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13-00000 Los Angeles Free Press - 5850 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90028 Dear Mee, Grenobie1, ot “this letter is in response “to ‘the distortions and outright ‘falsities | /- -: printed about’ me in the article written by William W. ®urner, titled | _ - “BANK ROBBER, ‘MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE": LINKED TO JFK ASSASSINATION PROBE,| | ey me ET pugust’ 12, 1975 Ms. Penelope Grenoble, Editor which appeared in the July 25~ 31 edition of the Los Angeles Free Press| ao request that the ‘Free Press either print a retraction of such. ‘les and distortions or publish this. letter. Me furner, who spent. ten years as a Special. Agent of the FBI, is: ¢ not | unfamiliar to me. He has authored similar articles, both during my | “i * imprisonment in the United States and while I was detained in the». '.. “German Democratic Republic,.in which he knowingly and purposefully © | - g@ited numerous lies about me. He has proved himself adevt at putting | | “words. ‘in my mouth and misquoting his sources of information to lend .: |. .) credence to his major untruths, a skill he probabl ¥. developed while =) serving with the Bureau's intelligence-security division. © His. recent |" ~ “> -elaims” cause me to wonder whether. or not he ever Left the. ‘FBL.. : a . professor Richard He Popkin, ‘from whom Mr. ‘Turner obviously collecte “much of his latest ‘baloney, is a character that I feel should either .. purchase a hearing aid or consult a psychiatrist. Each of my.so7-.. de -ealled ‘discussions with him (all but one occurred over the Selephone). : -~ were duly tape-recorded by me, and if he did in fac (Burner: has- attributed to. him. about Mey then he- oe am. listing the ‘following facts. in rebuttal. t . “decorated hero ‘of the Korean War," nor did the -about “a career in Army intelligence... More to the point, the S Gocu- |: - . ments found in my possession and under my control (some of which were. -. returned’to me only last year by the FBI) ensured: my incarceration re fora longer veriod than I had anticipated. -fhey also guaranteed my "| being held practically incommunicado for many months (for eleven. 3.1 “months I was not even permitted to read.a newspaver), not to mention - “nor were they effected for the purpose of establishing rapport. After my. acquittal (in 1968, ‘not in 1967) I did not “drop” from sight, the curtailment of my most basic constitutional Safeguards. My contacts with Lee. Harvey Oswald did not entail any “friendship,” -
13-00000 as. Me. Tarer, the FBI and ‘the CIA damn we), move . ( . I have never stated ‘to ‘anybody, either verbally or in writing, ‘that 7 ' in- 1963 I was an agent for the CIA, although in 1974 I did state, . ° -. under oath, that. I thought I had been functioning for the CIA. during ipart of 1963. Mr. Turner is also aware that less than two months - 7 after President Kennedy's death FBI agents confronted me with. their © “.-guspicion that I had “acted as: an unregistered agent for a foreign power," inferring that I was a spy for one of the Cuban po foreten oes services (several years later the CIA, through one of its “former"= -. | ease officers, accused me of having been a Soviet spy: . still ee one. FBI agent suggested: that Tt had worked for the Chinese). ne The: registered - letter: that. was dispatched at my ‘insta ance. to FBI --. Director J. Edgar Hoover in September 1963 (not necessarily on the: 13th) revealed sufficient details to warrant an immediate yon the -- tion (if. not the arrest) of Lee Harvey Oswald and two:Cuban refugees.* | oy certainly “assumed" that some “action”. would be taken by. the. FBI. oo was not the ‘least bit “frantic” ‘about anything ‘in September 1963. - I did not set foot inside the Republic of Cuba during that month. oe .  Yomy knowledge I have never talked to any “Castro aides.” The main || > distinction between some American intelligence officers that. tT knew 0) _. and hired killers were the procedures utilized in murdering their ee _wietims and/or the methods used to disassociate: themselves. anc. the. Ue 8. government from their’ crimes. was. oe OE had no ‘fear of being implicated “in ‘the planned assassination" set] ooo the. ‘time of my arrest (or. prior thereto. ae ue Sh oo ok ad oo mhe. two letters ‘that r mailed ‘to ‘James. Le Rantin, | ‘General. Counsel. to | the Warren Commission, were not sent through “private channels." - coe: Were sent ‘through ‘proper Jail authority a a a have ‘never ‘claimed. ‘that i “squirreled away a snapshot of + (nyse) --with Lee Harvey Oswald taken in Jackson Sauare in Néw Orleans in 1963. They) _-Ivhave never stated that I-am "willing to surface and tell (any). seory| to Congress". or to-anybody. And I did not reveal any details about ~, Mre Oswald. to Professor Popkin: that are "new" or unknown to the FBIe et a a. af Richard Ce Nagel
13-00000 ~- yy : "@. ’ oo - an Los Angeles Frea Press sty 25-31,1975 | - 4 ae i Bank robber, ‘Manchurian Candidate’ _ linked to JFX assassinaiion probe. - ED. NOTE: Recent exposure of | . what many consider to be im- proper CIA activity, both at _ home and abroad, has. _, reawakened interest in decade- _ old chalienges to official ver- . Sions of the assassinations of = John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. As new. facts also begin to emerge, Congress faces growing pressure to reinvestigate the -'sdFK assassination. What follows are the strange ' Stories, disciosed here for the . first time, of two figures Aichard Case. Nageli and Luis Angel Castillo — long of interest: - to assassination researchers. | ; WILLIAM W. TURNER —— . SAN DIEGO, (PNS) — On Sept. "20, 1963, a. Fangy man with a verti cal scar on ‘his forehead _Strade into the State National . Bank in El Paso, Tex., and re- quested ‘$100 in travelers’ ”~ checks. Before the teller could : |.Gomply, he whipped out a pistol and fired two shots into the ceil-. “ing. Then he waited to be L . arrested. Police quickly”. realized that “the suspect, Richard Case : Nagel, gone on to a career in Army ‘Intelligence before being dis- Lo _ Charged with the rank of captain . '. in 1989. - Why had -he pulled the non- Fopbery? - Last. week Or. Richard H. 32, was no ordinary. '* bank robber. Papers he carried . Showed that he was a decorated . hero of the Korean War who had Popkin, a philosophy professor _at Washington University in St: Louis, stepped off a plane in the _ nation’s capital lugging a brief- ~ case containing documents -il- luminating the strange case of .. the man who shot a bank. Also. crarnmed into the briefcase was | a thick sheaf of papers relating to a bizarre “Manchurian Can- didate” episode in the Philip- 7 pines in 1967. Both the El Paso and Manila a ‘incidents, Popkin said: in an in- - terview before leaving for. ‘Oswald in Mexico. City and Texe - ~ ‘aS. But the former intelligence. officer had been inacessible. He.) ‘remained in prison for the El. | - Paso caper until his conviction ~ - ‘was reversed for insufficient. Washington, were linked to the Dallas assassination of John F. - Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. They . would “erack the case wide o open,’ ” he. predicted. The slight, bearded academi-. stopping in: Washington to present his.dis- - coveries. to Attorney. General . Edward Levi and the Senate ~ on. cian was Select Committee intelligence Activities before go- ing on to a conference ‘of learn-: ed philosophers... The Second Oswald" “JFK investigation. published The Second Oswald, which chronicled several in- ‘Stances of someone imper- sonating the man later accused . of slaying the president. At the. time the book gained scant attention, but recently it was dis- _ closed that as early as June 3, 1960, FBI Director J. Edgar . Hoover terdepartmental memorandum citing evidence of an- Oswald Pe, _Popkin is no stranger to the : In. 1966 -he | himself .wrote an in-. imposter. The FBI knew-Oswald - at that time as a defector to. Russia,.and, some conspiracy. - theorists believe, as a possible - CIA agent. Popkin said he had been in him as saying he had met with: ° evidence in 1967, after which he ee dropped from sight. en _ Nagell’s Version oe ‘Nevertheless, researchers..- _ were able to glean some picture ~ ' of Nagell's significance from his. .. defense pleadings and cryptic _ - ‘letters from prison. in August 1963 Nagell, works | ing as a CIA agent, learned of a domestic plot to.assagsinate the. - “president, involving Oswald and - canti-Castra Cubans. He ‘formed his CIA superior but. feared nothing would be done ~~ -because he lacked details. On. - Sept. 13 he dispatched a letter - warning J. Edgar Hoover of the. ‘plot but again assumed no ace. ‘ins. tion would be taken. _ As Nagell understood, it, Bs _ Kennedy was to be shot.in:. - (please.turn to page 33) touch with Richard Nageil, now .:--.- > ‘living near San Diego, and had --. tearned about Nageli's- |: friendship with Lee Harvey - —-:.- ‘Oswald. Nagell has fascinated. .- 93. - -. assassination researchers: ever ~...- since an FBi report filed with the |... Warren Commission quoted. -
13-00000 - Washington about Sept. 26 (as it turned out, JFK left Sept. 25 . ~ for a whirlwind tour of the West). . ‘Frantic, Nagell flew to Havana ‘on Sept. 19 to see if Casira- aldes could shed light on the’ ". MO reply. NATION, (continued tram. a 4) :. Nagell's account. And Na” is - ‘willing to surface and te. ais _ story to Congress, Popkin says, assassination plot, but the only advice they could offer was to — execute Oswald In the hope that - _ would stop the plan. . « But Nageilfeft Cuba deciding ‘that he “was an intelligence agent, not a killer." Flying to El “Paso via Mexico City, he walked . into the bank the next day for ’ “the sole purpose of having myself arrested and detained by - federal authorities" — ap-— parently. fearing that his _ association with Oswald would ‘implicate himself in the planned. assassination. Nagell was In the El Paso jail . - when Kennedy was shot In Dallas two months later. Hesent | - an offer to testify before the — - Warren Commission through “private channels” but received Dedicated Leftist in his recent discussions with Popkin, Nagell has revealed ' new details about Oswald. He first met Oswald, he said, in the late fifties at the U.S. navai base at Atsugl, Japan, where Oswaid '- was a Marine Corps radar. - specialist. They became friends but didn’t encounter one. another again until August 1963 _. when Nagell learned of the plot " . ‘against Kennedy. ‘Disputing claims that Oswald had ties with the CIA, Nagel. ‘belleves that Oswald was a dedicated leftist who was duped _ by anti-Castro exiles involved in ' the conspiracy. Posing as-~ ' Gastro G-2 intelligence agents, - _ the exifes wheedied Oswaidinto .. becoming a “fall guy” by playing. on his Castro sympathies, pain- . ting Kennedy as anti-Castro and — promising that he would be spirited to Havana after the ' assassination. Nageli told Papkin he met . with Oswald both in Mexico City . - and New Orleans, hotbeds of the anti-Castro movement. “Nagell claims he has squirrel- ed away a snapshot of himself with Lee Harvey Oswald taken in Jackson Square in New Orieans in 1963," Popkin as- -serted. “In the picture are two ' other men, both anti-Castro ‘Cubans, who were pretending . “was shot, assembled from components - hidden in a bowling bag and in- © EP RRS OS HD ee if this photograph does exist it would fend credibility. to provided protective conditions . are met. “Manchurian Candidate” Pookin is also convinced that the Manila “Manchurian Can- didate” case was connected to _ the JFK assassination. On March 2, 1967, a man named _ -Luis Angel Castillo. was detain- ed by the Philippine National . Bureau of investigation after he had contacted left-wing - Huk guerrillas. Questioned under _truth serum and hypnosis. Castillo blurted out a tale of hav- ing bean taken to a building in Dailas, Tex., the day Kennedy handed a rifle Structed to fire at a man in an -open car sitting next to a lady. The signal to fire would be given by mirror flashes. The story caused a brief sen-. sation at the time. The Manila Times bannered: “‘JFK Piotter’ — in Manilal® Wire service dis- ‘patches to. the United. States ‘said Castillo was a “Cuban. - trained Communist agent” who ‘hadn't shot because he heard _that a man named Joe “had - already shot. the man in the ‘open car.” The story was so im- plausible that it quickly died. Not long ago the hypnotist who conducted the interroga- tion of Castillo for the Philippine *- authorities arrived in this coun- - try under the name Vincente R. Sanchez. When Popkin took a look at his reports, his eyes © popped. 7 The reports termed Castillo a “zombie — a hyp- noprogrammed robot. ' Double-Agent Network Sanchez extracted Castilio’s -rainbling story over a period of weeks. Castillo, then 28, was in- ducted around 1960 into a “Special Operations Group” which afforded him paramilitary training. in 1961 he participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion, as a pilot for the CIA. Thereafter he infiltrated a double-agent munist in Venezuela and ll- quidating a Communist agentin Mexico. ; in talking about the JFK assassination, Castillo — despite some disjointed phrases — was nevertheless able to describe in some detail — ‘network, posing as a Com-- mos OWA GAELS BELAY BFE REERE wi agence ordered, “ihey's got him already. : Let's get out of here." After the ~ rifle was disassembled and... ' stuffed in the bowling bag, he: ~ ' was hustled into the car which — - had brought him to tne building... _ - "It stopped twice within blocks ta - pick up other men. in 1967, Sanchez. Castillo was programmed to assassinate Philippine President Ferdinand ~ Marcos after openly associating _ with the leftist Huks — which “°°.” - would implicate them in the --.. assassination. Popkin pointes. out that this is a similar play to '.the one Nagell attributed to the anti-Castro Cubans’ use of. Oswald.” Until recently, the Castitia oe episode’ might have seamed a. ~- logcial impossibility. But the —- release of the Rockefeller —..- Report, with its revelations. ‘about secret CIA projects to ine -- duce behavior modification in unsuspecting subjects, make. - the possibility Of a“Manchurian = Candidate” more than mere’. * fantasy. (In the Robert Kennedy: «~~ assassination, Dr. Bernard Dia-... ‘mond, whe examined Sirhan... ~~ Sirhan for the defense, testified” ‘that he believed Sirhan was .” - hypnotized at the time of the 2 | ’ shooting.) - Re. Although — the. ‘current.~ me whereabouts of Castillo is un- known, sons who supposedly ran his network, including the “control officer” and a woman who hyp- notized him. Popkin's awn in-. .-_ vestigations have shown. that... = -these people do exist. . Te Through Popkin their stories; . have now been passedontothe . -.. -Attorney General and the ‘Church Committee. an William ‘Turner's latest book, oar The Cuba Project, the story of - the CIA's secret war agains? . Castro, will be published this fall by Houghton Mittin, Qa. be according to in, the Sanchez reports contain the narnes of six per- © -
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13-00000 a ; are TT are (When Filled In) sate — . freruy reouesteo |” 27 March 1969 SPEED LETTER LETTER NO de | fet fe N. Scott. Miler, CI/SIG FROM: Mr.. Paul Gaynor, C/OS/SRS; ‘The attached telegram. from American Embassy, Madrid, may not have come to your attention. It may be of some significance in connection with information about a Richard Case NAGELL with akas your office sent to the FBI. 7 April 1964 (Solie originated) and Richard FECTEAU. SIGNATURE — ' DATE ~ an oo , “refed er on Defoar ov fF hoe om this . For yee “fo SIGNATURE RETURN TO ORIGINATOR i. i 1 ! i i 1 i 1 i } et Ee ed
13-00000 im way 4 _ . a . 18 Janokey 1968 ee SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case ALLEGATION: CIA CONNECTION: | Richard Case NAGELL,."a None; although, Subject was of highly decorated infantry _ interest to 0S in 1964 and early Captain in the Korean War", -.  . 1965 because of information . alleges that he became a. _ furnished to the Agency by the - CIA agent. He said he FBI that he had in his. ‘possession fired the gun in the bank at. the names of six CIA employees | El Paso, Texas because he | at the time of his arrest for bank | wanted to be in custody when robbery at El Paso, Texas on: 20 ' the assassination of . September 1963. 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 i. employees, » Photographs, two - OS “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 _ , a - for the letter ‘sent HOOVER — , t warning of the assassination. - NAGELL’ daimed he was in- structed to “arrow” the oo - patsy; that is kill him a _ _ (OSWALD) after the assassi- BC L '.nation. He contended he. “ | got cold feet and this was i oe ‘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 NAGEL. survived mentally affected him, ; he was given intelligence © ; i training after the crash. | me ne Also, NAGELL cc complains he has been salted away because of what he knows.
13-00000 _ SOURCE: Article by William ‘when the FBI informed the -Agency that Subject had in his possession at ‘the time of his arest for bank robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20 September ‘1963 the name of Richard FECTEAU. (an individual by this name was captured _ unbalanced, his story of being involved in espionage is not fully contradicted — by evidence. He could have been - contacted by a Soviet agent while in Washington, 1962. His file contains mostly FBI reports dated 1962 and 1964 and in these - ‘bank at El Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custody when the assassination - 1 January 1964 which was, however , after. the assassination. (see page 4 of “book containing» the names of. CIA employees is true. 1968 RAMPARTS W. TURNER 0S INDICES RESULTS: Subject became of interest to the Office of Security in March 1964 by the Chinese Commmists 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 D. C. in December 1962 or while he. was in Mexico City in September and October are documented his history of mental instability and physical complaints stemming foom the plar 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 OS 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. Subject's file reflects no Agency interest in him prior to March 196) 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. Holabird, Maryland on 15 August 1955. He — served in Korea and Japan as a member of the U..S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, terminating. about 1958. .A Lt..Col. Ned W. GLENN 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 sirplane crash. the. RAMPARTS article's claim that NAGELL said he fired the gun in the took place is not completely in conflict with a statement NAGELL made on chronology) The RAMPARTS article's allegation.that the FBI took from ‘-NAGELL a note- NAGELL' s complaint that he was "salted away" is open to specuktion. A ten year prison sentence does appear harsh, considering the documented brain
13-00000 ° (damage he suffered in the B-25 plane crash while he was in the U. S._
13-00000 | 15 Aug 1955: So 5 29 Oet.1959: 27 June 1962: 17 Aug:1962: 24 Aug 1962: 28 Nov 1954: - stability was probably due to ‘damage to brai: 14 Dec.1959: - - mo, wate a of § State. of. California. asa special investigator... 8 June 1962: | Suspended by ABC, ‘State of" ‘California “Richard Case NAGELL, Chronolo sical Record of Activities | a 7 Entered. 1 Army (18 5 years old) | _ “Brilliant Korean War Record", : "Many ‘Campaign Awards" we Sole survivor of: plane crash. ‘Suffered facial distigure ment; given. psychiatric exam. ns aduated from Army intelligence School, F te Holabirc ryland, Servéed.as advisor to ROK Army in Korea,” - Concerned. with. intelligence activities;. ‘served as a mer of U.S, Army: Counterintelligence Corps. in: J apan,, Senc and Tokyo, terminating « about. 1958. le — Att Col. Ned W. GLENN, Deputy G- -2; ULS. Navy 7 Japan, advised on 24 March.1964 that he: chad: served : personally in. ‘Korea with NAGELL. GLENN: dvised . ‘that NAGELL was not stable. mentally and. that this’ in- ssues: ~ suffered in: an airplane crash. during the Korean War. pO Honorable Discharge a. Captain, U, S. Amy | E Emfloyed by Department of Alcoholic Beverage: Gontro : Dismissed. by ABC” | 16 July 1962: Shot. in chest Nyyhile making a meet! between Malibu. and” Oxnard, Refused to identify as Sailants or furnish. infor mation to ‘police, subsequently, filed Civil Rights: com- , plaint against police. Withdrew request ‘for hearing so he could get money from state of California consisting < retirement contributions and accumulated leave. . Issued tourist card at Los Angeles , California. _ os Entered Mexico through Ciudad, Juarez. -
13- 00000 . = cet gg og Lowe "28 Sept 1962: ~ “Appearéa voluntarily: at American Embassy, ‘Mexico City, oe BS “> tense, nervous, agitated and antagonistic. : ; a ~” Inter alia-stated he had been approached in Mexico - /. City” for. recruiting, - refused 'to say: by: whom on. behalf of Os what country. Stated that one job-of this sont would be  __ ae. ou a “in. New York. He volunteered that he: fully realized that a hat he was saying could be ‘used against him in any. | -court/or: prosecution, . He stated that he was "bitter,. ae Oo disgusted, disillusioned and disaffected". Stated he knew -. the full significance of the term: disaffected. He stated... _-that if he did go to some other: country, it would. cost the’ . United States millions. He stated that he was "through being a good citizen" and thought that he had d gotten ae . . "dirty < deal all. around. 1 Oct 1962: ‘Again appeared 2 at American Embassy, } Mexico > City, gE wanting to know -what: had been done in regard to getting. _ ‘the state of California to pay him the money due him... Was sent to. ‘protection-section. Asked what’ séction: of . Embassy he should contact to renounce his Unitéd States — citizenship. _ _Was advised by collection section that they _ could not intercede for him in’ collecting money from ~ ' state. of California, . Appeared in passport and citizenship : - section and asked what the penalty would. be for going to — _ an Iron Curtain country and what effect it would have on his citizenship. Was advised that such action would tbe a violation, of federal: daw. es oe jo an : 28 Oct 1962:: oe Left Mexico City, Misco. aaa 16 Nov 1962: Advised FBI in New York City he wanted to expose . ar me Department « of Alcoholic * Beverage Control in | California. sos. 15 Dee 19622 Advised FBI in: Jacksonville, Florida, that he had been | a re approached shortly before: in Washington, .D.C., by ~.-- "individual believed to be working for Soviets. NAGELL” ~ at this time was noted to be in an inebriated condition - = : . vague. -in. answering questions. , " a 20 Dec 19628: 22 Jan: 1963: NAGELL at Bay” Pines, Florida VA Hospital, = “ Condition diagnosed as ''chronic brain syndrome associated be . .. sp: with brain trauma with behavioral reaction. characterized 7 —— _by passive aggressive and paranoid features". .
24 Jan 1963: 19 April 1963: 4 June 1963: 20 Sept 1963: ' taken his former wife to’ ‘court for failure to. comply’ with - court order. Biving NAGELL visitation rights with: children.” a tigid®. : ‘Would | only. utter: words "Got to see my kidd", : in the ceiling proved he had not been trying to hit anyone, _ He stated that he was certain that "all of my problems have. . . the names.-of- ‘purported CIA: agents and “6théY infoérma tion. f _ Cell mate ‘in jail reported that NAGELL disclosed to him” nn that NAGELL, during confused period after. discharge, ‘-. decided everything against him in Los Angeles:and made > “arrangements with Communist Party in Los Angeles to’ ~ pick up visa and passport from contact in El Paso and . attempted suicide three times enroute to El Passo. but . -. California, and that on 9 July 1963 NAGELL signed affi- Asked FBI in Miami if his Cuban or Rus sian: sources » .gave him a pistol with silencer and microfilm. if-he — would be permitted to return same to his contact so f. he could be of further use to U.S. Government. “He 8 stated that in August or September: 1962 he ‘met a man : . from Maryland. in Mexico City who introduced him to - individuals whom hétbelieved may: have been: Soviet Agent.. wo = Advised FBI in Los Angeles, California, that: ‘he had | NAGELL appeared at.the Out. Patient Clinic and 3 was re- ferred to the Neurological. ‘Clinic for treatment. His condition. was diagnosed. as'depression, tearful, nervous, NAGELL arrested i in El Paso, Texas, ¢ on. . charge of at~ tempting to rob State National. Bank. Slashed: ‘wrist night. of 9/20/63. .NAGELL consistently denied he had ‘tried . to rob the bank; ‘stated that the fact that he fir two shots, been-solved for: a long time, and now I won't have to go to Cuba", A notebook. which the Subject had on his person when j are rested made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee, -. ‘eventually end up in Czechoslovakia, NAGELL reportedly nk lost nerve. - SO : ; (Noteworthy that State Department records reflect issuance oo of Passport to NAGELL on 7 August 1962 at Los Angeles, davit that his passport had been.lost or stolen. He was issued a new passport on 6 August 1963.) -SétheT-
13-00000 4 Nov 1963: 19 Dec 1963: _- ‘l-Jan 1964: . 2 24 Jan 1964: | 9 June 1964: " 17 June 1964: El Paso Herald-Post article states that NAGELL told . "the bank. "I had a motive for doing what I did" NAGELL - told Judge , "but my motive was-not ‘to hold up the bank, Subseduent to President's assassination, Subject claimed : acquaintance with OSWALD and wife. ‘Marina OSWALD . NAGELL furnished < a signed statement: a . that I participate in an act; such act being a criminal * 1963, another representative of the same foreign. govern- - ment made the same proposal ‘to. me. At that ‘time, I - ' act were completed. At that ‘time, I refused the aforesaid disclosed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | . ‘There- a / my arrest. would provide an immediate, though temporary, | al am not guilty as charged, tt Sentenced in U. 5. District Court, El Paso, Texas to U.S. District Court that he did. not attempt to hold up ~ i do not intend to disclose my motive at this time. " “on l/. 18/ 65. disclaimed any- knowledge of NAGELL. "2. In September 1962, while I was in Mexico City,a . representative, of a foreign government ‘preposed to me offense and inimical to the best interest of the United States. "At that time, I refused such. proposal, In May ‘agreed to such a proposal." “In September 1963, I was informed by a an American, ‘known to me as an Agent of the same foreign government, that arrangements for my participation in the aforementioned proposal. Approximately one week later,. I was. instructed by: this ‘same person to either participate as previously agreed “or derrogatory information. pertaining to me would be Upon, I agreed to follow the instructions-of-this’ ‘person, _ “although I did not intend to do so. _ This existing situation ~~ actuated my conduct of. September: 20,. 1963, for which. I was arrested and am presently charged. : ot I did not actually attempt to rob any bank. I thought that solution to the problem with which I was confronted. NAGELL arraigned in connection with indictment for bank robbery and was committed for 30 days for the purpose of psychiatric examination. serve 10. years, NAGELL swallowed several sleeping pills while lodged — at the’ El Paso ‘CEpne Jail. ~4~
13-00000 BOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY =) ~ 24 October 1997 | ‘MEWORANDUM FOR THE RECORD a SUBIECT:. NAGELL, ‘Richard ce. re re RIN. 0° 264. 170: on 23° ‘october. 1997, ‘the undersigned ‘met with, Mr... Gary ‘Breénrianmen, | ‘Historical ‘Review Group, | Intelligence Agency and Ms. Records Review: Board. Central . ; Kathleen M, Combs, Assassination : “Me: Combs reviewed the OF fice of Personnel Security's s. security file of _ Subject. . . Se ETS FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY —
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Slack ‘and other - target shooters patronizing the Sports Drome Riffe Range reported that-a man resembling Oswald had practiced there self obvious, at onetime © incurring Slack’s displeasure by firing on his tar- get (Report, pp. 318-319). An incident at’ Downtown Lincoin- Mercury. is! highly revealing. Immedi- ately after ‘the assassination, salesman Albert Guy Bogard reported to the FBI: | that a man giving the name Lee Oswald, who closely resembled the accused as-. sassin, came into the showroom on No- vember 9. Remarking that in several weeks he would have the money to make the purchase, he test-drove an expensive model on the Stemmons Freeway at 60 to 70 miles an hour. Both Bogard and another salesman, Oren Brown, wrote’. down the name. Oswald so.that the 7a A third salesman, Eugene M. 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Rock groups, film stars, psychedelic, etc, Stamp brings’ list. “as ARTES . Aptos, California 95003 Box 646R : buy a car” (Report, ‘p. 320): “Oswald supposedly could not operate an” ~ evidently never considered the possibility ~ "impersonator. He stuck to his story in vie Penitentiary. The story is that of inmate | Richard Case Nagell, and paradoxically, “the most cogent confirmation for it isthe to ten years in federal custody. © “captain in the Korean War who, he ° agent. It is a matter of record that in| crash in Cambodin, which tends to supe in not éxactly a tourist playground. On September 20, 1963, Nagell walked into __abank in El Paso, Texas, fired.a gun into. -MY GOD I$ ALIVE, SORRY -f]- ; . to be arrested. He says he staged the: . [| mits, But he had sent a registered letter: * ‘to J. Edgar Hoover warning him of the | -was then scheduled for the latter part of Ananewetee oo et i} cember 19, 1963, Nagell advised, “For -LEE HARVEY OSWALD) was purely “City and in Texas" (CD 197). Another going to ‘have to BO: > back to bussia ’ Given a lie detector. test by the FBI, Bogard’s responses were those “normally expected of d person telling the truth,” Nevertheless, the Warren Commission dismissed the incident by noting that automobile and that on November 9 he allegedly spent the day - drafting -a : Iengthy letter to the Soviet Embassy, [¢ 3 someone might be impersonating “Os- wald. But Bogard will never identify:the news interviews, and subsequently : was beaten to within an inch of his life by an unknown assailant and arrested: by the Dallas police on seemingly trumped-up bad check charges. He retreated to his. native Louisiana, where on St. ‘Valen- |.” tine’s Day 1966, he was found dead. of : exhaust fumes in his automobile. * The main ingredients of the -patsy: theory are wrapped up. ina story that has gradually filtered out of ‘Leavenworth manner in which he wound up sentenced ‘ Nagell was a highly decorated infantry. : claims, subsequently became a CIA. | 1957 he was seriously injured in a plane | port his contention, since Cambodian was the cciling, and then sat outside waiting - affair because he wanted to be irr custody. as an alibi when the assassination took: place. It was'a desperate measure, he ad- impending assassination, which he’says September (probably the 26th in’ ‘Wash- ington, D.C.), and the letter had fone © There is an incredibly brief EBI inter view report stating, in part, that on De-: the record he would like to say that his association with OSWALD (meaning social and that he had met nim in Mexico -
13-00000 SYMBOLS . : i international symbols of love and ”\ | peade, handsomely cast eng nung fF trom Unported leather thong of President Kennedy .. 7 (CD 404). . That the charges may not be so wild is ARAGIAN LOVE GELLE {HU 2) Frairecled in deticately hand. carved flowers. $4.58 with discharging a firearm on govern- ment-protected property. Since his sen- tencing, he has been shuttled between Leavenworth and the federal- medical center (a euphemism for mental institu: government has suggested in court that one ; ieee sttepat LITTLE | Sy his airplane crash : mentally affected. tionally _ | ARKH (#4-3)— (#FL-5) Nagell, the fast, remains that he was. conned * People Unter ehameled on ‘ alli ne hi h.. mibol of | [happiness Under | enameled on & given intelligence training after the crash.._ id love. $2.50 | secret meaning.¢1,$0] filled chaln.62.50 What Nagell alleges i8 damning not only : {suaonencereoeeeceneeseeenen he says that the motive for the assassina- ' GUOIES HEART SHOP 7] . . te 4 ’ “0 10512 ist Ave,, Inglewood, Calif, 90303 ia tion was Kennedy's move in the direction i am enclosing $—.. for. A of a Fapprochement with Castro, which 735i 2h few “tani 3 aonness " a anti-Casiro el nts, As he Pp it, ett. ____STATE mp. 4 anti-Castro group in New Orleans and, | a. . ISURREOREDESGEROEDERERERERS Mexico City, code’: name Bravo Club, present” to be delivered September 26, a = U D = required. Two members of Bravo Club. |: . approached Oswald while he was work; PSYCHOTHERAPY ing at the Reily coffee firm in New O leans in the summer of 1963, and ape patsy. When the: “delivery” site was shifted to Dallas, Bravo Club enlisted the aid of a Dallas “subsidiary,” Deltu Club, field to ascertain whether they were “for. real.” Nagell says he was one of the verified that the plans were authentic, Now available! A personal de- that “‘gusanos [anti-Castroites] were. ‘tailed account of the first ex- perimental NUDE PSYCHO- THERAPY marathon, written by a participant,. reveals the hap- _penings at a scientifically con- ducted weekend session involv- ing. 3 nudists nudists. Only a ily Nagell says that he was instructed to “arrow” the patsy, that is kill him, after the assassination. At this point, he con- sand 17) non- B . . f4 i would rather be arrested than commit murder and treaso:,": he declared in a self-prepared petition for habeas corpus. In the petition, Nagell asserts that he used the pseudonyiis Robert Nolan and Oa ELYSIUM Institute ~ $436 FERNWOOD AVENUE DEPT, RAMB io 6 ANGELES, CAL. 90027 Or See Eee io RAMPARTS | =]. repois states that when the prisoner was 5 1’ being led from court on January’ 24, ¢ } 1964, ‘he “made wild accusations to news- 1 paper reporters, accusing the FBI of not- attempting to prevent the assassination 7 indicated by the fet that the government - threw the book at Nacell, a first offender who says he expected to bé charged only - tion) at Springfield, Missouri. While the | to the FBI, but to the CIA. Tn brief, ? + not into the hands of his: would-be exe- decided to give Kennedy a “Christmas. é |, safety of the Dallas jail. The denouement date that was postponed. A party was 4 pealed to his ego in setting him up as the “ Meanwhile the CIA got: wind of the | plans and sent several agents into the | + That he made-a beeline to his rooming - agents dispatched. Within a short time, ° he claims, he was pulled in. It had been | making the watch tick,” and that the” sum of the plot was right-wing in nature. | S _ tends, he got cold fect and bailed out. “I - Joseph Kramer in the U.S. and three - foreign. coutiiries under the authorization of the. Defense Intelligence Agency.. He states that the files of the FBI and: ‘the CIA contain information that: Oswald was using the aliases Albert Hidel- and Aleksei Hidel. He charges that the: “FBI illegally seized from him evidence crucia to his defense, such as notebooks cons taining the names of certain CIA em: ployees, photographs, two: Mexican: tourist cards (one in the name Joseph:: Kramer, the other in the name Albert’.’ Hidel), and receipts for registered. mail, including the one for the letter sent - ‘Hoover warning of the assassination; . When Nagel complains he has. been “salted . away” because. of. what:. he knows, he just might be making the un- derstatement of the year. [THE ELIMINATION OFA PATSY a ““er" DIDN'T KILL ANYROPY... y m just « ai] & patsy,” Oswald shouted to.news-: men while in ‘police custody. A _ marked patsy, contends Garrison—one who! Wwas.ny at supposed: to;have live dlong ; enough to utter his cry ‘of innocence. But: something had misfired, and.Oswald fell P cutioners, . but into. the comparative presented a crisis that the conspirators - could solve only by pressing police buff . Jack Ruby into service. oe *. Although the Warren Commission: a ‘concluded that Oswald ducked into his... - Oak Cliff rooming house to pick up the’ ’ 38 revolver, later confiscated from him “in the Texas Theater, it did not explain ’ why, if he hnd pone to work at (he School ‘Book Depository that morning Intend> ing to kill the President and escape,’ he did not take the revolver with him.:. _ house'for the'sole purpose of getting the: = revolver speaks of a man who desper- ately wanted to protect himself from. ‘treacherous comrades rather than from “the police. Notwithstanding the mild re- sistance he put up in. his refuge in the Texas Theater, Oswald’s demeanor in © custody gave every indication that he would resolve. the great riddle—given. * thetime, Oswald does not appear to be the only : double-cross victim of that bloody after--: noon: the evidence is persuasive that - someone other than the accused assassin ~ killed Officer J. D. Tippit, a friend of - Jack Ruby, whose patrol area included. - ‘the Harlandale Street section headquar-
13-00000 | Of: Memorandiiii ' UNITED STATES doves : “sonibe, Research “Seotion/¢B/Psp . ‘DATE: ‘1s April 1958" )'— GF~6-371, page 22 _ tt ghee a 7. As matter of information you may be interested in know- ing thet the DDP initiated a request through the CIA Library |. to obtain all newspaper clippings which pertain to the death » of Subject, “Miss Barbara Wide (X 2457) advised on 18 April 1958 that the Library has articles fromthe Washington Post on .. March 14 & 16:: New York: Times-.on: March: 16;’ New York: Mirror’ | one - March: 173° and ° Christian’ Science Monitor on March Bb.
13-00000 . ~ -CiDeathProbe. “TOKYO, March 18 (—The undergoing psychiatric treat- .” United States Army said today ment. Dots oo ; - “*, One of its intelligence agents,|, a6 Usual, the Deny, Main: oo 4 "+ |. Whose body was found floating as an intelligance agent. But a ° ' + dn Tokyo Bay, - spokesman termed Dugan “a: .may have been fine soldier” and denied he had! - ' poisoned after any psycopathic troubles. ‘Thel _ te - . handing: his in- infantry ,veteran had finished - + §urance — policy Chinese language training last! ‘to his wife and ud year and was assigned to an ind - disappearing. telligence unit. for the’ first | M/Set. - Em. time, - : " met E. Dugan, 39, oF Cralton, Pa, left his | The Army said Dugan and his | wife, Maud, ceme to Tokyo Feb. : L j4 by train from ‘Camp. Zama coe eee wife Feb. fe tel: Re near Yokohama. The Sergeant, ceoattlas tea welts quotes mene, i OKYO " hote “thad a pass to visit the ca ital.! with the policy Dugan i ? i . : That night he left ‘his wife. She and personal Papers, saying: said t I hey planned to borrow + “If I don’t return, you'll need!money on the policy. oe .» these. . anen, the Army Said, Dugan - His’ body. was found -last/"ent f0 an Army camp nor | _ . of Tokyo, drew $40 in advance! , Wednesday... The Army - said pa rie ; . there were indications he was a Japanese dealer for $22. He _ dead before hitting the water Stopped at the camp’s noncom- | More than two weeks ago,” missidned officers’ club, lost “! “The Possibility of poison is $39 playing slot machines and '... hot being overlooked,” the; vanished: ‘There was no wallet Army ‘said, the United Pression the body when it was found, reported. “Extensive pathologi-| Dugan was first. listed ag cal tests will be conducted Onjabsent without Jeave but on body samples."] : March 1-this was changed to} - + Japanese newspaper specula- missing because the Army was]' . {tion ranged from the possibility|e o nvineed he was absent _ that Dugan was murdered while|through no fault of his own.. - . va, Anvestigating Chinese Com-| Mrs. Dugan, a farmer, Red{ . ... Te 5 rs munists in Japan, to a Japanese|Cross worker he met in Korda | Bes ne :. Police report that he had beenlhas returned to Crafton. cd.
13-00000 . [2 HUNTED IN TOKYO foe. external injury, but there ; Ines ne. sea Water-in his lungs, :. ae if. AIH.OF A G: [las there -woula- have ‘been ‘had’ - re IN DEATH OF A G. ins died of drowning, - Speeial to Th New vark Tim :. ened te the gts Fee * fo New Tokve {turned to the United tates last ~ TORY, Mareh 14—The.Tokyo i sfonday by military aireraft, An '. police are reported to be Scarch-lArmy. Spokesman sald he had : . ing for an unidentified ‘Chineselne “definite’® “knowledge - that ' ® and a. Caucasian forcigner injthe sergeant. was {engaged | in. “connection with the suspected( investigative activity” at time: i : death, He could have oo '., Murder of a United States Army been a. victim of “robbery, ne o-- -- a { sergeant assigned to intelligence added, hr re Be, oo work, 0. , - s mone -A body in civilian ‘clothes ‘ found floating -in Tokyo Bay Wednesday was identified this} morning as that: of M/Sgety «. / Emmet E, Dugan, 39 years old! | : aad Octh Missing from his Antelligence unit in Yokohama, twenty-five - miles South of Tokyo, since Feb,. 4, _ if | An examination indicated the : ;man had been dead two weeks, {An autopsy conducted by United: - - , [States Army surgeons yesters:. |: .jday sugested ne had died before- Co | jhe wag thrown inte the water a > [Except for a: bruise on the fore; ; Be ‘head,- his body bore no marks! - - eer tacein emeest Ph pena
13-00000. pogen Siem ene anced» lFeb. 4, has been. found float-|, 2%€ name of the victim . dsaid today. The Army added - _ fatively. identified as that of -* ja master cergeant attached to “the Intelligence Support Cen- ‘Tokyo Bay Yields Body. | Of GI Intelligence | Aide | : TOKYO, paren. 14 (Friday) Tokyo. - The Ceriter ‘coordi: ih e body of a 39-year-oldinates all Un United States Army intelli- intelligence weg States: an gence agent, missing . since pan. was not immediately released: — ; jabanese newspapers quoted - a olie & it was possible that the agent was investigating Gonmeent patne body. fished out ¢ of the |2ctivities in Japan at the time . e Ys of his disappearance, but the ‘Bay by a Japanese policeman Army declined to confirm this: oon ‘on Wednesday, had been ten-)" aye Army spokesman. said a preliminary autopsy” indié cated the man. was. dead. “heb fore: he entered the water. ing in Tokyo Bay, the’ Army os abe. Gamp | Bem snear beats bed | ie eae ve y! ea
13-00000 Ce unctassirieD o oe co ew BR secret "ROUTING. AND. RECORD SHEET ‘SUBJECT: (Optional) © 0. EXTENSION |” lM “April 1970. ‘$° COMMENTS |(Nuriber each ‘comment te shew “from whom . - oA. to whom. _ Drow: a line: across: Solymne. ofter each “comment, y oe Office of: ‘Security. : OME. "Paul, Gayno : : re nope ents you seek of a 610 “Etnere"* [SECRET - [-] CONFIDENTIAL [7] se omty . CJ UNCLASSIFIED. Richard Case. NAGELL ane en ie |
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13-00000 _ . 1 « 7 ft ef a t “t _ 28 J January 1970 | ee Washington, De Ce ee : An. editor of a trade journal, whom I first: met. while on, en intelligence aspignment in Latin America, has urged me ° gor _ some time © to - “make ‘public ‘the facts dealing with my: involvement ina. conspiracy. to murder the late Chief Bxecutive, - Joba FP. Kennedy; in 1963 and the circumstances. “. gurrounding. my arrest and imprisonment in the. United States” ee ~ and. Fast. Germany. For reasons that, are - more: ‘personal than |“ advisable I can think of little else “that I would like to. ‘do. better.” But with the: copious amount of ‘documentation and "background: material on hand, — that, I feel should be ‘adduced . to in any valid treatise. of. the subject, it would require 7 writing no- less ‘than a tome, an undertaking for which I am. hardly qualified. | Then, - too, there isa growing, “ekepticion — on my “part concerning the kind of: reception ‘that az: topic of vo this sort. would elicit. ‘from a society long since - inured to | ', /violences — corruption and injustice. , still, after over - Bix oS tyears of | relative silence, I've decided that I must sey “o> something about all. this, if only to answer the lies and ns © distortions concocted about me in the press. Thus, Ihave. |. “compiled ‘this. -emall’ booklet, a throwaway ,. which say be easily: discarded | cat the © whim of ‘the reader. In it ‘I've “taken the liberty: to set forth 8 reproduction of one of the. — least ‘sanitized references ‘to. my case. that has appeared in ee the news media, an. article. printed “last ‘ summer ‘in. the ee OVERSEAS FAMILY ; © a weekly tabloid éatering to Us Se service= 9) men in Europe. I have. utilized this. perticular article as a ° . ~yehiele - to tell a, ‘bit o! 3 oe tiddondum to dhe i de of. the story by. writing an - Re Oe Nagell -
13-00000 — age 12 z ~ UNCLE SAM has’ given Richard Case Nagell three Purple Hearts.-— one: earned on Christmas Day —- and a medal -. for heroism in combat. But what this ox-Army counterspy and. alleged CIA undercoverman wants is that Uncle keep a promise to locate his wife and two small children. - The 38-year-old former officer hasn't _ . geen them since 1943. ‘ Officials inside the Federal Govern- ment — most likaly FBI and CIA agents — know where they aré and deliberately isolated him from his family, the tail, lean chain-smoker claims, Nagell became separated from his Japonese-born wife Mitsuko Takahashi and their children, Teresa, now 9, ond Ro- bert, now 8, when he was arrested for. robbing an El Paso, Tex., bonk in Sep- tember 1963. . ; He slaged the robbery ond immedi- ately surrendered fo the. police,. Nagell: ~ claims, because he hod refused ‘to kill Kennedy-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and ‘1 want te find t Ex-Army spook who fingered Oswald claims Uncle Sari hides his family |. by Thomas C. Lucey. . . - Nagell ha Jew Orleans district attorney Jim Gar. _ was afraid he. would be killed himself. _- The ex-Army capfain was convicted of the crime an Two major magazines intimated thal been insane. rison allegedly interviewed Nagell three times in his controversial probe of what . he éailed the.plof to kill Kennedy. However, despite oll the publicity about Nagell, no public mention has been made of his charges that: - ® FBI special agents whe questioned Mrs. Nagell about her husband while he was in prison said they didn't know where he was; - ” > The CIA used the promise of reunit- ing Nagell with his family as part of the incentive for him to undertake a one-man sent to Leavenworth, but: _Mrs, Nagell was never told where he was, - Sinee then Nagall has been writen - about in national American magazines _and has worked his way inside a polifi- ‘eal prison in Communist East Germany _ for the CIA. A TL CIA assignment inside East Germany. Nagel 1969 on o hunch that the path to his fam- ily started in West Berlin. In Zurich hewas .__ § “ost killed, he says. In Barcelona, he was watched. And in West Berlin he was attacked in a side-street bar by two. strangers ~- one of whom had been fol- lowing him for two days — and hit on. . the top of his head so hard a molar eracked in half. Fearing that the next attacker might _ murder him and reassured that the Gov- ernment would finally “keep its promise this time, Nagall flew home to the United Now he's back ‘where he sterted in States, 1963 — when he tipped off the FBl that: . ‘Oswald was planning to assassinate Pres- ident Kennedy. . . . Working through a source with access fo. documents on the Nagell case, The FAMILY has been: able to reconstruct this. ° incredible story of the spy whe couldn't come in from the cold. . came to Europe in. February ~ Friday, June 20, 1000 ICHARD CASE Nagell first went gust 1962. . “Seme publications have identified him as a CIA agent,” the FAMILY source said. "But Nagell never claimed to be a, CIA agent. For the year that: he worked off and on for the CIA the first time, he was: . never told what he was. But it. .. Was in the capacity of an ine vestigator or informant.” : ‘Nagell had a good back- ' ground for investigative and undercover assignments. . Im the Army, he was a CIC - @aptain who worked in field of- | flees in the United States and '., with the then super hush-hush © Field Operations Intelligence in ; Japan and Korea. lic had made captain with a battlefield commission during -: the Korean War at the age of. 22 ~— possibly the youngest man ., to carn that distinction. Nagell “(served two volunteer combat tours as an infantryman in Ko- © rea, signing up for the second. :88 soon as he returned to the . States from the first. It was in Korea that he won the Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts, Copyright 1969, Thomas C.. . Lucey. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited. . without the prior written per - mission of the author. - - ESR 1 ETE a i an : - < to work for the. : \\ CIA as an ine formant in Au- During a subsequent tour In - .the Fer East with the CiC and FOI, Negell met and married his Japanese wife in the spring of 1959. Being married to a foreign national meant an automatic removal from intel- ligence work so Nagell decided te leave the Army. . For two years he was a Cal~ ifornia state special investiga- - tor, working on fraud cases and Naquor violations. "In the summer of 1982 he left — that job to work for the CLA. His last assignment waa to penetrate the Fair Play for: Cuba Committee, where he met Oswald. Nagell also briefly in- vestigated Oswald's Russian- born wife Marisa... - i . Nagell considered Oswald intelligent, “but some right- wingérs were using him by feeding his ego. They made him think he was « big man, important. Oswald himself was definitely a left-winger, Jean- ing toward Mao or maybe even Castro. He wasn't pro-Moscow. -He hated the Russians, “And when Oswald said he ' was going to do something, you knew he meant it.” In September Oswald told - Nagell, “We will kill him be- - fore the month fs out.” The “we,” according to Na- + gell, were Oswald and two Lat-. ‘ing’ -— possibly Cubans— who, belonged to anti-Castro organ: ... ‘the United States, . & . “On Sept, 20, 1063, six days tzations in “Him” wes President Kennedy. Nagell reported the threat to @ mati known only as Bob, his CIA contact. According to The . FAMILY’s source, “Nagell’s in- structions were to take care of ‘Oswald, He told him he was an intelligence man, not a killer, - and he couldn't kill Oswald, “Threats were made to Nao — gell which indicated te him that he hed better do what he had been instructed to do. 4 “Instead, he wrote about -Oswald's assassination plans to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in Washington. Hoover didn't reply, but Nagell didn’t expect be arrested. He expected to be  tentlary,” the source | held briefly for discharging a . firearm on Federally insured property. By that time the as-. sassination would be over and . he'd be safe. Apparently Nagell felt police custody would keep him safe ‘from the CIA and from the assassins. He ‘feared the CIA because he didn't “take care of Oswald. He feared the smiled. “All you have te do is! be there.” The source continued: |e ° “In 1966 _Nagell’s sister - wrote that she had had a ‘letter from his wife. She - wanted to. know where ‘her husband was and why hedr't . she heard from him. . “Here is the sticky parti In "Mes. Nogell’s letter she gaid Richard Nagolll: a solft-dolucled eveams | 7 or |. him to. He wanted that leiter * ag a matter of record. “After Nagell’s tip, the FBI questioned Oswald and te- leased him as not danger or a threat." Two months later Nagell heard: the assassination news —- bulletin on the radio. “The FBI serewed up!” he explained. “That was Oswald!” This was before there was any public mention of Oswald. . ‘ "After the assassination the ‘FBI tried to clean their skirts,” The FAMILY was told. "FBI _ agents insisted to Nagell that he hadn't told them this about | ’ Oewald or that about Oswald. | But he had.” - Leavenworth penitentlary. before what Nagell thought was to date, he went. into an El Paso bank, shot one bullet into the. . celling and waited outside te being a - .- 1964 and September. 1966, for *. attorneys,” ' source sald. “In effect, this de- . tiled him counsel. of bis choice - - ~ Oil during prison.” — | Ag prisoner A-63266-L, Na- ~ ‘ gell was. allowed to write to only his sister and a friend. — ‘He couldn't get an explan-"" | By this time Nageli was in be. the assassination assassins because he might be considered one of them. ; But the police held Naegell longer than six days. : He was tried twice, In May attempted robbery with force and violence and sentenced to the maximum of 10 years. “I was bum-rapped,” Nagell . _ complained. . : . “The court Instructed that ‘ any attorneys retalned by hls: relatives would have to come i The letter had been sent from a Hollywood post office . = De . bex and Nagell tried unsuc- cessfully to trace it after he got out of Leavenworth. On April 20, 1968, after 4'/, ' Jeased after he had won an * gequittel on appeal and flew under the aupervision and. court-appointed The - FAMILY’s control of ation why he waan't allowed mail from or to his wife and children, “They don’t explain to you in Leavenworth peni- to New York. . “We pulled a lot ef strings © the FBI had questioned her a few days before about her huse | | band’s activities in the Army. ve .. ‘The FBI knew where Nagell: was but didn’t tell hig wife.” * years in prison, Nagell was re- - x * ¢9 get your freedom," said a: -.”. ‘man who met Nagell when he . - landed at Kennedy Alrport. ‘The men and Ais nontalking ad. . partner gave Nagell 8600 in. . - $20 bills. “More will come ‘where this comes from," the unidentified man promised. . “We appreciate your cooper@ . ation in prison.” - Te this day,” the source — : feild The FAMILY, “Nageli . ene Mee ee oor SE LE an ee et ne Co
sinnartiiee 13-00000. aaesongaresozucnatvoneseneqayeos ss eonsobssartnaU04ot o0tgn2LAPUOU28095 #111 %- Hen Garrison Oewald and guards CAST OF CHARACTERS: - . Richard Nagell was ques- . tloned by New Orleans : - .*" DA. Jim Garrison because ' Nagell elalms he fingered Kennedy assassin lee Har- | .. wey Oswald while working fer the CIA, Nagell. alse .* says U. Ss. Gevernment offi * > ciate Iselated him from his ; two children after the as- still has mot ‘got the money - through East Germany: and-he fled to him as  Sandkrug- began feeling alee and» Premised him. for his ime. _ would be arrested. — fook him off the train because  bruecke.” “thought he was ulgee: “ne in-. prisonment im the _ United. “The main objective of his he didn't have a avalid transit Waiting to meet Nagell were, fluence of a drug. He went to States.” in New York Nagel ‘kept an : appointment with a CIA offi- cist he knew only as Buchel, The CIA official told Nagell he had heard that his wife had di- vereed him while he was in- . Leavenworth “i might be true," the source Bicherd Hagett imprisonment was One concerned a US. naval officer who had allegedly de- fected and Nageil had to find out if he “was there. But his main purpose was to get as _ auch information as possible - on techniques of interrogation and methods of treatment of J . twofold; . ” were talking about.. assination. . visa, ‘elvillan “They . drove to Erfurt (an. East German city), where Na- gell was held for three days in: a safe house (a private home » used as a cover for intelligence purposes). There some men in clothes - questioned Nagell. , -- the victim of dagger in-the-back GiA factics? Berlin. noted, “but wouldn't it be nice for Nagell to know for sure. He assumes his children are still with his wife.” ; . Nagell. met Buehel to be : briefed for another CIA assign« ment. Why did he go back to the. CIA 1 was the only practical . - thing for him’.to do,”"- “source sald, “beeause of his financial situation.” Almost a. month to the day after he arrived in New York * Nagell jetted to Zurich. “During his last week of discussions with Buehel and another man in New York,” The FAMILY'’s source said, “i{ was Nagell's understanding that he was to have himself arrested by East German ‘authorities. All he had to do was buy a train ticket from Zurich, Switzerland, to East _ The train would go the - the MIS (East German Ministry. , for State Security).” Everything -went according _ to the CIA’s plan—up' te a point. - In Zurich, Nagell reported to his. CIA contact in the Amerl- can Consulate General. About. © the only thing the CIA agent " seems to have sald to Nageli was to ask him the train com-- partment number on his resere - vation, Nagell told him, No. 46. ‘Early in the morning of - June 10, 1968, around 12:30: . @., to 1:30 am., Nagell’s train stopped after crossing the East’ German border. “He could hear people get on the train and clomp down the aisle, directly to his come . partment,” the source sald.. “There were two men in unl- form and two men in civilian clothes. They asked Nagell for his passport—by name. Then they asked for his.translt visa. - He didn't know what they “Next he was driven to an East Berlin polltical prison for. extensive interrogation, They accused him of espionage and said they were going to try hin, - “Nagell had been told that it . he was in East Germany for ever three months, his release ‘ would be effected by the agen- ey (CIA), but he was not told how. On his own he started to there was enother reason for - his being there. He felt the CIA had deserted him and that, quite frankly, he had been sent to Germany to get - “him out of sight or to get eld STEREO CARTRIDGE of him. "He was released on October 23, He didn't know he was go- ing to be released until he was taken out of prison and driven te a Berlin checkpoint identi- So they according to the source: " @ Andor Klay, head of the - Eastern Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission in Berlin; - @ Wolfgang Vogel, a weill- known East Berlin lawyer who participated on the Feb, 16, 1962, exchange of Soviet master spy Col Rudolf Abel and A-- ’ .gnerican U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and other sples and accused cples: @& a weaithy Washington lawyer, supposed- ly “a representative not a member—of the CIA"; _ @ Bruce A. Flatin, head of the US. erin — Mission's publie safety section, allegedly “a longtime CLA member--and Flatin is net his real name‘; @ Dr. (Capt — now Maj) George Raymond Babineau, a “psychiatrist af the O'S. Army - hospital. in Berlin, who ap- peared in ciyilian clothes, and @ An unidentified man. Nagell was. driven to. the n ..U.S. Mission at 170 Clay Allee play crazy because he. was - there over four and 6 half ”- ‘months and he began to think and interviewed by Babincau. “That was probably because - , Nagell had played crazy with the East Germans,” the source sald. Washington | lawyer New was - also present. “Somebody brought Nagel! a cup of coffee," the source continued. “Nobody else had - coffee. Nagell drank a emall portion of his coffee. It was _ black but it tasted more bitter * than ordinary coffee. Approxi- mately five minutes later he. ‘STS 4a4- =. one of the finest cartridges ever produced. - Remember: Efoc crected the first... the very first... See your nearest Audio Club or write to: - moving-magnel sterea cariridge. ti is the original, bosie, design principle now used by most, if not all, manufocturers of moving-magnet stereo cartridges todayt ALLIED. 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I don’t think you should talk to them.” “Nagell said he wanted to go. back to Zurich first to pide up his belongings — to be exact, certain documents in a safe de- posit box. Nagell keeps records, plenty of them.” . When Nagell was driven te. Tempelhof Airport, New ac- companied him and walted un- tit he boarded the plane. Some ime during their talk New asked Nagell about his disabll- ity—Nagell was getting a 80 percent disability for service- (Continued on. Next Page} | Enc une sarnshsttsatartetmecinneransemeennme none eva
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HWSCOTRE Scott ‘International, Maynard, Mass. 01754 - a ‘Hew {€ tn Btultigter section? ‘(Continued From Page 1) * connected injuries-— and New. * promised him help in getting a ; disability retirement. , "But," the source added, New ‘also told Nagell: “Of course, this (offer of help in getting a disability retirement) is pred- icated on your staying away from the news media." . On the aflernoon flight to Stuttgart Nageli fell asleep, convincing him that he had been given a drug or a bar- biturate. Because of fog he didn’t get to Zurich untill 4 am. and “he was feeling extremely sick,” the ’ Consulate General, New had .teld him to stay away from the ‘consulate in Zurich because’ ’ “hey will question you and _ $end it to Washington.’ Nagell couldn't understand New's rea- soning, but he went to the -consulate to get a doctor, not to tell them about Berlin. He was - drastically sick and wanted a - doctor: He thought he was dy- ing.” - ’ Referred. to a civilian doctor, Nagell was told “he had been given an overdose of Seconal, a most potent sleeping drug.” Nagell wag sick for about six days. Meanwhile, ‘he was also wait ing to hear from New, who had promised to phone him in two - source sald. “He rested for a few hours and went to the U.S. - ee ! | The Nagell Affair eee ‘You must get out of Berlial’ or three days. Nagel had told _him he wanted the search for his family to be agreed upon before he returned, to the States. — Twice Nagell called New's room at the Berlin Hilton. First New was “unavallable," then he had checked out for the U.S. (Later, back im Washington, . New allegedly explained i had been “unadvisable® to go to Zu- rich because the East Germans might have tapped his phone and he didn't want them to ., know Nagell was there. Nagell didn’t buy that) With New hot showing up to - diseuss the search for his famille iy, Nagell violated his instruc- tions and went to the consulate for help. : On his first visit Nagell found “they had a classified file on him and knew he had been in . inmate of-a Federal institution - for the criminally insane in. “another witness found in the ‘mail {of crank letters, publicity seckers and bogud tips)... an Springfield, Miss.... court ‘records indicated that Nagell: ‘had suffered brain damage in. an airplane crash in 1057." Nagell’s rebuttal: @ He was sent to the US. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in. Springfield to determine whether he could stand trial end when he was . up for parole; @ On each occesion he ‘was found mentally competent; @ In 1954 (notin 1957) he was the only survivor of a B52 crash at Baltimore's Friendship) Airport (not in Cambodia, ‘as reported In Ram- parts magazine by former FBI " agent Willlam W. Turner); - - .East Berlin,” the source con- | tinued. “But he refused to ane swer questions about his ime-~ prisonment and told them about . New’'s premise, — “The next time, he told the consulate he was angry that he had not heard from New and that if he didn’t get help he was going to the news media. This is when he was offered State Department help in locating his - family — predicated on his early return to the United States. Nagell agreed and flew - back to New York.” Jn New York, Nagell waited about two or three weeks to hear from the State Dept. When - he didn't he contacted a State Dept, agency in New York and | was allegediy told that a letter would be sent to Washington: “That was the last time Na- gell heard from them,” the source said, “He never received ton, as promised, and they were always unavailable when he called.” . Meanwhile, Nagell was see- ing New in Washington and ealied in person at the State Dept. “They told him that the the facilities to search for the on account of the clreamstances surrounding the case and ‘be- cause one of our employes ap- rich, they would conduct a termine whether he was mar- ried or divorced. again. When he called they quote,” Through a lawyer in New's office, described as a luxurious sulte visited by Pentagon of- physical with his clothes on,” according to the source. "Two hours later he was awarded a -106 percent disability allow- “Nagell went back to New tag him (Nagell) with a nervous condition te destroy his credi« bility.” For good reason, Nagell wor- ried that.a nervous conditien might be used to tag him as a nut who didn't know what he was talking about. In July 1968, while Nagell was In the Communist prison, Edward Jay Epstein, author of a book on the Warren Com- mission, wrote an article in the New Yorker magazine at- tacking New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's ine veatigation of the Kennedy: as- sasaination, Epstein described Nageil as a copy of the letter te Washing- . ‘State Department didn't have . children,” the source said, “but parently made a promise in Zu- © search for his children and de- - “He never heard from them were quote unavailable une . ance fora nervous condition.” @ After hospitalization he _feturned to Army Intelligence School, received a tep éecret clearance and was assigned to ‘the CIC; @ A June 17, 1066, psychiatric . report’ from the Springfield Medical Center stated there ‘was no “evidence or finding * suggestible of brain damage.” All this runaround in Washington convinced Nagell that no one in the States was going to help him find his family, He decided to return - te Europe. en fice Zearicla  SOmIOOmO ‘tried . fo Exill fais TLC TTT ATT On Feb. 21 of this year he flew from Mexico City to Zurich. But the vice-consul whe had promised State Dept. help .. last fall was no longer there. . Nagell asked for the man he claimed to be the.CIA station thief. He, too, was gone. Sent to the consulate's politi- eal section, Nagell told them | of the promises he'd been ~~ given and threatened to go to Swiss newspapers about a CIA agent in Bern, the Swiss eapital, “A member of the consulate asked Nageli to give them two - weeks and telexed Washing- - ton,” the source sald. “But then ‘one might there was an at- _ ficers im civillan clothes, Nagell - got an appointment.at the VA - for “a-two-and-a-half-minute ’. tempt on Nagell’s Ife and he — left for Barcelona the next day. "There he contacted the U.S. Consulate General and told them why he had left Zurich and asked that Zurich's reply - from Washington be sent to ° and told him they wanted to - Barcelona. “Nagell was in Barcelona for two weeks. But then he real- ized he was being watched and left to see an ex-Army intelli- gence officer at the American .Embassy in Madrid. . “Again he stayed for two weeks, The embassy gave him “no satisfaction, not even telling him what Washington had said. So he decided to go back to: Berlin where this thing Started and made some prom- . ises to himself — one of them being that {f he didn't {ind his children he weuld go to the news media.” He was referred to Andor Klay and Bruce Fiatin, two of ‘the men who had met Nagell when he came from East Berlin, and eventually to a- -German when he aaw one ‘ gomething out of his po Kenneth Hill in the passport section. "A week of two later,"' the source continued, "they finally got confirmation fram Washing- ton that they had been unable to Iscate Nagell's children so fat but were continuing their efforts. “So he finally agreed te go back to the States as long as the State Department was con- tinuing their efforts.” Pointing out that he had “spent a great deal of his money *running around," Nagell asked for Government transportation home ‘and was refused. -On April 19 or 20 Nagell reale ized he was under surveillance. “Around 10:30 on the night of April 22, Nagell was walk- ing ‘down Kurfuerstendainm when he lest his tail,” the source continued. “They disappeared. He didn’t try, to jose them. “Nagell then went down a side street and inte a small tes- faurant with a bar. “He ordered a becr and was standing at the bar, talking to a guy on his right, when} he saw the dnor open and two men came directly toward him. “Nagell was getting ready to tell the men he didn't speek ick et and swing at him. Nagell tumed and was hit on the back of the head.” In Police took Nagell to the Albrecht Achilles Hospital. When he told the Gérmans|he thought he had been hit Iby the CIA, “they called jan American from the CID! a British representative (ap- parently the side street was in the British Sector) and a mem- ber of the Berlin political police,” Around midnight Nagell went to the U.S, Mission and ‘ asked for Hil in the passport section. Instead, he get the Army staff duty officer ond a CIC agent. -*"He gave his bloody shirt and T-shirt in a bag to the CIC agent,” the source sdid, “and told him to give it to FRU. ."“9f something happens | to me, he fold the agent, ‘the responsibility is golng to jbe pinned because im going| te the papers.’ “Back in his hotel, Nageit wag worried that he was going to be killed.” | Im the morning: he went! to the Army hospital and then to HIN in the consulate. “Hill had the bloody cloth- ing. “You must get out of Berifh’ he told Nagel, ‘We eannot give you protection _ here. The German police think it's either mistaken identity or the Mf. “Last night I thought some- body wanted to kill me," Nagell replied. ‘Now i take it as fonly) - & warning.” (Later, Hill told The FAMILY he considered Nagell merely “a private American cltizen traveling abroad." He added: “Ninety-nine and a half per- cent of his story ls fantasy.” Hl confirmed that he had re- eeived Nagell'’s bloody clothing “and that Nagell had come to him with a stliiched-up head wound. But he would only say that the attack “Is his story, not thet i have any ‘ other story about if.") But shortly after that Negell was placed on orders ag an ambulatory patient and sent on the Berlin duty train to Frank- furt. His orders also put him on a military Night back to the States, That's where he apparently is now. But he Stan doesn't know if he's married or divorced and the whereabouts of his il. dren. CTU MIE TUE UT STHUTEOEEO NRTA ae i REP TS NCEE ROE vemMamee aerate ce etascoee
13-00000 ci area roan ta ar Ui BNO BAS Fasiui ar Licié.,  & nave nov BOUGNL to Teiuce or -eonfirm each. and every avsertion made ty ites author, - Thomas C. Lucey. Mr. Lucey, despite his citing a' substantial number of inaccuracies, has nonetheless depicted a vast area of what may be termed ,the fundamental truth. With this in mind, I-have tried to set (the record straight only insofar as it pertains. “those inaccuracies - and omissions a which. in my opinion reflect adversely on the whole. In order to view Mr. Lucey' 6 account in a somewhat different perspective, Is all begin by advising that I first went: to work for the Central Intelligence Agency much earlier than August 1962. It was during the winter of 1955-56, while assigned as a Case Review Officer with the Counter Intelligence Corps at Los Angeles, that I was initially . recruited into the CIA's farflung network of informants and agents, one of a. number; =I :. suppose, within the Defense Department's .intelligence community who helped the Agency | keep an eye on its not always tame competitor. My recruitment was, handled by a Herbert “Leibacher, ‘an agent of the ClA's Los Angeles office, and a Joe DaVanon, later identified. ee me through photographs. as en official from CIA headquerters, then loceted on/"E" - ‘-!etreet’ in’ Washington, ‘D.C. Motiveted by a degree of naivete and the Agency's subtle ‘reminders’ that I owed a greater duty. to my country than to the military establishment, - I igerved as a- non-paid, confidential informant off and on until my resignation from |the "Army. in October 1959. A complete description. of the information I supplied to the Agency. ‘ during my military career would only add to what must perforce become a lengthy addendum; may. it suffice to say chat it_did not always seem germane to intelligence affairs, ibut when it did it consisted mainly of an assortment of data that for so-called discretionary. reasons was seldom passed on to the. Agency. (or for that matter, to our own hi her '.. echelons). through regular channels. — Mr. Lucey's statement, “Being married “to a foreign national meant an automatic removal from intelligence work so Nagell decided to leave the Army,” is. misleading jand - incorrect in. its entirety. The only military intelligence organization from which. an individual is normally -removed subsequent to marrying a foreign national is the crc - primarily a security type orgen ~ and this rule does not necessarily apply when the agent is an enlisted man or warrant officer. . As a commissioned officer, I was declared. ineligible for further duty with the CIC effective 14 April 1959, a. full year after my - morriage to a foreign national. I was not barred from assignment to other, even more —. sensitive, MI organizations such as Field Operations’ Intelligence, then the. clandestine ‘espionage depertment of military intelligence. . As for the reasons I left the Army, they - were clearly if euphemisticelly explained in my second letter of resignation, dated. ~ - 81 August 1959, namely: © "I desire to tender my resignation because I wish to further my © ‘<givilian. educations. It. is not possible for me: to pursue the curriculua: of which’ rt am : desirous while on active duty. Also, compassionate reasons of a personal nature exist : for desiring to tender my resignation at this time." My patronege under the CIA did ‘not end with my. discherze from the Army and ensuing .- :. employment in. December 1959 as an investigator for the State of California; in fact, .. henceforth I was offered. remuneration for my services, however nominal it sometimes was. “What my new .taske . comprised - of no real pertinence to this addendum or to later | .. developments, except perhaps . * nention that one of my. contacts said he worked out of : “Domestic Intellirence," poceibly the forerunner of the present-day Domestic Operations Division, which illegally keeps tabs on a wide range of American civilian organizations ~~ and activities. -I should also point out that I did not quit my position with the State of. California “to work for the CIA," as implied by Mr. Lucey. I was dismissed, in June : 1962, at my own option and in my opinion for doing my job. (The following month I wes ‘shot through the right chest during an altercation with a person whose identity I have ~ never disclosed « » « «© not through the left chest by myself, my wife, an Alcoholic .Beverage Control. inspector then under investigation or by a Los Angeles police officer - "because . of communistic _implicetions," as | has been reported at verious times by various. sources). "For the “next year, from. approximately the middle of August 1962 until my arrest in ©
13-00000 “‘Teaas on 20 September Lol iT was employed | by. ‘agency in a. capecity which can be - aéeurately described as that of an egent, in ‘avery sense of the. word. | My assignménts © - varied and necessitated travel to three Latin American nations and. many ‘states, “including the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They also necessitated my taking on cover employment .for one week in’ New York and for about ten weeks in. Los Angeles, though usually I posed | as. a tourist, an investigator for" the: Immigration & Naturalization Service or as a - researcher for a private firm, the appropriate credentials being. furnished to me by | the _CIA.. To ‘sum it up briefly, I operated in Mexico City at the onset of the Cuban Mis ile- ‘Crisis in an effort aimed chiefly at. the Soviet government; I conducted inquiries -yelative to "dissident": members — of several ‘Cuban refugee ‘groups based in the United States; I checked out an’ alleged connection between a Miami resident named Baas [pel Valle and New Orleans CIA informant Sergio Arcacha-Smith; I investigated an associate of the now deceased right-wing .extremist David Ws Ferrie of New Orleans, as I didjthe. -activities. of left-wingers Vaughn L. Snipes’ and his wife, Priscilla, near Venice, ‘California, and others; I conducted a surveillance on a man, said to have been an exCIA , employee, observed talking to MRP leader Manuel Artime and former Cuban senator/racketesr | : Rolando Masferrer; I. inquired into an allegation that Marina Oswald intended. to divorce — ‘her husband and return. to the U.S.S.R. (although I never stated that I. met her persona ly, - a8 was reported by the FBI and Secret Service); and I performed courier duties and acted | “as acut-out. At the time of my arrest I was operating in an undercover ‘role, having | “become involved in a. domestic=inspired plot to assassinate President Kennedy and, -— leaatwine ostensibly, other highly-placed government officials. se vs - Ur. Lucey goes on. to state that my last. ‘assignment. ‘at: the ‘time. “was to penetrate the | Feir Play for Cuba Committee, ‘where he met Oswald.” Such statement is also incorrect.| I ‘was never a member, bona~fide or otherwise, - ‘of the FPCC. And my conversations with: PCC '. functionaries like Steve Roberts, - an official of the Socialist Workers Party at Los... Angeles, could hardly: be construed as a ‘penetration. ~ Furthermore, I had been introduced - to Mr. Oswald long: before the FPCC came . ‘into. existence, albeit under an assumed name. | - : AS” to the allusion. that. I- ‘told "Bob" I was an intelligence man, not” a killer, ‘therefore: I couldn't: kill “Mr. Oswald, while the reference is true its connotation! is. / deceptive. I had killed before. ‘and I had. participated. in homicides under the auspices; of : both MI and the CIA (one instance being the part I. played in the February 1958 abduction=: “interrogation=-murder of an FOI agent, a U.S. soldier, MSGT Emmett E. Dugan, from. Crafton, Pas, suspected of. having defected in place to the Chinese), under the guise that, an |; American variation: of the Soviet wet affair" was the. only alternative, that. it was “either essential to some. overall ‘intelligence effort or in the best interests, of. our... ‘national security.’ And it was a. similar-sounding argument, ultimately reduced to a... ‘threat, that was advanced to me - by Robert Graham. as an incentive . to dispose of Mr. Qswald jan September 1963. .. But my. ‘refusal ‘to do so “had absolutely no bearing on‘the reason for . _ offecting my arrest in the ‘manner qT chose,. _nor .did it engender’ in me fear of. reprisal by © _the CIA. ; . . _ Pertaining’ to my arrest. and convictions at El . Paso, Texas, which the official. |: . “= spokesmen and “the press have so neatly labeled as being for “bank robbery," let one of: _the government's own spurious records,.. the appelate court decision that finally yawned a | _judgement of acquittal in my case, give its version: "The charge was then, and is now, .i. “entering a federally insured bank with intent to rob." What the record aptly ignores is . ‘the. fact that . two juries, incensed — -by the prosecution's innuendoes in and out of the ~— :courtroom (and ‘by the ramifications of perjured testimony and a false ‘Bureau of Prisons -— report made available to the _jury during its deliberations at the second trial - though never formally ‘admitted into evidence) that I was a Communist, no doubt a very red spy,: ‘twice convicted me. of having "intended" to take by force and violence one hundred dollars worth of Travelers Cheques from a bank teller. | - shall “not herein | attempt to ° liat” even generally the injustices to which I was subjected by a ‘corrupt judicial system, nor shall I bother:to enumerate the cruelties
13-00000 “ : oon AAs yeas he ihe LG Mea Cnworin aeu ~HCALLOLY 6 gat of them ere S adequal. vy “detailed in my 1967 Memorandum in Support of Petition | ifor “Writ ‘Of Habeas Corpus, sworn to and subscribed before William R. Martin (a former me ber of the CIA‘s Dirty Tricks Division, who by his own admission is still in “the reserves"), But I shall opine that if President Kennedy had. not met his demise when and where he did I would not have been brought to trial on charges of commiting @ felony. , _ While my return to the fold of the CIA in May 1968 may have been the only “practical : “thing” for me to do, it definitely was not predicated on my financial situation, as a lfew - old bank account passbooks will substantiate (I am not quite the mercenary that Mr. Lucey . has: portrayed). Nor was it because of any ‘peculiar allegiance to those who had tosse me: on the scrap heap for the sake of. expediency 44 years earlier, love of country, masochis~ “tic tendencies or wont of further intrigue. . And while it remains axiomatic in my. mind :: -Lothat the sole ‘requisite ‘for one's use by | ‘the Agency is his qualification to fit into .- whatever may happen to be .the scheme of things, even this did not apply ini ay .. circumstance, not really. I agreed to go back.out into the cold, so to speak, stric ly for Personal reasons and I think the oxplenation is wisely left at that for now. co : ‘My mission inside East. Germany - if indeed at wes a mission - was neither as well-- defined nor as elementary as Mr. Lucey lias perceived. I am sure the CIA knows alljit . needs to know about American defectors in Berlin and the modus operandi of the ufs. {In fact, the mission was net directed against East Germany, per se. | Preparations bore the _ _ trademarks of an authentic, even typical, Agency project targeted in the main to another .. nation. That I was unable to comprehend the German language, that I had been a recent,. - 7 unwilling guest of the U.S. Attorney General, branded a Communist in the public records, -' ete, merely served to strengthen an already plausible cover built up by chance rather than by design. Paradoxically, the chinks. in the armor were that the cover was not . wholly untrue, the MfS (unlike the FBI) not in the least irresponsible to the laws and - policies of its government. In the past I had engaged in certain covert intelligence 7 “i activities hositle to other socialist states, to. which - as an integral part of|my ; . cover « I freely confessed. Oddly enough, however, my mentors from Langely had neglected |. to. tell me during the briefings that these previous activities constituted a violation. of “the criminal statutes of the GDR, warranting a@ maximum penalty of death upon conviction. ©). / By inadvertence or by plan I found myself in a not altogether unfamiliar predicament. If. “Tt had confessed to my real mission, assuming that it was genuine, . without doubt I would’. have been spared execution, probably even escaped long-term imprisonment, . Instead, | I “| Belected what I considered to be a better alternative »« . « « and gained my freedom. As oe for my treatment by the MfS, from begining to end it was far more gentle than that - - | experienced beneath the cudgel of the U. Se Department of Justices _ rsa meee t With regard to ay marital status and my. children, the foremost area that Mr. Lucey =. "4 appears to have exploited, I have never claimed that “Uncle Sam hides ay. femily"™ or. stated that FBI and CIA agents: ‘deliberately isolated me from my wife and children; nor |have I claimed that the Agency used the promise of reuniting me with my- family as part of : ‘the incentive -for accepting the assignment in the GDR. My accusations in this respect =: |jeentered around my children and they were leveled at. the State Department as the result -)- of. a promise made to me shortly after.my release from the GDR. Since returning to the =. iUnited States last spring a reliable source has. informed me that my wife was granted a. =. i final decree of divorce at some period during my imprisonment in the USA and although I |. ‘jhave never been served with a copy of the decree or other notification of divorce (or .-: notice of a divorce. hearing) ft. 806 nO. cause to dispute the. advisement... | : “Lastly, concerning the aspersions cast on my sanity, at this writing permit me to... | may only that I have never. in my life been certified psychotic by any U.S. medical = ‘authority or adjudicated. mentally-incompetent in a court of law, notwithstanding the sleonflicting legal: and medical opinions as to my mental condition on the day of ay arrest de Texas, over eix years ago« ,
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13-00000 carer 8 SERET co 13 December 1968 | . REF: _ State Dept. Airgram No. A-903 from Berlin = Subject: Psychiatrists Report ‘on Richard Case NAGELL, U. S. Citizen Released by GDR Reference airgram furnishes background information on Subject and fills in gaps in the chronology of events in Subject's life of interest to the Agency. .Of particular note is the fact that Subject was acquitted on 29 April 1968 after his.claim of temporary insanity at the time of the crime found support in the expert testimony of a noted American neurologist, Dr.- Edwin WEINSTEIN. An article in the January 1968 issue of RAMPARTS by William W. TURNER implied that NAGELL had been involved in the assassination plot against President KENNEDY and that he had been _"galted away". Subject denied any involvement in any conspiracy and denied. that he had any information of use to GARRISON. Subject alleged that his fear that the CIA might try to “eliminate” him was planted in his mind by Mr. GARRISON. (See page 2.of interview report). On page 3 of the interview report Subject states he no longer believes that it is realistic to think that the “SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case -. #261170 . . . | | : Berlin who interviewed Subject, was granted a continuing Liaison clearance - on 17 October 1968 at the Fequest of ppe/8/G/18- { - interview, ‘is 4 the Washington, . D.C. law firm of NEW, MACKEY and | GEORGE. Newspaper. clippings from the WASHINGTON STAR for 17 March 1966 | . and the NEW YORK TIMES for 29 August 1965 reflect that NICEY has been | ‘associated with East Berlin attorney, Wolfgang VOGEL and West Berlin | attorney, Juergen STANGE, in a number of cases involving the release of Americans from East Germany. According to an FBI report dated 3 February 1967 these releases usually involved the payment of specified . Boe .sums of money and VOGEL and STANGE were allegedly reaping large monetary ae benefits for their services. - _ Sarah K. Hall bos Att. Ref. et ve jes 7 - SECRET
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13-00000 _ MEMORANDUM SUBS: EQT: Garrison and the Kennedy Assasalnation: Richard Case Nagell (201~746537) i. Subject was born 5 Angust 1930 at Greenwich, New York : City, N. ¥. He is aU. 8. citizen with passport J 5463069 . 2. Subject is not apsociated with CIA and hes not been ¢o associated. 3, He éntered the U. &. Army on 5 Auguét 1948, his eighteenth bisthday. Hig military career wae distinguished, He was awarded many military decorationa for hin service in Korea. He wee never AWOL of court-martialied. 4. On 28 November 1954 Subject was one of six men in a | -Bo2S- which crashed mar Friendship Airport. Nagell wae the sole survivor. The plane was not found for 11 1/2 hours. Nagel suffered. severe injury to the head and facial disfigurement. He was honerab discharged from the Army on 20 October 1959 with the rank of captain. .. 4a December 1959 he was employed as a. special investigator by the Department of Alcoholic Gontrel, State of California. He wae dismissed from thie position in June 1962.. In July 1962 he was shot in the chest _ but refused te provide the police with farther information. In August. 1968 he went to Mexico City. In September and again in Octoher 1962. he appeared at the American Embassy im Mexica City. He asked for help in collecting money from the State of California. He claimed that he had been appreached for espionage recruitment while in Mexico Gity but refused to provide any particulars. He said that he wanted to retiounce hia U.S. citizenship. He left Mexico City on 28 October 1962. On 16 November and 15 December 1962 he wag in touch with the _¥Blin New York City and Jacksonville, Florida. During the latter ‘meeting he said that he. had been approached in Washington, D. &. » by | someone whom he. considered to be working for the Soviets. — Te
13-00000 Ss In December 1962 and January 1963 Nagell was examined at the VA hospital at Bay Pines, Floride. The diagnosis was “‘ghronie brain syndrome associated with brain trauma with behavioral reaction characterized by passive aggresaive and paranoid feataren. " {Au FBL memorandum of 12 June 1964 noted that Nagell was considered mentally disturbed by his mother, hie brother, an @x-wife, anda  {rlend. The mother, who gaid that she had been under psychiatric care . for several years, described Subject's brother, Louis, ag an almost hopeless aleoholfc. ) 6. On 20 September 1963 Subject waa arrested in El Pago, «Teta, onthe charge af having tried to rob tha State National Bank. eelk me cluded from Subject's remarks that he had become 6 mmunist Pasty member after hie digcharge from the army, that he erapted suicide. three times after hia arrest, and that he had made arrangements with the CP in Los Angeles te pick. up his  pasaport in El Paso so that he could goto Czechoslovakia. TW In a letter of 6 Januiey 1964 Nagell advised the Far in xl Paso that in September of 1963 he had been instracted by an agent — -. of a foreign government to comply with an agree to participate in e crimis _ the FEL it was this threat, said Nagell, that led him te try to hold up the. — ment made in May 1963 _ al offende againat the U.S. or be exposed to” The reference appears to be to the agsanpination of President 7 ‘Kennedy: At any rate; sometime after the aatedeination Nagell- claimed” nn ae that he had known both Oswald and his wife. Pictures of Nagell were. shown to Marina Oswald on 18 January 1964. She said that he aia not. know him, 8. At the time of his arrest Subject had in his possession #..  motebook which mine reference te "Medical Aid to Cuba", the “Fair “Play for Cuba Con ree e! x 4 ee of six persons alleged to be GIA agente, and othex informat The FBI informed the Office of Security on 12 March. 1964 that at: at the time reat Nagell also had a iat of six names, marked GIA. The. names were ¥. Parker, Mra. » GS. Churchill, J. Sless, &. Leibacher, and J. Davanon. it was later. determined that Richard Fecteau alae appeared on this list, where he was marked as “Lynn; Mass. *, and "BAC (CIA)".
13-00000 a. Our records show that Richard G. Fecteau was - abourd an American plane shot down over Manchuria in November 1952 and that he ia. eerving in Peiping a twenty year sentence on spy charges. Fecteau, an OPC employee, wat quoted in the press as saying that he worked for CIA. b. F. Parker wae not identified. He may possibly be John Floyd Parker, an Agency employee in 1964 who was in Japan in 1962. | There is no pertinent identifiable information shout Mra. few Guthries, She. may be Frances Agnes: Gethrie, an a2 . Agency amployee in 1964.’ a. ¢. ‘Churchill was not identified. He may be Creighton CGheehhs who was in Japan in 1952, + @ J. Slosa may be Joka Richard Sloss, an Agency employee tn 1964. é. E. Lethacher could be identical with Ernst Leibacker who in 1964 wat inthe Los Angeles Held office of the DCS. g ra Davanen may refer to Joseph Frances Davanon, | ns er alse in the cated Angeles Sel office at the time. ce hanes cereale wvneinedf ovectes 9. John Floyd Parker, Prances Guthrie, Eenst Lelbacker, . - Joaeph Frances Davanen, and Johi Richard Sloss all stated te the best — af their knowledge they had never met Nagell. it is possible, however, that. Nagell knew or knew of Parker, Ghurchill, and Guthrie through | thedy work in the Far East. As for Leibacker and Davanon, Nagell- lived in Los Angeles in 1962. . 10. On16 April 1964 Nagell. sent to the FBL & letter claiming © that in September 1963 he had sent to the Bureau a registered: letter - signed “Jack Kramer". The 1964 letter implied that the 1963 letter had warned the FBI about the impending asengaination, The FBl,. of course, did not receive such a letter. : ll. In January 1968 William T. Turner. etated in at article. in > Ramparts, "The Garrison Commission on the Assassination of .
13-00000 President Kennedy", p. 56, that Nagell was then still confined at Leavenworth, that he had been a highly decorated infantry captain ia the Kerean War, and that he claimed te have become a CIA agent thereafter. RB Ramparts shifted the plane crash in which Nagell was injured from 1954 and Maryland te 1957 and Cambodia. The article repeated the allegation that he dtaged a phony holdup in order to be under arreat when the atésaesination occurred. ‘12. On 6 June 1968 the American Consulate in Zurich cabled Washington to say that Richard Case Nagell, passport J 543069, had appeared at the consulate on 4 June and had said that he was working for a secret U.S. Government agency on a mission to Geneva, where he was to meet some Japanese. He asked for money. He returned to. the consulate the next day, was incoherent, and seemed psychetic. “He ‘He claimed that on 14-16 May 1966 he had been interviewed by District — Attorney Jim Garrison. He said that Garrison had warned him that he was in danger of being killed and that he wanted to inform CIA that he was in. Zarich. 13. On 7 September 1968 another William Turner piece was printed by Ramparts under the heading “ {i As#aseinations / Epstein's Garrison’. i referred to Nagell as a former U.5. intelligence agent and repeated much the game story that it had teld in January. Turner and Raraparts may have been unaware that Nagell was ‘out. of jail by then. 14. On 25 October 1968 the Washington Post reported. that after —- holding Nagell for four months, the East Germane bad released him on 23 October at an East-West Berlin croasing-point. Nagel! left-by plane for the U.S. on 25 October. “Informed sources" said that Nagell was-taken off a train en route through East Germany to Berlin because — he rade seme remarks which the Kast Germans considered derogatory. 18. On 31 October 1968 State forwarded the text of a report by a U.S. Army peéychiatrist who examined Nagell on 23 October. Nagell said that he was on active duty with the army from 1943 to 1959 and that from 1953 to 1959 he was an officer in military intelligence. He also provided accurate information about the 1954 plane crash and its results ++ among them, in hie own words, hie ‘unstable personality and iramature or impulsive behaviour". He said that he draws 64% disability pay. He lost his job in California because one night in 1962, while drunk, he tried te break down the deor of the apartment of his estranged wife. After his confused attempt in 1963 to rob the E] Paso bank, he 7 spent 41/2 years in prison. He was examined by Dr. Edwin Weinstein,
13-00000 8 noted American neurologist, who found hie electroencephalograms | abnormal, and ae a redult he was released from prison on 29 April 1966. . Nagel paid that becnuée of the Raxparts article of January. 1968 he wae paid a visit by Jim Garrison. He told Garrison that he had ne. information of gny use to him. The interview left him, however, with two fears: that Garriaon might try to subpoena him ahd that CIA might try to “sliminate” him. (By the time he wai providing this information in Berlin Nagell was well aware that he was not involved in any conspiracy to astagelnate President Kennedy.) He said that his fear af CIA was pla sted in bia mind by Mr. Garrison. . Atter his. veleane he went te New Yoxk, where.a sieter Mves. He was almout hit by a car driven without lights and decided to go. to Europe | - te etcaps being killed by CIA. In June he appeared in Zurich. He next. eet cut for. West Berlin bot was taken aff the train on 11 June 1968. | For peveral months he was. repestedly asked to admit that “he was 2 ai SPY ally he coneludad that the only way to obtain hie re pretend that he wae mentally ill. He did so, was examined amr ntriat, and was released. He ne longer bulleven that it lé realistic te think that the cla was vying to'kill-bim." He termed himself “chronically paran Army paychiatrist concluded “Currently he ie not peyehotte ‘and seemt tex in. & legal and x ablatele Pense sie “Nageit'a final. remark was, “Well, ri beth ‘you one thing, that's =. the last time t ever take a train. through East’ Germany."
13-00000 - Originated by? DC/CL/REA:DEPrattidim 10 December 1968 Distribution: » Osig + DOP |. «de Office of General Counsel 1. «A/C t ~ Office of Security — 1 = BES {Atm George Musulin) i « FBI via C/CU/RGeA 1 - CI/RRA chrone
13-00000 “MEMORANDUM FOR: DC/R&A cs Stare SUBECE st ‘Richa! Case HAGEL : Attached for your information ie Se memorandum dated 26° March 1964 from Mr. Solie of this staff Listing the names of seven persons found in en address book by the FEE on the: oecasion of thei arrest of Richard Case T Wave noted in tonghand on the attackwent the names of those {Individuals on whem we have a. record. _ The others are designated either unidentifiadie or no record. ce rRErER Rr AE cao  PExcluced ir seenet La
13-00000 Mr. R. J. Leonard a «26 Mareh 1964. Chief, Research Branch/SRS NAGELL, Richard Case -1. Attached isa copy of az October 1962 memorandum from . the FBI in regard to Richard Case NAGELL. 2. SA. Alexander W. NEALE, Jr. of the Washington Field . Office, FBI, has informally advised the undersigned that NAGELL has’ - been arrested on the West Coast fer bank robbery, is going to be tried in the near. future for the alleged erime, and that NAGELL had in. his possession the following information: {Lynn, Mass) DAG {CIA} CLA | . Mr. S. PARKER - UY. Mrs. GUTHRIES.- \.R. Mr. ©, CHURCHILL - \-. Mr. J. DAVANON- ©S net Mr. J, SLOSS - OS turand . Mr, E. LEIBACHER ~ o© ecouee Cet a ani eee 3. A check of SO Indices has revealed no ‘record of NAGELL, and an RI cheek only disclosed the attached FBI report. Please recheck SO | Indices an. the subject, have a file set up on an. expedite basis, and on an _ expedite basis identify the above individuals as to whether any have any ' gonnection with this Agency. The above Richard FECTEAU may be. identical to the individual who was captured by the Chinese Communists and is now in prison. 4. Also check with Mrs. THORN of OG/C to determine whether OO/G has any record of NAGELL.. It is believed that very possibly some
13-00000 _ of the above individuals may be connested with the Los “Angeles or San 7 Frdneiseo. Field Office of O0/C, but. ‘at: the present moment limit the  gheck with Mra, THORN: to teteriniay Pag. they have ied record of “oBlshard Case NAGELL, 7 . oe Bruce L. Solie
£9 Novenber 1968 _MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD: sea wom, Richard Case ~ - #261270 "REP: _ State Telegrams No.. 258355 to U..S. Mission Berlin dtd 19 Oct 1968 and No. 2538 from Berlin dtd, 22 Oct 1968 2.) ‘Clipping ‘from WASHINGTON POST atd 25 Oct. 1968 Subject is one of thé characters in the GARRISON case. .See summary ‘dtd 18 January 1968 in his file. He was arrested for bank robbery at EL Paso, . Texas on. 20 September ‘1963 and sen ed to Leavenworth penitentiary. - "In dune 1968 CIA received 4 cable fr which NAGELL was qnoted as telling the . CONGEN he wanted them to ' “inform CTA he. in: Zurich". ‘The details of how. and why. WAGELL is in Europe, in particular East Berlin, are missing. State Telegram No.. 2538 from Berlin states that the charges. are still unknown "Basic documents “~= are still in hand of State Security auvforities .' + was released by. East German authppities together with one An intensive review of JAMES' file (#266602) failea any connection between JAMES and ‘Subject. State Department ‘in the same situation in’ East Berlin. JAMES is also mentally unstable and . has. cause embarrassment abroad for the. State Department since 1964. He was of | __ “Agency interest in 1965 because“he had in his possession while in Switzerland —~ the names of two Agency. employees who were in a covert status. It was never determined how.JAMES obtained these names. , . Sarah K. Hall SRS/OS downgrading R24” , en eh Pe eel Ghd ue i Excluded from av reomatls decigasiticalian
13-00000 JAMES,;LEON BURRIS OS 67 G363004-185 / A. JAMES, LEG PAUL 64 MZ66602, JAMES;LEOQN BURRIS —— /A NELSON, THOMAS GEORGE /8 23NOV44 CAL -/1 SR
13-00000 ‘6 RAMPARTS SIRH AN'S MOTIVES. _ Unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan has lived ta telLof his mativations—but he has chosen to romain silent, The only other potential. source of infFmation is’ his ” family; which had not spoken to the press. Mahmoud) Abdel-Hadi, an Egyptian correspondent fur Akhbar Elyoum in ‘Cairo, recently gained access to Sirhan's family. Based upon information supplied Aim by the family, he has written exclusive ely for Ramparts the following account of Sirhan’s motivations and the. Strategy he plans for his trial. - Because of the forthcoming trial and the difficulty of dealing with this subject | without emotional involvement, the editors of Ramparts fave elected to present this ‘information of historic interest to our- readers without display, and in as ob- ; Jective a form as possible. ECAUSE TAM AN Aran T was able to breuk through the burrier of sus- picion that had ‘stopped other journalists cold and obtain the first in- depth interviews the Sirhan family has ‘given since the assassination, From their cominents and from what Sirhan has said to them, a picture of the man and his "motives begins to emerge, replacing the misleading portraits which haveswamped the US. press. The fact that Sirhan has not publicly discussed his trial is no accident. It is his own strategy,.semething he developed _ after thinking about it for tong hours in his ‘specially mi ide jail cell. In fact, he has confided to his family that he will ~ ovevec make anv statement unless special provisions ure made for the courtroom proceedings, What Sirhan wants is, . quite . simply; publicity. He wants the major television networks to be allowed to broadcast the entire trial. If they do this, he says, he will tell all. ““And if they refuse?” his brother Adel recently asked him. “Phen I shall go io the gas chamber: —silent,” “2. Po understand why Sirhan-is indeed ° capable of sacl ae act, one oadist under. - ‘Sirhan replied. staqd (hat Geos feent and: foremost an Atab, boron Podestine and cousamicd with titerest fa the Miduig Pastern coa- thet, he is deeply committed to making his trial a publicand political forum for the Arab position. . College educated, articulate and a voracious reader, Sirhan is confident about his own ability to cope with his predicament. His eldest brother, Shereif, told me that Sirhan studies the intrica-- cies of his case as many as ten hours a day in his cell. Shereif recalls that Sirhan - _ tecently said to him, “I do not need a lawyer. I understand my case und know how to defend myself.” But even so, Attorney Russell Parsons is defending - his client, and doing it on Sirhan's own _ grounds. “The main issue,” Parsons told me, “‘is to answer this question: why, for “what reason, did Sirhan kill Robert ‘Kennedy? There are 100 witnesses who saw Sirhan shooting Mr. Kennedy, but no one seems to know why he did it.” _; Sirhan and his attorney hope that the defense—presuming that the television ‘networks are. allowed into: the .court- _room—will show that Sirhan did not -have “malice aforethought” ing Kennedy because the act was a. polit-. in shoot- ical gesture, and that Kennedy, to Sirhan at least, was merely a symbol. His brother Adel notes that “if Sirhan was just an assassin, he could have done it in another way, just by having a gun with a telescope. He went to the Ambassador Hotel expecting to get caught; that is _ why he left his notes at home. I believe that Sirhan wanted to get caught so that he could say what he believes.” HEN I FIRST TRIED to meet with ; To: the Sirhan family, 1 was re-" -fused. Security is extremely heavy around them, and they are under- standably wary of new faces. Later, when I finully obtained an invitation to meet with them, Mrs. Sirhan apologized, I believe for -having been inhospitable to a fellow Arab. . This family, which fled Jordan to seek greater safety and security than it had - known, is now living in terror. They are somewhat at a loss to understand the events which have suddenly catapulted them into history. None of the four brothers goes to hisjob; they all feel that death follows them everywhere, and they move carefully, with a heavy guard, “Why don’t you just leave this country?" Lashed Shereif, “Where shall we go?” he auswered. “To. whom shill we leave our brother? Our land is under Israel's occupation.” Shereif clarified his state- ment: “Our brother is in jail; we have to stay.” I sensed not only the Sirhans’ con- ~. fusion, but also some bitterness. They . . have not-received any aid from the Arab- countries, as they originally thought they might. prised; he had hoped thit the various local Arab cansulates would help defray court costs, i- Indeed, Los Angeles’ Jordanian con- sul, who visited Sirhan in jail at Sirhan’s . request, indicated to me that the accused - assassin hadjexpected the Arab people -to treat him as a hero. However, except. - for some Palestinian extremists, his act | _-has been universally repudiated by the ‘Arab world. One Arab newspaper has said editorially, “We don’t feel any responsibility for this. It is the society — that fed him with hostility, the society "that gave him the gun, that is responsi- ’ ble.””, Members of the Arab Students‘ Association, ‘of which Sirhan was once "an officer, feel that the killing of Kennedy ‘was w terrible mistake. One of them suid to me, “What are we going to do. with ’ the rest of the American candidates? Kill them all. because ‘they. want to help” ‘Tsracl'?" Still, the Sirhans’ friends are primarily ~ Arab, and they live in an atmosphere that is more Arab than American. The ‘entire family spent a good deal of time = discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict. The: mother says that Sirhan was the most sensitive and the most involved. during... ‘these discussions. Adel says that Sirhan once saw a television report of Robert - Kennedy addressing the members of the | Neveh Shalom Temple in Portland, Oregon. While in the synagogue, Ken- nedy, wearing a -yarmulke, declared that: the United: States must help Israel: against aggression from whatever source. ' “Unlike the South Vietnamese,” Ken- nedy said, “the Israelis have shown they are willing to fight for their own survival. ‘Indeed, Israel is the very opposite of Vietnam: the Israeli government is very ‘democratic, effective and free of corrup- tion. Its people are united in its support.” The senator then urged the Johnson Ad- ministration to praceed at once with the _ gale of 50° Phantom jet fighters to the Iarnell Ait Force and to cut off economic mid to the Arab counters. Chins whole episode mude Sichuan very agry, Shereif recalls. “He left the room putting his hands on his ears and almost weeping.” Continued on page 8 Parsons is also somewhat sur
13-00000 ae ee ee Conicinned from page 6 "LT asked Sirhiun’s mother why she thought her son had shot Kennedy. “Everything in this country was helping Sirhan,” she maintained. “It was push- ing him to the danger point. Everything, the propaganda of the Zionists, every- thing, was against his country, against his people.” Adel described Sirhan’s current state of mind: “He feels he has done a terrible thing, but he feels now it is too late to be sorry. Now he wants Americans to listen to something they have never listened : to.” ; _ And at their first meeting in the jail, Sirhan's mother suid to him, “Shame on pre you, Why have you done such a thing? He replied, “H's too late to speak of ith. - But all the Americans will know why.” DI [Assassinations] EPSTEIN’S GARRISON “era WOy SUMMERS AGO a tindem attack “on the Warren Report all but rele- gated that work to the fiction section of your local library. The first / was Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment, ‘which convincingly demonstrated—us- ing the’ Warren Commission's own evi- dence—that Oswald could not have done _it alone, and drew the first dim outlines of the conspiracy theory. The second | was.Edward Jay Epstein’s Inquest, which exposed the rather shoddy inner work- ings of the Commission and laid bare the tortured logic it finally employed to dis- pel notions of a conspiracy. . Both books became -best sellers, but ’ their authors have since gone different ways. Lane, who shuttered his lvw prac- tice and struggled for years to get his “manuscript published in the United States Cit was first published in Britain), has stumped the country in support of District Attorney Jun Garrison's theory that the ussnssinudion was curried aut by an ant-Castro paramilitary team super- - PALM ors _ vised by’ persons with c1A affiliations, Epstein, whose book was a converted Cornell University. master’s thesis—the subject was urged upon him by his men- tor, Andrew Hacker—has emerged as one of Garrison’s most fervid accusers. His vehicle is The New Yorker: in the issue of July 13, he delivered a 25,000- word blast at Garrison, calling the DA’. Ss investigation a fraud. The New Yorker article had its genesis over a year ago, when the author showed up at Garrison's office i in New Orleans. . According to Chief Investigator Louis Ivon, Epstein spent about 48 hours in- town, some three hours at the office, and -hasn’t been seen since. Much of what he writes about has occurred since this touch-and-go visit and is obviously hear- ‘say on his part, yet he writes with the . authoritative tone of a participant. Un- doubtedly this technique is convincing to his audience, which assumedly is un- familiar with the intricacies of Garrison's _ investigation. But to those familiar with the facts, the article is badly slanted. _ For example, Philosophy Professor Richard. Popkin of the University. of. California at San Diego, author of the ‘book The Second Oswald (propounding . the theory of an Oswald double) and — “Garrison’s Case” in The New York Review of Books (September 14, 1967), . ‘recently commented on the article: “I found it a queer mix of facts, half- facts, rumors and very dubious informa- tion from people hostile to Garrison. Epstein has compressed all this to make it loak like everything's on the same ‘Jevel. 1 think it would take an awful lot of work to disentangle what he's saying on almost any page as to how much of it has a factual base, how much of it is ‘rumor that he has heard from people, how much of it are charges that have: been made by people like [William] Gur- Mich [who volunteered to work on the : investigation without pay, passed him- self off as. the Chief Investigator, then -turned on Garrison] against: Garrison, which haven't been substantiated any- where except by Gurvich’s statement of. ‘them. And also that he tends to take ‘facts and information and rumors and so on, that occurred over a year and a half’s © period, and compress them all into simultaneous events, so that a statement made by Garrison at one time is pounced upon on the basis of informa- tion or statements he mude a year and a half later in a totally different context, ever, existed.” / An objective ending” ‘er ““aeateus | testimony, however, told the Far: ‘that Bertrand was* ‘approxi- - mately six feet one inch to six feet two . tee DP AI@ Ee bel on teamed ‘So 1 think it'y a quite unfair presenta tion, which has some factual base, but which also has a lot of very dubious ~ elements in it.’?: One of the. dubious elements is Ep- _ stein’s version, of the testimony of Dean -*- Andrews Jr., a colorful attorney who: numbers among his former clients Os- ~wald (who wanted his undesirable dis- charge from the Marine Corps rectified). and the late David William Ferrie, a central figure in the Garrison investiga- - tion. The day. after the assassination, Andrews told the Commission he re-.-. ceived a phone call from a man he knew |. _ as Clay Bertrand; whom he described as - a “lawyer without a briefcase” for iocal homosexuals. Bertrand asked him to go to Dallas and defend: Oswald. Garrison. contends Bertrand is Clay Shaw, whom | ‘ he has charged with conspiracy. According, to Epstein, Andrews ini-’ — tially gave ‘the. Fat “several different de- scriptions” of Hertrand, and finally ad- mitted that Bertrand “was merely a_ figment of his imagination.” Later, be- fore the Commission, Andrews stated that he had fecently seen Bertrand in a bar and, Epstein says, described him as “a boy” who was.“five feet eight inches” and had “‘sandy hair.” ‘‘No other clues © to Bertrand’s identity turned up, how-- ° * writes: Epstein, “and Wesley J. Liebeler, a Commission lawyer who con- ducted the investigation in this arca, said he was convinced that no such person reveals that he inches in height, brown hair, and well dressed" a: description that closely .- matches the tall, aristocratic Shaw. As © for Bertrand being a figment of his. _ imagination, Andrews declared, “That's : what the Feebees [Fai] put on.” He re- counted that G-men had pestered him a to the point where. he told them, “Write _ “what you want, that I am nuts. I-don’t ie care.” As for his later remark: to the. ~ Commission’s Mr. Liebeler that ‘Ber- trand was only five feet, eight. inches, rom B Andrews explained that “this time I was _ looking for the fellow, he was sitting down.” Nowhere does he refer to Ber- trand as a “boy.” Epstein was perhaps confused by his exclamation: “I don't play Boy Scout and measure them.” in his superficial examination of Guar- - he Continued on page 12.. Sthatch hy Mary Morhoft Ear rier
13-00000 & Continue “d fram page 8 rison’s case, Epstein evidently failed to check the police records prepared upon — Shaw's arrest. Thoroughly shaken by the urrest. Shaw blurted out, according to Patrolman Alovsius Habighorst, that he had used the alias “Clay Bertrand.” The alias was duly centered on the fingerprint card and booking sheet. * One of the most fascinating “charace ters in the conspiracy drama is Richard Case -N agent who claims he encountered Oswald in Mexico City in 1963, and had been ‘instructed by his spy superiors to deter- mine if the rumors of an assassination attempt had any foundation. Nagell says he learned that the first attempt against Kennedy was scheduled for September 26 in Washington, D.C., and that Oswald (who crossed the border into Mexico the “Lday © before)’ Wwas*to.-be* setup as the //|° “patsy” and shot in front of the Cuban “HERE COME DE TUDGE” ONSIDER THE REVOLT ON THE LEFT ( if the following occured: ; The President, on the eve of his abdication, arranged to accept the resignation of the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in order to replace him with the President's former lawyer, then an associate justice; As tt partay, to the Senate the name of bis oldest hand, holding crony to fill the vacaney crested by the promotion of fis former hiwyer: The chief justice, who had weidien a famous report designed to satisfy the people. thar the assassination of the President's predecessor was sans con- - spiracy and the sole act of a demented mind, conditioned his resignation on the Senate’s approval of the appointments; The President's ex-lawyer, when called to testify before a Senate committee, conceded that during his three years on the high court he had continued tauct rs dhe Presideat’s caby wots Phat pursuant Ca thes role, fre thd sat “anon atimerous cabinet-level mectiags, but that he had merely “summarized” the views of others for the benefit of the President; That as a justice he had dressed down & prominent businessman who had criti- agell, i former US. Intelligence fon ‘the’ ‘matte the Prosiduat submitted - Embassy in Mexico City. When the anti- © Castro paramilitary team could not penetrate the Presidential security in Washington, Oswald got a reprieve. But. Nagell, who says he was sure the attempt would come off but failed to get the FBI- to listen, faked a bank robbery in El aso on September 20 so that he would | be arrested and in federal. custody when _ the assassination:occurred. . » Epstein dismisses. Nagell ‘as being mentally unbalanced, noting that “court records indicated that .Nugell had suf- fered brain damage in an airplane crash : in 1957” and that, following the bank - episode, he was."‘an inmate of a federal. institution for the criminally insane in Springfield, Missouri.” As he does so frequently throughout the article, Ep- - stein delivers’a version which if devel- - oped fully would throw a different light -/ lagell” was inva ‘plane’ crash, but he’ was given: Intelligence : Slaw = cized war spending, :though whether his call was made at the President’s request he could not say and remain faithful to _ the Separation of Powers; That the businessman had retracted his statement, though in the end it proved to be accurate; That the justice could not answer questions concerning his judicial opin- ions since the Constitution specifies that members of Congress may not be ques- , tioned about their acts in any place other than in Congress; ‘That despite this asserted Constitu- tional bar, the justice pointed to his dis- senting vole against extending the one- man-one-vote principle to local govern- — ment as proof of his devotion to State’s rights; , That although he had been at the President’s disposal as advisor-summar- izer, he had never been involved in dis- cussions that could conceivably reach the Court; That the issucs under discussion at the top-level mietings iad camped from the Vietnam War to rivts in the cities; ‘That the justice had voted to jail drift card burners und had voted ugainst taking up for consideration the legality of the war; That he voted to give the police sweep- ing rights to stop-and-frisk suspects on ’ training afier. his recovery, indicating - thai he had-no permanent brain injury. Moreover, the fact that he stood trial | implies that he was legally sane. Re- cently, he was released from Leaven- worth Penitentiary—he had been at Springfield only temporarily. The publication of the lpstein article came at an opportune (tine for Clay Shaw. Obtaining advance copies, his at- torneys entered it as evidence before a three-judge federal panel which was hear- ing arguments that the DA wus “con- -ducting asrevn of terror” and “perse- cuting” the defendant. Apparently the panel was unimpressed, for it unani- mously rejected ithe defense’s argument and ordered the case to triai. . If Garrison does get his day in court— c) day Epstein has struggled to deny him “chances are his case will hold up better — ‘than, The* New Yorker's brief for’ the *’ defenses. 1 — WILLIAM TURNER 1 i- i: t a? ial : suspicion ulone; ‘That within two months of his pro- posed elevation he had authored a book- let, “Concerning Dissent and Disobedi- ence,” which limited the moral right to disobey laws‘to those “basically offensive _to fundamental values of life or the Con- stitution” and held that even in ‘such cases no legal defense could be. urged... . ‘but jailing must be willingly accepted; That shortly after that book was pub- lished, the justice denounsed, in a rare interview from Washo, fhe activities of some of the University protestors as “tolally inexcusable, from the point of even primitive morality”: That: during his first term on the Court, he cast the deciding vote uphold- ing the conviction and five-year sentence of Ralph Ginzburg for ‘‘pandering” a non-obscene magazine; : That during cach of his three terms he nearly always voted for business interests and against efforts to cut down the (rusts: . “EP dneat Cent fie wien been one of the President's aiost hawk ish Collet throughout his yearn an the walely tated tee baeve advisors on the Vietnam War, Consider the revolt on the left ifany- thing like this happened in 1968. ——SIDNEY E. 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13-00000 - 4 wat one ee A EB Ke scaiiianeuhethacatadgebieadldiuiadetenndecanaaeataeaandt rascasaeoneasameianteeaaaaceet Te 1 7 e Sh) cowF . BS) “| | UNCLASSIFIED’ | / | CONFIDENTIAL [ | OFFICIAL ROUTING SuLip NAME AND ADDRESS [pare | INirians | pms ae DCc/SRS a A PN Ata Leal filet Li Cy aeseinene icAee | faction "st oirect Reply | | PREPARE REPLY | [approvaL | DispatcH || RECOMMENDATION _| | [comment | rue, | evr [CONCURRENCE | | _[ INFORMATION | _| SIGNATURE ms * The attached report by Mrs. Hall -based -on cable traffic re appearance of _ a Richard NAGELL in Zurich raises question fo FBI. Is NAGELL in GARRISON investigation still in prison, or is he one and the same person in Switzerland? pF FROM Kaw nooness anyontne no BATE [SECRET | (40) FORM 0 937 Use previous edyHons
13-00000 “12 June 1968 MEMORANDUM FOR: chier, 108/sRs -_. SUBJECT: NAGEL, Richard Case - ~ fo6ia70 gg ‘REF: oe IN. cable 25955 atd 6 dune 1968 from . OUT Cable 06625 dtd 7 June / 1968 to| 15 =7 Reference cables concern. the claim of an individual - appearing at _ “the Consul General's office in Zurich, Sq@itzerland on 4 June 1968 that he is one Richard Case NAGELL. NAGELL was sentenced to.a 10 year term for - “bank robbery ‘¢ ‘on. 9: June 1.964 and. is _ Supposedly - ino a federal prison in Missouri. GARRISON interviewed Subject. as. a witness in’ his investigation according to a news: clipping - from the CHICAGO AMERICAN: dated 2 January - 1968. The clipping is marked “in ‘Subject's file which is attached. ‘This - file also contains a copy of the summary dated 18 January 1968 pregpared in research. on the GARRISON ‘CASE. _. . It would be of interest for. documentation of Subject's file to se . ascertain from the FBI if Subject.is still in. ‘préson. , .I did not receive reference IN.Cable 25955 initially. Attached is_ ‘a copy I obtained from: OS Cable Desk. However, the original copy was - . routed to SRS and it is possible some one.else on the. Staff is. already handling the matter. ; SRS/OS — Att. as Stated —ar ie got fram 8 quterta Exsngrci a qgckaesttieatias
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13-00000 28 fatiokey 1968 «Bt Cape BAGEL, “a highly decorated Captain ta tha Korean Wer", wented to be in | rubbery at Ei Paso, fens on 20 . his reason for the sttenptot  dGnk fobbery, be vould rather be arrested than commit surter end treason. The article liages tht wtle tt whe enggeeted tn coart on Girplene ¢rash qurvived mentally affected hin, — he was given in training after the crash. Aleo, RAGELL compleine he has- been salted away beesuse of whet be knows.
13-00000 " SOURCE: 1968 RAMPARTS Article by William «Wy ORES 03 TEnIoES Ress Les: ' Subject became of interest to the Office of Security in Hares 196k . ‘when the PBI informed the Agency thet Bubject hed in hie poasecsion at the time of his agent for benk robbery ab El Peso, Temas oa 20 Septesiber 3963 the meme of Richard PRCTZAY (an individual by this mime wee captured. by the Chinese Communists end is now in priscn in chine) end af six Agency Oe _ Qiveetts tite sefesta no Aginy tater in hin prior 9 uarch 1964 . (taba cata nt eres ints tng afta te pie | Sat 2 s anotabiiity wen pretubiy doe to brain daaage suftered a the airplane the! IMPARTS article's clain thst SMELL enid be fired the gra tu the. benk at EL Paso, Texas because he dented to be in ecustedy when the aueasaination - teak place fe apt completely in coaflict with ea etatement NAGEL sede on Turmategy) “50H Mite Moverery after the sosesninstions (see page & of The RIMPARTS erticle's ellegetion thet the FRE teok from RAGELL note beck sonteising the memes of CIA employees is true. So HAGELL's complesat that be was “salted away” to open to specuition, etn ten year prison sentences dees sppear berth, considering the dseucented br ‘Mees *
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ts OOO se eee UMERTCAN ILLINOIS. © B-439,360 "ot to Listen? BY SACK’ ‘MABLEY pwn INTO the. assassination of Presi-: “gent. sennedy j is- being reopened: It is’ being ‘conducted by” ajo ‘Prosecutor: with: the ‘power of ‘subpena . and a Brand jury “ with ¢ ub 2 ‘ & Power to indict.” 1.» Tt would. be. better. for. the. country 4f.the fodoral government were mak- ‘ing the investigation. rather -than a “New Orleans. -official who has_-been accused ‘of: beirigzan: able. and of Seeking headlines. on Carrying it thru. “ | -“A~nulnber. of: writers and: ‘galf- - tinue.to publish evidence to rebut the - .Warrén ‘commission’ conclusion that «Leek aryey Oswald, alone was involved i in the Assassination. © Jls. GARRISON | : conclusion. is Ramparts magazine.” “This ‘i “is a: liberal, : no, a ‘; radical publication. which represents the viewpoint of @ ‘small .. Minority. However, it has done ‘Some effective investigative - reporting, | particularly. i in exposing ; the CIA infiltration into 1 Ss ‘dents murder. '. * @ollege activities. a . Ramparts assigned & ag * investigator, “William W. “Dummer, “who they ‘say is a. “former FBI_agent, to spend ‘9. months " looking into the New Orleans evidence, toe “E have. worked closely with the D. A, ‘{Gaizisont and his we staff,” Turner. reports... “In-my opinion, ‘there’ i is no question them, Violently, since: the assassination, All "<P graves -with Information Garrison, ec consi iders Pert. tH : investigation. vie _ that. they have uncovered a. conspiracy. ” ' The gist of the New. Orleans. case is: that.Oswald was i, involved: with a” heterogeneous” group” of adventurers, - anti- Be ‘Castro Cubans, and radical righters who included members * SOMe Way, ‘itis. difficult: to. see what can: ste: airing these Stories, “probably ina court. of law. 7 public may judge. their validity. of the Minutemen and American Nazis. Their common cause was to encourage or mount a revolt , : in Cuba against Castro. They also were ‘strongly anti- . ~ “aumunist. Tiare is ne question this group existed. ‘Garrison has ~ ~~ ance that Oswald was part of it. Garrison’s investigators : : evidence that: Oswald's‘ “pré-Russian- leanings actually » .~ 3 front, or a disguise to conceal his Teal role as an 7 7 ‘ ommunist, = ase Eat Atsugi naval . station in Japan. Supporting - evidence is'| - Oswald's proficiency in‘the Russian. language, the source of 5 fe Russia, and the “lack. of ‘ censure by the government-on bis y- | . return, or :-by the marine'corps in his: ‘discharge. _ ; “or was involved with CIA activities. is because, of the. failure ‘of: the’ Bay~ of: ‘Pigs: operation and‘? ' because. they hough _Reanedy wasn't ._ fufflclently anti: a dismissed .as unreliable, _ However,’ the’ ‘federal: govetament shows. no, signs: of: “wanting, to reopen ~ the matter, and the” prosecutor, Jim “GARRISON BELIEVES THAT Oswald. was schooled in a oo _ Covert opera tions by the CIA. while ja the marine corps. ies met te ‘which was néver explained, the ease with which he entered ' "In effect, Garrison. ‘teels Oswald was’ either a CIA, agent | The New Orleans: Broup was angry at President Kennedy ai communist; ‘bits and pieces into ihe. puzzle, Individually, many canbe but _ collectively’. -they raise many ~ observer “would: like. ‘to “see 16 ower Y of the: federal. govern: Garrison, appeai's ‘to be quite. insistent méat ‘to ‘disprove: every..one. of these Es, they canbe. disproved, ‘Presiiviably, “¢ does ‘not ‘want: to. dignity, Garrison's Ss witnesses’ stories, if.’ the federal ' government ¢ allegations with formal: o "appointed ‘investigators also are dis- . fe denials, satisfied. with conflicting facts and “unanswered questions, and they con- f. two-powerful agenéiés of the federal government stand: to be’ discredited. Garrison. has interviewed one witness, Richard . _ Cass Nagell.a highly: decorated Korean‘ wat vetéran who -.Claims-to have been “a: CIA agent, who says he. sent (a--" + be registered: letter -to- J.- Edgar Hoover warning him: of: the - ; + assassination plot: if this is ‘true, Hoover and the FBI ‘would be guilty of. dreadful” dereliction’ of duty. : F* government agencies . are, doing . ‘everything in their Power | £: to discredit. Garrison, ... .. IE: THERE IS- “ANY- “substance: to Garrison's "S charges; “The CIA and CIA ‘fronts are deeply’. involved. -in the :: activities: of the. “men. ‘Garrison believes | ‘Plotted. the: Presi. | : -Turner, the’ Ramparts investigator. “believes powerful * Ten persons’ involved in’ ‘the. Case have ‘ied, most” “of | i went to their | sore sent, be is . ope - Unless. Garrisin is killed or removed fror>- office in Apitr Ld
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13-00000 ' oC. Seta6 Department of State. | TELE GR AM | | : “CABLE SECRETARIAT DIsSEM BY ; POTAL, Copies: FILE, RF, “CONFIDENTIAL — HCG639. PAGE @1 STATE 969053 — 17 oO ORIGIN SCS B4 INFO OCT O1,EUR @8,SCA O1,PPT @2,CIAE 00, INK 87, NSAE 00, RSC Bly , DODE - OD, TRSY iM, 4835 R o 66665 DRAFTED BY: SCA:SCS: HLUPP'I/WRJOCHIMSEN | APPROVED BY:SCS:HOBART LUPPI , PPT sMR.e RITCHIE (PHONE) a a, lalate ale lalasteteteteteatat ated B15 118 | - RK @22142Z MAY- 69° ad fe , - - - FM SECSTATE WASHD ....TO AMCONSUL. FRANKFURT. .; INFO AMEMBASSY: PARIS . AMEMBASSY ROME . -AMEMBASSY MADRID AMCONSUL ZURICH USMISSION: BERLIN: CONFIDENTIAL STATE 069053 PARIS PASS USSS _ REF: BERLIN 7543 STATE 62744 - RICHARD NAGELL 1. -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 NAGELLS -GP- A, _ROGERS Oo oe Boba 2 ak Ey cr
13-00000 hd. | aR Department of State ney | ca Oe ae neee”. y TELEGRAM ee [ides cube: -Hf_ol< Az sec yk— . "pur. RF? 0 “gecRET © HeGHI7 PARE or “eanep aie ABIZAIZ ACTION SCS 04 os eh “INFO EUR 17,SCA01,VA O1,L. O3CIAE 0,DODE- 00, INR 07; NSAE- 00, P OA, nt RSC B1,USIA 12,PPT 02,SY @3,FBI 01,/056 wo | ee weesen- 114417" | “COR ITL7@4Z APR 69 ZFF. BERLIN ‘ZURICH a ee oe | “. FM AMEMBASSY MADRID) 2. OE a ‘TO USMISSION BERLIN a Co, INFO SECSTATE WASHDC 5522 Be f AMEMBASSY PARIS. _ ‘AMEMBASSY ROME. © AMCONSUL. ZURICH SSE CR E 7 MADRID 1429. ROME FOR VA ‘OFFICE EUROPE . SUBJECT: MELFaRsnICIRD 6 CASE. NAGELL REFS BERLIN 668 . _ |e IN INTERVIEWS WITH CONSULAR OFFICER ZURICH FEBRUARY. 27 _ AND 28 NAGELL MADE. USUAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST USG PARTICULARLY . FBI. AND CIA, AND. PUBLICITY | THREATS. , Ze NAGELL. SUBSEQUENTLY. ‘VISITED CONSULATE BARCELONA. MARCH. _ 18, AND MADE FIRST. OF SEVERAL, VISITS EMBASSY MADRID. MARCH __.. fy . 20° WHERE HE TALKED AT GREAT LENGTH WITH P&W OFFICERS, — aa - oO ' . DEFENSE ATTACHE, CHIEF CONSEC, AND. MADE BUT: DID. NOT KEEP 2; - : APPOINTMENT WITH CULTURAL ATTACHE. . Se ACCORDING CAS, . NAGELL” ‘1S: NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN © . ; } ASSOCIATED WITH CAS: INFO FROM.DEPT: NAGELL*S MENTAL APRLICH 0. (o. ‘TION ORIGINATED -IN BRAIN. DAMAGE SUFFERED. AIR CRASH =~ re { -- NOVEMBER 1954. DIAGNOSIS. DATED 4 FEB -1955-: "PARANOID ‘PERSON- ALITY, PASSIVE AGRESSIVE. PERSONALITY REACTION. BOSE spas “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: HE | SECRET
13-00000 Po Department | of State « CABLE SECRETARIAT DissEM By on : PER f. _ — “TOTAL cOPvES: Oo TEL EGRAM _ : ra FILE, RF, - SECRET PAGE 82 “MADRID. Ot429°° AB1241Z - - WOULD BLOW UP. ALSO. ‘ASSERTED ‘DEPT: HAD: BROKEN PROMISE oo LOCATE WIFE AND. ‘CHILDREN, REPEATED -THAT. ‘CHILDREN ONLY: THING. IN’ WORLD THAT MEANT.-ANYTHING TO. HIM, THAT “LF HE “COULD NOT FIND THEM. HE.WOULD TAKE LEAVE OF THIS. WORLD AND WOULD. .. TAKE SOMEBODY WITH HIM. IN. LAST MEETING WITH CONSUL. “APRIL” 7 _°. CONSUL’ HAD- TWO MARINE: GUARDS PRESENT VIEW. USAF PSYCHIATRIST'S © ADVISE TO TAKE. NO-. CHANCES, WHATEVER... NAGELL UPSET BY GUARDS PRESENCE AND. BY. CONSULS. REFUSAL PERMIT HIS TAPING. RECORDING “INTERVIEW. AND. TO. SHOW HIM REGULATIONS PROHIBITING - | RECORDING. NAGELL.BELABORED PATIENT CONSUL. FOR NEARLY Two. - HOURS. CONSUL INFORMED:HIM: THAT DEPT HAD: sENDEAVORED LOCATE WIFE AND CHILDREN WITHOUT SUCCESS, AND PROMISED TO- QUERY - via, = DEPT WHAT™ ‘SPECIFIC: STEPS: DEPT -HAD. TAKEN: THIS MATTER. > NAGEL _- FINALLY SAID HE’ WOULD LEAVE SPAIN: BECAUSE OF CONSULS © ACTION (USE OF GUARDS) .AND REQUESTED THAT REPLY . FROM. ‘DEPT. ‘BE. FORWARDED PARIS WHERE HE WAS GOING. ALSO. INFORMED CONSUL "HE WOULD "GET HIM", BUT. THROUGH POCKETBOOK, BY SUING HIM ‘IN-US. IN THIS “INTERVIEW NAGELL DENIED HAVENG MADE > THREATS. - OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, ONLY ."PROMISES". OF :PUBLICITY..AND OF. a “PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH CERTAIN: SOURCES”. ‘IF DEPT DID. NOT: LOCATE. = -. CHILDREN. -PRIOR DEPARTURE. FROM. MADRID. NAGEL SENT. CONSUL. os - . POSTCARD “WITH MESSAGE IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND - WRITING, WHICH: TRANSLATED ‘MEANS “WITHOUT EYES WE. CANNOT SEE” ,- AND | SALUATION IN. SPANISH MEANING. "GOOD LUCK". De DEVELOPMENTS - OF ‘INTEREST IN LAST. MADRID INTERVIEW: Cl) 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. (35): NAGELE HAD ANOTHER STORY WHICH. yy BE OF INTEREST TO NEWS MEDIA: HE ALLEGED. THAT IN-.1957,: . - “IN TIME ‘OF PEACE" » -HE HAD BEEN. COURIER. OF TREASURY-- PLATES 2 00 FROM US TO JAPAN. FOR: ‘COUNTERFEITING NORTH. KOREAN CURRENCY. ees wo Be ‘COPIES, OF. RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE. FOLLow BY. Pouce. Seg a Pate NCAULIFFE |
13-00000 - Department of State. CONFIDENTIAL HEF 755 PAGE O1 STATE: ,989824 17 7 ORIGIN. SCS @4 INFO EUR 88,SCA" Bly VA BLL: 03, CIAE 20, INR. BT, SAE 20, RSC 01, ODE” 02, 1025 R a | | ae “APPROVED BY: SCS - HOBART LUPPI- “SCS -.WRJOCHIMSEN = | DESIRED DISTRIBUTION: - EUR /GER 66667 ts R 172201Z APR 6S” _— FM.SECSTATE WASHDC: .:  ..TO0-USMISSION.BERLIN INFO AMEMBASSY MADRID -AMEMBASSY PARIS. . AMEMBASSY ROME © AMC ONSUL ZURICH eC ON FL D E ir T ‘1 A L STATE 059324 oe ROME FOR VA_ | | ‘REF: BERLIN 668 RICHARD NAGELL | Ne. FEBRUARY 27° “AND. 28, 7969 NAGELL CALLED CONGEN- ZURICH _  {$TATING »HE HAD BEEN: ENTICED RETURN US ‘IN 1968 WITH™ PROMISES’ HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN. WOULD BE LOCATED. ON MARCH-.19 NAGELL ‘APPEARED CONGEN. _BARCELONA REQUESTING INFO RE WIFE AND - CHILDREN, Do 2. NAGELL APPEARED AT EMBASSY MADRID. MARCH 21 WITHOUT Funps. | _REQUESTED HIS SISTER, MRS. GAMBERT, BE ASKED SEND HIM DOLS 7 FROM. HIS BANK ACCOUNT. FOR TRUST > FUND WITH. DEPARTMENT AND: THAT SISTER CASH ‘HIS: MONTHLY: CHECK: -F OR: HUM AND CABLE. THE’ MONEY TO HIM CARE AMEXCO’ MADRID. APRIL’ 3’ VISITED. -EMBASSY. . . ‘AGAIN RE HIS VA CHECK AND REQUESTED | ASSISTANCE ADMISSIQN:: _ ° ‘TORREJON AFBASE HOSPITAL’ FOR QUOTE. NERVOUS CONDITION UARUOTE. ". >. ACCUSED DEPARTMENT -AGAIN- OF BREAKING. ITS PROMISE HELP HEM. 7 LOCATE WIFE: AND: CHILDREN. LAST. CALLED EMBASSY MADRID APRIL “CONFIDENTIAL . | 7 _ a -; CABLE SECRETARIAT Dissem By PERS oo TOTAL COPIES: J E Lu E G RAM .
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13-00000 ; os eo - 96943 vepartment of State : CABLE SECRETARIAT Dissem By | on PER @ TOTAL COPIES: se 1 EL EG R A M 7 . CONFIDENTIAL HCG655 © PAGE, 01” BERLIN 99668 1611302 en “ACTION SCS. 84 INFO EUR 17, SCA Bi,sVA @1,L O3,INR @7,CIAE 86, NSAE ZB yP 4, USTA. 12, DODE 08,PPT 02, /@51 W OES eens ew eena-- ——- G98BBAS OR 161100Z APR 69 : oe FM USMISSION BERLIN TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4194 _ INFO AMEMBASSY MADRID. AMEMBASSY PARIS: _ . AMEMBASSY ROME | -” AMCONSUL ZURICH CONFIDENTIAL BERLIN 0668 ROME FOR vA — SUBJECT: WELFARE: RICHARD ‘CASE NAGELL- REF: © BERLIN 2567 | | ee ‘1, NAGELL HAS RETURNED TO BERLIN. HE CALLED AT MISSION APRIL 19 AND AGAIN APRIL 14. SINCE HE WAS OBVIOUSLY IRRAT- -IONAL 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 HOSPITAL~ tl IZED. | | : ao NAGELL SAID “HE RETURNED TO BERLIN BECAUSE HE HAD "CON-_. _NECTIONS" 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». > STRUEY ROLE OF WASHS = INGTON LAWYER RIGEY NEW ». ETC). a te, eee Se 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 CON- je. - SIDER 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 LEAVING CONFIDENTIAL
13-00000 CONFIDENTIAL 5 = Mee Wallace Clarke a [! a a 7 : ad September 5, 1969. op . ” sy/ers ~ Keith 0. Lynch © oon 020 fee. ; ay Richard Case Ho20) eo Reference is made. to your memorandum ye 25, 1969 ‘concerning your pre ma quest: to locate Mrs. Mitsuko Takahasi (NAGELL, the wife of, Subject. . oT ee Efforts by the sy. Log Angeles: Field. Office to locate Mitsuko. “Takahashi Sha \GELL, aka Mrs. Richard Case NAGELL, aka Mitsuko- ‘TAKAHASHI ,.met with ot oe 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 &.C. NAGELL placed an advertisement in the Bast Village Other, a New. York underground newspaper, which makes obscene reference to both the ‘Central intelligence Agency and SY. aoe Attachment z _ AS stated : ee ~ Central Intelligence agency . United States Secret Service . Federal Bureau of Investigation Mr. Johnson PPT — Tie CONFIDENTIAL opt
13-00000 ee M emorandum ae Director, 0/SY ~ 4 | ° ae : / DATE: September 2, 1969 5° Thru Chief, o/sx/s yl Sn SO a ee FROM + Tot Wercel1, “O/S¥/BERSA ‘suaect: 2 Item in East Windage Other, August 20, 1969 a This past: weekend, r visited a friend who had gust returned from New .- co: York City, bringing back a copy of a New York underground. newspaper, i. 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. ie in the art. of synthesizing hallucinogenics. | . Tn | the ‘personel. colums of this section, ‘the following * was noted, 8 verbatim trenscript of which | is set forth: "Caught In The ‘Act. Notice to the CIA and all SY g8hitheads who participated in Project Purple Shaft: After that’ fiasco in the GIR you worms did your best. to screw, blue and tattoo me. You even tried to have my ass dusted in. Berlin . 6 » you PUPKUPS © Now its my turn to do a little shafting. Cordially, Re Co NAGELL.* ow ‘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 offices a EB es es. G3 A check in SY file’ 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 Ries ““ NAGELL has been of interest to both the Far and the Department _in eet -., Recent years. me oo : ee 7 (Bo Et i “Go contain somewhat of an “dmplied threat. For this reason, the informa . tion is forwarded for your consideration: and for any action which may a be considered necessarye Attachment: — SY file on Richard Case NAGELL _— ae Group 1 “ft Input to US Defector Machin: EB: “Og 28 Seo, ee ee [28sep ete CONFIDENTIAL. ee aa Buy USS. § Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan | a ey aving RE y ” Hh Se meg = 1653 57. winus O/SY/E3 Loser coll | Excluded from Automatic Down=~. BS nay grading. and Declassification ne ecaspm et wei me
13-00000 i te 7 Bs io Loy 84 -S8- 7 | “ACTION SCs @4 : a Ne oe . INFO SCA @1,EUR 08, FBI 1, sy a3, PPT. 02, sso 22, INR: ‘87, sCTAE 20, SAE, 00, = 0 251816Z MAR. 69. | i Ff AMEMBASSY MADRID: : - 10 SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 5385 subs NAGEL, RICHARD C. 7 | o 16 DOB POB UNKNOWN. RICHARD C. NAGELL, PPT J543069, ISSUED. 2) VISITED. CONSULATE ‘GENERAL IN BARCELONA ON MARCH 10,.AND ns VISITED THE EMBASSY ON MARCH 21. DURING CONVERSATIONS. wit SOLE 5S. DRISCOLL CONSUL OFFICER, NAGELL REVEALED, THE: ENROUTE TO BERLIN FROM FRANKFURT. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED 2 ‘IN CONFINEMENT IN EAST GERMANY AND HELD THERE AS A PRISONER eee . WEST. BERLIN, WHERE HE WAS DEBRIEFED AT. THE: U.S.» MISSION BY. © °- | STATE DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SUSPECTED TO > © “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’ + a i 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’- Oe -. .CLAIMED THE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT KEPT ITS PROMISE, ‘AND: DEWANDED a “THAT THE EMBASSY IN MADRID TAKE ACTION TO HELP. LOCATE. + . HIS CHILDREN, WHOM | HE SAID ARE THE ONLY. THINGS THAT® MEAN a Department of State_ PERS : “CONFIDENTIAL” 2 cMeWa3 1 PAGE. @1 MADRID 81109 2521472 os (L@3,/@29 Wo | nnn | nears tane tae ade 103605, C ONF IDEN T T: “A Eo MADRID 1109" 2 ernmer nEensintttnerntt terete pe ESO eee, 9/24/68, ADDRESS 8225 GRAND AVENUE, ELM ‘HURST, Ne Ye 113 75) 7 @ INFORMATION. © 2. IN THE SUMMER OF 1968, NAGELL WAS ARRESTED ON A TRAIN UNTIL OCTOBER 1968. AFTER HE. WAS RELEASED, HE CROSSED INTO’ BE AN EMPLOYEE OF ANOTHER ‘U. S.. GOVERNMENT AGENCY... HE ‘ALLEGED. a a - CONFIDENTIAL
13-00000 he Den, ; ( - | ( FILE, RF, “| PAGE @2 MADRID 81109 2521472 ANYTHING TO-HIMe A. NAGELL THREATENED TO HAVE HIMSELF ARRESTED BY SPANISH * POLICE, OR DEFECTTO EAST GERMANY. IF HE DOESN'T RECEIVE | > ASSISTANCE FROM U.S. SOURCE. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT HE HAS Lert oe AGELL “CLAIMED: ‘to: ‘BE. x “FORMER | ARMY. OFFICER WHO. HELD THE . RANK OF CAPTAIN. HE ALLEGED THAT, HIS ARMY. SERIAL NUMBER* “TS. Hi ” -"§2028346, THAT. HE WAS: DISCHARGED. FROM THE’ ARMY. ON-OCTOBER 29,° —_ - 7.1959, AND THAT. HE IS RECEIVING 180° PERCENT DISABILITY: FRO: (peg andee® “THE: VETERANS ADMINISTRATION... ~ "s oe ese BEEN ARRESTED BY- THE FBI SHORTLY AFTER. PRESIDENT KENNEDY’ Seo. “~~ “ASSASSINATION IN .1963,° AND-THAT :-HE: HAD. ‘BEEN. IMPRISONED s...- ..sUNJUSTLY 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. mo ' WORKED WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD IN AN ASSIGNMENT WITH. A "Us Seve TNTELL IGENCI AGENC oo on aT WAS. A LONG. ‘story, HE sab AND HE DID" NOT WANT TO GIVE ME “ALL THE DETAILS, BUT INSTEAD *WANTED “TO ‘ASSURE ME THAT HE HAD So ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN HELD IN. THE FEDERAL PENITENT TARY “: “FOR: SUCH A LONG PERIOD BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO REVEAL TO. THE: . “FBI ANY INFORMATION. ABOUT..HIS INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES-- -°AND THAT FURTHERMORE. HE WAS VISITED BY CIA- AGENTS WHILE . IN. - .PRISON WHO. CAUTIONED. HIM TO ‘KEEP HIS. MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HIS: - TIES WITH. OSWALD. ly ~... Te REQUEST. COPY” OF ‘OM FROM. ZURICH. TO. DEPARTMENT PERTAINING > = -..°,T0 SUBJECT, AND REQUEST CHECK OF APPROPRIATE SOURCES IN. NAME” ‘.. i OF SUBJECT. AND ADVISE OF RESULTS SOONEST. vo —"  MCAULTFFE “ | NOTE s _LIMDIS CAPTION DELETED" ‘PER MR é HARRIS, S/S- t) 3/25/59 - Department of State a 7 -_ CABLE SECRETARIAT Dissem By : oe PER & : a . “TOTAL COPIES: " : T E E. [= G Re AM “CONFIDENTIAL “VERY, LOMPROMISING" CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WITH "FRIENDS". : LN: SW] TZERLAND WHO. WILL. PORWARD THEM” TO" THE ." APPROPRIATE” 2b 6. NAGELL EXPLAINED, IN-A RATHER ARTICULATE MANNER, THAT. HE Had. BEEN IN THE "INTELLIGENCE. GAME" FOR A-LONG TIME. NAGELL’ CONFIDENTIAL
13- ‘00000 . oe de gh ( RS/R| REP i AN RR _ ai AVGRAGERGAW ING Decentrolized Files. Original to be Filed in. KGs us EO: 2. . ep pe : BACKGROUND USE ONLY COBPLDENTLAL “Wanoune INDICATOR pam Py : rOPYLO=r OCT 3: . &D PT, INFO. s AiR : SUGGES Hire DISTRIBUTION: | TO: ‘Info. aAMes BO Action o ° = POL CCON CONS > 3 g uses Face Action Taken: SUBJECT a =f Usa a hall Ir DEPARTMENT:OF “SARLYE cD Ocr 3] BONN 4 ox PH J sheer | : USBER, Berlin US Citizen Released by GDR * Berlin A~301, October 24, Ge COPY NO.—— LINIT DISTRIBUTION P Sef" / LO _, pimifed Distribution - 1968 S Wa aed, choc’ FILE vesionsiee AKO DATE: October 29, 1968 Psychiatrist! Ss Report. on Richard Cas? Nagell, —— oo A detailed:, statement: prepared by. ‘the. psychiatrist. of the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, dated October 23, 1968, examination of Richard Case Nagell.- has been received on the results of an The full text of the psychiatrist's findings is transmitted in the enclosure. = MORRIS biiclosure ah ‘text of psychiatrist's “findings. a) -Group 4 = Downgraded at Declassified 12 years three-year intervals. after date of origin. Date: —_leorm CONFIDENTIAL inittels; -4dh0- RMDS- 323 . ° : Dealted by: . Dratting Date: a ontents and assi tc Clearances: ¢€ MIN:bDKlezn f ne, BACKGROUND USE ONLY ° LF a epattment Use Only otren Approve ys © + 126h
13-00000 ae . Page ( of 4 7). 7.” - BACKGROUND USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL Goo. LIMIT DISTRIBUTION i: . Background i: My 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 ihe borderline into West Berlin, poe As we initially escorted Mr, Nagell back to US Army Lospital : 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, mumerous ‘physical injuries, and prolonged military hospitalizétion. © Mr. Nagell now claims that he believes it was this head injury which resulted in his “unstable personality and immature or impulsive behaviour." He attributes to this ‘instability his marital difficulties and his decision tc resign his comaission in 1959, something which he now considers 7 -. unwise. At the time of his leaving the service he was not’ te awarded a disability pension, but he says that he was later able to successfully petition the VA for a "t&% disability." He claims that he had never seen a psychiatrist during his _ military ‘career, annette eengcnneppeende regen eon From 1999 to 14962 he says that he worked for the Stave of California as.an investigator for various bureaus, tis Cot marital difficulties: had increaseu and his wife insisted-on Po . separation, keeping with her their two children. | fiagell : Says that one night in 1962 he became intoxicated, and tricd. to break down the door to her apartment. On this basis he — ' says he lost his job and says that for the next. year vhe , “- "just drifted," apparently without motivation to work ,: 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 compieted,. oa oo oe © COAPIDENTIAL 7 eACKGROUND USE ONLY
13- 00000 — Toe : . ; Pagl . oa- qs .” BACKGR ROUND USE ONLY — ag. 2 of 4 | CONFIDENTIAL . LINIT DISTRIBUTION he now says was bred out of his feeling of hopelessness and desperation. le claims that in a confused way he hended. 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. le 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 conten- ‘tion was apparently disputed by other expert witnesses, but . ‘this year, . eee co teeth a on ne ne in ‘“Nagell says he then went to the New York area, where his »' gister Chis closest relative) resides, but he claims an _., additional complication in his life had risen in that he --*had once been an: "acquaintance" of Lee Harvey Oswald, and -. had been implicated ina possible plot to assassinate '. President Kennedy in an article in RAMPARTS magazine which . appeared in January 1968. Mr, Nagell firmly denies that he ~ 2). was way with any such conspirac anc , -..an fact imprisoned at the time of the assassination, On_ ~ the basis of this magazine article Nagell says that. “ Mp, Garrison, the attorne Be Cty he was almost run over by a car without “Tights. “tle _interpreted this as being an attempt at murder by é A. and in some haste Left the countr for a tour of Europe. | oe BACKGROUND use ¢ OnLy | Oe CONFIDENTIAL In September 1963 he waS accused of committing an act which ~ attempted while armed to rob a bank and was easily appre- | ‘in any case. Nagel lL. was: officially acquitted: ‘om April: Woof Zs eneral from New Orleans who is carp ae em et a a ene nn pe
| BACKGROUND USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL ! | 7 _ LIMIT DISTRIBUTION irene - rn June yg. shortly thereafter, he discussed with an ‘Amevican 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 illerally 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 mcnths Nagell. claims that he was interrogated by the Last Germans | _ and repeatedly asked to confess his role as a spy or govern- ment 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 Last German psychiatrist and events were set in motion which culminated. in his: release ‘today,. four and: one-half. months» after:his:. detention began. t Mr. Nagell's: plans for the future center around returning to the United States and beginning an appeal. to the govern- ment to grant him a psychiatric disability pension, as well as for his physical disability, on the basis of his head | co injury. He no longer believes that it is realistic to think i - that the CIA was trying to kill him. : Mental Status Exam Hr. Nagell is a tall, 38 year old male who shows the evidence io: . |. Of a prior head injury in the form of extensive scars on ae _ ‘the left side of his face, facial asymmetry due to. GOVENT cence nes , nerve injury, - reconstructive surgery on his left ear, etc. In addition he shows some healed incisions on his left wrist ee which he claims were superficial lacerations self-inflicted Mos at the | time of his first. imprisonment in 1963, and asain a se ' Few weeks ago in the DDR. He denies that in either instance _che seriously intended to kill himself. He is of superior: os) +s Intelligence and shows: a remarkable memory for dates.and He names. Initially hé was belligerent, angry,.and suspicious poo 2 2. - 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 — CONTIDENTIAL BACKGROUND USS ONLY |
13-00000 a YND UE wine® Page Wf 4 @] Te BACKGRON CONFIDENTIAL LIMIT DISTRIBUTION ws ’ overall 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, Summary ee In summary then we seem to be dealing with a. -_person who has poo had a personality - disorder for a number of years, manifested : “. . by emotional instability, impulsive behaviour, a tencency ~ to be litigious, and a general suspicious or paranoic orientation, It is difficult to know how much of whet 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 Re Babineau ‘CPT, MC Psychiatrist U.S. Army Hospital, Berlin BACKGROUND USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL te ewes ee eee Sineeeeemmmreen eet
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a pare Tao VEDe sy ne 15534 Department ur State Jeneranian Dissent sy. ? Pere. 72. OR . meee ae me 728 6 B/ONR, Cay ; TOTAL cories: rot "68 aint or BERLIN a BECETATE WASHDG PRIORITY 3 ICRYENEW. CALLED AT NESSION OCT 2 9 TN SENSE: REFTE], } at , RICER 70. 39 BAST. BERLIN: OFFICE OCT @2.-STANGE NOTIN ACTION DUE sD AN AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT.LAST. WEEK. “SCHEDULED. BY. EAST GERMAN AUTHORITIES. FOR OCT 23; AT 8930, TQ/ TAKE. PLAGE AT SANDKRUGBRUECKE CROSSING: POINT, a!" THE. SARELEASE WILL Be UNCONDITIONAL. AS AN EXPRESSION, OF. GOODWILL CORDING.70 VOGEL. ; TBED NAGELL GONDITJON AS "NOT GOOD AT ALL; FREQUENTLY. QUITE BAD, AGCORDING TO PHYSICIAN WHO WILL. BE: WITH-HIM WHEN®HE. 19 DELIVERED BY AMBULANCE.” VOGEL WILL* DELY NAGELL TQ RICEY NEW. WHO WILL. BE ACCOMPANLED BY MISSION’ OFFICER: AND GHEEF.. PG YGHTATRIST.. US | ARMY. HOSPITAL» BERLIN, : Se WHEN DELIVERY MADE DEPARTMENT WiLL BE! INFORMED’ FLASH TELEGR Att, NO. RPT NQ. PRESS STATEMENT. WILL. Eyres 0 12988. 28x (1) With concurrence af «oro ined). AW IPS/CRAR by Date
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13-00000 Department of State PER 6 i. } TELEGRAM TOTAL COPIES; OASES. 80° MISSION OFFIGERS SHOULD. NOT INDICATE PRIOR of NAGELL RELEASE OR JANES. LATEST. ARRESTo,, GP~3.o RUSK
13-00000 SECRET Chief, Research Branch, SRS 3 MAR 1965 ” John Richard 8L088 — #34490 Gist: SLOS8; a ataff employee cince 1948, bas recently been " pepolygraphed with inconclusive results, having reacted to questions regarding disclosure of classified information, avseciation with 4 com- munist sympathicer, and homosexuality. He has also been involved with cooperation in aa extramarital affair which {éhimteated to a black- mail attempt on ene of the parties. Hie name is perhaps identical with &@ name among 6ix names of Agency employees found on a mentally dis- turbed and digaffected former CIC intelligence officerwho alle with Russisn and Guban Intelligence agents. Detalis of these ‘questionable areas in regard te GLOSS are set forth below.. Recommend intensive and ‘thorough inveatigation of SLOSS including surveillance ef activities. DETAILS: AL Mr. John Richaré 8LOss, born 24 September 1919 tat Cleveland, Ghie, hae been a staff employee of this Agency since 1948.. . Hie parents are American born. He graduated from. Yale University in: 194) und was essigned to ‘Military Intelligence Training < - Ritchie, Maryland, as an instructer, frem January 1943 te July 1945. ‘He attended Columbia University, School of International Affairs and the Ruselan Institute from 1946 to 1948, wecelying an M. A Degree in inter= - national Affeize. “ 2. SLOSS is currently a special fatelligence Duty Officer tn OGL, GS-14, During hie assigament in Germany 1953-1955 and on a TDY to Germany. in 19868, he had been authorized te deal with forsiga (atelli- gence elements in the GCI overseas Maison program, SLOSS was poly~. graphed in 1950 and 1953 with favorable results; in 1955 with unfavorable resulte; and twice in 1964 with inconclusive reeulte regarding giving CIA documents or classified information te unauthorized. persons, contact _ with a possible communist sympathicer, and engaging in homosexual acti- vities since working for CIA.. He wae granted a "Q" Clearance in October 1963, . ‘His Top Secret Clearance was certified to the White House on 23. domngradi ng and ax lblaesi sifleation 4 yee SRERETT pats Soa
13-00000 SRE Oe Febreary 1968 in connection with a visit to a a Presidential relocation site, re “%, The name of Jeha sLoss mii be identical with the name J. as > §LOSS found on the person of Richard Gait NA\ en" on- nection with a bank robbery in EL Paso, Texas, on 20 Septambe e 194 ce 2! e reference to Fair Play for ¢ Guba Gorme a tes, ‘the addresses af. Foreign Exbasaies, the fames of purported CIA ce agents: and other information. Although NAGELL ke: bern sbtsogmee d ment~ | swiby the: name J. SLOSS as well sa five other names of CIA vorsonnai”  ghould have been in the possession of Richard Case NAGELL. . The weird. . tery of NAGELL is contained in! a chronelogical Heting of bis activities appended to this memorandum, — Co 4 A teview of the Security file on SLOSS in semnection with the | . ‘Richard Cage NAGELL matter seveaied that SLOSS, 1960+1964, had. provided hi -aparhmetut aga place of aesigna . adulterous relationship o a i csas  fatelligence of= a flee, assigned to Ok aud Myre. ‘@ former employes of tha” za ace Agency from 19 Ostober 3959 watt 26 yr 1962, The 7 whe. advised her that he knew what wati s gsing 6 on between her and her hey felend and. a pictures. ‘The unknown caller attempted to black- -. mall Mere, into meeting him, Mrs, | her bashes ¢ whole story anh info rmid aS it is noteworthy te the & $Loss «that SL.05S has been involved in cooperating in han unlawiul a : . getlvity which, aceording to the direct testimeny of one of the parties, | {helieved to be true because the report was against her own interest) -reoulted ina blackmali attempt aaninet ber in May 1964, os ae , 6. Of particular concern should be the results of the latest tere polygraph: examinations, th alidity of which;. -because of medication | - fneluding a tranquilizer. type dru and alcohol ta the | sce? eyetem, was deemed to beineonclusive. | | 7. ‘During the 1955 polygraph. eanmithntii abject admitted - te homosexual desires but stated that these had + used a personal . preblem and had never resulted in his. participation - homosexual act, . During the 24 April 1964 examination, the Subject showed consistent ro- 7 setions:t to the: homeanexual: question which indicated '¢ eception. During
. curther specific questioning on 22 May 1964 covering : the various homesexual areas however, there were no strong reactions to indicate that Subject might . be practicing deception on the specific question regarding engaging in home¢- sexual activities since working. for GIA. oo 38 in connection with the phone of questions concerning contact with any possible communist eympathizer, the Subject reflected overall .. @isterbance indicating that all the questions obviously bothered himand - that deception wae being practiced within that phase. The polygraph opera-. tor acted that there were outatending reactions to the following ‘two questions: | 26 bk. “Other than your comments about FISHER, during your undergraduate. period at Yale did you have any” contact with aay Communist Or Communist sympathizer? : Answer: Ne, ® 20¢ During your CIA employment, have you had: any y contact . _ with any Communist or Communist armepathicer? oe Ge BB he particularly noteworthy that during his examination on 22 May 1964 when asked nine questions as to whether be had been acquaint~ ed with cortain individuals, Subject only reacted whan he answered."no" te heving been acquainted with Jerry SEVERN and ya WOLSTON, These — cmames had béen submitted to Subject hased upan pare. conjecture that there: posalbly might have bean some connection with these individuals at Gamp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Genter, Since the. fact. that both --- oe Jerry SEVERN and Iya WOLSTON have Sooperated with Soviet intelligence ghould have been unknown to SL.058 aind he declared he is mot acquainted ‘with ther, there should have been no season for him to.rea¢t to these names. - The. polygraph operator states that SLOSS was not pressed further regarding PISHER (whom he had characterized as “left of center") or his own possible = a knowledge of SEVERN or WOLSTON @ince it was obvious that SLOSS was. - begining to feel harassed on this matter and stated thas) he did not enjoy - .. being asked these questions. «10, Dering SLoss' interview on 4 April 1964 SLOSS reflected consistent resctinas on the questions: / "Sines working for ‘CIA.have you given GIA documents or Claselfied information to unauthorized persons 7" O0000-EL
13-00000 -valged information to anyone whe wae unauthorised to receive it er whe - on 22 May 1964 to resolve any possible compromise to communist or foreign _ noted bis flushed face,. frequent silly grins and lethargic movement! gesting that. the ‘Subject may bave been slightly intoxicated... The ‘operator - or alcohol pries te the interview but recalled an incident wherein the Sub- he waé.a diabetic and had make: | gation for diabetes in November 1963.. He explaftied-thathe. took three or four. diuretic pile. He: specifically denied that he bad taken any ether rug, _ he seflected reaction indicative of deception and then admitted that for’ "Have. you ever. , dettberately given, classified information « on documents to any unauthoriged ‘person? - . In explanation, Subject. aaid he wae bothered by thie idee, bat that he had no:knowledge of any particular aiguation wherein-he had di- would have used it against the Agency's interest. On the test administered intelligence organizations, it-was determined that there were no Significant - reactions te relevant questions fu thie area, re it should be. eapecially noted that the. polygraph operator during” the 4 April 1964 interview, detected an odd amell on Subjest's breath and - e eug- this interview whether the Subject had taken any drug. ject when arrested for drunken driving in 1963 bad produced evidence that kon medication prior to the incident... ‘Gonpe« quently, dufing the second interview ‘on 22 May 1964, Subject was questioned narcotic or alcohol. When this question was asked during interrogation, breakfast he had taken one glase of vodka with seme orange juice. He | atated that he drank vodka for breakfaat somatimes. whenever he wae tense. or nervous, over anything. a2. “The polygraph operator 4 in nie report concluded that the . “validity of fina] test charts le held in question and there is no _ etrong evidence that the specific areas of concern have been eonclusively resolved at this time. it fe recommended that a_ : further atudy be conducted on this cage and that information - pesulting from such a study be sent to IRD for possible reinter« view of the Subject and pelygraph weaokation". | >? SLOSS. has indicated reactions. indicative of deception during the polygraph examinations. In one specific question where these re- actions 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
13-00000 0 BRE ea - GONCLUSION: | | 1. “SLOSS has lied in his. most recent polygraph examination and has evidenced indications of deception in areas concerning divulging — classified information te snauthorised weal inclinations. asvociation with a ands r ‘Seperate because the recent teste are + inconclusive. - _ Be SLOSS has been involved in an immoral and illegal extra- o oe . marital activity between a Staff employee and a former Stait employee where ene of the parties wae wubjected to a blackmail atte :  ..& The name a. SLOSS (possibly identical to Subject) appeared | _ ena Hat of CIA. employees found on the person of a welf-designated "die~ — . affected American" agrested by the FBI for bank robbery in September 1963, Thies individual (mentally disturbed) with previous intelligence ex- perience has declared that he was approached by Soviet intelligence while a and/or after he was da Mexico City in September 1962. he. ‘ is suggested that the extent at the adverse. security implica tions concerning SLOSS ie such, that if $1085 is ever found to be a security risk, the failure at this time to purede an aggressive investigation of all. his contacts and activities te resolve all.areas of doubt could possibly lead . te & donclusion that we have been vermiens in our duties. The  mader signed recommends the following action: &.. ‘That physical and technical surveillance of at least two resus weeks duration be made of SLOSS to determine his contacts and activities after working hours. b. That current seven way National Agency ¢ Checks be made on a BLOGE.. | rh ‘Richard : B, FISHER, a friend of SLOSS', “characterized by him as ‘having been involved in radical and left of center ideas © while en undergraduate at Yale,be fully identified, his present lo-. cation be ascertained and the degree of his association with. &iOSS be determined by a personal interview with FISHER. d. That Richard Case NAGELL be peréonally interviewed by the undersigned in the hope that by @ sympathetic approach he may . reveal how he came into the Bosseesion ef the name J, SLOSS and other employees of CIA.
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1 300000, @ r ° 4 $y \ et FD-204 (fev. 3-0) Copy to: Report of: Date: Field Office File No.: ; Character: _— - Synopsis: when interviewed on 2/28/6 = met lost aa UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT. OF JUSTICE FEDERAL. BUREAU. OF INVESTIGATION THOMAS J, DOWLING = = Offs,» New York, New York = 6523126 ct a ’ Bureau File No.: ICHARD CASE: NAGELL ESPIONAGE - X Confidential informants familiar. with certain . prases of Cuban and/or Communist activities in the NYC area, when contacted during February, _ 1964, advised ‘that the subjeet'ts unknown to them. Subject's sister, Mrs. ELEANORE GANBERT, hy, advised that subject. ‘last stayed at her An @uring the latter part. — of 1962. She indieated that she knows of no subversive activity on the part of the subjeet, and stated further that she woiuin have nothing to. do with him if. she ever found out he had — - ever been involved: in. such. aotivities.. ‘She... ‘advised subject maintains a metal-type foot. locker at her residence, and has. maintained at. : at- her home for a number of yeaxs. She hoted ‘that she does not: know the contents of this. foot locker nor. is she even aware: of Whether. at. is pened or ' locked. ScD te eb 4a TR, gS RUBE das pele aay 4 Gaede ta eS Ake dd LARA DUR to bot A ite Ofc esse cei ie Miedo ol eer bead ob ick bx idl kab ie Bs aie ty od asf Sede MAL Seine: fee ob nd Bok. db bes,
13-00000 — oom “Cont fidential. ‘dnrormants familiar. with certain ities. in the NYC chases -of Cuban and/or Communist activ oo 1964, advised that area; ‘when contacted ‘during February,” | the. subject 18. unknown bo. them. ae i RMN AS oy ev cteasotltis ee Act it fice Ur RH (ADM
13-00000 "|, FD'302 (Rev. 1-25-80) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGA™ JN t a February 28, 1964, and Benjamin PF. Gro ne “letter Anmeciavely,"’ ‘but. ‘has: not as yet. ‘hee Date located at $2025 @ her as Special Agents of ‘the Federal Bureau of. Bivestigation. - “She was told that the Special Agents wished to talk to her. about her brother, Richard Case Nagell; that she would not have to. speak with the interviewing agents). that: ete she might.say could be used in courts. and that sh --@ Fight to counsel before making. any statement. rs Gambert: advised that she had no objection to. being. interviewed and that she would eooperate an. any way: ‘possible,  ghe- advised that her brother, Richard. case Nagell,- last resided with her in her home for a5 or 6° ae week period which ended just prior to Christmas, 1962. _ While in New York, he was for the most partunnployed. and~ a 7 Seeking a position, She noted that he did obtain a _- position as a store. detective but that this lasted. for only several days when he decided that. this was not the ‘ype ‘of investigative. work: he wanted to do. Bo “When questioned: as to whether or not: she ‘knew of. any activity on the part of her brother which eould — ' | have been of a subversive nature, she stated that she . knew of no such activity;. that she did not believe her - brother. capable of taking part in such activity; and that if she ever became aware that he was engaging a at any time in such. activity she would have nothing to. do. ‘with him.. At this. point she noted that approximately _ @ Bonth. prior to the interview she had received ‘Several lettersthat were returned to her from El Paso, Texas, — which she had written to her brother, indicating | that: he was: no longer‘at the: El Paso County Jail. She . | Subsequently: received.a letter fram her brother. indioating that he: was at. the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, eld, Wissouri.. She noted: that: ‘she @nswered this . ard. from. her _ BT a quel: Seles are 2 se ate SLIDING te Tb REE B. teatok halt Rd et dca eset nt’ oa f. i Cr MMM GUaUbdan lia LEE ach LO Be a dn aete dad en tutta ea hit
13-00000. . ... 2 NY 55-23126 . brother. She. stated that she expected to hear from her brother. ‘immediately after he received her letter and the fact that she has not heard has made her uneasy. she noted that she. offered, if permitted, to visit him, and that she. hoped to ascertain as a result of this visit, the reason he attempted to rob a bank in El Paso, Texas, on September 20, 1963. She advised that she has had no reason to believe that her brother is not responsible for his actions; and she noted that in one letter he wrote. to her that: ‘the ‘bank robbery attempt was a pre-meditated action on nis. part. She advised that. her brother has ‘been ina depressed state of mind ever since he had been accused of taking a bribe and fired from his position with the California State Liquor Authority. She noted that she believed, as her brother claims, that this purported bribe was. set up. to remove her brother: from his ' position with. the. California State Liquor Authority ‘because of his honesty and failure to handle investigations ae Ainsturoted by. superiors. “When: ‘questioned as to. whether or not her brother, Richard: Case. Nagell, maintains any type of property at her residence, she-advised that he does maintain a military — type. metal. foot locker, and that he has maintained it at. -. her- residence: since his. discharge from the United ~ States Army. She noted that as this foab locker is | her: brother zie pr roper ty: she is not‘aware of its contents, Boe La ciate OE eR Ne EY @ : btcta sd: a ey tat th ue fa sbvoa een an Re gn
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13-00000 re ee 63° he’ had. “taken. former wite: to court Ba same. ‘date. for ). comp Ly’ with’ ‘court. order: giving ‘subject. visitation with: children. © Subject" S condition: diagnosed | by. VA,. : es, on: 6/4/63 as. “depression, tearful, bah radee bald ody utter words ‘Got 10, see my: kids ; aa _Subjer > times: ‘enroute: to” het as: he! did’ ‘on. 9/20/63) ‘Subject order Medical. ‘Center. for: Federal, Prisoners; - Springfield on” "1/24/64, by. USDC; EL Paso, ‘for-30-day., peri syehiatric, examination Alleged _€ Connection. with.
13-00000 TABLE OF CONTENTS . Chro C Logical Record EF ‘Subject Ss. ‘Background Atteupioa | Bank. Robbery and Aftermath.
13-00000 e: Apri 8, “1960, etisio of “phe ew ‘York Times" at ley for. Cuba ‘Committees (PCC). “This advertisement unced the. formation of the. FPCC- in: New ‘York: ‘City : leclared the. FPCC: intended to promulgate: "the: ugh. about 5 revolutionary Cuba" to neutralize’ the tes Senate Tnternal ‘Security Subcommittee ‘on - anua ry < 10, 1961, Dr. (CHARLES: AS SANTOS -BUCH, identified May: 16, “4963; a: source: advised that. during the’ first two years” ‘of. the’ FPCC* S existence there. was. ae struggle © between | Comminist Party: (CP). and. Socialist. Workers - Party “CSWP) elements - to. exert their power within the. FPRCC. ‘and: ‘thereby: influence “FPCCG: policy. “However, garding’ sthe® “past. year: this. source: observed : there’ has. been aooy . ‘successful effort by. -FPCC: leadership. to. minimize ‘the. ae! role. of: these and other. organizations in the FPCC ‘sO a that. today their influence is. negligible.
13-00000 | “1963, a second | ‘source. advised: that. the tional Weadquarters: of. the FPCC is located in. Room. 329 799: Broadway,’ New: York’ City. According” to. ‘this’. source position: of National. Office Director’ was created | in. “th fall. of 1962" cand was ‘filled: “by: VINCENT: TED". LEE, now formulates: FPCC policy... This ¢ source observed - LEE has. followed a course of. ‘entertaining: and. accepting. “cooperation of: ‘many. ‘other » organizations including: e. CP’ and the _SWP, when: he, has) felt it. would. be to his. ona? benefit aswell as “the ¥PCC's.. However , LEE ndicated. to” ‘this. source . he has 10 “intention: of” rmitting FPCC policy. to-be! determined, by ‘any other organization.” [LEE ‘feels. ‘the: FPCC. should advocate. resump f diplomatic: ‘relations between’ Cuba. and - the” tod States ‘and ‘support. the . vight - Of © Cubans | LO» & their. révolution. without. interference. from her nations, ‘byt. ‘not: “support the Cuban revolution, e) "P. ‘and the SH have: been designated pursuant, to. Kecutive: Order. 10450. a vote SRONOLOGICA, RECORD OF OF SUBS seer S 5 BACKGROUND ok review on October 475 1963, of ‘the: Military _ ecords, ‘on file at: the: Military ‘Personnel Records. Louis; - Missouri’, indicated > that: RICHARD CASE | serial ‘Number, 12 pee) 891, enlisted in tne. United: rmy- on. August: 5, 1948. Ba _ ee 1954. to. Apes 8, 1955 a Tr September. 30, 1963, EP Pel furnished the following ion. Fegarding. RICHARD: CASE NAGELL: “the subject” underwent ‘treatment, at” the Walter Reed" wow Hospital, Washington, De (C2 as” a result of. an ‘airplane erash Bons November: 28, ‘1954,-inm which the’ ‘subject, ‘was involved. “the: subject. was the: sole survivor. of, ‘this crash. The - “subject
13-00000 Fe Base, Hospital in. \ Washington, as scnieind to Rolling 1 Ain E eam subject was. ; suspicious ‘of. a “When a subject was examined on April, RB, 5, tne opiate treatment . He said. he. was “unable to ‘evaluate - he. ‘subject! Ss. aotivities' subsequent - ‘to: 1955 - in: “view, of the act. that no: contacts had ‘heen’ made with. the | Subject since, oe be. ‘April, “j986,, Captain ‘CHARLES STANLEY , Administrative . Detail, ‘Les = Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles, a faliforaia, advised that one: RICHARD, Ce MAGELL 1} had questioned” 4 ‘ i
13-00000 officers: at! & dapanege: restaurant whieh: ‘they’ wer Ln. regard. 10° well ‘known, Oriental Rambler Boe “When LOTS: tefused to: answer BAGEL" S. ques tions NAGELL: peeeeae A review | on: “October: AT. 1962, of the military. ra “OD ‘tile at the Military Personnel Records ; Louis, Wissouri, indicated that. RICHARD. CASE... by serial number 02.028: 346,,: was, -honorabl y discharged ted: States: Army as as Captain at, Fort. Dass New CEU: was “appotiiead” and "commissioned | a. Second oe n August Ze 19s), under serial: “number 02, ‘ona. 346, hha Service| cecbidb/ inatéatea” that: NAGELL ‘served. ; Nations. Summer-Pall. Campaign: in Korea, the “Second Korean Winter ¢ Campaign’ in Korea, ‘the. Korean Summer-. ee Campaign in. 1952 the- ‘Third Korean Winter. ‘Campaign. An. @ United: Staton ‘Stpmer-Fall Campaign — in 1953. othe: Xational- néfense. ‘Service Medal, the United, Nations. ‘Service “S. Medal, ‘the Bronze Star- ‘Medal, the. Purple Heart, with two, Oak -Leat Clusters). the “Expert Infantry. Badge, the. Parachute | “Glider, Badge ,. the Combat’ Iofantryman's hadge, and: the Republic of Korea Presidential Unit “Citation: HL. s ‘character’ ‘and efficiency ‘ratings: ranged from- Lo iinknown to. Superior, and® there is. no- record of courts-martial © 7 or absence. ‘without. official leave. “a 4
13-00000 ed. Special that. ne. began’: on September. 23, 1963, EP. T- 2. made: ‘available the. : f the: United: States. Veterans Administration Hospital California; which were ‘found to ‘contain the. 0. avon that. the’ subject was” ‘Admitted . “toe the hospital. be ‘made available only: The | identity” ification, Record of RICHARD CASE “dated September 21, 1963, : On’ December’ 15, “Y962, gents’ ‘of | ‘the -FBIin, Jacksonville, ‘Florida, ‘that in June,. 962, , -he- was. accused. of ‘taking a $20,000. bribe: by the: ‘State, ‘Beverage. Department, Los” Angeles, California, and: was ‘released. ‘from his” employment. on June '8, 1962, for refusing. the. subject “advised ‘Specia sto” answer: questions ::. The Subject said he’ talked to the FBI n. ‘Los. Angeles’ regarding the possibility of. his dismissal. being: a. violation, of ‘his: civil Tights,
13-00000 of Septenber 23, 3063, ap 1 1-2 mada available the oO daly 90) 007 the subject advised | Special “Agents NAGEIA. stated: that. on May: 30, 1962, he. ‘and. his. i sg tic: argument | and,. a result. of | this ;: -the. police -for being drunk. 2 NAGELL. is night" s treatment ‘and made, some. general complaints “NAGELL stated. “Aftairs ‘he. would contact ‘them: ‘at. a ‘later date: to ‘furnish: Ahem _MOre detailed Anfotmation. |! © and - ‘advised - them of what ‘had happened. As” a result of wail 0 ol this, NAGELL stated he.was placed on suspension on-June 8,-* 2 1962, on“charges of ‘creating a. disturbance for heing drunk: