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... from moving beyond speculation.

Mank said the widespread reports after Giancana's death that his appearance before the committee was imminent were not true. But further inquiries, he agreed, that Giancana's death was not directly related to his past CIA association.

LOVE FINALLY got Giancana's house number late Friday. She called Mank and said Friday she had some difficulty tracking him down in Houston before Giancana had been shot. "I was going to interview him to see whether it would be worth it to call him as a witness. He had not been contacted yet and he had not been subpoenaed," Mank said. "It was a preliminary inquiry for the first time."

Four days after Giancana was shot, Sen. Frank Church was head of the Senate committee and has since been replaced by a newly formed committee chaired by Sen. Donald Riegle (D., Mich.) and Sen. Howard Baker (R., Tenn.). In his final report, Mank said, the committee strongly urged the new committee to continue its investigation of CIA activity as well as cooperation between the CIA association and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

MANK SAID FRIDAY there are still unanswered questions about Lee Harvey Oswald's motive and possible conspiracy. "The real question is whether or not the CIA controlled the agents that JFK had control of," he said.

The committee's Roselli testimony shed new light on former contacts and the involvement of the mob with the Kennedy administration. Roselli was very candid but he was not specific.

Committee investigators had also planned to question Ed McCarthy, a Rockville, Md., businessman, who was reported against Giancana's wishes while under circumstances allegedly considered to be detrimental to Giancana's efforts.

Carraff, 35, was reportedly the last man to see Giancana alive. He had previously been with him in Houston years ago.

Carraff's body floated to the surface of New York Harbor off Staten Island on Aug. 8. His body was wrapped in a padlocked chain and weighted by two 15-pound boat anchors. Fellow mob heads have been strangled, possibly by strangling, according to investigators.

New York City detectives said that Carraff "knew Giancana" but they have not been able to pin down a motive in his death.

The Washington Star, quoting an unidentified "reliable source," reported that Carraff had met with Roselli in Chicago about two months ago.