AGENCY : RECORD NUMBER : RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER AGENCY ORIGINATOR : FROM : TO : TITLE : DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS I i ITEM IS RESTRICTED HW 53199 Docld:32347763 Page 1 Date: 12/14/04 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM t AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John F. ennedy Assassination Records CIA Ollection Act of 1992 [44 5c : F107? Wore). Case: NW 53199 104-10067-10051 Date: O6-o07-2017 JFK { ' 80T01357A \ i DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA | IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY TRAVEL OF HSCA! MEMBERS TO MEXICO CITY 05/17/1978 I. 3 ! l i JFK ASSASSINATION HSCA TRAVEL { PAPER — | | ' | 1B ,| - RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 05/25/04, “;' 20031216-1025947 JFK12 fr [yoy 104-10067-10051
——- fewer ord ’ a tS STAFF a) Ph enn Le CONF; C/LA#8 INFO: FILE+ VR» DDO94, C/CI@4, C/IP/DMS, C/LSN/ID, C/PCS, DDO/D0, ICS, ODPDeD, OLC, SA/SD0/0, (25/P) . SOR FO BONG OOO OOO OO OO 06 FO OO 8 28S FOC SOF O8 88282 OG % OESOS ET HETZOAELHE SCE OGEEOE 786 0713565 PAGE 001 TOT: 1719062 MAY 7 rs a a a STAFF 1719052 DIRECTOR 22u334 TOS IMMEDIATE MEXICO City, : WNINTEL RYBAT REFS: A, DIRECTOR 222189 8, MEXICO CITY 45093; 10709303 ™ ~~, 1. FOLLOWING HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON” ‘KESASSz MAT IONS STAFF (HSCA) SCHEDULED ARRIVE: MEXICO CITY ON 30 MAY 1978 AND “DEPART O/A 4 JUNE 1978 ar 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 -A, -A THROUGH J, 3. IN AMDITION TO JDENTITY J (WHO SUBJECT MEXICO CITY 44819 AND OIRECTOAR 215553) AND IDENTITY K, PARA 1, REF A, AND SUBJECT PARA 2, REF A, HSCA DESIRES INTERVIEW FORMER OTS STAFFER ROBERT ZAMBERNARD] WHO RETIRED MEXICO 1965, SCA DEFERS TO STATION JUDGMENT WHETHER INTERVIEWS WITH RAMON JOSEPH ALVAREZ DURANT (FORMER SAFEHOUSE KEEPER), GEORGE MUNRO y. CHARLES FLICK AND ROBERT ZAMBERNARD] SHOULD BE CONDUCTED ‘MEXICO OR WITHIN CONTINENTAL UeS. 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 HGS ATTENTION OTIS C. VIGEANT, PLS AOVISE, 4. HSCA HAS FOLLOWING SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THEY INTEND TO SECRET woot HW 53199 DoclId:32347763 Page 2?
; : STAFF 78 0713565 . PAGE 002 TOT: 171906Z MAY 78 DIRECTOR 2243448 PURSUES 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, HSCA 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 HGS 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, E. IN PHOTO COVERAGE |OF CUBAN EMBASEy THERE WERE THREE CAMERA POSITIONS BUT HQS PHOTOS MADE AVAILABLE TO HSCA APPEAR TO BE FROM ONLY Tw0 CAMERA POSITIONS, HSCA HOPES TO CLARIFY, F, HSCA HAS-INQUIRED ‘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, Se 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 IMPE TUOUS AND "FREE SPIRITED, MR, LOPEZ IS BIeLINGUAL AND HAS!MEXICAN/LATIN AMERICAN APPEARANCE, ALL HSCA STAFFERS FULLY CLEARED, 6. PLS REPLY IMMEDIATE BY COB 18 MAY 1978, - E2-¢ IMPDET,> ORIG: C/LA/STB (STURBITTS X9127)3 COORD: SA/DG/0 (SHEPANEK), CI/EXG (HOLMES), OLCs AUTHs AC/LA/MGSB’ (LEHMAN); REL: C/LA | 3fleit | . | HW 53199 bDocId:32347763 Page 3
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