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104-10059-10223 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/1/1961)

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                               QJWIN


      According to statements by a senior CIA officer in 1967, made

  to the Inspector General, the Agency was instructed to develop a

  capability to conduct assassinations. Termed an executive action

. capability, such a project was initiated in 1961, apparently assuming

  an existing cryptonym, ZRRIFLE.  At the request of the case officer

  (the same officer providing this information in 1967), a clandestine

  asset in Europe, QJWIN, was to be used in the project. The ease

  officer understood that QJWIN -had been considered in 1960 for use

  in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, but that the proposed

  operation was never carried out because the designated CIA case

  officer declined the assignment.

      The case officer in charge of ZRRIFLE also was involved. in an

  operation to assassinate Fidel Castro, running from early 1962 to

  mid-1963.  However, QJWIN  was not used in this effort, reliance

  being placed instead on a Cuban exile leader. QJWIN.was never

  briefed on the Castro operation, according to the officer handling

  ZRRIFLE  and the Castro operation.

      Records do show that QJWIN was  dispatched to the Congo in

  1960, being there in November and December 1960, prior to the



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