SECURITY OFFICER INTERVIEWED WITTING SON.
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 10/05/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

## Page 1

14-00000

104-10161-10503

• 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

PRECEDENCE

SECRET

Cain

,2..,

03/391

ADV FR 1908Z

STAFF

ACTION: FR-4 (023)

INFO: ODPD-D, VRe FILE, DDO-4, C/PCS, CAPM, CCS -2,

C1-4, EPS/EG-ZA OG/DMS, PCS/PGL, (SECUR- 3)

(25/W)

781371546

TOR:

PAGE

001

05183.32

OCT 78

IN

1371546

(SFFR)23469

SE C REET 0518002 OCT 78 STAFF

CITE (FROSAN FRANCISCO 23469 1)

TO: PRIORITY DIRECTOR.

WNINTEL ISOLOG SECUR

" REF:

ERYSAN FRANCISCO 23420 1331508

1.

SUMMARY:

RTACTION SECURITY OFFICER INTERVIEWED AND

OBTAINED COOPERATION OF ALREADY WITTING SON OF NUCLASSIC/88

(C/88) 1N REVIEWING PAPERS AT APT OF DECEASED FOR COMPROMISING

MATERIAL. SOME BUT POSSIBLY NOT ALL OPS RELATED MATERIAL

SON ALSO CLAIMED THAT AMONG APPARENTLY MISSING PAPERS

CASTRO ASSASSINATION PLAN WRITTEN SEVERAL YEARS AGO BY

C/88 BEFORE RACTION 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.

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.

BADENDICK, WHO HAS HAD SEVERAL AMICABLE PHONE CONVERSATIONS WITH

SUNA PLANS TO MELT WITH LATTER ON 9 OCT IN SAN FRANCISCO, TO

OBTAIN ONE FURTHER DOCUMENT OF OPS INTEREST (THE THESIS OF AN

:..

2.

RTACTION SECURITY OFFICER INTERVIEWED SON OF C/8& 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/8B'S NEPHEW IN THIS CONNECTION.

SECURITY OFFICER THEREFORE IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS RACTION AND

REQUESTED THAT HE BE PERMITTED TO REVIEW PERSONAL PAPERS WITH

SON TO DETERMINE WHETHER ANY PERTAINED TO C/OB'S ACTIVITIES.

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

5/500

Elcom or

Kathy ice Duffy s

FRDiN *1097

---

## Page 2

14-00000

SECRET

STAFF

78 1371540

PAGE 002

TOR: 0518332 00T78

IN 1371546

26SFFR 23469

COMMERCIAL ALIAS SAFE APT 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 OCCASIONS AND HE KNEW THEY WERE QUITE CLOSE FRIENDS.

SON WISHED TO ASK WHETHER BADENDICK HAD ANY KNOWLEDGE OF SEVERAL

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 SOME-

SON SAID HE HAD CONSLUDED THAT FIREMEN OR POLICE HAD TAKEN

AND THAT HE WAS FURIOUS OVER IT. BADENDICK WISHED HIM WELL

AND SAID HE 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

KNON 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.

BASE SUBSEQUENTLY REVIEWED MATERIALS OBTAINED BY

SECURITY OFFICER.

SAUDI ARABIAN OFFICERS, SOME PIECES OF SCRAICH PAPER WITH

• FRAGMENTARY NOTATIONS, A FEW ADDRESSES, SOME NPS) OFFICERS' CALLING

CARDS AND SOME MISCELLANEOUS MATERIAL OF NO VALUE WHICH WAS UN-

RELATED TO C/B8'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

SECRET

is.

---

## Page 3

14-00000

SECRET

STAFF

78 1371546

PAGE 003

TOR: 0518337 OCT 78

1371546

2SFFR 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.

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 OR POLICE, HAD

NOW CONCLUDED THAT THIEF MUST HAVE BEEN SOMEONE IN APT COMPLEX

WITH KEY TO C/B8'S APT AFTER EVERYONE HAD LEFT.

CREMATED AND ASHES SCATTERED AT SEA IN SMALL FAMILY CEREMONY.

BADENDICK ASKED WHETHER SON HAD NOTED AMONG C/88'S PERSONAL

EFFECTS A

(MAZAHERI CODY OF THESIS WRITTEN BY IRANIAN NAVAL OFFICER

11, 08:06

THIS THESIS HAD BEEN GIVEN TO C/BB BY MAZAHERI 06

WITH. REQUEST FOR EDITING AND SUGGESTIONS AND WAS TO HAVE BEEN

RETURNED BY C/88 EVENING HE DIED.

SON SAID HE HAD SEEN THESIS

AND THOUGHT IT HAD BEEN TURNED OVER TO BADENDICK'S COLLEAGUE.

WHEN TOLD IT WAS NOT, HE SAID 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 REVIEN ALL C/B8'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.

WHO FROM ALL EVIDENCE IS PROUD OF HIS FATHER'S RELATIONSHIP

WITH RTACTION AND IS QUITE WILLING TO BE HELPFUL WHERE HE CAN.

9.

VISH NOTE THAT OF $1,744.72 ADVANCES TO C/88 NOTED IN

PARA

REF, 51, 086.00 WAS FOR

JULY, AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. SAFEHOUSE

RENT AND $131.44 WAS FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER FURNUTURE RENTAL

WHICH C/B8 HAD (ACCORDING TO APT MANAGER) PAID BUT FOR WHICH HE

HAD NOT YET SUBMITTED RECEIPTS TO BADENDICK.

DELAY WAS DUE TO

INFREQUENCY OF SUMMER OPS MEETINGS AND C/BBIS 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/88 WAS UNDER NO PRESSURE AND HAD NO REASON TO

SECRET

31100

• *.

---

## Page 4

14-00000

SECRET

STAFF

78 1371546

PAGE 004

TOR: 051833200878

28 (SFFR)23469

TAX HIMSELF UNDULY TO MEET ACCOUNTING OR REPORTING DEADLINES.

WILL ADVISE ANY FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS OTHER THAN

RETRIEVAL OF THESIS BUT DO NOT ANTICIPATE ANY.

11. FILE:

201-948067. EZ IMPDET.

END

OF

MESSAGE

SECRET

---