Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# SECRETQ Would you know if that were the case?A No. I really wouldn't know, but the relationship was a two-way street. It wasn't simply that we assisted these people as well as they were assigint us.Q What assistance would you render for members of the press in Miami?A Well, in the case of the Latin American editor we would put him in contact with the Chiefs of Stations of areas he periodically visited and the Chiefs of Stations would give him background briefings and this type of thing on the developments within a given country.Q Was that done evenhandedly for various newspapers?A Predominantly, I would say probably the Miami Herald received probably a little more attention than the other papers, principally because it was a large paper and their Latin American editor traveled a great deal throughout the Hemisphere.Q Was he also used as a source?A No.Q Do newspapermen in Washington, D.C., receive similar briefings?A Yes.Q We talked with Mr.Olsen for a short period of time about fronts, revolutionary fronts. How large were these organizations?
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SECRET1 A Well, the membership varied. As I said, we wereprincipally interested in the leadership of the organizations.Once the organization was established and the leadership tookover, then they would take care of enlisting the, I guess,getting membership from the Cuban exile community to join.6 Q What were their functions, the fronts?7 A Well, it was to bring some unity out of this chaoticthing of the splinter groups and get -- as I said, it was apolitical organization in exile.10 Q Did they conduct any operations?11 A No, not that I know.of.12 Q Just like a political party?13 A Like a political party.14 Q How many of these fronts were there?15 A There were several of them. I really don't rememberthe names of them. The FRD was one. The RevolutionaryDemocratic Front. I guess that was probably the biggest one.And there were some others.19 Q The RDF?20 A FRD.21 Q I see.22 A Front Revolutionary Democratic. It is theDemocratic Revolutionary Front.24 Q All right. Are these groups still in existence?25 A I would think not. I really don't know.
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SECRET97Q Is there a CIA station in Puerto Rico?A No. There was but there isn't any more. There hasn't been one there for years.Q When was it disbanded?A I think the station was established around 1958 and -- perhaps it was established before that. I think it went out of existence in 1958.Q Do you know why it went out of existence?A No, I don't. I don't have any idea.Q Do you know what function it was performing?A (Nods in negative.)Q You mentioned earlier that Bernard Barker worked in the Cuban community for the CIA?A He worked with these fronts, too.Q Was he performing any intelligence function in the community?A Intelligence functions. Well --Q Was he collecting information?A Sure. If he got information that he thought was worthwhile he would pass it on.Q Now, would he have been considered one of the three or 500 persons employed or assigned to the Miami Station?A Yes. He was a contract employee.Q And were intelligence requirements levied on such contract employees?
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SECRETA Normally, the requirements are pretty standard, or they were at that time. But here again, you always have ad hoc type things that pop up from time to time, and have to be surfaced.Q Some of these contract employees were, then, in the business of collecting intelligence information in the Cuban communities in Miami.A Right.Q Now, I think we finished with the AMOTS but can you think of any other functions performed by the AMOTS, that we have not discussed in the course of the afternoon?A No, not really. No.Q I think you previously described them for me as the eyes and ears into the Cuban community.A Right.Q And they actually had a physical facility in Miami which was their headquarters, did they not?A Exactly.Q And there was a CIA Case Officer who managed to supervise that facility.A Yes.Q Now, what has happened to the AMOTS?A The AMOTS were gradually phased down and will go out of existence -- the AMOTS are out of existence, aren't they? Isn't it the AMDUKES or -- these are the radio people
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SECRETQ And the AMDUKES are the AMOTS?A The AMDUKES are AMOTS but they are radio people.Q They are the ones that conducted the intercept for NSA?A Yes. The only reason we use two different names is that in each of these things in those days we had to have a project which had to be renewed every year to get the funding.Q So AMDUKE and AMOT --A Synonymous.Q -- are cryptonyms?A Yes.Q Do the initials stand for anything other than --A No. Just pick them out. If you want to encrypt somebody you just call downstairs and they give you a crypt. You don't have anything to do with it. The AM happened at that particular time to be the Cuban diograph.Q Now, turning to the Miami Station's involvement for assistance to the Secret Service in connection with the political conventions in 1968 and 1972, would you briefly describe for me the nature of the assistance provided by the Agency to the Secret Service?A At the request of the Secret Service we conducted name traces on individuals whom the Secret Service wanted traced. These includedthe employees of all hotels in Miami
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## SECRETBeach where any convention activities were to take place, employees of catering services, limosine service, employees in -- what do they call it, the Civic Center in Miami. It is a big auditorium down there. I forget what they call it. Foreign news people and media, television, radio people.Q Were these people on whom name traces were requested all foreign nationals?A All foreign nationals.Q Was there any check made to determine whether any of them were American citizens?A We levied on the Secret Service as a requirement that they have identified these people by nationality before we would run a, name trace. Inadvertently, at one time they did submit a list, a rather long list of American citizens which we promptly sent back to them and told them we could not trace.Q And this practice was followed both in 1968 and 1972?A That is right.Q And where were these names traced?A They were traced back here and also in Miami. The Miami Station did their name check and we did our name check here. In the case of Cubans, probably the Miami Station had more information on the Cubans than we would have back here.Q But the names were traced through Agency files?
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SECRET                                                                                                  1011 A Through Agency files.2 Q Was Secret Service receiving cooperation from FBI on this as well?4 A Oh, yes.5 Q And in effect, they were getting an all-Agency name check7 A Right.8 Q -- on people who might pose a security threat9 A Yes.10 Q -- to a candidate?11 A Well, they were just trying to determine who might be a security threat.12 Q That is right. Potential threat.14 A Yes.15 Q For what political parties -- strike that.16 In 1968 was this service provided for both political conventions?17 A Both political conventions.18 Q Were they both held in Miami that year?20 A No. I guess it was in 1972 they were both held there. I think it was just the Democratic in 1968.22 Q These requests did come from the Secret Service rather than24 A From the Secret Service and it was -- the Director of the Secret Service came to the DCI and asked him for
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SECRET                                                                                    1021 support.2 Q Do you still maintain the records with respect to3 that tracing activity?4 A I have all the names that have been traced.5 Q And they are on little cards down in your files?6 A Yes.7 Q Why have those records been maintained? Is there8 any reason those records have been maintained?9 A Well, because we were told to maintain them when10 the Watergate thing broke.11 Q I see.12 A And since then nobody will destroy anything.13 Q OK. Are you aware of any picketing at various14 places in the country that has been conducted by Cuban15 groups?16 A I was not aware of it until I was told of it.17 I still don't know whether this was a spontaneous action on18 the part of these people or whether they were instructed to19 do it. I tried to run that down and I have been unable to.20 Q At what locations has it been reported that pickets21 were located?22 A Airline offices in New York, Miami. I think another23 place. I forget where it was.24 Q Have you in fact been able to verify that these25 persons were Cubans?
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SECRET103A Well, it is a matter of record in the AMOT history that this indeed did take place. Now, what I have been trying to determine is whether the On-Site Case Officer authorized this, which I fully doubt.Q Who was the On-Site Case Officer?A At that time it was a fellow by the name of Tony Sforza.Q Is he still alive?A Yes, he is down in Miami. But I just do not know whether this was a unilateral action on the part of the AMOTS against the countries that were then trading with Cuba, notably Spain and Great Britain and France.Q Other than this incident which we -- strike that. What kind of an investigation have you conducted?A I have talked to people, which is really all you can do. There is no other way you can do it.Q You have been unable to determine who, if anyone, authorized this activity? Have you been able to identify any of the person's who participated in the picketing?A No.Q With what frequency did this activity occur?A I don't have any idea. I only know of one instance.Q This was in New York City?A New York City and Miami.Q Do you know of any organized political activity thatSECRET
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SECRET104the AMOTS engaged in?A To my knowledge, they didn't engage in any.Q Any political activity.Do you know of any other activities that they have conducted within this country, they or any of their members have conducted within this country that we have not already discussed this afternoon?A No.Q Any political activities? Any operations?A No. Not really. Of course, we have used certain select individuals to what we call hand-hold defectors, Cuban defectors. In other words, live with them until they are resettled and this type of thing. And this is another activity they engaged in. But other than that, I can't think of anything else.Q Do you know of any criminal activities that have been attribited to --A I have heard of some allegations which have never been proven.Q What are the allegations?A The allegations concern break-ins and surveillances and this type of thing.Q Have those allegations been made with any frequency?A Well, I forget who it was. It was during theSECRET
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SECRET                                                                        1051  Watergate trial. Some of these allegations that came out2  and I think they were carried in the Anderson column but we3  made file checks and this type of thing. One particular4  activity was supposed to have been carried out in Rockefeller5  Center in New York and it turns out it was taken out of6  context. It was a training mission and -- training exercise.7  These guys were being trained in surveillance in New York8  and they were simply asked to go into a branch of the Manhattan9  -- Chase Manhattan and to come back out and then they were10 supposed to diagram the layout of the bank. And this to some11 of them meant casing the bank when in fact it was just a12 memory exercise.13 Q With what frequency were those kinds of training14 exercises conducted?15 A Well, whenever there was an -- whenever it was felt16 that these people, selected individuals, were to be trained17 in trade craft.18 Q And did their trade craft training include such19 things as surveillance?20 A Sure.21 Q And break-ins?22 A No. Not break-ins. Nor surreptitious entry. As I23 said, in the case of this particular thing, it was misinter-24 preted as casing the bank. These exercises were given -- they25 could have walked into your office, your outer office and
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## SECRET1 said -- the instructor could have said two hours later tell2 me what is in that outer office? What is the layout of it?3 This is just for observation.4 Q You stated earlier none of those allegations have5 been proven. Have any of them been proved to your6 satisfaction?7 A No. Ithink we disproved them to my satisfaction.8 Q I take it you do not believe they took place other9 than the training exercise?10 A Oh, no. No. I don't believe they did.11 Q Do you know of any instances where members of that12 group have broken in, made any other type of illegal entry13 in this country?14 A No.15 Q Have you ever been present at any discussions of16 the legality or illegality of maintaining stations like the17 Miami Station within this country?18 A Legality? No.19 Q How about the propriety?20 A Well, to my knowledge, that really never came up.21 No one to my knowledge, has ever questioned the legality or22 the propriety of having the Station.23 Q There have been some allegations in the press and24 elsewhere about possible misuse of Cuban exiles, members of25 that community, by the CIA. Are you aware of those?
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SECRET                                                                               1071 A No.2 Q We received some correspondence and I have seen somearticles that suggest that the Cuban community is sort of4 a resource that is occasionally tapped by the CIA for various5 operations in this country.6 A You mean this country?7 Q Yes. Picketing was one example. There were also some8 other examples of unusual activities. Do you have any knowledge9 of use by the CIA of Cuban nationals or exiles for any type10 of operation within this country?11 A No.12 Q Do you know whether or not the Agency has provided13 any financial support for Cuban businessmen in this country?14 A No. Not to my knowledge.15 Q Other than the maintenance of cover?16 A No.17 Q Establishment of businesses?18 A No.19 Q No?20 A No.21 Q In the course of our discussions today we discussed22 the AMOTS, the AMDUKES, various political front groups,23 revolutionary front groups. Are there any other emigre,24 Cuban emigre groups in the Miami area which have been supported25 by the Agency, either financially or otherwise?
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SECRET1 A Not to my knowledge.2 Q Are you familiar with the appendix that was attached3 to Mr. Colby?s statement?4 A Yes.5 Q Did you have some role in drafting that?6 A You mean the Miami Station thing?7 Q Appendix J, entitled, "The Miami Station".8 A Yes.9 Q You wrote it?10 A Yes.11 Q It has a familiar ring about it. There are reference:12 to indigenous organizations, emigre organizations. Are there any others other than the ones we have been discuss:?14 A Not to my knowledge.15 want to call it an organization, we did, you know, subsidize the hell out of Juanita Castro.17 Q. Yes, I am familiar with that.18 A You are familiar with all that and that is by the board now, too.20 Q She was doing21 A Propaganda.22 Q propaganda broadcasts23 A Yes.24 Q Do you have any personal knowledge of what kind of intelligence-gathering activities are conducted in the
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# SECRET1 area now by the Miami Station?2 A There are no domestic activities at all in the3 Miami Station All Cuban activities have been moved back4 here to Headquarters. The Miami Station now is completely5 and solely involved in the intelligence in the Caribbean.6 Q Does the Miami Station -- I beg your pardon --7 does the Headquarters component that now handles the Cuban8 situation in Miami run any agents in the Cuban community?9 A No. Well, let me explain that to you. We do have10 a career agent who has been with us for a good many years11 in Miami and we do use him to contact relatives of Cubans12 who are still in Cuba. I mean, relatives who are in the U.S.13 who have relatives in Cuba.14 Now, this is done principally with the idea of a15 recruitment target, determine weaknesses or strengths, this16 type of thing. He does contact these people all over the17 United States. If we come across an individual that looks like18 he might be recruitable, or perhaps we could even double him,19 we will, after we make our preliminary assessment, and we20 find out where relatives and these types of people are, we21 will ask this career agent or instruct him to go contact22 these people, be it New York, New Jersey, Chicago, or what-23 ever.24 Q So you use Cuban, now citizens or aliens in this25 country, as access agents.
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SECRET1 A Right.2 Q Just like foreign associates would do.3 A Exactly.4 Q Are there any more people like Bernard Barker who5 are contract employees of the Agency who still work in the6 Miami-Cuban community?7 A No. None.8 Q That entire apparatus has been9 A Has been dismantled.10 Q -- dismantled. What is the current size of the11 Miami Station?12 A I really don't know but it runs between 11 and 14,13 as far as I know. I think it will be 11 by the next fiscal14 year.15 MR. MANFREDI: Off the record.16 (Discussion off the record.)17 MR.MANFREDI: Let's go back on the record.18 BY MR. MANFREDI:19 Q There are presently no Cuban Ops being conducted out20 of Miami?21 A No. All Cuban Ops. are being conducted out of22 Headquarters.23 Q And even from the Headquarters location there are24 no paramilitary operations?25 A No.SECRET
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# SECRETQ No covert -- well, there is some propaganda activity being conducted still?A On a very small scale, and the covert action facility that we had, the radio, taped program, is being terminated by 30 June. So for all practical purposes, it is terminated now.Q The *Miami Station* is under *official cover*.A Yes.Q And it has been decreased to how many people?A Between *11* and *14*.Q And it has absolutely no responsibilities with respect to Cuba?A Absolutely none.Q And its responsibilities are entirely directed to other Latin American countries?A To Caribbean countries.Q Caribbean countries. And I trust that there are other Agency stations in the Caribbean?A Yes.Q Well, I have no further questions, Mr. Sturbitts. If you have anything you would like to add you are welcome to do so.A No, I have nothing.Q I want to thank you on behalf of myself and the Commission for your cooperation.
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SECRETPhone (Area 202) 544-6000 1121 A Sure.2 Q I am sorry we had to take so much of your time.3 A That is all right.4 Q Thank you again.5 (Whereupon, at 3:35 o'clock p.m., the taking of the6 deposition was concluded.)SECRET
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157-10011-10085 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992Date:10/06/93Page:1JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY INFORMATIONAGENCY : SSCIARECORD NUMBER: 157-10011-10085RECORDS SERIES :AGENCY FILE NUMBER :DOCUMENT INFORMATIONORIGINATOR : UNKNOWNFROM :TO :TITLE :MEETING WITH DCS HEADQUARTERS' OFFICERSDATE: 07/09/70PAGES : 4SUBJECTS :MEETING WITH DCS HEADQUARTERS' OFFICERS (STETSON, SHIRLEY; WILSON, JOHN [R][R]DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENTCLASSIFICATION : URESTRICTIONS: REFERREDCURRENT STATUS : PDATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/29/93OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS:SSCI Box 292, Folder 12[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTEDNW 50955 DocId:32203853 Page 1
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# SSCI Box #292, Folder 129 July 1970SUBJECT: Ne eting with DCS Headquartoss' OfficersShirley STETSON, for at least ten years the hackhone of DCS/OSS and recently reassigned to DCS Washington, and John WILSON, recently designated as Jim DURBIN'S replacement in Raleigh-Durham-Chanel Hill Office which covers North and South Carolina visited C1/50 on 9 July 1970 and were briefed by CIA officer and the writer from 1100 to 1200 hours. This was follwed by lunch ( / (could not accompany) and discussions until 1315 hours.2. The following highlights are made a matter of recopd:a. Reports from "Chico" concerning B'Nai Brith in NYC are still being received by DCS but, as is the custom, they are being sent to/CIA officerin CI/SPG initially,the CIA officerxsxis rather than to CI/SO. It is believed that / has been absent for about twe months and this may account for the fact that CI/SO has not been receiving the material.b. Upon the departure of STETSON for Washington and of a CIA officer for LA, Peter HOUCK will assume responsibility for Case 52722. HOCK has just completed his CT program and before that spent a wear in DCS on the Soviet Block Desk where he handled nuclear matters. He is well-regarded.c. John WILSON is young, short, red-haired, aggressive, slow-speaking, former CT who has spent two years in DCS Head quarters. He previously served as a missionary for the Mormon Church in Austria with his wife. He stems from Ogden, Utah and the w opinės that he could be slated for the job of Gen. Sterling RYSORI& replacement in Sai Lake City in five to ten years when RYSOR retires. WILSON is sensitive, flushes easil has a friendly somewhat-shy manner yet expresses his opinions easily. He does no as a hall of fire or a personality guy but seems serious and level-headed. As has coted with ramy Mermans, he seems to save his greatest enthusiasm for discussion a the Hormon Church. How true it is that there is no such thing as a half-committed . As a result of his year or two of missionary duty in Austria with 300![CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT AS SANITIZED]
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157-10011-10092 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992Date:10/06/93Page:1JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY INFORMATIONAGENCY : SSCIARECORD NUMBER : 157-10011-10092RECORDS SERIES :AGENCY FILE NUMBER :DOCUMENT INFORMATIONORIGINATOR : ROCKEFELLER COMMISSIONFROM : ROETHE, JAMES N.TO : FILETITLE :MARCHETTI, VICTORDATE : 03/28/75PAGES : 84SUBJECTS :TESTIMONY OF MARCHETTI, VICTORAPRIL 3, 1975DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENTCLASSIFICATION : TRESTRICTIONS : REFERREDCURRENT STATUS : PDATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/29/93OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS:SSCI Box 294, Folder 11[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTEDNW 50955 DocId: 32203860 Page 1
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XJFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY INFORMATIONAGENCY: SSCIARECORD NUMBER: 157-10011-10092RECORDS SERIES:AGENCY FILE NUMBER:DOCUMENT INFORMATIONORIGINATOR: ROCKEFELLER COMMISSIONFROM: ROETHE, JAMES N.TO: FILETITLE:MARCHETTI, VICTORDATE: 03/28/75PAGES: 84SUBJECTS:TESTIMONY OF MARCHETTI, VICTORAPRIL 3, 1975DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENTCLASSIFICATION: TRESTRICTIONS: REFERREDCURRENT STATUS: PDATE OF LAST REVIEW: 09/29/93OPENING CRITERIA:COMMENTS:SSCI Box 294, Folder 11Date: 10/06/93Page: 1[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTED
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TOP SECRETmet him, I only saw him on the TV a few months ago, he lookslike a broken man, he did that day anyway. But he was a verymysterious, very --MR. OLSEN: To use the house term, he was a spook?MR. MARCHETTI: Yes. He was a very exotic character. Andall kinds of stories float around about Jim Angleton. AndI am sure that some are nothing more than apocryphal and someare pure rumor.What intrigued me about this Runge thing is thatsubsequently another reporter -- and this time the guy identi-fied the man he had been talking to -- the man he had beentalking to was Bill Harvey, who was one of the people respon-sible for exposing Philby, in fact Philby gives Harvey thecredit in his book under a pseudonym -- that Harvey said tothis guy, oh, yes, the Agency -- to this reporter -- yes, theAgency has been penetrated, it may even, be now -- he made somepompous statements of that nature. But then when the guy triedto dig deeper, Harvey held him at arm's length.MR. OLSEN: Who is Harvey?MR. MARCHETTI: Bill Harvey was a scenario officer.He had been, among other things, Chief of Base in Berlin during the Cold War.He had been Head of the Cuban task force.MR. OLSEN: Which Cuban task force do you refer to now? The one that was organized --MR. MARCHETTI: Within the Agency, the Agency's ownTOP SECRET