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

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECKE:

WH/COS: 344-74

10 January 1974

MEHORANDUM 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 yas conducted on Salvatore

Giancana with negative results.

A check was then made with

the Office of Security to determine whether their records

reflected that one Salvatore Giancana was ever engloyed by

CIA as alleged in the raferenced Chicago Tribune article of

37 • December 1973.

He were advised that any inquiries con-

cerning this matter should be made to Mr. Brackinridge,

Deputy Inspactor General.

W/CoG touched base with Mr.

Breckinridge who sald that he had received a copy of the

referenced article.

2.

We have developed the following information on

Richard Cain, subject of the referenced 22 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 enlisted in the U.S. Army where

he served until discharged in 1950.

Following his army sargice

ne was associated with investigative enterprises in Hiamt 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:

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Fall of 7960 - Cain Initiated contaci

with the Dro chicago tlela urtice and yol-

untarily provided information on the aciiv-

¡tias of Cuban exile groups in the Chicago

area.

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June 1961 - Cain contacted Mr. Lonmann,

of the Chicago Fleld Office, to report an

approach

made to hin by a Mr. Kroupansky

Who reportedly was negotlating with the

President of Panama to inyestigate communism

і 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.

Loniann

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.

April 1962 - Cain

made an unannounced visit

to. Agency representatives Winston Scott and

Narren Dean In Mexico City and informed them

of an investigative agency he had in Mexico

(with branches

in Chicago and Los Angeles) which

used to proyide police training to Mexican

Government agents.

Cain could provide no proof

of U.S.

He was told by lessrs.

¡cott and Dean that the U. S. Ambassador did not

approve of American citizens becoming inyolved

in Maxican politics.

F. & June 1962 - Cain was deported from Mexico

for carrying a loaded revolver and brass knuckles,

inpersonating

a Mexican Government official. and

violating his

tourist pernit by working.

19 August 1953 - Cain was met at the Lake

Shore Drive Athletic Club and Adolphs Club in

Chicago, Illinois by Hh Division scair orficer,

Horace

Speed, and the Chier of tha Chicago DCD

The contact report states thai in the

distant future Cain would like

to work overseas,

possibly with CIA. It las pointed out to Cain

that his current cooperation with cia night be

of benefit to him should ha apply for employment

with CIA in the futura.

At this time Cain worked

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for the cook county Sheriff's Office.

also was in contact with Cubans in the Chicago

area who were involved in ventures which were

nor competely legal.

cain was told of Agancy

requirements in general, and agreed to assist

the agency by providing

information on under-

cover activities of the Cubans, especially

Paulino Sterra

and his contacts, providing

names of any cubans who might ba userul to

CiA, and noting in particular runors

CIA contacts in the Chicago area.

26 and 30 August 1963 - Information fron

Cain to the DCD Chicago Office Has passed to

the Cuba Desk at Headquarters.

The 26 August

information concerned the Student Directory, a

The 30 August informationrresorted

irterest in purchasing arms.

I. 11 September 1963 - Horace Speed requested

a POSA/CSA on Cain but there is no Indication

it was ever granted.

12 September 1963 - Cain reported to the

Chicago Field Office information

claiming to be representatives of the DRE

Directorio Reyolucionario Estudiantil - who

urchased arms for the ure.

Cain planned

notner meeting with the alleged DRE reD-

rasentatives.

Horace Speed, via DCD Washington

and DCD Chicago, got word

to Cain to "get out

as s00n as possible and to make

1967 - The Office of Securlty files show

that the FBI in 1967 initiated

an investigation

on Cain because of alleged Marla connections.

For this reason

the FBI recoamended that CIA

terminate its association with Cain.

75 April 7972 - Cain returned to Chicago fro

mexico City, then disappeared about 1 May 1972

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saying ha was going to Latin America.

Cain allegedly was involved in illegal

international arns deals and

on various

occasions stated he was working for cia.

16 May 7972 - An FBI agent in Mexico

Sity asked Mexico city Station for traces

on Cain. According to the FBI an Eastern

Airlines pilot had identified Cain as the

skyjacker who forced him to fly to Honduras

on 5 Hay 1972.

There is no indication that a clearance was ever

granted for the use of cain by the Agency or that he received

any compensation tron the agensy.

We have been unable to

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

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