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Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 210%. Hote) o, DATE: 11-14-2017 > * a - ° PAGE TWO MM $9-35 UNCLAS E F TO “Tr PRESENCE OF AN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NAME OF BILL JOHNSON. BEA INTERVIEW, ON NOVEMBER 3, 197%, ATTEMPTS TO CONTACT PETER F. GRUDEN, INSPECTOR IN CHARGE, DEA, MIAMI, FLORIDA, WHO HAD FURNISHED ABOVE INFORMAT TON TO U.S. SECRET SERVICE, MIAMI, DETERMINED THAT HE WAS NOT AVAILABLE. ON NOVEMBER 7, 1978, GRUDEN WAS CONTACTED AND rye a Ee aie) ADVISED THAT THE INFORMANT IN THIS MATTER WAS THOMAS JOSEPH HOLT. GRUDEN STATED THAT HOLT VAS OF QUESTIONQBLE RELIABILITY, IRRATIONAL, UNPREDICTABLE ND DESCRIBED HIM FURTHER 4S A MURDERER AND PERJURER. HE ADVISED THAT THE ONLY REASON HOLT WAS AN INFORMANT FO2 DEA AT THIS TIME wAS THAT HOLT HAD FURNISHED INFORMATION GF AN INTERNAL NATURE. GRUDEN ADVISED THAT DAVID R. . WISER, INSPECTOR, DEA, MIAMI, COULD BE CONTACTED FOR FURTHER DETAILS CONCERNING HOLT. GN NOVEMBER 8, 1973, WISER WAS CONTACTED AND HE ADVISED THAT HOLT HaD COME TO DEA AND HaR MADE ALLEGATIONS OF WRONGDOING AGAINST 4 DEA AGENT. WISER ADVISED THAT TO DATE THE INTERHAL INVESTIGATION IN THIS DEA MATTER HAS NOT UNCOVERED ANY EVIDENCE TO IND ICATE ANY TRUTH TO THE 4LLEGATION OF ADVISED THAT THIS INFORMANT COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FoR Docld: 32162375 Page 3
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 — -Hote}, DATE: 11-14-2017 > PAGE Th REE MM @S-35 UNCLAS EF T O m~: oe HOLT. HE ADVISED THAT THE EVIDENCE INDICATED TO DATE INDICATES TO THE CONTRARY. WISER ADVISED THAT HOLT STATED THAT DURING THE LATE SUMMER, HE, HOLT, WAS OW SISCAYNE BOULEVARD IN THE DOWNTOWN MIAMI AREA WHEN HE CAME UPON FRANK STURGIS, WHO WAS ACCOMPANIED BY ONE BILL JOHNSON, WISER aDVISED THAT DUR ISG THIS ENCOUNTER, STURGIS STATED PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. WISER STATED THAT WOULD ST URGIS TMPART TH 4 mm INTERESTING BIT OF WAS A KNOWN GOVERNMENT WITNESS AND PUBLICIZED THAT HE ASKED HOLT NE a 1 DEA S TO HOLT, INFORMANT FROM THE PaST aND HOLT REPLIED THAT IT WAS "OQNE HIT MAN TO ANOTHER". INSPECTOR WISER ADVISED THAT HOLT HAD INDICATED AN INTENTI ON THAT HOLT STATED IE HAD KILLED WHY WHO TO GO TO THE NEWS MED IA REGARD ING HIS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST THE DFA. INSPECTOR WISER FURTHER STATED THAT HE THOUGHT THAT HOLT WOULD ALSO MAKE MENTION OF THE STURGIS COMMENT AND THAT HE KAD REPORTED THIS TO DEA AND THAT THEY HAD BONE NOTHT ABOUT IT. INSPECTOR WISER ADVISED FOR THIS VERY REASON, HE WROTE A MEMO CONCERNING WHAT HOLT HAD REPORTED AND FOR THIS REASON, IT WAS FURNISHED TO THE SECRET SERVICE. IT LIKELY INSPECTOR WISER 1 Docld: 327162375 Page 4
/~Réleased under the John F. Kenyedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 "= ‘Note). DATE: 11-14-2017 : Gg O PAGF FOUR MM 89-35 jNCLAS E F T OG ADVISED THAT HOLT 2S CURRENTLY RESIDING AT 1627 NORTH SWINTON AVENUE, DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA. A REVIEW OF MIAME FILES INDICATES THAT THOMAS JOSEPH HOLT, DATE OF BIRTH MARCH 23, 1941, WHITE MALE, WAS 4 SOURCE OF THE MIAMT OFFICE FOR & SHORT PERIOD OF TIME UNDER MIAMI FILE 137-6995, BUREAU FILE 1137-41174, FRI NUMBER 322 23 F., HOLT ALSO ARRESTED BY FRI AND DEA AGENTS, JULY 26, 1976 AT MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT FOR UFAP MURDER CHARGES, BUFILE $9-73308. ADDITIONAL INFORMAT TON CONTAINED IN MIQMI FILE 45-1777 IN WHICH HOLT A SUBJECT ALONG W ITH JAMES RONALD MONACO AND SUBJECT EUGENE OTIS HICKS INVOLVING CR IME ON THE HIGH SEAS - POSSIBLE MURDER; GERALD | ; HERBERT LERNER - VICTIM, ALL SUSPECTED DRUG DEALERS. REPORTS IN oe tw} a wy teal tH “sa = tw} 7 rm va em a \VE BEEN FURNISHED TO THE BUREAU, BUT BUFILE NUMBER NOT KNOWN TO MIAMI.  MIAMZ MAINTAINING CONTACT WITH DEA MIAMI AND CONTEMPLATES _ INTERVIEW OF HOLT, JOHNSON AND STURGIS, RESULTS AND LHM’S TO FOLLOW, * to a poe “the Docld: 32162375 Page 5
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