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March 25th, 2015 | by Barbara Johnson
Norfolk,
Virginia| A 78-year old retired officer of the CIA, Normand Hodges, has
made a series of astonishing confessions since he was admitted at the
Sentara General Hospital on Monday. He claims he committed 37
assassinations for the American government between 1959 and 1972,
including the actress and model, Marilyn Monroe.
Mr. Hodges, who worked for the CIA for
41 years as an operative with top-level security clearances, claims he
was often employed as a hitman by the organization, to assassinate
individuals who could represent a threat to the security of the country.
Trained as both a sniper and a martial
arts expert, Mr Hodges says he also has significant experience with more
unconventional methods of inflicting harm upon others, like poisons and
explosives.
Mr.
Hodges swears he remembers vividly, each of the assassinations he
committed for the CIA. He claims that all 37 of the murders he
committed on the American soil, were ordered by his commanding officer,
Major James “Jimmy” Hayworth.
The elderly man claims he committed his assassinations between August 1959 and March 1972, at a time when he says “the CIA had its own agenda“.
He says he was part of an operative cell of five members which carried
out political assassinations across the country. Most of their
victims were political activists, journalists and union leaders, but
he also claims that he killed a few scientists and artists whose
ideas represented a threat to the interests of the United States.
Mr. Hodges says that Marilyn Monroe
remains unique among his victims, as she is the only woman he ever
assassinated. He claims he has no regrets, however, as he says that she
had become a “threat for the security of the country” and had to be eliminated.
“We had evidence that Marilyn Monroe had not only slept with Kennedy, but also with Fidel Castro” claims M. Hodges. ” My commanding officer, Jimmy Hayworth, told me that she had to die, and that it had to look like a suicide or an overdose. I had never killed a woman before, but I obeyed orders… I did it for America! She could have transmitted strategic information to the communists, and we couldn’t allow that! She had to die! I just did what I had to do!”
Marilyn
Monroe died between midnight and 1 AM, on August 5, 1962. Mr Hodges
claims he entered her room while she was sleeping and injected her with a
massive dose of chloral hydrate (a powerful sedative), mixed with
Nembutal (a short-acting barbiturate), causing her death.
The 78-year old man was placed under
custody by the FBI, which is taking Mr Hodges’ confession very seriously
and has opened an investigation to verify his allegations. The
investigation might be very complicated, however, as very few written
files are available on such secret activities and most of the actors
implicated in the various cases are already dead.
The most important witness in the story
after Mr. Hodges himself, his alleged commanding officer, Major James
Hayworth, died of a heart attack in 2011. Two of the other three “CIA
assassins” identified by Mr Hodges are also dead, and the last one,
Captain Keith McInnis, went missing in action in 1968 and is presumed
dead.
