1404-10095-10189 AN As oly Basal ‘Reprosuce Of team IN7e GQ eh wid MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration FROM : Robert W. Cambino. Director of Security nn & ee tl 5 Morrow, Robert Dietz 1. nis. memorandum is for your information only. 2. Mr. Angus M..Thuermer, Assistant to the DCI, has © advised that Mr. Fred 8lumenthal of Parade masazine had telephonically contacted him and said that a Robert OD. sorrow had written a book entitled Betrayed, which was dua. for publication in May 1976. Hr. Blumenthal advised that he is currently reviewing this book, and that it contains - me critical comments concerning the Agency, ¢.s. the. Avency was responsible for the assassination of Presiden John F. Kennedy. Mr. Blumenthal also stated that Mr. } Morrow clains to. have been a CIA contract man. Mr. Blumenthal desired to verify Hr. Morrow's claimed association with the Agency ,. and Mr. Thuermer requested that this Office review its files to ascertain whether Mr. Morrow was in fact associated with the Agency, and if so, what infor- mation could be passed to Mr. Blumenthal. 3. The Office of : Security does have a file on Robert Dietz Morrow, born 23 January 1928 at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Morrow,.as of June 1962, was President of Morrow Products, Inc., locate d in Balt timore, Maryland, and the Security Staff of the Office of. Logistics was granted a Secret contract clearance for use by the Office of Communications on 19 Septeaver 1962. The Agancy then . entered into a contract with Vorrow Product3, Inc., to broduce a prototype of an adapter. te be used witha a radio receiver whica pur? ortedly would greatly reduce inter- forence. A model cf the adapter was delivered to the Office o£ Communications in February 1365, but the. gevice was found to se wortaleass and ths contra net was terminated. “O35 § 1232
14-00000 4. Subsequently, on 1 Cctober 1963, the U. S. Secret ervice arrested a Cuban exile leader, ‘Mario Garcia Xohly, Pe, Yr. Morrow and his wits, Cecily, in connection with a 20% to flood Cuba with $50,000,000 in counterfeit sesos to prés3 the Castro economy. Mr. Kehly was the leader of this scheme, while Nr. Merrow and his wife were chargsd with st making the plates for the counterfeit bills. Nr. Morrow; whea interrogated by the U. S. Secret Service, advised that ay. Kohly supplied him with a counterfeit 29 pesos bill which Mr. Kohly said was offered for’ sale to hin from agonts of the CIA in Miami. Mr. Morrow also stated that hs nad become associated with a "certain agent" after suilding a devics which he demonstrated to this agency. The Secret Service was advised in 1963 that tha Agency did not have any interest in ir. Kohly. 5. There is no ‘information in this file verifying vr. Kohly’s allegztion that he had obtained the counterfeit Dill from agents of tho CIA. 6. Hr. Thuermer has been advised that he may tell Hz. Blumenthal that the Agency entered into a contract with Morrow Products, Inc., in September 1962 whereby Mr. Morrow: was.to develop a piece of equipment, but that the contract Was terminated in April 1963 after the prototype of the. equipment had been tested and found to be unsatisfactory. ” ae ee aa, ° Robert W. Gambino | ’ Distribution: Orig. & 1 - Adse a . | - BD/Sec 1t . . 1 - CD Reading File oo, ‘1 - Subject File a . . : OZ . , 0S/PSI/CDI nf (18 March 1976} Retype jm (24 March 1976)