MEMO:MR. GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DCI
To: WALLER. INSPECTOR GENERAL
Document date: 09/22/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

: 104-10322-10253

RECORD SERIES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

CIA-EXEC REG FILES

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 53217 Date:

06-22-2017

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR

:

CIA

FROM

WALLER. INSPECTOR GENERAL

• TO

DCI

TITLE

MEMO: MR. GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT

DATE

09/22/1976

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SUBJECTS : DEMOHRENSCHILDT

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Executive Registry

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22.050 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence

FROM

:. John H. Waller

Inspector General

SUBJECT

: Mr. George de Mohrenschildt

REFERENCE : Mr. de Mohrenschildt's letter to you,

dated 5 September 1976

Action Required:

None. This memorandum is for your information. We have also

attached 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-Kennedy assassination period

when he testified before the Warren Commission on his acquaintance

with Mr. and Mirs. 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

it has no traces on Mr. de Mohrenschildt beyond that date; our files

contain all of its previous material on him.

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5.

Mr. Helms' 3 june 1964 memorandum for the Warren Commission on

the de Mohrenschildts is attached at C. it describes the Agency's

interest in obtaining reports from Mr. de Mohrenschildt in 1957 as a

result of his sojourn in Yugoslavia that year. Contact Division (now

Domestic Coliection Division - DCD) had its resident agent in Dallas,

Mir. J. Walton Moore,

contact Mr. de Mohrenschildt at that time.

The

history of Mr. Moore's relationship with Mr. de Mohrenschildt from 1957

0.1961 is also attached at C. As a routine matter, Mr. Moore requester

traces on Mir. de Mohrenschildt.

The trace results (attached at D con-

tained sufficient derogatory information to preclude further extensive

contact with the de Mohrenschildts. (An OS summary on Mir. de Mohrenschildt

information

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-

uncoverent at the tine

vestigations.) This included opening and photographing the contents of

some letters by the CIA Station 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 E.

8.

The most recent information we have on Mr. de Mohrenschildt comes

from Mr. J. Walton Moore who was contacted in May and July 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 well

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SAGRET

and poorly connected, and some of his associations in the past nave

raised serous questions. Certainly his relationship with the

Oswalds has caused him considerable trouble and may have caused this

Agency and the FBI to spend more time and energy on him in the past

than was necessary.

Both the FBI and this Agency, however, had dropped their

interests in Mr. de Mohrenschildt's activities by the mid-to-late

1960's. We speculate that any attention he is now receiving could

either be from local authorities in Dallas or from media representa-

tives on the trail of a warmed over story concerning the assassination

of President Kennedy. We offer no proof of this conjecture beyond

Mr. Moore's reports attached at F.

What we can say is that we have

found no indication that either CIA or the FBI has taken any active

interest in Mr. de Mohrenschildt in recent years.

(signed)

John H. Waller

John H. Waller

Attachments:

A thru F a/s

Distribution:

Original - DCI w/atts.

1 - ER w/o atts. B thru FU

1 - IG Subject w/atts (except B)

1 - IG Chrono w/o atts.

1 - Mr. Brody's Chrono w/o atts.

OIG/A.E. Brody:aal

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