SALVATORE GIANCANA AND RICHARD CAIN-CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLES OF 28 AND 31 DECEMBER 1973.
Originator: CIA
From: ORVILLE BATHE, C/WH/COG
To: CHIEF, WESTERN HEMISPHERE DIVISION
Document date: 01/10/1974
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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WH/COS: 344-74

10 January 1974

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Western Hemisphere Division

SUBJECT

Salvatore Giancana and Richard Cain

REFERENCE

Chicago: Tribune Articles of 23 and 31

December 1973

1. A routine name check was conducted on Salvatore

Glancana with negative results.

A check was then made with

the Office of Security to determine whether their records

reflected that one Salvatore Giancana Has eyer employed by

CIA as alleged in the referenced Chicago Tribune article of

31 December 1973.

We were advised that any inquiries con-

cerning this matter should be made to Mr. Brackinridge,

Deputy Inspactor General. Wl/COG touched base with Mr.

Breckinridge who said that he had received a copy of the

referenced article.

2.

We have developed the following information on

Richard Cain, subject of the referenced 28 December 1973

Chicago Tribune article.

Richard S. Cain was born in Chicago,

Illinois in October 1931. He dropped out of the first year

of high school in 1947 and anlisted in the U.S. Army where

he served until discharged in 1950. Following nis army service

he was associated with investigative enterprises in Hiant and

Chicago.

In 1956 he entered

the Chicago Police Department

(Vice Squad) where he remained until 1960.

Concurrent with

that employment he operated the Accurate Laboratories, a private

investigative business.

Listed below is a chronology of CIA

contacts with Cain:

A.

Fall of 1960 - Cain initiated contact

with the DCD Chicago Field Office and vol-

untarily provided information on the activ-

itles of Cuban exile groups in the Chicago

area.

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B. June 1961 - Cain contacted Mr. Lohmann,

of the Chicago Field Office, to report an

approach made to him by a Mr. Kroupansky

who reportedly was negotiating with the

President of Panama to Inyestigate communtsm

іп. Рапана.

Cain was to assist Kroupansky in

this endeavor.

C.

Summer of 1961 - Cain was met in Mexico

City by a CIA staffer, identity unknown,

purpose

unknown.

D. October 1961 - Cain wrote to Mr. Lohmann

from Panama.

He reported on his findings of

attitudes toward the U. S. in certain Central

American countries and offered his services to

the Agency.

E. April 1962 - Cain made an unannounced visit

to Agency repregentatives Winston Scott and

darren Dean in Hexico City and informed them

of an investigative agency he had in Mexico

(with branches in Chicago and Los Angeles) which

he used to provide police training to Mexican

Government agents.

Cain could provide no proof

of U.S. citizenship.

He was told by wessrs.

Scott and Dean that the U.S. Ambassador did not

approve of American citizens becoming inyolved

in Mexican politics.

F. A June 1962 - Cain was deported from Mexico

for carrying a loaded revolver and brass knuckles,

impersonating a Mexican Government official, and

violating his tourist permit by working.

G.

19 August 1963 - Cain was met at the Lake

Shore Drive Athletic Club and Adolphs Club in

Chicago, Illinois by WH Division staff officer,

Morace Speed, and the Chief of the Chicago DCD

Office.

The contact report states that in the

distant future Cain would like to work overseas,

possibly with CIA.

that his

with c

It was pointed out to cain

current cooperation with CIA might be

of benefit to him should he apply for employment

with CIA in the future. At this time Cain worked

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for the cook County Sheriff's Office.

He

also was in contact with Cubans in the Chicago

area who were involved in ventures which were

not completely legal. Cain was told of Agency

requirements in general, and agreed to assist

the Agency by providing

information on under-

cover activities of the Cubans, especially

Paulino Sierra and his contacts, providing

names of any Cubans who might be useful to

CIA, and noting in particular runors of any

CIA contacts in the Chicago area.

H. 25 and 30 August 1963 - Information fron

Cain to the DCD Chicago Office was passed to

the Cuba Desk at Headquarters.

The 26 August

information concerned the Student Directory, a

Cuban exile group located in Miami, Florida.

The 30 August information reported

Miro Cordozo's

interest in purchasing arms.

I.

11 September 1963 - Horace Speed requested

PCSA/CSA on Caln but there is no indication

it was ever granted.

12 September 1963 - Cain reported to the

Chicago Field Office information on persons

claiming to be representatives of the DRE -

Directorio Revolucionario Estudiantil - who

purchased arms for the DRE.

Cain planned

another meeting with the alleged DRE rep-

resentatives.

Horace Speed, via DCD Washington

and DCD Chicago, got word to Cain to "get out

of the picture*

as soon as possible and to make

no commitments.

1967 - The Office of Security files show

that the FBI in 1967 initiated

an investigation

on Cain because of alleged Maria connections.

For this reason the FBI recoamended that CIA

terminate its association with Caln.

L.

15 April 1972 - Cain returned to Chicago from

Mexico City, then disappeared about 1 May 1972

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saying he was going

to Latin America.

Cain allegedly was involved in illegal

international arms deals and on various

occasions stated he was working for CIA.

16 May 1972 - An FBI agent in Hexico

City asked Mexico Clty Station for traces

According to the FBI an Eastern

Airlines pilot had identified Cain as the

skyjacker uho forced him to fly to Honduras

3.

There is no indication that a clearance was ever

granted for the use of Cain by the Agency or that he receivad

any compensation fron the Agency.

Wa have been unable to

substantiate Cain's claim that he worked for the OSS during

WW II.

Cryille Bathe

C/UH/COG

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