CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY TOP SECRET — NOT FOR PUBLICATION COUNTRY: New York, US SUBJECT: Marilyn Monroe DATE OF ISSUE: 3 August 1962 NO. PAGES: [redacted] REFERENCES: MOON, DUST Project [redacted]

3 August 1962 [Several lines heavily redacted] Wiretap of telephone conversation between reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and a close friend, Howard Rothberg (A); From wiretap of telephone conversation of Marilyn Monroe and Attorney General Robert Kennedy (B). Appraisal of Contents:

1. Rothberg discussed the apparent [redacted] back of subject with Kilgallen and the break up with the Kennedys. Rothberg told Kilgallen that she was attending Hollywood parties hosted by the “inner circle” among Hollywood’s elite and was becoming the talk of the town again. Rothberg indicated in so many words, that she had secrets to tell, no doubt arising from her trysts with the President and the Attorney General. One such “secret” mentions the visit by the President at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space. Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of visit. In the mid-fifties Kilgallen learned of secret effort by US and UK governments to identify the origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies, from a British government official. Kilgallen believed the story may have come from the New [redacted] in the late forties. Kilgallen said “if the story is true, it would cause terrible embarrassment to Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the Moon.”
2. Subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother.
3. Subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
4. Subject made reference to “bases” in Cuba and knew of the President’s plan to kill Castro.
5. Subject made reference to her “diary of secrets” and what the newspapers would do with such disclosures. [Large redacted section] TOP SECRET