Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962) was an American actress and cultural icon — cited in UAP disclosure and JFK assassination research through a disputed NSA/CIA wiretap document ("Wiretap/Surveillance Document") purportedly dated August 3, 1962 — the day before her death — referencing Monroe threatening to hold a press conference to reveal what John F. Kennedy had told her about "dead bodies from outer space" and a secret Air Force installation, a document whose authenticity is debated but which has circulated as an early example of a UAP-connected cover-up of a civilian witness.
The Wiretap Document
The document — first published in 1992 by investigative journalist Milo Speriglio — is formatted as a CIA/NSA surveillance summary, dated August 3, 1962, and describes Monroe as intending to hold a press conference "within the next few days" to disclose information received from Kennedy about "things of outer space" and a "secret base." The document also references Monroe's relationship with Robert F. Kennedy and her emotional state following an apparent break in contact from both Kennedys. Document authentication experts have reached opposing conclusions; the National Security Archive has stated it cannot confirm provenance. Monroe died the following day in circumstances that the Los Angeles coroner ruled probable suicide by barbiturate overdose.
The document bears the signature of James Jesus Angleton — the CIA's Chief of Counterintelligence — indicating that Monroe's surveillance was managed at the highest level of the CIA's counterintelligence division, the same office that oversaw the most sensitive UAP-adjacent compartmented programs. The document reveals that the CIA was monitoring Monroe's telephone conversations with British socialite and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen and Kilgallen's press agent Sydney Rothberg. According to the surveillance transcript, Rothberg told Kilgallen that Monroe "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 airbase for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space." Kilgallen replied that she knew what might be the source of the visit — that in the mid-1950s she had "learned of secret effort by U.S. and UK governments to identify origins of crashed spacecraft and dead bodies from a British government official" and believed the story may have come from the New Mexico recovery. Steven Greer stated in 2025 that the Angleton wiretap document is authentic, claiming personal knowledge of its provenance — "I have a CIA document that's top secret, not been declassified... I know the guy who took it out of the vault from NSA" — and stated the document is included in his presidential briefing materials.
Monroe, Kennedy, and the UFO briefings
Michael Salla describes the sequence leading to Monroe's surveillance and death as beginning with John F. Kennedy's direct inspection of extraterrestrial artifacts at military facilities — including Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, where bodies and craft associated with crash retrievals were stored. Kennedy had conducted an affair with Monroe and, in that context, disclosed classified information about the UAP program. Monroe was also connected to Robert F. Kennedy's circle; both brothers were warned by the FBI that Monroe constituted a national security liability due to her associations with individuals suspected of links to communist networks, including persons connected to the Castro regime.
When both Kennedys severed contact with Monroe at FBI direction, Monroe — described by sources as furious — threatened a press conference at which she would publicly reveal what the president had told her about visiting classified military bases and viewing extraterrestrial artifacts. It was at this point, Salla argues, that Angleton's counterintelligence office deployed the surveillance program documented in the wiretap record.
The red diary and the day of death
Monroe reportedly kept a red diary in which she had recorded what Kennedy told her about the alien bases and the extraterrestrial program — a document she was prepared to present as evidence at the planned press conference. Salla describes Robert F. Kennedy as having visited Monroe twice on August 4, 1962 — the day of her death — in an attempt to persuade her to abandon the press conference plan and to retrieve the diary. Salla's hypothesis, outlined in his book Kennedy's Last Stand, is that Kennedy was unwittingly used in a CIA sting operation: one of the individuals accompanying him administered a lethal overdose rather than the sedative dose intended to incapacitate Monroe while Kennedy retrieved the diary.
Death circumstances
Monroe's death has generated persistent controversy beyond the UAP dimension: questions about the timeline of her discovery, the behavior of psychiatrist Ralph Greenson (who was present), the destruction of telephone records, and the Los Angeles DA's 1982 reopening of the case (closed again without new findings). Jim Marrs and other researchers have placed Monroe's death in the pattern of silenced witnesses connected to the Kennedy circle, with the UAP disclosure angle as one of multiple potential motives attributed to parties who might have ordered her silenced.
Greer separately stated that a man who had worked in the intelligence unit of the Los Angeles Police Department stated the document was independently corroborated, having maintained a separate wiretap on Monroe's home that corroborated the CIA surveillance. Actor and singer Burl Ives, who served on Greer's executive committee and was a personal friend of Monroe, reportedly said upon being shown the document: "We all know, every one of us knew Marilyn had been killed. But we never knew why."
Dorothy Kilgallen — Monroe's confidante in the wiretap record — died on November 8, 1965, of an apparent barbiturate and alcohol overdose under disputed circumstances. Kilgallen had been one of the few journalists to interview Jack Ruby (the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald) privately during his trial and had stated publicly she was going to break the JFK assassination case wide open. Her death eliminated another potential witness at the intersection of the Kennedy circle and UAP disclosure.
Mafia and Kennedy social orbit
Actor Gianni Russo — known for his role as Carlo Rizzi in The Godfather and for his documented relationships with organized crime figures — discussed Monroe's relationship with the Kennedy brothers in a podcast conversation with Julian Dorey, claiming firsthand knowledge of the social world surrounding both Monroe and the Kennedy inner circle. According to Russo, the atmosphere of the Kennedy social orbit and Monroe's position within it included sustained interaction between organized crime figures and the Kennedy entourage.
CIA counterintelligence framing
Salla argues that the Monroe surveillance and the circumstances of her death represent an early documented case of CIA counterintelligence — specifically James Jesus Angleton's office — deploying its apparatus against a domestic civilian who had inadvertently acquired classified information through a personal relationship with a sitting president. The August 3, 1962 wiretap document is, in Salla's view, evidence that Angleton treated Monroe as a national security threat equivalent in kind to a foreign espionage operation — activating surveillance, monitoring her communications with Dorothy Kilgallen, and, he argues, ultimately authorizing action against her to prevent the planned press conference. The wiretap document's simultaneous recording of Monroe's conversations with Kilgallen about "crashed spacecraft and dead bodies" — matching the substance of what Salla identifies as the MJ-12-controlled UFO recovery program — places Monroe's surveillance squarely within the same operational context that Angleton was managing for MJ-12 on behalf of the UFO secrecy apparatus.