EXCERPT OF MEMORANDUM RE: ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS
Agency: SSCIA
Originator: SSCIA
Document date: 03/21/1977
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : SSCIP

RECORD NUMBER : 157-10005-10131

RECORDS SERIES :

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

Released under the John

Kennedy

assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NU 53244 Date:

06-13-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : ?????

FROM :

TITLE :

PARTIAL INFORMATION

DATE: 03/21/77

PAGES : 2

POISONED

SUBJECTS :

CIGARS

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : S

RESTRICTIONS : REFERRED

CURRENT STATUS : P

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 09/30/93

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS :

BOX 419-7

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SSC.

SSCI BOX #

419-9

419-1

1013/

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INVENTURIED:

MAR

178-

21 1971

BY..

produces a fatal illness some hours after it is ingested.

distinctly remembers the flaps-and-seals job he had to do on the box

and on each of the wrapped cigars, both to get at the cigars and to

erase evidence of tampering.. He kept one of the experimental cigars

and still has it. He retested it during our inquiry and found that.

the toxin still retained 94% of its original effectiveness. The

cigars were so heavily contaminated that merely putting one in the

mouth would do the job; the intended victim would not actually have

to smoke it.

Gunn's notes show that he reported the cigars as being ready

for delivery of 7 October 1960.

etchter '8

notes do not show actual

delivery until 13 February 1961. They do not indicate to whom

delivery was made. Gunn states that he took the cigars, at some

unspecified time, and kept them in his personal safe. He remembers

destroying them within a month of Shei Edwards retirement in June 1963.

(Comment: Others recall the cigar scheme, but only as an

idea that was considered and then discarded. Roosevelt, Chief

of ISD at the time, and O'Connell, the case officer, recall the

cigar scheme, but feel that it was never considered seriously.

Io Gunn and

¡who gave it a good deal of time but did

not participate in the broader operational discussions, the cigars

1oom as important.

CIAWAS NO OBJECTION TO

•DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR

RELEASE OXTHIS DOCUMENT

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