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104-10104-10417 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/9/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10144 and id is 1 raw text is: 1O4104 141


SUBJT:    WOOD, Vi1liam Clarence, Jr.
          ake BOXE,   William


     Th December 1944 William Clarence WOOD, Jr, was security approved
 for OSS employment to be used overseas in a writing/publishing assignmento
 However, he was assigned to combat infantry duties in the Southwest
 Pacific Area and was not used by 088. Of interest in his file at this
 time are memoranda recording a visit he made to the Honolulu Office
 of OSS in February 1945 in which he told the office how he had been,
 recruited by 088 while attending infantry school at Fort Banning in
 October 1944; that his services were to be used in originating and
 conducting radio programs in the CBI theater; that when he did not hear
 from OSS, he made certain inquiries and found that his record had been
 carefully investigated by Dunn and Bradtreet; that he then made a long
 distance call to OSS Personnel Procurement Office.'.He was told that
 temporarily the 088 was not in a position to avail themselves of his
 services but he was to keep in touch. The interviewing officer in
 Honolulu forwarded a report of the visit to the Security Officer in
 088 Headquarters with a comment to note the Dun and Bradatreet leak and
 that Subject certainly knew more about the inside of 088 than any potential
 recruit he ever saw and Subject had never been in Washington.

     On 13 December 1950 Subject van granted a Covert Security Clearance
 for use a a Sta    gent with Project POCUS. He was assined to the
                 as Chief Instructor of Clandestine Operations. Re
reportd   o       8 January 1951 and arrived overseas 12 March 1951
In   y 1951 his dapendents were issued travel elearances to join him at
the   I[tubect suffered a nervous breakdown in March 1952
at Headquarters, Washington for medical observation.
Examination by the Medical Office in April 1952 concluded that Subject's
breakdown was caused by family trouble and overindulgence in alcohol* The
Medical  Office recommended that he should not attempt any extreme covert
work but should only accept either light semi-covert or overt duties with
a probationary period of one year, these duties to be performed within
the continental limits of the United States.  Subject was assigned to
OTR  as an inatructor in the Operations Course in May 1952 and recorunended
for  conversion to staff status after a four-month probationary period.
This transfer was security approved in October 1952 and he received his
appointment asa  GS-11 Training Instructor with OTR (Operations Training
Branch).

*     In December 1952 he was found by an Agency guard lying on a sidevalk
near Temporary Ee  Building bheding from the mouth.  There was no evidence
of  foul play and he was taken to Eiergency Hospital at his own reqpest.


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