MACKEM, WALTER JOSEF #190 639 ATTENDED PARTY AT HOME OF THOMAS O. CALLANEN.
Originator: CIA
From: MICHAEL E. SCHNEEBERGER SEC ANAL GR
To: MFR
Document date: 07/13/1977
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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13 July 1977

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: MACKEM, Walter Josef (U/AIUO)

OS#190 639

1.

(U/AIUO) On 8 July 1977 the undersigned attended a

party at the home of Thonas 0. CALLANEN) (OS#520 272) in

party with Edith S. DAVIS)(OS#368 661); in addition to the

above, several other Agency employees were in attendance.

(U/AIUO) MACKEM did not appear to engage any Agency

employees in "she?" talk and seemed to shrink from any sort

of serious conversations while in the proximity of the

undersigned.

Based upon casual conversations with several

of the undersigned's friends at the party, it was learned

that Hitr D!:

is) was invited to the party by Ms: (HALL'5/03

•'(MORIN finds another apartment.

Aside from his obvious

friendship with.

3, DAVIS, MACKEN did not appear to have previ..

ously known any

of the Agency employees at the party.

3. (C) It should be noted that MACKEM has been of

interest to this Agency since his termination (reduction

in force) in October 1973.

Interest was predicated upon

his association with Mitchell Livingston WERBELL III (OSE

<27 6862 and the latter's

"Friends of Abaca" operation.

Recent interest in MACKEM stemmed from the "B. A. Fox"

letter bomb extortion case in which MACKEM was considered

That case,

currently appears to have been put on "the back burner"

by the FBI.

CONFIDENTIAL

Michael E. Schneeberger

Security Analysis Group

E2 IMPDET

CL BY 007472

BPJ

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