ISADORE IRVING DAVIDSON.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 12/11/1972
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1. ISADORE IRYING DAVIDSON (201-0435362

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: PITTSEURGH, REGISTERED DEC 63 AS AGENT FOR DUVALIER GOUT. HAS ALSO

: AT VARIOUS TIMES REPRESENTED NICARAGUA, ECUADOR, ISRAEL AND INDONESIA

AND REPORTEDLY WAS CLOSE FRIEND FRESIDENT BALAGUER OF DOIREP. HE

OFTEN REPORTED HIS AÏCIIVITIES TO VODUAL OFFICIALS AND AS RESULT

HAS BEEN SUBJECT OF CONSIDERABLE REPORTING BY NVIDEA AND LNEERGOAN

FILE INDICATES SUBJECT IS VERY SUCCESSFUL CON MAN AND POSSIBLE

SECURITY RISK, INCLUDING SPECULATION THAT, FOR HIS OUN BENEFIT, BX

•HE IDENTIFIED COS PORT AU PRINCE TO DUVALIER IN 1563 WITH RESUL

COS EXPELLED. FILE ALSO INDICATES DAVIDSON ROUTINELY EXAGGERATES

OR DISTORTS FACTS FOR OUN BENEFIT, PARTICULARLY AS REGARDS CLAIMING

*' CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACTS IND INFLUENCE AT HIGHEST LEVELS LNBUZZ WHEN

DEALING WITH FOREIGN CLIENTS. HE DESCRIBED AS FAST BUCK ARTIST WILLING

:PARTICIPATE IN ANY BUSINESS PROPOSITION FOR A COMMISSION. DAVIDSON

ALSO CLOSE ASSOCIATE COLUMNIST JACK AHDERSON. WITH WHOM SHARED OFFICI

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SPACE IN 1963, AND HAS USED THIS ASSOCIATION TO INFLUENCE POTENTIAL

FOREIGN CLIENTS.

2. IN LIGHT ABOVE INFO, BELIEVE WE SHOULD NOT CONTACT ZEA

ELNERGO AUTHORIZATION FOR BKHERALD CONTACT WITH HIM HAS BEEN RECEIVEDI.

WE MUST ASSUME THAT DAVIDSON WOULD BECOME WITTING ANY BKHERALD

RELATIONNSHIP WITH ZEA, AND GIVEN DAVIDSON TRACK ERECORD, HE WOULD

NOT HESITATE USE THAT KNOULEDGE FOR PERSONAL GAIN. HAS INCLINED SHARE

•¡LIMA VIEU SPARA 2 REF BE THAT COUP PLOT, IF SUCH INDEED EXISTS.

UNLIKELY DEVELOP INTO SERIOUS THREAT TO VELASCO GOVT. IN SUM

THEREFORE POTENTIAL INTEL OR EARLY WARNING TO GE OBTAINED BY

BKHERALD CONTACTING SUPPOSED PLOTTER NOT SUFFICIENT IN MOS VIEW TO :

JUSTIFY FLAP POTENTIAL INHERENT IN MAKING THIS CONTACT.

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DAVIDSON CONTACTED LNERGO 5 OCTOBER TO ADVISE THAT HE HAD

GEEN CONTACTED BY SOUTH AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN FERNANDO ELNUS, SUBSE-

GUENTLY IDENTIFIED AS COLUMBIAN CIT FERNANDO ZEA, UHO CLAIMED BE

INVOLVED IN PLANING COUP TO OUST PRESIDENT VELASCO CURING LATTER

PART OF OCTOBER 72.

CLAIMED COUP LEADERS ANXICUS DEMONSTRATE TO

LIBUZZ THEY NOT CONMUNISTS AND ZEA WILLING SHOU I"BATTLE PRANS"

"TO BKHERALD:

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