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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch83935 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10326-10049 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 SECRET -- 0: _96-4016553 - - SENSIND: EO RYBAT ------------PAGE:-_-1 / * E-0 * SECRET FRP: , STAFF 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 S E C R E T 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 KNOWN. WITHIN A BLOCK OF HIS APARTMENT HE POINTED OUT THE SECRET - 7.

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