“lved in any particular operation. 1 NW 65987 Docld:32412227 Page 2 10 SECRET 104-10178-10012 C QJWIN According to statements by a senior CIA officer in 1967, made to the Inspector General, the Agency was instructed to develop a capability to conduct assassinations. Termed an "exe”
“H SYMBOL AND NUMBER HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER CFICE OFFICER ORIGINATING YPIST FI/D/Ops 3 M. SILVER 03 COORDINATING OFFICE SYME OFFICERS NAME rho EXT 4652 104-10185-10045 : CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH 5. CLASSIFICATION TOP SECRET AU DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NO. OIFW 18582 To provide maximu”
“ol- lows: TOP SECRET LAURICLE ZERIFLE Atta: Chiei, KUTUBÉ/D To be opened by Daniel M. PRESLAND only. He require the original and one copy saly. Necessary Headquarters coordination on traffic will be undertaken by Chief, KUTUBE/D with Chief, E. 6. It is requested that all copies o”
“13-00000 SECRET identification could result in anything from public humiliation to dangerous retaliation by the thriving leftist Sandinistas. In either case, disclosure would undercut the Agency’s ability to recruit sources in small countries such/ as Nicaragua.-- ---- ---”
“13-00000 SECRET Uv—1 Review Staff: 75/1009 24 June 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence SUBJECT Senator Gary Hart’s Request to Talk to QJWIN While Traveling in Europe This is for your information concerning Senator Gary Hart’s request to talk to a fo”
“s a NW 66000 Docld:32202027 Page 9 TOD GEODPR * : i ERVIEW AND MEETING SUMMARY TOP SECRET Page 12 of variety of activities which fell within the framework of Gottlieb's position at TSD. (Harvey speculated Gottlieb had just become Acting Director or taken over some other high post”
“NW 50955 DocId: 32203774 2SCLASS/MO OBJECT Page 29 W. TEED S DOCUMENT Y-94 le (1)(A) PERSONS/ENTITIES: DATES: BISSELL, Richard HARVEY, William • ® O’DONNELL Justin) BRECKENRIDGE, S. FEB May- 1961 EXECUTIVE ACTION/ZRRIFLE CATEGORIES: TOP SECRET HELMS, Richard 6 ”
“TOP SECRET 90 Phone (Area202) $44-6000 1 years I have seen literally — 2 (Discussion off the record.) 3 Mr. Halley. Let me go back. You asked me about ZRRIFLE. 4 This is one of a thousand or hundreds of cryptonyms. Every day 5 I read, you know, hundreds of pages of tra”
“TRUJILLO? Page 14 emphasis added) L ate J a n .- E arly Feb. DDP BISSELL asks William HARVEY to establish an EXECUTIVE ACTION capability under project ZRRIFLE. HARVEY’S notes are quoted as saying t r a t i o n ? Was the EXECUTIVE ACTION project initiated or authorized dur”
“TOP SECRET WILLIAM HARVEY Short Chronology* Biographical 1940-47 ■ Counterespionage work as FBI agent 1947 Joined CIA as head of Soviet Intelligence Branch 1948 Deputy Assistant Director, Office of Special Operations (which became DDP) 1952 Chief of Station, Berlin”
“uses agent QJWIN (recruited earlier by ARNOLD SILVER for use in an assassination operation against LUMUMBA) as the principle asset for ZRRIFLE. (38) Edwards has the POISON PILLS tested. (25) * .Page references in parentheses are from the 1967 Report of the Inspector Genera”
“-17- it [the contact] unless there was some possibility of reactivating that operation" (Bissell, 6/11/75, p. 19). Bissell stated that because the assassination plot against Castro involving the syndicate had been stood down after the Bay of Pigs. and there was no author”
“-73- Arnold Silver had not previously used QJWIN as an assassination, capability or even viewed him as such. (Harvey affi- davit, p. ) ■ Although Harvey also had discussions with Sidney Gottlieb in connec tion with Project ZRRIFLE, he believed that Gottlieb never mention”
“- 17 - it [the contact] unless there was some possibility of reactivating that operation" (Bissell, 6/11/75, p. 19). Bissell stated that- because the 'assassination plot against Castro involving the syndicate had been stood down after the Bay of Pigs. and there was no aut”
“(0) (1) Classified Secret. -3- PHOTO COPY FNOM SERALER FORO LIBRARY NW 66000 Docld:32112910 Page 5 ! Document No. Description (H).31 TRUJ 0398 (IN 46419) dated 15 February 1961. Classified Secret. (L) 32 HDCA 2380 dated 14 March 1961. Subject: EMDEED. Classified Secret 33 (G) 34 ”
“-3- CONFIDENTIAL PHOTO COPY FROM PARALAR. FORO LIBRARY NW 66000 Docld:32112909 Page 5 i COMPOSITIAN Document No, Description (H) 31 TRUJ 0398 (IN 46419) dated 15 February 1961. Classified Secret. (L) 32 HDCA 2380 dated 14 March 1961. Subject: EMDEED. Classified Secret. 33 AFTER (”