MEMORANDUM RE: GRAPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (16,416-X)
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, TSD/GARB
To: CHIEF, DD/P/SR
Document date: 07/18/1962
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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18 July 1962

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, DD/P/SR

ATTENTION

: SR/b/Mr. A. T. Stewart

SUBJECT

: Graphological Analysis (16, 416-79)

REFERENCE

¿ 'Request Merno No. SR/6-62-164, 11 July 1962,

1. In response to reference request, subject material (handwriting

in as approximately 5"'x 8" red and black notebook, titled "RECORD"y

was submitted to a graphological analysis. Graphological reports for-

warded by TSD are produced by a trained analyst available on a contract

basis. ISD does not, within itsell, possess the capability to evaluato

individual reports and they are transmitted without editing or comment.

2. When the request and notebook were handcarried to ISD/GARB on

11 July it was requested that the matter be given priority with report ready

by C.O.B. 16 July 1962. The dralt report was finished by 1545 hrs. on

13 July 1962. A call was made to customer at that time and another call

was made at 0910, !6 July. 1962, to advise that the draft report was ready

for review of customer. To date no one has asked to see the report.,

3. All physical evidence submitted by the requester and covered

in the course of this analysis, together with the report of the analysis,

is attached.

03

Paul 5. suga

for

JOSEPH F. MARZEN

Chier, TSD/GARB

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Case #16, 416-X

Age: 34

Nationality: American (former)

Sex: Male

Preliminary Survey:

Due to the inadequacy of the submitted material, only summarizing

statements can be made.

Summarizing Statements:

The writer is a very changeable and unstable person who manges

to appear fairly well controlled and equilibrated on the outside. Be

possesses a superior intelligence and professional training of scieztific.

nature, on a racher high level. He has not only absorbed, but actually

assimilated much of the material he has read and studied, and be taows

how to utilize it in a purposeful manner. His intellectual as well as bis

practical tendencies are pronounced and developed, but except in lis

professional work, they du not always supplement each other coastuctively.

Either he may get too involved with the materialistic aspects of a project

without considering its more abstract and theoretical implications, or he

may get interested in some intellectual speculations without cons:cering

their practical feasibility, thus becoming rather unrealistic in his

approach.

In his work, he is well able to distinguish the essential irom

the unessencial, and he is able to think clearly and logically. He cas

exercise analyzing and synthesizing faculties, and he is quite clever

"in putting two and two together" from the things he sees and bears. He

is alert and learns and understands quickly. He possesses considerable

mental agility which enables him to understand intellectually a varity of

problems, situations and people, without having ary personal emoti:cal

relationship to them. He possesses skill in expressing himself versally

as well as in writing. While he is not likely to say more than would se

absolutely necessary, he has a great facility in presenting the same acts

in various fashions, depending on the situations he finds himself 1n.' He

can be very critical and dissecting in his approach. He has mental =de-

pendence and he can work put the blueprint or a plato manipujee meera

on a more complex and abstract level. He has understanding for mechanical

and technical functioning.

While he makes effoits at being economirzi, he

may not always get along with the money and material at his disposa.. He

evidently takes his specialized work seriously, and he is fairly accuzte

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and conscientious in the execution of his tasks. When occasional

inaccuracies occur, he is quite adruit in covering them up. The level

of his performance maj nut always be quite even ard uniform, depend-

ing on his emotional fluctuations and moods. However, he is rather

ambitious and likes to make a good showing. When he is interested in

a job, he can concentrate well on it. He likes unusual and challeng-

ing tasks, but he may get bored and distracted when he has to deal with

routine assignments. He has a fairly good memory for stuided material,

while he inay be somewhat forgetful in everyday life.

In emotional respects, the writer does not have one unified personality,

"but various personalities which are not properly integrated and connected.

His external sophistication covers up a considerable emotional unformed-

ness and immaturity, which is bound to come to the surface in closer per-

sonal cuntact with him. He can act a variety of roles, some of them in

a very convincing manner, in a perfectly detached and rationalized fashion.

He is highly ego-centered, and his feelings and emotiong are strongly

repressed, but they may find expression in rather unadjusted ways. He

is quite dissociated from his environment, and there is hardly any

emctional participation in anything he does. He represses a considerable

number of inferiority and anxiety feelings which he tries to overcompen-

sate by a self-assured and at times even courageous appearance. He is

suffering from a number of inner tensions and cunilcts which he tries to

push aside and suppress. He is uneasy and restless, and he trees to run

away from everything and everybody,

including himself. He is dissatis-

fled and at times even disgruntled, and he tries to find the cause for his

unpleasant moods rather in his environment, instead of within himself.

He is irritable and excitable and quite erratic and unpredictable. In pro-

fessional situations, he seems to be able to check himself, but even there he

may not always be easy to handle. He may get angry suddenly and give up

what he is doing. He can establish only superficial rationalized contacts

with others, and he larks the capacity for establishing emotional personal

interrelationships. He is a person without roots and substance who lacks

instinctive understanding for social demands. He is intelligent enough to

cover up his emotional deficiencies of almost psychopathic character in

general, and many people who are dealing with him may not even suspect

his underlying disturbance. As a result, they may be quite surprised when

they are confronted by some strange and peculiar actions or reactions of

his which may defy a rational explanation. There is a lot of aggression

within him which he tries to control, but which may find occasional and

somewhat distored outlets.

He is most secretive about his affairs, and he

is not likely to confide in anybody completely. A-tually, he is rather

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suspicious, and his self-defensive and sell-protective mechanisma come

quickly into play as soon a9 he senses the slightest possible danger to his

vulnerable self. This does not prevent him from putting on a daring

air when he considers it fit for the occasion. His fundamental problem

is that he has not established a firm identification with a sound sociological

and ideological pattern.

He is impressionable and has a strong capacity

for identification and he seems to try out a variety uf patterns an his

frame of reference, the way other people try on new cloths. There may

have been considerable instability in his childhood envirorinent whick

caused this morally driltless development. Rationally, he evidently has

learned fundamental ethical principles which he ries to follow super

ficially for appezrance sake. In reality, he has an unustially great number

of camouflaging capacities which have practically become second nature

1o him. He himself may frequently not realize if he is lying or telling

the truth. This is also part of his emotional disturbance. While he may

be involved in undertakings which border on the criminal, his perscnality

constellation has more of a pachological than a criminal character. His

tensiveness and complexity absorbs a great amount of his ample psycho-

physical resources. However, he has sufficient strength and onergy at

present (the time when this book was written) to support his general func-

tioning adequately. On the surface, he may convey a controlled and coin-

posed impression which may deceive over his fundamental imbalance

and unreliability.

Summasy:

The writer has well developed intellectual and practical capabilities

which should make him a competent worker in his specialized professional

field. At the same time, he is suffering from a basic emotional distur-

bance (of paranoid-schizoid character) which is superficially controlled,

but which undermines his ethical integrity, prevents a satisfactory social

adjustment and possibly intermittently affects his professional performance.

Qualification:

This report must be evaluated as qualified information, because the

handwriting standards submitted for analysis are not adequate.

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