REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE IN ARRANGING INTERVIEWS IN MEXICO.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR OF SECURITY
To: LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL
Document date: 07/21/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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21 JUL 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR: Legislative Counsel

ATTENTION:

Mr. Scott Breckinridge

Principal Coordinator/HSCA Matters

FROM:

SUBJECT:

Robert W. Gambino

Director of Security

HSCA Request

1. (U/AIUO) Reference is made to the 19 July 1978

request of the House Select Committee on Assassinations

(HSCA)

for assistance of the Agency in

arranging interviews in

Mexico with ten individuals (OLC 78-2718).

The records of

the Office of Security have been checked and files have been

located on eight of the ten individuals.

2. (S) The following is a brief outline of the nature

of the relationship that the Agency had with each of the

eight individuals on whom the Office of Security has files.

The outline also indicates whether or not this file has been

requested for review by the HSCA and whether or not it has

actually been reviewed by HSCA staff members.

June Cobb Sharp - OS File #216 264 reflects opera-

tional interest in

this American citizen from 1960 until

1968: The file, which is in three volumes, has been"

partially reviewed by HSCA staffers Lopez

and Hardway.

Henry P. Lopez

OS File #203 377y

The file has been prepared for HSCA

review but has not yet

been seen by the HSCA staffers.

Manuel Calvillo - OS File #282 599 on this Mexican

citizen

The file

was reviewed by HSCA staffer Lopez on 12 and 17 July 1978.

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Al Nitrich (Correct name Alfonso R. Wichtrich - 2yJ

The file has been

prepared for review by the HSCA but has not yet been

24

Luis Alberu Suoto - OS File #279 089%

The file has been prepared

for review but has not yet

been

reviewed by the HSCA.

14

Consuelo Esperon - OS File #280 1425

At that time, she was employed as a

secretary in the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City. The file

has been prepared for review but has not yet been reviewed

by the HSCA.

Ramon Joseph Alvarez Durant - OS File #114 926

reflects that Durant, who was born in New York City, 24

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holds Mexican and American citizenship.\

There is no indication in his security file that he has

previously been of interest to the HSCA.

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Alberto Rodriguez Gallego)- 2V

OS File #228 726 reflects that this Cuban citizen

His

file does not reflect previous interest by the HSCA.

3. (S) The Office of Security does not maintain a file

on Gen. Jose Jesus Clark Flores or Noe Palomares, however, it

is known that both of these names were previously the subject

of inquiries from the HSCA.

4. (U/AIUO) In regard to the individuals in paragraph 2

on whom the Office of Security does maintain files,

it is noted

that the information in these files is generally quite dated and

would

be of limited assistance in ascertaining their current

whereabouts.

for Robert W. Gambino

2 SECRET

34/61

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