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(b) SUBJECT WAS WITHDRAWN FROM SCHOOL MO CUSTODY OF STANLEY S. FM (SEE FBI INFORMATION FOLLOWING SUB-JECT’s ACADEMIC RECORDS WERE SUBSEQUENT LY REQUESTED BY AND FURNISHED TO DIE Schule Am ROSENBERG, IN SWITZERLAND.

(C) SUBJECT’s CLOSEST FRIENDS AT SCHOOL WERE RICHARD CANIDY AND JAMES M. C. WHITTAKER. (SEE WD G-2 INFOR- MATIO N

FOLLOWING.)

4. SUBJECT’s MOTHER, MOTION-PICTURE ACTRESS MONICA CARL18LE(B. MARY ELIZABETH CHERNICK), REFUSED FBI I@

TFRVIEW ON ADVICE OF COUNSEL.

5. FBI INTERVIEW WITH STANLEY S. FINE, VICE-PRESIDENT, LEGAL CONTINENTAL STUDIOS, PRODUCED THE FOLLOWING.- (a)

FINE IS HIGHLY REGARDED ATTORNEY AND BUSINESS EXEC UTRVE WITH KNOWN Axti-GERMAN SYMPATHIES.

(b) FINE STATED THAT FOR BUSINESS CONSIDERATIONS, CARLISLE/CHERNICK DID NOT WISH THE EXISTENCE OF A SON KNOWN PUBLICLY. FINE STATED HE HAD HANDLED BOARDING SCHO=@ AND SUMMER CAMP AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS DESIGNED TO KEEP SUBJECT OUT OF PUBLIC NOTICE UNTIL 1933, WHEN, OVER HIS OB@ JECTIONS, CARLISLE/CHERNICK AGREED TO HAVE SUBJECT EDUCATED AT HIS FATHER’S EXPENSE IN SWITZERLAND.

(b) FINE STATED HE BELIEVES CARLISLE/CHERNICK HAS BAD NO CONTACT WITH SUBJECT SUBSEQUENT TO APPROXIMATELY 1937.

FINE MAINTAINED SOCIAL CONTACT WITH SUBJECT UNTIL 1940.

(4) (FROM OFFICE OF NAVAL INTELLIGENCE), RICHARD CANIDY COMMISSIONED ENSIGN USNR ON GRADUATION (A.E.) FROM MAS& INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 1938. DESIG.0 @@NATFID NAVAL AVIATOR, PENSACOLA, FLA., MAR. 1939. ASSIGNED NAS PENSACOLA PRIMARILY AS INSTRUCTOR PILOT. PROMOTED LIEUTENANT (JG) JUNE 1940. CANIDY HON. DISCH. (CONVE-NIENC E OF GOVT.

) JUNE 1941

TO ACCEPT ONE YEAR EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT WITH AMERICAN VOLUNTEER GROUP, CHINA. CANIDY BELIEVED TO BE IN KUNMING, CHINA.

(5) (FROM G-2, WAR DEPARTMENT)@

JAMES M. C. WHITTAKER COMMISSIONED SECOND LIEUTENANT ARTILLERY ON GRADUATION (B.A.) FROM HARVARD COLLEGE 1938. TRANSFERRED ARMY AIR CORPS. DESIGNATED PILOT M83

RANI Fin TEXAS, 1940. TRANSFERRE@ US IN PHILIPPINE COMMONWEALTH. PRESENT WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN. WHITTAKER’s RECORDS INDICATE CONSIDERABLE POLITICAL INFLUENCE. KNOWN TO BE SOCIALLY ACQUAINTED WITH THE PRESP@ DENT.

(6) (FROM TREASURY DEPARTMENT):

CT CAME To TREASURY DEPARTMENT ATTENTION (a) SUBJE FOLLOWING REPORT By FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK OF NEW YORK THAT SUBJECT TRANSFERRED TO SMALL, DORMANT ACCOUNT AMOUNT OF $21,545 FROM FIRST NATIONAL CITY BANK BRANCH IN BUENROS AIRES, ARGENTINA. SIX (6) SUBSEQUENT TRANSFERS G $111 405, HAVE BEEN FROM FNCB BUENOS AIRES, TOTALIN 1

MADR7 THE MOST RECENT NOVEMBER 12, 1941.

(b) PRIOR To Dgc@ 12, 1941 @ WHEN UNLICENSED FOREIGN Y PRESIDENTIAL TRANSFER OF U.8@

DOLLAR FUNDS WAS PROSCRIBED B ORDER, SUBJECT DREW NINE (9) TTMES UPON THESE FUNDS AT THE FNCB BRANCH IN CASABLANCA, MOROCCO, FOR A TOTAL OF $6,500.

;I: Cr m@ -7-S (C-. IRS UBJECT NEVER FILED PER SONAL LAIMB GERMAN CITIZENSHIP, His FNCB Ac(d) IF SUBJECT C COUNT IS SUBJECT To Il,@ont UNDER THE ENEMY ALJEN PRO FNCB Ac- ZEM LATION OF THE IRS CODE, AND THE COD] FOR NONPAYMENT OF APPLICABLE TAXES, I’Lu R HUNGERFORD, M.D., CHIEF (7) chological PROFILE (HOME OF PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES, GEORGETOWN MEDICAL CENTER tand OTHER]):

“BASED ON THE INFORMATION MADE AVAILABLE IT IS NOT OF COURSE IT, POSSIBLE TO PREPARE A THOROUGH EVALUATION FILE, BUT SEVERAL THINGS SEEM PROBABLE, AND is THE CONSENSUS OF THOSE CONSULTED.

TION AS PATIENT WOULD INESCAPABLY HAVE EXPERIENCED REJEC THE RESULT OF HIS FATHERLESS Clilldhood, AND THESE FEELINGS WOULD HAVE BEEN EXACERBATED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY RF.M Tiow BEHAVIOR or, PATIENT’s MOTHER. PATIENT HA GING BY ET R ENTLY TRANSFERRED (JUD L TE S SEEKING AF PARENTAL FEELINGS TO THE REV. DR. CANIDY, AND F STILL APPARENTLY FEELS A STRONG SIBLING BOND WITH C AND WHITTAKER.

(IN OTHER WORDS, HAVING BEEN DEPRIVED OF A FAMILY, PATIENT HAS FORMED HIS OWN FROM THOSE PERSONS WHO HAVE BEEN CLOSE TO HIM.)

WHOSE ACADEMIC RECORDS INDICATE HIGH INTELLIGI N

DEVELOPED SELF-RELLANCE TO A- UNUSUAL D] WOULD LIKELY MANIFEST ITSELF THROUGH DISTRUST HAVE NOT PROVEN THEIR TRUSIWORTHINESG; A HIGH LEVEL OF DETERMINATION; A RELUCTANCE TO SEEK, OR REED, ADVICE FROM OTHERS; AND A LACK OF CONCERN FOR THE APPROVAL OR DISOF HIS PEER GROUP. IS PROBABLY VERY STABLE, ANY INSTABILITY HAVING IN PATIENT’S FORMATM (IMMEDIATE PRE- AND PERIOD. ITIS IMPORTANT To NOTE HERE THAT THIS STABILITY WILL, PROBABLY TEND TO MAKE PATIENT IMMUNE To MOST NORMAL SOCIAL PRESSURES, AND DISRESPECTFUL OF NORMAL@ AUTHORITY FIGURES. FATIENT’s PSYCHOLOGICAL MAKEUP IS PROHA@ BLY FIRMLY ESTABLISHED, AND PRO13ABLY RELATIVELY IMMUNE TO CHANGE- IF, HOWEVER, THERE WERE TO BE A FURTHER PROFOUND EMOTIONAL TRAUMA (FOR EXAMPLE, IF ONE OF HIS “FAMILY” BE-TRAYED HIM), THERE W(ULD PROBABLY BE SOME PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFICULTY.`