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104-10174-100432025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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Dear Mr. Tichborn:
The following is set forth as clarification of your present
mission, and the procedures which will be followed in the conduct
of it. Please indicate your agreement by signing below.
A.
Operational
1. You will be briefed generally on some aspects of the Cuban
situation while in Washington on this date..
2. The major briefing to be given you concerning the local
political situation, security precautions, and more detailed
instructions on your present mission will be undertaken upon your
arrival in Havana.
3. Upon arrival in Havana a tourist card will be issued by
the Cuban Immigration authorities. You will give your true name and
occupation in the United States and state that you are in that area
as a "tourist".
4. Your initial contact in Havana will be with IDEN A (namo
and telephone number attached hereto). When making this call, you
will identify yourself as Fred Morse.
5. IDEN A will then give you the briefing mentioned in paragraph
2 above.
6. IDEN A will also arrange to put you in contact with about.
two individuals for the purpose of starting you on your assignment.
It is anticipated that other leads and contacts will result from
these introductions, both in Havana and the interior.
7. When talking to any local contacts you make while, in Cuba,
your cover story will be the following: that you are talking to them
on the behalf of some (unnamed) American businessmen and investors in
order to assess discreetly their position and legal resources as concerns
the revolutionary laws and to determine the possibility for future
financial development and investments.
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8. We are providing you with a letter from a cover company
(attached hereto) which you will use only in the case of extreme
emergency in the event that you come to the attention of the Cuban
authorities. This letter states that you are there on a vacation
and that this company has asked you to get some first-hand information
on the subjects mentioned in paragraph 7 above while there if you
are so inclined. This will provide you with a plausible excuse for
being both a tourist and one interested in talking with local
personalities.
9. Your mission generally is to talk with as many knowledgeable
persons as possible regarding the political situation in Cuba, with
special emphasis on the opposition, its strengths, weaknesses, plans
and prograris. Of particular interest is the possibility or feasibility.
of a coalescence of these opposition groups.
B.
Administrative
1. While on your present assignment you will keep a record of
your expenses which will enable you to submit the required accounting
for funds upon your return. In keeping the accounts you should note
times of arrival and departure, detailed notation of expenses incurred,
and the rate of exchange obtained when exchanging U. S. dollars into
local currency.
2. Upon your return you will submit two accountings. One will
include your salary under "services rendered", and also your expenses
and will be in true name to the following company:
Ashmead, Haniford Associates
1615 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
324
3. The second accounting will also include salary and operational
expenses and will be submitted in pseudonym to:
"
Henry W. Darkin
P. O. Box 8105
Southwest Station
Washington, D. C.
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