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[5]nee r i 0 25 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION R BRDS ACT OF
[6]ve’ 7 : _( rune: penne ; ECORDS ACT OF 1992 k..
[7]moe, OUTLINE*
[11]Subject: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee Punt  - vale
[13]1. NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE Elsie 1. Scaletti
[15]2... PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT WAC. .
[17]_ Were you ever personally acquainted with him?
[19]emp eneeha me
[21], Yes or No _ yes . If you.were never personally
[22]j: acquainted with him have you acquired anv information of
[24]a personal nature concerning him through other persons?
[25]Yes or No , Give details including dates,
[27]by months and years as. best you can recall, ‘circumstances,
[29]purpose and nature of any relationship vou may have had -
[31]{ _. with him and provide all data relating to his character
[32]! - or personality, {llustrating briefly with any-stories 07 A,
[33]: other information acquired as a result of your. own /
[35]relationship with him or which might have been acquired
[36]from others. oo.
[38]RETURN TO CIA
[39]See attached memo Background Use Only
[41]1 _ Do Not Reproduce
[43]3. SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF YOU, PROJECTS, OR OPERATIONS IN
[44]WHICH YOU PARTICIPATED .
[46]“On the basis of your personal association with
[48]Subject, either official or social, or, on the basis of
[49]what you know or believe him to be knowledgeable of,
[51]out line the nature and extent of information you believe
[52]he could provide an opposition intelligence service as to
[53](a) your identity as an intelligence officer or employee,
[54](b) your personal background and experience including
[55]places of assignments, and (c) operations in which you
[56]participated in some way. (Cryptonyms should be employed
[57]when known, The nature of the operations in any event
[58]should be briefly but sufficiently described to lead to
[59]their identification, with the dates or periods involved
[60]and any comments OT observations as to their. success or
[61]failure.)
[63]See memo attached
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[83]. OTHER AGE" CY PERSONNEL | : 7 oe .
[85]List other: Agency personnel’ or former: persome!,
[86]who on the basis of your own personal knowledge or
[87]belief, had official or social contact with Subject.
[89]Give brief information as to the period and nature of
[90]such relationship for each.
[92]See memo. attached.
[94]OTHER U. S, GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
[96]List all other U. S. Government personnel who, on
[97]the basis of your own personal knowledge or belief, had
[99]particularly close official or social contact with
[101]Subject. Identify the Bureau, Department, Agency or
[102]Office with which each such person was emploved at the
[103]time of the relationship and. give brief information
[104]concerning the period and nature of such relationship
[105]for each. Be
[107]See memo attached
[109]OTHER PERSONS
[111]- List all other persons who irrespective of nation-
[112]ality, sex, or employment are known or believed to have
[114]had intimate or particularly close assocfation with him
[116]and brief information concerning the identity and occu-
[117]pation of such persons, your knowledge of such persons,
[119]and the period and nature of the relationship of such
[120]person with Subject. Include also the names of all.
[122]American and foreign newspaper people with whom he is
[123]known or believed to have had personal contact irre-
[125]spective of the extent or closeness of their relation-
[126]ship. Give names with brief information as to the period
[127]and nature of such relationship for each.
[129]{ know of none.
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[145]7. HOSTILE INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS
[147]Can you provide any information of any kind
[148]tending to establish that Subject may have been
[149]sympathetic to hostile ideologies or had contact
[150]with and was cooperating with a hostile intelligence
[151]service. Yes or No no « If yes, give
[152]full details, . ,
[154]Signed: on, OL a
[156]Dated : 10 July 1972
[158]*This is an Outline only of information desired. If vou
[159]either knew the Subject or have any information from other
[160]sources on any of the points contained in the outline, a
[161]separate memorandum is needed with each paragraph. thereof
[162]keyed to those in this outline. If you neither knew the
[163]Subject nor have any information of the kind requested in —
[164]any section of the outline (and only in such instance)
[165]negative entries may be entered under all sections, and the
[166]outlined returned after signing and dating. The Signed and
[167]dated outline will thus serve as a memorandum for the files.
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[174]SECRET/SENSITIVE Co. 4
[178]SUBJECT: Philip Burnett Franklin Agee
[180]NAME OF OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE: _Elsie 1. Scaletti
[181]PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE OF SUBJECT: - 7
[183]| knew Phil during the entire time he was in
[184]Branch | at Headquarters, and during his tour in
[185]Mexico. We came to Mexico PCS at the same time. —
[186]This means {| knew him from. 1965 until he resigned.
[187]In Headquarters our relationship was limited to
[189]business in the office, and that. was‘‘not very:-
[191]frequent. We sat in different rooms. He handled $B
[192]matters. 1 did the routing of all Branch _
[193]correspondence which meant 1 decided wkat he was to
[195]-see--this was anything affecting Soviet/Satellite/
[196]Chinese matters.. My main.areas. of responsibility
[198]were in the support field, Even thougn we were both
[199]processing out at the same time, we did not exchange
[200]stories much. However, since | traveled as a
[201]"Tourist" and was not therefore allowed to bring
[202]anything into Mexico, Phil offered to have some of
[203]my things packed with his household effects since
[204]he said he owned hardly anything. One day my husband
[205]and | took some boxes of things over to his apartment
[206]before work. {| do not remember the name of the
[207]apartment development in Virginia, ‘but it was the
[208]garden type. His apartment was nice--fairly new
[209]but sparsely furnished. He helped us).unload the things
[210]a.d take them upstairs. Then we parted. |! seem to recal
[211]ine had some trouble witia his car that morning and we
[212]dropped him off at a repair shop on the way to the
[213]office. ; a
[215]At this time, in Washington, Phil was very
[216]pleasant, was nice to.work wit. He did not appear
[217]to be pushy, even though tedid everything he could
[218]to get the Mexican assignment. At this time, despite
[219]his family problems, he did not appear to let these
[220]affect iis work. At least from my position he seemed
[221]to get his work done, not to procrastinate, not to
[222]take a lot of time off. From the gossip I! heard,.
[223]he was separated, and was anxious to get any assignment
[224]overseas. When the possioility of this Olympic job
[225]opened up in Mexico he grabbed it. As | recall, C/WH/ 1
[226]was sympathetic toward nim also, and was happy to be
[227]able to nelp Phil at tnis particular time.
[229]SECRET/SENSITIVE 9» #8. 0
[232]oe soot, SECRET/SENSETI VE
[233]Tet ( a ~ C
[234]. ° “In Mexico when PATT*s iouseitokd effects arrived
[235]. he let me know; and as | recall, ne brougit them over
[236]to my iouse and we unloaded them into our apartnent.
[237]We did not go and pick them up. In thanks, we
[238]invited him over to supper one evening. (Willard C.
[239]CURTIS had given permission for individual officers
[240]to have Phil over to dinner if no outsiders were
[241]present and prior permission was obtained.) 1 think
[242]| got permission fron the DCOS at that time, There
[243]were only the three of us (Phil, my husband, and
[244]myself--no maid, no other invited.guests) There was
[245]no discussion of office. My husband knew Phil was with
[246]i ; BKTRUST and was working on the Olympics in Mexico.
[247]Conversation was light. During dinner,. as recall,
[248]we talked about business in Mexico, and he mentioned,
[249]his father was in the dry cleaning business, and
[250]he thought he might be interested in’ bringing into
[251]; Mexico some used dry cleaning equipment which is worth
[252]; .. . - nothing in the United States, and set up some dry
[253]: : ; cleaning: establishments in Mexico... The discussion
[254]was merely in generalities--nothing specific as to
[255]timetable or even if Phil were serious about this.
[257]About a week later Phil brought his car over and
[258]my husband helped him.work on his car--adjusting it
[259]to the altitude, This must have been around September
[260]1997. .
[262]Shortly thereafter, when Laura B. UTSTINE was
[263]in Mexico TDY (she worked in WH/1] and. also knew Phil
[264]at Headquarters), Phil had my husband, me, and UTSTINE
[265]over to his apartment (on Insurgentes Sur just off the
[266]Viaducto) for dinner. It was.a huge. apartment, sparse ky
[267]furnished. We had an enjoyable evening, very light
[268]conversation. Talked mostly about Mexico. At this time
[269]he showed us he nad several bedrooms (forget how many)
[270]and hopefully his sons would be able to visit him.
[272]During his tour in Mexico | only saw Phil tn the
[273]Station occasionally--and then just in passingin the
[274]halls. Once after | heard about Phil's having kidnajec
[275]his boys, | thought |! saw them (can't remember why |
[276]thought they were his) in front of the Embassy with a.
[277]maid. | never saw Phil in the Embassy proper nor at
[278]any Embassy functions (1 was tourist and did not
[279]circulate in the Embassy).
[281]During his toug in Mexico, Phil remained pleasant
[282]but was certainl 465 fiud to talk to. After Phil.
[283]resigned | saw him once. After Jolin PROBERT arrived
[284]as COS, | saw Fhil along the side of the Embassy.
[286]HES.
[288]SECRET/SENSITIVE .
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[294]naan
[296]We just greete:!: Gach other. ne said he heard PRODERT
[297]was coming to Mexico and asked if he were here. He
[298]wanted to call and say sello. | said yes. |
[299]immediately informed PROBERT, and suggested the
[300]latter; read Phil's file at tie Station as.it was
[302]my understanding there was sone proslem about his
[303]resignation, but did not know all the details.
[305](This was true as personnel matters in the Station s
[306]were kept very close oy tne front office.) 1 do 3
[307]not know if, when, or iow many times PROBERT might a
[308]have met wita Phil. At this time Pnil looked neat q
[309]and well kept, as I recall. iF
[311]Soe aia
[313]so cm aias S Bie Pr
[315]3. SUBJECT'S KNOWLEDGE OF SCALETTI, PROJECTS, OR 4
[316]OPERATIONS IN WHICH SCALETTI PARTICIPATED — a
[318]a). Phil could definitely identify me as a long-
[319]time BKTRUST employee a
[320]b). Phil probably knew that Mexico was my first overseas>
[321]assignment, and possibly.that | had a medical | ‘@
[322]hold vefore. He knew | had~spent Umany years" — q
[323]in Branch |, and was privy to almost everything
[324]going on at the Mexico City Station. He
[325]knew | was assigned to Mexico under tourist
[326]cover but worked inside the Embassy. He knew
[327]my husband was here as a professor at the Universit
[328]of the Americas, and that he did not work for BKTRUS
[330]c). [In Headquarters Phil knew 1 handled mo tlyythe
[331]support projects olus sucr,extras as LICINland
[332] (LBGLOBE (Goth NOQRA LILINK nad closed down either
[333]just as PhgL ans bee ne Branch, or just before.
[334]just 2s POG Eo REVAANDER, formerly with LILINK)?
[335]was assigned to the Brancn then, and talked with
[336]Phil about Mexico, and possibly about LILINKI*
[337]remember keeping the LPGLOBE material very close,
[338]gz in my own safe, and | do not think Phil know of
[339]wy CLPBLOBE (LIREALM was then in Mexico undes (LPGLOBE),
[340]but may have learned of, (LPRLOBE program afid LIREALM
[341]through Ex-LIADLIB (see paragraph 4).
[343]In Mexico City Phil knew | was in the Cuban section,
[344]and privy to all operations being run against the
[345]Cuban target. He did not know of operations in
[346]particular except possibly LIARM-1 (now terminated)
[347]wiio we hoped to use against the Cuban olympic
[348]target. The Cuban Section tried to talk with Phil
[349]many times about the Cuban delegations to the .
[350]Olympics, but as | recall, C/Cuba only succeeded in
[352]SECRET/SENSITIVE
[355]Sa
[357]‘the Cuban target little attention. /-
[359]“OTHER AGENCY ‘PERSONNEL ©
[361]aa . . +
[365]GETTING Phil to.cone to our end of the hall
[367]a couple of times. | was not in on the
[368]discussions between C/Cuba (Raymond F. FRADYER) i
[369]and Phil, but 1 believe they were mainly held i
[370]to see who Phil nad met who might be useful i
[371]against: tne Cuban target. |. know we thought et_
[372]the time Phil was spending almost. full time on his
[373]overt activities and the SB target, and he gave -
[375]- At-Headquarters ‘in WH/) Phil «shared his cubicle >
[377].. program) and out to benefit nimself entirely-~
[378]‘ mucn more so titan:
[380]- aS mucn as Pnil, for different reasons. Ex-
[381]- LPADLIB-1] was e@ much more pusia individual, less
[383]with LIAODLIB-1 who was pressing. to get overseas .
[385]exoerienced operationally (right out of tre JOT
[387]Phil 24 LIADLIB-1 went aut of chaane
[388]constantly, talking of (ROC cover)ideas (for nimself)};
[389]and going right to the head of Training or JOT. ....
[390](can't remember which) and WOMACE on-ideas and ~ “|
[391]suggestions, without ‘necessarily. gotag- through the.
[392]Branch or Division. He nad many business deals on |
[393]the side (one was as a landscaper in Virginia)
[394]and had great prosp egy for business deals in |
[395]Mexico.9; He wangled a 10C) job in Mexico (replacing?
[396]LILINK) ‘and was inserted in the LAGLOBE program white
[397]he knew Phil (1 think this was the’timing.) He was |
[398]also quite open in nis bragging ne had been hired i
[399]as a GS-13 (f think it was) and did not nave to go
[400]up trpuranks. This might heave irritated Pail who
[402]was still a 12. Ex-LIADLIB came to Mexico PCS about
[403]the same time Pnil and | came. Although | rememoer
[404]no close friendshi-. between Ex-LIADLIB and Phil
[406]on the desk, tne fact they sat togetner, were
[408]poth processing out for Mexico, would have meant
[410]they nad sometning in common. Also, LIADLI8 was tnen —
[411]nandling all the projects for CP and leftist ;
[412]penetration operations for tie Station and Base
[413](Monterrey). Phil would have more than casual
[414]interest in sone of these as some were being handled
[415]in the field by Howard R. BENJAYA, an old friend of
[416]Phil's fron ecador) | do not know that Phil-.and
[420]Wena
[422]-
[424]SECRET/SENSITI VE
[426]I I
[429]( “SECRET/SENSITEVE (| -
[431]Ex-LIADLIB ever met socially in Mexico or not.
[432]1 am quite certain their work paths never crossed,
[433]LIADLIB is still im Mexico. He has had a difficult
[434]time since his "resignation" getting a job,
[435]keeping a job, and making ends meet. It probadly
[436]would be to BKTRUST's disadvantage now for
[437]the two to meet. For this reason, and to assess
[438]ex-LIADLIB-s present state of mind, Headquarters *
[439]sent someone to talk with LIADLIB-1 in the spring
[440]of 1972. At that time he still seemed bitter
[441]against BKTRUST. ‘ a
[443]Other than wishing to make special mention of
[445]. EX-LJADLIB-1, | know of no Agency personnel
[446]other than those in WH/} and. the Mexico City Statio
[447]whom. he knew.
[449]5S. OTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT PERSONNEL
[450]. 1 know of none except the Olympic Attache in Mexico
[452]under whom Agee worked fron July 1967 until the
[453]end of the Olympics.
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