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In March 1953 he misrepresented himself as a polygraph operator with the
State Department Secret Police. This misrepresentation was made at a
time when the Department of State was not authorized to have a polygraph
machine and Congressional legislation was pending at the time regarding
such authorization. As a result of' this misrepresentation, Subject was
afforded another -security interview in March 195 3. He explained that
his cover company sold equipment to foreign countries through the Mutual
Aid Program and supplied consultant services to the State Department but
Subject denied that he ever represented himself as a State Department
polygraph operator. After the security interview Subject was also assessed
by an Agency psychologist (March 1953) and was found to be egotistical,
emotionally unstable, possessed of a need to build himself up in the
eyes of others and gave either exaggerated or completely erroneous
information as to his past positions. His intelligence quotient was found
to be comparatively low in relation to those of other Agenye mployees.
In April 1953termination of his employment was recommended.
Subject re ned 29 April 195 to accept a position in California.
Washington c imate is not agreeable to his family.
In April 196+ Mr. J. Kirk BAREFOOT, Director of Security, McKesson
and Robbins, Skokie, Illinois, informed the Agency he had been a witness
to unauthorized disclosures of classified information made by a group in
a c cktail lounge in Omaha, Nebraska. The individual making the disclosures
abo E )OMORPH activities abroad under Agency sponsorship was identified
as Leonard HARRELSON. Subject, who was then Director of Public Safety
for the City of Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the group and it was believed
that he was responsible for supplying the classified information to HARRELSON
about[E OMORPH activities.
Leonard HARRELSON is a private investigator specializing in hypnotism
and the use of the polygraph machine. In 1964 he was employed by the Keeler
Polygraph Company in Chicago, Illinois. In 1954 HAfRELSON was in partnership
with Lloyd B. FlIER in a private detective agency known as the American
Bureau of' Investigation, Tower Building, Washington, D. C. Lloyd B. FUIR
is the polygraph operator who gave a lie detector test to Gordon NOVEL,
hostile witness subpoenaed by GARRISON. The test received newspaper publicity
as being given at McLean, Va. in March 1967. (Sumary on FtJRR attached)..
HARRELSON i believed to be a person of poor morals. He was given
a medical dischnrge from the Army as a psychoneurotic in 1949 nnd had been
court-wart]fil (-(I twice (or 1inper.sonating nonmconfpiiior d officcrs of a
rtink h t g i:m ti if t: Pn:o:.:cd;~. Tn his buris-3 partne-rohip w:it lb ITR,
HARREUION would rieruA1thimoelf a,; being with the FTBI by cov.rJing Lhe
word Axe'icaf when presenting his credentials and just showing Bureau
of Investigation.
Incidentally, the informant, J. Kirk BAREFOOT mentioned above, was
disapproved for Agency employment in 1951 because of falsification of his PS,
and questionable maturity, judgment, discretion and honesty.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch38964&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)