Agency: FBI
Originator: FBI
From: CI
To: HQ
Document date: 09/15/1995
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Date:

3/31/201

Agency Information

• AGENCY: FBI

RECORD NUMBER :

124-10372-10099

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HQ

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 62C-HQ-1029205-925

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DATE: 09/15/1995

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JFKARCA OF 1992

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SEP 15 '95 10:22AM CINCI

eTI.

P.1

FD-302 (Rev, 3-10-82)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

DEP 15 1J 43 AN '95

RECEIVED

Date of transcription

9/13/95

JOHN FABRY, JR. (protect Identity), 154'1/2 Maple

Avenue, Smithfield,

Ohio, was interviewed and

furnished the

following information:

He considers now, as he always has, that the specific,

direct and unequivocal promise of confidentiality that he

requested and received

from the United States Government and the

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding his identity and

information which he may have provided to the FBI to be binding

forever. He firmly believes that his children, his grandchildren,

great-grandchildren could be subjected to physical harm

or embarrassment were his relationship with the FBI ever made a

matter of public record.. He has never told his children of his

relationship with the FBI, and would consider it devastating 1f

that relationship were to

be made public in any way.

He has a clear recollection that when he first agreed

to become an Fbl informant, he requested and was given a form to

sign which specifically and expressly promised and guaranteed

that his identity as an FBI informant would never be revealed by

the FBI, and that that promise extended beyond his death, but was

to be in effect forever, He also clearly recalls conversations

that he had had with various FBI Agents who were assigned as his

of confidentiality.

He expressly requested that his identity continue to be

protected for all time, and that any documents that would

Identify him, or tend to identify him as the source of that

be withheld from public release for all time.

Investigation on

9/11/95

Smithfield, Ohio

File #

62B-109060

by

SA J. ROCKNE WILSON

Date dictated

9/11/95

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It la the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency

11 and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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SEP 15 '95* 10:23AM CINCINN

P.2

FD-302 (Rev, 3-10-82)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription

9/13/95

SHIRLEY FABRY (protect identity throughout this

document), 154 1/2 Maple Avenue,

Smithfield, Ohio, was

interviewed and furnished the following information:

She served as a confidential informant for the Federal

vould not have agreed to serve as an informant, she recals the

she signed a document in which the FBI promised and assured her

that her identity as an informant would never be divulged, that

there were no exceptions to this guarantee, and that the promise

would extend beyond her death and would last for all time. This

promise was express and explicit and was not subject to

interpretation. Throughout her tenure as an FBI informant,

discussed the confidential status of her relationship with the

FBI with each of the FBI Agents who were assigned

as her contact

Agent.

Each of these Agents affirmed the confidential nature of

her relationship with the FBI.

She has never told her children or closest friends of

her relationship with the FBI, would be personally devastated

should they ever learn of 1t,

and believes that her family could

be put in grave physical danger in the event it were made public

that she was an FBI informant. She ensured that all contacts she

had with the FBI were conducted in such a manner that they would

be secret. She has never been identified as an informant,

believes she has never even been suspected of being an FBI

informant.

be protected at all times,

she expeessly requested that her identity continue to

and that any documents

Identify her, or tend to identily her as the source of that

information, be withheld from public release for ald time.

Investigation on

9/8/95

File #

62B-109060

SA J. ROCKNE WILSON

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smithfleld, ohio

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PD-502-(Rev. 3-10-82)

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription

9/14/95

DORIS PALMER, 300 Packer Street, Uhrichville, Ohio, was

Interviewed and furnished the following information:

She is the widow of CHARLES W. PALMER (protect identity

chroughout this document), who died in 1992, having been married

to him for more than 50 years. In response to a question

concerning her knowledge of any relationship her husband may have

had with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), she knew

there was some kind of relationship, but indicated

PALMER had never confided to her the specifies of exactly what it

was and what it entailed. She described her husband as being a

very quiet individual and one who valued his privacy above all

else. Because she was unaware of the scope and full nature.of the

relationship that MI. PALMER had had with the FBI,

firmly believes that he would not have told his children or

friends of such a relationship,

told anyone of it, he would want such a relationship to remain a

secret. She has always been somewhat afraid that Mr. PALMER'S

relationship with the fBI would be made public, and fears that

there could be some kind of retaliation taken against her, her

chilaren, or grandchildren, if 1t were.

While she was somewhat aware of her husband's

relationship with the FBI, she would not want it to be made known

now,

as it could cause embarrassment, criticism or contempt for

herself, her children, or grandchildren, or it could put them in

rubes, and would request that the relationship never ba meas

investigation on

9/12/95

File #

628-109060

Cincinnati, Ohio

(telephonically)

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SEP 15 '95. 10: 25AM CINCINNATI

P.4

FD-302 (Re. 7-10-82)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transeription

9/15/95

DORRAINE MILBURN, 330 Claymont, Uhrichville, Onio,

telephone number (614) 922-3521, was interviewed and furnished

the following information:

She is the daughter of CHARLES W. PALMER (Protect

identity throughout this document) and DORIS PALMER. Her father

died in 1992, and her mother, while in 111 health, continues to

reside in Uhrichville, Ohio.

Her mother

contacted her on Tuesday,

September 12,

1995, and told her that an Agent of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI) had telephonically, contacted her that evening

and questionned her as to her late husband's relationship with

the FBI many years earlier,

and that it had greatly worried her

mother. Her mother told her that she had lived in fear for many

years that CHARLES PALMER's relationship with the FBI would be

made public, and her mother had been looking over her shoulder

for years in the fear that she, her children, or grandchildren

would be physically harmed in retaliation for the work that

CHARLES PALMER had done for the FBI. Her mother told her that

because of this fear, she hoped with all her heart that CHARLES

PALMER would never be identified as an FBI informant.

While she was grwong up in the 1940's, -50's and-60's,

she had a non-specific knowledge that her father had some kind of

relationship with the FBI, but it was one he never talked about,

and never discussed with her or her brother or sister. She

belleves this is true because he wanted to protect her from

knowledge that could have somehow caused her harm or put her in

danger. she too, along with her mother, has had a long-time lear

that her father's informant status with the FBI would somehow be

made public, and that she or other members of her family would be

in very real physical danger from unknown persons who would want

to retaliate against her father for his FBI involvement, Since

the fBI contact with her mother on September 12, 1995, she has

discussed this issue with her brother, MICHAEL PALMER, and he has

told her that he feels the same way, and that he believes the

threat of physical harm is a very real one if their father's FBI

informant status were ever to be made public in any way.

Investigation on

9/14/95

at

Cincinnati, Ohio

(telephonically)

File #

62B-109060

by

SSA EDWIN H. BOLDT

_ Datedietated 9/15/95

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• D=3022 (839. 11-15-83)

628-109060

Continuation of FD-302 of DORRAINE MULBURN

, On

9/14/95

, Page

Her mother is due to enter the hospital during the week

of September 18, 1995 for heart surgery, and believes that the

added pressure of the possibility that CHARLES PALMER's identity

as an FBI informant might be made known can have only a most

negative impact on her prognosis for recovery. She requested that

if the FBI needs to recontact her mother, that the contact be

made through her, to lessen the anxiety such a contact would

'occasion.

While her father was

never been suspected

alive, and since his death, he has

as an FBI informant, and has never been

surfaced in any way. Speaking for her whole family as well as for

herselt, she expressed

the strongest wish that her father would

never, in any fashion, be identified as an FBI inrormant.1

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•SEP 15 '95 • 10:27AM CINCINNATI

P.6

FD-302 (Rav. 3-10-82)

- 1 -

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transcription

9/13/95

B, GENE WYATT, 289 Westview Drive, Winchester,

virginia:

furnished

telephone number (540) 667-4725, was interviewed and

the following information:

He is a retired Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI). As part of his responsibilities as an FBI

Agent, while assigned to the Cincinnati Division of the FBI, he

met with various individuals who provided information to the FBI

on a regular or intermittent basis, and who were designated as

confidential informants of the FBI.

From the late 1960's, until approximately 1972, he was

assigned as the contact Agent for JOHN FABRy, JR. (protect

identity throughout this document) and SHIRLEY FABRY (protect

identity throughout this document), husband and wife, who were

each formal confidential informants of the Cincinnati Division of

the FBI. Each had been informants of the FBI before he became

his/her contact Agent, but he was the assigned contact Agent when

they each were closed as informants. While each of the FABRYs

knew the other was an FBI informant, they were each very much

concerned that the confidential nature of their relationship with

the FBI, and their identities as FBI informants, be maintained in

the strictest confidence by the FBI, and noted this desire with

him on, several occasions. To the best of his knowledge, neither

of the

FABRYS was ever suspected of being an FBI informant, and

neither was ever publicly surfaced or identified as an FBI

Informant,

All meetings that he held with the FABRYs were

conducted in private places so that that relationship would

remain confidential. To the best of his knowledge, neither of the

told their children of their informant status with

the FBI. While he can no longer remember specifics, but because

he made it a practice with all informants he contacted, he

believes he specifically and expressly promised that the

relationship of the FABRYs with the FBI would forever be kept

secret, and he believes the FABRYs relied on these assurances to

maintain their informant status.

Investigation on

9/7/95

File #

628-109060

EDWIN H. BOLDT

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Cincinnati, Ohio

(telephonically)

Date dictated 9/12/95

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• * SEP 15 '95. 10:28AM CINCINNATI

P.7

FD-302a (Rev. P1-15-33)

62B-109060

Continuation of FD-s02 of B. GENE WYATT

., Ол

9/7/95

_ Page

He believes that Mrs. FABRY terminated her relationship

with the FBI some time before Mr. FABRY did, and he does not

specifically recall what she may have said at that time, but does

recall Mr. FABRY's statements and wishes at the time Mr. FABRY's

terminated, and is confident that

Mrs. FABRY's wishes mirrored those of her husband's.

He recalled

that one of the reasons that Mr. FABRY wished to end his

informant status with the FBI was because of his desire to become

Involved in local politics, and he was quite emphatic that it was

his express desire that his informant status, and that of his

wife, be kept confidential, as it was his bellef that disclosure

Chances for a political career. In

fact, MI. FABRY was elected mayor of Smithfield, Ohio after his

relationship with the FBI was terminated. He also recalls that

Mr. FABRY had indicated that he would not testify in open court,

as to do so would identify him as an informant.

He recails that also during his tenure as an FBI Agent

assigned to the Cincinnati FBI Division, from approximately 1969

until he was transferred out of the Cincinnati Division in 1975,

he was the contact Agent for another Cincinnati Division

informant named CHARLES W. PAIMER (protect identity throughout

this document). He characterized PALMER as a very private, close-

mouthed and secretive individual who repeatedly stressed the

importance of maintaining the confidential nature of his

relationship with the FBI. He does not know 1f. PALMER ever

confided in his wife as to his FBI informant status. All meetings

and contacts he had with PALMER were held in private places, for

the express reason to maintain the confidential nature of the

relationship. While he is unable to recall specifically, he

believes that he would have expressly and specifically promised

to PALMER that the ab1 intormant status of PALMaR would be

protected for all time by the FBI. During the time he was

assigned as PALMER's contact Agent, he is sure that PALMER was

suspected of being an FBI informant, nor was he ever

identified as such by the FBI, himself or others.

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"SEP 15 '95. 10:30ÁM CINCINNATI

P.8

FD-302 (Rev. 3-10-82)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transoription

9/13/95

DONALD R. REESE, 159 Keethler Drive South, Westerville,

onio,

telephone number (614) 882-3131, was interviewed and

furnished the following information:

He is a retired Special Agent or the Federal Bureau oi

Investigation (FBI). As part of his responsibilities as an FBI

Agent, while assigned to the Cincinnati Division of the FBI, he

met with, various individuals who provided information to the FBI

on a regular or intermittent basis, and who were designated as

informants of the FBI.

Among those people he was assigned to contact on a

regular basis was CHARLES W. PALMER (protect identity throughout.

this document), who had had a formal informant status with the

FBI for many years prior to his assignment to PALMER. From

approximate.y 1975 until approximately 1977, when PALMER was

discontinued as an FBI informant, he met with PALMER on a regular

basis, during which meetings he would debrief PALMER as to the

information provided to the FBI. These meetings were always held

clandestinely, in places selected for their private nature,

because PALMER did not want his relationship with the FBI made a

matter of

a desire that PALMER explicitly and

spedi dally related to him an several occasions. To the kest of

his knowledge and rememberance, PALMER was never surfaced or even

suspected of being an FBI informant during the more than 30 years

of his association with the FBI. He characterized PALMER as a

very close-mouthed and private individual.

As an example of how seriously PALMER viewed the secret

and confidential nature of his relationship with the FBI, he

recalled that when PALMER was closed as an FBI informant, PALMER

indicated that he would never testify in open court or before

administrative hearing boards

where he would be identified, or

potentially identified, as an FBI informant.

Investigation on

9/7/95

File #

628-109060

by EDWIN H. BOLDT

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(telephonically)

Date dictated 9/12/95

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:.SEP. 15. '95 : 10:31AM CIN

FD-302 (Rev, 3-10-82)

-1-

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Date of transeription

9/13/95

ARTHUR J. HOLDER, 1306 E. Grove Street, Bloomington,

Illinois,

furnished

telephone number

(309) 766-2311, was interviewed and

the following information:

He is a retired Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI). As part of his

responsibilities as an FBI

while assigned to

the Cincinnati Division of the FBI, he

met with various individuals who provided information to the FBI

regular or intermittent basis, and who were designated as

confidential informants of the FBI.

For approximately a two year period,

from 1967 to 1969,+

he was assigned

as the contact Agent for JOHN FABRY, JR. (protect

identity throughout this document) and SHIRLEY FABRY

(protect

identity throughout this document), husband and wife, who were

each formal confidential informants of the Cincinnati FBI

Division. Each had been confidential informants before he became

his/her contact Agent, and another Agent became their contact

Agent when he was

reassigned to other duties. Each of the FABRYS

knew the other was an FBI informant, but it was his understanding

that no one else in their family, including their own children,

knew of their informant relationship with the fBI, and

best of his knowledge, neither of the FABRYs were

as FBI Informants, nor ever suspected of such

activity,

All of his contacts with the FABRYS were conducted in

a secretive and confidential manner to ensure that the informant

relationship the FABRYs had with the FBI would not become known,

not only by the people on whom the FABRys were providing

information, but also by their family,

friends,

neighbors and

others In their cormunity and elsewhere. The FABRys were vertne

much concerned with this issue, relied on the assurances of

FBI as to their confidentiality, and would not have provided

information and otherwise.

assisted the FBI if such

an express and

specific promise of confidentiality had not been given. It is

inderstanding that the assurances of confidentialit

that the

nade to the FABRys were meant to be effective for all time,

not for some lesser period of time. When he discussed the matter

of confidentiality with

the FABRYs, he certainly meant for that

promise to be permanent.

ANYSiAN Đ 91/8/95

Cincinnatal, Ohio

(телероліса 1y)

PI: 620-109060

572-10099

Dy

SSA EDWIN H. BOLD!

Date dated 9/13/95

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ANNATI IN

FD-302a (Rev, 11-15-83)

62B-109060

Continuation of FD-302 of ARTHUR J. HOLDER

, On.

9/8/95

Page

During approximately the

same period of time that he

was assigned as the contact Agent for the FABRYs, from 1967 to

1969,

he

was also assigned as the contact Agent for another

confidential Cincinnati Division informant, CHARLES W. PALMER

(protect identity throughout this document). PALMER had been

an

informant for some time before he was assigned as the contact

Agent,

and continued on as an informant after he was reassigned

to other duties and another FBI Agent was designated as

contact Agent. He described PALMER as exceptionally

PALMER's

security conscious, and he would not be surprised Private and

PALMER's wife did not know of PALMER's informant status with the

FBI. He is sure

that PALMER would never have agreed to become an

FBI informant had there not been an express promise of permanent

confidentiality, and he believes he would have given PALMER such

assurances

contacts

when he was PALMER's contact Agent. All of his

with PALMER were conducted in such a manner as to ensure

that PALMER's status as an informant would not be compromised,

During the time he was palMeR'e cottagra to the beat of his

suspected of being

PALMER waS never

an rst informant,

knowledge, PALMER

never surfaced or otherwise identified as

an informant for the FBI.

372-10099

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