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HUNT AND CONEINIn late 1971 HUNT forged cables that concerned the
involvement of President Kennedy in the assassination in 1963 of
South Vietnamese strongman, Ngo Dinh Diem. HUNT was asked:Q. Did you in fact forge, or cause to be forged, cable traffic
linking John Kennedy with the Diem assassination?A. I did.
Q. You did in fact forge documents?
A. I did.
Q. This was at what time period?
A. Yes, because Colson asked me to.
Gordon Liddy was asked:
Q. Do you know whether or not HUNT any skill, training or
expertise or has undertaken any study of the art of forgery of
documents?A. I know that he did forge at least one document. That was a cable.
And he did so employing the use of a Xerox machine. And that was
the summer of 1971.HUNT consulted with General Edward Landsdale, and with
Lucien Conein, in regard to the wording of the cable. A few months
later, Lucien Conein granted an interview to NBC-TV news during
which he tied President Kennedy to the death of Ngo Dinh Diem.
When questioned about this interview after Watergate, Lucien
Conein said he had received permission to speak with the media
from the CIA's Office of Security. When CIA Office of Security
Director Robert Osborne spoke with Lucien Conein on January 31,
1972, he asked him how it came he appeared on the December 22,
1971, NBC television program. Lucien Conein stated he had been
contacted by HOWARD HUNT, White House Public Relations and
Security Consultant, and had been interviewed by HUNT in his
own home extensively as to his role in the entire affair: "Osborne
noted: I know this is true since HOWARD HUNT phoned me and
asked how he could contact Mr. Conein in late November 1971."
Lucien Conein told Osborne that "Mr. HUNT, speaking for his
White House superiors, stated that they felt his appearance could be
helpful, providing he was properly briefed. Mr. HUNT indicated
that he would 'take care of coordinating this with the Agency' and
provided Mr. Conein with a file of some 24 cables as a briefing aid
to refresh his memory." [CIA OS Memo D/CI] Lucien Conein denied
that HUNT had shown him any forged cables, despite HUNT'S
testimony to the contrary.
LUCIEN CONEIN
Lucien Emile Conein (born, November 29, 1919), a veteran of
the French Foreign Legion, described his military career: "Starting
as a recruit I September 1941, was advanced to a
Non-Commissioned Officer in 1942, and later chosen for Officer
Candidate School February 1943. Graduated and commissioned
2nd Lieutenant February (OSS) on July 26, 1943. Served
European Theater of Operations October 1943, to December 1944.
Parachuted behind enemy lines in civilian clothes, France, August
1944. Transferred China, Burma, India Theater, February 1945.
Assigned German occupation February 1947 to August 1953, as an
intelligence officer. 1953 to 1956 served as U.S. Military advisory
group, Vietnam, as intelligence and operations officer."Lucien Conein returned to Indochina as an advisor to the French,
who were at war with the Army of National Liberation of General
Ho Chi Minh."From 1957 to 1959, assigned as battalion commander U.S. Special
Forces. Commanded an airborne battalion, Fort Bragg, North
Carolina. From August 1959 to September 1961 Chief, Foreign
Intelligence, Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Department of
Army Mission in Teheran, Iran."Lucien Conein joined the CIA in December 1961, where he
became Chief of Station in Saigon. There, he had liaison with other
U.S. officials (up to the Ambassadorial level), and Vietnamese
officials including the Prime Minister. Lucien Conein became a
leader of an assassination squad under Colonel Edwin Lansdale,
and put General Ngo Dinh Diem in power. Diem ruled South
Vietnam until 1963, when Lucien Conein helped Vietnamese
Generals overthrow him. In 1968 Lucien Conein left Vietnam and
retired from the Armed Forces and CIA. He was back in 1969
engaged in a private business venture. The CIA stated: "Lucien
Conein was formerly assigned to this Agency in military status
from 1943 until 1961, and as a Contract Type A from 1961, until
medical retirement in 1968. His file was annotated with the
statement that the Domestic Operations Division could not utilize
Lucien Conein in any capacity." Lucien Conein reportedly was the
liaison between the OSS and the Corsican brotherhood, a
mafia-style organization that was involved in heroin trafficking.In late 1971 Lucien Conein was contacted by the White House,
and in early 1972 he was hired by the Bureau of Narcotics and
Dangerous Drugs as a consultant with its intelligence section. At the
end of the year, he was given a permanent position with the Bureau
of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The Rockefeller Report stated
that "Beginning in late 1970, the CIA used one of its proprietary
companies to recruit Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs
agents...the CIA recruited 19 Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs agents." [RR p39]When NIXON abolished the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous
Drugs in 1973, and created the Drug Enforcement Administration
by Presidential Proclamation, Lucien Conein headed the Special
Operations Group of the Drug Enforcement Administration. Lucien
Conein began to recruit former CIA agents as Drug Enforcement
Administration /Special Operations Group contract employees. He
had a staff of 19 individuals, 14 of whom were former CIA
employees. Colson stated that the Drug Enforcement
Administration / Special Operations Group was responsible for
kidnapping and assassination. Wallace Shanley recalled, "I know
that Gordon Liddy went down to Miami to recruit talent for the
Drug Enforcement Administration's Special Operations Group.
STURGIS was one of these potential assassins. I don't have any
written documentation on this. I was working with these guys -
Lucien Conein was one of them." The Drug Enforcement
Administration / Special Operations Group assassination program
was headquartered in Mexico. Charles Colson stated that Senator
Lowell Weicker "should look into the surroundings of the death an
Italian named [Lucien] Sarti, who was a major narcotics trafficker
shot in Mexico about two years ago. Sarti bought his way out of jail
and got to Mexico where he was shot. Colson said this case will
show the other half of Conein's operation." HEMMING told this
researcher: "Lucien Conein was organizing an assassination
program. It was called Deacon One and Deacon Two. BERNARDO
De TORRES was involved. De TORRES was planning to
assassinate Juan Balaguer. That was off the record."
--druggingamerica.com More Fun Than A Tom Clancy Novel
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