FILES LINK CIA, MAFIA IN CASTRO SLAYING PLOT

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CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510138-4
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December 16, 2016
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December 20, 2004
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138
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May 21, 1975
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WASHINGTON POST G- Approved For Relea2g 2 /Q_1jj j : CIA-RDP88-01315R0003005,01,3 4 , f3 N eJ?, _ Files Link. CIA, Mafia In Castro Slaying Plot. i $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. 7. 0 Approved For Release 2005/01/11: CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510138-4