» 9 |p [104-t0161-10508 _ ; , ~ pRECEDENCE G7” O3/39/ SECRET FRP: ft ee ee ee ADV FR 19082 STAFF ACTION: FR=4 (023) INFO: ODPD=D, FILE, DDO-4, C/PCS, C/PM, CCS=2, Cl-4, EPS/EG=2, OG/DMS, PCS/PGL, GEEUED, (25/7) 78 1371546 PAGE 001 IN 1371546 TOR: 0518332 OCT 78° | SFFR)23469 SE C RcE— T 0518002 OCT 78 STAFF CITE SAN FRANCISCO 23469 () TO? PRIORITY DIRECTOR, WNINTEL 1S 0}.06 SECUR REF: AN FRANCISCO 23420 1331508 a i. SUMMARY: RTACTION SECURITY OFFICER INTERVIEWED AND OBTAINED COOPERATION OF ALREADY WITTING SON OF WUCLASSIC/88 (C/86) 18 REVIEWING PAPERS AT APT OF DECEASED FOR COMPROMISING MATERIAL, SOME@ BUT POSSIBLY NOT ALL OPS RELATED MATERIAL RECOVERED, SON ALSO CLAIMED THAT AMONG APPARENTLY MISSING PAPERS WAS FIDEL CASTRO ASSASSINATION PLAN WRITTEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO By C/8B BEFORE RTACTION ASSOCIATION AND WHICH WAS AMONG C/88 EFFECTS MOVED TO APT IN MAY 78, LATTER DOCUMENT NEVER MENTIONED TO OR SEEN BY CASE OFFICER BADENDICK, COMPLAINT FILED BY SON WITH POLICE RE VALUABLE ITEMS APPARENTLY MISSING FROM APT COULD RESULT IN FUTURE QUESTIONING OF BADENDICK, AMONG SEVERAL OTHERS AT OR NEAR SCENE, BY POLICE, VIEW THIS AS UNLIKELY, HOWEVER, BADENDICK, WHO HAS HAD SEVERAL AMICABLE PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH SON, PLANS TO MEET WITH LATTER ON 9 OCT IN SAN FRANCISCO, TO IN ONE FURTHER DOCUMENT OF OPS INTEREST (THE THESIS OF AN US @e RTACTION SECURITY OFFICER INTERVIEWED SON OF C/6B EVENING 27 SEPT 78, (SECURITY OFFICE FILING SEPARATE REPORT.) SON SAID C/88 HAD TOLD SON HE WAS DOING SOME WORK FOR RTACTION AND THAT RTACTION OFFICER WAS POSING AS C/88'S NEPHEW IN THIS:CONNECTION, SECURITY OFFICER THEREFORE IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS RTACTION AND REQUESTED THAT HE BE PERMITTED TO REVIEW PERSONAL PAPERS WITH SON TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY PERTAINED TO C/88'S ACTIVITIES. SON WAS FORTHCOMING, PERMITTED REVIEW AND ALSO PROVIDED SOME PAPERS HE HAD EXTRACTED FROM THOS MATERIALS HE HAD ALREADY REVIEWED PRIOR TO CONTACT AND WHICH HE THOUGHT MIGHT BE OF INTEREST TO RTACTION, 3. FOLLOWING MORNING SON CALLED WALTER C, BADENDICK ON SECRET fry ratty 9 Ei DV P77
14-00000 SECRET ‘ & STAFF 78 1371546 PAGE 002 IN 1371546 TOR: 0518332 OCT 78 CE/SFFR 23469 COMMERCIAL ALIAS SAFE APY NUMBER, HE SAID THAT HE HAD TALKED = TO BADENDICK'S COLLEAGUE AND HAD OBTAINED BADENDICK'S NUMBER FROM CORONER, SON NOTED THAT C/88 HAD SPOKEN WARMLY OF BADENDICK ON SEVERAL QCCASIONS AND HE KNEW THEY WERE QUITE CLOSE FRIENDS, SON WISHED TO ASK WHETHER BADENDICK HAD ANY KNOWLEDGE OF SEVERAL a, ITEMS MISSING FROM C/8B'S PERSONAL EFFECTS {RANDALL KNIFE, GOLD PEN AND PENCIL SET, $100 BILL KEPT FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES), BADENDICk SAID HE HAD NOT AND DESCRIBED FOR SON SEQUENCE OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN FINDING BODY SO AS TO MAKE CLEAR TO SON WHO MIGHT . HAVE HAD ACCESS TO APT ALONE AND THUS OPPORTUNITY TO STEAL SOMEe@ { THING, SON SAID HE HAD CONSLUDED THAT FIREMEN OR POLICE HAD TAKEN THESE AND THAT HE WAS FURIOUS OVER IT. BADENDICK WISHED HIM WELL _ AND SAID KE WISHED HE COULD HELP FURTHER BUT HAD TOLD SON ALL HE { KNEW, 4. SON CALLED AGAIN AFTERNOON 28 SEPT TO SAY HE HAD DECIDED _& TO FILE COMPLAINT WITH POLICE AND THOUGHT HE SHOULD LET BADENDICK KNOW FIRST, BADENDICK ASKED FoR BRIEF POSTPONEMENT SO HE COULD CONFER WITH "HIS PEOPLE" REGARDING ANY SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS THIS MIGHT RAISE, SON READILY AGREED, AFTER BRIEF CONFERENCE, SON WAS CALLED BACK AND TOLD THAT IN VIEW OF RTACTION INVOLVEMENT IT WAS HOPED THAT HE, IN RAISING MATTER WITH POLICE, NOT SAY ANY-= THING TO CALL UNDUE ATTENTION TO BADENDICK, SON SAID HE CERTAINLY WOULD NOT MENTION BADENDICK TO POLICE BUT JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT BADENDICK WAS FOREWARNED OF HIS INTENDED COMPLAINT, 5S. BASE SUBSEQUENTLY REVIEWED MATERIALS OBTAINED BY . SECURITY OFFICER, THEY CONSISTED OF CARBON COPIES OF OLD C NTACTL REPORTS A IONAL ACCOUNTINGS, PLUS LIST oF | i OS OF 29, tl PROSPECTIVE TARGETS, ZEROX PHOT [ * SOME PIECES OF SCRATCH PAPER WITH RAGMENTARY NOTATIONS, A FEW ADDRESSES, SOME OFFICERS' CALLING CARDS AND SOME MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL OF NO VALUE WHICH WAS UN= RELATED TO C/88'S OPERATIONAL ACTIVITIES, THESE ITEMS WERE SUBSEQUENTLY DESTROYED, 6. SON TOLD RTACTION SECURITY OFFICER OF PLAN TO ASSASSINATE CUBAN PREMIER CASTRO WHICH C/88 HAD DRAWN UP MANY YEARS AGO WHILE IN FLORIDA, SON SAID HE KNEW THIS REPORT WAS WRITTEN AT TIME WHEN C/88 HAD NO CONNECTION WITH -RTACTION, BUT WAS CURIOUS BECAUSE ( REPORT WAS AMONG C/88'S EFFECTS WHEN SON HELPED HIM MOVE TO Ne SECRET
14-00000 aa «EFFECTS A COPY OF THESIS WRITTEN BY THIS THESIS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO C768 BY 2: - 1 FOR EDITING AND SUGGESTIONS AND WAS TO-RaVE—OEEN SECRET é 76 1373546 PAGE 003 IN 1371546 : TOR: 051833Z OCT 78 &(SFFR)23469 MONTEREY IN MAY 78 BUT wAS NOw MISSING, OFFICER TOLD SON HE COULD SHED NO LIGHT ON THIS, IT BEING FIRST KNOWLEDGE WE HAD OF IT. (PLS SEE SECURITY OFFICER'S REPORT FOR DETAILS.) BASE HAD NO OTHER KNOWLEDGE OF THIS PLAN, WHICH C/88 HAD NEVER MENTIONED TO BADENDICK, 6 7.  BADENDICK CALLED SON ON 3 OCT 78 AT NELSON, CALIFORNIA, RESIDENCE TO ASK ABOUT RESULTS OF COMPLAINT TO POLICE, SON SAID HE HAD NO LUCK AT ALL BUT, IN VIEW OF MISSING MICROWAVE OVEN WHICH COULD HARDLY HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY FIREMEN GR POLICE, HAD NOW CONCLUDED THAT THIEF MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE IN APT COMPLEX WITH KEY TO C/88'S APT AFTER EVERYONE HAD LEFT, C/88 HAS BEEN CREMATED AND ASHES SCATTERED AT SEA IN SMALL FAMILY CEREMONY, BADENDICK ASKED WHETHER SON HAD NOTED_AMONG C/B8'S PERSONAL RETURNED AY C/86 EVENING HE DIED, SON SAID HE HAD SEEN THESIS AND THOUGHT IT HAD SEEN TURNED OVER TO BADENDICK'S COLLEAGUE, WHEN TOLD IT WAS NOT» HE SATD HE WOULD CHECK AGAIN AND IF IT HAS NOT BEEN DESTROYED, HE WOULD RETURN IT TO BADENDICK, THEY AGREED TO ARRANGE ON PHONE TIME TO MEET IN SAN FRANCISCO WEEK 9 OCT, SON VOLUNTEERED THAT HE WOULD AGAIN REVIEW ALL C/88'S PAPERS TO ENSURE THAT THERE IS NOTHING AMONG THEM OF POSSIBLE RELATION TO RTACTION, 8. SON IS MOST FRIENDLY AND CORDIAL AND AWARE OF NEED FOR DISCRETION AND SECRECY, ENVISION NO SECURITY PROBLEM FROM SON, WHO FROM ALL EVIDENCE IS PROUD OF HIS FATHER'S RELATIONSHIP WITH RTACTION AND IS QUITE WILLING TO BE HELPFUL WHERE HE CAN, 9. WISH NOTE THAT OF $1,744,72 ADVANCES TO C/88 NOTED IN PARA 4 REF, $1,086.00 WAS FOR JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER: SAFEHOUSE RENT AND $131,44 WAS FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER FURNUTURE RENTAL WHICH C/88 HAD (ACCORDING TO APT MANAGER) PAID BUT FOR WHICH HE HAD NOT YET SUBMITTED RECEIPTS 10 BADENDICK, DELAY WAS DUE TO INFREQUENCY OF SUMMER OPS MEETINGS AND C/88'S PLEADING MILD FLU ATTACK ON ONE OCCASION AS REASON FOR NOT HAVING ACCOUNTING READY, WOULD NOTE FURTHER THAT BADENDICK CONTINUALLY AND CONSISTENTLY TOOK INTO ACCOUNT C/88'S HEALTH PROBLEM AND TOOK CARE ALWAYS TO ENSURE THAT C/8B8 WAS UNDER NO PRESSURE AND HAD NO REASON TO SECRET
14-00000 4 i . . SECRET , STAFF 78 1371546 . PAGE 004 N 1371546 TOR: 0518337 OCT 78 26 (SFER )23469 TAX HIMSELF UNDULY TO MEET ACCOUNTING OR REPORTING DEADLINES, 10, WILL ADVISE ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OTHER .THAN RETRIEVAL OF THESIS BUT DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY, END OF MESSAGE SECRET