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104-10104-10417 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (05/09/1968)

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SUBMJET   WOOD, William Clarence, Jr.
          aka BXLEY,  William


         In December 1944 William Clarence WOOD, Jr. was security approved
    for OSS employment to be used overseas in a writing/publishing assignment.
    However, he was assigned to combat infantry duties in the Southiest
    Pacific Area and was not used by OSS.  Of interest in his file at this
    time are memoranda recording a viait he made to the Honolulu Office
    of OSS in February 1945 in which he told the office how he had been
    recruited by OSS while attending infantry school at Fort Benning in
    October 1941  that his services were to be used in originating and
    conducting radio programs in the CBI theater; that when he did not hear
    from OSS, he made certain inquiries and found that his record had been
    carefully investigated by Dunn and Bradstreet; that he then made a long
    distance call to OSS Personnel Procurement Office.'. He was told that
    temporarily the OSS was not in a position to avail themselves of his
    services but he was to keep in touch. The  interviewing officer in
    Honolulu forwarded a report of the visit to the Security Officer in
    OSS Headquarters with a comment to note the Dunn and Bradstreet leak and
    that Subject certainly knew more about the inside of 08 than any potential
    recruit he ever saw and Subject had never been in Washington.

         On 13 December 1950 Subject was  ranted a Covert Security Clearance
      r use as a Staff Agent With Project   FCUS.  He was assigned to the
A(Island   of Saipan)as Chief Instructor of Clandestine Operations. He
    reported for duty 8 January 1951 and arrived overseas 12 March 1951.
    In May 1951 his de  ndents were issued travel clearances to join him at
    the(Saipan Ba      ubject suffered a nervous breakdown in March 1952
    and was returned to Headquarters, Washington for medical observation.
    Examination by the Medical Office in April 1952 concluded that Subject's
    breakdown was caused by family trouble and overindulgence in alcohol. The
    Medical Office recommended that he should not attempt any extreme covert
    vork but should only accept either light semi-covert or overt duties with
    a probationary period of one year, these duties to be performed within
    the continental limits of the United States. Subject was assigned to
    OTR as an instructor in the Operations Course in May 1952 and recommended
    for conversion to staff status after a four-month probationary period.
    This transfer was security approved in October 1952 and he received his
    appointment as a GS-11 Training Instructor with OTM (Operations Training
    Branch).

         In December 1952 he was found by an Agency guard lying on a sidewalk
    near Temporary Fiye Building bbeding from the mouth. There was no evidence
    of foul play and he was taken to Eergency Hospital at his own request.





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