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[10]SUBJECT: Robert A. Maheu
[12]1. Robert A. Maheu was born on 30 October 1917 in
[13]Waterville, Maine. He graduated from Holy Cross College,
[14]Worcester, Massachusetts in 1940. He is married and has
[15]four children.
[17]2. He was employed as a Special Agent with the
[18]Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1947. ‘Upon
[19]resigning from the Bureau a venture into private enter-
[20]prise culminated in bankruptcy in 1952. Subsequent to
[21]his bankruptcy, he was employed as Special Assistant to _
[22]the Administrator, Small Business Administration with the
[23]specific duty of Director of Security. In February 1954,
[24]he was forced to resign for political reasons from this
[25]position. He then established his own investigative
[26]organization known as Robert A. Maheu Associates, and
[27]rented desk space in a suite occupied by Carmine S. Bellino,
[28]a former Bureau Agent, Certified Public Accountant, and
[29]currently employed on Capitol Hill with one of- the Congres-
[30]sional Committees. i
[32]3. Mr. Maheu's organization successfully handled a
[33]number of prestige accounts, including. Niarchos, Schenley
[34]Distillers, New York Central. Railroad, United Steel Workers
[35]Union, and ultimately Howard Hughes. Although he has main- .
[36]tained offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, most
[37]recently he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada.
[39]4. He was initially recruited by the Office of Secu-
[40]rity in 1954 and granted a Covert Security Approval on 30
[41]August 1954. He performed many sensitive assignments for
[42]the Office of Security, and also accepted assignments fron
[43]elements of the predecessor of the Deputy Director for
[44]Operations.
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[60]S. Some of these assignments included the
[61]following:
[63]A. (King Hussein) |
[65]The procurement of feminine companionship
[66]0 (to the King) during an official State visit
[67]o this country during the period 16 March
[68]A959 through 18 April (1959.9 (See attached
[69]ab 1--taken from "Family Jewels" memoran-
[71]dum dated 16 May 1973)
[73]B. Johnny Roselli
[75]The use of a member of the Mafia in an
[76]attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro,
[77]initiated in August 1960. (See attached
[78]Jab 2--taken from "Family Jewels" menoran-
[79]dum dated 16 May 1973)
[81]C. Cover
[83]Various officers of. the Clandestine Service
[84]met with Mr. Maheu over the years from 1954
[85]. to 1970 to determine the feasibility of using
[87]his firm for non-official cover purposes.
[88]Actual cover uses were provided for one officer
[89]in Mr. Maheu's Washington Office from September
[90]1964 to June 1966, and another officer used the
[91]cover of Maheu Associates representatives in
[93]‘0 Quite, Ecuador) from 1 August 1968 through
[95]1 December 1970. (See attached Tab 3--Director
[96]of Security Memorandum to the Director of Central
[97]Intelligence, dated 20 January 1971)
[99]6. . No contact has been made with Mr. Maheu since the
[100]termination of the above cover arrangement.
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