480-10447-10192 JFK Assassination System Date: 4/27/2011 Identification F orm . " ‘Agency Informa ion AGENCY: HSCA ‘RECORD NUMBER: —180-10147-10192 RECORD SERIES: CIA SEGREGATED COLLECTION AGENCY FILENUMBER: 61-10-06 Document Infon sation . ¢ ORIGINATOR: . HSCA FROM: TO: TITLE: STAFF REPORT ON THE EVOLU ION AND IMPLICATIONS OF THE CIA-SPONSORED ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACIES AGAINST FIDEL CASTRO DATE: 03/00/1979 PAGES: 149 SUBJECTS : , -ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED CRIME CIA, FILES CIA, CLANDESTINE OPERATIONS DOCUMENT TYPE: REPORT _. CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified RESTRICTIONS: 1A; 1B CURRENT STATUS: Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 09/07/1995 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS: —_Box 34 wYl47055 Docla:32273547 Page 1 I
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( seneetePoRe—o THE Em PLICATIONS ooo * yee den Found 0) The attempt of the United States government to assassinate Cuban premier Fidel Castro as—wel4 - as other foreign leailers during the turbulent—decade Socivvsl- dro tor ted of the 1960s Shocked -and-disgueted the American gregh , ptw citizer. When ‘shure 4 disclosed that the. Central | ‘Intelligence Agency (bereint x” A intenttonatly solicited and receiv2d the assistance of various members of organized crime s in the. pddition threann tome ~ furtherance of sech slots, tloreoulrage—prevailed-s | Circa sceiety si tply-did-not-and-does-not-eondene Such-acts _as—a- degit imate—instrumentofforetyn , policy._-There—is_no -exeuse;-no-rationatization. (2) ‘The-effect_an i influence-ofthese-setions © did-not—stop,—howeve sTwith-invoking the tisdair ot the American _publie-mndbwortd. These assassination : attempt |gave birth -o the ‘wayibany theory that’ Fidel castro, orchest Sted the assassination of hr: President Jolin Fake thedi in apfepsiye-retaliation for the plots on his life.
whey be tt ey oye 4 Q In its Final teport published in-April, 1976, the Senate Selct Committee to Study Governmental Operations with ith Resp : to Intelligence Activities were esoey CH) In this REPOF <1, the SSC focused on two operations ‘theory . of the. CIA whieh may have provoked Castro: into retaliation. First, the Ssc documented: the joint _ effort of the CIA, ani Organized Crime to eliminate Castro. Second, the SSC examined the nature and extent of the CIA AMLASH op :ration. The SSC concluded its analysis ‘with ‘the st itement that "/E/ne Committee believes | the investi sation should continue in certain. areas, and for that -eason "does not reach any final conclusions. ol esi (5) - This $f ‘is an cistse It-is— ex dul every veo of-this material te- dieinaitt tee aerate . oh CIA-Mafia plots) ox of the AMLASH oerabiony) te= — he gh irli ta for will be aeocle ; Feed ve all. of the. conflicting viewpoints of the SSC and the CIA in regard to the. importance of the 2 . . various, operations, . »e_tu-subjectanyone—tomorab RARE, OF “Daren PTET ° tofigue=laching® © Instead, this material fixet—seeks— eng t oils
‘6H present a sspmqee aces review of the CIA. Operation AMLASH and of the involvement or potential ' involvement of organ: zed crime in the CIA operations ; _against Castro: durin: 1960-1963. From this review, ! rt ¢ wall, gill nie peat ‘te. he be ass: Ke t or obenye Qttain Secienasane as. d-cancl Shons~are” then WL . CMM enasy concerning. the natur:., ‘scope, and PRS Sis of . these operations. “It. BACKGROUNI) MATERIAL ~ RELEVANT SUMMARY A. GIA-Mafia Plots . Ts a 7 Boe palin’) . (4) The genesis o° the ification, of the Gaited of orgahizeD entind “States cziminal synd. -cateyby the CIA to attempt to assassinate Castro is; placed by the 1967 Report of the (cheeemnfers = Inspector General*as occurring during a conversation between the’ Deputy D xector of Plans, Richard Bissell, “and the Director of security, Colonel Sheffield ravards.” These plots extended cronfi560 until early 1963 and ‘can be divided into wo stages.’ The first stage yor occurred from August 1960 until april, 1961, arid © 1s can best be termed. ai Phase I or the pres spay of Pigs — 5 ; Apul, 19 period. : ‘From ares 1961 until riper ee ae cIA
Sapte res = Set eng gre ier ay _ SAR PERE Pee oe (7) In late 1961, -he CIA decided to renew “the CIA-Mafia plots, then creating Phase II, and : . 7 kept them active unt.1 late 1962 or early 1963. rt (ippurins the intial stages of Phase I, Edwards assigned the specifi: task of locating the ; Proper Fhe rate eget Both men Go pr veel. ine and fume ERE wanp agreed that , 63 sas % should contact Robert A. ‘Mahew, gr jees apport G 4 a us : . whom the CIA had pre viously used in several covert , ime € operations, © to recru.t the necessary personnel.” Taha. 10am? (@* Maheu subsequ:ntly contacted*Roselli, A who “in turn xecruited tw) persons terete know! : to Ah op _ ate the oppo Chit as "Sam Go.d" and "Joe. Qteere=l says he, along with Maheu, later discovered the true identities of these persons to .e Sam Giancana and Santo Trafficante, respectively, puro | r1agore fr qases ‘9 > enegpnraccd cfs ee, (10) After meeting several times in Miami and deciding - " wpon poison pills as the method ‘of assassination, the TGR at ; Ipj>-EeuRepers ee that Trafficante made the arrangements for the assassination ‘of Castro with - one of his contacts inside Cuba on one of the trips oO
he allegedly made to Havana, Cuba. 23 - This contact a Cubin official who held a’ position 14 close to Castro. mec (n) The -L967-26-R -poxt then states that Roselli passed the pills to *rafficante. 15. Roselli subsequently — the Suppose Chak abe Cuban am told @4.Geunet that he ills were delivered to Orta 16 The Gabasn of fre in Cuba. ea app irently retained the pills, for a few weeks and then returned them since he was “unable : “to fulfill any ‘plan. « ~ Gna was no longer in a ‘position to. kilt Cas ro “because he had lost his Cuban 18 ost. P the Croan Heal {12) With @xte una»le to perform,the s ndicate tha ergo uid looked elsewhere. Roselli next told C\tenneti, sometime during earl’ 1961, that Trafficante knew a man prominent in tie Cuban exile movement who, who. Y a ah After receiving approval, _Trafficante could accomplish 1 the jobs \Senitmcianeortode 1g— an aku pension -approached exsesa ab out assassinating Castro and he - 20 - mek Yveported that Vessmma was receptive.’ ‘ ‘The -L9¢7=Ee- 4h Che Report states that © @omrferl again distributed pills lA ~tapbsioy) 21 . which eventually rea hed Geen  eealntindis
(j3) TAs activity concluded the pre- Bay of “mer, Pigs phase of the plots. The +96-£@R does not Achagh document anyaattempt to administer the pills to Castro... a4) The 3820 IGR -elates that after a period of apparent dormancy. _ Bissell directed William aCiA earge at Harvey4in APPLOx tely November of 1961 to.  Qieamment Atharefore- " reactivate the CIA-M fia ‘plots. introduced Harvey to Roselli. During this phase, the CIA decided agai ist using Giancana or Trafficante; instead, a person re’ erred to as “MACEO" entered the ’ plot as the ‘person ‘Wi10 “would ‘help provide castro . 25 ‘contacts. In addi cion, the plots still utilized ne Aha C coon, pat the services of Ame ot : : Traf ficante and Gian tana, the CIA admitted ‘that ae, ' 4967 Roselli most likely <sept them informed. The 25= Tee nokd - - a _— Bors me that. "/i/t would be naive to assume that Rose 1: <i did’ not take the precaution of informing higher- ups in _the syndicate that he was working : ina _territo-‘y, considered to be the private.
27 domain of someone el::e in the syndicate." (9: In June of 191.2 Roselli reported to “Harvey eh? that) vam" ispatch:d a three- -man team into Cuba ht with the general ass gninent of recruiting others to kill Castro, and, if the opportunity arose, to 28 kill ‘him thensflyves, maybe through the use of pills. ‘In September of 1962 Roselli ‘reported to Harvey in Miami that the. 'm-dicine" was reported in place, an hye Ceslnon erect that the three-man team was safe, and that _heditee was prepared to dispitch another three-man team to infiltrate Castro s bodyguard. 8 In December, 1962, “Roselli and Ha: ‘vey agreed that not much seemed to _ be occurring and by lebruary, 1963, Harvey terminated . 30 _the ‘plots. B. The Las Vegas Wi: etap Incident ; 0d. The C2 IGR “Iso mentioned an event that occurred during Phas: r of the CIA-Mafia plots whichr resulted in the firs’. dissemination of the ‘details of the plot to persoiis other than the ones involved - in the operation. On October 31, 1960, Las Vegas police arrested Arthur z. Balletti, an employee of a Florida investigator named Edward DuBois, for placing a
31 an electronic bug in a hotel room in Las Vegas. Subsequent. investiga :ion determined that Robert A. Maheuplauthoriven” the surveillance and possibly the wiretap of the subje :t involved and that Maheu probably acted on behalf of G_ancana and the cra. (13) The violation of the wiretap statuteblaced the case under feder il jurisdiction and the FBI soon began an investigation. ‘In the course of this ‘investigation, Maheu informed the FBI.that he instituted the surve .llance on behalf of CIA efforts , to obtain Cuban inte .ligence through the hoodlum element, including G -ancana. . ‘In its efforts to. ‘prevent the prosecut .on of Balletti, Maheu, and an : who nal all aasikel Aatiotte in Gad Wie hep,’ - unidentified individual known as J. Ww. Harrisona the cIA eventually told che Justice Department the details of Phase I of the CI \-Mafia’ plots to kill Castros sear trash accutadtel bite can lggat be. relited through the following