“PY OLC #78-2873 24 July 1978 entire oks filed HSCA SUBJECT : Meeting with HSCA on Mexican Interviews 1. Niles Gooding, George Joannides, Rodger Gabrielson, Bill Sturbitts, Marty Hawkins and Norbert Shepanek met with Messrs. Blakey and Cornwell at 0730 Saturday morning. The purpos”
“LC #78-2873 24 July 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with HSCA on Mexican Interviews. 1. Niles Gooding, George Joannides, Rodger Gabrielson, Bill Sturbitts, Marty Hawkins and Norbert Shepanek met with Messrs. Blakey and Cornwell at 0730 Saturday morning. The purpos”
“LG #78- 2873 24 July 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with HSCA on Mexican Interviews 1. Niles Gooding, George Joannides, Rodger Gabrielson, Bill Sturbitts, Marty Hawkins and Norbert Shepanek met with Messrs. Blakey and Cornwell at 0730 Saturday morning. The purpos”
“1978 JUL 26 2 21 PM 78 : MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with HSCA on Mexican Interviews 1. Niles Gooding, George Joannides, Rodger Gabrielson, Bill Sturbitts, Marty Hawkins and Norbert Shepanek met with Messrs. Blakey and Cornwell at 0730 Saturday morning. The purpose”
“SCA would have inter- viewed them anyway for unrelated reasons (i.e., unrelated to CIA connections). 6. While HSCA has had to postpone their trip until around 7 August (the Mexican Government requested a delay), the basic problem remains. There is more time to get some feel for w”
“6/2 20 June 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with HSCA Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey 1. In the course of a meeting with Mr. Blakey this morning, we discussed the method by which questions would be put to the agent in Mexico. It developed that he has in mind two ag”
“2 20 June 1978 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD SUBJECT: Meeting with HSCA Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey : 1. In the course of a meeting with Mr. Blakey this morning, we discussed the method by which questions would be put to the agent in Mexico. It developed that he has in mind two ag”
“Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted TOP SECRET from CIA—controlled documents.) - 265 - Appendix 2: HSCA Procedure Write-up Mexico Trip House Select Committee on Assassinations staffers Gary Cornwell, Dan Hardway. Edwin Lopez and Harold Leap ”
“Jun 78 Meeting Between DDC Carlucci + Blakey Shepanek Memore HSCA Reques t for Gibson_201___ Blakey Request: Hugh Chisolm McDonald auth, Appt in Dallas) Herman Kimsey ------------ —AMMUG/1.- 6 June 8 Jun 778 (2) Blakey Reque sts ' 10 name S. 3 SUBJECTS Blakey Request: L”
“would not be asked about the activity he engaged in that, unknown to him, was at CIA initiative. b. Henry Lopez A former contract agent He is a former employee--as distinguished of CIA. from "agent" in the full sense of the word--and could be interviewed as a former employee. c. ”
“COMMITTEE SENSITIVE Phillips, page 12. Carlos Blanco had probably been made up for the purposes of this one report. He said that he recalled the name of Luisa Calderon, a bit better after reading the document. He said that she may have been the asset who worked in the Embas”
“for material extracted CIA HAS NO OBJECTION TO 293 DECLASSIFICATION AND/OR RELEASE OF THIS DOCUMENT to alert him that the Committee would request the Mexi- can officials to make Silvia Duran available in Washing- ton for an HSCA hearing. Mr. Howard explained that once we had perm”
“1900 1624 1649 7 10/18 1200-1900 1404 1437 2 10/22 1200-1900 1305 1307 3 10/23 1200-1900 1306 1448 8 exact times for rest of month not available on logs. 3179. NW 66000 Docld:32271948 Page 3 delos Santos 2 Gelati Chiconteρες 3 3180 NW 66000 Docld:32271948 Page 4 APARTMENTS 141 HM”
“Classification!I Ur DUNE (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) - 294 - Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert Blakey, Edwin Juin Lopez Soto, Ricardo Escartin, Captain Felipe Villa, Senei Buergo, translator J”
“if that was the case then the DDP, at least, would probably have approved the WAVE use of an agent in Mexico. We took Mr. Phillips through the documents on Ms. Calderon again and asked him if this could have been an instance such as that we were talking about. He said tha”
“548-4839 At 2:20 p.m.. Lopez telephoned Mr. Miller and arranged a meeting for 9:00 9.m. that evening Classification: 2000436 NW 66000 Docld:32271374 Page 9 Classified by derivation: Classification: 301 (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.”
“there and that he had specifically gone there to talk to him. He said that Lachuga turned off all the advances he made. Phillips was asked why the Agency had sent a cable to Mexico after Ms. Duran's arrest saying "don't allow any Americans to have contact with her." (parap”
“Classification: 011 (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) - 287 - Appendix 4: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 2 On August 25, 1978, Congressman Richardson Preyer and HSCA staff members G. Robert Blakey and Edwin Juan Lopez Sot”
“ittee should have knowledge of Cuebela's statements. 453 NW 66000 Docld:32273543 Page 4 AMLASH Cont. On 28 August 1978, at 10:25 a.m., HSCA representatives interviewed Rolando Cubela Secades in Room 2003 at the Hotel Riviera. Present were Congressman Richardson Preyer, G. Robert ”
“Classification (This form from CIA-- bo ^CEPDETmed Red - 2'5 - arranged. Mr. Gooding sta :ed that the Central Intelli gence Agency had been unde - greater Congressional scrutiny the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in order to demonstrate the Ajency’s good f”
“Classification: (This form is to don oted for mpteric axtocte from CIA—controlfid LUAL 251 - Appendix I: HSCA Procedural Write-up Cuba Trip 1 Select Committee members Chairman Louis Stokes and Congressman Christopher Dodd, accompanied by G. Robert Blakey, Gary Cornwell ”
“e ... . I ____ Classification: VI ULUILI :_____ (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) -28 Institucional convention. When Agent Martinez asked the child if he knew where his father was staying in Mexico City, he responded that he ”
“inez asked Committee staff members to meet him at his office at the Procuraduria General at 6:00p.m. NW 66000 Docld:32271374 Page 6 Agent Ciprianio Martin Classification: the Procu Classified by derivation: Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-”
“‘% FBI CABLE ,FROM: DIRECTOR, FBI DATE: 14 FEBRUARY 1976 CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL vSUBJECT} VISIT OF DR. HENRY A. KISSINGER- LATIN j AMERICA, FEBRUARY 16-23, 1976. usp.”
“FT- 4 Classification OLUR1 (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) - 280 - When Committee staff members inquired whether Ms. Silvia Tirado Bazan could testify at an HSCA hearing. the Mexican officials stated that they would have an”
“Classification Ior MI Vestuke. (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) -296- "teares. photographic surveillance base targeted against the Cuban Consulate and Embassy in Mexico City during 1963; c) an essay entitled "Imperialism's”
“13-00000 On the 27th of June, a final updated special national intelligence estimate was prepared, and this indicated no basic changes in the security assessment that Mexican government was prepared to cope with foreseeable security contingencies. On the 28th of June, a fina”
“sensitive". He ed that three rooms at a nearby hotel would be used. Page 2 } : First Draft Page Two In one room, Ramon Alvarez Durant would sit, Committee staff members would sit in a second room and two CIA personnel officers would insure that the equipment worked properly in a ”
“surrounding it? 21? Mr. Shaw. Negative. Mr. Goldsmith. Did anybody from Headquarters ever ask 23: you to give a statement or report as to the manner in which AII: 49 1 the surveillance operation in Mexico City were undertaken in 2= i?ji 1963? NW 50955 DocId: 32277214 P”
“fice and At NW 66000 Do3227ages that he would telephone upon his return. 653 First. Draft Page Three 9:15 P.M.Dr. Jesus Yanez, the Assistant to the Oficial Mayor, telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura was very busy on an important assignment and asked us to vis”
“Classification: VLUALI (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) :; - 284 - Silvia Duran. Agent Martinez then gave the telephone to Committee staffer Lopez, ^r. Lopez asked Ms. Tirado whether she would be wi11ir g to testify sometime i”
“otel in Mexico City. Mr. Patton told Committee staffers that Larry Steinfield wished to see us at ۱۰ 8:30 A.M. the following morning. On Tuesday, August 8, 1978, Committee staffers met with Larry Sternfield, CIA Chief of Station in Mexico City. He informed the staffers that the t”
“Classification: from "Gprent I (This to TARPtel extracted - 276 - to visit the Police Station known as the Procuraduria General at 11:00 a.m. the following morning. At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff members met with State Department Official Richard Howard ”
“ted that he would mail the results of the interview to Lopez at the Committee offices in Washington. The Committee staff members left Mexico City at 1:55 P.M. and arrived at Washington's Dulles Airport at 10:35 Ρ.Μ. NW 66000 Docld:32271653 Page 11”
“Classification: (This form is to be used for mor from CIA—controlled documents.) SECRET PEextroc-as a Guna - 266 - informed the staff members at this meeting that they had located Silvia Duran, Horacio Duran, Ruben Duran and Pedro Gutierrez Valencia 1'92/ and that each pe”
“Classification: (This form eipourpun al Extracted from CIA-b 1 Ca SEGKET - 273 Appendix 3: HSCA Procedural Write-up Mexico Trip 2 House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez and Harold Leap traveled tc Mexico City on August 7, 1978. The staff members were met by Da”
“nrad T DeLoach Evans DECODED COPY Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel ☐ AIRGRAM XXCABLEGRAM ☐ ☐ RADIO TELETYPE Gandy SECRET CONFIDENTIAL (5) PAGE 2, FROM LEGAT MEXICO CITY NO191 NCR FRANKLYN a. (S) Captun WHEELOCK GARCIA OF NICARAGUAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE IS ARRIVING MEXICO CITY TODAY TO B”
“X59Ai vtUsRse3 1-53 party. I have no idea. 0 Mr. Goldsmith. When did he spend time in Mexico City that J1 he would have had an opportunity? 4 —? Mr. Shaw. He visited Mexico City quite often. 7 TH STREET, S.W. REPORTERS BUILDING, WASHINGTON, D. C. 20024 (202) 554-234”
“TTFFFFFF FFFFFFFF NW 66000 Docld:32271653 Page 1 FIRST DRAFT greymeanh 61 El Lojs 012210 NW 66000 Do House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7, 1978. The staff members were met by David T. Patton at the Mexican airport at”
“Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.) 296 the Mexican officials that Mr. Alberue had left town hurriedly on Monday, August 7, 1978. Mr. Martinez, wishing to know when he returned, had placed a piece of scotch tape on the b”
“Classification: _ . (This forms n are norrngigmal Extracted from CIA- FSEGKET - 274 - witnesses for the Committee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue 1210/ and Noe W. Palomares. 1211/ Sternfield asked the: staff members to whom they wished to speak. The Commit tee staff members e”
“/ Classification: 6 TOO SLenL NM 94:1 087m (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled ■ documents.) Outline: Page Six. Appendix III: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Mexico Trip 2. (p. 273.) 3 Appendix IV: HSCA Procedural Write-up: Cuba Trip 2. (p.”
“d he could not recall that type of file. NW 66000 Docld:32271380 Page 12 page 12--Hidalgo interview. Mr. Hidalgo was next shown a CIA Memo for the Record, LX-2467, 11 March 1965, providing information on Luisa Rodriguez Calderon, and based on a debreifing of A-1. Mr. Hidalgo stat”
“E. FORD, TENN Select Committee on Assas៨ tions PP.CAD J. FITHIAN, IND. 14 Luty 1978 ROBERT WEDGAIFA. (202) 225-4624 U.S. House of Representatives 3331 HOUSE OFFICE BUILDING, ANNEX 2 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515 July 13, 1978 CLC 2137 Mr. Scott Breckinridge Principal Coordinator/HSCA Of”
“vlvil3 1-54 1 Mexican government, given its position, was the only government 2: in the Western Hemisphere which maintained relations with 3 Cuba, would have been it would have been highly unlikely for them to have tried to pitch a Cuban national. 300 7 TU STREET, S.H. ”
“Classification: (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA-controlled documents.) 297 Gutierrez and Attorney General Licensiado, Manuel Calvillo's "pen name" was given to the Mexicans who stated that they would check it with the landlady at his alleged apartment bui”
“tigati on in Mexico. Re quest referred to Bureau b y Legat, Mexico City and State D epart- ment On 1 1/26/63 it was decided that FBI super- visor Laurence P. Keenan should promptly depart for Mexico Ci”
“13-00000 GUKMELEairal He gave two examples of this. Onewas the fact that the Mexican Government security liaison contact on the case was the current President of Mexico He said, and Mr. Wallach agreed, this was obviously a matter which had to be protected. The second case”
“Keenan should promptly depart for Mexico City to assist in this investigation. Mann was tactfully to ld that while FBI was dis- posed to send Keenan FBI was not assuming Sta te or CIA respon sibiliti es and could only offer ad- vice on policy matters concern ing those Agenci es.*”
“Classification: IUI ULUILI (This form is to be used for material extracted from CIA—controlled documents.) 68 - 1006/ Ibid. 1007/ HSCA Staff Contact Report, 9/5/78, JFK Document No. 011268. 1008/ Ibid. 1009/ Ibid. 1010/ Letter to Elena Garro from Committee, 9/6/78, JFK D”