REMARKS MADE TO CIA EMPLOYEE ABOUT JFK ASSASSINATION.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: PHERSON, JOHN R., SEC OFFICER
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR SECURITY
Document date: 05/18/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1104-7030-10093)

DD/S&T 1543/64

18 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy Director Security

SUBJECT

Subject is a staff employee of OEL.

She advised

the undersigned on the morning of 18 May 1964 of statements

made to her

on Thursday evening 14 May, which associated

the CIA with the assassination of President Kennedy.

wanted a report of the conversation made known to the Office

of security.

2.

indicated that she resided in Prince

Georges County, Maryland, and several months previously had

registered as

a Republican in order to vote in the up-coming

primary elections. This past Thursday night a Mrs. Sherwood

telephoned wis

indicating she was one of the Delegates

on the Republican ballot and was supporting Senator Barry

Goldwater.

MISA

told Mrs. Sherwood that she had not

decided which candidate to support, and that although she had

registered Republican she held a deep respect for the late

President Kennedy.

Mrs. Sherwood then made some disparaging

remarks about the

late President Kennedy. She also furnished

specific information regarding what she described as a

reliable prediction, made prior to November 1963, that

President Kennedy would be assassinated.

3.

Mrs. Sherwood indicated that an acquaintance in West

Virginia, who

said he was a former CIA courier, had told her

prior to

the assassination of President Kennedy that President

Kennedy would be assassinated and that the assassin in turn

would ales he killt n

Mrs. Sherwood further advised, according

that her attempts to locate

this person in

West Virginia,

after the

assassination, were not successful.

Apparently,

in Mrs.

sherwood's words, this person "just dis-

appeared from sight", following the

assassination of President

Kennedy.

Document Number

12.80 - 466 B

for FOlA Review on

FEB 1977

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SUBJECT:

said she did not identify herself as

with CIA,

and did not make any attempts to draw out

Mrs. sherwood for further information. Mrs

have the name of the alleged ex-CIA courier now the

first name of Mrs. Sherwood.

She identified Mrs. Sherwood

as being number 33E on the Republican ballot in the

Maryland primary of 19 May 1964.

If you desire further information from

she may be contacted on extension 9180.

JOHN REXPHERSON

Security officer

DD/S&T

Attachment:

Excerpt

: from Washington Post-20 May 64

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