(tod-104t9-10321] .. Kennedy at a secret meeting. of the Fair Piay for Cuba Committee, . held in Chicage in February 1963 under the direction of Richard... - GRILEY ($346.16)... He. also was the source of information regarding: =F -. the alleged attempted reeruitment into the Communist Party of young - "SPEED. is Horase SPEED IM, 9}99499... The documents. also indicated... , that in February 1964 CAIN was the subject of a conversation initiated SECRET Theu : pe,sas and C/FIOB/SRS ~ ee EE Se 8 ae : M. D. ‘Stevens eat : mee oe oa a ‘ ey fre: B2T2 UAL ee en 5 eet vey . Kan packan We ed : 2 oem a gate atnage A Herta Baas, > Ske a. “ iar ‘ef ahs go ‘fey onde, Reference i is 3 made! to , the attached 5 ; Jane 1967 DCs memos 7 : 7 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 Secaritys:: memorandum dated 29 May 1967... The 5. Jane 1967 memorandum, enclosed copies of several 1963/1964. decuments from the. Chicage.. wg Field Office's file on CAIN, which ADCG/PSD forwarded to SRS.-with. . the comment that "It appears: DCS is a cleaning out. their files: re cee "y Harvey OSWALD,. et al’. poo cr oy ey ao ; SOT IPNTT Smieenens ene mae oe a rhe . Subject, iti is ‘obvious, ‘had. been : a source 2 of information eer ceparding an alleged discnssion of the assassination of President - Gubana in the Chicago area by one Guillermo ESCOBAR, who aecord--. re - ing to the Chicago office was "one of Horace SPEED's (SAS) leads:.. ee, . obtained from Ralph PEREZ.". (Presumably Ralph PEREZ;. $444260) by Eldon S. COHEN, #38557 o/c, with a representative of the DCS . Ghicago office who believed his purpose was.te learn whether. or. not... CAIN was in fact ona two-month! s. sick leave frora the COOK. County. Sheriff's office, as he was said to be, or was ona political under =. cover assignment which CEHIEN inferred involved tapping the tele- phones of gubernatorial candidate Charles H. PERCY and other | oo
13-09000 . — 3. During raview of CAIN's Security file, I noted a message 7 ~ regarding him from Mexico City, on 25 April 1962 which mentioned .. 2" Willard ANDREWS, reputable American businessman j ia Mexico,"*.. who obvicusly had had contact. of some kind with CAIN, as well as with. a CIA representative in Mexico to whom ANDREWS had commented that a CAIN claims to have been with OSS during W. W. Il (Acopy of this memo- 9 ~ | yandum is attached). In answer to this message which requested traces = on CAIN, Headguarters,. in furnishing limited information obtained regard- ing him, advised that neither his claimed employment by OSS,. nor a.claim he made to have worked with Task Force W, could be aubstantiated., The Station was advised that he did have ® (or. had i had} a- » legitimate detective | oS laboratory in. » Chicago. : Comb pe fae aren Smee marys | me, - ode ‘With reference to Willard ‘ANDREW 5 ‘Security indices contain ne : record. I believe the individual referred to ia. Wyllys ANDREWS, + -. (Edward) Wylys ANDREWS IY, $2769, a former OSS/CIA employee. who has lived in Mexico for many years and has continued to have social con-_. me tacts with representatives of this Agency in Mexico as well as with Agency mo | employees from Headquarters who visit him from me to time. - ANDREWS, a —_ like can, wae born in Ghicage < of f parents + who. also were bora in. x the. *. general . 5. ‘The Grd time CAIN: éame to > the attention of the Security Office. — waa s when the Mexico Station requested traces on him. Theix request —_. - 7 . steramed from an unannounced visit he made to the. Station, during. which he stated that he had an investigative agency in Maxico. with branches in. - Chicago and Los Angelés.’..He had also stated that his agency in Mexico ._ . L. | waa for the purpose of training Mexican Government agents in pelica _. [ pe ee methods, in investigative techniques, and in the use of the lie detector; :.--- “i and had added that he was investigating Communism ina certain unnamed | . a Central American seoney - : ‘ bra ey my x wig Ege ie Dog <3 las se _— 1 = ~ ate reve , os _ : 2 MR TE be In Jane 1962,. the Mexico § Station , advised that CAIN was, being” ae ee deported by 8 the Mexican: /Ministsy (of) Gobernacion; for these: violations:, . , : 4 a fF Pee * wes wht sh pL A: Baars sth S. The te att faet 4. fo Carrying a Toaded revolver and brasa knuckles: : oe wage See tanga Be “Impersonating : a ‘Mexican ‘Government official. ~ Pn 7 : 7 ce bare 7 : (Be had identification az an investigator for the, ae co Eg teat . Mexican Treasury. Office.) ae B bar dle eace Uneceia. oy not vats . . eet “Fl tte y's, c. Violating his tourist permit by working a at his. detective office and at the Mexican Treasury _
13-00000 -10 September 1963, the DCS was sent a taemorandum which farnished activitiss, procurement of armay eter pore ; : there be no forther contact with:him at this Hime. Aes « 7. Subject was subsequently of interest te the DCS in September. 1963 when an ad hee clearance was requasted to permit his being asked te reapond te general requirements regarding his knowledge of certain .._ Cuban refugees and their potential for foreign positive intelligence.. On much of the above information on CAIN, ore Spat wey 8. On 22 ‘May 1967, ¢ the Director of f Secarity i indicated that the wea received information from the FBI which ties Subject to the Mafla in Chicago; and he directed that the DCS be contacted for information. ws as to whether or not they ever established contact with him and, if se,. - - for what purpose. - The DCS.wag alse to be advised that; if they were . a . __ in contact with him, it was suggested that they break:it off. On: 25 cine Be 2: May 1967, the DCS advised that there had been no contact with.CAIN «:.: we os . since 1963, and furnished copies-of eight reports for which Subject had | been the source of information. - ‘These haat te do with enti~Castzo: Coban : . . wi SS get Be. On: ry May 1967, Security ‘advised the DCs that there iz a current FBI investigative interest in Subject and recommended that ga lal TP “WO ‘The f September 1967 copy. of Life. magazine c contains, an: | articie tiled ‘Bracen Empire of Organised Crime," in which it iss fo: a & - stated that Sam GLANCANA, ‘Head of the Chicago Cosa Nostra; ‘is: MstIE vunning things by remote contrel from a hide-out in Mexico... where °- he poses as Riccardo SCALZETTI. The real SCALZETT!, GIANGANA's .. erst while chanffenr and courier, is more familiar to Chicagoans aa: oo | Richard CAIN, a well known former = tense policeman and. x mare recently oe 2 private investigstoz." i. . wa nL Eldon 5. CONKN-whe is mentioned § in paragrash 2 ‘of this: memorandum as having evidenced an interast in CAIN during the uber= - natorial campaign of the now Senator (from Dlinois) Chazles H. PERGY, . #178329 and JEE-21773, is now PERCY's Executive Assistant. COHEN, © whe became employed by PERCY in January 1964, following hie 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 CAEN on 10 February 1964, did net indicate that he was employed by PERCY. He said, rather, that he'd been agked by the "PERCY for Governor! people . to inguire as to CAIN's status. —
13-00000 i i. t t SECRET i2. During the time COHEN was a CIA employee (1949-1963), he | . . was then decided to put him on a job in FBIS operational information or exotic material.” ae At the time of his resignation, he wag an |. I. ©. Contact, GS-14, in the Chicago Cifice of the pPY Ooo Contact oe! Division. : : ee Cie 13. In January 1965, the DCS requested approval ta. contact. oo an COHEN on an ad hoe baais to participate in the briefing and debriefing a of his employer, Senator PERCY, who planned an extensive tour of the . Far East. In June 1987, Mr. George CARY, Lagislative. Counsel, ” wo requested a check on COHEN stating that there may be. occasion to brief Tar him from time to time. According to Mr. CARY, COHEN would be a briefed generally on the build up in Cuba. but would not be exposed fo | oy ; . ie ‘COHEN is currently of interest to this Citice i in connection ~ : oo “with an approach which was made to him by the Second Secretary ‘of the Romanian Embassy in Washington. An FBI report of 16 August 1967 . |. on Victor DCROBANTU, the Second Secretary, noted tha approach but . a = failed to indicate under what circumstances COHEN furnished the,. a information regarding bis contacts with | DOROBANTT. . - me boas xs weber at euec: a oO a Sy Fiat ee seg Tey Toe oe Be ‘there is attached. a ‘copy ‘ef the “above eived to Segteaber oe etic! es in Life magazine, in one of which GAIN i is ‘described as the erst-. 7: while chauffeur and courler of Sam GIANGANA. | “The second. of these articlés makes reference to alleged friendly, contacts, of Jim GARRISON, of the OSWALD. Gase,, with henchmen of the © Cosa Nostra in the: ‘Leuisiana - area, | : M. D. Stevens a Attachments: articles MDS/cer