PHONY CIA MAN, WIFE ARRESTED

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CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400029-9
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RIPPUB
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K
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1
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November 16, 2016
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March 19, 1999
Sequence Number: 
29
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Publication Date: 
June 18, 1964
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NSPR
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Approved For Release OMMAYM 9CW OREGON JOURNAL Front Edit Page Pays . Date: '.i .J CPYRGHT 1,.. cLiJL) ,Iif I u yt I r 1L.~ ~ ' .L .'.Lit A. `1.11J 4N LJ T/g'. A Portland appliance sales-' man and his wife are sched- uled to be arraigned Friday; in U.S. District Court one charges he impersonated a' Central Intelligence Agency, employe to defraud a number; 'Of Washington, D.C., businessi, firms in thousands of dollars; worth of mcrchandisc. Held on $5,000' 5,000 bail each pending- legal action against them are Ernest Birchfield, 33, and his wife, Jacqueline, 29, of 2411 NE 84th Ave. THEY WE IRE named, along with nine others, in criminal: indictments returned in April; 1963, by a Washington, D.C.; federal grand jury. `, . Specifically, Birchfield is' charged in four counts with im-' personating a CIA employe and also giving false informa-. tion to secure credit. Mrs. Birchfield is charged in twa counts with giving false infor mation to secure credit. Birchfield was arrested in: Seattle while his wife was ap= prehended in Kent, Wash. The' other nine involved in what fed oral authorities said was con= spiracy to obtain merchandise" on phony credentials were ari rested in the Washington, D! .C., area. -q FEDERAL agents said the 11' obtained $11,544 in various- ,appliances and other merch-` andise in and around the na- tion's capitol with phony cred-' it. According to authorities,; Birchfield would go into a store,, apply for credit and tell credit' officials he was a CIA em-i :ploye. He would give a tele-; phone for the store officials, .'to call and verify the credit ,application.information. However, they continued, the h Calls were directed to other j members of the conspiracy and they, would quickly "verify" ;that; Birchfield was a CIA em., L~loye, Approved For Rele se 2000/05/24: CIA-RD X75-001 49 R000100400029-9