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4 Mere Pe eet ee) Sr al a oe ee ee es ee ep OP Ae RPE hs Se ee pan SY rrill, age 38. I live at s be located through Captain N. 8. Cofield, WS, “98880 American Embassy. I an - an American and have lived in Italy for a year and a half. I am 2 prefessional singer. “On the morning of Septenber 1, 1964, I went to the lobby ef the Hotel Quirinale in Bome to keep an appoinat- ment, pre-arranged earlier by telephone, with Miss Josephine Kennedy and the Contessa VYoipe. The meeting had been estab- lished to discuss my possible engagement with The National Opera Company, which they claimed to be forming in Vashing- ton, B. C. I ebtained this information from an articie in the ROME BAILY AMERICAN a few days before. "I was told by Miss Kennedy that she was the daughter ef the deceased Joseph Eennedy, elder brother of the late President (to whom she referred as ‘Uncle Jack'). She said she ‘might as well tell the whole truth’ of her story because within three months a book waa being published ‘exposing everything anyway’. She mentioned having had great difficulty over her passport, but said that her identity had finally been established and that ‘Uncle Jack' had fully accepted her as his niece. They had been ‘close'—- so ‘close’, in fact, that she had accompanied the party when he made his iast European visit. She spoke glowingly of her own eye-view of his reception at Naples and in Dublin. “She spoke for several ninutes about John Kennedy's assassination and the investigations following and said that she personally had received ‘over twenty telephone calls’ the might before in Washington, BD. C., threatening that dohn F. Kennedy was to be killed the following morning in Dallas. She said she bad made repeated calls to the F.B.I. to mo avail, and she said whoever had called her would ‘have - to have known bow close’ she was to her ‘Uncle Jack‘. fee — “According to Miss Kennedy, the late President bed - left her a sum of money which would be one of the many - - sources for financing the proposed new opera company. - oo