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PH 58-641 — large bond issues and indicates that this lmowledge resulted in a Baltimore firm, Alex, Brown and Company, giving a kick- back of unknown amounts and overall that AGNEW must have started the request for kickback because he learned that Brewn did little to earn their fee in a bond issue. Identified as being "bagmen” i.e. making the actual collection and distribution in kickbacks and bribes, was (1) J. WALTER JONES, a real estate operator and close associate of AGNEW, and (2) I.H. "BUDDY" HAMMERMAN, a mortgage bank, poth of Baltimore, Md. Also identified aspaying directly to AGNEW was LESTER MATZ. It was indicated that sometime . around 1963, JONES and HAMMERMAN were at odds and resulted in MATZ ultimately making payments directly to SPIRO AGNEW. WOLFF ultimately was told, once he was Commissioner of Roads, that engineering firms would give kickbacks and WOLFF would get a 7 third, HAMMERMAN,::;whda was to make the collections, would get a third, and AGNEW would get a third. This was later changed so that AGNEW allegedly received 50 percent of the kickbacks and HAMMERMAN 25 percent and WOLFF 25 percent. WOLFF stayed on as Road Commissioner until 1959 at which time he joined the personal staff of AGNEW, who had been elected Vice President, and remained about 16 months on AGNEW's staff as a Science Adviser. This supposedly ended the corrupt relationship involving kickbacks and so forth handled by HAMMERMAN and WOLFF. WOLFF left the White House Staff of the Vice President and returned to the Baltimore area where he again entered into pusiness of being a consulting engineer, An important piece of evidence, according to the USA, was a’ list prepared by one - listing the amounts of fees paid specific BIC engineers, which was requested by AGNEW after he had become Vice President. This list in substance, would show the amount of money that AGNEW should have received and would let AGNEW know what he had remaining that should be given to him, WOLFF was interviewed briefly in pre-polygraph interview which will be included in the enclosed memorandum reporting the results of the polygraph. On 8/11/73, after WOLFF had been afforded polygraph examination, background information regarding LESTER MATZ was furnished SA PEARCE by USA BEALL and his assistant, LIEBMAN, wolfe