-7. Suabject was subsequently of interest to the DCS in September 1963 when an ad hoc clearance was requested to permit his being asked | te 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 much of the above information on CAIN. . 8. On 22 May 1967, the Director of Security indicated thet he had received information from the FBI which ties Subject to the Mafia in Chicago; and he directed that the DCS be contacted for inforrnation as te whether or not they ever established contact with him and, if so, for what purpose. The DCS was alsa to be advised that, if they were in centact with him, it wae 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 te do with anti-Castre Cuban activities, procurement of arma, etc. , 9. On 29 May 1967, Sseurity advised the DCS that there is a current FBI investigative 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 contrel 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 & private investigator." i. Eldon S. COHEN who is mentioned in paragraph 2 of this memerandum as having evidenced an interast in CAIN during the guber- natorial campaign of the now Senator (fr0m IlHnois) Charlies H. PERCY ’ #178329 and #EE-21773, is now PERCY's Executive Assistant. COHEN, whe became employed by PERCY in J anuary 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 gaid, rather, that he'd been adked by the "PERCY for Governor’ people to inquire as te CAIN's status. . SEC | HW 53217 Docld: 32373317 Page 4
HW 53217 ¢ 4 . . . - “ 12, During the time COHEN was a CIA employee (1949-1963), he _ was of concern to the Security Office, due principally to the activitiag and proclivities of hia wife, Rita C. Heller COHEN, #MS~-3185, the form mex wife of Irving ROTH, #MS-2091 R. COHEN was the subject of an Employment Review Board case in 1956; and in 1956 waa disqualified 23 a member of the Junior Career Developmert Program. It was then) decided to put him on a job in FBIS in which he would not be exposed to highly senaitive 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 hoc basis to participate in ths briefing and debriefing _ of his employer, Senator PERCY, who planned an extensive tour of the Far East. In June 1967, My. George CARY, Legislative 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 exposed to cperational information or exctic material. . iS, There is attached a copy of the above referred to September articies in Life magazine, in one of which CAIN is described ag tha erate while chauffeur and courler of Sam GIANCANA. The second of these articies makes reference to alleged friendly contacts of Jim GARRISCN, of the OSWALD Case, with henchmen of the Sosa Nestra in the Lcuisiana area, ttachments: artictes Bd Pandan J + MDS/cer DoclIda: 32373317 Page 5