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operation. This ended consideration of this subject. With this one exception I never heard any discussion of assassination attempts against anyone."

Do you recall this meeting now?

Mr. Dillon. Yes, I recall just what I said there. And I think probably should expand on that a little bit, because in looking at it it is not as clear as I would like it to be.

When I mentioned the assassination attempt it was not necessarily limited to -- or it might have been CIA personnel. It also included encouraging one of the many factions that might not like him there to take action on their own, with CIA encouragement.

Senator Hart. What kind of encouragement, material support, financial support?

Mr. Dillon. That, or moral support, if they did the US would recognize them if they became the head, and would help them.

Senator Hart. Was there any discussion that you can recall of the passage o- weapons?

Mr. Dillon. No, no detail like that. This was very brief, very general, and just turned off by the CIA people at that time.

Mr. Baron. So this mention of assassination could have included a CIA sponsored assassination attempt?

Mr. Dillon. It could have, yes.

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