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104-10310-10259 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/1963)

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                                  HIGHLY  SEUSITIVE ACIVITIES


                Project 2T RIFLE.


                     Early in the Kennedy administration,  the White House

                urged Richard Bissell  to create an Executive Action capability;

                i.e., a general  stand-by capability to carry out assassinations.

                The Executive Action program  came to be known as ZRRIFLE. Its

                principal asset was an agent,QJWI,  who had been  recruited earlier

                b                for use in a special operation in the  Congo

                (the assassination of Patrice Lumumba) to be run by Justin  O'Donnell.

                O'Donnell made a su.ey of the scene, decided he wanted no part

                in an assassination attempt, and asked to be released, .ihich

                Bissell granted.

                     The project nabe, ZRRIFLE, first appears in the files  in

                May 1961, although the first recorded approval is dated 19 February

                1962.  The new DD/P (Helms) on that date authorized William

                        by memorandum, to handle the project on a special basis.

                Accounting for expenditures was to be by general category and  on

                Harvey's certification.

                     MRRIMJE was not exercised in the Congo, because Lumumba was

                rezdoved from the scene by other parties. It did, however,  find

                application against Fidel Castro in a conspiracy to assassinate

                or to incapacitate him that was a2ready under way under other

                auspices.

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