[RESTRICTED]
Originator: USA
From: Jerold Allen
To: Melville B. Coburn
Document date: 09/24/1969
Document type: Paper

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Released under the John F. Kennedy

assassination Hecords Lollection Aci

ot 1992 |44 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NW 64954 Date: 11-14-2022.

Date: 07/07/98

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : INSCOM/CSF

RECORD NUMBER: 194-10001-10227

RECORDS SERIES : DOD AFFILIATED PERSONNEL AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS

AGENCY FILE NUMBER : PAGES 138-139

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

ORIGINATOR : HQ 1ST U.S. ARMY FORT MEADE, MD

FROM

JEROLD ALLEN

TO : MELVILLE B. COBURI

TITLE : [-RESTRICTED 1

DATE : 09/24/69

PAGES : 2

SUBJECTS : LIC WILLIAM J. HERLIHY

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION NECESSARY TO THE DEFENSE OF LTC

HERLIHY.

ARMY MEMORANDUM

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL

RESTRICTIONS : 1B, 3

CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED WITH DELETIONS

DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 03/14/95

OPENING CRITERIA : COMPLETION OF REVIEW BY JAG FOR RELEASABILITY

DETERMINATION

COMMENTS : COORDINATION WITH THE JAG HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND

DETERMINED TO BE RELEASABLE WITH RESTRICTIONS, PER

MEMO DTD 19 SEPT 95. MEMO IS THRU CAPTAIN JUAN D.

KELLER.

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FOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY

NOT CRORE METE ME EAT ARE GONE DEN DIAL

FORT GEORGE G. MEADE. MARYLAND 20755

AHAJA

SUBJECT: LTC William J. Herlihy, 558-36-6175

24 September 1969

THRU:

Captain Juan D. Keller

Hq First U. S. Army

Office of the Staff Judge Advocate

Fort George G. Meade, Ma 20755

TO:

Major General Melville B. Coburn

Commanding General

1st Region, ARADCOM

Stewart Air Force Base, N. Y. 12550

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1. I have enclosed herewith, copies of correspondence requesting

certain documents and information which are necessary to the defense of

LTC Herlihy.

2. As of this date, I have not received a reply to either of the

enclosed letters. I therefore request that the board take action to

insure that I am provided with the requested information.

3."'It has been brought to my attention that at least two other

individuals were interviewed at SHAPE, Belgium, whose statements, for

some unknown reason, do not appear in the file made available to the

selection board. Those individuals presently known to me are as follows:

Mr. Peter Bagley, Chief of CIA, Belgium

(b) sgt Ortez, Office of the U. S. Military Representative -

Belgium. Both of these individuals were interviewed in approximately

May-June 1968. It is requested that the transcripts of these inter-

views be made

available to me.

4.

The vague nature of the allegations against LIC Herlihy and the fact

that many material witnesses were either not interviewed, or their

statements, destroyed, indicate that this entire investigation was not

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CONFIDENTIAL

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FOR OFFICIAL

ONLY

TIA

AHAJA

SUBJECT: LTC William J. Herlihy, 558-36-6175

24 September 1969

carried out in the objective manner required by regulation. As pointed

out earlier in this letter, I have yet to receive an answer to my

letters requesting additional information on the missing statements

mentioned in the enclosed correspondence.

5. In light of the fact that IIC Herlihy has honorably served his

country for a period in excess of eighteen years, the action of the

selection board in recommending his appearance before a show cause

board based primarily upon the statement of a woman of questionable

repute, is almost inconceivable. LIC Herlihy has in fact requested that

he be tried by General Court-Martial in order that he may be provided

an opportunity to prove his innocence in a judicial proceeding.

6. It is requested that action be taken upon my requests as quickly as

possible and that I be notified in writing as to the disposition

thereof.

2 Incl

as.

wald Allen

EROLD ALLEN

CPI

JAGC

Counsel for Respondent

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