Castro Accuses CIA of Repeated Plots Maheu Details Role McGovern Gets Data - - . 91'. By George Lardner Jr. By George Lardner Jr. Washington Post Stair Writer Washington Post Staff Writer A former aide to billionaire Howard Cuban Premier Fidel Castro has Hughes publicly acknowledged yester- charged, in a report submitted yes- day that he served as middleman in a terday to Senate investigators, that CIA-Mafia plot to poison Cuban Pre- 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- The allegations were set down in cause it was "always subject to a 'Go' varying degrees of detail in an 86- signal, which, to my knowledge, never page document delivered by the Cu- came." ban government to Sen. George Mc- Speaking with reporters after com- Govern (D-S.D.), who had visited Cuba pleting testimony for the Senate in- in May. McGovern made public a telligence committee, Maheu said he summary of the charges and submit- enlisted Johnny Roselli, an old friend ted the full report to the Senate. intel- and reputed Mafia figure, in 1960 for ligence committee headed by Sen. the assassination scheme at the speci- Frank Church (D-Idaho). fic request of the Central Intelligence McGovern told reporters he has Agency. no way of assessing the claims, but Maheu said he spent months after said he felt they warranted further that in Miami Beach with Roselli and investigation. He said the charges of Mafia boss Sam Giancan in an effort CIA involvement were "apparently to make sure nothing went awry. based on confessions and on circum- "Someone had to be .there to hold stantial evidence" such as accompany- their hands," Maheu said.. "We wanted ing photographs of weapons that were to be sure that they did not move away seized and mug shots of individuals from there." who had been arrested. Although Maheu Said the poisoning The Castro report listed 24 epi- was never attempted, he told reporters sodes, some attributed that he later learned from one CIA 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 .