404-10104-40417 ar sp beatens iS ( av. RETURN TO CA 9 may 1969 9 2enground Ve On) Co Net Reprecuep SUBJECT: WOOD, Williem Clarence, Jr. aka BOXLEY, William In December 1944 Wilitam Clerence WOOD, Jr. was security approved ' for OSS employment to be used overseas in a writing/publishing assignment» ' However, he was assigned to conbat infantry duties in the Southwest - Pacific Area end was not used by 08S. Of interest in his file at thig time are memoranda recording a visit he mode to the Honolulu Office of 05S in February 1945 in which he told the office how he had been. '. peeruited iy 035 while attending infentry school at Fort Benning in October 194k; that his services were to be used in originating end conducting radio programs in the CBI theaters; that when he did not hear from 08S, he made cartain inquiries ond found that his record had. been 4 carefully investigated by Dunn and Bradstreet; that he then made a long ’! @istence call to 08S Personnel Procurement Office. .He was told that temporarily the OSS was not in a position to avail themselves of his services but he was to keep in touch. The interviewing officer in Honolulu forwarded a report of tha visit to the Security Officer in OSS Headquarters with a comment to note the Dunn and Bradstreet leak and . that Gubject certainly knew more about the inside of O95 then any potential recruit he ever saw and Subject had never been in Washington. 7 o@ On 13 December 1950 Subject was granted a Covert Security Clearance for use eg @ Staff Agent with Project TPPOCus. He wae assimmed to the as Chief Instructor of Clandestine Operations. He the Oo" "Feported for duty 8 Jonuary 1951 end arrived overseas 12 March 1951. In May 1951 his capendents were issved travel clearances to join him at ubject suffered a nervous breakdown in March 1952 and was returned to Headquarters, Washington for medical observation. : Examination by the Medical Office in April 1952 concluded thet Subject's "breakdown was caused by family trouble and overindulgence in alcohol. ‘The Medical Office recommended that he should not attempt any extreme covert work but should only accept either light semi-covert or overt duties with |. ose probationary period of one year, these duties to be performed within - the continental limits of the United States, Subject was assigned to OTR as en instructor in the Operations Course in May 1952 end recommended - '. for conversion to staff status after a four-month probationary pariod. This trensfer was security approved in October 1952 and he received hia - spposniment @8.4 GS-11 Training Instructor with OTR (Operations Training In December 1952 he was found by an Agency guard lying on a sidewalk near Temporary Eye Building teeding from the mouth, There was no evidence of foul. play and he was taken to Emergency Hospital at his om request. * wT eV €ucluded irom guitar — pangraling an6 se ps ibe an be a Rone . ne . + t . 8 RT”. ; declassil
14-00000 . en LY j bo / du January 19$3 when he failed to report for duty, representativadg . from the Medical Office and Security went to his residence at the lafayette — : requested to report for duty the next day; however, a house doctor at the Lafayette Hotel had him removed to Gallinger Hospital for intoxication the next day after a maid found him in @ state which she thought was ‘dliness. He was released to the 5th Precinct Police ang charged with _ drunkenness, A Becurity Officer obtained his release, Subject resigned 27 January 1953 after en interview by a Security representative on 19 January 1953 at which time his resignation waa requested. ‘ Oa 11 July 1953 subject called the Security Office collect from Dallas, Texas stating he was to hava a brain operation on 13 July 1953 \. SboBaylor Hospital in Dalles, Texas and he wanted to know if an Agency representative could be there. Instructions were Given to the 0s Chicago re Field Office by Headquarters Security to have a representative contact “. the head of Baylor Hospital at Dallas, Texas and advise him that Subject head hed access to highly classified information in Which the Government had an interest; he had @ history of becoming talkative under enetheasia and that personnel in the operating room during the course of the operation ' should be cautioned not to disclose any information divulged by Bub ject While under anesthesia. Mr. David HITe, -A istrator of Baylor University Hospital, agreed to cooperate, Subject was put under sodium pentothol, & spinal tap and X-rays were made but no brain operation Was required. A confidential informant advised that Subject made the following remarks in his hospital room after returning from the Operating room He “had served overseas with the CIA and had seen many people killed. The CIA as @rée @ bunch of dirty cut-throats énd I wouldn't be a bit surprised ig they sent one of their men to cut mine. ‘hey think they are smart but One of these days in the near future I will show then Who 1s the smartest, They have about 100 GS-14's walking around with their headg shaped like = ChE5e oes I have been a failure but after I get well 1 am going to go. back to School and get ny degree and fight the CIA with everything that. I can. J! a, An FBI report of an Internal Security character dated 30 April 1957 . from Dallas, Texas reported that Sub Ject telephoned long distance from Pe) : Midland, Texas to @ Chinese Intelligence officer in Formosa claiming to hava been formerly employed by CIA. Subject offered to "help you with . things Z know’, Then Subject Called a person in Lubbock, Texag believed ta be his wife. He told her he haa talked with the Chief of Intelligence for Chiang KAI-CHEK in Formosa and that she and the baby will receive 00 = $1,000 per month "1f this thing Gees through". Subdect wag identified dn the report as formerly employed by various hewspapers; @ world traveler and formerly employed by CIA. . Domestic Contact Service requested Clearance to use Subject in February 1957 reporting that he had not hed a drink in nine years. On * tray |
14-00000 3 March 1967 information fran the FBI report and information that Sub ject /: was drinking heavily again was forwarded to DCS. for their evaluation in determining the extent and level of their use of Subject. Attached memo! from DCG dated 26 April 1968 reports that after receipt of this adverse - Information Subject was dropped by DCS as a potential source. Bio data: dated 9 January 1967 reveals that Subject, born 17 August 1920 at Shreveport, Louleiana, resided at Tak International, Apt. FR 9, Houston, Texas. At that time he was employed as Executive Vice President, a Houston Tribune Publishing Compsny, Houston, Texas. ~ In 1954 he was . employed by Charles B. ROTH and associates. In 1950 he worked for the DENVER POST. His father, William Clarence WOOD, Sr., is @ banker at "3. Lubbock, Texas SHubbock National Benk) end is well-to«do, (Paur ROTHERMEL} Security Officer for Hunt O11 Company, who was the ' persén approached by Subject recently for information an CIA operations for Jin GARRISON, and who reported the visit to the Houston DCS Office, ia a former FBI agent who was considered as a prospective recruit ag  @ Confidential Correspondent in March 1959, ot OS indices were negative on Clymer WRIGHT and Harold Ge PYLE mentioned ",. dn attached memorandum from Houston DCS office dtd 26 April 1968. See atteched summary'on William BOXLEY. - é °