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104-10130-10421 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/17/1949)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch11568 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-1130-1042-
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           Office Memorandum                    *UNITED S TES GOVE NMENT


           TO    :  Chief, Inspection and Security Staff            DATE:  17 October 1949
           THRU  :  Chief, Special Security Division
           FROM     Chief, Special Security Branch

           SUBJECT: SNYDER, Richard Edward - 38984

                    1.  The file of the subject person reveals the following information:

                                              STATUS

                    Subject is being considered for a position with OPC as an Intelligence
          Officer, P-3, overseas.

                                           BACKGROUND

                    Subject is 29 years of age, married, and native born of native born
          parents.  His wife is native born of naturalized Italian born parents.

                    Subject graduated from high school in 1937 and attended Rutgers
          College from 1939 to 1940.  From 1937 to 1940 he was intermittently employed
          as a salesman and stockboy.  He served in the Army from 1940 until released
          from active duty in January 1946.  While in the Army, he attended the Uni-
          versity of Grenoble during the summer of 1945.  He attended Yale University
          from 1946 to 1949 and was awarded an A.B. degree.  From 1945 to 1949 he was
          intermittently employed as a salesman, laborer, warehouseman, and mail carrier.

                                    OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION

                    Subject is very highly recommended as a young man of excellent
          character, who is honest,-trustworthy, discreet, and loyal. Nothing of an
          adverse nature was noted in police or credit records.

                    Subject lists Reverend Benedotto Pascale as a character reference.
          He highly recommended Subject and advised that he has known him for 12 years.

                    In 1948 Reverend Pascale. was listed as a signer of a telegram to
          the Attorney General, protesting the government's growing attacks on Negros,
          foreign born Americans, and labor leaders. He was also listed in 1948 as
          a sponsor of a convention to defend the Bill of Rights.


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                    A listed acquaintance advised that Subject had been more closely
          attached to his mother than his father, and after his mother's death in ap-
          proximately 1938, Subject lived with various relatives and this informant
          stated that he did not believe Subject lived with his father since that time.



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                                                          Do  Not Reproduce

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