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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72499 and id is 1 raw text is: 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 S E C R E T 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 iniasion of Cuba by the USA.In- dividual staff officers in the station were charged with organizing their Miami area agentsto comb through the Cuban community in Flo ida for sources who had received such rumors through contacts in Cuba. Ou 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 with- ) ohn-i slnd agent AMWEE-l 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. Donald R. Heath, Jr. IAD/CAS/Soviet Ops/ X S E C R E T 77S 1104-10118-101551

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