[ftos-1o127-10003] i Aaa) re Mor 0OT Fou “73276 | 7 SECRET | / FRPS. STAFF - CONF: C/LAeB INFO: FALEs VR, DDO@4, C/CIe4, C/IP/DMS, C/LSN/ID, SEC RE T C/PCS, DDO/DG, .ICS, ODPD=p, OLE), SA/D0/0, (25/P) > GP EH GP HP ee GP CP EP GE EP Ee cep eye aah Oud CD aes gop agp GP Ep GP ao GP ae GO ap Ss am a ep ae ap Ge Gb UH GE EP Cw Ge GP ae ae ER ow 78 0713565" PAGE 001. T: 171906Z MAY 78 DIRECTOR 224314 (Oo GF Ge Sw Ge GS HS GD GP Se GP GH ap OH Go Gh GP GH GP AD ED Eo aD am Gm GH GH OH GP GH TD GH GH EM EP GH GP GP GD ER GH GN GD SH OD en ay GP EP GF SP GR YD GH GN EP GB OD aw wD GD ED oD HR AE wr GD Ep Os oD EP ED STAFF 1719052 DIRECTOR 224314 TOs IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY, " WNINTEL RYBAT Saale REFS: A, DIRECTOR 222189 B. MEXICO CITY 45093 0709303 1. FOLLOWING HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS STAFF C(HSCA) SCHEDULED ARRIVE MEXICO CITY ON 30 MAY 1978 AND DEPART O/A 4 JUNE 1978 GARY CORNWELL, DEPUTY CHIEF COUNSEL HAROLD LEAP, INVESTIGATOR DAN HARDWAY, RESEARCHER EDWIN LOPEZ, RESEARCHER STATE DEPARTMENT HAS SENT MESSAGE TO EMBASSY REQUESTING EMBASSY PROVIDE LODGING AND LOCAL TRANSPORT FOR STAFFERS, TO OUR KNOWLEDGE HSCA VISIT NOT COORDINATED WITH FBI, 2, EMBASSY HAS ALSO BEEN REQUESTED TO COORDINATE VISIT WITH APPROPRIATE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES INCLUDING LOCATING AND ARRANGING INTERVIEWS WITH PERSONS LISTED PARA 1, REF.-Ay -A THROUGH 1... 3. IN ANDITION TO IDENTITY J (WHO SUBJECT MEXICO. CITY 44819 AND DIRECTOR 215553) AND IDENTITY Ky PARA 1, REF A, AND SUBJECT PARA 2, REF A, HSCA DESIRES INTERVIEW FORMER OTS STAFFER -ROBERTDS [ZAMBERNARDI) WHO RETIRED MEXICO 1965, HSCA DEFERS TO STATION JUDGMENT WHETHER INTERVIEWS WITH SAMON JOSEPH ALN (FORMER SAFEHOUSE KEEPER), GEORGE MUNRO, CHARLES FLICK AND SHOULD BE CONDUCTED MEXICO OR WITHIN CONTINENTAL UseS, IF STATION AMENABLE HSCA INTERVIEWING THESE INDIVIDUALS MEXICO SUGGEST INTERVIEWS BE CONDUCTED IN EMBASSY, IF THESE INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED MEXICO, STATION SHOULD POUCH ALL NOTES TAKEN BY INTERVIEWERS TO HOS ATTENTION OTIS C. VIGEANT. -PLS ADVISE, 4, ‘HSCA HAS FOLLOWING SPECIFIC. QUESTIONS THEY INTEND TO SECRET: - 19 8/7
14-00000 No SECRET / STAFF _ OP GES er eam gee WR Ge GE 00 000 a aay TD GO ED ED EH (8 Gre O9.ER aap app eam tn SE A GP ab ath Gt GO Te GH EP OP OD an WE EP aD am ep ay PO Ob Gh EP Op Go ae GP ER GS en em oD SE Ge aD Ge GER ED GE aE Ee @] OP 78 0713565 | ae “PAGE 002 | TOT: 1719062 MAY 78 DIRECTOR 224344 AES OP Ee ee et ED AS Ge BP Ge EE ae oe ED en OS Ge we GP oD a ED 2h Si Ee at CD SS GEO SP.AG ED 4B Om Be am aH He ap om a-ER ED Sh Go GF Gr GU EP ED GO Go Gb BY GY GD UP cin 4H Ew GH Ew GP ear EH GO EE ED aD wo aD PURSUE: A, WHAT.DID OSWALD OR THE UNIDENTIFIED ‘PERSON PHOTOGRAPHED OUTSIDE CUBAN AND ‘SOVIET EMBASSIES DO WHILE IN MEXICO? B, IDENTIFY ALL LOCAL CUBAN CONSULATE EMPLOYEES DURING 1963? C. SCA CONFUSED BY INABILITY TO LINK PHOTOGRAPHS OF PERSONS VISITING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES TO TELETAPS, D, HSCA HAS BEEN INFORMED THROUGH INTERVIEWS THAT THERE WERE FIVE TELETAPS BUT HQS RECORDS REVEAL TAKE FROM ONLY THREE TELETAPS, HSCA WANTS TO IDENTIFY THE OTHER TWO TELETAPS, HSCA - AWARE THERE WERE UNILATERAL TAPS AND THEY DESIRE KNOW IF THESE -. WERE ON OFFICIAL CUBAN OR SOVIET INSTALLATIONS, oe E. IN PHOTO COVERAGE OF CUBAN EMBASSY THERE WERE THRE CAMERA POSITIONS BUT HQ@S PHOTOS MADE AVAILABLE TO HSCA APPEAR TO BE FROM ONLY TwO CAMERA POSITIONS, HSCA HOPES TO CLARIFY, Habs F. HSCA HAS. INQUIERED IF STATION CAN ASSIST IN ARRANGING MEETINGS WITH MEXICAN OFFICIALS WHO KNOWLEDGEABLE THIS INVESTIGATION, DEFER STATION JUDGMENT RE THIS REQUEST DUE EMBASSY INVOLVEMENT PARA 2, ABOVE, -d3e PLS PROVIDE NAME OF STATION OFFICER WITH WHOM MR, CORNWELL CAN BE IN CONTACT WITH DURING VISIT, 6. HSCA OPEN TO ANY ‘STATION GUIDANCE -RE: PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED DURING THEIR VISIT, -HSCA ASSUMES MEXICAN AUTHORITIES WILL MONITOR THEIR ACTIVITIES AND INTERVIEWS WITH MEXICAN NATIONALS, 7, FYI ONLY: HSCA STAFFERS CORNWELL, HARDWAY, AND LOPEZ HAVE RECENTLY VISITED ‘CUBA IN CONNECTION WITH THEIR _ INVESTIGATION, ‘MR, CORNWELL IS -MATURE, DISCREET, AGGRESSIVE AND EXPERIENCED ATTORNEY/PROSECUTOR, MR, LEAP IS MATURE AND EXPERIENCED INVESTIGATOR, MESSRS, HARDWAY AND LOPEZ ARE YOUNG RESEARCHERS WHO ARE SOMEWHAT IMPETUOUS AND “FREE SPIRITED,® MR. LOPEZ IS BI=LINGUAL AND HAS MEXICAN/LATIN AMERICAN APPEARANCE, -ALL HSCA STAFFERS -FULLY CLEARED, 8. PLS REPLY IMMEDIATE. BY COB 18 MAY 1978, £2, IMPDET,> ORIG: C/LA/STB (STURBITTS X9127)7 COORD: SA/DO/0 (SHEPANEK), CIVEXO (HOLMES), OLC# AUTH: .-AC/LA/MGSB (LEHMAN); REL? C/LA SECRET OC a TMreden 0 , | \Yehes8 Co
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