104100650137 re PARA Be REF A, HSCA DESIRES INTERVIEW FORMER OTS STAFFER (ROBERT | TOs. IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY,  RERS2” As DIRECTOR 222189 , - CHSCA). SCHEDULED ARRIVE MEXICO CITY ON 30 MAY A9TB AND DEPART ‘O4A | JUNE 1978 -HSCA.VISIT NOT COORDINATED WITH FBI, cent a APPROPRIATE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES INCLUDING LOCATING= AND. ARRANGING _ INTERVIEWS WITH PERSONS LISTED PARA 1,4. REF he A THROUGH Te: JUDGMENT WHETHER INTERVIEWS WITH (RE ‘(FORMER “SAFEHOUSE KEEPER), (GEOR re a “S732 76 SECRET J FRPS oe a STARE aly CONF: C/LA=8 INFO: FILE, VR, DDO=4, C/CI|4, C/IP/DMS, eYLSN/ID, C/PCS, DDO/DO, ICS, ODPDeD, OLCy - /0, 25/P) | OM : 78 0713565 001 OS 3 TOTSS371906Z MAY 78 DIRECTOR 224314 : SECRET | 7 oo a a ft. . - . STAFF 1719052 DIRECTOR 224314 oo flg — | uh 4 ca id 4 WNINTEL RYBAT (6. MEXICO city 45093 0709303 is FOLLOWING HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS STAFF GARY CORNWELL, DEPUTY CHIEF COUNSEL. : HAROLD LEAP, INVESTIGATOR | | : a DAN. HARDWAY, RESEARCHER a _ r EDWIN LOPEZ, RESEARCHER STATE DEPARTMENT HAS SENT MESSAGE TO EMBASSY REQUESTING EMBASSY PROVIDE LODGING AND LOCAL TRANSPORT FOR STAFFERS, TO OUR KNGKLEDGE | Be EMBASSY ‘HAS -ALSO BEEN REQUESTED TO° COORDINATE Vist tSNITH + Aenea seats iou Re : 3. IN ADDITION TO IDENTITY J (WHO SUBJECT: MEXICO CIty 44819 AND DIRECTOR 215553.) AND IDENTITY Ky PARA ty. REF A, -AND SUBJECT WHO RETIRED MEXICO 1965, HSCA DEFERS. TO" eran TON. ANT) CHARLES FLICK ‘AND ‘SHOULD BE CONDUCTED MEXICO OR WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S, 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 OTs C. VIGEANT. PLS ADVISE, . I 5 i, od, HScA HAS FOLLOWING SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THEY INTEND TO — ge : SECRET : | ~ HOSIEY
14-00000 SECRET / STAFF eo snnnonnerenncanccenuccennarenennmcencnacarunmncnanaranananeneann ae 65 OE PAGE 002 071356 ot, TOTs 1719062 MAY 78 DIRECTOR 224314 = Deen naM RTE SRSeNaeeTeTeNse es 8D GY > A a caw AED See OP-ED aw en GP OP ED Gap 4 dhe GHD GEE GE GD BP Es GH ee ae GD Gp EP Ee Go-Go Se ae ee GS * AS WHAT DID OSWALD OR THE UNIDENTIFIED PERSON TOGRAPHED OUTSIDE CUBAN AND SOVIET EMBASSIES DO WHILE IN MEXICO? IDENTIFY ALL LOCAL CUBAN CONSULATE EMPLOYEES JURING 1963? “C, HSCA CONFUSED BY INABILITY TO LINK PHOTOGRAPHS OF ERSONS VISITING SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES TO TELETAPS, “D>, HSCA HAS BEEN INFORMED THROUGH INTERVIEWS THAT THERE € FIVE TELETAPS BUT HQ@S RECORDS REVEAL TAKE FROM ONLY THREE LETAPS;.: HSCA WANTS TO IDENTIFY THE OTHER TWO TELETAPS, HSCA WARE THERE WERE UNILATERAL TAPS AND THEY DESIRE KNOW IF THESE ERE ONOFFICIAL CUBAN OR SOVIET INSTALLATIONS, --£, IN PHOTO COVERAGE OF CUBAN EMBASSY THERE WERE THREE AMERAPOSITIONS BUT H@S PHOTOS MADE AVAILABLE TO HSCA APPEAR TO ial FROM ONLY TwO 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, ne 5S. PLS PROVIDE NAME OF STATION OFFICER WITH WHOM MR, CORNWELL GAN 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 Mastonenae® THEIR ACTIVITIES AND INTERVIEWS WITH MEXICAN . 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," Re LOPEZ IS Bl=LINGUAL AND HAS MEXICAN/LATIN AMERICAN ; . APPEARANCE, ALL HSCA STAFFERS FULLY CLEARED, —— oe PLS REPLY IMMEDIATE BY COB 16 MAY 1978, E2, IMPDET,> clyee C/LA/STB (STURBITTS x9127)3 COORD: SA/DO/0 (SHEPANEK), a XO (HOLMES), OLC; AUTH: AC/LA/MGSB bs REL: C/LA SECRET
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