CALL FROM READERS DIGEST
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/10/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CITE BRUSSELS 43852

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* Call Sec Suggest asem to:

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1• PETE BAGLEY CALLED COS MORNING 18 NOV TO RELATE

FOLLOWING:

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.)

B: PURPOSE OF CALL WAS TO IDENTIFY TOM. BAGLEY AS ONE

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

ARTICLE WRITTEN BY NU 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• EPSTE 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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20869

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

COMMISSION REPORT OR NEW INVESTIGATIONS KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

BAGLEY IS INVOLVEMENT VIA EONOR SPERHAPS PONOR HIMSELF COULD

BE AT ROOT OF HIS IDENTIFICATION IN ARTICLE AND HIS TELEPHONE

CALL.

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

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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