Seweryn Bialer and Robert S. Strauss, Esq. -- A Connection?

Seweryn Bialer (born November 3, 1926, in Berlin, Germany) is an emeritus professor of political science at Columbia University and an expert on the Communist parties of the Soviet Union and Poland. He was the Director of Columbia's Research Institute on International Change.

In June 1991, Robert S. Strauss, Esq. was nominated to the post of U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union by then-President George H.W. Bush.

I believed at that time that the manager of my apartment building, Elaine Wranik (now deceased), used to enter my apartment every morning surreptitiously, examine it, then report her findings back to Akin Gump. I took opportunistic advantage of what I believed was going on. I started to write notes to Elaine Wranik every day directed at Akin Gump management. On a day in June 1991 I left Elaine Wranik a note telling her that Robert Strauss should contact Professor Seweryn Bialer at Columbia, a Soviet expert whom I had seen on TV. I formed the impression that Bob Strauss indeed contacted Professor Bialer. Litigation Support employees were going around saying "Thank you" "Thank you" that morning.

July 1, 1997
3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW
#136
Washington, DC 20008-4530

George Rupp
Office of the President
Columbia University
116th Street & Broadway
New York, NY 10027

RE: Weapons Possession - Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm/Possible Intent to Commit Murder - D.C. Corporation Counsel Affirmation - Possible Concealment of State and/or Federal Weapons Law Violations

Dear President Rupp:

During the period March 1988 to October 1991 I was employed as a legal assistant in the Washington, DC office of the law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld ("Akin Gump"). Attorney managers at Akin Gump terminated my employment effective October 29, 1991 upon determining, in consultation with a psychiatrist, that a complaint of harassment I had lodged against several co-workers was attributable to a psychiatric symptom ("ideas of reference") prominent in the psychotic disorders and typically associated with a risk of violent behavior. See Freedman v. D.C. Dept. of Human Rights, D.C. Superior Court no. MPA 95-14 (final order issued June 10, 1996). In the period immediately after my job termination senior Akin Gump managers determined that it was advisable to secure the office of my direct supervisor against a possible homicidal assault, which it was feared I might commit.

In pleadings filed in the District of Columbia Superior Court, the District of Columbia Office of Corporation Counsel (Charles F.C. Ruff, Esq.) affirmed that Akin Gump personnel had geniune concerns that I might have had plans to procure firearms for an unlawful purpose and possessed the intent to inflict grievous bodily harm or commit murder. Mr. Ruff currently serves as chief White House Counsel to President Clinton (telephone no.: 202 456 1414).

I have been under investigation by the U.S. Secret Service as a potential security risk to President Clinton, and was interrogated at the Washington Field Office by Special Agent Philip C. Leadroot (202 435-5100) as recently as February 1996, about 16 months ago. Questioning by Mr. Leadroot centered on the issue of presidential assassination.

I believe that there is a remote possibility that Akin Gump's attorney managers may have communicated with Professor Seweryn Bialer, Ruggles Professor of Political Science & Director of the Research Institute on International Change, Columbia University, in about June 1991, at the time Robert S. Strauss was nominated by then President Bush to the post of Ambassador to the Soviet Union. I have formed the (unsubstantiated) belief that Professor Bialer may have spoken with Robert S. Strauss concerning issues within his field of expertise, namely the Soviet system and its leaders, including his knowledge of the personality of then Soviet President Gorbachev.

If any such communications did occur, and if any Akin Gump attorneys (including Robert S. Strauss) referred to me, Professor Bialer may possess information pertinent to a criminal investigation conducted by the U.S. Secret Service during the period December 1994 to February 1995 relating to the security of the President of the United States.

I request that you counsel Professor Bialer to disclose to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (David M. Bowie, Supervisory Special Agent, Washington Field Office, 202 252 7801) any information concerning any communications he may have had with Akin Gump's attorney managers (including Robert S. Strauss) that may be pertinent to the above-referenced criminal investigation. Akin Gump attorneys who may have communicated with Professor Bialer include Earl L. Segal, Robert S. Strauss, Malcolm Lassman, or Laurence J. Hoffman (managing partner), among others.

Enclosed are some additional documents that provide background to the matters discussed in this letter.

Be advised: President Clinton's own lawyer, chief White House Counsel Charles F.C. Ruff, is talking real guns, real bullets, real brain tissue.

Sincerely,

Gary Freedman