CABLE RE: REF AGAIN RAISES QUUESTION OF AMWEST 1.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 03/21/1966
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1o REF AGAIN PAISES QUESTION OF AMWEST 1 STATION DOES

NOT THINK HE LIKELY BE OF VALUE AS SOURCE, BECAUSE LACK OF ACCESS,

HIS PERSONALITY, OPORTUNISM, ETC., BUT HE MUST FEEL MORE

THREATENED NOW THAN AT ANY TIME IN RECENT PAST AND PRESUMASLY

WILL SE THAT MUCH MORE APPROACHABLE.

2. IF AMWEST I DOES NOT DEFECT OF OWN ACCORD, AND DOUBT ME

WILL DO SO AS LONG AS HE NOT ORDERED HOME, IS HOS INTERESTED IN

DEFECTION OR RECRUITMENT APPROACH? DOUBT HE WOULD BE OF ANY VALUE

OTHER TRAN AS DENIAL TO PBRUMEN FOREIGN OFFICE, BUT THIS ALONE MIGHT

SERVE NOS PURPOSES. THERE IS SOME CHANCE HE MAS OTHER BLOC

CONTACTS INCLUDING SOVIETS WHICH WOULD SE OF INTEREST.

3. MOST RECENT RPT FROM MILAT SOURCE QUOTES AMWEST 2

AS SAYING 19 MARCH AMWEST I HAS AVIDLY READ HERALD TRIB REPORTING

ON TRIALS AND PURGE AND IS EXTREMELY WORRIED. AMWEST 2 CONTINUES

TO POINT OUT TO HIM THAT ALL OF HIS FRIENDS NOW ARE IN JAIL OR UNDEP

_HEAVY SUSPICION. A LINE SHE APPARENTLY TAKING FOR OWN PURPOSES

BECAUSE SHE WANIS HIM TO DEFECT OR RESIGN.

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CFN 7048 89022 1 NOT THINK ETC I NOT DEFECT NOT ORDERED HAS PBRUMEN

HQS BLOS SOVIETS RPT MILAT 2 19 1 HERALD TRIB 2

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