Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: OBRIEN, ARNOLD W.
To: SAC
Document date: 11/23/1963
Document type: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote) .

DATE: 11-14-2017

Jin Assassinaton system

Identification Form

Agency Information

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AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

FBI

124-10179-10072

RECORD SERIES: SJ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER :

89-28-5

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: FBI

FROM: OBRIEN, ARNOLD W.

TO: SAC

TITLE:

DATE: 11/23/1963

PAGES:

2

SUBJECTS :

JFK, TELCAL, CONSPR THEORY

DOCUMENT TYPE: PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: 3

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 11/26/1996

OPENING CRITERIA: APPROVAL OF VA

COMMENTS: REFERRED TO VA

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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote).

DATE: 11-14-2017

OP LIONAL FURM NO. 10

5010-106-03

MAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GC ERNMENT

Memorandum

TO

SAC (89-New Assassination of

President, JOHN F. KENNEDY)

DATE:

11/23/63

FROM

SA ARNOLD W. O'BRIEN

SUBJECT:

ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT, JOHN F. KENNEDY

yOUS

REVIEWED BY BENJFK TASK FORCE

b/4/96 Lak

RELEASE IN FULL

RELEASE IN PART

Mr. FRANK LEVYA, Special Agent in Charge, Secret

0n 11/22/63:

service, San Juan, Puerto Rico advised as follows on 11/22/63:

He was presently interviewing JOHN LOURENCO MOOREE,

Mr., aka., Dom Joao Lourenco Morre (e); Rabl Nan, Big Red,

Apartado

a complaint co

Puerto Real, Fajardo, Puerto Riço in connection with

concerning the possible assassi ation of the

President of the United States:

According to LEVYA, he received a telephone call

from

Secret Service at the

• White House in which he was

advised that they had presently on the telephone an

Individual

who gave his name as JOHN LOURENCO MOOREE, and

who advised that he had overheard a plot the day before by some

Puerto Ricans to go to the United States to assassinate the

President.

According to LEVYA, he immediately went to the

main telephone office, and

when he saw MOOREE leaving a

telephone booth, asked for him

by name. He then brought

him bakk to the

office, to question him concerning his

telephone call.

LEVYA advised that a short time after returning to

His office with MOOREE, he then heard the radio announcement

concerning the assassination of the President.

VA Claim # C-19=371=068.

MOOREE advised that he waw at the

International Airport,

Isla Verde, Puerto Rico on 11/21/63 at

which time he overheard some Puerto Ricans talking among

themselves. According to their conversation they were

TOTAL DENIAL

gong to join some Cubans in New York City and then proceed

to the White House to assassinate the President.

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ST 89-New (Assassination of President, JOHN F. KENNEDY)

LEVYA requested an indicies check of our office

concerning MOOREE and also asked if the writer could ascertain

from the Veterans Administration any information indicating

that MOOREE had any mental history.

Indicies of the SJO were negative concerning

MOOREE.

MI. JORGE L. RIVERA ALVERIO, Chief, Services

Division,

Veterans Administration, San Juan, Puerto Rico

advised SA ARNOLD W. O*BRIEN the following on 11/23/63:

JOHN LOURENCO MOOREE, Jr., VA Claim #0-19-371-068,

is a disabled veteran having been discharged from service

for mental reasons.

His condition was described as

"Schzophrenic-Paranoid Type"

Up until January 15, 1963,

MOOREE

was considered "Incompetent" to handle his own

financial affairs. Upon being examined

1963 he was determined to be

own financial affairs.

According to RIVERA ALVERIO;

MOOREE is on 100% disability.

Results of the indicies check and infornation

obtained from the Veterans Administration was immediately

furnished to FRANK LEVYA on 11/22/63 by the writer.

On 11/23/63, Mr. FRANK LEVYA advised as follows:

LEVYA ascertained that MOOREE had first placed

a telephone.

call to Gettysburg,

Virginia, in an attempt

•to contact Nr. DWIGHT D. ELSENHONER, former President of

the United

states.

This call was placed at approximately

1:35 p.m., (SJ time )9 11/22/63.

When uaable to reach Mr.

EISENHOWER, MOOREE then called the White House and was

turned over to Secret Service at the White House.

O'BRIEN, Assistant Director, Veterans Administration,

in charge of the Veterans Administration Hoapital and

arrangements were made to have MOOREE confined in the Mental

Ward of the Veterans Administration Hospital.

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