104-10059-10047 7 - “ | UNITED. STATES GOVE. ‘MENT. ae om cmorandisn es go: Gh SRS (os BATES 9 October 1967 —. -- (+ Thru : DC/SRS and c/er08/sas Bo FROM = M. D. Stevens 7 sumer. CAIN, ‘Richard a nee eee re Ae! " a 1. “Reference i is made to ‘the attached 5 June > 1967 DGS; memo-~ “ f vandum on Subject, which in turn made reference to previous DCS . . | memoranda on him on 24 and 25 May 1967.and to an Office of Security i ; memorandum dated 29 May 1967. The 5 June 1967 memorandum : SOE enclosed copies of several 1963/1964 documents from the Chicago _ ee | Field Office's file on CAIN, which ADC/PSD forwarded to SRS with " “ [the comment that "IE. appears: DGS i is cleaning out their files re Lee Harvey OSWALD, et t al.! " Bo : «aqewsesn ati aaron it citar Gavia prensa ontininnmen ees oo "2. " Subject, “ita is ¢ obvious, had been a source > of information ' regarding an alleged discussion of the assassination of President Kennedy at a secret meeting of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee - held in Chicago in February 1963 under the direction of Richard 90°". _. | GRILEY (#346 116).:-He also was the source of information. regarding: . 4 the alleged attempted recruitment into the Communist Party of young | po | Cubans in the Chicago area by one Guillermo ESCOBAR, who accord~ S| ing to the Chicago office was "one of | (SAS) leads ~~). 4 a, wd obtained from Ralph PEREZ." (Presumably Ralph PEREZ, #444260) . PT SPEED is| #199499. ‘The documents algo indicated | oe i that in February 1964 CAIN was the subject of a conversation initiated . _. “ob by Eldon S.. COHEN, #38557 o/c, with a representative of the DCS | o af Chicago office who believed his purpose was to learn whether or not abypaeeD Fatty SG Gein BPR REN, se ge OT — CAIN was in fact on a two-month's sick leave from the COOK County % | Sheriff's office, as he was said to be, or was on a political under ~~ : cover assignment which CGHEN inferred involved tapping the tele~ oe a phones of gubernatorial ¢ candidate Charles 1 Hi. PERCY and i other veo a political Figures. | St EP ae Sovserrdiay and declysalftzatios
14-00000 . x ‘During review of CAIN'S Security file, I noted @ = mes sage regarding him from Mexico City, on 25. April 1962, wt hich mentioned | a “Willard @ ANDREWS, xeputable American businessman in Mexico," .°. who obviously , had had contact of some kind with CAIN; as wellas with —. 2 CIA representative in Mexico to whom ANDREWS had commented that — CAIN claims to have been with OSS during W. WwW. I (Acopy of this memo-=. 'yandum is attached). In answer to this message which requested traces .. on CAIN, Headquazters,: in furnishing limited information obtained regard ing him, advised that neither his claimed employment by OSS, mor a claim. . 4 he made to have worked with Task Force W, could be substantiated. The. . . 4 Station was advised that he did have fox k had Rad) 2 + legitimate detective - Ly laboratory 4 in Chicago. Pat FR a | po te Be “The Hrtume CAIN came to the attention 1 of the fe Sécunity Otfize. - “was “when the Mexico Station requested traces onhim. Their request =~ stemmed from an unannounced visit he made to the Stetion, during which . -; | - he stated that he had an investigative agency in Mexico with ‘branches in 9.070 i " a Chicago and Los Angeles. He had also stated that his agency in Mexico: >, was for the purpose of training Mexican Government agents Inpolice °° ou f.. xmethods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the ie detector; ~- ..- ‘and had added that he was avestigaling Communism i in a certain unnamed, _entral American a country. T 6. “In June ‘1962, ‘the Mexico Station advised that CAIN 3 was being . | Bs la deported by # the Mexican ‘Ministry (of) Gobernacion for these violations: oy . on au . oe ; a | Carrying a loaded revolver and brass kmuckles_ ° . a . 4 oot - : - Be | “Impersonating : a “Mexican ‘Government official” .:.. (He-had identification as an investiga ator for the . | , Mexican Treasury C Office, od oe ae pane {> aa “e. "Violating his tourist ; ermit by Ww workin at his” ve { P y & j ‘ - detective ¢ office and at the Mexican Treasury
14-00000 a Pe “Subject was 5 subsequently of j interest to the DCs i in n September | | ee . 1963 when an ad hoc clearance was requested to permit his being asked 4 * . gto respond to general requirements regarding his knowledge of certain ' | § Cuban refugees and their potential for foreign positive intelligence. On. . #10 September 1963, the DCS was sent a memoranduri which 1 farnished a oe smuch of the above information c on » GAIN. oo op! _ ee “8, On 22 May 1967, the Director c of £ Security indicated that he. “had received information from the FBI which ties Subject to the Mafi in Chicago;fand he he directed that the DCS be contacted fox information ” : as to whether or not they ever established contact-with him ‘and, if So, | or what purpose. The DGS was also to be advised that, if they were contact with him, it was suggested that they break it off. On 25. > May 1967, the DCS advised that there had been no contact with CAIN © = “since 1963,. and furnished copies of eight reports for which Subject had» “* Tbeen the source of information, These had to do with : anti~Gastro Cuban . oa ctivities, Procurement of arms, ‘ste.’ Puce’ , 9. ‘On 29 May 1967, Security advised the » DCS that there § isa oe curvent FBI investigative interest in Subject and recommended that. .  Gthere be no o further contact with him at t this time. | a oe . * 10, “The 1 : Seplember 1 1967 « copy of Life magazine ontains an we “article titled Brazen Empire of Organized Crime," in, pti is 20 Sy - stated that'Sam GU CA ANA? Head of the Chicago, Co ‘Cox, a Nostra, is "still _, xunning things-by> ontral from a hide~out in J CO. ee where 7 sic. he poses as Riccardo! St ALZETTI.S The real. SCALZEPTTI, GIANCANA's ‘erst while chauffeur and courier, ‘is more familiar to Chicagoans as. _- - | Richard CAIN, a well known former ‘Chicage policeman and more recently © - a a private investigator. Mons a eres
14-00000 . 45, There 3 is attached a a _ copy of the above referred to > September. rk S awttctes 3 in Life magazine, in one of which CAIN is described as the erst- 0° 5 .. while chauffeur and. courier of Sam GIANCANA.. The second of these ©. “- articles makes reference to alleged friendly contacts of Jim GARRISON, :: wo of the OSWALD Case, with henchmen of the Cosa Nostra i in the Louisiana - | Attachments: articles