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Approved For Release 2007/05/21: CIA-RDP88-01070R000100290004-0 RADIO TV REPORTS, INC. 4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068 PROGRAM The Daily Drum STATION WHUR Radio Pacifica Network DATE August 2, 1982 6:00 PM CITY Washington, DC Marilyn Monroe and the CIA FLOYD DONALD: A theory that actress Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the CIA and was not a suicide victim, is coming to the fore again, as we hear in this report from Laurie Lerner. LAURIE LERNER: Mario Spreglio [?] says he's convinced Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide but was murdered because she was about to tell what she knew about CIA-backed attempts to kill Castro. Spreglio, who spent more than a decade investiga- ting the death, says recently demoted LA County Coroner Thomas Naguchi [?] ignored evidence pointing to murder when he conducted the autopsy in 1962. MARLO SPREGLIO: There is a diary that was last seen in the coroner's office on the date of Marilyn Monroe's death. The following day it just disappeared and it was stricken off the inventory. It makes a lot of references to the Kennedys and people involved in what we believe to be a murder-coverup. LERNER: Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the sex goddess, and Spreglio plans to hold a news conference on Wednesday demanding that the case be reopened. SPREGLIO: When I first entered the case approximately ten years ago, I believed that Marilyn Monroe did, in fact, 'commit suicide. But since my lengthy investigation, I determined beyond all reasonable doubt that Marilyn Monroe was murdered and did not commit suicide. SPREGLIO: We believe that she was murdered by a vashion [?~ of the CIA. OFFICES IN: WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT* AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES Material supplied by Radio N Reports. Inc. may be used for file and reference purposes only. It may not be reproduced, sold or publicly demonstrated or exhibited, Approved For Release 2007/05/21: CIA-RDP88-01070R000100290004-0
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040041-1 !RADIO TV REPORTS, INC 4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068 FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF The Daily Drum DATE August 2, 1982 6:00 PM Marilyn Monroe and the CIA STATION WHUR Radio Pacifica Network Washington, DC FLOYD DONALD: A theory that actress Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the CIA and was not a suicide victim, is coming to the fore again, as we hear in this report from Laurie Lerner. LAURIE LERNER: Mario Spreglio [?] says he's convinced Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide but was murdered because she was about to tell what she knew about CIA-backed attempts to kill Castro. Spreglio, who spent more than a decade investiga- ting the death, says recently demoted LA County Coroner Thomas Naguchi (?) ignored evidence pointing to murder when he conducted the autopsy in 1962. . MARLO SPREGLIO: There is a diary that was last seen in the coroner's office on the. date of Marilyn Monroe's death. The following day it just disappeared and it was stricken off the inventory. It makes a lot of references to the Kennedys and people involved in what we believe to be a murder-coverup. LERNER: Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the sex goddess, and Spreglio plans to hold a news conference on Wednesday demanding that the case be reopened. SPREGLIO: When I first entered the case approximately ten years ago, I believed that Marilyn Monroe did, in fact, commit suicide. But since my lengthy investigation, I determined -beyond all reasonable doubt that Marilyn Monroe was murdered and did not commit suicide. LERNER: Who murdered her? SPREGLIO: We believe that she was murdered by a vashion (?) of the CIA. OFFICES IN: WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DFTR?IT ? Anln nn-1F1? PRINCIPAL CITIES Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040041-1
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360010-5 RADIO N REPORTS, INC. 4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEW CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068 PROGRAM The Daily Drum STA11ON WHUR Radio Pacifica Network DATE August 2, 1982 6:00 PM CITY Washington, DC Marilyn Monroe and the CIA FLOYD DONALD: A theory that actress Marilyn Monroe was murdered by the CIA and was not a suicide victim, is coming to the fore again, as we hear in this report from Laurie Lerner. LAURIE LERNER: Mario Spreglio [?] says he's convinced Marilyn Monroe did not commit suicide but was murdered because she was about to tell what she knew about CIA-backed attempts to kill Castro. Spreglio, who spent more than a decade investiga- ting the death, says recently demoted LA County Coroner Thomas Naguchi [?] ignored evidence pointing to murder when he conducted the autopsy in 1962. MARLO SPREGLIO: There is a diary that was last seen in the coroner's office on the date of Marilyn Monroe's death. The following day it just disappeared and it was stricken off the inventory. It makes a lot of references to the Kennedys and people involved in what we believe to be a murder-coverup. LERNER: Thursday marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the sex goddess, and Spreglio plans to hold a news conference on Wednesday demanding that the case be reopened. SPREGLIO: When I first entered the case approximately ten years ago, I believed that Marilyn Monroe did, in fact, commit suicide. But since my lengthy investigation, I determined beyond all reasonable doubt that Marilyn Monroe was murdered and did not commit suicide. SPRECLIO: We believe that she was murdered by a vashion (?) of the CIA. OFFICES IN: WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT ? AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES NCte?~o s,.bo'ueC by Radio N Rernrts 1r rmv M --1 fnr f I -rf rsafu,arro -- --- e ..,r, - -.e...,.,.. ..-:,.. -.,. ,.. _ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360010-5 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360010-5 LERNER: Why, because of some alleged involvment with the Kennedys? SPRECLIO: Well, as to the involvment, I'll hold that till the press conference, if you don't mind. LERNER: Once again, that press conference is on Wednesday. Stay tuned. I'm Laurie Lerner in Los Angeles, reporting for the Pacific News Service. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360010-5
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360008-8 Ems... _ - v_ , rri ` L.n. reopens. inquiry Into Actress' 'Suicide'- By Joan Goulding LOS ANGELES, Aug. 10 (tJPI)- The district attorney's office said today it is investigating Marilyn Monroe's drug overdose death of 20, Y ago because of her mysterious- lY missing "red diary" and allegations of improper handling by the coro- ner's office. District Attorney John Van de Kamp made the disclosure shortly' before the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors -unanimously passed a motion requesting an inves- tigation. The board cited allegations by a former coroner's aide that he was co- erced into signing the death certif- icate for the movie star and that Monroe's diary had mysteriously dis- appeared from the coroner's office. "We should look into allegations made in a series of New York Post articles concerning the. death by drugs of the actress in her hillside home in West Los Angeles," Super.. visor Mike Antonovich :said. Van de Kamp issued a statement saying he_ alreadyhad_di_-ected his office to review reports of Monroe's Aug. 5, 1962, death, which was ruled a suicide. "Early last week, as news accounts on both the East and West coasts raised questions about Miss Monroe's death 20 years ago," he said, "I asked assistant district attor- ney Mike Carroll to gather all rele- vant materials and reports in an at- tempt to put this information into some kind of context. THE WASHINGTON POST 11 August 1982 "Since former district attorney William McKesson apparently never opened an investigation in the Mon- roe death, we had no files of our own. We are in the process now of `` reviewing both the news accounts and official police reports on her death in order to see,.what further:.., ? action may be necessary, if any!-: The supervisors' motion asked the die iict attorney to refer ~tne''matter - to the grand jury "if any or all charges-are substantiated." . "Within .recent days various news accounts have highlighted alleged ir- regularities in the handling of the coroner's investigation into the death of Marilyn 'Monroe,' then motion said.. - _, ..., "Specific news accounts have quoted former coroner's investigator Lionel Grandison, who stated that one, he was coerced into signing Marilyn Monroe's death certificate; two, part of the evidence collected, specifically Marilyn Monroe's diary, was missing from the coroner's office two days after it was brought in; and three; the ' coroner's . investigation into Marilyn Monroe's-death was in- complete." Both the New -York Post and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner have run articles on new questions about Monroe's death... ' L st week shortly before the 20th anniversary of Monroe's death, a ri- va investigator o e -a reward for the -actress:-red di my, i it rove his eo she was ,m e a 'dissident faction of the UW to rotect madi re_I veale to her-by-Robert Kennedy. - Investivator Milo S ri lio claims Monroe threatened to reveal CIA --p ots to kill Cuban resident Fide Castro after Kennedy, then attorney Renerai, refused to marry her, r. Thomas Noguchi, who was de- moted this spring from coroner to .autopsy surgeon, performed the au- topsy on Monroe and concluded that she committed suicide at home by a drug overdose. His attorney, Godfrey Isaac; said Noguchi would have no comment because he is in the midst of a civil service battle to regain his former post. Van de Kamp told ii news confer- ence he expects -the "threshold inqui- ry" to take about'10 days before of- ficials determine if'a'YInll-scale -aim- inal investigation' is warranted. . He said the probe would consist of reviewing ,official records and ques- tioning some of the individuals quoted in recent mews accounts to determine the "veracity' of their statements. * ,. He said an exhumation of Mon- .roe's body would only come "quite a ways down the line," if at all.' Coroner's spokesman Bill Gold said Grandison was a coroner's aide whose duties were mostly clerical, and was not an investigator, as the supervisors identified him. ' Gold also said Grandison's alle- gations about coercion and the miss- ing diary were first made in an in. . terview with the National Enquirer in 1979. Playwright Arthur Mii ler, who had been married to Monroe, said today that -he ;coiildn't comment on any reopening of the case because he has nothing to add `to_ what already ~,- is known. ? ,!.! " 41 just have no information-wbot. soever. I was nowhere near it it e time so there' nothing-i eoul4 say,' Miller said froid`-his 'hazne in! - bury, C411n~ Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360008-8
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ALLEGES CIA INVOLVEMENT IN MARILYN MONROE DEATH
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Approved For Release 2007/03/14 :CIA-RDP88-010708000100310004-7 RADIO N REPORTS, iNC. 4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068 PROGRAM NBC Nightly News STATION WRC TV NBC Network SATE August 10, 1982 7:00 PM CITY Washington, DC SU~IECT Alleges CIA Involvement in Marilyn Monroe Death ROGER MUDD: The Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office said today Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962 is being re-investigated because of her missing diary and because of allegations that the death certificate signature had been coerced. Here's Heidi Shulman in Los Angeles. HEIDI SHULMAN: Los Angeles County Supervisors called for the new investigation after a flurry of publicity given charges Marilyn Monroe was murdered. A private detective offered $10,000 for her missing diary eiaiming it had information a-bout government dealings with gangsters and a plot to kill Fidel Castro, information he said she got from Robert and John Kenndy. Cossip linked Monroe romantically to the Kennedy brothers, and a friend who claims he read the diary says she was about to tell all when she died.. ROBERT SHALTZER: That diary, I would say, would contribute greatly to her death. SHULMAN: The detective theorizes someone in the CIA killed Monroe to keep her quiet. That's at odds with the coroner's report which said she died from an overdose of sleeping pills. But news stories that a coroner's investigator said he was coerced into signing the death certificate prompted supervisors to call for a new probe. MIKE ANTONOVICH: To me, after 20 years, it's time to clear up this case once and for all. SHULMAN: An assistant district attorney is reviewing the information in the ease, but he says that 20 years after OFFICES IN: WASHINGTON D.C. ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT ? AND OTHER PRINCIPAL CITIES Material supplied by Radio N Reports, Inc. may be used for file and reference purposes only. It may not be reproduced, sold or publicly demonstroted or exhibited. Approved For Release 2007/03/14 :CIA-RDP88-010708000100310004-7 r Approved For Release 2007/03/14 :CIA-RDP88-010708000100310004-7 Marilyn Monroe's death, it is so stale it would take huge resources to uncover anything new. Heidi Shulman, NBC News, Los Angeles. Approved For Release 2007/03/14 :CIA-RDP88-010708000100310004-7
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360009-7 RADIO IV REPORTS, INC. 4701 WILLARD AVENUE, CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815 656-4068 FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF PROGRAM NBC Nightly News STATION WRC TV NBC Network DATE August 10, 1982 7:00 PM CITY Washington, DC SUBJECT Alleges CIA Involvem ent in Marilyn Monro e Death ROGER MUDD: The Los Angeles County District Attorneys Office said today Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962 is being re-investigated because of her missing diary and because of allegations that the death certificate signature had been coerced. Here's Heidi Shulman in Los Angeles. HEIDI SHULMAN: Los Angeles County Supervisors called for the new investigation after a flurry of publicity given charges Marilyn Monroe was murdered. A private detective offered $10,000 for her missing diary claiming it had information about government dealings with gangsters and a plot to kill Fidel Castro, information he said she got from Robert and John Kenndy. Gossip linked Monroe romantically to the Kennedy brothers, and a friend who claims he read the diary says she was about to tell all when she died. ROBERT SHALTZER: That diary, I would say, would contribute greatly to her death. SHULMAN:' The detective theorizes someone in the CIA killed Monroe to keep her quiet. That's at odds with the coroner's report which said she died from an overdose of sleeping pills. But news stories that a coroner's investigator said he was coerced into signing the death certificate prompted supervisors to call for a new probe. MIKE ANTONOVICH: To me, after 20 years, it's time to clear up this case once and for all. SHULMAN: An assistant district attorney is reviewing the information in the case, but he says that 20 years after OFFICES IN WASHINGTON D C ? NEW YORK ? LOS ANGELES ? CHICAGO ? DETROIT ? AND OTHER PRIr CIP.A~. CITIES pc r. 07G 1' Re or nc Qv be J&ed to; the one retereroc- b Jrp.Oses On!; . Ieprr.,ucec. Solo or pubrIo, Oemons Ote y or e* r c -E- Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360009-7 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360009-7 Marilyn Monroe's death, it is so stale it would take huge resources to uncover anything new. Heidi Shulman, NBC News, Los Angeles. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360009-7
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040040-2 ARTICLE A_`';.' F:'.D ON PAGE - By Ronald,_ Yates Cnicego Tribune Press Service CHICAGO TRIBUNE 6 AUGUST 1982 Mystery still liii Qit: Marilyn Mbnr~ LOS ANGELES-Ever since Marilyn Monroe's nude body was found sprawled on the bed of her fashionable home 20 years ago in. Brentwood,. Calif:, there .have been questions'-...* Did she .really-die of a ? self-ingested vverdose.of barblttarates;,as'stated in the coroner's official report?. Or was she murdered, injected.with"the lethal drugs against her-will;?as severab-investigators have since insisted? Wednesday, the 20th anniversary of the death of Hollywood's platinum blond sex symbol, -a''Los ;Angeles private inves- tigator-who has spent more than a de- cade probing the case said the answers are in Marilyn Monroe's so-called "red" diary, missing since her body was ex- amined in the Los Angeles :.-coroner's office. "THIS DIARY names names," said Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Harris detective :agency in Van Nuys, Calif. "It may tell us who killed Marilyn Monroe. Speriglio is so confident the diary con- tains incriminating murder evidence that he is offering a $10,000'reward for it. "We know it still exists," said Sperig- lio, who also has demanded that au= thorities reopen the Monroe case and bold an inquest. "I got acall from a New York attorney who told me his client had the book, but would turn it over only to a living blood relative of Miss Monroe's." Monroe's-.only;.living .. relative .is her tnother, who has spent the last several years as a patient in a mental institution,. Speriglio said. There is also a half-sister.' SEVERAL BOOKS written after Mon roe's death have linked her romantically with both former President John F. Ken- nedy and one of his brothers, the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy. According to Speriglio, the missing diary details those affairs and also con- tains information about a CIA plot to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. "Miss Monroe was murdered to keep her from talking about her relationship with the Kennedy brothers, the CIA plot and her association with certain San: Diego Mafia figures," Speriglio said. . Just who may have murdered Monroe is still a matter of conjecture and the wide range of theories have kept the public supplied with an almost inexhaust- ible flow of biographies and counter- biographies. One theory is that Kennedy loyalists in ; the Department of Justice or the Central Intelligence Agency killed Monroe with a lethal dose of barbiturates in order to protect the Kennedy brothers from, scandal. WRITER TONY Sciacca, in his 1976 book "Who Killed Marilyn?" insists that neither Robert nor J.F.K. was involved. or knew anything about the murder al- legedly committed on their behalf. Robert Slatzer, another .writer and close friend of the actress, said in. an earlier book that Monroe had been upset over Robert Kennedy's attempts to break off their alleged affair and was angry; because she couldn't reach the then attor- ,ney general at the Justice Department. 'If he (Robert Kennedy) keeps avoiding' me, I might just call a press conference and tell them about it .. . and my' future plans," Slatzer said Mon- roe told him a few days before her death. Slatzer, who came to Speriglio with his information several years ago, asserts in his book that Robert Kennedy visited .Monroe the . day before her death. "There was definitely a cover-up in Miss Monroe's death," Speriglio said. "Some famous people were protected." JACK CLEMMONS, the Los Angeles Police Department homicide investigator who was the first policeman to-arrive at the- dead actress' house, agrees. "She was murdered by needla injection by someone she knew and probably trusted,". Clemmons told reporters. "This was the cover-up crime of the century-a' matter of the Los Angeles Police Depart. ment and other officials here protecting a famous-political family-of the East who had good reasons to shut : Monroe's mouth,", said Clemmons, who has since' retired- from the force.. Deputy Coroner Lionel Grandison, who signed :the death certificate, has since said he did so under duress. "The whole thing was organized to hide the truth," he said. "An original autopsy file vanished,'a scrawled note that Mari- lyn Monroe wrote and which did not speak of suicide also vanished and so did the first police report. I was told to sign the official report-or I'd find myself in a position I couldn't get out -of. IT IS THE CORONER'S report that is at, the center of the controversy, Speriglio said. Though it says death was caused by the in gestion of barbiturates, there was no trace of pills in the stomach or duodenum when the coroner examined the body., . ; _ Indeed,- .'-A showed barbiturates only in the blood and liver- an"indication .that the drugs were not taken.orally,.,gut rather were in- jectec, ,4 ": -_Deputy Medical Examic er Thomas Noguchi ? who pow holds . ; the same posi tien as-lie did to .1962 when he performed the-autopsy on Monroe, flatly denies as- sertions that there was a cover-up in the star's death. "There is nothing new about this talk and nothing new I know. of about. how Marilyn Monroe-died," said Noguchi, the recently demoted "coroner of the stars." "The case has been investigated, again and again. The autopsy records are pub-: lie information." Noguchi also insisted that no samples were taken from Monroe's stomach because in the early 1960s it was standard practice to rely on blood tests only to determine the presence of drugs. Theodore Curfee,. the Los Angeles County coroner.;wben"?Monroe--died; who has since retired, is sisfs `the- case is closed. , ..: "If someone doesn't-believe it was Sul-' tide, it's z zee'-country,". he recently told a Los Angles newspaper. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01: CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040040-2
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MYSTERY STILL LINGERS ON MARILYN MONROE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/27: CIA-RDP90-00552R000605700081-6 ARTICLE AP PE.' '.I D ON PAG CHICAGO TRIBUNE 6 AUGUST 1982 Mystery still Zin By RonaldYates ,_ Chie.po Tribune Press Service n Marilyn iJfOnroe LOS ANGELES--Ever since Marilyn 1lionroe's nude body was found sprawled on the bed of her fashionable home 20 years ago in. Brentwood,. Calif., there ,have been questions: Did she -rally;-die . of a ? self-ingested overdose, of barbiturates; as'stated in the coroner's official report? Or was she murdered, injected. with the lethal drugs against her-will,-.-as several-investigators have since insisted? Wednesday, the 20th anniversary of the death of Hollywood's platinum blond sex symbol, -a -Los Angeles private inves- tigator- who has spent more than a de- cade probing the case said the answers are in Marilyn Monroe's so-called "red" diary, missing since her body was ex- amined in the Los Angeles:.-coroner's office. "THIS DIARY names names," said Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Harris detective -agency in Van Nuys, Calif. "It may tell us who killed Marilyn Monroe." Speriglio is so confident the diary con- tains incriminating murder evidence that he is offering a $10,000-reward for it. "We know it still exists," said Sperig- lio, who also has demanded that au- thorities reopen the Monroe case and hold an inquest. "I got a.call from a New York attorney who told me his client had the book, but would turn it over only to a living blood relative of Miss Monroe's." Monroe's..only, .living ..relative is her mother, who has spent the last several years as a patient in a mental institution, Speriglio said. There is also a half-sister.' SEVERAL BOOKS written after Mon-' roe's death have linked her romantically with both former President John F. Ken- nedy and one of his brothers, the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy. According to Speriglio, the missing diary details those affairs and also con- tains information about a CIA plot to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. "Miss Monroe was murdered to keep her from talking about her relationship with the Kennedy brothers, the CIA plot; and her association with certain San Diego Mafia figures," Speriglio said. Just who may have murdered Monroe is still a matter of conjecture and the wide range of theories have kept the public supplied with an almost inexhaust- ible flow of biographies and counter- biographies. .One theory is that Kennedy loyalists in. the Department of justice or the Central Intelligence Agency killed Monroe with a lethal dose of barbiturates in order to protect the Kennedy brothers from . scandal. WRITER TONY' Sciacca, In his 1976 book "Who Killed Marilyn?" insists that neither Robert nor J.F.K. was involved. or knew anything about the murder al- legedly committed 'on their behalf. Robert Slatzer, another .writer and close friend of the actress, said in. an earlier book that Monroe had been upset over Robert Kennedy's attempts to break off -their alleged affair and was angry: becauseeshe couldn't reach the then attor- ney general at the Justice Department. ""If he (Robert Kennedy) keeps avoiding me, I might just call a press conference 'and tell them about -it .. . and my future plans," Slatzer said Mon- roe told him a few days before her death. . Slatzer, who came to Speriglio with his information several years ago, asserts in his book that Robert Kennedy visited .Monroe the day before her death. "There was definitely a cover-up in Miss Monroe's death," Speriglio said. "Some famous people were protected." JACK CLEMMONS, the Los Angeles Police Department homicide investigator who was the first policeman to arrive at the- dead actress'" house, agrees. She was mtu'dered by needle injection by someone she knew and probably trusted,". Clemmons told reporters. "This was the cover-up crime of the century--a matter of the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment and other officials here protecting a famous political family of the East who had rood reasons to shut Monroe's mouth," ? said Clemmons, who has since retired from the force. Deputy Coroner Lionel Grandison, who signed 'the death certificate, has since said he did so under duress. "The whole thing was organized to hide the truth," he said. "An original autopsy file vanished, a scrawled note that Mari- lyn Monroe wrote and which did not speak of suicide also vanished and so did the first police report. I was told to sign the official report-or I'd find myself in a. position I couldn't get out of. IT IS THE CORONER'S report that is at the center of the controversy. Speriglio said. Though it says death was caused by the in- gestic,n of barbiturates, there was no trace of pills in the stomach or duodenum when the coroner examined the body., . . Indeed, . toxicologist's report showed barbiturates only in the blood and liver-n'dication -that the drugs were not taken :orally;K but rather were in- jected -Deputy Medical Examiner Thomas .Noguchi.' who now holds the same posi- tion as he did in 19?2 when he performed the autopsy an Monroe, flatly denies as-* sertions that there was a cover-up in the star's death. "There is nothing new about this talk and nothing new I know" of about how Marilyn Monroe-died," said Noguchi, the recently demoted "coroner of the stars." "The case has been investigated . again and again. The autopsy records are pub- lic information." Noguchi also insisted that no samples were taken from Monroe's stomach be- cause in the early 1960s it was standard practice to rely on blood tests only to determine the presence of drugs. Theodore Curfee;. the , Los Angeles County coroner when`'Monroe-died who has since retired, insists the case is' closed. :,,: - "If someone doesn't believe it was sui- cide, it's a: ee?cwuntry,'..'. he recently told a Los Angles newspaper. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/27: CIA-RDP90-00552R000605700081-6
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MYSTERY STILL LINGERS ON MARILYN MONROE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360011-4 CHICAGO TRIBUNE ARTICLE AFr 'F.::'D 6 AUGUST 1982 ON PAGE By Ronald. Yates Mystery still lingers. on Marilyn Ma Cnicpo -row" Press Service LOS ANGELES-Ever since Marilyn llionroe's nude body was found sprawled on the bed of her fashionable home 20 years ago in. Brentwood,. Calif., there .have been questions. . Did she - really.-die of a ? self-ingested overdose of barbiturates;as'stated in the coroner's official report? Or was she murdered, injected_with'the lethal drugs against.her-will,:as several--investigators have since insisted? Wednesday, the 20th anniversary of the death of Hollywood's platinum blond sex symbol, ' a -Los Angeles private inves- tigator-who has spent more than a de- cade probing the case said the answers are in Marilyn Monroe's so-called "red" diary, missing since her body was ex- amined in the Los Angeles :.-coroner's off ice. . "THIS DIARY names names," said Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Harris detective -agency in Van Nuys, Calif. "It inay tell us who killed Marilyn Monroe." Speriglio is so confident the diary con- tains incriminating murder evidence that he is offering a $10,000 `reward for it. "We know it still exists," said Sperig- lio, who also has demanded that au- thorities reopen the Monroe case and hold an inquest. "I got a call from a New York attorney who told me his client had the book, but would turn it over only to a living blood relative of Miss Monroe's." Monroe's-.only; .living relative as her mother, who has spent the last several years as a patient in a mental institution, Speriglio said. There is also a half-sister.- SEVERAL BOOKS written after Mon-' roe's death have linked her romantically with both former President John F. Ken- nedy and one of his brothers, the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy. According to Speriglio, the missing diary details those affairs and also con- tains information about a CIA plot to kill Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. "Miss Monroe was murdered to keep her from talking about her relationship ! with the Kennedy brothers, the CIA plot and her association with certain San Diego Mafia figures," Speriglio said. Just who may have murdered Monroe is still a matter of conjecture and the wide range of theories have kept the public supplied with an almost inexhaust- ible flow of biographies and counter- biographies. One theory is that Kennedy loyalists in. the Department of justice or the Central Intelligence Agency killed Monroe with a lethal dose of barbiturates in order to protect the Kennedy brothers from, scandal. WRITER TONY Sciacca, in his 1976, book "Who Killed Marilyn?" insists that neither Robert nor J.F.K. was involved. or knew anything about the murder al- legedly committed on their behalf. Robert Slatzer, another writer and close friend of the actress, said in. an earlier book that Monroe had been upset over Robert Kennedy's attempts to break off their alleged affair and was angry; because she couldn't reach the then attor- ney general at the Justice Department. "If he (Robert Kennedy) keeps avoiding me, I might just call a press conference -and tell them about it .. . and my' future plans," Slatzer said Mon- roe told him a few days before her death. . Slatzer, who came to Speriglio with his information several years ago, asserts in his book that Robert Kennedy visited ,Monroe the day before her death. "There was definitely a cover-up in Miss Monroe's death," Speriglio said. "Some famous people were protected." JACK CLEMMONS, the Los Angeles Police Department homicide investigator who was the first policeman to arrive at the- dead actress'. house, agrees. "She was murdered by needle injection by someone she knew and probably trusted,". Clemmons told reporters. "This was the cover-up crime of the century-a' matter of the Los Angeles Police Depart- ment and other officials here protecting a famous political family of the East who had good reasons to shut Monroe's mouth," - said Clemmons, who has since retired from the force. Deputy Coroner Lionel Grandison, who signed :the death certificate, has since said he did so under duress. "The whole thing was organized to hide the truth," he said. "An original autopsy file vanished, a scrawled note that Mari- lyn Monroe wrote and which did not speak of suicide also vanished and so did the first police report. I was told to sign' .the official report-or I'd find myself in a, position I couldn't get out nf. IT IS THE CORONER'S report that is at the center of the controversy. Speriglio said. Though it says death was caused by the in- gestian of barbiturates, there was no trace of pills in the stomach or duodenum when the coroner examined the body., . Indeed, 'a toxicologist's report showed barbiturates only in the blood and liver--an'tndication that the drugs were not taken orally, -but rather were in- ':'.-Deputy Medical Exa-r'diner Thomas Noguchi;' who now holds the same posi- tion as he did in 1962 when he performed the` autopsy o`n Monroe, flatly denies as- sertions that there was a cover-up in the star's death. "There is nothing new about this talk and nothing new I know. of about how Marilyn Monroe-died." said Noguchi, the recently demoted "coroner of the stars." "The case has been investigated. again and again. The autopsy records are pub- lic information." . Noguchi also insisted that no samples' were taken from Monroe's stomach be- cause in the early 1960s it was standard practice to rely on blood tests only to determine the presence of drugs. Theodore Curfee, the Los . Angeles County coroner ;when -Monroee- c1 d who' has since retired, insists the case is- closed. "If someone doesn't- believe it was sui- cide, it's a*ee-country,'.' he recently told a Los Angeles newspaper. - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360011-4
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THE MARILYN MONROE 'MYSTERY'
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360007-9 ARTICLE APPEARED ON PAGE #4-/0 CHICAGO TRIBUNE 12 AUGUST 1982 ;.The Manly l: a oe `m ste Maybe the Los'Angeles county.supervisors..~vM'7;..bein used to support -.' vate investivattee low prove ; jastified :m reopening the case ?of Marilyn ' ' Tim t she not die o an o ose of nffls Monroe's. death 20 years ago in order to. anvesti; ,,,i t was murdered by the CIA in er to iprotect gate sinister, rumors of murder.,. But one, can't ,.:.cert ain secrets. what's more, the f5eary- goes, the. ,help suspecting that they have been seduced by secrets were told her by the late Robert F: the temptation to be participants in a front-page... . Kennedy, who was later murdered himself and mystery story. , involved a plot' on the. life of Fidel Castro..(If. Agatha Christie and Conan. Doyle thought `-up' ,prominent names, attract .attention, Whip. . skimp their own plots; 'other mystery writers find -it And its _ only, a step farther. to .tie in with: the' easier to borrow'-?enough from real life to get' shopworn . theory that Castro had a-hand . in the .,public attention and then attach their own intri- ? assassination of John F. -guing versions of what really happened. If -Shake- ' We shall await the results of this new:investiga-, speane. could -persuade the world-.that Julius`:- lion, but not with bated"breath; After'all;;sorne. ? `Caesar's last words were "Et tu, Brute," ',wby l shoddy evidence - in a pornography.. can, disap., shouldn't other ' writers hope to win fame and ' geared from the files of the U.S. Supreme.. Court :riches by embellishing. the prevailing accounts of I ' recently and -nobody suggested sinister motives. ? 'the death of people like Abraham Lincoln, John F. There is far less reason to look for sinister Kennedy, and now Marilyn Monroe? motives in the disappearance of Marilyn Monroe's' The disc arance of Miss Monroe's red diary diary from a local office. The obvious motives rom the coroners office shortly after her death .is should be adequate. . Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360007-9
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TWENTY YEARS AFTER SHE DIED, MARILYN MONROE IS STILL ALLOWED NO PEACE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360002-4 REUTERS 30 AUGUST 1982 Ro;iald Clarke LOS A^JGELES Twenty years after she died, Marilyn Monroe is still allowed no peace. Rewards of up to $100,000 have been offered for her so-called red diary, a private detective believes she was killed by a dissident faction of the CIA and a former coroner's aide claims he was coerced into signing hdr death certificate. Robert Slatzer, author of "The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Conroe," published in 1974, told reporters that in the last summer of her life miss Monroe was having an affair with Senator Kennedy. He said Miss Monroe showed him her diary, which included details GF her relationship with Kennedy, who was then U.S. attorney general, and information about the CIA. Slatzer said Kennedy broke off his relationship with Miss Monroe two wee;cs before her death. "This was a woman who couldn't take rejection," Slatzer said. He said an the night before she died she told him by telephone if she did not hear from Kennedy soon she would call a press conference "and blow the lid." Michael Speriglio, a member of a leading Los Angeles private detective agency who said he had been investigating Miss Monroe's for 10 years, offered a $'JJ,OOO reward for the diary. He said he had evidence, which he did not specify, th:3t the diary included entries of Kennedy telling Miss Monroe of a CIA plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro. He told a press conference he had uncovered through sources a plot organized by the CIA to kidnap Miss Monroe and take her to a "safe house" in Virginia, where the CIA has its headquarters. "The faction intended to make known later Miss Monroe had suffered a nervous breakdown so no one would accept what she said," Speriglio said. But, he said, he believed what he called a dissident CI r g Miss Monroe first and murdered her. Dr. Theodore Curphey, who was Los Angeles coroner when Miss Monroe died, has disputed claims she was murdered. "These stories have circulated for years," he said. "There is no point to them." A CIA spokesman dismissed the murder claims as false and absurd. But the Monroe mystique continues. E`-URET Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360002-4
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A FORMER CORONER S AIDE WHO CLAIM HE WAS FORCED TO SIGN MARILYN MONROE S DEATH CERTIFICATE SAID TODAY A FILE ON THE ACTRESS WAS ALTERED AND THAT HER DIARY DISAPPEARED FROM A SAFE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01: CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040037-6 Reuters i August 26, 1982' ILOS AUSFLES 'By Ronald Clarke, -A former coroner's aide who-claims he was forced to sign Marilyn Monroe's death cei?tificate said today a file an the actress was altered and that her diary disappeared from a safe. Lionel Grandison told a news conference he leafed through the diary and it contained references to a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro and also to President John F. Kennedy and to Senator Robert Kennedy. He gave no details. Miss Monroe died 20 years ago aged 36 of what the coroner's office said then was a self-induced overdose of barbiturates. Rewards of up to $100,000 were offered recently for the diary. Private detective Milo Speriglio said he had evidence the diary included entries saying that Robert Kennedy told Miss Monroe of a CIA plot to kill Castro. Speriglio said he believed a dissident CIA faction murdered Miss Monroe before she could reveal the plot. "The diary was put in a safe one day, and when we opened the safe the next day, it was gone," Grandison said. He said in the days following the discovery of Miss Monroe's body in her Los Angles home, people he believed were from the CIA came to the coroner's office. "Three or four people came in to investigate Marilyn's file. You can tell the. difference between a police office and a heavyweight," said Grandison, now an aC'vertising executive. Asked about his previous claim he was coerced into signing the death certificate,- he said he was ordered to sign it and it was implied that if he did not he would be dismissed. He said he was reluctant to sign because of the absence of a report from the coroner's suicide investigators and of reports normally available for Inspection. He claitcd the file on Miss Monroe was altered several times and a diagram Of her body was renoved from the file. Graudis.on said his arrest six months after Miss Monroe died on a charge o stealing a credit card may have been arranged. "I was asking too many questions," he said. The Los A:;geles district attorney's office announced two weeks ago it was trying to establish the chain of events in the last 24 hours of Miss Mon roe's life. The county Board of Supervisors requested the office to investigate claims made by Lrandison. Grandison said today he 'iad still. not been contacted by the District Attorney's office. A spokesman for the office refused to comment. Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01 : CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040037-6 .
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LOS ANGELES INQUIRY ON MARILYN MONROE RULES OUT A MURDER
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360001-5 ARTICT tS~1 PAGE NEW YORK TIMES 29 DECEMBER 1982 Los Angeles Inquiry On Marilyn Monroe Rules Out a Murder The flurry of speculation that she was murdered eoncided with the 20th anni- versary of the death. A private investi- V or, Milo Speriglio, and Robert Slaty- who says be secretly married the ac- tress on Oct. 4, 1951, in Tijuana, Mexico, said that miss Monroe was killed ? shortly after the end of a romance with .Robert F. Kennedy, then the Attorney General. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28 (AP) - Marilyn Monroe either killed herself or accidentally took an overdose of barbit- urates, the District Attorney said today after a review of the actress's death in 1962. The review was ordered after a Los Angeles private detective argued she was murdered by "a dissident faction" of the Central Intelligence Agency-or similar group. "Based on the evidence available to us," District Attorney John Van de Kamp said, "it appears that her death could have been a suicide or a result of an accidentaldrug overdose. "It is possible that while her ingestion of a lethal quantity of barbiturates was voluntary, she may have been in such a state of emotional confusion that she. lacked a clearly formed purpose." He Plans No Further Inquiry Mr. Van de Kamp said no further criminal investigation into Miss Mon- roe's death was planned. The District Attorney's office decided on the review because there was no dis- trict attorney's investigation at the time, and because of recent reports con- tending Miss Monroe was murdered, supposedly because she knew of a plot against Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader. The report said that a murder "would have required a massive, in-place con-_ spiracy covering all the principals at the death scene, including "the actual killer or killers; the chief ipedical ex- aminer-coroner; the autops}'surgeon to. whom the case was fortuitously as- signed; and most all of the police offi cers assigned to the case as well as their "Our inquiries and document exami- nation uncovered no credible evidence supporting a murder theory," the re- portsaid. Miss Monroe's body was found sprawled an the bed of her home in Brentwood on Aug. 5, IM. The county coroner ruled her death a suicide by Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/16: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360001-5
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MARILYN MONROE SLAIN: PRIVATE EYE
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360013-2 WASHINGTON TIMES 3 AUGUST 1982 Marilyn Monroe slain: private eye LOS ANGELES - A private investigator yesterday offered a $10,000 reward for Marilyn Monroe's diary to prove the sex goddess was murdered to stop her from exposing a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro. Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Har- ris detective agency, said after spending more than a decade investigating Miss Monroe's death, "I can say with 1,000 percent accuracy that she was murdered." Speriglio said the "red diary" would prove Miss Mon- roe did not commit suicide 20 years ago this Thursday. Instead, he said, the 36-year-old blonde was injected with drugs by a "dissident" faction of the CIA to keep her from holding a news conference she had planned for the next day to disclose the plot to kill Castro. A CIA spokesman in Washington said the story of the alleged murder plot was "absolutely false, totally absurd" Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/08/20: CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360013-2
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01: CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040039-4 WASHINGTON TIMES 3 AUGUST 1982 Marilyn Monroe slain: private eye LOS ANGELES - A private investigator yesterday offered a $10,000 reward for Marilyn Monroe's diary to prove the sex goddess was murdered to stop her from exposing a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro. Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Har- ris detective agency, said after spending more than a decade investigating Miss Monroe's death, "I can say with 1,000 percent accuracy that she was murdered:' Speriglio said the "red diary" would prove Miss Mon- roe did not commit suicide 20 years ago this Thursday. Instead, he said, the 36-year-old blonde was injected with drugs by a "dissident" faction of the CIA to keep her from holding a news conference she had planned for the next day to disclose the plot to kill Castro. A CIA spokesman in Washington said the story of the alleged murder plot was "absolutely false, totally absurd:' Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/07/01: CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040039-4
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INFORMATION REVIEW & RELEASE (IRR) NEWS FOR 1 OCTOBER - 5 OCTOBER 2001 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103 ADMINI3TRATIVE INTERNAL UgE ONLY Information Review & Release (IRR) News for 1 October - 5 October 2001 Executive Summary Immediate Calendar: (U//A1440) October 2001: The Automatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed general material older than 25 years. (UHALLI11) 31 October 2001: Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP): Next Liaisons' meeting at Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB), Washington, DC. Future Planning Calendar: (UHA-1+1.0)- April 2003: The AutTatic Declassification Date per Executive Order 12958, as amended, for unreviewed intelligence-related or multi-agency records. Overview of IRR Activities Last Week: (U//M+144)�FOIA/PA & EO MDRs (11//A�14343) CIA Exceeds Annual FOIA-PA and EO Goals (U///r1110) The Agency closed FY 2001 by reducing its backlog of pending Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Privacy Act (PA) cases by almost 19 percent; well in excess of the 15 percent goal that had been established for the fiscal year. The Agency also exceeded its FY 2001 goal for reducing the number of pending Executive Order (EO) Mandatory requests. By the end of FY 2001, the backlog of requests had been reduced to 797 cases, which represents a 24-percent reduction in the backlog; more than double the 10 percent goal that had been set for the year. � These are exceptional accomplishments and are a reflection of the hard work of the staffs in the CIO, Directorate IR0s, and those IMOs and other personnel in the components that assist in processing the cases. (U//A-WeJrCIA Declassification Center (U//A.W14) CIA Declassification Center Meets Annual Goal (Ullikflt1E)) The CIA Declassification Center (CDC) met the FY 2001 goal of 30 million pages reviewed and 7 million pages released. The CDC provided the National Archives and Records Adminstration with 4.8 million pages of released film and hardcopy products and prepared 2.3 million pages for the CIA Records Search Tool (CREST), which is a database of CIA declassified records available to the public on terminals located at NARA in College Park, Maryland. The FY 2001 CREST data are undergoing a final review prior to transfer to NARA for issues that may have emerged based on the 11 September terrorist act. (U//HQ) From the Archives: Vodka from Sawdust (U//43e) In a 1954 CIA report that was recently reviewed by the DO team at the CIA Declassification Center, an intelligence source described a visit to a large distillery in the Soviet Union near the city of Khabarovsk. The distillery purportedly manufactured vodka from sawdust. The vodka was reportedly inferior as a beverage but was effective as hydraulic fluid in artillery brakes. (UHALLIL1)�Publications Review Board (U//A4430)-PRB Exceeds Last Year's Record for Pages Reviewed (UHAIU ) The Publications Review Board exceeded last year's record for pages reviewed with the help of two (b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(3) Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103 Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103 ADMINISTRATIVE - INTERNAL UCE ONLY novels the Board received on the last day of the fiscal year. For FY 2001, the Board reviewed 26,002 pages and 304 manuscripts, compared with 25,448 pages and 308 manuscripts for FY 2000. (b)(3) (b)(5) (b)(3) (b)(5) � The Board reached a "no objection" decision on approximately 82% of the submissions and withdrew its objections after author rewrites on the overwhelming majority of the remaining submissions. � One author appealed the Board's final decision, but withdrew before the Executive Director made a final Agency decision. The author rewrote his manuscri t, removed the objectionable text, and received Board approval to publish. (UHALLIO) FOIA Requests (UNarftteF) Associated Press Seeks Documents on Osama Bin Laden (11//7=) A requester with the Associated Press in New York sought "all preprocessed documents pertaining to Osama Bin Laden/Bin Ladin and A1-Qaida/A1-Qaeda from the database of 'officially released information in electronic format." � The FOIA case officer provided the requester with 17 documents on these subjects, consisting of 178 pages from the Management of Officially Released Information (MORI) database. a (UMTP1111). National Security Archive Continues Interest in South America (uthtrtirr) The National Security Archive requested information on "the Servicio de Inteligencia de la Defensa (SID) located in Uruguay, from 1970 to the early 1980s;" "the Uruguayan Unit of Military and Police Forces from the 1970s to the early 1980s, this unit is also known as the Organsimo Coordinador de Operaciones Antisubersivas (Coordinating Organization for Anti-Subversive Operations-OCOA);" and "the Direccion Nacional de Informacion e Inteligencia (DNII) located in Uruguay from 1970s to the early 1980s." (UHAILLO.)-Bequesters Renew Interest in Document on Marilyn Monroe (UHALLIC1) Two requests were submitted last week for an alleged CIA document dated 3 August 1962 relating to Marilyn Monroe. According to one of the requesters the document "pertains to wiretaps on the telephones of both Marilyn Monroe and syndicated columnist Dorothy Kilgalen. This document is included in the book The Last Days (b)(3) (b)(3) At7171114L�Y� Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103 Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103 ADMINICTRATIVE INTERNAL U3E ONLY of Marilyn Monroe ." � The FOIA case officer advised the requesters that searches have been conducted for this document in earlier requests and no responsive records were located. (U//AcH3f+) Newspaper Seeks Documents on US - Afghanistan Business Dealings (U//AIU ) The business editor of the Daily Record in York, Pennsylvania sought "a list of the US citizens or businesses who have violated US law by doing business with Afghanistan since January 1, 2000 through September 18, 2001." � The FOIA case officer advised the requester of the foreign intelligence mission of the CIA and suggested that he contact the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance. Thk kg, rornrrl CC: Sent on 11 October 2001 at 04:32:08 PM (b)(3) (b)(3) (b)(3) ADMINISTRATIVE INTERNAL U3E ONLY Approved for Release: 2019/03/27 C05578103
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