AGENCY: HSCA
RECORD NUMBER:
180-10117-10245
RECORD SERIES:
JFK Assassination System
Identification Form
Date:
10/1/201
Agency Information
NUMBERED FILES
AGENCY FILE NUMBER:
004062
Document Information
ORIGINATOR:
HSCA
FROM:
TO:
TITLE:
DATE:
PAGES:
11/25/1977
4
SUBJECTS:
DOCUMENT TYPE :
CLASSIFICATION:
RESTRICTIONS:
CURRENT STATUS:
DATE OF LAST REVIEW:
OPENING CRITERIA:
BOLDEN, ABRAHAM
USSS; STAFF
FOSTER, WILLIAM
OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
Unclassified
Open in Full
Redact
08/14/1993
COMMENTS:
HSCA outside contact report. Box 86.
v9.1
NW 88326 Docld:32267020 Page 1
Released under the John F. Kennedy
Assassination Records Collection Act of
1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW
88326 Date: 2025
OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
I.
Identifying Information:
Name Mr. William Foster
Address
KENNEDY
004062
DATE 11/25/77
TIME
Telephone
Federal Probation Office, Northern District, Ill.
Type of Contact: X Telephone
Person
II.
III.
Summary of Contact:
In re:
Former SS Agent Abraham Bolden DOB 1/19/35; Social
Security No. 330-28-2266. A trace of Abraham Bolden's prison
record was developed from a newspaper article found in the
LBJ Library which mentioned initial incarceration in Spring-
field, Mo. Mr. Bolden was transferred from Springfield to
Maxwell Field Federal Prison Camp (Montgomery, Alabama) and was
placed on parole in September of 1959. Maxwell retained no
records except for an indication that at some time Bolden
stated that he had had "a residence in Chicago." This lead
suggested that an inquiry be made to the Federal Probation
service for the Chicago area.
Coincidentally, Mr. Foster was the probation officer who
personally supervised Mr. Bolden while Bolden was on probation.
(cont.)
Recommended Follow-up (if any):
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Belford V. Lawson III
Form #5
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Foster remarked that the Bolden case was unique in his
experience because of the nondisclosure by authorities
of information that is automatically released to the
probation officer in a given case.
Specifically, in every other case which Mr. Foster
has processed, the prosecutor gave the probation officer
a "version," i.e., a recital of fact about the crime and
the circumstances surrounding it. Only in cases where an
undercover informant is under parole supervision is the
name of the informant withheld, but even then a version is
always presented despite the witholding of the name.
Bolden's case, the prosecutor gave the probation officer
only the indictment.
T. Sykes.
In
Bolden's prosecutor was named Richard
Mr. Foster's statement about Mr. Bolden's record while
under parole supervision was that Mr. Bolden violated parole
by talking to the media in order to convey his information
that the Secret Service knew about the assassination three
or four weeks before Dallas. However, for reasons which
were not disclosed either to Mr. Foster or on the record
Mr. Bolden's parole status was not revoked.
that his records show that Bolden's statement was published
in the April 12, 1970 Chicago Sun-Times.
Foster recounted
Mr. Foster also set forth certain materials about Mr.
Bolden's prosecution and conviction, supplying enough detail
to make clear that at least one of the witnesses upon whose
testimony the conviction was based subsequently recanted his
testimony. The recantation, however, did not enable Bolden
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to overturn his conviction.
Mr. Foster then provided the following information
about Mr. Bolden and the name and addresses of Bolden's
relatives. The validity of the information is not
confirmed for the period after 1972.
past employer of Mr. Bolden:
address for Bolden:
National Lead Company
1800 S. Peoria Street
Chicago, Illinois
7632 S. Sangomon
Chicago, Illinois
Phone: 488-4822
residents at that address:
Father's address:
Mother's address:
brother:
brother:
Barbara Bolden (wife)
Alvia Bolden (daughter)
Abraham Bolden, Jr. (son)
Darren Bolden (son)
Daniel Bolden, Sr.
431 Pfeiffer Road
East St. Louis, Illinois
Ophelia Bolden
325 N. 26th Street
East St. Louis, Illinois
Daniel Bolden, Jr..
2128 Kimball Avenue
North Chicago (or Chicago) IL.
Benjamin Bolden
(resides with father)
sister:
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Cecelia Griffin
92 Sangomon Street
Chicago, Illinois
sister:
sister:
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Eara Dixon
3317 Bond Street
East St. Louis, Illinois
Faye Bolden
(resides with mother)