: ake WOOD, Bi11L anee - BILL WOOD, who has been ' #dentified as William Clarence “>, WOOD, dre, recently made ine af quiries about CIA and its * operations on behalf of Jim wi, Dallas, Texas. WOOD went to “ work for GARRISON using the SoS ESS, 7 SUBJECT, ‘wood, Willsem Clerence, Jr. Pa ° ake Bill (See BOXLEY, Willtem) ~ a te Owen R. )(Agency pseudo) . GARRISON at the Hunt 011 Company, | te Gd So aR SSO nee er eee eS Background Use Only — DoNetReprodugs 8 May 1968 re CTA ConNEOTTON: 23 _ Applicant for O53 in 19hhehs, Btaff Agent January 1951. _ Returned to U. OF nervous breakdown, March 1952. Approved for otaff employment with OTR im October - 1952. Asked to resign for continued elcoholism in Jenuary 1953. Of Contact interest an. March A96T but not used. name "Bill BOXLEY". (See . ; - + Summary on William BOXLEY). ae SOURCE: oo DCS Memo ata 26 April 1968 “i. / from Houston Offic¢e (HOU-80+68); ' Bubject: Bill WOOD, Agent for Jim GARRISON Making Inquiries in Dallas. | 98 INDICES RESULTS: Review of Subject's overt and covert security files presents the following chronology of hie employment history with the Agency. In December 1944 Subject was security approved for 055 employment to be -used overseas in a writing/publishing assignment. However, he was assigned to combat infentry duties in the Southwest Pacific Area and was '- got used by OSS. Of interest in his file at this time are memoranda ' recording a visit he made to the Honolulu Office of 093 in February 1945. in which he told the office how he had been recruited by OSS while attending infantry school at Fort Benning in October 194%; that his services were. to be used in originating and conducting radio programs in the CBI theater) that when he did not hear from OSS, he made certain inquiries and found that his record had been very carefully investigated by Dunn and Bradstreet; that he then made a long distance call to 088 -. Personnel Procurement Office. He was told that temporarily the OSS + atten one wT creluded ‘ts i" aelomatic angradtag oad declatsitiecticg
fol SU RII ESS Cote Laan amination Stet 9 Serle . AST De SMR Ie oie OP est oR I Sh at hee gay i ee SE TATE soe eed piecing oan hd ChE SEL AEA See Sa masa pete cae REE peal ne aa oe Op ryote Spee SRE SORTS Oa Co BS Le eae aS . . * . 2 a + 4e ~ ‘ . ° . a - e x “E a 8G : : : ° thee , x . : _ . was not in @ position to avail themselves of his services but he was to “ "keep in touch. Th¢ interviewing officer in Honolulu forwarded a report ~~ co ‘of the visit to the Security Officer at OSS Headquarters with a comment to -— note the Dunn and/Bradstreet leak and that Subject certainly knew more | about the inside of OSS then any potential recruit he ever saw and a (1.1: Subject had never been in Washington. i: OY ~ Qn 13 December 1950 Subject was ranted a Covert Security Clearance = _. (0 for use as a Staff Agent with Project(TPFOCUS. He was assigned to the . a 8 Chief Instructor of Clandestine Operations. He reported : ., for duty & January 1951 and arrived overseas 12 March 1951. In 1951 | " bide dependents were issued travel clearances to join him at th -23 Bubject suffered a nervous breakdown in. March 4952 and was returned ee, dquarters, Washington for medical observation. | Examination by the +, 2+ Medical Office in April 1952 concluded that Subject's breakdown was caused yi tl by family trouble and overindulgence in alcohol. The Medical Office i .« 2 Yecommended that he should not attempt any extreme covert work but should 7, Only accept either light semi-covert or overt duties for a probationary . period of one year, these duties to be performed within the continental . limite of the United States. Subject was assigned to OTR as an inetructor — in the Operations Course in May 1952 and recommended for conversion to ateff status after a four-month probationary period. This transfer was security approved in October 1952 and he received his appointment as a GS-11 Training Instructor with OFR (Operations Training Branch). — , In December 1952 he was found by en Agency guard lying on a sidewalk ‘i near Temporary Eye Building bleeding from the mouth, There was no evidence oe of foul play end he was taken to Emergency Hospital at his ow ‘request. In January 1953 when he failed to report for duty, representatives | from the Medical Office and Security went to his residence at the Lefayette | | _ Hotel where they found Subject under the influence of alcohol. He was _ ‘Kequested to report for duty the next day; however, a house doctor at the Lafayette Hotel had him removed to Callinger Hospital for intoxication the next day after a maid found him in a state which she thought was illness. - -. He was released to the 5th Precinct Police and cherged with drunkenness. A Security Officer obtained his release. Dy Subject resigned 27 January 1953 after en interview by @ Security 2! , representative on 19 Jenuary 1953 at which time his resignation was requested. On 11 July 1953 Subject called the Security Office collect from Dallas, Texas stating he was to have a brain operation on 13 duly 1953 at Baylor Hospital in Dallas, Texas and he wanted to know if an Agency representative ' could be there, Instructions were given to the 06 Chicago Field Office : by the Deputy Director of Security to have a representative contact the head of Baylor Hospital at Dallas, Texas and advise him that Subject had had accesa to highly classified information in which the Government had an interests he had @ hisbry of becoming talkative under anesthesia end that personnel in the operating room during the course of the operation should be cautioned not to disclose eny information divulged by Subject. while under anesthesia. PG eens ee . : ar : | Sab k
74-90000 TNT A ren RRA Gt ee at hn tne ES SISTENT Sonatas Nina attra he Lin WARREN 0 SS APIA Ra KLEINE A Pat RATA BLN An 8 AAD SIGINT, DIET IOLS ART Ee Oy te eg ta As Sicha is ten Sis ore > * ar gE 3, } ca On 12 July 1953 an OS Chicego Field Office Special Agent, — Sinarvieved Mr. David HITT, Administrator of Baylor University _ -. Hospital, Dalles, Texas and requested permission to be with Williem ‘ Clarence WOOD, Jt. during the time he would be under the anesthetic in ' '. | the rating room on 13 July 1953. Mr. KITT was very cooperative and of eo received permission from Subject's doctor, Dr. Albert - , ~ D*ERRICO ‘and Dr. Earl WEIR, Head Anesthetist at Baylor Hospital who SC agreed to cooperate. Two nurses, anesthetists, a Mra. Sally MOORE and a Helen GORMAN were briefed and promised to cooperates Dr. D'ERRICO a, asked Agent if he should introduce him to Subject and the . Agent answered “no” 73 The first words of Subject when he saw his. doctor - dn the operating room were: “tes Washington contacted you, ‘or is there : . - @ CIA agent or an FBI agent here in the hospital to be with me during -." fi.) the operation?" Dr. D'ERRICO answered "no" to this question. Subject |. 3, was put under sodium pentothol so a spinal tap and x-rays could be made. No | so :°-; brada operation was required, Ro Agent] | using the pseudo, Dr. SHAUGHNESSY, was in. Subject's '-' Foom when hé recovered from the effects of the anesthetic. Subject's father was aleo there. (Subject's father, William Clarence WOOD, br. i; 4s @ welleto-do banker; the Lubbock National Bank of Lubbock, Texas. ) a Bubject looked around the room and inquired of his father: “Daddy, has any man besides the medical staff entered this room while you have been here?" The father replied, "No, son, no one has entered the room except the doctor here (referring to Dr. SHAUGHNESSY) and the nurse." After - 4. Bubject was convinced no government agent was there, he stated he "had ‘1. " gerved overseas with the CIA and hed seen many people killed. The CIA —\- @f@ a buneh of dirty cut-throats and I wouldn't be a bit surprised if .. they sent one of their men to cut mine. They think they are smart but one of these days in the near future I will show them who is the | . smartest. They have about 100 GS-14's walking around with their heads | -. shaped like eggs. Daddy, I have been such a failure but after 1 get well . & am going to go back to school and get my degree and fight the CIA with ->'» everything that I can." | Pre Cee nacaadondeidat, , . ; oe ‘ one renal sae .te oe Bubject neve ware of Dr. SHAUGHNESSY's. identity. subject's ‘wit, Goetor teld Agent \that Subject's trouble was probably caused __ : by the excessive use of alechols that if he woulé talk under the influence. + Of an anesthetic, he would most likely talk when he was under the influence >; @f @lcohol. oo ee An FBI report of en Internal Security character dated 30 April 1957 . op fom Dallas, Texas reported that Subject telephoned long distance from Midland, Texas to a Chinese Intelligence officer in Formosa claiming to os have been formerly employed by CIA. Subject offered to “help you with 1" .°. things I know". Subject then called a person in Lubbock, Texas believed to | be his wife. He told her he had talked with the Chief of Intelligence .. for Chiang KAI-CHEK in Formosa and that she and the baby will receive s+ $700 © $1,000 per month "4f this thing goes through". Subject was identified
Se Lee, SER A enna a eae os BY ad ae A aac, “dn the report es formerly employed by various newspapers} a world traveler *!, end formerly employed by CIA. ; Domestic Contact Service requested clearance to use Subject in 4 February 19 reporting that he had not had a drink in nine yeers. On . 3 March 1967’ information from the FBI report and information that Subject was drinking heavily again was forwarded to pcg for their evaluation in Blo data dated 9 January 1967 reveals thet Subject, born 17 August - 1920 at Shreveport, Louisiana » resided at 72h International; Apt. FR > Houston, Texas, At that time he was employed as Executive Vice President, Houston Tribune Publishing Company, Houston, Texas. In 1954 he was o employed by Charles B, ROTH and Sssociates. In 1950 he worked for the — OG .  Peul Rormmrwer) Bunty Officer for Hunt O11 Company vho vas the berson approached by Bubject recently for information on CIA Operations for Jim GARRISON, and who reported the visit to the Houston pag Office, fe @ former FBI gent. In March 1959 when the possibility of opening an 03 Fort Worth Field Office was being considered ,( ROTHERMEL No other information is given. on a list of prospects for recruitment 48 4 Confidential C6 cei (s104 He vag 7 listed a ROTHERMEL ; Paul Mey dr 3 FBI: 1950-55; Res; 9104 Leaside Dr, ») ob QB, 683 Emp: Field Rep. 4° 700 Mercantile Bank Bl ey Dalles 1, Texas. - OS indices were negative on Clymer WRIGHT and Herold G. PYLE mentioned | o - t- Source memorandum. '. See Source memo attached and Summary on William BOXLEY attached, Sree rer nn i