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»/ - . ee Lqe ROSELLI-CIA CUBAN ASSOCIATION AND FIDEL CASTRO ASSASSINATION PLOTS According to press items appearing in the "Los Angeles Times" and the “New York Times”, JOHN ROSELLI on June 24, 1975, appeared before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Washington, D.C., which was chaired by Senator FRANK CHURCH. At the time, according to the press items, ROSELLI testified that he had been contacted by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) through ROBERT MAHEU in an attempt to assassinate Premier CASTRO of Cuba. According to the "Los Angeles Times", on July 30, 1975, RICHARD M. BISSELL, a former Chief of Clandestine Services for the CIA, testified before the CHURCH committee that he personally had approved the CIA cooperation with "mafia" figures to assassinate Cuban Premier CASTRO in 1960. BISSELL, when questioned by reporters, said arrangements with the mafia had been handled by the office of the late Colonel SHEFFIELD EDWARDS through ROBERT A. MAHEU. Colonel SHEFFIELD EDWARDS was the CIA's Director of Security. BISSELL told reporters that Colonel EDWARDS had arranged the highly secret cooperation with tmderworld figures SAM GIANCANA and JOHN ROSELLI, but that he, BISSELL, had approved it. BISSELL said that the arrangements with the mafia began "in the last half of 1960" and might have been suggested to the CIA by GIANCANA or other mafia figures because "they did have very large interests in Cuba that were totally eclipsed or destroyed by CASTRO". 3