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-_ 92-517 — 9° i bE E yf ' ROSELLI-CIA CUBAN ASSOCIATION AND FIDEL CASTRO ASSASSINATION PLOTS An Interim Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with respect to Intelli- gence Activities, United States Senate, together with additional supplemental and separate views, report number 94-465, stated, in part, with reference to JOHN ROSELLI, in August, 1970, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) took steps to enlist members of the criminal underworld with gambling syndicate contacts to aid in assassinating CASTRO. Colonel SHEFFIELD EDWARDS, CIA Director of the Office of Security, and the CIA Support CPhial— Anat aAsA +a wale an BORPRT a MAUI) @¢m warewsit WhILGhL VUE SAME LW aGay Se ee ee eS hh eT someone "tough enough to handle the job". The CIA operation Support Chief had served as MAHEU' s case officer since the agency first began using MAHEU's services and by 1960, they had become close personal friends. Sometime in late August or early September, 1960, the Support Chief approached MAHEU about the pro- posed operation. MAHEU recalled that the Support Chief asked him to contact JOHN ROSELLI, an underworld figure with posaible gambling connections in Las Vegas, to determine if he would participate in a plan to dispose of CASTRO. The Support Chief on the other hand said that it was MAHEU who raised the idea of using ROSELLI. _ MAHEU had known ROSELLI since the late 1950's. He claimed not to have been aware of the extent of ROSELLI’s underworid connections and activities, but he ahs IB ea = esr ne ; ae recalled Cnét it was certainly evident to tfmany tnar he was able to accomplish things in Las Vegas and nobody else seemed to get the same kind of attention". Initially AUC.