(foat01s3-t0284] . TAB B - Material Requiring Other Agency Component Coordination Memo For: Dir of Security/Subject: Dade County Request for Agency Assistance Regarding the Death of Johnny Rosel1li/10-8-76 P 2 - PARA 2c--COPY ATTACHED; SOURCE STILL DELETED P 3, 4 - PARA 2h--DDO DELETED P 4, 5 - PARA 3b--DDO DELETED Memo For: Legislative Counsel/Subject: SSCI Request (Death of Johnny Roselli)/9-20-76 DDO DELETIONS Memo For: Inspector General/Subject: SSCI Operation (Maheu/Roselli, et al Matter)/6-12-75/p 2 DDO DELETIONS Memo For: Chief, SAG/Subject: Resorts International, Inc. /8-18-76 . DDO DELETIONS “Memo For: C, SRS/Subject: Cain, Richard S./10-9-67 P 2 - COPY ATTACHED P 3 - COPY ATTACHED P 4 - PERSONAL/THIRD PARTY/UNRELATED INFO
14-00000 —~_ / coer’ Fal e ey, * ~ . ~ « Masferrer claimed that his Haiti invasion - plot was approved by the U. S. Government (varying "between the CIA and the FBI as the approving agency). While the CIA approval claim was untrue, Agency concern, at the time, centered around the - possibility of unfavorable publicity and the ; compromise of sources and methods if the Agency | _was forced to disprove Masferrer's charges in | _ Court. A handwritten note in Masferrer's file — revealed that he died in 1975: when his car was: ‘-blown apart by a bomb in Florida. No further . (5-2 details regarding his death were contained in his subject files. Since Masferrer has mever . been ‘affiliated with thé Agency, despite his Claims, it is believed that Dade County officials . Should be referred to the FBI for information regarding Masferrer. oe c. Juciano Nieves~-Office of Security files contain BO _ _ .: information regarding Luciano Nieves Mestre, date and place of birth 6 October 1933, Santa Clara, Cuba, Nieves was - on 4 February 1966 in Florida. It was developed that he was a Cuban: national who had been arrested, tried, and sentenced to 20 years in Cuba for allegedly being involved in an anti-Castro plot. He was released in March 1965 after serving approxi- mately. 16 months of his sentence and went to Spain brief vhere he was of interest to the (| | .In August 1565 he entered the hited States and in November 1965 was contacted by Directorate of Operations (DDO) representatives, ' From November 1965 until approximately January 1966 he was of operational interest -to the DDO, It is noted that the DDO maintains a 201 file (201-788521) regarding Subject and it is believed that the Office of Security would have to defer any decision regarding the release of information concerning Nieves to the DDO, “TAR 6. ; + |
eta AS 3, During: review of CAIN's: ‘Security file, I noted a a message ; regarding him from Mexico Gity, on 25 April 1962, which mentioned ; a "Willard d ANDREWS, reputable American businessman in Mexico," i whe obviously had had contact of some kirid 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~ : randum is attached). In answer to this message which requested traces i { on CAIN, Headquarters, in furnishing limited information obtained regard-~j ing him, advised that neither his 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, | 6 te a OOS BORE A ee eran Sarees et ae ote mean oman 4. With teferoh ce to Willard ANDREWS, Security indices contain no record. _beHeve tHe-individual referred to.is-Wyllys ANDREWS, (Edward) wyllys_ AN REWS TV~#2769, * 2. former OSS/CIA employee who has lived in Mexico [tox ‘any year Sand has continued to have social con- tacts with representatives. | Of this s “Agency iitnMexico as well as with Agency employees from HL adquafters v vho visit him froimtime to time.’ ANDREWS, like CAIN, was. béfn in Chicago of parents who also were: ‘born i in the general area of Chicago. eatin tit Ag nite frowk, 6 Qu 7 5. The firsttime CAIN came to the attention of the Security Offi's ‘was when the Mexico Station requested traces on him. Their request ' stemmed from an unannounced visit he made to the Station, during which ihe stated that he had an investigative agency in Mexico with branches in F {Chicago and Los Angeles. He had also stated that his agency in Mexico lwas for the purpose of training Mexican Government agents in police | methods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the lie detector; tand had added that he was investigating Communism i in a certain unnamed ; Central American country. Ram tieatie terete a9 O08 ORR 2 see Teta 8% | ' 6. In June 1962, the Mexico Station advised that CAIN was being co _ deported by the Mexican Ministry (of) Gobernacion for these violations: ott ae a. Carrying a loaded revolver and brass knuckles RI SNR AOS b. Impersonating a Mexican Government official i (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 . or ene emeernnenpieepmnennanian “Ge ee cree dae reece arse ane
14-00000 ~ Do, ( TAB B #5 7. Subject was subsequently of initérest to the OCS in September 1963 when an ad hoc clearance was requested to permit his being asked to respond to general requirements regarding his knowledge of certain j Cuban refugees and their potential for foreign positive intelligence. On 20 September 1963, the DCS was sent a memorandum which furnished lmauch of the above information on CAIN. an neem see 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 as to whether or not they ever. established: contact with him and, if so, for what purpose: “The DCS was also to be advised that, if they were tin 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. pe cmanmencgenumce ‘| 9. On 29 May 1967, Security advised the DCS that there is a } j current FBI investigative interest in Subject and recommended that \there be no further contact with him at this time. i , 10, Thel September 1967 copy of Life magazine contains an article titled Brazen Empire of Organized Crime," in. yhich it is stated : that ‘Sam Gi ANCANA? Head of the Chicago. Cosa a Nostra; is "still . running things-by- te-control f from a hide~out in Mexico... where iw. he poses as Riccardo: ‘St LZET TIC , The real SCALZETTI, GIANCANA's ‘exst while chauffeur and courier, 3 is more familiar to Chicagoans as Richard CAIN, a well known former Chicago policeman and more recently a private investigator. " il. “Eldon S. COHEN who is mentioned in paragraph 2 of this” memorandum as having evidenced an interest in CAIN during ; the“guber~ natorial campaign of the now Senator (from Illinois) Chaxzles” ‘H. PERCY, #178329 and #EE=21273, is now PERCY's Executive, AsSistant. COHEN, who became employed by, PERCY in January 1964775 following his resigna- tion from CIA which was effective 31 Decembér 1963, at the time he con- tacted a representative of the Chicago Oifice of DCS regarding CAIN on 10 February 1964, did not indicate @ thathe was employed by PERCY. He said, rather, that he'd been asked by the ": ERGY for Governor" people to inquire as to CAIN's status. , ae
14-00000 4 ~ Pe ° MATERIAL REVIEWED BY HSCA STAFFERS 4 ~ Folder Subject: Review at Headquarters - Individuals of Interest . ra to the HSCA (Tab B - Sanitized) on John Roselli, Sam Giancana (Santos Trafficante) - 77-0076/2 pes _ PATE NOTES TRANSMITTED =? DATE STAFFERS (Signature) Filled in by OLC
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