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104-10103-10150 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 .Ukrainein  (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 h'  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 . .   O .

                 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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