en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Giancana
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who were involved with the CIA's operation Family Jewels.
“Family Jewels” was not a CIA operation. It was the later name for a 1973 compilation of CIA employees’ reports about possible abuses; Giancana and Roselli were involved in an anti-Castro plot that was later documented in those files.
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This sentence misidentifies “Family Jewels” as a CIA operation.
According to the CIA’s own historical account, the “family jewels” were “a roughly 800-page compilation of the recollections of CIA employees” that Director James Schlesinger had ordered assembled about past abuses or improprieties. In other words, Family Jewels was a dossier/report collection, not an operation.
The actual covert activity involving Giancana was a separate anti-Castro assassination plot. The State Department’s official Foreign Relations of the United States volume says that in 1960 CIA officials explored a “sensitive operation against Fidel Castro,” using Robert Maheu to contact John Roselli, who then introduced him to Sam Giancana in Miami.
So the article conflates two different things:
- the anti-Castro plot involving Roselli and Giancana, and
- the later Family Jewels documents that recorded or summarized such activities.
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- Recollections of the Church Committee's Investigation of NSA - CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence
the 'family jewels,' the name given to a roughly 800-page compilation of the recollections of CIA employees who had previously been directed by then DCI James Schlesinger to identify any past abuses or improprieties in which CIA may have been involved
- Foreign Relations of the United States, 1961-1963, Volume X, Cuba, Document 337
In August 1960 the undersigned was approached ... to explore the possibility of mounting this sensitive operation against Fidel Castro ... Maheu accordingly met ... John Rosselli ... Towards the end of September Mr. Maheu and Mr. Rosselli proceeded to Miami where ... Maheu was introduced to Sam Giancana of Chicago.