ALLEGES CIA INVOLVEMENT IN MARILYN MONROE DEATH

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360009-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: August 10, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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DATE
August 10, 1982
7:00 PM
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Washington, DC
SUBJECT Alleges CIA Involvem
ent in Marilyn Monro
e Death
ROGER MUDD: The Los Angeles County District Attorneys
Office said today Marilyn Monroe's suicide in 1962 is being
re-investigated because of her missing diary and because of
allegations that the death certificate signature had been
coerced. Here's Heidi Shulman in Los Angeles.
HEIDI SHULMAN: Los Angeles County Supervisors called
for the new investigation after a flurry of publicity given
charges Marilyn Monroe was murdered. A private detective offered
$10,000 for her missing diary claiming it had information about
government dealings with gangsters and a plot to kill Fidel
Castro, information he said she got from Robert and John Kenndy.
Gossip linked Monroe romantically to the Kennedy
brothers, and a friend who claims he read the diary says she was
about to tell all when she died.
ROBERT SHALTZER: That diary, I would say, would
contribute greatly to her death.
SHULMAN:' The detective theorizes someone in the CIA
killed Monroe to keep her quiet. That's at odds with the
coroner's report which said she died from an overdose of sleeping
pills. But news stories that a coroner's investigator said he
was coerced into signing the death certificate prompted
supervisors to call for a new probe.
MIKE ANTONOVICH: To me, after 20 years, it's time to
clear up this case once and for all.
SHULMAN: An assistant district attorney is reviewing
the information in the case, but he says that 20 years after
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Marilyn Monroe's death, it is so stale it would take huge
resources to uncover anything new.
Heidi Shulman, NBC News, Los Angeles.
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