C H R O N O L O G Y
(ALLEGATIONS AND REPORTS OF ANY U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATIONS)

DATE EVENT OR ITEM SOURCE (Where Necessary)

1959 Richard Bissel becomes DDP (Head of Plans Directorate)

October 1960 Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las Vegas (allegedly: (a) favor to Giancana, and (b) done by Rosselli) Date and Rosselli role from Government Opposition paper to Rosselli motion for reduction in sentence, 1971

1961 Feb. Lumumba mysteriously killed during Congolese strife. Wash. Post & Star contemporaneous accounts
News reports of CIA consideration of Lumumba plot, but claim it was done by others, e.g. Belgians? Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by Lardner and Greider Tab A

Early 1961 Attempts to kill Castro before Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli team Jack Anderson 1967, 1971 and 1975 columns; Watergate Helms memcon

April 1961 Bay of Pigs Landing

May 31, 1961 Trujillo assassinated; charge of U.S. involvement Jack Anderson column (1/19/71) on Smathers conversation with JFK. Age book (obviously suspect in some respects)

Rest of 1961 and 1962 Possibly ongoing efforts to kill Castro by Rosselli team last attempt by Rosselli team in 1963, infra.

Sometime in early 1960's RFK quashes prosecution of Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap Watergate memcons on Keeney and Wilson interviews

October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis -(Date for background reference)

Early 1963 Rosselli training a team in Miami area Wash. Post Greider/Lardener story, supra., states Army Ranger Capt Ayres saw him.

March 1963 Rosselli's last effort to kill Castro J. Anderson 1971 columns

Sometime in 1963 RFK stopped further efforts J. Anderson 1971 columns

November 1963 Diem killed in Saigon coup JFK told Smathers later he thought CIA involved J. Anderson, 1/19/71 column
Colby head of DDP Far East Division at the time articles on Colby

Early 1964 Howard Hunt and others from Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on another Castro assassination reported by Tad Szulc in book on Howard Hunt (1974)

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