THE MURDER OF SAM GIANCANA ROUNDING OUT A DECADE OF VIOLENCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01315R000300510060-0
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 20, 2004
• Sequence Number: 60
• Publication Date: July 17, 1975
• Content Type: NSPR

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,here is: ho more serious threat to-'a ninvestigation than
an atte to tamper( With a .'witness, The integrity
of anti judicial -proceeding is predicated upon the ability
Church Committee about CIA = hanged herself in a Dallas jail chilling effect upon the surviv-
ley Mark Lena .
Commission
The Warren"' connections with organized cell although the only charge ing witnesses.-: crime, we are informed that all pending against. her was :dis- There is 'no. ' more. seriou federal surveillance of Mr. orderly conduct. Another, threat to an investigation than
failed to secure the -facts about
the assassination. of'' John F:
Giancana was'suddenly with- Mrs: Wilma Tice, told counsel an-.attempt to'tamper. with 'a
Kennedy for a `number of drawn. for the Warren Commission witness, The integrity of any
reasons. One 'of the major The almost knee-jerk police that prior to her - appearance judicial or administrative pro-
problems it faced -was the response in favor of yet another there she had received a num- -ceeding is predicated upon the
atmosphere of fear engendered lone assassin explanation was ber. of threatening telephone ability of the witnesses to testify
in 1963 and 1964 by:_ threats, apparent from the outset. The calls. freely. The., murder of Sam
assaults,. the attempted, murder. Oak-.Park.ehief of-police said Two reporters visited :Jack Giancana,:'who was ,scheduled
and the murder of important that. the fact that a.22-caliber .:. Ruby's apartment just after he to be.. an _ important witness
witnesses. was an indica had killed Lee Harvey Oswald. before the- Senate Committee
pistol was use
According :to .Washtngtviz One a- writer for. The Dallas headed bySeri:" Frank Church
tion that= a- well .. thought out
Post special correspondent Times Herald, was later found investigating alleged CIA. mis-
professional plan was. not'
Toni Curtis, a knowledgeable de-ad-in" his Dallas-. apartment, deeds, raises: serious..questions
Thus another. lone
source :revealed' that federal biller "The. small caliber'ofthe the 'victim of.a'karate attack;.: -abouttheintegrityoftheChureh
agents-in Houston-maintained gun bothersus" he said. The the Dallas Police-were finable Committee investigation:
"very extensive surveillance" of small "caliber-did root bother- -to locate his killer. The Other, a ` There has been speculation
Mr Giancana-during his stay Mr: Giancana;: it killed, him. forrner"Dallasresident and a in the press that when John
in Houston from May. 25 -to- IM . was efficiently, and profes prize-winning :reporter for ~a Kennedy called off ClA-organ-
June.17. On June 19, he' was signally executed and the.-small California newspaper, was shot ized efforts to assassinate Fidel
murdered in. Oak Park,,Illi- fortune on his person was not to death in a California police Castro, anti-Castro-Cubans in
nois.: removed.. station; the police were able -to Miami with previous-CIA con-
'Prior to his death, the CIA -:'.One important witness to the locate. his killer-~hewas a local nections responded with talk
showed so much-concern for .. events .,of November.:22, 1963, police officer. about killing Kennedy. There
Mr. Giancana's welfare that Acquilla: Clemons; stated that :. ` Even should one, by sub is_.little doubt that Mr. Ginn
they. even placed comedian she was threatened with- harm scribing ' to. ?the. coincidence Cana; who was known to have
Dan Rowan under surveillance and possibly death' by an theory of contemporary his- been associated with some"of
for allegedly showing interest armed man ._if she ever dis- tory, discount in advance any those= involved': in : the CIA
in Mr. Giancana's female com- closed what she had, seen. She connection -,.between these assassination attempts, could
panion.' Yet, just . when it. never testified. Another, War- events and an?effort to limit the have.shea some light on these
became clear that he?was in. the fen Reynolds; was shot through depth and'scope'of the Warren, allegations had he been able to
greatest jeopardy, when he was the', head before .he--. could' Commission's investigation, testify before the Church Corn-
about to testify before thee, tcstify:. Another :allegedly the' events - tended - to have a'. mittee.
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