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SUBJECT: Robert A. Maheu

1. Robert A. Maheu was born on 30 October 1917 in

Waterville, Maine.

He graduated from Holy Cross College,

vorcester, Massachusetts in 1940. He is married and ha:

four children.

2.

he was employed as a Special Agent with the

Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1947. Upon

resigning from the Bureau a venture into private enter-

prise culminated in bankruptcy in 1952.

his bankruptcy, he was employed as Special Assistant to

the Administrator, Small Business Administration with the

specific duty of Director of Security.

In February 1954,

he was forced to resign for political reasons from this

position.

He then established his own investigative

organization known as Robert A. Maheu Associates, and

rented desk space in a suite occupied by Carmine

a former Bureau Agent,

S. Bellino,

Certified Public Accountant, and

currently employed on Capitol Hill with one of the Congres-

sional Committees.

3. Mr. Maheu's organization successfully handled a

of prestige accounts, including Niarchos, Schenley

Distillers, New York Central Railroad, United Steel Workers

Union, and ultimately Howard Hughes.

Although he has main-

tained offices in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, most

recently he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada.

He was initially recruited by the Office of Secu-

August 1954.

elements of the predecessor of the Deputy Director for

Operations.

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5.

Some of those assignments included the

following:

A.

B.

King Hussein

The procurement of feminine companionship

to the King, during an official State visit

to this country during the period 16 March

1959 through d8 April 1959>

(See attached

Tab 1--taken fron "Family Jewels" пелотал-

dum dated 16 May 1973)

Johnny Roselli

The use of a member of the Mafia in an

attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro,

initiated in August 1960.

(See attached

Tab ?--taken fron "Family Jewels" memoran-

dun dated 16 May 1973)

C. Cover

Various officers of the Clandestine Service

met with Mr. Maheu over the years frow 1954

to 1970 to determine the feasibility of using

his firm for non-official. cover purposes.

Actual cover uses were provided for one officer

in MT. Maheu's Washington Office from September

1964 to June 1966, and another officer used the

cover of Maheu Associates representatives in

Quito, Ecuador) from 1 August 1968 through

31 December 1970. (See attached Tab 3--Director

of Security Memorandum to the Director of Central

Intelligence, dated 20 January 1871)

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No contact has been made with Mr. Maheu since the

ternination of the above cover arrangement;

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