(404-10132-10009 - ye he-¢ : aaa RETURN TO CIA Gow Background Use On! - Do Not Reproduce Hie) : Chief/Research sconenjoojonsl’ rr 23 January 1964 FROM : M. D. STEVENS SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY OSWALD CASE (Address Book) i. Reference.is made to names in OSWALD's address book which are furnished in an FBI memorandum of 31 December 1963, which lists portions of the address book found among OSWALD's personal affects at the time of his arrest in Dallas. I ij "Jaggars-Chiles-Stovall 522 Browder RI 1-5501" 2. The name: appears on page 21 of the address book and on page 45 the name appears again as: "Jaggers-Chiles-Stovall Topograhy ~ 5e2 Browder N RE 11-5501 Micro dots™ (these names appear on pages 10 and 16 of the FBI report of 31 December 1963). 3. Our Security Indices contain information regarding Jaggare, Chiles & Stovall, Inc., 522 Browder Street, Dallas, Texas, in a 1958 FBI report dn an Esplonage-R type investigation of John Joseph BITINER, a cost account’ clerk, Finance and Account" Department » United States Corpsof Engineers, Alburquerque, New Mexico, who owned a rooming house in Alburquerque and who allegedly made contacts with persons associated with the military services in order to obtein information for espionage purposes. Document Number 1305 - 472 for FOIA Review on MAR 1977 4 OS GREL wae b.
14-00000 03 4. BITINER’is of interest in the case of | | #288 608 SSD, who currently holds a covert Security clearance to permit his use under Project (BOULDER/O/Minneapolis Honeywel esota/ PH II, and regarding whom Security furnished information to the Chief, Special Security Clearance Center of 17 April 1963. signed a “memorandum of understanding" with CIA on 13 May 1963. in BITINER's reoming house from.25 May 1958 to 1 July 1958, during which time he knew BITINER socially as well as in his landlord capacity; and he was a close friend of BITINER's nephew, Al SCALA, whom he continued to see. ‘ Se The firm of Jaggars, Chiles & Stovall, Inc. came into the picture because on 11 August 1957 a telephone call was made to the Dallas telephone number of Jaggars, Chiles & Stovall, Inc. (RI 1-5501) from the Alburquerque, New Mexico, residence of John Farl SHERMAN and Katherine SHERMAN, at 1601 Granite, N. W. Katherine SHERMAN was a friend of BITINER and during 1955/1956 had lived in the rooming house in Alburquerque which was owned by BITTNER. According to her statements to the FBI in about December 1958, she left BITINER's rooming house in July 1956; and immediately thereafter married John SHERMAN and from that time until July 1958 saw BITTNER only once. In July 1958, when she again ran into BITTNER, she was separated from John SHERMAN and began to date BITINER regularly. She admitted that she had an extremely close relationship with BITTNER and he had visited her at her home at 1601 Granite, N. W., Alburquerque, (from which address the call to Jaggars, Chiles & Stovall, Inc. was made on 11 August 1957). 6. As of August 1957, Katherine SHERMAN was employed in the Office of Information Services, Kirtland Air Force Base, where she had been granted a SECRET clearance on 28 December 1955. Her husband, John SHERMAN, was employed by Lytle Engineering Company, a firm in Alburquerque, which was working on contracts for the Armed Forces-in connection with which he hed access to classified information. {T. On 22 July 1958, Thomas L. JAGGARS, President of Jaggars, Chiles & Stovall, Inc., made a check of his firm's records and long distance telephone call registry but said he could find no record of John or Katherine SHERMAN. het coat ah & been
14-00000 ye & = : ‘ Se . eu ew ° ° . “ . . Qa asa ted nein o 3 im 8. Jeggaré, Chiles & Stovall, Inc., 522 Browder Street, Dallas, is principally a type setting company dealing with matters involying topography and maps. The firm does (or in 1957 was doing) confidential work for Chance Vought Air Craft, Dallas, and for other national defense establishments. Le > Stun, M.D. STEVENS 623 tet enidl§ aad Cesiassificetion