NO PLACE LIKE NEW HOME FOR REWALD

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605490174-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2010
• Sequence Number: 174
• Publication Date: October 1, 1984
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU ADVERTISER (HI)
1 October 1984
'No place like new
Thomas Hayes says Rewald
bought with other people's money.
e Los Angeles mansion does
Th
Rewald
not have a pool like the Honolulu
By Walter Wright
Advertiser Staff Writer
Ronald Rewald, the embattled
Honolulu businessman who says
he was a covert CIA agent, has
found a new safehbu-'se to live in.
While awaiting state and federal
trials on more than 100 counts of
fraud, theft, perjury and tax eva-
sion, Rewald is at home at 647
'June Street in Los Angeles' old-
line Hancock Park neighborhood.
Rewald's new pied-a-terre is
leased to him for $3,400 a month.
home. But there's room for one in
the backyard, next to the tennis
court.
Rewald's rented $700-a-month
Ford LTD station wagon stands
waiting in the porte-cochere.
After putting in a busy day as a
$1,000-a-week consultant to the
president of Voyager Communica-
tions Inc., or working on memoirs
which could bring him $750,000
under contract to the same man,
Rewald can relax in the spacious i
cabana.
? For those long-distance calls to
The house is listed for lease at his-lawyers, there is the privacy
$4,000 a month. ' of a large den.
There, he and his wife, Nancy, The community is quiet, with
and four of,' their five childrew only a few movie stars living
are
occupy four bedrooms and three! baths. There are also maid's quay- fourth- - and and nearby. fifth-thegeneration neighbors An-.
ters, with bath. fou
gelenos, including several physi-
Marble floors adorn much of the cians, lawyers and other profes-
downstairs. The house offers a sionals.
total of 5,440 square feet on a If Rewald's fortunes improve,
half-acre lot. and he likes the place, it's listed
That's considerably larger than for $895,000, marked down from
Rewald's old Honolulu house, more than $1 million.
which bankruptcy controller
The new Rewald home at 647 June Street in Los Angeles' Hancock Park.
hone for
Meanwhile; Rewald's former
house in Honolulu, on Kalanian-
aole Highway, is going on the auc-
tion block Oct. 31. The Honolulu
house, 4,500 square feet on three-
quarters of an acre, failed to get
even a nibble at the $1.2 million
listing price for five months.
Living in Los Angeles during
the sticky fall months can be
bothersome, but Rewald enjoys air
conditioning on the entire second
floor of the Tudor-style mansion.
Rewald has left his Los Angeles
home temporarily to come to
Honolulu today for a hearing in
federal court. At issue is whether
Rewald is entitled to have- the
court appoint.a lawyer for him at
taxpayers' expense because he is
too poor to afford one.
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