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_ om a . ¥ por. a .o™ ve . ‘ * . ri » OT n ~ rs - 4 oo * . oa x * Co : . & : * S a . ~ . . ns ‘ x * : . x . t - Mr. Reringtna (Press - _ Office) Mr, 2. Miler a 1/23/73 ek — Bo lw My Skzoo Glide ~ oer Se an ATION ABB rT, a Smith oRErN TS UNCIASSTFEED | eee se NORMAN MAILER INFORMATION CONCERNING To advige of speculation concerning FBI complicity in. ‘the death of Marllyn Monroe propounded by author Norman Mailer in his soon-te-be-publighed biography of the deceased actresa. — “Marilyn, a 270-page biography (New York; Grosset and Donlap,) priced at $19.86, {e scheduled for publication on 8/1/73. It reportedly has a first American printing of 285,000°--~ coptes and is the August selectton,of the Book-of-the -Month Club, * "Following Miss Monroe's death by drug overdose in 1962, there was a spate of rumors, originating on the West Coast, | alleging she was having an affatr with the then Attorney General Robert F, Kennedy, and that her death was in some way related to this and/or was the result of a plot revolving around some of her associntes who allegedly had past Communist Party affiliations or ayinpathies, These rumore were embellished upon at that time in various sensafional-lype gossip magazines and in a short book puh- lished in July, 1964, entitled "Ihe Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe" by Frank A. Cepe al, Thesa allegations were branded false and na factual support existed for them. Maller, in his new book, has repeated some of these same rumorg and hag given them a bizarre twist, Ag to whether Mise Monroe took her own life, Mailer answers “possibly” - and then suggests other possibilities, One of these fa the suggestion that the FBI, CIA or the Mafia found it of interest that Robert Kennedy, brother of the President John Kennedy, waa reputed to be having an affair with the movie star. Mailer. suggests that "right-wing" FBI and CIA Agents had = “huge motivation" to murder Marilyn Monroe in order to embarrass the Kennedy family, Ae ee eee $-~-100=3 70829 ee ae li-~ 105-40018 (Marly nrog) NOT RECORDED ; 152 AUG 4 673°: meee TEE DME Rate | . — CONTINUED - “ OVER esau Gogo! ; Seed Sie te ce scpe Be pee re 4 te tt ‘ “ ire he bes 7 te eater Ste kegels Shen