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Subheadline: "Nearly 700 pages detail misconduct that set off a domestic spying scandal in the '70s."
"One of the most detailed descriptions in the newly released documents concerned one of the plots to kill the Cuban dictator Castro.
A memo by CIA security chief Howard Osborn said in August 1960 the CIA recruited ex-FBI agent Robert Maheu, who was a top aide to Howard Hughers in Las Vegas, to approach mobster Johnny Roselli and pass himself off as the representative of international corporations who wanted Castro killed.
Roselli introduced Maheu to "Sam Gold" and "Joe", who were actually mobsters Sam "Momo" Giancana, Al Capone's successor in Chicago, and Santos Trafficante.
The mobsters worked for free, turning down a $150,000 offer. The CIA gave them six poison pills, and they tried unsuccsessfully for several months to have several people put them in the Cuban leader's food."
Read more about it on line at:
http://www.foia.cia.gov/ then about half way down the page click on a link called "Family Jewels", then select page 12.
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