#AssassinationPlots

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James O'Connell FBI agent turned CIA security officer who as Johnny Roselli's case officer from September 1960 carried the Castro poison plot, rose to deputy director of security, and in 1968 vetted James Earl Ray's lawyer.
Lawrence Houston General counsel of the CIA from 1947 to 1973, who briefed Robert Kennedy on the Mafia plots in 1962 and in whose tenure the Justice Department let the agency decide which crimes to report.
Sheffield Edwards Colonel who directed the CIA's Office of Security when Richard Bissell asked in 1960 for 'gangster-type action' against Castro, and who through Robert Maheu enlisted Johnny Roselli and briefed Robert Kennedy in 1962.

CIA Office of Security CIA support component that cleared employees and contractors and, by its own 1973 accounting, hired the Mafia against Castro, tapped newsmen, opened Soviet mail, penetrated Washington dissident groups, and watched reporters for the director.

Church Committee The Church Committee (1975-1976) was the Senate investigation that documented systematic CIA, FBI, NSA, and IRS abuses including Operation CHAOS, COINTELPRO, assassination plots, and HTLINGUAL illegal mail opening, producing S. Rept. 94-755, the foundational primary source for post-WWII U.S. intelligence oversight.
CIA Family Jewels The CIA 'Family Jewels' was a 693-page internal compilation of potentially illegal activities assembled in May 1973 at Director James Schlesinger's direction, partly declassified in 2007, documenting assassination plots, domestic surveillance, illegal mail interception, and drug testing programs.