A PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR IN LOS ANGELES YESTERDAY OFFERED A $10,000 REWARD FOR MARILYN MONROE'S DIARY TO PROVE SHE WAS MURDERED TO STOP HER FROM EXPOSING A CIA PLOT TO KILL FIDEL CASTRO

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000404360012-3
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: August 3, 1982
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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WASHINGTON POST
3 AUGUST 1982
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A private investigator in Los An-
geles yesterday offered a $10,000 re-
ward for Marilyn Monroe's diary
to prove she was murdered to stop
her from exposing a CIA plot to kill
Fidel Castro.
Milo Speriglio, director of the
76-year-old Nick Harris Detective
Agency, said after spending more
than a decade investigating Mon-
.roe's death, "I can say with 1,000
percent accuracy that she was mur-
dered."
But Theodore Curfee, the cor-
oner when Monroe died, was quoted
by the Torrance, Calif., Daily
Breeze as saying, "The case is
closed. If [someone] doesn't believe
it was suicide, it's a free country."
Speriglio said the "red diary"
would prove Monroe did not com-
mit suicide, as believed, 20 years
,ago this Thursday.
A CIA spokesman in Washington
said the story of the alleged murder
plot, was "absolutely false, totally
absurd."
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