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G-19 (F- -2-71) eg a9 e i eee rk 5 By Jack “Anderson 4 , ] ie mystery ‘tan whom the, Central Intelligence | Agency, recruited to assassinate Cuba’ s| Fidel Castro has been laid up’ in the sick ward of the Los: Angeles County jail. * * | ‘,Hejs handsome, hawkdaced. ailment. 2 < : _#Confidential FBI ‘files iden- im as “a top Mafia tig-| " who watched over “the, leoncealed interests in Las} ‘Vegas casinos of the Chicago, underworld.” ~ 7 “Roselli chas . vadmitted 0) nn ae 4! othe — Sarmatre friends that he Was a Tutt rut- ner during the Roaring Twen- ties. Operating along the East Coast, he learned how to evade: Coast Guard cutters” and Po lice patrols, ~ . { inter | hacame . Hi 2 name ter | | E or Mi le the ated in the Chicago and Los Ange- les underworlds. He also de- veloped contacts in the Cuban erwgert before Castro took n gh Sten gambling ca- ——s Somat recruited for the| pe eee ares ee a! er or ent, who admitted at he bad handled | ercover assignmen r the @ refused, however, to disense the details, This is the i aheu, ineldentall voly a legal ba’ Cairo; S talker ¥ Wi | close enough to gun Gastro Tolso Sulli Mohr Bishop : n ‘1, / (geen CO ae’ Casper __._. — Conrad Delbey — lle” Felt Gale en _ Tavel Walters ernment that he pald anus expenses out :of his - ‘pocket and risked his neck Eo 7G ‘land the assassination ro ee yd ee yond ta fashi Vs 2 a >. £2 ~y ames re) on, . _ : held whispered ‘meetings gdf-7-S2... gg: Miami Beach hotels with Cu- cago gangster. took no “direct part in the assassination’ “plot.” : » Roselli «made ¢-midnight dashes to Cuba with his hired assassins in twin powerboats. Once a Cuban patrol ship turned its guns on his dark- ened boat, tore a hole im the bottom and sank the boat. Ro- selli was fished cut of the \ water by the other boat, which | escaped into the shadows. -In earlier columns, wa re ported how the CIA furnished [Rosell -w “with deadly” . poison ew ae ra aed capsuies wien She, through a relative of Castro’ 8 chef to plant in the dictator's! ‘food. Later, marksmen armed with high-powered Belgian ri- fles attempted ‘to infiltrate . The Washington Post = Times Herald —____*="___ se The Washington Daily News he Evening Star (Washington) . “-//The Sunday Star (Washington) Daily News (New York) a “Af Sunday News (New York) New York Post | | | | | The New York Times —____E_ | The Daily World The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The National Observer Peopie’s World down. : + All told, six assassination at- itempts were made, the last in \the spring of 1963. Through- jout this period, Pct # i ee FBI which got wind of! ‘the assassination plot, ‘has ‘tried to pump Roselli for in- formation. But he Was sworn to silence by the CIA, and up to this moment, he hasn't bro- [ = _2 _s« __