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...from its founding in 1947 until his retirement in 1973. One of the "old boys" of the agency and the confidant of one director after another, Houston related to newsmen how he had told Robert F. Kennedy about plans for Mafia hoodlums to assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro (TIME, June 30). Houston said Bobby Kennedy "didn't seem very perturbed" about the plotting against Castro, criticizing only the CIA's use of the Mafia. Nonetheless, the former CIA lawyer did not link assassination plots to either of the Kennedy brothers...
...week's end, grizzled Veteran Schorr, 58, thought his exposé was looking "awful." But he insists he had reason to trust Prouty because the colonel had earlier given him a rock-hard exclusive on his role in a plot to assassinate Fidel Castro. Still, Schorr concedes that he never took the time to check the Butterfield allegation with the two Air Force officers who Prouty claims gave him the information, or try very hard to reach Butterfield himself. Nevertheless, Schorr says, "I still think my only alternative was to go. We're in a strange business here...
Prouty cited his own experience as a contact man. At the beginning of 1960, the CIA wanted to fly two Cubans into Cuba in the hope that they might assassinate Fidel Castro. As a contact in the Pentagon, Prouty was approached by the CIA to see that the plan worked smoothly. Said he: "I set it all up, made sure some [U.S.] fighter plane didn't shoot us down...
...fossil before he lets fly), and an early stage in his complex motion is a rhythmic shaking of the ball, in glove, shoving it down his body in an erotic dance. Tiant's family lives in Cuba, and on a recent visit George McGovern fixed it up with Fidel so that they could come and watch him pitch later in the season...
...scene and the situation last week were extraordinary. John Roselli, 69, a known Mafioso, was willingly appearing before Senator Frank Church's Senate intelligence committee to talk freely not of gangland matters but of how he had tried to help the CIA kill Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro...