MEMO:SHERMAN, ADRIAN FISHER JR. - DEATH
Originator: CIA
From: MIRABILE. OPS SUPP BR, OFF OF SECUR
To: CHIEF, OPERATIONS SUPPORT BRANCH
Document date: 10/13/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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MEMORANDUM FOR: Inspector General

FROM:

Robert W. Gambino

Director of Security

SUBJECT:

Adrian F. Sherman, Jr.

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(C) Attached herewith is a memorandum prepared by a

representative of the Office of Security relative to the

recent death of Adrian F. Sherman, Jr. The information in

paragraph five relative to the possible existence of a scenario

to assassinate Cuban Premier. Castro is of particular interest

and is yet unresolved. The attached memorandum is forwarded

for your information and action as you deem appropriate.

Robert WI

Gambino

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13 October 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Operations Support Branch

FROM:

Joseph P. Mirabile

Operations Support Branch

SUBJECT:

SHERMAN, Adrian Fisher, JI.

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1. On 25 September 1978, a call was received in the

Security Duty Office from James A. Sherman, Subject's brother,

advising that Subject suffered a

fatal heart attack on

23 September 1978 at his apartment in Monterey, California.

Subject was sixty years of age and had a history of previous

heart trouble.

2.

Mr. Sherman was previously of interest to this

Agency as a military detailee, 1952 - 1954, when he was

serving at Clark Air Force Base, the Philippines, as a

Major in the United States Army.

After leaving the Army,

he worked for Pan American Airlines for approximately 13

years and then as an investigator for the State Attorney

General's Office in Miami, Florida.

He has been of interest

to DCD and FRD in San Francisco, California, since April 1977.

FRD's operational interest was as lan access agent to a Saudi

Arabian of interest to the San Francisco Base?

On 23 September 1978, Subject's body was discovered

by an FRD case officer who had arrived at the Monterey,

California, apartment for an operational meeting.

The

apartment house resident manager gained access to the apartment.

Subsequent access was allowed to an emergency ambulance squad,

police officers

and

the deputy coroner.

4. Assistance has been rendered to FR Base by

San Francisco Field Office personnel in this matter.

Gordon Gregory, SAC/SFFO, was apprised on the circumstances

on 25 September 1978 and

subsequently made contact with the

Chief, PR Base,

Subject's son, who was traveling cross-

country by auto at the time of

the death, arrived in the

area on 27 September with two sisters and was contacted by

a representative of the San Francisco Field Office.

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reported to be very cooperative, aware of need for discretion

and secrecy and proud of

his

father's relationship with this

Agency.

5.

The only aspect of this incident, which may be of

continuing security concern, is that the

son recalls

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in May 1978, while assisting his father in moving some

personal effects, he remembers seeing. a written plan to

assassinate Fidel Castro.

The son said that it had been

prepared by his father in the early 1970's when he was

working in Florida but at a time when he had no Agency

association.

At this time the paper is still missing.

It may have been recently destroyed by the Subject or, the

possibility exists, it may have been stolen by someone

having access to the apartment. ' According to Subiect's

son, several other items were missing, including a money

clip containing a $100 bill that his

father always kept,

a Randall knife,

a gold pen and pencil set and a microwave

oven.

After notifying the police of the missing personal

items, Subject's son received the knife from the resident

manager who claims to have found it in some weeds.

Subject's

son suspects that the resident manager may have been responsible

for the theft of the personal items, but he has now resolved

drop the entire issue.

6. Foreign Resources Division has advised that the

DCI has been briefed on this case.

It is therefore felt

that no further Office of Security action is required at this

time other than to monitor the case for 60-90 days to

determine if any new developments occur.

A Minatale

Joseph P. Mirabile

Distribution:

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- OSB Chrono

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