Newspaper Clippings on Jfk Assassination

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Agency Flew 2 Assassins to
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.WASHlNGTON, April 21, (AP) §f‘d,h];
,'—The Central '
Intelligence.
Monda"-Agency flew a two-man assas-ICES nsination team into Cuba in an He1ms_unsuccessful attempt to kill
,Premier Fidel Castro, a retired
Air Force colonel said Tuesday.
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The colonel, L. Fletcherh f t- -
b th;Prouty, said thatlin “late .1959 Rggliifefilerquiigzigfiony. dc?5°“ °a"1Y .1950-"While he was nounced the newsman and re-serving in the'Defénse Departs
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,tion'§. he handled a C.I.A;; re-~{f,°j1'_'_ gogesrepgguulfdfllifihalg
‘quest g)l'Ai: Fsmall, lspecglllp peop|e_-- ,equippe orce p ane a - -
|was used to land two Cuban a Schorr ms reported on
{exiles °“'*3. mad "9313 Ha‘ President Ford is concemed
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ivana
1 he two exiles.were "equipped
with a high-powered rifle aiid‘c°,,-er’
‘telescopio sights"- and "knew fore;how to 'get to a building in
Havana .
which .
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overlooked a
Huildiffg where Cast” Passed Helins's criticism of Mr. Schoir,_da{|-Y» CQ1°[.151 P'°"tY- 11°‘? an adding that he was "positive"official with Am_tra_}r, said in a M,-_ Heims know about theitelephone interview. -.
; mgssiomP The Pram.‘ and-'23 “h“J1°‘ At the time, Mr. Helms-;couner,", retumedisafely to
E585" _Ai,"‘ F°l‘¢¢ 3§§'i"‘Fl°Yi_d3' sador"to'Iran--was an assistantIbo said, but the . Cuban exiles to Rkha,-d B;s5e|_ than _¢he-_as far as -I know were picked agency-S deputy director "
of‘UP bet“/98" Where fl‘l@Y We"? plans. But Colonel Prouty saidleft off and Havanai’-’ '
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He said that‘ -one, of the
would-be assassins was named
Oscar Spijo and that the plane
had. been flown "by. "mercen-
aries" on the 'C.l.A. "
payroll.
Colonel Prouty added that he against Cuba,knew of “one or two" 031*!‘ Mr. Bissell,_'ivho left“ theassassination attempts against
the Cuban Premier after -the
Bay of_ Pigs operation iii 1961, -terview that um-e had beenbut Said he did IIOC kIlOW vthe*l~;jg}1-level di§¢u55i0ng aboutdetails of those missions ’.be-
cause he had not worked on
1!"-em directly. -i .l -3" Y lby Allen Dulles,;then Director_Colonel Prouty retired from‘of Central intelligence.‘ e l
,“The Secret Team," detailing
his experiences as Air Force
the Air Force in 1963 and has
since written a book called.
with the C.I.A. [The
did not include the
until now to come forward
with his story, Colonel Prouty
e had become incensed
verbal abuse directed,
y‘ at Daniel Schorr, ai
ewsman, by, Richard M:
former Director of Cen~
tral Intelligence.
Mr. Helms, who had just
emerged from three and a half
feri-ed to him .as "Killer
mber of occasions that
that an unlimited investigation A
of CLA. ‘activities could un-
agency involvement in
.“It got me a little upset,"
Colonel Prouty said of M’;
now the United States Ambas~
Mr. Bissell was preoccupied
with" directing U-2 flights overl
the Soviet Union, leaving Mr.
Helms in almost total control
Helms in almost total con-
trol of clandestine operations
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agency after the Bay of Pigs
ope tion, said in a. recent in-
killing. the Cuban Premier but
that the plans had-been vetoed
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