Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# 13-00000ORIGI: MARY KOUREMBISUNIT: E/AS/SEXT: 7963/9108DATE: 7 JUNE 1968CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATIONMESSAGE FORMTOTAL COPIES: 29SECRET![Routing and/or initials seen by]BY: 53INDEX DESTROY RETURN TO BRANCH FILE RIDCONF: EUR 6 RID COPYX NO INDEX FILE IN CS FILE NO. 201-746537INFO: FILE VR DDP, ADDP, Cl, cI/oPS, cs/20c/1/02, c/RA, CA 5, SECUR 4, FlSECRETTO: ZURICH/INFO BERNINK MHORDER WOMUSE07 22 59Z JUN 68REF: ZURICH 1331 (IN 25955)*![Signatures and titles]1. RICHARD CASE NAGELL, AKA JOE CRAMER, JOE KRANE, ROBERT C. NOLAN, 201-746537, WELL KNOWN TO LNERGO. SUBJECT ENTERED US ARMY 1948 HONORABLY DISCHARGED CAPTAIN 1959. DURING KOREAN CONFLICT RECEIVED MANY CAMPAIGN AWARDS. SOLE SURVIVOR AIRPLANE CRASH NOVEMBER 1954, SEVERAL SUFFERED FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT AND GIVEN/PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATIONS. MOTHER, BROTHER, FORMER WIFE, AND FRIEND OF NAGELL ALL CONSIDER HIM TO BE MENTALLY DISTRUBED. NO INDICATION NAGELL INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE COMMUNIST PARTY, OR FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE ACTIVITY.2. IN 1964 LETTER TO LNERGO NAGELL REFERRED TO ANOTHER LETTER RE OSWALD. WHICH HE ALLEGEDLY WROTE TO LNERGO IN 1963/ LNERGO FILES CONTAIN NO RECORD OF 1963 LETTER. NAGELL IMPRISONED ON BANK ROBBERY CHARGE AND HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.3. WE ASSUME BERN PASSING REFERENCE INFO TO LNERGO.![Signatures and titles]END OF MESSAGEC/EUR CI/STAFF C/E/ASRELEASING OFFICER COORDINATING OFFICERS AUTHENTICATING OFFICERSECRET![GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification]REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.COPY NO. 3//mc
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# SECRET13-0000018 January 1968SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case## ALLEGATION:Richard Case NAGELL, "a highly decorated infantry Captain in the Korean War", alleges that he became a CIA agent. He said he fired the gun in the bank at El Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custody when the assassination of President KENNEDY took place. NAGELL charged that "the FBI illegally seized from him evidence crucial to his defense, such as notebooks containing the names of certain CIA employees, photographs, two Mexican tourist cards (one in the name of Joseph KRAMER, the other in the name of Albert HIDEL) and receipts for registered mail, including the one for the letter sent HOOVER warning of the assassination. NAGELL claimed he was instructed to "arrow" the patsy, that is kill him (OSWALD) after the assassination. He contended he got cold feet and this was his reason for the attempted bank robbery, he would rather be arrested than commit murder and treason. The article alleges that while it was suggested in court that an airplane crash NAGELL survived mentally affected him, he was given intelligence training after the crash. Also, NAGELL complains he has been salted away because of what he knows.## CIA CONNECTION:None; although, Subject was of interest to OS in 1964 and early 1965 because of information furnished to the Agency by the FBI that he had in his possession the names of six CIA employees at the time of his arrest for bank robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20 September 1963.SECRET> [Figure: Stamp]> GROUP 1> Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification
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# SECRETSOURCE:1968 RAMPARTSArticle by WillianW. TURNER## OS INDICES RESULTS:Subject became of interest to the Office of Security in March 1964 when the FBI informed the Agency that Subject had in his possession at the time of his arrest for bank robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20 September 1963 the name of Richard FECTEAU (an individual by this name was captured by the Chinese Communists and is now in prison in China) and of six Agency employees. Research failed to reveal any reason why NAGELL had these names in his possession. It was concluded that while NAGELL is unquestionably unbalanced, his story of being involved in espionage is not fully contradicted by evidence. Ho could have been contacted by a Soviet agent while in Washington, D. C. in December 1962 or while he was in Mexico City in September and October 1962. His file contains mostly FRI reports dated 1962 and 1964 and in these are documented his history of mental instability and physical complaints stemming from the plane crash. Attached is a chronology dated 3 March 1965 made from the information contained in the FBI reports. At the time this security research was conducted, it was recommended that NAGELL be personally interviewed by a representative of 05 in the hope that NAGELL might reveal how he came into the possession these names but no further action is indicated in his file and this interview was not undertaken.## DETAILS:Subject's file reflects no Agency interest in him prior to March 1964 when the names of CIA employees were found in his possession when arrested for bank robbery.The RAMPARTS claim that he received intelligence training after the plane crash is true. The crash occurred 28 November 1954 and he graduated from Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holebird, Maryland on 15 August 1955. He served in Korea and Japan as a member of the V. S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, terminating about 1958. A Lt. Col. Bed W. OLEAN who served with NAGELL personally in Korea advised that NAGELL was not stable mentally and that this instability was probably due to brain damage suffered in the airplane crash.The RAMPARTS article's claim that NAGELL said he fired the gun in the bank at El Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custody when the assassination took place is not completely in conflict with a statement NAGELL made on 1 January 1964 which was, however, after the assassination. (ses page 4 of chronology)The RAMPARTS article's allegation that the FBI took from NAGELL a note- book containing the names of CIA employees is true.HAGELL's complaint that he was "salted away is open to speculation. A ten year prison sentence does appear harsh, considering the documented brain
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SECRETdamage he suffered in the B-25 plane crash while he was in the U. S. Army.SECRET
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ARRBNOTE reflectsVelactionesin last ofdocument ofThis packageSTATE DEPT TELEGRAMS RE RICHARD NAGELL1) DATED:1.  25 MAR 19692.  16 APR. 19693.  17 APR. 19694.  22 MAY.19692) Psychiatrist's REPORT, STATE AIRGRAM FROM Berlin   DATED 29 OCT. 19683) STATE DEPT. TELEGRAMS DATED 19 OCT. 1968   AND 22 OCT. 1968
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TRANSMITTAL SLIPDATE 11-6-69TO: Mr. MurphyROOM NO. BUILDINGREMARKS:File on RichardCase Nageel,#264 170, ispermanent to Sarah Hall, This is aJames GarrisonCase.FROM: JanetROOM NO. BUILDING EXTENSIONFORM NO. 241 REPLACES FORM 36-8 WHICH MAY BE USED.TRANSMITTAL SLIPDATE -3TO: JanetROOM NO. BUILDINGREMARKS:Check of SRS hasn FFOB has file onThis on card aren't.fost run Tracesbut don't pull filesStuFROM:ROOM NO. BUILDING EXTENSIONFORM NO. 241 REPLACES FORM 36-8 WHICH MAY BE USED.
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# 99146 Department of StateCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY 40PER # TOTAL COPIES: 19 TELEGRAMFILE, RF. ONE, OCI/NES, HR/otaCR/E, INDICO, OER2, DES, SECURCONFIDENTIAL HCG 639PAGE 01 STATE 06905317ORIGIN SCS 04INFO OCT 01, EUR 08,SCA 01,PPT 02, CIAE 00, INR 07, NSAE 00, RSC 01, DODE 00,TRSY 11,/035 R66665DRAFTED BY: SCA:SCS: HLUPPI/WRJOCHIMSENAPPROVED BY: SCS: HOBART LUPPIPPT:MR. RITCHIE (PHONE)R 022142Z MAY 69 075118FM SECSTATE WASHD CTO AMCONSUL FRANKFURTINFO AMEMBASSY PARISAMEMBASSY ROMEAMEMBASSY MADRIDAMCONSUL ZURICHUSMISSION BERLINCONFIDENTIAL STATE 069053PARIS PASS USSSREF: BERLIN 754; STATE 62744 - RICHARD NAGELL1. IF NAGELL STILL FRANKFURT OR INQUIRES AT ADDRESSEE POSTS   HE MAY BE INFORMED DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTED TO TRACE WIFE BUT   WAS UNABLE TO DO SO.2. A SEARCH OF THE AVAILABLE PASSPORT FILES DISCLOSED NO   RECORD ON MITSUKO TAKAHASHI NAGELL.GP-4. ROGERSCONFIDENTIAL
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# Department of StateCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY 9TOTAL COPIES: 28 TELEGRAMFILE, RF, OCI/WES, OCI/OR3 CR/E. ONE OFRZ.SECUR EUR3. FEZ CI. CI/PS, fi,DOPSECRET HCG 117PAGE 01 MADRID 01429 181241Z41ACTION SCS 04INFO EUR 17, SCA Ø1, VA Ø1,L 03, CIAE ØØ, DODE ØØ, INR 07, NSAE 00,P 04,RSC 01, USIA 12, PPT 02, SY 03, FBI 01,7056 WR 171704Z APR 69 ZFF BERLIN ZURICHFM AMEMBASSY MADRIDTO USMISSION BERLININFO SECSTATE WASHDC 5522AMEMBASSY PARISAMEMBASSY ROMEAMCONSUL ZURICHSECRET MADRID 1429ROME FOR VA OFFICE EUROPESUBJECT: WELFARE: RICHARD CASE NAGELLREF: BERLIN 6681144171. IN INTERVIEWS WITH CONSULAR OFFICER ZURICH FEBRUARY 27   AND 28 NAGELL MADE USUAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST USG PARTICULARLY   FBI AND CIA, AND PUBLICITY THREATS.2. NAGELL SUBSEQUENTLY VISITED CONSULATE BARCELONA MARCH   10, AND MADE FIRST OF SEVERAL VISITS EMBASSY MADRID MARCH   20' WHERE HE TALKED AT GREAT LENGTH WITH P&W OFFICERS,   DEFENSE ATTACHE, CHIEF CONSEC, AND MADE BUT DID NOT KEEP   APPOINTMENT WITH CULTURAL ATTACHE.3. ACCORDING CAS, NAGELL IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN   ASSOCIATED WITH CAS. INFO FROM DEPT: NAGELL'S MENTAL AFFLIC-   TION ORIGINATED IN BRAIN DAMAGE SUFFERED AIR CRASH   NOVEMBER 1954. DIAGNOSIS DATED 4 FEB 1955: PARANOID PERSON-   ALITY, PASSIVE AGRESSIVE PERSONALITY REACTION.4. ACTIVITIES IN MADRID: IN INTERVIEW WITH THREE CONSULAR   OFFICERS NAGELL ACCUSED USG AGENCIES OF "LEANING ON HIM"   AND DEMAND OFFICERS PASS THE WORD AROUND TO "LAY OFF" OR HESECRET
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# Department of StateCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BYPER #FILE, RF,TOTAL COPIES:TELEGRAMPAGE 02 MADRID 01429SECRET181241ZWOULD BLOW UP. ALSO ASSERTED DEPT HAD BROKEN PROMISELOCATE WIFE AND CHILDREN, REPEATED THAT CHILDREN ONLY THINGIN WORLD THAT MEANT ANYTHING TO HIM, THAT IF HE COULD NOTFIND THEM HE WOULD TAKE LEAVE OF THIS WORLD AND WOULDTAKE SOMEBODY WITH HIM. IN LAST MEETING WITH CONSUL APRIL 7CONSUL HAD TWO MARINE GUARDS PRESENT VIEW USAF PSYCHIATRIST'SADVISE TO TAKE NO CHANCES WHATEVER. NAGELL UPSET BY GUARDSPRESENCE AND BY CONSUL'S REFUSAL PERMIT HIS TAPING RECORDINGINTERVIEW AND TO SHOW HIM REGULATIONS PROHIBITINGRECORDING. NAGELL BELABORED PATIENT CONSUL FOR NEARLY TWOHOURS. CONSUL INFORMED HIM THAT DEPT HAD ENDEAVORED LOCATEWIFE AND CHILDREN WITHOUT SUCCESS, AND PROMISED TO QUERYDEPT WHAT SPECIFIC STEPS DEPT HAD TAKEN THIS MATTER. NAGELLFINALLY SAID HE WOULD LEAVE SPAIN BECAUSE OF CONSUL'SACTION (USE OF GUARDS) AND REQUESTED THAT REPLY FROM DEPTBE FORWARDED PARIS WHERE HE WAS GOING. ALSO INFORMED CONSULHE WOULD "GET HIM", BUT THROUGH POCKETBOOK, BY SUING HIMIN US. IN THIS INTERVIEW NAGELL DENIED HAVING MADE THREATSOF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, ONLY "PROMISES" OF PUBLICITY AND OF"PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH CERTAIN SOURCES" IF DEPT DID NOT LOCATECHILDREN. PRIOR DEPARTURE FROM MADRID NAGEL SENT CONSULPOST CARD WITH MESSAGE IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND WRITING,WHICH TRANSLATED MEANS "WITHOUT EYES WE CANNOT SEE", ANDSALUATION IN SPANISH MEANING "GOOD LUCK".5. DEVELOPMENTS OF INTEREST IN LAST MADRID INTERVIEW: (1)   CONSUL TOLD NAGELL GENTLY HE (NAGELL) NEVER EMPLOYED BY CAS.   NAGELL INSISTED YES, HE COULD PROVE IT, BUT CONSUL DID   NOT PURSUE SUBJECT. (2) NAGELL SEVERELY CRITICIZED STATE   DEPT FOR PERMITTING CAS AGENTS INTO ITS MIDST IN FOREIGN   ESTABLISHMENTS, SAID HE KNEW OF AT LEAST TWO CAS AGENTS   IN ZURICH AND THAT CAS NOT RPT NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE AGENTS   IN SWITZERLAND. (3) NAGELL HAD ANOTHER STORY WHICH COULD   BE OF INTEREST TO NEWS MEDIA: HE ALLEGED THAT IN 1957,   "IN TIME OF PEACE", HE HAD BEEN COURIER OF TREASURY PLATES   FROM US TO JAPAN FOR COUNTERFEITING NORTH KOREAN CURRENCY.6. COPIES OF RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE FOLLOW BY POUCH.GP-1. MCAULIFFESECRET
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# Department of StateCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY 12 TOTAL COPIES: 19 TELEGRAMFILE: RF: ONE, CI/WES, DCS, SECUR, INDICO, CR/E, FUR 3, CI, OU/EED 3CONFIDENTIAL HCF 755PAGE 01 STATE 05932417ORIGIN SCS 04INFO EUR 08, SCA 01, VA 01, L 03, CIAE 00, INR 07, NSAE 00, RSC 01, DODE 00,/025 RDRAFTED BY: SCA:SCS: AMHARTLAPPROVED BY: SCS - HOBART LUPPISCS WR JOCHIMSENDESIRED DISTRIBUTION: EUR/GER66667 113473R 172201Z APR 69FM SECSTATE WASHDCTO USMISSION BERLININFO AMEMBASSY MADRIDAMEMBASSY PARISAMEMBASSY ROMEAMCONSUL ZURICHCONFIDENTIAL STATE 059324ROME FOR VAREF: BERLIN 668 RICHARD NAGELL1. FEBRUARY 27 AND 28, 1969 NAGELL CALLED CONGEN ZURICH   STATING HE HAD BEEN ENTICED RETURN US IN 1968 WITH PROMISES   HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WOULD BE LOCATED. ON MARCH 10 NAGELL   APPEARED CONGEN BARCELONA REQUESTING INFO RE WIFE AND   CHILDREN.2. NAGELL APPEARED AT EMBASSY MADRID MARCH 21 WITHOUT FUNDS.   REQUESTED HIS SISTER, MRS. GAMBERT, BE ASKED SEND HIM DOLS   75 FROM HIS BANK ACCOUNT FOR TRUST FUND WITH DEPARTMENT AND   THAT SISTER CASH HIS MONTHLY CHECK FOR HIM AND CABLE THE   MONEY TO HIM CARE AMEXCO MADRID. APRIL 3 VISITED EMBASSY   AGAIN RE HIS VA CHECK AND REQUESTED ASSISTANCE ADMISSION   TORREJON AFBASE HOSPITAL FOR QUOTE NERVOUS CONDITION UNQUOTE.   ACCUSED DEPARTMENT AGAIN OF BREAKING ITS PROMISE HELP HIM   LOCATE WIFE AND CHILDREN. LAST CALLED EMBASSY MADRID APRILCONFIDENTIAL
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CIL NO 3034 REQUESTOR HALL OFFICE SRS 24APR69N3034 NAGELL, MITSUKO TAKAHASHINAGELL, MITSUKO/A TAKAHASHI, MITSUKO/A NAGELL, RICHARD C/MRS /Y F/D FBI 12JUN64 P1 NAGELL, RICHARD CASE EX SPO /T MRS/Z 0933602NI--I/ND--U/ND--SA--CO
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# Department of State TELEGRAM90943CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY 12 PER # TOTAL COPIES: 23FILE. RF: ONE, QU/WE 5, 04/EED 3, DER 4, SECUR, DCS, INDILO, CR/E, EUR 3, ClCONFIDENTIAL HCG655PAGE 01 BERLIN 00668 161130Z21ACTION SCS 04INFO EUR 17, SCA Ø1, VA Ø1,L 03, INR 07, CIAE 00, NSAE ØØ,P 04, USIA 12,DODE ØØ, PPT 02,1051 WR 161100Z APR 69FM USMISSION BERLINTO SECSTATE WASHDC 4104INFO AMEMBASSY MADRIDAMEMBASSY PARISAMEMBASSY ROMEAMCONSUL ZURICHCONFIDENTIAL BERLIN Ø668ROME FOR VASUBJECT: WELFARE: RICHARD CASE NAGELLREF: BERLIN 25671. NAGELL HAS RETURNED TO BERLIN. HE CALLED AT MISSION APRIL 10 AND AGAIN APRIL 14. SINCE HE WAS OBVIOUSLY IRRATIONAL CONSULAR OFFICER URGED HIM TO CALL ON ARMY PSYCHIATRIST IN BERLIN FAMILIAR WITH HIS CASE, WHICH HE DID APRIL 15. PSYCHIATRIST SAYS HE IS MENTALLY ILL AND SHOULD BE HOSPITALIZED.2. NAGELL SAID HE RETURNED TO BERLIN BECAUSE HE HAD "CONNECTIONS" WITH LOCAL PRESS WHO WOULD PUBLICIZE HIS "COMPLAINTS" AGAINST US GOVT (LACK OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT, LACK OF ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING FAMILY IN US, "TRUE" ROLE OF WASHINGTON LAWYER RICEY NEW, ETC.).3. IN VIEW NAGELL'S HISTORY OF IMPRISONMENT IN EAST GERMANY, FORMER INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS AND MENTAL CONDITION (FOR WHICH HE IS APPARENTLY ENTITLED TO FULL VA BENEFITS) WE CONSIDER NAGELL'S PRESENCE IN BERLIN UNDESIRABLE (BOTH FOR HIMSELF AND FOR US GOVT) AND HOPE WE CAN PERSUADE HIM LEAVE OF HIS OWN ACCORD. ANY INFORMATION ON HIS ACTIVITIES SINCE LEAVINGCONFIDENTIAL
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CONFIDENTIALSCS - Mr. Wallace Clarke September 5, 1969SY/PrS - Keith O. Lynch201-746537NAGELL, Richard CaseReference is made to your memorandum of April 25, 1969 concerning your request to locate Mrs. Mitsuko Takahasi NAGELL, the wife of Subject.Efforts by the SY Los Angeles Field Office to locate Mitsuko Takahashi NAGELL, aka Mrs. Richard Case NAGELL, aka Mitsuko TAKAHASHI, met with negative results.Attached for your information and retention is a copy of an SY memorandum dated September 2, 1969 which indicates that an individual identified only as R.C. NAGELL placed an advertisement in the *East Village Other*, a New York underground newspaper, which makes obscene reference to both the Central Intelligence Agency and SY.Attachment:As statedcc - Central Intelligence AgencyUnited States Secret ServiceFederal Bureau of InvestigationMr. Johnson PPT![signature]![signature]CONFIDENTIAL![stamp]201-746537
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# MemorandumTO : Director, O/SYThru: Chief, O/SY/FROM : L.G.Marcell, O/SY/DATE: September 2, 1969SUBJECT: Item in East Village Other, August 20, 1969This past weekend, I visited a friend who had just returned from New York City, bringing back a copy of a New York underground newspaper, the *East Village Other*, dated August 20, 1969.Out of curiosity, I paged through the paper and, on page 17, found a so-called classified section, consisting generally of ads for male and female artists models and offerings of books alleged to instruct one in the art of synthesizing hallucinogenics.In the personal columns of this section, the following was noted, a verbatim transcript of which is set forth:"Caught In The Act. Notice to the CIA and all SYEshitheads who participated in Project Purple Shaft:After that fiasco in the GIR you worms did your bestto screw, blue and tattoo me. You even tried to havemy ass dusted in Berlin . . . you fuckups. Now itsmy turn to do a little shafting.Cordially, R. C. NAGELL."Card indices in SY/E reflect no indication that anyone named R. C. NAGELL or any variation thereof, including NAGLE or NOGELL, has ever been granted clearance in this office.A check in SY files reflected a record on Richard Case NAGELL, born August 5, 1930, who apprently is identical with the individual who authored the above item. A cursory review of the file reflects that NAGELL has been of interest to both the FBI and the Department in recent years.While NAGELL may be something of a crackpot, the item does appear to contain somewhat of an implied threat. For this reason, the information is forwarded for your consideration and for any action which may be considered necessary.Attachment: SY file on Richard Case NAGELL> [Figure: A box titled "Input to US Defector Machine Program" with text "26 Sep. 69-Aus" inside it.]Group 1> [Figure: A text box with the label "CS COPY" and the word "CONFIDENTIAL" below.]Excluded from Automatic Down-grading and DeclassificationO/SY/E: LGMarcellBuy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan201-746537
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# Department of State TELEGRAM81491CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY 33FILE, RF. OC/WES, OC/EED 3ONE, INDICO, CR/E, DCS, OERZ, OBGZ, HIC, SECUREUR3ICCA DOP, OS/DOCONFIDENTIALPAGE 01 MADRID 01109 252147Z HCM23184-SACTION SCS 04INFO SCA 01, EUR 08, FBI 01, SY 03, PPT 02, SSO 00, INR 07, CIAE 00, NSAE 00, L 03/,029 W 1036050 251816Z MAR 69FM AMEMBASSY MADRIDTO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5385CONFIDENTIAL MADRID 1109CORRECTEDCOPY LINDIS CAPTION DELETEDTSUBJ: NAGELL, RICHARD C.1. DOB POB UNKNOWN. RICHARD C. NAGELL, PPT J543069, ISSUED 5/24/68, ADDRESS 8225 GRAND AVENUE, ELM HURST, N.Y. 11373, VISITED CONSULATE GENERAL IN BARCELONA ON MARCH 10, AND VISITED THE EMBASSY ON MARCH 21. DURING CONVERSATIONS. WITH ROBERT S. DRISCOLL, CONSUL OFFICER, NAGELL REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION.2. IN THE SUMMER OF 1968, NAGELL WAS ARRESTED ON A TRAIN ENROUTE TO BERLIN FROM FRANKFURT. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED IN CONFINEMENT IN EAST GERMANY AND HELD THERE AS A PRISONER UNTIL OCTOBER 1968. AFTER HE WAS RELEASED, HE CROSSED INTO WEST BERLIN, WHERE HE WAS DEBRIEFED AT THE U.S. MISSION BY STATE DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SUSPECTED TO BE AN EMPLOYEE OF ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY. HE ALLEGED THAT HE WAS "WORKED OVER" BY HIS EAST GERMAN CAPTORS, WHO SUSPECTED THAT HE WAS WORKING FOR ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT AT TIME OF HIS ARREST, HE WAS TAKEN FROM HIS TRAIN COMPARTMENT "BY NAME".3. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT DURING DEBRIEFING, HE WAS PROMISED ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING HIS CHILDREN WHOM HE SAID WERE RESIDING WITH THEIR MOTHER SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. HE CLAIMED THE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT KEPT ITS PROMISE, AND DEMANDED THAT THE EMBASSY IN MADRID TAKE ACTION TO HELP LOCATE HIS CHILDREN, WHOM HE SAID ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT MEANCONFIDENTIAL
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# Department of State TELEGRAMCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BYFILE, RF,CONFIDENTIALPAGE 02 MADRID Ø1109 252147ZANYTHING TO HIM.4. NAGELL THREATENED TO HAVE HIMSELF ARRESTED BY SPANISH   POLICE, OR DEFECT TO EAST GERMANY IF HE DOESN'T RECEIVE   ASSISTANCE FROM U.S. SOURCE. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT HE HAS LEFT   "VERY COMPROMISING" CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WITH "FRIENDS"   IN SWITZERLAND WHO WILL FORWARD THEM TO THE "APPROPRIATE"   NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SAID IS LUDWIG   MORELLI WHOM NAGELL CLAIMED IS DERSPIEGAL REPRESENTATIVE   IN ZURICH.5. NAGELL CLAIMED TO BE A FORMER ARMY OFFICER WHO HELD THE   RANK OF CAPTAIN. HE ALLEGED THAT HIS ARMY SERIAL NUMBER IS   02028346, THAT HE WAS DISCHARGED FROM THE ARMY ON OCTOBER 29,   1959, AND THAT HE IS RECEIVING 100 PERCENT DISABILITY FROM   THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION.6. NAGELL EXPLAINED, IN A RATHER ARTICULATE MANNER, THAT HE HAD   BEEN ARRESTED BY THE FBI SHORTLY AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S   ASSASSINATION IN 1963, AND THAT HE HAD BEEN IMPRISONED,   UNJUSTLY IN HIS OPINION, IN THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY,   LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, UNTIL EARLY 1968 AT WHICH TIME HE HAD   BEEN ACQUITTED AND RELEASED. HE SAID THAT THE REASON WHY   HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS THAT HE HAD   WORKED WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD IN AN ASSIGNMENT WITH A "U.S.   INTELLIGENCE AGENCY."IT WAS A LONG STORY, HE SAID, AND HE DID NOT WANT TO GIVE MEALL THE DETAILS, BUT INSTEAD WANTED TO ASSURE ME THAT HE HADBEEN IN THE "INTELLIGENCE GAME" FOR A LONG TIME. NAGELLALSO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN HELD IN THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARYFOR SUCH A LONG PERIOD BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO REVEAL TO THEFBI ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HIS INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES--AND THAT FURTHERMORE HE WAS VISITED BY CIA AGENTS WHILE INPRISON WHO CAUTIONED HIM TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HISTIES WITH OSWALD.7. REQUEST COPY OF OM FROM ZURICH TO DEPARTMENT PERTAINING   TO SUBJECT, AND REQUEST CHECK OF APPROPRIATE SOURCES IN NAME   OF SUBJECT AND ADVISE OF RESULTS SOONEST.   MCAULIFFENOTE: LIMDIS CAPTION DELETED PER MR. HARRIS, S/S-0 3/25/59CONFIDENTIAL
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# AIRGRAMOriginal to be Filed in Decentralized Files.BACKGROUND USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL FILE DESIGNATIONHANDLING INDICATOR RECEIVEDTO : DEPARTMENT OF STATEINFO : BONN OCT 31 4 08 PH 1968 Limited DistributionANALYSIS BRANCHFROM : USBER, Berlin DATE: October 29, 1968SUBJECT: Psychiatrist's Report on Richard Case Nagell, US Citizen Released by GDRREF : Berlin A-901, October 24, 1968LIMIT DISTRIBUTION COPY NO. SERIES BA detailed statement prepared by the psychiatrist of the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, dated October 23, 1968, has been received on the results of an examination of Richard Case Nagell.The full text of the psychiatrist's findings is transmitted in the enclosure.MORRISEnclosureText of psychiatrist's findings.Group 4 - Downgraded at three-year intervals.Declassified 12 years after date of origin.CONFIDENTIALFORM 10-64 DS-323Drafting Date: 10/28/68 Contents and Classification Approved by:LAS: AKlayBACKGROUND USE ONLY