Record

Hearing

1975-11-20

U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee), interim report

Church Committee report, p. 97: a Miami meeting in the week of 25 September 1960

The report says that, per the Inspector General, the CIA's Support Chief, Maheu and Rosselli met in Miami with Giancana and Trafficante in the week of 25 September 1960; the committee says it cannot place the events precisely.

Date: 1975-11-20
Kind: hearing
Source: U.S. Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (Church Committee), interim report
Retrieved: 2026-10-12
Rights: A report of the United States Senate. A work of the United States Congress, public domain under 17 U.S.C. § 105.

In discussing when the CIA’s contact with organized crime began, S. Rept. 94-465 says at printed p. 97 (PDF p. 108) that, according to the Inspector General’s report, the Support Chief contacted Rosselli in early September 1960, and that during the week of 25 September the Chief, Maheu and Rosselli met in Miami with Giancana and Trafficante. The report adds that the testimony on dates was inexact and that the committee cannot place the events precisely.

The meeting is the Inspector General’s account, cited in the report as I.G. Report pp. 18-19. It names the city only; no hotel or street appears on the page.

itemChurch Committee report, pp. 77 and 80-82: Trafficante, Miami and CubaPassages of Senate Report 94-465 that identify Santos Trafficante as 'the Cosa Nostra chieftain in Cuba' and record Rosselli's account of a Miami meeting at the Fountainebleau Hotel, which Maheu denied.itemChurch Committee, Alleged Assassination Plots Involving Foreign Leaders, S. Rep. No. 94-465 (1975)Interim report of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, November 20, 1975. It identifies the man called "Sam Gold" in the CIA's Castro operation as Sam Giancana and records his murder on June 20, 1975.