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104-10250-10082 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (1/22/1965)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch84613 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10250-10082 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 G-65-40 22 January 1965 MEMORANDUM FOR : Chief, TSD/OA D ATTENTION : Mr. sack Tashiro) SUBJECT : Info Re Conversation with Cleve Backster in Anastatia Matter (22, 838-X) 0 1. In response to requestfrom Mr. Tashiro)following are the facts to the best of my recollection ( I made some notes at the time, but have just recently destroyed them) of mydealings with Cleve Backster in the celebrated Anastatia case. It has recently come to light, with the publication in the Washington DAILY NEWS, 19 January 1965, of an interview with Herman E. Kimsey, former Chief, TSD/GARB/A&R, that one Col. Michael Goleniewski, Polishdefector, might be related to Anastatia. 2. At about 2330 hours, sometime in February or March 1964 (specific date not recalled) Cleve Backster, .director or owner of the Academy for Scientific Interrogation,. New York, called me at my.home and attempted to engage me, on a private basis, as a handwriting expert or questioned document examiner to examine and compare some hand- writing specimens of a Chicago woman named Smith with the handwriting of Anastatia in an attempt to prove that Smith was the true Anastatia. 3. I have never met Backster but have known of him for about 10 years, have read some of his articles on the operation of the polygraph, and did know that he is a long-time friend of Kimseyts. It is claimed, by Kimsey at least, that Backster set up the polygraph (lie detector) program for the Agency. 4. I told Backster during the conversation that it would be impossible for me to do any work for him on the matter of trying to prove that Mrs. Smith was the real Anastatia, citing heavy work load at the office or some similar reason to placate him. (Frankly, f rom what I knew about him, his connection or association with Kimsey, and entire muddled background of the Anastatia matter, I was determined not to have any dealings with him. ) 5. I have not had any conversation with him since. This was the first and only one. - CROUJ 1 -c tram dinng dtia c

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