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104-10123-10127 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (09/08/1976)

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                                                            9  AUG 1976



              MEMORANDUM  FOR THE RECORD

              FROM       Robert W. Gambino
                         Director of Security

              SUBJECT:   Robert Maheu



                     1. On  4 August 1976 Mr. James P. O'Connell, formerly
              Deputy Director  of Security for Physical, Technical and
              Overseas Security,  now retired, called to inform me that he
              had been contacted  by Robert Maheu concerning a book which
              Maheu is writing.

                    2.  Mr. O'Connell  indicated that Mr. Maheu wanted to
              discuss the book with him,  together with Mr. Maheu's ghost
              writer, one Joseph Frank.   Mr. O'Connell stated that he
              agreed to meet with Maheu  but wanted me to know that he
              would not provide lMaheu with any information of a classified
              nature.

                    3.  On 5 August  1976 Mr. O'Connell called Mrs.Relda
              10hite to advise that he had decided against meeting with
              Maheu.  Mr. -O'Connell stated that he told Maheu that he just
              simply did not want to get  involved.

                    4.  On 8 August 1976 Mr.  O'Connell called me at my
              home to advise that he.had been  contacted by a reporter from
              The Washington Post in response  to the news story concerning
              the death of Johnny Roselli.   The Post reporter wanted to
              interview Mr. O'Connell to  obtain the general background and
              color details concerning Johnny  Roselli.  Mr. O'Connell
              advised that he told The Washington  Post reporter he had
              nothing of interest to provide  him.

                    5.  Mr. O'Connell elaborated  further concerning Mr.
              Maheu's book, stating that Maheu  was now in London where
              Mr. O'Connell speculates he will  publish the book.  Mr. O'Connell
              believes that the book will be  concerned primarily with Maheu's
              relationship with Howard Hughes  and that Maheu's connections






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