Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# BackgroundMy initial contact with Mr. Nagell was when he was expelled from the DDR by the East German officials who forcibly propelled him toward us over the borderline into West Berlin. As we initially escorted Mr. Nagell back to US Army Hospital Berlin in the US Mission vehicle, he seemed unsure of where he was, and who we were, as well as being angry and belligerent about his treatment by the East Germans. In the course of the two hour interview which was then conducted at the hospital, Mr. Nagell gradually regained his composure and gave a more cooperative and coherent history. At his insistance, the interview took place in the presence of the attorney Mr. Ricey S. New, Jr., who acted in an unofficial capacity as a legally oriented "friend."The salient aspects of Mr. Nagell's history are as follows. He says he was on active military duty (Army) from 1948 until 1959. For the first three of these years he was an enlisted man, and for the last six he was an officer, working in military intelligence. In 1954 he was the sole survivor in a plane crash which resulted in a brain concussion, numerous physical injuries, and prolonged military hospitalization. Mr. Nagell now claims that he believes it was this head injury which resulted in his "unstable personality and immature or impulsive behaviour." lle attributes to this instability his marital difficulties and his decision to resign his commission in 1959, something which he now considers unwise. At the time of his leaving the service he was not awarded a disability pension, but he says that he was later able to successfully petition the VA for a "64% disability." He claims that he had never seen a psychiatrist during his military career.From 1959 to 1962 he says that he worked for the State of California as an investigator for various bureaus. His marital difficulties had increased and his wife insisted on separation, keeping with her their two children. Hagell says that one night in 1962 he became intoxicated, and tried to break down the door to her apartment. On this basis he says he lost his job and says that for the next year the "just drifted," apparently without motivation to worl., supporting himself on his disability pension and financial aid from his sister. lle is not certain about whether or not the divorce from his wife has ever been legally completed.
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BACKGROUND USE ONLYCONFIDENTIAL## LINIT DISTRIBUTIONIn September 1963 he was accused of committing an act which he now says was bred out of his feeling of hopelessness and desperation. He claims that in a confused way he attempted while armed to rob a bank and was easily apprehended. For the next 4 1/2 years followed a complicated series of trials, appeals and retrials. In addition to spending these years in prison, he also had at least three prison hospitalizations for psychiatric observation. His appeals apparently hinged on his contention that he was "temporarily insane" at the time of the crime. He was not considered insane at any time during his imprisonment, and his claim to temporary insanity found support in the expert testimony of a noted American neurologist, Dr. Edwin Weinstein. Dr. Weinstein apparently interpreted Nagell's EEG's (electro-encephalograms) as being abnormal and argued that Nagell had developed a "paranoid personality, and instability" on the basis of his brain injury. This contention was apparently disputed by other expert witnesses, but in any case Nagell was officially acquitted on April 29 of this year.Nagell says he then went to the New York area, where his sister (his closest relative) resides, but he claims an additional complication in his life had risen in that he had once been an "acquaintance" of Lee liarvey Oswald, and had been implicated in a possible plot to assassinate President Kennedy in an article in *RAMPARTS* magazine which appeared in January 1968. Mr. Nagell firmly denies that he was involved in any way with any such conspiracy, and was in fact imprisoned at the time of the assassination. On the basis of this magazine article Nagell says that Mr. Garrison, the attorney general from New Orleans who is arguing that a conspiracy existed in the assassination, came up to New York to interview him. Nagell says that he denied that he had any information of use to Mr. Garrison, but that the interview left him with two fears. One fear was that Garrison might subpoena him to testify in the New Orleans proceedings, and the other fear was that the CIA might try to "eliminate" him, a suspicion which he says was planted in his mind by Mr. Garrison. He says that soon afterwards while walking down a street at night in New York City he was almost run over by a car without lights. He interpreted this as being an attempt at murder by the CIA and in some haste left the country for a tour of Europe.BACKGROUND USE ONLYCONFIDENTIAL
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# CONFIDENTIAL## LIMIT DISTRIBUTIONIn June, shortly thereafter, he discussed with an American consular official in Zurich his recurrent fear that the CIA was going to "hit" him. His next travel point was to West Berlin, and on June 11, 1968, while his train was traversing the DDR, he says that he was taken off the train and illegally detained. He is not certain why he was taken off the train but admits to having talked freely on the train to other passengers about his life history, and he was also carrying with him a heavy portfolio of all of his Army and government records involved with his service career, disability, and imprisonment. For several months Nagell claims that he was interrogated by the Last Germans and repeatedly asked to confess his role as a spy or government agent. Eventually, Nagell says that he concluded the only way to be released would be to feign mental illness, which he says he proceeded to do. This was several weeks ago and he says he was soon examined by an East German psychiatrist and events were set in motion which culminated in his release today, four and one-half months after his detention began.Mr. Nagell's plans for the future center around returning to the United States and beginning an appeal to the government to grant him a psychiatric disability pension, as well as for his physical disability, on the basis of his head injury. He no longer believes that it is realistic to think that the CIA was trying to kill him.### Mental Status ExamMr. Nagell is a tall, 38 year old male who shows the evidence of a prior head injury in the form of extensive scars on the left side of his face, facial asymmetry due to seventh nerve injury, reconstructive surgery on his left ear, etc. In addition he shows some healed incisions on his left wrist which he claims were superficial lacerations self-inflictei at the time of his first imprisonment in 1963, and again a few weeks ago in the DDR. He denies that in either instance he seriously intended to kill himself. He is of superior intelligence and shows a remarkable memory for dates and names. Initially he was belligerent, angry, and suspicious of every effort made to help him. Over the span of two hours, he gradually became more cooperative and rational. He is in his own terms a "chronically paranoid person" by which he means that he is always highly suspicious and tends to impute intentions where none may exist. Despite his
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CONFIDENTIALLIMIT DISTRIBUTIONoverall suspiciousness, and his fears about the CIA, there was no overt evidence of psychosis. His nutritional state and general well-being both appeared to be good.SummaryIn summary then we seem to be dealing with a person who has had a personality disorder for a number of years, manifested by emotional instability, impulsive behaviour, a tendency to be litigious, and a general suspicious or paranoić orientation. It is difficult to know how much of what he is saying is factual, but it may be that in June of this year he was becoming "borderline" or even delusional in his thinking about possible attempts on his life, and this probably explains his flight to Europe. Currently, he is not psychotic and seems competent in a legal and psychiatric sense to negotiate his own affairs and be a free citizen again.His own closing words provide a lighter note to what other- wise has been a complicated and serious mishap. "Well, I'll tell you one thing, that's the last time I ever take a train through East Germany!"/s/George R. BabineauCPT, MCPsychiatristU.S. Army Hospital, BerlinCONFIDENTIAL
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13-00000SECRETCTL NO 2036 REQUESTOR HALL OFFICE SRS 11DEC68N2036 NEW, RICEY S(JR)NEW,RICEY S/L DC ,WAS /T JR /O ATTY OS 66 M451129/Z 2021595N2036 WEINSTEIN, EDWINWEINSTEIN, EDWIN/D WAS SCHOOL OF PSYCHIATRY /T DR OR 57 E413494/Z 1419454WEINSTEIN,EDWIN/D ACS 30 APR57 P20 JAFFE, ADRIAN CR 57 R154557/Z 1420401WEINSTEIN, EDWIN A/B 18FEB09 OMAHA NEB /L 65MD ,BETHESDA OS 65 C463298/Z 14194552036 BABINEAL, GEORGE RBABINEAU, GEORGE RAYMOND/Y M /T CAPT /E ARMY /R SER 5 /O 68MIL /C USA OS 68 G363001-1999/Z 2250142SECRET
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# Department of State TELEGRAM13-0000015584CRETARIAT DISSEM BYPER 202 TOTAL COPIES: 17DIO/CI 6, D/ONE, DDR P/CRS, C/EUR, D/OSR, D/OB61/C/CASECRET HCM869PAGE 1 BERLIN 02538 2217502ACTION SS 70INFO CIAE 00,$50 00,/070 WP 221710Z OCT 68FM USMISSION BERLINTO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 3311INFO AMEMBASSY BONN PRIORITYSECRET BERLIN 2538LIMDISSUBJ: US PRISONERS IN EAST GERMANY - RICHARD CASE NAGELL AND LEON BURRIS JAMESREF: STATE 2583551. RICEY NEW CALLED AT MISSION OCT 21 AND OUTLINED BOTH CASES IN SENSE REFTEL.2. VOGEL INVITED RICEY NEW AND MISSION OFFICER TO CALL AT HIS EAST BERLIN OFFICE OCT 22. STANGE NOT IN ACTION DUE TO INJURIES SUFFERED IN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT LAST WEEK.3. AT CONFERENCE IN HIS OFFICE, VOGEL STATED NAGELL RELEASE SCHEDULED BY EAST GERMAN AUTHORITIES FOR OCT 23 AT 0930, TO TAKE PLACE AT SANDKRUGBRUECKE CROSSING POINT. THE RELEASE WILL BE UNCONDITIONAL AS AN EXPRESSION OF GOODWILL, ACCORDING TO VOGEL.4. VOGEL DESCRIBED NAGELL CONDITION AS "NOT GOOD AT ALL, FREQUENTLY QUITE BAD, ACCORDING TO PHYSICIAN WHO WILL BE WITH HIM WHEN HE IS DELIVERED BY AMBULANCE." VOGEL WILL DELIVER NAGELL TO RICEY NEW WHO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY MISSION OFFICER AND CHIEF PSYCHIATRIST US ARMY HOSPITAL, BERLIN.5. WHEN DELIVERY MADE DEPARTMENT WILL BE INFORMED IN BRIEF FLASH TELEGRAM. NO RPT NO PRESS STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY MISSION.STATE DEPT. DECLASSIFICATION REVIEWSECRETRetain class'n Change toDeclassify in part and excise as shownDeclassify AfterEO 12958,25X (With concurrence ofIPS/CR/IR by.Date (not)fobtained)19/23/98
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# Department of StateCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BYPERTOTAL COPIES:TELEGRAMFILE RF.SECRETPAGE 02 BERLIN 02538 221750Z6. VOGEL EXPRESSED HOPE THAT CASE OF JAMES COULD ALSO BE CLOSED IN SIMILAR FASHION "WITHIN NEXT FEW DAYS." CHARGES STILL UNKNOWN IN BOTH CASES BUT VOGEL EXPECTS TO HAVE IN NEAR FUTURE "BASIC DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE STILL IN HANDS OF STATE SECURITY AUTHORITIES" AND WILL INFORM US.GP-3. MORRISSECRET
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# Department of State TELEGRAM14554FILE (SECRETARIAT) DISSEM BY 521 PER : JUD TOTAL COPIES: 15L/RF: PM/ST, S/S, S/SO, D/OCI 6, D/ONE, DDP, D/CRS, D/OB61, C/EUR, C/SB,C/SPA, C/CISECRET HCM582 PAGE 01 STATE 25835514DRAWN BY EUR GERURPHELPSAPPROVED BY: GER/MR. JOHNPOLLAMRO. SMITH DRAFTEURIMA, CUHANR 800012 OCT 68FM SECSTATE WASHDCTO USMISSION BERLININFO AMEMBASSY BONNSECRET STATE 258355CIMDISSUBJECT: U.S. PRISONERS IN EAST GERMANY RICHARD CASE NAGELL AND LEON BURRIS JAMES1. RICEY NEW INFORMED DEPARTMENT OCTOBER 18 THAT NAGELL WILL BE RELEASED OCTOBER 23; WILL REQUIRE IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION DUE TO MENTAL CONDITION. RICEY NEW ARRIVING BERLIN AFTERNOON OCTOBER 21, AND WILL COORDINATE ARRANGEMENTS WITH MISSION.2. RICEY NEW ALSO INFORMED BY VOGEL THAT ANOTHER AMCIT, LEON BURRIS JAMES, BEING DETAINED IN EAST GERMANY ON UNSPECIFIED CHARGES, AS MISSION AWARE FROM PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES WITH HIM. JAMES HAS LONG HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC PROBLEMS AND HAS BEEN IN FREQUENT DIFFICULTIES IN MANY COUNTRIES OVER LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO. HE WAS CONVICTED OF PASSPORT FRAUD IN JANUARY 1966 AND IS CURRENTLY UNDER INDICTMENT FOR VIOLATION OF TITLE 18 USC SECTION 1542. A WARRANT HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR HIS ARREST. MOST RECENT EPISODE OF WHICH DEPARTMENT AWARE WAS HIS DEPORTATION FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO FRG IN APRIL THIS YEAR. A SUMMARY OF JAMES' ADVENTURES AND ARRESTS IS BEING AIRTOUCHED. WE HAVE INFORMED RICEY NEW IN A GENERAL WAY OF THIS BACKGROUND.3. RICEY NEW WISHED TO INFORM USBER HIMSELF OF STATUS OF THESESECRETTHIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR RELEASE BY DOI. STATE ON 12/15/98STATE DEPT. DECLASSIFICATION REVIEWRetain class'n Change toDeclassify in part and excise as shownDeclassify After 20 YrsPrivacy EO 12958. 25X ( )With concurrence of (not)(obtained)IPS/CR/IR by Date
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13-00000Department of StateILLE SECRETARIAT DIGSEM BY PER & TOTAL COPIES; TELEGRAME. RFSECRETPAGE 02 STATE 258355CASES SO MISSION OFFICERS SHOULD NOT INDICATE PRIOR KNOWLEDGEOF NAGELL RELEASE OR JAMES LATEST ARREST. GP-3. RUSKSECRET
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Memo Re John Richard SlossINFO Re NAGELL FROMThis memo has BeenEXTRACTED AND PUTINTO NAGELL FILE
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13-00000SECRETChief, Research Branch, SRS3 MAR 1965Robert J. LeonardJohn Richard SLOSS#34490GIST: SLOSS, a staff employee since 1948, has recently been repolygraphed with inconclusive results, having reacted to questions regarding disclosure of classified information, association with a communist sympathizer, and homosexuality. He has also been involved with cooperation in an extramarital affair which *eliminated* in a black-mail attempt on one of the parties. His name is perhaps identical with a name among six names of Agency employees found on a mentally disturbed and disaffected former CIC intelligence officer who alleges contact with Russian and Cuban Intelligence agents. Details of these questionable areas in regard to SLOSS are set forth below. Recommend intensive and thorough investigation of SLOSS including surveillance of activities.DETAILS: 1. Mr. John Richard SLOSS, born 24 September 1919 at Cleveland, Ohio, has been a staff employee of this Agency since 1948. His parents are American born. He graduated from Yale University in 1941 and was assigned to Military Intelligence Training Center, Camp Ritchie, Maryland, as an instructor, from January 1943 to July 1945. He attended Columbia University, School of International Affairs and the Russian Institute from 1946 to 1948, receiving an M. A. Degree in International Affairs.2. SLOSS is currently a Special Intelligence Duty Officer in OCI, GS-14. During his assignment in Germany 1953-1955 and on a TDY to Germany in 1958, he had been authorized to deal with foreign intelligence elements in the OCI overseas liaison program. SLOSS was polygraphed in 1950 and 1953 with favorable results; in 1955 with unfavorable results; and twice in 1964 with inconclusive results regarding giving CIA documents or classified information to unauthorized persons, contact with a possible communist sympathizer, and engaging in homosexual activities since working for CIA. He was granted a "Q" Clearance in October 1963. His Top Secret Clearance was certified to the White House on 23NAGELLSECRET ![GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification]
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SECRETFebruary 1965 in connection with a visit to a Presidential relocation site.3. The name of John SLOSS may be identical with the name J. SLOSS found on the person of Richard Case NAGELL when arrested in connection with a bank robbery in El Paso, Texas, on 20 September 1963. A notebook found on NAGELL made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee, the addresses of Foreign Embassies, the names of purported CIA agents and other information. Although NAGELL is unquestionably mentally unbalanced, he tells a story of being involved in espionage which is not fully contradicted by evidence. There is no apparent explanation of why the name J. SLOSS as well as five other names of CIA personnel should have been in the possession of Richard Case NAGELL. The weird story of NAGELL is contained in a chronological listing of his activities appended to this memorandum.4. A review of the Security file on SLOSS in connection with the Richard Case NAGELL matter revealed that SLOSS, for the past few years, 1960-1964, had provided his apartment as a place of assignation in the adulterous relationship of Philip Barry KENNEDY, a GS-15 Intelligence office, assigned to OCI and Mrs. Betty BARKER, a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency from 19 October 1953 until 26 July 1962. The relationship between [Kennedy] and [Barker] was disclosed on 19 May 1964 when KENNEDY reported to the Office of Security that Mrs. [BARKER] had received a strange telephone call from an unknown male on 18 May 1964 who advised her that he knew what was going on between her and her boyfriend and that he had pictures. The unknown caller attempted to blackmail Mrs. BARKER into meeting him. Mrs. [BARKER] apparently told her husband the whole story and informed [KENNEDY].5. It is noteworthy in the SLOSS-KENNEDY-BARKER matter that SLOSS has been involved in cooperating in an unlawful and immoral activity which, according to the direct testimony of one of the parties, (believed to be true because the report was against her own interest) resulted in a blackmail attempt against her in May 1964.6. Of particular concern should be the results of the latest two polygraph examinations, the validity of which, because of medication including a tranquilizer type drug and alcohol in the Subject's system, was deemed to be inconclusive.7. During the 1955 polygraph examination, the Subject admitted to homosexual desires but stated that these had never caused a personal problem and had never resulted in his participation in a homosexual act. During the 24 April 1964 examination, the Subject showed consistent reactions to the homosexual question which indicated deception. DuringSECRET
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further specific questioning on 22 May 1964 covering the various homosexualareas however, there were no strong reactions to indicate that Subject mightbe practicing deception on the specific question regarding engaging in homo-sexual activities since working for CIA.8. In connection with the phase of questions concerning contact   with any possible communist sympathizer, the Subject reflected overall   disturbance indicating that all the questions obviously bothered him and   that deception was being practiced within that phase. The polygraph opera-   tor noted that there were outstanding reactions to the following two questions:20 b "Other than your comments about FISHER, during yourundergraduate period at Yale did you have any contactwith any Communist or Communist sympathizer?Answer: No."20 e During your CIA employment, have you had any contactwith any Communist or Communist sympathizer?Answer: No."9. It is particularly noteworthy that during his examination on   22 May 1964 when asked nine questions as to whether he had been acquaint-   ed with certain individuals, Subject only reacted when he answered "no"   to having been acquainted with Jerry SEVERN and Ilya WOLSTON. These   names had been submitted to Subject based upon pure conjecture that there   possibly might have been some connection with these individuals at Camp   Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Center. Since the fact that both   Jerry SEVERN and Ilya WOLSTON have cooperated with Soviet Intelligence   should have been unknown to SLOSS and he declared he is not acquainted   with them, there should have been no reason for him to react to these names.   The polygraph operator states that SLOSS was not pressed further regarding   FISHER (whom he had characterized as "left of center") or his own possible   knowledge of SEVERN or WOLSTON since it was obvious that SLOSS was   beginning to feel harassed on this matter and stated that he did not enjoy   being asked these questions.10. During SLOSS' interview on 4 April 1964, SLOSS reflected    consistent reactions on the questions:"Since working for CIA, have you given CIA documents orclassified information to unauthorized persons?"
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# SECRET"Have you ever deliberately given classified information on documents to any unauthorized person?"In explanation, Subject said he was bothered by this idea, but that he had no knowledge of any particular situation wherein he had divulged information to anyone who was unauthorized to receive it or who would have used it against the Agency's interest. On the test administered on 22 May 1964 to resolve any possible compromise to communist or foreign intelligence organizations, it was determined that there were no significant reactions to relevant questions in this area.11. It should be especially noted that the polygraph operator, during the 4 April 1964 interview, detected an odd smell on Subject's breath and noted his flushed face, frequent silly grins and lethargic movements, suggesting that the Subject may have been slightly intoxicated. The operator did not ask during this interview whether the Subject had taken any drug or alcohol prior to the interview but recalled an incident wherein the Subject when arrested for drunken driving in 1963 had produced evidence that he was a diabetic and had taken medication prior to the incident. Consequently, during the second interview on 22 May 1964, Subject was questioned regarding his physical health. He replied that he had stopped taking medication for diabetes in November 1963. He explained that he took three or four diuretic pille. He specifically denied that he had taken any other drug, narcotic or alcohol. When this question was asked during interrogation, he reflected reaction indicative of deception and then admitted that for breakfast he had taken one glass of vodka with some orange juice. He stated that he drank vodka for breakfast sometimes whenever he was tense or nervous over anything.12. The polygraph operator in his report concluded that the "validity of final test charts is held in question and there is no strong evidence that the specific areas of concern have been conclusively resolved at this time. It is recommended that a further study be conducted on this case and that information resulting from such a study be sent to IRD for possible reinterview of the Subject and polygraph resolution".13. SLOSS has indicated reactions indicative of deception during the polygraph examinations. In one specific question where these reactions were present, he admitted to lying. This was in the question as to whether or not he had taken any alcohol prior to the examination.SECRET