foanbse PoE Ma cr Mae Cee ¥ *%. % » YS r = X a 1804014240084, (This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—-controlied documents.) ae) -- Appendix 3: HSCA Procedural Write-up Mexico Trip 2° House Select Committee staffers Edwin Juan Lopez and Harold Leap traveled to Mexico City on August 7, rtment 1978. The staff members were met by pavid T. Patton, ¢ a re Lea, 4 THIS COPY IS NOT ~ FOR RELEASE, *. at the Mexican aiYport % ye 10:15 p.m. Mr. Patton | I \ then checked the staffers into Room 1754 gt the Maria Uf . A [iribetbe wnbormed the SkFE members thet Lore . Isabel Hotel, Stetngield {CTA Chief of Station in pan Mexico city,] wishea to see us at 8:30 a.m. the following morning. ‘On Tuesday, August 8, 1978, Committee staffers met with{ Larry Sternfield. 1 He informed the staffers that the two individuals.the Committee wished to ‘inter- 1y07 view,| Daniel Flores, aka Luis Apariciojand}) Ramon Alvarez /, 2°% ' mene] were now available. At 9:30 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem- bers. ineervieweaf Danny Flores ff" Se Frores} interviey. ) ‘The interview ended at approximately — 10:15 a.m. Committee staff members returned fe. Sternfield' Ss ). t afi oo J + Govern tO offices nee stated that. it appeared the ec e Avice? “4 Ds had only been able to locate two witnesses for the Com- 2 . 0 | ; if mittee, Oscar Contreras Lartigue°and Noe W. Palomares + ne SYR OOSY
(This form is to be used for material extracted from ClA—controlled documents.) 4 stent ied J 24 [ “He asked the staff members,whom they wished to speak, ) The Committee staff members xpiained that they would ‘like to interview| Lichant co [Licookie 1) frames) aid i2! HE se3 ite [ nitimais 7 asi [Litamil 9.% Ste€nfieldfstated that it appeared that the House Select Committee on Assassina tions had already asked the Mexicans to locate ‘them, tshed bese eo ME Steinfield|stated that the HSCA's interview "with [Ramon Alvarez Duran Jwas considered "highly sensi- tive." He explained that three rooms at a nearby hotel would be used. In one room, [Ramon Alvarez Durant would sit, Committee staff members would sit ina second room and two CIA personnel officers would insure that the “equipment worked properly in a third room. Mr [ Stein- field’ nen phoned Mr. Niles Gooding, who had been sent [te the [Mexico City Station} from Headquarters to arrange the procedures for the interviews. Mr. Gooding explained that in 1977 Stansfield Turner had created a new posi- tion at Headquarters to insure that important sensitive meetings were within the guidelines previously arranged. Mr. Gooding stated that the central Intelligence Agency | had: been under greater Congressional scrutiny eon the past two years. Therefore, Director Turner, in order to demonstrate the Agency's good faith, had engaged a retired ie aera Ral
Following morning, This form is te be used for material extracted rom ClA—controlied cocuments.) Army officer to act as liaison at sensitive interviews > by Congressional - representatives. Mr. Gooding then ex- ASA sto lt pases that we would be escorted by two CIA personnel to oar interview with [Ramon Alvarez Durant. } At 10:55 a.m., August 8, 1978, Committee staff mem- arg bers ee Alvarez Durant. J (SeesfRamon—-AL- cEte-up:) At 12:30 p.m., Committee staff members telephoned Captain Fernandez Ventura Gutierrez. His secretary explained that Mr. Ventura was not in the office, but that. she would have him call us when he returned. At 6:30 p.m., since Mr. Ventura had not yet returned the staffen™s call, they again called his office. His se- cretary apologized for Mr. Ventura and explained that he had;not yet returned to the office and she assured us that he would telephone upon his return. At 9:15 p.m., br. ‘Jesus Yaneg, the Assistant to the official mayor, telephoned the staff members explaining that Mr. Ventura was very busy on an important assignment and asked us alice Shalftum  Kaswn as the £o visit the \Procuraduria General/ at 11:00 a.m. ‘the t At 10:15 a.m., August 9, 1978, Committee staff members met with State Department Official Richard Howard r. j to, oS ¥