GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT
Originator: CIA
From: WALLER, JOHN H.
To: DCI
Document date: 1976-09-22 00:00:00
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JEK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER : 104-10102-10181

RECORD SERIES

: JEK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

80T01357A

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM

: WALLER,

JOHN H.

TO : DCI

TITLE : GEORGE DE MOHRENSCHILDT

DATE

09/22/1976

PAGES

SUBJECTS : TESTIMONY

DEMOHRENSCHILDT

DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER

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TRANSMITTAL SLIP

TO:

Mr. Bush

DATE (_2 SEE 1925

ROOM NO.

REMARKS:

1/76

The attached suggested draft to

Mr. De Mohrenischildt was written without

knowledge.gf the flavor of your personal

relationship with him.

The tone may not

be appropriate, but the message boils

down to the fact that neither CIA

nor

the FBl appear to have been interested

in ME De Mahrenschildt for a number of.

years.

This draft was coordinated with OGC

on 22 Sep.

John Waller

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REPLACES FORM 35-9

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22 SEP 1970

MEMORANDUM. FOR:

FROM

SUBJECT

REFERENCE

Director of Central Intelligence

John H. Waller

Inspector General

:: Mr. George de Mohrenschilit

Mr.

de Mohrenschildt's letter to you,

dated 5 September 1976

Action Required:

Mone.

This memorandum is for your information.

We have also

attached at A a suggested draft reply to Mr. de Mohrenschildt's letter.

Action Taken:

We have reviewed DDO and IG files on Mr. de Mohrenschildt:

addition, at our request, the CI Staff has run Agency traces on him and

has been

in touch with the FBI as well.

Findings:

3. There is voluminous material on Mr. de. Mohrenschildt in CIA

files, most of it dating from the post-Kennedy assassination period

when he testified before the Warren Commission on his acquaintance

with Mir. and firs. Lee Harvey Oswald. (A copy of the de Mohrenschildis'

testimony is attached at B.)

The bulk of the material in our files consists. of FBi reports,

the most recent of which is dated 1967.

The FBI has informed CIA that

it has no traces on Mr. de Mohrenschildt beyond that date; our files

contain all of its previous material on him.

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5.

the de Mohrenschildts is attached

interest in obtaining reports from Mr. de Mohrenschildt in 1957

result of his sojourn in

Domestic Coliection Division - DCD) had its resicient agent in Dallas,

Mir. J. Walton Moore, contact lir. de Mohrenschiidt at that time.

history of Mr. Moore's relationship with Mr. de lohrenschildt from 1957

to 1961 is also attached at C.

As a routine matter, Mr. Moore requested

traces on Mir. de Mohrenschildt. The trace results (attached at D)

con-

tained sufficient derogatory information to preclude further extensive

contact with the de Monrenschildts.

(An OS summary on tir. de Mohrenschildt

prepared in response to the current request is also attached at D.)

Our files: show that a mail cover was placed on letters addressed

to. Mr. de Mohrenschildt c/o the U.S. Embassy in Haiti from about 1964 to

1966 (This was probably not uncovered at the time of the external in-

svestigations.) This included opening and photographing the contents of

some letters by the CIA Station there, The results of this-operation.

were shared with the FBI.

de Mohrenschildt came to the attention of this office during

the Rockefeller Commission investigations.

We were asked to respond to a

memorandum submitted to the Commission by Mr. Paul Hoch entitled

Activities and the Warren Commission Investigation."

an identification of Mr. J. Walton Moore's employment affiliation and

asked what Mr. Moore knew about. Oswald and what he may have told Mr. de

Mohrenschildt about him. Our reply to the Rockefeller Commission

attached at E.

The most recent information we.have on Mr. de. Mohrenschildt comes

from Mr. J. Walton lioore who was contacted in May and July 1976 by writers

connected with the Reader's Digest, and with the Dial Press and the Dell

Publishing Company.

Both writers questioned Mr. Moore about Oswald and

Mr. de Mohrenschildt. Mir. Moore's reports on these contacts are attached

Conciusions:

Mr. de Mohrenschildt appears to have lead an adventurous and

colorful life as a petroleum engineer and businessman. He is both weil

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and poorly

connected, and some of his associations in the past have

raised serious questions.

Certainly his relationship with the

Oswalds has caused him considerable trouble and may have caused this

Agency and the FBI to spend more time and energy. on him in the past

than was necessary.

Both the FBI and this Agency, however, had dropped their

interests in Mr..

de Mohrenschildt's activities

by the mid-to-late

We speculate that any attention he is now receiving could

either be from local authorities in Dallas or from media representa-

tives on the trail of a warmed over story concerning the assassination

of President Kennedy.

He offer no proof of this conjecture beyond

Mr. Moore's reports attached at F.

What we can say is that we have

no indication that either CIA or the FBI has taken any active

interest in Mr. de liohrenschildt in recent years.

CEMA

Jonn M.

Waller

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Attachments:

A thru Fa/s

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