Hoa 10102-10181 jeep? YEN re Sn - " APPROVED FER Bri racr 1998 wee eee Cis Fb dasa SAIGAL AtVEW PROGRAM Moe eee 8 Soy G v REMARKS? T=, berwieelmen lal fd The attached suggested draft to Mr. De Mohrenschildt was written without knowledge.gf the flavor of your personal Doe relationsh3p with him. The tone may not be appropriate, but the message boils | dawn to the’ fact that neither CIA nor the FBI appear to have been interested in Mey De Mghrenschildt for a number of years. - | me This draft was coordinated with OGC on 22 Sep. <3 Jonn Waller : ’ ree eat _ ar = >
7490000. APPROVED FoR RELEASE § 9 Ca HisToRiCAL REVIEY PROCRA MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence FROM : John H. Waller Inspector General SUBJECT : Mr. George de Mohrenschildt REFERENCE : Mr. de Mohrenschildt's Jetter to you, dated 5 September 1976 Action Required: 1. None. This memorandum is for your information. We have also attacied at A a suggested draft reply to Mr. de Mohrenschildt's letter. Action Taken: 2. We have reviewed DDO and IG files on Mr. de Mohrenschildt. In addition, at our request, the CI Staff has run Agency traces on him and has been in touch with the FBI as well. Findings: 3. There is voluminous material on Mr. de Mohrenschildt in CIA files, most of it dating from the post~Kennédy assassination period | when he testified before the Warren Commission on his acquaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald. (A copy of the de Mohrenschildts’ testimony is attached at B.) 4. The bulk of the material in our files consists of FBI reports, the most recent of which is dated 1967. The FBI has informed CIA that jt has no traces on Mr. de Mohrenschildt beyond that date; our files - contain all of its previous material on him. E2, IMPOET SG RET CL BY 055636
SECRET 5. Mr. Helms' 3 June 1964 memorandum for the liarren Commission on the de Mohrenschiidts is attached at C. It describes the Agency's —— interest in obtaining reports from Mr. de lMohrenschildt in 1957 as a result of his sojourn in Yugoslavia that year. Contact Division (now Domestic Coliection Division - DCB) had its resident agent in Dallas, Mir. J. Walton Moore, contact Mir. de Mohrenschiidt at that time. The history of Mr. Moore's relationship with Mr. de Kohrenschildt from 1957 to 1961 is also attached at C. As a routine matter, Mr. Moore requested ‘traces on Mr. de Mohrenschiidt. The trace results (attached at D) con- tained sufficient derogatory information to preclude further. extensive contact with the de Mohrenschildts. (An 0S summary on Mr. de Mohrenschildt prepared in response to the current request is also attached at D.) 6. Our files show that a mail cover was placed on letters addressed to Mr. de Mohrenschildt c/o the U.S. Embassy in Haiti from about 1964 to 1966. (This was probably not uncovered at the time of the external in- vestigations.) This included opening and photographing the contents of some Jetters by the “Fat there. The results of this operation were shared with the FBI. 7. Mr. de Mohrenschildt came to the attention of this office during the Rockefeller Commission investigations. We were asked to respond to a memorandum submitted to the Commission by Mr. Paul Hoch entitled "CIA Activities and the Warren Commission Investigation." Mr. Hoch called for an identification of Mr. J. Walton Moore's employment affiliation and asked what Mr. Moore knew about Oswald and what he may have told Mr. de Mohrenschildt about him. Our reply to the Rockefeller Commission is attached at £. 8. The most recent information we have on Mr. de. Mohrenschildt comes from Mr.-d. Walton Moore wno was contacted in May and Juiy 1976 by writers connected with the Reader's Digest, and with the Dial Press and the Dell Publishing Company. Both writers questioned Mr. Moore about Oswald and Mr. de Mohrenschildt. Mr. Moore's reports on these contacts are attached at F. Conciusions: 9. Mr. de Mohrenschildt appears to have lead an adventurous and colorful life as a petroleum engineer and businessman. He is both weil omens | -~ 2. SECRET
Ute te ae sae TE Fe abe at es 5 hr rn abe" gs) ra ECRET nd poorly connected, and some of his associations in tne past have ‘aised serious questions. Certainly his relationship with the swalds has caused him considerable trouble and may nave caused this gency and the FBI to spend more time and energy.on him in the past han was necessary. 10. Both the FBI and this Agency, however, had dropped their nterests in Mr. de Mohrenschildt's activities by the mid-to-late ~ 960's. We speculate that any attention he is now receiving could jther be from local authorities in Dallas or from media representa- ives on the trail of a warmed over story concerning the assassination ¥ President Kennedy. We offer no proof of this conjecture beyond lr. Moore’s reports attached at F. What we can say is that we have ound no indication that either CIA or the FBI has taken any active nterest in Mr. de Mohrenschildt in recent years. ra ttachments: A thru F a/s SECRET 34