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[29]JFK Assassination System
[30]Identification Form
[32]Agency Information
[34]HSCA
[35]180-10117-10245
[37]NUMBERED FILES
[38]004062
[40]Document Information
[42]HSCA
[44]11/25/1977
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[47]BOLDEN, ABRAHAM
[48]USSS; STAFF
[49]FOSTER, WILLIAM
[51]OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT
[52]Unclassified
[54]Open in Full
[56]Redact
[58]08/14/1993
[60]- HSCA outside contact report. Box 86.
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[64]Date:
[66]10/1/201
[68]po . a ce KENNEDY
[70]QUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT - gas0ch
[72]~ DATE-11/25/77 TIME
[73]IT. “Taentifying ‘Information:
[74]"Name Mr. William Foster ; . Telephone
[76]Address Federal Probation Office, Northern District. Ill.
[78]ye ce sconcact; "x helephone °°
[79]a JF __ Person
[81]CII. - Summary of Contact: |
[85]Former. S$ BM ent. Abraham Bolden DOB _1 19 35;
[86]“Security No. 330-28-2266. A trace of Abraham Bolden's prison
[87]record was developed from a newspaper article found in the
[88]° LBJ: Library which mentioned initial incarceration in Spring-_
[89]field; Mo. Mr. Bolden was transferred from Springfield to: _
[90]Maxwell riela Federal Prison Cam (Montgomer Alabama and was
[91]placed on parole in September of 1959. Maxwell retained no
[92]records except for an indication that at some time Bolden:
[93]". §tated that he had had "a residence in Chicago." This lead
[94]-. ‘suggested that an inquiry be made to the Federal Probation. __
[95]service for the Chicago area. . . | |
[97]... Coincidentally, Mr. Foster was the probation officer who _
[99]personally supervised Mr. Balden while Bolden was on probation,
[100]. (cont.) 7 ,
[102]III. | Recommended Follow-up (if any):
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[108]Foster remarked that the Bolden case was unigue in his
[109]experience because of the nondisclosure by authorities
[110]of information that is automatically released to the
[111]probation officer in a given case.
[113]Specifically, in every other case which Mr. Foster
[114]has processed, the prosecutor gave the probation officer
[115]a "version," i.e., a recital of fact about the crime and
[116]the circumstances surrounding it. Only in cases where an
[117]undercover informant is under parole supervision is the
[118]name of the informant withheld, but even then a version is
[119]always presented despite the witholding of the name. In
[120]Bolden's case, the prosecutor: gave ‘the probation officer
[121]only the indictment. Bolden's prosecutor was named Richard
[122]T. Sykes.
[124]Mr. Foster's statement about Mr. Bolden's record while
[125]under parole supervision was that Mr. Bolden violated parole
[126]by talking to the media in order to convey his information’
[127]that the Secret Service knew about the assassination three
[128]oer four weeks before Dallas. “However, for reasons which
[129]were not disclosed either to Mr. Foster or on the record
[130]Mr. Bolden's parole status was not revoked. Foster recounted
[131]that his records show that Bolden's statement was published
[132]‘ ; in the April 12, 1970 Chicago Sun-Times.
[134]Mr. Foster:also set forth certain materials about Mr.
[135]Bolden's prosecution and conviction, supplying enough detail
[136]to make clear that at least one of the witnesses upon whose
[137]testimony the conviction was based subsequently recanted his
[139]testimony. . The recantation, however, did not enable Bolden
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[143], oe, _3-
[145]to overturn his conviction.
[147]Mr. Foster then provided the following information
[148]about Mr. Bolden and the name and addresses of Bolden's
[149]relatives. The validity of the information is not
[151]confirmed for the period after 1972.
[153]past employer of Mr. Bolden: National Lead Company
[154]: 1800 S. Peoria Street
[155]Chicago, Illinois
[157]address for Bolden: 7632 S. Sangomon
[158]Chicago, Illinois
[159]Phone: 488-4822
[161]residents at that address: Barbara:Bolden (wife)
[162]Alvia Bolden (daughter)
[163]Abraham Bolden, Jr. (son)
[164]Darren Bolden (son)
[166]Father’s address: Daniel Bolden, Sr.
[167]431 Pfeiffer Road
[168]East St. Louis, Illinois
[170]Mother's address: Ophelia Bolden
[171]: 325 N. 26th Street
[172]East St. Louis, Illinois
[174]brother: Daniel Bolden, Jr..
[175]2128 Kimball Avenue
[176]North Chicago (or Chicago). IL.
[177]|
[178]brother: Benjamin Bolden
[179](resides with father)
[181]sister: . Cecelia Griffin
[182]92 Sangomon Street
[183]Chicago, Illinois
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[187]sister: Eara Dixon
[188]. , 3317 Bond Street
[189]East St. Louis, Illinois
[191]sister: Faye Bolden
[192](resides with mother)
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