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Soon after Kennedy became President, he began to needle the obsession, a UFO leak crisis brought new strains on Angleton. CIA for information on UFOs," which was unnerving at the out- He learned that Hollywood screen star Marilyn Monroe's phone set to Allen Dulles after he was burned over the failed Bay of Pigs conversation with a New York art dealer'*—in which she dis- invasion of Castro's communist-enslaved Cuba in April 1961. cussed Kennedy's secret visit to an undisclosed military base to The once cordial relationship that had existed fell apart, and see alien artifacts, and her disdain over her soured relationships Dulles knew his time as DCI was short—as evidenced in his 1961 with President Kennedy and his brother, the United States draft directive to MJ-12." He knew that the explicit instructions Attorney General—had been recorded by CIA domestic electronic contained in the September 24, 1947 Truman directive—prohibit- surveillance experts. Since 1955, Monroe had been under surveil- ing the DCI from making disclosures to a chief executive who lance by the CIA, and the FBI had maintained a security dossier obviously did not have a "need to know" clearance—would com- on her because of her marriage to a well-known American writer promise the CIA, but also that the lengthy and costly UFO pro- suspected of having communist affiliations, and her trip to Russia gram, deemed so necessary to national security by all involved, and the Press coverage she received while she was there.'* simply could not be jeopardised for The wire-tap report also mentions anyone—not even the President of the nationally recognised New York United States. . syndicated reporter Dorothy Knowing the character of Allen The suggestion that somehow Kilgallen as having conversations Dulles and James Angleton, I can only i i with Monroe regarding the Roswell speculate as to what kind of response the CIA was involved ina UFO crash of 1947 and President Kennedy got. The DCI Top Secret/ domestic murder of an Kennedy's politically motivated M§J-12 document leaves no doubt that A aan A NASA Apollo Moon program. Dulles was not going to cooperate American citizen is not too Dorothy Kilgallen made headlines in with Kennedy's request of June 28, far-fetched when considering 1955 when she disclosed a private 1961, which he forwarded to Angleton A conversation with a British Cabinet for consideration and feedback. . the past abuses coming from official who told her that UFOs are Majestic Twelve/MJ-12 included Angleton's Cl program ... real and that the US and British spin-off projects that were obviously authorities consider the matter as of equally sensitive activities of the CIA, the highest importance. such as Parasite, Parhelion, Enviro, The significance of the wire-tap Psyop, Green, Spike and House Cleaning. Other sensitive and has to do with the fact that Monroe was murdered the following covert programs could be affected as well, such as MK-ULTRA, day in her Brentwood condo. According to Milo Speriglio, Artichoke and Domestic, which all appear to have been opera- internationally recognised private investigator and director of the tional projects associated with Majestic Twelve. The full implica- Nick Harris Detective Agency, Monroe was the victim of a tions of the above are not clear at present, but it is obvious that the national security management hit by the CIA and the Mob.’° The other projects were held in readiness for some kind of mass indoc- suggestion that somehow the CIA was involved in a domestic murder of an American citizen is not too far-fetched when considering the past abuses coming from Angleton's CI program MARILYN MONROE AND MURDER, INC. with its "absolute security at any cost" philosophy. Whether The pressure put on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching a flash- Angleton authorised the hit is not known, but the modus operandi point of wills; and with the Noresenko affair'’ driving Angleton to of the way her body was found and moved around, the fashion in trination and deception undertaking in a national cris The suggestion that somehow the CIA was involved in a the past abuses coming from Angleton's Cl program ... MARILYN MONROE AND MURDER, INC. The pressure put on the CIA by Kennedy was reaching a flash- point of wills; and with the Noresenko affair'’ driving Angleton to Endnotes counterespionage threat, as specified in Central Intelligence Agency: An 1. September 25, 1943 OSS memo, NSCID 1, later amended in NSCID 5, that = Instrument of Government to 1950, Penn released through the FOIA in September authorised the Director of Central State Press, 1990, pp. 197-239. 1989. Intelligence to "conduct all organized 5. The term "UFO", as defined by Air 2. US Senate Select Committee to Study Federal espionage and counterespionage Force intelligence directives, is used here Government Operations with Respect to operations". According to CIA historian to reflect unconventional aircraft and Intelligence Activities, Final Report, Book — Arthur B. Darling, atomic weapons missiles, not interplanetary spacecraft. VI, April 23, 1976, pp. 154-55. research became an overriding issue, and 6. CIA FOIA response letter, dated March 3. WA personal records. Angleton tooka coordination with the Office of Scientific 26, 1976, to a July 14, 1975 FOIA request seven-month leave of absence to remain Research and Development with the AEC made by Ground Saucer Watch of in Tucson, Arizona, for unspecified was through CIA consultant Dr H.P. Phoenix, Arizona, in which it stated that reasons, not substantiated by the need to Robertson, through General Vandenberg's the NSC tasked the CIA with a be with his wife and family—as is believed _ directive containing an agreement requirement to determine the actual UFO by other writers regarding Angleton's between Dr Vannevar Bush which threat. The CIA responded through the absence from CIA's Washington facilitated the transfer of Manhattan Office of Scientific Intelligence by creating headquarters during May through Engineering District files to the Director of __ the Intelligence Advisory Committee to December 1947. See Tom Mangold, Cold Central Intelligence for proper collection study the threat aspects. Military members Warrior James Jesus Angleton: the CIA's of foreign atomic energy research. Secret of the IAC fought vigorously to maintain Master Spy Catcher, Touchstone Books, OSO activities in this area were not participation in areas relating to AEC Simon & Schuster, 1991, p. 361. allowed to fall into administrative control _ intelligence collection. The Joint Chiefs of 4. On December 12, 1947, the National of the AEC nor FBI, as Vandenberg thought Staff, represented by General Todd (who is Security Council (NSC) adopted measures _ they should remain within CIA intelligence mentioned in an FBI memo regarding Joint to counter the espionage and operations. See Arthur B. Darling's The Staff Council ignorance of flying saucer 62 - NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2000 domestic murder of an American citizen is not too far-fetched when considering