HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Paége 84 ' | i that log. | 2. “Rijnew analysis of all the long distance toll calls of Jack Ruby in the dags around Nov. 22. Warren Comm. records show he made calls to Chicago 0.6. figure Barney Baker, and Teamster heavy Dusty Miller, plus = others. Does the explanation for these calls really wash, (i.e. Ruby's union troubles in re his nightclub). Has|this whole |s% suxbject been exhausted by Warren Comm. or not, iis there more (interviews, etc.) that should be done here? 3. Someone should Literally live in Miami area for a month, immerse in the community, get to know the whole scorecard, (maybe hire.a local Spanish-speaking cop|with good liocal contacts). € More fully debrief Trafficante for his version of events and people. Follow up with lcontacts with all the Cubans involved. Has ‘Miami pulled all the significant. toll records for |/period of time around Rosselli's death (Cubans, Oo. C, figures, garage owner, etc.) and followed up. 4. A full tracking of what happened when Church reports were. released,| reactions, contacts, concerns, who were | ‘the key figures who actually got the reports and whp''did they speak to about the exnukegx contents. Review our own; mailing records, if exist, ad showing who asked for reports. Local mesx news mexx media for leads in re reactions’ of the community. Travel records of O.C. and Cuban; leaders in and around that time, as well as in and around time of Rosselli's death. 57 nek. ‘crs |, Tra Ld tee whe, PN a whe cma Tadd Roby) * Cube < mm 1954, elie (ote yn tone ylecy Lan Ucger cassie ’ 5 4 bas contaat Li Ruby Lomtim ues, Liorrem Commo . met rtigete emedey te ey it it ‘ rod i iu rer RE AES Ne CENCE ERE OO NR Ra eee a ene
MEMORANDUM ' oo | . ie : A ait . i TO: Nike MADIGAN | | TOM MOORE — : BILL MILLER FROM: © | HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD DATE: | DECEMBER 27, 1976 SUBJECT: MARITA LORENZ Ms. Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire { 1 to come to jWashington and tell us “all the things held back i re : : on" in New jYork. Her desire to cooperate has been engendered by two events, i.e., Sturgis told the German press of her FBI spying .on the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which frightened her. She ¢laims to want her information in ii ; ; responsible} hands as‘soon as possible and requests we subpoena . Pat , vl her (i.e. pay her way) here and make one night's accommodation for her. | What do you|think? I am to call her back on Monday, January 3 at 212-534-2412. My personal opinion is that we . boty have little to lose if we have time to listen to her. ae ‘ HSL/dr HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 _
MEMORANDUM’ | TO: - FROM: ' DATE: ; SUBJECT: Ms. to come I R i on" in New! by two events, FBI spying had a chane frightened responsible| FEE aie ee ““NtoM MOORE MARITA LORENZ j I Washington York. ‘her. IKE MADIGAN ILL MILLER| HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD DECEMBER 27, 1976. t Her i.e hands as soon as possible and reque desire to cooperate has 5 her (i. i.e! pay her way) here and make one night’ Sh for her. January 3 tt | What do you jj at 212-534-2412. think? My personal opinion | ons | | Lorenz called this afternoon to expres ~ 7 8 Cn s her desire and tell us "all the things held back een engendered » Sturgis told the German press of her bn the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she. | e encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which She ¢laims to want her information in i Sts we subpoena is accommodation I am to call her! back on Monday, is that we i ae sf . : have little .to lose if we have time to listen to her. i ty q ‘Howard: would be personally hesitant she Wim can provide at least ia specific adjenda of will discuss. | One p pressed for time! give us specific) toa) fo ossible tact and cannot s areas that would allow us to show that ta to. her should be other odniyeice business. od ey) he ai i Bye ec is to tell her that ‘ubpena her until late ra) t § { 3 . 1 Z : 14 { | t | 4 { ! HY 50955 Docld: 324273630 page 66 ii ie new! we Feb "oul i I have no objections @® to her coming down, but ito invest any more of my own time unless information she ‘are extremely ruary unless she Pr superiors" given a kehm higher ERG priority tm, OVEN | | ; al
HW 50955 MEMORANDUM | TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Ms. to come t on" by two events, FBI spyin MIKE MADIGAN TOM MOORE OBELL MILLER! | HOWARD S. LIEBENGOOD DECEMBER 27, 1976 MARITA LORENZ | | boy | Bo fy i oN a Lorenz called this afternoon to express her desire 0. Washington, ‘and tell us “all the things held back in NeW York. Her |desire to cooperate has ben engendered i.e., Sturgis told the German press of her g on the head of the Soviet U.N. Mission and she had a chance encounter with the Soviet on December 26 which frightened her. . responsib, her (i.e for her. January 3 t pay her way) here and make one night She claims to want her information in i] nll fi Ny le hands as soon as possible and requests we subpoena '§ accommodation What do you. think?’ ‘I am to call her back on Monday, - | at 212-534-2412, _ My personal opinion! is that we i -have little to lose if we have time to listen to her. HSL/dr Docld: 32423630. oe b i a] i: . | | i 1 ‘Page oF , \
- | MEMORANDUM ' To: Mike Madigan | i] | From: Ed Greissing Ly Date: Sept. 16,976 7 Subject: Review) of CIA documents presented the SCI by i 4 Jack Anderson j - The documents recently received by this Committee, from Jack Anderson, had previously been reviewed by the Church Committee staff. The documents appear to be a few of those requested for FOIA review by David Belin. Tt is my understanding, after these documents were declassified, David Belin furnished copies to both David Martin (AP) - and Jack Anderson | The Church Committee was permitted to review the ‘entire Oswald 201 file, the AMLASH file, Garrison files and selected] Office of . Security files. ‘THe Committee primarily concerned itself with the early period of| the investigation (November 1963 - October 1964), as it believed the| information to be received from this time period to be more relevant in evaluating the performance of ‘the intelligence agencies with réspect to their investigation. Dan Niescher|, the Church Committee contact at the CIA, was the individual responsible for the declassification of documents relating to the | assassination of President Kennedy. During this declassification process, Dan Niescher consulted the Committee staff to make sure that we were aware of certain documents. In addition, Mr. Kaleras had/ given the staff unlimited access to all files we believed necessary, to conduct our investigation. Yet, the possibility still remains that. the staff was not shown everything} The CIA has maintained throughout that the Oswald 201 file was a.complete compilation of the material related to the assassination of President Kennedy. However, information relating to who Lee Harvey Oswald was, and what he was doing are not included.in their files. The|Oswald 201. does not attempt to question Oswald's connection with|both pro-Gaatro and anti-Castro groupsior any of the AMLASH information. The most notable subject missing was inform- ation relating to CIA/U.S. Government attempts to assassinate Fidel Castro. | 7 i HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Rage 69
fi Me a peneeen aor Q 7 i nan yee a! i ey No, I can 't either confirm or deny it.. We are (prohibited at staff level from discussing any Committee business. I apologize|for not being able to help you. You know. the . ground rules and they haven’ t changed. Right |! fy I can't say | I don't know. You indicated that} you . Are you still working Rosselli? You getting anywhere! 4 ‘ i ‘ f You got a (pretty good source on that? On the fact that they were! ‘having dinner together on many occasions before he was murdered? el i . ab 4 I just can’ 't help you because of the ground rules. I'd like to have a copy of your piece, or two, for | te and 4 Inderfurth here. Just drop a copy in the mail and I'll : . i appreciate it. Hi . ‘ . . me |. : - ah ey {l hy ve You mean People like... . Well, I think . ma . people like Trafficante? i il Well, I can't discuss whether or not such a meeting took place. I can't tell you whether you*re right or wrong. of od ath a H ited _ Now when you talk about Trafficante you don't need to be HW 50955 Docld: 32423630 Page 90
| | nyt nM cautioned. [You know them as well as I do. Well, as fay as our rules are concerned, it wouldn t make any difference if Trafficante was here. It wouldn't . 1 . te make any difference in our ability to confirm or deny that. ; 1 : ay ' it ‘ | sip | ’ ch ibd i HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Pade 91
g% \ , ro ae ee _ Rosselif's disappearance. a source - | Bald... - Trafficante Made Secret Appearance By RON LaBRECQUE ': Herald Staft Writer Florida’s reputed . organized crime boss, Santos Trafficante of Tampa and Miami, made a secret, ’ four-hour October appearance be-~ fore the Senate Intelligence Com- mittee to answer questions about his role in a CIA assassination plot, investigation sources have _ dis- closed. Trafficante, 62, had not previ- ously been questioned by the com- — - mittee or its staff in the two-year- old investigation of CTA activities. Of the three Mafia figures in- volved in the early 1960s plot to kill Cuban Premier Fidel Castro, only Trafficante is still alive. Both Sam Giancana and John Rosselli “were murdered within the last 16 months. The murders are unsolved. INVESTIGATORS ALSO said that Trafflcante had dinner with Rosselli at The Landings, a Fort Lauderdale restaurant, in mid-July, - less than two weeks before Rossel- Ht disappeared. Rosselli’s body, stuffed in.an oi! drum, floated to the surface of Dumfoundling Bay the first week of August. Trafficante reportedly has told police that the July dinner with Rosselli -- as well as several other ' meetings previously at the Cordoba Restaurant in Miami. fermerly owned by the husband of Rosselli’s niece, according to police —~ were “friendly, business,” . Investigators im recent weeks’ _ have centered their efforts on trac- ing the whereabouts of Traffi- cante’s associates at the time of, Trafficante. Wha five abeveh Fave i | i social events with no John Rosselli -o. dined with Trafficante years has maintained a home at 740 NE 155th St. in North Dade, could not be reached for cormment. Trafficante was identified as the head of a South Florida Mafia fam- ‘ily in testimony in 1963 before a US. Senate subcommittee. + hed HIS ATTORNEY, Henry Gonza- lez of Tampa, ‘who accompanied Trafficante when he went to Washington, according to sources, would not comment on either. the Senate appearance or Trafficante’s past activities. When first asked -about the Senate appearance, he said, “You realize you're treading ‘+ A committee source said. that rafficante had not been ques- tioned previously by the committee because his role in the plot -had jdered “secondary.” Interest was refi after Rosselli’s death. Investigators ‘sought to determine whether the murders of the two men were con- nected in any way with their testi- mony or potential Sestimony y before, _ the committee. GIANCANA, WHO was a Mafia: boss in Chicago for many vears, was killed in June 1975. at the same time Senate investigators "were preparing to contact him. The -gun used to kill Giancana, found . ‘discarded om a roadside several - miles from Giancana’s house a ‘month after the murder, was traced to a Miami gunshop, but the . . trail stopped’ there. Investigators said the gun was part of a shipment purchased in 1965 by the Tamiami Gun Shop, but there are no records to indicate where it went from there, accord- ing to investigators and gunshop owners. , Rosselll, whose most powerful Mafia days were reportedly in the 1950s and early 1960s in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, did appear before the committee at least three times in the 12 months before his death.. In Washington, the committee has. kept a tight clamp on comment about the investigation, and only one member, Robert T. Stafford (R., Vt.), acknowledged the Traffi- cante session, saying “I was not present when the witness you speak of was in front of the com- mittee.” Sen. Daniel Inouve (D., Hawaii), the: committee chairman who, along with Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.) pressured for Justice De- partment and FBI involvement in the Rosselli murder case, said “I have never met Mr. Trafficante. That's as far as Pil go.” , & PRIME interest of the commit- tee has been possible links between | At Senate Investigation, Sources Say the CIA Castro plotting and the age ‘gassination of John F. Kennedy. Revelations of the Senate commits tee were a key factor in the cree -ation of the new House of Repre- sentative investigation, which is ‘taking a new look at the JFE. muure der. Trafficante reportedly has told investigators that he first met Row selli about 1956, It was in the early 1950s that Florida law- enforree ment officials estimated that a Boo lita opertion run by Trafficante and his brother netted $2 million annu- ally. Trafficante was a major gute bling figure in pre-Castro Havana, where he ran a casino. In 1959, ft "Was estimated that $1 million or $2 million was bet nightly in all the Mafia-run casinos im Havana. The gambling stopped when Castro took over in 1959. Rosselli was.the first of the three Mafia figures to be recrulted by the CIA in 1960 in its plot t to as sassinate Castro. IN A CIA memo quoted ia axe fhp~ terim report of the committee @° year ago, it was said that Traffie cante’s role was to “serve a8 a cote rier to Cuba and make arvangee ments there.” _ Rosselli told his CIA Ulaison that “Trafficante believed a certain leading figure in the Cuban exile movement might be able to accome~ plish the assassination.” An intare nal ‘CIA ‘investigation ia 1967 “suge gests that this Cuban may have been receiving funds from Traffi- cante and other racketeers intereste ed in securing ‘gambling, prostitne tion and dope monopolies’ in Cuba after the overthrow of Castro.” [WW 50955 Page 92 Bocld: 32473636
j 1, : THE WASUINGTON POST Mendes, Jun, 18,1931 BT Castro Laid to CLA, The Washington Merry-Go-Round: i 6 Attempis Lo Ki ll By Juck Anderson Locked in the darkest re- cesses of the Central Intelll- gence Agency is the story of six assassiriation attempts against Cuba’s Fidel Castro. For 10 years, only a few key people have known the terrt!- ‘ible secret, They have sworn never to talk. Yet we have learned the detalls. from sources whose credentials are beyond question. We spoke to John McCone, who headed the CIA at the time of the assassination at- tempts. He acknowledged the idea had becn discussed inside the CIA .but insisted it had heen “rejected immedi- ately.” He vigorously denied -ithat the CIA had ever particl- pated in any plot on Castro's life, Asked whether the at- ‘ltempte could. have been made with his knowledge, he re- plied: “It could not have hap- pened.” We have complete conf. however, in our + ‘|dence, ' jsources. The plot to knock off Castro ‘began ag part of the Bay of Plas operation The Intent was to eliminate the Cuban dicta- Ww 50955 Docld: 39494630 ifur before the nents invad- ers landed on the island. Their arrival was expected to touch off a general uprising, which the Communist roillitie woul have had more trouble: putting down without’ the charismatic Castrotoleadthem. After the first attempt failed, five more assassination teams were sent to Cuha! The last team reportedly mate Jt to a rooftop within shooting distance of Castro before they were apprehended. This pened around the last| of|/Feb- ruary or first of March) 1963. Nine months later; Presi- dent Kennedy was |gunned down in Dallas by Lee Harvey Oswald, a fanatic who lpre- viously had agitated for Cas- tro in New Orleans and had made a mysterious trip to the Cuban Embassy in | Mexico City. | Among those privy| to. the CIA conspiracy, there is still a nagging suspicion—unsup- ported by the Warren Com- mission's findings—that |Cas- tro, became aware of the US. plet upon his life anil BAMes how recruited Oswald ta retal-! ‘Page 94 jale against President Ken. nedy. ; To set up the Castro assassi- nation, the CIA enlisted Bob. ert. Maheu, a former “FBI agen 1 shadowy contacts, who had handled other under- cover assignments for the CIA out of his Washington public relations office. He later moved to Las Vegas to head up billionaire Howard Hughes’ Nevada operations. Maheu recrulted John Ro- selli, a ruggedly handsome gambler with contacts in both the American and Cuban un- derworlds, to arrange the ag- sassination. The dapper, hawk- faced Roselll, formerly mar- ried to movie actress June Lang, was a power In the movie industry until his con- viction with racketeer. Willle Bioff in a million-dollar Holly- wood labor shakedown. The CIA assigned two of its most trusted operatives, William Harvey and James (Big Jim) O'Connell, to the hush-hush murder mission. Using phony names, they accompanied Ro- selli on trips to Miami to line up the assassination teams. The full story reads \ike the script of # James Bond movie, coniete with seeret trysts at glittering Miami Beach hotels | and) | midnight powerboat dashes to secret Janding spots - on the Cuban coast. Once, Fo- - sellt's boat was shot out from, under him. For the firs’ try, the CIA: furnished Roselli with special poison capsules to slip into Castro's food. The polson wna supposed to take three days to act. By the time Castro dled, his system would throw off all traces of the polson, so he would appear to be the victim of a natural if mysterious ail- ment. Rosell arranged with a | Cuban, related ta oné of Cas- tro’ 8 a chefs, to plant the deadly pellets in the dictator's food. On March 13, 1961, Roselli de- | livered the capsules to his con- tact at Miami Beach's clamor. ous| Fontainebleau Hotel. A couple of weeks later, just about the right time for the plot | to have been carried out A Fa WE ve ee a report out of Havane sald, Castro was dL But he rp covered before the Bay of Py. invasion on April 17, 1981. Four more attempts vi e imade on Castro's iife, aii RelleMeChure asndieate fe + a ee ae eae
HW 450955 _ Fidel Castro. years ago. Sek k Ae hid? Four vislana years. ™ Wusee Lelews< fl cami ages I broke a story that now|lis belatedly rocking Washington. I rpported that the Central Intelligence Agency had recruited two _ Mafia figures, John Roselli tof coe | 1 I tracked down Rosetti and questioned him about the’ story. to say. He promised me, however, that he would give m if he should ever be free to i i | fl tl hl 7 \ t ty and Sam Giancana, to assassinate Cuban Premier t i t He had nothing A e his exclusive story i i a Yesterday, John Rosetti told his story -~- first,to the Senate Intelligence Committee in secret session,| . nn nS i vot ' ‘ HOE ' been disciplined « all his life { HG i Roselli : , dapper, hawk-faced man with a thatch of white hair. to keep his mouth shut. | then to me as he had promised four anda half ' el He has His Mafia partner, 4 m t Sam Giancana, was slain before Senate investigators could serve him with fo too a subpoena. Fog So it was “obvious ly pair i i ; a \ | ; 1 nful for Roselli to ta tk. 4 " ' i ; : I promised I would make | i clear that he reveated no names, except for the CIA contacts whose identities the Senate atready knew. Ht ' i af j ‘ if / 4 So here, is: Roselli's own account of a real-life "Mi 58 sion Impossible" -- a the attempt to Kitt Castro. ‘Tt is a story of cash payments, poison pellets, 1 | high- powered. rifles and powerboat dashes to Cuba. The plot against Cast . i } was the CIA chief. aa TO, Roselli said, began in 1960 -- when Dwight Eisenhower was! President, ‘Richard Nixon was Vice President and Allen Dulles uh Roselli'was recruited : in Los Angeles, he said, by. Robert Maheu, then an sd front in Wa shington. Docld: 32423630: Page 96 aide to pittionsire Howard lene. Previously, Maheu had operated a CLA. 4 i
ie : ; | | | i According! to Roselli; ‘pe murdered mobster, Sam| Giancana, never became Fy Vt involved in the assassination ‘plot. He knew about it; he may even have suggested | ay j a Cuban ‘contate; nothing more. ie 4 , he ' Hh Rosetti identified the: CIA project officer, in charge of the Castro ilk, 7 ht : i vt assassination,\as "Big Jim'O'Connetl. Maheu put Roselli in contact with O'Connell, as Roselli remembers it, in New York City o on p September 14, 1960. i , dot { Thereafter, Roselli | abe to Miami and recruited the as sassination squads. At first, they plotted to poison Castro. Poison pellets vipre supplied by the CIA, They were delivered to the i 7 by Maheu. a ae uy bpened his briefcase, revealing $10, 000 in cash | ellets. | ‘ ! L it = Je otters in a Miami hotel room, accor di ing to Roselli, | ac ' a : and the fata LPs t ‘i The money was distriblted tothe Cuban plotters. Roselli swore he never took any money from the CIA, ‘l a except for some incidental expenses, He paid the his own pocket. » big expenses ,//he said, out of] i i The poison pills were “apposed to take three days to work. Pupposediys i ' oth Hy ‘this would give | the poison time to work its way out of | Castro! s system before he died, and his death would be attributed to natural caulles ° | . Roselli. never found out what happened to the spottels or the pellets. But they tried “ later with np beronges dose of poison. wl long afterward, repo rts reached them that Castro was 5 desperately itt, Roselli dscsn know whether the ij . 1 illness was caused by the poison ora virus. But Castro survived, and the © plotters appar rehtly did not, a oh | " | . Toselli; ‘said he also P cked up intelligence, which he submitted to the CIA . both during th e Bay of Pigs planningjand the later Cuban, missile crisis. After Ta ; the ° Bay of Pigs, Roselli said, Maheu was cut out of the , a | Roselli reported toa CIA agent named William Harvey. | HW 50955 . DocId: 32423630 ‘Page 97 | fo. } i ale . " 4 | | th plot. Thereafter,
HW 450955 Docld: 32423630 -Bage 98 Pde { | mT . ; There were four met into Cuba with high- poweretriftes The last assassin made it to a Havana rooftop before they were caught. : i This wpe around Mase 1, 1963. Then the project was abandoned. I saw Harvey for the last time in June, 1963. Five mont gunned down|President Kenhedy in Dallas. Oswatd had | Castro movement. Shortly before that dreadful day in Uy 7 I sasbnaton attempts, the plotters were smuggled t | ation squad, Roselli heard, Roselli | iy he later, Lee Harvey Oswa Ibeen active in the pro- i | Dallas, Oswald had made | Hy | a mysterious trip to Mexico where he visited the Cuban embassy. The Warren : J Commission found no evidence, however, that Oswatd w Yesterday, Roselli made no apology for his CIA r rz call him a mobster. He reese, himself as a patriot, ao hou “ie tt i wy wt i ae a ui | hh! it ha : | i‘ i us { Hd | D4 vs 4 “ft : il if ita ‘il ya . { yy ! i ie | | \ i i ‘ as in the hire of Havana, ple. U. S, authorities
THE WASHINGTON POS Tess | , 1 Saoday, September 12, 1906 i HW 50955 Docld:32493630 Page 99 ‘lived comfortably w -.. brother-in-law in 4, ‘ to kill me at my age, the 71-year-old Rt 2 ‘does it! d golf several times - _* make? So he playe -* am@arly reports said his legs were br: a week, sipped white wine ner, and—until somebody - Johnny Roselli s | he Calc | | ; on Ve Feo fy By Rudy Maxa a Until last month, Johnny’ Roselli ith’his sister’ and. Miami suburb. A friend estimated he earned about $25, . 000 ‘annually from a gj p he owned in the lobby of Las Vegas’ Fron- tier Hotel. ~ @ shrugged last year. when his at- torney suggested he hire a bodyguard, after the murder of Chicago mobster Sam Giancana, his partner in CIA plots to kill Fidel Castro. If anybody wants selli ‘said,- what difference with din- ‘decided. hould wind up in an ulated Rise t Descent ny Roselli. 5 lives in a sprawling white home that at first glance, resembles every othe: ~ house in the neighborhood. ‘.... But it is different: the carefully cur “tained windows, the extra lock on th “front door, and spotlights on all side of-the house give it the look of a subu “ban. fortress. Inside, the furniture i “pale blue Méditerranean, the carpet i thick white. —— - Roselli’s killers did not ambush th . house; Roselli went to them. He lef _ Plantation at i p.m. on July 28 wearin a golf shirt, his golf clubs: in his ca <°- oi barrel in Miami’s Dumfoundling °, “ Bay—considered employment in the -- trunk. He told his sister he would b dRo- > home for dinner. That afternoon 0 _cevening he was killed, probably by su : focation, perhaps after being torture “ Ken.. Heavily chained, Roselli wé stuffed in a 55-gallon oildrum an - dumped into the ocean. vo “His brother-in-law found Roselli’s si bling casinos beginning ‘to ° "new gam @ East. : "open in the oil-rich Middh sembemsareeorsnetse a, ‘+ "'In’the late 1920s Al Capone and his - ., friends chose Miami as: the chic spot - for organized crime figures to buy, a . winter home. Just across a strip |of .. ocean was Cuba, a gambling and vice... «mecca. The mobsters from the north. “. were treated like visiting celebrities . by Florida press and ‘society, ‘while __ some mem “; began developing a taste for the finer things in life. oe “it 2 0 .. a) te he salary of $12,000 five years ear lier, his _4g-$2,500 to $70,000. One of the sheriff's - | deputies: said. he collected $50,000) in " -eessions. In 1948 a bookmaker’s opera~ cause he had family there. His brother-. in-law, a government missile expert, pate ow Lee = bers of the local police force... had become sheriff on an annual :: .: ersonal fortune had increased from: bribes in nine months spent as a Dag-. . man for- Miami Beach gambling con- » ~ver-colored 1975 Chevrolet Impala se: - eral days later, parked at the Miami h ‘ternational Airport. = ‘Ten days after Roselli’s disappea -:anee something went wrong. The o drum that was meant to keep his deat -. a secret floated to the surface of Dun  foundling Bay, buoyed by the gases ¢ -Roselli’s decaying body..- _*- The holes in the side of the dru: _and the placing of his Chevrolet at th airport convinced investigators hb. ‘corpse was meant never to be disco’ :‘ ered: history was supposed to. recor ‘ that dapper Johnny Roselli, facing 4: "In the’ 1940s the sheriff of Dade’ « portation proceedings that the gover: “County (which includes most of the Mi-:< ‘ment had threatened off and on fc ~“ ami aréa) admitted to the Kefauver,or-..’ years, decided to disappear on an ai - ganized crime committee that,. since «plane flight to who-knows-where. © ¢ ‘. “Cutting up and disposing of bodi: is not necessarily new to our depai ment,” says the man who is directir the search for Roselli’s killers. Lt. Ga Minnium, head of the Dade Coun homicide squad, is a well-muscled m: with an aquiline nose that separates © tion in ‘Miami grossed $26 million! It. . __ was the kind of place that made arack-. Pat of hard blue eyes. On the pa -eteer feelathome. ~*~": : i.) green wall of his bare office is a smi For the last two years, Johnny |Ro- card that reads | DYNAMITE—DON selli felt at home in eapalign, @ bed- =: - SHAKE ME UP." ee room suburb north o mi that/Ro- - . _He and another police officer | “Gelli made his retirement haven'be- .vount the solving of some of Da: ‘County's more brutal’ murders wi See ROSELLI, L4, Col. 1
‘ the enthusiasm of two football players . ‘recalling their favorite bowl games. | no ROSELLI, Brom a The headless, handless body that floated into a Miami|canal last month reminded Minnium of that other, simi- larly mutilated body that turned up last December. And| who.can forget the man who got angry with his room- mate, sliced him up and: tossed the ; parts along ahighway? ')._., |} As it turned out, Roselli’ Fy wasn't the : i first body to float into the annals of Mi- HW 50955 ami crime in a drum, Minium says. Ten years ago .a lovers’ quarrel re- sulted in a man stuffing'his girl friend into a drum, filling it! with cement and . Aqua Velva: shave lotion. The drum - it (oe i - work-a-day, | | avelv ety, junior jump! £58 A be-devillng shimmér-giimmer you, set for champagne of a great beat! One-piece cotton velveteen, ready to layer black or ‘brown; 5-13. Come in, : write | or phone... : | y ale art * “a ue q Docld: 32423630 — Page 100 r ‘| | ny. aan was found restiig against a dike and justice was eventually done. ; Minnium is not Pleased by such vio- lent antics. “We | don't: appreciate people com. . mitting murder and dumping a body in out county, regardless of who the people are, but especially if it’s organ- ' ized crime,” Minnium says, His \department handled 168 homt- | cides: last year and boasted an -85 per cent | ‘clearance record.” As of July, 1976, the percentage was even higher, standing at about 92 per cent. if Charles Zatrepalek and Julio . Ojeda have anything to say about it, - Roselli’s killing is not going to dimin-' ish: those percentages. Both men are 2Byeats -old homicide detectives who vow with a schoolboy’s Sincerity tha they won't rest until Roselli’s murder is solved. In the last four weeks, with the help of Washington agencies, Za. trepalek and Ojeda have reconstructed Roselli’ life in hopes of understanding his death, For the third time in eight years “of marriage, Zatrepalek worked out of town on his wedding anniversa- ry; because of the “awesomeness” of this case, Ojeda spent his Labor Day holidayjat work. “Maybe 10 years from now,” Ojeda says, “I want someone to look at my file and say, ‘Hey, he talked to every- body.’ ‘And maybe he'll hear some- thing and BANG! that’s the arrest!” : That Johnny Roselli. was destined to walk on the dark side of life never seemed|in doubt. As a teen-ager in Bos- ton, when his name was Filippo Sacco, Roselli lwas arunner for the numbers racket. [He helped his stepfather burn down his home for the insurance mon- ey. He was arrested at age 22 for steal- ing about $25 from someone. Then he changed his name and left for Chica- go. It would be 40 years until, in the late 1960s, Johnny Roselli would see his mother ‘again, though he sent money to his family through an intermediary in Chicago so his sisters could attend college. By the late 1920s Al Capone was well established in Chicago. Newspaper- men, politicians and cops were on the Capone payroll and a young man with _ Roselli’ s|street savvy had little trouble finding suitable employment; he hired on as ajrumrunner with the Capone gang. At age 26 Roselli was arrested . for selling morphine to an undercover agent. He was acquitted because, after . Roselli’s jarrest, no one could seem to find thearresting officer or informant - in the case. They still haven't been found. ie In the} mid-1930s Roselli, by now a ” mature and charming man, lucky with penehnik reennneenn ania
HW 50955 _ have replied. “Tn the 1940s the sheriff of Dade includes most of the Miami area ) admitted to the - | f Kefauver organized crime committee that, since he had become sheriff on an annual salary: of $12,000 five years, earlier, his: ‘personal fortune had increased from $2. 500 to ta $70,000. oan ot | A i women, friendly with men of tnotiey, moved to Los Angeles. He wore) hand- tailored suits and, by all accounts, iwas easygoing, mild-mannered. He | was married for a time to an actress, but they had no children. He became a close friend of Harry Cohn, the'legend- ary head of Columbia Pictures. ‘The two men sometimes vacationed ito- gether and Roselli always seemed to know how to place a bet should Cohn care to wager on a horse. ' According to Bob Thomas’ ‘piogra- phy of Cohn, “King Cohn,” the|movie mogul once offered Rosellia job as a producer. (In his book, Thomas’ dis- guised Roselli's identity ‘at Roselli’s re- quest.) “What would you pay me?” Roselli ; asked Cohn.- “Five hundred - ‘dollars a “week, a Cohn said. “T get that much from waitresées who take bets for me,” Roselli i is ‘said to ' Besides being a handy man with the placing of bets, Roselli purchased 'a!26 per cent interest ina Tijuana)! race- track with $25,000 Cohn loanéd) him Roselli paid him back promptlyjand ime. ‘th “page Docld: 32423630 . - to work,” - Roselli told him. . Spite thing and you're not going to get _ away with it. You meet with Cohn and - ' en a ; ot : i ‘ cluded a check ‘for 6 per cent interest; Cohn. magnanimously tore up the in--: terest check.! Roselli bought twin star rubies, had rings and gave one to them set ini Cohn, who considered it a good luck charm until his death. Once, when Chi- - cago mobster Willie Bioff moved to Hollywood and began making life mi- serable for movie studios by shaking. . down executives in return for labor peace, Roselli stepped in and saved - Cohn from a lengthy strike. When Cohn refused to pay tribute to Bioff and his union, Bioff tried to halt production at Columbia by calling a. sudden strike, Desperate, Cohn called Roselli who marched into Bioff’s office and: confronted the hoodlum who sat '. behind his desk wearing a hat and coat, chomping on a cigar, a gun rest- ing on the desk in front of him. : “Listen, Willie, I don’t know what — you’ re trying to prove but it isn’t going “This is a get it settled.” s, Bioff backed’ ‘down and called off his- pickets. After ‘he was sent to jail for ex- 101 \County (which ™ _ patriotic. tortion, Bioft cuta deal with the gav- _ ernment and inamed Roselli as a Chi- cago mobster who had helped ‘him shake down movie studios. Cohn testi- fied on Roselli’ Ss behalf, but in 1943 Ro- "‘selli was senténced to 10 years in pris- on. When he got out he returned to - Hollywood to make pictures of prison - and gangster life. But publicity about a " secret appearance before the Kefau- ver crime committee ruined his rela- tionship with most studios. Even Cohn re fused to hire him—“The stockhold- ers would scalp me,” Cohn told a bitter . Roselli, It was during his years in the Los . Angeles and las Vegas areas that Ro- selli met the man who would make him a household name later in. life. Robert Maheu, the ex-FBI agent who - parlayed a Washington private’ eye business into a stormy career as How- ard Hughes’ man in Las Vegas, ap- _ proached Roselli on behalf of the CIA in 1960. (Another person Roselli met in that era who would later surface to talk of Roselli, Giancana and John F. Ken- nedy was a young party girl named Ju- dith Campbell.) Maheu and ‘Roselli would later tell .Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee theldetails of their plots to kill Castro. Maheu told investigators he had known Roselli since the late 1950s and, while he didn’t know of his. un- derworld connections, “it was ‘cer. - tainly evident to me that (Roselli) was able to accomplish things in Las Vegas when nobody else seemed to get the same kind of attention. _ Over dinner at the Brown Derby in Beverly Hills 16 years ago, Maheu ex- plained to Roselli that his government needed his services, Roselli, who was born on July 4, 1905, was nothing if not Sam) Giancana once said, “Just wave a flag. and Johnny’'ll follow you to any canal. ". Maheu recalled that ' See ROSELLI, L5, Col. 1 °
ProGgGd c¢oé6oc AH _ OL9ESESE! £0T abeg pealed to Harvey tor neip and Harvey recommended to the CIA that it try to. prevent prosecution, but Roselli was convicted of violating interstate gam- . bling laws. He went to jail, returning in 1974 to Plantation to do battle © ‘against government efforts to deport him. . In 1971 the CIA asked the Immigra- eee EE Sakae Ca “forestall public disclosure of Roselli’s past operational activity with the CIA” that might ‘occur if-deportation pro- “ceedings were pursued. The INS agreed to keep the CIA informed, but at his death; Roselli and his lawyers were still fighting deportation. EE AE ‘ “Bob Makeu must be running scared - min thought about-that-just-the other. day: ‘Jesus, what's Maheu thinking?’ ” said another of Roselli’s brothers-in- - Jaw, Peter Cardilio of New Jersey. The public doesn’t: know what Ma- heu is thinking,-whether he worries if pro-Castro Cubans are exacting retri- bution for sins of 16 years ago. Maheu’s . Secretary in Las Vegas says she doesn't know where her boss is or when he'll be returning to his office. He report- edly has some business interest in Egypt, a part of the world that seems .., to hold some fascination for the Castro |. Plotters; Giancana kept an apartment oo _ ‘in Beirut and, just before his death, ' tion and Naturalization Service to told a friend he had some sort of deal brewing there. And Roselli longingly eyed the opening of gambling casinos in the land of the new oil millionaires. In Tampa, Sn peddle an- other of the original Maheu group, also refuses to talk with the press. But un like the others, he did not testify be- fore the Church committee so the pub- lic has no inkling of his thoughts on - the Castro assassination attempts..- _. ’ - Whether Roselli’s killing was one of retribution for a public or a private matter, Johnny Roselli was a testa- ment to an era that has passed. His life, which would have remained largely unnoticed save for the Senate’s CIA hearings, seemed straight from the pages of a Mafia novel: allegedly brought into the United States illegally at the turn of the century, Roselli clawed his way from the mean streets of Boston and Chicago to the relative glamor of Hollywood, Las Vegas and, finally, Miami. Along the way, a simple strain of patriotism—which impressed the CIA enough to mention it to the johnny Reyelli g75 . 1975. upper rig and. — counterclo wise from upper | Fidel Castro in Sam Giancana in President John ___Kennedy in —~Pade~County~Pam Lt. Gary Minni and the — Flor home where Ro. lived _ before . death. Photos by The Washington P= + The Chicago Daily News. AP.--- Church committee—put him in a rope- dancer's position of sometimes receiv- " ing, sometimes taking advantage of his knowledge of the darkest side of ‘gov- ernment. an . “ While some have speculated that he was killed for talking too much to gov- ernment investigators, Roselli was hardly a loudmouth in the league ofa -Joe Valachi, who sang for televised Senate hearings on the Mafia in 1963.~~"-~ Fourteen years ago Roselli confided in his lawyer, Washington attorney Ed- ward Morgan, that he had been told by Cuban sources in Miami that John ‘Kennedy’s killing was ordered and ar- ranged by Castro, but he lived with his secret. Soe The day after Roselli’s body was scooped from its crude coffin. his brother-in-law in New Jersey, Peter ’ Cardillo, told me: “Down deep, in a way, I probably hope it was connected with (the Castro affair). At least then Johnny, he would have died for a cause.” ; *
aaah rr . By RON, ispreceue:* Merete StH bree | yok ; . ; Sex, Gar} # art D., Cols) made. an unsanounced | trip’ 10° iain} Friday for a private meeting with homicide detectives to ‘. underscore, the strong” interest. of the Senate Select Intelipence _Cominittee in ahe John Roselli morder investigation and to ce 7 |, that federal agencies cooperate with local police. The FBI was ordered ‘Sritd the ‘Case last’ week bw Au * General } 4 orné Edward Levi after’ pressure. from the Senate an oo . ae “We're not here to: Solve: the’ crime," Hart said,“ we want to > yeen 1 his te étimony before. the Committee) , hs = oe » oe and ' HART SAID he ils" oped ‘We oS yore local! Afficials of the! FBI “an min ration B ! Reso! Mh, “Fh, orgenized crime figs . re w ho” testified three thmes: ber: fore the Senate Intelligence. Come, ; mitt tee | in the past wear gbout, his’ recruliment Sy the GLA jn Jor ; Kil Fel Crstra, WER feond fefto! _ two weeks azo, stuffed Jn an ik, rum m oat ing in Penton eee te a * . Hart aide ft ‘Ete ar that the intel Eence Comin ittee $s cose eta Bisel the poasibility thar Rosell s. étaih qs connected tovhis testimos. - le aE i wi sithas atl ne * sid sey there: wes, . te — : : rng evidente! findleating: * Rose)” ; P might have ben killed to, prevent. him frare tathing 25out piber UA ~ Orgasived crim ve pads,” By areas bray’ of no plans wha ty heve Bim come “hac ae ‘Sart mt thet" frolic say we MORALES have call: 4 hi: a back it some new 5 “Facts Asose ere 8 | i Bat it vy ould te resching tos nay Wwe heé totne iddicetion-sirzhe W8a@.  - {ner, vet les fled. zhoratj evidence” ; mporiant (6 pif eb rae Se a we ~ . .e 4 Hi HW 50955 DocId:3249363) Page 104 io teh Semele “aus? twos aay er erent oe " “a fs os THES YRDER ef tast teatified 0 April, i telligence Commiltes v home fe. gun i ymé when Intelli ‘. Seader ss Fen meres +e meme Babe comme oS 7 Leek ee erg oes *” of ‘Roselli, whoy “renewed J nes tater¢si } jn the vete sth, a Chicsgo orpemized, grime Sam Ge ome} Giencéna, ‘GE. shot ia death 40, his? e of 1975, dust . ata! igence Sting’ him t chin im-: vinvesti gerg7s were 13 5 g Br » Bown. . -e 4 F- Rechnipanving Hart Friday “was j ae * 4 encane wes: sdigan, a” commiree” at- Aienaed Madiga ora) s. wes | Gianesha ” ith Reset’. awa’ ft torney who. in June paring 10. interview “about: thig involvement *jn the Casio plo” i: s -Giahtana and Fampa Gipenlzed - “erime- figure Santo ~Tralficante . “played “seepmpanylng: roles"..i0 , the ClA-Inspired Castro "essassina-- Pita: niet, anciher committee Half “ member. uryeveling * with Hart. said .. Friday AM: Snes er fers FLiVave, oe $- The cornmiliee bad also. "eonside . ed” 4 igubpending Trafficente. the - ae i ‘gaid, Dut Tratfi-., + gialf . gvgpigalor * RNG WEE ‘never called Drcause the 5 5 Godimilttet | considered. Rose}iis tes- + gtimony tbe mest important 5 )27 4 * are rae ee an See + ge a “CHICAGO. AREA © Javestigstors 2 Gi tancana’s: deazibe ‘ we 3 part of ano internal . gangland a struggle. ele j ea netess, 1 Hart ‘wold The Rier- ald |Friday — that > with SRosell's + : deat sh, “troubling questions gs Rout - , Gienc cang’g mnurot ‘o Enger. “The co * * tncidentes ” DOGiN ‘to sims ng them: selves qogethere ~ogski tne S872. grck: sdential gainpaign manager fore George McGovern. 10s Ache if pe was: sptisties wl wh: inves g Store . j ec a3 conclusions of hat Glancens ‘sg death was moi con-? nected to his pestential vestiimenys Veafare the: ~eommittee, Hart £4:6: ; ; _« Puhete | ig the’ sbrence of an¥ corre" + Poorating évidence.| “which prevents sy tera to Page’ 2B ol. <q vial 7 ; saa: — oe Fen awn oy, ~ : _ @ |
Madigan. sid thé widespredd f tex" ports after Giencana’s death that ds appesrante & {fore the comupite. i ftee wes Irsininent were Ot true. . jThet, further ‘indicates, he Bereta, 6 thst Gianéane’s Geaih was pot de $ “peetly. Telited so" ‘Bis’ Pt CLA asso ? “7 e hve FINALLY” aot: Ginn rae number «the. day dhe wis & Hfeeh"? Madigan. seid Friday.“We™: hod some) diificulty tracking hin ' Yown in Houston (where Glantana { oo ‘ , '. hed bea | jis the bespitel), It had - | SO . woe ‘. bed “decided: thet I was Soing te | % - Interview |him td zee. whether ity ‘ port ' would be worth It to cx him aga | sv sviiness,. ys ed pot been contacted |) yet and he had tot been sulipes % Coralfa’s body floated to the sure.> ~| {.ca of Mew York Harbor. olf Sta: | ‘| “ten Jsland on Aug. 4, hla ody =" : ; “weepped {a & padlocked chala and ie aie 2} ade . rane ey. i leio t ‘“ heck sobpee z welgited by two. IS-pound: boat - = 21% unis ‘ ] cnaed, did tectify fer the fire time enchors, Follee anid te had been. a Jour deve tier Giancara was shot. fe That comunittee was headed by - "Sea, Foaok Church and hes since | Tbeen replacediby a oewly formed _ gomariltiée [eee rhdied by Sen. Daniel + -inciya (Dy Hay‘ali) and Sen. Howe Vtaerd Raker: , "Teap.: ES) its fina]: : report, | that! former’ committee : : o strongly urged the new committee” 2 te continue “the Investigation of : ; vert CLA act Hivity 28 weil as cone ‘]- |. nections butween the Cestro assasl- ‘7 pation Plot aod the estassingtion Of | * dohn F. Fe Hetrdasye: Lote * | |” strangled. Rovelllthed been asphy ‘Se ‘ : fated, porsipty ” ‘by strangiing, ace, cor Mngt to Invertigators here, 1 New York. Chy detteiives (sold « ‘thal Carafla “knew Glancana™ but, they have fot bees able:.to. ping: “down a motive In his death.” ), =: The Washington Star, quoting an’ a “unidentified ‘FBI source, reposted’: that: Caratic had met with eee oy Chlesgo about two. moathe BOs. oan rt a 4 ney ?. es e ) ae 4 are +e “ as we a ehete Me. am | + Hating +9 ihe so-cat ia A “reteliatical Uioory — thet Cartto | sf pro Cesty9, agents bed. SEK ‘ ate the CA, Httempts . : Os fe. ty! ‘Vo Bart ‘ipterviewed" Roselli twies | s i ! i 8S 2 member -of the former com> | “| saittee and he is leo a cember of the sew] Inteligence Cominittee. - ; | | | | : “Rosell wes very cacdid Dut hes | | 7 Cid” not yeludteer, informe suemigh 7 * Bert pada oo ran ck te? te Commaltten in vestitators sald Pre Sy s, Sess ‘they have found 50 Sink bes. =, STweeg. Ral end Evgene N. Care- vals, & Rock vives Md: antique aio" “dealer, swith . reps: aed or ganized “arime dobnections who tied under - 2 edreumsiantes |my seriously coins! ite Rorells deste ele le ‘39, fas teported - mie 7 “ang by (hig wile oa July 28, Ge ; : . "Tesme day Rosell) RAs best seen by.” | i be sauies is $ Pientet! B eg whom ' 4 : : tet ene roe "aap had ved Sot ths ee yeas HW 50955 Docld:3242363) Page 105
Lm og: Se eres ae 4 2 ” By RON. x ispHbcque’* i here Stott ormer - ‘Sen. “Gary Hart ‘(D. Cols) made, ‘an vrahieunts ced a: fr _Rilami Friday for a priveté/meeting with ‘ a 38. underscore the strong interest! of the Senate Select Inteligence,; a ~ an omicide detectives-to | ae . Corhunittee in the John Roselli morder i invesilgation and to insure - , , that federal agencies cooperste’ with local police, - _ The FBI was ordered Srito™ the ‘case last] we General Edward Levi after pressure. from the Senate committee, : S ane We're not here to. solve. the’ crime,” “Hart said, “ we want to “e : ; ‘find out df there js any connection Delweeri Reset » death and . _ his te atimony, _ pefore. the: gCommittee te 2 at pene SR Hart said ‘he also” hoped! cre meet & with local éfficials of the FBI" “and Tin rigration: and Na turalizae) i] ’ lion Serv on kd : Reseh, 7H, ore epized crime tgs .~ ure whe testified three times: bee fore. the Senate Intelligence! Com-! * ruftment by the CLA ia e por tor Rill Fidel Crete was found, dead: two weeks geo, stuffed in zn Sih, érum flusting in Dunfoundling Brey an wl Hart insde it ‘Fie “ar that ‘the igteh-d i “Hgence | Vomimittce Js” ce acerned: ataut the possibility that 2 Losehir s* étaih is connected Ww his. testis moe, |e ne aithes en he’ ‘did say, there “Sg, | evidgnte® : indfcating. *Rore)li”, ; might have Deth killed to. preveat’.; him frorm talking sbout ptbey, AY a vw Grgsnired crime pacts,” FE ‘ . 2D Know of no plang whalsievée to heve am come back,” Hart esd 2 - “Sul thes not te say we wovlda'r?! ‘have called iso back at some [new + . Facts é urcke Ue Ee nat “But it vould % reaching to say” we heé sume indication-»2r hei had, qnor. wet sesified. shen) evider nce) impotiant $0 5" Herisald hoe . ened te an tore : : HY 50955 Bocld: 327423630 mittee in the past vear zbout hist me + Sep Page 106 ad eek by tlor andy, : Thome’ ia: Jur x time when ea * sath ee eT Fs" "THE SSURDER Of Rosell, who, =tast wbstified in | April, renewed, ine" i gelienice Committers | iaterest in the des sth, af Chicsgo orgsnized, gris me < “Seader, Sam (ford) Giencsna, Gr. “ancsne* “wipes Shot th “death in, AIS ne of 3973: dust - a ia: intelligence Committee? g .were “aracking: him: Wer os 4 feo be | Hart Friday’ was i ~yaitnae) Madigan, 2° committee’ at—t i “tormey who, in June of 1975, wag! eparing 19 interwiew Gianeena ” about, his involvement Sith, Roset 2. :Giahcana fa “pamp a ‘Gigenteed - “Gime: figure. vinvestigaiors Santo Pon ralficarté | tayed “eccpmpanylng roles“,. iD , ae. ClA-lnspired Castro “essessinass tion: plot, another committee iatt , "member irpeveling, with Hart! said, ; Friday. jae NS "eh we OF jaws ot - The ¢¢ ered” + SUEpE ging Treflicente. the - i svgtigalor said. Dut Traffic. t Cente jag neve! c2ed because te bGogim mittee considered. Rosell, e8- rumony the mest important 4 Shp ache # De et we ‘age o en go st ators a CAGO- AREA - Investig “CHI Glancana’s: “death: “woe pe of a0 intersal- ganglead’ 4 Sirus Jen : SUMED es “Hart ‘whe The ‘ere “held Friday | that arith PRoscii’s * death, “roubling questions” gout - ““Giencana’g ynurder Enger. “The fo * " tncidentes begin “fo eiring heme + selves qogeihere’ ssid the 3¥72- 4 presidential cainprign anager fore : ree Rictioverme ota c? orn if pe was. setistied Feuth: the con¢lusions “of inverligaters thai Giancans ‘s death WSs ROL COn-* inected to his pxtential. ; Mpsfore:. the: “gornmittee, Hart said: . + Pihere i ig the’ absence of ant corre." *porating. ‘evidence “which Prevents “Tarn to Page 3B Cel. fe foe oe any maton ae feta rncennncin . la ct cpmitiee bed ates. *tednside . testimony. sia a ne, . ~ REED MOM NCEE Teer tee LR tomar ere mee ee ee ee
HY .50955 f ! Othicials, : ea 7t te PEE Se gee (3 Pe adigas said the widespreda” res. pets. alter Giencans’s desth that ; Jnls appearance before the exmumite 3 “tee qyas iriininsat were not, tre. | j Phat tuirther indicates, he bgretd, | ther Glacane’s 4 fealty aras ‘not ait Fecuy. related to‘hispast CLA ass: > etstiony as are WTA re ys = a] pe, : Gees bee ekg “ EC e | [ove FINALLY got; * Glancanes. hore ‘number cthe. day “aes wee! ailed” Madigan. said | aay We™, ods oroe diificulty tracking fim ; oun in Houston (where Gisndana ne thad sca | in. the hospital), It had - - ted decided | thst I was going to. jnterview [him “té zee. wether it! ' would be worth Wt to call b him BS 2. whnacs, He hed not ber contscted. ; yet and he hed tot béea subpise na ed Bag! gan seid, ‘ ae 2 Bozell, bebo had besn subst . cnaed, did testify fer ihe 4 first tne | four days after Giantarg was Bhot. a- That: cohunittes was headed by- {SFA Fra ok Church and hes since Theen replaosd by 2 sewly formed “eemmaitice: Pesded by Sen. Daniel ‘Inchys (Dy Hawall) and Sen. Howe: and Raker (Ri Teno.): da its fina] - ‘report, “that former! committee : Dement ace ry i ‘strongly urged the new commitiee” : e, ‘ t© ont inue the investigation of ede: Syert CLA Activity as well as cogs +] sections erween the Castro acsast. | “sation plat] end ihe astassinatioa a of; Sohn FoKetutstye: 1 b o. ef ay ede a coals * an 1 FRIDAY t there, are 1 ‘Committe Inveestators said > Bocld : 32423630 ‘page 107 & ered question 2] about > Lee Harvey ‘Os wakl's mOtives pare; 5 , ticularly rélsting - to the so-called | “retaliation Uoory™ —~ that Castro © yor BreGero) ggents chad JFK -4, | LRIBed becalse Of the CIA, Hitempis . _, 78 Castto’s| fe. | ty SP Hart ptesviewed' Rosell twied | 88-2 member: of the former cope- 2 ,mnittee and [be Us aleo a member of.” " the new! Intelligence Cominittee. |. a “Rosely wee Very casdid Dur hex eid” nots Nolunteer, blerearen et wen i a¥ they Beve- found so dink bée!> see Roselli and Evgese N- Care. 1 abby a Rock villex Mé,, antique guio “dealer with - ‘reposted organized” *) “axime connections who ded under. - - 2 epeurnsianees | [#3 ‘geriousty - < elli's Ses it. gloss x Stenialte Be eas beported spite - "and by his wil te on July, 28,’ aes tesme day Ror Ess West see by ‘hig sister ip Pinntstlon with whom’ : abe. arg bved. Sor taee yore .. 7 4 | t 7 ' eth nt - oat pn tt a pp ' Coeatta’s body floated to the Bure. >. “|. ‘ {sca of New. York Harbor off Stas |. “ten Island on Avg. 4, hle body" I wiepped In & padiocked choin and - . welpited by ‘two. 15-pound beat. anchors, Fellee ald te had deen. | strangled. Rasallt hed been as phy S« . 7 _ dated, passtbly “by strangling, ace~. cur dag to Invertigators here, 6. + | - New York. chy: deteclives sold... | that -Caraffa “knew Glancana™ but: “ ; they have not been able to. pin. i down a motive in his death.” | 5 eeeq ieee Smee» SESS ~ ‘ : The Washington Star, quoling an, “tnldantified "FBI source, reported + ‘that. Carafig had met with Roseltl’ .¥ vin Chlezgo about two monthgrao. Fs "4,
2 ary ee eae eto. ‘ ve oo. en - Merete + ate pea By Rox Taenecaur ‘ @- oy f tere Wraee a ~ ia ae . .& ~ pe ttt ober enti eenne S ah gy (once som teeter Pee eitnenenanenataice (nema eacant = So ma oe 8 Lego arent oom ‘oS Sen, - Gary Hart ‘D., leots,y made. ‘an “Upshnounced ¢ rip: "19,8 Rilami Friday for a private’ meeting with homicide detectives-to | underscore the strong” interest! . Committee in ibe John Roselli ynirder inv estigat "that federal agencies cooperate’. The FBI was ordered- Lito the ‘case: last’ week by At of the Senate Select Intelligence: . ; jon and to insure ./ with’ Jocal. police!” rs ae * General Edward Levi after pressure: # from the Senate committee. : tf “We're not here to-solve the’ crime, Hart s2id, we want to ~ ‘find out df there ds any connection between ose ») death ants 7 his testimony before. the: Committee’ 5 * HART SAID he jaina’ “hoped te meet with local Afficials of th CIF BL “and Immip ration and Naturalizac} - tion Service, [Cie Rese, 72: organized crime fet, - tre who testified three times: ber” tore. the Senate Intelligence. Come; . mittee in the past wear gbout his’ recruitment uy the CIA is pik, kilt Fidel Cesteh, was found se i two werke 250. sulted in ale. Bs hl eran flost ‘ing | - umfoundl: ! Bee, Veence | Cemrmittee ds . coaremed atest the possibility that R toselti"s* m3 aM, stthoveh he’ did say, there! WAS, | no“ evidente! ‘findtcating. * Rowell” i might have teéa Ruled to. prevent. | him froma istklng ebout piber Cla: ot Cresnized crime pacts, “DT know of no plans whal : ag have Bim come “bas: <P * Hart ied: ° “but that's not te say we wouldalt ‘Lave called hia hack it some: ew “acts a3 rose.’ vate wos a8 (hot vet tesutied. ons sede important to us” Hariyaid, Soren ae TR at, ger AR op at Some F WW 50955 we Hart ans roe. it “Acar that the inte}-j : Reath fs connected 1" his testiion | ti | fooootae | ~ ale ‘Docld: 32423630 | Page 103 ; 7 oraéy., 6 edad maine” 7 ps sap ASURDER ‘of Resi» “eh -eilast. LES » qehiretice Commit ‘ teader, sam ( -T homes fa: ¥ time sehen “a ‘investigators efor “h the,Caciro plot, aa en vibog : e A ue « - =k tw “ect Fer “ar org eee tied in April, renew Ines, ee fee | jaterest } jn the ritnes { Chicago orgsnized, < ceed sfora9) iene rare} Gre Sarwess Shot 10 death 40 ene June of 1975, just & aa’ Intelligence Comminet? $ .were ‘arack ing: Bim: * ip ' 4 FBO a ae Hart “syiday eel yiraithadh: Madigan, x CO ee $ ; domey who, in June of 1975, e8 aring 1d. interview Giancana: about ‘his involvement vith, Rew na and Yainp a GF rgenized - tecimer tiguse Santa Petrafficante™ eer oe geepmpanying xolts in. the CiA-Inspired Casio esses tion phot, another com miliee re pamembes arypeveling, with Hart bait 2 oN rr. Y : pric panitiee bad alee. eons “ered! SUDPEneing Trefficacte. the ; raff . Jos gpiigalor ‘said, Dut Tra ins t ¢ Yed because the y ,cante Whe ‘nevey CB use eed 4S Gogimlttee gonside red. Ross} ‘st oa cnr! abe most important._ ry ite Php vee el Se ett “CHICAGO. -AREA *- "investigators ¢ that Giagcena’s” degihe® veopenses gf an° ‘inter pal . ganglead ’ egle. RIUEE Hart ‘whe The ‘Flere 3. *-ald Friday iat wilh Setar e , : death, “troubling auestians bolt. 5 | Giencang’s, ‘ynurder Enger. “The co * idences  beBin “to. st : ae, qopethere™ ssid f B cedential tai BPMEN m oree RicGeverti. 6O f Ore if pe was. sptisties wi ith: veel gaiorg the’ cen¢lusions | of in 3 ‘ ye Giancens’s death wat poi cone: necled to his etare.. the “committee, Hart’ said: Tso the 3872. aneger ford “1 * Wither isthe’ absence of anf Coro Sura? 19 Fee’ “2B col. , nee natin * sey, £ ~ a en ayer éVidence which prevents aa Re, ag ring theme 7 g potential . sestimony. - PET OREN UO tee pe em ie oe ae TMM SUED BL I TR. amg peep Ba or
HY 0955 Z [ae FINALLY’ got: Glaneaai's fe Fepore, | “hat: ‘Yormer | committee : Docld: 32423630 - se Tulle | wars * ae ie aa eae . pon.” pots affer. Giencans’s death: that J dis appearance before the comunite. i 4 tres lraiminé Ent ware not | ‘true, | Ophet Further, indicates, he egress, ; mo, het Giancane’s death sras ‘not. ‘det ecuy. related to'his past CLA asso: ? vhaticoge ar aaa Seermeiciciee rien ener a ae ne, wey rae number «the. day “hes west] Stile,” Madpan- said day We ™. bod seine diificulty tracking him | own in Houston (where Glan '. had [been] in the bospital It had - . ibeed “decided that I was golng to. : Julerview! him-té ree. whether Itt '* would be/torth Ht to call himiasla | wiloass, He hed got been contacted * yet and heshag tot been. subypee | nied," Bgaigan seid + Roselli ipeko bad been nips cnaed, did geetiy or the first une: jour dave filer Gianeara was shot. }. That ‘cdiminittss was headed by . 1 Sea, Frack: Church snug hes dince | thean rep! ace “by & newly formed “eommaittog "hegded by Sen. Danial Ls ta awsli) and Sen. Howe “Raker” Ry Teno}: 3a iis final 5 { ee Sa : on merece strongly urged the new committee’ i. an cont Ie , “the investigation of Coe . Vvert CLA netivity 23 well a5 cone +|- , I. nections bizween the Castro assash_ 2 nation plot and the sstassinatioa of; : § 119 FRIDAY t th ere. are fatiil'ununeswered questions about. “ Harvey. Orwell's Unosives Pare. | ticwlarly ob sto the so-called 5 ~ ‘oa Castro tie wets > Hart art interviewed" ‘Kee 1 ‘rises t es 2 mem suember: of the dormer COM! mittee and he is.kleo a poemiber of. "| | the sew Intell gence Corinittee. | al - 23 Vary candid but hex | ot nots volunteer: CEng, ea they have. food 2 Q Sine: be. Tween - Rasa and pogent NM. Cater) * sete, @ Rockvver Mé., w antique “eujo : dealer. with - reported organized’ Tj ‘exime connections who died under 2 edrcumnsis hoes ‘payer viously oolnl-" : 4 Sestes te 2 Roseth’s Sesth. wry Pa nee Carrels, 37, was teported . esse ang ty his wile 2 duly 28, ihe 2 “tesme day Rosi was beet en by. vo hite sieter in F Plante an wih whom" - eo “be had Eved fort hee yee .. + 1 | i nt t «ft Paye 109 Nedigan'® id thé "widesprela ye: tes a Beh mee FN e Shen Are no che sl ta ri O 5! " 1 ne : “Cotatta’ & body Hoated to the sure,» “tes Fsland on Aug. 4, ble wrepoed fn & padlocked chain as ad welgited by two. lS-pound boat - ‘anchors, Pollce apid te had been | strangled, Mosel thed ben asphy se 0" fatme, poratnly | by strangling, ace 6 cor dug to invertigstors heres .. + New York. City. dethclives | gold .. thet-Caraffa “knew Glancana™ but, , they have fot been able to: pias “down a motive in his death.) i ' The Washington Star, quoting an’. seg of New. Work Harber olf oa: ay | ”~ Gey 4 “Stnldantified ‘FBI source, Feported that Caratfc had mot with! Roselli’ vin, Chleego about ut two ponte a ‘s . ee ee eee.
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MEMORANDUM|FOR | cee oo Tew : ole ee or = Michael Madigan aa wo nereteee re Smee Tag Eee Vien pan ee August 13, ape. eae I recently discussed with. Agent Richard d Taylor of the: aaa eae * Federal Bureau of. Investigation my recoliections. x prew testimony interviews with Mr John Rosselli prior: to Rosselli! 2. testifying under oath in: June of 1975. Te te. amy: sesotiection oe that there: were several meetings between: nysels, - a8: 06 the conmittee, and, Rossel! | of Rosselli. i ‘They tneteted - would conduct. ‘interviews: ‘prior | to: the eworn- eae it ‘oan Location: away. from: the’ ‘Senate 80: as to avoid: any.’ pul “During thege| interviews: Rosaelli, on: m more. than’ one occasion, i . . aot a . stated. that he. ao. taking a) Py worried abet - relatives. with, tts Sb declined t@ te by 1 name. In fact, I cannot: ‘recall if the “questioner used: the: pene. Te 4 ah ‘
~ the presence: of: Senator: the Senator that he, Rosae his life and) that he was, before the: Committee, te whether: that ¢ room. or. elaey ewhere.- Throughout. his: testi exact: addreas in Florida f recollection’ that; Rossel * whenever: te yen stimony- or. on: Santos. Trafficante:
recollection | that, onzat1 “whether: that: ‘conversation i ol p oa I. * room: or’ elsewhere. 2 ghenevex'ti on Santos | lover foes °
to set. ‘up. i nee with eh Ute begun an n effere to! locate Ty = will, be in’ ‘flying. from Kani interviews:
ERE GOING TO tell you a little story now. Once there was a President who was murdered. His brother was murdered too. A long time after they died some very strange facts came to light. It turned out that while they were running the government, the government was frying to get two Mafia mobsters to arrange the murder of someone else—the head of | a smail, hostile neighbor state. It also turned out that one brother—the one who was President—appar- ently had a girlfriend who was the girlfriend as well of the mobsters. And orfe of the mobsters, whose nickname was Momo, was prominent on the list of criminals the President's brother was trying to put in - jail. The story may sound complicated, but life is com- plicated, and the complications in this case got even more so. For when a committee of the Congress wanted the two mobsters to come and tell them some- thing about .all this, only one of them—the one named Johnny— came. The other one, Momo, was. murdered in his house a week before they wanted him to testify. Johnny, however, told his story to one committee in the Congress and then came back—qui- etly—to tell some more things to another committee which was in fact looking into the murder of the President. Then Johnny went to Florida. Then no one. could find him. Then some fishermen found him. | Dead. In an oil drum. But we haven't told you the strangest part of all yet, the part you're really not going to believe. It is that when the great national political community of solons, scribes, policemen, spies and managers of the general: wellbeing heard about poor Johnny, they said: “Oh, my goodness.” Some of them went farther, _ of course. They said: “Fancy that!” But most of them didn’t say anything at all except: “Yawn.” Forgive us for lapsing into storybookese. We do it for a reason which is that the simple unadorned facts of the John and Robert Kennedy-Fidel Castro-CIA- Mafia-Momo Giancana-Johnny Roselli-Judith Exner-. Church CommitteeSchweiker Committee saga need _ to be put. forward in stark outline for their magni- tude to be understood. Is it really, as the sophisticated — wisdom goes, “paranoid” on our part to brood about the suggestive and possibly monstrous interconnec- tions between all these facts and to wonder why they are not the object of intense press and government scrutiny? What accounts for the general indifference —- in high places? What accounts for the eagerness with ° which we all seem to accept that familiar tipoff that we shall be hearing no more about the latest crime— oe, _ {.e@., the pronouncement that Mr. Roselli's dispatch to ! an oil drum and Beyond had “all the earmarks of a Fo gangland slaying.” Those are. the good old “ear- - marks” we only hear about when it is next to. certain, ' ment in particular can turn their attention dway un- 3s; i: that we shall hear nothing more. \ oe The supposition of course is that the Gang which por runs gangland has its reasons and its methods and ' that, disagreeable as these may be, they really lie out- ; side the * Proper realm of public concern because they HW 40955 Page 118. Docld: 32423630 lesz &h2/2¢ Ge Washington Post AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ae aN "Who Killed John Roselli? place and 2) tends only to punish those who have ‘to look the other way or to complaisantly accept the - Department to make an investigation of Mr. Roselli’s . ‘FBI and the CIA and the various participants in the - whole sorry saga. We are not suggesting that any _cy's fringe retainers —were the murderers. We are _ Suggesting that there is an overlay of potentially em- - an awful lot of: people from wanting to have this _ crimes. and scandals. The Data From. | oo oe "THURSDAY, A” amount to a system of justice which 1) only affects those dumb enough to get involved in it in the first committed what the rest of us would regard as hei- nous crimes anyway. Not that these are things people say—they’re things people can be expected to as- sume. But we think in this case the assumptions have even less validity than they would have on a clear day, which isn’t much. And that is because if we know anything, we know that the Mafia operations in which Messers. Giancana and Roselli figured had be- come intertwined with the operations of the United States government. Never mind that the decisions of the early 1960s which made this so may rank among the miost abominable decisions ever taken in the US. government. The plain fact is that, given the provoca- tive and suggestive history of the two men, it is not possible for either Congress or the Executive Branch earmarks-of-a-gangland-slaying bromide. _ After Mr. Giancana was killed, the Church Commit- tee inquired of the FBI whether its proposed meeting with him had figured in his murder. The FBI re- . ported that it had no evidence to this effect. The _then-director of the CIA, William Colby, felt obliged to state that the CIA had had nothing to do with the. ° murder--and Mr. Colby likewise pronounced the other day that he was certain the CIA had not done in Mr. Roselli. The mere fact that the questions, to | which these were meant to be the answers, had been raised tells us, anyway, that much more in the way of . inquiry is wanted. The newly formed Senate Select Committee on Intelligence has now asked the Justice death. We think the Department should comply and that the investigation, despite FB] Director Clarence Kelley's disclaimer of jurisdiction, should have the .. Attorney General's personal attention. Such. atten- tion is needed because of the elaborate and not en- ‘tirely reassuring history of relationships between the - agency of government—or even any of those agen- barrassing information sufficiently pervasive to keep thing aired. We also think that the Select Committee should reserve the right to pursue the matter. Con- gress, after all, can hardly be expected to sit idiy by ‘while its witnesses aré being done in. Nor do we see . | how the public in general and the political establish- : ge eee til we are all satisfied that a much greater effort has — been made by the government—which means both the Executive Branch and the Congress—to discover what elements were at play in this series of appalling
ROSSELLI CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS 1955 Meets Maheu at insurance friend's home. 1960 Late July/early August. Maheu calls. Working for government. Recruit Rosselli only. Meet Brown Derby, L.A., for lunch. Long talk about project in Cuba. Rosselli wants verification. 2nd meeting, L.A., discuss further details, no discussion of specific techniques. Plan to meet in N.Y. for verification. Sept. 14, 1960. First meeting in N.Y. at old Plaza Hotel. Rosselli ‘introduced by Maheu to O'Connell. Rosselli "knew" O'Connell worked for the CIA. Rosselli agrees to work on Cuban project. Sept. 25, 1960. Maheu and Rosselli travel to Miami to begin making contact with Cubans to be recruited for mission. (Between Sept. 25 and the Bay of Pigs, a series of recruitments, meetings, and arrangements were made. The following is an outline of events that is not necessarily in chronological order.) : % -- Meeting where Maheu is introduced to Trafficantp. Meeting where Maheu is introduced to Giancana. Giancana was, according to Rosselli, to only be a “back up man." Rosselli states ® Giancana had nothing to do with the actual operation. Trafficant¢ was used, according to Rosselli, as a translator. -- Meeting with O'Connell, Maheu, Rosselli, ami De Nicer soto discuss the Cuban project. -- Rosselli, in his contact with the Cubans, "invents" the cover story that he represents some Wall Street business interests who want to see Castro eliminated. Rosselli trusts Cubans he has recruited because they are part of the Bay of Pigs operation. -- Ist attempt at assassination involved the use of pills. Maheu ~ and Rosselli met with Cuban #1 and #2 (?}. Maheu opened up his briefcase and gave the pills with instructions for their use to Cuban #1. Maheu also had $10,000 he gave the Cubans for doing the project. Rosselli did not know of the money. Rosselli states he received no remumeration for his work on the project, in fact, he paid out $800 for gas for a speed boat to deliver two or three man parties for guerrilla raids into Cuba. -- Prior to Bay of Pigs there was no discussion of using guns to assassinate Castro. -- Rosselli's cover name was "John Ralston." HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 119
HY 0955 Docld: 32423630 -- At different times, Cuban #1, #2, or #3 would propose different projects. These would range from using plastic explosives to booby trapping Castro's desk. Rosselli would relay these on to Maheu, who, in turn, would contact the CIA. Most projects were vetoed, but the CIA did supply a short wave radio to the Cubans in Florida, to try and make contact with their people in Havana. ‘Eventually, Rosselli felt the project had failed. There was no specific point when it was announced. But, at sometime Rosselli assumed the project, for whatever reason, had not succeeded. Page i270
_DATE 1959 October 1960 1961 Feb. Early 1961 April 1961 ' May 31, 1961 Rest of 1961 ' and 1962 Sometime in early 1960's October 1962 Early 1963 March 1963 Sometime in 1963 November 1%3 Early 1964 HY 50955 Bocld: 32423630 CHRONOLOGY (ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS) EVENT OR ITEM Richard Bissel becomes DDP (head of Plans Directorate) Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor to Giancana, and (b) done by Rosselli) Lumumba mysteriously killed during Congolese strife. News reports of CIA consideration of Lumumba plot, but claim it SOURCE ( Where Necessary) Date and Rosselli role from Government Opposition paper to Rosselli motion for reduction in sentence, 1971 Wash.Post & Star contempor- aneous accounts Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by Lardener and Greider Tab A was done by others,e.g. Belgians? Attempts to kill Gastro before Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli team Bay of Pigs Landing Trujillo assassinated; charge of U.S. involvement Possibly ongoing efforts to Kill Gastro by Rosselli team RFK quashes prosecution.of Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for background reference) i Rosselli training a team in Miami area Rosselli'’s last effort to kill Castro RFK stopped further efforts Diem killed in Saigon coup JFK told Smathers later he thought CIA involved Colby head of DDP Far East Division at the time Howard Hunt and others from Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on another Castro assassination Page i?f1 Jack Anderson 1967, 1971 and 1975 columns; . Watergate Helms memcon Jack Anderson column (1/19/ 71) on Smathers coversation with JFK. Agee book ( obvious ly suspect in some respects) last attempt by : Rosselli team in 1963,infra. ’ ' Watergate memcons on Keeney and Wilson interviews Wash. Post Greider/Lardener _ story,supra., states Army Rangér Capt Ayres saw him. Jd. Anderson 1971 columns J. Anderson 1971 columns J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column articles on Colby reported by Tad Szulec in book on Howard Hunt (1974)
HY 50955 Chronology -= é2 XN ( more on Hunt Castro project) Assassination alleged to have beenflanned as part of a smaller invasion effortand preparations were allegedly made in Costa Rica May 1965 Hunt Castro scheme “aborted when Dominican Republic strife broke out (scheme also allegedly involved McCord, Barker and Sturgis) May 1965 ——s As: Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting (or later) ‘on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ asked Helms if CIA had ever been involved in assassination (of a leader) and Helms said "no", D CIA Poisoning plot aq| Haciay \966 Pres, Duvaliee j” bonbiy Palace jw “EF 1967 | Rosselli indicted for alien law and interstate gambling crimes (Friars Club card game rigging) March 3 First Anderson column.on Rosselli 1967 a In response to Anderson story, . RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman he shut it off; , : 1968 CIR beebig Nav tine palace, 1968 - Rosselli sentenced to 5 years Early 1969 Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for ‘ Justice Dept. Rosselli file 1970 Rosselli goes before grand jury under immunity re:Giancana 1971 Jan.18 First of three Anderson columns . A ‘4 Jan.19 MBS" ccheditted to go before grand Jan. 27 £eb.1 jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls AG John Mitchell , Same day: Haldeman: ied Dean to inquire- into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson on Rosselli matter Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was involved in covert activity for CIA in early 1960's Rosselli files motion for reduction - in sentence, citing Anderson stories Boclda: 324273630 Page ize and presenting memorandum to Court Szule, supra Katzenbach testimony to Senate Select Committ Andetson cok, off aw Government Opposition to sentence reduction, SUpra We dont have, but Andersc referred to in Hersh NY Times story 3/10/75 Hersh story,supra frdtasop cok, yfofos Government Opposition, . Keeney Watergate memcon Government Opposition, sup) * Lenzner memo to SenErvin on Rosselli ( and phone 1c
i i DATE 1959 October 1960 1961 Feb. Early 1961 April 1961 May 31, 1961 | Rest of 1961 and 1962 Sometime in early 1960's October 1962 Early 1963 March 1963 Sometime in 1963 November 1963 Early 1964 CHRONOLOGY (ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS) EVENT OR ITEM Richard Bissel becomes DDP (head of Plans Directorate) Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las Vegas ( allegedly: (a) favor to Giancana, and (b) done by Rosselli) Lumumba mysteriously killed during Congolese strife. News reports of CIA consideration of Lumumba plot, but claim it was done by others,e.g. Belgians? Attempts to kill @astro before Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli team Bay of Pigs Landing Trujillo assassinated; charge of U.S. involvement Possibly ongoing efforts to Kill Gastro by Rosselli team RFK quashes prosecution of Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for background reference Rosselli training a team in Miami area : - Rosselli's last effort to kill Castro RFK stopped further efforts Diem killed in Saigon coup JFK told Smathers later he thought CIA involved - Colby head of DDP Far East Division at the time Howard Hunt and others from Bay of Pigs effort begin Plot on another Castro assassination “HW 509455 DocId: 32423630 Page 123 SOURCE ( Where Necessary) Date and Rosselli role from Government Opposition paper - to Rosselli motion for reduction in sentence, 1971 Wash.Post & Star contempor- “aneous accounts Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by Lardener and Greider Tab A Jack Anderson 1967, 1971 and 1975 columns3; .- Watergate Helms memcon. Jack Anderson column (1/19/ 71) on Smathers coversation with JFK. Agee book ( obvious ly suspect in some respects) last attempt by : Rosselli team in 1963,infra. “Yatergate memcons on Keeney and Wilson interviews Wash. Post Greider/Lardener story,supra., states Army Ranger Capt ‘Ayres saw him. J. Anderson 1971 columns J. Anderson 1971 columns J. Anderson; -1/19/71-column_ articles on Colby a reported by Tad Szuic in book on Howard Hunt (1974)
May 1965 May 1965 (or later 197 March 3 1967 1968 Early 1969 1970 1971 Jan.18 Jan.19 Jan. 27 | ‘Beb.1 Chronology -=- 2 ( more on Hunt Castro project) Assassination alleged to have Szulc,supra beenflanned as part of a smaller invasion effortand preparations were allegedly made in Costa Rica Hunt Castro scheme "aborted when ” " Dominican Republic strife broke out (scheme also allegedly involved McCord, Barker and Sturgis) As Katzenbach/Helms/LBJ meeting Katzenbach testimony on Domincan Republic ended, LBJ to Senate Belect Committ asked Helms if CIA had ever been involved in assassination (of a leader) and Helms said "no" Rosselli indicted for alien law . Government Opposition and interstate gambling crimes. to sentence reduction, (Friars Club card game rigging) supra. \ First Anderson column.on Rosgelli We dont have, but Anderso referred to in Hersh NY Times story 3/10/75 In response to Anderson story, RFK tells Walinsky and Edelman - Hersh story,supra he shut it off; Rosselli sentenced to 5 years - Government Opposition, Asst. Atty Gen Wilson asks for. Keeney Watergate memcon Justice Dept. Rosselli file Rosselli goes before grand jury Government Opposition, supr under immunity re:Giancana . First of three Anderson columns Mayhu (scheduled to go before grand Lenzner memo to SenErvin jury on Las Vegas skimming) calls on Rosselli ( and phone ic “AG John Mitchell Same day: Haldeman .édss Dean to inquire into Hughes/O'Brien/Maheu ties Maheu interviewed by Wilson and Peterson on Rosselli matter Caulfield to Dean memo that Maheu was . " involved in covert activity for CIA in early 1960's - Rosselli files motion for reduction ~ in sentence, citing Anderson stories. he and presenting memorandum to Court MW 50955 Docld:32473630 Page 124 |
Rosselli felt ;|"sorry for the poor bastards. left on the “ "ho" beach.) onoel tt Fete indirectiy-seapethingite fo=—thoie- ms dé@aths sinc tag ata. pate_in_the-invasioa— Two or three weeks lafter the invasion, Rosselli was contacted in Los lAngeles by Q' Connell, a meeting was arranged for at the airport hotel in Miami.) Rosselli went there and was introduced to Harvey: O'Connell said Harvey was now |/in charge of the Cuban| project. Harvey told Rosselli he was to cease all contact with Maheu and Giancana. Further, Harvey stated that the government was still interested in using Rosselli for intelligence-gathering operations. Rosselli hoy would report information from the Cubans to Harvey about a personalities and events in Cuba. Rosselli would also relay on to his Cuban contacts requests} [for specific in- formation| from the CIA. oo | eee After the|Bay of Pigs (April 1961) Sometime between the Bay of Pigs invasign| and the Cuban missile crisis, Harvey gave Rosselli six poison capsules. Rosselli,| in turn, gave them to his Cuban| contacts who were to take them to Cuba, where another Cuban or Cubans would use| them to assassinate Castro. Rosselli never learned the details of what happened, but} the praject ob- — viously failed. At one point, Rosselli. ‘remembers hearing fy. over the radio that Castro was very ill! JA short time | later, he) recovered. || | lj Sometime before the missile crisis, Rosselli arranged, pursuant to Cuban #1 request, for a van léaded with rifles ty and ammunition to be delivered in Florida|'! O'Connell and .Rosselli watched the Cuban contact pick/ up ‘the van and return it) empty. Rosselli assumed that; these guns were going to be used by the two or three-man raiding parties in Cuba to assassinate Castro and overthrow the government. During the Cuban missile crisis, Rosselli| was in Chicago. od He contacted Harvey at Harvey's mother's home in Indian- apolis and left his number in Chicago. | Harvey then called 4 i . | him, told him to. go to Washington, D.C.} From Washington, lt ( i D.C., Rosselli traveled to Florida where he stayed for the duration of the Cuban missile crisis.| ‘He, at times, would, through his Cuban contacts, attempt to verify the location of the Russian missiles in Cuba. Rosselli claimed that this had been successful. After the) Cuban missile crisis, Harvey called Rosselli and told! him to stop all contacts with any and all persons involved in. past Cuban missions.) Harvey never stated why the missions were being called off. “ HW 50955 Docld?32493630 Page| 125
HW 50955 Page 126 ; Docld: 32423630 | Rowan Tap an Rosselli said that he understood that Giancana had asked Maheu for.a tap on Dan Rowan. Maheu: gave Rosselli two stories. The first was thatjhe was doing Giancana a favor and the second was that there was a real intelligence value in that Maheu was afraid that Giancana or Rowan might be giving out intelligence information that would be of| value to enemies of the ‘United States. Rosselli; had not heard of the names Dubois or Belotti or Fred Harrison. He admitted that Harvey had discussed the tap with hin, but both Harvey and Rosselli were mad that the opera- tion had gone: on. Giancana obviously knew about the tap. Maheu did ask Rosselli to get bail money for the two tappers who were caught and thrown in jail. Maheu suggested that Rosselli could get aj hotel to turn over) the. bail money. Finally, Rosselli arranged to have a man with a green carnation in’ ‘his lapel meet and transfer the bail money. He never received any of this money back. Rosselli claims that he did not know what type of tap went on. He admitted that he had been questioned by the FBI but he gave no answers. | Rosselli knew that Maheu had been questioned by the FBT.
HY 50955 Docld: 32423630 . Page 127 MEMORANDUM || ef 7 ah Yl | To: “Gary | - | | From: | | Rick | | i‘ Date: August 10, 1976 Subject: ; Roselli . | First, some background information. Yestérday, | August 9; Senators Inouye and Baker met with Directors , | | Kelley and/Bush to discuss Roselli's ‘death. The FBI doesn't want to touch this with a ten-foot pole. | At the meeting, Jim Adams told Inouye and Baker that the| FBI had been told by Justice (Richard Thornburg) that it had no jurisdiction in this case. Levi had, apparently, not been consulted. Senators Baker and Inouye (especially Baker) ‘g requested Kelley to take this ‘up dirdetty with tev Today, a letter was sent to Levi, signed by |Baker and Inouye, urg- : ing Justice to authorizé FBI involvement. A copy} © of that letter ig attached. | ool ong other point about the meeting. George Bush was \ extremely upset about this case ‘and the allegations that | the CIA was involved in ‘Roselli' s death. He said ‘that he . would personally contact Levi to request that the Depart- a ment grant jurisdiction’ to the FBI to investigate. |For your information, Roselli appeared before the Committee on four separate occasions to testify on three
HW 50955 Docld: 32423634 matters. Castro; bn September 2 and on April 25 to dis Now for current Miami handling the Ros and Wolf). are 305-547-7456 and 5 with Detective Wolf. letter to Levi I did n whereabouts of Santo T They havel no informati putting together a pac will include CIA and S get this ito. you tomorr I Prank you alre want to. launch an info ry ‘oe | He appeared 7 They are wi rh me ' events. 47-7923. Second, rafficante. ow. ady know this, \ \ Roselli told him, when he appeared before the Committee, that . he chougile! his life was’ in danger for testifying. a moral obligation, th death for ‘you. \ |. A I have, attached erefore, the most recent articles on the Roselli i f, i Page 128 ‘First, th Dade County Homicide. bt ask the FBI about the to look into this. on June 25 to discuss the /'plots against 0 and 22 to discuss the Campbell affair; cuss the retaliation theory. the two detectives in elli case are Detectives | Zatrefralek | Their numbers Madigan has already talked in light of the Thduye/Baker ‘current I did, however, ask CIA. on. Third, Baker and Liebengood are ket of information on Rogellli, which elect Committee information and will i but Senator Baker does rmal investigation into this matter. , ha lk Baker feels
P.S. A cou there mi been quite a few anti-Castro deaths in| the Miami are. means of | another b gangland “HW 50955 Docld:32423634 | y | ; Over the past | was pulled up in the Hudson River. aying, complete with cement and chain st H ' { 1 “4 : b 1 i ‘ ‘ 1 : 1 * ‘ H I fe 1 } } ; Car bombs and shootings have been the usual th. Second, we received a report today that 4 | iS | i. " Lo t q { . | t edt 4 th i Ty i , i : i ' t if : j bys ' 1,
| 4 : | i TO: O|THE FILES | 7 | FROM: aye SHEA AND MICHAEL MADIGAN. yo DATE: JUNE 21, 1975 | { f SUBJECT: SUNMARY OF A MEEZTING WITH MR. JOHN ROSSELLI © do B ii AT 711:35 a.m. » JUNE 21, 1975, IN ROOM 7H pf the WATERGATE HOTEL. . | . PRESENT - AT| THE SESSION: “MR... MICHAEL MADIGAN, MR. PATRICK(, ‘SHEA OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE i MR. ROSSELLI, MR. THOMAS WADDEN, MR. JAMES CANTILLON, MR. LESLIE , nl At oll Metensng of the meeting, Mr. Madigan asked Mr. Rosselli if he felt a need for| any | protection. He stated; emphatically, "No, !' ithat he was able to take care of|/hims , Madigan made it clear that thel Senate Select Committee ‘could provide i ee lis’ for Mr. Rosselli during his stay. ‘in Washington. This offer] w: ie rejected. | 7 ndde ! . \ Mr. Rossélli stated that Giancanfa had no involvement, to his knowledge, | with any of|ithe| attempted assassinations of Fidel Castro. Maheu did deal with higher authorities in government but stated that Rosselli} was only the contact, Giancana has} ‘a backup man./| Rosselli was very concerned about the adverse publicity in| recent times, jabout the CIA and he thought it was unfortunate from the. Agency] =| point of view that the Giancana name had been | linked to the Agency. Rosselli! was upset by the harassment he had been undsr by the FBI. He ' pointed to] the 1966 Frier Club incident as an example. He |said in 1966 he had- been approached by the FBI to provide information on inside basis about organized crime and when he had. refused 18 months later he was indicted. Again, the first week in June) of 1970, the FBI had offered him cooperation! but he refused. re Rosselli| first met Maheu twenty years ago. He was ibd roducea through a life long who is dead now, named spitzle, who was lin the insurance business. This first! meeting happened in Los Angeles, in 1955. Maheu , lat the time, was running Maheul|. Associates in Washington, D.C. The meeting, was only a social gathering. | There was nothing specifically discussed about aptivities of the CIA, . oo 40 qi aly In sup or Au = Maheu called Rosselli and stated that he was working for . the gove ie een specifically asked to recruit} ‘Rosselli. Maheu wax foot stressed that it was to be|/Rossélli and no one else. They jagreed to meet for lunch i at it the Brown! Derby in Los Angeles™ Maheu described the ‘project as an intelligence operation finvol g Cuba. | éu mentioned specifically Castro, Che Guevara, and Raoul Castro. It was Rosselli's feeling that Maheu had recruited him because of his known Cuban connections in Florida. These connections | were unrelated to _gambling. (There was no money mentioned by Maheu to Rosselli; for payment for services. ee mm io: The alleged support of Wall Street business men had not: been mentioned and was a cover, jinvented{ by Roseelli.later. At the end of their, first meeting, they agreed to méet again at’ which time Maheu would verify to [Rosselli that he was ’ working for the government, | This verification would be by introducing a t government fficial of highow-authorsty to Rosselli. Page 130 a , | 7 t 4 a ! a Bo oe HW 50955 Docld: 3242364
‘Khrushchev ] Hiv L Oe at A registered | while. Maheu} iistil1 working so that Hughes believed that he was doing his work. terms of Rosselli further discussions about gpecifics wit the CIA, would visit with Maheu and Rosselli. WS! O'Connell Bignent with him aa 50955. wy At this point, ner Beg F ing’ ame occurred a Qhewmalh « ted to proceed to New or an aS Rosselli waS/im o the government official. He At both the first and second mé ANS for an . hour or more: and various aspects of the proposed aap projects, were—discusseé hat nosing ve mentione® of specific techniques. ~ erat ascend lise a or coinciding . Rosselli! remembered his arrival in New York: xxtxmg with a visit » by Eisenhower,||Gastro, Nasser, and perhaps Krushev. He said} it was noteworthy because New. paid his own on Fifth ‘a ‘and 57th Street. The meeting in New York took place in a hotel room. selili and "big" Jim_O'Cgnn Jain ‘why they were there. Rosselli was unclear as to whether this was ” stated explicitly or official. York was crawling with officials from all over the world. ii ' Rosselli fare from Los Angeles to New York and stayed: ‘at the old mh Hotel i | He was given the cover name, John Ralston. In attendance.were 7 & ell, and two or a other people who ‘Jim O'Connell w Ss Mitroduced as a CIA whether through | ‘the whole context of discussions it became clear that he worked for the CIA: Pd the government’ t if i [At this point, Rosselli was satisfied that Maheu was working for and , therefore, agreed to work & the Cuban ‘mission described at a their first [net ing. Rosselli was not sure as to the length] of his stay in New York at thils|| and talking’ Bl ‘After | Florida. e; nePeEries [be meetings between himself and Maheu to discuss further plans <a - about the ‘atte O'Connell, jinvolving these preliminary: stages. techniques (of; Falls Church jhome(_ liad | been no discussion of-the cover story(that Rosselli was a There still] When. Ro then arranged! } about the particular projects. aL time. He did remember going to lunch with Maheu a number of times _sta in New York, he traveled to ae “Nashington, D. C. or eliwas uncertain as to the exact location mpted assassination. There was only one further meeting with At this point, he only discussed with Maheu. Rosselli remembered staying in Maheu's a tennis court jJduring his stays in Washington. ‘assassination! it had private citigen representing a group of private businessmen] from xhe New York, ) oSse Li ‘lorida, he made pis contacts wiebethe-Cubags, and for the Cubans ‘to meet wit He trusted the Cubans he came in contact [with because they, according to themselves, were| working on the Bay of Pigs operat [i At this he represe THEE! in seeing Castro done away O'Connell, |bu ; left and Rosselli only met | H namely that! ane, Coast. on, ' Tr. rthur at had met with Maheu. ‘which had not occurred as of yet. There were times when they would > in Florida. At times he for Hughes, was able to register, under. his own name, The operation went on in setings with his Cuban contacts ‘and then having t times; O'Connell, from One time, before the 1960 election, two Admirals, one of whom, Rosselli thinks, was retired. fe! ; li -atse was telling his Cuban cbatdets the cover story, private business interests in New| with. The Cubans, at this point, thad not met withJim Immediately after the Bay of Pigs, Maheu once more with O'Connell. Then he also left for the West Inoint, Rosse e | | ; | One attempt ler was sometime after. |The first means was to Pigs |. use a one filled with a special poison that could be spilled into the food of Castro and cause him to die of Docla: 32423636, | 7 poisoning that was not traceable and made his death Ie ' | " 1 ‘Page 131 Pk
aL TH eee il) - ‘i look like ai ny art attack or by natural causes. Rosselli gontacted a little At this time;’ Cubans could still Cuban whose elative was_a chef for Castine, i # rave! betwe and Cuba. was agreed that the CIA would manufacture ew and Foupgenaieaieliase) The Cubans came to the room, caSe, with ‘Rosselli and the Cubans present, and gave then||capsule, § pac 7A} dollars. The | money had come from the CIA and was considered partial payment i the poison capsule. It would be turned over to O'Connell} to Maheu, to Rosselli, Poe Reb eeaii to the. Cubans df Maheu_brou ht the capsule! to Florida to the ahei1 opened Ars’ BT" Liss > for the job] of assassinating Castro. At this meeting, Maheu described the method of using these capsules, makes sure the Cubans understood -the-Cubans understood: ithey could Dot be about 6 350 000 ‘dollars. with the 1H d,| “Cubans, at this meeting, That. ‘figure was used by Maheu after his first meeting uba descTibe@ what the. a ~CIA might put up to help the families of men injured or killed in this Auteiaseoe asokab nation | Sere thinks that. the meet ing) with the money and capsules was after the election e number one Cuban contact that Rosselli had would from time to time, make requests of Rosselli to be area on to the CIA for equipment. /eontac uban. oon SS was [ure that the € & ° ct a a0. Jun The CIA did "provide , for instance, io, which was ‘supposed to be used by the Cubans in Florida to ; in Cuba about ‘the success or failure of the. poison pill mission. ills were sent to Cuba but he': has received no 4, TMosece was for the Cubans to receive plastit explosives from the ci CIA and givel them to frogmen.on their side that in turn would place them on ships ale in Havana harbor and blow them up. ‘The CIA refused to do}. ‘this because of the ease with which plastic explosives could be traced eof to [the government agencies such as the \GIA. Maheu did stixmsnmx discuss habe gigars, Epa woyld make ifosé “9 a HY SUT Castro's hain|idrop off, According to Rosselli country. Anothexaggposal jwas that there be ities o govern the ped ty fo Each of these latter _twoljprojects were proposed by Cuban refugees whg_said they had people in pos it Lons to have a’ be Ivis a vis Castro:who could achieve the assassination. in the Bay lof Pigs, perhaps 2 a: + hundred, they could land in Cuba and do the eb successful ly}|| Rosselli's Cuban contact at the time was traveling to New York and New Orleans ‘for. meetings. Rosselli;was not sure about what the meetings were about but said that ghey were related to the overthrow of: Castro. Another proposal put forward Was a ia and use some typenedmexpleding—coagheldas ig t before the bay Pigs Rosselli want to hi house The Cuban contact said, express ‘ious re rvation about the possibility Rosselli left ht. after the ‘| particular] ination. in F of Pigs. HiS\totai time on“this ida was three || four months. Pi Rosseli| felt sorry for"'the - - poor bastards left on the beach."" He felt indirectly, ¥esponsible for having encouraged <hem many of them to participate ~ on in the’ operation. He went) home and' stayed in Las Vegas and Los Angeles for awhile. “ee li few weeks lafter the Bay of Pigs, Rosselli was contacted by| Maheu or O'Connell, tlt he's not suTeg He did meet| with Jim: O'Connell in Floridalja had arranged|to have rooms! at the Airport Hotel. Rosselli -his—name,y- what name he registered under, new CIA Ten CIA want named Harvey; The first tim a HW 50955 DBocld: sacsah — 132° few weeks later. They was not sure as to what. gt this meeting: in F] Se slomnitls MaXME} mee Hervey, Rosselli was told i
Castro TINS to HW 50955 and that he pa not talk this meeting to have no purther! contact wi Gin Maheu further with Giancana.~ He SO! Sal that he, Harvey, At this point that Rosselli should was in charge, of the operation and ice eS take his orders from Harvey’. [the original project. using pills, was considered defunct. After : some down in| the project: own people who both with personalities/in operations ./. assassinate and were much stronger. in. Los Angetes. «Rosselli paid would usually pick up the t ‘arranged for pte first meetin i that he, Maheu , was out. ). the: six pills but ihe bs t_over a ' Rosselli again contacted his Cuban people. “He~ ‘osselli made several trips wit the Keys to see. what type Of operations were Harvey had Ros © were in frequent contact. with' in ithe his ab. radio or TV a that Fidel’ the CIA’ ‘to , supply| a papel tou own bills wre ] Cuba. The intel ‘Rosselli never got any bee lo continuing. Florida, One o selli doing was verifying CIA reports by using Rosselli's . ligence reports dealt Cuban héerarch » as well as differentongoing wk before the I of Pigs but after, Harvey ) s tolh ct. There were no special ingtructions on hew’ “pills and his Cuban contact said that they would. be passed into Cuba time, Rosselli had no ongoing contact with Maheu, but may have run Maheu knew that Rosselli was still working on the Cuban report back on what unsu He did "Castro was deathly | aded. oe child es or use by|his Cuban contacts'to make two or: three- -manne| party raids into Cuba, hopefully a ; i g ‘the Cuban missile crisis, rvey' s mother’s home in| Indianapolis and left (called him, told him to! go to Washington, D. Gi Harvey at i _ Harvey then’ i assinating Castro and overturning the governnent. || Rosselli was in Chicago. his (| F He contacted number in Chicago. rom Washington,.D.C. Rosselli traveled to Florida where lhe stayed: for the duration 6f€ the Cuban missile | crisis. He location of’ at times, would, through his Cuban contacts {|| the Russian missiles in; Cuba. stated why the missions were being called off att empt to verify the Rosselli claimed that this had been . pAfter the Cuban missile crisis, Harvey called | Rosselli and told him successful to stop all ontacts with any and all péetsons involved in! past Cuban missions. Harvey neve was in June was being ¢ to him | | Bocld: 3242363 i ilf His last when Rosselli y, money that Rosselli ever ‘put up was $800 to ‘buy gas for the speed- uld deliver the two or|three-man teams to Cuba/ to do guerrilla operations. roughout the' ; |interview that he had never received any money and that is $800 he had never given any money for. contact with Harvey found out that Harvey Ea 1963 orshortty there betere,, nsfered to Rome and he! made a. special trip f9| Washington to say goodby ~
The Rowan Maheu for ik on € Harrison. obviously Atwo tappers w could get a to have a of the bail] m that he did ane he questioned by! questioned Pi During: Cuban operation operations, Rossel) Gold. He only bus e and had ‘no [con Mr. for his representing Rosselli, now. was not maci¢ar. There was discussion as to the Committee |] of Mr. Rosselli's transportation from Los Angeles and there the limits ,| i any, to be placed on: ‘the Committee's inquiry) the Cubans , how they. had been developed, contacts wi did go on. | HW 50955 Docld: 3242363 nt Tet man! Li I + alt “dd. luis Waddeng stated that he was receiving no f th i ho wit money not know what type of tap went on. qi: 1 i i ty Wy i . a Hi { ta . Rosselli ” Renee ‘Dan oing Giancana a favor and th Rosselli had not heard admitted that! Harvey had discussed the tap w “ and Rosse114 [were pissed off akxtke that the operation had| gone on. knew about the tap. who were caught tel to turn over the bail money. een carnation in his lapel meet with) He never received any of this money back: said that he understood that Cishcana had asked Rowan. Maheu gay, osselli ‘two stories. The first ond was that there was a real @.ot- value to enemies of Dubay ror Belotti or Fred +45 him, but both Harvey Giancana Maheu did ask Rosselli to get bail money for the and thrown in jail. Maheu suggested that Rosselli ‘Finally, MF Rosselli arranged .. Doakes” for a transfer Rosselli claims He admitted. that he had been the FBI but he gave no answers and he knew that Maheu had been the FBI. ts « early contacts with!Maheu in 1959 and ‘60 » Maheu was a Ii Hea Ian setting up the setting up a guard system for different Hughes! such as Hughes Aircraft or other corporate interests. can't remembe aims to have no panterests Ww. ntact with Giancana. Rosselli stated that he use recruiting lother Cubans for Ce) i When asked about Joe Santa Daguwean, Trafficanto, d him only as an interpreter but] not as a cohtact for his mission. | Yr whether. he ever introduced Giancana as Mr. Sam s rel | ith Giancana. machines in Las Vegas!) Rosselli's e ran those by himself { Vi ees fox-his-counsely ‘The status of Mr. Cantillon or Mr. Scherr s/paying the expenses 'was discussion as to of Mr. Rosselli's and! what other operations hea ' | { i
The Actomney General | z| i our jurisdiction, whicl made to him, At this time, we do not plan to fu the mattér. Our relat _ guarded and we would fe of him concerning this} i 1 ( _ i) The informant ‘ahs told that his offorl is outside i i a he acknowledged. No commitments were t ’ i i ton nship with him has be el obligated to handle 1 + The Deputy Attorney General - PUREST E gicantemaiieat atetiadt emlicig-asdiet for neecan Heat totitt Heian ofl oa fat matter if such is desixz urther pursue most carefull ny xrecontact e
Book Vip. 12413 . _ The cast of characters surrounding i the seizure of anti-Castro cr th hardware as outlined on these pages apy . _ is particularly interesting. a1 The raw material |¢ited in the { footnote is attached. Note | reference to Briniuer and Oswald. | Below that McLaney brothers and Victor. Espinosa and Frank Sturgis. .Not attached is ajcritical New \; Orleans field office memo to FBI headquarters /|linking Briniuer to the McClaney/Sturgis operation. | | | ot ‘ ‘ i H ‘h ‘ | J | 1 t ‘ 1 fo. ' i iy aqd Haha ee
New Orleans tion a photo- Orleans, La., 3 given to a record, given lo the same, “idel Castro, cht to invade fates will do right. ny friend to vd this after that eonver- on my friend ‘here and he . 1¢ Fair Play - horities, be- uowledge of front of Ed » Council of friend and Wer all the bat Oswald Oswald had Ve gave all nN, somebody lebate. day of the the time of {ill Stuckey indicate to linke hands auat Stuckey veHleve that sto Oswald to him as ‘t one Com- ommunism, nat I don’t cic way. I ‘‘ommunist, ‘hat if any - something ome to me, ‘ve nothing © answered the wrong it moment. debook for vill happen -y him per- ‘ \ HW 50955 Docld: 32425631 ' it nL | : | ' eonally 4 as } altraitor if he doing something wrong in the debate, When he saw the guidebook for Marines, he smiled to me, and he told me; “Well, listen, Carlos! don’t try £9 ido un Invasion with that guidebook for Marines, because that is anl) old one. an ndithat will be a failure.” That was his joke in that moment. After that we went to the debate, and I think that you have the whole history of the debate, you have the transcription and everything, [so} that I don't hav HAE to go inside} ‘that, because that is | publective, not objective. rou have the ob jective, andit that is the debate. | Mr. LiggEL irr. That is right. Weldo have a transcript and we listened to it on the tape Ast night over at the television station too. Mr. BRINGUIER. And there ts something that I want to show you too. I told to you about the training camp that were across the Lake Pontchartrain, { ii Mr. LIEBELER, Yes. ly Mr, BRINGUTER, (Producing newspaper] At the beginning of August in the Diario Las'Americas from Miami for September 4——. : iri Mr. LIFBELER. For September 4, 1963? li Mr. BRINGUTER. That is right. i Indicating photograph.) This is the spy who was inside the training camp, The Christian Democratic Movement turned him over tole the FBI, and the FBI Was questioning him in Miami. The Christian : Democrati¢ ‘Movement found a letter, according to this information, from this : guy directed}to Carlos Lechuga, foriner Cuban Ambassador te Mexico and now Cuban Ambassador to the United. Nations in New York. In: that letter the spy! | Fernando |Kernandez, was warning 1 Lechuga that they have to be alert from that date to Au es 8, and the day that Oswald came trying to infiltrate my orga! nization Wi {Indicath 1g.) Here is another interview from Fernandez here 3 days later. | Bu on August 5. This’ sounds for mé strange in all this matter. ; | ib Mr. LIGHELER. You are referring to a copy of the same newspaper but for the date of Septetber 6, 1963, on the front page of which-—— | Mr. BRIN NGUIER. {Indicating.} Here. “Fernanda Fernandez is in favor of coexistencalts with the Communist ‘regime of Castro.” That is the title {a} Spanish. | a ! Mr. LIEBELER. Let me see if I can! understand: what you | are saying. You say that Feriidlide wrote a letter to Rechnga? i Mr. BRINGUIER. Fernandez wrote a letter to Léchuga in México. iy Tr. echuga is a member of the Castro gov ernment? I F i 7 7 Mr. LIFFELER, . Right. ' Mr. Mr. Lr IFBELER, He j is now Ambassador to the United Nations? ‘ Ht Mr. Bre ENGUIER. In New York; right. . ‘ Mr. LIEBELER. Fernandez is the person who wag the Castro: spy who had in-! filtrated thejtFaining camp in Louisiana? 1 ' ’ OMe. BRINGUIER. For the Christian Democratic Movement here in Louisiana. LiEBEEER, ‘Now the Christian Democratic Mov ement | is—what? Pro-’ if. i Mr. LIgBEE Castro? | i a [ i Mr. BRINGUTER, Anti-Castro. [ co Mr. LIEBELER. It js an anti-Castro organization? We Mr, Brrnouier. Yes; they were| training Cubans over here’ to make a com-|||i mando action; against Castro,. but they find out that there was a Castro spy// inside thelt ain ning camp, and they went back to Miami with the people and with} him, and they turn him over to the FBI. I think that after that the leader | for the Chr i Stit an Democratic Movenient—or that the FBI didn’ t found nothing, | because was) fot against the law to | Spy inside an anti-Castro orgunization. It}, was against the law to spy inside the U:S..Government but not inside the anti-/ Castro organization. And my feeling-—-and this is the question that I am asking | myself—iniNéw Orleans we are about 900 miles from Miami; In Miami is where! the headqu irters of all the anti- Castro groups. I could not find any. reason for Oswald to come to me and offer ‘me his service to train Cubans tn guerrilla ° t warfare atthe and f Caste when/there was a secret anti- Castro training camp ' in New Orleans and a Castro spy was inside that training camp. That for me; is—because, if he was willing to infiltrate one active organization, he will go! directly to ami and he will offer his service over there in Miami, but not in| | New Orleg yhere it is not publicly, known tha. here w as something going on a at that mote t. I believe that that was the only time here! in New Orleans that we
eee em meet oa ee, ething ilke that, and le for me, and that is coineidencs Mexico,| land dith ‘le tter from Fernandez |that was intercepted here was to. Mexico ')-$ too, and Oswald visit ‘the Cuban consulate in Mexico, and the Fernandez letter : was to’ t the [Cuban Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. LIesELER. ‘Go} ahead. Mr. (BRINGUIER. You see, after the debate, the same night of the debate, I New Orleans and the local. Papers and the |}, If you want a |} went to thel[radio station here in United Press|'International office, a copy, I could!give you a copy. Service [of | New Orleans, I think ‘Hed Cy “Write! to! your: ‘ Congressman asking for a full investigation. of Mr. Lee H, *} Oswald, a lconfessed Marxist” (Propet document]. ation, UHR before the | ‘assassing Mr. TAEer Do you have another copy of this?. ; | . Mr. Barn a | have the original No, August 21. Hay Mr. LisneLes. T mark it as “Exh initiated ie i ould] you initial it? (The|wi ines complied.) Mr. Lies Er given tol se ei understand. Mr. in which IPethtides said that we—meaning the Castro people?! a : Mr. Bunguien. Yes. Mr. Likert Mr. Bars eeu Mr. Liepetee Lot 1963? EF Fite th Mr, BRrnauter, | That. is right. Mr. LiboeLER. You indicated that on August 51 1963? Mr, Bringvier. That is right. Li E ett Mr. Lies of Cubans? || Mr. BRinoutee. That is right. Orieane! iit ‘f Mr. Bring wien,’ That is right. GUIF Mr. LIEBELER, For ithe training of Mr. BRINGUIER. 1Right. ea Mr. Lazpetfe | And that was not public Knowledge at that time? ‘ Mr. BR RIN Tn, Mr. LIEBELERS: AHL sibility tha t'Os Mr. BRi waite. That is right. ER, That is right. So you ‘are tying th daar cause Mr, |Fern Filande had already binselt infiltrated that training camp? Mr. BRINGUIER. ‘That. is right. that Fernandez camp and hia asked. Oswald himse Mr. pret ae ‘Excuse me. Mr. Livneven! ER! Is that correct? Mr. BRING GUIER n. Well, the only thi had told dire J ly to Oswald. What had gave to. 0: Orleans.! | ald the order to try I gave é a copy to the Secret Service. The {most lihteresting | thing is the four things that I asked to the Secret | . a have marked a copy of the press release distributed to the ications media here jIn New Orleans, on August 16, 1963—— /, 8: i 2. August, 21, the night of the debate. ; tbl, No. 3” to your deposition, and I have wvald was, in fact,a Castro agent? de the United States! and these. people had informed Oswald and | i ‘ . | pot \ Hl i i tt was a coincidence, And jthere ig another | that: when Oswald left! the city he went to : For me, that ts a big doubt. L nd II gave a press release. ° that this is the second one where I sald, i ; of that. You can have that, 7 {- ‘ ' . Let mhe go over some| of this testimony that' you have just | ‘ And that was 3 months /j) Fernandez ‘wrote to Mr. Lechuga a letter cLER., Must be on guard up until August 8? NGU UIER.| | August 8, that is Hight. ; | i i J i |. Osivaia had. come to your store or offices i ' swald came to you offering to assist in the military training i t i LER. At that time, there ras, in fact, a training camp near New !|¢: i { aan le 4 la up in. your mind by considering the pos- ' ER! And| did know about the: existence of this training camp, be- :| tod ay t ‘ : | | people for tillitary action against Castro? | eat f haa told Oswald about the existence of this It, to try to infiltrate that camp for your | ' |: : ng that I don’t belleve is that Fernandez I'believe is that Fernandez had informed i to infiltrate the Cuban group here in New i 1 I - New Orleans, . Mr, Lrenerer, And Mr. Fernanc -aware of approximately the time fore, Indicated to Lechuga that 1 discovered a3 an attempted infiltr. Mr. Burnaurer, I beg pardon? Mr. Lresecer, As I understand lates to the fact that Fernandez will be In danger,”—up until abo anything to do with Oswald? Mr. Brrnaurer. Well, what I thi on August 5 Oswald came to me « same period of time. Somethin Orleana, that there was a secret of the Fair Play for Cuba Comn. Those are the fact not sure about. I just want to s. connection. Mr. Liesecer. Now it doesn’t see handing out literature in the stre to Inflltrate the anti-Castro moven Mr. Brinoures. Remember that ‘after I told him that I don't hav that here there Is nothing, and th went openly to do that before t he went openly to do that after he w Mr, Lresever. Do you know of . in the pro-Castro movement and information to Oswald—conducted Mr. Brrneurex. No. Mr. Liepecer. Would you have a as a result of your anti-Castro ac person as this, do you think you - Mr. BRINGUIER. Beg your pardon Mr, LIEseEter. If there were suc Castro movement who had been v. would have had access to that in find out about it? Mr. BRINGUIER. You see, that ts have a lot of persons. There ar: who are anti-Castro. Even amui. agents here in the city and you c But there is something else: Th. is located in 117 Decatur Street, j- the owner of the Havana Bar is over there, gave the information | before—that Oswald went to the lemonade. He was with one Mexi drinking the lemonade, he start tu to be a Cuban capitalistic, and tha He was telling that that was too n moment, Oswald feel bad at that out to the sidewalk to vomit outsid *.the Havana Bar told me that the ¢ the same one that one time the FBI- Immediately because that was a pri August 15 and August 30 was th: because I start to find out all thes: before, because before I did not nothing of this before to me. Be the owner of the Havana Bar can. chuse he already. saw one automo. ene of them-the one who had ber
ae 2 coerce Zz doabt. of the debate, I . papers and the If you want a d to the Secret .e@ where I said, - of Mr. Lee H. at was 3 months istributed to the . ust 16, 1963-—— tion, and I have t you have just Lechuga a letter ra + store or offices allitary training camp near New . against Castro? sidering. the pos- ‘aining camp, be- ing camp? - existence of this t camp for your . that Fernandez ‘ez had informed avmed Oswald and voup here in New. HW 450955 Docld! 32423636 . to infiltrate the anti- Castro movement? \ | ' agent “te q Mr, i And Mr. Fernai ndez was, on this theory, aware of that aware loti i approximately the time: Oswald. would make this attempt, ani fore, lindicated to Lechuga that. there would be some, danger of Oswald being discovered as an attempted infiltrator? 7 Mr, ERINGUTER, I beg pardon?’ '. J don’t understand the words. ite DYEBELER. . As I understand! part of the hypothesis: here, the theory, to the fact that Fernandes said to Lechuga, “We must be careful, danger,”—up until about August 8 Now does that statement} to do with Oswald? ‘ 1 t 5 Oswald came to me hin te his service to train Cubans, all { 7 t eriod of time. Something that never was ‘happening here in|'N that there was a secret ‘anti-Castro training: camp, and the chair Pair Play for Cuba Committee trying to join the Cuban group here! iB rle Those are the facts. I don't want to tell something thatiIa I just want to show you that tremendous coincidence or that o ‘ | ‘ fr, LiEsecer. Now it doesn’t seem n likely, does it, that Oswald would go ie jout literature In the streets like he did if he was actually attempting — J =e RINQUTER. Remember that that was after I turned down his offer’ and told him that I don’t have nothing to do with military activities: yang Mr after! Htc that ice there is nothing, and that I turned down completely him. He dian’ t went [openly to|do that before the attempt to infiltrate the training camp hel . ent tlopenly to do that after/he w "ag turned, down, ( yaa fri] L IEBELER. Do you know, of ‘any conceivable association between anyb My a tne pro- Castro movement and Oswald that could have acted as a source of: Intoritatign to Oswald—conducted the orders to him? 4 ne Mri Biiwouren, No. i | Mr, LIEBELER. [Would you have any way of ‘obtaining information of that sort. result ‘of ‘your anti-Castro, activities and contacts? ’ If there were such’ a ag this; go you think you would be: likely to know about it? Castro cet who had ree working with Oswald, do you think that i ‘ ur ve, bad access to that} information or you would have been likely about it? BINGUIER, You see, that, is a hard question, because here in the city, ‘you’ ; : hot of persons. There ‘are some who are pro-Castro, there are many. who ; anti- -Castro. Even among the Cubans you lcould have some Castro, ts here a the city and you could not: have control of everybody. ' I ih Bu ib, there is something else ; The owner of the Havana Bar—the Havana Bar’ ia loc cated | in 117 Decatur Street, just two door or three door from my store the. owner of the Havana Bar‘is a Cuban, and he and one of the employees 3! aad t ig aver | tHibre, gave the information to me after Kennedy's assassination—tnot: beforg that Oswald went to the Havana Bar one time. He asked for sone: lem ie He was with one Mexican at that moment, and when Oswald was drintinblthe lemonade, he start to say that, sure, thé! owner of that place “had, to be lal Ciban| capitalistic, and that he argue about the price of the lemonade! VE telling, that that was too 1 much for a lemonade, and he feel bad at that Oswald feel bad at that’ moment—he had some, vomits and he went out to.th sidewalk to vomit outside on the sidewalk. | These persons here from pe Bar, told me that the guy, the Mexican, who was with Oswald, art the samelone that one time the FBI told them that if they will see him, call them: immediately because that was a! pro-Communist. I reinemiber that was between Au ueust’ 15| and lAugust 30 was that period of time. , [ could not locate that because is start to find out all/these things after the Kennedy assassination} [riot before, Because before I did. not found any connection. They did not: told. nothing), of this before to me. {| Between te . 15th and the 30th the brother,| the owner of the Havana Bar came to my ‘Store asking me to call the FBI be I el already saw one automobile passing by the street with two Mexicaiis, 'Irhem the one who had. been with .-swald in ‘the bar, and he told) me OF. i : : i i | i | !
:e@ dl e it y we re oe HR i uw v y te ll th ' il a oJ ih r o od yr : 5 3 j i t { e . ’ t L ay | hé HW 50955 ‘August 9,3 she did not| - of FPCC,b Docld: 3242363) Fair Play f casion in Da leans. There Lee Osborne} hh Off Cuba,” an New Or leans first distributeg vicinity of the} i wharf in New @) ew Or in downtown of a dispute 16, 1963.39 at his own r : { wer, one of, attempted tol associated 233! While Osvy his “organizat president oft name that Os Marina Oswi it rhymed w: New Orlean ere ape aes national FR 8 operation on (Oswald's par i Orleans poli a at meetings Oswald's | i shrewd politi publicity for/his’ reluctance’ to. € Was justified I: a1 time untruthtu national di 1968, Oswal have rented}: later for about remo “thousands |6: receive ing “to keep angen Vv. T. weal ie (Cuba Ts as Nj ne ecti, uirenlars were dist ! late Committee sometime durin ublic! identification Ji de ; ‘ ‘ 7 I materials on one Be , uneventful oc- | the period April 6+24, 1963,21 with that cause was in New Or- May and early June of 1963, under the name shad printed a handbill headed ‘in large letters “Tlands application form for, and a membership card in, the i ney ¢ of tlie Fair his haindbills and } Lperat an i ii scribe I J 3 if rib pie an anti-Cas i ustd when he pu aid she signed th: i oF idel,” **7 to her, : organization. 329 |statéinents in hi ‘ote that: an office that he was pe Play for Cuba Committee.%”’ other material uneventfully in the U.S. S| Wasp, which was berthed at the Dumaine Street | eails, on June 16, 1963.21 He distributed literature Jeans on Au cust 9, 1963, and was arrested because hree anti- Castra ¢ Cuban exiles, and again on August ee ‘ing his arrest, he, was, interviewed by the police ‘and He on a radio program 323 and, on August 21, "1963, he 10 station WDSU; New Orleans, with Garlos Brin- he, Cuban exiles who had been arrested with him on ringuier claimed that on August 5, 1968, Oswald had tro organization with W yhich he was publicly engaged ;in the activities described above, yw as a product of his imagination.** Thei imaginary nonexistent chapter was named A. J. Hidell,??> the rchased the ‘assassination weapon. 326 net name, apparently chosen because husband’s membership card in the She testified that he threatened to beat her if held once a month. aso | The chapter had never, been chartered by the It appears ; to have been a solitary. t in spite of his misstatements to the New | tha it it had 35 members, 5 of which were usually present t for Cuba activities may be viewed as a very ion in which one man single handedly created ‘cause or for himself. It is also evidence: of Oswald’s events accurately and: of his need to present This is sul reasons “by! the renters, they Tm sure you. understand. » 331 Hl as to himself 1 in a light more favorable than gested by his misleading and some- ig letters to Mr. V. T. of IF FPCC. In one’ ‘of those letters, dated August 1, which he had previously claimed to 1 FPCC activities had ‘been “promply closed 3 days obsure | Lee, then said something He wrote that rubed” “? and that he continued to rough his pest ‘office box ‘which he endeavored ito the best jof my ability.” asa then’ alone! in his efforts on behalf uted his lack of support to an attack by Cuban In his letter to
0955 alone.’ 334 In spite of thosel cover any evidence thin in which Oswald wat tioned above, whic iW letter ta. V.T.L ee, sas incident. part prior to Augu literature at the Di general jtenor of O ported his report onit made against him and gests that his s previgt iS greatly exag ORLEANS + LA.” | in his possession: atl investigation was ng though it did develop maintairled offices thea | t Commission has not be had rented an office jin of public activity. on|@ seems to be no b: asis fe of circulars, especial! and actully had only ; that he received any tional headquarters. ‘In another letter t ) that he had appeired program over WDS of which he was “flood as well-as people int branch,” $4 WDSUiha can Focus.” #2 bh Post,” on which ‘Oswal ¢ 17, 1963,343 all of his FPCC! hetivt wore about the true New Orleans. ' Oswald? $ statement and invitations to deb attention as he must hit and as hel]was to somet The limited notoriet fracas and i in the subs to satisfy him. He ex: 408 exiles in a street d police, events w hiel ation ‘and being a 8. days af ‘Spa per clippi ¥ hile the legend iped on some to find « any o i ial amount yED= = p= =O siSep sya heard for less ald had on the alleged Docld: 32423363 hy than 5 t (4 ly one|caller, ‘ : L } i g ‘offiginly bautioned®™ be the | eed me of whit Support I had leaving me.” ke Commission. his not been able to un- one ever attacked any street demonst?: volved, except. for the Bringuier incident ter Oswald ‘wrote the ier, who seemed’ ‘to be familiar with - Orleans, was: not aware of any so fail to reflect : any activity on Osw: ald’s 963, except for the uneventful distribution of Street wharf in Tuné, 337 Furthermore, the next letter to Vi. T: iT, ee, in which he uier incident! ti with, a copy of the charges 7 ing: reporting the event} sug- ifian attack by Guban exiles was at least ({FPCC 544|Camp St. NEW literature that Oswald had ‘of his arrest, in New Otleans, extensive connect Oswald Ww ith that address, al. st. that an anti- “Castro | organization a: ‘period ending early |i in 1962339 ther ihdic ation that Oswald view of the limited dmount part before August 9) 1963, there, aim that. he had distiibited “thousands” 2 had claimed to have printed only 2 9 3000 eee Tn addition, there is no evidence | of' materials fr h Lee, dated’ August 1%, 1963; | William Stu Vv called Latin Americani Focus” asa result invitations |to debate’s in joining the. F, PCC, no program of any kind'ealled “Latin Am radio program called “Latin Listening 5 minutes on August i response to gent of Bringuier’s dtte;hpting to learn ° FPCC “organization” i at he hoped: to be flooded with callers would have made him | y real center of jhen he first arrived j in the: ‘Soviet. Union hen he returned to the | [United States, ruld received/as a result! of. the street io debate was “pparently not enotigh in his letters { to V., BT Lee i in an appar. we 2 ou t a) ; Tyee Oswald wrote ckey’ 8: ‘15- -minute television OSWALD DISTRIBUTING FAIR ORLEANS, AUGUST 16, 1963 -. BILLS ON WHICH HE HAD ST. im Vda New Or ‘leans yoo: ee re te eng tee trea tne cppetntngnntannnnnanntnnnen ~®e 730-900 0-64-28 ° - COMMISSION EXHIBIT 266 A & the Fair Play Ge Cuba Committee fee e90T gavin se “pee ane, ‘WELCOME! <@> GARNER DE!
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: ‘ ro : ! \ : the Comandus Mambises oF) Sheix HL li RET: mz PUPO, who made ashacenant Ar AMEN credit for the Aug gust 1, 11053 attack. . SCH stared. th se the MIR wil mote oer + attacks phe gucure, 20 opportunieiec | ' AbDLILCY / of equ & permit ,| wi ithoué compromising the Uaited State: Hi | il ° Hi ee if | MISCELLANEOUS ty fi ift ceived t tisat cc ligune 14|,, 1963, information was oe ban exiles hadja plan to bomb: Shell refinery A | : : ie e 15, 1963.) Ualted Shanes e a Agents a Beechesaft airplane on the Ot 6 of ae i along. with a / quantity of ex eS . i iy | AICUEL ALVAREZ , EVELIO ALPIZAR, RENE SPILOSA , ‘OcA and CARLOS. JGERBARDEZ, along | wate Anerican ! ' I joere involved and det ained,) bus fe arrested, £es Customs Agents. It was ase aimed Ze MG LANEY supp lied, the mone: losives mn we Lon. MC LANEY is, well k a former Sse =. S8i0N operator in Havana), wn os yiiresides at Miaind | Beach, Flord 3 . fo, oo ar’ y 19, 19635, ACELO | PEDROSO | sed there 2% fags and ae to bomb Cuba , using bloub ¢ on| the outskirts of New Or! Louisiana. 3 i y 311, 1963, the Federal | BL)|,jat New! Orleans, Loui { ' of obtained a H ¥
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asanet, pte “eae - ~er oo ad iy ACE, OF 3. _ 2 pt Yves : Director, FBI RE Sey Ny : , vee EY Try NY ¥ as \ a . a { wet 29 Jae ie e: sunjecr: FIDE CASTRO ” \ cB ty a UNTERNAL SECURITY - CUBA se ee Rs f ath aac a SEY GES id . oe q We have an informant who furnishes data concerning criminal matters and who is close to high officials of the _ Teamsters Union. He has many contacts with hoodlum and i ‘ gambling elements throughout the United States, He is most | concerned that his relationship with the Foi not be revealed since he feels certain that, if his cooperation becomes known, he will be killed immediately. ; On October 22, 1962, the informant volunteered to ‘i our Los Angeles, California, Office that he believes he coulda i ' arrange to have fidel Castro assassinated, He explained that some of his underworld acquaintances, such as leyer Lansky, im the past bave had close cemnections/ in Cuba whoreby tray ™™ mmnec lions Cuba whoreby the a were able to “buy! practically any Cuban official ox to rz accomplish almost any thing they wanted to do in Cuba, He - believes some of these underworld figures still have channels @ = —- inside Cuba through which the assassination of Castro could be ; successfully arranged.’ | ; Fig EA ET POT tg gm eA TE LR es OS Coreen ne aren -- 7 : . ne CaP ae a RGR S SA? a * "ah dienes a rare FRY Piette OW Raye ey wey, ‘ Bas 4 7 COULD IDRUTIPY CONPIRENTIAL souReR owt pg Re : pte : sane SEO th ab ae ile said that, in the event the 5 United | States Government is interested in having the attempt made, he would raise the necessary money and would want nothing ‘from the Government except assurance that such an undertaking ~~ would in no way adversely affect the national security, Ie R. expressed confidence in his ability to accomplish this mission , without any additional contact with Government representatives * “and Reo a. minimum of contacts ars _ Private indy rece \ Po OP EO J nm i DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE . ; 109-539 BY . . S Per : MAY. ‘Z j : y fr . . fey 1g: ; “a " * ‘ RTOINTY GENERAL | 50955 Doacld: 32423630 Page 149 ,
Book V, p. 13 Intelligence files in mid-1963 documenting series of meetings among major leaders of anti-Castro movement. Such a report is attached. Attention to the cast of characters: i.e., Artime, Maceo, Somoza, Carlos Prio. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 150
. ‘ be i . ye 205-2742 a ao tb aR on Auguat 23, 1963, ALFREDO poRJAS, & wells gene 3b chief of tha ug yimiento de Recuperacior neyolusionario CARR) a anci-CASts9 ovgantaateen, of } MARUEL ARTINE s naviced char the 28 MRR- Consnde® © & CARLOS BANDIN is a dissident RLOUP « BORJAS “a ise caeogh his eonkacks in the Latrer OT gan Zachor s oe penaised chat only about five menbers of BATOLN § “ Zoi enced in Cuba at ehe time of che June 20,5 sion Boeke ubliclty AR, ALTORLO pACEO & lal wales ehey boen former pred Washing VOT » TET weehelals > Miami» rlorids. fozA conduct? ed & geries of ell-kno#e cubsn meetiuE® s in ae eae nearly all of the exile thet and action group Leaders § axrended « At SOMOZA claimed he had ralked &O at? ine thes AP mol n Republisss end tac. these mee atiaTrs presides aug of © rhe: central America 3 are willing to help cuban exiles 43 the form ment, and be5e8 of presidents of pred o1O8 eae military equip! operation * sttack the pr 5 etings wie Guba e SOx re escent government of h the
as ye MM 105-1742 ’ presidents of the several Central American Republi 8 and the leading figures among the Cuban exiles im Wieam-.. Rew York end Washington, were known to lve the sanetion of the United States Government. On July 16, 1962, somozh leLt Miami and returned to Nicaragua. on July 15, 1963, the Nem News" contained an article stating that there ig growing speculation in Miemi that Attorney Ceneral ROBERT UewEDy is guiecly backing eartain Cuban exiles, such as MANUEL ARE ENE SUES and the so-called sovozh Plan. Tt is noted that WANGML ARTIME BUESA is the kead of the HRR, an anti-CASIAO organization. x a aa On July 15, 1963, IM T-3, who has been active in Cuban revolu¢ionary matters for the past five Yar s 5 2 “8 the nite ede Sag Vert A hateacl 4evss LL GBaAVLEGS CMnae Cai helowrtiasecu Her aon aro geme Of Phe better-kuo#n Cuban exile leaders who met with SOsOZA during his recent visit to the United States: SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ, Commandos L LAUREANO BATISTA TALLA, Movimiento Democrats Cristiano (iC). ANTONIO. VECIAN, Alpha 66 -SIXTO Mega, MRR oy JOSE MORELL ROMERO, Cuban Committee of Liberation CARLOS oRIO SOCARRAS, former President of Cubs MAY 7 1976 Saale
PM 105-1742 MANUEL ARTIME, MRR EUSEBIO LUJAL, labor leader ‘ JOSE BOSCH, Cuban industrialist on July 26,1963, SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ advised he had talked with LULS SOMOZA about four hours while SOMOZA was in Miami during the middle of duly, 1953. ALVAREZ said shat it is his opinion SOMOZA was aching &S an intesmadiary between the United States Covernmens aud the Cuban exiles. On August 20, 1963, ALVANIZ advised that mas yet developed concerning the SOMOZA plan; it i not clear wnal SOMOZA is offering, or what the United States Coverment's position or actitude igs in this matter. ALVAREZ said it is obvious somozA cannot afford, either as a private individual or a representative of the Nicaragesza Government, to back such a military program by Cuban exiles, and will have to have the backing and support of the United States Government to go on with his plan. | On July 30, 1963, FERMIN FLEITES, member of the Executive Committee of the MOC, advised that about a& weer ago, a Nicaraguan Army officer visited the OC Eeadquarters , and in the name of SoMOZA, offered camps, military equipment and bases in Niearagua. This individual also offered to pay the expanses of moving the MDC operations to WLGare gua « FLEITES explained that the MDC bad taken no positive action concerning this matter, and had adopted a ‘wait and see" policy to ascertain what attitude the Unit d \States Covernment would take concerning this matter. Tals wpe Pe GD . Pe dee MAY ID 7.
MM 105-1742 On August 7, 1963, MARIO DEL CARAL, Executive . Secretary of Reacate Democratico Revoluctonarin, advised : that qitierr SOMOZA v2a3 in the United Srates duxing July Of 1963, VARUEL ANTONLO DE VAROTA, head of the Resatee Pemocratico kevolusiLonario (RDR) , conferred Witn SONOA in Miemi and Neat York. At the invitation of COMDZA, VARONS left for Miearagua on August 1, 1063, ©9 ARLLY eonter with SONOZA, and is expected to return eg Hlami in above a week. . on September 10, 1963, CARL adviced that nothing definite hed been established as & cesult of YARROW | S vielt to NLGAragiess and that the future of the proposed SOHOZA Plan is, uncertain. On August 13, 1963, LAUREANO RBATIGTA FALLA, militecy leader of the MOC, advieed thes ta nad recently returned frem Nicaragua, where he had conferred wits SOMOZA, who made mo commitments or. indicated en7 definite soMOZA showed great interest in the Guoan . plan existed. help or aid in the way of problen, but offered no positive armg or training camps. BATISTA FALLA said that CARLOS PRIO SOCARRAS » former President of Cuba, Was in Niearagua && the same time, conferred with SOMOZA, but did not ceeeive any offers of positive aid. BATISTA explained ts8t PRLO had just previously returned from the Dominicsn Republic (DR), and although PRIO and JUAN BOSCH, President of the DR, had been frieads for many years, PRIO waa unable to obtain any military bases in the DR. a : On August 22, 1963, RUBEN DE LEON, former Cuban Minister of Defense and Co-Ordinator of the antL-CASTARO 8. peg foo . ' ch! “ + Ube ea $57" f se ne thee d 4 be bof : : me, 4 Fa wg MAY 7 996 VOg
~ tae ame teeta ee gama + i" wens ermeemerstormmntpeemsite Mitt ittttaten Onin tol ahe-ertenrtocdticttteticat ’ . ra lemi at che koma of Nicaraguan Ary Captain JOSE ALS: a ite MM 105-1742 orgenizazcion Armed Forces of Cuba in Exile, stated that mera ks about @ monzh ago, LULS SONOZA told EMILIO NUNEZ PORTUOWDO, former Cuban delegste to the United Mations (UN), bast he (SOM0Z4) had eniked to United States Attorney General (AG) ROBERT KEWNEDY. . , . AG KENNEDY reportedly salt it was ne SOMOZA to work ous the Cuban problem ond to unite Cuban exiles. SOsOZA reeommended that MANUEL AREINE BUESA be designated as the leader of the Cuban exiles. DE LEON advised that there was late meating in RERETT between SOMOZA and a number of Cuban exile leaders. At canis meeting, CONOZA said there was a possibility of Nieareguan ave FF wer we 80s support for she Guban exile anti-CAgslno movement, Bux firs the exiles would have to accept ARTINE astheic leader.. there was considerable opposition Co this suggestion by she exile leaders attending the meeting. On September 12,1963, PAULINO STERRA WARTINEZ, former attormey and textile mill operator in Cuba, advised he had recemtly visited Nicaragua and conferred with LUIS SOMOZA concerning help to Cuban exiles. - STERRA “said there are no training camps in Nicaragua or Central America for Cuban exiles, and wil t proposed aid and backing has progressed no forther than the talking suage. SIERRA said it seems to him that evaryone is waiting for the United States Government to give thie wine EF . "oreen lignt . Ane) - a Pon ST eee 12, 1963, MM T-3 advised that nearly fied aah © ae . all ebpipailerd 1; Leaders among Cuban exiles have conferred with SOHOAA and now agree that the SOMOZA Plan is too big for MAY 7 1975 . | DO J Oo 9. - a
ER i Sena a em & and political leaders ¢ mi \ ‘own 105-1742 ; . co | | | | | central American Republics to put into goviozh and the effect without United States military and political guppore said that the different Cuban military wa T-3 now feel thst covozh kas noc yee . Own eng iva commitment from the United 5020s 79 and a half monkint of af any Cuban exile milatercy obtained @ posit Governmens , beasuse ater conferences » there are not training efmps in Central America, and che soMozsA Plan: -agsed bey has not progrese fond the talking GEABS o LII. ORGANIZATIONS Comendos 1. mq -3 advised chat Comandes L is one of the Leading anti-CASTRO opraniszations and action ZYOupS>. te is headed by AWLONLO CUESTA and RAMON FONT. cs ee] . SAWEIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ , The organizatioa maintains no office &S gueh, bus contind: to use Post Office Box 66, Riverside Sta *loxvida, to collect money donations. Pej to tion, Milani, SANTIAGO ALVAREZ RODRIGUEZ s had no military aetivicy wildias che On July 29; 1963, advised the organization ha since Marek, of 1963. The leadership is no. D organization to jJnacrease membership , establisn differant sections, #uch ag 4 Women's Section, 3 publicity Saction, and committees bo raise funds. The orginization pegent LY put out a thirty-page pooklet, setting forth the aime wed . : purposes of the organization, along with information concerning previous military operations of the organization. aq ALVAREZ admitted his group has two poats in the the future for military Miami River, which will be used in MAY 73978 —6BOI magne eM, aay Ceaad ety
HY 0955 Docld: 32423630 Book V, p. 25 Page i457 Helms directed Karamessinis and Angleton to fully cooperate with the desk officer, John Whitten, charged with investigating the assassination. On November 24, Mexico City cabled the names of known contacts of Soviet personnel in Mexico City and AMLASH's name (Rolando Cubela) was included on that list. Nonetheless neither Fitzgerald, Helms, Tom K or Angleton advised the desk officer of significance of this name.
Book V, p. 25 On November 23, 1963, the CIA HY 50955 Bocld: 327423630 Page i156 29 Headquarters asked the Mexico Station to stop the planned arrest of Sylvia Duran. Karamessinis speculated that this was because CIA feared Cuba responsible for assassination. . Headquarters equally concerned with Duran on November 27 and warned Mexico City station chief that U.S. Ambassador pushing Cuban theory too hard.
Book V, p. 27 AMLASH's case officer omitted reference to the poison pen in his November 25 contact report of his November 22 AMLASH meeting on instruction from Fitzgerald. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 159
Book V, p. 28 "D" tells his story in Mexico City on November 25. On November 26, Mexico City cables details of "D" interroga- tion to CIA Headquarters. On December 1 CIA Headquarters cables Mexico City that the White House has been told that D's story is a fabrication. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 160
HY 0955 Book V, p. 30 Docld:32423630 Page 161i On December 1,.1963, CIA Headquarters cabled Mexico City that a sensitive source ( ) has advised that a Cubana airlines flight to Havana was delayed in Mexico City on November 22 to pick up a passenger who rode in the cockpit without going through customs. This cable was found in Mexico City file with no CIA headquarters record of follow-up being found.
Book V, p. 35 HW 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 162 In December, 1963, Sullivan prepared a memo for Hoover's aid in briefing the President that stated that no evidence had been developed which would indicate Oswald's assassination was inspired or directed by Pro Castro organizations or by any foreign country.
Book V, p. 40-41 FBI Legat in Mexico City cabled . FBI Headquarters on November 24 that U.S. Ambassador felt Cubans participated in assassination effort. "Bureau may desire to give consideration to polling all Cuban sources in US in effort to confirm or refute this theory." FBI Headquarter's supervisor determined this was not desirable and would only promote rumors. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 163
Book V, P. 58 HY 50955. Docld: 32423630 Page 164 The CIA investigation reflected a Soviet orientation, with exhaustive studies of Oswald's activities in © re Soviet Union. There is no corres- ponding CIA analysis of Oswald's con- tacts with pro and anti Castro groups in U.S.
Book V, p. 61- In December, 1963, the CIA learned that 63 HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 165 a Cuban American had crossed the border from Texas into Mexico, on November 23 and arrived in Mexico City on November 25. He stayed in a hotel until the evening of -November 27, when he departed on a regularly scheduled Cubana airlines flight to Havana using a Cuban courtesy visa and an expired U.S. passport. He was the only passenger on the flight. In March, 1964 the Agency received a report from a source which alleged that the same Cuban American had received a permit to enter Mexico City on November 20 in Tampa, Florida. The same source said the Cuban American was somehow involved in the assassination. The Agency did not follow up on this report other than to ask a Cuban defector about his knowledge of the Cuban American's activities. The FBI did investigate the reported unusual > travel but did not fully report the results of their investigation to their Warren Commission. Their investigation showed that this individual had lived in Tampa and Key West and was pro-Castro. He had traveled to Cuba in May of 1962 and had a brother in the Cuban military who was studying in the Soviet Union. On November 17, 1963, the Cuban American was at a get-together at the home of a member of the Tampa chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. This was the same Fair Play for Cuba Committee that Oswald had possibly contacted in May of 1963.
Book V, p. 63-64 In March of 1964, the Warren Commission requested from: Director Hoover information on certain pro- Castro and anti-Castro organizations which were active in the U.S.- including the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, and Alpha 66, among others. The Bureau furnished less than a full and satisfactory response and did not disclose the fact that the CIA had operational interests in certain of the entities inquired about. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 166
Book V, p. 65 The FBI reports on Alpha 66 furnished the Warren Commission noted the attack on the Soviet vessel in March of 1963 but did not detail that group's continued activity in planning and carrying out their military operations against Cuba. The FBI reports did not show that Alpha 66 had been involved with the New Orleans anti-Castro train- ing camp. HW 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 167
Book V, p. 65 HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 166 It is known that the CIA took an interest in the Fair Play for Cuba Committee with which Oswald was associated. According to Bureau documents, the Agency advised the Bureau that they were considering the use of disinformation that might embarass the Committee in areas where. the Committee had support.
Book V, p. 72 In late July 1964, an FBI informant reported that the CIA was meeting with AMLASH for the purpose of assassinating Castro. Informant also reported that AMLASH was unhappy with the CIA's efforts and that Attorney General Kennedy had refused to support the plan but that the plan had not been completely put to rest. This information was not disseminated outside the Bureau at the request of the informant. But the Bureau notations indicate that the Bureau was looking into an underworld plot against Castro that might be coincidental with the -AMLASH plan. The Bureau had first been informed of AMLASH-CIA meetings in October 1963. That information did not indicate assassination involvement. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 169
Book V, p. 74-75 The AMLASH operation was insecure prior to the Fitzgerald meeting with AMLASH, a meeting that —— Fitzgerald was urged not to under- take by several in the Agency. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page i7d
HY 0955 Book V, pp. Docld: 32423630 Page iTft 77-78 lt ae lt be . va Individuals outside tHe CIA had been brought into the| operation, and the Agency learned that one of these individuals was in clandestine contact with Cuban intelligence (Cable from European station to CIA Head- quarters, 3/18/65). —
Book V, p. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page if? 78 Victor Espinosa, a Cuban exile, involved in the transporting explosives to New Orleans in 1963, contacted INS with information about the AMLASH operation. This information was turned over to the FBI which informed the CIA. Both agencies interrogated Espinosa in June of 1965 and found that he knew that AMLASH and others were planning a coup which involved the assassination of Castro and that the CIA had been. involved with AMLASH and others in the planning. Espinosa and AMLASH were life-long friends but during the interrogation he gave no indication that he was aware of the 1963 AMLASH-CIA meetings. Espinosa's information noted in the 1967 IG Report suggests a link between the AMLASH operation and the CIA plots to assassinate Castro using underworld contacts. Therefore, Espinosa's information raised the possibility that underworld figures who were aware of the Harvey plots may have been aware of the AMLASH operation. CIA reaction to this interrogation was to terminate the operation immediately.
Book V, p. HY 50955 Bocld: 327423630 Page ifs 79 CIA had FBI files on Espinosa detailing his involvement with anti-Castro exiles and underworld figures who were operating the guerrilla training camps in New Orleans in July 1963.
HY 0955 Docld: 32423630 Book V, Pp. 79 Page iT4 In mid-1965 the CIA interrogated Tepedino, New York jeweler, who had been involved with the AMLASH operation from the beginning. The report concluded that the subject was. deceptive during the interrogation and withheld pertinent information in one or more relevant areas. Tepedino lied in response to questions dealing with AMLASH's and his ties to Cuban intelligence. Tepedino stated that AMLASH had no plan to over- throw Castro. Tepedino stated AMLASH had strong connections with Cuban intelligence and was probably cooperating with it in various ways. Although AMLASH never mentioned these connections to his CIA case officers; Teledino stated that AMLASH had mentioned them ‘to him and almost everyone else he had met.
HY 0955 Book V, p. Docld: 32423630 Page iT 79 The FBI made the connection between Espinosa's 1963 activities and the fact that in 1965 he was knowledgeable of CIA involvement in plans to -assassinate Castro. However, there is no evidence that either the CIA or FBI investigated this connection until 1967.
Book V, p. 79 HY 50955 DBocld: 32423630 Page i7f6é Although the CIA had received information that AMLASH was a provocation there is no evidence that the CIA investigated the possibility of a connection between its fall 1963 meetings ‘with AMLASH and the assassination of President Kennedy.
HY 50955 Bocld: 32423630 Book V, P. 80 A client of Morgan's had informed him Page iT? that the United States had attempted to assassinate Castro in the early 1960's and that Castro had decided to retaliate. This information was passed to Drew Pearson who in turn attempted to have Chief Justice Warren look into it but he declined.
Book V, P. 81 HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page if6 Supervisory personnel assigned to the assassination investigation have uniformly testified they do not recall ever discussing or reviewing memoranda which touch upon Cuban involvement in the assassination or of Cuban retaliation for the. CIA assassination plots.
Book V, p. 81 | HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page ifs According to Secretary of State Rusk in his testimony before the Warren Commission, 6/10/64, he stated there was ''very considerable concern" in Cuba immediately following the assassination as to whether Cuba would be held responsible for the assassination and what effect the assassination might have on Cuba's position and security.
Book V, p. 84 On March 21, 1967, WFO send Headquarters 10 copies of a blind memorandum which stated Castro employed assassination teams for the purpose of removing President Kennedy. Morgan's clients were also aware of the identity of individuals sent to the United States for that purpose. He understood that two such individuals were now in the state of New Jersey. The transmittal slip is attached to this memorandum. Neither the President nor the Attorney General ordered a follow-up investigation after receiving this memo. HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 130
Book V, p. 92 HW 50955 BDocld:32423630 Page 181 In October, 1963, Soviet experts at FBI Headquarters were informed that Oswald had met with Vice Counsel Kostikov at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. Kostikov was a member of the KGB and believed to be with the KGB department that carried out assassinations and sabotage.
I, Frank Sturgis, have today personally delivered to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence the following materials: nace 9-3-1 RECEIVED: For the oad HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 1342
INTERVIEW OF MARITA LORENZE BY FRANK STURGIS, 9/2/76 HW 50955 DBoctld:32423630 Page 143
HY 0955 FS: FS: FS: FS: Selia Sanchez, Haiti Santa Maria, Paco and Fidel and several of his armed guards. Okay now, what happened Castanyava... Castanyava _Castanyava was the chief of the Navy. And Fidel offered you a job or something, can you go into that? Well he was very fond of everything German. He said he read and my father, you know, tried to pacify the tourists, the passengers on the ship because they were terrified. They thought they were being invaded. So I helped my father pacify the tourists and it was really a funny scene. Then I steered Fidel to my father's cabin and we went to dinner and Fidel started to play kneesies under the | table. And this was February 28, 1959 on the cruise. And he offered you a job, right? Yes, after about 5 hours on board ship we went back up to my father's cabin and had drinks and exchanged gifts, and my father and Fidel seemed to get along very well. My father is diplomatic and they exchanged plaques and my father's silver ashtray and stuff like that. And he asked me, he asked my father if since I was bilingual if I could go, come back, return to Cuba to be his secretary since he was getting German mail and he did not speak German and FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 he assured me that I would be safe and set up in an office, and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I had friends in Cuba anyway. How old were you then? Nineteen, nineteen years old. Did you get off the ship and stay there? No, I went back to New York. Fidel, on the bridge, asked me for my phone number and address in New York and said he would call me, and I just, I didn't believe it. Page 124
FS: "When did he call you? ML: The same day I arrived in New York. Because my father took off that night for Germany again and the phone ring, and it rang at 1 o'clock in the morning. I guess the previous... FS: Well he went back to Germany with the ship, right? _ Where did you go? ML: I was living with my brother in New York City. My brother was a translator for the United Nations and I was alone living in New York City going to the Merchantson Banker School. FS: Well how did you get back to New York City from Havana? ML: On my father's ship. It was the last stop on the cruise of about 5 or 6 stops. FS: Oh, in other words the, in other words the ship left that night, left Havana that night... ML: Yeah. FS: went over to New York and then from New York went back to Europe, right? ML: Yes. Yes. I|thought about Fidel and he pointed out this is my Havana and I guess I was impressed. I .was young, I don't know. And I thought that... FS: He called, -he jcalled you, he knew just about what time you were jgoing to arrive in New York and when you got there jhe called you, what, the same, the same day you got there? oo ML: The same day our ship arrived, three days later. And I just picked up the phone and the Havana operator said one moment please, the Prime Minister is on the phone, on the line, and I heard some shouting and then I heard "hello". FS: Did he speak Cuban or English to you? ML: He spoke broken English in his hoarse voice. I guess. he was giving a lot of speeches at that time. And he asked me, “Hello Marita, you think I don't call? I think about you very much and I call. I keep my word. I want to prove to you that one man's Cuban word I keep." HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 185
HW 50955 (contd. ) FS: ML: FS: FS: FS; So, I was as surprised, I was very surprised. How long was it did you leave New York to go to Havana? Fidel said to me, I said is this really you Fidel, and he said yes. I am in Havana Hilton, you call me back in room 2408, and I said no, alright I believe you I said because how else would you have my number. He said "I want you come back. I think about you and I will send a plane, my plane, and you come back."’ And it was a joke really, I liked the Cocoa Glace, it's an ice cream in a cocoanut shell, and he had sent to my father's ship a case of it so I would have enough for the return trip home because, I don't know, I just talked about Havana, the island in general. So I, and I still didn't believe him that he would send the plane. Did he send the airplane? Yes. What kind of an airplane did he send? A.Cubana airliner with... Four engines? | Yes, with two men and two men came to the, my door. I was living at 344 West 87th Street at the time, on the second floor, and my brother was at a UN party and I was home alone studying. Oh no, in fact I was ' reading a Herbert L. Mathews article on Fidel Castro FS: and Cuba when the doorbell rang, and it was Jesus and Pedro and they showed me identification. One came in “military uniform, the other in civilian clothes. One smiled,. one didn't. One said, "Are you ready?" And one said, "We go now. Fidel want very much to see you.” (Laughter). And I said I didn't finish my homework yet. I was like. in shock. I didn't. know. what to do. So they said they were staying in a hotel, that they would, the plane would leave tomorrow, please be ready. L, meanwhile I ‘haven't even unpacked, you know, from the cruise. My Docld: 32423630. Page 166
ML: clothes were all laundered anyway from the ship and (contd.) I hadn't even unpacked because I was worred about . Missing two days at school. FS: Yeah. ML: So I went... FS: Well these are incidentals anyway, so, what'd you do, you went to the airport? What airport did the airplane, was the airplane at? ML: Uh, LaGuard,.which is not Kennedy, it was at that time named something else. Idlewild, right? FS: Idlewild, yeah. ML: And... FS: It was Idlewild airport, that's where they had the airplane, Cubana Airlines? ML: Yeah, Cubana Airlines. Got on the plane... FS: How many people where on the airplane? | ML: Me, a steward, a pilot and a co-pilot and the two guards. . FS: Ha, ha, had -- that's funny. Go ahead. | ML: So anyway, I met Fidel and that's when I got involved. FS: This is more or less a background so they know her background. ML: Yeah that's, that's out anyway. (Unidentified voice: "Yeah, right."') FS: "ZT mean don't drag it out so much because the détails of all this thing is... © ML: Yeah. “A FS: HY 50955 Is yours, you know. Go over it lightly. So you went back to Havana, right? Right. DocId: 32423630 Page 167
HY 50955 ‘FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: No, ML FS: Docld: 32423630 Now when ,you went back to Havana you saw Fidel where? Cause we'll go over this lightly. I was in the... At the Hilton? I was driven by black limousine right to the Hilton. And that's where Fidel was staying at the Hilton, right? Yes, he was having an argument in his suite with Chez Raoul and some Americans. He was having some argument with some Americans. Do you know who the Americans were? Yes. Who were they? One lady attorney trying to promote something, Muriel... Oh this was more business or something like that? -Yes business. Everybody was trying to promote this and that with Fidel. Yes, well that's immaterial. So then I was told to go in the room and wait and the door locked. And I was in there, in his suite, and Fidel came in and I missed him and he missed me and the rest is going to be in the book if I ever write it. You'll write it don't worry. Alright now... If I live. Do you know approximately when you met me? A couple months, or two months, or three months after that. That was very, I think you met me around what, April? April, right. | April of 1959, right? Page 185
My BW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: Yeah. And I believe we met at the Riviera Hotel in the lobby? Yes. That's where, when I saw... That's what I said, a couple months... Right. right after that. | In April, right. And this is where we made contact and so forth and then we saw each other a Few times after that. In the coffee shop. In the coffee shop and this is when you were recruited to go ahead.and spy for the United States and so forth and, were you ever introduced or, to Colonel Nickels? Yes. Do you know who Colonel Nickels is, right. He was the Colonel who was military attache with the American Embassy in Havana, Cuba at that time, right? FS: FS: Yes. Okay. Then you started your spy thing and so forth — and so forth, alright? Um him. We'll go ahead and jump a little bit and so forth. There were several meetings that Fidel had in the Hilton with some of the people of the staff. i was present at the meeting, right? Right. And, one of the time that Fidel was talking to the . staff concerned the gambling casinos and American ‘business interests in Cuba, right? Docld: 32423630 Right. Page 189
FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: And it was stated that he was going to run all the -racketeers out of... Out of Cuba. Cuba. All the American businesses;were going to go. ahead and be nationalized because it was Cuba and the Cuba for the Cubans. Right. -And so forth. And then it was suggested about well you know the American government may not like it. You're gonna have all the American business interests put pressure on the State Department which would put pressure on him and that they would be up in arms and they would have the agents, they would send new agents into Cuba because the CIA at that time was very close, closely contacted, at least certain people in the CIA had contact with the 26th of July movement. As a _matter of fact that they were exchanging information with Castro... Uh hum. which enabled him to outwit many of the other groups so really CIA helped. Fidel quite a bit in this power struggle that was going on in Cuba at that time. So Fidel, with the help of CIA... , Yes. ‘got to be the ruler of Cuba. Now... I would, what about, where did Fidel get most of his guns from? Well, you know... To lead the revolution? Right, you know, so forth. That's a story which we won't have to go into and so forth because we just (unintelligible) briefly over it. And then there came a period of time where Fidel in all his popularity and so forth was, now Fidel with you - he made approaches to you, right, and so forth? HW 50955 Docld:32423630 Page 190
WW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: Hmm. He told you he loved you and so forth. Yes. | And he seduced you, right? And, which has been on record. Mm-Hmm. You know, and you liked him and you actually in liking him like a young girl thought for the future that here's a man that I, you admired, that you started to get an affection for him and so forth, - and really you thought of marriage, right? Mm-hmm. “And in the process of being close with him, being as the man's intelligent, dynamic and so forth, he did force his attentions on you and naturally he seduced you. You didn't want to but it happened. Yes. And you had nobody to go to because, hey, you're in his Cuba, right? - I was in his Cuba alright. Right, now also what we were getting in this Senate Intelligence Committee has got is the things that Fidel has stated against the United States government if they tried to interfere with the revolution and so forth when the new election time comes because at that time the President of the United States was Eisenhower and it looked like that the Democrats were going to win the election and he felt that if a new government, which was discussed among the top military people, if the new government came in and if they decided that they. didn't like Fidel's policy, which Fidel was saying what he was going to do for Cuba on an international scale, that if the United States government decided to go and turn against him and put pressure on him he would do ‘ likewise to the United States government. And he was going to export his revolution in Latin America. ‘These are the things that you heard... Bocld: 32423630 Page 191
FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: - FS: FS: FS: HW 509455 Docld: 32423630 -10- - Yeah. A number of times I was present up there for the... Mm-hmm. in the Hilton with all the people. Now you left Cuba when? Sometime in September. In September of 1959 you came to the United States, right? Yeah. And when you came back to the United States you saw me. Yes. And then arrangements were made for you to go back to Cuba and so forth. Yes, yes. And this is what happened with the attempt and so forth. Right. Now when you went back to Cuba, when did you leave there the second time? towards When exactly / the end of 1959, 1960.. 1959? . '60 - I'm not sure. I'm no good at dates and all that. I just know I went in and I took that stuff and I went ouc. Well then was it the early part of '60? Yeah. It had to be the early part of '60 and you came back to Miami, right? Right. Page 192.
BW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ‘ -ll- You came back to Miami and you continued to go ahead and do some work “With Alex. "With Alex and myself here in South Florida. And then when did you cease doing some work at that time? Uh, in 19--, end of 1960. End of 1960. When did I tell you to make contact with Petty Humanez at his home. Do you know approximately what time that was? In 1960, 61. The end of 1960, or the early part of '61, was that then? NO About the time of. the Bay of Pigs. Well, '61 was the Bay of Pigs, in April. '61. So it had to be before the Bay of Pigs. Before, before, yes it was. Yeah this is when Petty Humanez was exiled in Miami.. Right. Beach on the island there, right? Yes. Alright, and you were told by whom to go over to his home? — You. You were told by me and you went there by yourself or with someone else? Should I name him? Yeah. Alex? Alex York. Alright, Alex went with you over to Petty Humanez' house, right. They had a gathering there with some Cubans, and so forth and so forth. Do you know who some of the Cubans who were at that gathering? DocId: 32423630 Page 193
HY 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ' FS: Docld: 32423630 -12- Big Cubans. Well when you talk about big Cubans can you name some? Top Cubans in exile, Prios, Carlos Prios President, ex-President Carlos Prios. I don't know, there were so many, God. Alright, well that's, that's good enough. Anyway. Alright, that's when you first met Petty Humanez, alright. - Yes. What was the idea of me sending you over there to meet Petty Humanez? Information gathering, to find out how he was sponsoring the Cuban exiles. Wasn't he suspected of supplying money and other goodies... Oh, yes. to groups, where at? In Miami and outside of Miami. ~And down in Texas, right? Yeah. Training camps in Texas? Yes. Alright, he was feeding money to them also in... Yeah. Texas, right? And this is to help overthrow Castro government, right? I would presume, yeah. I guess so. Now did you find out whether or not he was giving them this financial assistance? Page 194
HY 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 -13- Yeah I saw him give money to some Cubans. I was with him at the time. Now you got very friendly with Petty Humanez, isn't that correct? I would say so. You would say so. As a matter of fact. (unintelligible) As a matter of fact a love affair developed... Yes. | and so forth and so forth, alright. Yeah. | We won't go into anything else. We'll go ahead and jump past that. Then we lost contact with you, right? Yes. And in losing ‘contact with you we, well we mentioned sometime when they, the United States State Department sent Petty Humanez back to Venezuela, he went to prison, and you mentioned something about the family wanted to break him out and you wanted to see if I could do it and so forth. Alright, so we'll skip that. Anyway, I lost contact with you. When was the last ~ ‘time we lost contact, when was that? "64. . 1964 or 637 ‘63 or '64 approximately, alright? After '64., | | It was around, approximately 1964. (unintelligible) And you what, came to New York? When the General went to jail. Yeah, you went to South America and then you came back to New York to live and so forth, right? Page i195
HY 50955 FS: - FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ‘FS: -14- Yeah. Then you remarried, rather you got married here in New York?. Oh some time passed, I waited for the General but then I got married, right. Who did you marry? You're gonna say, you're gonna go ahead. and say he worked at the building with you, and... Yeah, I guess I have to. Louis John Yurositz. Alright, now one time you and him did what at what building and the address? We were both federal informants for the FBI in New York. You worked as an, both of you worked as undercover agents for the FBI in New Yor, right? Me as a double because I had... You as a double agent. Now when did this start? He was the building manager at 250 East 87th Street in Manhattan. The building is owned by Glenwood Management, called the Newberry. The work started with the case agent in 1969. 1969. Who was the case agent's name, and what federal .agents, you already told me. You already told me and they got it on record and this... They told me not ‘to say anything. Well, honey, they got it on record and you're gonna go ahead and send this down there because Senator Baker knows who your case agent is, knows the CIA agent that you were in touch with. — You know I keep remembering don't embarass the Bureau and... Honey, you're not embarassing the Bureau. What. you're doing is giving this information to Senator Baker's Committee to turn over to the Justice Department in order for them to go ahead and say, hey - you worked ‘as an agent for them, also as a double agent, you need DocTd: 32423630 Page 196
HY 50955 FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 -15- protection for you. and your kid, and if you don't go ahead and tell them the name of these here people how you gonna do it? ‘Mmm. You know we get back to the same thing again. Yeah, you're looking for protection. So far the people you've worked with, so far this man Pucci who you saved his life, and saved another. undercover agent's life whose working with the FBI. These people are powerful people yet they have done nothing with the problem that you have had right now with you, three times there's been an attempt on your life, isn't that correct? One time they almost threw you out of an 18 story building. Another time you got pistol- whipped. You did all this crap for these people here yet they will do nothing to go ahead at the present time, and this is on record in their own files and so forth, yet you cannot move them to give you or your children any protection. This piece of tape is going to go right to Senator Baker's office, it'll go to Howard Liebengood for him to listen to, to evaluate it and turn this tape over to the. proper authorities which will be the Justice Department. You can call Howard Liebengood to see if he has received those codes from the Albanian Embassy from me. You can call him and find out, and also you can call him at the same time and let him know if a tape has been turned over to him. As a matter of fact when I get there Friday and leave this in his office I will instruct his people in the office to get a hold of you, because I'm gonna leave your phone number with Senator's Baker's people, with Senator Baker is on, has a Committee on Intelligence... Mm-hmm. He's got the committee. It's a new Committee that has been formed on intelligence. See, now I am turning this information over to the proper authorities. See. And this information is not going to go to any newspaper ‘or anybody... Okay, okay Frank. I have your word. It's just that I got a hang-up, you know I guess, with them working on practically all my adult life. Page i97
HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS; -16- Honey, I don't want to know everything you did in 6 years. I don't want to know everything you did because you can't. They were like a family, they were like a family at one time. Now when I need help they don't come .through and they say it costs too much. It cost me _a lot of nights in the garbage looking for Albanian stuff, cost me.a lot of worry, cost me a lot of fear, threats. Alright so this is why... (Unintelligible) I want some stuff on this thing because if you make a story up then how are you gonna prove, for instance, you gonna go ahead... No I'm not making anything up. I wouldn't lie about it. No, no, honey, I'm just saying. “If you' re gonna go ahead and say, hey - I broke into 33, in an apartment building with 33 Soviet families, who did you work for -- well I worked for the FBI. They call the FBI, the FBI said we know nothing about it. Then you are a liar. No way am I going to be a liar. I'm just saying, they're going to say how we gonna protect this girl when she's lying to us because the FBI says no. But if you name names and say I worked with this man here, it's got my file, I worked over - a six year period. God damn it - that, that Justice Department will say, hey baby we want to see you and we want to see your files on this girl. And baby they got to go and come up with it. And if they don't come up with it they're in trouble. They're in trouble. Now, how could they hide something when they are working for the same people who are their bosses, who are their bosses? They can tell you to go jump in a lake over here. But Washington, D. C. says - hey, I want to see something here. Why haven't you given this people protection if all this is true. But if they don't know, honey, how the hell are they gonna do anything? Docld: 32423630 ‘Page 198
HW 50955 ML: FS: FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 -17- | I guess if something happens somebody's gonna know, you know. Somebody has to know. Now at the beginning you and your husband, your husband was manager... was the building manager of this building. And he... Is he still building manager of that building? Yes, but the way this | going... Well, honey forget about it right at the present time because we're getting at the building and we're. Yes, yes. He still manages the building. Alright, now, how long has he been manager of this building? We raised this building, we In other words when was the first years. We were the very first tenants in this building. We moved in there before anybody moved in there. We were the first tenants. The first person to move in was the first Secretary to the Soviet Mission. What was his name? Mr. Vittikoff. And who was Mr. Vittikoff? He was the first Secretary to Malek, the Soviet _ Ambassador to the United Nations. Would you say a cesspool of spies which this cesspool of spies which is the Soviet (end of side 1) Page 199
FS: FS: FS> FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: “. ML: -18- ...where you and your husband worked where he was manager, you were the first people to live in that place? 250 East 87th Street, the Newberry, owned by Glenwood Management, which are crooked, and that's on the corner of 2nd Avenue, it's called the Newberry. Okay, now, who started to move in there? Our very first tenant was Mr. Ovinikoff, he was the First Secretary to Ambassador Malek at the United Nations. (unintelligible) Alright, go ahead, keep talking into there. And he's.a little guy. He seemed like normal people, but I never really... Well how many people eventually moved in there besides this man? Oh well the first one was Mr. Ovinikoff, the second one I named The Stalker, the third one - I have nick- names... Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute now. The -second one who moved in there you called, you nick- named the The Stalker. ‘The Stalker. What was his real name? Because he, he was, he checked on the Russians. The Russians checked on the Russians. And if a woman, Soviet wife, got out of hand or went shopping by her- self or did something out of the way she got pulled back and she was under house arrest. Alright, what was his name? Mr. Artimenko, Artimenko. I kept, then I... Who was the third one you gave a nickname to? I had nicknames for all of them.. HW 350955 Docld:32423630 Page 200
HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: . FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ML: -~19- Yeah, but Moonface, The Stalker... Yeah. | | The Shadow. It was my own little thing of remembering until I memorized. We started out with the tenants' list. Alright, how many people were on the tenants’ list? We had, the building consisted of 300 units, which 300 apartments, my husband had access to files. Each Soviet file read the same -- Permanent Mission of the — ‘Union of Soviet Socialist Republic resident, and I got interested. Then one day an agent came at 9 o'clock in the morning, and my husband had been previously working with Treasury and other agencies, including this agent which I'll name, that's Al Chestone. © His first name was what? Albert, Albert Chestone. What agency was he with? The FBI. Special Agent, FBI? Yes, counterintelligence. Sector of the FBI Yes, political. And, my husband had known him previously working with the Polaris missile, Polaris missile thing. This was before I met my husband or married him. He did something with the Polaris missile thing. And my husband was paid by this same agent. Anyway, we, he came daily and we went over the tenants' list and we sort of dissected everybody in the building. Alright now, were you recruited by this agent? Yes, he said are you willing to work and I said, well, why not? He said it doesn't consist of much, a few burglaries (laughter)... . In other words this agent... Information gather, get close to them, get friendly with Docld:32423630. Page 201
a HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -~20- them, and you take the woman's viewpoint, standpoint, and my husband... And they wanted you to do some burglaries, right? Well, I, yes. | Alright now, these burglaries, did they consist of you and your husband doing the burglaries or you by yourself? Well my husband had the master keys. Right, alright. And... Well when you did these burglaries... We all did them together. They're were about 5, 6, 7 cars. One stationed in front of the Soviet Mission. Suppose, say like they were interested in one Soviet who they lost track of, who was supposed to be in Washington, D. C., and then they found him all of a sudden in our building because they had surveillance across the street. That's the first thing - they set up surveillance, a camera, high-power camera across ‘the street. That we were pointed out to. That everybody who went in and out of the building was — photographed. Including yourself and your husband? Oh yeah,me especially in the morning taking my son to school and everything... ; Right. But, and... . Alright, now, getting back to the entries that you made into the apartments. Once you found out that the people were not in the apartments -- how did you find out they weren't in the apartments? Well, they would... Docld:32423630 Page 202 .
FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ML: FS : FS: FS: -21-" Would you knock on the door or something? No. | You saw them leave? . No, no. They were assigned, first of all we were told that we wanted, they wanted to hit the apartment, the Bureau, and I would listen and my husband looked at me and I looked at him but it was still in the best interests of the country, and this was a very, very top KGB agent, a Soviet General, blah, blah, blah, he was interested... _ Do you know the man's name? Yes. This General? Yes. What was his name? _ Oleg Likichev. What's his name? Oleg Likichev. Likichev. He's a top... KGB spy. . Alright, and he lived in the building? Yes, with his wife and 5 year old son. Right. On the LOth floor. Alright, now you were advising them when they left the building. Naturally they had surveillance out- . Side, they would know when he left... Well first we were told to get close to them, maybe friendly... HW 50955 DoclId:32423630 Page 203
a HW 50955 Bocld: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -2)- Friendly. Very friendly. We exchanged gifts and we went to dinner, and we were invited to the U.N., and we exchanged. . In other words you were being guided into doing certain things.. No. This one particular FBI agent. This one particular agent told us daily what to do. Alright now did he give you a code name or a code, any particular code? My name, Mariuch. Mariuch was the name he gave, that he gave you, right?. Mariuch. Alright, it sounds Italian. Mariuch is Italian. 324273630 Well he... Maria. He is Italian, too. The agent? Yes. Alright, now, when,did you ever make an entry into this top KGB agent's apartment? This one particular, there were several. This wasn't the only one. Well, let's talk, let's talk about, the, general. Oleg was, in other words my husband and I discussed it and I said, “Louis, you know," Page 204
HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: -23- It could be very dangerous. Yeah, yeah, I said... You could get caught, you could be killed. I said suppose, you know, we're working in the precinct on a local level - that's breaking and entering, right? And my husband and I dis, you know we discussed it. Now, Uncle Al - as we started to call this... FBI agent? FBI agent, said ''Look, he's a very bad person, we lost him and we found him and he's in the building and we want to get. in the apartment. We feel he has, for national security reasons, we want to enter that apartment. Louis, will you cooperate?" You know? And my husband said, "Alright". FS: FS: Did he said he had to discuss it with you? They discussed it in front of me. I mean did your husband say he had, he would discuss it with you about... No, no, but he did, but he didn't ask me because I asked my husband later, I said, "Louis, if you refuse. to do what Al tells us to do, me as a lookout and Louis opening the doors for them", Louis said, Louis is my husband, said "What do you want me to do, get ‘subpoenaed? They'll subpoena me if I don't do it. So FS: FS: FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 I'll go along with it.'’ Ye) it, it was agreed... It was agreed that he would do it. Alright, now what did your husband do. Did he open the door for the agents? Yes he did. Did he go in, for what, one agent, two agents? Two agents. Two agents. Was Uncle Al one of those agents? Page 205
ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ' FS: FS: FS: FS: No he was not. Do you know the name of the two agents that made the entry? , No I do not. Do not. They came on the specific morning when they had Oleg... You were by Uncle Al that these two agents were coming? Yes. Alright, on a specific morning? Yes. Alright, and... They came as lumberjacks, one as a refrigeration repairman. -Right. Refrigerator,. refrigeration-air conditioning repairman. Alright, now you and your husband with these two. agents went up to the 10th floor, right? You were , stationed where you were going to be the lookout? In the... Hallway? Service entrance. In the service entrance. Your husband had the pass keys? Yes. He opened the door? — Yes. HW 350955 DBocld:32423630 Page 206
WW 50955 FS: FS: FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: “ML: FS: -25- The two agents went in? Yes. Did your husband go in? ' He stood at the door. He stood at the door? He stood at the door. That is in case they'd come back he'd... Right. The fact that he is the manager of the building standing there with two repairman. But that he was assured, he was assured, right. ° That these two men were repairmen? That, that just in case something went wrong with the 3 cars assigned to this job that one car would radio that Oleg Likichev was leaving the Mission at this moment, he is getting into his car, he is on the way up 2nd Avenue to his residence. Right, and they... You've got approximately 7 to 8 minutes... Minutes to do what you gott do and get the hell out. “Do, and get out. Okay. So, my husband stood in the door and I was in the staircase and they went in with a, a case that looks like a television repair case which had high power cameras. Right. And they, my husband was always annoyed because they were sloppy. (Laughter) Docld:32423630 Page 207
FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -26- The Soviets are very trained, they would leave a cigarette on an ashtray. If you knocked it over they know immediately someone was in. the apartment. Now, when the agents, before your husband opened the door with the pass key, did the agents look the door over to see if there was any powder marks, tapes, hairs, or anything, or something leaning against the door to signify that possibly when the Cuban general, this, not Cuban general, this Russian general, who is a top KGB agent... Yes. wanted to see if somebody made an entry they would leave something on the door. Yes. ‘They inspected the door, right? And they didn't find anything? Right. Right. So they opened the door. In other words, what- ever they touched... - But they made a mistake inside on one break-in and that... Alright, now, no let's not jump. We're, you were on this one particular thing. Alright. These people did go in, they did what they had to do with the cameras and so forth, evidently these were hidden.... Yeah. cameras that they installed some place in there, ight? No, it was microfilm. Well there were cameras... ‘In the. flour can... HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 206
HW 50955 FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 -27- Oh, you mean what the agents brought in? What the two agents brought in. Yes. Yeah, what did they bring in with them, what, in the general’ s. Cameras. They brought cameras. Mm- hmm. which were installed. Yeah. What else did they bring in? I don't know. They... Any listening devices, bugging devices? I would say so. I think.. You don't know for sure, though? I'm not sure, my husband... No, but you do know about the cameras? Yes. Alright, but there is a possibility they brought bugging devices because it's logical they would bring bugging devices. I think sometimes, plenty of times they wanted to plant a bug. oe Sure. Especially in the television, the cable TV, the... Well they install that through the walls and so forth. Page 209
HW 30955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: “~ FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 ~28- No, in the, they'd hook it up to the master antenna for the cable TV. Oh, for the cable TV. Well, yeah, alright. That way they thought they could tune in to them transmitting. Yeah. Alright, now, how long did they stay in, to the General's apartment? In the apartment, approximately 10-15-20 minutes. ‘Then they left, your husband closed the door, did he wipe his fingerprints off the door? Do you know? No, but my husband would usually put the edge of the- rug back the way he found it. Right, in other, everything... It was turned over... had to be placed back the same way it was. And he would watch. them and they were rough. Well, we'll forget about that part. We're not interested in. - This worried my husband because this would.. -Yeah, it would make... They knew... Make them know there was an entry. Right. | Okay, now, they did that, they left. Did, did, did the agents ever go back into that apartment again? No, one time. Just one time and they never went back into that... No... that particular apartment. Page 2710
Hiv i FS: 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -29- they were satisfied. They were satisfied so evidently everything worked out alright. Even though.. Mm-hmm. your husband was on edge about the way the agents were. Oh yeah. Okay? Alright, so we'll forget that part. Now how about other entries. We'll get one at a time. The other entry that's outstanding is Soviet.. Yeah, go ahead, keep talking. Very Americanized Soviet, handsome, married with a 10 year old daughter. I forget his name. I have them all at home. And, I nicknamed him "The Tennis Player" because he use to do a lot of jogging and play tennis every morning to make contacts with Americans, and try to recruit, I guess, gather information at the same time...He spoke English without an... (unintelligible) Fluently, without.an accent, down to curses and slang ‘and everything else. His wife. You got friendly with him also? No, he even suggested to take my husband to a mas sage parlor and he was way out, too much way out. In other words, play with girls? I had his, no, I was, well he was one of those. He liked to play? Yeah. | He was a playboy. He was a playboy. That's, they use Which is very, yeah, Docld: 32423630 Page 211
HY 50955 . FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -~30- They use, they used, he was also a top KGB, and his apartment, they did his apartment, too. What did they do? They broke in, they ‘Well, now wait a minute. used my husband to break in. This a job I wasn't on but. Well, that not breaking in now. It's illegal entry.. ‘Entry. Right. In'‘other words they used your husband and you | also as a stakeout again? , Yeah. On that.particular one. Mm-hmm. He opened the door again. What floor did he have his apartment? I don't recall that. I'd have to get the tenants' list. Alright, it makes no difference. Alright, don't worry about that. But they made entry into his apartment. oy Yes. What did they do in his apartment? I guess they microfilmed and planted a device. Anyway, either way, whatever they did they did... FS: FS: Docld: 32423630 With the corpor, cooperation of your husband? Cooperation of my husband... And yourself. . Page 212
HW 50955 FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: ML: FS: FS: FS; DoclId: 32423630 -3]- And they did it sloppy because this particular Soviet, the tennis player, made a formal complaint to the 23rd Precinct, PIU investigation unit, where I was working. When you say PIU, what's PIU? Prisoner Investigation Unit. Prisoner or Police? Prisoner Investigation Unit. Was that a police unit? That's the 23rd precinct. Police. Right ,police... Alright: department. I was working up there. Alright. ' Now I answered the phones. Oh, hm-mmm You understand? Yeah. And this tennis player called up and demanded a detective. I was working up there and the detectives ‘were hot on a homicide and I answered the phone and here it was the tennis player calling to make a formal complaint of breaking and entering his apartment. I had him on the phone. And he didn't know it was you. And i” died, I tried to disguise my voice and he kept on talking and talking and talking and I couldn't disguise my voice. I was afraid he would know that I, it was me. I took the complaint in other words. Page 213.
HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: FS: FS :- FS: FS: FS: FS: -32-- Right. And I wrote up the 61. Go ahead. Now let me ask you this here. The 61 - complaint report. | Alright, let me ask you this here. You say you were working for this police department in this precinct. What was your job with them? Auxiliary volunteer. Photos, translations, rape cases, interrogation. And at that time you were answering phone calls that were coming in? And typing, and: doing other things but I don't really want to get those: guys involved because they... No, I just wanted, wanted them to know what you were doing in the police department. I was an auxiliary sergeant. Answering the phones. Okay. Auxiliary is a volunteer police. Right, good enough. Now what other entries did you make with them. That's two -- that you specified. Two. The rest I didn't want to go along with because I was a little afraid so my. Things were getting a little hot for you. Yes, because we had too many Russians, we had the Albanians, we had the Red Chinese. All living in that building? All living in the same building. There was, it was comical. The Albanians wouldn't talk to the Russians, -the Russians ignored the Albanians, the Red Chinese went down the service entrance and to avoid the Russians and the Al-, it was just,the Secret Service in the garage and in the front door. The narcotics Docld:32423630 Page 214
~ 33. / peddlers coming out of the laundry room. It was, it -was a merry-go-round. FS: In other words, ML: We had, in one day about four different agencies watching people. FS: In and out of the building. ~ML: . . And we didn't know if we were coming or going. FS: Yeah. | | ML: We lived on the second floor. We had a view of the street and we would signal to the, across the street surveillance apartment, apartment, you know. We'd see the cars pull up and the cars leave. FS:. Alright, now... ML: My husband did most of, he'd been doing it. FS: He'd been doing most of the end of the... ML: Yes, because I felt I didn't want to get caught. I just didn't want to get caught because it was a heck of a chance because more than one Soviet family lived on one floor and if anyone of them walked out when my husband was opening the door to let those guys in my husband would have been dead. FS: ‘Alright, not only that I understand that you were getting very familiar with many of the families of... ML: Iwas too friendly... FS: these people. ML: + with the families. FS: Right, so. you didn't want to go ahead and ML: They trusted me alone in their apartments. We had many discussions together, we exchanged medicine, I gave wN, ' them medicine for one child who... HY 50955 DBocld:32423630 Page 215
FS : FS: FS: FS: FS: ML: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: HW 50955 Docld:324273630. Page 416 ~34- At the same time you tried to get as much information ‘out of them as you can being on that friendly basis. I was being on a very social... Right. natural basis. Right. And I became friendly with them. How long, how long... “We even were paid money to throw a few parties. You were. paid money... For the Soviets. You were given money by the... By the Justice Department. Yeah. | To throw a few parties. So the agents could make surveillance. So they, could make surveillance. And contact? And contact, and try to get them, loosen up, to loosen up... Well, booze can loosen a lot of people's mouths. Well it) was mostly their vodka anyway they gave us. But, yeah they suggested the, using agents as waiters and bartenders and all that. And I said that wouldn't go. Soviet people are very trained. They smell any- thing like that. And I was very open with them. They'd leave from the countries and I would be the first to know. They would bring back gifts. They babysat my children, I babysat their children. We exchanged
FS: - FS;:. FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -~35- medicine and I just didn't want anything to go wrong. But your husband continued to work with the agency, right? Yes. We, we took, we ID'd photos. We watched for ‘cars. We watched their movement. It was day and night. You did a lot of surveillance work on these people but you yourself, personally, wanted to try to keep out of the... Yeah. operation as far as... Break... entering into the apartments, right? Yes. | How long did this last?. Over a period of how long? 1969 to 1976. | All these years? Yes. | That's doing surveillance on these people. Yeah. We were... How about the Albanians now, tell me about the code. The Albanians, the Albanians we got very friendly with a Mr. Koyani, Ambassador to the Mission, the U.N., and the Albanians are not as elite as the Russians are. The Russians dry clean their own clothes, burn their own garbage, have no photos, personal things in the apartment. The Albanians are more, they allow their children to watch television. The Soviets don't. We convinced the Albanians who had a mission on their mission, which they blocked a complete fire exit was on the 21st floor of the Newberry. They lived in the apartments on the 20th floor and the 22nd floor. And HW 350955 DBocld:324239630 Page 217
HY 50955 -~36- they had about 30, 30 families who resided there and their mission was there. And we became very friendly with them because of one incident, especially my husband, took, went to see his mother and left me in FS: FS: FS: charge of the building. That same day they had a so- called demonstration where the demonstrators had a 25-minute picketing right to picket. The demonstra- tion turned into a bloody riot where they burned flags and everything and the Albanians came down. They all are armed. They're all armed, and they agitated the rioters out on the street. And I was alone with only my basic police training and my wits, really, and a panicking doorman and my kids. I was just alone. I, the first thing I looked out the window when I heard the shooting I called the Bureau and I said, "Get me Al Chestone fast.'' I said I don't have Louis here. I said I need help. I have a demonstration. I don't know what to do. And there were about 500 people throwing bricks, bottles, everything through the plate glass windows. Burning American flags and Albanian flags because of something that happened in Albania. Those that defected here started this demonstration. So then I, things got out of hand, the doorman was hurt with a brick. I saw blood, and the Albanian Ambassador and five top officials agitated these people from inside the lobby with fists. Very unprofessional-like. Yeah. So I physically pulled them by their coats and told them, "Get upstairs, get upstairs and get yourself back into the mission", because tenants were walking through the lobby and we were going to get hurt by flying glass and everything else. And I had no help. The police were outside of the line... Marita, what we're going into details is something that is a story. Oh, alright. So we'll go ahead and just bypass that. Anyway, the Albanians Al was interested into, and especially because they were admitting the Red Chinese into the United Nations, which they did. It was that speech, which I have the original copy of. Ambassador -Roeco Noecco - sounds crazy, but that's his name, Rocco Docld: 32423630 Page 218
HW 50955 FS: FS: FS: ML: FS: Docld: 32423630 -~37- Nocco, and they were, they were sloppier, and the agent Al Chestone told me convince them, you know, | case ‘em, keep going.up and down the steps, what time they throw their garbage out. Garbage was the most valuable source of information for the Bureau, and that was... Garbage and trash. Trash. Chicken bones, codes, diapers, whatever, you . know, and that was my job because I had the patience. Now the FBI supplied me with bandaids and gloves, flashlights, batteries and the whole thing, because I convinced the Albanians that the compacter, which was the disposal system in the building from 31 floors down ~- in other words when they threw their garbage out that it would come out in brick form, block form, brick crushed, which in fact was not true. -But they believed it? They believed it. They trusted us. Louis and I were the only ones allowed in the mission. We were. the only ones. , Now this mission is that building you were talking about. That's still. there. Still there. | Very much there. That's the code that you have. Right. | | So, I started, made it a every two hour routine to go after midnight when they put their garbage out in the hall, pick up the bags. Take them down to the service entrance and take the bags at home, take ‘em home. And go through the orange peels and chicken bones and gather torn up letters, this was before they got smart and bought a shredder (unintelligible). And I would turn this garbage letter, in other words, I would © past it together and give it to the Bureau and some of these letters turned out to be very valuable. Among them was one code, now... Page 2719
HW 50955 FS: FS; -38- I would assume that these letters that were in code. they would be classified material. Otherwise it wouldn't be in code. , , Very valuable, yes. The... And this was turned over to who? To Al Chestone. The first code I got, I just got on a hunch lucky. Because it was just at the time when the Red Chinese entered the United States, first came here. Mr. Huang Yua, and I met them. We met them first before anybody met them, Louis and I. And that same night the code came down at 3:00 in the morning and I just had a hunch and I got up and I said, "Louis I can't sleep, I'm going down and do some work. Give me the keys to the compacter room." FS: So I went downstairs and I waited and sure enough around 3:30 these bags. started to come down from the 2lst floor. 3:30 in the morning? 3:30 in the morning because Al said watch them closely, because of the Red Chinese. And I shut the machine off and I got these, I got this code, I caught it in other words, but it.... FS: Docld: 32423630 This is the code you turned over to me? This is the first code, the very first code, at the risk of having my hands chopped off because if I ‘didn't shut that machine off in time I could have been hurt. But I got it. The first code was very valuable. It was sent to Washington. (End of tape - side 2). ...these bags of stuff and if you hadn't. have turned off the machine you would have got your hand either chopped up or cut off, and so forth. What did, were you saying about Al, Uncle Al? . en Uncle Al slept and I did the work, and by the time I got upstairs and took the orange peels and everything out of the garbage and separated the letters and every tiny little piece with tweezers and everything, Page 220
FS: FS: FS: FS: ~39- put it all in a box, right down to every piece. I ruined my rugs and everything. And Uncle Al would come at 8:30, 9:00 in the morning and I would still be up separating the garbage and he'd be all fresh and ready for work and-I had just come back from the garbage room... And... You stayed awake all night? Yeah, with the tweezers and I use to run out of . skotch tape which was frustrating cause I couldn't stick these letters togethers without skotch tape, so he brought me a big box of skotch tape which» was very kind of him. Then I would give it to him and he'd, he'd have coffee, tea and toast or whatever. And I'd say, "Now I want to go to sleep." And he'd say, "No, no, no, wait a minute. Mr. So-and-so, or Berzofsky, we want to get a line on Mr. Berzofsky. Who was Mr. Berzofsky? Berzofsky, the Second Secretary to the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republic. What was his first name, do you know? Mmmm, I forgot... That's alright, it don't matter. 'I forgot really. But we were very close to him. His wife was a surgeon in the Soviet mission and she was, she's, she's adorable. She's nice, she's sweet and she has a lovely daughter, Irene, who turned out to have liver cancer. She was a little girl when I first met her, like my daughter. My daugher played with her, they took piano lessons together, exchanged books, and the little girl, at sixteen, Irene was sent back to the Soviet Union with liver cancer. I got very close to the mother, the mother was heartbroken, the father was heartbroken. I guess like any mother and father when their only child turns out to have liver cancer. She's diagnosed as such in the Soviet Union and they asked me to get medicine, pain killers for Irene. I do so and pass along to them empirin and codine #4, which is a pain killer which they smuggled over to | HY 50955 Docld:324273630 Page 221
FS: FS: FS: FS: FS: -40- their daughter on with the permission of the FBI. We exchanged jewelry, clothes, and everything else. We were just one mother to another mother. Their little girl in trouble, mine not in trouble and it was little things like that that I would get very involved with. I don't know... Morita let me ask you this here, did the agents ever tell you to go out with any of the diplomats in the mission? , Well, now we have to go back to Oleg, Oleg Likichev. And who is he again? | He was the KGB spy that they lost and thought he, they thought he was still residing in Washington, the out- side of Washington, D. C., in Virginia. He was supposed to have last been seen in Virginia somewhere and all of a sudden they picked him up in our building, as being in our building. They lost him and they were furious, the Bureau, and they wanted us very close to him. And he, we had a lot of evenings together we spent with him, dinners, and he came to us, In other words he asked you to go out, did he ask (unintelligible) , Well, Oleg, Oleg, let's just say, I don't know if it was a game they were playing or if they were doubles or what. They talked a lot about the State of Washington, residing in the State of Washington. They also knew I had diamonds and he asked me, (unintelligible) "Can you get me diamonds?" What did he call you? Llonka Marischa, Ilona Marita. Oh, that's in Russian? Yes. And we always exchanged Russian words and I know a few, enough to get by on. All of a sudden, you know, he was interested in diamonds. He had a fascination for diamonds. _His wife, she was kind of sweet on my husband he was kind of sweet on me and I kept telling Uncle Al this thing is going to get out of hand. I said all of a sudden he wants HW 50955 DBocld: 32423630 Page 222