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[10]AGENCY INFORMATION
[12]AGENCY : INSCOM/CSF oe so
[13]RECORD NUMBER : 194-10013-10144 -. : an
[14]RECORDS SERIES : -DOD-AFFILIATED PERSONNEL AND INCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS ;
[15]; AGENCY FILE NUMBER © .ZF000003W. - PAGES 1190- 1191 :
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[19]DOCUMENT AINFORMATION,
[21]ORIGINATOR : USA.
[22]mo _ FROM: : -STCRRO’ CI/SIGSEC SPT BN. .
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[24]“TITLE : MESSAGE ~—. ue oo. os
[25]. DATE : 09/11/82 ta a
[26],.. Js + PAGES : 2 ee
[27]_ ;}SUBJECTS : SLOVODA, VLADIMIR
[29]a ; WHITE; JOSEPH TIMOTHY. , wR >
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[32]. [ RESTRICTED ] bo, . Os
[33]DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT Be oo
[34]CLASSIFICATION : CONFIDENTIAL .. | ; So ae
[36]RESTRICTIONS : 3 ; ; , ™,
[37]- CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED. WITH DELETIONS” , a
[38]DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 03/20/95, ;
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[75](ON ADDRESSEE: NITE ACTION REQUIRED
[76]INFO ADDRESSEES: DELIVER DURING FIRST DUTY HOUR
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[79]SUBJECT: WHITE, JOSEPH TIMOTHY, PFC, 492-860-2196, DPOS: 5 NOV 61,
[80]ST LOUIS, HO (U)
[82]A. MSG, IAGPA-OP-1, 0912407 SEP 82, SAB.
[84]CE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE RELEASE OF HIS IDENTITY TO
[86]t.
[88]2. (U) ON 10_SEP_82, JOSEPH C..MERLINO, 027-54-4638, 2LT., USAR.
[90]DPOB: 26 APR™GZ, “BOSTON MA~-COMPANY.- “h,-20- BATTALION, 104TH. INFANTRY
[91]MASSACHUSETTS-ARMY..NATIONAL GUARD) - “WAS INTERVIEWED AT THE UNIVERSITY
[92]‘OF MASSACHUSETTS CAMPUS, AMHERST, MA, CONCERNING SUBJECT. SOURCE
[93]PROVIDED SUBSTANTIALLY THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION: (MSG PARA 3 THRU 12
[94]3. (U) MERLINO-FIRST-MET. WHITE-ON .28.AUG-80, WHEN BOTH ARRIVED AT
[95]KEMPER MILITARY SCHOOL & COLLEGE (KMSC), BOONVILLE, WISSOURT, AS
[96]FRESHMEN (PLEBES), ASSIGNED TO DIFFERENT COMPANIES. .MERLINO‘S-LAST
[97]CONTACT_WITH “WHITE WAS ON. ABOUT. 26 SEP -B1, TWO DAYS BEFORE WHITE”
[98]“DROPPED” OUT OF ASC THROUGHOUT ACADEMIC, YEAR. 60=81-AND- MO cas IGk
[100]THEY ALSO MET BRIEFLY AT THE AIRBORNE SCHOOL, FT BENNING, GEORGIA, IN
[101]JULY 1981, THEY WERE WELL ACQUAINTED, BUT WERE NOT CLOSE PERSONAL
[102]FRIENDS.
[104]4. (C) KERLIHO DID NOT KNOW OF WHITE'S FAMILY BACKGROUND OR FINAN-
[105]CIAL SITUATION, ALTHOUGH WHITE DID_NOT-APPEAR. TO HAVE. ANY. FINANCIAL
[106]WOR_DID_MERLING_KNO IF WHITE USED NARCOTICS:-OR- ABUSED”
[107]“ALCOHOL. WHITE” WAS” PHYSICALLY™ REAL THY-AND”FIT, BUT NOT ATHLETIC. HE
[108]DID-NOT_ APPEAR..TO-HAVEANY_DEVIANT_ SEXUAL. TENDENCIES. OR..HANG=UPS,..10
[110]TNOIVIOUAL” WHO" VALUED: HIS.-OWN HONE STY_AND_ INTEGRITY HE WAS ~EXCEPT~
[112]TOALLY-BRIGHT. AND CONSISTENTLY. EARNED-HIGH-GRADES.IW.ACADEMIC SUB-
[113]JECTS AND MILITARY SCIENCE.
[115]5. (C) WHITE WAS ALSO A VERY SERIOUS, EXTREMELY INTENSE, AND HIGHLY
[116]IOEALISTIC. PERSON... HE WAS-USUALLY-HILD=MARNERED. BUT WOULD’ GET” ~”
[117]“QUITECAGITATED-DURING SERIOUS. DISCUSSIONS: IN PAPERS HE WROTE AND
[118]DURING” DISCUSSIONS IN HISTORY CLASS, .HE-EARNESTLY_DEFENOED_THE.MARX-
[119]TN OTHER DISCUSSIONS” HE” REVEALED -AN—
[120]"ADMIRATION.FOR-HOM- ADOLF HITLER. HARNESSED -THE ENERGIES. AND. HATIONAL-
[122]“WADE” WHITE THE BUTT OF OERTSION AND PRANKS AT XNSC.
[123]-CIZED_AND UNIVERSALLY DISLIKED.
[125]FOR WHOM HE HAD LOST RESPECT. THIS TENDENCY LEO TO AN
[127]INCIDENT AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP AT FORT RILEY, KANSAS, IN THE SUMMER
[128]OF 81, WHEN WHITE REFUSED TO OBEY A CADET'S ORDER (WO FURTHER INFOR-
[129]MATION), AND WAS ALMOST BOARDED OUT OF THE CAMP.
[131]7. (C) WHITE'S SERIOUSNESS, INTELLIGENCE, AND INTENSITY SEEMED
[132]THREATENING TO SOME CADETS AT KMSC. HE TENDED. TO REMAIN ALOOF FROM
[133]HIS PEERS. O€ TOP OF THIS, HI5-POOR. “SKIN COMPLEX 10N;= NERVOUS” MANNERS
[134]TSMS,_AND ERRATIC.DRESS ( ONE DAY - EAT, THE NEXT"OAY ~~ SHABBY)
[135]HE-WASOSTRA-
[136]HIS PEER RATING AT ROTC ADVANCED
[138]“CAMP"WAS"REPGRTEO-T0-BE-LOW.--—
[140]8. (C) WHITE .TRIED-HARD-T0- SUCCEED. IN.EVERYTHING_HE.DID. HOWEVER,
[141]HIS SELF-ESTEEM WAS CONSTANTLY BATTERED BY THE ATTITUDES OF HIS PEERS
[142]AND A STRING OF DISAPPOINTMENTS. DURING HIS FIRST YEAR AT KMSC HE
[143]GOT INTO SEVERAL FIGHTS WITH OTHER CADETS., ALSO, HIS GIRLFRIEND (NFI)
[144]BROKE-OFF THEIR RELATIONSHIP, ALLEGEDLY” UNDER PRESSURE FROM HER
[145]PARENTS. (WHITE PAPERED A MYRIAD OF PICTURES OF HER ON HIS DORMITORY
[146]WALL.) WHITE DATED SELDOM, IF AT ALL. ONE OF HIS INSTRUCTORS, &
[147]CAPTAIN DAVID, REPORTEDLY GAVE WHITE A ZERO FOR TURNING IN A PAPER
[148]LATE, BUT DID NOT PENALIZE OTHERS WHO HAD DONE SO, AS SEVERELY.
[150]CPT DAVID WAS THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO EITHER LIKED OR HATED OTHERS,
[151]a TT SEEMED THAT HE DISLIKED WHITE INTENSELY FOR UNKNOWN REASORS.
[153]B
[155]TSW-OE-THE GERMAN_PEOPLE. HOWEVER, WHITE-DID-NOT APPEAR TO-8E PRI- = BY CDA Lo-@ .3Cute FOWPO |
[156]HATI-OR-ANTI=SEMITIC. IN FACT, Hé_,SEEMED-TO-BE” SYMPATHETIC TO HIN-
[157]“ORTTY-GROUPS IN"THE'U:S. . AND THEDR 810" FOR EQUALITY.“ =~ AUTH Para 1-603 DOD 5200.1F
[158]<g~"(C) WHITE NEVER. SHOWED ANY DISLOYALTY TO THE U.S., ALTHOUGH DUR-
[159]ING CONVERSATIONS” HE WOULD-CONSTRUCTIVELYCRITICIZE. AND_CRITIQUE
[160]“BOTH AMERICAN SOCIETY. ANDTHE SOVIET-GOVERIMENT': HE TALKED SERIOUSLY OY
[161]“ES THOUGH HE’ HAD HIS OWN” PROGRAMS” FOR IMPROVING THE LOT OF OTHER t
[162]PEOPLE, WHITE:NORMALLY-RESPECTED. SUPERIORS .ANO. THEIR-AUTHORTTY, AS A P
[163]LONG AS THEY MADE SENSE TO HIM. BUT, HE WOULD BALI” AT-O6EYING SCMEONE f
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[203]FINAL SECTION OF 02
[204]9. (C) AFTER WHITE'S NEAR FAILURE AT ROTC ADVANCED CAMP,—HE-WAS-RE-
[205]-CVCLED-AT_ATRBORNE. SCHOOL-FOR-FAILING-THE-PTTEST. HOWEVER, “HE
[206]RECOVERED AND COMPLETED THE COURSE. WHEN HE RETURNED TO KMSC IW
[207]SEP Bi, HE WAS DEEPLY UPSET UPON LEARNING THAT HE WAS ONLY A CADET
[208]SERGEANT FIRST CLASS AND NOT AN OFFICER. WHITE WAS IN SOURCE'S
[209]COMPANY (SOURCE WAS A CADET MAJOR). ON ONE OCCASION, DURING LEADER-
[210]SHIP LAB, SOURCE CORRECTED WHITE WHO WAS IMPROPERLY EXECUTING THE
[211]HIGH AND’ LOW CRAWLS. WHITE REACTED INDIGNANTLY AT FIRST? BUT AFTER
[212]SOURCE EXPLAINED WHAT HE DID WRONG, WHITE ADJUSTED AND CONTINUED TO ~
[213]PERFORM. ALSG IN SEP 81, ANOTHER CADET (NEI) TOOK ONE OF
[214]WHITE'S BOOKS FROM HIS ROOM . VIOLENTLY ANGRY, WHITE DRAPED TOILET
[215]PAPER ON THE CADET'S DORMITORY OOOR AND SET IT ON FIRE. SOURCE
[216]CAUGHT WHITE IN THE ACT OF SETTING THE BLAZE AND LAUGHING ABOUT IT.
[217]MERLINO VERBALLY CENSURED WHITE AKO THREATENED TO GET HIM DISMISSED
[218]FROM KMSC. SHORTLY THEREAFTER, WHITE AOVISED THAT HE WANTED TO
[219]LEAVE SCHOOL. HE WAS COUNSELED 8Y COLONEL JOHNNY PARKER, SCHOOL
[220]COMMANDANT. PARKER ASKED SOURCE FOR HIS RECOMMENDATION. SOURCE
[221]SYMPATHIZED WITH HHITE BUT COULD NOT RECOMMEND HIM FOR A COMMISSION
[222]IN THE US ARMY BECAUSE OF HIS APPARENT IMMATURITY.
[223]40. (C) AROUND 26 SEP 81, BEFORE WHITE LEFT KMSC, HE TOLD SOURCE HE
[224]WAS LEAVING THE SCHOOL. WHITE SAID HE DID NOT WANT TO BE AN OFFICER,
[225]BECAUSE HE WAS “FED UP WITH THE BULLSHIT AND THE ASS-KISSING™. KE
[226]ADDED THAT HE-WAS GOING TO ENLIST-IN-THE-ARMY..AND -BECOME.°THE BEST...
[227]_DAWN-NCO_HE-COULD-BE.~~ BY HIS COMMENTS “AND HIS”TONE”OF VOICE DURING
[228]THIS-AND-OTHER-CONVERSATIONS, WHITE INDICATED THAT HE WASN'T GETTING
[229]WHAT HE DESERVED FROM SOCIETY. SOURCE WISHED HIM LUCK AND NEVER SAW
[230]OR HEARD FROM HIM AGAIN,
[231]11. (C) SOURCE-WAS-NOT.-TOTALLY--SURPRISED-WHEN-HE..READ-OF-WHITE:'S
[232]DEEECTION-TO-NORTH-KOREA.. IT SEEMED TO FIT-IN WITH HIS PERSONALITY,
[233]SOURCE GUESSED THAT WHITE'S ACTION RESULTED FROM THE CULMINATION OF
[234]HIS DISAPPOINTHENTS.  WHITE-PROBABLY-BECAME-DIS ILLUSIONED_WITH-THE,
[236]‘DEFECTING-FOR;SOME-TIME. HOWEVER, —IT-WAS-MOST-LIKELY- ONE. PARTICULAR.
[237]"TNC IDENT THAT-PROMPTED-HIM-TO-TAKE” ACTION: NHERE-ONCE-WHITE-WAS “A,
[238]FATLURESIN-U-S=- SOCIETY..-HE-GAINED-NOTORIETY- AND-AN INTERNATIONAL
[239]AUDTENCE THROUGH-HIS: DEFECTION: SOURCE -BELIVEO-THAT_THE TEXT-OF
[240]THE-REMARKS-ATTRIBUTED_10-WHITE-BYTHE GOVERNMENT OF_NORTH KOREA.
[241]SOUNDED-LIKE_NHITES-WORDS-AND-MANNER=OF- SPEECH, “AND_COULD_VERY WELL.
[243]"HAVE BEEN-AUTHORED-BY-WHITE AT, LEAST THEY PARALLELED-WHITE’S“~——*
[244]IDEALISTIC” BUT NAIVE SOCIO=POLITICAL VIEWS. ;
[245]12. (U) OTHER SOURCES FROM KMSC WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER OR WHO COULD
[247]CONTRIBUTE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION INCLUDED: COL JOHNNY PARKER, ‘
[249]~ (TEL: 816-882-5623), RICHARD J. HATCH, 2LT USAR, A NATIVE OF PENN- REG CLASSyIeD
[250]SYLVANIA, WHO KNEW WHITE BETTER THAN ANYONE, CAPTAIN NICHAEL R. N é
[251]BASISTA, SGM JAMES MCKANE, AND MSG STEPHEN 6. HINK. BY CDA UO 308" en.
[253]13. (UW) 2OC-FOR-THIS~REPORT—IS-S/ Ac ALFRED-M=~MEMOLE-—FORT_DEVENS, ~ AUTH Pare 7. robte FOUPO
[254]<RESIDENT-OFFICE,, AV 756-2001, (ON LEAVE 13 THRU 17 SEP 82). - ara
[256]14. (UY DELAY IN REPORTING AROSE FROM OIFFICULTIES IN IDENTIFYING
[258]ACTION ARMY SECTIONAL(1) (m)
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