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*SUBJECT: RESPONSE FOR<JFK ASSASSINATION>RECORDS COLLECTION ACT

REF: A. DIRECTOR 493642

B. . DIRECTOR 493658

95 2040015

95 2040060

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1. ACTION REQUIRED: NONE, FYI.

2. ON 14 NOVEMBER 1995, C/O NOBLEHORSE DELIVERED REF TEAR LINE

INFORMATION AS REQUESTED..

REF IDEN THEN ASKED FOR TIME TO FORMULATE

HIS THOUGHTS AND SUBMIT THEM ON PAPER.

ALTHOUGH NOBLEHORSE

EXPLAINED THAT WE WOULD PREFER HE PASS THE RESPONSE DIRECTLY TO C/O,

HE WAS APPARENTLY SO ANGERED OVER THE CONTENTS OF REF, THAT HE LATER

IRIED TO CONTACT BERT MILLS DIRECTLY AND WITHOUT SUCCESS. ON 15

NOVEMBER, REF IDEN PROVIDED THE FOLLOWING RESPONSE IN WRITING, WHICH

IS BEING POUCHED TO HQS VIA TM 902-825 :

NOV 14, 1995

TO BERT MILLS:

I OBJECT VIOLENTLY TO THE REVELATION OF MY NAME REGARDLESS OF

THE LAW. HERE ARE SOME REASONS:

1. I EMIGRATED TO AUSTRIA TWICE, FIRST IN 1971 AND AGAIN IN 1983.

BOTH TIMES I HAD TO FILL OUT AND SWEAR TO LENGTHY FORMS ABOUT MY

BACKGROUND. I USED MY RETIRED STATE COVER BOTH TIMES, THEREBY :

COMMITTING PERJURY TWICE UNDER AUSTRIAN LAW. MY OLD FRIENDS IN HIGH

PLACES WHO MIGHT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PROTECT ME HAVE ALL RETIRED OR,

EVEN MORE,

DIED.

AUSTRIAN JUSTICE IS NOTORIOUSLY IMMUTABLE. DO YOU

WANT ME TO GO TO JAIL?

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2.

LIVING SINCE RETIREMENT IN AUSTRIA FROM 1971 TO 1980 AND FROM

1983 TO THE PRESENT, I HAVE ACHIEVED HIGH POSITIONS IN VIENNA'S

MUSICAL BODIES, BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE JOHANN STRAUSS SOCIETY AND

VICE PRESIDENT

OF THE VIENNA MEN'S SINGING SOCIETY, AND I AM

PERSONALLY KNOWN TO SEVERAL RECENT AUSTRIAN PRESIDENTS, MANY

REPORTERS AND RADIO FIGURES. I SUFFERED A DISABLING STROKE IN

DECEMBER 1993 AND MY WIFE AND I, BOTH 75, CAN CONTINUE TO EXIST HERE

BECAUSE OUR 2000 SQ. FT. APARTMENT IS WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF 2:

POST OFFICES,

SEVERAL SMALL SUPER MARKETS, MY FAMILY PHYSICIAN; OUR

DENTIST, MY UROLOGIST, AND AN EYE DOCTOR AND OPTICIAN.

WE ARE

WITHIN WHEEL CHAIR DISTANCE OF THE CONCERT HALLS AND THE OPERA.

WHERE CAN YOU DUPLICATE THIS FOR ME?

3. DURING MY ACTIVE CAREER IN VIENNA AROUND 1959 I INTERROGATED AND

BROKE AN INTELLIGENCE SWINDLER WHO HAD BEEN A NAZI ASSASSIN. I

PROMISED HIM SECRECY IF HE CONFESSED, BUT THE US ARMY PUT OUT A

"BURN NOTICE" ON HIM, FORCING HIM TO MOVE TO GERMANY. I AM SURE HE

WOULD LOVE TO FIND ME AND SHOOT ME.

VIENNA IS FULL OF ISLAMIC TERRORISTS.

THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL

* ASSASSINATIONS, ›EVEN. OF A CITY COUNCILMAN, BY THEM IN RECENT YEARS.

UNDER AUSTRIAN LAW, I, AS A FOREIGNER, CANNOT EVEN GET A PISTOL

YOU MUST KNOW ABOUT THE KIDNAPPING AND KILLING OF OUR

COLLEAGUES AROUND THE WORLD.

I HAVE TWICE TESTIFIED BEFORE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES ABOUT

*THE <KENNEDY ASSASSINATION.> THEIR FULL REPORTS SIMPLY CALLED ME THE

"DESK OFFICER" AND. THAT HAS SEEMED TO SATISFY EVERYONE. NEEDLESS TO

SAY, IF YOU DO EXPOSE MY NAME, I WILL NOT EVER TALK TO ANY

JOURNALISTS OR SO-CALLED HISTORIANS.

5. IF MY NAME IS EXPOSED, I WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO LEAVE VIENNA,

WITH THE WHOLE HOUSE FULL

ETC. WHICH I PACKED AND PAID TO HAVE MOVED OVER HERE IN 1983.

BECAUSE OF MY STROKE, I WILL BE UNABLE TO DO ANY PACKING AND THE

MOVE WILL BE VERY EXPENSIVE. . WHERE CAN I RESETTLE IN A 2000 SQ FT.

APT. SO CONVENIENTLY LOCATED.

MY WIFE AND I LOVE LIVING HERE FOR MANY REASONS, AND LEAVING

WOULD BE A CRUEL AND NEEDLESS. FATE.

7. I REGARD THIS LAW AS DISHONORABLE AND UNWORTHY OF THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA.

IF YOU DECIDE AGAINST ME,

BEFORE THE BOARD AND EVEN THE PRESIDENT, WHOM I HAPPEN TO ADMIRE. I

WILL PAY MY OWN WAY BACK TO. DO SO.. I SERVED IN WWII AND NEVER

SPARED MYSELF; IN THE OUTFIT I WORKED HARD, WAS FEARLESS IN DEALING

WITH MY SUPERIORS (CORD MEYER AND DICK HELMS CAN TESTIFY TO THAT)

AND MY ADVERSARIES.

I WOULDN'T EVEN THINK OF THREATENING TO EXPOSE

THINGS TO PRESSURE YOU. I WILL BE EMPLOYING AN ATTORNEY OR TWO,

FAMILIAR WITH OUR AFFAIRS, TO REPRESENT ME. I WILL NOT DENY, THAT I

CONSIDER YOU AND EVERYONE ELSE IMPLEMENTING THIS LAW TO BE ENGAGING

IN DISHONORABLE CONDUCT, UNWORTHY OF OUR GOVERNMENT SERVICE.

8.

IN THE LATE 1960'S WHILE SERVING IN VIENNA UNDER TOM

KARAMISSINIS, I WAS ORDERED BY HQ TO REVEAL TO AUSTRIAN MILITARY

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INTELLIGENCE THAT A LOW-RANKING AUSTRIAN DIPLOMAT SERVING AS THEIR

INFORMANT IN BUDAPEST HAD ALSO BEEN RECRUITED BY US AND WAS REPORTI

NG. TO US: I REFUSED TO CARRY OUT THIS ORDER AND OFFERED MY

RESIGNATION. TO ME, IT WAS DISHONORABLE TO BETRAY A YOUNG AGENT WHO

HAD ACCEPTED OUR RECRUITMENT AND PUT FAITH IN OUR PROMISE OF

SECRECY. TO MY MIND AN AGENCY WITHOUT PRINCIPLES CANNOT SURVIVE AND

INDEED SHOULD NOT SURVIVE.

LAST HONORABLE MEN TO SERVE WITH US IN HIGH POSITION, FIRED A STRONG

CABLE BACK AND THE SHAMEFUL ORDER WAS RETRACTED.

9. I HAVE INVESTED ABOUT $50,000 IN MY APARTMENT, IN KEY MONEY AND

IMPROVEMENTS. IF I LEAVE, I WILL LOSE ALL OR MOST OF THIS. OUR

LAST MOVE TO VIENNA COST ME ABOUT $15,000 IN SEA FREIGHT AND

INSURANCE:

I WILL NEVER GET ON MY KNEES AND ASK TO BE MADE WHOLE IF

YOU EXPOSE ME, BUT I MAY REPORI: TO THE COURTS. I AM A RETIRED

MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA BAR.

10.

LET ME REGALE YOU WITH AN EXAMPLE OF HOW THE HISTORIANS

MINDLESS DRIVE TO KNOW EVERYTHING CAN LEAD TO A PROUD COUNTRY'S

DISGRACING ITSELF. DURING WWII WHEN WE WERE INTERROGATING GERMAN

POW'S, WE PROMISED THEM NO ONE. WOULD EVER LEARN THEY HAD "SPILLED

THEIR GUTS," AND WE ALL BELIEVED WE WERE BEING HONEST. BUT ALMOST

25 YEARS AFTER WWII THE BRITISH DECLASSIFIED ALL THE ADI (K) REPORTS

(THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE CALLED, AND EVEN THE "ROOM CONVERSATIONS, "

TRANSCRIPTS OF THE CONVERSATIONS POWS HAD IN THEIR ROOMS,

EVEN

INCLUDING THE EXTREMELY VALUABLE SPEECHES MADE BY HIGH-RANKING

LUFTWAFFE OFFICERS TO THEIR HIGH-RANKING FELLOW POW'S AT

"COCKFOSTERS" MANSION. NEWCOMERS WERE VISITED BY THE OLD HANDS FOR

A MONTH TO MAKE SURE THEY WEREN'T STOOL PIGEONS, BEFORE THEY WERE

GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF ADDRESSING THEIR FELLOW OFFICERS ON SOME

IMPORTANT ASPECT OF THE WAR. THE EXCELLENT BRITISH MIKES PICKED IT

ALL UP.

IN RECENT YEARS, AT LEAST ONE. LUFTWAFFE VETERAN ASSOCIATION,

THAT OF J.G.2, THE RICHTHOFEN GESCHWADER,

SENT PEOPLE. TO LONDON TO

GET. COPIES OF THE INTERROGATION REPORTS OF THEIR PILOTS. THEY DID

IT CHRONOLOGICALLY AND WERE SO SHOCKED AT THE VAST AMOUNT OF VITAL

DATA REVEALED BY THEIR BUDDIES THAT, IN ACUTE REVULSION, THEY

STOPPED LOOKING. I ASSUMED THEN THAT "EVERYONE" HAD "TALKED, " WHICH

11.

I AM 75 YEARS OLD PARTLY PARALYZED ON MY LEFT SIDE FROM A

STROKE IN DEC. 1993. I WAS NEARLY FULLY REHABILITATED WHEN, IN MAY

1994, I WAS HIT BY CONSTANT MUSCLE SPASMS ALL UP AND DOWN MY LEFT

SIDE.

THIS RATHER RARE CONDITION, BASICALLY A SUDDEN SUPER-HUMAN

TIGHTENING OF ALL THE MUSCLES, WITH AFTER EFFECTS LASTING UNTIL THE

NEXT. SPASM, HAVE MADE IT INCREASINGLY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO STAND UP,

WALK, OR EVEN SIT UP FOR VERY LONG. IN A FEW DAYS, WHEN ALL THE

MANY MEDICINES ARE HERE, WILL BEGIN A 20-WEEK HOMEOPATHIC CURE FOR

THE SPASMS UNDER DR. SCHRAMM, A LEADING SPECIALIST HERE. I CAN'T

VERY WELL LEAVE FOR 20 WEEKS.

YOU WILL BE CONTACTED MOMENTARILY BY ONE OF MY ATTORNEYS. I

WILL ALSO BE IN. TOUCH WITH MY CONGRESSMAN AND SENATORS.

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WITH BITTER RESOLVE,

(SIGNED - REF B IDEN)

3.

REF IDEN HAD ALSO ATTEMPTED TO' PUT THE ABOVE INTO

"CABALESE, " BUT BECAME TOO TIRED TO FINISH IT.

NONETHELESS, REF

IDEN ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE CONTENTS OF THIS MESSAGE ALSO BE PASSED:

1:.

SAW SUBJ IN HIS APT NOV 14. CORDIAL

2.

REASONS:

SUBJ HAS EMIGRATED PRIVATELY TO AUSTRIA TWICE, 1971

AND 1983, USING RETIRED STATE COVER ON SWORN AUSTRIAN FORMS THUS

COMMITTING PERJURY TWICE BY AUSTRIAN LAW.

HIGH OFFICIAL HERE. WHO

COVERED FOR HIM NOW DEAD. WOULD FACE SCANDAL TRIAL, JAIL, AND

DEPORTATION:

3. SUBJ PROMINENT IN LOCAL MUSIC CIRCLES, RADIO, TV, AND POLITICS

AND MILITARY, GREAT SCANDAL POTENTIAL.

4.

SUBJ INVESTED 50 THOUSAND. DOLLARS IN APT AND WOULD LOSE IT IN

HURRIED DEPARTURE, PLUS EXPENSE OF MOVING EFFECTS TO Z1, AND OWN

FARES.

SUBJ NOW 75 HAD CRIPPLING STROKE DEC 93. WIFE ALSO 75 ABLE TO

CARRY ON BECAUSE STORES, DENTIST, DOCTOR,

UROLOGIST OF SUBJ, POST

OFFICE ALL IN WALKING DISTANCE OF APT.

CANNOT DUPLICATE THIS IN Z1.

6.

SUBJ WOULD BE ENDANGERED BY ISLAMIC GROUPS HERE WHO HAVE

*<ASSASSINATED>SEVERAL INCL ONE CITY COUNCILMAN.

EMBASSY GETS

THREATENING PHONE CALLS. AS FOREIGNER SUBJ DENIED AUSTRIAN PISTOL

PERMIT.

SUBJ ALSO ENDANGERED BY FORMER NAZI ASSASSIN AND INTEL SWI

NDLER HE INTERROGATED AND BROKE 25 YEARS AGO,

PROMISING HIM SECRECY;

BUT US ARMY PUT OUT BURN NOTICE, FORCING NAZI TO MOVE TO GERMANY.

SUBJ HAS TESTIFIED FULLY BEFORE HOUSE AND SENATE COMMITTEES,

TERMED "DESK OFFICER," OWN ROLE MINOR. ALTHO PUT IN CHARGE OF

AGENCY INVESTIGATION BY HELMS THEN DDO, HIS WORK WAS SABOTAGED BY

ANGLETON WHO WITHHELD HUNDREDS OF BEST FBI REPORTS AND CONFERRED

DAILY WITH FBI WITHOUT PRESENCE OF SUBJ, ALL IN FLAGRANT VIOLATION

OF HELMS ORDERS.

SUBJ AVERS HE. WILL NEVER THREATEN TO EXPOSE AGENCY.

SURFACED WILL DENY EVERYTHING.

EVEN IF

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