Originator: HSCA
From: CIA
Document date: 01/05/1978
Document type: NOTES

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180-10141-10407 • r v RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY KENNEDY RECORDS ACT OF 1992,

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Jan 5, 1928

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CIA HAS NG OBJESTION TO

DECLASSIFICATION AND/OB

1967 IG Repart

BELEASE OF THI& DOCHMENT

p.l

"This reconstruction of Agency involvement in plans to assassinate

Fidel castro is at best an imperfect history. Because of the

extreme sensitiusty of the operations beline discussed or

attempted, as a matter of principle no official records were

kept of planning, of approvals, or of implementation. The feus

writen retent records that do exist are either largely

tangential to the main events or were put on paper from

memory years afterward. ...

"We can identify 5 separate phases in Agency, assassination

p.3 planning....

""Each phase is a reflection of the then

prevading Government attitude toward the Cuban regime.".

a- Prior to Aug. 1960 - All "identifiable schemes'@

excepte

were armed at discrediting Castro personally by influencing,

THIS COPY IS NO

his behavior ur altering appearance.

FOR RELEASE

b- Aug 1960 - April 1961 - plots were

aggressiuely pursued",

cute.

C- April 1961 - late 1961 - a major scheme begun in

Aug 1960 - called off after Bay of Pigs-remaineddormant

for several months, "as did most other Agency

operational activity related to cuba."

d- Late 1961 to Late 1962-

Aug 1960 scheme reactivated in carly 196a

e-"Late 1962 until well into 1963" Aug 960scheme

was terminated. 2 other plots originated but impractical

and "nothing ever came of them."

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4. 2 points- D

elimination at dominent figure may not change gout-

stressed by internal (IA draft paper of oct. 1961

@ bringing about downfall of gout always risky the

adds 3rd

point

resort to assassination.

synecdoche- mention of apart when the whole is

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SERDET

L. Wizelman

p. 6

p. 7

p. 7

a- discusses deliuery of pen to Cubela

b- meeting at SGA in Sec. Rusk's affice

Aug 10,1962-

mcnamera brought up "liquidation of Cuban leaders.

project mongoose Actron memo prepared by Lansda le

another meeting July 31, 1964- discussed Cuban

exile plot - CIA refused tunds & had no inuolvement.

CIA twice (early 1961, early 1962) supplied

lethal pills to Us. gambling syndicate members -

19001 plat aborted; palls recovered

1962.

polls passed by gambling syndicate.

representative to a cuban exile leader in fla, who

nad them sent to cuba May 1aba

(verona??)

June 1962- exile leader- reported that a team of

3 men had been dispatched to cuba to recruit

for the operation.

p. 9- Miscellaneous Schemes Prior to Augu1960

A-maren to Aug. 1960

130r 4 schemes.

"None of those we interviewed who was first

assigned to the Cuban task force after the Bay of Pigs

knows of any of these schemes." i Who did you interview?

2- F. D. (Jake) Esterline- head of Cuban talk forces-pre

Bofp.

3- Aerosel Atlackon Radio Station.

nothing came of it/ may haue been consideration

of

psychic energizers.".

4- Contaminated Cigars

Esterline por tave they were not letha!

never delivered because of "danger of blow back on

the Agency."

5- Depilatory

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- Wizelman

-=3-

SA

15

GAMBLING SYNDICATE

14-"the first serious ty- pursued af dan to assassinate castro had

Its incastion in Aug 1960.

'" Two phases

D Aug 1960 - late April or early may 1961

@ April 1962 - Feb. 1963

PHASE I

I.. Aug 1960 Richerd Bissell - DDP - asked Edwards-Dir. of Secur, ty=

if he could 'establish contact with the Uis. gambling

syndicate that was active in Cuba." Objective: "clearly

the assassination of castro."

ideaoriginatod-J.C.kong

maheu, Robert - contacted by Edwards. described as a

"private nvestigator who had done sensitive work for the

Agency." Opened a private office in a D.C. in 1956 after

being a special agent for FBI.

arrangea to

subsidize maneu to extent of $500/month. "Over the

years the has been & intimately involved in prouding

support for some of the Agency's more sensitive operations.

moved personal headquarters to L.A, but retains office inD.C.

i=.

struck by fact names appearing once worked fur FBI -

lists

,maneu, Havey, O'Connell, E. Morgan.

I6'" mahen was authorized to tell Rosell; that his "clients"

Were willing to pay #150, 000 for Castro's removal."

II. Sept. 1960.

O'Connell-case officer, met Roselli @ mahen- NYC Sept 14

R. agreed to introduce mantle to "San Gold"

p. 17

memo prepared by Edwards - 14 may, 1962- re money not pa.

to Guncana & Rosell:

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17

As of late Sept 1960- Edwards, O'Connell, & Bissell

were only ones in agency who knew of plan against

Castro involving mafia.

Edwards briefed Allen Dulles & Gen. Cabell

18 Bissell committed #150, 000 for suppurt of operation.

25 sept 1960 - 0'Connell & mahew went to miam.

Where Rosell, introduced

to Grancana at Fountainble

19- O'Connell never met Joe or Sam.

refers to Boom office of security memorendum to the

DDCI of dy June 1966 -

summary of th

also discussed on as daratur

7 Jan 1959- casinos closed

13 " 1959

opened fur tourists.

17 Feb 1959- cabinet authurized reopening.

30 Sept 1961- NUT,mes - last of easinos closed.

II. Fall and Early Winter 1960

16 Aug 1960- Chref of OD-Office of madical serurces

received box uf cuban cigars to treat.

a2

- reported agars ready fur dollery l Oct 1960

notes show delivery 13 Feb 1961

73 considered other toxic means to kull Castro.

IT. Jan - Feb 1961

25

polls chosen.

(Tue, the courier")

"Trafficante was in touch with a

disaffected Cuban official with access to Castro and presumablyt

of asort that would enable him to surreptitiously porson castra

The gangsters named their man inside as

who

i was then.

uf the prime minister (Castro).

sit the gangiers said inut (orte) had once been in a pacitin.

to receive

kickbacks from the gambling interests, had since

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5

SPARET

28. lost that source of income, and needed money.

PAGE aT is missing- Where is it???

28

comment: -

(orta)? lust his position in the Prime minister!

Office on

•, while planning fur the operation was

still going on in miami and in washington. He took

refuge in the

- Embassy on .

and became th

responsibility of the -

Embassy when

broke

relations with Cuba in

Castro refused to give

him a sale conduct pass unt.l

wher he allowed

to leave for mexico City. He arrived in miami in early

29

It appears

that Edwards and O'Connell did not know

at the time of -

I's fall frum favor. .....

It would seem, though, that the gangsters did know that

had already lost hs access to castro!"

The ay June 1966 summary, states "when - asked out

of the assignment he suggested another candidate usho

made several to attempts without success" Edwards &

o'connel do nut know replacement

I march-April 1961

29

"Following the collapse of the —

channel, Purelli

told o'Connell that trafficante knew of a man higher up

in the cuban exile movement who might do the job. He

identified him as

was.

of the

Democratic Reudutunary Front

a group supported by the Agency as part of the larger

Cuban operation. O'Connell understood that-

was

dissatiftied with the Agenty nature & the extent of this

support and that ImwAve

suspected that

was not

"keeping his bargain with the Agency."

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SECRET

29

30

"(comment: Reports from the FBI suggest how trafficante

may have known of

-. Oal December 1960) the Bureau

forwarded to the Agency a memorandum reporting that efforts

were being made by u.s. racketeers to finance anti-castro

actruities in hopes of securing the gambling, prostitution, &

dope monopolies in Cuba in the event Castro was ouerthrown.

A later report of

associates

- with those

schemes. ""

had hired Edward k. muss, a wash.

public relations counselor, as a tund raiser and public relation.

aduiser. Bureau Report allegech that moss' mistress was Julia

Cellini, whose brothers represented 2 of the langest

gambling casinos in Cuba. The Cellini brothers were belleued to

be in touch with -

→ through moss and were reported

to have offered —

large sums of money fur his operations

against castro,@ the understanding they would necerve

provileged treatenent "in the luba of the future.

Moss - granted court Security Clearance in march 1959

for use by Ne division in his role as consultant to indiar

Embassy

8n Nou 1962 fur use by cA staff under

PROJECT ERMAJOR - program for explotation of pol. consultants.

31

approached.

_I told them that he had clients

Who wanted to do away with castro and they would pay

big money.

I was very rexeptive.

R was to dellver money to

for expenses $50,000

according to o'connell.

SCORET

32. (comment: As a sidelight, Esterline says that, when he learned of

the intended use of —, steps were taken to cancel the plan.

— was one at the —key figures in the Revolutionary Front

and was heaurly involved in support ot the approaching

SECRET Bafe operation. It steps were in fact taken tu end

participation in the syndicate plan, they were ineffective.

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L.luizelman

CIA HAS NO OBVECTIOR TO

DECLASSIFICATION ANDIOR

RELEASE OF THIS DORUMEN

Is restactas

3a It is clear that he continued as an integral part of the

syndicate scheme.

O'Connell P'» Roselli Pills

Little is known of the delivery channels beyond.

- was belleued to haue an asset inside cuba-....

VI. April- may 1961

operation called off atter Bufp.

•remained dead until April 196a

34 refers to memo of 14 may 1962) - Edwards states that

knowledge of operation was limited to six persons.

Dullas

CP. Cabell - DD

Bissell

DDP'

Edwards

O'Connell

Esterline

35

Chief TSD

chemical Division, IsD

chief, Operations Drussiun, med. seruices

Harvey, william, Chief

, FI/D

•, speciat: Assistant to the DDP a name

was encountered repeatedly in this inquiry, but hedenies

knowing of the operation in 1960-66.)

Bannerman DDS

5.C.K1ngs

also- Robert mahau

Rosell;

Grancana

Trafficante.

nay ta were also aware -

the man urginally selected to pors en Castro

Cuban exile leader

M. The

who is known to here been naluer

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35.

with him

closely

SECRET

during this time.

may 1962-Rkennedy & Lawrence Huston learned of operator

Those now knowledgeable:

Edward p. murgan

prew pearson, 1. Anderson?

C. J Warren

Rowley

=-

Pat Coyne -Executive sec, of PFIAB

Ramsey Clark

various members of FBI

37

GAMBLING SUNDICATE -PHASE 2.

Harvey- briefech Feb 1961

- placed in charge of developing Executive Action

capability

ER-RIFLE

38

-assett CS/WIN- principal- who had been

recruitec earlier by -

- for use ma special operatic

in the Congo (the assass. of Patrice Lumumba)

39 on Is Nou 1961- Harvey nas a note. that on that date

he discussed @Bessell the application of ERRIFIE to Cuba

H. took over Cuba task force.

LATE 1961- EGrIy 1962

Feb- March 1962

40

Feb 1962- Harvey recalls ust meeting @Edwards on subjec

.o) castro operation.

After Harvey left Task force l& was winching up,

he wrote menu to Chief

FI staff- al tune 1968'stating

that the oreginal justification fur employing @WIN no

4: longer exitil draising the question of @iINis

termination. QJWIN terminated 21 April 1964

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April 1962

41

Harvey, brieted Heims on meetings @ Rosell,

42. "Edwards records show that on 14may 1962 Harvey

called edwards "and indicated that he was droppingany

plans for the use of Roselli fur the tuture."

Harvey bellever he took over

"a going operation."

43

o'connell now belleues there must have been "something going

on between April 1961 & April 1962.

savoy plaza Hotel

44 April 889, 1962- O'Connell & Harvey met Ruselli in

N.4.C. Also maheu prevent (according to Oc) - Harvey sayini

large adetion on page 45-atter statement mentiching

phyllis mcGuire, Dorothy kilgallen a Liberace at

Copacabana.

46 Harvey-recalls meeting of O'C& Roselli in D.C. April 14.

Oc was in miami @RE HaRley as late maybe as April April2).

OC- June 1962- assigned PCS to Okinawa

• 47. Haruey says her arrived in miami on al ADrel 1962 8

bound Rosell; already in touch with

-, the cuban

exile leader who had participated in ploase ano.

48

Santos # Grancana no longer inuolued "Roselli now

I had a man known to Harvey as maced, who also wed

the names Garcia-Gomez & Godoy, Cubanspoke

Italran.

49 *when

the pills were given. to wi through Rosell,

requested arms and equipment needed fur support.

Harvey with the help of

, the chret of the

ImwADE station, procured explosives, detonators, 20.30

• calber rifles, 20,45 caliber hard guns, 2 radios, l bout

radar.

SECRET

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10

50

49

Haruey &

rented a U-Haul truck under an assumed

name, loaded it with arms & equipment

, and parked it in

the parking lot of a drive-in restaurant. Keys gluen to

Rosell, for delivery to maceo

¿to

,or to-

50? Eurdontly Harvey & Rosell; had not yet come to trust each other

Perhaps feariny a double-cross, each set about independently

to assure himself that the equipment reached the proper

hanas. After parking the truck, Harvey and

kept the

parking lot under surveillance until the pass o was

completed. Roselli, accompanied by U'connell, did the

same: Neither pair knew that the other was watching.

Eventually the truck was picked up a driven away. By

whom]. It was returned later, empty, and with the

koys under the seat as prearranged. Harvey roturned it to

the rental agency. Harvey says that-

never knew

to whom delivery was made nor for what purpose.

was merely called upon to furnish support fur

a headquarters operation from which he was otherwise

excluded.

May 1962

Roselli reports pills were in place.

June 1962

Roselli repurts to # on al June that-

nad

i' dispatched a team of 3 men to Cuba.

Sept 1962

H. say poselli in miami on ? and on ll sept.

ready to send in anuther 3 man team to penetrate castro's

body guard.

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5d

Sept 1962-Jan 1963

Harvey in miam flueen.

a2 Dec & 6 Jan.

pa say Roselli & maceo many timos.

Holy t Harvey & Roselli had telephone discussions of operati.

twean

11 & 16 January.

"As far as Harvey knows, 3 militiz men never did leave

for Cuba. He knows nothing of what may have happened to

the three reported to heue been sent to Cuba."

Feb. 19663

Harvey in miami 11-14 Feb. Left word for: maced that

there was nothing new & looked like it was allover.

Feb 15- Harvey

left miami to meet@Roselli.nL.A

Roselli agreed that he would continue to see

gradually reducing the frequency af contact until

there was more.

April-may 1963

June 1963

Rosell, met@Haruey in D.C.-Dulles Arrpurt.

stayed @Harvey-

54

Papich called Harvey - Reported moeting to Hover.

people knowledgeable Gf Phase 2.

55 @ Heims-DDP

@ Harvey

¿@ James O'Connell

8 Edwards

6 king

,Haruey's deputy in 1962

chief ImwAuE

T50

(pills)

.

I mace

sassass

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56 Operation leaked perheps through

R to maneu

m to morgan

morgan to Pearson

pearsun to warren to pres

warren to Rowley

Rowley to Pat Coyne

FBI to

R.Clark.

57 Late 196-Early Early Wiretapping Wiretapping Incident.:

I1 may-June 1966- The Long Committee

p.za missing

1954-55

11- maneu background - hireb y Greek shipping magnate,

Niarchos; to help in a financial tusale la Onesses.

14. O'Connell states that at one point in the negutiz tien

with the long committee mahen indicated that he might brief

his attornay, Edward p. morgan, fully about his post

actrurtes so that murgan-walldbe able to decide how

best to represent him."

75,-Schemes in Early 1963

I-skin-diving Suit

Fitzgerald took over fuban Task Force- Tan 1963

2-Booby-trapped Seashell

SPRET

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78 Project-AMLASH-

a march 1961

28 March 1961

50

An asset of the miami statiun reported that —and

wanted to defect and needed help in escaping.

(VERONA

I was the gangster's "man inside cubs' with acces

to castro in lethal pill operation-phase öne.)

Headquarters expressed interest in exfiltrating — and—

called off co of repurt that cuban police knew.

(This is one of 3 name-links found in AMLASH

fle betwean

- and persons involued in gambling

syndicate episodes.

.. It-

was in fact one of

the gangsters' assets inside Cuba, that fact was unknown

to either the aIn officers running the gangster

episeddles of to those handling

91 20 NoU 1963

"Thus tar, this account of the

project hes been

92

based almost wholly on documents found in the project

tle. Beginning here is an account of an episode on the

operation on which there is no documentary euldence

has a record of nine contacts and their daters

otherwise, this summary is drawn from the recollections

of those Inuorved.

e'93a [Sanchez) distinctly recalls that

of the device.

didn't think much

an Dec 1964-[Artime) and Nue) (Lubola)

met tur ist time in Madrid

30 Dec 196Y

met again.

SECRET

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- 14-

SECRET

p.103 15 march 1965

The madrid station cabled that one

had arrived in Madrid from Cuba on 15 march and

had been introduced to a station officer.

clamed to be in contact with a group of Cuban

military leaders who were planning to eliminate

Castro and take over the government. It quickly becam

clear that he was referring to

-5910

that he had always been publicly

identified as a

close friend of -

→, whom he last saw in Havana

on 9 March.

said that he had beon the

lawyer for the

62 for defending Trafficante ]

a us Citzen & ex-manager of the

gambling casino who was kicked out of Cuba.

(comment: This is another name-link between

C. and the gambling synarcate plots reported upon

principals in shet Edwards' phase one of the

Operation. He presumably was not inuolued in Phase

Two under Harvey, but we cannot be sure of that.

Aftorall, I was the man who brought ton V.

into the operatiun late in Phase 1, and Veswas

one of the main players during phase a

From ist day trial proceedings

107 Ramon Gurn Diaz

64

254'/ Rolando Cubela Jecades -37,as to spen

26 De Feb 65

6&20

spa.ni

josse Luis Gonzalez Gallarreta-

Jamas Noel-CIA

10% Alberto Blanco Romarie

10 CJuan Alsin a Navarro.

te, Gullermo Curtl Alvarez

SECRET

LAngel Herrero Veliz

Feb

Artime went to mudred - 1465

meeting Cubelu d

Antime

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li wirelman

CIA HAS NO OSJECTION TO

' DECLASSIFICATION ANDIOR

RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT

-15-

p. 111

I "Discussion of Assassination at High-level meetings -

DELETED

p117.2 meetings

010 Aug 1962

@30 July 1964- 303 Committee

1a0 O'Connell briefed on CIA on what the source of Pearson's

story

@ maneu briefed Edwarap. morgan on

maneu's particloation in Phase One.

@ maneu knew nothing of phase a

3 morgan & Roselli were acquainted. Roselli

was steered to morgan by H.M. Greenspun, editor &

publisher of sun.

I matore.

V) Garrison, Morgan, d Rusell; were all in

Las Vogas at the same time March 1967.

"It is our impression that Greenspun was allo

muolued in the conversatiuns.

Blame Roselli for leat.

128

"Should we try to silence those who are talking or

might later talk?"

"It appears to us that this tactic offers little

chance of success. For one thing, the story is already

out and probably in about as tull detail as it over:

will be.

SHOREI

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