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SUBJECT: Robert A. Maheu

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Robert A. Maheu was born on 30 October 1917 in

Waterville, Maine.

He graduated from Holy Cross College,

vorcested.

Massachusetts in 1940. He is married and has

four children.

2. He was employed as a Speclal Agent with the

Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1947. Upon

resigning from the Bureau a venture into privato 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 S. Bellino,

a former Bureau Agent, Certified Public Accountant, and

currently employed on Capitol Hill with one of the Congres-

sional Committees.

3.

Mr. Maheu's organization successfully handled a

number of prestige accounts, including Niarchos, Schenley

Distillers, New York Central Railroad, United Steel Workers

Union, and

ultimately Howard Hughes.

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

recently he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada.

4. He was inftially recrulted by the Office of Secu-

rity in 1954 and grantod a Covert Security Approval on 30

August 1954. He performed many sensitive assignments for

the Office of Security, and also accepted assigaments from

elements of the predecessor of the Deputy Director for

Operations.

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5.

Some of those assignments included the

following:

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A. (King Hussein)

The procurement of feminine companionship

0o to the King) during an official State visit

to this country during

the period 16 March

M(1959) through 18 Apr11 (195909 (See attached

Tab 1--taken from "Family

Jewels" memoran-

dum dated 16 May 1973)

B.

Johnny Rosell1

The use of a nember of the Mafia in an

attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro,

initiated In August 1960.

(See attached

Tab 2--taken from "Fanily Jewels" memoran-

dun dated 16 May 1973)

C.

Cover

Various officers of the Clandestine Service

mot with Mr. Mahou over the years from 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 MI. Maheu's Mashington Office frou September

1964 to June 1966, and another officer usea the

cover of Maheu Associates representatives in

Quito, Ecuador from 1 August 1908 through

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

of Security Memorandum to the Director of Central

Intelligence, dated 20 JanuaTy 1971)

No contact has been made with Mr. Maheu since the

termination of the above cover arrangement.

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