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104-10118-10155 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (12/19/1978)

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                                                                 19 December 1978
         MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD


         SUBJECT:   Special Action by the CIA's Miami Station to Investigate
                    Events Surrounding President Kennedy's Assassination

              1.   During the spring -summer of 1962 the Chief of our Miami Station,
         Theodore Shackley, established procedures for mobilizing station personnel,
         area agents and casual sources  to cope with sudden emergencies where fast
         and continuing collection and reporting were needed. For example, during the
         early summer of 1962 rumors began to circulate in the Cuban community in
         Miami and reports were received from refugees arriving in Miami from Cuba
         indicating the Cuban government expected an h'nasion of Cuba by the USA.In-
         divi ual staff officers in the station were charged with organizing their
         Miami area agentsto comb through the Cuban community in Florida for sources
         who had received such rumors through contacts in Cuba. Ou4l ocal exile Cuban
         intelligence service was organized to develop a network o Cuban  exile
         families who could phone in to Cuba long distance in relays and try to elicit
         information on the invasion rumor from Cuban on-islandrelatives and friends.
         When the presence of intermediate range ballistic missiles began to be suspected
         in Cuba, this same station emergency collection network was set into motion
         to acquire information augmenting reports by our on-island agents and from
         tehcnical collection. Later, the emergency mobilization system was used to
         help other Federal agencies search for armed exile groups violating the
         Neutrality Act.

              2.  When President Kennedy was assassinated the Station was well organized
         to mobilize a fairly massive search for information relating to the magnicide.
         I recallbeing told to get into immediate contact with all my local agents
         and  to direct th em in the search for informational leads which might turn
         up an exile Cuban conspiratorial group possibly involved in the assassination
         and to seek any other information which might turn up evidence about the
         murder. All other staff officers in the station were mobilized for this effort.
         That is to say, all staff officers who had agents and informants. In addition
         to our local search for information those of us with agents in Cuba sent
         SW , OWVL and WT messages asking questions about possible Cuban government
         ties to the assassination. I also recall making a trip to Mexico in late November
         or early December 1963 specifically to meet witiA WEE-'
         for the purpose of debriefing him on information he had heard in Cuban government,
         diplomatic and public circles in Cuba about the assassination.

              3.  My general recollection is that the Miami Station's search for
         leads to the President's assassination continued well into 1964 and was
         considered a high priority undertaking ordwred by th.Chief of Station


                                                           onald R.  -Heath, Jr.
                                                           IAD/CAS/Soviet Ops/ X



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