PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION
ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, _ss_:
I, James R. Malley, Inspector, Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Department of Justice, being first duly sworn, depose as follows:
In accordance with a request by Mr. Howard P. Willens, a member of the
staff of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President
Kennedy, I transmitted to the Commission on February 11, 1964, a copy
of a photograph of an unidentified man which was made available to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Prior to transmitting the aforementioned copy of this photograph to
the President's Commission, I used a scissors and trimmed from the
photograph all background which surrounded the head, shoulders and arms
of the unidentified individual. I did this, inasmuch as the Central
Intelligence Agency had previously advised that it had no objection to
this Bureau furnishing a copy of this photograph to the President's
Commission with all background eliminated.
I have examined a copy of Commission Exhibit 237, which is attached,[H]
and it appears such exhibit was made from the copy of the photograph
of the unidentified individual which I cropped and transmitted to Mr.
Willens on February 11, 1964.
To my knowledge, the identity of the unknown individual depicted in the
copy of the photograph which I transmitted to Mr. Willens on February
11, 1964, has not been established.
I have reviewed records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in this
particular matter and such records disclose that a duplicate copy
of this same photograph was cropped in a different shape to remove
background by Special Agent Bardwell D. Odum of the Dallas Office of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation and was then exhibited to Mrs.
Marguerite Oswald by Special Agent Odum on November 23, 1963.
Signed this 14th day of July 1964, at Washington, D.C.
(S) James R. Malley,
JAMES R. MALLEY.
[H] The photograph referred to in the above affidavit of
Inspector James R. Malley is identical to Commission
Exhibit No. 237 and appears in the exhibit volumes.