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104-10102-10180 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/4/1977)

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                                           4 April 1977



MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT:  Comments on George de Mohrenschildt  (201-155221)


     1.  According to the Warren Commission Report, page  283,
 . . . George de Mohrenschildt is a highly individualistic
 person of varied interests. He was born in  (Mozyr) in the
 Russian Ukraine in (17 April) 1911 and fled Russia with his
 parents in 1921 during the civil disorder following the
 revolution. He was in a Polish cavalry military academy  for
 1 1/2 years. Later he studied in Antwerp and attended  the
 University of Liege from which he received a doctor's degree
 in international commerce in 1928. Soon thereafter, he  emi-
 grated to the United States; he became a U.S. citizen in 1949.
 De Mohrenschildt eventually became interested in oil explora-
 tion and production; he entered the University of Texas in
 1944 and received a master's degree in petroleum geology and
 petroleum engineering in 1945. He has since become active
 as a petroleum engineer throughout the world.  In 1960, after
 the death of his son, he and his wife made an 8-month hike
 from the United States-Mexican border to Panama over primitive
 jungle trails. By happenstance they were in Guatemala  City
 at the time of the Bay of Pigs invasion. A lengthy  film and
 complete written log was prepared by de Mohrenschildt and a
 report of the trip was made to the U.S. Government. Upon
 arriving in Panama they journeyed to Haiti where de Mohren-
 schildt eventually became involved in a Government-oriented
 business venture in which he has been engaged continuously
 since June 1963 . . .

     2.  Somewhat of a non-conformist, de Mohrenschildt was a
peripheral member of the so-called Russian community,  in Dallas,
with which Lee Harvey Oswald made contact through Peter Gregory,
a Russian-speaking petroleum engineer whom Oswald met as a
result of his contact with the Texas Employment Commission
office in Fort Worth.  Occasional contacts with de Mohrenschildt
and his wife continued until May 1963 when the de Mohrenschildt's
went to Haiti.

     3.  There is voluminous material on de Mohrenschildt in
CIA files, most of it dating from the post-Kennedy assassi-
nation period when he testified before the Warren Commission

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