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

DATE
1959
October 1960
1961 Feb.
Early 1961
April 1961
May 31, 1961
Rest of 1961 and 1962
Sometime in early 1960's
October 1962
Early 1963
March 1963
Sometime in 1963
November 1963
Early 1964

EVENT OR ITEM
Richard Bissel becomes DDP (head of Plans Directorate)
Tap on Dan Rowan phone in Las Vegas (allegedly: (a) favor to Giancana, and (b) done by Rosselli)
Lumumba mysteriously killed during Congolese strife.
News reports of CIA consideration of Lumumba plot, but claim it was done by others, e.g., Belgians?
Attempts to kill Castro before Bay of Pigs landing by Rosselli team
Bay of Pigs landing
Trujillo assassinated; charge of U.S. involvement
Possibly ongoing efforts to Kill Castro by Rosselli team
RFK quashes prosecution of Giancana for Rowan Las Vegas tap
Cuban Missile Crisis -(date for background reference)
Rosselli training a team in Miami area
Rosselli's last effort to kill Castro
RFK stopped further efforts
Diem killed in Saigon coup JFK told Smathers later he thought CIA involved
Colby head of DDP Far East Division at the time
Howard Hunt and others from Bay of Pigs effort begin plot on another Castro assassination

SOURCE (Where Necessary)
Date and Rosselli role from Government Opposition paper to Rosselli motion for reduction in sentence, 1971
Wash. Post & Star contemporaneous accounts
Wash. Post 2/6/75 story by Lardener and Greider Tab A
Jack Anderson 1967, 1971 and 1975 columns; Watergate Helms memcon
Jack Anderson (1/19/71) on Smathers conversation with JFK. Agee book (obvious suspect in some respects)
last attempt by Rosselli team in 1963, infra.
Watergate memcons on Keeney and Wilson interviews
Wash. Post Greider/Lardener story, supra.; states Army Ranger Capt Ayres saw him.
J. Anderson 1971 columns
J. Anderson 1/19/71 column
articles on Colby
reported by Tad Szule in book on Howard Hunt (1974)

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