A FORMER CORONER S AIDE WHO CLAIM HE WAS FORCED TO SIGN MARILYN MONROE S DEATH CERTIFICATE SAID TODAY A FILE ON THE ACTRESS WAS ALTERED AND THAT HER DIARY DISAPPEARED FROM A SAFE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
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• Publication Date: August 26, 1982
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Reuters i
August 26, 1982'
ILOS AUSFLES 'By Ronald Clarke,
-A former coroner's aide who-claims he was forced to sign Marilyn Monroe's
death cei?tificate said today a file an the actress was altered and that her
diary disappeared from a safe.
Lionel Grandison told a news conference he leafed through the diary and it
contained references to a plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel Castro and also to
President John F. Kennedy and to Senator Robert Kennedy. He gave no details.
Miss Monroe died 20 years ago aged 36 of what the coroner's office said then
was a self-induced overdose of barbiturates.
Rewards of up to $100,000 were offered recently for the diary. Private
detective Milo Speriglio said he had evidence the diary included entries saying
that Robert Kennedy told Miss Monroe of a CIA plot to kill Castro.
Speriglio said he believed a dissident CIA faction murdered Miss Monroe
before she could reveal the plot.
"The diary was put in a safe one day, and when we opened the safe the next
day, it was gone," Grandison said.
He said in the days following the discovery of Miss Monroe's body in her Los
Angles home, people he believed were from the CIA came to the coroner's
office.
"Three or four people came in to investigate Marilyn's file. You can tell the.
difference between a police office and a heavyweight," said Grandison, now an
aC'vertising executive.
Asked about his previous claim he was coerced into signing the death
certificate,- he said he was ordered to sign it and it was implied that if he did
not he would be dismissed.
He said he was reluctant to sign because of the absence of a report from the
coroner's suicide investigators and of reports normally available for
Inspection.
He claitcd the file on Miss Monroe was altered several times and a diagram Of her body was renoved from the file.
Graudis.on said his arrest six months after Miss Monroe died on a charge o
stealing a credit card may have been arranged. "I was asking too many
questions," he said.
The Los A:;geles district attorney's office announced two weeks ago it was
trying to establish the chain of events in the last 24 hours of Miss Mon roe's
life.
The county Board of Supervisors requested the office to investigate claims
made by Lrandison.
Grandison said today he 'iad still. not been contacted by the District
Attorney's office. A spokesman for the office refused to comment.
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