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[34]JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM
[35]IDENTIFICATION FORM
[37]AGENCY INFORMATION
[39]INSCOM/CSF
[41]194-10004-10356
[43]DOD-AFFILIATED PERSONNEL INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS ‘
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[46]DOCUMENT INFORMATION
[48]USA
[50]LOOS, DONALD A
[52]CDR IN CHIEF, USA, PACIFIC
[53][ RESTRICTED ]
[55]04/08/69
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[58]MARTI, MANUEL
[60]RETENTION IN ARMY
[62]BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION
[63]PUERTO RICAN COMMUNIST PARTY
[64]AMERICAN LABOR PARTY
[65]CHARACTER REFERENCES
[67]PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT
[68]UNCLASSIFIED
[70]RELEASED WITH DELETIONS
[71]03/07/95
[73]INCLOSURE NOT INCLUDED. RECORD WAS REGRADED
[74]UNCLASSIFIED ON 20 JUL 94.
[76]jBY CDR USAINECOM
[78]8 APR 1969
[80]AVHGB-C
[82]SUBJECT: MARTI, Manuel (NMN), PFC, US 52 773 &70
[83]DPOB: 17 May 1946; San Juan, Puerto Rico
[84]SSAN: 093-36-4601 (U)
[86]Commander in Chief
[88]United States Army, Pacific
[89]ATTN: GPIN-SP
[91]APO 96558
[93]1. (U) Reference paragraph 27a, AR 604-10°
[95]2. (U) Based upon a review of the attached file, this headquarters considers
[96]that SUBJECT'S retention in the Army is clearly consistent with the interests
[97]of national security and, therefore, recommends that this case be closed
[98]favorably under paragraph 27a, AR 604-10.
[100]3. (C) Background and reason for investigation “dynos father was re-
[101]ported to have had the following CP association: 1939 to 1943, active in the
[102]Puerto Rican Communist Party (PCP) in Mayaguez, Puerto Rico and President of
[103]the Party in that city from 1941 to 1943; 1946, selected as PCP Organiza-
[104]tional Secretary; 1948 to 1949, in charge of CP meetings in New York City;
[105]1950, attended PCP meetings with marked regularity: 1951, belonged to the
[106]Bronx County, NYC Section of the CP; 1952, registered as a member of the
[107]American Labor Party (ALP) and showed preference for the ALP for two years;
[108]July 1952, met with the PCP Labor Secretary and other Puerto Rican commnists
[109]in NYC; 1953, reported to be a CP member; 1956, sympathized with the CP but
[110]no evidence of membership in the CP; November 1963 to April 1964, attended
[111]CP meetings; 1964, attended meetings and rally sponsored by the Emergency
[112]Committee for Disaster Relief to Cuba; February 1967, approved ds a member
[113]of the new Bronx County CP Committee; and in 1966 and 1967, attended meet-
[114]ings of the Puerto Rican Commission of the CP. SUBJECT'S father was in-
[115]terviewed by the FBI in January 1957 and July 1959 and denied being a mem-
[116]ber of the PCP, the CPUSA, ever attending meetings of either organization,
[117]or ever fostering their causes.
[119]b. (U) A favorable NAC concerning SUBJECT was completed on 23 Sentember
[120]1968. DD Forms 98 and 398 executed by SUBJECT on 12 May and 1 August 1968,
[122]aS
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[137]8 APR 1964
[138]AVHGB~C
[139]SUBJECT: MARTI, Manuel (NMN), PFC, US 52 773 870
[140]DPCB: 17 May 1946: San Juan, Puerto Rico
[141]SSAN: 093-36-4601 (oO)
[143]respectively, were unqualified. Local agencies disclosed the information in
[144]paragraph 3a, above. CONUS and USARV limited investigations from 21 August
[145]1968 to 25 March 1969 disclosed the following:
[147](1) Loeal agencies disclosed no record of SUBJECT or HIS sister. A
[148]local agency disclosed that in 1962, SUBJECT'S brother was a subscriber to
[149]New Horizons for Youth, a CP publication. Three education checks disclosed
[150]no derogatory information; an education source recommended HIM favorably.
[151]Two employments were checked with favorable results; five employment sources
[152]interviewed disclosed no derogatory information and recommended HIM favor-
[155](2) Nine character references disclosed no derogatory information
[156]concerning SUBJECT and recommended HIM favorably. Five of the sources dis-
[157]closed that no member of HIS family had ever been known to make statements
[158]critical of the.US or to voice pro-communist views. One of the sources dis-
[159]closed that HIS father occasionally brought home a socialist newspaper and
[160]agreed with its comments critical of the US. On these occasions, SUBJECT
[161]and HIS brother argued in defense of the US and HIS father was not able to
[162]influence HIS political thinking and beliefs.
[164](3) SUBJECT was interviewed under oath on 25 March 1969, and was
[165]willing to submit to polygraph examination. HE stated substantially as
[166]follows: HE was anti-communist. HE never participated in commnist activi-
[167]ties or knowingly associated with any CP members. HIS father was a democrat
[168]but he did not always agree with party views or their candidates. HIS
[169]father's political ideologies had no influence on HIM. HE was loyal to the
[170]US and supported its Constitution in its entirely.
[172]4. (U) SUBJECT'S ETS is 20 May 1970 and HIS DEROS is December 1969.
[174]FOR THE COMMANDER:
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[178]1 Incl DONALD A. LCOS
[179]Case File LTC, GS
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