Cryptonym: QJWIN-1
104-10061-10115: LIST OF NAMES RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION
List of cryptonyms and pseudonyms was provided to HSCA staffers at their request by the CIA. See 104-10079-10112: This document states that Mankel is his real name while John J. Berger is his alias.
104-10061-10115: LIST OF NAMES RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION INVESTIGATION
Jose Marie Andre Mankel is linked to QJWIN from another page in the document that appears in this list of cryptonyms and pseudonyms that was provided to HSCA staffers at their request by the CIA.
104-10331-10194: NOTE: JFK BOARD 14 OCTOBER MEETING - RESULTS
This document states Jose Andre Mankel was part of Central Intelligence Agency Project ZRRIFLE and was undertaking identical activities during the time Agency employees assigned them to QJWIN. Mankel's last CIA contact was the same month QJWIN was terminated.
104-10185-10079: Oliver B. Altman Identity Follows, would like to meet Mankel Fran 30 October
10/26/60 cables reveal that Oliver B. Altman is Justin O'Donnell who officials schedule to meet Jose Mankel (QJWIN) in France.
104-10185-10078: Subject now in Paris, Possibility will contact Jouvenoy 29 October
10/27/60 cable relates "Subject now in Paris" and a note on the bottom of the message states "Gave contact instructions for Mankel meet Fran."
104-10185-10011: Altman met Mankel
11/2/60 cable: Justin O'Donnell, the CIA representative of Richard Bissell, using the pseudonym Oliver Altman met with Jose Mankel to discuss his assigned duties.
Summary of Pertinent Testimony Pertaining to Richard Bissell
Re 1/26/61: A summary of Deputy Director for Plans Richard M. Bissell's testimony to Congress that states the person who recruited QJWIN for William K. Harvey was Arnold Silver, and that the date of this recruitment was 1/26/61.
104-10185-10409: QJWIN CONTRACT
A contract for QJWIN containing the identity of the person being compensated as Jose Marie Andre Mankel.
3/17/61 cable from FI/D/Ops Arnold Silver x 4652 to Luxembourg: "Please ask QJWIN whether he can meet Rabney entrance Wiesbaden Kurhaus 28 Mar 1300 hours, alternate lobby Nassauer Hof hotel, 29 Mar 1300 hours. Should come prepared travel Europe for about two weeks, possibly longer...tell him will at same time discuss Leopoldville assignment and have him sign contract." Also see Lamar Waldron, Ultimate Sacrifice (2005), pp. 495-496: "QJWIN was run out of the CIA's Luxembourg station, and was paid from the CIA's Paris station, and there are indications that they - and McCone - were not fully briefed about QJWIN's assassin-recruitment activities...(in May 1978) Phillips de Vojoli, who headed French intelligence in the US in 1963..,'talked generally about plots against Castro and an offer by French Intelligence to the CIA to carry out the Castro assassination for them.'" This is based on notes from Senate investigator James P. Kelly, on file at the Assassination Archives Research Center. Kelly had worked for RFK in the late 50s. De Vosjoli was also referred to in the late 70s as TOPAZ.
July 1962: Arnold Silver writes to William K. Harvey: "I happen to know that QJWIN can do more spotting in Corsican circles whenever we want him to." He mentions that the two candidates in Italy are available that QJWIN spotted "a year and a quarter ago". The math suggests April 1961 - the month of the Bay of Pigs.
104-10185-10428: Adminstrative/Finance - QJWIN
9/26/63 dispatch: This official document presents some files notes about the operational costs and accounting regarding the use of QJWIN.
1993.07.22.14:50:39:340280: Reel 14, Folder L - QJWIN ZRRIFLE
This document links QJWIN to Project ZRRIFLE for developing "executive action capability" or the potential use of assassination targeting foreign leaders. While the file does not indicate QJWIN was used for assassination, it was among his considered uses in the Congo. The document clarifies "...the virtual absence of any written material on this subject suggests that activities dealing with the 'executive action capability' were not intended to be committed to writing."