14-00000 Our letter to the Attorney General of 14 October 1976 forwarded all information from Agency files responsive to these questions which we judged could be forwarded to the Dade County police without jeopardizing sources or methods, rovided the Attorney General found that the Agency could Jegally do so. A second point, also to follow from the Attorney General's findings was that, even if such informa- tion could legally be provided, a determination would have to be made within the Agency whether some of the requested information which related to former or current agents of the Agency might still require protection. Your marginal comment asks whether we are not straining the concept of protection of sources when we protect those who are not now intelligence sources and whether we are protecting them from prosecution for terrorist activity today. After referent memorandum was sent to you, the Attorney General refined an.earlier opinion from former Assistant Attorney General Antonin Scalia. The Department of Justice now concludes that, to the extent Agency information either does not involve U.S. persons or falls within one of seven exceptions to the general prohibition against collection of. information concerning the domestic activities of U.S. persons, such information can be provided to local police authorities. It is significant, however, that the Attorney General in his 23 March letter to you (Attachment B) expressly included the following language: In addition to the facts above, the Office of Legal Counsel has pointed out that Executive Order 11905 does not require CIA to respond to Dade County. Indeed, the responsibility of the Director of Central Intelligence to protect sources and methods of intelli- gence, established by statute, 50 U.S.C. #403(g), and E.O. 11905, Section 3(d) (vii), is authority for him to withhold such information from local law enforcement officials 1 e believes its disclosure would threaten the security of intelligence sources or methods. (Emphasis added) In the light of the Attorney General's opinion, those offies holding the relevant files are now reviewing them to confirm that the information originally selected for passage to Dade County law enforcement officials is responsive and complete.
14-00000 on, oo (=. wasntncron post ts 2 MARCH 1°77 cante’s “blessing, Rosselli used the Ha-. -vana underworld to plot.Castro’s de mise..The assassination squad tried to. dachans the most. “feared. it mobster in "They would rather not-risk sntagonis we . the “underworld is. Florida’s Mafia ing. ‘the. federal government. by mur-.- _ chieftain, Santos Trafficante. House in-; -dering.“ a., celebrated: switness unless ” s-vestigators apprdached his Miami hide- “‘there-was some compelling reasons. ‘=. 2 away, therefore, with some The experts doubted- ‘the Mafia -w: upset over, Rosselli’s confession that,: a hit man for. the. Central Intelligenc ‘Agency, he had. attempted: to ’.assass: nate Cuban Premier.Fidel Castro.:Th mobsters hated Castro,.who.had exp. riated their. casinos:. dn. Havana. : “He appeared at the screendoor to a cept: their- subpoena. “Shove it under: : the door,” he said: softly. They peered. = ? through the screen..The sinister Trafii “ pal his hands: as his own. “speculation. ” But it was his: . habit to-pass us:tips in the form of con- jecture. There is a: good chance he was: 2 The: ‘House. "Arcdsainations: "Conamitte : had taken a Sudden interest’. ini :th ore likely motive for ‘the murder. Wi got the:story from Rosselli himself; bit® by bit; over the past'six: years. He. had tion: ‘of: the «CLA: ‘plot-to” ‘Kill “Castr ‘Whenever Rosselli was in Washington, - tured the would-be assassins and had ae learned about! the: plot. on: his life. It- ‘would: be the-sort;of jrony-that:Latin-:' Americans - -appreciate,. Rosselli . sug-. “arranged: President John F. Kennedy’ Hote an incre Carefully hedging, he “the niny page: that Rosselli. was: mur. “dered as a.“direct result” of his. Senate from the old Trafficante organization; # herefore;: spoke: ate Cat ‘to: Howard. to- ‘arrange: the assassination of Kenne- j Hughes” chief ‘ huncho: in ‘Las Vegas Robert’ Maheu, about:the project: M heu ‘recruited’ Rosselli, ‘then. the-Chi a ac ‘days before his: th: "sell dined with Trafficante at the. fash “Lauderdale, Fla: Tt is the custom of th . Mafia.‘to. wine- and .dine’a- waywarc bushed  Kenaedy: ‘from closer. -range, ; ‘ couldn't afford. to: let: him: reveal, ae own: ‘superior, Chicago, eodiathee Sam lancana, to FOr dow ‘Trafficante “appeared: before the Senate: normall ed crim ords. OGC SUBJ: VESTIGATIONS - Roselli, Johnny (not indexed) Once Oswald:.was-captured,.the mob-4 ~~