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4 OCT 1973

SUBJECT: Robert A. Mahou

1. Robert A. Maheu was born on 50 October 1917 in

Waterville, Maine.

He graduated from Holy Cross College,

Worcester,

Massachusetts In 1940. He is married and has

four children.

2. He was employed as a Special Agent with the

Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1947. Upon

resigning from the Bureau a venture into private 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 fron this

position.

He then established his own investigative

organization known as Robert A. Maheu Associates, and

rented desk space in a suite occupied by Carnine

S. Bellino,

a formor 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.

Although he has main-

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

recently he resided in Las Vegas, Nevada.

4. He was initially recruited by the Office of Secu-

rity in 1954 and granted & Covert Security Approval on 30

1195t and

He performed many sensitive assignments for

the Office of Security, and also accepted assignments from

elements of

the predecessor of the Deputy Director for

Operations.

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Some of those assignmonts included the

following:

1. (KIng Hussein

The procurement of feulnine coupanlonship

Of to the jing during an official State visit

this country during, the

Perlad to are

11959) through 18 April 195924 (See attache

Tab 1--xakea from "Family Jewels" sonoran-

•dun dated 16 May 1973)

5. Johnny Roselll

Tho uso of a somber of the lafla in an

attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro,

Initiated in August 1900. (See attached

Tab ?--taken fron "Fanily Jevels" menoran-

dum dated 16 May 1973)

C. Cover

VarIous officers of the Clandestino SarviCe

met with MT. Maheu over the years fron 1954

to 1970 to determine the feasibilfty.of using

his fira for non-official cover purposes.

Actual cover uses were provided for one officer

1n AT. Haheu's Hashington Office from September

1964 to June 1966, and another officer used the

Lovor of Mahou Associatos representatives in

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Quito, Ecuador) fron 1 August 1968 through

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

of Security Memorandus to the Director of Contral

Intelligence, dated 20 January 1971)

6.. No contact has been made with Mt. Maheu since the

termination of the above cover arrangement.

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