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[26]Fe MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
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[30]in: FROM: . Bruce L. Solie
[32]rea” Chief, Security Analysis Group
[35]er . SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case
[37]iia #264 170
[39]J. This memorandum identifies those Office of ‘Security oo
[40]files which were reviewed by House Select Committee on .
[41]' Assassinations (HSCA) staff members in conjunction with the
[42]HSCA's investigation into the deaths of President John F.
[43]‘Kennedy and Dr. Martin. Luther King, Jr.
[47]2, Under procedures established with. the HSCA, certain:
[48]items of information were not reviewed by HSCA. staff members.
[49]These items were placed in envelopes, sealed, appropriately
[50]identified, and put back into the security file prior to
[51]HSCA review. Office of Security personnel reviewing these
[52]files should maintain the integrity of each envelope below
[53]so that interested parties may know what was and was not
[54]reviewed by HSCA staff members.
[56]ER
[58]3. In-some instances, the above files contain: material
[59]marked in the. lower right- hand corner with a green circular
[60]dot. This mark should alert Office of Security personnel to
[61]the fact that this material was located and placed’ in theo"
[62]file at the time of the HSCA review and was seen by an HSCA
[63]Staffer(s}). This material should not be removed..from the
[64]file. ; mo, : ;
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[69]PALMAE CORY SEA I RAS OR DEE ONO AeA ANY OSRASnnoRZamee
[71]4. Attached to this memorandum is a review sheet which
[72]identifies the Name of the HSCA reviewer (s) ‘and the. date of
[73]‘his review.
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[83]HSCA's rev cit be directed to the. Security Analysis
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[130]Dear Ms. Grenoble:
[132]This letter is in response to the distortions and outright falsities
[134]So ee august 12, 1975
[136]-.Ms. Penelope Grenoble, Editor
[137].Los Angeles Free Press -
[138]5850 Hollywood Boulevard
[139]tes Angeles, California 90028
[141]“y ° Régistered Mail “©
[143]printed about me in the article written by William W. Turner, titled —:
[145]BANK ROBBER, ‘MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE' LINKSD TO JFK ASSASSINATION PROBE,| —
[146]_ whieh | appeared in the July 25- 31 edition or _ the Los Angeles. Free’ ‘Press|
[148]tI request that the Free Press either print a ‘retraction of: such. lies
[149]"and: distortions or publish this letter. _ ey
[151]Me Qurner, who spent. ten years. as a Special Agent of the FBI, is” snot!
[152]oo unfamiliar to me. He has authored similar articles, both during ny. .
[153]-.° imprisonment in the United States and while I was detained in the.
[155]“ eited numerous lies about me. He has proved. himself adept at putting.
[156]words in my mouth and misquoting his sources of information to lend’
[158]German Democratic Republic, . in which he knowingly and purposefully :
[160]-- eredence to his major untruths, 2 skill he probably developed while = 4)
[162]serving: with the Bureau's intelligence-security division. - His. recen
[163]~-¢laims cause me to wonder whether. or not he ever left the ‘FBI. a 7
[165]~ .' much of his latest baloney, is a character that.I.feel should either.
[166]-" purchase a‘hearing aid or consult a psychiatrist. Each of my.so--...
[168]. . called: discussions with him (all but one occurred over the telephone)
[169]- ~~ were duly tape-recorded by me, and if he did in fac
[170]i. furner has attributed to. him about me, then he 6
[172]we I am listing the following facts. in rebuttal +
[173]: fables” ne
[175]about “a career in Army intelligence.” .More to the point, the docu-
[177].. ments found in my possession and under my control (some of which were |
[178]' 7, returned’to me only last year by the FBI) ensured my incarceration ©»
[179].- fora longer period than I had anticipated. ‘They also guaranteed my.
[180]‘being held practically incommunicado for many months (for eleven. -~
[181]“months I was not even permitted to read. a newspaver), not to mention . “4
[183]nor were they effected for the purpose of establishing rapport. .
[185]_ After | my. acquittal (in 1968, ‘not in 1967) I did not “drop from sient,’
[187]Professor Richard He Popkin, | ‘from ‘whom Mee ‘turner obviously rollecte
[189]\ assert what” ME
[190]a liars.
[192]"decorated hero of the Korean War," nor. did the
[194]the curtailment of my. most. basic constitutional ‘Safeguards.
[196]My contacts with Lee Harvey Oswald did not entail any “friendship,” -
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[202]as. Mes Barner, the: FBI and ‘the CIA damn wwe), knows, pn
[204]rf
[206]I have never ‘stated ‘to anybody, either verbally or in writing, ‘that: |
[208]'in-1963 I was an agent for the CIA, although in 1974 I did state,
[210]under oath, that. I thought I had been functioning for the CIA. during
[212]“part of 1963. Mr. Turner is also aware that less than two months: ||:
[213]- after President.Kennedy'’s death FBI agents confronted me with. their. ,
[215]suspicion that I had “acxed as:an unregistered agent for a foreign <=
[216]power," inferring that I was a spy for one of the Cuban intelligence -
[218]ease officers, accused me of having been a Soviet. spy: . still eters
[219]> one FBI agent suggested: ‘that rT had worked for the Chinese). oes
[221]on The régistered : letter: that was ‘dispatched at ‘my ‘insta nce to FBI
[222]-.. Director J. Edgar Hoover in September 1963 (not necessarily on the:
[223]_. 13th) revealed sufficient details to warrant an immediate investiga-
[225].. tion (if not the arrest) of Lee Harvey Oswald and two: Cuban refugees.’ | —
[226]bot certainly “assumed" that some “action". would be taken by. the FBI.
[228]“T. was ‘not ‘the ‘Least bit “frantic” ‘about anything in September. 1963...
[229]~. .T did not set foot inside the Republic of Cuba during that month. wah.
[230]To my knowledge I have never talked to any “Castro aides.” The main — |
[232]“distinction between some American intelligence officers that I knew
[234]- ‘and hired killers were the procedures utilized in murdering their Leen
[235]_-vietims and/or the methods used to disassociate’ themselves and. the.
[237]2 Ue Se ‘government from their’ crimes. . : wn
[239]OE had no ‘fear of being implicated vin ‘the planned assassination” at
[240]oo the. time of my arrest. or. “prior thereto. oe eos ree
[242]services (several years later the CIA, through one of its “former"..
[244]he. two letters ‘that I mailed ‘to ‘James. Le Rankin, General Counsel | to. -
[245]- the Warren Commission, were not sent through “private cheng hse They]
[247]0) were sent through ‘proper: jail authority. ay
[249]a have ‘never ‘claimed. that I “squirreled away a snapshot ‘of (nyselt).
[250]-with Lee Harvey Oswald taken in Jackson Sauare in Néw Orleans in: "1963.
[252][have never stated that Iam "willing to surface and-tell (any) story] ~
[253]\/. to Congress" or to. anybody... And I did. not reveal any details about: -|°
[255]> Mire Oswald. to. Professor Popkin’ that are "new" or unknown to the FBIe
[257]ek C. Sy Me eee
[259]Richard Ce Nagel
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[264]"|: GAN DIEGO, (PNS)
[265]20, .1963, a. rangy man with a
[267], . Los Angeles: Free Press
[269]say 25-31,1975 a.
[271]- Bank robber, ‘Manchurian Candidate’
[272]linked to JFK assassinaiion probe _
[274]“ED. NOTE: Recent exposure of
[275].. what many consider to be im-
[276]proper CIA activity, both at
[278]_ home and abroad, has
[279]_, reawakened interest in dacade-
[281]_ old’ challenges to official ver-
[282]. Sions of the assassinations of
[283]* John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy
[285]"and Martin Luther King. As new.
[287]facts also begin to emerge,
[288]-Congress faces growing
[289]Pressure to: reinvestigate the
[291]‘JFK assassination. —
[293]What follows are the strange
[295]- ‘stories, disclosed here for the
[296]. first time, of two figures ~
[298]Richard Case. Nagel and Luis
[300]*. Angel Castillo — long of interest:
[301]' t@ assassination researchers. |
[303]WILLIAM W. TURNER ~ | 4
[304]— On Sept.
[306]‘vertical scar on ‘his forehead
[308]_ Strode into the State National
[309]. Bank.in &! Paso, Tex., and re-
[311]- quested $100 in travelers’
[313]~ checks. Before the teller could
[314]. ..comply, he whipped out a pistol
[316]and fired two shots into the ceil- -
[318]‘ing. Then he waited to be _.
[319]: Arrested.
[321]Police quickly: realized that
[323]. the suspect, Richard Case
[325]: Nagell, 32, was no ‘ordinary.
[326]’ bank robber. Papers he carried
[327]. Showed that he was a decorated
[328]“ hero of the Korean War who had
[329]gone. on to a career in Army
[330]‘Intelligence before being dis-
[332]_ charged with the rank of captain | E
[333]; -. 1960, FB! Director J. Edgar
[334]- Hoover himself .wrote an in-.
[336]_in 1959.
[337]. Why had-he pulled the non-
[338]robbery?
[339]“Last, week Or. Richard H.
[341]Select
[343]Popkin, a philosophy protessor_
[345]at Washington University in St. :
[347]Louis, stepped off a plane in the
[349]» nation's capital lugging a brief- .
[350]‘case containing documents -il-
[351]luminating the strange case of .. ;
[352]touch with Richard Nagell, now -.:-
[353]‘living near San Diego, and had: --.
[354]‘learned about Nagell’s: °° .::
[355]friendship with Lee Harvey. -
[356]‘-Oswald. Nagell has fascinated. - -
[357]- assassination researchers: ever
[359]the man who shot a bank. Also
[361]crammed into the briefcase was -
[363]a thick sheaf of papers relating
[364]to a bizarre “Manchurian Can-
[365]didate” episode in the Philip-
[366]pines in 1967... -
[368]Both the El Paso and Manila
[370]‘incidents. Popkin: said-in an in-
[371]terview before ‘leaving for .
[373]Washington, were linked to the
[375]Dallas assassination of John F. --
[377]Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963. They
[379]would “crack -the case wide =
[381]open, ” he predicted.
[383]The slight, bearded academi-
[384]stopping in-
[385]‘Washington to present his.dis- -
[386]coveries. to Attorney. General ~
[387]Edward Levi and the Senate ~
[388]Committee on.
[390]cian was
[392]Intelligence Activities before ga-
[394]ing on to a conference ‘of learn-.
[395]~ Jetters from prison.:- vom
[397]ed philosophers...
[398]The Second Oswald:
[400]published The Second Oswald,
[401]which chronicled several in-
[403]‘Stances of someone imper-
[404]sonating the man later accused .
[406]of slaying the president. At the.
[407]time the book
[409]closed that as early as June 3,
[411]. terdepartmental memorandum
[413]citing evidence of an- Oswald -. -
[415]. Popkin is no stranger to the -
[416]JFK investigation. In. 1966 he |
[418]gained scant .
[419]attention, but recently it was dis- _
[421]imposter. The FBI knew Oswald a
[422]at that time as a defector to-
[424]Russia,-and, some conspiracy
[425]theorists believe, as a possible
[427]CIA agent.
[429]Popkin said he had been in ~~
[431]since an FBI report filed with the .
[433]‘Warren Commission. quoted .—
[434]him as saying he had met with:
[435]Oswald in Mexico.City and Tex. =
[436]‘as. But the former intelligence . |
[438]officer had been inacessibie. He.
[439]‘remained in prison for the El.
[440]’ Paso caper until his conviction .._.
[441]‘was reversed for insufficient —
[442]evidence in 1967, after which ha ~~
[444]dropped from sight.
[445]Nagell’s Version
[446]‘Nevertheless,
[448]defense pleadings and cryptic ;
[450]In August 1963 Nagell, works
[451]ing as a CIA agent, learned of a
[453]domestic plot to.assaasinate the: -
[454]president, involving Oswald and-
[455]‘anti-Castro Cubans. He in-
[456]formed his CIA superior . but...
[458]feared nothing would be done ~
[460]-because he lacked details. On. -
[461]Sept. 13 he dispatched a letter -
[463]warning J. Edgar Hoover of the |
[465]‘plot but again assumed no ac-. -..
[467]tion would be taken.
[469]As Nagell understood. it, :
[470]. Kennedy was to be shot. in -
[471]- (please. turn to page 33).
[473]] researchers. . .
[474]_ were able te glean some picture .~
[475]‘ of Nagell's significance from his. -
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[480]- federal
[481]parently. fearing that his
[482]_ association with Oswald would
[483]‘implicate himself in the planned :
[485]- no reply.
[487]-INATION-
[491](continued trom. le 4)
[493]- Washington about Sept. 26 (as
[495]it turned out. JFK left Sept. 25 .
[496]. are met.
[498]for a whirlwind tour of the West).
[500]. °Frantic, Nagell flew to Havana
[501]' on Sept. 19 to see if Castro -
[502]aides could shed light on the’
[504]assassination plot, but the only
[506]advice they could offer was to ~
[508]"4 this photograph does exist
[509]it would fend credibility. to
[511]provided protective conditions
[513]“Manchurian Candidate”
[514]Pookin is also convinced that
[516]the Manila “Manchurian Can-
[518]execute Oswald in the hope that -
[520]. would stop the plan.
[522]- But Nagell feft Cuba deciding
[524]agent, not a killer.” Flying to El
[526]“Paso via Mexico City, he walked
[528]into the bank the next day for
[530]’ “the sole purpose of having
[532]myself arrested and detained by
[533]authorities"
[535]assassination.
[537]‘that he “was an intelligence |
[538]had contacted
[542]Nageli was in the El Paso Jail .
[544]-: when Kennedy was shot In
[545]‘Dallas two months later. Hesent |
[546]an offer to testify before the —
[548]- Warren Commission through
[550]“private channels” but received
[552]Dedicated Leftist
[553]In his recent discussions with
[554]Popkin, Nagell has revealed
[556]’ new details about Oswald. He
[557]’ first met Oswald, he said, in the
[559]late fifties at the U.S. naval base
[560]at Atsugi, Japan, where Oswald
[561]was a Marine Corps radar
[563]. specialist. They became friends
[565]but didn’t encounter one.
[567]_ another again until August 1963 .
[568]- when Nagell learned of the plot .
[569]" - -against Kennedy.
[571]‘Disputing claims that Oswald
[572]had ties with the CIA, Nagell
[573]belleves that Oswald was a
[574]dedicated leftist who was duped
[576]“was shot,
[577]assembled from components -
[579]didate” case was connected to.
[580]the JFK assassination: On
[582]March 2, 1967, a man named |
[584]Luis Angel Castillo.was detain-
[585]‘ed by the Philippine National
[586]Bureau of investigation after he
[587]left-wing - Huk
[588]guerrillas. Questioned under
[590]truth serum and hypnosis.
[592]:  Nagell’s account. And Ne” is
[593]‘willing to surface and te. __ ais
[594]_ story to Congress. Popkin says,
[596]Castillo blurted out a tale of hav- ©
[598]ing been taken to a building in
[599]Dallas, Tex., the day Kennedy
[600]handed a rifle
[602]hidden in a bowling bag and in-
[603]Structed to fire at a man in an
[605]-open car sitting next to a lady.
[607]The signal to fire would be given
[608]_by mirror flashes.
[610]Sation at the time. The Manila
[611]Times bannered: “ ‘JFK Plotter’
[612]in Manila!" Wire service dis-
[614]‘ patches to. the United. States
[615]‘said Castillo was a “Cuban-
[617]trained Communist agent” wha
[619]“hadn’t shot because he heard
[620]that a man named Joe “had -
[621]already shot. the man in the
[623]“open car.” The story was so im-
[624]plausible that it quickly died.
[625]Not long ago the hypnotist
[626]who conducted the interroga-
[627]tion of Casiilio for the Philippine
[628]authorities arrived in this coun-
[630]- try under the name Vincente A.
[632]- by anti-Castro exiles involved in - ‘
[634]the conspiracy. Posing as~
[636]becoming a “fall guy” by playing.
[638]’ Castro G-2 intelligence agents, -
[639]_ the exiles wheedied Oswaldinto ..
[641]on his Castro sympathies, pain- .
[643]ting Kennedy as anti-Castro and
[644]promising that he would be
[645]spirited to Havana after the
[647]assassination.
[649]Nagell told Popkin he met
[651]-with Oswald both in Mexico Clty .
[653]. and New Orleans, hotbeds of
[654]‘ the anti-Castro movement.
[656]“Nagell claims he has squirrel-
[657]ed away a snapshot of himself
[658]with Lee Harvey Oswald taken
[659]in Jackson Square in New
[660]Orleans in 1963," Popkin as-
[662]-$erted. “In the picture are two
[663]’ other men, both anti-Castro
[665]‘Cubans, who were pretending -
[667]Sanchez. When Popkin took a
[669]took at his reports, his eyes
[671]popped. :
[672]The reports termed Castilla a
[675]noprogrammed robot.
[676]Double-Agent Network
[677]Sanchez extracted Castilio’s
[678]rambling story over a period of
[679]weeks. Castillo, then 28, was in-
[680]ducted around 1960 into a
[681]“Special Operations Group”
[682]which afforded him paramifitary
[683]training. tn 1961 he participated
[684]in the Bay of Pigs invasion, asa
[685]pilot for the CIA. Thereafter he
[686]infiltrated a double-agent
[688]The story caused a brief sen--
[690]network, posing as a Com--..
[692]munist in Venezuela and li-
[693]quidating a.Communist agent in.
[694]Mexico.
[696]In talking about the JFK
[697]assassination, Castillo —
[698]despite some disjointed
[699]phrases — was nevertheless
[701]able to describe in some detail —
[703]er Ute pe WUE ‘agent’
[705]ordered, ~they's got him already. :
[707]Let's get out of here." After the
[709]rifle was disassembled and -— .-
[710]' stuffed in the bowling bag, he: ~
[711]“was hustled into-the car which © -
[712]had breught him to tne building...
[713]It stopped twice within blocks ta «s+.
[715]pick up other men.
[717]In 1967, according to:
[719]Sanchez, Castillo was
[721]‘programmed to assassinate
[723]Philippine President Ferdinand cg
[725]-Marcos after openly associating -.
[726]‘ with the leftist Huks — which ~*
[727]- would implicate.them in the -
[729]assassination. Popkin points.
[731]out that this is a similar ploy to
[732]the one Nagell attributed to the
[733]anti-Castro Cubans’ use of. :
[735]Oswald.”
[737]Until recently. the Castilla vo
[739]episode: might have seemed a. ~~)
[741]logcial
[743]impossibility. But the -
[745]release of the Rockefeller = .:
[747]Report, ‘with
[749]duce behavior modification in
[751]_unsuspecting subjects, make. -
[754]‘about secret CIA projects to in- -
[756]the possibility of a “Manchurian
[757]Candidate” more than mere’. .-
[758]fantasy. {In the Robert Kennedy: ---
[759]assassination, Dr. Bernard Dia-.
[761]‘mond, who examined Sirhan ..-
[762]Sirhan for the defense, testified”
[763]_that he believed Sirhan’ _
[764]hypnotized at the time of the:
[765]" shooting.)
[767]was
[769]Although — the
[770]whereabouts of Castillo is un-
[771]known, the Sanchez reports
[773]contain the names of six per- ©
[775]sons who supposedly ran his
[777]network, including the “contrat 1. |
[779]officer” and a woman who hyp-
[781]notized him. Popkin’s awn in-.
[782]vestigations have shown that.
[784]these peaplie do exist. .
[786]Castro, will be published this fait
[787]by Houghton Mitfitn. ;
[789]current.” m
[791]Through Popkin their stories. .
[792]have now been passedontothe = -
[793]‘Attorney General and the ©
[794]‘Church Committee. ae
[795]William Turner's latest book. re
[796]The Cuba Project, the story of - .-
[797]the CIA’s secret war against —~
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[946], REPLY REQUESTED 27 “March 1969
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[948]i YES
[950]Mr. Paul Gaynor, C/0S/SRS/f/} * N. Scott Miler, CI/SIG
[952]The attached telegran. from American Embassy, Madrid, may
[954]‘net have come to your attention. It may be of some significance
[956]Meat
[958]in connection with information about a Richard Case ‘NAGELL with
[959]akas your office sent to the FBI 7 April 1964 (Solie originated)
[960]and Richard FECTEAU.
[962]ne for a a 7" Dear o
[964]For ye un “fo.
[966]SUGNATURE
[969]13-00000
[971]18 gaiosey 1968
[973]SUBJECT: WNAGELL, Richard Case
[975]ALLEGATION: "CIA CONNECTION: -
[976]. Richard Case NAGELL,.“a None; although, Subject was of
[977]highly. decorated infantry ' interest to OS in 1964 and early
[978]Captain in the Korean War", . .» 1965 because of information
[979]alleges that he became a_ . furnished to the Agency by the
[981]' GIA agent. He said he ; FBI that he had in his. possession
[982]fired the gun in the bank at- the names of six CIA employees
[983]El Paso, Texas because he —. at the time of his arrest for bank
[984]wanted to be- in custody when robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20
[986]' the assassination of . September 1963.
[988]President. KENNEDY took
[990]‘place. WNAGELL charged
[992]that "the FBI illegally
[993]seized. from him evidence
[995]. crucial to his defense,
[997]such as notebooks containing
[998]the names of certain CIA ~
[999]employees » Photographs, two ©
[1001]‘Mexican tourist cards (one
[1003]in the name of Joseph KRAMER,
[1005].the other in. the name of .
[1007]Albert HIDEL) and receipts for
[1008]‘registered mail, including the one
[1009]for the letter ‘sent HOOVER ~
[1010]warning of the assassination.
[1011]NAGELL daimed he was in-
[1013]structed to "arrow" the
[1015]- patsy, that is kill him , oO oe
[1017](OSWALD) after the assassi-
[1019]“ nation. He contended he.
[1021]got cold feet and’ this was
[1022]his reason for the attempted
[1023]bank robbery, he would rather
[1025]. be arrested than comnit™
[1027]murder and treason.The.
[1029]article alleges that while it
[1030]was suggested in court that
[1032]an airplane crash NAGELL ~~ -
[1033]survived mentally affected hin,
[1034]he was given intelligence. °
[1035]training after the crash.
[1037]' Also, NAGELL complains he has ;
[1039]been salted away because of
[1040]what he knows.
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[1045]. SOURCE:
[1047]1968 RAMPARTS
[1048]Article by William
[1049]W. TURNER
[1051]0S INDICES RESULTS:
[1053]Subject became of interest to the Office of Security in March 196)
[1054]‘when the FBI informed the Agency that Subject had in his possession at
[1055]‘the time’ of his arest for bank robbery at El Paso, Texas on 20 September
[1056]‘1963 the name of Richard FECTEAU (an individual by this name was captured
[1057]by the Chinese Commmists and is now in ‘prison in China) and of six: Agency
[1058]employees. . Research failed to reveal any reason why NAGELL had these
[1059]names in his possession. It was concluded that while NAGELL is unquestionably
[1060]' unbalanced, his story of being ‘involved in espionage is not fully contradicted
[1061]by evidence. He could have been contacted by a Soviet agent while in Washington,
[1062]D. C. in December 1962 or while he was in Mexico City in September and October
[1063]. 1962. His file contains mostly FBI reports dated 1962 and 1964 -and in these
[1064]are documented his history of mental instability and physical complaints |
[1065]stemming foum the plarcrash. Attached isa chronology dated 3 March 1965
[1066]made from the information contained in the FBI reports. At the time this
[1067]security research was conducted, it was recommended that NAGELL be personally
[1068]interviewed by a the wossession’ £-OS in the hope that NAGELL might reveal
[1069]how he came into the possessiou/ hese names but no further action is. indicated
[1070]in his file and this interview was not undertaken,
[1074]Subject's file reflects no Agency interest in him prior to March 1964
[1075]when the names of CIA employees were found in his possession when arrested
[1076]for bank robbery.
[1078]The RAMPARTS claim that he received intelligence. training after the plane...
[1079]erash is true. The crash‘occurred 28 November 1954 and he ‘graduated . from :
[1080]Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird, Maryland on 15 August 1955- He
[1081]served in Korea and Japan as a member of the U.S. Army Counter intelligence
[1082]Corps, terminating- about 1958 .A Lt..Col. Ned W. GLENN who served with
[1083]NAGELL personally in Korea advised that NAGELL was not stable mentally and
[1084]that this instability was probably due to brain damage suffered in the airplane
[1085]crash.
[1087]The RAMPARTS article's claim that NAGELL said he fired the gun in the |
[1088]- ‘bank at El Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custody when the assassination
[1089]took place is not completely in conflict with a statement NAGELL made on
[1090]- 1 January 1964 which was, however , after. the assassination. (see page 4 of
[1091]chronology)
[1093]; The’ RAMPARTS article's allegation. that the FBI took from NAGELL a note-
[1094]book containing the names of CIA employees is true.
[1096]a NAGELL's complaint that he was "salted away" is open to specukbion. A
[1097](ee ten year prison sentence does appear harsh, considering the documented brain
[1100]13-00000
[1104]on damage he suffered in the B-25 plane crash while he was in the U. $.
[1105]a “Army. 7 _ .
[1107](
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[1112]ee) Aug 1948:
[1114]wrbnge Tr,
[1116]“14 Dec.1959:
[1118]22 Tune 1962:
[1120]-15 Aug 1955:
[1122]ce 29 Oct 195 9:
[1124]8 June 1962: oo. Suspended by. ABC, ‘State of! ‘California
[1126]Richard Case , NAGELL,
[1128]-Chronolo sical Record of Activities ee
[1129]" Entered. 1 Army (is y years old) |
[1131]. “Brilliant Korean War Record"
[1133]“Many: Campaign Awards" “
[1135]Sole survivor of plane crash. Suffered facial disfigure
[1136]ment; given. psychiatric exam. : :
[1140]vaduated from Army Intelligence School; F t. Holabir<
[1141]ryland, Served.as advisor to ROK Army in Korea.
[1142]. Concerned. ‘with. intelligence activities;. ‘served as. a mer
[1143]of U.S. Army: Counterintelligence Corps. in: J apan, Senc
[1144]and ‘Tokyo, terminating < about. 1958. ; cn
[1146]_ A Lt. Col. Ned w. GLENN, “Deputy G- -2, U.S. ‘Navy, ;
[1147]-. Japan, advised on 24: March. 1964 that. he. had: served : ,
[1148]personally in Korea with NAGELL. GLENN. advised .
[1150]that NAGELL was not stable mentally and tha this: ine
[1151]stability was probably due to damage to brai: issues -
[1153]‘suffered insan airplane crash. during the Korean War.
[1154]fo Honorable Discharge -. . Captain, U. s. Army
[1156]— Emsloyed by Department of Alcoholic Beverage. Contre.
[1157]a of § State. of. California, as'a special investigator.:
[1159]: Dismissed. by ABC .
[1161]- 16 > July 1962: Shot in chest Neyhile making a meet between Malibu. and
[1163]24 Aug 1962:
[1165]AT Aug-1962:_
[1167]‘Oxnard, Refused to identify assailants or furnish. infor
[1168]mation to” police, subsequently, filed Civil Rights: com-
[1169]plaint against police. Withdrew request ‘for hearing so
[1170]he could get money from state of California consisting <
[1171]retirement contributions and accumulated leave.
[1173]Issued tourist card at Los Angeles ’ California, »
[1175]... Entered Mexico through Ciudad, Juarez. -
[1178]13-00000 |
[1180]28 Sept 1962: ~ “Appearéd voluntarily: at American Embassy, ‘Mexico city, ;
[1181]a ct - tense, nervous; agitated and antagonistic.” 7 . :
[1182]“” ‘Inter alia-stated he had been approached in Mexico. _
[1183]City” for recruiting, © refused ‘to say: by: whom on. behalf of
[1184]ms _.. “what country. Stated that one job:of this sont would be _
[1185]ae ot | im New York, | He volunteered that he: fully realized that a
[1186]- "what he ‘was saying could be ‘used against him in any -
[1187]_court/or prosecution. He stated that he was "bitter, .
[1188]- disgusted, disillusioned and disaffected". Stated he knew
[1189]the full significance of the term disaffected. He stated -.
[1190]that if he did go to some other country, it would cost the
[1191]United States millions. He stated that he was "through
[1192]‘being a good citizen" and thought that he had gotten ae :
[1193]7 "dirty deal all-around," ‘
[1195]1 Oct 1962: > Again. appeared : at American Embassy, } Mexico City,
[1196]po | Nvanting to ‘know what-had béen done in regard to getting.
[1197]‘the state of California to pay him the money due him..
[1198]Was sent to ‘protection section. Asked what’ séction-: of —
[1199]. Embassy he should contact to renounce his Unitéd States |
[1200]citizenship. _Was advised by collection section that they
[1201]_ could not. intercede for him in’ collecting money. ‘from _
[1202]- state of California. . Appeared in passport and citizenship °
[1203]- section and asked what the penalty. would. be for going to ©
[1204]. an-Iron Curtain country and what effect it would have on
[1205]‘his citizenship. .Was advised that such action would be.
[1206]a violation, of federal: law. ,
[1208]28 Oct 1962:: Left Mexieo-city,
[1210]7 Department « of ‘Alcoholic * Beverage Control i in | California.
[1212]ae 16 Nov 19622)": Advised FBL in New: York City : he. wanted to expose
[1213]a. De 15. Dec-1962: uo Advised FBI ; in. Jacksonville, Florida, that he had'been .
[1214]re approached shortly before in Washington,. D.G., by °.
[1215]- "individual believed to be working for’ Soviets. NAGELL” :
[1216]at this time was noted to be in an inebriated condition - -
[1217]_ vague. -in. answering questions. : * ;
[1218]po 20 Dec 19628: 22 Jan: 1963: NAGELL at Bay’ Pines, Florida VA Hospital,
[1219]po 8 , - Condition diagnosed as "chronic brain syndrome associated
[1220]fo tat with. brain trauma with behavioral reaction. characterized
[1221]ae , oe by passive aggressive and paranoid features",
[1224]24 Jan.1963: |. Asked FBI in. Miami if his Cuban or Russian: sources"
[1226]7 gave him a pistol. with silencer and microfilm. if-he
[1227]would be permitted té return same to his contact so _
[1228]he could be of further use to U.S. Government, - He tk
[1229]stated that in August or September: 1962 he met a man .
[1230]from Maryland, in Mexico City who introduced him to >
[1231]individuals whom haitbelieved may have been Soviet Agent. ee
[1233]ee dd April 1963: - Advised FBI in Los Angeles, California, that: ‘he had .
[1234]pa a ‘taken his former wife to court for failure to.comply with - _
[1235]court order giving NAGELL visitation nights with: children.
[1237]..4June 1963: . NAGELL appeared at.the Out. Patient Clinic and \ was re-
[1238]oo _ ferred to the Neurological Clinic for treatment. His
[1240]condition. was diagnosed. as'depression, tearful, nervous,
[1242]— rigid’. ‘Would 1 only: utter words "Got to see my kid".
[1244]_ 20 Sept 1963: NAGELL arrested i in El Paso, Texas, < on. . charge of at~
[1246]mS , tempting to rob State National.Bank. Slashed ‘wrist night.
[1248]of 9/20/63. _NAGELL consistently denied he had'tried ~
[1250]' to rob the bank; ‘stated that the fact that he ‘fi |. two shots :
[1252]‘in the ceiling proved he had not been trying to hit anyone,
[1254]_ He stated that he was certain that "all of my problems have.
[1256]been- ‘solved fora long time, and now I won't have to go to
[1258]bed ; ; Cuba",
[1260]co oe A notebook which: the Subject. had on his person when 3 ar~ cee
[1262]Po!  '. gested made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee, :
[1264]. .the names.-of. purported CIA agents aid “othéY inféfmation.
[1266]_ Gell mate in jail reported that NAGELL disclosed to‘him™”
[1268]that NAGELL, during confused period after: discharge, _
[1270]__-/* decided everything against him in Los Angeles'and made
[1272]a _-  axrangeménts with Communist Party in Los Angeles to.
[1274]a. _ -  . ° pick up visa and passport from contact in-El Paso and
[1276], eventually end-up in Czechoslovakia, NAGELL reportedly
[1278], attempted suicide three times enroute to El Passo but .
[1279]lost nerve. So , :
[1281]; (Noteworthy that State Department records reflect issuance ~
[1282]of Passport to NAGELL on 7 August 1962 at Los Angeles, -
[1283]. California, and that on 9 July 1963 NAGELL signed affi- —
[1284]davit that his passport had been lost or stolen, He was
[1285]issued a new passport on 6 August 1963.)
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[1292]4 Nov 1963?" © “El Paso Herald-Post article states that NAGELL told. -
[1293]my U.S. District Court that he did. not attempt to hold up —
[1294]"the bank, "I had a motive for doing what I did": NAGELL
[1295]told Judge , "but my motive was not, ‘to hold up the bank,
[1296]I do not intend to disclose my motive at this time. "
[1298]19 Dec: 1963: _- | Subseduient to President's assassination, Subject claimed
[1299]pe co _ , _ acquaintance with OSWALD and wife. “Marina OSWALD
[1300]i re von 1/18/65 disclaimed any- knowledge of NAGELL..
[1302]1. Jan 1964: NAGELL furnished. a signed statement: ——
[1303]| "yy, In September 1962, -while I was in Mexico City,a
[1304]oo representative. of a foreign government ‘preposed to me
[1305]that I participate in an act; such act being a criminal
[1306]_ offense and inimical to the best interest of the United
[1307]States. At that time, I refused such proposal. In May
[1308]-1963,. “another representative of the same foreign govern-
[1309]ment made the same proposal to me. At that. ‘time, I~
[1310]‘agreed to such a proposal." °
[1311]In September 1963, Il was informed by an American, . ;
[1312]‘known to me as an Agent of the same foreign government,
[1313]that arrangements for my participation in the aforementioned
[1314]’ act'were completed, At that ‘time, I refused the. aforesaid
[1315]_proposal, | .
[1316]Approximately one week later,. I was. instructed by: this”
[1317]same person to either participate as previously agreed
[1318]“or derrogatory information. pertaining to me would be -
[1319]oe ‘disclosed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There- :
[1320]upon, I agreed to follow the instructions -of-this” ‘person,
[1321]“although I did not intend to do so. This’ existing situation
[1322]actuated ° my conduct of.September- 20, 1963, for which I
[1323]was arrested and am. presently charged. :
[1324]I did not actually attempt to rob any bank. I thought that
[1325]: my .arrest-would provide an immediate, though temporary,
[1326]ae _ , solution to the problem with which I was confronted.
[1327]Do 7 J am -not guilty as charged. tt
[1329]he a 24 Jan 1964: NAGELL arraigned in connection with. indictment for
[1330]BO ' bank robbery and was committed for 30 days for the
[1331]; purpose of psychiatric examination.
[1333]9 June 1964: ~ > Sentenced in U.S. District Court,. El Paso, .Texas to
[1334], " serve 10 years.
[1336]B-
[1338]- l7 June 1964: 7 ~ NAGELL swallowed several sleeping pills while lodged -
[1340]at the’ El Paso Cerne Jail,
[1345]13-00000
[1347]Records Review Board.
[1349]Security's. security. file of _ Subject.
[1351]‘FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
[1352]24 October 1997 ©
[1354]ERCERNDIM FOR THREE
[1356]SUBJECT: NAGELL,. Richard c.
[1357]“F SAIN ..0°264.170-
[1359]“on 23. ‘October ‘1997, ‘the undersigned. ‘met. with, Mr ..
[1360]Gary ‘Brennanmen, : ‘Historical ‘Review Group, » Central
[1362]Intelligence Agency and Ms. ‘Kathleen M. Combs, Assassination
[1364]“Ma: Combs reviewed the Office of Personnel |
[1366]a ‘OPS/qD/IMB
[1368]FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
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[1386]fibs on avery conceivable topic. If you're one
[1387]of these Americans, here ot fast is your
[1388]chance-to join In the fun.
[1390]Ti '* ‘temaving game, invented by two a7
[1392]‘angry }-ufessors, permits you to uncover an
[1393]entertaining variety of bureaucratic untruths
[1394]and win your way to the Truth Vault.
[1396]What's In the box? Two sets of cards — a
[1397]Citizens’ playing deck and en Administration
[1398]peck of tes, 4 tiberty-bell counters, 90 truth
[1399]trophies, dice, rufes and a colorful game
[1400]board richly sprinkled with amusing In-
[1401]scriptions.
[1403]Pleasantly competitive? Yes! Strategy? Of
[1404]course. Adult? Vary! -— yet simple enough for
[1405]@ -13-yenr old ta enjoy es well, Two, three
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[1421]“for packaging and id snipe Ing. Send im:
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[1423]if 4 so desire, I'll cand it back ot the
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[1436]Ting costs pald by us, You save
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[1439]= Shee
[1443]5 RAMPARTS
[1445]“would reniémiber ‘him if he ¢alled back.
[1446]A third salesman, Eugene M. Wilson,
[1447]recalled that when the man purporting ©
[1449]|
[1450]|
[1451]|
[1452], . 1
[1453]lame ]
[1454]|
[1456]‘brought in’ a’ rifle 'to have a telescopic
[1458]sight mounted; he produced a repair tag
[1459]in that name as ‘confirmation (Report,
[1460]p. 315). Garland’ G. Slack ‘and other
[1461]target shooters patronizing the Sports
[1462]Drome Rifle Range reported that.a man
[1463]resembling Oswald had practiced there
[1465]-as lateas November; the man made him-
[1467]self obvious, at onetime “incurring
[1468]Slack's displeasure by firing on his tar-
[1469]get (Report, pp. 318-319).
[1471]An incident at’ Downtown Lincoin-
[1472]Mercury. is! highly revealing. Immedi-
[1473]ately after the assassination, salesman
[1475]Albert Guy Bogard reported to the FBI"
[1477]that a man giving the name Lee Oswald,
[1479]who closely resembled the accused as-.
[1481]sassin, came into the showroom on No-
[1482]vember 9. Remarking that in several
[1483]weeks he would have the money to make
[1484]the purchase, he test-drove an expensive
[1485]model on the Stemmons Freeway at 60
[1487]to 70 miles an hour, Both Bogard and ,
[1488]another salesman, Oren Brown, wrote *|*
[1490]down the name. Oswald. | so .that they
[1492]to be Oswald was told he would need a
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[1534]" evidently never considered the possibility
[1536]impersonator. He stuck to his story in:
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[1540]Penitentiary. The story is that of inmate
[1541]Richard Case Nagell, and paradoxically, "
[1542]“the most cogent confirmation for it is'the
[1544]: to ten years in federal custody,
[1546]“captain in the Korean War who, .he
[1548]f} 1957 he was scriously injured in a plune’
[1549]-crash in Cambodin,-which tends to sup»
[1550]-port his contention, since Cambodin wns
[1551]not exactly a tourist playeround, On,
[1553]I} a bank in El Paso, Texas, fired.a gun into.
[1555]IVEN * MY GOD 1S ALIVE, SORRY :f |: .
[1556]e . to be arrested. He says he staged the:
[1558]to J. Edgar Hoover warning him of the
[1559]- impending assassination, which he" Says.
[1560]-was then scheduled for the latter part o
[1562]PLANT GRASS* « EVEN 1LIKESEX * A ff
[1564]“mn nswered, -
[1566]_ cember 19, 1963, Nagell advised, “For ~
[1568]“City and in Texas” (CD 197). Another
[1570]going ‘to ‘have to. £0: > back ‘Russ:
[1571]buy a car’ (Report, ‘p. 320).
[1573]’ Given a lie detector. test by the FBI
[1574]Bogurd's responses were those “normally”
[1575]expected of @ person telling the’ truth,
[1576]Nevertheless, the Warren Commiséion:
[1577]dismissed the incident by noting that
[1579]automobile and that on November 9 he
[1580]allegedly ‘spent the day drafting va
[1581]lengthy Ictter to the Soviet Embussy. {t :
[1583]someone might be impersonating ‘Ose
[1584]wald. But Bogard will never identify the
[1586]news interviews, and subsequently ‘was’
[1587]beaten to within an inch of his life by an
[1588]unknown assuilant and arrested: by the
[1589]Dallas police on seemingly trumped-up’
[1590]bad check charges. He retreated to his-
[1591]native Louisiana, where on St. Valen- -
[1592]tine’s Day 1966, he was found dead. of
[1593]exhaust fumes in his automobile.”
[1595]The main ingredients of the -patsy:
[1597]‘gradually filtered ‘out ‘of ‘Leavenworth
[1599]manner in which he wound up sentenced :
[1601]’ Nagell was a highly decorated infantry.
[1603]claims, subsequently became a CIA.
[1604]aeent. It is a matter of record that in
[1606]September 20, 1963, Nagell walked into-
[1607]the ceiling, and then sat outside wailing -
[1609]affair because he wanted to be irr custody.
[1610]as an alibi when the assassination took”:
[1611]place. It was‘a desperate measure, he ad
[1612]mits. But he had sent a registered letter:
[1614]September (probably the 26th in’ Wash
[1615]ington, D.C.), and the letter had gon
[1617]© There is an incredibly brief PBI intes
[1618]view report stating, in part, that on De-:
[1620]the record he would like to say that his:
[1621]association with OSWALD (meaning -
[1622]LEE HARVEY OSWALD) was purely’.
[1623]social and that he had met him in Mexico :
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[1678]What Nagell alleges i damning not only ©
[1679]to the FBI, but to the CIA: In brief, }
[1680]he says that the motive for the assassina- ‘
[1682]i 1 shifted to Dallas, Bravo Club enlisted
[1684]A Club.
[1686]aie reper: . states that when the prisoner v was * :
[1688]I being led from court on’ January’ 24, -
[1689]| 1964, ‘he “made wild accusations to news-
[1690]1 paper reporters, accusing the FBI of not.”
[1691]attempting to prevent the assassination ‘-
[1693]of President Kennedy . . ."? (CD 404).
[1694]. That the charges may not be so wild is
[1696]d indicated by the fact that the government
[1697]H threw the book at Nagell, a first offencer
[1698]who says he expected to bé charged only -
[1700]with discharging a firearm on govern-
[1701]ment-protected property. Since his sen-
[1702]tencing, he has been shuttled between
[1703]Leavenworth ‘and the federal: medical
[1704]center (a euphemism for mental institu:
[1706]| tion) at Springfield, Missouri. While the
[1708]government has suggested in court that
[1709]his airplane crash : mentally: affected
[1710]Nagell, ‘the fast remains :that he was
[1711]ining after the crash.
[1713]tion was Kennedy's move in the direction
[1714]of a Tapprochement with Castro, which
[1716]Mexico City, code:name Bravo Club,
[1717]decided to give Kennedy a “Christmas
[1718]present” to be delivered September 26, a
[1720]date that was postponed. A party was */'
[1722]required. Two members of Bravo Club
[1723]approached Oswald while he was worl
[1724]ing at the Reily:coifee firm in New Or-
[1726]“Jeans in the summer of 1963, and ap".
[1727], pealed to his ego in setting him up as the of
[1729]patsy. When the’ “delivery” site was
[1730]the aid of a Dallas “subsidiary,” Delta
[1732]Meanwhile the CIA got: wind of the
[1733]plans and sent several agents into the
[1735]i :4 field to ascertain whether they were.“‘for. |
[1736]feal.” Nagell says he was one of the
[1738]agents dispatched. Within a short time, *
[1739]he claims, he was pulled in. It had been |
[1741]verified that the plans were: authentic,
[1742]that ‘“‘gusanos [anti-Castroites] were.
[1744]making the watch tick,” and that the:
[1745]) sum of the plot was right-wing in nature. |.
[1746]i: Nagell says that Ke was instructed to
[1748]“arrow” the patsy, that is kill him, affer
[1749]the assassination. At this point, he con-
[1751]=) tends, he got cold fect and bailed out. “I -
[1752]“would rather be arrested"than commit
[1754]murder and treaso:i,” he declared in a
[1755]self-prepared petition for habeas corpus.
[1757]In the petition, Nagell asserts that he
[1758]used.the pseudonyins Robert Nolan and
[1760]_Joseph Kramer in the U.S. and three -
[1762]anti-Castro group in New Orleans. tind af
[1764]; states that the files of the FBI and: he
[1765]CIA ‘contain information that: Oswald
[1766]was using the aliases Albert Hidel- and
[1767]Aleksei Hidel. He charges that’ ‘the: ‘FBI
[1768]illegally seized from him evidence crucial
[1769]to his defense, such as notebooks cons
[1770]taining the names of certain CIA em«
[1771]ployees, photographs, two. Mexican
[1772]tourist-cards (one in the name Joseph
[1773]Kramer, the other in the name Albert
[1774]Hidel), and receipts for registered. ma
[1775]including the one for the letter sent
[1776]‘Hoover warning-of the assassination,
[1777]. When Nagell comptains he has. been
[1778]“salted away” because. of what. he
[1779]knows, he just might be making the un-
[1780]derstatement of the year.
[1782](THE ELIMINATION OF A A PATSYT— :
[1784]“OW DIDN'T KILL ANYROPY ...Pm just ;
[1785]A patsy,” Oswald shouted to.news-'
[1787]men while in ‘police custody. A_
[1789]marked Patsy, contends Garri jon—one
[1791]something had misfired, and.Oswald fell
[1792]| not into the hands of his. would- be exes
[1793]: cutioners, ,but into. the comparative
[1794]. safety of the Dallas jail. The denouement
[1795]presented a crisis that the conspirators
[1796]could solve only by pressing police buff :
[1797]Jack Ruby into service. .
[1799]Although the Warren Commission:
[1800]concluded that Oswald ducked into his.
[1801]Oak Cliff rooming house to pick up the
[1802]P38 revolver, later confiscated from him
[1803]‘in the Texas Theater, it did not explain
[1804]why, ifhe had gone to work at the School
[1805]‘Book Depository that morning Intend>
[1806]| ing to kill the President and escape,
[1807]- he did not take the revolver with’ him. ::
[1808]. That he made-a beeline'to his rooming -
[1809]_ house'for the sole purpose of getting the:
[1810]revolver spenks of a man who desper-
[1811]ately wanted to protect himself from.
[1812]‘treacherous comrades rather than from ..
[1813]-the police. Notwithstanding the mild re-,
[1814]sistance he put up in-his refuge in the
[1815]Texas Theater, Oswald's demeanor in
[1816]custody gave every ‘indication that he
[1817]would resolve. the ereat riddle—given
[1818]r thetime,
[1820]Oswald does not appear to be the only :
[1821]double-cross victim of that bloody after---
[1822]-noon: the evidence is persuasive that. .-
[1823]’ someone other than the accused assassin
[1824]killed Officer J. D. Tippit, a friend of Q
[1825]Jack Ruby, whose patrol area included. .
[1826]the Harlandale Street section headquar-
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[1838]‘= GF-6-371, page 22 _
[1840]oo. AS matter of information you may be interested in know-
[1841]ing that the DDP initiated a request through the CIA Library .
[1842]to obtain all newspaper clippings which pertain to. the death |
[1844]- of Subject, Miss Barbara Wade (X 24.57) . advised on 18 April |
[1846]' 1958 that the Library has articles from: the Washington Post on
[1848]. March 14 & 16:: New York: Times..on: March: 163’ New York: ‘Mirror: on?
[1850]“Mirob’ 17 and ° Christian’ Science Monitor on March Abe
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[1855]13-00060
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[1859]Poison
[1861]“< | POKYC, March 18 (4—The undergoing — psychiatric treat-
[1862]:: United States Army said ‘today ment. oe wot
[1863]"Whose body yen igence agents, nea ‘dicnee ne Garmy,, main:
[1864]Whose body was found floating|,+ an intelligance agent, But a
[1865]in Tokyo Bay, Spokesman termed Dugan “a
[1866]._,may have been fine soldier” and denied he had! -
[1867]"poisoned after
[1868]foe handing: his in-
[1869]- '” surance — policy
[1871]oN ‘to his wife and car and was assigned to an in| °
[1872]se - disappearing. elligence unit. for the’ first
[1873]M/Set.-- Em. ‘|time,, * 7 ;
[1875]> met _&E. Dugan
[1877]we I
[1878]35, or C¥ation
[1880]Pa, left his
[1882]The Army said Dugan and his
[1883]wife, Maud, came to Tokyo Feb.
[1884]; 1 44 ‘by train from Camp Zama
[1885]wife Feb. 4 in near Yokohama. The sergeant! _-
[1886]& Tokyo hotel Dugan had a ‘pass to visit the capital.!
[1887]With the policy : That night he left his wife. She’
[1888]and personal papers, saying: said they planned’ to borrow
[1889]+ “It I don't return, you'll need money on the policy. . . ;
[1890]. these." . Then, the Army said, Dugan
[1891]wage . ; went to an Army-camp north;
[1892]S “Ris body. was found “last of Tokyo, drew $40 in advancel,
[1893].. Wednesday. The Army - said pay and sold his typewriter to
[1894]= wr . . there were indications he wasla Japanese dealer for $22. He
[1895]a. : ‘dead before hitting the water stopped at the camp’s noncom.'
[1896]~-. More than two weeks ago. | missioned officer's’ club, lost
[1897]~The Possibility of poison is $39 ‘playing slot machines and
[1898]'.. Not” being overlooked,” the;vanished: There was no wallet
[1899]Army ‘said, the United Press/on the body when it was found;
[1900]Teported. “Extensive pathologi-| Dugan was first. listed as| -
[1901]cal tests will he conducted onjabsent without leave but_ on
[1902]body samples."] : March 1 this was changed to} - ~
[1903]- ™ Japanese newspaper specula- missing because the Army was}
[1904]_ tion ranged from the possibility/e on vineed he was absent,
[1905]~ that Dugan was murdered while through no fault of his own..
[1906]Lo. 2 cas Anvestigating Chinese Com-| Mrs, Dugan, a former, Red
[1907]Te : .° . ©? Munists in Japan, to a Japanese|Cross worker he mel. in’ Kiréad |
[1908]Bye Se . Police report that he had been|has returned to Crafton. y,
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[1918]. a IN. DEATH. OF A G: ];!88 ‘there “would” have ‘been ‘had!
[1920]of, external Anjury, but there
[1922]he died of drowning. ..
[1923]Sprcial lo The New vork Times . ‘ i Sergeant ‘Dugan S _Wwite ‘ ree.
[1924]TOKYO, Maren 1 41—The Tokyo turned to the United States last
[1926]“ jMonday by military aircraft, An
[1927]. police are reported to be search-lArmy. Spokesnian said ‘he had
[1929]“ing for an unidentified ‘Chinese}no “definite “Knowledge - that ‘
[1930]and a Caucasian foreigner inithe sergeant. was engaged’ in
[1931]‘connection with the suspected fa ative ane time:
[1932]; Murder of a United States Arm : n ‘y
[1933]| sergeant assigned to intelligence been &: victim, of Tobbery, he
[1934]work, - toe : : a ied, eee he Uearree
[1935].A body in civillan ‘clothes Os
[1936]‘found floating’ in Tokyo Bay
[1937]Wednesday was identified this
[1938]morning as that: of M/Sgtj' ..
[1939]|} Emmet E, Dugan, 39 years old.! °
[1940]: ad betn missing from his
[1941]intelligence unit in Yokohama,
[1942]‘twenty-five ‘.miles South of
[1943]' ‘Tokyo, since Feb, 4, - ft :
[1944]An examination indicated the! ~
[1945]: pman had been dead two weeks,
[1946];An autopsy conducted by United: — -
[1947]. |States Army surgeons yester-:
[1948].|day sugested.he had died before- eo
[1949]he was thrown into the Waller a
[1950]Except for a bruise on the fore-; : Ms .
[1951]head,, his body bore, no marks! . -
[1953]was no.sea Water in his tungs,:: :
[1955]a
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[1962]‘Tokyo Bay Yields Body
[1964]\Feb. 4, has been. found float- € name of the victim
[1966]‘Isaid today. The Army added
[1968]« ia master rergeant attached to
[1969]ithe Intelligence Support Cen- ore:
[1971]Of GI Intelligence. Aide |
[1973]“TOKYO, March, 14 (Friday) Tokyo, - The Ceriter " coordi:
[1974]t—The body of a 30-year-old |nates all United States:Arniy
[1975]United States Army intelli- intelligen¢e work in-Japan. :
[1976]gence agent, missing . since in-vapan.
[1978]was not immediately released: _ ;
[1979]Japanese newspapers quoted ~
[1981]it was ible that the agent(|Police as saying the sergeant
[1982]had Fee sore. Bent was investigating Communist
[1984]~ The’ body, fished out of the|@ctvities in Japan at the time
[1985]"Bay by a Japanese policeman|° his disappearance, but the
[1986]‘on Wednesday, had been ten- Army declined to confirm this,
[1988]The. Army spokesman. said
[1989]fatively. identified .as that of/. prelitninary autopsy’. ‘indtt
[1991]gated, the . man. was. dead.. chek
[1993]ing in Tokyo Bay, the’ Army
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[2077]On , Mone? Association with OSWALD (meuning
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[2120]Washington, De Cc.
[2122]: An. editor of a8 trade journal, whom I first: met while on™.
[2123]“an intelligence -aspignment in Latin America, has urged me
[2124]“gon some time | to" “make | public _the facts dealing with ny:
[2125]involvement in. 8. conspiracy. to murder | the late Chief
[2126]Execitive, | Joba F. Kennedy, in 1963 _and the circumstances
[2128]. surrounding. my arrest and imprisonment in the. United States -
[2130]and. East. Germany. For réasons that, are more. ‘personal than
[2131]"* ga@visable I can think of little. else ‘that I would like to: ‘do.
[2132]better. Bat with the: copious amount of ‘documentation and
[2133]“background material on hand, ‘that I feel should be ‘adduced +
[2134]. to in any valid treatise. of. ‘the subject, it would require
[2135]pitting no less than a ‘tome, an undertaking for which I am.
[2136]- perdly qualified. _ Then, | too, there isa growing skepticiem _
[2137]en my ‘part concerning the kind of. reception that ‘a topic of
[2138]2. this sort ‘would elicit. ‘from a society long since inured to
[2139]-, \violence, corruption and injustice. still, after ovor- Bix:
[2140]|" tyears~ ‘of ‘relative silence, I've decided that” I must sey
[2141]something about all. this, if only to” answer ‘the lies and i
[2142]» -distortions concocted about mein the presse. Thus, I have:
[2143]“compiled this ome dooklet, a throwaway ,. which may be
[2144]‘ easily: discarded” ‘at the whim of the reader. In it “I've.
[2145]‘taken: the liberty to set forth a reproduction of one of the :
[2146]least - ‘sanitized references ‘to. my cese. that has appeared inv -
[2147]the news media, ‘an. article printed ‘Vast ‘summer ‘in the orgy eht
[2148]~~ OVERSEAS FAMILY j © a weekly tabloid. éatering to Ue Se services
[2149]~ men in Europe. I have. utilized this. perticuler article aS a a
[2150]““yehiele ~ to tell a,
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[2153]bit-of ny side- of. the story by. writing an oe
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[2162]UNCLE SAM has given Richard Case
[2164]Nagell three Purple Hearts-— one-
[2165]earned on Christmas Day —- and a medal -.
[2167]for heroism in combat. .
[2168]But what this ox-Army counterspy and
[2169]olleged CIA undercoverman wants Is that
[2170]le keep a promise to locate his wife
[2171]and two small children. -
[2173]The 38-year-old former officer hasn't _
[2174]. seen them since 1963,
[2176]Officials inside the Federal Govern-
[2177]ment — most likely FBI and CIA agents
[2178]— know where they are and deliberately
[2179]isolated him from his family, the tall, lean
[2180]chain-smoker claims,
[2182]Nagell became separated from his
[2183]Japonesa-born wife Mitsuko Takahashi
[2184]and their children, Teresa, now 9, ond Ro-
[2186]bert, now 8, when he was arrested for.
[2188]robbing an El Paso, Tex., bank in Sep-
[2189]tember 1963. .
[2191]He staged the robbery ond immedi-
[2192]ately surrendered to the. police; Nagell
[2194]- claims, because he hod refused to kill
[2196]Kennedy-assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and
[2198]fort
[2199]‘| Two mejor magazines intimated that
[2200]- Nagell ha ;
[2202]wos afraid he. would be killed himself...
[2204]The ex-Army captain was convicted of
[2205]the crime an
[2207]cal prison in Communist East Germany
[2208]e CIA. ;
[2210]been insane.
[2212]_ New Orleans district attorney Jim Gar.
[2213]rison allegedly interviewed Nagell three
[2214]times in his controversial probe of what
[2216]~. he called the plot to kill Kennedy.
[2218]However, despite all ‘the publicity
[2220]about Nagell, no public mention has
[2221]been made of his charges that:
[2222]- » FBI special agents who questioned
[2223]Mrs. Nagell about her husband while he
[2224]was in prison said they didn't know
[2225]where he was; - .
[2227]” © The CIA used the promise of reunit- .
[2228]ing Nagell with his family as part of the |
[2230]incentive for him to undertake a one-man
[2232]sent to Leavenworth, but:
[2233]Mrs, Nagell was never told where he was, -
[2234]* Sinea than Nagell has been written
[2235]- about in national American magazines
[2236].and has worked his way inside a politi-
[2238]‘1 want te fimd! my childre ga” .
[2240]Ex-Army spook who fingered Oswald claima Uncle Sami hides his family /.by Thomas C. Lucey. .
[2242]CIA assignment inside East Germany.
[2243]Nagell
[2245]1969 on a hunch that the path to his fam-
[2247]ily started in West Berlin. In Zurich he was
[2249]aliost killad, he says. la Barcelaia, he
[2251]was watched. And in West Berlin he was oe
[2252]attacked in a side-street: bar by two.
[2254]strangers —- one of whom had been fol-
[2255]lowing him for two days — and hit on
[2256]the top of his head -so hard a molar
[2257]cracked in half, :
[2259]Fearing that the next attacker might
[2260]murder him and reassured that the Gov-
[2261]ernment would finally keep its promise
[2262]this time, Nagell flew home to the United
[2266]Now he's back where he started in
[2268]1963 — when he tipped off the FBI that: ~
[2269]-Oswald was planning to assassinate Pres-
[2271]ident Kennedy.
[2273]. _ Working through a source with access
[2275]to. documents on the Nagelil case, The
[2277]FAMILY has been: able to reconstruct this. *.
[2279]incredible story of the spy who couldn't
[2280]come in from the cold. .
[2282]came to Europe in February
[2284]ICHARD CASE
[2285]Nagell first went
[2287]gust 1962.
[2289]_ “Some publications have
[2290]Identificd him as a CIA agent,”.
[2292]* . the FAMILY source said. “But
[2294]Nagell never claimed to be a,
[2295]CIA agent. For the year that
[2296]he worked off and on for the
[2297]“CIA the first time, he was:
[2299]_ Never told what he was. But it.
[2301].. was In the capacity of an in-
[2302]vestigator or informant.” .
[2304]: ‘Nagell had a good back-
[2306]+ ground for investigative and
[2307]undercover assignments.
[2309]. In the Army, he was a CIC
[2311]- captain who worked in field of-
[2313]+. flees in the United States and
[2315]with the then super hush-hush
[2317]‘* Fleld Operations Intetligence in
[2318]; Japan and Korca.
[2320]Iie had made captain with a
[2321]~battlefield commission during
[2322]+: the Korean War at the age of.
[2323]22 — possibly the youngest man
[2325]a < to work for the.
[2326]\\ CIA as an ine
[2327]formant in Au-
[2329]to carn that distinction. Nagell —
[2331]"served two volunteer combat
[2333]tours as an infantryman in Ko- ©
[2335]rea, signing up for the second.
[2336]:B8 soon as he returned to the
[2337]. States from the first. It was in
[2338]Korea that-he won the Bronze
[2339]Star and three Purple Hearts.
[2341]Copyright 1969, Thomas C.:
[2343]Lucey. Reproduction in whole
[2344]or in part strictly prohibited:
[2345]. without the prior written per-
[2347];, mission of the author, - .
[2349]During a subsequent tour in
[2351].the Far East with the CIC and
[2353]FOI, Nagell met and married
[2354]his Japanese wife In the spring
[2355]of 1959. Being married to a
[2356]foreign national meant an
[2357]automatic removal from intel-
[2358]ligence’ work so Nagell decided
[2359]to leave the Army. 7” .
[2361]For two years he was a Cal-
[2363]ifornia state special investiga- -
[2365]tor, working on fraud cases and
[2366]liquor violations. -
[2367]- In the summer of 1962 he left
[2368]that job to work for the CIA.
[2369]His last assignment was to
[2370]penetrate the Falr Play for
[2371]Cuba Committee, where he met
[2372]Oswald. Nagell also briefly In-
[2373]vestigated Oswald’s Russlan-
[2374]born wife Marisa... :
[2375]Nagell considered Oswald
[2376]intelligent, “but some right-
[2377]wingérs were using him by
[2378]feeding his ego. They made
[2379]him think he was a big: man,
[2380]important. Oswald himself was
[2381]definitely a left-winger, lean-
[2382]ing toward Mao or maybe even
[2383]Castro, He wasn't pro-Moscow.
[2385]-He hated the Russians,
[2387]“And when Oswald said he
[2388]was going to do something, you
[2389]knew he meant it.”
[2391]In September Oswald told
[2392]Nagell, “We will kill him be-
[2393]fore the month is out.” ~
[2395]The “we,” acco: to Na-
[2397]+/ gell, were Oswald and two Lat-.
[2398]ins'—. possibly Cubans — who.
[2400]belonged to antl-Castro organ-
[2401]Izations in‘the United States.
[2402]“Him” was President Kennedy.
[2404]Nagell reported the threat to
[2405]a mari known only as Bob, his
[2406]CIA contact. According to The
[2408]. FAMILY’s source, “Nagell's in-
[2410]structions were to take care of
[2412]Oswald, He told him he wasan ~
[2413]intelligence man, not a killer, ~
[2415]and he couldn't kill Oswald.
[2417]“Threats were made to Na-
[2418]gell which indicated to him that
[2419]he had better do what he had
[2420]been instructed to do.
[2422]“Instead, he wrote about
[2424]-Oswald’s assassination plans to
[2425]FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
[2426]in Washington. Hoover didn't
[2428]reply, but Nagell didn't expect —
[2430]be arrested. He expected to be
[2432]held briefly for discharging a .
[2434]firearm on Federally insured
[2436]property. By that time the as-.
[2438]sassination would be over and _
[2440]he'd be safe.
[2441]Apparently Nagell felt police
[2442]custody would keep him safe”
[2444]“from the CIA and from the
[2446]assassins. He ‘feared the CIA
[2447]because he didn't “take care
[2448]of" Oswald. He feared the
[2450]’ tentiary,” the source ‘s
[2452]there.”
[2454]led.
[2456]“All you have to do Is! be
[2457]The egource continued: |, *
[2459]“In 1966 .Nagell's sister
[2461]wrote that she had had a
[2462]‘letter from his wife. She
[2464]- wanted to know where ‘her
[2465]husband was and why hadn't .
[2467]she heard from him.
[2468]. “Here is the sticky, part] In
[2469]Mré. Nagell'’s letter she said
[2471]Friday, June 20, 1900 |
[2473]. Richard Nagollls a solf-doluclod -ercamis |
[2475]or |
[2477]him to. He wanted that letter
[2478]* as & matter of record.
[2480]~- “After Nagell's tip, the FBI
[2482]questioned Oswald and re-
[2484]leased him. as not being a —
[2486]danger or a threat."
[2487]Two months later Nagell
[2489]heard: the assassination news © -
[2491]bulletin on the radio. “The FBI
[2492]screwed up!” he explained.
[2493]“That was Oswald!" This was
[2494]before there was any public
[2495]mention of Oswald, .
[2496]“After the assassination the
[2497]:FBI tried to clean their skirts,”
[2498]The FAMILY was told. "FBI
[2499]_ agents insisted to Nagell that
[2501]* Oswald or that about Oswald.
[2502]But he had.” - .
[2504]Leavenworth penitentlary.
[2506]"On Sept. 20, 1963, six days —
[2508]before what Nagell thought
[2510]was to be. the assassination”
[2512]date, he went. into an El Paso
[2514]bank, shot one bullet into the. -
[2516]ceiling and waited outside to
[2518]*. attorneys,"
[2519]he hadn't told them this about . i
[2521]assassins because he might be
[2522]considered one of them.
[2523]But the police held Nageil
[2524]longer than six days. :
[2525]He was tried twice, in May
[2527].- 1964 and September. 1966, for
[2529]attempted robbery with force
[2530]and violence and sentenced to
[2531]the maximum of 10 years.
[2533]“I was bum-rapped,” Nagell :
[2535]complained.
[2536]“The court instructed that
[2538]+, any attorneys retained by his
[2540]relatives would have to come
[2542]under the supervision and -.
[2544]of court-appointed
[2545]The FAMILY’s
[2546]source said. “In effect, this de-
[2548]control
[2550]~ the’ FBI had ‘questioned her a~”
[2551]- few days before about her hus- |!
[2553]-band's activitles in the Army.
[2555]‘The FBI knew where Nagell:
[2556]“was but didn't tell his wife.”
[2558]The letter had been sent
[2560]from a Hollywood post office ~ .|
[2562]. box and Nagell tried unsuc- ~
[2564]cessfully to trace it after he
[2565]got out of Leavenworth.
[2566]-On April 20, 1968, after 4"/y
[2568]‘ years in prison, Nagell was re-
[2569]* leased after he had won an
[2571]“, acquittal on appeal and flew
[2573]- Med him counsel. of his choice:
[2574]- Bil during prison.” -
[2575]By this time Nagell was in |
[2577]. Aa prisoner A-83286-L, Na- ©
[2579]~ gell was. allowed to write to
[2580]conly his, sister and a friend. ©
[2581]“He couldn't. get an explan-"| |
[2583]ation why he wasn't allowed
[2584]mail from or to his wife and
[2586]children. “They don't explain
[2587]_ fo you in Leavenworth peni-
[2589]A A LH
[2591]to New York. .
[2593]_ ..“We pulled a lot of strings © 73 |
[2594]to get your freedom,” said a.” ;
[2595]man who met Nageli when he .
[2597]landed at Kennedy Airport.
[2598]The man and his nontalking
[2600]. partner gave Nagell §500 in
[2601]- $20 bills. “Mote will come
[2603]‘where this comes from,” the
[2605]unidentified man promised. .
[2606]“We appreciate your cooper-
[2607]_ ation in prison." -
[2609]|
[2610]4
[2611]|
[2613]“To this day,” the source ¢ - !
[2615]told The FAMILY, “Nagell
[2617]4 ETAT AMATO NTN RTOONCRARITR
[2619]13-00000. .
[2621]still has not got the money ~
[2622]Promised him. for his
[2623]prisonment in the _ United:
[2624]States.”
[2625]In New York Nagel ‘kept an
[2626]: appointment with a CIA offi-
[2627]cist he knew only as Buchel.
[2628]The CIA official told-Nagell he
[2629]had heard that his wife had di-
[2631]voreed him while he was in-
[2633]_ Leavenworth -
[2634]“It might be true,” the source
[2636]Richerd Hagel
[2638]through: East Germaniy: and-he
[2639]would be arrested.
[2641]" “The main objective of his
[2643]imprisonment was . twofold;
[2645]"One concerned @ U.S. naval
[2647]officer who had allegedly de-
[2648]fected and Nagell had to find
[2649]out If he ‘was there. But his
[2650]main purpose: was to: get as
[2652]. much information as possible -
[2654]on techniques of interrogation
[2655]and methods of treatment of
[2656]+ Urea is
[2658]Richard Nageil was ques-
[2660]. tloned by New Orleans = -
[2661]: "DA. Jim Gartison because
[2662]‘Nagell claims he fingered
[2663]Kennedy assassin lee Har, ~
[2664]». vey Oswald while working
[2666]for the CIA, Nagell. also
[2667]‘ says U.S, Government ofti-
[2669]ciale Isolated him from his
[2670]two children atter the as-
[2672]oo sassination.
[2674]* were: talking: about. So they".
[2676]took him off the train because
[2677]he didn't have a avalid transit
[2678]. visa.
[2680]East German city), where Na-
[2682]gell was held for three days in °
[2684]a aafe house (a private home
[2686]- used as a'cover for intelligence
[2688]poses). There some men in
[2689]‘civilian’ clothes - questioned
[2691]Nagell.
[2693]the victim of dagger-in-the-back CIA factics?
[2695]' noted, “but wouldn't it be nice
[2696]for Nagell to know for sure.
[2698]He assumes his children are
[2700]stilt with his wife.”
[2701]. Nagell- met Buehel to be
[2702]: briefed for another CLA assign-
[2703]ment.
[2704]Why did he go back to the.
[2705]CIA?
[2706]“It was the only practical
[2707]- thing for him’. to do,"
[2708]“source said, “because of his
[2709]financial situation.”
[2710]Almost a.month to the day
[2711]after he arrived in New York
[2712]* Nagell .jetled to Zurich. ~
[2713]“During his last week of
[2714]discussions with Buehel and
[2715]another man in New York."
[2716]The .FAMILY's source said,
[2717]“It was Nagell's understanding
[2718]that he was to have himself
[2719]arrested by East German
[2720]‘authorities. All he had to do
[2721]was buy a train ficket from
[2722]Zurich, Switzerland, to East
[2723]Berlin. The train would go
[2725]"the -
[2727]the M{S (East German Ministry. .
[2729]for State Security.”
[2731]Everything -went according.
[2732]to the CIA's plan—up to a
[2734]point, -
[2735]Ta Zurich, Nagell reported to
[2736]his, CIA contact in the Ameri-
[2738]can Consulate General. About. *
[2740]the only thing the CIA agent
[2742]“ seems to have said to Nagell
[2744]was to ask him the train com-
[2745]partment number on his reser-
[2746]vation. Nageli told him, No. 46.
[2748]: Early in the morning of -
[2750]June 10, 1968, around 12:30:
[2752]. &m. to 1:30 a.m, Nagell’s train
[2754]stopped after crossing the East"
[2755]German border.
[2757]“He could hear people get
[2758]on the train and clomp down
[2759]the afsle, directly to his com-
[2761]. partment," the source sald..
[2763]“There were two men in unl-
[2764]form and two men fn civilian
[2765]clothes. They asked Nagell for
[2766]his passport—by name. Then
[2768]they asked for his. transit visa. -
[2769]He didn't know what they
[2771]"Next he was driven to an
[2773]East Berlin political prison for.
[2775]extensive interrogation. They
[2776]accused -him of espionage and
[2777]said they were going to try
[2778]him.
[2780]- “Nagell had been told that if
[2781]he was In East Germany for
[2782]over three months, his release
[2784]"would be effected by the agen-
[2786]cy (CIA), but he was not told
[2787]how. On his own he started to
[2789]there was another reason for
[2790]his being there. He felt the
[2791]CIA had deserted him and
[2792]that, quite frankly, he had
[2794]been sent to Germany to get -
[2796]“him out of sight or to get rid
[2797]of him.
[2799]“He was released on October
[2800]23. He didn’t know he was go-
[2801]ing to be released until he was
[2802]taken out of prison and driven
[2803]to a Berlin checkpoint identi-
[2805]“They drove to Erfurt (an.
[2807]CAST OF CHARACTERS: a
[2809]fied to him as
[2810]bruecke.”
[2812]_ Waiting to meet Nageli were,
[2813]according to the source:
[2817]* @ Andor Klay, head of the-
[2818]Eastern Affalrs Section of the
[2820]U.S. Mission in Berlin; -
[2822]@ Wolfgang Vogel, a well-
[2823]known East Berlin lawyer who
[2824]Participated on the Feb. 10,
[2825]1962, exchange of Soviet master
[2827]spy Col Rudolf Abel and A-~
[2828]-merican U2 pilot Francis Gary.
[2830]Powers and other sples and
[2831]accused spies:
[2833]@_Ricey S New, a wealthy
[2835]Washington lawyer, supposed-
[2836]ly “a representative —not a
[2837]member—of the CIA”;
[2838]_ @ Bruce_ A, Fiatin, head of
[2839]the US. ferlin — Mission's
[2840]public safety section, allegedly
[2841]“a longtime CIA member-—and
[2842]Fiatin is not his real name”;
[2844]@ Dr. (Capt — now Maj)
[2846]“ George Raymond Babineau, a
[2847]. ‘psychiatrist at the U.S. Army -
[2849]hospital in Berlin, who ap-
[2851]peared in civilian clothes, and
[2852]@ An unidentified man.
[2853]Nagell was. driven to. the
[2855]é ..U.S. Mission at 170 Clay Allee
[2856]play crazy because he was -
[2857]there over four and a half *
[2859]‘months and he began to think ”
[2861]and interviewed by Babincau.
[2863]“That was probably because -
[2864], Nagell had played crazy with
[2865]” the East Germans,” the source
[2867]said.
[2869]Washington lawyer New was
[2870]also present.
[2872]“Somebody brought Nagell
[2873]a cup of coffee,” the source
[2874]continued. “Nobody else had
[2876]- coffee. Nagell drank a small
[2878]portion of his coffee. It was
[2879]black but it tasted more bitter
[2881]* than ordinary coffee. Approxi-
[2882]mately five minutes ‘later he.
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[2914]began feeling sleepy | and
[2915]fluence of a drug. He went to
[2916]the bathroom and looked at
[2917]his eyes in a mirror. They were
[2918]almost pinpoints and he| was
[2919]feeling exceedingly Mleepy.
[2921]“Back in the room he asked,
[2922]‘Did anybody put something
[2923]in my coffee?’
[2925]“Dr. Babineau said no; New
[2926]said nothing. Nagell began to
[2927]feel so slecpy he had td oc-
[2928]casfonally stand up to stay a-
[2929]wake. Finally, he asked to be
[2931]atrist if there was any ques-
[2932]“No, the doctor sald, ' tar
[2934]to go.'
[2936]“New spoke to the doctsi {n
[2937]a comer — the doctor ‘kept:
[2938]shaking his head no —‘ and
[2939]then New told-Nagell, ‘I think
[2940]you ought to leave for: the
[2941]‘The German
[2942]newspapers are going to pick
[2943]this thing up any moment and
[2944]might want to talk to you. [
[2945]don't think you should talk to
[2946]them.”
[2948]“Nagell sald he wanted to go:
[2949]back to Zurich first to pide up
[2950]his helongings — to be exact,
[2951]certain documents in a safe de-
[2952]posli box. Nagell keeps records,
[2953]Plenty of them."
[2954]. When Nagell was driven to
[2955]Tempelhof Airport, New ac-
[2956]companied him and walted un-
[2957]til he boarded the plane, Some
[2958]time during their talk New
[2959]asked Nagell about his disabil-
[2960]ity—Nagell was getting a 60
[2961]percent disabillty for service-
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[3009]connected injuries -—- and New
[3011]: promised him help in getting a ;
[3013]disability retirement.
[3015]“But,” the source added, New
[3016]“Of course,
[3017]this (offer of help in getting a
[3018]disability retirement). is pred-
[3019]icated on your staying away
[3020]from the news media."
[3022]On the afternoon Night to
[3023]Stuttgart Nagell fell asleep,
[3024]convincing him that he had
[3025]been given a drug ora bar-
[3026]biturate.
[3028]Because of fog he didn't get
[3029]to Zurich until 4 a.m. and “he
[3030]was feeling extremely sick,” the
[3031]source sald. “He rested for a’
[3032]few hours and went to the U.S.-
[3034]' Consulate General. New had
[3035]told him to stay away from the
[3037]‘consulate in Zurich because’
[3038]* ‘they will question you and
[3039]_ send it to Washington.’ Nagelt
[3041]couldn't understand New's rea-
[3042]soning, but he went to the
[3044]- consulate to get a coctor, not to
[3046]teli them about Berlin, He was
[3048]+ drastically sick and wanted a- °
[3050]doctor: He thought he was dy-
[3052]* Referred. to a civilian doctor,
[3053]Nagell was told “he had been
[3054]given an overdose of Seconal,
[3055]a most potent sleeping drug.”
[3056]Nagell was sick for about six
[3057]days.
[3058]Meanwhile, he was ‘also wait-
[3059]ing to hear from New, who had |
[3060]promised to phone him in two -
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[3098]a
[3100]or three days. Nagel had told
[3101]_him he wanted the search ‘for
[3102]his family to be agreed upon
[3103]before he returned, to the
[3104]States.
[3106]Twice Nagell called New's
[3107]room at the Berlin Hilton. First
[3108]New was “unavailable,” then
[3109]he had checked out for the U.S.
[3110](Later, back in Washington,
[3112]- New allegedly explained it had
[3114]been “unadvisable” to go to Zu-
[3115]rich because the East Germans
[3117]might have tapped hls phone |
[3119]and he didn't want them to
[3121]., know Nagell was there. Nagell
[3123]" didn’t buy that.)
[3124]With New hot showing up to
[3125]- discuss the search for his faml-
[3126]jy, Nagell violated his instruc-
[3127]tions and went to the consulate
[3128]for help.
[3130]On his first visit Nagell found
[3132]“they had a classified file on
[3133]him and knew he had been in
[3135].East Berlin," the source con- |
[3137]tinued. “But he refused to an-:
[3139]swer questions about his Im-° *
[3141]prisonment and told them about |
[3142]New's promise, —
[3144]“The next time, he told the
[3145]consulate he was angry that he
[3146]had not heard from New and
[3147]that If he didn't get heip he was
[3148]going to the news media. This
[3149]is when he was offered State
[3151]- Department help in locating his -
[3153]family — predicated on his
[3154]early return to the United
[3155]States. Nagell agreed and few
[3156]back to New York.”
[3158]In New York, Nagell waited
[3159]about two or three weeks to
[3161]hear from the State Dept. When |
[3163]he didn't he contacted a State
[3165]fi. Dept, agency in New York and |
[3167]was allegedly told that a letter
[3168]would be sent to Washington:
[3169]“That was the last time Na-
[3171]gell heard from them,” the |
[3173]source said. “He never received
[3175]a copy of the letter to Washing- .
[3177]ton, as promised, and they were
[3178]always unavailable when he
[3179]called.”
[3181]Meanwhile, Nagell was see-
[3182]ing New in Washington and
[3183]galled in person at the State
[3185]pt.
[3186]“They told him that the
[3188]State Department didn't have .
[3190]the facilities to search for the
[3192]children," the source said, “but’
[3194]on account of the circumstances
[3195]surrounding the case and ‘be-
[3196]eause one of our employes ap-
[3198]parently made a promise in Zu-
[3200]rich,” they would conduct a
[3202]search for his children and de- -
[3204]termine whether he was mar-
[3205]ried or divorced.
[3207]“He never heard from them: «
[3209]again. When he called they
[3210]were quote unavailable un-
[3211]quote,”
[3213]Through a lawyer in New's
[3214]office, described as a luxurious
[3215]suite visited by Pentagon of-
[3217]ficers in civilian clothes, Nagell -
[3218]got an appointment at the VA -
[3219]for “a-two-and-a-half-minute ’.
[3221]' physical with his clothes on,”
[3222]according to the source. “Two
[3223]hours later he was awarded a
[3224]100 percent disability allow-
[3226]ance for a nervous condition.”
[3228]“Nagell went back to New
[3229]and told him they wanted to -
[3230]tag him (Nagell) with a nervous
[3231]condition to destroy his credi-
[3232]bility.”
[3234]For'good reason, Nagell wor-
[3235]ried that.a nervous condition
[3236]might be used to tag him as a
[3237]nut who didn't know what he
[3238]was talking about.
[3240]In July 1968, while Nagell
[3241]was in the Communist prison,
[3242]Edward Jay Epstein, author of
[3243]a book on the Warren Com-
[3244]mission, wrote an article in
[3245]the New Yorker magazine at-
[3246]tacking New Orleans District
[3247]Attorney Jim Garrison's in-
[3248]veatigation of the Kennedy: as-
[3249]sassination.
[3251]Epstein described Nagell as
[3253]cA MM
[3255]“another witness found in the
[3256]mail (of crank letters, publicity
[3257]seckers and bogus tips)... an
[3259]- inmate of-a, Federal institution:
[3260]for the criminally insane in-
[3262]Springfield, Miss,... court
[3263]-records indicated ‘that Nagell:
[3264]“had suffered brain damage in.
[3265]an airplane crash-in 1857."
[3266]Nagell’s rebuttal:”
[3267]@ He was sent to the US.
[3268]Medical Center for Federal
[3269]Prisoners in. Springfield to
[3270]determine whether he could
[3271]stand trial and whan he was
[3272]up for parole;
[3273]@ On each ‘occasion he ‘was
[3274]found mentally competent;
[3275]@ In 1954 (not. fn 1957) he
[3276]was the only survivor of a4
[3277]B52 crash at Baltimore's
[3278]Friendship) Airport (not in
[3279]Cambodia, ‘as reported in Ram-
[3280]parts magazine by former FBI
[3281]* agent Willam W. Turner); .
[3283]@ After hospitalization he
[3284]retumed to Army Intelligence
[3285]School, received a top secret
[3286]clearance and was assigned ta
[3287]“the CIC; .
[3289]@A June 17, 1966, psychiatric .
[3291]report from the Springfield
[3292]Medical Center stated there
[3293]‘was no “evidence or finding
[3294]* suggestible of brain damage.”
[3296]All this runaround in
[3297]Washington convinced Nagelt
[3298]that no one in the States was
[3299]going to help him find his
[3301]family, He decided to return .
[3303]to Europe.
[3304]|
[3306]' SOmMmIOORO
[3307]triod .
[3308]Go Exill Gotz
[3310]AALAND
[3312]On Feb. 21 of this year he
[3313]flew from Mexico City to
[3314]Zurich, But the vice-consul who
[3316]had promised State Dept. help.
[3317]Jast fatl was no longer there. .
[3319]Nagell asked for the man he
[3320]claimed to be the.CIA station
[3321]chief. He, too, was gone.
[3323]Sent to the consulate's politi-
[3325]cal section, Nagell told them |
[3326]of the promises he'd been “~
[3328]given and threatened to go to
[3329]Swiss newspapers about a
[3330]CIA agent in Bern, the Swiss
[3331]capital.
[3333]“A member of the consulate
[3335]asked Nagell to give them two ~
[3336]+. weeks and telexed Washing-
[3338]- ton,” the source said. “But then
[3340]‘one night there was an at-.
[3342]tempt on Nagell's life and he
[3343]left for Barcelona the next
[3344]day.
[3346]“There he contacted the U.S,
[3347]Consulate General and told
[3348]them why he had left Zurich
[3349]and asked that Zurich's reply
[3350]from Washington be sent to
[3351]Barcelona.
[3353]“Nageli was In Barcelona for
[3354]- two weeks. But then he real-
[3356]ized he was being watched and
[3358]left to see an ex-Army intelli-
[3359]gence officer at the American
[3360]. Embassy in Madrid. .
[3362]“Again he stayed for two
[3364]_ weeks, The embassy gave him
[3366]‘no satisfaction, not even telling
[3368]him what Washington had
[3370]sald. So he decided to go back
[3371]to: Berlin where this thing
[3372]started and made some prom-
[3374], {ses to himself — one of them
[3375]being that If he didn't find his
[3376]children he would go to the
[3377]news media.”
[3379]He was referred to Andor
[3381]Klay and Bruce Flatin, two of
[3382]‘the men who had met Nagell
[3383]when he came from East
[3384]Berlin, and eventually to a
[3386]- German when he saw one
[3390]Kenneth Hil tn the passport
[3391]section.
[3393]"A week or two later,"! the
[3394]source continued, "they finally
[3395]got confirmation from Washing-
[3396]ton that they had been unable
[3397]to locate Nagell's children so
[3398]far but were continuing 1 eir
[3399]efforts.
[3401]“So he finally agreed to go
[3402]back to the States as long ss
[3403]the State Department was con-
[3404]tinuing their efforts.”
[3406]Pointing out that he had
[3407]“spent a great deal of his money
[3408]“running around," Nagell asked
[3409]for Government transportation
[3410]home ‘and was refused.
[3412]On April 19 or 20 Nagell real-
[3413]ized he was under surveillance.
[3415]“Around 10:30 on the night
[3416]of April 22, Nagell .was walk-
[3417]ing ‘down Kurtuerstendafam
[3418]when he lost his tall," the
[3419]source continued. “They
[3420]disappeared. He didn't 4
[3421]lose them.
[3423]“Nagell then went dow
[3424]side street and into a small
[3425]faurant with a bar.
[3427]“He ordered a beer and was
[3428]standing at the bar, talking to
[3429]a guy on his right, when; he
[3430]saw the door open and two
[3431]men came directly toward him.
[3433]"Nagel was getting ready to
[3434]tell the men he didn't apeak
[3436]something out of his pocket
[3437]and swing at him. Nogell
[3438]tumed and was hit on the b
[3439]of the head.” [
[3441]Police took Nagell to the
[3442]Albrecht Achilles Hosp itel
[3443]When he told the Gérmans|he
[3444]thought he had been hit |by
[3445]the CIA, “they called en
[3446]American from the CID,
[3447]British representative ap
[3448]parently the side street was in
[3449]the British Sector) and a mem-
[3450]ber of the Berlin political
[3452]to
[3454]_police.*
[3456]Around midnight Nagell
[3457]went to the U.S. Mission and
[3459]‘ asked for Hill in the passport
[3461]section. Instead, he got the
[3462]Army staff duty officer and a
[3463]CIC agent.
[3465]-“He gave his bloody shirt
[3466]and T-shirt in a bag to the
[3467]CIC agent,” the source sdid,
[3468]“and told him to give it to Hull.
[3469].“‘If something happens! to
[3470]me, he told the agent, ‘the
[3471]responsibility is going to jbe
[3472]pinned because I'm going | to
[3473]the papers.’
[3475]“Back in his hotel, Nagetl
[3476]‘was worried that he was going
[3477]to be killed.” |
[3478]In the morning: he went! to
[3479]the Army hospital and then to
[3480]Hill in the consulate.
[3482]“Hill had the bloody cloth-
[3483]ing. ‘You must get out of
[3484]Berlin? he told Nagell. ‘We
[3485]cannot give you protection
[3487]- here. The German police think
[3489]it's elther mistaken identity or
[3491]the MIS.’
[3493]“‘Last night I thought some-
[3494]body wanted to kill me,’ Nagel!
[3495]replied. ‘Now I take it as (only)
[3497](Later, Hill told The FAMTLY
[3498]he considered Nagell merely
[3499]“a private American citizen
[3500]traveling abroad." He added:
[3501]“Ninety-nine and a half per.
[3502]cent of his story Is fantasy.”
[3503]HIll confirmed that he had re-
[3504]ceived Nagell's bloody clothing
[3506]‘and that Nagel! had come to
[3508]him with a stitched-up head
[3509]wound. But he would only
[3510]say that the attack “ts his
[3511]story, mot that I have any
[3513]* other story about it.”)
[3515]But shortly after that Nagell
[3516]was placed on orders as an
[3518]» ambulatory patient and sent on
[3520]the Berlin duty train to Frank-
[3521]furt. His orders also put him
[3522]on a military flight back to the
[3523]States.
[3525]That's where he apparently
[3526]is now,
[3528]But he “StI doesn't know if
[3529]he's married or divorced and
[3530]the whereabouts of his il-
[3531]dren,
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[3541]wo oereee vt ue Uienomad Pani bi ariicié,..i nave nol sougni vo reiuce or
[3543]“"*gonfirm each-and every assertion made ty its author, - Thomas C. Lucey. Mr. Lucey, despite
[3545]hia citing a’ substantial number of inaccuracies, has nonetheless depicted a vast ared of
[3546]what may be termed ,the fundamental truth. With this in mind, I-have tried to set | the
[3547]record straight only insofar as it: pertains . “those inaccuracies - and omissions
[3549]a which. in my opinion reflect adversely on the wholes.
[3551]In order to view Mr. Lucey' & account in a somewhat different perspective, I shali
[3552]begin by advising that I first went to work for the Central Intelligence Agency much
[3553]‘earlier than August 1962. It was during the winter of 1955-56, while assigned as a4 Case
[3554]Review Officer with the Counter Intelligence Corps at Los Angeles, that I was initially.
[3555]recruited into. the CIA's farflung network.of informants and agents, one of a. number; J
[3557]suppose, within the Defense Department's .intelligence community who helped the Agency |
[3559]keep an eye on its not always tame competitor. My recruitment was, handled by a Herbert
[3561]“Leibacher, ‘an agent of the Cla's Los Angeles office, and a Joe DaVanon, later identified.
[3563]ite me through photographs. as en official from CIA headquerters, then located on/"E".
[3565]‘-{etreet’ in’ Washington, ‘D.C. Motiveted by a degree of naivete and the Agency's subtle
[3567]‘reminders’ that I owed a greater duty to my country than to. the military establishment, - I
[3569]‘jeerved as a- non-paid, confidential informant off and on until my resignation from |the
[3570]Army. in October 1959. A complete description. of the information I supplied to the Agency .
[3571]| iduring my military. career would only add to what must perforce become a lengthy addendum;
[3573]may. it suffice to say that it_did not always seem germane to intelligence affairs, lbut
[3574]when it did it consisted mainly of an assortment ‘of data that for so-called discretionary .
[3575]reasons was seldom passed on to the. Agency. {or for that matter, to our own hi cher
[3577]* .. echelons) through reguler channels.
[3579]Mr. Lucey's statement, "Being married “to a foreign national meant an automatic
[3580]renoval from intelligence work so Nagel]l decided to leave the Army," is misleading jand
[3581]incorrect in. its entirety. The only military intelligence organization from which. an
[3582]individual ia normally removed subsequent to marrying a foreign national is the crc -
[3583]primarily a security type orgen ~ and this rule does not necessarily apply when the agent
[3584]is an enlisted man or. warrant officer. . As a commissioned officer, I was declared.
[3586]ineligible for further duty with the CIC effective 14 April 1959, a. full year after my -
[3588]marriage to a foreign National. I was not barred from assignment to other, even more ;
[3589]sensitive, MI organizations puch as Field Operations’ Intelligence, then the. clandestine |
[3590]‘eapionage department of military intelligence. - As for the reasons I left the Army, they
[3591]were clearly if euphemisticelly explained in my second. letter of resignation, dated. ~
[3593]$1 august 1959, namely: "I desire to tender my resignation because I wish to further my °
[3595]“~ eivilian. education. It. is not possible for me to pursue the curriculum of which tT am™~
[3596]: desirous while on active duty. Also, compessionate reasons of a perronal nature exist :
[3598]for desiring to tender my resignation at this time."
[3600]My patronege under the CIA did ‘not end with ny. discharve from the Army and ensuing . -
[3602]: employment in. December 1959 as an investigator for the State of California; in fact,
[3603]-. henceforth I was offered. remuneration for my services, however nominal it sometimes was.
[3604]“What my new . tasks comprised of no real pertinence to this addendum-or to later .
[3605]:. developments, except perhaps . * mention that one of my. contacts said he worked out of =~
[3607]“Domestic Intellirence," poseibiy the forerunner of. the present-day Domestic Operations
[3608]Division, which illegally keeps tabs on a wide range of American civilian organizations
[3610]“and activities. -I should also point out that I did not quit my position with the State:
[3612]of. California “to work for the CIA," as implied by Mr. Lucey. I was dismissed, in June
[3614]:1962, at my own option and in my opinion for doing my job. (The following month I wes
[3615]shot. through the right chest during -an altercation with a person whose identity I have ©
[3616]“never disclosed ... .- not through the left chest by myself, my wife, an Alcoholic
[3617]'. Beverage Control. inspector: ‘then under investigation or by a Los Angeles police officer |
[3618]- "because . of communistic . implicetions," as has been Teported at verious times by various |
[3620]sources).
[3622]' For the next year, from. approximately the middle of August 1962 until my arrest in |
[3625]13-00000
[3627]“Texas on 20 September 196 I was employed . by. ‘agency in-a. capecity which can be
[3628]accurately described as that of an egent, in ‘every sense of the. word. |" My assignménts -
[3629]'. varied and necessitated travel to three Latin American nations, and.many ‘states, -ineluding
[3630]_ the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. They also necessitated my taking on cover employment
[3631]-for one week in’ New York and for about ten weeks in. Los Angeles, though usually I posed ©
[3632]as a tourist, an investigator for" the: Immigration & Naturalization Service or as a
[3633]: researcher for a private firm, the appropriate credentials being furnished to me by|the
[3634].CIA.. To sum it up briefly, I operated in Mexico City at the onset of the Cuban Mis ile.
[3635]‘Crisis in an effort aimed chiefly at. the Soviet government; I conducted inqui ies
[3636]‘relative to "dissident": members — of several Cuban refugee groups based in the United
[3637]States; I checked out an’ alleged connection between a Miami resident named Eladio Del
[3638]Valle and New Orleans CIA informant Sergio Arcacha-Smith; I investigated an associate of
[3639]the now deceased right-wing .extremist David Ws Ferrie of New Orleans, as I didjthe.
[3640]activities. of left-wirgers Vaughn L. Snipes’ and his wife, Priscilla, near  Venilce,
[3641]‘California, and others; I conducted a surveillance on a man, said to have been an ex-CIA -
[3642]_ employee, observed talking to MRP leader Manuel Artime and former Cuban senator/racketeor,
[3643]: Rolando Masferrer; I. inquired into an allegation that Marina Oswald intended. to divorce
[3644]‘her husband ond return to the U.S.S.R. (although I never stated that I- met her persona ly, -
[3645]as was reported by the FBI and Secret Service); and I performed courier. duties and: acted |
[3646]“as a cut-out. At the time of my arrest I was operating in an undercover role, having
[3647]“become - involved in a. domestic-inspired plot to assassinate President _, Kennedy nd, -
[3648]leastwice ostensibly, other highly-placed government officials. — a
[3650]a Ur. Lucey goes on. to state that my last ‘assignment at: the ‘time: — to penetrate the
[3651]Fair Play for Cuba Committee, ‘where he met Oswald." Such statement is also incorrect.| I
[3652]‘was never a member, bona-fide or otherwise, - ‘of the FPCC. © And my conversations with HPCC
[3653]functionaries Tike | Steve - Roberts, - an .official of the: ‘Socialist Workers Party at Loa.
[3654]Angeles, could hardly: be. construed as a ‘penetration. - Furthermore, I had been introd ced -
[3655]to Mr. Oswald long: ‘before. the FPCC came - ‘into. existence, albeit under an assumed name. .
[3657]: AS to the allusion. that. I] ‘told “wBob" I was. an intelligence man, not” a killer,
[3658]‘therefore - I couldn't: kill -Mr.- Oswald, while the reference is true its connotation) is ..
[3659]| deceptive. ‘I had killed before. _and I had. participated in homicides under the auspices, of -
[3660]both MI and the CIA (one instance being the part I. played in the February 1958 abduction
[3661]“interrogation-murder of an FOI agent, a U.S. soldier, MSCT Emmett E. Dugan, from Crafton, ©
[3663]“Pa, _suspected of: having defected in place to the Chinese), under the guise that, an
[3664]“American variation: of the Soviet “wet affair" was the. only alternative, that. it vas
[3665]“either essential | to some overall intelligence effort or in the best interests, of. our...
[3667]:national security.’ And it was a. similar-sounding argument, ultimately reduced to a.
[3668]‘threat, that was advanced to me by Robert Graham.as an incentive to dispose of Mr. Oswald
[3669]iin September 1963. ,. But my. ‘refusal to do so Jhad absolutely no bearing on ‘the reason for |
[3670]_ offecting my arrest in the ‘manner 1 chose, nor did it engender in me fear of. reprisal by
[3671]the CIA. ; -
[3673]_ Pertaining’ to my arrest. and convictions at El . Paso, Texas, which the official.-:-
[3674]-:epokesmen andthe press have so neatly labeled as being for “bank robbery," let one of ':
[3675]ithe government's own spurious records, the appelate court decision that finally yawned al
[3676]_judgement of acquittal in my case, . give its version: _ “The charge was then, and is now, . |
[3677]“entering a federally insured bank with intent to rob." What the record aptly ignores is .
[3678]‘the. fact that .two' juries, | incensed — by the prosecution's innuendoes in and out of the ~
[3679]‘courtroom (and ‘by the. ramifications of perjured testimony and a false Bureau of Prisons -—
[3680]“report made available to the _jury” during its deliberations at the second trial - though
[3681]“never formally admitted into evidence) that I was a Communist, no doubt. a very red spy,
[3682]‘twice convicted me of having ,"intended" to take by force and violence one hundred dollars
[3683]worth of Travelers Cheques from a bank teller. ;
[3685]. -I - shall “not herein: attempt to List even generally the injustices to which I- ‘was
[3686]‘subjected by a sorrupt judicial system, nor shall I bother-to enumerate the cruelties
[3689]13-00000
[3690]. 5 ong) At Age gaat oh ae ihe Ley Cuworia aes ~FeNt ary.
[3691]ligat of then are @ adequal xy “detailed in my 1967 Memorandum in Support of Petition | ifor
[3692]“writ Of Habeas Corpus, sworn to and subscribed before William R. Martin (a former member
[3693]of the CIA's Dirty Tricks Division, who by his own admission ia still in “the reserves"),
[3694]But I shall opine that if President Kennedy had not met his demise when and where he lid,
[3695]I would not have been brought to trial on charges of commiting a felony.
[3697]|
[3700]| ' While my return to the fold of the CIA in May 1968 may have been the only “practical :
[3701]; thing" for me to do, it definitely was not predicated on my financial situation, as a lfew -
[3702]: old bank account passbooks will substantiate (I am not quite the mercenary that Mr. Lucey .
[3703]; has- portrayed). Nor was it because of any. peculiar allegiance to those who had tosse me :
[3704]-! on the scrap heap for the sake of: expediency 4k years earlier, love of country, masochis-
[3705]|-tiec tendencies or wont of further intrigue. . And’ while it remains axiomatic in my. mind ::
[3706]\.that the sole ‘requisite for one's use by the Agency is his qualification to fit into :
[3707]whatever may happen to be.the. scheme of things, even this did not apply in| ay.
[3708]circumstance, not really. =I agreed to go back out into the cold, 50 to speak, strictly —
[3709]for personal reasons and I think the explenation is wisely left at that for now. ,
[3711]ii ‘My mission inside East. Germany - if indeed at was a mission - was neither as well--
[3712]defined nor as elementary as Mr. Lucey has perceived. I am sure the CIA knows all|it-
[3714]; needs to know about American defectors in Berlin and the modus operandi of the MfS. |In-
[3715]fact, the mission was net directed against East Germany, per se. _ Preparations bore the
[3717]. trademarks of an authentic, even typical, Agency project targeted in the main to another ..
[3718]Nation. That I was unable to comprehend the German language, that I had been a recent,.
[3720]- 7 unwilling guest of the U.S. Attorney General, branded a Communist in the public records,
[3722]-: ete., merely served to strengthen an already plausible cover built up by chance rather .
[3723]than by design. Paradoxically, the chinks. in the armor were that the cover was not -
[3724]wholly untrue, the MfS (unlike the FBI) not in the least irresponsible to the laws and
[3725]policies of its government. In the past I had engaged in certain covert intelligence -
[3726]‘activities hositle to other socialist states, to. which - as an integral part of|my |
[3728]_ cover + I freely confessed. Oddly enough, however, my mentors from Langely had neglected © :
[3729]to. tell me during the briefings that these previous activities constituted a violation|of |.
[3730]“the criminal statutes of the GDR, warranting & maximum penalty ‘of death upon convictian. ©.
[3731]| By inadvertence or by plan I found myself in ‘a not altogether unfamiliar predicament. |If.-
[3732]“I had confessed to my real mission,: assuming that it was genuine, . ‘without doubt I would -
[3733]have been spared execution, probably even escaped long-term imprisonment, .. Instead, | I
[3734]“t selected what I considered to be a better alternative . .. . and gained my freedom. AB
[3735]for my treatment by the MfS,. fron begining to end it was far more gentle than that -
[3736]| experienced beneath the cudgel of the U. S. Department of Justice. wo on ete
[3738]4
[3740]4
[3741]Lye :
[3742]1
[3743].
[3745]. With regard to my marital status and my. children, the foremost area that Mr. Lucey
[3746]“; appears to have exploited, I have never claimed that "Uncle Sam hides my. family" or. :
[3747]| tated that FBI and CIA agenta- ‘deliberately isolated me from my wife and children; nor :
[3748]have I claimed that the Agency used the promise of reuniting me with my family as part of
[3749]oithe incentive for accepting the assignment in the GDR. My accusations in this respect
[3750]| centered around my children and they were leveled at. the State Department as the result ©).
[3751]“of a ‘promise made to me shortly after.my release from the GDR. Since returning to the -°.
[3752][United States last spring a reliable source has informed me that my wife was granted a. ©.
[3753]i final decree of divorce at some period during: my imprisonment in the USA and ‘although I. |
[3754]jhave never been seryed with a copy of the decree or other notification of divorce (or .
[3755]_ notice ofa divorce. hearing), T,80@ no cause to dispute the advisement... : cE
[3757]Lastly, concerning the aspersions cast on my sanity, cat this writing permit me too!
[3759]‘‘lpay only that I have never. in my life been certified psychotic by any U.S. medical = -
[3760]jauthority or adjudicated. mentally-incompetent in a-court of law, notwithstanding the oe
[3762]conflicting legal: and medical opinions as to my mental condition on the day of ny arrest
[3763]in Texas, over six years ag0« . ;
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[3894]MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
[3895]‘SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case - #264170
[3897]REF: State Dept. Airgram No. A-903 from Berlin - Subject: Psychiatrist's.
[3898]Report ‘on Richard Case NAGELL, U. &. Citizen Released by GDR
[3900]Reference airgram furnishes background information on Subject and
[3901]fills in gaps in the chronology of events in Subject's life of interest
[3902]to the Agency...Of particular note is the fact that Subject was acquitted
[3903]on 29 April 1968 after his.claim of temporary insanity at the time of
[3904]the crime found support in the expert testimony of a noted American
[3905]neurologist, Dr..Edwin WEINSTEIN. An article in the January 1968 issue
[3906]of RAMPARTS by William W. TURNER implied that NAGELL had been involved
[3907]inthe assassination plot against President KENNEDY and that he had been
[3908]. "salted away". Subject denied any involvement in any conspiracy: and denied.
[3909]that he had any information of use to GARRISON. Subject alleged that his
[3910]fear that the CIA might try to "eliminate" him was planted in his mind by
[3911]Mr. GARRISON. (See page 2 of interview report). On page 3 of the interview
[3912]report Subject . States he no © Longer believes ‘that it is realistic to think that the
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[3915]. an : Poy
[3917]BINEAU Cpt., MC, the psychiatrist at the U. S. Army Hospital, oe
[3918]. Berlin who interviewed Subject, was granted a continuing liaison clearance -.- -=* mo
[3919]on 17 October 1968 at the request of DDP/E/G/IS. ; .
[3921]I TNSTETN vas ‘security approved as & , continuing contact. _— !
[3923]pane
[3925]throigh SECRET for the Medical Staff on 13 July 1965. WEINSTEIN is with the
[3927]interview, th the Washington, D.C. law firm of NEW, MACKEY and
[3928]GEORGE. jlewapaper clippings from the WASHINGTON STAR for 17 March 1966
[3929]and the NEW YORK TIMES for 29 August 1965 reflect that NICEY has been bo.
[3930]‘associated with East Berlin attorney, Wolfgang VOGEL and West Berlin : ~
[3931]attorney, Juergen STANGE, in a number of cases involving the release
[3932]of Americans from East Germany. According to an FBI report dated 3
[3933]February 1967 these releases usually involved the payment of specified . poe
[3934]_sums of money and VOGEL and STANGE were allegedly reaping large monetary .- i
[3935]benefits. for their services.
[3937]Att. Ref.
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[3950]“Raymond G. Rocca en be se Poa
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[3964]MEMORANDUM
[3966]SUBJECT: Garrison and the Kennedy Assassination:
[3967]Richard Case Nagel (201~746537)
[3969](1. Subject was born 5 Angust 1930 at Greenwich, New York
[3970]City. N. ¥. Heisa WU. 8. citizen with passport J 543069 -
[3972]2. Subject is not aneostated with GIA and hss not been ao
[3973]absociated.
[3975]3, He éntered the U.S. Agmy on 5 August 1948, his eighteenth
[3976]bixthday. His military career wae distinguished, He was awarded
[3977]many inilitary decorations for his service in Korea. He was never
[3978]AWOL or court-martislied.
[3980]4. On 28 November 1994 Subject was one of siz men in a
[3981]8-25 which crashed near Friendship Airport. Nagell wae the sole
[3982]survivor. The plane was not found for 11 1/Zhours. Nagell suffered sf
[3983]severe injury to the head and factal disfigurement. He was honerably ~°}
[3984]_- discharged from the Army on 20 October 1959 with the rank of captain.
[3985]_. 4m Bacember 1959 he was employed as a special investigator by the .
[3986]‘Department of Alcoholic Control, State of California. He was digmisaed
[3987]from thie position in June 1962.. In July 1962 he was shot in the chest |
[3988]but refused te provide the police with further information. In August.
[3989]1962 he went to Mexico City. in September and again in October 1962.
[3990]‘he appeared at the American Embassy im Mexico City. He aaked for
[3991]help in collecting mioney from the State of California. He claimed that
[3992]he had been approsched for espionage recruitment while in Mexico
[3993]Gity but refused to provide any particulars. He said that he wanted to —
[3994]renounce hie U.S. citizenship. He left Mexico City on 28 Octeber
[3995]1962. On 16 November and 15 December 1962 he wag in touch with the
[3996]FBI in New York City and Jacksonville, Florida. During the latter
[3997]“meeting he said that he had been approached in Washington, D.C., by
[3998]' someone whom he considered to be working for the Soviets,
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[4003].. af @ foreign goverament te comply with an ag:
[4004]* £0 participate in a criminal offence againat the U.5. or be exposed to.
[4005]| the PBL. it wae this threat, said Nagel, tha’ ed him te try to hold up the. —
[4007]_ Se In December 1962 and January 1963 Nagell wae examined
[4008]at the VA hospital at Bay Pines, Florida. The dlagnosia was
[4009]“chronic brain syndrome associated with brain trauma with behavioral
[4010]reaction characterized by passive aggressive and paranoid features. "
[4011]{An FBL memorandum of 12 June 1964 noted that Nogell was considered
[4013]mentally disturbed by his mother, hid brother, an éx-wife, and a
[4014]- {riend. The mother, whe said that she had been under paychiatric care
[4015]. for several yeara, described Subject'# brother, Louis, es an almost
[4017]hopeless aleoholfc.)
[4018]6. On 20 September 1963 Subject was arrested in El Pago,
[4020]Texas, on the charge of having tried to rob thé State National Bank.
[4021]A te concluded from Sub ) :
[4023]unist snémber after his Atecharge trom the army, ‘that he
[4025]attempt icide thrés.times after his arrest, and that he had made
[4026]arringenents with the CP in Los Angeles to pick up his  pasdport a
[4027]El Paso so that he could ge to Czechoslovakia.
[4029]we Ina letter of 6 January 1964 Nagell advised the FBI in
[4030]EL Paso that in September of 1963 he bad been. instracted by an agent —
[4031]@ment made in May 1963 _
[4033]ination of President
[4035]shinen te 2 Marina Oswald en 16 Jandary 1964. Sha said that the did not
[4037]8. At the time of his arrest Subject. had in his possession a...
[4039]notebook which made referante to “Medical Ald to Guba", the “Fair
[4041]#bx persons alleged tobe
[4042]‘information. T [informed the Office of
[4043]Security on l2 March 1964 that ‘at the time of mrrest Nagell also hada
[4044]Mat of etx namea, marked CLA. The names were ¥. Parker, Mra.
[4045]‘Guthries,.C. Churchill, 3. Sloss, E. Leibacher, aud J. Davanon, it
[4047]was later determined that Richard Fecteau alse appeared on this list,
[4049]where he was marked as “Lynn, Mase. *, and "BAG. (caA)".
[4051]. Kennedy, At any. rate, Sometime ‘after ‘the Susntelnation Nagell claimed ~~~ ~~
[4052]that he had known both Oswald and hie wife. Pictures of Nagell were.
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[4057]a. Qur records show that Richard G. Fecteau was
[4058]aboard an American plane shot down over Manchuria in
[4059]November 1952 and that ha fa. gerving in Peiping a twenty
[4061]| year sentence on spy charges. . Fecteau, an OPC employee,
[4062]was quoted in the press BB saying that he worked for CIA.
[4064]b. F. Parker wae not identified. He may possibly be
[4065]Jobn Floyd Parker, an Agency employee in 1964 wae was in
[4066]aapan in 1952.
[4068]c There te no pertinent identifiable information about
[4069]Mra. fnu Guthries. She. may be Frances Agnes. Gothris, an
[4070]Agency amployes in 1964.
[4072]a. C. ‘Churchill wais not identified. Ha. any be Greighton
[4073]Ghorebill, whe was in Japan in 1952.
[4075] @ J. Slose may be John Richard Sloss, an Agency
[4076]employee in 1964.
[4078]i E. Leibacher eould be Adenticat with Ernst Leibacker
[4079]who in. 1964 wae in the Los Angeles deld office of the DCS.
[4081]a 7, Davanon may refer to Joseph Frances Davanon, es ee
[4082]also in the Los Angeles Bela office at the time. 7 fee Eanes ener en
[4084]3. Jobn. Floyd Parkex, Frances Guthrie, Ernst Lelbacker, .
[4086]_ §Jeseph Frances Davanen, and John Richard Sloas all stated te the best —
[4087]af their knowledge they had never met Nagell. It is possible, however,
[4088]that. Nagell knew or knew of Parker, Gherchill, and Guthrie through —
[4090]' thedxy work in the Far East. As for Leibacker and Davanon, Nagel:
[4091]lived in Los Angeles in 1962.
[4093]10. On 16 April 1964 Nagel sent to the FBI a letter claiming ©
[4094]that in September 1963 he had sent to the Bureau a registered: letter -
[4095]signed “Jack Kramer". The 1964 letter implied that the 1963 letter
[4096]had warned the FB! about the impending assassination. The FBI, of
[4097]course, did not receive such @ letter. .
[4099]ll. In January 19638 William T. Turner, atated in an article in
[4100]‘Ramparts. "The Garrison Commission on the Assassination of |
[4103]13-00000
[4105]President Kennedy", p. 56, that Nagell was then still confined
[4107]at Leavenworth, that he had been a highly decorated infantry captain
[4108]in the Kerean War, and that he claimed to have become a CIA agent
[4109]thereafter. Ramparts shifted the plane crash in which Nagell was
[4110]injured from 1954 and Maryland te 1957 and Cambodia. The article
[4111]repeated the allegation that he étaged a phony holdup in order to be
[4112]under arreat when the assassination occurred.
[4114](12. On 6 June 1968 the American. Consulate in Zurich cabled
[4115]Washington to aay that Richard Case Nagell, pasaport J 543069, had
[4116]appeared at the consulate on 4 June and had said that he was working
[4117]for a secret U.S. Government agency on a mission to Geneva, where
[4118]he was to meet some Japanese. He asked for money. He returned to.
[4119]the consulate the next day, was incoherent, and seemed psychotic. He
[4120]claimed that on 14-16 May 1968 he had been interviewed by District
[4121]Attorney Jim Garrison. He said that Garrison had warned him that he
[4122]was in danger of being killed and that he wanted to inform CIA that he
[4123]was in. Zurich,
[4125]13. On 7 September 1968 ancther William Turner piece was
[4126]printed by Ramparts under the heading " { Assaseinations / Epetein's
[4127]Garrison". tt referred to Nagell as a former U.5. intelligence agent
[4128]and repeated much the same story that it had teld in January. Turner
[4129]and Ramparts may have been unaware that Nagell was out of jaal by then.
[4131]14. On 25 October 1968 the Washington Post reported that after
[4132]holding Nagell for four months, the East Germane had released him
[4133]on 23 October at an East-West Berlin crosbing- point. Nagell left-by”
[4134]plane for the U.S. on 25 Getober. “Informed sources” said that Nagel!
[4135]was taken off a train en route through East Germany to Berlin because —
[4136]he made seme remarks which the East Germans considered derogatory.
[4138]15. On 31 October 1968 State forwarded the text of 2 report by a
[4139]U. &. Army peychtatrist who examined Nagel! on 23 October. Nagel]
[4140]said that he was on active duty with the army from 1948 to 1959 and that
[4141]from 1953 to 1959 he was an officer in military intelligence. He also
[4142]provided accurate information about the 1954 plane crash and its results -+
[4143]among them, in hie own words, hie "unstable personality and immature
[4144]or ‘tmpulsive behaviour". He said that he draws 64% disability pay. He
[4145]lost hie job in California because. one night in 1962, while drunk, he tried
[4146]to break down the door of the apartment of his estranged wife.
[4148]After his confused attempt in 1963 to rob the E] Paso bank, he .
[4149]spent 4 1/2 yeare in prison. He was examined by Dr. Edwin Weinstein,
[4152]13-00000
[4154]a8 noted Avaerican neurologist, whe found hie electreencephalograms |
[4156]abnormal, aud ag a romult he was released from prison on 29 April 1948.
[4158]“Nagel aid that herauée of the Ramparts article af January 1968 he
[4159]wie. pald a visit by Jim Garrison. He told Garrison that he had no.
[4160]information of any use to him. ‘The interview left him, however, with
[4162]‘two fears: that Garrison anfight try to subpoena him and that GIA might
[4164]try to "“sHmingte* him, (By the time he was providing this information
[4166]$a Berlin Nagell was well aware that he was not involved in any conspiracy
[4168]to ausagsinate President Kennedy.) He said that his fear of GEA was
[4169]planted tn: his mind by Mrs. Garrison.
[4171]. Alter his weleane he went to New York, where.a sister Mvea. He
[4172]was almost hit bya cax driven without lights and decided to go to Europe |
[4174]- -té escape being killed by CIA. In June he appeared in Zurich. He next.
[4176]set out for. West Berlin but was taken off the train on 11 June 1968.
[4178]. For severe months. he was. repeatedly asked to admit that he wae a apy.
[4180]y he concluded that the only way to obtain his release was to
[4181]peatond that he was mentally ill. He did so, was examined by a
[4182]datviat,. and was released.
[4184]‘He no longer betlaves that it (a gealiatic te thank that the GIA was
[4185]trying to dill him.” He termed himwelf “chronically
[4186]Army paychistrist concluded “Currently he ie not peyehatlc and seems
[4187]fompotent tn = legal and peychiatric WENO ee
[4189]Nagel ita fined. remark was, “Well; rm tent ‘you one thing, that's .
[4190]the lant time I ever take a train through East’ Germany."
[4192]Stor tresmmen var enb ee
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[4199]oe 2 £ Office of. General Counsel
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[4210]20 November 1968
[4212]MEMORANDUM FOR: DC/R&A -
[4213]cs etatt
[4215]‘SUECT ‘Richard Case BAGEL,
[4217]7 Attaches for your inforation. ie ‘ee memorandum dated 26 March 1964
[4218]from Mr. Solie-of this staff Listing the names of seven persons found in an
[4219]address: book by the ‘FRY ea the ‘occasion of their arrest of Richard Case
[4220]SWAGELL. ;
[4222]ave noted in lenghand on the attachment the names of those
[4224]individuals on vhom we have a. record. ‘The others are designated either
[4225]unidentifiadse or no record «
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[4230]Mr, R. J, Leonard a 26 March 1964 -
[4232]Chief, Research Branch/SRS
[4234]NAGELL, Richard Case
[4236]A‘ Attached isa copy of az October 1962 memorandum from
[4238]. the FBI in regard to Richard Case NAGELL.
[4240]2. SA Alexander W. NEALE, Jr. of the Washington Field
[4242]. Office, FBI, has informally advised the undersigned that NAGELL has.
[4244]- been arrested on the West Coast for bark robbery, is going to be.
[4245]tried in the near future for the alleged crime, and that NAGELL had in
[4246]his possession the following information:
[4248]Richard FECTEAU. - OF peed,»
[4250](Lynn, Mass}
[4251]DAC {CIA}
[4253]CIA
[4255]Mr. S. PARKER - WT: :
[4256]Mrs. GUTHRIES - NR.
[4258]_Mr. C, CHURCHILL - \-
[4260]Mr. J. DAVANON- ©S nace
[4262]Mr, J, SLOSS-— OS NtaenQ
[4263]Mr, -E. LEIBACHER ~ oS neeou © Se
[4265]od
[4266]werent
[4268]3. A check of SQ Indices has revealed no record of NAGELL, and
[4270]an RI check only disclosed the attached FBI report. Please recheck SO
[4272]Indices on, the subject, have a file set up on an. expedite ‘basis, and on an
[4274]_ expedite basis identify the above individuals as to whether any have any
[4275]' gonnection with this Agency. The above Richard FECTEAU may be
[4276]identical to the individual whd was captured by the Chinese Communists ;
[4278]and is now in prison.
[4280]4. Also check with Mrs. THORN of OG/C to determine whether
[4281]CO/G has any record of NAGELL.. It is believed that very possibly some
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[4286]a: of ‘the ‘above: individuals may be conneeted ‘with the. Los “Angeles or San
[4287]| .. Fréneisto. Field Office of 00/C, but at the present moment limit the
[4288] gheck with Mre, THORN: to determi if they have = record of.
[4290]“Richard Case NAGELL. i
[4292]Bruce L. Solie
[4294]BLS dre
[4299]- Set
[4301]£9 November 1968
[4303]_MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
[4305]near MEGELL, Richard Case ~ ~ #261270
[4307]REF: State Telegrams No..258355 to U..S. Mission Berlin dtd 19 Oct
[4308]1968 and No. . 2538 from Berlin ata 22 Oct 1968
[4310]2. “Clipping ‘from WASHINGTON POST dtd 25 Oct. 1968
[4312]Subject is one of thé. characters in the GARRISON case. See summary
[4314]dtd 18 January 1968 in his file. He was arrested for bank robbery at EL
[4315]Paso, . Texas on-20 September ‘1963 and sen ed to Leavenworth penitentiary. -
[4317]' In dune 1968 CIA received & cable from{Bern ‘in which NAGELL was quoted as
[4319]. “has. cause embarrassment abroad for the State Department since
[4320]‘Agency interest in 1965 ‘tbecausehe had in his ‘possession while
[4321]_the names of two Agency. employees who were in a covert status. It was never
[4323]telling the. CONGEN he wanted them to "inforh CTA he. in: Zorich".
[4325]‘The details of how. and why NAGELL is in Europe, in partioular ‘East
[4326]Berlin, are missing. State Telegram No. 2538 from Berlin states that
[4327]the charges. are ‘still unknown. "Basic: documents “~ are still in hand of State
[4329]Security auya orities."
[4331]was released by East German authbpities together with one
[4332]An intensive review of JAMES' file (#266602) failed
[4333]any connection between JAMES and ‘Subject. - State Department
[4335]in the same situation in’ East’Berlin. JAMES is also mentally ‘unstable and
[4337]Switzerland
[4339]determined how. JAMES obtained these names.
[4341]Sarah K. Hall
[4342]SRS/OS
[4344]downgrading &
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[4348]Excluded (rom auveratls 9 Ie
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[4358]JAMES,LEOQN BURRIS oe OS 67 6363004-185
[4359]/ A. JAMES, LEQ PAUL
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[4364]JAMES, LEGN BURRIS OS 64 M266602
[4365]4A NELSON, THOMAS GEORGE /B 23NOV44, CAL = /T SR
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[4373]SIRH AN'S MOTIVES
[4375]Unlike Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan
[4377]has lived ta tell of his motivations bur he
[4378]has chosen (o remain silent, The only other
[4379]poteatial. source of info¥matton is’ his
[4381]” family; which had not spoken to the press.
[4383]Muhmuud) Abdel-Hadi, an Egyptian
[4385]correspondent for Akhbar Elyoum in
[4386]Cairo, recently gained access to Sirhan’s
[4388]Jamily. Based upon information supplied
[4389]Aim by the family, he has written exclusiv-
[4391]tly for Ramparts the following account:
[4393]of Sirhan’s motivations and the strategy
[4394]he plans for his trial.” ‘
[4396]Because of the forthcoming trial and
[4397]the difficulty of dealing with this subject’
[4398]without emotional involvement, the editors
[4399]of Ramparts have elected to present this
[4401]‘information of historic interest to our-
[4403]readers without display, and_in as ob-
[4404]Jective « a form as possible.
[4406]FCAUSE LAM AN Anau I was able’ to
[4407]brenk througly the barrier of sus-
[4409]picion that had ‘stopped other
[4410]journalists cold and obtain the first in-
[4411]depth interviews the Sirhan family has
[4412]given since the assassination. From their
[4413]comments and from what Sirhan has said
[4414]to them, a picture of the man and his
[4416]’ motives begins to emerge, replacing the
[4418]misleading portraits which haveswamped
[4419]the US. press.
[4421]The fact that Sirhan has not publicly
[4422]discussed his trial ts no accident. It is his
[4423]own strategy,.sonicthing he developed
[4425]_ after thinking about it for tong hours in
[4426]his ‘specially mi ide jail cell. En fact, he
[4428]has confided to his tamily that he will
[4430]“  wever make anv statement unless special
[4432]Provisions are made for the courtroom
[4433]proceedings, What Sirhan wants is,
[4435]. quile . simply; publicity. He wants the
[4437]major television networks to.be allowed.
[4438]to broadcast the entire trial. If they do
[4439]this, he says, he will tell all. “And if they
[4440]refuse?” his brother Adel recently asked
[4441]him. “Then I shall go to the gas chamber:
[4443]: silent,” ‘Sirhan ceplied,
[4444]To understand why Sirhan is indeed -
[4445]¢ stpabole ot such ae aed, one naist under. -
[4447]stund that be ou dest and foremost an
[4448]Arab, bor a Patesciae andl consumed
[4449]with uiterest in the Middle Eastern con-
[4450]thet de is deeply committed to making
[4451]histrial a public-and political forum for
[4452]the Arab position. :
[4454]College educated, articulate and a
[4456]voracious reader, Sirhan is confident
[4458]about his own ability to cope with his
[4459]predicament. His eldest brother, Shereif,
[4461]told me that Sirhan studies the intrica--
[4463]cies of his case as many as ten hours a
[4465]day in his cell, Shereif recalls that Sirhan -
[4466]_ recently said to him, “I do not need a
[4468]lawyer. I understand my case und know
[4470]how to defend myself.’ But even so, .
[4472]Attorney Russell Parsons is defending
[4473]his client, and doing it on Sirhan's own
[4475]. grounds, ‘The main issue,” Parsons told
[4477]me, “‘is to answer this question: why, for
[4479]“what reason, did Sirhan kill Robert
[4481]Kennedy?. There are 100 witnesses who
[4482]saw Sirhan shooting Mr. Kennedy, but
[4483]no one seems to know why he did it.”
[4485]; Sirhan and his attorney hope that the
[4486]defense—presuming that the television
[4488]‘networks are. allowed into. the .court-
[4489]. room—will show that Sirhan did not
[4491]have “malice aforethought” in shoot-
[4493].ing Kennedy because the act was a.polit-.
[4495]ical gesture, and that Kennedy, to Sirhan
[4496]at least, was merely a symbol. His
[4497]brother Adel notes that “if Sirhan was
[4498]just an assassin, he could have done it in
[4499]another way, just by having a gun with a
[4500]telescope. He went to the Ambassador
[4502]Hotel expecting to get caught; that is
[4503]_ why he left his notes at home. I believe
[4504]that Sirhan wanted to get caught so that
[4506]he could say what he believes.”
[4508]HEN J FIRST TRIED to meet with
[4509]1). W. the Sirhan family, I was re-"
[4510]‘fused. Security is extremely
[4512]heavy around them, and they are under-
[4513]standably wary of new faces. Later, when
[4514]I finally obtained an invitation to meet
[4515]with them, Mrs. Sirhan apologized, I
[4516]believe for -having been .inhospitable to
[4517]a fellow Arab.
[4519]This family, which fled Jordan to seek
[4520]greater safety and security than it had
[4522]- known, is now living in terror. They are
[4524]somewhat at a loss to understand the
[4525]events which have suddenly catapulted
[4526]them into history. None of the four
[4527]brothers goes to hisjob; they all feel that
[4529]death follows them everywhere, and they
[4530]move carefully, with a heavy guard,”
[4532]“Why don't you just leave this country?"
[4533]Pasked Shereif, “Where shall we go?"
[4534]he auswered, To. whom shall we leave
[4535]our brother? Our land is under Isritel's
[4536]occupation.” Shereif clarified his state-
[4537]ment: “Our brother is in jail; we have to
[4538]stay.”
[4540]I sensed not only the Sirhans’ con- 7
[4541]fusion, but also some bitterness. They .
[4542]. have notreceived any aid from the Arab ©
[4544]countries, as they originally thought they
[4546]might. Parsons is’ also somewhat sur-—
[4548]prised’ he had hoped that the various
[4549]local Arab cqnsulates would help cefrny
[4550]court costs, ;-
[4552]Indeed, Lgs ‘Angeles’ Jordaniaii con-
[4553]sul, who visited Sirhan in jail at Sirhan’s
[4555]| request, indicated to me that the accused
[4556]- assassin hadjexpected the Arab people ~
[4557]- to treat him bs a hero. However, except:
[4558]- for some Palestinian extremists, his act ©
[4559]has been universally’ ‘repudiated by the
[4561]Arab world.. One Arab newspaper has —
[4563]said editorially, “We don’t feel any’
[4564]. -Tesponsibility for this. It is the society ~
[4566]that fed him with hostility, the society
[4568]‘that gave him the gun, that is responsi-
[4569]" ble. Members of the Arab Students'
[4571]Association, of which Sirhan was once
[4573]an officer, feel that the killing of Kennedy
[4575]was a terrible mistake. One of them said
[4576]to me, “What are we going to do. with
[4578]"the rest of the American candidates? Kill
[4579]them all. because ‘they want to help’ :
[4582]Still, the Sirhans’ fr iends a are primarily .
[4583]Arab, and they live in an atmosphere
[4584]that is more Arab than American. The
[4586]‘entire family spent a good deal of time :
[4587]discussing the Arab-Israeli conflict. The:
[4589]mother says that Sirhan was the most
[4590]sensitive and the most involved du ng...
[4592]‘these discussions. Adel says that Sirhan
[4594]once saw a television report of Robert:
[4595]Kennedy addressing the members of the
[4597]Neveh Shalom Temple in Portland, ©
[4599]Oregon. While in the synagogue, Ken-
[4601]nedy, wearing a-yarmulke, declared that:
[4603]the United States must help Israel
[4605]against aggression from whatever source. .
[4607]“Unlike the South Vietnamese,” Ken-
[4608]nedy said, “‘the Israelis have shown they
[4610]are willing to fight for their own survival.
[4611]‘Indeed, Israel is the very opposite of
[4613]Vietnam: the Israeli government is very
[4615]‘democratic, effective and free of corrup-
[4617]tion. Its people are united in its support.”
[4618]The senator then urged the Johnson Ad-
[4620]ministration to proceed at once with the -
[4622]sale of 50° Phantom jet fighters tothe
[4623]Iasrucll Air Force nad to cut off economic
[4624]wid to the Arib countees. this whole
[4625]episode mude Sirhan very angry, Shereif
[4626]recalls. “He lef. the room putting his
[4627]hands on his ears and almost weeping.”
[4629]Continued on page 8
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[4634]: to.
[4636]~ Gantinued from page 6
[4638]“'{ asked Sirhun's mother why she
[4639]thought her son had shot Kennedy.
[4640]“Everything in this country was helping
[4641]Sirhan,” she maintained. “It was push-
[4642]ing him to the danger point. Everything,
[4643]the propaganda of the Zionists, every-
[4644]thing, was against his country, against
[4645]his people.”
[4647]Adel described Sirhan’s current state
[4648]of mind: “He feels he has done a terrible
[4649]thing, but he feels now it is too late to be
[4650]sorry. Now he wants Americans to listen
[4651]to something they have never listened
[4653]And at their first meeting in the jail,
[4654]Sirhan's mother said to him, “Shame on
[4658]you, Why have you done such a thing?
[4660]He replied, “H's (oo late to speak of itl.
[4662]- But all the Americans will know why.”
[4664]EPSTEIN’S GARRISON
[4666]: WO'SUMMERS AGO a (inden attack
[4667]on the Warren Report all but rele-
[4669]gated that work to the fiction”
[4671]section of your local library. The first
[4672]was Mark Lane's Rush to Judgment,
[4673]“which convincingly demonstrated—us-
[4674]ing the’ Warren Commission’s own evi-
[4675]dence—that Oswald could not have done
[4676]' it alone, and drew the first dim outlines
[4677]of the conspiracy theory. The second
[4678]was. Edward Jay Epstein's Inquest, which
[4679]exposed the rather shoddy inner work-
[4680]ings of the Commission and laid bare the
[4682]tortured logic it finally employed to dis-
[4684]pel notions of a conspiracy.
[4686]. Both books became best sellers, but
[4687]their authors have since gone different
[4688]ways. Lane, who shuttered his law prac-
[4689]lice and struggled for years to get his
[4691]“munuseript published in the United
[4692]States (it was first published in Britain),
[4693]has stumped the country in support of
[4694]District Attorney Jim Gurrisan’s theory
[4695]that the assassinition wes curcied out by
[4696]un anti-Castro paramilitary team super-
[4700]. vised by’ persons with CIA affiliations, :
[4702]Epstein, whose book was a converted
[4703]Cornell University master's thesis—the
[4704]subject was urged upon him by his men-
[4705]tor, Andrew Hacker—has emerged as
[4706]one of Garrison's most fervid accusers.
[4707]His vehicle is The New Yorker: in the
[4709]issue of July 13, he delivered a 25,000-.
[4710]word blast at Garrison, calling the DA’s .
[4712]investigation a fraud.
[4714]The New Yorker article had its genesis
[4716]over a year ago, when the author showed
[4718]up at Garrison's office in New Orleans. -
[4719]‘ According’ to Chief Investigator Louis
[4720]Ivon, Epstein spent about 48 hours in-
[4722]town, some three hours at the office, and
[4724]hasn't been seen since. Much of what he
[4726]writes about has occurred since this
[4727]touch-and-go visit and is obviously hear-
[4729]‘say on his part, yet he writes with the
[4731]authoritative tone of a participant: Un-
[4733]doubtedly this technique is convincing:
[4735]to his audience, which assumedly is un-
[4736]familiar with the intricacies of Garrison’s
[4738]_ investigation. But to those familiar with
[4740]the facts, the article is badly slanted. _
[4741]For example, Philosophy Professor
[4743]Richard. Popkin of the University. of.
[4744]California at San Diego, author of the
[4745]‘book The Second Oswald (propounding .
[4746]the theory of an-Oswald double) and ~
[4748]“Garrison's Case” in The New York
[4750]Review of Books (September 14, 1967), .
[4751]‘recently commented on the article:
[4753]“I found it a queer mix of facts, half-
[4754]facts, rumors and very dubious informa-
[4755]tion from people hostile to Garrison.
[4756]Epstein has compressed all this to make
[4757]it loak like everything's on the same
[4758]level. I think it would take an awful lot
[4759]of work to disentangle what he’s saying
[4760]on almost any page as to how much of
[4761]it has a factual basé, how much of it is
[4763]‘rumor that he has heard from people,
[4764]how much of it are charges that have:
[4766]been made by people like [William] Gur-
[4768]_vich [who volunteered to work on the
[4770]: investigation without pay, passed him-
[4771]self off as. the Chief Investigator, then’
[4773]turned on Garrison] against. Garrison,” |
[4775]which haven't been substantiated any-
[4777]where except by Gurvich’s statement of .
[4778]‘them. And also that he tends to take
[4780]facts and information and rumors and so
[4782]on, that occurred over a year and a half's ©
[4784]period, and compress them all into
[4785]simultaneous events, so that a statement
[4786]made ‘by Garrison at one time is
[4787]pounced upon on the basis of informa-
[4788]tion or statements he mude a year and a
[4790]half later in a totally ditferent context,
[4792]ever,”
[4794]existed."
[4796]_testimony, however,
[4797]‘told the Far:that Bertrand was ‘‘approxi-
[4798]: mately six feet one inch to six feet two .
[4800]‘So FE think it's n quite untair presenta
[4802]tion, which has some factual base, but
[4804]which also has a lot of very dubious ~
[4807]One of the: dubious’ elements is Ep-
[4809]stein’s version, of the testimony of Dean ~~
[4811]Andrews Jr., ‘a colorful attorney who-.
[4812]numbers among his former clients Os-
[4814]“wald (who wanted his undesirable dis-...
[4816]charge from the Marine Corps rectified) :
[4817]and the late David William Ferrie, a’
[4818]central figure in the Garrison investiga-
[4820]tion. The day. after the assassination,
[4822]Andrews told the Commission he_re- .-
[4824]ceived a phone call from a man he knew __
[4826]_ as Clay Bertrand, whom he described as :
[4828]a “lawyer without a briefcase” for local
[4829]homosexuals.: Bertrand asked him to go
[4830]to Dallas and defend: Oswald. Garrison.
[4831]contends Bertrand is Clay Shaw, whom
[4833]; he has charged with conspiracy.
[4835]According ,to Epstein, Andrews ini-° -
[4836]tially gave the Fat “several different de-
[4837]scriptions” of Bertrand, and finally ad-
[4838]mitted that -Bertrand ‘‘was merely a.
[4839]figment of his imagination.” Later, be-
[4840]fore the Commission, Andrews stated
[4841]that he had fecently seen Bertrand in a
[4842]bar and, Epstein says, described him as
[4844]“‘a boy” who, was “five feet eight inches”
[4846]and had “sandy hair.” “No other clues =
[4848]to Bertrand’s identity turned up, how-- ~
[4849]writes: Epstein, “and Wesley J.
[4850]Liebeler, a Commission lawyer who con- _
[4851]ducted the investigation in this arca, said
[4852]he was convinced that no such person
[4854]An objective pening” “of warewa"
[4855]reveals that he
[4857]inches in height, brown hair, and well"
[4859]dressed” —a: description that closely .-
[4861]matches thg tall, aristocratic Shaw. As
[4862]for Bertrand being a figment of his:
[4864]. imagination, Andrews declared, “That's -
[4866]what the Feebees {Fa1] put on.” Here- -
[4867]counted that G-men had pestered him - .
[4868]to the point. where. he told them, “Write
[4870]what you want, that I am nuts. don't °.
[4871]care.” As for his later remark: to the. -
[4873]Commission's Mr. Liebeler that Ber-
[4875]trand was only five feet, eight inches, ee
[4877]Andrews explained that “this time I was.
[4878]looking for the fellow, he was sitting”
[4879]down.” Nowhere does he refer to Ber-
[4880]trand as a “boy.” Epstein was perhaps
[4881]confused by his exclamation: “I don’t
[4882]play Boy Scout and measure them.”
[4883]In his superficial examination of Gur- -
[4884]ho Continued on page 12-
[4886]Steatch hy Mary | Morhoff
[4889]13-00000
[4893]Continue ‘d fram page &
[4894]rison’s case, Epstein evidently failed to
[4896]check the police records prepared upon —
[4897]Shaw’s arrest. Thoroughly shaken.by the |
[4899]arrest. Shaw blurted out, according to
[4900]Patrolman Aloysius Habighorst, that he
[4901]had used the alias “Clay Bertrand.” The
[4902]alias was duly entered on the fingerprint
[4903]card and book ing sheet.
[4905]> One of the most fascinaung charac-
[4906]ters in the conspiracy drama is Richard
[4908]Case Nagell, ia former ULS, Intelligence
[4910]agent who cliims he encountered Oswald
[4911]in Mexico City in 1963, and had been
[4912]‘instructed by his spy superiors to deter-
[4913]mine if the rumors of an assassination
[4914]attempt had any foundation. Nagel! says
[4915]he learned that the first attempt against
[4916]Kennedy was scheduled for September
[4917]26 in Washington, D.C., and that Oswald
[4918](who crossed the se be into Mexico the
[4920]“HERE COME DE JUDGE"
[4922]ONSIDER THE REVOLT ON THE LEFT
[4923]C if the following occured:
[4924]. The President, on the eve of
[4925]his abdication, arranged to accept the
[4926]resignation of the chief justice of the
[4927]United States Supreme Court in order
[4928]to replace him with the President's
[4929]farmer lawyer, {hen an associate justice;
[4930]As au parkay,
[4932]holding croay to fl the vacaney created
[4933]by the promotian of fis former lawyer:
[4934]The chref justice, whe hid writen a
[4936]famous report designed to satisfy the
[4938]~ people that the assassination of the
[4940]President's predecessor was sans con- -
[4942]spiracy and the sole act of a demented
[4943]mind, conditioned his resignation on the
[4944]Senate’s approval of the appointments;
[4945]The President's ex-lawyer, when called
[4946]to testify before a Senate committee,
[4947]conceded that during his three years on
[4948]the high court he had continued to act
[4949]ns the Presidents vise :
[4950]That pursuant to this role,
[4951]oon Numerous caubinet-level mechuags,
[4952]but that he had merely “summarized”
[4953]the views of others for the benefit of the
[4954]President;
[4955]That as a justice he had dressed down
[4956]a prominent businessman who had criti-
[4958]fie dhacd sal
[4960]12) RANIR ENTS
[4962]the President: submitted -
[4963]to the Serutte the name of his oldest hand-,
[4965]Embassy in Mexico City. When the anti-
[4966]Castro paramilitary team could not
[4967]penetrate the Presidential security in
[4969]Washington, Oswald got a reprieve. But.
[4971]Nagell, who says he was sure the attempt
[4973]would come off but failed to get the FBI-
[4975]to listen, faked a bank robbery in Et
[4977]Paso on September 20 so that he would |
[4979]be arrested and in federal. custody when _
[4981]the assassination:occurred.. - | e
[4982]Epstein. dismisses..Nagell as being
[4984]mentally unbalanced, noting that “court
[4986].tecords indicated that Nugell had suf-
[4988]fered brain damage i in an airplane crash
[4990]: in 1957” and that, following the bank °
[4991]episode, he was."‘an inmate of a federal.
[4992]institution for the criminally insane in’
[4994]Springfield, Missouri.” As he does so
[4995]frequently throughout the article, Ep-
[4997]stein delivers’a version which if devel- -
[4998]_ oped fully would, throw a different light f
[4999]eon" the’ ‘matter: Nagel: Was ina “plane®
[5001]crash, but he’. was given, Tatelligence
[5003]cized war spending,though whether his
[5004]call was made at the-President's request
[5005]he could not say and remain faithful to
[5007]_ the Separation of Powers;
[5009]That the businessman had retracted
[5011]-his statement, though in the end it
[5013]proved to be accurate;
[5014]That the justice could not answer
[5015]questions concerning his judicial opin-
[5017]ions since the Constitution specifies that —
[5019]members of Congress may not be ques-
[5020]tioned about their acts in any place other
[5021]than in Congress;
[5023]‘That despite this asserted Constitu-
[5024]tional bar, the justice pointed to his dis-
[5026]senting vote against extending the one-
[5028]man-one-vote principle to local govern- -
[5030]ment as proof of his devotion to State’s
[5033]That although he had been at the
[5034]President’s disposal as advisor-summar-
[5035]izer, he had never been involved in dis-
[5036]cussions that could conceivably reach
[5037]the Court;
[5039]That the issucs under discussion at the
[5040]top-level meetings had ranged from the
[5041]Vietnam War to riots in the cities;
[5043]‘That the justice had vated to jail druft
[5044]card burners und had voted ugainst
[5045]taking up for consideration the legality
[5046]of the war;
[5048]That he voted to give the police sweep-
[5049]ing rights to stop-and-frisk suspects on
[5051]training afier his recovery, indicating
[5052]thai he had-no permanent brain injury. -
[5053]Moreover, the fact that he stood trial _
[5054]implies that he was legally sane. Re- |
[5055]cently, he was released from Leaven-
[5056]worth Penitentiary—he had. been at
[5057]Springfield only temporarily.
[5059]The publication of the Epstcin article
[5060]came at an opportune time for Clay
[5061]Shaw. Obtaining advance copies, his at-
[5062]torneys entered it as evidence before a
[5063]three-judge federal panel which was hear-
[5064]ing arguments that the DA was ‘‘con-
[5065]ducting a‘revn of terror” und “perse-
[5066]cuting” the defendant. Apparently the
[5067]panel was unimpressed, for it unani-
[5068]mously rejected the defense’s argument
[5069]and ordered the case to trial. .
[5071]If Garrison does get his day in court—
[5072]a day Epstein has struggled to deny him
[5073]"—chances are his case will hold up better
[5074]than -The® ‘New: Yorker's brief for’ the ~
[5075]defense. | — WILLIAM TURNER
[5077]ry
[5078]te
[5079]i?
[5080]'
[5082]: suspicion alone;
[5084]‘That within two months of his pro-
[5085]posed elevation he had authored a book-
[5086]let, “Concerning Dissent and Disobedi-
[5087]ence,” which limited the moral right to
[5088]disobey laws‘to those “basically offensive
[5089]_to fundamental values of life or the Con-
[5090]stitution” and held that even in such
[5092]‘but jailing must he: willingly accepted:
[5094]That shortly after that book was pub-
[5095]lished, the justice denounsed, in a rare
[5096]interview from Washuiglou, the activities
[5097]of some of the Universily
[5098]protestors as “totally inexcusable, from
[5099]the point of even prinvitive morality’:
[5101]That: during his first term on the
[5102]Court, he cast the deciding vote uphold-
[5103]ing the conviction and five-year sentence
[5104]of Ralph Ginzburg for “pandering” a
[5105]non-obscene magazine;
[5107]That during cach of his three terms he
[5108]nearly always voted for business interests
[5109]and against efforts to cut down the
[5110](rusts: .
[5112]What throughout tus years an the
[5113]Court he wis walely rumored to have
[5114]been one of the Cresident's atost hawk ish
[5115]advisors on the Vietnam War.
[5117]Consider the revolt on the feft if-any-
[5118]thing like this happened in 1968.
[5120]Columbia
[5122]— SIDNEY E. ZION
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[5146]The attached report by Mrs. Hall
[5148]“based -on cable traffic re appearance of. |__|
[5149]a Richard NAGELL 1n Zurich raises question fo .
[5150]FBI. Is NAGELL in GARRISON investigation
[5151]still in prison, or is he one and the same '
[5152]person in Switzerland?
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[5182]SUBJECT: ‘NAGHLL; Richard Case - osha 70 eelF
[5184]“ae Jane 1968
[5186]REFS IN Cable 25955 ata 6 June 1968 ‘from(Zurich]
[5188](OUP Cable 0665 dtd 7 dume 1968 tofZurich]
[5189]IG 18
[5191]Reference cables concern: the claim of an individual . appearing at
[5193]. ‘the Consul General's office in Zurich, Sqitzerland on 4 June 1968 that
[5194]_ he is one Richard Case NAGELL. NAGELL was sentenced to. a 10 year.term for... . .
[5195]“bank robbery « on as June 1964 and is Supposedly hh a federal prison in Missouri.
[5197]GARRISON interviewed ‘Subject. as a witness in: his investigation
[5198]according to a news: clipping | from the CHICAGO AMERICAN dated .2 January
[5199]1968. The clipping “is marked in Subject's file which is attached. ‘This
[5201]‘file also contains a copy of the summary dated 18 January’ 1968 pregpared
[5203]in research-on the GARRISON’ ‘CASE.
[5205]_ It would be of interest for. documentation of Subject's file to
[5207]- ascertain from the FBI if Subject. is still in -préson.
[5209]-I did not receive ‘reference IN. Cable 25955 intiially. Attached is -
[5210]a copy I obtained ‘from-OS Cable Desk. However, the original copy was
[5212]‘routed to SRS and it is ‘possible some one.else on the. Staff is already
[5214]handling the matter.
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[5240]“COULD NOT ASSIST.
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[5244]13-00000
[5246]AUTHENTICATING ©
[5249]_ mepnéDUCTION BY. OTHER THAN THE ISSUING. OFFICE: is PRowtteD.. - ty : i . ; conv NGL
[5251]Ye
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[5255]mero Oo ‘tA commortons
[5256]: HAGELL, “a +. Beney abthongh, subsea was of
[5258]veen salted avay becouse of
[5259]what he knows.
[5262]13-00000
[5264]” ”. begk conteining the nemes of CIA employees is true.
[5266]. SOURCES
[5268]2968 earns
[5269]Article by WikLian
[5271]iy TORRE
[5273]08 TabIoSS Rests:
[5274]Subject hecame of interest to the Office of Security in Hares 1964
[5276]tine of ho cent fur bene Tetbory at El Posey Fenn en 20 depict .
[5278]Wa repremmmeative 08 a the hope that AGEL might revel. ;
[5279]me to Seapine aeties is indicated
[5281]Gabseetts tite reflects no Agenty interest in kim prior ta March 196k
[5283]i the mee of CHA CTA euplayeas were found in his possession when areested
[5285]Che RAMPARIS clain that he sessived. intaldigence trataing after the plane
[5286]erash é2 truc. The crash oneurted 2 Howaber 195% st eet he geadustea froin
[5287]School, Ft. Holubird, Necylend on 15 August 1955. He
[5289]_ dewy Intelligence
[5290]secved ix: ores anil snpen Be O miacher of the i _ 5+ say Comber intelligence —
[5292]@hout 1956.. A Et. Col. Had Zs GLEE whe anewed with,
[5293]etabbiv in Kores advised thet HAGELL was not sitile semtelly and
[5294]Eo tneatlatty wn prebobiy doe to rain Gangs ourfored Sn the aisyian
[5296]Che! RAIPARES setiede’s claim that SMBLL ot4 eb fieed the gua im the
[5297]bank at EL Paso, Texas because he wanted to be in custedy when the assassination
[5299]| teak place 4s not completely in conflict with ea statement RAGSEL wade on
[5300]Txrmotagy} Sih er awovery after ‘he ascesstantions (see page & of
[5302]The RAMPARTS orticle’s sliegetion that the FBI tock from BAGELL 6 note-
[5304]” EMELL's compleint that be vas “salted away” is open to specittion, x
[5305]ten year prison sentence dees appear hergh, coneidering the documented bra
[5309]bet tis
[5311]13-00000 oe
[5313]femige he suffered to the B25 plane crash while he was tn the U. 8.
[5316]TS-0000R.> age Pegs Ym Jot! (oo
[5317]; "CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ace Bo vo
[5318]_ AMERICAN es a,
[5320]- B4459,360 _
[5321]8-494 x 8 = wo
[5322]JAN a TT,
[5326]ue ton Cos
[5328]bee Pee f° N-
[5329]‘GARRISON - BELIEVES THAT Oswald. was schooled. in! i
[5331]F @overt operations by the CIA. while ih the marine Corps
[5332]Fat Atsugi naval station -in Japan. Supporting - evidence: is’
[5333]. -Oswaid’s. profi iciency in ‘the. Russian. language, the source of
[5334]| ‘which was never explained, the ease with which he entered '!
[5335]| Russia, and-the “lack: of censure’ by the government-on his
[5336]| . return, or ‘by ‘the Marine corps in’ hig: ‘discharge. |; a
[5337]ae effect, Garrison: ‘eels Oswald was either a CIA, agent.
[5338]| “or was involved with CIA activities. ~
[5339]“ - The New Orleans: group was angry at President Kennedy
[5340]i: because of the- failure -of the’ Bay--of: Pigs: operation ..an
[5341]’ because thoy ‘thought Kennedy wasn't _fuffleiently aat
[5342]: communist: » -. x ek
[5344]Garrison: hag: dozens’ of’ witnesses he’ ‘will subpena to fit.
[5345]‘bits’ and Pieces into ihe. - puzzle, Individually, many can::b
[5347]i i » but _ collectively they raise many °
[5350]: ‘BY JACK: MABLEY
[5352]TiS ‘INVESTIGATION INTO ‘the. astadsination of Presi-
[5353]~ dent Kennedy i is- being reopened: It is. being ‘conducted by a.
[5354]prosecutor. with: the ‘Power of. subpena and a grand | jury :
[5355]with ihe power to indict.
[5357]ve Tt would be. better. for. the. country
[5358]af. the fedoral government: were -mak-
[5359]ing the investigation. rather -than a |
[5360]New Orleans. :official who -has -been ©
[5361]"accused ‘of: beligsunsta ble. and of
[5363]_ Seekiy ‘onever a "
[5365]* inthe power of the: federal | gover
[5366]méunt ‘to disprove: everyone Of these witnesses’ stories, ‘if.
[5367]they. canbe disproved, ‘Presumably, the federal government ‘
[5369]doesnot wan ignify Garrison's allegations: with’ formal.
[5371]“AS “pumber. of ‘writer's and” sat.
[5372]“appointed ‘investigators also are dis-
[5373]satisfied- with conflicting facts and :
[5374]- unanswered questions, and they con-.
[5375]tinue.to publish evidence to rebut the
[5376]: _Warrén ‘commission: conclusion. that :<
[5377]oh dee E arvey Oswald. alone was as Involved in the assassination. :
[5379]GARRISON
[5381]discredited." Garrison. has interviewed one witness, Ri hard |
[5382]Cass ‘Nagell..a highly: decorated Korean‘ “war vetera
[5384]claims: to vhave been ‘a: CIA agent, who says he. Sent. a
[5386]- te registered- letter -to. J: “Edgar Hoover warning him: of'-the ©.
[5387]oon clusion ‘ts ‘Ramparts, magazine ay - assassination plot: If this is ‘true,-Hoover and the FBI ‘would -,
[5389] padinal publication, which repr i A sn be guilty of. dreddful dereliction. of duty.
[5390]:. minority. However, if has done Some effective Ynvestigative { . ‘The CIA’ and CIA ‘fronts
[5392]3 reporting, particularly. i in exposing : the CIA uttratide, ‘ato 7 activities of ‘the.
[5393]. + eollege activities.- at os ‘dent’s murder. :
[5394]‘ Ramparts assigned al investigator, ‘William W. Turner, ‘_..“Turner, the Ramparts investigator, believes powerful
[5395]“who they ‘say is ‘a former FBI _agent, to spend ‘9. months B government agencies : are Going ‘everything in their Power
[5397]" looking into the New Orleans evidence. -}: bo discredit Garrison, _..: ; :
[5399]’ “T have worked closely with the D. A, “[Garrison] and his Ten’ persons’ invol 2d in “the. case have al Hed, most’ “of ryt
[5400]staff,” Turner. reports. “In-my opinion, ‘there: is ‘no question, ‘them, Violently, since: the assassination. All - t to their : |
[5401]that they have uncovered a. conspiracy. ” , ith informa n, Garrison: consi ‘ders pers oat dent te his aly
[5403]The gist of the New. Orleans. case is: that, Oswald was ‘investigation. ° i
[5404]Involved ‘ with’ a heterogeneous” group” ofadventurers,~ anti- Unless: Gartisén’ ig killed or removed from. office ‘in L
[5405]Castro Cubans, and radical righters who included members; SOme Way, ‘it’lis. difficult’ to. see what can’ ste: aim from:
[5406]of the Minutemen and American Nazis.
[5408]airing these Stories}: “probably ina court. of law os that the’
[5409].. ' Their common cause was to encourage or mount a revolt __ Public may judge their validity,
[5410]in Cuba -against Castro. They also were ‘strongly anti- _ NN a Ser
[5411]““mmunist. a .
[5412]‘There is no question this group existed. “Garrison has ~
[5413]ce that Oswald was part of it. Garrison's investigators Pols
[5414]evidence that: Oswald’s* pré-Russian- Jeanings actually * .
[5416]a front, or a disguise to conceal his real role as an 7
[5417]: “oramunist. ; . hoe
[5419]are deeply. involved’: ‘in 'the
[5420]‘Garrison believes Plotted. the: Presi-
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[5462]FILE, RF.
[5464]PAGE 1 STATE B69053
[5466]-GP- Ae _ROGERS
[5468]va
[5469]Setac Department o of State | TELEGR AM_
[5471]“CONFIDENTIAL HOG639:
[5473]17 _
[5474]ORIGIN SCS 84
[5476]INFO OCT @1,EUR 08 ; SCA al, PPT 02,CIAE 00, INR a7, NSAE 00, RSC Ol,
[5478]DODE : OB, TRSY i, 4835 ’R
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[5487]ween rent eesensneeeree 875118 |
[5488]R @22142Z MAY -69~ ho eae a ;
[5490]- . FM SECSTATE WASHDC
[5491]TO AMCONSUL FRANKFURT.
[5492]- INFO AMEMBASSY PARIS
[5493]_-AMEMBASSY ROME .
[5494]- AMEMBASSY MADRID
[5496]AMCONSUL ZURICH
[5497]USMISSION: BERLIN
[5499]CONFIDENTIAL STATE 969953
[5500]- PARIS PASS USSS
[5501]REF’ BERLIN. 7543 STATE 62744 - RICHARD NAGELL
[5502]RICHARD NAGELL
[5504]le IF NAGELL STILL FRANKFURT OR INQUIRES AT ADDRESSEE: POSTS
[5506]HE MAY BE INFORMED DEPARTMENT ATTEMPTED TO TRACE WIFE BUT.
[5507]WAS UNABLE TO DO SO.
[5509]“2. A SEARCH OF THE AVAILABLE PASSPORT FILES DISCLOSED NO
[5511]RECORD ON MITSUKO. TAKAHASHI NAGELL«.
[5513]— a ne oo eee ae CONFIDENTIAL” ~ Lo a eae
[5516]13-00000
[5518]2 2sROME FOR VA ‘OFFICE EUROPE .
[5520]ORE: . .
[5521]| CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEM BY | a so PERS. TOTAL COPIES: 2 4 TELEGRAM
[5523]FILE, RF,
[5525]PAGE: BE “maDeeD.14R9
[5526]Al
[5528]"ACTION. SCS” OA. ee —
[5529]“INFO EUR 17,SCA@i, VA GlsL. @3CIAE @9,DODE- 00, INR 07, NSAE- 00, P Ay
[5531] AMCONSUL , ZURICH
[5533]SE OR E T MADRID. 1429.
[5535]"SUBJECT: WELFARE:
[5536]‘REF: BERLIN 668.
[5537]1. IN INTERVIEWS WITH CONSULAR OFFICER ZURICH. FEBRUARY. 27
[5538]. FBILAND CIA, AND PUBLICITY THREATS. _
[5539]2. NAGELL” SUBSEQUENTLY. ‘VISITED CONSULATE: BARCELONA. MARCH.
[5540]20° WHERE HE TALKED AT GREAT LENGTH WITH. P&W OFFICERS, —
[5542]" ° DEFENSE ATTACHE, CHIEF CONSEC, AND. MADE BUT: DID NOT KEEP
[5543]- - APPOINTMENT WITH CULTURAL ATTACHE. |
[5545]PR 171704Z APR 69. ZFF BERLIN “ZURICH -
[5546]© FM AMEMBASSY MADRID
[5547]‘TO USMISSION BERLIN
[5549]Department of State me
[5551]“SECRET «= —OHCGHI7_ NYU A
[5553]8124 1Z
[5555]Lone
[5559]RSC. ol, USIA. 12, PPT. 02, SY BS, FBI a1, 1056 W
[5561]INFO SECSTATE WASHDC 5522,
[5562]AMEMBASSY PARIS” Pas nd
[5563]AMEMBASSY ROME .
[5566]| oa
[5569]Mt
[5571]case: NAGELL
[5573]AND 28 NAGELL MADE. USUAL COMPLAINTS AGAINST USG PARTICULARLY
[5575]13, AND MADE. FIRST. OF SEVERAL. VISITS. EMBASSY MADRID. MARCH ..
[5577]3. ACCORDING CAS, NAGELL’ IS NOT AND HAS NEVER BEEN l
[5579]ASSOCIATED WITH. CASs--INFO FROM DEPT: NAGELL'S MENTAL. APFLIC# 0. (hee
[5581]‘TION ORIGINATED -IN BRAIN. DAMAGE SUFFERED. AAR CRASH 0 Do |
[5583]NOVEMBER 1954. DIAGNOSIS. DATED 4 FEB 19553 SFARANOID PERSON.
[5584]“ALITY, PASSIVE AGRESSIVE. PERSONALITY REACTION. a fact od oe RO
[5586]“ACTIVITIES IN MADRID:: IN: INTERVIEW. ‘WITH ‘THREE ‘CONSULAR
[5587]OFFICERS NAGELL: ACCUSED USG AGENCIES OF: "LEANING ON HIM"
[5588]AND DEMAND - OFFICERS: PaSS THE WORD AROUND TO “LAY: OFF" OR: HE
[5590]SECRET
[5593]13-00000
[5595]Jo . Department | of State
[5596]% CASLE SECRETARIAT Dissem By ; . PER 6: GE ror copies: a TELEGRAM _
[5598]FILE, RF, -
[5600]SECRET.
[5601]PAGE .@2 MADRID. O'429° A81241Z -
[5602]‘ WOULD BLOW UP. ALSO. ASSERTED ‘DEPT: HAD: BROKEN PROMISE
[5603]LOCATE WIFE AND: ‘CHILDREN, -REPEATED THAT. “CHILDREN ONLY- THING -
[5604]IN’ WORLD’ THAT MEANT. ANYTHING TO HIM, -THAT “LF HE “COULD NOT
[5605]| FIND’ THEM. HE. WOULD TAKE LEAVE OF .THIS:WORLD AND WOULD... ~
[5606]_. TAKE SOMEBODY WITH HIM. IN LAST MEETING WITH CONSUL. “APRIL | 7
[5607]|. QONSUL. HAD- TWO MARINE: GUARDS PRESENT VIEW. USAF PSYCHIATRIST'S
[5608]ADVISE TO TAKE. NO..CHANCES, WHATEVER.. NAGELL UPSET BY GUARDS
[5609]“PRESENCE AND. BY. CONSUL'S. REFUSAL PERMIT HIS TAPING. RECORDING
[5610]“INTERVIEW. AND. TO. SHOW HIM REGULATIONS PROHIBITING - .
[5611]RECORDING. NAGELL. BELABORED PATIENT. CONSUL. FOR NEARLY Two.
[5612]‘ HOURS. CONSUL INFORMED: HIM: THAT DEPT HAD\:ENDEAVORED LOCATE
[5613]"WIFE AND CHILDREN WITHOUT SUCCESS, AND ‘PROMISED TO- QUERY -
[5614]“, DEPT. WHAT: ‘SPECIFIC STEPS: DEPT ‘HAD. TAKEN: THIS MATTER. © NAGEL oh
[5615]FINALLY SAID HE’ WOULD. LEAVE SPAIN’ BECAUSE OF CONSUL"S - ve
[5617]ACTION (USE OF GUARDS) AND REQUESTED THAT REPLY FROM. ‘DEPT.
[5618]‘BE FORWARDED PARIS: WHERE. HE WAS GOING.: ALSO INFORMED CONSUL
[5619]"HE WOULD “GET HIM", BUT. THROUGH POCKETBOOK, BY SUING HIM
[5620]‘IN-US. IN THIS INTERVIEW NAGELL DENIED HAVEING MADE THREATS.
[5621]OF PHYSICAL VIOLENCE, ONLY ."PROMISES". OF PUBLICITY. AND OF oe
[5622]~ “PLAYING FOOTSIE WITH CERTAIN: SOURCES”: IF: DEPT DID. NOT: LOCATE... ~~
[5623]. CHILDREN. PRIOR DEPARTURE. FROM. MADRID. NAGEL SENT | CONSUL. ~ oo
[5624]' POST CARD ‘WITH MESSAGE -IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE AND WRITING,
[5625]WHICH: TRANSLATED -MEANS "WITHOUT EYES WE. CANNOT SEE", AND.
[5626]SALUATION: IN. SPANISH MEANING. "GOOD LUCK".
[5628]De DEVELOPMENTS: OF ‘INTEREST IN LAST. MADRID INTERVIEW: C1)
[5629]CONSUL TOLD. NAGELL GENTLY HE (NAGELL) NEVER EMPLOYED :BY. CAS.
[5630]NAGELL INSISTED: YES, HE COULD PROVE . IT, BUT CONSUL DID |
[5631]‘NOT PURSUE SUBJECT. (2) NAGELL. SEVERELY. CRITICIZED. STATE”
[5632]“- DEPT FOR.PERMITTING CAS AGENTS INTO. ITS. MIDST: IN.-FOREIGN
[5633]-- ESTABLISHMENTS, SAID HE KNEW OF AT LEAST TwO. CAS AGENTS.
[5634]~ IN ZURICH AND THAT CAS NOT. RPT NOT ‘SUPPOSED TO HAVE oy
[5636]IN SWITZERLAND. (3) NAGELL HAD. ANOTHER STORY: WHICH. COUL
[5638]BE OF INTEREST TO NEWS MEDIA: HE ALLEGED: THAT -IN:-1957,:
[5639].- “IN TIME ‘OF PEACE”.».- -HE ‘HAD. BEEN. COURLER. OF TREASURY: PLATES 20>.
[5640]_ FROM US TO JAPAN. FOR: ‘COUNTERFEITING NORTH “KOREAN” CURRENCY. ae
[5642]; COPIES, QF RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE FOLLOW BY POUCH.
[5645]Sos) We SECRET
[5647]13-00000 .
[5649]_° FM. SECSTATE WASHDC.
[5650]_TO-USMISSION BERLIN
[5651]INFO AMEMBASSY MADRID
[5652]AMEMBASSY -PARIS-
[5653]‘AMEMBASSY ROME -
[5655]“CON FL D EN T T A L STATE "099324 a
[5657]17 ;
[5658]ORIGIN. SCS 04 .
[5659]INFO EUR 98,SCA O81, va OTL 03, CIAE 00, INR. 7, NSAE 00, RSC on, DODE.
[5661]66667
[5663]R 172201Z APR. 63
[5665]AMC ONSUL ZURICH”
[5667]“ROME FOR VA
[5669]REF: BERLIN - 668 RICHARD NAGELL
[5671]De FEBRUARY 27° “AND. 28, 1969 NAGELL “CALLED CONGEN- ZURICH
[5673]“STATING | HE HAD BEEN: ENTICED ‘RETURN US IN 1968 WITH® ‘PROMISES
[5675]AGAIN RE HIS VA CHECK AND REQUESTED | ASSISTANCE ADMISSTQN: ee
[5676]_ ‘TORREJON AFBASE HOSPITAL’ FOR QUOTE. NERVOUS CONDITION UNQUOTE.
[5677]1. ACCUSED DEPARTMENT -AGAIN OF BREAKING ITS PROMISE HELP HIM.
[5678]. LOCATE WIFE AND. CHILDREN. LAST CALLED ‘EMBASSY MADRID “APRIL”
[5680]“VHIS:’ WIFE AND CHILDREN. WOULD “BE LOCATED. ON MARCH-.19- NAGELL
[5682]PEARED von BARCELONA REQUESTING INFO RE WIFE: AND
[5684]“CHILDREN.
[5686]8. NAGELL APPEARED AT EMBASSY. MADRID™ MARCH 21 WITHOUT ‘uns.
[5687]| .REQUESTED HIS SISTER,.MRS. GAMBERT, BE ASKED SEND HIM-DOLS
[5689]75 FROM HIS BANK. ACCOUNT FOR TRUST FUND WITH. DEPARTMENT AND.
[5691]THAT SISTER CASH HIS: MONTHLY: CHECK: FOR: Hy AND CABLE. THE:
[5693]MONEY TO HIM CARE AMEXCO™ MADRID. APRIL 3’ VISITED - -EMBASSY.
[5695]“CONFIDENTIAL
[5697]ee | |. CONFIDENTIAL =F 755° wo!
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[5706]_ SCS -. WRJOCHIMSEN ee
[5707]Reser CTSTRIBUTIONS EUR /GER
[5710]13-00000
[5716]7D FBI 12d
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[5724]on . . 7 C*
[5726]“- e943, \vepartment of State
[5728]: CABLE SECRETARIAT Dissem By | Pe : PER 4 7 TOTAL COPIES: 33 TEL EGRAM :
[5730]ME NE eullE 5 OulEDS 0GRY SeruR DS, cvDIl0,
[5731]RUS K |
[5733]a CONFIDENTIAL HCG655
[5734]PAGE OL | BERLIN BO668 1611302
[5736]al
[5737]“ACTION SCs 04
[5739]INFO EUR 17,SCA @1,VA-@1,L @3,INR @7,CIAE @,NSAE 00,P- 04,USIA 12,
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[5742]wen eennnennnnne------ B98 BA9 : so
[5744]“R 1611902 APR 69
[5745]FM USMISSION BERLIN |
[5746]TO SECSTATE WASHDC 4104
[5747]_ INFO AMEMBASSY MADRID:
[5748]AMEMBASSY PARIS’: |
[5749]- AMEMBASSY ROME
[5750]aNCONSUL ZURICH
[5752]“CONFIDENTIAL BERLIN 0668
[5754]"ROME FOR Va
[5755]SUBJECT: WELFAREs RICHARD “CASE NAGELL
[5756]REF BERLIN 2567 | ee ee
[5758]‘le NAGELL HAS RETURNED TO BERLIN. HE CALLED AT MISSION
[5759]APRIL 19 AND AGAIN APRIL ‘14. SINCE HE WAS OBVIOUSLY IRRAT-
[5760]TIONAL CONSULAR OFFICER URGED HIM TO CALL: ON ARMY PSYCHIATRIST
[5761]IN BERLIN FAMILIAR WITH HIS CASE, WHICH HE DID APRIL 15. _. ; '
[5762]. .PSYCHIATRIST SAYS HE IS. MENTALLY TLL AND. ‘SHOULD BE HOSPITAL~ - : to.
[5763]IZED.
[5765]Ze NAGELL SAID HE RETURNED TO BERLIN BECAUSE HE HAD "CON- .. .
[5766]-NECTIONS" WITH LOCAL PRESS WHO WOULD PUBLICIZE HIS. "COMPLAINTS"
[5767]AGAINST US GOVT: CLACK-OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL TREATMENT, LACK
[5768]. OF ASSISTANCE IN LOCATING FAMILY IN- US». "TRUE". ROLE OF. MASH™
[5769]INGTON LAWYER RICEY NEW »: ETC. de , rs
[5771]3. IN VIEW NAGELL* S HISTORY OF IMPRISONMENT IN EAST GERMANY,
[5773]-. FORMER INTELLIGENCE CONNECTIONS AND MENTAL CONDITION: (FOR ;
[5775]. WHICH HE IS APPARENTLY ENTITLED TO FULL VA BENEFITS) WE CON-
[5777]‘ SIDER NAGELL’S PRESENCE IN BERLIN UNDESIRABLE (BOTH FOR HIMSELF
[5778]AND FOR US GOVT) AND HOPE WE CAN PERSUADE HIM LEAVE’OF HIS
[5779]‘OWN ACCORD. ANY INFORMATION ON HIS ACTIVITIES SINCE LEAVING
[5781]CONFIDENTIAL
[5783]|
[5784]|
[5786]13-00000
[5788]te,
[5790]a Attached. for your information: and tetention. is a ‘copy ‘of an SY memorandum
[5792] SC8 - Mr. Wallace Clarke oy S September 5, 1969.)
[5794]|e LOT fee. : ay
[5796]; negative results.
[5798]Attachment:
[5800]& cc. - Central intelligence agency
[5801]United States Secret Service
[5802]. Federal Bureau: of Investigation
[5804]Mr. Johnson PPT -
[5806]CONFIDENTIAL
[5808]LZ
[5810]“gy/rrs - Keith 0. Lynch |
[5812]Richard Case
[5814]To20)
[5816]: Reference ‘is made to your memorandum 0 Joe pril 25, 1969 ‘concerning your ren"
[5817]/ quest: to locate Mrs. Miteuko Takahasit AGELL, the wife of. Subject. . :
[5818]forts by the SY. Loa Angeles: Field | Office to locate Mitsuko. “Takahashi
[5819]\GELL, aka Mrs. Richard Case NAGELL, aka Mitsuko ‘TAKAHASHI, wet with
[5821]dated September 2, 1969 which indicates that an individual identified only ~ j.
[5822]as &.C. NAGELL placed an advertisement -in the East Village Other, a New. - 7
[5823]York underground newspaper, which makes obscena reference to both the Central, .
[5824]Intelligence Agency and SY. poe . i
[5826]_ As atated
[5828]VA CELL.
[5830]Bt
[5831]1 io.
[5833]CONFIDENTIAL
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[5838]. . . .
[5839]er ae) sal a
[5840]t ail . \ and * - Lot
[5842]Bh ad GU Vana &
[5844]7 Memorandum
[5845]To. 3 Director, O/SY - = 7 3 “DATE: September 2,196).
[5846]‘Thru: Chief, o/sx/s yf Be aera
[5848]FROM = L,G,Marcell, “ps 7
[5850]“SUBJECTS Tten in East  Bblege Other, dugust 20, 1 1969
[5852]_ This. past: weekend, I visited a friend who had gust returned from New .
[5853]“ York City, bringing back a copy of a New York underground newspaper, -
[5854]: the East Village Other, ‘dated August 20, 1969. ;
[5856]Out of. curiosity, I paged through the. paper and, on page. 17, found a «>:
[5857]so-called classified section, consisting generally of ads for male and
[5858]female artists models and offerings of books alleged to instruct one.:
[5859]in the art. of Synthesi zing hallucinogentese -
[5863]In . ‘the ‘personel. colums of” this section, ‘the foMloving was noted, @
[5864]. verbatim transcript of which | is set forth: .
[5866]_ "Caught In The ‘Act. Notice to the cra and all SY
[5867]gShitheads who participated in Project Purple Shaft:
[5868]‘After that fiasco in the GIR you worms did your best
[5869]to screw, blue and tattoo me, You even tried to have
[5870]my ass dusted in. Berlin .« 6 o you Purkups< Now its
[5871]my turn to do a little shafting.
[5873]cordially, Re Ce NAGELL."
[5875]of - ‘Card indices in SY/E reflect no indication that anyone named R. oe
[5876]“ NAGELL or any variation thereof, including: NAGLE or. NOGELL, has
[5877]~., ever been granted clearance in his offices 7
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[5884]A check in SY files reflected a record on Richard Case NAGELL, porn.
[5885]_ August 5, 1930, who apprently is identical with the sndivi dual who |
[5886]“.; authored the above item. A cursory review of the file reflects/that Mr
[5887];77° NAGELL has been of interest to both the FBI and the Department |: ain :
[5888], Tecent years * cee vee nee es - Bee “kd
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[5896]_ contain somewhat of an ‘implied threat. For this reason, “the informa:
[5897]-.\ tion is forwarded for your consideration: and for any action which may -
[5898]be considered necessary, . ; tes
[5900]. Attachment: SY file on. Richard Case NAGELL
[5902]Group 1
[5904]me Input to US Defector
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[5926]- ‘SuBJ: NAGEL, RICHARD Ce
[5928]WEST BERLIN, WHERE HE waS- DEBRIEFED AT THE: U.S. MISSION BY.
[5929]“THAT HE WAS “WORKED OVER" BY HIS EAST. GERMAN CAPTORS, WHO
[5931]“TAKEN: FROM HIS TRAIN. COMPARTMENT “BY. NAMET
[5933]HIS CHILDREN , WHOM HE SAID ARE THE ONLY THINGS THAT* MEAN -
[5935]m ot ‘ _ . ( ; ( +,
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[5959]‘}. DOB POB UNKNOWN. RICHARD. Cc. NAGELL, PPT 3543069, ISSUED... beta
[5960]5/24/68, ADDRESS: 8225 GRAND AVENUE, ELM HURST, NeY.11373, 0 08 5
[5961]VISITED. CONSULATE ‘GENERAL IN- "BARCELONA ON MARCH 18,-AND
[5962]VISITED THE EMBASSY ON MARCH 21. DURING CONVERSATIONS. WITH
[5963]ROBERT. S. DRISCOLL CONSUL OFFICER, NAGELL REVEALED. THE..
[5965]INFORMATI
[5967]2. IN THE SUMMER OF 1968, NAGELL WAS ARRESTED ON A TRAIN ee
[5968]_ENROUTE TO BERLIN FROM FRANKFURT. HE WAS SUBSEQUENTLY PLACED ae -
[5969]-IN CONFINEMENT IN. EAST GERMANY AND. HELD THERE AS A PRISONER |. - Bg
[5970]UNTIL OCTOBER 1968.. AFTER HE WAS RELEASED, HE CROSSED INTO °
[5972]STATE DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SUSPECTED TO
[5973]BE AN EMPLOYEE OF ANOTHER ‘U. S. GOVERNMENT AGENCY. - HE “ALLEGED.
[5975]'” SUSPECTED THAT HE:WAS WORKING FOR ANOTHER U.S. GOVERNMENT .
[5976]‘AGENCY. NAGELL CLAIMED. THAT: AT TIME OF HIS ARREST, HE. WAS
[5978]., 3. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT ‘DURING DEBRIEFING, HE: was: PROMISED.”
[5979]'-. ASSISTANCE IN-LOCATING. HIS CHILDREN WHOM HE SAID WERE, RESIDING :
[5980]-WITH THEIR MOTHER SOMEWHERE IN THE UNITED. STATES.* we,
[5981]'. .CLAIMED THE DEPARTMENT HAS NOT KEPT ITS PROMISE, AND. DEMANDED
[5982]“THAT THE EMBASSY IN MADRID TAKE ACTION TO HELP LOCATE. ~
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[6005]ANYTHING TO HIM. cee
[6007]Ae NAGELL THREATENED To: HAVE HIMSELF “ARRESTED BY SPANISH .
[6009]..,POLICE, OR DEFECT.TO EAST GERMANY IF HE DOESN'T RECEIVE ...-
[6011]+ JASSISTANCE FROM U.S. SOURCE. NAGELL CLAIMED THAT HE HAS LEFT
[6012]. _AOMPROMISING" CLASSIFIED | DOCUMENTS WITH "FRIENDS": ee
[6014]PAPER REPRESENTATIVES, ONE OF WHOM HE SAID IS
[6015]dott Sica NAGELL ‘CLAIMED: IS DERSPIEGAL REPRESENTATI
[6017], AGELL “CLAIMED: t0° BE N FORMER ARUY OFFICER WHO. ‘HELD THE.
[6018]27 RAN OF .CAPTAIN. HE ALLEGED THAT, HIS ARMY. SERIAL ‘NUMBER™ 1S:
[6019]"82028346, THAT. HE WAS: DISCHARGED. FROM THE’ ARMY.-ON. OCTOBER
[6020]ve E959, AND THAT. HE IS RECEIVING 180° PERCENT DISABILITY: FROM
[6021]“THE: VETERANS ADMINISTRATION... . EE
[6024]wy took. :
[6026]“>. 6. NAGELL EXPLAINED, IN-A RATHER ‘ARTICULATE MANNER, THAT. HE Had | ;
[6027]BEEN ARRESTED BY: THE FBI. SHORTLY AFTER :PRESIDENT KENNEDY" Sock.
[6029]* 2 “ASSASSINATION IN 1963,. AND.THAT :HE: HAD’ ‘BEEN. IMPRISONED y...-
[6030]“<.. SUNJUSTLY IN HIS OPINION, IN THE-FEDERAL -PENITENTIARY;:
[6031]“LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, UNTIL EARLY 1968 AT. WHICH TIME. HE HA
[6032]- BEEN ACQUITTED AND RELEASED. | ‘HE SAID THAT-THE REASON WHY ©
[6033]“HE HAD BEEN ARRESTED IN THE FIRST PLACE WAS THAT HE ‘HAD. +
[6034]WORKED: WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD IN AN. ASSIGNMENT WITH. A "Us oe
[6035]INTELL IGENC AGENC ..
[6037]- TT WAS. A LONG. “storY, HE: SAID, AND HE DID" NOT WANT TO GIVE NE.
[6038]“(ALL THE DETAILS, BUT INSTEAD *VANTED : ‘TO ASSURE ME THAT HE HAD:
[6039]*. BEEN IN THE "INTELLIGENCE, GAME" FOR A.LONG TIME. NAGELL) ©: ¥
[6040]oy 2 ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN HELD IN. THE- FEDERAL PENITENT LARY
[6041]“, > 3 ‘FOR: SUCH A LONG PERIOD BECAUSE HE REFUSED TO REVEAL TO THE~
[6042]“FBI ANY INFORMATION- ABOUT..HIS -INTELLIGENCE ‘ACTIVITIES=- ~
[6043]-°AND THAT FURTHERMORE HE WAS VISITED BY CIA-AGENTS WHILE -IN-
[6044]PRISON WHO CAUTIONED. HIM 10 ‘KEEP. His. MOUTH SHUT ABOUT HIS:
[6045]TIES WITH. OSWALD. fea
[6047]oe w+, Te REQUEST. COPY” OF om FROM ZURICH TO. DEPARTMENT PERTAINING
[6048]“cr yoo. TO SUBJECT, AND-REQUEST CHECK OF APPROPRIATE. SOURCES IN NAME:
[6049]oa ".. ..OF SUBJECT. AND ADVISE OF RESULTS SOONEST. -
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[6120]USBER, Berlin
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[6126]DATE: October 29, 1968
[6127]SUBJECT a Psychiatrist! s Report on Richard Cas? Nagell,
[6128]US Citizen Released by GDR ;
[6130]» 1968
[6132]“? Berlin A901, October | 2y —_——
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[6135]A detaited.statement. prepared by the psychiatrist of
[6136]the U.S. Army Hospital in Berlin, dated October 23,
[6137]1968, has been received on the results of an
[6138]examination of Richard Case Nagell.- ; _
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[6143]The full text of the psychiatrist's findings is
[6144]transmitted in the enclosure.
[6146]MORRIS
[6150]Text of psychiatrist's
[6151]“findings.
[6155]Group 4 - Downgraded at three-year intervals.
[6156]Declassified 12 years after date of origin.
[6158]Date: - FORM CONFIDENTIAL For i epartment Use Qaly
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[6183][: Background
[6185]My initial contact with Mr. Nagell was when he was expelled
[6186]-from the DDR by the East German officials who forcibly
[6187]- -propelled him toward us over the borderline into West Berlin,
[6188]j= As we initially escorted Mr, Nagell back to US Army Lospital
[6189]; Berlin in the US Mission vehicle, he seemed unsure of where |
[6190]he was, and who we were, as well as being angry and belligerent
[6191]about his treatment by the East Germans, In the course of
[6192]‘the two hour interview which was then conducted at the
[6193]hospital, Mr. Nagell gradually regained his composure and
[6194]gave a more cooperative and coherent history. At his
[6195]insistance, the interview took place in the presence of the
[6196]attorney Mr._Ricey S. New, Jr., who acted in an unofficial
[6197]capacity as a legally oriented "friend."
[6198]Yhe salient aspects of Mr, Nagell's history are as follows. .
[6199]He says he was on active military duty (Army) from 1948 until -
[6200]1959, For the first. three. of. these years. he: was: an: enlisted:
[6201]man, and. for-the: last six-he was an officer, working in
[6202]“military intelligence. In 1954‘he was the sole survivor in
[6203]_a plane crash which resulted in a brain concussion, tiumerous
[6204]‘physical injuries, and prolonged military hospitalizetion. -
[6205]Mr. Napell now claims that he believes it was this head
[6206]injury which resulted in his "unstable personality and
[6207]immature or impulsive behaviour." Ife attributes to this
[6208]‘instability his marital difficulties and his decision tec
[6209]resign his commission in 1959, something which he now considers
[6210]7 : unwise. At the time of his leaving the service he was not’
[6211]he awarded a disability pension, but he says that he was later
[6212]able to successfully petition the VA for a "64% disaLility,"
[6213]. He claims that he had never seen a psychiatrist during his
[6214]_ military ‘career. cen
[6216]From 1959 to 1962 he says that he worked for the Stave of
[6217]California as an investigator for various bureaus, itis
[6218]marital difficulties had increaseu and his wife insisted-on
[6219]- _ separation, keeping with her their two children. . fiapell
[6220]Po says that one night in 1962 he became intoxicated, and tried
[6221]Lo to break down the door to her: apartment. On this “basis he
[6222]_ Says he lost his jeb and says that for the next. year ‘he
[6223]‘“just drifted," apparently without motivation to worl,
[6224]supporting himself on his disability pension.and financial
[6225]aid from his: sister, le is not certain about whether or not
[6226]the divorce from his - wife has ever been legally compreted,
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[6237]‘In September 1963 he was accused of committing an act which -
[6238]he now says was bred out of his feeling of hopelessness
[6240]-and desperation, le claims that in a confused way he
[6241]attempted while armed to rob a bank and was easily appre-
[6242]hended. For the next 4 1/2 years followed a complicated
[6244]-. series of trials, appeals and retrials, In addition to
[6246]» spending these years in prison, he also-had at least three
[6247]prison hospitalizations for psychiatric observation. His
[6248]‘appeals apparently hinged on his contention that he was
[6249]“temporarily insane" at the time of the crime. He was not
[6250]-considered insane. at any time during his imprisonment, and
[6251]his claim to temporary insanity found support in the expert
[6252]‘testimony of a noted American neurologist, Dr. Edwin
[6253]Weinstein, Dr. Weinstein apparently interpreted Nagell's
[6254]EEG's (electro-encephalograms) as being abnormal and argued
[6255]that Nagell had developed a "paranoid personality, and
[6256]instability" on the basis of his brain injury. This conten-
[6257]‘tion was apparently disputed by other expert witnesses, but
[6258]in. any. case. Nagel tl, was: officially acquitted, ‘on April” 29° of ZH.
[6259]‘this year. .
[6261]. Nagell says he then went to the New York area, where his
[6262]“ sister (his closest relative) resides, but he claims an
[6263]_ ©: additional complication in his life had risen in that he
[6264]_“*had once been an: "acquaintance" of Lee Harvey Oswald, and
[6265]had been implicated ina possible plot to assassinate
[6266]- . President Kennedy in an article in RAMPARTS magazine which
[6267]oj, appeared in January 1968, Hr, Nagell firmly denies that he
[6268]oo. Was way with any such conspirac and _\ ,
[6269]~..an fact imprisoned at the time of the assassination, On_
[6270]- . “the basis of this magazine article Nagel] says that
[6271]- -. o- Mr, Garrison, the attorne eneral from New _ Orleans who is
[6272]: i sSination,-.
[6274]“CGamé up to New York to interview
[6276]aim. Nageit says that he_
[6277]. eni he had any information of use to Mr, Garrison
[6278]~ but that the interview left him with two fears One fear
[6280]and in some haste left the countr for a tour of EUPOpe. -
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[6312]in June,. shortly thereafter, he discussed with an “Amecican
[6313]consular official in Zurich his recurrent fear that the
[6315]CIA was going to "hit" him. His next travel point was to
[6317]West Berlin, and on June 11, 1968, while his train was
[6319]traversing the. DDR, he says that he was taken off the
[6321]train and "tllegally detained, He is not certain why he
[6323]‘was taken off the, train but admits to having talked freely
[6325]on the train to other passengers about his life history,
[6327]and he was also carrying with him a héavy port folio of all
[6328]of his Army and government records involved with his service
[6329]career, disability, and imprisonment. For several menths
[6330]Nagell. claims that he was interrogated by the Last Germans |
[6332]and repeatedly asked to confess his role as a spy or govern- —
[6334]“ment agent. Eventually, Nagell says that he concluded the
[6336]only way to be released would be to feign mental illness,
[6337]which he says he proceeded to do, This was several weeks
[6339]. ago and he says he was soon examined by an East German
[6341]psychiatrist and events were set in motion which culminated .
[6342]in his. release today,. four and: one-half. months: after:his:.
[6343]detention began,
[6345]Mr. Nagell's: plans for the future center around returning,
[6346]to the United States and beginning an appeal. to the govern-
[6347]ment to grant him a psychiatric disability pension, as well
[6348]as for his physical disability, on the basis of his head
[6349]injury. He no longer believes that it is realistic to think
[6351]that the CIA was trying to kill him.
[6353]Mental Status Exam
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[6357]iir, Nagell is a tall, 38 year old male who shows the evidence
[6359]‘of a prior head injury in the form of extensive scars’ on
[6360]the left side of his face, facial asymmetry due to Seventh im
[6362]nerve injury, reconstructive surgery on his left ear, ete
[6364]In addition he shows some healed incisions on his left wris st
[6365]which he claims were superficial lacerations self-inflicted
[6366]at the ‘time of his first. imprisonment in 1963, and asain a
[6367]few weeks ago in the DDR. He denies that in either instance
[6368]he seriously intended to kill himself, He is of superior.
[6370]intelligence and shows: a remarkable memory for dates and
[6371]» Names. Initially he was belligerent, angry,. and suspicious
[6372]of every effort made to help him, Over the span'of two
[6374]hours, he gradually became more cooperative and rational.
[6375]He is in his own terms a "chronically paranoid person" by-
[6377]‘to impute intentions where none may‘exist. Despite his
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[6383]which he. means that:‘he is always higy suspicious and tends
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[6392]- overall suspiciousness, and his fears about the CIA, there
[6393]‘-was no overt evidence of psychosis. His nutritional state
[6394]“and: general well- ~being both appeared: to be good,
[6396]Summary
[6398]‘In summary. then we seem to be dealing with a. _person who has
[6399]had a personality - disorder for a number of years, manifested
[6400]-. by emotional instability, impulsive behaviour, a tencency ©
[6401]“to be litigious, and a general suspicious or paranoic
[6402]orientation, It is difficult to know how much of whet he
[6403]is saying is factual, but it may be that in June of this
[6404]year he was becoming "borderline" or even delusional in his
[6405]_ thinking about possible attempts on his life, and this
[6406]* probably explains his flight to Europe. Currently, he is
[6407]_ not psychotic and seems competent in a ‘legal and psychiatric.
[6408]- sense to negotiate’ his own affairs and: be a free citizen
[6409]- again, .
[6411]. His own, closing: words: provide:.a Lighter note to-what: other~-
[6413].: wise has been a complicated and serious mishap. "Well, I'll
[6414]. tell you one thing, that's the last time i ever _take a train
[6415]_ through East. Germany i" ;
[6417]‘sf . ; o
[6419]George kK, Babineau
[6421]‘CPT, MC
[6423]Psychiatrist
[6424]US. Army Hospital, Berlin
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[6531]194] und was assigned to Military Intelligence Training <
[6533]- OGL, GS-14... During hie assigament in
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[6537]- Chief, Research Branch, SRS 3 MAR 1965 °
[6539]Robert J J. Leonard
[6541]John Richard BLOss
[6543]| #34490
[6545]GIST: SLOSS;- a ateff employee cince 1948, has recently been
[6547], repelygrophed with inconclusive results, having reacted to questions
[6549]regarding disclosure of classified informetion, avsociation with ¢ com-
[6550]munist sympathizer, and homosexuality. He has also been involved
[6552]_with cooperation in au extramarital affeir which iziiminated in a black-—
[6554]mail attempt on ene of the parties. Hie name is perhaps identical with
[6555]& nAme among 6ix names of Agency empleyees found ox a. mentally dis-
[6556]turbed and dicaffeeted former CIC intelligence officerwho
[6558]with Russian and Guban Intelligence agents. Detatls of theca ) quéstionable
[6559]arenes in regard te GLOSS are set forth below. Recommend intensive and
[6560]‘thorough investigation of SLOSS including surveillance af activities.
[6562]DETAILS: 1 Mr. John Richard SLOSS, born 24 September i9ng
[6564]at Cleveland, Ohio, hae been a otaff employee of this Agency since 1948...
[6566]Hie parents are American born. Ho graduated {rom Yale University in.
[6568]Ritchie, Maryland, ae an instractes, from January 1943 te July 1945.
[6569]He attended Columbia University, School of International Affaire and the
[6570]Russian Institute from 1946 to 1948,, receiving an M. A. Degree is inter- -
[6572]national Affeize.
[6574]2. SLOSS fe currently a Special Intelligence Duty Officer in _
[6575]c 1953-1955 and on a TDY
[6576]to Germany in 1988, he had been. authorised to deal with foreign latelli-
[6577]gence elements in the OCI ‘overseas Maison program. SLOSS was poly.
[6579]graphed in 1950 and 1953 with favorable results; in 1955 with unfavorable
[6581]Fesulte; and twice in 1964 with inconelusive reeulte regarding giving CIA
[6582]documents or classified information to unauthorized persons, contact
[6583]with a possible communist sympathizer, and engaging in homosexual acti-
[6584]vities since working for CIA... He was granted a "Q" Clearance in October
[6586]1963, His Top Seeret Clearance was certified to the White Houee on 23.
[6588]lV Keer , 7 SECRET exces iro “|
[6590]aw lelazsi esifleation 4
[6593]13-00000
[6595]es Febreary 1968 tn connection with a visit to a Presidential relocation atte, oa |
[6597]a 3 ‘The name of Jenn SLOSS may be identical with t
[6598]‘ guess found on the person of Richard: Gm NAGELL when arr
[6599]. +. cngetion with a bank rebbery in El Paso, Texas, on 20 Septex
[6600]_ notebook. found of NAGELL made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Commit.
[6601]“2 ‘the a addrenses ef ‘Foreign, Embasates, thes names sof Purported © CIA
[6603]- why the name J, SLOSS a9 well 22 five ‘other names of: GIA verseanal
[6605] a#hould have been in the possession of Richard Gase NAGELL. The weird.
[6607]. Story of NAGELL is contained ins a chronological Heting ‘of bis activities
[6608]appended to this memorandum, — _
[6610]eS A review of the Security file on SLOSS in comection with the
[6611]'. Richard Care NAGELL matter wvoveaied. that 5 ‘for: ‘the. pant. few yeare.
[6612]1960-1964, had provided h artment aga pli yin
[6613]adulterous relationship of(Philip Barey KENNEDY, a GS
[6615], fice, aesigued to OCI and Mrs. (Betty BARKER)< 2. “of
[6616]Central Intelligence Agency from 19 Getober 1985 santil 26 July 1962, The
[6617]relationship betwees(Kennedy]and(Barker/ Gas disclosed on 1) May 1964 Z
[6619]| whex{ KENNEDY /Feported to the Olfice of Security that Mre. . BARKER/ ine
[6620]received 2 a A strange breigceen eall from an. ar
[6622]> faeluding s tranquilizer. type dr ig
[6623]. deemed to. be: inconclusive. a
[6625]- During the 1955 polygraph, examiinatié
[6626]"to. homosexual desires but stated that: ‘there had
[6628]_ actions to the. homesexual: question whick indicated eception. | During |
[6630]. further specie questioning an 22 May 1964 covering | the , various homesexual
[6632]areas however, there were no strong reactions to indigate that Subject might
[6633]. be practicing deception on the specific question regarding engaging in home-
[6634]- sexual activities since working for GIA,
[6636]8. In connection with the phage of questions concerning contact
[6638]with any possible communist sympathizer, the Subject reflected overall
[6640]\. disturbance indicating thet all the questions obviously bothered him and —
[6641]that deception wag being practiced within that phase. The polygraph opera-.
[6643]tor neted that there were outetanding reactions te the following two questions: .
[6645]26 b "Other than your comments ahout FISHER, during your -
[6646]undergraduate period at Yale did you have any contact
[6647]with aay Communist or Communist sympathizer?
[6649]Answer: No, ®
[6651]296 During your CLA employment, have you had any contact
[6652]wie any Communist or Communist arenpathiser?
[6654]ar Re: i ts particularly noteworthy thet during hie examination on
[6655]| 22 May 1964 when asked nine questions as to whether he had been acquaint-
[6657]ed with certain individuals, Subject only reacted when be answered "go" -
[6658]“te heving been acquainted with Jerry SEVERN and ya WOLSTON. These
[6659]names had béen submitted to Subject hased upon pare. conjecture that there:
[6660]posaibly might have bean some connection with these individuale at Camp
[6661]Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Genter, Since the fact that beth -
[6662]Jerry SEVERN and Hya WOLSTON have’ ‘cooperated with Soviet Intelligence
[6663]should have been uhnewn te S1.058 and he declared he is not acquainted
[6664]‘with them,. there should have been no reason for him to.reag
[6665]The polygraph operator states that SLOSS WAS not pressed further regarding
[6666]‘FISHER (whom. he had characterized as “leit of center") or his own possible |
[6668]to these names.
[6670]knewledge of SEVERN or WOLSTON ‘since it was obvious that SLOSS was. |
[6672]- beginning to fee] harassed on this matter and stated thet he did not enjoy
[6673]being anked these questions.
[6675](10. During SLoss’ interview on 4 April 1964 SLOSS reflected
[6676]consistent ‘senetinan on the questions: . :
[6678]"Since working for CIA,have you given CIA documente or
[6679]classified information to unauthorized persons?"
[6681]OO000-€L
[6683]13-00000
[6685]“Have you ever. detiberately given classified information on
[6686]“documents te any unauthorised person?"
[6688]- - Ye explanation. Subject eatd he wae bothered by thie idee, bat
[6689]that he had no:knowledge of any particular situation wherein he had di~
[6691]valged information to anyone who was unauthorised to receive it or who
[6693]would have used it against the Agency's interest, On the test administered.
[6695]- on 22 May 196¢ to resolve any possible compromise to communist or foreign
[6697]intelligence organisations, it was determined that there were no ‘significant |
[6698]reactions te relevant questions im thie area,
[6700]7 te should be. especially noted that the. polygraph operatorduring |
[6701]the 4 April 1964 interview, detected an odd amell on Subject's breath and _
[6703]. noted bis flushed face, frequent silly grins and lethargic movements, gug- :
[6704]gesting | that. the Subject may have been. slightly intoxicated. ~The. ‘oppratos:
[6706]"er alcohol pries to the interview but recalled an incident wherein the Sub-
[6708]ject when arrested for drunken driving in 1963 bad produced evidence that
[6709]he wae a diabetic and had taken’ medi¢ation prior ‘to the incident. Gonse«
[6710]quently, during the second interview on 22 May 1964, Subject was questioned
[6712]| gation for diabetes in November 1963... He explaiiied: that he took three or
[6714]four diuretic pile. He specifically denied that he bad taken any other drug,
[6715]narcotic or alcohol. When this question was asked during interrogation, -
[6717]- he seflected resection indicative of deception and then admitted that for
[6719]breakfast he had taken one glass of vodka with some orange juice. He
[6720]atated that he drank vodka for breakfast vometines whenever he wae tense
[6721]or nervous, over anything.
[6723]a2. The polygraph cperitar i ia nie report concluded that the .
[6724]“validity of fina) test-charts is held in queation and there is no
[6725]__ #trong evidence that the specific areas of concern have been
[6726]gonclusively résolved at this time. It ie recommended that a
[6727]_ further atudy be conducted on this cage and that information
[6728]- Fesulting from such a study be sent to IRD for possible reinter«
[6729]view of the Subject and pelygraph resolution".
[6731]!. SLOSS. has indicated reactions indicative of deception during
[6732]the polygraph examinations. In one epecific questian where these re-
[6734]actions were present, he admitted to lying.. This was in the question aB
[6735]to whether or not he had taken any alcohol prior to the examination:
[6739]SEGRET-
[6741]shero=
[6743]13-00000
[6745]zn a
[6747]7 “GONGLUSION:
[6749]‘ SLOSS has lied ia his most recent polygraph examination and
[6750]has evidconed indications of deception in areas concerning divulging —
[6751] - ¢lassified information to unauthorized individuals, association with a
[6752]Seroxuntat: ‘pymipathiver and homopexual inclinations. SLOSS’ reaction
[6753]'. to the names.@ xy SEVERN and Uya WOLSTON has not been fully ex~
[6754]_ plored. The pblygraph operator has recommended further investigation
[6755]and B Tepalygtaph because the recent teste are taconclusive.
[6757]> SLOSS has bean. invelved in an. jmmorai and Qlegai extra- aoe
[6758]_ marital activity between a Staff employee and a former Bealf employee
[6759]where one of the parties. wae subjected to @ blackmail attamp
[6761]a . .& The mame a. SLOSS (possibly identical to Subject) appeared |
[6762]Oa. Met of GIA. employees: found on the person ofa sel{-designated "dis-
[6763].. affected American" arrested by the FBI for bank robbery in September
[6764]1963. Thin individual (mentally disturbed) with previous intelligence ex-
[6765]perience has declared that he wae approached by Soviet intelligence while
[6766]and/er after he wan in Mexico City in September 1962.
[6768]a It ie suggested that the extent ot ths adverse security iniplica-
[6769]tions concerning SLOSS ie such, that if SLOSS is ever found to be a security
[6770]risk, the failure at this time to pursue an aggressive investigation of all.
[6771]his contacts and activities te resolve all areas of doubt could possibly lead
[6772]_ te 8 Conelusion that we have been remies in our duties. The e undersigned
[6773]recommends the following action:
[6775]8. That physical and technical surveillance of at least two al |
[6776]weeks duration be made of SLOSS to determine his contacte and
[6777]activities after working hours. _
[6779]b. That current séven way National Agency. Ghecks be made
[6780]on a BLOBR,
[6782]: be Richard B. FISHER, a friend of SLOSS', “characterized
[6783]by him’ aé having been involved in radical and left of center ideas’
[6785]. while en undergraduate at Yale,be fully identified, his present lo--
[6787]- gation be ascertained and the degree of his association with &0s8
[6788]be determined by a personal interview with FISHER.
[6790] @ That Richard Case NAGELL be personally interviewed by
[6791]the undergigned in the hope that by a sympathetic approach he may
[6792]reveal how he came into the Bossession of the name J, SLOSS and
[6793]other employees of CIA,
[6796]13-00000 — ,
[6798]7 Sana
[6801]13,0000.
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[6837]y
[6844]FD +204 (Iter. 3-3-59)
[6848]Report of:
[6849]Date:
[6851]Field Office File No: :
[6853]Character:
[6855]- Synopsis:
[6857]This document conteins pelther recommendations “por coticlusions of the FBL It le the property of the FBI id ls lune
[6858]; distributed outside your
[6860]soa lost ps
[6862]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT. OF JUSTICE
[6863]FEDERAL. BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION:
[6865]THOMAS J, DOWLING = Ofee:-_»- New York, New York
[6867]NARA 7 GU | .
[6868]— 65~23126 oo . ; ’ Bureau File No.:
[6870]ICHARD CASE NAGELL
[6872]gui HOP S7
[6874]ESPIONAGE - xX
[6876]: Confidential informants familiar. with certain
[6877]preses of Cuban and/or Communist activities in -
[6879]the NYC area, when contacted during February,
[6880]1964, advised 'that-the subject'is unknown
[6882]_ to them, Subject's sister, Mrs. ELEANORE GANBERT,
[6883]_ when interviewed on 2/28/6h,
[6885]advised that subject.
[6886]‘last stayed at her home during the latter part. “
[6887]of 1962, She indicated that she knows of no
[6888]‘pubversive activity on the part ef the subjeet,
[6889]and stated further that she wotia ave nothing |
[6890]‘to. do with him if she ever found out he had. .
[6891]ever. been: involved: in. such activities, She...
[6893]advised subject maintains a metal-type foot.
[6894]‘locker at.her residence, and has. maintained it
[6896]at her home for a number of years. She hoted |
[6897]‘that. she does not: know the eontents of this.
[6899]foot locker nor. is she even aware: of. whether.
[6901]At. is pened: or looked.
[6903]LEASE IN “PART
[6905]% oh - TOTAL DENIAL.
[6907]26
[6909]fta contents are not to be
[6911]fase te) de dw EB» cL SH pa hake atv
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[6915]Ps, kb ee MN tire: fhe id
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[6922]“Cont Pidential. ‘Anformants familiar. with certain
[6924]_ phases. of Cuban and/or Communist activities. in the NYC
[6926]' .area;: ‘when contacted: during ‘February,
[6927]| the. subject is unknown bo them. Poe
[6929]1964, advised that.
[6931]Soe Hf sthn hate ed eve Beh
[6934](7, FD-302 (Rev. 1-28-60) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGAT IN
[6935]Date =
[6937]; <. . Bleanore_@émbert.was | sontacted at her home.
[6938]oo ~ losated at 82-25 Grand Avenue, Queens, New York, on
[6939]*  @ February 28, 1964, by Special Agents Thomas J.- Dowling —
[6940]-. end. Benjamin P. » Mho identified themselves to _ = es
[6941]her as Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 7
[6942]' She was told that. the ‘Special Agents wished to talk to her:
[6943]about her brother, Richard Case Nagell; that she would not.
[6944]‘have to. speak with the interviewing agents} that” ing
[6945]she might. say could be used in court); and that she hs
[6946]- @ right to counsel before. making. any. statement. Nes. :
[6947]oe Gambert. advised that she had no objection to. being. interviewed
[6948]and. that she would cooperate in. any way ‘possible, -
[6950]Fy
[6952]o  ghe- advised, that her. brother, Richard: case.
[6953]Nagell, ‘last resided with her in her home for a5 or 6— oe
[6954]week period whioh ended just prior to Christmas, 1962, .
[6955]While in New York, he was for the most partineaployed. and -
[6956]seeking a position. She noted that he did obtain a .
[6958]-. position as a store detective but that this lasted
[6959]for only several days when he decided that. this. was not
[6960]the ‘ype ‘of. investigative. work: he wanted to do.
[6962]When questioned. as to. whether or not: she. knew
[6963]- of-s activity on the part of her brother which could ©
[6964]have . of a subversive nature, she stated that sie .
[6965]knew of no such activity; that. she did not believe her |
[6966]brother. capable of taking part in such activity; and i
[6968]' that 1f she ever became aware that he was engaging at.
[6970]any time in such activity she. would have nothing to. to.
[6972]‘with him.. at this point she noted that approximately
[6974]_ @ month. prior to the interview she had received several |
[6976]lettersthat were returned to her from El Paso, Texas, —
[6978]‘which she had written to. her brother, indicating | that.
[6980]he was: no longer at. the: £1 Paso County Jail. noe
[6981]subsequently received. a letter from her brother. indicating —
[6982]. that he was. at. the: ‘Medical Center. for Federal: ‘Prisoners,
[6983]po es " Springfield,.. ‘Missouri... She noted: that she answered this _
[6985]—. Letter” inmediately, ‘but. has not’ as yetheard fron. her= a
[6988]G
[6993]2
[6994]NY 55-23126 ©
[6996]— brother, Sbe_ stated that she expected to hear from her
[6997]fs 8 brother immediately after he received her letter and the
[6998]"> facet that she has not heard has made her uneasy. She
[6999]re noted that she offered, if permitted, to visit him, and
[7000]ce _ that she. hoped to ascertain as a result of this visit,
[7001]the reason he attempted to rob a bank in El Paso, Texas,
[7002]on September 20, 1963. She advised that she has had no
[7003]reason to believe that her brother ia not responsible for
[7004]~ his actions;. and she noted that in one letter he wrote
[7005]to her that ‘the bank robbery attempt was a pre-meditated
[7006]- action on nis. part. She advised that. her brother has
[7007]‘been in a depressed state of mind ever since he had been
[7008]a accused of taking a bribe and fired from his position»
[7009][he with the California. State Liquor Authority. She noted
[7010]SO that she believed, as her brother clains, that this
[7011]~ purported bribe was. set up to remove her brother from his
[7012]position With, the. California State Liquor Authority
[7014]ati cere ON
[7016]as insturoted by. superiors.
[7018]‘vhen. ‘questioned as to. whether or not her brother,
[7019]_ Richard: Case. Nagell, maintains any type of property at her
[7020]“-@ |. residence; she advised that he does maintain a military -
[7021]. type. metal. foot locker, and that he has maintained it at.
[7022]'. her residence. since his. discharge from the United .
[7023]States: Army. She noted that as this foae locker is — -
[7025]= not the: root locker is open ‘or ‘locked,
[7027]oted. that during ‘the course of the inter-
[7028]nore Gambert,_ her husband, - Loud Gambert °
[7030]NN AR se AR Ant ote a A Ma Eg
[7032]ca
[7036]tat
[7040]13-00000
[7042]tea New *
[7044]paranoi taf eatures.", Asked. oD ™ ‘ami on. 3/24/63 if. his
[7046]This document, csc hTERT Toe on conclusions of the 6b. OEM. .. ere :
[7048]es ‘ a Ba Ss le are not to be distributed Sutside your ageney.
[7050]6 /— yee = 37 GE se S|
[7053]13-00000
[7055]Al. 8. Government.
[7057]fanpression, tearful, nervous
[7058]Got 20. see my etd 2
[7059]Bank Romery:
[7061]voswaLpe . Subsequent: “to ‘President's Ss: assassinatio
[7063]ae ‘laimed ac acquaintance with: OSWALD ‘and wife On 1/18/6
[7064]caine disclaimed any. nos eaee. of” subject
[7067]13-00000
[7070]13-00000
[7072]whieh ‘the. subject shad ‘on ‘his “person ° when: Bee a
[7073]rence. to Medical. Aid to Cuba, Fair play ‘for: Cuba -
[7075]pril.6, “1960, edition’ of, “phe ew ‘York Times"
[7076]ape contained a full-page. advertisement ‘captioned
[7077]wh at 1s Really: Happening . in fuba," placed: by the
[7078]in: Play: for. Cuba’ Committee: (FPCC)... “This. advertisement _
[7080]unced the. formation of the FPCC: in: New, ‘York: City.
[7081]‘declared. the FPCC intended to promulgate: "the
[7082]ch about - ‘revolutionary Cuba" to neutralize ‘the:
[7083]BtO ted Amexican press oe
[7085]A180" ‘testified he. and TABER ‘obtained funds: ‘from ‘the ®
[7086]am Government, which were. -ppplied. toward the: ‘cost of
[7088]wo yens Communist party. cP), and: Socialist ‘Workers a
[7090]Party CHP) elements | to. exert their power within the,
[7093]13-00000
[7095]a: second | source advised that. the:
[7096]jonal- Meadquacters: of. ‘the. “FPCC ‘is located in. ‘Room. 329
[7097]199: Broadway,” New: York’ City, According”. to “this sourc
[7098]position of” National | Office Director’ was created in.
[7099]fall. ‘of 1962. cand was, ‘filled: by. VINCENT "TED". ‘LEE
[7100]10! now - formulates. -FPCC policy. This” source: observed
[7101]has. : followed a course of. ‘entertaining: and. accepting
[7102]cooperation. Of: ‘many. ‘other organizations including.
[7103]the. cP ‘and the. SWP, when: he ‘has felt it: would ‘be to his
[7104]It henefit as’ well’ as, the FPCC's. However , LEE:
[7105]indicated. to: this source he has 10° “intention. of
[7106]ermitting FPCC policy’ ‘to. be? determined, ‘by ‘any other
[7107]ganization,.. BE-feels..the: FPCC ‘should: ‘advocate. re ump
[7108]on of, ‘diplomatic ‘relations between’ Cuba. ‘and: the
[7109]od States ‘and ‘support. the vight- Of * Cubans: tO
[7110]ge their. revolution. without . interference. from |
[7111]nations, “but - not: ‘Support the Cuban revolution
[7113]the
[7115]he scp. and the s¥P have: been designated pursuant, ‘to:
[7116]cutive Order. 10450.
[7118]‘Ss BACKGROUND :
[7120]RONOLOGICAL, RECORD OF. 8U8 sect
[7122]AL review on October. iT; 1983, of the Military.
[7123]ce Records: ‘on ‘file at. the- Military ‘Personnel Records.
[7124]Louis, Missouri, P, indicated that: RICHARD CASE
[7126]othe subject” underwent ‘treatment ar. “the Walter. Reed”
[7127]Washington, Dn cers as ao result (of: an ‘airplane crash
[7128]: On. “November: 28 ; ‘1954, in ‘whieh the’ ‘subject, was involved. ran
[7129]° The” subject. was the: ‘sole ‘survivor. of. ‘this crash. The subject
[7132]13-00000
[7134]Sa result’ of. ‘the crash. ‘the. ‘subject Was. ; suspicious ‘of.
[7135]uestions asked him. ‘When _ subject was examined -On April, a,
[7136]955, “the. hos tility, had di sappearéed ‘and his. ‘suspicions - ad |
[7137]been. lessened « His. responses | at. that time were ‘regarded. as
[7139]in April; “956, Captata | ‘CHARLES STANLEY, Administrative
[7140]fice. Detail, “Los: Angeles ‘Police Department,. Los ‘Angeles ,. Ts
[7141]1liferaia,. advised that one. RICHARD. Ce (NAGELL had “questioned
[7143]ae | a
[7146]13-00000
[7148]) wat 2, 7952, “undes serial. number 02 028 346,
[7149]d on. active duty. on the Same. date. av Fort: Benning
[7150]While. serving on. active uty a8 an, officer, | she:
[7151]: “a Second, Lieut
[7152]Son ovember 14, 1952.
[7154]2 service. ‘records ndicated: that: NAGELL ‘se €
[7155]Nations — Stmmer-Fal1 Campaign: in: Korea, the,
[7156]Second Korean Winter: Campaign’ in Korea, ‘the. Korean Summer-
[7157]FE uy Campaign in’, 1952." the- ‘Third Korean Winter. ‘Campaign. ‘jn
[7158]and: the United Statos. Summer-Fall Campaign in 19537500"
[7159]fe was: awarded ‘the Korean» Service’ Nedal with one Silver Star,
[7160]the National Néfense Service Medal, the United Nations. Service
[7161]Medal, “the Bronze Star: Medal, the: Purple Heart. with two. Oak’
[7162]‘leat Clusters ,: the Expert Infantry - Badge, the. Parachute
[7163]Glider, Badge ,. the Combat.’ Infantryman‘s Radge, and. the Republic
[7164]of Korea Presidential linit Citation. a
[7166]“its character’ ‘and ‘efficiency ratings ranged from:
[7167]unkown to, Superior, and there is. no- record of courts-martial
[7168]or: absence, without. official leave,
[7171]13-00000
[7173]ex : rear is: HAROLD Gy. “COBB, ‘Chief, Regi
[7174]Veterans Administration 4 Admission Center. “Los. Angel
[7176]: “pecember: 15, “y962, the subject “advised ‘special
[7177]gents: ‘of. “the FBI- in, Jacksonville, “Florida, that in June,..
[7178]962,; he- was . accused. of + staking a. $20,000. bribe’ by the: State
[7179]everage : :Department, Los” Angeles, California, ‘and: was”
[7180]eleased- from his” employment on. June’8, 1962, for refusing.
[7181]oO answer questions ;: . ‘The Subject said he’ talked to the: bheet
[7183]in. ‘Los: Angeles’ regarding the. possibility of. his dismissal.
[7185]being a: violation, of his: civil Tights; es oo
[7188]13-00000
[7190]L962. to July 23, 1962
[7192]On September 23, 1965, EP T- “2 p made available the
[7194]suance ‘of. a subpoena. ncaa be tecum, - The. ‘identity.
[7195]re ee subpoenaed | is” HAROLD Ge COBB Chied , Regis
[7197]ae from ‘the’ Department of imployment to: the.
[7198]ad. _been _cmployed since. that time: as” a Special A;
[7200]stic: argument. and, as. a: ‘result. “of this: ‘the. ‘pol
[7201]and he. ‘was arrested for. being drunk. * NAGELL.
[7203]ight 's s. treatment and ‘made’: ‘some. ‘general complaints
[7204]abou t los, Angeles Police Personhel. © “NAGELL stated.
[7206]NAGEL advised | that he then went to. ‘his superiors
[7207]‘and. advised . them ‘of what had happened. “Asa result: of ail_o
[7208]“thas, | NAGELL stated he was “placed on: suspension ‘on June 8, :
[7210]A962, on: “charges of | ‘creating a. disturbance for heing’ drunk’
[7213]18-00000
[7215]a ‘He noticed an automobile: on. two. occasions”
[7216]ay and cat. about. 8:00 PL Stopped: his S Gar on: the
[7217]. Twomen from ‘the: car’
[7218]“They, were dressed in. business . suits.
[7219]lat first: ‘they were, ‘police. Officers. One” o
[7220]“asked: ‘him ‘where his. ‘gun was, . ‘and. he! told -the man i
[7221]Ly the: Blove Compartmcnt. He: gave. this man, the
[7223]NAGELL .advised © that these » men drove! nim. toa med
[7224]ibu,.. California, and left. him.,¢ NAGELL state
[7225]then, drove. himself. back: to Los: Angeles , faliforni
[7226]_Sawtell | . Cal iforay,
[7228]license. ‘Social Security card, and ‘Selective: Service:
[7229]Registration. ‘NAGELL stated. that. on July 25,.. :
[7231]: received. a: money” order. fron- a. relative,” ‘and ‘bécause | he trad .
[7232]no! ‘identification was. unable. “to cash: At: - He. advised. thatihe
[7233]hasa, ‘quick: temper. ‘and: that this situation: ‘made him. “hot!
[7234]unde the: collar." _ For ‘this: ‘reason. he ‘contacted: the FBI,
[7236]Be
[7239]13-00000
[7241]Mr ~ NAGELL Stated.that . in’retrospect . he believes.
[7242]Police: ‘Department’ ‘did ‘have. a. right to- ‘take. ‘the.
[7244]tems ‘in’ ‘line. with: their. investigation... He’ stated tha
[7245]uld bé possible, he would-like to rescind his.
[7247]1 complaints MP. ‘NAGELL dedlined: ‘to furnish ‘a’
[7249]Statement .. Tat = .
[7251]he: following article appeared. 4 in the. “Santa Moa
[7253]‘Then NAGELL: hung up. a
[7255]“A few | ‘moments ‘later, ‘a ‘gecond call came : in. from.
[7256]2 ness who ‘said, that. a man suffering» from a pullet: wounc
[7257]ad driven. Up . ‘to him’ and asked for. airections to ce
[7259]et the. Veterans. ‘Hospital, officers: found:
[7264]ft ‘California. as a Special. Investigator... fle. stated
[7265]a. result. of his. investigation. of. ‘some large cafes
[7266]and: pars) in the ‘Los Angeles. ‘area, one of which he named. as |
[7267]the: ‘Mauna’ Loa, and. ‘some. > controversy which he! had, bad with |
[7270]13-00000
[7272]“jan 22, “1962, “had. been
[7274]that: ‘on August’ 6 5 igen: he:
[7275]wee ae SO that he. could, Be
[7277]te. sno he, felt he. had. been t. states
[7280]13-00000
[7282]“He. stated. that. he “nade the
[7284]ote ‘stated: that: “he: did
[7285]2 He: stated that
[7287]would. ‘not ‘g0 back: to. the: United States. He ‘gaid ‘that-
[7288]spac nckbiag. to. 60" back ‘for, “and: that. his. dismissal ely
[7291]13-00000
[7293]ived, “the: $1, 100: 00 ‘secon, ah
[7294]he was going ‘to. sone (Ofber
[7296]“have the. mba sy
[7297]g to lay” my- ‘head:
[7299]on “Octoher. 4, “tose, this same. “Individual reappeared
[7301]7 Tas oe . 7
[7304]13-00000
[7307]13-00000 _
[7309]recent dave pe
[7310]L Am, unable. to" mak
[7312]“the ‘most.
[7313]2. Also,.
[7315]retirement contributions. and.
[7316]‘at the
[7318]"T request, that m:
[7319]re mbursement for unused leave. be. forwarded | £0. ne
[7320]ted address. as.soon/as practical,”
[7322]"Yo rs traly
[7324]On. RICHARD c 7 NAGEL.
[7326]rronany CASE. WAGELL.
[7328]: “On. November: 16; “1962, “the subject advised Special
[7329]Agents: of’ the New. ‘York City Office of . the FBI Vthat che was
[7332]1p-00000
[7334]se. the 280 and, as. a, "result; clear. his | name.
[7335]paueorte between
[7337]18, ‘had. given: ‘Limited: information. to. ‘him, “due - to. personal |
[7338]circunstances. ‘at. the. time. = He: ‘requested ‘that: apologies. be:
[7339]onveyed: ‘to SA: RICHARDS for: not» "going « all. the-way" on —
[7340]evealing: all: he: knew: concerning individuals in. whoa SA.
[7342]Ie HHARDS : expressed an® Antereste) oe eee noe
[7344]a The, ‘following information was: présented | by (NAGELL -
[7345]- tO the interviewing. Special, ‘Agent on. _two: typewritten sheets :
[7348]13-00000
[7350]are my opinion: this: resulted
[7351]i¢ sdeparinent Tete 8 rae ‘Of
[7353]--Ruay ‘Cleye:
[7354]re * Sam Cuda ~
[7355]Martin’ ‘Cusimano, aceon Louis Dragna ae
[7356]moot ee UG -
[7359]13-00000
[7361]Go Hone 28, pee ihe sumses
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[7366]Rec ber - 15: 1962,
[7368]on’ Decembe 8; i962, “the: subject: advised Speci
[7369]of the FRI in: Jacksonville, Florida,: that. he had:
[7370]: y the, Ue 5. Athy and. had been: ‘invol
[7372]1959; and ‘subsequently. became. employed ‘on: De
[7374]1959" by. ‘the State: Beverage. Department ‘in Los Angeles, ‘Calif rn
[7375]He said. ain June, 1962, “he was accused. of taking. a $20 000.
[7377]ibe! by: the’ State. Beverage: Department: and was released | f
[7378]. vemployment- on’ June” 8, 1962; “for refusing to “answer:
[7379]“qu stions . He stated. he : talked ‘to the: FBI in’ Los Angele
[7380]-regarding | the Possibility: of: his dismissal being. a violati
[7381]of his: civil ‘rights. _ a ns a vo
[7384]13-00000
[7386]centally unbalanced,
[7389]13-00000
[7391]NAGELL. stated. he: pis preséatly residing. at ‘the
[7393]rien. he is unable to identify and
[7394]a Soviet Agent. He: ‘said. he Spoke
[7396]a ‘He said nis. tito has several bullet holes. ing tn
[7398]On December a ibda'e estorta ware nae Se tesate
[7400]on PRESENT ILINESS This 32 yoar old white” » male
[7402]He clains these: since. ‘an: “airplane accident, ‘he had: had ain
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[7407]xan Revealed a “well nourished. “well
[7409]Leena gniee said “that he wishes he were dead.” Othe
[7410]he ‘looks. angry”. and - anxious . Re is. well oriented ale
[7411]‘place, bus: sometimes seeds to look in a small
[7412]° ' oo ‘Sometimes: during the :
[7414]pounds: - “Pupils” are. equal. ‘and ‘normal. reaction’ ‘to
[7415]onsensual- reflex.” ie shows. a left facial ‘paralysis
[7416]- from, the” bead | injury. “Lungs | “Are. clear. . Heart:
[7417]toni ; No. edema. — “Abdomen: is: flat
[7418]Oo. masses: “and organs . not: palpable. » . Neurological. '
[7419]n: is. ‘normal - except “a: left. facial. ‘paralysis: an
[7420]ggering ‘during’ Romberg. procedure. Optic ‘fund was
[7421]eripheral ‘vision By confrontation”, is: ‘normal:
[7423]2 Skull ‘and chest x
[7424]tive. “BKG ‘nora. - EEG without a definite.
[7425]The’ ‘spinal fluid ‘shows. a. ‘total protein. of ‘
[7426]? t any - increase’ of. globulin, 1 ‘ymph, and.”
[7427]negative... Pressure ‘was’ 80 mm° of water. Routine
[7428]tory study normal. ~ A psychological evaluation done: -
[7429]Martin reports | some. ‘defect. in. ‘the. Antellectual. sphere
[7431]SOURSE 1 HOSPITAL? Duritig ‘the! ‘time, he was in. ‘this ay
[7433]top during: 1 ‘the ‘time he - is. asleep. Most. of. the
[7436]13-00000
[7438]y Cinterservice) ‘dated’ 1- 1563"
[7440]he following addendum: we
[7442]Ay ane poet hospital benefit from. their. Lint patient bad
[7444]fe pegentatres and irritability that. che should b
[7446]peadachoe ans ee they give’
[7447]After: ‘several days. of listening
[7450]13-00000
[7452]olving: the: FBS Le “and: sone” shooting event
[7454]“before: the, ‘Psychiatric. Stand and: at first: wai
[7455]tant ‘to, answer questions: and | when: ‘asked. a ‘qu
[7457]he- ‘didnot. have. to. ‘since , nothing more “could be done’
[7458]Re. ‘also’ Said the ‘reason for. him wishing . to leave:
[7460]he. shad a: Job in mind and was, going for. an - interview.
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[7465]: Syndrome: assoc} ated” with ‘brain trauma i
[7466]story of). with behavioral. ‘reaction: character i:
[7468]Agents of: the “Mien ; “Plorida, Office of | ‘the | :
[7470]Northeast First. ‘Avenue: and .Fifth. ‘Street, Miami, .
[7471]‘time he- stated: thathis name was. JOE KRAMER. He.
[7472]ing” in. his: 1957. Ford hardtop, black cand. white in:
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[7477]“Cuban i an’ Miami = if he" “would be” permitted to. ‘return these
[7478]tems to. his: ‘contact $O. he ‘could: ‘bs of. further: use to the™ ms
[7480]ned. to him ‘tn: time to make the delivery to vihomever .
[7481]a “When pressed for details Subject, was’
[7483]spionage statutes. and the registration act. “together: Meee.
[7484]ther. laws were: explained to ‘him and he acknowledged, he: was
[7485]ully> aware of their” Provisions. we :
[7487]Subject: ‘stated. he was: discharged | trom the Liquor
[7488]Control: authority. ‘in ‘California under false. ‘charges. of
[7489]" cepting bribes. “Immediately thereafter; ‘he- left for.
[7491]texico. because ‘he was disgusted, with the United States...
[7492]In August | or. September, 1962, he met a nan. fron. Maryland . in’.
[7493]Mex: City who, introduced him to individuals: ‘whom he believed
[7494]| “vmay have -been soviet agents,’ He. refused | ‘to: give descriptions,
[7496]“names ” or. other | ‘details. When questioned « ‘on. specific points
[7498]he. became” mysteriously evasive « na San bel
[7501]13-00000
[7503]there ‘would, not. ‘be. any- microfilm, and. ‘that wats’ ‘a
[7505]sion | on his) ‘part: that. microfilm would be: delivered ™
[7506]ol... ‘He: ‘also Stated he did mot: know: what the. gun. ..
[7508]2 USER. ior: but. ‘since he was: not stupid ‘he thought At
[7510]ae ga to kill. someone with. Subject tore off the.
[7512]‘On ‘April ‘19, “1963, ‘the ‘subject: contacted: the Los,
[7513]Angeles , California Off ice of the FBI and furnished the.
[7514]“following | information| to.a Special Agent, of. that. Office:
[7516]: Oe ke ET
[7517]a
[7520]13-00000
[7522]The! subject. stated that: he: ‘and his’ wife obtained:
[7523]locutory ‘decree ‘of: ‘divorce. ‘in: Los. Angeles» ‘County ‘on.
[7524]165-1962... Heusaid. that one of the: terms ‘of: ‘this.
[7525]vas, that he was to have: ‘reasonable visitation”
[7526]th his” two. ‘small. children. ‘He said: ‘that. his wife
[7528]subject : said that. he. and his. wife “appeared. ‘in —
[7529]Aprii- 19; “1963, and. a female. judge, name not: known.
[7530]to .the matter. with subject. acting as his ‘own: attorney
[7531]hat, the Judge: interrupted. him and: “instructed, bim to.’
[7532]lawyer: before. the: ‘proceedings would. ‘continue, we
[7533]dviaed: ‘that he. argued with the > Sudge. to no avail
[7535]At. ‘this point © an “the interview, ‘the: subject. becal
[7536]and: quite rude.” He. saad. that. ‘the: Judge” ‘cannot order
[7538]tation: af: ‘his ‘civil: ‘rights. “He ‘paved on. that
[7539]h aware. Of the, Law and demanded that: the Fat
[7541]The - ‘Bubject. then lett the office with. no: further,
[7542]f about. the matter... He ‘mentioned as he was. leaving that
[7543]f. he. did: not get, -& job. in ‘the near future, he. was going. toe :
[7544]"plow the. lid: off"concerning. Los _ Angeles Police Department,
[7545]: s° Angeles Sheriff" s Office, ‘Los Angeles. ‘County Bistrict:
[7546]‘Attorney and the ‘California Alcoholic. Beverage Control Board.
[7548]vee at is: noted ‘that ‘subject. at ‘first. refused to. give = .
[7549]cae his: address. ‘He then stated that, he had lived in Mexico City, 00.0:
[7550]“DF. until about. 30. days REO! ‘He then gave. his ‘Los . Angeles. anne
[7552]Oa BBL
[7554]13-00000
[7556]omplaining. ‘of. impairment ‘of vision, ‘left eye." ‘Records -
[7557]: foreiga: matter. removed fron. eye. and. -NAGELL discharged.
[7558]intment.-for.. September 16, 1963, was made for NAGELL
[7560]ailed to keep: ‘this: “Appointment. . :
[7562]‘Records ‘indicate ‘the. following. service-connected
[7563]njuries have. been | entered ‘Og NAGELL ‘a x records : a
[7565]ultiple. ‘scars; left. face ‘and head’
[7567]econstructéed left ear ‘canal | ate .
[7569]aresia. (paralysis), partial, ‘lett facial | nerve
[7570]LagophthaLmos . -- left. (defective hearing. bilateral):
[7571]‘Multiple’ scars, left forearn, left buttocks « right.
[7572]“leg, - and Tight. knee : ; ;
[7574]L subpoena: duces tecun, “The identity: of.
[7575]the. ‘person to. ‘be. -subpoenaed: is Mrs .. MARGUERITE COFFEE, -
[7576]Chief of Medical ‘Records, “VAS Outpatient Clinic, 1031, South °
[7577]Broadway, | ‘Los. Angeles» California... | 7 oe!
[7580]13-00000
[7582]ber 20, 1963 ‘by. ‘patrolmen we
[7583]At, that. Fine
[7585]that he “had fired: two: shots . dn the bank “to keep anyone from.
[7586]He stated, that he. was, an . excellent. shot, and
[7589]13-00000
[7590]Peseeemenreaneads ache
[7592]inteniigence. He” advised ‘that he. had ‘been trained in ‘the’
[7593]xmy. Counterintelligence School, . He: ‘paid: that. he: ‘had been
[7594]assigned: ‘to Field : Operations. Intelligence and had. taught © °
[7596]n three. gin saat occasions. in F onnention . with. his- service.
[7597]* Korean ‘campaign, . ‘and | he had received. “three: ‘purple .
[7598]((Gont inoing. jhe advised that. ‘he. received a battle
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[7603]“on Seprenber ai, 1963, “Assistant Uatied States
[7605]on. Septenbe ay, 1963, a:  conpiaiat. was ‘filea before
[7606]pane Commissioner HENRY Cc. _ CLIFTON ,: EL Pago.
[7608]take a. hing | of: value; to Wit, | “Travelers Cheques;
[7609]ain the’ care. and. | custody. and. controlled: by the:
[7611]ond’ ‘in: reser “aniount- of: $25, ooo, in: ‘Lew ee cl
[7612]was” remanded. to. the. cus tody of. the United :
[7613]‘Marshal | cand Placed in the El Paso (County, dail.
[7615]On September 21, 1963, RICHARD CASE WAGELL was’
[7616]e EI Paso. “County. Jail: ‘subsequent: to ‘a.
[7617]. Ss ‘Commissioner, ‘HENRY - Ce CLIFTON , -E1Paso
[7619]him were. read to. him _by: the United States. Commissioner
[7620]hich, ‘time: he. was. advised of. his right. to counsel.
[7622]NAGELL + was again. ‘advised as to. the ‘Adenti ty of the
[7624]Special Agents ‘of. “the. FBC who were. desirous of. interviewing --
[7625]in and was. told — that: he did: ‘not’ have ‘to make | any. ‘Statement.
[7626]and © ‘that: any: statement. he: made could be. used - against him. 9
[7627]in a: court’. of. law. He was | also ‘advised that he had the >)
[7628]rinbe ‘to: consult. an attorney. ‘and. ‘that, no. threats or. promises’
[7629]7 made. to him, to, induce him ‘to. take a a statement 2 i"
[7632]13-00000
[7634]ice of: EL. ‘Paso Police. ‘Department.
[7635]Sopearary ‘AR. and his partner, . :
[7637]with a. ‘great. ‘number of Apia pinta
[7638]iat ‘stated. that, ‘the. night before. > while
[7640]ed ‘that b when “he entered. the. State National
[7641]ma: ‘the: ‘afternoon. of ‘September 20 , Pence
[7642]Balen : any: money. |
[7644]904 South. air etre, in 1 EL “Paso. “He stated that: he
[7645]ade: inquiry: ak. ‘this. “address, “but IBARRA ‘had © moved and he. Wi
[7646]Rhee cable: to find out. where: he had . “gone. He. ‘Said. that. he’ had '
[7648]onsiderable Length of ‘tine. in: > the “hospital, He advised
[7651]13-00000
[7653]hat Rector 1 EDWIN A WEINSTEIN, a ‘eivilian. doctor. assigned
[7654]18: Neuropsychiatric Center. at: Walter. ‘Reed: ‘Hospital | chad:
[7655]r ted | Aim: and » nad. Cine Romane ‘amount ‘of. information
[7657]‘his
[7659]S highly.
[7660]S saying. or. where. he’ was for’ short: ‘periods
[7661]“he chad. requested. admission’ to. ‘the psychiatric:
[7662]he Veterans! Hospital, Brentwood, Los Angeles,
[7663]however, - che was. not granted” admission and: he
[7664]¥ to the | best. at. his Fegollection he made this’
[7666]magn. was’ at ehh “pmotional, was: “given
[7668]‘Was. not able. ‘to ‘do any. ‘eind ‘of “work because of “the. ‘time: he:
[7669]had spent in the’ ‘Army. He stated that the only, job: that’ he.
[7670]‘yas prepared, for was that. ‘of. an ‘investigator: ‘since he. had
[7671]«dearned this: as a | Counter-Intelligence Corps ‘eprésentative
[7673]Ba.
[7675]ational ‘Bank. "so that. ‘they would
[7676]_ He stated that he was. not
[7678]“anys money - ‘and “that” he- ‘fired the shots to.
[7679]- om: following: him; He: said: that: he had ‘used :
[7680]ot 08. KRANE- and’. ROBERT: Ce. NOLAN: and. ‘atviged the
[7682]mpetectives: cand FRU ‘Agents: going. ‘through the suspect s.
[7683]‘Suitcase found photostatic copies: of. numerous certificates. an
[7684]Omme: dations, showing. he ‘lad’ acquired an outstanding “military
[7685]ecord : am lh. years: of service. ‘with the U. 35. “Army in. Kore:
[7686]A ‘pho tostat: Showed he -had been. honorably ‘discharged: fron” “the
[7687]“Army: at Fort: Dix, New, Jersey, October, 1959,. with the rank
[7688]‘of. C ptain. . ae a! _ 7 : :
[7691]13-00000
[7693]os e September 22, 1963, “issue ‘of “the El Paso.
[7694]ontains. an. article. ‘On: “page “I-A entitled ."NAGELL
[7695]3 Not. Guilty." According to the article, "City
[7697]meals since
[7698]e prisoner ma
[7700]‘The. ‘September. ‘26, 1963, issue’ of the fl Paso Times
[7701]contains an: ‘article on page 7-A. entitled *NAGELL To Take.) >
[7702]Sanity” ‘Test. at. La. Tuna." “According. to. the’ article, "Former
[7703]y Captain’ RICHARD CASE NAGELL, 34, charged | with. bank robber
[7704]in’ an° unsuccessful ‘attempt to- hold up the State National Bank ,
[7705]will be taken’ to La Tuna. Correctional. Tnstitution ‘Thursday
[7707]oe “He will: ‘be. examined by 1 Dr; Re Ty BENNETT on “the.
[7708]. motion. of. Assistant U.S. District. ‘Attorney. FRED MORTON, .who
[7709]obtained ‘an order authorizing the check uP from: U.S. District
[7711]as THOMASON... oe ook, a
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[7716] brelinin ry: investienvioa 4 indicated
[7718]“army; RA. “32 293 "739 ,° bog, [state assigned to ‘the 4th ;
[7719]sated ena par tery 7 Scoeh, Support ‘Command Fort Bliss,
[7721]japan; where, ‘NAGELL had. been sent 0
[7723]| entiel ed mo dup: Sua pect.
[7724]1 MRC HARD Case 7
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[7729]i ee
[7731]oe chad a. motive: ‘for doing. what: td diay" x NAGELE,
[7732]told Fe eral Judge. R..B. THOMASON. But: my: “motive was. ‘not,
[7733]hold’ 'p the bank. oT do not . “intend - disclose my 1 motive. ‘at
[7735]a AGELL. asked. Jadge "THOMASON -to discharse Attorney
[7737]OND; who: had - heen. appointed: by” the ‘court. to
[7739]: NAGELL.. Judge’ “THOMASON. granted the. reques ae
[7741]elling. NAGELL that “Mr. HAMMOND - is. ‘considered an able,
[7743]cons cientious . member of E1'-Paso Bar.. AGEL: had refused to
[7744]Le AMMOND. b re > the bear ne. Opens PLM
[7746]1963,
[7748]On. November 18,
[7750]the subject, f: sled. a vrit,of. 2
[7752]RAGELL requested. interview with a Special Agent
[7753]“On interview," NAGELL, furnished. the ) following.
[7755]mae "11/19/63
[7756]“EL, Paso,- Texas.
[7758]t, Richard Case’ Nagel, do hereby | make the. follgwing |
[7763]13-00000 _
[7765]enent (or . to. ‘answer any’ questions, “whatsoever, to ‘any
[7766]Thomscever Including a. psychiatrist, Psychologist,
[7770]on November. qo, 1963, Assistant: ‘United States Attorn
[7771]FREDERICK J “MORTON , EL Paso,” advised | that there ‘is. no validity
[7772]to: subject' 8. allegation inasmuch. as Title. 18, ‘Section 4244,
[7773]UE ‘S.: “Code, states. ‘that upon’, a motion PY, ‘the United States -
[7776]13- 00000 _
[7779]13-00000
[7781]‘On: January. 3; 1964, “GEORGE NORMAN. 'STANGA was -
[7782]contacted. ‘and interviewed: at the. ‘El. Paso. County- Jail after.
[7784]requested. that hé be “interviewed: “regarding RICHARD CASE
[7785]At. the. time of ' the interview, NAGELL was incar-
[7786]cerated at the El. Paso County Jail as. a Federal ‘prisoner
[7787]for. the ‘crime. of. bank’ robbery. ° ae
[7790]13-00000
[7792]STANGA’ Stated, that. since his’ arrest. and. lackreerati
[7793]checks ,- ‘he? ‘has “become © quit
[7794]one Stated | ‘that. NAGELL: (was
[7796]neler s 3 Hein aren .
[7798]oa making. a ‘decision that: everything ‘was’ “against
[7799]ngele: ‘and that he’ should | attempt) to. leave. th
[7800]States: fora Communist country in ‘Europe | In: ‘Aine wit
[7802]Of | ‘the “road ‘on at least
[7803]‘Socaaions: and attempted suicide with. ‘a! pistol which
[7805]was: in: his. ‘possession. He explained | to STANGA,: “however,”
[7806]that” he did ‘not, have the > guts | to. do. at and | “Just. let’ eninge
[7808]trigger": and decided that, ‘the. best: way: to commit ‘suicide|
[7809]would: be’ by Jeaving the hotel: and | having 3 a. Wohoot-out" with
[7812]13-00000 -
[7814]ank ‘and fired: two ‘shots. into a ‘wall ae
[7815]= fully. ‘expecting. ‘to be. ‘shot. doxn. by. “B.
[7816]- Howevér, he: escaped. to. his: gary which
[7818]al ranuary 6, 1964, ee
[7819]statement:
[7823]and voluntary statement. to Edward | Joseph "hut phy. ‘and
[7824]Gorman. who" have. identified Anemselves (
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[7832]nuary. 1s, “1964, Ns FRANCES: NAGELL:, “a5. ‘South:
[7833]& goles, California, telephonically advised “
[7835]ary” 846 1964; “the. ® mgect wae arraigne
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[7840]. Pas Cmenas enroute. to: ‘the ‘EL Paso ‘County
[7841], 1964. cand. “Theo's in the. ‘custody of. ‘the
[7844]13-00000
[7846]to have: located at the. address
[7848]4) es island, “New York, HA 6=6830, a trunk in.
[7849]pratt gas mask is: contained. tn the ' Salve box of
[7851]of: various Communist ‘Party members: ‘agents, couriers
[7852]; vA man. by" the: name, of. ‘FRED JOHN (BENSO)
[7854]; “wr, MORTON’ Ss. ‘confidential source’ “told | “him
[7855]ELL" S prior ‘contacts with. the FBI “were. not ‘revealing
[7857]because they. were. made by. him solely to. ‘determine what the
[7859]EBE, Kxtew ‘¢ “of: him.
[7862]13-00000
[7864]a : SU ject dvised. “Special.
[7865]ents of. the’ EL: Paso. Office’ ‘of. “the: ‘FBI that: “for. the record’
[7866]he would. | Like “to Say. that. his. ‘ansociation with LEE. HARVEY ~
[7867]OSWALD, was purely: social and ‘that. be. had. net. OSWALD | in
[7868]i ity and in. ‘Texas .
[7869]this “matter.
[7871]that be had ‘heen’ acquainted with WARTNA, the: wife.
[7872]0 OSWALD.” Subject: further. pointed ‘out that
[7873]“having, marital difficulties with _MARINA.. - The
[7874]tated: ‘that. ‘he knew, “certain: things": in the ,
[7875]h=Nallas - areas He said ‘he wanted ‘to. let. the. :
[7876]ervice. know. that. someone “like! OSWALD was in that!
[7877]owaver,- ‘he. knew: ‘nothing’ of OSWALD" 8. intention to.
[7878]ate esident. “The: ‘subject stated that. the
[7880]“AM “Service sagont. “The - Secret Service Agent. was.’
[7881]introduced to” NAGELL. and: ‘he. ‘attempted | to interview NAGEL:
[7882]“. NAGELL. stated, that the ‘information’ he originally
[7884]to: Teport. to, the: ‘Secret Service. was: "too late now.
[7886]; ow January 23, “1964 an ‘agent. of ‘the United States.
[7887]ecret Service ; Bl. Paso; “Texas, advised that an Agent of
[7888]the : Uni ted” States® Secret’ ‘Service: in Dallas,- TEXAS , had - 7
[7889]displayed, B. photograph’ of the: subject ‘to. Mrs... “MARINA: “OSWALD, .°
[7890]wife Of LEE. HARVEY OSWALD, on. January. 18, (1964., “This photo-
[7891], : taken ‘of! the. subject. on” Septenber - ‘2i, “1963, at the.
[7892]County, Sheriff! ‘Ss. (Office. Mrs. MARTHA OSWALD, covetully
[7894]Ee BZ C e
[7895]oT . .
[7896]Arg: tay EO. oy ae . e
[7899]13-00000
[7901]Sears. and. marks.
[7903]50. oe
[7905]once Robert er Nola
[7907]7 bhite. ;
[7908]Male a
[7909]_ American.
[7911]August 8, 1930, Greenwich, New Yor
[7912]an 180. ;pounds’ -
[7914]> Medium .
[7915]_ ©, Reddish- ~brown
[7917]=, Brown,
[7919]Left. eye. siscte downward toward:
[7921]S guteiaes 2" vertical scar in fron
[7923]. of left ‘ear; half circle.shape ©
[7925]'° scar commencing in left eyebrow -
[7926]“and extending ‘down ‘to. check
[7931]13-00000
[7933]- LouTs : NAGELL, “born. Norway,
[7934]* deceased;, “FRANCES : ‘KAUFMAN ©
[7935]NAGELL, | born® United. States
[7936]856 South Catalina, ‘Los “An
[7937]California. (January. 15, 1964)
[7938]resided 22 First Street, ‘Troy
[7939]New York as: of. August” 5, “1948
[7940]LOUIS NAGELL, Syracuse, Ne ¥YO.
[7941]“{as of ‘August 23. 1950).
[7942]“Mrs. ELEANORE GAMBERT,. 82-25
[7943]Grand Avenue, Elmhurst, - Long
[7946]ELEANOR HOPPER, 8222. Ankener
[7947]“Avenue: Elmhurst, Long asiend
[7949]“Abeny, New York - Gs:
[7950]1948).
[7951]| Box, 75801, Sanford Station
[7953]04-24-8340 _
[7955]02 028 346 (Officer)
[7956]01 438.346 (Officer) 9
[7957]e. Record :Augus t | 3; +1948, Private, ‘resi
[7959]| -j-\port Dix, New Jersey.”
[7960]service Decorations ‘Bronze. Siar Purple Heart
[7962]clusters): ©
[7964]Divorced wife MITSUKO ‘TAKAHASHI, born. ly®
[7965]a ours 1939, Japan, married March 20,
[7966]*1958, United States. Consulate ,.
[7967]“Tokyo, Japan, residence 533A.
[7968]NBN Street, Fort Dix, New: Jorsey
[7969]Cas-.ot February 30, 1959); °
[7970]~ Apartment 12, 440 South: Union
[7971]. Street; Los Angeles,. California:
[7972]i as of - July: 30,. 1962 while Separated)
[7975]13-00000
[7977]Divorced ‘wife
[7979]_ Children ™
[7981]ife, granted jnterlocutory
[7982]‘divore , November: -19,:-1962
[7983]Superior Court’, of. Los: Angeles
[7984]County, ° California; 2
[7985]440 South Union, Los Angele
[7986]California: as" (of: December
[7988]New Jersey -
[7990]ROBERT: LAMONT “NAGELL:, ‘bora
[7991]November 20, . 1960, -Los ‘A Be)
[7995]Hackett Junior ‘High’ ne
[7996]Albany. High’ ‘School ;- “Albaay,
[7998]‘New. ‘York, graduated 1948 ;-
[7999]two year of: college while
[8001]New York: Central’ Railroad, pee
[8002]duly ,° 1948. to August.
[8003]Albany; New. “York jo
[8004]December : 44, - 1959: “to un
[8006]‘Angeles, ‘Californi
[8007]AS” Of: Acute 1963,
[8009]January. a
[8010]Route:.1, “Glen. Falls; N é
[8011]December ,. 1941 to June
[8012]140 New ‘Scotland Avenu
[8013]‘Albany, » ‘New | York; ;
[8014]July, 1948. to” ‘August, 1948,
[8016]304. Madison Avenue , “Albany
[8017]~ New: York; . -
[8018]8222. aAnkener ‘Avenue, ‘Elinhurst
[8019]Long Island, New. ‘York (as ‘of.
[8020]Avgust.1,-1951) ;
[8022]‘15334. "B" Street, ‘pore Dix,’
[8024]New: Jersey~ (as of December ,. 1959).
[8026]“.p.-O.' Box 76121, Sanford Station,
[8028]Se Les’ Angeles, California. recu of.
[8029]4/1960, ‘end as’ of August 20, 962);
[8031]BRE
[8034]13-00000 _
[8036]Angel, $3: California (As. of
[8037]July and September, 1962) ;
[8039]Mexico” CAL 5: w Fa: ‘Mexico,
[8041](subject. Glaimed this’ “reside
[8042]from August. ;. 1962 . to Octobe
[8043]1962, “OAR. ‘subsequent occas:
[8045]Subject claimed. this resident
[8047]or a. ‘period. Jasting until”
[8049]“about March- 15). -1963)3.°
[8050]Washing ton,: D. Ce (subject. *.
[8051]claimed this: ‘residence. durin
[8053]period: ‘subsequent ‘to. June,
[8054]1962, and. prior | to Decembe
[8055]8225 Grasd- ‘Avenue, Elmburs
[8056]Queens. Long. Island, New Yor!
[8057](as of ‘November 15,°1962,. ani
[8059]‘again: on. December : 7, 1962);
[8060]Holiday Inn, Jacksonville,
[8064]“as of- December 15;
[8066]. Room 908; Holiday
[8067]“Brickell. AVeNvE |
[8069]Los Angeles, C
[8071]. Of April. 19, 1963);
[8072]* Box: 75801, Santora | 3
[8074]“guly. 26, 1963);
[8075]BIS) 6th Street, Los. Angeles
[8076]“California: no" date. Given).
[8078]@alifornia, (no. date “given);
[8079]2712) ‘Saturn: Street, Los. “Angeles 19
[8080] Calitormia (ne. date gi’
[8081]“20245 Cajon Bovlevard :
[8082]. California’ (no « date, given)
[8085]13-00000
[8087]UT RENE. eat 1828804
[8089], Atbanyy Bee
[8090]2950
[8092]Avenue. “Albany,
[8093]Apabtonte
[8095]s NewYork: in street
[8096]Times, Aquare. ota
[8098]“Albany 3. ew york (August eee
[8099]as 1950) e oe
[8100]Automobile ° 1957 Ford: hardtop, black. and:
[8101]BET white, “bearing” California ©
[8102]* license MYU 890 Cin. posses
[8103]_ of. this ‘automobile when interviewed . ppt
[8104]* January 24, 1963, an Miami, Florida! :
[8107]13-00000
[8109]Records of the ‘pivisio
[8110]‘Motor: Vehicles, Los Angeles,
[8111]garateratae ah p68 1957:
[8113]den tification ‘pimber es
[8114]€ C7LT138540, renistered ‘to.
[8116]California, |
[8117]er Jaguarys 1963.
[8119]_Stptenten 20;
[8121]"1083 |
[8123]‘NAME AND, NUMBER
[8125]“Richard Case
[8126]Nogell. |
[8128]Richard C.
[8130]Camp- ‘Holabird |
[8133]. #LA 616 479. -N
[8135]“9-21-63 | Sect #2313 |
[8137]“Richard Case |
[8138]te “0 Dank rob’
[8140], Nagell oe
[8143]13-00000
[8145]uba Committee, have. furnished reliable. information in the past
[8147]: This: document contains neither ‘eecommendations | ‘nor. ae
[8148]‘conslusions. of: the: FBI. ® an is: the, proj erty” of. the. FBI" and is’.
[8149]leaned to | your. agency;
[8153]13-00000
[8155]Ww B
[8157]asp: wn nue 3 Ww. Ann ‘our oF: BUREAU ‘OFFICES >i a
[8159]“waten i OFFICE.
[8161]13-00000
[8163]rn oc nr rr
[8165]~ OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10
[8166]- 5010-104
[8168]’ UNITED STATES; <GOVERNMENT
[8170]- M cmorandam
[8172]-_ too ‘Mr. R. J. Leonard oe DATE! -26 March 1964
[8174]FROM : _ Chief, Research pench/ SRS ae
[8176]“_ suBjecT: NAGELL, Richard Case _
[8178]S . ly Attached is a _ copy of a 2 October 1962 memorandum from!
[8179]«the FBI i in regard to ‘Richard Case. NAGELL.
[8181]a * a SA Alexander Ww. NEALE, Ine of the Washington Field
[8182]“Office, FBI,. has informally advised the undersigned that. NAGELL has
[8183]been arrested on the West Coast for bank robbery, is going to. be. 7
[8184]tried: in. the near future for. the alleged. crime, - “and that NAGELL had’ in
[8185]his popséssion the’ following information: ,
[8187]“Richard FECTEAU _
[8188]- (Lynn, Mass) :
[8190]DAC: (CIA) errs
[8193]. . ” ana : .
[8194]MBSsommeme en ed
[8195]_ . Mz. C, CHURCHILL. pwn 4 we rm Ce
[8196]"Mx. J. DAVANON = Ree
[8198]_ Mr, J, SLOSS a. ee _
[8200]Mr. EL LEIBACHER Te Ts
[8202]oy 3. A check of so Indices has revealed no record of NAGELL, and
[8203]an. ; RI chéck only ‘disclosed. the attached FBI report. Please: ‘recheck sO:
[8204]Indices ‘on the “subject, have a file set up on an expedite basis;: and on an- .
[8205]expedite. basis identify the above individuals as to. whether any have any
[8206]“connection with this. Agency. - The above Richard FECTEAU may be
[8207]identical to the individual who was captured by. the Chinese Communists
[8208]and. is: now in prison. S °
[8210]S
[8212]Be “Ae “Also check with Mrs, THORN of 00/¢ to determine whether
[8213]oa o/c. has any record: ‘of NAGELL, It is believed that very possibly some -
[8216]13-00000
[8219]of the above individuals may be connected with the Los Angeles or San
[8221]Francisco Field Office of OO/C, but at the present moment limit the
[8222]check with Mrs. THORN to determine ‘if f they have any record of
[8224]Richard Case NAGELL.
[8229]13-00000
[8231]. : oo (When - Filled In)
[8232]NAME OF SUBJECT ae re
[8234]KEY TO ANALYSIS SYMBOLS* pe
[8235]Mee TDENTNeAE a :
[8236]I-ND = IDENTICAL - NOT DEROGATORY  |_[SEARCH Names as_wniTreN any
[8238]te omek Te DERN TEY ay ene TORY [seen nse antacid ie Foca | peer covert anos omy |
[8240]-SA = SEE ATTACHED MEMORANDUM a BE | SEARCH SUBJECT CARDS ONLY z
[8241]: : | SEARCH ALL CARDS ‘ 1
[8243]AEE
[8244]| FILE NO. | TYPE |
[8247]13-00000
[8249]CHHISTO
[8252]13-00000
[8254]sien Sears 2 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE OB A (oH? 4. ))
[8256]“FE DERAL | BUREAU, OF INVESTIGATION,
[8258]*. s Repori of! AVLD J. 7 RELD-~
[8260]ELD - Ollices = EL PASOD
[8261]Date: "February 4, 1964 . ee aa
[8263]- palé Otc pees ‘EP 65- 951. a - . i 7 Bureau File No. :
[8264]Omy ' RICHARD CASE: a hon ee ae
[8265]. . . a
[8266]© Character, ESPSONAGE = X ee RELEASE UN PART.
[8267]re 0 R TSTAL DENIAL”
[8268]Synopsis; Rackground: “Subject entered WS. “Army 8/5/48 and
[8269]~ honorably discharged. as Captain. 10/29/59. ‘Received “many-
[8270]. ‘caomprign . awards during Korean* conflict _ .S0le survivor) _ . :
[8271].. airplane crash 11/28/54, suffered faciai disfigurement ne
[8273]and: “given. ‘psychiatric: examinat: con. Sulject claimed he was -
[8274]-releaséd. from employment | by State Beverage Department.
[8276]_ Los Angeles, California, 6, "8/82 2, having been accused of. ;
[8277]taking 520,000 bribe. Subject” ‘refused furnish police details
[8278]‘of: his _ shooting by. ‘unidentified. assailant on 7/16/62 and . ;
[8280]. subsequent ly filed Civil, Rights ‘complaint against: police.
[8282]“tin September “T9620. subject advised. U.S. Rnbassy. Mexico: ;
[8284]“City, he. had: been: ‘approached for recruiting in ve ‘xico. Cit ye ; legend
[8286]- refused to ‘elaborate ,. ‘did not di <tre. to return to au S ofowas
[8287]“bitter. ‘disgusted, disillusionce and disaffected. Sai@‘if o-o+y
[8288]he did fO: to Some other: country it. ‘would ‘cost. U. > “millions
[8289]wa “through. being a ‘good: citizen" and thought’ he. ‘ad gotten
[8290]ca "dirty-deal ail. around." Advised FRE in New veo 4 City one
[8291]1/16, ‘62 he wanted : to- “expose. Department.” oy an Atcohosie Deve aye
[8292]Control in: California. - Advised. FBT in Jacksonvili¢. Fla. on _—
[8293]12/15/62. he had been. approached : shortly. before in Hashing ton nee
[8295]De. . b individual believed to be: working for Soviets; a -
[8297]oe contacted Cla. in Mirginia’ ‘for’: instructions. “was. sent ‘to
[8299]Lo as. “chronié
[8300]ya. behavioral
[8303]pig ne,
[8305]eo]
[8307]| Tha document in YALE SELL
[8308]' . : . me ; ergs Of. FOS
[8311]13-00000
[8313]Cudan or Russian’ sources, ‘gave. him” a piatol and “microfilm,
[8314]would he. be permitted to! redurn same to his: contact BO. he.
[8315]could er th oe ne luge te ig Ae Goveramen Claimed: to be
[8317]rights: with children... Subject" s: “Condition diagnoxed by VA; ny . :
[8318]Los Angeles... on 6/4/63 ‘as. "de pression, tearful, nervous, oe ie
[8319]rigid... Yould. con}y utte words “Cot to see ry kids." re
[8320]Attempted Bank ‘fobbery : Subject arrested 9/20/63 in Ei Paso,
[8322]C16, on charge of. cattemptni
[8324]El Faso, sane date” in violation Section: 2123, Title “18, USC:
[8325]Slashed’ wrist. night of. 9720/63, felt he nerded psychiatric:
[8326]AUreatment . highly. emotional eben: ‘interviewed - given to spells .
[8328]of crying
[8329]ft rom Hey
[8331]tated unable to EPA on Peet: sine. “discharge
[8332]aa sub eestor
[8334]; “vaused
[8335]iyarre “Ordnt. etl
[8336]ical Center {or Federal Prisoners. Spi ing? ield;”
[8337]Mis@uri,. one. 724/64 . by USKC, El Paso, tor. 30+ “day period “to:
[8338]- wndergo ‘psychiatric: ‘examination. ~ Alleged Connection with ,
[8339]“LEE HALEY. OS ALD: . 7S
[8341]he
[8343]T.D disc tee “Description »
[8344]and. identification Record: “Set outs SUBJECT. HAS. ATTEMPTED
[8345], SUICIDE. :
[8348]13-00000
[8350]oe, cember- 15. "ye62- the Subject. acvised ‘Special — i
[8351]’yeents'« of the FBI -in® Tacksonville. Florida. that he bade :
[8352]sc gerked ‘a3 a. captain: in Jthe U. Atiy and: ‘bad been: anvolved
[8354]intelligence. investigationstor the. cre ‘for approximate ly.
[8355]oH ‘Bid he served-in Japan for most of bis |
[8356]“period: oft time. ; doa. " apanese. woman tamed MUTSUK! NAGELL
[8357].. from ¥hom. he £5 presently divorced . ite advised that ‘durang.  ~
[8358]rede and” 1958: he’ ‘be ame ‘eC quainted: ‘iw apan- ‘with one. Doctor,
[8360]oe . . 4 oa} 1 se 1 ence ‘aL F Tokyo, _ ;
[8362]Sum #AS’ 3. member, OF the
[8363]“raghtiss, oiganizations..
[8364]nthe. United States. piace -
[8365]tot the: safery. of the internal
[8366]an eivher: 1958 or 1959 |
[8368]seven years-.
[8372]the above: abférmation cone Senin “FULISASE 7
[8373]discharged. honorably from the. Ss: Army on.
[8374]and. subsequently became. employed’ on: “pecembar 14,
[8375]@ Beverage. Department” in’ Los Angeles. California.
[8376]. coused, of faking 8 a $20, 000. ,
[8378]-elative. Ao.
[8380]20 1989.
[8383]13-00000
[8385]RP 65-951. |
[8387]sows sre he resided ‘until recently. ‘He stated while in -
[8388]. Washington. DeoGs he: had been approached, by an-individual ©
[8390]- Soviet. ESpionage Agent. He said he met this person in a GAR IVS...
[8391]bar. -in! ‘Wasbing ton <1. C..; located at 11 aa Street NW, CRU
[8392]'. Washington, D. Cn.
[8393]Intelligence. and 2180 talked : of. giving him an intelligence.
[8394]“assignment. He said the more he thought this matter over.
[8395]he was “positive. that (his. individual works for the Soviets.
[8397]; “to attend AS reception at. the Russian Embassy . He: could not.
[8399]identify the. individual who invited him to the reception.
[8400]“He advis sed. that. che. contacied the Central tntelligence Agency
[8401]ar either. Langley, Virginia... or. Elwood , Virginia, and used.
[8403]_ wanted ‘s some advice: as to whether. ‘to go through with such: ;
[8404]2D assignment." He” sid: he was. to meet this: individual, who
[8406]on, 14th Street, and, ain order ~ to be recognized, ‘he was. to
[8408]. place apr rer. nickels on the bar “in 1ine with a dime ‘placed |
[8410]“intelligence he. should refer this information ‘to, the: FBI.
[8412]coutacted ‘by | the game person’ and was told. to go to: Miami
[8413]. Florida, to a bar and wear a red sweater,’ where he would
[8414]_,be ‘contac ted: relative to an assignment. , —
[8416]with NAGELL, he was noted to. ‘be an an anebriated. condition’
[8420]CNAGELL: advised that he went to Was bing ton, De Cc.
[8422]vhom he -; t. was: either a Special Agent of the FBI or a- 2 as
[8424]“He said. this person ed of Domestic |
[8426]Me. paid. ‘that: in september, 1962, he. was ‘invited
[8428]Lhe nane of SOE CRAMER or KRAMER during this contact: with’.
[8429]GUA. Be- sald he told then o ee. above information and ;
[8431]was to give: hin the. assignment At the above- mentioned. bar.
[8433]directly. over the middle: nickel. “Re said the CLA. told: him
[8434]that since. this matter involved domestic rather, than_ foreign -
[8436]He stated he ‘went: to the. above bar: and ‘there was.
[8438]it is ‘to ‘be ‘noted that. during. the entire interview
[8440]|
[8441]1.
[8443]and was.. very vague ‘in. answering. questions. _ He was unable. ‘to!
[8445]identify by name. ‘any of the. individuals he. discussed and ‘was.
[8446]‘also. unable to furnish a physical ‘description of ‘any of these.
[8447]-andividuals, In addi tion® ‘to: being slightly inebriated ‘he ve
[8448]_. also. gave the impression. to the interviewing. agents “of being»
[8449]_ mentally Unbalanced. : : vk Joe a,
[8454]: Japanese | and Russian. fluently” and 15) well versed in. the:
[8456]: He furnished a. ‘photograph of hime self.
[8458]omy HISTORY. OF PRESENT. ‘TLLNESS : This’ 32° year old white male in
[8460]'. He: claims. these: si ce an airplane. accident he had had: An.
[8462]Gxp 65-951
[8464]Pat “NAGELL ated. he is. presently residing cat ‘the
[8465]Holiday Inn, ‘Jacksonville, Florida, and would be there for
[8466]the next. few days. He’ ‘said. he is. presently driving a 1959 -
[8467]Ford ‘which bears Ca ifornia’ ‘license MYU 890,° He. ‘said. he has -
[8468]no: living. relatives ‘ept his former wife, who. resides. at
[8469]- 440 South Union: ‘Avenue, Los” Angeles. California, and his .
[8470]sister, . ELEANORE GAMBERT., 8225.Grand Avenue, Elmhurst, |
[8472]. Sadvisea: ‘that. he: believes ‘in connection —
[8473]with bis: contacts” “Ahat- he is’ actually: working for the:.
[8474]Soviets... Ke ‘could-furnish® ‘no information as to a specific.
[8475]assignment. given him ‘other than that. he was to go ‘to
[8476]Miam). and” Bit in a. bar’ which he is unable to identify and”
[8477]wait, ‘to. be contacted by.- a Soviet Agent... He said he spoke”
[8479]Spanish language, ‘He: said ‘the- was shot. in June, 1962,
[8480]but refused. to. ‘discuss; “any of- the incidents surrounding the.
[8481]Shooting. ‘He said--his auto has: several bullet holes in it.
[8483]On. December’ Ld, 4962 efforts were made. to locate:
[8484]- NAGELL for. reinterview;* however, At was de termined - that he. ;
[8485]had checked . out. of: the motel and deft. no forwarding address.
[8487]on November, 25, 1963, EP’ T- 2 made, e available clinical
[8489]‘subject. was. a patient at: ist ‘Veterans Administration. “He spital, :
[8490]’ Bay. ‘Pines, Florida, from. December. 20, 1962, to ‘January . 22,602 a
[8491]1963.. One clinical’ ‘record. ‘contained the following informa~
[8493]. SINTER SUMMARY. INTERSERVICE)
[8495]veteran of Koréan War was. admitted. to Ward 1-5-S ‘on. 12-20-62
[8497]because ‘of | complaints: of ‘headache ‘and lapses of. memon ye
[8500]13-00000
[8502]UNITED STATE S DEPARTMENT OF GUSTICE |
[8504]P PDE RAG, Pte hat oF | NVE SPE e ASP
[8506]Ta Reply, Pease Rojer t ; : ;
[8507]File No. - co . ; : Toes esky
[8509]ON Be RECHARD CAsme 5 wigeL ne gt hercaot WFO
[8510]; ther” \ fa reit EASE IN PART
[8511]si at
[8513]"Sia" dorurment’ contains
[8515]ot io
[8517]ee DENIAL
[8519]distribe led wuinde your Weney. -
[8521]"above Hig dumivicual aspeered ofvinta RE
[8522]. voxttann eb aoe igeriean Gibuonr, Meicoe Chey, on.
[8523]sit? Ae, end yolatecred ‘the following data
[8525]ealGance eadreas for himssle in Roxio.
[8526]be ooila | Rin S Gialelae & Mae throuch
[8529]13;00000.
[8531]_ or furmah tuntteg ps S ges which - y fe pn ai the ay
[8532]fambiiying and loating the person or persona involved.
[8534]- at he felt he havi bean “let ces” by
[8535]the United States Gevermnent, both dn the United state: .
[8536]‘Gane. he ~ bee in } Meares. He
[8537]rs SOE 2a : ing r ef the ’ vnrseeny
[8540]13-00000
[8542]here: so wel city for reemuiting, out although awed
[8544]a. Job of thia sort would be Ja Mew York. He oi a
[8546]gaging ecald be used against hin in any court ar prose.
[8547]_ Gublon.” fe statec that he hai alucet made up bis mind
[8548]-. detinitei; tiut he would jenave lic:nico, bub thet he woud
[8549]-: not go back to the United Ststec. He stated thst ne 40
[8550]«ROG Care to return to the { Ate: Stebes. He atetec that
[8552]ag stated that he troughs he had bean ‘esppeunc had |
[8554]speciMically in tt wegard, vetused ty state oy. whom oD
[8555]for whist oc oa behalf af what comsris He Stated Ghat
[8557]in $0 many. words that he full; realised that whet js was
[8559]dearigad te the Omitac Stutes."
[8561]so far he bau” chee
[8563]be was ° being, 8
[8565].  aigazen” a “era ‘thought he had gotten @ y deal ail around,"
[8567]He wee told to to the Protection Seetion in
[8569]. RPegerd to eny prohless in Mexico a8 an American citison.
[8570]He sbated that. ive had been to the Protection Jestian anc.
[8571]~ Would net go these enc that the way he was
[8572]ho would not go back bo United States. He asada thet Dene
[8573]'- fe had nothing to ge beck for, avi that his . es
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[8686]- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
[8687]- Los. . Angelea, | ‘California
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[8700]-mitte RICHARD CASE NAGELL ©
[8702]" charecter ESPIONAGE - -Xx |
[8703]“Reference: “Report ‘of SA JAMES: H: HOOSE; ‘mR
[8705].dated as above at Los Angeles,” “
[8706]California. _
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[8710]‘AD sources. (except « ary listed pelow) whose identities
[8711]are concealed. ‘An. referenced ‘communication have furnished reliable
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[8725]“This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. tt is the property
[8727]. of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it-.and ite contents are not to be distributed outside ’
[8728]your adency. . . - .
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[8744]—_ Synopsis: Mother, brother, former wife, and friend of RICHARD
[8746]Nps, Richard C. Nagell
[8748]7! divorced from RICHARD C. NAGELL
[8750]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUST ICE
[8751]‘FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVEST. IGATION © .
[8753]ii TOTAL DENIAL -
[8755]NAGELL all consider him to be mentally disturbed, | :
[8756]No indication NAGELL involved in espionage, Communist.
[8757]. Party, or "Fair Play for Cuba Committee" activity,  -
[8758]. NAGELL told his brother he had been to Cuba and once ©
[8759]' jokingly told his former wife he was thinking of ‘going .
[8760]-- to Russia. Information concerning NAGELL's bank |
[8761]_ accounts set forth. SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. a
[8762]. DETAILS: res
[8764]“psi METSUKO NAGELL, nee
[8765]- Mitsuko Takahashi, aka
[8767]oe . On February 3, 1964, Mrs, METSUKO NAGELL furnished ©
[8769]’ the following information to SAs JAMES H, HOOSE, JR., and JOSEPH
[8770]“DOYLE POWELL at her residence -at 40 South Union Avenue,
[8771]Apartment 12, Los Angeles, California:
[8773]‘She filed for divorce from. RICHARD NAGELL in Los
[8775]Angeles on April 19, 1962, but: has not received the final »
[8776]decree. NAGELL stayed out late nights, beat her, never gave
[8778]oS core 7 | Def [4G531
[8780]; This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is:loaned to your agency; It and
[8782]its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency,
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[8788]her any money, and did not. Like the children, She believes...
[8789]-NAGELL's mother resides in the Los Angeles area, but she
[8790]does not know the mother's address and has never met her, no,
[8791]She repeatedly asked NAGELL to introduce her to his mothers.”
[8792]but he always refused to do 50. -
[8794]Mrs. NAGELL stated NAGELL never exhibited any.
[8795]political interest, never mentioned communism or the "Fair
[8796]- Play for Cuba Committee," or. Cuba. Once in the summer of a
[8797]1963 NAGELL was mad about. something unrecalled and jokingly —~.o°:
[8798]—~o*- = gaid he was thinking of going 'to Russia, but ‘Mrs. NAGELL is. =
[8799]oo, _certaln this. was | said in jest. -
[8801]; Mrs. NAGELL 1s of the. ‘opinion there 4s something — oo
[8802]oy mentally wrong with NAGELL, He would fly into violent rages ton,
[8803]without apparent reason, She ‘pointed out that her. television
[8805]-. set has a split plastic case and stated NAGELL hit the set -
[8807]a wath his fist once while angry and this resulted in this
[8809]oe MAGS.
[8811]_ ‘Although. NAGELL aid not like his children, during
[8812]the marriage, he has frequently complained about not being et
[8813]-. With them since the divorce, He sends them cards from various.”
[8814]- “places in the United States, but has never since the divorce ©
[8816]' furnished support for the children or. Mrs, ‘NAGELL, As a con-=-
[8818]“sequence, Mrs, NAGELL “has been supporting herself and the
[8819]-children through. employment as a waitress and has to board. ao
[8820]the children out. _
[8822]oe “On March 6, 1964, Mrs, NAGELL stated. to SA. HOOSE oe
[8823]- that she never knew NAGELL to be involved in espionage in any- .....
[8824]manner. . She further commented that they were always in finan~
[8825]ot edad difficulty during their residencé in the United States.
[8826]-> During the marriage NAGELL had a bank account at the Bank of
[8827]= America, Wilshire and Vermont, Los Angeles, but Mrs. NAGELL -
[8828]ve.‘ doubts there. was ever much money in the account, She said
[8829]oo that since the separation in April of 1962, NAGELL has sent
[8830]' hera total of about $180. 00.
[8832]There is no information in the files of the ‘Los oo
[8833]Angelos office of the FBI identifiable with Mrs. MITSUKO NAGELL, ee i
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[8842]Mies, FRANCES M _ NAGELL,
[8843]'--mnee Frances Kaufman:
[8845]_ (nether of RICHARD C. NAGELL)
[8847]- On March. 5, 1964, Mrs, FRANCES NAGEL, furnished a
[8848]the following information to SAs JAMES H, HOOSE, JR., and i
[8850]. PHILIP J, REILLY at her residence at 856 South Catalina
[8851]Avenue, Apartment 104, Los Angeles: :
[8853]oa Ms, NAGELL stated that for many ‘years and-for |
[8854]cu: vVarLlous reasons, none of which relate to this case, there
[8855].. has been dissension in the family, However, until the time —
[8857]~. along well together,. Since the crash ‘there has: been.a marked’
[8858]~ change in RICHARD. NAGELL, and Mrs. NAGELL is certain her son has Oo
[8859]" Bome form of mental trouble. ;
[8861]ae a “She. ‘saw RICHARD in Chicago, Tiiinots, in 1951, and.
[8862]she moved to Los Angeles in May of 1955, It was then seven ~
[8863]“ years before she heard directly from him or. saw him. She ran
[8864]* dnto RICHARD by chance on the street in Los Angeles, saw that —
[8866]_ Financial assistance.
[8867]. Mrs. NAGELL gave her: son - $2500. 00 on one occasion.
[8869]- appreciation for this help. RICHARD never seemed to have enough |
[8870]- MONEY» She does not. know if he had, a. banir account ‘or: Pot.
[8872]x
[8874]| . had disappeared for several days. . She knew he could often —
[8875]| .- be found at The Happy Rabbit, a peer: ‘joint at 2709 West Sixth
[8876]| . Street, Los Angeles, She went there and found RICHARD, and ae
[8877]ods - he flew into an uncontrollable rage because she had gone inside a
[8878]“- this bar, claiming it was no place for a decent woman. .
[8879]co.” Mpg, NAGELL stated it was really not that bad a place. She
[8880]\. became definitely convinced after this incident that there .
[8881]ee was something serLously ‘wrong with her son, But even prior -—
[8882]“1 <s. $0 this time she observed RICHARD became extremely angry over
[8883]| oo RanDanse F and he would cry without explaining what Was troubling
[8884]|
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[8887]t
[8889]-.. that RICHARD NAGELL was in the airplane crash, .they had gotten: ae .
[8891]he needed help, and: thereafter tried to give him both moral and ae
[8893]and much - smaller amounts on other occasions, He never ‘expressed on
[8895]Mrs. NAGELL was trying to locate RICHARD after he  ° ~~
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[8901]-. i - would have nothing. to do with her, She kept track of him...
[8902]-. through her. other son, LOUIS, who is a year anda half older... |
[8903]. than RICHARD, Mrs. NAGELL was in a way. happy to-have the  .
[8905]_ boys get together after years ‘of estrangement. She
[8907]She thought since both sons had serious problems, they might
[8908].- be able to help each other, LOUIS has told her, however,
[8909]... that he was never able to: straighten out RICHARD.
[8911]“>. never mentioned Cuba or the "Fair Play for Cuba Committee"
[8912]“or gave any indication he was. in any manner involved in
[8913]a eaplonages
[8915]“that she. wanted to point out that RICHARD had never physically 9: .-!
[8916]—- abused her, that the abuse was always vocal, She also bce ance
[8917]_* that she herself has been under. psychiatric care for several | ee
[8918]och years, and she does ‘not think her problem has 3s yet been .
[8919]ae eliminated. ,
[8921]. . o
[8923]Angeles Office of the FBI identifiable with: Mrs. FRANCES ost,
[8925]shore KAUFMAN, true name
[8926]LOUIS NAGELL (brother 0 of.
[8928]RICHARD ¢, _NAGELL) ae
[8930]oe following information to SAs JAMES H, HOOSE, JR., and PHILIP.
[8931]J. REILLY at his residence at 20130 Samoa Avenue, Tujunga,
[8932]- California, telephone 353-1224; |
[8934]He considers himself to be the "black sheep" of the family and ve
[8935]*. has had little contact, with other family members until the last
[8937]with LOUIS. However, when their mother: told RICHARD that LOUIS
[8939]After above mentioned incident, RICHARD again
[8941]described: LOUIS as being an almost hopeless alcoholic.
[8942]She stated that RICHARD never ‘discussed ‘communiem,'
[8944]On March 9, 1964, ‘irs, NAGELL ‘4nformed SA HOOSE
[8946]There is no information in the flles. of the. Los
[8948]On March 5, 1964, LOUIS KAUFMAN purnashed the.
[8950]; LOUIS stated he got in trouble at age 16 and since
[8951]that-time has used his mother's maiden name as his last name,.
[8953]year or two. At one time. in Korea he. discovered he was in the . ene Gee
[8954]‘same army outfit.as his brother, RICHARD, and looked him up. eens ae
[8955]RICHARD was an officer in intelligence while LOUIS was an Sa ,
[8957]enlisted man, and RICHARD did not want to have much contact
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[8970]~-had cancer of the throat in 1962, RICHARD went to LOUIS and
[8971]offered to help him. LOUIS later discoveréd he did not have:
[8972]cancer and also discovered that RICHARD was the one who needed
[8974]. help. LOUIS frequently saw RICHARD in 1962 and until about
[8976]— August of 1963 when RICHARD left the Los Angeles area.
[8978]LOUIS considers RICHARD to be mentally disturbed,
[8979]ee He recalled an afternoon when both were at The Happy Rabbit
[8980]‘| c. and the newspapers carried an account of the burglary of the
[8982]_ local armory. © RICHARD told LOUIS he had pulled the burglary |
[8983].. . end had some machine guns in his car parked on the street
[8984]| near the beer joint, LOUIS immediately said he would like
[8985]_ to see the machine guns and the two of them welked out to the
[8986]on Car... LOUIS. saw: no guns..and. upon. asking .RICHARD.:where: they. were . «=
[8987]- the latter replied he did not know what LOUIS was talking about,
[8988]- RICHARD sald he had no recollection of telling LOUIS anything
[8989]about guns or burglarizing any armory. In addition to this
[8990]‘LOUIS said that RICHARD was usually in a state of deep
[8991]“. 2°. depression, RICHARD complained about his wife divorcing him
[8992]voc, and about his employment problems. .
[8994]Oe . "RICHARD never spoke in favor of ‘communism but he
[8995]ata. say that he thought the American government should do
[8996]more for him in view of his army service. He never mentioned
[8998]--. Russia. When RICHARD returned from Mexico City in 1962, he
[8999]told LOUIS he had gone to Cuba from Mexico, He gave no.
[9001]- -peason for having made this trip, LOUIS has no information
[9003]...° indicating RICHARD was ever involved in espionage. -He- never .
[9004].-. heard RICHARD mention the "Fair Play for Cuba. Committee,"
[9006]ne _ LOurs. does not know, ‘at RICHARD had a - bank accounts |
[9007]a he does mow RICHARD usually Was broke, - -
[9009]a -.° imere is no information.in the files of the Los
[9010]a, Angeles ‘Office of the FBI identifiable with LOUIS KAUFMAN,
[9012](friend of RICHARD C. NAGEL)
[9014]"PRED JOHN furnished the. following information to
[9016]|". BREDERICK HOWARD JOHN
[9017]ae: JAMES He HOOSE, JR. on March 9, A964:
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[9030]_ JOHN resides in a boarding house at 817 South
[9032]ms, Catalina Avenue, ‘Los Angeles, He is employed by the Hartford . oe
[9033]‘Insurance Company, 548 South Spring Street, tos Angeles,
[9035]oe _ He has known RICHARD NAGELL for about’ one year.
[9036].° He met him through BILL LYNN of the California Alcoholic
[9037]_., Beverage Controll at The Happy.Rabbit. JOHN does not lmow =) 2s >
[9038]-). any members of NAGELL's- tently’ nor does he lmow of any other ae
[9040]- close friends of NAGELL. - —_
[9042]co a NAGELL reft Los Angeles the ‘first or second weelt of =
[9043]--- September, 1962, - Just before leaving he told JOHN he would
[9044]be traveling: and ‘asked him to share his Post Office box so.
[9045]“-. he could. forward: on. the government: disability checks which pee
[9046]~) he receives monthly, He also asked JOHN to mail him an almanac’
[9048] . whenever it was convenient. as he liked to refer to the almanac’
[9050]~~ from time to time as a general source of information. JOHN ~~.
[9051]‘complied with both requests, Near the end of each month JOHN: .
[9052]has sent the checks to NAGELL at a Post Office box in El Paso,
[9053]._ Texas. He also sent him an almanac with.a yellow cover as he .
[9054]; pecalls it. JOHN did not mark or alter this almanac: in any Way.
[9056]fe "JOHN recently ‘received a: form letter. from a hospital ©
[9058]in ‘Missouri, informing him hé had been named as a correspondent. .
[9060]~ authorized to communicate with RICHARD NAGELL, JOHN has received
[9061]no indication that NAGELL ts in any sort of Grouble, | and he.
[9063]_ Wondered what was behind the hospital. letter. ,
[9065]coe * JOHN has never heard anything about his. receiving:
[9066]“> four reels of microfiim or any. personal papers should NAGELL .
[9067]Ale, JOHN does not have a key to any Safeby deposit box and
[9068]' does. not know. if NAGELL does or does not have a safety deposit.
[9069].. box. JOHN has heard NAGELL mention his sister but lmows =... .
[9070]nothing» concerning any Japanese gas. mask or anything else
[9071]*. stored with her, ;which is to be turned over to hin upon NAGELL' =
[9072]_ death, os
[9074]can About. a month or two after NAGELL left Los ‘Angeles 3
[9075]~ .  .he wrote to. ‘JOHN, probably just on one: occasion, and that a
[9076]Pn concerned ‘paying | the. rent on the joint postal box. |
[9078]JOHN. is of: the opinion. NAGELL is a paranoiac in
[9079]that he is depressed at the manner his ex-wife treated him
[9080]jo. -- end the manner in which the local, state, and Federal governments 7
[9081]foo. have treated hin, . JOHN definitely . considers NAGELL to be mentally ©
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[9088]JOHN has never heard NAGELL speak in favor of
[9090]= communism or Cuba, ‘He has never heard of the "Fair Play
[9092]for Cuba Committee. " JOHN has no. indleation NAGELL was ever
[9094]“<) dnvolved’ in espionage.
[9096]NAGELL never had much money, just his income ‘fron
[9098]'. @riving a Yellow Cab and from his disability check. (JOHN
[9100]does not know if NAGELL had a bank account. -
[9102]There is no information in the files of the Los
[9104]_ Angeles Offies of the FBI identifiable with FRED JOHN,
[9106]pane ACCOUNT: INFORMATION
[9108]on March 5, 196i, LA pl, whose information may |
[9110]not be made public except. upon issuance of a subpoena duces.
[9111]- tecum, stated RICHARD C, NAGELL had commercial checking account .
[9112]-. Mumber 002-857 at the Wilshire - Virgil Branch of the Security
[9113] Barst. National Bank, Los Angeles. aa
[9115]“The account was opened October 2, 1961, with a
[9117]deposit of $350.00, closed January 31, 1963, no balance.
[9118]-NAGELL gave a bank reference of Bank of America, Wilshire - ee,
[9119]Vermont Branch, Los Angeles, Upon o ening, residence | was given we
[9120]as #712 Saturn’ Street, telephone WE 42739.
[9122]LA T-1- recalls NAGELL vividly as he caused a “com-
[9124]. motion every time he came in the bank, He would shout at
[9126]~ the. tellers, complain about the service, and threaten to
[9128]“" report the tellers to the management. On one occasion a girl
[9129]-. teller working next to LA T-1 wore a red dress to work ona”
[9130]: day that NAGELL was in the bank... NAGELL shouted at the girl
[9131]: that only a Prostitute would wear a red dress.
[9133]LA ‘1 thinks some local finance company has been |
[9135]saying to locate NAGELL recently to collect a debt.
[9137]‘On March 9, 1964, LA ™2, whose information may not
[9139]“-. be made public..except. upon issuance of a subpoena duces tecum,
[9140]">. stated RICHARD: NAGELL opened commercial checking account ~
[9141]- number 9~4492 on November 6, 1959, at. the Wilshire - Vermont
[9143]Branch of the Banik of America Los Angeles, NAGELL gave his
[9145]“address as the Cloud Motel, 3h00 West Third Street. His bank
[9146]reference was the Unton Bank, Mount Holly, New Jersey, and he
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[9150] pyporaurton ¥ FROM INFORMANTS
[9151]AND SOURCES OF INFORMATION ~
[9152]es Ter On March 9, 1964, SA WILLIAM J, MC CAULEY was advised ae
[9153]oe by 4 the following that _ they had no information concerning RICHARD |:
[9155]parently exhibited New. Jersey driver's license number
[9156]nt ‘Opening deposit was $900, 00, and the account was
[9157]__elosed September aT, 1961.
[9159]account number 32873 at this same bank with a deposit of.
[9160]' . $143.10, the account being closed on July 16, 1962, During
[9161]Part of ‘this time it Was a Joint account with MITSUKO. NAGELL,
[9163]eo ANTHONY F, LIRERATO, ‘Investigator,
[9164]~~. Immigration and Naturalization Service,
[9166]. 3 Los. ‘Angeles, who is cognizant of many:
[9167]7 Cuban activities in Los Angeles.
[9169]‘MANUEL GONZALEZ, 1070 West Kensington.
[9170]~ Road, Los Angeles, who headed the Brom
[9171]. Castro movement in Los Angeles 1960
[9173]> MAYER G, ROYAL, 5825 West. Pico ‘Boulevard,.. fe
[9175]Les Angeles, who is acquainted with some 4 °
[9177]“. aetivities of the "Fair Play for Cuba: _
[9178]|, Committee, " Los Angeles, of ;
[9180]ta T~3, who is cognizant: of Iany Cuban
[9181]activities. in Los Angeles.
[9183]SLA. t-4 and LA 'T-5, who are familiar with.
[9184]Communist Party activity.in the general |
[9186]Les Angeles. |
[9188]of the Los Angeles Office of the FBI identifying NAGELL with |
[9189]any Communist , Party, Cuban, or espionage activity. ;
[9191]On February 28, 1962, RICHARD NAGELL opened cheeking ee oy
[9195]area» ‘where RICHARD NAGELL has vesided in.
[9197]There is no. information of substance in the files
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[9207]JOHN NOBURO. MIvaKr (JACK MIYAKI). stated on
[9209]. - March. 23, 1964, to SA HOOSE. that. he and his wife, CAROLINE.
[9211]MIYAKI, reside at 645 North Westmoreland Avenue, Los Angeles,
[9213]- California. ’: MIYAKI did not recognize name or photograph of
[9214]ae” RICHARD’ NAGELL.. When further descriptive data was furnished
[9215]-. MEYAKT, he recalled he had met NAGELL on one occasion about
[9217]a year ago at The Happy Rabbits a& beer Joint at 2709 West
[9219]Sixth Street, ; Los Angeles .
[9221]NAGELL told MIYAKI ‘he either was or had been a_
[9223]_ - Yellow Cab. driver, ‘that he had a Japanese wife who had _
[9224]- ~ @ivorced him, . MIYAKE said he possibly told NAGELL he worked
[9225]-. asa ‘machinist at Aero-Space Manufacturing. Corporation, 3825
[9226]=f Cohasset’ Street, Burbank, California, but cannot recall having ©
[9228]told NAGELL anything else. MIYAKI stated he thinks NAGELL left —
[9230]_° the bar atthe same time he did which may account for NAGELL .
[9231]“.. ‘having MIYAKT's license number, MIYAKE drives a cream
[9232]- golored 1962 Buick Special, four door, license JOG 823.
[9234](California - Department of Motor Vehicles verifies this license —
[9236]dg for this (car. ) MIYAKI said he does not work on any classi-—
[9238].. fied material.and has no clearance. MIYAKI was born in Japan,
[9239]“" Naturalized An, Hawaii on January el, 1954, certificate number —
[9240]7121559. |
[9242]“MEYARI ‘is of the opinion he, and NAGELL only con
[9244]O vepged about. ten or fifteen minutes on this. one occasion,
[9245]and he has no information apart from above concerning NAGELL. .
[9247]- “There is ‘no. information . ‘in the files of the Los. eS
[9248]‘Angeles Office of the FBI identifiable with JOHN (JACK)
[9249]MART or CAROLINE MIYAKI, se .
[9251]Tow -
[9253]13-00000
[9255]i Copy to:
[9256]‘Re 3 . . . _ 7 a _ . ; ‘tie 7 a ”
[9257]_Revowe sa DAVID J. REID | (Olle: EL PASO
[9258]July 24, 1964°- | | oo
[9259]Field Office File No. EP. 655951 7 oo Bureau File No. - 64-48933 - 7
[9260]Tile RICHARD CASE NAGELL WEALD ar RIVER 7ASK fone : .
[9261]ar: a fo ‘ at i FULL Lo <4
[9262]he Q . : . . . Fe, 5 oo ab LASE N Ty.
[9263](SE ESPIONAGE = KO “THTAL an
[9264]een “Subject ‘deseribed by a fotiner acquaintance in the
[9266]| ‘probably being due to brain tissue damage resulting from an:
[9268]soo. . ; . ; :
[9270]: “yp-204. (Rev. 29
[9272].° on September 20, 1963, U.S. Army, Japan, advised that the
[9274]San Seer
[9276]UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT. OF JUSTICE,
[9277]FEDERAL ~ BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION :
[9279]United States Army in Korea as having had a brilliant
[9280]war record but as not stable mentally, this instability ©
[9282]airplane erash. during the Korean War. With regard to names.
[9283]found in the posseesion of the subject when he was arrested
[9285]subject had. previously served in Korea and Japan and that it:
[9287]“wag not unusual for individuals.to retain lists of persons.
[9288]in such areas for future reference. U.S. Army, Japan,” ‘also™
[9289]advised that the reason for some names in the subject's
[9290]‘possession at the time of his arrest.could not be assessed: _
[9291]On June 9, 1964, ‘subject sentenced in the United States District. —
[9292]‘Court, El Paso, Texas, to serve ten: years under the provisions ~ ="
[9293]of: Section “4208 {a) (II), Title 18,.U.S. Code, for violation ve
[9295]' of Section 2113, Title 18, U.S. Code. Subject attempted auicide 2
[9296]on June 17, 1964. “SUBJECT HAS ATTEMPTED SUICIDE 7
[9298]Orr rem FILS 8
[9300]- Sts
[9301]aos Sil 98... {REP
[9303]ay seeeeeeee Mess
[9305]1
[9307]. This document. contains nelther, eooramendations nor conclusions of the FBI It.is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your ageney; it and
[9309]its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.
[9312]13-00000
[9314]EP 65-951:
[9318]- AT TORYO, JAPAN:
[9320]oo “at the time of the arrest of Richard Case Nagell .--  .-
[9321]in El Paso, Texas, on September 20, 1963, ona bank robbery 2...
[9323]-- .eharge, he "had many papers and documents in his possession.
[9324]-. These papers and documents were reviewed and were found to —
[9325]contain the following notations:
[9327]- Murai Jun- (Cabinet Research
[9328]-. Of¥Fice-C.R.0.) (Sational Rural
[9329]Police Agency) (Private Secretary
[9330]to P.M, Yoshida). (Intelligence |
[9331]Agency in China)+ Now in oe
[9332]. Tukuoka- SHE a
[9334]Tsio Sai Fue a
[9335]Literature Dept.
[9337]. (Naikaku Chosa shitsu)
[9339]oe Hoshiyama Sadgo (Lee. chang § Suk) ee E
[9340]c/o Maruei Pachinko. oo
[9342]'169-L Baba-Machi, Choshi~Shi
[9344]Chiba-ken, Japan
[9346]Kin i
[9348]- (aka So):
[9349], Ginza, Chito-Ku
[9351]‘Tokyo=To (36-5330)
[9353]‘Nicolai G. Exoshkin (FMR)
[9354]Military Affache- Soviet Embassy _
[9355]TOKYO pescnmnansee sateen ge ARN SSSR HASTE
[9357]Envelope addregsed to: Capt. ‘Robert C.
[9358]Nolan, Advisor, FROKA Det. HID”
[9359]with return address of Col Lee Churl Hi,
[9360]CO, HID, ROKA. ——————e
[9363]13-00000°
[9365]- EP 65-951. 7 -
[9368]13-00000
[9370]: Kurt ama\yatsuichi- cs, 6th .
[9372]_. Pachinko Store, .169-.
[9374]12- 3 Ginza, Chuo-ku, ‘okyo-to
[9375]‘Tel. 56-5339
[9377]a Oe Photograph with name ‘Lee Shang Suk
[9379]underneath. Alons side
[9381]photograph
[9382]is the name Hosh
[9384]-Zadeo, C/o Maruei ~
[9385]’Baba-machi, oo
[9388]Choshi-shi, Chiba-
[9390]Kaji Wataru
[9393]13-00000 _ . oe Se
[9395]EP 65-951 its /
[9397]Tohoku Regional Police Bureau
[9399]or 12 Prevention Section, Criminal
[9400]De rtment, National. Police Agency :
[9402]An envelope addressed to: Capt
[9403]Robert C. Nolan, Advisor, _
[9404]FROKA det, HID with return.
[9405]address of Col Lee Churl Hi,
[9406]CO, HID, ROKA
[9408]' Four photographs identified on the back ne
[9409]- as follows ; a ||
[9411]¢ np * alg
[9413]“4 (ke ays
[9414]In addition, . the subject fh had in his ‘possession at ae
[9415]the time of his arrest on September 20, 1963, a piece of ~~ sre
[9416]paper containing the Listing of what. appeared to be United
[9417]States Army Officers. and their serial numbers. One section.
[9419]of this paper was listed under the heading "Third Operations
[9420]Group". :
[9422]- known the subject personally and had served in orga with
[9423]the subject. GLENN noted that his name appeared in
[9424]the above mentioned photographs of papers which were found
[9425]in the possession of the subject. when arrested in El Paso ON
[9426]on September 20, 1963. GLENN stated that he and the subject
[9427]had been attached to an Intelligence Branch of the United:
[9428]States Army in the Far East during the period of their acquaintance.
[9430]Ds
[9432]GLENN explained that the naces in parentheses in
[9433]one of the above mentioned Photographs were "code names" used -
[9437]13-00000
[9439]_ EP 65-951
[9441]- by. members of Army Intelligence Units in Korea in order to
[9443]“stable mentally and that this instability was probably due —
[9444]‘to damage to brain tissues suffered in an airplane crash
[9446]survivor. GLENN stated that the subject, in fact, did have
[9447]a brilliant war record, which was the reason for his
[9448]_. -assignment to Army Intelligence in spite ef what should
[9449]_ have been an obvious, psychological. defect.
[9451]“snotayerie® that thé subject had turned ia allegations
[9452]_. against an Intelligence: Officer in Korea, which became the
[9454]_ subject was subsequently tra usferred to another Army unit
[9455].. and upon reporting to that unit, was greeted in a friendly.
[9456]“ way by his new Conmanding Officer, who told him he hoped
[9457]‘the subject would enjoy his new assigament and that he,
[9458]+ the Commander, would do eil he could to make ita worthwhile
[9459]_ four of duty. for’ the subject. - :
[9461]had certainly better see thet this was the case as, NAGELL
[9462]move made ‘by his Commanding Officer and if he stepped out:
[9463]- of line :onei whit at any time, it would be made the subject
[9464]of an inmediate Feport to higher headquarters.
[9465]chieg of Staf£, G-2/G-3, United States Aray, Japan, which
[9466]subject and which contained the following informution:
[9468]School, Fort Holabird, Maryla ad, in August 1955, served as an
[9469]advisor to the First Republic of Korea Army aad subsequently
[9471]protect their: veal identities from informants.
[9473]GLENN also advised that the subject was pot
[9475]during the Korean War in which the subject was the only
[9477]GLENN pointed out as an example of the subject" s
[9479]subject of extensive in estication. GLENN added that te
[9481]To this, NAGELL allegedly replied that the Commander << --f-}
[9483]told him, he made a practice of keeping a record of every.
[9485]- @LENN made aveilable. a letter from the Assistant
[9487]was in answer to a request for information regarding the.
[9488]SUBJECT, after graduatioa from the Army Intelligence
[9490]in Sendai, and Tokyo, Japan, terminating in about 1958.
[9491]These assignments were conceraed with intelligence activities,
[9494]13-00000
[9496]EP 65-951
[9498]ag an advisor to the ROK Army in Korea, and as a member . of the oe fe]
[9499]' US Army Counterintelligence Corps in Japan. During the . 3
[9500]. latter tour of duty, the counteriatelligence unit was designated us
[9501]| the 3rd Operations Group, with Headguarters in Tokyo and. -
[9502]_.>-; Detachment B in Sendai, as «referred to ia photographic inclosures
[9503]~ to your letter, ; ; a
[9505]In assignments of this nature it is common practice
[9506]for members to become acquainted with personnel ef various.
[9507]Japanese security agencies, such as are mentioned in March
[9508]S Nemorandum of the FBI, El Paso, Tezas, it is not unusual
[9509]for individuals assign ned counteriatelligence duties to retain -
[9510]lists of these persons for reference in the event they are
[9511]‘again reassigned to the area, or for dispatching cards or
[9512]thank you notes from the United States. This would “appear
[9513]to be the reason for SUBJECT having kept the list of agency
[9514]personnel, although to have retained the list for a number of
[9515]years after leaving the service appears unusual. The names Kaji,
[9516]Wataru and Jack Cannon were known to the public as the results —
[9517]of allegations of illegal intelligence operations that were
[9518]publicized in the Japanese press,: but SUBJECT® S reason for...
[9519]including those names in HIS lists cannot be assessed. Also, — ae
[9521]no xeason can be given for the two or three misceliancous :. peneteemnes secu [rene sf nd
[9522]names in NAGELL'S file. ; a 7:
[9524]The. list of Americans mentioned in one of the’ photographic
[9525]attachments pertains to US perscnnel in the intelligence field.
[9526]It appears that the subject maintained a roster of those persons ~
[9527]with whom he would or had contact, which is mot unusual.
[9528]Information contained on those rosters, particularly that
[9529]‘portion indicating code names, was and is regarded as classified
[9530]information by this office. : Sc ceewneetynage®
[9532]Yiles. of ‘the sous tontntet tigence Repository, USARJ,
[9533]' disclosed + NO - information rela ative to BA ELL or of his aliases.
[9535]“AT EL PASO, TEXAS:
[9537]On June 9, 1964, Federal Judge HOMER THORNEERRY, United
[9539]7.
[9541]13-00000
[9543]EP 65-951
[9545]- States” District court, denied the motion for a new ertal
[9547]‘and. sentenced the subject to serve ten years.under the _
[9548]provisions of Section 4208 (a) (II),. Title 18, United States
[9549]Code, which provides that the subject can be released under. aa
[9551]parole at any time it’ is deemed advisable. This sentence.
[9553]was for violation of Section 2113, Title 18; United States
[9555]Code.
[9557]ee The June 17,’ 1964 issue of "The EL paso Herald
[9558]Post", contained an article entitled “Inmate 'Serious*: After
[9559]... Suleide Try", According. to the article, the subject ‘swallowed
[9560]several sleeping pills while lodged at the El Paso County Jail
[9561]-.on June 17, 1964.:. According to the article, NAGELL was to .
[9562]-. be kept under observation all night and was to be transferred
[9563]“to the William Beaumont General Fospital from the La Tuna —
[9564]_.-.: Federal Correctional institution’ ‘Hospital unless his condition ».
[9565]a improved. | | | |
[9567]rere a The article further stated that Deputy U.S. Marshal
[9568]ve JACK GRAVES said seconal | pills had been’ prescribed for the . —_
[9569]subject” and that the subject: evidently had been hoarding then, .
[9572]13-00000_.. .. «- ge oe
[9574]( oS
[9576]ee | RICHARD: CASE HAGEL, AKA “s. Born=8-,-30, Greanwich, NY.
[9577], JOE CRAMER _ a oe co |
[9578]JOE KRAMER So oh ,
[9579]JOE CRANE. Co oe ; ; ‘ a
[9580]. ROBERT C. NOLAN a |
[9581]_ Nagel claims ‘around ‘the middle on 1962, -he was “in Washington, ‘D
[9582]Ce and he had been approached by an individual whom he felt was
[9583]- - either a Special Agent of the FBI or a Soviet Espionage Agent, He said
[9584].... he meet this person in a bar in Washington, D.C. located at 811 14th St,
[9585]—_ - NW. -He said this person talked oft Domestic Intelligence and also. talked’
[9586]ae of giving ee intelligence | assignment. a ; ;
[9587]ee) CLA dari pramtenn Ohne) vee
[9588]anasto an pororteh, oA Nagell claims. in September, 1962, he was invited. ‘to attend ao
[9589]Zhen i72") "peception at the Soviet Embassy. He states he contacted CIA at. either 4
[9590]Chak Oe -Langley, Virginia, or Elwood, Virginia, and used the name of | |
[9592]“eog” ‘JOB CRAMER or KRAMER during. this contact with CIA,He said he told CIA
[9593]the ‘above information and wanted some advise as to whether to go_
[9594]re) through with such an assignment. CIA told him to see the. FBle
[9598]re Nagell said he went to the above bar and there: was contacted ou
[9599]by. the same person and was told to go to Miami, Florida, to a bar and~
[9601]> wear a red. ‘sweater, where he would be contacted... .
[9602]: Certain material was seized from Nagell when he- was arrested =
[9604]Son bank robbery charges on 9720/63.
[9606]fated a tek a
[9608]ar cra
[9609]ee, The following. names were . located on material and papers taken .
[9610]from Nagell/ . oo
[9611]RICHARD FECTBAU LYNN, MASS
[9613]“({- DAC) ( C.I.A
[9614]UR: a (MASS) (JAN. 63)
[9616]a
[9618]Ge Toke re |
[9619]2, Miss GUTHRIES | ot a a a fe FO
[9620]3.. Mr. Ce Churchill ._ nn Po aS a |
[9621]: he Mrs Js DA VANON —~S«
[9622]5. Mr. SLOSS Bo , _ oo Hen od
[9623]Oe Mr, B: LE IBACHER wl im Ladd a. oe, Lo i , - _ 7
[9625]ca a ke Poy A. . ;
[9626]PEPE Ge re 2, . ee a =:
[9627]7 ° . . 1 ee EV Wel ao . caer
[9630]13-00000
[9632]_ APR R 196%
[9636]| nh |
[9638]AQ .
[9640]| d.
[9642], _
[9644]nce ANOU FOR: ‘The Director :
[9645]. Federal. Bureau of Iavestigation
[9646]ATTENTION 2 Mr. William ©. Gregar
[9648]SUBJECT oe t “Ridhs 4 Case Nagell, aka
[9649]ee Toe Cramer os
[9651]ae Reference ig: mate t0 a8. memoracdurs trom your Bureau
[9652]. dated 2 October 1962, captioned as above. Representatives of your
[9653]' Washington Field Office have advised that Richard Gase Nagel is
[9654]“. gartently usder arrest fer bank robbery and that the iolowing names —
[9655]- and information were contained on material and papers ‘in the posses~:
[9656]sion of Nagell:
[9658]_ RIGHARD FECTEAU, Tyan, Mass
[9659](DAC) (C.LAD . _
[9660]R 58244 (MASS) (en. 63) es
[9661]GLA | .
[9662]1, Mr. F, PARKER ee _ |
[9663]2 Miss GUTHRIES —_ 2?
[9664]3. Mr. ©. CHURCHILL _ o
[9665]. & Mr. J. DA VANON
[9666]& Mz. 3. SLOSS
[9667]6. Mr. E. LEIBACHER
[9669]‘The records of this Agency have been searched in pegard
[9670]to the above individuals with the following resulta: ° Re
[9672]_ +
[9675]13-00000
[9677]—_ "Richard Pactesu, Lynn, Mass. " is undoubtedly ‘identical to
[9678]” Richard George Fecteau who ia in prison in Communist China.
[9679]. Fetteau was taken prisoner by the Communist dusting | én n Agency _
[9680]_aperation in. November iesz. - .
[9682]Mer, e Parker" may” be identical te Joba | Yoyd:
[9683]rent Agency bie who wes born 2 Jennary 1078, Levieville,
[9684]Kentucky, ot . . mo ;
[9686]“Mise Ouihries" yoay be saeatieal t to France Agnes Guthrie,
[9687]horn 29 February 1908, Charleston, West Virginia, ‘who is also-eu cure.
[9688]. Kently employs by thie Agency:
[9690]_ “Mr.. cm Shurchilt wey ‘be identical to Geeighton Charchit
[9691]who was bors 1 October 1912, Cornish, New Ha ive, whose pres-.
[9693]. ent address is net knows and whose address in 1952 « wae aT Weat 44th
[9695]‘ a New York City.
[9697]tobn: Floyd Parker and Frances Gath: ve been
[9698]ia: regerd te any knowtodiee af. rwegelt he ner indiv
[9700]| ployed by thie Ag eney in.
[9701]soba bitin rast ware in Sapa in 195E 40
[9703]af Sloss" may y refer to John. Richard Sloss. whe. was born ae Sep-
[9704]tember 1919, Cleveland, meee a is sucrently © employed in Head-.
[9707]13-00000
[9709]_ ‘in prison in China and the: indication that the other six name
[9711]- above information not be disseminated outside your Bureau. It
[9712]_- does adt appear thet the above information could affect either the
[9713]_. propecution of or the defense of Nage
[9714]. ‘bery, and disclosure of the e
[9715]gover problem for this Agency, '
[9716]_ tention te the ponition of Fecteau.
[9718]cs/ons archi -.6 Apr 64
[9720]: Fic es Pro NES Cuvee
[9722]regard to. any y knowledge of Nagel! and hes advised that he has no.
[9724]- tecollection of having met any individual by that name. If John
[9725]Richard Sloss ia identical te “J. Sloane,” it is not possible from
[9726]available information to even speculate as to how the name came
[9728]inte the: possession of Nagel.
[9730]In view of the feet that Richard George Fecteau ist currently
[9733]above may: refer ta Agency employees, it is requested that the
[9735]arge of bank reb-
[9736]a id create a later
[9739]It would be ‘appreciated if your Burema would advise this
[9741]Agency of any information brought to yous-attention concerning how
[9742]‘the above names came into the possession of ‘Nagel,
[9744]“FOR ‘THE DIRECTOR oF GENTRAL INTELLIGENCE:
[9746]Director of Security
[9748]+ STO).
[9750]“4 pose.
[9753]4m! FLorD: a 4 |
[9755]4 Y6S7S
[9757]+ 34Y 40
[9759]» 67460 .
[9761]CWe\c row CH ee nice
[9762]Jo trv Pech SL o8s
[9764]ERNST LE) Cache
[9767]13-00000
[9769]Se "a.  QPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 so . : ; SERRET pos
[9770]Loe 10-108 foo (
[9771]\ . }.
[9773]+. . UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
[9774]Memorandum
[9775]TO: © Chief, Security Research Staff, 0S © ~=«s«»DATE: | 27 March 1964
[9776]. ATP; Mr. Robert Leonard . ;
[9777]FROM: Acting cater, Contact Division, 00 ad
[9778]SUBJECT: NAGELL, Richard Case. -- Arrest in El Paso/List of Names
[9779]me Marked MCTA",
[9781]REF : Telephone ‘converdbions between Mr. Robert Leonard
[9782]: -  " and’ Mrs. Virginia Thorne, 26 and 27 March 1964.
[9784]1. Enclosed for your records and any action you
[9785]may consider appropriate, are copies of self-
[9786]explanatory teletypes from our San Francisco,
[9787]Office concerning Subject's.arrest in El Paso.
[9789]2. Any questions pertaining to this. memorandum
[9791]should be directed to Mrs. Virginia Bhorne
[9792]Ext~2202. .
[9794]| tem fa MCCONNELL
[9796]ENCLOSURES: As stated above.
[9799]13-00000_
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[9806]KKREX ZEA. -
[9808]“TWO TRO -SIX.WA—
[9810]SEC R E tT TDTe: RE23307
[9811]un CITE LANS: B29A
[9812]TRDEX | CTHORNED FRON DEVENON,
[9814]“usd: RICHARD CASE NAGELL
[9816]REF t A) LANG s2se
[9817](BY BAe 63394
[9818]CC) WA 63519
[9820]ON Of KAR G4, FRIELA ADVISED
[9822]- CLOSED THE
[9823]ia any, wounp PROBABLY BE VIA FS!
[9825]ECR £ tT. .
[9826]8294 THORNE DEVANON PICHAKE
[9828]FBILA REF & FRTe WASHINGTON
[9830]_ on
[9832]Site
[9834]“CAHIST
[9836]HATTER FOR THEN,” ‘AND TH
[9840]we
[9841]wet
[9843]PRAT OU EXPRE SHIGN
[9845]CREF OAS
[9847]FURTHER AGENCY CONTACTS,°
[9849]“UACHINCTON FLELD OFFICES
[9851]CASE NAGELL B2ba E3294 63519 2
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[9865]CREIGHTON. CHURCHILL WOODSTOCK, VERMONT
[9867]18 April 1964
[9869]> T.fLoyp prices S1aO50
[9870]ee Exr 7876
[9872]7 a i’ ‘ ———y
[9873]_—o CREIGH TOM Chyeemee HYGST
[9875]Dear Floyd:
[9877]It was good to hear from you, to learn
[9878]you are still at the old shop; etc..
[9880]I got your letter yesterday in New York,
[9881]and while driving the 300-odd miles hoped that my
[9882]subconscious. would perhaps come out with a peal of
[9883]a bell regarding an individual named Ed Nagell. But
[9885]- no bellsrang.
[9887]I have only a.smalil-hunch —- a piccolo-toot
[9888]in my memory. When I worked for the shop I once went
[9889]to see Mr. James Bennett, Director.of Federal Prisons,
[9890]( with whom I had once shared a table on an ocean
[9891]liner, years before). You can guess why I wanted to
[9892]see Bennett: I was seeking ways for birds to fly out
[9893]of cages. Bennett mentioned 2 guy (‘with a questionable
[9894]record, as far as he was concerned) who claimed to
[9895]know us, you and me, what we were doing., etc. etc.
[9896]He had. aproached Bennett " as from us". Ed Nagell
[9897]-- the name -- rings a piccolo-—toot on this, but~only
[9898]hat. Incidentally, I filed a report on the incident
[9899]when I got back to the shop.
[9901]I am often in New York -- at the Harvard
[9902]Club -- and should: you ever be in town, give me a ring.
[9903]It would be fun to see you. I met Harry Csterweis in>
[9904]a restaurant the other day —- fater some many, -many.---
[9906]‘years. You-.may remember him.
[9908]I have recently become an author an Wines. .
[9909]“After a year in France in 1959, -I wrote a book on French
[9910]wines which was. published by Knopf, and am about to bring
[9911]out one on wines of the world with MacMillan in September.
[9912]That is about the extent of | my news.
[9914]Wau 7
[9916]My best to you.
[9919]13-00000 _
[9921]5 Aug 1948:
[9923]28 Nov 1954:
[9925]‘15 Aug 1955:
[9927]wot. ee
[9931]14 Dec 1959:
[9933]8 June 1962:
[9935]27 June 1962:
[9937]16 July 1962: Shot in chest "while making a meet" between Malibu and
[9939]17 Aug:1962:
[9941]24 Aug 1962:
[9943]. Suspended by ABC, State of California —
[9945]. Entered Mexico through Ciudad, Juarez.
[9948]Richard Case NAGELL |
[9950]Chronological Record of Activities
[9952]‘Entered Army (18 years old)
[9954]"Brilliant Korean War Record"
[9955]“Many Campaign Awards"
[9957]Sole survivor of plane crash. Suffered facial ‘disfigure-’
[9958]ment; given psychiatric exam. ,
[9960]‘Graduated from Army Intelligence School, Ft. Holabird,
[9962]Maryland. Served as advisor to ROK Army in Korea.
[9963]Goncerned with intelligence activities; served as a member
[9964]of U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps in Japan, Sendai
[9965]and Tokyo, terminating about 1958.
[9967]A Lt, Col, Ned W, GLENN, Deputy G-2, U.S. Navy,
[9968]Japan, advised on 24 March 1964 that he had served |
[9969]personally in Korea with NAGELL, GLENN. advised
[9970]that NAGELL was not stable mentally and that this in-
[9971]stability was probably due to. damage to brain tissues
[9972]suffered in‘an airplane crash during the Korean War.
[9974]Honorable Discharge - Captain; U.S. Army
[9976]Employed by Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
[9977]of State of California'as a special investigator........00.--22----
[9979]Dismissed by ABC
[9981]‘Oxnard. Refused to identify assailants or furnish infor-
[9982]mation to police, subsequently, filed Civil Rights com-_
[9983]plaint against police. Withdrew request for hearing so
[9984]he could get money from state of California consisting of
[9985]retirement contributions and accumulated leave.
[9987]Issued tourist card at Los Angeles, California.
[9989]cectassiicatlon
[9992]13-00000
[9994]15 Dec 1962: Advised FBI in- Jacksonville, Florida, that he had been
[9996]20 Dec: 1962: 22 Jan 1963: NAGELL at Bay Pines, Florida VA Hospital. he. o
[9997], Condition diagnosed as'''chronic brain syndrome associated boo
[9999]28 Sept 1962: Appeared voluntarily at American Embassy, Mexico City,
[10000]tense, nervous, agitated and antagonistic.
[10001]Inter alia-stated he had been approached in Mexico
[10002]City for recruiting, refused to say by. whom on behalf of
[10003]what country. Stated that one job of this sont would be
[10004]in New York, He volunteered that he fully realized that |
[10005]what he was saying could be used against him in any
[10006]court or prosecution. He stated that he was "bitter,
[10007]disgusted, disillusioned and disaffected". Stated he knew
[10008]the full significance of the term disaffected. He stated
[10009]that.if he did go to some other country, it would cost the
[10010]United States millions, He stated that he was "through
[10011]being a good citizen" and thought that he had gotten a
[10012]“dirty deal all around. "'
[10014]_1 Oct 1962: Again appeared at American Embassy, Mexico City,
[10016]wanting to: know what-had been done in regard to getting
[10017]the state of California to pay him-the money due him.
[10018]Was sent to protection section. Asked what section of
[10019]Embassy he should contact to renounce his United States
[10020]citizenship. Was advised by collection section that they
[10021]could not intercede for him in collecting money from
[10022]state of California. Appeared in passport and citizenship
[10023]section and asked what the penalty would be for going to
[10024]an Iron Curtain country and what effect it would have on
[10025]his citizenship. Was advised that such action would be
[10026]violation. of federal law.
[10028]28 Oct 1962: - Left Mexico City, México. ce ag oe este anata emma
[10030]16 Nov 1962:: Advised FBI in New York City he wanted to expose.
[10031]~ Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control in California.
[10033]approached shortly before in Washington, D.C., by.
[10034]individual believed to be working for Soviets. NAGELL
[10035]at this time was noted to be in an inebriated condition -
[10036]vague.in answering questions.
[10038]with brain trauma with behavioral reaction characterized
[10039]by passive aggressive and paranoid features".
[10044]13-00000
[10046]24 Jan 1963:
[10048]19 April 1963:
[10050]_4 June 1963:
[10052]20 Sept 1963:
[10054]gave him a pistol with silencer and microfilm if he ,
[10056]issued a new passport on 6 August 1963, )
[10058]Asked FBI in Miami if his Cuban or Russian sources
[10060]would be permitted to return same to his contact so /
[10061]he could be of further use to U.S. Government, He
[10062]stated that in August or September 1962 he met a man
[10063]from Maryland.in Mexico City who introduced him to
[10064]individuals whom hé:believed may have been Soviet Agent.
[10066]Advised FBI in Los Angeles, ‘California, that he had
[10067]taken his former wife to court for failure to comply with
[10068]court order giving NAGELL visitation rights with children.
[10070]NAGELL appeared at the Out Patient Clinic and was re-
[10071]ferred to the Neurological Clinic for treatment. His
[10072]condition was diagnosed. as'depression, tearful, neryous,
[10073]rigid". . Would only utter words '"'Got to see my kids",
[10075]NAGELL arrested in El Paso, Texas, on charge of at-
[10076]tempting to rob State National Bank. Slashed wrist night-
[10077]of 9/20/63. NAGELL consistently denied he had tried
[10079]to rob the bank; stated that the fact that he fired two shots
[10080]in the ceiling proved he had not been trying to hit anyone.
[10081]He stated that he was certain that "all of my problems have
[10082]been solved for a long. time, and now I won't have to go to
[10085]A notebook which the Subject h had on his person when ar-
[10086]rested made reference to Fair Play for Cuba Committee,
[10087]the names of purported CIA agents’and other information. ~~
[10088]Cell mate in jail reported that NAGELL disclosed to him
[10089]that NAGELL, during confused period after discharge,
[10090]decided everything against him in Los Angeles.and made
[10091]arrangements with Communist Party in Los Angeles to
[10092]pick up visa and ‘passport from contact in El Paso and
[10093]eventually end up im Czechoslovakia. NAGELL reportedly
[10094]attempted suicide three times enroute to El Passo but
[10096]lost nerve.
[10098](Noteworthy that State Department records reflect issuance
[10099]of Passport to NAGELL on 7 August 1962 at Los Angeles,
[10100]California, and that on 9 July 1963 NAGELL signed affi-
[10101]davit that his passport had been lost or stolen. He was
[10104]13-00000
[10106]4 Nov 1963:
[10108]19 Dec 1963:
[10110]1 Jan 1964:
[10112]24 Jan 1964:
[10114]9 June 1964:
[10116]17 June 1964:
[10118]r™.
[10120]El Paso Herald-Post article states that NAGELL told
[10122]U.S, District Court that he did not attempt to hold up
[10124]the bank. "I had a motive for doing what I did" NAGELL
[10126]told Judge, "but my motive was not to hold up the bank.
[10127]I do not intend to disclose my motive at this time. "'
[10129]Subsequent to President's assassination, Subject claimed
[10131]acquaintance with OSWALD and wife. ‘Marina OSWALD
[10133]~on 1/18/65 disclaimed any knowledge of NAGELL,
[10135]NAGELL furnished a signed statement:
[10137]',.. In September 1962, while I was in Mexico ‘City,a
[10138]representative of a foreign government proposed to me
[10139]that I participate in an act; such act being a criminal
[10140]offense and inimical to the best interest of the United
[10141]States. At that time, I refused such proposal, In May
[10142]1963,. another: representative of the same foreign govern-
[10143]ment made the same proposal tome, At that time, I
[10144]agreed to such a proposal." ,
[10146]"In September 1963, I was informed by an American, —
[10148]‘known to me as an Agent of the same foreign government,
[10150]that arrangements for my participation in the aforementioned
[10151]act were completed, At that time, I refused the aforesaid
[10153]; proposal.
[10155]Approximately one week later,. 1 was instructed by this
[10156]same person to either participate as previously agreed
[10157]or derrogatory information pertaining to me would be
[10159]disclosed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. There- ;
[10160]upon, I agreed to follow the instructions of this person, “~~  [
[10161]’ although I did not intend todo so. -This existing situation
[10163]actuated my conduct of September20, 1963, for which I
[10164]was arrested and am presently charged. _ oo
[10165]I did not actually attempt to rob any bank. I thought that
[10167]- my arrest-would provide an immediate, though temporary,
[10169]solution. to the problem with which I was confronted.
[10170]Iam not guilty as charged."
[10172]NAGELL arraigned in connection with indictment for
[10173]bank robbery and was committed for 30 days for the
[10174]purpose of psychiatric examination,
[10176]Sentenced in U.S. District Court, El Paso, Texas to
[10178]serve 10 years.
[10180]NAGELL swallowed several sleeping pills while lodged
[10182]at the El Paso Een Jail.
[10187]13-00000 Sn
[10189]Som, Ae “Le be hs Oui ae
[10190]ate PaO iN Fre Marre |
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[10194]13-00000
[10199]ia
[10201]Ec uNcLassiFtep
[10203]610 ERB Fy SECRET @ 0 CONFIDENTIAL [] [Stagg — C]_ UNCLASSIFIED
[10206]ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET ..
[10208]SUBJECT:
[10210]FROM: .
[10212]a d* er COMMENTS (Number each comment to ‘show from whom
[10213]moemtaans) to whom. Draw a line. across column after each comment.)
[10216]13-Q0000 wrsteerd don
[10218]"CENTRAL | INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
[10219]ATIN: MR. JAMES LUDLUM
[10221]7
[10222]i
[10224]Le
[10225]4
[10226]i
[10227]7”
[10229]REMARKS .
[10231]The attached is forwarded for your information since
[10232]your Agency is mentioned by Nagel, the writer of the
[10233]‘letter to Mr. Plant, Special Assistant, Office of
[10234]UnderSecretary of the Army.’
[10236]Nagell was at one time in. cic.
[10237]It seems that he. may ‘be mentally unbalanced.
[10239]Nagell's | dossier is available in Security Divison,
[10240]OACSI DA for your review if desired.
[10242]Do NOT. ‘use this form as-a RECORD of: approvals, concurrences, -
[10243]_ disapprovals,. clearances, and‘similar actions .
[10245]DATE
[10247]7 k Jun 70°
[10248]nate shi, Cr Div, OACSI DA Snone
[10249]; : _ | x7 1017
[10250]“OPTIONAL FORM 41 - % cro; ines or—as2-e20 - 5041-101
[10252]. AUGUST 1967. OO !
[10253]GSA FPMR (41 CFR} 100-11 206 ' :
[10256]13-00000
[10258]24 April 1970°
[10260]‘Francis. x. Plent ©
[10261]; Special’ Assistant : .
[10262]“Office, Under Secretary of ‘the Army:
[10264]‘Room 1E520,- The, Pentagon. ;
[10265]Washington, | D. Ce
[10267]io Deas] ir . Plant
[10269]; “In Furth er. reference to my letter from Svitzerlan a During our. conver- }
[10271]ation: of 6 April you made it Clear. that. I must, step back into ti and prove a
[10273]‘the existence of a condition’ over ten. years ago. that. ‘could and should. have 4
[10275]been: resolved ‘by the Army then wee & Teat, aet is all the more complicated
[10277]: by ‘the, ABCHR' s- -‘refusal- 20 interview. ‘the | ap propriate. witnesses, vicw certain. oo
[10279]pertinent. records. and. to place: the: blame. for im y not receiving an adequate’
[10280]“medical exe mination where at belongs. -
[10282]7 “believe: what you. toreetly meant. to: say was. “th at in my. particular case ;
[10283](es opposed to others much less valid) the. function. of the Board | to° correct.
[10284]can injustice ‘does mot. epply. ; os .
[10286]“$0. it this” assumption ‘is. fact, as. I have. every. reason.to. feel: it Lis, then
[10287]~ you. may “pass on to the. Secretary that before my. case is closed. the | e Army will be:
[10288]-.eonfronted with: a scandal. that will, make France’ Ss. _Dreytus, affair. een, Banco nee
[10290]Very. truly ys:
[10292], “Enclosed are ‘some. xerox copies of s everal “docunents vhich your house-.-
[10293]_ cleaning office might find of interest.. The originals, together with.
[10294]_ humerous other documents and the details-about them, -are safely locked
[10297]13-00000
[10299]~ Gecéptive, . y had killod before arid T had | participated | in homicidal naer the auspices. of
[10301]~ both MI and the CIA ° “(one instance being the part I played in the Fomuary 1958: abduction- ve
[10302]. qe
[10304]. interrogation-murder of. an FOI agent, a U. Ss. soldier,
[10305]Pay ‘suspected . of. thaving: -defacted — in: place tot @ ‘Chinese),;. ~ynde . Tarr
[10307]-hmerican variation ‘of: the Soviet, Myet. affair” was the only a tormitive, that it) was
[10308]. either:.-easential © to ‘somé ‘overall intelligence effort or in the best .interests,of our’ .
[10309]national “security And” ‘it’ was e eimiler-sounding: argument, ultimately reduced or:
[10312]13-00000 .
[10314]siitary._ pollea. Inwes
[10315]ve. announced . ‘tRat 32
[10317]gaining: clunes to. the :deati
[10318]Set Enimett Ec Dugan,
[10320]“ur ts generaliy ‘eliey
[10321]but “may. Have committed:
[10325]with utn
[10326]* “Dagan,
[10327]urned. ta
[10332]miuary toa of the tate. the”
[10333]hands: of he Chihiese Comma.»
[10334]“police officials. reveaice
[10335]‘S
[10336]to .quesiion Mrs.
[10337]dn order to exhaus ZL a possi
[10339]. spokesman at-C
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[10344]peices |
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[10349]ver, leavi ing !
[10350]hotel,
[10352]Dugan
[10354]+ lungs.
[10356]ties, said |
[10358]aa NOT Deen de |
[10359]are folrly sure -
[10361]nn yeh. 4. Indic
[10362]tehe sen * death’
[10363]near. awhen, he handed hev an in-
[10364]osaying, Ut
[10366]nile, “the Army? sp
[10367]_ “nethiag new" :
[10368][een uneay ered | in a the case thus | a
[10369]fare. : 9
[10370]|. Dagan.
[10371]and w
[10372]“conta
[10375]13-00000
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[10390]13-00000
[10392]Se arny. Coordinat-
[10393]. B177- AUS)
[10394]“1956: A HID.
[10395]‘operations: sponsored: and ‘directed: ay
[10396]UNS. Military. Intelligence.
[10398]Complétely true!" -
[10400]-PANMUNIJOM, Kore ca- (AP)—The- UN. Command Sat’
[10401]lurday labeled.“ “comnlctely false" a Communist charge tha
[10402]an armed ‘raiding party from-the Republic of Korea” brokd.
[10404]. «pinto. a North. Korean. village and ‘killed. a farmer and Aid
[10405]. /ynaped a teen-age ‘boy.
[10406]ae ; “There. is no evidenc
[10408]- Matthey ok De te helinaan tala _
[10410]’ Conmnitinist North Korean mene [
[10411]‘Cebers, of Abad Military) Aroustice
[10412] Conmissiin 7 a qo.
[10414]Me sak othe (Conmiunist clatiad -
[10415]oTeomle have heen amnufactured. foal.
[10417]Rok
[10418]nmounist delegate tia the:
[10419]demanded “inmmediuted |
[10420]Miyear-old North Kod 7
[10421]. aHegedly Hadnaped a
[10423]: Chany alsa handed te | a
[10424]sister a Hist at Ua 4
[10426]since’ 2
[10427]Adres
[10429]wid Che raster war
[10430]stiuliod
[10431].
[10435]Ob arabe
[10436]wi inniinsietiy te
[10439]1300000
[10441]NSAN-NT Korea (UP). rhe; ‘The ROK 50
[10442]. Command Aq! lilary - Avaiist- | story fo the MAo C
[10443]‘ica Commission discloses that Red] team vw Aich Condusted “otielhe-cpot .
[10445]1 Chinese: troops created. a. shoot | investigations Sept,” 22 and 23 and] The
[10446]ing” incident at 2
[10448]2 ‘Moon: festival, met again Thursday at (Panmua- munist "‘troane
[10449]party with a Republic of Ko onl jeri to complete the i each “other
[10450]patrok:in Korea's Demilitarized, [tions, a -[ tion. lir
[10451]Zone | Sept: Oe ee rs rs
[10452]UNCMAC sunom reement said THE ING
[10453]ROR SOlMi¢r. was wounded [about | five “miles notthwest “of |:
[10454]e shooting, os anid tho Com. Kumhwa on the ens: central sec!
[10455]"ONO _Chingse ‘tor of the truce ror St ree,
[10456]: . Tho shoot hg
[10457]timony. given by the “party”
[10458]ROK soldi PS cinvolved | in}. Comr Est
[10459]Incident “has Placed respon. 1-1 troops pat g the Deni
[10460]sibility -(for the *nefdent) “upent ed Zone, iginglly ho
[10461]1G. Communists, me - 7b Boldiers .Werd. invited do
[10463]NT tnale place
[10465]win
[10466]lay aside. tote
[10468]o JS more: fr
[10470]started
[10474]and three
[10476]An Ameri Gan sponsored ‘end 1 directea
[10477]“attempt. to kidnap a Chinese soldier
[10478](Intelligence. Agent) — (Suring: Peacetine:
[10479]. 20 September 1956. . : .
[10481]The ROK: soldiers Ss said “thes
[10484]more, Shots
[10485]. | brie Incident. a
[10487]Commun
[10488]a forte not)
[10489]that ane or:
[10490]‘soldiers was
[10491]was, -wonnded,
[10492]Tho” MAC
[10493]. comm
[10495]ent conflicted s
[10497]quite: a “story behina this
[10498]since oie of them was’ an
[10499]_fmericen officer.
[10501]i : oe
[10502]Nie ‘Dig “9
[10504]il SH
[10506]: SAN Nr, Korea : (UNG?
[10508]1 MAC) A. United Nations -¢
[10510]maid ¢ Nepresentative: Irig
[10511]Dranded / AS) “wholly? withe
[10512]foundation*' €o minist cha
[10513]that twa on,
[10516]under GONG orders, had ¢rassed
[10518]the : miilit: ry denis tention ling | Con. py
[10519]Korein ter itoty on ta
[10521]f pr fe H ae We .
[10523]7, to! _per pete ae hos (he atinwed
[10525]one,
[10527]1
[10528]snap
[10531]report.
[10532]1 “y evi
[10534]: ted
[10536]Cal, Jamen y Dyson “by aN Ninny Afra © Coainis
[10537]° . ’ a“ . ah vite ve
[10538]member” 62 the UNG sual Joint ober ia
[10540]fen May. -
[10541]ent cat’ tha tenm that 2 24 uo .
[10544]tlona of tie ¢
[10545]xafion, fa. .
[10547]According
[10550]cd his Communist counters elim its pers t x
[10551]mo eras: the yy der -
[10555]13-00000
[10557]Pig
[10559]a
[10561]7 ag com nod DEUTSCHE QUNDcSPOST dentin‘. DEUTSCHE BUNDESZOST BERLIN :
[10562]“Box: 2337, ‘Gra. Cen Sta’: ” Lp ee
[10563]New York, N. Y. 10017
[10564]Ue Soho” ~ oo a
[10566]“Mr. Francis X. Plant,
[10567]' Special Assistant .
[10568]“Office, Under Secretary’ of the arny ”
[10569]* Room: ‘10520, The Pentagon .
[10570]Washington, D.C. 20300 .
[10572]WP
[10575]13-00000
[10578]13-00000
[10581]“ CPT ROBERT c. NOLAN, ASK: 01438346 = CPt - RICHARD C. NAGELL,.
[10583] *Team 26, Combined Commend for Reconneissance Activities Far
[10584]7 East (C-CRAFE) . SO es
[10586]E , , : *USACRAFE
[10587]HID
[10588]FOI
[10591]BIAISON SECTION, _ ARMY COORDINATING DETACHMENT
[10594]13-00000
[10596]Mr. Francis X. Plant
[10598]’ Special Assistant to the Under. Secretary
[10599]. of the Army :
[10601]Room 8£520, ‘The Pentagon
[10603]Washington, ‘dD. ~C. 20310
[10606]13-00000
[10608]‘Chief, Research Branch, SRS
[10610]Robert Je Jecnet oe a moe
[10612]an "John R Richard SLOSS
[10613]vas #34490 |
[10615]CM he a oe Eis: name eis perhaps i identieal with.
[10616]_. & name among six names of Agency employees found on a mentally dis-—
[10618]| turbed and disaffected former CIC intelligence officerwho alleges | contact |
[10619], ‘with Russian and Cuban Intelligence agents. ne 7 .
[10624]. SLOSS found on the person of Richard Casz NAGELL when arrested in cone :
[10626]'-mection with a bank robbery in El Pase,. Texaa,. on 20 September. 1963. - AS:
[10628]‘| notebook found on NAGELL made reference to Fair. Play for Cuba Commit<
[10630]' tee, the addresses of F oreign: Embassies, the names of purported CIA. =.
[10632]agents and other information. Although NAGELL is unquestionably ment=."
[10634]> ally unbalanced, he tella a story of being involvad in espionage which i is...
[10635]-. mot fully contradicted by evidence. There is no apparent explanation af
[10636]“why the name J. SLOSS as well ag five other names of CIA personnel
[10638]‘should have been in the possession of Richard Case NAGELL. ... The weird.
[10640]3. “The name of Jahn SLOSS may be identical with the name J.
[10642]-. story of NAGELL is contained in a = chronological listing of his 1 activities | oy Z oi
[10644]- . “appended: to this memorandum.