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*DEDICATED TO**EXCELLENCE IN**COMMUNICATIONS*![confidential banner]BE ALL YOU CAN BEOTTCZOVW RUEAUSA4921 2541633IMMEDIATEO P 111630Z SEP 82PENTAGON TELECOMMUNICATIONS CENTERAND LOCATING SOURCE.CLAS BY INSCOM PAM 380-6REVIEW ON 11 SEP 92.FM SAICRO 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//BT0000FINAL SECTION OF 029. (C) AFTER WHITE'S NEAR FAILURE AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP, HE WAS RE-CYCLED AT AIRBORNE SCHOOL FOR FAILING THE PT TEST. HOWEVER, HE RECOVERED AND COMPLETED THE COURSE. WHEN HE RETURNED TO KMSC IN SEP 81, HE WAS DEEPLY UPSET UPON LEARNING THAT HE WAS ONLY A CADET SERGEANT FIRST CLASS AND NOT AN OFFICER. WHITE WAS IN SOURCE'S COMPANY (SOURCE WAS A CADET MAJOR). ON ONE OCCASION, DURING LEADERSHIP LAB, SOURCE CORRECTED WHITE WHO WAS IMPROPERLY EXECUTING THE HIGH AND LOW CRAWLS. WHITE REACTED INDIGNANTLY AT FIRST, BUT AFTER SOURCE EXPLAINED WHAT HE DID WRONG, WHITE ADJUSTED AND CONTINUED TO PERFORM. ALSO IN SEP 81, ANOTHER CADET (NFI) TOOK ONE OF WHITE'S BOOKS FROM HIS ROOM. VIOLENTLY ANGRY, WHITE DRAPED TOILET PAPER ON THE CADET'S DORMITORY DOOR AND SET IT ON FIRE. SOURCE CAUGHT WHITE IN THE ACT OF SETTING THE BLAZE AND LAUGHING ABOUT IT. MERLINO VERBALLY CENSURED WHITE AND THREATENED TO GET HIM DISMISSED FROM KMSC. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WHITE ADVISED THAT HE WANTED TO LEAVE SCHOOL. HE WAS COUNSELED BY COLONEL JOHNNY PARKER, SCHOOL COMMANDANT. PARKER ASKED SOURCE FOR HIS RECOMMENDATION. SOURCE SYMPATHIZED WITH WHITE BUT COULD NOT RECOMMEND HIM FOR A COMMISSION IN THE US ARMY BECAUSE OF HIS APPARENT IMMATURITY.10. (C) AROUND 26 SEP 81, BEFORE WHITE LEFT KMSC, HE TOLD SOURCE HE WAS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. WHITE SAID HE DID NOT WANT TO BE AN OFFICER, BECAUSE HE WAS "FED UP WITH THE BULLSHIT AND THE ASS-KISSING". HE ADDED THAT HE WAS GOING TO ENLIST IN THE ARMY AND BECOME THE BEST DAMN NCO HE COULD BE BY HIS COMMENTS AND HIS TONE OF VOICE DURING THIS AND OTHER CONVERSATIONS, WHITE INDICATED THAT HE WASN'T GETTING WHAT HE DESERVED FROM SOCIETY. SOURCE WISHED HIM LUCK AND NEVER SAW OR HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN.11. (C) SOURCE WAS-NOT-TOTALLY SURPRISED WHEN HE READ-OF-WHITE'S DEFECTION TO NORTH KOREA. IT SEEMED TO FIT IN WITH HIS PERSONALITY. SOURCE GUESSED THAT WHITE'S ACTION RESULTED FROM THE CULMINATION OF HIS DISAPPOINTMENTS. WHITE PROBABLY BECAME DISILLUSIONED WITH THE ARMY-OR_HIS_UNIT AND HAD PROBABLY_ENTERTAINED THOUGHTS ABOUT DEFECTING FOR SOME TIME. HOWEVER, IT WAS MOST LIKELY ONE PARTICULAR INCIDENT THAT PROMPTED HIM TO TAKE ACTION. WHERE ONCE WHITE WAS-A FAILURE IN US SOCIETY, HE GAINED NOTORIETY AND AN INTERNATIONAL AUDIENCE THROUGH-HIS-DEFECTION. SOURCE BELIVED THAT THE TEXT OF THE REMARKS-AT-TRIBUTED TO WHITE BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NORTH KOREA SOUNDED LIKE WHITE S-WORDS AND MANNER OF SPEECH, _AND_COULD_VERY WELL HAVE BEEN AUTHORED BY WHITE. AT LEAST THEY PARALLELED WHITE'S IDEALISTIC BUT NAIVE SOCIO-POLITICAL VIEWS.12. (U) OTHER SOURCES FROM KMSC WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER OR WHO COULD CONTRIBUTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED: COL JOHNNY PARKER, (TEL: 816-882-5623), RICHARD J. HATCH, 2LT USAR, A NATIVE OF PENN-SYLVANIA, WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER THAN ANYONE, CAPTAIN MICHAEL R. BASISTA, SGM JAMES MCKANE, AND MSG STEPHEN G. HINK.13. (U) POC-FOR-THIS-REPORT-IS-S/A-ALFRED-M-MEMOLE FORT DEVENS RESIDENT-OFFICE, AV 256-2001, (ON LEAVE 13 THRU 17 SEP 82).14. (U) DELAY IN REPORTING AROSE FROM DIFFICULTIES IN IDENTIFYINGACTION ARMY SECTIONAL(1)SECTIONAL(1)(M)TOTAL COPIES REQUIRED 11191MCN=82254/13955 TOR-82254/1654Z TAD-82254/1854Z CDSN-MAP182NW 88613RM Docid:34331355 Page 3![stamp that reads REGRADED UNCLASSIFIED ON 22 SEP 94 BY CDR USAINSCOM F01/PO AUTH Para 1-603 DOD 5200.1R]PAGE 1 OF 2111630Z SEP 82SECT 02 OF 02