Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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# RELEASE AND SECRECY AGREEMENTI, Ramon ALVAREZ Durant, do hereby forever release the United States Government from any and all claims and demands of whatever nature which I or any member of my family has against the United States Government.I agree to keep forever secret the fact of my confidential relationship, and that of other members of my family, with the United States Government. I also agree to keep forever secret my knowledge of all persons, methods, and equipment which I acquired in the course of my relationship with the United States Government.I understand that I am to receive a bonus payment amounting to $10,000 (USD) payable in ten monthly installments of $1,000 (USD) beginning 31 July 1970. I further understand that payment of this sum is contingent upon full compliance with this secrecy agreement, and that the United States Government shall be the sole judge of such compliance. Furthermore, I specifically renounce any claim to any similar bonus or other payment made to any other member of my family.This Release and Secrecy Agreement is effective as of the date it is signed. I acknowledge that I have read it and I fully understand its meaning.![Signature of Ramon ALVAREZ Durant]____________________Date 26 June, 1970____________________Ramón ALVAREZ DurantWITNESS:![Signature of Hester ROOS de ALVAREZ]____________________Date 26 June 1970____________________Hester ROOS de ALVAREZ![Signature of Donald F. VOGEL]____________________Date 26 June 1973____________________Donald F. VOGEL![Signature of Victor E. BELLINI]____________________Date June 26, 1970____________________Victor E. BELLINICS COPYslc att. #2 to HMMA-39129 201-119523
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# SECRETPseudonym:Raymond H. GERENDEProject: LIEMPTYAgent Recruited by: Matthew S. DINGLEY Date: 18 March 1955Capacity in Which Agent Served: LIEMPTY Project principal agent, formerly member of surveillance team, also LIFEAT basehouse keeper.Rate of Pay: $7,000.00 (USD) per annumOther Commitments: Termination payment equal to one month's salary for each full year of service after 18 March 1955.Agent Dismissed by: Vincent P. RIZZUTO Date: 30 June 1970Reason for Dismissal: Subject became involved in a bitter divorce action with his wife (LIEMPTY-19). The protracted legal battle forced the Station to suspend GERENDE from operational activity for six months for security reasons. When it became evident that no early solution was in sight, termination had to be effected.See attached sheetIs the Agent Recommended for Reuse: Yes, assuming that his earlier service has not been exposed, that his marital problems have been resolved, and that he has sufficient outside employment income to obviate the need for full-time employment by JKLANCE.Manner of Dismissal: Amicable. GERENDE expressed thanks for the generous settlement and swore to preserve security.Letter of Termination Signed: Yes.Cost of Termination: $10,000.00 (USD), payable in ten monthly installments.Station Case Officer: Vincent P. RIZZUTOActing Chief of Staff: Horace E. PRALLETTCS COPY1/watt #1 to HMMA-39129 201-119523
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SECRETParagraph 9 of Agent Service Record:Security Risks: GERENDE has known a number of Station officers in true name, although with the PCS departure of RIZZUTO the last of these will have left Mexico. (GERENDE's remaining contact will be Bruce H. FERNALD, whom he knows in alias.) GERENDE knows all agents currently associated with the LIEMPTY operation, as well as LIEMPTY-10 and -11, currently working with the LIEMBRACE team. He also knowa LIEMBRACE-1, -2, and -4, and is, of course, aware of the objectives and methods of the LIEMPTY and LIEMBRACE operations. He knows that the Station has access to the entire LIMESA complex, although he does not know of the LIMUST operation. GERENDE knows the true names and JKLANCE status of Oliver G. SCANTLING, David N. WILSTED, and Raymond L. BARCENAS. He knows of the LIFEAT operation through his own former activities as well as those of his nother (LIFEUD-19) and his wife (LIEMPTY-19). The husbands of his two sisters work for the Station. One is LIEMPTY-4, who was handled by GERENDE, and the other is LIBAND-1, whose activity is not supposed to be known to GERENDE. In past years GERENDE was exposed to almost all phases of Station support activity. In recent years he has been more compartmented. GERENDE received five weeks of Headquarters covert training in 1957.SECRET
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# SECRETCABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMIΝΑΤΙΟΝCLASSIFIED MESSAGEROUTING AND OR INITIALS-SEEN BYADVANCE COPY ☐ ISSUED ☑ LOTTEDSECRETPRECEDENCIBY: M AT:DISSEM BY 281 PER 123 EQFILE, VRACTION UNITSECRET 0600472 JUL 70 CITE MEXICO CITY 3612 (PRALLETT ACTING)PRIORITY DIRECTORRYBATREF: DIRECTOR 0486321. GERENDE AND WIFE TERMINATED IN JOINT CEREMONY 26 JUNE..TERMS OF TEMINATION PAYMENTS EXPLAINED TO EACH, AND EACH SIGNEDQUIT CLAIMS CAND SIGNED THE OTHER'S AS WITNESS) WHICH SPECIFICALLYRENOUNCED ANY CLAIM TO TERMINATION PAYMENT MADE TO THE OTHER, OR TOANY OTHER PAYMENT FROM VOLADY. EACH APPEARED SATISFIED WITHSETTLEMENT AND SIGNED WITHOUT PROTEST. DETAILS POUCHED 3 JULYIN HMMA-39129 AND 39130. GERENDE'S WIFE SAID NOTHINGABOUT TRIP TO WASHINGTON AND IN FACT THIS UNLIKELY AS SCHOOL SHE ?TEACHING AT STILL IN SESSION.2. DIVORCE ACTION STILL BASICALLY AT IMPASSE DESCRIBED INATTACHMENTS TO HMMA-38700. IF GERENDE'S WIFE ACTUALLY DOES DESIRECONTACT PER REF, IT PROBABLY TO SEEK MONEY RATHER THAN HELP ORADVICE ON DIVORCE ACTION. VIEW ABOVE AND FACT THAT GERENDE'SWIFE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THERE WOULD BE NO FURTHER JKLANCE CONTACTEXCEPT FOR CASE OFFICER HANDLING MONTHLY TERMINATION PAYMENTS,AND THAT SHE ALSO UNDERSTANDS THAT ANY VIOLATION OF SECRECY AGREEMENTVOULD RESULT IN CANCELLATION HER TERMINATION PAYMENT, RECOMMENDSECRET
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# SECRETCharles M. BoundsADC/WII/17376/93546 July 1970MESSAGE FORMTOTAL COPICS: 6CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATIONINDEXRETURN TOBRANCH.FILE RIDFILE IN CS FILE NO.FILE VR. DDP ADDPEYES ONLYSECRETCITE DIRECTOR 048632PRIORITY MEXICO CITYRYBAT1.  HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY FRIEND OF GERENDE'S WIFE THAT SHE IN WASHINGTON AREA AND DESIRES CONTACT WITH "SENIOR REPRESENTATIVE" JKLANCE, ASSUME THIS IN CONNECTION WITH PENDING DIVORCE ACTION.2.  PLEASE ADVISE BY 1200 WASHINGTON TIME 7 JULY. STATUS DIVORCE ACTION BETWEEN GERENDE AND HIS WIFE, ALSO    REQUEST STATION ADVISABILITY HEADQUARTERS DISCUSSION WITH GERENDE'S WIFE AND LINE TO BE TAKEN IF STATION RECOMMEN DISCUSSION.3.  FILE: 201-119523.END OF MESSAGE* IS COMMENT: SUGGEST ADDITIONAL DISSEM TO D/OGC.![signature of william broe]WILLIAM V. BROECHIEF. WILDRELEASING OFFICERWH/FI/NOCCOORDINATING OFFICERSSECRET![signature of john murray]JOHN C. MURRAYCHIEF, WII/1AUTHENTICATING OFFICERCOPY NO.REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED
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G: W.R. HazenF: WH/1I: 4167/1973RE: 23 May 70SLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATION![photo of secretariat dissernination area]INFOFILE, VRSECRETMEXICO CITYLIEMPTYREF: DIRECTOR 03225*1. LIEMPTY AMENDMENT APPROVED TO PAY MAXIMUM $10,000 TER-   MINATION BONUS FOR GERENDE AND $2,500 FOR LIEMPTY/19.2. APPROVAL CARRIED CAVEAT THAT BONUSES BE PAID ON MONTHLY   BASIS RATHER THAN IN ONE LUMP SUM. THIS ARRANGEMENT SHOULD GIVE   YOU SOME CONTROL OVER FUTURE ACTIONS GERENDE AND LIEMPTY/19   BECAUSE THEY WILL KNOW THAT CONTINUED RECEIPT OF MONTHLY PAYMENTS   DEPENDS ON THEIR CONTINUED LOYALTY TO JKLANCE.3. FILE: 201-119523END OF MESSAGE*WH Comment: Ref informed field that Hqs would advise whenLIEMPTY ammendment approved to pay GERENDE and wife terminationbonuses.![signature of WH/FI]WILLIAM V. BROECHIEF, WHDWH/B&F THOMPSON/s/(in draft)WH/Contracts RENEHAN /s/(in draft)JOHN C. MURRAYCHIEF, WH/1201-119573![signature of authenticating officer]REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
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AC/WH/1/F-1/21JG:W.R. HazenTO: WH/1F:4167/1973TE: 6 May 1970ABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATIONDEP PERINFO: WH8 FILE. VR. PLAN LIPE/PG 0052SECRET17 22 32010CITE DIRECTOR032254MEXICO CITYLIEMPTYREF: MEXICO CITY 3069 (IN 072365)*1. WE CURRENTLY PROCESSING PROJECT LIEMPTY AMENDMENT TO COVER COST GERENDE TERMINATION IN FY 70. HOWEVER, UNTIL THIS AMENDMENT APPROVED, WE UNABLE AUTHORIZE TERMINATION PAYMENTS REQUESTED REF. SUGGEST YOU PLAN TERMINATION FOR 30 JUNE 1970 INSTEAD OF 31 MAY 1970. WILL ADVISE AS SOON AS AMENDMENT IS APPROVED.2. FILE: 201-119528.END OF MESSAGE*WH Comment: Ref. requests concurrence termination GERENDE effective 31 May 1970 and pay $10,000 termination bonus.WH/FI file. lorrin lileturWH/B&FWH/ContractsS COPYSECRETWILLIAM V. BROECHIEF, WHDJOHN C. MURRAYCHIEF, WH/1201-119526201-11952707 May 70AUTHENTICATING OFFICERREPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED. GERENDE COPY NO.
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CABLE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATIONPERSON/UNIT NOTIFIEDCLASSIFIED MESSAGETOTAL COPIES 12-SECRET-(When Filled In)ROUTING AND/OR INITIALS-SEEN BYADVANCE COPYISSUEDSLOTTEDREPRODUCTION IS COPY PROHIBITEDINDEX:YESNO12345678CLASSIFY TO CS FILE NO.BY:AT:ZREF TO CS FILE NO.DISSEM BY 30 PERFILE RDRETURN TOACTION UNIT WHPINFO FILE, VR R/LAN MPS/BG BRANCHACTION NO. 222SECRET 282205Z APR 70 CITE MEXICO CITY (3069)DIRECTOR MEXILIEMPTY 28 APR IN 072365REF HMMA-38700, PARA 111. STATION WISHES GIVE GERENDE TERMINATION NOTICE BY 30 APRIL, TO PERMIT SALARY CUTOFF BY 31 MAY.2. REQUEST HQS CONCURRENCE AND APPROVAL TERMINATION BONUS AS PROPOSED REF.3. FILE: 201-119523 WPQAQGOIWEN 58-6-74/3. GP-1.SECRET![AN and AR approval]![CS COPY SECRET] EMPTY/1 GERENDE(P) 201-119523 28apr70
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# DISPATCH**SECRET**Chief, H DivisionChief, SB DivisionChief of Station, Mexico CityLIEMPTY 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. GERIDE, 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 sinco carly December 1969, when GLENDE 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 promiscd 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 LINERGO and LREAD) 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 hor photos of all HARSH Badassy personnel and getting from her a character skotch on each individual. These photos were all obtained by LILYRIC and LICALLA. Secondly, LIEPTY observations (as opposed toAttachment:Reports u/s/cDistbituion:2 - C/MH w/att u/s/c1 - C/SB w/att u/s/cHMMA-38700SECRETFILE: GERENDE25 March 197050-6-74/3
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SECRET IIIA-3870012. Regarding the project renewal for FY 1971, as far as LICALLA, LILYRIC, and LIEMPTY-4 are concerned, co changes in procedure are planned. The product is useful, it is as timely az present circumstances permit, and the personnel involved are doing their jobs well. The only change forescen is an increase in salary for some, if not all, of these agents. The most recent salary increases took effect in May 1968. LIEPTY-4 has not had an increase since January 1967, and LIEMPTY-13 since January 1964. Increase in cost of living alono 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 GEREDE'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.Vincent for/John A. PROBAKTFORM8-64 53a USE PREVIOUS EDITION.(40)CLASSIFICATIONSECRET CONTINUEDPAUL NO.650-6-74/3
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15 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 go by, changes may occur which    go unreported or unnoticed and which may bring about unexpected    events and repercussions. When s. person has been working for the    Station, as I have, for fifteen 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 me 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 was 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-bayingdeal which turned out to be complicated as ze 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 mall Jot 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 1957. While LIEMPTY-19supervised the construction, I worked during September 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 hismoney and about $60,000 that LIEMPTY-10 and I had saved and got thehouse finished enough to move in in March 1958. 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.Thereafter, we did things on the house as the money came 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 radic and TV group. LIEMPTY-19 was, 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   could talk of was 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 pioncers "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 work 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   away ten weeks. The four children remained with me, the maid, andSECRET
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- 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 November 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 Guillerao    came and LIEMPTY-19 went with then to their home two blocks away.    About a half-hour later I walked up to Uta's to ask LIEMPTY-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 (LIENTY-4's wife) picked them up ard    took them to her house where I joined them for lunch. LIEPTY-19    came by in the late afternoon while my sister was oot, 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-IS 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 Bezaros.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, Baron 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 lawyer 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