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104-10103-10291 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (01/01/0000)

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992






                                QJ WIN



       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 case

  officer understood that QJWIN had been considered in 1960 for use

  in the assassination of Patrice Lumumba, but that the proposed

  operation was never  car,-Iec_ out because the dcszgnated 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 netver

   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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