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СВОЕГОГБОЛЕНОСВОБРОСВЕИСОЕ

2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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1998 23 August 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

FROM:

Bruce L. Solie

Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT:

NAGELL,

Richard Case

#264 170

. 1.

This memorandum identifies those Office of Security

files which were reviewed by House Select Committee on

Assassinations (HSCA) staff members in conjunction with the

SCA) SEA

HSCA's investigation into the deaths of President John F.

Under procedures established with the HSCA, certain

items of information were not reviewed by HSCA staff members.

These items were placed in envelopes, sealed, appropriately

identified, and put back into the security file prior to

HSCA review. Office of Security personnel reviewing these

files should maintain the integrity of each envelope below

so that interested parties may know what was and was not

reviewed by HSCA staff members.

In some instances, the above files contain material

narked in the lower right-hand corner with a green circular

This mark should alert Office of Security personnel to

the fact that this material was located and placed in the

file at the time of the HSCA review and was seen by an HSCA

staffer (s).

This material should not be removed from the

file.

4.

Attached to this memorandum is a review sheet which

identifies the

name of the HSCA reviewer(s) and the date of

his review.

5.

Questions regarding the above procedure and/or the

ASCA's reviet should be directed to the Security Analysis

Group•

REVIEWED BY FBUJFK TASK FORCE

19018.00

RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

Bruce L. Solie

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Registered Mail

August 12, 1975

Ms. Penelope Grenoble, Editor

Los Angeles Free Press

5850 Hollywood Boulevard

Los Angeles, California 90028

Dear MS. Grenoble:

This letter is in response to the distortions and outright falsities

printed about me in the article written by William i: Turner, titled

BANK ROBBER, 'MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' LINKED TO JEK ASSASSINATION PROBE,

which appeared in the July 25-31 edition of the Los Angeles Free Press

I request that the Free Press either print a retraction of such lies

and distortions or publish this letter.

Mr. mumar to me.

who spent ten years as a Special Agent of the FBI, is not

unfamiliar

He has authored similar articles, both during my

imprisonment in the United States and while I was detained in the

German Democratic Republic, in which he knowingly and purposefully

cited numerous lies about me.

words in my mouth and misquoting his sources of information to lend

credence to his major untruths, a skill he probably developed while

serving with the Bureau's intelligence-security division. His recent

claims cause me to wonder whether

or not he ever left the FBI..

Professor Richard H. Popkin, from whom Mr. Turner obviously collected

much of his latest baloney, is a character that I feel should either

purchase a hearing aid or

consult a psychiatrist. Each of my so-

called discussions with him (all but one occurred over the telephone)

were duly tape-recorded by me, and if he did in facy assert what Mr.

Turner has attributed to him about me, then he too is a liar.

Tablelisting the following facts in rebuttal to the Turner-popkin

The "papers" that I "carried" when arrested did not show me to be a

"decorated hero of the Korean War," nor did they reyeal anything

about "a career in Army intelligence.".. More to the point, the doçu-

ments found in my possession and under my control (some of which were

returned to me only last year by the FBI) ensured my incarceration

for a longer period than I had anticipated. They also guaranteed my

being held practically incommunicado for many months (for eleven

months I was not even permitted to read a newspaper), not to mention

the curtailment of my most basic constitutional safeguards.

My contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald did not entail any "friendship,"

nor were they effected for the purpose of establishing rapport.

After my acquittal (in 1968, not in 1967) I did not "drop from sight,"

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as Mr. Turner, the FBI and the CIA damn well, know.

I have never stated to anybody, either verbally or in writing, that

in 1963 I was an agent for the CIA, although in 1974 I did state,

under oath,

that I thought I had been functioning for the CIA during

Mr. Turner is also aware that less than two months

after President Kennedy's death FBI agents confronted me with their

suspicion that I had "acted as an unregistered agent for a foreign

power," inferring that I was a spy for one of the Cuban intelligence

services (several years later the CIA, through one of its "former"

case officers, accused me of having been a Soviet spy, still later,

one FBI agent suggested that I had worked for the Chinese).

The registered letter that was dispatched at my instance to FBI

Director J. Edgar Hoover in September 1963 (not necessarily on the

13th) revealed sufficient details to warrant an immediate investiga-

tion (if not the arrest) of Lee Harvey Oswald and two Cuban refugees.

I certainly "assumed" that some "action" would be taken by the FBI.

I was not the least bit "frantic" about anything in September 1963.

I did not set foot inside the Republic of Cuba during that month.

To my knowledge I have never talked to any "Castro aides.":

The main

distinction between some American intelligence officers that I knew

and hired killers were the procedures utilized in murdering their

victims and/or the methods used to disassociate themselves and the

U.S. government from their crimes.

I had no fear of being implicated "in the planned assassination" at

the time of my arrest or prior thereto.

The two letters that I mailed to James L. Rankin, General Counsel to

the Warren Commission, were not sent through "private channels." They

were sent through proper jail authority.

I have never claimed that I "squirreled away a snapshot of (myself)

with Lee Harvey Oswald taken in Jackson Square in New Orleans in 1963.

I have never stated that I am "willing to surface and tell (any) story

to Congress" or to anybody: And I did not reveal any details about

Mr. Oswald to Professor Popkin that are "new" or unknown to the FBI.

O fichard C. Magelt

Richard C. NagelI

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Los Angeles Free Press

July 25-31, 1975

4

Bank robber, 'Manchurian Candidate'

linked to JFK assassination probe

ED. NOTE: Recent exposure of Popkin, a philosophy professor

imposter.. The FBI knew Oswald

what many consider to be im-

at Washington University in St. at that time as a defector to

proper ClA activity, both at

Louis, stepped off a plane in the

Russia,• and, some conspiracy

home

and

abroad,

has

nation's capital lugging a brief- theorists believe, as a possible

reawakened interest in decade-

case containing documents il- ClA agent.

old challenges to otlicial. ver-

luminating the strange case of:

Popkin said he had been in

sions of the assassinations of

the man who shot a bank. Also touch with Richard Nagell, now

• John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy

crammed into the briefcase was

living near San Diego, and had

and Martin Luther King. As new.

a thick sheat of papers relating

learned about Nagell's

tacts also begin to emerge,

Congress taces

growing

to a bizarre "Manchurian Can-

friendship with Lee Harvey

didate" episode in the Philip-

Oswald. Nagell has fascinated

pressure to reinvestigate the

pines in 1967.

assassination researchers ever

•JFK assassination.

Both the El Paso and Manila

since an FBI report filed with the

What follows are the strange

incidents, Popkin said in an in-

Warren Commission quoted

stories, disclosed here for the

terview

before-leaving for

him as saying he had met with

first time, of two figures -

Washington, were linked to the

Oswald in Mexico City and Tex-

Richard Case Nagell and Luis

Dallas assassination of John F.

as. But the former intelligence

Angel Castillo - long of interest:

Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. They

officer had been inacessible. He

to assassination researchers.

would

"crack the case wide

remained in prison for the El

WILLIAM W. TURNER

• open," he predicted.

Paso caper until his conviction

SAN DIEGO, (PNS) - On Sept.

The slight, bearded academi-

was reversed for insufficient

20, 1963, a rangy man with a

cian

was

stopping

in

evidence in 1967, after which he

vertical scar on his forehead

Washington to present his dis-

dropped from sight.

strade into the State National

coveries. to Attorney. General

Nagell's Version

Bank in El Paso, Tex., and re-

Edward Levi and the Senate

quested $100 in travelers'

Select

Committee

Nevertheless.

researchers

on

were able to glean some picture

checks. Before the teller could

Intelligence Activities before go-

of Nagell's significance from his

comply, he whipped out a pistol

ing on to a conference of learn-

defense pleadings and cryptic

and fired two shots into the ceil-

ed philosophers.

letters from prison..

ing. Then he waited to be

The Second Oswald

In August 1963 Nagell, work-

arrested.

Popkin is no stranger to the

•ing as a ClA agent, learned of a

Police quickly realized that 'JFK investigation. In 1966 he

domestic plot to assassinate the

the suspect, Richard Case

published The Second Oswald,

president, involving Oswald and

Nagell, 32, was no ordinary.

which chronicled several in-

anti-Castro Cubans. He in-

bank robber. Papers he carried

stances of someone imper-

formed his ClA superior but

showed that he was a decorated

sonating the man later accused

feared nothing would be done

hero of the Korean War who had

of slaying the president. At the

because he lacked details. On

gone on to a career in Army

time the book

gained scant

Sept. 13 he dispatched a letter

Intelligence before being dis-

attention, but recently it was dis-

warning J. Edgar Hoover of the

charged with the rank of captain

closed that as early as June 3,

plot but again assumed no ac..

in 1959.

1960, FBI Director J. Edgar

tion would be taken.

Why had he pulled the non-

Hoover himself wrote an in-

As Nagell understood. it.

robbery?

terdepartmental

memorandum

Kennedy was to be shot. in

Last week Dr. Richard H. citing evidence of an. Oswald

(please, turn 10 page 33)

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INATION

(continued from

→ 4)

Washington about Sept. 26 (as

it turned out. JFK left Sept. 25

if this photograph does exist

- it would lend credibilits to

Nagell's account. And Na

is :

willing to surface and it.

story to Congress, Popkin says,

provided protective conditions

for a whiriwind tour of the West).

• Frantic, Nagell flew to Havana

on Sept. 19 to see if Castró

aides could shed light on the

assassination plot, but the only

"Manchurian Candidate"

Pookin is also convinced that

the Manila "Manchurian Can-

didate" case was connected to

ordered. "They got him already.

Let's get out of here." After the

was disassembled and

stuffed in the bowling bag, he

was hustled into the car which

had brought him to the building.

It stopped tvice within blocks to

pick up other men.

according to

advice they could offer was to

execute Oswald In the hope that

March 2, 1967, a man named

would stop the plan.

Luis Angel Castillo was detain-

• But Nagell left Cuba deciding

ed by the Philippine National

that he "was an intelligence

Bureau of Investigation after he

agent, not a killer.". Flying to El

had contacted left-wing - Huk

Paso via Mexico City, he waked

guerrillas. Questioned under

into the bank the next day for

truth serum and hypnosis.

Sanchez.

programmed to assassinate

Philippine President Ferdinand

Marcos after openly associating

with the leftist Huks - which

would implicate them in the

assassination. Popkin points

out that this is a similar ploy to

the one Nagell attributed to the

anti-Castro Cubans' use of

"she sole

purpose of having

Castillo blurted our a tale of hav-

myself arrested and detained by

federal authorities"

-

ap-

ing been taken to a building in

Dallas, Tex., the day Kennedy

parently. fearing that his

was shot. handed a rifle

association with Oswald would

assembled from components:

implicate himself in the planned.

hidden in a bowling bag and in-

assassination.

structed to fire at a man in an

Nagell was in the El Paso Jail

open car sitting next to a lady.

recently, the Castillo

episode might have seemed a

logcial impossibility. But the

release. of the Rockefeller

Report, with its revelations

about secret ClA projects to in-

duce behavior modification in

when Kennedy was shot In

The signal to fire would be given

• Dallas two months later. He sent

by mirror flashes.

an offer to testify before

the

the possibility of a "Manchurian

The story caused a brief sen-

Candidate®

more than mere

Warren

Commission

through

sation at the time. The Manila

fantasy. (in the Robert Kennedy

"private channels" but received

Times bannered: " JFK Plotter'

assassination, Dr. Bernard Dia-

no reply.

In Manila!" Wire service dis-

mond, who examined Sirhan

Dedicated Leftist

patches to the United States

Sirhan for the defense. testified

In his recent discussions with

said Castillo was a "Cuban-

that he believed Sirhan was

Popkin, Nagell has revealed

trained Communist agent who

hypnotized at the time of the

new details about Oswald. He

hadn't shot because he heard

shooting.)

first met Oswald, he said, in the

that a man named Joe "had

Although

the

current

late fifties at the U.S. naval base

already shot the man in the

whereabouts of Castillo is un-

at Atsugi, Japan, where Oswald

open car." The story was so im-

known, the Sanchez reports

was a Marine Corps radar

plausible that it quickly died.

contain the names of six per-

specialist. They became friends

Not long ago the hypnotist

sons who supposedly ran his

but didn't encounter

one

who conducted the interroga-

network, including the "control

another again until August 1963

tion of Castillo for the Philippina

officer" and a woman who hyp-

when Nagell learned of the plot

authorities arrived in this coun

notized him. Popkin's own in-

against Kennedy.

try under the name Vincente R.

vestigations have shown that

Disputing claims that Oswald

Sanchez. When Popkin took a

these people do exist.

had ties with the CIA, Nagell.

look at his reports, his eyes

belleves that Oswald was a

popped.

Through Popkin their stories

have now been passed on to the

dedicated leftist who was duped

by anti-Castro exiles involved in

the conspiracy. Posing as

Castro G-2 intelligence agents,

the exiles wheedled Oswald into

becoming a "fall guy" by playing

on his Castro sympathies, pain-

ting Kennedy as anti-Castro and

promising that he would be

spirited to Havana after the

assassination.

ANAT

The reports termed Castillo a

•Attorney General and the

¡"zombie"

hyp- Church Committee.

noprogrammed robot.

William Turner's latest book.

Double-Agent Network

Sanchez

extracted Castillo's

The Cuba Project, the story af

the ClA's secret war against

rambling story over a period of

Castro, will be published this fall

weeks. Castillo, then 28, was in-

by Houghton Mittlin.

ducted around

1960 into a

"Special Operations Group"

which afforded him paramilitary

training. In 1961 he participated

Nagell told Popkin he met

in the Bay of Pigs invasion, as a

with Oswald both in Mexico CIty

pilot for the ClA. Thereafter he

and New Orleans, hotbeds of

infiltrated

a double-agent

the anti-Castro

movement.

network, posing

as a Com-.

"Nagell claims he has squirrel-

nunist in

Venezuela

and li-

ed away a snapshot of himsel!

quidating a Communist agent in

with Lee Harvey Oswald taken

Mexico.

in Jackson Square in New

In talking about the JFK

Orleans in 1963," Popkin

as-

assassination,

Castillo

•serted. "In the picture are two

despite some disjointed

other men, both anti-Castro

phrases

— was nevertheless

Cubans, who were pretending

• able to describe in some detail

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SECRET

18 January 1968

SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case

ALLEGATION:

Richard Case NAGLI, "a

highly decorated infantry

Captain in the Korean War",

alleges that he became a

CIA agent. He said be

fired the gun in the bank at

El Paso, Texas because he

wanted to be in custody when

the assassination of

President KENNEDY took

place.

NACELL, charged

that "the FBI illegally

seized from him evidence

crucial to his defense,

such as notebooks containing

the names of certain CIA

employees, photographs, tw

Mexican tourist cards (one

in the name of Joseph KRAMER,

the other in the name of

Albert HIDFL) and receipts for

registered mail, including the one

for the letter sent HOOVER

warning of the assassination.

NAGELL, daimed he was in-

structed to "arrow" the

patsy, that is kill him

(OSWALD) after the assassi-

nation.

He contended he

got cold feet and this was

his reason for the attempted

bank robbery, he would rather

be arrested than commit

murder and treason. The

article alleges that while it

was suggested in court that

an airplane crash NAGELL

survived mentally affected him,

he was given intelligence

training after the crash.

Also, NAGELI complains he has

been

salted away because of

what he knows.

CIA CONNECTION:

None; although, Subject was of

interest to OS in 1964 and early

1965 because of information

furnished to the Agency by the

FBI that he had in his possession

the names of six CIA employees

at the time of his arrest for bank

robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20

September 1963.

cras

Excluded

Estematic.

State: Bod

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SECRET

SOURCE:

1968 RAMPARIS

Article by William

W. TURNER

OS INDICES RESULTS:

1963 the name of Richard FECTEAU (an individual by this name was captured.

by the Chinese Communists and is now in prison in China) and of six Agency

employees Research failed to reveal any reason why NAGul had these

names in his possession.

It was concluded that while NAGElL is unquestionably

unbalanced, his story of being involved in espionage is not fully contradicted

by evidence. He could have been contacted by a Soviet agent while in Washington,

D. C. in December 1962 or while he was in Mexico City in September and October

1962. His file contains mostly FBI reports dated 1962 and 1964 and in these

are documented his history of mental instability and physical complaints

stemming foom the plare crash. Attached is a chronology dated 3 March 1965

made from the information contained in the FBI reports. At the time this

security research was conducted, it was recommended that NAGELI, be personally

interviewed by a representative

now be eme tito the possession tee canes but to farther action is indicatea

in his file and this interview was not undertaken:

DETAITS:

Subject's file reflects no Agency interest in him prior to March 1964

when the names of CIA employees were found in his possession when arrested

for bank robbery.

The RAMPARIS claim that he received intelligence training after the plane....

crash is true. The crash occurred 28 November 1954 and he graduated from

Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, Maryland on 15 August 1955. He

served in Korea aná Japan as a member of the U. S. Army Counterintelligence

Corps, terminating about 1958. A It. Col. Ned W. GLENN who served with

NAGELI personally in Korea advised that NAGELL was not stable mentally and

that this instability was probably due to brain damage suffered in the airplane

crash.

The RAMPARIS article's claim that NAGElL said he fired the gun in the

bank at El Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custody when the assassination

took place is not completely in conflict with a statement NAGELL made on

I January 1964 which was, however, after the assassination. (see page 4 of

chronology)

The RAMPARTS article's allegation. that the FBI took from NAITI, a note-

book containing the names of CIA employees is true.

NAGILI's complaint that he was "salted away" is open to speculation. A

ten year prison sentence does appear harsh, considering the documented brain

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damage he suffered in the B-25 plane crash while he was in the U. s.

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Richard Case NAGELL

Chronological Record of Activities

5 Aug 1948:

Entered Army (18 years old)

"Brilliant Korean War Record"

"Many Campaign Awards"

28 Nov 1954:

Sole survivor of plane crash. Suffered facial disfigure

ment; given psychiatric exam.

15 Aug 1955:

Graduated from Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabir

Maryland. Served as advisor to ROK Army in Korea

Concerned with intelligence activities; served as a mer

of U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Japan, Sen

and Tokyo, terminating about 1958.

A It. Col. Ned W. GLENN, Deputy G-2, U.S. Navy,

Japan, advised on 24 March 1964 that he had served

personally in Korea with NAGELL. GLENN advised

that NAGELL was not stable mentally and that this in-

stability was probably due to damage to brain tissues

suffered in an airplane crash during the Korean War.

29 Oct 1959:

Honorable Discharge - Captain, U.S. Army

14 Dec 1959:

Employed by Department of Alcoholic Beverage Contro.

of State of California as a special investigator.

8 June 1962:

Suspended by ABC, State of California

27 June 1962:

Dismissed by ABC

16 July 1962: Shot in chest "while making a meet" between Malibu and

Oxnard. Refused to identify assailants of furnish infor

mation to police, subsequently, filed Civil Rights com-

plaint against police. Withdrew request for hearing so

he could get money from state of California consisting ‹

retirement contributions and accumulated leave.

17 Aug 1962:

Issued tourist card at Los Angeles, California.

24 Aug 1962:

- Entered Mexico through Ciudad, Juarez.

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28 Sept 1962:

1 Oct 1962:

28 Oct 1962:

16 Nov 1962:

15. Dec 1962:

SECRET

Appeared voluntarily at American Embassy, Mexico City,

tense, nervous, agitated and antagonistic.

Inter alia-stated he had been approached in Mexico

City for recruiting, refused to say by whom on behalf of

what country. Stated that one job of this sont would be

in New York. He volunteered that he fully realized that

what he was saying could be used against him in any

court or prosecution. He stated that he was "bitter,

disgusted, disillusioned and disaffected".

Stated he knew

the full significance of the term disaffected. He stated

that if he did go to some other country, it would cost the

United States millions. He stated that he was "through

being a good citizen! and thought that he had gotten a

"dirty deal all around."

Again appeared at American Embassy, Mexico City,

wanting to know what had been done in regard to getting

the state of California to pay him the money due him..

Was sent to protection section. Asked what section of

Embassy he should contact to renounce his United States

citizenship. Was advised by collection section that they

could not intercede for him in collecting money from

state of California.: Appeared in passport and citizenship

section and asked what the penalty would be for going to

an Iron Curtain country and what effect it would have on

his citizenship. Was advised that such action would be

violation of federal law.

Left Mexico City, Merico.

Advised FBI in New York City he wanted to expose

Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in California.

Advised FBI in Jacksonville, Florida, that he had been

approached shortly before in Washington, D. G., by

individual believed to be working for Soviets. NAGELL

at this time was noted to be in an inebriated condition -

vague in answering questions.

20 Dec 1962:22 Jan 1963: NAGELL at Bay Pines, Florida VA Hospital.

Condition diagnosed as "chronic brain syndrome associated

with brain trauma with behavioral reaction characterized

by passive aggressive and paranoid features"

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24 Jan 1963:

19 April 1963:

4 June 1963:

20 Sept 1963:

Asked FBI in Miami if his Cuban or Russian sources

gave him a pistol with silencer and microfilm if he

would be permitted to return same to his contact so

he could be of further use to U.S. Government. He

stated that in August or September 1962 he met a man

from Maryland in Mexico City who introduced him to

individuals whom heibelieved may have been Soviet Agent.

Advised FBI in Los Angeles, California, that he had

taken his former wife to court for failure to comply with

court order giving NAGELL visitation rights with children.

NAGELL appeared at the Out Patient Clinic and was re-

ferred to the Neurological Clinic for treatment. His

condition was diagnosed as'depression, tearful, nervous,

rigid". Would only utter words "Got to see my kids".

NAGELL arrested in El Paso, Texas, on charge of at-

tempting to rob State National Bank.

Slashed

wrist night

of 9/20/63. NAGELI consistently denied he had tried

to rob the bank; stated that the fact that he fired two shots

in the ceiling proved he had not been trying to hit anyone.

He stated that he was certain that "all of my problems have

been solved for a long time, and now I won't have to go to

Cuba!'.

A notebook which the Subject had on his person when ar-

rested made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee,

the names of purported CIA agents and other information.

Cell mate in jail reported that NAGELL disclosed to him

that NAGELL, during confused period after discharge,

decided everything against him in Lös Angeles and made

arrangements with Communist Party in Los Angeles to

pick up visa and passport from contact in El Paso and

eventually end up in Czechoslovakia. NAGELL reportedly

attempted suicide three times enroute to El Passo but

lost nerve.

(Noteworthy that State Department records reflect issuance

of Passport to NAGELL on 7 August 1962 at Los Angeles,

California, and that on 9 July 1963 NAGELL signed affi-

davit that his passport had been lost or stolen. He was

issued a new passport on 6 August 1963. )

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4 Nov 1963:

19 Dec 1963:

1. Jan 1964:

24 Jan 1964:

9 June 1964:

17 June 1964:

El Paso Herald-Post article states that NAGELL told

U.S. District Court that he did not attempt to hold up

the bank. "I had a motive for doing what I did" NAGELL

told Judge, "but my motive was not to hold up the bank.

I do not intend to disclose my motive at this time. ".

Subsequent to President's assassination, Subject claimed

acquaintance with OSWALD and wife. Marina OSWALD

on 1/18/65 disclaimed any knowledge of NAGELL.

NAGELL furnished a signed statement:

"... In September 1962, while I was in Mexico City,a

representative of a foreign government preposed to me

that I participate in an act; such act being a criminal

offense and inimical to the best interest of the United

States.

At that time, I refused such proposal. In May

1963, another representative of the same foreign govern-

ment made the same proposal to me. At that time, I

agreed to such a proposal. "

"In September 1963, I was informed by an American,

known to me as an Agent of the same foreign government;

that arrangements for my participation in the aforementioned

act were completed. At that time, I refused the aforesaid

proposal.

Approximately one week later, I was instructed by this

same person to either participate as previously agreed

or derrogatory information pertaining to me would be

disclosed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There-

upon, I agreed to follow the instructions of this person,

although I did not intend to do so. This existing situation

actuated my conduct of September 20, 1963, for which!

was arrested and am presently charged.

I did not actually attempt to rob any bank. I thought that

my arrest would provide an immediate, though temporary,

solution to the problem with which I was confronted.

I am not guilty as charged. "

NAGELL arraigned in connection with indictment for

bank robbery and was committed for 30 days for the

purpose of psychiatric examination.

Sentenced in U.S. District Court, El Paso, Texas to

serve 10 years.

NAGELL swallowed several sleeping pills while lodged

at the El Paso County Jail.

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FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

24 October 1997

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT:

NAGELL, Richard C.

AIN 0 264 170

On 23 October 1997, the undersigned met with Mr.

Gary Brennanmen, Historical Review Group, Central

Intelligence Agency and Ms. Kathleen M. Combs, Assassination

Records Review Board.

Ms. Combs reviewed the Office of Personnel

Security's security file of subject.

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buy a car" (Report, p. 320).

Given a lie detector test by the FBl,

Bogurd's responses were those "normally

expected of a person telling the truth.".

Nevertheless, the Warren Commission

dismissed the incident by noting that

Oswald supposedly could not operate an

automobile and that on November 9 he

nllegedly spent the day drafting a

lengthy lotter to the Soviet Embassy. It

evidently never considered the possibility

someone might be impersonating Os-

wald. But Bogard will never identify the

impersonator. He stuck to his story in

news interviews, and subsequently was

beaten to within an inch of his life by an

unknown assailant and arrested by the

Dallas police on seemingly trumped-up

bad check charges. He retreated to his

native Louisiana, where on St. Valen-

tine's Day 1966, he was found dead of

exhuust fumes in his automobile.

The main ingredients of the patsy

theory are wrapped up in a story that has

gradually filtered out of Leavenworth

Penitentiary. The story is that of inmate

Richard Case Nagell, and paradoxically,

the most cogent confirmation for it is the

manner in which he wound up sentenced

to ten years in federal custody.

Nagell was a highly decorated infantry

captain in the Korean War who, he

claims, subsequently became a CIA

ngent. It is a matter of record thit in

1957 he was seriously injured in a plunc

crash in Cambodin, which tends to sup-

port his contention, since Cumbodia wns

not exactly a tourist playground. On

September 20, 1963, Nagell wulked into

a bank in El Paso, Tcxas, fired a gun into.

the ceiling, and then sat outside waiting

to be arrested. He says he staged the

affair because he wanted to be in custody

as an alibi when the assassination took

place. It was a desperate measure, he ad-

mits. But he had sent a registered letter.

to J. Edgar Hoover warning him of the

impending assassination, which he says

was then scheduled for the latter part of

September (probably the 26th in Wash-

ington, D.C.), and the letter had gong

unanswered,

There is an incredibly brief FBI inter-

view report stating, in part, that on De-

cember 19, 1963, Nagell advised, "For

the record he would like to say that his

association with OSWALD (meaning

LEE HARVEY OSWALD) Was purely

social and that he had met him in Mexico

City and in Texas" (CD 197). Another

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being led from court on January 24,

1964, he "made wild accusations to news-

paper reporters, accusing the FBI of not.

attempting to prevent the assassination

of President Kennedy. '" (CD 404).

That the charges may not be so wild is

indicated by the fact that the government

threw the book nt Nagell, a first offender

who says he expected to bé charged only

with discharging a firearm on govern-

ment-protected property. Since his sen-

tencing, he has been shuttled betwen

Leavenworth and the federal medical

center (a euphemism for mental institu

tion) at Springfield, Missouri. While the

government has suggested in court that

his airplane crash mentally affected

Nagell, the fast remains that he was

given intelligence training after the crash.

What Nagell alleges is damning not only

to the FBI, but to the CIA. In brief,

he says that the motive for the assassina-

tion was Kennedy's move in the direction

of a rapprochement with Castro, which

was ranks, betrayal. in the eyes of

anti-Castro elements. As he puts it, an

anti-Castro group in New Orlans ind

Mexico City, code name Bravo Club,

decided to give Kennedy a "Christmas

present" to be delivered September 26, a

date that was postponed. A party was

required. Two members of Bravo Club

approached Oswald while he was work-

ing at the Reily colfee firm in New Or-

leans in the summer of 1963, and ap-

pealed to his ego in setting him up as the

patsy. When the "delivery" site was

shifted to Dallas, Bravo Club enlisted

the aid of a Dallas "subsidiary," Deltu

Club.

Meanwhile the CIA got wind of the

plans and sent several agents into the

field to ascertain whether they were "for

real." Nagell says he was one of the

agents dispatched. Within a short time,

he claims, he was pulled in. It had been

verified that the plans were authentic,

that "gusanos (anti-Castroites) were

making the watch tick," and that the

sum of the plot was right-wing in nature.

Nagell says that he was instructed to

"arrow" the patsy, that is kill him, after

the assassination. At this point, he con-

tends, he got cold feet and bailed out. "I

would rather be arrested than commit

murder and treaso:," he declared in a

self-prepared petition for habeas corpus.

In the petition, Magell asserts that he

used the pseudonyms Robert Nolan and

Joseph Kramer in the U.S. and three

foreign countries under the authorization

of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He

states that the files of the FBI and the

CIA contain information that Oswald

was using the aliases Albert Hidel and

Aleksei Hidel. He charges that the FBI

illegally seized from him evidence crucial

to his defense, such as notebooks con-

trining the names of certain CIA ema

ployces, photographs, two Mexican

tourist cards (one in the name Joseph

Kramer, the other in the name Albert

Hidel), and receipts for registered mail,

including the one for the letter sent

Hoover warning of the assnssination.

When Nagell complains he has been

"salted away" because of what he

knows, he just might be making the un-

derstatement of the year.

[THE ELIMINATION OF A PATSY)

"IT DIDN'T KILL ANYHODY... I'm just

& patsy," Oswald shouted to news-

men while in police custody. A

marked patsy, contends Garrison-one

who was not supposed to have lived long

chough to utter his cry of innocence. But

somcthing had misfired, and Oswald fell

not into the hands of his would-be exe-

cutioners, but into the comparative

safety of the Dallas jail. The denouement

presented a crisis that the conspirators

could solve only by pressing police buff

Jack Ruby into service.

Although the Warren Commission

concluded that Oswald ducked into his

Oak Cliff rooming house to pick up the

.38 revolver, later confiscated from him

in the Texas Theater, it did not explain

why, if he had gone to work at the School

Book Depository that morning intend-

ing to kill the President and

escape,

he did not take the revolver with him.

That he made a beeline to his rooming

house for the sole purpose of getting the

* revolver spenks of a man who desper-

ately wanted to protect himself from

treacherous comrades rather than from

the police. Notwithstanding the mild re-

sistance he put up in his refuge in the

Texas Theater, Oswald's demeanor in

custody gave every indication that he

would resolve the great riddle-given

the time.

Oswald does not appear to be the only

double-cross victim of that bloody after-

noon: the evidence is persuasive that

someone other than the accused assassin

killed Officer J. D. Tippit, a friend of

Jack Ruby, whose patrol area included

the Harlandale Street section headquar

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Office: Memorandum

TO

'Chior, Research Section/CB/PSD

FROM

:I. J. Dunn

SUBJECTE

DUGAN,

Emmet E

- GF-6-371, page 22

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DATE: 18 April 1958

1s matter of information you may be interested in know-

ing that the DDP initiated a request through the CIA Library

to obtain all newspaper clippings which pertain to the death

of Subject.

Miss Barbira Wide (X 2457) advised on 18 April

1958 that the Library has articles from the lashington Post on

March I4 & 16: New York Times on March 16; New York Mirror on

March 17; and Christian Science Monitor on March 15.

Dunn

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GI Death Probe

Turns to Poison

TOKYC, March 15 (M-The undergoing psychiatric treat:

United Stales Army said today ment.

As usual, the Ärmy main-

one of its intelligence agents, tained silence on Dugan's work

whose boy was found foating as an intelligance agent. But a

in Tokyo

Bay,

may have been

spokesman

termed Dugan

poisoned

after

fine soldier" and denied he had

handing his in-

any psycopathic troubles.

The

surance

infantry

policy

,veteran

had finished

to his wife and

Chinese language training last

disappearing.

ycar and was assigned to an in-

M/Sgt.

Em.

telligence unit for

the

first

met E. Dugan,

time.

39,

or Craiton,

The Army said Dugan and his

Pa., left his

wife, Maud, came to Tokyo Feb.

wife Feb. 4 in

4 by train from

Camp.

Lama

&

Tokyo hotel

near Yokohama. The sergeant!

with the policy

Dugan

had a pass to visit the capital.

and personal papers, saying:

That night he left his wife. She

said they

"If I don't return, you'll need money on the policy.

planned to borrow

these."

Then, the Army said, Dugan

His body was found last

went to an Army camp

north;

of Tokyo, drew $40 in advance!

Wednesday. The Army said pay and sold his typewriter to

there were indications he was a Japanese dealer for $22. He

dead before hitting the water stopped at the camp's noncom-

more than two weeks ago.

missioned officers'

club,

lost

["The possibility of poison is $39 playing slot machines and

not being

overlooked,"

Army said,

the vanished. There was no wallet

the United Press on the body when it was found.

reported. "Extensive pathologi-

Dugan

cal tests will be conducted on absent

was

first listed as

body samples."]

without leave but on

March 1 this was changed to

Japanese newspaper specula- missing because the Army was

Lion ranged from the possibilily convinced

he was absent

that Dugan was murdered while through no fault of his own..

Investigaling Chinese Com-

Mrs.

Dugan, a former. Red

munists in Japan, to a Japanese Cross worker he met in Kora,

police report that he had beenlhas returned to Crafton.

Wester pere fies

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MAN 15 1958

2 HUNTED IN TOKYO Or clernal injury.

but there

was no sea watcr in his. lungs.

IN DEATH OF A G. las there would have been had

he died of drowning

Sarcial in The New Sork Timer.

Sergeant .Dugan's

urned to the united stales irst

TOKYO, March 11-The Tokvo Monday by military aircraft. An

police are reported to be scarch-Army.

spokesman said he had

ing for an

unidentified Chinese no

"definite" 'knowledge that

and

a Caucasian forcigner in the sergeant was engaged in

connection with the suspected "investigative activity" at time

murder of a United States Army been

lof his death.

He could have

sergeunt assigned to intelligence

8: Victim

of robbery,

he

work.

•..

addod.

body

in civilian clothes

found

floating in

Tokyo

Bay

Wednesday was identified this

morning

a5

that of

M/Sgt.

Emmel E. Dugan

39 years old.

Fe had been missing from his

intelligence unit in Xoh a

twenty-five miles

south

Tokyo, since Feb, 4.

An cxamination indicated the

man had been dead two wecks.

An autopsy conducied by Uniled

States Army

sulgeons yester-

day sugested he had dier before

he was thrown into the lvater.;

Except for a bruise on the fore,

Incar,, his body bore, no marks!

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Tokyo Bay Yields Body

Of GI Intelligence Aide

TOKYO. March 14 (Friday) Tokyo.: The Center coordi

P- The body of a 39-year-ol

United States

nates all United States Army

Army intelli-

gence

agent, missing

since

intelligence work in Japan.

The

the victim

Feb. 4, has been found foat was not immediately released.

ing in

Tokyo

Bay, the Army

said today.

The Army added

Japanese newspapers quoted

it was possible that the agent

police as saying the sergeant

had been

murdered.

was investigating Communist

The body, fished out of theot his disappcarance,

activities in Japan at the time

Bay by a Japancse policeman

but the

on Wednesday, had becn ten

Army declined to confirm this:

tatively. identified as that of a preliminary

The. Army spokesman said

a master sergeant attached to!

autopsv. indi

cated the man. was dead..he

the Intelligence Support Cen fore he entered the waletl

at: Camp

Zama, near

ü inningen

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to a dispatch from Berlin.] I

thought you might want to

Richard Case NAGELL as a

crank because he is mentally

deranged. He was the sole

survivor of an air crash of a

military craft in ca. 1956 and

suffered brain damage. He

has claimed CIA employment

but was never connected with

the Agency.

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RICHARD CASE NAGE

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STATES OF AMERICA,

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NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

23 November

Secret Service - because chat

tates Court of Appea

Service Division, Us

was known as

lichard C. Nagell

25 Grand Avenue

irst, Long Island

York

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"sinere

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a. bern

U.S. Ex-Officer

and activities

of the United States, be.

the Secret Service regardu

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staling, in pirt, that on De-

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BERLUN, OCt 24 (AP)-Ease,

mer U.S. Army captain it held

Informed sournes sald Na

Germany has released a for. Bell was laken off a arala by

nber 19, 1963, Nagell advised, "For

le rocord he would like in say that his

able

with USWAiD (meuning

flooding the

I wer

days.

for four months.

The East Germaris four months

azo while he was on his.

ssociation

from West Germany

Informed sources sald Ricb.

LEE HARVEY OSWALD) was purely

socia and that he had met him in Mexio thoge

of our meetin

Travel

felone

ard Case Narcll, 38, was delly-

Berlin through East Germany:

ered at a border crossing point marks

to West

City and in Texas" (CD 147). Another

three

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helmeen East and West Berlla

Apparently he made some re

repurt stutes that when the prisoner was!

Richard

•prOy

mans

yesterday in the presence.dd

East Borila attorney Wollgang

which the

East

Gen

derogalory,

bring lu from cnure on Junuary 24.

Vorel; allornes Rlcey S. New

146d, he "niade wilduccusations lo news

мете.

of Washington and an official Vorel, New, West Berlia allon

Berlin.

from the G.S. Mission in West bey Juergen Slange and var

.U.s.

attempling to prevent the ussassination!

paper reporters, accusing the Fal of nond pht have

vislting

' (CD 404).

start and aske

SUBJECT,

of President Kennedy:

of my opinions.

Under

NESTPEBI

sell lell by ailane Ioday for lbe

Uniled Stales. Magell was de

lous sovernment officials, the

away

disclosed

Mission had sal

three volumes in the

854, he was the sole survivor

airplane

lendship Alrport that killed

SAOMR

I do not take the New Yon

'o servicemen.

sources added.

against hima, the

thoartiolo to which you ru

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Ror, sennety 1818

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an old replied on die see o

OF. PRISONS

OF JUSTICE

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Committed Name

CLASSIFICATION STUDY

MAGELL, Richard Case

(Contianed)

was first tried in

d. The do Int

Grand

Regiater Namber

Id U.S.Cou

for en unpopular political

inplied as

party.

tho Comunist Party.

Charge

B. Ret

sum

was

then.

ros in violation of 18 U.S.C. $ 2113(a). He

Ge

now, chiering a federally insured bank wish intent

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victed as charged.

Tibi Mis

The rocord also allegos that ho sorted for epproximataly

ono

Negoll

The unpopular poistical

Nagell, in the course of hairty

. Later.

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interyler,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE • Cinde you

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28 January 1970

Washington, D.C.

An editor of a trade journal, whom I first net while on

an intelligenco assignment in Latin America,

has urged me

for some time to make public the facts dealing with my.

involvement in

conspiracy. to

murder

the late Chief

Executive, John F. Kennedy, in 1963 and the circumstances

surrounding. my arrest and imprisonment in the. United States

and East. Cermany•

For reasons that, are more personal

than

advisable I can think of little else that I would like to do

better. Eit with the copious amount of documentation and

background meterial on hand, that I feel should be adduced

to in any valid troatise of. the subject, it rould require

writing no less than a tome, an undertaking for which I am

hardly qualified.

Then, too, there is a growing. skepticism

on my part concerning the kind of reception that a topic of

this sort would elicit from a socioty long since inured to

violence, corruption and injustice.

Still, after ovor six

yoars of rolativo silence, I'vo decided that I must say

something about all this, if only to answer the lies and

distortions concocted about me in the press. Thus,

I have

compiled this

small

booklet, a throwaway,: which

may be

easily: discarded at the whim of the reader. In it I've

taken the liberty to set forth a reproduction of one of the

least sanitized references to my cese that has appeared in

the

news media,

an article printed last summer in the

OVERSEAS FAMILY; a weekly tabloid catering to U.S. service-

non in Europe. I have utilized this particular article as a

vohicle to toll a bit of my side of the story by writing an

addendum to it.

Ro C. Nagoll

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1ge 16

The FAMILY.

Iday, June 20, 1000

'I want to find my children'

Ex-Army spook who fingered Oswald claims Uncle Sari hides his family I by Thomas C. Lucey

UNCLE SAM has given Richard Case

Vagell three Purple Hearts.— one

arned on Christmas Day — and a meda

for heroism in combat.

But what this ox Army counferspy and

alleged CiA undercoverman wants is that

Uncle keep a promise to locate his wife

and two small children.

The 38-year-old former officer hasn't

seen them since 1963.

Officials inside the Federal Govern-

ment — most likaly FBI and ClA agents

— know where they are and deliberately

isolated him from his family, the tall, lean

chain-smoker claims.

Nagell

separated from his

Japonese-born wife Mitsuko Takahashi

and their children, Teresa, now 9, and Ro-

bert, now 8, when he was arrested for.

robbing an El Paso, Tex., bank in Sep-

tember 1963.

He slaged the robbery and immedi

ately surrendered to the police; Nagell

claims, becouse he had refused to

kill

Kennedy-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and

was afraid he would be killed himself.

Mrs. Nagoll was never told whore he was,

Since then Nadell has boen writeR

about in national American magazines

and has worked his way inside a politi-

cal prison in Communist East Germany

• for the CIA.

Two major magazines intimated that

New Orleans district attorney Jim Gar-

rison allegedly interviewed Nagell three

times in his controversial probe of what

he called the plot to kill Kennedy.

despite all the publicity

about Nagell, no public mention has

been made of his charges that:

• Fil spocial agents who questioner

Ars. Nagell about her husbanc

was in prison said they didn't know

where he was;

• The CIA used the promise of reunit-

ing Nagell with his family as part of the

incentive for him to undertake a one-man

ClA assignment inside tast Germany

Vogell

came to Europe in

February

1969 on a hunch that the path to his fam-

ily started in West Berlin. In Zurich he was

almost killed, he says. In Barcelona, he

was watched. And in West Berlin he was

attacked in a

side-street bar by two

strangers — one of whom had been fol-

lowing him for two days — and hit on

the top

of his head•so hard a molar

cracked in half.

Fearing that the next attacker might

murder him and reassured that the Gov.

ernment would finally keep its promise

this time, Nagall flew home to the United

States,

Now he's back where ho started in

1963 - when he tipped off the FBI that

Oswald was planning to assassinate fres.

ident Kennedy.

Working through a source with access

to. documents on tho Nagell case, The

FAMILY has been able to reconstruct this

incredible story of the spy who couldn't

come in from the cold.

R

ICHARD CASE

During a subsequent tour in

• the Far East with the CIC and

Nagell first went

FOl, Negell met and married

to work for the

his Japanese wife in the spring

of 1959.

CIA as an in-

foreign

Being

married

to a

national

meant

an

formant in Au-

automatic removal from intel-

gust 1962.

ligence work so Nagell decided

to leave the Army.

"Some publications have

For two years he was a Cal-

Identified him as a CIA agent,".

Ifornia state special Investiga-

the FAMILY source sald.

"But

tor, working on fraud cases and

Nagell never clalmed to be a,

liquor violations.

CIA

agent. For the year that

In the summer of 1962 he left

he worked off and on

for the

that job to work for the CIA.

CIA the

first

time,

he

wagI

His last assignment was to

never lold what he was. Butit

penetrate the. Fair

Play for

was in the capacity of

an In

Cuba Committee, where

he met

vestigator or Informant."

Oswald. Nagell also briefly in-

Nagell

na..

good back-

vestigated

Oswald's Russian-

ground for Investigative and

born wife Marisa.

undercover assignments.

Nagell

considered Oswald

In the Army, he

was a CIC , Intelligent,

captain who worked in field of-

wingers

"but

some right-

were using him

ficee In the United States and

feeding his

ego.

They

by

made

with the then super hush-hush

him think hè

big; man,

Field Operntions Intelligence in

important. Oswald himself was

Japan and Korca.

definitely a left-winger, lean-

Iie had made captain with a

ing toward Mao or maybe even

• battlefleld commission

during

Castro. He wasn't pro-Moscow.

the Korean War at the age of

He hated the Russlans.

22 — possibly the youngest man

to carn that distincilon. Nagell

"And

when

Oswald said he

was going to do something, you

served two

volunteer

combat

knew he meant It."

tours as an infantryman in Ko-

rea, signing up for the second

In

September

Oswald told

Nagell,

"We will kill him be-

as soon as he returned to the

lore the month is out"

States from the first. It was in

The "we,"

according to

Na-

Korea that he won the Bronze

gell, were Orwald and two Lat-

Star and three Purple Hearts.

Ing

- possibly Cubans - who

belonged to anti-Castro organ:

Izations in the

United States.

"Him" was President Kennedy,

Copyright 1969, Thomes C.

Lucey. Reproduction in whole

or in

part atrictiv prohibited.

without the pror wrilten per.

mission of the author.

Nagell reported the threat to

a man known only as Bob, his

ClA contact. According to The

FAMILY'e source, "Nagell'a in-

structions were to take care of

Oswald. He told him he was an

intelligence man,

not a killer,

and he couldn't kill Oswald.

"Threats

were made to Na-

gell which indicated to him that

he had better do what he had

been Instructed to do.

"Instead,

he

wrote

about

Oswald's assassination plans to

FBI director J.

Edgar Hoover

Washington.

Hoover didn't

reply, but Nagell didn't expect

be arrested. He expected to be

hold briefly for discharging a

firearm on

Federally Insured

property. 'By that time the as-

sassination would be over and

he'd be safe.

Apparently Nagell felt police

custody would keep him sale

from the CLA and from

the

assassins. He leared the CIA

because he

didn't "take care

of"

Oswald. He feared

the

tentiary,"

All you have ou

source

smiled.

do Is be

there."

The source continued:

"In

1968

aisier

wrote

that she

had

had

letter

leanted to know

wife.

She

where her

husband was and why hadn't

ahe heard from him.

"Here is the sticky, part) In

Mrs.

Nagell's letter she said

Richard Magoll: a solf-doludod crani.

him to. He wanted that letter

as a matter of record.

"After Negell's tip, the FBI

questloned

Oswald

leased him

and

re-

88 not

being a

danger or a threat."

Two

months

later Nagell

heard. the

assassination

news

bulletin on the radio. "The FBI

screwed

up!"

he

explained.

"That was Oswald!" This was

before there was

any public

mention of Oswald.

"After

the

assassination

the

•FBI tried to

clean their skirts,"

The FAMILY

WAS

told.

"FBI

agents Insisted to Nagell

that

he hadn't told them this about

Oswald or

that about Oswald.

But he had."

By this time Nagell was in

Leavenwortb

penitentiary.

On Sept. 20,

before

1963,

six

days

what

Nagell thought

to be. the

assassination

date, he went Into an El Paso

bank,

ahot one bullet Into the.

celling and waited outside to

assassins because he might be

considered one of them.

But the police held Nagell

longer than six days.

He was tried twice, in May

1964 and September. 1966, 10r

attempted robbery with force

and violence and sentenced to

the was bum-rappo de vasel

complained.

"The court instructed that

any

attorneys retained by

relatives

would have to come

under

control

supervision

and

attorneys, "e

court-appointed

The

FAMILY'S

solirce sald. "In effect, this de-

nied him counsel of his cholce

all during prison."

was. allowed to write to

only

He

his. sister and a Irlend.

couldn't &et an

explan-

ation

why he

wann't allowed

or to his wife and

mild enore done plain

children.

to you in Leavenworth pent

the FBI had questioned hér a

few days before about her hus-

band's activitles in the Army.

The

FBl knew

where Negell

was but didn't tell his wife.'

The

letter had been

sent

from a Hollywood post office

box

and Nagell tried unsuc-

cessfully to trace it after he

got out of Leavenworth.

On April 29, 1968, after 4%

years in prison, Nagell was re-

leased

after

he had

won

an

acquittal on appeal and flew

• New York

"We pulled a lot of strings

to get your treedom."

said

man who met Nagell when he

landed at

Kennedy

Airport.

The man and his nontalking

partner

$20

gave Nagell

bills.

"Mote

8500 in

will

come

where this comes from."

unidentified

the

man

promised.

"We appreclate your cooper-

atlon in prison."

sold

TO thi FAMILY.

The

X. Rareli

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CAST

OF CHARACTERS:

Richard Nagoll was ques.

soned by Now Orleans

Nageli claims he lingered

Kennedy assassin lee Har.

ray Oswald while working

for lha CIA, Nagoll also

aays U.S. Goverment offi

siala isolated him from his

two children after the as.

sassination.

still has not got the

money

promised

him. for

prisonment

his

im-

Statcs."'

in

the

United:

In New York Nagell kept an

appointment with a GIA

offi-

cial he knew only

as Buchel.

The CIA official told Nagell he

had heard that his wife had di-

vorced him

while he

was in

Leovenworth

*Il might be true, " the source

through East Germany: and he

would be arrested.

"The main objective of his

Imprisonment

One

waS

twofold;

concerned

U.S.

naval

officer who had allegedly

de-

fected and Nagell had to Und

out if he was there. But his

main purpose was to get

much

information

as

aS

possible

on techniques of interrogation

and methods of treatment of

the victim of dagger-in-the-back CIA tackies?

noled, "but wouldn't it be nice

for Nagell to

know for sure.

He

assumes his chlidren are

still with hls wife."

Nagell- met

Buenel to

be

briefed for another ClA assign-

ment.

Why did he go back lo the

CIA?

"It was

the

thing for

only

practical

him. to

the

source sald.

"because of his

financial situation."

Almost a. month lo the das

fler he arrived In New Yorl

Nagcll Jetled to Zurich.

"During his last

week of

discussions with

Buehel and

another

In New York,"

The FAMILY'a source said,

"Il was Nagell'e understanding

that he was to.

arrested

by

have himself

East

German

authorities. All he had to do

was buy a train ticket from

Zurich,

Berlin.

Switzerland, to East

The

train would

the MfS (East German Ministry

for State Securily)."

Everything went according

to the CIA's plan — up' lo

point.

In Zurich, Nagell reported to

his. CIA contact in the Ameri

can Consulate

General. About

the only thing the CIA

scems to

have sald to

agent

Nagell

was to ask him the train com-

partment number on his reser-

vation. Nagell told him, No. 46.

Early

June

10,

the

1968,

around

of.

12:30

a.m. to 1:30 a.m., Nagell's train

stopped after crossing the East

German border.

"He could hear people get

on the train and clomp down

the aisle, directly to his com-

partment," the source sald.

"There were two men in unl-

form and two men In civilian

clothes. They asked Nagell for

his passport-by name.

Then

they asked for his transit visa.

He

didn't

know

what they

were talking

about.: So they'

fied - to

him as Sandkrug-

began

took him off the train because

bruecke."

feeling

sleepy

and

thought he was under the In-

he didn't have a valid transit

Waiting to meet Nagell were,

fluence of a drug. He weit lo

. visa.

according to the source:

the

bathroom

and looked at

"They drove to Erfurt (an

• Andor

Klay, head of the

his eyes in s mirror. They were

East German city), where Na-

Eastern Affairs Section of the

almost pinpoints and he, was

gell was held for three days ina

U.S. Mission In Berlin;

Iceling exceedingly sleepy.

a safe house (a

private home

Wolfgank

Vogel,

& well-

"Back in the room he asked,

used as a cover for intelligence

knöwn East Berlin lawyer who

purposes). There some men in

'Did anybody put something

participated

civilian

clothes

on

the

in my coffee?'

questioned

1962, exchange of Soviet master

Nagell.

"Dr. Bablneau said no; New

spy

Col

Rudolf Abel and A-

merican U2 pilot Francis Gary.

said nothing. Nagell began lo

feel Ro

Powers

and

other sples

accused spies:

and

sleepy he had to oc-

casionally stand up to stay a=

woke. Finally, he

asked lo be

•Ricey S. New. a wealthy

examined by a civillan psychl-

Washington lawyer, supposed-

atriat it there

was any ques.

ly

representative - not a

member-of the CIA":

tion

of his sanity.

"Next he was driven to an

East Berlin political prison for

extensive interrogatlon.

They

accused him of esplonage and

hit. they were going to try

"Nagell had been told that it

he was In

East Germany for

over three months,

his release

would be effected by the agen-

cy (CTA),

but

he

not told

how. On his own he started to

play ' crazy

because

here

OVer

he

four

waS

and &

half

months and he began to think

there

was another

reason for

his

being there.

CIA

He

had deserted

felt

that,

quite

him

the

frankly,

he

and

had

seen sent to Germany to get

him out of sight or to get rid

of him.

"He was released on October

23. He didn't know he

was go-

ing to be released until he was

taken out of prison and driven

to & Berlin checkpoint Identle

•Bruce. A.

Flatin,

as I'm

the

U.S.

Berlin

head of

"'No,' the doctor sald, 'as far

Mission's

concerned you're | Irce

to go.'

public safety

section, allegedly

"New spoke to the doctor In

'a longtime CIA member-and

Flatin

Is not his real name":

shaking

his

the

doctor kept

head

no

—' and

Dr.

George

(Capt -

now Mal)

then New told Nagell, 'I think

Raymond Babineau, a

you

ought

to

leave

for:. the

psychiatrist at the U.S.

Army

Uniled

States.

The German

hospital in

Berlin,

who ap-

newspapers

are going to

pick

peared in civilien clothes, and

this thing up any moment and

• An unidentftied man.

Nagell

was

driven

lo.

the

might

want to talk to you.

don't think you should talk lo

U.S. Mission at 170 Clay Allee

tltem.'

and interviewed by Babincau.

*That

"Nagell said he wanted to go

was

probably because. back to Zurlch first to pick up

Nagell had played crazy with

his belongings

to be

exact

the East Germans," the source

certain documents in a safe de-

said.

posit box. Nagell keeps records,

Washington lawyer New was

plenty of them."

also present.

When Nagell was driven to

"Somebody brought Nagell

Tempelhof

Alrport,

New

8t-

a cup of coffee,"

the

source

companied him and walted un-

continued.. "Nobody

else had

til he boarded the plane, Some

• coffee.

Nagell drank a small

time

during

their talk New

asked Nagell about his disabll-

portlon of his colfse. It

was

Ity-Nagelt was getting a 60

black but it tasted more bitter.

than ordinary coffee. Approxi-

percent disabillty for service-

mately five minutes later he

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The Nagell Affair .

"You must get out

of Berlin!"

(Continued From Page 13)

him

thre

connecled injuries.- and New.

his

he

far

and

an

promised him help in getting

before

he

to

the

disability retirement.

States.

for

"But," the sourde added, New

Twic

New's

court

: also told Nagell:

"Of course,

this (offer of help in getting a

room

New was

disability retirement) is pred-

he had

then

Icatca on

your slaying

away

Later,

from the news media.

back

New al

On the afternoon

Stuttgart

Nagell

night to

fell

been

Federal

asleep,

rich

be

In

to

him that he had

might have

becn given a drug or a bar-

and he

didn't

them

to

he

could

blturate.

know

Because of fog he didn't get

didn't buy that.)

to Zurich until 4 a.m.

and "he

With

was feeling extremely sick," the

source sald.

"Не

rested

for

ly,

only

1957)

he

few hours and went to the U.S.

tions

Consulate

General. New

had

for help.

B52

crash

at

told him to stay away from the

On hi

(not

in

consulatc

In

Zurich

because

"they

'they

will-

question you

send

It to Washington:'

and

him

an

. East Berlin," the

Nagell

con-

couldn't understand New's rea-

tinued.

soning,

but

he

went

to

•consulate to get a doctor,

the

swer

prisonn

not to

tell them about Berlin.

He was

New's promise.

drastically sick and wanted

"The

the

doctor: He thought he was dy-

consula

Ing."

.-

had

по

New and

the

Center

there

that

111

Referred to a civilian doctor,

"evidence

Nagell was told "he had been

going

or finding

is when he

was

red State

All

damage.'

in

given an

overdose of Seconal.

a most potent sleeping drug."

Departi

Nagell was sick for about six

early

return

to

on

Nagell

family

his

was

United

days.

States.

help

find his

Meanwhile, he was also walt-

back

ing to hear from New, who had

In

3Z

promised to phone him in two

about two or

hear fn

weeks

he didn't he

a State

Dept.

was all

In Zurich

would be

sent

That was

gell

heard

the

time Na-

source

from

the

tried.

a copy

ton,

as

always

when

he

to Exili harama

called.*

in wallart illn

Meanwhile,

ing

New in

Washington

and

On Feb. 21 of this year he

called in person at the State

Dept.

flew

from

Mexico

City

Zurich. But the vice-consul who

They

that

the

had promised State Dept. help

last fall was no longer there.

for the

"but

Nagell asked for the man

he

claimed to be the-CIA station

chief. He,

too, was gone.

and 'be-

Sent to

cause one

cal section,

rich,'

of the

conduct a

given

promises

been

an

termine

Swiss

about a

CIA agent in

capital.

"A.

mer

again.

When

called they

were

quote. "ole

asked

Na

un-., weeks

and telexed

Washing-

ton," the

: one night

tempt on

Pentagon of-

left

for

the next

dayThere

for

Consulate

on,"

them

"Two

and

wh

General

and

told

aske

from Washington

allow-

i condition.

Barcelona.

back to

New

"Nageli

-two

weel

wanted to

leed

gence

se

off

bility."

Embassy in

condition

weeke.

no satisfa

him

what

had

In

July

while Nagell

said.

to

So

Berlin

where

started

mission,

Com-

Ises to himself -

being tha

in

children he

news

mex

Orleans

District

He was

Garrison's in.

Klay

and

sassination.

the

men

when

he

came

Fast

Berlin, and

to

Kenneth Hill in the

passport

section.

"A weck or two later."! the

"They finally

Washing.

en

unable

ulldrer

uing

so

efforts.

shelt

red

to

80

was

as

lon con-

that he had

his

1eldl2e

ing

his

just

a guy

saw the

open

to

he

{wo

and

at

Nageli

Police

the

the

CIA,

had

the

British

hit

CID,!

(ạp-

Tal Well

the British Sector) and a mem-

ber of the Berlin

political

police."

Around midnight.

went to the

U.S.

Nagell

Mission and

asked for Hill in the passport

section.

Instead,

he

got

the

Army stall duty officer and a

CIC agent.

"He gave his bloody shlrt

and T-shirt in a bag lo

thc

CIC agent," the source

sald,

"and told him to give it to killi.

*Il something happens

me,' he

told the agent,

responsibility is

going

to

358.

pinned because I'm going

to

the

papers."

"Back in his hotel, Nagell

was worried that he was going

to be killed."

In the morning: he went! to

the Army hospital and then to

Hill In the consulate.

"Hill had the bloody cloth-

ing.

"You

must

of

Berlin! he told Nagell.

cannot give you protection

here. The German police think

it's elther mistaken Identity or

MIS.'

the Last night I thought some-

body wanted to kill me,' Nagell

replied. 'Now I take it as (only)

a warning.'"

(Later, Hill told The FAMILY

he

considered Nagell merely

private

American

cilizen

traveling

abroad." He added:

"Ninety-nine and a half per-

cent of his story is fantasy.,"

Hill confirmed that he had re-

ceived Nagell's bloody clothing

and that Nagell had

come

him with

wound.

stitched-up

But he

say

that

the

would

head

only

hls

story,

not

attack

*Is

that

have

any

other story about it.")

But shortly after that Negell

was placed on orders

aB

an

. ambulatory patlent and sent on

the Berlin duty train to Frank-

furt. His orders

also put him

on a military flight back to the

States.

That's where he apparently

is now.

But he still doesn't know i8

he's married or divorced

the

whereabouts of hls

and

Til-

dren.

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nare not soughi io reinis oi

confirn each and every

assertion made by its author, Thomas C. Lucey.

Ar. Lucey, despite

his citing a substantial number of inaccuracies,

has nonetheless depicted a vast area of

what may be termed, the fundamental truth.

With this in mind, I have tried

to set the

record straight only insofar as it pertains

to those inaccuracies - and omissions

- which in my opinion reflect adversely on the whole.

In order

to view Hr. Lucey's account in a sonewhat different perspective, I shall

begin by

advising

that I first went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency much

earlier than Aupust 1962.

It was during the winter of 1955-56, while assigned

aB & Case

Revion Officer with the Counter Intelligence Corps at Los Angeles,

that I was initially

rocruited into the CIA's farflung network of informants and agents, one of a number, I

suppose, within the Defense

Department's, intelligence

community who helped the Agency

koop an eye on its not always tame competitor.

My recruitment

was. handled by a Herbert

Leibacher, an agent of the CIA's Los Angeles office, and a Joe DaVanon, later identified

to me through photographs. as an

official from CIA headquerters,

then located

on

street in Washington, D.C.:

Motiveted by a degree of naivete and the Agency's subtle

reminders that loved a greater duty. to my country than to the military establishment,

served ab

a: non-paid,

confidential informant off and on until my resignation from

Army in October 1959.

A complete description of the information I supplied to the Agency

during my military career would only add to what must perforce become a lengthy addendum;

it suffice to say that it did not always seem gerrane to intelligence affairs,

when it did it consisted mainly of an assortment of data that for so-called discretionary

rossons was seldon passed on to the Agency. for for that matter, to our own higher

echolons) through regular channels.

Нт. Lucey! в

statement, "Being married" to

& foreign national meant an automatic

removal from

intelligence

work so Nagell decided to leave the Army," is misleading land

incorrect

in. its

individual ig

entirety.

The only military intelligence organization from which an

normally removed subsequent to marrying a foreign national is the Cic -

primarily a security type orgen - and this rule does not necessarily apply when the agent

enlisted man or warrant

• As a commissioned officer,

I was declared

ineligible for further duty with the CIC effective 14 April 1959,

a full year after my

morriago to a foreign national. I was not barred from assignment to other, even more

sensitive,

organizations such as field Operations Intelligence, then the clandestine

espionage deportment of military intelligence.. As for the reasons I left the Army, they

voro clearly if euphemistically explained

in my second letter of resignation,

dated

31 August 1959, namely:

"I desire to tender my resignation because I wish to further my

civilian education:

It is not possible for ne to pursue the curriculum of which I am

desirous while

active duty.

Also, compassionate reasons of a personal nature exist

for desiring to tender my resignation at this time."

My patronege under the CIA did not end with my discharge from the Army and ensuing

employment

in.

December 1959

as an investigator for the State of California;

in fact,

henceforth I was offered remuneration for my services, however nominal it sometimes was.

what

my

new.tasks.comprised is.of

real pertinence to this addendum or to later

developments,

except

perhaps

to mention that one of my contacts said he worked out of

"Domestic Intellifence," possibly the forerunner of the present-day Domestic Operations

Division,

which

illegally keeps tabs on a wide range of American civilian orgonizations

and activities.

should also point out that I did not quit my position with the State

of California

"to work for

the CIA;"

as implied by Hr. Lucey. I was dismissed, in June

1962, at my own option and in my opinion for doing my job.

(The following nonth I was

shot through the right

chest

during an altercation with a person whose identity I have

never

disclosed

...

not through the left chest by myself, my wife, an

Alcoholic

Beverage

Control

inspector then under investigation or by a Los Angeles police officer

"because of communistic: implications, "

as has been reported at verious times by various

sources).

For the next jear, from approximately the middle of Auguat 1962 until my arrest in

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on 20 September 191

employed. by.

¡in a capecity which can be

iccurately described

that of

an agent, in every sense of the word.

My assignments

varied and necessitated travel to three Latin American nations and many states; including

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They

also

necessitated my taking on cover employment

for one

week in New

York

and for about ten weeks in Los Angeles,

though usually I nosed

as. a

tourist, an investigator for

the Immigration « Naturalization Service or as a

researcher

for

CIA.

To

a private firm,

the appropriate credentials being furnished to me by the

sum it up briefly,

I operated in Mexico City at the onset of the Cuban Missile

Crisis in an

effort aimed

at. the Soviet government; I conducted inquiries

relative

to

"dissident"

several Cuban refugee groups based in the United

States; I

checked

out an' alleged connection between a Miami

resident naned Eladio Del

Valle

and New Orleans CIA informant Sergio Arcacha-Smith; I investigated an associate of

the

nOW

deceased

right-wing

extremist

David W. Ferrie

of New Orleans, as I did the

•activities. of

left-wingers

Vaughn L. Snipes and

his wife, Priscilla,

near Venico,

California, and others;

I conducted a surveillance.on a man,

gaid to havo been an ex-cIA

employee, observed talking to MRP

leader Manuel Artime and former Cuban senator/racketoor

Rolando Masferrer;

inquired

into an allegation that karina Oswald intended to divorce

her husband and return to the U.S.S.R. (although I never stated that I met her personally,

was reported by the

FBI and Secret Service);

and I performed courier duties and acted

as a cut-out.

At

the

time

of my arrest I was operating in an undercover role,

having

bacome involved in a domestic-inspired plot to

assassinate President Kennedy and,

leastwise ostensibly, other highly-placed government officials.

Mr. Lucey goes on to state that my last assignment at the time "was to penetrato the

Fair Play for Cuba Committee, where he met Oswald."

Such statenent is also incorrect. I

was never & member,

bona-fide.or otherwise, of the FPCC.

And my conversationg

with FPCC

functionaries

Steve Roberts, an official

the Socialist Workers Party at los

Angeles,

could hardly be. construed as a penetration.

Furthermore, I had been introduced

to lit. Oswald long before the FPCC came into existence, albeit

under an assumed name.

As

to

therefore I couldn't: kill

the allucion thau.oswala

told

"Bob" I was an intelligence man, not a killer,

Mr.

reference is true its connotation is

deceptivo.

I had killed before and I had participated in homicides under the auspices of

both HI and the CIA lone instance being the part I played in the February 1958 abduction-

interrogation-murder of an FOI agent, a U.S. soldier, MSGT Emmett E. Dugan,

from. Crafton;

Pa.,

suspected

of having defected in place to the Chinese), under the guise that an

American

variation of the Soviet "wet

either

essential to some.

affair"

was the only alternative, that it vas

overall. intolligonce aifort or in the best interests.01.our.

national security.: And

• similar-sounding argument, ultimately reduced to a

threat,

that was advanced to me by Robert Grahan as an incentive to dispose of ur. Oswald

in Saptember 1963:

But my refusal to do so had absolutely

no bearing on the reason for

effecting my arrest in the manner I chose, nor did it engender in me foar of reprisal by

the CIA.

Pertaining 'to my arrost... and convictions at El Paso, Texas, which the official

• spokesmen

and the press have so neatly labeled as being for

"bank robbery," let one of

the government's own spurious records, the appolate court decision that finally yawned a

Judgement of acquittal in my case,. give its version:

"The charge was thes,

and is now,

entering a federally insured bank with intent to rob."

What the

record aptly ignores is

the fact that: two

Juries, Inconsed by the prosecution's innuendoes in and out of the

courtroom land by the ramifications of

perjured

testimony and a false Bureau of Prisons

report made available to the jury during its deliberations at the second trial - though

never formally admitted into evidence) that I was a Communist,

no doubt. a vory red spy,

trice convicted ne of having "intended" to take by force and violence one hundred dollars

worth of Travelors Cheques from a bank teller.

I shall not heroin attempt to list even generally the injusticon to which I was

subjocted by a corrupt judicial system, nor shall I bother to enumerate the cruelties

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valid

icinicallarjo

Must of them are adequat.... y detailed in

1967 Memorandum in Support of Petition for

writ of Habeas Corpus,

sworn to and subscribed before William R. Martin (a former member

•¿ the CIA's Dirty Tricks Division, who by his own admission is still in "the reserves").

But I shall opine that if President Kennedy had not met his demise when and where he did,

I would not have been brought to trial

on charges of commiting a felony.

Whilo my return to the fold of the CIA in May 1968 may have been the only "practical

thing" for no to do, it definitely was not predicated on my financial situation, as a few

old bank account passbooks will substantiate (I am not quite the mercenary that bir. Lucey

has portrayed). Nor was it because of any peculiar allegiance to those who had tossed me

on the scrap heap for the sake of expediency 4t years earlier, love of country, masochis-

tic tendencies or wont of further intrigue.. And while

it remains axiomatic in my mind

the sole requisite

whatever

for one's use by the agency is his qualification to fit into

may happen

to be. the scheme of things,

this did not apply in my

circumstanco, not really.

I agreed to go back out into the cold, so to speak, strictly

for personal reasons and I think

the explanation is wisely left at that for now.

My mission inside East. Germany - if indeed it was a mission - was neither as well-

defined nor as elementary as Mr. Lucey has perceived.

sure the CIA knows all!

it

neodo to know about American defectors in Berlin and the modus operandi of the uis.

fact,

the mission was not directed against Fast Germany, per se.

Preparations bore the

trademarke of an authentic, even typical, Agency project targeted in the main to another

nation.

That I was unable to comprehend

the German language,

that I had been a recent,

unwilling guest of the U.S. Attorney Ceneral, brandod a Comnunist in the public records,

merely

served

to strengthen an already plausible cover built up by chance rather

than by design.

Paradoxically,

arnor were that the cover was not

wholly untrue,

the HIS (unlike the FBI)

not in the least irresponsible to the laws and

polioies of its government.

past. I had engaged in certain covert intelligence

actiritios hositle to

socialist

to which - as an integral part of my

cover - I frealy confessed.

Oddly enough, however, my mentors from Langely had neglected

to tell me during the briefings that these previous activities constituted a violation of

the criminal statutes of the GDR,

warranting &

maximum penalty of death upon conviction.

By inadvortence or by plan I found myself in a not altogether unfamiliar predicament.

I had confessed to my real mission, assuming that it was genuine, without doubt I would

have boon spared exocution,

probably even escaped long-term imprisonment.

Instead, I

solectod what I considered to be a botter alternative.... and gained my freedon.

for my treatment by the ufS, from

begining

it

was far more gentle than that

oxporienced beneath the cudgel of the U.S. Department of Justico.

Nith regard to my marital status and my children, the

forenost area that ur. Lucey

appears to have exploited,

I have

never claimed

that

"Uncle. San hides my family"

stated that FBI and CIA gents deliberately isolated me from my wife and children; nor

havo I claimed that

the Agency used the promise of reuniting ne with my family as part of

tho incentive for accepting the assignment in the GDR.

My accusationg in this respect

contored around my children and they were leveled at the State Department as the result

promiso made to no shortly after.my release from the GDR.

Since returning to the

Unitod States last spring a reliablo sourco has

informed ne that my wife was granted a

final docreo of divorce at some period during my imprisonment in the USA and although I

have novor boon served with a copy of the decree or other notification of divorco (or

notico of a divorco hearing) I soo no cause to dispute the advisement.

Lastly,

concerning the asporsions cast on my sanity, at

this writing permit me to

say

only

that. I

nover in ny life been certified psychotic by any U.S. medical

authority or

adjudicatod mentally-incompetent in a court of law, notwithstanding the

conflicting logal- and modical opinions as to my mental condition on the day of sy arrest

in Texas, ovor six years ago.

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ROBERT C. NOLAN 201-746537. HE WARCAD INTERVIEWING CONSUL I HAT

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13 December 1968

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

SUBJECT: NAGIL, Richard Case - #264170

REF:

State Dept. Airgram No. A-903 from Berlin - Subject: Psychiatrist's

Report on Richard Case NAGHI, U. S. Citizen Released by GDR

Reference airgram furnishes background information on Subject and

on 29 April 1968 after his claim of temporary insanity at the time of

the crime found support in the expert testimony of a noted American

neurologist, Dr. Edwin WEINSTEIN. An article in the January 1968 issue

Of RAMPARTS by William W. TURNER implied that NAGELL had been involved

In the assassination plot against President KENNEDY and that he had been

"salted away". Subject denied any Involvement in any conspiracy and denied

that he had any information of use to GARRISON. Subject alleged that his

fear that the CIA might try to "eliminate" him was planted in his mind by

Mr. GARRISON. (See page 2 of interview report). On page 3 of the interview

report Subject states he no longer believes that it 1s realistic to think that the

CiA was trying to kill him.

George R. BABINGAU, Cpt., MC, the psychiatrist at the U. S. Army Hospital,

Berlin who interviewed Subject, was granted a continuing liaison clearance

on 17 October 1968 at the request of DDP/E/G/ IS.

Dr • Fawin Ae

WINSIEIN was security approved as a continuing contact

through SECRET for the Medical Staff on 13 July 1965. WEINSTEIN 1s with the

Walter Reed Army-Medical Center, Washington, D. C.

Ricey S. NW, Jrd, NACHI's attorney who was present during the

interview,

1s with the Washington, D. C. law firm of NEW, MACKEY ano

GEORGE. Newspaper clippings from the WASHINGION STAR for 17 March 1966

and the NEW YORK TIMES for 29 August 1965 reflect that NICEY has been

associated with East Berlin attorney, Wolfgang VOGEL, and West Berlin

attorney, Juergen STANGE, In a number of cases involving the release

of Americans from East Germany. According to an FBI report dated 3

February 1967 these releases usually involved the payment of specified

sums of money and VOGEL and STANCE were allegedly reaping large monetary

benefits for their

services.

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1: DE0 1968

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination:

Richard Case Nagell (201-746537)

1. Subject was born 5 August 1930 at Greenwich, New York

Clty, N. Y. He ls a U. S. citisen with passport J 543069 .

2. Subject is not assoctated with ClA and bas not been no

associated.

3, He entered the U.S. Army on 5 August 1948, his eighteenth

blithday, Hia military career was distingulahed. He was awarded

many military decorationa for his service in Boxed. He was sever

AWOL or court-martialled.

A. On 28 November 1954 Subjoct was one of sis men to a

B-25 whick crashed near Friendship Alrport. Nagell was the sole

surviVOr. The plane was not found for ll 1/2 hours. Nagell suffered

severe injury to the head and facial disfigurement.

He was honorably

dlscharged from the Army on 20 October 1959 with the rank of captain.

In December 1959 he was employed as a special investigator by the

Department of Alcoholic Gontrol, State of Callfornie: He was diemiered

fross this positios in June 1962. In July 1962 he was shot in the chest

but refused ta provide the police with further Information. In August

1968 he trent to Mesdeo City. In September and agala in October 1962

he appeared at the Ametican Embassy la Mexico Gity. He asked for

help in collecting monty from the State of Gallfornia. He clalmed that

he had been approached for saplonage recrultment while in Mexico

City but refused to provide any particulars. He said that he wanted to

renounce hia U.S, citirenship. He left Mezico Gity on 28 October

1962. On 16 November and 15 December 1962 he was in touch with the

FBI in New York City and Jacksonville, Florida. During the latter

meeting he sald that he had been approsched is Washington, D.G., by

someone whom he considered to be working for the Soviets.

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In December 1962 and January 1963 Nagell wan examined

at the VA hospital at Bay Pines, Florida. The diagnosis was

"chronic brain syndrome associated with brain trauma with behavioral

reaction characterised by passive aggressive and paranold featurea."

(An FBI memorandam of 12 June 1964 noted that Nagell wan considered

mentally disturbed by his mother, hia brother, an ax-wife, and a

frierd. The mothet, who satd that she had been under paychiatric care

for several yeara, described Subject's brother, Louls, an an aimost

hopelens alcoholtc. )

6. On 20 September 1963 Subject was arrested la El Paso,

Texas, on the charge of baving tried to rob the State National Bank.

A cell rate concluded from Subject's remarka that he had become a

Communist Party member aftex hid discharge from the army, that he

had attempted suicide three times after his arrest, and that he had made

arrangements with the CP in Los Angeles to piek up bis paseport la

El Paso so that he could go to Crechoslovalda.

7. 2a a letter of 6 January 1964 Nagell advised the FBI in

El Paso that in September of 1963 he had been instructed by an agent

of a foretys government to comply with an agreement made in May 1963

to participate in a criminal offende againat the U.S. or be exposed to

the FBl. it was this threat, sald Nagell, that led bim to try to hold up the

bank.: The reference appeare to be to the assassination of President

Kennedy, At any xate, sometione alter the sasnasinatios Nagell claimed

that he had known both Oswald and hle wife.

Pietares of Nagell were

shown to Martas Dewald an 18 January 1964. She said that she did not

know biza,

B. At the tline of his arrest Subject had in his possession e

notebook which made reference to "Medical Aid to Guba", the "Fair

Play for Cuba Cormittee," the sames at six persons alleged to be

Cla agents, and other informallos. The FBl Infarmed the Office of

Security on 12 March 1964 that at the time of arrest Nagell also had a

Hat of at names, marked CIA. The names were F, Parker, Mrs..

Guthries, C. Churchill, J. Sloss, E. Lelbacher, and J. Davazos,

was later determined that Richard Fecteau aldo appeared on this list,

where he was marked as "Lyon, Mass.", and "DAE (CLA)".

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8. Out records show that Richard G. Fecteau was

aboard an American plane shot down over Manchuria in

November 1952 and that he to serving in Pelping a treaty

year sentence on spy charges. Fecteau, an OPG employee,

was quoted in the press as saying that he worked fox ClA.

b. F. Parker was not identified.. He may possibly be

Joba Floyd Parker, an Agency employee in 1961 who was in

Japan in 1952.

c. There la no pertinent identifiable laformation about

Mia. Inu Guthries.

She may be F'rances Agoes Guthrte, an

Agency employee la 1964.

d. C. Churchill was notidentilled. He may be Greighton

Churchill, who was in Japan in 195z.

e. I. Sloso may be Joba Richard Slost, an Agency

employee is 196€.

f. E. Lelbacher could be identical with Ernat Lelbacker

who in 1964 was in the Los Angeles fleid office of the DCS.

J. Davanon many refer to Joseph Frances Davanos,

also ta the Inos Angeles feld office at the time.

9. John Floyd Parker, frances Guthrie, Ernst Ledbacker.

Joseph Frances Davanon, and John Richard Sloss all stated to the best

of their knowledge they had never met Nagell. It lo possible, however,

that Nagell knew of knew of Parker, Churchill, and Guthrie through

their work in the fax Fast. An for Lelbacker and Davanos, Nagell

lIved in Lon Angeles in 1962.

10. On 16 April 1964 Nagell sent to the FBl a letter claiming

that in September 1963 he had sent to the Bureau a regletered letter

signed "Jack Kramor", The 1964 letter laplied that the 1963 letter

had warned the F'BI about the impending assassination. The FBI, of

course, did not receive such a letter.

11. In Jasuary 1968 Williaz I. Turner stated in an article in

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President Kennedy", p. 56, that Nagell was then still confined

at Lcavenworth, that he had been a highly decorated infantry captain

Ia the Korean War, and that he clalmed to bave become a ClA agent

Ramparta shifted the plane crash in which Nagell was

Iajured fros 195é and Maryland to 1957 and Cambodle. The article

repeated the allegation that he ataged & phony holdup la order to be

under arrest when the ausassination occurred.

12. On 6 June 1968 the American Consulate In Zurich cabled

Washlagton to say that Richard Case Nagell, passport J 543069, had

appeared at the consulate on 1 June and had said that he was working

for a secret U.S. Government agency on a mission to Geneva, where

he was to meet some Japanese. He asked for money. He returned to

the consulate the next dey, war lacoherent, and seemed peychetic. He

claimed that on 14-16 May 1968 he had been interviewed by Dietrict

Attorney Jim Garrison. He said that Garrison had warned him that he

was in danger of being killed and that he wanted to inform CLA that he

was in Zurich.

19. On 7 September 1968 another William Turner plece was

printed by Ramparts under the heading"! Asiasainations / Epatein's

Garrison". It referred to Nagell as a former U.S. Intelligence agent

and repeated much the sare story that it had told in January. Turner

and Ramparts may have bees unaware that Nagell was out of jail by then.

14. On 25 October 1968 the Washingtos Post reported that after..

holding Nagell fox four months, the Last Germans had released him

on 23 October at an East-West Bexiin crossing-point. Nagell left.by

plane for the U.S. on 25 October, "Informed sources" said that Nagell

was taken off a train en route through East Germany to Berlin because

he raade some remarke which the East Germans considered derogatory.

15. On 31 October 1968 State forwarded the text of a report by a

J, 5. Army paychlatrlet who examined Nagell on 23 October.

Nagell

said that he was on active duty with the armay from 1948 to 1959 and that

from 1953 to 1959 he was an officer in military intelligence. He also

provided accurate information about the 1954 plane crash and its results ..

among them, in his oma wordo, his "'unstable personality and immature

or Impulaive behaviour". He said that he draws 64% disability pay. He

lost his job in Calliornte because one night in 1962, while drunk, he tried

to break down the door of the apartment of bis estrenged wife.

After his confused attempt in 1963 to rob the El Paso bank, he

spent 4 1/2 yeare in prinon. He was examined by Dr. Edwin Weinstein,

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a noted American neurologlet, who loind bis electroencephalograma

abnormal, and as a sedult he was released from primon on 29 April 1968.

pated wet by be are a to a told darto be Jan har 1968 ho

Information of any upe to him. The interview left him. however. wit

two feaxe: that Garrison might try to subpoens him and that CLA might

try to "elimlaate" hira.. (By the time he was providing this inforaation

In Bezlin Nagell was well aware that he was not involved in any conspiracy.

to assassinate President Kennedy.) He said that his fear of CIA was

planted in bla mind by Mr. Garrison.

After his release he went to New Xork, there a sister lives. He

was almost bit by a car driven without lights and decided to go to Europe

to escapo being killed by CiA. In June he appeared in Zurich. He next

det out for West Berlin but was taken off the train on 11 June 1968.

Fox several montha he was repeatedly anked to admit that he was a apy.

Eventually he concluded that the only way to obtata his release waa to

pretend that he wan mentally Ill. He did so, was examined by a

paychiatrlet, and was released.

"He no longer belleves that it is realletic to think that the CLA was

trylag to lll bim." He termed limself "chrontcally paranold", The

Army psychlatrist concluded "Currently he le not paychotic and peeras

competent in a legal and psychiatzle sense . . .

Negell'e final remark was, "Well, I'll tell you one thlag; that's

the last time I ever take a trada through East Germany. "

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MEMORANDUM FOR:

DC/R&A

cI Staff

SUBJECT

Richard Case NAGELI

Attacked for your information 18 Hus memorandun dated 26 March 1964

from NI. Solta of this start lleting the names of seven persons found ln an

address book by the f'al on the occasion of their arrest of Richard Case

I have noted in longhaad on the attachuent the names of those

Individuals on whom ve have a record.. The others are designated either

unidentiflable or no recorã.

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Mr. R. J. Leonard

Chief, Research Branch/SRS

NAGELL, Richard Case

26 March 1964

1. Attached is a copy of a 2 October 1962 memorandum from

the FBI in regard to Richard Case NAGELL.

2. SA Alexander W. NEALE, JI. of the Washington Field

Office, FBI, has informally advised the undersigned that NAGELL has

been arrested on the West Coast for bank robbery, is going to be

tried in the near future for the alleged crime, and that NAGiLl had in

his possession the following information:

Richard FECTEAU - OS record

(Lynn, Mass)

DAG (CIA)

CLA

MI. S. PARKER - UI.

MIS. GUTHRIES - N.R.

MI. C. CHURCHILL - U. I.

Mr. J. DAVANON- O5 recod

ME. E SLEACH - record

3. A check of SO indices has revealed no record of NAGELL. and

an RI check only disclosed the attached FBl report. Please recheck SO

Indices on the subject, have a file set up on an expedite basis, and on an

expedite basis identify the above individuals as to whether any have any

connection with this Agency.

The above Richard FECTEAU may be

identical to the individual who was captured by the Chinese Communiste

and is now in prison.

4. Also check with Mrs. THORN of OQ/C to determine whether

00/C has any record of NAGELL. It is believed that very possibly some

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of the above individuals may be connected with the Jon Angeles of San

Francisco Field Office of QO/C, but at the present moment limit the

check with Mrs. THORN to determine if they have any record of

Richard Case NAGELL.

Bruce I. Solie

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£S8 November 1968

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:

SUBJECT:

NIGHIL, Richard Case - #264170

REF:

I. State Telegrams No. 258355 to U. S. Mission Berlin dtd 19 Oct

1968 and No. 2538 from Berlin dta 22 Oct 1968

2. Clipping from WASHINGTON POST ata 25 Oct 1968

Subject is one of the characters in the GARRISON case.

See summary

dta 18 January 1968 in his file. He was arrested for bank robbery at El

Paso, Texas on 20 September 1963 and sentenced to Leavenworth penitentiary.

In June 1968 CIA received a cable fromBern in which NACHI was quoted as

telling the CONGUN he wanted them to "inform CIA he in Zurich".

The details of how and why NAGIL is in Europe, in particular Fast

BerlIn, are missing State Telegram No. 2538 from Berlin states that

the charges are still unknown.

"Basic documents - are still in hand of state

Security authorities."

Subject was released by: East German authprities together with one

Teon Burgis JAMES. An intensive review of JAMES' file (#266602) failed

to reveal any connection between JAMES and Subject. State Department

reported both cases simultaneously because JAMES and Subject are currently

JAMES is also mentally unstable and

has cause embarrassment abroad for the State Department since 1964.

He was of

Agency interest in 1965 because he had in his possession while in Switzerland

the names of two Agency employees who were in a covert status.. It was never

determined how JAMES obtained these names.

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SIRHAN'S MOTIVES

Unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan

has lived an sell on his morivasions -but he

has chosen so semain silen. The onlyother

porensial. source of infirmation is lis

Jumils which hail mor spoken to the press.

Mushmund Acted-Heell, an

Egyptlan

correspondent fur Akhbar Elyoum in

Cairo, recentli guined access 1o Sirhan's

family. Based upon information supplied

him by she family, he has written exclusiv-

els for Ramparts she following account

of Sirhan's motivations and the strategy

he plans for his trial.

Because of the forthcoming trial and

the difficuli; of dealing with this subject

without emotional involvement, the editors

of RAMpaRTs have elected in present this

information of historic interest lo our

readers without display, and in as ob-

jective a form as possible.

B

ECAUSE I AM AN ARAB I was able to

break through the burrier of sus-

picion that had stopped other

journalists coll and obtain the first in-

depth interviews the Sirhan family has

given since the assassination. From their

comments and from what Sirhan has said

to them, a picture of the man and his

motives begins to emerge, replacing the

misleading portraits which haveswamped

the U.S. press.

The fact that Sirhan has not publicly

discussed his trial is no accident.. It is his

own strategy. sonething he developed

after thinking about it for long hours in

his specially made jail cell. In fact, he

has contided los his lienly that he will

never make an statement unless special

provisions are made for the courtroom

proceedings.

What Sirhan wants is,

quite simply, publicity. He wants the

major television networks to be allowed

to broadcast the entire trial. If they do

this, he says, he will tell all. "And if they

refuse?" his brother Adel recently asked

him. "Then I shall go to the gas chamber

-silent,"? Sirhan replied.

To understand why Sirhan is indeed

Mad. Nle is deeply committed to making

his trial a public and political forum for

the Arab position.

College educated, articulate and a

RAMPARTS

Assassinations]-

voracious reader, Sirhan is confident

about his own ability to cope with his

predicament. His eldest brother, Shereif,

told me that Sirhan studies the intrica-.

cies of his case as many as len hours a

day in his cell. Shereif recalls that Sirhan

recently said lo him, "I do not need i

lawyer. I understand my case and know

how to defend myself."' But even so,

Attorney Russell Parsons is defending

his client, and doing it on Sirhan's own

grounds. "The main issue," Parsons told

me, "is to answer this question: why, for

what reason, did Sirhan kill Robert

Kennedy? There are 100 witnesses who

saw Sirhan shooting Mr. Kennedy, but

no one seems to know why he did it."

Sirhan and his attorney hope that the

defense-presuming that the television

networks are allowed into the court-

room-will show that Sirhan did not

have "malice aforethought" in shoot-

ing Kennedy because the act was a polit-

ical gesture, and that Kennedy, to Sirhan

at least,

was merely a symbol. His

brother Adel noles that "if Sirhan was

just an assassin, he could have done it in

another way, just by having a gun with a

telescope. He went to the Ambassador

Hotel expecting to get caught; that is

why he left his notes at home. I believe

that Sirhan wanted to get caught so that

he could say what he believes."

THEN I FIRST TRIED to meet with

the Sirhan family, I was re-

• fused. Security is extremely

heavy around them, and they are under-

standably wary of new faces. Later, when

I finally obtained an invitation to mect

with them, Mrs. Sirhan apologized, I

believe for having been inhospitable to

a fellow Arab.

This family, which fled Jordan to seek

greater safety and security than it had

known, is now living in terror. They are

somewhat at a loss to understand the

events which have suddenly catapulted

them into history. None of the four

brothers goes to hisjob; they all feel that

death follows them everywhere, and they

move carefully, with a heavy guard.

"Why don't you just leave this country?"

lushed Shereil. "Where shall we go?"

he answered, "To whom shall we lenve

our brother! Our land is under Isruel's

occupation." Shereif clarified his state-

ment: "Our brother is in jail; we have to

stay."

11968.

I sensed not only the Sirhans' con-

fusion, but also some bitterness. They

have notreceived any aid from the Arab

countries, as they originally thought they

might. Parsons is aiso somewhat sur-

prised; he had hoped thit the vurious

locn! Arab consulates would help defriy

court costs. i

Indeed, Los Angeles' Jordanian con-

sul, who visited Sirhan in jail at Sirhan's

request, indicated to me that the accused

assassin hadjexpected the Arab people

to treat him as a hero. However, except

for some Palestinian extremists, his act

has been universally repudiated by the

Arab world. One Arab newspaper has

said editorially,

"We don't feel any

responsibility for this. It is the society

that fed him with hostility, the society

that gave him the gun, that is responsi-

ble." Members of the Arab Students'

Association, of which Sirhan was once

an officer, feel that the killing of Kennedy

was a terrible mistake. One of them suid

10 me,

"What are we going to do with

the rest of the American candidates? Kill

them all because they want lo help

Isruel?"

Still, the Sirhans" friends are primarily

Arab, and they live in an atmosphere

that is more: Arab than American. The

entire family spent a good deal of time

discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict. The

mother says that Sirhan was the most

sensitive and the most involved during

these discussions. Adel says that Sirhan

once saw a television report of Robert

Kennedy addressing the members of the

Nevch Shalom Temple in Portland,

Oregon. While in the synagogue, Ken-

nedy, wearing a yarmulke, declared that

the United States must help Israel

against aggression from whatever source.

""Unlike the South Vietnamese," Ken-

nedy said, "the Israelis have shown they

are willing to fight for their own survival.

Indeed, Israel is the very opposite of

Vietnam: the Israeli government is very

democratic, effective and free of corrup-

tion. Its people are united in its support."

The senator then urged the Johnson Ad-

ministration to procred it oner with the

sale of 50 Phandone jet lighters los the

Israell Air Force and do den dll camormis

aid 10 the Arile commeres. This whole

episode made Sirhan very ngry, Shereif

recalls. "He lell the room putting his

hands on his ears and almost weeping."

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I asked Sirhan's mother why

she

thought her son had shot Kennedy.

"Everything in this country was helping

Sirhan," she maintained. "It was push-

ing him to the danger point. Everything,

the propaganda of the Zionists, every-

thing, was against his country, against

his people."

Adel described Sirhan's current state

of mind: "He feels he has done a terrible

thing, but he feels now it is too late to be

sorry. Now he wants Americans to listen

to something they have never listened

t0."

And at their first meeting in the jail,

Sirhan's mother said to him, "Shame on

you. Why have you done such a thing?"

He replied, "Il's 100 late lo speak of it..

But all the Americans will know why."

- MAHMOUD ABDEL-HADI

[Assassinations]

EPSTEIN'S GARRISON

WO SUMMERS ACiD a landem allack

on the Warren Keport all but rele-

gated that work to the fiction

section of your local library. The first

was Mark Lane's Rush ‹ Judgment,

which convincingly demonstrated-us-

ing the Warren Commission's own evi-

dence-that Oswald could not have done

it alone, and drew the first dim outlines

of the conspiracy theory. The second

was Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest, which

exposed the rather shoddy inner work-

ings of the Commission and laid bare the

tortured logic it finally employed to dis-

pel notions of a conspiracy.

Both books became best sellers, but

their authors have since gone different

wilys. Lille, whees shuttered his lnw prac-

lice and struggled for yours to get his

manuscrip published in the United

States die was first published in Britain),

has stumped the country in support of

District Altorney Jim Garrison's theory

that the assussination was carried out by

11 inti-Castro paramilitary lean super-

HUMIDIDT:

vised by persons with ciA affiliations.

Epstein, whose book was a converted

Cornell University master's thesis-the

subject was urged upon him by his men-

tor, Andrew Hacker-has emerged as

one of Garrison's most fervid accusers.

His vehicle is The New Yorker: in the

issue of July 13, he delivered a 25,000-

word blast at Garrison, calling the DA's

investigation a fraud.

The New Yorker article had its genesis

over a year ago, when the author showed

up at Garrison's office in New Orleans.

According to Chief Investigator Louis

Ivon, Epstein spent about 48 hours in

town, some three hours at the office, and

hasn't been seen since. Much of what he

writes about has occurred since this

touch-and-go visit and is obviously hear-

say on his part, yet he writes with the

authoritative tone of a participant. Un-

doubtedly this technique is convincing

to his audience, which assumedly is un-

familiar with the intricacies of Garrison's

investigation. But to those familiar with

the facts, the article is badly slanted.

For example, Philosophy Professor

Richard. Popkin of the University of

California at San Diego, author of the

book The Second Oswald (propounding

the theory of an Oswald double) and

"Garrison's Case"' in The New York

Review of Books (September 14, 1967),

recently commented on the article:

"I found it a queer mix of facts, half-

facts, rumors and very dubious informa-

tion from people hostile to Garrison.

Epstein has compressed all this to make

it look like everything's on the same

level. I think it would take an awful lot

of work to disentangle what he's saying

on almost any page as to how much of

it has a factual base, how much of it is

rumor that he has heard from people,

how much of it are charges that have

been made by people like (William] Gur-

vich [who volunteered to work on the

investigation without pay, passed him-

self off as the Chief Investigator, then

•turned on Garrison] against Garrison,

which haven't been substantiated any-

where except by Gurvich's statement of

them. And also that he tends to take

facts and information and rumors and so

on, that occurred over a year and a half's

period, and compress them all into

simultaneous events, so that a statement

a paon the brin of in is

tion or staternents he mude a year and a

half later in a totally dillerent context.

So l think it's a quite untair presence-

tion, which has some laclual buse, but

which also has a lot of very dubious

elements in it."

One of the dubious elements is Ep-

stein's version of the testimony of Dean

Andrews Jr., a colorful attorney who

numbers among his former clients Os-

wald (who wanted his undesirable dis-

charge from the Marine Corps rectified)

and the late David William Ferrie, a

central figure in the Garrison investiga-

tion. The day. after the assassination,

Andrews told the Commission he re-

ceived a phone call from a man he knew:

as Clay Bertrand, whom he described as

a "lawyer without a briefcase" for local

homosexuals. Bertrand asked him to go

to Dallas and defend Oswald. Garrison

contends Bertrand is Clay Shaw, whom

he has charged with conspiracy.

According, to Epstein, Andrews ini-

tially gave the FBi "several different de-

scriptions" of Bertrand, and finally ad-

mitted that Bertrand "was merely a

figment of his imagination." Later, be-

fore the Commission, Andrews stated

that he had recently seen Bertrand in a

bar and, Epstein says, described him as

"a boy" who was "five feet eight inches"

and had "sandy hair." "No other clues

to Bertrand's identity turned up, how-

ever," writes: Epstein, "and Wesley J.

Liebeler, a Commission lawyer who con-

ducted the investigation in this arca, said

he was convinced that no such person

An objective reuding of "Andrews

testimony, however, reveals that he

told the FBl that Bertrand was" approxi-

mately six feet one inch to six feet two

inches in height, brown hair, and well

dressed" —a description that closely

matches the tall, aristocratic Shaw. As

for Bertrand being a figment of his

imagination, Andrews declared, "That's

what the Feebees (FBI] put on." He re-

counted that G-men had pestered him

to the point where he told them, "Write

what you want, that I am nuts. I don't

care." As for his later remark to the

Commission's Mr. Liebeler that Ber-

trand was only five feet, eight inches,

Andrews explained that "this time I was

looking for the fellow, he was sitting

down." Nöwhere does he refer to Ber-

trand as a "boy." Epstein was perhaps

confused by his exclamation: "I don't

play Boy Scout and measure them."

In his superficial examination of Our-

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rison's case, Epstein evidently failed to

check the police records prepared upon

Shaw's arrest. Thoroughly shaken by the

irrest. Shaw blurted out, according to

Patrolman Aloysius Habighorst, that he

had used! the alias "Clay Bertrand." The

alins was daly entered on the fingerprint

card and booking sheet.

One of the most fascinating charic-

ters in the conspiracy drama is Kichard

Case Nakell, i former U.S. Intelligence

agent who claims he encountered O)swald

in Mexico Cily in 1963, and had been

instructed by his spy superiors to deter-

mine it the rumors of an assassination

attempt had any foundation. Nagell says

he learned that the first attempt against

Kennedy was scheduled for September

26 in Washington, D.C., and that Oswald

(who crossed the border into Mexico the

day before) was to be set up as the

"patsy" and shot in front of the Cuban

"HERE COME DE JUDGE"

ONSIDER THE REVOLT ON THE LEFT

it the following occured:

The President, on the eve of

his abdication, arranged to accept the

resignation of the chief justice of the

United States Supreme Court in order

1n replace him with the President's

former lawyer, then an associate justice:

As a party, the President sabmitled

do the Senate the name of his oldese hand-

holding crony do till the meney created

My the promotion of his former lawyer:

The cheet justice, whe hild wrillen i

famous report designed lo satisfy the

people that the assassination of the

President's predecessor was sans con-

spiracy and the sole act of a demented

mind, conditioned his resignation on the

Senate's approval of the appointments;

The President's ex-lawyer, when called

to testify before a Senate committee,

conceded than during his three years on

she hugh comed he hind confined los ict

as the Prescolns irelesses:

There purstand do than role, los badd siall

m on numerous cabmet-level meetings,

but that he had merely "summarized"

the views of others for the benefit of the

President;

That as a justice he had dressed down

a prominent businessman who had criti-

RANITA

Embassy in Mexico City. When the anti-

Castro paramilitary team could not

penetrate the Presidential security in

Washington, Oswald got a reprieve. But

Nagell, who says he was sure the attempt

would come off but failed to get the FBI

lo listen, faked a bank robbery in El

Paso on September 20 so that he would

be arrested and in federal custody when

the assassination occurred

Epstein dismisses Nagell as being

mentally unbalanced, noting that "court

records indicated that Nagell had suf-

fered brain damage in an airplane crash

in 1957" and that, following the bank

episode, he was "an inmate of a federal

institution for the criminally insane in

Springfield, Missouri.". As he does so

frequently throughout the article, Ep-

stein delivers a version which if devel-

oped fully would throw a different light

ron the matter. Nagell was in a plane

crash, but he was given Intelligence

(Law

cized war spending, though whether his

call was made at the President's request

he could not say and remain faithful to

the Separation of Powers;

That the businessman had retracted

his statement, though in the end it

proved to be accurate;

That the justice could not answer

questions concerning his judicial opin-

ions since the Constitution specifies that

members of Congress may not be ques-

tioned about their acts in any place other

than in Congress;

That despite this asserted Constilu-

tional bar, the justice pointed to his dis-

senting vote against extending the one-

man-one-vote principle to local govern-

ment as proof of his devotion to State's

rights;

That although he had been at the

President's disposal as advisor-summar-

izer, he had never been involved in dis-

cussions that could conceivably reach

the Court;

That the issucs under discussion at the

1op level mucetings lud ranged trom the

Vietnam War to riots in the cities;

That the justice had voted to jail druft

card burners and had voled ugainst

taking up for consideration the legality

of the war;

That he voted to give the police sweep-

ing rights to stop-and-frisk suspects on

training after his recovery, indicating

that he had no permanent brain injury.

Moreover, the fact that he stood trial

implies that he was legally sane. Re-

cently, he was released from Leaven-

worth

Penitentiary-he had been at

Springfield only temporarily.

The publication of the lipstein article

came at an opportune line for Clay

Shaw. Obtaining advance copies, his al-

torneys entered it as evidence before a

three-judge federal panel which was hear-

ing arguments that the DA was "con-

ducting a"rein of terror" and "perse-

cuting" the defendant. Apparently the

panel was unimpressed, for it unani-

mously rejected the defense's argument

and ordered the case to trial.

If Garrison does get his day in court-

a day Epstein has struggled in deny him

-chances are his case will hold up better

than The New Yorker's brief for the

defense.

- WILLIAM TURNER

suspicion alone;

That within two months.uf his pro-

posed elevation he had authored a book-

let, "Concerning Dissent and Disobedi-

ence," which limited the moral right to

disobey laws to those "basically offensive

to fundamental values of life or the Con-

stitution" and held that even in such

cases no legal defense could be urged,

but juiling must le: willingly accepted;

That shortly after that boook was pub-

lished, the justice: denoured, in is ture

interview from Wishmelon, the nctivitien

of some of the Ciolin Universily

protestors as "rotally incrensable from

the point of even primitive morality":

That during his first term on the

Court, he cast the deciding vote uphold-

ing the conviction and five-year sentence

of Ralph Ginzburg for "pandering" a

non-obscene magazine;

That during each of his three terms he

nearly always voled for business interests

and against ellorts in cut down the

(rusts:

been one sil the Treese kel's most harwkish

advisors on the Vietnam War.

Consider the revolt on the left if any-

thing like this happened in 1968.

-SIDNEY E. ZION

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Remarks:

The attached report by Mrs. Hall

-based on cable traffic re appearance of

a Richard NAGELL in Zurich raises question

fo:

FBI. Is NAGELL in GARRISON investigation

still in prison, or is he one and the same

person in Switzerland?

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FROM NAME. ADDRESS AND PHONE NO

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DANTAIN: TOP: CRieR, 180/s08 108716/121165

SUBJECT:

NAGELL, Richard Case - #264170

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OUT Cable 06625 ata 7 June 1968 to Zurich]

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Reference cables concern the claim of an individual appearing at

the Consul General's office in Zurich, Sgitzerland on 4 June 1968 that

he is one Richard Case NAGELL. NAGELL was sentenced to a 10 year term for

bank robbery on 9 June 1964 and is supposedly in a federal prison in Missouri.

GARRISON interviewed Subject as a witness in his investigation

according to a news clipping from the CHICAGO AMERICAN dated 2 January

1968. The clipping is marked in Subject's file which is attached.

file also contains a copy of the summary dated 18 January 1968 prepared

in research on the GARRISON CASE.

It would be of interest for documentation of Subject's file to

ascertain from the FBI if Subject is still in préson.

I did not receive reference IN Cable 25955 intttally. Attached is

a copy I obtained from Os Cable Desk. However, the original copy was

routed to SRS and it is possible some one else

on the Staff is already

handling the matter.

Sarah K. Hall

SRS/OS

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1 SUBJ, RICHARD CASE NAGELL, DOB 5 AUG 30 NEW YORK

CITY, US PASSPORT NUMBER J 543069, CAME TO CONGEN 4 JUNE,

INTERVIEWED BY VICE CONSUL. TQD INCOHERENT STORY ABOUT

"WORKING FOR US US SECRET AGENCY ON MISSION TO

GENEVA WHERE TO MEET JAPANESE"• WANTED CONGEN ASSISTANCE

IO GET MONEY WHICH CLAIMS HAD DEPOSITED NEW YORK BANK

BEFORE DEPARTURE US. SUBJECT WAS TOLD BY VICE CONSUL CONGEN

COULD NOT ASSIST•

2.

SUBS RETURNED TO CONGEN 5 JUNE, ASKED FOR POLITICALD

OFFICER, THUS WAS REFERRED TO TEGETHOFF BY RECEPTIONIST •

SUBU MADE ASSUMPT ION TEGETHOFF WAS WOFIRM, WHICH DENIED •

SUBJ PUITE INCOHERENT, IN FACT, APPEARS PSYCHOTIC

POSSIBLY DANGER OUS.

CLAIMS WAS INTERVIEWED BY

NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT ATTORNEY GARRISON

14-16 MAY CN CONNECTION "CIA AND PRES KENNEDY ASSASSINATION."

SUBJ CLAIMS GARRISON TQD HIM HE IN DANGER BEING KILLED.

THEREFORE WANTS "INFORM CIA HE IN ZURICH."

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1. RICHARD CASE NAGELL, AKA JOE CRAMER, JOE KRANE, ROBERT C.

NOLAN, 201-748537, WELL KNOWN TO INERGO. SUBJECT ENTERED US ARMY 1948

HONORABLY DISCHARGED CAPTAIN 1959 DURING KOREAN CONFLICT RECEIVED

MANY CAMPAIGN AWARDS. SOLE SURVIVOR AIRPLANE CRASH NOVEMBER 1954,

SEVERAL

SUFFERED FACIAL DISFIGUREMENT AND GIVEN PSYCHIATRIC EXAMINATION•

MOTHER, BROTHER, FORMER WIFE, AND FRIEND OF NAGELL ALL CONSIDER BIM

TO BE MENTALLY DISTRUBED. NO INDICATION NAGILL INVOLVED IN ESPIONAGE

COMMUNIST PARTT, OR FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTED, ACTIVITY.

2.

IN 1964 LETTER TO INERGO NAGELL REFERRED TO ANOTHER LETTER

RE OSWALD.

WHICH HE ALLBOLDLY WROTE TO LNERGO IN 1963/ LNERGO FILES CONTAIN NO

RECORD OF 198S LETTER. NAGELL IMPRISOND ON BANK ROBBERY CHARGE AND

HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

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18 Dañaasy 1968

DAGitty Richard Case

ALLBGNPIOIE

Richard Case NAGith,

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highly decorated intentry

Captais 1a tad Korean Har"

alleges that he becare a

CIA aganto Be seid he

firad the qua in tha band at

M FaDo, Teans because be

vented to be la custody shes

the asuasatnation of

President Kristit tool

PLACE.

MAGELE, charged

that "the pat illegally

seized ITON HIM EVIdenCE

crucial to hia defense,

such as notebocks containlas

the banes di certaia tid

спроусєв, погостарав, сис

Medcon tourist cards (one

1n the neus of Joseph KRAkhiy

the pithur in tho sust of

Albert ELDEL) and receipts for

rogistared matt, Incinding the one

for the recter aent addisa,

MIninE of the MEsassinatiO

NAGilt datined D0 10s 11-

structad to "arrou the

pstay, tast 1e kill him

(DONALD)) after the assassin

antica, ls contended be

fot cold feat und this tas

h1o reason for the stterpted

bant robbary, be sould rather

be arrusted tuan coult

article alleges that maste it

was suggested in court that

an airplane crash rAceta

survived mentally affected him,

training astes, the crash.

ALsO, MAGKIL complains de has

been anited anay beesuse of

that he tacts

Fones although, subleet was of

taterest to Os da 195k and early

1965 because of infornation

furnished to the Ageasy by the

Pet that he had in his possession

the samos of six CIA employess

at the tine of his arrant for band

robbery at E1 Faso, Foxsis os 20

septanber 1963-

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1960 BANPARIS

Article by Rittisa

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subjeet bocase of interest to the orfios of Security in Hares 1964

wen tos lid imorsi tue Agency that bubject had sa his possession at

the tine of his anant for bank romboxy ut Ed feso, Toras on 20 Septeniber

1953 the none of Richera FECILAU (en individoni by this nme sas captured

by the Chinase Commalete nad is nov in prison 1e China) snd of wix Ageney

amplogress

lesearch falled to revash any renaon vy fActtI, hud these

smes in his postessios. It was concluded that watle FAlilI de unguastsaaably

unbalmesd, hio story of beine involved in espicause in sot fully contradicted

by evidenco:. Le conta hove been contacted by a soviet egect salle la Washtagton,

D. Ca jA December I962 on stile ho sus in lezieo City in Beptenber end October

196e. S1o file contatas mostly fal reporte datel 1962 und 19u% end in these

se derracated bis history of nental instability and puyaleet congleiata

sterming stoms the plom crash, Attached te a carmalogy dited 3 Merah 1965

made fren the lafornation contelnsa in the FBI reporte. at the tine thie

security research nus conducted, ft mus niccended thnt illut be parsonaliy

MervienE Er & TOteONAtE DI V ZE 129 DOTE 1130 1054 BH944 1893

ou te suo into the possession/bore nons but no furthor potlea to indicatei

in hts file int this intoruie ma not uniertahur.

Enbjeetto faze jetlecta no igoney latereat in his prèor to Marob 1964

shen the nines si ciA explogets vere tound in his jousessio then arcester

far bank robbiery.

The sAlAris elata taat he receivad intelligence tendning after the plane

crash sa $51t.

The crash osourred 29 Movenber 1954 ena te gredreted fruin

Army Intelligence School, It. Holabird, Matylend on 15 August 1955.

sexved in lorea and dupan as s mesher of the ll: B. Arty Gamteriatelligence

Corpe, terminatine eboat 1955. A Lte Colo Had le Cral tan servad witt

NiLI peracarily In Fores adyleed that trast was sot steble mentally and

that this tnatabillty vos probabiy due to brain damiga sustared in the alrpione

Ersebio

Tre RASPARIS erticle's claIs that SAURIs cald ho firad the gus ta the

bank at El Piso, texas because he tasted to be in eustody tben the assasatnation

took place ts not completely in coufliot with a atetement Mattia, nedo da

1 January 1964 shich tas, hovever, after the nosansinatios, (ees pige t or

chronology)

The RAMPARTE artlele's allegation that the fBI took fras lAGELI E note-

boos contestina the samas ot CIA enplogues 1s trive.

nattiys oceplaint that be was "salted avey" in open to specuation

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS

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JAN 2 1968

Mabley's Report:

Garrison Case-

Can We Afford

Not to Listen?

BY JACK MABLEY

THIS INVESTIGATION INTO the assassination of Presi-

gent kennedy is being reopened. It is being conducted by a

prosecutor with the power of subpena and a grand jury

with the power to indict.

It would be better for the country

if the dodoral government were mak-

ing the investigation rather than a

New Orleans official who has been

accused of beingunstable and of

seeking headlines:

However, the federal government

shows no signs of wanting to reopen

the matter; and the prosecutor, Jim

Garrison, appears to be quite insistent

on carrying it thru.

• *A number of writers and self-

appointed investigators also are dis-

satisfied with conflicting facts and

• unanswered questions, and they con-

tinue. to publish evidence to rebut the

JIN. GARRISON

Warren commission conclusion that

Lee farvey Oswald alone was invplved in the assassination.

ONE OF THE MOST persistent critics of the Warren

conclusion is Ramparts magazine.

This is a liberal, no, a

radical publication which represents the viewpoint of a small

minority. However, it has done some effective investigative

reporting, particularly in exposing the CIA infiltration into

college activities."

Ramparts assigned an investigator, William W. Turner,

who they say is a former FBI agent, to spend 9 months

looking into the New Orleans evidence.

"I have worked closely with the D. A. (Garrison] and his

staff," Turner reports. "In my opinion, there is no question

that they have uncovered a conspiracy."

The gist of the New. Orleans case is: that. Oswald was

Involved with a heterogeneous group of adventurers, anti-

Castro Cubans, and radical righters who included members

uf the Minutemen and American Nazis.

Their common cause was to encourage or mount a revolt

in Cuba against Castro. They also were strongly anti-

:ammunist.

There is no question this group existed. Garrison bas

sance that Oswald was part of it. Garrison's investigators

.. evidence that Oswald's pro-Russian leanings actually

vire a front, or a disguise to conceal his real role as an

=....

: ommunist.

GARRISON BELIEVES THAT Oswald was schooled in

covert operations by the CIA while in the marine corps

at Atsugi naval station in Japan. Supporting evidence is

Oswald's proficiency in the Russian language, the source of

which was never explained, the ease with which he entered

Russia, and the lack of censure by the gövernment on his

return, or by the marine corps in his discharge.

In effect, Garrison feels Oswald was either a CIA agent

or was involved with CIA activities.

The New Orleans group was angry at President Kennedy

because of the failure of the Bay of Pigs operation and

because thoy thought Kennedy wasn't sufficiently anti-

communist:

Garrison has dozens of witnesses he will subpena to fit

bits and pieces into the puzzle. Individually, many can be

dismissed as unreliable, but collectively they raise many

questions that an objective observer would like to see

resolved.

It certainly is within the power of the federal govern-

ment to disprove every one of these witnesses' stories, if

they can be disproved. Presumably, the federal government

does not want to dignify Garrison's allegations with formal

denials.

IF THERE IS ANY substance to Garrison's charges,

two powerful agencies of the federal government stand to be

discredited. Garrison has interviewed one witness, Ricard

Cass Nagell, a highly decorated Korean war veteran whö

claims to have been a CIA agent, who says he sent a

registered letter to J. Edgar Hoover warning him of the

assassination plot: If this is true, Hoover and the FBI would

be guilty of dreadful dereliction of duty.

The CIA and CIA fronts are deeply involved in

the

activities of the men Garrison believes plotted the Presi-

dent's murder.

-Turner, the Ramparts investigator, believes powerful

government agencies are doing everything in their power

to discredit Garrison.

Ten persons involved in the case have sled, most of

them violently, since the assassination. All west to their

graves with information Garrison considers pendent ic his

investigation. -

Unless Garrison is killed or removed from office in

some way, it is difficult to see what

can sir im from

airing these stories, probably in a court of law. that the

public may judge their validity.

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HE MAY BE INFORMED DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTED TO TRACE WIFE BUT

WAS UNABLE TO DO SO.

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SUBJECT: WELFARE RICHARD CASE NAGELL

REF: BERLIN 668

1. IN INTERVIEWS WITH CONSULAR OFFICER ZURICH FEBRUARY 27

AND 28 NAGELL MADE USUAL COMPLAINIS AGAINST USG PARTICULARLY

FBI AND CIA, AND PUBLICITY THREATS.

2. NAGELL SUBSEQUENTLY VISITED CONSULATE BARCELONA MARCH

10, AND MADE FIRST OF SEVERAL VISITS EMBASSY MADRID MARCH

20' WHERE HE TALKED AT GREAT LENGTH WITH P&W OFFICERS;

DEFENSE ATTACHE, CHIEF CONSEC, AND MADE BUT DID NOT KEEP

APPOINTMENT WITH CULTURAL ATTACHE•

3.

ACCORDING CAS, NAGELL IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN

ASSOCIATED WITH CAS. INFO FROM DEPT: NAGELL'S MENTAL AFFLIC-:

TION ORIGINATED IN BRAIN DAMAGE SUFFERED AIR CRASH

NOVEMBER 1954. DIAGNOSIS DATED 4 FEB 1955: PARANOID PERSON-

ALITY, PASSIVE AGRESSIVE PERSONALITY REACTION.

4. ACTIVITIES IN MADRID: IN INTERVIEW WITH THREE CONSULAR

OFFICERS NAGELL ACCUSED

AND DEMAND OFFICERS PASS THE WORD AROUND TO "LAY OFF" OR HE

PAST THE TORO AROUN

AGENCIES OF "LEANING ON HIM"

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WOULD BLOW UP• ALSO ASSERTED DEPT HAD BROKEN PROMISE

LOCATE WIFE AND CHILDREN, REPEATED THAT CHILDREN ONLY THING

IN WORLD THAT MEANT ANYTHING TO HIM, THAT IF HE COULD NOT

FIND THEM HE WOULD TAKE LEAVE OF THIS WORLD AND WOULD

TAKE SOMEBODY WITH HIM. IN LAST MEETING WITH CONSUL APRIL 7

CONSUL HAD TWO MARINE GUARDS PRESENT VIEW USAF PSYCHIATRIST'S

ADVISE TO TAKE NO CHANCES WHATEVER. NAGELL UPSET BY GUARDS

PRESENCE AND BY CONSUL'S REFUSAL PERMIT HIS TAPING RECORDING

INTERVIEW AND TO SHOW HIM REGULATIONS PROHIBITING

RECORDING. NAGELL BELABORED PATIENT CONSUL FOR NEARLY TWO

HOURS. CONSUL INFORMED HIM THAT DEPT HAD ENDEAVORED LOCATE

WIFE AND CHILDREN WITHOUT SUCCESS, AND PROMISED TO QUERY

DEPT WHAT SPECIFIC STEPS DEPT HAD TAKEN IHIS MATTER• NAGELL

FINALLY SAID HE WOULD LEAVE SPAIN BECAUSE OF CONSUL'S

ACTION (USE OF GUARDS) AND REQUESTED THAT REPLY FROM DEPT

BE FORWARDED PARIS WHERE HE WAS GOING. ALSO INFORMED CONSUL

HE WOULD "GET HIM", BUT THROUGH POCKETBOOK, BY SUING HIM

IN US. IN THIS INTERVIEW NAGELL DENIED HAVING MADE THREATS

OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, ONLY "PROMISES" OF PUBLICITY AND OF

"PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH CERTAIN SOURCES" IF DEPT DID NOI LOCATE

CHILDREN: PRIOR DEPARTURE FROM MADRID NAGEL SENT CONSUL

POST CARD WITH MESSAGE IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND WRITING,

WHICH TRANSLATED MEANS "WITHOUT EYES WE CANNOT SEE", AND

SALUATION IN SPANISH MEANING "GOOD LUCK".

5. DEVELOPMENTS OF INTEREST IN LAST MADRID INTERVIEW: (1)

CONSUL TOLD NAGELL GENTLY HE (NAGELL) NEVER EMPLOYED BY CAS.

NAGELL INSISTED YES, HE COULD PROVE IT, BUT CONSUL DID

NOT PURSUE SUBJECT. (2) NAGELL SEVERELY CRITICIZED STATE

DEPT FOR PERMITIING CAS AGENTS INTO ITS MIDST IN FOREIGN

ESTABLISHMENIS, SAID HE KNEW OF AT LEAST TWO CAS AGENTS

IN ZURICH AND THAT CAS NOT RPT NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE AGENTS

IN SWITZERLAND. (3) NAGELL HAD ANOTHER STORY WHICH COULD

BE OF INTEREST TO NEWS MEDIA: HE ALLEGED THAT IN 1957,

"IN TIME OF PEACE", HE HAD BEEN COURIER OF TREASURY PLATES

FROM US TO JAPAN FOR COUNTERFEITING NORTH KOREAN CURRENCY.

6. COPIES OF RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE FOLLOW BY POUCH.

GP-1. MCAULIFFE

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_FEBRUARY 27 AND 28, 1969 NAGELL CALLED CONGEN ZURICH

STATING HE HAD BEEN ENTICED RETURN US IN 1968 WITH PROMISES

HIS WIFE AND CHILDREN WOULD BE LOCATED: ON MARCH 10 NAGELL

APPEARED CONGEN BARCELONA REQUESTING INFO RE WIFE AND

CHILDREN.

2.

MAGELL APPEARED AT EMBASSY MADRID MARCH 21 WITHOUT FUNDS.

REQUESTED HIS SISTER, MRS. GAMBERT, BE ASKED SEND HIM DOLS

75 FROM HIS BANK ACCOUNT FOR TRUST FUND WITH DEPARTMENT AND

THAT SISTER CASH HIS MONTHLY CHECK FOR HIM AND CABLE THE

Vn

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N3034 NAGELL, MITSUKO TAKAHASHI

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SUBJECT: WELFARE: RICHARD CASE NAGELL

REF:

BERLIN 2567

•10 NAGELL HAS RETURNED TO BERLIN. HE CALLED AT MISSION

APRIL ID AND AGAIN APRIL 14. SINCE HE WAS OBVIOUSLY IRRAI-

IONAL CONSULAR OFFICER URGED HIM TO CALL ON ARMY PSYCHIATRIST

IN BERLIN FAMILIAR WITH HIS CASE, WHICH HE DID APRIL 15•

PSYCHIATRIST SAYS HE IS MENTALLY

ILL AND SHOULD BE HOSPITAL-

IZED.

20 NAGELL SAID HE RETURNED TO BERLIN BECAUSE HE HAD "CON-

NECTIONS" WITH LOCAL PRESS WHO WOULD PUBLICIZE HIS "COMPLAINTS"

AGAINST US GOVT (LACK OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENI, LACK

OF ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING FAMILY IN US,

CEMEN AN USE

"TRUE" ROLE OF WASH-

INGTON LAWYER RICEY NEW, ETC.)•

3. IN VIEW NAGELL'S HISTORY OF IMPRISONMENT IN EAST GERMANY,

FORMER INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS AND MENTAL CONDITION (FOR

WHICH HE IS APPARENTLY ENTITLED TO FULL VA BENEFITS) WE CON-

SIDER NAGELL'S PRESENCE IN BERLIN UNDESIRABLE (BOTH FOR HIMSELF

AND FOR US GOVI) AND HOPE WE CAN PERSUADE HIM LEAVE OF HIS

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SCS - Mr. Wallace Clarke

September 5, 1969

SY/PrS - Keith O. Lynch

201-746537

C KAGGIL, Richard Case

210201

Reference is made to your nemorandum of

April 25, 1969 COnCerniNg yOUI re-

quest to locate Mra. Mitsuko Takahasi NAGELL,

the wife of. Subject.

Efforts by the SY. Los Angeles Pield Office to locate Mitsuko Takahashi

VNAGELL, aka Mrs. Richard Case NACELL, aka Mitsuko TAKARASHI, wet with

negative results:

Attached for your information and retention is a copy of an SY memorandum

dated September 2, 1969 which indicates that an individual idantified only

as f.C. NAGELL placed an advertisement in the East Village Othel, a New

York underground newspaper, which makes obscene reference to both the Central

Intelligence Agency and SX.

Attachment.

As stated

C/SRS

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cc - Central Intelligence Agency V

United States Secret Service

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Mr. Johnson PPT

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Memorandum

TO

FROM

Director, O/SY

Thru: Chief, 0/SY/37D

: I.G.Marcell, O/SY/BC

DATE: September 2, 1969

SUBJECT: Item in East Village Other, August 20, 1969

This past weekend, I visited a friend who had just returned from New

York City, bringing back a copy of a New York underground newspaper,

the East Village Other, dated August 20, 1969.

Out of curiosity, I paged through the paper and, on page 17, found a

so-called classified section, consisting generally of ads for male and

female artists models and offerings of books alleged to instruct one

In the art of synthesizing hallucinogenies.

In the personal columns of this section, the foblowing was noted, a

verbatim transcript of which is set forth:

"Caught In The Act. Notice to the CIA and all SY

shitheads who participated in Project Purple Shaft:

After that fiasco in the GIR you worms did your best

to screw, blue and tattoo me.

You even tried to have

my ass dusted in Berlin . . a you fuckups. Now Its

my turn to do a little shafting.

Cordially, R. C. NAGEII."

Card indices in SY/E reflect no indication that anyone named R. C.

NAGELL, or any variation thereof, including NAGLE or NOGSLL, has

ever been granted clearance in this office.

DEF

A check in SY files reflected a record on Richard Case NAGiLI, born

August 5, 1930, who apprently is identical with the individual who

NAGELL has been of interest to both the FBI and the Dapartment

recent years.

While NAGELI may be something of a crackpot, the item

does appear to%

contain somewhat of an imolied threat.

For this reason, the informa.

tion is forwarded for your consideration and for any action which may

be considered necessary.

DST

Attachment: SY file on Richard Case NAGHLL

18.786

WU"H

0/SX/E:

Input to US Defector

Machine Erogram

25 Sep. 69-2S

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SUBJ: NAGELL, RICHARD C.

1. DOB POB UNKNOWN. RICHARD C. NAGELL, PPT J543069, ISSUED

CONSULATE GENERAL IN BARCELONA ON MARCH 10, AND

VISITED THE EMBASSY ON MARCH 21• DURING CONVERSATIONS WITH

POLLOWING INFORMATTON.

CONSUL OFFICER, NAGELL REVEALED TRE

2. IN THE SUMMER OF 1968, NAGELL WAS ARRESTED ON A TRAIN

ENROUTE TO BERLIN FROM FRANKFURT. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED

IN CONFINEMENT IN EASI GERMANY AND HELD THERE AS A PRISONER

UNTIL OCTOBER 1968. AFTER HE WAS RELEASED, HE CROSSED INTO

WEST BERLIN, WHERE HE WAS DEBRIEFED AT THE U.S• MISSION BY

STATE DEPARIMENT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM

HE SUSPECTED TO

BE AN EMPLOYEE OF ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY. HE ALLEGED

THAT HE WAS "WORKED OVER" BY HIS EAST GERMAN CAPTORS, WHO

SUSPECTED THAT HE WAS WORKING FOR ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT

AGENCY. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT AT TIME OF HIS ARREST, HE WAS

•TAKEN FROM HIS TRAIN COMPARIMENT "BY NAME"

3. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT DURING DEBRIEFING, HE WAS PROMISED

ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING. HIS CHILDREN WHOM

HE SAID WERE RESIDING

WITH THEIR MOTHER SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED STATES. HE

CLAIMED THE DEPARIMENI HAS NOT KEPT ITS PROMISE, AND DEMANDED

THAT IHE EMBASSY IN MADRID TAKE ACTION TO HELP LOCATE

HIS CHILDREN, WHOM

HE SAID ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT MEAN

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ANYTHING TO HIM.

NAGELL THREATENED TO HAVE HIMSELF ARRESTED BY SPANISH

POLICE, OR DEFECT TO EAST GERMANY IF HE DOESN'T RECEIVE

ASSISTANCE FROM U.S. SOURCE. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT HE HAS LEFT

"VERY COMPROMISING" CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS WITH "FRIENDS"

IN SWITZERLAND WHO WILL FORWARD THEM TO THE "APPROPRIATE

NEWSPAPER REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SAID IS LUDWIG

MORELL IOWHOM NAGELL CLAIMED IS DERSPIEGAL REPRESENTATIVE

IN ZURICH.

RANK OF CAPTAIN. HE ALLEGED THAT HIS ARMY SERIAL NUMBER IS

1959, AND THAT HE IS RECEIVING 1DD PERCENT DISABILITY FROM

6. NAGELL EXPLAINED, IN A RATHER ARTICULATE MANNER, THAT HE HAD

BEEN ARRESTED BY THE FBI SHORILY AFTER PRESIDENT KENNEDY'S

ASSASSINATION IN 1963, AND THAT HE HAD BEEN IMPRISONED,

UNJUSTLY IN HIS OPINION, IN THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY;

LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, UNTIL EARLY 1968 AT WHICH TIME HE HAD

BEEN ACQUITTED AND RELEASED. HE SAID THAT THE REASON WHY

HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN THE

FIRST PLACE WAS THAT HE HAD

WORKED WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD IN AN ASSIGNMENI WITH A "U.S.

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY.

IT WAS A LONG STORY, HE SAID, AND HE DID NOT WANT TO GIVE ME

ALL THE DETAILS, BUT INSTEAD

WANTED TO ASSURE ME THAT HE HAD

BEEN IN THE

"INTELLIGENCE GAME" FOR A LONG TIME. NAGELL

ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN HELD IN THE FEDERAL PENITENTIARY

FOR SUCH A LONG PERIOD BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO REVEAL TO THE

FBI ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HIS INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES--

AND THAT FURTHERMORE HE WAS VISITED BY CIA AGENTS WHILE IN

PRISON WHO CAUTIONED HIM TO KEEP.

HIS MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HIS

TIES WITH OSWALD•

7• REQUEST: COPY OF OM FROM ZURICH TO DEPARTMENT PERTAINING

TO SUBJECT, AND REQUEST CHECK OF APPROPRIATE SOURCES IN NAME

OF SUBJECT.

AND ADVISE OF RESULTS SOONEST.

"CAUL TEFE

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the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, dated October 23,

1968, has been received on the results of an

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My initial contact with Mr. Nagell was when he was

expelled

from the DDR by the East German officials who forcibly

propelled him toward us over the borderline into West Berlin.

As we initially escorted Mr. Nagell back to US Army lospital

Berlin in the US Mission vehicle, he seemed unsure of where

and who we were, as well as being angry and belligerent

In the course of

the two hour interview which was then conducted at the

hospital, Mr. Nagell gradually regained his composure and

gave a more cooperative and coherent history.

At his

insistance, the interview took place in the presence of the

attorney Mr. Ricey S. New, Jr:, who acted in an unofficial

capacity as a legally oriented "friend."

The salient aspects of Mr.

Nagell's history are as follows.

He says he was on active military duty (Army) fron 1948

until

1959. For the first three of these years he was an enlisted

nan, and for the last six he was an officer, working in

military intelligence.

In 1954 he was the sole survivor in

a plane crash which resulted in a brain concussion, runerous

physical injuries, and prolonged military hospitalization.

Mr. agell now claims that he believes it was this head

injury which resulted in his

"unstable personality and

immature or impulsive behaviour."

le attributes to this

instability his marital difficulties and his decision to

resign his comnission in 1959, something which he nov considers

At the time of his leaving the service he was not

awarded a disability pension, but he says that he was later

able to successfully petition the VA for a "it" disability."

Me claims that he had never seen a psychiatrist during his

military careel'.

From liby to 1902 he says that he worked for the stac oi

Calilornia as an investigator for various burcaus.

marital difficulties had increased and his wife insistod on

separation, leeping with her their two childen.

says that one night in 1962 he became intoxicated, and tried

to break down the door to her apartment.

says he lost his job and says that for

the next year he

"just drifted," apparently without notivation to worl;

supporting himself on his disability pension and financial

aid from his sister.

He is not certain about whether or not

the divorce from his wife has ever been legally compieted.

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In September 1963 he was accused of committing an act which

he now says was bred out of his feeling of hopelessness

and desperation. He claims that in a confused way he

attempted while armed to rob a bank and was easily appre-

hended.

For the next 4 1/2 years followed a complicated

series of trials, appeals and retrials.

In addition to

spending these years

in prison, he also had at least three

prison hospitalizations for psychiatric observation. his

appeals apparently hinged on his contention that he was

"temporarily insane" at the time of the crime. He was not

considered insane at any time during his imprisonment, and

his claim to temporary insanity found support in the expert

testimony of a noted American neurologist, Dr. Edwin

Weinstein.

Dr. Weinstein apparently interpreted Hagell's

EEG's (electro-encephalograms) as being abnormal and argued

that Nagell had developed a "paranoid personality, and

instability" on the basis of his brain injury.

This conten-

tion was apparently disputed by other expert witnesses, but

in any case Nagell was officially acquitted on April 29 of /

this year.

Nagell says he then

went to the New York area, where his

sister (his closest relative) resides, but he claims an

additional complication in his life had risen in that he

had once been an "acquaintance" of Lee liarvey Uswald, and

had been implicated in a possible plot to assassinate

President Kennedy in an article in RAMPART'S magazine which

appeared in January 1968.

1x. Nagell firmly denies that he

was involved in any way with any such conspiracy, and was

in fact imprisoned at the time of the assassination. On

the basis of this magazine article Nagell says that

Mr. Garrison, the attorney general, from New Orleans who is

arguing that a conspiracy existed in the assassination,

came up to New York to interview him. Nagell says that he

denied that he had any information of use to Mr. Garrison,

but that the interview left him with two fears.

One fear

was that Garrison might subpoena him to testify in the New

Orleans proceedings, and the other fear was that the CIA

might try to "eliminate" him, a suspicion which he says

was planted in his mind by Mr. Garrison. He says that soon

afterwards while walking down a street at night in New Yorh

City he was almost run over by a car without lights. He

interpreted this as being an attempt at murder by the CIn

and in some haste left the country for a tour of Europe.

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In June, shortly thereafter, he discussed with an American

consular official in Zurich

his recurrent fear that the

CIA was going to "hit" him. His next

travel point was to

West Berlin, and on June 11, 1968, while his train was

traversing the DDR, he says that he was taken off the

train and illegally detained.

He is not certain why he

was taken off the train but

admits to having talked freely

on the train to other

passengers about his life history,

and he was also carrying with him a heavy portfolio of

all.

of his Army and government records involved with his service

career, disability, and imprisonment.

For several mcntlis

Nagell claims that he was interrogated by the last Gernans

and repeatedly asked to confess his role as a spy or govern-

ment agent.

Eventually, Nagell says that he concluded the

only way to be released would be to feign mental illress,

which he says he proceeded to do.

This was several weeks

ago and he says he was soon examined by

an East German

psychiatrist and events were set in motion which culminated

in his release today, four and one-half months after his

detention began.

Mr. Nagell's plans for the future center around returning.

to

the United States and beginning an appeal to the govern-

ment to grant him a psychiatric disability pension, as wedd

injury. He no longer believes that it is realistic to think

that the CIA was trying to kill him.

Mental Status Exan

Mr. Nagell is a tall, 38 year old male who snows the evidence

of a prior head injury in the form of extensive scar: on

the left side of his face, facial asymmetry due to seventh:

nerve injury, reconstructive surgery on his left ear, etc.

In addition he shows

some healed incisions on his left wrist

which he claims were superficial lacerations self-inflicted

at the time of his first imprisonment in 1963, and again a

ago in the DDR.

He denies that in either instance

he seriously intended to kill himself.

He is of superior

intelligence

and shows a remarkable memory for dates and

names.

Initially he was belligerent, angry, and suspicious

of every effort made to help him.

Over the

span of two

hours, he gradually became more

a that me is

cooperative and rational.

paranoid

person" bv

to impute intentions where none may exist.

Despite his

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overall suspiciousness, and his fears about the CIA, there

was no overt evidence of psychosis.

His nutritional state

and general well-being both appeared to be good.

Summary

In summary then we seem to be dealing with a person who has

had a personality disorder for a number of years, manifested

by emotional instability, impulsive behaviour, a tencency

to be litigious, and a general suspicious or paranoic

orientation. It is difficult to know how much of what he

is saying is factual, but it may be that In June of this

year he was becoming

"borderline" or even delusional in his

thinking about possible attempts on his lie, and this

probably explains his flight to Europe.

Currently, he is

not psychotic and seems competent in a legal and psychiatric.

sense to negotiate his own affairs and be a free citizen

again.

His own closing words provide a lighter note to what other-

wise has been a

complicated and

serious mishap.

"Well, I'll

tell you one thing, that's the last time I ever take a train

through East Germany!"

/s/

George R. Babineau

CPT, MC

Psychiatrist

U:S.

Army tospital, Berlin

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RICHARD CASE NAGELL

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OCT. 2R. STANGE NOT

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S, AT CONFERENCE IN HIS OFFICE, VOGEL STATED NAGELL RELEASE

SCHEDULEO BY BAST GERMAN AUTHORITIES FOR OCT 25 AT 0930%

TO TAKE PLACE AT SANDKRUGBRUECKE CROSSING POINT THE

RELEASE WILL BE UNCONDITIONAL AS AN EXPRESSION OF GOODWILL B

ACCORDING TO VOGEL.

A VOGEL DESCRIBED NAGELL CONDITION AS "NOT GOOD AT ALL.

FREQUENTLY QUITE BAD, ACCORDING TO PHYSICIAN WHO WILL BET

WITH HIM WHEN HE IS DELIVERED BY AMBULANCE." VOGEL WILL DELLVER

NAGELL TO RICEY NEW WHO WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY MISSION OFF SCHO

AND CHIEF. PSYCHLATHIST US ARMY HOSPITALI BERLIN

WHEN PELIVERY

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STILL UNKNOWN IN BQTH CASES BUT VOGEL EXPECTS TO HAVE IN

NEAR FUTURE "BASIC DOCUMENTS WHICH ARE STILL IN HANDS: OF

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MAS BEEN IN FREGUENT DIFFICULTIES IN MANY COUNTRIES OVER

LASUFIOR YEARS OR 504. HE WAS CONVICTED OF PASSPORT FRAUD

NEANUARY 906 AND 15

CURRENTLY, UNDER INDICTMENT FOR VIO

LATRON OF TITLE 18 USC SECTION 1542. A WARRANI HAS BEEN ISSUED

FOR MIS ARREST MOST RECENT EPISODE OF WHICH DEPARIMENT AWARE

WAS IUS DEPORTATION FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA TO FRG IN APRIL THIS

YEARATA SUMMARY OF JAMES".

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Mana Ro Johas Richaeo SLoes

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Chief, Research Branch, SRS

Robart J. Leonard

John Richard 8LOS8

$34490

3 MAR 1965'

GIST:

SLOSS, a stall omployee since 1948, has recently been

repolygraphed with inconciustve results, having tracted to questions

regarding disclosure of chaselfled information, association with a com-

munist sympathizer, and homosexuality. He has also been lavolved

with cooperation li an extramarital aflair which tchminated lu & black.

mail attempt on one of the parties. His name la perhaps identical with

& name emong ils namos of Agency employees lound on a mentally die-

turbed and disaffected lorener GIC intelligence offisatwho alleges contact

with Russles and Guban Intelligence sgeste.. Detalle of these questionable

arABs in regard to 5LOSS are set forth bolor.. Recommend intenalve and

thorough tavertigation of SLOSS including survelllance al actlvities.

DETAILS: 1. MP. Joba Richard SLOSS, bors 24 September 1919

at Gloveland, Ohio, has been a stafí cmployee of this Agency since 1918.

Hla parenta are American borA..

. Ho graduated from Yale Ualveralty la

1941 and was assigaed to Milltary intelligonce Tratalag Center, Gamp

Ritchle, Maryland, as an instructor, frora January 1943 to July 1945.

He attended Colunbin Universlty, School of International Attairs and the

Ruscian lastitute STore 1946 to 1948, recelving an M.A. Degree da inter-

national Affalso.

2.. SLOSS la currently a Special latelligence Duty Officer in

Od1, GS-14. During hle assighraent la Gestany 1953-1955 and on a IDY

to Germany la 1958., he had been authorized to deal with lotolga latelll-

gence elements in the OCI oversees lalson program. SLOSS was poly-

graphed in 1950 and 1953 with favorable senalts; in 1955 with unfavorable

sosults; and twice la 1964 with inconclusive resulte regarding giviag CLA

docurents or clausilied information to unauthorized persons, contact

with a possible communist sympathizer, and engaging in homosexual acti-

vitios staco working for ClA.. He uRE granted a "Q" Glearance la October

1963. His Top Secret, Clearance was certifled to the White Houre on 23

NAGELL

ERdUF 1

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February 1965 in connection with a viait to a Presidential relocation site,

3. The name of John SLOSS may be identical with the name J.

SLOSS found on the pereon of Richard Casa NAGELL when arrested in eon-

nection with a bank robbery in El Pato, Texas, os 20 September 1963. A

notebook found on NAGELL made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Gommit-

teo, the addressee of Foreign Embassles, the names of purported CLA

agents and other information. Although NAGELL le inquestionably mont-

ally unbalanced, he tella a story of being involved in esplonage which is

not fully contradicted by evidence. There la no apparent explanation of

why the nare J. SLOSS as well an five other names of CIA personnel

should have been in the possession of Richard Care NAGEll. The weird

stoxy of NAGELL is contained in a chronological listing of bia activities

appended to this memorandura.

4. A review of the Security file on SLOSS in connection with the

Richard Case NAGELl matter revealed that SLOSS, for the past few yeare,

1960-1964, had provided hid apgrtment as a place of assignation in the

adulterous relationship of Philip Barry KENNEDY/ a GS-I5 Intelligence of-

fice, assigned to OCI and Mrs. (Betty BARKER, ( a former employee of the

Central Intelligence Agency from 19 Octobex 1953 until 26 July 1962, The

relatlonship between Kennedy/and Barker was dioclosed on 19 May 1964 6

"hen(KENNEDY reported to the Office of Security that Mra. BARKER/bad

received a strange telephone call from an unknown male on 18 May 1964

who advised her that ke knew what was golng on between her and her boy

friend and that he had pictures. The unknown caller atterapted to black-

mall Mrs. (BARKER/into meeting him, Mrs? BARKER/apparently told

her husband the whole stery and informed LENNEDY] 3

S. It la noteworthy in the SLOSS KENNEDY -BARKER/matter

that SLOSS has been involved in cooperating in an unlawíul and immoral

actlvity which, according to the direct teatimony of one of the parties.

(belteved to be true because the report was agalast her own Interest)

reculted in a blackmail attempt agalast her in May 1964,

6. Of particular concern should be the results of the latest

two polygraph examinations, the validity of which, because of medication

including & tranguilizer type drug and alcohol in the Subject'e syotem, was

deemed to be inconclusive.

7. During the 1955 polygraph examination, the Subject admitted

so homosexual desires but stated that these had never caused a persona)

problem and had never resulted in bis partieipation in a homosexual act.

During the 24 April 196d examination, the Subject showed consistent re-

actions to the homosexual question which indicated deception. During

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further specific questioning on 22 May 1964 covering the various homosexual

areas however, there were no strong reactions to indicate that subject night

be practicing deception on the specifle question regarding engaging in homo-

sexual actlvities since workdag for ClA.

In conxection with the phane of queations concerning contact

with any possible communiet eympathises, the Subject reflected overall

disturbance indicating that all the questions obvioualy bothered hira and

that deception was being practiced within that phase. The polygrapà opera-

for noted that there were outstanding reactione to the following two questione:

20 b "Other than your comments about FISHER, during your

undergraduate period at Yale did you have any contact

with any Communlat or Gommunet sympathizer?

AnEwer: No."

20 €

During your CIA employment, have you had any contact

with any Communiot of Communiat sympathizer?

Anasser: No."

9. It ls particularly noteworthy that duriag his examination on

22 May 1964 when asked nine questione as to whether be had been acquaint.

ed with certain individuals, Subject only reacted when he answered "no"

to heving been acquainted with Jerry SEVERN and llya WOLSIQN. These

names had been sabraitted to Subject based upon pure conjecture that these

possibly might have been some connection with these individuale at Camp

Ritchie Military Intelligence Traling Genter. Since the fact that both

Jexry SEVERN and Ilya WOLSTON have cooperated with Sorlet Intelligence

should have been unknown to SLOSS and he declared he is not acquainted

with they, there should have been no reason for him to react to these names.

The polygraph operatos states that SLOSS was not presaed further regarding

FISHER (whom he had characterized as "left of center") of bia own possible

knowledge of SEVERN or WOLSTAN since it was obvlous that 56O5S was

beginaing to feel haraased on this matter and stated that he did not enjoy

being asked these questions.

10, During SLOSS' interview on 1 April 1964, SLOSS reflected

consistent reactions on the questiona:

"Since working for CIA, have you glven CIA documente of

clasalfied information to unauthorized persons?'"

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"Have you ever deliberately given classified information on

documents to any unauthorised person?"

Is explanation, Subject sald he was bothered by this idea, but

that he had no knowledge of any particular altuation wherein he had di-

volged Information to anyone who was unauthorized to receive it or who

would have uned it against the Agency's interest. On the test administered

on 22 May 1964 to resolve any possible compromise to communiet or foreiga

intelligence organisations, It was determined that there were no significant

reactions to relevant questions in this area.

Il, It should be especially noted that the polygraph operator, during

the 4 April 1964 interview, detected an odd axell on Subject's breath and

noted his fluched face, frequent ailly grion and lethargle movements, sug-

ject when arrested for drunken driving in 1965 bad produced evidence that

he was a diabetic and had taken redication prior to the incident. Conser

quently, during the second interview on 22 May 1965, Subject was questioned

regarding his physical healta.. He replied that he had stopped taking medi-

cation for diabetes ia Noveraber 1963. He explathed that he took three of

four diuretle pille. He pacifically denied that he had taken any other drug;

narcotis or alcohol. When this question was asked duxing interrogation.

he reflected reaction indicative of decoption and then adraitted that tor

breakiast he had taken one glass of vodka with some orange juice. He

stated that he drank rodka for breaklast sometimes whenever he was tense

or nervous over anything.

12. The polygraph operator in his report concluded that the

"yalidity of final teet charts is held in quention and there is no

strong evidence that the specific areas of concera have been

conclusively resolved at this time. It le recommended that a

further study be conducted on this case and that information

resulting from such a study be sent to IRD for possible reintes-

view of tho Subject and polygraph resolution".

13. SLOSS has indicated renctions indicative of deception during

the polygraph examinations. In one specific question where these re-

actiona were present, be admitted to lytag.. This was in the question as

to whether or not he had taken any alcohol prior to the examination.

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CONCLUSION:

1. SLOSS has led in his most recent polygraph examination and

has evidenced indications of deception in areas concerning divalglag

classified information to unauthorized individuals, association with a

communiet nympathizer and homosexual lnclinations. SLOSS! reaction

to the names of Jerry SAVERN and Ilya WOLSIQN has not been fully ex-

plored. The polygraph operator has recommended further investigation

and a repolygraph because the recent tests are laconclusive.

2. SLOSS has been lavolved in an immoral and Illegal extra-

marital activity between a Staff employee and a former Staff employee

where one of the parties was subjected to a blackmall attempt.

3.

The name 1, SLOSS (posalbly identical to Subjeet) appeared

on a lot of ClA eraployees found on the person of a self-designated "die-

affected Americast arrested by the FBI for bank robbery la Septembes

1963. This Individual (mentally disturbed) with previous intelligence es-

perience has declared that he was approached by Sovlet Intelligence while

and/or after he was la Mexico City in September 1962.

4. It lo suggested that the extent of the adverse security implica-

tions conceraing SLOSS lo such, that 1l SLOSS in ever found to be a security

rink, the tailure at thia time to pursue an aggrensive invertigation of all

his contacta and activities to resolve all areas of doubt could possibly lead

to s conclusion that we have been remies in our duties. The undersigned

recommends the following action:

That physical and technical surveillance of at least two

weeks duration be made of SLOSS to determine his contacte and

activities after wozking hours.

b. That current seven way National Agency Checks be made

on SLOSS.

C That Richard B, FISHER, a friend of SLOSS', characterized

by him as having been involved in radical and left of center ideas

while en undergraduate at Yale, be fully identified, his present 10-

cation be ascertained and the degree of his assoctation with BLOSS

be determined by a personal interview with FISHER.

d. That Richard Case NAGILl be personally iaterulewed by

the undersigned in the hope that by a sympathetic approach be may

reveal how he came into the possesalon of the name 1, SLOSS and

other employees of Cla..

15 05

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*- That police and credit checke be made on SLOSS in the

Washington, D. C. area) Baltimore, Maryland, New York Citys

Cleveland, Ohio) Chicago and El Preo, Texas,

That lleted reterences, Charles L. VENABLE, (Phllip

B. KENNEDY and Richard LEHMAN\ previously interviewed in

September 1963 in Connection with a "Q" Clesrance of SLOSS,

be reinterviewed by the underalgaed with intensive emphaala on

SLOSS' activitied and equalntances outalde of worklag houre.

That SLOSS be repolygraphed with unrelenting pressure

op prevlously unresolved matters.

Robert J. Leonard

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Bio on NAGELL

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CIA MISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM

RELEASE IN FULL 1998

FBI RePoRts

D DATED OLT.a, 1962 Re Richaro Go NacoLL

2) DATED FEB 4, 1964 "

; FIRE NO, EP (EL P0S0) 65-951

3 DATED MAR 17,19464 RE RichaRo Casa NasaLL

FiLE No 65-23/26, New YoRK OFFICE

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File No.:

Title:

THOMAS J. DOWLING

MAR 17.1944

65-23126

RICHARD CASE NAGELI

Office:

Bureau File No.:

no: 201-740537

New York, New York

Character:

Synopsis:

ESPIONAGE - X

Confidential informants familiar with certain

prases of Cuban and/or Communist activities in

the NYC area, when contacted during February,

1964, advised that the subject'is unknown

to them.

Subject's sister

• Are. ELEANORE GANBERT,

when Interviewed on 2/28/64, advised that subjeet

last stayed at her home during the latter part

of 1962.

she indicated that she knows of no

subversive aotivity on the part of the subjeet,

and stated further that she would here nothing

to do with him if she ever found out he had

ever been Involved: In such aotivities. She

advised subject maintains a metal-type foot

locker at her residence,

and has maintained 1t

at her home for a number of years.

She hoted

that she does not know the contents of this

foot locker nor is she even aware of whether

1t 1s opened

or looked.

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Confidential informants familiar with certain

phases of Cuban and or Communist activities in the NYC

area, when contacted during February, 1964, advised that

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATIN

Date

Bleanore

Hampert. was contreted at her home

located at 02-25 Grand Avenue, queens, New York, on

February 28, 1964, by Special Agents Thomas J. Dorling

and Benjamin P. Grogan,

who identified thenselves to

her as Spocial Agents of the federal Bursau of mvestigation.

she ms told that the speolal Agents wished to talk to her

about her brother, richard case lagell, that she would not

have to speak with the interviewing agents; that anything

she might say could be used In courts and that she had

a right to counsel before making any statement.

hes.

lambert advised that she had no objestion to being intervened

and that she would cooperate in any may possible.

she advised that her brother, Richard Case

Nazell, last resided with her in her home for a 5 or 6 #

week period which ended just prior to Christmas, 1962.

unile In New York, he was for the most partunemployed and

sacking a position.

she noted that he did obtain a

position as a store deteative but that this lasted

for only several days when he dacided that this nas not

the type of Investigative work he vanted to do..

then questioned as to shether or not she knew

of any activity on the part of her brother which could

have been of a subversive nature, she stated that she

knew of no such aotivitys that she did not belleve her

brother capable of taking part in such aotivitys. and

that 1f she ever became anare that he vas engaging at

any time in such activity she would have nothing to do

with hlm.. At this point she noted that approximately

& nonth prior to the interview she had revelved several

lettersthat were returned to her Iron 1l Paso, Teras,

unich she had written to her brother, indiesting that

he was no longer at the 11 Paso County Ja1l. She

subsequently received a letter from her brother Indicating

that he was at the Medical Center for federal Prisoners,

springfield, Missourd.

she noted that she smEnered this

lotter immediately, but has not as jet heard from her

Ori

2/28/64

82-25 Grand Avenue

or queens, New York

- File # NY 65-23126

by

→ Date dictated 4/5/64

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBl.

It is the property of the EBI

your agency. "l and its contente are not to be distributed outaide,y our agoncy.

and 1s :loaned to

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brother. She stated that she expected to hear from her

brother Immediately after he received her letter and the

fact that she has not heard has made her uneasy. She

noted that she offered, if permitted, to visit him, and

that she hoped to ascertain as a result of this visit,

the reason he attempted to rob a

bank in El Paso, Texas,

on september 20, 1963. She advised that she has had no

reason to belleve that her brother is not responsible for

his actions, and she noted that in one letter he wrote

to her that the bank robbery attempt was a pre-meditated

action on his part.

She advised that her brother has

been in a depressed state of mind ever since he had been

accused of taking a bribe and fired from his position

with the california state Liquor Authority.

she noted

that she belleved, as her brother claims,

that this

purported bribe jas. set up to remove her brother from h1s

position with the Californta State Iquor Authority

because of his honesty and failure to handle Investigations

as insturated by

superiors.

when questioned as to whether of not her brother,

Richard Case Nagell, maintains any type of property at her

residenoe, she advised that he does maintain a military

type metal foot locker, and that he has maintained it at

her residence Bince his discharge from the united

States Army.

She noted that as this foob locker 15

her brother's property,

she 1s not araje of 1ts contents,

although she belleves it contains mementoes of his

m1l1tary service, Including his medala and a complete

uniform.

She advised that she does not even know whether or

not the foot locker is open or locked.

It is noted that during the course

view of Eleanore Cambert, her husband, Loul% Gambert

vas present.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE D/ZA (03/27

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

• Copy to:

Repon ofs

SA DAVID

TO REID

Date:

:34:

February 4,

$1964

Field Office File Not EP 65-951

The e

RICHARD CASE NAGELL

Office:

EL PASO

Bureau File No.:

REVICNIC SY FRUIN TASK FORCES

9/22k dox

I FOLL

Charader:

CESPIONAGE X*

/RELSASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

Synopsiss

Background: Subject entered U.S. Army 8/5/48 and

honorably discharged as Captain 10/29/59.4

Received many

campnign awards during Korean conflict

Sole, survivor

airplane crash 11/28/54, suffered facial disfigurement

and given psychiatric examination.

Subnect claimed he was

released from employment by State Beverage Department,

Los Angeles, California, 6/8/62, having been accused of

taking S20,000 bribe.

Subject refused furnish police details

of his shooting by unidentified assailant on 7/16/62 and v

subsequently filed Civil Rights complaint against police

In September, 1962, subject advised U.S. Embassy, Mexicos

City, he had been approached for recruiting in Mexico City,

refused to elaborate, did not accire to return to U. Sa was

"bitter, disgusted, disillusionc. and disaffected."

Said if

he did go to some other country it would cost U.s. millions

was "through being a good citizen" and thought he had gotten

a dirty deal all around." Advised FBl in New " - City on

11/16/62 he wanted to expose Department of Alcoholic Everage

Control in California.

Advised FBI in Jacksonville, Fla on

12/15/62 he had been approached shortly before in Washington,

Đ. C./

by individual believed to be working for Soviets;

contacted ClA in Virginia for instructions, was sent to

Miami, Fla.

by his Soviet contact and said he believed he

was actually working for Soviets.

Subject's condition

diagnosed at VA Hospital, Bay Pines, Fla, in January, 1963,

as "chronic brain syndrome

associated with brain trauma with

behavioral reaction characterired by passive, aggressive and

paranoid features."

Asked FBI

Viami on 1124/63 if.his-

Tase doeuraene comain us SnId or conclusions of the Gor. Cla ne impires of the iii and in loaned to your asency, te and

Erit d. Ukralintents are not to be distributed outaide your ageney.

701146531

78-500

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Cuban or Russian

sources gave him a pistol and microfilm,

would he be permitted to return same to his contact so he

could be of further use to u.S. Government.

Claimed to be

constantly under surveillance.: Advised FBI in Los

Angeles

on 1/19/63 he had

taken former wife. to court on same date for

tilure to comply with court order giving subject visitation

rights with children.

subject's condition diagnosed by VA,

Los Angeles, on 6/4/63 as "depression, tearful, nervous,

rigid.

would only utter words Got to see my kids.

Asrempted Bank Robbery: Subject arrested 9/20/63 in El Paso,

Texas, on charge of attempting to rob State Mational Bank,

El Paso, same date in violation

Section 2113, Title 18, USC.

Slashed wrist night of 9/20/63, felt he needed psychiatric

treatments highly emotional when interviewed, given to spells

of crying, stated unable to get on feet since discharge

from U.S. Army. Coll mate said subject apparently

became

morber Conmunist Party during confused period after discharge,

decided overything was against him in Los Angeles and made

arrangements with Communist Party in Los Angeles to pick up

visa and passport from contact in El Paso and eventually

end up in Czechoslovakia

Subject reportedly attempted

suicide three times enroute to Fi Paso but lost nerve

Advised FiT in El Paso on 1/6,04 he was instructed by agent

of foreign government in September, 1963,

to comply with agree

ment made in May, 1963, to participate in criminal offense

against United States or be exposed to fal, which caused

subject to act as he did on 9/20/63

Subject ordeird

sent to Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield,

Missouri, on 1/24/64, hy USDC, El Paso, for 30-day period to

undergo psychiatric examination.

Alleged Connection with

LEE MARVEY OSHALD: Subsequent to President's assassination,

subject claimed acquaintance with OSwALD and wife.

On 1/18/64,

MARINA OSWALD disclaimed any knowledge of subject. Description

and Identification Record Set out.

SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED

SUICIDE:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chronological Record of Subject's Background

Attempted Bank Robbery and Aftermath

11-2 94248

Alleged Connection with LEE HARVEY OSwALD

Description

Identification Record

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DETAILS:

AT EL PASO, TEXAS:

Investigation in this mattor 'is based on statements

made by the subject subsequent to his arrest in El Paso,

Texas,

on September 20, 1963, on a bank robbery charge.

Subject hinted that he might have

been attempting to go

to Cuba and that he really did not have the intention of

robbing the State National Bank but conmitted the act due

to the direction he had taken toward going to Cuba.

notebook which the subject.had on his person when arrested

made reforence to Medical Aid to

Cuba, Fair Play for Cuba

Committee, the names of purported CIA

Agents and other

information.

The April 6, 1960, edition of "The New York Times"

newspaper contained a full-page advertisement captioned

"What Is Really Happening in Cuba," placed by the

Fair Play for Cuba

Comnittee (FPCC) This advertisement

announced the formation of the FPCC in New York City

and

declared the FPCC intended to promulgate "the

truth about revolutionary Cuba" to neutralize the

distorted American press.

"The New

York Times" edition of January 1l, 1961.

reported

that at a

hearing conducted before the United

States Senate Internal Security Subcommittee on

anuary 10, 1961, Dr. CHARLES A. SANTOS-BUCH identified

himself and ROBERT TABER as organizers of the FPCC.

He also testified he and TABER obtained funds from the

Cuban Government which were applied

the afore mentioned

advertisement.

toward the cost of

On May 16, 1963, a source advised that during the first

two years of the FPCC's existence there was a struggle

between Communist Party (CP) and Socialist Workers

Party

(SWP) clements to exert their power within the

FPCC and therchy

influence FPCC policy.

However, during

the

past year this

source observed there has been a

successful effort by FPCC leadership to minimize the

role of these and other organizations in the FPCC SO

that today

their influence is negligible.

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On May 20: 1963, a second source advisud that the

National Headquarters of the FPCC is located in Room

329

at 799 Broadway, New York City. According to this source,

the position of

National Office Director was created

the fall of 1962 and was filled by VINCENT "TED" LEE,

who now formulates

"PC policy. This source observed

LFE has followed a course of entertaining and accepting

the cooperation of many other organizations including:

the CP and the

Sip when he has felt it would

be to his

personal honefit as

well as the IPCh's. However, LEE

has indicated to this source he has no intention of

permitting FPCC policy to be determined by any other

organization. LED feels the FPCC should advocate resump-

tion of diplomatic relations between cuba and the

United States and support the right of Cubans to

manner their revolution without interference from

other nations, but not support the Cuban revolution

per se.

The ep and the sip have been designated pursuant to

Executive Order 10450

CHRONOLOGICAL RECORD OF SUBJECT'S BACKGROUND

AugUSt 5: 1949

A review on October 17, 1963, of the military

Service Records on file at the Military Personnel Records

Center /

St. louis, Missourt, indicated that RICHARD CASE

MAGELL,

Serial Number 12 115 891, enlisted in the United

States Army on August 5, 1948

November 28, 1954 to April 8, 1955

On September 30, 1963, EP T-l furnished the following

information regarding RICHARD CASE NAGELL:

The subject underwent treatment at the lalter Reed

Hospital, Washington, D. Co as a resultins an airplane crash

on November 28, 1954, in which the subject

mas involved:

The subject was the sole survivor of this crash. The subject

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ens admitted to Bolling Air Force Base Hospital in

Washington;

•. C. in a comotose condition.

then exanined by a doctor

on Harch 17, 1955, at Walter Reed Mospital, the subject was

conscious, confused and hostile, complaining of a pain in his

head. The subject was dopressed and expressed the wish that

he had died in the crash.

Subject had facial disfigurement

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result of the crash.

The subject was suspicious of

questions asked him.

When subject was examined on April 8,

1955, the hostility had disappeared and his suspicions nad

been lessened. His responses at that time were regurded as

In 1960 the subject's sister, Mrs. GAMBERT, 8225

Grand Avenue,

Elnhurst, long Island, New York, Indicated that

the subject could then

be contacted through Post Office

Box 76121, Sanford Sistion, Los Angeles, California.

She indicsted that the

subject had been

discharged from the

United States Army in November, 1959.

She also indicated

that the

subject stilt complained of

head injuries and when

he was tired he had a

twitch in one eye as well as some loss

of nobility in his other eye.

When contacted on September 30, 1953, EP T-1 waS

of the opinion that the subject still apparently needed

psychiatric treatment.

He said he mas unble to evaluate

the subject's sctivitins subsequent to 1955 in view of the

fact that no contacts nad been made

with the subject since

that time.

The above information as furnished by 2o T-l can

be made available only upon

the issurrice of a subpoena duces

tecum.

The identity of the parson to be subpoenaed is Lieutenant

Colonel JOHN J. WARD, Registrar, Walter Reed General Hospital,

6825 16th Street,

Northwest,

washington, D. C.

April, 1956

Ex April;:

195€, Captain

CHARLES STANLET, Administrative

Vice Detail, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles,

california, advised that one RICHARD C. NAGELL had questioned

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two of his ollicors at a apanese restaurant match they ware

checking in preard to well known Orlental canblr. When

the officers rofused to answer NAGELL's questions, NAGELL

displayed a card purporting to be an tdentification card of

Counter-Intelligence Nothing of value was obtained by

NAGELI

October 29:

1959

A revicy on October 17, 1962; of the military

service recoras on file at the Military Personnel Records

Center. St. Louis, Missouri, indicated that RICHARD CASE

NAGELI, serial nunher 02 028 346, was honorably discharged

fron the United States Army as a Captain at Fort Dix. New

Jersey, on October 29, 1959, by reason of unqualified

resignation.

After having enlisted in the United States Army

on August 5, 1948, with serial number 12 115 891, NAGeL

was honorably discharged on the first occasion on August l

1952, as a Sergeant at Fort Fenning,

Georgia, to accept

a conmission in the United States Army Officers Reserve

Corps:

McaLl was appointed and commissioned a second

Lieutenant on August 2, 195l, under serial number 02 028 346,

untered on setive dufy

on the same date at Fort Benning,

Georgia. while serving on

active duty as an officer, he

was appointed a second bicutenant in the United States Army Officers

Reservo Corps on November 14, 195%.

The service records indicated that NACElL served

in the United Nations Sunmer Fall Campaign in Korca, the

Second Korean Winter Campaign in Korea, the Korean Summer-

Fall Campaign In

1952. the Third Korean Winter Campaign in

1953. and the United Statos Summer-Fall Campaign in 1953.

He was awarded the korean Service Medal with one

Silver Star,

the National Refense Serwice Medal, the United Nations Service

Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple

Heart with two oak

leat Clusters, the Expert Infantry Badge,

the Parachute

Glider Badge, the Combat Infantryman's Fadge, and the

Republic

of

Korea Presidential Mnit Citation.

kis character and efficiency ratings ranged from

unkrown to superior, and there is no record of courts-martial

or absence without official leave.

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December 14

1959

On December 15, 1962, the subject advised Special

Agents of the FBI at Jacksonville, Florida,

that he began

his employment with the State Beverage Department in Los

Angeles, California, on December 14, 1959.

March 28, 1962 and May 14, 1962

On Soptember 23, 1963, EP T-2 made

available the

records of the United States Veterans

Administration Hospital,

Sartell California, which were found to contain the

Inforna uon

that the subject was admitted to the hospital

on March 28. 1952,

and again on May 14, 1962, complaining

of foreign matter in his eyes:

The above information can be made available only

upon the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum.

The identity

of the person to be subpoenaed is HAROLD G. COBB, Chief, Registrar

Division, Veterans Administration

Admission Center. Los Angeles 25,

California:

May 31, 1962

The FRI Identification Record of RICHARD CASE

NAGELL, FBI number 631 219 E, dated September 21, 1963,

contains

the information that tho subject was arrested by

the Los Angeles, California, Police Department on May 31,

1962,

on a drunk charge. No disposition is shown on the

record

June 8, 1962

On December 15,

1962, the subject advised Special

Agents of the FBI in Jacksonville, Florida, that in June,

1962, he was accused of taking a $20,000 bribe by the State

Beverage Department, Los Angeles, California, and was

released from his enployment on June 8, 1962, for refusing

to answer questions. The subject said he talked to the FBI

in Los Angeles regarding the possibility of his dismissal

being a violation of his civil rights:

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JuLY 16. 1962 10 July 23, 1962

On September 23, 1963, EP T-2 made available the

records of the United States Veterans Adrinistration Hospital,

Sawtell

California, which were found to contain the infor-

mation chat

the subject

was admitted to the hospital on

1 7.

July 16, 1962 for a small caliber gun shot wound in his right

chest. The subject

was released on July 23, 1962, according

to the records, which further indicated that the subject

furnished only vague information regarding this matter.

The above information can be made available only.

upon

the issuance of a subpoena duces focum. The identity of

the person to be subpoenaed is HAROLD G. COBB, Chief, Registrar

Division, Veterans Administration Admission Center. Los Angeles 25,

California

July 30, 1962

On July 30, 1962, the subject advised Special Agents

of the Los ingeles Office of the FBI that he was residing

it"

at 4037 Leeward Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and that

he was on suspension from the Alcoholic and Beverage Control

(ASC). State of California. He stated that on April 1. 1961/

he transferred from the Department of Employment to the

ABC and had been employed since that time as a Special Agent,

until his suspension on June 8, 1962.

NAGE, stated that on lay 30, 1962, he and his wife

had a domestic argument and, as a result of this, the police

were called and he was arrested for being drunk.

NAGELL

claims he was not drunk and that the los Angeles Police Depart-

ment was "rousting him."

NAGELL, was able to make bond the

same night and the next morning went to Internal Affairs,

Los Angeles Police Department, because he was mad at the

previous night's treatment and made some general complaints

to them about los

Angeles Police personnel. NAGELL stated

that he did nut make

any specific complaints and told Internal

Affairs he would contact them at a later date to furnish them

nore detailed information.

NATEl advised that he then went to his superiors

and

advised them of what had happened. As a result of ail of

this, NAGELI, stated he was placed on suspension on June 8,

1962, on charges of creating a disturbance for being drunk

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and making allegations to the

Los Angeles Police Department,

which be later stated vere not true.

NAGELL stated that he is presently unemployed,

awaiting a

hearing on his

suspension

Ke stated that he

hopes to be reinstated so he can clear his name and then he

will resign his position

NAGElL advised that on the

evening of July 16, 1962, he was returning from Oxnard,

California.

noticed

an automobile on two occasions

behind him, and at about 8:00 PM stopped his car on the

highway near Malibu, California.

Two men fron the car

jumped into his car. They were dressed in business suxts,

and he thought at first they were police

officers. One of

the men asked him where his gun was, and he told

the man it

was locked in the glove compartment.

He gave this man the

key to his

Rove compartment; and

while: the man was

oprning

the compartment. NAGELL took

his gun from his waist. The

man

struggled with NAGElL for the gun and four shots were

fired, one hitting NAGElL in the Chest. The man said that

if vAGeLL had not grabbed for the gun he would not have been

shot

NAGELL advised that these men drove him to a medical

penter in Malibu, California,

and left him

NAGElL stated

that he then

drove himself back to los Angeles, California,

and ended up at the Veterans Hospital Satell

• California

MaGell stated that he is sure now that the men

wete not

police officers

He stated that hedoes not know who shot

him or why he was shot

As a result of the shooting, detectives from the

Los Angeles Police Department came to the hospital to

question

him

He stated that he did not like their attitude and

refused to tell them any details.

The investigating officers

impounded his 1957 Ford and also

took all of his personal

belongings he had with him at the time, including his driver's

license, Social Security card, and Sclective Service

Registration:

NAGElL stated that on suly 25, 1962, he

received.a

money order fron a relative, and because

he had

no identification was unable to cash it. He advised

that ho

has a quick temper. and that

this situation made him "hot

under the collar."

For this reason he contacied the FBI,

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complaining that his civil rights had been violated in hopes

that the FBI would contact the Los Angeles Police and

facilitate the return of his property..

Later,

on the same

day of July 25, 1962, the Police Department did return all

of his property except the automobile, which was returned

on Tuly 26, 1962•

Mr. NAGELL stated that in retrospect he believes

that the Police Department did have a right to

take the

above items in line with their investigation.

He stated that

if it would be possible,

he would like to rescind his

original complaint. Mr. NAGElL declined to furnish a

signed statement.

The following article appeared in the Santa Monica

Outlook of July 18, 1962:

Police Probe Mystery Shooting of Detective

los angeles police today are investigating

the strange shooting of RICHARD C. NAGELL, 32, former

Investigative officer for the Alcoholic Beverage Control

Board:

"NAGELL, in Satisfactory condition in Veterans!

Hospital in West los Angeles with a bullet wound in they

chest, isn't talking according to police.

"Officer JIM MAXWEll said he received a call Monday

from NAGELL asking that the California Central Investigative

and Identification Bureau be notified that he had been

shot.

Then NAGeLl hung up

"A few moments later, a second call came in from a.

witness

who said that a man suffering from a bullet

wound

had driven up

to him and asked for directions to

hospital:

"At the Veterans

Hospital, officers found

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"NAGEL. being treated for wounds from a bullet which

had penetrated into his chest and out his back.

"Powder burns and a hole in MAGELl's shirt

"A 32-caliber bullet embedded in the back of

the driver's seat of NAGELL's car.

"A dent in the roof and a hole in the upholstery in

NAGELL'S CAr.

which were caused by a second bullet,

officers beljeved.

"NAGELL would say only that his wound was not self-

inflicted, officers said:

Detectives are continuing to investigate all

possibilities of

the case."

September 28.

1962 and October 1, 1962

On September 28, 1962,

the subject appeared of his

own volition at the American Embassy, Mexico City, Mexico,

and volunteered the following information:

Although he declined to furnish a local residence

address for himself in Mexico City, he stated he could be

contacted through & friend named ARTHUR GREENSTEIN, ROOM

#415, Hotel luma, whom he said he contacts every day:

He

also exhibited his Tourist Card Number 152087, which listed

his address as 4037 Leeward Avenue, Los

Angeles, California

this card showed that it had been issued at los Angeles on

August 17, 1962,and that NAGELL had

entered Mexico through

Crudad Juarez, Chihuahua, on August 24, 1962

The card also

reflected that he established his identification by

exhibiting United States Passport Number C526729.

He related that he had formerly been employed

vy: the nepartment of Alcoholic Beverage Control of

the

state of California as a Special Investigator. He stated

that as a result of his investigation of some large cales

and:bars in the los angeles'area, one of which ne named as

the Mauna Loa, and some controversy which be had

had with

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officers of the Los Angeles Police Department during the

course of his investigations, he had been suspended on

une 8, 1962, and later, on June 22, 1962, had been

dismissed

He mentioned that on July 15, 1962, "while

making a meet" between Malibu and Oxnard, he had been shot

in the chest.: In

connection with this latter incident,

ne exhibited a briet newspaper clipping which mentioned

that he had refused completely to identify his assaflants

or furnish information which would assist the police in

identifying and locating the person or persons involved

He stated furtber that on August 6, 1962, he had

withdrawn his request for a hearing so that

he could get

the money which he alleged was due him from the State of

California, consisting of $800:00 retirement contributions

and $300.00 for unused accumulated leave.

He stated that he felt he had been "let down" by

the United States Government, both in the United States

and during the time he had been in Mexico. He stated that

representatives of the United States Government could have

assisted him in obtaining his money from the State of

California.

but were only interested in soliciting from

him

information concerning hoodlums and other lawess

elements, for the giving of which information he could

set his head blown off." He stated that he felt he had

been let down by the United States Government in Mexico

because nothing had been done by the Embassy in regard to

his requests to have it assist him in collecting this money,

which he alleged was due him from the Stateof California.

He said that he himself had

sent letters to California

asking for payment of this money

Ey way of further background, he claimed to have

he had received an honorable discharge and had been wounded

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three times in the Korean War.

He stated that he made the

major mistake

of his life when he did not re-enlist and

continue in the Army. Besides combat duty in the Infantry,

he worked as an Investigator in the Counter Intelligence

Corps.

He mentioned that he spoke Japanese fluently

and had been married to a Japanese

woman, who he said was

divorcing him in California.

He also complained in this

connection that the California Courts had awarded the

custody of their children to her

He stated that he thought he had been approached

here in Mexico City for recruiting,

but although asked

specifically in

this regard, refused to state by whom or

for what of on behalf of what country.

He stated that

one Job of this sort would be in New York. He volunteered

In so many words that he fully realized that what he was

saying could be used against him in any court or prosecu-

tion. He stated that he had almost made up his mind

definitely that he would leave Mexico, but that he would

not go back to the United States.

He stated that he did

not care

to return to the United States. He stated that

so far ho had "done nothing inimical

to the United States

To stated that he was completely "disaffected," and

that

be knew the full significance of that

term

He also stated

that he was "bitter, disgusted, disillusioned

One thing,

he said,

that he could say was that if he did

do to some other country, it rould cost the United States

millions. He stated that he was

"through being a good

citizen" and thought he had gotten a

"dirty deal all around."

He was told to go to the Protection Section in

regard to any problems in Mexico as an American citizen.

we stated that he had been to the protection section and .

he would

not go back to the United States. He said that

he badnothing to 60 back for, and that his dismissal

record would prevent him from getting a good job anywhere

in the United States.

He mentioned that the only job he

had ever worked

at was that of an investigator

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He also mentioned that the Veterans Affairs Altacty

in the American Embassy had his military record in connection

with arequest he had previously made to attend Mexico. City

college on the G.T. Bill, but to do that he would have to

enroll first and pay tuition himself which he could

not do in

view of his financial straits

He stated at first that he was behind in his hotei

bill, but later indicated that he had been keeping his hotel

charges paid. He also mentioned that he had previously

öblained a small loan from the American Benevolent Society.

which he had since repaid

regard to finances, he stated that he was

receiving $150.00 disability pension a month because of

wounds received in the Korean hostilities during which

he was wounded three times.

He stated that he had come to the Embassy lo

state his side in case something should happen and was

told that the statements he was making would be made a master

of record with the Embassy. He was advised not to do anything

he might regret, to which he replied, ""hat have l

10 1050?"

He stated that unless be received the $1,100.00 soon, that the

State of California owed

him, he was going to sone other

sourery and that it would not be the united stated outck

refused to say what foror what the country might br.

through specifically questioned as to whether he had in

mind Russia or Cuba. He said he wanted to have the Embassy

know how he felt, but added,

"I'm not goirg

to lay my head

down on the chopping block."

It was noted that he was very tense, nervous.

agitated and antagonistic throughout this interview.

On October 1, 1962, this

sane individual reappeared

at the American Embassy and wanted

to know what had been done

in regard to bis case.

When

asked. what he

meant by this,

he stated he meant in regard to getting.

the

State of California

so pay him the money due him.

He was told that at his

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he had been permitted to make statements on the

previous occasion for the purpose of having those statements

made of record with the Embassy and he was assured that this

was being done.

However,

he was told that for any assistance

in regard to his financial situation in Mexico, he should

contact the Protection and Welfare Section to see if that

section could be of any assistance.

At first he stated he

would not visit

the Protection Section

again, but on leaving

he stated he was going there and also asked what section

of the Embassy he should contact to renounce his United

States citizenship.

A short time later on October 1, 1962, he did

contact the Protection and Welfare Section, where be was

advised that the section could not intercede for him

in the collection of his alleged debt from the State of

California.

Shortly thereafter, he appeared in the Passport

and

Citizenship Section, where he refused to give his name

but asked what the penalty would be for going to an Iron

furtain country and what effect it would have on his citizen-

Ship.

He was advised that such an action

would be a violation

of federal law.

NAGELL also on October 1, 1962, appeared in the

Office of Veterans Affairs, American Embassy, Mexico City,

and stated that he was withdrawing his request for G.t.

educational benefits as a Korean veteran.

A short time later on October 1, 1962, he left

with the tabassy a copy of his letter of August 7, 1962,

to the State of California Personnel Board, which, for

the purpose of further background, is set out in its

entirety is follows:

"August 7, 1962

"State Personnel Board

"ROt Capitol Avenue

"Sarrarento, California

"Gentl onen

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"I hereby withdraw my apppal of

the punitivr

action taken against me for dismissal by the Department

of Alcoholic Beverage Control.

I withdraw my request for

à hearing in this matter by the State Personnel Board

"I hereby state that the sole reason for this

withdrawal of my appeal and request for a hearing is because

of my financial situation.

Continued,

"and what I consider 1o

be unjustified, postponements of my hearing have created a

situation in which i cannot afford to meet my daily living

expenses until August 30, 1962, the most recent dale given

to me as the date of my hearing. Also, I am unable to obtain

employment in Los Angeles because of the stigma attached to

my dismissal

"Previously, I had hoped to remove such stigma by

showing at, the hearing that my dismissal was not only improper,

but that the alleged reasons for my dismissal were exagerald

distorted, and untrue, and the result of vindictiveness on

the part of certain sentor members oi the Department of Alcoholir

Beverage Control after it came to their attention that l

intended to disclose to the state Attornry Coneral's office

adverse information pertaining to corruption within said

Department and the liquor industry here in Southern California

"I request that my retirement contributions

reimbursement for unused leave be forwarded to me at the

below listed address as soon as practical

"Yours truly;

"/S/ RICHARD C. NAGELL

"RICHARD CASE NAGELY.

Box 76121, Sanford Station

Los Angeles 5, California"

Noveuber. 16. 1962

On November 16, 1962, the subicct advised Special

Agents of the New York City Office of the FBl that he was

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a Special Investigator for the Department of Alcoholic

Beverage Control (ABC), State of California, Los Angeles,

California, and had been dismissed in June,

1962, for

his failure to answer questions pertaining to allegations

he made concerning corruption within

that organization.

NAGELL stated he was presently residing with bis

sister, ELEANOR GAMBERT,

82-25 Grand Avenue,

Elmburst,

Queens, Long Island, New York, telephone number HA 6-6830,

and was attempting to obtain employment in the New York area,

NAGELL advised

his present objective was

to have the California

ARC exposed, and he was willing to furnish "court room

testimony" that would result in the prosecution of many

Los Angeles hoodluns and their

attorneys, who have acted

as go-betweens in securing alcoholic beverage licenses

through payoffs

NAGELL advised that he was shot in July, 1962, as

aresult of his refusal to "lay off" the Mauna-Loa investiga-

tion; horever, he declined to disclose the details concerning

the actual shooting.

NAGElL stated he had furnished some information to

the State of California investigators assigned to the

California Attornoy General's Office; however, nothing was

acconplished through this

NAGELL appeared overwrought and obsessed with a

desire to expose the ABC, and, as a result, clear his name:

He stated this situation has caused a separation

between

himself and his wife and children, who are still residing in

Los Angeles.

NAGELL advised he had spoken with SA "DICK" RICHARDS

of the Los angeles office on three or four occasions; however,

hs had given limited information to him, due to personal

circumstances at the time. He requested that apologies be

conveyed to SA RICHARDS for not "going all the way" on

revealing all he knew concerning individuals in whon SA

RICHARDS expressed an interest.

The following information was presented by NAGELL

to the interviewing Special Agent

on two

typewritten sheets

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"As of the aforementioned date, and prior thereto

responsible authorities of the Department of Alcoholic

Beverage Control were aware of the foregoing information.

The two agents who handled special ownership investigations

in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area (consisting of 3500

licensees) were OWEN J. MC CARD, a hanger-on and close friend

Of WILLIAM G. BONELLI, forner Director of SBE, and myself

During the course of my investigations I received pressure

from both MC CARD and certain superiors to fluff off on

certain investigations, and to press others - depending on the

licensee or who the hoodlums were in back of the business

concerned.

This I did not do In my opinion this resulted

directly in my dismissal from the department, regardless of

what other ostensible reasons were

tendered

It is a fact.

that Twas shot as a result of one of my investigations even

though it could have been

avoided by myself. Certain

reports of investigations which

Iturned In were not forwarded

thru proper channels, some of them were destroyed; I gas

pulled off of some investigations before their completion

(which were not rcassigned); certain licensees were notified

that Iwas investigating them; and I was aware of bribes boing

offered in quite a few instances.

Some of the attorneys

who

actedras go-betweens in these affairs were as follows

Murray. Choitner

Paul Angelillo

Michael Flynn

Nate Snyder

Harry Weiss

a Mr. Hall

Carl Sturzenacker

Goodwin J Knight

"LoS Angeles:

"Following is

a

partial list of porsons who are not

qualified to hold alcoholic beverage licenses, but who in

fact owned businesses, partly of completely, which were

licensed (or which

were in the process of being licensed)

as of. August 21, 1962.

"SOrriS Bort

Mickey Colon

Martin Cusimano

Rudy Cleye

Sam Cuda

Louis Dragna

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"Herman, Duboff

Sam Hollock

Jobnny LaGuardia

Harry Nishimoto

Toe Sica

Fujiko Thomas

Benson Wong

Carlo Florentino

Mickey Koomer

Joa Nell?

Fred Sica

Nick Staponis

Oscar Wakefield

Esther #right

Following is a partial list of licensed premises

(or premises in the process of being licensed) whose businesses

vere owned, partly or completely, by unqualified persons, or

in which such persons held a controlling interest, as

of. August

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"Beverly Hilton Hotel

Black Orchid

Carlo's Little Italy.

Dorando's Pizza House

Figer &

Imperial Gardens

Jerry lewis'

Mom2: 1100

Moulin Rouge

New Ginza

Sherry's

The Abbey

Black Beat Cafe

Blarney Castle

Date Room

EJ. Rancho

Harold's 901 Club

It Club

The Largo

Mauna-10s

My Place

Papa Iilon

TI's Cafe

The Amnex"

November 28, 1962

On November 28v

1962, the subject contacted the

New York City Office of the FBI and advised

as follows

The subject stated that he believed that

the

Superior Court of Los Angeles County did not give him a

fair chance to be heard when it granted his wife MITSUKO

NAGELL (nee TAKAHASHI) an interlocutory divorce decree on

November 19, 1962, of which he had just received notice:

NAGELL claimed that he was aware of the divorce procredings

and, in fact, did appear during preliminary bearings and

actually entered a cross-complaint but it was his understanding

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that the actual trial would not take place until December

next.

He stated that he left California in August, 1962, and

went to Mexico, where he remained until October 28, 1962.

He claimed that his wife's attorney knew this and apparently

brought the case on prematurely so that he would be deprived

of his day in court

NAGELL Claimed that he has written a protest to the

court granting the divorce, claiming he was deprived of his

right to be heard and to have a jury trial. He stated that

he is consulting the Legal Aid Society and the Veterans

Noministration concerning this matter since his Army pension

is his only current income.

December 15, 1962

On December 15, 1962, the subject advised Special

Agents of the fBI in Jacksonville.

Florida, that he had

served as a captain in the U.S. Army and had been involved

in intelligence investigatiorsfor the CIC for approximately

seven years. He said he served in Japan for most of his

period of time and married a Japanese woman naned MITSUKI NAGELL

from whon he is presently divorced Me advised that during

1957 and 1958 he became acquainted in Japan with one. Doctor

CHAKAO FUJISANT, a protessor of Political Science at Tokyo,

Inpan, University:

He said this person was a member of the

Cabinet Research Office (CHO), a

rightist organization.

" He

said this person is presontly in the United States. place

unknown and deems him detrimental to the safety of the internal

security of the United States.

He said in either 1958 or 1959

he directed an anonymous letter to the FBI in Washington,

D. C. relative to the above information concerning

FUJISANI.

He Stated be was discharged honorably fron the l!. S. Army on

October 29, 1959, and subsequently became employed on December 14

1959 by the State Beverage Department in Los Angeles, California,

He said in June, 1962,

he was

accused of taking a $20,000

bribe by the State Beverage Department and was released from

his employment on June 8, 1962, for refusing to answer

questions. He stated be talked to the FBI in Los Angrles

regarding the possibility of his dismissal being a violation

of his civil rights

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NGEll advised that he went to kashington, D. C.

where he resided until recently.

He stared while in

washinston, D. C. he had been approached by an individual

whom he felt was either a Special Agent of the fBI or a

Soviet Espionage Agent.

He said he met this person

bar in washington, D. C. located

in a

at 81l 14th Street NW,

Washington, D. C. He said this person

talked of Domestic

intelligence and also talked of giving him an intelligence

assignment. He said the more he

thought this matter over

he was positive that this individual works for the soviets.

He said that in September, 1962, he was invited

to attend a reception at the Russian Embassy.

He could not

identify the individual who invited him to the reception

Ne

advised that he contacied the Central Intelligence Agency

either langley, Virginia, or Elwood, Virginia, and used

the name of TOE CRAMER Of KRAMER during this contact with

CLAS He said he told them of the

above information and

manted sons advice

as to whether to go through with such

in assignment.

He said he was to meet this individual who

was to give him the assignment at the above mentioned bar:

on 14th Street, and in order to be recognized, he was

to

place toree nickels on the bar in line with a dime placed

directly over the middle nickel

He said the CIA told him

that since

this matter involved domestic rather than foreign

intelligence he should refer this information to the FBI.

He stated he went to the above bar and there was

contacted by the same person and was told to go to Miami,

florida, to a bar and wear a red sweater; where he would

be contacted relative to an assignment

It ts to be noted that during the entire interview

with NAGEl, he was

noted to be in

an inebriated condition

and was very vague in answering questions

He was unable to

identify by name any of the individuals he discussed and was

also unable to furnish

physical description of any of these

individuals.

In addition to being slightly inebriated he

niso gave the impression to the interviewing agents of being

mentally unbalanced.

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NAGELL stated he is presently residing at the

Holiday Inn, Jacksonville, Florida

, and would be there for

the next fer days.

He said he is

presently driving a 1959

Ford which bears California license MYll 890.

He sald he has

no living relatives except his former wife, who resides at

440 South Unton Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and his

sister, ELEANORE GAMBERT, 8225 Grand Avenue, Elmhurst,

New York.

NaGall advised that he believes in connection

with his contacts that he is actually working for the

Soviets. He could furnish no information as to a specific

assignment given

hin other than that he

was to go to

Kiant and sit in a bar which he is unable to identify and

wait to be contacted by a

Soviet Agent. He said he spoke

uapanese and Russian fluently and is well versed in the

Spanish language:

He said he was shot in June, 1962,

bụt refused

to discuss any of the incidents

surrounding the

shooting He said his auto has several bullet holes in it.

He furnished a photograph of himself.

On December 17, 1962 efforts were made to locate

MAGELL for reinterview; however, it was determined that he

had checked out of the notel and left no forwarding address

December 20, 1962 to January 22, 1963

On Novenber 25, 1963, Ep T-2 made available clinical

records regarding the subject covering the period when the

subject was a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital,

Bay Pines, Florida, from December 20, 1962, to January 22,

1963,1

One clinical record contained the following informa-

"INTERIM SUMMARY (INTERSERVICE)

"14 HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: This 32 year old white male

veteran of Korean War was admitted to Ward 1-5-S on 12-20-62

because of complaints of

headache and lapses of

memory.

He claims these since an airplane accident he had had in

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1954 With head injury and brain concussion. He said he was

admitted to Walter Reed Hospital for & period of approximately

six nonths and at that time he was unconscious for approxtmately

twenty days.

This accident left him with a left facial

paralysis and sone difficulty in his memory.

Since two

weeks ago bis headache is worse and he complains of it all

the time. He feels nore nervous and looks as though he is

in real emotional distress with periods of depression.

PHYSICAL EXAMINATION:

Revealed a well nourished, well

developed patient with periods of depression during which he

cries and sonetimes said that he wishes he were dead.

Other

times, he looks angry and anxious. He is well ariented

as to time and place, bus sometimes needs to look in a small

booklet to remember dates or names.

sometimes during the

conversation he stops and tries to

remember what he wanted

to

tell at that time it seems

that

he is not able to continue

and cries.

Blood pressure 120/80, pulse 68, height 6'l" and

weight 17s pounds. Pupils are equal and normal reaction to

light and consensual reflex.

He shows a left facial paralysis

a residual from the head injury.

lungs

ale clear Heart

2.10

good tonus and sious rhythn. No edena.

Abdomen is flat,

soft, no masses and organs not palpable. Neurological

exanination is

normal except a left facial paralysis and

some staggering during romberg procedure. Optic fundt was

normal, peripheral vision by confrontation is normal.

"3. LABORATORY AND X-RAY FINDINGS: Skull and chest x-ray

essentially negative.

EKG normal

EEd without a definite

abnormality

The spinal fluid shows a total protein of

mg." without any increase of globulin, I yuph, and

serology negative.

Pressure was 80 mm

of water.

Routine

laboratory study normal.

A psychological evaluation done

by Dr. Martin reports some defect in the

intellectual sphere

with inability to integrate and a waxing and raning of

alertness, which he said resembles that seen in epileptold

individuals.

"4.

COURSE IN HOSPITAl: During the time

he was in this

ward

this patient complained of headache more of the time and said

trey only stop during the time he is asleep. Most of the

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tius he looks depressed, but sometimes angry. He wrote many

letters about different subjects and some of

these, It seems,

emanate fron a patient who is under the effect of a depressive

feeling.

The patient was transferred to Ward '22-4-S on

1-15-63

5. TRANSFER DIAGNOSES AND PRESENT STATUS:

1. Chronte brain syndrone secondary to

brain concussion in 1954.

Treated Unchanged

2.

Behavorial reaction passive-aggresive

type with paranoid traits.

Untreated

Unchanged

6. RECOMMENDATIONS: Transfer to 22-4-S."

Another clinical record made reference to the above

mentioned clinical record and stated "Paragraphs l,

2,

3

and 4

of Interim Summary (Interservice) dated 1-15-63

remain unchanged, with the following addendum:

"4.

COURSE IN HOSPITAL (Cont'd): This patient was transferred

to the open section of the Psychiatric ward after having been

seen by the Chief of the Psychiatric Service on two occasions

At that time the Neurological Service felt

that patient had

received maximum hospital benefit fron their viewpoint and

because of his hostility and

irritability that be should be

placed on the Psychiatric ward for further observation. He

complains frequently of not receiving the attention that he

felt he should have and that he wasn't getting the privacy

that he also thought he should have. On his initial interview

he refused to discuss why he was in the hospital, saying that

he had been through all this before.

He relates that he did

not want to

attend the group psychiatric conferences because

he did not want anyone

to know about his private business.

He insisted

i am entitled

to a private interviey if I want

de..

He was somewhat withdrawn on

the ward and showed poor

inter-personal relationship. One of his chief complaints

while being on

this ward was his headaches and he related that

they were getting worse.

He stated Nothing that

they give

• 'I

ne here is doing any good

After several days of listening

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to hisdemands a batter rapport was estahlished and a private

Interview was given him.

He seemed well oriented in all

Spheres .

Speech was of normal

flow and coherent

He showed

no flight of ideas. He denied delusions or hallucinations.

No suicidal or homicidal tendencies were elicited.

He states

that his main trouble is headaches which I have had continuously

recently. He also complains of dizziness, and at times an

unsteady gait.'

These symptoms are sometimes associated with

a transient loss of menory.: During the interview his retention

and recall were good. Sensorium was intact. When I asked

him what he thought was wrong he said 'I think my trouble is

physiologic.'

when

tasked him what he meant by phystologic

he stated My trouble is all due to my head injury.

He felt

reassured when I told him that i thought some of his symptoms

Awere due to that mishap.

Although he smoked continuously

during the interview he related quite a story about his Army

activittes and his domestic situation, but was sorewhat evasive

about the trouble he was in while in California,

especially

the trouble involving the f.B.l, and sone shooting event.

He

was presented before the

Psychiatric stand and at first was

sonewhat reluctant to

answer questions and when asked a question

that was not due to his liking he would relate

this is my

private life.'

During the Staff Conference he said 'you

Psychiatrists are all stereotyped.'

During

the Staff

Conference, however, his mond was one of friendliness and

not one of depression, although he will occasionally get irri

table when supposedly asked a personal question.

After the

interview at the Staff Meeting he approached me saying that

he did not want any of

the nurses

aides to know about his

business and

that was the

reason why he refused to give out

any infornation.'

He further related that he keeps everything

in a little book that he has done or said because he has a poor

memory, although some of these memory deficits were not brought

out in the interview with him.

He was advised to stay on the

ward for another week or two for further observation but

felt that he didnot have to since nothing more could be done

for him. He also said the reason for him wishing to leave

was that

the had a job in mind and was going for an interview.

Since his insight and judgment were unpredictable at times

and although no psychotic behavior was noted, it was felt

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that he could lenve the hospital ANA. In view of the chronic

nature of his iliness the future prognosis must be guarded as

to a possibility of a permanent future

social economic adjustment.

Patient discharged A.M.A. on 1-22-63.

"5. FINAL DIAGNOSTS AND PRESENT STATUS :

1.

Chronic brain syndrome associated with brain trauma

(by history of) with behavioral reaction characterized

by possive aggressive and paranoid features.

Treated.

Unchanged.

(a)

(b).

80)

Precipitating Stress:

Unknown.

Predisposition:

Moderate, by history of,

frequent hospitalizations and Interviews

for his present type of behavior.

Psychiatric Incapacity: Minimal:: Patient

is competent

at this time

RECOMMENDATIONS: That this patient should rémain in a

hospital for further observation,

However, if he so desired,

he could go A.M.A. to seek further NP care when indicated.

PRESENT STATUS OF SC DISABILITY: Not oxamined for

rating purposes:

The shove mentioned clinical record from the Veterans

aministration Hospital in Bay Pines, Florida, can only be

Made available upon the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum.

The identity of

the person to be subpoenaed is HAROLD G. COBB,

Chief, Registrar Division, Veterans Administration Admission

Cantone los Angeles 25, California:

January 24.

1963

On January 24, 1963, the

subject was contacted

by Special Agents of the Miani, Florida, Office of the

FET at Northeast First Avenue and Fifth Street, Miant,

at which time he stated that his name was JO KRAMER.

He

was sitting in his 1957 Ford hardtop, black and white in

color, bearing California license MYU 890.

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subject was very reluctant to furnish any informa-

tion but identified himself as RICHARD CASE NAGELl, a former

Special Agent for

the Liquor Control Office, State of

California, Los Angeles Office, and a former Captain in

•the United States Army with experience in intelligence

work with the CIC.

Subject stated he wished to be advised if he was

given a pistol with a silencer and possibly some microfilm

by sources - Cuban, Russian or both - from Mexico City through

a Cuban in Miami - if he would be permitted to return these

items to his contact so he could be of further use to the

United States Government. Subject stated he did not rant to

cooperate fully with the United States Government or anyone

else:

He gave the impression that he was better at

determining what the enemy is up to than the agencies regularly

handling these matters, except the FRI. He stated the FBI'

is the only agency

that has treated him well.

Subject stated within the next few days the

individual with the gun would contact him and he would

immediately contact the fRI, provided the gun could be

returned to him in time to make the delivery to whomever

he had to deliver it.

When pressed for details subject was

very evasive

and vague

No promises were made to the subject and the

espionage statutes and the registration act together with

other laws were explained to him and he acknowledged he was

fully aware of their provisions.

subject stated he was discharged from the liquor

Control authority in California under false charges of

accepting bribes:

Inmediately thereafter, he left for

Mexico because he was disgusted with the united States

I n

August or September, 1962, he met & man from Maryland in

Mexico City

who introduced him to individuals whom he believed

my have been soviet agents. He refused to give descriptions,

names or other details.

When questioned on specific points

he became mysteriously evasive.

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subject claimed ho had the namos of all Americans

tovolved in activittes against the

United States in a safe

deposit box, the key to which he save to a close friend in

the

event of his death.

When subject was questioned concerning the details

of possible microtilm he night deliver, he stated that

maybe there would not be any microfilm,

and that was a

conclusion on his part that microfilm would be delivered with

the pistol. He also stated he did not know what the gun

would he used for but since he was not stupid he thought it

might be used to kill someone with. subject tore off the

corner of a $10.00 bill and offered it to the interviewing

agents to be used as identification in contacting him when

he would later call the FRI for a meeting.

He suggested

that the corner of the $10.00 bill be shown to a bartender

in a bar that he would name and then a waiter could let him

know that a friend wanted to see him. The agent stated this

would be unnecessary and he

"greed to call the office

January 25, 1963

subject was highly critical of the operations of the

Contral Intelligence Agency In Mexico, but trusted the FBT

and Claimed he had contacts with FBI Agents in Mexico

City, Los Angeles and Jacksonville.

Subject furnished his driver's license which gave

his address as Box 76121 Sanford Station, Los Angeles,

California. His date of birth on the license is August 5,.

1938 and the address to notify in the event of energency was

3751 6th Street, Los Angeles, California:

Iate in the interview, subject reluctantly furnished

his temporary address in Miami which is Room 303, Holiday Inn,

2500 Brickell Avenue.

Subject stated he is constantly under surveillance,

that he has not been under the care of a psychiatris and

that he might return to Mexico City:

April 19. 1963

On April 19, 1963, the subject contacted the Los

Angeles, California Office of the FBI and furnished the

following information to a Special Agent of that Office:

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The subject stated that he and his wife obtained

au interlocutory decree of divorce in Los Angeles County on

October 16, 1962:

He said that one of the terms of this

decree was

that he was to have 'reasonable visitation'

rights with his two small children.

He said that his wife

has not complied with this court order so he had her

subpoenaed into court for contempt.

Subject said that he and his wife appeared in

court on April 19, 1963, and a female judge, name not known,

listened to the matter with subject acting as his own attorney.

He said that the Judge interrupted him and instructed him to

obtain a lawyer before the proceedings would continue.

Subject, advised that he argued with

the Judge to no avail.

subject said that he is unemployed and has no

funds

to hire an attorney.

He said that he went to the Legal Aid

Soctety and California Bar Association to obtain an attorney

but neither would furnish counsel.

At this point in the interviem the subject became

emotional and quite rude.

He said that the Judge cannot order

him to hire an attorney if he does

not want one and to do

so is a violation of his civil rights.

He raved on that

he was

well avare of the law and demanded that the FBI

investigate the judge involved.

Subiect was informed of the provisions of the

Civil Rights Statutes and told that

he should discuss

this

case with the United States Attorney, Los Angeles, if not

satisfied

The subject then

left the office with no further

comment about the matter.

He mentioned as he was leaving that

if he did not get a job in the near future, he was going to

"blow the lid off"concerning lios Angeles Police Department,

Los Angeles Sheriff's Office, Los Angeles County Distriot

Attorney and the California Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

It is noted that subject at first refused to give

his address. He then stated that he had lived in Mexico City,

D.F. until about. 30 days ago:

He then gave his Los Angeles:

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address as Post Office Box 75801, Sanford Station, Los Angeles.

He then said he lived at 610 South Oxford Street, Los Angeles 45.

June 4. 1963 and August 14, 1963

On Septenber 23, 1963, EP T-3 advised that the

medical records, Veterans Administration (VA) Outpatient

clinic,

1031 South Broadway, Los Angeles, California,

contained the following information regarding the subject:

On June 4, 1963, NAGELL appeared at the Outpatient

Clinic and was referred to the Neurological Clinic for

treatment.

His condition was diagnosed as "depression, tearful,

nervous, rigid. Hould only utter words 'Got to see my kids.

August 14, 1963, NAGELL appeared at the Outpatient

clinic, complaining of

"impairment of vision, left eye."

Records

indicate foreige matter removed from eye and NAGELL discharged.

An appointment for september 16, 1963, was made for NAGELL,

but he failed to keep this appointment.

Records indicate the following service-connected

injuries have been

entered on MAGELL's records:

Multiple scars, left face and head

Reconstructed left ear canal

Paresia (paralysis), partial, left facial nerve

Lagophthalmos - left. (defective hearing bilateral)

Multiple scars, left forearm, left buttocks. right

leg, and right knee

Tracheotony

Fracures, right and left mandibles (jam)

Brain concussion

Right hypertropia

The above information can be made available only

upon

"the issuance of

subpoena duces tecum.

The identity of

the person to be subpoenaed is Mrs. MARGUERITE COFFEE,

Chief of Medical Records, VA Outpatient Clinic, 1031 South

Broadway, Los Angeles,

California,.

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August 23, 1963

On August 23, 1963, Assistant United States Attorney

THOMAS R. SHERIDAN, LOS

Angeles, California, advised that

one RICHARD C. NAGELL had been employed as a taxi cab driver

in Beverly Hills, California, during recent weeks and claimed

to have formerly been an

officer in the CIC Division of the

United States Army:

Mr: SHERIDAN said NAGELL had claimed

recently to Special Agents of the Intelligence Division,

Internal Revenue Service, and to Mr. SHERIDAN that he, NAGELL,

had cerried mussages to various persons in the Beverly Hills

ared, including JOHN BEBER, Of Brand Notors, and others

connected with the Friar's Club in Beverly Hills. MT. SHERIDAN

indicated

that much of the information NAGELL had furnished

could

also be found in newspapers

and other publications,

except information which could not be proved of disproved,

such as NAGELL's carrying of messages.

Mr. SHERIDAN indicated

that he was skeptical of the reliability of NAGELL.

ATTEMPTED BANK ROBBERY AND AFTERMATH

An Individual identified by material in his possession

aS ROBERT CASE NAGELL waS brought to the El Paso Office of

the FBT at 4:55 PM ou September 20, 1963 by Patrolmen W. L.WESTPALL and

JANES S. BUNDREN, El Paso Police Department. At that time

NAGELL was advised that

he was suspected of a felony crime

within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBi, that he

did not have to make any statement, that any statement he

did make could be used in a court offlaw against him, and thät

he had a right to consult an attorney. No threats or promises

were made by anyone to secure a statement from NAGELL.

NAGELL requested permission to telephonically

contact an attorney in Los Angeles, California, at about

5:00

Ph. This request was immediately granted, upon

which NAGell stated,

"No, I don't want to call that

shyster

He then asked the time on the west coast and

on the east coast

Although refusing to directly discuss the attempted

hold up of the State National Bank, El Paso, NAGELL Stated

that he had fired two shots in the bank "to keep anyone from

following me." He stated that he was an excellent shot, and

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the fact that he had fired the two shots into the ceiling

proved he had not been trying to hit anyone.

He stated that

he was certain that "all of my problems have been solved for

a long time, and now I won't have

to go to Cuba." This

statement was not further explained.

When requested to

explain this statement, NAGElL refused, stating

"I can see

this is going to be a frame, which is to be expected in our

capitalistic system.

When asked för his motive in attempting to hold up

the

bank, NatEll stated that be was unhappy, with the American

judicial system, because he

had attempted,

through judicial

procedures, to get to see his two children, a girl 32 and a

boy 22, in custody of his divorced wife, and the California

court had not executed an order in keeping with his request.

NAGELL advised that he had been living in Mexico until

= short time ago.

In regard to his Army career, NAGELl stated that he

had resigned his commission as a Captain, effective October 29,

1959. He said that at the time he resigned he was on

the

list for promotion to Major. He further advised that he

entered the U.S. Army on

August 5, 1948'at Albany, New York

He said he was drawing 60% compensation from the government

and had been declared disabled to the extent of 63%.

He advised that he had been

assigned Enlisted Army

Serial Number RA 12115891, Officers' Serial Numbers 02028346

and

01438346•

He stated that the last serial number had been

assigned to him when he had been assigned to counter-

intelligence.

He

advised

Army Counterintelligence School, He said that he had been

schat he,

that he had been trained in the

assigned to Field Operations Intelligence and had taught

interrogation.

In addition, NAGELl stated that he had been wounded

on three separate

occasions in connection with his service

the Korean

campaige, and he had received three purple

hearts. Continuing

he advised that he received a battle

field commission.

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On September 21, 1963, Assistant United States

Attorney FREDERICK J. NORTON waS

furnished the facts of the

case involving

the attempted robbery of the State National

Bank of El Paso, on September 20, 1963, and Mr. MORTON

then authorized the filing of a

complaint

charging the

subject with back robbery:

On September 21, 1963, a complaint was filed before

Valted States Conmissioner HENRY C. CLIFTON, El Paso,

Texas, charging NAGELL with violation of Section 2113,

Title

18, United States Code, in that NAGELL did on September 20

1963.,

at. El Paso, Texas, enter the State National Bank of

El Paso, a bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation, organized and operated under the lans of the

United States, and make a felonious

attempt by force and

violence

and

putting in fear by use of a 45 caliber

revolver, one PATSY CLYDINE GORDON, anemployee of the said

bank to take a thing of value, to wit, Travelers Cheques,

which vere in the care and custody and controlled by the

said

bank

The subject waived hearing and stated that he did

not desire to be

represented. by an

CLiFTON set bond in

attorney

" Commissioner

the amount of $25,000, in lieu of which

the subject was remanded to the custody of the United

States Marshal

and placed in the El Paso County Jail.

On september 41, 1963, RICHARD CASE NAGELL wAS

intervewed at the El Paso County Jail subsequent to a

hearing before U.S. Commissioner HENRY C. CLIFTON, ElPaso,

Texas, at which hearing the charges of bank robbery filed

against him were read to him by the United States Commissioner

and at which time he was advised of his right to counsel:

NAGElL waS

again advised as to the identity of

the

Special Agents of the FBl who were desirous of interviewing

him and was told that he did not have

to make any statement

and that any statement he made could be used against him

in a court of law. He was also advised that

he had the

right to consult an attorney and that no threats or promises

would be made to him to induce him to make a statement

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In the presence of El Paso Police Department

Detective THOMAS F. MC CONNELL,

aR. and his partner,

MAGELL stated that he desired to talk to Special Agents

of the FBI. He stated that he did not desire to talk

in

the presence of anyone-else and Detective MC CONNELl.

and his partner then departed.

NAGELL started off his conversation by saying that

when he had appeared before the US Commissioner just prior

to this interview, that he had "pled not guilty" since he

did not know what else to do.

He stated

that he did not desire

to be represented by an attorney and that he did not care

what happened to him.

He exhibited his left wrist, the inside

of which was covered with a great number of superficial

wounds to the skin.

He stated that

the night before while

he was in the El. Paso City Jall he had used a piece of tin

in an attempt to cut his wrists. le said he had lost about

a pint of blood.

He Stated that when he entered the State National

Bank of El Paso

on the afternoon of September 20, 1963,

he would not have taken any money.

He said that to the

best of his recollection be had been in El Paso for

seyeral days

had made an attempt to find a former war

buddy Of iS named LOSE C. TRARRA, who formerly resided at

904 South Htll Street in El Paso.

He stated that he had

made inguiry at this address, but IBARRA had moved and he was

not able to find out there he had gone.

He said that he had

Known IBARRA in 1948 and 1949 when both of them were Sergeants

in the Army. Continuing, he advised that he had driven to

El Paso from San Diego, California.

NAGELL stated that. he

had not eaten in three days because he did not feel like

doing so•

When asked if he desired food he stated that he was

afraid that it would make him sick if he attempted to eat.

NAGELL stated that he wanted to point out that

he had in the past received psychiatric treatment and that in

1955 he had been hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Hospital as

a result of the crash

of an Air Force B-25.

He advised that

the had been

the sole survivor of this crash and had spent

Ca considerable length of time in the hospital. He advised

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that Doctor EDWIN A. WEINSTEIN, a civilian doctor assigned to

the Neuropsychiatric Center at Halter Reed Hospital had

treated him and had a considerable amount of information

as to his mental condition.

Continuing, he advised that he

did not think

that he was crazy, but that he felt that he

preded psychiatric

attention and advice because of the fact

that he

was highly emotional and at times he could not remember

what he was

saying or where he was for short periods.

He

stated that he had requested admission to the psychiatric

ward at the interans' Hospital, Brentrood, Los Angeles,

California, however, he was not granted admission and he

580190

that to the best.of his recollection he made this

request in May or June of 1963. He pointed out that

all of

has medical

Iscords could be obtained at the veterans

Adainistration Regional Office,

1380 South Sepulveda Foulevard,

Los Angeles, California.

He further advised that he had been hospitalized at

the Veterans' Hospital, Bay Pines, Florida, from December 20,

1962 until January, 1963, at which time he was discharged

against medical advice.

Ho stated that he had been

confined

in this.

hospital as a result of "spells" that he had been

having and that he was in the hospital for observation.

MAGKIL was highly emotional, was given to spells of

crying, art stated that he had not been able to get his feet

on the ground since

his discharge fron

the

United

states Army

in 1959:

"In this connection, he stated that his wife

was a

Japanese and that he had resigned his cormission

as a Captain

in the thited

States Army since she vas

extremely unhappy

withhis being assigned to the

• Infantry:

He said that he had

resigned

the commission and that after the divorce had been

grinted, he had not beon allowed to see his two small children

because he had not

been able to pay the required alimony.

He stated that he had been employed by the alcoholic

and Reverage Control in California, but had lost his job in

1962.1

He said that he had not worked since then and actually

mas not able to do any kind of work because of the time he

had spent in the Army. He stated that the only job that he

was prepared for was that of an investigator since he had

learned this

as à Counter-Intelligence

Corps representative

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of thoU.S. Army. He stated that he had been shot through

the chest in 1962 in Los Angeles, California, but that the

shooting was a result of a private matter and he did not

care to discuss it further.

He stated that lately he had been too upset to

bp even considered for a job and then intimated that he

had gone into the State National Bank "so that they would

take him back in the hospital." He stated that he was not in

the bank to get any money and that he fired the shots to.

keep anyone from following him. He said that he had used

the names of JOE KRANE and ROBERT C. NOLAN and

advised that

he had used the name of NOLAN while in the Military

Intelligence:

NAGELL further advised that he had been suffering

from a headache for several days and stated that he had been

taking some kind of pills that were furnished to him by the

Veterans Administration, but that he was out of these pills

and did not know what they were. He requested an aspirin,

chich was obtained

for him.

In response

to a question as to

whether or not he desired to see

a doctor, he stated

that he

did not

In the September 21, 1963, issue of the El Paso

Times, an article appeared on page 1-A entitled "Veteran

Tries Paring Bank Robbery." The article contained a

sub-caption "Fires Two Shots As Clerk Flees From Counter."

The article states, "A 34-year-old battle-scarred Korean

war hero, armed with a 45 Colt, made a daring but unsuccessful

attempt to rob the State National Bank about 4:30 PM Friday,

firing two shots as he ran out of the crowded bank.

"Detectives and FBT Agents going through the suspect's

suitcase

found photostatic copies of numerous

certificates and

commendations showing he lad acquired an outstanding military

record in ll yenrs of service with the U. 5. Army in Korea:

A photostat showed he had been honorably discharged from the

Army at Fort Dix, New Jersey, October, 1959, with the rank

of Captain

"Other military papers found in NAGELL's suitcase

showed he had been awarded the Purple Heart three times

for

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pounds received, in battle with the enemy in Korea.

Other

papers also disclosed he had been avarded the Bronze Star

for meritortous and outstanding service in Korea.

Speaking to FBI Agents and other officers NAGELL

admitted he had entered the Army as a buck private and was

in line for promotion

to major when he was given his honorable

discharge.

He told agents he spoke Russian, Japanese and

Spanish fluently.

"His irmy papers disclosed NAGELL had

graduated

with honors from the Army Military Intelligence School,

from a special leader's course, and had served in the

counter intelligence corps (CIC). He had records showing

he had been given top secret security clearance on September. 22,

1950•

The September 22, 1963, issue of the El Paso

Times contains an article on page 1-A entitled

""MAGELL

Plends Not Guilty."

According to the article, "City

jailers reported NAGEll has refused to eat his meals since

he was booked in jail. They

also reported the prisoner

attempted to cut his wrists in his City Jail cell Friday

night by using a tin can converted

to an ash tray.

"After he was turned over to the custody of Sheriff

BOB BAILEY, jailers were instructed to maintain a close watch

on the prisoner and stop him from making any attempts on his

life.

The September 26, 1963, issue of the El Paso Times

contains an article on page 7-A entitled "NAGELL To Take

Sanity Test at La Tuna.

According to the article, "Former

Army Captain RICHARD CASE

NaGELL, 34, charged with bank robbery

in an unsuccessful attempt to hold up the State National Bank,

will be taken to La Tuna Correctional Institution Thursday for

a sanity test

'He will be exanined by Dr. R. d. BENNETT on the

motion of Assistant U.S. District Attorney FRED MORTON, who

obtained an order authorizing the check up fromu.S. District

i Judge R. E. THOMASON.

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"MortoN said the preliminary investigarion indicated

thnt a psychiatric examnation would be necessary before the

gover ment could proceed further in the case.

The Investiga-

tion showed that NAGEll, was the sole survivor of a

milltary

plane crash, that since his discharge he had visited several

FBI offices offering "highly secret" counterintelligence

information; and carlier this year had been under psychiatric

care in Florida for a month."

On September 27, 1963, Sinff Sergeant (E-6) PHILIP J.

DALY, US ArMY, MA 32 293 739, presently assigned

I to the 4th

pulisted Student Battery, School Support Command, Fort Bliss,

Texas, stated that he served in the same detachment in Tokyo,

Japan,

with RICHARD CASE NAGELL, the

441st CIC, during

the

spring of 1958, from approximately February to May, when he

(DALY) returned to the United States:

He has had

no contact

with NAGELL since that time.

There was only a normal acquaintance between a

Captain (MAGELL

and a Master Sergeant (DALY) during

this period of time

DALY first met NAfELl on a temporary duty trip to

Sendat, in northern Japan,

where NAGElL had been sent to

replace the Operations Officer.

NAGElL stated at that time

that he was being shunted into a corner.

DALY next met NAGEll about a month later in Fort

4200

Drakes Tokyo

All enlisted men of the 44lst, CIC Intachment

thought that NAGEll was slightly unbalanced, and was not a

normal officer. The reputation among the enlisted men was

to stay away from NAGELL.

The November 4,

1963, issue of the El Paso Herald-Post

contained an

article on page 1 entitled "Holdup Snapect.

'Fires? Lawyer." According to the article, "RI MARD CASE

MAGell charged in U.S. District Court with an altempt to

hold up the state National Bank told the Court today he did

not attempt.

to hold up the bank

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""I had a motive for doing what I did

" NAGELL

told Federal Judge R. E. THOMASON.

"But my motive was not, to

hold up the bank. 'I do not intend to disclose my motive at

this time.'

"NAGELL. 33, told Judge THOMASON that he is a veteran

of the Korean War, that he was injured three times, and that

a a 64 per cent disabled veteran.

"The accused man was before the court on a petition

filed by his own hand for a writ of habeas corpus, claiming

he was being held prisoner illegally

"NAGELL asked Judge THOMASON to discharge Attorney

JAVES HAMMOND, who had been appointed by the court to

represent NATEll.

Judge THOMASON granted the request,

after telling NAGELL that Mr. HAMMOND 1s considered an able,

conscientious member of El Paso

Bar. MAGEll had refused to

talk to Mr HAMMOND before the hearing opened.

The matter of whether NAGEll would consent to

undergo psychtatric treatment was discussed, and MAGEl

said he would be willing to go to La Tuna Federal Correctional

Institution, and that:

"'I will obey all their rules but I will not cooperate

for any psychlatric examination except an examination conducted

by a psychiatrist for the Veterans Administration.

Judge THONASON said he would name a psychiatrist

from William Beaumont

Army Hospital to examine NAGEl.

The Judge said he would appoint another attorney to represent

NAGELL."

On November 18,

1963, the subject filed a writ of

habaes corpus in the United States District Court in

El Paso

NAGELL requested intervien with a Special Agent

of the FBl. On interview, NAGELL furnished the following

signed statement:

"11/19/63

•"El Paso, Texas

"I, Richard Case Nagell, do hereby nake the following

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free and voluntary statement to faward Joseph Murphy and George

E. Atken, who have identified themselves to me as Special

Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They have:

advised me that the information furnished herein may be used

in court.

No

threats, promises or force of any kind was used

to get

me to make this statement.

"I was born in Greenwich, N.Y. on August 5, 1930

I was arrested on September 20, 1963, an El Paso,

Texas.

On September 21, 1963, I was arraigned before the

United States Commissioner in El Paso, Texas, on a charge of

bank robbery, at which time I entered a plea of not guilty and

was bound over for indictuent by the Federal Grand Jury. Bail

MB.S

set at $25,000.

On September 21, 1963 I was incarcerated

in the fl Paso County jail, where I since have been and am

presently confined.

"On September 24, 1963, the United States District

Court ordered that I be given a psychiatric examination to

determine my mental competency to stand trial, and that if

determined necessary by the examining psychiatrist, to conduct

such examination,

, to bo conmitted to the Federal Correctional

Institution, La Tuna, Texas, for a period not exceding two weeks

'On November 4, 1963, the court nullified that part

of the aforesaid order, pertaining

to the commitment, and

re-praered that I be committed to Beaumont Army Hospital,

El Paso, Texas, for said psychiatric examination.

"On September 24,

1963 and again on November 4, 1963

the U.S. District Court ordered that further prosecutive action

against me, be deferred until such time as the Court is in

receipt of the results of said psychiatric examination.

"As of this date I have not received the afore-

mentioned psychiatric examination nor have 1 been committed

to elther of the aforementioned institutions for such examina-

tiơn, nor have I been indicted by

the Federal Grand Jury.

"I believé that an unnecessary and undue delay has

occurred in bringing me to trial, as a result of my reluctance

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to participate

in a psychiatric consultatton and/or eramination.

I believe that this

is a violation of my right to a speedy trial

as guaranteed to me by Amendment 6 of the Constitution.

"In relation to the foregoing statement, I believe

that I, as an accused person, am not required by law to emit

any statement of to answer any questions,

whatsoever, to any

person, whomsoever, including a psychiatrist, psychologist,

or physiologist, nor that an required by law to partici-

pate in any examination, test or activity, verbal, written or

otherise,

if 1 do not so elect.

To be coerced to do 5o, 15

a violation of my rights under Amendment 5 of the Constitution

"An attempt has been made to indirectly coerce me

to incriminate myself, by a court appointed psychiatrist

known to me as Doctor Bennett, in that he queried me as to

my motive for committing the alleged offense and stated to

me that if I did not give him such information, I was being

uncooperative, and that l might have to be sent

1o Springfield

Medical Center, If I did not cooperate with him

further belteve that I am being coerced into

taking psychiatric examination and or consultation by the

resulting undue delay in bringing me to trial:

"T have read

this statement consisting of this and

3 other pages, and it is true and correct.

"/s/ Richard Case Nagell

"Witness:

W/s/ Edward Joseph Murphy, Special Agent FBI, El Paso, Texas,

11/19/63

"Is/ George E.

11/19/63"

Alken, Ir Special Agent, F.B.I, El Paso, Texas

On November 19, 1963, Assistant United States Attorney

FREDERICK I. MORTON,

El PasO,

advised that there is no validity

to subject's allegation inasmuch as Title 18, Section 4244,

U.S. Code, states that upon a motion by the United States

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Attorney, the defense attorney, or upon its own motion, the

court shall cause the accused to be examined as to his

mental condition where it is feit that he may be presently

insane or otherwise mentally incompetent as to be unable

to understand the

proceedings against hin of to properly

assist in his own defense.

Assistant US. Attorney

MORTON advised that according to this statute, the examination

can be made with or without the consent of the accused.

Assistant U.S. Attorney MORTON stated that tbe subject

nas constantly retured to cooperate with prychiatrists and

has refused to even speak to them, and that this refusal

on his part has held up any possible psychiatric

examination, necessitating postponing further action.

The subject, who is still incarcerated in the

El Paso County Jail, sent the following note to SA THOMAS: B.

WHITE, JR. of the El Paso Office of the FBI, which reads

as follows:

Mr. White

"When one's actions are motivated by an

ideological

conviction, he cannot deviate from his pursued path simply

because society may censure it as wrong. But when he becomes

disillusioned with such ideology, and an existing situation

so dictates, he must initiate immediate correstive action

as befits circumstance and as best he knows how.

"I have always acted from a principal of love for.

my country, and this same principle actuated my conduct of

September 20th, however inappropriate or incomprehensible it

may Appear.

"/s/ Richard C. Nagell"

The

December 10, 1963, Issue of the El Paso Times

contained an article on pages 1 and 3-4 entitled "Says Bank

Holdup Try

'Patriotic!."

According to the article, NaGELL

had submitted several handwritten petitions to the Judge

of the United States District Court in El Paso:

The article

states,

"In one petition, dated December 5,

he wrote,

I have

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always aoted from a principle of love for my country and'

this same principle actuated my conduct on September 20,

1963, however inappropriate or incomprehensible it may

appear.

God and I, and also the FBI, know that I an not

guilty.

"NAGElt is accused of pulling

a gun on a teller

at the bank. When the teller fled, NAGELl is alleged to have

fired two shots into the bank ceiling.

"NArELl had previously Indicated he might submit to

examination by a psychiatrist at William Beaumont General

Hospital.

But at the hearing it was brought out be refused

to do so now.

"Judge THOMASON then overruled his motion for a

writ and asked that NAGELL's case be taken before

a Federal

::..

Grand Jury -

Previously the judge nad ordered that au

prosecution be deferred until an examination report on

NAGELL's mental competency was obtained.

"The judge said NAGELL's

argument on the bond

more thoroughly convinces the court you need psychiatric

help.

When NAGEll was returned to the jail, he would not

tell reporters why he entered the bank.. As in the past he:

said he would not disclose his motive.

FRED MORTON, Assistant U. S. District Attorney,

said

Monday afternoon that the case will probably be taken

before a U. S. Grand Jury in January in San Antonio."

On January 3, 1964, GEORGE NORMAN STANGA was

contacted and interviewed at the El Paso County Jail after

he contacted the El Paso Office of the FBI and specifically

requested that he

be interviewed regarding RICHARD CASE

NAGELL.

At the time of the interview, NAGELL was incar-

cerated at the El Paso County Jail as a Federal prisoner

for the crime of bank robbery.

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STANGA stated that since his arrest and incarceration

at the El Paso County Jail for bad checks, he has become quite

friendly with RICHARD CASE NAGELL.

He stated that NAGELL was a

very mixed-up individual, but that he enjoyed the company of

STANGA and confided in him.

He went on

to say that NAGELL

had recently confided in him to the extent that he had

told

him why he atterpted to hold up the State National Bank of

El Paso, Texas .

NAGELL told STANGA that after his release

from the United States Army, he drifted from job to job and

became more aod more mentally confused as to his political,

religious,

and econonic allegiances. During this confused

period, NAGELL apparently became a member of the Communist

Party of the United States and told STANGA that he did some

ninor work for this organization prior to his trip to El Paso

NACElL also explained to STANGA that he divorced his wife during

this period, and after making several scenes with his wife,

was barred by

court order from seeing his children

During

this period of his life, NAGEll told STANGA that he lived in

the Los Angeles, California, area.

NAGELL explained

to STANGA that he came to El Paso,

after making a decision that everything was against

him in los Angeles and that he should attempt to leave the

United States for a Conmunist country in Europe. In line with

this decision to leave the United States, NAGELL made

a contact

with the Communist Party in Los Angeles, and arranged to meet

a courier or contact man for the Party in El Paso, Texas.

This

contact man was allegedly to have a visa

and passport for

NAGELL SO that he might leave the United States and eventually

end up in Czechoslovakia. NAGELL then left the Los Angeles

area and drove to El Paso, Texas.

He told STANGA that during

this trip, he stopped by the side of

the road on at least

three occasions and attempted suicide with a pistol which

was in his possession.

He explained to STANGA, however,

that he did not have the guts to do it and just let things

drift

along.

After arriving in El Paso,

Texas, NAGELL said

that he got a hotel room

and again attempted suicide with

the revolver. He agate did not have the nerve to "pull the

trigger" and decided that

the best way to commit suicide

would be by leaving the hotel and having a "shoot-out" with

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A poliCeman.

He bert the hotel room, Rot in his car.

proceded down the streets of l Paso looking for a policeman

no looked like he would shoot it out with him.

NAGELL told

STANGA that he did not see a patrolman, however, and decided

that be would enter the State National Bank of sl Paso and

cause a big ruckus because he knew that a policeman was in

the building guarding a Treasury Department money display.

Nigilt entered the bank and fired tuo shots into a wall and

then left the bank fully expecting to be shot down by

passing policeman: However, he escaped to his cat, which was

parkad an an alley, and save up peaceably then arrested by

the polican who was guarding the money display in the bank.

NIGELL TOld STANCA that his robbery of the bank was purely a

suicide nttempt and that he had no intention of robbing the

bank for any monetary gain

In addition to the Communist activities mentioned

shove, Stavria reported that NAGlil told him of a number of

roils of microfilm which contained names, meeting places

and othor activities of the Communist Party, which

pere in his

possession. NAGEll explained that these microfilms were hidden

in a gor mask (lapanese type) which was located

at his sister's

house in New York City.

He went on to say that these micro-

film are bidden in the salve container wich is afixed to the

gus mask.

explained to STANGA that he had not

given this information to the Federal

Bureau of Investigation

because his foit they would indict him as a spy and put him in

jail for life:

On January 6, 1964, the subject furnished the

following signed statenent:

"1/6/64

"El Paso, Texas

". Richard Case Nagell, do heroby make the following

free and voluntary statement to Edward fosoph Murphy and

Irence y. Gorman, who have identified themsolves to me as

Sprcial Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Thry

have advised me

that l do not have to make any statement and

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that any statement that I do make may be used against me in

a court of law.

They have advised me that I may have an

attorney 1f. I desire.

No threats, promises, force, or

inducements of any kind have been used to get me to furnish.

this statement

"I was born on August 5, 1930 at Greenwich, New York

"The following statement is

relative to the motive

which actuated my conduct on September 20, 1963.

"In September 1962, while I was in Mexico City a

representative of a foreign government proposed to me that I

participate in an act; Such act being

a criminal offense and

inimical to the best interests of the United States

At that

time I refused such proposal. In May, 1963, another representa-

tive of the same foreign government made the same proposal

to me.

At that time I agreed to such a proposal:

"In Sept. 1963, I was informed by an American, known

to me as an agent of the

same foreign government, that arrange

ments for my participation in the aforementioned act were

completed, At this time I refused the aforesaid proposal

"Approximately one week later I was instructed by

this same person to either participate as previously agreed

or derrogatory information pertaining to me would be disclosed

to the Federal Bureau of

Investigation

Thereupon I agreed

to follow the instructions of this person, although I did

not intend to do so.

This existing situation actuated ny

conduct of September 20,

1963, for which I was arrested and

an presently charged.

"I did not actually attempt to rob any bank. I

thought that my arrest would provide an immediate,

though

temporary solution

to the problem with which I was confronted

"I am not guilty as charged.

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"I have read this statement consisting of this and

two other pages,

and which I have initialed, and it is true

anu correct to the best of my knowledge and belief

"/s/ Richard Case Nagell

witness:

w/s/

Edward Joseph Murphy, Special Agent FBI, El Paso, Texas,

1/6/64

"/s/

Lawrence V. Gorman, Special Agent FBI, El Paso, Texas

1/6/64"

On January 15, 1964, MES. FRANCES NAGE, 856 South

entarina,

Los Angeles, California,

telephonically advised

a Special Agent of the El

Paso Office of the FBJ that she

was the mother of the subject

and that she' had heard on

the evening before about the bank robbery charge filed

against the subject.

She stated that she last say the subject in August,

1963, at which time subject indicated he wanted nothing to

do with his relatives and no interference with his private life.

She cornented that her son had had a brilliant career"

the military service up until the time of the plane crash

near Washington, D.C. following which he was unconscious

for three weeks in the Walter Reed Mospital In Washington.

Upon his recuperation from

those injuries, he underwent

a complete personality change.

On innuary 34, 1964, the subject was arraigned

before the united States District Court in Fl Paso in connection

with the two-count indictment returped January

B, 1964, in

San Antonio, Texas, charging NAGel with bank robbery

Assistant United

States Attorney FREDERICK J. MORTON filed

a motion before the U. S. District Court under Section 4244,

Title 18, United States Code, to have the subject

committed

for psychtatric treatment. U. S. District Judge HOMER THORNBERRY

granted the motion and ordered the subject committed to the

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Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, Missouri,

for a period of 30 days for the purpose of psychiatric

examination. The subject advised the court that he would

not cooperate with the psychiatrists at the Medical Center

for Federal Prisoners at Springfield,

while being removed from the United States District

court House

in El Paso, Toxas, enroute to the El Paso County

Jail on danuary 24, 1964, and while in the custody of the

Deputy United States Marshals, the

subject accused the

Assistant United States Attorney of violating his constitutional:

vights. This accusation was a repetition of numerous accusations

which the subject had previously made against the Assistant

united States Attorney, according to Assistant i. S. Attorney MORTON.

On January 3t, 1964, Assistant United States Attorney

FREDERICK J. MORTON, El Paso, advised that he had received

ixiformation on a confidentlal basis a short while before to

the etfect that there was a man incatcerated in the El Paso

County Jail under a Federal charge of attempted bank robbery

by the name of RICHARD CASE NAGEl who was a

Communist and

sho was about to defect to Russia when arrested.

Mr

HORTON

related that the story was generally that NAGElL, a retired

Amy Coptain who served with distinction in the Korean Mar in

combat and with CIC, became embittered with the United States

and our formot goverment partially due to the alleged denial

of visitation privileges of his children, custody over whot

awarded to his Japanese wife by California divorce decree

He allegedly turned over secret material to soviet agents

while in the Military Service.

He was supposed to obtain

a passport to Russia here in El Paso from a Communist agent

but was so distraught over the possibility of never again

seeing his children that he considered suicide or some other

drastic means of preventing his defecting that he gent in

a bank in El Paso, asked for $100.00 in cashier's cheques,

pulled a gun which caused the teller to run, and fired two

shots high into the wall and fled. At the time of his

arrest, he called the policeman a

capitalistic sob

hns stated that what he did was

done out of "love for

country a

Other than that he has made no statements

concerning the bank robbery except to say that he did not

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intend

to take any money.

He has refused to talk to a

psychiatrist and fired two court appointed attorneys. His

court room appearances have convinced all that he is

intelligent and competent mentally but extremely confused

and disturbed.

He files motions and writs almost daily,

which are

well written and lawyer like.

At the time of his arrest, September 20, 1963; a

notebook was taken from him containing what purport to be

various codes, CiA

and FBl agents' nanes, Soviet and otber

Communist embassy addresses

and names, and the addresses

of various other people and organizations, including the.

Los Angeles address of the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee."

NAGELL has supposedly recently received a 1963 Information Please

almanac with a scrambled message. Mention is made of this

in the notebook.

NAGELL is supposed to have located at the address

of his sister, Mrs. ELEANORE GAMBERT, 82-25 Grand Avenue,

Elmburst 73, Long Island, New York, HA 6-6930, a trunk in

which a Japanese gas mask is contained. In the salve box of

this mask are supposedly 4 rolls of microfilm containing

the names of various Communist Party menbers, agents, couriers,

thotr activittes, etc.. A man by

the name of

FRED JOHN (BENIO),

an insurance agent in California, is supposed to get these

things fron NAGElL's sister in the event of NAGELL's death.

The

sister

supposedly knows nothing of the contents and is

not a Communist.

NAGELL recently wrote a letter to this

JOHN in Californta mentioning the almanac bit.

Mr.

MORTON said he rejected an offer of a deal for information

purportedly furnished by NAGELL to the FBT

regarding Communists

in exchange for favorable consideration made through NAGELL'S

prior gourt appointed attorney on the basis that the information

was of no value.

Mr: MORTON's confidential source told him

that NAGELL's prior contacts with the fBI were not revealing

because they were made by him solely to determine what the

FBI knew of him.

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CASE

RICHARD

500

501.

ALLRGED CONNESTION WITH LEE HARYEY OSWALT

On Decruber 19, 1963,

the subject advised Special

azents of the El Paso

office of the FBI that "for the record"

ho would like to say that his

association with LEE HARVEY

DaWALD was purely social and that he had met OSHALD In

Mexico City and in

Texas. NAGElL refused to comment further

regarding this matter.

On January 2, 1964, the subject advised a Secret

Service Agent and a Special Agent of the FBI in El Paso;

Texas, that he had

been acquainted with MARINA, the wife

Of LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

Subject further pointed out that

OSWALD was having marital difficulties with MARINA. The

subieet stated that he knew "certain things" in the

Fort Worth-Dallas area.

He said he wanted to let

the

Secret Service know that someone like OSWALD was in that

ares, however, he knew nothing of OswAlD's intention to

assassinate the president. The subject stated that the

requests made by prisoners in the El Paso County Jail for

interviers wero at times honored and at other times they were

not.

The ahove interview was conducted with the subject

in response to a request made by this subject to be interviewed

by a Secret Service Agent.

The Secret Service Agent was

introduced to NAGEl and he attempted to interview NAGELL,

however, NAGELL stated

that the information he originally

desired to report to the Secret Service was "too late now."

On January 23, 1964, an Agent of the United States

Secret Service, El Paso, Texas,

advised that an

-.

Agent of

the United States Secret Service in Dallas, Texas, had

displayed a photograph of the subject to Mrs. MARINA OSWALD,

SifO of LEE HARVEY OSWALD, on January 18, 1964. This photo-

krapb wes taken of the subject on September 21, 1963, at the

Xx paso County Sherift's office. Mrs. MARTNA OSWALD carefully

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examined the photograph and then stated that she did not

know the individual who appeared in the photograph and

had never spen him betore., Mrs. OSWALD was advised of the

name and aliases of the subject and she stated that she did

not know anyone by any of those names

On January 24, 1964, while the subject was being

removed from the United States Court House in El Paso to

the El Paro County Jail for incarceration

and while in

custody of the Deputy U.S. Marshals, the subject made

wild accusations to

newspaper reporters, arcusing the fBi

of not attempting to prevent the assassination of President

KONNeDY and stating that the fBi had questioned him regarding

LEE HARVEY OSWALD:

These statements were made by the subject

in a shouting manner on the elevator enroute to the El Paso

County Jail and within earshot of

the newspaper reporters,

according to AUSA MORTON.

DESCRIPFLON

* Aaron a armiena

The following desriptive information regarding

RICHARD CASE NAGELL was obtained through interviers with

dEls and his acquaintances, observation, and record

checks

Names d

IT 21 RICHARD CASE NAGELL; alSO known

as Joe Craner, Joe Kramer,

•Joe Krane, Robert C. Nolan

Race

white

,Sex

Male

Nationality

• American

Date and place

of birth

•Height

Weight

Build

Hair

Eyes

Scars and marks

August 5, 1930, Greenwich, New York

6'2'

180 pounde

Medium

Reddish-brown

BrOWn

Left eye slants downward toward

outside; 2" vertical scar in front

of left ear; half circle shape

scar commencing in left eyebrow

and extending down to cheek

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Parents

LOUIS NAGELL, born Norway,

deceased; FRANCES KAUFMAN

NAGELL, born Untted States,

856 South Catalina,

Los Angeles,

California (January 15, 1964),

resided 22 First Street, Troy,

New York as of August 5, 1948

Brother

LOUIS NAGELL, Syracuse,

New York

Sisters

(as of August 23, 1950)

MrS: ELEANORE GAMBERT, 82-25

Grand Avenue, Elmhurst, Long

Island; New York (as of December 15,

1962)

Mrs. NORMAN LE BEAUF, Ogdensburg

Stepsister

New York fas of August 23, 1950)

ELEANORE HOPPER, 8222 Ankener

Avenue, Elmhurst, Long Island

New York (as of February 19, 1952):

Uncle

HOBART KAUFMAN, Delaware Avenue,

Albany, New York (as of August 5.

1948)

Residence

Box 75801, Sanford Station,

Los Angeles 5, California

Social Security No:

Army Serial No.

104-24-8340

RA 12115891 Enlisted)

02 028 346 (Officer)

01 438 346 (Officer)

Army Service Record:August 5, 1948, Private, resigned

as Captain, October 29, 1959,

Fort Dix, New Jersey

Service Decorations :Bronze Star; Purple Heart (two

clusters)

Divorced wife

MITSUKO TAKAHASHI, born

July 16,

1939, Japan, married March 20,

1958, United States Consulate,

Tokyo, Japan, residence 533A

"B" sircot, fort Dix, New Jorsoy.

(as of February 30, 1959);

Apartment 12, 440 South Union

Street, Los Angeles, California

(as of: July 30, 1962 while separated)

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Divorced wife

(cont 'd)

Children

Education

Employment

Residences since

January l, 1937

wife granted interlocutory

divorce, November 19, 1962;

Superior Court of Los Angeles

County, California;

440 South Union,

Ios Angeles,

California (as of December 15,

: 1962)

TERESA DOLORES NAGELL, born

June 28, 1959, Fort DiX,

New versey

ROBERT LAWONT NAGELL, bOrn

November 20, 1960, Los Angeles,

California

Hackett

Junior High and

Albany High School, Albany,

New York, graduated 1948,

two years of college while in

service.

New York Central Railroad,

July, 1948, to August 4, 1948,

Albany, New. York;

December 14, 1959 to June 8, 1962,

State Beverage Department, Los

Angeles, California;

As of August, 1963, cab driver

Beverly Hills, California

January 1, 1937 to December, 1941,

Route 1, Glen Falls, New York

December, 1941 to June,

1948,

140 New Scotland Avenue,

Albany, New York:

July, 1948 to August, 1948

304 Madison Avenue, Albany,

New York;

8222 Ankener Avenue, Elnhurst,

Long Island, New York (as of

August 1, 1951);

'1533A "B" Street, Fort Dix,

New Jersey (as of December, 1959)

P. 0. Box 76121, Sanford

Station,

Los Angeles, California (as of

1960 and as of August 20, 1962);

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Residences

(cont'd)

4037 Iceward Avenue, Los

Angeles, California

as of

July and September,

1962);

Mexico City, D. F., Mexico

(subject claimed this residence

from August, 1962 to October 28

1962. On a subsequent occasion,

subject claimed this residence

for a period lasting until

about March 15, 1963);

Washington, D. C. (subject

claimed this residence during

period subsequent

to June,

1962, and prior to December, 1962;

8225 Grand Avenue, Elmhurst,

Queens, Long Island, New York

Cas of November 15, 1962,

and

again on December 7, 1962);

Holiday Inn, Jacksonville,

Florida (temporary residerce

as of December 15, 1952)

Room 303, Holiday Inn, 2500

Brickell Avenue, Miami, Florida

(temporary recidence as of

January 24, 195341

610 south Oxford Street,

Los Angelos, California (as:

of April 19, 1963);

Box 75801, Sanford Station,

los Angeles, California (as of

July 26, 1963);

3751 6th Street,

LOS

Angeles,

California no date

given),

29302 West Boulevard, Los Angeles

California (no date given);

2712 Saturn strret,

LoS Angeles: 19,

Califoinia (no date given);

20245 Cajon Boulevard, San Diego,

California

(no date

given).

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Bank Account

Languages spoken

Security Flist National Bank,

wilshiro and Virgil Branch

Los Angrlos, California Kdate

not knorn)

Subjert claims to speak Russtan,

Japanese and Spanish fluently

as of September 21, 1963)

Ç526729

United States

Passport

Address to notify

in case of

emergency

Character refer-

ences

Credit references

Automobile

3751 6th Street, Los Angeles,

California (appeared on driver

license as of January 24, 1963)

MISS ELIZARETH B. CAMPBELL, 39

Acadeny Road, Albany 3, New

York (September 19, 1950)

Mr'5.

IRENE TEMPLETON. 48 Parkwood

Strent; Albany,

New York

(September 19, 195011 ME

KENNETH A. ZELLER, 301 NeW

Scotland Avenue, Albany,

New York (Septenter 19. 1950)

Dr. HARU k PRATT

Albany

High school:

Albany. New work

(September 19, 1950). 4r

WAYNE MALLAR, Albany High

school, Albany, New York

{September 19. 2950)

WILTAM SLOANE HOUSE (TUCA)

Most 311h sereet, Nes dork

New York (August 23, 1950)

Times square Hotel west 43rd

street, Now York, ira York

(August 23,

1950) MrS. NANCY

TUE Po, Providence Street,

Albany 3. New York SAugust 23,

19501

1957 Ford hardtop black and

white, bearina California

license Mil 190 fin possession

of this automobile when interviewed

January 24, 1963, in Miamt, Florida)

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Automobile

(Cont 'd)

Records of the Division of

Motor Vehicles, Los Angeles,

California, reflert 1957

Ford sedan with 1963 California

license LiZ 076, vehicle

ddentification number

C7LT13S540, registered

RICHARD Go NATELL, Box 76121,

Sanford Station, Los Angeles,

California,

In recember, 1962

or danuary, 1963•

1963

California license OCZ 155

for identical vehicle registered

TO RICHARD C. NAGEI, BOX 75801,

Sanford Station, Los Angeles,

In February or March, 1963

din possession of this vehicle

when

arrested in El Paso on

September 20, 1963)

IDENTIFICATION RECORD

The following is the FBI Identification Record for

RICHARD CASE NAGELL under FBT number 631 219 E, dated

October 3, 1963:

CONTRIBUTOR OF

FINGERPRINTS

Army:

NAME AND NUMBER

ARRESTED OR

RECEIVED

CHARGE DISPOSITION

Richard Case

Nagell

RA: 12 115 891

8-5-48

Albany

NY

Camp Holabird

Baltimore MD

Richard C.

Nagell #--

FP

1-27-54

PD Los Angeles

Calif

Richard Case

Nagell

#LA 616 479-N

5-31-62

drk

USM

El Paso, Texas

Richard Case

Nagell

#2248-A

9-21-63

Sect

#2313

bank rob

55%

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DBA

03127

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

RE:

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTICATION

202 U.

S. Court House

El Paso,

, Texas

79901

February 4, 1964

FICHARD CASE NAGELL, Aka.

ESPIONAGE

dated February 4, 1964.

Re Report of SA DAVID J. REID at el Paso, Texas,

EP T-l through EP T-3, contacts with whom have been

insufficient to judge the reliability of their information, are in

a position to have official access to the medical records of the

United States Army and the

Veteran's Administration pertaining to

the subject.

The sources used to characterize the Fair Play for

Cuba Commictee have furnished reliable information in the past.

This document contains neither recommendations nor

conclusions of the FBI.

It is the proverty of the FBI and is

leaned to your agency;

it and its contents are not to be distributed

outside your

agency.

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SURPORT FROM DAVANON

FYI FOI-LA REPORTED TODAY (12 MAR 64) THAT SUSIEGT WAS

ARRESTED IN EL PASO IN CONNECTION WITH A BANK ROBBERY IN HIS

POSSESSION HE HAD A LIST OF SIX NAMES MARKED CIA. THEY

INCLUDEDS

F. PARKER

ARS. GUTHRIES 1

C. CHURCHILL

CIA HISTORICAI REVIEW PROCHAM

RELEASE IN FUIL 1998

J.. 3LOSS

E. LEIBACHER V

No DAVARON U

NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER.

US ATPORNEY IN EL FASO WANTS

CIA, INTERVIEWED AS TO GIRCUMSTANCES, IF ANY.

HE ADVISED FBI NO

RECORD IN OUR INDICES AND NO PERSONAL RECOLLECTION OF SUBJECT.

SUBJECT DESCRIBED AS "NUT" ONCE SURVIVED AN AIRCRAFT AGOIDENT,

AND HAS RUN IN AND DUT OF BURIAU OFFICES IN PAST. WE NOTE THR

CURRENT AGENCY PIRECTORY LISTS A JOHN SOSS, POSSIBLY IN THE

CATCH OFFICE.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

5010-104

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SECR

TO

Mr. R. J. Leonard

FROM

Chief, Research Branch/SRS

SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case

DATE: 26 March 1964

CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM

RELEASE IN FULL 1998

'1. Attached is a copy of a 2 October 1962 memorandum from

the FBI in regard to Richard Case NAGELL.

2. SA Alexander W. NEALE, Jr. of the Washington Field

Office, FBI, has informally advised the undersigned that NAGELL has

been arrested on the West Coast for bank robbery, is going to be

tried in the near future for the alleged crime, and that NAGELL had in

his possession the following information:

Richard FECTEAU

(Lynn, Mass)

DẠC: (CIA)

CLA

Mr. S. PARKER

Mrs. GUTHRIES

Mr. C. CHURCHILL

Mr. J. DAVANON

Mr. J. SLOSS

Mi. E. LEIBACHER

1911

1919

cantons

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3. A check of SO Indices has revealed no record of NAGELL, and

an RI check only disclosed the attached FBI report. Please recheck SO:

Indices on the subject, have a file set up on an expedite basis, and on an

expedite basis identify the above individuals as to whether any have any

connection with this Agency.

The above Richard FECTEAU may be

identical to the individual who was captured by the Chinese Communists

and is now in prison.

4. Also check with Mrs. THORN of OO/C to determine whether

00/C has any record of NAGELL. It is believed that very possibly some

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Francisco Field Office of OO/C, but at the present moment limit the

check with Mrs. THORN to determine if they have any record of

Richard Case NAGELL.

Bruce 11ol

Bruce L. Solie

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SEARCH NAMES AS WRITTEN

SEARCH NAME VARIATIONS (Record known to oxiat)

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UNITED STATES DEPORTMENT OF JUSTICE DBA (63/22

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy 1o:

Howar

Report of Sa DAllia. REID

Date:

February 4, 1964

Ficid Office File No. EP 65-951

RICHARD CASE NAGELL

Office:

EL. PASO

Bureau File: No.:

9/27/98 do

Character:

ESPIONAGE - X

NELEASE IN PART

L WOTAL DENIAL

Synopsis:

Background: Subject entered U.S: Army 8/5/48 and

honorably discharged as Captain 10/29/59. Received many

campaign awards during korean conflict

Sole survivor

airplane crash: 11/28/54. suffered facial disfigurement

and given psychiatric examinat.on

swinect claimed he was

released from employrent by Slite Beverage Department.

Los ingeles, California, 6,8/62, having been accused of

taking 520,000 bribe.

subject refused furnish police details

of his

shooting by unidentified assailant on 7/16/62 and

subsequently filed Civil Rights complaint against police,

In September, 1962. subjert advised U.S. Imbassy. Mexico

City, he had been ipproached for recruiting in

urxico City,

refused to elaborate, did not dire to return to u. Si, was

"bitter. disgusted, disillusion and disaffroted." Said if

he did go to some other country it would cost Us millions

was "through being a good citizen" and thought brad gotten

dirty deal

all around."

Advised FBt in New i. City on

11/16/62 he wanted to expose Department of Alcoholic severage

control in California. Advised FBI in Jacksonville, Fla on

12/15/62 he had bern approached shortly before in washington,

D. C.. by individual believed to be working for soviets;

contacted Cla in Virginia for instructions, was sent to

Miami. Fla., by his Soviet contact and said he believed he

was actually working for Soviets.

Subject's condition

diagnosed at VA Hospital, Bay Pines, Fla.,

in January. 1963,

2.5

"chronic brain syndrome associated with brain trauma with

behavioral reaction characterined by passive, aggressive and

paranoid features." Asked FBI

iami on 1124/63 if his

Thie documont

i uncle bot to bed fact be a repure of the Mili and la loand to your arene le as

501-146-537-

50-500

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runin or Russian sources save him a piotoi and microfilm.

souid he be permitted to relurn same to his contac

so he

could be of turther use to is covernment..

claimed to be

constantly under surveillanco

Advird fBI in Los Angeles

on 4/19/63 he had taken former vite to court on same date for

¡nilure to comply with court order giving subject visitation

rights with children.

subject's condition diagnosed by VA;

Jos Angeles, on 6/4/63 as drpression, tearful, nervous,

vould only uttar words

Cot to sre my kids.

Assempted Bank gobbery: subieet arosted 9120/63 in El Paso,

texas. on charge of attemptine to ron stat rational Bank.

El Paso, same date in violalion

Section 2113, Title 18, ISC.

Mashed wrist night of 9120163. felt he perded psychiatric

treatment highly emotional then intervired. given

to spells

•i cryine. stated unable to for on

test since discharge.

1 ron V::

Army: (all ma'2.sald subject apparently became

marber connunit Pathy during confused pariod after discharge,

dir idrd.everything as 2521051h1n10 105 305816 209 Made

pick up

and passport from contact.

1e fl pain ind ourntually

en up in crechoslovakla:

Sub 02

sporada temptat

35700M

Paso but

3osl perve

Vised EEl Paso on 1/0. 01

he

#35

instructed oy agent

Tornign goveriment in sepanber

1983

. to comply wIthsagree

Dint made Wahy: 1963, 1o par

Lain criminal offense

subjess to ict is he dad ep 20

seot to dedical enter for federal Prisoners. springfield,

Misturi, on •1/21/64; by USDC, El Paso, for 30-day.

period

to

undergo psychiatric examination Alleged Connection with

Đn 7718/64,

and identification Record: Set out: SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED

SUTCIDE.

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that the actual trial would not take place until December

next.

He stated that he left California in August. 1962,

and

went to Mexico where he remained until October 28, 1962.

He claimed that his wife's attorney knew this and apparently

brought the

case on prematurely so that he would be deprived

of his day in court

NAGELL claimed that he has written a protest to the

court granting the divorce, claiming he was deprived of his

right to be heard and to have a jury trial, He stated that

he is consulting the Legal Aid Sociely and the teterans

naministration concerning this matter since his Army pension

is his only current income.

December. is

1962

......

On December 15. 1962 thr subirct advised Special

Agents of the FBI in Jacksonville, Florica:

that he had

served as a captain in the laS Army and bad hoen involved

in intelligence investigationsfor the cir for appiorimal.ly

seven years.

He said he served in lapan for most of hi

period of tins and married apanese coman daned MITSUK! MAGELL

from whom he is presantly divorced

in advised that during

1957 and 1958 he became ecquainted in apan witt one doctor

CHAKAO FUS SANd a professor of Political Science at Tokvo

capan University

said this persor was a rember of the

rabiner Research Office tahOla

rghlistorganlzationsaHe

said this person is prestruly in the Unitro stars, piacr

unknown and deems him orrimental to the safrty of the internal

security of the unird states

He Gain In either: 1958 or 1959

he directed an anonymous letter to the FR! in, Washington

D. C. relative to the above information comerning FUllSik!

He stated be was discharged honorably from the lS. Army on

October 29. 1959, and subsequently became

employed on December 14,

1959 by the State Beverage Department in los Angeles. California.

He said in June. 1962, he was accused of taking a $20.000

bribe by the State Beverage Department and was released from

his employment on June 8, 1962. for refusing to answer

questions.

He stated he talked to the FBl in Los Angeles

regarding the possibility of his dismissal being a violation

of his civil rights

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Nigell advised that he went to kashingion, D.C.

whore he resided until recently. He stated while in

Washington. DC he had

been approached by an individual

whom he felt was either a Special Agent of the FBi or a

soviet Espionage Agent.

He said he not this person in a GARViNS

bar in Wasbington, l. C.. located at 811 14th Street NW,

GRILL

Woshington; n. C

He said this person talked of Domestic

intelligence ard also talked of giving him an intelligence

assignment. He said the more he

thought this matter over

he ras positlur that this individual works for the soviets.

He said

that in September, 1962, he was invited

tieadvisrä.that.he contacied the central Intelligence Agency

at eithri langley, Virginia..or Elrood. Virginia. and

used

the name of TOF CRAMER Or KRAMER during this contact with

He

said he told then of the

above information

and

santed sond advice as to whether to go through with such

an assignment.

He

said he pas to meet this individual who

ores to give him the assignment at the above mentioned bar.

on J4th street, and in order to be recognized. he was to

place derer nickels on the bar in line with a dine placed

directly over the middle nickel.

He said the clA told him

that since this matter involved domestic rather

than foreign

intelligence he should refer this information to the FBI.

He stated he

went to the above bar and there was

contarted by the same person and was told to go to Miami,

Florida, to a bar and wear a red sweater, where he would

be contacted relative to an assignment.

It 1s to be noted that during the entire interview

with NAGELl. he was noted to be in an inebriated condition

and was very vague in answering questions.

He was unable to

identify by name any of the individuals he discussed and was

also unable to furnish a physical description of any of these

Individuals

In addition to being slightly inebriated he

also gave the impression to the interviewing agents of being

mentally unbalanced.

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NAGELL Stated he is presently residing at the

Holiday Inn,

Jacksonville, Florida, and would be there for

the next fer days. He sald he 15 presently driving a 1959

Ford which bears California license MYU 890, He said he has

no living relatives except his former vife, who resides at

440 South Union Avenue, Los Angeles, California, and his

sister, ELEANORE GAMBERT, 8225 Grand Avenue, Elmhurst,

New York.

NaGall advised that he believes in connection

with his contacts that he is

actually working for the

soviets..

He could furnish no information as to a specific

assignuent given him other than that he was to go to

Miami and sit in a bar which he is unable to identify and

wait to. De conticted by a

Soviet Agent..

He said he spoke

Japanese and Russian fluently and is well versed in the

Spanish language:

He said he was shot in Jure, 1962,

but refused to discuss any of the incidents surrounding

the

shooting:

He said his

auto has several bullet holes in it.

He furnished a photograph of himself.

On December 17, 1962 efforts

were made to locate

NAfELl for reinterview, however, it was determined that he

had checked out of the motel and left no forwarding address.

December 20, 1962 to January 22, 1963

On November 25, 1963, EP T-2 made avallable clinical

records regarding the subject covering the period when the

subject was a patient at the Veterans Administration Hospital,

Bay Pines, Florida, from December 20, 1962, to January 22,•

1963. One clinical record contained the following informa-

tion:

"INTERIM SUMMARY (INTERSERVICE)

"I: HISTORY OF PRESENT ILLNESS: This 32 year old white male

veteran of Korean War was admitted to Nard 1-5-S on 12-20-62

because of complaints of headache and lapses of meroig

He claims these since an airplane accident he had had 1n

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF METIC!

File No.

put ober

195%

REVIEWIEO SY MBWIFK TASK FORCE

ON

10/6148 IN

•I RELENOC iN FULL

MELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

"His derument contains neither

"sions ol

:: is lon

1. 01. 11.

parent"

101to 45

aistributed cuiside you! gerry

sentenan 21, I9sa, end volunt the following Min

mation consering binsolf:

Altion ho declined to damia: s 20001

renamoe addren for himself in Mentoo Katy, no states

no oould be custsated throng a lidond pased de

CREDITEN, Epas 1415, Hotel luma, nor he said he co

when 152007, wich listed his addrcan on 4037 komra

Aves, Los Angeles, Onlicents. Pus osed shoed that

10 had boon tround at ion Angeles on hugst IT, 100e,

ana that sadie had enamed harico shrough chuana sures.

Anthusin, on hugus C4, 1902.

For cord also sellasted

seated States Innaport Misher (xed//29.

peon that he had tearly been surger

Se states

en too da too tos angelon arco, con of velon he menu as

Go. 6X4744

mo deters on Done 22% 1962, hes boot

1902 n comedle

treats on te

165668 sia

GOOD: O29P

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marine a megaloned that on July 25, 1960, "entro

beteon Malizu and canare, ho had book thot

sn the chest.. In connestion with thin letter inetdent

he eshibitod a bler nempaper eliming which unicioned

as the partor or parsona 22valzed.

Ht steted that ho selt he had boan "let dur"

the Undted Stater Govern, both in the United Statca

and curing tie time ho hau borsy sa kurion. fe statca stat

reprensibires of the Unitod itater Coverment could lam

clemente, fos the Elvin of maton information be "could

net his head bloum oft.

Fia abater that ha folt he hau

boen et donn bur the united states dureranno in letto

bucause rothing ned born done by the Inhansg in enard to

his roquesta to nave it sount tan in collectins this noner,

mich ha allages nas dus bin fron the Stato of Coltramis

He nold that he hinals had ont lotters to califtenta

anne fon saymonts of this money.

of Captata betroen the agen of de ana 29. le statoi thet

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lu sintos that he thought be had boon araucaneu

here in lanco. City for rsematis, out altough auseu

spocialcally is this regará, atuasi to stato ay nor os

in to mary noirs that he fun rashed chat test lie was

sayine poure be used sentart han in any court de prose

cution. Fo state that he lui almoat made up his nin

detintely aut no would loavo loser, but that he wouzd

not go back ti the united statou.

not cane to recurre to the trite states.

so 122 he uni done nothing inioni to the unitas Scutes. "

le otated thut he ras completaly "claaffected," and thst

he was tale to so to the motection sectio in

F6ERTL tO STY DEODONS SO NETICO 2S In ANNELORE citiren.

Re stated that in had boch to the protection Section an

would not in thars saat ani that the nay ho nas toellas.

ho mould not go book te the Untrod States. le solo that

ho had nothing to so beck for, wri that h10 11m1oua}

record mould revent him frun zeutink soo job anyuhee

1n to united suites.

He rentiaud that the only sou lu

had ever worses at wan that of an investigatoe.

Attache In the merloon Embussy had his miitter reso

in connotion vith a ragues ho had previousy nuic to

attend Murico City Collegs on the 0.I, S112, but to da

that he woule nare

untch he coula not do 15 view od tas linnatal Bleratte,

hotel bish, but inter inlatted that be had boon beuping

his botel charams paid. le aloo menticaad that be hac

peviously cotatnad a emit loan tron the mortown

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no mated to i

metrins 400,00 asability passion a month postie di

wound reccavel in the Forem natalitiee hung mich

he wed winded unes tians.

retes that to ia.

was to tos anderay.

told thas the atatementa to i snuns toula be initi

matter 20ri

wint

he was alvare dre

03 Wach he reaLien:

"What have i Do lose?"

fe stabed that unless he roccieo

the $1, 100,00 =000

that die

on 0s Gul2r0e9ue 19

t. 8000

not be the hube.

States!

at no housed to say tie

a what the sonina use

guardiane: on s

micched he

he said ho wear to have the insay iced lor he doles

litt nádos..

choyping blor

Do men Does that in the very sode, carrot

agnestoo s, 214aere

Troc to set at soladiests secre

Doved an are pra

Instant unwrit

TOMO CACE NU

6151

Manua

Heid stitching

hairlino: cause

on lot a10s ai

bact on right bican

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Former locupation:

casia statue:

Languagen. Spoken:

Addresses:

Karoon hom:19162e3

veter, pereiving

$150.00 rounds

spesial Invest pitor.

State di Culturala::

Departient of Aleshallo

BOVArAgE

30ite0

In procera dr boling

besides inta

he alaine to speak

Japanese fLuently

403Y LACHETE AFDIREC

Santord stetto,

Los Nigeles E,

Attire i

commend some

outside, vortion?

left ears halt

alpalo chapad soar

comeneing in last

egotzar and expending

down to checke

soiLa bron 11en-

weight mult

in gerard to his case.

then natud naet he want by this. he

peted he nasas in sumerd to notting the state of collecte

to puy hots one money

mic bin, no mas told that at his

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perructoa so nala atatenante.on the

for che purpuse of lavine, thout stetants

ho sabotry and ho ana asoured that this

over, hs was cold that for aur aristence

natal situation in Marloo, he should

on and kelfaro soction to bon 11 tat

ary assistance. At first he sucted ha

Fate attentip.

advised that ash an action souza be a vlolation

Las

une is set out in ite

MAugust 1o 1968

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Dopertaoot co Alcolsalle Loverge Control.

suniran n roquent for &a hosrins in tiis natter

by the stere Porsomel Bosri

*I horely state chot tne oole reason for this

witndrert of ny apsoal and request fos a hearai

se basquse of vy fimancial sitistion. Coscinuod,

and shat I censider to be unjustifled, postponeventa

a f heaiins hove crevcod a aituntion io ziisi 1

cornot artora to mout my dally living ampenser

untsl Auguot 30, 1952, tho mort racent fate siva

to me se the anto of my hoaring.

Alod, I an uncble

to obtala erployuent fn ine Angulen becnuse ci the

stilems sbtached to ny almiosai.

(Prevlously. I tua lopod to renove suat stioia

by choting at the koerire that yy dieusasl vas

not cniy ansropeso but thm ths alleged esbone

fos vu ulaniasal uore scegeratos, ateterted, unù

untrua, ao the rasuit of vintlotivenese on tie

part os cartala sonlor nosbars of tns Depsotment

of Alcoraiãc Baverass cuntarol after 1t cano to

the1z entention that I tntondod to cisclose to the

stato Attaney Genorais' (liiue advorse inturmation

portainins to corruption wlthin ará lepartient ana

the Itquor ndustey hore in loutherr calirorne.

"I roqurst that wy ritizment contrabubiom

and reinartonent for usuucd lotve ne coruardod.

to no ab the bolow Lirtod adoress ae soch ao

practicad.

nYoirs tuûy.

"/0/ RICHARD C. MAGEI

RIGHARD CASE INCULL

"Dor Tolal, Semioau Station

Doe Angoles 5, Caltforala"

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BuR File No: 14-48933

2 DOTED 24

Bur FiLs No: 64-48933

CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM

RELEASE IN FULL 1998

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FD-123 (Rev.

11-29-611

DBA 75519

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Los Angeles,

California

June 12, 1964

IT ply, Plea Be 7445

Filo No.

LA

Title

RICHARD CASE NAGELE

Character

Reference:

ESPIONAGE - X

Report of SA JAMES H. HOOSE, JR.,

dated as above at Los Angeles,

California.

All sources (except any listed below) whose identities

are concealed in referenced communication have furnished reliable

Information in the past.

$

This document contains nether recommendalions not conclusions of the FBI. It la the property

of the FBI and la loaned to your agency; it and lie contents are not to be distributed outside

your agency.

201-746537

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FID-201 (ROV, 32-58)

if:.

75519

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

JAMES

H. HOOSE, JR.

6/12/64

Field Office File No.: 65-7445

RICHARD CASE NAGELI

201-746537

Office:

Los Angeles, Calffornia

Bureau File No.i 64-48933

SALADAY. MUSK TASK FORCE

9/27/98 dat

Character:

Synopsis:

ESPIONAGE - X

MELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENLAL

Mother, brother,

former wife, and friend of RICHARD

NAGELL all consider him to be mentally disturbed.

No indication NAGEL: Involved in espionage, Communist

Party,

or "Fair. Play for Cuba Connittee"

activity.

NAGELL told his brother he had been to Cuba and once

jokingly told his former wife he was thinking of going

to Russia.

Information concerning NAGELL's bank

accounts. set forth SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

- RUC -

DETAILS:

Mrs. MISUKO NAGELL, nee

Mitsuko Takahashi, aka

Nirs. Richard C. Nagell

(divorced from RICHARD C. NAGELL,)

On February 3, 1964, Mrs. NITSUKO NAGELL furnished

the following Information to SAS JANES H. HOOSE, JR., and JOSEPH

DOYLE POWELL at her residence at 440 South Union Avenue,

Apartment 12, Los Angeles, California:

She filed for divorce from RICHARD NAGELL In LOS

Angeles on April 19, 1902, but nas not received the final

decree.

NAGEt stayed out late nights, beat her, never gave

solve

ES COPY

201-746531

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her any money, and did not like the children. She believes

NAGELL's mother resides in the Los Angeles area, but she

does not know the mother's address and has never met her.

She repeatedly asked NAGELL to introduce her to his mother,

but he always refused to do so.

Mrs. NAGELL stated NAGELL never exhibited any

political Interest,

never mentioned communism or the

"Fair

Play for Cuba Committee," or Cuba. Once in the summer of

1963 NAGELL was mad about something unrecalled and Jokingly

said he was thinking of going to Russia, but Mrs. NAGELL 18

certain this was

said in jest.

Mrs. NAGELL 1s of the opinion there 1s something

mentally wrong with NAGELL.

He would fly Into violent rages

without apparent reason.

She pointed out that her television

set has a split plastic case and stated NAGELL hit the set

with his fist once while angry and this resulted In this

damage.

Although NAGELL did not like his children, during

the marriage, he has frequently complained about not being

with them since the divorce. but has never since the divorce

He sends them cards from various

places In the United States,

furnished

support for the children or Mrs. NAGEMe

As a con-

sequence, Mrs. NAGELL has been supporting herself

and the

children through employment as a waitress and has to board

the children out.

On March 6, 1964, Mrs. NAGELL stated to SA HOOSE

that she never knew NAGELI, to be involved In espionage in any

manner•

She further commented that they were always In finan-

clal difficulty during their residence in the United States.

During the marriage NAGELL had a bank account at the Bank of

America, Wilshire and Vermont, Los Angeles, but Mrs. NAGELL

doubts there was ever much money in the account.

She said

that since the separation in April of 1962, NAGELL, has sent

her a total of about $180.00.

There 1s no Information In the files of the los

Angeles Office of the FBI Identiflable with Mrs. MITSUKO NAGELL.

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Nirs. FRANCES M. NAGELL,

nee Frances Kaufman

(mother of RICHARD C. NAGELL

on March 5, 1904, MrS. FRANCES NAGELL furnishe

che foLlowing intormation to sAs JAMes h. Hoose, uh., anc

Philled. reluct at her residence at 050 south catalina

Avenue, Apartment 104, Los Angeles:

Mrs. NAGELl stated that for many years and for

various reasons; none of which relate to this case,

nas been dissension in the lamily. However, until

the time

that RicharD naGar was in the airplane crash, they had gotten

along well together. Since the crash there has been a marked

change in RICHARD NAGELL, and Mrs. NAGELL 1s certain her son has

some Iorm of mental trouble.

She saw RICHARD In Chicago, Illinois, In 1954, and

she moved to Los Angeles in May of 1955. It was then seven

ycars before she heard directly from him or saw him.

She ran

Into RICHARD by chance on the street in Los Angeles, saw that

he needed help, and thereafter tried to give him both moral and

financial assistance.

MrS: NAGELI, gave her son $1,000.00 on one occasion

and much smaller amounts on other occasions. He never expressed

appreciation for this help.

RICHARD never seemed to have enough

money. she does not know 11 he had a bank account or not.

Mrs: NAGELL was trying to locate RICHARD after he

had disappeared for several days. She knew he could often

be found at The Happy Rabbit, a beer: Joint at 2709 West Sixth

Street, Los Angeles.

She went there and found RICHARD, and

he flew into an uncontrollable rage because she had gone Inside

this bar, claiming 1t was no place for a decent woman.

Megame definitely convinced alert than bent that these

was something seriously wrong with her son.

But even prior

to this time she observed RICHARD became extremely angry over

nothing, and he would

him.

cry without explaining what was troubling

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Alter above mentioned Incident, RIChARD again

would have nothing to do with her.

She kept track oi him

through her other son, LOUIS, who 18 a year and a half older

than RICHARD.

Mrs. NAGELI was In a way happy to have the

boys get together after years of estrangement.

She

described LOUIS as being an almost hopeless alcoholic.

She thought since both sons had serious problems, they might

be able to help each other. LOUIS has told her,

however,

that he was never able to straighten out RICHARD.

She stated that RICHARD never discussed communism;

never mentioned Cuba or the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee"

or gave any indication he was in any manner Involved In

espionage.

On March 9, 1964, Mrs. NAGELL Informed SA HOOSE

that she wanted to point out that RICHARD had never physically

abused her, that the abuse was always vocal.

She also mentioned

that she herself has been under psychiatric care for several

years, and she does not think her problem has yet been

eliminated.

There is no information in the files of the Los

Angeles Office of the FBI Identiflable with Mrs. FRANCES NAGELL.

LOUIS KAUFMAN, tre name

LOUIS NAGELL (brother of

RICHARD C. NAGELI

On March 5, 1964, LOUIS KAUFMAN furnished the

following intormation to sas JAMES Ho HOOsE, Jha, and PhiLli.

J. REILLY at his residence at 10130 Samoa Avenue, lujunga,

California, telephone 353-1224:

LOUIS stated he got in trouble at age 16 and since

has

of the family and

had little contact with other family members until the last

year or two.

At one time in Korea he discovered he was in the

same army outfft as his brother, RICHARD, and looked him up.

RICHARD was an officer in Intelligence while LOUIS was an

enlisted man, and RICHARD did not want to have much contact

with LoUIs.

However, when their mother told RICHARD that LOUIS

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had cancer of the throat in 1962, RICHARD went to LOUIS and

offered to help him.

LOUIS later discovered he did not have

cancer and also discovered that RICHARD was the one who needed

help.

LOUIS frequently saw RICHARD in 1962 and until about

August of 1963 when RICHARD left the Los Angeles area.

LOUIS considers RICHARD to be mentally disturbed.

He recalled an afternoon when both were at The Happy Rabbit

and the newspapers carried an account of the burglary of the

local armory. RICHARD told LOUIS he had pulled the burglary

and had some machine guns in his car parked on the street

near the beer joint.

LOUIS Immediately said he would like

to see the machine guns and the two of them welked out to the

LOUIS saw no guns and upon asking RICHARD where they were

latter replied he did not know what IOUIS was talking about.

RICHARD said he had no recollection of telling LOUIS anything

about guns or burglarizing any armory. In addition to this

LOUIS said

that RIcharD was usually in a state of deep

depression.

RICHARD complained about his wife divorcing him

and about his employment problems.

RICHARD never spoke in favor of communism but he

did say that he thought the American government should do

more for him in view of his army service.. He never mentioned

Russia.

When RICHARD returned from Mexico City in 1962, he

told LOUIS he had gone to Cuba from Mexico.

He gave no

reason for having made this trip.

LOUIS has no information

LoUIS does not know If RICHARD had a bank account;

he does know RICharD usually was broke.

There 18 no Information in the files of the Ios

Angeles Office of the FBI identifiable with LoUIS KAUFMAN.

FREDERICK HOWARD JOHN

(friend of RICHARD C. NAGELL)

FRED JOHN furnished the following Information to

SA JAMES H. HOOSE, JR., on March 9, 1964:

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JOHN resides in a boarding house at 817 South

Catalina Avenue, Los Angeles. He is employed by the Hartford

Insurance Company, 548 South Spring Street, Los Angeles.

He has known RICHARD NAGELL for about one year.

He met him through BILI LYNN of the California Alcoholic

Beverage Controll at The Happy Rabbit.

JOHN does not know

any members of NAGELL's family nor does he know of any other

close friends of NAGELL.

NAGELL left Los Angeles the first of second week of

September, 1963, Just before leaving he told JOHN he would

be traveling and asked him to share his Post Office box so

he could forward on the government disability checks which

he receives monthly.

He also asked JOHN to mail him an almanac

whenever 1t was convenient as he Ilked to refer to the almanac

from time to time as a general source of information:

JOHN

complled with both requests.

Near the end of each month JOHN

has sent the checks to NAGELL at a Post Office box In El Paso,

Texas.

He also sent him an almanac with a yellow cover as he

becalls 1t. JOHN did not mark or alter this almanac in any way.

JOHN recently received a form letter from a hospital

In Missours, Informing him he had been named as a correspondent

authorized to communicate with RICHARD NAGELL.

JOHN has received

no inaication that NaGell is in any sort o1 trouble, ana ne

wondered what was behind the hospital letter.

JOHN has never heard anything about his receiving

four reels of microfilm or any personal papers should NAGELI

die.

JOHN does not have a key to any safety deposit box and

does not know: 1f NAGElL does or does not have a safety deposit

box.

JOHN has heard NAGELL mention his sister but knows

nothing concerning any Japanese gas mask or anything else

stored with her which 1s to be turned over to him upon NAGELI's

death.

About a month or two after NAGELL left Los Angeles

he wrote to JOHN, probably just on one occasion, and that

concerned paying the rent on the joint postal box.

JOHN 1s of the opinion NAGELI is a paranoiac in

that he is depressed at the manner his ex-wife treated him

and the manner in which the local, state, and Federal governments

have treated him. JOHN definitely considers NAGEld to be mentally

disturbed.

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or has neer never hear pe the "fair Play

JOHN has no indication NAGELL, was ever

involved in espionage.

NAGELL never had much money, just his Income from

driving a Yellow Cab and from his disability check. JOHN

does not know if NACElL had a bank acoount.

There is no Information in the files of the Los

Angeles Office of the FBI Identifiable with FRED JOHN.

BANK ACCOUNT INFORMATION

On March 5, 1964, LA I-I, whose Information may

not be made public except upon issuance of a subpoena duces

tecum, stated RICHARD C. NAGELL had commercial checking account

number 002-857 at the Wilshire - Virgil Branch of the Security

First National Bank, Los Angeles.

The account was opened October 2, 1901, with &

reposit ol 4350.00, closed January 31, 1963, no balance.

NAGhu gave a bank reference of Bank of America, Wilshire -

Vermont Branch, Los Angeles.

upon opening, residence was given

as 4712 Saturn Street, telephone WE 4,2739:

LA T-I recalls NAGELL vividly as he caused a com-

motion every time he came in the bank.

He would shout at

the tellers, complain about the service, and threaten to

report the tellers to the management. On one occasion a girl

teller working next to LA I-l wore a red dress to work on a

day that NAGELI was in the bank.. NAGELL shouted at the girl

that only a prostitute would wear a red dress.

IA I-I thinks some local finance company has been

trying to locate NAGELL

1, recently to collect a debt.

On March 9, 1964, LA T-2, whose Information may not

be made public except upon

Issuance of a subpoena duces tecum,

stated RICHARD NAGELL opened commercial checking account

number 9-4492 on November 6, 1959, at the Wilshire - Vermont

Branch of the sank oi America, Los Angeles.

NAGELL gave his

address as the Cloud Motel, 3400 West Third Street.

His bank

reference was the Union Bank, Mount Holly, New Jersey, and he

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apparently exhibited New Jersey driver's license number

44342.

Opening deposit was $900.00, and the account was

closed September 27, 1961.

On February 28, 1962, RICHARD NAGELI opened checking

account number 3-2873 at this same bank with a deposit of

$143.10, the account being closed on July 16, 1962.

part of this time It was a joint account with MITSUKO NAQELL.

INFORMATION FROM INFORMANTS

AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION

That rolling that they had no stomation done nine soreo

ANTHONY F• LIBERATO, Investigator,

Immigration and Naturalization Service,

Los Angeles, who is cognizant of many

Cuban activities in Los Angeles.

MANUEL, GONZALEZ, 1070 West Kensington

Road, Los Angeles, who headed the pro

Castro movement in Los

• Angeles 1960-1901.

MAYER G. ROYAL, 5825 West Pico Boulevard,

Los Angeles,

activities

who is acquainted with some

of the "Fair Play for Cuba

Committee," Los Angeles.

LA T-3, who is cognizant of many Cuban

activities in Los Angeles.

LA T-4 and LA I-5, who are famillar with

Communist Party activity in the general

area where RICHARD NAGELL has resided In

Los Angeles.

There 1s no Information of substance In the flles

of the Los Angeles Office of the FBI Identifying NAGELL with

any Conmunist Party, Cuban, or espionage activity.

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JOHN NOBURO MIYAKI (JACK MIYAKI) stated on

March 23,

CAROLINE

ILYAKI, reside at 645 North Westmoreland Avenue,

1964, to SA HOOSE. that he and his nue Los Angeles,

California.: MYAKI did not recognize name or photograph of

RICHARD NAGELL. When further descriptive data was furnished

MIYAKI, he recalled he had met NACELL on one occasion about

a year

ago at The Happy Rabbit, a beer joint at 2709 West

Sixth Street, Los Angeles

NAGELL told MIYAKI he either was or had been a

Yellow Cab driver, that he had a Japanese wife who had

divorced him. MIYAKI said he possibly told NAGEL he worked

as a machinist at Aero-Space Manufacturing Corporation, 3825

Cohasset Street,

Burbank, California, but cannot recall having

told NAGELL anything else. MIYAKI stated he thinks NAGELL left

the bar at the same time he dia which may account for NaGELL

having MIYAKI's license number.

MIYAKI drives a cream

colored 1962 Buick Special, four door, license JOG 823.

(California Department of Motor Vehicles verifies this license

13 for this car.) MIYAKI sald he does not work on any class1-

fied material and has no clearance.

MIYAKI was born in Japan,

naturalized in Hawal1 on January 21, 1954, certificate number

7121559.

MIYAKI 1s of the opinion he and NAGELL only con-

versed about ten or fifteen minutes on this one occasion,

and he has no Information apart from above concerning NAGELL.

There 1s no Information in the files of the Los

Angeles office of the FBI Identiflable with JOHN (JACK)

MIYAKI Or CAROLINE MIYAKI.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

80190

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

SA DAVID J. REID

July 24, 1964

Field Office File No.:

EP

65-951

Title: RICHARD CASE NAGELL

Office:

EL PASO

921-714537

Bureau File No.:: 64-48933

EViEWED SY. ABNUFK FASK FORCE

9/22/25d2

Characters ESPIONAGE - X

RELEASE IN PART

TOTAL DENIAL

Synopsis:

Subject described by a former acquaintance in the

United States Army in Korea as having had a brilliant

war record but as not stable mentally, this instability

probably being due to brain tissue damage resulting from an

airplane crash during the Korean War. With regard to names

found in the possession of the subject when he was arrested

on September 20, 1963, U.S. Army, Japan, advised that the

subject had previously served in Korea and Japan and that it

was not unusual for individuals to retain lists of persons

In such areas for future reference. U.S. Army, Japan, also

advised that the reagon for some names in the subject's

possession at the time of his arrest. could not be assessed:

On June 9, 1964, subject sentenced in the United States District

Court, El Paso,

Texas, to serve ten years under the provisions

of Section

4208 (a) (IL), Title 18, U.S. Code, for violation

of Section 2113,

Title 18, U.S.

Subject attempted suicide

on June 17, 1964.

SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

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This document contalna nether, recommendations nor conclusions of ike FBI. It. ia the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it aind

its.contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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DETAILS:

AT TOXYO, JAPAN:

At the time of the arrest of Richard Casc Nagell

12 El Paso, Texas, on September 20, 1963, on a bank robbery

charge, he had many papers and documents in his possession.

These papers and documents were reviewed and vere found to

contain the following notations:

Mural Jun- (Cabinet Research

office- C.R.O.) (National Rural

Police Agency) (Private Secretary

to P.M. Yoshida) (Intelligence

Agency in China)- Now in

Tukuoka- SHI

Tsio Sai Fue

Literature Dept.

Toholu Daigalu

(Naikaku Chosa Shitsu)

Hoshiyanal Saded (Lee Chang Suk)

c/o Maruei Pachinko

169-I Baba-Machi, Choshi-Shi

Chiba-Ker, Japan

Кілка SOL

F2-3 Ginia,

Сітцо-Ки

Tokyo-To (56-5330)

Tokyo

Envelope addressed to: Capt. Robert C.

NolaR, AdvisoI, FROKA Bet. RID

with return address of Col Lee Churl Hi

CO, HID, ROKA

X

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Ikei

starataku

(Tel.

42-2249) To15y0

Utsumi Koetsu- Chief of Liaison

Sectio

Kiyagi Prefectural Gov't.

Kanemaru Nakoto- Chief of

public sarety section, Cuard

and Resoue Dept, 2nd Regional

Rgs, Maritime Safety Bureau (MSB)

(Shiogama-shi, Miyagi-ken.

Tonita Takeil, Chief of 2cd

Lavesut

gative Section, Toholu Regional

Publit

Safety Investigation Bureau (PSIB)

Konno Saburo- Chief of Ist

lavestigative section, lohoku

Regional PSIB

Suzuki Kinji- Head of Guard

Sections

Public Safety Dept;

Tohoku Regional Police Bureau

(Police Superintendent)

Matsumoto Ebosuke- Head

of Cenery Affairs Division,

Toboku Regional Police Bureau

(Senior Police Superintendent)

Akiyama

Jiro- Chief of Tohoku

Regional

PSIB

Matsumoto 8h0g0- Chici of

hiyag. Prefectural Police

Egs (Senior Police Superintendent)

riatsnoto

Lakehiro- Chief

Procurator

oi Sendai Higher

Procuratorts Office

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Kurtyama Vatsuichi- cG, 6th

Div.

JGSET

Sugaya

Rijiro- Chief of 2nd

RegionaL

1gs,

S. MSB

Tudo Masumi- Chief of Public

Safety Dept.

lohoku Regiona

Pofide Bureau

Tsuchiya

Kvuiz- Chief of Sendai

Inmigration Control Agency,

Ministry

of Foreign Affairs

Fukuhara

20d

Ishimaru

Notaro- Chief of Guard

and Resc

Dept, 2nd Regional

Hqs, MSB/

Mural Jun- Director of Iohoku

Regioral Folice Bureau

#2-3 Ginza,

chuo-icu, tokyo-to

Tel: 56-5330

Photogiaph with name Lee

Khans sulks

underneath. Along side af photograph

is the name Hoshirana

Sadao, C/o Maruei

Pachinko Store,

169-1

Baba-nach1,

Choshi-shi, Chiba-ken

Japan

Kaji Wataru

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Murat

Jun

Director,

, Tohoku Regional Police Buresu

MI. Mesui

Fine Prevention Section, Criminal

Department, National Police Agency

An envelope addressed to: Capt

Robert C. Nolas, Advisor,

FROKA det, HID with return

address of Col Lee Churl H1,

CO, HID, RURA

Four photographs identified on the back

as follows;

Akiyama

Vita

Kuziyama Matsuichi

Sugaya, Eliiro

Mural Jun

4

In addition, the subject had in his possession at

the time of his arrest on September 20, 1963, a piece of

paper containing the listing of what appeared to be United

States Army Officers and their serial numbers. One section.

of this paper was listed under the heading "Third Operations

Group".

On March 24, 1964, Lieutenant Colonel NAD W. CLeA

Deputy G-2, United States Army, Japan, advised that he had

known the subject personally and had served in Korea with

the subject.

GLEN! noted that his name appeared in one of

the above mentioned photographs of papers which were found

in the possession of the subject when arrested in El Paso

on September 20, 1963. GLENN stated that he and the subject

had been attached to an Intelligence Branch of the United

States Aruy in the Far East during the period of their acquaintance.

GLENN explained that the names in parentheses in

one of the above mentioned photographs were "code names" used

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by members of Army Intelligence Units in Korea in order to

protect their real identities fron informants.

GLENN also advised that the subject was not

stable mentally and that this instability was probably due

to damage to brain tissues suffered in an airplaue crash

during the Korean War in which the subject was the only

survivor. GLENN stated that the subject, in fact, did have

a brilliant war record, which was the

reason for his

assignment to Army Intelligence in spite of what should

have been an obvious, psychological defect.

GLENN pointed out as an example of the subject's

instability that the subject had turned in allegations

against an Intelligence Officer in Korea, which became the

subject of extensive investigation.

GLENN added that te

subject was subsequently transferred to another Army unit

and upon reporting to that unit, was greeted in a friendly

way by his new Commanding Officer, who told him he hoped

the subject would enjoy his new assignment and that he,

the Commander, would do all he could to make it a worthwhile

tour of duty for the subject.

To this, NAGELL allegedly replied that the Commander

had certainly better see that this was the case as, NAGELI

told him, he made a practice of keeping a record of every.

move made by his Commanding Officer and if he stepped out

of line one; whit at any time, it would be made the subject

of an immediate report to higher headquarters.

GLENN made available; a letter from the Assistant

subject and which contained the following infornstion:

SUBJECT, after graduation from the Aruy Intelligence

School, Fort Holabird, Haryland, in August 1955, served as an

advisor to the First Republic of Korea Army and subsequently

in sendai, and Tolyo, Japan, terminating in about 1958.

these assignments were concerned with intelligence activities,

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as an' advisor to the ROK Array in Korea, and as a member of the

US Army Counterintelligence Corps in Japan.

During the

latter tour of duty, the counterintelligence unit was designated

the 35d Operations

Group, with Headquarters in Tokyo and

Detachment B in Sendai,

as referred to in photographic inclosures

to your letter.

In assignents of this nature it is cormon practice

for members to become acquainted with personnel of various

Japanese security agencies, such as are mentioned in March

5 Memorandum of the FBI, El Paso, Tezas. It is not unusual

for individuals assigned counterintelligence duties to retain

lists of these persons for reference in the event they are

again reassigned to the area, or for dispatching cards or

thank you notes fron the United States.

a Thied

This would appear

to be the reason for SUBJECT having kept the list of agency

personnel, although to have retained the list for a number of

years after leaving the service appears unusual. The names Kaji,

Wataru and Jack Cannon were known to the public as the results

of allegations of illegal intelligence operations that were

publicized in the Japanese press, but SUBJECT'S reason for

Including those names 1n HIS lists cannot be assessed. Also,

no reason can be given for the two or thice miscellaneous.

names in NAGELL'S file.

The list of Americans mentioned in one of the photographic

attachments pertains to US personnel in the intelligence field.

It appears that the subject maintained a roster of those persons.

with whom he would or had contact, which is aot unusual.

Information contained on those rosters, particularly that

portion indicating code nancs, was and is regarded as classified

information by this office.

Files of the Counterintelligence Repository, USARJ,

disclosed no information relazive to NAGelL or of his aliases.

AT EL PASO, TEXAS:

On June 9, 1964, Federal Judge HOVER THORNBERRY, United

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States District Court, denied the notion for a new trial

and sentenced the subject to serve ten years under the

provisions of Section 4208 (a) (II), Title 18, United States

Code, which provides that the subject can be released under

parole at any time it is deemed advisable. This sentence

was for violation of Section 2113, Title 18, United States

Code.

The June 17, 1964 issue of "The El Paso Herald

Post", contained an article entitled "Inmate

"Serious": After

on June 17, 1964 According to the article, NAGELL was to

to the William Beaumont Genezal Fospital from the La Tuna

improved.

the article further stated that Deputy U.S. Marshal

JACK GRAVES said seconal pills had been prescribed for the

subject and that the subject evidently had been hoarding them.

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RICHARD CASE NAGELL, AKA

JOE CRAMER

JOE KRAMER

TOE CRANE

ROBERT C. NOLAN

Born-8-,-30, Greenwich, NY.

Nagoll claims around the middle on 1962, ho was in washington, D

Co and he had boon approached by an individual

whom he

felt was

o1thor a Spocial Agent of the FBI or a Soviet Esplonage Agont. Ho said

he meet this porson in a bar in Washington, D.C. located at 811 14th St,

Nw. Ho sald this person talked of Domestic

Intelligence and also..talked

of giving him an intelligence

assignment.

Nagell claims in September, 1962, he was Invited to attend

LAm nay recoption at the Soviet Embassy. He states he contacted CIA at either

teal my. Langley, Virginia, or Elwooa,

an zy dug.

Virginia, and used the name of

JOE CRAMER Or KRAMER during this contact with ClA.he said he told CIA

the above information and wanted some advise as to whether to go

through with such an assignment. CIA told him to see the FBI.

Nagell said he went to the above bar and there was contacted

by the same person and was told to go to Miami, Florida, to a bar and

wear a red sweater, where he would be contacted.

Certain material was seized from Nagell when he was arrested

on bank robbary charges on 9/20/63.

AT CIA

The following names were located on material and papers taken

fron Nagell/

RICHARD FECTEAU, LYNN, MASS

(DAC) C.I.A.

R: 58244 (MASS) (JAN. 63)

CoIoA.

¿ Mr. F. PARKER

2.

Miss GUTHRIES

Mr. C. Churchill

Mr.

DA VANON E,7:L.1

Mr.

SLOSS

Mr.

E.

1op/cr the

17171774709-9-39

CIA HISTORIGAL REVIEW PROGRAM

DELS BE IN FULL 1998

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SECRET

FRITERU

Sidsis

CIA MISTORICAL NEVER PROGRAVI

RELEASE IN FULL 1998

I APR 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR:

ATTENTION

SUBJECT

The Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

William O. Cregar

Richard Case Nagell, aka

•Joe Cramer

Joe Kr

amer

Joel

Crane

Robert G. Nolan

Reference is made to a memorandum from your Bureau

dated 2 October 1962, captioned as above.

Representatives of youz

Washtagton Field Office have advieed that Richard Gase Negell is

currently undex arrest far bank robbery and that the following names

and information were contained on material and papere in the posses-

sion of Nagell:

RICHARD FECTEAU, Lyn, Mass

(DAG) (G.I.A.)

R 58244 (MASS) (Jan. 63)

C. I. A.

1.

Mr. F. PARKER

Miss GUTHRIES

MI. C. CHURCHILL

MI. J. DA VANON

6.

MI.

J. SLOSS

MT.

E. LEIBACHER

The records of this Ageney have been searched in regard

to the above individuals with the following resulte:

GAULT 1

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"Richard Pecteau, Lynn, Mass." is undoubtedly identieal to

Richard George Pectenu who in in prison in Communist China.

Fecteau was taken prisoner by the Communinte during an Agency

operation ia November 1952.

"Mr. F. Parker" may be identical to John Floyd Parker, cur-

rent Agency employee, who wan born 2 January 1898, Louisville,

Kentucky.

"Miss Guthries" may be identical to Frances Agnes Guthrie,

born 29 February 1908, Charlenton, West Virgiala, who is also cur-

rently employed by this Agency.

"Mr. C. Churchill" may be identical to Greighton Churchill

who was bora l October 1912, Cornish, New Hampshire, whose pres-.

ent address 1e not known and whose addreas in 1952 was 27 West 44th

Street, New Tork City.

Joha Floyd Parker and Frances Guthrie have been interviewed

in regard to any knowledge of Nagell but neither individual has any

recollection of having ever met Richard Cane Nagell. Guthrie was em-

ployed by this Agency in Japan in the 1950*s. Greighton Ghurchill and

Joha Floyd Parker were in Japan in 1952 to interview and debrief

United States servicemen who had been held prisoners of war by the

Communists.

In view of the background of Nagell in the Far East. the possi-

bility esdats that Nagell could have obtained the namen of Parker,

Guthrie and Churchill in the approximate 1952 perlod, althoagh a spéci-

fe statement concerning this cannot be made in view of the limited in-

formation concerzing Nagell.

"'Mr. E. Lelbacher"' and'Mr, Da Vanon" are believed to refer to

Ernst Leibacker and Joseph Frances Davanon of the Los Angeles Field

Office of thie Agency. Your Loe Angeles Fleld Office has been previ-

ouely aware that Leibacker and Davanon bave no personal knowledge of

Nagell, There la no tecord of any past interest is Nagell by tbie

Agency.

"J. Sloss" may refer to John Richard Slose who was bora 24 Sep-

tember 1919, Cleveland, Ohlo and te currently employed in Head-

quarters by this Agency, John Richard Sloss has been interviewed in

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regard to any knowledge of Nagell and has advised that he has no

recollection of having met any individual by that name.

If John

Richard Slosa in identical to "J. Slone," it is not possible from

available information to even speculate as to how the name came

into the possession of Nagell.

In view of the fact that Richard George Fecteau i currently

in prison in China and the indication that the other six namen listed

above may refer to Agency employees, it is requested that the

above information not be disseminated outalde your Bureau.

does not appear that the above information could affect either the

prosecution of or the defense of Nagell on the charge of bank rob-

bery, and disclosure of the above information could create a later

cover problem for this Agency, as well an directing additional at-

tention to the position of Fecteau.

It would be appreciated if your Bureau would advise this

Agency of any information brought to your attention concerning how

the above names came into the possession of Nagell.

FOR THE DIRECTOR OF CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:

R, I. Banne riman

Director of Security

OS/SRS/BruceLSolie:jrg - 6 Apr 64

RieTAND FECTEAN

JOHN FLOYD PARKER

FRANCES AGNES GUTHRIE

CREIGHTON CHURCHIE

JOHN RICHARD SLOSS

ERNST LEIBACHER

59v01.

1050

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46575

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5010-104

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SECRET

TO

FROM

Chief, Security Research Staff, OS

AFT:

Mr. Robert Leonard

Acting Chief, Contact Division, 00

DATE:

27 March 1964

SUBJECT:

NAGELL, Richard Case - Arrest in El Paso/list of Names

Marked "CIA".

REF

Telephone converstions between Mr. Robert Leonard

and Mrs. Virginia Thorne, 26 and 27. March 1964.

1.

Enclosed for your records and any action you

may consider appropriate, are copies of self-

explanatory teletypes from our San Francisco,

Office concerning Subject's arrest in El Paso.

2.

Any questions pertaining to this memorandum

shoula be directed to Mrs. Virginia Thorne,

Ext -2202.

Dingicia I. Thore

JOIN W. NECONVEIL

ENCLOSURES: As stated above..

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CREIGHTON CHURCHILL

WOODSTOCK, VERMONT

CIA HISTORICAL REZIEN

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Dear Floyd:

18 April 1964

JIFLOYD PARKER

#1050

TE ExT 7876

CREIGHTON CHURCHILL #9657

It was good to hear from you, to learn

you are still at the old shop; etc.

I got your letter yesterday in New York,

and while driving the 300-odd miles hoped that my

subconscious would perhaps come out with a peal of

a bell regarding an individual named Ed Nagell. But

no bellsrang.

I have only a small hunch -- a piccolo-toot

in my memory. When I worked for the shop I once went

to see Mr. James Bennett, Director of Federal Prisons,

( with whom I had once shared a table on an ocean

liner, years before). You can guess why I ranted to

see Bennett: I was seeking ways for birds to fly out

of cages.

Bennett mentioned a guy (with a questionable

record,

as far as he was

concerned who claimed to

know us, you and me, what we were doing., etc. etc.

He had

aproached Bennett " as from us".

Ed Nagell

-- the name -- rings a piccolo-toot on this, but only

that.

Incidentally, I filed a report on the incident

when I got back to the shop.

I am often in New York -- at the Harvard

Club -- and should you ever be in town, give me

a ring.

It would be fun to see you.

I met Harry Osterweis in

a restaurant the other day - fater some many, many

years. You may remember him.

I have recently become an author on Wines.

After a year in France in 1959, I wrote a book on French

wines which

was published by Knopf, and

Become an author an

am about to bring

out one on wines of the world with MacMillan in September.

That is about the extent of my news.

My best to you.

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MENORANDLM FOR PLE

Attached b10 summary on NACT was, received from SRI

11/27/79 - after House Select Committee on Assassinations

revlew

PLEASE DO NOT SEPARATE THIS MEMO FROM THE ATTACHET

Date

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5 Aug 1948:

28 Nov 1954:

15 Aug 1955:

29 Oct 1959:

14 Dec 1959:

8 June 1962:

27 June 1962:

SERRET

264170

Richard Case NAGELL

Chronological Record of Activities

Entered Army (18 years old)

"Brilliant Korean War Record"

"Many Campaign Awards"

Sole survivor of plane crash. Suffered facial disfigure-

ment; given psychiatric exam.

Graduated from Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird,

Maryland. Served as advisor to ROK Army in Korea.

Concerned with intelligence activities; served as a member

of U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Japan, Sendai

and Tokyo, terminating about 1958.

A It. Col. Ned W. GLENN, Deputy G-2, U.S. Navy,

Japan, advised on 24 March 1964 that he had served

personally in Korea with NAGELL. GLENN advised

that NAGELL was not stable mentally and that this in-

stability was probably due to damage to brain tissues

suffered in an airplane crash during the Korean War.

Honorable Discharge - Captain; U.S. Army

Employed by Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control

of State of California as a special investigator.

Suspended by ABC, State of California

Dismissed by ABC

16 July 1962: Shot in chest "while making a meet" between Malibu and

Oxnard. Refused to identify assailants of furnish infor-

mation to police, subsequently, filed Civil Rights com-

plaint against police. Withdrew request for hearing so

he could get money from state of California consisting of

retirement contributions and accumulated leave.

17 Aug 1962:

Issued tourist card at Los Angeles, California.

24 Aug 1962:

Entered Mexico through Ciudad, Juarez.

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28 Sept 1962:

1 Oct 1962:

28 Oct 1962:

16 Nov 1962:

15 Dec 1962:

SECRET

Appeared voluntarily at American Embassy, Mexico City,

tense, nervous, agitated and antagonistic.

Inter alia-stated he had been approached in Mexico

City for recruiting, refused to say by whom on behalf of

what country. Stated that one job of this sont would be

in New York. He volunteered that he fully realized that

what he was saying could be used against him in any

court of prosecution. He stated that he was "bitter,

disgusted, disillusioned and disaffected". Stated he knew

the full significance of the term disaffected. He stated

that if he did go to some other country, it would cost the

United States millions. He stated that he was "through

being a good citizen" and thought that he had gotten a

"dirty deal all around. "

Again appeared at American Embassy, Mexico City,

wanting to know what had been done in regard to getting

the state of California to pay him the money due him.

Was sent to protection section. Asked what section of

Embassy he should contact to renounce his United States

citizenship. Was advised by collection section that they

could not intercede for him in collecting money from

state of California. Appeared in passport and citizenship

section and asked what the penalty would be for going to

an Iron Curtain country and what effect it would have on

his citizenship. Was advised that such action would be

violation of federal law.

Left Mexico City, Mexico.

Advised FBI in New York City he wanted to expose.

Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in California.

Advised FBI in Jacksonville, Florida, that he had been

approached shortly before in Washington, D.C., by

individual believed to be working for Soviets. NAGELL

at this time was noted to be in an inebriated condition -

vague in answering questions.

20 Dec: 1962:22 Jan 1963: NAGELL at Bay Pines, Florida VA Hospital.

Condition diagnosed as "chronic brain syndrome associated

with brain trauma with behavioral reaction characterized

by passive aggressive and paranoid features".

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24 Jan 1963:

19 April 1963:

4 June 1963:

20 Sept 1963:

Asked FBI in Miami if his Cuban or Russian sources

gave him a pistol with silencer and microfilm if he

would be permitted to return same to his contact so

he could be of further use to U.S. Government.

stated that in August or September 1962 he met a man

from Maryland in Mexico City who introduced him to

individuals whom he believed may have been Soviet Agent.

Advised FBI in Los Angeles, California, that he had

taken his former wife to court for failure to comply with

court order giving NAGELL visitation rights with children.

NAGELL appeared at the Out Patient Clinic and was re-

ferred to the Neurological Clinic for treatment. His

condition was diagnosed as'depression, tearful, nervous,

rigid".. Would only utter words "Got to see my kids".

NAGELL arrested in El Paso, Texas, on charge of at-

tempting to rob State National Bank.

Slashed wrist night

of 9/20/63. NAGELL consistently denied he had tried

to rob the bank; stated that the fact that he fired two shots

in the ceiling proved he had not been trying to hit anyone.

He stated that he was certain that "all of my problems have

been solved for a long time, and now I won't have to go to

Cuba"

A notebook which the Subject had on his person when ar-

rested made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee,

the names of purported CIA agents and other information.

Cell mate in jail reported that NAGELL disclosed to him

that NAGELL, during confused period after discharge,

decided everything against him in Los Angeles and made

arrangements with Communist Party in Los Angeles to

pick up visa and passport from contact in El Paso and

eventually end up in Czechoslovakia. NAGELL reportedly

attempted suicide three times enroute to El Passo but

lost nerve.

(Noteworthy that State Department records reflect issuance

of Passport to NAGELL on 7 August 1962 at Los Angeles,

California, and that on 9 July 1963 NAGELL signed affi-

davit that his passport had been lost or stolen. He was

issued a new passport on 6 August 1963.)

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19 Dec 1963:

1 Jan 1964:

24 Jan 1964:

9 June 1964:

17 June 1964:

SEGR

El Paso Herald-Post article states that NAGELL told

U.S. District Court that he did not attempt to hold up

the bank. "I had a motive for doing what I did" NAGELL

told Judge, "but my motive was not to hold up the bank.

I do not intend to disclose my motive at this time."

Subsequent to President's assassination, Subject claimed

acquaintance with OSWALD and wife. Marina OSWALD

on 1/18/65 disclaimed any knowledgé of NAGELL.

NAGELL furnished a signed statement:

"... In September 1962, while I was in Mexico City,a

representative of a foreign government preposed to me

that I participate in an act; such act being a criminal

offense and inimical to the best interest of the United

States. At that time, I refused such proposal. In May

1963, another representative of the same foreign govern-

ment made the same proposal to me. At that time, I

agreed to such a proposal."

"In September 1963, I was informed by an American,

known to me as an Agent of the same foreign government,

that arrangements for my participation in the aforementioned

act were completed. At that time, I refused the aforesaid

proposal.

Approximately one week later, I was instructed by this

same person to either participate as previously agreed

or derrogatory information pertaining to me would be

disclosed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There-

upon, I agreed to follow the instructions of this person;

although I did not intend to do so. This existing situation

actuated my conduct of September 20, 1963, for which I

was arrested and am presently charged.

I did not actually attempt to fob any bank. "I thought that

my arrest would provide an immediate, though temporary,

solution to the problem with which I was confronted.

I am not guilty as charged. "

NAGELL arraigned in connection with indictment for

bank robbery and was committed for 30 days for the

purpose of psychiatric examination.

Sentenced in U.S. District Court, El Paso, Texas to

serve 10 years.

NAGELL swallowed several sleeping pills while lodged

at the El Paso County Jail.

COOT

GILT

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3aD Acader MaTEriAL

Contains CopY oF LOTTER, DaTeD a 4 oR 1970,

Which NAGeLL SENT To FRANkis X. Pant,

SPaC ASST. OFFiCe, UNDER SECREARY of lhe ARMP

_SUBTECT WAS his ComPLAINT AGAiNST ThE

ARmy Ro LAck de A ComPLaTe MEDICAL

EXam, As WeLL As his Chain To

hAvide PARTiciPaTad IN Tha MATTER

INVoiViNe MSET. EmMETT E. DUgAN

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MIAL

SECRET

EXTENSION

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TO:

building).

(Officer designation, room number, and

2.

Chay fie

CISt

NO.

DATE

COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom

to whom.

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DATE.

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TO

INITIALS

CIRCULATE

CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY

ATTN: MR. JAMES LUDLUM

COORDINATION

FILE

DATE

INFORMATION

INITIALS.

NOTE

AND

RETURN

DATE

INITIALS

PER CON

VERSATION

SEE ME

DATE

SIGNATURE

REMARKS

The attached is forwarded for your information since

your Agency is mentioned by Nagell the writer of the

letter to Mr. Plant, Special Assistant, Office of

UnderSecretary of the Army.

Nagell was at one time in CIC.

It seems that he may be mentally unbalanced.

Nagell's dossier is available in Security Divison,

OACSI DA for your review if desired.

FROM

Do NOT use this form as a RECORD of approvals, concurrences,

disapprovals, clearances, and similar actions

DATE

4 Jun 70

Taro Tostikashi, CI Div, OACSI DA

1701

#PO: 198808-852-828-5041-101

OPTIONAL FORM 41

AUGUST 1967

GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 100-11.206

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24 April 1970

Francis X. Plant

Special Assistant

Office, Under Secretary of the army

Room 1E520, The Pentagon

Washington, D.C•

Dear

Mr. Plant:

In further reference to my letter from Switzerland: During our conver-

sation of 6 April you made it clear that I must step back into tine and prove

the existence of a condition over ten years ago that could and should have

been resolved by the Army then . :.

afeat that is all the nore complicated

by the ABCMR's refusal to interview the appropriate witnesses, vicw certain

pertinent records and to place the blame for my not receiving an adequate

medical examination where it belongs.

I believe what you really neant to say was that in my particular case

(as opposed

to others much less valid) the function of the Board to correct

an injustice does not apply.

So if this

assumption is fact,

as I have every reason to feel it is, then

you lay pass on to the Secretary that before my case is closed the Army will be

confronted with a scandal that will make France's Dreyius affair seem inconse-

quential by comparison.

I am not quite the fool that apparently I have been

taken for.

Very truly;

Ichard C: Vasilt

Richara C. Narell

P.S.

Enclosed are

some xerox copies of several

documents which your house-

cleaning office night find of interest.

The originals; together with

numerous other documents and the details about them, are safely locked

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deceptivo. I had killod before and I had participated in homicidos under the auspicos of

suspected of having defocted

place to the Chinese), yodox tho guiso that ar

American

variation of the

Soviet

"wet

affair"

was the only altornative, that it tas

either.. essential. to

gome

ovorall intolligonco effort or in

the best interests. of our

national

security. Ind

it

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raised: He carlitt

heliotel logis

by Conditise

itetligenre

Nichough 15.

declined rument, Tongt ou

Tire Bay March i2, tay Il

papers reported: lilii.

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mailed suicide.

was

engager!

undercut

Side far, both

Japanese: 4a.

investigation of the fow all'S

U.s

mititary police Investiga:

minitary

arguipment

into tac

ors surve announced that tary

hands of the Chinese Conta-

are up against a "stone wal" li

nisls.

gaining-cluues to the deat

Tonto police orcials reveaice?

N. Set, Binmett F. Dugan. SX

Yesterday-and

the

V.S.

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if crason. PT.

conarmed- that ther have ask

A Tokyo ponce oficial

rair!

ra Army authorities

in the IS

jesterday.

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connection

witia

to question dirs.

diaud

Dugan

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order to exhauit ail possibi

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lities.

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to contait Mrs. Ligan.

tigation

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possible

Maride

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wit!: utmoes iboroughies."

Japanese police varied gut to

Dugan.*

sile has to.

Mrs. Dugan were linor scherrn-

turned to me

Untied diler

mad oscription if te gran,

nd cotton of Power slien be

disappear

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toy leaving !.

mile at a funyo

hot'l.

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'thie

Dugan

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committed

suichit,

linfversily

antimat can: it is "possible"

for a faroon do crostn himself

with it

walce. loing louid In

an advarced flage oi decomposi.

An

aui.tonsy

wier in Dugan's lungs.

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authorities:

said "thr

cause of drata has not born de

terminin it t are fairly sure

that. bs. in: tot-die

'of suitoca-

tion or misoring

Wher

•Dugie said godly 10

his wit.

in fiel. a. Indications

are that de sensed death ijs!

near wien he handed her an in-

suraner policy.

savitic.

¡don't return. you'll need these."

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man

said.

"nothing nel"

lia.

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far.

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fluent

Chinese

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Re::

Teams 25 & 26, U.S. Army Coordirat-

ing Detachment (USACRATE (9177 A.U.),

Korea.

1956-1957-

And RunA HID

operations sponsored and airected by

U.S. Military Intelligence.

"Completely true!"

UNG Rejects Red

Kionaping Charge

PANMUNION, Korca lAPI-The U.N. Command Sat

urday labeled "complicy laise" a Communist charge tha

an armed raiding party froin the Republic of Korea broka

into a North Korean villige and killed a farmer and kid

naped a leen-age boy:

"There is no evidence that these actions were

done

1s. dinj. dion

Matthew':

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ROK (

MUNSAV-NI, Hoica (UP)-TI:c

Guests,

U.N.

Chais

U.N. Command

Military Armiist-

ROK

soldiers

their

ice Commission discloses that Reil

the MAC joint observer

Commaint

Chinese troops ercaicd.e. shoot-

which condueird on-llic-spot

morning of Sot.

ing incident at & moon festivil

investigations Soyt. 22 and 23 and

instival day.

fi:

party with a Republic of Koren

again Thursday at Parmin-

The. ROK and Chitons

patrol in Korea's Demilitarized.

join to complete the investiga-

minist

troops.

sat corn

iZone Sept:

20.

tio:s5.

each other acrons the dema

A UNCHAO encouncement said

tion.

lino

one ROK soldice was rounded

216

festivn! the mient bothe

in the shooting, and to Com-

about

five

place

210011

and talited ainci

mile.;

nolthwest

munisis

alleged

01:0

Chinese

Rumina on the east contral sect Chinese

rIle not soldiers

soldier too killed.

tor

of the truce front.

prodileed

sonio food

It said testimony given by the

Tho

slinotinm

starind at's

wine and also cuggerted tic:

three nOK soldiers involved in

"party". betrora three Chineso

lay asido ticir rifles.

the, incidcit

"has placed respo:-

Communist

and

sibility • (for the

three . ron

¿ mo:e friendiy atmosphna.

tho. Communists."

incidcht)

troops patroling fi Deniititarle..

After about

sation,

an hours

Zone.

the

Originally

Ceog

tho

invited

to

BOX

ment reported

UNCHINC annaa

as saying, the ROd paird ?e1

rose the icid mis

leavo

tiro

An American sponsored and directed

attempt to kidnap a Chinese soldier

(Intelligence Agent) curing peacetime:

witen.?

fourth Cir

Communist soldier hiding

the trees opened fied on the ?

patrol and wounded

brick.

02d .

flin

Into patrol leader

announcenions sale, the a

his 2isd08

fired ind

Communists. ca

Cover.

The ROK soldiers said this

Chinesa fired

brief Incident.

moro shots

THR

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the Communiats denied there

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(Chinese

aild

that one of the tired

cia?

soldiers was kind and a

was sonidid.

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R. C. Nagell

Box 2337; Grd Cen

Sta

New York,

N.Y.

10017

•C. S.A.

Mr. Francis X. Plant

Special Assistant

Office, Under Secretary of the Army

Room 1E520, The Pentagon

Washington, D.C. 20300

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CPT ROBERT C. NOLAN, ASN: 01438346 = CPT RICHARD C. NAGELL,

ASN 02028346

*Team 26, Combined Commend for Reconnaissance Activities Far

East ( C-CRAFE)

*ACRAFE

*USACRAFE

HID

FOI

CIC

BIAISON SECTION, ARMY COORDINATING DETACHVENT

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HING TON

PM

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19.70

Mr. Francis X. Plant

Special Assistant to the Under Secretary

of the Army

Room 3E520, The Pentagon

Washington, D.C. 20310

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SECRET

MAR 1965

Chief, Research Branck, SRS

Robert J. Leonard

John Richard SLaSS

#34490

His name is perhaps identical wita

a name among six names of Agency employees found on a mestally dis-

turbed and dizaffected former CIC intelligence officatwho allegas contact

with Russian and Cuban Intelligence agents.

CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRANI

RELEASS IN FULL 1908

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3. The nasao of Joha SLOSS may be identical with the nasce J.

SLOSS found on the person of Richard Casx NAGELL when arrested in cos-

nection with a ban' robbery in El Paso, Texas, ou 20 September 1963. A

notebook found on NAGELI Icade relarence to Fair Play for Cuba Commit-

tee, the addreases of foreign Embasaies, the names of purported CLA

agents and other iaformation. Althouga NAGELL is unquestionably mant-

ally unbalanced, he telle a story of being involved in easionage waich is

not fully contradictad by ovidenco... There is no apparent explanation of

why the name J. SLOSS as well an five otber names of CIA personsal

should bave been in the possessios of Richard Case NAGELL. The weird

story of NAGELL, is contzined is a chronological listing of his activitian

appeaded to this seemorandm.

SECRET

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