CABLE RE ATTEMPT TO IDENTIFY PETE BAGLEY AS T. H. BAGLEY AS MENTIONED BY JAY EPSTEIN IN ARTICLE
Originator: CIA
From: MHSPLASH WOMUSE
To: DCI
Document date: 11/10/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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• 1, PETE BAGLEY CALLED COS MORNING 10 NOV TO RELATE

FOLLUWING:

Jilled:

A, MRS, BAGLEY RECEIVED TELEPHONE CALL 9 NOV FROM WOMAN

WITH UNUSUAL ACCENT FROM PARIS IDENTIFYING HERSELF AS CALLING ON

BEHALF OF READERS DIGEST; (BAGLEY DID NOT KNOW WHETHER LANGUAGE

USED FRENCH OR ENGLISH, HE COULD CHECK WIFE.Y

BE PURPOSE OF CALL WAS TO IDENTIFY. TOH. BAGLEY AS ONE

AND SAME WITH "PETE" BAGLEY, THIS IDENTIFICATION PERTINENT TO

ARTICLE WRITTEN BY FNU EPSTEIN, SUBJECT UNDISCLOSED. MRS

BAGLEY DEFLECTED INQUIRY AND DID NOT MAKE POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION.

C. EPSTEIN COULD CONCEIVABLY BE JAY EPSTEIN WHO WROTE

BOOK CRITICAL OF WARREN COMMISSION REPORT MANY OF WHICH CRITICISMS

DEFENSIBLE, EFSTE IN LATER WROTE ARTICLE FOR NEW YORKER CRITICAL

OF JIM GARRISON,

DO BAGLEY TELEPHONE NUMBER APPARENTLY OBTAINED FROM

LOCAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,

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E• IF NEW ARTICLE IS BY SAME EPSTEIN AND IS ON WARREN

COMMISSION REPORT OR NEW INVESTIGATIONS KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

BAGLEY'S INVOLVEMENT VIA EDDONOR (PERHAPS PDDONOR HIMSELF COULD

BE AT ROOT OF HIS IDENTIFICATION IN ARTICLE AND HIS TELEPHONE

CALL.

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MR. BAGLEY WISHES TO ALERT HOS TO ABOVE, BUT ALSO TA

BE ADVISED OF ANY INFO HOS MAY HAVE ON ARTICLE AND IF HE TO BE

IDENTIFIED WOULD APPRECIATE PRIOR WARNING FOR OBVIOUS REASONS.

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