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By EDWARD W. tecnIEN CIoLatiertmerat Washingtna Bureau

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'A,SitiliGION — In the summer of 19,33, two shipments of explcisives were

secretly hauled from Collinsville. III., to anti-Castro Cuban exiles in Miami and New Orleans. . .

Those explosives may have been parr of a mysterious chain of evnts that could have led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Lee

Harvey Oswald in Noveinher of that year, St•nate investigators haze conclud-ed.

Thc explosives were to b Used in a guerrilla attack on Cuba, the recent Senmo blielligcac,. Cuiernittee report . said, and Oswald":: knewlede,e o; the plans may have lid to a decision by him or Castru officials to kill Kennedy in

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. IIT IS Cl ra AIN, ih- committee said,

tr at r key FBI document un the .xplosives 'wining fro.n Collinsville was

i ithiteld.frym the War:en commission •p

that investigated the Kcnnady as.sassina- I

Hun. t • This suppression by the rBI v:as cited

by the Senate committee as an impor• tant example of efiorts to protoct Its public image lay hiding facts about its alleged laity in checking 05tifahl before

the assassination. . ' The Senate investigators also estab-

lished a link hetween-tlic Collinsville dynamitr., American underworld !dots • against Fidel Castro Lnd Central Ir.v.-111- genet Agency attprapts to assaslinate Castro. •

The dynamite shipi.v.mt to Miami In June, 1053, was into:de-1 fer a box:ring raid un a Sheli sehriely in Cut% the

FBI duilunent said. It financed try a ' •

"former Lambl;n.., nirnater'• in Havana and ea: &al rail in part by a Cuban exlie idNitilicd in the Senate maxi merely as "Ar •

"A" also Infer birught 2,400 potinf; of dynamite and 29 bomb easiNts In Cut:

linsvill.• that sere alai In be droprd

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?II Washington government files In wsf iltwr, alter the Woi len Commission emu:

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pitied its investieation of the Kennedy see:iseinatinn. The files show "A" at ! areing I:nowt/14;e of the CIA's 19G3

• et :Parts v.ith "Ai,iiach." the code name' (iii a WO Casten 'Vidal, atelut killing Caetru with a poison ballpoint pen or a *el FC spit rifle. •

"'A' claimed in 1565 that be and Alt ,:a -h were lifelong friends, the Senate rt pet said.

fe.r.es people doubt that Amlash was truly anti-Castro and suspect be was a plant who kept Castro truly informed aheut the CIA assassination plots. • On Nov. 22. 1963, the day Kennedy was assaseinated, Amlash was meeting to Europe with a too CIA official and was told he would he tut nistied with t rifle and explosives keret! Castro. 1

The Senate committee stressed in ha [ recent report that it had found BD evidence to "fli■-.11Ty a conclusion tbrit there was a conspiracy.do assassinate .

• President Kennedy." . ,.- . .... I But the committee also chaired that • '

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• the FBI• and the CIA withheld vital

- information about "possibilities of Al spiracy" from the. V.'airen Commissian

. and that the two agencies vo.ne defichot . In their own investigations of the Kora>.

dy murder.

. LIKE MANY OF its findings,- the Senate report left unanswered many questions abot't the.arms-running from Collinsville. But it did quote at length horn an Oct. 3, 19(.3, memo from the Fill's Miami field office concerning

• : episodes that toak place that summer. This memo was not furnished to the

' Warren commission, the cotntnittee • said, and "taiees additional questions"

about the pur,inee of Oswald's contacts with Carlo:: Bringiner. and anti-Castro

-Cuban exile in Nee 011..ans who was training, paramilitary Lam toe raids on Cuba.

i The committee in:ion-it that the FrO . mooed to divert the Warten eenimeesiori •• , from digging too deeply into ON:aline. .

thighly suspicious activities before he.. l• killed Eenncdy. -

er. fin Aug. S. Oswald. who was !Moir is 'lb Orleans, tittered Fis lielp to h. In- iritier and on Aur. 7 presented his 1.: rinc Corps troinier, ninnual to Bd. • ;elite `r. group. P91 IWO days We: Brio-

:•r saw OrwaId pes.eng out pt. Cartio lite:aline and a field broke on! hett,eeti It- two.

Ilse Senate report slid Iliineuier • "le.11AVed OStta:41 was ottetoptiar to

infiltrate the anti-Ca:.trn movement in cv:rer In Noon its activities to pro-Ca'atti lot acs."

111E ANTI-CASTRO aetivitice promi-nently included the plans for fedibing raids wdh the Collinsville explosives. the Senate moon said. ' Atte-Wing to the withheld FPI doce.--n.. moot. an felermatil (bid the arem:y !line 14. lerir, that "B" ut.Collinsville had "recently arrived in-Miami in a Ford

1 .)sale. American adveniurers r.nd meice-1 station wiyon with a load of et nix fur

• naries Zn3ines deleted) took , _ to meet tire different Cuban exile leader.'

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The interkled raid was thwarted OA ' .tciistoms egents seized two Beech:Tilt . pit craft am! .explosives at an oil li.:21

near Miami June 15, 1961. ••A" and an Amotiran wete detained.

belt not charged. On July 11, 1963. bid rectos taidtri a

home near New Orleans end seieeJ the 2,400 gon& of dynamite and 2u bomb casing;.

According to the FBI document. the arms were on propetty owned by the brother of the lot nier operatm of a • Bavaria reitallinir ca:inti. 1 he Op:Inute" "was porchastd at taillitisvilie by 'i.". for "A," v..lin trar.ported the dynamite to New Oilcans in a rented trailer, lie

• FBI said.

vatiL.r. I IIC plait( J attacks were `halted kr the arms seirm wee; ut?

seaulrs in Cuba proceericii the (' tort aid. 1.

In filet petted. Ose.ald was in contedt will) pro-Castro and anti-Castro oig cni-

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On Sept. 7. 1963. Castro granted an .

nespecied and imoinmptu interview

ith an Associated Press reporter in

lavena and warned that any U.S. eaders aiding; in terrorist plans to

, aliminaje, Eutran leaders would not be . -

sale. :Ills A-ate-mem% were later interpreted

by America:I expects as a warning of

possible retaliation against any effort to

kpl him:— skater that itnonth, Oswald went to

Mexico City and. according to the

Senate report, "visited bath the Cuban

anti the Soviet d:irtomatic establish-ments andicontacled a vice consul et the

latter who was in fact a KGB (secret

linelligenee) agent."

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f The Itip,sian diplomat, identified only

as Kostikov, was believed by FBI

officials at that lime to be a member of

- (hi KGB section that "carries out

assassination and sabotage," the Senate

7eport said. . YET TUE FBI "failed to intensify" its

rpvestigation of Oswald and "failed to

interview him bs-fole the assassination view receiving a note from him;

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warning FBI to leave his wife alone " the committee said.

As lot..."&" the Senate conimltt4e

.said. CIA files contain FBI reports

"detailing his involvement -with attn..

Castro exiles and underworld figurjs who were operating the guerrilla train

ing camp in New Orleans in July, 1961." "The Flitt clearly mad,: the cuanection -

between 'A's' Itr63 activities and Or far that in 1965 be was knowledgeable or

CIA involvement in plans wassassinati.

Castro." the report said. "But there is no evidence that either

the FBI or made any investigation

Of this connection. "It was pot until 1%7 that bath the

Amtach operation and free dent Kenne-dy's assassination, including, the facts

developed in 1965. were reviewed by

either agency."

The 1967 review took place only whet

President Lyndon B. Johnson persona* beard about allegations that the Keane-

dy assassination was in retaliation for CIA plots against Caitro.

The CIA then gave Johnson a report

that raised ,the .question of a possible

Connection. the Senate committee said..itt

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