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*DEDICATED TO*EXCELLENCE IN*COMMUNICATIONS*BE ALL YOU CAN BEOTTCZOVW RUEAUSA4920 2541633INMEDIATE/PRIORITYOP 111630Z SEP 82PENTAGON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTERFM SICRRO CI/SIGSEC SPT BN (FGGM) CDR FT DEVENS MA //IAGPA-A-DE//TO HQDA WASH DC //DAMI-CI//INFO CDR USAINSCOM FT MEADE MD //IAOPS-OP//CDR902D MI GP FT MEADE MD //IAGPA-OP-I//CDRCI/SIGSEC SPT BN FT MEADE MD //IAGPA-A-OPI//CDRMID CI/SIGSEC SPT BN FT MONMOUTH NJ //IAGPA-A-MO//BTSECTION-01 OF 02ACTION ADDRESSEE: NITE ACTION REQUIREDINFO ADDRESSEES: DELIVER DURING FIRST DUTY HOURSUBJECT: WHITE, JOSEPH TIMOTHY, PFC, 492-60-2196, DPOB: 5 NOV 61,ST LOUIS, MO (U)A. MSG, IAGPA-OP-I, 091240Z SEP 82, SAB.1. (U) SOURCE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE RELEASE OF HIS IDENTITY TO SUBJECT.2. (U) ON 10 SEP 82, JOSEPH C. MERLINO, 027-54-4638, ZLT....USAR, DPOB: 26 APR 62, BOSTON, MA, COMPANY A, 2D-BATTALION, 104TH INFANTRY MASSACHUSETTS ARMY NATIONAL GUARD, WAS INTERVIEWED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS CAMPUS, AMHERST, MA, CONCERNING SUBJECT. SOURCE PROVIDED SUBSTANTIALLY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: (MSG PARA 3 THRU 123. (U) MERLINO FIRST-MET WHITE ON 28-AUG-80, WHEN BOTH ARRIVED AT KEMPER MILITARY SCHOOL & COLLEGE (KMSC), BOONVILLE, MISSOURI, AS FRESHMEN (PLEBES), ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. MERLINO'S LAST CONTACT WITH WHITE WAS ON ABOUT 26 SEP 81, TWO DAYS BEFORE WHITE DROPPED OUT OF KMSC. THROUGHOUT ACADEMIC YEAR 80-81-AND DURING SEP-81, MERLINO SAM WHITE DAILY, USUALLY AT FORMATIONS, OCCASIONALLY IN CLASS, BUT MADE PERSONAL CONTACT ONLY ON ABOUT FIFTEEN OCCASIONS. THEY ALSO MET BRIEFLY AT THE AIRBORNE SCHOOL, FT BENNING, GEORGIA, IN JULY 1981. THEY WERE WELL ACQUAINTED, BUT WERE NOT CLOSE PERSONAL FRIENDS.4. (C) MERLINO DID NOT KNOW OF WHITE'S FAMILY BACKGROUND OR FINANCIAL SITUATION, ALTHOUGH WHITE_DID NOT APPEAR. TO HAVE ANY, FINANCIAL PROBLEMS. NOR DID_MERLINO KNOW IF WHITE USED NARCOTICS OR ABUSED ALCOHOL. WHITE WAS PHYSICALLY HEALTHY AND FIT, BUT NOT ATHLETIC. HE DID NOT APPEAR TO HAVE ANY_DEVIANT_SEXUAL TENDENCIES.OR..HANG-UPS, TO INCLUDE HOMOSEXUALITY. WHITE WAS REPUTED TO BE A MORALLY STRAIGHT INDIVIDUAL WHO VALUED HIS OWN_HONESTY AND INTEGRITY. HE WAS EXCEPT-IONALLY BRIGHT, AND CONSISTENTLY EARNED HIGH GRADES IN ACADEMIC SUBJECTS AND MILITARY SCIENCE.5. (C) WHITE WAS ALSO A VERY SERIOUS, EXTREMELY INTENSE, AND HIGHLY IDEALISTIC PERSON.. HE WAS USUALLY MILD MANNERED, BUT WOULD GET QUITE AGITATED DURING SERIOUS DISCUSSIONS. IN PAPERS HE WROTE AND DURING DISCUSSIONS IN HISTORY CLASS, HE EARNESTLY_DEFENDED_THE MARX-IST PHILOSOPHY OF EQUALITY. IN OTHER DISCUSSIONS HE REVEALED AN ADMIRATION FOR HOW ADOLF HITLER HARNESSED THE ENERGIES AND NATIONAL-ISM OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE. HOWEVER, WHITE DID NOT APPEAR TO BE PRO-NAZI OR ANTI-SEMITIC. IN FACT, HE SEEMED TO BE SYMPATHETIC TO MIN-ORITY GROUPS IN THE US., AND THEIR BID FOR EQUALITY.6. (C) WHITE NEVER SHOWED_ANY DISLOYALTY, TO THE U.S.. ALTHOUGH DUR-ING CONVERSATIONS HE WOULD CONSTRUCTIVELY CRITICIZE_AND_CRITIQUE BOTH AMERICAN SOCIETY AND THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT HE TALKED SERIOUSLY AS THOUGH HE HAD HIS OWN PROGRAMS FOR IMPROVING THE LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE. WHITE NORMALLY RESPECTED SUPERIORS AND THEIR AUTHORITY, AS LONG AS THEY MADE SENSE TO HIM. BUT, HE WOULD BALK AT OBEYING SOMEONE FOR WHOM HE HAD LOST RESPECT. THIS TENDENCY LED TO AN INCIDENT AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP AT FORT RILEY, KANSAS, IN THE SUMMER OF 81, WHEN WHITE REFUSED TO OBEY A CADET'S ORDER (NO FURTHER INFORMATION), AND WAS ALMOST BOARDED OUT OF THE CAMP.7. (C) WHITE'S SERIOUSNESS, INTELLIGENCE, AND INTENSITY SEEMED THREATENING TO SOME CADETS AT KMSC. HE TENDED_TO_REMAIN ALOOF FROM HIS PEERS. ON TOP OF THIS, HIS-POOR SKIN COMPLEXION NERVOUS MANNER ISMS, AND ERRATIC DRESS (ONE DAY NEAT, THE NEXT DAY - SHABBY) MADE WHITE THE BUTT OF DERISION AND PRANKS AT KMSC. HE WAS OSTRA-CIZED_AND UNIVERSALLY DISLIKED. HIS PEER RATING AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP WAS REPORTED TO BE LOW8. (C) WHITE TRIED HARD TO SUCCEED IN EVERYTHING HE DID. HOWEVER, HIS SELF-ESTEEM WAS CONSTANTLY BATTERED BY THE ATTITUDES OF HIS PEERS AND A STRING OF DISAPPOINTMENTS. DURING HIS FIRST YEAR AT KMSC HE GOT INTO SEVERAL FIGHTS WITH OTHER CADETS., ALSO, HIS GIRLFRIEND (NFI) BROKE-OFF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, ALLEGEDLY UNDER PRESSURE FROM HER PARENTS. (WHITE PAPERED A MYRIAD OF PICTURES OF HER ON HIS DORMITORY WALL.) WHITE DATED SELDOM, IF AT ALL. ONE OF HIS INSTRUCTORS, A CAPTAIN DAVID, REPORTEDLY GAVE WHITE A ZERO FOR TURNING IN A PAPER LATE, BUT DID NOT PENALIZE OTHERS WHO HAD DONE SO, AS SEVERELY. CPT DAVID WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO EITHER LIKED OR HATED OTHERS, AND IT SEEMED THAT HE DISLIKED WHITE INTENSELY FOR UNKNOWN REASONS.   BT![table of OPI, FIW, FIS, ZX, ZC, ZCL, JL, KF, AB]REGRADED UNCLASSIFIEDON 22 SEP 94BY CDR USAISCCOM F01/POAUTH Para 1-603 DOD 5200.1RPAGE 2 OF 2111630Z SEP 82SECT 01 OF 02