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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/1/201

AGENCY: HSCA

RECORD NUMBER: 180-10117-10245

RECORD SERIES: NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 004062

Document Information

ORIGINATOR: HSCA

FROM:

TO:

TITLE:

DATE:

PAGES:

SUBJECTS:

11/25/1977

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BOLDEN, ABRAHAM

USSS; STAFF

FOSTER, WILLIAM

DOCUMENT TYPE: OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full

CURRENT STATUS : Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 08/14/1993

OPENING CRITERIA :

COMMENTS: • HSCA outside contact report. Box 86.

Released under the John F. Kennedy

Assassination Records Collection Act of

1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). Case#:NW

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KENNEDY

OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT

004062

DATE 11/25/77 TIME

I. " Identifying Information:

Name Mr. William Foster

Telephone

Address Federal Probation Office, Northern District, Ill

Type of Contact:

X. Telephone

Person

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II. • Summary of Contact:

In re: Former SS Agent Abraham Bolden DOB 1/19/35; Söcial

Security No. 330-28-2266.. A trace of Abraham Bolden's prison

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 Camp (Montgomery, 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

service for the Chicago area.

Coincidentally, Mr. Foster was the probation officer who

personally supervised Mr. Bolden while Bolden was on probation.

(cont.)

III.

Recommended Follow-up (if any) :

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Belord W. Lawson, III

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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 casès 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. Foster 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

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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:

National Lead Company

1800 S. Peoria Street

Chicago, Illinois

address for Bolden:

7632 S. Sangomon

Chicago, Illinois

Phone:

488-4822

residents at that address:

Barbara Bolden (wife)

Alvia Bolden (daughter)

Abraham Bolden, Jr. (son)

Darren Bolden

(son)

Father's address:

Daniel Bolden, Sr.

431 Pfeiffer Road

East St: Louis, Illinois

Mother's address:

Ophelia Bolden

325 N. 26th Street

East St. Louis, Illinois

brother:

Daniel Bolden, JI.

2128 Kimball

Avenue

North Chicago (or Chicago): IL.

brother:

Benjamin Bolden

(resides with father)

sister:

Cecelia Griffin

92 Sangomon Street

Chicago, Illinois

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sister:

Eara Dixon

3317 Bond Street

East St. Louis, Illinois

sister:

Faye Bolden

(resides with mother)

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