Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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No luck with business. Gloria seems very enthusiastic about working for me. Mot so much to help me, but to give herself an excuse to get out and do something. Further, she wants to determine whether she can actually do something other than raise children. She was married when very young and has never worked. She hopes eventually to start some business of her own. She probably wants to have a shops of some kind. Working for me is a trial for herself. She hopes to prove to herself that she can succeed in business and mecting people.The approach she has been taking with my business has been unsuccessful so far. I have given her the one which is most time-consuming and one which I would not have been able to do by my self. There are other apporaches, but I have not outlined these to her as yet.We discussed her approach and some modifications of it. We agreed to review her sales approach after the Holy Week and decide whether to proceed along different lines.LOGINOV. P-11712Discussion of val. Having completed our business I raised the matter of Val. I reminded her that I had explained to her some time ago that I was annoyed with Val's treatment of me in public, namely his flagrant attempts to recruit me in the presence of mutual friends. I told her that I still hadn't had a chance to talk to Val in private. I repeated that all I wanted to do was make it clear to him that I held him in great esteem as a person, valued his friendshin, was not interested in assisting his government, and wanted him to stop jeopardizing our friendship with his offensive approaches, whether subtle and implied or direct and coarse.I told Gloria that I had planned to have lunch with Val today. I enjoy Val's company, rarely have a chance to chat quitely, don't like to eat luach by myself and looked forward to explaining to Val my position before he completely destroyed any chance for us to continue as friends.Not aware of accident to Dmitri. I told Gloria that Val had excused himself from our lunch date due to an accident to his son. She did not know of any accident other than the dog bite the previous week.Gloria said that his declining my invitation might have been an afterthought. That he did not want to hurt my hy being seen with me in a public place.
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# 73Avoids "hurting" his friends. Gloria then told me that Val never accepted an invitation to have coffee with her or Fene or to dine out. He explained to her that it could hurt her to be seen with him. She gave an example of when she was invited to the ballet with Val and a group of friends.After the ballet, Pove and Gloria invited Val to join them for dinner. Val declined. Pepe and Gloria went to the Hoyo 19. Shortly after they arrived, Val and a large number of embassy officers also arrived. Val steered them away from Pepe and Gloria. Shortly afterwards a man arrived, sat at a remote table and took notes while watching the Soviets.Val works mornings only. Gloria mentioned that Val is in the embassy only in the morning. This was in response to my statement that I had tried to call the embassy and talk to Val to find out what had happened to Dmitri, but since he was out, I would call in the afternoon. She added that he of course works in the afternoon, but outside the embassy. I said "trying to buy gringos". She said "trying to convince Mexicans".COMMENTSIt seems to me highly unlikely that Val is really concerned about the welfare of his friends seen with him. It seems quite clear that he considers Gloria and Pepe, and perhaps me, as potential assets. He does not want to be seen with us because we would lose our value to him. He told Gloria that they should confine their contacts to the French Club. This seems to confirm the suspicion that he believes that thesis a secure place to meet people.It is possible that he checked with his colleagues and they were of the opinion that my choice of the Llave de Oro for lunch was too public, exposed us to too many Americans.I feel that Gloria has served a very useful purpose in this matter. If she is working for Val, which I doubt, she is in a position to see that my business is indeed legitimate, time-consuming, and with considerable financial potential. Further, she is in a position to relay to Val my unwillingness to cooperate with him and his governemen and my threat to take the matter to the embassy if his harrassment continues.
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26 March 1969CONTACT REPORTFROM : Samuel J. KARTASUKSUBJECT : Rafeel VIDIELLA Ruiz1. A meeting was held from 1300 to 1445, 25 March 1969 in the Chalupes Resturant located on Reforma, one block test of Prado NorteNext meeting is scheduled for 1630, 26 March 1969 at VIFS Restaurant on the Periferico, North of Fjercito Nacional.2 I porked my car three blocks from the meeting site and arrived in the pren at 1255. Subject was already seated st a teble waiting. We had lunch and remained there talking until 1445. He mentioned how much ho appreciated the two books (in Russian) which I loaned him and said that he was nearly through with the last one. He said he would turn them over to VICTOR. (I had airesdy informed him that he would be meeting a man named VICTOR during my absence). He asked if we could obtain for him the three other books written by the same author who wrote "Cancer Ward". He said "Cancer *ard*" was the second book written by the author. The 1st book was "First Circle", the 2nd was Cancer ward, the 3rd was " ivans", and the last was "Easter ____".He commented on how favorably impressed he was by the 2nd book. I said I would give VICTOR this information and I thought we could probably turn up with some of them,2. INFORMATION CONCERNING LOGINOV (P-11,712):Subject said that he has *not*. (definitely) talked to LOGINO in over two months, de thought it very strenge that LOGINOV hos not called him et ell. At the last meeting with loginov, LOGINOV told Subject that he was poing beck to Russi in July 1969, and that he would remain there for at least tho (2) years. LOGINOV said that he would probably then go to some other country but had no idea where, Subject did not call LOGINOV and invite him to ANDREAS party on 1 Xerch.
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75. Subject said that if LOGINOV received an invitation to ANDREA's party, that it might have come from CHIRNYSH (P-13.002). During his conversations with ANDREA, she never mentioned the fact that LOGINOV went to the party. She never told Subject exactly who went.3. Concerning ANDREA CATANO: (P-1356)About ten days ago ANDREA went to Commercial Mexicana to do the weekly grocery shopping. Subject dropped by her house while she was gone. Shortly after arriving at her house, she called home and he talked to her on the phone. She said that she had some problems at the store and asked if he could come down and bring some money. He went with her brother, and on arriving at the store found her in custody of two managers and A Policeman. They had caught her trying to walk out with a stolen jar of face cream (she admited it) and she did not have the money to pay for it. Subject talked to the managers, telling thom that she was just a young girl, etc., and convinced them to do nothing about it Rafael paid for the face cream and they took her home. (Rafeel thinks this is a very unusal side of her character that he has never seen before).ANDREA has not mentioned CHIRNYSH to Subject since my laat report. Rafael said that he will begin to pump ANDREA for some further information (in a discreet way). As far as he knows, she has not seen CHERNYSH lately. (perhaps since the party on 1 March).4. Concerning Rafaels MOTHER AND HER WORK AT THE EMBASSY: (11212 Janeiro (1.1913).(I asked Subject several questions about his mother, but he dodged them. He seemed unwilling to discuss her, and after several tries I stopped pushing). Rafael said that his Mother has one particular student in Spanish (at the Embassy) who has repeatedly expressed the desire to meet and become friends with Rafael. His Mother likes the man (her student) and said that she will shortly invite him home for dinner so that he and Rafael can become acquainted. (Rafael by now is suspicious of any imbassy official who wants to become friends), The man is
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76# V. LOGUINOVAlto, de figura atlética, muy bien parecido. Un tipo fisico muy ruso.Expresión de cara muy seria, pero bondadosa. Esté solo o en compania, siempre esta pendiente de su compostura. Se nota quo le preocupa suchisimo la impresión que pueda causar en los de más.En la conversación cuida mucho, sus palabras, tratando de parecer ingenio y sobre todo muy sencillo. Cariciendo de inteligencia sobre-saliente, trata de explotar su supuesta sencillez e ingenuidad para convencer a los demás de lo que dice, piensa o siente.Jamás se pone violento en una discusión, si no puede contestar como es dabido los argumentos inteligentes de su interlocutor pone una cara ingenuscuento triste o alegrumente sencilla. Asi Jands pierde un amigo por muy differentes opiniones o idiologia que este tenga.P-11712
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# Script for meeting with ValentinSTATE OF REPORT: March 24, 1969Reason for meeting. I find it very difficult to talk on the tennis court. Last Saturday was no exception. We are either playing tennis or surrounded by a group of our friends. There is something I've wanted to say to you, to make clear, for several weeks, and the only way I could be sure of having your undivided attention, in private, was this lunch.Dr. Gomez luncheon, your offer of money. Several weeks ago, at Luis Gomez' house, you offered to give me a large sum of money if I could help you and your embassy. You made this offer in front of a number of our mutual friends.I realize that your offer was not entirely serious-- but not entirely in jest. The more I thought about your offer, the more it bothered me, the madder I got. What you did was put me in a very embarrassing position. You suggested that I commit treason against my country, and you made the offer in front of our friends. The fact that I chose not to create a scene could have been interpreted by our audience as possible interest in your offer.Not interested in your offer. In the event that you have any doubts, let me make it clear that I am not interested in your offer. I find the offer offensive and provocative.Affection for Val. Both my wife and I like you and Alexandra. And my boys like Dmitri. We would like to maintain your friendship with you. But you are seriously jeopardizing that friendship.Uninterested in politics. I am not interested in politics. I realize that this is your business. Well, that's your problem, not mine. I am a business man and devote all my time to business. Even so, I don't have time to learn all there is and all I need to know about doing business. Any spare time I have I will devote to learning more about business. I cannot afford the time to prepare myself for political discussions with you or anyone else.Avoid religion and politics. Even when a discussion touches upon something about which I think I know enough to comment, I will not discuss politics or religion with friends. I do not believe it is possible to pursue those topics without upsetting someone. There are too many other things about which one can talk safely, tennis, gastronomy, girls, etc. Furthermore, I am a guest in a foreign country. I am grateful for the hospitality of this country. It is a wonderful place to live--a wonderful place to work. I will be ever more careful.
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78mon to upset my gracious hosts.Political opinions. Just for the record, let me make a few statements which I would never make in front of our friends--to avoid embarrassing you, to avoid creating a scene, to honor my resolution not to discuss politics.1. Soviet imperialism, unjustified. I believe that your country is characterized by total-itarian imperialism--a system far more destructive than constructive--a system which is expert in taking away and destroying what others have created, but is incapable of producing creative ideas of its own.2. UNITEDS STATES SYSTEM. I believe that the United States has produced the greatest political-economic system, the most (almost too) democratic system that man has ever seen.3. Soviet responsibility for Viet Nam. The USSR is our enemy in Viet Nam. You supply 90% of the arms and money needed by the North Vietnamese. It is not a question of our withdrawing or ceasing the war; it is up to you to do so. The USSR is continuing the war. You know it and I know it.4. SOVIET anti-semitism. The Soviets, you by your own confession, are anti-semites. Your role of support of the continued troubled state in the near east is unjustifiable and misanthropic.5. BERLIN WALL. Unjustified and embarrassing to you.6. CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Unjustified and embarrassing to you.7. HUNGARY8. PERU.9. C-Minus mentality. You are like the student in a class who receives a near-failing grade. When questioned by his father, he answered that everyone else got D's. Your country has been getting near-failing grades in internal economics and external policies. You hope to see everyone else fail so that you don't look so bad.This is just a sampling of some of my opinions. I am sure that you can argue many of these points. But I am sure that if I had the time I could document my opinions--you historically never can.
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I repeat, I am not interested in discussing policies with you or anyone else. I value your friendchan much to risk it that way. But there is something else at stake.Risk to American businessman. Your provocative statements to me in public can make it difficult for me to do business here. I think there is a great opportunity here to do business, and I want to take advantage of it. You are jeopardizing this. I have studiously avoided political involvement here. You make such involvement inevitable.Threat to go to embassy. If you continue to harrass me, I will go to the US Embassy and report your harrassment to the Security Officer. I will even ask to see someone in the CIA. And if I don't get satisfaction there, I'll go to the Mexican Foreign Office and tell them my story. I'll ask them to see that the harrassment is stopped and that I be protected from further provocations.Would prefer not to do so. There are several reasons why I would rather not do all that.1.  First. It would probably put you on the spot. This would serve no real purpose since someone else would simply take over your assingments. And I consider you a personal friend, and would not want to see you in turn harrassed by the Foreign Service or denied entry to the United States. I would hope some day you might be assigned to lhe United States and see it first hand.2.  Second. I have had very little contact with the embassy. I have very little confidence in civil servants. They usually are working for the government because they could never survive in private business. This may or may not be the case in your own embassy. The exception that proves the rule is our economic section which I have found helpful on various occasions.If I were to report you to the embassy, I would probably be harrassed by all the little functionaries far more that you have been able to do.If the CIA knew that I had a Soviet for a friend, I am sure that they would have ail sorms of ideas about what I should say to you. This is one of the seasons I have never invited you to my home-- and probably never will. I do not want the CIA to know of our friendohio and to try to use it.
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Unwilling to help CIA. I would not be willing to cooperate with the CIA for several reasons.1. First. I don't think you people are really accomplishing anything of value. If the same amount of money that is now spent on espionage were diverted to competitive free enterprise, the standard of living of both countries would rise to levels where no one would have the time for the present suicidal foreign involvements. As a businessman I know that if you can't measure an activity in dollar profits, it should either be revised or discontinued.2. Second. The end-result of doing business with the CIA would be to get you to defect to our side.From what I know of you, and of life in the United States, you would not be happy in our country.Oh, if you get in trouble somehow with your own people, by all means, offer your services to the CIA, but, please, leave me out of it.But just for money, don't come to the US. They would probably offer you a fortune for your little secrets. The government has no idea of how to place a value on things and are delighted to spend the taxpayers money--fortunately I no longer pay US taxes--Mexican taxes are high enough. But don't do it. You wouldn't be happy. It's a great country. We have wonderful people. They'd probably do everything possible to make you comfortable, but you would never be happy.If a CIA man ever offers you money to defect or to give up your few secrets, tell him to STICK IT UP HIS ASS. And that's what I'm telling you to do! STICK IT UP YOUR ASS!DON'T WISH HIM LUCK. I realize that if you keep trying, someday you'll succeed. That nothing ventured, nothing gained. Someday you will find an American who will be willing to work for you. There is nothing you could ever give him that would make him really happy. For his sake, I don't wish you any luck.
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# JECT: Valentin LogoDATA OF INFORMATION: Narch 24, 1969, 1202-1205 hours.PLACE ACQUIRED: Telephone call to my office.Telephone call. Val called me at my office. I assume the call was from a public telephone boosh, since thero was considerable background noise of traffic. He would not identify himself a to my secretary, but said that he was a friend.Invited me to drink. Val asked if it would be convenient for me to get together this afternoon for a drink. I checked my schedule and said that today would not be a good day. Instead I suggested that he be my guest for lunch on Wednesday.Luncheon date. I told him to meet me Wednesday at 14000 hours at the Llave de oro.There was much discussion about how to find the Llave de oro. He was not familiar with the restaurant, nor with the passage with its restaurants and shors. I had to explain that it was bordered by Liveryco., Genova, Londres and Insurgentes.Camera not the reason. I assumed that val's call was going to be attributed to his interest in selling his camera through me. Therefore, I referred to ris camera and reminded him not to forget it. He said chat this was not the reason he called and that he really wasn't in a big hurry to sell it. He said he wanted to chat with me.I told him to bring the camera anyway since I hai just this morning spoken to my friend who owns a camera, store and was sure I could dispose of his camara for him. He did perk up then and show some interest in the camera.![signature]
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# 82SUBJECT: Valentin LoguinovDATE OF INFORMATION: March 22, 1969PLACE ACQUIRED: French ClubTennis: Val had come, probably thinking that my partner and I would complete our match with Val and Meche. I, however, was out of town this weekend. Meche went for it late way. Val and Gloria Pinto (the mother of Meche) were playing singles when I arrived. I had a singles tournament myself and did not join them until an hour later. We then formed a doubles group. I played with Pepe Pinto, and Val played with Gloria against us.As is always the case, there is very little oportunity for conversation during a tennis match. Val did make a few stupid comments of apolitical nature, but entirely harmless, such as, addressed to me, haven't you any control over your friends the Grizax Chinese?I did not get a chance to confront Valentin about his corvocative comments and how they jeopardized our friend- ship.Val asked me if I had given any thought to his request the previous week. I could not believe that he was going to open the matter about his offering me money for "secrets". Therefore, I was genuinely stupid about what request. He remänded me that he had spoken of a movie camera he wanted to seil and which I had stated that I thought I could dis- pose of it for him through friends of mine, on consignment. I told him to bring me the camera and I would see what I could do.I then told Val that there was something I had wanted to talk to him about anyway, land hoped we could get together sometime scon to do so. He stated that he would not come to the club tomorrow. He offered to take me to lunch sometime during the week.This is not exactly what I had in mind for an informal and not too pleasant statement of my position about his apporach to me. But I feel it can be used and will achieve the desired effect. Unfortunately, he might spend the rext few days wondering if I am about to accept his approach.Dmitri bitten by dog. The main topic of converstaion during the crier moments available between games or sets of tennis was Dmitri: Dmitri was bitten by the dog belonging to the Counselor of the Soviet Embassy. Apparently the bite was fairly deep in his right forearm and severed a large vein, hence there was much bleeding, probably an asset lunder the circumstances. The dog has been impounded to be watched for ten cays, to determine whtether Dmitri should unkemo rabies shomes or not. Val said that the dog had bitten four or five children already and that he, Val, would shoot eno dos when the ten days are up.It is conceivable that this is a point of ricusch now for vai bacvuon hia Counselor and him.
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83SUBJECT: Ruth WiegandDATE OF INFO: March 13, 1969. 1300 hoursPLACE ACQUIRED: Home of Ana Zuracusa (spalli..)My wife and Ruth Wiegandt were present at a luncheon of women tennis players. In the course of their conversation they discussed the other mixed doubles group to which they both belong, including Valentin Dogusnow. My wife told Ruth that she was looking forward to having her turn of having the entire group at our home for lunch. But that we were waiting for Val to leave for Moscow. My wife said that she thought it ill-advised for an American to entertain a Soviet. Ruth agreed.![handwritten notes]