MARILYN MONROE SLAIN: PRIVATE EYE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000201040039-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 1, 2010
• Sequence Number: 39
• Publication Date: August 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON TIMES
3 AUGUST 1982
Marilyn Monroe slain: private eye
LOS ANGELES - A private investigator yesterday
offered a $10,000 reward for Marilyn Monroe's diary to
prove the sex goddess was murdered to stop her from
exposing a CIA plot to kill Fidel Castro.
Milo Speriglio, director of the 76-year-old Nick Har-
ris detective agency, said after spending more than a
decade investigating Miss Monroe's death, "I can say
with 1,000 percent accuracy that she was murdered:'
Speriglio said the "red diary" would prove Miss Mon-
roe did not commit suicide 20 years ago this Thursday.
Instead, he said, the 36-year-old blonde was injected
with drugs by a "dissident" faction of the CIA to keep
her from holding a news conference she had planned
for the next day to disclose the plot to kill Castro.
A CIA spokesman in Washington said the story of the
alleged murder plot was "absolutely false, totally
absurd:'
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