JFK Assassination System Date: 9/21/20 Identification Form Agency Information Peleased under the John AGENCY: HSCA Kennedy RECORD NUMBER: _ 180-10087-10190 issassination Records oOllection Act of 1992 RECORD SERIES: | NUMBERED FILES (44 USC 2107 Note). asex#: NW 54756 Date: AGENCY FILENUMBER: 008482 pO-31-2017 Document Information ORIGINATOR: HSCA FROM: TO: TITLE: . 5 ‘DATE: = 12/30/1977 PAGES: 3 SUBJECTS : LEADS AND INFORMATION DOCUMENT TYPE: SUMMARY CLASSIFICATION: — Unclassified . RESTRICTIONS: 3 _ CURRENTSTATUS: — Redact DATE OF LASTREVIEW: 01/05/1996 OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : INTERVIEW U.S.S.S. 154-3. BOX 154. v9.1 . HW 54756 Docld: 32252132 Page 1
HW 54756 wo wee ee ee ee — oo JFK Routing SLip “084s Docutiant I, D. __RWESTIGATIVE INTERVIEW SCHEDULE. Kenneth Klein . Charlie Mathews Jim Wolf Tiny Hutton = Jackie Hess . , _ , Team #1 ry | ay | ‘Team #3 § > am #4 . Special Instructions: Form #2 DoclId: 322527132 Page 2?
KENNEDY 7 a a _ SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS 8s NAME ; Robert Motto Date 12/30/77 Time Address 2700 N. Crest Drive oS ‘Place Rm. 1526 a a ; . Holiday Inn - Donneérs. Grove, TLL. a (312) 964- 3409 - “Interview: on 12/30/77, the writers interviewed’ Motto. at Holiday Soni “Room “1526. Mrs Motto, ‘is. now Chief Investigator for “the cook’ county. Public. Administrator’ ‘Ss office. In’ 1963. he was "stated § Secret Service. We. discussed. with him, his: activities cin ‘connection with the proposed’ visit of President John. FP Kennedy to Chicago ¢ on | November 2, 1963... “Motto told “us, that he’ was. “involved in checks | and counterfeiting enforcement during ‘this 1963 period. OBS: if _ anticipating the thrust of our. questioning, he stated that, “about. a year or. two ago, a wnewspaperman came to see “him and o " questionea him about ‘this. November. 1963 perida. He: ‘could not “recall the reporter! Ss name, but the man told. him he was going: to make him the, hero of ‘the piece, This ‘put. Motto ‘on. nag guara and he said he didn’ t tell ‘the man. anything ‘about, his” activities at the time. AS. a result, he murdered me. “in. othe. article," Motto said.’ | mat Motto. told us that he could ‘not recall exactly | what. "specific activities he ‘was “engaged : in from October 30th ‘through, November 2nd, 1963, except that he went to the Air Force - “Army - oan . Interviewer Jos yas ety Bak be 9 CA- Signature) ~~ JP ly/dJ Basteri a Date Transcribed" "1/6/78 * — Docld: 3227529132. Page aoe 54756
54756 *. Robert Motto.Interview...page 2 game at Soldiers Field on November 2nd. whe” Setip. was, “cancelled. Wade usr I think they told us at the game, but we aeeasarta Wa cbithi anyway," Motto said. "When I got back to the office, someone said there had been threats," he told us. We pressed him for information as to the identity of his informant, but he could not recall who in his office told him. He does not recall surveilling any Latin/Cuban types during that period, but he does not rule out this possibility; he simply does not recollect. The names Rodriguez and Gonzalez mean nothing to him. | Motto asked us if we had talked to Bolden yet. We replied in the negative and asked him who Bolden was. He launched into a vituperative discussion about Abe Bolden, the Negro Secret Service Agent who allegedly attempted to blow the whistle on the Service in 1964. He was arrested in Chicago and charged with attempting to sell file information to a counterfeiter who had been arrested by the Chicago office. On the day President Kennedy was shot in Dallas, Motto was in Cincinnati, Ohio, working on a big case. He said he returned to Chicago and. helped in the post-assassination investiga- tion -- but again he was vague on specifics. Motto: said that he had a copy of the magazine article he referred to earlier and would send it to us when he located it. DocId: 32252132 Page 5