(EST PUB DATE) INTERVIEW OF FORMER F. B N. AGENT (DELETED)

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00298294
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: January 23, 2025
• Document Release Date: March 3, 2000
• Publication Date: January 1, 1965

He recalls the apartment contained 3 volumes of erotic reading
material. The books were on parchment type paper, had been privately
bound in N.Y., and were inscribed, "Privately Bound for Morgan Hall".
The books disappeared and Feldman was accused of stealing them. 4111p
dINNOpnever saw pornographic photographs in the safehouse.
He believes recordings were made and that Ike Feldman kept them
locked in his desk.
The pad overlooked the Bay and had a good view of Coit Tower.
It was nicely decorated, high class, usually clean and neat, and
"looked like money". It could have been the town residence of a wealthy
businessman. The pad was used operationally but was reserved major
operations
INIMMIMpreports, Ike had free access to the apartments, all
others had to clear their use of it with White. Ike had other special
treatment, others had to keep diaries and to have them available for
the inspectors. Ike was not asked to produce diaries. There were
strict rules against the comingling of personal cash and advance
money. Agents had to keep office money in a separate compartment froi
personal mone . Ike kept his together and was not challenged. Vim
accepted Ike's practices.
Ike was not well liked by the Agents. He was secretive. He
always closed the doors when conferring with White - all others left
them open. He had a dispute over something with special agent Louis
MI. (resigned). 011111 was described as possibly being knowledge-
able of Feldman's activities. NINNIFums contacted in Las Vegas,- by
phone. He expressed a desire to help in anyway he could but that he
does not know anything about the alleged use of drugs by Feldman or
White.)
um knew of Mann Co. safehouse and of the Pl'antation Inn (pI)
but he only referred to Chestnut St. as "The Pad". aillimoved some
furniture into the Mann Co. safehouse but explained that it was never
really set-up before it was abandoned. Likewise, the PI was a motel
apartment with no view and did not have the appeal of 'The Pad".
m1111111" does not know of the safehouses being used for drugging
or by prostitutes. The limited, and explainable use of the bed, and
absence of any rumors or indications of such use which likely would
have been available to the clean-up person, suggest the apartment was
not so used.
White's diaries indicate he frequently stopped by a safehouse
in the afternoons. Visits also seemed to coincide with boat outings.
explained that White and1111111 often drank heavily during lunch.
wife was opposed to such drinking and would get very angry when
he came home intoxicated. The Mann Co. and P.I. were on the route
home and the two would often spend a couple of hours there to sober up.
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11111111k saw more than the other
occasionally bring gadgets for to test. Illftrecalls a modular
tubular transmitter. al, would often not be aware of technical details
and tell him only to test it. One item caused him some problems as it was
tuned to a frequency in commercial use in the area.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Interview of Former F.B.N.Agent111111111111/
1. The undersigned met and interviewed in the San
Francisco F.B.N. offices on 28 March 1979. was with F.B.N.
in N.Y.C. 1957/8 and in San Francisco from 1958-1965.
2. 41111111frecalls there was a pad in N.Y.C. in 1957, near
the village but closer. to mid-town. No other details.
3. MIMI, first learned of 225 Chestnut Street, San Francisco
in 1958. Bruce Hipkins (deceased) was White's technical assistant -
who left F.B.N. to go with I.R.S. 4111Ipreplaced Hipkins. As tech
man he was responsible for maintaining the pad installations. Pad
maintenance and clean-up therefore also fell to him. There were
microphones in the wall outlets which were wired to recorders in the
back room. There was a two way mirror, about 1 1/2 ft. high and 2 1/2
ft. wide behind a locked door. Only the group leaders knew of the
mirror, the agents did not. He is not certain how much of the apart-
ment could be viewed through the mirror but as he recalls, it could
only view the living room and could not have viewed more than the door
to the bedroom. Mg believes
111111111111111110 installed all o the technical gadgetry in the apart-
ment.
an knows of no photography associated with the safehouses. He
pointed out that in those days the sensitivity of film (ASA Rating)
was so slaw that unless the subject had been very brightly lighted,
photography through the mirror would have been impossible. It is
1111111 judgment that there was not a view of the bedroom through the
mirror and that no photography took place using the mirror.
1111111111often cleaned up the apartment. Clean-up usually con-
sisted of dirty ash trays, glasses, and kitchen clutter. He remembers
the bed being disturbed only when it had been used by TDYers; he was
generally aware of their presence. The bed often went long periods
without use. He recalls White telling him on occasion to change the bed
- linen only because they had been on the bed too long. Beds were made
up with conventional linens: