FILES LINK CIA, MAFIA IN CASTRO SLAYING PLOT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510138-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 138
• Publication Date: May 21, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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Files Link. CIA, Mafia
In Castro Slaying Plot.
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$y George Lardner Jr.'
Washington Poet Btsft Writer
The Rockefeller commission former high official of the Jus?
has been informed of FBI tice Department in the Nixon
files that link the Mafia and administration.
the Central Intelligence Agen- The documents' reportedly:
icy in a 1961 scheme to assas? confirmed that the CIA was in
sinate Cuban Premier Fidel touch with both Sam Gian
Castro, a well-placed source cana, a Chicago rackets figure,
confirmed yesterday. and John Roselii, an alleged
The Justice Department is! Mafia figure, about killing
expected to submit the docu-Castro.
ments to the commission short- The file, however, was some-
ly, in connection with the pan-, what vague, one official told
el s Investigation of the CIA's i The Washington Post, con-
clandestine domestic opera-cerning how far the scheme
tions. went.
The New York Times, which There-have been long-stand-
first reported the existence of log allegations that the 'CIA
the file in yesterday's editions, sponsored repeated attempts
said the file was brought to on Castro's life, including oue
the commission's attention unsuccessful effort as far back
during secret testimony by a I as late 1959 or early 1960.
Columnist Jack Anderson
reporrted in a series of col-
umns in 1971 that the CIA was
I involved in as many as six at-
'tempts to kill Castro, the last
in the spring of 1963. The as-
sassination teams, composed
of Cuban exiles, were said to
have been lined up by Roselli.
Roselii was said to have
been recruited to work for thej
CIA by. Robert A. MMIaheu, a
former FBI agent and laieri
manager of billionaire Howard,
Hughes' Las Vegas properties.
According to Anderson's col-.
umns, Roselii once called on
Giancana to line up a contact,,
but the Chicago rackets chief
reportedly took no direct part
in the assassination scheming.
Subsequently, the CIA is
said. to have engineered a
break-in of comedian Dan'
Rowan's Las Vegas hotel
room as a favor to Giancana.
The Mafia boss was report-
edly upset over Rowan's
friendship with singer Phyl-
lis McGuire, ? whom Gian-
cana frequently escorted.
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