CABLE:STATION DOES NOT FORESEE ANY PROBLEMS WITH HSCA INTERVIEWING SUBJECTS IN MEXICO.
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/18/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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REF: DIRECTOR 224314

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STATION DOES NOT FORESEE ANY PROBLEMS WITH HSCA

INTERVIEWING SUBJECTS PARA 3 REF IN MEXICO AND ENDORSES

PROPOSAL CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS WITHIN THE AMERICAN EMBASSY

PARTICULARLY IF SUBJECTS ARE TO BE PUT UNDER OATH.

VISIT OF HSCA MEMBERS TO MEXICO RE THE KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE CHARGE ON 17 MAY.

HE

IS AGREEABLE IN PRINCIPAL TO THE USE OF EMBASSY FACILITIES

TO CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS, BUT HE FIRST NEEDS AN OFFICIAL

REQUEST FOR THIS SERVICE THROUGH STATE CHANNELS AND SOME

OFFICIAL WORD ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOSA/KENNEDY GROUP

BEFORE HE CAN COMMIT THE USE OF EMBASSY PREMISES.

THE

CHARGE MAD ONLY ONE STIPULATION CONCERNING THE INTERVIENS

AND THAT WAS THAT THE PERSONS MUST COME TO THE EMBASSY ON THEIR

OWN FREE WILL.

3.

BUT ABOVE ALL, THE CHARGE SAYS HE NEEDS SOME.

TIME IN ORDER TO MAKE PROPER ARRANGEMENTS.

THE EMBASSY

ALVESTIGHASNN THE

ALREADY HAS MADE PLANS TO ACCOMMODATE ANOTHER MSCA GROUP

ANDER OF

MARTIN LUTHER KING.

THIS

GROUP IS ALSO SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE MEXICO CITY OJA 30 MAY.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN LAID ON FOR THAT VISIT BY THE EMBASSY,

INCLUDING CO-ORDINATION WITH THE MEXICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S

AS OF COB 17 MAY, THE EMBASSY HAS NOT RECEIVED

ANY NOTICE OF ARRIVAL OF THE HSCA/KENNEDY GROUP AS INDICATED

RE PARA 5 REF:

MR. CORNWELL SHOULD CONTACT

MR. LAWRENCE E, STERNFIELD, THE COS.

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STATION HAS REVIEWED QUESTIONS LISTED PARA 4 REF

AND RECONMENDS THAT HOS RESOLVE THE OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

CONTAINED PARA 4 REF.

THERE ARE HARDLY ANY RECOROS AT

STATION COVERING THAT PERIOD AND THERE ARE NO PERSONNEL

PRESENTLY ASSIGNED WHO HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF STATION EVENTS

DURING THAT PERIOD.

THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS (KEYED TO THE

QUESTIONS) REFLECT TOTALITY OF STATION KNOWLEDGE AT THIS TIME.

A. INFORMATION NOT AVAILALBLE OR KNOWN AT STATION.

B. NO RECORD AT STATION.

C. UNLESS TIME/DATE IS INDICATED ON PHOTOGRAPHS

AND TELTAPS, IT WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO LINK THEM

TOGETHER.

FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN TODAY, WITHOUT IMPROVED

TECHNOLOGY, NE STILL DO NOT HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO INDICATE

THE TIME OF THE INDIVIDUAL CALLS MADE DURING THE DAY.

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D. ACCORDING TO PROJECT RECORDS, THERE WERE TWO

TELTAP OPERATIONS ACTIVE AROUND THIS PERIOD:

THE LIENVOY

PROJECT RENEWAL (JOINT OPERATION) (HMMW-11457, 4 APR 63) SAYS

THAT 30 LINES WERE COVERED.

NO ADDITIONAL INFO OR IDENTITY

OF TARGETS AVAILABLE AT STATION.

THE OTHER OPERATION WAS

LIFEAT (UNILATERAL) WHICH COVERED 23 LINES.

A PROGRESS

REPORT COVERING PERIOD NOV/DEC 63 (HMMA-22857, 6 FEB 64)

PROVIDES IDENTIFICATION OF THE TARGETS.

THIS DISPATCH

LISTS TWO LINES COVERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE. AMSTRUT

OPERATION.

WEJANNOT IDENTIFY AMSTRUT AND THUS DO NOT KNOW

IF THIS IS COVERAGE OF ANY OFFICIAL CUBAN INSTALLATION.

AS

YET, WE CANNOT LOCATE ANY RECORD AT STATION OF UNILATERAL

COVERAGE OF OFFICIAL CUBAN OR SOVIET INSTALLATIONS DURING

NOV 63.

PLS IDENTIFY THE THREE UNILATERAL TELTAP TARGETS

MENTIONED PARA 4D REF.

E.

INFORMATION ON THE CAMERA LOCATIONS OR

C PHOTOGRAPHS IS NOT AVAILABLE STATION.

WOULD PREFER THAT MEETINGS WITH KNOWLEDGEABLE

MEXICAN OFFICIALS BE ARRANGED THROUGH THE EMBASSY.

6.

STATION WILL OFFER EVERY ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION

WITH THE MSCA INVESTIGATORS.

HOWEVER, THE FACT THAT THE

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HSCA WILL BE INVESTIGATING TELTAP OPERATIONS WHICH ARE STILL

ONGOING CAUSES US CONSIDERABLE CONCERN.

DURING PAST YEAR,

WE HAVE ENCOUNTERED INCREASING SENSITIVITY ON PART OF OUR

LIAISON COUNTERPARTS AS RESULT OF REVELATIONS AND EXPOSES

CONCERNING CIA AND FBI ACTIVITIES IN MEXICO.

ONE OF THE

MOST SENSITIVE OPERATIONS FROM THE MEXICAN POINT OF VIEW

IS TELTAPS, AS SUCH ACTIVITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL IN MEXICO.

THE MEXICANS DRAW A VERY DISTINCT LINE BETWEEN REVELATIONS

ABOUT CIA ACTIVITIES ORIGINATING FROM CRITICS AND ENEMIES

ES ORTGIMATING LONE

AND THUSE BEARING THE IMPRIMATUR UF THE U,S. GOGERNMENT.

THE RELEASE UF THE FBI DOCUMENTS DREW A SHARP WARNING FROM •

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON INTELLIEGNCE MATTERS (CF. MEXICO.

CITY 43110).

7. ANY PUBLIC REVELATION BY THE ISCA OF JOINT

TELTAP ACTIVITY, JOINT OPERATIONS, OR LIAISON COOPERATION

IN INTELLIGENCE

MATTERS, MAY WELL RESULT IN THE CURTAILMENT

OF THESE OPERATIONS AND THE LIAISON WHICH HAS BEEN ASSIDUOUSLY

DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS, PLUS THE VERY REAL LOSS OF HIGH-LEVEL

REPORTING SOURCES.

8. NO FILE. EZ, IMPDET.

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