’ Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1997 TIS F107 Notes é Hag: aoa -27017 “ ae : 7 . a | 1 ~ Liaison | 1 = Mr. Atkinson | “aay 195~149236 ~'5 BY LEATSOR Date: § May 2, 1966 [ "Pes Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence Department of the Army S-16~F. Attention: Director. of Security Seeley From: John. Bdgar Boover, Director bn & | «Subject: + PELIPE aveusry CARRERA Cy | { INFERNAL SECURITY ~ VENEZUELA af tae: Reference is made to your letter dated April 20, 1966, eS captioned "Request for Permission to Disseminate (U),” your ae reference ACSI-~DSCO., — | ack We are checking with our original source, 2 | aie confidential source ‘abroad, te determine if it interposes | ‘2 any objection ‘to the dissemination of the document concerning athens t Asian country SAfter securing the views of our insurgency in Vietnam. try (Sitter secu military official of ! oneses vised as. te whether the v4 ae concerning: ingurgen y be disseminated tea Thai. officer. _e- gopies mad@ } BAGS IF DIC frre! =f «sai £ View aes ey 2 2 Legat, Bern ‘Ginclosure) BUDED 5/12/66 BEG ES IE § Nore FOR LEGAT, BERN: , | (Ae luc potey Cok) 1 2G | 4 . #- Enclosed is one copy of referenced letter. The” i translation. referred to therein has. ween retained at the. Bureau. | ; | : 7 J i / Reurlet 11/17/65 and Bulet 1/14/66, ——— a 9966. NOTE FOR LEGAT, BERN CONTINUED > a iS i WHA: jes o (8) Trotter Tele, em Ho Gandy M ercive PELETYPE UNI CI * y —— 5 MAY" F - Mis00 | Docld: 32303624 Page 2?
| Rele ed under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 19927 (44 USC 2107 Hotes. - DA MN -14-2017 = ge NOTE FOR “LEGAT ' BERN, CONTINUED: Your relet enclosed one pamphiet in Spanish entitled "Principios Fundamentales de la estrategia y. tactica de la Guerra de Gurillas" and copies of a manuscript. in Spanish entitled “Operaciones — contra helicopteros ."(S)_ fe Bulet 1/14/66 advised above enclosures had been made available to Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI) and that the latter greatly appreciated being furnished the data and welcomed the opportunity to analyze such data. In view of the request set forth in the enclosed letter, Legat determine if your original soure interposes © any objection to an English-language translation of the documents listed above being made available to a general — officer of the military service of another government w which is currently concerned with guerrilla activity. For your information the subject's identity, the country where the .. document was originallly secured, and the identity af your I source will not be available to any Thai representative, if your source interposes np ebjections to the further . dissemination of this data/@ a Buded May 12, 1966. NOTE: Classified "Confidential" since letter contains . intormation so classified by Army. When subject, a Venezuelan communist, was arrested -by Swiss authorities for communist activity, he had in his possession the two documents listed. Translation by the Army indicated they are detailed studies concerning communist . insurgency in Vietnam. ACSI reported a senior Army staff officer recently received a personal request from a Thai general officer for available information on insurgency | operations in Scoutheast Asia. The documents made available | \ ’ through Legat, Bern's, source contain much information of this type including diagrams and Army requested permission to disseminate a copy the translation in response to the request of the Thai general %) Legat's source is Ernest Buhlimann, Swiss Federal | Police (6) t 4 4 Docld: 32303624 Page 3
“Released under the John F. Kennedy Assassination Recorg ~ PATE: Aecha 2007 ‘ CONFIDENTIAL “ “ . poe se “= \ : DEPARTMENT OF THE ARM. | ! ‘ ~~ 2 OFFICE~ OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR IW’. JELLIGENCE REVIEWED"BY" BPR TASK ESRCE on elton. Dele | acst-psco.—- DA RELEASE IN FULL 2 0 APR 196g : | RE ‘LEAS Tarr ie i A PART. [J TOTAL DENIAL ; f MEMORANDUM FOR: DIRECTOR, FEDERAL BU FREAU OF INVESTIGATION Lp Gi DEPARTMENT OF / ISTICE | mh grees bm PT Bw re ea or wks NG ATTENTION: MR. PATRICK /PUTNAM { “ i f ; bot FuE re ufo wan BET SUBJECT: Request for Permis$ion to Disseminate (U) SEREIN IS Uc! Tots eos: itee ees Sa ee eM MES. a - 5145-95 = NFO Classified aerate ! Declassify ons QADR; JAK . : 1. (C) Your Bureau made available to the Counterintelligence Analysis Branch, CI Division, a document fonsisti g_of 200 pages -hand- written in Spanish on the subject of Xj Om aes “A trans- ure T . lation of this document. is at Incl 2. (C€) A senior general officer member of the Army Staff recently received a personal request from a Thai general officer for available information on insurgency operations in South East Asia, - The document which you made available contains much information of this type. £ENWI~I295 Acting Chief as (CONFIDENTIAL Counterintelligence Dio 3. (U), Request Department of the Army be permitted to disseminate ™~ a copy of the translation of the document referred to in paragraph 1 | supra, in response to the above request. Security comensurate with the | ‘document ' s classification would be maintained, 3 FOR THE ASSISTANT CHIEF OF STAFF FOR INTELLIGENCE U22/>7 ie HW. : Uv, : \ for review at FBIHQ by 7 i (SCA fa Kf W2/77° /& MERRILL T. KELLY; \ “4 1 Incl my | ! ar" gba Ae oe Ni A ~ 45 MAY 6 1966" ae ? CONFIDENTIAL JO 5-322 8 a an _— L Dd “ Wi a EXCLUDED aagst avtowinic REGRADING a POD DIR hip DOES NOT ABER? Witt: Si SS gp BA Docld: 32303624 Page 4 on Act of 1992 (44 USC FIOTNotey— ae