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The Washington Merry-Go-Round        THE WASHINGTON POST  Tuesday, Feb. 22, 1971    B11

Castro Stalker Worked for the CIA

By Jack Anderson    Job by Robert Maheu, a for. Roselli with dastly poison is still on the rti—. The mystery men who the CIA's for-hire agent, who admitted capsules which he used both a..orer *o is c n .t.,
Central Intelligence Agency   mer FBI agent, who admitted handhed un- through a relative of Castro's in o discuss their CIA activities
called to assassinate Cuba's through a relative of Castro's in Deurage assignments for the CIA. He refused, however, to discuss their CIA activities,
Fidel Castro has been told in   Food. Later, marksman armed "tard" for Roselli and called
the cia ure'd of the Los an- that he and his associates dis- answer the results. This is the same Maheu, incidentally, who cussed their CIA activities.
American Govern'l. close enough to gain Castro's phony. Roselli had no more ir-
He is handsome, sharp-faced   its over phantom billionaire tempts were made, the last in
John Roselli, once a deals Jim Howard Hughs Nevada oper- the spring of 1963. Through- Roselli's lawyers are now
Poin Roselli worked and Las Vegas, now is bearded ations.                out this period, Roselli worked trying to get emerge for
and baundled with a conspira- Roselli was flattered over under the direct supervision their client, citing our casing
tory silence. being asked to perform a se- of two secret CIA agents, Ul- about his secret CIA series.
Confidenti FBI files identi- cret mission for the U.S. gov- ham Harvey and James (Bi-
tify him as "an top mafia fig- ernment that he paid all his Jim) O'Connell.
ure" who switched over "the expenses out of his own
Concealed interests in Las pocket and risked his neck to Roselli's Reward                Firearms Fiasco
Vegas crimes of the Chicago save a nation.
"underworld."            On the Cuban coast,      The FBI which sat wind-of the assassination plot, Under pressure from the
Roselli had admitted to   In James Bond fashion, he department has tried to pump has tried to pump Roselli for firearms lobby, the Treasury
friends that he was a rum run- stayed in deluxe hotels in Ro-tell for his vital information. But he was sworn to silence by the CIA and by force a vital section of the
ner during the Nez.tie Prohi- Miami Beach Hotels with Cu- his moment, he hasn't beo- this moment, he hasn't beo- most recent firearms act.
bition era. Operating along the East ban millionaires to plot an at-                              Meanwhile, the Justice De- Kennedy and Dr. Martin Lu-
Coast, he learned how to evade tempt on Castro's life. Once Masonville, the Justice De- King, has authorized the
Coast Guard cutters and po- he called on Chicago mobster partment, as part of its cask- Treasury Secretary to require
lice patrols.          boss Sam Giancana to line up assignment tried to nail Roselli. The FBI discovered that the registration of all firearms and
His name later became a contract. The confidential discovered that his name was used, his name was usid. For two years that the linke'd with the B-street names files report Giancana had in the shrimping business that his name was really Fil Hippolo Sacco and that he had had used gun smugglers to in Cuba. However, the Chi- come to this country from It- ely was a bootslegging
he underworld. By 1960 de- cago gangster took no direct aly as a child. He was con- disgraciate.
veloped contacts in the Cuban interest in the assassination plot.                  victed for failing to register as The federal government,
underground before Castro took Roselli made midright an alien.             would have to comply
over the Havana gambling ca-   sions to Cuba with his hired
sinos.                 assassins in twin powerboats. He was also convicted for with would have to comply
He had the right back- Once a Cuban patrol ship conspiracy to rig card games in with would have to complete
ground for a hush-hush mis- turned its guns on his dare- random and sank the boat. Ro- the data which Piscard $250 million it would coat—.
sion that the CIA was plan- devil boat, tore a hole in the selli was nailed out of the at- Los Angeles excise to complete
ning in 1961. As part of the bottom and sank the boat. Ro- Los Angeles excise in the computers and staff to r..r.e
CIA's plans to depose of Castro, selli was nailed out of the at Los Angeles excise in the  
and Cosa Nostra.

Risks Neck

Roselli was recruited for the Of Roselli's twin CIA asso-
                               ciates, Harvey has now retired
                               to Indianapolis and O'Connell; . ...

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