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Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: PHERSON, JOHN R.
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR SECURITY
Document date: 05/18/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DD/S&T 1543/64

18 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Deputy Director Security

SUBJECT

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1.

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.

She

wanted a report of the conversation made known to the Office

of security.

2. Mrs.

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 Mrs.

_indicating she was one of the Delegates

on the Republican ballot and was supporting Senator Barry

Goldwater.

Mrs.

_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 also be killed.

Mrs. Sherwood further advised, according

to Mrs.

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.

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SUBJECT:

Taden, Mrs. Ruth,

said she did not identify herself as

with 'CIA,

and did not make any attempts to draw out

Mrs. Sherwood for further information. Mrs.

not have the name of the alleged ex-CIA courier not 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.

5.

If you desire further information from Mrs.

she may be contacted on extension 9180.

Security Officer

DD/ S&T

Attachment:

Excerpt from

Washington Post-20 May 64

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