TWENTY YEARS AFTER SHE DIED, MARILYN MONROE IS STILL ALLOWED NO PEACE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360002-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: August 30, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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REUTERS
30 AUGUST 1982
Ro;iald Clarke
LOS A^JGELES
Twenty years after she died, Marilyn Monroe is still allowed no peace.
Rewards of up to $100,000 have been offered for her so-called red diary, a
private detective believes she was killed by a dissident faction of the CIA
and a former coroner's aide claims he was coerced into signing hdr death
certificate.
Robert Slatzer, author of "The Life and Curious Death of Marilyn Conroe,"
published in 1974, told reporters that in the last summer of her life miss
Monroe was having an affair with Senator Kennedy.
He said Miss Monroe showed him her diary, which included details GF her
relationship with Kennedy, who was then U.S. attorney general, and information
about the CIA.
Slatzer said Kennedy broke off his relationship with Miss Monroe two wee;cs
before her death. "This was a woman who couldn't take rejection," Slatzer said.
He said an the night before she died she told him by telephone if she did not
hear from Kennedy soon she would call a press conference "and blow the lid."
Michael Speriglio, a member of a leading Los Angeles private detective agency
who said he had been investigating Miss Monroe's for 10 years, offered a $'JJ,OOO
reward for the diary.
He said he had evidence, which he did not specify, th:3t the diary included
entries of Kennedy telling Miss Monroe of a CIA plot to kill Cuban leader
Fidel Castro.
He told a press conference he had uncovered through sources a plot organized
by the CIA to kidnap Miss Monroe and take her to a "safe house" in Virginia,
where the CIA has its headquarters.
"The faction intended to make known later Miss Monroe had suffered a nervous
breakdown so no one would accept what she said," Speriglio said.
But, he said, he believed what he called a dissident CI r g
Miss Monroe first and murdered her.
Dr. Theodore Curphey, who was Los Angeles coroner when Miss Monroe died, has
disputed claims she was murdered. "These stories have circulated for years," he
said. "There is no point to them."
A CIA spokesman dismissed the murder claims as false and absurd. But the
Monroe mystique continues.
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