</s>APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 Personality Assessment of Sirhan Sirhan We have been asked to react to Sirhan's handwritten 'diary' and make some kind of personality interpretation from his hand- writing, his doodles and his comments. Obviously, with the flood of other material on Sirhan appearing in the newspapers and national magazines, it is probable that we have been contaminated or influenced by material presented there. There is no question in our minds but that Sirhan is a person. On the basis of his handwriting alone, We would have been picked up as professionalized that the result of the responsibility of describing him to the courts charged with the result have many honest disagreements. As a result, after the trial is over there will be a general gawking doubt about the "true" Sirhan Sirhran. We doubt that we can describe his "illness" really satis- factorically. Had we seen no handwriting before he assassinated Senator Kennedy, we would have described him as However, under no circumstances would we have pre- dicted that he has "capable" of doing what he did. We do not see him as the kind of person who can be and systematically. On the basis we do see him as what he did can only be explained by the magic combination of the odds against him being successful were tremendous. Obviously. we cannot see him as part of a conspiracy. He could be a tool of conspiracy Saward and that the attempted assassin of the Secretary of State (George Azteodt) were the assassin of Vice President Andrew Johnson (George Atzerot) were too serious of the booth explicitly. It is very unlikely however that he could have effectively acted under precise instructions. In summary, he appears to be a person who is immediately , but who will appear, conditions. Basically, he is an behind a usually normal who

**John F. Kennedy**

* Assassinated on June 5, 1968, in Los Angeles, California
* Connection to Sirhan Sirhan: Sirhan was convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy, JFK's brother and presidential candidate

**Sirhan Sirhan**

* Personality assessment:
	+ Considered a person with a "split" personality, capable of both normal and violent behavior
	+ Seen as someone who would lash out against authority figures or those in positions of power
	+ Believed to be more like the assassins of Garfield and McKinley than Lincoln and President Kennedy
* Handwriting analysis:
	+ Indicated a person with a "split" personality, capable of both normal and violent behavior
	+ Suggested that Sirhan was not a professional assassin, but rather someone who could be manipulated or influenced

**Investigations**

* No evidence of conspiracy found in the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy
* Sirhan's actions were seen as the result of a "magic combination" of circumstances and odds against him being successful

**Related Individuals and Events**

* George Atzerodt: attempted assassin of Secretary of State William Seward, President Andrew Johnson, and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt
* Garfield and McKinley assassinations: compared to Sirhan's actions by the personality assessment team

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