A FORMER CORONER'S AIDE WHO CLAIMS HE WAS FORCED TO SIGN MARILYN MONROE'S DEATH CERTIFICATE SAID TODAY A FILE ON THE ACTRESS WAS ALTERED AND THAT HER DIARY DISAPPEARED FROM A SAFE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360003-3
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• Document Release Date: August 20, 2010
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• Publication Date: August 26, 1982
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Reuters
August 26, i98.2~
`L.GS AP3aF'lSS ~ play Ronald Clarice
?A former coroner's aide whtJ c~.airas he was forced to sign Marilyn ilanrae's
t'EatiJ ce;"ti ficate said tr~riay a file do the actre.S was a3tered and that her
diary disappeared from a safe.
Liar)e1 Grandisan told a news conference he leafed through the di:~ry and it~
cgntained references to a plat try kill Cuban leader Fitfel Castro anti :~lsa to
President Jahn F. 4tJ?needy and to Senator RJabert Kennedy. He save no details.
Miss Mo-~roe died 20 years at7t7 ag?d 36 of what the coroner's office said then
was aself-induced overdose of barbiturates.
Rewards of up try ~i00,Ot3fJ ware offered rec-~ntly far th,' diary. Rriva?+e
detective Milo Speriglio said he had evidence the diary included entries saying
that !',rJ13~+ r Kennedy tall M1 S5 !",^ri;~"aa t~f a CIA plcJ~ t0 kill Castro.
S~;erigl>a Said h? believed3 a dissident CIA factiai) iytJrde;rd Miss Ptanrt~e
before S;le could rJ:veal the plat.
"1'he diary ryas put in a safe one day, and n~hen we op.8red tfre safe }i)e next
day, it was gone," Grandisnn said.
i
Np said in the days fpllowing the discovery of Miss Mcnree's bt~dy ir; her t..os
P~ritJytles hrame, people he believed were frce~ the Ci.A c~-J~;re to the cara.ier's
pffice.
"i~:ree ar fcJUr people car.J*, in to investigate i`~aril,m's file. Ydcr t.;~r: i.`zl the
dlifferencQ between, a pa3lce office and a heavyweight," said Grandiso-?, na'~ a.n
a~'vertising executive.
~1r~iced a?ac-~tt his previous claim he 4~aS coarced infix aigni;7g t!?e d*_~a:~:
certificate, he said tJe was ar?dn;~ed to sig~j it and it was i,~ni~lied that if lid did'
t'.~ ~ ;;A w?uld be di5mis5ed.
Ffe said he Yeas reluctant to sign because of tt?e absence of 4 report E=i?D~ the
;arso`n' , ,cJicide investigators ;end of rr?parts normally available fr~r
iJ~sl:~ectia:~.
i~;e cl-~ir;ec{ t`re file an ,';is~; t~onra_ ~r:YS altere~f aes~`ra_~ tisri:s and a c.lacirart of
i~E=r~ bar9y was r~:.c~ved from the file.
Grasidi_.an s~~id his arrest six rr~1!~ths r~ftcr rli:~.; "iorrae died on a chard;:: [rf
5t~~':.i.in~ ~ credit card may haYt? baeri arr~?nged. "I wa.~ aakiny tDC! Ji.a!'ly
r?r~s it,ns," he :~zid.
7i)e +~as A?sueles distrlCi: atturr~ey's office r~nnaunced t.:~, we~ics ago it was
tryir~r to establi ,h the chain pf events in t!)e l~rst 2;, hcur5 J7f Miss t~r~nrae's
?. r C: .
The coiJnty Eoard of Supervisors rc~~r;eSfied thL off~.ce cc~ inveStigatp C:.~.air:?s
ra~-e by irrrncisrars.
tarandison said taciay lJJ: iiad stil3. oat betrn crrr,tL:c;ed by tre DiStrici
Attcrrrrey' a +office. A :~pokeaii5a,; Far? Erie c~ffic:a reF:JSCd to u:~~ve,~i:.
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