(1o4-10727-10016) LN C/ AIM SK . a , . S5/30/ SECRET snp hoe ' STAFF 2CZ, CONF: C/LA=8 INFO? ODPDeD, VR, FILEs D/DCIs DDO-4, CSRF, C/CIe4, C/CI/OCFL, C/EPS/COMP, C/EPS/EG=2- CYOG/DMS, C/PCSs C/PCS/CAC, C/PCS/LOC, C/PCS/PGLs D/OLCse DDO/DO, ICS. OGCe2, (34/P) a) > he Ge OF Gin ae ee Gee ae ee Ch Se Gm ty Cw OF Ge Ev Ge OF OF GS Ge EH GO Gy ay HA Se Ge EM aD GE oh EP Ge Uw a Em AP an cP GH TD os Om Gh EP aw Be ge GS Cy aw GH OM GE OF GO GD Gr oD GE ED ER GF a ow HD UE aM ED: 78 1024592 PAGE 001 TOT: 2218492 JUL 78 CIRECTOR 261709 8 © Gh Gm Gh GR Ge am Ee Go Ue SE eo Ge Ge oe OF Me ae Gm a Se Ge ae Mw ED Ee om Ge Ge aD EE OP ED Ge a ED EP ah OD GE EE GS we GH ED Gee Gr OH GH AP EP GT UN GD OD GE EE GF OE EE 4H Ee WP GH OB GH GD Ep Er on aD ED: SECRET STAFF 2218492 DIRECTOR-261709 _ TOs IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY. © NIACT MEXICO CITY, RYBAT WNINTEL REF: MEXICO CITY 45940 1022228 1. FOLLOWING POINTS RESOLVED AT MEETING WITH ROBERT BLAKEY, CHIEF COUNSEL HSCA AND GARY CORNWELL, DEPUTY COUNSEL HSCA: A. HSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEW LICHANT@1 CN BASIS HE QUESTIONED DEBA GARRO DE GUERRERO GALVAN FOLLOWING KENNEDY ASSASSINA- “ TION, HSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEIR KNOWLEDGE HIS UNSITTING USE FOR Ee CIA THROUGH LIHUFFe1, , B. WSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEW LICOOKYe1 AND LIHUFFe} ON BASIS THEY U.S. CITIZENS WHO RESIDENT IN MEXICO AT TIME OF KENNEDY ASSASSINATION. AS YOU AWARE LICOGKY/1 HAS RECEIVED WIDE PUBLICITY AS RESULT JACK ANDERSON ARTICLE IN ®PARADE" MAGAZINE ON 12 AUG 1962 AS HAVING BEEN EMPLOYED IN CUBAN MINISTRY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 1959« . 60 AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH FIDEL CASTRO. LIHUFFe1 WILL BE - INTERVIEWED ON BASIS HIS RESIDENCY IN MEXICO CITY SINCE 1949 AND HIS ASSOCIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS AND AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN - MEKICO, HSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEY AWARE SOTH HAD RELATIONSHIP ~ WITH AGENCY. a. C. HSCA WILL CONTACT AND INT LITAMIL@7 AND @ ON BASIS THEY FORMER EMPLOYEES | | HSCA ADVISED US THAT ON PREVIOUS TRIP THEY VIEWED OTHER FORMER MEMBERS CUBAN EMBASSY MEXICO WITH ASSISTANCE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES. HSCA WILL NOT REVEAL TREY AWARE OF FORMER CIA RELATIONSHIP, De HSC& REQUESTS THAT RAYMOND H, GERENDE AND LIONIGNe1 (IF HE CAN BE LOCATED IN MEXICO) BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW IN HOTEL ROOM, HSCA SAID VOICE’ COMMUNICATION WILL BE SUFFICIENT, HOWe SECRET 19827
14-00000 HOS STAFF OF GE Se Git Gh Se ae ED OR GH GED AD Ne GD am EW Ee ate Ge ap oD Ge Gm Ee Ge Ge GH GE Hem Oy Gin OH EE a TH OM Ot Ga aE GP Me Ge Ge GH cy MH wm ohn GM EH gm HD GO Gh Ge AP Oo HH He GH a GH gD YH Ge GD GY OE En Ue oR oD es 78 1024592 PAGE 002 TOT: 2218492 JuL 76 DIRECTOR 261709 OO OP OE SY Gee GEE Sm SD Se Gen GE SE GT GY Gx GY GB ED wD GH SE EO GS GH GD He GE Ge OR ST Oe HY HD HE ee Me MP EY ED Go Hm OH ED am VUE Gm GO Ge Gs GE aN EE GP GO SP Ge GP ME GE HD Ge wD UD Ue OP UD tid we er En 4a OH oe EVER, CLOSED CIRCUIT TV EQUIPMENT BEING SENT FOR POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY USE. , fe HSCA HAS AGREED TO INTERVIEW EDWARD G. TICHBORN AS FORMER AGENCY EMPLOYEE IN SAME MANNER AS DONE PREVIOUSLY WITH MR. CHARLES) FLICK, ET AL. @o HSCA WILL ACCEPT CAPT, GOODING'S VOUCHING FOR BONA FIDES OF GERENDE AND LIONION©1 WHO CAN USE ALIASES DURING INTERVIEW IF THEY DESIRE, 3. HSCA CONFIRMED THAT THEY HAD REQUESTED EMBASSY TO ASK MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO LOCATE ALL BUT GERENDE AND LIONION@{’ FOR INTER@ VIEW PURPOSES, HSCA WILL BE TRAVELING OFFICIAL PASSPORTS. STATE DEPT HAS NOT ADVISED HSCA WHERE THEY WILL BE BILLETTED. 4, %IN VIEW AGREEMENT THAT ONLY GERENDE AND LIONION@1-WICL BE INTERVIEWED UNDER INDIRECT (1.E. HOTEL ROOM WITH VOICE SYSTEM) CONe@ DITIONS, STATION MAY BE ABLE ARRANGE SITE WITH LOWER PROFILE AND BETTER SECURTTY, AS WE SEE IT, MINIMUM REQUIREMENT WOULD BE FOR PRIVATE SPACE FOR HSCA,s FOR PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED AND FOR CAPT, GOODING, TECH AND STATION OFFICER. HENCE APARTMENT OR SUITE . KITH THREE SEPARATE ROOMS SHOULD SUFFICE. . Se _AS STATION NOTES, P&SSAGE TO AG FLORES NAMES(LITANIL@O, CLITAMIL@?, LICHANT@1. LIHUFFei, CLARK FLORES AND PALGMARES PRECLUDES ANY STATION ACTION TO CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEN. HOWEVER. ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STATION WHICH MIGHT ASSIST HSCA IN LOCATING THEM SHOULD BE PROVIDED. SIMILAR INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT HELP HSCA LOCATE LICOOKY=1 SHOULD ALSO BE PROVIDED, BUT AS NOTED PARA s (A) ABOVE, HSCA WILL INITIATE CONTACT AND NO DIRECT STATION ACTION REQUIRED, IN CASE OF GERENDE AND LIONICNe1. STATION WILL BE REQUIRED MAKE CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEWS, 6&6. PER PARA 1 (£) ABOVE, TICHBORN WILL BE INTERVIEWED AS FORMER AGENCY EMPLOYEE, AND STATION WILL BE EXPECTED CONTACT, ASSUM@ ING HE IN MEXICO, AND ARRANGE INTERVIEW AT CONVENTENCE OF HSCA AND AT SI\E THEIR CHOOSING. FOLLOWING IS BACKGAOUND INFO ON TICHRORN CIDENTITYJ@OFOR STATION USE: EDWARD G. TICHBORN (CP) WAS HIRED IN LATE 1959 AS POLITICAL SECRET
14-00000 SECRET STAFF 78 1024592 , PAGE 003 TOT: 221849Z JUL 78 DIRECTOR 261709 2 Ge GR Gh GE GP Te dye GO Gh GE Ge Go am cee ap SB Ge GE wap Ge a we am Gs ve Ge He UY GH GO GE Gm Ge an an EP te EP tap OH gE am ER a we GH ER UD aD wD ew GU GaP GH GE GE He GH Gin Gs Gh E> GE HD aw Ge GH Ge gn ap as GH & ACTIGN ADVISOR FOR AGENCY=SPONSORED ELECTION OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT LATIN AMERICA, IN 1961 HE BECAME FULL*TIME CONTRACT AGENT AND WAS ASSIGMED TO MEXICO.CITY UNDER PERSONAL COVER WHICH PERMITTED HIM TO TRAVEL ON THIRD COUNTRY POLITICAL ACTION ASSIGNMENTS. WHILE BASED IN- MEXICO HE WAS PRIMARILY A HOS ASSET BUT. IN ADDITION, ASSISTED THE STATION BY ESTABLISHING/RUNNING A MAGAZINE AIMED <AT LATIN-AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AND BY REPORTING S/ATTITUDES OF MEXICAN LEF Tew! IELLECTUALS,. FOR PERSONAL REASONS, TICHBORN LEFT MEXICO IN auc || DURING PERIOD LA DIVISION HAD OPPOR TO USE TICHBORN AS™ AL | ADVISOR ON ONE OCCASION, FILE INDICATED HE ALSO MADE MAJOR EFFORT TO DEVELOP IN@-DEPTH STUDY OF THE PRI IN MEXICO BUT, AS OF MAY 1967, THIS EFFORT WAS DROPPED BECAUSE OF RELUCTANCE ON PART OF HIS PRI CONTACTS TO DISCUSS SENSITIVE PRI AREAS AND TO INTRODUCE HIM TO OTHER CONTACTS. ALTHOUGH SCHEDULED FOR TERMINATION ON 30 SEPT 1967+ HE FINALLY SEVERED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COVER COMPANY ON 31 AUG 1968 AND RECEIVED HIS TERMINATION SETTLEMENT ON 12 SEPT 1968. THE LAST KNOWN ADDRESS (DOI NOV 1966) FOR TICHBORN WAS‘S900 ARLINGTON AVENUE, RIVERDALE, NEW YORK, HOME PHONE (212) 8848728, ° 7e APPRECIATE STATION EFFORTS TO COPE WITH REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED ON US BY HSCA AND OUR OWN CONCERN FOR SECURITY IN MEETING DEMANDS PLACED BY HSCA, HSCA DEPUTY COUNSEL GARY CORNWELL WAS TOLD AT 22 JULY MEETING THAT CAPT. GOODING. AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OCI, WOULD MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO RESCLVE (WITH COS PARTICIPATION) ANY PROBLEMS THAT MAY ARISE DURING HSCA VISIT TO MEXICO. IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS MATTER WE ASK THAT STATION MAKE A MEXIMUM EFFORT TO ENSURE THE SUCCESS OF THE HSCA MISSION, .6. NO FILE, Ee IMPDET.>. ; ORIG: LA/MGSB/M (HAWKINS) AND C/LA/STAFFB (STURBITTS); COORD: C/PCS (PAGE)s C/LAD (WARREN)? AUTH: C/LA/MGSB (HAWKINS)? REL? DDO (STURBITTS BY DIRECTION OF) CL BY 029163.«< END OF MESSAGE - SECRET