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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

DATES:

CATEGORIES: TOP SECRET

HARVEY, William

MACEO (aka GARCIA-

CASSIO

" VERONA, Tony

GOMEZ and GODOY)

21 April 1962

SUBA -- SYNDICATE/PHASE II

ROSSELLI,

John

VERONA's son-in-law

TRAFFICANTE, Santos

JMWAVE Station

TOP

OCCURRENCE:

Subsequent to HARVEY's arrival in Miami, the pills were given to VHRONA through ROSSELI.I.

(49)

"VARONA requested arms and equipment needed for the support of his end of the operation.

ROSSELLI passed the request to HARVEY. HARVEY, with the help of TED SHACKERY, the chief

detonators, 20.30 caliber rifles, 20.45 caliber

HARVEY omitted items which could only be

lain 10 die prent because the proton or such ten wen destroy trees

cover as a representative of private business.

"HARVEY says that SHACKTEY) never knew to whom

"The keys were then giver

to ROSSETLI for delivery either to MACEO, to VARONA, or to VARONA's son-in-law.

" (50) (Cont.)

SOURCE: I.G. REPORT 1967, pp. 49-50

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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

AMLASH

(TEPEDINO

DATES:

Feb. 1965

CATEGORIES:

Castro

OCCURRENCE:

AMLASH requested and received, with CIA Headquarters

approval, $1200 from CIA

agents.

(106) He also received $7000 from CobloS HARPDNO in New York City;

approval for this amount is unclear (106).

TOP SECRET

SOURCE:

IG REPORT 1967

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(See list of names below.)

DATES:

Apr 17,61-

CATEGORIES: TOP SECRET

CASTRO

CUBA -SYNDICATTE/PHASE IT --

KNOWLEDGE OF PHASE II

CARD 1 of 3

OCCURRENCE: The list of persons with knowledge of PHASE II of the CASTRO ASSASSINATION

OPERATION differs from those who knew of PHASE I.

Those with knowledge of PHASE II are:

1..

RICHARD HELMS, DD/P

5. J. C. KING, Chief, Wil Division (He stated in

WILLTAM HARVEY, Chief, Task Force W

JAMES O'CONNELL, Office of Security

our interview with him that he knew that HARVEY

'le knows that Harvey took over the

was having meetings with members of the rambling,

syndicate in 1962.)

peration and delivered pills, arms, and

6.

2R0G0CG

cquipment in April 1962.

He does not

HARVEY's deputy in 1962

now of developments after May 1962.)

vaR nows that HARVEY was meeting with

SHIT IELD EDWARDS, D/Security (He

cansters in Reno (sic) in the winter of 1962.)

knows of the fact of the turnover to

7. Ere shAcKley Chief, JMWAVE (lie assisted

ARVEY, but states he knows nothing of

HARVEY in the delivery of arms and equinment to

evelopments thereafter.)

VARORA in April 1962, but presumably did not know

the identities of the recipients nor

(con't.)

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I.G. REPORT

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OCCURRENCE:

cont: the purpose for which the

nte

was to be used.)

RAY ORDISCHIER, TSD

REISCHI

nar-

ticipation was limited to

urnishing

the

'ills to O'CONNELE on 18 April 1962.)

ANTONIO VARONA, the Cuban exile leader

(He presumably was not aware of government

ponsorship.)

).

VARONA'S SON-IN-LAW (He too was pre-

sumably not aware of government's role.)

SOURCE:

I1. MACEO, ROSELLT'S "Man" (MACEO

probably knew there was a government

CIA as the aren yay not have identified

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TREICHCER

DATES:

March-July 60

CATEGORIES:

CUBA (Misc. Schemes)

TSD

FOREVER, HeNSY

ESTERLINE, Jake

OCCURRENCE:

Aerosol attack on radio station: A scheme was discussed at CIA

to "contaminate the air of the radio station where CASTRO broadcast his speeches

with an aerosol spray of a chemical that produces reactions similar to those of

Lysergic Acid (LSD)." (10)

"Nothing came of the idea.

remembers the discussion and discouraged the scheme "because the chemical euld

not be relied upon to be effective." (10) Others who may be knowledgeable:

Henry: Bortnen

1.

(TSD) recalls_general experimentation with psychic energizers.

Jake Esterline.

SOURCE:

IG Report, 1967

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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

GUN, Dr. Edward

TRETCHLER, Ray:

DATES:

August 16,

1960

CATEGORIES:

CUBA

-Sethal,Cigars)

OCCURRENCE:

*CARD 1 of 2

DR. EDWARD GUNN, Chief, Operations Division, Office of

Medical Services; has a notation that on 16 August 1960,

he received a box of Cuban cigars to

be treated with a

lethal material.

(21)•. He understood them to be CASTRO's

favorite brand.

(21).

GUNN's notes show

that within the

next month he contacted Ray reichler

of TSD, (Sept.

1960) and gave him the box of cigars (21) Greichlett

recalls "that he did contaminate a full box of 50 cigars

with Botulinum Toxin, a virulent poison," (21) which

would

Kill the intended victim upon merely putting it in the

mouth. reichters notes showed delivery of the box on

February 13, 1961, although they do not indicate to

(22) .

whom.

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CATEGORIES: TOP SECRIT

CASTROLO

CUBA - SYNDICATT/PHASE II -

KNOWLEDGE OF PHASE IT

CARD 1 OF 3

OCCURRENCE: The list of persons with knowledge of PHASE II of the CASTRO ASSASSINATION

OPERATION differs from those who knew of PHASE I. Those with knowledge of PHASE II are:

!. RICHARD HELMS, DD/P

5. J. C. KING, Chief, Wil Division (He stated in

WILLIAM HAPVEY, Chief, Task Force W

our interview with him that he knew that HARVEY

3. JAMES O'CONNELL, Office of Security

He knows that Harvey took over the

was having meetings with members of the rambling

syndicate in 1962.)

operation and delivered pills, arns, and

iquipnent in April 1962. He does not

6.

BRUCE

CHUNNER,

HARVEY's-deputy in-1962

know of developments after May 1962.)

nat HARVEY was meeting with

gansters

in Reno

_(sic) in the winter of 1962.)

11. SHATTELD EDWARDS, D/Security (He

7.

SHACKIN

Chief, JWAVE (le assisted

knows of the fact of the turnover to

HARVEY

in the delivery of arms and equinment to

AVEY, but states he knows nothing of

VARONA in April 1962, but presumably did not know

levelopments thereafter.)

the identities of the recipients nor

(con't.)

SOURCE:

I.G. REPORT

192

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ame instruction as card 1.)

DATES:

Apa 17,'61

CATEGORIES:

OCCURRENCE:

AOKMEy, cont: the purpose for which the

chiat was to be used.

RAY URE ESCHLERS TSD (TRETSCHLER'S par-

cipation was linited to furnishing the

Uls to O'CONNELL on 18 April 1962.)

ANIONIO VAROMA, the Cuban exile leader

presumably was not aware of government

insorship.)

VARONA'S SON-IN-LAW (He too was pre-

ably not aware of government's role.)

SOURCE:

CARD 2 OF 3

1l.

MACEO, ROSELLL'S "Man" (MACBO

probably knew there was a government

connection, but may not have identiried

CiA as the

argency. )

(con't.)

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MIARVEY, W11l1am.

MACEO (aka GARCIA-

' VARONA, Tony~

GOMEZ and GODOY)

21 April 1962

ROSSELLI, John

VERONA's son-in-law

SHACKLEY

TRAFFICANIE, Santos

JMWAVE

Station

OCCURRENCE:

CASIN

SUBA - SYNDICATE/ PHASE 11

TOP SEPPET

Subsequent to HARVEY's arrival in Miami, the pills were given to VARONA through ROSSELLI. (49)

"VARONA requested arms and equipment needed for the support of his end of the operation.

ROSSELLI passed the request to HARVEY. HARVEY, with the help of TED SHACKlEY, the chief

handruns, 2 ratas and procurat extosives, letonators, ond. trems remanes, 20.15 caliber

handguns, 2 radios,

(49) HARVEY omitted items which could only be

obtained

from the U.S. Government because the provision of such items would destroy ROSSELLI's

cover as a representative of private business.

"HARVEY says that SHACKED

vs that okay never knew to whom

delivery was made nor for what purpose.

and equipment was

ere lot of actres

"The keys were then given

to ROSSELIT for delivery either to MACiO, to VARONA, or to VARON's SArin-lav.

•" (50) (Cont.)

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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

MARVEY, William

MACEO (aka GARCIA-

' VERONA, Tony

GOMEZ, and GODOY)

ROSSELLI

John

VERONA's son-in-law.

TRAFFICANTE, Santos

DATES:

CATEGORIES: TOP SECRET

21 April 1962

CASTA

SUDA -- SYNDICATE/PHASE II

IMWAVE Station

OCCURRENCE:

TOP

Subsequent to HARVEY's arrival in Miami, the pills were given to VIRONA through ROSSELLI. (49)

"VERONA requested arms and equipment needed for the support of his end of the operation.

ROSSELLI passed the request to HARVEY. HARVEY, with the help of TED SHACKLEY, the chief

of the JMWAVE Station,

handguns, 2 radios,

i stas, no at at explosives,

procured explosives, detonators, 20.30 caliber rifles, 20.45 caliber

(49) HARVEY omitted items which could onlv be

obtained from the U.S. Government because the provision of such items would destroy ROSSELLI's

cover as a representative of private business. "HARVEY says that SHACkLY)never knew to whom

cinto a U-Haul truck and passed

to KOSSELLI in the parking lot of a drive-in restaurant

"The keys were then riven

to ROSSETLI for delivery either to MACBO. to VARONA, or to VARONA's son-in-law." (50) (Cont.)

SOURCE: I.G. REPORT 1967, pp. 49-50

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LASHI, A. M.

MCNAMARA

SPECIAL GRP.

(AUGMENTED)

August 10-11

1962

MCCONE, Carlos:

OCCURRENCE:

CIA officer WAIN RIGiland A.M. LASH-1 meet, along

CATEGORIES:

CASTRO

DISCOVERY LEADS: Note: This discussion of assassination is taking place

at the same time that DCI McCONE lodges his objection, after the SPECIAL GROUP

(AUGMENTED) meeting, to MCNAMARA's*

could be used against CASTRO.

TOP Scene

SOURCE:

STAFF:

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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

WAINWRIGHT, WilLiam

WEST AMSON T

LASHI,

DATES:

August 14-23

1962

CATEGORIES:

CASTRO

OCCURRENCE:

WATNVRIGHE and EARL WILLTAMSONg a Spanish speaking case officer from

Madridy give A.M. LASH-T"S/W training and supplies.

In August 17, 1962 WILLFAMSON cables CIA headquarters that 'have no inten-

tion give /A.M. LASI/-physical elimination mission as requirement but recognizec

something he could or might try to carry out on his own initiative."

CIA headquarters replied to WILFTAMSON by cable on 18 August:

1 sustative"

"Strongly

concur that no physical elimination missions be given /A.M. LASH/." (85) .

(emphasis added)

SOURCE: IG REPORT, 1967

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WALNWRICHTI

RETEEINOR TEPE

FITZGERALD

AMLASH

OCCURRENCE:

DATES:

November 14,1963

CATEGORIES:

Castro

reaction to his meeting with

understand why he was denied certain small pieces of equipment which promised a final

solution to the problem, while, on the other hand, the US Government gave much equipment

and

money to exile groups for their ineffective excursions against Cuban coastal targets.

According to I PEDINO! (AMLASH) feels strongly on this point, and if he does not get

advice and materials from a U.S. Government technician, he will probably become fed up

-again, and we will lose whatever progress we have made

SOURCE:

IG REPORT 1967

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she fre robably become fad up

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PERSONS/ENTITIES:

Gen Lansdale

Gilpatrick

Don Wilson

Cheever

OCCURRENCE:

DATES:

Oct 31, 1962

CATEGORIES:

MONGOOSE

SGA

CUBA

As for psychological operations, all CIA assets (including (Lawrence

Kieves)

E had been turned over to USIA for operational use.

SOURCE:

Oct. 31, 1962 memo for the record by Gen Lansdale

(00744)

TOP SECRET

STAFF:

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CATEGORIES:

Castro

Halpern

Bissell

Sen Lansdale

OCCURRENCE:

Helpern's.

Shortly after has

meeting with Bissell

to Gen Lansdale who was

apern, into bey were introdeed

the new Chief

of Anerations

in effort

i010-

mn the Castin regime. The initinl meeting was concerned

with only

arranizational matters.

TOP SECRET

SOURCE:

STAPF:

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Fatebir.

CATEGORIES:

Castro

Harvey

Kennedy, Robert

Bissell

HALPERN

OCCURRENCE:

Halern testified that in the

fal1

of 1061 he attended i meeting with

Bissell in he Chose zochey.

Zoghey

meeting secured

in the middle

or ncto

Trach chi to ene

The

at the

meeting that he had recently "been chewed out in the cabinet room of

the thite House by both the President and the

Attorney Cieneral for

as he put it, sitting on his ass and

not

doing anything about getting

rid of rastro

and the Castro regime.

lis

prilers

1nrl

to me"L

to plan an operation to accomplish that end

to both o

Halvern testified that no limitations

were put on the term "net rid of"

Nothing was forbidden (8).

The meeting involved only ceneral discussions

and not tactics.

SOURCE:

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STAFF:

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Dec 1061

Castro

Tiat pern

H'elms

MCCONE

OCCURRENCE:

Torbe

sometime in bee of 1961, described to Malpern i neeting

it the director's

in which

"Cone had stated that delus would henceforth "be his man on

Cuin.

appointed

hoas

toll Halper that Helas had no inkling that he ivouls! be

after

tire

0 1

necting let an terror the meetin to ie onetinction

Afice, ciched into the

170

sopcrations and directed that cuba would be a separate activity it

part-of the l! Division (1T).

SOURCE:

TOP SECRET

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