(t04-10432-10307 ~ SECRET Chief, SRS Thru : DC/SRS and C/FIOB/SRS 9 October 1967 M. D. Stevens CAIN, Richard S. 9272 141 1. Reference is made to the attached § June 1967 DCS me... randum on Subject, which in turn made reference to previous DCS memoranda on him on 24 and 25 May 1967 and te an Office of Security memorandum dated 29 May 1967. The 5 June 1967 memorandum enclosed copies of several 1963/1964 documents from the Chicago Field Office’s file on CAIN, which ADC/ PSD forwarded to SRS with the comment that "It appears DCS is cleaning out their files re Lee Harvey CSWALD, et al." 2. Subject, it is obvious, had been a source of infermation | regarding an alleged discussion of the assassination of President Kennedy at a secret meeting of the Fair Play for -Gaba Committee held in Chicago in Febroary 1963 under the direction of Richard CRILEY (#346 116). He also was the source of information regarding the alleged attempted recruitment into the Communist Party of young “Cubans in the Chicago area by one Guillermo ESCOBAR, who accorde ___ ing to the Chicago office was "one of| (SAS) leads i‘ it;*# ebtained fram Ralnh PEREZ." (Preétimably Ralph PEREZ, #444260) SPEED te $199499. The documents also indicated that in Febraary 1964 CAIN Was the subject of a conversation initiated _, by Eldon & COHEN, £38557 o/c, with a representative of the DCS ‘, Chicago office who believed hie purpose was to learn w Fer not CAIN was in fact on a two-month's sick leave from the COOK Gounty’: Sheriff's office, as he was said to be, or was on a political under | cqver assignment which CHHEN inferred involved tapping the tele-~ | > r-~phon¢gs of gubernatorial candidate Charles H. PERCY and other ) . Pitipal Agares. |
3. During review of CAIN's Security file, I noted a message regarding him from Mexico City, on 25 April 1962 which mentioned a Willard ANDREWS, reputable American businessman in Mexico," who obviously had had contact of some kind with CAIN, as well as with a CIA representative in Mexico to whom ANDREWS had eommented that CAIN claims to have been with OSS during W. W. II (Acopy of this memo- randum is attached). In answer to this message which requested traces on CAIN, Headquarters, in furnishing limited information obtained regard- ing him, advised that neither hie claimed employment by OSS, nor a claim he made to have worked with Task Force W, could be substantiated. The Station was advised that he did have (or had had) a legitimate detective laboratory in Chicago. 4. With reference to Willard ANDREWS, Security indices contain no record. I believe the individual referred to is Wyllys ANDREWS, (Edward) Wyllys ANDREWS IV, $2769, a former OSS/CIA employee who has lived in Mexico for many years and has continued to have social con- tacts with representatives of this Agency in Mexico as well as with Agency employees from Headquarters who visit him from time to time. ANDREWS, like CAIN, was born in Chicago of parents who also were born in the general area of Chicago. S. The fir¢time CAIN came to the attention of the Security Office was when the Mexico Station requested traces on him. Their request stemmed from an unannounced visit he made to the Station, during which he stated that he had an investigative agency in Mexico with branches in Chicago and Los Angeles. He had also stated that his agency in Mexico. was for the purpose of training Mexican Government agents in police methods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the He detector; and hed added that he was investigating Communism in a certain unnamed Gentral American country. 6. Im June 1962, the Mexico Station advised that CAIN was being . deported by the Mexican Ministry (of) Gobernacion for these violations: a. Carrying a loaded revolver and brass knuckles — b. Impersonating a Mexican Government official (He had identification as an investigator for the Mexican Treasury Office. ) c. Violating his tourist permit by working at his detective office and at the Mexican Treasury 2 ___ SECRET
74-90000 SECRET 7. Subject was subsequently of interest to the DCS in September 1963 when an ed hoc clearance was requested to permit his being asked to respond to general requirements regarding his knowledge of certain Guban refugees and their potential for foreign positive intelligence. On 10 September 1963, the DCS was sent a memorandum which furnished muuch of the above information on CAIN. 8. On 22 May 1967, the Director of Security indicated that he had received information from the FBI which ties Subject to the Mafia in Chicago; and he directed that the DCS be contacted for information az to whether or not they ever established contact with him and, {f go, for what purpose. The DCS was also to be advised that, if they were in 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 been the source of information. These had to do with anti-Castro Cuban activities, procurement of arms, etc. 9. On 29 May 1967, Security advised the DCS that there is a current FBI iavestigative interest in Subject and recommended that there be no further contact with him at this time. ' 10. The 1 September 1967 copy of Life magazine contains an article titled "Brazen Empire of Organized Crime," in which it is stated that Sam GIANCANA, Head of the Chicago Cosa Nostra, is ' still running things by remote control from a hide-out in Mexico. . . where _he poses as Riccardo SCALZETTI. The real SCALZETTI, GIANCANA's ‘erst while chauffeur and courier, is more familiar to Chicagoans as Richard CAIN, a well known former Chicago policeman and more recently e private investigator." li. Eldon S. COHEN who is mentioned fm paragraph 2 of this memorandum as having evidenced an interest in CAIN during the guber- natorial campaign of the now Senator (from Illinois) Charlies H. PERCY, #178329 and #EE-21773, is now PERCY's Executive Assistant. COHEN, whe became employed by PERCY in January 1964, following his resigna- tion from CIA which was effective 31 December 1963, at the time he con- tacted a representative of the Chicago Office of DCS regarding CAIN on 10 February 1964, did not indicate that he was employed by PERCY. He eaid, rather, that he'd been adked by the “PERCY for Governor" people to inquire aa te CAIN's status. SECREI
+ . an Af bee We BL Bow § . “ ° ea , . . . . a, sO ee. “6s . ° . ¢ vo : gee, t 0 ee 2 ¢ . . . . a ne oid . . - od “4 “ ? . . * 2 e ‘ 12. During the time COHEN was a CIA employee (1949-1963), he Ch _ [ It was then decided to put him on a job in FBIS in which he would not be exposed to highly sensitive material. At the time of his resignation, he was an I. O. Contact, GS-14, in the Chicago Office of the DDI/O€¥ Contact Division, ; 13. In January 1965, the DCS requested approval to contact . COHEN on an ad hoe basis to participate in the briefing and debriefing | of his employer, Senator PERCY » who planned an extensive tour of the Fax East. ‘In June 1967, Mr. George CARY, Lagislative Counsel, _ ' requested a check on COHEN stating that there may be occasion to brief him from time to time. According to Mr. CARY, COHEN would be briefed generally on the build up in Cuba but would not be expoasd to cperational information or exotic material. 15. There is attached a copy of the above referred to September articies in Life magazine, in one of which CAIN is described as the orat- while chauffeur and courler of Sam GIANCANA. The second of these articles makes reference to alleged friendly contacts of Jim GARRISON, of the OSWALD Case, with henchmen of the Cosa Nostra in the Leuisiana area, M. D. Stevens attachments: articles ‘ MDS/cer \ | _ Ft, \ oLuitz | BR ‘