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- 286 - * The author. of, this" h~s.tary.has .unsuccessfully trie~ t:o track down this particular project. AMHINT'was related to the work of the Directorio·Revolucionario·Estudiantil (DRE), an anti-Castro organization inside Cuba. The only evidence that has been found which might have been related to an assassination attempt concerned an AMHINT request of 14 January 1961 for tlSilenciadores Rifles de marilla telescopica." (A request for rifles with silencers and telescopic sights.) This might have had to do with a DRE plan to assassinate the Soviet Ambassador to Cuba rather than a plan to kill Castro. When the FOB in Miami heard about the plan against the Soviet official they "immedi- ately sent .•• [word] to AMHINT~l forbiddinq planned latentado' [assassination]." 14/ than annoy the Cubans, but as suggest'e'd, .WH/4 wo-tild not have' ,. objected if the broadcasts had' stimulated someone to elimina~e Che. covered. tI What I woul.d love now [is] to see an outline of._ AMHINT.-..!--l.3L_._. _ ==:::::;;;;;=~------..l About the same time that the AMHINT program was mentioned, ...... In a cryptic. entry in his personal notes, Dick Dr~in indica ted that the success of 0 th'e disinformation ploy would be most likely way to pick up word of an a.ttempt' on' Guevara I slife.o " There is no indication ihat this project was 'intended to do more , ! . I J~,! followed as "CI and.D ,watch 'Gueverra [sic] assassination attempt."I....··" The Counter Intelligence and Division D alert~-Division D was respons~ble.for intercepting radio tr~ffic--would have been the " I. phoned following line to Wilkinson for Sw·an:••. (d) At- '. 15J tempted assassination of Guevara. l~ ~1 WH/4 apparently' was involved in adisinformation action where're- "'( ports of an attempt.·to assassi~ate Che Guevara were tq be directedl I • I, ::ec::~ 4f:::p:::n::AN::::r:::e:7r::::u:::n::::t::n::0:::nt::::nd. /'