104-10059-10023 . “ntreo § SYATES GOVE. AMENT a - - oO Pe & : aS : . : Cs aa “Memorandion EE ego Ot Chief, SRS. BATE: 99 October 1967 | a: DG/SRS and c/ri0B/sns FROM | = M. D.. Stevens = ; - | _ SUBJECT: ‘CAIN, Richard Ss. Fe 272 Tar ee rs cle “Reference j is . made to the attached 5 June 1967 oe randum on Subject, which in turn made reference to previous | — as | memoranda on him on 24 and 25 May 1967 and to an Office of Security wo } memorandum dated 29 May 1967. The 5 June 1967 memorandum -:.. ae jenclosed | copies of several 1963/1964 documents from the Chicago - aoe ... Field Office's file on CAIN, which . _ . | forwarded to SRS with ... o" ¢the comment that "It appears - 4a is cleaning out theiz files re > Lee 7 an }Harvey OSWALD, et al.’ ae oe, re : Peale es _memo~ fo Roo: “2. ‘Subject, 3 ‘st: is s obvious, had been a source of information ~ a ee, { regarding an alleged discussion of the assassination of President - wes i Kerinedy at'a secret meeting of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee ae held in Chicago in February 1963 under the direction of Richard 9)... cay i GRILEY (#346 116). He also was the source of information regarding ao 4 the alleged attempted recruitment into the Communist Party of young _ . -- «.4 Gubans in the Chicago area by one Gui » who accords » | fing to the Chicago office was “one ol SAS) leads =-.% -.-§ obtained ‘from Ralph PEREZ." .(Presumably Ralph PEREZ, £444260) | aa SPEED is| #199499. The documents also indicated  .: 4 that in February 1964 CAIN was the. subject of a conversation iuitieted | eee by Eldon S. COHEN, #38557 o/c, with a representative of the»... . [oy BS oy i Chicago office who believed his purpose was to learn whether or. ‘not’ ~ | GAIN was in fact on a twoemonth's sick leave from the COOK County | | ‘. FARO te SRAEK, Sheriff's office, as he was said to be, or was on a political under ~:~. cover assignment which CGHEN inferred involved tapping the tele~ a .° 4 phones of gubernatorial ¢ candidate Charles 1 H,, . PERCY and 1 othex ny ‘i political figures. DUE ES a Clon ed LOD, os ee Lh. cue : bat
7 . 3 ‘During. review of GAIN's Security file, I noted 2 z message . regarding him from Mexico Gity, on 25 April 1962, which mentioned | a "Willard Al 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 commented that © CAIN claims to have been with OSS during W. W. IL (Acopy of this memo= yandum is attached). In answer to this message which requested traces .|° -- on CAIN, Headquarters, in furnishing limited information obtained regard- . ing him, advised that neither his claimed employment by OSS, nor a claim, q he made to have worked with Task Force W, could be substantiated. The : 4 “4 Station was advised that he did have (ox had had) a + legitimate detective .. Resale i in 2 Chicago. » a ao 8, “The Hrstime CAIN came to the attention 1 of the e Security Otfice 1 was when the Mexico Station requested traces onhim. Their request “ of ‘stemmed from an unannounced visit he made to the Station, during which i he stated that he had an investigative agency in Mexico with ‘branches i in. i _ Chicago and Los Angeles. ‘He had also stated that his agency in Mexico | was for the purpose of training Mexican Government agents Inpolice ~~’ : ae |. methods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the lie detector; © a ae 4 “ . and had added that he was investigating Communism + in a. certain ‘unnamed, - Gentral American n country. ‘B 6. “Ya Jone 3962, the Mexico Station advised that CAEN washbeing .. oe deported ve the Mexican. Ministry (of) Gobexnacion for these violations: : { | oy aes one a _ Cazzying a loaded revolver and brass Kmuclles | i L 5 i ee . b.. “Impersonating a ‘Mexican ‘Government £ official es + Ge. had identification as an investigator for the. - , Mexdcan ‘Treasury Office. ) | Violating his tourist permit by working 2 at his LOU ee ’ detective office and at the Mexican Treasury © an ~ nena mmnareoaoamanenreetet N88 .
14-00000 on 7 Subject was subsequently of interest te the in September j}- . $1963 when an ad hoc clearance was requested to permit his being asked gto respond to general requirements regarding his knowledge of certain | Cuban refugees and their potential for foreign positive intelligence. On $10 September 1963, the was sent a memorandum which furnished | zouch of the above information ¢ on a CAIN. : & ae . ‘8. “On 22 May 1967, ‘the Director of £ Security § indicated that he. |. had received information from the FBI which ties Subject to the Mafi oo. in Chicago; jand he directed that the’ (be contacted for information o _fas to whether ox not they ever established contact-with him and, if so, _ or what purpose. The ~~ was also to be advised that, if they were . contact with 1 him, it was suggested that they break it off. On 25. : May 1967, the! | 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 ctivities, _Procurement of arms, ste. Qe On 29 May 1967, Secuzity advised the that there i isa current ¥BI investigative interest in Subject and recommended that | so there be x no o further contact with hima 4 at t this” time.. . be cecetmnaaell 30. “The 1 1 Seplember } 1967 « copy , of: Life magazine a ontains Bn ; article Reet enicnes of Organized Crime," in — is ape - stated thatSam Gi GL CANA? Head of the Chicago. Co ‘Cosa a Nostra," is "still : coe mo running things-by—7 nixol from a hide~out in N CO . s+ where | aia he poses as Riccardo} St ALZETTND The real SCALZETTI, GIANCANA's ©. -- rst while chauffeur and « courier, ‘ts more familiar to Chicagoans as =... *) Richard CAIN, a well known former Ghicago policeman and 3 more recently (a a private investigator. Woes td, Se
14-00000 : : wim ame ee vane . oe oo ee rey e- : 35, “There 3 is 5 attached a copy of the above referred to September a articles in Life magazine, in one of which CAIN is described as the erst— 7 “while chauffeur and.courier of Sam GIANCANA. The second of these — -” articles makes reference to alleged friendly contacts of Jim GARRISON, -. no of the OSWALD Case, with henchmen of the > Cosa Nostra i in. a the Louisiana “Attachments: articles a . -MDS/< cer