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J;()p SEC~T aware of some sort of planned assassination·activity. One of the principals of WH/4 recorded that on 24 Feb- ruary 1961 he: Asked Ed [Stanulis], Dave P[hillips], (Ed} Hinkle, (Bob} Moore, and Jake (Ester- line] why not proceed with Operation AMHINT to set up a program of assassina- tion. 12/ Although the author of that remark was Chief of Operations for Project J~~TE, he was unaware, as re- ported earlier in this chapter, of the Mafia connection; ...~.... but he had indicated that one of his hopes was that the invasion might lead to the death of Castro.* In response to a specific question about the AMHINT pro- gram, all he could say was: * I said that I was not failing to give some attention to the business of assas- sination. Now, here on the 24th o£ Feb- ruary, when I asked Ed, Dave Phillips, Hinkle, Moore, and Jake "wny not proceed with Operation AMHINT to set up a program of assassination," either none of those bastards knew anything about Sheffield Edwards and Maheu in the Mafia ... or some of them did, and didn't see fit to say "Drain, take your AMHINT and stuff it. We've got this thing pretty well See pp. 279-281. - 285 - ""fOP SECRET ,