PHONY CIA MAN, WIFE ARRESTED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100400029-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 19, 1999
• Sequence Number: 29
• Publication Date: June 18, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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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.,
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