Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hogsho14 DATE: 11-14-2017 National Archives and Records Administration Ca Kennedy Assassination Collection Full Results Viewing/Ordering Information ) Back to Brief Results Back to Search Exit JFK Hits 1-1 of 1 Hit 1 of 1 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORDS SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER ORIGINATOR FROM TO TITLE DATE PAGES DOCUMENT TYPE SUBJECTS CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW OPENING CRITERIA Hits 1-1 of 1 AGENCY INFORMATION FBI 124-10086-10008 HQ 105-82555-5145 DOCUMENT INFORMATION FBI BRANIGAN,. W. A. SULLIVAN, W. C. (No Title] 10/02/1964 2 PAPER, TEXTUAL DOCUMENT LIAISON WITH MEXICAN AUTHORITIES, COORDINATION OF INVEST UNCLASSIFIED 4 RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 07/26/1996 INDEFINITE Audit histor Back to Brief Results Back to Search Exit JFK National Archives and Records Administration Doub hind dda fodia i-dinA Pinder /8542/fisnew. bt for this Record Identification Form
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hote). DATE: 11-14-2017 ve ’ OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 5010-106 ~¢ - UNITED STATES G RNMENT Belmont Mote Mohr aiichan Memorandum a TO W. C. sutivard 2 pate: 10-2-64 DeLoach Conrad au 1 - Callahan f orrom We Ae Br ne CRETE 1 —- Sullivan lg ° St Rosen Gandy wae eee, 1 — Branigan et fe pe ' SUBJECT: LEE HARVEY crfretsted by Saher sere: LEE HARVEY osmatye DS esr State Department advises that Commission “request to declassify Legal Attache Mexico City's 5-18 "Secret" summary memorandum is not likely to cause harmful repercussions between Mexico and U. S. and \ it has no objection to declassification. This recommends that we .prepare a sanitized unclassified version of the summary for delivery to the Commission, a.procedure which the Commission now states will S meet its needs.g (hy NN The Commission on 9-22 asked us to declassify the "Secret" 18l-page 5-18-64 summary prepared by Legal Attache Mexico City. y ' The principal reason for classification of the summary was to: avoid NS &-, disclosure of active investigation in Mexico by Bureau ersdhnel, a = (XM factor the Mexicans rongly opposed and to protect highly sénsiti or ? f° N security informants (lex 18 and 193 who provided some of- thecdata QS > Sin the document. Because of possible international repercus$ions: ic between Mexico and U. S. if the summary was made public, we on 9-23 z sought the views of the State Department. State's 9- ~29,writ en reply expresses view that declassification is not likely to oguse armful iq repercussions between Mexico ton) and, accordingly, it ihterposes if “) feast AOE UAL LON COMA INEp no objection to declassification Wu wy Legal Attache, Mexico City, is opposed to declassification ~. fof ‘the document in its present form and suggests that, if possible, a sanitized version be prepared by deleting three nonsubstantive items 4 which are not referred to in the Commission's report and by deleting 2 references to sources of information throu yo pins Le isti gugsh between Mexican sources and Pureaustscrigs seg 2eD COPY + at Waa |: On 10-1 Miss Hennigan, secretary id inig §39WsOn, ‘staff member of the Commission, advised that Here disclosure of the .summary, in its 3 present form is in any/8 yectionablaste the Bureau): ‘a redraft of Same deleting or changing tiie material which may be harmful to Bureau's operations would ty) fit tiie. Commission's
Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Hote),.. | DATE: 11-14-2017 . woe ; ; o fe a bad - x Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan. Re: LEE HARVEY OSWALD *105-~82555 ee ; ' “CONF The summary can readily be ended to su the Commission's geces and at the same me to protects Mex an and to avoid 4 Ub} disciosure of the extent of our investigation in Mexico, This can be accomplished by deleting reference to three.items which are not. touched upon in the Commission's report and by rewriting an introduction paragraph on page one deleting a specific reference to a confidential source abroad (Legat). The Commission's report on page 304 records that". . . the Government of Mexico initiated a thorough investigation to uncover as much information as possible on Oswald's trip. Representatives of U. S. agencies worked in close liaison with Mexican law enforcement authorities." A slight revision of introductory paragraph on p one. will accurately fit the above statement of the Consiastonl A) ; % RECOMMENDATION It is recommended that to properly protect our operations in Mexico, the 5-18 summary be written in unclassified form as aforesaid. To do this will not require complete retyping. We propose to amend principally by deleting five to six pages, and to reproduce the document by Xerox and to renumber the pages au) 5 1 ° ay ps men -2- — \PONFIENTIAL gts’ Ayer i mae is a mavbig (Ayan SLA ~ ~ we DoclId: 32146632 Page 3