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104-10061-10080 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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                           Gambling  Syndicate


        The first  seriously-pursued CIA plan to assassinate Castro had

   its inception .in. August 1960. It involved the use of members- of

   the criminal underworld with  contacts inside Cuba. The operation

   had two phases:  the  first ran fra. August 1960 until late April-

   or early May 1961, when it was called off following the Bay of Pigs;

   the second ran fra  APcIl 19&  until February 1963 and. was merely

   a revival of the first phase which had been inactive since about

   May 1961.


                      Gambling Syndicate - Phase 1


   August 1960


        Richard Bissell, fDepufty Director for Plans, asked Sheffield

   Edwards, Director of Security, if Edwards could establish contact

   with the U.S. gambling syndicate that vas active in Cuba.  The

   objective- clearly was the- assassination- of Castro although Edwards

   claims that there va  a studied avoidance of the term in his

   conversation with Bissell.  Bissell recalls that the idea originated

   with J. C. King,. then Chief of VH Division, although King now

   recalls having had. only limited knowledge of such a plan and. at a

   much later date-about  mid-1962.


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