HSCA MEXICO CITY INTERVIEW AGREEMENT.
Originator: CIA
From: DIR CIA
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 07/22/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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TO: IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY.

NIACT MEXICO CITY.

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1. FOLLOWING POINTS RESOLVED AT MEETING WITH ROBERT

BLAKEY, CHIEF COUNSEL HSCA AND GARY CORNWELL, DEPUTY COUNSEL ASCA:

A.

HSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEN LICHANT-I ON BASIS HE

QUESTIONED DEBA GARRO DE GUERRERO GALVAN FOLLOWING KENNEDY ASSASSINA-

C. TION.

HSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEIR KNOWLEDGE HIS UNWITTING USE FOR

CIA THROUGH LIHUFF-1.

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B.

HSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEW LICOOKY -1 AND(LIHUFF-2

ON BASIS THEY U.S. CITIZENS WHO RESIDENT IN MEXICO AT TIME OF KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION.

AS YOU AWARE LICOOKY/1 HAS RECEIVED WIDE PUBLICITY

AS RESULT JACK ANDERSON ARTICLE IN "PARADE" MAGAZINE ON 12 AUG 1962

AS HAVING BEEN EMPLOYED IN CUBAN MINISTRY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 1959-

60 AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH FIDEL CASTRO OXLIHUFF-LOWILL BE

L INTERVIEWED ON BASIS HIS RESIDENCY IN MEXICO CITY SINCE 1949 AND HIS

ASSOCIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS AND AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN

MEXICO.

THSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEY AWARE BOTH HAD RELATIONSHIP 24

C THEY FORMER EMPLOYEES"

EMBASSY MEXICO WITH ASSISTANCE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES. HSCA WILL NOT

C REVEAL THEY AWARE OF FORMER CIA RELATIONSHIP..)

D. HSCA REQUESTS THAT RAYMOND HO GERENDE AND LIONION-1 (IF

( HE CAN BE LOCATED IN MEXICO) BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW IN

HOTEL ROOM. HSCA SAID VOICE COMMUNICATION WILL BE SUFFICIENT, HOW-

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EVER, CLOSED CIRCUIT TV EQUIPMENT BEING SENT FOR POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY

USE.

E.

HSCA HAS AGREED TO INTERVIEW EDWARD G. TICHBORN AS FORMER

AGENCY EMPLOYEE IN-SAME MANNER AS DONE PREVIOUSLY WITH MR. CHARLES

FLICKS) ET AL.

2.

HSCA WILL ACCEPT CAPT. GOODING'S VOUCHING FOR BONA FIDES

OF GERENDE AND LIONION-1 WHO CAN USE ALIASES DURING INTERVIEW IF

THEY DESIRE.

3.

HSCA CONFIRMED THAT THEY HAD REQUESTED EMBASSY TO ASK

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO LOCATE ALL BUT GERENDE AND LIONION-I FOR INTER-

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PURPOSES.

HSCA WILL BE TRAVELING OFFICIAL PASSPORTS. STATE

DEPT HAS NOT

ADVISED HSCA

WHERE THEY WILL BE BILLETTED.

4.

IN VIEW AGREEMENT THAT ONLY GERENDE AND LIONION-1. WILL BE

INTERVIEWED UNDER INDIRECT CI.E. HOTEL ROOM WITH VOICE SYSTEM CON-

DITIONS, STATION MAY BE ABLE ARRANGE SITE WITH LOWER PROFILE AND

BETTER SECURITY.

AS WE SEE IT, MINIMUM REQUIREMENT WOULD BE FOR

PRIVATE SPACE FOR ASCA, FOR PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED AND FOR

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CAPT. GODDING, TECH AND STATION OFFICER..

HENCE APARTMENT OR SUITE

WITH

THREE SEPARATE ROOMS SHOULD SUFFICE.

ESTANT A CANON, NOTERU PASBAGE T FORLORES ARE ARE DECLUDES

ANY STATION ACTION TO CONTACT

AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEW. HOWEVER,

ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STATION WHICH MIGHT ASSIST ISCA IN

LOCATING THEM SHOULD BE PROVIDED.

SIMILAR INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT

HELP MSCA LOCATE LICOOKY-! SHOULD ALSO BE PROVIDED, BUT AS NOTED PARA

C1 (A) ABOVE, HSCA WILL INITIATE CONTACT AND NO DIRECT STATION ACTION

REQUIRED.

IN CASE OF GERENDE AND LIONION-1, STATION WILL BE REQUIRED

(MAKE CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEWS.

PER PARA 1 (E) ABOVE, TICHBORN WILL BE INTERVIEWED AS

FORMER AGENCY EMPLOYEE, AND STATION WILL BE EXPECTED CONTACT, ASSUM-

. ING HE IN MEXICO, AND ARRANGE INTERVIEW AT CONVENIENCE OF HSCA AND

AT SITE THEIR CHOOSING.

FOLLOWING IS BACKGROUND INFO ON TICHBORN

(IDENTITY)OFOR STATION USE:

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EDWARD G. TICHBORN (P) WAS HIRED IN LATE (1959 AS POLITICAL)

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ACTION ADVISOR FOR AGENCY-SPONSORED ELECTION OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT

LATIN AMERICA/ IN 1961 HE BECAME FULL-TIME CONTRAÇT AGENT AND WAS 24

ISSIGNED TO MEXICO CITY UNDER PERSONAL GOVER WHICH PERMITTED HIM TI

RAVEL ON THIRD COUNTRY POLITICAL ACTION ASSIGNMENTS?

THE SYATON BY ESTABLISHING RUNNING A MAGAZINE ADDALDGOS ASSHED AT 2L

LATIN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS ANDYBY REPORTING ON ACTIVITIES/ATTITUDE.

24OF MEXICAN LEFT-WING INTELLECTUALS @ FOR PERSONAL REASONS, TICHBORI

IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE PRICIN MEXICO BUT, AS OF MAY 1967 THIS EFFORT

WAS DROPPED BECAUSE OF RELUCTANCE ON PART OF HIS PRI CONTACTS TO 24

DISCUSS SENSITIVEUPRI AREASIAND TO INTRODUCE HIM TO OTHER CONTACTS.

ALTHOUGH SCHEDULED

FOR TERMINATION ON 30 SEPT 1967. HE FINALLY

L' SEVERED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COVER COMPANY ON 31 AUG 1968 $ 24,09

AND RECEIVED HIS TERMINATION SETTLEMENT ON 12 SEPT 19682 THE LAST

KNOWN ADDRESS (DOI NON 1966) FOR. TICHBORN WAS 15900 ARLINGTON AVENUE,O

RIVERDALE, NEW YORK, HOME PHONE (212) 884-87280

APPRECIATE STATION EFFORTS TO COPE WITH REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED

.. ON US BY HSCA AND OUR OWN CONCERN FOR SECURITY IN MEETING DEMANDS

PLACED BY ASCA, ISCA DEPUTY COUNSEL GARY CORNWELL WAS TOLD AT 22 JULY

MEETING THAT CAPT. GOODING, AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEI. WOULD MAKE

( EVERY EFFORT TO RESOLVE (WITH COS PARTICIPATION) ANY PROBLEMS THAT

MAY ARISE DURING ASCA VISIT TO MEXICO. IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANCE OF

THIS MATTER WE ASK THAT STATION MAKE A MEXIMUM EFFORT TO ENSURE THE

C SUCCESS OF THE ISCA MISSION.

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