</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

Summary  
This document is a personality assessment of Sirhan Sirhan conducted under Executive Order 14176, approved for release in 2025. It discusses an analysis of Sirhan’s handwritten "diary," doodles, and comments to infer his psychological profile. The assessors note that media coverage may have influenced their interpretation, leading to uncertainty about Sirhan’s true nature. They conclude he is not mentally ill but acted unpredictably, with no prior indication of his capacity for violence. The assessment speculates he was not part of a conspiracy but could have been a tool for one. It compares Sirhan’s actions to the assassinations of Presidents Garfield and McKinley rather than Lincoln or Kennedy, suggesting his motivations differ from those historical cases.  

Key People  
- Sirhan Sirhan (assassin of Robert F. Kennedy)  
- President James A. Garfield  
- President William McKinley  
- President Abraham Lincoln  
- President John F. Kennedy  

Key Locations  
- Not specified in the text.  

Key Events  
- Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy by Sirhan Sirhan  
- Personality assessment of Sirhan Sirhan based on handwriting analysis  
- Comparison of Sirhan’s actions to historical assassinations (Garfield, McKinley, Lincoln, Kennedy)  

Key Organizations  
- Not specified in the text.

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