INVESTIGATION/CIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605480071-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 71
• Publication Date: September 20, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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ABC WO':LD ivEWS TONIGHT
20 September 19Q4
INVESTIGATION/ JENNINGS: Last night we began to tell you the fascinating
CIA story of a man named Ronald Rewald. He was an investment
banker in Hawaii who now faces charges of swindling his
investors out of $22 million. Well, Rewald says the money
isn't missing and that he was working for the CIA. Last
night we reported on established lin.cs between the CIA and
Rewald's firm. Tonight Gary Shepard continues our?
investigation of the CIA connection.
Sh'EPARD: Did the Central Intelligence Agency try to have
Ronald Rewald killed to keep him from talking?
RONALD`~REWALD: At first I didn't believe it. I thought
it was total nonsense, and it took a lot of convincing and
a lot of evidence and a lot of ttie facts to be checked out
before I recognized that it was, in fact, what was going
on.
SHEPARD: Rewald has been indicted by a federal grand jury
on 100 counts of fraud, perjury and tax evasion in
connection with the ban:Kr?uptcy cf his Honolulu investment
company. He claims, and ABC News has evidence, he was a
covert agent for the CIA and his firm, Bishop, Baldwin,
Rewald, Dillinghart~ and Wong, was a front for a major CIA
intelligence. operation. It was last November, while
Rewald was in jail in Honolulu, that this man, Scott
Barnes, who sources .say has extensive intelligence
backgr?ourd, got a job at this same prison as a guard for
one month. Barnes says he was sent in by the CIA.
SCOTT\BARNES To do a profile on Ron, find out who he's
talking to, what he is saying and do a psychological
makeup on him and see what his rt~ental, emotional status
was .
Sh'EPARD: Then one day Barnes says he was called to a
meeting at this hotel with this CIA contact. BARNES:
Then all of a sudden we're sitting dok~n at the Royal
Hawaii and he says 'We've got to take him out.' You know,
kill him.
Sh'EPARD: Did they tell you why they wanted you to get rid
of him? BARNES: That he was a conpany problem and he
obviously knew some things in regards to national security
and, you know, he was no longer an asset, he's now a
liability.
Sh'EPARD: Barnes says he quit the assignment and left
hawaii. Br?er.t Car?ruth, a defense attorney in another CIA
case, says that story doesn't surprise him at all. He
recalls a threatening conversation he had with one of the
government lawyers who are prosecuting Rewald.
BRENT`~CARRUTH (attorney): I was told that, in no
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