REWALD'S 'GOOD IMPRESSION' GOT BACKGROUND CHECK WAIVED

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000605490082-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 30, 2011
• Sequence Number: 82
• Publication Date: August 29, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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HONOLULU ADVERTISER (HI)
29 August 1985
Rewald's" `good im~~~~sio~'
got background check ~vvaived
~' Walter Wtig6t
a.a... ~.N w~.. ?
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Ronald RcMald persuaded tie
~entnl Intelligence Agsney.cat
im before the tncy used' his
MI lavestrnentU~ as Dover.
CIA otfieer fed yester-
chn Masoo, a ?year vetet-
ot the CIA's clandestine
ervices, raid he asked the
IA's Office of Security to
waive the background nei h?
bOrhood investigation of ~-
wald.
This was even after the se-
curity office warned that Re-
wald had been in trouble in
Wisconsin over a franchise in-
vestment scheme.
"We said we wanted to go
ahead" despite the Wisconsin
trouble, Moon recalled.
Mason, whose yob it was to
case=s whether private compa-
nies were waling, able and se-
cure enough to provide cover
for agenU. said after cone-hour
mee with Rewald that:
''Mr. wald made a good im-
pressio ~appearr very patriotic
and pr~encyy and V willing
acid able to quickly provide the
cover eared by (Foreigr4
Recourcp~division." -
Rewald had gtven Macon
same company brochures, told
him of promised 27 percent
interest payments and said he
was cur?ntl~ trying to get
money from r8C for a G-rated
film called "Little Blgtoot,"
Mason said.
Mason la the latest to a string
of agency ofilcials who have
teatif~ed, in effect, that they.
teo, were Rewald's victims and would Deaf no more than il;Z,ooo
not his pa:'ttsera at Bbhop Bald- a ea ~ ply for the CU--relat-
win Rewald Dl1lUsghara k ed experyN tAat Rewa4d ~ht
Wong u Rswald claims. incur siettirgg up ooYar 1br 3l;ich-
Mason Bald Rewald e~reseed ardson:
fear that a backsround snvesti- Would ~dason have recom?
``anon :'might create unfavora- mended Uu geal it K lavolnd
ble attention and poeaibly pub- i20 million >n estpeasea uutead
lidty." of g3r000. he was seked.
Attu an earlkr Interaal "1 dwa't ~thi?k I s+rouid hays
records check, the Clw had bsea the ens to write the
used Rewald to maintaia tale- sneao" eovsring arch a propoe-
phone and telex "backstoppitsg" al. Moots rep ed. "I could
in the bogus HIcH E~sterprlees have ~ been too r for that It
foftgenes ~eavetfig abroad:'"'`;~' vap high
Mason said that C L. Richard- a . * ~ j., -
eon, an officer in the agency's 1lrrt mtt'si-!th
foreign resources division, Re `lt tbe~ ~ t Regency
which trios to reerisit visiting Hote! in I.a ~~ on June
ioreignera before their return ~. 1878, and road him sign a
to their countries, .needed, the secrecy agrees;ient
CMI cover in a burry. ~~~ Rewald ~ aAOther
_ Meson said the risk of using _~~~~ ._ ~~ ~_;,,~_?_`
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o'n ~ us, "ets'~sloy+e" ei
Richardson would be known to
,
Rewald only under his alias. earlier ester~ay ~. Yitthe~-
Richard Cavsnnaugh, and his Kelly, chkt of the d~~+lliioa tt~t
West Coast office an4 telex-" makes and detects alias docu-
~ o~,also would be "acquired
Mors, Maso:s acid, "no agency
money will be advanced to ldr.
Rewald, and the operatbnal
target and details will not . be
revealed to dim."
CMI ' was a company name
which Rewald had brought
1*Ith him from Wisconsin and
uaed briefly here before Hiaho
Baldwin was created in 197t~
On one example of "Cavatz-
naugh's" business card, CMI
was described as a subsidiary of
Bfaho~ Baldwin, and "t^avan-
naugh' was listed later in a
Hlshop Haldwin brochure as a
"principal" of Bishop Baldwin.
Mason had estimated that it
meets for the CIA, s+ld Re-
. wald's ltdarquerie Unlvarsity
degteee gee tra~epar~rnt takes
the CIA never. would have
riYade, as Rewald aiaima.
The deg+c4w were made with
the wrong dates, paper, type
faces, printing techniques and
signatures, Kelly said. One was
prsnted in li=efglion instead of
Latin and anotlser's "gold" seal
was a Led wtth spray paint.
he Bald.
In other testimony, Lowell
Smith Dillingham and Bishop
Estau trwtee Richard Lyman
said Rewald's firm had no con-
nection with the kamaaina
families named in its title.
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