L.A. MAY PROBE MONROE'S DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360006-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: August 12, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ART i C APPEARED THE BALTIMORE' SUN
O PAGE 12 AUGUST 1982
L.A. may probe
Monroe's death
A Los Angeles prosecutor is. studying
the , last 24 hours -in the ' life of . actress-
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Marilyn Monroe to decide whether a
wale investigation of her death should be
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launched.
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The inquiry comes amid a flurry
speculation that a missing diary said to
have been kept by Miss Monroe may, have
indicated she was murdered.
Miss Monroe died at 36 Hof?~vhat'the
coroner's office said at the time ;'was; a
self-induced overdose of barbiturates.
The ? controlling authority fin''Los An-
geles county, the five-member' Board of
Supervisors, voted unanimously yesterday
to "ask the office of District Attorney 3obn
Van de Kamp to investigate the case.
"We are trying to piece together the
last 24 hours of Miss Monroe's life," Mr.
Van de Kamp said. "We are pot at this
point conducting a full-fledged investiga-
tion." have all
He said his office expected to
the necessary documents and news arti-
cles relating to ter death in about 10 days. y.
A former coroner's aide; Lionel Gran-
dison, has been quoted in news reports as
saying he was pressured into signing Miss
.Monroe's death certificate.
He was also quoted as saying -a diary
giving details of a friendship she was said
to have had with Robert Kennedy when he
was U.S. attorney general had disappeared
soon after she died. ' . ,
Rewards of up to $100,000 were-offered
last week for the so-called "red diary."
.A Los Angeles urivate detective. Mih
-j-,j- said he had evidence the diary
included entries revealing Mr. Kenner
tp iss Monroe of a tral inteL~3-
ence A en lot to a Cuban leader
el stro:
Mr. S ri lio said he believed a dissi-
ent action mur a Monroe
I -~ore she cold rev 1 thee
Dr. Thomas Nogaohi, the former Los
Angeles coroner who performed the post
mortem on Miss Monroe, said she overdose Of drugs-
suicide by taking
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