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234CONTINUATION OFDISPATCHSECRET DESENSITIZEDHAMMA - 34398As it began to dawn on me what Val was drivingat I turned my back and started for the baseline.It was then that I felt weak and my face would havebetrayed me if I had still been facing Val. Bythe time I reached the baseline I was composed.We spoke no further except to comment on good shotsby mo or my wife during the next five or ten minutesthat ho stood watching us.4. The undersigned reported the above to his superiors   as soon as ho received LIREALM-1's report. A check of the   LIEMPTY log for 17 January showed that LOGINOV had left the   Soviet Embassy at 1404 and had returned at 1708 hours. This   mado his presence at Sanborns at the time of the meeting   between LIREALM-1, ROWTON, and the undersigned impossible,   as it would have given him about 10 minutes to leave the site   of the mooting, get into his car, and drive to the Soviet   Embassy, an impossible feat even in light traffic. It is   clear thon that LOGINOV was not present at the time of the   meeting but was told that LIREALM-1 met with two Americans.-Y   It was and still is the undersigned's conviction that whoever   saw LIREALM-1 was unable to positively identify ROWTON or   thoundorsigned. The undersigned reasons that had LOGINOV   known that ho, the undersigned, had talked to LIREALM-1,   LOGINOV would have montioned his name after failing to   obtain any reaction from LIREALM-1 from mentioning the   latter's "boss" The undersigned believes that LOGINOV, whó   is not completely stupid, would have either said nothing or   would have gone all the way in his statements to LIREALM-1   had he known the undersigned's name. By the same token it   appears that LOGINOV failed to identify ROWTON. The   undersigned had only met with one other Soviet besides   LOGINOV at the time of the meeting, and that only once; and   that Soviet was no longer in Mexico City when the meeting   with LIREALM-1 took place. ROWTON has never had any contact,   social or otherwise, with any of the Soviets.5. The undersigned is the first to recognize that meeting   with LIREALM-1 at the Sanborns silver shop was a thoroughly   unwise move. He wishes to emphasize that this was the only   meeting at the time that he had held with LIREALM-1 outside   of a safehouse. All meetings between the undersigned and   LIREALM-1 have since been held under the most secure con-   ditions on the edge of the Federal District and, in one case,   beyond. While this does not make this decision any wiser, he   also wants to emphasize the fact that it was made on the spur   of the moment, to quote the old cliche, because the undersigned   "felt sorry" for LIREALM-1 because of the latter's financial   difficulties with the Station over his last accounting. The   undersigned unwisely put LIREALM-1's morale for a brief moment   over basic security considerations. He is not in the habit   of doing this as a matter of course.. The day before his next   scheduled tennis meeting with LIREALM-l the following Wednesday,   LOGINOV called LIREALM-1 and asked to be excused as his leg   had worsoned. The week after that LOGINOV showed up for his   regular tennis game with LIREALM-1 but made no mention of   his previous conversation with him two weeks before. The   undersigned waited to complete a review of this case until   he met LOGINOV face to face at one of the Consular Association   functions. Because of the visits of Soviet athletes and   artists which kept LOGINOV busy, however, this meeting did not   materialize until 28 March. Although the undersigned and   LOGINOV talked to each other off and on for more than two hours   on this occasion during a visit to the local Home Fair, LOGINOV   never mentioned anything about the Sanborns meeting. He has   never brought LIREALM-1's name to the attention of the   undersigned.