Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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LMOLL JECRETARIAT IBINATIONPERSOL POT NOTIFIEDCLASSIFIED MESSAULTUTAL CUTIL**SECRET**(When Filled In)GROUP IREPRODUCTION OF THIS COPY PROHIBITEDADVANCE COPYISSUEDBLOTTEDINDEX: YES NOCLASSIFY TO CS FILE NO.X-REF TO CE FILE NO.FILE RID RETURN TODISSEM BYACTION UNITFILE, VRBRANCHWH8, RI/AN, 11, 1/0PS (1/112, F12,ACTION NO.549SECRET 162216Z APR 70 CITE MEXICO CITY 2984DIRECTORREDTOP AETARGET AEKICK16 APR 064392REFS: A. DIRECTOR 025386B. MEXICO CITY 2962(IN063471)1. ACCORDING TO LILYRIC AND LICALLA, LOCALLY HIRED PAINTERS   HAVE BEEN OBSERVED AT MHHARSH INSTALLATION SINCE MONDAY 13 APRIL,   PAINTING MAIN BUILDING. THERE HAS BEEN NO DELIVERY OF MATERIALS   SUCH AS DESCIBED PARA 4 REF A.2. FILE 201-854249. GP-1SECRETSECRETFile: Lempty/ops
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# DISPATCHChief, H DivisionChief, SB DivisionChief of Station, Mexico CitySECRETLIEMPTY Progress Report 1 November 1969 - 25 March 1970Reference: HMMA-38119, 18 November 1969PRIORITY## SUMMARY1.  The LIEMPTY Project has thus far survived the absence from duty of its principal agent, Raymond H. GERENDE, as well as the threat to the security of the Project represented by GERENDE'S marital problems. Bruce H. FERNALD has been handling all Project personnel since early December 1969, when GERENDE was deactivated and placed on half-pay. No problems have resulted from this, other than a delay in the receipt of photos (FERNALD is unable to meet LIEMPTY personnel as frequently as GERENDE was). The security threat will remain as long as GERENDE's estranged wife has it within her power to expose GERENDE'S RVROCK connection and the type of work he was engaged in. She has continually promised not to do this, and thus far she has kept her word.2.  The LIEMPTY product continues to be a valuable one for the Station. It continues to play an important CI role (particularly for LNERGO and LNREAD) but its greatest value, as far as the Station is concerned, is in the positive field. Two recent examples underline this: The early (and thus far only) debriefing of AEMIDRIFF was accomplished almost exclusively by showing her photos of all MHHARSH Embassy personnel and getting from her a character sketch on each individual. These photos were all obtained by LILYRIC and LICALLA. Secondly, LIEMPTY observations (as opposed toAttachment:Reports u/s/cDistbituion:2.  C/WH w/att u/s/cY - C/SB w/att u/s/cHMMA-33700SECRET25 March 197050-6-74/3
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# CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH12. Regarding the project renewal for FY 1971, as far as LICALLA, LILYRIC, and LIEMPTY-4 are concerned, no changes in procedure are planned. The product is useful, it is as timely as present circumstances permit, and the personnel involved are doing their jobs well. The only change foreseen is an increase in salary for some, if not all, of these agents. The most recent salary increases took effect in May 1968. LIEMPTY-4 has not had an increase since January 1967, and LIEMPTY-13 since January 1964. Increase in cost of living alone would be sufficient justification to raise salaries, but in the case of these agents their consistently excellent work deserves to be rewarded. These salary increases will probably range between 10 and 20 percent.13. As for other project expenses, LIEMPTY-10 and LIEMPTY-11 will no longer be funded under LIEMPTY, but have been transferred to LIEMBRACE effective 1 July 1970. Real estate expenses should remain fairly constant, with perhaps a slight allowance for inflation. The rent on GERENDE's dark room (MEXI 137) will no longer be paid with his termination. MV-2823 will be sold or otherwise disposed of and should not be included in the project for FY 1971. Equipment and operational expenses should remain constant.
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SECRET15 March 1970TO : Case Officer and Chief of StationFROM : GERENDESUBJECT: GERENDE Background and Status Reportof Present Marital Conflict1. While this is not intended to be a full exposition of my personal and private life over recent years, I would like to make known some of the factors that have, from my point of view, led up to the present situation.2. I realize that the interests of the organization and the interest of the individuals who may have opportunity to come in contact with my case dictate as little personal involvement as possible in the lives of agents. Indeed, the requirements of security, compartmentation and efficiency prescribe the modue operandi and, to a great extent the modus vivendi, of agency personnel not only in the sense of earning a living but also in manner of living. Ideally, the less said about an agent's private life, the better, but, as the years ge by, changes may occur which go unreported or unnoticed and which may bring about unexpected events ard repercussions. When a person has been working for the Station, as I have, for lifteen years with little or no personnel handling problems, no security flaps, no obvious problems on the job, and something comes up like the abrupt separation of my wife (LIEMPTY-19) and ze with the personal and potential security risks it has entailed, I feel that some explanation is necessary. Should it be in order, I would like this explanation to reach not only my present case officer and Chief of Station but also the former Chief and officers with whom I have had the privilege to work over the years.3. I would like to give thanks, in advance, for the patience and understanding that have been shown me thus far. Whatever the final outcome, I know that people have been bending over backward to be helpful and patient in hopes of an early solution to the conflict.4. Back in September 1959, shortly after our wedding in late 1958, my wife and baby girl, were moved, by the agency, into a
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the best thing to do vas to invest in land and build a house bigenough for our growing, family which by now had a fourth child onthe way. With three friends as partners, I entered on a land-buyingdeal which turned out to be complicated as we bought the land inthe form of company stock. The company was liquidated and theassets were distributed, as land, to the four partners. I paid forour share with the proceeds from the sale of a small lot I had beenpaying for since. 1955. LIEMPTY-19 was at first reluctant to tieus down with a house but when we finally got the papers and landdeed straightened out, she threw herself wholeheartedly into theproject and the building which began in August 1967. While LIEMPTY-19supervised the construction, I worked during Septerber and Octoberalmost full-time for the Olympic Organizing Committee and the groupfrom Czechoslovakia which came to train in the pre-Olympics. Myfather-in-law deposited money in Mexico to help us with the majorpart of the financing of the house. We used $286,500 pesos of hismorey and about $60,000 that LIEMPTY-19 and I had saved and got thehouse finished enough to move in in March 1968. We were very shorton furniture and shortly after moving, in bought three bedroom sets,an automatic washer and even a piano, Naturally, cash was scarce,dirt was plentiful. The yard was a pile of rubble, the carpentrywork had just begun, there were no closets, the house was unpainted.Theveafter, we did things on the house as the money come in:continued with carpentry, finished the driveway, put in grass,built a fence and front gate.7. Six months after moving in came time for the Olympics and   I worked, unofficially this time, with the water polo team from   Australia. LIEMPTY-19 worked for the month with the Dutch and   Belgian radio and TV group. LIEMPTY-19 vas, once again, caught up   in the atmosphere of being among Europeans and doing something   exciting and out of the routine of home and children. She fell in   love with the Australiars as well, and for several months all she   coold talk of vas that we should move to Australia. I gave it some   thought but decided that we had neither the money to invest nor the   youth and technical training to make it as pioneers "down under"   and, on the other hand, family, friends, a house, and job seniority   here in Mexico.8. Toward the end of 1968, LIEMPTY-19 decided it was time for   me to move out of the master bedroom as she could no longer face   that aspect of our married life. For several months we tried this   but it did not werk out for me. One night in March 1969 after we   returned home from a party, she asked me to help her undress and   when she, once again, refused to have anything to do with me, I   got rough with her, prompting a decision on her part, which she   had already been pondering, to visit her parents in Holland as soon   as possible. Her father provided the plane fare and she left in   April for the United States to visit her brother and sister and   Holland, for what she said would be a five week trip. She stayed   way ten weeks. The four children remained with me, the maid, and
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SEC-5-"abandon" the children. I refused to visit her lawyer with hersaying I was not interested in getting divorced, whereas she saidthat her mind was made up and that we would have to split up.11. Things came to a head on the night of 12 Noverber when I    got home around 9 PM and she suggested we have a drink and talk    things over. I mixed some martinis and she began laying down the    terms under which she thought we should get divorced, i.e. I should    move out of the house, mortgage to pay back her father's money,    grant her custody of the children and support of 2,000 pesos per    month per child ($8,000). I said I would not get divorced under    those conditions and we discussed and argued in the kitchen for about    three hours, killing a bottle of gin in the process. We went    upstairs and when I tried to make up to her she tried to rouse the    children, unsuccessfully, and then tried to leave the house which    I would not let her do. She got hysterical, phoned a neighbor,    Uta de la Hoz, then she went into the front yard and awakened the    next door neighbors, Walter Hurley and his wife, and asked to go to    their house. A few minutes later, Uta and her husband Guillermo    came and LIEMPTY-19 went with them to their home two blocks away.    About a half-hour later I walked up to Uta's to ask LIEMPТУ-19    to come home but was told that she was busy phoning her lawyer    and would not return.12. The following morning I took the children to school as    usual and my sister Marcia (LIEMPTY-4's wife) picked them up ard    took them to her house where I joined them for lunch. LISMPTY-19    came by in the late afternoon while my sister was cut, picked up    the children saying she was taking them home, failed to do so, then    disappeared and was not to be found.13. It was the subsequent action taken by LIEMPTY-19 in    dropping her lawyers and taking on the services of Bernabe Jurado,    the most notorious penal attorney in Mexico, that led to the    potential security hazards that ensued.
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9 March 1970TO : Case OfficerFROM : GERENDESUBJECT: GERENDE Status ReportThe present situation of the marital conflict between GERENDE and his wife (LIEMPTY-19) is as follows:1. GERENDE is living at his mother's apartment at 99 Carlos B. Zetina Street, Apartment 9. He has rented a three-bedroom apartment at Tornel 3 corner with Pedro Antonio de los Santos where he has stored the household effects and furniture removed from his former address at Ladera 39, Lomas de Bezares.2. The house at Ladera 39 is rented to an executive of Chrysler Corporation International, Dr. Leon MARKIEWICZ, his wife, and fifteen-year old daughter, all of Argentine nationality. The monthly rent is 6,700 pesos M/N and the contract is for two years, beginning 1 February 1970.3. LIEMPTY-19 and the four children are apparently still living at the residence of the Netherlands' Ambassador, Baren Schelto Van Heemstra at Peña 360, Jardines del Pedregal. It seems fairly certain they are at that address from things that the two older children, Adriana and Chris, have said to GERENDE on the last two occasions he has seen them. They have been there since 5 December 1969. LIEMPTY-19 has denied that she has a fixed address and says that she is staying with "friends."4. LIEMPTY-19 is continuing to use the services of Bernabe Juardo as her lawye and, through him, is pressing for even more advantageous terms in the divorce than she had asked in November. Please see the attached copy and translation of the latest proposal made by Juardo on 4 March 1970.5. The charges and accusations made by LIEMPTY-19 against GERENDE are still not completely resolved and are as follows:a. Insults, threats and attempted homicide -- this charge rests at the 5º Juzgado Penal, 2ª Corte Penal located at
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- 2 -Lecumberri. The judge is CRUZ Mellado. These charges have not been pressed since they were originally made on 13 November 1969 by LIEMPTY-19. The ruling on these charges, should the case come to trial, must be made by three judges of the 2ª Corte Penal composed of the 4th, 5th, and 6th Juzgados Penales. The judge of the 6º Juzgado is Lic. QUIRAZCO, an alumnus of GERENDE's lawyer, Jorge Mario MAGALLON. Together they have, on two occasions, been to speak to Judge CRUZ Mellado who agreed not to issue an arrest warrant and who has, finally, called for a hearing on 16 March (subsequently postponed) at 10:00. MAGALLON has given GERENDE assurances that the charges are likely to be dismissed.b. Fraud -- this charge was made by LIEMPTY-19 and her lawyer on 11 December 1969, the day after GERENDE left the Villa Obregon jail after having spent a week there for disobeying a court order. (The court order had consisted of an unfounded request to have GERENDE expelled from his house and to have LIEMPTY-19 reinstated there with her father, as the temporary custodian of the children. GERENDE refused them admisson under those terms, hence disobeying the Villa Obregon judge's order, so the judge's secretary arbitrarily ordered, on the spot, a 10-day detention. Subsequently, the judge, LUCAS del ARENAL, was forced to lift the detention after seven days and dismiss himself from the case and divorce proceedings as incompetent. The judge has had to face charges of collusion from and with the lawyers of both parties, i.e. Magallon and Jurado. The charge of fraud rests at Mesa 31ª of the Procuraduria del Distrito Federal. The Public Ministry Agent in charge of that table is Jorge GUTIERREZ Cruz. LIEMPTY-19 claims that the money lent to her and GERENDE for building the house at Ladera #39 was actually loaned to buy the house and that GERENDE, knowing they were married under the separate property marriage clause had wrongfully placed the property in his name only, thereby committing fraud. Actually, the land was bought by GERENDE before Christmas 1965 in a complicated transaction involving three other partners: Robert Bancroft WHITEHOUSE, John (Dick) RENNA, and James Walter HURLEY, and each of the partners placed the property in their respective names with the complete knowledge of their spouses. Later the land was subdivided and after nineteen months the deeds were issued. LIEMPTY-19 supervised and proaded the notary who made the transaction and she was perfectly aware that the property was in GERENDE's name. In August 1967 when construction of the house began, LIEMPTY-19's father's money was used which he had deposited in Mexico for the purpose. Since January 1969, according to the terms of the loan agreement, GERENDE has been paying it off and has receipts from LIEMPTY-19 to show for it.GERENDE has presented both the land deed ("escritura") pre-dating the construction of the house and the receipts
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showing up to date payment of the loan at the "Mesa 318,"No further action has been taken by LIEMPTY-19 or hor lawyeron this matter but the charge has not finally been settled andis still pending. The charge is, of course, unfounded and isawaiting the proper "lubrication" in order to be filed away.c. Neglect -- this charge was made by LIEMPTY-19 inDecember 1969 at the 7º Juzgado Mixto de Paz claiming thatGERENDE had abandoned LIEMPTY-19 and the children to their fateand that they were utterly destitute. GERENDE was notnotified of this charge and on 9 February after attending ahearing at the Villa Obregon juzgado (see below), once out onthe sidewalk, Judicial police agents detained GERENDE, tookhim to the Procuraduria and from there to Lecumberri. Thisprocess involved being finger-printed and mugged. Thefollowing day GERENDE was out on a 2,000 pesos bond and threedays later, 13 February, the justice of the peace (a woman)formally set GERENDE free for lack of evidence. GERENDE andMagallon went back on 5 March to pick up the bond money andsee if Jurado had appealed but he had not and, apparently,that matter is closed,6. On 14 November 1969, one day after LIEMPTY-19 disappeared   from home taking the children with her, GERENDE brought charges   against her for minor lesions and showed medical proof thereof.   The hearing of 9 February after which GERENDE was detained, was   called by Villa Obregon judge Bonfilio SEGURA. GERENDE reiterated   the charge, LIEMPTY-19 denied it, the judge ruled against her,   ordered her to prison but since the injuries were minor, it does   not require privation of liberty and she must only go and sign-in   once a week.7. LIEMPTY-19 is at present teaching school at the Edron   Academy on Caleri. Street in San Angel Inn. The two older children   are going to school there. During the latter part of November, all   December and half of January, the children did not attend any   school. On three occasions GERENDE has been to the school at 13:30   to try to speak to LIEMPTY-19 and see the children. LIEMPTY-19   has objected to this and the meetings have been short and fruitless   except for GERENDE learning that they are still staying at the Dutch   Ambassador's. GERENDE's last visit there was on 3 March (Tuesday).8. After the Villa Obregon judge dismissed himself from the   divorce proceedings, according to standard procedure, the case   went to Coyoacan and Xochimilco respectively where the judges,   in turn, excused themselves from the case and it has finally come   to reside at the 1st Juzgado Civil in the D.F. The judge is Olda   CORREA (woman) and has the reputation of being tough and pretty   straight. Since LIEMPTY-19 has not given an address where divorce   suit papers can be served her, the suit has not yet been initiated   on GERENDE's part. LIEMPTY-19, on the other hand, has not had
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GERENDE served with papers though his current address is known, apparently because she is still seeking a voluntary divorce along the lines and terms which are stated in the accompanying set of proposals. GERENDE cannot begin to accept these proposals in their present form as they are patently unfair and hardly a point to beginning bargaining from.50-6-94/3
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8 March 1970The following proposals were made to GERENDE on 4 March 1970 (Monday) by LIEMPTY-19's lawyer, Bernabe Jurado, through a mutual friend, Licenciado Carlos Heyn, to wit:TERMS under which the problem of [LIEMPTY-19] and [Raymond H. GERENDE] could be solved.1. The right (patria potestad) to the minors would be kept by both the mother and father.2. The guardianship and custody of the four children is entrusted to the mother. The father may visit the children once a week between 10:00 and 19:00 hours; he may take them out once a month and will return them to the mother's address before 19:00.3. The father is obliged to pay the mother the sum of 10,000 pesos MN, in advance, per month beginning with the month of November 1969, since which time he has not given the mother or children any money at all.4. This agreement will be raised to the level of a formal public writ the day it is signed by both parties.5. Both spouses agree to divorce voluntarily under the terms of this agreement.6. Upon termination of the divorce procedure, by mutual consent, both parties will desist from the civil and penal actions that either might have initiated against the other.7. Both spouses are obliged to attend punctually the meetings that the legal procedure establishes as well as grant the guarantees demanded by the Public Ministry and acting Judge for the approval of this agreement and granting of the divorce.8. In order that the father may visit his children and take them out, the mother is obliged to give notice of every change of address.9. With the exception of the one day a week that the father may visit the children and the one day a month when he may take
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them out, the father contracts the obligation of absolutely abstaining from calling on the mother's address, so that she may carry on her life freely without neglecting her children.10. While the voluntary divorce is being processed, the mother and children will live at and, as above stated, to satisfy their needs, the father will make the first monthly payment of $10,000,11. Neither the father nor the mother may take the children out of Mexican territory without the authorization of the other.12. Since GERENDE owes the parents of LIEMPTY-19 the sum of $286,500 plus agreed-on interest, minus whatever payments he has been able to make, the said GERENDE is obliged to mortgage the house at 39 Ladera, Lomas de Bezares in this city, procisely during the course of the divorce procedure by mutual consent as established in the antecedent clauses and before the divorce is granted so that LIEMPTY-19's parents are reimbursed on their loan or on the out- standing unpaid balance.13. The expenses of making this agreement a formal writ as well as the fees of B. Juardo will be paid by GERENDE but these will be fixed in an equitablo manner by Carlos Heyn to whose decision both will submit.14. In case of failure to comply with any of the clauses of this agreement at any time or for just one time, either by GERENDE or LIEMPTY-19, both agree to expressly establish the following sanctions and terms:15. If GERENDE is the one who violates any clause just one time, he will forfeit the house at Ladera 39 to the mother and children, LIEMPTY-19, Adriana Juliette, Christopher Ramon, Maria Madeleine, and Laurence Fernando, and said property will belong to the above mentioned persons.16. If LIEMPTY-19 is the one who violates the terms of this agreement for just one itme, she will lose the custody of children in favor of the father or whatever persen he designates for the guardianship and custody of the minors.17. Since LIEMPTY-19 has to establish an appropriate place to live, in the company of her four children, both parties agree that the household effects will be turned over by GERENDE, to LIEMPTY-19 for that purpose, as well as the automobile she has been using throughout the marriage.Mexico, D.F., 4 March 1970
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NOTE: GERENDE's lawyer advised him not to make a counter proposal. His comments on the above terms are as follows (keyed to above):1.  OK2.  Visitation rights everyday at any time; he may take them out overnight once per week.3.  Will pay 5000 pesos per month, to begin with date of settlement (i.e. not retroactive)4.  OK5.  OK, assuming that agreement is reached on terms6.  OK7.  OK8.  OK9.  Revise to agree with GERENDE's version of paragraph 210. OK, except payment is to be 5000 pesos.11. OK12. No. GERENDE prefers to continue paying off under the terms of the loan agreement with LIEMPTY-19's father. Later, if a mortgage can be obtained at an acceptable interest, GERENDE might consider this.13. No. GERENDE and LIEMPTY-19 will each pay their own lawyers.14. See below15. Not acceptable16. Not acceptable (in context of paragraphs 14, 15, and 16)17. She may receive household effects, but not the car.