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[11]SUBJECT: Robert A. Maheu
[13]1. Robert A. Maheu was born on 30 October 1917 in
[14]Waterville, Maine. He graduated from Holy Cross College,
[15]Worcester, Massachusetts in 1940. He is married and has
[16]four children.
[18]2. He was employed as a Special Agent with the
[19]Federal Bureau.of Investigation from 1940 to 1947. Upon
[20]resigning from the Bureau a venture into private enter-
[21]prise culminated in bankruptcy in 1952. Subsequent to
[22]his bankruptcy, he was employed as Special Assistant to
[23]the Administrator, Small Business Administration with the
[24]specific duty of Director of Security. In February 1954,
[25]he was forced to resign for political reasons: from this
[26]position. He then established his own investigative
[27]organization known as Robert A. Maheu Associates, and
[28]rented desk space in a suite occupied by Carmine §. Bellino,
[29]a former Bureau Agent, Certified Public Accountant, and
[30]currently employed on Capitol Hill with one of the Congres-
[31]sional Committees. — -
[33]3. Mr. Maheu's organization successfully handled a
[34]number of prestige accounts, including Niarchos, Schenley
[35]Distillers, New York Central Railroad, United Steel Workers
[36]Union, and ultimately Howard Hughes. Although he has main-
[37]tained offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, most
[38]recently he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada.
[40]4. He was initially recruited by the Office of Secu-
[41]rity in 1954 and granted a Covert Security Approval on 30
[42]August 1954. He performed many sensitive assignments for
[43]the Office of Security, and also accepted assignments from
[44]elements of the predecessor of the Deputy Director for ,
[45]Operations. So LO :
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[64]S. Some of those assignments included the ©
[67]A. (King Hussein)
[69]The procurement of feminine Companionship
[70]oe (to the King) during an official State visit
[71]to this country during th period 16 March
[72]9( 1955) through 18 April Q9599 (See attached
[73]Tab 1--taken fron “Fenily Jewels" menoran-
[74]‘dum dated 16 May 1973)
[76]B. Johnny Roselli “
[78]The use of a momber of the Mafia in an
[80]attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro,
[82]initiated in August 1960. (See attached
[84]Tab 2--taken from “Family Jewels" nenoran-
[85]. dum dated 16 May 1973)
[87]C. Cover
[89]Various officers of the Clandestine Service
[90]met with Nr. Meheu over the years from 195é
[91]to 1970 to determine the feasibility of using
[92]his fira for non-official cover purposes. |
[93]Actual cover uses were provided for one officer
[94]in Mr. Naheu's Washington Office froz Septenbor.
[95]1964 to June 1966, and another officer used the
[96]over of Maheu Associates representatives in
[97](0 Quite, Ecuador |from 1 August 1968 through |
[98]1 December 1970. (See attached Tab 3--Director
[99]of Security Memorandus to the Director of Central
[100]Intelligence, dated 20 January 1971)
[102]6. No contact has been made with Mr. Maheu since the
[103]termination of the above cover arrangerent. 7
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