyy ite on
[9148]choy Sulsye a
[9150]Wire Ruby
[9152]Page 84
[9154]Warren Comm.
[9156]as well
[9158]Perr re rerten sa vee oy eee e
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[9162]i | ! | oF
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[9165]a |
[9167]; (" a
[9168]is '
[9169]MEMORANDUM |! ! _ ft “
[9170]NI | | | 1
[9171]ne : . i i
[9172]TO: “MIKE MADIGAN
[9173]| TOM MOORE —
[9174], BILL MILLER
[9176]FROM: | HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD
[9177]DATE: | DECEMBER 27, 1976
[9179]SUBJECT: MARITA LORENZ
[9181]: | .
[9183]. Ms. Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire
[9184]to come to Washington and tell us "all the things held back
[9185]on" in New York. Her | desire to cooperate has been engendered
[9186]by two events, i.e., Sturgis told the German press of her
[9187]FBI spying .on the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she
[9188]had a chance encountet with the Soviet on December 26 which
[9189]frightened her. She ¢laims to want her information in
[9191]i : : . .
[9192]responsible} hands as ‘goon as possible and requests we subpoena
[9194]Sab |
[9195]her (i.e. pay her way) here and make one night's accommodation
[9197]fe oa .
[9198]for her. | What do you|think? .I am to call her back on Monday,
[9201]January 3 at 212-534-2412. My personal opinion is that we
[9203]Loy
[9204]have little to lose if we have time to listen to her.
[9206]ye j 3
[9208]4 i ; i a
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[9226]MIKE MADIGAN
[9227]TOM MOORE
[9228]BILLL MILLER! '
[9230]TO:
[9234]_ ‘FROM: HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD a
[9235]DATE: © DECEMBER 27, 1976 ,
[9236]SUBJECT: | MARITA LORENZ 7
[9237]an | |
[9238]Ms. Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire
[9239]to come Id ‘Washington and tell us "all the things held back
[9240]4 .
[9242]th i ‘{
[9243]on" in New York. Her desire to cooperate has Been engendered
[9245]by two events, i.e., Sturgis told the German press of her
[9247]FBI spying’ on the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she
[9248]‘|
[9250]had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which
[9252]-
[9253]frightened her. She claims to want her information in
[9255]responsible hands as soon as possible and requésts we subpoena
[9257]her (i.e! pay her way) here and make one night” is accommodation
[9259]for her. | What do you/think? I am to call her’ back on Monday,
[9261]January 3] at -212-534- 2412. My personal - opinion is that we
[9263]a ‘i.
[9264]have littile) to lose if we have time to listen to her.
[9265]= i,
[9267]al et
[9269]Howar | I have no objections @& to her coming down, but
[9270]would. be personally hesitant jto invest any more of my own time unless
[9271]she im can provide at least ia specific adjenda of new! information she
[9272]will discuss. |
[9274]One possible tactile is to tell her that we are extremely
[9275]pressed for time) and cannot subpena her until late February unless she
[9276]give us specific] areas that would allow us to show "our superiors"
[9277]that api tobe her should be given a hekm higher pra priority jt, OVEN
[9278]other c ee business. aaa i
[9280]ton) fo
[9282]it
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[9307]- MEMORANDUM |
[9309]pis
[9310]Ws
[9311]J
[9313]TO: MIKE MADIGAN
[9314]| TOM MOORE
[9316]BILL MILLER!
[9318]FROM: t HOWARD S, LIEBENGOOD t
[9319]DATE: | DECEMBER 27, 1976
[9320]SUBJECT: | NARITA LORENZ
[9322]ws. Lokene called this afternoon to expres
[9323]to come to Washington and tell us "all the thin
[9324]on" in New W tort. Her | desire to cooperate has b
[9326]by two events,
[9328]FBI spying on the head of the Soviet U.N. Missi’
[9330]i.e., Sturgis ‘told the German Pr
[9332]CN
[9333]“2
[9338]“4
[9340]|
[9342]|
[9344]8 her desire
[9345]ks held back
[9346]een engendered
[9348]ess of her
[9350]jen and she
[9352]had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which
[9354]frightened | her.
[9356]s
[9358]She elaims to want her information in
[9360]accommodation
[9364]responsible | Jhands as soon as possible and requests we subpoena
[9365]her (i.e e.| pay her way) here and make one night "s
[9366]for her. “What do you. think?’
[9368]_ My personal opinion|
[9370]. a
[9372]January 3 at 212-534-2412.
[9374]‘I am to call her back on Monday,
[9376]is that we
[9378]have little to lose if we have time to listen to her.
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[9382]t
[9387]i
[9388]4 Vd .
[9389]By
[9390]1
[9391]t
[9393][
[9395]67
[9397]MEMORANDUM
[9399]To: Mike Madigan
[9401]is
[9404]From: Ed Greissing | a
[9406]a a |
[9407]Date: Sept. 16,-1976 :
[9409]Subject: Review of CIA documents presented the SCI by/Jack Anderson
[9410]. ' : |
[9411]The documents recently received by this Committee’, from Jack
[9412]Anderson, had previously been reviewed by the Church Committee staff,
[9413]The documents appear to be a few of those requested for FOIA review
[9414]by David Belin. rt is my understanding, after these documents were
[9415]declassified, David Belin furnished copies to both David Martin (AP)
[9416]- and Jack Anderson |
[9417]The Church Committee was permitted to review the ‘entire Oswald
[9418]201 file, the AMLASH file, Garrison files and selected] Office of
[9419]. Security files, ‘The Committee primarily concerned itself with the
[9420]early period of the investigation(November 1963 - October 1964), as
[9421]it believed the! information to be received from this time period
[9422]to be more relevant in evaluating the performance of ‘the intelligence
[9423]agencies with réspect to their investigation.
[9424]Dan Niescher| the Church Committee contact at the CIA, was the
[9425]individual responsible for the declassification of documents
[9426]relating to the|assassination of President Kennedy. During this
[9427]declassification| process, Dan Niescher consulted the Committee staff
[9428]to make sure that we were aware of certain documents, In addition,
[9429]Mr. Kaleras had given the staff unlimited access to all files we
[9430]believed necessary to conduct our investigation.
[9431]Yet, the possibility still remains that. the staff’ was not
[9432]shown everything, The CIA has maintained throughout that the Oswald
[9433]201 file was a.complete compilation of the material related to the
[9434]assassination of President Kennedy. However, information relating to
[9435]who Lee Harvey Oswald was, and what he was doing are not included.in
[9436]their files. The|Oswald 201. does not attempt to question Oswald's
[9437]connection with|both pro-Caatro and anti-Castro groups or any of
[9438]the AMLASH information. The most notable subject missing was inform-
[9439]ation relating to CIA/U.S. Government attempts to assassinate Fidel
[9440]Castro, - 7
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[9446]ey de i. |
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[9449]ye
[9451]pe
[9453]No, I can't/ either confirm or deny it.. We are prohibited
[9455]at staff level from discussing any Committee bubiness.
[9456]I apologize|for not being able to help you. You know. the
[9458]. ground rules and they haven't changed. Right. |
[9460]I can't say! I don't know. You indicated thatilyou .
[9461]oe Hi
[9463]‘(i
[9465]Are you still working Rosselli? You getting anywhere?
[9467]: 4
[9468]You got a ‘pretty good source on that? On the fact that
[9469]they were! ‘having dinner together on many occasions before
[9471]he was murdered?
[9473]| i . at
[9475]ry FE
[9477]I just can’ 't help you because of the ground rulés. I'd
[9479]like to have a copy of your piece, or two, for | ‘mle and
[9481]J
[9483]Inderfurth’ here. Just drop a copy in the mail and I'll
[9485]i
[9487]appreciate it.
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[9491]“a TH
[9493]. il
[9494]You mean pebple like... . Well, I think. . . [people like
[9496]|
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[9506]i
[9508]mi
[9510]LY
[9511]|
[9513]Well, I can't discuss whether or not such a neering took
[9514]place. I can't tell you whether you*re right OF wrong.
[9516]; Al
[9517]_ Now when you talk about Trafficante you don't heed to be
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[9533]cE
[9535]Hy
[9536]ia ia
[9537]cautioned. You know them as well as I do. |
[9538]o ip i:
[9539]Well, as far as our rules are concerned, it wouldn't
[9540]. : rte
[9541]make any difference if Trafficante was here. It wouldn't
[9542]. a We te:
[9543]make any difference in our ability to confirm or deny that.
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[9578]|
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[9583]., said.
[9584]Trafficante. wha far ahautk face
[9586]sere + me fe En ee farm TNT meh ve”
[9588] Trafficante Made Secret Appearance
[9589]+ At Senate Investigation, Sources Say
[9591]By RON LaBRECQUE
[9592]-: Marald Staft Writer
[9593]Florida’s reputed . organized
[9594]crime boss, Santos Trafficante of
[9595]Tampa and Miami, made a secret,
[9597]’ four-hour October appearance be-
[9599]fore the Senate Intelligence Com-
[9600]mittee. to answer questions about
[9601]his role in a CIA assassination plot,
[9602]investigation’ sources have  dis-
[9603]closed. :
[9605]Trafficante, 62, had not previ-
[9606]ously been questioned by the com-
[9608]- mittee or its staff in the two-year-
[9610]old investigation of CIA activities:
[9611]Of the three Mafia figures in-
[9612]volved in the early 1960s plot to
[9613]kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro,
[9614]only Trafficante is still alive. Both
[9615]Sam Giancanu and John Rosselli
[9617]were murdered within the last 16
[9619]months.
[9620]The murders are unsolved.
[9622]INVESTIGATORS ALSO said
[9623]that Trafficante had dinner with
[9624]Rosselli at The Landings, a Fort
[9625]Lauderdale restaurant, in mid-July,
[9627]- less than two weeks before Rossel-
[9629]li disappeared. Rosselli’s body,
[9630]stuffed in.an oil drum, floated to
[9631]the surface of Dumfoundling Bay
[9632]the first week of August.
[9633]Trafficante reportedly has told
[9634]police that the July dinner with
[9635]Rosselli + as well as several other
[9636]meetings previously at the Cordoba
[9637]Restaurant in Miami. fermerly
[9638]owned by the husband of Rosselli’s
[9639]niece, according to police — were
[9641]“friendly, social events with no
[9643]business,” .
[9645]Investigators in recent weeks’
[9646]_ have centered their efforts on trac-
[9648]ing the "associates a of Traffi-
[9652]i
[9654]John Rosselli
[9655]eee dined with Trafficante
[9657]years has maintained a home at
[9658]740 NE 155th St. in North Dade,
[9659]could not be reached for comment.
[9660]Trafficante was identified as the
[9661]head of a South Florida Mafia fam-
[9663]‘ily in testimony in 1963 before a
[9664]US. Senate subcommittee.» ©. |
[9666]His ATTORNEY, Henry Gonza-
[9667]lez of Tampa, ‘who accompanied
[9668]Trafficante when he went to
[9669]Washington, according to sources,
[9670]would not comment on either. the
[9671]Senate appearance or Trafficante’s
[9672]past activities. When first asked
[9674]-about the Senate: appearance, he
[9676]said. “You realize you're treading
[9678]rafficante had not been ques-
[9679]tioned previously by the committee
[9680]because his role in the plot -had
[9682]jdered “secondary.” .
[9683]Interest was ren
[9684]after Rosselli’s death. Investigators
[9686]A committee source said. that |.
[9688]‘sought to determine whether the
[9690]murders of the two men were con-
[9691]nected in any way. with their testi-
[9692]mony or potential - testimony before.
[9694]_ the committee.
[9696]GIANCANA, WHO was a Mafia:
[9697]boss in Chicago for many years,
[9698]was killed in June 1975. at the
[9699]same time Senate investigators
[9701]' were preparing to contact him. The
[9702]-gun used to kill Giancana, found .
[9703]‘discarded on a roadside several
[9705]miles from Giancana’s house- a
[9706]month after the murder. was
[9707]traced to a Miami gunshop, but the .
[9709]. trail stopped’ there.
[9711]Investigators said the gun was
[9712]part of a shipment purchased in
[9713]1965 by the Tamiami Gun Shop,
[9714]but there are no records to indicate
[9715]where it went from there, accord-
[9716]ing to investigators and gunshop
[9717]owners.
[9719]Rosselli, whose most powerful
[9720]Mafia days were reportedly in the
[9721]1950s and early 1960s in Las Vegas
[9722]and Los Angeles, did appear before
[9723]the committee at least three times
[9724]in the 12 months before his death..
[9726]In’ Washington, the committee
[9727]has kept a tight clamp on comment
[9728]about the investigation, and only
[9729]one member, Robert T. Stafford
[9730](R., Vt.), acknowledged the Traffi-
[9731]cante session, saying “I was not
[9732]present when the witness you
[9733]speak of was in front of the com-
[9734]mnittee.”
[9736]- Sen. Daniel Inouye (D., Hawaii),
[9737]the: _committee chairman who,
[9738]along with Sen. Howard Baker (R.,
[9739]-Tenn.}) pressured for Justice De-
[9740]partment and FBI involvement in
[9741]the Rosselli murder case, said “I
[9742]have never met Mr. Trafficante.
[9743]That's as far as lil go.”
[9745]. 4 PRIME interest of the commit-
[9746]tee has been possible links between
[9748]_the CIA Castro plotting and the as
[9750]sassination of John F. Kennedy.
[9751]Revelations of the Senate commits
[9752]tee were a key factor in the erre
[9753]ation of the new House of Repre-
[9754]sentative investigation, which is
[9756]‘taking a new look at the JFE mitre
[9758]er.
[9760]Trafficante reportedly has told
[9762]investigators that he first met Rose
[9763]selli about 1956. It was in the early
[9764]1950s that Florida law- enforce»
[9765]ment officials estimated that a Boe
[9766]lita opertion run by Trafficante and
[9767]his brother netted $2 million annu-
[9768]ally.
[9770]Trafficante was a major guite
[9771]bling figure in pre-Castro Havana,
[9772]where he ran a casino. In 1959, it
[9773]was estimated that $1 million or $2
[9774]million was bet nightly in ali the
[9775]Mafia-run casinos in Havana. The
[9776]gambling stopped when Castro
[9777]took over in 1959.
[9779]Rosselli was. the first of the
[9780]three Mafia figures to be recruited
[9782]y the CIA in 1960 in its plot t to as
[9783]sassinate Castro.
[9785]IN A CIA: memo quoted in ave inte
[9787]terim report of the committee @'
[9789]year ago, it was said that Traffi-
[9790]cante’s role was to “serve a$ a coue
[9791]rier to Cuba and make arranges
[9792]ments there.”
[9794]_ Rosselli told his CIA llaison that
[9795]“Trafficante believed a
[9797]leading figure in the Cuban exile
[9798]movement might be able to accome
[9799]plish the assassination.” An intete
[9800]nal CIA ‘investigation in 1967 “suge
[9801]gests that this Cuban may have
[9802]been receiving funds from Traffie
[9803]cante and other racketeers intereste
[9804]ed in securing ‘gambling, prostitne
[9805]tion and dope monopolies’ in Cuba
[9806]after the overthrow of Castro.”
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[9816]The Washington Merry-Go-Round
[9818]6 Attempts to Kill Castro Laid to CIA.
[9820]By Juck Anderson
[9822]Locked in the darkest re-
[9823]cesses of the Central Intelll-
[9824]gence Agency is the story of
[9825]six assassination attempts
[9826]against Cuba's Fidel Castro.
[9828]For 10 years, only a few key
[9829]people have known the terrtl-
[9831]‘|ble secret. They have sworn
[9832]never to talk. Yet we have
[9833]learned the details. from
[9834]sources whose credentials are
[9835]beyond question.
[9837]We spoke to John McCone,
[9838]who headed the CIA at the
[9839]time of the assassination at-
[9840]tempts. He acknowledged the
[9841]idea had becn discussed inside
[9842]the CIA but insisted it had
[9843]heen “rejected Immedi-
[9844]ately.” He vigorously denied
[9846]-ithat the CIA had ever partlicl-
[9847]pated in any plot on Castro’s
[9848]iife. Asked whether the at-
[9850]‘ltempts could. have been made
[9851]with his knowledge, he re-
[9852]plied: “It could not have hap-
[9855]! We have complete confi
[9856]‘|dence, however, in our
[9857]sources.
[9859]The plot to knock off Castro
[9860]‘began ag part of the Bay of
[9861]Plas operation The intent was
[9862]to eliminate the Cuban dicta-
[9864]\fur before the mils ihvad-
[9866]ers landed on the island. Their
[9867]arrival was expected to touch
[9868]off a general uprising, which
[9869]the Communist militia woul
[9870]have had more trouble: putting
[9871]down without’ the charismatic
[9872]Castro to lead them. boy,
[9874]After the first attempt
[9875]failed, five more assassination
[9877]teams were sent to Cuba. The
[9878]last team reportedly made it
[9879]to a rooftop within shooting
[9880]distance of Castro before they
[9881]were apprehended. This hap-
[9882]pened around the last| of/Feb-
[9883]ruary or first of March, 1963.
[9884]Nine months’ later; Prest-
[9885]dent Kennedy was |gunned
[9886]down in Dallas by Lee|Harvey
[9887]Oswald, a fanatic who |'pre-
[9888]viously had agitated for Cas-
[9889]tro in New Orleans and had
[9890]made a mysterious trip to the
[9891]Cuban Embassy in | Mexico
[9892]City. |
[9893]Among those privy| to, the
[9894]CIA conspiracy, there is still a
[9895]nagging suspicion--unsup-|m
[9896]ported by the Warren Com-
[9897]mission's findings—that Cas-
[9898]tro, became aware of the/ U.S.
[9899]plot upon his life anit some
[9900]how recrulted Oswald to ietale!
[9902]THE WASHINGTON POST
[9904]jiale against President Ken-
[9907]To selup the Castro assassi-
[9908]nation, the CIA enlisted Rob:
[9909]ert. Maheu, a former “FBI
[9910]agen 1 shadowy contacts,
[9911]who had handled other under-
[9912]cover assignments for the CIA
[9913]out of his Washington public
[9914]relations office. He later
[9915]moved to Las Vegas to head
[9916]up billionaire Howard Hughes’
[9917]Nevada operations.
[9919]Maheu recrulted John Ro-
[9920]selli, a sruggedly handsome
[9921]gambler with contacts fa both
[9922]the American: and Cuban un-
[9923]derworlds, to arrange the as
[9924]sassination. The dapper, hawk-
[9925]faced Roselll, formerly mar-
[9926]ried to movie actress June
[9927]Lang, was a power In the
[9928]movie industry until his con-
[9929]viction with racketeer: Willle
[9930]Bioff in a million-dollar Holly-
[9931]wood labor shakedown. The
[9932]CIA assigned two of its most
[9933]trusted operatives, William
[9934]Harvey and James (Big Jim)
[9935]O'Connell, to the hush-hush
[9937]murder mission. Using phony
[9938]names, they accompanied Fo-
[9939]selli on trips to Miami ta line
[9940]up the assassination teams.
[9942]The full story reads \ike the'm
[9943]stript of » James Bond movie,
[9945]Meniday, J dan, 18, 1971
[9947]BT
[9949]cree with secret trysts at
[9950]glittering Miami Beach hotels
[9951]and imidatght powerboat
[9953]dashes 'o secret Janding spats -
[9955]freee sets
[9957]on the Cuban coast. Once, Fto- :
[9959]sellt's boat was shot out from
[9960]under him.
[9962]For the first try, the CIA:
[9963]furnished Roselli with special:
[9965]poison capsules to silp into’
[9966]Castro's food. The poison wns
[9967]supposed to take three days to
[9968]act. By the time Castro died,
[9969]his system would throw off all
[9970]traces of the polson, go he
[9971]would appear to be the victim
[9972]of a natural if mysterious ail-
[9974]Cubaln, related to oné of Cas-
[9975]tro’, 8 | lchetfs, to plant the deadly
[9976]pellets in the dictator's food.
[9978]arranged with a.
[9980]“e nN wae
[9982]On March 13, 1961, Rosell de-
[9984]livered the capsules to his con-
[9986]tact| at Miami Beach's glamor-
[9987]ous| Fontainebleau Hotel.
[9989]A couple of weeks later, just
[9990]about the right time for the
[9991]plot | to have been carried out
[9992]a report out of Havana sald
[9993]Castro war JIL But he re
[9994]covered pefore the Bay of Py:
[9995]invasion on April 17, 1981.
[9997]Four more attempts vf e
[9999]made on Castro's Ile,
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[10006]Four andja{hatf years.
[10008]1
[10009]Washington. ;
[10011]_ Mafia figures; John Roselli
[10012]~ dot
[10016]_ Fidet Castro.
[10018]I tracked’ down Rosetti and questioned him about the:
[10019]to say. He promised me, however, that he would give me
[10021]if he should ever be free to
[10023]| i
[10027]a
[10030]Bes I broke a story that now is belatedly rocking
[10031]if od
[10033]L rrpentes that the Central Intelligence Agency had recruited two
[10035]if : (
[10036]nd Sam Giancana,
[10038]t
[10039]to assassinate Cuban Premier
[10041]|
[10043]2 story. He had nothing
[10044]rf 4
[10045]'e his exclusive story
[10046]yy i
[10047]i
[10048]a
[10050]talk,
[10052]Yesterday, John Rosetti told his story -- first,to the Senate Intelligence
[10054]Committee in secret session;!
[10056]years ago.
[10057]ho
[10059]Roselli is a
[10060]i ‘
[10062]been disciplined « all his life
[10064]Sam Giancana, was slain befdre Senate investigators cou
[10066]a subpoena.
[10068]: |
[10070]So it was obvious ly pad
[10072]a
[10074]i
[10076],, then to me as he had promised four anda haif
[10081]dapper, hawk- faced man with a thatch ‘of white hair. He has’
[10083]i
[10085]i
[10087]His Mafia partner,
[10089]i
[10091]ite keep his mouth shut.
[10092]4 ' af
[10094]1 serve him with
[10096]ro |
[10099]i '
[10100]i
[10102]| i
[10104]i
[10105]i
[10106]i
[10107]ay
[10109]infut for Roselli to ta ik. I orlbmtsed I would make
[10110]i:
[10112]| 1
[10114]clear that he revealed no names, except for the CIA contacts whose identities
[10116]the Senate atready knew.
[10118]“A
[10119]4 i
[10121]So here, is/Roselli's own account of a real- life "Mission Impossible" --
[10123]dot
[10125]the attempt to itt Castro,
[10127]4
[10129]high- powered. rifles and powerboat dashes to Cuba.
[10131]The plot against Cast
[10133]Eisenhower wasl President, .
[10135]ads
[10136]! |
[10139]was the CIA chief.
[10140]oid I
[10144]i is: a story of cash payments, poison pellets,
[10146]| 4
[10147]TO, Rosetti said, began in 196
[10149]| Richard Nixon was Vice President and Allen Dulles
[10152]0 -- when Dwight
[10157]i
[10159]Roselliiwas recruited | in Los Angeles, he said, by. Robert Maheu, then an
[10161]aide to billionaire Howard H
[10163]J ok
[10164]front in Washington.
[10166]‘Bage 96
[10168]gues. Previously, Maheu had operated a CLA.
[10170]4
[10172]i
[10176]According to Roselli, '
[10178]J
[10180]j
[10182]involved in the
[10186]a Cuban ‘contale; nothing more.
[10190]Rosetti identified thei CIA project officer,
[10193]ed
[10195]assassination,'as "Big Jim" O'Conne LL.
[10197]O'Connell,
[10199]'
[10200]Jot
[10202]assassination
[10206]he murdered mobster, Sa
[10208]plot.
[10210]a]
[10212]|
[10215]in cha
[10217]bers it, in New York City on September 14,
[10218]|
[10220]|
[10222]miGiancana, never became
[10224]He knew about it; he iInay even have suggested
[10226]|
[10227]rge of the Castro
[10229]Maheu put Roselli in contact with
[10231]| 1960,
[10233]i
[10235]Thereafter, Roselli flew to Miami and recruited the assassination squads.
[10237]At first, they plotted to poi
[10241]They were delivered to the
[10243]He
[10245]. Hl
[10246]4
[10248]ue (
[10249]by Maheu. id
[10250]7
[10252]and the fatal pellets.
[10254]4
[10255]4
[10257]son Castro. Poison pellets
[10259]ramatica lly opened his briefcase, revea
[10261]q
[10262]q
[10263]I
[10264]i
[10265]Hf
[10267]The money was distributed tothe Cuban plotters.
[10269]t
[10271]took any money from the cla,
[10273]big expenses, he said, out
[10274]in
[10276]The poison pills were
[10277]‘this would give | the poison time to work its way out of Ca
[10278]he died, and his death would
[10280]Roselli. never found 1 ou
[10284]they tried again, later with
[10288]reached them that Castro was s desperately ith.
[10290]illness was caused by the poison ora virus,
[10292]the ° Bay of Pigs, Roselli said, Mahe
[10294]|
[10296]a vod
[10298]I
[10299]Roselli reported toa CIA ag:
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[10304]= Bay of Pigs P
[10306]|
[10307]|
[10309]|
[10311]except for some inciden
[10312]a
[10314]of his own pocket.
[10315]S|
[10317]p pirenges dose of poison.
[10319]Roselli
[10320]a
[10321]I
[10323]i
[10324]‘i
[10328]Vy
[10330]i
[10331]en
[10333]lotters ina Miami hotel room, accor
[10335]| |
[10337]bepposed to take three days t t
[10339]what happened to the plotters or the pellets.
[10340]_ f
[10342]But Castro
[10344]|
[10346]HI
[10348]ked up intelligence, which i
[10349]4
[10351]planning jand the tater Cuban)
[10352]Al
[10354]u was cut out of the Be
[10356]t named Witliam Harvey.
[10358]i
[10360]were supplied by the CIA,
[10361]ai ing to > Roselli,
[10363]fing $10, 900 in cash
[10364]An
[10366]t
[10368]He
[10369]Roselli swore he never
[10371]q 1 .
[10372]4 i oe
[10373]ia
[10375]tal expenses.
[10377]EE
[10379]He paid the
[10381]o work. Supposedtys a
[10383]stro! s system before
[10388]be attributed to natural causes .
[10390]But
[10392]4 ;
[10393]Net long afterward, reports
[10395]doesn't know whether the
[10397]r
[10399]4
[10401]isurvived, and the ©
[10404]e submitted to the CIA.
[10405]missile crisis.
[10407]After
[10409]plot. Thereafter,
[10411]Hf
[10412]Wy
[10415])
[10416]b
[10417]i
[10419]b
[10420]a
[10422]ie | i th
[10423]Therd| Mere four mb
[10424]bi
[10426]into Cuba wif high- powerala ‘rifles! The last assassination squad, Roselli heard,
[10428]SNaS Fination attempts, the plotters were smuggled
[10430]aa a
[10431]made it to a Havana rooftop before they were caught.
[10433]| |
[10434]eth a . ,
[10435]eo oh . i . ‘
[10436]This was. around March 1, 1963. Then the project was abandoned. Rosetti
[10437]i oe
[10439]ate
[10440]i
[10442]saw Harvey for the last time in June, 1963. Five months later, Lee Harvey Oswa
[10444]gunned down|President Kennedy in Dallas. Oswatd hadibeen active in the pro-
[10446]. yy, a} 7 :
[10447]Castro movement, Shortly before that dreadful day in Dallas, Oswatd had made
[10448]' : ‘ | il . ; .
[10449]log
[10451]a mysterious, trip to Mexic a where he visited the Cuban embassy. The Warren
[10453]Commission found no evidence, however, that Oswatd was in the hire of Havana
[10454]t i °
[10456]Yesterday, Roselli rmiade no apology for his CIA role. U.S. authorities
[10458]call hima mobster. He regards himself as a patriot.
[10459]1. i . .
[10462]4 _ it
[10463]‘t ! i : i
[10464]Me a
[10465]a 4H 7
[10466]if: |
[10467]Mi I"
[10468]tt i.
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[10471]is +
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[10474]if ! ha “of ‘
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[10481]i, J
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[10484]a 4
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[10487]| :
[10488]i vf
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[10490]H i
[10491]i !
[10492]i
[10493]'
[10494]if
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[10502]Suaday, Seprember 12, 19765
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[10506]i| The Calculated Rise
[10508]And Abrupt Descent
[10510]ny Roselli.
[10512]| : lives in a sprawling white home that
[10513]: . | ~ “at first glance, resembles every othe:
[10514]: : | __, house in the neighborhood.
[10516]. Until last month, Johnny: Roselli -.-. But it is different: the carefully cur
[10517]‘lived comfortably with:his sister and § tained‘ windows, the extra lock on th
[10518]'.. brother-in-law in a, Miami suburb. 'A “front door, and spotlights on all side
[10519].. friend estimated be earned about $23,- _of-the house give it the look of a subu:
[10521]- 000 annually from tae B he aoa tee Inside, the furniture i
[10523]owne e lobby ©: Vegas Fron- ~pale blue Mediterranean, the carpet i
[10524]tier Hotel. oo" a — thick white. oO mp
[10526]@ shrugged last year. when his at- Roselli’s killers did not ambush th
[10527]torney suggested he hire a bodyguard, - house; Roselli went to them. He lef
[10529]after the murder of Chicago mobster ~ Plantation at 1 p.m. on July 28 wearin
[10530]Sam Giancana, his partner in CIA plots . a golf shirt, his golf clubs in his ca
[10531]trunk. He told his sister he would b
[10533]_ to kill Fidel Castro. if anybody wants -
[10534]- ’ to kill me at my age, the 71-year-old Ro- © home for dinner. That afternoon ©
[10535]-., selli said, what difference | does ‘it’, evening he was killed, probably by su
[10536]_* make? So he played golf several timés - -focation, perhaps after being torture
[10537]‘a week, sipped white wine with din- -* amearly reports said his legs were br:
[10538]ner, and—until somebody decided.” Ken.. Heavily chained, Roselli we
[10539]Johnny Roselli should wind up in an stuffed in a §5-gallon. oildrum an
[10540]oil barre! in Miami's Dumfoundling . dumped into the ocean. an
[10541]Bay—considered employment in the - His brother-in-law found Roselli’s si
[10542]_. mew gambling casinos beginning 'to 3yer-colored 1975 Chevrolet Impala se*
[10543]* open in the oil-rich Middle East. - <j -.~ eral days later, parked at the Miami i
[10544]ee Ot “jj. ‘ternational Airport, |
[10545]eee = i!" Ten days after Roselli's disappea
[10546]* In‘the late 1920s Al Capone and his . ‘ance something went wrong. The o
[10547]. friends chose Miami as:the chic spot drum that was meant to keep his deat
[10548]' for organized crime figures to buy, -. a secret floated to the surface of Dun
[10550]ey By Rudy Maza
[10552]1
[10554]winter home. Just across a strip,of »’ foundling Bay, buoyed by the gases ¢
[10555]_ ean. was Cuba, 2 gaming ant ein the holes im the side of the
[10556]we . The mobsters from the nomin -— e holes in the side of the dru:
[10557]‘ yee treated like visiting icty, while _and the placing of his Chevrolet at th
[10558]- by Florida press and ‘society, while airport convinced investigators b.
[10559]some members of the local police force... eopee was meant never to be disco’
[10560]" item ce a taste for the finer ered: history was supposed to. recor
[10561]; gsin ite. to a that dapper Johnny Roselli, facing 4:
[10562]“Tn the’ 1940s the sheriff of Dade: « portation proceedings that the gover:
[10563]“County (which includes most of the Mi: ment had threatened off and on fc
[10564]~ qmi aréa) admitted to the Kefauverior-..” years, decided to disappear on an ai
[10565]- ganized crime committee that; since = plane flight to who-knows-where. ‘
[10566]he had become sheriff on an annual ty me!
[10567]salary of $12,000 five years earlier;his ua a er a:
[10568]personal fortune had increased from..«', “Cutting up and disposing of bodi
[10569]4; $2,500 to $70,000. One of the sheriff's} not necessarily new to our depat
[10570]' deputies: said. he collected $50,000) in “ment,” says the man who is directir
[10571]' bribes in nine months spent as a bag-.. the search for Roselli’s killers. Lt. Ga
[10572]man for:-Miami Beach gambling con- - Minn tde head of the Dade se
[10573]cessions. In 1 ‘e oniieg. homicide squad, is a well-muscled mi
[10574]ton in 1988 eed 826 million It . , with an aquiline nose that separates
[10575]waste Kind ot pace inst made ark. Ben ya of nis bare offie as
[10576]rfeelathome. * -)' : e ; e ‘
[10577]‘ For the last two years, Johnny |Ro- ard tant DYNAMITE—DON
[10578]selli felt at home j j ee 8 .
[10579]room suburb north o it at! Ro- ”” He and another police officer 1
[10580]“selli made ‘his retirement haven||be- . _vount the solving of some of Dar
[10581]cause he had family there. His brother. County's more brutal’ murders wi
[10582]indaw, a government missile expert, See ROSELLI, LA, Col. 1
[10585]i
[10587]ROSELLI, Frémn Lil
[10589]‘ the enthusiasm of two football players .
[10591]‘recalling their favorite bow! games.
[10593]The headless, handless body that
[10594]floated into a Miamijcanal, last month
[10595]reminded Minnium of that other, simi-
[10596]larly mutilated body that timed up
[10597]last December. And who. can forget
[10598]the man who got angry ' with his room-
[10599]mate, s
[10600]parts along a highway? "|. |
[10602]As it turned out, Roselli’s
[10604]wasn't the -
[10606]i first body to float into the annals of Mi-
[10608]HW 50955 Docld:
[10610]ami crime in a drum, Minnium says.
[10611]Ten years ago a lovers’ quarrel re-
[10612]sulted in a man stuffing ‘his girl friend
[10614]into a drum; filling it! with cement and .
[10616]Aqua Velva shave lotion. The drum
[10619]see |
[10620]i
[10622]vt
[10624]oO work-a-day, .
[10626]a velvety
[10627]junior jump! $58.
[10629]A be-devillng shimmer-giimmer
[10630]you, set for champagne or a great
[10632]beat! One-piece cotton velveteen, ready
[10633]to layer black or ‘brown; 5-13, Gome in,
[10634]vjrite orphone... ,
[10636]39423630 Page 100
[10638]sliced him up and, tossed the
[10642]was found resting against a dike and
[10643]justice jwas eventually done.
[10644]; Minnium is not Pleased by such vio-
[10645]lent antics,
[10647]“We | don't- appreciate people com-
[10648]mitting murder and dumping a body
[10650]- in ‘our jcounty, regardless of who the
[10652]people are, but especially if it’s organ-
[10654]~ ized crime," Minnium says.
[10655]His \department handled 168 homt- |
[10657]cides: last year and boasted an -85 per
[10658]cent | ‘clearance record.” As of July,
[10659]1976, the Percentage was even higher,
[10660]standing at about 92 per cent.
[10662]If Charlies Zatrepalek and Julio
[10664]. Ojeda |have anything to say about it, °
[10665]Roselli’ killing is not going to dimin.’
[10667]ish: those percentages. Both men are
[10669]28-year. -old homicide detectives who
[10670]a
[10674]vow with a schoolboy’s Sincerity tha
[10675]they won't rest until Roselli’s murder
[10676]is solvéd. In the last four weeks, with
[10677]the help of Washington agencies, Za.
[10679]. trepaiek and Ojeda have reconstructed
[10681]Roselli's life in hopes of understanding
[10682]his death, For the third time in eight
[10683]years “of marriage, Zatrepalek worked
[10684]out of town on his wedding anniversa-
[10685]Ty; because of the “awesomeness” of
[10686]this case, Ojeda spent his Labor Day
[10687]holidaylat work.
[10689]“Maybe 10 years from now,” Ojeda
[10690]says, | want someone to look at my
[10691]file and say, ‘Hey, he talked to every-
[10692]body.’ lAnd maybe he'll hear some.
[10693]thing and BANG! that’s the arrest!”
[10695]That Johnny Rosell : was destined to
[10696]walk on the dark side of life never
[10697]/ seemediin doubt. As a teen-ager in Bos-
[10698]ton, when his name was Filippo Sacco,
[10699]Roselli was a runner for the numbers
[10700]racket. He helped his stepfather burn
[10701]down his home for the insurance mon-
[10702]ey. He was arrested at age 22 for steal-
[10703]ing about $25 from someone. Then he
[10704]changed his name and left for Chica-
[10705]go.
[10707]It would be 40 years until, in the late
[10708]1960s, Johnny Roselli would see his
[10709]mother|again, though he sent money
[10710]to his family through an intermediary
[10711]in Chicago so his sisters could attend
[10712]college.
[10714]By the late 1920s Al Capone was well
[10715]established in Chicago. Newspaper-
[10716]men, politicians and cops were on the
[10717]Capone payroll and a young man with
[10719]_ Roselli’sstreet savvy had little trouble
[10720]” finding Suitable employment; he hired
[10722]on as ajlrumrunner with the Capone
[10723]gang. At age 26 Roselli was arrested
[10725]. for selling morphine to an undercover
[10727]agent. He was acquitted because, after
[10728]jarrest, no one could seem to
[10729]find thelarresting officer or informant -
[10730]in the case, They still haven't been
[10731]found.
[10732]In the} mid-1930s Roselli, by now a
[10734]” mature and charming man, lucky with
[10735]tire qe charming ma
[10737]Lire.
[10740]HW 50955
[10742]|
[10744]"In the 1940s the sheriff of Dade| County (which |
[10746]includes most of the Miami area) admitted to the
[10748]- Hollywood to imake pictures of prison
[10749]"and gangster life. But publicity about a
[10751]Kefauver organized crime committee that, since
[10753]he had become sheriff on an annual salary: of
[10755]$12,000 five years; earlier, his: ‘personal fortune
[10756]had increased from $2, 300 to, ‘$70,000.’ .
[10758](
[10761]women, friendly with men of motley,
[10762]moved to Los Angeles. He wore hand-
[10763]tailored suits and, by all accounts, Was
[10764]‘easygoing, mild-mannered. He (was
[10765]married for a time to an actress, but
[10766]they had no children. He became a
[10767]close friend of Harry Cohn, the! legend.
[10768]ary head of Columbia Pictures. iThe
[10769]two men sometimes vacationed to-
[10770]gether and Roselli always seemed to
[10771]know how to place a bet should Cohn
[10772]care to wager on a horse.
[10774]According to Bob Thomas’ ‘piogra-
[10775]phy of Cohn, “King Cohn,” the movie
[10776]mogul once offered Roselli-a job ; as a
[10777]producer. (In his book, Thomas’ dis-
[10778]guised Roselli’s identity at Roselli’s re-
[10779]quest.)
[10781]“What would you pay me?” Roselli .
[10783]asked Cohn.-
[10784]“Five hundred - dollars a
[10785]Cohn said. ;
[10786]' “TP get that much from waitresses
[10787]who take bets for me,” Roselli i is said to
[10788]have replied. }
[10789]Besides being a handy man wth
[10790]placing of bets, Roselli purchased | ‘26
[10791]per cent interest in ‘a Tijuanalira ce-
[10792]track with $25,000 Cohn loanéd him.
[10793]Roselli paid him back promptly(an
[10795]if
[10797]he
[10799]is “ee
[10801]aN
[10803]oe
[10804]Docld: 32423630 . ‘pave 101
[10806]“week, a
[10808]. to work,”. Roselli told him.
[10809]. Spite thing and you're not going to get
[10810]_ away with jit. You meet with Cohn and
[10812]dlin-.
[10813]1 i ba . :
[10814]a : 1
[10815]a ‘anemic MRNA... ——— "
[10816]|
[10818]if
[10819]|
[10822]ot 4
[10823]i ' .
[10825]1 er,
[10826]cluded a check ‘for 6 per cent interest;
[10828]Cohn.magnanimously tore up the in--:
[10830]terest check.
[10832]Roselli bought twin star rubies, had:
[10834]them set inijrings and gave one to
[10835]Cohn, who considered it a good luck
[10836]charm until his death. Once, when Chi-
[10838]- cago mobster Willie Bioff moved to
[10840]Hollywood and began making life mi-
[10842]serable for movie studios by shaking. .
[10844]down executives in return for labor
[10845]peace, Roselli stepped in and saved
[10847]- Cohn from a lengthy strike.
[10849]When Cohn refused to pay tribute to
[10850]Bioff and his union, Bioff tried to halt
[10852]production at Columbia by calling a.
[10854]sudden strike, Desperate, Cohn called
[10855]Roselli who marched into Bioff’s office
[10856]and: confronted the hoodlum who sat
[10858]‘. behind his desk wearing a hat and
[10860]coat, chomping on a cigar, a gun rest-
[10861]ing on the desk in front-of him. :
[10862]“Listen, Willie, I don’t know what
[10863]you're trying to prove but it isn’t going
[10864]“This is a
[10866]get it settled.” a)
[10867]Bioff backed’ ‘down and called off his:
[10868]pickets. After ‘he was sent to jail for ex-
[10870]tortion, Bioft cut a deal with the gov-
[10872]_ ernment and named Roselli ag a Chi-
[10874]cago mobster who had helped ‘him
[10875]shake down movie studios. Cohn testi-
[10876]fied on Roselli’ 8 behalf, but in 1943 Ro-
[10878]’selli was sentenced to 10 years in pris-
[10880]on. When helgot out he returned to
[10882]* secret appearance before the Kefau-
[10884]ver crime committee ruined his rela-
[10885]tionship with most studios. Even Cohn
[10887]re fused to hire him—"The stockhold-
[10888]“,ers would scalp me,” Cohn told a bitter
[10889]. Roselli, |:
[10891]It was during his years in the. Los
[10893]. Angeles and Las Vegas areas that Ro-
[10895]selli met the'lman who would make
[10896]him a household name later in. life.
[10897]Robert Maheu! the ex-FBI agent who -
[10898]parlayed a Washington private eye
[10899]business into a stormy career as How-
[10900]ard Hughes’ man in Las Vegas, ap- _
[10901]proached Roselli on behalf of the CIA
[10903]"in 1960.
[10905](Anothér person Roselli mét in that
[10906]era who would later surface to talk of
[10907]Roselli, Giancana and John F. Ken-
[10908]nedy was a young party girl named Ju-
[10909]dith Campbell.)
[10911]Maheu and Roselli would later tell
[10913].Frank Church's Senate Intelligence
[10915]Committee theldetails of their plots to
[10916]kill Castro. Maheu told investigators he
[10917]had known Roselli since the late 1950s
[10918]and, while he didn’t know of his. un-
[10919]derworld connections, “it was cer-~
[10920]tainly evident to me that (Roselli) was
[10921]able to accomplish ‘things in Las Vegas
[10922]when nobody else seemed to get the
[10923]same kind of attention. ms
[10925]Over dinner at the Brown Derby in
[10927], Beverly Hills 16 years ago, Maheu ex-
[10929]plained to Roselli that his government
[10930]needed his services. Roselli, who was
[10931]born on July 4, 1905, was nothing if not
[10932]patriotic. (Sam) Giancana once said,
[10934]~ “Just wave a flag. and Johnny’ll follow
[10936]you to any canal.”). Maheu recalled that
[10937]See ROSELLI, Ls,Col.2 7
[10939]ccé60c AH
[10941]Johnny — Roselli
[10942]1975. upper rig
[10943]and. —_counterclo
[10944]wise from upper |
[10945]Fidel Castro in
[10946]Sam Giancana in
[10947]President John
[10948]Kennedy _in
[10949]1—Dade—County~Pa-
[10950]Lt. Gary Minai
[10951]and the Flor
[10952]home where Ros
[10953]lived _ before
[10955]. death.
[10957]a Photos by The Washington P=
[10961]I
[10963]|
[10964]i
[10965]| :
[10967]i
[10968]t
[10969]i
[10970]i
[10971]j
[10974]i
[10976]|
[10977]|
[10978]1
[10979]i
[10982]i
[10985]i
[10987]EOT afed!.
[10989]: 3 L ’ con . :
[10990]pealed to Harvey tor neip and Harvey
[10991]recommended to the CIA that it try to...
[10993]prevent prosecution, but Roselli was
[10995]convicted of violating interstate gam- .
[10997]bling laws. He went to jail, returning
[10999]in 1974 to Plantation to do battle ©
[11000]against government efforts to deport ,
[11002]him: . ;
[11003]In 1971 the CIA asked the Immigra-
[11005]' tion and Naturalization Service to
[11007]i
[11009]vs q. 7
[11010]“forestall public disclosure of Roselli’s
[11011]past operational activity with the CIA”
[11012]that might‘éecur if;deportation pro-
[11014]‘ceedings were pursued. The INS
[11016]agreed to keep the ‘CIA informed, but
[11017]at his death; Roselli and his lawyers
[11018]were still fighting deportation.
[11021]* “Bob
[11023]said another of Roselli’s brothers-in-
[11025]- law, Peter.Cardillo of New Jersey." __.
[11027]The public doesn’t: know what Ma-
[11028]heu is thinking,-whether he worries if
[11029]pro-Castro Cubans are exacting retri-
[11030]bution for sins of 16 years ago. Maheu’s
[11031]secretary in Las Vegas says she doesn't
[11032]know where her boss is or when he'll
[11033]be returning to his office. He report-
[11034]edly has some business interest in
[11035]Egypt, a part of the world that seems
[11037]__:to hold some fascination for the Castro
[11038]plotters; Giancana kept an apartment
[11040]‘in Beirut and, just before his death,
[11041]‘told a friend he had some sort of deal
[11043]petnettcecnecen ic eM euer toe MAREN OIA, CaN Renee mee
[11045]eu must be running scared -
[11046]~I thought about that -just- the other. -
[11049]brewing there. And Roselli longingly
[11050]eyed the opening of gambling casinos
[11051]in the land of the new oil millionaires.
[11052]In Tampa, San icante, an-
[11053]other of the original Mabe up, also;
[11054]refuses to talk with the press. But un
[11056]like the others, he did not testify be-
[11058]fore the Church committee so the pub-
[11059]lic has no inkling of his thoughts on
[11061]the Castro assassination attempts... ..
[11063]- Whether Roselli’s killing was one of
[11064]retribution for a public or a private
[11065]matter, Johnny Roselli was a testa-
[11066]ment to an era that has passed. His life,
[11067]which would have remained largely
[11068]unnoticed save for the Senate’s CIA
[11069]hearings, seemed straight from the
[11070]pages of a Mafia novel: allegedly
[11071]brought into the United States illegally
[11072]at the turn of the century, Roselli
[11073]clawed his way from the mean streets
[11074]of Boston and Chicago to the relative
[11075]glamor of Hollywood, Las Vegas and,
[11076]finally, Miami. Along the way, a simple
[11077]strain of patriotism—which impressed
[11078]the CIA enough to mention it to the
[11080]+ The Chicago Daily News. AP.---
[11082]Church committee—put him in a rope
[11084]dancer’s position of sometimes receiv-
[11086]" ing, sometimes taking advantage of his
[11088]knowledge of the darkest side of ‘gov-
[11089]ernment. oo . .
[11091]” While some have speculated that he
[11092]was killed for talking too much to gov-
[11093]ernment investigators, Roselli was
[11094]hardly a loudmouth in the league of a
[11096]Joe Valachi, who sang for televised ;
[11097]Senate hearings on the Mafia in 1963.-~"-~
[11099]Fourteen years ago Roselli confided in
[11100]his lawyer, Washington attorney Ed-
[11101]ward Morgan, that he had been told by
[11102]Cuban sources in Miami that Joho
[11103]‘Kennedy's killing was ordered and ar-
[11104]ranged by Castro, but he lived with his
[11105]secret. So
[11107]The day after Roselli’s body was
[11108]scooped from its crude coffin. his
[11109]brother-in-law in New Jersey, Peter
[11111]’ Cardillo, told me: “Down deep, in a
[11113]way, I probably hope it was connected
[11114]with (the Castro affair). At least then
[11115]Johnny, he would have died for a
[11116]cause.”
[11118]s
[11120]ey ROT at
[11121]rey .
[11123]bau ew oO. vos 7
[11124]t . Heeale Fea tereee |
[11128]wot
[11129]i Sen. Gary H art ©, Gols.) inade. an ‘ubsanounced . tripe 10°
[11131]aa Rr
[11132]“By RONAs BRECQUE :
[11134]Rifas ”
[11135]nj Friday for a private meeting with homicide detectives to 7a
[11137]underscore the strong. inte
[11139]test. of the Senate Sclect Intelli igenoe,: _
[11141]_ Comunittee in abe J oh
[11142]AN, Rost Hi mirder inv
[11143]i vest on
[11144]. that federal age nefes cooperate vith local 7 seate and to insure
[11146]* General Edward Levi iaher pressure. irom the
[11148]: , | “We're not here to-balve said, .
[11149]e the crishe,” H
[11150]‘find out ¢f there Js any connection betwe #3 Rol ‘) deat ane
[11152]. _ his testimony, ’ pefore. the.¢
[11154]HARE SAID he ‘ated”
[11155]“ho | :
[11156]- “BS ie local Afficiais of the. to?
[11157]minipr
[11158]cg See a a8 Newnan
[11159]: Res vIH, 71, argenized er .
[11160]. ure who testified three ee Be
[11161]fore the Senate Intelligence. Com-;
[11162]. ml tee in the past wear zbout, his,
[11163]rultment by the CLA ine plot to
[11164]Rill Pesel Crsua, wes found fesd.
[11165]veeks 7b. stuffed in anor,
[11166]in Dumleundling
[11168]om mitten t)
[11170]* ae ee it tear that “the “atbhed
[11171]ater che tlee ig” co sovrned.
[11176]rected No hig testimor, -»
[11177]gh he did say there yes, es
[11179]mig ht have tea killed to, PIEVERT.:
[11180]him rere talking 2dout other Cla, :
[11181]OV nist o crime pacts. A
[11182]. 3 Know of no plang what oy
[11183]im come “ha oh,” Hart
[11184]S$ nol ic say we warldats
[11185]ait arg te aidan’ :
[11186]; un ia bs wee
[11187]tae eels oe iB ck it some Wears
[11189]“Bat a
[11193]is ale eh or et
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[11197]bility that Reselirs- oan ges
[11199]Pea
[11201]The FRI was ordered: ‘Site the Case - last’ week by Auer iy,
[11202]Aor. ¥
[11204]Senate committee.”
[11206]a a
[11208].
[11209].
[11210].
[11211].
[11212].
[11213]7
[11214]Se
[11215]. a ae
[11216]a 2
[11217]|
[11219]i
[11222]i
[11224]-Thome™ fia. june of 1975.
[11226]a ae
[11228]FT SHE IURDER ol Rosell, whos
[11229]ef tast testified, in aAprily "Fenewed Ine"
[11230]i selligence Committee jaterest jo the
[11232]penis, af Chicsgo orgenized, grime.
[11234]-
[11236]* teader Sam (iiome) Gisncéna, Gee
[11237]L ‘encsria wes’ shot i death id, nis?
[11238]dust. ata!
[11240]P ame wien Intelligence: Committed ¢
[11241]yr investigatgrs were ‘aracking: him.
[11242]1 Gown ry
[11243] Recémpansing Hart Friday “wae?
[11245]1 tong whe in June of 1975, wes |
[11247]paring to. interview Giancena *
[11248]about hit involvement. vith, Roser’ a
[11251]“fn the Castro plow”:
[11252]:Giahtana and Fampa -Gigenized -
[11253]“aime - figure Santo ~Trafficante |
[11254]“played “acepmp panylng yoles":.i0,
[11255]the ChA-inspired Casio “exsessinae--
[11256]sher committee Hatt
[11258]tion: plot, ant
[11259]prmember uyaveling. with Hart. said . -
[11261]a
[11263]ad
[11265]' Pricey, a NE! AY,
[11267]_g: Th! TALE Ese aieo. jonside
[11268]yered” i gybpensing Trefficante, the
[11270]dgalor sais. Sut Traffi-..
[11272]pant daeeeti
[11273]& neve! called because the
[11275]Cante WE
[11276]3 Gogimittee gonsicered. Rosji's, tese
[11278]; Ummony abe mest importants.
[11279]E Be. rel et cred ?
[11280]CHICAGO. AREA"
[11282]bs a “‘part_of 20 interpal
[11283]i struggle.
[11285]: Nex erineless, Hart whe The ‘Bere
[11286]‘ ald iPriday (that * with “Rosell's »
[11287]' degih, “troudling guestions™ pbout <
[11288]: Ginncans’§, ‘ynutder Unger. “The co-*
[11289]incidenres bt Ein “tO sizing them:
[11291]i selves dogetbere” sogaig the 3972:
[11292]Lopresti “dential cainpaign pans ger tors
[11294]George RiecGoverm.: (Ca
[11295]| ; Aghed pe was. spuintied el a:
[11298]- Inv estigstors?
[11299]lancana’s: deaine
[11300]gangland?
[11302]oe
[11304]tthe conciusions Of
[11305]that Glangens’s death wes moi can?
[11307]| necied 19 his
[11309]fare the ° “gommittet,, arn’ said:
[11311]rating ‘évidence “which prevents
[11312]toon 10 Fane 28 Sel . .
[11316]geetential estiinony. -
[11318]Ve
[11319]at is the’ abrence of aa corros"
[11323]Madigan. ssid the vwidesp
[11325]parts. after Glencana’s death that
[11327]ds appenrent before the cominite 1
[11328]ites ras ind at were not ire.
[11329]{That further indicates, Be bEreed, ¢
[11330]that Giancane’s #eaib was ‘pot. act
[11331]“rectly. related ‘Ris: Pate ClA asso: 7 ?
[11332]ialationy on ‘
[11336]: Free HME ; -
[11337]iy SWE FINALLY: dor Gastanty
[11338]Rome pvinber ibe. dey her wie
[11339]Siete Madigan. said Friday."We“,
[11340]bad 5 ere; digculty tracking Rim
[11341]owen” in Houston (where Glanésna ©
[11342]'. Had been |in the bespitel) Te had - |
[11343]. bded ‘decided thst 1 was Boing to.
[11344]interview Thim- td zee. whether ditt ‘
[11345]' qrould be worth it to call him asia |
[11346]wwiiness,. He ed pot re contkcted |;
[11347]. get and he hed to Reta Subp.
[11348]_ aed” Bed! gap seid wale 4
[11349]2 Re Lo ted heen schpes ‘
[11350]an of the first time i
[11351]er Giancana was shot. |
[11352]Uttes was headed by: i
[11353]Sea, Bank Ch ch. and bes since
[11354]heen replicadiby a sewly formed
[11355]7 ‘commaitles |hepied by Sen. Danial
[11356]th
[11360]‘Inctya (D4 Hawall) and Sen. How+
[11361]“erd Raker'(R, Tenn.): tn its fing] -
[11362]of report, | that/? former.’ committee :
[11363]tt * strongly urged the new committee’
[11364]o continue “the lnveztlgstion of ee! .
[11365]ert CLA neti tivity 2s weil as cone)
[11366]tong between the Cestro RESES= |
[11367]oo plot and the estassing on of:
[11369]SID AY ize .
[11370]eared questions about
[11371]a als maives Pate uF
[11372]ing-to the go-call |
[11374]Oy gents bed. SEK,
[11375]ig the CLA, attempts |
[11377]4
[11378]"Hart fotemiewed ‘Rbsell twied |
[11379]8-2 5G saber Of the former - hae a
[11380]‘salttee and he is glo a ember of 4
[11381]the sew!) Intelligence Cominittee, 1 ‘|
[11383]i “Rosell was very esedid Dut he-g’
[11384]hd” noth reludicer, ialdrmation,’ tet,
[11385]; ert pads es Loe (gk eS et
[11387]i Commilttas investigators sais .Avukiead
[11389]Sees ‘they Heve found 50 fink be~
[11391]--qween Rosell end Eugene M. Car
[11393]sofa, me Rockville; Mé:, pantique 230. st
[11395]: “dealer , with . ‘reported organized” ‘
[11397]“rime fopnections who died under
[11398]z P edreurssiantes | mysteriously coin!
[11399]P deatel te Roselle deste wae
[11400]we “Carcede, ‘37, Bas teported - <
[11402]“ang by hig wile on July 2B, the
[11403]Tteame day Roisll was bat sen byS
[11404]. yds deter tt Fi ee 5»
[11406]We had Eved fort pee Ye
[11410]| rou
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[11414]“tes Jslend on Aug. 4. bla yes
[11416]_ welgnted by two. US-pound: boat ou:
[11418]' ? “pestea’s body Honted 5 the ture >
[11420]a
[11421]faca of New York Harber. off Stae | |
[11423]a
[11425]wreoped fa & pndlocked chal and |
[11427]snchnrs, Fotlce avid te dad been . |
[11428]strangled, Roselit | Ted been asphy ‘Re ‘
[11429]lated, porethly ‘by strangling, ace ~
[11430]core Hag to nverticators heré, -. +
[11431]New York. City dettelives paid. |
[11432]‘thal: “Caratia “knew Glancana”™ but»
[11433]vthey have fot beea able :to. Plas:
[11434]- down ga motive in his death.” .
[11435]: ’ Jhe Washington Stor, quoting an’ 4
[11436]“unidentified ‘FBI source, reported'*
[11437]* thak. Carafic had met with Roselli’ “y-
[11438]s oy Chleago apout two monthergoe * 7
[11441]Bye RON La jaeneceue
[11443]betas Bat Mey nee |
[11445]5 . . i Tose t,
[11447]ia ‘Sen “Gant Hart 'D. Cold, made. an ‘uns anoun ed
[11448]* é . ti
[11450]_BMiami Friday for a private meeting with homicide punced ip ve.
[11452]= Corminitiee the strong: ini efest! of the Senate Select Intelpeace,; a
[11454]., Committee inthe John FR Roselli miGrder inv t
[11455]“, that federal agencies coopersté’ with local. eee ane to insure .
[11456]The FBI was ordered: “Srito™ the ‘case: last] week by oméy,,
[11457]General Edward Levi after’ pressure. from the Senate committee, :
[11458]: cc . We're not here te. solve the’ crime,” Hart sald, “we want to”
[11459]‘find out 4f there Js any connection belween Rose ») death 3 and
[11460]‘ _ his fe eétimony. ’ before. the: Comeniitesce) 3 ai
[11462]1.95. Rate
[11463]HART said ne piso: hop: ed. fa gia
[11464]“meet with local Sfficials of the FBG od] a
[11465]“and einmigration: aad Na rurale] co OE OO
[11466]¢ Won Serve, at le fe - ad may i
[11467]17 Reseln, 71, orgenized erie $ fig= ‘ ge
[11468]. Ure Who testified three times bee a2 so.
[11469]tere. the Senate Intelligences Come, 0 yy .
[11470]. _tnittee in the psst wear zbout” "nist! Pe,
[11471]ecruftment by the CLA ia @ jot tot’ . os
[11472]i WF:de} Cesta, was found sesd | . , : :
[11473]two weske geo, stulfed in ao. sik, 7 re ae oe
[11474]. Sram fos sting in Dumfoundling | _ o
[11475]. _ Bre. te .
[11476]a! Harting reget ‘Fisk Ghat the igtel-} Bo sae
[11477]“Nrence Comimitice Js* eg pacerned: re aa
[11478]aut the possibility that R Loselir ss! eee tl ee
[11479]étaih Is coanscted to his testimon: en OG
[11480]ny, atthovgh he' gid eg y there es, i ed ee
[11481]ne evidente? Sspeleatng “Romi. 600 ve
[11482]might have be€A Rilled to. prevents; eT
[11483]him froro talk} ng Bbout pibey, AS Wore _
[11485]2D know of no plang sthais
[11486]tb heve Vim come ba ok” Hart bed:
[11488]‘Lave called hire back af some [et s
[11489]“facts arose lly ee. eee ” rei
[11490]“But it would be reaching te fay
[11491]we hed sume indication slr he had. ot
[11492](ner. vet tecufied. sho) evidence” ae
[11493]spe or fant is BRS Meresaidss 8
[11495]AE ae at!
[11497]F
[11498]4
[11499]4
[11500]|
[11501]i
[11502]i
[11503]4
[11505]1
[11506]abe
[11507]4
[11508]4
[11509]i
[11510]i
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[11518]sven atngi eominerpme rete Re arate,
[11520]Be "THE GDEDER of Rosell,
[11522]-T home: in: June of 3973s 3
[11524].
[11527]= Riad Vaden cee
[11530]we Passe tg oe Pit
[11532]© a % ,
[11533]who,
[11534]ins April, renewed Ine,
[11535]tee jaterest in the
[11537]ee ET
[11539]= fast vestified.
[11541]e Eyellicenice Committ
[11543]retest, of Chicsgo organized, Sto mes
[11545]£ feader, 2SaTa (tomo) Giencany Gre
[11546]re& t f% ta qt
[11548]Vanesnay wes shot td th ne
[11550]tee?
[11551]¥ ame when Intelligesce Commi
[11552]ninvestigaigrs Were “aracking’ hin:
[11554]‘ BOR ie | Hart Friday “was?
[11555]h fienaéh Madigan, 2 a commiree™ atet
[11556]F Comey, who, in June of 1975, wes |
[11557]eparing 10 - interview - .Gianeaha”
[11558]““about his involvement; with Rosetil” 2
[11559]: jn thé Cadiro plot.
[11560]-Giantana pnd Fam
[11561]Tecime-, figure.
[11562]played
[11564]t
[11566]Gipenlzed -
[11567]Santo PaO Prcapte™
[11568]“secompanying roles"y.i0 ,
[11570]The CiA-lnspired Castro “espessina-s
[11571]Pusan: pet another committee Biatl .
[11573]Lem aryaveling, Mith Hart said,
[11574]e FLiGSN. ee NT eae
[11576]The t& spamitiee bed 210. " conside
[11577]fing Trefficente. the -
[11578]atigaior Said. but Salle
[11579]i nite wea never caved because Wey
[11580]vo aha gonside ed. Roselli §tes- :
[11582]taimony’ the most importants. “yd fg
[11586]~ 7 oO. “AREA ™ > jaw estige ora
[11587]“CHICAG are!
[11589]‘eopclused that .Giancan
[11591]istruggle. * : .
[11592]nae er erineless. Hart he tne ‘Her
[11593]Heid Friday that” with Rose's #
[11594]death, “troubling avestions”™ eb2ut -
[11595]“Giencane’g mutder ringer. “The cor *
[11596] Sncidences*t tepin fo siring | Meme :
[11597]taclves sogetheres sshd the S872,
[11598]! ore : dential geimprign manager fore
[11600]ror e MeGoverm. faa 07 ”
[11601]{ eed if pe was. eotis tied I wh:
[11602]tthe co anelusions “of Inve PELE ERI OTS
[11603]that Giaccens’s death war noi can-*
[11605]gangland *
[11607]te
[11609]inected vo his gwiential tact: nenys .
[11611]Vhefore the: seornmittee, Hart said
[11613]ms _s Ythere ig the’ abrence of anf correo"
[11615]* poratine. ‘Evidence. | “which Prevents’
[11617]Tem fo Page: “SB ca. < cel, :
[11619]ans een te -
[11621]oo aren: tA aie bee +
[11622]or ~ .
[11625]ORDER eMC tree es ees
[11627]E
[11632]i
[11634]on
[11636]a: . strongly ‘urged the new committee”
[11638]Neate “ 2 ow
[11640]e big etster bs Pl
[11642]HY .50955 Docld:
[11644]Potts oF
[11645]1
[11647]Visi Sits 5 Local|
[11649]. ef “from moving. Beyood a
[11650]er gt
[11652]. Madigan said thé widespredé ree.
[11653]ae alter Giencans’s death tat
[11654]i Defore the emutit-/ f
[11656]+t were not. true.’
[11658]cates, Ke bgrees., | ¢
[11660]becdy. related | to! fae pinks cA, asso
[11662]SH
[11663][oe FINALLY: “he chaotant
[11664]rae ‘nUimber che. day “hey sel)
[11665]Siled” Madigan. said | day Ve™.
[11666]: od setae difficulty tracking fim
[11667]Yown in Houston Gvbsre Glantana
[11669]'. Shad bara] in the bespitel) It bad -
[11670]» dted ‘decided | thet I was going R
[11672]jnterview | him” tg zee. witiher it*
[11674]' would be worth Ut to call & him aga |
[11676]witoess, He ed not beea contacted. j
[11677]yet and he. hes tot been subs |
[11678]need," hedigan seid, & |
[11679]2 Rotel, isbo had Besn ne 7
[11680]wnaed, did test ify for the First] tina |
[11681]four days ef fier Giancarg seas shot,
[11682]}. That corunittce was headed by.
[11683]“Sea, Fee ok Church and hes sines
[11684]Thean replacad by 2 sgwly formed
[11685]t. “egmraitice/ 7 hesded by Sen. Daniel
[11686]Jinchya (Dy Hawall) and Sea, How> ;
[11687]gerd Rsker| {Ry Tenn... qa iis fink]:
[11688]A trenore, “that? ‘former -) committee ;
[11690]i
[11692]“49. continue “the investigation of co *
[11693]tyert CLA Activity 23 well as ‘cone on
[11694]aictions bureeen the Cestro ar: :
[11696]gohn F FL Retest
[11698]AIA theres ite.
[11699]vat std questions about
[11700]Vee. Har way “Caweld's Unaives pare. a
[11701]i ticularly yelsting-to the so-called ||
[11702]i peteligtion ig theory” —~- that Castzo |!
[11703]“yor preCertro seents chad JFK
[11707]Oma. beralse: of the 1A, atlempis,
[11709]i
[11710]{on Castro’sitife .° a
[11711]aia Hast Iptenvieiwed' Reset awied 4
[11712]eS 2 member: of the former -com- |
[11713]ite and he 8 als a ember ef.
[11714]| the pew Inteligence Committee, |.” |
[11715]i “Rosell! was very ckodid Dut ae
[11716]Gd” nots yolunteer, information,Ty
[11717]art BLS wey Oe paserte
[11718]Committze Investsators geld RES
[11719]ay they Reve found so tink bee.
[11720]ween. Roselli and Evgese N. Cafe
[11721]“yale & Rock villey Mé,, Pppugue avio
[11722]dealer With | ‘reposted organized
[11724]o
[11726]: came copnections who ded vender, oo
[11728]J dycumsianges pyEieriously eoine* |
[11729]. to Roselli’s dest iv. fl ose
[11730]te 19], was tepocted “rae
[11732]fe Gay Rersll Hes ust seen by!
[11734]be aad Lved fort shee yes.
[11736]32423630 ‘Page 107
[11738]“ae by hig wile e2 duly 28, ihe . ad
[11740]ants} “aD with hom 3
[11742]dase of Hew. York Harbor off Stas |
[11743]‘ten Isisnd om Aug. 4, ble bady «
[11745]‘anchors. Peller apld he had been, |
[11746]- strangled, Rosalll {hed been. agphy's aa i.
[11748]*Coratta’e body Honted to the Bute.» ; 7
[11749]7
[11750]al
[11752]wreoved tn & padlocked chaln and
[11753]welpited -by ‘two. 15-pound boat
[11754]Iated, possthiy “by strangling, ace ne
[11756]New York. city: derectives sold ..
[11757]that Carella “knew Glancana” but -
[11759] earat: sg to nveriigators here, 6. | |
[11761]cthey have pot brea able to. Pin’: a
[11767]Hin Chleago about two anther a0. Sa:
[11769]“ down a motive in his death.” .
[11770]The Washington Star, quollng an’ .
[11771]tinidentified “FBI source, reported V!
[11772]that. Carstig had met with Rosell’ 4
[11776]weep:
[11779]7
[11781]- ", that federal agencies cooperste'w
[11783]H
[11785]he
[11786]eon a ae ese
[11788]were "By RON sBRECQUE
[11790]an herave Laud werner
[11792]a Sen. Gary art ‘D., les 10, made” ‘an ‘uns
[11793]Miami Friday for a private’ meeting with homicide de
[11795]nnounc
[11797]with local. police!” ;
[11799]The FBI was ordered-iite the ‘case Jast’ week br A
[11801]* General Edward Levi after ipressure.f from
[11802]+f. “We're not ere to-solve the’ crime,” Han seid, “ we want 10
[11803]‘find out if there fs any connection between Roses 's) death and
[11804]his testimony  pefore, the: Committee? wee : red
[11806]. mittee in the past wear bout ;
[11807]recruitment Sy the CIA id @ Pe.
[11808]xilf ri Bel Crstrt, WAS Found |
[11810]: might yave beta Killed 10. prevent’
[11811]him froma talking zboul piber
[11812]' re Orgenired crime pacts,’
[11813]"Dknow of no plans whats
[11814]“tp have Fim come bask," Hart
[11815]“pul thats not te say we woulda
[11816]‘have calls a fire hack it some
[11817]“Facts arose ys
[11819]HART SAID he Jalsa” hoped tee ;
[11820]“meet with local @ificials of th eiFBL.
[11822]“and Immig
[11824]lion fervice. at la ute
[11826]ration and Natur Peas
[11828]Resell, 71, organized crime| TE
[11829]ure who festified three times: bev
[11830]dore.the Se
[11832]no
[11834]Impatient {9 Sas ier
[11836]HW 50955
[11838]wl Natt ine rae. st ‘Clear that thers i!
[11839]Veence | Committee js” coscerned: |
[11840]ahut the possiblity Chat Roselli brs:
[11841]étaih is connected to hig testimion, | wor Te
[11843]i he'did séy there § Ras, | ces
[11845]ante’ Lindicating. * Rexel]
[11847]nale Intelligence. Come;
[11849]hers
[11853]‘Pocld: 32423630 ‘Page 106
[11855]the Senate committee. fe
[11857]ed “trip: 19;
[11858]teetives: to |
[11859]underscore the strong inieiest.of the Senate Sélect Intelligence.
[11860]_ Coninittee in ibe John Roselli Fiurder inv estigation and to insure
[11862]. erlast resified in April,
[11866]¥ gimme when
[11867]_lnvesigneet were ‘aracking: him:
[11869]6 aN od er
[11871]Abhay 4
[11873]“ _— Fn ne ete eheelirereentinnet enn va SB a
[11875]: . } we tere
[11877]- cet 1 OE hy *
[11878]7 DER of 7 Rosell, wh
[11880]committer iaterest in the
[11882]telligence © eed. IP ne
[11884]ae at Chicago 0
[11885]Stead er ,Sam g
[11887]fomo} Gisncsna, Gre
[11888]wes shot 10 death fn, His
[11890]June of 1975, dust a aa!
[11891]Intelligence Commitiee?
[11893]sown n ‘Friday w “ist
[11895]; om Aving Ha ‘
[11896]tee eae, avcomminet” atet
[11897]¥ torney who, in Jun€
[11899]of 1975, wes “
[11902]aring to interview .
[11903]*“sbout his involvement with, es
[11905]: “in the. Caco plot 2: Syenlzed -
[11907]aheapa and Tarmp a 6
[11908]nae figure. Santo Plrraffieante”
[11909]played| zeepmpanylng oles. in.
[11910]the ClA-Inspired Cesire essosenty
[11911]tion: plot, another gommitt¢e nid
[11912]Lamember aryeveling, with Hart, sai
[11914]: FLiVaye,
[11915]4° The ten
[11917]ay gg bpenging
[11918]ef eG) Subp aior ‘gaid, but Tratfix
[11920]H ag
[11921]f tante ies aeae nevey called because the J
[11922]a Gosirlttes, considered. Rosli's, eset
[11923]fb imeny Ube most important tits
[11924]: Aandi We. eet ‘ee ee 283
[11925]TCHICAGO- sAREA *- Investigators iH
[11926]ae clases that Giancana’s’ death
[11927]part of ao° vinterbal . gangland ¢
[11929]egie.
[11931]i WASEDA Hurt ‘ol The ‘Here .
[11932]Lel@ Friday that * with WRoschi’s *
[11933]1 deeih, “troubling questions” Epo. :
[11934], Giencane’s. ‘ynulder Enger. “The co *
[11935]“incidences”
[11936]$ selves] TOBRe
[11937]t preset anne. mw
[11939]Hs $e GOeerte OT
[11940]aren if he was. eptistied i a:
[11941]{the congiusions (ef investigator 5
[11942]tharGiancens ‘g death was roi cone:
[11943], reves to hig potential sestinonys |
[11944]Fs the “eormittet, an said:
[11946]intros eters
[11948]“ive bed ‘aleo. Conte.
[11949]veing Trafficante. the:
[11951]x
[11953]there ssié the 3872:
[11954]aneger ford
[11956]bepin “to. siting Ueme +
[11958]TPES OREN Tepe em i ae
[11960]soromeegne
[11962]SSN Peg iota grt
[11965]a Bid the widespredé res red
[11966]ports ae Giencana’s death: that :
[11967]Rg appesranee before the comuinite,
[11968]“tee ‘es framinéat wefe not true,
[11969]phat Purther indicates, he Spread, &
[11970]_ Anat Giancane’s desth sas pot, dhe!
[11971]ectly. related o'his’ peaks CA. A aso: +
[11972]sedation: oe =
[11974]i [eve FINALLY: Ee hin
[11975]rae’ niimber «the day “hav west
[11976]Stile,” Madigan. Said Friday.“We™:
[11977]» dad some difioulty tracking, him
[11978]| Bowen in Rouston (where Glan Yo
[11979]'. had beeal tn the bespitel), It had - 43 “
[11980]. heed ‘decided thet I owas going to I ft
[11982]' would beltorth Ht to call him: ins|® |
[11984]po,
[11986]oe
[11988]{. coat
[11990]ne “Covstta’ s body Honted to the sure.
[11992]witness, He hed not been coatscted ‘“faca of New. York Flarbor off Stae | ;
[11993]1
[11994]i
[11996]yet and heshag tot Mea. subpee %
[11997]aied,” Madigan sid :
[11999]‘tes Island oa Aug. 4, ble body -
[12001]. * . mn 2 welguted by two. li-poun at ‘
[12002]7 OF: al ib 3 | ied Been nabph | ‘anchors, Pollce ayid he hatd been | 7
[12003]snaed, did testify for the first ‘ure: i strangled. Roselli ‘hed been'a asphyS Re a ie
[12004]‘ at ca jer Ginneara was spot | ’ lated, possibly ‘by streng!ing, ace~ ;
[12005]ise & ca hoes hee ct by cording 10 Inverligstors heres 1.
[12006]; ay Evsak: Chueh and bas zines New York. City dethctives sald ..
[12008]i heen rep Tce ‘by 2 newly formed that-Car, t :
[12009]oon Swede Sen. 4 effa “knew Glancana™ but >,
[12010]6% raittee * sat é by Daniel , they have fot been able to: in
[12012]“ts “down a motive in his death. |
[12013]§ werd Rakey, vel Tea): ib ‘its final ee We
[12014]| i yeport, “that. ‘former committee : *. The Washington Star, quoting an
[12016]““tmidantif{ied ‘FBI source, reneated
[12017]‘strong! urged the new committee * :
[12018]"46 contau thé Investigation of cos! i that Caretis had met with Rosell’ ‘
[12020]; oes CIA Activity 25 well as cone +]. ; Hin Chleego about two mon: iacen pa
[12021]| ‘sections birween the Cestro asad. | yet "
[12022]"nation plot end ihe extassinatibn of: oT
[12024], 2obn F. Kénnd ote
[12026]“AKT arp FRIDAY there, are,
[12027]ati unin AS suvered questions shout
[12028]LLee Harvey: Giwall's motives ps . : ; ; oe,
[12029]. ticularly jelsthag -t9 the go-catied ! , ;
[12030]i peteliat! ea igory™ — thet Cartzo . _
[12032]1 ANd Dbecaliie of the CLA attempts .
[12033]on cas Ng Lifes Pal
[12034]Yo Bart interviewed" Rose of whee A
[12035]“eS 2 xoember-of the dormer cores 4
[12036]i
[12037]i
[12039]Parr
[12041]: ‘mittee and be is abso a pember of,
[12042]the ew IntelB gence Cominittee. 1)
[12043]i “Rosell wes very cacdid bur oA
[12045]: alormation,” . - oe
[12046]CRatesace Lae ia Ce Be
[12047]; y+ Comsnlttes javestizators geld odes So, Co,
[12048]Gey they Reve. found BQ 3. be;
[12049]“yaween- Rosai and Evgese Ne
[12050]-? ieee a anug
[12053]miay to altar Niia ut “ ee
[12055]ecm} 37, Bas Fepected mais . ; ; aes
[12057]$8 ty hig wile on July 28, the . |
[12059]. “teame day; Ror Bss Sons oho a 7 —— :
[12060]whip siter in Plantetion With whom ' -
[12062]A “be bed lived for tuce yore
[12064]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 - ' Page 109
[12068]MEMORANDUM:|F
[12070]Michael Madigan
[12072]August 13, “1976
[12074]i
[12075]_ a
[12076]' i
[12078]I recently discussed: with. Agent Richard ‘tayl
[12079]Federal Bureau of. Investigation my’ recollections om
[12081]testimony interviews with Mr John Rosselli prior |
[12083]testifying under oath in- Jume of 1975.
[12085]_ that there: ive several meetings between: myaelf,
[12087]the. Committee, and Rosselli
[12089]attorneys expressed on> numerous occasions. ‘fear. o:
[12091]of Rosselit.| ‘They insisted and: the Comittes:
[12093]- would conduct i
[12095]. li
[12098]“Location. ae fe
[12100]- During these! ir
[12104]stated. that! he was. taking a 4a
[12106]Aaa
[12108]"worried about retaltacion and paredeulariy wornt
[12111]relatives. we
[12113]at
[12114]o
[12116]i
[12117]It te. ay recollection.
[12119]and his: “attorneys.
[12121]se
[12122]tl
[12124]tee the | questioner used: che. mesa aff
[12126]the presence of Senator.
[12128]the Senator that he, Rosse
[12130]his life an | that: -he: was).
[12132]before the: Committee. tam
[12134]_
[12135]whether: that conversation ¢ ak
[12137]yo
[12139]4
[12141]room, or. elsewhere.
[12143]Throughout his. testi
[12148]calling
[12150]erfurt :
[12153]£ lying 1 from:
[12154]interviews «
[12157]HW 50955
[12159]"THURSDAY, A
[12161]Ge Washington Post
[12163]AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ae ok
[12165]~ Who Killed John Roselli?
[12167]E'RE GOING TO tell you a little story now.
[12168]Once there was a President who was murdered.
[12169]His brother was murdered too. A long time after they
[12170]died some very strange facts came to light. It turned
[12171]out that while they were running the government,
[12173]the government was trying to get two Mafia mobsters
[12175]to arrange the murder of someone else—the head of
[12176]a smail, hostile neighbor state. It also turned out that
[12177]one brother—the one who was President—appar-
[12178]ently had a girlfriend who was the girlfriend as well
[12179]of the mobsters. And one of the mobsters, whose
[12180]nickname was Momo, was prominent on the list of
[12182]criminals the President’s brother was trying to put in -
[12184]jail. The story may sound complicated, but life is com-
[12185]plicated, and the complications in this case got even
[12186]more so. For when’ a committee of the Congress
[12187]wanted the two mobsters to come and tell them some-
[12188]thing about all this, only one of them—the one
[12189]named Johnny— came, The other one, Momo, was.
[12190]murdered in his house a week before they wanted
[12191]him to testify. Johnny, however, told his story to one
[12192]committee in the Congress and then came back—qui-
[12193]etly—-to tell some more things to another committee
[12194]which was in fact looking into the murder of the
[12195]President. Then Johnny went to Florida. Then no one.
[12196]could find him. Then some fishermen found him. |
[12197]Dead. In an oil drum.
[12199]But we haven’t told you the strangest part of all
[12200]yet, the part you're really not going to believe. It is
[12201]that when the great national political community of
[12202]solons, scribes, policemen, spies and managers of the
[12203]general: wellbeing heard about poor Johnny, they
[12205]said: “Oh, my goodness.” Some of them went farther, _
[12207]of course. They said: “Fancy that!” But most of them
[12208]didn’t say anything at all except: “Yawn.”
[12210]Forgive us for lapsing into storybookese. We do it
[12211]for a reason which is that the simple unadorned facts
[12212]of the John and Robert Kennedy-Fidel Castro-CIA-
[12213]Mafia-Momo Giancana-Johnny Roselli-Judith Exner-.
[12214]Church Committee-Schweiker Committee saga need
[12216]_ to be put. forward in stark outline for their magni-
[12217]tude to be understood. Is it really, as the sophisticated ~
[12219]wisdom goes, “paranoid” on our part to brood about
[12220]the suggestive and possibly monstrous interconnec-
[12221]tions between all these facts and to wonder why they
[12222]are not the object of intense press and government
[12224]- scrutiny? What accounts for the general indifference
[12226]in high places? What accounts for the.eagerness with
[12227]which we all seem to accept that familiar tipoff that
[12228]we shall be hearing no more about the latest crime—
[12229]i.e., the pronouncement that Mr. Roselli’s dispatch to
[12230]an oil drum and Beyond had “all the earmarks of a
[12232]: gangland slaying.” Those are. the good old “ear-
[12233]- marks” we only hear about when it is next to. certain,. ‘ment in particular can turn their attention away un-
[12235]that we shall hear nothing more.
[12236]The supposition of course is that the Gang which
[12237]runs gangland has its reasons and its methods and
[12239]" that, disagreeable as these may be, they really lie out-
[12240]; side the proper realm of public concern because they _
[12242]me
[12244]“The Data From oo
[12246]Page 118.
[12248]Docld: 32423630
[12250]amount to a system of justice which 1) only affects
[12251]those dumb enough to get involved in it in the first
[12252]place and 2) tends only to punish those who have
[12253]committed what the rest of us would regard as hei-
[12254]nous crimes anyway. Not that these are things people
[12256]_say-——they’re things people can be expected to as-
[12258]sume. But we think in this case the assumptions have
[12259]even less validity than they would have on a clear
[12260]day, which isn’t much. And that is because if we
[12261]know anything, we know that the Mafia operations in
[12262]which Messers. Giancana and Roselli figured had be-
[12263]come intertwined with the operations of the United
[12264]States government. Never mind that the decisions of
[12265]the early 1960s which made this so may rank among
[12266]the miost abominable decisions ever taken in the U.S.
[12267]government. The plain fact is that, given the provoca-
[12268]tive and suggestive history of the two men, it is not
[12269]possible for either Congress or the Executive Branch
[12270]‘to look the other way or to complaisantly accept the
[12271]earmarks-of-a-gangland-slaying bromide.
[12273]_ After Mr. Giancana was killed, the Church Commit-
[12274]tee inquired of the FBI whether its proposed meeting
[12275]with him had figured in his murder. The FBI re- .
[12276]ported that it had no evidence to this effect. The
[12277]_then-director of the CIA, William Colby, felt obliged
[12278]to state that the CIA had had nothing to do with the.
[12279]murder—and Mr. Colby likewise pronounced the
[12280]other day that he was certain the CIA had not done in
[12281]Mr. Roselli. The mere fact that the questions, to
[12282]which these were meant to be the answers, had been
[12283]raised tells us, anyway, that much more in the way of |
[12284]inquiry is wanted. The newly formed Senate Select
[12285]Committee on Intelligence has now asked the Justice
[12287]' Department to make an investigation of Mr. Roselli’s .
[12289]death. We think the Department should comply and
[12290]that the investigation, despite FBI Director Clarence
[12291]Kelley's disclaimer .of jurisdiction, should have the
[12292]., Attorney General's personal attention. Such. atten-
[12293]tion is needed because of the elaborate and not en-
[12295]‘tirely reassuring history of relationships between the -
[12296]‘FBI and the CIA and the various participants in the
[12297]- whole sorry saga. We are not suggesting’ that any
[12299]agency of government—or even any of those agen-
[12300]cy’s fringe retainers —-were the murderers. We are
[12301]suggesting that there is an overlay of potentially em-
[12302]barrassing information sufficiently pervasive to keep
[12304]- an awful lot of: people from wanting to have this
[12306]thing aired. We also think that the Select Committee
[12307]should reserve the right to pursue the matter. Con-
[12308]gress, after all. can hardly be expected to sit idly by
[12310]‘while its witnesses aré being done in. Nor do we see .:
[12312]how the public in general and the political establish
[12314]til we are all satisfied that a much greater effort has —
[12315]been made by the government—which means both
[12316]the Executive Branch and the Congress—to discover
[12317]what elements were at play in this series of appalling
[12318]_ crimes. and scandals.
[12320]“|
[12323]ROSSELLI CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
[12325]1955 Meets Maheu at insurance friend's home.
[12327]1960 Late July/early August. Maheu calls. Working for government. Recruit
[12328]Rosselli only. Meet Brown Derby, L.A., for lunch. Long talk about
[12329]project in Cuba. Rosselli wants verification.
[12331]2nd meeting, L.A., discuss further details, no discussion of specific
[12332]techniques. Plan to meet in N.Y. for verification.
[12334]Sept. 14, 1960. First meeting in N.Y. at old Plaza Hotel. Rosselli
[12335]‘introduced by Maheu to O'Connell. Rosselli "knew" O'Connell worked
[12336]for the CIA. Rosselli agrees to work on Cuban project.
[12338]Sept. 25, 1960. Maheu and Rosselli travel to Miami to begin making
[12339]contact with Cubans to be recruited for mission.
[12341](Between Sept. 25 and the Bay of Pigs, a series of recruitments, meetings,
[12342]and arrangements were made. The following is an outline of events that
[12343]is not necessarily in chronological order.)
[12346]-- Meeting where Maheu is introduced to Trafficantg. Meeting
[12347]where Maheu is introduced to Giancana. Giancana was, according
[12348]to Rosselli, to only be a "back up man."' Rosselli states ®
[12349]Giancana had nothing to do with the actual operation. Trafficant¢.
[12350]was used, according to Rosselli, as a translator.
[12352]-- Meeting with O'Connell, Maheu, Rosselli, Sad fpye™iderhxg]s*tes==
[12353]discuss the Cuban project.
[12355]-- Rosselli, in his contact with the Cubans, "invents" the cover
[12356]story that he represents some Wall Street business interests who
[12357]want to see Castro eliminated. Rosselli trusts Cubans he has
[12358]recruited because they are part of the Bay of Pigs operation.
[12360]-- lst attempt at assassination involved the use of pills. Maheu ~
[12361]and Rosselli met with Cuban #1 and #2 (?}. Maheu opened up his
[12362]briefcase and gave the pills with instructions for their use to
[12363]Cuban #1. Maheu also had $10,000 he gave the Cubans for doing
[12364]the project. Rosselli did not know of the money. Rosselli states
[12365]he received no remumeration for his work on the project, in fact,
[12366]he paid out $800 for gas for a speed boat to deliver two or three
[12367]man parties for guerrilla raids into Cuba.
[12369]-- Prior to Bay of Pigs there was no discussion of using guns to
[12370]assassinate Castro.
[12372]-- Rosselli's cover name was "John Ralston."
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[12376]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[12378]-- At different times, Cuban #1, #2, or #3 would propose different
[12380]projects. These would range from using plastic explosives to
[12381]booby trapping Castro's desk. Rosselli would relay these on
[12382]to Maheu, who, in turn, would contact the CIA. Most projects
[12383]were vetoed, but the CIA did supply a short wave radio to the
[12385]Cubans in Florida, to try and make contact with their people
[12386]in Havana.
[12388]Eventually, Rosselli felt the project had failed. There was no
[12389]specific point when it was announced. But, at sometime Rosselli
[12390]assumed the project, for whatever reason, had not succeeded.
[12392]Page 1270
[12394]_DATE
[12396]1959
[12398]October |
[12399]1960
[12401]1961 Feb.
[12403]Early 1961
[12405]April 1961
[12407]"May 31, 1961
[12409]Rest of 1961
[12411]" and 1962
[12413]Sometime in
[12414]early 1960's
[12416]October 1962
[12418]Early 1963
[12420]March 1963
[12422]Sometime in
[12424]1963
[12426]November
[12428]1963
[12430]Early 1964
[12432]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[12434]CHRONOLOGY
[12435](ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY
[12437]U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS)
[12439]EVENT OR ITEM
[12441]Richard Bissel becomes DDP
[12442](head of Plans Directorate)
[12444]Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las
[12445]Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor
[12446]to Giancana, and (b) done by
[12447]Rosselli) ;
[12449]Lumumba mysteriously killed
[12450]during Congolese strife.
[12452]News reports of CIA consideration
[12454]of Lumumba plot, but claim it
[12456]SOURCE ( Where Necessary)
[12458]Date and Rosselli role from
[12459]Government Opposition paper
[12460]to Rosselli motion for
[12462]reduction in sentence, 1971
[12464]Wash.Post & Star contempor-
[12465]aneous accounts
[12467]Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
[12468]Lardener and Greider Tab A
[12470]was done by others,e.g. Belgians?
[12472]Attempts to kill Gastro before
[12473]Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli
[12474]team
[12476]Bay of Pigs Landing
[12478]Trujillo assassinated; charge
[12479]of U.S. involvement
[12481]Fossibly ongoing efforts to
[12482]Kill Gastro by Rosselli team
[12484]RFK quashes prosecution. of
[12485]Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap
[12487]Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for
[12488]background reference)
[12490]n
[12492]Rosselli training a team in Miami
[12494]area
[12496]Rosselli's last effort to
[12497]kill Castro ©
[12499]RFK stopped further efforts
[12501]Diem killed in Saigon coup
[12502]JFK told Smathers later
[12503]he thought CIA involved
[12505]Colby head of DDP Far East
[12507]Division at the time
[12509]Howard Hunt and others from
[12510]Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on
[12511]another Castro assassination
[12513]Page 1271
[12515]Jack Anderson 1967, 1971
[12516]and 1975 columns; .
[12517]Watergate Helms memcon
[12519]Jack Anderson column (1/19/
[12520]71) on Smathers coversation
[12521]with JFK. Agee book ( obvious
[12522]ly suspect in some respects)
[12524]e
[12526]last attempt by : .
[12527]Rosselli team in 1963,infra.
[12529]' Watergate memcons on Keeney
[12530]and Wilson interviews
[12532]Wash. Post Greider/Lardener
[12534]. story,supra., states Army
[12535]Rangér Capt Ayres saw him.
[12537]J. Anderson 1971 columns
[12539]J. Anderson 1971 columns
[12541]J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column
[12542]articles on Colby
[12544]reported by Tad Szulc in
[12545]book on Howard Hunt (1974)
[12547]May 1965
[12549]May 1965
[12550](or later)
[12552]> 1966
[12553]1967
[12555]March 3
[12556]1967
[12558]K
[12560]( more on Hunt Castro project)
[12562]Assassination alleged to have
[12563]beenflanned as part of a smaller
[12564]invasion effortand preparations
[12565]were allegedly made in Costa Rica
[12567]Hunt Castro scheme “aborted when
[12569]Dominican Republic strife broke out
[12570](scheme also allegedly involved
[12572]McCord, Barker and Sturgis)
[12574]As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting
[12576]‘on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ
[12578]asked Helms if CIA had ever
[12580]been involved in assassination
[12582](of a leader) and Helms said "no",
[12583]SAA Poisowsn lot aq] aia
[12584]Pees, Duvalieej@ Pb atest "GF
[12585]Rosselli indicted for alien law
[12587]and interstate gambling crimes
[12588](Friars Club card game rigging)
[12590]First Anderson column.on Rosselli
[12592]In response to Anderson story,
[12594]. RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman
[12596]1968
[12597]1968
[12599]Early 1969
[12601]1970
[12603]1971 Jan.18
[12605]Jan.19
[12607]he shut it off;
[12609]CIA bembeg Haitians pdece
[12611]- Rosselli sentenced to 5 years
[12613]Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for
[12614]Justice Dept. Rosselli file
[12616]Rosselli goes before grand jury
[12617]under immunity re:Giancana
[12619]First of three Anderson columns
[12621]rset.
[12622]A(scheduled to go before grand
[12624]jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls
[12625]AG John Mitchell
[12627]Same day: Haldeman. ied Dean to inquire-
[12629]into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties
[12631]Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson
[12633]on Rosselli matter
[12635]Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
[12636]involved in covert activity for CIA in
[12638]early 1960's
[12640]Rosselli files motion for reduction -
[12642]in sentence, citing Anderson stories
[12644]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 122
[12646]and presenting memorandum to Court
[12648]Chronology
[12650]“= 2
[12652]Szule,supra
[12654]Katzenbach testimony
[12655]to Senate Select Committ
[12657]Avdeesan cok, ool: WS
[12659]Government Opposition
[12660]to sentence reduction,
[12662]supra .
[12664]We dont have, but Andersc
[12665]referred to in Hersh NY
[12666]Times story 3/10/75
[12668]Hersh story, supra
[12669]prodtasep crf, yfofor
[12671]Government Opposition, .
[12673]Keeney Watergate memcon
[12675]Government Opposition,sup
[12679]Lenzner memo to SenErvin
[12680]on Rosselli ( and phone lc
[12682]_DATE
[12684]1959
[12686]October
[12687]1960
[12689]1961 Feb.
[12691]Early 1961
[12693]April 1961
[12695]May 31, 1961
[12697]Rest of 1961
[12698]and 1962
[12700]Sometime in
[12701]early 1960's
[12703]October 1962
[12705]Early 1963
[12707]March 1963
[12709]Sometime in
[12711]1963
[12713]November
[12715]1963
[12717]Early 1964
[12719]‘HW 50955 Docld:32423630
[12721]CHRONOLOGY
[12722](ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY
[12724]U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS)
[12726]EVENT OR ITEM
[12728]Richard Bissel becomes DDP
[12729](head of Plans Directorate)
[12731]Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las
[12733]Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor
[12734]to Giancana, and (b) done by
[12735]Rosselli)
[12737]Lumumba mysteriously killed
[12738]during Congolese strife.
[12740]News reports of CIA consideration
[12742]of Lumumba plot, but claim it
[12744]was done by others,e.g. Belgians?
[12746]Attempts to kill G@astro before
[12748]Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli
[12750]team
[12752]Bay of Pigs Landing
[12754]Trujillo assassinated; charge
[12755]of U.S. involvement
[12757]Possibly ongoing efforts to
[12759]Kill Gastro by Rosselli team
[12761]RFK quashes prosecution of
[12763]Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap
[12765]Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for
[12766]background referente)
[12768]Rosselli training a team in Miami
[12769]area :
[12771]- Rosselli's last effort to
[12772]kill Castro
[12774]RFK stopped further efforts
[12776]Dien killed in Saigon coup
[12778]JFK told Smathers later
[12779]he thought CIA involved
[12781]Colby head of DDP Far East
[12782]Division at the time
[12784]Howard Hunt and others from
[12786]Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on
[12788]another Castro assassination
[12790]Page 123
[12792]SOURCE ( Where Necessary)
[12794]Date and Rosselli role from
[12795]Government Opposition paper
[12796]to Rosselli motion for
[12798]reduction in sentence, 1971
[12800]Wash.Post & Star contempor-
[12801]“aneous accounts
[12803]Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by
[12804]Lardener and Greider Tab A
[12806]Jack Anderson 1967, 1971
[12807]and 1975 columns; .
[12808]Watergate Helms memcon
[12810]Jack Anderson column (1/19/
[12811]71) on Smathers coversation
[12812]with JFK. Agee book ( obvious
[12813]ly suspect in some respects)
[12815]last attempt by :
[12816]Rosselli team in 1963,infra.
[12818]Watergate memcons on Keeney
[12819]and Wilson interviews
[12821]Wash. Post Greider/Lardener
[12823]story,supra., states Army
[12824]Ranger Capt Ayres saw him.
[12826]J. Anderson 1971 columns
[12828]J. Anderson 1971 columns
[12830]J, Anderson; -1/19/71-column _-
[12831]articles on Colby a
[12833]reported by Tad Szulc in
[12834]book on Howard Hunt (2974)
[12836]Chronology -= 2
[12838]( more on Hunt Castro project)
[12840]Assassination alleged to have
[12841]peenflanned as part of a smaller
[12842]invasion effortand preparations
[12843]were allegedly made in Costa Rica
[12845]May 1965 Hunt Castro scheme "aborted when
[12846]Dominican Republic strife broke out
[12847](scheme also allegedly involved
[12848]McCord, Barker and Sturgis)
[12849]May 1965 As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting
[12850](or later) on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ
[12851]asked Helms if CIA had ever
[12852]been involved in assassination
[12853](of a leader) and Helms said “no"
[12854]1967 © Rosselli indicted for alien law
[12855]and interstate gambling crimes.
[12856](Friars Club card game rigging)
[12857]March 3 First Anderson column.on Rosgelli
[12858]1967
[12859]In response to Anderson story,
[12860]RFK telis Walinsky and Edelman
[12861]he shut it off;
[12862]1968 Rosselli sentenced to 5 years
[12863]Early 1969 Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for
[12864]Justice Dept. Rosselli file
[12865]1970 Rosselli goes before grand jury
[12867]1971 Jan.18
[12869]Jan.19
[12871]Jan. 27
[12873]| £eb.1
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[12877]under immunity re:Giancana
[12879]First of three Anderson columns
[12881]Mayhu (scheduled to go before grand
[12882]jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls
[12883]“AG John Mitchell
[12885]Same day: Haldeman ie¢as Dean to inquire —
[12887]into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties
[12889]on Rosselli matter
[12891]Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was
[12892]involved in covert activity for CIA in
[12893]early 1960's .
[12895]Rosselli files motion for reduction ~
[12897]in sentence, citing Anderson stories
[12898]and presenting memorandum to Court
[12900]Page 1374 —
[12902]Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson
[12904]Szule, supra
[12906]Katzenbach testimony
[12907]to Senate Select Committ
[12909]Government Opposition
[12910]to sentence reduction,
[12912]Supra . \
[12914]We dont have, but Anderso
[12915]referred to in Hersh NY
[12916]Times story 3/10/75
[12918]Hersh story,supra
[12920]Government Opposition,
[12922]Keeney Watergate memcon
[12924]Government Opposition,supr
[12926]Lenzner memo to SenErvin
[12927]on Rosselli ( and phone 1c
[12929]#.
[12931]WW 50955 Docld!32423630 |
[12933]Page
[12935]After the|Bay of Pigs (April 1961)
[12937]Rosselli felt ; "sorry for the poor bastards, deft on the
[12939]beach.”
[12943]Yag
[12945]pate_in the-invasion— Two or three weeks
[12947]invasion, Rosselli was contacted in Los
[12949]hotel in Miami.
[12950]to Harvey:
[12951]the Cuban| project.
[12952]all contact with Maheu and Giancana.
[12954]a the
[12955]Angeles by
[12956]O'Connell, a meeting was arranged for at the airport
[12958]Rosselli went there and was introduced
[12959]O'Connell said Harvey was now|/in charge of
[12960]Harvey told Rosselli he was to cease
[12961]Further, Harvey
[12963]E
[12965]stated that the government was still interested in using
[12967]Rosselli for intelligence-gathering operations.
[12969]Rosselli
[12971]would report information from the Cubans to Harvey about
[12973]personalities and events in Cuba.
[12974]relay on to his Cuban contacts requests!
[12975]formation! from the CIA. :
[12977]Rosselli would also
[12979][for specific in-
[12981]. . | ~ ;
[12982]Sometime between the Bay of Pigs invasion
[12984]land the Cuban
[12986]missile crisis, Harvey gave Rosselli six poison capsules.
[12988]Rosselli,
[12990]in turn, gave them to’ his Cuban |
[12992]contacts who
[12994]were to take them to Cuba, where another Cuban or Cubans
[12996]would use| them to assassinate Castro.
[12998]viously failed. At one point, Rosselli)
[12999]over the radio that Castro was very ill:
[13000]later, he! recovered.
[13002]Rosselli never
[13003]learned the details of what happened, but
[13005][the project ob-
[13006]remembers hearing
[13007]'A short time
[13009]site
[13010]t
[13014]Sometime before the missile crisis, Rosselli arranged,
[13016]pursuant to Cuban #1 request, for a van
[13018]and ammunition to be delivered in Floridal
[13019].Ros$elli watched the Cuban contact pick’
[13021]return it) empty. Rosselli assumed that:
[13023]loaded with rifles
[13024]O'Connell and
[13025]up ‘the van and.
[13026]these guns were
[13028]going to be used by the two or three-man raiding parties
[13030]in Cuba to assassinate Castro and overthrow the
[13032]j
[13034]During the Cuban missile crisis, Rosselli
[13038]government.
[13040]i
[13041]was in Chicago.
[13043]He contacted Harvey at Harvey's mother's home in Indian-
[13045]apolis and left his number in Chicago. -
[13046]him, told him to go to Washington, D. Ce
[13048]| Harvey then called
[13049]From Washington,
[13051]D.C., Rosselli traveled to Florida where he stayed for
[13053]the duration of the Cuban missile crisis.|
[13054]would, through his Cuban contacts, attempt
[13055]of the Russian missiles in Cuba. | I
[13056]After the! Cuban missile
[13058]location
[13059]that this had been successful.
[13060]crisis, Harvey called Rosselli and told
[13061]contacts
[13062]missions.
[13063]called off.
[13065]135
[13067]with any and all persons involved
[13068]Harvey never stated why the missions were being
[13069]am
[13070]i
[13072]‘He, at times,
[13073]to verify the
[13074]Rosselli claimed
[13076]him to stop all
[13077]in. past Cuban
[13080]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 : Page 126 : |
[13082]Pod
[13083]|
[13084]Rowan Tap : |
[13085]Rosselli said that he understood that Giancana had
[13086]asked Maheu for. a tap on Dan Rowan. Maheu gave
[13087]Rosselli two stories. The first was thatjhe was
[13088]doing Giancana a favor and the second was that there
[13089]was a real intelligence value in that Maheu was
[13090]afraid that Giancana or Rowan might be giving out
[13091]intelligence information that would be of value to
[13092]enemies of the United States. Rosselli:had not heard
[13093]of the names Dubois or Belotti or Fred Harrison. He
[13094]admitted that Harvey had discussed the tap with hin,
[13095]but both Harvey and Rosselli were mad that the opera-
[13096]tion had gone. on. Giancana obviously knew about the
[13097]tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get pail money for
[13098]the two tappers who were caught and thrown in jail.
[13099]Maheu suggested that Rosselli could get a; hotel to
[13100]turn over! the bail money. Finally, Rosselli arranged
[13101]to have aj man with a green carnation in' ‘his lapel
[13102]meet and transfer the bail money. He never received
[13103]any of this money back. Rosselli claims that he did
[13104]not know what type of tap went on. He admitted that
[13105]he had been questioned by the FBI but he gave no
[13106]answers. | Rosselli knew that Maheu had been questioned
[13107]by the FBT. : RL
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[13112]some background information.
[13114]MEMORANDUM | !
[13115]To: my Gary |
[13116]From: Rick —
[13117]Date: August 10, 1976
[13118]Subject: Roselli
[13119]First,
[13120]August 9,
[13122]if
[13123]S
[13127]Kelley and/Bush to discuss Roselli's
[13129]doesn't wal ve to touch this with a ten-foot pole.
[13131]meeting,
[13133]been told by Justice (Richard Thornburg) that it
[13135]jurisdiction in this case.
[13137]consulted. |
[13139]a letter
[13141]6
[13143]requested Kelley to take this ‘up directly with Lew.
[13145]Senators Baker and Inouye (especially
[13147]Fi Adams told ‘Inouye and Baker that the'
[13149]Levi had,
[13151]‘Yesterday,
[13153]enators Inouye and Baker met with Directors
[13155]ideath. The FBI
[13157]At the
[13158]FBI had
[13159]had no
[13161]apparently, not been
[13163]Baker)
[13165]Today,
[13167]was sent ‘to Levi, signed by |Baker ang | Tnouye, urg-
[13169]ing Justice to authorize FBI involvement. A copy of that
[13171]letter is
[13173]One
[13175]attached.
[13177]other point about the meeting.
[13179]George Bush was
[13181]extremely upset about this case and the allegations that
[13183]the CIA was: involved in ‘Roselli’ Ss death.
[13185]He said ‘that he
[13187]would personally contact Levi to request that the Depart -
[13189]ment grant jurisdiction. to the FBI t6 ‘investigate.
[13191]For your information, Roselli appeared before the
[13193]Committee on four sepa
[13195]. Page 127
[13197]aol
[13201]ate occasions ‘to testify on three
[13206]a aft
[13207]matters.|| He appeared on June 25 to discuss the|\plots against
[13210]Castro; on, September 20 and 22 to discuss the Campbell affair;
[13211]and on April 25 to discuss the retaliation theory.
[13212]Noy for current events. ‘First, the two detectives in
[13214]Miami handling the Roselli case are Detectives | Zatrefralek
[13216]and Wolf! .; They are with Dade County Homicide. | their numbers
[13218]if | \
[13219]are 305-547-7456 and 547-7923. Madigan has already talked
[13220]with Detective Wolf. Second, in light of the Inouye/Baker
[13222]yet
[13224]letter to, Levi I did not ask the FBI about the ‘current
[13226]whereabouts of Santo Trafficante. I did, however, ask CIA.
[13227]pou . | | .
[13229]They have no information. Third, Baker and Liebengood are
[13231]putting together a packet of information on Roselli, which
[13233]will include CIA and Select Committee information and will
[13234]a pe oo 7
[13235]|to. you tomorrow. . f
[13237]b
[13239]get this
[13241]“I think you already know this, but Senator Baker does
[13243]iF
[13245]want to. Launch an informal investigation into thils Matter.
[13247]! 1
[13248]Roselli told hin, when he appeared before the Committee, that .
[13250]he thought. his life was'in danger for testifying. Baker feels
[13251]i
[13253]a moral obligation, therefore, to look into this.
[13255]I abe attached the most recent articles ‘on the Roselli
[13257]death for ‘you. .
[13259]Vy
[13260]a
[13261]too.
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[13266]P.S. Ac
[13268]there have |
[13270]Miami areal
[13272]means of [id
[13274]another b
[13276]gangland
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[13281]4
[13282]Ay
[13283]if
[13285]— Oe
[13289]i
[13291]F iy
[13293]TT
[13295]|
[13296]i
[13297]|
[13300]Nt,
[13301]i :
[13303]dhen.
[13308]ieeriag
[13310]Page 1293
[13312]a
[13314]Car bombs | and shootings have been t
[13316]uple of grizzly facts:
[13318]Hh
[13319]1 if
[13320]: |
[13322]Over the past |
[13324]een quite a few anti-Castro deaths i
[13326]Second, we received a report ror
[13328]‘Another
[13330]f
[13332]was pulled up in the Hudson River. ;
[13334]= _
[13336]slaying, complete with cement and chain |
[13339]oO
[13343]'
[13344]|
[13347]-.t.
[13349]- }
[13351]years
[13353]he
[13355]usual
[13357]y that
[13360]|
[13361]|
[13362]Vy |
[13363]it iH
[13364]7
[13365]MEMORANDUM: | i
[13366]i ' ped!
[13367]. . |
[13368]TO: ue THE FILES ‘ 7
[13369]' : . ' . 7 i
[13370]FROM: Merix SHEA AND MICHAEL MADIGAN - iy iG
[13371]: we ts ei getege a “4d
[13372]DATE: Te 21, 1975 |
[13373]SUBJECT: sea OF A MEEETING WITH MR. JOHN ROSSELLI |.
[13374]BEGAN : ‘AT 211:35 a.m. » JUNE 21, 1975, IN ROOM 71 ef the WATERGATE HOTEL.
[13375]‘tl
[13377]PRESENT ‘AT|THE SESSION: “MR. . MICHAEL MADIGAN, MR. PATRICK. SHEA OF THE SELECT —
[13378]COMMITTEE STAFF, MR. ROSSELLI, MR. THOMAS WADDEN, MR. JAMES CANTILLON, MR. LESLIE
[13379]SCHERR. i | |
[13380]FR
[13381]At the) beginning of the meeting, Mr. Madigan asked Mr Rosselli if he felt
[13383]a need for] aby Pe Protection.
[13385]take care of hims
[13386]could provide! U;
[13387]This offer||
[13391]was rejected.
[13393]He stated; emphatically, "No!" ithat he was able to
[13395]Madigan made it clear that the Senate Select Committee
[13397]ace lis’ for Mr. Rosselli during his stay in Washington.
[13399]a
[13402]Mr. Rosselli stated that Giancanyia had no involvement ; to his knowledge, .
[13404]with any of|ithe! attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro.
[13405]higher authorities in government but stated that Rossellil:
[13407]LS
[13409]Giancana has] a backup man.
[13410]publicity in| recent times,
[13411]the. Agency! A point of view
[13413]aa |
[13414]Rossel was upset by
[13416]Maheu did deal with
[13417]‘was only the contact,
[13418]Rosselli was very concerned about the adverse
[13420]about the CIA and he thought it was unfortunate from
[13421]that the Giancana name had been linked to the Agency.
[13423]the harassment he had been under by the FBI. He
[13425]" pointed to] the 1966 Frier @lub incident as an example. He !said in 1966 he had-
[13426]by the FBI/to provide information on inside basis about organized
[13427]crime and when he had refused 18 months later he was indicted. Again, the first
[13428]week in June) of 1970, the FBI had offered him cooperation! but he refused.
[13430]been approached
[13432]li
[13434]life
[13436]who 15 dea
[13438]of
[13439]Rossel first met Maheu twenty years ago. He was introduced through a
[13441]itzle, who was fin the insurance business.
[13443]“now, name
[13445]ng Pp
[13446]This first! meeting happened in Los Angeles, in 1955. Maheu, | at the time, was
[13448]running Maheul Associates in Washington, D.C. The meeting was only a social
[13449]gathering. 1 pers was nothing specifically discussed about  apedvities of the CIA.
[13453]eu called Rosselli and stated fehat he was working for.
[13455]specifically asked to recruit! ‘Rosselli. Maheu Wax
[13457]In July or
[13459]th stressed that it was to be/Rosselli and no one else. They jagreed to meet for lunch
[13460]i — at at the Brown] Derby in Los Angeles“ Maheu described the ‘Project as an intelligence
[13462]- operation fnvol
[13463]Raoul Castro).
[13465]éu mentioned specifically Castro, Che Guevara, and
[13467]g Cuba. |
[13468]It was Rosselli' s feeling that Maheu had vecruited hin because of
[13470]his known Cuban connections in Florida. These connections|were unrelated to
[13472]_ gambling.
[13473]services. on :
[13476]The all
[13477]was a cover
[13479]ilhere was no money mentioned by Maheu_ to Rosselli} for payment for
[13481]leised support of Wall Street business men had Le been mentioned and
[13482]jinvented{ by Roseelli-later. At the end of their first meeting, they
[13484]agreed to ineet again at’ which time Maheu would verify to [Rosselli that he was
[13486]‘working for ithe
[13488]governnent /official of highemraushowsty to Rosselli.
[13489]i
[13491].
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[13494]government.
[13496]This verification would be by introducing a
[13498]t
[13499]i
[13500],
[13501])
[13503]‘and talking
[13505]° i
[13506]NOTE rics | xf meeting
[13507]- about the al ttempted assassination.
[13511]O
[13515]a
[13517]The g iy er, At this point,
[13518]Rosselli was/in ted to hroceed to New intr oduct Lio o the
[13519]government ee icjal. We At both the first and second méé img ed-for an .
[13521]hour or mor
[13523]The meeting in New york took place in a hotel room.
[13524]“Bus, Rosselli and "big"
[13525]id not expr ain ‘why they au there.
[13527]official.
[13528]whether thr
[13529]for the CIA’
[13531]Ro
[13535]pects of the proposed ASRERERKEL, projects, were—discussed
[13537]Pow ee : re mentioned of specific techniques. i!
[13538]! arent a Nye. coinciding
[13539]Rosselil’t | remembered his arrival in New York: skting with a visit w by
[13540]‘Khrushchev] Eisenhower, |: Castro, Nasser, and perhaps Krushev. He said: it was noteworthy
[13541]because New. york was crawling with officials from all over the world. Rosselli
[13542]paid his own! fare from Los Angeles to New York and stayed at the Oatlands
[13543]on Fifth Ave ie ‘and 57th Street. He was given the cover nee? John on.
[13545]‘In attendance.were 4
[13547]ell, and two or three other people who *
[13548]‘Jim O'Connell was Mitroduced as a CIA
[13550]sselli was unclear as to whether this was stated explicitly or
[13552]or
[13554]‘Hal
[13556]ough ‘the whole context of discussions it became clear that he worked
[13558]the governnen
[13560][ine
[13561]HHT
[13563]their first:
[13564]York at thi:
[13566]A | At this point, Rosselli was sati isfied that Maheu was working for
[13567]tl! and , therefore, agreed to work & the Cuban ‘mission described at
[13568]eting. Rosselli was not sure as to the length) of his stay in New
[13569]ime. He did remember going to lunch with Maheu a number of times
[13570]about the particular projects.
[13574]t
[13575]‘After I
[13577]Flori
[13579]O'Connell, ;
[13581]techniques (of
[13582]Falls Church:
[13583]There still||
[13584]private mai
[13585]When a
[13587]then arranged |
[13589]i
[13591]; stay in New York, he traveled to gAIee Nashington, D. C. or
[13593]eliwas uncertain as to the exact location e|
[13595]5 between himself and Maheu to discuss “further plans =
[13597]There was only one further meeting with
[13599]lving these preliminary: stages. At this point, he only discussed
[13600]assassination! with Maheu. Rosselli remembered staying in Maheu's
[13601]home (_ it had a tennis court during his stays in Washington.
[13603]had been no discussion of the cover story(that Rosselli was a
[13605]en ‘representing a group of private businessmen] from the New York. )
[13607]shld seached Porida, he Sips contact a ubdebe Cubans and
[13608]1for the Cubans | to meet: wit. He trusted the Cubans he came
[13610]id
[13613]in contact: wath: because they, according to themselves, were working on the Bay of
[13615]registere jun
[13616]while Maheul,
[13618]so that Hughe:
[13620]terms of Ros
[13622]further discuss1
[13623]the CIA, would \ visit with Maheu and Rosselli.
[13625]WHERE
[13627]Pigs operation, | ‘which had not occurred as of yet. There were times when they would
[13628]stay at Arthur K h He
[13630]» in Florida. At times he
[13631]Ts was to allow him.to-maintain his cover
[13632]for Hughes , was able to register, under his own name,
[13634]Tf ils still workin
[13636]3.
[13639]g
[13640]believed that he was doing his work. The operation went on in
[13642]tings with his Cuban contacts ‘and then having
[13644]oS about "speci ics wit . At times} O'Connell, from
[13645]One time, before the 1960 election,
[13647]0'Connell Bagueht with him
[13649]At this. Jpoine, Rosse
[13651]itwo Admirals, one of whom, Rosselli thinks, was retired.
[13653]namely that he
[13654]in seeing Gas
[13655]O'Connell, !
[13656]left and Ro
[13657]Coast.
[13659]mt
[13662]S'
[13663]i i
[13667]el
[13669]if
[13671]The
[13672]was beforé B Pigs |
[13673]use a capsule’ * eitied WwW
[13675]Castro and
[13677]Jie
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[13680]he represe
[13681]tro done away
[13682]t had met with Maheu.
[13684]li
[13686]cause him to die of
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[13690]7 .
[13691]li -atse was telling his Cuban cbnidets the cover story,
[13692]e private business interests in New jvork who were intérested
[13693]with, The Cubans, at this point!, | had not met withJim
[13694]Immediately after the: Bay of Pigs, Maheu
[13696]Then he also left for the West
[13698]u
[13699]ta
[13701]i only met
[13703]once more with O'Connell.
[13705]ith a special poison that could be nee into the food of
[13706]poisoning that was not traceable and made his death
[13708]|
[13710]i
[13711]‘|
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[13718]fp 2
[13720]look like a A
[13722]11
[13724]twe PLE
[13726]The: Cubans came
[13728]Wt all
[13730]art attack or by natural causes.
[13732]Rosselli contacted a little
[13733]At this time; Cubans could still
[13735]Cuban whose elative was a chef nn Cashig, Cub
[13736]favel betw an. a. was agreed that the CIA would manufacture
[13737]It would be turned over to O'Connel11/to Maheu, to Rosselli,
[13739]the poison Capsule.
[13740]and Fdkebeen to the. Cubans.
[13741]Fouggingbisucigte!. mall
[13742]‘Rosselli and the| Cubans present, and gave them &
[13744]case, Wi |
[13745]Gitiy The | money had come ftom the CIA and was considered partial payment
[13746]for the job} of assassinating Castro.
[13748]ht the capsule.
[13749]to the room,
[13751]Maheu_brow
[13753]to Florida to the
[13755]At this meeting, Maheu described the
[13757]method of using these capsules, making sure the Cubans understood -the-Cubans
[13758]1 d
[13760]a they coulg bot b
[13762]it Litt
[13764]about 250} f000. dollars.
[13765]with the
[13769]the meeting]
[13770]Cuban contact
[13772]to be ase |
[13774]0, which
[13778]thor and blow
[13780]cor he
[13782]ease with wW
[13783]such as the |
[13785]country. Anot
[13786]latter twolpr
[13790]jon to the CIA for equipment.
[13792]In Cuba about: the success or failure of the:
[13794]eontact Ca
[13795]ae |S was 5 gure that the
[13797]ich plastic explosives could be traced 2 of to
[13798]GTA. Maheu did sixxmam discuss hfe so Gigars t that
[13799]'drop off, According to Rosselli lose =o 4 iLity Ato
[13801]pro} ects were proposed by Cu an_refugees
[13803]e sl.
[13804]Cubans, at this meeting,
[13806]help the families
[13808]That ‘figure was used by Maheu after his first meeting
[13809]uba destribe# what the. a CIA might put up to
[13810]of men injured or killed in this taigsae daokalnatlon |
[13811]with the money
[13813]| Ross 1i thinks that.
[13814]and capsules was after the election. e number one
[13816]that Rosselli had would from time to time, make requests of Rosselli
[13818]The CIA did provide, for instance,
[13820]was | ‘supposed to be used by the Cubans in Florida to
[13821]poison pill mission.
[13823]ills were sent to Cuba but he! Has received n
[13825]ened. [ Lg
[13827]is
[13829]wt Priec was for the Cubans to receive plastic ae losives from the
[13830]*Iithem to frogmen:on their side that in turn woul place them on ships
[13832]them up. ‘The CIA refused to do] this because of the
[13833]the government agencies
[13834]sous make
[13836]Vern the
[13837]ped desk. ewer of these
[13839]whg said they had people
[13841]was. that. there be
[13843]in positions)vis a vis Castro: who could achieve the assassination.
[13845]to have a better ide:
[13846]in the Bayjjof
[13849]New Orlean$ ifor. meetings.
[13853]uy Rosselli claimed
[13854]r men than were involved
[13856]ce Pigs, perhaps a a hundred, they could land in Guba and do the job
[13858]Cuban contact at the time was traveling to New York and
[13859]‘Rosselli| was not sure about what the meetings were
[13861]about but gaild that ghey were related to the overthrow of: Castro. Another proposal
[13862]put forward | was *tMurchase gesbeed: boat and use some typetod-expioding-seaghalhes
[13864]ay
[13865]The night béfore the
[13866]d
[13868]Wily
[13870]A in
[13872]Bay, Pigs Rosselli want to his numb
[13873]| The ban contact said,''See you in Ha
[13875]house spoke with him. FOU
[13877]express erious re rvation about. the possibility success
[13879]Rosselli heft) Florida ht. after the of Pigs. Hisstotal time on“his
[13880]aoe endl i empt at ass
[13882]Rosselli
[13884]* indirectly) yesponsible for
[13885]He went
[13887]in the: operation.
[13889]he's not ce He did meet
[13891]had arranged to have rooms
[13893]Ve few weeks ' after the Bay
[13895]hat name he registered under,
[13897]neyw_CIA Tee CIA want named Harvey:
[13898]Vt
[13900]page 132
[13902]3 pation. in Florida was three i
[13904]felt sorry for"'the ‘poor bastards left on the beach. "He felt
[13906]having encouraged them many of them to participate ©
[13907]home and stayed in Las Vegas and Los Angeles for awhile.
[13908]of Pigs, Rosselli was contacted by| Maheu or O'Connell,
[13909]with Jim O'Connell in Florida a few weeks later. They
[13910]at the Airport Hotel.  Rossellijwas not sure as to what.
[13911]t this meeting in Florida
[13913]met! Harvey, Rosselli was told
[13915]I : . .
[13917]a
[13919]The first tim
[13922]/ | _ x of
[13924]thy, | |
[13925]Hagyey wanted)ito know all that Rosselli knew abou aD. i
[13926]Harvey toTd/him at this meeting to have no further contact TER Maheu
[13927]and that he} should not talk) further with Giancana.” He also} said that he, Harvey,
[13929]was in charge, of the operation and that Maley should take"—se that Rosselli should
[13930]take his orders from Harvey. [At this poin f;the original project. using pills, .
[13932]was considered defunct.
[13934]After ‘uhis first meé ind, Rosselli again contacted his Cuban people. —He~
[13935]: ltri iGy. RoSSelli made several trips wit ey_in Florida,
[13936]some down in |the Keys to see what type Of operations were||continuing. One o
[13938]the projects |Harvey had Rosselli doing was verifying CIA reports by using Rosselli's .
[13940]own people ‘who were in frequent contact with!Cuba. The intelligence reports dealt
[13941]both with personalities/in jthe Cuban hierarchy, as well as differentongoing
[13942]operations. | {Rosselli paid his own bills wrk before the Bay, of Pigs but after, Harvey
[13943]would usually pick up the tab.’ | { oS
[13945]to try ™@ for a second
[13947]Harve I approached Ross
[13948]Castro; time to assaSsinatéCaba[$]
[13950]and were much stronger. Ha ijls, then Rosselli gave those
[13951]six pills to] his ene contact. There were no special instructions on haw’
[13953]Ake w to handle the'!pills and his Cuban contact said that they would. be passed into Cuba
[13954]and used. | |: . | 1
[13955]. - At thisitime, Rosselli had no ongoing contact with Maheu, but may have run
[13957]into him in Los Angetes. Maheu knew that Rosselli was still working on the Cuban
[13959]project and. that he, Maheu, was out. Rosselli never got any report back on what
[13961]happened to the: six pills butihe assuedthas theta bee unsuccessful. He did
[13962]Ibs hear a xumeri report over a!radio or TV station, that Fidéel'|Castro was deathly
[13963]Til, but then, shortly thereafter, he recovered. :
[13967]Rossel 1‘ arranged for the CIA ‘to supply, a panel truck loaded with cacy es
[13968]or use byjhis Cuban contacts to make two or: three-manned party raids into Cuba,
[13969]sassinating Castro and qverturning the government.
[13971]hopefully a
[13973]oj . | i i ad
[13975]During ithe Cuban missile crisis, Rosselli was in Chicago. He contacted
[13976]Harvey at Harvey's mother's home injIndianapolis and left| his number in Chicago.
[13977]Harvey thenGalled him, told him to!go to Washington, D.¢,:| From Washington, D.C.,
[13978]Rosselli traveled to Florida where lhe stayed for the duration 6f the Cuban missile -
[13980]crisis. He,j:at times, would,: through his Cuban contacts || attempt to verify the
[13981]location of ithe Russian missiles in.Cuba. Rosselli claimed that this had been
[13983]OF wi I successful! After the Cuban missile crisis, Harvey called /Rosselli and told him
[13985]ee)
[13987]to stop all {contacts with any and all pérsons involved in! past Cuban missions.
[13988]Harvey never, ;
[13990]stated why the missions were being called off:
[13991]Ve . : he : He .
[13993]yt . ; !
[13995]The only, money that Rosselli ever put up was $800 to buy gas for the speed-
[13997]boat that would deliver the two or three-man teams to Cuba] to do guerrilla operations.
[13998]He stressed throughout the| interview that he had never received any money and that
[13999]besides this $800 he had never given any money for. His|last contact with Harvey
[14001]was in June lofitt 1963 on-shortty there~befere, when Rosselli found out that Harvey
[14003]' was being transfered to Rome and he! made a. special trip to| Washington to say goodby —
[14004]"qe - z fi
[14006]a9 .
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[14012]a ey : ‘ the
[14013]qe mn if
[14014]ma . pot : edt
[14015]ie pow hae }
[14016]. " '
[14018]Al ir 7
[14020]i I
[14022]- The nolitl! tap; Rosselli said that he uderstoed that’ Glancana had asked ,
[14024]Ores. tha for a ee on x Dan R osselli itwo|stories. The first
[14027]em n
[14029]‘ond was [that there was a real
[14031]Rosselli had not heard of the names Dub
[14033]ited States.
[14034]Harrison. Het ‘admitted that. | Harvey had discussed the tap wr@i him, but both Harvey
[14035]an and Rosselli were pissed off aixthke that the operation hall gone on. Giancana
[14036]obviously knew about the tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get. bail money for the
[14037]Atwo tappers}| w who were caught and thrown in jail. Maheu suggested that Rosselli
[14038]i ats could get a hotel to turn over the bail money. ‘Finally, Mr Rosselli arranged
[14039]to have a man |witegreen carnation in his lapel meet with {Me, Doakes' for a transfer
[14040]of the bail| money . He never received any of this money back: Rosselli claims
[14041]that he did not know what type of tap went on. He admitted. that he had been
[14042]questioned by. the FBI but he gave no answers and he knew that Maheu had been
[14043]questioned Pie FBI. if :
[14045]During; Hs early contacts with’ Maheu in 1959 and ‘60! tin setting up the
[14046]Cuban operation, Maheu was setting up a guard system for different Hughes!
[14047]operations,|| Such as Hughes Aircraft or other corporate inferests.
[14049]tcan' t remember whether. he ever introduced Siancana as Mr. Sam
[14050]ims to have no business relati jth
[14052]2 ae
[14054]Rossel
[14055]Gold. He ¢
[14056]only b Si céjmachines in Las Vegasi) |He ran those by himself
[14057]and had no Léntact with Giancana. When asked about Joe Santa Trafficanto,
[14059]Rosselli stated that he used him only as an interpreter but | not as a contact for
[14061]recruiting other Cubans for, his mission.
[14065]_ Mr. rit Waddeng stated that. the was receiving no fe. ees
[14067]for his representing Rosselli, now. |The status of Mr. Cantillon or Mr. Scherr
[14068]was not wacl ar. There was, discussion as to the Committee paying the expenses
[14069]of Mr. Rosselli's transportation from Los Angeles and there}was discussion as to
[14071]the limits ,), if any, to be placed on':the Committee's inquiry of Mr. Rosselli's
[14072]contacts wi th the Cubans, how they. had been developed, and: what other operations
[14073]did go on. }! ( | . Hy bo
[14075]If
[14081]1
[14086]. ic . ;°
[14088]i i ; |
[14090]Giancana. Rosselli's
[14094]i
[14097]uf i ‘ . 1 :
[14098]Ht me We
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[14103]Fem y Sree Ae Sar ame a aN a a a
[14107]di
[14109]our juris
[14110]made to him.
[14112]the matters
[14114]ion ie
[14115]The Attoxney Gencral
[14117]The informan
[14119]At this
[14120]Our relationship with him has beei
[14122]seroma
[14124]t
[14129]he acknowledged,
[14130]ime, we do not plan to
[14132]te
[14134]_ guarded and we would feel obligated to handle |
[14136]of him concerning this
[14138]|
[14140]1 - The be
[14142]if
[14143]t
[14145]i
[14147]eputy Attorney General _.
[14149]te
[14150]matter if such is desixed
[14152]gas told that ‘his offer ks outside
[14154]No commitments were
[14155]‘far
[14157]ther pursue
[14158]Yimost carefully
[14160]any recontact
[14165]i ;
[14168]qh | i |.
[14169]io i |
[14170]| By ii : .
[14171]Book V, p. 12-13 . The cast of characters surrounding
[14172]Hh tho the seizure of anti-Castro
[14173]he ons hardware as outlined on these pages
[14174]Jb! is particularly interesting.
[14175]Wt ' The raw Material ‘cited in the
[14176]f footnote is attached. Note
[14177]1) reference to Briniuer and Oswald.
[14178]Below that McLaney brothers and
[14179]fo Victor. Espinosa and Frank Sturgis.
[14180]i .Not attached is alcritical New
[14181]Orleans field office memo to
[14182]; FBI headquarters /Linking Briniuer
[14183]to the MeClaney/Sturgis operation.
[14184]' ; i .
[14186]“ltd
[14187]| q
[14188]! I 1
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[14238]Lite |
[14239]New Orleans sonally a. asinitraitor if he doing something wrong in the debate. When he saw the Y
[14241]tion @ photo- : ; guidebook | for Marines, he smiled to me, and he told me; “Well, listen, Carlos]
[14242]Orleans, La., don’t try ito ido un Invasion with that guidebook for Marines, because that is aul):
[14243]3 given to a : old one.and|that will be a failure." That was his Joke in that moment. :
[14244]record, given we went to the debate, and I think that you have the whole history!) :
[14245]+, you have the transcription and everything, [so} that I don’t have
[14247]to go insid ‘that, because that is ‘subjective, not objective. You have the ob:
[14248]lo the same, jective, andi that is the debate. b:
[14250]|
[14251]Mr, LIEBE That is right. We; do have a transcript and we listened to it i
[14253]the tape iigtinignt ¢ over at the television station too.
[14254]Mr. BRENGuIER. And there Ig so
[14256]my
[14258]mething that I want to show you too. I told} '
[14259]“idel Castro, to you abou the training camp that were across the Lake Pontehartrata, PH
[14260]cht to invade Mr. LIgDELER, Yes. i
[14261]fates will do Mr, BRINGUIER, [Producing newspaper. ] At the beginning of August in the (|.
[14262]right, ~ . Diario Lasismericas from Miami for September 4——- : |
[14263]ny friend to | Mr. Lieblter. For September 4,/1963? |, !
[14265]Mr, BRiNGuren. That is right. [Indicating photograph. This ts the spy
[14266]who was inside the training ean;
[14268]in The Christian Democratic Movement turned '
[14269]him over tolt the FBI, and the FBI was questioning him in Miami. The Christian A
[14270]: : Democratic, ‘Movement found a ‘letter, according to this information, from this :
[14271]on my friend guy diredidl to Carlos Lechuga, former, Cuban Ambassador to Mexico and nowy
[14272]‘here and he | ; Cuban Ambhssador to the United, Nations in New York. In‘that letter the spy;
[14273]ve Fair Play - Thandez, was warning Lechuga that they have to be alert from that
[14275]od this after
[14276]that eonver-
[14278]Fernando |
[14279]date to August 8, and the day that Oswald came trying to infiltrate my orga:
[14280]nization wasjon August 5. This’ sounds for mé strange in all this matter. | !
[14282]{Indica tiie. ] Here is another interview from Fernandez here 8 days later. °
[14284]horities, be-
[14286]uowledge of Mr. LIEBELER, You are referring to a copy of the saine newspaper but for the
[14287]‘ront of Ed date of Sépteiaber 6, 1963, on the front page of which——-
[14288]Mr. BaiNobrer., {Indicating} Here. “Fernanda Fernandez is in favor of
[14289]coexistencality With the Communist ‘regime of Castro.” That is the title ing}!
[14290]. Council of Spanish. TH i Ha
[14291]friend and Mr. Liegeter. Let me see if I can! understand what you are saying. You say! 4
[14292]ier all the . that Fernalides wrote a letter to Lechuga? nap
[14293]hat Oswald Mr. BrrxGuren, Fernandez wrote a a letter to Léchuga in Mbxteo. Fl ia
[14294]Oswald had Mr. Lirnen Ler, T Lechuga is a member of the Castro government? h . 4
[14295]Ve gave all _ Mr, Brivaprer. Right. 4 i ;
[14296]4, somebody Mr. Lirgeter, He is now Ambassador to the United Nations? An
[14297]tebate, Mr. Brrxevier. In New York; right. : a :
[14298]day of the Mr. LIEBELER Fernandez is the person who was the Castro'spy who had in-}li}
[14299]the time of |
[14301]filtrated thejtFaining camp in Louisiana? H '
[14302]- Mr. Brivgurer. For the Christian Democratic Movement here in Louisiana,’
[14304]Mr. LiEBELER, ‘Now the Christiun Democratic Movement : is—what? Pro-'j|| |
[14306]dit Stuckey
[14307]indicate to
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[14311]linke hands . Castro? Hi i ; { i i
[14312]wat Stuckey Mr, BrtNauier. Anti-Castro. [. ot ‘|
[14313]velleve that Mr, Lrepbt'ek. It is ‘an anti-Castro organization? a We
[14314]: to Oswald Mr. Brrvaurer, Yes; they were|training Cubans over here! to make a com- { fn | :
[14316]to him as mando act in. against Castro, but they find out that there was a Castro spyiti| ye
[14317]‘+t one Com- inside the’ ng camp, and they went back to Miami with the people and with i
[14318]ommunisn, him, and ithey turn him over to the FBI. I think that after that the leader |
[14319]vat I don't for the Christian Democratic Moveuient—or that the FBI didn't found nothing, Hi]
[14320]ile way. I because wasitiot against the law to'shy inside an anti-Castro organization. Itlj// H
[14321]‘ommunist, the law to spy inside the U:S..Government but not inside the anti-} :
[14322]‘hat if any zation, And my feeling—and this is the question that I am asking |||!
[14323]" something myself—in)Néw Orleans we are about 900 miles from Miami; In Miami is where’!
[14325]me to me, the headquarters of all the anti- Castro groups. I conld not’ find any. reason j{i
[14326]‘ve nothing for Oswald] to come to me and offer ‘we his service to train Cubans In guerrilla ‘|| | - iV
[14327]answered warfare att the same moment when there Was a secret anti-Castro training camp;
[14329]the wrong in New Orleans ond h Castro spy was inside that training camp. That for me!
[14331]it moment. is—because, lit he was willing to infiltrate one active organization, he will Bo! i
[14333]ebook for directly tolMiami and he will offer his service over there in Miami, but not inj)
[14335]vill happen New Orleans jhere it is not publicly knuwn tha. :here wag something going on },
[14337]vy him per. at that moment. I bdlieve that thatavas’ the ouly time here ‘in New Orleans that);
[14339]ib 1 1 ©
[14340]| i) 4 | if
[14341]| | ! iH
[14342]i :
[14345]i [Page |137
[14347]fepetng ilke that, and tt was a coincidence.
[14348]me, and that Is | that. when Oswald left! the eity he went to |
[14349]dithe ‘letter from Fernandez that was intercepted here was to. Mexico |
[14351]Mexleo, and the Fernandéz letter |
[14353]sia visit ‘the Cuban consulate in
[14354]was to, the Gack Ambassador to Mexico, For me, that {s a big doubt.
[14356]Mr, Lientien. ‘Go|
[14357]GUIER. You see, after t
[14358]radio station here in
[14360]copy, I could!give you a copy.
[14362]New
[14365]A lonfessed Marxist"
[14366]before the: ‘assessing
[14367]Mr. Seri Do you have another copy of this?.
[14368]TER. I have the original of that. You can have that.
[14370]{ Props document].
[14372]| commiinications media her
[14373]! No, August 21,
[14374]ugust 21, 1963?
[14375]Be Abgust 21, the night of the debate. /
[14376]. I mark it as “Exhibit No. 8” to your deposition, and I have
[14377]al you initial it? a
[14379]Mr, - Beanie!
[14381]SS Com
[14382]Mr. Liest BEER. Le
[14383]given to see]
[14385]ELER:. Must be
[14386]Mr. Bar RING er Au
[14388]otieR. n.. That. is right.
[14389]E You indicated that
[14392]a ist 31 TER. That
[14394]Liga vald came to you offering to assist in the military training |
[14396]. That is right.
[14397]t that time, there was, in fact, a training camp near New
[14399]Mr. can ‘Phat
[14401]Mr. Lr TEBELER, For |the ® training of
[14403]t a
[14404]Mr. LIEBELER !
[14406]. ou ‘are tying th
[14407]sibility that oF
[14409]Mr. Litton
[14410]cause Mr, \Férna (
[14411]Mr. Blawolite. ‘Thi :
[14413]‘ that Fernandez
[14415]ilasked, Oswald himself, to try to infiltrate that camp for your
[14416]crgunteatibn . |
[14418]itr Is that correct? \ ; .
[14420], the only thing that I don’t believe is that Fernandez
[14421]y to Oswald.
[14422]side the United States’
[14423]\ Wald the order to try
[14425]had told nivot etl
[14426]some pedple | out
[14428]he debate, the same night ot the debate, I:
[14430]New Orieans and the local, papers and the ||.
[14431]United Prey international office, and II gave a press release, -
[14432]Igavea copy to the Secret Service.’
[14433]The eee teresting thing is the four things that I asked to the Secret |
[14435]that this is the second one where I sald,
[14436]Ing for a full investigation, of Mr. Lee H.
[14438]I Have marked a copy of the press release distributed to the
[14439]ale New Orleans, on August 16, 1963:
[14441]i _
[14443]zat me go over rote! ot thig testimony that! you have just if
[14444]Fernandez | wrote to Mr. Lechuga a letter :
[14446]on guard up untn August ar
[14447]ist 8, that is Hight. . | i
[14450]Oswald had come to your store or offices
[14452]|. |
[14453]'
[14455]people for military action against Castro?)
[14457]be up fn. your mind by cng the pos-
[14459]vald was, in fact, a Castro agent?
[14460]eR..That ig right.
[14461]did know about
[14463]‘the ‘existence of this training camp, be |
[14464]had already himself infiltrated that training camp?
[14466]baa told Oswald about the existence of this
[14468]ph
[14470]I'believe is that Fernandez had informed
[14471]if and these. pecple had informed Oswald and
[14472]infiltrate the Cuban group here in New
[14474]i
[14475]r
[14476]I
[14478]i
[14479]t
[14480]1
[14481]t
[14482]i
[14483]|
[14484]|
[14486]4
[14487]' Se Se
[14489]And there is another | j
[14491]If you want a ‘ft
[14493]And that was 3 months | I
[14495]Mr, Lrenever. And Mr. Fernanc
[14497]‘aware of approximately the time
[14499]fore, Indicated to Lechuga that 1
[14500]discovered as an attempted infiltr.
[14501]Mr. Burnauter, I beg pardon?
[14503]Mr. Lizvecer. As I understand
[14505]lates: to the fact that Fernandez
[14507]will be In danger,"—up until abe
[14509]anything to do with Oswald?
[14511]Mr, Brinaurer, Well, what I thi
[14512]on August 5 Oswald came to me «
[14513]same period of time. Somethin
[14515]Orleans, that there was a secret
[14516]of the Pair Play for Cuba Comn
[14517]-New Orleans. Those are the fact
[14518]not sure ubout. I just want to s.
[14519]connection.
[14521]Mr. Litseier. Now it doesn’t see
[14523]handing out literature in the atre
[14524]to infiltrate the anti-Castro moven
[14526]Mr. Brinaurer. Remember that
[14528]‘after I told him that IY don’t hay
[14529]that here there Is nothing, and th
[14530]went openly to do that before t
[14531]he went openly to do that after he w
[14533]Mr, Lrenecer. Do you know of .
[14535]in the pro-Castro movement and t
[14536]information to Oswald—conducted
[14538]Mr. Barneurex. No.
[14539]Mr. Lresecer. Would you have a
[14541]ag a result of your anti-Castro ac
[14542]person as this, do you think you -
[14544]Mr, Brinaurer. Beg your pardon
[14545]Mr. LIEBELER. Tf there were suc
[14547]Castro movement who had been v.
[14548]would have had access to that in
[14549]find out about it?
[14551]Mr. BRINGUIER. You see, that ts
[14553]have a lot of persons. There ar:
[14554]who are anti-Castro. Even amui.
[14555]agents here in the city and you «
[14557]But there is something else: Th.
[14559]ig located in 117 Decatur Street, j-
[14560]the owner of the Havana Bar Is
[14561]over there, gave the information |
[14562]before—that Oswald went to the
[14563]lemonade. He was with one Mexi
[14564]drinking the lemonade, he start tu
[14565]to be a Cuban capitalistic, and thu
[14566]Tle was telling that that was too n
[14567]moment, Oswald feel bad at that
[14568]out to the sidewalk to vomit outsid
[14569]“the Ilavana Bar told me that the ¢
[14570]the same one that one time the FBI-
[14571]Immediately because that was a pr:
[14572]August 15 and August 30 was th:
[14573]because I start to find out all thes:
[14574]before, because before I did not
[14575]nothing of this before te me. Be:
[14576]the owner of the Havana Bar can.
[14577]cnhuse he already. saw one automol-
[14578]one of thein-the one who had ber
[14581]+ 7 te weer
[14582]3 wag 19 Metos
[14583]Parmamies utter
[14584]Zz doubt.
[14585]of the debate, I
[14586]. papers and the
[14588]If you want a
[14589]d to the Secret
[14590].@ where I said,
[14591]- of Mr. Lee H.
[14592]at was 3 months
[14594]istributed to the .
[14595]ust 16, 1963-——
[14597]tion, and I have
[14599]t you have just
[14600]echuga a letter
[14604]+ store or offices
[14605]allitary training
[14606]camp near New
[14608]. against Castro?
[14610]sidering. the pos-
[14612]‘aining camp, be-
[14613]‘ing camp?
[14615]‘existence of this
[14616]t camp for your
[14618]- that Fernandez
[14619]‘ez had informed
[14621]voup here in New.
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[14625]Docla: 32423630)!
[14627]eLeER. And Mr. Fernandez was, on this theory, aware of that land
[14628]approximately the time’ Oswald. would make’ this attempt, and, the
[14629]hdicated to Lechuga that. there would be some; danger of Oswald b
[14630]discovered ag an attempted infiltrator? ;
[14631]Mr, Brinourer, I beg pardon?! I don’t understand the words.
[14632]Mr) {EBELER. Ag I understand, part of the hypothesis: here, the theo
[14633]Intes fie fact that Fer nandez said to Lechuga, “We must be careful,
[14634]danger,’—up until about August 8 Now does that statement)
[14635]to do with Oswald? : mn i
[14636]nourer. Well, what if think is this: He-send that letter to Lechuga; 1
[14637]t 5 Oswald came to me offering his service to train Cubains, all
[14638]iod of time. Something that never was “happening here In
[14639]that there was a secret ‘anti- Castro training: camp, and the chat
[14641]-
[14642]ry,
[14644]é i
[14646]Those are the facts. I don’t want to tell something that
[14647]I just want to show you that tremendous coincidence 0
[14648]i
[14650]ies ELER. Now it it doesn’t bein likely, does it, that Oswald would go arou
[14651]out literature in the i
[14653]re RINQUTER. Remember that that was after I turned down his otter! and
[14654]Ito old him that I don’t have nothing to do with military activities; and:
[14655]ene e there is nothing, and that I turned down completely him. He aight
[14656]went |[0} jenly. to|do that before the attempt to infiltrate the training camp,
[14657]rn penly to do that after|he wv as turned; down. | : :
[14658]tf of any conceivable assdciation between anybi
[14660][EBELER. Do you know, LY
[14661]tn| en 1- Castro movement and Oswald that could have acted asa source io
[14662]eit pee Oswald—conducted: the orders ts to him? ‘| te
[14664]it EDELER. |woula you have { any way of obtaining information of that)s
[14665]sult of your anti-Castro, activities and contacts? If there were suc
[14666]| this, do you think you would be: likely to Know about it?
[14668]ae ELER. [re there were éuch a person, that Is to say, some agent of
[14669]ovement who had been working with Oswald, do you think that
[14670]ve, bad! access to that! information or you would have been lik ‘
[14672]EBRINGUIER. You see, that! "5 a hard question, because here in the city: ‘you'
[14674]have! al hot of persons. There ‘are some who are pro-Castro, there are many, :
[14675]who /arejanti-c -Castro. Even among the Cubans you 'could have some Castra,
[14676]{bere In} the eity and you could not: have control of everybody. i ae
[14677]utithe eis something else; The owner of the Havana Bar—the Havana
[14678]ated n 117 Decatur Street, just two door or three door from my stor
[14679]wer of the Havana Bar‘ ig a Cuban; and he and one of the employees
[14680]aver| there, gave the information to me after Kennedy's assassination—jnot:
[14681]beforesithat Oswald went to the Havana Bar one time, He asked for soine ;
[14683]lemon} de. He ¢ was with one Mexican at that moment, and when Oswald Wasi
[14684]drinking/the lemonade, he start to say that, sure, the! owner of that place thed:
[14685]to be Je|Geban| capitalistic, and'that he argue about the price of the lemonade,
[14687]tl {too much for a lemonade, and he feel bad at th
[14688]I gwald feel bad at that’ moment-—he bad some, vomits and he
[14689]out te isidewatk to vomit outside on the sidewalk, : These persons here
[14690]the Ha: a Bar, told me that the jguy, the Mexican, who was with Oswald,
[14691]Hohe that one time the FBI told them that if they will see him, call thes
[14692]immediately because that was a! pro- Communist. I reinember that was between
[14693]Aueust| 15] ¢ and lAugust 30 was that period of time. | I could not locate that
[14694]becausell start to find out all these things after the Kennedy assassination|} jot
[14695]before, Because before I did). not found any connection. They did not: ‘told
[14696]t t this before to me: | Between the 15th and the 30th the brother, :
[14697]of the Havana Bar dame to my ‘Store asking me to call the FBIlD
[14698]slalready saw one automobile passing by the street with two Mexican 1
[14699]m the one who had: been with «-swald in'the bar, and be told)
[14702]: . i
[14704]f bo
[14706]\ : i 4
[14708]‘ - I
[14710]! od
[14712]. ,
[14714]Hy
[14717]MS
[14719]Wee Re
[14723]fe es
[14725]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630)
[14727]f
[14730]‘publicity for
[14732]Fair Play f :
[14733]casion in D
[14735]Jeans. Ther
[14736]Lee Osbor ney
[14738]New Oran
[14739]first distribute
[14740]vicinity of the
[14741]wharf in New
[14742]in downtowt
[14744]Committee
[14746]Cuba
[14748]i
[14750]ad printed a han
[14752]1 neh! of the Fair
[14753]his Idndbills and
[14755]ofa dispute it
[14756]16, 1963. Holl
[14757]at. his own re
[14758]appeared brie
[14759]debated over
[14760]guier, one 0
[14762]attempted tol
[14766]president of,
[14767]name that Osi
[14768]Marina Osw, ]
[14770]it rhymed wil th
[14772]New Orleans|!
[14773]she did not
[14774]national FP:
[14775]operation on
[14776]Orleans polit
[14777]at meetings
[14779]Oswald's
[14780]shrewd polit
[14782]reluctance’ to
[14783]himself to ot
[14784]was justifie
[14785]time untruth?
[14786]national dixe
[14787]1963, Oswaldi,
[14789]have rented|| fp y
[14790]obsure | reasons’ bythe renters, they said something
[14791]ag ect, T'm sure you. understand.” 33
[14792]rs were distrubed” “? and that he continued to
[14794]later for sor
[14795]about remo
[14798]“thousands ‘
[14800]“to keep a
[14801]V. T. Lee, |
[14802]of FPCC,
[14804]eee an anti-Cas
[14806]nid si
[14808]oF idel, 327 to her
[14810]i The chapter.
[14812]or ganization. 329
[14814]tht it |
[14816]H |
[14817]cause or for hims
[14819],
[14823]FPCG activities
[14825]. I
[14826]ireulat
[14828]3 throu
[14830]stated {t] ithat he was
[14832]lhe attajtuted his Taek of support to an attack by Cuban
[14833]|
[14835]ringito the best lof any ability. rss3
[14837]rnaterials on one , uneventful oc-
[14839]sometime during thé period April 6-24, 1963,%*
[14841]late May and early June of 1963, under the name
[14843]with that cause was in New Or-
[14845]abil headed ‘in large letters “Hands
[14847]plication form for, and a membership card in, the
[14849]Play for Cuba Committee.” He
[14850]other mitterial uneventfully i in the
[14852]Ww riéans on Augist 9, 1963; and was arrested because
[14853]pithree anti- Castra @uban exiles, and again on August
[14854]| " ing his arrest, he; was. -interviewed by the police, ‘and
[14856]Hon | a radio program 32h and, on August 21, "1963, he
[14857]o station WoDsw New Orleans, with Carlos Brin:
[14858]} Cuban exiles who: had been arrested with him on
[14859]nguier claimed that on August 5, 1963, Oswald had
[14861]t 20 organization with which he was
[14862]7
[14864]publicly engaged iin the activities described above,
[14865]y was Ih product of I his imagination. x Thei imaginary
[14866]nonexistent chapter was named A. J. Hidell,2** the
[14867]d used when he purchased the assassination weapon.”
[14868]she signed that name, apparently chosen because
[14870]husband's membership card in the
[14872]She testified that he threatened to beat her if
[14874]r had never, been chartered by the
[14875]Tt appears fo. have been a solitary-
[14876]te of ‘his misstatements to the New .
[14878]had 35 members, 5 of which were usually present -
[14879]oh werelheld once a month. a30
[14881]Play: ‘for Cuba activities may be viewed as a very
[14882]1 toper ition in which one man single handedly created
[14884]elf. It is also evidence’ of Oswald’s
[14886]bscribe [events accurately and: of his need to present
[14887]well as to himself in a light more favorable than
[14888]ity: This is suggested by his misleading and some-
[14889]statements in his letters to Mr.
[14890]of Ik FPCC. In one: of those letters, dated August 1,
[14891]‘ote that: an office nwhich he had previously claimed to
[14893]V. T. Lee, then
[14895]had ‘been *promply closed 3:days
[14897]He wrote that
[14899]rough his post office box ‘which he endeavored
[14901]Tn his letter to
[14902]then’ alone! in his efforts on behalf
[14905]|
[14906]exiles in a street dem
[14908]alone, 334 ;
[14910]HN
[14911]cover any evidence él!
[14912]in which Oswald wig 1
[14914]tioned above, whielt:
[14915]letter ta,V. T. Lee.
[14916]anti-Castro activitie
[14917]incident, 38 Police
[14919]part prior to August iy |
[14921]Hones which a
[14923]lteratnfe at the’ Dahl j
[14925]general jtenor of Oo
[14926]ported his report on
[14928]de
[14929]made against him an
[14931]gests that his previous}:
[14933]greatly exaggerated!
[14934]ORLEANS, LA.” wi
[14935]in his possession’ at
[14937]investigation was nat
[14939]though.
[14940]maintained offices ¢
[14942]Commission has not|k een able to find any other indle ration that Oswald
[14945]had rented an office i
[14946]of public activity:
[14947]seems to be no basis
[14948]of circulars, especial]
[14950]J
[14951]and actually had only
[14953]that he received any
[14954]tional headquarters.
[14955]‘In another letter t
[14956]that he had appeire
[14957]program ‘over WDSs
[14958]of which
[14959]as well-as people i tv
[14960]branch.” 3 WDSU}
[14961]can Focus,” 82
[14962]Post,” on
[14963]17, 1963.53 Tt appe:
[14964]all of his FPCC neti
[14965]more abont the true
[14966]New Orleans.
[14968]Oswald? Ss statements
[14970]and invitations to deb
[14972]attention as he must have
[14974]and as ‘helwas to som
[14975]The limited notoriet
[14976]fracas and i in the sub
[14978]to satisfy him. He exa
[14980]408
[14982]he was “Fook
[14984]it did develop, (
[14986]Stuckey,
[14987]which Oswalld|
[14991]HY 50955 DocId: 3243363
[14993]de me of wh
[14995]the Commissi
[14997]rred d,8. days af
[14999]Orleans,
[15001]ext letter to
[15003]ion and bein
[15006]ion. has 1 not. been able to un-
[15008]he ever rattacked ahy street demonstration
[15009]cl, except. for the Bringuier incident men-
[15011]ter Osw aldiwrote the bove
[15013]i
[15014]ier, who seemed’ ‘tolbe familiar with many
[15016]w as not aware of any| such
[15018]also fail to reflect any activity on Oswald’s
[15019]except for the uneventful distribution of
[15020]eet wharf in June: 337 Furthermore, the
[15022]MV. T: ‘Lee, i in which he sup-
[15024]ie Bringuier incident: t swith
[15026]hewspaper clippi
[15027]of an attack
[15029]While the legend
[15031]to
[15032]ie fact. that ana
[15036]\ ew, Obleans. In
[15037]ld’s part befor
[15038]1 clalin that he
[15040]Ltd
[15041]anti
[15044]ted
[15046]in joining
[15048]‘hen he firs
[15050]in his lett
[15052]mped on some I
[15053]t
[15055]me ‘of his arrest in New Orleans, extensive
[15057]connect Oswald with that address, al.
[15059]‘period ending early i in, 1962.399
[15061]inl amount
[15063]; of
[15064]ee, ¢ dated’ August! 1%, 1963,}Oswald wrote
[15065]ry William Stuckey’ 5 15- -mhinute television
[15066]iV called “Latin Almeri ican Focus” as a result
[15067]callers and
[15069]ing reporting ¢ the event; sug-
[15070]by' Guban exiles was atleast
[15071](‘FPCC 544|Camp St. NEW
[15072]literature that Osw: ald had
[15074]had
[15075]The
[15077]nti- -Castto | organization
[15078]Hh
[15080]view of the limited amount
[15081]8 Augtist 9, 1963, there jalso
[15082]lad disttibuted ¢ thousands”
[15084]‘high had claimed to have pr inted only 2,000
[15085]printed. Tn: addition, there i Is no evidence
[15087]of: materials; from thelna-
[15089]bora Mt
[15092]invitations! to debate’s lect:
[15093]the FP, C. Ch New Orleans
[15095]o prégram of any kind'ealled “Latin A meri-
[15096]d airadio program called “Latin Listening
[15098]heard for less
[15099]ald had only « one e
[15100]ent of Bringuier’s attem pting to learn
[15101]the alleged
[15103]than 5 5: minutes on August
[15104]jcallet rin response to
[15106]FPCC “ergwinaton in
[15108]at he hoped to be flooded with callers
[15109]ivould have made him a real center of
[15111]t arrived i in the’ ‘Soviet. Union
[15113]t when he returned to the [United States.
[15114]rald received] as a’ result! ‘of, the street
[15115]‘dio debate was apparently not enoigh
[15117]ers to Vi. HT Lee i in an appar-.
[15118]| Oot
[15119]rep |
[15123]“oily bautioned”™ by the if
[15124]support T had leaving ne’:
[15126]a copy of the charges 4
[15128]OSWALD DISTRIBUTING FAIR
[15129]ORLEANS, AUGUST 16, 1963 --
[15130]BILLS ON WHICH HE HAD ST.
[15132]. 730-900 O-64—28 °
[15134]Tea
[15136]COMMISSION EXHIBIT 2966 A “iy
[15138]¥ oti the Fair Play for
[15141]<@> GARNER DEF
[15145](Tyas REQUESTED
[15147](E}note ar
[15149]R
[15150]|
[15152]r
[15158]q
[15159]ATE
[15161]your NFO
[15163]aa)
[15164]DING, ROOM, EXT. |
[15166]BUIL
[15168]7
[15171]i
[15172]i;
[15173]t
[15174]t
[15176]hey
[15178]id
[15179]i
[15180]t
[15183]1
[15185]“i lia
[15187]Rotd ‘- Duy AA
[15189]tag ‘the Comandus Mambd:
[15191]FEO LE for the Augss
[15193]SCL stared i aoa lene HERR ail
[15195]future: as op ortunkei
[15196]3
[15198]without
[15200]A
[15203]it
[15207]Le SC ew rae
[15211]5, 1963, | tnformation wae
[15212]ies had}a plan to bomb
[15213]| ode. . .
[15214]|
[15215]aa 1063,| United Shas:
[15216]nena. £e ain lane on tc
[15217]gith a quantity 0:
[15219]ty
[15221]cue ALVAREZ, EVELTO ALPIZA
[15222]EEREA MDEZ 5 along,
[15223]re “involve and det tained,
[15225]CARLOS.
[15227]Gugeoms AGENES « It
[15229]W July 19), 19635:
[15231]ne a weer at .
[15238]y
[15240]eTiEZ PUPO, who mode
[15242]compromising
[15244]supplied. the money
[15246]; ie LANEY is, well ki
[15247]» operates in Havana
[15249]t
[15251]bomb Guba , using
[15255]Beachy, Flori
[15257]L
[15259]ats
[15260]oe
[15262]4
[15264]‘ACELO PEDR 1S
[15266]men
[15269]L
[15271]the outskirts of New Or}
[15273]1963, the Federa
[15275]Hei New! Orleans, Louis
[15277]| as.
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[15284]i a a
[15285]search MATTED EG] | eeized 2/400.P gunds -of dynamite fF
[15286]20 bomb - eacin xr Laure ypuisiana. This mas i
[15287]Was Located yi of WILLIAM J. MS LANEY sali
[15288]prother o£ } fa f qi Hiemt each. gab Te
[15289]former opete la 23. ive the, Nacion?t iobel, peers
[15290]: Cuba. ! | . We id
[15291]| Tay
[15292]. . i
[15293]purchased aul | ,/ TiLinos©
[15294]VICTOR ESPisg A LnVO ved in tae June 1G,
[15296]New Orleans) 7 ae r nzed a trader | Also involved 34 rt
[15297]pomb plot *? WNDEZ , MLGUEL ALVAREZ aod] SAM
[15298]BELTON, 4 igen Ja prh ciyaty deveet | a!
[15299]| : : BR
[15301]BENE row and | Rie
[15302]peen involved 2 ps
[15303]groups in pay sink yachts FO obtain i ingurances
[15304]arms deals) Liection| of wll for" personal ak
[15305]~ | ‘y i
[15306]a Mi nav i.sedon dine Ls 1963: RICH ALBER?
[15307]qj + TAUCHLI of, ineville | ‘T1ivebs recently. “arth vee] 22
[15308]q “Miami, Flot in 2 yord | station wagon |* with a Lod of .
[15309]ee seems for ea || Roeriaan aivent iret avd mexcenar RATLD
[15310]RE * ATRICK HE: ASR apa ERASE ANTEON, oo sel tes
[15311]| oo LAUCHLI ar ho mee the different Cuban exile): in.
[15312]a miami. TAUG ig sequently. sed a 257 mam: recodtticss
[15313]yifle to Che lanese inaching gun ‘so Ame
[15314]Lo, augomatze © -ifles and |
[15315]miace Llane
[15318]mh nas L, and
[15319]ot) i. en
[15321]mercenary Gr
[15322]yizatsons.
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[15325]an
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[15341]nearly allio
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[15345]i
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[15348]present Government in Cups
[15349]. ‘aye
[15350]i qe
[15352]| ‘|
[15354]£ these arms, .and
[15356]achine g£U95) nine. sub-machine guns, au
[15357]of Loreign-made weapons.
[15359]ye
[15361]jn arms sales a6 a gun dealer
[15364]about the! |\Cnean exile. cause ©
[15367]a
[15368]1
[15370]| .
[15372]be cae fo Lapeer 4
[15373]MM T-3 explained that LAUCSLI is |
[15374]and hag no emot.os
[15375]to overthrow the
[15377]9
[15379]€ trying
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[15382]I
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[15407]TAUCHLI Sold
[15408]e prices.
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[15542]the Attorney Gonaral ~e eat Pie POctobor 29, "3.962
[15544]we Ot WCE OF ys
[15546]PS tee
[15550]if . a .
[15552]} eros : Director, TBI Me EIVIEED SO ,
[15554]sunjrer: TTDEL CASTRO \
[15555]UNTEONAL SECURLTY - CUBZ
[15557]We have an informant who furnishes data concerning
[15558]eriminal matters and who is close to high officials of the
[15559]Teamsters Union. He has many contacts with hoodlum and
[15560]' gambling elements throughout the United States, He is most
[15561]concerned that his relationship with the F£i not be revealed
[15562]since he feels certain that, if his cooperation becomes
[15563]known, he will be killed immediately
[15565]On October 22, 1962, the informant volunteered to
[15566]our Los Angeles, California, Office that he believes he could
[15567]arrange to have fidel Castro assassinated, He explained
[15568]that some of his underworld acquaintances, such as Meyer Lansky,
[15569]in the past lave had close cemneclions/in Ouba whoreaby ey
[15570]were able to “buy! practically any Cuban official oz to
[15571]accomplish almost anything they wanted to do in Cuba, He
[15572]believes some of these underworld figures still have channels
[15573]inside Cuba through which the assassination of Castro could be
[15574]successfully arranged.’
[15576]Pp a Retro et eat i tach ar Ate rere = POLITE SS wiert net hee ie ces AR tm +,
[15578]pagans -
[15580]4
[15582]aps gage ARS SATO Sarge ib tice aE Bad As pete Us Raye bee
[15584]Tee COULD IDELTETY CONPINENTIAL so,
[15586]sea'f aie Td Wipe bate i
[15587]United states Government is interested in . having the attempt
[15588]made, he would raise the necessary money and would want nothing
[15589]‘from the Government except assurance that such an undertaking
[15590]would in no way adversely affect the national security. He
[15591]expressed confidence in his ability to accomplish this mission
[15592]without any additional contact with Government representatives
[15593]“and with | a, minimum of contacts with private ind pyrene
[15597]Reetlic. Gal 7 /eee3 Popp nt
[15598]109-339 Be ae DEPARTMENT OF SUSTIZE y Hy
[15600]a, es “G1 “
[15602]. ¢ 191G : ou / Lo hoy _ JAN 2 1963 ii cae
[15604]DOJ. eof. i
[15606]7” . Q ye
[15608]RECORDS BR ARCH [0
[15610]ATTOUNEY GENERAL
[15614]on hae
[15616]7 oP somes sa toe I
[15617]50955 Docld: 32423630 Page i149 ,
[15619]Book V, p. 13 Intelligence files in mid-1963 documenting
[15620]series of meetings among major leaders
[15621]of anti-Castro movement. Such a report
[15622]is attached. Attention to the cast of
[15623]characters: i.e., Artime, Maceo, Somoza,
[15624]Carlos Prio.
[15626]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 150
[15630]yt 105-2742
[15632]a *
[15634]“i
[15636]3
[15638]zi: on Anguat 235 1963, ALFREDO pORJAS - intelligence
[15640]ae chief of the vovimiento de ReeuperacLon Re yolisionsx+° GRR)
[15642]Ba, anci-Ch Ste ovgem eaten t of MARVEL ARTLINE , edavices chat the
[15643]jog OF E CARLOS BARD TA is a dissident LOUD s BORJAS
[15644]eros his contacts in the jatrer or genLZacsor s
[15645]“J that only about five members of BAROIN S
[15647]ye time of the Junsc 205
[15649]+o Cuba at &
[15651]aida the cRG press releases
[15652]SF epLLLe: an
[15654]and destroyed any
[15655]had up ¢O that time ‘
[15656]AN, AWTONIO ACEO and AR ea
[15658]Le. scandal weed
[15660]oeoranent
[15661]Miami» Florida.
[15662]5 2h ona a series of
[15664]meetinne » in Xa
[15665]exile a an
[15666]Ne KO2A claame
[15668]i Republins ht
[15670]these RESTLOLS 9
[15672]press fdencs
[15673]presidents Are “ad 4
[15674]of training amps s military equip
[15675]from which to attack the presenu governm
[15676]d that his meetings with the
[15678]operathor i
[15679]Cuba. ovo! indLeare
[15681]pre,
[15683]Viele
[15686]rr an
[15688]& i Bet: * arenes ie iaalaceatinaatel — a
[15691]MM 105-1742
[15693]Bi . presidents of the several Central American Republi« 8
[15695]and the leading figures among the Cuban exLles iim iia. .
[15696]New York «nd Yashington, were known to have the sanetion
[15697]of the United Seates Government. On july 16, 1962,
[15698]sozozh left Miami and returned to Hiearaguc.
[15700]on July 15, 1963, the Niemi News" contained
[15701]an artiels stating that there ig growing apeculation in
[15702]Miemi that Attorney General ROBERT KEWEEDY Ls quiccly
[15703]backing eartain Cuban exiles, such as MANUEL ARE INE SUECA
[15704]and the so-called govozA Plan. It i3 noted that VANUKL
[15708]ARTIME BUESA is the kead of the PRR, an antL=CASin
[15710]organization.
[15712],
[15713]a
[15715]On July 15, 1963, MU T-3, who has been active
[15717]in Cuban revolutionary matters for the past five yearss
[15718]advised thst wie belug-listed persons are seme of foe
[15720]better-kuom Cuban exile leaders who met with SOslOZA during
[15721]his recent visis to the United States:
[15723]wo
[15725]SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ, Comendos L
[15727]LAUREANO BATISTA FALLA, Movimiento Democrats
[15728]Cristiano (MDC)
[15730]ANTONIO. VECIANA, Alpha 66
[15732]“gixro MESA, MRR oo
[15734]JOSE MORELL ROMERO, Cuban Committee of Liberation
[15735]CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS, former President of Cuba
[15737]| RECEIVED FRO
[15739]MAY 7 1976
[15742]VM 105-1742
[15744]MANUEL ARTINE, MRR
[15745]EUSEBIO KUJAL, labor leader
[15746]JOSE BOSCH, Cuban industrialist °
[15748]‘On July 26, 1963, SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ
[15749]advised he had talked with LUIS SOMOZA about four hours
[15750]while SOMOZA was in Miami during the middle of July, 1953.
[15751]ALVAREZ said chat it is his opinion SOMOZA wee aehing &S
[15752]an intesmadiary between the United Svates Government aud
[15753]the Cuban exiles.
[15755]On August 20, 1963, ALVAREZ advised
[15757]: eloped eoncerning the SOMOZA plans;
[15758]not clear what somozA is offering, oF what tke
[15759]Government's position or actitude ig in this matter. ALVAREZ
[15760]said it is obvious somozA cannot afford, either as a private
[15761]individual or a representative of the Nicaragezn Goverament ,
[15762]to back such a military program by Cuban exiles, and will
[15763]have to have the backing and support of the United States
[15764]Government to go on with his plan.
[15766]has yet de
[15768]On July 30, 1963, FERMIN PLELTES, member of the
[15769]Executive Committee of the MOC, advised that about a week
[15770]ago, a Nicaraguan Army officer visited the 'DC Keagdquarters ,
[15771]and in the name of SOMOZA, offered camps, military equipment
[15772]and bases in Nicaragua. This individual algo offered to
[15773]pay the expenses of moving the MDC operations to Miears gua.
[15775]FLEITES explained that the MDC bad taken no
[15776]positive aetion concerning this matter, and had adopted a
[15777]wait and see" policy to escertain what attitude the
[15778]United States Covernment would take concerning this matter.
[15780]J e teh wo dee
[15782]MAY or Mire 7.
[15784]DOJ
[15786]noe
[15787]fe
[15789]MM 105-1742
[15791]On August 7, 1963,
[15792]Secretary of Rescate Democra
[15794]that wierr 0%
[15795]of 1963, VANUS
[15796]Yemoersuiao Revo Lus
[15797]in Hiewi and New York.
[15799]VARONS left for Miearagua on August 1, 1063,
[15800]with SOMOZ4, and ic expected to re
[15802]week.
[15804]On September 1
[15805]definite head been es
[15806]vieit to Nicaragua,
[15807]sorioZs Plan is, uncertain.
[15809]MARIO DEL CARAL, meet Lve
[15810]tico Revolucionerio, advised
[15811]“OZA vas in the United States during July
[15812]L AWFOMNLO DIE VABRORA , head of the Resaace
[15813]jonario (ROR), conferred wish sone
[15815]ot ARS
[15817]At the juvitation of SOMDZA., . +
[15819]co agian confer
[15820]curn co Iiemdi ia above a
[15822]0, 1963, CAR\L adviced thet nothing
[15823]stablished as a result of YAROTA' Ss
[15824]and that the future of tha propoged
[15826]On August 13, 1963, TAUREANO BATISTA FALLA,
[15828]militery leader of the mbC, ad
[15829]returned from Nicaragua, where he
[15830]SOMOZA, who made no commitmen 2
[15831]sowozA showed great interest in the Gyo
[15833]- plan existed.
[15835]problem, but offered no positive
[15837]armg or training camps.
[15839]art £ A
[15840]VLE St Lea
[15842]ts or indicated .n7 defir
[15844]te
[15846]that ke fetd recently
[15848]had conferred with
[15849]fees
[15851]ban
[15852]help ox aid in the way of
[15854]BATISTA FALLA said that CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS »
[15856]former President of Cuba,
[15858]time, conferred with SOMOZA ,
[15859]offers o£ positive aid. BATISTA explained
[15860]ly returned from the Domini
[15862]had just previous
[15864]wag in Nicaragua ec the same
[15865]but did not. re
[15867]eaive any
[15869]By
[15870]ay
[15871]Le
[15874]a.
[15876](DR), and although PRIO and JUAN Bosca, President of the
[15878]DR, had been friends for many years,
[15879]in the DR.»
[15881]obtain any military bases
[15883]Oa August 22, 1963, RUBEN DE LEON, former C
[15884]~Ordinator of the anti-CASTs0
[15886]Minister of Defense and Co
[15888]my re rye
[15889]: mp Set yy re
[15890]an lage PR
[15891]Lhe 4, 9") TENSE
[15892]ae | a batt ft fa read
[15893]et
[15894]. i
[15896]MAY 7 39%
[15898]DOJ
[15900]PRIO wen unable to
[15904]8.
[15907]MM 105-1742
[15909]organizxtion Armed Forces of Cuba in Exile, stated that
[15910]about @ month apo, LUIS SOMOZA told EMILIO NUNEZ PORTUOsDO,
[15912]Us
[15914]former Cuban delegste to the United Mations (UN), bast
[15915]torsey Genaral (AG)
[15917]fo he (§0:0zZ4) had talked to United gtates At
[15918]a ROBERT KEWNEDY.
[15920]AG KENNEDY reportedly salt it was necesss
[15921]SOMOZA to work ous the Cuban probiein and to unt C
[15922]exiles. SOOZA recommended that MANUBL ARTINE BUESA ba
[15923]designated as the leader of the Cuban exiles.
[15925]; DE LEON advised that there vias later
[15926]ilemi at the homa of Nicaraguan Amy Captain JOSE A LERELT
[15927]between SOMOZA and a number of Cuban exile lee
[15928]meeting, COuOZA said there was a possibility o
[15929]support for she Guban exilé anci-CASino nove wy
[15930]the exiles would have to accept ARTINE astheic leader. “here
[15931]was considerable opposition to this suggestion by the exile
[15933]leaders attending the meeting.
[15935]On September 12,1963, PAULINO SIERRA WARTINEZ
[15936]former attorney and textile mill operator ia Cuba, @ ele
[15937]he had recently visited Nicaragua and conferred with Lu
[15938]SOMOZA concerning help to Cuban exiles.
[15940]SIERRA ‘said there are no training camps in
[15942]Nicaregua or Central America for Cuban exiles, and #11 the
[15943]proposed aid and backing has progressed no further than the
[15944]talking stage. STERRA said it seems to him tha: everyone
[15946]u is waiting for the United States Government to give the ;
[15948]vie HF
[15950]* "“preen lignans’.
[15952]TEARS a eer 12, 1963, MM T-3 advised that nearly
[15953].1j Leaders among Cuban exiles fave conferred
[15955]air ebptpaiitad
[15956]fee that the SOMOZA Plan is too big for
[15958]with SOMaQZA and now agr
[15959]Ca gig
[15963]9. oe
[15965]So ee
[15968]‘we 105-1742
[15972]epublics to put into
[15974]central American R
[15975]and political
[15977]gomozA and the
[15978]United States. military
[15980]effect without
[15981]guppore .
[15983]said that the different Cuban military
[15984]anders now feel that SOMOZA kas nos yan .
[15985]sive commitment from the United States
[15986]Government, beanuse after two and a hal£ monthe of
[15987]conferences 5 there ara not any Cuban exile milicery
[15988]training e2imps in Central Ameriea, and che so“ocs4 Plan:
[15990]has not progressed beyond the talking steee
[15992]Til. ORGANIZATIONS
[15996]wm ‘T-3 advised chat Commandos L is one of the Leading
[15998]anti-CASTRO organizations and action Zope i
[16000]SANTIAGO ALVAREZ ROWRIGUEZ, AWLONLO CUESTA and RAMON &
[16001]ains no office 4s guch, bus cont
[16003]rgide Sta
[16005]é ry oe 2 4.
[16006]The organization maint i
[16007]tion, Hiani, Plox
[16009]to use Pose Office Box 66, Rive
[16011]to collect money donations.
[16012]SANTIAGO ALVAREZ ROSRIGUEZ
[16014]advised the organization bas had no military aecivicy
[16015]gince Marek o£ 1993. The leadex ship is now puilaing che
[16016]organization eg Jncrease membership, establish different
[16017]sections, #uch a3 4 Women's Section, 3 publicity Saction ,
[16018]and commituees to raise funds. The orginization
[16019]put out a & rty-page pooklet, setting forth the aime ated
[16020]purposes of along with information
[16021]concerning pr
[16023]On July 29, 1963,
[16025]2 recently
[16028]he organization,
[16029]evious military operé
[16031]tions of the organization.
[16033]gs two boars in the
[16035]ALVAREZ admitted his group ha
[16036]future for military
[16038]Miami River, which will be used in the
[16040]KeGclVED PROM 10.
[16042]MAY 7 1975
[16045]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16047]Book V, p. 25
[16049]Page St
[16051]Helms directed Karamessinis and Angleton
[16052]to fully cooperate with the desk officer,
[16053]John Whitten, charged with investigating
[16054]the assassination. On November 24,
[16055]Mexico City cabled the names of known
[16056]contacts of Soviet personnel in Mexico
[16057]City and AMLASH's name (Rolando Cubela)
[16058]was included on that list. Nonetheless
[16059]neither Fitzgerald, Helms, Tom K or
[16060]Angleton advised the desk officer of
[16061]significance of this name.
[16063]Book V, p. 25 On November 23, 1963, the CIA
[16065]HY 40955 -Daocld: 32423630
[16067]Page 1538
[16069]29
[16071]Headquarters asked the Mexico Station
[16073]to stop the planned arrest of Sylvia
[16074]Duran. Karamessinis speculated that this
[16075]was because CIA feared Cuba responsible
[16076]for assassination.
[16078]Headquarters equally concerned with
[16079]Duran on November 27 and warned
[16080]Mexico City station chief that U.S.
[16081]Ambassador pushing Cuban theory too
[16082]hard.
[16084]Book V, p. 27 AMLASH's case officer omitted reference
[16086]to the poison pen in his November 25
[16087]contact report of his November 22 AMLASH
[16088]meeting on instruction from Fitzgerald.
[16090]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 159
[16092]Book V, p. 28 "D' tells his story in Mexico City on
[16093]November 25. On November 26, Mexico
[16094]City cables details of "D" interroga-
[16095]tion to CIA Headquarters. On December l,
[16096]CIA Headquarters cables Mexico City that
[16097]the White House has been told that D's
[16098]story is a fabrication.
[16100]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 160
[16102]Book V, p. 30
[16104]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 161
[16106]On December 1,.1963, CIA Headquarters
[16107]cabled Mexico City that a sensitive
[16108]source ( ) has advised
[16110]that a Cubana airlines flight to Havana
[16111]was delayed in Mexico City on November 22
[16112]to pick up a passenger who rode in the
[16113]cockpit without going through customs.
[16114]This cable was found in Mexico City
[16116]file with no CIA headquarters record
[16118]of follow-up being found.
[16120]Book V, p. 35
[16122]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 162
[16124]In December, 1963, Sullivan prepared a
[16125]memo for Hoover's aid in briefing the
[16126]President that stated that no evidence
[16127]had been developed which would indicate
[16128]Oswald's assassination was inspired or
[16129]directed by Pro Castro organizations
[16131]or by any foreign country.
[16133]r
[16135]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16137]Book V, p. 40-41
[16139]Page 163
[16141]FBI Legat in Mexico City cabled
[16142]FBI Headquarters on November 24
[16143]that U.S. Ambassador felt Cubans
[16144]participated in assassination
[16145]effort. "Bureau may desire’ to
[16146]give consideration to polling
[16147]all Cuban sources in US in
[16148]effort to confirm or refute this
[16149]theory." FBI Headquarter's
[16150]supervisor determined this was
[16151]not desirable and would only
[16152]promote rumors.
[16154]Book V, P. 58
[16156]HY 50955. Docld:32423630 Page i164
[16158]The CIA investigation reflected a
[16159]Soviet orientation, with exhaustive
[16160]studies of Oswald's activities in —
[16161]re Soviet Union. There is no corres-
[16162]ponding CIA analysis of Oswald's con-
[16164]tacts with pro and anti Castro groups
[16165]in U.S. ’
[16167]63
[16169]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16171]Page 165
[16173]Book V, p. 61- In December, 1963, the CIA learned that
[16175]a Cuban American had crossed the border
[16176]from Texas into Mexico, on November 23
[16178]and arrived in Mexico City on November 25.
[16179]He stayed in a hotel until the evening of
[16180]November 27, when he departed on a
[16181]regularly scheduled Cubana airlines flight
[16182]to Havana using a Cuban courtesy visa and
[16183]an expired U.S. passport. He was the only
[16184]passenger on the flight. In March, 1964
[16185]the Agency received a report from a
[16187]source which alleged that the same Cuban
[16188]American had received a permit to enter
[16189]Mexico City on November 20 in Tampa,
[16190]Florida. The same source said the Cuban
[16191]American was somehow involved in the
[16192]assassination.
[16194]The Agency did not follow up on this
[16195]report other than to ask a Cuban
[16196]defector about his knowledge of the
[16197]Cuban American's activities. The FBI
[16198]did investigate the reported unusual
[16199]travel but did not fully report the
[16200]results of their investigation to their
[16201]Warren Commission, Their investigation
[16202]showed that this individual had lived
[16204]in Tampa and Key West and was pro-Castro.
[16205]He had traveled to Cuba in May of 1962
[16206]and had a brother in the Cuban military
[16207]who was studying in the Soviet Union.
[16209]On November 17, 1963, the Cuban American
[16210]was at a get-together at the home of a
[16211]member of the Tampa chapter of the Fair
[16212]Play for Cuba Committee. This was the
[16213]same Fair Play for Cuba Committee that
[16214]Oswald had possibly contacted in May of
[16215]1963.
[16217]Book V, p. 63-64 In March of 1964, the Warren
[16218]Commission requested from Director
[16219]Hoover information on certain pro-
[16220]Castro and anti-Castro organizations
[16221]which were active in the U.S.-
[16222]including the Fair Play for Cuba
[16223]Committee, and Alpha 66, among
[16224]others. The Bureau furnished less
[16225]than a full and satisfactory
[16226]response and did not disclose the
[16227]fact that the CIA had operational
[16228]interests in certain of the entities
[16229]inquired about.
[16231]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 166
[16233]Book V, p. 65 The FBI reports on Alpha 66 furnished
[16234]the Warren Commission noted the attack
[16235]on the Soviet vessel in March of 1963
[16236]but did not detail that group's
[16237]continued activity in planning and
[16238]carrying out their military operations
[16239]against Cuba. The FBI reports did not
[16240]show that Alpha 66 had been involved
[16241]with the New Orleans anti-Castro train-
[16242]ing camp.
[16244]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 167
[16246]Book V, p. 65
[16248]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 168
[16250]It is known that the CIA took an
[16251]interest in the Fair Play for Cuba
[16252]Committee with which Oswald was
[16253]associated. According to Bureau
[16254]documents, the Agency advised the
[16255]Bureau that they were considering
[16257]the use of disinformation that might
[16258]embarass the Committee in areas where.
[16259]the Committee had support.
[16261]Book V, p. 72
[16263]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 169
[16265]In late July. 1964, an FBI informant
[16266]reported that the CIA was meeting with
[16267]AMLASH for the purpose of assassinating
[16268]Castro. Informant also reported that
[16269]AMLASH was unhappy with the CIA's efforts
[16270]and that Attorney General Kennedy had
[16271]refused to support the plan but that the
[16272]plan had not been completely put to rest.
[16273]This information was not disseminated
[16274]outside the Bureau at the request of the
[16275]informant. But the Bureau notations
[16276]indicate that the Bureau was looking
[16277]into an underworld plot against Castro
[16278]that might be coincidental with the
[16279]AMLASH plan. The Bureau had first been
[16280]informed of AMLASH-CIA meetings in
[16281]October 1963. That information did not
[16282]indicate assassination involvement.
[16284]Book V, p. 74-75 The AMLASH operation was insecure
[16286]prior to the Fitzgerald meeting
[16287]with AMLASH, a meeting that
[16288]Fitzgerald was urged not to under-
[16289]take by several in the Agency.
[16291]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page i170
[16293]Book V, pp.
[16295]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16297]Page 171i
[16302]pe
[16303]a A
[16305]va
[16306]Individuals outside tHe CIA had
[16307]been brought into the, operation,
[16308]and the Agency learned that one
[16309]of these individuals was in
[16310]clandestine contact with Cuban
[16311]intelligence (Cable from
[16312]European station to CIA Head-
[16313]quarters, 3/18/65). —
[16315]Book V, p.
[16317]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page if?
[16319]78 Victor Espinosa, a Cuban exile, involved
[16321]in the transporting explosives to New
[16322]Orleans in 1963, contacted INS with
[16323]information about the AMLASH operation.
[16324]This information was turned over to the
[16325]FBI.which informed the CIA. Both
[16326]agencies interrogated Espinosa in June
[16327]of 1965 and found that he knew that
[16328]AMLASH and others were planning a coup
[16329]which involved the assassination of
[16330]Castro and that the CIA had been
[16331]involved with AMLASH and others in the
[16332]planning.
[16334]Espinosa and AMLASH were life-long friends
[16335]but during the interrogation he gave no
[16336]indication that he was aware of the 1963
[16337]AMLASH-CIA meetings. Espinosa's
[16338]information noted in the 1967 IG Report
[16339]suggests a link between the AMLASH
[16340]operation and the CIA plots to assassinate
[16341]Castro using underworld contacts.
[16342]Therefore, Espinosa's information raised
[16343]the possibility that underworld figures
[16344]who were aware of the Harvey plots may
[16345]have been aware of the AMLASH operation.
[16346]CIA reaction to this interrogation was
[16348]to terminate the operation immediately.
[16350]Book V, p. 79 CIA had FBI files on Espinosa detailing
[16351]his involvement with anti-Castro exiles
[16352]and underworld figures who were operating
[16353]the guerrilla training camps in New
[16354]Orleans in July 1963. a
[16356]HY 450955 Docld: 32423630 Page i173
[16358]Book V, Pp. 79
[16360]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16362]Page i174
[16364]In mid-1965 the CIA interrogated Tepedino,
[16365]New York jeweler, who had been involved
[16366]with the AMLASH operation from the
[16367]beginning. The report concluded that
[16369]the subject was. deceptive during the
[16370]interrogation and withheld pertinent
[16371]information in one or more relevant
[16372]areas. Tepedino lied in response to
[16373]questions dealing with AMLASH's and his
[16374]ties to Cuban intelligence. Tepedino
[16375]stated that AMLASH had no plan to over-
[16376]throw Castro. Tepedino stated AMLASH
[16377]had strong connections with Cuban
[16378]intelligence and was probably cooperating
[16379]with it in various ways. Although
[16380]AMLASH never mentioned these connections
[16381]to his CIA case officers; Teledino
[16383]stated that AMLASH had mentioned them
[16385]‘to him and almost everyone else he had
[16387]met.
[16389]Book V, p.
[16391]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16393]Page L745
[16395]79
[16397]The FBI made the connection between
[16399]Espinosa's 1963 activities and the
[16401]fact that in 1965 he was knowledgeable
[16402]of CIA involvement in plans to
[16403]assassinate Castro. However, there
[16405]is no evidence that either the CIA or
[16406]FBI investigated this connection
[16408]until 1967.
[16410]Book V, p. 79
[16412]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page i176
[16414]Although the CIA had received information
[16415]that AMLASH was a provocation there is
[16417]no evidence that the CIA investigated
[16419]the possibility of a connection between
[16420]its fall 1963 meetings ‘with AMLASH and
[16421]the assassination of President Kennedy.
[16423]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16425]Book V, P. 80 A client of Morgan's had informed him
[16427]Page i?T
[16429]that the United States had attempted
[16431]to assassinate Castro in the early
[16432]1960's and that Castro had decided to
[16433]retaliate. This information was passed
[16434]to Drew Pearson who in turn attempted
[16435]to have Chief Justice Warren look into
[16436]it but he declined,
[16438]Book V, P. 81
[16440]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page i178
[16442]Supervisory personnel assigned to the
[16443]assassination investigation have
[16444]uniformly testified they do not recall
[16445]ever discussing or reviewing memoranda
[16446]which touch upon Cuban involvement
[16448]in the assassination or of Cuban
[16449]retaliation for the. CIA assassination
[16450]plots.
[16452]‘ Book V, p. 81
[16454]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page i179
[16456]According to Secretary of State Rusk
[16457]in his testimony before the Warren
[16458]Commission, 6/10/64, he stated there
[16460]was ‘very considerable concern" in Cuba
[16462]immediately following the assassination
[16463]as to whether Cuba would be held
[16464]responsible for the assassination and
[16465]what effect the assassination might
[16466]have on Cuba's position and security.
[16468]Book V, p. 84 On March 21, 1967, WFO send Headquarters
[16469]10 copies of a blind memorandum which
[16470]stated Castro employed assassination
[16471]teams for the purpose of removing
[16472]President Kennedy. Morgan's clients
[16473]were also aware of the identity of
[16474]individuals sent to the United States
[16475]for that purpose. He understood that two
[16476]such individuals were now in the state
[16477]of New Jersey. The transmittal slip is
[16478]attached to this memorandum.
[16480]Neither the President nor the Attorney
[16481]General ordered a follow-up investigation
[16482]after receiving this memo.
[16484]HY 450955 Docld: 32423630 Page 160
[16486]Book Vv, p. 92
[16488]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 181°
[16490]In October, 1963, Soviet experts at FBI
[16491]Headquarters were informed that Oswald
[16492]had met with Vice Counsel Kostikov at
[16493]the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City.
[16494]Kostikov was a member of the KGB and
[16496]- believed to be with the KGB department
[16498]that carried out assassinations and
[16499]sabotage,
[16501]I, Frank Sturgis, have today personally delivered
[16502]to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the
[16504]following materials:
[16506]j Envelepe. -—Q ddsaWveg
[16508]were. 923-1
[16510]RECEIVED:
[16512]For the connitted
[16514]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 162
[16517]HY 450955 Dacld: 32423630
[16519]INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE
[16520]BY FRANK STURGIS, 9/2/76
[16522]Page 1853
[16525]FS:
[16527]FS:
[16529]FS:
[16531]FS:
[16533]FS:
[16535]FS:
[16537]HY 40955 Dacld: 32423630
[16539]Selia Sanchez, Haiti Santa Maria, Paco
[16540]and Fidel and several of his armed guards.
[16541]Okay now, what happened
[16545]Castanyava
[16547]_Castanyava was the chief of the Navy.
[16549]And Fidel offered you a job or something, can you
[16550]go into that?
[16552]Well he was very fond of everything German. He
[16554]said he read and my father, you know, tried
[16555]to pacify the tourists, the passengers on the ship
[16556]because they were terrified. They thought they were
[16557]being invaded. So I helped my father pacify the
[16558]tourists and it was really a funny scene. - Then I
[16559]steered Fidel to my father's cabin and we went to
[16560]dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the |
[16561]table. And this was February 28, 1959 on the cruise.
[16563]And he offered you a job, right?
[16565]Yes, after about 5 hours on board ship we went back
[16566]up to my father's cabin and had drinks and exchanged
[16567]gifts, and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
[16568]very well. My father is diplomatic and they
[16570]exchanged plaques and my father's silver ashtray and
[16572]stuff like that. And he asked me, he asked my father
[16573]if since I was bilingual if I could go, come back,
[16574]return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
[16575]getting German mail and he did not speak German and
[16576]he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an
[16577]office, and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I had
[16578]friends in Cuba anyway.
[16580]How old were you then?
[16582]Nineteen, nineteen years old.
[16584]Did you get off the ship and stay there?
[16586]No, I went back to New York. Fidel, on the bridge,
[16587]asked me for my phone number and address in New York
[16589]and said he would call me, and I just, I didn't
[16590]believe it.
[16592]Page 184
[16594]FS: ' When did he call you?
[16596]ML: The same day I arrived in New York. Because my
[16597]father took off that night for Germany again and
[16598]the phone ring, and it rang at 1 o'clock in the
[16599]morming. I guess the previous...
[16601]FS: Well he went back to Germany with the ship, right?
[16602]Where did you go?
[16604]ML: I was living with my brother in New York City.
[16605]My brother was a translator for the United Nations
[16606]and I was alone living in New York City going to
[16607]the Merchantson Banker School.
[16609]FS: Well how did you get back to New York City from
[16612]ML: On my father's ship. It was the last stop on the
[16613]eruise of about 5 or 6 stops.
[16615]FS: Oh, in other words the, in other words the ship left
[16617]that night, left Havana that night...
[16618]ML: Yeah.
[16619]FS: went over to New York and then from New York went
[16621]back to Europe, right?
[16623]ML: Yes. Yes. I |thought about Fidel and he pointed out
[16624]this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I
[16625].was young, I don't know. And I thought that...
[16627]FS: He called, he |called you, he knew just about what
[16628]time you were |going to arrive in New York and when
[16629]you got there jhe called you, what, the same, the same
[16630]day you got there? oO
[16632]ML: The same day our ship arrived, three days later. And I
[16633]just picked up the vhone and the Havana operator said
[16634]one moment please, the Prime Minister is on the phone,
[16635]on the line, and I heard some shouting and then I
[16636]heard "hello".
[16638]~y FS: Did he speak Guban or English to you?
[16639]ML: He spoke broken English in his hoarse voice. I guess
[16640]he was giving a lot of speeches at that time. And he
[16641]asked me, "Hello Marita, you think I don't call? I
[16642]think about you very much and I call. I keep my word.
[16643]I want to prove to you that one man's Cuban word I keep."
[16645]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 165
[16647]ML: So, I was as surprised, I was very surprised.
[16649]Ccontd.)
[16651]FS: How long was it did you leave New York to go to
[16652]Havana?
[16654]ML: Fidel said to me, I said is this really you Fidel,
[16656]and he said yes. I am in Havana Hilton, you call
[16658]me back in room 2408, and I said no, alright I
[16659]believe you I said because how else would you have
[16660]my number. He said "I want you come back. I think
[16661]about you and [I will send a plane, my plane, and you
[16662]come back." And it was a joke really, I liked the
[16663]Cocoa Glace, it's an ice cream in a cocoanut shell,
[16664]and he had sent to my father's ship a case of it so
[16665]I would have enough for the return trip home because,
[16666]I don't know, I just talked about Havana, the island
[16667]in general. So I, and I still didn't believe him
[16668]that he would send the plane.
[16670]FS: Did he send the airplane?
[16671]ML: Yes.
[16672]FS: What kind of an airplane did he send?
[16673]ML: A.Cubana airliner with...
[16674]FS: Four engines? |
[16675]ML: Yes, with two men and two men came to the, my door.
[16677]I was living at 344 West 87th Street at the time, on
[16678]the second floor, and my brother was at a UN party
[16679]and I was home alone studying. Oh no, in fact I was
[16680]' reading a Herbert L. Mathews article on Fidel Castro
[16681]and Cuba when the doorbell rang, and it was Jesus
[16682]and Pedro
[16683]and they showed me identification. One came in military
[16684]uniform, the other in civilian clothes. One smiled,.
[16685]one didn't. One said, "Are you ready?" And one said,
[16686]"We go now. Fidel.want very much to see you."
[16688]FS: (Laughter).
[16689]ML: "And I said I didn't finish my homework yet. I was like.
[16690]= in shock. I didn't know what to do. So they said. they
[16691]~~ were staying in a hotel, that they would, the plane
[16693]would leave tomorrow, please be ready. I, meanwhile I
[16694]‘haven't even unpacked, you know, from the cruise. My
[16696]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 166
[16698]ML: clothes were all laundered anyway from the ship and
[16699](contd.) I hadn't even unpacked because I was worred about
[16700]. tissing two days at school.
[16702]FS: Yeah.
[16703]ML:. So I went...
[16704]FS: Well these are incidentals anyway, so, what'd you
[16706]do, you went to the airport? What airport did the
[16707]airplane, was the airplane at?
[16709]ML: Uh, LaGuard, .which is not Kennedy, it was at that
[16711]time named. something else. Idlewild, right?
[16713]FS: - Idlewild, yeah. |
[16715]ML: And...
[16717]FS: It was Idlewild airport, that's where they had the
[16719]airplane, Cubana Airlines? ;
[16721]ML: Yeah, Cubana Airlines. Got on the plane...
[16723]FS: How many people where on the airplane? 7
[16725]ML: , Me, a steward, a pilot and a co-pilot and the two .
[16727]oO guards. .
[16729]FS: Ha, ha, had -- that's funny. Go ahead. —
[16731]ML: So anyway, I met Fidel and that's when I got involved.
[16733]FS: This is more or less a background so they know her
[16734]background.
[16736]ML: Yeah that's, that's out anyway.
[16738](Unidentified voice: "Yeah, right.")
[16740]FS: "I mean don't drag it out so much because the details
[16742]of all this thing is...
[16744]ML: Yeah.
[16745]“A FS: Is yours, you know. Go over it lightly. So you went
[16747]back to Havana, right?
[16749]ML: Right.
[16751]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 167
[16755]FS:
[16757]FS:
[16759]FS:
[16761]FS:
[16763]FS;
[16765]FS:
[16767]FS:
[16768]ML:
[16769]FS:
[16771]FS: No,
[16772]ML
[16773]FS:
[16775]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[16777]Now when ,you went back to Havana you saw Fidel where?
[16778]Cause we'll go over this lightly.
[16780]I was in the.
[16782]At the Hilton?
[16784]I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton.
[16786]And that's where Fidel was staying at the Hilton, right?
[16788]Yes, he was having an argument in his suite with Chez
[16789]Raoul and some Americans.
[16791]He was having some argument with some Americans . Do
[16792]you know who the Americans were? ;
[16794]Yes.
[16795]Who were they?
[16797]One Lady attorney trying to promote something, Muriel...
[16799]Oh this was more business or something like that?
[16801]- Yes business. Everybody was trying to promote this
[16803]and that with Fidel.
[16805]Yes, well that's immaterial.
[16807]So then I was told to go in the room and wait and the
[16808]door locked. And I was in there, in his suite, and
[16809]Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and
[16810]the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it.
[16811]You'll write it don't worry. Alright now..
[16813]If I live.
[16815]Do you know approximately when you met me?
[16817]A couple months, or two months, or three months after
[16818]that.
[16820]That was very, I think you met me around what, April?
[16821]April, right. .
[16822]April of 1959, right?
[16824]Page 183
[16826]FS:
[16828]FS:
[16830]FS:
[16832]FS:
[16834]FS:
[16836]FS:
[16838]Yeah.
[16840]And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
[16841]lobby?
[16843]Yes.
[16845]That's where, when I saw...
[16847]That's what I said, a couple months.
[16848]Right.
[16850]right after that.
[16852]In April, right. And this is where we made contact
[16853]and so forth and then we saw each other a few times
[16855]after that.
[16857]In the coffee shop.
[16859]‘In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited
[16861]to go ahead and spy for the United States and so forth
[16862]and, were you ever introduced or, to Colonel Nickels?
[16864]Yes.
[16865]Do you know who Colonel Nickels is, right. He was
[16866]the Colonel who was military attache with the American
[16868]_ Embassy in Havana, Cuba at that time, right?
[16872]FS:
[16874]Yes.
[16876]Okay. Then you started your spy thing and so forth
[16877]and so forth, alright?
[16879]Um hum.
[16881]We'll go ahead and jump a little bit and so forth.
[16882]There were several meetings that Fidel had in the
[16884]Hilton with some of the people of the staff. I was
[16886]FS:
[16889]7“
[16891]present at the meeting, right?
[16892]Right.
[16894]And, one of the time that Fidel was talking to the
[16895]staff concerned the gambling casinos and American
[16897]‘business interests in Cuba, right?
[16899]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630
[16901]Right.
[16903]Page 189
[16905]FS:
[16907]FS:
[16909]FS:
[16911]. FS:
[16913]FS:
[16915]FS:
[16917]FS:
[16919]And it was stated that he was going to run all the
[16920]racketeers out of...
[16922]Out of Cuba.
[16924]Cuba. All the American businesses (were going to go
[16925]ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
[16926]Cuba for the Cubans.
[16928]Right.
[16930]-And so forth. And then it was suggested about well
[16932]you know the American government may not like it.
[16933]You're gonna have all the American business interests
[16934]put pressure on the State Department which would put
[16935]pressure on him and that they would be up in arms and
[16936]they would have the agents, they would send new agents
[16937]into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close,
[16938]closely contacted, at least certain people in the CIA
[16939]had contact with the 26th of July movement. As a
[16941]_ matter of fact that they were exchanging information
[16943]with Castro...
[16945]Uh hun.
[16947]which enabled him to outwit many of the other groups
[16948]so really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
[16949]struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time. So
[16950]Fidel, with the help of CIA... ;
[16952]Yes.
[16954]‘got to be the ruler of Cuba. Now...
[16956]I would, what about, where did Fidel get most of his
[16957]guns from?
[16959]Well, you know...
[16960]To lead the revolution?
[16962]Right, you know, so forth. That's a story which we
[16963]won't have to go into and so forth because we just
[16964](unintelligible) briefly over it. And then there
[16965]came a period of time where Fidel in all his
[16966]popularity and so forth was, now Fidel with you - he
[16968]made approaches to you, right, and so forth?
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[16985]He told you he loved you and so forth.
[16986]Yes. .
[16988]And he seduced you, right? And, which has been on
[16989]record.
[16991]Mm-Hmm.
[16993]You know, and you liked him and you actually in
[16994]liking him like a young girl thought for the future
[16995]that here's a man that I, you admired, that you
[16996]started to get an affection for him and so forth, -
[16997]and really you thought of marriage, right?
[16999]Mm-hmm.
[17001]“And in the process of being close with him, being as
[17003]the man's intelligent, dynamic and so forth, he did
[17004]force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
[17005]you. You didn't want to but it happened.
[17007]Yes.
[17009]And you had nobody to go to because, hey, you're in
[17010]his Cuba, right? —
[17012]Iwas in his Cuba alright.
[17014]Right, now also what we were getting in this Senate
[17015]Intelligence Committee has got is the things that
[17016]Fidel has stated against the United States government
[17017]if they tried to interfere with the revolution and so
[17018]forth when the new election time comes because at that
[17019]time the President of the United States was Eisenhower
[17020]and it looked like that the Democrats were going to
[17021]win the election and he felt that if a new government,
[17023]which was discussed among the top military people, if
[17024]the new government came in and if they decided that they.
[17026]didn't like Fidel's:- policy, which Fidel was saying what
[17027]he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale,
[17029]that if the United States government decided to go and
[17031]turn against him and put pressure on him he would do
[17033]' likewise to the United States government. And he was
[17035]going to export his revolution in Latin America. ‘These
[17037]are the things that you heard...
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[17065]A number of times I was present up there for the..
[17066]Mm-hmm.
[17068]in the Hilton with all the people. Now you left Cuba
[17069]when?
[17071]Sometime in September.
[17073]In September of 1959 you came to the United States,
[17074]right?
[17076]Yeah.
[17078]And when you came back to the United States you saw
[17079]me.
[17081]Yes.
[17083]And then arrangements were made for you to go back to
[17084]Cuba and so forth.
[17086]Yes, yes.
[17088]And this is what happened with the attempt and so forth.
[17090]Right.
[17092]Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave
[17094]there the second time? ; ;
[17095]towards
[17097]When exactly / the end of 1959, 1960.
[17099]1959? .
[17101]'60 - I'm not sure. I'm no good at dates and all that.
[17103]I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went
[17105]out.
[17107]Well then was it the early part of '60?
[17109]Yeah.
[17111]It had to be the early part of '60 and you came back
[17112]to Miami, right?
[17114]Right.
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[17142]You came back to Miami and you continued to go ahead
[17143]and do some work
[17145]“With Alex.
[17147]With Alex and myself here in South Florida. And then
[17149]when did you cease doing some work at that time?
[17151]Uh, in 19--, end of 1960.
[17153]End of 1960. When did I tell you to make contact with
[17154]Petty Humanez at his home. Do you know approximately
[17155]what time that was?
[17157]In 1960, 61.
[17159]The end of 1960, or the early part of '61, was that
[17161]then?
[17163]About the time of the Bay of Pigs.
[17165]Well, '61 was the Bay of Pigs, in April. '61. Soit
[17166]had to be before the Bay of Pigs.
[17168]Before, before, yes it was.
[17170]Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami..
[17172]Right.
[17174]Beach on the island there, right?
[17176]Yes.
[17178]Alright, and you were told by whom to go over to his
[17179]home?
[17181]You.
[17183]You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
[17184]with someone else? ;
[17186]Should I name him?
[17188]Yeah. Alex?
[17190]Alex York.
[17192]Alright, Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez'
[17193]house, right. They had a gathering there with some
[17194]Cubans, and so forth and so forth. Do you know who
[17195]some of the Cubans who were at that gathering?
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[17201]ML: Big Cubans.
[17203]FS: Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name some?
[17205]ML: Top Cubans in exile, Prios, Carlos Prios
[17207]FS: President, ex-President Carlos Prios.
[17209]ML: . I don't know, there were so many, God.
[17211]‘FS: Alright, well that's, that's good enough. Anyway.
[17212]Alright, that's when you first met Petty Humanez,
[17213]alright. ;
[17215]ML: Yes.
[17217]FS: What was the idea of me sending you over there to meet
[17218]Petty Humanez?
[17220]ML: Information gathering, to find out how he was
[17221]sponsoring the Cuban exiles.
[17223]FS: Wasn't he suspected of supplying money and other
[17225]goodies...
[17227]ML: Oh, yes.
[17229]FS: to groups, where at?
[17231]ML: In Miami and outside of Miami.
[17233]FS: _ And down in Texas, right?
[17235]ML: Yeah.
[17237]FS: Training camps in Texas?
[17239]ML: Yes.
[17241]FS: Alright, he was feeding money to them also in...
[17243]_ ML: Yeah.
[17245]FS: ° Texas, right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
[17246]government, right?
[17248]ML: I would presume, yeah. I guess so.
[17250]NX FS: Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them
[17252]this financial assistance?
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[17276]Yeah I saw him give money to some Cubans. I was with
[17277]him at the time.
[17279]Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez, isn't
[17280]that correct?
[17282]I would say SO.
[17284]You would say so. As a matter of fact...
[17285](unintelligible)
[17287]As a matter of fact a love, affair developed...
[17288]Yes. .
[17290]and so forth and so forth, alright.
[17292]Yeah. .
[17294]We won't go into anything else. We'll go ahead and
[17295]jump past that. Then we lost contact with you, right?
[17297]Yes.
[17299]And in losing contact with you we, well we mentioned
[17300]sometime when they, the United States State Department
[17301]sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela, he went to
[17302]prison, and you mentioned something about the family
[17303]wanted to break him out and you wanted to-see if I
[17304]could do it and so forth. Alright, so we'll skip that.
[17305]Anyway, I lost contact with you. When was the last —
[17307]‘time we lost contact, when was that?
[17311]1964 or "637 ‘63 or '64 approximately, alright?
[17312]After '64, | |
[17314]Tt was around, approximately 1964.
[17315](unintelligible)
[17317]And you what, came to New York?
[17319]When the General went to jail.
[17321]Yeah, you went to South America and then you came back
[17322]to New York to live and so forth, right?
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[17328]ML: Yeah.
[17330]FS: Then you remarried, rather you got married here in
[17331]New York?
[17332]ML: | Oh some time passed, I waited for the General but
[17333]then I got married, right.
[17334]FS: . Who did you marry? You're gonna say, you're gonna go
[17335]ahead. and say he worked at the building with you, and...
[17336]ML: Yeah, I guess I have to. Louis John Yurositz.
[17337]FS: Alright, now one time you and him did what at what
[17338]building and the address?
[17339]ML: | We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York.
[17340]FS: You worked as an, both of you worked as undercover
[17341]agents for the FBI in New Yor, right?
[17342]ML: Me as a double because I had...
[17343]FS: You as a double agent. Now when did this start?
[17344]ML: «He was the building manager at 250 East 87th Street
[17346]in Manhattan. The building is owned by Glenwood
[17347]Management, called the Newberry. The work started
[17348]with the case agent in 1969.
[17350]FS: 1969. Who was the case agent's name, and what federal
[17351]agents, you already told me. You already told me and
[17352]they got it on record and this...
[17354]ML: They told me not to say anything.
[17356]FS: Well, honey, they got it on record and you're gonna
[17357]go ahead and send this down there because Senator
[17358]Baker knows who your case agent is, knows the CIA
[17359]agent that you were in touch with.
[17361]ML: You know I keep remembering don't embarass the Bureau
[17363]FS: Honey, you're not embarassing the Bureau. What. you're
[17364]_ . doing is giving this information to Senator Baker's
[17366]Committee to turn over to the Justice Department in
[17367]order for them to go ahead and say, hey - you worked .
[17368]‘as an agent for them, also as a double agent, you need
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[17380]protection for you. and your kid, and if you don't go
[17381]ahead and teil them the name of these here people how
[17382]you gonna do it?
[17384]‘Mmm.
[17386]You know we get back to the same thing again. Yeah,
[17387]you're looking for protection. So far the people
[17388]you've worked with, so far this man Pucci who you
[17389]saved his life, and saved another undercover agent's
[17390]life whose working with the FBI. These people are
[17391]powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
[17392]problem that you have had right now with you, three
[17393]times there's been an attempt on your life, isn't
[17394]that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
[17395]an 18 story building. Another time you got pistol-
[17396]whipped. You did all this crap for these people
[17397]here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
[17398]present time, and this is on record in their own
[17399]files and so forth, yet you cannot move them to give
[17400]you or your children any protection. This piece of
[17401]tape is going to go right to Senator Baker's office,
[17402]it'll go to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to,
[17403]to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
[17404]authorities which will be the Justice Department.
[17405]You can call Howard Liebengood to see if he has
[17406]received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
[17407]me. You can call him and find out, and also you
[17409]can call him at the same time and let him know if
[17411]a tape has been turned over to him. As a matter of
[17412]fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
[17413]office I will instruct his people in the office to
[17414]get a hold of you, because I'm gonna leave your phone
[17415]number with Senator's Baker's people, with Senator
[17416]Baker is on, has a Committee on Intelligence...
[17418]Mm-hmm.
[17420]He's got the committee. It's a new Committee that has
[17421]been formed on intelligence. See, now I am turning this
[17422]information over to the proper authorities. See. And
[17423]this information is not going to go to any newspaper
[17425]‘or anybody...
[17427]Okay, okay Frank. I have your word. It's just that I
[17428]got a hang-up, you know I guess, with them working on
[17429]practically all my adult life.
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[17445]Honey, I don't want to know everything you did in 6
[17446]years. I don't want to know everything you did
[17447]because you can' t. ;
[17449]They were like a family, they were like a family at
[17450]one time. Now when I need help they don't come
[17452]. through and they say it costs too much. It cost me
[17453]_a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albanian
[17455]stuff, cost me.a lot of worry, cost me a lot of fear,
[17456]threats.
[17458]Alright so this is why...
[17459](Unintelligible)
[17461]I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a
[17463]story up then how are you gonna prove, for instance,
[17464]you gonna go ahead...
[17466]No I'm not making anything up. I wouldn't lie about
[17467]it.
[17469]No, no, honey, I'm just saying. If you' re gonna go
[17471]ahead and say, hey - I broke into 33, in an apartment
[17473]building with 33 Soviet families, who did you work
[17474]for -- well I worked for the FBI. They call the FBI,
[17475]the FBI said we know nothing about it. Then you are
[17476]a liar.
[17478]No way am I going to be a liar.
[17480]I'm just saying, they're going to say how we gonna
[17481]protect this girl when she's lying to us because the
[17482]FBI says no. But if you name names and say I worked
[17483]with this man here, it's got my file, I worked over
[17485]a six year period. God damn it ~ that, that Justice
[17486]Department will say, hey baby we want to see you and
[17487]we want to see your files on this girl. And baby
[17489]they got to go and come up with it. And if they don't
[17490]come up with it they're in trouble. They're in
[17491]trouble. Now, how could they hide something when they
[17492]are working for the same people who are their bosses,
[17493]who are their bosses? They can tell you to go jump in
[17494]a lake over here. But Washington, D. C. says - hey,
[17496]I want to see something here. Why haven't you given
[17497]this people protection if all this is true. But if
[17498]they don't know, honey, how the hell are they gonna
[17500]do anything?
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[17524]I guess if something happens somebody's gonna know,
[17525]you know.
[17527]Somebody has to know. Now at the beginning you and
[17528]your husband, your husband was manager...
[17530]was the building manager of this building.
[17532]And he...
[17533]Is he still building manager of that building?
[17534]Yes, but the way this . going...
[17536]Well, honey forget about it right at the present time
[17537]because we're getting at the building and we're..
[17539]Yes, yes.
[17541]He still manages the building. Alright, now, how long
[17542]has he been manager of this building?
[17544]We raised this building, we
[17546]In other words when was the first years...
[17548]We were the very first tenants in this building. We
[17549]moved. in there before anybody moved in there. We
[17550]were the first tenants. The first person to move in
[17551]was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission.
[17553]What was his name?
[17555]Mr. Vittikoff.
[17557]And who was Mr, Vittikoff?
[17559]He was the first Secretary to Malek, the Soviet
[17561]_ Ambassador to the United Nations.
[17563]Would you say a cesspool of spies which this cesspool
[17564]of spies which is the Soviet
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[17589]...where you and your husband worked where he was
[17590]manager, you were the first people to live in that
[17591]place?
[17593]250 East 87th Street, the Newberry, owned by Glenwood
[17594]Management, which are crooked, and that's on the
[17595]corner of 2nd Avenue, it's called the Newberry.
[17597]Okay, now, who started to move in there?
[17599]Our very first tenant was Mr. Ovinikoff, he was the
[17600]First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
[17601]Nations. (unintelligible)
[17603]Alright, go ahead, keep talking into there.
[17605]And he's a little guy. He seemed like normal -people,
[17606]but I never really...
[17608]Well how many people eventually moved in there besides
[17609]this man?
[17611]Oh well the first one was Mr. Ovinikoff, the second
[17612]one I named The Stalker, the third one -- I have nick-
[17613]names...
[17615]Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute now. The
[17617]-second .one who moved in there you called, you nick-
[17619]named the |.
[17621]The Stalker.
[17623]‘The Stalker. What was his real name?
[17625]Because he, he was, he checked on the Russians. The
[17626]Russians checked on the Russians. And if a woman,
[17627]Soviet wife, got out of hand or went shopping by her-
[17628]self or did something out of the way she got pulled
[17629]back and she was under house arrest.
[17631]Alright, what was his name?
[17633]Mr. Artimenko, Artimenko. I kept, then I...
[17635]Who was the third one you gave a nickname to?
[17637]I had nicknames for all of them.
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[17665]Yeah, but
[17666]Moonface, The Stalker...
[17667]Yeah.
[17669]The Shadow. It was my own little thing of remembering
[17670]until I memorized. We started out with the tenants’
[17671]list.
[17673]Alright, how many people were on the tenants’ list?
[17675]We had, the building consisted of 300 units, which
[17676]300 apartments, my husband had access to files. Each .
[17677]Soviet file read the same -- Permanent Mission of the ©
[17679]‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republic resident, and I
[17681]got interested. Then one day an agent came at 9 o'clock
[17682]in the morning, and my husband had been previously
[17683]working with Treasury and other agencies, including
[17685]this agent which I'll name, that's Al Chestone. —
[17687]His first name was what?
[17689]Albert, Albert Chestone.
[17691]What agency was he with?
[17693]The FBL.
[17695]Special Agent, FBI?
[17697]Yes, counterintelligence.
[17698]Sector of the FBI
[17700]Yes, political. And, my husband had known him
[17701]previously working with the Polaris missile, Polaris
[17702]missile thing. This was before I met my husband or
[17703]married him. He did something with the Polaris
[17704]missile thing. And my husband was paid by this same
[17705]agent. Anyway, we, he came daily and we went over the
[17706]tenants' list and we sort of dissected everybody in
[17707]the building.
[17709]Alright now, were you recruited by this agent?
[17711]Yes, he said are you willing to work and I said, well,
[17712]why not? He said it doesn’t consist of much, a few
[17714]‘burglaries (laughter)....
[17716]In other words this agent...
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[17741]and my husband...
[17743]And they wanted you to do some burglaries, right?
[17744]Well, I, yes.
[17746]Alright now, these burglaries, did they consist of
[17747]you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by
[17748]yourself?
[17750]Well my husband had the master keys.
[17751]Right, alright.
[17753]And..
[17755]Well when you did these burglaries...
[17757]We all did them together. They're were about 5, 6,
[17759]7 cars. One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission.
[17760]Suppose, say like they were interested in one Soviet
[17761]who they lost track of, who was supposed to be in ,
[17762]Washington, D. C., and then they found him all of a
[17763]sudden in our building because they had surveillance
[17764]across the street. That's the first thing - they set
[17765]up surveillance, a camera, high-power camera across
[17767]‘the street. That we were pointed out to. That
[17769]everybody who went in and out of the building was
[17770]photographed.
[17772]Including yourself and your husband?
[17774]Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to
[17775]school and everything... .
[17777]Right.
[17779]But, and...
[17780]Alright, now, getting back to the entries that you made
[17781]into the apartments. Once you found out that the
[17782]people were not in the apartments -- how did you find
[17783]out they weren't in the apartments?
[17785]Well, they would...
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[17793]ML: — No. . |
[17795]FS: i You saw them leave?
[17797]ML: No, no. They were assigned, first of all we were told
[17799]that we wanted, they wanted to hit the apartment, the
[17800]‘Bureau, and I would listen and my husband looked at me
[17801]and I looked at him but it was still in the best
[17802]interests of the country, and this was a very, very top
[17803]KGB agent, a Soviet General, blah, blah, blah, he was
[17805]interested...
[17806]FS: Do you know the man's name?
[17807]ML: . Yes.
[17808]FS: ‘This General?
[17809]ML: Yes.
[17810]FS: What was his name?
[17811]ML: _ Oleg Likichev.
[17812]FS: What's his name?
[17813]ML: ‘Oleg Likichev.
[17814]FS: ~—-s Likichev. He's a top..
[17815]ML: KGB spy.
[17816]FS: Alright, and he lived in the building?
[17817]ML: Yes, with his wife and 5 year old son.
[17818]FS: Right. | |
[17819]ML: On the 10th floor.
[17820]FS: Alright, now you were advising them when they left
[17822]the building. Naturally they had surveillance out-
[17823]. side, they would know when he left...
[17825]“ML: Well first we were told to get close to them, maybe
[17826]friendly...
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[17832]FS: Friendly.
[17834]ML: . Very friendly. We exchanged gifts and we went to
[17835]dinner, and we were invited to the U.N., and we
[17836]exchanged. .
[17838]FS: In other words you were being guided into doing
[17839]certain things..
[17841]ML: . No.
[17843]FS: This one particular FBI agent.
[17845]ML: This one particular agent told us daily what to do.
[17847]FS: Alright now did he give you a code name or a code,
[17848]any particular code?
[17850]ML: My name, Mariuch.
[17852]FS: Mariuch was the name he gave, that he gave you, right? .
[17854]ML: Mariuch.
[17856]FS: _ Alright, it sounds Italian. Mariuch is Italian.
[17858]ML: Well he...
[17860]FS: Maria.
[17862]ML: He is Italian, too.
[17864]FS: The agent?
[17866]ML: Yes.
[17868]FS: Alright, now, when,did you ever make an entry into
[17869]this top KGB agent's apartment?
[17871]ML: . This one particular, there were several. This wasn't
[17872]the only one. ;
[17874]FS: Well, let's talk, let's talk about, the, general.
[17876]ML: Oleg was, in other words my husband and I discussed
[17878]~y it and I said, "Louis, you know,"
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[17894]It could be very dangerous.
[17895]Yeah, yeah, I said...
[17896]You could get caught, you could be killed.
[17898]I said suppose, you know, we're working in the precinct
[17899]on a local level - that's breaking and entering, right?
[17900]And my husband and I dis, you know we discussed it.
[17901]Now, Uncle Al - as we started to call this...
[17903]FBI agent?
[17905]FBI agent, said Look, he's a very bad person, we lost
[17906]him and we found him and he's in the building and we
[17907]want to get.in the apartment. We feel he has, for
[17908]national security reasons, we want to enter that
[17909]apartment. Louis, will you cooperate?" You know?
[17911]And my husband said, "Alright".
[17913]Did he said he had to discuss it with you?
[17914]They discussed it in front of me.
[17916]I mean did your husband say he had, he would discuss
[17917]it with you about...
[17919]No, no, but he did, but he didn't ask me because I
[17920]asked my husband later, I said, "Louis, if you refuse.
[17921]to do what Al tells us to do, me as a lookout and
[17922]Louis opening the doors for them", Louis said, Louis
[17923]is my husband, said "What do you want me to do, get
[17925]‘subpoenaed? They'll subpoena me if I don't do it. So
[17927]FS:
[17929]FS:
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[17938]So it, it was agreed...
[17939]It was agreed that he would do it.
[17941]Alright, now what did your husband do. Did he open the
[17942]door for the agents?
[17944]Yes he did.
[17945]Did he go in, for what, one agent, two agents?
[17946]Two agents.
[17948]Two agents. Was Uncle Al one of those agents?
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[17953]FS:
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[17967]No he was not.
[17969]Do you know the name of the two agents that made the
[17970]entry? , ;
[17972]No I do not.
[17973]Do not.
[17974]They came on the specific morning when they had Oleg..
[17976]You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
[17977]were coming? :
[17979]Yes.
[17981]Alright, on a specific morning?
[17983]Yes.
[17985]Alright, and..
[17987]They came as lumberjacks, one as a refrigeration
[17988]repairman. ;
[17990]-Right.
[17992]Refrigerator,. refrigeration-air conditioning repairman.
[17994]Alright, now you and your husband with these two.
[17995]agents went up to the 10th floor, right? You were
[17997], stationed where you were going to be the lookout?
[17999]FS:
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[18007]In the...
[18008]Hallway?
[18009]Service entrance.
[18011]In the service entrance. Your husband had the pass
[18012]keys?
[18014]Yes.
[18015]He opened the door?
[18017]Yes.
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[18022]FS:
[18023]FS:
[18024]ML:
[18026]FS:
[18028]FS:
[18030]FS:
[18032]FS:
[18033]FS:
[18035]FS:
[18037]FS:
[18038]AN ML:
[18040]FS:
[18044]The two agents went in?
[18045]Yes.
[18047]Did your husband go in?
[18049]' He stood at the door.
[18051]He stood at the door?
[18053]He stood at the door.
[18055]That is in case they'd come back he'd...
[18056]Right.
[18058]The fact that he is the manager of the building
[18059]standing there with two repairman.
[18061]But that he was assured, he was assured, right. °
[18063]That these two men were repairmen?
[18065]That, that just in case something went wrong with the
[18066]5 cars assigned to this job that one car would radio
[18067]that Oleg Likichev was leaving the Mission at this
[18068]moment, he is getting into his car, he is on the way
[18069]up 2nd Avenue to his residence. .
[18070]Right, and they...
[18072]You've got approximately 7 to 8 minutes...
[18074]Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out.
[18076]‘Do, and get out.
[18078]Okay.
[18080]So, my husband stood in the door and I was in the
[18081]staircase and they went in with a, a case that looks
[18082]like a television repair case which had high power
[18083]cameras.
[18085]Right.
[18087]And they, my husband was always annoyed because they
[18088]were sloppy.
[18090](Laughter)
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[18096]FS:
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[18100]FS:
[18102]FS:
[18104]FS: |
[18106]FS:
[18110]The Soviets are very trained, they would leave a
[18111]cigarette on an ashtray. If you knocked it over they
[18112]know immediately someone was in the apartment.
[18114]Now, when the agents, before your husband opened the
[18115]door with the pass key, did the agents look the door
[18116]over to see if there was any powder marks, tapes,
[18117]hairs, or anything, or something leaning against the
[18118]door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general,
[18119]this, not Cuban general, this Russian general, who is
[18120]a top KGB agent...
[18122]Yes.
[18124]wanted to see if somebody made an entry they would
[18126]_leave something on the door.
[18128]Yes.
[18130]They inspected the door, right? And they didn't find
[18132]anything?
[18133]Right.
[18135]Right. So they opened the door. In other words, what-
[18136]ever they touched... a
[18138]But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and
[18139]that...
[18141]Alright, now, no let's not jump. We're, you were on
[18142]this one particular thing.
[18144]Alright.
[18146]These people did go in, they did what they had to do
[18147]with the cameras and so forth, evidently these were
[18148]hidden....
[18150]Yeah.
[18152]cameras that they installed some place in there, right?
[18154]No, it was microfilm.
[18156]Well there were cameras...
[18158]‘In the. flour can...
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[18164]Oh, you mean what the agents brought in?
[18166]FS: What the two agents brought in.
[18168]ML: Yes.
[18170]FS: Yeah, what did they bring in with them, what, in the
[18171]general' s.
[18173]ML: . Cameras.
[18175]FS: They brought cameras...
[18177]ML: Mm-hmm.
[18179]FS: which were installed.
[18181]ML: Yeah.
[18183]FS: What else did they bring in?
[18185]ML: I don't know. They..
[18187]FS: 7 - Any listening devices, bugging devices?
[18189]ML: I would say so. I think...
[18191]FS: You don't know for sure, though?
[18193]ML: I'm not sure, my husband...
[18195]FS: No, but you do know about the cameras?
[18197]ML: . Yes. .
[18199]FS: - Alright, but there is a possibility they brought
[18201]bugging devices because it's logical they would
[18202]bring bugging devices.
[18204]. ML: I think sometimes, plenty of times they wanted to
[18205]plant a bug. .
[18206]FS: Sure.
[18207]ML: Especially in the television, the cable TV, the...
[18208]‘ FS: . Well they install that through the walls and so forth.
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[18214]ML: No, in the, they'd hook it up to the master antenna.
[18216]for the cable TV.
[18218]FS: Oh, for the cable TV. Well, yeah, alright.
[18220]ML: That way they thought they could tune in to them
[18221]transmitting.
[18223]FS: Yeah. Alright, now, how long did they stay in, to
[18224]the General's apartment? .
[18226]ML: In the apartment, approximately 10-15-20 minutes.
[18228]FS: Then they left, your husband closed the door, did he
[18229]wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?
[18231]ML: No, but my husband would usually put the edge of the-
[18232]rug back the way he found it.
[18234]FS: . Right, in other, everything. .
[18236]ML: | It was turned over.
[18238]FS: had to be placed back the same way it was.
[18240]ML: And he would watch them and they were rough.
[18242]FS: Well, we'll Forget about that part. We're not
[18243]interested in. -
[18245]ML: This worried my husband because this would...
[18247]FS: -Yeah, it would make..
[18249]ML: They knew...
[18251]FS: Make them know there was an entry.
[18253]ML: Right.
[18255]FS: Okay, now, they did that, they left. Did, did, did the
[18257]agents ever go back into that apartment again?
[18259]ML: No, one time.
[18261]_ FS: Just one time and they never went back into that...
[18262]ML: No... |
[18263]FS: that particular apartment.
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[18291]they were satisfied.
[18293]They were ‘satisfied so evidently everything worked out
[18294]alright. Even though.. :
[18296]Mm-hmm.
[18298]your husband was on edge about the way the agents
[18299]were.
[18301]Oh yeah.
[18303]Okay? Alright, so we'll forget that part. Now how
[18304]about other entries. We'll get one at a time.
[18306]The other entry that's outstanding is Soviet..
[18307]Yeah, go ahead, keep talking. -
[18309]Very Americanized Soviet, handsome, married with a 10
[18310]year old daughter. I forget his name. I have them
[18311]all at home. And, I nicknamed him "The Tennis Player"
[18312]because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
[18313]every morning to make contacts with Americans, and try
[18314]to recruit, I guess, gather information at the same
[18315]time...He spoke English without an...
[18317](unintelligible)
[18319]Fluently, without an accent, down to curses and slang
[18321]‘and everything else. His wife.
[18323]You got friendly with him also?
[18325]No, he even suggested to take my husband to a mas sage
[18326]parlor and he was way out, too much way out.
[18328]In other words, play with girls?
[18329]I had his, no, I was, well he was one of those.
[18330]He liked to play?
[18332]Yeah. |
[18334]He was a playboy.
[18336]He was a playboy. That's, they use
[18338]Which is very, yeah,
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[18354]“FS:
[18356]FS:
[18360]They use, they used, he was also a top KGB, and
[18361]his apartment, they did his apartment, too.
[18363]What did they do?
[18365]They broke in, they
[18367]‘Well, now wait a minute.
[18369]used my husband to break in. This a job I wasn't
[18370]on but.
[18372]Well, that not breaking in now. It's illegal entry..
[18374]‘ Entry.
[18376]Right. In'other words they used your husband and you |
[18377]also as a stakeout again?
[18379]Yeah.
[18380]On that. particular one.
[18381]Mm-hmm.
[18383]He opened the door again. What floor did he have his
[18384]apartment?
[18386]I don't recall that. I'd have to get the tenants' list.
[18388]Alright, it makes no difference. Alright, don't
[18389]worry about that. But they made entry into his
[18391]apartment. oo,
[18393]Yes.
[18395]What did they do in his apartment?
[18397]I guess they microfilmed and planted a device. Anyway,
[18399]either way, whatever they did they did...
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[18406]Cooperation of my husband...
[18408]And yourself.
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[18429]And they did it sloppy because this particular Soviet,
[18430]the tennis player, made a formal complaint to the -
[18431]23rd Precinct, PIU investigation unit, where I was
[18432]working.
[18434]When you say PIU, what's PIU?
[18436]Prisoner Investigation Unit.
[18438]Prisoner or Police?
[18440]Prisoner Investigation Unit.
[18442]Was that a police unit?
[18444]That's the 23rd precinct.
[18446]Police.
[18448]Right ,police...
[18450]Alright.
[18452]department. I was working up there.
[18454]Alright.
[18456]' Now I answered the phones.
[18458]Oh, hm-mmm
[18459]You understand?
[18460]Yeah.
[18462]And this tennis player called up and demanded a
[18463]detective. I was working up there and the detectives
[18465]were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and
[18467]here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
[18468]complaint of breaking and entering his apartment. I
[18469]had him on the phone.
[18471]And he didn't know it was you.
[18472]And I died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
[18473]on talking and talking and talking and I couldn't
[18475]disguise my voice. I was afraid he would know that [,
[18476]it was me. I took the complaint in other words.
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[18501]Right.
[18503]And I wrote up the 61.
[18505]Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here.
[18507]The 61 - complaint report. .
[18509]Alright, let me ask you this here. You say you were
[18510]working for this police department in this precinct.
[18512]What was your job with them?
[18514]Auxiliary volunteer. Photos, translations, rape
[18515]cases, interrogation.
[18517]And at that time you were answering phone calls that
[18518]were coming in?
[18520]And typing, and: doing other things but I don't really
[18521]want to get those. guys involved because they...
[18523]No, I just wanted, wanted them to know what you were
[18524]doing in the police department.
[18526]I was an auxiliary sergeant.
[18527]Answering the phones. Okay.
[18528]Auxiliary. is a volunteer police.
[18530]Right, good enough. Now what other entries did you make
[18531]with them. That's two -- that you specified.
[18533]Two. The rest I didn't want to go along with because
[18534]I was a little afraid so my...
[18536]Things were getting a little hot for you.
[18538]Yes, because we had too many Russians, we had the
[18539]Albanians, we had the Red Chinese.
[18541]All living in that building?
[18543]All living in the same building. There was, it was
[18544]comical. The Albanians wouldn't talk to the Russians,
[18546]-the Russians ignored the Albanians, the Red Chinese
[18548]went down the service entrance and to avoid the
[18549]Russians and the Al-, it was just,the Secret Service
[18550]in the garage and in the front door. The narcotics
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[18556]‘ peddlers coming out of the laundry room. It was, it
[18557]_ Was a merry-go-round.
[18559]FS: : In other words,
[18561]ML: We had, in one day about four different agencies
[18562]watching people.
[18564]FS: In and out of the building.
[18566]“ML: And we didn't know if we were coming or going.
[18567]FS: Yeah. |
[18568]ML: We lived on the second floor. We had a view of the
[18570]street and we would signal to the, across the street
[18571]surveillance apartment, apartment, you know. We'd
[18572]see the cars pull up and the cars. leave.
[18574]FS: Alright, now...
[18576]ML: ' My husband did most of, he'd been doing it.
[18578]FS: He'd been doing most of the end of the...
[18580]ML: Yes, because I felt I didn't want to get caught. I
[18582]just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck
[18583]of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived
[18584]on one floor and if anyone of them walked out when my
[18585]husband was opening the door to let those guys in my
[18586]husband would have been dead.
[18588]FS: ‘Alright, not only that I understand that you were
[18589]getting very familiar with-many of the families of...
[18591]ML: “I was too friendly...
[18593]FS: these people.
[18595]ML: _ with the families. .
[18597]FS: ‘Right, so. you didn't want to go ahead and
[18599]ML: They trusted me alone in their apartments. We had many
[18600]discussions together, we exchanged medicine, I gave
[18602], ' them medicine for one child who...
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[18608]FS: At the same time you tried to get as much information
[18610]‘out of them as you can being on that friendly basis.
[18612]ML: I was being on a very social... .
[18614]FS: Right. |
[18616]ML: natural basis.
[18618]FS: . Right.
[18620]ML: And I became friendly with them.
[18622]FS: How long, how long...
[18624]ML: “We even were paid money to throw a few parties.
[18626]FS: . You were paid money...
[18628]ML: For the Soviets.
[18630]FS: You were given money by the...
[18632]ML: By the Justice Department.
[18634]FS: Yeah. |
[18636]ML: To throw a few parties.
[18638]‘FS: So the agents could make surveillance.
[18640]ML: So they, could make surveillance.
[18642]FS: And contact? |
[18644]ML: And contact, and try to get them, loosen up, to loosen
[18645]up... ,
[18647]FS: Well, booze cari loosen a lot of people's mouths.
[18649]ML: Well it was mostly their vodka anyway they: gave us.
[18650]But, yeah they suggested the, using agents as waiters
[18651]and bartenders and all that. And I said that wouldn't
[18652]go. Soviet people are very trained. They smell any-
[18654]: thing like that. And I was very open with them. They'd
[18655]“ leave from the countries and I would be the first to
[18656]“ know. They would bring back gifts. They babysat my
[18657]children, I babysat their children. We exchanged
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[18679]medicine and I just didn't want anything to go wrong.
[18681]But your husband continued to work with the agency,
[18682]right?
[18684]Yes. We, we took, we ID'd photos. We watched for
[18686]‘cars. We watched their movement. It was day and night.
[18688]You did a lot of surveillance. work on these people
[18689]but you yourself, personally, wanted to try to keep
[18690]out of the...
[18692]Yeah.
[18694]operation as far as...
[18696]Break...
[18698]entering into the apartments, right?
[18700]Yes. .
[18702]How long did this last?. Over a period of how long?
[18703]1969 to 1976. .
[18705]All these years?
[18707]Yes.
[18709]That's doing surveillance on these people.
[18711]Yeah. We were...
[18713]How about the Albanians now, tell me about the code.
[18715]The Albanians, the Albanians we got very friendly with
[18716]a Mr. Koyani, Ambassador to the Mission, the U.N., and
[18717]the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are.
[18718]The Russians dry clean their own clothes, burn their
[18719]own garbage, have no photos, personal things in the
[18720]apartment. The Albanians are more, they allow their
[18721]children to watch television. The Soviets don't. We
[18722]convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
[18723]mission, which they blocked a complete fire exit was
[18724]on the 2lst floor of the Newberry. They lived in the
[18725]apartments on the 20th floor and the 22nd floor. And
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[18731]they had about 30, 30 families who resided there and
[18732]their mission was there. And we became very friendly
[18733]with them because of one incident, especially my
[18735]husband, took, went to see his mother and left me in
[18737]FS:
[18739]FS:
[18741]FS:
[18743]charge of the building. That same day they had a so-
[18744]called demonstration where the demonstrators had a
[18745]25-minute picketing right to picket. The demonstra-
[18746]tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags
[18747]and everything and the Albanians came down. They all
[18748]are armed. They're all armed, and they agitated the
[18749]rioters out on the street. And I was alone with only
[18750]my basic police training and my wits, really, and a
[18751]panicking doorman and my kids. I was just alone. I,
[18752]the first thing I looked out the window when I heard
[18753]the shooting I called the Bureau and I said, "Get me
[18754]Al Chestone fast.'"' I said I don't have Louis here.
[18755]I said I need help. I have a demonstration. I don't
[18756]know what to do. And there were about 500 people
[18757]throwing bricks, bottles, everything through the plate
[18758]glass windows. Burning American flags and Albanian
[18759]flags because of something that happened in Albania.
[18760]Those that defected here started this demonstration.
[18761]So then I, things got out of hand, the doorman was
[18762]hurt with a brick. I saw blood, and the Albanian
[18763]Ambassador and five top officials agitated these
[18764]people from inside the lobby with fists. Very
[18765]unprofessional-like.
[18767]Yeah.
[18769]So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
[18770]them, "Get upstairs, get upstairs and get yourself
[18771]back into the mission", because tenants were walking
[18772]through the lobby and we were going to get hurt by
[18773]flying glass and everything else. And I had no help.
[18774]The police were outside of the line... ,
[18776]Marita, what we're going into details is something
[18778]that is a story.
[18780]Oh, alright.
[18781]So we'll go ahead and just bypass that.
[18783]Anyway, the Albanians Al was interested into, and
[18784]especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese
[18785]into the United Nations, which they did. It was that
[18786]speech, which I have the original copy of. Ambassador
[18788]-Roeco Nocco - sounds crazy, but that's his name, Rocco
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[18808]Nocco, and they were, they were sloppier, and the
[18809]agent Al Chestone told me convince them, you know, .
[18810]case ‘em, keep going. up and down the steps, what
[18811]time they throw their garbage out. Garbage was
[18813]the most valuable source of information for the
[18815]Bureau, and that was...
[18817]Garbage and trash.
[18819]Trash. Chicken bones, codes, diapers, whatever, you
[18820]know, and that was my job because I had the patience.
[18821]Now the FBI supplied me with bandaids and gloves,
[18822]flashlights, batteries and the whole thing, because
[18824]I convinced the Albanians that the compacter, which
[18825]was the disposal system in the building from 31 floors
[18826]down -- in other words when they threw their garbage
[18827]out that it would come out in brick form, block forn,
[18828]brick crushed, which in fact was not true.
[18830]-But they believed it?
[18832]They believed it. They trusted us. Louis and I were
[18833]the only ones allowed in the mission. We were. the
[18834]only ones.
[18836]Now this mission is that building you were talking
[18837]about. :
[18839]That's still. there.
[18841]Still there.
[18843]Very much there. That's the code that you have.
[18844]Right. | .
[18846]So, I started, made it a every two hour routine to go
[18847]after midnight when they put their garbage out in the
[18848]hall, pick up the bags. Take them down to the service
[18849]entrance and take the bags at home, take ‘em home.
[18851]And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
[18852]gather torn up letters, this was before they got smart
[18853]and bought a shredder (unintelligible). And I would
[18854]turn this garbage letter, in other words, I would
[18855]past it together and give it to the Bureau and some
[18857]of these letters turned out to be very valuable. Among
[18858]them was one code, now...
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[18864]FS:
[18868]I would assume that these letters that were in code.
[18869]they would be classified material. Otherwise it
[18870]wouldn't be in code. , ,
[18872]Very valuable, yes. The...
[18873]And this was turned over to who?
[18875]To Al Chestone. The first code I got, I just got on
[18876]a hunch lucky. Because it was just at the time when
[18877]the Red Chinese entered the United States, first
[18879]came here. Mr. Huang Yua, and I met them. We met
[18880]them first before anybody met them, Louis and IL.
[18882]And that same night the code came down at 3:00 in the
[18883]morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
[18884]said, "Louis I can't sleep, I'm going down and do
[18886]some work. Give me the keys to the compacter room."
[18888]- FS:
[18890]So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough
[18891]around 3:30 these bags started to come down from the
[18892]2lst floor.
[18894]3:30 in the morning?
[18895]3:30 in the morning because Al said watch them
[18897]closely, because of the Red Chinese. And I shut
[18898]the machine off and I got these, I got this code,
[18900]I caught it in other words, but it....
[18902]FS:
[18904]FS:
[18906]This is the code you turned over to me?
[18908]This is the first code, the very first code, at the
[18909]risk of having my hands chopped off because if I
[18911]‘didn't shut that machine off in time I could have
[18913]been hurt. But I got it. The first code was very
[18914]valuable. It was sent to Washington.
[18916](End of tape - side 2).
[18918]...these bags of stuff and if you hadn't have turned
[18919]off the machine you would have got your hand either
[18920]chopped up or cut off, and so forth. What did, were
[18921]you saying about Al, Uncle Al? . ae
[18923]Uncle Al slept and I did the work, and by the time I
[18924]got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
[18925]out of the garbage and separated the letters and
[18927]every tiny little piece with tweezers and everything,
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[18933]FS:
[18935]FS;
[18937]FS:
[18939]_ FS:
[18943]put it all in a box, right down to every piece. I
[18944]ruined my rugs and everything. And Uncle Al would
[18945]come at 8:30, 9:00 in the morning and I would still
[18946]be up separating the garbage and he'd be all fresh
[18947]and ready for work and I had just come back from the
[18948]garbage room. And...
[18950]You stayed awake all night?
[18952]Yeah, with the tweezers and I use to run out of .
[18953]skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn't
[18954]stick these letters togethers without skotch tape,
[18956]so he brought me a big box of skotch tape which»
[18958]was very kind of him. Then I would give it to him
[18959]and he'd, he'd have coffee, tea and toast or whatever.
[18960]And I'd say, "Now I want to go to sleep." And he'd
[18961]say, "No, no, no, wait a minute. Mr. So-and-so,
[18963]or Berzofsky, we want to get a line on Mr. Berzofsky.
[18965]Who was Mr. Berzofsky?
[18967]Berzofsky, the Second Secretary to the Union of the
[18968]Soviet Socialist Republic.
[18970]What was his first name, do you know?
[18971]Mumm, I forgot...
[18973]That's alright, it don't matter.
[18975]' I forgot really. But we were very close to him. His
[18977]wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was,
[18978]she's, she's adorable. She's nice, she's sweet and
[18979]she has a lovely daughter, Irene, who turned out to
[18980]have liver cancer. She was a little girl when I first
[18981]met her, like my daughter. My daugher played with her,
[18982]they took piano lessons together, exchanged books, and
[18983]the little girl, at sixteen, Irene was sent back to
[18984]the Soviet Union with liver cancer. I got very close
[18985]to the mother, the mother was heartbroken, the father
[18986]was heartbroken. I guess like any mother and father
[18987]when their only child turns out to have liver cancer.
[18988]She's diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they
[18989]asked me to get medicine, pain killers for Irene. I
[18990]do so and pass along to them empirin and codine #4,
[18991]which is a pain killer which they smuggled over to
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[18995]FS:
[18997]FS:
[18999]FS:
[19001]FS:
[19003]FS:
[19007]their daughter on with the permission of
[19008]the FBI. We exchanged jewelry, clothes, and everything
[19009]else. We were just one mother to another mother.
[19011]Their little girl in trouble, mine not in trouble and
[19012]it was little things like that that I would get very
[19013]involved with. I don't know.. ;
[19015]Morita let me ask you this here, did the agents ever
[19016]tell you to go out with any of the diplomats in the
[19017]mission?
[19019]Well, now we have to go back to Oleg, Oleg Likichev.
[19020]And who is he again?
[19022]He was the KGB spy that they lost and thought he, they
[19023]thought he was still residing in Washington, the out-
[19024]side of Washington, D. C., in Virginia. He was
[19025]supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
[19026]and all of a sudden they picked him up in our building,
[19027]as being in our building. They lost him and they were
[19028]furious, the Bureau, and they wanted us very close to
[19029]him. And he, we had a lot of evenings together we
[19030]spent with him, dinners, and he came to us,
[19032]In other words he asked you to go out, did he ask
[19033](unintelligible)
[19035]Well, Oleg, Oleg, let's just say, I don't know if it
[19037]was a game they were playing or if they were doubles
[19038]or what. They talked a lot about the State of
[19039]Washington, residing in the State of Washington.
[19040]They also knew I had diamonds and he asked me,
[19041](unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds?"
[19043]What did he call you?
[19044]Llonka Marischa, Ilona Marita.
[19045]Oh, that's in Russian?
[19047]Yes. And we always exchanged Russian words and I
[19048]know a few, enough to get by on. AL11 of a sudden,
[19050]_ you know, he was interested in diamonds. He had a
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[19055]of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me
[19056]and I kept telling Uncle Al this thing is going to
[19057]get out of hand. I said all of a sudden he wants
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[19063]diamonds, and Al, what do I do. Go ahead, talk to
[19064]him about diamonds. So I said Oleg; what do you
[19065]mean by diamonds? He said uneut stones for cash.
[19067]I am a Soviet official, I cannot go into a jewelry
[19068]store like you and buy them. I want diamonds. I'm
[19069]willing to pay a hundred thousand dollars for them.
[19071]I said, I said tell me why, Oleg. And he said,
[19072]“Money, why does anybody want diamonds." I said it's
[19073]a good enough reason. So I said, "Hey, Louis, what
[19074]can we do for Oleg about his diamonds?" And Louis
[19075]said we'll figure something out. And then Oleg said,
[19076]this was at a dinner party up in their house. Hot
[19077]diamonds, he wanted hot, uncut, raw diamonds. So
[19079]he was serious, he was dead serious. He said he
[19080]would buy them for cash. :
[19082]FS: How serious was he? Did you ever get any for him?
[19084]ML: Well it got this far. We told Uncle Al the next
[19085]‘ morning. I said, "Uncle Al, I got a surprise for
[19087]you. You're gonna have to come up with some hot
[19088]diamonds. A hundred thousand dollars worth because
[19089]I promised Oleg that I would get them for him since
[19090]he can't buy them. Oleg wants diamonds."’ And I
[19091]said if you can put two and two together maybe this
[19092]guy will defect because he's talking about the State _
[19093]of Washington. I said but you have to be careful,
[19094]I have to be careful, no? So Al said I'll get you
[19095]the diamonds. You tell him to get the cash ready.
[19096]So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and got
[19097]the diamonds. Uncle Al made a boo-boo and Oleg, the
[19098]day of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
[19099]in tthe apartment, Oleg was at a sports meeting in
[19100]Washington,D.Cc. Uncle Al.said, "I've got to give
[19101]these diamonds back to the underworld or give them
[19102]the cash." I. said, "Listen, I told you tomorrow,
[19103]not today, Al. Tomorrow, because Oleg told us he's
[19104]going to this soccer meeting in Washington, D.C.
[19105]Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is. He is
[19106]in Washington, D. CC." "Oh is he?" I said, "Yes,
[19107]he is." Right. Anyway, Uncle Al started to panick
[19108]because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
[19109]dollars worth of uncut, hot diamonds.
[19111]FS: By himself?
[19113]ML: By himself, and I was supposed to get the cash from
[19114]Oleg. Oleg said on a Thursday and Uncle Al came on
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[19120]a Wednesday and the whole thing...
[19121]FS: ; So what happened? .
[19123]ML: fell through. Al said he had to give them back to.
[19124]the underworlds, to his source. So he took them
[19125]back and then Oleg, you know, I had to talk ny
[19126]way out of it. It was just one of the flubs. But
[19127]anyway after I left my husband Oleg kept asking for
[19128]me, kept coming directly to the apartment and say-
[19129]ing, “Louis, I don't believe you two split, you two
[19130]go, she left. I don't believe it." And my husband
[19131]said "yes, she did leave. It's her own problems,
[19132]Oleg, you know, forget about it." And he said,
[19133]"No, it's not possible. You must stay together.
[19134]You must stay together.''. Anyway, he kept coming,
[19135]about four times and asking my husband, until my
[19136]husband made a joke of it and said Oleg wants to
[19137]see you. I mean he's made it dam plain that he
[19138]wants to see you. In other words if you're
[19139]finished I'll take over. Where is she living? My
[19140]husband tells him I'm living on 88th Street. Now
[19141]I talked to my husband and I said what did you do
[19142]that for? Tell him I'm living on 88th Street?
[19144]You know, because I know he wants to go out with
[19145]me, You can feel it, I can feel it, the, you know?
[19146]So I call up,Uncle Al meantime is transferred to
[19147]Newark, I get another case agent. Louis gets a
[19148]case agent for the building and he works alone,
[19149]without me. The other agent is John Kotter.
[19151]FS: With the FBI?
[19153]ML: - FBI, 69th Street. I call up John Kotter. I said,
[19155]' "John, I hear your taking Al's place", arid I meet
[19156]him. Drop things, start things, drop things,
[19157]different assignments, then we get to Oleg. I said
[19158]look, Oleg is bothering Louis. He wants to go out
[19159]with me. And John Kotter says, “Beautiful, that is
[19160]a beautiful setup. Let's call him up." I said,
[19161]“Hey, wait a minute. Either do this sophisticated,
[19162]alright? First I'll send him a Christmas card and
[19163]sign it Ilonka Marischa, you know? I'I1 put my.
[19164]phone number on the bottom, something you know?
[19166]Or I'll happen to be there when he's going into the
[19167]_ building, or I'll bump into him." I said you don't
[19168]“ just call him up. You know that's going to be like
[19169]a setup because I've been avoiding him. So, anyway,
[19170]he tells, he outlines the whole thing.. I said what
[19172]have you.got planned, John. And he says, “Do you
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[19178]realize what a bomb this is? This top KGB spy wants
[19179]you?” | And I said, "Well", I say "he's not really ny
[19181]type."', I said but again, the best interests of the
[19182]country, but how far do you want me to go? And he
[19183]said ' ‘all the way" I said what is all the way? He
[19184]said, "You start with a Christmas card." Well the
[19186]Christmas card was answered by Oleg going to Louis
[19187]and saying, "I got Ilonka'’s Christmas card. Where is
[19188]she living, Louis?" You know, so John talked me into
[19189]calling the mission. I call up the mission, across
[19190]from 19th precinct, and I said, "Oleg, this is Ilonka
[19191]Marischa. Hello darling", you know, and this, this
[19192]and this. And I said oh boy everything is wired and
[19193]everything from the mission anyway. But he's top dog
[19194]there. He is top dog in the mission. He has the.
[19195]say. He's a very important person in the Soviet
[19196]mission. Anyway, John okays a telephone coil pickup
[19197]that I have on my phone to a Soni tape recorder. We
[19198]make a tape of this because John Kotter is sitting on
[19199]pins and needles waiting for me to replay that tape
[19200]on what Oleg tells me, you know? Oleg doubletalks
[19201]but we get a message that we want to meet, you know?
[19202]So they had some kind of a security council and we
[19204]. made a date and it was postponed. Oleg called up
[19205]and apologized which I also have on tape. And each
[19207]time the Bureau was very happy. We're gonna start a’
[19208]blossoming relationship here, you know, and end up
[19209]with photographs and better something, which I don't
[19210]think I would have gone all the way. But that's what
[19212]their idea was so they can exchange at a later date.
[19214]FS:
[19216]FS:
[19218]Well...
[19220]Blackmail?
[19222]into
[19223]Blackmail him / giving them information (unintelligible).
[19225]Say like they get one of our, one of our pilots, right?
[19226]And if we don't get our pilot back they expose Oleg,
[19228]vight? Or make him.
[19230]FS:
[19232]FS:
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[19237]Be a double...
[19239]into being a double agent.
[19241]Right. —
[19243]That's the idea.
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[19249]And I'm in the middle. So, anyway, I go, I go to the
[19250]mission with my daughter, who was at the time 12 years
[19251]old. My daughter, I guess, is a little use to my
[19252]life. She's use to FBI all her life. She knows not
[19253]to talk. She knows whether we look at her when to
[19254]say something. I guess she's the closest thing: to me
[19255]now. She goes along. She's very cool and we both
[19256]walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
[19257]to do a project for school on the Soviet Union. She
[19258]needed material. Now as soon as we walked into the
[19260]. mission everybody there I know because they reside in ©
[19262]the building. And they all say, "Ilonka Marischa
[19263]blah, blah, blah, blah." And I'm very friendly with
[19264]them all. They all love my daughter. But we're .
[19265]there for other reasons. We're there to go to see
[19266]Oleg. We gather, we gather the material, meanwhile
[19267]I'm aware that every picture has an eye or every
[19268]poster has a mirror or camera, you know? But my
[19269]daugher's very cool and we're left alone in the room
[19270]where the Soviet material is displayed. But I know
[19271]we're being watched. She knows it too and she
[19272]doesn't, she says, "Mommy, look, this is beautiful,
[19273]beautiful." You know? Then I ask for Oleg to this
[19274]very, very tough Soviet woman that said "What you
[19276]-want?", you know. . I said "Oleg Likichev, please.
[19278]FS:
[19279]FS:
[19281]FS:
[19283].FS:
[19284]FS:
[19285]FS:
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[19289]I'd like to speak to him.” And she called and he
[19290]is still in the United Nations, he asks you to wait.
[19291]I refused a wire or anything like that, but...
[19293]What wire are you talking about?
[19295]A wire on me.
[19297]Oh.
[19299]Because...
[19301]That the agents (unintelligible)
[19303]Yes, because Oleg I know likes me and if he sees me
[19304]he would grab me and hug me and that's the Russian
[19305]way...
[19307]Yeah. ~
[19309]And he'll feel that and I'm dead.
[19311]Right.
[19313]Right in the mission. That's not my. proper there.
[19315]Right.
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[19319]FS:
[19321]FS:
[19323]FS:
[19325]FS:
[19327]FS:
[19329]FS:
[19331]FS:
[19335]And I wouldn't risk it with my daughter. So, anyway,
[19336]we waited. We were allowed the run-of the place. We
[19337]knew everyone there and...
[19339]Like you say, eyes were watching you.
[19341]Oh definitely, definitely, because that's how they
[19342]test you when you walk in there. And you just don't
[19343]get in there and have the run of the place, you're
[19344]not left alone. But I know you're being watched.
[19346]Sure.
[19348]Anyway, there was this, it was, it was a legitimate
[19349]excuse that Oleg was tied up in the United Nations
[19350]because it was in the paper the next day, that it
[19351]was some security council meeting. And I said
[19352]"Please give this note to Mr. Likichev. Tell him
[19353]thank you very much for the material. And best
[19354]wishes to his wife, blah, blah, blah," and we left.
[19355]Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested us,
[19356]a uniformed police officer. ,
[19358]For what reason?
[19360]He gave us a dirty look and made a very slurring,
[19361]nasty remark when I left. But I hate to knock the
[19362]police department because they're helping me now. .
[19363]But, I guess, he didn't know, you know?
[19365]Yeah, he thought you were Russians. |
[19367]He thought I was a Russian.
[19369]Or a Russian sympathizer.
[19371]Right, especially going in with a child and I looked™
[19374]Yeah.
[19376]American. Anyway, I got home and John Kotter was
[19377]waiting in front of my door. I remember it was
[19378]raining. He was reading. And I said, he said "Are
[19379]you going to meet Oleg?" I said, "Now how the hell
[19380]can I make a date with Oleg with my daughter?”
[19382]Yeah.
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[19388]ML: I said Oleg's in the United Nations. Why don't you
[19389]tell me these things before that they're delayed at
[19390]a security council meeting, you know, instead of me
[19391]letting, letting me sit there. You know these are
[19392]all the little things that use to annoy me...
[19394]FS: Yeah.
[19396]ML: that they have to screen things first before, you
[19397]know - check things out, don't have to make a blunder
[19398]like that. Anyway, I said I left Oleg a note. I
[19399]said now you go home and I'm going to take it easy
[19400]and they, we tried, and I said, "You know, John,
[19401]you're just going to get me so involved with Oleg.
[19402]I'm not going to end up in bed in a motel room
[19403]upstate somewhere with Oleg so you can come in and
[19404]take photographs. That's not my stick." I said
[19405]I'll gather garbage, get license plates, tape, do
[19406]everything else, but, I'll even take the mail, like
[19407]I've been doing, but I'm not going to be caught in
[19408]bed. I said that's too big a pawn for me and I'm
[19409]not getting anything for it right now. They allowed
[19410]me to take mail, steam it, photograph it and put it
[19411]back. Some of that mail is now missing, which
[19412]belongs to the Soviet people, which this perpetrator,
[19413]perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
[19414]asked the FBI to please help me with that.
[19416]‘FS: Who's the perpetrator?
[19418]ML: The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano, aka Pionne,
[19420]- aka David Ring, who broke into my apartment and stole’
[19421]this tape with Oleg Likichev, these love conversations,
[19422]the mail, and part of the Albanian code. He has those
[19423]in his possession. He threatens my life with it. He
[19424]threatens blackmail with me. He assaulted me. He
[19425]pistol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for help.
[19427]FS: Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build-, window? _
[19428]Mi: Yes.
[19429]FS: He did what?
[19430]Mb: "Yes, he tried to push me out the window.
[19431]. FS: 18 stories?
[19432]ML: | Yes, and I told him stay away, get back, because if
[19434]anything happens to me there's letters with the
[19435]Justice Department naming everything I know about you,
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[19439]FS:
[19441]FS:
[19443]FS:
[19445]FS;
[19447]FS:
[19451]and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot my
[19453]-daughter in the back. He's threatening her right
[19455]now with disgrace because she is the daughter of
[19456]the, of a well-known man. Right now my main concern
[19457]is the, these letters and the code and the tape and
[19458]possibly other things, are in the hands of this
[19459]Guiseppi Faisiano, and he wants money from me and
[19460]he's probably right now at the building. He is
[19461]casing the Soviets and he's going to try to go to
[19462]the same people that he has on the letters to tell
[19463]them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge,,.
[19464]for having him arrested on the assault charge with a
[19465]gun. He also wants money. He wants to disgrace the
[19466]FBI. He's blackmailing right now my husband, my ex-
[19468]“husband, for the master keys of the Newberry. My
[19470]husband is calling me for help and I don't know what
[19471]to do. I asked Frank to help me. I gave him the
[19472]code because everybody refused. I was afraid to have
[19473]any-, anywhere. I guess Frank helped me before in
[19474]Cuba and I don't, I worked, he worked for me and I
[19475]worked for him and I don't know where to go because,
[19476]the only ones that are helping me now are the local
[19477]police - in their lunch hours or when I'm too afraid
[19478]to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
[19479]kids. And they'1l take the children home when I get
[19480]a threat on the phone or a box in the mailbox or get
[19481]my back door shot at. I take my children and I put
[19482]them in the 23rd precinct.
[19484]They even, off duty...
[19486]The off-duty police, police officers take my children
[19490]- And they spend time at the house?
[19492]And they spend time at the house in their free time
[19493]when they should be home with their families.
[19495]Well you have saved the life of two people, right?
[19496]I would think so.
[19497]Well, you have.
[19499]Yes.
[19501]‘When, one of the, who are the two people you saved
[19503]their lives?
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[19511]FS:
[19513]FS:
[19515]FS:
[19517]FS:
[19519]FS:
[19521]FS:
[19525]A federal narcotics informant...
[19526]Undercover agent, right?
[19528]Undercover agent Pino Cantanya, and Assistant Federal
[19529]District Attorney Thomas A. Puecio from Brooklyn.
[19531]And you saved their lives because a contract was
[19532]being put out on them?
[19534]Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
[19535]out. .
[19537]And even though you have saved their lives...
[19539]I asked them please help me with this man, he has
[19540]Soviet documents, he's hurt me, he's hurt my
[19542]children, he almost shot my daughter. He, I asked
[19543]them please help me because I gave you information
[19545]for nothing and they said they promised to do something
[19546]on this individual immigration-wise. So far he has
[19547]threatened everybody around me. My physicians, my
[19548]mother, my ex+husband, my children, my neighbors, my
[19549]super.
[19551]He's an illegal immigrant?
[19553]He is. I would say he's an illegal alien.
[19555]What's his full name, his:real name?
[19557]-His arrest name, that he was arrested under was
[19559]Guiseppi Faisaino. He has, he's also known as David
[19560]Ring. He has a passport under this name. He's also
[19561]known as Pinno, and he is a gunman. Never worked a
[19562]day in his life, never paid taxes, he's a gambler,
[19563]he's a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on
[19564]organized crime at the racetrack. Roosevelt. Raceway,
[19565]Yonkers, and...
[19567]Any other agencies?
[19569]Organized. Crime Commission Bureau, OCCB.
[19571]" Ever worked with DEA? Drug Enforcement Agéncy?
[19573]Yes I did.
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[19577]FS:
[19581]FS:
[19583]FS:
[19585]FS:
[19587]FS:
[19589]FS:
[19593]Who are the people you are in touch with?
[19594]Two agents, Murphy and Shannon. This was...
[19595]You know their full names?
[19597]Well I have a day number and a night number and
[19599]I did some work in the Newberry with my husband
[19600]with them involving the Cuban narcotics connection
[19601]in South America. I also worked with the organized
[19602]crime, gambling.
[19604]Now you've turned, you want me to turn this tape
[19605]over to Senator Baker's committee to be turned over
[19606]to the Justice Department, is that correct? Right?
[19608]Yes.
[19609]You want me turn the.
[19611]Yes, I would like you, Frank, to turn this over just
[19612]in case something happens to me because I don't know
[19613]which way it’s going to come.
[19615]And you need some protection, right now, sight?
[19617]I need some type of help for my children, because of
[19618]this man Pinno threatening to expose my dealings with
[19619]the FBI and to the foreign press. — I just caught up
[19620]in this thing since 1959 and [I've been with it up
[19621]until last month, last week and I've just, and I need
[19622]help. There is no help. I mean since last month and
[19623]I don't want my children hurt. They've already been
[19624]hurt.
[19626]Alright, I promise to turn this tape and the code, over
[19627]to Senator Baker’ s committee, right?
[19629]Yes.
[19631]Who in turn will turn the information over to the-
[19632]proper officials in Washington, D. C.
[19634]Yes. I don't mean to embarass the Bureau. I know how
[19635]important it is but at this point I need help
[19636]desparately for my kids. They're 6 and 14 and they
[19637]don't deserve what they have to go through. The
[19639]whole summer locked up, threatened and afraid, and
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[19647]FS:
[19649]FS:
[19651]FS:
[19655]Did they every try to, to kidnap...
[19657]Yes.
[19658]the kids?
[19660]They threatened to kidnap my children. They were
[19661]once abducted by this man. I had no knowledge of
[19662]it. On the last day of school and he, he will
[19664]hurt them. He will hurt them - this man is sick.
[19665]He's, he's on 10 valiums a day. He's unpredictable.
[19666]He's vengeful.
[19668]And his close association with top mobsters?
[19670]~¥Yes he has close associations...
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[19676]INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE
[19677]BY FRANK STURGIS, 9/2/76
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[19681]‘Transcript of tapes provided the Select Committee on Intelligence
[19682]by Frank Sturgis on September 3, 1976
[19684]Marita Lorenze (ML) -- Interviewed by Frank Sturgis ‘on 9/2/76
[19686]Frank Sturgis (FS)
[19688]ML:
[19689]FS:
[19690]ML:
[19691]FS:
[19693]FS:
[19695]FS:
[19697]FS:
[19699]FS:
[19701]FS:
[19703]FS:
[19705]Marita Lorenze
[19707]You an American citizen?
[19708]Yes.
[19710]Were you born here?
[19712]Born in Braemen, Germany on August 18, 1939 and my
[19713]mother registered me at birthwith the Consulate
[19715]_ because she was. stuck in the war over there, but I
[19716]'.am an American citizen, not naturalized or anything.
[19718]I was registered as an American citizen.
[19719]How old were you when you came.to the United States?
[19721]I-was about 12, came over on the U.S.S. Henry Gibbons,
[19722]American troop transport, because my mother worked for
[19723]the United States Army.
[19725]Okay, now we're going to go ahead and jump. You went
[19726]to Cuba what month and what year and on what ship?
[19728]I met, I went, I took several trips with my father
[19729]who was Commander of the oceanliner Berlin. I met
[19730]Fidel...
[19732]What was your father's full name?
[19733]Commander Heinrich Frederick Lorenz.
[19734]And how old was he?
[19736]Approximately 50-something, 55, when I first, I went
[19737]on several trips to Cuba before I met Fidel with,
[19738]but I was a little girl.
[19740]When's the first time you went to Cuba after Fidel
[19741]took over the government on January 1, 1959?
[19743]I met Fidel February 28, 1959, on one of my father's
[19744]cruises where Fidel came aboard with several of his
[19745]men. He said he saw the oceanliner from the Havana
[19746]Hilton balcony and he took a launch with his Chief ©
[19747]of the Navy, what's his name, I forgot, Castagna...
[19749]Forget it, forget about it, we can go ahead. Who
[19750]else was there besides the chief of the Cuban navy.
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[19769]and Fidel and several of his armed guards.
[19770]Okay now, what happened
[19774]Castanyava |
[19776]Castanyava was the chief of the Navy.
[19778]And Fidel offered you a job or something, can you
[19779]go into that?
[19781]Well he was very fond of everything German. He
[19782]said he read and my father, you know, tried.
[19783]to pacify the tourists, the passengers on the ship
[19784]because they were terrified. They thought they were
[19785]being invaded. So I helped my father pacify the
[19786]tourists and it was really a funny scene. Then I
[19787]steered Fidel to my father's cabin and we went to
[19788]dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the
[19790]table. And this was February 28, 1959 on the cruise.
[19792]And he offered you a job, right?
[19794]Yes, after about 5 hours. on board ship we went back
[19795]up to my father's cabin and had drinks and exchanged
[19796]gifts; and my father and Fidel seemed to get along
[19797]very well. My father is diplomatic and they
[19799]exchanged plaques and my father's silver ashtray and
[19800]‘stuff like that. And he asked me, he asked my father
[19802]if since I was bilingual if I could go, come back,
[19803]return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was
[19804]getting German mail and he did not. speak German and
[19805]he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an
[19806]office, and blah, blah, blah, blah. . And I had
[19808]‘friends in Cuba anyway.
[19810]How old were you then?
[19812]Nineteen, nineteen years old.
[19814]Did you get off the ship and stay there?
[19816]No, I went back to New York. Fidel, on the bridge,
[19817]asked me for my phone number and address in New York
[19819]and said he would call me, and I just, I didn’ t
[19820]believe it.
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[19824]FS: When did he call you?
[19826]ML: The same day I arrived in New York. Because my
[19827]: father took off that night for Germany again and
[19828]the phone ring, and it rang at 1 o'clock in the
[19829]morning. I guess the previous.
[19831]FS: Well-he went back to Germany with the ship, right?
[19832]‘Where did you ‘go?
[19834]ML: I was living with my brother in New York City
[19835]My brother was a translator. for the United Nations
[19836]and I was alone living in New York City going to
[19837]the Merchantson Banker School.
[19839]FS: Well how did you get back to New York City from
[19840]Havana?
[19842]ML: On my father's ship. It was the last stop on the
[19843]cruise of about 5 or 6 stops.
[19845]FS: Oh, in other words the, in other words the ship left
[19846]that night, left Havana that night...
[19848]ML: Yeah.
[19850]FS: went over to New York and then from New York went
[19852]back to Europe, right?
[19854]ML: Yes. Yes. I thought about Fidel and he pointed out
[19855]this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I
[19856]. was young, I don't know. And I thought that...
[19858]FS: He called, he called you, he knew just about what
[19859]time you were going to arrive in New York and when
[19860]you got there he called you, what, the same, the same
[19861]day you got there?
[19863]ML: The same day our ship arrived, three days later. And I
[19864]just picked up the phone and the Havana operator said
[19865]one moment please, the Prime Minister is on the phone,
[19866]on the line, and I heard some shouting and then I
[19867]heard “hello.
[19869]FS: ' Did he speak Cuban or English to you?
[19871]ML: He spoke. broken English in his hoarse voice. I guess
[19872]che was giving a lot of speeches at that time. And he
[19873]asked me, "Hello Marita, you think I don't call? I
[19874]think about you very much and I call. I keep my word.
[19875]‘TIT want to prove to you that one man's Cuban word I keep.'
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[19879]ML: So, I was as surprised, I was very surprised.
[19881](contd. ) =.
[19883]FS:. How long was it did you leave New York to go to
[19884]Havana?
[19886]ML: Fidel said to me, I said is this really you Fidel,
[19888]and he said yes. I am in Havana Hilton, you call
[19889]me back in room 2408, and I said no, alright I
[19890]believe you I said because how else would you have
[19891]my number. He said "I want you come back. I think
[19892]“about you and I will send a plane, my plane, and you
[19893]come back." And it was a joke really, I liked the
[19894]Cocoa Glace, it's an ice cream in a cocoanut shell,
[19895]and he had sent to my father's ship a case of it so
[19896]I would have enough for the return trip home because,
[19897]I don't know, I just talked about Havana, the island
[19898]in general. So I, and I still didn't believe him
[19899]‘that he would send the plane.
[19901]FS: Did he send the airplane?
[19903]ML: Yes.
[19905]FS: : What kind of an airplane did he send?
[19907]ML: A Cubana airliner with...
[19909]FS: Four engines? |
[19911]ML: Yes, with two men and two men came to the, my door.
[19913]I was living at 344 West 87th Street at the time, on
[19914]the second floor, and my brother was at a UN party
[19915]and I -was home alone studying. Oh no, in fact I was-
[19916]reading a Herbert L. Mathews article on Fidel Castro
[19918]_ and Cuba when the doorbell rang, and it was Jesus
[19920]and Pedro |
[19922]and they showed me identification: One came in military
[19923]uniform, the other in civilian clothes. One smiled,
[19924]one.didn't. One said, “Are you ready?" And one said,
[19925]"We go now. Fidel want very. much to see you."
[19927]FS: _ (Laughter).
[19929]ML: And I said I didn't finish my homework yet. I was like
[19930]in shock. I-didn't know what to do. So they said they
[19931]were staying in a hotel, that they would, the plane
[19932]would leave tomorrow, please be ready. I, meanwhile I
[19933]haven't even unpacked, you know, from the cruise. My
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[19937]ML: clothes were all laundered anyway from the ship and
[19938](contd.)* I hadn't even unpacked because I was worred about
[19939]missing two days at school.
[19941]FS: _ Yeah.
[19942]ML: So I went...
[19943]FS: | Well these are incidentals anyway, so, what'd you
[19945]do, you went to the airport? What airport did the
[19946]airplane, was the airplane at?
[19948]ML: - Uh, LaGuard, which is not Kennedy, it was at that
[19949]time named something else. Idlewild, right?
[19950]FS: . Idlewild, yeah.
[19951]ML: Vand...
[19952]FS: It was Idlewild airport, that's where they had the
[19953]airplane, Cubana Airlines?
[19954]ML: ' Yeah, Cubana Airlines. Got on the plane...
[19955]FS: How many people where on the airplane? .
[19956]ML: Me, a steward, a,pilot and a co-pilot and the two
[19957]guards.
[19958]FS: Ha, ha, had -- that's funny. Go ahead.
[19959]ML: So anyway, 1 I met Fidel and that's when I got involved.
[19960]FS: This is more or less a background so. they know her
[19961]background.
[19962]ML: Yeah that's, that's out anyway.
[19963](Unidentified voice: ‘Yeah, right.")
[19964]FS: I mean don't drag it out so much because the details
[19965]of all. this thing is...
[19966]ML: Yeah.
[19968]FS: - Is yours, you know. Go over it lightly. So you went
[19969]back to Havana, right?
[19971]ML: Right.
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[19975]FS: Now when ,you went back to Havana you saw Fidel where?
[19976]Cause we'll go over this lightly.
[19978]ML: I was in the...
[19980]FS: ’ At the Hilton?
[19982]ML: ; I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton.
[19984]FS: And that's where Fidel was staying at the Hilton, right?
[19986]ML: ' Yes, he was having an argument in his suite with Chez
[19988]Raoul and some Americans.
[19990]FS: He was having some argument with some Americans. Do
[19991]you know who the Americans were?
[19993]ML: Yes.
[19995]FS: . Who were they?
[19997]ML: One lady attorney trying to promote something, Muriel...
[19999]FS: Oh this was more business or something like that?
[20001]ML = Yes business. Everybody was trying to promote this
[20002]and that with Fidel.
[20004]FS: Yes, well that's immaterial.
[20006]ML: . So then I was told to go in the room and wait and the
[20008]door locked. And I was in there, in his suite, and
[20009]Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and
[20010]the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it.
[20012]FS: You'll write it don't worry. Alright now...
[20014]ML: | If I live.
[20016]FS: Do you know approximately when you met me?
[20018]ML: A couple months, or two months, or three months after
[20019]that. | :
[20021]FS: No,That was very, I think you met me around what, April?
[20023]ML April, right.
[20025]FS: April of 1959, right?
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[20049]Yeah.
[20051]And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the
[20052]lobby?
[20054]Yes.
[20056]That's where, when I saw...
[20058]That's what I'said, a couple months...
[20060]Right.
[20062]right after that.
[20064]In April, right. And this is where we made contact
[20065]and. so forth and then we saw each other a few times |
[20066]after that.
[20068]In the coffee shop.
[20070]In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited
[20071]to go ahead and spy for the United States and so forth
[20072]and, were you ever introduced or, to Colonel Nickels?
[20073]Yes. .
[20075]Do you know who Colonel Nickels is, right. He was
[20077]the Colonel who was military attache with the American
[20078]Embassy. in Havana, Cuba at that time, right?
[20080]‘Yes.
[20082]Okay. Then you started your spy thing and $0 forth
[20083]and so forth, alright? .
[20085]Um Hum.
[20087]We'll go ahead and jump a Little bit and so forth.
[20088]There were several meetings that Fidel had in the
[20089]Hilton with some of the people of the staff. I was
[20090]present at the meeting, right?
[20092]Right.
[20094]‘And, one of the time that Fidel | was talking to the
[20096]staff concerned the gambling casinos and American
[20097]business interests in Cuba, right?
[20099]Right.
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[20103]FS: _ And it was stated that he was going to run all the
[20104]racketeers out of.
[20106]ML: Out of Cuba.
[20108]FS: Cuba. All the American businesses were going to go
[20110]ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the
[20111]Cuba for the Cubans.
[20113]ML: Right.
[20115]FS: And so forth. And then it was suggested about well
[20116]you know the American government may not like it.
[20117]You're gonna have all the American business interests
[20118]put pressure on the State Department which would put
[20119]pressure on him and that they would be up in arms and
[20120]they would have the agents, they would send new agents
[20121]into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close,
[20122]closely contacted, at least certain people in the CIA
[20123]had contact with the 26th of July movement. As a
[20124]matter of fact that they were exchanging information .
[20125]with Castro...
[20127]ML: Uh hum.
[20129]-FS: which enabled him to outwit many. of the other groups
[20130]so really CIA helped Fidel quite a bit in this power
[20131]struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time. So
[20132]Fidel, with the help of CIA...
[20134]ML: . Yes.
[20135]FS: got to be the ruler of Cuba. Now...
[20136]ML: I would, what about, where did Fidel get most of his
[20137]guns from?
[20138]FS: - Well, you know...
[20139]ML: To lead the revolution?
[20140]| FS: Right, you know, so forth. | That's a story which we
[20142]won't have to go into and so forth because we just
[20143](unintelligible) briefly over it. And then there
[20144]came a period of time. where Fidel in all his
[20145]popularity and so forth was, now Fidel with you - he
[20146]made approaches to you, right, and so forth?
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[20150]FS:
[20152]FS:
[20154]FS:
[20156]FS:
[20158]FS:
[20160]FS:
[20162]Hom.
[20164]He told you he loved you and so forth.
[20166]-Yes.
[20168]And he seduced you, right? And, which has been on
[20169]record. :
[20171]Mm-Hmm.
[20173]You know, and you liked him and you actually in
[20174]liking him like a young girl thought for the future
[20175]that here's a man that I, you admired, that you
[20176]started to get an affection for him and so forth,
[20177]and really you thought of marriage, right?
[20179]Mm-hmm.
[20181]And in the process of being close with him, being as
[20182]the man's intelligent, dynamic and so forth, he did
[20183]force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced
[20184]you. You didn't want to but it happened.
[20186]Yes.
[20188]And you had nobody to go to because, hey, you're in™
[20189]his Cuba, right?
[20191]I was in his Cuba alright.
[20193]Right, now also what we were getting in this Senate
[20194]Intelligence Committee has got is the things that
[20195]Fidel has stated against the United States government
[20196]if they tried to interfere with the revolution and so
[20197]forth when the new election time comes because at that
[20198]time the President of the United States was Eisenhower
[20200]and it looked like that the Democrats were going to
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[20204]win the election and he felt that if a new government,
[20205]which was discussed among the top military people, if
[20206]the new government came in and if they decided that they
[20207]didn't like Fidel's policy, which Fidel was saying what
[20208]he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale,
[20209]that if the United States government decided to go and
[20210]turn against him and put pressure on him he would do
[20211]likewise to the United States government. ‘And he was
[20212]going to export his revolution in Latin America. These
[20213]are the things that you heard...
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[20241]Yeah.
[20242]A number of times I was present up there for the..
[20243]Mm-hmm.
[20245]in the Hilton with. all the people. Now you left Cuba
[20246]when? . oo
[20248]Sometime in September.
[20250]In September of 1959 you came to the United States,
[20251]right?
[20253]Yeah.
[20255]And when: you came back to the United States you saw
[20256]me.
[20258]Yes.
[20260]And then arrangements were made for you to go back to
[20261]Cuba and so forth..
[20263]Yes, yes. .
[20264]And this is what happened with the attempt and so forth.
[20265]Right.
[20266]Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave
[20267]there the second time?
[20269]towards
[20270]When exactly / the end of 1959, 1960.
[20272]1959?
[20274]60 - I'm not sure. I'm no good at dates and all that.
[20276]I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went
[20277]out. .
[20279]Well then was it the early part of ‘60?
[20280]Yeah.
[20282]It had to be the early part of '60 and you ‘came back
[20283]to Miami, right?
[20285]Right.
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[20313]You came back to Miami and you continued to go ahead
[20314]and do some- work
[20316]With Alex.
[20318]With Alex and myself here in South Florida. And then
[20319]when did you cease doing some work at that time?
[20321]Uh, in 19--, end of 1960.
[20323]End of 1960. When did I tell you to make contact with
[20324]Petty Humanez at his home. Do you know approximately
[20326]what time that was?
[20328]In 1960, 61.
[20330]The end of 1960, or the early part of '61, was that
[20331]then?
[20333]About the time of the Bay of Pigs.
[20335]Well, '61 was the Bay of Pigs, in April. '61. Soit
[20336]had to be before the Bay of Pigs.
[20338]Before, before, yes it was.
[20340]Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami..
[20342]Right.
[20344]Beach on'the island there, right?
[20345]Yes. .
[20347]Alright, and you were told by whom to go over to his
[20349]“ home?:
[20351]You.
[20353]You were told by me and you went there by yourself or
[20354]with someone else?
[20356]Should I name him?
[20358]Yeah. Alex?
[20360]Alex York.
[20362]Alright, Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez'
[20363]house, right. They had a gathering there with some
[20365]Cubans, and so forth and so forth. Do you know who
[20366]some of the Cubans who were at that gathering?
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[20372]“ML: Big Cubans.
[20374]FS: ' Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name some?
[20376]ML: Top Cubans in exile, Prios, Carlos Prios
[20378]FS: President, ex-President Carlos Prios.
[20380]ML: I don't know, there were so many, God.
[20382]FS: Alright, well that's, that's good enough. Anyway.
[20383]Alright, that's when you first met Petty Humanez,
[20384]alright.
[20386]ML: Yes.
[20388]FS: | What was the idea of me sending you over there to meet
[20389]Petty Humanez?
[20391]ML: . Information gathering, to find out how he was
[20392]sponsoring the Cuban exiles.
[20394]FS: Wasn't he suspected of supplying money and other
[20396]goodies...
[20398]ML: Oh, yes.
[20400]FS: to groups, where at?
[20402]ML: In Miami and outside of Miami.
[20404]FS: And down in Texas, right?
[20406]ML: Yeah.
[20408]FS: Training camps in Texas?
[20410]ML: Yes. .
[20412]FS: Alright, he was feeding money to them also in... °-
[20414]ML: Yeah.
[20416]FS: Texas, right? And this is to help overthrow Castro
[20417]government, right?
[20419]ML: I would presume, yeah. I guess so.
[20421]FS: - Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them
[20423]this financial assistance?
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[20449]Yeah I saw him give money to some Cubans. I was with
[20450]him at the time.
[20452]Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez, isn't
[20456]I would say so.
[20457]You would say so. As a matter of fact...
[20459](unintelligible)
[20461]- As a matter of fact a love affair developed..
[20463]Yes. . _
[20465]and so forth and so forth, alright.
[20466]Yeah.
[20468]We won't go into anything else. We'll go ahead and
[20469]jump past that. Then we lost contact with you, right?
[20471]Yes.
[20473]And in losing contact with you we, well we mentioned
[20474]sometime when they, the United States State Department
[20475]sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela, he went to
[20476]prison, and you mentioned something about the family
[20477]wanted to break him out and you wanted to see if I
[20478]could do it and so forth: Alright, so we'll skip that.
[20479]Anyway, I lost contact with you. When was the last
[20480]time we lost contact, when was that?
[20482]"64.
[20484]1964 or '63? '63 or '64 approximately, alright?
[20486]After "64. .
[20488]It was around, approximately 1964.
[20490](unintelligible)
[20492]And you what, came to New York?
[20494]When the General went to jail.
[20496]Yeah, you went to South America and then you came back
[20498]to New York to live and so forth, right?
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[20504]ML: Yeah.
[20506]FS: Then you remarried, rather you got married here in
[20507]New York?
[20509]ML: Oh some time passed, I waited for the General but
[20510]then I got married, right.
[20512]FS: Who did you marry? You're gonna say, you're gonna go
[20513]ahead and say he worked at the building with you, and...
[20515]ML: Yeah, I guess I have to. Louis John Yurositz.
[20517]FS: Alright, now one time you and him did what. at what
[20519]building and the address?
[20521]ML: We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York.
[20523]FS: You worked as an, both of you worked as undercover .
[20524]agents for the FBI in New Yor, right?
[20526]ML: Me as a double because I had..
[20528]FS: You as a double agent. Now when did this start?
[20530]ML: He was the building manager at 250 East 87th Street
[20532]in Manhattan. The building is owned by Glenwood
[20533]Management, called the Newberry. The work started
[20534]with the case agent in 1969.
[20536]FS: 1969. Who was the case agent's name, and what federal
[20537]agents, you already told me. You b already told me and
[20538]they got it on record and this.
[20540]ML: They told me not to say anything.
[20542]FS: Well, honey, they got it on record and you're gonna
[20543]go ahead and send this down there because Senator
[20544]Baker knows who your case agent is, knows the CIA
[20545]agent that you were in touch with. —
[20547]ML: ‘You k know I keep: remembering don't embarass the Bureau
[20548]and.
[20549]FS: Honey , you're not embarassing, the. Bureau. What you "re
[20551]doing is giving this information to Senator Baker's
[20553]- Committee to turn over to the Justice Department in
[20554]‘order for them to go ahead and say, hey - you worked
[20555]as an agent for them, also as a double agent, you need
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[20561]protection for you and your kid, and if you don't go
[20562]ahead and tell them the name of these here people how
[20563]you gonna do it?
[20565]ML: Mmm.
[20567]FS: You know we get back to the same thing again. Yeah,
[20568]you're looking for protection. So far the people
[20569]you've worked with, so. far this man Pucci who you
[20570]saved his life, and saved another undercover agent's
[20571]life whose working with the FBI. These people are
[20572]powerful people yet they have done nothing with the
[20573]problem that you have had right now with you, three
[20574]times there's been an attempt on your life, isn't
[20575]that correct? One time they almost threw you out of
[20576]an 18 story building. Another time you got pistol-.
[20577]whipped. You did all this crap for these people
[20578]here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the
[20579]present time, and this is on record in their own
[20580]files and so forth, yet you cannot move them to give
[20581]you or your children any. protection. This piece of
[20582]tape is going to go right to Senator Baker's office,
[20583]it'll go to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to,
[20584]to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the proper
[20585]authorities which will be the Justice Department.
[20586]You can call Howard Liebengood.to see if he has
[20587]received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from
[20588]me. You can call him and find out, and also you
[20589]can call him at the same time and let him know if
[20590]a tape has. been turned over to him. As a matter of
[20591]fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his
[20592]office I will instruct his people in the office to
[20593]get a hold of you, because I'm gonna leave your phone
[20594]number with Senator's Baker's people, with Senator
[20595]Baker is on, has a Committee on Intelligence...
[20597]ML: Mm-hmm.
[20599]FS: He's got the committee. It's a new Committee that has
[20600]been. formed on intelligence. See, now I am turning this
[20601]information over to the proper authorities. See. And —
[20602]this information is. not going to go to any newspaper
[20603]or anybody... a
[20605]ML: Okay, okay Frank. I have your word. It's just that I
[20607]got a hang-up, you know I guess, with them working on
[20608]practically all my adult life.
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[20614]FS:
[20616]FS:
[20618]FS;
[20620]FS:
[20622]FS:
[20624]~16-.
[20626]Honey, I don't want to know everything you did in 6
[20627]years. I don't want to know everything you did
[20628]because you can't.
[20630]They were like a family, they were like a family at
[20631]one time. Now when I need help they don't come
[20632]through and they say it costs too much. It cost me.
[20633]a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albanian
[20634]stuff, cost me a lot of worry, cost me a lot of fear,
[20635]threats.
[20637]Alright so this is why...
[20639](Unintelligible) -
[20641]I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a
[20642]story up then how are you gonna prove, for instance,
[20644]you gonna go ahead.
[20646]No I'm not making anything up. I wouldn't lie about
[20648]it,
[20650]No, no, honey, I'm just saying. “If you're gonna go
[20651]ahead and say, hey - I broke into 33, in an apartment
[20652]building with. 33 Soviet families, who. did you work
[20653]for -- well. I worked for the FBI. They call the FBI,
[20654]the FBI said we know nothing about it, Then you are
[20655]a liar.
[20657]No way am I going to be a liar.
[20659]I'm just saying, they're going to say how we gonna
[20660]protect this girl when. she's lying to us because the
[20661]FBI says no. But if you name names. and say I worked
[20662]with this man here, it's got my file, I worked over
[20664]a six year period. God damn it - that, that Justice
[20665]Department will say, hey baby we want to see you and
[20666]we want.to see your. files on this girl. And baby
[20668]they got to go and come up with it. And if they don't
[20669]come up with it they're in’trouble. They're in
[20670]trouble. Now, how could they hide something when they
[20671]are working for the same people who are their bosses,
[20672]who are their bosses? They can tell you to go jump in
[20673]a lake over here. But Washington, D. C. says ~ hey,
[20675]I want. to see. something here. Why haven't you given —
[20676]this people protection if all. this is true. But if
[20677]they don't know, honey, how the hell are they gonna
[20679]do anything?
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[20683]FS:
[20685]FS:
[20686]ML:
[20687]FS:
[20689]FS:
[20691]FS:
[20693]FS:
[20695]FS:
[20697]FS:
[20701]I guess if something happens. somebody's gonna know,
[20702]you know.
[20704]Somebody has to know. Now at the beginning you and
[20705]your husband, your husband was manager...
[20707]was. the building’ manager of this building.
[20709]And he...
[20710]Is he still building manager of that building?
[20711]Yes, but the way this : going...
[20713]Well, honey forget about it right at the present time
[20714]because we're getting at the building and we're...
[20716]Yes, yes.
[20718]He still manages the building. Alright, now, how long
[20719]has he been manager of this building?
[20721]We raised this building, we
[20722]In other words when was the first years...
[20724]We were the very first tenants in this building. We
[20726]' moved in there before anybody moved in there. We
[20728]were the first tenants. The first person to move in
[20729]was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission.
[20731]What was his name?
[20733]Mr. Vittikoféf.
[20734]And who was Mr. Vittikoff?
[20736]He was the first Secretary to Malek, the Soviet
[20737]Ambassador to the United Nations. .
[20739]Would you say a cesspool of spies. which this cesspool
[20740]of spies which is the Soviet
[20742](end of side 1)
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[20746]FS:
[20748]FS;
[20750]FS:
[20752]FS:
[20756]..where you and your husband worked where he was
[20757]manager, you were the first people to live in that
[20758]place?
[20760]250 East 87th Street, the Newberry, owned by Glenwood
[20761]Management, which are crooked,. and that's on the
[20762]corner of 2nd Avenue, it's called the Newberry.
[20764]Okay, now, who started to move in there?
[20766]Our very first tenant was Mr. Ovinikoff, he was the
[20767]First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United
[20768]Nations. (unintelligible)
[20770]Alright, go ahead, keep talking into there.
[20772]And he's a little guy. He seemed like normal people,
[20773]but I never really... co ;
[20775]Well how many people eventually moved in there besides
[20777]this man?
[20779]FS:
[20781]FS:
[20783]FS:
[20785]FS:
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[20789]Oh well the first one was Mr. ovinikor®, the second
[20790]one I named The Stalker, the third one - I have nick-
[20791]hames...
[20793]Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute now. The
[20794]second one who moved in there you called, you nick-
[20795]named the
[20797]The Stalker.
[20799]The Stalker. What was his real name?
[20801]Because he, he was, he checked on the Russians. The
[20803]Russians checked on the Russians. And if a woman,
[20804]Soviet wife, got out of hand or went shopping by her-
[20806]self or did something out of the way she got: pulled
[20808]back and she was under house arrest.
[20809]Alright, what was his name?
[20810]Mr. Artimenko, Artimenko. I kept, then I...
[20812]Who was the third one you gave a nickname to?
[20814]I had nicknames for all of them.
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[20820]FS: Yeah, but
[20821]ML: . Moonface, The Stalker...
[20822]FS: Yeah.
[20824]_ ML: The Shadow. It was my own little thing of remembering
[20825]until I memorized. We started out with the tenants'
[20826]list.
[20828]FS: Alright, how many people were on the tenants’ list?
[20830]ML: We had, the building consisted of 300 units, which
[20831]300 apartments, my husband had access to files. Each
[20832]Soviet file read the same -- Permanent Mission of the
[20834]:‘stUnion. of Soviet Socialist Republic resident, and I
[20835]got interested. Then one day an agent came at 9 o ‘clock
[20836]in the morning, and my husband had been previously
[20837]working with Treasury and other agencies, including
[20838]this agent which I'll name, that's Al Chestone.
[20840]FS: His first name was what?
[20842]ML: ' Albert, Albert Chestone.
[20844]FS: What agency was he with?
[20846]ML: _ The FBL.
[20848]FS: Special Agent, FBI?
[20850]ML: Yes, counterintelligence.
[20852]FS: Sector of the FBI
[20854]ML: Yes, political. And, my husband had known hin
[20856]previously working with the Polaris missile, Polaris
[20857]missile thing. This was before I met my husband or
[20858]married him. He did something with the Polaris
[20860]- missile thing. And my husband was paid by this same |
[20861]agent. Anyway, we, he came daily and we went over the
[20862]tenants' list and we sort of dissected everybody in
[20863]the building.
[20865]FS: ; Alright now, were you recruited by this agent?
[20866]ML: Yes, he said are you willing to work and I said, well,
[20868]why not? He said it doesn't consist of much, a few
[20869]burglaries (laughter)..
[20871]FS: ' In other words this agent...
[20873]ML: Information gather, get close to them, get friendly with |
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[20879]them, and you take the woman's viewpoint, standpoint,
[20880]and my husband.
[20882]FS: And they. wanted you to do some burglaries, right?
[20883]ML: Well, I, yes. .
[20885]FS: Alright now, these burglaries, did they consist of
[20886]you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by
[20888]yourself?
[20890]ML: _ Well my husband had the master keys.
[20892]FS: Right, alright. |
[20894]ML: “And...
[20896]FS: - Well when you did these burglaries.
[20898]ML: We all did them together. They're were about 5, 6,
[20900]7 cars. One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission.
[20901]Suppose, say Like they were interested in one Soviet
[20902]who they lost track of, who was supposed to be in
[20903]Washington, D. C., and then they found him all of a
[20904]sudden in our building because they had surveillance
[20905]across the street. That's the first thing ~ they set
[20906]up surveillance, a camera, high-power camera across
[20907]the street. That we were pointed out to. That
[20908]everybody who went in and out of the building was
[20910]photographed.
[20911]FS: Including yourself and your husband?
[20912]ML: - Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to
[20913]' school and everything..
[20914]FS: Right.
[20915]ML: But, and...
[20916]FS: Alright, now, getting back to the entries that you made ~
[20917]into the apartments. Once you found out that the
[20918]people were not in the apartments -- how did you find
[20920]out they weren't in the apartments?
[20922]ML: Well, they would...
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[20928]FS: Would you knock on the door or something?
[20930]ML: No.
[20932]FS: You saw them leave?
[20934]ML: . No, no. They were assigned, first of all we were told
[20936]that we wanted, they wanted to hit the apartment, the
[20937]Bureau, and.I would listen and my husband looked at me
[20938]and I looked at him but it was still in the best
[20939]interests of the country, and this was a very, very top
[20940]KGB agent, a Soviet General, blah, blah, blah, he was
[20942]interested...
[20943]FS: Do you know the man's name?
[20944]’ ML: Yes. |
[20945]FS: This General?
[20946]ML: . Yes.
[20947]FS: What was his name?
[20948]ML: Oleg Likichev.
[20949]FS: ' What's his name?
[20950]ML: Oleg Likichev.
[20951]FS: Likichev. He's a top...
[20952]ML: KGB spy. ;
[20953]FS: Alright, and he lived in the building?
[20954]ML: Yes, with his wife and 5 year old son.
[20955]FS: Right.
[20956]ML: On the 10th. floor.
[20957]FS: Alright, now you were advising them when they left
[20959]the building. Naturally they had surveillance out~-
[20960]side, they would know when he left...
[20962]ML: Well first we were told to get close to them, maybe
[20963]friendly...
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[20969]z
[20971]FS: Friendly.
[20973]ML: Very friendly. We exchanged gifts and we went to.
[20974]dinner, and we were invited to the U.N., and we
[20975]exchanged. .
[20977]FS: In other words you were being guided inte doing
[20978]certain things..
[20980]ML: No.
[20982]FS: | This one particular FBI agent.
[20984]ML: This one particular agent told us daily what to do.
[20986]FS: Alright now did he give you a code name or a code,
[20987]any particular code?
[20989]ML: My name, Mariuch.
[20991]FS: . Mariuch was the name he gave, that he gave you, right?
[20993]_ ML: Mariuch. .
[20995]FS: Alright, it sounds Italian. Mariuch is Italian.
[20997]ML: Well he... ,
[20999]FS: Maria.
[21001]ML: He is Italian, too.
[21003]FS: ‘The agent?
[21005]‘ML: Yes.
[21007]FS: Alright, now, when, did you ever make an entry into
[21008]this top KGB agent's apartment?
[21010]ML: ‘This one particular, there were several. This wasn't
[21011]the only one.
[21013]FS: Well, let's talk, let's talk about, the, general.
[21015]ML: Oleg was, in other words. my husband and I discussed
[21017]it and I said, "Louis, you know,'
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[21021]FS:
[21023]FS:
[21025]FS:
[21027]FS :
[21029]FS:
[21033]It could be very dangerous.
[21035]Yeah, yeah, I said...
[21037]You could get caught, you could be killed.
[21039]I said suppose, you know, we're working in the precinct
[21041]on a local level’ - that's breaking and entering, right?
[21042]And my husband and I dis, you know we discussed it.
[21044]Now, Uncle Al - as we started to call this.
[21046]FBI agent?
[21048]FBI agent, said "Look, he's a very bad person, we lost
[21049]him and we found him and he's in the building and we
[21050]want to get in the apartment. We feel he has, for
[21051]national security reasons, we want to enter that
[21052]‘apartment. Louis, will you-cooperate?" You know?
[21054]And my husband said, "Alright".
[21056]Did he said he had to discuss it with you?
[21057]They discussed it in front of me.
[21059]I mean did your husband say he had, he would discuss
[21061]it with you about.
[21063]FS:
[21065]“FS:
[21067]FS:
[21069]FS:
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[21073]No, no, but he. did, but he didn't ask me because I
[21074]asked my husband later, I said, "Louis, if you refuse
[21075]to do what Al tells us to do, me as a lookout and
[21076]Louis opening the doors for them" Louis said, Louis
[21077]is my husband, said "What do you want me to do, get
[21078]subpoenaed?. They' 11 sybpoena me if I don't do it. So
[21079]I'll go along with it.
[21081]So it, it was agreed...
[21082]It was agreed that he would do it.
[21084]Alright, now what did your husband do. ‘Did he open the
[21085]door for the agents?
[21087]Yes he did.
[21089]Did he go in, for what, one agent, two agents?
[21091]Two agents.
[21093]Two agents. Was Uncle Al one of those agents?
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[21099]ML: No he was not.
[21100]FS: Do you know the name of the two agents that made the
[21101]entry? .
[21102]ML: . No I do not.
[21103]FS: Do not.
[21104]ML: They came on the specific morning when they had Oleg...
[21105]FS: You were by Uncle Al that these two agents
[21106]were coming?
[21107]ML: Yes.
[21108]FS: Alright, on a specific morning?
[21109]ML: Yes.
[21110]FS: . Alright, and...
[21111]ML: _ They came as lumberjacks, one as a refrigeration
[21112]repairman.
[21113]FS: Right.
[21114]ML: Refrigerator, refrigeration-air conditioning repairman.
[21115]“FS: Alright, now you and your husband with these two
[21117]agents went up.to the 10th floor, right? You were
[21118]stationed where you. were going to be the lookout?
[21120]ML: In the...
[21122]FS: - Hal lway?
[21124]ML: © Service entrance.
[21126]FS: In the service entrance. Your husband had the pass
[21127]keys?
[21129]ML: Yes.
[21131]FS: He opened the door?
[21133]ML: ; Yes.
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[21139]FS:
[21141]FS:
[21143]FS:
[21145]ML:
[21147]FS:
[21149]FS: .
[21151]FS:
[21153]FS:_
[21155]FS:
[21157]FS:
[21159]FS:
[21161]FS:
[21165]The two agents went in?
[21167]Yes.
[21169]Did your husband go in?
[21171]He stood at the door.
[21173]He stood at the door?
[21175]He stood at the door.
[21177]That is in case they'd come back he'd...
[21179]Right. |
[21181]The fact that he is the manager of the building
[21182]standing there with two repairman.
[21184]But that he was assured, he was assured, right.
[21186]That these two men were repairmen?
[21188]That, that just in case something went. wrong with the
[21189]5 cars assigned to this job that one’ car would radio
[21190]that Oleg Likichev was leaving the Mission at this
[21192]moment, he is getting into his car, he is on the way
[21194]-up 2nd Avenue to his residence.
[21196]Right, and they...
[21198]- You've got approximately 7 to 8 minutes...
[21200]Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out.
[21201]Do, and get out.
[21203]Okay.
[21205]So, my husband stood in the door and I was in the 7
[21206]staircase and they went in with a,:a case that looks
[21207]like a television repair case which had high power
[21208]cameras.
[21210]Right.
[21212]And they, my husband was always annoyed because they
[21213]were sloppy.
[21215](Laughter)
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[21219]FS:
[21223]The Soviets are very trained, they would leave a
[21224]cigarette on an ashtray. If you knocked it over they
[21225]know immediately someone was in. the apartment.
[21227]Now, when the agents, before your husband opened the
[21228]door with the pass key, did the agents look the door
[21230]' over to see if there was any powder marks, tapes,
[21232]FS:
[21234]FS:
[21236]FS:
[21238]FS:
[21240]hairs, or anything, or something leaning against the
[21241]door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general,
[21242]this, not Cuban general, this Russian general, who is
[21243]a top KGB agent... co
[21245]Yes.
[21247]wanted to see if somebody made an entry they would
[21248]leave something on the door.
[21250]Yes.
[21252]They inspected the door, right? And they didn’t find
[21254]anything?
[21255]Right.
[21257]Right. So they opened the door. In other words, what-
[21258]ever they touched.
[21260]But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and
[21261]that.
[21263]Alright, now, no let's not jump. We're, you were on
[21265]_ this one particular thing.
[21267]FS:
[21269]FS:
[21271]FS:
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[21275]Alright.
[21277]These people did go in, they did what they had to do.
[21278]with the cameras and.so forth, evidently these were
[21279]hidden..
[21281]Yeah.
[21282]cameras that they installed some place in there, right?
[21283]No, it was microfilm.
[21285]Well there were cameras.
[21287]In the flour can...
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[21293]Oh, you mean what the agents brought in?
[21295]FS: What the two agents brought in.
[21296]ML: Yes.
[21297]FS: Yeah, what did they bring in with them, what, in the
[21298]- general's... , .
[21299]ML: Cameras.
[21300]FS: They -brought cameras...
[21301]ML: Mm- hmm.
[21302]FS: which were installed.
[21303]ML: Yeah. | ,
[21304]FS: What else did they bring in?
[21305]ML: I don't know. They...
[21306]FS: Any listening devices, bugging devices?
[21307]ML: I would say so. I think...
[21308]FS: You don't know for sure, though?
[21309]ML: I'm not sure, ny husband...
[21310]FS: ‘No, but you do know about the cameras?
[21311]ML: Yes. .
[21312]FS: Alright, but there is a possibility they brought
[21314]bugging devices because it's logical they would
[21315]bring bugging devices. .
[21317]ML: I think sometimes, plenty of times they wanted to
[21318]plant a bug.
[21320]FS: Sure.
[21322]ML: Especially in the television, the cable IV, the...
[21324]FS: —_ Well they install that through the walls and so forth.
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[21330]ML: No, in the, they'd hook it up to the master antenna
[21331]for the cable TV.
[21332]FS: Oh, for the cable TV. Well, yéah, alright.
[21333]ML: | That way they thought they could tune in to them
[21334]transmitting.
[21335]FS: Yeah. Alright, now, how long did they stay in, to
[21336]the General's apartment?
[21337]ML:. In the apartment, approximately 10-15-20 minutes.
[21338]FS: Then they left, your husband closed the door, did he
[21339]wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know?
[21340]ML: No, but my husband would usually put the edge of the
[21341]rug back the way he found it.
[21342]FS: Right, in other, everything...
[21343]“ML: It was turned over.
[21344]FS: had to be placed back the same way it was.
[21345]ML: And he would watch. them and they were rough.
[21346]FS: Well, we'll forget about that part. We're not
[21347]interested in.
[21348]ML: This worried ny husband because this would...
[21349]FS: Yeah, it would make..
[21350]ML: They knew..
[21351]FS: Make them know there was. an entry.
[21352]ML: Right.
[21353]FS: Okay, now, they did that, they left. Did, did, did the
[21354]agents ever go back into that apartment again?
[21355]ML: | No, one time.
[21356]FS: Just one. time and they never went back into that.,
[21357]ML: ‘No...
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[21385]They were satisfied so evidently everything worked out
[21386]alright. . Even though..
[21388]Mm-hmm.
[21390]your husband was on edge about the way the agents
[21391]were...
[21393]Oh yeah.
[21395]Okay? Alright, so we'll forget that part. Now how
[21396]about other entries. We'll get one at a time.
[21398]The other entry that's outstanding is Soviet..
[21400]Yeah, go ahead, keep talking.
[21402]Very Americanized Soviet, handsome, married with a 10
[21403]year old daughter. I forget his name. I have them
[21404]all at home. And, I nicknamed him "The Tennis Player"
[21405]because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis
[21406]every morning to make contacts with Americans, and try
[21407]to recruit, I guess, gather information at the same
[21408]time.. .He spoke English without an.
[21410](unintelligible)
[21412]Fluently, without an accent, down to curses and slang
[21413]and everything else. His wife.
[21415]You got friendly with him also?
[21417]No, he even suggested to take my husband to a massage
[21418]parlor and he was way out, too much way out.
[21420]In other words, play with girls?
[21421]I had his, no, I was, well he was one of those.
[21423]He liked to play?
[21425]‘Yeah.
[21427]He was a playboy.
[21428]He was a playboy. That's, they use
[21430]Which is very, yeah,
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[21449]his apartment, they did his apartment, too.
[21451]What did they do?
[21452]They broke in, they
[21454]Well, now wait a minute.
[21456]. used my husband to break in. This a job I wasn't
[21458]on but. .
[21459]Well, that not breaking in now. It's illegal entry...
[21460]Entry.
[21462]Right. In other words they used your husband and you
[21463]also as a stakeout again?
[21465]Yeah.
[21466]On that particular one.
[21467]Mm-hmm,
[21469]. \
[21470]He opened the door again. What floor did he have his
[21472]apartment?
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[21485]Alright, it makes no difference. Alright, don't
[21487]worry about that. But they made entry into his
[21488]apartment.
[21490]Yes.
[21492]What did they do in his apartment?
[21494]- I guess they microfilmed and planted a device. Anyway,
[21496]either way, whatever they did they did...
[21497]With the corpor, cooperation of your husband?
[21498]Cooperation of my husband...
[21500]And yourself.
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[21521]‘the tennis player, made a formal complaint to the
[21523]23rd Precinet, PIU investigation unit, where I was
[21524]working.
[21526]When you say PIU, what's PIU?
[21528]Prisoner Investigation Unit.
[21529]Prisoner or Police?
[21530]Prisoner Investigation Unit.
[21532]Was that a police unit?
[21534]‘That's the 23rd precinct.
[21536]‘Police.
[21538]Right police...
[21540]Alright.
[21542]department. I was working up there.
[21543]Alright. |
[21545]Now I answered. the phones.
[21547]Oh, hm=tanm
[21549]‘You understand?
[21551]Yeah.
[21553]And this tennis player called up and demanded a
[21555]detective. I was working up there and the detectives
[21556]were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and
[21557]here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal
[21558]complaint of breaking and entering his apartment. I
[21559]had him on the phone.
[21561]And he didn't know it was you.
[21563]And I. died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept
[21564]on talking and talking and talking and I couldn't
[21566]disguise my voice. I was afraid he would know that I, .
[21567]it was me. I took the complaint in other words.
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[21573]FS: _ Right.
[21575]ML: And I wrote up the 61.
[21577]FS: Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here.
[21579]ML: The 61 - complaint report. .
[21581]FS: . Alright, let me ask you this here. You say you were
[21583]working for this police department in this precinct.
[21584]What was your job with them?
[21586]ML: Auxiliary volunteer. Photos, translations, rape
[21587]cases, interrogation.
[21589]FS: And at that time you were answering phone calls that
[21590]were coming in?
[21592]ML: And typing, and doing other things but I don't really
[21593]want to get those guys involved because they...
[21595]FS: No, I just wanted, wanted them to know what you were
[21596]doing in the police department.
[21598]~ ML: I was an auxiliary sergeant.
[21600]FS: Answering the phones. Okay.
[21602]ML: Auxiliary is a volunteer police.
[21604]FS: Right, good enough. Now what other entries did you make
[21605]with them. That's two -- that you specified. ,
[21607]ML: - Two. The rest I didn't want to go along with because
[21609]'* [was a little afraid so my...
[21611]FS: Things were getting a little hot for you.
[21613]ML: Yes, because we had too many Russians, we had the
[21614]Albanians, we had the Red Chinese.
[21616]FS: All living in that building?
[21618]“ML: All living in the same building. There was, it was
[21620]comical. The Albanians wouldn't talk to the Russians,
[21621]the Russians ignored the Albanians, the Red Chinese
[21622]went down the service entrance and to avoid the
[21623]Russians and the Al-, it was just,the Secret Service
[21624]in the garage and in the front door. The narcotics
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[21630]peddlers coming out of the laundry room. It was, it
[21631]was a merry-go-round.
[21633]FS: In other words,
[21634]ML: We had, in one day about four different agencies
[21635]watching people. -_
[21636]FS: In and out of the building.
[21637]ML: And we didn't know if we were coming or going.
[21638]FS: Yeah.
[21639]ML: We lived on the second floor. We had a view of the
[21641]street and we would signal to the, across the street
[21642]surveillance apartment, apartment, you know. We'd
[21643]see the cars pull up and the cars leave.
[21645]FS: Alright, now...
[21647]ML: My husband did most of, he'd been doing it.
[21649]FS: He'd been doing most of the end of the...
[21651]ML: | Yes, because I felt I didn't want to get caught. I
[21653]just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck
[21654]of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived
[21655]on one floor. and if anyone of them walked out when my
[21656]husband was opening the door to let those guys in my
[21657]husband would have been dead.
[21659]FS: Alright, not only that I understand. that you were
[21660]getting very familiar with many of the families of...
[21661]ML: _ I was too friendly...
[21662]FS: "these people.
[21663]ML: with the families. _ ;
[21664]FS: Right, so you didn't want to go ahead and
[21665]ML: They trusted me alone in their apartments. We had many
[21667]discussions together, we exchanged medicine, I gave
[21668]them medicine for one child who...
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[21674]FS: At the same time you tried to get as- much information
[21675]out of them as you can being on that friendly basis.
[21677]ML: I was being on a very social...
[21679]FS: Right. .
[21681]ML: ' natural basis.
[21683]FS: - Right.
[21685]ML: And I became friendly with them.
[21687]FS: How long, how long...
[21689]ML: We even were paid money to throw a few parties.
[21691]FS: You were paid money...
[21693]ML: —«- For _the Soviets. .
[21695]FS: You were given money by the...
[21697]ML: By the Justice Department.
[21699]FS: Yeah.
[21701]ML: To throw a few parties.
[21703]FS: So the agents could make surveillance.
[21705]ML: | . 50 they could make surveillance. |
[21707]FS: And contact?
[21709]ML: | And contact, and try to. get them, loosen up, to loosen
[21710]up...
[21712]FS: Well, booze can loosen a lot of people's mouths.
[21714]ML: Well it was mostly their vodka anyway they gave us.
[21716]But, yeah they suggested the, using agents as waiters
[21718]and bartenders and all that. And I said that wouldn't
[21719]go. Soviet people are very trained. They smell any-
[21721]thing like that. And I was very open with them. They'd
[21723]leave from the countries and I would be the first to
[21724]know. They would bring back. gifts. They babysat my
[21725]children, I babysat their children. We exchanged
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[21751]But your husband.continued to work with the agency,
[21752]right?
[21754]Yes. We, we took, we ID'd photos. We watched for
[21755]cars. We watched their movement. It was day and night.
[21757]You did a lot of surveillance work on these people
[21758]but you yourself, personally, wanted to try to keep
[21759]out of the...
[21761]Yeah.
[21763]operation as far as...
[21765]Break...
[21767]entering into the apartments, right?
[21769]Yes.
[21771]How long did this last?. Over a period of how long?
[21773]1969 to 1976.
[21775]‘All these years?
[21777]Yes.
[21779]That's doing surveillance on these people.
[21781]Yeah. We were...
[21783]How about the Albanians now, tell me about the code.
[21784]The Albanians, the Albanians we got very friendly with
[21786]a Mr. Koyani, Ambassador to the Mission, the U.N., and
[21787]the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are.
[21789]“The Russians dry clean their own clothes, burn their
[21791]own garbage, have no photos, personal things in the
[21792]apartment. . The Albanians are more, they allow their
[21793]children to watch television. The Soviets don't. We.
[21794]convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their
[21795]mission, which they blocked a complete fire exit was
[21796]on the 21st floor of the Newberry. They lived in the
[21797]apartments on the 20th floor and the 22nd floor. And
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[21807]they had about 30, 30 families who-resided there and
[21808]their mission was there. And we became very friendly
[21809]with them because of one incident, especially my
[21811]husband, took, went to see his mother and left me in
[21813]‘charge of the building. That’ same day they had a so-
[21815]called demonstration where the demonstrators had a
[21816]25-minute picketing right to picket. .The demonstra-
[21817]tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags
[21818]and everything and the Albanians came down. They ali
[21819]are armed. They're all armed, and they agitated the
[21820]rioters out on the street. And I was alone with only
[21821]my basic police training and my wits, really, and a
[21822]panicking doorman and my kids. I was just alone. f,.
[21824]the first thing I looked out the window when I heard
[21826]the shooting I called the Bureau’ and I said, "Get me
[21827]Al Chestone fast."' I said I don't have Louis here.
[21828]I said I need help. I have a demonstration. I don't
[21829]know what to do. And there were about 500 people
[21830]throwing bricks, bottles, everything through the plate
[21831]glass windows. Burning American flags and Albanian
[21832]flags because of something that happened in Albania.
[21833]Those that defected here. started this demonstration.
[21834]So.then I, things got out of hand, the doorman was
[21835]hurt with a brick. I saw blood, and the Albanian
[21836]Ambassador and five. top officials agitated these
[21837]people from inside the lobby with fists. Very
[21838]unprofessional-like.
[21840]Yeah.
[21842]So I physically pulled them by their coats and told
[21843]them, "Get upstairs, get upstairs and get yourself
[21844]back into the mission", because tenants were walking
[21845]through the lobby and we were going to get hurt by.
[21846]flying glass and everything else. And I had no help.
[21847]The police were outside of the line...
[21849]Marita, what we're going into details is something
[21851]that is a story.
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[21858]So we'll go ahead and just bypass that.
[21860]Anyway, the Albanians Al was interested into, and
[21862]especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese
[21863]into the United Nations, which they did. It was that
[21864]speech, which I have the original copy of. Ambassador
[21865]Rocco Nocco - sounds crazy, but that's his name, Rocco
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[21881]Nocco, and they were, they were sloppier, and the
[21882]agent Al Chestone told me convince them, you know,
[21883]case ‘em, keep going up and down the steps, what
[21884]time they throw their garbage out. Garbage was
[21885]the most valuable source of information for the
[21886]Bureau, and that was...
[21888]Garbage and trash.
[21890]Trash. Chicken bones, codes, diapers, whatever, you
[21891]know, and that was my job because I had the patience.
[21892]Now the FBL supplied me with bandaids and gloves,
[21893]flashlights, batteries and the whole thing, because
[21895]I convinced the Albanians that the compacter, which
[21896]was the disposal system in. the building from 31 floors
[21897]down -- in other words when they threw their garbage
[21898]out that it would come out in brick form, block form,
[21899]brick crushed, which in fact was not true.
[21901]But: they believed it?
[21903]They believed it. They trusted us. Louis and I were
[21904]the only ones allowed in the mission. We were the
[21905]only ones.
[21907]Now this mission is that building you were talkin
[21908]about. 7
[21910]That's still there.
[21912](still there.
[21914]Very much there. That's the code that you have.
[21915]Right.
[21917]So, I started, made it a every two hour routine to go
[21919]. after midnight when they put their garbage out in the
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[21924]entrance and take the bags at home, take ‘em home.
[21926]And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and
[21927]gather torn up letters, this was before they got smart
[21928]and bought a shredder (unintelligible). And I would
[21929]turn this garbage letter, in other words, I would
[21931]past it together and give it to the Bureau and some
[21933]of these letters turned out to be very valuable. Among
[21934]them was one code, now...
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[21950]I would assume that these letters that were in code
[21951]they would be classified material. Otherwise it
[21952]wouldn't be in. code.
[21954]Very valuable, yes. The...
[21955]And this was turned over to who?
[21957]To Al Chestone. The first code I got, I just got on
[21958]a hunch lucky. Because it was just at. the time when
[21959]the Red Chinese entered the United States, first
[21960]came here. Mr. Huang Yua, and I met them. We met
[21961]them first before anybody met them, Louis and I.
[21963]And that same night the code came down at 3:00 in ‘the
[21964]morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I
[21965]said, “Louis I can't sleep, I'm going down and do
[21966]some work. Give me the keys to the compacter room."
[21967]So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough
[21968]around 3:30 these bags started to come down from the
[21969]2lst floor.
[21971]3:30 in the morning?
[21973]3:30 in the morning because Al said watch them
[21974]closely, because of the Red Chinese. And I shut
[21975]the machine off and I got these, I got this code,
[21976]I caught it in other words, but it...
[21978]'This is the code you turned over to me?
[21980]This is the first code, the very first code, at the
[21981]risk of having my hands chopped off because if I
[21982]didn't shut that machine off in time I could have
[21983]been hurt. But I.got it. The first code was very
[21985]valuable. It was sent to Washington.
[21987](End of tape - side 2).
[21989]...these bags of stuff and if you hadn’t have turned
[21990]off the machine you would have got your hand either
[21992]chopped up or cut off, and so forth. What did, were
[21993]you saying about Al, Uncle Al?
[21995]Uncle Al slept and I did the work, and by the time I
[21996]got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything
[21997]out of the garbage and separated the letters and
[21999]every tiny little piece with tweezers and everything,
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[22015]put it all in a box, right down to every piece. I
[22016]ruined my rugs and everything. And Uncle Al would
[22017]come at 8:30, 9:00 in the morning and I would still
[22018]be up separating the garbage and he'd be.all fresh
[22019]and ready for work and-I had just come back from the
[22020]garbage room. And.
[22022]You stayed awake all night?
[22024]Yeah, with the tweezers and I use. to run out of
[22025]skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn't
[22026]stick these letters togethers without skotch tape,
[22028]so he brought me a big box of skotch tape which
[22030]was very kind of him. Then I would give it to him
[22031]and he'd, he'd have coffee, tea and toast or whatever.
[22032]And I'd say, "Now I want to go to sleep." And he'd
[22033]say, No, no, no, wait a minute. Mr. So-and-so,
[22035]or Berzofsky, we want to get a line on Mr. Berzofsky.
[22037]Who was Mr. Berzofsky? -
[22039]Berzofsky, the Second Secretary to the Union of the
[22040]Soviet Socialist Republic.
[22042]What was his. first name, do you know?
[22043]Mumm, I forgot. .
[22044]That's alright, it don’t matter.
[22046]I forgot really. But we were very close to him. His
[22047]wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was,
[22048]she's, she's adorable. She's nice, she's sweet and
[22049]she has a lovely daughter, Irene, who turned out to
[22050]have liver cancer. She was a little girl when I first -
[22051]met her, like my daughter. My daugher played with her,
[22052]they took piano lessons together, exchanged books, and
[22053]the little girl, at sixteen, Irene was sent back to
[22054]the Soviet Union with liver cancer. I got very close
[22055]to the mother, the mother was heartbroken, the father
[22057]-was heartbroken. I guess like any mother. and father
[22059]when their only child turns out to have liver cancer.
[22060]She's diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they
[22061]asked me to get medicine, pain killers for Irene. [I
[22062]do so and pass along to them empirin and codine #4,
[22063]which is a pain.killer which they smuggled over to
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[22075]their daughter on . with the permission of
[22076]the FBI. We exchanged jewelry, clothes, and everything
[22077]else. We were just one mother to another mother.
[22079]Their little girl in trouble, mine not in trouble and
[22080]it was little things like that that I would get very
[22081]involved with. I don't know...
[22083]Morita let me ask you this here, did the agents ever .
[22084]tell you to go out with any of the diplomats in the
[22085]mission?
[22087]Well, now.we have to go back to Oleg, Oleg Likichev.
[22089]And who is he again?
[22091]He was the KGB spy that they lost and. thought he, they
[22092]thought he was still residing in Washington, the out-
[22093]side of Washington, D. C., in Virginia. He was
[22094]supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere
[22095]and all of a sudden they picked him up in our building,
[22096]as being in our building. They. lost him and they were
[22097]furious, the Bureau, and they wanted us very close to
[22098]him. And he, we had:a' lot of evenings together we
[22099]spent with hin, dinners, and he came to us,
[22101]In other words he asked you to go out, did he ask
[22102](unintelligible)
[22104]Well, Oleg, Oleg, let's just say, I don't know if it
[22105]was a game they were playing or if they were doubles
[22106]or what. They talked a.lot about the State of
[22107]Washington, residing in the State of Washington.
[22108]They also. knew I had diamonds and he asked me,
[22110](unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds?"
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[22118]What did he call you?
[22119]Llonka Marischa, Tlona Marita.
[22120]Oh, that's in Russian?
[22122]Yes. And we always exchanged Russian words and I
[22123]know a few, enough to get by on. All of a sudden,
[22125]you know, he was interested in diamonds. He had a
[22127]fascination for diamonds. His wife, she was kind
[22128]of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me
[22129]and I kept telling Uncle Al this thing is going to
[22130]get out of hand. I said all of a sudden he wants
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[22136]diamonds, and Al, what do I do. Go ahead, talk to
[22137]him about diamonds. So I said Oleg, what do you
[22138]mean by diamonds? He said uncut stones for cash.
[22140]I am a Soviet official, I cannot go into a jewelry
[22141]store like you and buy them. .I want diamonds. I'm
[22142]willing to pay a hundred thousand dollars for them.
[22144]I said, I said tell me why, Oleg. And he said,
[22145]“Money, why does anybody want diamonds." I said it's
[22146]a good enough reason. So I said, "Hey, Louis, what
[22147]can we do for Oleg about his diamonds?" And Louis
[22148]said we'll figure something out. And then Oleg said,
[22149]this was at a dinner party up in their house. Hot
[22150]diamonds, he wanted hot, uncut, raw diamonds. So
[22152]he was serious, he was dead serious. He said he
[22153]would buy them for cash.
[22155]FS: . How serious was he? Did you ever get any for him?
[22157]“ML: Well it got this far. We told Uncle Al the next
[22158]morning. I said, "Uncle Al, I got a surprise for
[22159]you. You're gonna have to come up with some hot
[22160]diamonds. A hundred thousand dollars worth because
[22161]I promised Oleg that I would get them for him since
[22163]‘he can't buy them. Oleg wants diamonds." And I
[22164]said if you can put two and two together maybe this
[22165]guy will defect because he's talking. about the State
[22166]of Washington. I said but you have to be careful,
[22168]I have to be careful, no? So Al said I'll get you
[22169]the diamonds. You tell him to get the cash ready.
[22170]So Uncle Al went to an underworld source and got
[22171]the diamonds. Uncle. Al made a boo-boo and Oleg, the
[22172]day of the exchange I was supposed to make the sale
[22173]in tthe.apartment, Oleg was at a sports meeting in
[22174]Washington,D.C. Uncle Al said, "I've got to give
[22175]these diamonds back to the underworld.or give them
[22176]the cash." I said, "Listen, I told you tomorrow,
[22177]not today, Al. Tomorrow, because Oleg told us he's
[22178]going to this soccer meeting in Washington, D.C. _
[22179]Alright whatever the kind of meeting it is. He is
[22180]in Washington, D. C."" "Oh is he?" I said, "Yes,
[22181]he is." Right. Anyway, Uncle Al started to panick
[22182]because he was in my house with a hundred thousand
[22183]dollars worth of uncut, hot diamonds.
[22185]FS: By himself?
[22187]ML: By himself, and I was supposed to. get the cash from
[22188]' Oleg. Oleg said on a Thursday and Uncle Al came on
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[22194]a Wednesday and the whole thing... .
[22195]FS: So what happened?
[22197]ML: | fell through. Al said he had to give them back to
[22198]the underworlds, to his source. So he took them
[22199]back and then Oleg, you know, I had to talk my
[22200]way out of it. It was just one of the flubs. But
[22201]anyway after I left my husband Oleg kept asking for
[22202]me, kept coming directly to the apartment and say-
[22204]- ing, “Louis, I don't believe you two split, you two
[22205]go, she left.. I don't believe it." And my. husband
[22206]said "yes,.she did leave. It's her own problems,
[22207]Oleg, you know, forget about it." And he said,
[22208]"No, it's not possible. You must stay together.
[22209]You must stay. together.'' Anyway, he kept coming,
[22210]about four times and asking my husband, until. my
[22211]husband made a joke of it and said Oleg wants to
[22212]see you. I mean he's made it dam plain that he
[22213]wants to see you. In other words if you're
[22214]finished I'll take over. Where is she living? My
[22215]husband tells him I'm living on 88th Street. Now
[22216]I talked to my husband and I said what did you do
[22217]that for? Tell him I'm living on.88th Street?
[22219]You know, because I know he wants to go out with
[22220]me. You can feel it, I can feel it, the, you know?
[22221]So I call up,Uncle Al meantime is transferred to
[22222]Newark, I get another case agent. Louis gets a
[22223]case agent for the building and he works alone,
[22224]without me. The other agent is: John Kotter.
[22226]FS: -With the FBI?
[22228]ML: FBI, 69th Street. I call up John Kotter. I said,
[22230]"John,I hear your taking. Al's place", and I meet
[22231]him. Drop things, start things, drop things,
[22232]different assignments, then we get to Oleg. I said
[22233]look, Oleg is bothering Louis. He wants to go out
[22234]with me. And John Kotter says, "Beautiful, that is
[22235]a beautiful setup. Let's call him up." TI said,
[22236]“Hey, wait.a minute. Either do this sophisticated,
[22237]alright? . First I'll send him a Christmas card and
[22238]sign it Ilonka Marischa, you know? I'11 put ny
[22239]phone number on the bottom, something you know?
[22240]Or I'1l happen to be |there when he's going into the
[22241]building, or I'll bump into him." I said you don't
[22242]just call him.up. You know that's going to be like
[22243]a setup because I've/been avoiding him. So, anyway,
[22244]he tells, he outlines the whole thing.. I said what
[22245]have you got. planned, John. And he says, "Do you
[22247]is ON BELG = - i
[22249]FS: That's the idea.
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[22255]FS:
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[22269]And I'm in the middle. So, anyway; I go, I go to the
[22270]mission with my daughter, who was at the time 12 years
[22271]old. My daughter, I guess, is a little use to my
[22272]life. She's use to FBI all her life. She knows not
[22273]to talk. She knows whether we look at her when to
[22274]say something. I guess she's the closest thing to me
[22275]now. She goes along. She's very cool and we both
[22276]walked into the mission on the pretense that she had
[22277]to do a project for school on the Soviet Union. She
[22278]needed material. Now as soon as we walked into*the
[22279]mission everybody there I know because they reside in
[22280]the building. . And they all say, "“Ilonka Marischa
[22281]blah, blah, blah, blah." And I'm very friendly with
[22282]them all. They all love my daughter. But we're
[22283]there for other reasons. We're there to go to see
[22284]Oleg. We gather, we gather the material, meanwhile
[22285]I'm aware that every picture has an eye or every
[22286]poster has a mirror or camera, you know? But my
[22287]daugher's very cool and we're left alone in the room
[22288]where the Soviet material is displayed. But I know
[22289]we're being watched. She knows it too and she
[22290]doesn't, she says, "Mommy, look, this is beautiful,
[22291]beautiful." You know? Then I ask for Oleg to this
[22292]very, very tough Soviet woman that said "What you
[22293]want?", you know. I said "Oleg Likichev, please.
[22295]I'd like to speak to him.” And she called and he
[22297]is still in the United Nations, he asks you to wait.
[22298]I refused a wire or anything like that, but...
[22300]What wire are you talking about?
[22301]A wire on me.
[22303]Oh. |
[22305]Because...
[22307]That the agents (unintelligible)
[22309]Yes, because Oleg I know likes me and if he sees me
[22310]he would grab me and hug me and that's the Russian
[22312]way...
[22314]Yeah.
[22316]And he'll feel that and I'm dead.
[22317]Right. .
[22318]Right in the mission. That's not my proper there. —
[22320]Right.
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[22324]FS:
[22326]FS:
[22328]FS:
[22330]FS:
[22332]FS:
[22334]FS:
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[22342]And I wouldn't risk it with my daughter. So, anyway,
[22343]we waited. We were allowed the run of the place. We
[22344]knew everyone there and...
[22346]Like you say, eyes were watching you.
[22348]Oh definitely, definitely, because that's how they
[22349]test you when you walk in there. And you just don't
[22350]get in there and have the run of the place, you're
[22351]not left alone. But I know you're being watched. ~
[22353]Sure.
[22355]Anyway, there was this, it was, it was a legitimate
[22356]excuse that Oleg was tied up in the United Nations
[22357]because it was in the paper the next day, that it
[22358]was some security council meeting. And I said
[22359]"Please give this note to Mr. Likichev. Tell him
[22360]thank you. very much for the material. And best
[22361]wishes to his wife, blah, blah, blah," and we left.
[22362]Funny thing is the cop outside almost arrested us,
[22363]a uniformed police officer.
[22365]For what reason? -
[22367]He gave us a dirty look and made a very slurring,
[22368]nasty remark when I left. But I hate to knock the
[22369]police department because they're helping me now.
[22370]But, I guess, he didn't know, you know?
[22372]Yeah, he thought you were Russians.
[22374]He thought I was a Russian.
[22376]Or a Russian sympathizer.
[22378]Right, especially going in with a child and I looked
[22379]very...
[22381]‘Yeah.
[22383]American. Anyway, I got home and John Kotter was
[22384]waiting in front of my door. I remember it was
[22385]raining. He was reading. And I said, he said "Are
[22386]you going to meet Oleg?" I said, "Now how the hell
[22387]can I make a date with Oleg with my daughter?"
[22389]Yeah.
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[22395]ML: I said Oleg's in the United Nations. Why don't you
[22396]tell me these things before that they're delayed at
[22397]a security council meeting, you know, instead of me
[22398]letting, letting me sit there. You know these are .
[22399]all the little things that use to annoy me...
[22401]FS: ° Yeah.
[22403]ML: _ that they have to screen things first before, you
[22404]know - check things out, don't have to make a blunder
[22405]like that. Anyway, I said I left Oleg a note. I
[22406]said now you go home and I'm going to take it easy
[22407]and they, we tried, and I said, "You know, John, .
[22408]you're just going to get me so involved. with Oleg.
[22409]I'm not going to end up in bed in a motel room
[22410]upstate somewhere with Oleg so you can come in and
[22411]take photographs. That's not my stick." I said
[22412]I'll gather garbage, get license plates, tape, do
[22413]everything else, but, I'll even take the mail, like
[22414]I've been doing, but I'm not going to be caught in
[22415]bed. I said that's too big a pawn for me and I'm
[22416]not getting anything for it right now. They allowed
[22417]me to take mail, steam it, photograph it and put it
[22418]back. Some of that mail is now missing, which
[22419]belongs to the Soviet people, which this perpetrator,
[22420]perpetrator has and wants to blackmail me with and I
[22421]asked the FBI to please help me with that.
[22423]FS: ' Who's. the perpetrator?
[22425]ML: The perpetrator is Guiseppi Faisiano, aka Pionne,
[22426]aka David Ring, who broke into my apartment and stole
[22427]this tape with Oleg Likichev, these love conversations,
[22428]the mail, and part of the Albanian code. He has those
[22429]in his possession. He threatens my life with it. He
[22430]threatens blackmail with me. He assaulted me. He
[22431]pistol-whipped me and I asked the Bureau for help.
[22433]FS:> | Did he try to throw you out the 18 story build-, window?
[22434]ML: Yes.
[22436]FS: He did what?
[22438]ML: ' Yes, he tried to push me out the window.
[22440]FS: 18 stories?
[22442]ML: Yes, and I told him stay away, get back, because if
[22444]anything happens to me there's letters with the
[22445]Justice Department naming everything I know about you,
[22447]on
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[22453]FS:
[22455]FS:
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[22463]and he stopped cold. He threatened to shoot. my
[22464]daughter in the back. He's threatening her right
[22465]now with disgrace because she is the daughter of
[22467]the, of a well-known man. Right now my main concern
[22468]is the, these letters and the code and the tape and
[22469]possibly other things, are in the hands of this
[22470]Guiseppi Faisiano, and he wants money from me and
[22471]he's probably right now at the building. He is
[22472]casing the Soviets and he's going to try to go to
[22473]the same people that he has on the letters to tell
[22474]them that I was an informant for the FBI for revenge,
[22475]for having him arrested on’the assault charge with a
[22476]gun. He also wants money. He wants to disgrace the
[22477]FBI. He's blackmailing right now my husband, my ex-
[22478]husband, for the master keys of the Newberry. My
[22479]husband is calling me for help and I don't know what
[22480]to do. I asked Frank to help me. I gave him the
[22481]code because everybody refused. I was afraid to have
[22482]any~, anywhere. I guess Frank helped me before in
[22483]Cuba and I don't, I worked, he worked for me and I
[22484]worked for him and I don't know where to go because,
[22485]the only ones that are helping me now are the local
[22486]police - in their lunch hours or when I'm too afraid
[22487]to leave the house they buy me milk and fruit for the
[22488]kids. And they'll take the children home when I get
[22489]a threat on the phone or a box in the mailbox or get
[22490]my back door shot at. I take my children and I put
[22491]them in the 23rd precinct.
[22493]They even, off duty...
[22495]The off-duty police, police officers take my children
[22497]home...
[22498]And they spend time at the house?
[22500]And they spend time at the house in their free time
[22502]when they should be home with their families.
[22504]Well you have saved the life of two people, right?
[22505]I would think so.
[22507]Well, you have.
[22509]. Yes.
[22511]When, one of the, who are the two people you saved
[22513]their lives?
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[22519]FS:
[22521]FS:
[22523]FS:
[22525]FS:
[22527]FS:
[22529]FS:
[22533]_- A federal narcotics informant..
[22535]Undercover agent, right?
[22537]Undercover agent Pino Cantanya, and Assistant Federal
[22538]District Attorney Thomas A. Puccio from Brooklyn.
[22540]And you saved their lives because a contract was
[22542]being put out on them?
[22544]Yes because I overheard and everything I said checked
[22545]out.
[22547]And even though you have saved their lives.
[22549]I asked them please help me with this man, he has
[22550]Soviet documents, he's hurt me, he's hurt my
[22552]children, he almost shot my daughter. He, I asked
[22553]them please help me because I gave you information
[22555]for nothing and they said they promised to do something
[22556]on this individual immigration-wise. So far he has
[22557]threatened everybody around me. My physicians, my
[22558]mother, my ex-husband, my. children, my neighbors, my
[22559]super.
[22561]He's an illegal immigrant?
[22563]He is. I would say he's an illegal alien.
[22565]What's his full name, his real name?
[22567]His arrest name, that he was arrested under was
[22568]Guiseppi Faisaino. He has, he's also known as David
[22569]Ring. He has a passport under this name. He's also
[22570]known as Pinno, and he is a gunman. Never worked a
[22571]day in his life, never paid taxes, he's a gambler,
[22572]he's a stick-up man and I worked for the FBI on.
[22573]organized crime. at the racetrack. Roosevelt Raceway,
[22574]Yonkers, and...
[22576]Any other agencies?
[22578]Organized Crime Commission Bureau, OCCB.
[22580]Ever worked with DEA? Drug Enforcement Agency?
[22582]Yes I. did.
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[22586]FS:
[22588]FS:
[22590]FS:
[22592]FS:
[22594]FS:
[22596]FS:
[22598]FS:
[22602]Who are the people you are in touch with?
[22604]‘Two agents, Murphy and Shannon. This was...
[22606]You know their full names?
[22608]Well I have a day number and a night number and
[22610]I did some work in the Newberry with my husband
[22611]with them involving the Cuban narcotics connection
[22612]in South America. I also worked with the organized
[22613]crime, gambling. —
[22615]Now you've turned, you want me.to turn this tape
[22616]over to Senator Baker's committee to be turned over
[22617]to the Justice Department, is that correct? Right?
[22619]Yes.
[22620]You want me turn the...
[22622]Yes, I would like you, Frank, to turn this over just
[22623]in case something happens to me because I don't know
[22624]which way it's going to come.
[22626]And you need some protection, right now, right?
[22628]I need some type of help for my. children, because of
[22629]this man Pinno threatening to expose my dealings with
[22630]the FBI and to the foreign press. I just caught up
[22631]in-this thing since 1959 and I've been with it up ©
[22632]until last month, last week and I've just, and I need
[22633]help. There is no help. I mean since last month and
[22634]I don't want my children hurt. They've already been
[22635]hurt.
[22637]Alright, I promise to turn this tape and the code over
[22639]to Senator Baker's. committee, right?
[22640]Yes.
[22642]Who in turn will turn the information over to the
[22643]proper officials in Washington, D. C.
[22645]Yes. I don' t mean to embarass the Bureau. I know how
[22646]important it is but at this point I need help
[22647]desparately for my kids. They're 6 and 14 and they
[22648]don't deserve what they have to go through. The
[22649]whole summer locked up, threatened and afraid, and
[22651]my daughter of exposure.
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[22655]FS:
[22657]FS;
[22659]FS:
[22663]Did they every try to, to kidnap...
[22665]‘Yes.
[22667]the kids?
[22669]They threatened to kidnap my children. They were
[22670]once abducted by this man. I had no knowledge of
[22671]it. On the last day of school and he, he will
[22673]hurt them. He will hurt them - this man is sick. ,
[22674]He's, he's on 10 valiums a day. He's unpredictable.
[22675]He's vengeful. , ,
[22677]And his close association with top mobsters?
[22679]Yes he has close associations...
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[22701]fhe Central Tate} ioenes Agenty te <egtray larce mwanti ties of
[22702]secret vevernment verutents. va telfava the Select Couafttee
[22703]on Tateliitence shanld review with ATA Mrector tush what
[22704]sceciffeally the Acency Intends te destroy hetere deflaq an.
[22706]Te fs Tthely that there ape Cumerous nemorania and ether ceeumants
[22708]“which are of evtrana terortence te the committes. whieh are sentra?
[22710]‘2 the comettea s exeeut{ng the Sonatedy sendate of comnrahans dee
[22711]and complete cvarsfaat of executive intel liearee arenetes.
[22713]ve Hige that the Sengters serving an the Intel} fessea
[22714]Tsonfttee take whatever sterg A@COSSary ta stem the degtruction
[22715]af satertals sy the fantrg} Intel lfzence Aneaey gntd? such tims
[22717]#6 the Committee can review the content aad tazartance of that iste.
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[22727]Bahay et eatt tetteabornitnd
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[22733]Cs ‘o 2 : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY .
[22734]WASHINGTON. D. Cc. 20505 :
[22735]22 Jure (976
[22736]del} (bes AA’76 ——
[22737]Tfonorable Daniel Inouye, Chairman * '
[22739]Select Committee on Intelligence -_
[22740]United States Senate : ree
[22741]Washington, D.C. 20510 ,
[22743]Dear Mr. Chairman;
[22745]Iam sending you a copy of my letters to
[22746]Senators Mansfield and Scott extending the moratorium |
[22747]nthe destruction of certain records until 10 December
[22748]1976, £ do hepe that this action and the procedures
[22749]outlined in my letters are fully responsive to the .
[22750]interests of your Committee. :
[22752]Sincerely,
[22754]Pr
[22756]‘Geo
[22757]x
[22759]SS cee omen
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[22763]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[22764]WASHINGTON, D.C, 20505
[22766]22 JUN 1976
[22768]Honorable Mike Mansfield
[22769]United States Senate :
[22770]Washington, D.C. 20510
[22772]Dear Senator Mansfield:
[22774]In accordance with your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
[22775]extended the period of the moratorium’on the destruction of certain .
[22777]records which were the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975 .
[22778]in connection with S. Res. 21. The moratorium will expire on ?
[22779]10 December 1976, . . , »
[22781]In addition, before any such records are destroyed, we :
[22782]shall transmit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence copies - ‘ 2. 8
[22783]of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives ; :
[22784]and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
[22785]records. The same will be done with respect to those routine |
[22786]administrative records which, although not involved under 8S, Res. 21, |
[22787]-were withheld from routine destruction during the life of that Resolution.
[22788]Iam confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of
[22789]documents -before they are destroyed if this is the desire of the Select
[22790]Committee. A -
[22792]It is noped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
[22793]the wishes of you and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
[22794]as outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's
[22796]‘letter of 8 June to you. ;
[22798]Sincerely, ; me.
[22800]George Bush
[22801]_. Director
[22803]ec: Chairman Daniel [Inouye
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[22807]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[22808]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505.
[22810]Honorable Hugh Scott A . 82 JUN 497
[22811]United States Senate ; : . ” )
[22812]Washington, D.C. 20510 ; ;
[22814]Dear Senator Scott:
[22816]In accordance with your letter of 10 June 1976, we have
[22817]extended the period of the moratorium on the destruction of certain ;
[22818]records which were the subject of your letter of 27 January 1975 .
[22819]in connection with S. Res. 21. The moratorium will expire on 0 e
[22820]10 December 1976. i :
[22822]In addition, before any such records are destroyed, we
[22823]shall transmit to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence copies © -
[22824]of the record schedules which are submitted to the National Archives .
[22825]and Record Service for their approval prior to the destruction of any
[22826]records. The same will be done with respect to those routine
[22827]administrative records which, although not involved under S. Res. 21,
[22829]. were withheld from routine destruction during the life of that Resolution.
[22830]Lam confident that suitable arrangements can be made for review of
[22832]documents before they are destroyed if this is the desire of the Select
[22833]Committee. ; :
[22835]It is hoped that these arrangements are fully responsive to
[22836]the wishes of you and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
[22837]2s outlined to me in your letter of 9 June and Chairman Inouye's
[22838]letter of 8 June to you, oe a
[22840]Sincerely, —
[22841]fe?
[22843]cn bee le
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[22847]q
[22848]George Bush
[22849]Director.
[22851]‘ce: Chairman Daniel [Inouye “
[22853]e
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[22859]Henerable Michael J, Mansfield
[22860]United Stetes Senate
[22861]133 Russell Bldg.
[22863]Washingtes, DG 20516
[22865]Bear Seneter Mansfield:
[22867]Geerge Bush's letter te Senater Hugh Scott, with a copy te
[22868]you, of the 2nd of June is disturbingly ambigueus. In stetiag
[22869]thee the CLA aoe beliewea icself relieved of the resppasibility
[22870]of maintaining deta "which were subject te imvestigation by che
[22871]Reckefeller Commission and the Select Combittee," ehe Agency
[22872]failed te meke any effort te identify whet materiale were targeted
[22873]fog destruction and which weren't. Further, the saxt te last sy
[22874]sentence of Mr. Bush's Letter, "I trust yeu (Senates Seott) egres . a
[22875]-¢hat thie sctien ig now meceseery and apprepriate, and I vould a
[22876]appreciate your ceafimmation ef this understanding,” bse led
[22877]seme ebservers in the Senate te conclude ne dsstructicn will
[22878]take place until such demfirmation ine been givem. Tris dose
[22880]be trus. Neither the press office nor the lagia-
[22881]Sana would confirs that destruction of data has aes
[22882]alveady eccurred, er would sot occur without acquisence fron the |
[22883]Senate leadership. Te ths contrary, the legislative ceunsel’e
[22884]office informed this group that the “precess" of destruction has
[22885]aireeady beg.
[22887]The eetion of che Ceetral Intelligence Ageacy ia wrang.
[22888]The new Seleet Coumitese om Intelligences should have bean
[22889]censuleed pries te the destruction ef any aaterials which wight
[22890]be vical to the propery funeticning of that committes and which
[22891]ia any case ave within the legisletive aad eversight demain of
[22892]that caamiteem Chadgmen Inouye and Vica-Chalrasa Baker, along
[22893]with the membership of the Intelligence Cemmittes sheuld heve
[22894]the epportundey te review the data selected for destruction and
[22895]to deternise, im conjunetien with tha CIA, thegpregriety of
[22896]destroying ex waiuceining such data.
[22898]cate erate ptatnnyuntnte vauatens belie qibpthtqed wcendladad abcde nbdtinte cates ceed
[22900]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 267
[22902]Hom. Michael Mansfield
[22903]Page Ivo
[22905]fe urge , Senater Mansfield, to take whatever steps
[22906]nacessary to {mmadiataly hale the unilateral act undestaken by —
[22907]the CIA @@ destroying possibly critical and ixrepleceabie
[22908]government documents, ,
[22910]Siaserely yours,
[22912]Jemes Humphreys
[22914]|
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[22919]MIKE MANSFIELD J
[22920]MONTARES. ; ; Copy for Senator Bakery
[22922]Purited States Senate ' : . 7
[22923]Office of the Majority Dexter
[22924]Washington, BC. 20510
[22925]June 7,.1976
[22927]‘Honorable Daniel K. Inouye
[22929]- Chairman
[22931]Select Committee on Intelligence
[22933]United States Senate ; os
[22934]Washington, D. C. : :
[22936]Dear Mr. Chairman: .
[22938]We have received a letter from the Honorable George Bush,
[22939]Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, relative to the destruc»
[22940]tion of papers and material which he has held for sometime relative
[22941]to our request. Our action was taken to facilitate the inquiry being
[22942]undertaken by your predecessor committee under the chairmanship of
[22943]Senator Frank Church.
[22945]In view of the fact, as we assume, that all of Senator
[22946]Church's committee records have been turned over to your permanent
[22947]Select Committee, we would appreciate your advising us as to whether
[22948]or not you want our original letter to stand and the papers and other
[22949]mateviala to still be held. Could you give us the judgment of you
[22950]and your Committee on this matter? ,
[22952]With best wishes, we are
[22954]ce en ne Lh enema nme nce
[22955]‘ ree . 1 : : a '
[22956]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 289 : [ '
[22958]vane wide
[22960]” CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[22961]WASHINGTON,.D.G. 20505 -
[22963]2 June 1976 |
[22965]Honorable Mike Mansfield
[22967]. United States Senate
[22968]Office of the Majority Leader
[22969]Washington, D.C, 20510 ©
[22971]Dear Senator Mansfield:
[22973]On 27 January 1975, following adoption of S. Res. 21 creating the
[22974]Select Committee on Intelligence, you and Senator Hugh Scott requested
[22975]that the Central Intelligence Agency not destroy, remove from [its]. pos~
[22976]session or control, or otherwise dispose or permit the disposal of any
[22977]records or documents which might have a bearing on the subjects under
[22978]investigation, including but not limited to all records or documents per-
[22979]taining in any way to the matters set out in section 2 of S. Res. 21, "
[22981]In response to this request, the Agency placed in effect a complete
[22982]moratorium on the destruction of records, including normal administrative
[22983]records scheduled for routine destruction. .
[22985]The purpose of this letter is to advise you that it is our intention to
[22986]proceed with destruction of records, now that the Select Committee has
[22987]completed its investigation and issued its final report. We have so advised
[22988]Senator Church. ;
[22990]Along with the backlog of routine administrative records, the Agency
[22991]will destroy records which were collected and maintained by the Agency .
[22992]and which were subject to investigation by the Rockefeller Commission
[22993]and the Select Committee. The Agency is required to destroy much of
[22994]this latter material by the Privacy Act of 1974 (P. L. 93-579) and by
[22995]Executive Order 11905. Of course, all records destruction will be fully
[22996]consistent with other applicable laws, Presidential directives, and the
[22997]requirements of pending litigation and Justice Department investigations.
[22999]I trust you agree that this action is now necessary and appropriate,
[23000]and I would appreciate your confirmation of this understanding.
[23002]' Lam sending a duplicate of this letter to Senator Hugh Scott.
[23004]; ; : Sincerely,
[23006][oA
[23008]Gedyge Bush
[23009]Director
[23011]BW 50955 Docld:32473630 Page 290°
[23013]exe ace TS care nan A, manner 1 ncomaametementnaien. sat ~ettrentennitmanat ar =" went EEG eer" at teeter ne
[23015]7). .FRANIK. CHURCH, IDAHO, CHAIRMAN
[23016]JOHN G. TOWER, TEXAS, VICE CHAIRMAN
[23018]PHILIP A. HART, MICH. HOWARD H. BAKER, JR., TENN,
[23019]WALTER F. MONDALE, MINN. BARRY GOLDWATER, ARIZ.
[23020]WALTER D. HUDDLESTON, KY. CHARLES MCC. MATHIAS, JR, MD.
[23022]ROBERT MORGAN, N.C. *. 7 RICHARD 3. SCHWEIKER, PAs eo
[23023]GARY WAM CORD. en tavamanen Wnited States Senate
[23024]FREDERICK A. 0. SCHWARZ, JR., CHIEF COUNSEL,
[23026]CURTIS R, SMOTHERS, MINORITY COUNSEL SELECT COMMITTEE TO
[23028]STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
[23029]RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
[23031](PURSUANT TO 8. RES. 21, 86TH CONGRESS)
[23032]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20510
[23034]February 11, 1976
[23036]Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
[23037]University of Montana
[23038]Missoula, Montana 59801
[23040]Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
[23042]Senator Mansfield has informed me that you did not
[23043]receive my letter to you of December 19, concerning the
[23044]work of the Select Committee. JI am therefore enclosing
[23046]a copy for your information.
[23048]Sincerely,
[23050]William G. Miller
[23051]Staff Director
[23053]HW 50955 Docld:324273630 Page 291
[23055]MIKE MANSFIELD
[23056]_ MONTANA
[23058]- Hnited States Sonate
[23060]Office of the Majority Lender
[23062]Washington, B.C, 20510
[23064]December 15, 1975
[23066]Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
[23067]University of Montana,
[23068]Missoula, Montana 59801
[23070]Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
[23072]per ffer
[23074]BPC 18 sib 25
[23076]Ff GH
[23077]TITIES
[23079]This will acknowledge your letter of December 2.
[23081]I will be glad to contact Mr. Miller again and ask him to
[23083]respond to your request.
[23085]_ _ Sincerely yours,
[23089],
[23091]CG William G. Miller
[23093]. | ; : | 7
[23094]Lae 2 Wllioe
[23096]\- log
[23098]HW 50955 Docld:32423630. Page 292
[23100]Must close now, but with best personal wishes, I am _
[23102]University of Montana
[23104]Missoula, Montana s9ao1
[23105](406) 243-0211
[23106]January 8, 1976
[23108]Senator Mike Mansfield
[23109]United States Senate
[23110]Washington, LC 20510
[23112]Dear-Senator Mansfield:
[23114]Thank you for your letter of December 15th in which you state that you
[23115]would contact “r. Miller and ask him to respond te my request. I am sorry
[23116]to bother you again bit T have had no word from Mr. Hiller. As you know,
[23118]I feel that the matter is of su?ficient importance that it deserves a reoly
[23119]or at least an acknowledgement of a-receipt of my letter from Hr. Miller.
[23122]Sincerely yours,
[23124]E. ad. Pfeifter
[23126]HY 450955 Daocld:32423630 Page 293
[23129]Professor mh. W. P£eiffer
[23130]- December 19, 1975
[23131]Page Two -
[23133]aon I regret that we simply do not have the time or re-
[23135]gources to investigate the matter which understandably con-
[23136]‘ cerns you. This does not deny its importance. I hope one
[23137]of the other committees may better be able to help you.
[23139]Sincerely,
[23140]ee ee William G. Miller ~ Seo tt te
[23141]ee ; Staff Director :
[23143]“ate
[23146]spay ON ge Pe le Lig at stan
[23147]t<4 Ce Ne ec ae emma
[23151]pe 0008" Hocld: 32423630. Page 294
[23154]Professor Ff, W. Pfeiffer
[23155]_ December 19, 1975
[23156]Page Two.
[23158]ae I regret that we simply do not have the time or re-
[23159]sources to investigate the matter which understandably con-
[23160]cerns you. This does not deny its importance. I hope one.
[23161]of the other committees may better be able to help you.
[23163]‘Sincerely,
[23165]Cpa hte one  Willdam G. Miller > _
[23166]” , —_ Staf£& Director
[23168]WUE as ee igh tog ey ee tte ae ye
[23170]SE AS PAs yor ye es, or i ne oe cats a peewee Pr pet ee ae
[23172]“a. uf a es wt . eo ol} 2 4 agree
[23173](HORS Mobtassasiese Page 205
[23175]—— . SEL COMM
[23176]ae . File:
[23178]a _
[23181]“{ December 19, 1975
[23185]‘Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
[23187]“University of Montana
[23188]“Missoula, Montana 59801 - a ce — .
[23190]"; Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
[23191]mee FT Please forgive the delay in replying to your inquiries. . es
[23192]“The press of business on the Select Committee has been ex~- moe
[23193]* cessive. : ,
[23195]The Committee has indeed considered a number of problems
[23197] eoencerning the role of U.S. intelligence agencies in Indochina. _
[23198]cutive session on CIA paramblitary- ="
[23200]For example, there was an exe
[23201]. operations in Laos. Staff members have also investigated sev-. war
[23202]_ eral cases related to Vietnam. |
[23204]en forced to set some >t
[23208]Unfortunately, the Committee has be F.
[23209]‘yi limits to its inquiry. There are a vast number of important =~ ~ che
[23210]* > 4{ssues in the activities of the intelligence agencies. Todo... ©
[23211]‘an effective job of presenting recommendations for legislation .
[23213]ime allotted to the Com- ._
[23215]-\eoncerning the agencies, within the t
[23216]ntrate our attention on certain
[23218]> mittee, we have had to conce
[23219]jasues rather than others. The Committee has concluded that
[23220]111 not be within the purview of its
[23222]. the use of herbicides w
[23223]. vestigation.” Se,
[23227]nt committee for oversight of the intelligence _—
[23228]d to follow the Select Committea.
[23230]ortunities to pursue many
[23231]The problen
[23233]A permane
[23234]agencies may be establishe
[23235]In this case there would be new opp
[23237]of the lingering, unresolved issues which remain.
[23238]lso be considered with-
[23240]‘of use of herbicides in Indochina might a
[23241]“dn the jurisdictions of the Committees on Foreign Relations or
[23243]"Armed Services.
[23245]-
[23247]. a
[23248]* ¥ AS rte ina we wget a oe aa mee ; »
[23249]bs e . as oe Pe A eh ge ER! pace ott get
[23250], By ES Bn tt OT Rae ttn Er TE
[23254]90985" weela:32499630 Page 296
[23256]University of Montana ; Decemver 2, 1975
[23258]Missoula, Montana s9so1.
[23260](406) 243-0211
[23262]Senator Mike Mansfield
[23263]U.S. Senate Office 3uilding
[23264]Washington, D.C. 20510
[23266]Dear Senator Mansfield:
[23268]fou may recall that some weeks ago you were kind enough to arrange a
[23269]meeting between myself and Mr. William Miller, of the staff of the Senate Select
[23270]Committee on Intelligence. You arranyed this meeting for me so that I could
[23271]present documents, which I showed you, relating to possible CIA illegal activ-
[23272]ities in Indochina. Specifically, as you know, I have long been interested in
[23273]the problem of who carried out the massive defoliation raids against Cambodia,
[23274]one year prior to the U.5. incursions into that country and during a time when,
[23275]formally, there were normal relations between the United States and the Royal
[23276]government of Cambodia. After talking with you about the matter, I met, for
[23278]» about one-half hour, with Mr. “iller and showed him the documents I showed you.
[23280]“ He made some notes and assured me that the question of possible illegal activ-.
[23281]ities of the CIA in Indochina, including Cambodia, was on the agenda of his
[23282]committee. Sometime ago, I wrote hr. Miller to find out when he expected the
[23283]committee might look into Indochina. However, as has deen. the case since
[23284]ceived no angwer, “not even an acknowledgement of receipt. IT have just read
[23285]in the press that the Senate Intelligence Committee expects again to look at-
[23286]Chile, Cuba, etc., but there is no indication of any interest in Indochina.
[23287]I would greatly appreciate your help in learning whether, in fact, the Senate
[23288]Select Committee on Intelligence will look into possible illegal coltert opera-
[23289]tions of '.5, intelligence agencies in Indochina. I would also appreciate
[23290]your views as to what I should do to get an investigation of the massive clan- i
[23291]destine herbicide attack on Cambodia (1969). This was a unique operation in
[23292]technological history of foreign relations and as a biologist I am most inter-
[23293]ested and concerned to get the full story on this bizarre incident. If the
[23294]Senate “elect Committee will not ask obvious questions of the intelligence
[23295]community, I would greatly appreciate your views on whomI should turn to, to
[23296]ask these questions.
[23298]IT want to thank you again for your helo on my last trip to Washington. Tf
[23299]regret that I have to keep bothering you about this matter, but I do hope you
[23300]understand my concern, based on my personal observations in Indochina, that —
[23301]the facts about cdlfert operations there be publically determined.
[23305]Equal Opportunity in Education and Employment _
[23306]BW 50955 Bocld: 32423630 Page 297
[23308]SEL COMM
[23309]File:
[23311]—_ on
[23313]/ .
[23315]Be December 19, 1975
[23317]’ Professor E. W. Pfeiffer
[23318]“ University of Montana —
[23319]“Missoula, Montana 59301
[23321]. Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
[23322]lying to your inquiries.
[23324]roy Please forgive the delay in rep
[23325]Committee has been ex-
[23327]“The press of business on the Select
[23328]cessive.
[23330]as indeed considered a number of problems
[23332]of U.S. intelligence agencies in Indochina.
[23334]/For example, there was an executive session on CIA paramhlitary -
[23336]operations in Laos. Staff members have also investigated sev-.
[23338]“eral cases related to Vietnam.
[23340]The Committee h
[23341]- concerning the role
[23343]Dae - Unfortunately, the Committee has been forced to set some
[23344]- limits to its inquiry. There are a vast number of important
[23345]‘“{ggues in the activities of the intelligence agencies. To do
[23346]“* an effective job of presenting recommendations for lepislation
[23347]‘- > concerning the agencies, within the time allotted to the Com- wo
[23348]'- mittee, we have had to concentrate our attention on certain
[23349]: {gsues rather than others. The Committee has concluded that
[23350]_., the use of herbicides will not be within the purview of its
[23351]!dnvestigation. ete a 2 u
[23353]Fo ge :
[23355]nl A permanent committee for oversight of the intellipence
[23357]“ agencies may be established to follow the Select Committee.
[23358]“In this case there would be new opportunities to pursue many
[23359]‘of the lingering, unresolved issues which remain. The problem
[23360]-of use of herbicides in Indochina might also be eonsidered with-
[23361]-in the jurisdictions of the Committees on Foreign Relations or
[23363]‘oo Armed Sarvices.
[23365]weg NGM we RA pee oe : le
[23366]. te, Sans pels . ey os OO we ete pC re tt att we 4 ine tNe ae
[23367]HW 50955 Bocld: 32423630 Page 299 . .
[23369]Professor E EB: we iffer
[23371]University of Mo
[23372]Migsoula, Vontans 5
[23374]Semtor Mansfield heg informed me ‘that you 414 not
[23375]receive ny letter to you of Bec rv 19, concerning the
[23376]work of the, Select Committee. am therefore enclosing
[23378]J a on
[23379]/ Sincerely,
[23381]be: Senator Mike Mansfield
[23383]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630. Page 299
[23387]C 4. ( . “po MM) Met with Senator Frank Church regarding
[23389]a letter he had written to Professor E. W. Pfeiffer of the University of
[23390]Montana,: stating that. Senator Church had reliable information that Air
[23392]- America was ‘responsible ‘for defoliation operations in Cambodia. A
[23393]copy of Senator Church's letter had been sent to the Director for cornment.
[23395]by Professor Arthur/H. Westing, Windham College in Vermont. 1
[23397]explained to the Senator we were much concerned over this allegation and
[23398]I added that while we -
[23400]the Director authorized me to deny it categorically.
[23401]the identity ‘of the Senator's source, ,we were curious
[23403]e's allegations were based on honest mistake or -
[23404]d the Senator might wish to straighten.
[23406]ldn't remember orf hand where he
[23408]He said he fully accepted
[23410]were not prying into
[23412]a
[23414]as to whether. this sourc
[23415]malice. Ifthe former, IL suggeste
[23416]him out. Senator Church said he cou
[23417]learned this information but would check his files.
[23419]our denial.
[23421]a
[23423]“4
[23427]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 age 300
[23429]a Se
[23432]a a. an oa a. Mica Bra ° Shee
[23434]HW 40955 Docld
[23436]e
[23439]«spear
[23441]gsor EL. W
[23445]ula, Mon
[23446]Professor Pfeiffer: 7
[23447]- Please forgive the delay in replying
[23448]Ve. |
[23449]the Committee
[23450]i)
[23452]xample,
[23454]Unfortuna
[23456]@3
[23457]ffective
[23459]‘ the luse of herbicides wi
[23460]- yteetion. re
[23461]Fal
[23463]ge of herbicl
[23465]d' Services.
[23467]Ca eye
[23468]peg we
[23470]: Pfeiffer _
[23471]Montana’) |)
[23472]tana 59801 ©
[23474]rsity of
[23476]ress of business on the Select Commi
[23477]has indeed considered
[23478]ing the role of U.S.: intelligence
[23479]there was an executive gessi
[23480]tions in Laos. Staff members have 4
[23481]cases related to Vietnam.
[23483]the Committee has bee
[23484]There are a vast
[23485]f the intellige
[23487]tely,
[23488]3 to its inquiry.
[23489]3 in the activities o
[23490]job of presen
[23491]zming the agencies, within the time
[23492]@, we have had to concentrate our at
[23493]g@ rather than others. The Committee
[23494]11 not be within
[23496]A permanent committee for oversight
[23498]des in Indochina might
[23500]e jurisdictions
[23502]~ Se wert ms
[23503]LTE pA Reman Sar ke on
[23504]. Pelt A ses
[23506]. a eet
[23507]iw SOS octal
[23509]2423630
[23511]‘a number of pro
[23513]number oO
[23515]be established to follow the Se
[23517]of the Committees on Foreign Rela
[23519]ow
[23521]ttee has been ¢
[23523]t i
[23524]i
[23526]agencies in Ind
[23528]1so investigate
[23529]i
[23531]L
[23533]4 oh
[23534]n forced to set
[23537]nee ‘agencies.
[23539]ting recommendations for lepis
[23541]allotted to the
[23542]tention on cer
[23543]has concluded
[23544]the |purview of|
[23546]Page 303
[23548]to your inquiries. .
[23551]ochina.
[23557]|To do
[23558]lation _
[23560]| Com~
[23562]tain
[23564]that
[23565]its
[23567]. 4
[23568]of the intelligence:
[23569]lect Committec.
[23571]tions or
[23573]on on CIA paramblitary .
[23574]d sev- | ™
[23576]cies may
[23578]is case there would be new opportunities to pursue) many
[23580]Ne lingering, unresolved issues which remain. The problem
[23581]lalso| be considered with-
[23584]~Uy ae
[23587]a ey SS
[23588]HW "50955 Doct
[23590]i
[23591]H
[23592]| oe n
[23593]q
[23595]Pfeiffer |
[23597]regret.
[23598]5,
[23600]you.
[23602]~papye WL
[23603]are =,
[23606]rao an
[23609]ly 2423630. Page 304
[23611]Cnt Saat neem NIE
[23613]that we simoly do net: have the time or re-
[23615]to investipate the.matter which un
[23616]This does not deny its importance.
[23617]Nother committees may better -be able to jhelp you.
[23619]Sincerely)
[23621]William G,
[23623]StafFl Director
[23625]derstandably c
[23627]I
[23628]i
[23630]I
[23632]|
[23633]i -
[23634]Miller
[23636]I -hope one
[23641]i . |
[23642]i | CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENGY - ‘ call : 7
[23643]4 _ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505 ol = | i - |
[23645]can
[23647]| | —_ “Review Staff: 176- 021219 /2
[23648]| . iz ; 27 ) February 1976
[23650]William G. Miller =~ - fe 7 i
[23651]£ Director - ~ ;
[23652]ct Committee To Study Governmental ; i
[23653]erations With Respect To Intelligence :
[23655]G- 308
[23656]isen| Senate Office’ Building 7
[23657]ington, D. C. 20510 Se Attn: Mr. -Rals
[23665]An
[23667]Mr. Milller:
[23671]In| response to requests’ about Agency involvement
[23674]i
[23675]t
[23677]Cambodia, the attached statement is |forwarded for
[23679]in
[23681]li. .
[23682]your information.
[23684]ve a ~ , a
[23685]Io | in |
[23687]Sincerely, |
[23689]t. oe (Jaf der
[23690]| : Walter Elder
[23691]‘Review Staff
[23692]| 7 :
[23694]fachment 3 po,
[23696]7 fi H
[23698]eniall of CIA involvement in the
[23699]resistance and dissident: activities
[23700]tlwhich occurred in Cambodia since the
[23701]ifall of that country to. Communists,
[23704]jnmun iis ts |
[23706]“UNCLASSTEIED
[23708]UNCLASSIFIED
[23710]ihe Central Intelligence Agency has not been involve
[23711]iway in the resistance and dissident
[23712]‘curred in Cambodia since the fall of that country
[23714]i.
[23715]|
[23716]i
[23717]doe
[23718]1 |
[23719]f
[23720]|
[23721]i
[23722]1 i
[23724]Fok
[23727]activities whi
[23729]FB 97 1916
[23731]CLA
[23733]|
[23734]|
[23736]I
[23737],
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[23745]|
[23746]t,
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[23750]| | |
[23751]I CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY © | 2)
[23752]| WASHINGTON, D.C, -20505 ir ne
[23753]7 m I Sp i |
[23754]i | re Review Staff: 776-0229/1
[23755]ed De 23 February 1976.
[23756]jWwiatian G. Miller. : |
[23757]ff Director
[23758]ect, Committee To Study Governmental | |
[23759]erations With Respect To Intelligence |
[23760]INC'tivities ; mi
[23761]mn G-308 . nt
[23762]i iksen! Senate Office Building
[23763]hington| D. C. 20510 | _ Attn: Mr. Ralsiton
[23764]if “rt Miller: i .
[23766]In, response to your recent request about allegations
[23767]Agency. involvement in Cambodia, please be advised |that
[23768]GH «| Ralston was’ given a copy of a 197l/letter from
[23769]ator: Church to Professor Pfeiffer and a copy.of a
[23770]qmorandum for the record reflecting a,conversation
[23771]queen Senator Church and our Legislative Counsel about
[23772]Hel specific. allegation concerning theijuse of herbicides
[23773]1 (Cambodia in 1969. ;
[23775]I These |memoranda were furnished Professor Pfeiffer
[23776]response to his FOIA request. ; ale
[23778]ii . -. Sincerely,
[23780]| _ beat Elder!
[23781]oO , ' Walter Elder
[23782]ce ; Review Staff
[23784]oa ~REGEHIE FROM |)
[23786]oe rep zate
[23789], Dear
[23791]CI
[23793]a ete Wa aT
[23796]“The p
[23801]4: limite
[23802]*. issue
[23803]an ef
[23804]-. conce
[23809]" the u
[23811]t?
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[23816]ea. =
[23821]a= O_O
[23824]For ex
[23825]operati
[23826]eral cases related to Vietnam. .
[23827]ele tos 4 “ Tye . . a i : Ss en oe wae
[23828]Unfortuna tee has been forced to set | some mote
[23830]3
[23832]based
[23834]o-O-O-
[23836]ail
[23838]e| of herbicides
[23839]1a} jurisdictions of the Committees on
[23841], Services
[23843]File:
[23845]or E. W Pfeiffer
[23846]ity of Montana
[23847]a, Montana 59801
[23851]yofessor
[23854]ss 0
[23856]ase forgive the delay in replying
[23857]f business on the Select Commit
[23859]e@ Committee has indeed considered a
[23861]ing the] role of U.S. in
[23862]ample, there wa
[23864]fons in Laos.
[23866]|
[23869]Staff members
[23871]tely, the Commit
[23873]‘in the activities of the intelligen
[23874]etive job of presenting recommendat
[23875]ing the agencies, within the time a
[23876]| we have had to concentrate our att
[23877][rather lehan others. The Committee
[23878]will not be with
[23882]e of herbicides
[23884]igation.| |
[23886]~ a an i
[23888]permanent committee for oversight °
[23889]es may be established to follow the |
[23890]& ease there would be new opportunit
[23892]cd
[23893]Lingering, unresolved issues which
[23894]in Indochina might al
[23896]SEL COMM
[23898]to your inquiri
[23899]tee has been ex+| ~
[23901]intelligence agencies in
[23902]s an executive session on CIA paramblitary - -
[23903]have also invest
[23905]There are a vast number of import
[23907]L.
[23909]|
[23913]|
[23915]U
[23917]es
[23919]@ re
[23921]number of problems
[23922]Indochina.
[23924]igated, sev-_
[23926]ant
[23927]ce agencies, Todo _
[23928]ions for lepislation
[23930]llotred to the Com-
[23932]ention on certain
[23933]has concluded that
[23934]the p
[23936]i
[23938]4
[23940]ew of Its
[23942]f the intelligence: .—
[23943]Select Committee.
[23944]ies ito pursue many
[23945]remain. The problem |
[23946]so be considered with- |
[23947]Foreign Relations or
[23950]Professor BE. OW. Pfeiffer
[23952]Decembe ex 19, 1975 mo o
[23953]Page. wo . | a .
[23955]bel regret that we simply do not have the time or re-|;
[23956]asl to investigate the matter which understandably con-
[23957]e
[23959]you, This does not deny its importance. I hope on
[23961]pj other committees may better be able to help: ‘you. |)
[23963]H
[23965]Sincerely, ; an eet
[23967]‘William G. Miller ~}-
[23968]Staff Director
[23970]on ois ate woe ETRE. (8 ow te es :
[23971]“page 309
[23974]y . . vt : q ‘|.
[23975]® . il. | - a '
[23977]ce MANSFIELD ae nae
[23978]ee woe 1 iy Ni qo
[23979]I a : fy
[23980]; IF Lhrtted Stertes Sorte -
[23981]id Office of the Majority 3 Conder I
[23982]i, Mhishington, NG. 20510 is. >
[23983]; il December 15, 1975, ; 1
[23984]: i . : i ' I.
[23985]I :
[23986]i |
[23987]ss i
[23988]; Il ; a 4
[23989]lprofessor E. W. PLeiffer
[23990]University of Montana
[23991]Missoula, Montana 59801 |
[23992]a ‘ . a)
[23993]Dear Professor Pfeiffer:
[23994]| |
[23995]lt ' This will acknowledge your letter of] December 2; i
[23996]i | I will be glad to contact Mr. Miller again and ask him
[23997]Boo. 7
[23998]jicespond to your request, i
[24000][ Must close now, but with best personal wishes, T am
[24001]: : . } 7
[24002]i | Sincerely yours,:: 7
[24003]- i 7 i A
[24005]| i :
[24006]' mn on
[24007]Pot
[24010]7 / | eH
[24011]i Ay\ LC
[24012]cc William G, Miller _ \e of
[24013]| on mee!
[24014]nig * | 1 rebler | :
[24015]Ai - 2
[24016]. 7 lle? t. OO os ili
[24017]eC Z 7 :
[24018]i ol. 7
[24019]al | :
[24020]HW 50955 poctaf 43423630 ‘Page 310 |
[24022]tory
[24024]Uist
[24026]to
[24029]‘ He: j i '
[24030]Univesity Montana ;
[24031]I
[24033]Missoula
[24035](406) 243-021
[24037]Senator Mi
[24039]4
[24042]Montana 59801
[24044]Ze Mansfield
[24046]k
[24047]U.S, Benape Office Building
[24048]3
[24050]Washington
[24052]Dear |Sena
[24053]i!
[24055]You may.
[24057]D.G. 20510
[24059]tor lansfield:
[24061]recall that
[24063]meeting between myself and Ur. William Hiller, of the
[24065]i
[24066]4
[24068]de
[24070]5
[24072]va
[24074]Decemver |
[24076]some weeks age you % were kind enough to
[24078]ayrange
[24079]staf of the Senate
[24080]for me so thot I/ could
[24082]sible CIA fhiegat! Activ-
[24083]Specifically, as you know, T hove long been interested in
[24085]into that country and during a tine when,
[24086]between the "nited States and the’ Royal
[24088]the matter, I mets
[24089]{ller and showed him the documents I showed YOU.
[24091]for
[24093]possible Hlegal. Activ-
[24094]on the agenda of his
[24096]Mt.
[24098]I
[24100]IT wrote itr. ijiller to find out when he expected the
[24101]been) ‘the case since.
[24103]read
[24105]Committee an Intellipence. Tou arrunred this meeting:
[24107]present documents , which I showed you, relutins to poss
[24109]ities, in jitadochina.
[24111]thei problem of who carried out the massive defoliation raids against Cénbodia,
[24113]one year [prior to the U.%. incursions
[24115]formally | there were normed relations
[24117]povernment [of Cambodia. After talking with you about
[24119]about onewhalf hour,} with fr. f
[24121]He made some notes and assured me that the question o
[24123]ities of ithe CIA in |Indochiha, including Cambodia, wa
[24125]committed! || Sometime ago
[24127]committee) might Look into Indochina. However, as has
[24129]August, with respect to comminications from this committee, If have as yet re-
[24130]_ ceived no answer, not even an acknowledsement of rece
[24132]in the pr
[24133]Chile, Cu
[24134]I would ¢
[24135]Select Co
[24137]your views
[24138]_destine herbicide athback on Cambodia (1969).
[24139]al- history of foreign relations and as a biologist I ain most | Hinter-.
[24140]ito get the full story on this bisarre ancident.
[24141]questions of the intelligence
[24142]rom should
[24144]- technologid
[24146]ested and
[24148]community
[24149]‘ask these
[24150]-I want ito thank.
[24151], rerret thatl 1. have to keep, bothering you about. this matter) but Ii do ape.
[24152]my concern, based on my personal observations
[24154]understand!
[24155]bout coWert operations there bé publicdlily determined.
[24157]the
[24159]BW 50955
[24163]facts) 4)
[24165]‘eléét Comittee will not
[24167]a:
[24169]iF
[24172]: 4 i
[24173]docrdf deazaes0 ace
[24176]th.
[24178]mittee on
[24179]Ie, intelligence agencies in Indochina.
[24181]This wa
[24183]concerned
[24185]2 ask obvious
[24186]jt would preatly appreciate your views on w
[24190]qu uestions.
[24192]bit
[24194]|
[24196]Eth
[24197]HHL
[24199]ual Opportunity in Education and
[24201]i
[24202]§ that the Senate Intellivence Comittee cxnects
[24203]ly etc., but there is no indication of any interest in ndochina.
[24204]atly appreciate your help in learning whether, an fact, the
[24205]Intelligence will look into possible illegal coert opera
[24206]I would] also appreciate
[24208]jas to what I should do to met an investipation of: the massive |clan~
[24209]$A unique o
[24211]in
[24213]Sincerel)
[24215]A
[24217]. a
[24219]Pfetiteér
[24220]PoE pod
[24221]Employment . I.
[24223]iI have: just
[24225]again to look at
[24229]peration in
[24231])
[24232]Tf ‘the
[24234]turn to!
[24236]you again for your help on my Last trip to uinanglop. tT
[24240]Indochina,’ tat
[24241]|
[24244]yours ||.
[24248]Select
[24251]| 5 BE,
[24252]rn | en
[24253]rales | At
[24254]United States Senate
[24256]a Tt
[24258]Washington, D. C, || secenser a5
[24259]7 | i spectfully referred to
[24260]Peele e
[24262]Mi. Willian c. ie
[24264]Staff Director |
[24265]Select Committe
[24267]ray
[24269]on Intelligence Activities
[24271]U. S. Senate ;
[24273]|
[24275]|
[24276]‘ ap ie. st
[24277]Correspondence Erom Professor E. W.
[24279]Pkeiffer |. i
[24281]1
[24285]th
[24288]I would apprec
[24289]Professor Pfeis
[24291]tf t
[24292]aT cat
[24293]|
[24294]i
[24295]a i
[24296]‘4 |
[24297]r |
[24299]“t ‘a
[24300]H |
[24301]‘ 1
[24302]i
[24304]1 ’
[24306]eplying to
[24309]USS.
[24314]. THE MISSOULIAN P.O. BOX 1335 - S00 N. HIGGINS AVE, MISSOULA, MONTANA | TEL. (406) 842-0311 :
[24316]Oct. 23, 1975
[24318]Mr. Williem G. Miller, Staff Director
[24320]Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
[24321]With Respect to Intelligence Activities
[24323]Room 607, Capitol Hill Hotel
[24325]Washington,..D,C, 20510 - ~~ =
[24329]Dear Mr. Miller:
[24331]Recently I discussed with Dr. E, W. Pfeiffer, University of Montana
[24332]zoologist, an incident in which he has had an ablding concern: the.
[24333]herbicide attack that occurred in eastern Cambodia in the spring of “7°
[24335]As I understand it, from my talks with ‘Dr. Pfeiffer andfrom my
[24336]review of the correspondence he has received from various agencies,
[24337]there is no doubt that the attack actually occurred, that it wag
[24338]large and significant, and that the nature of the chemicals and
[24339]aircraft involved indicate that the U.S. hada direct role in
[24340]carrying it out.
[24342]: Yet it seems the state. and Defense departments, the CIA and the
[24343]"nrivate" CIA-affiliate Air America have all denied in one way or
[24344]another that they conducted the attack.
[24346]‘The obvious question is who dia make the attack? Who ordered ‘it,
[24348]why was it ordered and under what authority? Dr. Pfeiffer has ;
[24349]indicated your committee is looking into this matter and that. the
[24350]affair may ultimately be discussed in-the. course of Select Committees
[24352]hearings at some point.
[24354]Is it nossible for you bo tell me the status of your inauiry? Would
[24355]‘it be anpropriate at this time for our newspaper to interview Dr,
[24356]Pfeiffer and write -a news story on the documents he has received,
[24358]fi or would ‘such a s tuely bénefit from new information your committes
[24359]“7. efforts may resurrect within the near future?
[24361]*. {Thanks in advance for your interest. We have followed with great
[24362]' interest the Select Committee efforts to date..
[24364]For | ONES
[24366]ror = Sincerely, PP er
[24368]nag een Zi). te OS - e..
[24369]Don Schwennesen }
[24371]Ohrem, a Environmental Writer va
[24372]Western Moitema's. Leading Newapaper _ | ® sates
[24374]HW 50955 DoclId: 32423630 Page 313
[24377]University af Montana
[24378]Missoula, Montana $9801
[24380](406) 243-0211
[24382]—_> lu6h) - Professor
[24383]~ blue |
[24385]TN
[24386]3138
[24388]if
[24391]Oct. 27, 1975
[24393]Ie
[24394]en
[24396]A
[24398]« William Miller
[24399]Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
[24400]Rm G~308
[24401]Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
[24402]Washington, D.C.
[24404]Dear Mr. Miller:
[24406]Through the good offices of Senator Mansfield, we met, some
[24407]weeks ago to discuss certain problems related to possiblqCIA
[24408]activity in Cambodia. As you know,I am particularly interested
[24409]in why the CIA cannot or will not find out who carried out the
[24410]massive herbicide attack against Cambodia in the spring of 1969.6
[24411]The CIA has under the Freedom of Information Act provided me
[24412]with some documents from my file which bear directly upon this
[24413]strange episode and Senator Church's efforts to find out information
[24414]for me. When we met you indicated that CIA activities in Indochina
[24415]were to be investigated by the Select Comittee. I would greatly
[24416]appreciate krowing about when you think this subject will come
[24417]up. I would also very much like to submit some of the documents
[24418]I have received from the CIA and my personal testimony to the
[24419]Committee. I believe that Professor A. Westing and myself. were
[24420]the last official guests of the Sihanouk regime before it was
[24422]temporarily deposed.
[24423]I look forward to hearing from you on these matters.
[24425]Sincerely yours,
[24427]SU
[24429]E.W.Pfeiffer
[24431]O\
[24437]oe fi Pon a lis fea ‘
[24438]HW sty Steck Frage “sKhil (ei meligden expert
[24445]University of Montana
[24447]Missoula, Montana s9s01
[24449](406) 243-0211
[24451]OG
[24452]Lg
[24454]\)
[24456]NI
[24458]Aug. 6, 1975
[24460]Mr. Paul Wallach
[24462]Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
[24463]Room. G 308 Dirksen Building
[24464]Washington, D.C. 20510
[24466]Dear Mr. Wallach:
[24468]As decided in our phone conversation today, I am ;
[24469]writing to you about a conversetion I had last week in
[24470]Paris with an official of the Royal Government of Cambodia.
[24471]He informed me that ClA-directed activities hostile to his
[24472]government are presently occurring in his country, and that
[24473]these activities are being launched from bases in Thailand.
[24474]I would greatly appreciate your assistance in finding out for
[24475]me whether any agency of the U.S. Government is presently
[24476]carrying out activities against the Royal Government of
[24477]Cambodia. .
[24479]i greatly appreciated the opportunity to talk with
[24480]you in person recently, and thank you for your interest
[24481]‘and help.
[24483]E.W.Pfeiffer
[24485]~ t Professor of Zoology
[24486]Lage Cex. 4 AN cma
[24488]. oer Men
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[24494]eee oe 3
[24495]PITAL S, VERT, ST he DEST . . . PTTL AMT he Pe AILS
[24497]VWALLHUSYON, DG. 20556 , . a
[24499]-E. OW, Pfeilrar
[24500]‘Professor of ZeoLoszy , :
[24501]University of Montans . a
[24502]Miasoula, Montana 59502 _
[24503]Dear Profeseor Preivfer:
[24505]Please forgive
[24507]. last letter of Naawteh 290
[24508]partuent of State has offers
[24509]fir &
[24511]ay An fepiving to your
[24512]iS i h the De-
[24513]e the Sevan’
[24514]he Departmen
[24515]ta get aowa and
[24522]3
[24523]I rankly have not
[24525]P27 5 that Air Amer!
[24526]le f : bodisn derolLiati }
[24527]oe was. ees the State hepartment, but rethes son
[24528]Aes .
[24530]ae ad
[24532]SAVLAUAL Wilo yosibion co Know the facts
[24533]in this matter, ;
[24535]It would be wost useful to neve o full stuay
[24537]of the extent and the erfects of our defoliation Lo
[24538]prograa in Southcast Asie. Perhaps you end Arthur . - |
[24540]| Meshing and others could get together to make a pro- - , :
[24541]"posal fore study of this nature. a eee oe
[24543]With best wishes,
[24550]Tor Terry Lenzner ;
[24552]From: Jim Moore
[24554]_Subject:- Robert Maheu - John Roselli - 7
[24556]Hereis a summary of what I have done on the Roselli- Maheu .
[24558]connection,
[24560]ettetday I spoke with David Nissen: who prosecuted Roselli. in
[24562]1968 £ for being: an unregistered « alien and for being involved with hidden
[24564]owners in the Friar's s ; Clubi case. Nissen’ never ‘met Mahew or spoke with
[24566]investigating and 1 prosecuting Roselli. He couldn't remember the source
[24567]ep aa - Shiels
[24568]of those stories, saying that his information came from many people,
[24570]including Justice Department lawyers in Washington and the FBI. One
[24571]story he heard was that Maheu tried to. intervene in | Washington, either”
[24573]as: through direct. contacts } in a the FBI or at ‘Justice or. + through, Edward Po ;
[24575]. Morgan,’ to kill the: Roselli prosecution on the basis that Rosellt had helped ce
[24577]the United States in Cuba. Maheu was. reportedly # an ‘old CIA agent, . . Nissen
[24578]remembers hearing. at some. point that Roselli had gone to Cuba in an attempt .
[24582]to as sasinate Castro :
[24583]. Nissen said that there are extensive files: on Roselli maintained by -
[24584]the FBI oft!the Department. Nissen had a vague recollection that the files
[24585]contained a story about Maheu somehow being involved in a wiretap on Sam —
[24586]! Giancona, for whom Roselli worked, Nissen also remembered information
[24587]about a meeting between Maheu and Giancona regarding Cuba, but he couldn't
[24590]t
[24591]| me ‘remember any of the specifics.
[24593]oooh Oe aa Pe ala IO see aan acti ate ron am ee Re eit KEL Ca ina aca
[24595]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 317
[24597]When Roselli came up for sentencing, he was represented by Tom
[24598]Wadden, who had been associated in geome capacity with Edward Bennett
[24599]Williams. Wadden filed a motion to reduce sentence and included with vit
[24600]two col, ‘umns by Jack Anderson that recounted the story of Roselli and Maheu
[24601]trying to assasinate ‘Castro. ‘Nissen thought the motion might also have’ a of ;
[24603]foe
[24605]included an affidavit from Edward P. Morgan, “The government successfully
[24607]resisted the motion on the grounds of fraud, since Wadden produced 5 no
[24609], . witnesses or documentation to support his claim” I called the : Federal Court
[24611]7 Roselli is now in. Florida 80 he can be reached, but, according | to
[24613]; Nissen, Giancona is in exile somewhere in Mexico.
[24615]. FROVTIER CASE
[24617]Nissen never heard about Maheu being questioned in ‘Washington in
[24618]Franti Lae
[24619]liew of the Grand Jury appearance. Nissen did d not try the/case, because he. ;
[24621]had been promoted to supervisory capacity. However, he seemed surprised
[24623]that he had never heard of such a meeting. He ae gave me the names of
[24625]three lawyers who handled the case after he gave up direct responsibility. :
[24627]for ite: My phone i interview with the first of them, Jerzy Uliman, is. ritte
[24629]up asa. separate interview: The. second Lawyery John Hornbeck, has not
[24631]a yet etarned my phone call, The third,. . ‘Tom Kotoski: jactually tried the case,
[24633]He i is now an assistant United. States | Attorney in Los Angeles and about to
[24634]become head of the San Francisco Strike Force, He will be in Washington
[24636]Thureday and. Friday, February 14 and 15, and Lhave asked him to.call me .
[24638]- as. soon as possible... .
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[24644]50955 Docld:32423630 Page 319
[24646]a file kept on Maheu himself.
[24648]; that file
[24649]One final note - Nissen said/Ahe RoseHi/in the Justice Department
[24651]contains many references to Maheu, He never, however, saw or heard about
[24653]well ; as about{
[24655]* Dalits coming bck to the
[24656]setts
[24659]NAME
[24660]ALIASES
[24662]DESCRIPTION
[24664]- EQCALITIES |
[24665]_ FREQUENTED
[24667]FAMILY
[24668]BACKGROUND.
[24670]CRIMINAL
[24671]_ ASSOCIATES
[24673]_ CRIMINAL.
[24674]HISTORY
[24676]BUSINESS
[24678]MODUS -
[24679]OPERANDI
[24681]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 320
[24683]a
[24685]Oak Park, Ill. Frequents
[24687]a
[24689]a
[24691]144
[24692]Sam GIANCANA
[24693]Sam Mooney, Sam Malone
[24694]Born 7-16-08, Chicago, Ille3
[24695]Sto", 175 lbs., hazel eyes,
[24696]dark chestnut hair, fair
[24697]complexion and medium build.
[24699]Resides at 1147 Wenonah Ave.
[24701]the Army Lounge, Norwood’
[24702]House, Villa Venice, all of
[24703]Chicago, Tllinois.
[24705]Wife, Angeline DeTolve, died in 195h. “Has three.
[24706]daughters, Annette, Bonita Lou and Francine.
[24707]Mother deceaséd, father is Tony Giancana, and
[24708]sisters are Mary, Josephine and Victoria. Sam's
[24709]consort is Ladana Collins, 20 E. Delaware, Chicago, ©
[24710]Tllinois.
[24712]Tony Accardo, Paul Riceo, Willie Baddone, Nicholas
[24713]D'Amico, Sam Battaglia and Leonard Gianola, ali of
[24715]‘Chicago, Illinois.
[24717]. FBI. #58437, Chicago. PD #E-2765. Subject has re-
[24719]cord of 13. arrests dating from Sept. 1925, on such
[24721]. charges as murder, grand larceny, auto theft,
[24723]burglary and liquor law violations with two felony
[24724]convictions.
[24726]Owns the Forest Lounge, the R&S Liquor Co., the
[24727]Lohmar Dist. Co., Chicago, T1l., and has gambling
[24728]interests. and an interest in the shrimp business
[24730]' in Cuba.
[24732]A top ranking member of the Mafia in the State of
[24733]Ti, and a director of the organization's activi-
[24735]tied in Ghiracn sand wi ainitw vee -
[24737]“MAME ==: Giowanni, ROSELLE
[24739]- ALIASES —_ John Roselli, John Russelli,
[24740]‘ - John Kasselle, John’ Passelli -
[24742]: DESCRIPTION 2 Born 7-0 Chicage, - ml,
[24743]. 5'8", 171 los, brown-grey
[24744]hair, blue eyese
[24746]LOCALITIES : Resides 1252 No. Crescent
[24747]_ FREQUENTED Htseg Hollywood, - Cal. Fre-
[24748]See quents gambling casinos at.~
[24749]"Las Vegas where he has room
[24750]at Tropicana Hotel. Travels
[24751]frequently all parts U.S.
[24753]‘FAMILY =: Divorced from: nove actress June’ Lang; fathers”
[24754]. BACKGROUND . Vincenzo; mothers Maria Russo (both, deceased);
[24755]oo oo cousins Joseph Evangelistae a
[24757]- CRIMINAL: ©: Dragna family, Philip Kastel, Harold Keltzery
[24758]ASSOCIATES. Francisco Costiglia, Charles Fischetti, Louis -
[24759]Piscopo,
[24761]CRIMINAL - FBI #3339986. L.A. Sheriff's Office #512h7«
[24762]HISTORY. Record dating from 1926 includes arrests for
[24763]; suspicion of robbery, vagrancy, interfering with |
[24764]trade, mail fraud & violation of paroles
[24766]"BUSINESS 2 Vice-President Monte Prosser Productions: and
[24767], a _ varied other interestse a
[24769]HW 50955 DoclId: 32423630 Page 321
[24771]_ MODUS ‘3° A top Mafia figure at Los Angeles and. Las ‘Vegas.
[24772]. -OPERANDI . Active in labor racketeering and control of ganb=
[24774]1 CNN CREA BE 00 Heh nie wee Re a ak me ee”
[24776]4
[24777]BAS 2, ERVIN, IR, 90, CHAIRMAM
[24778]. HOWARD M. BAKER, JR. TENN. VICE CHAIRMAN
[24779]HEMMAN ©. TALMADGE, GA, EDWARD J. GURNEY, PLA,
[24781]DAME &.  MONTOT AS a wemae, LOWELL P, WEICKER, JM. COMM, ;
[24783]Kanontry counsen : SELECT COMMITTEE ON - :
[24784]RUPUS L, EDMISTEN . PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ACTIVITIES
[24785]DEPUTY COUNT mo. (pursuanr vo s, ars. , 8D CONGRESS). - 3 7
[24786]tee ; WASHINGTON, D.C, 20510
[24787]“1. MEMORANDUM | are °
[24788]_ PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL. . ;
[24789]Tos. rz ; / Senator Ervin. a re
[24791]From: _ Terry Lenzner and Marc Lackritz
[24793]Subject: Relevance to S. Res. 60 of John Rosselli's 2-.c4 of het
[24794]. testimony about his CIA activities -- Stepp SEDs 7
[24796]Vow TR US BT Tete? ot tet 7
[24798]Summary: Dobe tay
[24799]John Rosselli and his attomey, Tom Wadden, object to .
[24800]testifying about. Rosselli's involvement with Robert Maheu in air try 8
[24801]CIA~financed plot to assassinate Fidel Castro in the early 1960's ce >
[24802]The objection is based upon national security grounds as well as
[24804]an assertion by Mr. Wadden that the material is not relevant to
[24806]our inquiry under §. Res. 60. ,
[24808]7 Testimony of Mr. Rosselli about this matter is relevant
[24809]and necessary to our investigation for a variety of reasons.
[24811]Facts; -
[24813]_" During the last year of the Eisenhower Administration, the.
[24814]CIA apparently financed and organized a plot to assassinate Fidel ~
[24815]Castro. ‘Among the participants in this Plot were Robert Maheu and .
[24816]John Rosselli. -Maheu had a public relations business at the time,...
[24817]and Rosselli was associated with some alleged organized crime
[24818]figures (e.g. Sam Giancana) who had lost substantial gambling -
[24819]investments when Castro came to Power. Apparently, the plot .
[24820]continued into the early 1960's even after the abortive Bay of Pigs
[24821]invasion, but it failed in attaining its objective of killing Castro,
[24823]Only a few officials in the government knew of the exis-
[24824]‘ tence of the plot at that time. . : a
[24826]Justice Department officials stumbled across this infor~
[24827]mation about the plot as a result of their investigation into an
[24828]illegal wiretap by Sam Giancana in the early 1960's.
[24830]r : oo ones ante 3 x ¥ oe 7 Ss “yee MEME A @ ~ Qt foo ere oe BY .
[24831]Wa "De 1286: angepmne gambler with contacts sell, Harvey said he hada higsk ~ — —-Bi
[24832]IW 90955 pocra:s2amses0Redluguandsome gambler with contacls HosehiWstvey sald g
[24840]The sensitive information was brought to the attention of
[24841]FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, and either he or then-Attomey General
[24842]Robert Kennedy ordered the prosecution of Giancana dropped. in order
[24843]not tb compromise national security considerations. -
[24847]amin the” ‘information’ about ‘the alleged assassination plot. “then
[24849]lay dormant in a secret file in the Department of Justice until early
[24850]1969; when Assistant Attorney General Will Wilson requested the
[24852]file from the Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Section. The file ©...
[24853]was returned to Central Files. Shortly | after it was. : taken out.
[24855]LL3S ra? 3 Ri Be NaS i oy TET REE .
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[24860]“Assistant Attorney ‘General Wilson next requested the secret
[24861]Justice file in early 1971 in connection with his interview of Robert :
[24862]Maheu on January 27, 1971 (see attached chronology). This interview
[24864]at the Department of Justice, in lieu of a grand jury appearance, was
[24865]arranged by a telephone call to Attorney General Mitchell on January 19,
[24866]1971, only one day after Jack Anderson published his first column linking
[24867]both Mahéu and Rosselli to the CIA plot t to > kill Castro... (see attached)
[24869]“However, the significance of Anderson' s column on January 18,
[24870]1971, was that on the same day, Haldeman requested Dean.to find out-:
[24871]what he could about the Hughes - Maheu - o' Brien relationship. ele
[24873]In the follow-up memos from Caulfield to Dean on the Maheu-
[24874]O'Brien link, Caulfield notes Maheu's prior "covert activities" for the
[24875]CIA and advises Dean that a check into CIA, FBI, and IRS files on Robert
[24876]Maheu is advisable to avoid a "“counter-scandal."
[24878]In addition, Assistant Attorney General Wilson showed the
[24880]' sensitive "Castro file” to. Attorney General Mitchell, in January, 1971,
[24882]and discussed with him the political implications of the information.
[24883]Following the on-the-record interview of Maheu on January 27, 1971,
[24884]by Lynch, Wilson and Petersen, Maheu was interviewed privately by
[24885]Wilson concerning his prior CIA activities with John Rosselli.. Maheu
[24886]was not forthcoming with information about the plot at that time.
[24887]Attorney General Mitchell discussed the contents of the sensitive file
[24888]with President Nixon, according to Wilson, who had advised him to do
[24889]so. oo ,
[24893]Therefore, the obsession of the Administration in keeping tabs
[24894]on Larry O'Brien in 1971 and 1972 was in part motivated by a fear that
[24895]Maheu would impart some of this sensitive information about the plot
[24897]. Poetry atalunmecu uo own, cae 25Y,
[24899]955 DoeTd: 30423636. ‘pagulighendsome & gambler wi ‘with c contacis " “Roselli, stanvey said ihe iad” a high” ween:
[24905]_ to O'Brien. Alternatively the objective was to discover if there was .
[24906]any information about the plot that might be daniaging to the Democrats
[24907]that O'Brien might possess from Maheu. And these concerns could
[24908]have been a possible motivation for the break-in to the offices of the
[24909]DNC and Larry O'Brien by four Cuban-Americans on June 17, 1972, | os
[24910]especially since their directions were to photograph any documents *’? :
[24911]relating to Cuban contributions or Cuban involvement in the 1972 ~~
[24913]Democratic campaign. ; eee, ee
[24915]It is for these reasons that we wish to question John Rosselli" “"'
[24916]_ about the nature and scope of his activities. _with Robert Maheu inthe |
[24918]early 1960's. oe DO Sh obits tye oe eee nw een coe:
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[24955]CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS
[24957]Thanksgiving, 1970 Hughes leaves Las Vegas.
[24958]December 4, 1970 Maheu is fired. —
[24959]January 18, ‘1971 oe t - : _ Jack Anderson columa published linktag Ma!
[24961]oo, Gtk &., and Rosselli to plot to kill. Castro.
[24962]January 18, 7l , : *. 2 or Haldeman sends memo to Dean requesting ih
[24963]— won Pl mation on o Brien~Maheu~ ~Hughes relations}
[24964]i ft eolarhosonlt ve. i :
[24965]January 19. 1971. oe Jack "Andérson’ ‘column’ appears with more det
[24966]on Maheu's fnvolvement in plot to assassin:
[24969]January 19, 1971 pas Attomey General John Mitchell called Robert
[24970]/ a Maheu_ in Las Vegas at 5:12 P. m. and talked
[24972]January 25, 197142
[24974]~ relationship with Maheu, O'Brien relationsh:
[24975]© with. Maheu, and request for investigation ir
[24976]; ‘CIA, FBI, IRS files for information: to avoid @
[24978], January 25, 1971 “
[24980]Sohn Rosselli enters) prison.
[24982]January 26, 1971 ° oo . Dean to Haldeman 1 memo on Maheu-O' Brien-
[24983]; Hughes relationship
[24985]' -Maheu interviewed at Department of Justice }
[24986]__ A.A.G. Will Wilson,..Henry Petersen and Bill
[24987]__ Lynch, in Heu of an appearance before the
[24988]., Grand Jury. Interview is about "skimming "ih
[24989]‘ Las Vegas + mae : oo,
[24991]January 27, 1971 a _ _— - A.A .G. Wilson and Petersen meet with Maher
[24992]Ploy _ wot, privately to discuss, Maheu! s Prior. CIA activi
[24994]February 1,19717 =) we _— Caulfield 1 to Dean 1 memo > noting that Maheu wz
[24995]Sek rie: , _ involved in "covert activities" for the CIA in
[24996]early 1960's.
[24998]February 12, 1971 : . to, Rosselli*s attorney files a Motion to Reduce
[24999]iL ; . ; oo: Sentence based on Rosselli's prior CIA activi:
[25000]i? : .
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[25002]fe }  gedly handsome gambler with contacts» Fear nT said he had a . high | —By
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[25021](VERIFICATION — 446, 2015.5.C. C P.)
[25023]STATE OF CALIFORNIA
[25024]‘COUNTY OF
[25026]7 am the.
[25028]in the above entitled action: I have read the foregoing
[25030]and know the contents thereof: and | certify that the same is true of my own knowledge, except as to those matters which
[25032]are therein stated upon my information or belief, and as to those matters 1 believe it to be true.
[25034]1 certify (or declare), under penalty of perjury,” that the foregoing is true and correct.
[25036]Executed on
[25038]California
[25039](date)
[25041](place)
[25043]Signature
[25045](PROOF OF SERVICE BY MAIL -~ 10132, 20185 C. CP.)
[25048]I am a citizen of the United States and a resident of the county aforesaid; | am ever the age of eighteen years and not
[25049]a party to the within entitled action; my business address is:
[25051]STATE OF CALIFORNIA .
[25052]county or Los Angeles
[25056]9601 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 400, Beverly Hills, California 90210
[25058]I served the within_ Notice of Motion For Reduction
[25060]of Sentence (Rule 35 FRCP); Points and Authorities; Affidavits in
[25061]Support Thereof | .
[25063]on the Plaintiff "
[25064]in said action, by placing a true copy thereof enclosed in a sealed envelope with postage thereon fully prepaid, in the
[25065]United States mail ac___ beverly Hills, California
[25066]adaressed as follows:
[25067]DAVID R. NISSEN
[25068]Assistant U.S. Attorney
[25069]Chief, Criminal Division
[25070]1200 U.S. Courthouse
[25071]312 North Spring St.
[25072]Los Angeles, Calif. 90012
[25074]June 25 wil
[25076]1 certify (or declare}, under penalty of perjury,* that the foregoing é is true and correct.
[25078]Executed on_lune 25, 1971 at Beverly Hills California
[25080](date) Qglace)
[25081]Subscribed and sworn to before me this
[25083]25th day of June, 197 A
[25086]| & Signature
[25087]Myr fa J. Weinstein
[25089]{4 KATHRYN A. eRe
[25091]cp) MOFARY PUBLIC. CALIFORNIA _ -
[25092]‘’ oth the weificatien end prog|.o] serpice by mail forms, being signed under penalty aj perjury, do not require notarization.
[25093]LOS ANCCLES COUNTY
[25095]My Commission Exnires Autust 29, 1979 :
[25097]Page 3276
[25099]GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[25100], National Archives and Records Service
[25102]To all to
[25104]out these presents shall come, Greeting:
[25105]By v of the authority vested in me by the Administrator of General Services, 1
[25106]certify o J ibchalf, under the seal of the United States General Services Administration,
[25108]thae che J reproduction(s) is a true and correct copy of documents in his custody.
[25112]Center Manager
[25113]NAME AND ADDRESS OF DEPOSITORY
[25114]General Services Administration (INC -
[25116]Federal Records Center, NARS
[25118]4747 Eastern Avenue
[25119]- Bell, CA 90201
[25121]68.13478
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[25131](ROBERT L. MEYER . .
[25132]United States Attorney raleo
[25134]| “/2 || DAVID R. NISSEN
[25135]yr Assistant U. S. Attorney
[25136]’ 3 | Chief, Criminal Division
[25137]1200 U. §. Courthouse Building
[25138]4 312 North Spring Street
[25139]Los Angeles, California 90012
[25140]5 Tel: 688-2406
[25141]6 || Attorneys for Plaintiff,
[25142]United States of America.
[25143]7
[25144]8 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT -
[25145]9 | _ CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA Tye
[25146]10 pe
[25147]1 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2 No. .1175-PH-CD
[25148]12 Plaintiff, ) —_ —_
[25149]fo ‘ GOVERNMENT'S OPPOSITION TQ”
[25150]13 Ve. - )-
[25151]; , ) DEFENDANT'S MOTION To.
[25152]14 || FILIPPO SACCO, also known )
[25153]5 as JOHN ROSSELLI, ; REDUCE SENTENCE
[25154]is I = : ae
[25155]‘ Defendant. ) :
[25156]I LoS
[25158]17 Lf
[25160]Plaintiff, United States of America, strongly opposes
[25161]defendant's Motion to Reduce Sentence based upon the files and _
[25162]records in the case and the attached Menorandwa 2 08 “
[25164]Respectfully submitted,
[25166]ROBERT L. MEYER . .
[25167]United States Attorney . .
[25169]c .
[25171]f ‘ . 1
[25172]Dard Re eee ete
[25173]DAVID R. NISSEN
[25175]Assistant United States Attorney
[25176]Chief, Criminal Division
[25178]Attorneys for Plaintiff,
[25179]United States of America.
[25181]DRN:jt oo ~l-
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[25195]MEMORANDUM
[25197]John Rosselli is actually Filippo Sacco, born July 4, 1905, -
[25199]in Italy of parents Vincenzo and Maria Saceo. Vincenzo Sacco
[25201]came to the United States after the birth of Filippo, his oldest |
[25203]child, and in 1911, Mrs. Sacco and Filippo joined Vincenzo in
[25204]the United States where they resided as aliens in East Boston.
[25205]Filippo Sacco completed the sixth grade in the public
[25207]schools of East Boston and was discharged from school in 1917. _
[25208]By this time Filippo had two younger brothers and. two younger - |
[25210]sisters. In 1918, Vincenzo Sacco died. His wife Maria and the
[25211]five children moved into the residence | of Liberato Cianciulli —
[25213]and a daughter was born in 1920. In 1922, Maria and Cianciulli =
[25215]were married.
[25216]In 1922, Filippo had a job sett a horse-drawn milk.
[25218]wagon and was nicknamed "Milky". However, in addition to his
[25220]legitimate occupation, Filippo had made connections with the
[25222]criminal element in East Boston and was engaged inrarcotic
[25224]traffic with his headquarters in and around Maverick Square.
[25226]On September 14, 1922, Filippo sold morphine to a government
[25227]informant named Fisher while under surveillance by a narcotic
[25228]agent. On September 19, 1922, Filippo arranged for a large |
[25229]sale from his "source" and was present and under agent sur-
[25230]veillance when the morphine was delivered, On September 23,
[25231]1922, Filippo Sacco and his "source" were arrested by Federal
[25232]narcotics agents. On October 18, 1922, the Federal Grand Jury
[25233]in Boston indicted Sacco for the sale of narcotic drugs and
[25234]two days later he was released on bail, While awaiting trial
[25235]in the narcotics case, in Federal Court, Sacco was arrested and
[25236]indicted in Massachusetts State Court for grand larceny and
[25238]was released on bail on July 2, 1923.
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[25268]In 1923, while he was on bail awaiting trial in the
[25269]narcotics and larceny cases, Filippo Sacco jumped bail in both
[25271]cases and disappeared from East Boston. The Government narcotics
[25273]informant, Fisher, disappeared about the same time and Government
[25275]sources believe that he may have been killed to prevent him from
[25276]testifying. Because of his fugitive status, both indictments
[25278]against Sacco. were ‘dropped.
[25280]oo After Sacco" s flight from his home in 1 1923, he ‘Spent some. ers
[25281]time in New York and Chicago, and finally made his appearance a
[25283]Los” Angeles in 1924 under the fictitious name "John Roselli.”
[25284]Sources indicate that Sacco engaged in bootlegging and hijacking
[25285]during this period and police records show he was frequently
[25287]arrested. on such charges as carrying concealed weapons, and suse. ||.
[25289]picion of robbery. .
[25290]After 1930, Sacco became associated with. the AL Capone
[25292]gang in Chicago and was also closely associated with organized |
[25294]crime in Los Angeles. Reliable sources relate that he was an
[25296]executioner ‘for the criminal organizations in both cities, In
[25297]1936, by demands and. threats, Sacco forced his‘ way into part oa
[25298]ownership of "Nationwide News Service," a horseracing information
[25300]service used by bookmakers across the country. .
[25302]After prohibition was repealed, Sacco left the bootlegging
[25303]business and associated himself with Columbia Pieture Studios.
[25304]As a close friend of Los Angeles underworld leader Jack Dragna,
[25306]Sacco soon became known as a labor muse leman and racketeer for —
[25308]the movie studios. In 1943, Sacco was indicted on a charge of
[25310]conspiracy to extort millions of dollars from movie producers
[25311]and a labor union. Also indicted were union cfficials Browne |
[25312]and Biof£, and the following ranking members of the Chicago La
[25313]Cosa Nostra family: Frank Nitto (aka Nitti), Louis Campagna,
[25314]Paul DeLucia (aka Paul "the waiter" Ricia), Phil D'Andrea,
[25316]Francis Manitote (aka Frank Diamond), and Charles “Cherry Nose"
[25318]Fee
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[25325]Gioe. In 1944, Sacco and the Chicago defendants were convicted
[25327]and all were sentenced to ten years in prison.
[25329]In 1947, Sacco and all his co-defendants were paroled
[25331]immediately upon their becoming eligible therefor. There were
[25332]indications that their release had been secured by bribery but
[25334]: admissible evidence sufficient. for prosecution | was not obtained.
[25336]In Jaly 1948, Sacco's parole was revoked because of his con-
[25338]tinued association with known criminals and he was. imprisoned
[25340]o© @ A A UN fF YW WH
[25342]until Rovenber 1948, when his parole © was reinstated. ‘Shortly
[25343]key Goverment witness at ‘the extortion trial was, | mardered by ©
[25344]| the bombing of his vehicle. (The trial judge ‘reportedly had
[25345]. warned the defendants that if anything happened to Bioff while
[25346]they were on parole he would hold them responsible.) Two other
[25347]co-defendants of Sacco have also been victims of gang slayings. ~
[25348]Upon ‘his. release. from prison, Sacco returned to Los Angeles
[25349]and again associated himself with a movie studio. Reliable
[25350]sources report that this was a front and in fact, through his
[25351]close association with Sam Giancana of Chicago, Sacco received oe
[25352]‘the responsibility of overseeing the concealed interests. in .
[25353]Las Vegas casinos of the Chicago underworld. Sacco iomediately
[25354]became a powerful figure in Las Vegas. He ‘travels back and
[25355]forth between Las Vegas and Los Angeles: extensively and asso- 7
[25356]ciates with the kmown Cosa Nostra members and major gamblers.
[25357]Rosselli appeared before the Kefauver Committee investi-
[25359]gating organized erime and falsely testified concerning his
[25361]association with underworld figures and even his own personal
[25362]background.
[25363]During the period 1956- 1958, Sacco was very active in
[25365]the construction and pre-opening operation of the Tropicana Hotel,
[25367]and Sacco received the lease to operate the gift shop. The
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[25381]paid for the lease.
[25383]oe N A HW FW NN
[25385]‘and he sold his interest.
[25387]a er |
[25388]A & YW NH — &
[25390]an alien and report his address annually.
[25392]trial, it was shown that birth records in Chicago, ‘Tilinois, had ;
[25394]born there as John Rosselli.
[25395]of Edward J. Barrett, County Clerk, Cook County, Illinois, in
[25397]Nevada Gaming Control Board refused to allow the Tropicana to
[25398]open as long as Sacco was associated with its. operation, where- -. |
[25399]upon the hotel owners were forced to buy back the gift shop lease ~
[25401]at a cost of $180,000, reportedly about thirty times the amount .
[25403]During the above period, Sacco also involved bimsel£ in the .
[25404]| Production, of shows for the Tropicana, but again the Gaming |
[25406]‘Following his. ouster ‘from ‘the - .
[25407]Tropicana, Sacco sold tee machines to most of the Las Mott |
[25408]| at prices far in excess of prices on the open market. .
[25409]also received numerous "£inders fees" from various Las Vegas .
[25410]hotels and casinos for which few if any: services were Segoe
[25411]In October 1960, Sacco and T. W. Richardson. were involved.
[25412]in placing a wire tap on the telephone of comedian Dan Rowan in
[25413]‘Las Vegas at the request of Chicago gangster Sam. Giancana..
[25415]In May 1968, Sacco was convicted of failing to register as
[25417]‘béen forged in an effort to make it. appear that Sacco chad been
[25419]In the course of that 7
[25421]Sacco has long been | a close friend
[25423]whose office the birth records for Chicago were kept.
[25424]Among Sacco's underworld associates are the following:
[25425]Al Capone - head of the Chicago underworld gangs
[25427]Charles F,. Fischetti ~ a Capone lieutenant; ~
[25429]Micky Cohen - gambler and racketeer;
[25431]“now deceased;
[25433]murdered June 20,
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[25439]Jack Dragna - leader of the Cosa Nostra, Los ‘Angeles,
[25441]Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel - member of £ Murder, Tne.
[25443]1947;
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[25456]| displayed fear at the prospect of being. called to testify —
[25457]against. him, and a number of witnesses have refused to ‘testify.
[25459]Oo eo ND A WM & WN ON
[25461]. witnesses deliberately perjured themselves in order to exonerate...
[25463]Allen Smiley - gambler, bookmaker, racketeer;
[25464]Tony Accardo - ranking Cosa Nostra figure;
[25466]_ Momo Adams - ranking Cosa Nostra figure; and >
[25467]Frank Costello - ranking Cosa Nostra figure. .
[25469]"Numerous prospective witnesses in the course of investiga-
[25471]tions concerning Sacco's criminal activities ‘have expressed or
[25473]In the Friars ‘Club trial, it was apparent that a umber of
[25475]Sacco, including Friedman, Vinnie Donato, Lee Deer, and Nat Ross.
[25477]‘Defendant Sacco was convicted in the Friars Club case in |
[25478]December 1968" of interstate travel in aid of a racketeering,
[25479]enterprise and interstate transportation of fraudulently obtained
[25480]securities. He was also convicted of making a false statement in -
[25482]his income tax return. Sacco has had a long practice of concealing.
[25484]the source and nature of his income. He was sentenced to five years
[25486]in prison,
[25488]In view of Sacco" S “extensive ‘criminal record 1 extending t back
[25489]more than’: 40 years, as well as his membership and participation
[25490]in the organized criminal syndicate known as Cosa Nostra, we
[25491]strongly urge that defendant Sacco’ 's sentence not be teduced for.
[25492]any reason whatsoever. He is a genuine menace to society and,
[25494]in particular, to those witnesses who have testified against him.
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[25503]oa CERTIFICATE. OF SERVICE BY MAIL
[25505]Q . =
[25509]Lf JUNE S$ TOKUYAMA ? declare:
[25510]Sf
[25512]4 That I am a citizen of the United states and resident or em-
[25514]ployed in Los Angeles County, California; that: my business address: is - 7
[25515]Office of United States Attorney, United States courthouse, +312 North
[25516]Spring. street, Los Angeles, California 90012; that rt am over the age -
[25518]of, eighteen years, “and am not a party to the above-entitled action; ~
[25520]‘That I am employed by the United States attorney for ‘the cone,
[25522]tral. District. of - california who. is a member - of the Bar of ‘the: United
[25524]States District ‘court for the central District of. California, at nose
[25526]direction the service by math des eribed ‘in this certificate was made; as a eee
[25528]that on - February 17, 1971 » I deposited in the United -
[25529]States mails in the united States Courthouse at 312 North spring St., --
[25530]Los Angeles, California, in the above-entitled action, in an envelope»
[25531]bearing the requisite postage, a copy of
[25533]- GOVERNMENT'S OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANT'S MOTION
[25534]TO REDUCE SENTENCE -
[25536]addressed to _ Adrian Marshall, “Esq. a
[25537]Attorney at Law.
[25539]9601 Wilshire Bivd., Suite 400
[25540]Beverly Hills, California 90210
[25542]at his last known address, at which place there is a delivery ser-
[25543]vice by United States mail. -
[25544]This Certificate is executed on ‘February 17, 1971 ws
[25546]at Los Angeles, California.
[25547]I certify under penalty of " perjury ‘that the foregoing | is true
[25548]and. correct. Coe _
[25549]an ,
[25553].
[25554]car
[25556]USA-12c-2400 me oo
[25557](Rev. 10/19/67) en
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[25562]_ discussed with Roselli the Maheu Cuban matter with which we were concerned; and.
[25564]‘view Rosell{ about his
[25566]_., any problems. | Maheu responded, that he v8.0
[25568]BAS ew Oi
[25570]To : Terry Lenzner
[25572]From 3 Bob Muse
[25575]Subject: Interview of John Roselli
[25577]4
[25579]° On Wednesday February 20, 1974, Scott Armstrong, Mare Lackritz and Bob.
[25581]888 17th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., telephone 833-1440. Also present were
[25582]Wadden's associates Bryan B. McMenamin and Leslie Scherr. Se weg
[25584]Muse interviewed John Roselli at the office of Roselli's attorney, Tom Wadden, © -_ -
[25586]a
[25588]Wadden began the interview by noting that for. the first ‘tine,, he had
[25590]found that it ‘presented a great problem of national security. Accordingly he had ,
[25591]tried to reach Senator Ervin, an old acquaintance, and see if he could persuade the
[25592]Senator from allowing this interview to go forward. He did not get in touch with
[25594]Ervin directly but talked to 4 ‘staff member in Ervin's office, whom he would not .
[25595]identify. He further noted that, Roselli was insistent upon not giving any informatior
[25597]=" shout hig Cuban activities and would rather go to jail than be compelled to testify |
[25599]about the matter. Thus the interview was not’productive insofar as Roselli's
[25600]involvement with Maheu in 3960 ;was, concerned. “However Wadden did allow us to inter-
[25601]‘background and we reserved the right ‘to-have an executive: =,
[25602]session before a Senator where John Roselli might be compelled to testify. about his |
[25603]{nvolvement, with Maheu' in Cuba. (It should be noted that Wadden would not identify.
[25605]his privilege claim other than Saying it related to national security.)-,
[25607]2
[25611]we Pow
[25613]sently resides with his sister and brother-in-law, a Mr.
[25615]oe
[25619]_ and Mrs. Joseph Daigle at 522 Southwest Temp Corner,, Plantation, Florida 33314. His
[25621]telephone number there is area.305 581-6585.. He has been living in retirement with
[25623]- them since he left jail at the end of last summer. Prior to moving to Florida he
[25625]had been in the federal prison for thirty-three months, having been convicted in the
[25626]Friar's Club case, a conspiracy in which he was charged along with Maurice Friedman,
[25627]Benjamin Teitlebaum, and Mamuel Jacobs. (He noted that Hank Greenspun had no involve-
[25628]ment either as a co-defendant or unindicted co-conspirator in that case.)
[25630]With regard to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for the first time in the mid-50's
[25631]in either Washington or, California through a, mutual acquaintance, Herman Spitzel.
[25633]When questions were asked as to what his subsequent involvement with Maheu was,
[25634]ground of 7
[25636]Roselli's attorney instructed him not to answer any questions on the
[25637]national security. °° 6 2 Bat eo Sa
[25639]_ Roselli. did however indicate how he and Maheu had made arrangements for ~
[25640]Hughes to live at the Desert Inn when Hughes first arrived there in late 1966. He
[25641]said that he had received @ call from Maheu, who needed to make arrangements for
[25642]Hughes to move to Las Vegas from Boston. According to Maheu, no one wanted to give
[25643]Hughes any rooms. Roselli at the request of Maheu left his residence in Los Angeles
[25644]and went up to Las Vegas and asked his acquaintance Ruby Kolod, who owned 13% of
[25645]the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes and allow him to take two of the penthouses-
[25646]at the Desert Inn. At the time Maheu was in charge of security and responsible for
[25647]seeing that Hughes arrived unnoticed in Las Vegas. Kolod acquiesced and told _
[25648]Roselli that the top floor of the Desert Inn would be ‘available at the going rate,
[25649]but that they would have to leave the hotel by New Years. When the New Years date |
[25650]was approaching, Maheu called and said that they had. received notice from Kolod and
[25652]“were suppose to leave their premises. Roselli then convinced Kolod to ellow them
[25654]avoid
[25656]BY: .
[25658]to stay. At the same time he told Maheu that Hughes should buy the Hotels and
[25659]f the impression that Hughes did
[25662]i -
[25664]want to get involved in any of the gambling businesses and would not therefore want
[25665]to purchase the hotel. It was at this point that Roselli conceived of the idea of
[25666]trying to sell the hotel, and approached Kolod and asked 4f he would be willing to
[25667]sell it. Kolod@ replied that if Roselli could make arrangements to sell it he would
[25668]receive a finder's fee. Roselli then turned around and-asked Maheu if he wanted to
[25669]purchase it. Maheu responded that he would and Roselli turned the matter over to
[25670]his attorney Ed Morgam who then handled the matter until the end. Roselli also
[25671]instigated some talk about the possibility of purchasing the Sands and, while he did
[25672]‘not negotiate it, received at a later date from Hd Morgan 4 check for $95,000 which -
[25673]represented his finder's fee for the sale of both the Desert Inn and the Sands. -.
[25675]Roselli noted that while Moe Delitz was the owner of the Desert Inn, he.”
[25676]did not negotiate with him because he found him less agreeable than Kolod. He said
[25677]that he had some minor dealings. with Dalitz but none of. them related to matters =
[25678]concerning the Las Vegas hotel industry. . we ee
[25680]With regard to Ed Morgan, Roselli met him in the ‘middle 50's. Since that
[25681]time Morgan has represented him in different Las Vegas interests. He noted that
[25682]Morgan did not represent him in his Friars’ Club defense(but-—did_arrange—for—fia
[25683]Cantillion, a Los Angeles attorney handid’ the matter). He said that he had no
[25684]trouble with Morgan's handling of the Desert Inn finder's fee, since he trusted
[25685]Morgan implicity. He noted that Morgan had arranged for John Roselli to be represent
[25687]by Tom Wadden, his present attorney. This representation first began on the appeal
[25688]from the Friar's Club. rs
[25689]Roselli indicated’ that his only present interest in Las Vegas concerns. —
[25690]his holdings in the gift shop at the Frontier hotel. His involvement there started
[25691]. in 1967 when he had an arrangement with Mr. Friedman. This set-up did not work out
[25692]i and Roselli resigned as President of the gift shop. Thereafter he made an arrange=-
[25693]ment with a Mr. Breen whereby he would furnish Breen with money and indemnify hin
[25694]ca against any losses if Breen would run the gift shop. This arrangement has worked
[25695]; out fairly well and he continues to receive his share of the profits each year from
[25696]the gift shop. He mentioned that it was his opinion that Breen had been poorly
[25697]treated by the Hughes enterprises, since Hughes first purchased the Frontier. He
[25698]_ recalls, at his last meeting with Maheu, asking Maheu to lend Breen $60,000 for the
[25699]4 | gift shop. Maheu' said he would get back to him but never did. Ultimately a loan
[25700]was arranged through Perry Thomas at.the Valley Bank of Nevada.
[25702]Since 1967 Roselli has seen Maheu only once. And while he does not recall
[25703]the date of that meeting he remembers that it was in Los Angeles before Maheu had
[25704]terminated with Hughes. He recalls that Meheu was in Los Angeles at the time while
[25705]: his wife was having a foot operation, and that he called Roselli to have supper.
[25707]é Roselli has no recollection of the conversation that the two had at supper other
[25708]than that they discussed, as noted above, the possibility of arranging a loan for
[25710]Breen at the Frontier Hotel Gift Shop.
[25712]He said he has known Peter Maheu since the middle 1950's and that he went
[25713]to Peter's wedding reception. His only involvement with Peter occurred whenever
[25714]Robert Maheu wanted a message conveyed to Roselli. He recalls no qubsequent substastiw
[25715]discussions with Peter Maheu. ,
[25717]He indicated he knew nothing about larry O'Brien, Tony Hatsis, ‘or Jack
[25718]| ’ Cleveland. Similarly, he has no recollection of ever having met Bebe Rebozo, and
[25719]knows of the person only through newspaper articles.
[25721]With regard to his appearance before the Frontier Hotel grand jury in.
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[25729]io.
[25731]Los Angeles, he remenbers being represented by James Cantillon a ‘Los Angeles attorney
[25732]He remembers that this grand jury was convened sometime in the summer of 1970 and
[25733]that his appearance took place before he went to jail, which was Jamary 25, 1971.
[25734]He has no recollection of Tavid Nissen, the prosecutor,ever having made a comment
[25735]about Maheuj nor did he question Roselli about his recollection of his involvement
[25736]with Maheu in the Cuban undertaking. Roselli had very bad words about Nissen and
[25737]mentioned that Nissen had once filed with Judge Gray an unsigned and undated state-
[25738]ment discussing Roselli!s background » which Roselli ; and Wadden both said was very
[25739]inaccurate. | .
[25741]-:"Roselld has i ‘recollection of being asked to be an informer by Nissen. :
[25743]Hedoes remember, however, being approached by two FBI agents in 1966 about the ~
[25745]‘Possibility of being an informer. This. possibility: is discussed in the court files.
[25747]an .
[25748]a Rosell ‘recalls, ‘appearing four ‘or five ‘times: before the Frontier Hotel”
[25750]grand jury. “He answered questions: extensively only_ on the first day and thereafter |
[25752]appeared at the “request, of | Nissen. and waited_ “around. ' ' Wadden indicated that we should
[25754]make @ “request of Judge ‘Byrne’ ‘or. whoever else “might have access to those grand jury -
[25756]° ” minutes ‘to get Roselli's testimony about ‘the Frontier. Roselli does not recall
[25758]“having talked to Bob Maheu about his appearance before the grand jury. He said he
[25760]: had no recollection of Maheu appearing there but, after being advised by Wadden
[25762]a that. Maheu' 8 eppearance was s well noted | An the > Paper, he said he may have read about
[25766]. . “He” said he has no ‘fecollection « or - knowledge ‘of Bob Maheu ever making an
[25767]“spplicatio on Roselli's ‘behalf for reduction of sentence.
[25769]fey
[25771]oe 7 * “with “regard. ‘to political contributions, ? “he has never had any discussions
[25772]with Rebozo, or had any conversations with anyone about any contributions (of over
[25773]$10, 000) to a Presidential campaign. He has no recollection of the Teamsters making
[25774]any substantial contributions to the Presidential Campaign. Similarly he has no
[25775]knowledge of ferry Thomas making any contribution. ,
[25777]Rosselli has no recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
[25778]Maheu's problems or contacts with the Administration. Specifically, he dees ~
[25779]i>” pot recall Maheu ever talking about ‘Stans or. "any involvements Stans may have
[25780]had, Witt Thomas or Greenspun.” eto gh at,
[25782]; oe _ "he knew nothing about ‘oy use of stolen stocks.
[25784]fy Leet -
[25786]with regard “bo Jim Crosby, Jack ‘avis’ and Mary Carter Paoint Co. he
[25787]knew nothing. Bint larly. he knew nothing sbout sam, Golden.
[25789]He had no "Knowledge of Bob’ Peliguin ‘or Intertel's involvement at
[25790]"paradise Island. Wadden chimed in by noting that he had been an old assaclate
[25791]“of Hundley and had gone to Paradise Island with Hundley 8 about 7 years ago to
[25793]look at the Paradise Island ‘set-up.
[25795]ay Rosell has never talked with or met Jack Caulfield. Nor does he
[25796]_— “ pecall’ ever having any private individuals interview him while he was in jail.
[25797]2°" He recalls however, that three officers from the Immigration Department once vis-
[25798]- 3° dted him’and told him about the detainer that was being held on hin. Similarly,
[25799]while he was in jail, the IRS interviewed him in Los Angeles about the finder's
[25800]fee he received in the Frontier Hotel. ‘The investigation may have related somewhat
[25801]_.. to Maheu, but, since it wag so short, he does pot recall what the discussion
[25802]-;, about Mahen concerned. He noted that no one has, ever asked him about Danner,
[25803]_Reboz0_ or F any members of the Administration. . aera
[25806]With regard to Hank Greenspun, Rosell{ has known him since the 50's.
[25807]The ‘last time he met Greenspun was when he ran into Greenspun in Los Angeles shortly
[25808]after he got out of prison, at which time they talked a few mimites. No questions
[25809]were asked and there was no discussion with Greenspun about his involvement with
[25810]Maheu. He noted that Greenspun | has never questioned him about any matters.
[25812]He noted that “he has never met Gordon Liddy, Hovara Hunt or any of the
[25813]Cuban Americans who wére involved in the Watergate break-in. He said however that
[25814]he has been Liddy once, and that was at Terminal Island when he was acting as a
[25815]prison librarian. There were no discussions with Liddy. He is fairly certain he
[25816]has never met Hunt with regard to any CIA involvement of his own. He also noted
[25817]that he has never had any property | or business dealings in Cuba. ee
[25819]The interview concluded with the serving of a subpoena upon Mr. Roselli
[25820]and the decision to hold a further meeting under oath at : a Jjater date.
[25822]4 -
[25826]ep
[25828]en ren
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[25833]ft el an ae aay ok te
[25837]To : Terry Lenzner
[25838]From : Bob Muse
[25841]Subject: Taterview of John cer :
[25843]ce On Wednesday ‘february 20, “dors, “scott: Armstrong, Mare Lackritz: and Bob. -
[25844]Muse interviewed John Roselli at the office of Roselli's attorney, Tom Wedden, ak -
[25845]888 17th Street, N. W., Washington, D. C., telephone 833-1440. Also present were:
[25847]Wadden's associates Bryan f B. McMenamin and leslie Scherr. : Ste “es
[25849]Cn, * Yadaen began the “interview by noting “that: for. the Pirst. ‘time, he. had
[25850]; discussed with Roselli the Maheu Cuban matter with which we were concerned; and
[25851]found that it presented a great. problem of national security. Accordingly he_ had”
[25852]tried to reach Senator Ervin, an old acquaintance, and see if he could persuade. the
[25853]Senator from ‘allowing this interview. to go forward. He did not get in touch with
[25854]Ervin directly but talked, to ‘a ‘state. ‘member in Ervin's office, whom he would not
[25855]_ identify. He further’ noted that, Roselli was insistent upon not giving any informatior
[25856]about his Cuban activities and “would” rather go to jail than be compelled to testify
[25857]about the matter. Thus the interview. “was “not? “productive insofar_ags Roselli's
[25858]involvement with Maheu in 3960 | was, ‘concerned, However, Wadden ‘aid allow us to inter
[25859]‘yiew Roselli about his ‘background _ and” ‘we’ “reserved, the right to. “have. an ‘executive. :
[25860]session before a Senator | where, John. Roselli might ‘be “compelled ‘to ‘testify. about pis”
[25861]involvement, with Meheu in Cuba.” (It should be noted that Wadden would’ not identify :
[25862]his privilege . clain other than Saying it related to national” security. )_”
[25864]John Roselli ‘presently, resides with his sister and brother-in-law, a Mre -
[25865]and Mrs, Joseph’ Daigle at 522. Southwest" Temp. Corner; Plantation, ° Florida 33314. His
[25866]- telephone number there is area. 305 581-6585. He has been living in retirement with
[25867]_them since he left jail at the end of last summer. Prior to moving to Florida he |
[25868]had been in the federal prison for thirty-three months, having been convicted in the
[25869]Friar's Club case, a conspiracy in which he was charged along with Maurice Friedman,
[25870]Benjamin Teitlebaum, and Manuel Jacobs. (He noted that Hank Greenspun had no involve-
[25872]_ nent either as a co-defendant or unindicted co-conspirator in that case.)
[25874]7 any problems «|
[25876]With regard” to Bob Maheu, he met Maheu for. the ‘first time in the mid-50's
[25877]in either Washington or California through | a. ‘mutual acquaintance, Herman Spitzel.
[25878]When questions were asked as to what his subsequent involvement. with Maheu was,
[25879]Roselli's attorney instructed, him not to answe any questions on the. ground of.
[25880]national security. ” : oe . - ;
[25882]a “Roselli aid however indicate how. he and Maheu ‘had made arrangements for
[25883]' Hughes to live at the Desert Inn when Hughes. first. ‘arrived there in late 1966. He
[25884]said that he had received a call from Maheu, who ‘needed to make arrangements for
[25885]Hughes to move to Las Vegas from Boston. According to Maheu, no one wanted to give
[25886]Hughes any rooms. Roselli at the request of Maheu left his residence in Los Angeles
[25887]-and went up to Las Vegas and asked his acquaintance Ruby Kolod, who owned 13% of |
[25888]the Desert Inn, to accommodate Hughes and allow him to take two of the. penthouses-
[25889]at the Desert Inn. At the time Maheu was in charge of security and responsible for
[25890]seeing that Hughes arrived unnoticed in Las Vegas. Kolod acquiesced and told”
[25891]Roselli that the top floor of the Desert Inn would be ‘available at the “going rate,
[25892]put that they would have te leave the hotel by. New Years. When the New Years date
[25893]was approaching, Maheu called and said that they had received notice from Kolod and
[25894]“were suppose to leave their premises. Roselli then convinced Kolod to allow then .
[25895]to stay. At the same time he told Maheu that Hughes should buy the Hotels | and‘
[25896]Maheu responded that he was of the Aupression that Hughes |¢ didn! te
[25901]want to get involved in any. of the gambling businesses and would not therefore want
[25902]to purchase the hotel. It was at this point that Roselli conceived of the idea of
[25903]; trying to sell the hotel, and approached Kolod and asked if he would be willing to
[25904]{ sell it. Kolod replied that if Roselli could make arrangements to sell it he would
[25905]receive a finder's fee. Roselli then turned around and-asked Maheu if he wanted to -
[25906]purchase it. Maheu responded that he would and Roselli”“turned the matter over to
[25907]his attorney Ed Morgam who then handled the matter until the end. Roselli also
[25908]instigated some talk about the possibility of purchasing the Sands and, while he did
[25909]‘not negotiate it, received at a later date from %d Morgan a check for $95,000 which .
[25910]represented his finder's fee for the sale of both the Desert Inn and the Sands. ._.
[25912]Roselli noted that while Moe Dalitz was the owner of the Desert Inn, he’.
[25913]did not negotiate with him because he found him less agreeable than Kolod. He said
[25914]that he had some minor dealings with Dalitz but none of them related to matters ——
[25915]concerning the las Vegas hotel industry. CO te i
[25917]With regard to Ed Morgan, Roselli met him in the middle 50's. Since that
[25918]time Morgan has represented him in different Las Vegas interests. He noted that
[25920]_ Morgan did not represent him in his Friars’ Club defense(but—did_arrange—forJim
[25922]: Cantillion, a Los Angeles attorney tj handld' the matter). He said that he had no
[25923]trouble with Morgan's handling of the Desert Inn finder's fee, since he trusted
[25924]Morgan. implicity. He noted that Morgan had arranged for John Roselli to be represent
[25925]by Tom Wadden, his present attorney. This representation first began on the appeal —
[25926]from the Friar's Club. ms ,
[25928]Roselli indicated’ that his only present interest in Las Vegas concerns. .
[25929]his boldings in the gift shop at the Frontier hotel. His involvement there started
[25930]in 1967 when he had an arrangement with Mr. Friedman. This set-up did not work out
[25931]and Roselli resigned as President of the gift shop. Thereafter he mde an arrange-
[25932]‘ment with a Mr. Breen whereby he would furnish Breen with money and indemnify hin
[25933]7 against any losses if Breen would run the gift shop. This arrangement has worked |
[25934]out fairly well and he continues to receive his share of the profits each year from
[25935]the gift shop. He mentioned that it was his opinion that Breen had been poorly
[25936]treated by the Hughes enterprises, since Hughes first purchased the Frontier. He
[25937]. recalls, at his last meeting with Maheu, asking Maheu to lend Breen $60,000 for the
[25938]4 gift shop. Msheuw said he would get back to him but never did. Ultimately a loan
[25939]was arranged through Perry Thomas at the Valley Bank of Nevada. ,
[25943]. Since 1967 Roselli has’ seen Maheu only once. And while he does not recall
[25944]the date of that meeting he remembers that it was in Los Angeles before Maheu had
[25945]-terminated with Hughes. He recalls that Meheu was in Los Angeles at the time while
[25946]his wife was having a foot operation, and that he called Roselli to have supper.
[25947]Roselli has no recollection of the conversation that the two had at supper other
[25948]than that they discussed, as noted above, the possibility of arranging a loan for
[25949]Breen at the Frontier Hotel Gift Shop.
[25951]_ He said he has known Peter Maheu since the middle 1950's and that he went
[25952]to Peter's wedding reception. His only involvement with Peter occurred whenever
[25953]Robert Maheu wanted a message conveyed to Roselli. He recalls no euhsequent $/b sf w
[25954]discussions with Peter Maheu. :
[25958]He indicated he knew nothing about Larry O'Brien, Tony Hatsis, or Jack
[25959]| Cleveland, Similarly.he has no recollection of ever having met Bebe Rebozo, and
[25960]knows of the person only through newspaper articles.
[25962]With regard to his appearance before the Frontier Hotel grand jury in
[25964]a i ee rn a ea
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[25968]. os
[25970]Los Angeles, he renenbers being represented by James Cantillon a Los Angeles attorney
[25971]He remembers that this grand jury was convened sometime in the summer of 1970 and
[25972]that his appearance took place before he went to jail, which was Jamary 25, 1971. =
[25974]- He hag no recollection of Tavid Nissen, the prosecutor,ever having made a comment ,
[25975]about Maheu; nor did he question Roselli about his recollection of his involvement
[25976]with Maheu in the Cuban undertaking. Roselli had very bad words about Nissen and
[25977]mentioned that Nissen hhad once filed with Judge Gray an unsigned and undated state-
[25978]“ment discussing Roselli's background, which Roselli > and Wadden both said was very '
[25979]inaccurate.’
[25981]Roselli has no recollection of being asked to be an informer by Nissen. 7 :
[25982]Hedoes” remenber, however, being approached by two FBI agents in 1966 about the _
[25983]‘Possibility of being. an informe This ‘Possibility is discussed in the court files.
[25985]“ Roselli recalls appearing Pour ‘or five ‘times before the Frontier Hotel”
[25986]- grand jury.” “He answered questions, extensively only_ on the first day and thereafter ‘
[25987]7 appeared " at the’ “request. of. Nissen. and waited_ ‘around. | | Wadden indicated that we should
[25988]“ make a “request of Judge. Byrne. or “whoever | else “might have access to those grand jury
[25989]“ minutes ‘to get Roselli's” testimony about the Frontier. Roselli does not recall
[25990]having talked to Bob Maheu about his appearance before the grand jury. He said he
[25991]> . had no recollection ‘of Maheu appearing there but, after being advised by Wadden
[25992]L that, Maheu" 8 appearance was swell noted An the > paper, he said he may have read about
[25994]ie ‘He said he has no recollection or Knowledge | of Bob Maheu ever ‘making an.
[25995]“applicat on on Roselli! 8 - behalf for’ Feduction of sentence. ;
[25997]“With Tegard. “to 5 politizel ‘contributions, 3 “he has never had any discussions.
[25998]“with Rebozo, or had any conversations with anyone about any contributions (of over
[25999]$10, 000) to a Presidential campaign. He has no recollection of the Teamsters making
[26000]any substantial contributions to the Presidential Campaign. Similarly he has no
[26002]. knowledge of ferry Thomas making any contribution. ,
[26004]; Rosselli has no recollection of ever discussing with Maheu any of
[26005]* Maheu' s problems or contacts with the Administration. Specifically, he does
[26006]pot. recall Maheu ever talking. about, Stans or any involvements Stans may have
[26007]“hed wi Th ma.8 | or Greenspun." vad,
[26009]With regard to Jim Crosby, ‘Jack ‘Davis and “Mary carter Paoint: Co. he
[26010]knew nothing. Similarly . he knew nothing. about in Golden.
[26012]0 He had no ‘enowledge of Bob Peliguin ‘or - Intertel's involvement at
[26013]“Paradise Island. Wadden chimed in by noting that he had been an old associate
[26014]“of Hundley and had ‘gone to Paradise Island with Hundley about 7 years ago to
[26015]look at t the Paradise Island set-up.
[26017]ro , ‘Rosell has never talked with or met Jack Caulfield.. Nor does he
[26018]ae “pecall’ ever having any private individuals interview him while he was in jail.
[26019]we eo He recalls however, that three officers from the Immigration Department once vis-
[26020]~ {ted him’and told him about the detainer that was being held on him. Similarly,
[26021]while he was in dail, the IRS: interviewed him in Los Angeles about the finder's
[26022]fee he received in the Frontier Hotel. ‘The investigation may have related somewhat
[26023]to Maheu, but, since it was so short, he does not recall what the discussion a
[26024]"about Maheu concerned. ‘He. “noted that no one has ever asked him about Danner,
[26025]“Rebozo" or any. members. of the Administration,
[26028]. oe
[26029]1 etanmcnaaaapanananteies et ee ey
[26031]Ba gente
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[26035]With regard to Hank Greenspun, Roselli has known him since the 50's.
[26036]The last time he met Greenspun was when he ran into Greenspun in Los Angeles shortly
[26037]after he got out of prison, at which time they talked a few minutes. No questions
[26038]were asked and there was no discussion with Greenspun about his involvement with
[26039]Maheu. He noted that Greenspun } has never questioned him about any matters.
[26041]He noted that “he has never met Gordon Liddy, Howard Hunt or any of the
[26042]Cuban Americans who wére involved in the Watergate break-in. He said however that
[26043]he has been Liddy once, and that was at Terminal Island when he was acting as a
[26045]' prison librarian. There were no discussions with Liddy. He is fairly certain he -
[26047]has never met Hunt with regard to any CIA involvement of his own. He also noted
[26048]that he has never had any property | or business dealings in Cuba. a ae
[26050]'
[26052]The interview concluded with the serving of a subpoena upon Mr. Roselli
[26053]and the decision to hold a further meeting under oath at a Jater date.
[26055]wee ee ge ee eee
[26058]11 | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
[26059]12 a Plaintiff,
[26060]13s Ve
[26061]_ 14] Maurice H. FRIEDMAN;
[26062]_ || MANUEL JACOBS (aka RICKY JACOBS);
[26064]15 | victor a, LANDS;
[26065]T. WARNER RICHARDSON,
[26067]7) pece1ie7
[26070]curs. sph Etrict court
[26071]CENTRAL DISTRICT] OF CALIFORNIA ;
[26072]op So.
[26075]“UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
[26076]CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
[26078]wo, 1432
[26080]eee te DEG
[26084]18 U.S.C. §1952: Interstate-
[26086]Transportation in Aid of
[26087]Racketeering; 18 U.S.C. §2314:
[26088]Interstate Transportation of
[26089]Funds Obtained by Fraud; .
[26090]47 U.S.C. §502: Operating Un-
[26091]certified Communication | Device
[26092]26 U.S.C. $7206 (1) Subscribing
[26093]False Tax Return. }
[26095]Commencing prior to June 15, 1962, and continuing. to the
[26096]date of the return of this indictment, defendants MAURICE H. FRIEDMAN
[26098]° WARNER RICHARDSON, FILIPPO Sacco (also Known as JOHN ROSSELLI),
[26099]PENJAMIN TEITELBAUM, and their unindicted co-conspirators Ernest S,
[26101]| ceorge McFarland), Alfred Mathes, George E. Seach, and Albert Snyder
[26103]FILIPPO SACCO (aka JOHN ROSSELLI);
[26104]7 EENJAMIN TEITELBAUM, | ;
[26105]18 Defendants,
[26107]19 The Grand Jury charges:
[26108]20 COUNT ONE
[26109]21 [18 usc §371]
[26110]22
[26111]23
[26112]24 ‘MANUEL JACOBS (also known as RICKY JACOBS), VICTOR G. LANDS,
[26113]25 |!
[26114]26
[26115]27 Allen, Vernall Furlong (also know as William G. Douglas), Edwin
[26116]28 | Nathaniel Gebhard (also known as Pete Kelly, Pete Peterson, and .
[26117]29 ' . .
[26118]30
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[26126]against the United States as follows:
[26128]agreed, confederated and conspired together to commit offenses
[26130](a) To travel in interstate. commerce. and_ use facilities | 7
[26132]TO
[26134]ADRIAN MARSHALL
[26135]WADDEN, WALL: & RUDY
[26136]9601 Wilshire Blvd.
[26138]Suite 400
[26140]Beverly Hills, California 90210
[26143]Attorneys for Defendant
[26145]Filippo Sacco, also known as .
[26146]John Rosselli.
[26148]Jun 28 9 32 AN "il
[26150]CLERK 38.2 STRICT COUR
[26151]CERT Luff
[26153]‘UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
[26154]Lt 4 / ee
[26155]CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA ne = eS
[26157]_ 201 —
[26159]NO. 1432 - Criminal ( whe )
[26161]) NOTICE OF MOTION FOR
[26162]_ vs. - ). REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
[26163](RULE 35 FRCP); POINTS AND
[26164])
[26165])
[26166])
[26167])
[26169]O09 oO FH OD oO Ff | wD eH
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[26174]UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
[26175]. Plaintiff,
[26177]BoP
[26178]& oO Db
[26180]| F ILIPPO SACCO, also known as" AUTHORITIES; AFFIDAVITS
[26181]JOHN ROSSELLL et al, _ IN SUPPORT THEREOF |
[26183]=)
[26184]an
[26186]Defendants
[26188]=)
[26189]a
[26191]Poi
[26192]oO
[26194]TO DAVID R. NISSEN, Chief, Criminal Division, Umited States Attorneys
[26195]Office, Los Angeles, California:
[26196]PLEASE ‘TAKE NOTICE that.On July 6, 1971, at 2:00 o'clock P.M. :
[26199]KF Oo 6
[26201]or as soon thereafter as the matter can be heard, atthe Courtroom of the
[26203]np
[26206]Honorable William P. Gray, defendant, Filippo Sacon, also known as
[26208]Lt)
[26209]io
[26211]John Rosselli, will ‘move the Court for a reduction of sentence entered in this
[26213]to
[26214]if
[26216]case, Said motion will be based upon the grouniis stated herein, the
[26218]to
[26219]oi
[26221]affidavits attached hereto, additional affidavits defenfant proposes to file
[26224]to;)
[26226]before the date of the hearing, oral testimony to be presented at the hearing,
[26228]Nw
[26229]a)
[26231]and all of the files, records, pleadings and other domuments in this case.
[26233]Defendant was convicted of one count of violation of 18 U.S.C.
[26235]Oo N
[26236]Oo OQ
[26238]8371, one count of violation of 18 U.S.C. $1952, tauree counts of violation ‘of
[26240]18 U.S.C. §2314 and one count of violation of 26 U.S.C. §7206 (1).
[26242]. i
[26243]1 tnt eet IO Pe gD
[26245]ol Defendant was sentenced to three years imprisonment and a fine
[26247]32 || of $10,000.00 on Count One, two years to run consecutively to Count One and
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[26255]a fine of $10,000.00 for Count Six, and two years imprisonment to run
[26257]i
[26258]2 concurrently with Count Six and a fine of $10, 000. 00 for each of Counts .
[26259]3] Sixteen, Seventeen and Eighteen of the Indictment, and one year imprisonment
[26260]4 to run concurrently with Count One and.a fine of $5,000. 00 for Count
[26261]5§|| Twenty-Two. The total imprisonment was five years and the total fine was
[26262]6|| $55, 000. 00. | | |
[26263]-] On January 18th and'19th, 1971, there appeared in newspapers |
[26264]8|| throughout the country nationally syndicated articles by columnist
[26265]Oi Jack Anderson alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence
[26266]101} Agency of the United States Government as set forth in said articles.
[26267]121 - The affidavits of. Jack Anderson and his assistant, Les Whitten, are
[26268]12|| attached hereto and included therewith are copies of the columns, set forth
[26269]13 as Exhibits A andB. Exhibits A and B were published on the 18th and 19th
[26270]14 | of January, 1971. Attached as Exhibit C is a follow-up column which
[26271]15]: appeared on February 24, 1971, and Exhibits D and E which are copies
[26272]16]|} of the office records of columnist Jack Anderson, which were released
[26273]17], and published on April 18th and April 27th, 1971. a ;
[26274]13] The undersigned is informed that at no-time prior to the
[26275]49 sentencing of defendant were the matters set forth in Exhibits A and B
[26276]20|| of the attached affidavits brought to the Court's attention. It is the belief
[26277]21), of the undersigned that had these matters been brought to the Court's
[26278]22|, attention they would have materially affected the sentence handed down.
[26279]23 by the Court in this case.
[26280]24 Defendant proposes to file and serve additional affidavits in |
[26281]25 support of this written motion and to present the testimony of at least one
[26282]26]; witess at the hearing on July 6, 1971. The additional affidavits and/or
[26283]27 testimony to be produced at the hearing may relate to the financial ability
[26284]28) of defendant to pay the fine of $55, 000.00 as well as the condition of
[26285]29 defendant's health. — . .
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[26325]POINTS AND AUTHORITIES
[26327]1. Rule 35 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.
[26328]2. United States v. Ellenbogen (2nd Cir.) 390 F. 2d 537.
[26330]DATED: June 25, 1971. oe
[26331]Respectfully submitted,
[26333]ADRIAN MARSHALL
[26334]WADDEN, WALL & RUDY
[26336]Attorneys for Defendant,
[26337]Filippo Sacco, also known
[26338]as John Rosselli
[26340]|
[26341]i
[26342]|
[26343]4
[26344]|
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[26350]AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
[26351]FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
[26352]AND REQUEST FOR. EVIDENTIARY HEARING
[26354]CITY OF WASHINGTON )
[26355]oS : ) ss.
[26356]DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA }
[26358]JACK ANDERSON, being duly sworn, deposes. and says the ;
[26360]following:
[26362]1. I ama nationally syndicated columnist writing
[26363]under my own by-line. For many years prior to the death of Mr.
[26364]Drew Pearson, he and I wrote a column known as the "Washington
[26365]Merry-Go-Round".
[26367]2. I wrote the. articles attached hereto as Exhibits
[26368]A and B pertaining to certain activities performed by John
[26369]Rosselli, the Defendant herein, on behalf of the United States
[26370]Government.
[26372]3. “The information contained in said articles was
[26373]made available to me by persons employed by the United States
[26374]Government who, in the past, have supplied ne with accurate and
[26375]truthful information as pertains to other subjects.
[26377]4. after receiving said basic information, my staff
[26378]and I. conducted an impartial and independent investigation
[26379]regarding John Rosselli's activities as destribed in Exhibit A,
[26381]which were performed at the behest of Agents of the United
[26383]States Government.
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[26387]5. The aforementioned investigation satisfied me that
[26389]the facts set forth in Exhibit A are a truthful account of Mr.
[26391]Rosselli's activities as described therein.
[26393]Sworn to before me this 17th day of @fne, 1971.
[26394]Nene £ Qerea! ee
[26395]NOTARY PUBLIC |
[26397]My Conemicaran aygentd Marek 3), 1975
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[26411]following:
[26413]Rosselli, and services performed by him on behalf of the Central
[26415]Intelligence Agency, an organ of the United States Federal Gov-
[26417]Department in order to mitigate the government's prosecution of
[26419]AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF MOTION
[26420]FOR REDUCTION OF SENTENCE
[26421]AND REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY HEARING
[26423]CITY OF WASHINGTON) oe,
[26424]° '  ) ss. .
[26426]LESLIE WHITTEN, being duly sworn, deposes and says the
[26428]1. I am employed as principal associate of nationally-
[26430]syndicated columnist Jack Anderson, writer of:."Washington Merry-
[26432]Go-Round". 7 - oS
[26434]2. I worked on certain articles relating to John
[26436]ernment. ,
[26437]3. As part of my investigation, I twice called William
[26438]K. Harvey, a retired Central Intelligence Agency official, now of
[26439]Indianapolis. |
[26441]4 On my first call, in January, I asked Harvey if it
[26443]were not true that he had personally intervened with the Justice
[26445]Rosselli on the basis that Rosselli had done a’ formidable service
[26446]for his country. Harvey said "this is a long story . . . I don't
[26447]think it ought to be printed." I asked him whether it was not
[26448]true that he had a high regard for Rosselli. *I still do," he
[26449]earnestly replied. .
[26451]5- In pursuing the story further, I called Harvey
[26453]again in Indianapolis in February and asked him whether he could -
[26455]comment on our story about Rosselli which by now has been pub-
[26457]lished widely in the United States. He declined to comment. But
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[26464]he twice reaffirméd his "high regard" for Rosselli. I advised
[26465]him I was making an affidavit on Rosselli's behalf. and he ex-
[26466]pressed concern for Rosselli, asked his present status and said
[26467]he would "follow up" on Rosselli's behalf from his end.
[26469]| 6. Based on my part of the investigation, I am satis-
[26470]fied that the facts set down in Exhibit A, appended to the Affi-
[26471]davit of Jack Anderson, are a truthful account of Rosselli! s
[26473]activities on behalf of the United States.
[26475]LESLIE WHITTEN
[26476]- Sworn to before me this 17th day of June, 1971.
[26478]NOTARY PUBLIC
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[26492]Notary Pablic in and jor said County and Siete of California
[26493]. ‘ (SEALS . :
[26495]Notice of Motion, Mection for ‘Reduction 5
[26497]Bae cop oe wii of Sentence and Request for Evidenti: feat 2h an ol. February 97
[26499]Hearing, Memorandum of Points and iy
[26500]ARR SE VER in Support thereof, 4... 0 :°™
[26502]ECEIVED A COPY OF THIS Bocunkent —— age
[26503]THIS 3 3.765 DAY OF <fe be 4
[26505]UL S. arroRNet's orice: .,
[26507]STATE OF CALIFORNIA
[26508]COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES,
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[26512]: and then srating said eneclope and depositing ha sos. hare wage thereon Jolly prepa tn the Bisel States mail at the
[26513]. : - . wo by they waling acid carla end denenng i sie. ith poane shen fl berwee tous mule,
[26514]: : That chere is a dehvery service by Unised States mail at che place se addressad or °° share és a cgular commanication by
[26516]snail between the place of mailing end the place 00 olde":
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[26521]“\ SHfeve quote from encclope name and ‘Gddeess 8 a) ads le ont
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[26540]UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
[26542]ADRIAN MARSHALL- .
[26543]WADDEN, WALL & RUDY
[26544]9601 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 400
[26546]- Beverly Hills, California 90210
[26548]272 9211
[26550]Attorneys for Defendant
[26552]UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT «>
[26553]CENTRAL DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA a
[26555]NO. 1175- PH
[26557]_
[26559]Plaintiff, 4 = MOTION FOR REDUCTION”
[26560]ae . -) —.. OF SENTENCE AND -
[26561]CVS a | REQUEST FOR EVIDENTIARY
[26562])
[26563])
[26565]| HEARING
[26566]FILIPPO SACCO, also known :
[26567]as JOHN ROSSELLI, | =
[26569]Defendant.
[26573]Defendant FILIPPO SACCO, also known as JOHN ROSSELLI,. by his attorneys, -
[26575]ADRIAN MARSHALL and WADDEN, WALL & RUDY, _requests this Court
[26577]to grant a hearing for the presentation of oral testimony ‘and other evidence’.
[26578]in support of defendant's Motion for Reduction of Sentence entered in this”
[26579]case. As grounds therefor defendant alleges:
[26581]1. Defendant was convicted of six counts of violation of Title 8-
[26583]U.S.C. Sections 1302 and 1306 (a) and Title 8 U.S.C. Sections 1305 and
[26585]1306 (b) and sentenced to six months on Count 1 and thirty days on Counts
[26587]2 through 6, all to run concurrently. .
[26589]2. , On January 18, 1971, the mandate was spread and defendant was
[26590]ordered to surrender to the United States Marshal at noon on January 25, 1971,.
[26591]for direct delivery of defendant to Terminal Island for service of his sentence.
[26593]3. Ct “On January 18 and 19, 1971, there appeared in newspapers through
[26595]out the country nationally syndicated articles of columnist Jack Anderson
[26597]alleging that defendant had assisted the Central Intelligence Agency in an
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[26605]mn
[26606]t
[26608]assassination attempt against Fidel Castro. Attached hereto as Exhibits A
[26609]and B are Xerox copies of said publications.
[26610]4. _ At no time prior to the sentencing of defendant \ were the ©
[26611]matters referred to in Exhibits A and B brought to the Court’ s attention, -
[26612]5. _ At an evidentiary hearing, defendant will present oral testimony
[26613]and other evidence in support of this motion related to the matters set forth
[26615]| in Jack Anderson’ s column which defendant feels will materially affect the | - -
[26617]Court’ s reconsideration of the sentence entered in this case. ares io
[26619]0 oO BOA Pe wD PE
[26621]6. _ On or before February 19, ‘1974; defendant Proposes to file
[26623]a
[26624]oO
[26626]and | serve additional affidavits in support of this written motion. 7
[26628]Mo
[26629]noe
[26631]Dated: © February12, 1971
[26632]. ; i Respectfully submitted,
[26633]-ADRIAN MARSHALL |
[26634]WADDEN, WALL & RUDY
[26636]’ ADRIAN MARSHALL -
[26637]_ Attorneys for Defendant. —
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[26647]June 24, 1978 tescinony of John Rosselli before Committee
[26648]Senator \Church presiding .
[26652]Rosselli first met Maheu in approximately July, 1960,
[26654]pursuant to a telephone call from Maheu. At their first
[26655]meeting, Maheu told Rosselli that a high government official
[26656]had requested that Maheu recruit Rosselli to "fight Communism
[26657]90 miles away from Florida" -- to recruit Cubans to assassinate
[26658]Castro.
[26660]New York
[26662]p. 10-11 Rosselli had second meeting with Maheu and went to New York
[26663]; in September under the alias of John Rawiston [Castro was
[26664]in New York at this time]. Rosselli met Jim O'Connell of
[26665]CIA, plus "three others."
[26667]Florida
[26669]p. 12-15 O'Connell, Maheu and Rosselli met in Florida hotel approxi-
[26670]mately one week after New York. Rosselli introduced Giancana
[26671]to Maheu. Also introduced X (Trafficante) to Maheu. Obtained
[26672]permission from Maheu to bring Giancanainto project.
[26674]p. 17 Rosselli recruits Cuban #1, Rosselli's cover was as Wall Street
[26675]businessman. Rosselli and Maheu agree on a $250,000 price tag
[26676]for the job.
[26678]p. 20 O'Connell never met Cubans. Trafficante, Cubans and Maheu met.
[26680]Maheu brought $10,000 and poison capsules.
[26682]‘p. 26 | Rosselli told Giancana about CIA involvement to keep his mouth.
[26683]' ghut. Rosselli only had one discussion with Giancana.
[26685]p. 27 O'Connell called Rosselli after Bay of Pigs. Met in Florida
[26686]not long after Bay of Pigs with William Harvey, O'Connell and
[26687]Rosselli. Harvey told Rosselli that he wanted Rosselli to
[26688]have nothing to do with Maheu and not to use Giancana connections.
[26690]p. 35 Rosselli indicates that pro-Castro people in Florida probably
[26691]had inkling of assassination attempts.
[26693]p. 44 During Missle Crisis, Harvey asked Rosselli to see if "they"
[26694]had any intelligence on us, on. the missiles.
[26699]me . c
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[26707]p. 81
[26708]p. 82
[26709]p. 84
[26711]p. 88
[26712]p. 89
[26713]p. 90
[26715]FBI agents Hill and Dodge met with Rosselli and his lawyer,
[26716]Cantillon, At this time Dodge informed Rosselli that the
[26718]FBI was aware that he was not a U.S. citizen. Dodge indicated
[26719]something about Nevada and some other secret organizations.
[26721]Rosselli met with Sheffield Edwards in 1966 for some drinks
[26722]and discussed his problems with the FBI.
[26724]Rosselli received a telephone call from an FBI agent, Jack
[26725]Barron in June of 1970. The agent informed Rosselli that his
[26726]appeals can be reversed. He was told that his lawyers and
[26727]friends can't do anything for him in Washington.
[26729]Rosselli talked with Bill Harvey prior to his testimony before
[26730]the Select Committee to see if Harvey had objections and
[26732]Harvey only suggested that Rosselli protect those people whose
[26733]lives and whose families might be jeopardized by his testimony.
[26735]Rosselli stated he did not know the five so-called Watergate
[26736]burglars -- Hunt, McCord, Barker, Martinez or Sturgis.
[26738]Roselli had no doubt that the Cuban operation was on behalf
[26739]of the CIA and not Mr. Hughes.
[26741]Rosselli stated that his Cuban contacts were never informed .
[26743]‘that this was a CIA project, but that ‘he represented a Wall
[26745]Street business:
[26747]“In the period 1967-1968, Rosselli failed to register as an
[26749]alien and faced criminal charges.
[26751]Rosselli describes how he is brought into the operation --
[26752]Maheu's contact: and O'Connell's satisfying him that they
[26753]were government representatives.
[26755]Rosselli stated that Sheffield Edwards was not overly concerned
[26756]with the FBI's contacting Rosselli.
[26758]Rossell's reason for not informing his sources that it was
[26759]a CIA operation was because he believed he would be more
[26760]successful doing what he was doing by representing big
[26762]business.
[26764]When the FBI contacted Rosselli in both 1966 and 1970
[26765]they hinted that they wanted Rosselli to provide information
[26766]about United States gambling interests. ;
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[26770]p. 44
[26773]p. 47
[26775]p. 47
[26777]Pp. 52.
[26778]p. 52
[26781]p. 58 |
[26782]Pp. 59.
[26783]Pp. 61
[26784]“p. 62
[26786]p. 64
[26788]p. 66
[26790]After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the whole operation came
[26791]to a halt and Rosselli said he was never in contact. with
[26792]the Cubans again..
[26794]Rosselli met Harvey at Dulles Airport in Washington after
[26795]the Missile Crisis, in June 1963, and had dinner with him
[26796]in Washington that night.
[26798]Rosselli mentions FBI had him under surveillance for several
[26799]years. ; So
[26801]Roselli has two stories re Rowan wiretap from Maheu. Maheu
[26802]told him he wanted Rosselli to get some bail money for two
[26803]guys in Las Vegas who were in trouble and he had placed some
[26804]taps in Rowan's room because 1) Maheu was doing Giancana a
[26805]favor, and 2) Maheu had the authority to see if Giancana was
[26807]leaking to his girlfriend.
[26809]Rosselli arranged bail money for the two men who were caught
[26810]tapping Rowan's room.
[26812]Giancana laughed when Rosselli discussed tapping incident with
[26813]him, but gave no clues to the reason for the tap.
[26815]Rosselli'met in New York with O'Connell and Harvey in April
[26816]1962. ,
[26818]Rosselli states to the Committee that he felt the CIA came
[26819]to him because he has contacts in Cuba.
[26821]Rosselli states he took on "project" because it was the
[26822]government; he was patriotic.
[26824]Rosselli knew Trafficante before “operation” started.
[26826]Rosselli maintained some contact with Maheu after Harvey took’
[26829]Rosselli still is social friends with Harvey.
[26830]In April or May of 1966, Rosselli was stopped in the street
[26832]by two FBI agents with note saying to meet him later. Rosselli
[26833]referred them to his attorney, Mr. Cantillon
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[26837]MWmnited States Henate-
[26839]SELECT COMMITTEE TO
[26840]STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
[26841]RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
[26842](PURSUANT TO S. RES. 21, 4TH concress)
[26843]WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20510
[26846]_ Howard--
[26848]In re your "battle plan" memo. to Hart
[26849]and Garn, I think you should consider possible
[26850]wis dom of our Committee making some kind of
[26851]very low-key anouncement that we're doing
[26852]something. Purpose would be two-fold--to
[26853]prevent getting wholly co-opted by new
[26854]House Committee (and agencies making a
[26855]claim that since House is doing it, they can |
[26856]ignore us~---also to put House on notice there @
[26857]is specific area we have carved and will
[26858]‘continue to carve out for ourselves). Most
[26859]jmportant, we must do something affirmative to
[26860]insure that the sources out there come to us.
[26861]If we say nothing, potentials which just go
[26862]to House. under assumption that that’s the only
[26863]thing going on.
[26865]Attached is the type of low-key someone
[26866]could say/ in response to an inquiry (which
[26867]I assume Spencer gets lots of).
[26869]Mike
[26872]The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is conducting a
[26874]limited inquiry into certain leads which the Church Committee
[26876]did not have & time to finish checking out.
[26877]tating: wt (ln Be yo “)
[26878]also hether or Mr.
[26880]appearances eke tl
[26881]was related in any way to his HeSkXMERY before the ‘Comm ttee.
[26883]The Committee is
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[27066]' DeLoreuto Mohr 12-12-63 .
[27067]res Assassination of the President
[27069]I told Ford in strict confidence that the Director concurred with his
[27070]viewpoint. I mentioned that our investigation thus far had conclusively shown that 2
[27071].Oswald operated by himself and that Ruby additionally was a loner, However, FBI
[27072]~@ investigation was still pending on a large number of rumors, speculation and gossip
[27073]4 ‘and it, therefore. :vould be quite unfair for the Commission to take a stand prior to
[27074]pul the evidence being turned in. Ford stated this was his point entirely and that
[27075]“Although he was a minority of one he intended to slick to hs point. '
[27077]Ford told me that John McCone, Director of CIA, had, approximately
[27078]one week ago, gone up to his otfice and told him that CIA had uncovered some : wu
[27079]“startling information" in the Oswald case. MecCone proceeded to tell Ford that a
[27080]F source of CL\'s in Mexico had seen money exchanee hands between Oswald and an
[27081]“unknown Cuban Nevro. Ford stated this excited him greaily inasmuch as it definitely
[27082]q. cended to show there was an international connection involved in the assassination <f
[27083]{che President. <\Oaty peewwaa Uru Geannnslarwa i
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[27088]I told Ford that apparently McCohe had failed to follow up on this matter.
[27089]. {mentioned that CIA's source had recanted his story and had indicated thatitayas a,
[27090]igment of his jain, However, to prove the unstable tendencies of this source, r
[27091]ft die souree had later claimed that _he was actually telling the truta, T pointed out that we,
[27092]g oO SUL Checsine Sume ances ul das; however, tie CIA seurce was obviously eilher
[27093]{. nsi7™%e or somewhat of A psyChcpathic liar., Ford stated he could certainly see this.
[27094]: , L j a Pn AL and aA. pe ND >. M ae
[27095]pe . Ford indicated he would keep me thorouchly advised as tb the aciivities of
[27096]ae Commission, He stated this would have to be on a confidential basis, however, he
[27097]hought it should be done. He also asked if he could call me from time to time and "
[27098]wm traighten out questions in his mind concerning our investigation. I told him by all ; oF
[27099]-aeans he should do this. He reiterated that our relationship would, of course, remain
[27100]-onfidential, ,
[27102]We have had excellent relations with Congressman Ford for many years,
[27103]‘e has been given an autographed copy of the Director's book "A Study of Communism"
[27104]ind has been in touch with my office on numergus occasions in the past,
[27106]i
[27108]; 3 ae et |
[27109]i CTION: , . 2% ns re! ad :
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[27111]. . i . a’ ’ i?
[27112]Contact will be maintained with Congressman Ford, Qi ue pe! ; if
[27113]: Ae } ° ge
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[27134]7 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT .
[27135]Vlemorandum oe
[27136]December 12, 196%
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[27154]I had a long talk this morning with Congressman Gerald it. (Gerry) Ford
[27156](Rt, - Miciigan) in his office. He asked ihat I come up to sce him. Upon arriving he
[27158]told me he wanted to tall in the strictest of confidence. This was agreed to.
[27160].
[27162]air
[27163]To, fine)’
[27165]Tus
[27167]Mr. Mohr DATE:
[27169]C. D, DeLoach
[27171]ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT
[27173]vod ed
[27175]Tele. Hoo .
[27177]AS
[27180]FROM
[27182]SUBJECT:
[27184]- a
[27185]Cel aon os ay ne
[27186]£4- Pord told me he was somewhat disturbed about the manner in which
[27187]carrying on nis Chairmanship of the Presicential Commission.
[27188]He explained that the ti-s mistake that Warren made was his atlempt to establish a
[27189]“one man comunission') by appointing a Chief Counsel, Warren Olney, that was his own
[27190]protege. Ford stated that after the mention of Olney's name by the Chief Justice, at
[27191]\Wheir first meeting, Allow Dulles, former Director of CIA, protested quite violently. 1
[27192]Because of Dullés’ protest, the other members told Warren that they would like to know .- |
[27194]ore about Olney prior to giving their consent, , - Ne
[27196]. . XN - \s \ .
[27198]Fordand Hale Boggs joined SN
[27200]On the occasion of their second meeting,
[27201]Hale Boggs told Warren flatly that Clney would not be acceptable and that
[27202]ork on the Commission with Olney. Warren put up a stiff
[27203]omise was.imace when the name of hee Rankin was mentioned.
[27204]Rankin and could work with hime .,). j : le ‘
[27206]Ford told me that he was currently having problems inasmuch as the-
[27207]majority of the members of the Commission desired to zo along with the recommendatio
[27209]enbach's Leiter to the Commission dated 12-9-63.
[27211]made in Deputy Attorney General tatz
[27212]In this Iclhter, Katzenbach recommended that the Commission make an immecicte 4
[27214]press relcase pointing out that the FBI report clearly showed there was no internationas
[27215]conspiracy or collusion and that Oswald was a loner. Ford stated he was a minority of
[27216]sion had had a )
[27218]wF Dulles. ~
[27219]he (Homes) weuld not
[27220]argument gut a compr
[27222]Warren siated he knew Get _
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[27239]: (lone that did not want to ceive oul any press reloase until the Commis 5
[27240]I ii thorough opportunity to review and discuss the FLI report. (I noted that the report was,
[27241]Ugh Opp y : asy
[27242]| fon his desk at the time of our meeting. ay |
[27244]‘ . 1 FO!
[27245]i- Mr. Belmont Ad h . IN lp tex ‘ 7 H +
[27246]1- Mr. Rosen . ~ Q +f paynest and is pote for. wiser Ko “a |
[27247]1-Mr. Evans | cument #8 prepared in rea? SC ‘0 f limite fy official rece” ; me i
[27248]J - Mr. Sullivan?" ln ida HOUT Committe vd vl be disclayed to wuuubhorized pol ie
[27249]he. Ware tteg rantend NUL! a - :
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[27266]pu the evidence being
[27267]although he was a mino
[27269]Ford tol
[27270]one weck ago, gone up)
[27271]"startling information"
[27273]iInknown Cuban Nera,
[27274]q che President,
[27275]} Oe, :
[27277]TS ‘eves
[27278]IT told Fo
[27280]t mentioned that CIA's source had
[27282]SF PO-StuiE Tic
[27285]g traighten out questions
[27286]i: neans he should do this
[27287]_:onfidential.
[27289]We have
[27290]‘te has been given an au
[27292]: jd has been in touch wi
[27294]4
[27297]Pou ota Ne)
[27299]bod
[27301]I told Ford in strict confidence that the Director concurred with his
[27302]viewpoint. I mentioned that our investigation thus far had conclusively shown that
[27303]Oswald operated by himself and that Ruby additionally was a loner. However, FBI
[27304]investigation was still pending on a large number of rumors, speculation
[27305]iand it, therefore. ‘vould be quite unfair for the Commission to take a star
[27307]‘ended to show there was an international connection
[27308]“lew
[27311]HO
[27313]hat of @psyChcpatnic liar,, Ford stated he could_certainly see this.
[27315]Contact will be maintained with Congressman Ford, 2 yee
[27317]i
[27320]he President
[27322]and gossip
[27323]id prior to
[27324]urned in, Ford stated this was his point entirely and that
[27326]rity of one he intended to stick to his point. !
[27328]d me that John ®icCone, Director of CIA, had, approximately
[27329]to his office and told him that CLA had uncovered some
[27330]in the Oswald case. McCone proceeded to tell Ford that a
[27332]source of CLi's in Mexico had seen money exchange hands between Oswald and an
[27334]Ford stated this excited him greatly inasmuch as it definitely
[27335]involved in the assassination <f
[27336]rf owe Cea A AE?
[27337]ee UD . i
[27340]rd that apparently McCohe had failed to follow up on this matter,
[27341]recanted his story and had indicated that_it was a,
[27343]figment of his jimtymuion, However, lO prove the unstable tendencics-of this source, r
[27344]ne source had Jater claimed that he was actually telling the truth. I pointed out that we |
[27348]Tes cluns, however,
[27350]tne CIA Scurcé was obviously eilher
[27352]Lomas 4) 3 5 ef . « . eos ~ ne
[27353]IY Ae OAL bad AR iso >: BAeK
[27355]; Ford incicated he would keep me thorouchly acivised as tb the activities of
[27356]‘ae Commission. He stated this would have to be on a confidential basis,
[27357]noucht it should be done.
[27359]: however, he
[27360]He also asked if he could call me from time to time and
[27362]in his mind concerning our investigation. I told him by all
[27363]He reiterated that our relationship would, of course, remain
[27365]i
[27366]had excellent relations with Congressman Ford for many years, |
[27367]tographed copy of the Director's book "A Study of Communism”
[27368]th my office on numerous occasions in the past.
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[27404]Kennedy and th
[27406]Conspincy theories are fashionable,
[27407]‘sometimes even fruitful, as in the
[27408]case of Watergate. So it is not surprising
[27409]that recent revelations of the Senate In-
[27410]telligence Committee have resurrected
[27411]an old question: what connection, ifany,
[27412]did the Castro government have with the
[27413]assassination of John F. Kennedy?
[27414]Current speculation is that the Cuban
[27415]dictator, having learned of CIA plots
[27416]against his life, decided to strike back,
[27417]returning violence for violence, with
[27418]consequences that are now history. In-
[27419]deed, the recent report of the Schweiker-
[27420]Hart task force, while finding no hard
[27421]evidence to support this theory, did un-
[27422]cover some interesting new leads. More
[27423]_ than that, it established that a CIA-FBI
[27424]“cover-up” had deprived the Warren
[27425]commission of vital information that pre-
[27426]vented it from. seriously exploring the
[27427]possibility of Castro's involvement and
[27428]that consequentry~ there is no longer any
[27430]reason to have faith in its picture of the _
[27432]Kennedy assassination.”
[27434]And so we may well have a reopening
[27435]of the ingestigation. At last.
[27437]Given all this, it seems appropriate to
[27438]examine the record of the period. A small
[27439]but interesting body of published testi-
[27440]mony and reminiscences describes and
[27441]wnply documents a little-known cam-
[27442]paign of accommodation launched by
[27443]Washington and Havana in the weeks
[27444]preceding that fateful day in November
[27445]1963. Actually, the origins of this tenta-
[27446]tive and ultimately ill-fated rapproche-
[27447]iment may be traced to the previous
[27448]spring, when. Castro, increasingly de-
[27449]pendent on his Soviet sponsors, found
[27450]himself obliged to embrace the banner of
[27451]“neaceful coexistence” in order to obtain
[27453]economic and military agreements need-
[27455]ed to assure the continued development
[27456]of his revolution. In practical terms, this
[27457]meant the normalization. of relations
[27458]with the United States.
[27460]‘A MESSAGE FOR CASTRO
[27461]It was not until September 1963, how-
[27463]ever, that this campaign began to show |
[27465]results. At that time, William Attwood, an
[27466]adviser to the U.S. delegation to the
[27467]United Nations, told his superiors he had
[27468]word that Castro wanted an accommoda-
[27469]tion. John Kennedy got the message and
[27470]approved a “discreet contact” with the
[27471]Cuban U.N. representative, Carlos Le-
[27472]chuga. Subsequently, communications
[27473]were established and meetings held
[27475]|
[27477]_
[27478]i:
[27479]H
[27480]|
[27482]to discuss the prospect of negotiations.
[27484]By éarly November, Kennedy had de-
[27485]cided 'to push toward an opening with
[27486]Cuba in hopes of taking Castro out of the
[27487]Soviet fold and erasing the memory of
[27488]the Bay of Pigs. The Americans sought a
[27489]meeting to draw up an agenda for later
[27490]discussions. On Nov. 18, this message
[27491]was transmitted to Havana. Shortly
[27492]thereafter, Lechuga was instructed to set
[27493]forth such a plan for U.S. consideration.
[27495]Even as these developments were un-
[27496]folding, a second dialogue was taking
[27497]place through an unofficial envoy—the
[27498]French journalist Jean Daniel. On Oct.
[27499]24, Kennedy had received Daniel in the
[27500]White House. The President, it seems,
[27501]had learned of the Frenchman's forth-
[27502]coming visit to Cuba and had decided to
[27503]seize the occasion to send Castro a mes-
[27504]sage. The essence of this communication
[27505]was a strong hint that the United States
[27507]‘would be willing to normalize relations
[27508]providing certain conditions were met. -
[27510]What were those conditions? One, clear-
[27511]ly, was an end to Castroite subversion.
[27512]The U.S. had a special responsibility to
[27513]contain Communist expansionism. As
[27514]long as Havana continued to export revo-
[27515]lution, the economic “blockade” of the
[27516]island-would remain in effect.
[27518]ACCOMMODATIONS
[27520]Beyond this, not much was definite.
[27521]The American negotiating position had
[27522]not yet been worked out. Even so, hints
[27523]of possible Cuban participation in the
[27524]Alliance for Progress and of the desire of
[27525]the United States to see a decline in
[27526]Soviet influence on the island suggested
[27527]further avenues for discussion.
[27529]Bearing this message and an invitation
[27530]to revisit the White House upon his re-
[27531]turn, Daniel set off for Cuba. There he
[27532]found a remarkably receptive Fidel Cas-
[27533]tro. Indeed, during the course of a six-
[27534]hour interview the der mdximo found
[27535]occasion to praise the American Presi-
[27537]dent for his sincerity, realism and “good
[27539]ideas’: Kennedy might yet understand
[27540]that there could be “coexistence be-
[27541]tween capitalists and socialists, even in
[27542]the Americas.” Castro was convinced
[27543]that normal relations could be restored
[27544]“on the basis of mutual respect for sover-
[27545]eignty.” His country needed peace in
[27546]order to corcentrate on the socio-eco-
[27547]nomic tasks of the revolution. The issue
[27548]of subversion would not be an obstacle.
[27549]Cubans would naturally “feel solidarity”
[27551]Denald E: Schulz
[27553]e Cuban Connection
[27555]with their revolu-
[27556]tionary, brethren in
[27557]other lands. But ul-
[27558]timately, each na-
[27559]tion would have to
[27560]determine its own
[27561]destiny, and “ifthey
[27562]choose regimes oth- ;
[27563]er than ours, this is not our business.”
[27565]This was two days prior to President
[27566]Kennedy’s death. ;
[27568]I, mentian these developments be-
[27569]cause they provide an important—and
[27570]perhaps crucial—frame of reference for
[27571]Congressional investigators and the pub-
[27572]lic alike: They are not, of course, proof of
[27573]innocence. But they are suggestive:
[27574]would Castro have been so intent on
[27575]coming to terms with a man he was
[27576]conspiring to kill? One may seriously
[27577]doubt it. In point of fact, the assassina-
[27578]tion would bring a quick end to Washing-
[27579]ton’s interest in accommodation. —
[27581]POSSIBLE SCENARIOS
[27583]Still, this is not to rule out the possibil-
[27584]ity of a “Cuban connection.” Govern-
[27586]-ments often behave in inconsistent and
[27588]self-defeating ways. Indeed, even as the
[27589]Kennedy Administration was taking
[27590]these first covert steps toward rap-
[27591]prochement, the CIA was engaged in an
[27593]attempt on Castro’s life. If, due to a lack
[27595]of political control and a prevailing at-
[27596]mosphere of cold-war hostility, U.S
[27597]agents could be conducting such activi-
[27598]ties in direct conflict with Presidential
[27599]policy, it is not difficult to imagine simi-
[27600]lar distortions on the Cuban side. Only a
[27601]few weeks earlier, Castro had publicly
[27602]denounced U.S.-sponsored assassina-
[27604]tions and even threatened retaliation.
[27606]Might not some overzealous security of
[27607]ficials have taken this for tacit authority
[27608]to set up a “program of elimination”?
[27610]But all this remains speculation. It is. -
[27612]possible to envision any number of sce-
[27613]narios that might have Icd to. the fatal
[27614]events of Nov. 22. In lieu of hard evi-
[27616]dence, however, itseems only fairto give -
[27618]Castro the same benefit of the doubt that
[27619]Kennedy has been accorded—namely,
[27620]that he be considered innocent until
[27621]proved guilty. It is hoped that the inves-
[27622]tigations to come will proceed on the
[27623]basis of that assumption.
[27625]Schulz, a Ph.D. candidate in political
[27626]science at Ohio State University, is writ-
[27627]ing a book on the Cuban revolution.
[27629]————— ra
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[27654]PART. TNO: JIM. BRADEN
[27656]One of the most incredible bodies of recent information
[27657]concerning the alleged conspiracy to assassinate President
[27658]Kennedy is largely based on the investigative research
[27660]done by Peter Noyes, a former CBS Producer and top inves- .-
[27661]tigative reporter.
[27663]Last year, Noyes published a. book, Legacy of Doubt, which
[27664]summed up many of his findings, and which generally outlines
[27665]what Noyes believes was heavy Mafia involvement in the
[27666]assassination. The Noyes book is almost entirely factual
[27668]and is largely based on substantiated information such as
[27669]police records provided by the FBI, the Los Angeles Police
[27670]Department, the California Attorney General's Office, and
[27671]Texas police officials.
[27673]Though the Noves book (like most recent assassination books)
[27674]aid not sell well or receive much press attention, it has
[27675]been regarded as a valuable contribution by most of author
[27676]Noyes' fellow Warren Commission critics.
[27678]It can definitely be said that almost all of Noyes' findings,
[27679]particularly with respect to his main character Jim Braden,
[27680]have been factually substantiated and are solidly established
[27681]by official police records. .
[27683]Basically the Noyes book outlines the background of a
[27685]mysterious man who was picked up by the police at the scene
[27687]of President Kennedy's assassination just minutes after the
[27688]shooting. The man was apprehended by a Dallas policeman who 1
[27689]thought he was behaving suspiciously. The man, who identified
[27690]himself under the false name of Jim Braden, was released
[27692]shortly thereafter following brief questioning by the Dallas
[27693]Sheriff's office.
[27695]Author Noyes uncovered the story of Jim Braden and his
[27696]true identity during five years of investigative research.
[27698]And it is Jim Braden's true identity and his ironic misfortune
[27699]Of being picked up at the scene of the assassination for
[27700]"looking suspicious" that the Warren Commission critics now
[27701]believe ranks with James McCord ' gs mistake of leaving masking
[27702]tape on the doors during the Watergate break- -in as the ultimate.
[27703]fatal slip-ups in the two conspiracies.
[27705]HW 50955 Doocld:32473630 Page 376
[27707]For Jim Braden, whose true identity is Eugene Hale Brading,
[27708]is a man with singularly awesome direct ties to the highest
[27709]levels of the Mafia. Of all the Mafia figures connected to
[27710]the syndicate's crucial security and enforcement activities
[27711]of coercion, maiming, intra-syndicate assassination and
[27712]outside murder contracting, Jim Braden appears to be an
[27713]indispensable link - or leader - of organized crime's
[27715]far flung network of "controlled violence" specialists
[27717]and professional hit men.
[27719]Braden's involvement with the Mafia'ts hiqhest echelon
[27720]"enforcers" has spanned the continent from coast to coast
[27721]and covers virtually every national crime syndicate juris-
[27722]diction, According to federal authorities working with the
[27723]Justice Department's organized crime strike force units, and
[27724]according to other high government sources cited by author
[27725]Noyes, Jim Braden is now serving as personal courier for
[27726]Meyer Lansky.
[27728]The importance of this mysterious man who was picked up
[27729]under a false name across the street from the Texas Book
[27730]Depository just moments after the shots were fired on
[27731]November 22, 1963 cannot be overemphasized.
[27733]Though there were several innocent witnesses or bystanders
[27734]in the area of the assassination who were also arrested or
[27735]brought in for questioning by the Dallas police, all of whom
[27736]were shortly released like Jim Braden, his presence there at
[27737]that precise moment does in fact raise an incredible specter,
[27738]and may indeed have been the monumental slip-up that critics
[27739]of the Warren Commission now attest to.
[27741]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 377
[27743]Jin Braden's Arrest On November 22
[27745]Deputy C.L. Lewis was one of the first Dallas police
[27746]officers on the scene at the Texas School Book Depository
[27747]following the assassination.
[27749]within just minutes after the deadly shots were fired,
[27750]Deputy Lewis confronted a man across the street. fron the
[27751]Book Depository, a man whom Lewis thought was "acting
[27752]suspiciously."
[27754]Deputy Lewis questioned the man for several minutes before
[27755]taking him to the Sheriff's office for further interrogation.
[27756]The man identified himself as Jim Braden, and said that he
[27757]was in the oil business in Beverly Hills. California. Deputy
[27758]Lewis became even more suspicious over the way the man first
[27759]tried to identify himself. Instead of producing his driver's
[27760]license, the common means of identification, the man pulled
[27761]out a gasoline credit card instead.
[27763]The man who identified himself. as Jim Braden strongly protested
[27764]when Deputy Lawis told him that he would have to take him in
[27765]for further interrogation,
[27767]At the Sheriff's office, Jim Braden agreed to make a voluntary
[27768]Statement, Braden, then 48, told the police that he was in
[27769]Dallas on oil business and had been there for two days. He
[27770]said he was staying at the Cabana Motel, s short distance away
[27771]from the scene of the assassination. Braden said’he had been
[27772]walking down the stroet by the Texas Book Depository at the
[27773]time of the assassination and had been looking for a taxi cab.
[27774]Jin Braden further stated that he was confronted by Deputy
[27775]Lewis inside a building across the street from the Depository
[27776]during an attempt to make a telephone call following the
[27777]‘shooting.
[27779]Braden was shortly thereafter released by the Dallas Sheriff's”
[27780]office. Braden was not fingerprinted, nor was any check made
[27781]| of possible criminal records relating to him.
[27783]Two months later, in late January cf 1964, Jim Braden was
[27784]interviewed by two FBI agents at his office in Beverly Hills.
[27785]The Warren Commission's investigation was then in full swing
[27786]and witnesses to the assassination were being questioned by
[27787]the FRI and other authoritics. In his FBI interview, Braden
[27788]qave the same account as he had given to the Dallas police on
[27789]the day of the assassination. The FBI's official report on
[27790]Braden's interrogation further stated that, "Braden has no
[27791]information concerning the assassination and both Lee Harvey
[27792]Oswald and Jack Ruby are unknown to him."
[27794]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 378
[27796]: Jim Braden's Truc Identity
[27798]In early 1969, Peter Noves, the investigative reporter.
[27799]whose book covers much of the information regarding Jim
[27800]raden, began investigating the mysterious California
[27802]"oil man."
[27804]Moyes originally received a tip about Braden from a
[27806]former FBI agent who was then aiding District Attorney
[27808]Jim Garrison's investigation of the Kennedy assassination,
[27809]The PBI man told Noves of Braden's presence at the scene of
[27810]the assasSination at the time of the shooting.
[27812]Noyes soon found that Jim Braden was no longer at cither
[27814]of the addresses that he had given the Dallas police, and
[27815]had left no forwarding addresses,
[27817]Noves then had the California Department of Motor Vehicles
[27818]run a check on the license number that Braden had given to
[27819]the Dallas molice at the Sheriff's office following the
[27820]assassination. Hotor Vehicles told Noves that Eraden's
[27821]license (1751755) had been renewed by Braden in San Diego
[27822]county in Movember of 1966. Braden has also listed new
[27823]business and home addresses, which interestingly were over
[27824]a hundred miles apart.
[27826]The Department of Motor Vehicles! records on Jim Braden
[27827]also showed that "Jim Braden" was not really his original
[27828]name. The license had actually been issued in the 1950's
[27829]to Eugene Hale Brading, which is Braden's true identity.
[27831]On September 10, 1963, just ten weeks before the assassination,
[27832]Eugene Nale-Brading had notified the Department that he had
[27833]leqallv changed his name to Jim Braden, and he requested a
[27835]new license under that name. The license was granted,
[27837]Intrigued by the fact that Jim Braden was really a false
[27838]identity assumed lov Euqene Brading, investigator Noves
[27839]contacted the Intelligence Division of the California
[27840]Attorney Genoral's Office, and had a check run on the
[27841]mysterious Brading.
[27843]ves was told that Eugene Hale Brading “is a real bad guy.
[27844]'s got a long rap sheet and apparantly has Mafia connections."
[27845]Royes shortly thereafter obtained a copy of Eugene Brading's
[27846](Jim Braden's)’ police records.
[27848]I
[27849]i
[27851]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 379
[27853]i .
[27854]The Brading "rap sheet" contained an incredible 35
[27855]seperate entries covering virtually every phase of
[27856]criminal activity, including mail fraud, embezzlement,
[27857]onerating a gambling house in Miami, car theft, shop
[27858]lifting, receiving stolen vroperty, and sclling wartime
[27859]gas ration coupons on the black market.
[27861]Most of these arrests had been made under the nane of
[27862]Sugene Hale Brading, but the police dossier on him also
[27863]showed a handful of other aliases, including Harry Eugene
[27864]_ Bradley, Gene Brady, James Lee Cole, James Bradley Lee,
[27865]and inevitably, Jim Braden.
[27867]"Jim Braden" was the last entry shown on Brading's
[27868]records.
[27870]Incredibly, investigator Noyes found that due to the fact
[27871]that the Dallas rolice had not fingerprinted Jim Braden or
[27872]run.a make on him, his truce identity of Nugene Brading was
[27873]never discovered by the PBI or the Warren Commission at the
[27874]time of their investigation of the assassination, The Warren
[27875]Commission had only routinely included Braden's short state~-
[27876]“ment about being in Dallas on "oil business" in a police
[27877]exhibit on witnesses contained.in Warren Commission Hearing's
[27878]Volume KIX, Jim Braden and his story had been accepted at
[27879]face value.
[27881]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 360
[27883]Jin Braden (Sucene Brading) And.The Mafia
[27885]Investigator Noyes began a thorough investigation of
[27886]Braden based upon all available police records and
[27887]documents. ,
[27889]What soon clearly emerged was a long record of involvement
[27890]by Braden (Brading) with many of the most notorious Mafia
[27891]leaders in the nation, a record of close association with
[27892]key figures in the national crime syndicate,
[27894]Following a string of arrests in the 1940's, ‘dating all
[27895]the wav back to his young adulthood, Eugene Brading had
[27897]moved to El Paso, Texas, in 1950.
[27899]BRADING AND PEREIRA)
[27903]In El Paso, Brading became closelv associated with Victor
[27904]Percira, a man who was a close associate and confidante of
[27905]several] Mafia members. Brading and Pereira became involved
[27907]in a number of schemes involving marriage to and embezzlement
[27908]of wealthy widows, :
[27910]In 1951, Bracing and his close friend Porcira were arrested
[27911]by the PRI in New York on a fugitive warrant issued in Texas,
[27912]The two men were charged with embezzling over $50,000 from
[27914]a wealthy widow whom Pereira had marricd shortly before
[27915]fleoing with her money. Brading and Percira were soon con=
[27916]victed of the charges and were each sentenced to 12 years
[27918]in prison. :
[27920]llowever, Rrading and Foreira were out free during the three
[27921]years of their appeals, and Brading was later paroled in 1959
[27922]after having served just five years of his. sentence,
[27924](BRADING AID THE SMALDOIES)-
[27926]Durinca the three vears of freedom under their appeals of the
[27927]convictions, Erading and Pereira left Texas (following still
[27928]another fleecing of another wealthy widow) and moved to
[27929]Denver, Colorado. ‘ s
[27931]In Denver, Brading became very closely associated with
[27933]tvo leading Mafia bosses in the Rocky Mountain area, Clyde
[27934]and Gene Smaldone.
[27938]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 361
[27944]an)
[27946]the Smaldone brothers, who were also known as “Checkers
[27947]and Flin Flon," were the Mafia leaders in charge of the
[27948]syndicate's vending-machine market which stretched from
[27949]the Rockics all the way to Chicago. Police records show.
[27950]that at one time, the Smaldones virtually controlled the
[27951]entire Pueblo area of Colorado,
[27953]The Smaldone brothers were notorious for the brutal brand
[27955]of violence they practiced in their operations. Brading
[27956](Braden) became involved in many transactions with the
[27957]Smaldones and became a close personal friend. Several years
[27958]later, after Brading finally went to jail for the embezzlement
[27959]of the Texas widow, the Smaldone brothers reqularly wrote
[27961]to him in prison, seeking his advice on various financial
[27962]matters.
[27964](BRADING AND CLARK AND BAUIMAIT)
[27966]Brading and his friend Pereira later moved to Beverly Hills
[27967]in California. Shortly thereafter, Brading inevitably came
[27968]under investiaqation by the Los Angeles Police Department .
[27970]Intelligence Division's Mafia specialists.
[27972]-In particular, the LAPD interest in Drading was focused on
[27973]his close association in Beverly Hills with two “oil specu-
[27974]lators" from Hiami, Arthur Clark and Roger Bauman. Clark
[27975]and. Bauman were notorious Mafia figures with long police
[27976]records.
[27978]Brading's friend Clark had been one of the ton leaders of
[27979]the famous Purple Gang of the Mafia, which had overated
[27980]out of Detroit and Youngstown. The Los Ancecles police had
[27981]mlaced Clark and Bauman under tight surveillance and had
[27982]compiled extensive information on their friendship with
[27983]Brading. :
[27985]In 1956, the Chief of Intelligence of the LAPD, Captain
[27986]James Hamilton, sent a letter to the Crime Commission of
[27987]Greater Miami seeking information about Clark, Bauman, and
[27988]Brading.
[27990]Captain Hamilton, who was known as one of the foremost
[27992]experts on the Hafia in the nation, ashed the Miami Commission
[27993](which was conducting extensive investigations of the Mafia)
[27994]to inform him as to the involvement of several associates of
[27995]Clark and Bauman. ;
[27997]Among those named was Eugene Brading.
[27999]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 362
[28001]&.
[28003]'
[28004]Captain Hamilton's letter stated:
[28005]|
[28006]"This Denartmenti has under investigation Arthur
[28007]Lewis Clark, Sr., FBI 3709258, and a Roger Bauman.
[28008]' These men are representing themselves as officials
[28009]of the Sunbeam O11 Company, 212 Roosevelt Theater
[28010]Building, Miami Beach, and both are spending money
[28011]very lavishly."
[28013]"Clark has been arrested several times and has been -
[28014]associated with many confidence men and heodlums such
[28015]as Janes Fratianno, Victor Poroira,. Zugene Brading,
[28016]Clarence Rhodes, Stephen Sambor and the Siraldone
[28017]brothers of Denver." ,
[28019]‘As investigator Peter ijoves points out, the men listed
[28020]with Brading in the letter, represent a virtual “Who's Who"
[28021]of organized crime leaders between California and the Midwest.
[28023](BRADING AUD FRATIANNO)
[28025]Of these top Hafia men listed with Brading (Braden) perhans
[28026]the most important one is James Fratianno, also widely known
[28027]as "Jimmie The Weasel." Fratianno was known as perhaps the
[28028]“Mafia's highest ranking executioner in the nation.
[28030]In 1959, in his testimony before the Rackets Conmittee of
[28031]the California legislature, Captain Hamilton, the Chief of
[28032]- LAPD Intelligence, stated that,
[28034]"Ge have. long considered Fratianno to
[28035]be the exccutioner for the Nafia on
[28036]the West Coast."
[28038]Captain Hamilton told the Rackets Committee that his Intelligence
[28039]Division had linked Jimmie Pratianno to at least sixteen Hafia
[28040]executions. : :
[28042]Fratianno had once been arrested for the attempted assassination
[28043]of Los Angeles Nafia head Mickey Cohen in 1949, Cohen had
[28044]survived the bloody shooting which took the life of one of
[28046]his lieutenants. Fratianno was later released due to insuf-
[28047]ficient evidence. Fratianno used the alibi that he had been
[28049]at the home of Mafia associate Wick Licata the night of the
[28050]shooting, Licata-later became the new head of the Los Angeles
[28051]Mafia, and, perhaps siqnificantly, was later given control of
[28052]the Mafia in Dallas, Texas.
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[28056]Jimmie Fratianno was ‘also susnected of complicity in
[28057]the murders of two men in 1951. Two men who made the
[28058].mistake of robbing the Nafia's Flamingo Hotel in Las
[28059]Vegas were found dead'in a narked car following the
[28060]robbery. Both of their skulls had been shattered bv
[28061]bullets fired behind the ear, apparantlv in true Mafia
[28062]fashion,
[28064]Fratianno-had also been linked to the famous murder of
[28065]Harry "HYooky" Rothman, who had been another close
[28066]associate of Miekey Cohen, the Los Angeles Nafia head,
[28067]Also, Fratianno was also linked to the disappearance of
[28068]another top member of the Nickey Cohen gang, Frank Uiccoli.
[28069]Niecoli had mysteriously vanished following a late dinner
[28070]at Fratianno's home one night.
[28072]Fratianno was also linked to the brutal murder of a business-
[28073]man in northern California in 1952, Thomas Keen, a wealthy
[28074]gambler, had apparantly welched on a $80,000 gambling debt
[28075]that he owed the Mafia, and was blown to bits from a dynamite
[28076]charge hidden under the hood of his car.
[28078]Pratianno later served a six year prison term (1954-1960) for
[28079]_emtortion. In later years Fratianno became the central fiaqure
[28080]involved in LOOK magazine's "expose" of San Francisco Mayor
[28081]Joseph Alioto's alleged Mafia connections. LOOK alleged that
[28082]Fratianno had become a close friend of Mavor Alito and that
[28083]the Mayor had arranged for Fratianno to receive loans of over
[28084]$105,000 from a bank where Alioto served as Chairman of the.
[28085]Board. Alioto admitted that Fratianno was a "casual acquaintance"
[28086]of his, but denicd that’ he had used anv influence in the loans.
[28087]The Hayor also said that he had not known that the notorious
[28088]Fratianno was a member of the Nafia. :
[28090]{BRADING AUD MELTZER)
[28092]“hile in Los Angeles, Brading (Jim Braden) also became
[28093]connected with top Mafia leader Narold “llanny" Neltzer.
[28094]The LAPD Intelligence Division had originally become
[28096]aware of Brading's close relationship with’ Neltzer when
[28097]Brading's name was found on Neltzer's Christmas card list.
[28098]Meltzer was widely known as one of the most powerful Mafia
[28099]leaders in the entire nation. .
[28101]Tho U.S. Senate Rackets Committee identified Brading's
[28102]friend Neltser as a ton Nafia boss in the areas of union
[28103]racketeering and narcotics.
[28105]HW 50955 DocId: 32423630 . Page 364
[28107]LA.
[28109]A revort of the Senate Rackets Committee from 1964 states:
[28111]"Meltzer now is reported to operate a large
[28113]bookmaking and prostitution syndicate in
[28115]California. A major figure in the organized
[28116]underworld, he is known to all the important
[28118]narcotics traffickers throughout the United
[28120]States. He has also overated in Oklahoma,
[28122]Temas, Baltimore, Hiami, Las Vegas, Boston, .
[28123]and various areas of Canada, Cuba, long Kong, i
[28124]Japan, Hawaii, and the Philippines."
[28126](BRADIHG ALD THE SICAS)
[28128]In Los Anceles, Brading also became closely associated with
[28129]yet another top Nafia operation, Brading became a close
[28130]friend and associate of the notorious Sica brothers = Joe,
[28131]Preddie, and George. The Sica brothers were particularly
[28132]brutal syndicate members specializing in narcotics.
[28134]In 1950, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles accused Brading's
[28135]friends, Joo and Freddie Sica, of heading the single largest
[28136]narcotics ring in the United States.
[28138]The Sica brothers were shortly thereafter brought to trial.
[28140]On the night before the trial onened, the government's ,
[28142]star witness, an informant named Abe Davidian, was mysteriously
[28143]shot to death in his mother's home in Fresno. The murder was
[28144]never solvod and the Sica brothers were soon released for
[28146]lack of evidence.
[28148]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 365
[28150]ll.
[28152]Jim Braden: Possible Link To Jack Buby
[28154]The same inadequate investigative work which led the
[28155]Warren Commission to largely overlook Jack Ruby's solid
[28156]Mafia involvement, apnecars also to have been responsible
[28157]for the failure to uncover Jim Braden's true identity of
[28158]Eugene Brading during the official investigation into the
[28159]Kennedy assassination. a, ,
[28161]As shown in the previous account of Jack Ruby's very
[28162]substantial ties to the Mafia, Ruby was particularly
[28163]involved in the syndicate areas of gambling and narcotics.
[28165]But bavond the multiplicity. of evidence which indicates
[28166]that Jack Rubv and Jim Braden were both important Nafia
[28167]figures operating in the same general areas, at the same
[28168]general times, there is another sinale niece of evidence
[28170]-which places both Ruby and Braden at the same place on the
[28171]day before the assassination,
[28173]Evidence indicates that both Jim Braden and Jack Ruby
[28174]visited the Dallas offices of the H.L. Munt O11 Company
[28175]on the afternoon of Vovember 21, 1963, just twenty four.
[28176]hours before the President was murdered, Obviously any
[28177]link which places both Braden and Ruby in the same place
[28178]at the same time on the day before the assassination does
[28179]of course raise further significant questions about a
[28180]possible relationship between the two men.
[28182]Jim Braden received vermission from the U.5
[28183]Parole in Los Andqeles to make a trip to Dal
[28184]November 198, 1963, four days before the assa
[28185]Braden was reauired to report all of his
[28186]Parole Board following his parole .in 1959 £
[28187]zlement conviction. —
[28189],
[28191]als to his
[28192]the enbez-
[28194]On November 21, 1963, the day before the assassination,
[28195]Jim Braden checked in with the U.S. Parole Office in
[28196]Dallas: Accordina to Roger Carroll, the Chief Parole
[28197]Officer in Dallas, Draden (Brading) “advised that he
[28198]planned to sce Lamar Hunt and other oil speculators while
[28199]here." Lamar Tunt is the son of H.L. Hunt, the famous
[28200]right-wing oil billionaire.
[28202]BW 50955 Boold:3274293630 Page 366
[28204]HY 50955
[28206]crH.
[28207]fad
[28209]12.
[28211]Paul Rothermel], a former PBI agent who was Director of
[28212]Security for the Hunt Oil Company in Dallas at that. time,
[28213]has’ recalled that he distinctly remembers Braden visiting
[28214]the Hunt offices on November 21 in the company of three
[28215]other men. Rothermel has stated that the office log for
[28216]Movember 21 showed that Roger Bauman (Bradind's old Mafia
[28217]friend) and Horqan Brown and Duane Nowlin "and friend"
[28218]visited the iWunt office on that afternoon. Rothermel states
[28219]that Braden was definitely the "friend."
[28221](Security chief Paul Rothermel was later fired by H.L. Hunt's
[28222]sons after reports allegedly surfaced that Rothermel was
[28223]"suspicious" of a possible Hunt connection to the assassin-
[28224]ation. Following his termination by the Iiunts, Rothermel
[28225]found that he was being illegally wiretanpped. Rothermel
[28227]filed suit acainst Lamar Hunt and another one of H.L. Hunt's
[28228]sons, charging them with the wiretapning, and asking for
[28229]several million dollars in damages. The suit, which has
[28230]produced very damaging cvidence against the Hunt. brothers,
[28232]is still in the courts.) ;
[28234]Also on Movember 21, the day before the assassination,
[28235]according to a conclusion of the Worren Commission, Jack
[28237]Ruby was also on his way to the H.L. Munt offices in Dallas.
[28238]The Warren Commission concluded that Jack Ruby drove a woman
[28239]friend of his to the lMunt offices sometime that same atter-
[28240]noon. The woman, who had declined work in Ruby's nightclub
[28242]as a stripper, drove with Ruby to the "unt offices, apparantly
[28243]in search of omnloyvment. This does coincide with Braden's
[28245]isit to the same offices on that same afternoon.
[28247]re Warren Commission invastigat ted several other possible.
[28250]inks of Jack Muby to the Uunts, includiagq the still
[28251]nexnlained fact that Lamar Hunt's name was found inside
[28253]one of Ruby's notebooks. But of these possible links, the
[28254]Warron Commission concluded only that evidence did indicate
[28255]that Ruby had driven to the Hunt offices on ovember 21.
[28257]Thus a possible Nubv-Braden connection on the day before
[28258]the President's assassination Goes indeed arise.
[28260]Docld: 32423630 Page 367
[28262]13.
[28264]Jim DBraden: Possible Link To David Ferric:
[28266]Investigator Peter Noyes has turned up several nieces.
[28267]of information which indicate a possible connection between
[28268]Jim Braden and the mysterious David Ferric.
[28270]David Ferrie was the homosexual airline pilot and private
[28271]investiqator whom Jim Garrison accused of participating
[28273]in the plot to assassinate President Kennedy. Six days after
[28274]District Attorney Garrison's charges were made public, David
[28275]Ferrie was found dead in his apartment in sew Orleans, His
[28276]mysterious death was Finally ruled to have been a suicide,
[28278]David Ferrie has been a target of investication ky critics
[28280]of the Warren Commission ever since the assassination, In
[28282]fact the FBI and Secret Service both investicated a possible
[28283]Ferrie role immediately aftor the assassina ction. It was
[28285]widely rumored in Hew Orleans and Dallas that Ferrie was to
[28286]have flown the alleaqed assassins out of the country following
[28287]the assassination. The Varren Commission decided not to include
[28288]the official Secret Service, and FBI reports on Ferrie in the ©
[28289]26 Volumes of Hearinas which were released after the Narren
[28290]Foport was issued. Nowever, the Justice Penartment did finally
[28291]release those .renorts to the National Archives in 1967 following
[28292]Garrison's vublic accusations.
[28294]Author Moves has since established thak both Jim Braden and
[28296]. Davod Ferrie worked out of theyfloor of offices in @ building’
[28297]in New Orleans in the month.or two immediately preceding the
[28298]assassination.
[28300]This is marticularly significant due to tne fact that at that
[28301]time the mysterious David Ferrie was cinploved as a private
[28302]investicator by Carlos Marcello, the top Hafia kingpin. fit
[28303]is widely believed by most federal authoritics that Carlos
[28304]Marcello ranks with his close friend Meyer Lanskv as one of
[28305]the two sinale nost powerful leaders of the tiafiats national
[28306]and international crime syndicate, Carlos Marcello heads the
[28307]pees emnire centered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and controls
[28308]st of the Hafia activity in the southern part. of the United
[28309]Stat COGe
[28311]In Septenber and Octohcr of 1963, just weeks before the
[28312]assassination, David Ferrie was working out of the offices
[28314]of Carlos Narcello's criminal attorney, G. Wrav Gill. Ferrie,
[28315]who was doing investigative work on a nerjury charge that his
[28316]boss Harcello was then facing, worked out of Room 1707 in the
[28317]Pore jiargquette Building in New Orleans.
[28319]At this same time, in September.and October of 1963, Jim
[28321]Braden was operating out of Room 1701 in the Pere larauette
[28322]Building.
[28324]HY 50955. Docld: 32423630 Page 366
[28326]Braden was then commuting hetween Uew Orleans ane
[28328]Reverly fiills, with the approval of his Parole Board,
[28329]Braden was working as a representative of his Mafia
[28330]friend Roger Bauman, the oil speculator. Braden worked
[28331]out of Room 1701, which was the ‘office of his associate,
[28332]Victor Hain, Jr., an oil geologist. This was just a short
[28333]way down the hall from David Ferrie. in Room 1707.
[28335]Interestingly, in one visit to his Parole Office, Braden
[28336]"mistakenly" told his Parole Officer that he tras working
[28337]out of Room. 1706 = which would have heen the roon nex oe
[28338]door to Ferrie - instead of Room 1701.
[28340]Thus a pos sipte Braden~Ferrie connection in the weeks
[28342]just before the assassination does indeed arise in acdition
[28343]to the nossible Braden-Ruby connection. Both connections
[28344]definitely do seem to fall outside of or beyond the area
[28345]“which coule reasonably be attributed to coincidence, chance,
[28346]or circumstance,
[28348]RPovond several sets of information which tend to indicate
[28349]that David Ferric had some contact with Lee Oswald at
[28350]various times; the c#itics of the Varren Commission have
[28351]particularly focused on Ferrie's ties to Carlos Marcello
[28352]and the Marcello Mafia empire.
[28354]In fact, in his interviews with the FBI and Secret Service
[28355]after the assassination, Ferrie claimed that he was with
[28356]Marcello at the very time of the assassination. Ferrie
[28357]Stated that he was in court with Marcello on the afternoon
[28358]of November 22, which does appear to be truce,
[28360]Carlos Harcello, along with Meyer Lansky, had become the
[28361]central targets of the Justice Department's Organized |
[28362]Crime Division in the early 1960's, under. the vigorous ~
[28363].direction of Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
[28365]Marcello, knovn as "he Little Man," became one of Attorney
[28366]General Kannedv'is most fierce cnemies curing that period.
[28367]Marcello once claimed that he had been kidwanped under orders
[28368]‘of Robert Kennedy and the Justice Department.
[28370]Ha’ Reid, author of the Greenfelt Junale and widely recognized
[28371]as one of the most respected experts on the Mafia in the
[28373]nation, nas written that Carlos Marcello once threatened to
[28375]have Pre ont Kennedy and his brother murdered. Reid has
[28377]written that he was told of Marcello's threat by an informant
[28379]who attended a secret meeting with Marcello in New Orleans in
[28380]September of 19 62.
[28382]HW 50955 DoclId:32423630 Page 369
[28384]15.
[28386]According to Roid's informant, Marcello told his ton
[28387]lieutenants, "Don't worry about that little Bobby
[28388]-sonofabitch. He's qoing to be taken care of," The
[28389]informant stated that Marcello said that President
[28390]Kennedy himse])f would have to be killed first, and
[28391]that his brother would then follow. The informant
[28392]further stated that Marcello spoke of using some “nut"
[28393]to do the killinas. ;
[28395]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 390
[28397]Jim Braden: Author Peter Yoves And Judar Ryrne
[28399]Peter Noyes, the investigative reporter who uncovered
[28400]-most of the material regarding Jim Braden (iuqene Brading),
[28401]is a former classmate and close friend of Judge Matthew
[28402]Byrne, Jr., the U.S. District Court Judge who presided
[28404]over the Sllsberg Pentagon Pavers trial last year.
[28406]As is now well known, Judge Byrne dismissed the case
[28407]against ®lilsherd after he vas notified that the White
[28408]House "Plumbers" had once burglarized the office of
[28409]Ellsberg's psychiatrist. ,
[28411]A short time Jater, it became known that Fresident Nixon
[28413]had twice instructed John Ehrlichman to approach Judge
[28414]Byrne.durina the course of the Ellsbera trial and offer him
[28415]the position of Director of the PSI. This offer, which Judge
[28416]Byrne refused, has been regarded as a potential act of |
[28417]bribery by some critics of President Nixon, and is currently
[28418]under investigation by the Soecial Frosecutor's Office.
[28420]It has been widely assumed that Nixon's fervent interest’
[28421]in the outcome of the prosecution of Ellsbore may. have
[28422]been the motivation behind his approach to Judge Byrne.
[28424]Author Noves has written of his friend Judge Byrne's
[28425]involvement in his research on Jim Braden. In 1969, after
[28426]Noyes had accumulated much of his information regarding
[28428]the mysterious Braden, he took the information to his
[28429]friend, Matt Pyrne, who was then U.S. Attorney for southern
[28430]California. Voyes had several talks with Byrne and has said
[28431]that Byrne was very impressed by the substantive ovidence
[28432]which Moyes had aathered. During one of thesa meetings with
[28433]Byrne and another FBI man whom Byrne had invited to attend,
[28434]the FRI man told Novos that the FBI had never before known
[28435]that Jim Braden = the man arrested at. the scene of the
[28436]assasnination in 1963 - was actually “Suqene Erading. the
[28437]EBI man said that the Bureau must have made a big mistake
[28438]in not tracing down Braden's true identity and police record.
[28439]The FRI man was nearly incredulous over Hoves' evidence on
[28440]Braden.
[28442]. e
[28443]Voyes meanwhile had discovered that Jim Praden had also been
[28444]in Los Anceles on the night that Robert Kennedy was assassinated
[28445]in early June of 1968.
[28447]‘Though Noyes couldn't find any significant information indicating
[28448]any Braden connection to the second Kennedy murder, he and his
[28449]friend Matt Byrne forwarded the information on Braden to the
[28450]Special Unit of the LAPD which was investigating the RPX death.
[28452]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 391
[28454]The Special Unit of the LAPD, according to Noyes, dis-
[28455]counted the information reaarding the RPK assassination,
[28456]but was indecd imoressed by the Braden connection to the
[28457]19663 assassination. Noyes writes that Judge Byrne never
[28458]heard anymore about it after he forwarded the information
[28459]to the RFK investigators.
[28461]Later, Attorney General John Nitchell slected Byrne to
[28463]be Executive Director for the Scranton Commission that
[28464]investigated student unrest several years ago. Folloving
[28465]his work for the Scranton Commission, U.S. Attorney Byrne --
[28466]wag anpointed U.S. District Court Judae by President Uixon,
[28467]the position he held at the time of the #llsberg trial.
[28469]ro.
[28471]ny 50955 Doacld: 32423630 Page 392 —
[28473]Today
[28475]Immediately following the assassination of President
[28476]Kennedy, ®ugene Brading (Jim Braden) Aad an upturn in
[28477]his personal finances,
[28479]Brading later reported a large
[28480]an O11 well he had an interest
[28481]roported the larade inerease in
[28482]the month of November 1963.
[28484]in revenue from
[28485]in Louisiana. He.
[28486]~rom the well for --
[28488]increases
[28489]in back
[28490]revenue
[28492]© month later, in December of 1°63, Bradina became a
[28493]charter monber of the exclusive (and very expensive)
[28495]La Costa Country Club in southern California. Later that
[28496]year, 1964, Brading and his old svndicate oil friend
[28498]Roger Bauman established the "RB And Bicattle Comnany."
[28500]The commany, set up in Chicaqe and oresunmably
[28502]namec after then, "B And 5," though neither of the two
[28504]men are listed as corporate officers. It vas also during
[28505]this same neriod that Brading made a substantial investment
[28506]in two lots in Coral Gables, Florida.
[28508]WAS WoS
[28510]In 1°65, Brading's lenathy parole was finally terminated.
[28512]‘Ie soon boucdht a new home near the La Costa Country Club
[28513]which ne had joined, and he also boucht a house for his
[28514]parents in Santa Rarbara.
[28516]And it is at the La Costa Country Club that the mysterious
[28518]trail of Jim Braden, or Eugene Hale Brading, finally ends.
[28519]The La Costa Country Club, which Rracing had joined as one
[28520]of its 100 Charter members in January of 1964, is one of
[28521]the more notorious ilafia properties in the nation.
[28523]most:
[28525]rhe nowerful Toree behind La Costa is Noe Dalitz, one
[28527]of Hever Lansky's sinerle closest associates. Hoe Dalitz had
[28528]lbcen the leader of the early Mayficld Noad Gang in Cleveland,
[28529]and nad been the founder of the actual Cleveland syndicate,
[28531]one of the most powerful forces in the national crime syndicate.
[28532]‘Hoe Dalitz had heon one of the Maflats bigdest investors in
[28534]has Vogas, and it had been Dalitz who had pers sonally helned
[28536]set up the Uoward Tlughes empire in Las Vacas. Dalitz had
[28538]sold much of his own noldings to Howard hu ughes in-the late
[28541]HW 50955
[28543]BDocld: 32423630 Page 393
[28545]19.
[28547]The La Costa Country Club had become, under the direction
[28549]of Noe Dalitz and liever Lansky, a key “watering hole" of
[28551]the syndicate. La Costa was originally. financed through a
[28553]syndicate deal with James Hoffa of the Teamsters. Onc of
[28555]the Teamsters Union's billion dollar Pension Funds was used
[28556]-in the financing of the project. La Costa became what is
[28558]Known in the hMafia as “open territory" ~ meaning that no
[28560]Single tNafia fanily controlled it. La Costa was open to all.
[28562]Intelligence authorities in southern California have long
[28563]regarded La Costa as a.nrime hangout for the Mafia. Some’
[28564]officials have dubbed it "“Apalachin West."
[28566]The syndicate had oricinally qiven Charter memberships in
[28567]La Costa to a numbor of Hollywood celebrities, so as to
[28568]soften the image of the plush resort, Amonq the members
[28569]were Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and Bing Crosby.
[28571]Members of Prosident Nixon's inner circle also became
[28572]frequent quests as La Costa, which is just twenty miles
[28574]away from San Clemente. narly in the Sinon Administration,
[28575]in 1969, Los angeles Police were astonished to find Murray
[28576]Crotiner, one of the President's closest confidantes, living
[28577]it up at La Costa while the President was in San Clemente.
[28579]In February of 1973, while President Nixon was at’ San Clen-
[28580]ente, H.R. Haldeman, John Enrlichman, Richard Moore, and
[28581]John Dean held a series of meetings at La Costa to discuss
[28582]the Watergate conspiracy, which was then beainning to
[28583]unravel.
[28585]John Dean dave longthy testimony during the Irvin Committee
[28586]hearings reqerding "the La Costa meetings." Vhese meetings
[28588]at La Costa have since emerded as perhans the most crucial
[28589]strategy seasions involved in the allened cover-un of
[28590]Watergate by the Presigent's closest aides. Dean testified
[28591]that the La Costa meetines took place over a reriod of to
[28592]days, February 19 ~ 12, 1973. Dean testified that the sessions
[28593]were held in a srecial villa at La Costa that was used by
[28594]tilaldeman.
[28596]It has been durina this same period of time, in the last
[28597]several vears, that Eucene Brading (Jin Braden) has become
[28598]one of the most imnmortant Hafia onoratives at La Costa.
[28599]According to numerous intelligence reports, from California,
[28600]Novada, and federal authorities, Brading is now suspected of
[28601]being the personal courier for national crime syndicate bos
[28605]BW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 394
[28607]the Meovada Ganmine Board is continuing an investigation
[28608]into Bradents alleged role as syndicate courier for
[28609]"skimmed" gambling revenue from Las Veaas. Investigator
[28610]Noyes was told by several hich government officials that
[28611]Jim Praden had indeed been identified as the personal
[28612]courier for Mever Lansky. One official disclosed that
[28613]Braden was suspected of taking over 572-million out of
[28614]the country for the syndicate. Another official said
[28615]that was a "low estimate."
[28617]In the summer of 1971, Braden came under renewed investi-
[28618]gation by California authorities: following an incident at
[28619]La Costa.
[28621]A janitor at la Costa onaned Braden's aolf Jecker to make
[28622]a routine insmection. Sut of the locker tumbled a bundle of
[28623]well over $190,009 in cash. ; .
[28625]Suthor Vovres vas informed by one official that the bundle
[28626]had conteinen at least 3120,090 in cash, and enother Cal-
[28627]ifornia official put the amount at closer to $200,000.
[28629]During questioning reqarding the incident, "raden stated
[28630]that he had received the money from an oil transaction,
[28632]and that he had temnorarily stored it in the locker. Later,
[28633]one of the officials worltine on that particular investigation
[28634]of Braden, told Mewes thet Hraden had also been given the use
[28635]of two planes owned bv Howard Hughes to fly Nafia gambling
[28636]cash out of Nevada and -the country.
[28638]At oresent, Sucene Brading, alias Jin Braden, is still
[28639]operating out of La Costa. :
[28641](Braden is how hving in Atlayta
[28643]-— Mike Ewing
[28644]; Sen, Hughes ottice
[28645]7 ; June, 197%
[28647]AW 50955 Docld:32473630 Page 395
[28649]| a . |. RICHARD L. THORNBUEGH
[28650]| . _ -! RE: JKF ASSASSINATION
[28652]January 21, 1977
[28654]IN REPLY PLEASE
[28655]REFER TO Ry gasg
[28657]Honorable Richard L. Thornburgh
[28658]Acting Attorney General
[28659]Department of Justice
[28660]Washington, D.C,
[28662]Dear General Thornburgh:
[28664]The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would
[28665]most appreciate prompt access to Federal Bureau of
[28666]Investigation material relating to Mr. Nelson Bunker
[28667]Hunt and Mr. Eugene Brading, a/k/a Jim Braden. —
[28669]Your assistance and cooperation with the Select
[28670]Coumittee. ie most appreciated.
[28672]Aloha,
[28674]SO DANIEL K. INOUYE, Chairman
[28676]HSL/dr: Sty
[28678]| ce: 1 --author file
[28680]| 1‘ subject: matter file
[28681]1 - William G. Miller
[28682]1 - Michael J. Madigan
[28684]HY 50955 Daocld: 32423630 Page 396
[28686]DONALD F. MASSEY
[28687]RE: LEE HARVEY O8WALD
[28689]December 8, 1976
[28691]IN REPLY PLEASE
[28693]REFER TO R&5 7€5—
[28695]| ‘ir. Donald F. Massey
[28696]Assistant Legislative Counsel
[28697]Central Intelligence Agency
[28698]Washington, D.C.
[28700]| Dear Don:
[28702]As I mentioned briefly this afternoon, the Select.
[28703]Committee has expressed an interest in recent press accounts -
[28704]suggesting the existenca of transcripts of Lee Harvey
[28705]Owvald conversations in Mexico City. I would be pleased
[28706]if you would advise as to the existence of such transcripts
[28707]and their availability for review vy the Senate Select
[28708]Committee.
[28710]Thank you in advance for your attention to this
[28711]request. |
[28713]oe - Sincerely,
[28715]HOWARD S$. LIEBENGOOD
[28716]i oo Minority Staff Director
[28718]USLidr.
[28720]- Author File
[28721]Subject File
[28722]Minority Counsel
[28723]Staff Director
[28725]| ce:
[28727]Po fo pet pot
[28728]|
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[28742]HW 50959 Docld: 32423630
[28744]After President John F. Kennedy
[28745]~ was struck down on Nov. 22, 1963, the
[28746]Central Intelligence Agency received
[28748]evidence suggesting that Cuban Pre. . .
[28750]_ Inier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi-
[28752]nation in retaliation for attempts on:
[28754]’ his life.
[28756]_ Yet sources privy to the secret dis- |. .
[28758]cussions at the highest levels of the
[28759]CIA during those hectic days now tell
[28761]us that the CIA deliberately withheld ©
[28763]‘the evidence from the Warren Com- ~ ;
[28765]mission investigating Kennedy's death.
[28766]Our sources cite two Teasons for ©
[28768]holding back this evidence. One was a
[28770]Fresolve to cover up the secret that the.
[28771]CIA had enlisted Mafia mobsters to kill -
[28773]Castro. :
[28775]There also was a legitimate concern
[28776]that the Castro revelations might in-
[28777]flame the American people, whose
[28778]grief could have turned into a terrible
[28779]wrath that might. have’ precipitated
[28781]Only a few key people knew about
[28783]the CIA plot to assassinate Castro. One -
[28784]was Attorney General Robert F. Ken. -
[28786]nedy, who was his brother's personal
[28788]watchdog over the CIA. It has now _
[28790]been established that Robert Kennedy
[28791]was briefed on May 7, 1962, about the
[28793]attempt to use underworid killers to!
[28795]knock off Castro.
[28797]Two days later, Robert Kennedy cau-
[28798]tioned the CIA not to go ahead with -
[28800]the assassination without consulting
[28802]documentary evidence of this.
[28804]Records now available show that ..
[28805]Robert Kennedy informed FBI chief J. :-
[28806]Edgar Hoover of the plot on: May. 10, °
[28808]“DROPOUTS _
[28810]a
[28812]l
[28814].
[28816]Page
[28818]' | N.=do you DESiRE B
[28819]ECURRING FANTASIES.
[28820]OF SPACE FLIGHT...
[28822]4 “PARTICULARLY, 8
[28824]GASOLINE ALLEY
[28825]398 ,
[28827]- Jack Anderson and Les Whitten =~ "°°
[28829]| CIA Withheld Data in
[28831]1962. Yet neither Kennedy nor Hoover”
[28833]' later divulged this important informa-:
[28835]tion to the Warren Commission. - :
[28836]Of course, various CIA officials also
[28838]. knew about the assassination scheme.
[28840]Not the least of them was the. late CIA
[28842]- chief Allen W. Dulles, who approved
[28843]lan. He later served on --
[28844]Ormmmission, yet he sat: -
[28846]the original
[28847]the Warren }
[28848]silently throughout the investigation
[28850]’. without mentioning the Cuban angle. .--
[28851]Within hours of President Kenne- °
[28853]dy's death, the U.S. embassy cabled ‘in--
[28854]formation from Mexico City suggest-
[28856]" Ing that the Cubans may have been be-
[28857]hind the assassination. Our sources say |
[28858]that the CIA developed similar infor- ;
[28860]* “mation in Washington.
[28862]The first person to reach Robert.
[28864]’ Kennedy’s sid
[28866]le after the shooting was
[28867]CIA Director John A. McCone, who re-
[28868]mained alone with the Attorney Gen-
[28870]eral at his McLean, Va., home for -—
[28872]nearly three hours.
[28874]McCone swore to us that Castro's
[28875]name was never mentioned during the
[28876]three hours. But CIA records show
[28877]that the next day McCone not only
[28878]mentioned Castro to the new Presi-
[28879]dent, Lyndon B. Johnson, but briefed
[28881]: him on the information from Mexico .
[28882]ity.
[28884]Yet no one brought the Cuban -
[28885]connection to the attention of the War-
[28887]. Ten Commission. We were the first to-
[28888]him. Since Robert Kennedy rode herd <
[28889]on the CIA, it must be assumed that he :
[28891]was kept advised of subsequent assassi-...-:
[28892]nation attempts. However, there is-no.--
[28894]get word of the anti-Castro plot, to
[28896]Chief Justice Earl Warren, the com: ..
[28898]mission chairman, four years later. :
[28900]We are now free to reveal our role
[28901]in the drama. Two of our confidential
[28902]sources, CIA agent William Harvey
[28904]‘and mobster John Rosselli, are dead. A
[28906]third source, attorney Edward P. Mor. .
[28908]"EXPERIENCE INTER PIANETARY -
[28909]TRAVEL? f
[28911]et
[28912]» tally
[28914]: y,
[28916]IF K Probe - A |
[28919]“WEIGHTLESSNESS, J >
[28921]an, has waived the confidentiality we
[28922]ad promised him. - . tg
[28924]Morgan told us in January,- 1967, #
[28926]about the CIA-Mafia assassination plot, 2: .
[28927]against Castro. He raised the possibil~#:
[28928]ity that the plot could have backfired, 7:
[28929]_ against President Kennedy. There 9
[28931]were suspicious circumstances, . he
[28933]. pointed out, indicating that Castro @
[28934]may have learned of the attempts on 9
[28935], his life ‘and may have retaliated |
[28937]against Kennedy.
[28938]Morgan refused to
[28939]sources because it would have violated
[28941]the attorney-client privilege. But hep
[28942]was an attorney of such stature that 4.
[28943]we didn’t doubt his word. He had been .j -
[28944]- chief inspector of the FBI. He had di:
[28945]rected the historic congressional inves- #
[28946]“. tigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing. § -
[28948]Later, he ran the investigation into the §
[28950]_ Oxcesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar:, q
[28952]thy. . a:
[28953]We got Morgan's permission, to
[28955]" write a cautious story. We confirmed
[28957]the general outlines from a CIA
[28958]Source. Then on March 3, 1967, we
[28960]‘wrote that Robert Kennedy “may have
[28961]‘approved an assassination plot, which
[28963]then possibly backfired against his late -
[28965]brother.”
[28967]The next day, according to records §
[28969]now available, Kennedy's secretary. :.
[28971]called for a copy of the May 7, 1962,..
[28973]memo, which summarized the briefing |- :
[28974]he had received on the assassination ].-
[28975]plot. : E
[28977]On March 7, 1967, we reported more -§
[28979]details. “A reported CIA plan in 1963 to |
[28980]assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro,” we. €
[28981]wrote, “... may have resulted in ag
[28982]counterplot by Castra to assassinate §
[28985]Ry Howard Post q
[28989]identity his fl -
[28991]i a A ee ee) leh DE TC eo ae) SHALL DOOD,
[28993]eae Nels ee TUR ED Fe REPS oe eg me ee
[28995]+o 89 es
[28997]The Washington Post
[28998]August 22, 1976
[29000]Slain Mobster Claimed
[29002]Cuban Link te JFK Death
[29004]. By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
[29005]Washington Post Staff Writers
[29007]Long before his recent murder,
[29008]_John Rosselli. the CIA's underworld
[29009]recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas-
[29010]‘tro, had been privately claiming that
[29011]agents of the Cuban premier, im retali-
[29012]‘ation, were involved in the asSassina-
[29013]_tion of President John F. Kennedy.
[29015]Rosselli's belief in a Cuban connec-
[29016]tion to the Kennedy assassination was
[29017]‘expressed through his attorney, Ed-
[29018]ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long
[29019]ago as March, 1967, and alsa in private -
[29020]. conversations with a longtime associ-
[29021]ate of Rosselli who participated in
[29022]‘meetings between Rosselli ‘and the
[29023]CIA, ’ ;
[29025]An FBI “blind memorandum” on
[29026]an interview with Morgan dated
[29027]March 21, 1967, was included, without
[29029]_identification of the interviewee, in.
[29030]last June’s Senate Intelligence Com.°
[29032]mittee's report on the role of the in-
[29033]telligence community in the Kennedy
[29034]assassination investigation. :
[29035]Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
[29036]and another Morgan client had in-
[29038]formed him that Castro became aware —
[29040]of CIA assassination conspiracies
[29042]against him and “thereafter employed ° .
[29044]teams of individuals who were dis-
[29045]' patched to the. United States for the ©
[29046]purpose of assassinating . Mr. Ken-
[29049]Because neither Morgan nor Ros-
[29051]' selli was identified in the Senate re--
[29052]- port, the significance of that portion ¢
[29053]“of the 106-page document was dlis- .
[29055]‘counted at the. time it was published
[29056]in June, before Rosselli’s disappear-
[29058]ance and the subsequent discovery of
[29059]his body in an oil drum in Florida
[29060]waters. The Washington Post, however,
[29061]has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli
[29062]_ were the sources of the testimony that
[29063]suggested a Cuban role in the Ken-
[29064]nedy murder.
[29065]Morgan's account, according. to a
[29066]summary of the FBI interview, was
[29067]that Rosselli had reached his conclu-
[29069]sion about a Cuban connection to the
[29071]Kennedy assassination from
[29073]“feedback” furnished by sources close ©
[29075]to Castro who were involved in the CIA
[29076]plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
[29078]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 399
[29080]“Tis (Morgan's) clienls were aware
[29081]of the identity of some of the individ-
[29082]uals who came to the United States
[29083]for this purpose and he understood
[29084]that two such individuals were now in
[29085]the state of New Jersey,” the FBI in-
[29087]_terview summary stated. i
[29089]A long-time associate. of Rosselli:
[29091]who was .interviewed separately ~ by
[29092]: The Washington Fost, said there was
[29094]‘no question in the slain mobster’s
[29096]:mind that President Kennedy was..
[29097]‘killed on Castro’s behalf in reprisal
[29099]for the CIA schemes against the Cu-
[29101]_ ban leader. ©
[29103]_“He was positive; he was sure,” said
[29104]the associate, who knew Rosselli well
[29106]_and was in contact with him before
[29107]. Rosselli disappeared from his Florida
[29108]‘home on July 28. The associate, who
[29109]: does not want to be identified pub-
[29111]jHely, is scheduled to be interviewed
[29112]: this week by Dade County, Fla., homi-
[29114]: cide detectives. He was a party to Ros-
[29116]“selli’s contacts in the early 1960s with
[29117]“CIA case officers overseeing the at-
[29119]tempts to assassinate Castro.
[29121]Despite occasional speculation, the .
[29123]collective conclusion of all official
[29124]U.S. government investigations into
[29125]the Kennedy assassination—including
[29127]‘the Warren Commission, the FBI and
[29129]the CIA—has been that there was no
[29130]evidence’ that implicated the Castro
[29132]- government or any of its agents.
[29133]: | However, the CIA’s inyolvement in
[29135]_the schemes to assassinate - Castro
[29136]was not divulged to the Warrén Com-
[29137]mission, and knowledge of them was
[29138]confined until 1967 to a small, elite
[29139]circle of the U. ‘S. intelligence commu-
[29141]‘nity.’ President Johnson apparently
[29143]‘first learned about the schemes only
[29145]after a March 7. 1967, column by the
[29147]‘late Drew Person, which prompted
[29148]‘Johnson to order a CIA investigation
[29149]-of the highly sensitive episode.” ot
[29151]Full details of the CIA- underworld
[29153]“collusion in the plots to kili Castro .*
[29155]-did not surface publicly until the pub-
[29156]‘lication Jast year of the Senate Intelli-
[29158]‘gence Committee's assassination re”
[29160]“port and the ensuing report last dune
[29162]on the possible role of the intelligence
[29164]HW 50955 Docld:32423630
[29166]‘of Rosselli,
[29168]agencies in the Kennedy assassination |
[29170]and investigation. ,
[29171]The body of Rosselli, who lived
[29172]flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,
[29173]politicians and playgiris, was found
[29174]two weeks ago in an inverted oil drum
[29176]-weighted with chains but buoyed by ~
[29177]‘gases from decomposition on the
[29178]‘ecean’s surface off the coast of Miami,
[29179]The specific cause of death was deter- -
[29180]mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia-
[29182]tion.
[29184]Last. year, an underworld colleague
[29185]Sam (Momo) Giancana,
[29186]who also had been recruited by the
[29188]CIA in the effort to kill Castro, was .
[29189]found shot to death in his Chicago
[29190]‘home in what police described as a,
[29192]highly professional job by assailants’
[29194]who penetrated the mobster's per-
[29195]‘sonal security screen. Giancana was
[29197]due to testify before the Senate Intel--
[29199]‘ligence Committee shortly after his.
[29200]“demise.
[29202]Neither murder Ras been solved.
[29204]The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
[29205]der might have been related to his
[29206]Senate testimony on the CIA schenies
[29207]to kill Castro has brought the FBI
[29208]into the investigation at the request
[29209]of Attorney General Edward H. Levi.
[29211]The involvement of Rosselli. Gian-
[29212]cana and other underworld figures—
[29213]principally Santos
[29214]Tampa, Fla., whose one-time Havana
[29216]gambling enterprises fell hostage in.
[29218]1959 Lo the Cuban revoiution—in plots
[29219]against Castro had been a elosely held
[29220]secret within the top echelons of the
[29221]CIA and FBI until recently.
[29223]The tangled chronology of suppres
[29224]sion and eventual disclosure, although
[29225]detailed in the June report, has re-
[29226]ceived little public attention. Rossel-
[29227]li's murder adds significance to those
[29229]events.
[29231]Here is the sequence, pieced: to-
[29232]ether from the testimony given to
[29234]‘Senate intelligence investigators: .
[29235]Columnist Drew Pearson went to
[29237]the late Chief Justice of the United
[29238]States Earl Warren late in January,”
[29239]1967, and told him that a Washington.
[29240]jJawyer had confided to him that one-
[29242]of his clients said the United States
[29243]“had attempted to assassinate Fidel
[29244]Castro in the early 1960s and Castro
[29245]had decided to retaliate.”
[29247]Warren declined Pearson’s sugges- -
[29249]tion that he see the lawyer, who was
[29250]Edward Morgan. Warren referred the
[29252]matter to then Secret Service Direc-
[29254]tor James J. Rowley, who on Feb. 13,
[29255]1967, wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Ho-
[29257]over, informing him of the allegations. -
[29259]Page 4100
[29261]Trafficante of  °
[29263]» Hoover scut the Rowley letter to six
[29264]senior bureau officials on an “eyes-
[29266]-only” basis. There is no record of FBI
[29268]meetings or discussions of those aile-
[29269]gations, At that point the sensitive let-
[29270]ter bounced back and forth’in the
[29271]higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-
[29272]racy.
[29274]The job of responding to Rowley’s
[29275]letter was assigned to the supervisor
[29276]of the FBI’s General Investigative Di-
[29277]vision who was given responsiility for
[29279]. the overall assassination investigation
[29281]in March 1964.
[29282]’ This official’s job was complicated’
[29283]by the fact that he had never been in-
[29285]. formed of what Hoover and his closest
[29287]» early in
[29289]“cirele of confidants in the FBI learned
[29290]i9s2—that the. CIA was’
[29292]deeply involved. in assassination
[29294]_-attempts against Castro, and promi-
[29296]nent American underworld figures, in-
[29297]cluding Rosselli and Giancana, had
[29299]been recruited for the attempts.
[29301]So on Feb, 15, 1967, the FBI official
[29303]° prepared a draft reply to the Rowley’
[29305]. Cuban Coveryment were
[29307]> letter for his superiors saying “our in-’
[29309]vestigation uncovered no evidence in-’
[29310]dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
[29311]involved
[29313]‘.with- Lee Harvey Oswald in the assas-
[29315]sination of President Kennedy. This
[29317]‘bureau is not conducting,any investi-
[29319]gation regarding this matter.” The
[29320]¥BI official added in later testimony
[29321]‘that “every one. in:the higher echelons
[29323]: read this .
[29325]Drew Pearson went ahead and pub-
[29327]” lished a column on March 7, 1967, ref-
[29329]erring to reports that CIA schemes
[29330]against Castro’s life in 1963 “may
[29331]have resulted in a counterptot by Cas-
[29332]tro to assassinate President Kenne-
[29333]dy.”
[29335]Ten days later, Marvin Watson, one
[29337]_ of Lyndon Johnson’s chief deputies,
[29339]. called FBI assistant director Cartha
[29341]DeLoach with the message that “the
[29343]President had instructed that the FBI.
[29345]interview (Morgan) concerning any
[29346]knowledge he might: have regarding.
[29348]the assassination of. President Ken.
[29350]. DeLoach told. Watson that it ap-
[29351]peared Morgan “did not want to be in-
[29353]terviewed, and even if he was inter-
[29354]wwiewed he would probably not divulge
[29355]the identity of his sources...” Wat
[29356]son persisted, however.
[29358]“Under the circumstances,” De-
[29360]Leach concluded in. a memo for the.
[29362]files, “it appears that we have no al-
[29363]ternative: but to interview (Morgan)
[29367]and then furnish the results to Wat. :
[29369]son in blind memorandum form.”
[29371]The interview was assigned to two
[29372]agents from the FBI's General Investi-
[29373]gative Division, which the Senate
[29375]_ committee concluded was “puzzling”
[29377]because it was the Domestic Intelli-
[29378]gence Division which had been as-
[29379]signed responsibility for investigating
[29380]possible foreign involvement in the
[29381]assassination.
[29383]Neither agent was privy to the
[29384]knowledge, confined to Hoover and
[29385]his top aides, of the CIA’s assassina-
[29386]tion plots against Castre. Both agents
[29387]testified eight years later that they
[29388]were “surprised” when Morgan al-
[29389]luded during the interview to U.S. at-
[29390]tempts to assassinate Castro.
[29392]“These agents stated that they
[29393]could not evaluate the lawyer’s
[29394]‘(Morgan’s) allegations or question him
[29395]in detail on them, since they had not
[29396]been briefed on the CIA assassination
[29397]efforts,” the Senate committee ob-
[29398]served.
[29400]'. On March 21, 1967, the FBI’s Wash-
[29402]ington Field Office sent headquarters
[29403]ten copies of a blind memorandum .-
[29404]summarizing the interview with Mor-
[29405]gan..
[29407]In a Senate Intelligence Committee
[29408]summary of the FBI interview, Mor-
[29409]gan was reported to“ have acknowl- ,
[29410]edged that his clients. were “on the
[29411]fringe of the underworld” and that
[29412]they faced “possible prosecution in a
[29413]crime not related'to the assassination
[29415]wm. . .
[29416]Morgan said his clients “were called
[29417]upon by a governmental agency to as-
[29418]sist in a project which was said to
[29419]have the highest governmental ap-
[29420]proval. The project had as its purpose
[29421]the assassination of Fidel Castro.
[29422]Elaborate plans were made, includjng
[29424]_ the infiltration of the Cuban Govern-
[29426]ment and the placing of informants
[29427]within key posts in Cuba.”
[29429]Morgan also told the FBI, according
[29430]to the summary, that Castro had em-
[29431]ploved “teams ‘of individuals who
[29433]-were dispatched to the United States -
[29435]for the purpose of assassinating Presi,
[29437]ident Kennedy.”
[29439]It was not ‘clear then—-nor is it toe
[29440]day—why Morgan. came forward at ~
[29441]that time to bring’ Rosselli’s story .to
[29442]the ears of the nation’s highest law
[29443]enforcement authorities.
[29445]It may be relevant that Rosselli had
[29446]‘serious legal problems at the time.
[29448]In May, 1966, the FBI. threatened to
[29449]deport him for living in the United’
[29451]- States under an assumed name unless
[29453]he cooperated in an investigation of
[29454]the Mafia (his true name was Filippo
[29455]Saco). At the time, he readied a CIA
[29456]contact from the anti-Castro conspir-
[29458]_acy days, CIA security director Col.-
[29460]Sheffield Edwards, who informed the
[29462]FBI that Rosselli wanted’ to “keep
[29463]square with the bureay” but
[29464]afraid Uhat the mob might kill: him for
[29465]talking.
[29466]In 1967, after he was arrested ‘for
[29467]gambling fraud at the Friars Club‘ in
[29469]Beverly Hills, RoSselli approached his —
[29471]former CIA case-officer, William Har-
[29472]vey. who sought unsuccessfully jo ‘ine
[29473]tercede in the prosecution.
[29475]twas against this background that .
[29476]Morgan went, first to Drew Pearson, “
[29478]and then the FBI, with Rossélli’s sen-
[29479]sational allegations of CIA plotting
[29480]against Castre and the Cuban counter-
[29482]espionage directed against ‘President a
[29484]Kennedy.
[29486]Last April: Rosselli told: ‘the Senate: :
[29488]Intelligence Committee he had no rec-
[29490]_ollection. of either receiving informa- “:
[29492]‘tion that Castro’ retaliated against
[29493]President Kennedy or of: having dis-
[29494]cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei-
[29496]ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -
[29498]memory loss or that Morgan's state-
[29499]ment to FBI agents nine years.earlier
[29500]was a pure invention, a Serious risk
[29501]-for an established Washington lawyer.
[29503]No committee source could explain
[29504]the discrepancy, and Morgan declined
[29505]to confirm that Rosselli was the client
[29506]‘in question or to discuss either his
[29507]Allegations against the Cuban govern-
[29508]ment or his recent testimony.
[29510]The internal FBI memo on the 1967
[29511]interview with Morgan was sent, to
[29512]headquarters with a transmittal slip
[29513]saying: “No further investigation is
[29514]being conducted by the Washington
[29515]field office unless it is advised to the
[29516]contrary by the Bureau.”
[29518]The Senate intelligence committee,
[29519]in’ commenting on this position, said
[29520]that “had the interviewing agerits
[29521]known of the ClA-underworld plots
[29522]against Castro, they would have been
[29524]aware that the lawyer had clients who.
[29526]had been active in _the assassination
[29527]plots.”
[29529]On March 21, FBI headquarters for-
[29530]warded the Washington field office
[29531]memo to the White House, the attor-
[29532]ney general and the Secret Service.:It
[29533]did. not recommend any further in-
[29534]vestigation of Morgan’s allegations.
[29536]On the evening of. the following
[29537]day, President Johnson called CIA Di-
[29538]rector Richard M. Helms to‘the White
[29540]louse. The next morning; March 23,-
[29542]Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen- ;
[29543]eral to prepare a report on the CIA:
[29544]involvement in the assassination plots
[29546]—Operation . Mongoose—of which :
[29547]Helms had full knowledge at. the time
[29548]they were executed.’ /
[29550]By May 22, Helms briefed President;
[29551]Johnson on the results.. There is, how-:
[29553]ever, no evidence that Helms briefed;
[29555]the President on the November, 1963,
[29556]plot—one of eight major schemes on:
[29558]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 401
[29560]Was .:
[29564]Castro’ 8 life from 1960 to- '1965—to as-
[29565]sassinate the Cuban leader through
[29566]the employnient of an agent with the
[29567]‘eryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
[29568]was revealed as Rolando Cubela. a
[29569]1961 CIA “recruit” with close access
[29570]to Castro.
[29572]CIA operatives turned over assassi-
[29573]nation‘ equipment to Cubela during a
[29575]7 Paris meeting on November 22, 1963-—.
[29577]the day President Kennedy was killed
[29578], in Dallas. There has been subsequent
[29579]speculation that’ the mercurial and
[29580]talkative \Cubela was either a double:
[29581]agent or ‘peing, monitored by Cuban
[29582]“intelligence. |
[29584]‘dency, Mr. Johnson. spoké cryptically
[29586]‘ rated” targeted ‘against Fidel Castro.
[29588]1, eral’s report he ordered, Helms to. -have
[29590]! prepared.
[29592]- i. Within the past year, Rosselli’ and
[29593], two of his co-conspirators in the Cas-
[29594]* tro assassination schemes have died,
[29595]‘ Giancana at the hands of a profes-
[29596]* sional hit man and Harvey as the re-
[29597]sult of a “massive heart attack” last
[29598]June.
[29600]Mrs. William Harvey. the widow of
[29601]“the deceased CIA / official, said she
[29602]‘suspected no foul play in her hus-
[29604]band’s death. She did, however, tell.
[29606]“The Washington Post that she re-
[29607]ceived a call after Rosselli’s disappear-
[29608]ance in fate July warning her that Cu-
[29609]bans appeared to be attempting to
[29610]wipe out all those who participated in
[29611]the anti-Castro plots.
[29613]The call, she said, came from an old
[29615]friend who was acquainted with Ros-
[29616]selli's sister, whose name is Edith Dai-
[29617]gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigle
[29618]told the mutual acquaintance that the
[29619]Rosselli family had received a tele-
[29620]phone threat from unidentified Cu-
[29621]_ bans prior to Rosselli's disappearance.
[29622]:. She also said that Rosselli had gone to
[29623]‘meet the Cubans in an effort to pro-
[29624]» tect his family. to
[29626]Mrs. Daigle could not be reached by
[29628]The Washington Post. But another sis-
[29629]ter of Rosselli said she had heard of
[29631]. no such threats or warnings.
[29633]Harvey, who died at age 60 and
[29635]“whose exploits as a clandestine opera-
[29637]_ tor are both legéndary and controver-
[29638]i sial within the agency, testified to the
[29639]Senate Intelligence Committee.
[29640]had become Rosselli’s case officer in .
[29641]Operation Mongoose and supplied the
[29643]\ mobster with poison ‘pills, explosives,
[29645]detonators, rifles, handguns, radios |
[29647]i and boat radar for transmission to |.
[29649]_ anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and
[29651]““ Rosselli,.a CIA superior testified to
[29652]_ the Senate committee, “developed ac
[29653]’ close friendship.” s :
[29655]- was identified by the
[29656]_ sion as Kennedy's mufdeérer, had trav-
[29657]* eled to Mexico City’in an attempt to
[29659]During the later days: of his presi-*.
[29660]_of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo- _
[29662]- The inspiration for. that statement un-,’
[29663]» doubtedly was the CIA inspector gen- :
[29665]He ~
[29667]Another CIA official who worked
[29668]with Rosselli, James'P. O'Connell, was
[29669]asked if he knew whether the agency
[29671]. transmitted information ! to the mob-
[29673]ster on possible Cuban involvement in
[29675]‘the Kennedy assassination. He replied
[29677]that he was out of the dountry at the
[29678]time Kennedy was killed, and had no
[29680]“ further comment.
[29681]' , Two months before the Kennedy as-
[29683]sassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, who.
[29684]We ren Commis-
[29686]gain entry to Cuba. According to the
[29688]. Warren Commission, Oswald repre-
[29690]sented himself as the head of the New
[29691]Orleans branch of the Fair Play for
[29693]’ Cuba organization and a friend of the
[29694], Cuban Revolution.
[29696]Some three months before Kennedy
[29697]was killed, Castro told Associated
[29698]Press reporter Daniel Harker that
[29699]U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
[29700]eliminate Cuban leaders would them-
[29702]. selves not be.safe..:
[29704]A U.S. government committee coor-
[29705]dinating policy toward Cuba-at the
[29706]time agreed there is a strong liklihood
[29707]that Castro would retaliate in some
[29708]fashion. However, it concluded Castro
[29709]would not risk a major confrontation
[29710]with the US. by attacking U.S. lead-
[29711]ers.
[29713]On the same day Kennedy was as-
[29714]sassinated, a CLA officer met with a
[29715]high-ranking’ Cuban official, who had
[29716]Said he would kill Castro, to tell him
[29717]the U.S. would provide him with ex-
[29718]plosives and a poison pen device.
[29720]While the Senate Intelligence Com-
[29721]mittee said it found no evidence suffi- -
[29722]cient to justify a conclusion that the
[29723]Kennedy assassination was part of a
[29724]conspiracy, it also said U.S. ‘agencies
[29725]did not properly investigate the assas-
[29726]sination .or tell the Warren Commis-
[29727]hen about the CIA plots on Castro’s
[29730]“There is no indication that the FBI
[29731]or the CIA directed the interviewing
[29732]of Cuban sources or sources within
[29733]the Cuban exile community,” the Sen-
[29734]ate committee said.
[29736]According to a former FBI official
[29737]in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
[29738]probe of the Kennedy murder, the
[29739]FBI never satisfactorily determined
[29740]what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
[29741]what he had done in Russia.
[29745]THE WASHINGTON POST
[29747]September 12, 1976
[29751]The JEK .
[29753]Assassination:
[29755]x
[29756]_
[29760]~An inquisitive American learns many things on a
[29761]visit to Cuba. One of the most surprising is that high
[29762]officials in Havana seem genuinely hopeful that the
[29763]investigation of the Kennedy assassination will be re-
[29764]opened. They are convinced that there was a Cuban
[29766]factor in the murder. . : .
[29767]_ ‘Conversations with senior officials of the Cuban.
[29768]government, including Deputy Prime Minister Carlos.
[29769]Rafael Rodriguez, make clear that they have followed
[29770]closely the disclosures by the Senate Intelligence
[29772]Committee casting doubt upon the Warren Commis-. -
[29774]sion investigation. The Cubans are well aware that the
[29775]doubts center on the failure of the CLA and the FBI to
[29776]inform the Warren Commission of the several plots
[29777]mounted by the CIA to kill Fidel Castro. Knowledge
[29778]of these plots appears to have been withheld even
[29779]from the FBI and CIA officials who were responsible.
[29780]for investigating the President’s murder and for. sup-
[29781]porting the work of the Warren Commission. As a re-
[29782]sult, there was no special effort to explore the possi-
[29783]ble involvement of either the Cuban government or.
[29784]Cuban exiles in the assassination. Evidence developed.
[29785]by the Senate committee makes both hypotheses plau-
[29786]sible—and a new inquiry imperative. — So
[29788]The situation is murkier and more perplexing than .
[29789]ever. Those'who are resistant to conspiracy theories -
[29790]‘and who have been prepared—even eager —to be-
[29792]lieve that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone can no _
[29793]longer rely on the Warren Commission report as,an .
[29795]Soy
[29797]“The writer is a senior fellow of the Council on.For-
[29799]- ign Relations. "2. Po
[29801]4
[29803]adequate prop for their predilections. The commis-,
[29804]sion did not know that on Nov. 22, 1963, at about the’
[29805]very hour Oswald struck in Dallas, an agent of the’
[29806]Central Intelligence Agency was meeting with a rank-
[29807]ing Cuban official (codenamed AMLASH and re;
[29808]cently identified as Rolando Cubela) to plan the mur-:
[29809]der of Castro. Simultaneously, in Cuba, a French re-;
[29810]porter, Jean Daniel, was spending the day with Cas-
[29811]tro, conveying to the Cuban leader views expressed“
[29812]by President Neagedy in a brief interview at the:
[29813]White House on Oct. 24, persuading Castro that Ken-:
[29814]nedy wanted to explore ways to normalize relations.
[29815]. Thus, at the moment the President was killed, U.S.
[29816]policy. toward Cuba appeared to be moving not only.
[29817]on two tracks but in opposite directions, and move.
[29819]ment on either track could have provoked violent re-
[29821]_ Sponse by one or another Cuban faction. © |
[29823]Perceptions inside the Cuban government re-
[29824]‘sponded to both tendencies in U.S. policy. There is
[29825]good reason to suspect that the AMLASH operation
[29826]involved a double agent, or at least a singularly inept
[29828]BW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 402
[29832]POS 0 ed des oh wy os —— ao
[29834]C
[29836]Curiosity.in Havana
[29838]one. Castro almost certainly knew of it. The CIA even-
[29840]s tually concluded that the AMLASH activity was “inse-
[29842]cure" and terminated it. Among other discoveries,
[29843]within two days of the assassination it was known (but ,
[29844]not to the Warren Commission) that AMLASH had-
[29846]_ been in contact with Soviet personnel in Mexico City, ;
[29848]where Oswald had gone in September 1963 to visit
[29850]both the Cuban and Soviet consulates. Whether these __
[29852]facts are significant or merely coincidental, one can-
[29853]not tell. In retrospect, Cuban authorities note with |
[29855]~_ ‘some relief that Oswald was denied permission to visit
[29856]». Cuba, implying that, had his request been granted,
[29858]‘the finger of suspicion would surely have, pointed at.
[29860]. Havana’
[29862]Perhaps more suggestive of a direct leak from AM:.
[29863]. LASH to Castro was the sequence of events on Sept.7, .
[29864]1963, when the CIA re-established contact with the Cu-
[29865]ban conspirator for the first time since the preceding ©
[29866]‘ year. Late that evening, Prime Minister Castro called |
[29867]in Associated Press reporter Daniel Harker for an un-
[29868]expected interview. Only three: Western reporters.
[29869]were based in Havana at the time and their contact
[29870]with Castro was quite limited. Evidently, the Cuban
[29871]_leader had a message he wished to get on the record.
[29872]through Harker. He charged that the United States
[29873], was aiding terrorist plots in Cuba and warned US..
[29874]‘leaders that “if they are aiding terrorist plans to elimi-
[29875]‘nate Cuban leaders, they themselves will not be safe.”
[29876]_ This threat of reprisals seems less inflammatory
[29877]and more understandable now that we know what
[29878]‘Castro knew at the time, namely, that the United
[29879]States was in fact stepping up its covert operations
[29880]_ against Cuba during the summer and fall of 1963. Yet -
[29881]_it seems an exception to the main lines of Cuban pol-.
[29882]icy as it was then evolving. OO
[29883]: For months afer the missile crisis of 1962, Castro ~
[29884];had been displeased with the Soviets, and there are
[29885]:Signs that he was interested in an opening to Wash-
[29886]ington. On Sept. 5, the. Cubans quietly proposed.talks.
[29887];with the Americans at the United Nations,:and Ken-;2
[29888]*nedy soon responded with interest: Also, in early Sep- 3
[29889]tember the Time magazine bureau chief in Buenos ~
[29890]‘Aires, Gavin Scott, travelling on a Canadian passport, ©
[29891]Spent two weeks in Cuba. Although key U.S. officials
[29892]have no recollection of consulting with Scott on that :
[29893]occasion, the Cubans recall his questions and com- .
[29894]ments as hinting of American interest in a-possible ace
[29895]commedation, much.as they were‘later to interpret .
[29896]the discussions between Jean Daniel and Castro, |.
[29897]Then and now the Cubans’ attitude toward Ken- ;
[29898]nedy has been a compound of political antipathy and,
[29899]personal admiration. While critical of Kennedy's role :
[29900]in varlous counter-revolutionary efforts, Castro and -
[29901]his associates voice a warm, almost affectionate re-.
[29902]gard for the President's courage and realism. They
[29904]XL
[29906]profess to have seen his death as a grave setback to 4
[29907]more hopeful relations between the two countries.
[29908]The John Kennedy of 1963 was not, in their judgment,.,
[29909]the same man who was inaugurated in 1961, but a’
[29910]‘more mature, poised and forward-looking leader with! i
[29911]whom they could have done business. ;
[29912]With this frame of reference, Cuban officials specu-
[29913]_late that the real origin of the assassination lies in an-.
[29914]ti-Castro circles, with which Oswald also was in touch.
[29915]They emphasize that assassination is incompatible’
[29916]with their own revolutionary doctrine and that they
[29917]_ hever contemplated it even against Batista, the pre-.
[29918]vious Cuban ruler. And they volunteer the suspicion 4
[29919]that the recent murders of Sam Giancana and Johnny -
[29920]Rosselli, the Mafia figures who consorted with the .
[29921]CIA to kill Castro, surely have some connection with
[29922]Cuban exile politics and the Kennedy murder.
[29924]“Castro has said publicly that he has no proof “count: |
[29926] er-revolutionary elements” planned the assassination,?
[29928]- but that is clearly the consensus in Havana. Further
[29930]investigation. may still be inconclusive, but, far from’ -
[29932]: seeing it as an impediment to Cuban-American rela-
[29934]. tlons, the Castro regimé welcomes such an inquiry.
[29935]“Their curiosity seems greater than their complicity.
[29937]Pat
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[29941]The Miami Hérald
[29943]September 19, 1976
[29945]Could Rosselli Have Linked.
[29946]Castro Plot to JFK Death? —
[29948]By RON LaBRECQUE —
[29950]Harald Staff Wrifer
[29952]In 1960, when the CIA was try-
[29954]‘ing to set up a delicate attempt on
[29955]_the life of Fidel Castro, it turned to
[29957]aman once described as “the big-
[29959]“gest flag-waving SOB in the coun-
[29960]‘try” — West Coast underworld
[29961]‘figure Johnny Rosselli.
[29963]Rosselli —- a seemingly improba-
[29965]:ble conspirator in a government
[29966]“plot — got the ‘‘flag-waving" label
[29967].from Salvatore (Momo) Giancdana,
[29968]‘then Chicago’s top crime boss and
[29970]a man Rosselli brought into that
[29972]“same plot.
[29974]Now both are dead, murdered in
[29975]the past year, and investigators are
[29976]wondering whether their plotting
[29977]led to their deaths and whether the
[29978]CIA plots against Castro — only
[29979]recently made public and even kept
[29980]from the Warren Commission —
[29982]are vitai clues to the John F. Ken- :
[29984]nedy assassination.
[29985]The aeaths of Giancana, in June
[29987]of 1975, and Rosselli, this summer, -
[29989]have aroused @ renewed concern in
[29991]Washington, where on Friday the
[29993]House of Representives voted to re-
[29994]open the investigation of the Ken-
[29995]nedy murder.
[29997]REP. THOMAS N. Downing (D.,
[29998]Va.), who will be chairman of the,
[29999]panel, said he is “convinced"-a con-'
[30000]Spiracy was involved-in ‘Kennedy’s:
[30001]death.
[30003]Now, in the aftermath of the vi-,
[30004]‘olent deaths of Giancana and Ros-:
[30005]_selli, the question arises of what
[30007]role, if -any, the. Kennedy White
[30008]House played in the early 1960s
[30009]“deal” the CIA made with the two
[30011]underworld figures to have Castro.
[30013]murdered.
[30015]Whether “the Kennedy~ White’,
[30016]House knew ‘about about the. CIA's
[30017]plotting (Robert F. Kennedy found -
[30018]out after the contacts were ended),
[30019]the CIA’s use of the underworld
[30021]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 404
[30023]‘seems ironic in retrospect.
[30025]+’ Robert Kennedy's passionate ef-
[30026]forts to disable organized crime are
[30027]well documented.
[30029]IN 1960 when Robert Kennedy ©
[30031]wrote about what he had learned
[30032]of organized crime in America
[30033]from his years as chief counsel to.
[30034]the Senate Rackets Committee, he
[30036]-too quoted Giancana to make a
[30038]point. :
[30040]He told about Giancana’s inter
[30041]view at his local draft board at the
[30042]outbreak of World War If, when
[30043]he was asked what he did for a live
[30044]in
[30045]: er steal,” Giancana is said to
[30046]hhave replied. —~
[30047]i So Sam Giancana didn’t go to
[30048]‘war and years later would boast to
[30049]‘Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that
[30050]‘he stayed out of the Army — la-
[30051]‘beled unfit — by telling the truth.
[30053]} “What's wrong with the syndi-
[30054]cate?” Kennedy, quoted Giancana.
[30055]“Two or three of us get together
[30056]‘on a business deal and everybody
[30058]wsays it’s a bad thing. Businessmen
[30060]ido it all the time and nobody
[30063]A Senate committee began stu:
[30064]laying the Kennedy. questions more
[30065]than a year apo as it looked at co-
[30066]ivert CIA activides.
[30068]+ IN AN addendum to the Senate
[30069]‘Intelligence Committee's interim
[30070]report last November, Sen. Howard
[30071]\Baker (R., Tenn.) said, “It is my
[30072]‘personal view that on balance the
[30073]dikelihood that presidents (the re-
[30074]‘port deait with Dwight Eisenhower
[30075]and Kennedy) knew of the (Castro)
[30076]assassination plots is greater than
[30078], the likelihood that they did not.”
[30080]dust to trace Rosseili's history
[30081]with the CIA is mind- boggling for
[30082]the investightors. Yet, it is just one
[30083]‘aspect of the search for his killer.
[30084]- Johnny Rosselli — born on the
[30085]fourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and
[30086]71 when he died — was not first
[30087]‘and foremost a CIA operative.
[30089]* His greater role as. evidenced by .
[30090]two convictions, his associations
[30091]and to some extent his own com-
[30092]ments, was as an influential, if
[30093]publicly lesser known, organized.
[30094]grime figure,
[30096]a * HIS ASSOCIATION with other:
[30097]identified underworld members -
[30099]_ Was monitored by law enforcement
[30101]agencies as recently as several-
[30102]weeks before “his July 28 disap
[30103]pearance. ‘
[30105]By all accounts, Rosselli was a+
[30106]‘charming man, dressing in expen- .
[30107]isive clothes, married for only two°
[30108]fyears in the early 1940s and
[30109]iknown most of his life as one who :
[30110]jeasify attracted women.
[30112]t He was an-immigrant who told
[30113]lin a short autubiography written ~
[30114]‘about 1967 that his “life of crime” ;
[30115]ibegan as a teenager in Boston, at- °
[30116]‘tempting arson for his stepfather
[30118]wind. stealing $50 on his own. As he~
[30119]fraveled west, finally to settle in.
[30120]‘California, his attention turned to +
[30121]ibootlegging, gambling and dab-
[30122]pling in the movie business.
[30124]t IT IS said that Rosselli’ guarded ,
[30125]jthe West Coast gambling interests .
[30127]‘for Giancana’s Chicago syndicate.
[30129]? Why Rosselli was chosen by the
[30130](CIA for a Castro plot in 1960 is un-
[30131]clear, although CIA officials have
[30132]‘since testified that they wanted the -
[30133]‘kind of contacts in Cuba which or-
[30134]‘ganized crime had made during the
[30135]spre- Castro days when Havana was
[30136]‘a. gamblers’ haven.’
[30138]! Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
[30139]i because he had influence with -
[30140]Florida’s Santo Trafficante, consid- ‘
[30141]ered the key underworld gambling
[30142]figure in Havana.
[30144]; The unraveling of CIA and un- ‘
[30145]derworld conspiracies, an awesome .,
[30146]web spanning decades, is left to a
[30147]team of nine in the Metro Homicide
[30148]Division. It is a team now clearly
[30149]consumed by the task which has
[30150]been a‘ full-time operation since .
[30151]Rosselli's body was pulled from ©
[30152]Dumfoundling Bay on Aug. 7.
[30154]HW 50955 Dacld:32493630
[30156]'. THAT THE Metro team is even
[30157]Involved is happenstance. Rosselli .
[30158]lived in Plantation, Broward Coun-
[30159]ty. with his sister and brother-in-
[30160]law. It's just that his killers chose
[30161]to dump his body in Dade.
[30163]While. several - detéctives say
[30164]their instincts lead them to con- -
[30165]clude that the Rosselli murder was ~
[30166]an internal underworld affair, all «
[30167]on the team are aware of the pres- |
[30168]sure on them to search each clue -
[30169]that leads back to the CIA-Castro
[30170]affair. :
[30172], With Rosselli’s death this sum-
[30173]mer, the newly appointed Senate
[30174]; committee saw its list of knowl-
[30175]edgeable witnesses further trim-
[30176]med. Some of those witnesses have
[30177]died violently and some from natu-
[30178]ral causes.
[30180]« When Giancana was murdered in
[30181]June of 1975, before he could even
[30182]be questioned by the committee
[30183]staff, authorities attributed it to an
[30184]internal gangland struggle — even
[30185]though. the murderer is still un-
[30186]known. |
[30188]The death of Rosselli, who had
[30189]appeared before the committee
[30190]three times in the past year with-~-
[30191]out immunity, caused greater con-
[30193]cern on Capitol Hill, -
[30195]THE SAME night Rosselli’s body
[30196]was identified — the legs hacked
[30197]off and stuffed along with the body
[30199]‘into an oil drum — Baker, vice
[30200]chairman of the Senate Intelligence
[30201]Committee, called for the FBI to
[30202]‘get involved in the case. (Several
[30203]days later, Attorney General Ed-
[30204]ward Levi ordered FBI involve-
[30205]ment.)
[30207]It wasn't until several weeks
[30208]later, however, that what was
[30209]known to Baker became public
[30210]knowledge.
[30212]A section of the former commit-
[30213]tee’s April report told of a Wash-
[30214]ington attorney who in 1967 went.
[30215]to Supreme Court Chief Justice
[30216]Earl Warren (chairman of the:
[30217]then-disbanded Warren Commis- .
[30218]sion) to say that two’of his Clients |
[30219]believed they knew about Cuban.
[30220]‘agents in the United States who.
[30222]conspired in the assassination of °
[30224]. John F. Kennedy, -
[30225]THE INFORMATION: eventually
[30227]-reached the FBI, but as the Senate.
[30228]committee concluded this year, the ©
[30229]1967 FBI probe was slipshod and
[30231]incomplete.
[30232]One of the clients referred to in,
[30234]the report has since been identified”
[30235]_as Rosselli. And it has since ‘been
[30236]Jearned that Rosselli was con-
[30237]vinced he held a vital clue to the
[30239]JFK murder.
[30241]Page 405
[30243]“There was never the slightest
[30244]doubt in John’s mind that Castro
[30246]was responsible for the assassina-.
[30248]tion of Kennedy,” said Edward P.
[30250]Morgan, the attorney referred to in
[30252]the report.
[30253]Morgan is an attorney of no
[30254]mean stature in Washington. He
[30256]“served as chief counsel to the joint
[30258]congressional committee which
[30259]studied the Pearl Harbor attack,
[30260]counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela-
[30261]tions Committee and for seven
[30262]years was chief inspector of the
[30263]BI. .
[30265]ROSSELLI told Morgan about
[30267]-the CIA plot in 1967, when the De-'
[30269]partment of Justice was vigorously
[30270]attempting to deport Rosselli for
[30271]being an illegal alien.
[30273]Rosselli, Morgan said, “was cer- .
[30274]tain that the people he (Rosselli). °
[30276]put around Castro in the CIA plot
[30277]turned right around and killed Ken-
[30278]nedy. The people he still knew (in
[30279]1967) did it.”
[30281]Rosselli, according to Morgan,.
[30282]decided to talk about his CIA activ- .
[30284]ity in hopes of decreasing the pres-
[30286]. Sure from the FBI and Department .
[30288]of Naturalization and Immigration,.
[30289]both Justice Department agencies.
[30290]Several friends of Rosselli, in-
[30292]cluding Morgan, say they are con- .
[30294]‘vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli
[30295]to become’ an organized crime. in-
[30297]formant by threatening to have-
[30298]him deported if he ‘didn’t soopera- .
[30300]te.
[30302]IN 1961, through a bungled_
[30303]. wiretap “effort, the FBI° became:
[30304]aware of Rosselli's CIA activities. —
[30306]‘While Giancana and Rosselli:
[30307]were in Florida planning the opera-
[30308]‘tion, Giancana wanted to return to
[30309]Las Vegas to check on his girl
[30310]friend, Phyllis McGuire, whom he
[30311]suspected’ of dating comedian Dan
[30312]Rowan. To keep Giancana in. Flori-
[30313]da, it was agreed that a bug would
[30314]be placed in her hotel room and her
[30315]conversations monitored.
[30317]“But the private detective they
[30318]hired, with CIA money. it has since
[30319]been learned, was discovered and
[30321]arrested. Eventually the police in- ;
[30322]vestigation led back to the Castro |
[30323]_ plotters. ‘
[30325]Prosecution was avoided when’
[30326]the CIA intervened and said the
[30327]“national interest’? would be dam-
[30328]_aged if the plot information be-
[30329]“ came public.
[30331]"WHEN THE wiretap case was
[30332]again to be investigated in 1966,
[30333]this time by a Senate committee
[30334]headed by the late Sen. Edward
[30335]Long (D., Mo.), the CIA again step-
[30336]ped in to stop it.
[30338]Morgan was told about the pend-
[30339]ing investigation by Rosselli and
[30340]Robert Mahue, a former FBI
[30341]agent-turned Howard Hughes aide
[30342]who was the CIA's. initial link to
[30344]. Rosselli.
[30346]Mahue told Morgan that both he
[30347]and Rosselli had been subpenaed to.
[30348]appear before the committee. Mor-:
[30349]gan said he called Lawrence Hous-:
[30350]ton, the CIA general counsel. Hous- .
[30351]ton went to Long and the investi-.
[30352]gation was dropped. .
[30354]. MORGAN SAID he knew, as the
[30355]Senate committee recently empha--
[30356]sized as well, that all information.
[30357]-about the CIA plots — which could’
[30358]have been the incentive for pro-*
[30359]Castro forces to kill Kennedy —-
[30360]had been kept from the Warren:
[30361]‘Commission.
[30363]“I-was an admirer of Earl War--
[30364]ren,” Morgan said. “(His) report:
[30365]said that ... Oswald alone killed.
[30366]Kennedy. It kept bugging me after -
[30367]so gruesome a detail from Rosselli
[30368]that the Chief Justice could put his
[30369]name on a report which didn't as-
[30370]sess the ‘most significant piece of
[30371]evidence bearing on the killing of
[30372]Kennedy.” -
[30374]The information Morgan had
[30375]was passed to Warren via colum-
[30377]nist Drew Pearson, a mutual
[30378]friend. Eventually, it reached the-
[30379]FBI, but, remarkably, even after di-
[30380]rect orders from President Lyndon
[30381]Johnson in the spriig of 1967, in-
[30382]vestigation was not vigorously pur.
[30383]sued.’
[30385]THE SENATE Intelligence Com-.
[30386]mittee compared that apparent. in-
[30387]action with a statement former FBI
[30388]director J. Edgar Hoover made to
[30390]: the Warren Commission on May 5, .
[30391]1964. Hoover said, ‘well, I can as-
[30392]- sure. you so far as the FBI is con-.
[30393]cerned the case will be continued:
[30394]in) an open classification for. all-
[30395]‘time. That is, any information com-
[30396]ing to us or any report coming to:
[30398]‘us from any source will be thor--
[30399]_ oughly investigated, so that we
[30401]Twill be “able"to prove or “disprovel
[30402]>the allegation.” By
[30404]A Senate Committee staff mem“.
[30405]ber commented recently, “what is
[30406]“really happening is that the investi-
[30407]gation which the FBI should have
[30408]done in 1967 — and no one can
[30409]come close to explaining why it
[30410]wasn’t-— is actually being done
[30411]now." -
[30413]HART, AS have local investiga-~
[30414]. tors, has established three possible
[30415]_scenario’s for Rosselli’s death: his
[30416]recent organized crime activity, re-
[30417]taliation for his Castro assassina-
[30418]tion efforts or the information he
[30419]held concerning the JFK assassina-
[30420]tion.
[30422]HW 50955 Docld:32423630
[30424]“Maybe Resselli's - - information
[30425]was the vital nerve of the Kennedy~
[30426]assassination,” a Senate source. told .
[30427]The Herald. - :
[30429]High officials in the Cuban gov- ‘
[30430]ernment also reportedly feel there.
[30432]- was a “Cuban factor"ein the JFK
[30434]: death, but they see it as a result of .
[30436]' exile politics, according to a recent
[30437]article by Alton Frye, a senior fel-.
[30438]low of the Council Foreign Rela-:
[30439]tions in Washington.
[30441]_Frye wrote that he visited Ha-
[30442]vana recently and met with Cuban,
[30444]; Officials including Deputy Prime
[30445]. Minister Carlos ‘Rafael Rodriguez.
[30446]“.,. they volunteer the suspicion
[30447]that the recent murders of Sam Gi-
[30449]‘ancana and Johnny Rosselli ...
[30450]surely have some connection with
[30452]) Cuban exile politics and the ‘Kenne-
[30453]dy murder,” Frye wrote. :
[30455]THERE HAVE been theories re-
[30456]cently propounded to show why
[30457]both pro and anti-Castro forces
[30459]' could have wanted to get JFK out
[30460]- of power in 1963.
[30461]On the one hand, there is the re-
[30463]' port of French journalist Jean Dan- .
[30465]_ jel, who was the bearer to Castro
[30466]. of an offer from.JFK for calmer re-
[30467], dations. Castro was
[30469]reportedly ;
[30470]‘ agreeable, The report stated that.
[30472]©Daniel ‘later was: Junching with.’
[30474],, Castro when word came that Ken-
[30476]* nedy had been’ shot. Daniel de-
[30477]scribed the Cuban leader as genu-
[30478]inely shocked by the news.
[30480]It has since been learned that
[30481]probably in the very hour JFK was
[30482]shot, a one-time Castro supporter
[30483]was receiving a poison pen device
[30484]from a CIA agent in what was a
[30485]long-running anti-Castro ‘effort.
[30486]That Cuban agent was code-named -
[30487]AM/LASH, and he has since been
[30488]identified as Rolando Cuebala, now
[30490]imprisoned in Cuba for his assassi- °
[30492]. nation plotting.
[30494]WHETHER JFK had knowledge
[30495]of, or perhaps even approved, any:
[30497]of the assassination plots will prob-:
[30499]" ably never be known.
[30500]His closest advisers, who testi-
[30502]‘fied before the Senate Committee,.
[30504]‘all said he had no knowledge of
[30505]such plots and would never have
[30506]+ approved of them.
[30507]The same month Rosselli was.
[30508]. passing poison pills to his Cuban
[30509]» contact at a meeting at the ‘Fon-
[30510]? tainebleau, March of 1961, former
[30511]Florida Sen. George Smathers, a
[30512]friend of Kennedy, said he and
[30514]Page 406
[30516]. phone call
[30518]Kennedy discussed the ramifica-°
[30520]tions of a Castro assassination.
[30522]Smathers has since said Kennedy
[30523]rejected the idea and that the dis-
[30524]cussion was more of a “brain-pick-
[30525]ing” session. —
[30527]AT LEAST one “high- -level CIA
[30528]official did testify he believed the
[30530]White House was being briefed on-
[30532]the plots but according to Richard
[30533]Bissell, one of the officials who
[30534]originally decided to use Rosselli, it
[30535]was through the method of “plau-
[30536]sible deniability.”
[30538]That, according to the recent
[30539]Senate report, ‘can also lead to the
[30540]use of euphemism and circumlocu-
[30541]tion, which are designed to allow
[30542]the President and other senior offi-
[30543]cials to deny knowledge of an op-
[30544]eration should it be disclosed.” :
[30546]Another alleged link between!
[30547]the White House and the under-
[30549]‘world plotters, first made public by
[30551]the Senate Committee, has also
[30552]been denied by virtually everyone
[30553]involved. Judith Campbell Exner,
[30554]the woman who claims to have
[30555]been friend and lover to both Gian-
[30557]“cana and JFK, introduced to both
[30558]by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in_
[30559]‘the Castro plotting, those close’ to =
[30561]both Giancana and Kennedy have
[30563]said, ,
[30565]A MAN with acéess to Kenne-
[30566]dy's closest advisers told The Her-
[30567]ald recently, “The Giancana- Ros-
[30568]selli thing is unrelated to the Exner
[30569]thing. I was there. Sure JFK knew
[30570]her, but he was naive about those
[30571]kinds of things.”
[30573]There is documentation to show
[30574]that om March. 22, -1962, Hoover.
[30576]_lunched privately with Kennedy
[30577]. and presumably gave him his first
[30579]information linking Exner with the
[30580]gangsters. The final:
[30582]recorded
[30583]between the White -
[30585]: House and Exner was made only al
[30587]few hours later. ;
[30589]Another possible link discussed
[30591]‘in the Senate report shows that the
[30593]same unidentified Cuban‘to whom :
[30595]Rosselli
[30597]passed the poison pills '
[30599]prior to the Bay of Pigs operation ©
[30601]in April of 1961, was among a
[30603]group of Cuban exile leaders who :
[30605]met with JFK following the inva-.
[30607]"* sion fiasco. :
[30609]-IT IS known that several of the
[30610]_ Cubans -
[30612]with - whom Rosselli
[30613]worked have been identified, but
[30614]investigators say that not all are
[30615]known.
[30617]. those
[30618]- about,”
[30620]As a condition to his appear-.”
[30621]ances before the Senate Committee.’ :
[30622]in the past year, it was agreed that 5
[30623]Rosselli “would not state the
[30624]names or confirm the existence of.
[30625]agents whom he knew
[30627]Rosselli’s attorney . Leslie. i.
[30628]' Scheer said.
[30629]The friends and acquaintances of
[30631]' Rosselli who could be contacted by .
[30633]The Herald all said they never :
[30634]“heard the names of the Cuban -
[30636], agents,
[30638]But -a “committee” ‘source “cau-"
[30640]tioned, “they (Cuban agents) read :
[30642]the committee's report, they know
[30643]who's being referred to,”
[30645]ANOTHER Rosselli attorney, .
[30646]Tom Wadden, a partner of Edward ;
[30647]Bennett Williams, said, ‘‘Yes, It
[30648]‘think he had more knowledge’ «
[30649]’ than he testified to. _
[30651]Searching Rosselli‘s more recent
[30652]past. for. enemies also presents’
[30653]problems, investigators say. «+.
[30655]The decline of John Rosselli ap-.'
[30656]pears to begin in the late 1960s. In”
[30657]1967, he was convicted jn a card--
[30658]cheating scandal at the posh, celeb- |
[30659]rity-filled Friar’s Club in- Los An- .
[30660]geles where the influence of Sina- °.
[30661]tra had made him a member ac-
[30662]cording to investigators. ~
[30664]Deportation pressures were also
[30665]mounting at this time.
[30667]“ ROSSELLI entered prison on the
[30668]conviction in 1970 where he would:
[30669]serve three years of a five-year,
[30670]sentence.
[30672]In 1971, he was brought td a.
[30673]federal grand jury in Los Angeles
[30674]which was probing whether some
[30675]indentified Detroit organized crime °
[30677]leaders conspired with the Emprise:
[30678]Corp. — a giant firm with nation-:
[30679]wide race track and sporting event’
[30680]concessions — to hide financial in-;
[30681]terests in the Frontier, Hotel dnt Las.
[30682]Vegas.
[30684]Rosselli, too, had, an interest in’
[30685]the Frontier, which opened in 1967.
[30686]He owned the gift shop concession‘
[30687]along, with a partner named Joe.
[30688]Breen, How Rosselli obtained the
[30689]concession is unclear,. but’ Breen
[30690]said it gave Rosselli an‘ income of
[30691]about $60,000.
[30693]ROSSELLI at one time hdd been:
[30694]a major influence in Las Vegas.
[30695]Several sources sajd that when the
[30696]owners of the Desert Inn wanted
[30697]Howard Hughes to move out of the ©
[30698]penthouse — because. his special
[30699]needs were ‘costly and putting
[30702]HW 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 407
[30704]some “high rollers” in would be
[30705]more profitable — it was Rosselli
[30706]-who patched things up.
[30708]Hughes eventually bought the
[30709]Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier.
[30711]What Rosselli told the federal
[30712]grand "jury about the Frontier, in
[30713]1971 is unknown.. Rosselli didn't
[30715]testify later at the trial at which.
[30717]Anthony J. Zerilli and Michael Pol-
[30719]izzi and the Emprise.Corp., among.
[30721]others, were convicted.
[30723]ZERILLI and Polizzi are “still in
[30725]jail. In 1973, the House of Repre-
[30726]sentatives Select Committee on
[30727]Crime probed the influence of or-
[30728]ganized crime in sports — and one
[30729]area they looked at was Emprise
[30730]and the Frontier Hotel case.
[30732]At the time. of the conviction, the
[30733]federal prosecutor asked that Poliz-
[30734]zi and Terilli be jailed immediately,
[30735]because monitored, wiretapped
[30736]conversations showed that the two
[30737]had talked about “murder, the kill-
[30738]-ing of certain individuals.”
[30740]An intimate associate of Rosselli,
[30741]however, discounts the possibility
[30742]that Rosselli’s grand jury appear-
[30743]ance could have led to his death.
[30744]“They know Johnny didn't talk to
[30745]the grand jury,” the associate said.
[30747]JOE BREEN said: Rosselli hadn't
[30748]been to Las Vegas for nine years,
[30749]that “he’s never even seen the gift
[30750]shop.”
[30752]Since his prison release and
[30753]move to Plantation, Rosselli wasn't
[30754]trying to regain power: according
[30755]to his friends. ‘He had no muscle.”
[30756]said an associate.“ can’t believe
[30757]Rosselli was getting back into’ mob
[30758]stuff.”
[30760]But at the same time, many of
[30762]the: associates were surpised to
[30763]learn about Rosselli’s recent visits
[30764]with alleged organized crime fig-
[30765]ures on the West Coast.
[30766]_ Several associates speculate that
[30767]Rosselli. wanted to get involved in
[30768]_ casino gambling, preferably in the
[30769]‘Middle East, and was looking for
[30770]someone with money to back him.
[30772]“MY IMPRESSION was that he
[30773]was broke,” Morgan said. “He told
[30774]me last year, ‘Tm. in. bad. financial.
[30776]Scheer said Rosselli's income in-
[30777]cluded about $60,000 from the gift
[30778]_shop and about $3,500 in social se-
[30779]curity, most of which went for
[30780]back fees to attorneys and for gov-
[30781]_ernment fines. ee
[30783]. One friend said! that just before
[30784]Giancana’s death, |Rosselli had ac-
[30785]cepted Giancana's|offer of money.
[30786]The friend was to|act as-the inter-
[30787]mediary. “Let me/figure out what
[30788]my next (attorney's) tab will-be,"-
[30789]the friend. quoted ' Rosselli as say-
[30790]ing. . wp
[30791]Rosselli is described as a man
[30792]with a sense of humor who did lit-"
[30793]tle offending. :
[30795]A California woman who had
[30797]known Rosselli for about 40 years
[30799]_told "The Herald,! “If you’ were.
[30801]around him for 30 minutes you'd
[30802]like him because he would regard
[30803]you as a human being.”
[30805]“If you had a headache he would’
[30806]either get you an laspirin or send
[30807]someone to get one. I said some-
[30808]thing significant there — he would
[30809]get it or he would send someone —
[30811]“he wasn't a pansy,;but he wasn’t a
[30813]tough guy either.”
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[30999]. UNTTE D STATES GON ARNMENT, | , ; Fe iwvont —
[31001]‘Memorandum
[31003]TO : Mr. por / DATE: 12-10-G4
[31006]. Va 1-My, Sullivan :
[31007]FROM : A, Rosom,# (O.H. Bartlett) Holmes .
[31008]a 4 mo . Il-Kr. DeLoach © GANDY emma
[31009]7 } l-Mr. Belmont Non Ah
[31010]SUIJECT: ‘pRESIDENT'S COMMISSION . 1-Nr. Rosen SS
[31011]‘ON THE ASSASSINATION oF l-Mr. Malley [+ a
[31012]PRESIDENT KENNEDY 1l-Mr, Shroder “Kye
[31013]l-Mr. Rogge Po
[31014]“A —
[31016]PURPOSE: as "a4 a
[31017]: pk Lae One ae
[31018]To advise you that an Agent of the Secret Service, when =
[31019]testifying before the President's Commission, denied making certain ,
[31020]statements to FBI Agents which were subsequently reported to the
[31021]Commission. i.
[31023]Pa
[31025]DETAILS: i Te
[31027]—mtcaanasmtmuasn . . bat
[31029]° ° In Volume XI of the hearings before the President's
[31031]‘Commission commencing on page Gl there anpears the testinony :
[31032]of Roy I. Eellerman, Assistant Special Agent’, White House Detail, jae
[31033]U.S. Secret” Service on 3-9-G4, . *In Charge :
[31035]; “ Under questioning by a Commission member, Kellerman
[31036]was asked about certain statements reportedly made by him on i
[31037]11-22-63, to SA's Francis %. O Neili, Jr. and James W. Sibert, :
[31038]of our Baltimore Office, which appear in the 12-10-63 Dallas
[31039]report of Special Agent Robert P. Gemberling (page 3, paragraph ot
[31040]4). SA's O'Neill and Sibert were under orders to be observers
[31041]during the autopsy of president Kennedy at the National Naval _f
[31043]_ Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, which commenced on the ~ ;F
[31044]evening of Lli- 22- 63, to be of assistance to the Secret Service, /
[31046]and to look after the Bureau's interests.
[31048]>. Our Agents, in conversation with* Kellerman, sometime c
[31049]during the evening of 11-22-63, learned of pertain information, ae
[31050]portions of which were reported as follows:i7 7 emg red Je.
[31052]1 ie
[31053], "He advised he heard a shot: ‘and _Limediacpty
[31054]co . turned around, looking past Gover'nor Connally j
[31055], Re; th president . He observed the seegtiont, slumped
[31056]eg th cece forward and heard him say, ‘Get me to a hospital." \
[31057]re Mr Kellerman then heard Hrs. hennedy say, Np
[31058]rely SU 'Oh, no!', as the President leaned towards her. : Ly
[31060]me 15 He immediately advised the driver to take the fi
[31061]Fis] - President to the’ nearest hospital. "
[31063]ae a ere Git
[31065]RDR: tint reps EE _ mH
[31066](8) Lae’ CONTINUED - OVER . f ‘
[31068]“HW 50955 "DocTd:32423630 Page 417
[31070]a) : — )
[31072]-~A. tosen te Mr. Belmont Nemo
[31073]RE: PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
[31075]; The Commission in questioning Kellerman made specific | none
[31076]‘reference to the underscored portions of the above paragraph a
[31077]as it contradicts some of Kellerman's testimony. Kellerman aan
[31079]claims he did not .hear the President. nor Mrs. Kennedy say
[31080]these things and had never told our Agents that he had. In
[31081]part of Kellerman's denial he stated "I don' t know where they
[31082]}got those quotes," ;
[31084]OBSE aRVATIONS:
[31086]Kellerman is claiming our Agents furnished inaccurate
[31087]accounts of a conversation with him. It is to be remembered vt
[31088]that at the time this conversation with our Agents reportedly
[31090]took place 11-22-63, Kellerman had been a security guard in
[31091]the Presidmt's car and more than likely was upset and feeling
[31092]remorse over the days episode, In his testimony before the
[31093]Commission hek’endeavored to give the impression that he’ acted .
[31094]calmly and immediately took command, issuing logical instructions
[31095]after the Presiddat was hit. The conversation reported by. Eade -
[31096]“——- our Agents made it appear Kellerman reacted normally to the , -
[31097]tragedy and not dramatically as indicated in his testimony, _
[31098]as he didn't order the driver tothe hospital until after the | —
[31099]- President had so directed. ,
[31101]It is felt our Agents reported accurately what
[31102]Kellerman told them on 11~22463, and that Kellerman's testimony
[31103]33 months later is the result of considered deliberation, on
[31105]his part, to paint the most favorable pictuve possible, under _ —
[31106]the circumstances, for the Secret Service. ?
[31107]Consideration has been given to discussing this matter —_=
[31109]with Chief Rowley of Secret Service, however, since it is the
[31110]word of our Agents against Kellerman’ s, it is not felt any good
[31111]purpose would be served by this course of action. ,
[31113]RECOMMENDATION: . . a ‘
[31115]Affidavits are being obtained from our Agents Sibert
[31116]and O'N@ill attesting to the accuracy of their report and
[31117]refuting Kellerman se that we will be in a position to show
[31118]any future inquirer that we recognized this contradiction and
[31119]did apne thing about it,
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[31131]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Ya fei & ee
[31132]st (ee
[31133]ASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 Nard ;
[31134]Review Staff: 76-0298/1 we
[31135]11 March 1976 enum
[31136]Mr. William G. Miller
[31137]Staf€ Director sdadeee.“
[31138]Select Committee To Study Governmental ;
[31139]Operations With Respect To Intelligence ee?
[31140]Activities ,
[31141]Room G-508 .
[31142]- Dirksen Senate Office Building .
[31143]Washington, D. C. 20510 Attn: Mr. Johnston
[31144]Dear Mr. Milter:
[31145]Ria
[31146]In response to a request dated 9 March 1976 about .
[31147]the Oswald file held by the- Agency, the attached 1s
[31149]forwarded for your information.
[31151]Sincerely, |
[31153]Moat Eller | .
[31154]Walter Eider eer
[31156]Review Staff
[31158]Attachment:
[31159]As stated
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[31174]MNTiYys An
[31176]Attachment to:
[31177]Review Staff: 76-0070/1
[31179]1. The following CIA Staff Employees, all of whom
[31180]are now retired, participated in the preparation of DIR
[31181]86054 on 30 November 1963: , ;
[31183]Originator: Mr. Louis Armstrong
[31185]Coordinators: Mr. John M. Whitten, Mr. William
[31186]mo, _B. Tyng, Ms. Sue L. Darling
[31188]Authenticator: Mr. William B. Tyng (‘'for"
[31189]Desmond FitzGerald)
[31191]Releasor: Mr. John M, Whitten ("for" J.C. King)
[31193]: 2. We believe that the Italian diplomat on the Cubana
[31194]flight No. 465 on 22 November 1963 from Mexico City to Havana,
[31195]Cuba, was Mario MAURI who was accompanied by his wife, Maria
[31196]Antonieta MAURI. We have been unable to determine who trans-
[31197]mitted the ‘information contained in DIR 86054 to CIA and we
[31199]_have not been able to locate any documents relating to this
[31200]matter in Latin America Division files or the Oswald files.
[31202]3. We have been unable to locate any documents which
[31203]would indicate that there was a response to DIR 86054 from
[31204]Mexico City. ;
[31206]4. Assuming there was no response to DIR 86054, the
[31207]originating Headquarters component should have initiated
[31208]follow-up action if a response was not received. .
[31210]5. We have been unable to find any further information
[31211]relating to DIR 86054 in Latin America Division files.
[31213]FEB 5 1976
[31215]CIA
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[31232]6. We do not have a copy of the Cubana manifest-for
[31234]the 22 November-1963 flight from Mexico C
[31235]we have determined that the following per
[31237]flight:
[31238]NAME NATIONALITY |
[31239]_Jakob ETT Swiss
[31240]Hector LEMIEUX. Canadian
[31241]Joseph POULIOT Canadian |
[31242]Donald George CAMERON Canadian ~
[31243]William POULIS Canadian —
[31244]Thomas Clark OSULD Canadian
[31245]Dungan MCPHERSON Canadian
[31246]Leo John DEST Canadian
[31247]Thomas MURPHY Canadian.
[31248]Arthur EDMONDS | British
[31249]James DISINOP ; British
[31250]Venancio OLIVAREZ Villaverde Spanish
[31251]Jose Luis CACHO y Barcha Spanish
[31252]. David FLOR Lechago Spanish:
[31253]Maria Antonieta MAURI Italian :
[31254]Mario MAURI Italian ~~
[31255]Maarten Van DERPLAAT Dutch
[31256]oe
[31258]SECRET / OL Sivive
[31260]ity to Havana, but
[31261]sons were on-that
[31263]OCCUPATION
[31265]Diplomat
[31266]Unknown
[31267]Unknown
[31268]Unknown
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[31391]ho nog contact with Gsvale, ;
[31392]sa rea in, Yerren Commission wret -uys in pres:
[31394]a wt . a “cst Bround recallin: detail:
[31395]a“ of their having been in”a group with Osveld here last. fail.
[31396], eurang the daysthat ne wes in deaeearinan {he write-ups of the
[31397]Warren CommiSs ior report in the nevspaders &
[31398]discussi Qn and they 3: sperently nod never reaily. st around
[31399]datozmind to piece itv ail cogether, althcush all three were
[31400]deeply aifected by Lenne aiy's assassination, Secnea literally.
[31401]i nee to adore tha Kennecy family imege,. still follow Robart y-enned:
[31402]ee areer with great interest t and adm airation. oo .
[31404]a aoe
[31406]oan fain points?
[31408]Horacio is tha: husbend.oF
[31409]SYLVIA puaaH,! the exiesn girl “who was arrasted for question»
[31410]acous Osweid ocause she had bezn in touch with himnat the Cu
[31412]MR “) ampassy when. be went there lonlcing- fora visa...(sha-is or v.
[31413]rave «9  "" glso a Pynstecder at cha Cubun-hexican institute” on Lokic,; I
[31414]ees renemoar)- . it . we
[31416]. ‘hile Osweld wes here lest fail the | Duren cousins” invited the
[31417]| Sovkes |. “ toa “twist party™ at the
[31418]none 6f. Ruben Duran nid.week. ii few Communists they knew
[31420]ada “number ‘of neopla who ‘struck 3 tn
[31422]. . : and
[31423]“ee as very peculiar at the time, were there. AnD OSWALD VASTEERL
[31424]Ion Tsi0 CTUZRE Bas tTRiIk DUCKING BOYS, CHS OF HERE UAC Vas
[31426]VauY BaLL sD ALL TERSs OF AGM TAY REHM EMBaR .UTTS oe poe Po
[31427]. When they began asiing ques tions abouts the Americcns, who
[31428]‘ware standing togeths* ail evening ance Gidatt Guncu ait ell,”
[31430]; _. they.vere shifted to cnothss room. | _ « However
[31432]. tiey were intrigued because | - ‘gsaid ha didn't know
[31434]oe _uhe they werd, except that Sylvia Duren had breugnt shen, anc
[31435]nene of the other, guests, mace any atteapt to approscen then.
[31437]oo _ Also, yhen the so insistent about meeting thea,
[31438]a ——=x the Durens replied that the boys were leaving town ¥
[31439]. “  oarly the mext morning. The nA next day, weil along in the day,
[31440]| a ro. , Saw all thre
[31441]coys together on ‘Insurzents . in othor words » thoy hed not 1k
[31443]- . . tou. &t the Hae, they zen asied ubout itm ite
[31447]oo . As socn as sold's picture Was pre nted in the newspope
[31448]we Gounsél a cisarty penamp red nim. Ang of courss the arr
[31449]° Sylvia Yaren almost imuediatel; afterward, underlined thoir
[31451]certainsy. .
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[31470]| av ou bys Duran ang one of tne DUE
[31471]Par a | Says vee Lys at ehat wost conss SenousLy
[31472]g uit ava made trins to LONCS. ha cleave 3005 oven
[31473]wavs A ~ . mat 5 r
[31474]: they. he. ye all prospezed this last yoar- ay
[31475]be ed a an ot 4; - ~ n °
[31476]‘Shey now have an éxpansive cer each.
[31477]te pad,
[31479]Duran Works ab BL Dia newspapere.-
[31480]sioner sROLEAD RTECS Horacio |
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[31558]: MEXICAN AUEHORITIES SHOULD INTRROGATE ‘SILVIA DURAN 20 xr mt —
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[31563]REVEAT NOT WAHT ANY AMERICANS 0 CO} PROM? SUWVIA ‘DURAN oR, BE IN cowtacr WITS
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[31607]BETWEEN w, “WE ANE ‘tO “DS URE ‘THAT, SILVIA DURAN ceese IMPRESSION THAT , - rns |
[31608]AVERICANS sex HER Reanresr. a OTHER WORDS, “WE. Saar TEXTICAH AUTHO
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[31614]Comment: *Mexican authorities should interrogate Silvia Duran to... - 4
[31615]- extent necessary to clarify outstanding points which have been ra el
[31616]- | MEXI may provide questions to Mexican interrogators, but Hqs. does |
[31617]wo not want Bay Americans to confront Duran or be in contact with her’ : |
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[31633]3. Deterenes dg meio to the attacknexts to ay
[31634]mecmoopes Gatek Jl Jumary 1504 and Bl Feoruesy LS,
[31635]3 mexican cthicen samloyed 28 tha Guten Coastlate a .
[31636]ty wexigo Ging. Dxtommbica ca the actions of
[31637]Filvia IRISAS on ber rewum to york oS tha Caen
[31638](  Sonsalase an 23 Hoveaber 1563, fallewing ber fiosk
[31639], 7 intesrspaies by toa Hexicon outhorisica, is attached
[31640]to this mesemsodes. ‘This ties say ba usefai so Ms
[31641]fonusiseion in the evaluetica of Hra. DUBAM's story.
[31643]2. Pha dugormebion contained 4a this attackct
[31644]“22g obtaited froaisenaltive coorcea. It thereicre oo:
[31645]tears en agpropriate secaltivizy inciestcr, ms
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[31660]AL Courter ts
[31662]Subjecss Azsicna of Salvi. ORAS, teclous Cisizes Doloyed
[31663]by the Cuban Consulate, bcligving Ear Firsk
[31664]ini intessogeticn. hy the iewioun Authorities
[31667]i
[31668]|
[31669]|
[31671]L A pulishla usd seualbive scures, + veil infooed on
[31672]rolinieak yerscmalities und cvenite im the Caben Sotowsy and.
[31673]Commalake 1g Meclen Cisy, had ginted thas on her ceturn to
[31674]the Goubaa Some tlates on 3) Hovecoer 15453, Siivia SGRAg toa
[31676]commintanes vith Lea inrsey COULD that was pablisoed in .
[31678]tha Mexies tity nossa, This infomsiios, saich vents ta
[31679]ape Dae quxrepttously given $9 the preea by certain
[31680]Hnccen aubherities, indicated that ascording te DU2Ag, |
[31681]OWPALD bad visited tne Cabea and Soviet Conmulates to
[31682]obtain yiaes ia setier to vieis thes, coumicies, aod oie.
[31683]had Gendled bis case ab the Coben Conailate. ;
[31685]2 he saly bee thes in the account that Clvia DRA
[31686]sate her colleaguin was ber elais that tbe Recioca golice _
[31687]nnd thoestesed te extradite har to tae Uaited tietes for a
[31689]conitmmbaiion on CSMAID. According te the sourne, Silvia
[31690]Sista, a intelligas, fe uiceewlicad won, @id ook Toor
[31692]sack & cenironation.
[31694]"3. Te shold be acted that SIA dota aot iow the
[31696]raced origia of tbs sucgzested cenfrontatian. The lea
[31697]zinntet, in SLE proteaiiity, with toe Beciera autooritias
[31699]Suenived ia the interrogation of DEAF.
[31701]454 pccuniind te the puss souren, imumulataly after
[31702]srl since the asstesinetion the permspel of ee
[31703]Subassy was shocked and cumiad = =O atorenslocags of ,
[31704]wleasare 2% the aesasalition wese Seard, acl these res
[31705]Uitsie discussion of it. ghe gosein Gal official couvarsations
[31706]in tha om ches Dmbasey and Consulata tend ta confima tas
[31707]iagsteseias thet UGALD vistted the Escaasy oaly to oF% 8
[31708]wica to to visit or te Svansit tae coms 7- oy - ose
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[31957]DESIRED RETURN conn US ET ‘AS WISHED TO BETTR 25 70 usa = aoe .
[31959]; EP "WE fz, COULD com, 70) soa AGHEEYENT CONCERNING TEE DROPP
[31961]‘OP ANY LEGAL, PROCEEDINGS" “AGAINST UE. _ ON 8 suLY oN His. on %
[31963]INITIATIVES HE APPEARED ‘AT THE EHUB. WITH “HIS: IEEE | 70 SEE Be anoUr _
[31964]. a -
[31966]HIS RETURN ‘za ‘Sraras)"” sus STATED THAT. EE ACTUALLY HAD NSyea
[31968]: APPLIED FOR SOYIET: CITIZENSHIP AND THAT HIS APPLICATION art Of
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[31995](THAT TIME HAD BEEN TO REMAIN IN USSR AND FoR TEORARY “version
[31996]OF 3 ‘HIS TOURIST VISA PENDING ourcoms: oF. ‘EIS “REQUEST ars |
[31997]APPLICATION, ~AccoRDING TO os¥azD, cormaresp NORE? To. SoviEr |
[31999]‘CITEZaNSHrp.. - OSHALD ‘STATED THAT HED BEEN EurLoren SINCE!
[32000]4 3 JAN: 1960" IN ‘-RELORUSSZ ZAN RADIO AND v FAcroRy, IN MENSE
[32001]: vines 5 FORKED AS. METAL WORKER XN. RESEA og “SHOP, 2 OSFALD. WAS.
[32003]MARRIED, ON 36. APRIL i961 Fo MARINA MiKo:
[32005]‘OLAETNA PUSAROVA ve -
[32007]ge” ‘STTEEETED ‘BRRANGE 3 FOR WIE 70. somn aD EN, Foscoy 80. se ;
[32009]COULD APPEAR AT = eoR “yas. 1 EN ‘TERVIEW. “us AMERY:
[32013]Was” ‘RETURNED r0 aI, [US ENB. MoscoT ‘STATED =D TWENTY RONTES ed
[32014]“OF REALITIES oF LIFE ay SOVIET UNIOR ‘HAD ) CURARLY HAD pod .
[32015]er On OSWALD. :
[32017]“LATEST ‘EDQS: INFO was | a REPORT DATED 3 MAY i962 es
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[32020]- SAYIXG [ HAD DETERMINED OSWALD Is STIL US CITIZEN xD _
[32021]0 BOTH BE AND HIS SOVIET WIFE HAVE EXIT PERMITS AND. DEPT STATE:
[32023]EAD GIVEN APPROVAL FOR TSEIR 7 TRAVEL WiTH THEIR INFANT CE CEIED
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[32085]ESoyareampranet ont eS Bis. rogmest. Ne ceye mo what Pysmes ag inocometion vith. .
[32087]- . xegerd to toils 3 Teqiaste
[32089]’ ST . prees
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[32231]UNITED STATE ES DEPI2TAMENT OF JUSTICE
[32233]on FEDERAL AUAEAU °F INVESTIGATION
[32235]FASHINGTOXN 25,D.C.
[32237]June 9, 1962
[32239]Zonoradle J. Lee Rankin: | oo, ,
[32241]General Counsel
[32243]The President's Commissioa
[32244]200 Maryland Avenue, Northeast oo
[32245]Niasnington, D. C. 20002
[32247]Dear ur. Ransin: ; . _ .
[32249]Your letter of June 1, 1964, requesting susmeries
[32250]ei FBI reporz=s wita regard ide) con neaed persons and certain
[32251]information regarding the contact by Special Agent Caarles W,
[32252]Flyon with Jack L, Rudy on Marca 11,.1959, is herewita
[32253]acknowledged. fi
[32255]As you were advised by ny letter of February 27,
[32256]1954, Jack Ruoy vas contacted by Svacial Agent Cnarles V.
[32257]Flynn of the Dallas Office on Harcoa 12, 1959, in view of his
[32258]position as a nignt ‘club operator Fho Bigat have knowlecse of
[32259]the criminal élesent in Dallas. The purpose of this contace
[32260]yas to determine whether or not Ruby did have sucu knowlecs2
[32261]ecd if so, if re would be willing to furnisa iniornatisca to
[32262]this Bureau. Euyy wos ndvised of the FSI’ s jurisdiction in
[32263]erininal matters, and he expressed a willingness t iurnis
[32264]infornation. A personal ‘description of Ruoy was “Gotnined by
[32265]Sceciai Agent Flynn oa the occasion of this contact on
[32266]Maxch 11, 1259, but no information or other results were
[32267]contained. Detseen HBrca 11, 1559, and Cctovez 2, 1959, Pusy
[32268]was contacted on eight other ccc2sions, but 29 furnisned 10
[32269]daformation waavever aad further contacts with him were
[32270]discontinusd. _
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[32293]Special Agent Flynn on uarca 11, 2359, did not in itself Coatain.
[32294]the reoark "known Dallas Cyininal.”" This remark was adéed to
[32295]tha cescription oy Special Agent Louis WM. Zelley at tie tine
[32296]Wwoea he was assisting ia the preparation of ¢hs revort of Special
[32297]Agent Nanaing C, Clezents at Dallas dated Noveaber 30, 1963,
[32298]Enclosed herewith is the affidavit of Special Agent Louis M,
[32299]. Kelley at Little Rock, ‘Arkansas, dated June 4, 1964, setting
[32300]forth his basis for adding.'the remark "known Dallas area
[32301]-crininal™ to ths description of Puby as it apvears in the revort
[32302]of Svecial Agent Manning Cc, Clements at Dallas dated liovember 30
[32303]1963, and in the enclosure 'to my letter to you of April 7, 1932,
[32304]f
[32305]The suazaries concerning the ten nened individuals in
[32306]your t or Jur » 1964, are currently being prepared and
[32309]_forvarded to you proaptly upon conoletion.
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[32637]The Gashingten Merry-Go-Round
[32639]BI Withheld Deta on JFK Slaying
[32641]By Jack Anderson
[32643]and Les Whitten
[32645]'e FEST (ola? Y. belLcout of the Justice Department
[32647]The FBI. withheld from the
[32648]Warren Commission hundreds
[32649]of documents about the
[32651]assassination’ of President ,,
[32653]’ Kennedy.
[32654]"These are raw FBI files,
[32655]which the commission
[32657]requested but never received,
[32658]They contain no. startling
[32659]information that will overturn
[32660]the commission's verdict, but
[32661]they reveal intimately how the
[32662]FBI handled its most im-
[32663]portant case. ‘
[32664]In the margins of some
[32665]suppressed memos, the late
[32666]FBI chief, J. Edgar Hoover,
[32667]scribbled caustic comments in
[32668]blue ink. He was critical of
[32669]almost everyone involved in
[32670]the investigation, from Dallas
[32671]police chief Jesse Curry to
[32672]. President Lyndon Johnson.
[32674]Confidential notes kept by
[32675]:one top FBI official, for
[32676]- example, quote Hoover as
[32677]warning: “Johnson may
[32679]become very dictatorial. We
[32680]Aimust keep our guard up.”
[32682]- + Sources familiar with the
[32684]suppressed documents say the
[32685]* contents were summarized
[32686]and submitted to the Warren
[32687]Commission. But there were
[32688]“some subtle, perhaps
[32689]deliberate, omissions. :
[32690]The documents show that
[32691]Hoover brought pressure on
[32692]his subordinates to rush outa
[32693]preliminary report on the FBI
[32694]investigation before the
[32695]murdered President’s
[32696]brother, Robert F. Kennedy,
[32697]returned to his desk as
[32698]Attorney General.
[32700]- As a former defector, he also
[32702]The confidential notes queie
[32703]Hoover as instructing his
[32704]subordinates to get the rep ort
[32706]“before Bobby gets back.” -
[32707]Apparently, the FBI chief
[32709]also feared Deputy Attorney -.
[32711]General Nicholas deB, Kat-
[32713]zenbach might, tamper with |
[32714]the report before forwarding it
[32716]to the Warren Commission.
[32717]Hloover told his aides to alert
[32718]President Johnson's major-
[32719]domo, Waiter Jenkins.
[32721]“Let Jenkins know after
[32722]report is out of our hands.”
[32723]Hoover directed. ‘Let Jenkins
[32724]know what Katzenbach is
[32725]doing. Might cause long delay.
[32726]Must not consider any
[32727]alteration,” :
[32729]Thirteen days after
[32730]President Kennedy was
[32731]gunned down in Dallas,
[32732]Hoover delivered a detailed
[32733]report to Katzenbach naming
[32734]Lee Harvey Oswald as the.
[32735]assassin. Katzenbach kept it
[32736]four days before submitting it
[32737]to the commission.
[32739]The crusty old G-man was
[32740]furious at the Dallas police
[32741]chief, meanwhile, for leaking
[32742]the story that the FBI had
[32743]investigated. Oswald but had
[32744]failed to alert the Secret
[32745]Service. .
[32747]“This is the lowest level in
[32748]history of Bureau since I have
[32750]been director,” Hoover
[32751]lamented, according to the
[32752]confidential notes.
[32754]He contended that’ Oswald
[32755]had never been seen with
[32756]firearms, had written no hate
[32757]letters against U.S. leaders.
[32759]knew he was a marked man
[32760]whom the FBI was watching.
[32762]#rumbled Hoover, “how could
[32763]he be security risk? No in-
[32764]dication of violence so far as
[32766]our records show. . . Oswald
[32768]could have hollered false
[32769]had arrested.
[32771]arrest if we
[32772]him.”
[32774]The FBI chief commented
[32775]that: Chief Justice Earl
[32776]Warren. who headed the
[32777]commission, “would have
[32778]been first one to holler” about
[32779]Oswald's rights. Citing the
[32780]criticism of the FBI, Hoover
[32781]commented: “This is one of
[32782]the rough ones.” :
[32784]He felt, therefore, that
[32785]President Johnson should
[32786]have endorsed the FBI report.
[32787]“President
[32788]backed up report,” com-
[32789]plained Mewver, “based on
[32790]eviderze gathered by the
[32793]in private remarks that.
[32795]were never intended to be
[32796]repeated outside his inner
[32798]- circle, he made deprecating
[32799]only about |
[32800]’ President Johnson but about
[32802]remarks not
[32804]Sen. Barry Goldwater (R-
[32805]Ariz.), who was then
[32806]Preparing to run against LBJ
[32807]for the presidency.
[32809]‘Goldwater has no sound findings and the thoroughness
[32811]advisers around him,” Hoover
[32812]noted. But his comment on
[32814]Johnson was more deadly: -
[32816]“LBJ's speeches are dull."
[32817]The ' Warren Commission
[32818]adopted «a resolution,
[32819]meanwhile, calling for -“‘the
[32820]Taw. materials upon which any
[32821]reports given to the com-
[32822]mission are based, together
[32824]4
[32826]“With that background,”
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[32832]should have.
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[32836]with all raw materials and
[32837]reports relating to the work of
[32838]the conmission since the date
[32839]of any and all earlier reports.”
[32840]J. Lee Rankin, the general
[32841]counsel, followed up with a.
[32842]“Dear Edgar” letter to the +
[32843]FBI chief requesting the: full
[32844]files “as promptly as...
[32845]possible.” But’ they were °
[32846]never delivered, ' :
[32847]A commission
[32848]remembering those days;
[32849]more than a decade ago, .
[32850]told us: “Nobody ever got the .
[32851]FBI's own files.” In 1963-64, «
[32852]another staff member pointed
[32853]out, the FBI “could do no-
[32855]lawyer, -
[32857]- wrong,” so no one pressed too
[32858]“hard
[32860]for their internal -
[32861]records.
[32863]Now ‘12 -years after the |
[32865]‘Kennedy assassination, a
[32867]fascinating story is still locked . |
[32868]in FBI files awaiting a public -
[32869]reopening. We will tell part of .
[32870]the story in future columns,
[32871]Sen. Richard Schweikér (R- oo
[32872]Pa.), chairman of the Benate . -
[32873]intelligence subcommittee °,
[32874]investigating | ‘the ae
[32875]assassination, is seeking the ©
[32876]full story from the FBI.
[32878]Footnote: FBI spokesmen
[32879]stoutly defended the FBI's
[32881]of the investigation. They
[32882]conceded that “informative” -
[32883]“deliberative” memos
[32884]were not given to the com-
[32885]mission. But “everything they
[32886]needed was given them. They
[32887]had all they wanted to make
[32888]their findings.'’
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[32892]Voshin Stapan Merry-Go-Round
[32894]Oswald-Agent Contact Covered Up
[32896]p OS 4S?
[32898]By Jack Anderson cen Randling the Oswatd Summary of Oswald's But in a later lettor to the
[32899]and Les Whitten case. Shanklin telephoned the notebook. The Summary Warren Commission, dated
[32901]° ; in Dallas police and asked (poveniently omitted the fact » April 6,. 1964, Hoover stated ©
[32903]The late J. Edgar Hoover, in whether Hosty could Par, — that Hosty’s name, telephone /. categorically; -+y wish to
[32905]his zeal ta protect his beloved licipatei ; ion’ ; : Q ize’ thathene
[32907]ie pate in the interrogation, and license tag had been in the emphasize’ that®the facts
[32908]FBI, engineered a cover-up 12 Hosty later questioned “ notebook, __-. available to the FBI con-
[32909]years ago to keep the Warren - Oswaid at police headquar-  ; The commission found out cerning Lee Harvey Oswald’
[32911]Commission from learning ° lers. Oswald, who had been “Sabout the - omission and _ prior to the assassination dj
[32913]. : . . os . in did
[32915]about the ties between FBI outwardly calm, Suddenly ~”. demanded an explanation, On - not indicate in any way that he
[32916]* Sent James Hosty and . became agitated. “I know: Jan. 27, 1964, Hoover ‘was or would be a threat to*,
[32917] “@Ssassin Lee Harvey Oswald, .. you!’" he shouted. “I know ~ acknowledged that Hosty’s ; President Kennedy,” 2
[32919]The formidable Hoover, you! You're the one who ac. ., name had : been: in the *. is. of
[32921]become na sae, fer feed my witetwicet 7 ane the Rar So vpeecived
[32923]“law ‘and order, intervene ' The — incident Passed, |‘ re fod to be a eae what dramatic evidence less thang “|:
[32925]personally when the Warren .. however, without any mention =: re the FBI's a tacts with week before the assassination .}°
[32927]Commission began to zero in Of the threatening letter, ~. . last he : that Oswald was violence-:’
[32929]-on Hosty . Hosty also confided toa friend,., Oswald. he ast contact, © prone. ; fe
[32931]Now, 12 years later, Hosty "an the ene pace rere 1963, "We age nat interwion: On April 24, the Dallas” 7
[32932]has admitted destroying a 7 ac Revil ' Oswane Rend ° Oswald in Dallas, Texas, or in- had ioe News Deed Hasty
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[32935]_Vswa vered to the : .: assassination of President yack Revill,’ that
[32937]: Office in Dallas a few days .. Superior who ordered him to . “Kennedy,” Hoover added. + the FBI knew Oswald was
[32939]"before shooting President — putitin writing. !". , Interestingly, he used the | “capable” o¢ assassinating |
[32941]‘John FB, Kennedy in “Special Agent Hosty »’ word “our” to describe the the President. a :
[32943]* November, 1963. The note related to this officer...” ‘last contact with the FBI. But Hoover immedi tely sent
[32945]‘threatened to blow upthe FBI — Revill. wrote, “that the “,on Feb, 6, in a sworn affidavit, : Word to the Wa ren Com’.
[32947]: Office and Dallas police., Federal! Bureau of Hoover changed the wording Mission that ‘the Story was
[32948]a , headquarters if Hosty didn’t - Investigation was aware ofthe in a curious way. He swore \ “false” and followed up three
[32949]a _ * stop bothering his wife. Subject (Oswald) and that ~. that Oswald ‘had no contact | days later with a personal -
[32951]_ is The FBI should “have. they had information that this -” with FBI “agents” after Aug. ~ letter delivered bycourier,
[32952]‘notified the Secret Service ‘Subject was Capable of 10,1963, “Special Agent Hosty
[32953]that Oswald, a misfit who had « committing the assassination : “+ UNnequivocally denies ever.
[32954]‘threatened violence, was in . of President Kennedy.” . ptt is now known, of Course, *- having made the Statement as
[32955]the Dallas area. The Secret. Hoover was furious when he “ that Oswald appeared at the - quoted in this article.,,’".
[32956]‘Service routinely would have ..- learned of Hosty's loose talk, - FBI office in Dallas a few days declared the FBIdirector,
[32957]checked his whereabouts ». According to confidentia] ~ before the assassination, At “Special Agent Hosty points
[32958]during the presidential visit, notes taken at the lime, the that time, just as Hoover said, :out that prior to the
[32959]phi might have saved _ grisalen FBI chief complained he did not speak with any FBI “assassination of President:
[32960]President Kennedy's life. - that Hosty had “diarthea of -- “agents.” But he spoke with - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, he
[32961]- qihenthe FBI learned thata — wordg ss But the old man, an FBI hig thescnist, who never had any information:.
[32962]‘Suspect named Lee Harvey nevertheless, sought to cover . __ passed on his threatening note . indicating potential violence -
[32963]‘Oswald had been Picked up, up the FBI's embarrassment, + to the agents, _ _ on the part of Lee Harvey |
[32964]Hosty reminded his boss’ .- ‘On Dec. 23, 1963, the FBI . It is imposisible to know - Oswald.” : :
[32965]‘ Gordon Shanklin, that he had | gave the Warren Comnissionag Whether the late FBI chief There's more to Hoover's -
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[33094]._,Teparted to have cooked up a
[33095]“"enunterplst against President -
[33096]« Kennedy. a
[33097]24, Shortly > after Kennedy 3,
[33098]wat punned down, the FUT *
[33099]Cw handed President Johnson a
[33100]Inco reporting that Cohan
[33101]leaders had boped far Kenne-: .
[33102]dy's death, The lresigent wo
[33103]thowed if ta Kennedy's top
[33104]aide, Ted Sorensen, who
[33105]thought (ho. deta were so-
[33106]“jp ambisuous that he called the’
[33107]memo “meaningless.” :
[33108]‘soit is also known, of
[33109]Aue,
[33111]Pro-Castra movement and: cs ;
[33112]> traveled tn Afexiens Seeking a : 7 .
[33113]J Cuban visa a few weeks io. o. 7
[33114]“Dallas. women toe,
[33115]| Seme sources consider Robe. ,
[33116]‘2 ert Kennedy's behavior ‘after
[33117]Ute assassination ta be sipnii- .
[33118]_ftant, He seemed to be. 27
[33120]0 mmm te oni Ams Salat er erated
[33122]-ptourscy dias dea Oval 1 eet
[33123]‘| ASSOSsin, Was active in the : ‘oe
[33125]"before the dreadhil day in pe.
[33129]oa . : lormented, they say, by moro, .
[33131]of “Sg than the natural grief over ihe”
[33133]it “Duirder of his brather, : ete
[33134]: ! Author Willian Manchester, ©
[33135]- Who pot his informatiun chiel-
[33137]: . ly. froin Kennedy contratied °
[33139]- “a sourers, Pottrays Hobby aga
[33141]sey wae ’ a Charactee of Cragin dhuringe
[33142]to ou Uiese tragic dans. Bat: olhers , “
[33144]_ Tels had a different impression, .
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[33151]Jack Anderson
[33153]Did the Castro P lot
[33155]' .The late Robert Kennedy was tor-
[33156]mented by the terrible thought, ae.
[33157]cording to intimates, that he may have
[33159]“helped trigzer the assassination of hig-
[33161]brother, .
[33163]We raised this Possibility in January
[33164]1971, when we first revealed that the
[33165]“CIA had plotted to assassinate Cuban
[33166]Premier Fidel Castro, It has taken us
[33167]41% years to get the rest of the story.
[33169]Loyal associates of Robert Kennedy,
[33170]rushing to defend his memory, have
[33172]oo Sworn that he knew nothing about the
[33174]aSSASsinalion attempts-and, contradic.
[33175]torily, that ke put a stop to them. Both
[33176]“ecounts are incorrect, according to
[33177]Sources with an intimate knowledge of
[33178]the events. : :
[33179]“Not only was he fully aware of the
[33180]CIA's attempts to kill Castro, but after
[33181]President Kennedy was sunned dovn
[33182]in Dallas, Robert was devastated by
[33183]ite possibility that the CIA plot may
[33184]— have backfired against his brother,
[33185]’ +The preparations to knock off Castro
[33186]befan during the last months of the
[33187]Eisenhower administration as part: of
[33188]the Bay of Pigs planning. Presicent
[33189]Kennedy, who inherited the fiasco,
[33190]swore to friends afterward that he
[33191]would like “to splinter the CIA in a
[33192]thousand pieces and Scatter it to the
[33193]winds." .
[33194]: Insiead, he appointed his brother,
[33195]Robert, to oversee the CIA, with in-
[33197]structions to shake it up. Characteristi- °
[33199]cally, Robert began investigating the
[33200]undercover operations from tep ‘to bot-
[33201]tom. Ilis purpose was to prevent an-
[33202]other Bay of Pigs. _ . .
[33204]He became fascinated, say our
[33205]sources, With the CIA's ccvert activi
[33206]ties. Eagerly, he pursued the details
[33207]down through the lower-levels. vAs one
[33208]source put it, “He was like a wide-eyed
[33211]“In the process, he learned about the
[33212]continuing effort to eliminate Castro,
[33213]2n operation known inside the CIA as
[33214]‘he “executive action plan.” In fact,
[33215]Robert took a special interest in the
[33218]WO Pek Taq
[33219]Rank ft
[33221]_ nothing
[33222]" get, Fidel Castro, also knew about it
[33226]CD .
[33227]on
[33229]“Not only was he fully aware of the CLAs
[33231]atlentpts to kill Castro, but after President
[33233]Kennedy as gunned down in Dallas, Robert
[33235]Kennedy ivas devastated by the possibility that’
[33237]the CIA plot may have backfired against his
[33241]activities against Castro.
[33242]former Deputy Defense Secretary Ros-
[33243]well Gilpatric, told us the focus “on
[33244]the Cuban situation” was intensified in
[33245]1951 at Robert Kennedy's
[33247]The President eventually put Robert
[33248]in charge of a counter-insurgencey com.
[33249]vittee, called the Special Group,
[33250]which concentrated ubon harassing:
[33252]One insider,
[33254]’ Castro. One member, former CLA chief .
[33256]Jehn MeCone, acknowledged that the
[33257]sroup had = “directed mischievous
[33258]things against Castro like infiltrating
[33259]sabotcurs, blowing up bridges and car-
[33260]rylng on general confusion.” .
[33262]AlcCone insisted, however, that “the
[33263]sroup at no time gave any cansidera.
[33264]lion to any assassination plot.” We
[33265]have established that the “executive
[33266]action plan” was directed by Wiliam
[33267]Harvey, the CIA Operative whom! we
[33268]linked to the assassination plot in our
[33269]orisinal 1971 story. We have also
[33270]learned that he reported to the late
[33271]Desmond Fitegerald in CIA headquar-
[33272]ters. We have becn unable, however, to
[33273]identify the next link in the chain of
[33274]command. : .
[33276]Nevertheless, wholly reliable sources
[33277]insist that Robert Kennedy Enew
[33278]about the plot against Castro and did
[33279]to stop it: The intended tar-
[33281]One assassination’, squad reportedly,_
[33283]was apprehended on a Havana ‘roof top.
[33285]Rt eye
[33287]To tt
[33289]“tusistonce?.
[33291]Within range of Castro’s movements,
[33292]abeut March 1, 1063. .
[33294]The Cuban premicr, in an interview
[33295]with Associatcd Press correspondent
[33296]Daniel. llavker the folowing Septem.
[33297]ber, warned that U.S. deaders would
[33298]find themselves in danser if they’ at-
[33299]‘tempted to do away with Cuban lead.
[33300]ers. .
[33302]“United States leaders should think
[33304]that if they are aiding terrerist plans .
[33306]to climinate Cuban leaders, they them-
[33307]Harker, veh
[33309]Two months later, President Ken.
[33310]nedy was shot down in the streets of
[33312]selves will not be safe,” Castro told,
[33314]Dallas. The accused assacsin, Lee Har- -
[33316]vey Oswald, had been active in the
[33317]pro-Castro movement and had traveled
[33318]to Mexico to visit the Cuban embassy.
[33319]a few weeks cartier.
[33321]‘The first person to reach Robert
[33322]Kennedy's side after the shooting wag
[33323]CIA director John NceCone, Who re
[33324]mained alone with Robert at his Ale-
[33325]Lean, Va; home for nearly three
[33326]hours. All others, including Robert’s
[33327]priest, were turned away. But McCone
[33328]swore to us that Castro’s name was
[33329]never mentioned Curing the agonizing
[33330]three hours. oa
[33332]Other. sources say that Robert,
[33333]deeply despondent, went into semi-se.
[33334]clusion for the next few days. Al-
[33335]though he bottled up his feelings, they
[33336]nae .
[33338]. terview with Frank Mankiewiez and
[33340]‘in this, beeause [am under the impres-
[33342]“United States and that it was all a re.
[33344]knew hint and understood {he cireiimn:
[33345]stances well enouzh. to realize he
[33346]blamed himself for his brother's death,
[33347]There was little Coubt, they s; :
[33348]he believed (he CLA’s attempts again
[33349]Castro put into rmetion the forees that
[33350]brought about his brother's mariye:
[33351]dom.
[33353]On January 18, 1971, we reported:
[33354]“Among those privy to the CIA con-
[33355]spiracy, there is still a nagcing suspi-
[33356]cion—nnsupported by the Warren Com.
[33357]Mission's findings—that Castro became
[33358]aware of the U.S. plot upon his life
[33359]and somehow recruited Oswald to re.
[33361]_ taliate avainst President Keunedy.”
[33363]Tt has now been disclosed. that the
[33365]_ Warren Commission was told nothing
[33367]eabont the CEA’s plot to kill Castro
[33368]even thoush the late Allen Dulles, the
[33369]CIA chief who initiated the plot, sat on
[33370]the commission: .
[33372]According to the final report, the
[33373]commission investigated “‘Titerally doz.
[33374]ens of allegations of a conspiratorial
[33375]contact between Oswald and the Cuban
[33376]government? but- found no substance
[33377]to any of them. :
[33379]The Cuban premier himself, in an in-
[33381]Kirby Jones, emphatically denied hav-
[33382]ing anything to do with the Kennedyey
[33383]assassination. . 3
[33384]“It is... very interesting that this
[33385]man Oswald, who was involved in thef
[33386]assassination, traveled to Mexico a fowa
[33387]months prior to the assassination and’
[33388]applicd for a permit at the Cuban em-
[33389]bassy to travel to Cuba, and he wasm
[33390]hot given the permit,” said Castro.
[33391]“But task myself why would a mang
[33392]who commits such an act try to comet
[33393]here. Sometimes we ask ourselves if
[33394]someone did not wish to involve Cuba =
[33396]sion that Kennedy's assassination was
[33397]organized by reactionaries in the
[33399]sult of. a@ conspiracy... We have never
[33400]believed in carrying out this {ype
[33401]of activity of assassination of
[33402]adversaries.” ") 0" ogg,
[33403]¢c 1975. United Feature, Ine, ,
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[33408]CIA Withheld Data in JFK Probe —
[33410]After President John F. Kennedy: .
[33411]was struck down on Nov. 22, 1963, the
[33412]Central Intelligence Agency received
[33413]evidence suggesting that Cuban Pre-
[33414]mier Fidel Castro arranged the assassi-
[33415]nation in retaliation for. attempts on
[33416]his life. :
[33418]Yet sources privy to the secret dis-
[33419]cussions at the highest levels of the
[33420]CIA during those hectic days now tell
[33421]us that the CIA deliberately withheld
[33422]the evidence from the Warren Com-
[33423]mission investigating Kennedy’s death.
[33425]Our sources cite two reasons for
[33426]holding back this evidence. One was a
[33427]resolve to cover up the secret that the
[33429]' CIA had enlisted Mafia mobsters to kill
[33431]Castro. ;
[33433]There also was a legitimate concern
[33434]that the Castro revelations might in-
[33435]flame the American people, whose
[33436]grief could have turned into a terrible
[33437]wrath that might have precipitated
[33438]some rash action.
[33440]Only a few key people knew. about
[33441]the CIA plot to assassinate Castro. One
[33442]was Attorney General Robert F. Ken-
[33443]nedy, who was his brother's personal
[33444]watchdog over the CIA. It has now
[33445]been established that Robert Kennedy
[33446]was briefed on May 7, 1962, about the
[33447]attempt to use underworld killers to
[33448]knock off Castro.
[33450]Two days later, Robert Kennedy cau-
[33451]tioned the CIA not to go ahead with .
[33452]the assassination without consulting
[33453]him. Since Robert Kennedy rode herd
[33454]on the CIA, it must be assumed that he
[33456]" ; was kept advised of subsequent assassi-
[33458]nation attempts. However, there is no
[33459]documentary evidence of this.
[33460]Records now available show that
[33461]Robert Kennedy informed FBI chief J.
[33462]Edgar Hoover of the plot on May 10,
[33464]. DROPOUTS |
[33466]1962. Yet neither Kennedy nor Hoover
[33468]later divulged this important informa-
[33470]tion to the Warren Commission. :
[33471]Of course, various CIA officials also :
[33473]knew about the assassination scheme.
[33475]Not the least of them was the late CIA
[33476]chief Allen W. Dulles, who approved
[33477]the original plan. He later served on
[33478]the Warren Commmission, yet he sat
[33480]silently throughout the investigation -
[33481]. without mentioning the Cuban angle.
[33483]Within hours of President Kenne- .
[33485]dy’s death, the U.S. embassy cabled in-
[33487]formation from Mexico City suggest-
[33489]ing that the Cubans may have been be-
[33490]hind the assassination. Our sources say
[33491]that the CIA developed similar infor-
[33492]mation in Washington.
[33494]The first person to reach Robert
[33496]_ Kennedy's side after the shooting was
[33498]CIA Director John A. McCone, who re-
[33499]mained alone with the Attorney Gen-
[33500]eral at his McLean, Va. home for
[33501]nearly three hours. :
[33503]McCone swore to us that Castro's
[33504]name was never mentioned during the
[33505]three hours. But CIA records show
[33506]that the next day. McCone not only
[33507]mentioned Castro to the new Presi-
[33508]dent, Lyndon B. Johnson, but briefed
[33509]him on the information from Mexico
[33511]ity.
[33513]Yet no one brought the Cuban.
[33515]connection to the attention of the War-
[33516]ren Commission. We were the first to
[33518]get word of the anti-Castro plot to .
[33520]Chief Justice Earl Warren, the com-
[33521]mission chairman, four years later.
[33522]We are now free to reveal our role
[33524]‘in the drama. Two of our confidential
[33526]sources, CIA agent William Harvey
[33528]‘and mobster John Rosselli, are dead. A
[33530]third source, attorney Edward P. Mor-
[33532]SON,
[33534]Page 452
[33536]. had pro
[33538]Morgan told us in January, 1967,
[33539]“- about the CIA-Mafia assassination plot
[33541]_the attorney-client privilege. But he
[33543]_ President Kennedy.” |
[33545]{ t
[33547]gan, has waived the confidentiality we
[33548]mised him. .
[33550]against Castro. He raised the possibil-
[33551]ity that the plot could have backfired,
[33552]against President Kennedy. There
[33553]Were suspicious circumstances, he
[33554]pointed out, indicating that Castro
[33555]may have learned of the attempts on
[33556]his life and may have retaliated
[33557]against Kennedy. .
[33558]Morgan refused to identify his
[33559]sources because it would have violated
[33561]was an attorney of such stature that
[33562]we didn’t doubt his word. He had been
[33563]chief inspector of the FBL He had di-
[33564]rected the historic congressional inves-
[33565]tigation of the Pearl Harbor bombing.
[33566]Later, he ran the investigation into the
[33567]excesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar-
[33568]thy.
[33569]. We got Morgan's permission, to
[33570]write a cautious story. We confirmed
[33571]the general outlines from a CIA
[33572]source. Then on March 3, 1967, we
[33573]wrote that Robert Kennedy “may have
[33574]approved an assassination plot, which
[33575]then possibly backfired against his late
[33577]The next day, according to records
[33578]how available, Kennedy's secretary
[33579]called for a copy of the May 7, 1962,
[33580]memo, which summarized the briefing
[33581]he had received on the assassination
[33582]plot. See
[33583]On March 7, 1967, we reported more
[33584]details. “A reported CIA plan in 1963 to
[33585]assassinate Cuba’s Fidel Castro,” we
[33586]wrote, “... may have resulted in a
[33587]counterplot by Castro to assassinate
[33589]- By Howard Post
[33591]Fk: Mbedgh MO poy
[33593]Cr a ae
[33596]b rer
[33598]Mafia mobster John Roselli may
[33599]have taken the secret of the John F.
[33600]Kennedy assassination with him to his
[33601]death. He was brutally murdered a
[33602]few weeks ago, his backed-up body
[33603]stuffed into an oil drum and dumped
[33604]into Miami's Biscayne Bay.
[33606]Before he died, Roselli hinted to as«
[33607]sociates that he knew who had ar-
[33608]ranged President Kennedy’s murder.
[33609]It was the same conspirators, he sug-
[33610]gested, whom he had recruited earlier
[33611]to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.
[33613]By Roselli’s cryptic account, Castro
[33614]learned the identity of the underworld
[33615]contacts in Havana who had been
[33616]trying to knock him off. He believed,
[33618]not altogether without basis, that Pres-
[33619]“ident Kennedy was behind the plot.
[33621]The Cuban leader, as the supreme
[33623]irony, decided to turn the tables and
[33625]nedy’s assassination, according to
[33626]Roselli's scenario. To save their skins,
[33628]- the plotters lined up Lee Harvey Os-
[33629]wald to pull the trigger.
[33631]Roselli could never be pinned down
[33632]‘On names or details. It was also diffi-
[33633]cult to assess whether he knew what
[33634]he was talking about or whether he
[33635]merely described what he thought
[33636]might have happened. Certainly there
[33637]is no real evidence to support Roselli’s
[33638]Story. But there are enough curious
[33639]circumstances to justify telling it. Here
[33641]"are the fascinating highlights.
[33643]The ruggedly handsome Roselli, a
[33644]flamboyant mobster with underworld
[33645]contacts in Havana, was recruited by
[33646]the Central Intelligence Agency in
[33648]' 1960 to assassinate Castro. He had no’ °
[33649]', authority, however, over the under-
[33650]world elements in Havana.
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[33664]Jack Anderson and Les Whitten
[33665]SOM and Les Wilten
[33667]Behind John I’. Kennedy’s Murder
[33669]use the same crowd to arrange Ken- | ose
[33672]. they tried to
[33674]They were under the loose control
[33675]of Florida’s Mafia chieftan, Santos
[33676]Trafficante. His gambling enterprises
[33677]in Havana had been closed down by
[33679]In an impromptu, three-hour inter. |
[33680]view with Associated Press reporter
[33681]Daniel Harker, Castro indicated that §
[33682]he knew about the attempts on his life-§
[33684]Castro after the 1959 revolution. In and warned that US. leaders also #
[33685]fact, Trafficante had been lodged fora might not be sate. That was Sept. ‘Z
[33686]period in a Cuban jail, an indignity 1963. . :
[33688]that didn’t endear Castro to him.
[33690]After Trafficante made it back to his
[33692]: Florida haunts, he left part of his or-
[33693]ganization behind in Havana. Some of
[33694]his henchmen even managed to de
[33695]velop contacts in Castro’s inner circle.
[33696]These Were the people Roselli wanted
[33697]to use to knock off Castro.
[33699]But Roselli didn’t have the Stature
[33700]inside the Mafia to make the necessary
[33701]arrangements with Trafficante. So
[33702]Roselli, called in his patron, the Chi-
[33703]cago godfather Sam (Momo) Giancana,
[33704]to deal with Trafficante.
[33706]As Roselli's associates tel] it, he per-
[33707]that it would be to
[33708]their advantage to win the good will of
[33709]the CIA. Convinced, Giancana flew
[33710]down to Florida to make the prelimi-
[33711]nary arrangements. -
[33713]Once Giancana and Trafficante set it
[33714]up, Roselli used the Havana under-
[33715]world to plot Castro's demise. At first,
[33716]plant poison pills, sup-
[33717]plied by the CIA, in Castro's food. The
[33718]pills would have made it. appear that
[33719]he died. of natural causes. When this
[33720]failed, snipers were dispatched to a
[33721]Havana rooftop. They were caught, .
[33723]The word reached Roselli that some
[33724]of the plotters had been tortured and
[33725]that Castro had learned about the
[33726]whole operation. 4
[33728]. The CIA called off the Roselli opera-
[33730]tion in March, 1963, but Tecruited a
[33731]Castro associate, Rolando Cubela, to
[33732]murder Castro, : .
[33734]According to Roselli, Castro enlisted
[33735]the same underworld elements whom
[33736]he had caught plotting against him. [
[33737]They supposedly were Cubans from
[33738]the old Trafficante organization.
[33739]Working with Cuban intelligence. they
[33740]‘allegedly lined up an ex-Marine sharp-
[33741]shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald, who had F
[33742]been active in the pro-Castro move-
[33745]According to Roselli's version,
[33746]Oswald may have shot Kennedy or
[33747]may have acted as a decoy while oth-
[33748]érs ambushed him from Closer range.
[33749]When Oswald was picked up, Roselli §
[33750]Suggested, the underworid conspira- §
[33751]tors feared he would crack and dis-
[33752]close information that might lead to
[33753]them. This almost certainly would
[33754]have brought a massive U.S. crack-
[33755]down on the Mafia. .
[33757]So Jack Ruby was ordered lo elim-
[33758]inate Oswaid, making it appear as an
[33759]act of reprisal against the President's
[33760]killer. At least this is how Roselli ex-
[33761]plained the tragedy in Dallas.
[33763]Several key CIA officials believed
[33764]that Castro was behind the Kennedy
[33765]ination.
[33767]It has also been established that Jack
[33768]Ruby, indeed, had been in Cuba and
[33769]had connections in the Havana under-
[33770]world. One.CIA cable, dated Nov, 28,
[33771]1963, reported that “an American
[33772]gangster type named Ruby” had vis- #
[33773]ited Trafficante in his Cuban prison.
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[33819]Smudge Only Clue in Ro
[33821]It was a grisly end for John Rosselli, fidence, so he came to trust us. We
[33822]the dapper, debonair mobster about were the only reporters he would talk
[33823]- town, who had been a familiar figure to. mo
[33824]‘in the glittering night spots of Holly- | So when he vanished last month his .
[33825]. wood, Las Vegas and Havana. associates tame to us for help. We
[33826]His killers shot or stabbed himin the were suspicious, of course, that his dis-
[33827]. stomach. The autopsy indicates they appearance was linked to the Castro.
[33828]. Tay have shot him and then dug out caper, But our investigation has now.
[33829],. the bullet with a knife. Then they bru- produced evidence to the contrary.
[33830]tally hacked off his legs. It is possible |= We have learned, for example, that -
[33831]. that he was still alive when they , Rosselli was not the amiable, retired.
[33832]stuffed his body into a55-gallondrum. old duffer he pretended to be. He be-
[33833]They wrapped chains around the. gan in the big time as a bookkeeper for
[33834]drum to weight it down and tossed it Chicago's notorious Al Capone and be-
[33835]into Biscayne Bay. The autopsy sug- ¢ame a specialist in white-collar
[33836]gests he may have died of asphyxiation crimes. It's a profession, apparently,
[33837]inside the drum before it bit the wa-- that he never gave up.
[33838]ter. The gases from the decomposing | Competent sources say that, be-
[33839]body floated the heavy container to tween rounds on the Florida golf
[33840]_ the surface. It was discovered, with its courses, Rosselll was involved in stolen
[33841]* nightmarish contents, 10 days after: securities and financial swindles. His .
[33842]Rosselli had disappeared from his sit-;: operations reportedly were. resented ,..
[33843]er’s home in Plantation, Fla. ; ‘by Santo Trafficante, who has been ~
[33844]'. The police withheld the gruesome identified in Senate testimony as the
[33845]details of his death while they Mafia chief in Florida.
[33846]searched for his killers. We began our © Rosselli came to Florida from Las
[33847]own investigation, meanwhile, after an Vegas, where he allegedly represented
[33848]appeal from his associates. ‘the Chicago mob. Our sources say that
[33849]We first encountered Johnny Ros -he handled millions in illegal gambling
[33850]selli more than five years ago. We. money, which he forwarded to the
[33851]were investigating his role in the Cen- Chicago underworld. There are re-
[33852]- tral Intelligence Agency’s plot to assas- ports that Chicago crime lord Tony Ac-
[33853]sinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro. cardo felt he had been short-changed
[33854]The CIA case officer, William Harv- ‘by Rosselli. -
[33855]ey, told us that Rosselli had been the . Still earlier, Rosselli spent time in
[33856]hero of the abortive adventure. the slammer, first, for extortion and, —
[33857]_ Harvey broke his oath of secrecy be- ‘Jater, for a card swindle. Those who. -
[33858]cause he thought it might help Rossel- know him say he had developed a taste *.
[33859]‘i, who was in trouble with the law. for the good lite. He dressed in the lat.
[33860]The CIA agent had nothing but praise est styles, dined at the best restaurants -
[33861]" for Rosselli’s daring. ‘and dated beautiful women. The
[33862]. In the strictest of confidence, Res- thought of going back to prison,
[33863]. gelli himself confirmed that he had di- ‘friends say, horrified him.
[33864]rected six assassination attempts To avoid prison, he began to talk to
[33865]against Castro. We protected his con- the government as early as 1970. He
[33867]ry
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[33873]THE WASHINGTON POST Fridoy, Angust 27,1976
[33878]mF
[33879]eat
[33886]gave’ information, according to our —
[33887]sources, which resulted in a grand jury
[33888]confrontation for Tony Accardo. The .
[33889]surly mobster took the fifth. But Ac--
[33890]cardo grumbled to associates that he.
[33891]would pay back Rossellisome day."
[33892]Rosselli was also blamed for passing «
[33893]information to the government, which ‘
[33895]-; led to the conviction of Detroit mob ;
[33897]ster Anthony Zerilli. He is now serving
[33898]a four-year séntence at Sandstone fed-
[33899]eral penitentiary for racketeering. \
[33901]Perhaps the last straw was Rosselli’s |
[33902]testimony in the Castro case. He identi- «
[33903]fied two mobsters, the late Sam Gian-
[33904]cana and Santo Trafficante, as being §
[33905]involved in the assassination attempts. ©
[33906]It's no secret in the underworld that |
[33907]Trafficante detests publicity. ;
[33909]Our sources believe that the Mafia |
[33910]bosses finally became fed up with Row :
[33911]selll., His’ execution would have re- é
[33912]quired the approval of the top leaders, *
[33913]our sources say, because it was almost.
[33914]certain to bring the federal govern-
[33915]ment into the case.
[33917]Who were the vicious killers? The
[33918]only clue is a smudge spot on the win- i
[33919]dow of Rosselli’s car. One of his assail-
[33920]ants probably had used a greasy hair «
[33921]pomade.
[33923]Job by Robert: Maheu, a for: oselll with deadly Polson|{s still on the CIA payroli.
[33924]mer FBI agent, who admitted | capsules which he tried|Both admitted to us @ friend.
[33925]to us that he had handled un- through @ relative of Castro’s aie vith thelr Cre ered
[33926]dercover assignments for the| chef to plant in the dictator’s .
[33928]‘ ; ‘ | Harvey said he had a * h re-
[33929]CIA, He retused, however, to/ food. Later, marksmen armed gard” tor. Roselli and es
[33931]discuss the details, This is the | with high-powered Belgian rt-|the Friar's Club case’a “bum
[33932]same Maheu, incidentally, who| flea ‘attempted - to. infiltrate Tap.” Said Harvey: “The
[33933]is now Involved in a legal bat. close J@ough * to: gun’ Castro Friar’s Club » indictment: ts
[33934]tle over phantom billionaire down. he a phony. Rosellf had no more to
[33935]Howard Hughes’ Nevada oper-| All told, six assassination at-|20 with that thanThad” 9"
[33936]ation, — Joos". 3‘ [tempts were’ made, the last in|: Roselll’s lawyers are now
[33937]Rosell! wag so flattered over |the.‘apring of 1943; “Through: trying" to get clemency for .
[33938]being asked to Perform a se-/out this period, Roselli Worked |their client, citing our atorieg,
[33939]cret misston for the U.S. gav- under ‘the direct: supervision about his secret CIA service, -+
[33940]ernment that-he pald all his of 2 Ae Lae BO ay
[33941]sabenses out of his own/llam Harvey and. ames (Big) Bp; a
[33942]Pocket and risked his neck to Jim) O'Connell. : Ce ae SHRearing Fiasco ©;
[33943]land the asSassination teams} | we
[33944]on the Cuban coast... Pee
[33945]In James: Bond fashion, he!:
[33946]held whispered meetings in! the ; ;
[33947]Miaml Beach hotels with Cy. tried to pump Roselli for in.
[33948]bana willing to maké an at: forn : "
[33949]tempt on Castro’s life, Once, | ta. silence by the CIA, and up
[33950]he called on Chicago racket] tg this momient, he hasn't bro-
[33951]boss Sam Giancana to Hine up |g, | Se ts
[33952]a contact. The confidential |: ‘Meanwhile, tha Justica De.
[33953]files report that Giancana had partment, ag part of ita erack-
[33955]“gambling Interest and an In-fdown. on, organized |'crime,
[33956]terest in the shrimp business | tried to nail eat a "i apa
[33957]discovered that H (Cicago| For the two years that the
[33959]boi Uo bo Sait FILE COPy ;
[33960]H ‘he Washington Merry-Go-Round 'NE WASHINGTON Post Tuesday, Feb, 23,1970 Buy.
[33961], astro Stalker We rked foy the CIA =
[33963]Jack
[33965]The mystery “an whom the
[33966]Central Intelligence Agency
[33967]recruited to assassinate Cuba's
[33968]Fidel Castro has been laid up
[33969]in the sick ward of the Les
[33970]Angeles County jail,
[33972]He is handsome, hawk-faced
[33973]John Roselli, once a dashing
[33974]flgure around Hollywood and
[33975]Las Vegas, now a gray, 66
[33976]year-old inmate with a respira.
[33977]tory ailment. -
[33979]Confidential FBI files iden-
[33980]tify him as “ag top Mafia fig.
[33981]ure” who watched over “the
[33982]concealed interests in Las
[33983]Vegas casinos of the Chicago
[33984]underworld.”
[33986]Roselli hag admitted to
[33987]friends that he was a rum run.
[33988]ner during the Roaring Twen-
[33989]es. Operating along the East
[33990]Coast, he learned how to evade
[33991]Coast Guard cutters and po-
[33992]- {ice patrols:
[33994]His name later became
[33995]linked with the biggest names
[33996]in the Chicago and Los Ange.
[33997]-jles underworlds. He also de.
[33998]veloped contacts in the Cuban
[33999]underworld before Castro took
[34000]over the Havana gambling ca.
[34001]sinog.
[34003]~ | Under Pressure from the:
[34004]"firearms lobby, the Treasury
[34005]‘Department hag’ falled to en. -:
[34006]force a vital section of the *
[34007]1968 federal firearms act. . : > |
[34008]The law was passed after
[34010]the murders of Sen: Robert : :
[34011]Kennedy and Dr. Martin Lue . +
[34012]ther King. It authorizes the .
[34013]Treasury Secretary to require
[34015]full reports of all firearms and
[34016]ammunition sales,
[34018]in Cuba." However, the Chi. a
[34019]cago gangster took no direct birth records had je forged,|law has. been ‘in force, the
[34020]part In the assassination plot. [that his name was real Fi. /Treasury Department hay ig.
[34021]Roselli made midnight Uppe Sacco and that he had/Nored this key provision. The
[34022]coma to this country from/sun Industry has complained,
[34024], {dashes to Cuba with his hired
[34025]He had the right back-] assassing in twin powerboats, Italy as a child. He was con-Jit would be a bookkeeping:
[34026]victed for failing to register ag /hightmare.
[34028]ground for a hush-hush MiSs! Once a Cuban -patrol ahip i
[34029]Sion that the CIA was Dlan-/turned its guns on his dark. anallen - ; The federal government, .
[34030]ning in 1981. As part of the ened boat, tore a hole:in the “He was also convicted for; Which would have to compiles
[34031]Bay of Pigs Invasion, the CIA | bottom and sank the boat, Ro- conspiracy to ‘rig card games/All the sales data, hag alsox
[34032]hoped to knock off Castro and! sellt wag fished out of thelat Los Angeles’ exclusive} been’ reluctant to spend the
[34033]leave Cuba leaderless, water by the other boat,:which Friar's Club, ; $100 million it would cost for.
[34035]escaped into the shadows, Of Roselli’s two CIA asso-(computers and staff to maine
[34037]Rieks Neck . | In earlier columns, we re. clates, Harvey has now retired (tain the firearms files.
[34038]Roselli was recruited for the @ 1971. Bell-Mccture Syndicate, 1
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[34049]Tr Ls e
[34051]Wy the Washington Merry-Go-Round
[34053]By Jack (dnderson_
[34055]The plot to kill Cuban dic-
[34056]tator Fidel Castro, hidden for
[34057]10 years from the publie, raises
[34058]some ugly questions that high
[34059]officials would rather keep
[34060]buried deep inside the Central
[34061]Intelligence Agency.
[34063]sassinate any other leaders?
[34065]Sen. George Smathers, one of
[34066]John F. Kennedy's closest
[34068]dent suspected that the CIA
[34069]had arranged the shootings of
[34070]‘the Dominican Republic's Ra-
[34071]fael Trujillo in 1961 and South
[34072]'Vietnam’s Ngo Dinh Diem in
[34073]11963, :
[34074]| 2. Did President Kennedy
[34075]personally. sanction the plot
[34076];against Castro? The prepara-
[34077]‘rations to assassinate the Cu-
[34078]‘ban dictator began during the
[34079]‘last months of the Eisenhower
[34080]‘administration as part of the
[34081];Bay of Pigs scheme. All six
[34082]attempts, however, were made
[34083]“during 1961-63 when Me. Ken-
[34084]nedy occupied the White
[34085]House. Smathers told us he
[34086]once spoke to the late’ Presi-
[34087]‘:dent about assassinating Cas-
[34088]‘tro. Mr. Kennedy merely
[34089]‘rolled back his eyes, recalled
[34090]‘Smathers, as if to indicate the
[34091]‘tidea was too wild to discuss.
[34092]Subsequently, Mr. Kennedy
[34093]told Smathers of his suspicion
[34094]that the CIA may have been
[34096]32423630 Page
[34098]behind the Trujillo and Diem
[34099]assassinations. . -
[34100]3. Did the late Robert Ken-
[34102]-inedy know about the assassina-
[34104]tion attempts? After the Bay
[34105]of Pigs fiasco, President Ken-
[34106]nedy swore to friends he
[34107]would like “to splinter the CIA
[34109]in a thousand pieces and scat-|forces that may have brought| it would not be condoned
[34110]1. Has the CIA tried to as-jter it-to the winds.” He put about vhis x rr
[34112]his brother, Robert, in charge
[34114]herd on. the agency. ;
[34115]4. Could the plot against
[34117]President Kennedy? The late
[34118]President was murdered nine
[34119]months after the last assassi-
[34120]nation team was caught on a
[34121]Havana rooftop with high-
[34122]powered rifles. Presumably,
[34123]they were subjected to fiend-
[34124]ish tortures until they told all
[34125]they knew. None of the assas-
[34126]sination teams, however, had
[34127]direct knowledge of the CIA
[34128]Involvement. The CIA instl-
[34129]gators had represented them-
[34130]selves as oilmen seeking re-
[34131]venge against Castro: for his
[34132]seizure of oil holdings.
[34134]PLOT BACKFIRE?
[34136]Former associates recall
[34137]that Robert Kennedy, deep-
[34138]ly despondent, went into semi-
[34139]seclusion after, his brother's
[34140]assassination. Could he have
[34141]been tormented by more than
[34142]natural grief? He certainly
[34143]learned that the assassin, Lee
[34144]Harvey Oswald, had been ac-
[34145]live in the pro-Castro move-
[34147]456
[34149]LAS = MAIN FILS far.
[34151]THR WASHINGTON POST Tuesday, Jon. 19,1971 Py 45
[34153]Caste Plot Raises Jgly Questions
[34155]ment and had traveled to
[34156]Mexico to visit the Cuban
[34157]Embassy a few weeks before
[34158]the dreadful day ia Dallas.
[34159]Could Boh Kennedy have
[34160]been plagued by the terrible
[34161]thought that the CIA plot,
[34162]which be must at least have
[34163]condoned, put. into motion
[34165]brother’s martyr
[34168]attempts against Castro, he
[34169]said. He wag aware, he volun-
[34171]friends, told us the late Presi-lCastro have backfired against|/teered, only that Sen. Smath-
[34173]ers had talked to the late
[34174]President about eliminating
[34175]Castro. :
[34177]Smathers told us that Presi-
[34178]dent Kennedy seemed “horri-
[34179]fied” at the jdpa of political
[34180]assassinationy '#}|‘remember
[34181]him saying,” recalled Smath-
[34182]ers, “that the CIA frequently
[34183]did things he di8n't know
[34184]about, and he was unhappy
[34185]about It. He complained that
[34186]the CIA was almost autono-
[34187]mous. ; .
[34189]“He told me he believed the
[34190]CIA had arranged to have
[34191]Diem and Trujillo bumped off.
[34192]He was pretty well shocked
[34193]about that. He thought it was
[34194]a stupid thing to do, and he
[34195]wanted to get control of what
[34196]the CIA was doing.”
[34198]But McCone, disagreeing
[34199]vigorously, told us that “no
[34200]plot was authorized or impie-
[34201]mented” to assassinate Castro,
[34202]Trujillo, Diem or anyone else.
[34204]“During those days of ten-
[34206]sion, there was a wide spec-
[34207]trum of plans ranging from
[34208]one extreme to another,”
[34209]McCone admitted. “Whenever
[34210]this subject (assassinating Cas-
[34211]tra) was brought up—and- jt
[34212]was — it was rejected imme-
[34213]diately on two grounds, Fiat,
[34214]> By
[34215]anybody. Second, it wouldn't
[34217]. . n
[34218]John McCone, who headed thelof the CIA with irstructlons| The last surviving brother, have achieved anything.
[34220]CIA during the six attempts|to shake it up. The CIA madelgen. Ted Kennedy (D-Maas},
[34221]to knock off Castro, deniedjfive attempts on Castro’d life|could give us no Insight. His places, McCone acknowledged,
[34222]emphatically that the CIA haslafter the Bay of Pigs whlle/brothers had never spoken to
[34223]tried to kill anyone. But ex-/Robert Kennedy was ridingihim about any asgassination
[34225]There was also talk in high
[34227]of supporting a coup to oust
[34228]Diem. The former CIA dl-
[34229]rector sald he had argued
[34230]against this at a secret session
[34231]with both Kennedy brothers.
[34232]He had contended that there
[34233]was no one strong enough. to
[34234]take Diem's place and that a
[34235]coup, therefore, would bring
[34236]“political upheaval.” .
[34237]“IT told the President and
[34238]Bobby together,” recalled Mc-
[34239]Cone, “that if I were running
[34240]a baseball team and had only
[34241]one pitcher, I wouldn't tak
[34242]him out of the game.” ‘os
[34243]The November, 1963, coup
[34244]eaught the United States com-
[34245]pletely by surprise, he said.
[34246]While the plotters were mov-
[34247]ing on the palace, he sald,
[34248]then-Ambassador Henry Cabot
[34249]Lodge was visiting Diem.
[34250]Adm, Ulysses Sharp, then our
[34251]Pacific commander, had also
[34252]been present, but had left
[34253]early to go to the airport.
[34254]McCone said _— President ©
[34255]Diem escaped through a tun-
[34256]nel but was caught in nearby
[34257]Cholon and “shot in a staticn
[34258]wagon.”
[34260]© 1971, Bell-McClure Syndicate, Ine,
[34263]Re
[34265]po PRS ul Ss ds
[34267]L| 2G. Washington Merry-GoeRonad THE SASHINGTON POST Mowhes, Jon U8 VT pe
[34269]‘oO Auempts to Kill C.stro Laid w CI
[34270]ay, ae q P co § “¥* -
[34271]| 2 abbenupts to it “stro Laid lo CLZ
[34272]By Jack {Anderson jtor before the motley invad- late against President Ken-:coniplete with secret trysts at
[34273]ers landed on the island. Their! nedy. glittering Miamt Beach hotels
[34274]arrival was expected to touch! To set up the Casiro assassi-;and midnight powerboat
[34275]off a general uprising, which |nation, the CIA enlisted Rob-: dashes to secret landing spots
[34276]ix assassination attempt the Communist militia would oe ea ore FBI on the Cuban coast. Once, Ro-
[34277]s assassinatio : pts|,— agen shadowy contacts, | se}]]' P
[34278]against Cuba’s Fidel Castro. have had more trouble putting who had handled other under- under poat was shot out from
[34279]For 10 years, only a few key |4own without the charismatic | cover assignments for the CIA] For the first try, the CIA
[34280]people have known the terri-|Castro to lead them. out of his Washington public | furnished Roselli with speclal
[34281]ble secret. They have sworn! After the first attempt|relations- office. He later poison capsules to slip into
[34282]never to talk, Yet we have falled, five more assassination|™Oved to Las Vegas to head/ Castro's food. The poison was
[34283]learned the detalls from teams were sent to Cubs, The |UP billionaire Howard Hughes supposed to ‘ake three days to
[34284]sources whose credentials are ; Nevada operations. act. By the time Castro died
[34285]beyond question. last team reportedly made it) Maheu recruited John Ro-'his system would throw off all
[34286]We spoke to John McCone,jto a rooftop within shooting|selli, a rcuggediy . handsome! traces of the poison, so he
[34287]who headed the CIA at the/distance of Castro before they | gambler with contacts in both iwould appear to be the vietim
[34288]time of the assassination at-|were apprehended. This hap-;the American and Cuban Un-| of a natural if mysterious ail-
[34289]tempts. He acknowledged the/pened around the last of Feb. derworlds, to arrange the as-| ment. 7 a,
[34290]idea had been discussed Inside ruary or first of March, 1963. /sassination. The dapper, hawk- Roselli arranged with a
[34291]the CIA but insisted it had/ Nine months later, Presl-jfaced Roselli, - formerly mar- Cuban, related to one of Cas.
[34292]been “rejected immedi-|dent Kennedy was gunned ried to movie actress June jtro's chefs, to plant the deadly
[34293]ately.” He vigorously denled|down in Dallas by Lee Harvey |Lang, was a power in the | pellets: in the dictator's food.
[34294]that the CIA had ever particl-|Oswald, a fanatle who pre-;movie Industry until his COn-1On March 13, 1961, Roselli de.
[34295]pated in any plot on Castro's/viously had agitated for Cas-|viction with racketeer Willie lhivered the capsules to his con-
[34296]life. Asked whether the at-ltro in New Orleans and had! Bioff in a million-dollar Holly-'tact at Miami Beach's glamor-
[34297]tempts could have heen made| made a mysterious trip to the; wood labor shakedown. The! ous Fontainebleau Hotel,
[34298]with his knowledge, he re-/Cuban Embassy in Mexico|CIA assigned two of its most | A couple of weeks later, Just
[34299]plied: “It could net have hap-|City. trusted operatives, William ‘about the right time for the
[34300]pened.” Among those privy to the| Harvey and James (Big Jim) | plot to. have been carried out,
[34301]We have complete confl-/CIA conspiracy, there is stil} a: O'Connell, to the hush-hush | 4 report out of Havana said
[34302]ence, however, In ourjn ag gin g suspicion—unsup- | murder mission. Using phony! Castro was it. But he re.
[34303]sources. ported by the Warren Com-|names, they accompanied Ro-legvered before the Bay of Pigs
[34304]The plot to knock off Castro mission's findings—that Cas-|selli on trips fo Miami to line invasion on April 17, 1961,
[34305]began as part of the Bay of/tro became aware of the U.S./up the assassination teams. | Four more attempts were
[34306]Pigs operation. The intent was] plot upon his life and some-| The full story reads like the ‘made on Castro's life,
[34307]to eliminate the Cuban dicta-|how recruited Oswald to retal- script of a James Bond movie, @ 1971, Bell-MeClure Syndicate. Ine,
[34309]Locked in the darkest re-
[34310]cesses of the Central Intelli-
[34311]5 gence Agency ts the atory of
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[34317]-.¢ “+, tionship with Cuba... .
[34319]7
[34321]"* "iw the early 1960s. Now
[34323]BY JACK ANDERSON
[34324]with Les Whitten
[34325]-WASHINGTON—Press account: “have -
[34326]identified Cuba’s Fidel Castro as (ir target
[34327]_ Of an unsuccessful CIA assassinati:n plot. |
[34328]The headlines couldn't have eenit.at a
[34330].. worse time for Secretary of State Henry Kise _
[34332]singer, He is in the thick of “mos! Jeli
[34334]negotiations,” according to our Whit: House |
[34336]sources, to restore some gee
[34337]- kind of diplomatic rela- + 4
[34339]Actually, we reported |
[34341]as far back as Jan. 18, f
[34342]_, 1971, that the CIA had ar [3
[34343]ranged six assassination §
[34344]' attempts against Castro
[34346]“that the story has been |
[34348]revived, it might be use- // :
[34350]_ ful to recount the details. EZizh. "a
[34352]The plot began as part - Anderson
[34354], of the discredited Bay of Pigs operation. |
[34355]The strategy was to eliminate the Cuban
[34357].. leader before the CIA invasion. force landed-
[34359]on the island. ,
[34360]To carry out the assassination, the CIA
[34362]. selected an underworld figure who could be-
[34363]" disowned. He was hawk-faced John Roselli,
[34364]identified in confidential FBI files as “‘a top
[34365]Mafia figure” who watched over “‘the con-
[34367]+ cealed interests in Las Vegas casinos of the
[34369]. Chicago underworld.” .
[34370]Roselli represented himself as an oi] man
[34371]. seeking revenge against Castro for his sei-
[34372]sure of oil holdings. : .
[34373]For the first try, the CIA furnished Ro-
[34374]selli with special poison capsules to slip
[34375]‘ into Castro’s food, The poison was supposed
[34376]* to take three days to act. By the time Cas-
[34377]‘tra died, his system would throw off all
[34378]traces of the poison, so he would appear to
[34379]‘ be the victim of a natural if mysterious ail _
[34380]ment, . .
[34381]Roselli arranged with a Cuban, related to
[34383]_ But he recovered in time to rout the Bay of
[34385]ob
[34387]. teams equipped with high-powered tifles,
[34389]«Nine months later, President Kennedy’
[34390]- was gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey
[34391]’ “Oswald, a fanatic who had been active in the
[34395]‘vasion failed, the CIA cOntinued trying to
[34396]get rid of Castro, The Cuban who had
[34398]“ seen again. .
[34399]_. Roselli arranged for triple-strength cap. .
[34400]' sules to be slipped into Castro's food several
[34401]| weeks after.the Bay of Pigs. But once again, |
[34402]the plot failed and the conspirators disap. _
[34404]:. The. assassination teams never got a shot
[34406]- at Castro, although the CIA learned that the
[34408]' last group reached a rooftop within range, .
[34409].This’ occurred around the last of February:
[34411]‘ported by the Warren Commission’s findings
[34413]“the U.S. plot upon his life and, therefore,
[34414].,may have recruited Oswald to retaliate
[34415]one of Castro's chefs, to plant the deadly - . .
[34417]i . . a 7 . wv :
[34419]pellets In the dictator's food. On-March 13,
[34420]1961, Roselli delivered the capsules to hig
[34421]contact at Miami Beach’s glamorous Fon
[34422]tainebleau Hotel... .  _- a .
[34423]A couple weeks later, just about the right -
[34424]time for the plot to’have been carried out, a
[34425]report out of Havana said Castro was ill,
[34427]|
[34429]Pigs .invasion on April 17, 1961; .
[34430]Although both the murder plot and the in-
[34432]sneaked the poison into Havana was never
[34435]Four more attempts were made on Case
[34436]tro’s life. thereafter, using assassination
[34438]explosives and two-way radios, Roselli per.
[34439]sonally made midnight powerboat dashes to |
[34440]deliver the teams at secret landing spots on
[34441]the Cuban coast. oS _ 4
[34443]or first of March, 1963. .
[34445]pro-Castro movement and had paid a myste- |
[34446]rious call upon the Cuban embassy in Mex- ©
[34447]ico City a few weeks before the dreadful day
[34448]in Dailas. : . :
[34449]Sources familiar with the CIA conspiracy
[34450]can’t shake a nagging suspicion—unsup-
[34452]-~that Castro may have became aware of
[34454]against President Kennedy,
[34457]fe
[34459]a
[34460]n
[34462]HW 50955 Docld:32473630 Page 458
[34466]‘The Washlagters it orryeGteRound
[34468]CIA Plots Against
[34469]i By Jack Anderson
[34470]and Les Whitten
[34472]Press accounts have identi-
[34473]fied Cuba’s Fidel Castro as the
[34474]larget of an unsuccessful CLA
[34475]assassination plot.
[34477]The headlines couldn't have
[34478]come ata worse time far Secre-
[34479]tory of State Henry A. Kissinger.
[34480]fle isin the thick of “most deli-
[34481]eate nevotiations,” aecarding to
[34482]nur White House sourees, ty re~
[34483]Store some kind of diplomatic
[34484]relationship with Cuba,
[34486]Actually, we reported as far
[34487]back as Jan. 18, 1971, that the
[34488]CIA had arranged six assassing-
[34489]tion attempts against Castro in
[34490]the early 1960s. Now that the
[34491]story has been revived, it minht
[34492]be useful to recount the details.
[34494]The plot began as pact of the
[34495]discredited Ray of Pigs opera.
[34496]tian, The strategy was to elimi.
[34497]nate the Cuban leader belore
[34498]the CIA invasion force landed
[34499]on the island. Without the char.
[34500]ismatic Castro, it was thouyzlit,
[34501]the defenders would -hecome
[34502]demoralized and disorganized,
[34504]To carry out the assassination,
[34505][the CIA selected an underworld
[34506]fivure who eould be disowned.
[34507]ile was hawk-faced John do
[34508]selli, identified in confidential
[34509]FRI files asa top Mafia figure”
[34513]{Who watched over “the con-
[34514]cealed interests in Las Vegas
[34515]casinos of the Chicago under-
[34518]loselli's CLA contacts were
[34519]William Harvey and James
[34520]Connell, . whe. accompanied
[34521]im on hush-hush tripsto Miami
[34522]lo line up the assassination
[34523]foams. No one else was told,
[34524]however, of the CIA's role in the
[34525]indrder mission.
[34527]‘Roselli: represented himself
[34528]as an oilinan seeking revenge
[34529]azuinst Casten for his seizure of
[34530]ou holdings. The assassination
[34531]weapons were also carefully se-
[34532]lected froin foreign makes,
[34533]mnastly Releian, to prevent any
[34534]fink to the United States. .
[34536]Each attempt to kill Castro
[34537]Was meticulously planned, like
[34538]an episode from the TV draina
[34539]“Mission Impossible.” For the
[34540]lirst try, the CIA furnished Ro-
[34541]selli with special poison cap-
[34542]sules to slip into Castro’s food.
[34544]The poison was supposed to
[34545]fake three days to act, By the
[34546]uine Castro died, - his system
[34547]would throw off all traces of the
[34548]poison, so he would appear to
[34549]he the victim of a natural if mys-
[34550]terious ailment,
[34552]Rosclti arranged with a Cu-
[34553]ban, related to one of Castro's
[34554]ehels, to plant the deadly
[34556]1 O0 ne seen os ate te seen ne as oop
[34558]pel-jdeliver the teans
[34560]t
[34562]uPy Us
[34563]“THE WASHINGTON POST — Mondey, March 10, 1975
[34567]Castro Recounte
[34569]lets in’ the dictator's food. On
[34570]March 13, 1961, Roselli detiy-
[34571]ered the capsules to his contact
[34572]at Miami Beach's Fontaine.
[34573]bleau Hotel, °
[34575]A couple of weeks later, Just
[34576]about the right time for the plot
[34577]to have been carried out, a re-
[34578]Port out of Havana said Castro
[34579]was iH. But he recovered in time
[34580]lo rout the Bay of Pigs invasion
[34581]on April 17, 1961, :
[34583]Although both the waurder
[34584]plot and the invasion failed, the
[34585]CIA continued trying to get rid
[34586]of Castro. The Cuban who had
[34587]sneaked the poison into Havana
[34588]Was never seen again. There-
[34589]fore, the CLA, unsure whether
[34590]the plotters had failed or the
[34591]poison hadnt been strom
[34592]enough, decided ‘ta try again
[34593]with a more powerful dose
[34595]Roselli arranged for triple.
[34596]strength capsules te be slipped
[34597]into Castro's food several weeks
[34598]after the Bay of Pigs. But once
[34599]again, the plot failed and the
[34600]conspirators disappeared.
[34602]Four more attempts were’
[34603]made on Castro's life, thereafter
[34604]USiNE assassination teams
[34605]equipped with high-powered
[34606]tifles, explosives and. two-way
[34607]radios, Kosellt personally made
[34608]midnight powerbodt dashes ta
[34609]atisecret Land-|
[34611]ing spots onthe Cuban -
[34613]The assassination:
[34614]never pot a shot at Castr
[34615]though the CIA learned th.
[34616]lust group reached a -ro
[34617]within range. This ocet
[34618]around the last of Februa
[34619]first of March, 1963.
[34621]Nine months later, Pres,
[34622]Kennedy was gunned dow
[34623]Dallas by Lee Harvey Osi
[34624]a fanatic whe had beea act:
[34625]the pra-Castro movement
[34626]had paid a mysterious call i
[34627]the Cuban Embassy in Me
[34628]City a few weeks hefore
[34629]dreadful day in Dallas
[34631]Sources familiar with the
[34632]conspiracy can't shake a
[34633]sing SUSPiclon—Unsupporte
[34634]the Warren Commission's {
[34635]invs—that Castro may have
[34636]come aware of the US.
[34637]upon his life and, theref
[34638]may have recruited Oswals.
[34639]retaliate against President b
[34640]nedy. .
[34642]with the seeret review of
[34643]CIA's activities have now
[34644]knowledged that Castro, as
[34645]reperted four years agu, >
[34646]marked for assassination by
[34647]CHA. A CIA spokesman refu:
[34648]to comment.
[34650]“VOGS, United Feature Syndicate, lar
[34653]HW 50955
[34655]the CLA. in a scheme to dispatch
[34656]Fidel Castro have now both been mur.
[34658]and the police have Pronounced:
[34659]incidents “Bangland-stylg Killings.”
[34660]The phrase “Bangland-style killing»
[34662]farely with much enthusiasm, *"
[34663]This may be because Police succesg
[34665]to get them into the World series of
[34666]detection, with the result that inces-
[34667]Sant failure May have dulled. their
[34668]' appetite for. the hunt, m,
[34670]T, it may be decause Policemen
[34671]believe the Subjects of “gangland-style
[34672]killings’? aren't worth Working over.
[34674]that once a murder has’ been called
[34675]Perpetrator almost invariably ‘fails to
[34676]occur, . Te a
[34678]This raises the ‘question: whether
[34679].“Bangland-style" “murders: might pos.
[34681]don't come from’ gangland, Consider
[34682]‘the Roselli Case, The body is found in
[34684]If you and I know this, reader, does
[34685]it mot follow that it is also known by,
[34686]let us say, some hot-tempered waiter
[34688]undertipping for years? -
[34690]Tf that waiter wanted to’ take his
[34691]revenge and get away with it, is it
[34693]death in public with a tureen of lobster.
[34695]This is not to suggest that the police |
[34696]Ought to be giving Roselli's Waiters
[34702]Oo
[34703]Docld:32423630 Page 46
[34705]Oaly a Ho-Hum Murder
[34707]dered after discussing ‘their C.LAL en. -
[34708]’ terprise with the United States Senate, .
[34710]has the cozy resonance of “home-styia,
[34712]at nabbing Perpetrators of “gangland. .
[34713]Style killings" has never been such as -
[34715]“gangland-style,” apprehension of the -
[34717]sibly be catching among people who .
[34719]. Sangland-style Killing.” ~
[34721]whom Roselli has Been * consistently °.
[34723]. Bangland memberg “gangland-styie"
[34725]' Ought to be doing.
[34727]don’t approve of it; an
[34728]‘that there j
[34733]| $f 24/20
[34735]corner greasy spoon can engage in | :
[34736]“home-style cooking. jN ye
[34738]The one special Fequirememt ig
[34740]Victim who is @ bona fide Citizen ‘of -
[34741]Pp
[34743]The corollary of ‘this fact’ ty that
[34744]&angland People are peculiarly vulner=
[34746]_tion becomes manifest, yoy are’ en-
[34747]tirely Prepared to be Sent off “gang.
[34748]Jand-style by your Colleagues, Those «
[34749]are the rules of the lang, 7
[34751]OBSERVER ae
[34753]Prematurely, Some barber who hates
[34755]your Sideburns—to have. SOmebody like \
[34756]‘this do the Job on you and get away |
[34757]. with it because it's done “gangland. :
[34759]& quietly murmured, “Jug;
[34761]You will have been the victim, not
[34762]Only of mu der, but also of discrimina-
[34764]tion, for it is only your membership :
[34766]about nonmembers of Bangland Killing
[34767]but my hunch is that they ‘take a
[34768]sterner view of it than: they do of
[34770]I know very well that gangland folks
[34771]d to make sure
[34774]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 |
[34776]| Ouly a Ho-l
[34778]: ay
[34779]By Russel Baker.
[34781]The gangsters Sam Giancana and
[34782]John Roselli who were associated with
[34783]. the CLA, in a scheme to dispatch
[34784]Fidel Castro have now bath been ‘mure
[34786]dered after discussing their C.LA. ens -
[34788]' terprise with the United States Senate,
[34790]and the police have Pronounced: the ‘
[34792]incidertts “gangland-style killings.”
[34793]The phrase “gangland-style killing”
[34795]has the cozy resonance of “home-style .
[34797]cooking,” perhaps because both sug-
[34798]gest the Intimacy of hearth and fire
[34799]with nobody but us family gathered
[34800]round and nobody else welcome, Jack.
[34801]These family affairs are, of course,
[34802]meddled into by the constabulary, but
[34803]tarely with much enthusiasm. Bee
[34804]This may be because police success
[34805]at nabbing perpetrators of “gattgland-
[34806]Style killings” has never been such as
[34807]to get them into the world series of
[34808]detection, with the result that inces-
[34809]sant failure may have ‘dulled. their
[34810]' appetite for. the hunt. 4
[34811]Or, it may be because policemen
[34812]. believe the subjects of “gangiand-style
[34813]killings” aren’t worth working over-
[34815]time for. I don’t know, amd] certainly
[34817]don’t mean. to impute either languor,
[34818]timidity or indifference to America’s
[34819]- homicide squads. 1 simply point out
[34820]that once a murder has been called
[34821]“gangland-style,” apprehension of ithe
[34822]Perpetrator almost invariably fails: to
[34823]occur, nt
[34824]This raises the. question: whether
[34825]“gangland-style” ‘murders’ might pos-
[34826].sibly be catching among people who
[34827]don’t come from gangland. Consider
[34828]the Roselli case. The body is found’ in
[34829]the customary barrel, with the cus~
[34830]tomary weights, in the customary
[34831]‘water. It bears the customary bullet
[34832]holes. Roselli’s publicized Standing’ in
[34833]gangland seems to leave an open-and-
[34835]shut as soon as possible...
[34837]If you and I know this, reader, does
[34838]it mot follow that it is also known by,
[34839]let us say, some hot-tempered waiter
[34841]whom Roselli has been-.consistently *
[34843]undertipping for years? _ oy
[34844]If that waiter wanted to take his
[34845]revenge and get away with it, is ‘it
[34847]not logical that he would do it “gang. '
[34849]land-style,” so the police could forget
[34850]it, rather than by. scalding Roselli to
[34851]death in public with a tureen.of lobster-
[34854]This is not to suggest that the’ police | -
[34856]ought to be giving - Roselli’s waiters:
[34857]the third degree, but merely.to point.
[34858]out that gangland can have no monop-
[34859]oly on “gangland-style killing.” Any-
[34861]_ body with a barrel, some concrete and --
[34862]& capacious expanse ‘of Water. ‘can. ©
[34863]_ engage in it, just as readily as. your
[34865]Page 461
[34867]corner greasy spoon can engage In
[34868]“home-style cooking.” '
[34870]The one special requirement ig
[34872]Victim who is a bong fide citizen of -
[34874]gangland, Obviously, a. philandering
[34875]husband cannot do in a loyal wife of |
[34876]40 years “gangland-style” and
[34878]the police not to lift an eyebrow, Un- —
[34880]less the subject is the real gangland
[34881]thing, it won't work, a
[34883]The corollary of ‘this fact fy that
[34884]gangland people are peculiarly vulner.
[34885]able to “gangland-style” murder by.
[34887]‘devious non-ganglanders, who have no
[34888]- tight to get away with it. -
[34890]This must ‘be infuriating to them.
[34891]Imagine that you are an emlnert..
[34892]Statesman of gangland, and the vexae
[34893]tion becomes manifest. You are’ ene
[34894]tirely prepared to be sent off “gang-
[34896]land-style” by your colleagues, Those |
[34898]are the rules of the land,
[34900]Moreover, if they complete the job,
[34902]you. wouldn't dream of telling the po- ;
[34903]lice who did it, even if you could. That —
[34904]would violate the rules of the sports« .
[34905]manship governing gangland, In gang.
[34907]_dand, good Sports don’t tell,
[34909]But to have some alien from the’
[34910]outer world—some straight-Jake cous-
[34911]in who. wants his share of your will.
[34913]OBSERVER.
[34915]Prematurely, some barber who hates
[34916]your sideburns—to have. somebody like
[34918]this do the job’on you and get away .
[34920]_ with it because it’s done “gangland- .
[34922]style’—Ah, my friend, that must seem
[34923]@ cruel injustice. ss we
[34925]" Such a bad: egg as that you would
[34927]surely betray to the cops. How infuri-
[34929]ating it would be if they looked at the -
[34931]barrel, the .concrete, the water,. the
[34933]- bullet holes and closed the case with
[34935]@ quietly murmured, “Just another
[34937]: n _ Bangland-style killing.” -
[34938]shut case, which the police will quietly -
[34940]You-will have been the victim, -not
[34942]only of murder, but.also of discrimina-
[34944]tion, for it is only your membership
[34945]in gangland that prevents ‘the police
[34946]from extending themselves: to bring
[34948]‘your persecutor to justice,
[34950]~ P'do not know how policemert feet
[34952]‘about nonmembers of gangland killing |
[34954]gangland members “gangland-style,”
[34955]but my hunch is. that ‘they ‘take a
[34956]sterner view of it than they do of
[34957]gangland men bumping off each other.
[34958]The average cop probably thinks it is -
[34960]-not the kind of thing decent people -
[34962]ought to be doing. fos
[34963]' Uknow very well that gangland folks
[34965]“don’t approve of it, and to make sure
[34966]. that there is no misunderstanding, 1
[34967]“want to assure them that. haven't .
[34969]‘the heart to swat a fly, myself, and,
[34971]“what's: more, I've never-beert-any good |
[34973]With concrete,
[34977]tum Murder og
[34979]lodiee
[34981]Terrorist Activities
[34982]Charged to Cubans ,
[34983]By Police in Miami
[34985]WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 (UPI):
[34986]—Militant pro-Castro and anti-|!
[34987]{Castro groups in the Miamil!
[34988]area are engaged in terrorist|&
[34989]activities both in and outsidelt
[34990]the United States, according tole
[34991]testimony given before a Sen-
[34992]ate subcommittee and released|R
[34993]today. . . *
[34995]The testimony came last May|re
[34996]before a Judiciary subcommit-|w
[34997]{tee on internal security headed/g:
[34999]||that as many as 50 Cuban
[35000]froups of various shadings hadith
[35001]been operating in Miami at anyla
[35002]one time, many of them en-iT
[35003]gaged Jin violent plots invoiving|r
[35004]local actions and activities in|r
[35005]Mexico, Central and South!/V
[35006]America and Cuba itself. Ss
[35007]Lieut. Thomas Lyons, wholD
[35008]has been with:the Dade County/o
[35009]. Public. Safety Department forjh
[35010]ax more than nine years, and Raul
[35011]. J, Diaz, of the department's or-
[35013]c
[35014]d
[35015]ganized crime, terrorist and se-
[35016]curity unit, told of efforts to/C
[35017]track down terrorist elements/p
[35018]in the greater Miami area. a
[35019]Lieutenant Lyons said mostle
[35020]Cubans in the area were hard-|c¢
[35021]working and industrious; butly
[35022]some individuals “use Dadee
[35023]County as a base for interna-|1
[35024]tional terrorism ‘against allied|;
[35025]governments of Cuba, Cubanic
[35026]'|shipping, Communists, purport.
[35027]ed Communists and individuals}:
[35028]who take a stand against their
[35030]During the last two years,
[35031]Lieutenant Lyons said, there
[35032]have been four homicides “with
[35033]strong indicators on each that
[35034]the motivations. were political
[35035]in nature and terroristic by de-
[35036]sign.”- . .
[35037]Mr. Diaz'said that some. Cas-
[35038]tro groups had infiltrated exile}
[35040]organizations and that’ there}:
[35041]were plans to assassinate Latin-
[35042]American diplomats and for-|
[35043]eign ministers. .
[35045]Lieutenant Lyons said his
[35046]unit received Information from
[35047]a confidential source early this|¢
[35049]year ‘that ‘there ‘i
[35050]attempt on the life of Secretary
[35052]of State Henry A. “Kissinger (3
[35054]fc ” Costa Rica.
[35056]WW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 462
[35058]by Senator James O. Eastland,|ar:
[35059]Democrat of Mississippi. It saidjri
[35061]during his February.,visit,; to] ¢
[35063]_ The Federal Bureau of Inves-| |
[35064]_|Ugation and the Secret Service
[35065]were notified, he said, A well-
[35066]known fugitive exile, Orlando
[35068]Two weeks ago, the body of
[35069]‘jan underworld figure, John
[35071]Cubans to kill Mr, Casiro, Mr.
[35073]1Ne Boston Gioy, Monday, Ay ust “iyi  [Q y Rivero némed Bosch as One of the 1g an Castre jy
[35074]e » Aug . :
[35076]JACK A NDERSON :
[35078]Parole ang fled to Venezuela ir 1974,
[35080]j “Z00ka while it was Moored in Miami. Hp Jumped Fede.
[35081]e , : Months later, he was reported tg be in Curacao, pr
[35082]- : ! tected by Chilean gunmen, He bragged, according to 4
[35083]} O QO cq] : . Feports, of his “money, friends and Protection.”
[35084]; ; ‘ ‘ . so Florida's Dade County Public Safety Department, be
[35085]. . . . : Cause of the huge Cuban Population in Miami, has &xcellen
[35087]ties throughout Latin America. Tn early 1976, the county’:
[35089]& 8 . .
[35090]KG SSin er . | terrorist e Pert, Lt. Thomas Lynch, pickeg up some electri.
[35091]. S s _ fying news, . ee
[35093]re _ : ‘ timony: « e received information from confidential Sourc
[35094]_ es." he Swore, “that there was 80ing to be an attempt on the
[35095]Se 1. life of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger --» We passed the
[35096]oo é So information ‘on to the FBI, and they had also received the
[35097]. ; . _ | fo information and we Notified the Secret Service, ag they
[35098]: w 1 : TON A d plot ¢ inate § > have the Protective duty for the Secretary’ of State.”
[35099]ASHING — A reporte Plot to assassinate Sec. . , . —_
[35100]retary of State Henry Kissinger in Costa Rica six Months The plot was linked to pissinger s two-day Stay in Cos.
[35101]; ago was blocked by US and Costa Rican ‘authorities four' 1 ta qn rile ro Cg ne Hes
[35102]: : t - 2 held ona alse pass
[35103]days before it was SUPposed : be ed ou test OUt Of the cou .
[35104]We have Pieced together t © story from Secret testimn. - ang. . oe
[35105]- AY before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee and: unteg eater false a, or cn a tring the
[35106]: : ; . ; + rear ey.) a fa s . : . .
[35107]sources @rviews with (Cuban *xiles and us “intelligence pop Proved in court that he hoped to knock oft Kissinger, He ig
[35108]; : | nowat large Somewhere in Latin America, _ a
[35109]A Nn terrorist named Orlando Bosch Avila was re | : oe a) hg
[35110]Ported tg be gunning for. Kissinger. The attempt on they . :
[35111]fn Secretary's life was expected, according tg Underground
[35113]active in the anti-Castro underground in Miami's little
[35114]avana. But he later Te-defected tg Cuba where he gave q
[35115]fascinating interview, :
[35117]“T have known Privately Since 1972," he Said, "Yabout)
[35118]the plan to @ssassinate the US Secretary of State." He said
[35119]the plot had! taken “certain form" by 1973 and had been
[35120]“actualizeg” by 1974, ,
[35122]Then, ina reference to Our 1974 columns, he added:
[35123]f~ “This fact Which, } repeat, I've known Privately, has been Lo '
[35124]. corroborated by the US Journalist Jack Anderson,"
[35126]e 463
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[35130]os
[35132]~ Slain Mobster Claimed
[35135]Wo Ook, ‘ ON
[35136]| e-| 3
[35138]Cuban Link to JFK Dea th
[35140]By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
[35141]"' Washington Post Staft Writers
[35142]Long before his recent murder,
[35144]John Rosselli, the CIA’s underworld
[35145]recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas.
[35146]tro, had been privately claiming that
[35147]agents of the Cuban premier, in retall-
[35148]ation, were involved in the assassina-
[35149]_ tion of President John F. Kennedy,
[35150]Rosselli’s belief in a Cuban connec-
[35151]tion to the Kennedy assassination was
[35152]expressed through his attorney, Ed.-
[35153]ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long
[35154]ago as March, 1967, and also in private
[35155]conversations with a longtime’ associ- .
[35156]ate of Rosselli who participated in
[35157]meetings between Rosselli and the
[35158]CIA, t .
[35159]"An FBI “blind memorandum" on
[35160]an interview with Morgan dated
[35161]March 21, 1967, was included, without
[35163]| 4 ROSSELLI, From Al
[35165]a
[35168]’ sanceé and the subsequent discovery of
[35170]“hls body in an ou drum in Florida
[35171]‘swaters, The Washington Post, however,
[35172]has confirmed that Morgan and Rosselli
[35173]“Were the sources of the testimony that 7
[35175]" aBuggested a Cuban Tole in the Ken. ">
[35176]* nedy murder, «.” ane
[35178]- 9elli’s contacts in the early 19605 with °
[35180]HW 50955 Do
[35182]‘for the CIA schemes against the Cu.
[35184]& Morgan’s account, according ‘to a,"
[35185]ssumMiary of the FBI interview, was -
[35186]«that Rosselli had Teached his conclu: -;
[35187]sion about a Cuban connection to the ‘
[35188]‘Kennedy Assassination - from... !
[35189]é“teedback” furnished by sources close ’
[35190]ato Castro who were involved in the CIA
[35191]plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.’ .
[35192]= “His (Morgan’s) clients were aware
[35193]aot the identity of some of the individ.
[35194]puals who, came to the United States:
[35195]sfor this purpose and he understood
[35196]., that two sueh individuals were now in:
[35197]tthe state of New Jersey,” the FBI in:
[35198]yterview summary stated: ips
[35199]iA long-time associate .of Rosselli. ' |
[35200]wo was interviewed separate! by 6
[35201]“The Washington Post, said there wae
[35203]i
[35205]| Re question in the: slain mobsters eb,
[35206]Kennedy was */ ,
[35207]t
[35209]‘mind. that Président
[35210]skilled ‘on Castro's behalf in reprisa’
[35212]‘ban leader, oo
[35213]“He was positive: he was sure.” said-. |
[35214]the associate, who knew Rosselli well: -« ”
[35215]<and was in contact with him before -— ;
[35216]‘Rosselli disappeared from his Florida:
[35217]home on July 28. The associate, who
[35218]foes not want to be identified pub. .
[35219]Jicly, is scheduled to be interviewed ;
[35220]this week by Dade County, Fla, homi-’
[35221]‘cide detectives, He was a party. to Ros.
[35223]CIA case officers Overseeing the at.
[35224]<empts to assassinate Castro, 24,
[35225]> Despite occasional speculation, the :
[35226]collective conclusion of all Official | i!
[35227]‘U.S. government investigations into
[35228]the Kennedy assassination—including
[35230]the Warren Commission, the FBI and
[35232]‘the Ci[A—has been that there was no
[35233]evidence that implicated the Castro
[35234]Zovernment. or anv of ita neeante
[35235]eld:32423630 Page 464
[35237]identification of the interviewee, in
[35238]last June’s Senate Intelligence Com.
[35240] mittee’s report on the role of the in.
[35242]telligence conmiunity in the Kennedy
[35243]assassination investigation.
[35245]Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
[35246]and another Morgan client had in-
[35247]formed him that Castro became aware
[35248]of CIA assassination conspiracies
[35249]against him and “thereafter employed
[35250]teams of individuals who were dis-
[35251]patched to the United States for the
[35253]. purpose of assassinaling Mr, Ken-
[35257]Because neither Morgan nor Hos-
[35258]sclli was identified in the Senate re-
[35259]port. the significance of that portion
[35260]of the 106-page document was dis-
[35261]counted at the time it was published
[35262]in June, before Rosselli’s disappear-
[35264]‘See ROSSELLI, A8; Col. 1
[35266]« However, the CIA’s involvement in
[35267]the schemes to assassinate Castro
[35268]Was not divulged to the Warren Com-
[35269]mission. and knowledge of them was
[35270]tonfined until 1967 to a smail, elite
[35271]‘eiréle of the U.S. intelligence commu-
[35272]Nity. President Johnson apparently |
[35273]first learned about the schemes only
[35274]after a March 7, 1967, column by the:
[35275]late Drew “Person, -which prompted
[35276]Johnson to order a CIA investigation
[35277]of the highly sensitive episode. po
[35278], Fullsdetails of the ClA-underworld |
[35279]* collusion in the" plots to kill Castro
[35280]id not surface publicly until the pub. |
[35281]fication last yeat of the Senate Intelli-
[35283]port and the ensuing report last June
[35284]$n the ‘possible roie of the intelligence
[35285]agenciés in the Kennedy assassination
[35286]and ingestigation : ities.
[35287], The body of Rosselli, who lived’
[35288]flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,
[35289]politicians and playgirls, was found
[35290]“#wo weeks ago in an inverted oil drum
[35291]weighted with chains but buoyed by.
[35293]j gases ‘from decomposition on the’
[35295]. @cean's surface off thecoast of Miami. -
[35296]c+ The spbelfie cause of death was deter. -
[35297]"mined by an autopsy to be asphyxia.
[35300]) Last‘year, an underworld colleague
[35301]of Roselli, Sam -(Momo) Giancana,
[35302]yho algo: had. beqn recruited by the j:
[35303]LTA ity theleffort te Kill Gastro: was!
[35304]found. shot’ to death in ‘his Chicago !
[35305]home in‘what police described as a
[35306]. Highly professional job by assailants :
[35307]“. ho penelraled the miobster’s - per- :
[35308]gonal security ‘screen, Gianecana was
[35309]due to testify before the Senate Intel-
[35310]gence Committee ‘shortly after’ hls
[35311]emise, . a
[35312]| Neither murder has been solved. ‘
[35313]4 The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
[35314]der might have been related to his
[35315]Senate testimony on the CIA schemes *
[35316]fo kill Castro hag brought the FBI
[35317]into the investigation at the request
[35318]at Attorney General Edward H. Levi.
[35320]fave taal y Santos Tra awite
[35321]Campa. Fla, whose one-lime Havana
[35322]gombling enterprises fell hostage in
[35323]1999 to the Cuban revolution—in plot
[35324]avainst Castro had been a-closely held
[35325]secret within the top echelons of the
[35326]CHA and FBI until recently,
[35330]' The tangled chronology:
[35331] Vhe fe gy of suppres.
[35332]yon and eventual disclosure, although
[35333]detailed in the June report, has Te-
[35334]feed ite public attention. Rossel
[35336]gents 5 ignificance to those
[35337]‘4 Hereiis the se | pi
[35338]5 quence, pieced to-.'
[35339]gether from the testimony given to "
[35340]gena e Intelligence investigators:
[35341]+ Columnist Drew Pearson went lo
[35346]as
[35348]the late Chief Justice of the United
[35349]States Earl Warren late in January.
[35350]1967, and told him that a Washington
[35351]lawyer had confided to him that one
[35352]of hig clients said the United States
[35353]“had attempted }
[35354]Castro in the early 1960s and Castro
[35355]had decided to retaliate.”
[35357]Warren declined Pearson’s sugses- -
[35358]tion that he see the lawyer, who was
[35359]Edward Morgan. Warren referred the
[35360]matter to then Secret Service Direc-
[35361]tor James J. Rowley, who. on Feb. 18,
[35362]1967, wrote FBI Director J.:, Edgar Ho-
[35363]over. informing him of the allegations.
[35365]Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six
[35366]senior bureau officials on an “eyes:
[35367]only” basis. There is no record of FBI
[35368]meetings or discussions of. those alle-
[35369]gations. At that point the sensitive let-
[35370]ter bounced back and forth in the
[35371]higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-
[35375]racy. ; i
[35376]The job of responding to Rowley’s ”
[35377]letter was assigned to the supervisor |
[35378]. of the FBI's General Investigative Di-
[35379]., vision who was given responsiility for .
[35380]the overall assassination investigation ©
[35381]in March 1964. at
[35382]This official's job was, complicated
[35383]py the fact that he had never been in-
[35384]‘formed of what Hoover and his closest
[35385]" circle of eonfidants in the FBI jearned °
[35386]early In i962—that the CIA was |
[35387]deeply involved — in
[35388]attempts against Castro. and promi: -
[35389]nent American underworld figures, in- |
[35390]cluding Rosselli and. Giancana, ‘had
[35391]been recruited for the attempts. eee mg
[35392]So on Feb. 15, 1967. the FBI official »
[35393]prepared a draft reply to the Rowley.
[35394]letter for his superiors saying “our in--
[35395]», westigation uncovered, no, evidence in-
[35396]‘Vajeating Fidel Castro officials of the
[35397]., Cuban Government were involved=
[35398]with Lee’ Harvey, Oswald: in the! assase 4
[35399]sination of President Kennedy. This -
[35400]bureau is not conducting any investi-’
[35401]gation regardin
[35402]FBI official adde
[35403]that “everyone.in. the higher echelons
[35405]Drew Pearson went
[35407]1
[35408]t
[35409]Py
[35411]ahead and pub-
[35413]lished a column on March 7, 1967, ref--. 1: ploye
[35414]|; were
[35416]A schemes
[35418]* erring to reports that: Cl
[35419]against Castro’s life ib
[35421]4 have resulted
[35423]f tro to! aspassin
[35425]3 we!
[35427]ate President Kenne-
[35428]dy. ,
[35430]HW 50955 DocId: 32423630 Page 465°
[35432]; “son persisted, however.
[35434]: . |. committee conclude « sagt”
[35435]to assassinate Fidel because it was tne Domestic fatale \
[35437]» could
[35439]- summarizing the interview with Mor-:,
[35441]assassination | -
[35443]| " they fac
[35445]\,
[35447]g this’ matter.” The “;
[35448]din later testimony: |
[35450]1963 “may | for the purpose of assassinalin
[35451]in a counterplot by Cas- |
[35453]OnE suvectair Cartha
[35454]ent had ja cru ssage thal “the “4 “
[35455] Sterviow ‘tracted that the F y, ne 7
[35456]inert Bio ted thatthe FAL OW. 5 OCs wee haan
[35457]ge he ue ht have rewarding
[35458]g
[35460]hedge eination of
[35462]“ "DeLoach told ‘Vats i
[35464]peated Morgan “Hd nat want to be in.
[35465]terviewed, and --an if he was inter-
[35466]tiewed he would probably not divulge
[35467]e identity of his sources...” Wat-
[35469]President Ken-
[35471]“Under the cireums ” .
[35472]Loach concluded ina memo for the
[35473]flies, “it appears that we have no. al ;
[35474]ternative but to interview (Morgan) *
[35475]and then furnish the results to Wat
[35476]son in blind memorandum form.” :
[35478]The interview was assigned to two
[35479]agents from the FBI's General Investi-
[35482]g Division, which the Senate “Tt was not clear then—nor is it to- 1
[35484]; day—whby Morgan came forward at»
[35485]. that time to bring Rosselli’s story tof .
[35486]- the ears of the nation’s highest law-
[35487], enforcement authorities. ~""” rn 4
[35488]‘ “It may be relevant that ‘Rosselli had ‘
[35489]* serious legal problems at the time.
[35490]In May. 1966, the FBI threatened to.
[35491]_ deport him for living:in the United }
[35492]‘ States under an assumed name unless :
[35493]!) he cooperated-in an investigation of v
[35494]the Mafia (his true name was Filippo
[35495]Saco). At the time, he reached a CIA.
[35496]“contact from the anti-Castro conspir: ,
[35497]_ acy days, CIA security director Col. ?.
[35498]Sheffield Edwards, who informed the k
[35499]FBI that Rosselli wanted to “keep?
[35500]square with the bureau” but was t
[35501]_ afraid that the mob might kill him for .
[35502]| talking. so 7
[35503]In 1967, after he was arrested for i
[35504]gambling fraud at the Friars Club in‘.
[35506]gence Division which had b
[35507]A Shosqe . cen °
[35508]sien responsibility for investigating
[35509]ible foreign invo. i
[35510]assassination. . tvement in the
[35511]Neither agent was ri
[35512]7 privy to th
[35513]knowledge. confined to Hoover and
[35514]us tap aldes, of the CIA's assassina-
[35515]ion plots against Castro. Both agents
[35517]testified eight years later that they.
[35518]were “surprised” when Morgan al
[35519]luded during the interview to US. ate
[35520]tempts to assassinate Castro. ;
[35522]wphese agents stated that they.
[35523]not evaluate the lawyer's ,
[35524](Morgan's) allegations or question him,
[35525]in detail on them, since they had not
[35527]n briefed on the CIA assassination ;
[35529]efforts,” the Senate committee ob:
[35530]served. . ca Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached his.
[35531]On March 21, 1967, the FBI's Wash- | former CIA case’ officer, William Har- ~ .
[35533]_, vey, who sought unsuccessfully: to in- 5”
[35534]tercede in the prosecution. - tf
[35535]It was against this background that - |
[35536]Morgan went, first to Drew Pearson,’ :
[35537]and then the FBI, with Rosselli’s sen-:.
[35538]sational allegations of CIA plotting °-
[35540]Office sent headquarters .
[35542]_ ington Field:
[35543]{ a blind memorandum ;
[35545]ten copies 0
[35546]gan. - ;
[35548]In a Senate Intelligence Committee {-
[35550]interview, Mor 1.4;
[35551]was Ot ented *e “have ; acknowl: against vaste and the Cuban counter. ,
[35552]: A _ espionage direct i :
[35553]‘edged that his clients were “on the,” renne ay. irected against P resident:
[35555]Lee * and that . :
[35556]fringe of Fer pe cution in a’ Last April Rosselli told the Senate
[35557]- erime not, related to the assassination , t. Intelligence Co mmittee he had no rec.
[35558]m , anon i} otection of either receiving informa- .
[35559]tion that Castro retaliated. against!
[35560]President Kennedy or of having dis-:
[35561]cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei- -
[35562]' ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -
[35564]’ "Morgan said his clients “were called Q
[35565]~ upon by a governmental agency to ag -|-
[35566]-+ gist in a project which was said to. <,
[35567]pave the highest governmental ap’
[35568]proval. The project had as its purpose ..
[35569]the assassination of Fidel Castro. -_
[35570]* Elaborate plans were made, including ¢
[35571]” the infiltration -of the Cuban Govern: :
[35572]‘+ ment and the placing ‘of jiformants {
[35573]. within key posts in Cuba.” ~~
[35574]. Morgan also told the FBI. according ;
[35575]to the summary, that Castro had en -
[35576]d “teams of;. individuals who
[35577]dispatched to the United States
[35578]g Presi.
[35582]dent Kennedy.”
[35584]'
[35585]a a pare invention, a serious risk
[35586]> established Washington meses
[35587]io ithee source could explain
[35588]hae di sone. and Morgan declined
[35589]be anifira that Rosselli was the client
[35590]in uestivn or to discuss either his
[35591]allegalions against the Cuban govern-
[35592]rien! on his recent testimony. |
[35593]ile internal FBI memo on the pe
[35594]interview with Morgan was sen slip
[35595]headquarters with a transi a
[35596]saying: “No further inves igatio: os.
[35597]being conducted by the Was! ington
[35598]field office unless it is advised
[35599]eohtrary by the Bureau. ‘ ‘tte
[35600]’ The Senate intelligence commi ee
[35601]in commenting on. this position, said
[35602]‘ that “had ‘the interviewing : age ts
[35603]known of the ClAunderworld 1 $s
[35604]inst Castro, they wou \
[35605]aware that the lawyer had clients Who
[35606]- had been active in the assassinatio
[35607]9
[35608]mee March 21, FBI headquarters for-
[35609]warded the Washington field oftice
[35610]memo te vi‘and the Secrel Service. Tt
[35611]general and the ret § Tt
[35612]did ‘not recommend any further =
[35613]vestigation of bho s allega ti ie
[35614]ne even ; §
[35615]day President Johnson called CIA Di-
[35617]“rector Richard M. Helms to the While _
[35619]i 3
[35620]e. The next morning, March 2: 7
[35621]Hele ordered the CI x inspector aan
[35622]repare a report on t
[35623]Fen verment in the assassination pore
[35624]—Operation © Mongoose—of whe ,
[35625]Helms had full knowledge at the ime
[35626]r ecuted. | ;
[35627]. ey May 22, Helms briefed President
[35628]Johnson on the results, There:is, wen
[35629]ever. tio evidence that Helms are
[35630]the President on the November, 63,
[35631]plot—-one of eight major’ schemes on a
[35632]Castro’s life from 1960 to 1965—to as
[35633]sassinate the Cuban leader throug ;
[35634]the employment of an agent with te
[35635]eryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
[35636]"was revealed as ‘Rolando Cubela, a
[35637]*1961 CIA “reeruit” with close access
[35638]OT Oneratives turned over assassi-
[35639]nation equipment to Cubela during a
[35641]o
[35643]Paris meeting on November 22, 1963—:
[35645]President Kennedy was killed
[35646]in Dalles, There has been subsequent
[35647]speculation that the mercurial ar
[35648]talkative Cubela was either a dow e
[35649]agent or being monitored by. (Cu an
[35651]Higence. ‘ i
[35652]uring the later days of his presi
[35653]dency, Mr. Johnson spoke cryptically
[35654]of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo
[35655]rated” targeted against Fidel Castro.
[35656]The inspiration for that statement une
[35658]. doubtedly was the CIA inspector gen:
[35659]eral’s report he ordered Helms to have
[35660]. prepared.
[35662]Within the past year, Rosselli and
[35664]two of his co-conspirators in the Cas- |.
[35666]ination schemes have died,
[35667]Ginneana at the hands of a profes-
[35668]sional hit man and Harvey as the re.
[35669]sult of a.“massive heart attack’ a
[35671]. aan
[35673]aos. William Harvey, the widaw of
[35674]the deceased CIA official, said a
[35675]suspected no-foul play in her ;
[35676]band’s death. She did, however, ¢
[35680]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 466
[35684]7 om
[35688]S| S
[35690]- The | Washington Post: that she re-
[35692]': ceived.a call after Rosselli’s disappear.
[35693]“ance in late July warning her that Cu. «.
[35694]_ bans appeared to be attempting to
[35696]‘wipe out all those who participated in
[35697]i the anti-Castro plots, se
[35699]The call, she said,came from an old
[35700]i friend who was acquainted with Ros-
[35701]: Selli’s’sister, whose name is Edith Dai.
[35703]i et,
[35705]Vesta.
[35707]~ ” the Kennedy assassination. He'replied —
[35709]gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigie -
[35711]j told the mutual acquaintance that the
[35712]! Rosselli family had received a tele.
[35713]phone threat from unidentified Cu.
[35714]{ bans prior to Rosselli’s disappearance.
[35715]She also said that Rosselli had gone to
[35716]; meet the Cubans in an effort. to pro-
[35717]tect his family. - :
[35719]Mrs. Daigle could not be reached by
[35720]The Washington Post. But another sis-
[35721]ter of Rosselli said she had heard of
[35722]No such threats or warnings. .
[35724]Harvey, who died at age 60 and
[35725]whose exploits as a clandestine opera-
[35727]; tor are 'both legendary and ontrover-
[35728]‘sial within the agency, testified to the |
[35729]Senate - Intelligence Committee, He
[35731]| had-become Rosselli's case officer in’
[35733]! Operation Mongoose and supplied the .
[35735]| Mobster with poison pills, explosives, :
[35737]detonators, rifles, handguns, radios
[35739]anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and
[35741]and boat radar for transmission ‘to 2,
[35743]we
[35745]. What he-had
[35747]_FBI never Satisfactorily detérmined . :
[35748]Planned todo in Cubaor .-*.
[35750]4
[35754]‘. .
[35755]Bay | CS f-
[35757]‘Rosselli, @ CIA superior testified .to
[35759]the Senate committee, “developed a .
[35761]close friendship.”
[35762]_ . Another’ CIA ‘official who worked
[35763]" with Rosselli, James P. O'Connell, wag
[35764]asked if he knew whether the agency
[35765]transmitted information’ to the mob-
[35766]_ Ster on possible Cuban involvement in
[35768]that he was out of the country at the
[35770]"time Kennedy was ‘Killed, and had no
[35772]further comment. -
[35774]__ Two months before-the Kennedy as-
[35775]. sassination: Lee Harvey Oswald, who
[35776]"was identified by the Warren Commis-
[35778]Sion as Kennedy’s murderer, had trav-
[35779]-eled to Mexico City in an attempt to
[35780]. gain entry to Cuba. According to the
[35781]” Warren Commission, Oswald repre.
[35782]“sented himself as the head of the New
[35783]- Orleans branch of the Fair Play for
[35784]-Cuba organization and a friend of the
[35785]Cuban Revolution, ; _
[35787]Some three months before Kennedy
[35788]was killed, Castro told Associated
[35789]Press reporter Daniel Harker that
[35790]U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
[35791]eliminate Cuban leaders would them.
[35793]selves not be safe. . oe
[35795]AUS. government committee coor-
[35796]dinating ‘Policy, toward Cuba at the
[35797]time agreed there is a strong liklihood
[35798]that Castro would retaliate in some.
[35799]fashion. However, it concluded Castro
[35800]would not risk 4 Major confrontation
[35801]with the U.S. by attacking U.S. lead.
[35803]* . Qs.
[35805]On the same day Kennedy was as.
[35806]Sassirfated, a CIA officer met with a
[35807]“high-ranking Cuban official, who had
[35808]Said he would kill Castro, ta tell hi
[35809]the U.S. would provide him with ex.
[35810]plosives and a poison Pen device,
[35812]While the Senate Intelligence Con.
[35813]mittee said {t found no evidence suffi-
[35814]cient to justify a conclusion that the
[35815]Kennedy assassination was part of a
[35816]conspiracy,. it also said U.S. agencies
[35817]did not properly investigate the assas-
[35818]sination or tell the Warren Commis. -
[35819]on about the CIA plots on Castro’s
[35821]ife. .
[35823]“There {s no indication that the FBI
[35824]or the CIA directed the interviewing
[35825]of Cuban sources or sources within
[35826]the Cuban exile community,” the Sen-
[35827]ate committee said, : :
[35829]According to a former FBI official
[35831]_in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
[35832].probe of the Kennedy murder, the
[35834]what Oswald
[35835]done in Russia. .
[35839]OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
[35841]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[35843]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[35845]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535
[35847]62-116395
[35849]February 24, 1976
[35851]U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
[35852]STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
[35853]WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC)
[35855]Reference is made to SSC letter to the U. S.
[35856]Department of Justice dated January 14, 1976,
[35857]requesting access to certain material and delivery of
[35858]other material maintained by the FBI,
[35860]Pursuant to request item numbered 17, we
[35861]currently have one abstract covering the areas of
[35862]inquiry available for review at FBI Headquarters by
[35863]approved personnel of the Committee.
[35865]Pursuant to request item numbered 18, we were
[35867]not able to locate a copy of a cable dated on or about
[35868]November 28, 1963, from Director, FBI, to Director,
[35869]CIA, regarding interrogation of witnesses concerning
[35870]Lee Harvey Oswald's activities in Mexico City. We are,
[35871]‘however, furnishing a copy of an FBI to CIA teletype
[35872]dated November 27, 1963, captioned "Lee Harvey Oswald,"
[35873]which advises that the interrogation of Oswald between
[35875]‘his arrest and murder had not extended to his travel to
[35876]Mexico or his contacts with Soviet establishments. The
[35877]teletype, classified "Secret," also contains details
[35878]from an Oswald letter to the Soviet Embassy,
[35879]Washington, D. C,., which were obtained from a highly -
[35880]sensitive source. ,
[35882]SECRET MATERIAL ATTACHED
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[35886]U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
[35887]STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
[35888]WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE
[35889]ACTIVITIES (SSC)
[35891]We are also furnishing 3 Bureau memoranda in
[35892]response to the latter part of request item 18 asking
[35893]for all memoranda prepared between November 22, 1963,
[35894]and December 30, 1963, which relate to the interrogation
[35895]of witnesses concerning Oswald's trip to Mexico City,
[35896]including his visits to the Soviet Embassy and Cuban
[35897]Consulate.
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[35919]OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
[35920]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20530
[35922]Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
[35923]United States Senate Select Committee
[35925]on Intelligence Activities
[35926]Washington, D. C. 20510
[35928]Dear Senator Churchs
[35930]FEB 26 1976
[35932]Transmitted herewith is a memorandum with SECRET
[35933]enclosures prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation
[35934]in response to the request in Items 17 and 18 of a letter
[35936]dated January 14,
[35937]Committee staff.
[35939]1976, from Mr.
[35941]Sincerely,
[35943]iN
[35945]MICHAEL E. SHAHEEN,
[35947]Paul: Wallach of your
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[36112]THE WHITE HOUSE
[36113]WASHINGTON
[36114]SECRET - EYES ONLY : ' January 9, 1964
[36115]a , ’
[36116]MEMORANDUM TO THE PRESIDENT
[36117]SUBJECT: Sabotage against Castro
[36119]Three small-scale sabotage operations have been approved by the
[36120]Special Group, but this recommendation is based on a routine con-
[36121]tinuation of broad policy guidance which I think you may wish
[36122]to review. The three operations involved are:
[36123](1) a commando sabotage operation against a coastal
[36124]warehouse and pier;
[36126](2) a sabotage attack against naval or patrol vessels in
[36129](3) a sabotage operation against a fuel barge proceeding
[36130]in coastal waters.,,
[36132]All of these operations would have been approved three months ago,
[36133]and indeed one of them is a rescheduling of an operation aborted
[36134]because of high seas. While itis always hard to predict the noise
[36135]level in these matters, these operations seem comparable to the
[36136]small attack on a Cuban naval patrol which occurred in late December
[36137]which Castro promptly blamed on you (in fact it was an operation
[36139]approved before November 22 and not cancelled thereafter because it ‘auml
[36141]seemed to fall within the guidance you expressed. in your first review
[36142]of the Cuban problem). , \
[36144]The policy. question now is this: Lf we continue these even small
[36145]sabotage operations, Castro will certainly know it. Equally,iif we
[36146]call them off, he will know it, and so will the Russians. x Wel thus
[36147]have an opportunity to choose.
[36149]I doubt if this choice should be made on momentum alone.
[36150]I therefore recommend a Cabinet-level review of the whole principle
[36152]of covert sabotage against Cuba, I know that Rusk has never liked it
[36153]and that McNamara thinks it does very little good. McCone and the CIA
[36154]are for it, and s0 are most of the middle-level officers dealing with the
[36155]Castro problem. I myself consider the matter extremely evenly balanced,
[36157]SECRET. - EYES: ONLY pone.
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[36167]SECRET - EYES ONLY -2- Jan. 9, 1964
[36168]but before hearing full argument, my guess is that in your position
[36169]I would stop sabotage attacks on the ground that they are illegal,
[36170]ineffective, and damaging to our broader policy. I might then wish
[36171]to make a little capital from this decision with the Soviet Union.
[36173]McG. B,
[36175]\ SECRET - EYES ONLY
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[36190]MEMORANDUM .
[36191]TO: °° ~+Senator Hart (Colorado) and Senator Schweiker
[36192]FROM: Jim Johnston -
[36193]Dan: Dwyer
[36194]Ed Greissing
[36195]DATE : January 27, 1976
[36196]SUBJ: Connection Between Amlash Operation and Investigation
[36197]of JFK Assassination
[36198]Background oo —_ a
[36200]‘The staff' 8 memorandum of January 5, 1976, postulated that the
[36201]Amlash operation might have had some effect on CIA's response to.
[36202]the investigation of President Kennedy's assassination. On January
[36203]9, 1976, the staff asked for access to the Amlash file at CIA; and
[36204]after a delay which was not explained, the staff was “permitted to
[36205]review the file on January 23 and 26.
[36207]ySummary of Amlash File . 7 .
[36209]Amlash initially contacted by» CIA in 1961 met occasionally with
[36210]case officers through August 1962, at which time he was given instruc-
[36211]tion in secret writing and explosives. Interest in Amlash continued
[36212]after the August meetings, but there was no further direct contact by CIA
[36213]agents until mid-1963. Why. there was a year lapse in contact with Am-
[36214]' lash cannot be determined; the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962
[36215]undoubtedly made CIA cautious in dealing with Amlash.
[36217]In any event, DIR 48198" to Rome of 19 June 1963 states that
[36218]Auwhip , a Cuban exile who assisted CIA, had sent a letter as part of
[36219]an "activation effort to reluctant dragon. "Presumably, Amlash was
[36221]“reluctant dragon" and was, “by this letter, asked to. recontact CIA.
[36223]In late August, Amlash_ traveled with a large contingent of Cuban
[36224]officials and athletes to Porto Alegre, Brazil. He cabled Amwhip
[36225]about his arrival on August 29. This cable apparently was the signal
[36226]that he was prepared to meet Amwhip in Porto Alegre.
[36228]Amwhip and two CIA case officers met with Amlash_ in Porto Alegre
[36229]between. September 5 and 8. The two case officers have testified to
[36230]the Committee about their understanding of events at this series of
[36231]meetings which they viewed essentially as a get acquainted session.
[36232]CIA-messages tell a different story. Porto Alegre 0704 to DIR 6f 7
[36233]September stated that Amlash tald Amwhip he felt’ there were only two
[36234]ways of getting rid of Castro. The first was an invasion by U.S.
[36235]forces which Amlash knew was out of the question and the second was
[36236]an “inside job." Amlash indicated he was awaiting a U.S. plan of action.
[36237]He referred to -the explosives demonstration CIA gave him a year earlier
[36238]as "too cumbersome" for his purposes.
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[36250]At the conclusion of the meetings with Amlash, Headquarters
[36252]cabled on 9 September that, based on what little feel Headquarters
[36253]had, Amlash appeared hopeless as an intelligence performer and should >
[36254]be approached as a chief conspirator allowed to recruit his own co-
[36255]horts. He should be urged to recruit a few trusted friends to assist
[36256]hin, initially in "FI and Ops reporting" and then progress to sabotage
[36257]and more serious matters on an orderly basis. (DIR 67110 to Porto
[36258]Alegre, JMWAVE and Rio.) OS
[36260]On 11 September, Porto Alegre 0708 to DIR summarized the intel--
[36262]ligence information Amlash had given on Soviet units in Cuba, saying
[36264]‘all IRBM and bombers had been removed. By this time Amlash had left
[36265]Brazil apparently heading for a vacation in Europe.
[36267]A document in the file dated 16 September and marked OFPA 72775
[36268]appears to be a transcript of a conversation obtained by covert means.
[36269]There is no indication as to where the conversation takes place, but
[36270]it F probably is in the Cuban Embassy in Paris.
[36272]- "Mary ; I don't want. to imagine ‘things but
[36273]this thing of Amlash.
[36274]‘Moreno: It is either a tremendous secret or a x,
[36275]top secret matter (unreadable) then the
[36277]word "treason" or "reason"),
[36279]Betty: I believe it is a top-secret matter."
[36281]By letters of September 14 and September 16, Amlash. stayed in
[36282]contact with Amwhip. Paris station apparently | was picking up responsi-
[36283]bility for Amlash at this * time, since Paris 0706 to DIR dated 19
[36284]September asks for some background. material on Amlash.
[36286]On 19 September, JMWAVE 4580 to DIR warns that Amlash is part of
[36287]an anti-communist group in Cuba and details the membership of his group
[36288]as well as a communist group. The message also notes that Fidel is
[36289]allegedly aware of the two groups and acts as moderator between them
[36290]in order to maintain cohesion in the Government of Cuba.
[36292]Nevertheless, Amwhip is asked to continue to work with Amlash
[36293]and is assigned to accompany him around Europe. According to Paris
[36294]0934 to DIR dated 7 October, Amlash met. with case officer O* on 5
[36295]October. Case officer 9 sat and-listened permitting Amlash to get
[36296]everything off his chest. Amlash seemed to be complaining about the
[36297].low level espionage matters that had been discussed at the September
[36298]Meeting in Brazil, implying he had a more valuable role. Case officer
[36299]0 “provided necessary assurances his feelings not in fact true and
[36300]that his case receiving consideration highest levels. (emphasis added)‘'"
[36301]“With this problem which had undoubtedly been bothering, Amlash con-
[36303]* The files do not accurately identify these case officers. A
[36304]Gaui and , however, were the principal case officers.
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[36314]siderably, off his chest, a much more relaxed Amlash departed restating
[36315]his desire return Cuba to undertake 'the big job:*"
[36317]On October 15, London 5224 to DIR states case officer O met with
[36318]Amlash and Amwhip on 13 October. Although. the case officer had been
[36319]forewarned by Amwhip, he was not successful in discouraging Amlash's
[36320]request for a high level meeting, "Amlash convinced that if such meet
[36321]does not take place at this time it will be almost impossible come out
[36322]again and we will be in same situation as last year with no definite
[36323]decision. Also finds it difficult to believe why RFK who receives many
[36324]Cubans would refuse to see a major" such'as Amlash. The message notes
[36325]the fact remains that Amlash does “have excellent entree to highest
[36327]target level which believe we cannot afford overlook." i
[36329]This message seemingly moved Headquarters to re-evaluate Amlash's
[36330]role. DIR 75683 to London ‘on 15 October directed case officer 0 to -
[36331]return headquarters. soonest for discussions of all phases of the case.
[36333]The next meeting apparently took place on October 29. One case
[36334]officer met Amlash holding himself out as the personal representative
[36335]of RFK. He informed Amlash, according to a 13 November MFR, that
[36336]the U.S. was prepared to render all necessary assistance to any anti-
[36337]communist Cuban group which succeeded in neutralizing the present Cuban
[36338]leadership and which assumed significant control to invite the U.S.
[36339]to render assistance. He emphasized that U.S: support could come only
[36340]after a successful coup. Amlash responded by saying that without Fidel,
[36341]the military would break up into 4 or 5 groups and the regime would
[36342]disintegrate. He also said he was satisfied with the policy discussion
[36343]but desired to know what technical Support he could get.
[36345]Since Amwhip was closer to Amlash than the case officers, he was
[36346]asked about Amlash's reaction to the meeting. His reactions are
[36347]summarized in Attachment A to Amwhip's Memo of Meeting dated 14 Novem-
[36348]ber. Amwhip said Amlash was still not pleased with support from U.S.
[36349]government. While Amlash was satisfied on policy grounds, he was not
[36350]at all happy with the fact that he still was not given the technical
[36351].assistance for the operation plan as he saw it. Amlash could not under-
[36352]stand why he was denied certain small pieces of equipment which promised
[36353]a final solution to the problem, while, on the other hand, the U.S. gave
[36354]much equipment and money to exile groups. for their ineffective excursions
[36355]against Cuban coastal targets. Amlash had accepted the fact he had to
[36356]work with the CIA, but CIA might lose him if it continued to procrastin-,
[36358]“——“"“ate. Amlash talked about going €6 the Trench térrorist organization,
[36359]the OAS, but realized that was not feasible. The memorandum ends with
[36360]what apparently. is the author's conclusion: "Tt is hoped that he does
[36361]realize that Havana must first be taken. ...-or failing that, a
[36362]truly sizeable piece of land (say, almost an entire province) which
[36364]-could be true rallying point."
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[36374]In a Memo for Record dated 19 November, one case officer i
[36375]the actions to be taken at the next meeting with Amlash. Amlash wae to.
[36376]be told the U.S. was prepared to give full support to Amlash's coup.
[36378]He would be shown President Kennedy's speech in Miami of November. 18
[36379]and told this reaffirmed support for Amlash's proposal. Headquarters
[36380]had approved giving Amlash scopes and rifles and other equipment. The
[36381]memo ended by stating that "C/SAS* requested written reports on Amlash
[36382]operation be kept to a minimum."
[36384]Pari 1564 to DIR of 20 November indicated Amlash had been called
[36385]on the night of November 20 and had agreed to postpone his return to
[36386]Cuba in order to see case officer 0 “if it something interesting." The
[36387]CIA-officer said he could not assure it was interesting but that it was
[36388]to be a meeting which Amlash had requested. (Obviously, CLA wanted to
[36389]give Amlash the "technical support" he felt he had not been promised in
[36390]the 29 October meeting.) ,
[36392]Case officer O flew from the U.S. so as to arrive in Paris on the morn-—
[36393]ing of November 22 for this meeting.
[36395]Pari 1607 to DIR received at Langley at 6:25 a.m. on 23, November
[36396]is the only message in Amlash's file reflecting the fact the meeting
[36397]had’ taken place. It indicated that Amlash was anxious to return to
[36398]Cuba and that case officer 0 was to arrive in Washington at 1810 that
[36399]day. oo
[36401]The file contains no outgoing cable to Paris on November 23 or
[36402]any other time telling Paris to break contact with Amlash.**
[36404]On 25 November, a contact report was prepared. There is reason
[36405]to question the authenticity of this document which is three pages
[36406]and reports the 22 November meeting with Amlash. The first two pages
[36407]have dark type as though prepared on a typewriter with a new ribbon.
[36408]The type on the third page is much lighter as though prepared on a
[36409]“typewriter with an old ribbon. Itimade no mention of the passing  — _
[36410]gf a poison pen to Amlash. os oe . —
[36412]On November 27, Pari 1669 to DIR reports information obtained
[36413]in October possibly by clandestinely listening devices. A source com-
[36414]plained bitterly about official (Cuban) visitors to Paris and how they
[36415]denigrate the revolution... The source said she wished she had a con-
[36416]cealed tape recorder to record these conversations. She named Amlash
[36417]as.one of these visitors. ;
[36419]* Desmond Fitzgerald
[36421]** In its 1967 report, the IG stated such a message had been sent
[36422]but could not be found. oo
[36426]On 3 December, Headquarters furnished JMWAVE some details on the
[36427]Anlash meeting including the fact that he had been promised "full u.S.
[36428]support if he is successful in a real coup against the Castro regime."
[36429]He was also promised arms which will have to be furnished through
[36430]JMWAVE's operations. a
[36432]A series of confusing cables passed between Headquarters and JMWAVE
[36433]on December 6, 7, and 8. Apparently, Headquarters first gave JMWAVE
[36434]authority to drop a cache of arms in Cuba. Then Headquarters called
[36435]off the operation. In DIR 87615 of 7 December, it is noted "major
[36436]top level Cuban/Caribbean policy review scheduled early next week which
[36437]should provide basis for decision." ; he
[36439]JMWAVE complained about the change in orders in a cable of 8
[36440]December. JMWAVE 8702 pointed out that one Headquarter's message
[36441]indicated December infiltration operations were approved by higher. author
[36442]ity but a second message indicated a scheduled operation should be de-
[36443]layed and not run in December.
[36445]Headquarters responded in DIR 87880. Headquarters procedure
[36446]was to present infiltration operation plans to "higher authority"
[36447]even though there is a reasonable chance operation may be postponed
[36448]or delayed as was case with the scheduled operation. "This procedure
[36449]will secure approval for the operation with only telephonic reconfirma-
[36450]tion needed when previously relaxed. operation finally mounted." Head-
[36451]quarters recommended delay until January after considering and equating
[36452]objectives against risk factors for Amlash and others. "Believe by
[36453]January, CIA should be in position better evaluate status of internal
[36454]assets."
[36456]By Pari 1914 of 13 December, Paris reported that Amlash left
[36457]Paris for Prague on November 27 but did not seek recontact with case
[36458]officer. DIR 90966 to JMWAVE of 23 December reported that Havana radio
[36459]on 2 December stated Amlash arrived Cuba on 1 December.
[36461]- The last document in Amlash's file for the period ending December
[36462]1963, is a long report on Amlash, but it does not contain information
[36463]relevant to the October-November activities. Nevertheless, in red pen
[36465]on the cover page appears: "Dec 1963 Not to leave this office on Nestor's
[36466](Sanchez) orders." followed by initials that appear to be ''GM."
[36468]One Later document in the Amlash file contains more information
[36469]about the November 22, 1963 meeting. That. document, a rough draft of
[36470]a biographical information sheet on Amlash (no final draft was found)
[36471]appears to have been preparediin 1966 at the time of Amlash's arrest
[36472]for a later plot against Castro. It states: "22 Nov. 63 Mr. Fitzgerald
[36473]and Mr. Sanchez assured subject that this Agency would give him every-
[36474]thing he needed. (telescopic sight, silencer, all the money he wanted).
[36475]The situation changed when Mr. Sanchez and Mr.- Fitzgerald left the meéet-
[36476]ing to discover that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Because
[36477]of this fact, plans with subject changed and it was decided that this
[36479]CIE.
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[36484]Agency could have no part in the assassination of a government leader
[36485](including Castro) and it-would not aid subject in his attempt. This
[36486]included the following. ."We would not furnish the silencer, nor scope
[36487]nor any money for direct assassination; furthermore, we would not lift
[36489]a finger to help subject escape from Cuba should he assassinate Castro."
[36491]The same document states this message was communicated to Amlash
[36492]in November 1964 by Mr. Sanchez. .
[36494]Despite this decision, the CIA in fact continued to assist Amlash
[36495]through a cut-out until Amlash's arrest in 1966. .
[36497]Later documents. on Amlash are also relevant to, the September-
[36498]November 1963 Amlash operation. Several such documents report informa-
[36499]tion received to the effect’ that Fidel Castro had long been aware of
[36500]Amlash's plots against him.: For example, Amlash's one time Cuban
[36501]mistress was believed to be working for Cuban intelligence and her
[36502]brother was known to be with Cuban intelligence. Pari 8242 to DIR
[36503]in December 1964 warns that Amlash's objective may be known to too
[36504]many Cubans. And, one CIA informant reported in. 1966 on one known
[36505]double agent of Cuban intelligence working for CIA and said the CIA's
[36506]Cuban operations had been penetrated at a high level by Cuban intel-
[36507]ligence. He identified this latter individual only as one of the Cuban
[36509]Ao er ~
[36511]exiles who was knowledgeable of a number of the most important opera-
[36512]tions. Nevertheless, Amlash's file contains nothing to indicate any
[36513]detailed analysis of these possible penetrations of. the CIA's Amlash
[36514]operation, although a cryptic handwritten note on at least one re-
[36516]port rejects the suggestion that Amlash was himself reporting to Castro.
[36518]One other document bears on the testimony Amlash's case officers
[36519]gave before the Select Committee to the effect that Amlash was given |
[36520]a poison pen for self-protection. That document reports that Amlash,
[36521]and other Cuban officials in Paris in 1963, were carrying pistols for
[36522]self-protection throughout their travel in Europe.
[36524]Finally, although the staff has not reviewed all possible CIA
[36526]files to determine what other operations Castro might have been re=
[36527]ferring to in his September 7 statement, the Amlash file indicates
[36528]that some coastal landings of supplies in August were 'the only other
[36529]CIA operations conducted against Cuba in this time period.
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[36543]Scenario for B-9
[36545]This doctrine is based on the proposition that
[36546]the decision hag been reached that the U.S. cannot live
[36547]with a Castro/communist regime in Cuba which continues
[36549]its present course of subversion and aggression in Latin
[36550]America and that we. are determined to take appropriate
[36551]action to put an end to these acts.
[36553]1. In the Venezuelan arms cache case now before
[36554]the OAS hold out for a “plank check" resolution, Settle
[36555]for a 13 vote majority regardless of Mexican, Brazilian,
[36556]or Chilean support. :
[36558]2. If, despite 1. above, OAS waters down resolu<
[36559]tion, vote against the watered-down version.
[36561]3. If "blank check” regolution passed, proceed
[36562]to 5. helow.
[36564]s If watered-down resolution passed over our
[36565]protest, announce publicly that OAS no longer represents
[36566]_ an adequate hemispheric safeguard and therefore that the
[36567]United States must unilaterally declare (see 5. below).
[36568]5, Declare publicly that further aggression and
[36569]subversion by Castro in Latin America would be intelerable
[36570]to the United States and, in the event of a new act on the
[36572]part of Castro of the nature and magnitude of the Venezuelan
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[36583]‘arms cache, the U.3. will take such measures against
[36584]the Castro/commnist regime in Cuba as it deems appro-
[36585]priate in the circunstaices.
[36586]6.. Explain carefully through diplomatic
[36587]channels te the Soviet Union that the United States
[36588]finds the present behavior of the Castro/communist
[36589]regime in Cuba intolerable, that Cuba's activities in
[36590]Venezuela prove this to'be so and that further acts
[36591]of violence of comparable danger or potential danger
[36592]on the part of Cuba will cause the U.S. to feel no
[36593]longer bound by any inhibitions against invasion or
[36594]_ other appropriate action. Urge the Soviet Union, in
[36595]a | order to reduce tensions ‘in the Caribbean and permit
[36596]the U.S. ‘to live peacefiiliy with the Castro/communist
[36597]regime in Cuba, to assure that Cuba is restrained
[36598]from repeating its dangerous practices. Make it plain
[36599]to the Soviet Union that further behavior of this sort
[36600]' by Castro will compel the U.S. to adopt drastic measures.
[36601]Point out to the Soviet [Union the physical vulnerability
[36602]of Cuba as well as the effect a failure to resolve the
[36603]Cuban problen will have jon the traditional policy which
[36604]the U. 8. has pursued of net exerting pressures upon the
[36605]‘Soviets! European satellites, Make it plain that the U.3.
[36606]desires peace in the caribbean and expects the Soviet
[36607]Union to achieve good benavior on the part of Castro.
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[36619]7. Decide upon the. type of action on the part
[36620]of Castro which would trigger action on the part of the
[36621]‘U.S. A rule of thumb could be: | such action as would
[36622]- represent serious, realized or potential, danger to the
[36623]stability of a Latin American atate. By this criterion
[36624]- 20 Castro-trained men and four tons of arms introduced
[36625]into northeast Brazil might not constitute a trigger,
[36626]whereas the same effort by Castro in a Central Anerican
[36627]country might. The judgment can be unilateral and
[36628]subjective on the part of the U.S. |
[36629]8. Formulate a program for a post-Castro Cuba
[36630]giving full weight to the real changes which have taken
[36631]a a, place there during the past five years and full recog-
[36632]| nition to the need for channeling Castro's unfinished
[36633]‘Yevolution into constructive lines. | |
[36634]The above scenario should not be commenced unless
[36635]it is recognized that, although these actions are
[36636]. prinarily designed to deter Castro from his present course,
[36637]he may very well persevere in his policy. Under such
[36638]circumstances the U.S., having publicly embarked on the
[36640]. doctrine, cannot then withdraw from the consequences.
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[36659]operations that are
[36661]Advantages
[36662]Probably feasible Ai a.
[36663]within OAS. Jo
[36664]. Surveillance com. ©
[36665]pletely legal and i
[36666]low noise level. | b.
[36667]4
[36668]a c.
[36669]: a.
[36671]Disadvantages
[36673]Toes not attack prine
[36674]cipal problem of
[36675]Castro's subversion
[36676]in Latin America.
[36678]Castro may return to
[36679]policy of non-shipment
[36680]of arms.
[36682]Probably will not result
[36683]in apprehending arms
[36684]carriers,
[36686]Expensive.
[36688]6. In addition to actions in 3., 4. and 5. above,
[36689]engage in soft sabotage operations by supporting
[36690]“autonomous” exile groups and continue to encourage
[36691]internal acts of sabotage by means of radio, press and
[36693]leaflet campaigns.
[36695]u
[36696]4
[36697]“4
[36699]Advantages
[36701]Some economic advan—| a.
[36702]tages and limited
[36704]encouragement to
[36706]anti-Castro senti- a
[36707]ment. b.
[36709]Deniability by U.S.
[36711]as U.S. soil and
[36713]personnel not used, '
[36715]Ce!
[36717]Disadvantages
[36719]Results commensurate
[36720]with limited skills of
[36721]exile groups,
[36723]Though fact of U.S.
[36724]support carefully
[36725]guarded, Castro will
[36726]blame U.S. anyway.
[36728]Some noise level.
[36730]7. In addition to actions in 3., 4., 5. and 6, above,
[36731]engage in soft sabotage operations employing CIA-controlled
[36732]Cuban groups against selected targets and at spaced
[36734]Antervals,
[36735]. Advantages 4
[36736]More professional a.
[36738]targetted and con=
[36740]Disadvantages
[36742]‘Constant danger of proo?
[36744]£U.S. involvement.
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[36755]Inprovement of morale b.
[36756]among internal anti=
[36758]Castro elements,
[36760]Bettar domestic poli-
[36762]tical position as
[36764]result of increased |
[36766]. noise level,
[36768]&. In addition to actions in 3,
[36769]above,
[36770]exile maritime raids and ai
[36772]U.3. territory.
[36774]Advantages
[36776]Improvement of exile | a.
[36778]morale and internal
[36779]resistance spirit.
[36781]B,
[36783]Watanzas power plant, S8Ge. emplo
[36785]Can't Live with Castro
[36787]Continued exacerbation
[36788]of Castro without chance
[36789]of delivering a | mortal
[36790]blow,
[36792]» Se, 5.2, G, and 7.
[36794]relax the present policy panning independent Cuban
[36795]¥ strikes against Cuba ron
[36797]Disadvantages
[36799]General ineffectiveness
[36800]against targets,
[36802]Obvious employment of
[36804]U.S. soil,
[36805]Air strikes however
[36807]ineffective begin to
[36808]arouse Soviet response.
[36810]]
[36811]i
[36813](It is assumed that ‘maximum intelligence colléetion
[36815]will be continued, )
[36817]1, Engage in ClA-controlled as well as "autonomous"
[36819]covert sabotage actions against larger economic impact
[36820]but higher risk targets such as Santi FL
[36822]only.
[36824]b,
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[36828]Advantages _
[36830]Thig essentially minimum a4,
[36831]Plan evolved June 1963,
[36832]but. never permitted to’
[36834]develop, having some bd.
[36835]chance to overthrow
[36836]Castro, ; Lo Ce
[36838]Measurable economic impact
[36839]and strong encouragement.
[36840]to anti-Castro elements.
[36842]antiago refinery,
[36843]ying Cuban personnel
[36845]Disadvantages
[36847]High risk of capture
[36848]and expesure, ~
[36850]High noise level.
[36852]Possibility of some
[36853]Soviet response,
[36855],
[36857]t
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[36876]2. Institute an economic denial program based upon
[36877]the establishment of a "Proclaimed List" under the Trading
[36878]with the Enemy Act together with all other feasible actions,
[36879]overt and covert, to deny to Cuba items critical to its
[36880]economy.
[36882]Advantages | Disadvantages
[36884]a, Considerable increase a. Multiplication of U.S.
[36885]in Cuba's difficulty in problems with major alliea
[36886]procuring key imports. including possible loss of
[36887]. allies’ support of U. s.
[36888]b,. U.S. cbviously “doing dollar,
[36890]something about Castro."
[36891]. b. Logs of trade.
[36893]ec. Will not assure overthrow
[36894]of Castro,
[36896]3, . Engage in sabotage operations as in B.1. above
[36898]-usging not only Cuban but other nationalities including
[36899]U.S. soldier <a fortune teams,
[36901]Advantages . Disadvantages
[36902]Improved operations and a. Technical deniability
[36903]greater economic damage. only and very high
[36905]noise level.
[36907]b. Will not assure over-
[36908]throw of Castro, .
[36910]- 4, Engage in violent large-scale non-deniable
[36911]sabotage activities, using U.S. service personnel where
[36912]necessary, such a@ mining Cuban harbors, attacking Cuban
[36913]shipping on the high seas and in the harbora using drone
[36914]surface craft, gneak air attacks on key installations, etc.
[36916]Advantages Disadvantages
[36918]‘Much more effective opera- a, No deniability.
[36919]tions and real. sconomice mo, -
[36920]damage, a b, Very high noise level,
[36922]ec, IP does not result -
[36923]rapidly in fall of
[36924]Castro, will result in
[36925]Bay of Pigs type of
[36926]eriticisma,
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[36946]7
[36948]5. .U.S. unilateral Close-in quarantine of Cuban .
[36949]Shipping, ostensibly for the purpose of preventing
[36950]export of arma to Latin America with the aim of humi-
[36952]liating and degrading Castro,
[36954]Advantages _ Disadvantages
[36955]covantages —Saevantages
[36957]proof of U.S. intention = 3, W427 probably not catch
[36958]to stop Castro, contraband, —
[36960]a b, If vigorously pursued
[36961]against all Cuban
[36962]shipping, hay provoke
[36963]Soviet response,
[36965]hi ¢. Very expensive without
[36966]i assuring fall of Castro,
[36968]6, Cutoff of all communications (except radio) into
[36969]and out of Guba including a Clandestine cutting of the
[36970]Jamaica cable, ; ; ;
[36972]Tote a rere
[36974]Advantages Disadvantages a
[36976]=I ES ges en CA OR
[36977]Will at least for a “a, Considerable outcry
[36978]period disrupt Cuba'g from Europe and Latin
[36979]diplomatie and economic America,
[36980]offensive and hinder '
[36981]Subversive efforts, b. Not fatal to Fidel,
[36983]oe 7, <A Presidential ublic declaration making Clear
[36984]that the Ws. considers the continued présence of the
[36985]Castro regime ag intolerable, barring any rapprochement
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[36989]with it and encouraging anti-Castro/communist dissident
[36990]elements within the Cuban armed forees to carry out a coup,
[36992]Se ee ert reper oe
[36994]Advantages a . / Disadvantages
[36995]Very effective inside. Cuba Must be followed by some
[36996]and encouraging to Latin form of effective action,
[36997]Anerica, oo .
[36999]~ as 3 a | ‘.
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[37014]chy i
[37016]Ned dom tad 3 a dee
[37018]engage in certain specified proscribed actions the
[37019]U.S. will in each instance destroy a major inatallation
[37020]inside Cuba (the “Rostow Doctrine”). _
[37022]Advantages : Disadvantages
[37023]‘a. May force Castro to fo ‘a, May provoke Soviet
[37024]stop his subversive ' response either before
[37025]actions. : or after retaliatory
[37026]action taken,
[37028]8
[37029]C . 8, An official declaration that should Castro __
[37031]bs Whether retaliation by
[37032]the U.9. is required): b, Difficulty in pinning
[37033]or not, it will have. down clear-cut viola-
[37034]profound effect on { tions by Castro,
[37035]. anti-Castro. morale, |
[37036]: u ce, Difficulty in avolding
[37037]i civilian casualties.
[37039]b, .
[37041]9, Announce publicly and inform the Soviet Union
[37042]through high Level diplomatic channels that furtner sub—
[37043]version by Castro in Latin America is intolerable and
[37044]that if Castro persists in his present course the United
[37045]States will no longer feel bound by any inhibitions
[37046]against invasion of Cuba and will take such measures ag
[37048]f it deems appropriate. — |; See Annex A, :
[37049]Advantages ~ - Disadvantages .
[37050]a. Proper basis for a. Difficulty of clear —
[37051]future actions. —. proof.
[37052]b. Possible deterrence : b. Possible Soviet:
[37054]of Castro, oo . reactions.
[37056]ec, Best method of mini-
[37057]mizing Soviet reaction.
[37059]10, After having established the appropriate basis
[37060]for such action, impose a total blockade of Cuba.
[37062]Advantages oe Disadvantages -
[37063]The most effective method Possible Soviet reactions.
[37065]of bringing down Castro.) i
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[37079], ll, After having established the appropriate basis
[37080]for such action, invade |Cuba.
[37082]Advantages a Disadvantages
[37083]Will bring down Castro. a. Possible Soviet
[37084]reaction,
[37086]sb, Probable heavy
[37087]casualties on both
[37088]gidea,
[37090]c, Increased difficulties
[37091]in post-Castro Cuba,
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[37127]and one mechanical functions necessary=to make it a going operation,  ¢§ >
[37128]{ Note? when you contact people by mail we recommend that only first class be | *
[37129]used and that no full name go on the return address on the outside of the enve lope, j a
[37131]You will’ notice how we work our!s here on the national devel. Many people will re
[37134]spond better with this type of protection against nutty neighbors and over curious ;
[37135]postmené ‘These may sound like “small things to yous but .I can assure you that we uel bores
[37136]gone through thi a thousand and more time the length and breadth of the country 4 | f tine
[37137]have learned a great deal over the last three years! through some bitter experiences
[37138]Yatarally, I would like to communicate with you 4 great deal more conceming Ute
[37140]yourself $e that we can get to know you and possibly be. of some assistence to yu et
[37141]as we get mora informations, alfa
[37143]we hope to hear from you very goon in this regard and ara looking forward te
[37144]a good working relationship for the future. Please: fell free to discuss this mates
[37146]quite thoroughly with me.
[37148]Fraternally,
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[37153]National Director,
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[37161]Accepting as valid the Attorney General's statement
[37162]that there ig no point in discussing courses of action
[37163]with respect to Cuba until the fundamental decision is
[37164]made as to whether or not it is possible for the United .
[37165]States to live with Castro, the following possible
[37166]courses of action are listed under the headings "Can
[37167]Live with Castro" and "Can't Live with Castro." Neither
[37168]of these headings is absolute; the courses of action
[37169]listed under each are indicative of degrees of accepta-
[37170]bility of the Castro regime or conversely the urgency
[37171]to overthrow it. a
[37175]COURSES OF ACTION
[37177]A. Can Live with Castro
[37179]i
[37182]rot : . “ .
[37183]a 21 February 1364
[37184]|
[37185]SPECTRUM OF COURSES OF ACTION WITH RESPECT TO CUBA
[37186]1. Negotiate a detente with Fidel looking towards
[37187]full recognition of his regime and unlinited trade
[37188]etween @ Qnite ates an ae @ negotiator of
[37189]the detente would endeavor to Secure from Castro. com
[37190]mitments not to engage in subversive activities in
[37191]Latin America and not to engage in polemics against
[37192]the United States. He would also endeavor to reduce
[37193]-- or eliminate, as a result of our concessions, Soviet
[37194]_ presence in Cuba and reduce the Cuban military machine
[37195]to one compatible with the requirements of a peaceful
[37196]Latin American island republic.
[37197]-- No covert activities would be undertaken and
[37198]intelligence operations would be of a nature compat~
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[37209]Advantages i
[37210]If the plan works, thia a.
[37211]would represent a satig-
[37212]factory solution of: the
[37213]Cuban problem, especially
[37214]if the Soviet presence
[37215]could thereby be eliminated,
[37217]b,
[37219]t
[37223]i
[37225]i
[37226]4
[37227]r
[37228]i
[37229]Hi
[37230]C
[37232]Disadvantages |
[37234]‘t
[37235]As plan almost sure not
[37236]to work, it would have grave
[37237]consequences throughout
[37238]Latin America as well as
[37239]serious domestic political
[37240]repercussions, —
[37242]Even if plan ultimately
[37243]successful there would —
[37244]be short term domestic
[37245]political losses and
[37246]short term weakening
[37247]U.S. position in Latin
[37248]Anerica,
[37250]2. Do nothing. No specific efforts will be made
[37251]to arranges a rapprochement with Pidel but we would.
[37252]remain receptive to any: advances made by him. No
[37253]covert operationa would’ be undertaken and intelligence
[37254]operations would not include black maritime operations
[37256]into Cuba,
[37258]It would be hoped that Fidel, recognizing
[37260]the good faith and good. will of the new Administration,
[37261]would make hig own advances leading towards a satis-
[37263]factory detente, -
[37265]. Advantages
[37267]4s in 1, above, Be
[37269]b,
[37271]Disadvantages
[37273]As in 1, above but less
[37274]short term domestic and
[37275]Latin American losses.
[37277]Even less chance of
[37278]Success. :
[37280]3, The present level of intelligence operations,
[37282]including U-d overflizghtsa would be continued. Black
[37283]maritime inflitrationg and exfiltrations of agents and
[37285]caches of intelligence gear would continue but no: action
[37287]operations would be conducted.
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[37291]We would be "keeping an
[37292]eye on" Fidel both in Cuba and abroad but would be making
[37293]no effort to hinder his internal development, oo
[37295]v
[37297]Maximum effort would be made to increase the
[37299]countersubversion capabilities of Fidel's foreign
[37300]target countries,
[37302]Advantages: Disadvantages
[37304]We would be maintaining &. Evidence of American
[37305]@ clean hands attitude | inaction would be .
[37306]towards Castro and our ||, domestically assailable,
[37307]policy would be more | would be quickly sensed
[37308]compatible with that of! OO by Latin American coun=
[37309]our major allies. if tries and would further
[37311]ee demoralize the exile
[37313]community,
[37315]; b, We would be in effect
[37316]of helping Castro to cone
[37317]iy solidate his position
[37318]4 at home and establish
[37319]| his image abroad.
[37321]4 In addition to) intelligence collection as in
[37322]' 3., we would engage in a "persuasive" economic denial
[37323]t program employing diplomatic efforts and the coopera
[37324]tion of U.S. corporations. Covert subtle sabotage
[37325]against selected Cuban /imports Ce. g- contamination of
[37326]lubricant additives). .
[37328]Advantages { Disadvantages
[37329]A carefully targetted = We will remain at odds with
[37330]denial program with effec-_ oux allies on Cuba trade.
[37331]tive subtle sabotage is capa=- We may delay but not prevent
[37333]ble of at least disrupting Castro's progress.
[37334]the timing of Castro's |.
[37335]economic efforta. It may
[37337]_have a measurable effect
[37338]on Cuba's one domestic |
[37339]source of economic strength -
[37340]sugar.
[37342]5. In addition to actions in 3, and 4, above,
[37343]engage in surveillance of suspected vessels or aircraft ~
[37344]earrying Cuban arms shipments by means o atera
[37346]| agreements with individual countries in Latin America,
[37348]' guch surveillance to be accomplished without the use of
[37350]force in international waters and the use of force in
[37352]“national - waters,
[37355]. |
[37357]ce “Copy”
[37358]| Lyndon B. ‘Johnson Library
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[37370]799 BROADWAY NEW YORK 3,N. ¥. ORegoa 48293
[37372]n, Uswald ‘
[37373]L/o Uag gazine Street . : _—
[37374]urleans, Louisiana .
[37376]boir Friends
[37379]Thank you for your prompt reply. Enclosed are your card and receipt, along
[37381]with our thanks! and welcome.
[37383]MUN RN atte cn
[37385]Your interest in helping to form an FPCC Chapter in New Orleans is gratedully meric
[37387]received. I snail try to give you some basic information now 50 that you nay have those
[37389]a vetter nicture of what ‘this entails. , Yo
[37391]" For one thing, I-am enclosing a copy of our Constitution and By-Laws for all 80 do F:
[37393]Chapters and Student Councils. You will note ‘that there is considerable autonony , thich i
[37395]for an organization our sizo. We try and let all Chapters operate.according to the een for
[37397]Local requirencnts. Naturally, there a minimul regulations whieh must be mote “re in
[37399]é AlL Chapters can-receive litercture in bulk at a discounted rate and resell at . aes our
[37400]the reteil nrice and use the proceeds for further Chapter activitiese credit is ° fevered ¢:
[37402]. extended and paynont is not requirad with the order. tre do expect payment within a for a
[37404]reasonable period so that we may continue our end of the operations
[37405]It wuld be hard to concieve of a chapter with as few mémbers as seem to exist
[37406]in the New Orleans area. I have just gone throuzh our files and find that Lousiana
[37407]scens somewhat restricted for fair Play activities.. Hlovever, with what ia there
[37408]perhaps you could build a latger group if a few people would undertake the disciplined
[37409]responsibility: of concrete organizational work, : :
[37410]Ye certainly are not at all adverse to a very small Chapter but certainly would
[37412]expect that, there would be at least trice the amount needed to conduct a legal executive
[37414]board for the Chapter. Should this be reasonable. we could readily issue a charter te a
[37416], - V.T. Lee Exhibit 3 on CO
[37418]Lee (VINCENT T.) ExBtsit No. 3
[37421]a
[37423]H
[37424]H
[37427]1 ot
[37428]{799 BROADWAY NEW YORK 3,N. Y. _Oftegoa 48293:
[37429]‘ a.
[37430]or .
[37432]& “ew vrleans Chapter of FPcC. In fact, we would ve very, very pleased to sce this
[37433]taxe place and would like to do everything possible to assist in bringing it about. : :
[37434]Te feel that the south-east is a very difficult area to work vecause of our lack of
[37435]contacts. Our only ‘southeastern Chapter right now is that in Tampa, Florida which
[37436]I originally organized before coming up to.work in the National Office.
[37438]I for one am convinced of the possibility of such an enterprise but know from
[37439]exnerience that it is quite a-problem and requires sane sacrifice on the part of
[37442]You mist realize that you will come under tremendous pressures with any attempt
[37444]to do FPCC work in that area and that you will not be able to operate in the manner
[37446]“and By-laws for all
[37447]-
[37449]. which is conventional here in the north-east. Even most of our big city Chapters have
[37450]iderable autonony ,
[37452]to the : been forced to abandon the idea of operating an office in public. The national office
[37453]ding to . . :
[37456]here In New York is the only one in the. country, today and the New York City Chapter
[37458]which must be mot.
[37460]2 ted vate and resell at ~ uses our office too so it is the only Chapter with an office. Most Chapters have dis-
[37462]Covered that it is easier to operate semi=-privately out of a hone and maintain a P.O,
[37465]sractivitics) credit is
[37466]“ox for ali mailings and public notices. (a P.O, Box is a must for any Chapter in the
[37468]9° @ ~at payment within a
[37469]organization to guarnatee the continued contact with the national even if an indivicimal
[37470]i
[37472]should move or drop out.)/ Ye do have a serious and often violent opposition and this
[37474].proceedure helps prevent many unnecessary incidents which frighten away prosoective
[37476]4 Opera wsONe
[37477]cee menbers as seem to exist
[37479]‘des and find that Lousiana
[37481]sever, with what is there supporters, I definitely would not recawnend an office, at least not one that will
[37483]could undertake the disciplined : be easily identifyable to the lunatic fringe in your community. Certainly, I would not
[37485]4
[37487]recommend that you engage in one at the very beginning but wait and see how you can \ a
[37488]1 Chapter but certainly would
[37490]operate in the comminity through several public experiences,
[37492]aded to conduct a legal exqoutive . We will ba able to gbve you sone assistence from here, but not much, It is up
[37494]Vad readily issue a charter fo |
[37497]te the leeal Chapters, to handie their om affoirs, You shaould have at least access
[37499]V.T, Lee Exhibit 3
[37501]LEE (VINCENT T.) Exuisit No. 38—Continued |
[37502]r No. 3 ‘
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[37507]OL9ETETE:PII0CG Go60s AH
[37511]Fiscal Year Collection . Post=Invasiont/
[37514]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[37515]Deputy Director (Plans)
[37516]Cost of Cuban Operations
[37517]Fiseal Years 1960 = 1964
[37522]. oh
[37525]Supporta/ Covertb/, Covert Actionc/
[37527]PA/Propd/ Parami litarye/
[37529]AL
[37533]1962 3,599,274 793 ,8248/ 6,444,098. - 2,975,635 4,176,000 17,988,831 ——-
[37534]1963 5,343,973 1,738,9778/ 5,786 ,797 5,038 , 830, . 3,899,830 21,808,457 —
[37535]1964 (esc.) 5,030,000 __1,767 ,500 3,520,000 9 317,5002/ 565 C00 20,290,000 as
[37536]Total ~~ 20,586 361 4 888 997 _____ 22,596 ,640 47 815,122 10,268,654 . - 106,155,774 _
[37537]SS a Ste ee OAD oe 815,122 10,268,654 106,
[37538]administrative , administrative
[37539]a/ Suppert: Includes staff salarios, purchase o€/equipment and supplies, rental of broperties and
[37540]facilities, ete,. a ; a
[37541]b/ Covert. Collection: Includes foreign intelligence collection operations and counter-intelligence
[37542]' operations involving the use of classic agent operations, ‘audio and other technical devices, use
[37543]of third-country intelligence and security services, refugee debriclings, ete.
[37544]e/ Covert Action: Includes the broad field of psychological warfare and paramilitary activities
[37545]encompassed by NSC 5412... : , a, .
[37546]af PA/Prop; Includes politieal action and propaganda operations involving the use of newspapers,
[37547]mapazines, other publications, radio, television, ete, : oe _
[37548]e/ _Taramilitary: Includes maritime operations, air operations, training, military hardware, the
[37549]formation, development, and dispatch of groups in paramilitary operations. ,
[37550]f£/ Brigade Support; Includes payments to dependents of Brigade 2506 wounded, missing, or killed in
[37551]action, medical and rehabilitation costs of released Brigade members, direct paynicnts to Brigade
[37552]members, ete. ; 7 : . ae -
[37553]gi Includes a total of $345,000 for the operation of the intcr-Apency Caribbean Admisstions-Canter at
[37554]Opa Locka, Florida: $95,000 for Fiscal year 1962 and $250,000 for fiscal year 1963,
[37557]Includes $5,000,000 for support of
[37559]autonomous Cuban groups under the covert program approved ‘in
[37560]June 1963,
[37562]“15 December 1963
[37564]oo
[37566]Copy. .
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[37578]. tron automatio . Not. af 4 Copies, Ssties oe
[37580]‘g and :
[37581]cation See TY bt ey o7.
[37583]REVIEW OF CURRENT PROGRAM OF Sis pape" nek
[37584]COVERT ACTION ACAINST CUBA
[37586]I. = The , Current Situation in Cuba
[37588]“During 1963 the situation tn Cuba steadily woreencd, Tha
[37589]economy continued its decline and Castro was not able te halt:
[37591]‘the dowmward curve. Hurricana Flora intensified Cuba's. economic
[37592]probileas. Disillusioment and apathy axong tha great majority
[37593]of ths population contimied to grow, and enthusiasm was ineweasingly |
[37594]restricted to a hard core. As popular susport waned, coercion and
[37596]. terror were exoloyed more and more to maintain the rezima's control.
[37598]. Castro's driva to convert Cuba into @ standard communist prototype .
[37599]eaused increasing disillusioment among his original followers.
[37600]is stature in the eyes of many Cubang and Latin dmericans suffered
[37601]with the xealicaticn, in the aftermath of the October missile existe, -
[37602]that Guba had ocen a Fawn aad Castro & cupa ef Soviet Folicy.
[37604]‘Bespite extraordinary efforts, Castra has not been abla. ta-
[37605]step acta of defiance against his regime. Guerrilla activity,
[37607]7 although scattered and encoordinated, continues. Spontaneous 9: |
[37608]. @et9 o£ sabotage are cocmon throustout the island. At ¢reat | on |
[37609]risk refugees still elude bis security forces and sca patrols “|
[37610]_ 9 esenpe from Cuba. In this atrosphera, externally ronnted | |
[37611]' waids against Cuban targets bave added te Gastro'’s sense of Oo
[37612]frustration and helped sustain hope among the many Cotans dise =. 2: : {
[37614]iilusioned with his regime. me
[37616]During 1963 Cuba's international situation seened alzost 2 age |
[37618]bad ag the domestic. Although chinks appeared in the wall, the 9°. 9°) |
[37619]U.S. policy of econemle and diplomatic Lsolation of Cuba vas . - |
[37620]holding ep fairly well. Soviet-Cuban relations clearly vere tinder -
[37622]stvaln, Castro scored no foreign polley victories to provide a =
[37623]mash needed psychological beoest. His major effert to stimulate |
[37624]Caatro-tyre armed uprisings throushouk Latin America failed te pre
[37625]disrupt the Venczuelon ‘elections of December and netted a potentially
[37626]embarrassing exposure that Cuba had shipped arms clandestinely to. 2
[37627]Venezuela, These internal and international trends and develop~- :).':.
[37629]- mente brought Cuba to a low point during 1963. og
[37631]_ Withia the past few veeks, hovaver, five developments have
[37632]given the Castro tegins an important politicalepsychological
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[37638]o os _aum and the potency of his doetrine. _
[37640]; “They are?
[37642]ae ‘The realization in the Cabsa Government that the
[37644]contizuing high sugar prices in the world market
[37646]|. have enabled Cuba to expand its comvertible
[37648]: gurteney reaerves f£rem about $20 million to |
[37649]* Almoat $100 million caring the year. i
[37651]The Sovlet-Cuban trade protocol for 1564, signed
[37652]: oo January 11, and the Khru shchevassurences of
[37654]° January 22, demonstrated @ Saviek willinoness to.
[37655]titintein its aid and trace program at a very
[37656]gubstantial level and to support Cuban surar
[37657]- prises. tha protocol calls for CubaneSovict trade
[37659]': to increase by 22 per ceat over 1963. Sovict
[37661]exports, 2bout 40 per cant of which will be on
[37663]i, exedit, will increase -by at least 20 per ConEe
[37665]‘The distinct possibility thaw the United States
[37666]policy of econenic and diplomatic isolation of Cuba.
[37667]may nok te able to stand in the face ef increasing |
[37669]' pressures fren Westera countries to expand trade
[37671]with Cuba, extending credit if necessary. ‘The
[37672]British bus deal, with payment spread aver a
[37673]five-year period, ts an icpertant political and
[37674]psychological tricmuph for Castres. its eresive
[37675]_ effects on potential ¢ Cuban suppliers ¢ aze > siraady
[37678]The recent rioting and violence da Panena, Za which
[37679]Castro had some haad, wlll injeet new revolutionary _
[37680]fervor into Cagtroite activities. In addition,
[37682]. Panama and its aftersath will take the play away
[37683]£rom the izeident o£ the Vengnuela arms cache.
[37685]gr The revolt in Zanzibar, in which Castra aleo had a
[37686]hand, is beend to impress Latin America as well ag
[37687]other unstable areag with the lencth of Fidel's
[37690]Ra eaten eects came ep NR a meer se ne,
[37692]4
[37693]1 Pde B shoe ae 0 up ere 2)
[37695]; 2 3 Bad
[37697]3 These recent developments have provided tha upward |
[37699]. political and psychological thrust Castro's regine badly
[37701]’ peeded, Ue now bas a firmer tase for bis repeated elatas
[37703]thar Cuba hag survived the £u11 brent ef a major Uaited Statee
[37704]' @effore-to destmy the Cuban revolution, clains peely to in-
[37706]‘. press many Latin Americans as well as Cubans. In acdition,.
[37708]", Gastse now haa the ressibility of producing some tangible evidence |
[37709]:.- that his regime can restore forward momentum in the econeny.
[37710]. Comsequently, the general position of the Castre regina is
[37711]gach iaproved over that of three or four months azo. ;
[37713]\ - 4 Id - Corvent U.S. Policy and
[37715]oe The altinate U.S. objective is the replacement of the
[37716]a present | goverment in Cuba by ons fully compatible with the
[37717]oe goals of of tha United States. .
[37719]* Te attain this objective, ve are txying, by exerting
[37720] gezioom pressure: through ali means short ‘of the use of mlli- *
[37721]; - " Samp £orce, to create a degree of disorganization, uncertainty _
[37722]“|. '.- end dizeonatent in Cuba which will (a) predispose elesents in
[37723]. «© ¢he military and other Power centers of the regine to bring
[37724]> gboat the overthrow of the Castre/Cexeumist group ead tha a
[37725]elimination of the Soviet prosence in Cuba; @) weal the. Lo
[37727]> Base for subversion in the Heonisphere; and (¢) essiat in
[37728]1. eeavincing the Soviets that they axe backing a Josiag and
[37729], Szpensive bovae. i
[37731]a Tn order to ereate the eptiam situatioa 4gst degeribed,
[37732]‘s. @@ have been carrying out a program of iategrated, cutmally —
[37733]-,, Wedntoreiag and matually depentent courses of actions ‘These
[37735]Denia at at froomnortd mesiets ard sot t2Es OF
[37736]| Euenly to Cora: we have Gadestaken a veriety
[37737]o£ overt and covert aetivitles degimncd to OOO,
[37738]_,, Baducs free-world trade with Cuba and, cspectally, - :
[37740]to deny Cuba access to ? commodd ties critical to oor ls
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[37744]econeny. Proposala fox expanding and intensi-
[37746]_ fying these sctivities are now being presented.
[37747]The execution of these additional measures depends
[37748]basically on a decision to incur the considerable
[37749]political costa and risks that are entailed,
[37751]THe raduetion o€ Fres-uorid shinsins in the Cabs
[37752]trade: We have maintained dipionatic pressure
[37753]on fzae-world nations to reduce and eventually
[37754]elininate their ships in the Cuba trade. We have
[37755]denied U.S. financed cargoes in U.S. porta to
[37756]ships in the Cuba trade (N34i1 220, as acended). i
[37757]rok _ To the game gencral end, wa have exployed existing =:
[37758]oe legislation, and tha threat of additional legise (2. .:
[37759]- Pr = Jatien, restricting econonte and aiiitary assiste 2.
[37760]“to. 0” ae te countries with ships in the Cuba trade,
[37761]t
[37763]“3. The reduetion of free world, and the cantaimment —
[37765]a eon ef Soviet Bloc, air services toe Cuba: We have
[37766]oe ) madntained ciploaatie pressures on free-world et
[37767]“™ |. we  eeuntries baving, or wishing to establish, air ae
[37768]ot,  .  gerydece te Cubs, Be are invoking resent legis- 9): >)
[37769]we istioa cenying assistance to countries whose
[37770]- i 0°. * ghips and alrerakt carry comodities to and froa
[37771]so foo 0) Gaba. In addition, we have exerted diplomatic
[37772]‘op pRassures on frceevorld countries to deny their —
[37773]2 re facilities to Soviet Bloc and Cubsa airlinea
[37774]oe '. gerving or trying to serve Cuha, o: harass suco
[37775]Bo airlines. Le
[37777]cea hy. The Ueteetton of Eroa-uorld dlolematie relations
[37778]ee with Cts: As cpportumity has offered, we have
[37779]cE esarted pressure to persuade iree-world countries -
[37781]to break diplometic relations with Cuba or te
[37782]bape prevent the establisiment:of such relations with
[37784]'S. Efforts to emdernine the Castra imare abroad nnd
[37785]to frustrate Cuban attersts ta erkancoe thar in: a3
[37786]pot By sema of diplemacie, prapagend2 and covert.
[37787]amiss ASUS we have endeavored to doronstrate the .
[37788]ae ' wegknasa, fallorea and berrayals of the Castro ve
[37789]es zegites
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[37808]ok.
[37810]“ae. t
[37812]eat ne nT ee ee OOS eee ee Coe a ory
[37814]Within Cosas Ags indleated above, all cur efforts
[37815]ta bring abeut Glisorganization, uncertzinty and
[37816]discontent in Cuba ara intended to weaken the
[37818]Cuban base for Castro/Comuniss subversion.
[37822]‘ltilateral: We have scught, through the CAS, cae
[37823]S obtain general Latin Aserican recognition
[37824]of the seriousness of the subversiva threat
[37826]‘and approval of reecemendations of measures 4°.
[37828]7 transfer of funds and propaganda, At the
[37830]Be:
[37831]. anée and exshange of intellizence, we have
[37832]worked to inoreva the intemal security
[37836]. bilateral moasures, we have continued to:
[37838]of ‘Cuba, to feoreve | cuz’ own eoucuaications ©
[37840]to limit travel te and from Cuba, and the
[37842]present tine, ve intend to expand and intensify _
[37844]this effort threugh actions to be taken by the - ~
[37846]O4S on the basis of the Verezuelan complaint : Sa
[37847]against Cuba. Eeyond the activities in the OAgd,
[37848]we have made special efforta with the Central (|:
[37850]sericdin countries and Pénama to have then
[37851]tighten controls om the activities and movement.
[37852]ef subversives, to develcp inland 2nd inshore
[37853]surveillance capabilities, te qreuta effective .
[37854]datellicence organivations ‘and to establish a
[37855]systea o£ intelligence exchange.
[37857]Bilateral: Tarcugh training, material assist-
[37859]eapabliicies of individsal esuntrics. ets ‘.
[37861]Untlareral: In addition to miltilateral and ~-
[37863]systems end to davelop cur owa intelligence.
[37864]exsabilities against subversive activities. a
[37866]ty
[37868]«ae & ow |
[37869]oy .
[37871]The recuction and evental elininetion of ths Lar
[37872]- military presence in Ou ;
[37874]_ | ne Ge
[37875]oe iv. We bave madatained diplomatic pressure ou the Soviets .
[37876]. to continue troepowithdrawals and we have warned the
[37877]- Seviets that we will not tolerate the use of Sevlet .
[37878]’ . forces im Cuba te suppress popular uprising. -
[37880]BD. The eoliection of inteltipercea ©
[37882]We have saintained and ieproved our overt and covert
[37883]collection of intelligence to meet rot only U.S.
[37884]strategic requirecents but also operational require-
[37885]ments comected with our covert activities within Cubase
[37886]We have maintained perfodic high-level overtlichrs wi
[37887]suppleaented on a few oceasions by lowelevel flights. +...
[37888]Ya baye warned the Soviets and Cubans y against inter= oo!
[37889]ference with these Flight se.
[37891]A dotatied disenssion of the covert alenents og our
[37892]| ~progsas eppsars in Section Til. ve
[37894]oo -: Ag stated above, 211 these courses of action Interact end
[37895]'.- @ee interdependent. For exampic, our covert ecomenica denial
[37896]'. @perations are designed to reinfores and he reinforced by our
[37897]ee ". gwert measures of economic pressure, oth types of activities |
[37898]aks (ovo @dvested against the econemy are intended to aggravate existing .
[37899]_ si ): @geommie difficultics.and thus te incresse the level of dis- - +
[37900]a _| | -. 3° affection not only in the porular mass bat particularly date
[37901]ae oS L.. Qhg power centers of the ragine, This disaffection cnhances
[37902]he os! quae ability to establish meaninsful contact with figures in :!
[37903]‘the military and other power centers and to develcp intelli- —
[37904]" gemee sources. Thia disaffecticn is in turn intensified by -
[37905]‘the evidence of vulnerability to outside attacks provided
[37906]by the success of covert sabotage, and harassment f cctivitiess
[37911]. we mgt
[37913]Lb ee
[37914]an
[37915]rae
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[37922]‘By the save token, the failure or elimination of one of these -
[37923]' gptusily supporting courses of action jeopardizes the others -
[37924]. aod thus compronizes the eatira pregrag.
[37926]Throuzh 1963, these courses of action wera having a meszure
[37927]able positive impact. Wa are now confronted, heuover, by @ ces
[37928]~geries of develesments, described in Section i, which threaten <;
[37929].(. @8 Qrrest of even reverse cur forward movement. The situation {
[37930]. .. dg particularly acute with respect to the maintenance of cur o
[37931]“.. @eenomic pressures. This fact makes this review of our covert |:
[37932]co operations porticularly timely and impertant. vas
[37934]yt
[37936]tH. Concept of the Coverk Action Prozray
[37938]ane The CIA covert action program aims at maintaining ail
[37939]feasible pressures on Cuba and at ereating and exploiting |
[37940]“:  gituations in Cuba caleulated' te stimulate dissident elements ~
[37941]*<s) within the regime, particularly in the armed forces, to carry -
[37942]| .  -@ut a coup. The objective of the coup would be to remove .
[37943]i. . the Cagtvo/Cemamists fren the regime and to eliminate the.
[37944]~ @n¢ire Soviet presence from Cuba, Recognizing that the U.S.
[37945]” 4s engeged in a trace against time with Cubs and ita Soviet
[37946]ally te obstruct tha cansalidation bE Castro‘’s regina at hens
[37947]and to prevent bia from achieving his ecbitions in Latin
[37948] Agewioa, we set the time france for this prograa at about
[37949].. @ightaen meaths from Jue 1963.
[37951]LR Aa originally conceived and approved in June 1963, the
[37952]‘: govern action proesram vas based on the assumption that U.S.
[37953]. . pelicy precludea a military invasion or a full blockade of
[37954]\.. Gaba which could lead to a confrontarion with the Soviet Union.
[37955]“-' Jn addition, the covert action prosraa was and is predicated |
[37956]. gm the thesis that its chance of success would denend heavily
[37957]wy oo 4 , @@ @ sustained and intensive effort in other sectors, parti«--
[37958]cyt “3° @ylarly the overt ecomonic denial and political isolation
[37959]way |. oo progress, by all elements of the United States Government.
[37960]*« Theg, the inter-sction of the. overt and covert effort against .
[37961]a | Cuba is regorded as a vital acd irreplaceable factor if there
[37962]we is to be any Rope of  BecompMiching the overall mission«’
[37964]x
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[37970]_ rT 3 ae
[37972]Ake ‘cLats integrated covert action progran consists of the
[37973]following intercependent courses of action:
[37975]Covert rollection of intellisence to meet U, Se
[37976]national security requiresents and to support
[37977]euxrrent and plamed covert operations. It should
[37978]” bea noted that clandestine maritime cperationa are
[37979]non an integral part of intelligence collection,
[37981]Pronagenda. netiana to stimulate loveris sim 1a
[37982]saborare and other forms of activa and passive
[37983]resistance against the regima.
[37985]Econenie denial actions in support of governacnt«
[37986]wide overt’ official U.S~ ecoronls isolation |
[37987]TASS e Se
[37989]zplot tation and. ft imlation of disx tfection te
[37991]Oe the ee to eacourese these elements to CaEEy out.
[37992]too) @ soup against the Castro/Commaist factions. CIA |
[37993]- . dg identifying, contacting and attempting to es-.
[37995]- tablish “channels of commenlcation with thesa indi-
[37997]Coneral eatateen and hovassment a3 an econenic weapen
[37998]asd es a stimulus to internal resistance. Asan |
[37999]momie weapon, it is deslened ts supplexent and
[38000]Buppert the overall econesic & denial progran by
[38001]damaging econoaicaily disportant installationa and to .
[38002]add to Castro's espcomie probless by fercing hin to
[38003]divert money, manpowes and resources from econente
[38004]to internal security activities, Ag a atimilus te a
[38005]resistance, sabotage and physical haressncnt operations :
[38006]provide visibla and dranatie evidence of the exisicnce | orn
[38007]and capability of organized resistance asainst the. 4
[38008]regina, To the extent that these operations are.
[38009]. geecessful, they also demonstrate toe the Cuban
[38010]“ population and elite groups the vulnerability oZ. the
[38011]regice to militant actica, It 1s recogaized that no
[38012]- gingle act of eabotage by itself can waterially affect woe
[38013]the econoay or atimslate Resistances, but we believe - tha me
[38014]: ' that,
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[38018]—=9 had ; . a - : aw anon
[38020]: thae the cumulative psycholocical and polirical :
[38021]... dmpact within Cuta of sustained sabotage cperations
[38022]_. ds a neceasary element in the * accomplisimeat ok our
[38023]- _fisaion, \ _
[38024]. Suonort ef extonencus mniti-Castre Cuben exile -
[38025]prong. These operations are intended to provide
[38026]_- @ deniable activity, a meana of supplementing | and
[38027]expanding our coyert capabllicy end a moans of taking i...
[38028]-' gdvantage of untapped political and resistance rescurses 3:
[38029]~. o£ the exile eorumity. The progran new includes two
[38030]_. @utenamous groups whose credibility as to autonony : ia
[38031]- strengthened by the facts thats
[38033]They are led by men whose promfnenca and status ~~ *
[38034]_ fa the Cuban exile community rakes plausible their -
[38035]access to fumds, equipment and manpower quite ine
[38036]cependent of the U.5.4
[38038]Poth are based in the Caribbess area outaide of
[38039]U.S. territory;
[38041]Both have naturel, willing allies in power in
[38042]severah Latin 4merican countries:
[38044]Beth are Cuban and exploy Cuban nationals ©
[38045]exclusively;
[38047]Every item of financtal and logistic suport bas -
[38049]teen beodled in a mamer as to provide masimm -
[38050]protection against Proat ef CIA oF U.S. partic -
[38053]The initial ain of thase operations is to , strengthen
[38054]the will to resist by inereasing the tomupe of cee -
[38056]version and sabotage lergely maintained tmtil now . *
[38057]by CIA; the evonteal sim is te take the fight i
[38058]{roa tha coastline to the interioz of Cuka,” 7
[38060]‘The disadveatage of our autoncucus’ cperations is.
[38061]that de is mceessary to accept a lower order of
[38063]- @&ficteney and cantral than would be considered.
[38065]_ asceptabls is Glass operations:
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[38075]cP of the foresoing interlocking courges of action, ites ae
[38076]“@ end (2) are in train and no policy problema resarding thea -
[38078]_ ee expected. Iten (3) is the cubject of ancrher paver which +
[38080]s is being presented for concurrent consideration. Item (4}
[38082]is the essence of cur program and is dependent for its success
[38084]- @@ the resiles of all other overt and covert scurses of action, °
[38086].° ZEoea (5) has been the subject of continual review since tha
[38088]inception of the program and is the primary subject of this
[38090]. paper, Consideration of Iten ($) (autoneseus operations) should — i
[38092]‘taka place with a discussion of eaboteze and harescnent (Item 3): ott
[38094]Thesa latter tro itens are discnased in more eetail in Section a
[38096]* below2.
[38098]i?
[38101]LW. The Sabotacen Procran in Retrospect
[38103]oT" Ge new of at least 30 acts of internat sabotage and 60.
[38104]. @emed clashes between Cuban security forces and insurgents.
[38105]since i June, Insurgency and sabotage inside Cubs are not |
[38106]pant of & coordinated program; they are acts of individual oe
[38107]ov) gow small group defiance, They ara stimulated by nany factors, Rag:
[38108].' @ad no one facter can ba assigned entire credit. Sabotage
[38109]facidents, which includes a hish proportion of sumar cane wt
[38110]birnings, heave a tendancy to be geasenal, a fast thich farther =.
[38111]': gbseures statistical analysis. Althsugh it is troe that from ;*i:
[38112]> @ low point in sabotage incidents during the summer of 1963
[38113]... . there wos a heavy increase duxing the fall (following the me
[38114]“AN commencement of our raiding activity), we believe that clezrer ~.
[38115]_.. fight is shed cn the effects of our harassment eresram by the
[38117]o ; - atatements of witnesses of varying points of view within Cuba -
[38118]mae and by the acts of the Cuban. regime itself:
[38120]| Since 1 Aveust 1953, five sabotage raids have been.
[38121]oe attenpted. ‘ALL were successful.« There was substantial ‘
[38122]‘| damage to the target: all participants were aafely recoversd -
[38124]', God the Plausible “deniabiiity of the operations | wag noe
[38126]. wey
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[38133]a fo we . . te a _ . tes
[38135]oli fhe ask of proof of U.S. involvement did not prevent
[38137]. Gastro from charging the CLA with respensibility. indeed,
[38139]‘.,, @bmost every act of defiance against his regime has been
[38140]“ @eedited to the Agency. — . ES
[38142]“ter }- Gastre's exotional reactions to real or romered security
[38143]>. ¢heears point up his seute sensitivity to intemsal resistance |
[38144]-. gad gaggests that ba feels hia regime to be far from secure
[38145]_, sem external threats. The Soviet Unien, om the other hand, _
[38146]hag reasted to the sabotage raids with auch lees vigor and _
[38147]'. blastes than we anticipated. Theis only sharp reaction,
[38148]! gpide from the expected propaganda, followed a sories of air
[38149]co pwadds during d4ugust and Septeaber sponsered by Cuban ealle
[38150]:" geeuns operating from Florida and for which the Apency had
[38151]- . go responsibility. They did no real damace, bik they did
[38152],. - demaustrate that the Cuban air defense systen eould be =
[38153](2 2 Qeeached, and they added substantially to the psychological =
[38154]-  . domactr of our Eieat two raids. .—. _ ”
[38156]i) be Agency sabotage raids produced some very specific
[38157]-vesults. For exrple, in the political and psycuological
[38158]realm, Canadia ‘cbassador Kidd reported in late August
[38160]that the incidents that conth, Including the Santa Lucia
[38161]. gad Castiida eperationa "disturbed the feeling of eccasoli- a
[38162]o. dation and trenasilicy which the Castro regime had succeeded - -
[38163]“- S$ exearing in recent months." He reported that tae Cubana
[38164]ware uncertain and epprehensive over the possibility of 4 |
[38165]US, campaim of subversion and sabotage because of Cuba's
[38166]i. walmerebility to such a campaign cue te the "low ebb" of
[38167]“.. gathusiasa for the Castro regime among the people. Ha alas
[38168]2 gtated that the raids had "raised hepes of those opposed 7
[38169]c+ tg the regime" and that “dispirited opposition had received
[38170]oo" g 2llip ta its morale.” ee nn
[38172]fag . :
[38173]/ LF Ya a September report, Ambassador Kidd stated that — aoe
[38174]*y ghe “moat iosediate effect of such attacks is tha peychor: —
[38175]logical blow doait to the stability of the Castro genime:
[38176]“.» with consequent boost in opnecitione’ Low morale and
[38177] dejection in the countorrevolutionary ranke of some meaths
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[38181]en ete AIA ADA ASAE RARE TA Ne searasdhoRinsnnietit A,
[38182]a \ oe thee A apne tm enema ent SORTS Ut ve eke reteset eee st amtoecametams
[38184]BB Bk. AY
[38188]agc, be said, “has “given 1 way to a wave of eptinisa that the
[38189]Baximom Leader ig no longer necessarily a permment fizture.”
[38190]. Ambassador Kidd also reported that Che Guevarre hed indicated -
[38191]’. eoncern that the raida would divert such reeded manpower ;
[38192]i" oad resources from the economic te the military sectore |
[38194]"7 Qp § September a reliable clandestine sourca in Cuba
[38196]7 reported that the reaction of tha average san on the street in -
[38197]“* Pavana to the newa of the attacks on Casiica aad Santa Lucia .
[38198]oc “yeg “aatoumding." Prier to the Cuban goverment’s amnounce=
[38199]oae-went of the raids, the average man on the street seemed
[38201]‘.*. gpathetic, depressed and in a lew state of morale. Following»
[38202]thea amiouncenont theis mood changed to one of pleasure, joys
[38203]. ow aed koge,. The observations of this source were xeinioreed
[38204]-. by the statements of Cuban refugees who erxived in the U.S.
[38206]Shortly after the Cuban anecuncement of the raids.
[38208]A former Major in the Cubah ebel Azay vho broke with
[38209]N- Gagtrs reported after his exfiltration from Cusa in January
[38210]tiv» 2964 that the 23 Decenber Siguanea raid which cestroyed a :
[38211]v:. YeG petrol boat was a great beost to morale among disaffected ©
[38212]_ Gabans.
[38214]_° & Cabana Lawyer with extendive sonmnections among ‘Cuban
[38215]: gowermment officials end in the Western ecummity in Eavana
[38216]' haa just reported that the "morale effects of the recent
[38217] sabotags operations ase good among antieresima scgnents of
[38218]the populaci .Sech acts, to them, indicate that the outside -
[38219]” wortd is not forseatting the Cuban people, that the fight cone
[38221]. tinves and sugzests 8 possible prelude to some military action
[38223]against Castes. Opposite morale effects are noted among the
[38225]- / proeregime seguents who have tended. te remain notably wer -
[38227]so _ Shout the regice eiter successful sabotage operations.
[38229]we * A Cuban comamiestions technician euployed. by the Cuba:
[38230]; goversaent reported on i Jansary that tha “aet of sabotage |
[38231]‘ against the rorpeda boat on the Isle of Pinea was very succcsa~«
[38233], fal in. the opinion of the pesple and,fo# sure, public opinion ©
[38234], needed soacthing to stimulate it, What happened st La Sigusaned
[38236]had sach an effects. Although at tines failures ere euffered <
[38237]| whish depress the people, ‘Shey are  exxtous for scathing to
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[38243]2 The raids also had an {pact on the Cuban military and
[38245]* geeurity forces. Certain areas and ports were placed oa
[38246]..gpeci21 alert status. Forees are often rushed to cofensive
[38247]positions; ground, naval, and air patrols are fr cquently
[38249]'» Jaumehed or intensificds and defensive positicns in industrial
[38250]we acricultuxal couplezes arg maimed to maet tha real orl
[38251]dmagined threats. The raidg interfere not only with xoutine |
[38252]military training bet also with wor’ on cenatruction and
[38253] egetoultural projects waich use military personnel, Baal
[38255]a Castro personally investigated the Siguanea incicent.
[38257]> In addition, Castro expanded bis esast watching natwork
[38258]from 46-observation posts at the end of June to 103 as the. :
[38259]“ @nd of October. Those posts hava radie ceammications and are ©
[38261]‘0. Wammed by 10 to 25 full-tine personnel. Ina furtner effort = 2}
[38263]’| tg seal Caba’s shores, at least 10 surface search radar stations :
[38265]ov have been established since Tunes + and wa have evidence tentae |
[38267]° ., thvely identifying 7 more. - 7
[38269]\ wi ‘ Gastro! 3 foar of rising disatdenca end tnsurpeney ia a
[38270]> g@€leeted in hig initlarion of a wide varlety of repressive 025).
[38271]." ggasuves. Many are bound to have adverse political, psychow = 0.
[38272]_§ logical or economic repercussiona inside Cuba, Ee has con- Boe
[38273]-. @geted alzest constant anti-insurgent operations involving
[38274]“s gmfts of up to 2,500 nen. Air, naval and greund forces.
[38275]'. » ‘@lementa have been put on special alert, either cn a local
[38276]-" or island-wics basis, on at least 35 occasions curing 1963
[38277]“.- gg @ result of remored ex actual maritine operations. Resi~
[38278]‘: denta dn areas of guerrilla activitk& have been forcibly - aa
[38279]., g@located, and restrictions have been placed ca transportation a
[38280].! 4a suspect areas. In Avcust 1963 a new internal ac curity | .
[38281]_£oree, the Lucha Ceatra Tivaras, waa forced to atteaxpt ta ca!
[38282]2, Cope with off-shora raiding parties. In September new training |
[38283]“. egurses wera initiated for command cadxves of “popular defense —
[38284]waits,” Tha purpose of these anita is to organize the people .
[38285]‘"-.- te defend thenselves against enemy attack and to protest
[38286]ns industrial centera and instalistiona freq sabotage.
[38288]; aa Despite. these measures to increase Cuba's defonstve
[38289]__sapability againat raids, we have continued to improve car
[38290]oe own infiltration techniques and ars still able to penetrate |
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[38294]onthe.
[38296]7" Qaba’s defences with good regnlarity. Raiding operations of |
[38297]5.7) this gort, however, aluays present risk and we mist assume
[38298], that captured Cuban agents will ravesl U.S, ixvolvement as thay
[38299]“have dena in the past “giving Castro the cppertimity te make =.
[38300]‘woelfercus procaganda against U.S. aggression. In addition, .
[38301]‘although Ehrushchey has not mide Agency harassing raids the ©
[38302]' gubject of special protest (as he did in the case of the 2
[38303]exile ais raids in August and Septenber), a mijoxr step-up
[38304]a 4m the frequency or scale as, for dastance, an attack an
[38305]>) 4a ajer economic target such as Matanzas or Santiago, might ©
[38306]bring about a Soviat | protest. The chance of a 6 Physical
[38307]+". persifaticn by Castro as, for lastanca, an attack upon @
[38308]-:, U.3- installation in the Caribbean, although umliciy,
[38309]8 cannot ba entirely discounted.
[38311]"Te casera 4s to be brought down without overt military |
[38313]“ aetion the main effort will Lave to come from inside Cuba,
[38315]We believa that there is sufiicient evidence to show that
[38317]" gabotage raids, despite the risk dmvolved, are @ necessary -
[38319]. @tizalas to internal action which will need to be continued fox.
[38321]‘s+ @ eonsiderable period to permit Che tempo of intornal acts te oe _
[38322]BE reach 2 a. point where it can becoma self-sustained. hea
[38324]zof Cessation of Saborace Onerations | .
[38326]wif. Because of the visible and drematic nature of pabotage
[38327]*"" gperations, their cessation vould acon be noted by all ©
[38328]_.? guterested parties to and ebservers of U.S/Cuhen relations. =
[38329]<l.> The cessation of/| thesa raids, however, disclaizsble by the . -
[38330]i oo S$, the raids theaselvas aay be, would probably ts inter- .
[38331]"i" peated in Latin déceries and certainly inside Guba 43 @ svitck
[38332]if gf.U.S. polley from one of discreet encouragement end support |
[38333]: ’ o€ aggressive action against the Gastro retine to ons of
[38334]| “eoexistence’ and eventual accommodation with a Casero/Coxumist -
[38335]“ Gaba. bithout constant and visible signs of offensive actica -
[38336]+ @gainst Coba, 4 weakening presesa would be set in motion oc
[38337]. Whdeh eculd well! lead the countries of Latin America to draw. .
[38338]. their own conclusicns from thesa indicators and cabark on
[38339]3, @ecommedation policies of their owns Those goverrments in -
[38340]"Papin dmeries already threatened by Castroites in their own
[38341]+) *gojatries arollikely t to be ‘sabjectad | to even stronger: comestis :
[38342]oon _ Pressures ee Be
[38343]a rr ae - _ As this -
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[38347]—: 5° As this belief spreads, Western European and ather free
[38348]“° world countries eager to trace with Cuba will cone to feel
[38349]~ thar they may safely ignore and evade, to an even greater
[38350]extent than they do now, U.S. appeals for the econcate and -
[38351]‘political isolation of Cuba. 4n important additional econonie
[38352]» effect would be the relesse into normal econonle activity of -
[38353]“ ampower and fumds cow ticd up in cefense against raids, | ,
[38355]i 1 Binally, aad cost important, this development in tine ~.
[38356]os ¢ bound to have a severe demoralizing effect on the internal -
[38357]_" gegsistance ogoinst Castro. The Cuban exila comunity and ~
[38358]“1: particularly its milicane and articulate elexents would be oo
[38359]“. @eutely senaitive to & cessation of raids and can ba expected -
[38360]ty react voclferously, Judging from past experience, wa “
[38361]0s: gam expect a new surge of donsstic political agitation on
[38362]"ge part of the numerous Cuban exiles who have political
[38363]eonnections within the U.S. ote _
[38365]ogm=| os, En the event that it ts decided to temsinate CIA]
[38366]e ) @embrolled sabotage and harassment operations, it cannot be ..
[38367]8+. @gmmed that the autonomous groups, dasplte the greater -
[38368]\. geniabiliry of their actisns, could take over entirely the
[38369]. gdssion of furnishing proof of visible resistance to Castra
[38370]| @ad inspizing internal elements to take the personal risks
[38371]- @ecessary to ast a coup in retion, Autonomous groups ars
[38372]*. gs yot ongested in their capability to ccaduct exccessEul
[38373]sabotage and harassment cperationa om a sustained basis. 3
[38374]- fe 4s umlikely that im tha next months the autonoosus groups - 7
[38375]“: will develop the abiiity to match GlA-controlled operations,
[38376]‘ either in quantity or quality. ; m a oo
[38378]-X€ sabotage end harassxent operations were to be terminated:
[38379]. £ox the autonomous groups as well as for the Agency, its a
[38380]. @uppart to the autenosous groups must alse be terninated
[38381]’ goupletely as otherwise wa would not be in a position to ~
[38382]: ’ desuxe that they would discontinue raids and satetcge. .
[38383]> Sach termination would comsound the effects of ths cessation ~~:
[38385]_. 5!” 9f gue own vaids,| particularly in those areas in the Caribbean »
[38387]0 ub 3 hese the autenomua groups have been mast active. a
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[38399]4) Za tha event it is decided to abandon tha core of tha
[38400]covert program, wa will be obliged te fall back on essentially
[38401]@vert courses of action which are already operating bur which
[38402]‘gan be refined and intensified, provided the political risks
[38403]- @ad costs ara judged acceptable and we receive adequate be
[38404]i seeperation from our allies.
[38406]iw Ay: Agtion acainst free-vworld 4 econonte ties with cabs :
[38407]an cm / I .
[38408]“1S. Besause ef the recent erosion of cur efforts in this
[38409]“1, g@etor and the clear intention of tha Cubans and Soviets to
[38410]:2.- expend Cuban economics relations with the free world, a serics
[38411]- o£ recommendations to intensify this course of action has been
[38412]‘made and fs now being presented. The basic issues in the a
[38413]_. Weeommendations is our ability and willingness to incur the
[38414]* political costs and risks that heightened economic pressure —
[38415]would imvolve. Even if the recommendations are adopted
[38416]=o. eompletely, we could have no real assurence that our attempts
[38417]. .. @9 exrtail Cuban-free world economie ties would be successful.
[38418]|.) On tha other hand, if the actions and commitreents included
[38419].. dm the recommendations are not adopted, it 48 a near certainty |.
[38420]. that; under present circumstances, our economic pressuree will -
[38421]-. . be reduced to ineficctivenesa. In any cage, it cust ba Clearly
[38422]_. |. geeognized that no amount of economle pressure can by itselé |
[38423]; _.. brdag coun the Castro goverment, at least aa long as the
[38424]' . % Soviets era prepared to subsidize the Cuban economy; The
[38425]"1. qpteLinent and disruption of Cuban economics ties with the
[38426]< £xeae@ world can only contribute, and then only over time, to :
[38427]“the creation of the optimm situation we ara trying to develop,
[38428]* Zhe effectiveness of this contribution would be at lcast
[38429]: y. gharplhy dapaired by tha reloxation of the pressure created
[38430]i - by ecvert operations. Reyend these considerations, va can
[38431]i; sever have asourance that a forelgn governcent ecoperating
[38432]7. 9a tha economic program will not pall out and virtually
[38433]“i gellapae the prograa, Entire or even isportant reliance. __
[38434]gm econenic pressure as a substitute for the covert progra@n ~
[38435]i. qagaid be to deliver the fate of cur policy inte the uncertain “
[38436]bands of governments which do not share our convictions and .
[38437]~ sense of Beloreey wita respect we Cubs." oo.
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[38441]| ncaa od S adedie: ea etioetiahieere: 6 ash endedae
[38443]ao Ass a secult of the Venezuelan charsea azatnat Cube arising obhs
[38444]* ¢rom the axzs cache discovery, we hava been considering a series | we
[38445]+. ef measures which we would seek in the OAS. It shculd be noted “Hh
[38446]that the atcosphere for 015 adoption of strong measures bas
[38447]Aaveriarated aa @ result. o£ the Panamanian crisis. =.
[38449]7 The measures which we have been studying includet ? -
[38451]. A bresk a diplomatic relations
[38453]“the principal effects of this measure, which would eo
[38454]mean ‘action by five countries, including frazil,
[38455]+". Ghile and Mexico, would de to provide rather dramatis
[38457]' . gvicenca of Castro's isolation and te deny the Cuban -
[38458].  wogima subversive facilities offered by its remaining
[38459]'” misstons in Latin Acerica. The measure would meet
[38460]"Reavy vesiatance <zon Fs » Chile and particularly. -
[38462]co .
[38463]a
[38465]oe 4
[38466]3.
[38468]a
[38470]uo 26 A bres! th economic relations
[38472]‘+: Although this woald have little practical effect = -
[38473]- economically, - -4e would bave some utility oz a means
[38474]| g& moral preacure on other éxce-world ecuntzies
[38475]‘trading with Cubae >
[38477]A breats | air and. eneface commnication
[38479]Over bine this would lesd te a xeduction in the
[38480]Cuban ability to rove subversives to and from Latin
[38481]fnerica. It would be aseful as @ means of moral
[38482]pressure oa other free-vorld countries having, or ,
[38483]wishing to establish, ale services with Cuba. Gn
[38484]tha negative side it would mean the temporary loss | ::
[38485]‘o£ intelligence Facilities and would have en adverse
[38487]- effect oa Cuban exile morale by closing en existing
[38489]* escape reute, for F parsons insids Cubas, - 4. :
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[38497]The single most danasing OAs action tae Castre would be
[38498]am authorization for the usa of force in connection -
[38499]with the movement of arms and men. The chances of
[38500]getting a politically acceptable uajority for such
[38501]' @B@ wag estimated to be less than even before the
[38502]' events in Panaua and the prospects have dimindshed .
[38503]since then. Such OAS astica would almost certaialy
[38504]. dvamatize the Cuban issue donestically and inter
[38505]“. pationally. At the present tims, it appears that the .
[38506]surveillance systea which might be authorized by che
[38507]CAS would involve the use of force only in the '
[38508]x: terxbitorial watera of the comtrica for which the
[38509].. Offending shipments ars destined. Thus the question
[38510]5. of O83 authorization for the use of force ca the .
[38511]; high: seas wha not arises
[38513]Tals would be a pro form for action, vith oly Minted
[38514]- psychological force. oo
[38516]| Peaffireation of vreviows CAS menasnres
[38517], €ubenebased and suoportad subyer
[38519]_ This would be of value es a means of reinforcing a ~
[38520]_ - geneva effort in this sector (see ¢ below). Ie ia,
[38521]_ however, a purely éafensive EIGGOMED « a
[38523]" Im sum, this series of OAS measures would certainly be
[38524]helpful. and would constituts isportent miltilateral progress.
[38525]The actions, Bowevers are prinarily Peyenological and - oo
[38527]. defensive. a
[38529]ae Se Zncreased efforts a2; ainot. subversion
[38530]Ge _ can probably Anerease and expand cur multilateral,
[38531]: _b&lareral and unilateral efforts ts increasa the ability of
[38532]‘8 Latin America to resist subversien. Such efforts are purely -
[38534]- Gefensive and estornal te Gaba. “Ea eertain results can be...
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[38540]| givanteed, In any case, if the Cuban base were to be’
[38542]“” @trengthened by the relaxation of covert pressures or by
[38543]“oy, the weakening of economic pressures, we will be fighting
[38544]. tigginst increasing odds,
[38546]1, taajoz policy declarations on Cuba by the President and other |
[38547]‘ genlor officers of the Government, The efficacy of such
[38549]: | @aly if there were credible evidence that our words wera.
[38550]‘)> being accompanied by succeasful actions in other sectors.
[38552]_*. weaker than the prosent program, Accordingly, the prospects
[38554]'. £oe attaining our ultimate objective of replacing the Castro/ = --
[38555]', Seommmist regine, which have been by no means certain even :
[38556]the present covert program, especially 1£ accompanied by 2
[38558]a pressure, would zaisa in sharp terns the question of the nead -
[38560]Op AYE Recommendation.
[38562]eg
[38564]ay
[38566]| De Increased psychological and erosazanda efforts
[38567]"Ge eon intensify cur measures ia this sector, ineluding 7
[38569]efforta la entirely dependent, however, upon tha substance
[38570]behind then. A propaganda offensive would be productive
[38572]"The vestdeal program set out above 43 substantisliy —
[38574]under the present program, would be very measurably diminished -
[38575]wncer the residual prozxrem, The elimination of the core of ‘
[38577]rejection or failure of the proposed ezpanded maans of econcale
[38578]te extaine the two basic alternatives: the use of force or
[38580]: i ‘That the covert progran ba continued in at least its ~
[38581]ytusent tora acd scope. ee
[38583]- SECRET-SEnsrtrve
[38585]pyre he
[38586]an
[38588]Soe pM
[38589]cages :
[38591]Lyndon Be
[38593]"rca hema ate F  aaeasieh itemise one nate ian toes < sreertetiney cpanitnt ‘names « eerie
[38595]On 183 August the POL storage tanks at casiida, Lag
[38596]Villas Province were attacked using 4.2 mortars,
[38598]' One tank car waa destroyed and one sterage tank —
[38599]. breached, causing considerable fire damage, ; :
[38601]On 19 Aceust the culphuric acid plant at Santa
[38602]Lacla, Pinar dol Rio Province was attacked, ;
[38603]There was considerable fire damags and fuel
[38605]lines were broken, We have reports that -
[38606]found its way inte the turbines 2a 4 resale bos
[38607]_ of the xaid causing additional damage. bo
[38609]On 30 September a lusbermill at Bahia ds
[38610]‘Maryavi, Orienta Province, a minor installation .
[38611]* o£ local econemic importance, was 70 pes cant
[38613]destroyed by a raiding party.
[38615]‘Oa 22 October an underwater demolition teen
[38616]~- ateaeked @ dredze in the harbor at Le Irabela;,. .
[38617]Las Villas Province. The vessel was suck. -
[38619]Ga 23 December an underwater demolition team
[38620]: attacked 4 Cuban naval Pe6 patrel boat in tha
[38621]. Siguenea, Isle of Pinss, naval base. The .
[38622]° patrol bear was seriously damaged and may hays -
[38623]|. gunk. Three Cuban naval personnel were killed
[38624]a aad 13 others injured in the explosion: :
[38626]t
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[38633]tive.” Second question: What dees t he American gov-
[38634]ernment expect to gain from the blockade? Is the
[38635]economic isolation of Cuba a punishment or a political
[38638]Kennedy’s reply: “Are you suggesting that the polit-
[38640]ical effectiveness of the blockade is uncertain {sinile]?
[38641]You will see when you go to Cuba whether it is or not.
[38642]In any case, we can’t let Communist subversion win:in
[38643]-the other Latin American countries. Two dikes are
[38644]needed to contain Soviet expansion: the blockade on
[38645]the one hand, a tremendous effort toward progress on
[38646]the other. This is the problem in a nutshell. Both. battle
[38647]are equally difficult.” (Silerice.) Then, a last comment:
[38648]“The continuation of the blockade depends on the con-
[38649]tinuation of subversive activities.”
[38651]The interview was over. I did not real ly wish to sug-
[38652]gest anything, since | had never been to Cuba and,
[38653]on the other hand, I had heard from all sides tales of
[38654]the privations the Cuban people were suffering owing
[38655]to their isolated economic situation. But I could see
[38656]plainly that John Kennedy had doubts, and was is seeking
[38657]away out.
[38659]That same evening I recounted this conversation in
[38660]detail to an American colleague — an intimate friend of
[38661]President Kennedy, through 1 whom I had obtained this
[38662]interview ~and to the editor of The New Republic.
[38663]Both my confidants, who knew the President a thou-
[38664]sand times better than I, agreed that John F, Kennedy
[38665]had never before expressed hires so specifically and
[38666]with such feeling on his ‘understanding of the first
[38667]phase of the Castro revolution. They hesitated to draw
[38668]any political conclusions from his remarks. However,
[38670]they were not surprised at Kennedy's ‘invitation to.
[38672]come and see him again when I returned from Cuba.
[38673]In effect, John Kennedy displayed two basic charac-
[38674]teristics in his exercise of power: first, an overwhelming
[38675]degree of empiricism and realism. A man without a
[38676]particular doctrine, he reacted decisiv ‘ely to events, and
[38677]only to events. Nothing but the shock of collision with
[38678]a problem was sufficient to make him come to a deci-
[38679]sion, and because of this, his decisions were unpredic-
[38680]table. At that point he had a consuming need for
[38681]information, and this need had increased a great deal
[38682]since experience had taught him not to rely solely on
[38683]official channels.
[38684]. After this, I went to Havana.
[38686]Night Session
[38688]In the “Pearl of the Aapaill Sie ram-perfumed and
[38689]steéped i in triumphant sensuality,” as Cuba is described
[38690]in those American tourist folders still ‘ying. about in
[38691]the hotels of Havana, I spent three closely packed and
[38692]intensive weeks, but thinking all along that T. would
[38693], never get to meet with Fidel Castro. T talked with farm-
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[38697]Ape
[38699]ers, writers and painters, militants and counter-revo-
[38700]lutionaries, ministers and ambassades — but Fidel re-
[38701]mained inaccessible. [had been warned: he was snowed
[38702]under with work; as a result of the hurricane, the
[38703]Cuban government } had been obliged to revise its whole
[38704]planning brogram; and then, above all, he no longer
[38705]had any desire to receive any journalists, least of all
[38706]Western newsmen. I had practically given up. hope
[38707]when, on the evening at oad thought was £9 be my
[38708]depar lane links
[38709]Baca alice apnea ave he net day
[38710]after all), Fidel came to my hotel. He had heard of my
[38711]interview with ent. We went up to my
[38712]room at to in 7 evening and did not leave until 4 in
[38713]the following morning. Here, [ shall only recount that
[38714]part of that interview which constiiutes a reply to John
[38715]F. Kennedy's remarks.
[38717]Fidel listened with devouring and passionate inter-
[38718]est: he pulled at his beard, yanked his parachutist’s
[38719]beret dawn-over his eyes, adjusted his maqui tunic, all
[38720]the while making me the target of a thousand mialiciows
[38721]sparks cast by his deep-sunk, lively eyes. At one point
[38722]I felt as though I were playing the role of that partner
[38723]with whom he had as strong a desire to confer as to do
[38724]battle; as though T myself were in a small way that
[38725]intimate enemy in the White House whom Khrushchev
[38726]described to Fidel as someone with whom “it is pos+
[38727]sible to talk.” Three times he had me repeat certain re-
[38728]marks, particularly those in which Kennedy expressed
[38729]his criticism of the Batista regime, those in which Ken-
[38730]nedy showed his impatience with the comments attrib-
[38731]uted to General. de Gaulle, and lastly those in which
[38732]Kennedy accused Fidel of having almost caused a war
[38733]fatal to all humanity.
[38735]When I stopped ta Iking, I expected an explosion.
[38737]‘Instead, I was treated to a lengthy silence and, at-the
[38739]end of that silence, to a calm, composed, often humor-
[38740]ous, always thoughtful exposition. I don’t know wheth-
[38741]er Fidel has changed, or whether these cartoons. cari-
[38742]caturing him as a ranting madman which appear in the
[38743]Western press perhaps correspond to’a Former reality.
[38744]T only know that at no time during the two complete
[38745]days I spent with him (and during which a great deal
[38746]happened), did Castro abandon his composure and
[38747]poise. Here too, I shall let Castro speak for himself,
[38748]reserving only the possibility of correcting certain judg-
[38749]ments on these two political leaders based on my own
[38750]experiences in Cuba. : _
[38752]I believe Kennedy is sincere,” Fidel declared. “I
[38753]also believe that today the expression of itis sincerity
[38754]could have’ political significance. I'll explain what |
[38755]mean. | haven't forgotten that Kennedy centered bis
[38756]electoral compalgnagainst Nixapoaethe theme. of
[38757]firmness toward Cuba. I have not forgotten the Ma-
[38758]chiavellian tactics and the equivucation, the attempts at
[38760]17
[38763]Nop tee eet
[38765]. The tiew Repusuie
[38767]ressures, the blackmail, the organiza ion
[38768]of a counter-revolution, the bloc , above ew ry
[38769]thing, all the. sane vere imposed
[38770]befgre, long. :. etext and alibi of
[38771]Communisyy. But I feel that he inherited a difficult
[38772]situation; I don’t think a President of the United States
[38774]kade an
[38776]is ever really free, and I believe Kennedy is at present.
[38778]feeling the impact of this lack of freedom. I also believe
[38779]he now understands the extent to which he has been
[38780]misled, especially, for example, on Cuban reaction at
[38781]the time of the attempted Bay of Pigs invasion. I Lalso
[38783]- tpink bois a realists he is now registering that it Tim
[38785]possible to simply wave a wand and cause us, and the
[38787]explosive situation throughout Latin America, to dis-
[38789]appear.
[38791]Why the Missiles Were Installed
[38793]“There is one point on which I want to give you new
[38794]information. right away. I have refrained from doing
[38795]this until now; but teday an attempt is being made to
[38796]frighten all mankind by propagating the idea that
[38797]Cuba, and in particular I, might provoke a nuclear war,
[38798]so I feel the world should know the true story of the
[38799]missile emplacement.
[38801]“Six months before these missiles wer
[38802]Cuba, we had receive
[38804]if information
[38806]wartling us that anew invasion of the islind was being
[38807]repareds under Sonne gape the Central Intelligence
[38809]‘Agenc yore humiliated by the —
[38811]Bay_of Pigs disaster wat by hewiectacle of eine
[38812]ridiculed in the eyes of the wold and beroied in US
[38813]goxernment circles. We also knew that the Pentagon
[38814]was vesting the CIA preparations with the mantle of
[38816]its authority, but we bad doubts as to the attitude of
[38817]theDresident. There were those among our informants
[38818]wh ttl to alert the President
[38820]and give bi aus onicer rto arre ce
[38821]piabatations. Then one day Khrechchev" s son-in-law,
[38822]Adzhubei, came to pay us a visit before going on to
[38823]Washington at the invitation of Kennedy's associates.
[38824]Immediately upon arriving in Washington, Adzhubei
[38825]had been received by the American Chief Excculive,
[38826]and their talk centered particularly on Cuba’ A week
[38828]after this interview, we received in Havana a copy of -
[38830]Adzhubei’s report to Khrushchev. It was this report
[38831]which triggered the whole situation.
[38833]“What did Kennedy say to Adzhubei? Now listen to
[38835]this carefully, for it is very important: he had
[38837]— the new situation in Cubg
[38839]was intolerable for the Unit-
[38841]-~wed States, that the American government /iutd decided
[38842]it would wottolerate it any Tonger,; ye had said that
[38844]peaceful coexistence was seriously compromised by the
[38845]fact that ‘Soviet influences’ in Cuba altered the balance
[38846]of strength, was destroying the equilibrium agreed
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[38852]said that -
[38854]upon and [at this point Castra emphasized his state-
[38855]ment by pronouncing each systayle separately] Ken-
[38856]nedy reminded the Russians that the United States
[38857]had not intervened in Hungary, which was obviously
[38858]a way of demanding Russian non-intervention in the
[38860]event of a possible invasion. To be sure, the actual word
[38861]“invasion. was not mentioned aad SdZbubelwatathe
[38863]time, lacking any back t
[38864]draw the same conslusions as we did. But when we
[38866]communicated to Khrushchev all our previous informa-
[38867]tion, the Russians too began to interpret the Kennedy-
[38868]Adzhubei conversation as we saw it and they went to
[38870]the source of our information. By the end of a month,
[38872]the Russian and Cuban governments bad reached athe’
[38874]definite conviction that an invasion mj lace
[38875]from one.m his is the truth.
[38877]“What was to be done? How could we prevent the
[38878]invasion? We found that Khrushchev was concerned
[38879]about the same things that were worrying us. He asked
[38880]us what we wanted. We replied: do wligtever is needed
[38881]to convince the United Stake eabdbimands 110
[38882]wit. And how
[38883]to realize this objective? All our thinking and discus-
[38884]sions revolved around this point. We thought of a
[38885]proclamation, an alliance, conventional military aid.
[38886]The Russians explained to us that their concern was
[38887]twofold: first, they wanted to save the Cuban revolu- -
[38888]tion (in ‘other words, their socialist honor inthe eyes
[38889]of the world), and at the same time they wished to
[38890]avoid a world conflict. They reasoned that if conven-
[38891]tional military aid was the extent of their assistance,
[38892]the United States might not hesitate to instigate awn
[38893]invasion, in which case Russia would retaliate and this *
[38894]would inevitably touch off a world war.”
[38896]At this point I interrupted to ask how Cubs could
[38897]have been absolutely certain of Soviet intervention.
[38898]After all, | said, Stalin certainly “let down” Markos,
[38899]the Chief of the Greek Communist Resistance, because
[38900]such help would have conflicted with prevailing zones
[38902]is He same as 4
[38904]* of influence.
[38906]“I knew,” Castro replied, “but the two situations
[38907]cannot b® compared.” Then he continued:
[38909]“Russia was much too deeply committed to us. More-
[38910]over, since then we have had every proof of the im-
[38911]mense. solidarity of the Soviet people and its leaders.
[38912]You can see for yourself how clearly this solidarity is
[38913]manifest here. Then there is. something else, specifi-
[38914]cally apropos of Stalin. When I was in the USSR and
[38915]others, outside Russia, were reproaching Khrushchev
[38916]for taking a more conciliatory stand#han Stalin toward
[38917]the capitalists, Khrushchev confided to me several ex-
[38918]amples, which I will not repeat to you, illustrating the
[38919]prudence, even the abdication of Stalin. He told me-
[38920]and I believe him= that Stalin would never have em-
[38921]placed missiles in Cuba.
[38923]e
[38925]HY _50955 Doct
[38927]“Tt is true that it was said then by other factions
[38928]that. the real reason for installing the missiles was
[38929]because certain.internal problems were driving the Rus-
[38930]sians to use us to provoke the United States. | am here
[38931]to tell you that the Russians didn’t want and do not
[38932]today want war. One only need visit them on their
[38933]home territory, watch them at wark, share their eco-
[38934]nomic concerns, admire their intense efforts to raise the
[38935]workers’ standard of living, to understand right away
[38936]that they are far, very far, From any idea of prevacation
[38937]or domination. However, Soviet Russia was confronted
[38938]by two alternatives: an absolutely inevitable war (be-
[38939]cause of their commitments and their position in. the
[38940]socialist world), if the Cuban revolution was attacked:
[38941]or the risk of a war if the United States, refusing to
[38942]retreat before the missiles, would not give up the at-
[38943]tempt to destroy Cuba. They chose socialist solidarity
[38944]and the risk of war. . ; So
[38946]“Under these circumstances, how could we Cubans
[38947]have refused to share the risks taken to save us? It
[38948]was, in the final analysis, a question of honor, don’t
[38950]you agree? Don’t you believe that honor plavs a role
[38952]in politics? You think we are romantics, don’t yeu?
[38953]Perhaps we are. And why not? In any event, we are
[38954]militants. In a word, then, we agreed to the emplace-
[38955]ment of the missiles. And I might add here that for us
[38956]Cubans it didn’t really make so much difference
[38957]whether we died by conventional! bombing or a hydro-
[38958]gen bomb. Nevertheless, we werd gambling with
[38959]the peace of the world. The United States was the one
[38960]ta jeopardize the peace of mankind by using the threat
[38961]of war to stifle revolutions. .
[38963]“And so in June, 1962, my brother Raoul and Che
[38964]Guevara went to Moscow to discuss ways and means
[38965]of installing the missiles. The convoy arrived by sea in
[38967]three weeks. The United States was able to find out
[38969]that weapons were being shipped in, of course; but it
[38970]took them two months to discover that these weapons
[38971]were guided missiles. Two months... in other words,
[38972]longer than we had calculated. Because, of course, we
[38973]were seeking intimidation, not aggression,”
[38975]“Alliance for Progress
[38977]The conversation now turned to the Alliance for rog-
[38978]ress. “In a way," Castro said, “it was a good idea, it
[38979]marked progress of a sort. Even if it can be said that it
[38980]was overdue, timid, conceived on the spur of the
[38981]moment, under constraint... despite all that Pam will-
[38983]”. ing to“@ereethat the idea in-reeh *nstituted an effort
[38985]to adapt to the extraordinarily rapid course of events in
[38986]Latin-America. Such as, for example, what we read in
[38987]“he papers this morning - did you see the news? That
[38989]Argentina is nationalizing the oil industry? The Argen-
[38991]tine government! Do you realize what that means? This
[38993]“Dtcemorr sy, 1065
[38995]will cause more commotion on the wep York stock
[38996]exchange than Castroism! The Catholic and military,
[38997]conservatives of Argentina, the Factions’ most closely
[38998]linked with’ American interests! There is talk of na-
[38999]tianaligatian of industries there, of agrarian reform
[39000]there... well and good! If the Alliance for Progress
[39001]provokes these developments, then it’s not doing so.
[39002]badly; all these things are consonant with the aspira-
[39003]tions of the people. | can look back to the days of
[39004]Eisenhower, or rather of Nixon, and recall the furore
[39005]which broke out when the United States and Cuba to-
[39006]gether decreed an agrarian reform which was to apply,
[39007]mark this well, only to landowners of over 200,000
[39008]hectares! Yes, 200,000! Yet the reaction of the trusts
[39009]was terrible at that time. Nowadays, in the other Latin
[39010]American countries, because the Communist banner is
[39011]used as a bogeyman, the reaction of the American
[39013]. trusts is shrewder. They are going to choose strawmen, -
[39015]so as to rule indirectly, But there will be difficulties.
[39016]“This is: why Kennedy's. good ideas aren't going, to
[39017]Vield any results. Tt is very easy to understand and at
[39019]“this point he surely is aware of this because, as I told
[39021]you, he is a realist. For years and vears American policy
[39022]~ not the government, but the trusts and the Pentagon
[39023]— has supported the Latin American oligarchies. All the
[39024]prestige, the dollars, and the power was held by a class
[39025]which Kennedy himself has described in speaking of
[39026]Batista, Suddenly a President arrives on the scene who
[39027]tries to support the interests of another class (which
[39029]‘has no access to any of the levers of power) ta give the
[39031]various Latin American countries the impression that
[39032]the United Sates no longer stands behind the dictators,
[39033]and so there is no more need.to start Castro-type revo-
[39034]lutions. What happens then? The trusts see that their
[39035]interests are being a little compromised (just barely,
[39036]but still compromised); the Pentagon thinks the strate-
[39037]gic bases are in danger; the powerful oligarchies in all
[39038]the Latin American countries alert their American
[39039]friends; they sabotage the new policv; and in short,
[39040]Kennedy has everyone against him. The few liberal or
[39041]allegedly liberal presidents who were chosen as instru-
[39043]ments of the new policy are swept aut of office, like
[39045]Bosch in Santo Domingo, or else they are transformed.
[39046]Betancourt, for example, was not a Batista; now he
[39047]has become one.
[39049]“In view of all these things, how can the American
[39050]government seriously believe that Cuban subversion is
[39051]at the root of explosions taking place all over the |
[39052]South American continent? In Venezuela, fos,example,
[39053]are you familiar with the situation there? DoYou think
[39054]the Venezuelans need us to understand what's going
[39055]on in their country? Do you think we don’t have
[39056]enough problems of our own? Right now I ask only
[39057]one thing: Leave us in peace to better our country’s .
[39058]economic situation, to put our planning into effect, to
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[39064]fate Nks.
[39066]This doesn’t mean we
[39067]do not feel solidarity toward nations that are struggling
[39068]and suffering, like the Venezuelan people. But it is up
[39069]to those nations to decide what they want, and if they
[39070]choose other regimes than ours, this i isn’t our business.”
[39072]educate our youny comparicres,
[39074]“We Have Always Lived with Danger”
[39076]T asked Fidel where is this all going to end? How will
[39077]the situation develop? Even if the United States uses
[39078]against you what you call the alibi of Communism, it
[39079]still remains free thet you have chosen Commiuaisiy,
[39080]that your economy and your security depend on the
[39081]Soviet Union, and that even if you have no ulterior mo-
[39082]tives in this association, still the United States considers
[39083]that you are part of an international strategy, that you
[39084]constitute a Soviet base in a world where peace depends
[39085]on mutual respect for a tacit division of zones of in-
[39086]fluence.
[39088]“T don’t want to discuss our ties with the Soviet
[39089]Union,” Fidel Castro cut me short. “I find this indecent.
[39090]We have none but feelings of Fraternity and profound,
[39091]total gratitude toward the USSR. The Russians are
[39092]making extraordinary efforts on our behalf, efforts
[39093]which sometimes cost theni dear. But we have our own
[39094]policies which are perhaps not always the same (we
[39095]have proved this!) as those of the USSR. I refuse to
[39096]dwell on this point, because asking me to say that Tam
[39097]not a pawn on the Soviet chessttemglis something like
[39098]asking a woman to shout atoud in the public square
[39099]that she is not a prostitute.
[39101]“TE the United States, sees the problem as you have
[39102]posed it, then you are right, there is no way out. But
[39103]who is the loser in the last analysis? They have tried
[39104]everything against us, everything, absolutely every-
[39105]thing, and we are still alive and getting better day by
[39106]day; we are still standing upright, and we plan. to cele-
[39107]brate with greater festivities than usual, on January 1,
[39108]1964, the fifth anniver sary of the Cuban Revolution!
[39109]The United States’ policy of isolating us economically
[39110]is less effective with each passing day; we are increas-
[39111]ing our trade with the rest of the world. Even with
[39112]Spain! We have just sold a shipment of 300,000 tons
[39113]of sugar to the Spaniards. Far from’ discouraging us,
[39114]the blockade is maintaining the revolutionary atinas-
[39115]phere we need to stiffen the country’s backbone. Are we
[39116]in danger? We have always lived with danger, To say
[39117]nothing of the fact that you have no idea how many
[39118]friends one discovers in the world when one is perse-
[39119]cuted wd by. the United Staeapam' ste truly, for all these
[39120]reasons, we are not suppli iants, we ask nothing. Vi
[39121]tell you something else: since the rupture and the
[39122]blockade, we have forgotten the United States. We feel
[39123]neither hatred nor resentment any more, we simply
[39124]don’t think about the US. When I think of the problems
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[39130]which dip slomatic relations with the United States
[39131]would pose! The Swiss Ambassador presenting the
[39132]Us at present. I prefer to do business with him than
[39134]wvith 200 members of an Embassy among whom surely
[39136]some spies would be spotted.
[39138]“T have just talked to you as a Cuban revolutionary.
[39139]But I should also speak to you as a peace lover, and
[39140]from this viewpoint [ believe the United States is too
[39141]important a country not to have an influence on world
[39142]peace. IT cannot help hoping, therefore, that a leader
[39143]will come to the fore in North America (why not Ken-
[39144]nedy, there are things in his favor!), who will be willing
[39145]to brave unpopularity, fight the trusts, tell the truth
[39146]and, most important, let the various nations act-as
[39147]they see fit. I ask nothing: neither dollars, nor assist-
[39148]ance, nor diplomats, nor bankers, nor military men --
[39149]nothing but peace, and ta be accepted as we are! We
[39150]are socialists, the United States is a capitalist nation,
[39151]the Latin. American countries will choose what they
[39152]want. All the same, at a time when the United States
[39153]is selling wheat to the Russians, Cahada is trading with
[39154]China, de Gaulle respects Ben Bella, why should it be”
[39155]impossible to make the Americans understand that_.
[39156]socialism leads, not to hostility toward them, but to co-
[39157]existence? Why am | not Tito or Sekou Touré? Because
[39158]the Russians have never done us any injury such as
[39159]the Yugoslavians and the Guineans have complained
[39160]of in the past, and because the Americans have never
[39161]given us any of the benefits for which these two nations
[39162]congratulate themselves today.
[39164]“As to this matter of fearing Soviet intentions in
[39165]Latin America through Cuba’s. subversive activitie.,
[39166]this is just attributing to: others one’s own desire to
[39168]- dominate. You said yourself just a little while ago tha:
[39170]the Russians have had enough of their Cuban involve-
[39171]ment. Economically this is obvious. This is why, speak-
[39172]ing from a military viewpoint, it is better not to force
[39173]nations to turn to the Russians for help. Really, it
[39174]seems to me that 4 man like Kennedy is capable of
[39175]secing that it is not in the United States’ interest to
[39176]pursue a policy, which can lead only to a stalemate. So
[39177]far as we are concerned, everything can be restored to
[39178]normalcy on the basis of mutual respect of sover-
[39179]cipnty.”
[39181]In conclusion, Fidel Castro said to me: “Since you
[39182]are going to see Kennedy again, be an emissary of ©
[39183]peace, despite everything. 1 want to make myself clear:
[39184][ don’t want anything, | don’t expect anything, and
[39185]as a revolutionary the present situation does not dis-
[39186]please me. But.as a man and as a statesmen, it is my
[39187]duty to indicate what the bases for understanding
[39190]All this was said two days before President Ken-
[39191]nedy’ s death,
[39193]CUSA: The New Republic and Jean Daniel
[39196]© ouacy 19, 1964 @ | . @
[39198]: pT pb PE So —_
[39199]MEMO te bodnstira,, ad to COS from LEGAT; Subjects OSWALD - tt is to be noted thd’ ths shite Ge
[39200]House was. in receipt! of a paper entitled "Possible Psychological Motivations in the Assussina- — Kg.
[39202]tion of Pres. Kennedy" written by Jose|I. LASAGA of Miami, Fle. This “Speeutay iva Pagtr attempted
[39203]o establish that the @ motivation of-OSWALD in ths assay eFination of Pras Kiwas Pidei <« SASERO
[39205]for s CASTRO agent and that OSWALD was motivated during his trip to Mex xL betwee: Se
[39206]-2.0et 63. .The paper alleged that OSWALD held ean extended tnterview with the
[39207]“Mexi whom he met in a restaurent on the outskirts of Mexi from which resta
[39208]later left iin the Amb's car for a ‘talkiwithout being overheard,/ Sou: ¥
[39209]wags alleged to be Salvador DIAZ Verson. This individusl wes interviewed ot
[39210]that while in Mexi 29-29 Nov 63 attending the Congress of the Intemetional
[39211]Professional Newspaper Organizations, he was at.the offices of the newopar
[39212]-the night of 25:Nov 6%. ‘There he learned through the Mexi press that the.
[39213]one Silvio ‘DURAN; thet DURAN allegedly'had OSWALD as 9 guest in her, house onda
[39214]to Mexis.and that DURAN placed OSWALD in contact with officials of che Cub SE ie Ee
[39215]DIAZ Versori went. on to claim that he wes @ told by Dr. BORRELL Noverrss, er aed
[39216]” news pape rman. employed py Excelsior, that OSWALD ond DURAN on the day followers CSWAT rdyak
[39217]. din Mexd went toa restaurant called the Cabello Blanco or possibly ths Cabalio Baye where they
[39218]-mat ani! officialiof the Cub. Emb, DIAZ Verson claimed that he kmows novhing obeut OSJaLD and
[39219]the Cub. official deaying | the . restaurant together in a car, / It was uscerval Shai Dro!
[39220]‘Eduardo PORRELL: ‘Naverro, ° ‘a former Cuban Cabinet Minister who on ocernsicn wri 2
[39221]’ articles for the Mexi City Excelsior, currently _ rasides at 1503 Howero £t., Avart 4 Fas
[39222]enna es Navarro[was. interviewed - Fon. LL: Jan.at.whigh time. he furnished the follow ‘ing 3 rubOrc .
[39223]. Salvador. DIAZ Verson! was ji Mex as claimed; and discussed OSWALD vith _PORELL ond other Cuban
[39224]exiles! DIAZ Verson! also visited BORRELL in BORHELL's home, / BORRSLL did not + ell the story
[39225]|. credited to him! by DIAZ Verson concerning the visit to.a Mexi City vestaurauy ALD ond
[39227], 8lviai DURAN. BORRELL had never moe story or any similar stow befor, =
[39229]of no meeting between OSWALD and Cub Enb officials other then the meetings vi ion oesurrsd . ee
[39231]Tec 2HeT OESESPSEPLIOG cos60c AH
[39235]i .o ‘thej time OSWALD visited the Cub Conlin Mexi. f BORRELL knew nothing concerning any visit -- - praees
[39236]“by OSWALD et ‘the hone of DURAN. / + 4a to be noted that DURAN was aaes tions aby Mevt as tthorities —_ rer
[39238]. . . t ! ; .
[39240]- Lennon jan mo os ym nt san omen ent no i nthe ae Sian nee ; peed
[39242]— on. 33 Nov 63. avs ‘that. time “she confirmed that OSWALD visited: tie ‘Cub Em “tn ‘Moxt dur ing the) i .
[39243]_ ‘ime he wad in Mexi! from 27 Sept to 2 Oot, | She: Talleged that tha purpose of his visits to the A_
[39245]“ry. Cuban Enb was to obtain & Cuban visa. [She stated she had given him a telephone numbsr to use |
[39246]: in calling: her concerning the visa, but denied that he had over visited in her hom. / On; -
[39247]ge ‘27 Jan 64 A source.!., advised thet he; had been| unable to locate 4 Cabillo Blano restaurant i
[39248]dn Mexi, but etated jthere is a Caballo; Bayo restaurant located on outskirts, of Mexi,) 3
[39249]i. “Source went to restaurant, shoved | ‘photos of former Cub Con Euse bio AZCUE Lopez; who was in «!
[39250]~ charge of Cub Con'at the: time of OSWALD'’s visit!there, of Cub: Amb HERNANDEZ Armas, of Silvia |. oS
[39251]“QURAN ‘and of OSWALD {to employees of restaurant and conducted extensive ‘interviews of these | - as
[39252]saig@mpLoyses lS iniwas ‘Unable to find anyone among the employees, who could | yFecoll any of the bt
[39253]rsoni a he tourant. | ve Ie te } C |
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[39271]BOX 4: MISCELLANEOUS
[39273]From the listing of files contained, nothing appeared likely
[39275]to contain relevant information. Therefore, the files in this
[39276]box were not examined. ;
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[39292]MC CONE PAPERS |
[39293]NOVEMBER 24, 1961 - DECEMBER 31, 1964
[39294]REFERENCES TO CUBA ASSASSINATIONS,
[39295]WARREN COMMISSION MATTERS _
[39297]BOX 2: MEMORANDA FOR RECORD
[39299]File: November 29, 1961 - April 5, 1962
[39301]December 5, 1961, Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy -
[39302]“Lansdale operation” mentioned in paragraph 12.
[39304]December 27, 1961, Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy ~
[39305]"Lansdale operation" mentioned in paragraph 5.
[39307]January 22, 1962, “Meeting with Attorney General Kennedy ~
[39308]Reference to a "Lansdale paper" to be discussed by the 5412
[39309]Committee plus Robert Kennedy.
[39311]April 5, 1962, Memos on Special group Mongoose Project -
[39312]General discussion of possible military. intervention in Cuba.
[39314]File: April 7, 1962 - August 21, 1962
[39316](40) - April 10, 1962, phone call to Bundy explaining that
[39317]Attorney General upset that Perrez was apparently telling
[39318]people in Miami about his five meetings with the Attorney
[39319]General. Cardona was to meet JFK that day.
[39321](61) ~ July 3, 1962, meeting with Attorney General ~-
[39322]included a short discussion of "Reuther plan" for labor
[39323]operations apparently: ‘in Italy.
[39325](86) - August 21, 1962, “meeting with Rush, McNamara, Alexis
[39326]Johnson, the Attorney General, Director of Central Intelligence,
[39327]General Taylor, Lemnitzer, and M. Bundy ~ a general discussion
[39328]of Cuban situation and possible courses of action if MRBM's
[39330]are discovered in Cuba:
[39332]"McNamara expressed strong feélings’
[39333]that we should take every possible aggressive
[39334]action in the fields of intelligence, sabo-
[39335]tage and guerrilla warfare, utilizing Cubans
[39337]‘and do such other things as might be indi-
[39339]cated to divide the Castro regime."
[39340](emphasis added)
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[39353]File: August 24, 1962 - December: 31, 1962
[39355](97) - October 5, 1962, Meeting between DCI and Bundy:
[39356]McCone wanted to be more activist toward Cuba - Bundy was
[39357]more conservative. (No specifics)
[39359](118) - December 17, 1962, DCI memo re Earman Report on
[39360]Cuba [MISSING]
[39362][Apparently not a meeting or phone.call]
[39364](Comments on Report on Missile Crisis, according to Elder)
[39366](119) ~ December 18, 1962, DCI memo re Earman Report on Cuba
[39367][MISSING]
[39369](120) - December 19, 1962, DCI memo re Farman Report on Cuba
[39370][MISSING]
[39372]File: June 1, 1963 - February 9, 1963
[39374](12) - January 21, 1963, phone call between DCI and
[39375]Eisenhower (transcript) about Cuba. - (No mention of
[39376]assassination.) . .
[39378]File: February 9, 1963 - April 9, 1963
[39380](36) - March 5, 1963, Memo of DCI discussion with Attorney
[39381]General [No one to see without DCI permission] [DESTROYED]
[39382][According to Elder, dealt with wiretap of newsmen. ]
[39384](38) - March 7, 1963, °Memo of conversation with Attorney
[39385]General at Hickory Hill [No one to see without DCI permission].
[39386][DESTROYED]
[39388](52) - March 30, 1963, DCI discussion with Eisenhower and
[39389]Lundahl on “current status of Cuba" [DESTROYED]
[39391]File: April 15, 1963 - June 4, 1963
[39393](68) - Memo of DCI on Cuban Policy: “Random thoughts
[39394]developed by DCI on various aspects of the Cuban problem
[39395]and the discussions at Standing Group prepared for. use by
[39396]representatives of DCI at meetings on this subject during
[39397]his absence from the country,” April 25, 1963, contains
[39398]the following:
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[39415]"I agree with the. ONE estimate that
[39416]Castro's political position will im-
[39417]prove within the next year (barring
[39418]assassination) .
[39420]The context clearly indicates, however, that DCI is not
[39421]proposing this. ;
[39422]_ 4 _
[39424](77) - DCI memo of May 18, 1963, on Haiti: contains this
[39425]statement: "Apparently Duvalier, in the absence of assassi-
[39426]nation, will survive the jefforts of internal opposition
[39427]elements..." Context indicates DCI was not proposing or
[39428]considering assassination.
[39429](61) =~ April 15, 1963, Memo of meeting between Attorney
[39430]General and Director of Central Intelligence about "Helms/
[39431]Angleton operation, Cuban sabotage proposals" _ [DESTROYED]
[39433]et, 7
[39434](62) = April 17, 1963, Meeting of DCI and Rusk about:
[39435]“"Helms/Angleton Project... " [DESTROYED]
[39437]File: June 5, 1963, - guly 20, 1963
[39438]Nothing Relevant ;
[39440]File: July 23, 1963 ~ November 26, 1963
[39442](133) - August 20, 1963, lhuncheon with DCI,. Colonel Grogan, ~
[39443]Tom Ross of Chicago | Sun Times [MISSING]
[39445](138) - September 5, 1963, DCI and Bundy, "After Special Group”
[39446][MISSING] ot
[39448](138) - September 7, 1963, DCI and Papich [MISSING]
[39450](138) - September 12, 1963, DCI and J. Edgar Hoover at
[39451]Justice Department [MISSING] ;
[39453](158.5) - October 24, 1963, DCI/Robert F. Kennedy lunch at
[39454]Kennedy's house [MISSING]
[39456](168) - November 26, 1963;, DCI and Bundy on message about
[39457]Kennedy assassination _ IMISSING]
[39459]i.
[39462]“of GA5AL
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[39476]| 4 -
[39478](168) - November 15, 1963, DCI and Rusk: Sukarno had said
[39479]that British and CIA were plotting to kill him. Rusk asked
[39480]if CIA had any information about a plot by British. DCI
[39481]said no.
[39483]File: November 27, 1963 - December 31, 1963
[39485][Entire contents of file missing.]-
[39487]From titles, nothing here appears relevant.
[39489]File: January 1, 1964 ~- February 11, 1964
[39491]Nothing relevant.
[39493]File: February 12, 1964 - April 5, 1964
[39495][Entire contents of file missing.]
[39497](25.5) - February 19, 1964, DCI and Fitzgerald: "White House
[39498]Meeting - Situation Room ~ Re: Cuba" [DESTROYED]
[39500](36.1) - March 14, 1964, Meeting of DCI, Bundy, Helms [DESTROYED]
[39502](46) - April 5, 1964, Meeting of DCI and Rusk: "EYES ONLY -
[39503]NO DISTRIBUTION ~- FSO Richard Fredericks; Carl Rowan; ~
[39504]- Republican Platform of 1960." [DESTROYED]
[39506]t
[39507]1
[39509]File: April 6, 1964 - July 8, 1964.
[39511](49) - April 16, 1964, Meeting with: . DCI, Justice Warren,
[39512]Senator Cooper, Stern, Rankin, Willens of subject: "Met in
[39513]DCI's Office" [MISSING] |
[39514](58) - May 14, 1964, DCI, Rankin, Helms - Subject: “Warren
[39515]Commission (accompanied by Mr. Helms). Helms saw commission ,
[39516]transcript and returned it to.the commission." "No MR
[39517]expected" [MISSING] .
[39518](69) - June 12, 1964, DCI, Mr. ‘and Mrs. Henry Luce: "Memos
[39519]used at lunch re: Cuban article in TIME" - NO DISTRIBUTION -
[39520]nothing on assassinations.
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[39532]File: July 8, 1964 - August 12, 1964
[39534](No file under these dates.)
[39536]File: August 12, 1964 - September 10, 1964
[39538]Nothing relevant.
[39540]File: September 11, 1964 ~ October 31, 1964
[39542](138) =~ October 15, 1964, DCI, Sam Papich ~ "NO DISTRIBUTION ~
[39543]discussion re Walter Jenkins' matter." [DESTROYED]
[39545](143) - October 22, 1964, DCI, Robert Kennedy: "In
[39546]Presidential Suite, NYC - Personal discussion EYES ONLY
[39547]JAM ~ NO DISTRIBUTION" [DESTROYED]
[39549]File: November 1, 1964 ~ December 31, 1964
[39551]Nothing relevant.
[39553]BOX 8: .MEMORANDA OF MEETINGS WITH THE PRESIDENT
[39555]File: October 25, 1961 - July 31, 1962
[39557](B) - December 14,.1961, at a meeting with the President
[39559]and General Taylor, DCI advised Kennedy that there were
[39560]possible dangers that he might be the subject of an assassi~
[39561]nation attempt on his planned trip to Colombia and Venezuela,
[39562]which the CIA could not guarantee the safety of.
[39564](6) - February 11, 1962, :at a meeting with the President,
[39565]Bundy, and Taylor, DCI discussed efforts to convince one
[39566]‘Charles Murphy not to write a certain article for Life
[39567]magazine on some subject related.to Cuba. Apparently, the
[39568]article was revised to DCI's satisfaction and then published,
[39570](12) --May 7, 1962, at a‘meeting with the President and
[39571]Taylor, ‘DCI discussed Operation Mongoose in some detail.
[39572]No mention of assassinations.
[39574],
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[39586]File: July 3 1962 - November 29, 1962 [actually covering
[39588]through Dec. 18, 1962] .
[39590](28) - July 20, 1962: At a meeting with. the President,
[39591]Taylor, and Alexis Johnson, Mongoose was discussed. No
[39592]mention of assassination.
[39594](52) - October 26, 1962: | At a meeting of NSC Executive
[39595]Committee, DCI discussed Mongoose. . No mention of assassination.
[39597](55) - October 30, 1962: "Memo to DDCI outlining Presidential
[39598]Directive to CIA; no provocative actions by refugee groups;
[39599]estop Alpha 66; stop Mongoose ops; no contact with Press."
[39600][MISSING] ;
[39602](70) - November 29, 1962: Ata meeting of the NSC
[39603]Executive Committee (President absent), DCI discussed
[39604]Mongoose. No mention of assassination.
[39606]File: January 1, 1963 - March 31,. 1963
[39608](7) - January 23, 1963 (4:30 p.m.): Meeting with President,
[39609]DCI, and Helms." No memo present. Listing does not indicate
[39610]whether or not memo was prepared, even though it generally
[39611]indicates when memos were not prepared. Secretary's note
[39613]of 1/27/72 (MB) notes: "No MR in file"
[39615](8) - January 23, 1963 (4:45 p.m.): Meeting between DCI
[39617]and President - missing memo; same situation as #(7) above.
[39619](28) - March 25, 1963: In meeting with President, DCI
[39621]"reviewed the requirements for telephonic and audio surveillance
[39622]intelligence at selected embassies and foreign residences within
[39623]the United States..." President suggested that the DCI talk”
[39624]with J. Edgar Hoover on this matter.
[39626]File: April 1, 1963 - July 1, 1963 .
[39628](33) - April 16, 1963: In meeting with the President, DCI
[39630]sae assee two methods of dealing with Castro: (1) "Working
[39631]' Castro to turn him from Soviets; (2).Pressuring USSR to
[39633]remove from Cuba and "then to bring about the downfall of
[39635]Castro by means which could be:developed after the removal
[39637]of Soviet troops..." No mention of assassination.
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[39656](43) - May 27, 1963: In meeting of President, DCI, and
[39657]others, policy towards covert operations against Haiti were
[39658]discussed. No mention of assassination.
[39660](50) - June 19, 1963: In meeting with the President and
[39661]others, DCI discussed plans for covert operations against
[39662]Cuba, including “external sabotage." Vague memo of record
[39663]by Desmond FitzGerald, but no mention of -assassination.
[39665]File: July 1, 1963 - November 12, 1963 | : a
[39667](74) - November 12, 1963: Ata meeting of the President, DCI,
[39668]and others, "McCone emphasized that to a very considerable
[39669]extent these [Cuban exile groups] are uncontrollable and-
[39670]forecast that once Artime was in business, we might expect
[39672]some events to take place which were not exactly to our liking.”
[39673](This was in a general discussion of covert actions against
[39674]Cuba; no mention of assassination.) _
[39676]File: November 23, 1963 - December 31, 1963
[39678](1) November 23, 1963 (memo of November 25): DCI told
[39680]Lyndon B. Johnson of information received from Mexico City.
[39682]DCI later called: Rusk to tell him of information from Mexico City:
[39683]",..the holding of a Mexican employee of the Cuban embassy by
[39684]Mexican officials for interrogation concerning Lee Oswald."
[39686](4) November 25 and 26, 1963 (memo of November 26): In
[39687]meetings with the President and the DCI, the President expressed
[39688]"contempt" at Justice Department suggestion of independent inves-
[39689]tigation of John F. Kennedy's assassination. He instructed the
[39690]DCI to insure CIA cooperation with the FBI report.
[39692](4) November 29, 1963: In a meeting with DCI, Lyndon B.
[39694]Johnson, McNamara, and Bundy, the DCI apparently gave latest
[39695]developments in Mexico City investigation of Oswald. A list
[39697]of "late developments" is in file, to be used. for this Purpose,
[39699](Obtain copy.)
[39700]File: January 1, 1964 -: April 2, 1964
[39702]Nothing relevant.
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[39722]File: .April 3, 1964 - May/20, 1964
[39724]. { . . .
[39725](19) - April 7, 1964: Meeting of DCI, President, and others
[39727]re Cuba Covert Action. |
[39729]Here DCI advocates strong program to obtain overall objective
[39731]set forth in a paper of June 8, 1963: "The ultimate objective
[39733]of this policy would be to encourage dissident elements in the
[39734]military and other power|/centers of the regime to bring about the
[39735]eventual liquidation of the Castro/communist entourage and the
[39736]elimination of the Soviet presence from Cuba." (emphasis added)
[39738]{OBTAIN COPY] |
[39740]be —
[39741]File: May 21, 1964 - October 5, 1964
[39744]September 30, 1964: Meeting of “DCI; President; et al" to
[39745]discuss “Warren Commission | ‘Report - (to set up Presidential
[39746]Committee)" - No memo indicated to have been prepared.
[39748]File: October 6, 1964 - |Decenber 28, 1964
[39749]Nothing Relevant. |
[39750]: |
[39752]|
[39753]BOX 1: 303 COMMITTEE, COUNTERINSURGENCY, SPECIAL GROUP,
[39754]CHRONO (1962) l
[39756]File: 303 - January - pdcember, 1963
[39758]Several sets of minutes. have the following notations after
[39759]paragraphs dealing with Cuban operations: "See special
[39761]minutes for additional items." ~ No such "special minutes"
[39762]appear to be contained in this file.* However, this same nota-~
[39763]tion appeared in connection with other subjects.
[39765]This file contains several discussions’ of the Haitian problem.
[39766]Although it's clear the participants would like to be rid of
[39767]‘Duvalier, there is no mention of assassination. .
[39769]Nothing else relevant.
[39771]File: January - December, 1964
[39772]. |
[39774]Contains discussion of Haitian problem, and CIA agreed to
[39775]"explore methods of dealing with the Duvalier problem in
[39776]the immediate future." (May 12, 1964)
[39778]*Other than certain memoranda prepared by McCone.
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[39789]The minutes of the June 18, 1964, meeting (dated June 22, 1964)
[39790]contained the following: | [OBTAIN COPYJ (signed by Peter Jessup)
[39791]"A paper was discussed on alleged plans which involve
[39793]the underworld to assassinate certain Cuban leaders. _
[39795]Mr. McCone was somewhat skeptical of the reported plots and
[39796]Stated that he would like to go into the matter further.
[39798]Others, including Mr. Bundy, felt that the United States was
[39799]being put on notice and should do everything in its power to
[39800]ascertain promptly the veracity of the reports and then under~
[39801]take prevention. It was decided that Mr. Bundy would call the
[39802]matter to the Attorney Ge
[39804]neral's attention as a matter of law
[39805]enforcement." i
[39807]Mr. McCone's personal memorandum for the record on this
[39808]meeting (dated) June 18, 1964, contains substantially the same
[39809]information. [OBTAIN COPY] It refers to a June 10, 1964, CIA
[39810]memorandum "reporting plans of Cuban exiles to assassinate
[39811]leading Cuban government leaders." This memo apparently had
[39812]been sent to Special Group members and the Attorney General.
[39813][OBTAIN COPY] McCone's memo contains the following:
[39815]"ACTION: Discuss with General Carter and Mr. Helms steps we
[39816]should take to establish tthe credibility. of the report; also
[39817]communicate with the FBI through Mr. Papich. Also I should
[39819]call the Attorney General’ personally.'
[39821]: The official minutes of the July 30, 1964, 303 Committee
[39822]meeting (dated July 31, 1964) (referred to in 1967 IG report)
[39823]contain no mention of assassination or even of Cuba.
[39825]_Mr. McCone's personal memorandum (dated July 31, 1964) had
[39826]only the following nefexence to Cuba:
[39828]"Proposed infiltration/exfiltration operations into Cuba for
[39829]August were approved and ithe July operations were noted. >
[39831]File: Counterinsurgency - January ~ June, 1962
[39832]File: _Counterinsuegency - January — Sune, 1962
[39834]Nothing relevant.
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[39851]t
[39853]|
[39854]|
[39855]H
[39856]i
[39859]Envelope - "Cuba Loose Ends" a ;
[39860]Much information on Mongoose. No mention of assassination.
[39862]Envelope containing FBI report of October 16, 1963, entitled
[39863]"Communism and the Negro! Movement = A Current Analysis" -
[39864]contains comments on Dr.’ King's personal life. Relayed by
[39865]J. Edgar Hoover to McCone. , ‘
[39867]File: "Cuba - Background Material"
[39869]This file contains only material relating to the Cuban. missile
[39870]crisis. It contains no references to any assassinations.
[39872]File: "White House" 7
[39874]7 ; i . : ;
[39875]This file, covering 1962; and 1963, contains correspondence
[39876]to, from, and of interest to the White House. .
[39878]4
[39879]1
[39880]SECRET - SENSITIVE
[39882]PROPERTY OF
[39884]FUP TE APCS ereree
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[39888]|
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[39894]- lil-
[39896]BOX 5: MISCELLANEOUS .
[39898]The file entitled "Cuba Package" does not appear to be in this ;
[39899]-box. The name of this file, however, appears on the page which
[39900]-_purports to list the files in the box.
[39902]File: Cuba 1962
[39904]i
[39907]Nothing relevant to assassinations.
[39909]File: Cuba _ 1964
[39910]February 21, 1964, memorandum for the Director of Central
[39911]Intelligence from Desmond FitzGerald, Chief, Special Affairs
[39912]Staff, entitled "Spectrum of Courses of Action with Respect
[39914]to Cuba." This nine~page memorandum outlines many possible
[39915]courses of action which the U.S. Government could take with
[39916]respect to Fidel Castro even including measures as drastic as
[39917]an actual invasion of the island by U.S. military forces. It,
[39918]however, contains no mention or reference to possible assassi-~
[39919]nation of Castro. |
[39923]BOX 6: MISCELLANEOUS
[39925]File: Presidential Briefing, December 22, 1964
[39926]Nothing relevant to assassination.
[39928]File: "M" File > ; |
[39930]Nothing relevant to our subject of interest.
[39932]. . poo
[39933]File: "Dp" File. .
[39934]at | .
[39935]This file contains papers dealing with the services of Allen
[39936]Dulles as a consultant to the Agency after his retirement.
[39937]There is no mention of the subject in which we are interested.
[39939]File: oye File
[39941]a
[39942]. i
[39943]Nothing relevant. [
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[39955]W Nien
[39958]‘dt was around 1:72 in the afternoon, Cuban time. We
[39959]were having lunciin the living room of the modest
[39960]summer residence which Fidel Castro owns on magni-
[39961]ficent “Varadero Beach, 120 kilometers from Havaina.
[39962]For at feast the tenth time, I was questioning the Cuban
[39963]icader on details of the negotiations with Russia before
[39965]the missile installations last year. The telephone rang,
[39967]a secretary in guerrilla garb announced that Me. Dor
[39969]icés, President of i } mont
[39974]cy)
[39975]es)
[39976]en
[39977]me
[39979]tunica ee Base Minas, Fidel picked] up’
[39981]the phone and [ heard him say: “Conio? Un atentada?”
[39982]{What's that? An attempted assassination?”) He then
[39983]turned to-us to say that Kennedy had just been struck
[39984]down in Dallas. Then he went back to the telephone
[39985]and exclaimed in a loud voice “Herido? Muy grave-
[39986]‘viento (Wounded? Very seriously?) |
[39987]He came back, sat down, and repeated three times
[39988]-he words: “Es una mala noticia.” (“This is bad news. “y
[39989]He remained silent for a moment, awaiting another éall
[39990]with further news. He remarked while we waited that
[39991]there was an alarmingly sizable lunatic fringe in mer
[39992]can society and that this decd could equally wel i have
[39993]ve ne work of a madman or of a terrorist. Perhaps a
[39994]Vietnamese? Or a member of the Ku Klux Klan? The
[39996]~econd call came through: it was hoped they would Ibe .
[39998]abie to announce that the United ‘States Preside ont was
[40000]“ill ative, that there was hope. of saving him. Fidel
[40001]“TF they can, he) is
[40003]Castro’s immediate reaction was:
[40004]iready re-elected.” He pronounced these words with
[40005]satisfaction. i ;
[40007]This sentence was a sequel to a conversation we had
[40008]acid on a previous evening and which had turned into
[40009]an all-nignt session. To be precise, it lasted from 1olin
[40010]the evening until 4 in the morning. A good part jof
[40011]the talk revolved about the impressions I recounted
[40012]to him of an interview which President Kennedy
[40013]granted me this last October 24, and about Fidel
[40014]Castro’s reactions to these impressions. During this
[40015]nocturnal discussion, Castro had delivered himself lof
[40017]2 relentless indictment of US policy, adding that in, the,
[40019]recent past Washington had had ample opportunity
[40021]to normalize its relations with Cuba, but that instead ;
[40023]it had tolerated a CIA program of training, equipping
[40024]and organizing a counter-revolution. He had told me
[40026]sat he wasn’t in the least fearful of his life, since -
[40028]danger was his natural milieu, and if he were to become:
[40030]i victim of the United States this would simply en-
[40031]ha. his radius of influence in Latin America as w cll
[40032]as throughout the socialist world. He was speaking, he
[40034]said, from the viewpd®t of the interests of peace jin
[40035].
[40036]a
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[40042]in, Vallero would translate it for. Fidel:
[40044]ie Net
[40049]porn he American. CONTINGHS amtemachieve this godt, a
[40051]leader would have'to arise in the United States capable
[40052]of ur. derstanding the explosive realities of Latin Amer-
[40053]ica and of meeting them | halfway. Then, suddenly, he
[40054]had taken a less hostile tack: “Kennedy could still be
[40055]this man. He still has the possibility of becoming,
[40056]in the eyes of history, the greatest’ President of the
[40058]United States, the leader who may at last understand:
[40060]that there can be coexistence between capitalists and
[40061]socialists, even in the Americas. He would then be
[40062]an even greater President than Lincoln. I know, for
[40063]example, that for Khrushchev, Kennedy is a man you
[40064]can talk with. I have gotten this impression from all
[40065]my conversations with Khrushchev. Other leaders nave
[40066]assured me that to attain this goal, we must first await
[40068]his re-election. Personally, | consider him responsible
[40070]for everything, but I will say this: he has come to
[40071]understand many things -over the past few. months;
[40072]and then.too, in the last analysis, I’m convinced that
[40073]anyone else would be woise.” Then Fidel had added
[40074]with a broad and boyish grin: “IF you see him again,
[40075]you can-tell him that Vssgsiglling to declare Goldwater
[40076]my friend if that will guarantee Kennedy's re-election!”
[40078]This conversation was heid on November 19.
[40080]Now it was nearly 2
[40082]Commandant Vallero; his physiclan, aide-de-camp, and
[40083]intimate friend, was easily able to get the broadcasts
[40084]from the NBC network in Miami. As the news came
[40085]Kennedy
[40086]wounded in the head; pursuit of the assassin; murder
[40087]of a policeman; finally the fatal announcement: Presi-
[40089]_ dent Kennedy is dead. Then Fidel stood up and said to
[40091]me: “Everything is changed. Everything is going to
[40092]change. The United States occupies such a position in
[40093]world affairs that the death of a President of that
[40094]country affects millions of people in every corner of
[40095]the glabe. The cold war, relations with Russia, Latin
[40096]America, Cuba, the Negro question... all will have to
[40097]be rethought. I'll tell you one thing: at least Kennedy
[40098]was an enemy to whem we had become accustomed.
[40100]This is a serious matter, an extremely serious matter.”
[40102]After the quarter-hour of silence observed by all
[40103]the American radio stations, we once more tuned in
[40104]on Miami; the silence had only been broken by a re-
[40105]broddeasting of 'the American national anthem. Strange
[40106]indeed was the impression made, on hearing this hyma
[40107]ring out in the house of Fidel Castro, in thé midst of a
[40108]circl: of worried faces. “Now,” Fidel said, “they sill
[40109]haw to find the assassin quickly, but very quick] y,
[40111]7
[40113]o'clock and we got up from.
[40114]the table and settled ourselves in front of a radio.
[40117]bdbhog
[40118]otherwise, you watch and see, | know them, they wil
[40119]try te put the blame on us for this thing, But tell ir
[40120]how many Presidents have been assassinated? Eoin:
[40121]This is most disturbing! In Cuba, only onc has bees
[40122]assassinated. ¥f snow, when we were hiding gut il
[40123]Sierra there were some (notin m f ian:
[40124]other) who wanted to kill Batista. They thought they
[40125]could do away with a regime by decapitating it. I have
[40126]always been violently opposed to such methods. First
[40127]of all from the viewpoint of political self-interest, be-
[40128]cause so far as Cuba is concerned, if Batista had been
[40129]killed he would have been replaced by some military
[40130]~ figure who would have tried to make the revolutionists
[40131]pay for the martyrdom of the dictator. But I was also
[40132]opposed to it on personal grounds; assassination is
[40133]repellent to me.” Oo l ;
[40135]The broadcasts were now resumed. One reporter
[40136]felt he should mention the difficulty Mrs. Kennedy
[40137]was having in getting tid of her bloodstained stockings.
[40138]Fidel exploded: “What sort of a mind isithis!” He re-
[40139]peated the remark several times: “What sort of a
[40140]mind is this? There is a difference in our civilizations
[40141]after all. Are you like this in Europe?| For us Latin
[40142]Americans, death is a sacred matter; not only does it
[40143]mark the close of hostilities, but it also imposes de-
[40144]cency, dignily, respect. There are even ‘strect urchins
[40145]who behave like kings in the face of death, Incidentally,
[40146]this reminds me of something else: if:you wrile all
[40148]7 1
[40149]those things I told you yteraday against Kennedy's
[40150]policy, don’t use his name now; speak instead of the
[40151]policy of the United States government.(/
[40153]Toward 5 o'clock, Fidel Castro declared that since
[40154]there was nothing we could do to alter the tragedy, we
[40155]must try to put our time to good use in ‘spite of it. He
[40156]waited to accompany me in person on a visit to a
[40157]granja de pueblo (state farm), where hd had been en-
[40158]gaging in some experiments. His present obsession is
[40159]agriculture. He reads nothing but agronomical studies
[40161]and reports. He dwells lyrically on the soil, fertilizers, -
[40162]and the possibilities which will give [Cuba. enough ~
[40164]sugar cane by 1970 to achieve. economic] independence.
[40166]“Didn't | Tell You’ |
[40167]We went by car, with the tadio oh. The Dallas
[40168]police were now hot on the trail-of the assassin. He
[40169]is a Russian spy, says the news commentator. Five
[40170]minutes later, correction: he is. a spy married to a
[40171]Russian. Fidel said: “There, didn’t T tell you; itll be
[40173]= my.turn next.” Butuqsh yer. The next word was: the
[40175]assassin is a Marxist deserter. Then the word came
[40176]through, in effect, that the assassin was a young man
[40177]who was a member of the “Fair Play for Cuba Com-
[40178]mittee,” that he was an admirer of Fidel Castro. Fidel
[40179]declared: “If they had had proof, they would have said
[40181]8
[40183]NEG WB
[40185]he was an agent, an accomplice, a hired killer. In
[40186]saying simply that he is an admisgc, this is just to try
[40187]and make an association in people's minds between the
[40188]name of Castro and the emotion awakened by the
[40189]assassination. This is a publicity method, a propaganda
[40190]device. It's terrible. But you know, I’m sure this wall -
[40191]all soon blow over. There are too many competing
[40192]policies in the United States for any single one to be
[40193]able to impose itself universally for very long.” :
[40195]We arrived at the granja de pueblo, where the farm-
[40196]ers welcomed Fidel. At that very moment, a speaker
[40197]announced over the radio that it was now known that
[40198]the assassin is a “pro-Castro Marxist.” One commen-
[40199]tator followed another; the remarks became increas-
[40200]ingly emotional, increasingly aggressive. Fidel then
[40201]excused himself: “We shall have to give up the visit
[40202]to the farm.” W. ‘aL e
[40203]he could telephone Pesiidaiimdacticns, On the way he
[40204]had questions: “Who is Lyndon Johnson? What is his
[40205]reputation? What were his relations with Kennedy?
[40206]With Khrushchev? What was his position at the time of
[40207]the attempted invasion of Cuba?” Finally’ and most
[40208]important of all: “W} it ercise
[40209]over the CIA?” Then abruptly he looked at his watch,
[40210]caw that it would be half an hour before we reached
[40211]Matanzas and, practically on the spot, he dropped off to
[40212]sleep. :
[40214]After Matanzas, where he must have decreed a state
[40215]of alert, we returned to Varadero for dinner. Quoting
[40216]the words spoken to him by a woman shortly before,
[40217]he said to me that it was an irony of history for the
[40218]Cubans, in the situation to which they had been ‘re-
[40219]duced by the blockade, to have ta mourn the death of
[40220]a President of the United States. “After all,” he added,
[40221]“there are perhaps some peopie in the world to whom
[40222]this news is cause for rejoicing. The South Vietnamese
[40223]guerrillas, for example, and also, I would imagine,
[40224]Madame Nhu!”
[40226]‘T thought of the people of Cuba, accustomed to the
[40227]sight of posters like the one depicting the Red Army
[40228]with maquis superimposed in front, and the screaming
[40229]captions "ALT, MR. KENNEDY! CUBA I$ NOT ALONE. . + “
[40230]T thought of all those who had been led to associate
[40231]their deprivations with the policies of President John
[40233]F, Kennedy.
[40235]At dinner I was able to take up all my questions.
[40236]What had motivated Castro to endanger the peace of
[40237]the world with the missiles in Cuba? How dependent
[40238]swags Cuba on the Soviet Union? Is it not possible to
[40240]- envisage relations between Cuba ansthe United States
[40242]along the.same lines as those between Finland and the
[40243]Russians?’ How was the transition made from the
[40245]“humanism of Sierra Maestra to the Marxism-Leninism
[40247]of 1961? Fidel Castro, once more in top form, had an
[40248]explanation for everything. Then he questioned me
[40251]: us er se ete eee
[40252]_— Cena a TE =
[40254], Drecineg 71 10635 ,
[40255]i once more on Kennedy, and each time | culogized tse and Czechoslovakian trucks, a certain American emon
[40256]' intellectual qualities of the “ssassinated President, | Hon vibrated in the almosphere, compounded of re.
[40257]awakened the keenest interest in him, sentment, of concern, of anxiety, ‘yet also, in Spite of
[40258]The Cubans have lived with the United tates in everything, of a Mysterious almast imperceptible Tap-
[40259]that cruel intimacy so familiar to me of the colonized Prochement, After all, this American Prosident was able
[40260]with their colonizers, Nevertheless, it Was an intimacy, to reach accord with our Russian Friends during his
[40261]oy In that very seSctive city of Havana to avnich we re. lifetime, Said a young Cuan eri loctual to me asl was,
[40262]‘ turned-in the evening, where the luminous signboards taking my leave. [bywas almost as though he were apolo-
[40263]i. with Marxist slogans have replaced the Coca Cola and gizing for nat rejoicing at the Assassination, .
[40264]a toothpaste billboards, in the midst of Soviet exhibits JEAN Dante
[40266]“Robert Frost role 50 years aga, “lot hing 1S true except as aman or men
[40268]adhere to it~ ty live for it, to SpeHa theniselves oy it, to die for it’ Ve
[40270]need this SPtrif cpon More than INONCY OF institiions op agreements
[40271]-Joun F, KEennepy, November 18, 1963
[40273]By Saturday night, even the television seemed worn News, that is trying to listen to news because their
[40274]out by attempt and failure and ceased to comment and reai job was to hear Hight control. There had been a
[40275]Beave over to a succession of Photographs of the col- pun battle in Dallas; a patrolman was Killed; the police
[40276]'mns and the Windows and the corners of the White had taken a man in Tievie theater, Vice President
[40277]House and of the shadows af the great Lincoln head . Johnson was now the President. The talk of business
[40278]in Springfield and to a4 voice reciting “Oh, Captain, “went on through this, and stopped only when the cap-
[40279]My Captain.” Tt is to be, then, the grand style. But the tain again interrupted to say that the new President had
[40280]ship has. not weathered Every storm; Mr. Kennedy is been sworn in aboard an aircraft, A fey laughed,
[40281]not Abraham Lincoln: not because he is more or less, , :
[40282]but because he is a remembered physical presence and Thev ask too much of us when they ask us to act up -
[40283]Mr. Lincoln an image of the plastic arts. Ono’s own to the grand style. We are not an emotionally affluent :
[40284]time iS personal, noi historical, Just how long will it be people. And yet some of us always complained that
[40285]before many of us will want to read a book about the Mr, Kennedy did-not seem quite emotionally commit.
[40287]day Mr, Kennedy was shot? . ted enough. But Now someone remembered with special
[40289], , _ affection a moment late in the 1960 campaign. Mr. .
[40290]The news of the President's Assassination was Siven Kennedy Was in a motorcade and the Democratic gov- Hl
[40291]by a taxi driver fo three gentlemen as they left a hotel ernor who was with him said how wonderful ibwasto il.
[40292](On Arlington Strest in’ Boston.- They turned right feel the love vith which these crowds pressed forward .
[40293]around and hurried back inside tg attend to their in- to feel the touch of their candidate, “Oh, dry up,” Mr, . a
[40294]vestments. Packed with students jod businessmen ‘a. Kennedy said. It seemed now somehow a Special grace
[40296]shuttle plane from Boston to Washington waited for in him that he used only the real in emotion and ab-
[40297]permission to take off when the Captain came-on the stained from fabricating the expected. He had too much
[40299]intercom: “Folks, up here on the flight deck we've been _ tespect for the grand style to counterfeit it; how much
[40300]listening to the news and the President is dead.” There truer to him might we have been if we had come down
[40301]was only time to hear one woman say, “How dread- An scale and if the many of us who must have remem.
[40302]ful” before three men went back to discussing plan - bered the lines from Cymbeling had thought them
[40303]specifications, A college student reading Agamemnon proper lo speak ;
[40305]Pe" 50 visible attention. One of his notes read, “love.
[40307]in-.e.” The plane took off, the stewardess collected “Fear no more the heat of the sun/Nor the furious
[40308]the money and started tg Serve drinks. Then the cap. Winter’s rages, . ;
[40309]tain was back ‘againggehey had been listening to more Thou thy worldly task hast done/Home. art thou
[40311]: 6
[40312]HW 50955 Docld:32493630 Page 53
[40314]Flash from Dallas
[40316]Just as Secret Service men reacted instinctively, rushing to protect the
[40317]presidential party, reporters reacted instinctively to get the news—sketchy
[40318]as it was at first—to the world. United Press International's Merriman
[40319]Smith, dean of the White House correspondents, describes on pages 32-33
[40320]his frantic rush to call the Dallas UPI bureau. Reproduced here is the result
[40321]of Smith’s first efforts—the actual Teletype copy that almost immediately
[40322]clacked -out of hundreds of UPI machines in newsrooms, radio and
[40323]television stations, pressrooms, and business offices all over the world.
[40325]"" BETECTIVES WERE THERE AND THEY ASKED KIM TO LOOK IN THERE (THE SRIEF-~
[40326]CASE) FOR SOMETHING .“. :
[40328]THE CASE WAS OPENED AND AN ENVELOPE WAS FOUNG CONTAINING 44 $100
[40329]alLLS, THE WITNESS SAID. THE STATE HAD SAID IT ¥OULD PRODUCE THAT
[40330]PIECE OF EVIDENCE BUT IT HAD NOT LISTED IT AS ONE “OF THE SEVEN
[40331]LINKS" THE DEFENSE HAS IMPLIED IT WILL TAKE THE LINE THAT CAROL'S |
[40332]DEATH AFTER A SAVAGE SLUDGEONING AND STABBING IN HER HOME WAS THE
[40333]RESULT OF AN ATTEMPTED . MOREDAL2Z34PCS
[40335]UPI ATN DA
[40336]PRECEDE KENNEDY .
[40337]DALLAS, NOV, 22 CUPL)-° THREE SHOTS WERE FIRED AT PRESIDENT KENNEDY’S
[40339]MOTORCADE TODAY IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
[40340]ITIAS4PCS. 6
[40342]UPT ASN HX
[40344]2ND ADD 2ND LEAD THOMPSON MINNEAPOLIST
[40345]BUOS HO
[40347]UPHOLD
[40349]DA IT YRS NX
[40351]UPT ASN Ad
[40352]DAY
[40354]CORRECTE
[40355]BUOS UPHOLD-- NX
[40357]UPI A8N DA ;
[40358]URGENT
[40359]1ST ADD SHOTS, DALLAS CATN) XXX DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
[40361]NO CASUALTIES WERE REPORTED. ,
[40362]THE INCIDENT OCCURRED NEAR THE COUNTY SHERIFF ’S OFFICE ON MAIN
[40363]STREET, JUST EAST OF AN UNDERPASS LEADING TOWARD THE TRADE MART WHERE
[40365]THE PRESIDENT WAS TO HA
[40367]FLASH
[40369]FLASH
[40371]KENNEDY SERIOUSLY WOUNDED
[40372]PERHAPS SERIOUSLY
[40374]PERHAPS FATALLY BY ASSASSINS BULLET
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[40379]At 12:34 the Teletype was |
[40380]supplying copy ona
[40381]Minneapolis murder trial.
[40383]The Dallas bureau, alerted by
[40384]Smith over radiotelephone from
[40385]the press car as it careered
[40386]toward the hospital, sends out
[40387]the first sparse news.
[40389]Minneapolis starts to add more
[40390]details on the murder trial. The
[40391]New York bureau, knowing
[40393]that ace reporter Smith is covering
[40394]the President's trip, tells all ;
[40395]bureaus to “uphold”—get off the
[40396]wire. “Dallas, it’s yours.”
[40398]Atlanta tries to interrupt, but is
[40399]quickly squelched by the
[40400]New York bureau.
[40402]The Dallas operator begins
[40404]sending the rest of Smith’s account
[40405]from the press car. ;
[40407]At the hospital, Smith sees the
[40409]_ President's limp body in the car
[40411]and racestoatelephone. At
[40412]12:39, nine minutes after the
[40413]shooting, the grave news flashes
[40414]over the wire.
[40416]UPI ON
[40417]BULLETIN
[40418]IST LEAD SHOOTING
[40420]DALLAS, NOV. 22 CUPI>-~PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND GOV. JOHN B. CONNALLY
[40421]OF TEXAS WERE CUTDOWN BY AN ASSASSIN’S BULLETS AS THEY TOURED
[40423]DOWNTOWN DALLAS IN AN OPEN AUTOMOBILE TODAY.
[40424]MORE UTIZ41 PCS
[40426]UPI ALON DA ot
[40427]1ST ADD IST LEAD SHOOTING DALLAS (ON DALLAS XX TODAY.
[40429]THE PRESIDENT, HIS LIMP BODY CRADLED IN THE ARMS OF HIS WIFE, WAS
[40430]RUSHED TO PARKLAND HOSPITAL. THE GOVERNOR ALSO WAS TAKEN TO PARKLAND.
[40431]CLINT HILL, 4 SECRET SERVICE AGENT ASSIGNED TO MRS. KENNEDY, SAID
[40432]WES DE&aD,7 AS THE PRESIDENT WAS LIFTED FROM THE REAR OF A WHITE HOUSE
[40433]sOURING CAR, THE FAMOUS “3UBSLETOP™ FROM WASHINGTON. - HE WAS RUSHED
[40435]TO AN EMERGENCY ROOM IN THE HOSPITAL.
[40437]OTHER WHITE HOUSE OFFICIALS WERE IN DOUST AS THE CORRIDORS OF THE
[40438]MOSPITAL ERUPTED IN PANDEMONIUM.
[40440]THE INCIDENT OCCURRED JUST EAST OF THE TRIPLE UNDERPASS FACING A
[40442]PARK IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
[40443]REPORTERS ABOUT FIVE CAR LENGTHS BEHIND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
[40445]HEAR
[40446]MORE L44aPEs
[40448]UPT ALIN DA . - ‘
[40449]ND ADD 1ST LEAD SHOOTING CON DALLAS) XXX DALLAS.
[40450]REPORTERS ABOUT FIVE CAR LENGTHS SEHIND THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
[40451]HEARD WHAT WOUNDED LIKE THREE SURST OF GUNFIRE, -
[40452]SECRET SERVICE AGENTS IN A FOLLOW-UP CAR QUICKLY. UNLIMBERED THEIR
[40453]AUTOMATIC RIFLES. . :
[40454]THE BUBBLE TOP OF THE PRESIDENT‘S CAR WaS DOWN.
[40455]THEY DREY THEIR PISTOLS, SUT THE DAMAGE WAS DONE.
[40456]THE PRESIDENT “4S SLUMPED OVER IN THE BACKSEAT OF THE CAR FACE
[40457]_ DOWN, CONNALLY LAY ON THE FLOOR OF THE REAR SEAT.
[40458]IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL AT ,
[40459]MORE 145PES
[40461]UPI AL2N DA
[40463]If waS IMPOSSI3LE TO TELL AT ONCE WHERE KENNEDY WAS HIT, 3UT BULLET
[40464]WOUNDS IN CONNALLY’S CHEST WERE PLAINLY VISIBLE, INDICATING THE GUNFIRE
[40465]MIGHT POSSIBLY HAVE COME FROM AN AUTOMATIC WEAPON.
[40467]THERE WERE THREE LOUD BURSTS. :
[40469]: DALLAS MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS ESCORTING THE PRESIDENT QUICKLY LEAPED
[40470]FROM THEIR BIKES AND RACED UP & GRASSY KILL.
[40472]MORE 146PES
[40474]UPTAISN DA
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[40478]Now reporter Smith is dictating a
[40479]story ready for: printing.
[40481]Smith rolls on, swiftly and
[40483]-fluently, adding fresh details as
[40485]“pandemonium” breaks out
[40486]in the corridor outside his
[40487]telephone niche.
[40489]Searching his mind for
[40490]impressions of the shooting,
[40491]Smith adds all he can remember
[40492]to the story. The shaken wire
[40493]operator stumbles in the
[40495]second line.
[40497]As yet nothing is known of the
[40498]sniper, what kind of weapon
[40500]he used, or where the
[40502]shots came from.
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[40577]Mew: o : Mr. Belmont ; DATE: November 27, 1963 Le woe oo
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[40580]FROM C. A. Evans Ce Lo Pale 2ec2 ee
[40581]O Je a _ Gandy
[40582]sumjecr: ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT KENNEDY | pg
[40583]. Deputy Attorney General Katzenbach telephoned at 10-50 a.m,
[40584]He said he had just completed talking on the telephone with Alexis vohnscn, hon
[40585]Deputy Under Secretary of State, Johnson told Katzenbach that insofar as
[40586]the investigation of this matter in Mexico is concerned, the State Department _—_
[40587]felt this should be coordinated and directed by the FBI. State took the to
[40588]poSition that the President's directive to the FBI extended to any activity
[40589]outside of the United States, as well as within the country. Insofarasthe
[40590]| Ambassador in Mexico is concerned, Johnson believed he should be kept Nyt Eset
[40591]informed of any pertinent developments but that the Ambassador should not 3 \ -
[40592]be running the investigation, . prer a
[40593]. . iv :
[40594]’ ‘As to current developments, Katzenbach said that the last thins —
[40595]he would want would be for the FBI to take Agents away from their investiga- !
[40596][ts duties to prepare reports. He requested, however, that ifthere were: i
[40597]cl, j 2154, pertinent_developments_he he orally. briefed. mo oz
[40598]VK hee ler NE na combininty te OE N ta
[40599]With further reference to his conversation with Alexis Johnson, ~ - oe
[40600]Katzenbach said he had been asked whether the State Department should make-s a
[40601]a formal inquiry of the Soviet Government for information concerning Oswald... a
[40602]and his wife, particularly as to their activities in Russia. He asked that thisiy: ee
[40603]question be considered by the Director, as Katzenbach felt his views mo t. Me a
[40604]important. _ Lo, A i: —
[40605]In thinking about the matter himself, Katzenbach noted if we A: a
[40606]_| did not ask the Soviets for information there would 9e no answer should the BE I>
[40607]question of Oswald's stay in Russia be raised, other than to admit we had 2 js
[40608]made no inquiry. On the other hand, he observed that we could not place i it
[40609]any reliance on anything the Soviets said. ( i
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[40630]ares :
[40632]‘following recommendations are submitted with reference to the points |
[40633]raised by Mr. Katzenbach: __ . -
[40635]1. Insofar as making a formal approach to the Soviet Government,
[40636]we believe this undesirable. Such a formal request from the United States =
[40637]will enable the Russians to put out an official statement entirely favorable ey.
[40638]tothem. The United States wil] have to aeqgat this, since it is in response .
[40639]to our formal request, and we won t be in a position to disprove it. The a
[40641]State Department has responsibility here and we Should not dictate the
[40642]position they are to take, but our views should be stated, ‘
[40644]a 2, In connection with the investigation in Mexico, it is a.
[40645]recommended Katzenbach be informed that the State Department and hs
[40646]Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have jurisdiction in dealing with foreion ae
[40647]governments and in getting investigative results and intelligence coverage i
[40648]abroad; that while we are cooperating fully with State and CIA in Mexico, _
[40649]the responsibility in this matter Should rest with State and CIA, - |
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[40652]~, _ if approved, Katzenbach will be so advised, 4 nH } ? Jeg a
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[40947]a . | oo s+ danuary 28, 1976
[40948]The Honorable Otis Fike; Chatman ok _
[40949]House Select Committers on -Tatelligence,
[40950]Rayburn Houses Office Building, |
[40951]Washington, D.C. 20515 i
[40953]t
[40955]Dear Congressman Pike:
[40957]Congratulations on your. Comittee? S$ groat servico to the Arerican elece
[40958]torate in removing some of the mask of gs scerecy from the domestic covers
[40959]ie hee us and funding of the CIA. Secresy protecte a countorprodustive
[40961]nd indefensible cavers operations for tucnty=seven years, The light
[40962]of exposure and cleansing lg now enhancing. our countigts security. The.
[40963]pubs ishing of your excellent report over CIA and Waite House objections
[40964]is an set of courage the electorate will soon apprecicte.
[40966]Relisnee, however, by any Congressional committee on Tandouts fron the
[40968]CIA itself, is like an investigative reporter com ~pllirg his story froa
[40969]government press relecses, Neither is doing the job ths employer paid.
[40970]it to doe ;
[40972]‘Finding the hidden CIA budget2 for three or four tines the billions of
[40974]dollars adauitted to the electorate is a co: anandavle adiigvaenent. Bub
[40975]what would your investigators have achieved if a law is alroady in |
[40976]force imposing criminal ponalties upon CIA enployeos uio leaked infor-
[40977]mation to you? The CIA proposed eeerecy law dis a bplacaail Weapons
[40978]Intelligence, meney and secrecy. combina to constitute auboeratie power
[40979]in cur scelety. The Congrcas enjoys no antei his gonce s:rvicn of its
[40981]om, .I% enjeys no-offsetive control ove ponding of funds hidden in
[40982]the budgat ~S Of non-CIA denartments and agencice,. if & surrendars to
[40983]the doctrine of sectecy it is ponerless indeed. To stungthen Congrenst
[40985]powsr I offer you my om counterintelligence service it Place, . The
[40986]sources have been carefully tested and Accumulated sime 19))9,
[40988]Toe problen.is. not ‘leaking intelligence out of Comni.t tes it is leaking
[40989]independent intelligence Into 48. Starting exactly one year ago today
[40990]I launched penetration offorty with a 19 pegs report akiressed ta
[40991]"Chairman and Members, Select Committees on Intelligenma Cperations.
[40993]I hend delivered this report to every comnittes member's office.. My
[40994]wife Nancy recorded the date, hour and person deliveret to.
[40996]On June 25, 1975 Edward Roeder TII of your staff receiwted for 103
[40997]pages of counterintellivence:on CIA. This -representeda distillation
[40998]of a quarter century of inScliigence gathering. CIA catrol of the
[40999]Wateryate treakin and coverup and CIA's investigation ¢ my penotration
[41000]of their secrets is covered, The application to the t,s. Attornay and
[41001]three U. S, Special Prosesutorg requesting investigatia. and prosecution
[41002]of murder of American citizens within the U.S.A. is inyour files, oo
[41003]Nevertheless, none of this intelligence leaked to recomition ox invos-
[41004]tigation within the executive departments or your Comittese
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[41009]On July 30, 1975 Emily Sheketoff! of your staff receipted for a one page
[41010]notification distributed to chairmen and menbvers thab Anne P. Commandue
[41011]ras, an employes of GIA's domestic assansination offiec, had been mur-
[41012]doved in her apartment houge swhening pool by CLA assussin Eugene Hale
[41013]Bredinge
[41015]I now enjoy tha additional intelligence that Comanduras was executed
[41016]with a CYA daes gun auch os that displayed to neys cameras by a menber
[41017]of the Sonate Intelligence Committes, The iatcMigence weapon fires a
[41018]Sliver coated with shellfish toxin that killa within .sccond3, dissolves
[41019]and saves no mavk. The CIA preserved thelr shellfish toxin supply in
[41020]direct contravention of an order of the President. Your Cennittee filed
[41021]thig raport wibhout action oheng with over 200 adiiltilonal counterintel-
[41022]ligence. Is this secrecy t ab protests nablonal security?
[41024]Conzres sian Pike, you have exposed 310 billion of CIA funding mostly .
[41025]hidden in anothar budget. Whll you go for mors? Then exanaine the
[41026]State Cepartment, Trecaury Department, Justice Nepartment, ialte House
[41027]_omd Congress aprropriationa., All of these support personnel accepting
[41028]orders for covert domestic operations from CIA,
[41030]You have uncovered CIA operations in the media, Investigate police
[41031]departments throughout the nation funded by LEAA that are responsive to
[41032]CIA orders. In the Fairfax County, Virginia, polica departvens alona
[41034]a Gia assassin has tyice employed the badge of the doparteont as cover
[41035]to gain entrance to domiciles to perform. executions.
[41037]I asain command your Conntttes for resis ting the pressure for secrecy
[41038]in publishing your report. I deplore your resistance to the leaking
[41039]of intelligence into your Comittee, The latter confines your Com-
[41040]mittes's intelligence to official and unofficial leaking channels of
[41041]the CIA. Pleasa consede that thore are other citizens as concerned
[41042]for the security of Awarica as you are.
[41044]I respectfully request opportunity to “confer with you, Congressman Pike,
[41045]or with your capable, diligent and hoacst staff chief, A. Searle Field,
[41046]I want to assist your Committees in recommonding renpdiad legislation
[41047]based upon 27 years of Ucfining. the problem,
[41049]Respectfully submitted,
[41051]Amos E. Haacock
[41052]hh1lO Czlethorpe, Apt. 708,
[41053]Hyattsville, Md, 20781
[41055]; - Telephone: 864-5353
[41056]Encl: Lotters to Senator ;
[41057]Abrahaa Ribicoff and to
[41058]‘Senator Frank Churche
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[41073]RICHARG A, WEGMAN
[41074]CiNEF COUNSEL AND STAFF DIRECTOR
[41076]th ae Wrnrited States Senate
[41078]COMMITTEE ON
[41079]GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
[41081]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20519
[41082]March 8, 1976
[41084]Mr, Amos E. Heacock ;
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[41092]Dear Mr. Heacock: CD) SI p>3975
[41094]Thank you for writing to me regarding your knowledge of
[41095]the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. I understand
[41096]that you have discussed these questions at length with members
[41097]of the Committee staff.
[41099]On March 1 the Committee reported S. Res. 400 creating
[41100]a Senate Committee on Intelligence Activities. The legislation
[41101]which was before us concerned only the establishment of a new
[41102]congressional committee; it did not involve revisions that. would
[41103]significantly modify the Structure or the powers of the CIA it-
[41104]self. The Committee has not been authorized to hire additional
[41105]staff personnel for the purpose of this legislation. Further-
[41106]more, we were under instructions from the Senate to report out a4.
[41108]formal recommendation in the form of legislation by March 1.
[41110]I am, however, deeply concerned with the charges you
[41111]have made because, if true, they represent grave examples of
[41112]corruption and criminality. It is my hope and intent that the
[41113]new committee created by the legislation we are considering,
[41115]once it is established, will have the jurisdiction and the re-
[41116]sources to explore the kind of issues which you raise.
[41118]I assure you that the entirety of the information you
[41119]have submitted to my committee will be made available to the
[41120]new Congressional oversight committee,
[41122]I am sure you understand the constraints on the Govern-
[41123]ment Operations Committee which prevent us. from undertaking the
[41124]investigations you suggest, but I shall forward the material
[41125]you submitted to the new committee as soon as it is established. |.
[41127]‘For your information, I am enclosing a copy of S. Res.
[41128]400 and a copy of the committee's report on this measure.
[41130]Sincerely, j
[41132]Abe. Ribicoff
[41134]Enclosures (2)
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[41138]January 28, 1976
[41140]The Honorable Abraham Ribleoff, Chaimnan
[41141]Gommittse on Government Operations,
[41142]United States Senate !
[41143]Dirksen Senate Office Building
[41144]‘Veshington, D. C. 20510.
[41146]Dear Senator Riblicoff:
[41148]Destiny has chosen you tha second time in seven years to chair a com-
[41149]mittee with capability of establishing logislativa remedies to prevent
[41150]domestic and foreign agsassinutions, huve corruption ulthin military
[41151]supply streams, multi billien doller currency manipulation and massive
[41152]intervention of the CIA in demstile covert operations,
[41154]On or about March 6, 1959 you were the scsing chairman of the Permanent
[41155]Investigations Subcomaittes that heard Cornslius Hawkridge, my witness,
[41157]. degerthe a multi billion dollar currency manipulation racke% in South
[41158]Vietnam, Carmine Eollino, steff investigator, preventcd Havkridza from .
[41159]-alao testifying about truck conveys of astelen military army and supplies
[41160]that he odserved heading toward the Ganbodia beordexs, tae "Zeneca for ,
[41161]these stolen arms was the fabulous Soviet KGB areas Jarques Yang, das=
[41162]eribad by staf? in your hearings to ba a mera Viatnamgsa comalssary
[41163]clork, The orgauszad erime vendors of the stelen goods reached inte
[41164]your Comittee in Caraine Bellino to prvtags their hucrative vackate
[41165]Hawseidca later wrote you a latter covaring this deficiency in testi-
[41166]nonye He pointad out the sale of aras generated funds uged in cure
[41167]rency monipulation. oe
[41169]I aided the cripplod Hauviridge abourd nis flight at Sesttle., Your Con-
[41170]mittas provided aa ambulance to meet hin for it was loss tosn two | ;
[41171]montis gince he survived an assaagsination abbenps that killed hig wife.
[41172]The Soviet KGB lat a contract with organized erimea’s CiA assassination
[41173]fecilities to idll them. Tho KGB considered Hawkridge a defector. |
[41174]Whlliaa 3. Wood, alias Willian Poxley, CIA alias Willica Harvey and
[41175]double agont for KGB fingered Hawkridgs and his wile Augela, a "baby
[41176]sitter! agent for West German and CIA intelligence. a the contrived
[41177]truck-car "accident" Hawkridve was crippled for life.
[41179]Imot with CIA's Yarvey as Boxlny in Noverbsar, 1968, 4: New Ovlcans
[41180]pursuant to my counterintelligenca investigations, Harvey, witnass
[41181]before the Sonate Intalligence Committea, has adnitted his role as
[41183]organizer of the ZR/RIFLS Executive Action assassinatisn capability
[41184]and his contacts with John Roaselli and Sam Gianeana of organized erhag
[41185]to implement that capability. Harvey incorrectly jue d to the conclue
[41186]gion for the XGB that Hawtridge was a cooparative sourta of much of ny
[41187]accurate: counterintalligenco on KGB.
[41189]'
[41191]Hawkxridgs had precipitated your investivzation by appeaing to a Troasury
[41192]official. The official prevailed upon Senator John Mcslellan, thon
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[41196]Chairman of your Comaittsa, to conduct it. He first exposed tha fasougs
[41197]Nppysunean" account in a New York bank. It was used to convert’ South
[41198]Vietnamese piasters to dollars, mogt of which ended up in three banks
[41199]in the shiekdom of Dubai on the Porsian Gulf.
[41201]My further investigation beyond the Comiittac probe, sabotaged by Bel-
[41202]lino, estadlished ths dollars ware used to requisition gold ingots
[41203]froa the U. S. treasury at $35 per ounce, These were renelted to con-
[41204]venient "taels" or wafors of gold for black market trading for Indo~
[41205]china currencies again at huge discounts. ‘The conspirators enjoyed
[41206]government facllities for converting plasters to dollars at fantaatl-~
[41207]cally unrealistic official exchange rates. The exchange provided huge
[41208]profits to conspirators and huge losses to the Treasury.
[41210]This inflation machine is still at work, though at a reduced rate since
[41211]the end of the war in Southeast Asia. The entrepreneurs seek greencr
[41212]pastures where new ward dostebiliee currencies. Pernaps Angola?
[41213]Hawkpidge's real nase is Cornel Solyon. His intolligence activities
[41214]for a decade vere traced in 2.6) page report in the possession of tha
[41215]Senate and House Intelligenca Comaittees and your Committee,
[41217]Senator Ribicoff, had the activities of CTA-Crime double agent Carmine
[41218]Bellino and Hawkridge's testimony been exposed in the puolie record in
[41219]1969, the tramia for you, for your Comitter, for the Congress and for
[41220]the American electorate would hava been isercifully softened. Bellino
[41221]wont on to become Caief Investigator for the Senate Watergate Committee.
[41222]He covered up the sources of $1,050,000 of so-called political donor
[41223]funds I have traced, He went on to instruct CIA agent Aloxander But-
[41224]terfield in the waite Housa to reveal the existonce of tha President's
[41225]tapes, thereby insuring his domfall.
[41227]A file of my letters to Senator Henry Jackson in 1969 were sont by hin
[41229]to your Conmittes, The intelligence waa suppressed by Ballina, Although
[41230]your Conmittss published eigns yolunes of hearings. in this investigation,
[41231]Hauxridge!s vital testinony was deleted. My intelligence was disregarded.
[41233]The legislative remedies now teing proposed to counter corruption of our
[41234]intolligence services can only be made adequata by exposing to public ,
[41235]view tho depth of the problem of secrecy. I an alarmed at demands for
[41236]secrecy bo support CIA covert operations such as those that Led our
[41237]eountry into the most counterproductive covert operation din our nabion'ts
[41239]history -< the war in Vietnan. Did the secrecy imposed by Rellino with-
[41240]in your Committee advance the security of the United States? Or did it
[41241]jnsura the greatsat Humiliation of our forsijm policy and our atmad
[41242]forees since the birth of our repubdlic 200 yearg ago?
[41244]Tam alarmed that criminal penalties are being proposed for public ser~
[41246]vants whose conscience Lspels them to notify Congress and the public of
[41247]. irresponsible actions of men infected with the arroganca of power, T
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[41251]January 28, 1976 ore
[41253]"he Honorable Frante Church, Chairman | Ref: My lettor 11/20/74
[41255]Seleet Committee on Intelligence | uN & enel, to Son. Welkar
[41256]United States Senate, foruaried & acknovledged
[41257]Russell Offieo Bullding, =: . . "your letter 1/7/15; your
[41258]Washington, De C. 20510 ; eo - (acknowledgement data
[41260]5/5/2753. my letter 7/11/75.
[41262]Dear Senator Church:
[41264]I commend the diligent efforts of you, the members and the staff in produce
[41265]ing and especially in publishing the Committea's report’ on "Allaged Assasa~
[41266]ination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders,"
[41268]Nevertheless, I must adviso you that over 200 pages of counterintelligence
[41270]on domestic and foreign assasainations of the CIA I have provided or made
[41271]available to staff and members has been disvegardsd or deliborately with-
[41272]held fron member'd. . - . .
[41274]Conssquently, as members are preparing to sign a final report, it is tinely —
[41275]to list some of the disastrous arrors of the interia report, The errors
[41277]aro the result of intentions] misropresentation and deceit of the Congress
[41278]and the “American electorate by the CIA, its directors and employoese
[41280](1) Tae ZR/RTFLE Execubive Action program begun in 1960, headed by W1l-
[41281]liam Harvey, was designed’ as a domestic asgassination capability.
[41283](2) Under the direct planning and implementation of Harvey, a number of |
[41284]domostic and foroign assassinations ware exacuted.
[41286](3) Harvey's real nana is William 5S, Wood, alias Williaa Boxley, alias
[41287]W. J. Wwod. His assassinations in USA I have already reported,
[41289](4) Anong foroign assassinations with participation by Neod's domestic
[41290]team mendera on foreign duty are those of Lununmba and Trujillo.
[41292](5) Ordera passed by CIA for execution, rather than oxiling. or kidnapping,
[41293]cauged the deaths of Ngo Diem, Ngo Nhu and Rene Schneidar.s
[41295](6) CIA gave the code naze WI/NT to the organized criac assassination
[41296]congultent employed to insure the killing of Patrice Lumumba, His
[41297]peal name is Michael Genovese, alias VYietor Rasignio, son of Vito ,
[41299]Genovese, boss of bouses of the Mafia in Atlanta fedexsal prison
[41300]until he died. Genoveas enjoyed assassination authority indapendan’
[41301]of CIA directors delegated by Meyer Lansky, boss of tho American
[41302]international crime syndicate then, Neithar President BRisenhower nor
[41303]Presidant Kennedy confsrsod as3aszsination authority upon CIA.
[41305](7) Genovese, as Victor Resignio, directed an armas and supplies diversion
[41306]and currency manipulation racket in South Vietnan in 1966-67 that cost
[41307]the Treasury $51.8 billion, Executive Dopartaents! total, not mino.
[41309](8) Wood's crime team ember that aided Genovese to assure Lumumbats death
[41310]was code named WI/RCGUE., He is Frank Sturgis, Watergate burglar.
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[41318]0) Sho efleld Edwatdg, witness produced by CIA as its Director of Secure
[41319]ity, wea a spurious subd titution to decelve the Cenmlotes and. thn
[41320]Amgrican electorate. Recruited from organised crime, GIA coached
[41321]him to appear as the Edvards or Colonel Edwards who directed tho
[41323]early alleged attempts to asgassinata Fidel Castro,
[41325]The real Eduwardg who collab porated with organics! erime's hit man Jchn
[41326]Rosselli, his boss Sam Ginncana and Rovert iabeu,: agen’ of Howard
[41327]Hugnes, oll-tool billi. onuire, was B. Howard tarts, Watergato burglar.
[41329]Edvards was Hunt's CIA name, 2 CIA poisoned Sheffield Edwards
[41330]after his appearance to prevent ba recall and possible cxposure ag
[41331]a fraud. .
[41333]ail
[41334](10) John Rosselli aceepted abdassination omiers fron nob leader Glancana_
[41335]who accepted orders in ven from Meyer Lanslye
[41336](11) Comaities witness Roselli wag the hit man who slot Giancana with a
[41337]special assassination weapon developed by CIA. He led the kidnapping
[41338]7 and execution of Jancs Hotta, one tine Teansters' president -- even
[41339]as your hoarings progressed.
[41340]if
[41341](12) Witness Robert Hahue oxncuted the orders of Howart Hughes in contact-
[41342]Ang Rossolli to implenent a domestic assassinaticr. capability through
[41343]organised eri, Hughes ‘issued orders to assassimte Fromier Ngo
[41344]Dien through Richard G. Danner, allies Gil Danner.
[41346]Danner precipitated the Hughes order to bug Laurece O'Brien's tole-
[41347]phone in the Watergate complex by being. caught fosarding a $100,C00
[41348]paysent on President Nixon's San Clemente and Key Bincayna homes for
[41349]Hughes to the President's friend, Bebe Raboso. Huhes susrectod a
[41350]plot by defector Maken and O'Brien to blow the eleticn for Nixon,
[41351]"Gil" Danner was manager;of the International Club in Saigon, owned
[41352]by thea U. S. Embassy. Ha represented tughes! inteest in the 351, 8
[41353]billion racket managed by Wichael Genovese.-
[41355](13) CIA in 1949 ostablishea a Domestic Intelligence Diision for covert
[41356]action within the White Houss, the Executive Depaitments, Gongress,
[41357]political parties and the Inedia.
[41359](4h) The Central Intelligence: ‘Ap geney Act of 1949 was ued as authorization
[41360]for CIA to implement domestic covert actions throwh funding and
[41361]personnel of domestic agencies of government. The Intelligence Dirac=
[41362]torate of GIA is cover for domestic covert actionyvin the agency itself,
[41364]I am gure you will agree that nad your staff ‘inves tigatecand confirmed ry
[41365]—counterintelligence during: the yoar it has been available to you, the legis- .
[41366]lative romedias recommended by your proliminary report wald have beon found
[41367]unacceptably weak by Comalttec, Congrass and the America:electorate. Please
[41369]permit moa to meot and serve you with counterintelligence inpute
[41371]: ,
[41372]Respectfully submitted, (Dove £, Mark,
[41374]Encl: Letters to Sen, Amos E. Heacock, lsl0 Cplehorpe, Hyattsville,
[41375]Ribleoff & Rep, Pike 20761, telephone 864-5353. .
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[41381]am alarmed that no witness hag pointed a fingsr of blame at the Central
[41382]‘Intelligance Agency Act of 1949. It Ls tha Magna Charta of CIA's Don-
[41383]estic Intzlligence Division. “This act specifically provided cover for
[41384]CIA. It effectively repealed CIAts restriction to foreign operations
[41385]intended by Congreas to prevent a police state,
[41387]The 1949 act authorized CIA to concoal huge > porblons of its budgat and
[41389]personel within the budgets and personnel roster of domeatic agencies
[41391]of governmant. These espectally include employees on Capitol Hill,
[41393]in the Waite House, in the Departaznt of Justice, in the Federal Aviation
[41395]Adninistration and in the Chyh), Asvonauties Board. Until the act is
[41397]repealed Congress will ronain part of the problen, not part of the
[41399]solution.
[41401]I
[41403]When Comelius and Angela Hawlerddge wera hit vy the CIA's domestic
[41405]assassins on January 10, 1969): ey anger overrode my caution. I wrote
[41407]all fifteen members of the Senate Foreign Relations Comnittee February
[41408]~ 23, 1989. I demanded that Hawkridye be heard by the Senate, Although
[41410]I reteived no replies, this forced Carulne Bellino's hand and Hauk~
[41412]ridg2 was subpocnaed, The recipients referred some lettars to. your
[41414]Committacs — pe
[41416]Six nonths earlier my letter. of August ly, - 968 to the Foreign Relations
[41418]Comaittee enclosed a 606 page; jetudy entitled "Assassinations of the
[41420]_Tadustrial State." It concluded whe una tha startling Preais e I am now
[41422]i
[41423]propared to prove to the Senate
[41425]"It is my fira prediction! that when tha Foreign Relations.
[41426]Committees get to the bottom of the CIA's conspiracy to
[41427]usurp Congress! foreign policy authority. they will also
[41428]have solved the conspiracies behind the continuing
[41429]agsasginations of the industrial state.".
[41431]I rely upon your fairness for opportunity to re fute the clains of
[41432]William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, to testify and to ald
[41433]your Comaiithas to draft legislation that will effectively prevent
[41434]abuses of power by the governient's intclligence agencies.
[41436]As an Air Force officer be fora} during and after orld War IT, I am
[41437]concerned, as I know you are, that our country's security will be pro-
[41438]tectad. I will testify for more offective legitimate intelligence and
[41439]counterintelligence services, | Perhaps the most effectiva testimony I
[41440]can pive is that which will estadlis h that the CIA has been thoroughly
[41441]infiltrated and corrupted by double agents. who owo their primary
[41442]loyalty to the Soviet KGB. =!
[41444]Reapectfull submitted, A
[41445]Oy —
[41447]Enel: Lettors to - Amos E. Heacock
[41448]Senator Frank Church. —Wsto Oglethorps, Apt. 703,
[41449]. and Congressman “"Wyattsville, Md. 20781
[41451]Otis Pike. Telephone 864-5353
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[41516]COUNTRY: © Cubas REPORT HO. HKH-1385 3
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[41519]SUBJECT: Assassination of Lt. Col. Antonio DATE: OF INFO: 28-29 hoverber 1956
[41520]BLAICO Rico Solved ;
[41522]DATE’ “ACQUIRED: 29 Koverber 1956
[41523]“PLACE ACQUIRED:Habana a pATE ‘OF. "REPORT: 30 Noverber 1956
[41525]SOURCE, SOURCE EVALUATION, APPRAISAL OF CONTENT: cuban goverment official (8)
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[41530]1. Agents of the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar sta, Cuban Military Intelligence |
[41531]Service) are reported to have identified cefinitely the assassins of Lt. Cel.
[41532]Antonio ELANCO Rico, former chief of SIM killed om 22 Octcber 1956 at the Mont-
[41533]martre nightclub. On 29 November 1956 SIM agents interrogated Dr. armando CARDENAS a
[41534]Aranguren, ‘instructor of patholosy at the University ef Kabana, end succeeded ; gee
[41535]in obtaining an admission fron CARDENAS that Juan Pedro CARGO Servid end Rolarco .
[41536]“CUBELAS Secades‘had sought refuge at his. house after the assassination of ELA‘CO
[41537]Rico and had remained there acoroximately three or four days. CARDENAS stated |
[41538]during interrcgation that CA899 had arrived at his house carrying a sub-r2chine
[41540]. gun. On the basis of CARDENAS’ aamissions, SIM officiais are convinced that
[41542]-CAREO and CUBELAS were the ones who killed elascd ‘Rico. ,
[41544]2. Implication of CARDENAS and CUBELAS resulted from ‘the interception of a cable
[41545]by SIM sent from Miami, Florida, by a friend of CUBELAS to Virginia SECASESS, 3
[41546]"- mother of CUBELAS, in Habana. On, 27 November 1956 Virginia SECACES was arrested
[41547]~ by SIM and taken.to SIM headquarters for questioning concerning her son's parti-
[41548]cipation in the assassination of BLANCO Rico. SIM agents were unable to obtain
[41549]_any infermation from SECADES concerning her son' § role in the killing but suc-
[41550]“ ceeded in learning that CARDENAS was a close friénd of her son. On 29 November
[41551]1956 SIM agents picked up CARDENAS who, under pressure, admitted that he was
[41552]. a homosexual, that CUSELAS was his intimate friend, and that he had nidcen
[41553]CUBELAS and CARBO in his home for about four days. These admissions were made
[41554]at SIM headquarters in the presence of Colonel Trenaldo GARCIA Baez, denuty
[41555]chief of SIM, Lt. Col. Marcelo TASERNILLA, who was wounded during the shooting.
[41556]of BLANCO Rico, and other high sin officials.
[41558]“3. interrogation of CARDENAS failed ‘to reveal the destination of CARBO and CUBELAS
[41559]after they. left the home of CARDENAS. - On the basis of the intercepted cable,
[41560]dated 23 November 1956, however, SIM officials believe that CARBO and CUBELAS
[41562]fled -§2, t tates by sh ip, since both possessed visas to the United
[41563](States Jitoh piseynate: valnde4 CARBO and CUBELAS are. believed to be in Miami
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[41597]DATE. 30 November 1956:
[41598]“4. SIM has transmitted the results of interrogation of SECADES and CARDENAS to _
[41600]President Fulgencio BATISTA, but the latter's reactign to these new cevelop- oe
[41602]. ments ig not known. Further action by the Cuban-authorities is complicated fs.
[41604]by the fact that the Governtent's main witness, CAPCENAS, is of dubious re- Fi.
[41606]liability, because of his homosexuality. CARDENAS js also reported to be —
[41608]the doctor of the family of Santiego VERCEJA Neyra, Minister of Cefense, who j
[41610]vouched for him wnen he was arrested by SIM. 1
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[41614]Field Comments:
[41616]1, Office files contain no previous record of CARDENAS in connection with bs
[41617]anti-BATISTA. activities. A Dr. Armando CARDENAS was listed'in Koy (cefunct oe
[41618]newspaper of the Cuban Comsunist Party), issue of 22 April 1949, as one © ee
[41619]of the persons who sent greetings to the World Corgress of Peace Partisans, Pome
[41620]scheduled to begin in Paris on 20 April 1949.
[41622]. 2, Both CARSO and CUSELAS have been the subjects in the past of denunctations ;
[41623]and arrests by the Cuban authorities as a result of their anti-EATISTA a
[41624]activities. - They were accused in August 1955 by Colonel Orlanco PIEDRA, io
[41625]chief of the Department of Investigations, of having fled from the police oe
[41626]from the site of an arms cache. In February 1956 CUBELAS was arrested and i>
[41627]tried on charges of participating in student disorders, according to articles FR
[41629]which appeared in local newspapers on 15 March 19565 and 1 April 1956. CARBO
[41630]was denounced by the Cuban police as one of BLANCO Rico's killers imzediately
[41631]after the shooting incident at the Montmartre nightclub.
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[41637]3. Office files contain no previous record of Virginia SECADES, Habana news
[41638]papers of 29 November 1956 carried an item in which the University of Habana
[41639]Student Federation protested against the detention of Virginia SECACES by
[41640]SIM. _ . a
[41642]4, Files of the Consular Section, United States Embassy, Habana, revealed
[41643]that CARBO was issued a tourist visa on 3 June 1954 and that CUBELAS re-
[41644]ceived a similar visa on 15 October 1954. The files do not indicate
[41645]whether these visas were valid for a single entry or multiple entries, but
[41647]they could still be valid, on the basis of the dates of issue.
[41649]+ me oe
[41653]i | | . :
[41654]oe - AY offictals announced immediately after the assassination of BLANCO
[41655]' ico that they had information as to the identity of the two assassins,
[41656]AIG 'S WShaming CARBO but not his accomplice, and that they were on the trail of
[41658]the latter. The police have failed to find the killers, however, and re- :
[41659]Ch portedly, under pressure from President BATISTA and General Francisco , i
[41660]TABERNILLA, Chief of Staff, Cuban Armed Forces, SIM and the police have
[41662]been making desperate efforts to solve the BLANCO Rico killing. It 4s
[41666]Be Lh aaa Re Pee See
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[41676]I
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[41685]a 7 . SECRET 1 .
[41686]r,
[41687]. fees
[41688]REPORT HO: HKH-1385, Pace 3 too
[41689]DATE r 30 November 1956
[41691]possible that CARDENAS may have been forced by SIM interrogators to make
[41692]statements implicating CARBO and CUBELAS which were not altogether true.
[41696]. 6. The local press and radio reported on 29 and: 30 Hovenber 1956 that United
[41697]States authorities were looking in hew Orleans for two Cubans who were sus-
[41698]pected of being the killers of BLANCO Rico. ‘They were identified by name as
[41699]Rolando CU3ELAS Secades and Guillermo GARCIA Riestra. The latter, wnile a
[41700]student et the University of Habana, was eccused of having participated in
[41701]an attempt against the life of Rolando MASFERRER in September 1949, accord-
[41702]ing to office files.
[41704]4
[41707]7. Avance, Habana-afternoon newspaper, published the official SIM version of
[41708]‘CERDENAS' arrest on 30 November 1956; ather newsoapers carried it subse-
[41709]quently. It contained substantially the same informaticn as resorted —
[41711]in the assassination “of BLANCO Rico, alleging that PRIO had helped CARBO
[41712]and CUBELAS to escape from Cuba.-
[41714]RECEIVED FROM
[41718]a“
[41719]| | :
[41720]. - |18-March 1965 - .
[41721]| . a a a
[41722]. : L- 7 wa.
[41723]WEYORANTUMS oy . |
[41724]SUBJECT: Preposal + o Exploit ots aud See
[41725]Jose Rebellas in Av Operation oO
[41726]1. It is prepesed that at the next meeting with .
[41728](1 UALS owe pass a nessago as follovs
[41730]"A big comandanté or capitan eho used
[41732]to bo a Lleeder of the ju university students
[41733]epenod a nuxbered (secret) account. ip
[41734]Svitzerland throug, Coleabtan Suarez (7
[41735]successor). He was traveling in burope at
[41736]that time, reughly Deceuber. 1964-dJenuary 1965.
[41737]The deposit wag in the anount of 310, ood.
[41739]_ The mossage is purposely so phrase ea than it’ cculd app
[41740]both. £74 _ and dose, Rabolloss. woth ana pant -presh
[41741]of the FEY (Federation oi University Students), © ‘
[41742]comandante and the other a captain, and beth vere
[41743]do Eurcpe in December 1964-Janus ary 1965.
[41744]Qe Subject proposal, has taken the folles jing information
[41745]into consiceration.
[41749]en R.. Gua records The ‘file shows that, since a ~
[41750]: April 1959 and repeatedly since then ! io!
[41751]rit -. bus threatened to elininato CASTRO, but ha ; xy
[41752]i > not done so. Hoe also was reportedly on ths : _
[41753]vorgo several timas of dofecting but never dic. ,
[41754]Thero are numerous reperts of varying croait BALI2y
[41755]thnb be bas Wee@irand liv Ts Castro agent. Nis
[41756]character is such that he_has_ been des eribad..
[41757]-in_a_ report” as ‘a probabie thief, a possible.
[41758]Ty ESrlof Rareolicd,—a neaosexurl ox a_fricnd.of_.
[41759]homosexuals, " but also "an exceedingly brave
[41760]Jaan." Various reports indicats that he is a.
[41761]*e beavy drinker and a party lovor.” ibus 2 persion
[41762]swith>sach traits could resonably be belioved
[41763]to. be involved in irregular financial transactions.
[41765]vad 28 ba
[41767]oe ; 7 a Se RIL 4 ce , . . : J ;
[41769]qt ero ope ae re
[41770]‘ on
[41772]mi!
[41774]Fy?
[41776]|
[41781]f
[41783]. b, + Favorable factors (fren 5S" ‘
[41785]standpoint): In the summer of 1962; Le/ .
[41787]gave Wb-] y50U in Heisinki ro beldéposited +
[41789]for L=| in a Eurcpean bank "forla rainy
[41790]_day.'"" In Maren 196). L-1 showed [great
[41792]sensitivity on the subject of bank accounts ~
[41794]in Rureope by & officials, fudicating that
[41796]he might shoot « oificial so involved.
[41798]c. Conclusion: While. _it-cennat bo j
[41799]discounted thot . L-l “way bea Castra_ /
[41800]tgpent,-tt-aay ba iene ho has beon sincuro so,
[41801]“ip bis dealings with C@/f 9 pesolution of 6
[41802]doubts through an  Velye RAPA. interview has
[41803]bean impossible sinew  L-f bit tho
[41805]ceiling when the matter was first nontionad.
[41807]Be Presumably Ci/d's interest in
[41809]' _“_-/ . is to see hin carry cut bis mission I.
[41810]‘to oliminate C457£0 The sbove propesal At
[41811]‘may actually stimulate the desired action. eo ye ©
[41813]If L.-/ is questioned by the regine in _— ke.
[41814]connection with this. charge, and should the epg’. a ”.
[41815]-investigation involvo a cortain amount of Se Gl. a “4
[41816]harassment and unpleasantness, he night vell per eo 7
[41817]reach the conelusion that the tine to take , j ate
[41818]matters into his own hancs (which he‘has ie ~
[41819]threatened to do for several . years) hag at
[41820]|, Last arrived. _ cot wo se
[41822]If. L-{ ‘is a Castro agent and: wee”
[41823]Castro should be aware of _..4-/. 's relation- bo tae
[41824]pha with Gyre Castro mipht conclude that iw \y? ‘
[41825]ad | received the money fron C/4 Neaaree Wren.
[41826]‘banked it without reporting it, and was in (ph! Ae A
[41828]fact working with C/A eesinst Ca ahro-: :
[41830](At tho recent neetings in Paris .. L£7/- 7 gh
[41831]“ askod us for $10,000. We did not give hin ~~ fe 0
[41832]tbis sun, though Vat — |] Beve bin $7,000.) - -\
[41834].. If for. any. reason the regine showld i
[41835]do away with: -L-/ | his alleged aynpathizers » iro fans
[41836]in the Armod Forces might feol thoy must react, ‘aot a
[41837]at once to save their own skins." Given the /7@ eV “
[41839]-tense political situation in Cubs today, this “
[41840]is not out of tha question and cortainly th
[41842]Ley / LAS .
[41843]"Proposal could eplit the regime moro, Abe H, y tae
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[41849]ee RO PAN ene Te
[41851]“ :
[41853]Frere
[41855]ne renee
[41858]Lege
[41859]mee,
[41861]|
[41864]ent Oe ea
[41865]. {
[41867]. dese Roabsallen
[41869]. Rebellon is 2 nen-ceatr cial good ’ 5.
[41870]target for inclusioca-in this OPS play for ~~
[41871]‘the following reasonss; on
[41872]; 2 . 4 : —_—
[41873]se we tay Ro ds close to Castro, ag well es to
[41875]L-? , and has a Cornunis t background,
[41877]as oo b. - He is. faniliar with the £30,000
[41878]: necount cpenad in a Swiss bank by Anbassador.
[41879]_ Carrillo in the fall of 1964.- Rebollon has
[41880]been authorized by Castro to Grav on that
[41881]fund for purchases related to Castro's pot
[41883]“++ > ' projects, Castro night think. that Rebellon _ oo
[41884]ae had raided Castro's own official fund. ; ,
[41886]_ 7 a “fe with Le / _-any action by the | . .
[41888]~ «regime against Reballon might wicen uplits in °
[41889]cones -Cuba and bring about further politica 1 uneasiness
[41891]and tensions in interpersonal rolat donsnd ips that
[41892]wa desire.
[41898]. vee be
[41899]te +
[41900]eo 4
[41901]a os : ° ~
[41902]: _
[41903]af
[41905]. 3 t
[41906]1
[41907]. . : 7 Af . ‘oe i
[41908]. or Tors * oa fe yey ty ” uo
[41909]. s. RE Liat age . aan ve :
[41910]‘ ~ eo o* nh Sr rr i id wy Paes BS MN he ea ee a Aaa a Os ;
[41911]1 ; , f
[41912]., fet
[41913]. > . ' pre
[41915]aD
[41916]S
[41918]. oy .
[41919]va
[41922]i ; iN OA wif
[41924], . . . ——
[41925]| 10 February 1976 Be
[41926].
[41928]_
[41929]MEMORANDUM FOR: The Review Staff ;
[41930]ATTENTION: Mr. Walter Elder ; REC: - aS
[41931]VIA: : “SA/DDO ore
[41932]CbE Li ists z
[41933]SUBJECT: -  §SC Request a P her
[41934]| Cia —
[41936]REFERENCE: 7 ORS 76~0083/A.(14 January 1976)
[41938]1. Re question number 1 of reference: Attachment "A" contains
[41939]the names of Agency personnel who were in Mexico City, Mexico, during
[41940]‘the period 1 September 1963 through 31 December 1963 and who are still
[41942]on duty. Attachment "B" contains the names of Agency personnel who
[41943]were in Mexico City during this same period but are now retired or no
[41944]longer on duty. It is understood that these attachments will be
[41945]retained in the Headquarters building for use by the Committee Staff.
[41947]; 2. Re question number 3(a) of reference: For your background,
[41949]‘the Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil (DRE) was a Cuban student
[41951]exile entity founded in September 1960 as an anti-Communist revolutionary
[41952]organization dedicated to the overthrow of the Castro regimes The parent
[41953]organization of the DRE was the Directorio Revolucionario (DR), a revolu-
[41954]tionary organization of Cuban students opposed to the Batista regime
[41955]which actively joined the Castro forces by organizing a guerrilla move-
[41956]ment which contributed greatly to the collapse of the Batista regime-
[41958][The Castro government, themselves of student origin, recognized the DR
[41959]power’ and by-passed them politically by forming the new regime without
[41960]their participation. The original DR became Communist controlled and
[41961]directed. While the Agency had no role in the founding, the DRE was an
[41962]entity used by the CIA as a unilateral asset in pursuing U.S. policy
[41963]objectives. CIA support to the DRE ceased on 30 September 1966 and formally
[41964]terminated on 1 January 1967. At that time DRE files were reviewed and
[41965]material dealing with CIA support and operations were either destroyed
[41967]or turned over the JMWAVE Station. The DRE was expected to continue as
[41968]an organizational entity and continue its activities independent of CIA.
[41970]3. The DRE files of both Station JNWAVE and Weadquarters that are
[41971]available have been reviewed and Lee Harvey Oswald's name does not appear
[41972]in these files. WAVE cable 8049 (in 66782) of 22 November 1963, states
[41973]in the third sentence, "according AMSPELL files, Oswald", undoubtedly
[41974]refers to the DRE files maintained in the DRE office in Miami, Florida.
[41976]; E2 IMPDET
[41977]See ES CL BY 099560
[41979]Sed allo Naw aglRSa
[41980]PAL east PEA ype eg
[41981]os ed ae en A ea .
[41983]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 566
[41985]These entity files were independent of the JMWAVE Station files. Had
[41986]Station JMWAVE referred to it's files in WAVE 8049 the cavle would have
[41987]been worded, "according AMSPELL Station files." The file of AMHINT-53,
[41988]a former executive of the DRE, has also been reviewed and no. reference
[41989]to Oswald was found. The file number which appears on WAVE 8049 is no
[41990]longer in use and the contents ‘of this former file were transferred
[41991]into Oswald's and other 201. files by the CI Staff. <A tape of the radio
[41992]debate cited in WAVE 8049 is jinctaded in the Oswald 201 held by the CI
[41994]Stafe. i
[41996]4, Re ‘question number 3(b) of reference: We have been'‘unable to
[41997]determine if Station JHWAVE was instructed to. review its files for
[41998]information on Oswald. For. many years the CI Staff has been the focal
[41999]point for tne collation of any. and all information concerning Oswald
[42000]and if the JHMWAVE files on any Cuban groups contained information on
[42001]Oswald such information should be reflected in Oswald 201 file.
[42003]: . 3
[42004]7 uf
[42006]fe LL Ah Sti S
[42007]L isha S. Sampson
[42009]Chief 43
[42010]; Latin America Division | Lo
[42012]Attachments:
[42013]A & B as stated
[42015]REG) ihe
[42016]C62 AA 1916
[42018]CIA
[42021]wept a oad
[42022]eamse Sega, me tek ee
[42025]nan
[42027]as
[42037]a
[42039]ape
[42042]an te
[42044]Te Tg
[42048]; |
[42049]Hernandez Armas: “Listen, I hav: your coffidantiel (resort) 125, stout the Sra. .
[42051]Durea cases and Lane to ask you for seme declax Budo un this! you can bealouns
[42053]Bs
[42055]in detail”, He edds "Lasten...thst's true...of diac! imail, waat you say here in the
[42056]confidential (report), the Federals of that country wanted Sra. Silvia Duraa to say
[42057]something, that they had some interest in, and nad offered some money to: the
[42059]| Anerican? (Oswald). ‘Hernandez hemes ‘replied taat ' ‘no, no, nothing about money, no".
[42061]' Dort vicos continued speaking, "and they tried to detain ‘her, to oblige her to make
[42062]I
[42064]8 | statement” - Hernandez Bays that. “she was detained, and was q estioned with respect
[42066]. to this visit and the request for: a visa, and then she said ‘that she had requested
[42068]the visa, had filed ous. sls. ceveiuieaits and the reply of our government hed been
[42070]Prasatives, no} granting the visa * _Dorticos asked if "you “spoke with her!', Hernandez Lee,
[42072]said that yes, "J could talk ta. her yesterday and r inmediately sent the report".
[42076]Dorticos: “"anderstand? if all this is true,) better that is be knowns it she is being
[42079]“Resa vy those people, batter too." Hernandez: ri was saying that she was.
[42081]° —"Getained Sacanday “aftemioon, a, and freed in the early morning, end yesterday was when .
[42083]-—+-foand ner end-eould-tall with hers 5 she referred Ine (2 me. peeicid) and I took
[42085]——edventese of. the fact. that. a plane was about to leave with our made ‘Dorbs Gos 37 yess
[42087]“yes, you, sent that, i _already know shat you, Bent. «+00 you. know. what_happened? thet=————
[42089]the paper that ft have here, and don't tell me that Saar that. as what -bappencd? _ oo __
[42091]Hernandez: _ “What i have Just told you besides the. interrogation. Dorticos: ‘What wes
[42093]ema cs one See
[42095]_ it that they asked you? | Hernandez: “Whey asked her concresly about whether she. knew.
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[42099]“—"even 4 af she had intimate: “ pelations With him...she denied all that, only....Dorticos: °
[42101]i request visas at’ the Consulate, and if she remembered in detail of this case it was
[42103]HW 50955 DocTd:32423630 Page 569
[42105]~~. this individuals if she had gone <0 the ‘Consulates, if she hed personal relations, end
[42109]th i
[42110]: hl
[42111]intinate relations. with 3 ‘Be minty Hernandez: ~ Yes; she denied all that and seid that
[42113]|
[42115]_it was a case dike any. other, . of. the many of the hundreds of canee/ tant. “come +o: see
[42117]t
[42119]. beceuse this man had en incident with our Consul...he had an incident witkesearescnsnin
[42121]in which our Consul AZCUS, rebuked hin end ractiallyi nrew'hin out of the Consulate.
[42124]Dorticos: and why does she hare; (senators )> (het sitet Watt EBLIEL CGS, did they
[42126]“treet her badly? Eernandez: well, yes, yes, Dorticos: what did they do to ker?
[42127]a AU ses (
[42129]--Hermendez; She hes a few
[42131]on the arms, because she says they squeezed her
[42132]aras curing the interrogation. Dorticos: what vas it...a3 she told you ebout what
[42133]wes done. Hernandez: In this way {Presidente#: they went to her house and took her
[42135]othe EGE" to the FRE of Federal Police and interrogated har to the extrene
[42136]JAN 28 1976 - 7 |
[42138]CIA
[42141]'
[42143]i
[42145]'
[42147]; j
[42148]Iwas t2lling you acout. Dortices;: and the maltreatm ment, “cw ves Lt? Nernanda.:
[42150]ime of interrogation, tryi ing to i impress her so that sha vould tell all sne
[42154]ct
[42156]At
[42157]had to say, that she knew, and then was when they took her by the arms and saco
[42159]an, Joaqu quin. and did they aske her some other guestio on about waney?
[42160]Hernandez: no, no, absolutely, it Seems. ee Dorticos: aid. they try to get a statement
[42161]: from her? Hernandez: ‘no, no, absolutely from what she told ne, they limited themselves
[42162]- “principally to yaatry to find out vat relations she. had had end her husband with
[42163]. “te is individual. Dorticos: and tney spoke of money? ‘Hernandez: ‘no, no, she has not -
[42164]- told me. anything about money,. they aia not talk to her about that, that is, she has . -
[42165]not told me that they spoke to her about that, Dorticos: irate SL a friend :
[42167]_. Something about. that. Hernandez: ech? well, I asked her if there haa been some
[42169]_ interest, if they had questioned her aaemx on other points s. it there had been something ;
[42171]else, end. she did not speak about: that. Dorticos: At any rate, question her some
[42173]“mors, “investigate more: ‘and x call me ‘here. | Hernandez: Good, Presidente, Twill call’ ue
[42175]“you immediately.”
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[42181]nye Bad ed tt wie a
[42183]By COMER CLARK
[42185]“Yes, I heard of Lee Harvey Oswald’s plan to kill President Kennedy. It's
[42187]possible that I could have saved him.
[42189]“T might have been ‘able to — but I didn’t, I never believed the plan would:
[42191]be put into effect,”
[42193]These were the dramatic words spoken to me by Cuba’s Prime Minister Fidel
[42195]Castro in Havana on July 15.
[42196]_ “Lee Oswald came to the Cuban embassy
[42197]went on. “The first time — I was told — he
[42198]“He was asked to, explain, but he
[42199]wouldn't. :
[42200]“He wouldn't go into details.
[42201]“The second time he said he wanted
[42202]to ‘free ‘Cuba from American imperial-
[42203]ism.
[42205]“Then he said something like: ‘Some-
[42206]oi aught to shoot that President Ken-
[42209]“Then Oswald said — and this was
[42210]exactly how it was reported to me —.
[42211]‘Maybe I'll try to do it.’
[42213]“This was less than 2 months before the
[42214]U.S. President was assassinated.
[42216]“The two visits occurred close together,”
[42217]Prime Minister Castro told me. “I didn't take
[42218]them seriously.” _ .
[42220]My hard-won interview took place in the
[42221]middle of a cheering, jostling mob on the
[42222]sidewalk of La Rampa, the main pshow
[42223]street” of Cuba's capital, Havana.  *
[42225]Castro had arrived unexpectedly to in-
[42226]Spect progress on the building of a Cuban
[42227]pavilion, erected with those of other Com:
[42228]munist countries to mark the July 26 cele- |
[42229]bration of Castro’s rebellion against the Ba-
[42230]tista regime. ; :
[42232]And also to mark ‘the meeting in Havana
[42233]of Castro's rebel Organization of Latin Amer-
[42234]ican Solidarity (OLAS) confer- ~
[42235]ence, due to open on July 31.
[42237]I had applied to the Cuban em- ©
[42238]. bassy in London during April- :
[42239]May for permission to go to Cuba
[42240]to interview the island's prime |
[42241]minister. :
[42242]Although a British subject does
[42243]not need a visa to enter Cuba, }
[42244]approval by the Cubans for the .
[42245]entr necessary. #
[42246]Otu..wise, the incoming visi-
[42247]tor risks being turned away at :
[42248]Havana airport. The approval ;
[42249]came at the end of June and °
[42251]wanted to work for us.
[42253]i
[42255]SRE UHRA
[42257]Although millions; of words
[42258]have been written’ claiming
[42259]that Fidel Castro was behind
[42260]the Kennedy assassination, no
[42261]newsman has been able to sé-
[42262]cure a personal interview with
[42263]the Cuban prime minister for
[42264]his views on the slaying of the .
[42265]U.S. President. :
[42267]To shed more light on the most
[42268]dramatic event of ‘the 20th
[42269]‘Century, The ENQUIRER sent
[42270]Comer Clark to Havana for
[42271]a face-to-face meeting with
[42272]Castro. — |
[42274]And here, for readers of The
[42275]ENQUIRER, is the iexclusive
[42276]story of the dramatic interview
[42277]with Castro. -
[42279]. i =
[42280]TUE opagta strates
[42282]ago Diaz, of the Cuban consulate in London,
[42283]who deals with entry inquiries. Diaz told me
[42284]that permission to visit Cuba had been “cleared”
[42285](though I was unable to learn what specific
[42286]oo ‘s checks on my eligibility had been
[42287]made). '
[42289]There are only ‘three legal’ ways
[42291]UAT ACAUFTELG SME TAnaRTOAAHAUCEET ENT
[42293]2 City, from Prague, Czechoslovakia,
[42294]: or from Madrid, Spain. So I flew to
[42295]Madrid and entered’ Cuba by ‘air-
[42296]liner on July 9.» 1
[42297]*, In Havana, I immediately applied
[42298]; to the Ministry of External Rela-
[42299]ions for an appointment to see
[42300]Prime Minister Castro. -
[42301]In London, I'd been assured an
[42302]interview would act be too difficult
[42303]to obtain. But Senor Laurencio Cor-
[42304]dose, who dealt with-foreign press
[42305]queries was not quite as optimistic
[42306]as that. i :
[42307]“You know, there are the annual
[42309]in Mexico City twice,” Castro
[42311]Auta
[42313]TT
[42315]to enter Cuba by air, From Mexico!
[42318]was telephoned to me by Santi- aati Dwg | ‘
[42319]NATIONAL] REPORTER: Comer Clork’s celebrations of the tising against
[42320]Page 4 : ENQUIRER | questions netted mew facts. Batista,” he said.! “And then the
[42322]OC#, (87/96 7 7
[42324]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page S71
[42327]PRIME MINISTER of Cuba, Fidel Castro, was
[42328]addressing admiring crowd when ENQUIRER
[42330]- reporter drew surprising statements from him
[42331]in unexpected rapid-fire interview.
[42333]meeting of the Organization of Latin American Soli-
[42334]darity. : .
[42335]“The Prime Minister is bound to be very busy. :
[42336]You will have to be patient.” |
[42337]While waiting for permission‘ to interview the
[42338]prime minister, I was taken on official visits te
[42339]Cienfuegos Bay to watch the construction of 3
[42340]Massive sugar processing and storage plant. And
[42341]then I went to Trinidad, one of the oldest towns
[42342]in Cuba. . :
[42343]I noticed that.the windows of many Trinidad
[42344]shops were barren of goods.
[42345]For example, in the former Woolworth store on
[42346]the main street, the entire window facing the street .
[42347]was empty. : .
[42348]The only things that filled many otherwise empty
[42349]windows were pictures and photographs of Fidel
[42350]Castro and propaganda posters. Many shops are i
[42351]simply shut, because of a shortage of consumer, :
[42352]‘foods. . :
[42353]a Soviet help in construction schemes was obvious
[42354]— particularly at Cienfuegos Bay. Sorne old Ameri: » :
[42355]can machines were still in use, but much of the
[42356]new construction equipment was either Russian or
[42357]Japanese,
[42358]inspection ‘tours, however, weren’t what I had
[42359]come for, I kept asking abqut the Castro interview
[42360]— and kept being told I'd have to be patient. .
[42361]Many early-bird delegates to the OLAS confer: 4. Y
[42362]ence started to arrive now. Waiters, public servants
[42363]and others began pinning en OLAS buttons. With ail
[42364]this activity, T began to feel my waiting and hoping
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[42371]Aner ay eet
[42373]Fits
[42374]in
[42375]sr
[42378]thu
[42380]. “ Vaated wd ish
[42382]»- pennant un La Rampa
[42384]: - tinnani un La ik ag th ;
[42385]a the evening ef July ib whe there
[42387]NTS EL Sudden sound of cheers in the sireet.
[42391]i
[42393]“vy people hurried from the restaurant, and I
[42394]ein the general direction of the crowd.
[42395]« in ie were shouts of “Fidel! Fidel!" .
[42397]- “erg hadi indeed, arrived.
[42398]t
[42400]pte is
[42401]te ad res
[42403]Coul
[42405]of Castro's public appearances are made with-
[42406]oe warning. Partly, this seems to be for security.
[42407]“fit, alsa, because it is regarded as “in accord.
[42408]wae iy the spirit ‘of the rebellion.” Sudden, dramatic
[42410]< ei spurning protocol. :
[42411]seshed into the cheering crowd as
[42412]1 Poy his familiar “fatigue” uniform of
[42413]“#* een and a sweat-cap, acknowledged
[42414]v4 firs_and looked admiringly at the
[42415]“as pavilion. . , :
[42416]wy coke several times rapidly in Spanish. ¢
[42417]wl ned through the mob toward him, -
[42418]+ 17 pripped me. ;
[42420]| tad my Press card in my hand and
[42422]a, saying (in English) that I'd like to |
[42423]+. =. prime minister when he could spare’;
[42425]ae: tee RANGA eT
[42429]2
[42430]‘e
[42432]of SS gee me. 1 hoped some nearby offi-
[42434]| 7, scald be able to translate my request
[42435]yaive.
[42437], zt apparently Castro himself heard my
[42438]aeaca’ voice above the background of 44.
[42439]te zd Boise. . '
[42441]me pearded prime minister — who -
[42442]H - eeaas and understands English well — turn-
[42443]$ og azcund flamboyantly and, raising his :)
[42444]: vey called to me in a friendly way: :
[42445]I atere do you come from, senor? Don't you :
[42446]} goa we're having:a great celebration?” :
[42447]5 [cated out that [ was a British news-
[42448]sxerman and had been trying to get an ap-
[42449]ve cent to see him, Again, 1 waved my
[42450]bess card. .
[42451]“at's wrong with right now?" he asked >
[42452]s good humor and plainly happy to -
[42453]w g on a show for the crowd. ro
[42455]‘fume Minister,” I said, .“it's been sug-. HIT CUBA HARD: President John F. Kennedy is
[42457]several times that there was some shown in November 1962 as he told newsmen that
[42459]involvement or link with the assas- iah - f Cuba. -
[42460]‘dof American President Kennedy. Russia had agreed. to remove weapons from Cu
[42462]eee le
[42464]Se cnn
[42466]ry *
[42468]the American CIA — whether anything eventually
[42469]o looked straight at me, thought for a few| happened or not.”. :
[42471]"4s and then made, the dramatic statement,| Cries from the crowd began to divert Castro's
[42472]tutat at the start of " : attention from me. I desperately asked if by “any-
[42474]{ t4 xticle, that he'd & thing happened” he meant an assassination of Pres-
[42475]i ist reports of Lee Os- ; ident Kennedy. ‘
[42476]p overs visits to Cuba's ¢: “Well, it crossed my mind. But I didn’t give
[42477]; Yu. City embassy } much thought to it,” he said. ;
[42478]x: tadn't believed the - “Then, too; after such a plot had been found out,
[42479]“eat serious. we would be blamed — for something. we had noth-
[42480]; _ic® did you form ing to do with.
[42481]"ptt new?" T asked. # “It could have been used as an excuse-for an-
[42482]eG RTO replied: “Well, other invasion try. In any case, people would have
[42483]. t ‘ee sere two calls in tried to put it at my door.”
[42484]. ¢ Siveeks. [later learn- Castro started to make his way to the edge of the
[42485]‘ ¢ "4 stayed at the em- sidewalk. — ‘
[42486]L* be? about 15 minutes. - As he did g0, he added: “I was not responsible
[42487]=" tme, He gave the tor Kennedy’s death. I will tell you that.
[42488]4" Lee Oswald each s  “] think he was killed by U.S. Fascists — right
[42489]ut : a wing elements who-disagreed with him.”
[42490]"72 calls were re- Then he started speaking again in Spanish with
[42491]“ ai ‘o Havana, asa ™ those immediately around him, turned and said
[42492]“r of course, un- goodbye to the crowd, clim| inte his car an
[42493]~ % te authority of our NOW LINKED TO CUBA Oe en away. :
[42494]“st &  S-assador in Mexico, Senor Joaquim Hernandez.”| It had been an unexpected and shocking
[42495]te yp tiked: “Did the ambassador himself see Os- rag’, epeesesetere aca OTR EIE DE EE LTE EET
[42496]tee : id: .
[42497]ow iro replied: ‘No, he was seen by an aide. 3)
[42498]“an aide’? . . =
[42499]- _,’Fent on: “Let me be clear. I just didn’t be- ee :
[42500]v Ltat he (Oswald) meant this. I thought that he *
[42501]- w. cave been some sort of wild man. Or maybe %&
[42502]. " fcer money.
[42503], 1,.¢ Seemed that to kill the head of a state
[42504]- “pid. Just pointless. As far as Cuba was con-
[42505]te e. 4. the policy of the American government
[42506]“4 80 on, anyway." :
[42508]J! ‘ked Castro, frankly: “Did you have any
[42509]“1 of warning the American government ¢
[42511]To replied. spreading his hands: “We don’t —
[42513]5 y.,vit't — have any relations with the American
[42514]oe ‘ 4 ment, anyway.
[42516]» old taken it seriously, I might have informed =
[42518]+o ted Nations or some other official agency -
[42519]ae .. . it. But who would have believed me? People :
[42520]oa nate said Oswald was just mad. Or that I'd
[42521]. > mad.” ; _ .
[42522]: ! t,.clddenly asked: “What is yout name, any
[42523]ve % Utoid him. .
[42524]eo ‘ll. Mr, Clark," said the Prime Minister
[42525]"Pag, NATIONAL |
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[42531]anc @eedk D W Waaduuue |
[42533]inter-| Havana.
[42535]_ DIDN'T H d he had heard
[42536]of the assassination threat but gave vague rea-
[42537]sons for not reporting it to the United Nations.
[42539]@ view under odd and difficult circumstances. If he
[42541]could be taken at his word, Castro had shed new
[42543]: light on the Kennedy assassination mystery. I hoped
[42545]to learn even more at the formal interview, which
[42546]was still pending. .
[42548]On July. 17 I was telephoned at my hotel by Seno}
[42549]Cordoso, who had tried to arrange the formal in-
[42550]terview. :
[42552]Cordoso said: “I am glad you had the ‘chance
[42554]of meeting the Prime Minister. You were very
[42557]I agreed and asked when my longer interview
[42559]d you-tell me if there is any truth at all/ “I thought the'visits might be something to do with would be granted.
[42561]But Cordoso explained he'd been told by the
[42562]Prime Minister's office that Castro would be heavily
[42563]engaged with the anniversary celebrations and meet-
[42564]ings with OLAS visitors.
[42566]“He has a lot of pressing engagements — those
[42567]and other things," Cordoso said. “I can’t see any
[42568]chance of another personal jnterview at all in the
[42569]near future." . :
[42571]This was the final decision, and I decided to make
[42572]arrangements to leave Cuba. I flew to Mexico City,
[42573]where I called at the high-walled Cuban embassy
[42574]to see if 1 could learn more about Oswald's two
[42575]visits there. .
[42577]The grilled double gates were opened by a gate-
[42578]keeper to allow in some official-looking diplomatic
[42579]car. :
[42581]asked if I could see anyone of authority inside the
[42582]embassy. . oO
[42584]But the gatekeeper replied in halting English:
[42585]“No, no Press. It is impossible.”
[42587]The wall of silence had been lowered on the
[42588]Oswald ‘situation, except for that one revealing
[42589]moment with Castro himself on the sidewalk tn
[42591]Ieee x ae
[42592]by Oswald before assassination.
[42594]I quickly showed him my Press credentials, and -
[42596]af replies (sic) to my.
[42598]» the, USSR and residenc
[42600]f this
[42602]Be
[42604]\—Continued
[42606]Wien
[42607]COMMISSION ExHipit 15
[42610]MEMORANDUM
[42612]TO: Jim Johns sx fpwut Wallach.
[42614]FROM: Dan Dwyer _— 3
[42616]DATE : January 21, 1976
[42618]SUBJ: . ~— CTA Briefing with Raymond: Rocca Regarding Oswald:
[42620]_ ‘Early in our investigation of CIA's handling of the Oswald case,
[42621]Raymond Rocca briefed Wallach, Dwyer and Greissing on November 11 and
[42622]13, 1975. Some of Rocco's '¢omments merit consideration in light of
[42623]our present knowledge of the case.
[42625]af
[42627]oi. Opening of 201
[42629]Rocca explained that - Oswald’ s 201 was opened by Betty Egerter::
[42631]from a list of American defectors 1958-1960 from the State Department.
[42632]2. Status of 201, 11/22/63
[42634]Rocca explained that. on November 22, °1963 all documents in the
[42635]~~~ Oswald 201 were originated by other agencies ; Mexico City cable
[42636]“Pattie was not included in; the 201 because it was’routed through
[42637]a ‘compartmentalized channel: and, therefore would not be circulated
[42639]via~the 201. i
[42640]3. Oswald's Defection col USSR
[42642]With regard to Oswald's defection to the Soviet Union, Rocca
[42643]said Oswald would have been,of interest to the military and the FBI
[42644]and that CIA was only interested in the "information" aspect of the
[42645]case. Rocca could not cite’ any, example of a U.S. citizen defecting
[42646]on behalf of any interest. of the U.S. government,
[42648]With regard to the "Hoover" memorandum of June 3, 1960 raising
[42649]the possibility that an imposter could be using Oswald's birth certifi-
[42650]cate, Rocca believed Hoover: would not have generated it. Rocca sug~
[42651]gested someone at the Bureau who was familiar with Soviet technique
[42652]of using birth certificates for illegals -- Larry McWilliams, Brannigan
[42654]or Cregar --- would have authored the memo. (Rocca could never establish .
[42655]if, in fact, Oswald took his birth certificate with him to the Soviet
[42656]Union. ) Rocca commented that the Bureau memo, sent to State and ONI,
[42657]should have been forwarded to CIA by State, ‘but never was.
[42659]In Rocca's determination, Oswald was -the only American defector
[42660]who was allowed to stay in Russia following a suicide attempt. Rocca
[42661]said that Oswald would have. been subjected to. one or two assessments
[42663]by the KGB. .
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[42667]Rocea referred to an SB study, direéted by Lee Wigren and con-
[42668]ducted by Virginia Valpi which compared the Oswald case to other U.S.
[42669]defectors and their wives. ‘SB concluded.Oswald was not given special
[42670]handling by the KGB. Rocca ‘maintains Oswald was given special treat-
[42671]ment. He believes Oswald's relationship with the "Red Cross" (from
[42672]which Oswald received finandial assistance) and the Red Cross' relation-
[42673]ship with the KGB should be. ‘clarified.
[42675]Rocca also finds it peculiar that Marina married Oswald since
[42676]Marina's uncle was KGB. Rocca said that Oswald was the only defector
[42677]who married someone with a KGB connection of that kind. Rocca said that
[42678]the CIA developed this information after the assassination.
[42680]Rocca described Minsk as "not an unsensitive section" of Russia
[42681]and added that Oswald was the only American defector in Minsk, a white
[42682]Russian area. ,
[42684]Rocca commented on Oswald' $ surprise visit to the American Em-
[42685]bassy in Moscow by saying that ' ‘people don't do that kind of. thing
[42686]in Russia 3"
[42688]Rocca believes Oswald's Soviet diary is bona fide .. “Rocca ad-
[42689]mitted that although there are perceptible changes in the quality
[42690]'of Oswald's written material, Oswalds' mentality seemed conducive -
[42691]to periods of attention to thoroughness and detail.
[42693]4. Alleged Debriefing of Oswald
[42695]Rocca did not have any knowledge of an alleged debriefing of
[42696]Oswald in New York City by the DCD. Rocca said that if a debriefing
[42697]report existed, it would have been distributed in OO series (overt
[42698]operations) of the DDI (now DDO). Rocca also noted that a debriefing
[42699]report would not have been filed in the Oswald 201. Rocca noted that
[42700]a Dr. Froyn (phonetic) supervised DDI records. Rocca also said that:
[42701]Traveler's Aid was a legitimate charitable organization which had | no
[42702]ties with the CIA.
[42704]5. Oswald and Mexico City -
[42706]; Rocea said that Chief, WH could clarify aspects of technical .
[42707]operations on Cuban and Soviet Embassies. Rocca said that David
[42708]Phillips organized the technical surveillance.
[42710]Although the Cuban Embassy was officially closed on September
[42711]28, Rocca found nothing unusual about Oswald's visit there and meeting
[42712]Silvi ‘Duran, Cuban consulate employee.
[42714]Rocca: emphasized that ‘Oswald’ s activities in Mexico City were
[42715]the responsibility of the FBI.
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[42719]6. 7 Possible Oswald- Cuban! Connections
[42721]‘Rocea described document gaps in the materials that the Russian
[42722]and Cuban governments forwarded to the WC via ayP tomatic channels.
[42723]He described these areas as “open and relevant."
[42725]Rocca drew attention to Oswald's Marine duty in California in
[42726]1958. Basing most of his analysis on testimony of DelGado, Oswald's
[42727]sergeant in California, Rocca maintained that Oswald had made contact
[42729]' with the Cubans at the Cuban Embassy in Los Angeles. Rocca said that
[42731]DelGado had to release Oswald.from guard duty because someone from Los
[42732]Angeles reinitiated contact while Oswald was on duty.
[42734]Rocea placed specific. emphasis on Castro's"impromptu 'comments
[42735]to Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana jon September 7, 1963.
[42736]Rocca viewed Castro's comments as a "message"' to American leaders
[42737]and said it was a "very important signpost, "Rocca added that the.
[42738]Mexico City Station brought:.Castro's comments to Headquarter's atten-.
[42739]tion on 11/25/63. Rocca also viewed Castro's comments in terms of
[42740]Oswald's possible perception of them, since New Orleans Times Picayune
[42741]ran the Harker atticle on September 9, 1963. (This is the Tine Slawson
[42742]adopted: could Oswald have" read the piece?)
[42744]‘In regard to the Castro comments (unfortunately my notes are
[42745]sketchy here) Rocca refers to a 10/24/63 cable, memo,.or letter from
[42746]"Des . to Paris."’ He then refers to an 11/5/63 memo for the record and
[42747]said "man never heard from again. Rocea should be: asked to clarify
[42748]these references. -
[42750]Rocca briefly outlined Cuban-Russian relations in the early 1960s.
[42751]he described 1961 as the "seed time'’ between Cuba and the USSR. Rocca
[42752]said that following the missile crisis, the KGB and DGI began a "pre-
[42753]liminary relationship." Rocca mentioned Srotoff (phonetic) and
[42754]Alexiev (sic) as being KGB principals involved. Rocca said that when
[42755]Castro visited Moscow in June-July 1963, Alexiev and Leonoff served
[42756]as liaison between Kruschev and Castro. Rocca referred to an escalation
[42757]of Alpha-66 activity (sporadic: revolutionary attacks on Cuban ports ,
[42758]vessels, etc.) in July-August 1963. Rocea places Castro's “warning”
[42759]of September 7, 1963 in the context of these activities.
[42761]Rocca said that Oswald’: s activities for the FPCC in New Orleans
[42763]‘were apparently self-motivated. Rocca added, however, that V. T. Lee,
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[42767]national chairman of the FPCC, visited Cuba in 1964. Rocca noted that
[42769]‘(fnu) Hernandez handled Lee's case and that Hernandez’ office was next
[42771]to Azcue's, who, according to Duran, argued with Oswald at the Cuban
[42772]Embassy in "Mexico City. According: to Rocca, Hernandez was mentioned
[42773]in penetration reports from Guatemala where Hernandez was running two
[42774]DGL agents. Rocca outlined these relationships briefly to demonstrate
[42776]DGI-FPCC connections. Rocca concluded that the Warren Commission should
[42778]have paid more attention to; ‘the DGI. Rocca also mentioned that the
[42779]CIA picked up a DGI defector named Mugg in April or May of 1964, who
[42780]was handled by WH Division.
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[42789]7. Oswald, New Orleans, Garrison Case
[42791]Rocea said that the cL/R and A stayed on top of the Garrison case
[42792]and "summarized overt developments." Rocca identified the analyst
[42793]for the Garrison material as Donald Pratt. Rocca said that by NSA
[42794]intercepts and associated relationships, the CIA believed Garrison
[42795]was operating (unwittingly) under KGB manipulation. (Rocca briefly
[42796]deseribed Soviet technique. of misinformation. He recalled an inter-
[42797]view that Drew Pearson had with Kruschev in Cairo in 1964 or 1965.
[42798]Kruschev told Pearson that his "gut feeling" was that American right-
[42800]- wing extremists and capitalists were responsible for theP resident's
[42801]assassination. Rocca said this typified KGB disinformation.)
[42803]Rocca characterized Oreste Pena's allegations as "absolute
[42804]fabrication." Rocca said CIA files revealed that Clay Shaw was a
[42805]contact of the DCD until 1956. . _
[42807]Rocca said that he was never informed in 1962. or 1963 about
[42808]a revolutionary training camp around Lake Pontchartrain. He believes
[42809]that the GIA did not know of its existence. Rocca said there is evi-
[42810]dence that messages from the Lake Pontchartrain camp were going toa .
[42811]drop in Mexico City. ,
[42813]8, GPFLOOR Period
[42815]- GPFLOOR was the crypt used to describe the investigation con-.
[42816]ducted by CIA following the President's assassination (11/23-1/12-15/63.)
[42817]The Mexico City aspect of GPFLOOR was controlled by WH: J. C. King,
[42818]Chief; Jack Whiten, Desk Chief, and Win Scott, COS, Mexico City. Rocca
[42819]said that Whiten would report Mexico City developments to Helms who -
[42820]would then inform McCone.
[42822]9. . End of.GPFLOOR: ‘Warren Commission —
[42824]With the formation of the Warren Commission, the GPFLOOR period .
[42825]ended. Rocca explained that Helms served as the major liaison between
[42826]the CIA and WC. Rocca served as chief of research for matters of in-
[42827]terest to the WC -- mostly concerning Oswald's defection to Russia. |
[42828]Rocea's staff included: Thomas Hall, Arthur Dooley and Paul Hartman.
[42829]“Hall conducted research on Soviet service in DDO. Dooley followed all
[42830]Bureau developments forwarded to CIA. Hartman was responsible for ex- |
[42831]ploration of overt references and Soviet service." Additionally, Hartman
[42832]researched DeMohrenschildt's relationship to. the Oswalds. os
[42834]_ Rocea reported his research staff's findings to Angleton; Rocca
[42835]had no contact with Helms. ‘Rocca explained that he had some liaison
[42836]with Slawson of the WC staff. Rocca said that any negotiation between
[42837]the CIA and WC was conducted by Helms, Dulles, and Rankin. Rocca said
[42838]he had no knowledge of any CIA assassination attempts against Castro.
[42840]oe Rocca emphasized that the FBI was the investigative arm for the
[42841]Warren Commission. Rocca said that Sam Papich, Dick O'Niell (sic) and
[42842]Jim Hunt were the Bureau personnel involved with the WC.
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[42855]a Rocca said that additional research in CI was conducted by.
[42856]David Murphy and Bagley, Chief and Deputy: Chief of CI/SB. Rocca
[42857]said that Lee Wigren and Virginia Valpi were also involved in
[42858]Soviet R&A. |
[42860]10. Rockefeller Commission Inquiry
[42862]Rocea served as CIA liaison to the Rockefeller Commission
[42863]in regard to Warren Commission allegations. Belin and Robert Olsen
[42864]were involved in the investigation. Belin wanted Rocca to review
[42865]documentation regarding the'photo of the unidentified individual
[42866]in Mexico City. Belin told: Rocca that the Warren Commission was not
[42867]“clued in on Cuban emigreeissues and Operation MONGOOSE. Rocca de-
[42868]veloped the impression that the Rockefeller.Commission was looking
[42869]into CIA's operations aimed'at Castro. Belin asked Rocca for the ©
[42870]Castro comments of September 7, 1963. Belin was not aware of the
[42871]statements during the Warren Commission. (Slawson, however, was but
[42872]only at the conclusion of the WC.)-
[42874]Rocca also said that Belin is writing another book on Oswald
[42875]and the President’ s assassination.
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[42880]i
[42882]OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL -
[42884]| WASHINGTON, D.c. 20830
[42885]7
[42886]|
[42889]+ FEB 2.4 1976
[42891]Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
[42892]United States Senate Select Committee
[42894]on Intelligence Activities
[42895]Washington, D.C. 20510
[42898]Dear Senator Church:
[42900]Transmitted herewith is a memorandum prepared
[42901]by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in response
[42902]to the request.in Item 15 of a letter dated January -14,
[42903]1976, from Mr. Paul Wallach of your Committee's staff.
[42905]“LAE |
[42907]‘| Nd E. SHAHEEN, JR.
[42908]Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination
[42911]'
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[42928]OFFICE OF THE DIRECTOR
[42930]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
[42932]FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[42934]‘E
[42935]aan WASHINGTON, D.C. ‘20835
[42937]62-116395
[42939]‘February 19, 1976
[42941]U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO
[42942]STUDY GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH
[42943]RESPECT TO,.INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) |
[42945]Reference is made to SSC letter dated January 14,
[42946]1976, requesting access to various materials contained in FBI
[42947]files. fe
[42948]Item 15 of referenced letter requested access to
[42949]materials pertaining to FBI contacts or interviews of .
[42950]Loran Eugene Hall from January, 1963, through December, 1975.
[42951]Material responsive to Item 15 has been assembled and is
[42952]available for review) by SSC Staff members in Room 4171,
[42953]J. Edgar Hoover Building.
[42955]SSC Staff member Paul Wallach advised on
[42956]February 10,1976, that the portion of referenced request
[42957]concerning Item 14 is withdrawn. ;
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[42996]I then got a call from Bundy on october (2nd, and he said
[42998]|
[43000]that -- Chase, I think his name was, ‘Peter Chase, one of his
[43001]assistants -- is the person to be in touch with, and to keep
[43002]him apprised of all developments.
[43003]I later again gota word from Jean Daniel;- the’ French *:
[43005]correspondent who had come back: from Havanna saying Cuba seemed
[43007]° 1 a . .
[43008]ripe for a conversation. So this also came from anothar source,
[43009]a Greek town planner named ‘Doxiati; ,, who said that Castro was
[43010]very much interested in some. kind of normalization relation,
[43012]but that Che Guevera and Raul. were opposed.
[43013]4
[43014]October 21st, I got a call again’ from Bandy! s office asking
[43015]me what was new. I said, well the ball is now, in the Cuban's
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[43019]court. : oe
[43021]On the 28th, I saw Lochuga again’ at the UN who said that
[43023]Havanna didn't see exactly how a talk, would be useful now, but
[43025]he would be glad to maintain continuous contact with me anyway.
[43027]The 4th of November I brisfed Stevenson on these develop~.
[43028]ments and meanwhile, Miss Howard had been on the phone with
[43029]Rene Valao who was Fidel Castro's aide at that point, and who
[43031]was one of the so-called pro-Anericans in the group and who
[43035]suggested that I “get in touch with him by telephone.
[43037]i
[43039]I then briefed Bundy on this. on: the 5th of November
[43041]'
[43043]Bundy told me that the President was more in. favor of pushing
[43046]towards an opening toward Cuba than was the State Department,
[43048]‘the idea being -“- well, getting them out of the Soviet fala and
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[43057]1 Perhaps wiping out ‘the Bay of Pigs and maybe getting back into
[43059]2 normal.
[43061]3 . Chase then said, Bundy wanted a. chronological memo about
[43062]4 || the entire thing. I might say I have forgotten one point. When
[43063]§ I first told Adlai Stevenson about this demarche -or approach
[43064]6 || by the Cubans he said he liked it, but, and I quote, he said
[43066]7 || the CIA, unfortunately, is still in charge of Cuba. But he
[43068]8 | said -~- he still offsred to take it up with the White House. .
[43069]9 Anyway, we're now on November 12th, and I went to Miss
[43070]10 || Howard's apartment where she said he had set up a phone call to
[43071]11 Havanna with Valao. Wa never could get through -.: the bad
[43072]12 | Connections, but she had spoken to him before I arrived and
[43073]he had suggested that 1 come to Marianao from Key West and
[43075]13
[43077]14 || talk directly with Fidel Castro, because they wanted to avoid
[43079]15 | going, through Havanna.
[43081]Bundy called me the same day to say that the White House
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[43084]| 17 || favored preliminary talks with Valao at the UN but not down in
[43085]| 18 Cuba and told me to tell Valao this. tr finally reached Valao
[43086]. 19 on the telephone on November the 14th and delivered a message
[43087]| 20 about his. coming here. He said -- and that we wanted to discuss
[43088]21 agenda. .
[43089]22 He said he would send instructions to LaChuga and that he
[43090]23 || would -- or rather Castro, through him, to LaChuga, that they
[43091]should discuss an agenda with me. He was very cordial on the
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[43131]I had prepared on what had happened up to that point. He said
[43133]that a trip to Cuba which is what LaChuga had suggested would
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[43140]we referred to our talk in '59.and he said another talk might
[43142]be possible and useful. at this time, and that was the first real
[43143]indication. At this point, I said r'm no longer a private
[43144]citizen but a government official and we agreed that the
[43145]current situation was different, at the same time, things were
[43146]a bit abnormal and he said the Cubans were very much annoyed at
[43148]the exile rate, the CIA rate on Cuba, as well as the freezing
[43150]of their assets.
[43152]The next step was my visit to Washington on September 24th
[43154]when I came down to see Robert Kennedy who was then Attorney
[43156]General. His position was -~ I showed him the mamoranda, which
[43158]be rather risky; said ‘it was bound to leak and said it might
[43160]result in some kind of Congressional investigation or something.
[43162]Anyway, it might be a problem. But he did think the matter was
[43164]worth pursuing through UN. channels, and he would be talking to:
[43166]Averell Harriman and Bundy about it.
[43167]At that point, LaChuga said he would be making a very
[43169]violently anti-American speech on November 7th and not to worry
[43171]too much about it, so Stevenson asked me to help prepare a speée h
[43173]in raply. On the 27th of Saptember, I saw Lochuga again, told
[43174]I could not aecept any invitation to come to Cuba, but I would
[43175]‘be glad to keep in touch with him and he could talk with
[43177]ed to come up and he said he would notify Havann
[43180]| :
[43182]1 . I reported this to Bundy on the 19th of November -- by the
[43184]2 || way, my call to valao; fas the 18th -- he said that after their
[43185]|
[43187]3 agenda had been receive , the President wanted to see me at the
[43189]i
[43191]4 White House and decide jwhat to say and whether to go or what
[43193]5 we should do next. That was the 19th of November, three days
[43195]6 | before the assassination. |
[43197]7] ‘On the 29th of November, LaChuga had seen’ Miss Howard
[43199]8 || and he wondered where things stood now. I passed the word to
[43201]9 him that I didn't know, but that until we were told differently
[43202]10 || that we would continue our conversation.
[43204]1 On the 2nd of December he confirmed. getting a letter from
[43205]12 Valao and he wanted to know if «things nad changed aqain. He
[43207]13 said he was authorized to talk to me in general terms,
[43209]14 I called the White. tlouse, Chase in this case, to say that
[43210]6 the ball was now in our court.
[43211]16 On December 4th, LaChuga again looked me up at the UN,’
[43212]17) said he now had a letter directly from Castro approving the
[43213]18 detailed talks and an agenda. Again, I informed Chase.
[43214]19 He said the decision would take some time now hecause all
[43215]20 || our policies were under review.
[43216]. 21 This went on. tr kept seeing LaChuga and LaChuga would say
[43217]| 22 he was waiting for an answer, and I kapt saying well -the door
[43218]23 isn't closed, I just don't know. |
[43219]| -” On the L7th of December the President, this time President
[43220]Johnson, came to the Waldorf to meet with the delegation at -
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[43230]1 Stevenson's apartment| and told me that he had read my Cuban
[43231]' 2 || memo recapitulating the events or the discussions in the fall
[43232]3 || with interest and that was that. And I then was in Washington.
[43233]4 Averell Harriman asked me about the Cuban - ‘Project. I said I
[43234]5 | didn't know, that it was lying down in Chase's office in the
[43235]6 || White House and that he told me he'd get back to me after the
[43236]7 || holidays. |
[43237]8 Well, that ended my diary in '63. I then went to Kenya
[43238]g | as Ambassador in February of ‘64. Howaver I do recall that
[43239]10 || some time in January t again called Chase and I said, well, if
[43240]11 this thing is going to be continued I would suggest either
[43241]12 || John Case or someone on that mission. He said, well, it doesn't
[43242]13 || took as though it's: going to he continued now because it's an
[43243]14 election year, or whatever the reason WaSe and anyway we'll keep
[43244]1 it in mind but that it was a dead issue.
[43245]16 | The interesting thing, I think in terms of your investiga~_
[43246]et tion is that whatever was going on in terms of assassination
[43247]18 plots, certainly there seemed to be two tracks, because it seems
[43248]19 hard for me to believe that the Executive would be approving thi
[43249]20 type of negotiation while other covert operations were happening}
[43250]21 although it could conceivably have happened.
[43251]p The Chairman. If it did happen, what we are in search of
[43252], 93 ‘is an explanation.
[43253]| 24 I think your testimony is helpful. Certain inferences
[43254]can at least be drawn. But it is very helpful.
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[43265]OFFICE OF THE DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
[43266]- WASHINGTON, D.G. 20830
[43268]i |e
[43270]1
[43271]t
[43274]ah
[43276]Honorable Frank Church, Chairman
[43278]“united States Senate Select Committee
[43279]-on Intelligence Activities ~
[43280]Washington, D. C. 20510
[43282]Dear Senator Church:’
[43284]Transmitted herewith is a memorandum prepared
[43285]by the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an attach-
[43286]ment which is responsive to a letter dated February 12,
[43287]1976, from Mr. Paul Wallach of your Committee's staff.
[43289]Sincerely, :
[43290]STEVEN BLACKHURST
[43292]Assistant Special Counsel for
[43293]“Intelligence Coordination
[43295]Gould
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[43315]OF JUSTICE
[43317]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
[43319]FEDERAL: BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[43321]WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 |
[43322]1" . . |
[43324]62-116395 © So a February 27, 1976
[43325]. . edp, a .
[43327]U. S. SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY
[43328]GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS. WITH RESPECT
[43329]TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (SSC) _
[43331]Reference is made to SSC letter dated February 12,
[43332]1976, which requests delivery of Mr. Hoover's memorandum
[43333]dated November 29, 1963, which memorandum is contained in
[43334]the "Official and Confidential Files" (O & C) and which was
[43335]made available for access on February 12, 1976, to an SSC
[43336]Staff Member. _
[43338]; A copy of Mr. Hoover's memorandum dated November 29,
[43339]1963, is attached in compliance with the above request. One
[43340]excision has been made by reason of privacy.
[43342]Instant memorandum also serves to confirm a conversation
[43343]on February 20, 1976, between Mr, Paul Wallach, SSC Staff Counsel,
[43344]and Mr. Steven Blackhurst, Assistant Special Counsel for :
[43345]Intelligence Coordination, Department of Justice, a pertinent
[43346]portion of which conversation was’ relayed by Mr. Blackhurst
[43347]to Special Agent Thomas J. McNiff. Mr. Blackhurst reported
[43348]that during the above conversation Mr. Wallach gave assurances
[43349]that should the SSC decide to use the attached memorandum or
[43350]any portions thereof, the material used'will not be identified
[43351]as having been maintained in Mr. Hoover's 0 & C files.
[43353]. In addition to the above, referenced SSC letter of -
[43354]February 12, 1976, also requested delivery of all material in
[43356]the 0 & C files pertaining to a number of specifically identified
[43357]items: relating to the Warren Commission and to this Bureau's
[43358]investigations of both the Oswald matter and the assassination
[43360]of President Kennedy. A‘thorough review of the special indices
[43361]relating to material contained in the 0 & C files failed to
[43362]indicate that any documents contained in these 0 & C files,
[43364]other than. the attached memorandum, would.-be responsive to the
[43366]items listed in referenced SSC letter of February 12, 1976.
[43368]Enclosure ; be \
[43370]be
[43372]Co - a ;
[43373]This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissen.
[43374]nation outside your. Committee, Its use is limited to official proceedives te
[43375]your Cammittee andthe content may not be disclosed to unauthorized jorsan~
[43377]nel without the express approval of the FBI 1
[43380]. i
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[43442]_ Tavel —.———“— .
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[43444]FROM: A, Rosen oS ce isms
[43445]a rn sn
[43446]SUBJECT: JACK RUBY; — . oe
[43447]LER HARVEY OSWALD — VICTIM
[43449]a 7 : : . . mo
[43450]At 9:20 A.M, this date an individual «is
[43451]| identifying himselZ# only as‘Mr. Miller, :
[43452]1125 14th Street, Northwest, contacted the Bureau po —
[43453]_ Gid-advised that he was a close friend of Ruby. i
[43454]In addi#ion he identified Clinziurchison and ~_
[43455]- | Tomny”iebb as beine friends of Ruby. Hidior
[43456]\ dculined to surnisn adgitional information but . ; |
[43457]- °. agreed to interview. Washington Field Office _e
[43458]was immediately advised and an Agent dispatched “
[43459]in order to get full details concerning the above,
[43460], ~
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[43474]: ~ i : ta: OUR, request . and, is no & - :
[43475]F B: his document propane iy ern is limited to official proces: ngs mu
[43476]ean ¢ and the content may not be disclosed to unauthorized perso —
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[43487]COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
[43488]Washington, DC. 20500
[43490]May 21, 1975
[43494]MEMORANDUM
[43495]To: File
[43497]we
[43498]From: Mason Cargill
[43500]Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS RELATING
[43501]TO PLOTS TO ASSASSINATE CASTRO
[43503]On May 20, 1975, I reviewed one file of documents
[43504]in the office of the Assistant Attorney General/Criminal
[43505]Division. The file was about one-half inch thick, was marked
[43506]°"#82-46-5 - TOP SECRET." It contained documents relating to
[43507]the October 31, 1960, wiretapping incident in Las Vegas.
[43509]“The documents in this file indicated the following
[43510]items of interest:
[43512]“1. The IRS investigated Rosselli from December 1, 1962, to
[43513]March 1, 1963. ;
[43515]2. IRS report attached to March 19, 1963, memo to Herbert J.
[43516]Miller, Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division,
[43517]‘indicates Maheu told FBI that Rowan tap had been placed
[43518]to determine whether McGuire had leaked any classified
[43519]information she had obtained from Giancana.
[43521]3. Letter from Miller (Assistant Attorney General) to U.S.
[43522]Attorney in Las Vegas of January 17, 1963, instructed
[43523]that prosecution of Balletti should be dropped.
[43525]4. Memo for the Record, dated May 14, 1962, Subject: Arthur
[43526]James Balletti et al ~ Unauthorized Publication or Use of
[43527]Communications, by Sheffield Edwards of CIA ~ The file
[43528]contained original - of this memo outlining the full briefing
[43529]which had been given Robert F. Kennedy on May 7, 1962.
[43531](We have a copy of this from CIA.)
[43533]RMCiclb PROPERTY Of
[43535]tT CRET THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE
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[43545]10.
[43547]ll.
[43549]12.
[43551]13.
[43553]-April 24, 1962, Subject: Arthur James Balletti - Wiretap
[43555]outlined facts of the Balletti matter.
[43557]‘report contains the details of the arrest.
[43559]TOP
[43561]Memo to Attorney General, from Herbert J. Miller, of
[43563]Case ~ Sam Giancana - This memo recommends prosecution in
[43564]this case would be against national interest. It contains
[43565]no mention of assassination.
[43567]The file contained several memos to and from FBI Director
[43568]and Miller of January, February, and March, 1962, re
[43569]Las Vegas case. They did not mention assassination.
[43571]Other Department of Justice documents of December 1961,
[43572]relating to possible prosecution were filed. They basically
[43574]FBI reports on Las Vegas incident, dated September 12,
[43575]1961, August 18, 1961, and July 28, 1961. The last one
[43576]indicated Maheu installed bug to determine whether
[43577]Giancana had leaked classified information to McGuire.
[43579]There follow several FBI reports on interview during 1961
[43580]of participants in the Las Vegas incident.
[43582]Memo from Director of FBI to Attorney General, of May 22,
[43583]1961, transmits the memo dated May 22, 1961, of an inter-
[43585]view with Shef Edwards of May 3, 1961. [We have copy of
[43586]the memo on this interview, dated May 22, 1961, Subject:
[43587]"Arthur James Balletti, et al."] ;
[43589]FBI report (April 20, 1961) of interview with Maheu.
[43590]It indicates Maheu said he ordered bug to determine if
[43591]Giancana or McGuire were leaking information.
[43593]There follow Many FBI documents in 1961 on investigation
[43594]of details of preparation, etc., for Las Vegas affair.
[43596]Memo, dated November 22, 1960, to Assistant Attorney
[43597]General (Criminal Division), from Director of FBI,
[43599]Subject: Arthur James Balletti, Unauthorized Publication
[43600]or Use of Communications transmitted a report of an FBI
[43601]agent at Salt Lake City dated November 10, 1960. The
[43602]agent's report stated that Balletti was arrested on
[43603]October 31, 1960, at the Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas. This
[43605](This document is the last entry in this Criminal Division
[43606]file on the Las Vegas Incident.)
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[43620]14. Documents from late 1960's and early 1961 indicate Maheu
[43621]did not implicate CIA initially but instead said he had
[43622]been asked by a Los Angeles attorney to arrange investi-
[43623]gative work in Las Vegas. Maheu declined to name the
[43625]. attorney.
[43627]Maheu first mentioned CIA connection in an FBI interview
[43628]on April 18, 1961 [after the Bay of Pigs] (detailed in an
[43629]agent report of April 20, 1961, transmitted by a memo to
[43630]Assistant Attorney General on April 25, 1961). He said
[43631]he was working with CIA and the Las Vegas bug was ordered
[43632]to determine if Sam Giancana was leaking information.
[43633](Maheu did not tell FBI about nature of activities he
[43634]' undertook for CIA.)
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[43646]Fane
[43648]irs aarey Se re ee ct er
[43650]fearful the
[43652]that
[43654]bill.”
[43656]It was a weird gangland spy
[43657]case in which, government of-
[43658]ficials said, CIA agents con-
[43659]tacted Giancana in an effort to
[43660]obtain Cuban intelligence after
[43661]the Fidel Castro regime came
[43662]into power in 1959,
[43664]What the CIA accomplished
[43665]if anything—by negotiating
[43666]with the 33-year-old Chicago
[43667]rackels chicf is one of many
[43668]unexplained. mysteries of the
[43669]matter,
[43671]One thing. however, is cer-
[43672]. (" :
[43674]Yr ver! months
[43676]in late
[43678]climinate a break for big investors,
[43680]cane nee
[43681]pected lu iniprove the midas-
[43682]Ure's image in the eyes of
[43683]House, liberals, who have been
[43684]commiltice
[43685]might report out a “rich man’s
[43687]ATI EO oot oe ae te mae
[43689]mitice deadlocked 12 to 12,
[43691]By Sandy Smith
[43693]' .
[43694]Sun-Times Correspondent
[43696]WASHINGTON—A fantastic tale of attempted Cuban espionage involving
[43697]Chicago gang boss Momo Salvatore (Moe) Giancana and the Central Intelli-
[43698]gence Agency was revealed Thursday to The Sun-Times.
[43700]EXCLUSIV
[43702]1959 and carly 1960, Giancana,
[43703]a big shot on gangland’s “Com-
[43704]mission” and in its La Cosa
[43706]ciety, became what his fellow
[43707]gangsters abhor and would act
[43708]swiffly fo exterminate an
[43709]agent for the U.S. government.
[43710]The CIA wasn’t talking about
[43711]the case here on Thursday.
[43712]But Justice Department
[43713]sources expressed belief that
[43715]ry
[43717]“Fhe crucial vote in the hair.
[43718]breadth decision was under-
[43719]stood to have been cast by Rep.
[43720]Martha W. Griffiths (D-Mich.),
[43721]who was absent when the com-
[43723]Joungsters stand
[43724]Alba, :-4 ~
[43726]selitatenams were
[43728]“ch as the last of av:
[43730]‘in sant of the newly completed James W. Johnson School at
[43731]yocoey mobile Chase
[43732].aved to Delano School, 3937 W. Wilcox, where they'll be used until a
[43733]new wing is completed there. In an interview Thursday Schools Supt. Benjamin C. W
[43739]toe wate
[43741]1420 S$,
[43743]Fortavle
[43745]ye
[43747]defended the flexibility of the mobile units, saying they are being requested in some areas
[43748]in spite of protests directed against their use at 73d and Lowe. Stories and other pictures on
[43750]Page 3. (Sun-Times Photo by Howard Lyon} ‘
[43752]CH ecvees Joa ~ bath?
[43754]pieces? (G63
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[43775]Castro forces kidnap 19. refupees in the Bahamas while : a -
[43776]USS, flicrs watch helplessly, Page 2, ; : oF
[43778]eau of Investigation of Gian-
[43779]cana’s crime syndicate. in
[43780]Chicago led directly to the ex-
[43782]oo . . ._| posure of the La Cosa Nostra
[43783]Giancana never did any spying (“our cause") brotherhood and
[43784]at all for the CIA.: the Commission.
[43786]Giancana, according to these} With his connections in
[43787]sources, merely pretended to} Cuba, Giancana declared he
[43788]go along with the CIA in the; would be able to sneak intel.
[43789]hope that the Justice Depart- igence out of the island for
[43790]ment's drive to put him behind| the CIA, *
[43791]bars might be slowed—or ath A high government source
[43792]least affected —hy his ruse of gave The Sun-Times -this ac-
[43793]co-operation with anuther gov-| count of how Giancana stepped
[43794]ernmical agency, into the role of a government
[43796]Tf this was Giancana’s mo- agent: . .
[43797]tive. his scheme was a failure. | The CIA made its first con-
[43798]For a probe by the Justice De-! tact with Giancana in 1959,
[43799]partment anc Federal bur. |, The Chicago gang boss then
[43801]was embittered because the
[43802]Commission, in traditional gang
[43803]bipartisanship, had — dollars
[43804]backing both sides in” the
[43805]Cuban revolt; :
[43806]The Commission was said to
[43807]have given financial backing to
[43808]Castro—only to have him shut
[43809]down the gambling casinos.
[43810]And the former Cuban dic-
[43811]lator, Fulgencio Batista, re
[43812]portedly fled Cuba with mil-
[43813]lions he received from Com-
[43814]mission hoodlums. ;
[43815]In his dickering with the
[43816]CIA, Giancana reputedly boast-
[43817]ed that he had contac’ with
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[43823]HY 40955 Dactd
[43825]Tet Turn to cage 2
[43827]Continued from Page 1
[43829]anti-Castro factions and was
[43830]ready to use his contacts for
[43831]the CIA,
[43833]Justice Department: officials
[43834]Say now that Giancana was just
[43835]Guking. He might have’ had
[43836]. some “contacts,” but he never
[43837]produced anything of value for
[43838]the CIA, the officials said,
[43840]‘The CIA was said to have
[43841]dumped Giancana as a possible
[43842]source of Cuban intelligence
[43843]some time in 1960, long before
[43845]Sign First Trade Pact
[43846]DAR ES SALAAM, Tangan-
[43847]yika (AP) — Tanganyika and
[43848]the Soviet Union have signed
[43849]their first trade agreement, The
[43850]African nation will exchange
[43851]sisal, cotton, hides, skins, to-
[43852]bacco. and coffee for Sovict
[43853]metal, tools, vehicles, road
[43854]equipment, cameras, fishing
[43855]boats, planes and other things,
[43857]Tay-Feat
[43859]10S ANGELES (UPI) — A
[43860]woman Gitred and feathered
[43861]and apparently left to die in a
[43862]flaming house told a bizarre
[43863]Story Thursday that her “tor-
[43864]ture” actually was part of
[43865]to stir up a racial inci-
[43867]J men et he geting «
[43868]Eyer
[43870]Foe?
[43872]‘ a) “Vente age RE te
[43874]the abortive rebel invasion at
[43875]the Bay of Pigs in April, 1961.
[43877]An equally bizarre episode
[43878]months Jater gave the Justice
[43879]Department its first clue to
[43880]Giancana's negotiations with
[43881]the CIA,
[43883]The figures in this incident
[43884]were a male night-club enter-
[43885]tainer and = Giancana's girl
[43886]friend, Phyllis McGuire, one of
[43887]the singmg McGuire sisters,
[43889]At the time, in Giancana’s
[43890]opinion, the entertainer was
[43891]overly attentive to Miss Me-
[43892]Guire. _
[43894]At Las Vegas, Nev., in 1961,
[43895]sheriff's police seized a prowler
[43896]in the entertainer’s hotel suite.
[43897]For hours, the intruder refused
[43898]io identify himself or say he
[43899]was rifling the  entertainer's
[43900]rooms, »
[43902]Persistent questioning by
[43903]sheriff's deputies, according to
[43904]federal authorities, led to an
[43905]admission by the prowler that
[43909]hag oe yaaa ee
[43911].
[43914]» a
[43916]eee tm oe em
[43918]aye t
[43920]he was on the payroll of a pri-
[43921]vate detective agency in Flor-
[43922]ida,
[43924]Florida authorities sought. an
[43925]explanation of the incident
[43926]from the operator of the detec-
[43927]live agency. At first, the oper-
[43928]ator refused to discuss -the
[43929]matter, Finally, 1 however, he
[43931]Fy 7
[43933]HUE, South Viet Nam (AP)
[43934]—A 71-year-old Buddhist monk
[43935]burned himself to death in his
[43936]ceremonial robes inside Huc's
[43937]biggest pagoda carly Friday.
[43939]He was the fifth to burn to
[43940]death in the mounting Buddhist
[43941]campaign . against the South
[43942]Victnamese government of
[43944]President Ngo Dinh Diem, a
[43945]Roman Catholic.
[43946]His seli-immolation in the
[43948]owner af the house which was
[43949]set afire, Henry Lewis, allempt-
[43950]ed to inspire a racial incident
[43951]that would pressure his neigh-
[43952]bors in a right-of-way dispute.
[43954]Office waid: Mrs, Harwell
[43955]the cewises were arrested
[43957]Ny eee
[43958], kt : oe
[43960]eee tncntenestNa de cot ain ain pr pment
[43962]ared As
[43964]“Oo.
[43965]Er soe Soh CAO PPE Ris BANS Ata I
[43967]told investigators to get
[43969]in
[43970]touch with the CIA, ;
[43971]The inquiry then shifted
[43973]from Florida to Washington
[43974]and revealed Giancana’s nego
[43975]liations With CIA, it was. dis-
[43976]closed.
[43978]Government sources reported
[43979]Thursday that the private in-
[43981]Hth Buddhist Burns Self |
[43983]courlyard of the Tu Dam pa-
[43984]goda brought immediate mar-
[43985]jal law to Hue, which lies 40
[43987]‘miles north of Saigon and is
[43989]the ancient capital of Viet Nam.
[43991]He was. the third to burn this
[43992]week. A 17-year-old novice
[43993]monk committed suicide Tucs-
[43994]day and a middle-age nun took
[43995]her life in Ninh Hoa Thursday.
[43997]Reliable informants said
[43998]the nun, Dieu Hien, set fire
[44000]Oak
[44002]Mrs. Smith, a baby-sitter, ad-
[44004]mitted setting fire to the house,
[44006]uthorilies said. She and the
[44008]Lewis couple faced charges of
[44010]son and conspiracy, detectives
[44012]Vegas suile of :
[44013]was another riddle of Giancae
[44014]na's caper with the CfA, Neith-
[44015]er the CIA nor the Florida
[44016]detective agency ever has of-|
[44017]fered an explanation of w
[44018]the investigator was doing
[44019]the hotel suite, the sources Saic
[44021]at
[44022]2
[44026]to herself in the market place |
[44027]of Ninh Hoa, a coastal vil
[44028]use 200 miles northeast of
[44029]Saigon. She was the first won
[44030]an fire-suicide, . i.
[44032]informants at Ninh Hoa said
[44033]government authorities had tak- |
[44034]en the nun's body in a move |
[44035]aimed. at preventing a mass,
[44036]demonstration at her funeral. ;
[44038]They followed the sanic tac-’
[44039]tic with the body of a novice |
[44040]nionk who immolated himselt
[44041]early Tuesday near the central
[44042]Vietnamese religious center ol
[44043]Tue,
[44045]ft had an opposite effect,
[44047]INDEX TO
[44049]Milburn Akers
[44050]Astro-Guide
[44051]Nusiness News §4.55 |
[44053]ye
[44056]iscellaneous John McCone Papers /
[44058]hai Pilots
[44061]‘ateral, used at NSC Exec. Committee. Meeting 29 March 63
[44062]|
[44064].rge envelop of miscellaneous papers
[44066]riefing Memoranda~-1962
[44068]-esident Briefing 22 Dec 1964.
[44070][" File 1962
[44071]o” File 1962
[44072]ho ile 1962 .
[44074]ar Kast Trip 2-14 June 1962 “
[44076]urcell Panel 1963 & 64° 7
[44078]ptt 2
[44079]ie are
[44080]C2253
[44082]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 596 7 a
[44083].
[44085]SOR ae cre np Seema rr RE TE eT
[44089]hate atta i Rk lia ee
[44091]ON eT TI SS man che BOT Ue Som
[44093]SP Peers co So
[44095]A Femme NTE MONT SP ply te SpE Pee
[44097]: - ge JOB #_:
[44099]ra - | - ON a Nie
[44101]sy of Le
[44103]fotes for DCI and Weekend Reading June-!Dee 1963
[44105]i tiefing Memoranda 1962
[44107]state Cables for DCI Raborn 1966
[44109]‘ask Force Report on Free , Europe Committee and Radio Liberty Committee, 12 Mat 65
[44111]|
[44113]rol. I, Ml, OI & IV of Annexes to Report to the PFIAB on Intelligence Community ;
[44114]\ctivities relating to Cuban Arms Build-up, 14 April-14 [Ort 1962, f
[44116]i
[44118]|
[44120]t
[44123]-
[44128]i:
[44129]i
[44131])
[44132]|
[44133]|
[44135]|
[44136]P
[44137]ger st * oenict
[44139]set |
[44141]CRESS
[44144]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 597 _ . i
[44146]a
[44152]opy #3 thru #7 >
[44153]opy #8 |
[44162]apy #13 thru #16
[44163]‘py 17 |
[44167]all, Executive Registry retired 19 copies of the Long- Range Plan,
[44168]‘3o'three bound books of Working Papers and one bound book of Working Plan Committee :
[44170]geting minutes,
[44172]r. Bye destroyed all loose working papers. :
[44174]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 593 : .
[44176]Disposition of CIA Long- ~Range Flan.
[44178]| 7 | | - : pie Ag +HF 43
[44179]| ue HF EVO
[44181]retained in Executive: |Registry.
[44182]Retained in O/IG. eee PR I-15 7) L
[44183]Records Center
[44185]DDP retained, ; |
[44187]PPB Retained. 3
[44188]D/DCI/NIPE retained, |
[44189]Records Center 7 a . . ey
[44190]DDS&T retained, | | |
[44191]Records Center |
[44193]PPB retained,
[44195]Records Center. |
[44197]7 |
[44199]|
[44201]|
[44203]7
[44205] eadZt Ge
[44207]David L. Bye Py
[44209]“Chief, Executive Registry : 4
[44211]to - 2%
[44213]ce ce QF: &
[44215]yee pos, 8 3
[44219], a
[44220]02259 .
[44223]| i Jop i
[44225]ee oe |
[44226]Yi ote |
[44227]3-12/1 Meetings with the President-25 Oct 61-31 July 62 — “#1 77
[44228]. . — | Pe
[44229]8- 1/1 Meetings with the President 31 July 62-29 Nov 62 - #2 | _
[44230]yl a
[44231]Meetings with the President 1 Jan 63- 31 March 63 #1 tbl
[44232]Memoranda on Mectings with the | President 1 Apr 63-1 July 63 #2 i .
[44233]Mectings with the President 1 July 63 - 12 Nov. 63 i #3 i:
[44234]. : po, . | . |
[44235]Meetings with President Johnson’ 23 Nov-63 - 31 vec i
[44236]. ro, ; ; . &
[44237]Meetings with the President 1 Jan-2 April 1964 | . #1 k ;
[44238]Meetings with the President 1964 3 April-20 May #2 | :
[44239]Meetings with the President 21 May 64-5 Oct 64 BB j :
[44240]Meetings with the President 6 Oct 64. Ss ; #4 OST
[44241]‘eetings with the President Jan-28 April 65 7 | . #1 | ‘
[44242]7 wc
[44243]: 7 ,
[44246]23 : } t
[44249]\S
[44250]h | a0
[44251]. ah
[44252]Yo ae
[44253]i : of i u
[44254]or ig
[44256]1 a
[44257]/ +E
[44258]if
[44261]*) O2294 | | :
[44263]| |
[44265]|
[44267]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 599 _ Fo =
[44273]| |
[44274]i
[44276]i
[44280]i 4 zi . of Lo
[44281]"3 Committee January-December 1963 -—
[44283]3 Committee January-December i969" a
[44285]| i ed GR
[44287]vunter-Insurgency July-December OE Chit Eyton
[44288]vunter-Insurgency January-June 1962 ~ # Ceo
[44289]ecial Group CI-1965 —- 7
[44291]ecial Gr up CI-1904 ?
[44293]‘rono 1962 J | . : | . | y : | |
[44295]ae oF
[44296]. : . ‘ 4 PROPERTY
[44298]rate terete)
[44299]Q Le:
[44301]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 600
[44306]Fm A a ae © a NB Ee Are Ae ¢ en nn RE sm yeeae
[44307]an . .
[44309]~ "De of ie
[44311]dlemoranda for Record: . :
[44312]i March-28 April §5 | | |
[44313]January-28 Feb 1965 |
[44314]November-31 Dec 64 ?
[44315]il Sept-31 Oct 64
[44316], April 64-8 July 64 /
[44317]) July-11 Aug 64
[44318]12 Aug - 10 Sept 64 |
[44319]| Janell Feb 64 :
[44320]24 Nov-31 Dec. 63° /
[44321]23 suly 63-26 Nov 63
[44322]5 June 63-20 July 63 . Sk S |
[44323]‘5 April.- 4 June 63 |
[44324]| Jan 63-9 Feb 63 ;
[44325]) Sept - 31 Dec 62 a — i. 7 oe . . .
[44326]7 April 62-21 Aug 62 | oe a
[44327]29 Nov 61-5 April 62 7 !
[44328]gait OE
[44329]a tHE WHiTe HOUSE OF FiUk .
[44330]BF oe 62253" am
[44331]: . i
[44333]HW 50955 poctd:92423630 Page 601 | |
[44335]JOD #
[44336]ot (6k ,
[44337]Dx # of {2 7 N
[44338]aa] stiam’ os ° August 1963
[44340]i
[44341]“) nam - September 1963 |
[44342]‘ietnam October 1963 '
[44343]‘ietnam ' November 1963
[44344]Vietnam . _ December 1963 — C
[44345]‘anuary | ‘January 1964 -
[44346]“ietnam February 1964
[44347]vietnam —_ March 1964
[44348]Jjetnam -. April 1964
[44349]‘ietnam May 1964 |
[44350]vietnam June 1964 *
[44352]ietnam . July 1964 .
[44353]‘ietnam ; August 1964
[44354]Vietnam. — September 1964 |
[44355]7ietnam November 1964 .
[44356]fietnam January 1965
[44357]Vietnam February 1965
[44358]vietnam March 1965
[44359]‘LA- DCI Notes 1- 2 June
[44360]DE. LA Trip
[44361]‘IODIS---LOR----McCone Eyes Only
[44363]of
[44364]_ PROPER RTY 0
[44365]‘ sue WHITE HOUSE | orn
[44366]. . . - . (ita a
[44368]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 | Page 602
[44370]a.
[44373]eo . . ye :
[44374]UC |
[44375]“ ae (- He
[44377]as # 7 of fl oe, i 4 O ; _ "
[44378]1963 thru 1965 algo includes one 6 Sept 61] ler to DCI frmDefense re / f
[44379]Management of NRO) , i
[44381]NRO
[44383]CYPRUS 1964 material « on Cyprus & the DCI trip in Sept 1964
[44385]Binder containing excerpts frm the National Security Act of 1947; the Organization —
[44386]of USIB; Summary of NSCID's & charts & regs ou Organizaton of CIA.
[44388]Summary Reports Chiefs of Station, WH Division, presented at Conference-
[44389]Panama(29 Jan-1 Feb 1962)
[44391]White House-1962 & 1963(containes correspondence to, from and of interest to
[44392]the White House, )Also included autographed picture of the CIB wich appeared in ;
[44393]the newspaper & compromised the code words, Autographed to McCone frm McGeo Bindy.
[44395]pia Me cttaodieMRecacbashotet Lull cates tet nametiaed teint ata eed re
[44396]pies 7 = i
[44398]Duropean Trip-10 thru 17 February 1963 (John McCone/DCI)
[44399]Memoranda of Record on DCI Trip to Europe-l2t thru 29 Sept 1964
[44400]~moranda on DCI's European trip-January 1964
[44402]Panama Conference- 29 Jan-2 Feb 1962.
[44404]Memos for the Reocrd EA/DCI for 1964 & 65.
[44406]seams pee ne nam blg ne mmc ny pes OR ep i. ee ome
[44408]DCI's 1962 Far Eastern Trip
[44409]Garibbean Survey Group (1961 and. 1962- inaiinly on Cuba) >
[44411]OCI Letters of. appreciation for hospitality extended him on his Far East ‘Trip-1962
[44413]2 tees eet get ee ee ege aren ewer pally se,
[44415]DGI's Disucssions with Government Officials during. his European trip in 1964 y
[44416]. U
[44418]also containes some background papers on trip.
[44421](
[44422]velo containing FBI report on Dr. Martin. Luther King. 18 Oct 1963-—~ \ MJ
[44424]DCI Speech File 962, 63 & 64)
[44428]Low-Level Reconnaissance of Cuba-1964
[44430]cp Ng gn 1 oF
[44431]CUNA-Background Material-1962 |. ; CeO . «t Uae gFFICE
[44433]Lk to DCI from DDCI-Septembér 1962. on Cuba Situation
[44437]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 603
[44439]i
[44440]os, - : | x Job #
[44441]4x To fo | t | v See
[44442]‘© tean Republic-1965 “ 7 7 | |
[44443]‘ufba Package y \ : i
[44444]cxecutive Registry File "John McCone | 1962 :
[44446]committee of Principals — :
[44447]208 . 1962 | : 4
[44448]q : ! .
[44449]a ee
[44451]‘uclear Papers | .
[44452]{eCone Speeches 7 June 63 - 25 May 64,
[44453]icCone Speeches 8 June 64 - ll March 65
[44454]Ma 1962 a) | |
[44455]ub Prisoner Exchange #1- Aug 62,
[44456]‘ate Eyes only Cables 7
[44457]‘xecutive Registry DCI File 1963. - | :
[44458]‘epartment of Defense 1954 - 1964 ; -
[44459]J
[44460]7
[44461]\ .
[44462]. 92256
[44464]HW 50955 Doold: 32423630 Page 604
[44466]“CONFIDENTIAL
[44467]COMMISSION ON CIA ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE UNITED STATES
[44469]Washington, DC 20500; :
[44470]OE | ~2 2
[44471]May 21, 1975 : C-*! f
[44472]| a
[44473]MEMORANDUM _
[44474]To: File
[44475]From: Mason cargill he
[44477]Subject: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS
[44479]On the afternoon of May 20, 1975, I briefly |
[44480]examined the Justice Department files on the Kennedy assassi-
[44481]nation, ranging from February 18, 1969, to January 28, 1971.
[44482]According to Mr. Keeney and his secretary who has reviewed
[44483]these files in detail, they contain no memo from any State
[44484]Department employee who Was in Mexico in 1963. Basically these
[44485]files consist of letters from citizens, some referred from
[44486]congressmen, and press clippings relating to the assassination.
[44488]Mr. Keeney's secretary referred me to several
[44489]entries in these files respecting allegations by people who
[44490]claimed to have been involved in the Kennedy assassination.
[44491]One claimed to have been a CIA agent. There are also many
[44492]letters from assassination "nuts." Other documents relate
[44493]to court proceedings to force FBI agents to testify in the
[44494]Clay Shaw trial in Louisiana.
[44496]One document: is ‘an FBI report, dated February 2,
[44497]1972, stating that one Richard von Kleist had contacted the
[44498]“FBI claiming he had information on. the John F. Kennedy .
[44499]assassination. Kleist claimed certain people conspired in
[44500]the Hotel Luna, Mexico City, in July, 1963. Kleist was not
[44501]a State Department employee. | He appeared to be a free-lance
[44502]magazine writer. .
[44504]MC:clb |
[44506]PROPERTY OF”
[44507]THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE
[44509]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 605
[44511]- 2e: Assassination of the President
[44513]ode
[44514]3 r
[44515]a . .
[44517]‘that before looking at the FBI as to possible "leaks, " he should carefull
[44519]geLoach to Mohr 12-6-63
[44521]> ! y eXamine his"
[44522]own house. I told him I was quite thoroughly familiar withthe way Guthman and-
[44523]-Rosenthal dealt with the press and that as he well knew the wire service people stayed
[44524]‘constantly in Guthman's private office.; I told him it was quite obvious to me how the
[44525]AP had learned that the report had been sent over to the Department.
[44527]. Katzenbach reiterated that he had no complaints against the FBI. He
[44528]stated again that the purpose of his call was to tell me about Senator Russell's feelings.
[44530]He added that he had another reason for calling and that was to determine
[44532]if we could give him any ideas as to how Warren Olney could be dropped as Chief
[44534]Counsel of*the Presidential Commission. I told Katzenbach of our feelings concerning:
[44536]‘Olney. He stated that‘ne was presently: working through Congressman Hale Boggs and
[44537]‘he thought he was going to be successful in getting Olney's name removed from
[44538]_consideration, He told me that Boggs was very sympathetic.
[44540]Katzenbach mentioned that Waggoner Carr, the Texas State Attorney
[44541]General, would like very much to see the Director on Friday, 12-6-63, I asked him
[44543]what for. He stated that Carr had no particular motive in mind other than to indicate
[44545]to the press later on that he had discussed matters with the Director. I told him I could
[44546]see no percentage in the Director's seeing Carr, that we were the investigative
[44548]‘agency and that Carr's dealings should be with the Department and the Presidential
[44550]Commission. Katzenbach indicated that the White House might think otherwise. He
[44551]stated that the President was most anxious for Carr to be given attention in Washington
[44552]inasmuch as Cayr was running for office next yeai. Itold Katzenbach I knew this,
[44553]howévér, T'still felt that the Director should not be injected into this matter, ;
[44554]Katzenbach stated he would attempt to disuadé Carr from seeing the Director, however,
[44555]‘Carr was quite persistent. ——
[44557]In view of the close friendship which Carr obviously has with the _
[44558]President, the Director may desire to just shake hands with Carr without sitting down
[44559]and discussing facts concerning our report. ; {
[44561]ACTION:
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[44587]2. MILITARY CONGIMeY 90 ovumnifsW cust.
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[44599]EE TT TT, .
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[44611]SOMNIST LGADIR IN MaTANZss PROVEICS 20 A AGRICULTURAL co. CPERATLVS IN ORIENTS
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[44615]LtS VILLIS F
[44620]. CLASSIFICATION om D 4sNATIGH CONTROLS
[44624]|
[44627]e
[44629]“iF NSCLSS £ny T, WILL HAVS TORRES Sio7 InN THs CAITRAL PARK OF SANTA CLARKS,
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[44638]IN MIND a PLAN WHICH WILL INVOLVE THE £ASS/35
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[44641]INSIQiCF ADIL, RAUL CASTRO, aD Giz
[44643]»  FADK AQ SONS sTS2ITIOUS MCMIIT AD ais TAS-OVER OF THE GOVERMENT FOR TRE “SSLYES,
[44645]SRLGS MEI ARS COP THE OF RICK THAT SICH A PLAY WILL sce, 45 THSY ARS IN CHARSE CF Tig
[44646]| SGU LAR JEMY AND MILITIA TESCPS IY CUBA. THE: AY LEaDErs saz
[44648]1G .UNISTS, IND THEY REGrZ= CHAT NOT ONLY THE CIVELIAY Eoryr TIGi,
[44650]UAJORITY OF THE A5ISOD FORCES oF CUSL, APs F2D Ve wits CASTEO AND THE COSI STS.
[44652]THAT THEY APS nop ---
[44654]SUT ALSO & LuRGR
[44656]6. (SOURCE comnouT; Sovaece " SAID THAT THE SaboTacy
[44657]Coase:
[44659]Viwmateuwl SLING Cir
[44662]SED OUT IN THE Cay AND PROVE: Kor OF HABAIA CAI BE ATTRIBUTED To.
[44663]BS GilU?P OF ancy LEADSSS. HE BAS=D HIS OZINION IN PART CH THE PLCT THAT DS LA
[44665]+5 BRA IS'A LEADSR OF THE BEX KORGRs! WitoN, ID THE NEW cuBAY NATIONAL BAN
[44666]SELIDNG IN HABINA.WAS THE poCr:
[44668]mocaw OBJECT OF SAzoTaGs BYE: EJRVING.)
[44669]7. FISLID DISszr,: enicesin, on: CARIB,
[44671]EiD OF MESSAca
[44673]CLASSIFICATION oe DISSEMINATION CONTASLS
[44675]cm En Qunp eM SCOR /LINITLD
[44677]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 608
[44679]YLD NOT ES OCCUPYING EOSITIONS OF
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[44692]. | os
[44693]pee gotta torte sore Jo = Mr, Relner’
[44694]- J bse Gen, 616. MO. OF . . 1 = Mr. Rose . \
[44695]7  TUNITED STATE 1 (MENT Jo = Mr. Halle y
[44696]- ee 1 - Mr. Rogge an
[44697]M emoranauum 1 - Mr.-McGow i |
[44698]. tt - Mr. llines | it
[44699]ro : A, H, Belmont - DATE: February 26, 1964 ji ING jem.
[44700]. : | :
[44701]FROM: - A. Rosen | v- ayo pa
[44702]# i * Ya ay dee
[44703]SUBJECT: THSCERESTDENT!S. COMMISSION... 1) “fil ori
[44704]3 ASSASSINATION OF THE PRESIDENT | NeA “hy
[44706]|
[44708]at . ‘ .
[44709]While at’ the offices of the President's Commission on other
[44710]imatters, J, Lee Rankin requested Malley to stop by his office.. Mr. Rankin .°
[44711]‘advised that he desired to make it known that the Bureau had been of tremen- |)
[44712]dous help to the President's Commission, that an extrenel ‘large voluse of 7}
[44713]iwork had been produced by the Bureau. and that. the Bureau had been most
[44714]cooperative in handléng all requests which had been made by the President's .
[44716]Commission. Rf.
[44717]4 : cH
[44719]i ay . : : ae
[44720]- ~ He commented that recently there had been quite an increase in the vse,
[44722]number of requests and there was a possibility that there would be many more =;
[44723]additional requests. ir, Rankin stated this was not intended as a criticisa ~;
[44724]“of the Bureau's work but instead was the following through of the Commis- — . gg
[44726]'sion's desire to complete the Commission's record and leave no unanswered
[44727],questions. — — ;
[44729]my
[44731]Gt NS
[44733]In this. regard, Ir. Rankin went on to say that the Bureau, in. i
[44734]conducting its investigation, had an extremely difficult and enormous task «fi
[44735]to perform and that he as well as other members of the Commission staff had) “)"
[44737]been amazed at the amount of detailed information which had been developed
[44739]by the Bureau in its investigation, He commented that the Commission in
[44740]\performing its tasks was of necessity making a most ninute study of the -
[44741](Bureau's work as well as that of other Government agencies with the idea of. .
[44742]picking the investigation to pieces to the extreme degree so that wherever “
[44743]it was possible to clarify any item, this could be handled while the.) -;
[44744]t . mat
[44745]. ani
[44747]| Commission was in cxistence. ‘
[44749]Mr. Rankin advised that in connection with the letter which had
[44751]just recently been transmitted to the Bureau requesting an explanation con-
[44753]cerning information relative to Special Agent Janes P. Hosty's nane being ae
[44754]omitted from a report prepared in the Dallas Office (report of Special Agent: :
[44755]Robert P. Gemberling dated 12/23/63), he wanted the Bureau to know the bot
[44758]following: ¥ ; 7
[44759]: wot ae i? L 4
[44760]mS LORE
[44763]™e i
[44765]on 2
[44767]ye
[44769]types
[44773]Enclosure «see 7 27S os _ REC. 53 pos
[44775]1 -'Mr, Sullivan>—? 1 = 62-109060
[44777]1 - Mr. Branigan ~——~ Yeo, l = '105-S2555 -° , a
[44778]b a Of LL) om
[44780]1 = iW» Conrad: «:; & 1 -~ '44-24016 . é }} i . . “Sh 1,
[44781]resionge’ to FOUN er ctprrest a re —teet OL for disgeeni-™ po
[44783]ve Tepe Ration avtside your Committ
[44784]Ere cectinan jebdh our Committse and the. content may not Be dMacosed tpyypautliortyeab
[44785]mC) Ore ( “nel without the e&press approval of the FBI .\ yey.
[44787]Erson-
[44789]1 - Mr. Lenihan ae Teadtatent is prepared in d
[44790]ce. \Fts use.is limited to of ficial reece by
[44792]. Det. ,
[44794]Hi 50955, DocId: 32423630 Page 609
[44797]oS ./
[44799]. . t
[44803]f
[44805]Memorandum A, Rosen to A, Il. Belmont ef . I
[44806]-Re: THE PRESIDENT" S COMMISSION - i
[44808]co oe 4
[44810]cd ° . . an
[44812]The Commission, had noted in reviewing the notebook in question a
[44813]that Agent. Hosty's name apneared in the book along with the office telephone
[44814]number.and a License number. It had been noted that this information did
[44815]not appear in the Dallas investigative report and members of the Commission _
[44816]wondered why this item did not appear. isk, Rankin stated that. prior to_any |
[44817]question being raised concerning this iten, | the Bureau in one of its letters
[44818]to the Comission (dated 1/27/64) set. forth full information for. the.
[44819]Commission's information explaining the appearance of Agent Hosty's nane
[44820]inthe Osvald notebook, As a result of this information being furnished by:
[44821]the Bureau. the members of the Commission were fully aware that there had aa
[44822]been no.effort on the part of the Bureau not to make this information =
[44823]available, bir, Rankin stated that after some discussion concerning this
[44824]item, the members of the Coiimission directed Mir. Rankin to request the ar
[44825]Bureau for an explanation so that the record of the Commission would show
[44826]the exact circuustances by which this item was omitted from the Dallas —
[44827]report of 12/23/63 by Special Ag ent Gemberling. ; a r
[44831]|
[44833]F
[44835]Attached isa letter to J. Lee Rankin setting forth the reasons _
[44836]why Agent fiesty's name was omitted from the Dallas report of 12/23/63, We ;
[44837]ure enclosing for the Co1mission affidavits from Special Agent Robert P,
[44838]Gemberling and John T, Kesler wherein ‘they set forth their “explanations in
[44839]handling the Hosty entry in Oswald's address book, Both affidavits are 7
[44840]excellent and shouid satisfy the Commission that our handling of the Hosty ~' -
[44841]“entry was sound,
[44843]4
[44845].
[44846]ty
[44847]REC
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[44851]Cicer ncreneon*: ‘oi
[44853]Se
[44855]HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 610
[44857]' . i
[44859]: i
[44861]oa _
[44863]CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY ow
[44864]WaASHINGTON,D.C. 20505 ‘
[44868]: Review Staff: 76-H412- --
[44869]13 May 1976.
[44871]Mr. William G. Miller ©. wet
[44872]Staff Director ;
[44873]Select Committee To Study Governmental
[44875]Operations With Respect To Intelligence
[44877]Activities ~
[44878]Dirksen Senate Office Building
[44879]Washington, D. Cc, 20510 Attention: Mr. E. Sreissing
[44880]Dear Mr. Miller:
[44881]As requested by Mr. Greissing, transmitted herewit)
[44882]is a copy of a 1 May 1967 memorandum numbered 502 and
[44883]captioned "Claimed Agency Affiliation by Conspiracy Cuse mae
[44884]Figures’. This document was recently released by the
[44885]Agency in response to a: Freedom of Information Act request.
[44886]Sincerely,
[44887]- vecuten. A .
[44889]Chief, Review Stati oe
[44891]As Stated.
[44893]ERE
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[44912]INITIALS «| Ors. : | NUMAEA
[44915](OPERATIONAL | mitiacs |. - .
[44917]| | DereareD PRIORITY :
[44918]ROUTINE X IMMEDIATE |
[44920]‘{SDIATE DIR INFO, CTE Mex
[44924]Foal
[44925]hd 2
[44927]OK
[44928]pe oo,
[44929]REF: DIR 34883 Z
[44930]ty fib kl= FOAS
[44931]l. SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TELEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
[44932]“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
[44933]OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
[44934]2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
[44935]ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
[44936]3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
[44937]MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
[44938]ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
[44939]ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
[44940]UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
[44941]4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
[44942]HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,
[44944]Pipre. 7° END OF MSG
[44946]COORDINATING OFFICERS |
[44948]. ; ; w.c.c.
[44949]| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER
[44951]“QUTGOING
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[44960]CHRONO (DUMMY)
[44962]4
[44964]a
[44966]peenenrs
[44968]my A.
[44970]INITIALS «| Ors. : | NUMAEA
[44973](OPERATIONAL | mitiacs |. - .
[44975]| | DereareD PRIORITY :
[44976]ROUTINE X IMMEDIATE |
[44978]‘{SDIATE DIR INFO, CTE Mex
[44982]Foal
[44983]hd 2
[44985]OK
[44986]pe oo,
[44987]REF: DIR 34883 Z
[44988]ty fib kl= FOAS
[44989]l. SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TELEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
[44990]“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
[44991]OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
[44992]2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
[44993]ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
[44994]3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
[44995]MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
[44996]ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
[44997]ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
[44998]UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
[44999]4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
[45000]HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,
[45002]Pipre. 7° END OF MSG
[45004]COORDINATING OFFICERS |
[45006]. ; ; w.c.c.
[45007]| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER
[45009]“QUTGOING
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[45021]SE le
[45022]f a }. 7
[45024]: L Dh
[45025]INITIALS «| Ors. : nUNaca SS SS—S
[45028]_ DEFER RED PRIORITY |
[45030]OPERATIONAL | aniacs |. - oo
[45031]ROUTINE xx IMMEDIATE | | | — oo
[45033]‘{SDIATE DIR INFO, CME yxy
[45037]Foal
[45038]hd 2
[45040]OK
[45042]‘aa oo, 7
[45044]REF: DIR 34883 _—;. o :
[45045]oy. fi Ekbn FOAS .
[45047]l. SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TELEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
[45048]“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
[45049]OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | a
[45050]2. M=EXI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS _ ——
[45051]ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES. .
[45052]3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
[45053]MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD .
[45054]ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN, EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY.
[45055]ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
[45056]UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
[45057]4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
[45058]HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,
[45060]Pipre. 7° END OF MSG
[45062]COORDINATING OFFICERS |
[45064]. ; SECRET . W.c.c.
[45065]| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER
[45067]“QUTGOING
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[45080]| a nae
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[45084]my A.
[45086]INITIALS «| Ors. : | NUMAEA
[45089](OPERATIONAL | mitiacs |. - .
[45091]| | DereareD PRIORITY :
[45092]ROUTINE X IMMEDIATE |
[45094]‘{SDIATE DIR INFO, CTE Mex
[45098]Foal
[45099]hd 2
[45101]OK
[45102]pe oo,
[45103]REF: DIR 34883 Z
[45104]ty fib kl= FOAS
[45105]l. SAW PHOTOS OF LEE OSWLAD ON TELEVISION NIGHT OF 22 NOV
[45106]“AND IT OBVIOUS PHOTOS SENT TO DALLAS WE RE NOT IDEN WITH LEE a
[45107]OSWALD HELD DALLAS, DATES ARE AS GIVEN ON PHOTOS. | |
[45108]2. M=XI STATION REVIEWING ALL AVAILABLE PHOTOS: PERSONS a
[45109]ENTERING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES.
[45110]3, MEXI SUGGESTING TO LITEMPO 2 THAT SILVIA DURAN WHO
[45111]MEXICAN EMPLOYEE AT CUBAN EMBASSY AND WHO PUT LEE OSWALD
[45112]ON TELEPHONE FROM CUBAN: EMBASSY TO TALK TO SOVIET EMBASSY |
[45113]ON 26 SEPT BE ARRESTED IMMEDIATELY, AND HELD INCOMMUNICADO
[45114]UNTIL SHE GIVES ALL DETAILS OF OSWALD KNOWN TO HER, (Gee al £ F).
[45115]4. LITEMPO 2 CAN SAY D, F,S, COVERAGE REVEALED CALL TO
[45116]HIM IF HE NEEDS TO EXPLAIN,
[45118]Pipre. 7° END OF MSG
[45120]COORDINATING OFFICERS |
[45122]. ; ; w.c.c.
[45123]| AUTHENTICATING OFFICER , ‘CLASSIFICATION RELEASING OFFICER
[45125]“QUTGOING
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[45129].
[45131]s
[45134]1
[45136]his triend Comme mtead $oat als an bed idles cia rhak ooo ey he hae yeaa trend
[45137]tie ovdiee ihikteat ibaban ted Hac Pee ae Meet tly eb ae re bea ae ge REET OA woe he
[45138]thab €6 was alla fake, dah FLoay HEEL uteat lat dina Ph eb Ua heated tthe dae cavtaae yand
[45140]the radio; “that's, what chey. did and ¢ sey ‘lourned about iti that the lost te bad
[45141]heard, a monent ogo, vas that that type is cus CSWALD, that it is believed that
[45142]this: is the one, ‘but he bas not confessed anything... LUISA: But they alzeady
[45143]inow that he speaks Russian and balengs to the Pro-Cubs Counittee; that they
[45144]alreedy imow that he vented, te nationalize niasel?, but he has not confessed.
[45145]EF says she is right, adding that it could be that they triea to Pind. some let's
[45146]gay soliatien from him, pecaise...LUISA after esting nim to walt a nimrte, asks him
[45147]; to goon. EPs We ‘Quink that 42 it had been or ~ bad seemed...miblic or had been.
[45148]crs of thea 2 sogregaticnista or against integration wno had killed Kennedy, then —
[45150]there was, Ist's Bay, the possibility that n sort. of civil ver would, arise in tha
[45151]Soy,  Upitea States; that contradictions vould be sharpened, the critical sitabian the
[45152]country al going throuzk, then we were commenting here, that’ ‘they Pound a resolu.
[45153]tion ‘in this type, nof. Mors international; they will fina it or ‘4t Was trus who.
[45155]imows; let's see what heppens. ‘LUISA euiles ani asks vhs will tappen. EP:
[45157]ho knows. LUISA: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three (she danas)
[45159]me: think that ib will be the tonic of the day at that perty of SILVIA's.
[45161]TUzSA: They suspended it Jeeause they could: not Z0- ES asks why, end LOTSA says
[45163]“80 thet efter they can cay that ya ore cbserving the Genth of SENNEDY, then wa
[45164]i
[45166]spokes with SYLVLA dnd she agreed to suspend it and leave f+ until next week, ‘putt it
[45167]ag te Taga te hua tok
[45169]will not coincide wits the: yard ink (che louusths)". ae Thos has t teen
[45172]paroee se
[45174]neceurt.  LUIGA: Thnt it will be after the aourning and all cf that nonsense,
[45176]ww 50955 Docld: 32423630 JaNoBicanre
[45178].
[45180]s
[45183]1
[45185]his triend Comme mtead $oat als an bed idles cia rhak ooo ey he hae yeaa trend
[45186]tie ovdiee ihikteat ibaban ted Hac Pee ae Meet tly eb ae re bea ae ge REET OA woe he
[45187]thab €6 was alla fake, dah FLoay HEEL uteat lat dina Ph eb Ua heated tthe dae cavtaae yand
[45189]the radio; “that's, what chey. did and ¢ sey ‘lourned about iti that the lost te bad
[45190]heard, a monent ogo, vas that that type is cus CSWALD, that it is believed that
[45191]this: is the one, ‘but he bas not confessed anything... LUISA: But they alzeady
[45192]inow that he speaks Russian and balengs to the Pro-Cubs Counittee; that they
[45193]alreedy imow that he vented, te nationalize niasel?, but he has not confessed.
[45194]EF says she is right, adding that it could be that they triea to Pind. some let's
[45195]gay soliatien from him, pecaise...LUISA after esting nim to walt a nimrte, asks him
[45196]; to goon. EPs We ‘Quink that 42 it had been or ~ bad seemed...miblic or had been.
[45197]crs of thea 2 sogregaticnista or against integration wno had killed Kennedy, then —
[45199]there was, Ist's Bay, the possibility that n sort. of civil ver would, arise in tha
[45200]Soy,  Upitea States; that contradictions vould be sharpened, the critical sitabian the
[45201]country al going throuzk, then we were commenting here, that’ ‘they Pound a resolu.
[45202]tion ‘in this type, nof. Mors international; they will fina it or ‘4t Was trus who.
[45204]imows; let's see what heppens. ‘LUISA euiles ani asks vhs will tappen. EP:
[45206]ho knows. LUISA: Imagine, one, two, three and now, that makes three (she danas)
[45208]me: think that ib will be the tonic of the day at that perty of SILVIA's.
[45210]TUzSA: They suspended it Jeeause they could: not Z0- ES asks why, end LOTSA says
[45212]“80 thet efter they can cay that ya ore cbserving the Genth of SENNEDY, then wa
[45213]i
[45215]spokes with SYLVLA dnd she agreed to suspend it and leave f+ until next week, ‘putt it
[45216]ag te Taga te hua tok
[45218]will not coincide wits the: yard ink (che louusths)". ae Thos has t teen
[45221]paroee se
[45223]neceurt.  LUIGA: Thnt it will be after the aourning and all cf that nonsense,
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[45228]~ 1
[45230]Seca at ae
[45232]he asks where she is going to stay © Wy end LUISA ccmments thas now:
[45234]Deans
[45236]. |
[45237]‘she plans to move tonight to the house of the doctor (female). dF asks if they”
[45239]know everything now, and LUESA says yes, but a@cesn't imow how the thing is, cr if
[45240]they will kavs to stay in: the eabessy, however believes tint today it will not te
[45241]|
[45243]nossibla, because everyone bas gone to the airy rport and the eabessy bes no car, |
[45245]hawevers possibly touorrow morning instead of going to the study circle, aha wild
[45247]on
[45249]mevee HP: men he vill eal her tonorrov, IWiSA: To.try the embassy or at the
[45251]house, since 1? they will not stay at the eabessy, ske wilL zo home where she wild
[45253]f
[45255]be at about 10. LF accepts.
[45260]4
[45262]I:
[45264]B
[45266][
[45268]a Sb
[45271]~ 27 Sent €3.- oo :
[45273]134% _-7128-
[45275]0900-Z1i14 hrs.
[45279]{ . . : ‘ .
[45281]395- eed - OV, — From the Cuban Consulate~ Says that there is an
[45282]“~~American here who has recuested’a transit visa for Cuba because
[45283]he ig going to the USSR. OV. -)Nants to know with whom he (Amerzean)
[45284]spoke at the Soviet Embassy tecuase she (OV) had sent him over to
[45285]them thinking that if the Soviets approved the visa then the Cubans.
[45286]would give him one without anymore. processing - only advising the
[45287]Emmi gration of. Cuba. OV - wants:to know with whom he (American) ;
[45288]er) spoke since he himself doen't know either and he was told that there
[45289]vere no problems. IV. - asks that OV. watt a minute. 404— bio
[45290]OV is SILVIA DURAN of the Cuban |Consulate and explains the same to
[45291]. : the other IV. . This one te71s her to leave her name and number so
[45292]i @s he can call ker. SILEIA gives it to him along with the tel, num.
[45293]“ ..11-20-47.— Silvia says as a personal thing thet she has moved and
[45294]that she has not edvised about her changezof address and will not
[45295]receive the Bulletin and she caniadvise them now. IV. asks that she.
[45296]‘+ call KOUKHARENKO in order to change the address, and ther asks for -
[45297]the name of the Cultural Attache. SIDVIA spys it is.TERSSA PROZNZA.
[45298]whose number is W-13 26. iv. thanks heren- - Ba
[45300]. Q ‘ . . ,
[45301]BEB Daakes bebe cchhas Satapebacee 2 ee DS
[45303]eo,
[45306]oo oe —
[45307]UTES TRASSEM ZONA a aS bi b iad wc
[45308], |
[45310]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 619
[45312]HW 50955
[45316]on Tednsito PPO eee
[45318]al Lk4-13=26. 1D quo mracion ves Aj5-—
[45320]Bs
[45322]SOTTMATADR I ee ee DD
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[45325]27 sopticmoss en
[45327]me 5 fob fo
[45328]: .: : a . _ ; oo ?
[45329]: : wie ee oe fog: : - a ts a
[45330]Pntrada.- fie cel Con. Lad ce Cuba, “21ca que aea Lis
[45332]Pevieano, - S Qe ui XR ah a. aa
[45333]VELAATMO, solicitar, “una ga par G
[45335]a oer ait
[45337]dns va pars la USS y entoncos quiere saber co
[45339]quien habia AabLacio porque. 21in lLo- manad con. ollos da ‘la Emba
[45341]dada rusa diciondole qua Su uados le hacian o.acaptahan la visa
[45343]“que ontonces ollos los’ fen ..0g tambion 88 la daban sin mag ~
[45345]tramites nadarias: avisando . Emicgrvacién on Cuba, y quiore sabe
[45346]con quien habié | pore que al. sea ve ne gabe tampoco com gue «
[45348]persona y quo le dijeron qura st quo ta tonia problema. HD le.
[45350]pide ospore un mononto. WO A162 2 oo SILVIA DURAN del
[45352]a
[45354]- Gonsulado do Cuba x explica lo miame'a otro HD. _Este ie dice
[45355]‘que la dojo su. teieZono yous nensbro para que despues le, Llane:
[45356]“SILVIA sa lo proporciona ask gono.el tolefono. 11-28-47.- YL que
[45357]| aprovocha cone coun personal de que olla so cambio do domieils
[45358]-y no ha podido’ avecar pars ae Lo envion ol bolatin yY que ‘eho:
[45359]se ‘La puede dare i iin le pice qin: Liane a KOUKHARENKO para que
[45361]de su cambio, + pide le. de ok riubaa da la Consejero o Agregac
[45363]Cultual., SILVIA dice quer Lia. YURESA PROENZA y lo Llaman
[45365]a Embassy 5 ssying there w as an aneric:
[45367]it to the 2 USSR, She was ne eked to
[45368]elephone numbex (11-28-47).
[45370]Dovcld: 32423630 Page 620 ae , |
[45372]ean . : Vow
[45373]_— .
[45375]£23 .-135-222.-,
[45377]IV. = inside voice.
[45378]Oo outside voice.
[45381]yo?
[45383]Out to 14-13-26.- (1625 hrs). (Cuban Zmbascy) IV. ~ asks the
[45384]number of the Cuban Consul. OV, - It's --11-28-47..~ 294.~
[45386]Out to 11-28-47.-(1626 brs)~ IV asks SILVIA if the tmerican
[45387]has' been there. SILIVA: says yes, he is here now. IV. According
[45388].to the letters that be showed from the Consulate in aashington he
[45389]wants to go to Russia to Stay for a long time with his wife who is
[45390]Russian. Eut we have not received the answer from aasrington con-
[45391]cerning his problem and considering the processing it will take 4
[45392]“£0 § months. ‘sithout that permission of the USSR they have to recugst.
[45393]and better still ‘the visa can't be given here without asking Sashingte:,
[45394]But according to this man, he belengs to an organization in favor of
[45395]Cuba and he has said that the Cubans can't give him a visa without the
[45396]Russian visa and 1 don't know what to do with him. I have to wait for
[45397]the answer from sashineton. SILVIA ~ He have to wait also because his
[45398]problem is that he knows no one in Cuba and it's dificult to obtain a
[45399]‘visa in these conditions. Ee expected to process the visa. He knew it
[45400]would take long to process the Russian visa and would wakt for it in
[45401]Cuba and leave’ from there.for the USSR. IV. — The thing is thst if his
[45402]wife is now in. “ashington she will receive the visa for returing to
[45403]Russia. She will receive the visa in “ashington and having the visa
[45404]she can sent it to any place “or examole here or any other place but |
[45405]right now she doesn't have it. SILVIA — Naturally, and we can't give _
[45406]him a letter of recommendation tecause xe don't know if his visa will
[45407]be approved. IV. ~ We will only give the visa according to indications
[45408](intructions) SILVIA. - Then that is what I will put in my rlans.
[45409].  IW.- We can't give him a letter of recommendation either becuase we
[45410]don't know him; Please pardon the bother. SILVIA .- No bother and
[45411]i _ thank you very much.-~ .
[45414]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 621
[45416]cows wee: . .
[45417]hemes . '
[45419]ay yee 4
[45420]295- Saat st wa ee TET vgtenreay dh we LAL na
[45421]gio ma Zdo ALE se Mane ba : en Ces Bt Sa abi reegthe
[45422]HD cue senin Zan coehas gun 04 + Loe5 doi canmilada Gik ~
[45423]: Soa, Vashing son el qniess fos a ee EA e5tar alld mucin tiempo
[45424]i ‘SS con gu osnesa que UGA, re godayia mo se ha recivido 22a _
[45425]: Sw contegtacion te Ne gnangten yofygerae a a SU problema, pero eso
[45426]: 4 sertin Los erates weGuiyai Vi anakeo 9 canco Teses- pers gin
[45427]. “Ne
[45428]i \ - tener oSo0 perisiso fie 1a URGE sieves de preguntar ¥ nas bien no
[45430]sin preyuntarle a Vashincgte
[45434]Re pero sogin este sonar Le mosgiond Vuk envta om que oS ul miemore |
[45436]NI Q
[45438]SPNON
[45440]a a
[45444]de una erganinaci’s - en faves Ue uba y ha dicho que elias Los
[45446]scnadade gas oO vigade ruso. +. ahora, .
[45448]Cubanos no puocdcn dacle, et
[45449]1D no gabe que hacer con e1, porque aeben de ogparar Lo. contes~
[45451]tacidén do. Washington. SILVIA que ollos ttambion, porque el pro~,”
[45452]blema do. el,;: as que ol no, corece a nadio,en Cuba ¥ entonces a
[45454]os asi os ‘muy dificil quo te don la visa, porgue el pensaba .-
[45456]“ tramitar gu. visa, porque CONG ol ya sabia que se iba a tardaxr
[45458]mucho. on esperar ol. visado iGo en Cuba y yo do alld irse a
[45460]La URSS« ‘ID quo la cosa es ey 20 si su’ osposa osté “ahorita en |.
[45461]Washington va a roeibir anerita el vis sado a oL ‘pexrmiso de la
[45463]URSS para regresar a La pate ‘ha, olla va a recibir su visado en
[45465]- Washing gton pero temiendo ase vigado-ella podrian comunicarle
[45468]otra parte lo puede rocibir, pere ahorita no lag ticnon- SiLvi
[45470]: _ ‘que clara y que tay oco so le miocda dar una carta porque no
[45471]. “gaben . si ou visa sord ap provada . lipD ‘que ollos solo daran ol visi
[45472]on : do sogin las indicacionces. SILVLA que entonces eso pondrd en s!
[45473]see my planilia.. ID. que “gnmpoco se le puedo dar ninguna carta da —--+
[45474]so  secomondacién por equic no gO ia conosco y quo perdone por: "La aes.
[45475]: coy a moles tia. STLY- iA que no nay cnidade y gue muchas craciases=-
[45476]re Oo ~~. 391-~ . —_ . : - 7 | | ; : : :
[45477]HW 50955 DocTd:32423630 Page 6220 A tel: rnd call to the Cuban Embassy made at
[45478]1626 1... 7s on 27 September 1943 by an unidentified
[45480]at + 208 IN ~ OV. from the Cuban Consulate — says thet there is
[45481]! ; an American there in the Consulate who kad been at th2 Boviet
[45482]Embassy. IV. Wait a minute. 213-~ OV. Is SILVIA DURAN and
[45483]speaks English with someone outside--and comments in Spanish
[45484]that they installed a telephone for APARICIO and takes down the
[45485]~. number as 14-12-99-—- 230-- SILYI8 informs (them) of the American .
[45486]and ‘says she will call.-~- 232--235-~ OV.- speaks“in Russian. IV.-
[45487].Speaks in English.-~ EOTH CONTINUES IN ENGLISH,——254 —1151 hrse=m ~
[45489]HW 54955, Docid: 32423630 Page 623
[45491]gr la tuba joda‘Tusa./ IT] que esner
[45493]po : MI:
[45494]fe MO:
[45496]oe
[45497]4
[45500]i . MO
[45502]cede you speak Russian? Yas. wy don't you. tal: *o Chimes
[45504]RECTMN Roy
[45506]MAN 23 1976.
[45510]hatradae- ey & daelyy ons ve “EO he OE y - QUE G2SS ule Dibba.
[45512]von su: \Consuladd esta.tip, nuns norteageri cana _ rey astra alld
[45513]! Se Se eeeanr enna e
[45515]e tt tomentea. Tg —-s> TF es” —s
[45517]y hab a claus con alguaa :
[45519]/- SILVIA DURAN persom: Mura-— ¥ ‘cote
[45520]. pune ttre
[45521]' ern espaol que ide pudieron telefono % APARTCIO Yio azwmta gu
[45523]if
[45525]es al 1412-99 2n of SILVIA le dice, sobre el cals: tadadane
[45528]norteamericano ¥ quad. [te va a hablar.e~ 252——< oe. habla
[45529]' RUSO. TD le habla en
[45530]oe LE5L BYSep we
[45532]fice .—— SICUEN LOS bos Ey FPS -- Sind
[45534]% oe 1 : Cty ete eee, Ae
[45535]io near tae
[45536]. é
[45538]| PPleass see. the © Sjanish eae 40 watle waiting:
[45540]speaks in Baglish/to someone in the b jckarounds He ‘said wot
[45542]| a don't ENOWs + /MO takes the ‘phone end says in broken Russie
[45544]: ’ I was 4n your. Embassy end spoke to your consul. Just a minn
[45545]| MI tokes ‘the phones and asa HO in Bnslish. what does he wont
[45546]“in Russisn/ Please speck: Russien. | oe |
[45548]What else do you want?
[45550]tT was just now at your Enbessy end they took my ‘address .
[45551]T know thet. — a
[45552]/speaks terribls, hardly recognizable Russian/ I did not.
[45554]know it then. I went to the Cuban Snbss3yz. to ssk them ‘for:
[45556]my eddr ress, b because they nave it.
[45558]why ‘don't you ‘come again and leave jour address with US» it
[45559]not far from the Cubea Embassye_
[45561]Well, I'll be there risht away.
[45563]KW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 624 .
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[45587]wae be oe ah . . en _ mete tag tetas
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[45591]t
[45593]ete BBR Gem He habla :.
[45595]ob
[45597]han ~ Cea
[45598]sys Di : ’ “no “ oe
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[45602]RSG GT ad rhe + aaah . }
[45603]we PLESL ve
[45605]2ag fflenss s2° eocraradsh via
[45607]erere is 4 Sa Ss
[45609]pine Lab the. pneknrounds. He ssid walt
[45611]'
[45612]‘anfon/. WO whtla weltiag |
[45613]eye BOQ mare a Las wet |
[45615]wee Loaves Yoo. ay con's you sALlk to. him?.. |
[45618], K Gon't kaove. joa takes 4 orene ond Saya.in broken Russiop
[45619]apo . 4
[45620]yeas : : . :
[45621], Towes in your Poosssy en poke to your consule Just - a: minute
[45622]HI tokes the. peruv and accion in cnalion what. doos, he wont?
[45624]if Pre est: iiuingiane 9 a _ —_
[45628], 2% 4s -- ae She
[45629]my ‘address, sceousa bhe 7 nave Does -
[45633]Way don'ts you coma og ala ond Loave your, sdéross with us, it.
[45635]At
[45637]et for iron, trie cuban Bbasey
[45639]6 aun Tat Bp inane pigat GWOT a
[45641]Attachas
[45642]| A telephone -cnil to the Soviet Embassy rade at
[45643]LLSL hora of 72 Sapterber 1963 by Silvia DURAN
[45644]of the Cuasan ‘eassy who puts on an unidentified
[45645]norteansrican man who tells the Soviet tnat he
[45646]was just 3% their Breassy and wants to give then
[45647]his addrzss, ‘ne Soviet tells him to return to -
[45649]BW 50955 DBocld: 32423630 Page 625
[45650]te the address.
[45652]BIA AA eee
[45655]. RUSSIAN aNaassY. 157 965-87,
[45657]fm oe oetober 63
[45659]2 1.26-M26-T129
[45661]-~ ———1031 - 2002
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[45674]Please-
[45676]Please.
[45678]. t
[45679]Page 696
[45681]“your conauls
[45682] ghington, and ft
[45683]“ta 1ixe t
[45685]| Please write : it down; 1
[45687]Thank JOU. 7
[45691]i te
[45693]to : a
[45694]‘ i
[45696]gts tO oe eembam o weree t
[45698]sore ceediene se cene emer
[45700]f
[45702]'
[45704]_
[45705]i.
[45708]E :
[45710]tolks cola] sn ‘proken Russian. .
[45711]your “place Last Saturday and T talked to
[45713]t they'd send a telegram to Wa-
[45714]if there is anything “new?
[45716]Thoy said tha
[45718]wanted to ask you
[45720]9 ask. you to call another. phone number. .
[45721]4 a et
[45722]{ a an fb
[45724]5-60-55 and ook for a consul.
[45729]oy RUSSIAU ENGASUT. Foci
[45730]<_— 1 Octobor 63 ; . | a |
[45731]In at 103i. HO. calks to i $a sroken Russian.
[45733]“MO: Hollow. I vas ni your ples. basi Saturday sad T Salkod to.
[45734]- ;
[45736]: ” your “consul Taoy geid taat thoy! send a tolegram to Wa- 7 .
[45738]shington,. and 3 x t wanted | to ask you if there is enything new? :
[45740]Ws - I'd like to ésk- “you: to call another. phone numbers of. 4
[45742]_ MOs - Plosase. ~ _ ae . Be at co
[45744]MES . ‘Please rit to Ae downs 15~ 60 3-55, and ask - for @ consul. ce -
[45746]MO; “Maank you. oo ce : ce eee ys
[45748]° MIs Utlooae. _— mie . - | : \ ie 7 7 . 7 a /
[45749]ro a a tetephons call to the Soviet ilitary Attache
[45750]ae oo at 1031 hows on 1 October 19635 by an unidentified
[45752]man speaking broken Russian who asked about a
[45753]telegran xhich they were to send to Washington,
[45754]Unidentified man said he was at the Sovies Zrbassy .
[45755]"last Saturday”. Soviet. told him to call 15-60-55.
[45757]HW 50955 Docld: 324273630 Page 627
[45763]/ the same person who phoned 6 day or 30
[45765]-In at 268 (7)
[45766]at ago and spoke in broken Russian/ speaks to CBEEDKOVs 4
[45768]“MMOs Hello, this LEE OSWALD (phon) speaking. I was at your plac
[45770]ae * Last Saturday and spoke to a consul, and they said that
[45772]ui ae they'@ send 2 telegram to Washington, so Zr wanted to find
[45774]wo fo 77 out: ig you have, _ Snything new? But t don't remember the nar
[45775]OBY: 6 is’ dark /nair or skint /
[45777]3  Yese Ny ‘nsme. is OSWALD »
[45778]. 'QBYs © Just rz) minute I'Ll find out. They aay thet they neventt
[45779]received anything yet. — oe
[45781]a Have they done anything? .
[45782]OBYs . %e8, they say that a request has bean sent out, but at nobhts
[45784]has been received aS yote
[45785]LEE: And wate. ? /o8Y hangs wp/.
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[45790]HW 50955 DoclId:324233630 Page 628
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[45798]Tn at 1935 hours 1o/t aaA7 —— awhe : yf dan spony aco ind spoxe in
[45799]syokon Russdan/se
[45800]MO: Hello, this LEE CSWALO (yhon) spesei 4. Uo was 2% your place Last
[45801]Saturday and spoxe to a consul, and 4 ta baat taey'd send a
[45802]telepran to Washington, 50 I ZT wanted. fini ons if you have mthing
[45803]new? But i don't reaeaber the namt --° thes consul. .
[45804]O3¥: KOSTIKOV, He is dark /nair or skin:/,
[45805]LEZ: Yes. My nans is OSWALD.
[45806]OBY: Just a minute TL find out, They vy. 2 that they haven't received anything yet,
[45807]LEE: Have they. done anything? ; . .
[45808]OBYs Yes, they say that a a Tequest has beon gent out, but nothing has been - ;
[45809]received as yet. . ee .
[45810]EE: And what...? fox: hangs up/, :
[45812]DocId: 32423630 Page 629 Qo :
[45815]i
[45817]Abtachwant fs a we
[45818]A teLeshone call to ‘the Soviet Exbassy at |
[45819]1035 hears on 1 October 1963 by the sana -
[45820]“sn who called previously (28 Septexber:63)
[45821]and spoka broken Russian, He said his nane
[45822]ag Lee OSWALD and wanted to know if they
[45824]had heard anything. Soviet said no,
[45827]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 630
[45829]An Extract From
[45830]Washington Post,
[45832]Kennedy's Address to Press
[45833]Tuesday, November 19, 1963, p. Al5
[45835](AP). Nov. 18 -- The following is a text of President Kennedy's address
[45836]tonight before the Inter-American Press Association:
[45838]- =
[45840]"The genuine Cuban re
[45841]ny and corruption of the p
[45842]concepts were noble.
[45844]"But that hope for fr
[45845]"The goals proclaimed
[45846]"It is important to r
[45848]and from all the American
[45849]of conspirators has stripp
[45852]volution -- because it was against the tyran-
[45853]last -- had the support of many whose aims and
[45855]eedom and progress was destroyed.
[45857]|in the Sierra Maestra were betrayed in Havana.
[45859]estate what now divides Cuba from my country
[45860]countries: It is the fact that a small band
[45861]éd the Cuban people of their freedom and hand-
[45863]ed over the independence and sovereignty of the Cuban nation to forces
[45865]beyond the hemisphere. Th
[45866]ism, an instrument of the.
[45867]tated by external powers t
[45868]and this alone divides us:
[45869]Without it everything is p
[45871]E
[45873]ley have made Cuba a victim of foreign imperial-
[45874]policy of others, a weapon in an effort dic-
[45876]o subvert the other American republics. This,
[45877]NAS long as this is true nothing is possible.
[45878]ossible. ;
[45880]i
[45882]Ready and Anxious
[45884]"Once this barriér is
[45885]with the Cuban people in P,
[45887]short years ago, stirred their hopes
[45889]throughout the entire hemi!
[45891]"No Cuban need feel t
[45892]ises of foreign communism
[45893]For once Cuban sovereignty,
[45894]friendship and assistance,
[45896]; removed we will be ready and anxious to work
[45897]ursuit of those progressive goals which, a few
[45898]and the sympathy of many people
[45899]sphere. ,
[45901]rapped between dependence on the broken prom-
[45902]and the hostility of the rest of the hemisphere.
[45903]has been restored we will extend the hand of .
[45904]to a Cuba whose political and economic insti-
[45906]tutions have been shaped by the will of the Cuban people."
[45907]. . we
[45909]It
[45912]1
[45914]i
[45915]4
[45918]1
[45922]de
[45926]i
[45928]Unofficial Envoy _
[45929]An Historic Report from Two Capitals
[45931]Jean Daniel
[45933]TAR L
[45935]A recent trip. to the United Stites, fol lowed by a jorrney to Cuba, made it
[45936]possil? le for me to establish a “dial logue” between the late President Kennedy and
[45937]Prime Minister Firlel Castro. Si ce ny arrival in Mexico, where this article is
[45938]being written, [inve been asked 3 nohet her the impressions [ derived from these
[45940]AW 50955 Docld: 32473630 ‘Page. 631 we
[45942]interviews could shed any light | on the assassination of the President and on
[45944]future relations between Lynde)
[45946]1 B. Johnson and Castro.
[45948]* Last week in these pages | answered the first question by describing the re-
[45950]actions of Fidel Castro, with whom ‘twas visiting at the time, to Joliu.Ken-
[45951]‘ nedy’s death. Here I shall explore the second question by reconstituting the
[45953]Kennedy: Castro dial ogue from the viewpoint of one who.was a witness to it.
[45955]. 4
[45956]. - . 1
[45957]President Kennedy received me at the White .House
[45958]on Tuesdays October 24. My aprommens had been
[45959]scheduled for 5:30. I waited in the Cabinet Conference
[45960]"oom, and at 5:45 the President, following his usual
[45961]custom, came to look for me himself so. that he. éould
[45962]escort me into his office. He apologized for the. delay,
[45963]not so much as a courtesy or te flatter me, but to ex-
[45964]plain the scheduling of his time, which seemed to be
[45965]very Strictly organized, As we passed through the small
[45966]room where his secretary was working, we catight a
[45967]climpse of Mrs. Kennedy leaving by a French window
[45968]on her way to the private garden. of the White House.
[45969]The President called her back tu introduce me.
[45970]‘Tr was. still Indian summer in Washington. The
[45971]weather was very warm, and both the President and
[45973]Mrs Kennedy were very lightly dressed, thus enhanc- ;
[45975]ing the impression of youth, charm, and simplicity
[45976]whi, h was in rather surprising contrast to the solemnity
[45978]of entering these august chambors.. The President.
[45980](ath hletic looking in his well-tailored suit, speaking: iwith
[45981]quick, abrupt gestures and a mobile expression bit, at
[45982]times, freezing up and becoming disconcertingly, al-
[45983]mowt, TE would say, completely expressionless) invited
[45984]me-to be seated-on, the semi-circular sofa which was in
[45985]the middle of his office. He sat in a rocking chair op-
[45986]_ posite the sofa. The interview was to last from.20 to 25
[45987]minutes, and it was interrupted only by a brief. tele-
[45988]phone call.
[45989]The President immediately asked me how the French
[45990]situation was developing. After my reply, hé spoke
[45991]akout General de Cagle. He talked ina relaxed Fashion,
[45993]THe AUTHOR
[45995]like someone who has at last found solace in indiffer~
[45996]ence after having long been exasperated and fascinated.
[45997]John Kennedy was a mian who liked to get to the heart
[45998]of.a matter quickly, “Slam-make decisions even more
[45999]rapidly. But this was not possible in dealing with de
[46000]Gaulle, who is more difficult to handle than Khru-
[46001]shchev. One day, impatient at not understanding the
[46002]General’s reasoning and intent upon convincing him,
[46003]Kennedy telephoned de Gaulle direct. All in vain. Odd-
[46004]ly enough, however; since the recent visit of de Gaulle’s
[46006]foreign minister, Couve de Murvil'e, to Washington
[46007]Mr. Kennedy had ceased to be so deeply concerned
[46009]about Franco-American relations. The truth is, he had
[46010]minde up his mind not to worry about them any more.
[46011]According to him, it was a waste of time. |
[46013]“Mr. Couve de Murville and I both verified that we
[46014]didn’t agree on anything,” the President told me. “And
[46015]we agreed that'such total disagreement was hardly cal-
[46016]culated to create a flourishing friendship between two
[46017]great Western, ations. I came ta the conclusion that
[46018]General de Gaulle’s strategy, which is: rather incom-
[46019]prehensible to me, requires a certain amount of tension
[46020]with the United States. It would seem that-only through
[46021]this tension is it possible to restore to Europé the desire
[46023]on American dollar aid and political puida
[46024]President Kennedy went on to sum.
[46026]the United States and France. On the
[46027]many, nuclear policy, Europe, the -[
[46028]eonce,” he told me what has sin
[46030]f “indepen-
[46032]ne public
[46037]HW 750955 Docld: 32423630 Page 632
[46039]hey
[46040]me ered
[46042]knowledye. He added, however, that France pee A
[46043]strange way of manifesting its indeperldence, par
[46045]ularly, For example, on the subject of} Vietnam and
[46046]Cuba, It seemed ironic and irritating tdchim that the
[46047]French Chief Executive was apparently. bent on telling
[46048]him how the Unised States should proceed, without
[46049]assuming any risks himself. He told me that no one was
[46050]more appreciative than he of advice, information, and
[46051]even criticism; but that these were all the more valued
[46053]if the friends proffering them were themselves com--
[46055]mitted to a program of action.
[46057]I then asked Mr.
[46058]from General de Gaulle’s proposed visit to the United
[46059]States next February. He replied: ’ ‘Absolutely nothing.”
[46060]But he followed this up immediately and with a broad
[46061]grin, as though savering in neve the pleasure of
[46062]the impending meeting: “Tt will be exciting, just the
[46063]same. General de Gaulle is an historic fipure; he is de-
[46064]cidely the strangest great man of our jtime.”
[46066]Relations with Cuba
[46068]Taking the initiative at this point, I brought up the
[46070]subject of Vietnam and Cuba, saying that the Gaullists
[46071]were not the only ones in France who deplored certain
[46072]mistaken US policies. I pointed out that the first time
[46073]{had the opportunity of meeting Jolin Kennedy, he
[46074]was a Senator and had just made a resounding speech
[46075]on the subject of Algeria. “Athe ideas set forth in
[46076]that speech been faithfully applied Jin Saigon and
[46077]Havana? Here my notes are very epecilic, and [| shall
[46078]let the late President speak through them: ;
[46079]“We haven't enough time to talk ‘about Vietnam,
[46080]but I’d like to talk to you about Cuba. Incidental ly, our
[46081]conversation will be much more interesting when you
[46082]return, because Ben Bradlee [of Newsweek] tells me
[46083]you are on your way to Cuba now. | oo
[46084]“Every now and then T read articles in the European
[46085]press pointing out that we Americans, were blind to
[46086]what was happening in the Cuban situation. Thave just
[46087]learned that General de Gaulle himself regarded Com-
[46088]munism in Cuba as nothing but thel accidental and
[46090]_ temporary form of a will to independence from the
[46092]United States. OF course it is very. easly to understand
[46093]this ‘will to independence’ around President de Gaulle
[46094]John Kennedy then mustered all his persuasive force.
[46095]He punctuated each sentence with that jbrief, mechan-
[46096]ical gesture which had. become famous:
[46097]' “T tell you this: we know perfectly what happened
[46098]_in Cuba, to the misferseme 2 all, From the beginning
[46099]I “T personally followed the development of these events
[46100]with mounting concern. There are few subjects to which
[46101]I have devoted more painstaking attention. My conclu-
[46103]_ sions go much further than the European analyses. Here
[46105]is what I believe.
[46107]Kennedy what could be expected!
[46109]‘ica are na, going to attain justice and progress
[46111]“t believe that there is no country in the world.
[46112]cluding all the African regions, Paci ing any and “ll
[46113]the countries under colonial domination, where cco-
[46115]_ nomic colonization, humiliation and expicitation were.
[46117]worse than in Cuba, in part owing to my country 's
[46118]policies during the Batista regime. 1 believe that we
[46119]created, built and manufactured the Castro movement
[46120]out of whole cloth and without realizing it. I believe
[46121]that the accumulation of these mistakes has jeopardized
[46122]all of Latin America, The great aim of the Alliance for
[46123]Progress is to reverse this unfortunate policy. This is
[46124]one of the most, if not the most, important problems in
[46125]American foreign policy. I can assure you that I have
[46126]understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation
[46127]which Fidel Castro made in the Sierra Maestra, when
[46128]he justifiably called for justice and especially yearned to
[46130]rid Cuba of corruption. I will go even further: to some
[46132]extent it is as.though Batista was the incarnation of a
[46133]number of sins on the part of the United States. Now
[46134]we'shall have to pay for those.sins. In the matter of the
[46135]Batista regime, [ am in agreement with the first Cuban
[46136]revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear.”
[46138]After a silence during which he was able to note my
[46139]surprise and my interest, the President continued: “But
[46140]it is also clear that the problem has ceased to be a
[46141]Cuban one, and has become international — that is, it
[46142]has become a Soviet problem. I am the ‘President of the
[46143]United States and not a sociologist; | am the President
[46144]of a free nation which has certain responsibilities in the
[46145]Free World. I know that Castro betrayed the promises
[46146]made in the Sierra Maestra, and that he has agreed to
[46148]‘be a Soviet agent in Latin America. 1 know that through
[46150]his fault'— either his ‘will to independence’, his .nad-
[46151]ness or Communism ~ the world was on the verge of
[46152]nuclear war in October, 1962. The Russians understood
[46153]this very well, at least after our reaction; but.so far as
[46154]Fidel Castro. is concerned, | must say I don’t know
[46155]whether he realizes this, or evén if he cares about it.”
[46156]A smile, then:
[46158]way, | mean through Communist subversion.
[46159]won't get there ‘by going from economic oppression to
[46160]a Marxist dictatorship which Castro himself denounced
[46161]a few years ago. The United States now has t ;
[46162]sibility of doing as much good in Latin Amet
[46163]has done wrong in the past; I would even say
[46164]alone have this power — on the essential conditi
[46166]Communism does not take over there.”
[46168]Mr. Kennedy then rose to indicate L&at the
[46169]was over. I apologized for keeping him t¢ éwo
[46171]quick questions. The first: Could the Unj ates
[46172]tolerate economic collectivism? He answe that
[46173]~ about Sckou Touré? And Tito? I received Mi to
[46174]three days Ago, and our discussions were OSi-
[46176]“You ‘can tell me whether he does when,
[46177]"you come back. In any case, the nations of Latin Amer-
[46180]Attorney General de
[46182]_ Mike Madigan
[46183]Chron File
[46185]January 29, 1976
[46187]The Honorable Edward . Levi
[46189]U. S. Department of Justice’
[46190]Washington, 0. C. 20530 F
[46192]Deer Mr. Attorney Generals) |
[46193]As you may recsll, in June of last year alleged organized
[46197]‘crime leader Sam Gfancana was killed. At that time, this Coumittes
[46199]had taken steps te contact |ffr. Glancana. for the purpose of obtafning.
[46200]his testiaony em cur assassinations inquiry then under way. However,
[46201]we hed not yet succeeded {a contacting Hr. Giancana er anyone on his.
[46203]Shortly after Mr. Glancana's death, Mr. Michael T. Epsteta of
[46205]. our staff met with Mr. Willfem Lynch, Chief, {zed Crime Secticn,
[46207]Department of Justice, andj members of Mir. Lynch's staff te inform
[46208]them of the Committee's actions taken te contact Mir. Glancana, and _
[46209]its interest with respect to determining whether there was any relatica-—
[46211]- ghip between the Committee's desire to examine Mr. Glancana and his
[46213]murder. Mr. Lynch {aformed Mr. Epstefn at that time that there was.
[46215]no indication of any such relationship and assured him that fa the
[46217]event any such indication was discovered, the Coamfttee would be
[46218]fumediately informed. =| Do,
[46220]‘The Committee has récetved ne further information from the
[46222]Department about this matter since last June. For the purposes. of -
[46224]completing our record on this subject, I would apprectate {t.{f you
[46225]would iaform the Cousitteal whether the Department has received any
[46226]additional faformation about this subject since-the above-described
[46227]meeting. ac
[46229]i Sincerely yours;
[46230]| | -
[46232]Frank Church
[46236]Street in Houston,
[46238]‘care of a Dr.
[46240]MEMORANDUM
[46242].TO: Files ie
[46243]Prom: Mike votsalllf
[46244]Date: June 30, 1975. |
[46245]Subj:
[46247]. k . . .
[46248]- Committee Contact’ with Sam Giancana
[46252]To my knowledge the. Committee's first contact with Sam
[46254]Giancana occurred on June
[46256]Committee staff received a ‘telephone communication from
[46258]Robert Bennett, Assistant '
[46260]It is my information from
[46265]9, 1974,
[46267]bt
[46269]when Patrick Shea of the
[46271]District Attorney, Houston, Texas.
[46273]talking to Mr. Shea that Mr. Bennett -
[46275]called the Committee to adhise that Sam Giancana was admitted
[46277]to the Methodist Hospital,
[46279]i
[46281]Texas.
[46283]i
[46285]1
[46289]which was located at 6515 Bertner
[46291]: Mr.
[46293]Bennett's information was that
[46295]Giancana was admitted to Room 402 of the Hospital under the
[46297]Debakey. Mn.
[46299]was there for a gall bladde
[46301]HW 50955
[46303]though I am not positive,
[46305]Giancana was then under. sur
[46307]time is not clear as to whether Bennett advised as to which
[46309]agency or organization had.
[46310]impression is that it was Mi
[46311]At about the time of
[46315]Committee Counsel,
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[46319]had been’ attempting to locate Mr.
[46321]Bennett also advised that Giancana
[46323]ry removal operation.
[46325]that Bennett also advised that
[46327]veillance.
[46329]iGiancana under surveillance,
[46331]ot the F. B. I.
[46333]lchis communication from ‘Bennett,
[46335]I believe,
[46339]My recollection at this
[46341]x
[46343]“but my
[46345]T,.as
[46347]Giancana.
[46350]Hy 50955
[46352]H
[46354]I had discussed his possible testimony before the
[46355]i .
[46357]i
[46358]4
[46359]i
[46361]S
[46362]I
[46363]is
[46364]an
[46366]it
[46367]]
[46369]Committee
[46371]with Chief Counsel, Frijtz Schwarz, and Staff Director, William __
[46373]Miller. It is my recollection that we agreed that I should
[46375]attempt to contact Giancana for the purposes of interview-
[46377]ing him in order to determine whether he would have suffi-
[46379]_cient information to wabrant an appearance before
[46381]tee as a whole. It is| iy memory that we did decide that
[46383]he was of sufficient importance to be interviewed
[46387]Staff, i.e., for me tollinterview him.
[46391]the Commit-
[46393]by the
[46395]During this same period of time, I discussed with
[46397]Messrs. Schwarz and Milller whether we should consider —_
[46399]issuing a subpoena: for|Mr. Giancana while he was in the
[46401]hospital. I made this|,jsuggestion because of an impression
[46403]I had that Giancana was difficult ‘to locate. I should add
[46405]that I see absolutely nothing prejudicial or improper or
[46407]discourteous in the issuing of a subpoena, but rather
[46408]Pe
[46410]‘regard a subpoena as a valid method of obtaining testimony
[46412]before a Congressional Committee. In any event, my dis-
[46414]cussion with Messrs. Schwars and Miller resulted in a
[46416]decision to have me contact Mr. Giancana over the
[46418]. |
[46419]and offer him an opportunity to appear before the
[46421]voluntarily and to have me interview him if he so
[46423]If he did not agree, we would then take it before
[46425]i
[46426]|
[46427]i
[46428]i
[46429]t
[46430]|
[46431]'
[46434]to
[46438]telephone
[46439]Committee
[46440]agreed.
[46442]the Com-
[46444]|
[46445]|
[46446]i
[46447]a
[46448]i
[46449]i
[46450]i
[46452]mittee as to whether a subpoena should be issued for Mr.
[46453]I i
[46454]1
[46456]Giancana. Because of the! gvents that followed we never
[46457]reached the point of bringing before the Committee the ques -
[46458]tion of whether Giancana should be subpoenaed. to testify.
[46459]After the initial phone call from Bennett to Shea, I
[46460]telephoned Bennett on two’ different occasions. My telephone a
[46461]contact with. Bennett was for the purpose of our locating
[46462]Giancana and a telephone number at which I could reach him.
[46463]Bennett initially indicated to me, as described earlier in
[46464]this memorandum, that Giancana was in the hospital. My recol-
[46465]lection is that on my second telephone call with Bennett, he
[46466]informed me that Giancana. was now out of the hospital and
[46468]staying at the Warwick Hotel. Finally, I recall calling the
[46470]Methodist Hospital in Houston and asking to speak to Mr.
[46472]Giancana. I recall that the hospital authorities indicated
[46474]that they had no such person by that name in the hospital.
[46476]I do not recall the precise date of this telephone communication
[46477]to the hospital. It is my: recollection that the name used by
[46478]_Glancana was Doc Brown. 1) am uncertain whether Bennett told me
[46479]Giancana was using "Doc Brown" at both the hospital and the
[46480]hotel, but I believe he said that the alias was used at the
[46482]hospital. Bennett advised. that Giancana had been visited by
[46484]several relatives. and gave’ me the names of a muple of persons
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[46488]who he thought were Giarldana’ s sons-in- law. The only name aE,
[46490]Te
[46492]I remember is that of Tilsei.
[46493]In either the seconfl| or possibly a.third conversation
[46494]with Bennett, he told ne ‘that Giancana had now. checked out
[46495]of the hotel and was. either on his way back: to his home in
[46496]Oak Park, Illinois, or with his daughter in California. He __
[46497]provided me with the telephone number of the daughter in
[46498]California and suggested I obtain Giancana's home number from
[46499]the information directory. in Illinois.
[46500]The telephoné conversations with Bennett occurred, to
[46501]the best of my recollection, during the week of June 16, 1975. —
[46502]It is possible, however, that the first conversation occurred
[46504]later in the week of June: 9. It is my recollectimthat my
[46506]second telephone conversation with Bennett occurred on Thurs-
[46508]day June 19. In any event, I am certain that I attempted to-
[46509]contact Giancana by telephone on Thursday, June 19. I was
[46510]unable to. get anyone. to answer the telephone in California
[46511]and did not have an opportunity to attempt ‘to obtain the -
[46512]Illinois number. I Learned Friday, June 20 that Giancana had
[46514]been shot and killed in his home in Oak Park, Illinois on-
[46516]the evening of June 19.
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[46520]August 22,
[46522]The Washington Post
[46523]1976
[46527]H
[46528]rats
[46529]i
[46531]8s lain i obster C laimed
[46532]Cc uban Link to JF K Death —
[46534]me
[46535]: By Ronald Kessler and Laurence Stern
[46536]"Washington Post Stall writers
[46538]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[46540]Long .before his recent murder,
[46542]John Rosselli. the CIA's underworld
[46543]recruit in attempts to kill Fidel Cas-
[46544]tro, had been privately claiming that
[46545]agents of the Cuban premier, in retali-
[46546]cation, were involved in the assassina-
[46547]“tion of President John F. Kennedy. ©
[46549]Rosselli’s belief in a-Cuban connec-
[46550]tion to the Kennedy assassination was
[46551]‘expressed through his attorney, Ed-
[46552]ward P. Morgan, to the FBI as long.
[46553]ago as March, 1967, and also in private.
[46554].conversations with a longtime associ-
[46555]cate of Rosselli who participated in
[46556]mectings between Rosselli : ‘and the
[46557]CIA. o
[46559]An FBI “blind “memorandum” on
[46560]-an interview with Morgan | dated |
[46561]March 21, 1967, was included, without —
[46563]identification of the interviewee, in.
[46564]last June’s Senate intelligence Com. °
[46566]mittee’s report on the role of the in-
[46568]telligence community in the Kennedy
[46570]assassination investigation.
[46572]Morgan told the FBI that Rosselli
[46573]and another Morgan client had in-
[46574]formed him that Castro became aware
[46575]of CIA assassination conspiracies
[46577]against him and “thereafter employed ~
[46579]teams of individuals who were dis-
[46581]’ patched to the. United States for the ;
[46582]Ken: .
[46584]purpose of assassinating Mr,
[46587]of the 106-page
[46589]in June, before. Rosselli’s disappear-
[46591]“ance and the subsequent discovery of |
[46593]his body in an oil drum in Florida
[46594]waters. The Washington Post, however,
[46595]has confirmed that Morgan.and “Rosselli
[46596]. were the sources of the testimony, that
[46597]suggested a Cuban role in.. the Ken-
[46598]nedy murder.
[46599]Morgan’s account,
[46600]summary of the FBI interview, ‘was.
[46601]that Rosselli had reached his conclu-
[46603]sion about a Cuban connection to the:
[46605]Kennedy assassination: from
[46607]‘feedback” furnished by sources close °
[46609]to Castro who were involved inthe CIA
[46610]plots to assassinate the Cuban leader.
[46613]1
[46615]Page 636
[46617]Because neither. Morgan nor Ros- |
[46618]selli was identified in the Senate re- -
[46619]port, the significance of that portion °
[46620]document was dis- -
[46621]_ counted at the time it was published:
[46623]according: to a
[46625]“tlis (Morgan’s) clients were aware
[46626]of the identity of some of the individ-
[46627]uals who came to the United States
[46628]for this purpose and he understood
[46629]that two such individuals were now in
[46630]the state of New Jersey,” the FBI in-
[46631]. terview summary stated. .
[46633]“oe
[46635]A long-time associate. of Rosselli-
[46637]_Wwho was interviewed separately by
[46638]‘The Washington Post, said there was
[46640]‘no question in the slain mobster’s .
[46641]1 mind that President Kennedy was -
[46643]i killed on Castro's behalf in reprisal
[46645]‘for the CIA schemes against the Cu-.
[46647]. ban leader..
[46649]. “He was positive; he was sure.” said
[46650], the associate, who knew Rosselli well
[46651]_and was in-contact with him before
[46652]‘Rosselli disappeared from his Florida
[46654]‘home on July 28. The associate, who
[46656]* does not want to be identified pub-
[46657]licly, is scheduled to be interviewed
[46658]; this week by Dade County, Fla.. homi-
[46659]: cide detectives. He was a party to Ros-
[46660]‘selli’s contacts in the early 1960s with
[46662].CIA case officers overseeing the - at-
[46663]tempts to assassinate Castro. 1
[46665]Despite occasional speculation, the
[46667]collective conclusion of all official
[46669]U.S. government investigations into
[46670]- the Kennedy assassination—including
[46671]‘the Warren Commission, the FBI and
[46673]the CIA—has been that there was no
[46675]evidence: that implicated the Castro
[46677]: government or any of its agents.
[46679]However, the CIA’s inyolvement in
[46681]_the schemes to assassinate . Castro
[46683]was not divulged to the Warrén Com-
[46685]mission, and knowledge of them was
[46686]confined until 1967 to a small, elite
[46687]_cirele of the U. ‘S. intelligence commu-
[46689]tnity.” President Johnson apparently
[46691]‘first learned about the schemes only
[46692]-after a March 7, 1967, column by the
[46693]slate Drew Person, which prompted
[46694]‘Johnson to order a
[46695]:of the highly sensitive episode.
[46697]Full details of the CIA- underworld
[46699]CIA investigation |
[46701]‘collusion in the plots to kill Castro .
[46703]:did not surface publicly until the pub-
[46705]‘lication last year of the Senate Intelli- .
[46707]‘gence Committee’s assassination re:
[46708]port and the ensuing report last June
[46709]on the possible role of the intelligence
[46711]a ed
[46713]agencies in the Kennedy assassination, ,
[46715]and investigation.
[46716]The body of Rosselli, who lived
[46717]flamboyantly in a world of mobsters,
[46719]politicians and playgirls, was found .
[46721]two weeks ago in an inverted oil drum
[46722];weighted with chains but buoyed by :
[46723]* gases from decomposition on the’
[46725]_jocean’s surface off the coast of Miami,
[46726]The specific cause of death was deter- -
[46728]mined by an autopsy, to _be asphyxia-
[46730]> Last year, an underworld colleague
[46731]‘of Rosselli, Sam (Momo) Giancana,
[46732]who also had been recruited. by the
[46733]“CIA in-the effort to kill Castro, was .
[46734]found shot to death in his Chicago
[46735]‘home: in what police described as a
[46736]highly professional job by assailants!
[46737]‘who penetrated the ‘mobster’s per-
[46738]‘sonal security screen. Giancana was
[46739]due to testify before the Senate Intel-
[46740]‘ligence Committee shortly after his.
[46741]tdemise.
[46743]Neither murder Ras been solved.
[46744]i ‘The possibility that Rosselli’s mur-
[46745]der might have been related to his
[46746]Senate testimony on the CIA schenies
[46747]to kill Castro has brought the FBI
[46748]‘into the investigation at the request
[46749]_of Attorney General Edward H. Levi.
[46751]The involvement of Rosselli, Gian-
[46752]cana and other underworld figures—
[46753]principally Santos Trafficante of
[46754]Tampa, Fla, whose one-time Havana
[46755]gambling enterprises fell hostage in
[46756]-1959 to the Cuban revolution—in plots
[46758]against Castro had been a closely held |
[46760]secret within the top echelons of the
[46761]CIA and FBI until recently.
[46763]The tangled chronology of suppres-
[46764]sion and eventual disclosure, although
[46765]detailed in the June report, has re-
[46766]ceived little public attention. Rossel-
[46767]i's murder adds significance to those
[46768]events.
[46770]Here is the sequence, pieced to-
[46771]gether from the testimony given to
[46772]‘Senate intelligence investigators:
[46774]Columnist _Drew Pearson went to
[46776]“the late Chief Justice of ‘the United”
[46778]States Earl Warren late in: January,
[46779]1967. and told him that
[46781]of his clients said the United States
[46782]“had attempted to assassinate Fidel
[46783]Castro in the early 1960s and Castro.
[46784]had decided to retaliate.” -
[46786]Warren declined Pearson’s sugges- .
[46788]tion that he see the lawyer, who was
[46790]Edward Morgan. Warren referred the ©
[46791]matter to then Secret Service Direc- -
[46792]tor James J. Rowley, who on Feb. 13,-
[46794]1967, wrote FBI Director J. Edgar Ho-
[46795]over, informing him of the allegations.
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[46799])
[46801]a Washington.
[46802]lawyer had confided to him:that one~
[46804]+ Hoover sent the Rowley letter to six
[46805]qsenior burcau officials on an “eyes-
[46806];onty” basis. There is no record of FBI
[46807]meetings or discussions of those alle-
[46808]gations. At that point the sensitive let-
[46809]ter bounced back and forth’in the
[46810]higher reaches of the FBI bureauc-
[46811]racy.
[46813]The job of responding, to Rowley’s
[46814]letter was assigned to the supervisor
[46815]of the FBI’s General Investigative Di-
[46817]‘vision who was given responsiility for. -
[46819]the overall assassination investigation
[46821]‘in March 1964.
[46823]-* early in
[46825]This official's job was complicated
[46827]| by the fact that he had never been in-
[46828]‘, formed of what Hoover and his closest
[46830]ircle of confidants in the FBI learned
[46832]deeply involved. in assassination
[46834], attempts against Castro, and promi-
[46836]nent American underworld figures, in-
[46837]cluding. Rosselli and Gianeana, had
[46839]"been recruited for the attempts.
[46841]. Cuban Government were
[46843]:; So on Feb, 15, 1967, the PBL official,
[46844]“prepared a draft reply to the Rowley~
[46845]_. letter for his superiors saying “our ins
[46846]“+ vestigation uncovered no evidence in-
[46848]dicating Fidel Castro officials of the
[46849]involved
[46851]:.with Lee Harvey-Oswald in the assas-
[46853]sination of President Kennedy. This
[46855]’ ‘bureau is not conducting; any investi-
[46856]. gation regarding this matter.” ‘The
[46858]BI official added in later testimony.
[46860], that “everyone. in the higher echelons
[46861]» read this . :
[46863]Drew Pearson went ahead and pub-
[46865]" Nished a column on March 7, 1967, ret-
[46867]erring to reports that CIA schemes
[46868]against Castro’s life in 1963 “may
[46870]* have resulted in a counterplot by Cas-
[46872]tro to assassinate President Kenne-
[46874]Ten days Tater, Marvin Watson. one
[46876]-.. of Lyndon Johnson's chief deputies,
[46877]. called FBI. assistant director Cartha
[46878]> DeLoach with the message that “the
[46880]- President had instructed that the FBI’
[46882]‘the assassination of President Ken:
[46884]interview (Morgan) concerning any
[46885]‘knowledge he might have regarding.
[46889]DeLoach told Watson, that ‘it ap
[46891]“peared Morgan “did not want to be in-
[46892]terviewed, and even if he was_inter-
[46894]Loach concluded in. a memo for the.
[46896]‘viewed he would probably not divulge
[46897]the identity of his sourcés . . .” . Wat:
[46898]son persisted, however.
[46900]“Under the circumstances,” De.
[46902]7 files. “it appears that we have no al-
[46904]ternative but to interview (Morgan)
[46906]ig62—that the CIA was”
[46908]and then furnish the results to Wat-.
[46910]son in blind memorandum form.”:
[46911]The interview was assigned’ to two
[46913]agents from the FBI’s General Investi-
[46915]gative Division, which the Senate
[46919]_ committee concluded was “puzzling”
[46921]because it was the Domestic Intelli-
[46922]gence Division which had heen as-
[46923]signed responsibility for investigating
[46924]possible foréign involvement in the
[46925]assassination.
[46927]Neither agent was privy to the
[46928]knowledge, confined to Hoover and
[46929]his top aides, of the CIA's assassina-
[46930]tion plots against,Castro. Both agents
[46931]testified eight years later that they
[46932]were “surprised” when Morgan al-
[46933]luded during the interview ‘to U.S. at-
[46934]tempts to assassinate Castro.
[46936]“These agents stated that they
[46938]could not evaluate the lawyer’s’
[46939]“(Morgan’s) allegations or question him
[46940]in detail on them, since they had not
[46941]been briefed on the CIA assassination
[46942]efforts,” the Senate committee ob-
[46943]served.
[46944]. On March 21, 1967, the FBI’s Wash-
[46945]ington Field Office sent headquarters
[46946]ten copies of a blind memorandum
[46947]summarizing the interview with Mor-
[46948]gan..
[46950]Ina Senate Intelligence Committee
[46951]summary of the FBI interview, Mor-
[46953]-" gan was reported to“have acknowi-
[46955]edged that his clients' were “on the
[46956]fringe of the underworld” and that
[46957]they faced “possible prosecution in a'
[46959]-erime not related to the assassination
[46960]1 .
[46962]Morgan said his clients “were called
[46963]upon by a governmental agency to as-
[46964]sist in a project which was said to .
[46965]have the highest governmental ap--
[46966]proval. The project had .as its purpose
[46967]the assassination of Fidel Castro.
[46968]Elaborate plans were made. including
[46970]. the infiltration of the Cuban Govern. -
[46972]ment and the placing of- ‘informants
[46973]within key posts in Cuba.”
[46975]Morgan also told the FBI, according
[46976]to the summary, that Castro had em-
[46977]ploved “teams ‘of individuals who
[46978]were dispatched to the United States.,
[46979]for the purpose of assassinating Presi-.
[46981]dent Kennedy.”
[46983]It was not “clear then—nor is it to:
[46984]day—why Morgan’ came forward at <
[46985]that time to bring Rosselli’s story to
[46986]the ears of the nation’s highest law.
[46987]enforcement authorities.
[46989]it may be relevant that Rosselli had.
[46990]‘serious legal problems at the time.
[46992]in May, 1966, the FBI. threatened to
[46993]deport. him for living in the United
[46994]States tinder an assumed name unless
[46995]he cooperated in an investigation of
[46996]the Mafia (his true. name was Filippo
[46997]Saco). At the time, he reached’ a CIA
[46998]contact from the anti-Castdo conspir-
[46999]acy days, CIA security director Col.
[47001]__ Sheffield Edwards, who informed the
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[47005]FBI that Rosselli wanted’ to “keep |
[47006]square with the bureay” but was 4
[47007]afraid that the mob might kill: ‘him for’ ;
[47008]talking. +
[47009]In 1967, after he was: arrested - Hor
[47010]gambling fraud at the Friars. Club! in :
[47011]Beverly Hills, Rosselli approached his
[47013]former CIA case-officer, William Har: °
[47014]vey, who sought unsuccessfully je ‘ine a
[47016]tercede in the prosecution. . ;
[47017][t was against this background that
[47019]Morgan went, first. to. Drew Pearson, ?
[47021]and then the FBI, with Rossélli’s sen-
[47023]sational allegations of CIA plotting. :
[47025]against Castro and the Cuban counter- :
[47027]espionage directed against ‘President a
[47029]_ Kennedy.
[47030]Last April, Rosselli told ‘the Senate
[47032]Intelligence Committee te had no rec. =
[47034]ollection. of either recelving informa: '
[47035]tion that Castro retaliated against -
[47036]- President Kennedy or of having ‘dis- .
[47038]cussed it with Morgan. This meant ei- -:
[47040]ther that Rosselli suffered a dramatic -
[47042]memory loss or that Morgan’s state- -
[47043]ment to FBI agents nine years earlier
[47044]was a pure invention, 4 Serious risk
[47045]for an established Washington lawyer.
[47047]No committee source could explain
[47048]the discrepancy, and Morgan declined
[47049]to confirm that Rosselli was the client
[47050]in question or to discuss either his
[47051]allegations against the Cuban govern-
[47052]ment or his recent testimony.
[47054]The internal FBI memo on the 1967
[47055]interview with ‘Morgan was sent, to
[47056]headquarters with a transmittal slip
[47057]saying: “No further ‘investigation is
[47058]being conducted. by the Washington
[47059]field office unless it is advised to the
[47060]contrary by the Bureau.” ©
[47062]The Senate intelligence committee,
[47063]in commenting on this position, said
[47064]that “had the interviewing agents.
[47065]known of the CiA-underworld plots -
[47066]against Castro, they would have been.
[47067]aware that the lawyer had clients who.
[47069]. had been active in the assassination
[47071]t
[47073]plots.”
[47074]On March 21, FBI headquarters for-
[47075]warded the Washington field office
[47076]memo to the White Housel the attor-
[47077]ney general and.the Secret Service. Jt
[47078]did not recommend any further ‘in-
[47079]vestigation of Morgan’s allegations.
[47080]On the evening of the following.
[47081]day, President Johnson called CIA Di-
[47082]rector Richard M. Helms to‘the White
[47083]House. The next morning; March 23,-
[47084]Helms ordered the CIA inspector gen- |
[47085]eral to prepare a report on the CIA:
[47087]involvement in the assassination plots | 7
[47089]—Operation : Mongoose—of which FT
[47090]Helms had full knowledge at. the tirhe} |
[47091]they were executed...) 91" &:
[47093]By May 22, Helms briefed President
[47094]Johnson on the results.’ There is, how-*
[47095]ever, no evidence that Helms briefed)
[47097]the President on the November, 1963,
[47098]plot—one of eight major schemes _on - on,
[47100]Page 640
[47102]we
[47108]* Gastro’s life from 1960 ta 1965—to as-
[47110]| sassinate the Cuban leader through
[47112]‘the employment of an agent with the
[47113]-¢ryptonymn AMLASH. His identity
[47114]was - revealed as Rolando Cubela, a
[47115]1961 CIA “recruit” with close access.
[47116]| to Castro.
[47118]CIA operatives turned over assassi-
[47120]‘nation equipment to Cubela during a,
[47122]* Paris meeting on November 22, 1963—.
[47123]ithe ‘day President Kennedy was killed,
[47124]in Dallas. There has been subsequent
[47126]“ speculation that' the mercurial and. :
[47127]"talkative Cubela was either a double... ;
[47128]~ agent or being; monitored. by Cuban .
[47130]‘intelligence. \
[47132]During the later days: of his” presi.’
[47134]> dency, Mr. Johnson: spoké cryptically
[47135]‘of a “Caribbean Murder Incorpo:
[47137]ubtedly was the CIA - ‘inspector gen- .
[47138]‘eral’ 's report he ordered, Helms to. have
[47140]prepared.
[47142]i | Within the past: year, Rosselli: and
[47143]two of his co-conspirators in the Cas-
[47144]i.tfo assassination schemes have died,
[47145]‘ Giancana al the hands of a profes-
[47147]4 sional hit man and Harvey as the re-
[47149]: sult ‘of a “massive heart attack”’ last
[47150]dune. .
[47152]| Mrs: William Harvey, the widow of
[47153]| the deceased. CIA ! official, said she -
[47155], Suspected no foul play in her hus-
[47157]£ band’s death. She did, however, tell.
[47159]The Washington Post that she re-
[47161]: ance in late July warning her that Cu-
[47162]‘Bans appeared to be attempting to
[47163]wipe out all those who participated in
[47164]| the anti- Castro plots.
[47166]The call, she said, came from an old
[47167]friend who was acquainted with Ros-
[47168]sellils sister, whose name is Edith Dai-
[47169]: gle. Mrs, Harvey said that Mrs. Daigle
[47170]told the mutual acquaintance that the
[47171]| Rosselli family had received a tele-
[47172]| phone threat from unidentified Cu-
[47173]+ bans prior to Rosselli’s disappearance.
[47174]| She also said that Rosselli had gone to.
[47175]“meet the Cubans in an effort to pro-
[47176]* tect his family. ra
[47178]t
[47180]Mrs. Daigle could not be reached. ‘by:
[47182]~ The Washington Post. But another sis-
[47183]‘ter of Rosselli said she had heard of.
[47184]i, no such threats or warnings.
[47185]_ JHarvey, who died at age 60 and
[47186]“whose exploits as a clandestine opera-
[47187]: tor are both legendary and controver-
[47189]t sial within the agency, testified to the —
[47191]_Senate Intelligence Committee. He’
[47192]had become Rosselli’s case officer in .
[47193]Operation Mongoose and supplied the
[47194]mobster with poison pills, explosives,
[47195]: detonators, rifles, handguns,
[47196]and beat radar for transmission to
[47198]:_,anti-Castro Cuban agents. Harvey and © ;
[47199]*“*" Rosselli, a CTA superior testified to -
[47201]_ the Senate iene “developed a
[47202]> close friendship.” — .
[47204], tated” targeted ' ‘against’ Fidel Castro. , :
[47206]“ceived a call after Rosselii’s disappear- -
[47210]x
[47212]" Another CIA official who worked
[47213]: with Rosselli, James!R. O'Connell, was
[47214]- asked if he knew wrethe the agency
[47215]: transmitted information/to the mab-
[47217]ster.on possible Cuban involvement in
[47218]' the Kennedy assassination. He replied
[47220]that he was out of' the dountry at the
[47221]_ time Kennedy was Killgd, ar and had. no
[47223]** further comment. +
[47225]Two months before the Kennedy as-
[47227]sassination, Lee Harvey ‘Oswald, who,
[47228]- was identified by the!
[47229]sion as Kennedy’ sm
[47230]' eled to Mexico City''in an attempt to
[47232]gain entry to Cuba. According to the
[47233]- Warren Commission, Oswald repre-
[47235].. sented himself as the head of the New
[47236]*; Orleans branch of the Fair Play for
[47238]Cuba organization and a friend of the
[47239]_ Cuban Revolution.
[47241]Some three months before Kennedy
[47243]was killed, Castro told Associated
[47245]Press reporter Daniel Harker that:
[47247]_ U.S. leaders aiding terrorist plans to
[47248]eliminate Cuban leaders would them-
[47250]/ selves not be safe. ‘
[47251]AUS. government committee coor-
[47252]dinating policy toward Cuba at the
[47254]~ time agreed there is a strong liklihood
[47256]that Castro would retaliate in some
[47257]fashion. However, it concluded Castro
[47258]would not risk a major confrontation
[47259]with the US. by attacking U.S. lead-
[47260]ers.
[47262]On the same day Kennedy was as-
[47263]sassinated, a CIA officer met with a
[47265]high-ranking Cuban official, who had-
[47267]said he would kill Castro, to tell him.
[47269]the U.S. would provide him with ex- :
[47271]- plosives and a poison pen device.
[47272]While the Senate Intelligence Com-
[47273]mittee said it found no evidence suffi-
[47274]cient to justify a conclusion that the
[47275]Kennedy assassination was part of a
[47276]conspiracy, it also said U.S. ‘agencies
[47277]did not properly investigate the assas-
[47278]‘sination .or tell the Warren Commis-
[47279]. pon about the CIA plots on Castro’s
[47280]ife.
[47282]“There is no indication that the FBI
[47283]or the CIA directed the interviewing
[47284]of Cuban sources or sourees within
[47285]the Cuban exilé community,” the Sen-
[47286]ate committee said.
[47288]According to a former FBI official
[47289]in charge of key aspects of the FBI's
[47290]probe of the Kennedy murder,. the
[47291]FBI never satisfactorily determined
[47292]what Oswald planned to do in Cuba or
[47293]what he had done in Russia. .
[47296]derer, had trav- -
[47299]fan ia
[47300]Wa s vo. o " . ‘“ rt
[47301]CRUNTIS FOE WATCHFUL ra
[47302]3 8 NU Boo Tf,
[47303]|
[47305]an
[47307]” Central bdeWugeteo ‘ Agacy:.
[47309]cy, HOAY JUNE {,:
[47311]W975.
[47313]CACRAMENTU (AR) ay when At became, ‘abvious that,
[47314]“thaMinvasion of: 1,400 exiles
[47316]‘-geled’ en four cunderworldé: was 18 failure, the mobster
[47318]“* anedsters for iptgiligence wed.
[47319]in planning thd" liFfaled. 198!
[47321]" the Sacramento Bee, |: toe
[47322]. day. oh
[47324]The” Cli's undeivatia ir
[47326]- formants, all former. Havana.
[47328]~beat returned to Florida.
[47330]"Walsh identificd the source .
[47331]Bay of Pigs” invasion it Cuba, ad
[47332]employe of the CIA.. He did”
[47334]his. information as a former
[47336]not, identify. the employe in
[47338]‘did story, which tairied a Las
[47340]- Vegas,: Nev., - dateline.
[47342]casino besses,
[47344]“had ‘;buried ~“jle quoted Lawrence R.
[47345]$759,009 ia Cuba: when. they. . Houston, dcactibed as he CIA
[47347]_ fled Fidel Comro. Thereiore. . oilistey. teealving the wader.
[47350]they had a stake ift encourage"
[47352]- ing the United States. fo, tmtes
[47354]| WW 50955 * Docld: 32493630.
[47356]. donary. force’ once it had‘es- - : mye
[47358]* Walsh corttirued.
[47360]dertuxe (he invasion ty over: y
[47361]throw. Castro, the. Bee feport 1
[47362]ed. a)
[47364]“The Information’ they SUP 4
[47365]plied to the CIA: “supposedly “! ;
[47366]pinpointed troop: and ‘naval
[47367]“vessel positions,” Bee investi--" s
[47368]galive reporter Denny Walsh :..
[47369]wrote in tho Sunday edition. .
[47371]“More “unportantly,",. per:
[47372]haps, thé tuobsters “also ‘re .,
[47373]ported that: many of” the peo fF
[47375]pathetic: te Castro and: would.”
[47377]almost certainly rise up” io j Ads
[47378]support of a countecreVolue  - ek}
[47380]we,
[47382]capllehod  becehheed.” , |
[47384]ised they would’ be: allowed ts
[47386]recover thelr burjed cache wae :
[47387]hindered, Welaitst :
[47390]siete ow bast, es Sora | .
[47391]man abou; standing ie Fj
[47393]p short Ww e of
[47395]p she wt ne E ne
[47397]Page 641
[47399]” Mews paper Names “aMafia Figures:
[47401]as “decline thing lixe that, opeaved ’
[47403]world: information;
[47404]ing to confirm or
[47405]accounts. .
[47407]“The Bee reported that Hous
[47409]deny Lhe ,.
[47411]‘Related Story ‘Page AS
[47413]ton, ‘retired general counsel of.
[47414]the CIA, said of the story:
[47416]“J do not recellect ‘such aoe
[47417]thing, but that doesn’t mean it ,
[47418]didn’t happen, I won't deny it, ..
[47420]but 1 don’t remember phys. ;
[47422]- Whea you reflect on
[47424]peobubly not aa'790q . aonied{. :
[47425]Rive 20
[47426]not an implausible: Bterg :
[47427]ig it?" oy. 7
[47428]The Bee satd Gwe ge the foul oS"
[47429]mobsters invoived with tha 2 *
[47430]CIA, in the bay of : Tia ae:
[47431]“-sdll alive, | .
[47432]i eid on ue Daa %. vet gs
[47433]“no, 71, descrits 4449 ‘
[47434]“WS horthcsstan. Reansyl ie
[47435]Please: Tuy, To A2) Cob Bs.
[47437]oe
[47439]on ER ont
[47442]£ Continued Front Page Ae!
[47443]Mafia. bosa who was COM,
[47444]Victed: just before its: ‘hookup }
[47445]Se, te CIA of. conspiring to+
[47446]niet fustico in lying abput §
[47447]f as 1987 Mafia summit meat.“
[47448]i! ing at Apalac in, N.Y. ;
[47449]- Thé hewspdper said the oth-
[47450]eet if ér living inférmant ts-
[47451]4
[47453], also lnown a Goatse
[47454]“who: was described -ag ,
[47455]G& oversdar and manaar: ‘of!
[47456]“Mafia gansbling intoresta \ia-
[47457]ae ‘preLasire~ Cuba. ‘Tho Bee
[47458]a a *gald he is reportedly. clving ja aie.
[47459], {Coral Gables; Fla. -
[47460]“4The other two were Jay
[47462],, identified as 9: for-.
[47463]mer Mafia hijackor,’ Tabor:
[47464]: f rabketeer and garment: idlse
[47465]4 ih, sone ‘and -Saly
[47467]ayici Plumeri and Granellg were’ “
[47468]Victims’ sevetal years rgo: of |
[47470]i Yorisy Walsh wrote. “+ :
[47471]4 Berd Vig the” aécount:' of
[47473]{isetibedby? Walsh: front his .
[47474]“amt entified :.” . former: 1
[47476]gyasMatia think So
[47478]@ Of. the * former: re
[47480]y idtator, © Fulgenclé XButista, *
[47482]XNakino. gambling: flourished in,
[47483]eeth country under’. the. direc:
[47484],silloh and. controk of the U.S.
[47486]2 eer anized. crime “underworld,
[47489]‘routed the mob ‘along with
[47490]: ; epolista,; and. the. Cuban: pre-
[47491]oe inikr's’ Communist govern
[47492]“Hana bas -tever silowed tho
[47494]os ‘teyumption of moly' activities
[47495]oF NM thareg Ps LENT eh
[47497]55 Docld:32423630° Page 64: 642,
[47499]7
[47501]h
[47503]be four iormnet “easias”
[47505]“ge ‘made periodic ree
[47506]sports fo the CIA until just
[47507], before the abortive: Bay of
[47509]Pigs Invasion. ° +
[47511]s“Between $45,000
[47513]50,000 was paid - -by the. fou
[47515]P gangsters ta informants uae
[47516].Quba for the informatiog 2! >
[47518]me “The raoncy came, at least.
[47520]I in‘part, from a $750,000 cacy * =} "
[47521] Wweapped {n-oilcloth. and bure
[47523]© fod in the ground by Granalio
[47524]and Loving just before, thelr: -
[47525]hosty departure from Cuba:
[47527]" duting the turbulent. days off
[47529]_ ban associates of the four
[47530]‘gangsters were dispatched to *
[47532]the Castro takeover. .
[47533]“It was the rest of this” ;
[47535]money tliat Granello, Levine,
[47537]Bufalino and Plumeri were -
[47538]“asdured they would be able to .-
[47539]recover unhindered {f the Cas- :
[47540]tro government was {oppled. |
[47541]'“Thoy managed to Ret word #
[47543]“to ‘hoodlutng inside’ Cuba who |
[47544]“knpw the whereabouts of the
[47546]méncy to start buying slia-
[47547]tegic Information. Other Cu-
[47549]x
[47551]the island from Florida: on
[47553]. intelligence-gathering sorties.”
[47555]+. Hanier~ published. ~ reports a
[47556]“have said that in preparation —
[47558]for. the: Bay of Pigs invasion, . -
[47560]CIA Director Allen Dulles ro-
[47561]“lied heavily on reports which
[47562]stressed the unpopularity of
[47564]' the Castro regime and_ the
[47565]_ expectation, never realized, of
[47567]massive rebellion at the time |
[47569]: of a strike... Ly ep
[47572]MEMORANDUM
[47574]TO: ~~ FRITZ AND BILL
[47575]FROM: MIKE EPSTEIN
[47576]DATE: JUNE 20, 1975
[47578]SUBJECT: GIANCANA aH
[47580]I expect that no one will write off the alleged Giancana murder as a
[47582]"third-rate homicide," and that. it will grow and grow and grow.. It is clearly
[47584]the most volatile media issue of the season.
[47586]“Given the barest outlines of what allegedly happened, and taking them
[47587]oh ;
[47589]at face value, we have a responsibility to take action under 18 U.S. Code,
[47590]: Section 1505:
[47592]Whoever ... by ... force ... endeavors to ... impede any
[47593]witness ... in connection with any inquiry or investigation
[47594]being had by ... any committee of either House ... or
[47596]. - Whoever ... by ... force ... obstructs, or impedes or
[47598]St endeavors to +++ obstruct, or impede ... the due and proper
[47599]: exercise of the: power of inquiry under which such inguiry
[47601]. or ‘investigation is being had by ... any committee of
[47602]either. House ...
[47604]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned not more
[47605]: ; than five years, or both.
[47607]“In short, if Giencane was a "witness" (which status he might have
[47608]achieved by mere location contacts made by staff) and he was killed to
[47609]prevent his éppearence; or indeed even if he wasn't yet a "witness" but
[47610]this was a "message" to all, witnesses to keep quiet (e.g. Roselli and Maheu), —
[47611]there is a violation of law which we might have the responsibility to investigate.
[47612]Beyond whet our responsibility is, it seems clear to me that most extreme
[47614]possibilities of what might actually have happened dictate that we come up
[47616]with a well-reasoned position and plan -- after careful, deliberate, intensive
[47618]t a
[47619]'
[47621]HW 50955. Docld:32423630 Page 643
[47623]On
[47625]: . -P nag ae
[47626]consideration of all avenués/of approach, pitfalls, suspected motives, etc..
[47627]. nay ‘
[47631]Most important of all, it deans to me, is our acceptance of the fact that.
[47632]maybe we don't even have anyone on our staff with sufficient experience,
[47633]sophistication, background,. and investigative maturity to deal with this
[47634]situation. | . |
[47636]As a first step, I urgesyour decision to convene a planning session to
[47637]decide what the second step will be.
[47639]I can't emphasize enough the need for well-thought-out planning here.
[47640]Who knows where this will lead? And at a minimum, some months from now,
[47641]Senator Church may be asked,: "What did you do the day after you learned
[47642]that’ Giancena had been Killed?" °
[47644]My stream of consciousness on kinds of things to consider would
[47645]include: | What our public statement on this should or should not be,
[47646]security for other witnesses, imnediate contact with other key witnesses
[47647](to reassure them), secrecy of witness lists and immunity applications,
[47648]secrecy of place, time and even fact of interview, meetings with Justice
[47649]organized crime section, Chicago strike force, local law enforcement people
[47650]in Oak Park and Tlinois, obtaining all FBI investigative reports (they're
[47651]in it per tonight's-Ster), getting background on all lew enforcement officials
[47652]in Illinois who will be involved. (whom do you trust?), is this a diversion
[47653]which we're being sucked into, how do we avoid that (hire someone just for
[47654]this), how do we show we care 50 other witnesses (known or unknown) won't
[47656]dry up, etc. etc. etc.
[47658]NOTE: - Mike can be reached efter 6:45 tonight at (802) 863-2652.
[47660]eat
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[47669]ut
[47672]MEMORANDUM:
[47674]TO: Mike Madigan
[47676]FROM: Ed Greissing wy
[47678]DATE: August 13, 1976 ree
[47680]SUBJECT: Mention of Carlos Marcello in the 4/23/76 transcript of
[47681]John Rosselli. ot
[47683]On April 23, 1976 during Mr. Rosselli's appearance before the
[47684]Schweiker-Hart Subcommittee, we':took the opportunity to question
[47685]him about any information he might possess regarding the New Orleans
[47686]Mafia Chieftan, Carlos Marcello... oy
[47688]Our interest in Marcello developed from 1})the allegation that
[47689]Marcello was tangentially involved with both Clay Shaw and David
[47690]‘Ferrie; the fact that Marcello was deported by Attorney General Robert
[47691]Kennedy and that the assassination of President Kennedy was a possible
[47692]retaliation, Bab]
[47694]In my telephone conversation with Jim Johnston, 8/13/76, he could
[47695]think of no other reasons why we questioned Rosselli about Marcello.
[47696]If you would like to talk to Jim about this matter, his telephone
[47697]number is 780-6203. mo
[47699]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 645
[47701]MEMORANDUM
[47703]To: Files
[47704]From: Mike Madigan
[47706]- Date: June 23, 1975 7
[47707]Subj: Additional Roselli uestions
[47711]i
[47713]Inquire when in the ‘discussions, between Roselli and the CIA
[47715]did any suggestion appear) with regard to both Che Guevera and
[47717]Rauol Castro, in addition ‘to the discussions’ involving Fidel only.
[47719]Query whether Rosell ‘as heard the term “ZRRIFLE" --- note
[47721]Helms to Harvey memorandum of 12 February 1962, giving approval for
[47723]use of unvouchered funds.
[47725]1.G. Report references first delivery of the pills in early
[47726]2
[47727]ey 1961. Second delivery of the pills in early 1962 -- inquire re:
[47729]fp Tf Roselli's date recollection.
[47730]my _ yf
[47731]Jake Esterline had ppfsession of the gigars already treated
[47733]with poison in March eyfough August 1960/ in Florida. Esterline
[47735]apparently destroyed Ahem before he Left in June of 1961 -- Roselli' s
[47737]knowledge of sstorghe or the e cigars?
[47739]# operation to put in
[47741]hotel rom on trip?
[47743]py" April 1961 and Second Phase from April 1962 through February 1963.
[47745]et
[47747]LE ;
[47749]hk I.G. Report indicates First Phase from August 1960 through
[47751]EW50955 Docld:32473630 Page 646
[47754]nspector General's Report states that Maheu was instructed
[47756]to tell Roselli that Maheu represented businesses ‘(Wall Street)
[47758]who had interests in Cuba’ and who. wanted to eliminate Castro and
[47760]were willing to pay $150,000.
[47762]Roselli -- Trafficante's gambling interests in Cuba -- interest
[47763]in killing Castro? an .
[47764]I.G. Report indicates “first meeting" to be 14 September 1960
[47766]in New York City, with Naheu, Roselli and O'Connell present.
[47768]1.G. Report indicates that Roselli introduced. Maheu to Giancana
[47770]and that Giancana was to. arrange contacts with syndicate elements
[47772]in Cuba -- meeting for Roselli/Maheu/Giancana meeting in Fountain-
[47774]7 . bleu Hotel in Florida week of 25 September 1960. I. G. Report
[47775]ae CE
[47776]indicates that Giancana fore Maheu that he had a‘man ‘(Trafficante)
[47778]to serve as a courier going back and forth between Miami and Cuba.
[47780]I.G. Report indicates. conversion in Roselli's presence wherein
[47782]Giancana tells Maheu that Giancana is opposed to the use of guns --
[47784]i
[47787]no chance of escape?
[47789]; _ Roselli named inside: man in Cuba as Juan Orta -- then in
[47790]Prime Minister's office in Havana. a
[47792]t
[47794]if. G. Report indicates Dr. Gunn's notation of delivery of
[47796]the: first batch of pills to be 10 February 1961? Roselli timing?
[47800]HW 50955 Docld:32493630 Page 647
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[47807]7 - oy yt .
[47809]I.G. Report indicates, that Roselli's man, Orta, had "easy
[47811]ccess" to Castro, and that he was involved in a "rake-off on
[47813]too
[47815]gambling profits.” |
[47817]\ |
[47818]1.G. Report has Roselli giving the pills to reasscance, JO
[47820]rather than directly to the\Cuban? -
[47822]‘Did Harvey actu lly ta 1 Roselli to. cut off the project /V
[47824]slowly so as to avoi creat\ng hard feelings on the part of the
[47826]Cubans in the latter p t of \962?
[47828]~ 1G. Report in "second Phase" indicates Roselli telling
[47829]O'Connell that Trafficante knew ‘a man high up in the Cuban exile
[47831]venent who could take over the job from Orta. Report indicates
[47833]this man's name is Varona, and. that Trafficante probably knew
[47834]if
[47836]Varona in his efforts to: take over ga mbling once Castro was out.
[47837]. .
[47839]Does Roselli know Edward Moss and the Cellini's offer of money
[47841]to Varona to be used.against Castro?
[47843]1.G. Report indicates that Trafficant told Varona that he
[47844](Trafficante) had clients who would pay big money to get rid of
[47845]Castro’-- Roselli's knowledge of this. -- time, frame March/April
[47846]SY, 1961 -- figures mentioned from various “witness s are (1) $50,000
[47847](2) $25,000 (3) $10, 00 plus $1, 000 worth of commynications
[47849]equipment. . NOTE: O'Connell's testimony of ($50, 00 being taken
[47851]to Florida and put in a, safe deposit box to be pai C.0.D. upon
[47853]accomplishment of Castro mission.
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[47857]|
[47859]I.G. Report has Harvey taking over in February 1961 but only
[47860]of the "executive action capability. '" The Report indicates
[47861]15 November 1961 as date Harvey says Bissell told him to include
[47862]Cuba in ZRRIFLE program, and ‘to take over syndicate connection ---
[47864]Roselli! s knowledge. of either of these dates? NOTE: Are ZRRIFLE
[47866]and Castro assassination plans syhonynous? , 6,
[47868]va
[47869]I.G.. Report gives 8: ‘and 9 April 1962 in_New York. City as the
[47870]Se ,
[47872]meeting place for e first introduction of Harvey, O'Connell and
[47874]Roselli.
[47878]where Roselli stayed -- dinner at the Elk Room -- drinks at
[47880]NOT
[47882]o*Connei1 feels that Harvey met Roselli prior
[47884]eting -- meeting took place at -- Savoy Plaza/Sa oy Hilton
[47886]“the Copacabana -- table: across from Phyllis MacGuire. with Dorothy
[47887]Kilgallen and Liberace performing -- seats changed so that Roselli
[47889]would not be seen by MacGuire -- Roselli's recollection? /
[47890]] _— _. June of 1963 Harvey, ieft for Rome.
[47892]April 18, 1962 -- Dr. Treichler's records showing delivery of
[47893]four. pills to "OC. "
[47895]September 1961, last casino in Havana closed.
[47897]fo \ 4 I.G. Report references Roselli's having a man known as "Maceo"
[47898]We ‘ r "Garcia - Gomez" ani."Goday". The report describes him as a
[47900]Cuban who spoke Italian -- Roselli's recollection? -- time frame?
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[47904]The 1.G. Revert bee ere 1962 as the time period for
[47908]with the rifles, etc. -- Roselli's
[47910]the delivery of the rental truck
[47911]recollection of what was inside? -> Rifles with telescopic sites
[47912]for assassination purposes? Comm ications equipment ---what type?
[47913]_ NOTE: . Roselli's recollection ing joint surveillance by Harvey
[47915]‘and Shackley in one car and O'Connell and Roselli in another car?.
[47917]May 1962 [.G. Report indicates that Roselli reports to Harvey
[47918]“that the pills are in Cuba -- references to all calls to Roselli
[47919]going to the Friars Club and Roselli's calls going to Harvey's home
[47921]number -- Roselli's recollection?
[47923]June 1962 -- 1.G. Report reference Roselli telling Harvey that
[47924]Varona had sent a three-man team into Cuba and that the pills were
[47926]"inside."
[47928]September 1962 -- I.G. Report references Roselli meeting Harvey |
[47930]in Miami on 7 and 11 September. Roselli tells Harvey that a second
[47932]three-man team was sent in by Varona -- a team of militia to infil-
[47933]trate Castro's bodyguard -- that the first team is already inside
[47934]=) and safe? --- Roselli's recollection of facts?
[47936]January 1963. I.G. Report reference Roselli telling Harvey
[47937]YY tha. "militia team" prepared for take-off -- and that they never did?
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[47943]June 1963. I.G. Repoft reference ‘last meeting between Roselli
[47945]and Harvey -- Roselli ot by Harvey at Dulles Airport -- Roselli
[47947]stayed at home of frien Of Harvey's -- Harvey's home closed up.
[47949]per overseas trip -- Harve ed by FBI having seen Roselli/Harvey
[47951]‘at restaurant -- FBI had-Roselli dgder surveillance -- Roselli's
[47953]recollection of facts?’ -- Time perhod?
[47955]I.G. Report indicates that Maheu pit in contact with Giancana
[47957]-O'Connell's Testimony
[47959]O'Connell's recollection is. that Orta's man would not go through
[47960]with it and that the pills were returned to O'Connell by Roselli.
[47961]0! Connell's recollection then is that the second plan was a call
[47962]from Roselli and Maheu indicating the use of. a chef. The pills
[47964]were sent down and. again returned when this plot failed.
[47966]O'Connell is unclear which of the aforementioned schemes took
[47967]place before the Bay of Pigs. He indicates, however, the use of
[47969]Varona to be after the Bay of Pigs.
[47971]O'Connell has the first introduction of Roselli and Harvey as
[47973]being in the Miami airport.
[47975]O'Connell's testimony is that he received a call from Maheu
[47977]who said that Giancana was upset about Phyllis MacGuire seeing
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[47982]|
[47984]i
[47986]4 aJ-
[47987]|
[47989]a
[47991]Dan Rowan. Maheu said tHe he had been, requested to place a tap
[47992]for Giancana and that Giancana might "stop: helping” on the assassina-
[47993]tion plot if this tap was not placed. O'Connell checked with
[47994]Edwards and received the go-ahead. O'Connell indicates that
[47996]Maheu was authorized to pay for DuBois out of the month given him
[47998]on the assassination plan.
[48000]O'Connell states that: he recalls November 1960 as the time
[48003]4
[48005]period of the delivery of the pills for Roselli through Trafficante?
[48006]O'Connell recollection that "chef" incident after Bay. of Pigs,
[48008]O'Connell states that Varona's price was $50,000 -- $10,000
[48010]worth of communications equipment in addition.
[48012]O'Connell introduced by Roselli to Varona as "Mr. Olds."
[48014]Harvey Testimony
[48016]Harvey places the fall of 1961 as the time period in which
[48018]ZRRIFLE was to be applied to Cuba.
[48020]Harvey reference to pressure from the Kennedys to topple the
[48021]Castro regime clandestinely and not by 1 means of any attack.
[48023]Roselli's hearsay knowledge of this?
[48025]Harvey states that he recalls firearms -in the truck, possibly
[48027]"sniper-scope rifles."
[48029]HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 652
[48031]Harvey states that es ‘soon ‘as the missile crisis was over,
[48032]i.e. late 1962, he indicated to Roselli that he wanted the
[48033]project cut off, although’ gradually so as not to create hard
[48035]feelings.
[48037]Roselli! s knowledge of Greenspw 's safe -- break-in in 1971 --
[48039]1967 - meeting between Greenspu ; Garr3 on, Roselli, etc.?
[48041]1.G. Report reference to. "a ation" in early 1960
[48043]efforts: -- Roselli hearsay kn
[48045]E. B. Williams’ knowledge re MaheuXRoselli/Greenspun meetings
[48047]in 1967?
[48048]Roselli knowledge re ‘Angell Luis Castillo (U.S. in 1968)
[48050]and Jerry Henning (training of Cuban teams)?
[48052]Roselli knowledge of explosives alyng with guns valued at
[48054]$5,000 -- U-Haul. truck delivery -- surveyllance by Chief JMWAVE?
[48056]Late 1962- -Early 1963: -- Roselli knowledge of skin-diving suit
[48058]implemented with poisons?
[48062]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 653
[48064]Dear Mr. Attorney 6 General:
[48066]‘I am weiting you today on behalf of. the Select -
[48068]Committee about the recent death of Samuel Giancana. As
[48069]you are no doubt aware , his name “has been raised in the
[48070]context of allegations concerning the Central Intelligence
[48071]Agency's possible involvement in so-called political
[48072]assassinations.
[48074]Based on information available to the Committee,
[48075]it was obvious that’ ‘he might be knowledgeable about the
[48076]political assassination matter. Although Mr. Giancana
[48077]had not actually been Subpoenaed to testify by this Com-
[48079]2? mittee, he had been “approached by members of the staff
[48080]for a possible interview. Since this might involve viola-
[48081]tion of federal statutes pertaining to obstruction of a
[48082]Congressional Committee investigation, the Select Committee
[48083]is requesting that you ‘instruct the Federal Bureau of
[48084]Investigation to keep it fully informed of all information
[48085]“coming to the Bureau's attention pertaining to Mr. Giancana's
[48087]death. In making this request, the Committee is not gonced=
[48089]Ne heen
[48091]/ ing. its. right to conduct its own investigation of this
[48092]matters However , it is acting in the spirit of cooperation
[48093]on a question of mutual concern to the Executive and Legis-
[48095]lative Branches ‘of government.
[48097]HW 50955 Doera: #2423630 Page 654
[48101]‘ 1
[48104]af
[48105]ho.
[48107]The Committee is also concerned about the
[48108]safety of several other possible witnesses. Therefore,
[48109]we request 24-hour-a-day protection by the United States
[48110]Marshall Service for the following witnesses which the
[48111]Committee has subpoenaed, intends to subpoena, has inter-
[48113]viewed, or intends to interview:
[48115](Alternative paragraph:
[48117]. The Committee is also concerned about the
[48118]‘safety of several other possible witnesses. We would
[48119]like to discuss with members of your staff the necessity
[48120]for special arrangements by the United States Marshall
[48121]Service to ensure the safety of witnesses who have. or
[48122]might have to contact with the Committee pertaining to
[48124]these matters.)
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[48172]COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
[48174]EB CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES
[48175]1A CURRENTLY (Nl JAIL FOR WARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48176]18 AWAITING TRIAL ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48177]{C PREVIOUS CONVICTION FOR NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48178]1D SUSPECTED OF TRAFFICKING IN NARCOTICS
[48179]2 GAMBLING .
[48180]3 SHYLOCKING :
[48181]4 LABOR RACHETEERING - . -
[48182]5 COIN MACHINE RACKETEERING :
[48183]6 EXTORTION, MAYHEM AND MURDERS
[48184]7 COUNTERFEITING fon
[48185]B RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS : :
[48186]9 ROOTLEGGING . :
[48187]{0 BRIBERY . aan : _
[48188]11 BURGLARY, ROBBERY AND LARCENY wore i Soe nooo
[48189]12 TAX EVASION oe . : ae
[48190]13 AGGRAVATED ASSAULT . 2 ce
[48191]44 VICE ( PROSTITUTION } ones . Cpl ees
[48192]15 ILLEGAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS : Lo . _ :
[48193]16 HUACKING ‘ . a co . : on
[48194]4? CONTEMPT no, - ; .
[48195]18 OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE :
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[48231]Don Mach
[48232]Dan Fussel
[48234]Buddy Parron
[48235]Glen Brechen
[48236]Tommy Berry
[48237]Clifterd Bell
[48239]Joe Wheeler
[48240]Max Reid
[48241]Mory Cardan
[48242]Phil Rife
[48244]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 657
[48247]LEGEND
[48249](GU INTER - FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS
[48250]Ed CRIMINAL ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIPS
[48251][COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS
[48253]El CaiminAL ACTIVITIES
[48254]1A CURRENTLY IN JAIL FOR NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48255]{8 AWAITING TRIAL ON NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48256]Jot {C PREVIOUS CONVICTION FOR NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
[48257]: . 1D SUSPECTED OF TRAFFICKING IN NARCOTICS
[48258]vO 2 GAMBLING
[48259]. . 3 SHYLOCKING oe
[48260]to, : 4 LABOR RACKETEERING .
[48261]5 COIN MACHINE RACKETEERING oo
[48262]& EXTORTION, MAYHEM ANO MURDERS
[48263]7 COUNTERFEITING
[48264]8 RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS
[48265]9 BOOTLEGGING
[48266]10 BRIBERY
[48267]{1 BURGLARY, ROBBERY AND LARCENY
[48268]12 TAX EVASION an ,
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[48270]14 VICE (PROSTITUTION } Sout
[48271]16 (LLEGAL POSSESSION OF WEAPONS, .
[48272]6 HUAGRING
[48273]4? CONTEM'
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[48306]Clyde P. Lee .
[48307]Jesse Joyner
[48309]Rudy Mach
[48310]Gon Mach
[48312]Dan Fussel Vasco Joyner
[48313]Buddy Parran Mathew Smith
[48314]Glen Brechen Macon Tribue
[48315]Tommy Berry dulia Cipkon
[48317]Clifford Bell Hoy Andersen
[48319]Kat Bradshow
[48321]Cecil merit
[48322]Clayton Thomas
[48323]“Sonny Brown. .
[48324]George Solomon
[48326]Joe Wheeler
[48327]Max Reid”
[48329]Mary Cardan
[48330]Phil Riffe
[48332]“Ralph Strawder
[48333]Benny White
[48335]Wren. Harrall
[48336]Elvia Caroll
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[48348]520) ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS
[48350]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[48352]The Ciaran, Very well. And then Sergeant de la Liana, will
[48353]you identify yourself, please, sir?
[48355]Mr. ve ua Liana. Jack de la Llana, Tampa Police Department. I
[48356]have been with the police department for 9 years, and attached to the
[48357]homicide division for 4 years before starting the criminal intelligence |
[48358]‘unit of the Tampa Police Department.
[48360]The Crrainman. Have you had previous police service?
[48362]Mr. pe ta Luana. My first experience was 9 years ago, when I -
[48363]started first with the force.
[48365]The Cuarraan. Chief Brown, do you have a statement, a prepared
[48366]statement?
[48368]Mr. Brown. Yes, I do, Senator. :
[48370]The Crramaan. Thave a copy of it before me, and I see it has several
[48371]pages. Do you wish to read all of it?
[48373]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; I would like to read it to the committee,
[48375]The Ciramman. Very well, then, you may proceed.
[48377]Mr, Brown. Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I am
[48378]: Neil G. Brown, chief of the Police Department of the city of Tampa, .
[48379]Fila.
[48381]I have been a member of the Tampa Police Department for the past
[48383]16 years, and I have been chief of the department for the past 4 years,
[48384]Prior to my appointment as chief, I served as inspector of detectives.
[48385]I am a graduate of the National Police Academy of the Federal
[48386]Burcau of Investigation, and a member of the Tampa Bay Area Chiefs
[48387]of Police Association and of the International Association of Chiefs
[48388]of Police.
[48390]With me here today is Sgt. Jack de la Liana who, at my direction,
[48391]formed our department’s first criminal intelligence unit in February
[48392]of 1962, and has been its director since that time. Sergeant de la -
[48393]Llana also holds the important post of chairman of the Florida In- a
[48394]telligence Unit, a statewide agency which coordinates information :
[48395]amongst intelligence units in cities throughout the State of Florida.
[48397]In addition to Sergeant de la Liana, whose diligent work and knowl: |
[48398]edge of criminal operations has provided much of the foundation for
[48399]my statement to you, I feel fortunate in being accompanied also by .
[48400]Sgt. William Branch of the intelligence division of the Orlando Poliea -
[48401]Department. Sergeant Branch is presently attending the National -
[48402]Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He has been 8 ,
[48403]member of the Orlando Police Department since 1951, and a detective
[48404]sergeant since 1956. He is particularly familiar with organized gam-
[48405]bling operations in the central Florida area, and I believe his presenta
[48406]tion of that situation will be of material value to this inquiry. :
[48408]I feel privileged to be able to testify before you today. I believe --
[48409]that the facts I can present here about organized crime operations in <
[48410]Tampa will help you and the American public realize the seriousness. .
[48411]of this problem, and our Nation’s emergent need for further Federal ;
[48412]legislation to combat an evil that has clearly expanded beyond the
[48413]powers of municipal law enforcement to contain, suppress and elimi.
[48414]nate it.
[48416]ampa has a large and respected Italj ign, who are con
[48418]sidered in alf respects to be an asset to our community. Unfor,
[48419]tunately, a small percentage of this group of citizens have achieved
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[48423]ORGA
[48425]2 Notoriety
[48426]continuous
[48427]eople of on
[48428]the Mafia.”
[48429]ur prow.
[48430]1956 When ;
[48432]the Mafia wa
[48433]stand jury’sr
[48435]23 8 an
[48436]The evidence
[48437]nesses interview
[48438]clement whose ;
[48439]afia as we unde
[48440]The Cuamy
[48442]you the law en
[48443]Mr. Browy.
[48444]The Cratrar
[48445]existed in your ¢
[48446]Mr. Brown, |
[48447]been there,
[48448]r
[48449]The Crramara
[48450]were unable to h
[48451]vt. Brown, T
[48452]he Cuamma?
[48453]able to et it out}
[48454]> Mr. Brown, T:
[48455]The Cuarnara'n
[48456]v. Brown (re:
[48457]* * our i
[48458]from underworld cnt
[48459]The Crzarratay,
[48460]day from the CI
[48461]murders, ganglanc¢
[48462]years, and only 26
[48463]-court determ inatioy
[48464]Ar. Brown, Tha
[48465]_ The Cratmuay,
[48466]Rive us some idea ab
[48467]Mr. Brown, Iw
[48468]hicago,
[48470]an Chicago oy
[48471]08 Solved. Tt thoror;
[48472]to danger of organi:
[48473]YOU Say: “Well,-¢
[48475]at may be true, but
[48478]i
[48480]:@ IN NARCOTICS
[48482]weant de la Lana, will
[48484]; Police Department. I
[48485]‘ars, and attached to the
[48486]the criminal intelligence
[48488]| ‘ice service?
[48489]as 9 years ago, when I
[48491]-astatement, a prepared
[48493]ve, and I see it has several
[48495]| it to the committee.
[48496]roceed. ;
[48498]‘the subcommittee, Tam
[48499]ut of the city of Tampa,
[48501]Department for the past
[48502]nent for the past 4 years.
[48503].s inspector of detectives.
[48504]teademy of the Federal
[48505]-Tampa Bay Area Chiefs
[48506]al Association of Chiefs
[48508]-na who, at my direction,
[48509]-ligence unit in February
[48510]ut time. .Serweant de la
[48511]rman of the Florida In-
[48512]coordinates information
[48513]‘at the State of Florida.
[48514]diligent-work and knowl-
[48515]ach of the foundation for
[48516]ing accompanied also by
[48517]ion of the Orlando Police
[48518]. attending the National
[48519]‘igation. Ife has been a
[48520]ance 1951, and a detective
[48521]iliar with organized gam-
[48522]and I believe his presenta-
[48523]‘eto this inquiry. ;
[48524]ore you today. I believe
[48525]nized crime operations In
[48526]slic realize the seriousness
[48527]need for further Federal
[48528]rly expanded beyond the
[48529]ntain, suppress and elimi-
[48531]population, who are con-
[48532]our community. Unfor-
[48533]of citizens have achieved
[48535]ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS $21
[48537]a notoriety greatly disproportionate to their numbers, because of their
[48538]continuous activity in criminal and racketeering enterprises. The
[48539]people of our city refer to this group as “the Sicilian underworld” or
[48541]‘the Mafia.”
[48543]Our growing concern with this criminal group was crystallized in
[48544]1956 when a [fillsborough County grand jury was empaneled in
[48545]Tampa to investigate and determine the truth of allegations that
[48546]the Mafia was then operating in Tampa. The pertinent part of that
[48547]grand jury’s report stated: ;
[48549]* * * there are some individuals who believe that a Mafia or Black Hand
[48550]exists and operates in this community, but they are in the minority. * * *
[48551]‘The evidence presented, the volume of written material examined, aud wit-
[48552]nesses interviews point to the existence in this community of an organized crime
[48553]clement whose methods of operation are similar to the pattern of the Sicilian
[48554]Mafia as we understand it. * * *
[48556]The Cuarran. Chief, let me ask you, prior to this development,
[48557]before the grand jury, before the grand jury made this finding, were
[48558]you the law enforcement officials or in the police department?
[48560]Mr. Brown. No, sir.
[48562]The Cuarrman. Were you suspicious that such an organization
[48563]existed in your city ?
[48565]Mr. Brown, Oh, yes; law enforcement has been aware that this has
[48566]been there.
[48568]The Crairman. There was something, you felt confident, but you
[48569]were unable to bring it out in concrete proof; is that correct?
[48571]Mr. Brown. That is correct. :
[48573]The Curarrmman. So you had been trying to combat it without being
[48574]able to get it out in the open? ; ;
[48576]Mr. Brown. That is exactly right.
[48578]The Cuamman. Allright. Proceed.
[48580]Mr. Brown (reading) :
[48582]* * * our records indicate that the vast majority of our unsolved crimes stem
[48583]from underworld activity involving persons of Sicilian or Italian ancestry * * *
[48585]The Cuairman. We had some startling information here the other
[48586]day from the Chicago chief of police with respect to some 976
[48587]murders, gangland style, that had been committed over a period of
[48588]years, and only 2 of them had been solved. ‘That is, officially solved by
[48589]court determination or court action.
[48591]Mr. Brown. That is typical.
[48593]The Cratrman. What is the ratio in your community, if you can
[48594]give us some idea about it?
[48596]Mr. Brown. I will bring that out in my statement, but it is just
[48597]like Chicago.
[48599]. The Cuamman. Something along that line?
[48601]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[48603]The Crratrman. That, struck me as one of the most frightening
[48604]developments of information that I have heard regarding crime. I
[48605]just. couldn’t believe that 976 murders, and apparently just murder
[48606]in the first-degree fashion, could be comunitted in an area like Met-
[48607]ropolitan Chicago over a period of years, and only 2 of them could
[48608]be solved. It thoroughly demonstrates to me the great menace and
[48609]the danger of organized mobs committing crime. ~
[48611]You say: “Well, they probably killed each other pretty much.”
[48612]That may be true, but {hey kill each other becanse of the extortionate
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[48625]operations that they are engaged in, to the detriment of the public
[48626]at large, and to the detriment of innocent people who can’t help
[48627]themselves. It focuses and emphasizes how serious this menace is,
[48629]Very well, you may proceed,
[48631]Mr. Brown. Notwithstanding these findings, the grand jury con-
[48632]cluded that there was no national or local Mafia in Tampa. I would
[48633]like to submit ag exhibit 1 a certitied copy of the report of the grand
[48634]jury dated March 30. 1956.
[48636]The Cuairnuax. Very well, this report of the grand jury will be
[48637]received and it may be made exhibit No. 44, and exhibit 1 to this
[48638]witness’ testimony. ;
[48640]I may later direct it be printed, but as of now we will just let it be
[48641]filed as an exhibit for reference.
[48643](The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 44” for refer-
[48644]ence, and may be found in the files of the subeommittee.)
[48646]Mr. Brown. It seems likely to me that the grand jury failed to
[48647]acknowledge without qualification the presence of the Mafia in Tampa
[48648]because it sought a pattern of Mafia operations similar to the historical
[48649]Sicilian tradition of primitive and direct extortion, rather than the
[48650]sophisticated and polished control of rackets that now characterize
[48651]that organization. ;
[48653]The CuamrMan. I take it from that last statement that you feel
[48654]that they have considerably improved their technique.
[48656]Mr. Brown. Very much so.
[48658]The Cirairman. Of crime operations.
[48660]Mr. Brown. Very much. .
[48662]Senator Musxir, May I ask a question, Chief, there?
[48664]‘As L understand what you have just testified relative te the grand
[48666]jury’s report, they acknowledged that there was some evidence of the
[48667]existence of Sicilian Mafia in the community, but apparently felt
[48668]that evidence was not conclusive; is that a correct suminary ?
[48670]Mr. Brown. That.is correct; yes, Senator. The Tampa Police De-
[48671]partment, however, has long been aware that. many criminals in our
[48672]area have local reputations as Maliosi. My staff and I have made a
[48673]careful evaluation of those reputations, based upon personal know!-
[48674]edge, criminal records, surveillance reports, personal histories, familial
[48675]relationships, statistical analyses, reports from confidential inform-
[48676]ants, information from Federal and local Jaw-enforcement agencies,
[48677]and other customary police intelligence sources. ;
[48679]Tt is our considered conclusion that the Mafia exists in Tampa, that
[48680]it controls most Wegal gambling in Tampa and central Florida, and
[48681]that its members have interstate and international ties to other Mafia
[48682]groups. ,
[48684]The organization of the Mafia in the Tampa area is best understood
[48685]from a chart we have formulated which I submit to this subcommittee”
[48686]asourexhibit No.2. ~
[48688]Senator Musxin. Before we get to that, Chief, may I ask another
[48689]question? The grand jury to which you referred sat in 1956, am I
[48690]correct ? .
[48692]Mr. Brown. That is correct, sir.
[48694]Senator Musxtr. That is 7 years ago. Do you think you have
[48695]accumulated additional evidence as to the existence of the Mafia in
[48696]Tampa which would justify a new reference to the grand jury?
[48698]Mr. Brown. Yes; I believe so. :
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[48735]Senator Muskie. Are you planning that?
[48737]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[48739]The Ciraimaan. Very well. This chart may be received as exhibit
[48740]No. 45 and we will direct it be printed in the record if it can be, as
[48741]far as it can be. The title of it is “Lhe Mafia Organization in the
[48742]Tampa, Fla., Area.”
[48744](The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 45” for refer-
[48745]ence and faces this page.)
[48746]© The Cuamman. Would you say the operations of this organized
[48748]group are not confined just to the city limits of Tampa, but they are
[48749]in the area ?
[48751]Mr. Brown. By all means; the entire area.
[48753]The Cuamman. All right. This chart is now a part of the record
[48754]and, if you wish to comment about it, we will proceed with your state-
[48755]ment.
[48757]Mr. Brown. The chart is keyed to show only the criminal, business,
[48758]and familial intervelationships and activities of the persons named,
[48759]although other criteria figured in our categorization of these persons.
[48760]Of course, this chart cannot be considered as a definitive “table of
[48761]organization” of the Tampa Mafia, because it is but a simplified repre-
[48762]sentation of an organization that is in a constant state of flux, and about
[48763]which we know we still have many things to learn.
[48765]However, I believe it is completely accurate in showing that Santo
[48766]Traflicante is the boss of this criminal group. Indeed, it is to Santo
[48767]Traflicante that Tampa owes the dubious distinction of having been
[48768]represented at the notorious crime convention at Apalachin, N.Y,
[48769]in November 1957.
[48771]The Cuairuan. I notice you designate or refer to this group as the
[48772]Mafia. Would you say that it is the same group that has been referred
[48773]to by the famous witness, Joe Valachii?
[48775]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; itis, ;
[48777]The Crranatan. Whether he calls it Cosa Nostra or the Mafia malkes
[48778]no difference. This is the organized crime group to which you re-
[48781]Mr. Brown. That is correct, Senator; this is the group.
[48783]Senator Musxim. May Task a question there?
[48785]Under this group, there is another group which you describe a
[48786]honmember asscciates and employees. Is that intended to suggest
[48787]that the people who are so described know nothing about the identity
[48788]of their employers and the organization of which they are a part?
[48790]Mr. Brown. Senator, that is a part of the insulation of the group.
[48791]They have many employees, and as we go into the statement, to show
[48792]how in this gambling operation the seller is non-Sicilian in most
[48793]eases, and he reports to another member up the ladder, and so on up.
[48794]Many of these people are nonmembers of the Mafia as it is.
[48796]Senator Musiiz. Do they know they are engaged in criminal ac-
[48799]Mr: Brown. Yes, sir. 1
[48801]Senator Musxtz. They know they are a part of a criminal orga-
[48803]i. Nization 2
[48805]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[48806]Senator Musxin. But they are not members?
[48807]Mr. Brown. That is correct.
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[48816]Senator Musxip. What do they need to do to become members in
[48817]the Tampa area? :
[48818]Mr. Brown. Well, | think I can clarify that later on in the state-
[48819]ment, Senator. ,
[48820]The Ciaran. All right; you may proceed.
[48821]Mr. Brown. Santo Traflieante, Jr., was born in Tampa on November
[48822]14, 19 He was one of five brothers. He maintains residence today
[48823]mit eunn and in Miami. Tle previously lived in Tlavana, Cuba,
[48824]where he owned and operated gambling casi er the Battista
[48825]regime. When Fidel Castro‘took over, ‘Traflicante’s gam
[48826]“TTT re stopped. Ile was expelled from Cuba andr
[48827]the United States. He inherited the control of the ffumbers Tek
[48828]in central Florida which his father, Santo TrafficantéSry-ehe-drec
[48829]in 1954, and he continues to head this operation,
[48830]Testimony in the "fami of the Senate Select Committee
[48832]on Improper Activities m the Labor or Management Field identified
[48834]Santo Trafticante, Jr. in (nenanelnbiodaibat be sansesiouccuupbling
[48835]casino in Havang. That testimony stated that Traflicante took over
[48836]{SO SOTeT fron: the Mannarino brothers in Pittsburgh, Pa.
[48837]Gabriel Mannarino was a fellow delegate with Santo Trafficante, Jr.,
[48838]to the Apalachin crime convention in 1957.
[48840]Additional testimony named Traflicante, Jr, as the key figure in
[48841]the Mafia in Tampa, stating, as the Tampa police had long known,
[48842]that he succeeded his father as the major racketeer in the city.
[48844]Other information substantiated by our files reveals that Trafficante
[48845]is an associate of such notorious criminals as ioe Lansky, Joseph
[48847]moon Trafli:
[48848]the plias “B
[48849]on the niehe
[48850]after A nasta
[48851]The Depa
[48852]organization
[48853]fication of th
[48854]Apalachin er
[48855]of Tampa, F}
[48856]Furthermo
[48857]out-of-town 1
[48858]of the Tampa
[48859]fiernte is asso
[48860]Louis Coticel:
[48861]quently seen -
[48862]boarding a pls
[48863]: Other know
[48864]Praflicante ga
[48865]colo, and Ant]
[48866]Mr. O’Dox:
[48867]nuity, so that
[48868]a statement w
[48869]the interest of
[48870]like to have it i
[48871]Do you have
[48873]Bonanno, cab Aniello Dellacrace, Josep asst, sam Man- Mr. pe va Lr.
[48874]narino, Joseph Arcuri, and of Joseph Riecobono, also known as Staten Mr. O’Doxx
[48875]Island Joe, who had been closely allied with the elder Traflicante, air. DELA Li.
[48876]and was also discovered at the Apalachin meeting. The Cairn.
[48878]Mr. pe ba Lr,
[48879]Brady, and his
[48880]to our attentior
[48881]record. T have
[48883]The Crrarra.
[48885]When Joseph Profaci’s daughter Carmella married Anthony Tocco,
[48886]con of Detroit mobster William “Black Bill” Tocco, in Brooklyn on
[48887]June 4, 1955, one of the guests at the reception in the Hotel Com-
[48888]inodore in New York was Santo Trailicante, Jr. Among those who
[48889]also attended were 13 other persons who Inter attended the Apalachin
[48891]‘ conference, as well as other notorious Mafia figures, such as Frank P No. 46 for refere
[48892]JLivorsi, Thomas and John Dioguardi, Tony and Albert “Anastasia, - (Document re
[48893]and Thomas “Three Finger Brown” Lucchese. ; may be found in
[48895]There have been at least two known attempts on the life ef Santo ‘The Crrarata
[48896]Trailicante: On January 2, 1953, he was shotgunned in a car on the that you have m:
[48897]streets of Tampa, receiving wounds in the arm. Later, in Cuba, four Mr. pena Lina?
[48898]American mobsters who intended to kill Traflicante were told by : The Crarrata
[48899]Cuban police that they would have to do it on American soil. ; record, either at
[48901]Trafficante has been arrested in Tampa several times for investiga- * . Statement of the -
[48902]tion, because of our knowledge that he was deeply involved in gam- (The statemen:
[48903]‘bling, even though we lave not yet been able to obtain the quantum of 2
[48904]proof necessary to a successful prosecution. THe has also been picked’ 9 .
[48905]up by the police for questioning abont the gangland slayings of Rene One of the clear t:
[48907]{3 reflected by the ¢
[48908]48 a courier for the
[48909]first came to the at
[48910]served him, in Tamy
[48911]Diecidue, two of the
[48912]tacts made by Cotic
[48913]ton about him whie
[48915]Nunez, Angelo Giglio, and Joe Antinori.
[48916]Traflicante was a suspect in the Albert Anastasia murder on Oc-
[48917]tober 25, 1957, in New York because he had appeared in New York
[48918]just before the murder. He was considered a likely suspect becaus
[48919]there had been reports that Anastasia was then attempting to move
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[48924]“1a members in
[48926]on in the state-
[48928]on November
[48929]residence today
[48930](favana, Cuba,
[48931]the Battista
[48932]ambling opera-
[48933]nd returned to
[48934]numbers racket
[48935]», Sr., who died
[48937]tect Committee
[48938]field identified
[48939]Souei gambling
[48940]‘cante took over
[48941]Pittsburgh, Pa.
[48942]‘Trafficante, Jr.,
[48944]ae key figure in
[48945]ad long known,
[48946]© city.
[48948]that Trafficante
[48949]Lansky, Joseph
[48950]-tassi, Sam Man-
[48951]‘nown as Staten
[48952]ider Trafficante,
[48954]Anthony Tocco,
[48955]in Brooklyn on
[48956]the Hotel Com-
[48957]mong those who
[48958]-d the Apalachin
[48959]. such as Frank
[48961]Ibert Anastasia,
[48963]ie life of Santo
[48964]“ina ear on the
[48965]oy, in Cuba. four
[48966]te were told by
[48967]ivan soil.
[48969]ws for investiga-
[48970]nvolved in gam-
[48971]+ the quantunn of
[48972]also been picked
[48973]slayings of Rene
[48975]> murder on Oc-
[48976]ed in New York
[48977]. suspect because
[48978]smpting to move
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[48982]in on Trafiicante’s gambling operations in Cuba. Trafficante, using
[48983]the alias “B. Ifill,” stayed with Anastasia in the latter’s hotel suite,
[48984]on the night of October 24, 1957, and moved out approximately 1 hour
[48985]after Anastasia’s murder ina nearby barber shop.
[48987]The Department's evaluation of ‘Traflicante as the boss of the Mafia
[48988]organization in Tampa was confirmed, of course, by the positive identi-
[48989]fication of the “Louis Santos of Havana, Cuba,” apprehended at the
[48990]Apalachin conference in November of 1957, as Santo Traflicante, Jr.,
[48991]of Tampa, Fla.
[48993]Furthermore, we have witnessed and docnmented many visits of
[48994]out-of-town racketeers with Santo Trafficante and his fellow hoodlums
[48995]of the Tampa area. These visitors give further indications that Traf-
[48996]ficante. is associated with Mafia members in other cities. For example,
[48997]Louis Coticchia of Chicago, also known as Lou Brady, has been fre-
[48998]quently seen visiting Traflicante and on one occasion they were seen
[48999]bourding.a plane together, heading for Miami.
[49001]Other known outside racketeers who have visited in Tampa with
[49002]Traflicante gang members are John Joseph Vitale, Salvatore Lopic-
[49003]cole.and Anthony Giardano, all known racketeers from St. Louis, Mo.
[49005]Mr. O’Donneut. I think at the present time, in interest of conti-
[49006]nuity, so that the record will read properly, Sergeant de la Llana has
[49007]a statement with regard to a courier operation within the Mafia, In
[49008]the interest of time, I am not going to ask him to read it, but I would
[49009]like to have it introduced in the record.
[49011]Do yowhave that? :
[49013]Mr. pera Liana. Yes, Ido.
[49015]Mr. O’Dornewt. How many pages does it consist of ?
[49017]Mr. peta Luana. Itis five pages. ;
[49019]The Cramman. Give a better description of it and tell us what it is.
[49021]Mr. ve va Luana. It is with reference to Louis Coticchia, alias Lou
[49022]Brady, and his visits to Tampa on various occasions, which first came
[49023]to our attention on April 18, 1962. This subject has a long criminal
[49024]record, Ihave an FBI record which I will also submit. into evidence.
[49026]The Curamatan. Let the FBI record be received and made exhibit
[49027]No. 46 for reference.
[49029](Document. referred to marked “Exhibit No. 46” for reference and
[49030]may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)
[49032]The Cuainman. Now, your statement, is that a summary statement ~
[49033]? 3 y
[49035]that you have made and prepared for the record?
[49037]Mr, pews Luana. Yes, sir.
[49039]The Cratraran. Very well, it may be received and printed in the
[49040]record, either at this point or immediately following the prepared
[49041]statement of the witness now testifying.
[49043](The statement referred to follows:)
[49045]STATEMENY or Sat. JACK DE LA LLANA
[49047]One of the clear ties of the Trafficante organization with other criminal groups
[49048]is reflected by the contacts with Trafficante made by a man who appears to act
[49049]as a courier for the Mafia. Louis Coticchia, alias Lou Brady, FBI No. 1427493,
[49050]first came to the attention of our Department on April 13, 1962, when we ob-
[49051]served him, in Tampa, in the company of Augustine Primo Lazzara and Vrank
[49052]Diecidue, two of the men on our Mafia chart. Because of this and other con-
[49053]tacts made by Coticchia, our intelligent unit developed the following informa-
[49054]tion about him which I think ig of interest to this committee in giving a profile
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[49061]of a hoodlum who fs entrusted by the Mafia to act as a courier for them between
[49062]the virious groups.
[49064]Coticehia was born on February 25, 1920, in Cincinnati, Obio. When he was
[49065]arrested a couple of yenrs ago, he gave as bis occupation “tidustrial financier.”
[49066]He is presently reported to be interested in the operation of a company offering
[49067]wired music in the Chicago area known as Symphonaire Suund Systems, Ine.
[49069]Ilis criminal record shows that be was first arrested in 1936 in Ohio for
[49070]robbéry. In 1937 he was arrested in Miami, Fla. for investigation of a “shake-
[49071]down.” He was held for 4 days and released without charges. He was arrested
[49072]again in Hot Springs. Ark., in 1038 for investigation and released with the under-
[49073]standing that he would feave the city. : ,
[49075]In 1938, in Cleveland, Coticchia was arrested and charged with assault with
[49076]intent to commit rape. He was convicted and received 1 to 15 years, of which
[49077]he served 4 years, being released in 1941. Ile was arrested in 1942 in Los Angeles,
[49078]Calif., on a warrant issued in Baltimore for grand theft. He was tried in Balti-
[49080]“more for receiving stolen goods and received 5 years in prison.
[49082]Coticchia was again arrested in Dallas, Tex., in 1961, by the U.S. marshals
[49083]for violation of and for conspiring to violate the Federal Securities and Exchange
[49084]Act of 1933, which case is still pending in the Southern District Court of New
[49085]York. His last arrest known to us was on January 4, 1963, when he was ar-
[49086]rested in Tampa for investigation of grand larceny. He was released due to
[49087]insufficient evidence,
[49089]Coticchia worked as a “pit boss” in gambling casinos in Las Vegas, Nev., and
[49090]Yavana, Cuba. He was involved in a scandal in 1960 in which mobsters at-
[49091]tempted to take over a nationwide bail bond business,
[49093]Cotiechia has been in and out of Tampa since our first observation of him and
[49094]on every occasion he is in direct contact with Trafficante and Diecidue. On
[49095]December 31, 1962, he purchased a new automobile in Tampa, paying the dealer
[49097]3,025.95 in cash, He then registered the car under the name of Jane Campbell.
[49098]He remained in Tampa several days and was in constant contact with Trafficante
[49100]and Diecidue.
[49102]On January 4, 1963, Coticchia was arrested in Tampa on suspicion of grand
[49103]larceny and at the time of his arrest he had $1,775 in cash on his person. He
[49104]had papers on him that showed he had resided previously at the Aloha Motel in
[49105]Miami under the name Luiz Paulino Bailey from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
[49106]also had a paper with a list of gambling equipment and the name “Empress
[49107]Lines, Ltd., Nassau—via Wappen Vou Hamburg—German boat loading pier
[49108]No. 3." . .
[49110]An investigation revealed this equipment had been shipped airfreight from
[49111]Tas Vegas to Nassau and placed ina German vessel, the Wappen Von Hamburg,
[49112]which sails between Nassau and Miami, This equipment included 50 one-arm
[49113]bandits, or slot machines, and was valued in excess of $65,000.. The information
[49114]received was that this vessel was to travel between Miami and Nassau a3 @
[49115]floating gambling casino. :
[49117]After Cotiechia’s arrest in Tampa, the telephone calls were checked at the
[49118]motel. It showed that he had made several calls to Trafficante, Diecidue, and
[49119]other associates of Trafficante. Ie had also made a long-distance call to Sonny’s
[49120]Restaurant in Miami Beach, which is owned by Thomas Altamura, FBI No.
[49121]511563, 1 Mafia member and another associate of Santo Trafficante, Jr.
[49123]{ would like to submit for the record Coticchia’s FBI record, and a photograph
[49124]of him taken by my department when he was arrested in Tampa on January
[49125]4, 1963.
[49127]Another example of the Trafficante group’s connections with Mafia figures in
[49129]other parts of the Nation is: John Joseph Vitale, FBI No. 793259, of St. Lonis,
[49130]Mo. Vitale is well known to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, and
[49131]is reputed to be the Matia leader in that area. ile has a record of 13 arrests
[49132]and a conviction for violating the Harrison Narcotics Act for which he received
[49133]a sentence of 7 years’ imprisonment. He has been arrested as a fence and is
[49134]believed to deal in anything in which there is a large percentage of profit.
[49135]_ Police authorities consider him among the most dangerous of Mafia principals
[49136]jn the St, Louis area, and he is known to have underworld counections through-
[49137]out the country. He appeared twice before the Senate Rackets Committee
[49138](August 19, 1958, and February 11, 1950) and each tiine refused to answer any
[49139]questions, invoking the fifth amendment.
[49141]On April 17, 1963, Vitale flew from St. Louls to Tampa, using the name “Jack
[49142]Howard.” He visited the Diecidues for 4 hours and then flew back to St. Louls
[49144]ORGA
[49146]using the sam
[49147]there, he was
[49148]traveled to T.
[49149]Mo., to the Die
[49151]To me it d
[49153]between two |
[49155]Significantly,
[49157]doubts that ln
[49159]These two
[49160]connections of
[49161]the Mafia grou,
[49163]Mr. O’Do:
[49165]Mr. Brow
[49166]gave sworn
[49168]1953 concerr
[49170]long been en
[49172]to testify or
[49173]been grantec
[49174]those who te
[49176]Nick Seaglio
[49178]Mr. O'Dox
[49179]you have intr.
[49180]Mr. Brow?
[49181]Mr. O’Dox
[49182]Mr. Brown
[49183]cal Mafia tech
[49184]prises by the «
[49185]This incident
[49186]deeply involv
[49187]major interest
[49189]The case w:
[49190]officer, Detect’
[49191]the operation
[49192]racket of consi
[49193]based upon inf
[49194]lottery.
[49196]An attempt
[49197]operation of ¢]
[49198]suits of clothi
[49199]with the full
[49200]had immediate
[49202]As a result «
[49203]were arrested.
[49205]The Cram
[49207]Mr. Brown.
[49209]The Cuamar
[49210]he is the boss?
[49212]Mr. Brown.
[49214]_Each feceiver
[49215]vietion was late
[49216]term and was
[49217]indicted by the
[49219]We know of
[49220]by Santo Trafic
[49222]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[49224]Page 666
[49226]N NARCOTICS
[49228]nrier for them between
[49230]i, Ohio. When he was
[49231]4 "“industrial financier.
[49232]rof a company offering
[49233]Suund Systems, fc.
[49234]ain 1936 in Ohio for
[49235]vestigation of a “shake-
[49236]irges, He was arrested
[49237]~eteased with the under-
[49239]rged with assault with
[49240]1 to 15 years, of which
[49241]din 1942 in Los Angeles,
[49242][le was tried in Baiti-
[49243]iy the U.S. marshals
[49244]securities and Exchange
[49245]4 District Court of New
[49246]1963, when he was ar-
[49247]‘Ile was released due to
[49249]: in Las Vegas, Nev., and
[49250]4) in Which mobsters at-
[49252]-t observation of him and
[49253]‘oante and Diecidue. On
[49254]rampa, payiag the dealer
[49255]- naine of Jane Campbell,
[49256]t contact with Trafficante
[49258]pa on suspicion of grand
[49259]. cash on his person. He
[49260]‘sty at the Aloha Motel in
[49261]» de Janeiro, Brazil. Tle
[49263]nnd the name “Empress
[49264]verman boat loading pler
[49266]4) shipped airfreight from
[49267]he Wappen Von Hamburg.
[49268]ment ineluded 50 one-arn
[49269]365,000. The information
[49270]. Miami and Nassau as @
[49272]enlls were checked at the
[49273]Trafficante, Diecidue, and
[49274]mg-distance call to Sonny 3
[49275]jomas Altamura, FBI No.
[49276]sTraficante, Jr.
[49278]‘record. and a photograph
[49279]ted in Tampa on January
[49281]i ith Mafia figures in
[49282]AL No. 793259, of St, Lonis,
[49283]‘an Police Department, and
[49284]-hias a record of 13 arrests
[49285]x Act for which he received
[49287]atrested as a fence and is.
[49289]e entage of profit. |
[49291]operons of Mafia principals
[49292]“world connections through-
[49293]Senate Rackets Committee
[49294]time refused to answer any
[49296]“Jack
[49297]‘ a, using the name Jac
[49298](then flew back to St, Louls
[49300], the Mafia group on a nutioual-basis,
[49302]ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC LN NARCOTICS 527
[49304]using the same alias. We alerted the St, Louis police and upon Vitale’s arrival
[49305]there, he was interviewed by detectives of that city. He declared that he liad
[49307]traveled to Tampa to settle a debt of the Lombardo Produce Co., of St. Louis,
[49308]Mo. to the Diecidue Bros. of ‘Tampa.
[49310]To me it does not seem probable that Vitale would go to the expense and
[49311]trouble of flying to Tampa and returning the same day in order to settle a debt
[49312]between two produce companies with which he has no known connections. More
[49313]significantly, his use of an alias to run this errand, too, points out his own
[49314]doubts that he was engaged in a legitimate errand. ,
[49316]These two examples, Coticchia’s and Vitale’s, indicate to us the interstate
[49317]‘connections of the ‘Traflicante organization, aud point up the need for attacking
[49319]Mr. O'Donneny, All right, we will continue,
[49321]Mr. Brown. Some of ‘Traflicante’s men shown here on our chart
[49322]gave sworn testimony before the Hillsborough County solicitor in
[49323]1953 concerning gambling in Tampa. They admitted that they had
[49324]long been engaged in illegal gambling activities. Lhey were forced
[49325]to testify or face jail tevims for contempt of court, because they had
[49326]been granted immunity from prosecution for such erimes. Among
[49327]those who testified were Frank Diecidue, Augustine Primo Lazzara,
[49328]Nick Scaglione, Henry Traflicante, and James C, Longo.
[49330]Mr. O'Donnewn. Are any of these individuals on the chart that
[49331]you have introduced as exhibit 2?
[49333]Mr. Brown. Yes, they are all on the chart.
[49335]Mr. O’Downenn. Thank you.
[49337]Mr, Brown. Santo Traflicante has himself been caught wp in.a typi-
[49338]cal Mafia technique of seeking to preserve and protect-its illegal enter-
[49339]prises by the corruption of law enforcement snd other public officials,
[49340]This incident substantiated our intelligence that ‘Tratlieante was
[49341]deeply involved in gambling operations, und it showed that he liad
[49342]major interests in gambling outside the city of Tampa.
[49344]The case was initiated in 1954 by a veteran St. Petersburg police
[49345]oflicer, Detective Sgt. Harry Dietrich, who had obtained evidence of me
[49346]the operation of ‘the ‘Traflicante bolita ring. Bolita is a numbers _
[49347]racket of considerable importance in Florida, involving weekly payoffs J
[49348]based upon information taken from radio reports of the weekly Cuban
[49349]lottery.
[49351]An attempt was made to bribe Sergeant Dietrich to ignore the
[49352]operation of the ring. He was given a new car, a television set, some
[49353]suits of clothing, and cash. Sergeant Dietrich accepted the bribes
[49354]with the full knowledge and orders of_his superiors, to whom he
[49355]had immediately reported the dit attenipt.
[49357]As a result of his work, & “ and his brother Ilenr
[49358]were arrested. Both were ch ribery and were convicted.
[49360]The Crairmanx. Whengtt
[49362]Mr. Brown, :
[49364]The Citaimman.
[49365]he is the boss?
[49367]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[49369]E eceived a pris
[49371]ars. Santo Trafficante’s con-
[49372]viction was Ta Loic st. His brother served his
[49373]term and was recently released. Both brothers were ‘subsequently |
[49374]indicted by the Federal Government for tax law violations,
[49376]We know of no legitimate businesses that are owned or controlled
[49377]by Santo Traflicante. Io owns no real estate, nor any other property,
[49379]i
[49381]i o_o
[49383]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 667
[49385]HY 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 663
[49387]528 ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS
[49389]real or personal, TGs_house, automobile lis thor possessions
[49390]are held in the namesololiers, Plowever, we do not believe him to be
[49391]destitute, for his'co Ttinbling in the central Florida area alone
[49392]must net him huge amounts of money. Ilis operations there show,
[49394]also, a characteristic Matia method of utilizing non-Sicilian associates -
[49396]where it serves its crininal objectives.
[49398]Sergeant Branch, who has for the past 7 years been investigating
[49399]gambling and other organized criminal activities in the Orlando area,
[49400]Will describe the Matia’s control, through the Uarlan Blackburn
[49402]“organization, of lottery operations in central Florida, We know of
[49403]no legitimate businesses (hat are owned.
[49405]The Chatman. Sergeant Branch is here with you?
[49407]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[49409]On the lower right-hand side of our chart we have depicted that
[49410]group of Traflicante associates,
[49412]Sergeant Branch will here testify about the Blackburn group.
[49414]The Crtairasctan. Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you are
[49415]about to give hefore this subcommittee will be the truth, the whole
[49416]erath, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
[49418]Mr. Brawci. I do.
[49420]TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM BRANCH
[49422]Tho Caramstan. Will you identify yourself for the record?
[49424]Mr. Brancu. I ania sergeant with the Orlando Police Department
[49425]attached to the intelligence division, aud I have been with them since
[49426]1951. L have been working in this type of work since 1956, with the
[49427]cooperation of the Federal and State agencies in our area.
[49429]The Crraimman, Do you havea prepared statement?
[49431]Mr. Brancnu. Yes, sir, I clo.
[49433]Tho Crraman. It appears to be four or five pages. Do you wish
[49434]to read it? ; ‘
[49436]Mr. Branou. Yes, sir.
[49438]Tn the central Florida avea the main gambling activity is known as
[49439]bolita or Cuba.” Bgbituds.a, numbers lottegy where the winning num-
[49440]ber is drawn daily. Cuba isa numbers lottery where the winning
[49441]number is drawn weekly... Bettors can place bets on any number from
[49442]1 to 100 and receive a 60-to-1 return if they win. The Cuba winning
[49443]number is the last two digits from the Cuban national lottery number
[49444]which is five digits and is broadeast over a Havana radio station each
[49445]Saturday shortly after 2 p.m.
[49447]The public is contacted by “peddlers” or “sellers,” who receive.a com-
[49448]mission of 15 percent of their sales. “Pickup” men, who take the bets
[49449]“from the sellers to the “checkup houses,” receive 20 percent of what
[49450]they collect. Imployees such as checkup men, adding machine opera-
[49451]tors, and supervisors above this position usually receive salaries for
[49452]their duties.
[49454]Lottery operations in central Florida prior to 1948 were dominated
[49455]first by Charlie Wall of Tampa and then by Sam Warren, an Orlando
[49456]native. In that year Harlan Blackburn, FBI No. 1026922, a con-
[49458]victed felon, came into Orlando and began taking over bolita and
[49460]Cuba gambling.
[49461]This man ison the chart also.
[49463]ducting the lottery.
[49465]Te ar ee ett ee
[49467]ORGANIZEL
[49469]Blackburn was
[49470]he was convicted
[49471]Served 414 years
[49472]the Florida State
[49473]March 1956 for oj
[49474]a 5-year prison sei
[49476]Senator Musxn
[49478]Mr. Brancu. ¥
[49480]Senator Mosxrr
[49482]Mr. Brancu. N
[49484]Senator Musxur
[49486]Mr. Brancu, H
[49487]yes, sir.
[49488]The Cuarrman.
[49489]Mr. Brancu, Ni
[49490]He was then ine
[49491]conviction of cons
[49492]was most recently
[49493]Federal wageri
[49494]trial, sems
[49496]Florida ga mbling.
[49497]F. Lee, Cecil Merri
[49498]Don Mach, Dan Fr
[49499]and Clifford Bell;.
[49500]Rifle; Clyde F. Le
[49501]Macon Tribue, Jul
[49502]shaw;, Cecil Merrit
[49503]Selombn; and Rah
[49504]and Elvin Carroll.
[49505]With the excepti
[49506]ul of these persons
[49507]other crimes,
[49508]Ihave here copies
[49509]committee’s record,
[49510]The Crramman. °
[49511]reference only.
[49512](The documents 1
[49513]erence and may he fi
[49514]Mr. Brancrt. The
[49515]operation fora numl
[49516]of gross and net col
[49517]have secured from «
[49518]from witnesses tha
[49519]gambling. -
[49520]Senator Mrsxre,
[49521]Mr. Brancu. I hr
[49522]The lottery operat
[49523]County into all of .
[49524]Georgia.
[49525]From 1948 until t}
[49526]that Santo Traffican:
[49527]visiting Orlando anc
[49530]‘:AFFIC IN NARCOTICS
[49532]: 1 rete ynt . s
[49533]and all his other possessions
[49534]slieve his
[49536]re do not beli in
[49538]‘eeentral Florida aves alone
[49540]“THis operations there show,
[49543]investigating
[49545]ars been mvestig
[49547]os the Orlando area,
[49549]1 Blackburn
[49551]We know of -
[49553]7 years
[49555]tivities in
[49556]wh the Tharlat
[49557]atral Florida.
[49559]ve with you!
[49561]chart we have depicted that
[49563]Blackburn group.
[49564]ae the testimony you are
[49565]will be the truth, the wh
[49569]TAM BRANCH
[49571]di
[49575]elf for the rec - .
[49576]Orlando Police Department
[49577]a I have been with them 5
[49578]10 of work since 1956, wl
[49579]‘sneles in our area.
[49584]ar or five pages. Do you w
[49586]1. gambling activity is known as
[49587]“atte where the winning nu
[49588]aoe Dttery where the Nap e
[49590]ee i oTrhe Cuba winning
[49592]Cuban national lottery mum ber
[49593]ver a Havana radio stati
[49595]* or “sellers,” who receive 2 come
[49596]‘Pickup” men, who take the
[49599]up men,
[49600]‘ion usuall
[49602]i Ine opera-
[49603]adding machine op ro.
[49604]y receive salaries
[49606]la prior to 1948 were dominated
[49608]} en
[49609]enti yar i088922, con
[49611]' . . >
[49612]4 began taking over bolita
[49614]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[49616]] other crimes.
[49618]ve 20 percent of what :
[49620]an Orlando 4
[49622]ORGANIZED CRIME, AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS 529.
[49624]Blackburn was born in Sand Lake, Fla. on April 13,1919. In 1935,
[49625]he was convicted of forging a U.S, Government check, for which he
[49626]served 4% years in prison. In 1943, he was sentenced to 9 years in
[49627]the Florida State prison for cattle theft, He was again arrested in
[49629]March 1956 for operating a lottery in Polk County, Fla., and received
[49630]a 5-year prison Sentence, but was released in 1959,
[49631]enator Musiin, Did you say Mr. Blackburn was on the chart?
[49633]Mr. Brancrt. Yes, sir. He is listed in the lower right-hand corner,
[49635]Senator Musxie, It is not on this chart?
[49637]Mr. Branen, No, sir; noton that one.
[49639]Senator Musxrr, Blackburn is not a member of the M.
[49641]Mr. Branen. He is a subordinate that works under t]
[49642]yes, sir.
[49644]The Cuatmatan. Is he the same as Sam Warren 2
[49646]Mr. Branon. No, sir; heisnot. Sam Warren is dead,
[49648]He was then incarcerated for 60 days in Polk County for an earlier
[49649]conviction of conspiracy to violate the lottery laws of Florida. He
[49650]was Most recently arrested on N ovember 5, 1962, for failure to buy a
[49651]Federal wagering tax stamp. He is presently out on bail awaiting
[49652]trial.
[49654]Blackburn supervises the five lottery bankers who control central
[49655]Florida gambling. These bankers are Rudy Mach. Joe Wheeler, Clyde
[49656]F. Lee, Cecil Merritt, and.Ralph Strawder. . Mach has in his operation
[49657]Don Mach, Dan Fussell, Buddy Parron, Glen Brechen, Tommy Berry,
[49658]and Clifford Bell ; Joe Wheeler has Max Reid, Mary Carden, and Phil
[49659]Riffe; Clyde F. Lee has Jesse Toyner, Vasco Joyner, Mathew Smith,
[49660]Macon Tribue, Julia Ciphon, Hoy Anderson, and Katherine Brad-
[49661]shaw}; Cecil Merritt has Clayton Thomas, Sonny Brown, and George
[49663]olomon; and Relph Steawder has Benny White, Willian Harrell,
[49664]and Elvin Carroll, .
[49666]With the exception of Carden, Riffe, Harrell, Whi
[49668]allof these persons have criminal records and
[49670]afia, as such?
[49671]heir direction ;
[49673]te, and Ciphon,
[49674]arrests for gambling and
[49676]Thave here copies of their FBI records and submit them for the sub-
[49677]committee’s record, .
[49679]he Curarraran, They may be received in bulk as exhibit No. 47 for
[49680]reference only. ;
[49681]- (The documents re ferred to were marked “Exhibit No. 47 for ref-
[49682]trence and may be found jn the files of the subcommittee. )
[49684]Mr, Brawnetr. These five exceptions have been connected with this
[49685]operation for a number of years, however, and their names and amounts
[49686]a gross and net collections Appear in much of the evidence that we
[49687]have secured from checkup houses. We have also sworn testimony
[49689]m witnesses that these persons have been engaged in illegal
[49691]q @nbling.
[49693]Senator Musxte, What is the size of their take?
[49695]Mr. Branon. T have that further along in my statement, sir,
[49697]The lottery operation of the Blackburn group extends from Orange
[49699]‘ounty into all of central Florida and into the southern State of
[49700]rela.
[49702]“From 1948 until the latter part of 1953, our department established
[49703]mst Santo Trafficante, Jr., and his brother, Henry, personally were
[49705]faiting Orlando and supervising the checkup houses that were con-
[49706]ing the lottery. , ' ; ne OTE
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[49715]It has also been obvious to us that the Trafficante organization has
[49716]controlled the Blackburn operation for at Jeast the last 10 years.
[49717]Fyrom our examination of seized records, and from the fact that in
[49718]all raids on the checkup houses we have arrested persons having
[49719]close family ties with the Traflicante organization who were acting
[49720]as auditors for his interests. In addition, there has been heavy tele-
[49721]phone toll traffic between the Traficantes in Tampa and the Blackburn
[49722]group in Orlando.
[49724]When Blackburn was arrested in 1953, a memorandum was found
[49725]containing telephone numbers of Augustine Primo Lazzara, Salva-
[49726]tore J. Lorenzo, J. M. Caccintore—uncle of Santo Trafficante, Je —and
[49727]Santo Traficante, Jr., and of the Nebraska and Flamingo Bars, both
[49728]owned by the Trafficante family.
[49730]Tn 1987 a search of a gambling house in Orange County by a State
[49731]officer, with the assistance of the Orlando Policé, resulted in the
[49732]arrest of several persons. One of these was Lorenzo and another per-
[49733]son by the name of Leto, from Tampa. They beth gave sworn state-
[49734]ments at that time to the county solicitor that they were working for
[49735]Santo Trafficante, Jr.
[49737]In November 1961, another raid was conducted by agents of the
[49738]Internal Revenue Service in conjunction with the Orlando Police
[49739]Department on a house in Orange County. There were six persons
[49740]arrested, and among those were ‘Armando. Rios and Sam Cacciatore.
[49741]These two were cousins of Santo Traflicante, Jr.
[49743]Tn July 1963, a raid on a gambling house in Sanford, Fla., by the
[49744]TRS agents, with the assistance of the Orlando Police Department,
[49745]established that it was another operation of Harlan Blackburn’s,
[49746]supervised by Clyde Lee. Inthe records seized there was the phone
[49747]number of ‘Traflicante’s cousin, John Favata Cacciatore, and the
[49748]phone number of the printing establishment employing Stefano
[49749]Seaglione, who is also on the chart.
[49751]During the past 12 years that we know of at least three murders
[49752]that have been due to fights for control of lottery operations in the
[49753]Orlando area. ;
[49755]The fantastic amount of moncy taken in by these lottery operations
[49756]has been repeatedly established by our raids of these gambling houses.
[49757]Yor example, the raid in 1957 in Orange County, where Frank Ferreri
[49758]and Sam Lorenzo were arrested, disclosed that the house was doing
[49759]a gross business of $100,000 per weelk.
[49761]Senator Musnie. What were they paying out?
[49763]Mr. Branoir. The profit on this operation runs about 50 percent.
[49765]The November 1961 raid in Orange County where Armando Rios
[49766]and Sam Cacciatore, cousins of Santo Traflicante, were arrested re-
[49767]vealed that operation was doing a conservatively estimated gross of
[49768]$160,000 per weekk.
[49770]The Ciaran. With the same ratio of half applying there?
[49772]Mr. Brancn. Yes, sir.
[49774]Senator Musxir. When you say “net profit,” this means after
[49775]deductions of the commission which totaled 35 percent?
[49777]Mr. Brancit. Yes, sir. ‘
[49779]Senator Musure. And the prizes.
[49781]Mr. Brancir. Yes, sir. ;
[49783]The commission and also the prizes and what other operating ex
[49784]penses they may have such as automobiles, rent, telephone bills.
[49786]a
[49787]ETN te
[49789]Page 670
[49791]ORGA:
[49793]The latesi
[49794]$250,000 per
[49795]From thos
[49796]The Cuan
[49797]Mr. Bray
[49798]Orlando, 'T
[49799]and auditors
[49800]From thes
[49801]heavily into
[49802]revenues are
[49803]nized crime.
[49804]Any addit
[49805]further restr
[49806]stantial blow
[49807]Senator M
[49808]was it dishon
[49809]Mr. Branc
[49810]. They don’t
[49811]They stop at
[49812]The Crrarr:
[49813]Mr. Brancr
[49814]The Ciram
[49815]cannot eet his
[49816]we. Brancr
[49817]lank you
[49818]The Cran
[49819]be afraid to p
[49820]All right, C
[49821]Stand by, Si
[49822]Mr. Brancnu
[49824]TI
[49826]_ Mr. Browy,
[49827]18 1s necessary
[49828]dates from the
[49829]1937 and 1945,
[49830]Inon all egal
[49831]city was referre
[49832]Senator Mus
[49833]papers?
[49834]Mr. Brown.
[49835]puting the I
[49836]rackets to any &
[49837]M. Wall, starte
[49838]the illegal gam
[49839]Florida. He st:
[49840]admitted to a EH
[49841]ing from illegal
[49842]by entering intc
[49843]_ The elder Tra
[49844]in 1904 and beca
[49845]cf the missing
[49846]Tampa. He die
[49847]arrest for Santo |
[49848]In 1952, Wall
[49850]< NARCOTICS
[49852]ie organization has
[49853]the last 10 years.
[49854]mm the fact that. in
[49855]ed persons having
[49856]+n who were acting
[49857].1s been heavy tele-
[49858]-and the Blackburn
[49860]wandum was found
[49861]no Lazzara, Salva-
[49862]“raffieante, Jr.—and
[49863]‘lamingo Bars, both
[49864]y
[49866]» County by a State
[49867]ice, resulted in the
[49868]zo and another per-
[49869]‘h gave sworn state-
[49870]‘-y were working for
[49872]“1 by agents of the
[49873]the Orlando Police
[49874]ve were six. persons
[49875]ind Sam Cacciatore.
[49877]‘anford, Fla., by the
[49878]Police Department,
[49879]Harlan Blackburn’s,
[49880]there was the phone
[49881]Cacciatore, and the
[49882]employing Stefano
[49884]Jeast. three murders ~
[49886]‘ry operations in the
[49888]se lottery operations
[49889]wse gambling houses.
[49890]where Frank Ferrert
[49891]the house was doing
[49893]ms about 50 percent.
[49894]chere Armando Rios
[49895]te, were arrested re-
[49896]‘y estimated gross of
[49898]ipplying there? .
[49900]-” this means after
[49903]-t other operating ex-’
[49905]. telephone bills.
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[49911]The latest raid, in
[49912]$250,000 per week.
[49914]Irom those figures
[49916]The Cuarraan, Where was that raid?
[49918]Mr. Brancu. That was in Sanford, Fla., just 17 miles north of
[49919]Orlando. These figures are established by the Internal Revenue agents
[49920]and auditors. - ;
[49922]From these figures, it is easy to see why the Mafia has moved so
[49923]heavily into lottery gambling in central Florida and why gambling
[49924]revenues are universally acknowledged to be the “lifeblood” of orga-
[49927]Any additional legislation that this subcommittee can promote to
[49928]further restrict and inhibit gambling will, in our opinion, be a sub-
[49929]stantial blow to organized crime,
[49931]Senator Musxts. Did they actually pay off on those lotteries or
[49932]was it dishonest in that respect, too?
[49934]Mr. Brancu. Usually they pay off.
[49936]They don’t pay off when we pull a raid on them or arrest them.
[49937]They stop at that. But they are in operation the next weels.
[49939]The Crramman. You mean they do not pay off for that day?
[49941]Mr. Brancrt. No, sir; they don’t.
[49943]The Cratr«an. It is unfortunate for the fellow that won, who
[49944]cannot get his winnings,
[49946]Mr. Branci. Yes, sir,
[49948]Thank you, sir. ;
[49950]The Cuairman. If the law enforcement is pretty vigilant, I would
[49951]be afraid to place a bet under those circumstances.
[49953]All right, Chief, if you will, you may proceed.
[49955]Stand by, Sergeant, as we may want to ask you some questions.
[49957]July of this year, indicated a gross revenue of
[49959]Mr. Branci. Yes, sir.
[49961]TESTIMONY OF NEIL G. BROWN—Resumed
[49963]Mr. Brown. To understand the crime network Traflicante operates
[49964]it is necessary to examine the modern era of crime in Tampa, which
[49965]cates from the early 1920's. Its most violent episodes were between
[49966]1937 and 1945, when the Sicilian nnderworld was attempting to move
[49967]inon all illegal gambling in Tampa. ‘This period in the history of our
[49968]city was referred to as “the era of blood,”
[49970]; Senator Musxi. Who coined that phrase, the gang or the news-
[49973]Mr. Brown. I think it was the newspapers, Senator. ;
[49975]During the 1920's, before the Sicilian underworld moved into the
[49976]rackets to any great extent, one of our most notorious residents, Charles
[49977]M. Wall, started his rise to become the acknowledged boss of most of
[49978]the illegal gambling in the Tampa and central area of the State of
[49979]Movida. He styled himself “dean of the underworld,” and in 1953 he
[49980]admitted to a Hillsborough County solicitor that he had made his liv-
[49981]ing from illegal gambling. During 1945, Wall forfeited his leadership
[49982]by entering into a partnership with Santo Traflicante, Sr,
[49984]Ip The elder Trafficante was born in Sicily in 1886. He came to Tampa
[49985]ye 1904 and became a naturalized citizen in 1925, In 1950, he was one
[49986]fi the missing witnesses in the Kefauver crime hearings held in
[49987]Tampa. Te died on August 11,1954. Police records do not show any
[49988]arrest for Santo Trafficante, Sr. ;
[49990]Tn 1952, Wall declared that he was retiring, although he did not
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[49999]state what he was retiring from. Th , Wall's body was
[50000]found in his home. Ile had been brutdty-berfen and his throat had
[50001]been slashed. We have never discovered who the murderers were, hor
[50002]have we determined their motive. Perhaps Wall was murdered be-
[50003]cause the killers leammed he had admitted that he was Trafficante’s
[50004]yartner in illegal gambling, and that he disclosed confidential facts
[50005]about the Mafia. ; ;
[50007]Tn 1960, Sergeant de la Llana_ obtained—from a confidential sou
[50008]of known reliability—-an astounding report. about the Mafia and its op-
[50009]eration in Tampa. ‘The report had becn obtained from Charles Wall
[50010]in 1945, approximately 6 months after Traflicante, Senior, had made
[50011]himself a partner in Walls’ gambling enterprises. ;
[50013]Wall declared that from 1920 through 1945 he controlled gambling
[50014]in Tampa and in the Florida counties of ILillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco,
[50015]Hernando, Polk, and Orange. His rival for control of the gambling
[50016]rackets was-the local Mafia organization. ‘This was headed, he said,
[50017]by Santo Traffieante, Sr., the Diecidue brothers, James Lumia, Ignacio
[50018]Antinori and Salvatore [taliano, Antinori was murdered on October
[50019]92, 1940; Lumia was murdered on June 5, 1950; and Italiano fled to
[50020]Mexico in 1951.
[50022]Wall admitted that he had good reasons for going along with Trafi-
[50023]cante, Senior, in 1945; previously the Mafia group had made three at-
[50024]tempts on his life; the first was in 1937 as Wall was leaving a bank on
[50025]the main street in Tampa; the second try oecurred as Wall was leaving
[50026]the garage behind his house; the third, in 1940, happened a few blocks
[50027]from his house. Inthe third attempt, a truck passed the automobile in
[50029]which Wall was riding and then stopped abruptly in front of the car.
[50030]James DeSimone and Nicola Impostato, FBI No. 2716692, each armed
[50031]with a shotgun, stepped from the trnck and fired at Wall and his
[50032]chauffeur. Both escaped with slight injuries. DeSimone and Impo-
[50033]stato were known Mafia killers from Kansas City, Mo. They were
[50034]staying with the Antinori family at the time.
[50036]The Crarrstan, Is Wall still living?
[50038]Mr. Brown. No, sir; he was killed.
[50040]The Cuamaan. Later killed?
[50042]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;
[50044]The Cyramman. These three attempts failed but later he was killed?
[50046]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir, ;
[50048]Wall declared that the Mafia tried to make the public believe that
[50049]the organization no longer existed in this country and that Mafia mem-
[50050]bers pointed to the end of terrorism among Italian groups as evidence
[50052]that the Mafia was gone from the underworld scene. Wall believed,
[50053]however, that the organization had merely changed its type of opera-
[50054]tion. Ele said that other. racketeers had once used the Mafia to
[50055]monopolize rackets in major American cities. They had educated the
[50057]Mafia so well in the process that the Sicilians had taken over the rackets
[50059]themselves. Wall stated that the Mafia learned to consider extortion
[50061]from Italian businessmen a “nickel-and-dime” business. They had
[50062]discovered that public oflicials could be corrupted by bribery and that
[50063]they could organize to take over the major rackets in the United States.
[50065]Wall declared that the Mafia was not dying out, but “was bigger
[50066]and better than ever.” He said that his partner, the elder Traflicante,
[50067]had told him that there were some 10,000 active Mafia members in
[50068]the United States. Wall stated that the Mafia leader'in Tampa was
[50070]Page 672
[50072]ORGANIZ
[50074]Santo Traftiers
[50075]of the organiz:
[50076]tries of the woi
[50077]in the United $
[50079]a sizable Sicili
[50080]hy Joseph Prot
[50081]ef the major k
[50082]Frank Costelle
[50083]members of t]
[50084]Luciano were fe
[50085]_ According toe
[50087]tinct groups, ar
[50089]was that only
[50090]while Amerie
[50092]Wall was told
[50094]“outer” to “inn
[50096]even though he
[50098]were not due to:
[50099]ean birth, but |
[50100]of the proceeds «
[50101]to keep the me
[50103]_ Senator Mus
[50105]inner circle, Chie
[50107]_ Mr. Brown, «
[50109]circle,
[50111]* Below that——
[50112]Senator Musk
[50113]Mr. Brown. I
[50115]be in the inner ci
[50116]The Cuairua:
[50117]the Tampa area i:
[50119]Mr. Brown. T
[50120]The Cnatrwa:
[50121]Mr. Brown. N
[50122]The Cnairseaz
[50124]organization is ser
[50126]Mr. Brown. ‘Tl
[50128]_ The Crramman
[50129]it, but who was VV
[50131]Mr. Brown, T
[50133]The Cuatraran,
[50135](At this point §
[50137]Mr. Brown, W
[50139]from 1930 throug’
[50140]ano, James Lum
[50141]Thomas, and Fra
[50142]leadership of Tra{
[50143]Wall that Vincen
[50144]Diecidues but that
[50145]had Joseph Profac
[50147]Senator Muskie
[50149]Mr. Brown. Yes
[50150]Senator Musni
[50151]any point in this h
[50153]Stee ae
[50155]IN NARCOTICS
[50157]455, Wall's body was
[50158]on and his throat ha
[50160]vo murderers were, Nor
[50161]“all was murdered be-
[50162]ithe was Trafficante s
[50163]osed confidential facts
[50165]na confidentia’ source
[50166]atthe Mafia and its op-
[50167]sed from Charles Wall
[50168]ite, Senior, liad made
[50170]ie controlled gambling
[50171]rough, Pinellas, Pasco,
[50172]ontrol of the gambling
[50173]ix was headed, he said,
[50175]James Linnia, Ignacio
[50176]‘s murdered on October
[50177]30; and Italiano fled to
[50179]ooing along with Trafli-
[50180]oup had made three at-
[50181]‘| was leaving a bank on
[50182]red as Wall was leaving
[50183]1, happened a few blocks
[50184]passed the automobile in
[50185]iptly in front of the car,
[50186]No, 2716692, each armed
[50187]fired at Wall and his
[50188]_ DeSimone and Impo-
[50189]3 City, Mo. They were
[50191]d but later he was killed!
[50193]ce yublic believe that
[50194]ce te that Mafia mene
[50195]‘rallan groups as evide
[50196]ane Wall believed,
[50197]hanged its type of opera-
[50198]once used the Mafia to
[50199]_ hey had educated the
[50200]had taken over the rackets
[50201]-ned to consider extortion
[50202]ne” business. They had
[50203]apted by bribery and that
[50204]wkets in the United States.
[50205]ving out, but “was bigger
[50206]‘ner, the elder Trafficante,
[50207]. active Mafia members in
[50209]afia leader in Tampa was"
[50211]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630
[50213]ORGANIZED CRIMB AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS 533
[50215]Santo Traflicante, Sv.. and that he was well informed on the activities
[50216]of the organization in the United States, in Sicily, and in other coun-
[50217]tries of the world. Tratlicante had told him, Wall said, that the Mafia
[50218]in the United States was directed by a local board in every city having
[50219]a sizable Sicilian population. ‘There was a national board, headed
[50220]by Joseph Prataci m New York City, which was composed of the heads
[50221]ot the major local boards. Traflieante is reported to have said that
[50222]Frank Costello, Vineent Mangano, and Joe Massie were influential
[50223]members of the national bourd, and that Frank Nitti and Lucky |
[50224]Luciano were former merbers,
[50226]According to Wall’s aceount, the Mafia was composed of two dis-
[50227]tinet groups, an “inner circle” and an “outer circle.” The general rule
[50228]was that only natives of Sicily were admitfed to the “inner circle,”
[50229]while American-born Italians were recruited into the “outer circle.”
[50230]Wall was told it was possible for a member to be transferred from
[50231]“outer™ to “inner” status when he performed an act of special merit,
[50232]even though he had been born in the United States. The restrictions
[50233]were not due to lack of trust by native Italians toward those of Ameri-
[50234]can birth, but because the “inner circle” usnally took the major part
[50235]of the proceeds of the Mafia’s illegal activities and, therefore, preferred
[50236]to keep the membership of the “inner circle” as small as possible.
[50238]Senator Musxie, Would you say that this chart represents the
[50239]inner circle, Chief?
[50241]Mr. Brown. At the very top portion, Senator, would be the inner
[50242]circle, .
[50244]Below that
[50246]Senator Musxim. By the “top portion,” do you mean
[50248]Mr. Brown. I wonld include in that that’ the three top men would
[50249]bein the inner circle and those below that would be in the outer circle.
[50251]The Ciairman. Those would only be in the inner circle so far ag
[50252]the Tampa area is concerned ?
[50254]Mr. Brown. That is right. -
[50255]The Crainwan, Not in the inner circle overall?
[50256]Mr. Brown. No, sir; this is just in the inner circle inthe Tampa area.
[50258]The Caiman. But that gives an indication of how the overall
[50259]organization is set up.
[50261]Mr. Brown. That is correct’
[50263]The Cuamaan. You may have it in here, but I may have missed
[50264]it, but who was Wall talking to when he gave all this information?
[50266]Mr. Brown. That was a confidential iiformant.
[50268]The Ciatrman. Isee. Very well.
[50270](At this point Senator Javits entered the hearing room.)
[50272]Mr. Brown. Wall believed the influential Mafia members in Tampa
[50273]from 1930 through 1945 were: Santo 'Trafficante, Sr., Salvatore Thali.
[50274]ano, James Lumia, and the Diecidue family—Al fonso, Antonio,
[50275]Thomas, and Frank, ‘Che Diecidues and their in-laws opposed the
[50276]leadership of Trafficante in the Tampa organization. Trafficante told
[50277]Wall that Vincent. Mangano, of the national board, supported the
[50278]Diecidues but that he, Trafticante, was able to stay in power because he
[50279]had Joseph Profaci’s friendship.
[50281]Senator Musxim. May Laska question here?
[50283]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;
[50285]Senator Musxin. You refer to the national board. I do not recall
[50286]any point in this hearing where there was this kind of a direct refer-
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[50293]534 ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS
[50295]ence fo a national organization in the Mafia. Was it referred to as
[50296]such ?
[50298]_ Mx. Brown. This is the information as Wall has reported that it
[50299]consisted of a national board. ;
[50301]‘Senator Musxir. Do you know who he identified as members of the
[50302]national board ?
[50304]Mr. Brown. Well, Joe Profaci and Vincent Mangano were two of
[50305]the members of the national board. -
[50307]The Cuatrman. They are shown to be leaders of families, both of
[50308]them.
[50310]Senator Musxtr. But those same people are leaders of families in
[50311]New York as testified by Valachi.
[50313]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. .
[50315]The Cuainman. So it is your impression that the heads of the New
[50316]York families made up a national board that had jurisdiction over
[50317]Tampa, among other places? :
[50319]Mr. Brown. That is correct; yes, sir.
[50321]Wall declared that there were approximately 40 members of the
[50322]Mafia living in the Tampa area and he believed that Trafficante's
[50323]share of proceeds of their gambling operation was being divided with
[50324]other menibers of the Mafia. ;
[50326]Information in our files from another confidential source confirms
[50327]Wall’s statement. In addition it reveals that Antonio Diecidue made
[50328]annual trips to Miami for the purpose of renting a house for Vincent
[50329]Mangano, who came down from New York every year to spend 2 or 3
[50330]months in Miami. This source stated that many important members
[50331]of the Mafia visited Mangano in Florida, but that Traflicante never
[50332]appeared.
[50334]Senator Musxir. May I ask another question on the national board?
[50335]Was it your impression that the national board members shared in
[50336]the proceeds of the criminal activities in Tampa? :
[50338]Me. Brown. Yes, sir; they hada percentage.
[50340]Senator Muskie. Have you any idea what that percentage was?
[50342]Mr. Brown. No,sir; [have no idea.
[50344]The gray shadings on our chart depict the influence of each of
[50345]these men. To me, it appears to be no small coincidence that in
[50346]Tampa the Diecidue family lost stature from at least the early 1950's
[50347]when Vincent Mangano disappeared; nor that Trafficante, Jr., the
[50348]Profaci man, avas in the immediate vicinity, when Albert Anastasia
[50349]was nurdered in 1957. ;
[50351]Sergeant de la Liana’s intelligence unit has prepared summaries of
[50352]the men in Trafficante’s organization, along with a commentary of
[50353]relevant facts about each of them. So that our information may be
[50354]available not only to the subcommittee, but to all-police units to whom
[50355]your reports are so valuable, I wish to submit these summaries and
[50356]commentary for the record, as our exhibit 8a through t; and exhibit 4.
[50358]The Cramwan. The summary to which you have referred may be
[50359]received as exhibit 48—— ;
[50361]Mr. O’Donwewn. Chief, as I understand it, these are summations,
[50362]very brief summations, of the 19 individuals that are on the chart
[50363]insofar as their criminal activity, their mode of business, their crim-
[50364]inal history, et- cetera; is that correct?
[50366]Mr. Brown. That is correct.
[50368]The Cirairstan. It may be received as exhibit No, 48.
[50370]Page 674
[50372]as a
[50374]ORGAN)
[50376](The docun
[50377]and may be fi
[50378]_ The Cuam
[50379]Is it?
[50380]_ Mr. O’Dow:
[50381]little detail as
[50382]4, whieh will bi
[50383]Ae Crrairm
[50384]te summar
[50385]That is what
[50386]Mr. Browy,
[50388]exhibit 4, your
[50389]Mr. Brows.
[50390]he Cras,
[50391]Mr. Brown,
[50392]The Citatrs:
[50393]Exhibit 48 js
[50394]Mr. Brown, °
[50395]The Crramags
[50396]on the chart ?
[50397]Mr. Brown, *
[50398]he Cuarara
[50399]Mr. Brown. .3
[50400]he Crramara:
[50401]The documen
[50402]and may be foun
[50403]he Crratnaraz
[50404]You may proc
[50405]Mr. Browy, €
[50406]task to obtain ev
[50407]members, because
[50408]ways been reluct
[50409]their fear of Mafi
[50410]that the Mafia dc
[50411]the relative infre
[50412]successfully prose
[50413]__ We have eatee:
[50414]1928 to the presei
[50415]circumstances of
[50416]uses murder to dis
[50417]fators of its code a
[50418]activities and goa]
[50419]solved, A ratio ‘
[50420]ticular murder wa
[50421]argument, althouc
[50422]the argument. Tt
[50423]though the killer a
[50424]In startling cont
[50425]an examination
[50426]1962 shows that a
[50427]unsolved, a solutic
[50428]through 1962, all &
[50430]24-366-—63—pt, 2
[50432]N NARCOTICS
[50434]‘ag it referred to as
[50435]has reported that it
[50436]_«las members of the
[50437]angano were two of
[50438]of families, both of
[50439]aders of families in
[50441]ae heads of the New
[50442]ad jurisdiction over
[50444]40 members of the
[50445]wil that Traflicante’s
[50446]s being divided with
[50448]“tial source confirms
[50450]n house for Vincent
[50452]year to spend 2 or 3°
[50454]important members
[50455]vut Trafficante never
[50457]the national board?
[50459]‘ members shared in
[50460]2 .
[50462]percentage was?
[50464]influence of each of
[50465]coincidence that in
[50466]least. the early 1950's
[50467]Trafficante, Jr., the
[50468]wn Albert Anastasia
[50470]=pared summaries of
[50471]ch a commentary of
[50472]information may be
[50473]police units to whom
[50474]hese summaries and
[50475]ugh ty and exhibit 4.
[50476]vive referred may be
[50478]se are summations,
[50480]hat are on the chart
[50481]‘ fusiness, their crim-
[50483]yo. 48.
[50485]a
[50487]ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS 535
[50489](The documents referred to marked “Exhibit No. 48” for reference,
[50490]and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)
[50491]_T he Cuainman. You make reference to another exhibit. What
[50492]is it? .
[50494]Mr. O'Downenv. Will you explain the other exhibit? Go into a
[50495]little detail as to the various murders that you have on your exhibit
[50496]4, which will be a different exhibit in our hearings.
[50498]The Crairaan. Let the Chair get this straight first.
[50500]The summary that he referred to has been made exhibit 48,
[50502]That is what you referred to as “our exhibit 32°72
[50504]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;
[50506]The Coarrman. Then you say “through t; and exhibit 4.” What is
[50507]exhibit 4, your exhibit 47 _
[50509]Mr. Brown. Exhibit 4 is a brief summation on each of the subjects.
[50511]The Cramman. What is your exhibit 3?
[50513]Mr. Brown. They are arrest records of each of the individuals,
[50515]The Citarraan. Very well. ;
[50517]Exhibit 48 is the arrest records.
[50519]-Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50521]The Ciratraan. Your exhibit 4 is a brief summary of each person
[50522]on the chart?
[50524]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir. ;
[50526]The Crrarrstan. It is of his records and activities?
[50528]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50530]The Crrainaan. Lt may be received as exhibit No. 49 for reference.
[50532](The document referred to marked “Exhibit No. 49” for reference,
[50533]and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)
[50535]The Ciratraan. Now the record is straight.
[50537]You may proceed.
[50539]Mr. Brown. Our department has always found it a most dificult
[50540]task to obtain evidence sullicient for successful prosecution of Malia
[50541]menihers, because the witnesses who might offer such evidence have al-
[50542]ways been reluctant to do so. The paramount reason, of course, is
[50543]their fear of Malia reprisals, since it is common knowledge in Tampa
[50544]that the Mafia does not hesitate to use murder for such reprisals and
[50545]the relative infrequency with which such professional murders are
[50547]successfully prosecuted.
[50549]We have categorized certain homicides in the Tampa area, from
[50550]1928 to the present, as “gangland slayings.” An examination of the
[50551]circumstances of some of these murders emphasizes how the Mafia
[50552]uses murder to discipline its membership, to revenge itself against vio-
[50554]“lators of its code and to otherwise eliminate opposition to its criminal
[50555]activities and goals. Of the 23 homicides on the list, only 1 has been
[50556]solved. A ratio of less than 5 percent. of solution—and that par-
[50557]ticular murder was cleared up because it apparently resulted from an
[50558]argument, although it is possible that the slayer deliberately provoked
[50559]the argument. It was not, therefore, a typical gangland slaying, al-
[50560]though the killer and the victim were both underworld figures.
[50562]In startling contrast to the number of unsolved gangland slayings,
[50563]an examination of all other Tampa homicides from 1938 through
[50564]1962 shows that we have had 145 murders and that only 4 are presently
[50565]unsolved, a solution ratio of better than 97 percent. From 1960
[50566]through 1962, all $3 homicides in our city were solved.
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[50577]The Citatratan. What period is covered by the 23 gangland slayings
[50578]that you make reference to? ,
[50580]Mr. Brown. From 1928 through the present day.
[50582]‘The Cuamman. Ina period of about 30 years.
[50584]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50586]The Cramrman. And you identify them as gangland slayings as
[50587]distinguished ‘from the usnal homicide cases that you have?
[50589]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50591]The Crairman. On those, according te your testimony, it has been
[50592]impossible—or you have been unsuccessful, at least, in solving any
[50593]of them except the one that appeared so obvious, and it would not
[50594]possibly come within the category of “gangland slayings”?
[50596]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50598]The Crairman. But you have included it as being the only one
[50600]that was solved.
[50602]Mr. Brown. That is correct.
[50604]Senator Muskie, What are the characteristics of the gangland slay-
[50605]ings that makes it so difficult to solve them as contrasted with your
[50606]excellent record in other homicides?
[50608]Mr. Brown. Of course, primarily it is heeause of witnesses who are
[50609]reluctant to give the law enforcement any information whatsoever.
[50610]In some of our killings—-I recall one where we had nine witnesses in
[50611]the room and nobedy actually saw the murder or knew anything
[50612]was going on.
[50614]Senator Musnte. So this fact has a direct bearing upon the question
[50616]of immunity statutes, for example. ;
[50618]Mr. Brown. Thatis right. That is correct. .
[50620]The Crratraran. This, in other words, emphasizes the rigid disci-
[50621]‘pline, the code of underworld law, that cannot. be violated without
[50622]suffering the penalty of death.
[50624]Mr. Brown. That is correct.
[50626]- The Cramman. In other words, the nine who were in the room when
[50627]the murder was committed, possibly every one of them knew what
[50628]happened.
[50630]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; I would think so. .
[50632]The Cramsan. I would doubt that somebody did not know it.
[50633]But, anyway, they know that the penalty for them talking would be
[50634]death.
[50636]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir.
[50638]The Crrarratan. Even if they were inclined to, and I do not mean
[50639]to say they were inclined to, even if one of them were inclined to
[50641]talk, he knows what the penalty would be. And that makes it
[50642]difficult. That is why you have the trouble in the gangland slayings,
[50643]the silence, the threat, the intimidation of a death sentence, of their
[50644]being executed by their underworld government if they talk.
[50646]Mr. Brown. That is true.
[50648]Senator Musxie. Then, Chief, just to nail that point down, they
[50649]seem to be more than concerned and clearly are more concerned for
[50650]themselves and for their allies than they are about immunity against
[50651]prosecution.
[50653]Mr. Brown. Yes, sir; that. is true. They are afraid for their lives.
[50654]The Cuatrman. Very well. You may proceed.
[50656]Page 676
[50658]ORC
[50660]Mr. Bre
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[50726]IN NARCOTICS
[50727]-23 gangland slayings
[50729]‘y.
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[50733]testimony, it has been
[50735]least, in solving any
[50736]us, and it would not
[50737]i slayings”?
[50739]: being the only one -
[50741]of the gangland slay-
[50742]contrasted with your
[50744]~of witnesses who are
[50745]ormation whatsoever.
[50746]lind nine witnesses in
[50747]+ or knew anything
[50749]‘ing upon the question
[50751]izes the rigid disci-
[50752]: be violated without
[50754]vere in the room when
[50755]of them knew what
[50757]«ly did not know it.
[50758]om talking would be
[50760]a, and T do not mean
[50761]‘em were inclined to
[50762]And that. makes it
[50763]io gangland slayings,
[50764]ith sentence, of their
[50765]t if they talk.
[50767]iat’ point down, they
[50768]- more concerned for
[50769]nt immunity against
[50771]afraid for their lives.
[50773]wtngland slayings as
[50775]ORGANIZED CRIME AND ILLICIT TRAFFIC IN NARCOTICS 537.
[50777]Mr. Brown. I have had these gangland slayings listed, with a few
[50778]pertinent comments about each, and submit to the subcommittee this
[50779]list as our exhibit 5.
[50781]The Cnamsman. It may be received and be made exhibit No. 50.
[50783](The document referred to was marked “Exhibit No. 50” for ref-
[50784]erence and may be found in the files of the subcommittee.)
[50786](At this point Senator Javits withdrew from the hearing room.)
[50788]The Cuairman. You may proceed,
[50790]Mr. Brown. With few exceptions, those murders well reflect Joseph
[50791]Valachi’s testimony that Mafia members do live by violence and die
[50792]by violence.
[50794]At least two of the unsolved murders on our Jist—that of Gus Perez
[50795]in 1936 and of Joe “Pelusa” Diaz in 1958—were, in my opinion, di-
[50796]rectly attributable to the Mafia’s knowledge or belief that the victims
[50797]had given to legal authorities evidence incriminating Mafia members.
[50798]A third murder—of Carl Carramusa, in 1945—taking place in Chi-
[50799]cago, involved some Tampa Mafiosi, and is of particular interest in
[50800]illustrating the Mafia zeal for vengeance against 1 member who vio-
[50801]jates its rules. It is of further significance, too, in demonstrating the
[50802]difliculty of protecting witnesses against the Mafia—and is under-
[50803]lining Attorney General Kennedy’s request for additional funds for
[50804]that purpose, which request I strongly endorse.
[50806]The Carramusa case developed in Kansas City, Mo., with certain
[50807]aspects related to the Mafia organization in Tampa. The principal
[50808]figure in the case was Carl Carramusa, known as a minor member of
[50809]the Mafia and a front man for the Mafia’s narcotics traffic operation
[50810]in Kansas City.
[50812]Carramusa was indicted in 1942 for conspiring to violate the Fed-
[50813]eral narcotic laws. His codefendants were Joseph DeLuca, Nicola
[50814]Impastato, Paul Antinori, Joe Antinori, Charles Gerrgimina, Louis
[50815]Ventola, Patsy Ventola, Charles Tiabi, Samuel Pernice, and Fellipo
[50816]Fernice. Tampa’s Mafia organization was one of the sources of sup-
[50818]ly for the Kansas City group, and at that time the narcotics trade
[50819]in Tampa was headed by Paul Antinori and Joseph Antinori, who
[50820]had inherited the narcotics leadership from their father, Ignazio An-
[50821]tinori. The elder Antinori had been murdered a few years before in
[50822]a narcotics deal. All of the defendants in the Kansas City case were
[50823]prosecuted successfully, primarily because Carramusa violated the
[50824]cardinal Matia code of l’omerta, or silence, testifying openly against
[50825]them at their trial. After the trial, Carramusa went into hiding in
[50826]Chicago with his wife and family, changing his name and beginning
[50827]a new life under new circumstances,
[50829]Three years later, in June of 1945, while he was seated in his auto-
[50830]mobile, Carramusa’s head was blown off by a shotgun-blast. James
[50831]Lumia, an associate of the Antinoris, was a suspect in this Inilling,
[50832]but was himself murdered at Tampa in June of 1950. A prime suspect
[50833]was the same Nicola Impastato, who had some years before attempted
[50834]to kill Charles Wall. oa
[50836]In Tampa we have suffered also the frustration I know that many
[50838]-. of my police colleagues in other cities have experienced—the deliberate
[50839]’ recanting at trial of the original statements of complaining or key
[50840]* witnesses, because of their fear of Mafia reprisal, clear instance
[50842]of this frustration of law enforcement effort ‘involved three of the
[50844]~ yanking members of the Tampa Mafia.
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[50853]One day in 1953, one Joe Castellano went to the Ttalian Club in
[50854]Tampa to play cards with a group of friends. During the course
[50855]of the evening, he talked to Salvatore Seaglione privately. Scaglione
[50856]asked Castellano if he wanted to make a profit on a “hot load” of
[50857]whisky. Castellano said he was interested, and they agreed to meet
[50858]later that night.
[50860]At the meeting, Seaglione was accompanied by Joe Mistretta and
[50861]Angelo LoScalzo. Castellano got into the front seat of a car provided
[50862]by the others, and the four men drove to a thickly wooded area outside
[50863]of Tampa city limits. Castellano was then attacked with a hammer,
[50864]being hit repeatedly on the head. He managed to get out of the car,
[50865]although he was badly hurt, He broke loose from his elderly assail-
[50866]ants and ran away. ITe stumbled into a nearby house and asked to
[50867]be taken to the constable’s house, where he gave a statement about
[50868]the incident, naming the three 2s his assailants. He swore to the
[50869]county solicitor that he had no idea why he was beaten. Scaglione,
[50870]‘Mistretta, and LoScalzo were arrested and charged with assault with
[50872]intent to murder.
[50874]Joe Castellano disappeared for a period of time, After he was
[50875]found, the case went to trial. Castellano changed his story completely
[50876]and testified that he had injured himeelf while hunting on the night
[50877]of the attack. ‘The predictable result, of course, was a verdict for the
[50878]defendants of “not guilty.”
[50880]RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FURTHER FEDERAL LEGISLATION TO FIGHT
[50881]ORGANIZED CRIME
[50883]T believe firmly that it is almost impossible for the Police Depart-
[50884]ment of the City of Tampa, or any other municipality, to cope ef-
[50885]fectively with the activities of a national or international crime
[50886]syndicate such as these hearings show exists in the United States.
[50887]One of the main problems is that the most dedicated, well-trained,
[50888]and well-staffed police force is almost always limited legally and
[50889]financially to the territorial boundaries of its municipality. For
[50890]example, the Tampa Police’ Department is obviously interested in
[50891]and informed about the activities of Santo Traflicante. However, in
[50892]the past the department was unable to do anything about Trafficante’s
[50893]operations in pre-Castro Cuba; it has no jurisdiction or control of
[50894]his illegal affairs in Miami and elsewhere in central Florida. The
[50895]department could only record that he attended the Apalachin meeting
[50896]in November of 1957, but it could do nothing about this obvious evi-
[50897]dence that he was a high-ranking member of a national crime
[50898]syndicate.
[50900]Tn the light of our experience with the Mafia in our own city’s
[50901]underworld, I submit for this subcommittee’s consideration some sug-
[50902]gestions for Federal legislation which I believe would certainly help
[50903]local law enforcement agencies to fight organized crime more
[50904]effectively.
[50906]1. More ample funds must be obtained by local agencies to recruit
[50907]high caliber police personnel and to retain superior personnel having
[50908]the experience and capabilities to understand, investigate, and prose-
[50909]cute organized criminal conspiracies. Because of the demonstrated
[50910]interstate nature of organized crime, Federal legislation similar to
[50912]Page 673
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[50973]he Crramman
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[50976]The Miami Herald
[50978]September 19, 1976
[50980]Could Rosselli Have Linked:
[50981]Castro Plot to JFK Death?
[50983]By RON LaBRECQUE
[50985] Heraid Staff Writer
[50987]In 1960, when the CIA was try-
[50989]‘ing to set up a delicate attempt on
[50990]_the life of Fidel Castro, it turned to
[50992]a man once described as “‘the big-
[50994]“gest flag-waving SOB in the coun-
[50996]‘try’ — West Coast
[50998]underworld
[51000]‘figure Johnny Rosselli.
[51004]Rosselli — a seemingly improba-
[51006]-ble conspirator in a government
[51007]“plot — got the “flag-waving” label
[51008].from Salvatore (Momo) Giancdna,
[51009]‘then Chicago's top crime boss and
[51011]a man Rosselli brought into that
[51013]" ‘same plot..
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[51017]Now both are dead, murdered in
[51018]the past year, and investigators are
[51019]wondering whether their plotting
[51020]led to their deaths and whether the
[51021]CIA plots against Castro —— only
[51022]recently made public and even kept
[51023]from the Warren Commission’ —
[51025]are vital clues to the John F. Ken-
[51027]nedy assassination.
[51029]The deaths of Giancana, in June’
[51031]of 1975, and Rosselli, this summer,
[51032]have aroused a renewed concern in
[51033]Washington, where on Friday the
[51035]House of Representives voted to ree:
[51037]open the investigation of the Ken-
[51038]nedy murder. .
[51040]REP. THOMAS N. Downing (D.,
[51042]Va.), who will be chairman of the,
[51044]panel, said he is “convinced” a con-
[51045]spiracy was involved in Kennedy’ s"
[51046]death.
[51048]Now, in the aftermath of thesvi-;
[51049]olent deaths of Giancana and Ros-'
[51050]selli, the question arises ‘of what
[51051]role, if any, the Kennedy White
[51052]House played in the early 1960s.
[51053]“deal” the CIA made with the two
[51054]underworld figures to have Castro
[51055]murdered.
[51057]Whether “the Kennedy 7 White’
[51058]House knew ‘about about the. CIA’s |
[51059]plotting (Robert F. Kennedy found -
[51060]out after the contacts were ended), °
[51061]the CIA’s use of the underworld
[51063]Page 675
[51067]‘seems ironic in retrospect.
[51069]t! Robert Kennedy’s passionate ef-
[51070]forts to disable organized crime are
[51071]well documented.
[51073]IN 1960 when ‘Robert Kennedy
[51074]wrote about what he had learned
[51075]of organized crime in America
[51076]from his years as chief counsel te
[51077]the Senate Rackets Committee, he
[51079]-too quoted Giancana to make a
[51081]point.
[51083]He told about Giancana's inter-
[51084]view at his local draft board at the
[51085]outbreak of World War II, when
[51086]he was asked what he did for a live
[51088]a
[51089]: oy steal,” Giancana is Said -to
[51090]have replied.
[51092]+ So Sam Giancana didn’t go to
[51093],war and years later would boast to
[51094]‘Chicago reporter Sandy Smith that:
[51095]the stayed out of the Army — la-
[51096]‘beled unfit — by telling the truth.
[51098]i; “What’s wrong with the syndi-
[51099]‘cate?” Kennedy, quoted Giancana.
[51100]“Two or three of us get together
[51101]‘on a business deal and everybody
[51102]{Says it’s a bad thing. Businessmen
[51104]‘do it all the time- and nobody -
[51108]A Senate committee began stu-..
[51110]dying the Kennedy questions more:
[51112]‘than a year ago as it looked at co-
[51114]tvert CIA activities. _
[51116]: IN AN addendum to the Senate
[51117]‘Intelligence Committee's interim
[51118]treport last November, Sen. Howard
[51119]‘Baker (R., Tenn.) said, “It is my
[51120]tpersonal view that on balance the
[51121]likelihood that presidents (the re-
[51122]‘port dealt with Dwight Eisenhower
[51123]and Kennedy) knew of the (Castro)
[51124]assassination plots is greater than
[51125]the likelihood that they did not.”
[51126]dust to trace Rosseili’s history
[51127]with the CIA is mind-boggling for
[51128]the investightors. Yet, it is just one
[51129]aspect of the search for his killer.
[51130]: Johnny Rosselli —- born on the
[51131]‘fourth of July in Esperia, Italy, and
[51132]71 when he died — was not first
[51133]‘and foremost a CIA operative.
[51135]*® His greater role as evidenced by
[51136]two convictions, his associations
[51137]‘and to some extent his own com-
[51138]ments, was as an influential, ‘if
[51139]publicly lesser known, organized
[51140]grime figure. .
[51142]r: HIS ASSOCIATION with other
[51143]Ydentified underworid members
[51144]was monitored by law enforcement
[51145]agencies as recently as several
[51146]weeks before ‘his July 28 disap-
[51147]Pearance. ;
[51149]‘By all accounts, Rosselli was a-
[51150]‘charming man, dressing in expen-.
[51151]sive clothes, married for.only two *
[51152]fyears ‘in the early 1940s and -
[51153]iknown most of his life as one who
[51154]ieasify attracted women.
[51156]' He. wag an immigrant who told”
[51157]tin a short autobiography written.
[51159]tabout 1967 that his “life of crime” <
[51161]began as a teenager in Boston, at-
[51162]jlempting arson for his stepfather
[51163]pand: stealing $50 on his own. As he:
[51164]traveled west, finally to settle in.
[51165]Cantornia his ‘attention turned to
[51166](bootlegging, gambling and dab-
[51167]pling in the movie business. -
[51169]IT IS said that Rosselli guarded
[51170]ithe West Coast gambling interests
[51172]: for Giancana's Chicago syndicate.
[51174]Why Rosselli was chosen by the
[51175](CIA for a Castro plot in 1960 is un-
[51176]clear, although CIA officials have
[51177]‘since testified that they wanted the
[51178]kind of contacts in Cuba which or-
[51179]‘ganized crime had made during the |
[51180];pre- -Castro days when Havana was
[51181]‘a. gamblers’ haven.
[51183]‘Giancana was enlisted by Rossel-
[51184]ti because he had influence with -
[51185]Florida's Santo Trafficante, consid-
[51186]ered the key underworld gambling
[51187]figure in Havana. - :
[51189]. The unraveling of CIA and un-~<
[51190]derworld conspiracies, an awesome -
[51192]“web spanning decades, is left to a -
[51194]team of nine in the Metro Homicide
[51195]Division. It is a team now clearly
[51196]consumed by the task which has
[51198]been a’ full-time operation since .
[51200]Rosselli’s body was pulled from _
[51201]Dumfoundling Bay on. Aug. 7.
[51203]H
[51205]' THAT THE Metro team is even
[51206]involved is happenstance. Ragsselli .
[51207]‘lived in Plantation, Broward:Coun- «,
[51208]ty, with his sister and brother-in- —
[51209]law. It’s just that his killers chose.
[51211]to dump his body in Dade.
[51213]While. several detectives say
[51214]their instincts lead them to con- .
[51215]clude that the Rosselli murder was :
[51216]ah internal underworld affair, all-:
[51217]on the team are aware of the pres~ _
[51218]sure.on them to search each clue ~
[51219]that leads back to the CIA-Castro-
[51220]affair. .
[51222]With: Rosselli’s ‘death this sum-
[51223]mer, the newly appointed Senate
[51224]committee saw its list of knowl- -
[51225]‘edgeable witnesses further trim-
[51226]med..Some of those witnesses have
[51227]. died violently and some from natu-
[51228]ral causes.
[51230]‘’ When Giancana was murdered in
[51231]June of 1975, before he could even
[51232]be questioned by the committee
[51233]staff, authorities attributed it to an
[51234]internal gangland struggle — even
[51235]though. the. murderer is still un-
[51236]known.
[51238]~The death of Rosselli, who had -
[51239]appeared before the committee
[51240]_three times in the past year with-
[51241]out immunity, caused greater con-
[51243]: <ern on Capitol Hill.
[51245]THE SAME night Rosselli's body
[51246]was identified ~- the legs hacked
[51247]off and stuffed along with the body
[51248]‘into an oil drum -~ Baker, vice
[51249]chairman of the Senate Intelligence
[51250]‘Committee, called for the FBI to
[51251]‘get involved in the case. (Several
[51252]days later, Attorney General Ed-
[51253]- ward Levi ordered FBI involve~
[51254]ment.)
[51255]"It wasn’t until several weefs
[51256]later, however, that what was
[51257]known to Baker. became public
[51258]_ knowledge.
[51260]A section of the former commit-
[51261]tee’s April report told of a Wash-
[51262]ington attorney who in 1967. went.
[51263]to Supreme Court Chief. Justice..
[51264]Earl Warren (chairman: of the#
[51265]then-disbanded Warren: Commis- ;
[51266]sion) to.say that two‘of his clients
[51267]believed they knew ‘about Cubap.
[51268]‘agents in the United States w
[51269]_ conspired in the assassination. of |
[51271]ohn F. Kennedy, "ore se
[51273]THE INFORMATION: eventually
[51275]'- reached the FBI, but as the Senate,
[51277]committee concluded this year, the
[51279]: 1967 FBI probe was slipshod and
[51280]incomplete.
[51282]One of the clients referred ‘to ing
[51283]~ the report has since been identified’;
[51284]“as Rosselli. And it has since’ been”
[51285]learned that Rosselli was con-
[51286]_vinced he held a vital clue to the
[51287]JFK murder.
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[51291]“There was never the slightest.
[51292]doubt in John's mind that Castro
[51293]was responsibie for the assassina--
[51294]tion of Kennedy,” said Edward P.
[51295]Morgan, the attorney referred to in
[51296]the report.
[51298]Morgan is an attorney of no
[51300]mean stature in Washington. He -
[51301]“served as chief counsel to the joint.
[51303]congressional ' committee © which
[51304]studied the Pearl Harbor attack,
[51305]counsel to the Senate Foreign Rela-
[51306]tions Committee and for seven
[51307]fer was chief inspector of the
[51309]. ROSSELLI. told Morgan about
[51310]the CIA plot in 1967, when the De--
[51311]- partment of Justice was vigorously
[51312]_ attempting to deport Rosselli. for
[51313]being an illegal alien.
[51315].. Rosselli, Morgan said, “was cer» -
[51316]: tain that the people he (Rosselliy .
[51317]put around Castro in the CIA plot >
[51318]turned right around and killed Ken- .
[51320]nedy. The people he still knew (in
[51321]- 1967) did it.”
[51323]‘Rosselli, according to Morgan, :
[51324]' decided to talk about his CIA activ--:
[51325]ity in hopes of decreasing the Pres~ >
[51326]sure from the FBI and Department .
[51327]of Naturalization and Immigration,.
[51328]both Justice Department agencies.
[51329]. Several. friends of Rosselli, in-*
[51330]‘cluding Morgan, say they aré con- -
[51331]“vinced the FBI tried to get Rosselli
[51332]to become an organized crime. in-°
[51333]formant by threatening to have:-
[51334]him deported : if he ‘didn't coopera:
[51336]- te.
[51337]IN" 1961, through. a_bungled_
[51339]¢ wiretap “effort, the FBf* “became:
[51341]“ aware of Rosseili's CIA activities. ‘!
[51343]‘While Giancana: and Rosselli.
[51344]were in Florida planning the opera--
[51345]tion, Giancana wanted to return to
[51346]Las Vegas to check on-his girl
[51347]friend, Phyllis McGuire, whom he
[51348]suspected’ of dating comedian Dan
[51349]Rowan. To keep Giancana in Flori-
[51350]‘da, it was agreed that a bug would '
[51351]be placed in her hotel room and her.
[51352]conversations monitored.
[51354]But’ the private detective they’;
[51355]hired, with CIA money. it has since :
[51356]been learned, was discovered and —
[51358], arrested. Eventually the police in- .
[51359]vestigation led back to the Castro j j
[51360]"plotters.
[51362]Prosecution was avoided when ;
[51364]the CIA intervened and said the’
[51366]“national interest’ would be -dam-
[51368]. aged if the plot information be-
[51369]” came public.
[51371]"WHEN THE wiretap case was
[51372]again-to be investigated in 1966,
[51374]this time by a Senate committee
[51376]headed by the late Sen. Edward
[51377]Long (D., Mo.), the CIA again step-.
[51378]ped in to stop it.
[51380]_ Robert
[51381]- agent-turned Howard Hughes aide
[51383]Ten,” Morgan said.
[51385]“sure. you so far as the FBI is cone:
[51387]Morgan was told about the pend-
[51388]ing investigation by Rosselli and
[51389]Mahue, a former FBI
[51391]who was the CIA's. initial link to.
[51392]Rosselli. ;
[51393]Mahue told Morgan that both he:
[51394]and Rosselli had been subpenaed to;
[51395]appear before the committee. Mores:
[51397]ton, the CIA general counsel. Hous-
[51398]ton went to Long and the inves'
[51400]- gation was dropped. wf
[51402]. MORGAN SAID he knew, as the:
[51403]Senate committee recently empha-i
[51405]‘sized as well, that all information! -
[51406]-about the CIA plots —- which could?
[51408]have been the incentive for pro-*
[51409]Castro forces to kill Kennedy —:
[51410]had been kept from the Warren:
[51412]‘Commission.
[51414]“I was an admirer of Earl War-.
[51415]“(His) report:
[51416]said that ... Oswald alone killed?
[51417]Kennedy. It kept bugging me after..
[51418]so gruesome a detail from Rosselli-
[51419]that the Chief Justice could put his
[51421]-name on a report. which didn’t as-.
[51423]sess the most’ significant. piece of.
[51424]evidence bearing on the killing: of,
[51425]Kennedy.”
[51427]The information. Morgan had
[51428]was passed to Warren via.colum-
[51429]nist Drew Pearson, a mutual
[51430]friend. Eventually, it reached the.
[51431]FBI, but, remarkably, even after di-'
[51433]Tect orders from President Lyndon
[51435]Johnson in the spring of 1967, ins:
[51436]vestigation was not vigorously pur-*
[51438]_ Sued.
[51440]“THE SENATE ‘Intelligence Com-.
[51442]_mittee compared that apparent. in-:
[51444]action with a statement former FBI.
[51446]‘ director J. Edgar Hoover made to
[51447]. the Warren Commission on-May 5,-;
[51449]1964. Hoover said, “well, I can as-*
[51451]cerned, the case will be continue
[51453]in an open classification for all.
[51455]“time. That is, any information com-:
[51456]. ing to us or any report coming to: -
[51457]: us from any source will be. thor:
[51459]oughly investigated, so. _that we:
[51461]Swill’ be “able “to: ‘prove’ or " disprovel
[51462]’the allegation.”
[51464]A Senate Committee staff mem
[51465]ber commented recently, “what is’
[51467]really happening is that the investi-
[51469]gation which the FBI should have
[51470]done in 1967 — and no one can
[51471]come close to explaining why it
[51472]wasn’t - — is actually being done
[51474]_ how.’ ar
[51476]HART, AS have local investiga-
[51477]tors, has established three possible
[51479]'scenario’s for Rosselli's death: his
[51481]recent organized crime activity, re-
[51482]taliation for his Castro assassina-
[51483]tion efforts or the information he
[51484]held concerning the JFK assassina-
[51487]“Maybe Reosé élli’s-- information
[51488]was the vical nerve a the. Kennedy~
[51489]assassination,” a Senate source, told
[51490]The Herald: - |
[51492]High officials in the Cuban gov: |
[51493]ernment also reportedly feel there »
[51495]' was a’ ‘Cuban factor"sin the JFK!
[51496]death, but they see it as a result of;
[51497]exile politics, according to a recent
[51498]article by Alton Frye, a senior fel-.
[51499]low of the Council Foreign Rela-:
[51500]tions in Washington. .
[51502]_Frye wrote that he visited Ha-
[51503]~vana recently and met with Cuban,
[51504]. Officials including, Deputy Prime:
[51505]' Minister Carlos Rafael Rodriguez.
[51507]“ they volunteer the suspicion
[51509]that the recent murders of Sam Gi-
[51511]ancana and Johnny Rosselli -
[51513]surely have some connection with
[51514]) Cuban exile politics and the ‘Kenne=.
[51516]. dy murder,” Frye wrote. .
[51518]' THERE HAVE been theortes res:
[51520]cently propounded to show why
[51522]both pro and anti-Castro forces .
[51523]’ could have wanted to get. JFK out”
[51524]: Of power in 1963.
[51526]On the one hand, there is the re--i
[51528]~ port of French journalist Jean Dan-
[51532]’* of an offer from.JFK for calmer re-
[51533]. lations. Castro was reportedly
[51535]8 agreeable, The report stated. that
[51537]Daniel,
[51539]who was the bearer to Castro -
[51543]“later was: lunching’ with,"
[51545]Castro when word came that Ken-_
[51547]"nedy had been’ shot. Daniel de-’
[51548]* scribed the Cuban leader as penu-
[51549].inely shocked by the news. —
[51551]It has since been learned that
[51552]probably in the very hour JFK was
[51553]shot, a one- time Castro supporter
[51554]was receiving a poison pen device
[51555]‘from a CIA agent in what was 4
[51556]long-running anti-Castro ‘effort.
[51558]That Cuban agent was code-named:
[51560]AM/LASH, and he has since been
[51561]identified as Rolando Cuebala, now-
[51563]imprisoned in Cuba for his assassi-
[51564]. nation Plotting, 26. | lg
[51566]WHETHER IFK had knowledg
[51568]His closest advisers,” E
[51569]‘ tied before the Senate Committe
[51570]‘all said he had no knowledge o
[51571]-such plots and. would. never. hav
[51572]« approved of them.
[51573]+ The same month Rosselli was
[51574]. passing poison pills to his Cuban
[51575]3 contact at a meeting at. the “Fon-
[51576]® tainebleau, March of 1961, former.
[51577]Florida Sen. George Smathers. a
[51578]friend of Kennedy, said he and
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[51582]Page 641
[51584]Kennedy discussed the ramifica-'
[51586]tions of a Castro assassination.
[51588]Smathers has since said Kennedy
[51589]rejected the idea and that the dis-
[51590]cussion was more of a “brain-pick-
[51591]ing” session, —
[51593]AT LEAST one high- level CIA
[51594]official did testify he believed the
[51595]White House was being briefed on-
[51596]the plots but according to Richard
[51597]Bissell, one of the officials who
[51598]originally decided to use Rosselli, it
[51599]was through the method of “plau-
[51601]‘sible deniability.”
[51603]That, according to the recent
[51604]Senate report, “‘can also lead to the
[51605]use of euphemism and circumlocu-’
[51606]tion, which are designed to allow
[51607]the President and other senior offi-
[51608]cials to deny knowledge of an op-
[51609]eration should it be disclosed.” ,
[51611]Another alleged link between‘
[51612]the White. House and the under-
[51614]‘world plotters, first made public by
[51616]the Senate Committee, has also
[51617]been denied by virtually everyone
[51618]involved. Judith: Campbell Exner,
[51619]the woman who claims to have.
[51620]been friend and lover to both Gian-
[51624]“cana and JFK, introduced to both
[51626]by Frank Sinatra, was not a link in.
[51627]the Castro plotting, those close’ to% i
[51628]both Giancana and. Kennedy have.“
[51630]‘said, ,
[51632]A MAN with access to Kenne-
[51634]dy's closest advisers told The Her- 9
[51636]_ gangsters.
[51637]» phone call
[51638]; House and Exner was made only |
[51640]‘ sion fiasco.
[51642]ald recently, “The- Giancana-Ros-
[51643]selli thing is unrelated to the Exner
[51644]thing..I was there: e JFK knew
[51645]her, but he was naiv, ‘about: those
[51646]kinds of things.
[51648]There is documentation to show
[51649]that om March 22, -1962, Hoover.
[51651]_lunched: privately with Kennedy:
[51652]_and presumably gave him his first .
[51654]information linking Exner with the :
[51655]The final recorded. :
[51656]between the White
[51658]few hours later.
[51660]same unidentified Cuban-to who
[51661]Rosselli i
[51663]in April of 1961, was among
[51664]group of Cuban: exile leaders wh
[51665]met with JFK following the inva
[51667]IT IS known that several of the *
[51668]Cubans - with . whom _ Rosselli
[51669]worked have been identified, but.
[51670]investigators say that not all’ are:
[51672]. known. -
[51674]agents.
[51676]' Bennett Williams;
[51677]’ think he, had more knowledge";
[51679]“« As a condition: to his appear=-j
[51680]. ances ‘before the Senate Committee;
[51682]” in the past, year, it was agreed that2
[51684]Rosselli “would not state the:
[51686]names or confirm. the existence of.
[51688]; those agents:. whom he knewa
[51690]i about,” Rosselli's: attorney” Lesli
[51691]| Scheer said.
[51693]? The: friends and acquaintances °
[51694]- Rosselli who could be contacted by?
[51695]' The Herald all ‘said they never’
[51696]j\neard the names of the Cuban.
[51698]4
[51700]But <a‘ ‘Committee “Source: ‘cau !
[51701]_itioned, “they (Cuban agents) read:
[51702]. the committee’s report, they know
[51703]who’ s being referred to.” ~
[51705]ANOTHER - Rosselli. attorney, . :
[51706]- Tom Wadden, a partner of Edwards
[51707]said, “Yes, It
[51709]than he testified to. |
[51711]Searching Rosselli’s more recent :
[51713]., past. for. enemies also presents’.
[51714]problems, . investigators say.“
[51716]The decline of. John Rosselli ap-i
[51717]‘pears to begin in the late 1960s. In«
[51718]1967, he was convicted'in a card-: _
[51719]cheating scandal at the posh, celeb-*:
[51720]rity-filled Friar’s Club in: Los. An- .
[51721]geles where the influence of Sina-
[51722]tra had made him a member ace:
[51723]cording to investigators.
[51725]Deportation pressures were also
[51726]mounting at this time. He
[51728]ROSSELLI entered prison on the
[51729]conviction in 1970 where he would;
[51731]‘ serve three years of a five-year,
[51733]sentence. ~
[51735]In 197]; he was brought td a.
[51736]federal grand jury in Los Angeles .
[51737]which was probing whether some ;
[51738]_indentified Detroit organized crime .
[51740]‘leaders conspired with the Emprise:
[51741]Corp. — a giant firm with ation
[51742]wide race track and sporting event?
[51743]concessions — to hide financial in-
[51744]terests in. the, Frontier Hotel an’ :
[51745]Vegas.
[51747]Rosselli, too, had, an’ interest in.
[51749]- the Frontier, which opened in 1967..
[51751]He owned the gift shop concession:
[51752]along, with a partner naméd Joe.
[51753]Breen. How Rosselli obtained the.
[51754]concession is unclear, but” Breen
[51756].. said it gave Rosselli an’ income of
[51757]about $60,000.
[51759]ROSSELLI at one time hdd b been:
[51760]a major influence in Las Vegas.
[51761]Several sources sajd that when- the
[51762]owners of the Desert Inn wanted
[51763]Howard Hughes to move out of the
[51764]penthouse — because his special
[51765]needs were costly and -putting
[51767]some. “high. rollers” in, would be
[51768]more profitable —-.it was Rosselli
[51769]-who patched things up. -
[51770]Hughes eventually bought the
[51771]* Desert Inn, as well as the Frontier.
[51772]What Rosselli told the federal
[51773]grand “jury about the Frontier. in.
[51774]1971 is unknown. Rosselli didn’t:
[51775]testify later at the trial at’ which:
[51776]Anthony J. Zerilli and Michael Pol-
[51777].izzi and the. Emprise.Corp., among :
[51778]-others, were convicted.
[51780]ZERILLI and Polizzi are “still in
[51781]jail. In 1973, the House of Repre-
[51782]sentatives - Select’ Committee on
[51783]Crime: probed the influence of or-
[51784]ganized crime in sports — and one
[51785]area they looked at was Emprise.
[51786]_and the Frontier Hotel case. ©
[51787]"At the time of the conviction, the
[51788]federal prosecutor asked that Poliz-
[51789]_zi and Terilli be jailed immediately,
[51790]- because monitored, . wiretapped
[51791]conversations showed that the two
[51792]had talked about “murder, the kill-
[51793]ing of certain individuals.”
[51795]. An intimate associate of Rosselli,
[51796]however, discounts the possibility
[51797]that Rosselli’s grand jury appear-
[51798]ance could have led to his death.
[51799]-“They know Johnny didn’t talk ‘to
[51800]the grand jury,” the associate said.
[51802]JOE BREEN said- Rosselli hadn't
[51803]been to Las Vegas for nine years,
[51804]that “he’s never even seen the gift
[51805]shop.”
[51807]. Since his prison ‘release and
[51808]move to Plantation, Rosselli. wasn’t
[51809]trying to regain power; according
[51810]to his friends. “He had no muscle,”
[51811]said an. associate."I can’t believe
[51812]Rosselli was getting back into’ mob
[51813]stuff.” -
[51815]But at the same time, many of
[51816]the associates were surpised to
[51817]learn about Rosselli’s recent visits
[51818]with alleged organized crime. fig-
[51819]ures on the West Coast.
[51821]_ Several associates speculate that
[51823]: Rosselli wanted to get involved in
[51825]‘casino gambling, preferably in the
[51826]Middle. East,. and was looking for
[51828]. someone with mane «back him.
[51830]ay IMPRESSION. was that he
[51832]was: broke,” Morgan:said. “He told
[51833]me last.year,. ‘I’ min. bad, financial,
[51834]> straits.” S- 2
[51835]Scheer said Rosselli’ s income ine
[51836]cluded about $60,000 from the gift
[51838]’ shop and about $3,500 in social se-
[51839]curity, most of which went for
[51840]back fees to attorneys and for gov-.
[51841]_ernment fines. - . ee
[51843]i
[51845]HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 662
[51847]"One friend said. that’ just. ‘before
[51848]Giancana’s death, Rosselli had ac-
[51850]‘cepted Giancana's. offer of money.
[51852]The friend was to act as.the inter-
[51853]mediary. “Let me figure out what-
[51854]my next (attorney’s) tab. will: be,”
[51855]the friend. quoted Rosselli as say-.
[51856]ing. :
[51858]Rosselli is described. as a man
[51859]with a sense of humor who did lit-"
[51860]tle offending. .
[51862]A California woman: who had
[51863]known Rosselli. for about 40 years:
[51865],told “The Herald, “If you were.
[51866]around him for 30 minutes you'd .
[51868]like him because he would regard
[51869]you as a human being.” :
[51871]“If you had a headache he would
[51873].either get you an aspirin or send
[51875]someone to get one. I said: some--
[51877]. thing significant there — he would
[51879]get it or he would send’ someone —
[51880]he wasn't a pansy, but he wasn’t a
[51882]tough guy either.” '
[51885]PO rc aie a
[51886]| phe ; laghte oe :
[51890]. y @ -
[51891], jm : ON SEA . :
[51892]. Loe . ae 7
[51894]} - Varase | |
[51896]“y LHYOAS _
[51899]“EW 50955 Docld:
[51902]18 § 1510 crimes AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[51904]Note (3
[51905]perjury involving alleged contribution to
[51906]political organization in return for im- exposure varied in certala seetions of the
[51907]airment of _ Securittes and Exchange country. u. Sv. Mitehell, D.C.N-Y¥.1979,
[51908]ommission investigation and judicial 372 F.Supp. 1239, appeal dismissed © 495
[51909]| proceedings were not entitled to cuntinu- F.2@ 1290.
[51910]ance or change of venue on ground that, . .
[51912]§ 1518. Obstruction of State ‘or lucal law enforcement
[51913]. (2) It shall be unlawful for two or more persons to conspire to ob-
[51914]struct the enforcement of the criminal laws of a State or political subdi-
[51915]vision thereof, with the intent to facilitate an illegal gambling business
[51917]Cc
[51919]though pretrial publicity was nationwide,
[51921]Prejudice @
[51922]Relevance of +
[51923]Sentence 4
[51924]Severance it
[51925]Sufficiency a:
[51928]This _sectia
[51930]Section 19
[51931]tion were
[51933]though they
[51935]supervises, directs, or owns all or
[51936]ness,
[51937](>). As used in this section-—
[51938](1) “illegal
[51940]gambling business”
[51942]part of an illegal gambling bust-
[51944]means a gambling business —
[51948]“ (1) one or more of such persons does any act to effect the object ! th by. char’
[51949]of such a conspiracy; : ’ tone, U. f°
[51950]| (2) one or more of such persons is an offictal or employee, elected, . i eesratned
[51951]appointed, or otherwise, of such State or political subdivision; and 1064, 39 L.E:
[51953](3) one or more of such persons conducts, finances, manages, - This sect
[51954]persons to.
[51957]cal suddivis
[51958]cilitata Mle:
[51959]specified ci
[51960]powers grat
[51961]clause, U.S
[51962]infringe on
[51964]which—
[51966](1) is a violation of the law of a State or political subdivi- -- US Cor
[51967]sion in which it is conducted; tally vague
[51969](il) involves five or more persons who conduct, finance, Pas Garr
[51971]mahage, supervise, direct, or own all or part of such business; .: 4, Detinttl
[51973]and _ + Definttle
[51975](il) has been or remains in substantially continuous opera- “| fess wich
[51977]tion for a period in excess of thirty days or has a gross revenue .{ who condy
[51979]of $2,000 in any single day. 4 Bana th
[51981](2) “gambling” includes but is not limited to pool-selling, book- .! GUIRY ta
[51982]making, maintaining slot machines, roulette wheels, or dice tables, ~ eluded in
[51983]and conducting lotterles, policy, bolita or numbers games, or selling Rien, CA
[51984]chances therein. te, ine
[51986](3) “State” means any State of the United States, the District - fondant. os
[51988]of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and any territory --| charging
[51990]or possession of the United States. : on ea:
[51992](¢c) This section shali not apply to any bingo game, lottery, or similar 1955 aud :
[51993]_game of chance conducted by an organization exempt from tax under para-, . ett, CAS
[51994]graph (3) of subsection (c) of section 601 of the Internal Revenue Code to obstru
[51995]of 1954, as amended, if no part of the gross receipts derived from such of Loulst
[51996]activity inures to the benefit of any private shareholder, member, or em- spire to:
[51997]ployee of such organization, except as compensation for actual expenses lows pf
[51998]incurred by him in the conduct of such activity. gambling
[51999](d) Whoever violates this section shall be punished by @ fine of not cone
[52000]more than $20,000 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. grounds
[52001]‘Added Pub.L, 91-452, Title VII, § 802(a), Oct. 15, 1970, 84 Stat. 936. atafe off
[52002]-Beferences in ext. Paragraph (3) of sion of a State or possession, on the same Indictr
[52003]subsection (c} of section 601 of the Inter- subject matter, or to relieve any person of . with cor
[52004]nal Revenue Code of 1954, referred to in any obligation linposed by any law of any of erimi:
[52005]subsec, (c), is classified to section SB0l(c) State or ossession, or political subdivi- | of this
[52006](By of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code of sion of a State or possession.” persons
[52007]1954. : Legisiattve History. Yor legislative his- ment of.
[52008]Congressional Statement of Findings. tory and purpose of Pub.L. 01-452, see subdivis:
[52009]Section §01 of Pub.L. 01-452 provided’ 1979 U.8.Code Cong. and Adm.News, D- tate illes
[52010]that: “The Congress vinds that iegal 4007. ified ctr
[52011]to time
[52012]section +
[52014]gambling involves widespread use of, an .
[52015]hag an effect upon, interstate commerce eee rolt
[52018]Sank dinindpte reice ir Nit famed bet
[52020]and the facilities thereof.” "
[52021]‘Priority of State Laws, Section 811 of Index to Notes dictmen
[52022]Pub.l, 91-452 provided that: “No provi- applicat
[52023]sion of this title fenucting this section Admissibility of evidence 8 Use, i
[52024]and section 1955 of this title, amending Constitutionality 7% spiracy
[52025]section 2516 of this title aud enacting ma- Construction with other laws % nal law
[52026]teclal set out as notes under this section Definitions & section
[52027]and section 1955 of this title} indicates an Discovery and inspection 1c { conspit
[52028]intent on the part of the Congress to oc- Elements of offenao 5 \ inal lay
[52029]eupy the field in which such provisiun op- Evidence 2 thereof,
[52030]erates to the exclusion of the law of a Indictment la . { gambli:
[52031]State or possession, of & political subdivi- Participants in buaivesa 3 . ' guint
[52032]. i onspy
[52033]200 { Law E
[52034]: 5
[52036]4
[52038]|
[52040]Bi,
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[52048]18 § 1505
[52050]CRIMES . Ch. 73
[52052]Historical and Revision Notes
[52054]Roviser’s Note. Based on Title is, U.
[52055]S.C., 1910 ed., § 2t1a CMar. 4, 1909, ¢, 321,
[52056]§ 135a, as added Jan. 13, 1940, ¢. 1, 54 Stat.
[52057]13; June 8, 1945, &. 178, § 2, 59 Stat. 234).
[52059]Word “agency was substituted for
[52060]the words “independent establishinent,
[52061]board,. commission” in two instances to
[52062]climinate any possible ambiguity as to
[52063]scope of section. (See definitive scction 6
[52064]of this title.)
[52066]Minor changes were made in phrase-
[52067]ology. 80th Congress Louse Report N
[52068]304.
[52070]References in Text. The Antitrust
[52071]Civil Process Act, referred to in the text,
[52072]Js classified to chapter 34 of Title 15,
[52073]Commerce and Trade,
[52075]Notes of
[52077]Generally 2
[52079]Evidence 6
[52081]Indictment or fnformation §
[52082]Proceedings within section 3
[52083]Questions for jury 7
[52084]Witness within seetion 4
[52086]Library references
[52088]Obstructing Justice Gs97, 21.
[52089]C58. Obstructing Justice §§ 5, 29.
[52091]1. Constitutionality
[52093]Former section 2414 of this title [new
[52094]this section] providing that whoever “cor-
[52095]Fuptly” endeavors to influcnee, intimidate
[52096]or impede any witness in procecding, ete.
[52097]was not unconstitutional for failure to sct
[52098]Up an ascertainable standard of guilt
[52099]contrary to U.S.C.A.Const. Amends. 5 and
[52100]6& U.S. vy. Rrumfisid, D.C.Lads4), 8 ¥,
[52101]Supp. 696. . .
[52103]2. Generally
[52105]This section covers any activity which
[52106]Would influonce or intimidate witness who
[52107]might be called ta testify and is not
[52108]limited to witness who has been called to
[52109]testify with defendant’y knowledge. U. S.
[52110]v. Batten, D.C.D.C.1964, 296 B.Supp. 492,
[52111]certiorari denied §3 S.Ct, 898, 280 U.S. 912,
[52112]13'L.Ed.2d 799, rchearing denied 83 S.Ct.
[52113]1057, 381 U.S. 990, 14 L.Ed.2d oss.
[52115]3 Proceedings within section
[52117]The submission to the Naturalization
[52118]Service of an application te file a peti-
[52119]tion for naturalization cannot, in a legal
[52121]SABESS
[52123]Peas
[52125]Page 686
[52127]1962 Amondment. Pub.¥. 87-cot sub-
[52128]sUtuted the ecatchline “Obstruction of
[52129]Proceedings before departments, agen.
[52130]cies, and committces” for “Tnfluencing or
[52131]injuring witness before agencies and
[52132]committees” and punished the willful ra.
[52133]moval, concealment, destruction, mutiia-
[52134]tion, alteration or falsification of docue
[52135]ments which were the subject of a de-
[52136]mand under the Antitrust Civil Process
[52137]Act if done with the intent to prevent
[52138]compliance with a elvil investigative de«
[52139]mand,
[52141]Legislative History: For legislative his.
[52142]tory and purpose of Pub.lu. S7-664, sea
[52144]1962 U.S.Code Cong. and Adm.News, p..
[52146]2567,
[52148]Decisions
[52150]sense, have pendency throughout the en-
[52151]tire United States withia meaning of this.
[52152]section ercating a. criminal offense
[52153]against one whe corruptly attempta te
[52154]obstruct or impede the due and proper
[52155]administration of law, under which suck
[52156]a proceeding is had before a department
[52157]or agency of the United States, Taran
[52158]vy. U. 8, C.AMinn.7959, 968 F.2d Sit,
[52160]In prosceution for corruptly ondeuver-
[52161]ing to influenee and impede due ail
[52162]proper administration of law in relativa
[52163]to a naturalization proceeding allegedly
[52164]pending. before Immigration Service,
[52165]based on a false statement allegedir
[52166]made in defendant's application for pare
[52167]don regarding other arrests and cons
[52168]tions against him, naturalization pron
[52169]ececding was not pending in 1952 befnre
[52170]the Service when the defendant mace
[52171]the application for pardon, nor when
[52172]Pardon was obtained by him, so as to
[52173]authorize conviction, where at the time
[52174]of charged offense the Service had no ar-
[52175]plication in its hands, in that it r
[52177]ed the naturalization application as net
[52178]having been entitled to be submitted and
[52179]returned it to defendant, and defeutant
[52181]subsequently gubmitted a new app
[52182]tion in 1955 having no relation to what
[52183]was done in 1951. 1d.
[52185]“Proceeding” within this section ia-
[52186]cludes any investigation whieh is dirceted
[52187]by formal order of Securities and Ex-
[52188]change Commission and at which desiz-
[52189]nated officer takes testimony under cath.
[52190]U. S. v. Batten, D.C.0.C.1964, 296 F.Supp.
[52191]402, certiorari dented 85 S.Ct. S98 oo
[52192]US. 912, 13 Ed. 2d 799, reheariag deni
[52193]&3 S.Ct. 1557, 881 U.S. 030, 14 V.ed.2d oN.
[52195]996
[52197]Ch. 73
[52199]4. Witne
[52201]One wh
[52202]able wit
[52203]and who
[52204]ness” the
[52205]defendant
[52206]when anc
[52207]proseeutlhe
[52209]false and
[52210]ate Comn
[52211]&.
[52213]3. Indiets
[52215]Indictnic
[52216]lawfully,
[52217]corruptly
[52219]struct and
[52220]cise of po
[52221]cifie acts,
[52222]and partic:
[52223]from Senat
[52224]jon invole
[52225]sonable re}
[52227]concealing
[52228]momorands
[52229]which bore
[52230]matter of i
[52231]liclently el
[52232]section dea
[52234]inittees, UU.
[52235]IST F.Supp.
[52237]Indictmen
[52238]fawfaliy, wi
[52240]corruptly e
[52241]and impede
[52242]power of ing,
[52243]particularly
[52244]Wally destro
[52245]Senate Seleet
[52246]voice or reco
[52247]lation te sub,
[52248]ale Seleet Co
[52249]withholding
[52250]containing 1
[52251]reasonable r
[52252]inquiry, and
[52253]lismissed, o1
[52256]refusal toe ar
[52257]Select Commi
[52259]Indictment
[52260]lawfully, will
[52261]ruptly influer
[52262]corruptly one
[52263]and impede
[52265]jsion Notes
[52267]Amendment. Pub.tu. 87-664 say.
[52268]d the ecatehline “Obstruction : o¢
[52269]lings before departments,, asen.
[52270]nd committees” for “Influencing ag |
[52271]g witness before agencies gag
[52272]‘Aittess” and punished the willful ne -
[52273]al, concealment, destruction, mutity.
[52274]yalteration oF falsification of doege..
[52275]s which were the subject of a de
[52276]@ under the Antitrust Civil Process
[52277]jit dune with the intent te preveng
[52278]gitance with a civil investigative Je
[52279]2. Lyne
[52284]i
[52286]j
[52287]t
[52288]i
[52289]a
[52290]t
[52292]e
[52294], ay
[52295]iistative History: For legislative his
[52296]and purpose of Pub.L. 87-U04, ane
[52297]US.Code Cong. and Adm.News, -pe
[52301]1 OA yee ere
[52303]have pendeney throughout the ons
[52304][United States within meaning of this
[52305]jon ereating 4 Criminal offense
[52306]‘ast ane who corruptly atlempta to
[52307]yuet or impede the due and proper
[52308]Anistration of Jaw, under which suck ;
[52309]Soroeding is had before a department ,
[52310]isency af the Tnited States, Tura.
[52311]2 SB. C.A.Minn.1939, 266 P.2d 56h
[52315]i prosecution for corruptly endeavor~
[52316]gto influence and impede due and
[52317]der adivinistration of law in relatioa
[52318]t naturalization proeecding allesedly
[52319]Ting before Iminigsation Service.
[52320]flo on a false statement allegedly
[52321]2 iu defendant’s application for pare
[52322]4 Pegarding other arrests and convice
[52323]: ust hin, naturalization proe
[52325]© was not pending in 1051 hefore-
[52326]rice When the defendant made
[52327]application for pardon, nor whet.
[52329]ve conviction, where at the tie,
[52330]guurged offense the Services had no aR°
[52331]‘&uloa in its hands, in that it regards”
[52332]she naturalization application: as avs~
[52334]luently submitted a new applcar:
[52335], in 1995 having no relation to what,
[52336]dune in 1951, Id. a
[52337]veeeding’ within this sectiom ites
[52338]iy Investigation whieh is directed:
[52339]mal order of Securities and Ex--
[52340]@ Commission and at which
[52341]oficer takea testimony underoath.
[52342]y. atten, D.C. D.C.190, 226 P.Supe-
[52343]} certiorarl denied 85 S.Ct. Sis.
[52344]£12, 13 TNd.2d 799, rehearing denied
[52345]“t 1557, 381 US. 930, HL. Race 3
[52347]HY 50955 Docid
[52349]ch. 73
[52350]Witness within section .
[52351]ep whom defendant knew was prob-
[52352]witness before Senate Comunittce
[52353]Wo iutended to testify was a wite
[52354]though not under subpoena when
[52355]ant gave him false story to tell
[52356]1and if he testified, for purposes of
[52357]ntions for subernation of perjury
[52358]/y vorroptly influencing witness to give
[52359]ind perjurions information to Sen-
[52360]ommittee investigators, Stein ¥. U.
[52361]- CACALIG 337 F.2d i, certiorari
[52362]tod $3 S.Ct. $50, 280 U.S. 907, 19 Tnd.
[52364]Intietiment or information
[52366]tient charging that defendant un-
[52367]s,afully, wilfully, and knowlngly did
[52368]aptly influence, obstruct and impede
[52369]} corruptly endeavor to ‘influence, ob-
[52370]and impede due and proper exer
[52371]vt power of inquiry by certain spe-
[52372]cine nets, particularly altering, defacing
[52373]partially destroying and withholding
[52374]enate Select Committce certain un-
[52375]invoice or record, which hore rea-
[52376]we relation to subject matter of in-
[52377]ty of Senate Select Committee, and
[52378]‘aling and withholding envelope and
[52379]orandum containing union's records,
[52380]ich bore reasonable relation te subject
[52381]or of inquiry, and relevant toe it, suf-
[52383]on dealing with influcncing or in-
[52385]turing witness before agencies and com-
[52386]‘ees. U. S. ¥. Presser, D.C.Ohio 1920,
[52388]hy F.Supp, Gs.
[52390]Indictment charging that defendant un-
[52391]tosfully, wilfully and knowingly did cor-
[52392]ruptly influence, obstruct and impede and
[52393]uptly endeavor to iufluence, obstruct”
[52394]wel impede due and proper exercise of
[52395]over of inguiry by certain specific acts,
[52396]riicularly altezing, defacing and par-
[52397]sy destroying and withholding from
[52399]OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
[52401]ntiy charged an offense under this
[52403]18 § 1505
[52405]power of inquiry by certain specific acts,
[52406]particularly altering. defacing and par-
[52407]tially destroying and withholding from
[52408]Senate Select Cominittee certain union
[52409]invoice or record, which bore reasonable
[52410]relatinn to subject matter of inquiry of
[52411]Senate Select Committee, and concealing
[52412]and withholding envelope and memoran-
[52413]dum containing wnion’s records, which
[52414]bere reasonable relation to subject mat-
[52415]ter of inquiry, and relevant to it, would
[52416]not be dismissed, on ground of double
[52417]jeopardy, because of prior indictment
[52418]charging defendant with unlawful refusal
[52419]to answer question before Senate Select
[52420]Committee, ,since same facts would not
[52421]prove each case. Id.
[52423]‘An indictment for conspiracy to vio-
[52424]Jate erminal code by subornation of per:
[52425]jury ia preceeding before the Federal
[52426]Petroleum Goard was not subject to crit-
[52427]jelsm that it was too vague, contradic-
[52428]torr, duplicitous, uncertain and indefalte.
[52429]U. S. v. Brumfield, D.C.00.1949, 83 F.
[52430]Supp. 696. °
[52432]c. Evidence
[52434]The “two witness rule’ wags not appli-
[52435]cable in showing that deferidant violated
[52436]this section proscribing obstruction of
[52437]justice by influencing witness te give
[52438]false testimony and information to Sen-
[52439]ate Committee and its investigators, and
[52440]testimony of one person alone was suffi-
[52441]cient to convict. Stein v. U. &., Cc.ACal.
[52442]1964, 337 F.2d 14, certiorari denied 835 §.Ct.
[52443]§59, 380 U.S. 907, 13 L.3d.2d 105,
[52445]Tostimony of one person alone is suffi-
[52446]cient te convict defendant for obstructing
[52447]Justice ju influencing witness to give
[52448]false testimony to Senate Committee and
[52449]tc give false and perjurious information
[52450]to committee investigators. Id.
[52452]Evidence. sustained convictions under
[52453]counts charging corruptly inducing wit-
[52454]ness to testify falsely and corruptly in-
[52456]ing been entitled to be submitted amd. .
[52457]@ it to defendant, and deferdaat
[52461]e Select Committee certain union in-
[52462]or record, which bore reasonable re-
[52463]tion to subject matter of inquiry of Sen-
[52464]e Select Committee, and concealing and
[52465]vithholdlug envelope and momorandum
[52466]contalning “union’s records, which bore
[52467]sonable relation to subject matter of
[52468]ulry, and relevant to it, would not ba
[52469]missed, on ground that doetrine of res
[52470]ata applied because of prior indict-
[52471]mnt charging defendant with unlawful
[52472]usal to answer question before Senate
[52473]Select Committee, 1a."
[52475]fiuencing him to give false and perjurious
[52476]information to investigators of Senate
[52477]Cominittee. Id.
[52479]1, Questions for jury
[52481]Whether deféndant charged with ch-
[52482]struction of justice in Securities and Px-
[52483]change Commission's investigation by in-
[52484]ducing person to testify falsely that he
[52485]had purchased certain securities through
[52486]firm of which defendant was head and
[52487]had resold securities to that firm Knew
[52488]that witness would be asked to testify
[52489]under oath was jury question, U. 5. ¥v.
[52490]Batten, D.C.D.C.1964, 226 F.Supp. 492, cer-
[52491]tiorarl denied 85 S.Ct. 698, 380 U.S. 912,
[52492]vorcuptly endeavor to tufluence, obstruct 13 1.18d.2d 799, rehearing denied $3 $.Ct.
[52493]sud finpede due and proper exercise of 1557, 381 U.S. 930, 14 T.d.2d 68S.
[52495]597
[52497]ay
[52499]Indietment charging that defendant un:
[52500]lawfuily, wilfully and knowingly did cor-
[52501]ruptly infuenee, obstruct and impede and
[52504].
[52506]§ 1504 TITLE 18,-CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[52508]AMENDMENTS
[52509]1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
[52510]trate’ and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner”
[52511]and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.
[52512], Cross REFERENCES
[52514]Bribery of officers, jurors or r witnesses, see section 201
[52515]et seq. of this title.
[52517]Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
[52518]section 401 of this title.
[52520]Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
[52521]ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
[52522]see section 2516 of this title.
[52524]SECTION REerenreD TO IN OTHER Secrions
[52526]This section Is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
[52527]of this title.
[52529]§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.
[52531]Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
[52532]cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
[52533]United States upon any issue or matter pending
[52534]before such juror, or before the jury of which he is @
[52535]member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
[52536]sending to him any written communication, in rela-
[52537]tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
[52538]than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
[52539]or both.
[52541]Nothing in this section shall be construed to
[52542]prohibit the communication of a request to appear
[52543]before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
[52544]62 Stat. 770.) ‘ .
[52546]Lecistative HisTor¥Y
[52548]Reviser’s Note —-Based on title 18, U. 3S. C., 1940 ed.,
[52549]§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).
[52551]Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
[52552]@ proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
[52553]construed as a technical violation of this section.
[52555]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52557]Cross REFERENCES
[52559]Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
[52560]of thia title. :
[52562]Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
[52563]excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
[52564]section 3401 of this title.
[52566]SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SECTIONS
[52568]This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.
[52570]§ 1505. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
[52571]ments, agencies, and committees.
[52573]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
[52575]threatening letter or communication, endeavors to
[52577]‘influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
[52579]proceeding pending before any department or agency
[52580]of the United States, or in connection with any in-
[52581]quiry or investigation being had. by either House, or
[52582]any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
[52583]tee of the Congress; or
[52585]Whoever injures any party or witness in. his per-
[52586]son or property on account of his attending or having
[52587]attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
[52589]or on account of his testifying or having testified to :
[52591]any matter pending therein; or
[52593]Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
[52594]obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
[52595]civil investigative demand duly and properly made
[52597]j under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968
[52599]of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
[52600]ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
[52601]falsifies any documentary material which is the
[52602]subject of such demand; or
[52604]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
[52605]any threatening letter or communication influences,
[52607]Page 4312
[52609]obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
[52610]struct, or impede the due and proper administration
[52611]of the law under which such proceeding is being had
[52612]before such department or agency of the United
[52613]States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
[52614]of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
[52615]is being had by either House, or any committee of
[52616]either House or any joint committee of the Con-
[52617]gress—
[52619]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —
[52621]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[52622]ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
[52623]§ 6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
[52624]title TX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)
[52626]LEcisLative History
[52627]Reviser's Note-—Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
[52628]§ 241a (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 135a, aa added Jan. 13,
[52629]1940, ch. 1, 64 Stat. 18; June 8, 1945, ch. 178, § 2, 69
[52631]_ Stat. 234).
[52633]Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
[52634]ent establishment, board, commission” in two instances
[52635]to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
[52636]tion. (See definitive section 6 of this titie.)
[52638]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52640]REFERENCES IN TEXT
[52641]The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
[52642]ia classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
[52643]AMENDMENTS
[52645]1970-——-Pub. L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
[52646]of this tithe.
[52648]1962—Pub. L. 87-664 substituted the catchline “Ob-
[52649]struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
[52650]committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
[52651]agencies and committees" and punished the willful re-
[52652]moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
[52653]falsification of documents which were the subject of a
[52654]demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
[52655]the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
[52656]demand.
[52658]Cross REFERENCES
[52659]Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201
[52660]of this titie.
[52661]Secrion Rererrep To In OTHer SECTIONS
[52663]This section is referred to in section 203 of thig title;
[52664]title 12 sectiom 1457.
[52666]515 Theft or alteration of record or process; false
[52667]ail,
[52669]Whoever felontously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
[52670]sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
[52671]or other proceeding, in any court of the United
[52672]States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
[52673]void, or does not take effect; or
[52675]Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
[52676]edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
[52677]judgment, in the name of any other person not
[52678]privy or consenting to the same—
[52680]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
[52681]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[52682]ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770.) -
[52684]LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
[52686]Reviser’s Note.—Based on title 18, U.S. C., 1940 ed., § 233
[52687](Mar, 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 127. 35 Stat, 1111).
[52689]The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to §
[52690]years, to conform the punishment with Hke ones for
[52691]similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.) _
[52693]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52695]Cross RerereNces
[52696]Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
[52697]section 2071 of this title.
[52699]Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
[52700]641 of this ttle.
[52702]cep weer em te amen
[52704]meet eats 8 et ne apnea
[52706](soso oer eh EET =
[52713]TITLE 18.—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[52715]§ 1504
[52716]AMENDMENTS
[52718]1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
[52719]trate’ and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner"
[52721]_ and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.
[52723]Cross REFERENCES
[52725]Bribery of officers, Jurors or witnesses, see section 201
[52726]et seq. of this title.
[52728]Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
[52729]section 401 of this title.
[52731]Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
[52732]ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
[52733]see section 2516 of this title.
[52735]SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
[52737]This section is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
[52738]of this title. -
[52740]§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.
[52742]Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
[52743]cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
[52744]United States upon any issue or matter pending
[52745]before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
[52746]member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
[52747]sending to him any written communication, in rela-
[52748]tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
[52749]than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
[52750]or both.
[52752]Nothing in this section shall be construed to
[52753]prohibit the communication of a request to appear
[52754]before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
[52755]62 Stat. 770.)
[52757]Leeisiativs History
[52759]Reviser’s Note.—-Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
[52760]$243 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).
[52762]Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
[52763]a proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
[52764]construed as a technical violation of this section.
[52766]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52768]Cross REFERENCES
[52770]Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
[52771]of this title. . .
[52773]Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
[52774]excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
[52775]section 3401 of this title.
[52777]Secrion ReErerrReD To In OTHer SecTioNs
[52779]This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.
[52781]$1505. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
[52782]ments, agencies, and committees.
[52784]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
[52785]threatening letter ox, communication, endeavors to
[52786]influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
[52787]proceeding pending before any department or agency
[52788]of the United States, or in connection with any in-
[52789]quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
[52790]any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
[52791]tee of the Congress; or :
[52793]Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
[52794]son or property on account of his attending or having
[52796]‘attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
[52798]or on account of his testifying or having testified to
[52799]any matter pending therein; or
[52800]Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
[52802]‘obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
[52803]_civil investigative demand duly and properly made
[52804]j under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968
[52806]of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
[52807]ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
[52808]falsifies any documentary material which is the
[52809]subject of such demand; or
[52811]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
[52812]any threatening letter or communication influences,
[52814]Page 4312
[52816]obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
[52817]struct, or impede the due and proper administration
[52818]of the law under which such proceeding is being had.
[52819]before such department or agency of the United
[52820]States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
[52821]of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
[52822]is being had by either House, or any committee of
[52824]either House or any joint committee of the Con-
[52827]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —
[52829]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[52830]ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
[52831]§6(a), 76 Stat. 651; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
[52832]title IX, $903, 84 Stat. 947.)
[52834]LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
[52836]Reviser’s Note—Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.,
[52837]§24ia (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 195a, as added Jan. 13,
[52838]1940, ch. 1, 64 Stat. 13; June 8, 1945, ch. 178. § 2, 59
[52839]Stat. 234).
[52841]Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
[52842]ent establishment, board, commission” in two Instances
[52843]to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
[52844]tion. (See definitive section @ of this title.)
[52846]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52848]REFERENCES IN TEXT
[52849]The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
[52850]is classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
[52851]AMENDMENTS
[52853]1970-——Pub, L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
[52854]of this title.
[52856]1962—Pub. L. 87-064 substituted the catchline “Ob-
[52857]struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
[52858]committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
[52859]agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
[52860]moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
[52861]falsification of documents which were the subject of a
[52862]demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
[52863]the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
[52864]demand.
[52866]Cross RE¥ERENCES
[52867]Bribery of public offictals or witnesses, see section 201
[52868]of this title.
[52869]SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
[52871]This section is referred to in section 203 of this title;
[52872]title 12 section 1457.
[52874]5 1506. jrheft or alteration of record or process; false
[52875]ail.
[52877]Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
[52878]sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
[52879]or other proceeding, in any court of the United
[52880]States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
[52881]void, or does not take effect; or
[52883]Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
[52884]edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
[52885]judgment, in the name of any other person not
[52886]privy or consenting to the same—
[52888]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
[52889]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[52890]ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770.) *
[52892]LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
[52894]Reviser’s Note.—Based on title 16, U. 5. C., 1940 ed., § 233
[52895](Mar, 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 127. 35 Stat, 1112).
[52897]The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to 5
[52898]years, to conform the punishment with like ones for
[52899]eimllar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.)
[52901]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52903]Cross REFERENCES .
[52905]Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
[52906]section 2071 of ‘this title.
[52908]Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
[52909]641 of this titis.
[52914]TITLE 18,CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[52916]§ 1504
[52918]AMENDMENTS
[52920]1968—FPub. L. 90-578 substituted ‘United States magis-
[52921]trate’ and ‘magistrate’ for "United States commissioner”
[52922]and “commissioner”, tn two instances, respectively.
[52924]. Cross REFERENCES
[52926]Bribery of officers, jurors or witnesses, see section 201
[52927]et seq. of this title,
[52929]Influencing Juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
[52930]section 401 of this title.
[52932]Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
[52933]ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
[52934]see section 2516 of this title.
[52936]SECTION Rerenrep TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
[52938]_This section is referred to in sections 201, 1961, 2516
[52939]of this title.
[52941]§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.
[52943]Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
[52944]cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
[52945]United States upon any issue or matter pending
[52946]before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
[52947]member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or:
[52948]sending to him any written communication, in rela-
[52949]tion to such issue or matter, shall be fined not more
[52950]than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
[52951]or both.
[52953]Nothing in this section shall be construed to
[52954]prohibit the communication of a request to appear
[52955]before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645.
[52957]62 Stat. 770.)
[52958]LEGISLATIVE HISTORY
[52960].Aeviser’s Note.—Based on titie 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.
[52961]§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113).
[52962]Last paragraph was added to remove the possibility that
[52963]@ proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
[52964]construed as a technical violation of this section.
[52965]. Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[52966]Cross REFERENCES
[52968]Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 202
[52969]of this title.
[52971]Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
[52972]excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
[52973]section 3401 of this title. .
[52975]SECTION REFERRED To IN OTFrer SECTIONS
[52977]This section is referred to in section 202 of this title.
[52979]§ 1505. Obstruction of preceedings before depart-
[52980]ments, agencies, and committees,
[52982]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
[52983]threatening letter or communication, endeavors to
[52984]influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
[52985]proceeding pending before any department or agency
[52986]of the United States, or in connection with any in-
[52988]. quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
[52989]any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
[52990]tee of the Congress; or:
[52992]Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
[52993]son or property on account of his attending or having
[52994]attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
[52995]or on account of his testifying or having testified to
[52996]any matter pending therein; or -
[52998]Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
[52999]obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
[53000]civil investigative demand duly and properly made
[53001]| under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968
[53002]of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
[53003]ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
[53004]falsifies any documentary material which is the
[53005]subject of such demand; or
[53007]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
[53008]any threatening letter or communication influences,
[53010]Page 4312
[53012]obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
[53013]struct, or impede the due and proper administration
[53014]of the law under which such proceeding is being had
[53015]before such department or agency of the United
[53016]States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
[53017]of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
[53018]is being had by either House, or any committee of
[53020]‘either House or any Joint committee of the Con-
[53022]gress—
[53023]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
[53025]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[53027]ch, 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
[53028]§6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1870, Pub. L. 91-452,
[53029]title CX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)
[53031]Leaistative HIsTory
[53033]Reviser’s Note —Based on title 18, U.S. C., 1940 ed.,
[53034]§24la (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 921, § 135a, as added Jan. 13,
[53035]1940, ch. 1, 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1946, ch. 178, § 2, 66
[53036]Stat. 234).
[53038]Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
[53039]ent establishment, board, commission” in two Instances
[53040]to eliminate any possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
[53041]tion. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)
[53043]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[53045]REFERENCES IN TEXT
[53047]The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
[53048]is classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
[53050]AMENDMENTS
[53052]1970—-Pub, L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
[53053]of this title.
[53055]1962—-Pub, L, 87-664 substituted the catchitne “Ob-
[53056]struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
[53057]committees" for “Influencing or tnjuring witness before
[53058]agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
[53059]moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
[53060]falsification of documents which were the subject of a
[53061]demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
[53062]the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
[53063]demand, :
[53065]Cros’ REFERENCES
[53067]Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201
[53069]of this title.
[53071]SEcTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SECTIONS
[53073]This section Is referred to in section 203 of this title;
[53074]title 12 sectiom 1457.
[53076]§ 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; false
[53077]ail.
[53079]Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
[53080]sifles, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
[53081]or other proceeding, in any court, of the United
[53082]States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
[53083]void, or does not take effect; or
[53085]Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknowl-
[53086]edged fa any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
[53087]‘judgment, in the name of any other person not
[53088]privy or consenting to the same—
[53090]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
[53091]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[53093]ch. 645, 62 Stat. 776.) °
[53095]. LeeisLAtive History
[53097]Reviser’s Note-—Based on title 18, U. 3. C., 1940 ed., § 233
[53098](Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 331, § 127, 35 Stat. 1112). :
[53100]The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7. to 6
[53101]years, to conform the punishment with like ones for
[53102]similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.) |
[53104]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[53106]Cross REFERENCES ‘
[53108]Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
[53109]section 2071 of this title.
[53111]Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
[53112]641 of this title.
[53115]TITLE 18.—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
[53117]§ 1504
[53119]AMENDMENTS °
[53121]1968—Pub. L. 90-578 substituted “United States magis-
[53122]trate” and “magistrate” for “United States commissioner”
[53123]and “commissioner”, in two instances, respectively.
[53124]Cross REFERENCES
[53126]Bribery of officers, jurors or witnesses, see section 201
[53127]et seq. of this title.
[53129]Influencing juror or witness as criminal contempt, see
[53130]section 401 of this title.
[53132]Wire or oral communications, authorization for inter-
[53133]ception, to provide evidence of offenses under this section,
[53134]see section 2516 of this title,
[53136]SECTION REFERRED TO IN OTHER SECTIONS
[53138]This section is referred. to in sections 201, 1961, 2514
[53139]of this title.
[53141]§ 1504. Influencing juror by writing.
[53143]Whoever attempts to influence the action or de-
[53144]cision of any grand or petit juror of any court of the
[53145]United States upon any issue or matter pending
[53146]before such juror, or before the jury of which he is a
[53147]member, or pertaining to his duties, by writing or
[53148]sending to him any written communication, in rela-
[53149]tion to such Issue or matter, shall be fined not more
[53150]than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than six months.
[53151]or both.
[53153]Nothing in this section shall be construed to
[53154]prohibit the communication of a request to appear
[53155]before the grand jury. (June 25, 1948, ch. 645,
[53157]62 Stat. 770.)
[53158]LEGISLATIVE History
[53160]Reviser’s Note Based on title 18, U. S. C,, 1940 ed.
[53161]§ 243 (Mar. 4, 1908, ch. 321, § 137, 35 Stat. 1113}.
[53163]Last paragtaph was added to remove the possibility that
[53164]a proper request to appear before a grand jury might be
[53165]construed as a technical violation of this section.
[53167]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[53169]Czoss R&FrenENcEs
[53171]Bribery of public officials and witnesses, see section 201
[53172]of this title.
[53174]Minor offenses tried by United States magistrates as
[53175]excluding offenses punishable under this section, see
[53176]section 3401 of this title.
[53178]SECTION REFERRED To IN OTHER SEcTiOWs |
[53180]This section is referred to In section 202 of this title.
[53182]§ 1506. Obstruction of proceedings before depart-
[53183]ments, agencies, and committees,
[53185]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any
[53186]threatening letter or communication, endeavors to
[53187]influence, intimidate, or impede any witness in any
[53188]proceeding pending before any department or agency
[53189]of the United States, or in connection with any in-
[53190]quiry or investigation being had by either House, or
[53191]any committee of either House, or any joint commit-
[53192]tee of the Congress; or .
[53194]Whoever injures any party or witness in his per-
[53195]son or property on account of his attending or having
[53196]attended such proceeding, inquiry, or investigation,
[53197]or on account of his testifying or having testified to
[53198]any matter pending therein; or
[53200]Whoever, with intent to avoid, evade, prevent, or
[53201]obstruct compliance in whole or in part with any
[53202]civil investigative demand duly and properly made
[53204]| under the Antitrust Civil Process Act or section 1968
[53206]of this title willfully removes from any place, con-
[53207]ceals, destroys, mutilates, alters, or by other means
[53208]falsifies any documentary material which is the
[53209]subject of such demand; or
[53211]Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by
[53212]-any threatening letter or communication influences,
[53214]. Page 4312
[53216]obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, ob-
[53217]struct, or impede the due and proper administration
[53218]of the law under which such proceeding is being had
[53219]before such department or agency of the United
[53220]States, or the due and proper exercise of the power
[53221]of inquiry under which such inquiry or investigation
[53222]is being had ‘by either House, or any committee of
[53223]either House or any joint committee of the Con-~
[53224]gress— .
[53225]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned —
[53227]hot more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[53229]ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770; Sept. 19, 1962, Pub. L. 87-664,
[53230]§6(a), 76 Stat. 551; Oct. 15, 1970, Pub. L. 91-452,
[53231]title DX, § 903, 84 Stat. 947.)
[53233]LEGIsLaTive History
[53234]Reviser's Note-—-Based on title 18, U. S. C., 1940 ed.
[53235]§24la (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, § 1352, as added Jan. 13,
[53237]1940, ch. 1, 54 Stat. 13; June 8, 1945, ch. 176, § 2, 58
[53238]Stat. 234).
[53240]Word “agency” was substituted for the words “independ-
[53241]ent establishment, board, commission" in two instances
[53242]to eliminate any. possible ambiguity as to scope of sec-
[53243]tion. (See definitive section 6 of this title.)
[53245]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[53247]REFERENCES IN TEXT
[53248]The Antitrust Civil Process Act, referred to in text,
[53249]1s classified to chapter 34 of Title 15, Commerce and Trade.
[53250]AMENDMENTS
[53252]1970—Pub. L. 91-452 added reference to section 1968
[53253]of this title. : .
[53255]1962—Pub. L. 87-664 substituted the catchline “Ob-
[53256]struction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and
[53257]committees” for “Influencing or injuring witness before
[53258]agencies and committees” and punished the willful re-
[53259]moval, concealment, destruction, mutilation, alteration or
[53260]falsification of documents which were the subject of a
[53261]demand under the Antitrust Civil Process Act if done with
[53262]the intent to prevent compliance with a civil investigative
[53263]demand. :
[53265]Cross REFERENCES
[53267]Bribery of public officials or witnesses, see section 201
[53269]of this title. .
[53271]Szcrion RerznkeD To in OrrerR SEcTIONS
[53273]This section ts referred to Im section 203 of this title;
[53274]title 12 section 1457.
[53276]§ 1506. Theft or alteration of record or process; false
[53277]aul.
[53279]Whoever feloniously steals, takes away, alters, fal-
[53280]sifies, or otherwise avoids any record, writ, process,
[53281]or other proceeding, in any court of the United
[53282]States, whereby any judgment is reversed, made
[53283]void, or does not take effect; or
[53285]Whoever acknowledges, or procures to be acknow!l-
[53286]edged im any such court, any recognizance, bail, or
[53287]judgment, in the name of any other person not
[53288]privy or consenting to the same—
[53290]Shall be fined not more than $5,000 or imprisoned
[53291]not more than five years, or both. (June 25, 1948,
[53292]ch. 645, 62 Stat. 770.) -
[53294]LEGISLATIVE HisTrory
[53296]Reviser's Note.—Based on title 16, U.S. C., 1940 ed., § 233
[53297](Mar. 4,.1909, ch. 331, § 127, 36 Stat. 1211).
[53299]The term of imprisonment was reduced from 7 to 5
[53300]years, to conform the punishment with Hke ones for
[53301]similar offenses. (See section 1503 of this title.)
[53303]Minor changes were made in phraseology.
[53305]. Cross Rererences
[53306]Concealment, removal or destruction of records, see
[53307]section 2071 of this title.
[53308]Embezzlement or theft of records, generally, see section
[53309]641 of this title. .