MONROE DIARY WAS POEMS, ACTOR SAYS - AND STOLEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: August 22, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TI O L E APPEARED
ON PIS GEE~ i Q
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
22 AUGUST 1982
Monroe diary was poems,
actor says -and stolen
By Jay Arnold
Ammo" Press
LOS ANGELES - An actor who had
said he had Marilyn Monroe's diary
now says the journal is nothing more
than a book of poems - and that it
has been stolen.
But a private investigator who- be-
lieves the diary contained embar-
rassing government secrets says he
"smells a rat."
"The book I had was not the book
they were looking for," actor Tea
Jordan said Friday night. "It was
poems, India love lyrics, that we The
and Monroel used to go over. Evi-
dently, it's not the book they're look-
ing for.
"But somebody else must have
thought it was," he said. "The book
was taken out of my car between the
hours of 3 o'clock and 7:30 last
night."
Jordan had said that he had the
red-bound diary, whose existence'
never has been officially confirmed.
The last person who claimed to have
seen it said the journal disappeared
shortly after the actress's death more
than 20 years ago, on Aug. 5, 1962.
The death was ruled a suicide, but
friends of Monroe who said they be-
lieve the diary exists say she was
killed because she was about to re-
veal its contents - purported gov-
ernment secrets she learned through
an alleged romance with Robert F.
Kennedy, then the attorney general.
Those secrets reportedly included
CIA plot to kill Cuban leader Fidel
Castro.
nrdan said his book contained no
references to the CIA or to the Ken-
ned s but did have annotationg in
Monroe 's handwriting.
He said that on Friday he told
district attorney's investigators
about the book of poetry, which he
said he acquired in the 1950s, and
about its theft. "I was not able to
show it to them," he said.
Deputy District Attorney Mike Car-
roll, who has been looking into alle-
gations about Monroe's death at the
request of the Los Angeles County
Board of Supervisors, could not be
reached for comment.
But a private investigator, who
started the search for the diary earli-
er this month by offering $10,000 for
it, is skeptical of Jordan's account. "I
don't buy his {Jordan's] story one
bit," said Milo Sperigli.o. "Knowing
the contents of a book he said was
the diary was actually poetry, he left
it in a car to be stolen.... It doesn't
make any sense at all. Why he said all
this is beyond imagination."
He suggested that Jordan might
have changed earlier statements and
said that the book was stolen as part
of negotiations for a deal with sever-
al who have expressed an interest in
rights to the actor's story.
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