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

CONFIDENTIAL

13 October 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Operations Support Branch

FROM:

(Joseph P. Mirabile,

Operations Support

Branch

SUBJECT:

SHERMAN, Adrian Fisher, JI.

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1. On 25 September 1978, a call was received in the

Security Duty Office from James A. Sherman, Subject's brother,

advising that Subject suffered a fatal heart attack on

23 September 1978 at his apartment in Monterey, California.

Subject was sixty years of age and had a history of previous

heart trouble.

2.

Mr. Sherman was previously of interest to this

Agency as a military detailee, 1952 - 1954, when he was

serving at Clark Air Force Base, the

Philippines, as a

Major in the United States Army: After leaving the Army,

he worked for Pan American Airlines for approximately 13

years and then as an investigator for the State Attorney

General's Office in Miami, Florida.

He has been of interest

to DCD and FRD in San Francisco, California, since April 1977.

(FRD's operational interest was as an access

agent to a Saudi

Arabian of interest to the San Francisco Base.

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3.

On 23 September 1978, Subject's body was discovered

by an FRD case officer who had arrived at the Monterey,

California, apartment for an operational meeting.

The

resident manager gained access to the apartment.

Subsequent access was allowed to an emergency ambulance squad,

police officers and the deputy coroner.

4. Assistance has been rendered to FR Base by

San Francisco Field Office personnel in this matter.

• (Gordon Gregory) SAC/SFFO, was apprised on the circumstances

on 25 September 1978 and subsequently made contact with the

Chief, FR Base. Subject's son, who was traveling cross-

country by auto at the time of

the death, arrived in the

area on 27 September with two sisters and was contacted by

a representative of the San Francisco Field Office.

He is

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reported to be very cooperative, aware of need for discretion

and secrecy and proud of his father's relationship with this

Agency.

5.

The only aspect of this incident, which may be of

continuing security concern, is that the

son recalls that

In May 1978, while assisting his tather in moving some

personal effects, he remembers seeing. a written plan to

assassinate Fidel Castro.

The son said that it had been

prepared by his father in the early 1970's when he was

working in Florida but at a time when he had no Agency

association.

At this time the paper is still missing.

It may have been recently destroyed by the Subject or, the

possibility exists, it may have been stolen by someone

raving access to the apartment.

According to Subject's

Subset the

son, several other items were missing, including a money

clip containing a $100 bill that his father always kept,

a Randall knife, a gold pen and pencil set and a microwave

oven.

After

notitying the police of the missing personal

items, Subject's son received the knife from the resident

manager who claims to have found it in some weeds. Subject's

son suspects that the resident manager may have been responsible

for the theft of the personal items, but he has now resolved

to drop the entire issue.

6.

Foreign Resources Division has advised that the

DCI has been briefed on this case. It is therefore felt

that no further Office of Security action is required at this

time other than to monitor the case for 60-90 days to

determine if any new developments occur..

Pimalace.

Joseph P. Mirabile

Distribution:

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- Subject's file

- OSB Chrono

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