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OUTLINE*

Subject: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee

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1. NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE

Elsie l. Scaletti

2... PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT

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Were you ever personally acquainted with him?

Yes or No - yes

If you were never personally

acquainted with him have you acquired any information of

a personal nature concerning him through other persons?

Yes or No

Give details including dates,

by months and years as best you can recall, 'circumstances,

purpose and nature of any relationship vou may have had

with him and provide all data relating to his character

or personality, Illustrating briefly with any-stories o

other information acquired as a result of your own

relationship with him or which might have been acquired

from others.

See attached memo

RETURN TO CIA

Background Use Only

Do Not Reproduce

3. SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, PROJECTS, OR OPERATIONS IN

WHICH YOU PARTICIPATED

On the basis of your personal association with

• Subject, either official or social, or, on the basis of

what you know or believe him to be knowledgeable of,

outline the nature and extent of information you believe

he could provide an opposition intelligence service as to

(a) your identity as an intelligence officer or employee,

(b) your personal background and experience including

places of assignments, and (c) operations in which you

participated in some way. (Cryptonyms should be employed

when known. The nature of the operations in any event

should be briefly but sufficiently described to lead to

their identification, with the dates or periods involved

and any comments or observations as to their

success of

failure.)

See memo attached

SECREESPARUIVE

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A. OTHER AGENCY PERSONNEL.

List other Agency personnel or forner persomer,

who on the basis of your own personal knowledge of

belief, had official or social contact with Subject.

Give brief information as to the period and nature of

such relationship for each.

See memo attached.

5. OTHER U. S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL

List all other U. S. Government personnel who, on

the basis of your own personal knowledge or belief, had

particularly close official or social contact with

Subject. Identify the Bureau, Department, Agency or

Office with which each such person was employed at the

time of the relationship and give brief information

concerning the period

and nature of such relationship

for each.

See memo attached

6. OTHER PERSONS

• List all other persons who irrespective of nation-

ality, sex, or employment are known or believed to have

had intimate or particularly close association with him

and brief information concerning the identity and occu-

pation of such persons, your knowledge of such persons,

and the period and nature of the relationship of such

person with Subject. Include also the names of all

American and foreign newspaper people with whom he is

known or believed to have had personal contact irre-

spective of the extent or closeness of their relation-

ship. Give names with brief information as to the period

and nature of such relationship for each.

I know of none.

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T. HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS

Can you provide any information of any kind

tending to establish that Subject may have been

sympathetic to hostile ideologies or had contact

with and was cooperating with a hostile intelligence

service. Yes of No

no

If yes, give

full details.

Signed: on Olenui

Dated:

10 July 1972

*This is an Outline only of information desired. If vou

either knew the Subject or have any information from other

sources on any of the points contained in the outline, a

separate memorandum is needed with each paragraph: thereof

keyed to those in this outline. If you neither knew the

Subject nor have any information of the kind requested in

any section of the outline (and only in such instance)

negative entries may be entered

under all sections, and the

outlined returned after signing and dating. The signed and

dated outline will thus serve as a memorandum for the files.

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SUBJECT: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee

!. NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE: Elsie l. Scaletti

2. PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT:

I knew Phil during the entire time he was in

Branch I at Headquarters, and during his tour in

Mexico.

We came to Mexico PCS at the same time.

This means I knew him from 1965 until he resigned.

In Headquarters our relationship was

limited to

business in the office, and that was not very.

frequent. We sat in different rooms.

He handled SE

matters. I did the routing of all Branch

correspondence which meant I decided what he was to

see--this was anything affecting Soviet/Satellite/

Chinese matters.

My main areas of responsibility

were in

the support field.

Even though we were both

processing out at the same time, we did not exchange

stories much.

However, since l traveled as a

"Tourist" and was not therefore allowed to bring

anything into Mexico,

Phil offered to have some of

my things packed with his household effects since

he said he owned hardly anything. One day my husband

and I took sone boxes of things over to his apartment

before work.

I do not remember the name of the

apartment development in Virginia, but

it was the

arden type. His apartment was nice--rairly new

sut sparsely furnisied. He nelsed us unload the trina:

aid take them upstairs. Then we parted. I seem to recal

he had some trouble with his car that morning and we

dropped him off at a repair shop on the way to the

office.

At this time, in Washington, Phil was very

pleasant, was nice to work with.

He did not appear

to be pushy, even though hedid everything he could

to get

the Mexican

assignment.

At this time, despite

his family problems, he did not appear to let these

affect iris work. At

least from my position he seemed

to get his work done,

not to procrastinate, not to

take a

lot of time off. Fron the gossip I heard,

he was separated,

and was anxious to get any assignme.it

overseas. When the possibility of this Olympic job

opened up in Mexico he grabbed it. As I recall, C/Wf/1

was sympathetic toward

iim also, and was happy to be

able to help Phil at this particular time.

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In Mexico when Files Houseirold effects arrived

he let me know; and

as I recall, ne brought them over

to my ilouse and we unloaded them into our apartnent.

We did not go and pick them up.

thanks,

invited him over to supper one evening. (Willard C.

URtIs had given permission for individual officers

to have Phil over to dinner if no outsiders were

present and prior permission was obtained. I think

I got permission from the Deos at that time. There

were only the

three of us (Phil, my husband, and

myself--no maid, no other invited guests) There was

no discussion of office. My husband knew Phil was with

BKTRUST and was working on the Olympics in Mexico.

Conversation was light. During dinner, as I recall,

we talked about business in Mexico, and he mentioned

his father was in the dry cleaning

business, and

he thought he might be interested in bringing into

Mexico some used dry cleaning equipment which is worth

nothing in the United States, and set up some dry

cleaning establishments in Mexico. The discussion

was merely in generalities--nothing specific as to

timetable or even if Phil were serious about this.

About a week later Phil brought his car over and

my husband helped him work on his car--adjusting it

to the altitude. This must have been around September

1907.

Shortly thereafter, when Laura B. UTSTINE was

in Mexico TDY (she worked in WH/l and also knew Phil

at Headquarters), Phil had my husband, me,

and UTSTINE

over to his apartment (on Insurgentes

sur just off the

Viaducto) for dinner. It was a huge.

apartment.,

sparsely

furnished. We had

an

enjoyable evening, very light

conversation. Talked mostiy

about Mexico. At this time

he showed us

he had several

bedrooms (forget how many)

and hopefully his sons would be able to visit him.

During his tour in Mexico! only saw Phil in the

Station occasionally--and then just in passingin the

halls.

Once after I heard about Phil's having kidna, ec

his boys,

I thought I saw them (can't remember why l

thought they were his) in front of the Embassy with

maid.

I never saw

Phil in the Embassy proper nor at

any Embassy

functions (1 was tourist and did not

circulate in the Embassy).

, in Mexico,

but was certain too flud to talk to... After Phil

Phil remained pleasant

resigned I saw him once. After John PROBERT arrived

as COS, I saw

Fhil

along the side of the Embassy.

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We just greete reach ether. he said he heard PROBERT

was coming to Mexico and asked if he were here. He

wanted to call and say hello. I said yes.

immediately informed PROBERT,

and suggested

latter, read Phil's file at

tie Station as it was

my

understanding

there was

problem about his

resignation, but did not know all the details.

(This was true as personnel matters in the Station

were kept

very close

by the front office.) I do

not know if, when, or now many times PROBERT might

have met witi Phil.

At this time Phil looked neat

and well kept, as

I recall.

3.

SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SCALETTI, PROJECTS, OR

OPERATIONS IN WHICH SCALETTI PARTICIPATED

a).

b).

Phil could definitely identify me as a long-

time BKTRUST enployee

Phil probably inew that Mexico was my first overseas

assignment, and possibly that I had a medica!

irold

before. He knew I had spent "many years"

in Branchl, and was privy to almost everything

on at the Mexico City Station. He

knew I was assigned

to Mexico under tourist

cover but worked inside the Embassy. He knew

my husband was mere

•as a professor at the Universit

of the Americas, and that ie did not work for BKTRUS

• LILINKShad closed down either

More verge to the tie come ri to 42

with LILINK, )

then, and talked with

and possibly about LILINK"

remember keeping the (LPGLOBE material

very close,

and I do not think Phit know of

0z (LPGLOBE (LIREALM was then in Mexico under, (LPGLOBE),

out may have learned of LPGLOBE program and LI REALM

through Ex-LIADLIB (see

paragraph 4) .

In Mexico City Phil knew I was

in the Cuban section,

and privy to all operations

being run against the

cuban target. He did not know of operations

in

particular except possibly LIARM-I (now terminated)

olymp time

nany times about the cuban delegations to the

Olympics, but as l recall, C/Cuba only succeeded in

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GETTING Piril to cone to our end of the ball

a couple of times.

I was not in on the

discussions between C/Cuba (Raymond F. FRADYER)

and phil, but I believe tley were mainly held

to see who Piril nad met lio migit be useful

overt activities and the SB target, and he gave

1e. OTHER AGENCY PERSONNEL

At Headquarters in WH/| Phil shared his cubicle

with LIADLIB-I who was pressing to get overseas

as mucin as Piil, for different reasons.

experienced o eratch my fusit divide die ess

program)

and out to benefit himself entirely--

much more so than Phil 34 LIADLIB-l went out of channe

constantly,

talking of (NOC cover)ideas (for himself),

and going right to

the head of Training or JOT

reinember which) and WOMACE on ideas and

suggestions, without recessari:y going through

itie.

Branch or Division.

He had many business deals on

the side (one was as a landscaper in

Virginia)

had great prospects for business deals in

Mexico a He wangled a Noc)job in Mexico (replacing

LICING)

and was inserted in the (AGLOBE program

winile

he knew Phil (I think this was theztiming.) He was

also quite open in nis bragging he had been hired

as a GS-13 (| think it was) and

did not have to go

up tifuranks.

This might have irritated Phil who

was still a l2. Ex-LIADLIB came to Mexico PCS about

tine same

time Piril and l cane.

Although I remember

no close

friendshi: between EX-LIADLIB ard Phil

on the desk,

the fact they sat togetier, were

poth processing

out

for Mexico, would have meant

they

had sonething in connon. Also,

LIADLIB was tien

handling

all the projects for CP and leftist

penetration operations

for tie Station and Base

(Monterrey). Phil would have more than

casual

interest in sone of these as some were being

in

the field by Howard R. BENJAYA, an old friend led

Piril's fron Ecuador.) I do not know that Phil and

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5.

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EX-LIADLIB ever met socially in Mexico or not.

I am quite

certain their work paths never crossed.

LIADLIB IS

still in Mexico.

He has had a difficult

time since

his "resignation" getting a job,

keeping a job,

and making ends meet. It probably

would be to BKTRUST'S

disadvantage now for

the two to meet. For this reason,

and to assess

ex-LIADLiB-s present state of mind, Headquarters

sent someone to talk with LIADLIB-l. in the spring

of 1972.

At that time he still seemed bitter

against BKTRUST.

Other than wishing to make special mention of

EX-LIADLIB-), I know of no Agency personnel

other than those in WH/l and the Mexico City Statio

whom he knew.

5. OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL

I know of none except the Olympic Attache in Mexico

under whom Agee worked fron

July 1967 until the

end of the Olympics.

1o fue, 1972

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