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Claims U.S. J illed Gangsters: WASHINGTON - UPI) Judith_ Exner says

there's no question" the federal government rubbedout gangsters Sam Giancana and John Rosselli, and.claims she fears the FBI so much that she sleeps witha gun under her pillow., "And I U use it," she says. Ic n shoot as weU as any man."

Exner burst into prominence;late in 1975 with revelations from• congressional committee that

~ r e s i d e n t John Kennedy received~ u m r o u s telephone calls and vis;its from a mysterious woman. The"'lledia soon found Exner, an at

t r c t i v e brunette who conceded-sexual liaisons for two years withKennedy. ·

She has written a book - notto smear anyone or stab anyone in EXNERthe back, but to clear my name. I am not a whore."

EXNER SAID IN her book she was mistress toChicago Mafia chieftain Giancana and refused tomarry him. She described Rosselli as a close personal

friend. Both were involved in a CIA plot to kill FidelCastro and were murdered within a year of eachother. The deaths are unsolved

In an interview, Exner was asked who she thoughtkilled Giancana and Rosselli.

Who do you think? The government. There's noquestion. Things were getting too hot, what with theirconnection with the CIA coming out. They were shutup."

Exner said she has been harassed by the FBI for 16

years, "bounded· to the very edge of my grave.

I WAS FOLLOWED, hounded, harassed, accosted,spied upon, intimidated, burglarized, embarrassed, humiliated, denigrated," she said.

Exner, divorced at the time of her alleged affairwith Kennedy, said she had sex with him before hewas elected president and frequently in the WhiteHouse in Jackie Kennedy's bed.

"He said there was not much of their marriageleft," Exner said. I f he didn't get the nomination itwould break up publicly. If he won, his family wasgoing to give Jackie enough money to keep the marriage together for political purposes."



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Woman Linl{ed to JFI{ and MafiaNow in Danger Her Lawyer Says

SAN DIEGO - (UPO - Reportsthat Judith Campbell was a goodfnend of both President John F

Kennedy and Malia chieftains inthe early 1960s have placed her lifein danger, her lawyer says.

Miss Campbell will hold a newsconference today to tell her storyherself, said the lawyer, BryanMonagahn. He said she is now married and living under another name.

HE SAID Miss Campbell's secrettestimony to the Senate IntelligenceCommittee bas been leaked in sucha distorted fashion that some persons might think she was part orthe CIA-Mafia proposals to assassinate Cuban Premier Fidel Castro.

She can no longer remain silent, he said. The inferences puther in danger with those who think

she might know something shedoesn't.

Miss Campbell testified Sept. 20.Her testimony was confidential butthere were news reports that shetalked about her association withKennedy in 1961 and 1962, at thesame time she was close to mobsters John Roselli and Sam Gianca

na, who was shot to death n June.Giancana and· Roselli were linked

to CIA plots to kill Castro, usingthe Mafia and its connections inCuba.

The reports indicate, infer, thatshe was a go-between for Giancana,the CIA, the Mafia and JFK in assassination plots, the attorneysaid.

She was not connected in anyway with these conspiracies. Shemaintains the stories have substan-

tially distorted her testimony.

MEANWHILE Sen. rankChurch (D., Idaho) has strongly denied suggestions that Senate intelligence committee Democrats covered up the friendship between .President Kennedy and the woman.

Church, chairman of the commit

tee, told reporters it was a unanimous decision of the 11 committeemembers to stay out of the latePresident's personal life, including his relationship with MissCampbell.

Church said there was no evidence the woman knew of the Castro assassination plot or that organized crime had tried to influencethe White House. Therefore, hesaid, there was no reason to emphasize the friendship.



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However, she said, readingfrom a prepared statement. ' 'I canat th s time emphatically state thatmy relationship with Jack Kennedywas of a close, personal nature anddid not involve conspiratorial shenanigans of any kind.

I WILL NOf allow the committee to 1mplicate me m these absurdplots nor will allow Evelyn Line o I n (Kennedy's secretary) orKenny O'Donnell (special assistantto the late President) to sully ordistort y personal relationshipwith Jack Kennedy.

The Senate Intelligence Committee said in a 347-page report onCIA assassination plots that during

96 and 1962 there were 70 telephone contacts between Kennedyand Vlrs. Exner.

The report identified Mrs. Exneronlv as a close friend, but afterher· identity became known thisweek she called a press conferenceto explain her rela tionships.

Vlrs. Exner told newsmen thatshe was introduced to Kennedy inFebruarv. 1960, by a friend, whoalso introduced her and Giancanathe next month in Vliami Beach.

SHE REFUSED to identify thefriend and replied no comment toquestions about whether that friendwas singer Frank Sinatra or actorPeter Lawford, Kennedy's brotherin-law.

She met Roselli through Giancana sometime after March, 1960,Mrs. Exner said.

'VIy relationship with Sam Giancana and my relationship withJohnny Roselli were of a personalnature and in no way related to oraffected by my relationship withJack Kennedy, nor did I discuss either of them with the other, she

said.She accused the Senate Intelligence Committee, headed by Sen.Frank Church (D., Idaho.). of leaking details of her closed-session testimony.

THE LEA KS, Mrs. Exner said,' 'have been distorted so as to implicate me in these bizarre assassination conspiracies between the underworld and the government.

The committee discovered her relationship with Kennedy while investigating CIA links wilh Giancana and Roselli in a plan to kill Castro.

Giancana, a Chicago Mafia leader, was scheduled to testify beforethe committee last June, but wasmurdered before he could appear.

Rosem testified in a secret session about a week after Giancana'sdeath.

I IMAGINE I probably knewthey were part of the underworld,Mrs. Exner said.



~ a-rtrn...Jlating back to the Eisen

h;:er@Administration (when , in terestingly, the White House action officeron the CIA's Cuba plans was Vice Pres i-dent Richard Nixon). The source alsosaid there was ev idence that in addition

to the guns the CIA had supplied in the1961 assassination of Dominican Repub

lic di ctator Rafael Trujillo, t had al sosupplied some ass istance in the get

away." But all thi s, he said, was consid

ered by th e agency and top-lev el Ke nnedy Administration officials to be me rely" token assistance to an indigenous rebellion. "Th e CIA was far more involved

in the sub sequent e lec tion , said theso urce, noting that the agency he lpedenginee r a victory for Juan Bosch, who

latet turned against the U.S.It remained unclear ust who had given

the orders- and other sources closeto the

Rockefe ller inquiry suggested that thatmystery might never be solved, since the

that the di rector probably did not know

what th ey were doing." Th at, he said,raised a serious problem of a secre tpolice. CIA o fficials themselves are

known to fear that legislation growingfrom the curren t scandal could se riouslyhandicap the agency. But that raised anew question: without new laws to stiffe n their sp ines, would CIA unde rlingsbe any better able to resist orders forabuses in the future?

DAVID M ALPERN wot ANTHONY MARRO and EVERTCLARK in Washington

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King of ChicagoHe stood at th e stove in hi s basement

kitchen, an e lderly widower in sport

shirt and slippers fixing himself a mid

night snack of Italian sausage, sp inachand beans. It was a bot, muggy night in

Scenes from the underworld (clockwise from left):Giancana in 1974; his body at th e morgue; nightclubbing with Phyllis McGuire; home in OakPark

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evidence is incomp le te and some times

contradictory. Moreover, one official

pointed ou t, the whole question ofassas- sinations has been blown out of perspec

tive in Washington's atmosphe re ofpostVatergate moral ism: after all , he said, the

'). had laun ched an armed invasion of•a, and who wouldn ' t have thought it

kay to kill Castro?"rger question was posed by the

g evidence of in ternal sloppi.•e CIA's op erations. There was

•his source sa id , that the c hain1d was occasionally shortthat CIA people were wi llwith the White House and

Department types kn owing

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suburban Oak Pa rk, Ill. , and he openedthe metal door that led to a s tairway and

the backyard, hoping to le t in some air.He poured himself a diet drink and cut aslice of bread from a loaf: The sausageswe re simme ring nicely a little laterwhen the caretaker came downstairsan d found Chicago mobs ter Sam G ian

66, face up n a _puddle o,£ blood,shot Qnce in the mouth and flve times inthe. neck

Th e gangland-style slaying ended along and eventfu l career in cri me that, by

rece nt accounts, had included an abortiv e stint as a hit man for the CIA. A short,ba lding man with a penchant for silksu its, flashy convertibles and flashier

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women, Momo Salvatore Giancana wknown to the public as a gangstergangster a onetime boyfriend of singPhyl1is McGuire ana crony of Fran.Sinatra. But in 'Private, Giancana habeen far more: the two-fisted heir toCapone's e mpire, a mu timillion-dollenterprise compris ing not only in terntional gambling, vice and narcotics, bal so leg itimate busin ess and the owneship ofmayors, police chiefs, state legi

lato S and even congressme n.Giancana had started at the bottom,a wheel man driving getaway cars. O

th e way up he did time for attempte

bu rgla ry and operating an illegal stiand he was a prime suspect in th remurde rs before he was 21. When wbrol<e out and the draft board asked hiwhat he did for a living, Giancana rplied: 1.. stea l." They th ought I wcrazy, he recaTied later, " but boy, wastelling th em the truth. Classified 4-F a

a psychopathic gersonality, he becamlieute nant to Tony ccar:ao and , whe

Accardo stepped or waSJ?ushed aside i 1960s, took over the o. 1 spin the Chicago mob.

bout that-time, the government rQOrtedly _pffered Giancana a second asignment: the assassination of Cuba

Premier Fidel Castro. For a go-betwee·th e CIA apparently chose Robert lal1ea former FBI agent and Howard Hugh•operative. Maheu contacted mobstJohn Roselli, Roselli talked to Cia

cana-and Giancana, who had had extesive gambling interests in p1revolutionary Havana, signed on.

Soldati: By one accoun t, Roselli aGiancana agreed to es tablish a ofSpanish-sp"eakingsoldati , train l 1 e ~guerrilla warfare and ship them ottmurder Castro. Another story, publishby The ew York Times last we

indicated th at th e actual plot waspoison Castro, hi s yo un ger brotl1er Rand Emesto (Che) Guevara. Directed

Giancana from the Fontainebleau Hein Miami , the would-be poisoner m,

ll is move in the spring of 1961-butwas unable to get close enough tothree men at mealtime and left Churriedly before the BayofPigs invas i

Whatever the details-anclMaheu·Roselli may tell more to Sen. F1Church's commitf the e ffortobvi •

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