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104-10112-10280 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (2/25/1960)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch10531 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10112-10 280

      STC ARD F0M  .O 64
      Offi      Memorandum. UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

      TO    .DATE: 25 February 1960
             Acting Chief, Personnel Security Division

     FROM   : Deputy Chief, Clearance Branch                        Nt  ground U   Ol


     SUBJEcT: CROZIER, Ross laster
             #112569



                  Reference is made to your query of 19 February as to whether Subject,
              a Career Agent, grade C8-12, would be eligible for employment as a staff
              employee, contract employee or independent contractor. The record on
              Subject for the moment in the Office of Security is a covert file which,
              has been reviewed at your request.

                  Subject has had a covert affiliation with the Agency since 1949. He
              is 37 years of age and native born of native born parents. After withdrawing
              from high school in June 1940, he enlisted in the US Army in August 1940.
              He served in the Army Air Corps as an intelligence specialist until dis-
              charged in July 194$. He returned to Panama to marry his wife in December
              1965 (he met her at an Army post exchange while stationed in the Panama
              Canal Zone in 1943). He was employed as a civilian laborer by the US
              Naval Air Station at Coco Solo, Canal Zone during the winter of 1965-46,
              re-enlisting in the USAF as an Intelligence NCO in April 1946, Upon com-
              pletion of big enlistment in the Uq  in 1949 he, was recruited -by this
              Agency servi4  n                        Cuba and currently in Mexico. He
              was granted a              p     in 19 8 on the basis of GED tests, and
              attended universities in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Cuba working towards a
              B.A. degree in-economics. He was broughTto the US for training in basic
              tradecraft during the autumn of 1953.

                  Favorable National Agency record checks and a check of RI were com-
              pleted on Subject in September 1954. A favorable background investigation
              and a re-check of National Agency records was completed in May 1957. The
              AGO check indicated that Subject had been granted a Secret clearance by
              the Caribbean Air Command on 18 May 1948 on the basis of a limited inves-
              tigation.  E checks at this time were not derogatory. A  check of source
              K on Subject, his alien spouse and some of his alien in-laws developed in-
              formation covered below. Both Subject and his wife were given favorable
              polygraph interviews in April and May 1958.

                  When Subject married in December 1965, he acquired an alien wife and
              numerous alien in-laws, all Costa Rican nationals. Subject's wife, whose
              maiden name was Argentina CORDERO Calderon, was born 15 March 1918 in
              San Jose, Costa Rica.  Her parents were born in Costa Rica and are deceased,
              her father since 1942 and her mother since 1956. Her grandmother was born
              in Germany.  She has nine siblings one of whom died as a child. She



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