In one CIA anti-Castro operation, an associate of Robert Maheu left wiretapping equipment openly in a Las Vegas hotel room, leading a maid to discover it, local police to be called, and the associate's identity and actions to be recorded in the Clark County justice system.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by declassified CIA memoranda, HSCA report, and secondary sources drawing on Church Committee findings; details align across independent sources. [tier=gold indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable]
Sources
- The Mysterious Blunderings of the CIA (seed:military_and_intelligence)
- https://www.spyculture.com/clandestime-252-robert-maheu-the-cias-fixer-in-hollywood/ (corroboration)
- https://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol10/pdf/HSCA_Vol10_CastroPlots.pdf (corroboration)
- https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1961-63v10/d337 (corroboration)
- https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2007/06/the-cia-castro-and-the-mafia-2.html (corroboration)