MEMO: SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE REQUEST (CHARLES FORD)
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR OF SECURITY
To: THE REVIEW STAFF
Document date: 9/4/75
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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NEMORANDUN FOR: The Review Staff

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SUBJECT

: Deputy Director for Administration

Senate Select Connittee Request

(Charles Ford)

Reference is made to & 28 August 1975 menorandun

fron the Review Staff (75/2723), which contains a request

fron Mr. Mike Madigan, Senate Select Committee Staff, for

Inforsation concerning the possible use by the Agency of

one Charles Ford to establish contacts with the underworld

for possible use against Fidel Castro. Referenced request

indicatod that Charles Ford was an Agency officer, who was

utilizing the nane "Rocky Siscalini."

2.

A review of the Office of Security indices dis-

closed both an overt and covert file on one Charles D. Ford

(SP 656 491), a current Agency employee serving with the

Office of Training/Deputy Directorate

for Adainistration.

Cited files disclosed that circa 1962-1963, Charles D. Ford

was losued official allas docuentation under the nane

"Charles D. Eiscalinl."

3.

Charles D. Ford has been an Agency staff employee

since 1952.

The Office of Security filos relating to Mr. Ford

do not conten any information wich would indicate ho had

been used to contact underorld figures for possible use

against Fidel Castro. However, la November 1961 Mr.

ford was

assigned to the Deputy Directorate for Operations, Western

Hemisphere Division as an Operations officer.

contained in his files, dated so March 1904, Indicates that

Mr. Ford was Issued alias documentation under the name of

Cited monorandua further indicates

that Mr. Ford was then assigned to "Task Force W." and was

to travel to New York on 31 March 1962 to meet with an un.

identified attorney who had contacted Hr. Robert Kennedy,

the

then Attorney General, Concerning assistance for Cuban prisoners.

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Mr. Ford's files reflect that he was reissued this allas docu-

mentation in February 1963, to be utilized "in the Continental

U.S. for operational purposes in pursult of

: the mission of the

Special Affairs Staff."

On 10 July 1963, cited allas documen

tation was returned to Headquarters, noting

that Mr.

Ford was

being reassigned within the Agency

and would no longer require

the usa of the alias documentation.

As stated, Mr. Ford's Office of Security files contain

no inforaation concerning the specific nature of his duties on

behalf of the Western Hewisphere Division,

last force ", or the

Special Affairs Staff.

Attached hereto are copies of the porel-

nont nevoranda referred to herein, which are dated during

the

1961-1963 period.

Those documents have been sanitized in

accordance with established procedure.

Prior to the release

of these documents to the Senate Select Committee, It 18 recon

wended that the entire package be coordinated with the Deputy

Director for Operations.

et famili,

Robert N. Cabino

Director of Security

Att

Distribution:

Orig & 2 - Addressoe w/3 sanitized atts

2 • DBA

1 - D/Security w/o att

1 - OS Registry w/o att

1 • DD/PS1 w/l sanitized & l unsanitized att

1 - SAG w/1 unsanitized att

OS/PSI/SAG/JSHung:hja (4Sept75)

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