THE MARILYN MONROE 'MYSTERY'

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360007-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 7
• Publication Date: August 12, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
12 AUGUST 1982
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Maybe the Los'Angeles county.supervisors..~vM'7;..bein used to support -.' vate investivattee
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prove ; jastified :m reopening the case ?of Marilyn ' ' Tim t she not die o an o ose of nffls
Monroe's. death 20 years ago in order to. anvesti; ,,,i t was murdered by the CIA in er to iprotect
gate sinister, rumors of murder.,. But one, can't ,.:.cert ain secrets. what's more, the f5eary- goes, the.
,help suspecting that they have been seduced by secrets were told her by the late Robert F:
the temptation to be participants in a front-page... . Kennedy, who was later murdered himself and
mystery story. ,
involved a plot' on the. life of Fidel Castro..(If.
Agatha Christie and Conan. Doyle thought `-up' ,prominent names, attract .attention, Whip. . skimp
their own plots; 'other mystery writers find -it And its _ only, a step farther. to .tie in with: the'
easier to borrow'-?enough from real life to get' shopworn . theory that Castro had a-hand . in the
.,public attention and then attach their own intri- ? assassination of John F.
-guing versions of what really happened. If -Shake- ' We shall await the results of this new:investiga-,
speane. could -persuade the world-.that Julius`:- lion, but not with bated"breath; After'all;;sorne.
? `Caesar's last words were "Et tu, Brute," ',wby l shoddy evidence - in a pornography.. can, disap.,
shouldn't other ' writers hope to win fame and ' geared from the files of the U.S. Supreme.. Court
:riches by embellishing. the prevailing accounts of I ' recently and -nobody suggested sinister motives. ?
'the death of people like Abraham Lincoln, John F. There is far less reason to look for sinister
Kennedy, and now Marilyn Monroe? motives in the disappearance of Marilyn Monroe's'
The disc arance of Miss Monroe's red diary diary from a local office. The obvious motives
rom the coroners office shortly after her death .is should be adequate. .
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