C.I.A. LINK ALLEGED IN A PLOT FOR MAFIA TO KILL 3 DICTATORS

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• Publication Date: March 10, 1975
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NFT YORK TIMES G / f} t;
10 MARCH 1975
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`?? i 'i e 2a .6 D MOCE~A TS ET E Several questions from the;
~1 11 I ~J t i U it audience concerned ti'e as,as-
fa a Plot for Mafia
To Kill 3 Dictators
Time magazine reported yes
terday that it had been told by
"credible sources" that the
Central Intelligence Agency had
been "involved in assassination
plots" against the Caribbean
leaders Fidel Castro, Rafael L.
Trujillo and Francois Duvalier.
The magazine said its
"sources contend that the-C.I.A.
enlisted the hired-gun help of
U.S. Mafia figures in several,
unsuccessful attempts to kill]
Cuban Premier Castro both be-j
fore and shortly after the,
C.I.A.-planned Bay of Pigs in-
vasion of Cuba in 1961."
It said the sources reported
,that the agency got the help,
of two underworld figures, Sam
Giancana and John Roselli in.
efforts to kill Mr. Castro by
poison, shooting or bombs. It
said the Federal Bureau of In-
vestigation later learned of
these attempts while investi-
gating a burglary of the come-
dian Dan Rowan's hotel room
in Las Vegas. It said the F.B.I.,
learned "the arrested prowlers,
had been assigned by the C.I.A.
as a favor to Giancana, who
sought information to break up
a budding romance between,
Rowan and Giancana's girl
friend, Phyllis Mcguire."
The magazine said its sources
asserted that the C.I.A. "backedi
the successful drive to over-',
throw" General Trujillo, whose.'
31 years as dictator of the Do-
minican Republic ended with
his death by shooting in May,
,1961. The sources said the
agency thought President Tru-
jillo was, "geting too friendly]
with the Communists" and "no-
body wanted another Cuba in'
the Dominican Republic."
It said the C.I.A. "collabo-
rated with Haiti leaders of a'
group of at least 200 rebels":
who tried unsuccessfully to
overthrow Mr. Duvalier, dicta-
tor of Haiti, in 1963. It said the
rebels were stopped at the Do-
minican border when they tried
to invade Haiti.
Cos .a Rican Link
MEXICO CITY, March 9 (UPI)
-Jn.A Figueres, former Presi-
dent of Costa Rica, said in. a
televised interview broadcast
today that he worked for the
C.I.A. in "20,000 ways" since it
was founded. He said he be-;
1,-veri other Latin-American
Prf ;irlents had also Diane so but
did not mention any names.
CRITICAL OF C
Representatives
to East Side
I 7 stnaLion of r: ~:ur;;r c.enrU .
[J,j John D. `?Iarks. co-author of
' "The C.T.A. and the Cult of
Intelligence." said: "I don't
ink there's al,. in this
Draw 800 mo
m who b e' esd that Lee:
Meeting Harvey Oswald acted. alone."
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By PAUL L. MONTGOMERY
Six Democratic Representa-
tives attracted an audience of
800 on the East Side yesterday
for'htown meeting on the con-
troversy over the Central In-
telligence Agency.
The Representatives, all of
whom took anti-C.I.A. positions
of varying severity, were pep-,
pored with questions from the
audience about the current Con-1
gressional investigations of the
agency, possible links between
the C.I.A. and the assassination
of President John F. Kennedy,
and the 6.5-billion in Federal
funds spent annually for foreign
intelligence gathereing.
Representative Bella S. Ab-
zug, who, found at a hearing
last week in Washington that
the C.I.A. had been keeping a
dossier on her, was asked if
the intelligence agency ought to
be abolished.
'Government nto Itself
"The C.I.A. has become al
government unto itself," the
Manhattan Congresswoman re-1
plied. "They seem to consider]
themselves above the executive]
branch of government, the judi-I
cial branch, the legislative:
branch and the Constitution.!
That is the question-whether'
i the C.I.A. in its present form
should exist at all."
The gathering at Julia Rich-
mond High School, 67th Street
and Second Avenue, was spon-
sored by the Committee for
Public Justice, a part of the
American Civil Liberties Union
Foundation. It was founded in
1970 at the urging of Lillian.
Hellman, the playwright, to look:
into acts of the Administration
of President Richard M. Nixon
in domestic intelligence, secrecy
in government and political
trials.
Members of the audience
paid $10 for reserved seats or
S2 for general admission to the
meeting. Warren Beatty, the
actor, who is a member of the
Committee. for Public Justice,
introduced the participants
and apologized to Elizabeth
Holtzman, the Broekiyn Con-
gressman, for saying, that she,
represented Fichmon_,
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a r,iscera ee i
He sal
ing" that some figures in the
murder had C.I.A. connections.;
The Representatives on hand!
-Mrs. Abzur, Miss Holtzman,
Herman Badi'.lo. Mario Biaggi.'
eBniamin S. Rosenthal and,
Edward I. Koch-indicated they!
favored a resolution by R:pre-':
sentative Henry Gonzales that
the Kennedy case be reopened.,
Former Representative. Al-1
lard K. Lowenstein. who was!
in the audience, urged that the
murder of Senator Robert F..
Kennedy in 1963 be included!
in an re-examination of the
assassination.
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