</s>104-10303-10010 JFK ACTI 09-30-9-9 DO/04 Soc. RELEASE CITES CITY CA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 1998. SUBJECT: Johnny Roselli 1. In August 1960, Mr. Richard M. Bissell approved Colonel Sheffield Edwards to determine if the Office of Security had assets that may assist in a sensitive mission requiring gangster-type action. The mission target was Fidel Castro. 2. Because of its extreme sensitivity, only a small group was made privy to the extreme sensitivity. The DCI was briefed and gave his approval. Colonel J. King, Chief, who was briefed, but all details were dedicated to the mission. My personal personnel participated Certain TSA and Communications personnel participated in the initial planning stages, but were not writing of the purpose of the mission." 3. Robert A. Maheu, a cleared source of the Office of Security, was contacted, briefed generally on the project, and requested to ascertain if he could developed and requested the desired goal. step toward accomplishing the desired goals. 4. Mr. Mahey advised that he had met one Johnny Rosselli on several occasions while visiting Las Vegas. He only knew him casually through clients, but was given to understand that he was a high-ranking member of the on the Strip, controlled all of the following machines of the Strip and the clan, and if he had made it in the fact a member of this clan, the undoubtedly had connections leading into the Cuban gambling interests. 5. Mahew was asked to approach Rosselli, who knew Maheu as a personal relations executive handling domestic and foreign accounts, and tell him that he has recently been foreign by a firm, which represents general inter- national business as a result of Castro's suffering after- losses in Cuba as a firm which was affected by the were convinced that Castro's removal was the answer to their E2 IMPDET CL BY 00988 Q0012 SECRET

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