SUBJECT: GUGAS, CHRIS.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 08/14/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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In March 1953 he misrepresented himself as a polygraph operator with the

"State Department Secret Police". This misrepresentation was made at a

time when the Department of State was not authorized to have a polygraph

machine and Congressional legislation was pending at the time regarding

such authorization.

afforded another security interview in March 1953. He explained that

his cover company sold equipment to foreign countries through the Mutual

Ald Program and supplied consultant services to the State Department but

Subject denied that he ever represented himself as a State Department

polygraph operator. After the security interview Subject was also assessed

by an Agency psychologist (March 1953) and was found to be egotistical,

emotionally unstable, possessed of a need to build himself up in the

eyes of others and gave either exaggerated or completely erroneous

Subjectresigned 29 April 1953)"to accept a position In California.

Washington climate is not agreeablé to his family."

In April 1964 Mr. J. Kirk BAREFOOT, Director of Security, McKesson

and Robbins, Skokie, Illinois, informed the Agency he had been a witness

to unauthorized disclosures of classified information made by a group in

The individual making the disclosures

abroad under Agency sponsorship was identified

as Leonard HARRELSON.

Subject, who was then Director of Public Safety

for the City of Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the group and it was believed

that he was responsible for supplying the classified information to HARRELSON

about ENDOMORPH activities.

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Leonard HARRELSON is a private investigator specializing in hypnotism

and the use of the polygraph machine.

In 1964 he was employed by the Keeler

Polygraph Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 1954 HARRELSON was in partnership

with Lloyd B. FURR in a private detective agency known as the American

Bureau of Investigation, Tower

Building, Washington, D. C. Lloya B. FURR

is the polygraph operator who gave a lie detector test to Gordon NOVEL,

hostile witness subpoenaed by GARRISON. The test received newspaper publicity

as being given at "McLean, Va." in March 1967. (Summary on FURR attached).

HARRELSON 10 believed to be a person of poor morals. He was given

a medical discharge from the Army as a psychoneurotic in 1949 and had been

court-martinled twice for impersonating non-commissioned officers of a

rank higher them li: pouced.

In his hurlnoss partnerchip with MIRR,

HARRELSON would misrepresent himsell ac boing with the FlI by covering.

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word "American" when presenting his credentials and just showing "Bureuu

of Investigation".

Incidentally, the informant, J. Kirk BAREFOOT mentioned above, was

disapproved for Agency employment in 1951 because of falsification of his PHS,

and questionable maturity, judgment, discretion and honesty.

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SUBJECT: GUGAS, Chris

Subject 15 identified as a California Investigator who administered

a polygraph test to Edgar Eugene BRADLEY who has been charged with conspiracy

by GARRISON.

Subject was bortb12 August 1921 at Omaha, Nebraska. He is 8 former

Agency employee who FOD) in

October 1949 as a GS-9 Intelligence Officer

Subject resigned his staff status in February 1951 and became a staff

U8 agent] with Project ENPOMORPH in Turkey) from March 1951 until July 1952.

(His wife Anne Claudia GUGAS nee SETARO was granted a covert security clearance

1n February 1952 for use in a clerical capacity in the Middle East.)

In his assignment with Project ENDOMORPH in Turkey, Subject was a

source of constant embarrassment in his contacts with Turkish police

officials.

He was boastful, indiscreet, lacking in sound judgment, knew

Iittle or nothing in the fields in which he was self-professedly an expert

and was guilty of security breaches in failing to maintain his cover.

In one incident, he made recommendations of police reorganizations to be

nade by province governors in Turkey:" whereas, in Turkey,' the Police

Department is a national organization and not subject to the dictates of

the province governors. This caused much 1l1 will and friction with the

[Turkish police.

Subject professed to be an expert in his knowledge of the polygraph

machine and claimed he had two years? experience with the Los Angeles

Police Department where he received below average grades.

In Actioher 1952 he approached an Agency employee regarding a new

type of technical equipment and this conversation led to the dirclosure

by Subject, that he was employed by the Agencyan a covert capacity; that

he was teaching lie detection techniques to foreign police departments

without being authorized or competent to do so. Subject was briefed in

December 1952 with stress placed on the importance of living up to his

security responsibilities and exercising utmost precaution in protecting

the covert interests of the Agency

In spite of the strong warnings given him in this interview, Subject

again became involved in an incident of official embarrassment to the Agency

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