Widow Disputes Suicide by Jim Marrs, Star-Telegram writer

              VOLUME II NUMBER 10 MAY 22. 1978
Widow disputes suicide
By JIM MARRS
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DAU-AS - The widow of Georee De
Mohrenschildt. who was a friend of both
Lee Harvey Oswald and Jacoueline Ken­nedy,
has told the SUr-Telegram she
docs not believe her husband committed
V 'jicide the day he was scheduled to meet
with a representative of the House Assas­sinations
Committee
Jeanne De Mohrenschildt, who admit-
Itxl her hushnnds involvement with spy
w.-irk, maintninod that he had nothing to
di) with the asspi^sination of President
J(<!in K. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22,
19G3
Dt Mohrcnsrhildt has long been sus­pected
by assassination researchers as
somehow playinR a role in Kennedy's
(li'iiih Those six-rulalions increased af­ter
his (alal shouting on March 29.1977. at
his (liiufihler's home in Palm Beach, Fla.
.Mrs De Muhrensrhildt, who said she is
sc'lK-duled to meet with House assassina­tion
investigators this week, said her
main job today is to clear her husband's
name.
"My husband is dead and can't talk.
That's why I am doing all the talking
u-hilc I can," she said, adding that she
fears she will be killed.
"I AM THE LAST of the Mohicans, so
to speak They may get mc too, but I'm
not aXraid . . . It's about time somebody
looked into this thing."
In an interview with the Star-Tele­gram,
Mrs. De Mohrenschildt said:
• Her husband worked in intelligence
as far back as World War II when he
served as a German agent in the United
SUtes.
• De Mohrenschildt, as a petroleum
engineer, nibbed elbows with some of the
wcathiest and most influential people in
the nation, such as H.L Hunt of Dalla<i
and Oklahoma's Bob Kerr.
• De Mohrenschildt s closest friends
at the time of the ass.issinnlion were Dal­las'
Inp CIA m.in and .i l-ort Worth man
coFi-iecltd Willi a mililarj-onenirj se-cunty
organization.
• Her belief is that Lee Hnrvcy
Oswald was an aijenl of the United
Stales, possibly of the CIA, and that he
djd not shoot Kennedy.
• That the De Mohrenschildts were
the victims of mystenous break-ins and
surveillance as far back at 1962.
MAY n 1978
• Both De Mohrenschildts tried un­successfully
to get a mcaniivful investi­gation
into Kennedy's death begun in
1964.
• In 1976, De Mohrenschildt received
injections from a doctor, who practiced
in Dallas only briefly. Shortly after that,
De Mohrenschildt suffered a nervous
breakdown.
DE MOHRENSCHIUrr was the son of
a Russian noblentan with large oil hold-incs.
After the Bolshevik Revolution, the
elder De Mohrenschildt fled to Germany
where he lived through the years of
World War II
His two sons came to the United States
in the late 1930s George went into work
"affiliated with the War Department in
an unknown manner, " according to the
Warren Commission, while his brother
became a director of the Tolstoy Founda­tion.
In 1941, George De Mohrenschildt was
arrested by tlie FBI in Aransas Pass and
charged with being a German spy. How­ever,
he was later released after no hard
evidence of spying was found.
Although De Mohrenschildt told the
Warren Commission he had worked
briefly for French intelligence, he later
admitted to his wife this was not true.
"Once he was in the hospital and I said,
'You didn't work for the French under­ground,
you worked for the German
underground.' and he said, 'Yes, I did,' "
said Mrs. De Mohrenschildt.
But if he was a German spy. by 1957 he
had shifted his allegiances. In that year,
he was sent to Yugoslavia as a petroleum
"adviser" to Marshal Tito by the U.S.
government, according to Mrs. De
Mohrenschildt.
• • •
HE TRAVELED UNDER the auspices
of the International Cooperation Admin­istration
(ICA). "Some people think the
ICA is the CIA. They don't know the
difference." his uidow said.
While m Yugoslavia, the De Mohren­schildts
were shot at by Russian troops
who suspected them of spying on defense
lastalhiions
In 1%0. the Dc Mdhrenschjidls »ere in
Gualcnialii Cil> ai the time that ."vncri-entiled
Cuban exiles were pri|xirinfi for
the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Mrs. Lie Mohrenschildt said neither
she nor her husbjnd knew the purpiisc of
• FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Tbej may get me, too.
but I'm not alraid.
U'M about time
someone looked
into tbtM thing.'
the military activity they observed
there, but the Warren Comrois&ion Re­port
states that De Mohrenschildt made
a report of his trip to the U.S. govem-tnenL
However, the Warren Conunission
stated its investigation showed no sub­versive
or disloyal conduct on the part of
either De Mohrenschildt. It further
stated that no information was uncov­ered
linking the couple with subversive
organizations or with the Kennedy assas­sination.
MRS. DE MOHRENSCHILDT said her
husband was met by J. Walter Moore
upon his return from Yugoslavia.
She said Moore questioned her hus­band
about his trip and that subsequent­ly,
the two men became close friends,
^ e also said Moore was the top-ranking
CIA man in Dallas at that time. Moore
could not be reached for comment.
Asked if her husband had any connec­tions
in the FBI, Mrs. De Mohrenschildt
replied, "There was a man in security
work over in Fort Worth. We thought he
was FBI, but he's the only one."
She was referring to Max Clark, a Fort
Worth attorney who served for a time
with security at General I)>Tiamics. Mrs.
De Mohrenschildt said she and her hus­band
were "very good friends" of Clark
and his wife. Gali. a Russian pnnccss.
Clark confirmed that he was a fnend of
the De Mohrenschildts but denied that he
worked for the FBI.
Mrs. De Mohren^ rhildt said that her
husband checked with Moore before giv­ing
Oswald permissiiin lo use his name as
k job reference.
• • •
IN 1»«Z, WHILE keeping a diary writ­ten
by Oswald, she said their apartment
was broken into by someone who ^ t o -
graphed books and documents. "There
were peculiar marks in the books. . .
like certain pages were copied. We didn't
think too much about it. We just thought,
•Who would want to look at our boo&?'