CABLE: POLITICAL COUNSELLOR ADVISED
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 06/02/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CITE CARACAS 36376

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B. DIRECTOR 231858

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POLITICAL COUNSELLOR ADVISED COS MORNING E JUNE

THAT HE MET WITH HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

(HSCA) MEMBERS (MESERS FONZI AND GONZALES) ON PREVIOUS

EVENING. HE ADVISED THEM OF WKSCARLET-3 RTACTION ASSOCIATION

AND REF B GROUNDRULES AND RESULTANT LOCAL EMBASSY CONCERN.

HSCA REPS STATED THAT GROUNDRULES WITH RTACTION CALLED FOR

HSCA. TO ADVISE RTACTION HOS WHEN IT INTENDED TO INTERVIEW

AN AGENT, PAST OR PRESENT, BUT THAT THEY WERE NOT PRECLUDED

IN THE CASE OF WKSCARLET =3,

HSÇA REPS INDICATED THEY INTENDED TO PROCEED WITH INTERVIEW.

QUESTIONING OF N-3 WILL RELATE TO ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT

AGAINST PRIME MINISTER CASTRO DURING 1971 VISIT TO CHILE:

HSCA REPS WERE ALERTED TO FACTTHAT INTERVIEW WITH

W-3 AND ORLANDO BOSCH WOULD LIKELY BE MONITORED BY VENEZUELAN

AUTHORITIES.

ACCORDING TO POLITICAL COUNSELLOR, COMMANDER

OF MILITARY PRISON HAS INDICATED HE LIKELY WILL ACCOMPANY

HSCA REPS DURING INTERVIEW.

ALSO DURING EVENING MEETING WITH HSCA MEMBERS,

THEY INDICATED THIER INTEREST IN MEETING WITH TANGO-L

THEY WERE AWARE OF (WKTANGO-1'S) RECENT TRIP TO MIAMI AND

MEETINGS WITH CUSTOMS REPS AND WISH TO QUERY WKTANGO-D

WHETHER HE WAS THE SOURCE OF WKSCARLET-3 ADDRESS BOOK

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WHICH PRESENTLY MAKING THE ROUNDS, BOTH OFFICIALLY AND UNOF

FICIALLY, IN MIAMI CIRCLES THESE DAYSCCONTEXT OF INTEREST

NOT FURHTER INDICATED).

AMBASSADOR HAS BEEN BRIEFED ON ABOVE BY POLICICAL

COUNSELLOR,

IT APPEARS HSCA MEMBERS ARE TAKING BROAD

INTERPRETATION OF THEIR INVESTIGATIVE CHARTER, AND HAVE

DIFFERENT INTERPRETATION OF THEIR COORDINATION REQUIREMENTS

WITH RTACTION.

STATION /INTENDS NO CONTACT AND WILL RELY ON

POLITICAL COUNSELCOR FOR BRIEFING ON INTERVIEN OUTCOME.

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