AGENCY: — AGENCY INFORMATION FBI RECORD NUMBER: — 124-10244-10392 RECORD SERIES: DL AGENCY FILE NUMBER:  89-43-10378 j DOCUMENT INFORMATION ORIGINATOR: FBI FROM: SAC.MM TO: DIRECTOR. FBI TITLE: / DATE: 11/09/1978 PAGES: 8 SUBJECT: JFK, SUSP, STURGIS, FRANK DOCUMENT TYPE: ORIGINAL Unclassified CLASSIFICATION: REVIEW DATE: 03/26/1997 STATUS Redact RESTRICTIONS: JFK Act 6 (4) COMMENTS: Docld: 3271866382 Page 1 PAPER. TEXTUAL DOCUMENT NEW CLASSIFICATION: UPDATE DATE: = 02/14/2001
| Released under.the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records, Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 | Hote). ; DATE; of i1- 14- 2017 oe inne re Ne. , PAGE: TUO MM, 89-35 UNCLAS EF. T 0 RESENCE OF aN INDIVIDUAL BY THE NaME OF BILL sokNson. DEA ®VISED That THIS INFORMANT COULD BE MADE aVAILASLE FOR SINTER VIE We os | . | “ON NOVERBER 3, 1978, ATTEMPTS TO. OONTACT PETER F. GRUDEN, “INSPECTOR - IN CHARGE; DES, MIAMI, FLORIDA, wo HAD FURNISHED. alOvE / INFORMATION TO U.S, SECRET SERVICE, HIqMI, DETERMINED THAT HE gs. wor aVaILABLE. ‘ON NOVEMBER 7, 1978, GRUDEN was CONTACTED “AND . He ‘ADVISED ‘THAT. THE INFORMANT IN, THIS MATTER WAS THOMAS JOSEPH AUT. GR DEN STATED THAT. HOLT WAS OF QUESTIONABLE RELIABILITY, | RRN{IONAL, UNPREDICTABLE aND DE SOR IBED HIM FURTHER aS. a MURDERER : \" "AND PER) (RER HE “ADVISED ‘THaT THE ONLY REASON HOLT was a a INFORMANT FOR - DEA AT THIS TIME WAS | THaT- HOLT” HAD, FURNISHED: INFOR YaTION OF AN. INTERNAL NATURE. . GRUDEN ADVISED: THAT DAVID R. __ WISER INSPECTOR , DEA, MIAMI , COULD. BE CONTACTED FOR FURT HER ; DET 4 IF ‘S$ CO NCERNING ‘HOLT. ON NOVEMBER 8, 1978, wis ER was ‘ONTACTE! 2D AND HE aD VISED THAT. HOLT HAD COME To DEA. AND HAD: WADE . dLLEGATIONS OF WRONGDOING, nG AINS T e DEA AGENT « WISER. “ADVISED THAT: 1 Dale TRE INT: ERNAL INVESTIGATION ‘IN THIS DEA MATTER HAS NOT /INCO VERED ANY EVIDENCE TO IND IcaTE ANY TRUTH TO THE ALLEG ATION OF eo. e Docld:327186682 Page 2
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 199? (44 USC 2107 | Hote}. DATE: 11-14-2017 ‘ a EN . ee es 2 . ? ~ . : . . suf ; m Pe)  ] | PAGE THREE MM 89-35 WNCLaS E FTO | a 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. ON: BISCAYNE BOULEVARD IN THE | DOYNTOWN MIAMT. BREA WHEN HE CAME UPON FRANK. STURGIS, WHO WAS. “ACCOMPANIED BY ONE BILL JOHNSON. WISER ADVISED: THAT HOLT STATED ‘That DURING THIS ENCOUNTE ER, STURGIS STATED THAT HE Hab KILLED RESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY. - yISER sTatep THAT HE: -AS KED HOLT WHY | -WONLD ST [RGIS IMPART THIS. INTERESTING BIT OF News TO HOLT , “WHO yas 8 “KNOWN GOVERNMENT WITNESS AND PUBLICIZED DEA INFORMANT, ROM THE Past: AND HOLT T REPLIED THAT IT WAS "ONE-HIT MAN TO _ NOTHER" . - | | INSPECTOR WISER ADVISED THAT HOLT HAD INDI caTED AN INTEN ITION TO GO TO THE NEWS MED I¢ REGARD ING HIS ALLEG AT IONS AGAINST THE DEA. INSPECTOR. WISER: FURTHER STATED THAT HE ‘THOUGHT IT LIKELY. THAT HOLT yo WLD “ALSO. MAKE MENTION OF THE STURGIS COMMENT AND - THaT HE Had REPORTED THIS TO ‘DEq AND THE \T THEY HAD DONE NOTHING BOUT IT. INSPECTOR’ WISER ADVISED FOR THIS VERY REASON, HE WROTE, A MEMO CONCERNING WHAT. HOLT. HAD REPORTED AND -FOR THIS REASON , IT was FURNISHED 0, THE SECRET SERVICE. INSPECTOR. yISER o. } ‘Docld: 32186682 “Page 3
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1999 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 PAGE FOUR i 89 - 35 UNCL as i FTO | a a) VISED THAT - HOLT IS CURRENTLY RESIDING AT 1697 NORTH SINTON AVENUE, DELRAY BEACH, FLORIDA», ne . 4 REVIEW OF MIAMI. FILES, INDICATES THAT THOMAS. JOSEPH HOLT, ‘QaTE OF BIRTH MARCH 93, 1941, WHITE MALE, was a SOURCE OF THE MIAMI OFFICE FOR 4 SHORT PERIOD OF TIME UNDER MEAtHT FILE 137- 5905, BUREAU FILE 137- ALITA, req NUMBER 320, 93 Fe “HOLT ALSO” “ARRESTED BY FBI AND | DEA AGENTS, JILY"26). 1976 At nLaMt “INTER WaT TONAL a AIRPORT. FOR UFAP. MURDER CHARGES » BUFILE S8-73308. ~ ADDITIONAL INFOR MaT ION CONTAINED IN MtaMt FILE 45-1777 IN WHICH HOLT A SUBJECT aLONG wITH JANES: RONALD HOWSCO AND SUBJECT EUGENE oTIS “HICYS INVOLVING GRIME ON ‘THE HIGH SEAS - POSSIBLE MURDERS GERALD HERBERT LERNER - VICTIM, ALL SUSPECTED DRUG ‘DEALERS. ‘REPORTS IN THIS-MATTER HAVE BEEN FURNISHED TO THE BUREAU» BUT BUFILE NUMBER - OT ENOWN TO MIAMI oo To | | MIAMI Mal NTAINING CONTACT WITH SE MIANT’ AND CO NTEMPLATES INTERVIEW OF. HOLT , JOHNSON AND STI URGIS. a RESULTS AND LHW S, TO FOLLOW. 31319472 DL 1 Docld:32186682 Page 4
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