v9.1 AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES : AGENCY FILE NUMBER : ORIGINATOR : FROM: TO: TITLE: DATE: PAGES: SUBJECTS : DOCUMENT TYPE : CLASSIFICATION : RESTRICTIONS : CURRENT STATUS : DATE OF LAST REVIEW : OPENING CRITERIA : COMMENTS : MW 35923 Doold: 32267020 JFK Assassination System Identification Form Agency Information HSCA 180-10117-10245 NUMBERED FILES 004062 Document Information ° HSCA 11/25/1977 4 BOLDEN, ABRAHAM USSS; STAFF FOSTER, WILLIAM OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT Unclassified Open in Full Redact 08/14/1993 ‘ HSCA outside contact report. Box 86. Page i Date: 10/1/201
pe a, . oe KENNEDY | OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT: 6 8 4 19 ra ame 1/35/97 TIME ; I. : “Identifying ‘Information: Name ‘Mr. William Foster . Telephone Address _ “Federal Probation Office, Northern District Ill. : “ype of ‘contact, “x netephome © ce ose es Person CII. : Summary of Contact: | Inge: Porner SS A ent. Abraham Bolden DOB 1 19 35; 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 Cam (Montgomer |_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. Z "service for the Chicago area. . _ | a /_-. Coincidentally, Mr. Foster was the probation officer who personally supervised Mr. Ralden while Bolden was_on probation. (cont. ) - —_ Til. Recommended Follow-up (if any): NW 55923- DoclaSsSewP bee ba e - Form ES
~2- 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. In Bolden's. case, the prosecutor: gave the probation officer only the indictment. Bolden's prosecutor was named Richard T. Sykes. 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. Foster recounted that his records show that Bolden's statement was published ‘ in the April 12, 1970 Chicago Sun-Times. Mr. FPoster’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 NW 35923 Doold: 32267020 Page 3
-3- 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: residents at that address: Father*s address: Mother's address: brother: brother: sister: MW 35923 Doold:32267020 Page 4 National Lead Company 1800 S. Peoria Street Chicago, Illinois 7632 S. Sangomon Chicago, Illinois Phone: -488-4822 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) Cecelia Griffin 92 Sangomon Street Chicago, Illinois
Pd et, sister: Eara Dixon . , 3317 Bond Street East St. Louis, Illinois sister: Faye Bolden (resides with mother) NW 535923 Doold:32267020 Page 5