Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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TOP SECRETChairman Church. Before you do, would you just explain exactly what the relationship between CIA and Giancana and Maheu was because that is not clear in my mind.Would you develop for the Committee that whole relationship?Mr. Breckinridge. Robert Maheu used to work for the FBI and he resigned from the FBI and opened a private investiga- tive firm here in Washington and CIA used him from time to time for certain kinds of support activities.Chairman Church. What kind of support activities?Mr. Breckinridge. On one occasion he obtained a female companion[^1].Chairman Church. What other kind of support?Mr. Breckinridge. In the early days -- and this becomes an embarrassment. As nearly as I can reconstruct, the people who knew him decided to put him on a retainer in the Office of Security, which they did for awhile, until he was so successful he said he no longer needed the retainer, which he didn't do much to earn. He later got involved representing one of the Greek shipping interests and we were given the results of some of the information that he obtained from that where there was a fight between Niarchos and Onassis. We think he may have had some involvement in another leader's companionship when he was in this country. I don't have the details. I think we can probably reconstruct it for you.[^1]: for an important foreiga leader.
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TOP SECRET 108Mr. Schwarz. I would like to pick up on the discussion we had.Chairman Church. Mr. Schwarz has five minutes more, and we will conclude, and I would like to ask the Committee to stay on for ten more minutes for an executive session.Mr. Schwarz. In the discussion we had on the use of criminal elements, we have dealt with the Castro operation.In the middle of the book supplied to us by Mr. Breckinridge earlier this week, there is a discussion about the Lumumba operation, and the Agent Q. J. Win.Now, is it a fact that Q. J. Win was the agent, or asset, however you would refer to him, who apparently was considered for the effort to assassinate Lumumba, which never took place; is that right?Mr. Colby. Yes, sir.Mr. Schwarz. Now, is it accurate that Q. J. Win operated in Europe trying to spot and assess individuals whom the Agency could use in safecracking operations? 1(B)Mr. Colby. This is what is reported, and it is quite possible.Mr. Breckinridge. The record indicates that.Mr. Schwarz. And is it further so that one of the CIA officers who first met Q. J. Win in Luxembourg, was on a trip overseas to find safecrackers and document suppliers? 1(B)Mr. Colby. Yes, that is what it says.
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# JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEMIDENTIFICATION FORMAGENCY INFORMATIONAGENCY : SSCIARECORD NUMBER: 157-10011-10041RECORDS SERIES :AGENCY FILE NUMBER :DOCUMENT INFORMATIONORIGINATOR : SSCIFROM :TO :TITLE :TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING DATED JULY 16, 1975DATE: 07/16/75PAGES : 69SUBJECTS :TRANSCRIPT OF HEARING; TESTIMONY OF PROUTY, L. FLETCHERDOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENTCLASSIFICATION : TRESTRICTIONS: REFERREDCURRENT STATUS: PDATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/29/93OPENING CRITERIA :COMMENTS:SSCI Box number 283, Folder 6[R] - ITEM IS RESTRICTEDDate: 09/30/93Page:1
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# TOP SECRET19they operate and the difference between a contact at a pro-prietary firm, like Air America or Fairway, Incorporated or theMullen Company would contact, you deal with contact men, someof whom were military who are cleared, but others are agencywho are in there.Like Gil Greenaway was in the Pentagon, he was anAgency employee, he was not a military man. So when air linescontacted Greenaway they thought they were contacting a militaryman, but he was really an employee of the Agency, for otherreasons. But he was a contact man. So there was an array ofdifferent contact men.Now, in that elaborate context Schorr approached thesubject, and he said, were there contacts in the White House?And I said, well, sure. Being the senior members of NSCwe had contact for our Forty Committee work, and then 54/12Committee, and we knew who to deal with in the White House.And he said, well, were there ever any otherkind ofcontacts?And I said, the only POW contact was a very slight thingtied up with the Mullen Company, and then went on into thestory.And the only way that I heard about the contact was,not that I was able to say that Butterfield was thecontact, but that they brought up the name of Butterfield, andthey said, we will get this business doneTOP SECRET
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# 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992## JFK Assassination System## Identification Form## Agency InformationAGENCY: SSCIARECORD NUMBER: 157-10011-10048RECORD SERIES: TRANSCRIPTAGENCY FILE NUMBER:## Document InformationORIGINATOR: SSCIAFROM:TO:TITLE: TESTIMONY OF ROBERT MAHEUDATE: 07/30/1975PAGES: 95SUBJECTS: ACCOMPANIED BY COUNSEL: GALANE, MORTON R.GIANCANA, SAMWIRETAPSMAHEU, ROBERTROSELLI, JOHNNYMAFIA CONNECTIONDOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENTCLASSIFICATION: UnclassifiedRESTRICTIONS: Consulted; 1A; 1B; IC; 3; Donor RestrictedCURRENT STATUS: RedactDATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/19/1994OPENING CRITERIA:COMMENTS: SSCI Box 252, Folder 5v9.1NW 50955 DocId: 32203816 Page 1Date: 7/30/201
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# TOP SECRETtape bPhone (Area 202) 544-6000191 am not too far off in what I am about to tell you. The contract2 was structured in such a way that as the bottoms of other3 companies became obsolete, they could only be replaced with4 Onassis' tankers. Even ARAMCO had to, by attrition, within a5 period of four-and-a-half to five-and-a-half years, would have,6 if their tankers became obsolete, they could only be replaced7 by Onassis tankers.8 Our statistics, after having studied the contract and9 making what we considered to be proper projections, indicated10 that at the completion of approximately five-and-a-half years,11 Mr. Onassis would control more dead weight tonnage than the12 United States controlled in its entirety, that he would control13 on the high seas annually more oil by tens of thousands of14 gallons more than were used by all of the Allied nations during15 the most severe year of the Korean War, that in the first year16 his profit would be approximately $17 million dollars, that17 after five-and-a-half years his annual profit would be in the18 area of $200 million.19 While this analysis is going on, we also found that a20 million dollar pay-off had been made to one of the top ministers21 in Saudi Arabia and we had the evidence out of the Swiss bank22 accounts, in other words, contrary to what a lot of people23 believe that they can't be broken, even in those days, they were24 broken and we had the evidence with all of the documentation.25 We then prepared our inputs and presented them to theNW 50955 DocId:32203816 Page 3# TOP SECRET
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TOP SECRET201 National Security Council --2 Senator Huddleston. Of the United States?3 Mr. Maheu. -- of the United States, and within a matter,4 I believe, of forty-eight hours, our State Department5 denounced the agreement. It was the first time that anyone6 had actually seen what this meant, and frankly, there was an7 innate fear that with the initial $17 million, then there would8 be no way of stopping, I mean, he might go to Venezuela and9 do the same thing, and there were also other inputs about the10 background of Mr. Onassis that I would just as soon not make11 a matter of record, but they were not too favorable, that we12 presented to the National Security Council verbally but not13 in writing.14 Mr. Madigan. Who made the presentation?15 Senator Schweiker. What subsequently happened then with16 the Security Council denunciation, et cetera?17 Mr. Madigan. The State Department denounced the agreement18 and that same evening we were told that two of the top-CIA19 officials were on their way to Saudi Arabia.20 Then I proceeded to dig up the gentleman by the name of21 Carl Twitchell by virtue of reading about the country, because22 I'm not about ready to go there and not know about the customs23 and the formation of the country. I dug up a man by the name24 of Carl Twitchell who was living in Connecticut who turned out25 to be the first American who had ever really been accepted by
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# TOP SECRETPhone (Area 202) 544-6000201 National Security Council --2 Senator Huddleston. Of the United States?3 Mr. Maheu. -- of the United States, and within a matter,4 I believe, of forty-eight hours, our State Department5 denounced the agreement. It was the first time that anyone6 had actually seen what this meant, and frankly, there was an7 innate fear that with the initial $17 million, then there would8 be no way of stopping, I mean, he might go to Venezuela and9 do the same thing, and there were also other inputs about the10 background of Mr. Onassis that I would just as soon not make11 a matter of record, but they were not too favorable, that we12 presented to the National Security Council verbally but not13 in writing.14 Mr. Madigan. Who made the presentation?15 Senator Schweiker. What subsequently happened then with16 the Security Council denunciation, et cetera?17 Mr. Madigan. The State Department denounced the agreement18 and that same evening we were told that two ![redacted information]19 officials were on their way to Saudi Arabia.20 Then I proceeded to dig up the gentleman by the name of21 Carl Twitchell by virtue of reading about the country, because22 I'm not about ready to go there and not know about the customs23 and the formation of the country. I dug up a man by the name24 of Carl Twitchell who was living in Connecticut who turned out25 to be the first American who had ever really been accepted byNW 50955 DocId:32203816 Page 5# TOP SECRET
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TOP SECRET1 old King Saud. Mr. Twitchell had spent time in the country2 as a mining engineer to help them in the exploitation of3 mines. It was in fact to Carl Twitchell that the old king gave4 the power of attorney to come to the United States government5 or come back to the United States and try to form a consortium6 for the exploitation of oil from which emanated ARAMCO.7 Carl was the type of man who was only reimbursed for his8 expenses. I think his total expenses were slightly in excess9 of $8,000. He didn't even keep the banking and percentage10 for himself, or a piece of the action, so to speak, and he was11 highly, highly loved by the Saudis and although the old king12 was then gone and King Saud, the son, was in power, Mr13 Twitchell had the same respect and reverence from the present14 leaders as he did from the father and I convinced Mr. Twitchell15 that -- he already had a clearance, a satisfactory clearance,16 and I convinced him to precede me to Saudi Arabia to try to17 lay the groundwork.18 Senator Schweiker. What year was this, roughly?19 Mr. Maheu. This, I believe, was in '54 or '55, yes.20 Anyway, I finally ended up going to Saudi Arabia, having21 a meeting with the King's confidential assistant, presenting all22 of this evidence, frankly at the time not knowing if the King23 himself had a piece of the action --24 Senator Huddleston. Had some of this evidence come from25 the wiretap?TOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET1 Mr. Maheu. That tap was entirely unproductive, entirely2 unproductive.3 Senator Schweiker. What happened then at your meeting?4 Mr. Maheu. Well, it's very interesting, if we could take5 a little time, I mean, I was scheduled to have the meeting6 "with the King," but he doesn't show, he stays somewhere else7 and the confidential assistant shows up and one trusted8 minister that he had with Carl Twitchell present.9 And my meeting was scheduled for 8:00 p.m. one night, and10 this happaned to be the last day that the King was supposed to11 be in Jidda, he was then leaving for the capital further12 inland, Jidda being the only major port in Saudi where he13 spends his summers, and they were having a big parade for him,14 and from the balcony of the hotel, I'm watching the parade go15 by, and finally the King's car comes and he is arm and arm with16 the nan on whom I'm going to give the evidence that night, and17 I frankly was not too comfortable, particularly in view of the18 fact that in those days -- and I don't know whether it has19 changed, but in Saudi, the same document did not give you20 permission to enter and leave; you had to make application for21 an exit visa after you arrived, and I was in constant contact22 with the then-United States Ambassador. He made it very clear23 that the government approved of everything I was doing, but if24 something went wrong they could not come to my rescue, I would25 have to be the fall guy, and I was prepared to do it. That was# TOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET25Saudi Arabian government would have its flag flying the highseas, and at the time that all of this is going on they arebuilding what then, upon completion of production, had beenthe biggest tanker in the world at that time, a ship namedafter the old King, a tanker which was scheduled to go and takea maiden flight and take off, and it turned out the biggestproblem that we had was to find a save-face gimmick. Butfinally the whole thing was accomplished, and it took two anda half years to do it.Senator Schweiker. I didn't mean to get you off thetrack.Mr. Maheu. Well, I'm sorry I am so verbose.Senator Huddleston. You said you bought a paper inAthens? You mean by that you actually bought the paper or justpaid them to run the story?Mr. Maheu. We bought a newspaper.You'll have to understand, Senator, that in Rome, in thosedays, there were fifty newspapers. I mean, the big circulationin those days, big circulation in Rome was 20,000. It's hardfor us to visualize that.Senator Huddleston. The CIA supplied the money to buythe newspaper?Mr. Maheu. Yes.Can we go off the record?Senator Schweiker. Yes.# TOP SECRET
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TOP SECRETMr. Liebengood. Was this listening post that you referred to, was that a project that was related to work for the Central Intelligence Agency?Mr. Maheu. I don't believe it was.Mr. Madigan. Did you have any New York assignments other than Onassis that you gave to Frank?Mr. Maheu. I don't remember any.Mr. Madigan. How about Thomas Evans? I may have asked you that yesterday. Do you recall whether he had any relation- ship with your company during the 1950's?Mr. Maheu. I don't remember a Thomas Evans, Thomas Evans?Mr. Madigan. A CIA employee.Mr. Maheu. I don't recall his name.Mr. Madigan. I got sidetracked off of my question of whether you recall a prosecution or an investigation of the Onassis wiretap. You may have already have answered that.Mr. Maheu. I think I did, yes.Mr. Madigan. What did you say?Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I appeared before a Grand Jury that was investigating Mr. Frank on another matter.Mr. Madigan. On another matter, but you had no recollection of any investigation of that particular tap?Mr. Maheu. No, I don't.TOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET311 Mr. Madigan. Either an investigation of you or Frank or2 Leone or anyone?3 Mr. Maheu. No, I don't.4 Mr. Madigan. No interviews by the FBI?5 Mr. Maheu. It's conceivable, but I don't remember it.6 Mr. Madigan. You don't remember it?7 Mr. Maheu. No.8 Mr. Madigan. Let's go off the record.9 (Discussion off the record.)10 Mr. Madigan. Did there come a time when you were asked11 by the Central Intelligence Agency to be involved in a12 project which would involve sending a woman by the name of13 Florence Horn over to a foreign country?14 Mr. Maheu. Yes, sir.15 Mr. Madigan. And what were you asked to do with regardto that?17 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I was asked to find18 a woman, preferably From Los Angeles, who would agree to go to19 a foreign country and under some pretext try to meet the20 leader of the country and hopefully change his basic philosophies21 which at the time were thought to be detrimental to the United22 States, and that they were very, as a result, very seriously23 jeopardizing the national security of the government of the24 United States.25 Mr. Madigan. Did you find such a woman?
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TOP SECRET32Mr. Maheu. Yes, I did.Mr. Madigan. And did the Agency sponsor her trip overseas that is the CIA?Mr. Maheu. I placed her in touch with a representative of the CIA. He made certain commitments, financial commitments to her. At the completion of the assignment, she claimed that she had additional funds coming to her which I paid out of my own pocket, so that I guess a more accurate way of saying it is that the Agency and I sponsored her trip.Mr. Madigan. Did she ever get to meet the foreign leader whom we will call A?Mr. Maheu. I do not have any recollection.Mr. Madigan. You don't know whether she did or she didn't?Mr. Maheu. I don't have any recollection.Mr. Madigan. Do you know how long she was gone?Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that she was gone for several months:Mr. Madigan. And this person is the woman I referred to earlier by the name of Florence Horn, is that right?Mr. Maheu. That is correct.Mr. Madigan. Now can you date that assignment as sometime in 1956 or '57, does that sound about right, or do you have any recollection of what year it was?Mr. Maheu. I don't have any recollection. It was beforeTOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRETPhone (Area 202) 544-60001 1960.2 Mr. Madigan. It was sometime after you had begun in '543 with your Agency operation?4 Mr. Maheu. That is correct.5 Mr. Madigan. Or your sponsorship?6 Mr. Maheu. That is correct.7 Mr. Madigan. Subsequently, did this Leader "A" come to8 the United States to your knowledge after this?9 Mr. Maheu. I don't recall whether he came subsequently or10 prior to.11 Mr. Madigan. When the same leader did come to the United12 States, were you involved in any assignment for the CIA with13 regard to his presence in the country?14 Mr. Maheu. Yes, I was.15 Mr. Madigan. And what was that assignment?16 Mr. Maheu. I was told by the State Department and the17 CIA that this leader would be in need of female companions and18 that the government was very much concerned that the type of19 women that would be secured for him might eventually be very20 destructive to the national security of the United States21 government unless said women had been cleared by local police22 departments in several of the cities in which he was scheduled23 to travel.24 Mr. Madigan. Who was the Agency representative that gave25 you this assignment? Did you go through Mr. O'Connell, or wasNW 50955 DocId:32203816 Page 12# TOP SECRETWARD & PAUL33
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# TOP SECRET341 it someone different?2 Mr. Maheu. This request emanated from, directly from the3 State Department.4 Mr. Madigan. Who in the State Department?5 Mr. Maheu. Mr. Scott McCloud, who was then Director of6 the Office of Security and Consular Affairs.7 Mr. Madigan. Was it coordinated with the CIA, or was this8 strictly between yourself and the State Department?9 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that the CIA was kept10 apprised, however that the coordination was with the State11 Department, in connection with the security that was being12 provided for this leader during his visit to the United States.13 Mr. Madigan. Did you meet with the State Department or14 CIA people or both in New York City when the leader arrived there?1516 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I met with Security17 Personnel of the State Department.18 Mr. Madigan. What did you do in New York for this19 assignment?20 (Pause)21 Mr. Maheu. I don't recall.22 Mr. Madigan. And did you meet with the New York police23 with regard to the assignment?24 Mr. Maheu. I don't recall.25 Mr. Madigan. Did you obtain or send over any females over# TOP SECRET
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# TOP SECRET351 to the hotel that person A was staying at?2 Mr. Maheu. I don't recall.3 Mr. Madigan. Do you recall telling me yesterday that you4 did send girls over there?5 Mr. Maheu. No, I don't.6 Mr. Madigan. Did you travel from New York to any other7 city with this leader?8 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I did.9 Mr. Madigan. What occurred when you arrived at the other10 cities?11 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I contacted the12 security representatives of the State Department.13 Mr. Madigan. And after you contacted the security14 representatives, what were you supposed to do in these other15 cities?16 Mr. Maheu. My recollection is that I, through local17 Police Department officials or law enforcement officials made18 certain that the women who would gain access to the leader's19 suite werer such that they would mot be a security risk insofar20 as the national security of our government was concerned.21 Mr. Madigan. Were these women that would not be a security22 risk be women who the Police Department had some relationship23 with?24 Mr. Maheu. I don't know what you mean by relationship,25 Mr. Madigan.
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TOP SECRET36Mr. Madigan. You indicated in our discussion yesterday that the women that were allowed access, as you put it to this Leader "A" were to be women that the police would have some control over so that they would not be a possibility of a later blackmail problem with the United States government, is that not correct?Mr. Maheu. That is my recollection, yes.Mr. Madigan. Did you participate in sending these women or providing these women over to the hotel where the leader was staying?Mr. Maheu. I don't recall.Mr. Madigan. Do you recall telling me yesterday that you did?Mr. Maheu. No, I do not.Mr. Madigan. Do you recall telling me yesterday when I asked you whether someone had travelled from city to city, you indicated that you thought maybe one did, but you weren't sure about how many others.Mr. Maheu. That is correct.Mr. Madigan. How many cities did you visit during the trip that this Leader "A" made?Mr. Maheu. Several cities.Mr. Madigan. Now were the women that were provided known to you or represented to you as prostitutes in any of these cities?TOP SECRET
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TOP SECRET371 Mr. Maheu. I don't recall.2 Mr. Madigan. Do you recall telling me yesterday that they3 were?4 Mr. Maheu. Do you recall yesterday identifying the5 leader?6 Mr. Madigan. I do..7 Let's go off the record.8 (Discussion off the record.)9 Mr. Madigan. According to your understanding, Mr. Maheuof the project that you were involved in with the StateDepartment in providing the women to this foreign leader in thevarious cities starting from New York and going through theother cities he stayed at, do you believe the women that weresent over to his hotel were prostitutes?15 Mr. Maheu. That they may have been, yes.16 Mr. Madigan. And you did particpate under instructionsof the government, to send these women over to his hotel or tomake them available to him at his hotel, not knowing whathappened after they got to the hotel?20. Mr. Maheu. That is correct.21 Mr. Madigan. And that occurred in New York and the other22 cities that he stayed at while he was in the United States?23 Mr.Maheu. That is correct.24 Mr. Madigan. And as far as these women travelling withyou From city to city, your recollection is that one may havel--