CABLE REQUESTING INFORMATION ON GIBSON IN CONNECTION WITH REVOLUTION MAGAZINE AND ITS CONNECTIONS TO CHICOMS SUISSE.
Originator: CIA
From: BERN
To: DIRECTOR, CIA
Document date: 11/26/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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10 FOLL STATION COMMENTS RE SUSSTANCE PARA 3 REF BASED

EXAMINAT OF REF MEMO AND ANANITION ANANITION TELEPHONE ANSWERS

TO ELMARD QUERIES.

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2. DELICATE SOURCE REFERRED TO IS TAP OF GIBSON PHONE

IN LAUSANNE APPARENTLY UNDERTAKEN BY LAUSANNE POLICE/PTT AT INANITION

REQUEST. EXISTENCE TAP NOT PREVIOUSLY KNOWN TO STATION. APPEARS

LIKELY IT UNDERTAKEN IN RESPONSE TO STATION REQUEST FOR INFO RE

GIBSON IN CONNECT ION "REVOLUTION MAGAZINE AND HIS AND ITS SeE Pa

CONNECTIONS TO CHICOMS SUISSE, OR IO GATHER DATA TO REPLY TO ODENVY

REP REQUEST FOR INFO. ANTICIPATE CAN CLARIFY THIS POINT IN TALK WITH

(INANITION E ON 27 NOVEMBER.

3. IN ANSWER TO ELMARD QUERIES INANIT ION 6) STATED TAP) INFO

PROVIDED BY AN UNIDENTIFIED INANITION INSPECTOR, THAT UNKNOWN PARTY

IN CONVERSATION WAS NOT NATIVE FRENCH SPEAKER, PROBABLY NOT A SWISS,

PROBABLY A FOREIGNER. INANITION & PROMISED CHECK WITH [NANITION)

INSPECT OR AND HAVE TAPE CHECKED FOR POSSIELE FURTHER QUES TO

IDENTITY SPEAKER..

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40 APPEARS CLEAR CISSON REFERENCE THROUGHOUT CONVERSATION

IS TO ACTIVITIES OF FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE WRITH WHICH HE

AND OSWALD ASSOCIATED.

" 5. CAN NOT IDENTIFY PERSON IN NEM YORK REFERRED TO AS LY"

(MORE PROBATLY LEES PHONETIC. POSSIBLE THIS COULD BE

REFERENCE TO LEE OSWALD BUT FROM CONTXT THIS SEEMS UNLIKELY.

6. CAN NOT IDENTIFY PERSON REFERRED TO AS "TIBOR" (PHONETIC).

?. FROM CONVERSATION CONTENT CAN NOT IDENTIFY OTHER CALLER.

SPECULATIVE COMMENTS BELOW. MAY BE ABLE IDENTIFY OR MAKE BETTER

HYPOLHESIS AFTER TALK WITH INANIT IONS RE DETAILS OF PHONE TAP

COVERAGE INCLUDING WHERE UNKNOWN SPEAKER APPARENTLY LOCATED.

8. CLOSE ASSOCIATE GIBSON IS FREDY GILBERT NILS ANDERSONAR

BORN 14. FEBRUARY 33, LAUSANNE, SWEDISH NATIONAL, LAUSANNE RESIDENT,

ED IT OR - PUSLISHER. SEE ATT TO ESBA 12659 FOR FURTHER INFO

INCL CONTACIS TO CHICOMS BERN AND PEIPING. POSSILE THESE TWO

MEN WOULD CONVERSE IN FRENCH BUT ENGLISH WOULD BE MORE LIKELY LANGUAGE.

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9. POSSIBILITY OTHER CONVERSATION PARTNER IS JACQUES VERGES,

COMMUNIST, FORMER DIRECTOR OF LA REVOLUTION AFRICAINE, NOW BASED

PARIS., NOTE VERGES CLOSELY ASSOCIATED WITH CHICOM LINE IN FRANCE AND

IN SUISSE, HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH SWISS "CHINESE COMMUNIST"

SPLINTER PARTY CENTERED VEVEY. VERGES, ANDERSON AND GIBSON

ASSOCIATED NEW ISSUE OF MAGAZINE PRINTED IN MONTREUX.

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PUBLICATION NOW BEARS TITLE "REVOLUTION"

SUBT ITLE "AFRICA,

LAT IN AMERICA, ASIA". EDITIONS IN SPANISH, FRENCH,

ENQ ISH.

17. IN ANSWER ELMARD QUERY INANITION & STATED PHONE COVERAGE

OF: GIESON CONTINUES AND PROMISED ARRANGE PASSAGE CONTENT TO STATION

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AND ODENVY REP ON PRIORITY BASIS. WILL DISCUSS DETAILS AT 27

NOVEMBER MEET.

11. (INANITION 6) INDICATED REFERENCE TO LIMIT SET FOR

GIBSON DEPARTURE FROM SUISSE BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 63 REFERS TO

SWISS DECISION NOT TO RENEW HIS RESIDENCE PERMIT BEYOND

THAT LATE. WILL CLARIFY AT 27 NOVEMBER MEET.

12• KUBARK ONLY: ODENVY REP BERN CABLING HIS HQS MOST IF NOT ALL

OF INANITION NEMOS REF. IN INTERESTS SPEED STATION OFFERED HANDLE

ANY TRAFFIC HE WISHED CRIGINATE BUT HE PREFERRED HANDLE VIA HIS

• PRIVACY CHANNEL. NOT AWARE WHAT COMMENTS HE MAY MAKE RE CONTENT

OF MANIT ION REPORT. ESSENCE BUT NOT ALL DETAILS ABOVE INFO GIVEN

TO HIM ORALLY IN DISCUSSION PRIOR TO DISPATCH REF AND THIS CABLE.

HE PRESENT DURING ELMARD PHONE TALK WITH INANITION 6O WILL

CONTINUE FULL CORDINATION WITH HIM RE REF MATTER.

13. KUBARK ONLY: AS HINTED IN (INANIT ION) MEMO AND ORALLY

BY INANIT ION 6) TO ELMARD, INANITION WORRIED RE POSSIBILITY

ODENVY MIGHT FEEL UNDER SUCH PRESSURE RE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION

THAT SOMEHOW IT WOULD LEAK INFO RE GIBSON AND OSWALD CONTACT IN

MANNER WHICH WOULD EXPOSE SWISS TAP OF GISSON PHONE AND PASSAGE OF

INFO TO FOREIGN POWER (MEMORIES OF DUBOIS AFFAIR REMAIN. BELIEVE

WE CAN OBTAIN ALL INFO FROM PHONE OR ANY OT HER COVERAGE

OF GIBSON OR ASSOCIATES AND PROBABLY GET ACCESS TO ORIGINAL

TAPES AS LONG AS QUESTIONS OF "COURT RECORDS" OR "EVIDENCE" ARE

SOFT PED ALLED.

14. ANOTHER CABLE FOLLOWS.

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C/S COMMENT: *RE GIBSONS ASSOCIATION WITH "FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE" AND ALSO

WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD.

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