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104-10414-10177 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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