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104-10326-10049 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/2/1996)

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         FIO: 96-4016553          SENSIND: EO RYBAT                       PAGE:

         /   /   *E-O*                      SECRET              FRP:

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        CONF: EUR/GA          INFO: DC/EUR, EUR/LGL, EYESONLY, MDSX, OCC/OSG, ODPD,
        FILE, DDO (2/P)

        96 4016553    ASR                  PAGE 001
                                      TOT: 021354Z MAY 96       DIRECTOR 758224

       .SECRET
       STAFF                              021354Z DIRECTOR 758224
       TO:

       FROM:   LIMIT EUR/GA INFO EUR/LGL, OGC/OFLD, DC/EUR, OCC/OSG,
       OGC/OSD

       SLUGS:   WNINTEL RYBAT

       SUBJECT:   EYES ONLY - APRIL 1996 MEETING BETWEEN JFK BOARD
                  ATTORNEY AND JOHN WHITTEN

        REF:  A.         34962  96 3666955
              B.  DIRECTOR 702048  96 3616677

        TEXT:

             1.  ACTION REQUIRED:  NONE, FYIO.

             2.  THE FOLLOWING REPRESENTS THE MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
        PREPARED BY IDEN B REF B CONCERNING THE INTERVIEW WITH JOHN
        WHITTEN AND IS PROVIDED FOR YOUR EDIFICATION.

             ON 22 APRIL 1996, FROM APPROXIMATELY 1000 TO 1600, IDENS REF
        B SPOKE WITH  JOHN WHITTEN AT THE U.S. EMBASSY IN VIENNA.  IDEN A
        CONDUCTED THE INTERVIEW BY SHOWING WHITTEN VARIOUS DOCUMENTS AND
        *HIS PRIOR TESTIMONY BEFORE THE<HSCA.> WHITTEN WAS EAGER TO HELP
        THE BOARD IN-ANY WAY HE COULD AND.EVEN OFFERED TO COME TO THE U.S.
      .,IF NEED BE.  IDEN A CONCLUDED THAT IT WOULD PROBABLY NOT BE USEFUL
        TO TAKE WHITTEN'S DEPOSITION AT A LATER DATE.  ALTHOUGH WHITTEN
        HAD IN GENERAL A GOOD MEMORY, IDEN A FELT HE DID NOT ADD ANYTHING
        *OF SIGNIFICANCE TO HIS PRIOR TESTIMONY BEFORE THE<HSCA.> AFTER THE
        INTERVIEW, WHITTEN TOOK IDENS TO HIS APARTMENT AND THEN LATER TO A
        RESTAURANT WITH HIS WIFE.  IDENS LEFT WHITTEN ABOUT 1900.

             WHITTEN WAS EXTREMELY WORRIED AND UPSET ABOUT THE RELEASE OF
       HIS NAME AND  ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS IN THE INTERVIEW WAS ON THE
       VERGE  OF TEARS.  ALTHOUGH IDEN B WAS EXPECTING HIM TO BE ANGRY
       WITH  CIA AND THE BOARD, INSTEAD, HE CLEARLY FELT HURT AND
       BETRAYED.   HIS OBVIOUS PHYSICAL PROBLEMS ADD TO THIS FEELING OF
       BEING  VULNERABLE.  PHYSICALLY HE IS NOT WELL; HE IS PARALYZED ON
       HIS  LEFT SIDE AND HAS GREAT DIFFICULTY WALKING.  ON A MAP, HE
       POINTED  OUT HIS APARTMENT AND INDICATED WHAT HE BELIEVED TO BE
       SERIOUS  THREATS TO HIS SAFETY SHOULD HIS AFFILIATION WITH CIA
       BECOME  KOWN.   WITHIN A BLOCK OF HIS APARTMENT HE POINTED OUT THE
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