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SUBJECT: “"PHOTOPLAY" ARTICLE CONCERNING — gREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED
- MARILYN MONROE'S DEATH eS

OpERESS
Walter Winchell's column in the July 8, 1963, issue of the "New
York Mirror" contained the statement, "Photoplay’s current article on the man who
‘killed’ Marilyn practically names him." :

In accordance with your request, there follows a brief review of the
information concerning Marilyn Monroe’ in the August, 1963, issue of “Photoplay"
magazine, On page 10, a column by Winchell begins which states that Marilyn .
Monroe's.death "and the married man responsible for itTM was still getting considerab
space in the foreign press, ,Winchell says the author of the articles, which are
syndicated in papers on the Continent, claims he personally interviewed many
people in Hollywood and New York who were aware of Miss Monroe's problems and
claimed hi: ig news." The “big news}' according) to Winchell,
was the name of the "married man" involved. Winchell says "many of us" on the

_ papers and in the magazines have hinted at the name, and the foreign correspondent
has jumped to coficlusions. Winchell says there is no proof that the married man was
the villain, “ind many of Miss Monroe's friends now believe the overdose of sleeping
pills was an accident. Winchell claims much of the foreign correspondent's story
was recognized by him as having appeared in "Photoplay" and in the Hearst newspapers
for which Winchell writes. ;

Aphioks in Ohta pling pus i¥i3 oF
The-article concerning Miss Monroe begins on page 5 ninder the .

caption, One-Year Latex Marilyn Monxas's. Killer Still At Large!" A review of this
article féveals Winchell's claim that it practically names thé mai Who "killed"
Marilyn is nothing more than a @@MM plug for a cheap magazine. Actually, the
article comes ndway near identifying anyone. The only "clues" to the identity of the
alleged married man who had an affair with Marilyn and "caused" her suicide when
he rejected her could apply to any number of prominent individuals.

ional story was "big news." The “big news

These “clues” are: that the nanisThappily married aadthas children;

pthat you can see him in a crowd and reach,out and téuch hjm; that he is a great man,

famous, known the world over; that he can be seen on television and in movie theaters;

that people look up_to him and consider hig wife and children lucky; that he is mentioned
nd Tha fade

almost daily in ngwspapers and magazi litiid bonsideréd' A! e,
man" WP idSens Ke ToS
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On 2/21/62, GRBs citca subject in her suite
(#1110) at the Hotel Con‘inental Hilton at 5:00 P.M, The visit
was arranged through New York friends and was based on his
former friendship with ARTHUR MILLER, her form usband. He
stayed about an-hour and she agreed to go with on
2/23/62 to Toluca, Mexico, for the day. e420)

Subject arrived in Mexico on 2/19/62 from Mil
Her entry into Mexico reportedly was arranged by FRAl
through former President MIGUEL ALEMAN,.- She-was-accompanied
by an agent, a hair dresser, ani Anterior decorator. The
latter was identified as } »& Widow about 65
from Los Angeles. CHURCHILL said her husband was a violent wi
trade unionist who was a functionary in the furniture workers . ~~:
section of the AF of L Carpenters Union who died four or five’’*
years ago. She identified him as a labor pioneer but did ACY
not identify him as a leftist. She is a part time interior
decorator and -~iso claims to be an assistant of Dr. WEXLEY,

subject's analyst. g(w) Eepuiog [97
According to CHURCHILL, the subject was much disturbed

by ARTHUR MILLER's marriage on 2/20/62 and feels like a "negated
sex symbol." CHURCHILL said that subject "haa a lot of leftist

A - rubbed off fom MILLER." Subject reportedly, ppent séme time
ra » with ROBERTAKENNEDY at the home of the ‘ORDB in
{* “> Hollywood. ‘Subject reportedly challenged Mr? KENNEDY on some
a oints proposed to her by MILLER. ae Vite
Subject was acquainted with background and
principles and expressed curiosity aa to B relationship with
the ee fn. ELS ;

On 2/24/62, subject traveled to Toluca,

visit the g market. She was ed by,
returned to e

and her husband

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It became cl that a relationship was developin,
between subject and SR ena considerable concern was expressed o()

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You can see him in a crowd. You can reach out and touch him; he-

cause he is a great man, famous, known all over the world, and may-

he that touch will give you at least a small part of him....You can

see him on television—or even in a movie theater—and you will

look up to him and think how lucky his wife is to be married to him

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and how lucky his children are to

have him for a father. And maybe

\ / you'll think, “I wish I were his

\ wife.”...You can read about him

“almost any day in the newspapers

\ and magazines, and you will think,
\ “This i ‘is a good person. This isa

truly honorable man.”... But what

you will never read, never see,

never know is that this man-is a

killer. He is the man who killed

Marilyn Monroe....When their

, romance began, nobody—especially

Marilyn and the man—could have guessed at the ending. For it began

with a kind of love.... It was the worst time of her life and the best

time of his, and so each of them needed someone to share that: time

with. That’ was their love, their need, really. It was a kind of love

. gone wrong, For he is very much happily married, Marilyn, of course}

knew: that. He. had ho intention of ever divorcing his wife. She knew

that, too, But he had ‘been so on top of the. (Continued ou n page 7 7-4)



- CONFIDENTIAL “ie: Mr. Hitt
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Pater woes 7 19, 2255.. 400I8 BY COURIER ‘SERYICR
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Fashtngton, De Ce ee

Froa: John Edgar Hoover, Director
Federal Aureau of Inveatigatton

Subject: MARILYY woykOk

(fwrsewst seconity = a) 4)

An informont who has furnished reliable iaforgattor
in the past advjsed on Auguat.22, 1955, that Gin 7
Fews Agency, cohtceted
Sovtet Embassy, Faskington, De Cy In to aa tnouiry fron

cdvised that the Soviet Subassy, Fashingvon, pe
eg Teceived a letter from Mortlya Vonroe’s zanager request=
tng on application for a visa to viatt the USSR. Accordtag

to MEE, °*'2 sotter te now under consideration. a.
also ddviaed thet epeke to the. Cultura 2

Attcche at the Sov assy atont thta matter. ( Ww

The inforaont further advised that on Aprt] 22,
5S, ao reporter for the Xew Tork "Fost" contacted the Souret
sessy at Fashinston, De Ce and made ingutry conceraia
rilyn Yonroe's application for visa forus,
vised the reporter that the letter requestin: eu ‘oras

fe
as Signed by her manager; was received August 12, 2955, aad
& under conatderation. /\ WY)

The foreg cing deta are being furstshed for your
nforuatton with “hy request thatthe not he further disseninated
tn order to protect the tdentity oj the informant tna this case,

Tolson ° se

Reto ~ 1 + Director r coveTR SERVICE
Central Intelligence Ageney cc-l~-Assistant Attorney. Genera
2430 EF Street, Xe Fe William F. Tompkins

Faghtngton, De Co (0-6 same dat:

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M. A. Jones. to DeLoach memo
RE: “PHOTOPLAY" ARTICLE CONCERNING MARILYN MONROE'S DEATH

The article alleges the affair between this man and Miss Monroe
began during the “worst time of her life and the best time of his." The alleged
man was celebrating his good fortune in reaching a heightin his career “he never
before dreamed" would be possible. The remainder of the article allegedly outlines
the end of the remance and Miss Monroe's final efforts to renew the relationship.
The article states that she telephoned the man on Sunday night, August 5, 1962,
and when he said he would not leave his wife and could not see Miss Monroe “any more!’
she swallowed a "handful" of sleeping pills. The article claims she later called
the man again, implying that she told him of having taken the pills, only to have him
hang up on her and states that the last sound she heard was the "buzzing of the
receiver in her hand." after the man broke the telephone connection.

The article states that Miss Monroe's housekeeper has'vanished"
and that her publicity agent, Pat Newcombe, is now working in Washington, D. C.
It says her second husband, Joe DiMaggio, : sis the only one who remains faithful and that
the marwho killed Miss Monréé is still at large and can never be arrested, But, the
article asserts,"'Wherever he goes, whatever he touches, whomever he sees; he thinks
of Marilyn. His guilt never leaves him, his fear has become his friend."

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ened me before. She'd never really do it.

He told her again he couldn’t get in-
volved—that he was a married man. He
hung up.

It all took less than a minute.

The last thing Marilyn heard was the
buszing of the receiver in her hand.

Coroner Theodore J. Curphey, in his
offcial report, noted: “Miss Monroe had
often expressed the. wiah to give up, with-
draw, and even to die. On more than one
occasion in the past, when disappointed
and depreesed, she had made suicide at-
tempts by using sedative drugs. On these
occasions she had called for help and had
been rescued.” ‘

This time she had not been rescued.

It was her housekeeper, Mrs. Eunice
Murray, who first sensed that. something

The light in Marilyn's bed-
burning at three thi

tried the door. s locked.

She called Marilyn's psychiatrist, Dr.
Ralph Greenson. He hurried over and
broke in the window. When he found her,
she was dead. The telephone was still
buzzing in her hand.

Now it is a later. Mrs. Murray has
disappeared, she’d vanished shortly ai
Marilyn's di Pat Newcombe, Marilyn's
publicity agent, has left the Hollywood
scene and is now working in Washington,
D.C. Joe DiMaggio, her second husband,
has remained faithful to her memory—he
has a small bouquet of roses placed on
her crypt every week. .

But he is not the only one who is faith-
ful to Marilyn today, There is still the
man. The man who killed Marilyn. He is
the man they can never arrest. He is the
man who is still at-large.

He is the man who is living the death
she so quickly found.

We have lost her, but ¢o has he.

. x he goes, whatever he touches,
whomever he sees; be thinks of Marilyn.
His guilt never leaves him, his fear has
become his friend. For once, long ago,
before all this, he was an honorable man.
But he had made a fatal mistake. And
now he is lost—not to all the world—but
*° Some people knew ho he is, Will they

1e peo} ww who he is. Wil
ever reveal it publicly? Does his wife
know? Would tell? And he himself,
will his guilt pry hie tongue loose?

You can sce in a crowd, You can
reach out and touch him. ... And you
will never know that he is the man who
killed Marilyn Monroe.

And he is the man who killed himself.

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progr MONROE

pie pecan MATTER -

contact with subject and he:
entourage on several occasions. Subject said she had lun
© at the METER LAWFORDs withpfneqiveaEKENNEDY just a few
days previously. She was veryfpleased , as she had aSked the
Presidéat antpt of socially Significant questions concerning
the morality of atomic testin: and WERE future of the. youth
of Americas =She already had been asked by LAWFORD te. _oppear

at tha‘Pregident ' s birthday | party.

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\ bes po: cally involved with leftist movements er, sons

\ Ba whdi} she associates may be and encourages oe jecTM® toward

“polit{eal consciousness." ays subject sQl1 1 Gpilects
eviews of ARTHUR MILLER. Ges ‘ y

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on 2/21/62, WBMMB visitea subject in her suite
(#1210) at the Hotel Con“inental Hilton at 5:00 P.M, The visit
was arranged through New York friends and was based on his
former friendship with ARTHUR MILLER, her former and. He
| stayea about an hour and she agreed to go with on
2/23/62 to Toluca, Mexico, for the day.

Subject arrived in Mexico on 2/19/62 from Miami.

er entry into Mexico reportedly was arranged by FRANK SINATRA

through former President MIGUEL ALEMAN, She was accompanied
by an agent, a hair dresser, and an interior decorator. The
latter was identified as EUNICE CHURCHILL, a widow about 65

from Los Angeles. CHURCHILL said her husband was a violent

trade unionist who was a functionary in the furniture workers 5
section of the AF of L Carpenters Union who died four or five
years ago. She identified him as a labor pioneer but did yer
not identify him as a leftist. She is a part time interior
Gecorator and ~iso claims to be an assistant of Dr. WEXLEY, st
subject's analyst. (> ma

According to CHURCHILL, the subject was much disturbed
by ARTHUR MILLER's marriage on 2/20/62 and feels like a "negated
Sex symbol." CHURCHILL said that subject "has a lot of leftist
rubbed off from MILLER." Subject reportedly spent some time
with ROBERT KENNEDY at the home of the PETER LAWFORDs in
Hollywood. Subject reportedly challenged Mr. KENNEDY on some
points proposed to her by MILLER. Of)

Subject was acquainted with SERED 2 2ckerouna and
Jorsnes les expressed curiosity as to his relationship with
the ‘amily. w) .

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the past has won a Pulitser Prize and « National Book Award. He
the author of "The Naked and the Dead," "The Deer Park," "An
American Dream," "Cannibals and Christians,” "The Armies of the
Night, "' and “Miami and the Siege of Chicago. .

He admits to little or no research concerning his specula-
tion about Marilyn Monroe's death. He states his motive in writing
the book is his dire need for money. He admits having no evidence



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Mrs. Alta Melton

NOTE: Correspondent is not identifiable in Bufiles and the pamphlet, e
"Suicide or Murder?" is not identifiable . There is no derogatory .
information concerning Mothers of World War I, Inc. An alleged
relationship between the Attorney General and Marilyn Monroe has come
to the Bureau's attention previously.



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A complete list of officers of this organiza-

tien not available, however, 1¢ is reported

that MARILYN MONROE fa President, MILTON GREENE

ia Vice President and IRVING F. L, STEIN is also
an officer. a

HILTON GREENE, married, native born, 1912.
1935-192 bets ed by August and Company, this
City. 19h ohh free lanse photographer,
operating under own name. April, 19) became
Vieo President of Bayman Green Inc., subsequently
was succeeded by partnership of subject and
MAURICE BAGMAN, trading as Beuman & Greene.

That concern succeeded by Bauman & Greene Inc.,
in which GREENE was Vice President until October,
1948. In October, 1948 GREENE became President
of Milton Greene Corp., eamercial photographers,
80 Lexington Avenue, Few York City, chartered
New York lawa, October 11, 19183 208 shares no
par value common stocks Balance sheet not
furnished. ‘

MARILYN MONROE, is a prominent f4im actress,
having appeared in several films in 9 starring
role.

IRVIN L. STEIN, 18 a practicing attorney with
office at 50 Broad Street, this Citys

also furnished the following information

on the Milton Greene Corp., Commercial Photographers, 480
Lexington Ave., NYC: Chartered New York laws October 11, 1918,

SAM GREINGCLD, former Secretary and Troasurer;
died September 21, 1951.

MILTON GREEWE, married, native born 1912, 1935-
1942 employed by August & Cou thia City.” 19)1~
1944, free lance photographer operating under own
nemes April 225 19h) became Vice President of
Bauman Greene Ines, whieh in turn succeeded by a
partnership of MILTON GREENE & MAURICE BAUMAN,
trading as Bauman & Greene, May, 1946, GREENE

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* wos en on a tour of Brooklyn by “a Life Photographer ho is,
= <* a party member." No further information wes given concerning
&.°: {his photographer. ey

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& Niap riya HowRor appearing in "The Washington Post" of 4/15/56 g f
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ijFroductions was formed, with MARILYE MONROE, President and
Vice-President and Treasurer.

MILTON GREENE,
The article further indicated that GREENE was &
photographer for "Look" magazine, 3h years old, 1s married to
AMY GREENE and spends considerable time in Hollywood and HY. -
According to the artiele MARILYN MCNROE came to NY in 1955 }
and moved in with the GREEKES. She appeared on the EDWARD R.
MURROW program "Person to Person" from the home of the @REENES, re
in Westport, Connecticut. at
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the past, furnished the following information on 4/26/56: mY
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as a "dangerous red.“ She wanted to utilize |

services as a decorator. é. (C3) or

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Subject's views are very positively 4 concisely
leftist; however, if she is being actively used by the Com-
munist Party, it ig not general knowledge among those working

with the movement in Los Angeles. BCS)

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MEMORANDUM _—_e

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

FROM: LEGAT, MEXICO (100-0)
SUBJECT: MARILYN MONROE

(S- “Seu

e following information was reteived tron pid

and who have ‘furnished reliable information in the Hl

past, on 2/28/62. Extreme care should be used in reporting | i

any of this information to avoid disclosure of sources who i

were associating closely with subject during her visit ta H
Mexico. GuiariteGOd = -

This source advised that MARILYN MONROE, the movie?
actress, was recently in Mexico on vacation and while in
Mexico associated closely with certain members of the American
Communist Group in Mexico {ACGM). Source characterized the
ACGM as a loose association of a predominantly social nature
of gresent and/or past members of the Communist Party, USA,
and-their friends and associates who s e@ @ common sympathy
for Communism and the Soviet Union, rs)

2 They advised that during the course of this visit
mutual inf; tion arose between subject and bic
This situation caused”
Miss MONROE's entourage and also

cofisiderable dis: Ong
wong the ACGM. Vc)

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__ and eka

said. tha! was complete nracu OxROE.
tae ery concerned for who was exclud }

Om a meeting of ans subject on the night of 2/23/62.

On 2/25/62, EUNICE CHURCHILL said that Dr. WEXLEY
| did not like was happening in the relationship between ;

subject and and said that subject must get out with

other people at once. She said subject is very vulnerable bo
now because of her rejection by ARTHUR MILLER and also by

JOE Di MAGGIO and FRANK SINATRA. She telephoned SINATRA to

come and comfort her and he would not do it. aw hae

On the night of 2/24/62, she went
party at the home of EMILIO FERNANDEZ.

on 62, the subject had a date tn ay
(Bufile 160. to view the movie "TORRERO" and go out
with him afterwards; however, five minutes before he was to
get her, she called and canceled the date and QR ves

furious, .
CE CHURCHILL continued_to express concern over
subject's increasing dependence on (%)

On 2/27/62, subject attended a reception for
Princess ANTONIO DE BRAGANZA, the infanta of Portugal. This
was given at the home of DENNIS BOURKE and was attended by
members of the staffs of various embassies and was completely
nonpolitical in nature.

gnout the
Sed considera osity about FIELD. ¢&)

- On 2/28/62, subject was to leave on a two-day trip

to Taxco, Mexico, accompanied b:
ond his wire i (1)
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1 - Mr. Herington (Press

Office)
1- Mr. T. J. Smith
Mr. 2. 4. Miller 71/23/78 - :
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T. J. Smith aa gs UNC TASSTFIED

NORMAN MAILER OREN SE

INFORMATION CONCERNING :

: To advise of speculation concerning FBI complicity in. —
‘the death of Marilyn Monroe propounded by author Norman Mailer

in his soon-to-be-published biography of the deceased actress. .

‘Marilyn, “ a 270-page biography (New York; Grosset
and Dunlap,) priced at $19.95, 1s scheduled for publication on
8/1/73. It reportedly has a first American printing of 285,000°-—
copies and is the August selectton, of the Book-of-the -Month Club.

Following Miss Monroe's death by drug overdose in
1962, there was a spate of rumors, originating on the West Coast,
alleging she was having an affair with the then Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, and that her death was in some way related to
this and/or was the result of a plot revolving around some of her
associates who allegedly had past Communist Party affiliations or
sympathies. These rumors were embellished upon at that time in
various sensational-type gossip magazines and in a short book pub-
lished in July, 1964, entitled "The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe"
by Frank A. Capell, These allegations were branded false and no
factual support existed for them.

Mailer, in his new book, has repeated some of these
same rumors and has given them a bizarre twist.

As to whether Miss Monroe took her own life, Mailer
answers "possibly" - and then suggests other possibilities. One
of these is the suggestion that the FBI, CIA or the Mafia found it
of interest that Robert Kennedy, brother of the President John Kennedy,
was reputed to be having an affair with the movie star. Mailer
suggests that "right-wing" FBI and CIA Agents had a “huge motivation"
to murder Marilyn Monroe in order to embarrass the Kennedy family,

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Austrian pepers recently reported, often in headlines,
that Woden is presently engaged in investigating the death of...

sai 2 ionroe, for there have allegedly arisen doubts as to the |

fact that the actress has committed suicide. We wonder if these,
reports are based upon true facts. .

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Christmas and the coming of a new year is a welcome

opportunity to thank you, Dear Director Hoover, for your never-

ceasing kindness to answer our frequent inquiries whenever
possible,

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Fue,

In doing so you are decisively contributing not only.
to hold but to improve the prestige and the standard of our oe)
review. A very happy Christmas and every good wish for 1966! _)
I have the honor to be, Sir,

‘yours most respectfully .

wa Wht,

(A. ‘Kretschy)
Editor-in-chief



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. continued as partner in that business net OONBOCRTIAN

succeeded by Bauman & Greene Inc., February,
19.8. GREENE Vice President until October,
1948 when he resigned to form tha subject.

MILTON GREENE, 1a also Vito President of
Martlyn Monroe Productions Inc., this address,
which was formed in interest cf actress

- MARILYN KGNROE, and her theatrical and tele~
vision phases. :

Corporation chartered New York laws December
20, 1954 with 200 shares no par value como!
stock. .

GREERE, 1s also owner of M. H. Greene
Advertising Co., this address, active in the
general advertising field, however, complete
details declined, Financial details also
declined, :

LEE B. GREENE, brother of tne President, born
1910, married. Medical doctor profession,
assoéiated with Bellevue Hospi » New York
City.

New Haven and Los Angeles are requested to search
their Indices, contact informants for information of subversive
activity of MILTON GREENE and verify the local residence of
subject in their area.

The Bureau will be advised of further developments
in this matter. P.

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. MOTHERS OF WORLY WAR 0, Inc, -

National Headquarters

TELEPHONE MELROSE 5-6690
1131 NORTH DELAWARE STREET ® INDIANAPOLIS, SNDIANA 46202

EXECUTIVE BOARD

National President Winter Haven, Fla.

GLENNA YOUNG Jan. 20, 1965
2231 N. Delaware St.

Indianapolis, Indiana

Telephone Me 5-6630

7 wee Pi : Hon. J, Edgar Hoover, -
Natienet iat Bice: President Federal Bureau of Investigation
Walout, Mlinois Washington, D.C.

National Second Vice-President DEAL Sir’
EVELYN KLECKNER
1459 Main St. Having attended the All American Conference t: Combat CGom-
Northampton, Pennsylvania
Telephone 215-262 6329

munism 2s a delegate cf Mothers of World War 11, Ine. I now

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Recording Si . y : y
ee AGNES SLORER feel it my duty, more then ever, to do what I can to suppres

1131 N. Delaware St.
Indianapolis, Indiana untrue rumors,
Telephone Me $~6630

Am in a treiler park in yinter Haven, Fla. and I vas handed 46.

Treasurer
Fee MeMAHON 2 pamphlet entit uicide or Murder?" pertaining t> the _

Kalamazoo, Michigan
Telephone Fireside 26289 {death sf Marilyn Monroe and connecting her name with the

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Sgt-AteArms former Attorney General. Such reading can &° much to under-
EDNA YOUNGQUIST
121 N. Cedar St mine one's character and I would like to know if there is...

Lindsborg, Kansas

DIRECTORS any truth to any of it. It mentions Communism als» and that

KAY BECK is why I am interested.

1015 Jones St.

Davenport, Iowa, $2722 Would appreciate an answer. i amfAmericanism Chairman also”

MARY CHANCE for the arganization (M.W.W.L 4) and am interested in |

ist City, Kamses clearing this up.

MARY HANSEN

5330 N. Mobile Ave, Sincerely yours,

sit = th Ave /65_-$00 ih - re. Alta Melton
Kenoshs, Wisconsin $5140 : Americanism Chairman ;
[ tt sommes mnie others of World Wer ll, ini

MARY SMITH
Rockland, Delaware



AIRTEL

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DIRECTOR

8/16/55

DEFERRED
MARILYN ONROE, MISC. INFORMATION CONCERNING (Is-Ry

advised 8/12/55

ency, contacted

at thé Soviet Embassy.
if ILYN MONROE had applied for a
statdd that the S

visa.
Oviet Embassy received a e

er from ‘he:
Manager requesting ap ation for a visa and it is now
der consideration. also stated that
ae: j - ° ltura ache about it. Later

dvised a reporter of the New*Yor)s
contacted

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and inquired re arding MARILEN i
application for visa forms, = that tH 2-
letter requesting the forms her Manager gn
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nce. She said subject is very vulnerable |
now’because of her rejection by ARTHUR MILLER and also by Au
JOR" Di MAGGIO and FRANK SINATRA. She telephoned SINATRA to

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NEert1c |

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(Bufile 100- to view the movie "TORRERO" and go ou
with him afterwards; however, five minutes before he was to
get her, she called and canceled the date and ay:

furious. g&)

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nonpolitical in nature. us

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MARILYN MONROE
MAIN FILE
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trouble with the 2a Cob g. She wah, Be “very rough time” ¢ ‘B1UU,UUU tor

applying for a re in “The Untor playing baseball with the $23. Francisce

ee a ee er ee
i a. Harry onl jet 6)

ten " "” Diahann Carroll, leading lady of “No

daughters abont her mother's release from

while youngish Grandma

. was paying her Debt of Honor. -

*

Pravda ran an asticle bylined by Negro.
operetic star Paul

Paul has been away from his native land
80 long perhaps he doesn't keep up with
the news about his former Her! neigh-

Strings”' on Broadway? Pravda, in case
you've forgotten, Paul, is Russian for

Health Club while working out.
*

Just about ten years ago Delbert Mann
and Paddy Chayetsky received, respective-
ly, $9,000 and $13,000 for the direction
and screenplay of “Marty.” It made.a for-
tune for its landlords and others, Today
Delbert and Paddy each receive $150,000

ita
Sophie Loren will protray-a 60-year-old
woman in “Yesterday, Today and Tomor-
row.” Whadda Waste!

*

Here’s an item for the Every-Little-Bit-
Helps Dept.: fie swim star Esther
(we call her Statuesther) Williams re-
cently received a royalty check. It was for

Doctors, they added, assured Soraya that
a minor operation would enable her to be-
come a mother.

*

t Long Deep Sigh Dept.: We note that
Maureen O'Hara's beautiful eighteen-year-
old daughter Bronwyn appears with
Maureen in Warner's epic “Spencer's
Mountain.” ©, dear. {t seems like only «
few Yesterdays Ago that Charles Laughton
presented the eighteen-year-old Maureen

in “Jamaica Inn.’

__*®

Some Hollywood folks are still upset
over Hopper's book which “tells
all” One actress complained: “Imagine
writing our memoirs instead of her own!”

Tar Exp

MARILYN
MONROE

a celebration of his good fortune. His ca-

reer had reached « height be never before

With Marilyn, it was not good fortune
but unhappiness thet drew her to bim, She
was getting older, she was afraid
losing her she was afraid

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. Yuin it—and he'd never

She needed him. She needed his con-
fidence and his vitality. Because if this
man was so confident of himself and of
his future, and since he'd chosen her,
didn't that mean he believed in her, too?
And if he believed in her, then she couldn't
possibly be as bad as she thought she was.

Maybe he will marry mel

Besides, to her, there was always the
faint possibility that he would marry ber
and they could live happily ever after.

But it was all 2 dream, and somewhere
deep inside her she knew that.

le explained to ber that they'd never
marry. He loved his wife, he told her,
though he loved her, too, And there was
his career, he told her, any scandal would
‘allow that to hap-

me This was what he'd dedicated his
life to. No, he'd never allow that to happen.

And so they spent time together, as”

. Never before had he been

about . pill. 1° just go to ."
pill, TR just go sleep.

And, if it became public knowledge, what
would happen to his work? Would he be
beamirched by scandal just when his life's
dream was close to the brink of coming

true? He'd better eee Marilyn less. He'd -

better wy t stop seeing her altogether.
‘And ‘the more he tried to stop seeing
her, the more desperate Marilyn became.

There were the phone calls, the threats, -

the pills again.

He didn’t believe her, all she did was
make him almost hate her.

Fi A 2 Sunday night August 5,
1962, lyn: tris in

again.
She spoke to him on the phone.
“Don't leave me,” she p!
“It’s over,” he answered, “I'll never
leave my wife. I can’t see you any more.”
He hang up on her and she tried to
lose herself in sleep. Beside her bed there

was a bottle of fifty sleep capsales. There, .

there was her friend, the thing that always
gave her peace.

She gulped down a handful.

The phone rang. It waa a close friend
of hers, a friend who knew all about the

romance.

“He won't take me back,” she cried.
“He said he'll never come back.”

The friend told her, “I'l come over
and talk to you.”

But Marilyn didn’t want anyone to see
her the way she looked. Her eyes were
swollen and red. She'd let her blonde bair

w out until the dark roots showed. Her
fice clearly showed the signs of drinking

“Noe she said, “T've taken a sleeping

next to
TE she could

couldn't si
her was the bottle of pi

meet aay



THE BEST COPY
OBTAINABLE IS
INCLUDED IN THE
REPRODUCTION OF
THESE DOCUMENTS.
PAGES INCLUDED THAT
ARE BLURRED, LIGHT, OR
OTHERWISE DIFFICULT
TO READ ARE THE
RESULT OF THE
CONDITION OF THE
ORIGINAL DOCUMENT.
NO BETTER COPY CAN BE

REPRODUCED.


A review in Time Magazine on 7/16/73, a Mike Wallace .
television interview, a 7/22/13 New York Times book review by Pauline
Kael, and a Washington Post article dated 1/20/73 by Stephen Isaacs, .
are all critical of Mailer for his unsubstantiated theorising and for -
engaging in "yellow" journalism. —

For information only. No action is recommended regarding —
the FBI would merely
serve to feed the fires of publicity which Mailer is attempting to stoke.



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Mothers of World War IL, Jac. gis ae
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Indlanapolls, Indiana 46202 Bf we 0

Dear Mrs. Melton: HS ©

Your letter of January 20th has besn received. 2 3

While I would like to be of assistance to you,
the FBI is strictly an investigative agency of the Federal

Government and nelther makes evaluations nor draws coucla-
aions as to the character or integrity of any organization,
publication or individual. In view of this, Iam sure you will
understand why I cannot comment concerning the pamphict,

“Suicide or Murder?"

T am enclosing some information which I hope
you will find of interest. :

Sincerely yours,
CE Edgr Bowes

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mon j~“tsoa, CO (100-0) BY B oo serte (fay
, DATE:. (ofA? 7a DR cae

SUBJECT: IL IONROE, pte

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‘any of this information to avoid disclosure of es who Sew

were oe closely with subject during hy vielt ta’ ma

N Mexico. yu (¥, sweenggggpa Was Ff oN Le RK

Y 4s source advised that MARILYN MONROE, the movie-X3N

my actress, was recently in Mexico on vacation and while in p
~ Mexico associated closely with certain members of the America:
Communist Group in Mexico (ACGM). Source ¢ terized the
ACGM as a loose association of a predominantly social nature
of present and/or past members of the Communist Party, USA,

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and their friends and associates who s' & common sympathy
for Communism and the Soviet Union. wy

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2 mutual infetuation arose between subject and
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said it was obvious that the subject was pe

tely enamored with She said that subject thinks

oy: rich, stable, » es and dependable, She
said the situation is very hard on oy“)

Mexico City newspapers reported subject left 3/2/62

en route to Los Angeles and San Francisco. xCU

Information copies of this communication are being
directed to Los Angeles and New York as it contains information
on activities of possible interest to those Divisions.

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