Castro Accuses CIA of Repeated Plots Maheu Details Role - - McGovern Gets Data By George Lardner Jr. . 91'. Washington Post Stair Writer By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Staff Writer A former aide to billionaire Howard Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has Hughes publicly acknowledged yester- day that he served as middleman in a charged, in a report submitted yes- CIA-Mafia plot to poison Cuban Pre- terday to Senate investigators, that mier Fidel Castro. the Central Intelligence Agency was Robert Maheu, the former Hughes involved in repeated plots to kill him aide, said the scheme was concocted as and other Cuban leaders from 1960 part of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion to 1911. plan, but was never carried out be- cause it was "always subject to a 'Go' The allegations were set down in signal, which, to my knowledge, never varying degrees of detail in an 86- came." page document delivered by the Cu- Speaking with reporters after com- ban government to Sen. George Mc- pleting testimony for the Senate in- Govern (D-S.D.), who had visited Cuba telligence committee, Maheu said he in May. McGovern made public a enlisted Johnny Roselli, an old friend summary of the charges and submit- and reputed Mafia figure, in 1960 for ted the full report to the Senate. intel- the assassination scheme at the speci- ligence committee headed by Sen. fic request of the Central Intelligence Frank Church (D-Idaho). Agency. McGovern told reporters he has Maheu said he spent months after no way of assessing the claims, but that in Miami Beach with Roselli and said he felt they warranted further Mafia boss Sam Giancan in an effort investigation. He said the charges of to make sure nothing went awry. CIA involvement were "apparently "Someone had to be .there to hold based on confessions and on circum- their hands," Maheu said.. "We wanted stantial evidence" such as accompany- to be sure that they did not move away ing photographs of weapons that were from there." seized and mug shots of individuals Although Maheu Said the poisoning who had been arrested. was never attempted, he told reporters The Castro report listed 24 epi- that he later learned from one CIA sodes, some attributed without elabora- official, the late Col. Sffield Ed- tion to groups "with CIA connections ar that it could hay -been carried and contacts," and others explicitly out before the mid April invasion at naming "CIA agents" allegedly involv- the Bay of Pigs. ed in assassination efforts. A former FBI agent who had done On several occasions, the Cubans various assignments for the CIA since BY James X. W. Atherton—The Washington Post charged that the U.S. Guantanamo 1 See MAHEU, Al2, Col. 1 Maheu: The 'Go' signal never came. See McGOVERN, Al2, Col. 1