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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch73194 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10130-10421]- 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
STANDARD FORtM NM 64
Office Memorandum UNITED SirTES GOVENMENT
TO Chief, Inspection and Security Staff DATE: 17 October 1949
THRU : Chief, Special Security Division
FROM Chief, Special Security Branch
SUBJECT: SNYDER, Richard Edward - 38984
1. The file of the subject person reveals the following information:
STATUS
Subject is being considered for a position with OPC as an Intelligence
Officer, P-3, overseas.
BACKGROUND
Subject is 29 years of age, married, and native born of native born
parents. His wife is native born of naturalized Italian born parents.
Subject graduated from high school in 1937 and attended Rutgers
College from 1939 to 1940. From 1937 to 1940 he was intermittently employed
as a salesman and stockboy. He served in the Army from 1940 until released
from active duty in January 1946. While in the Army, he attended the Uni-
versity of Grenoble during the summer of 1945. He attended Yale University
from 1946 to 1949 and was awarded an A.B. degree. Fram 1945 to 1949 he was
intermittently employed as a salesman, laborer, warehouseman, and mail carrier.
OTHER PERTINENT INFORMATION
Subject is very highly recommended as a young man of excellent
character, who is honest,-trustworthy, discreet, and loyal. Nothing of an
adverse nature was noted in police or credit records.
Subject lists Reverend Benedotto Pascale as a character reference.
He highly recommended Subject and advised that he has known him for 12 years.
In 1948 Reverend Pascale. was listed as a signer of a telegram to
the Attorney General, protesting the government's growing attacks on Negros,
foreign born Americans, and labor leaders. He was also listed in 1948 as
a sponsor of a convention to defend the Bill of Rights.
Subject's father was arrested several times in 1943 and 1944 for
impairing morals of a minor, loitering, and lewdness
A listed acquaintance advised that Subject had been more closely
attached to his mother than his father, and after his mother's death in ap-
proximately 1938, Subject lived with various relatives and this informant
stated that he did not believe Subject lived with his father since that time.
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