“assassination—including purpose of assassinating Mr. Ken the Warren Commission, the FBI and nedy.” the CIA—has been that there was no Because neither Morgan nor Ros evidence - that implicated the Castro selli was identified in the Senate re- government or any of its agents.”
“assassination—including purpose of assassinating Mr. Ken- - ‘ the Warren Commission, the FBI and nedy.". the CIA—has been that there was no Because neither. Morgan nor Ros evidence - that implicated the Castro selli was identified in the Senate re- ■ government or any of its”
“13-00000 SC-01755-77 SECRET/SENSITIVE" Q 0 U. .77 MEMORANDUM FOR: The Inspector General ATTENTION Mr. Scott Breckinridge, Jr. VIA Acting Deputy Director for Operations FROM George V. Lauder Acting Chief, Latin America Division SUBJECT Latin America Division Task Forc”
“13-00000 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Barry-Lascy CIAIS ONS REL 10 April 1995 2000 MEMORANDUM FOR: Mr. Grant P. Harmon Unit Chief, JFK Taskforce Federal Bureau of Investigation FROM: Barry Harrelson, Senior Reviewer Historical Review Group Center for the Study of Intelligen”
“dramatic: Cuban Government were involved. with Lee Harvey Oswald in the assas, proval. The project had as its purpose j. sination of President Kennedy. This: the assassination of Fidel Castro. bureau is not conducting any investi-' Elaborate plans were made, including; gatio”
“13-00000 Gr0n21juliorrre - 105 - GNVA 6029 (OUT 65853) 12 Dec 63 (TDCSDB 3/658,469) Filed 68-6-147/4 Report that circa 2 days after the assassination of President Kennedy, Cuban dip missions abroad began to receive a series of messages placing them on a special alert st”
“ssinate Kennedy prepared and executed jointly by the Communist Chinese and Cuban s through inter med iaries. 11 December 1963 TDCSDB 3/658,408 Subject: Comments of Soviet official regarding (a) Moscow views on international situation fol- lowing death of President Kennedy, and (b”
“cont.navs so operate but —not with the complot” authority with xhiah they C would like to covry out their plans. GARCAIN suggested S) to MALONE that MALONE and his assow dies attempt to ses- Attorney General COmER F. KENNEDY t.zah 1,0€ if some crissure could not 10 brought t”
“-5- action up to or including invasion." 18. Memo, Chase to Bundy, 21 April 1964. Notes that Alexis Johnson is in charg j of contingency planning for a coup in Cuba.■ 19. Memo, Chase to Bundy, 14 May 1964.. This memo suggests that a primary goal of the Johnson Administra”
“uncovering the story of the actual assassination activity. Unfortunately, some material * Those studies were made at the' direction of CIA Director Richard Helms to provide him with information to respond to questions put to him by President Johnson. The President’s questio”
“Castro re- taliated by assassinating President Kennedy. NW 65990 Docld:32396944 Page 2 C003604 ( 2 ( 3. The attached comments are provided for your information, and it is understood that the draft report is also being reviewed by appropriate representatives of the IG, DDO, and DD”
“0FTA-DR 290 -43- -PC U6VX ^a ******44013 indicated his displeasure about the lack of consultation on the impropriety of the attempt * itself. There is no evidence that the Attorney General told the CIA that it must not engage in assassination plots.. At a meeting of t”
“‘This much can be verified i 1. President Kennedy *• dillusionce with Ile‘"• after the Bay of.PV’t fa thiat hc swore to 1. "1 i • 1 would like "to spanter III ! in n thousand @ res l scale II t the Wr ::”# C ordered a there tion by a (fen," / i«**( i Ar Gen. Maywil in”
“mber of the Wa rren Commission o r any lawyer serving on the Warren Commission staff t hat such plan s had been underway? If the answer is yes, we would like to know what person or persons with the Agency delivered said information, to whom it was delivered, when it was de- liver”
“I because the ■ CIA did hive responsibility and certainly the 6 * wijath capability to collect information from foreign countries.E Prione Fey galley. Well, we had no reason at the particular time to feel that there was any kind of a case, hard information): fine there ”
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“47 As discussed -below in detail at pp 9 after the subject of a Castro assassination was raised at the August 10, 1962 meeting of the Special Group Augmented, Lansdale directed Harvey to prepare a plan for the "liquidation" of Cuban leaders. However, no such plan was ever”
“0 Docld:32373697 Page 3 3 be certain that there were "no compromising documents on the premises." h. GNVA 6313 (IN 30483) 2 March 1964 Filed 201-9239) INDEVOUT-3 reported at 29 February meeting that CASTRO was concerned that Johnson would not follow Kennedy's course which might h”
“13-00000 i/dmrorv - 67 - release to public by Warren Commission, report believed to have been passed to FBI Miami by WAVE Station. Concerned information from a Western diplomat alleging that the assassination of President Kennedy was the result of a plot prepared and exec”
“470) 18 A -43- r. is 1139 1ro z0f (r 010 t indicated his displeasure about the lack of consultation on the impropriety of the attempt itself.* There is no evidence that the Attorney General told the CIA that it must not engage in assassination plots. At a meeting o”
“Lansdale's memorandum then assigned to Harvey papers on the following subjects by the means of the following passage, which contained a deleted phrase: "Mr. Harvey: Intelligence, Political, /words deleted/. Economic, (sabotage, limited deception), and Paramilitary." (Lans”
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“been active in the assassination further comment. killed, and had no plots.” On March 21, FBI headquarters for- Two months before the Kennedy ‘sassination, Lee Harvey Oswald, as- warded the Washington field' office who memo to,the White House, the attor was identified by th”
“any and he had no responsibilities for Mexican operations at that point. 12 13 14 1.5 16 17 18 19 20 Senator Morgan last time asked what information was given to the Warren Commission concerning Agency assassination plans concerning Castro, and I have been advised our records do ”
“Kennedy’s secretary i tioned the CIA not to go ahead with connection to the attention of the War- called for a copy of the May 7, 1962, •♦ the assassination without consulting ren Commission. We were the first to memo, which summarized the briefing him. Since Robert Kennedy ro”
“indicate the been tormented by more than vigorously, told us that "no Diem escaped through a tun idea was too wild to discuss. natural grief? He certainly plot was authorized or imple nel but was caught in nearby Subsequently, Mr. Kennedy learned that the assassin, Lee mented”
“1962, Castro - sion did not know that on Nov. 22, 1963, at about the had been displeased with the Soviets, and there are very hour Oswald struck in Dallas, an agent of the signs, that he was interested in an opening to Wash- Central Intelligence Agency was meeting with a rank”
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“Book V, P. 81 Supervisory personnel assigned to the assassination investigation have uniformly testified they do not recall ever discussing or reviewing memoranda which touch upon Cuban involvement in the assassination or of Cuban retaliation for the - CIA assassination pl”
“REPORTED. SAUNDERS SCHLESINGER SMITH, WM. Y. 1. THE FOLLOW ING ARE REMARKS MADE BY OFF ICIALS OF THE CUBAN EMBASSY IN SANT IAGO REGARD ING THE ASSASS INAT ION OF PRES IDENT KENNEDY :, A. ON 22 NOVEMBER JOSE TOHA, VICE PRES IDENT OF THE CHILEAN CUBAN CULTURAL INST ITUTE AN”
“who re Later, he ran the investigation into the wrath that might have precipitated mained alone with the Attorney Gen excesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar some rash action. eral at his McLean, Va., home for thy. Only a few key people knew about nearly three hours. . We go”
“mentioning the Cuban angle, his ' may have learned of the attempts on ,HA!, the evidence from the Warren Com-- Within hours of President Kenne-,against Kennedy. life 'and may have retaliated 4T ... mission investigating Kennedy's death. " .) TILE Our sources cite two reasons ”
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“60 NW 66000 Docld:32271320 Page 7 Classified by derivation: Classification:: (This form is to be use d for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.) allegatiotitative ama becaus Comittee's records review indicadest was the or In light of the brood concern mentioned by o”
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“ivan, From: W.R. Wann all, Sub ject: CIA's Intentions to Send Hoodl ums to Cuba to Assassinate Castr o, March 6, 1967 (two pages). chich Memo to the Attorney General, from Director FBI, on GERALD R. FORD LIBRARY PHOTO COPY FROM CLA's Intentions to Send Hoodlums to Assassinate Cas”
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“deliberately withheld! without mentioning the Cuban angle. may have learned of the attempts on the evidence from the Warren Com-I his life and may have retaliated mission investigating Kennedy’s death.I dyWithin hours of President Kenne- against Kennedy. ’s death, the U& embas”
“19 20 Sena tor Morgan last time asked what information was given to th e W arren Commission conce rn ing Agency assassination plans concerning Castro, and I have be en ad vised our records do not indicate that the Warren Commissi on was provided with informa- tion on this subject”
“McCone, who re- T “‘“ he Later, - ran ** *-*-- into the the investigation wrath that might have precipitated mained alone with the Attorney Gen excesses of the late Sen. Joseph McCar- .some rash action.‘ eral at his McLean, Va., home for ’• thy. 1 Only a few key people knew”
“icle from New Orleans Limes-Picayune of 9 September 9. : 1963 entitled "Castro Blasts Paids on Cuba" (d) articles from New York Times of September 1963 entiled: 1" Castro assails Rennedy Factics "Stilonger Measures to Free Cuba Urged", and "Exiles say Cuban miel Was Razed by Bomb”
“tro activities before the Eastland Committee of the U.S. Senate, sometime in 1959 or 1960." 28 Novem ber 1963- DIR 85665 Subject: None given. "Our Station in The Hague has reported that on 23 November 1963, a local Castroite named Maria SNETHLAGE talked to Third Secretary Ricardo”
“.5 16 17 18 19 20 Senator Morgan last time asked what information was given to the Warren Commission co nce rni ng Age ncy as sassination plans concerning Castro, and I have been advi sed our records do not indicate that the Warren Commission was prov ide d with informa- tion on ”
“McCone pointed out that although the Cuban problem was discussed in terms of "dispose of Castro," or "knock off Castro", these terms were meant to refer to "the overthrow of the Communist Government in Cuba"- and not a Castro assassi nation. (McCone, p. 44; McCone Ex. 4, memo”
“been no suspicion on the part of the Agency that these rumors and allegations migh t have been part of a larger deceер tion plan orchestrated by a foreign counterintelligence service. Only a thorough investigation of all available information including overt comments by responsib”
“and burying CASTRO's warning to the United States leadership in the middle of the piece. aspecie - - 7. There is no evidence in the files on the KENNEDY assassination that this CASTRO interview was considered in following up leads or in dealings with the Warren Commission and its”
“of July 9, 1964, (02937) indicate that Mr. Bundy read a draft NSAM "dealing with the establishment of a new working group to examine the problem of Cuba." 36. A memorandum by John McCone to McGeorge Bundy dated August 19, 1965, summarizes seven reports regarding the status o”