CABLE RE MEETING WITH BLAKEY AND CORNWELL
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 07/22/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2218492 DIRECTOR 261709

TO: IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY.

NIACT MEXICO CITY.

• RYBAT WNINTEL

CREF: MEXICO CITY 45940 1022224

FOLLOWING POINTS RESOLVED AT MEETING WITH ROBERT

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

A. HSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEW LICHANT-I

ON BASIS HE

QUESTIONED DEBA GARRO DE GUERRERO GALVAN FOLLOWING KENNEDY ASSASSINA-

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-1

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. LIHUFF-1 WILL BE

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

ASSOCIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS AND AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN

MEXICO.

HSCA

WILL NOT REVEAL THEY AWARE BOTH HAD RELATIONSHIP

C WITH AGENCY.

ASCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEW LITAMIL-T AND ?ON BASIS

C THEY FORMER EMPLOYEES CUBAN EMBASSY MEXICO.

HSCA ADVISED US THAT

ON PREVIOUS TRIP THEY INTERVIEWED OTHER FORMER MEMBERS CUBAN

EMBASSY MEXICO WITH ASSISTANCE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES. HSCA WILL NOT

C REVEAL THEY AWARE OF FORMER CIA RELATIONSHIP.

HSCA

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

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

HOTEL ROOM. ISCA SAID VOICE COMMUNICATION WILL BE SUFFICIENT. HOW-

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EVER, CLOSED CIRCUIT TV EQUIPMENT BEING SENT FOR POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY

USE.

E.

ASCA HAS AGREED TO INTERVIEW EDWARD G. TICHBORN AS FORMER

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

FLICK, ET AL.

AHARLENER

ASCA 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 REQUESJED EMBASSY TO ASK

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO LOCATE ALL BUT GERENDE AND LIONION-1 FOR INTER-

VIEN PURPOSES.

HSCA WILL BE TRAVELING OFFICIAL PASSPORTS. STATE

DEPT HAS NOT ADVISED HSCA WHERE THEY WILL BE BILLETTED.

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

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INTERVIEWED UNDER INDIRECT (I.E. HOTEL ROOM WITH VOICE SYSTEM) CON-

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

BETTER SECURITY.

SEE IT, MINIMUM REQUIREMENT WOULD BE FOR

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PRIVATE SPACE FOR HSCA, FOR

PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED AND FOR

CAPT • GOODING, TECH AND STATION OFFICER.

HENCE APARTMENT OR SUITE

WITH THREE SEPARATE ROOMS SHOULD SUFFICE.

_AS STATION NOTES, PASSAGE TO AG FLORES NAMES LITAMIL-9,

(LITAMIL-Z0 LICHANT-1, LIHUFF-1, CLARK FLORES AND PALOMARES PRECLUDES

ANY STATION ACTION TO CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEW. HOWEVER,

C ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STATION WHICH MIGHT ASSIST ASCA IN

LOCATING THEM SHOULD BE PROVIDED. SIMILAR INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT

HELP ASCA LOCATE LICOOKY-I SHOULD ALSO BE PROVIDED,. BUT AS NOTED PARA

C.1 (A) ABOVE, ASCA 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.

6.

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

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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@FOR STATION

USE:

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

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• I ACTION ADVISOR FOR AGENCY-SPONSORED ELECTION OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT

LATIN AMERICA.

IN 1961 HE BECAME FULL-TIME CONTRACT AGENT AND WAS

ASSIGNED TO MEXICO. CITY UNDER PERSONAL COVER WHICH PERMITTED HIM TO

TRAVEL ON THIRD COUNTRY POLITICAL ACTION ASSIGNMENTS. WHILE BASED

IN MEXICO HE WAS PRIMARILY A HQS ASSET BUT. IN ADDITION, ASSISTED

THE STATION BY ESTABLISHING/RUNNING A MAGAZINE "DIALOGOS" AIMED AT

LATIN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AND BY REPORTING ON ACTIVITIES/ATTITUDES

OF MEXICAN LEFT-WING INTELLECTUALS.

FOR PERSONAL REASONS, TICHBORN

LEFT MEXICO IN AUG: 1966.

DURING PERIOD 1 OCT 1966 = 30 JUN 1967 LA

DIVISION HAD OPPORTUNITY TO USE TICHBORN AS POLITICAL ACTION ADVISOR

ON ONE OCCASION. FILE INDICATED HE ALSO MADE MAJOR EFFORT TO DEVELOP

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

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

DISCUSS SENSITIVE PRI AREAS AND TO INTRODUCE HIM TO OTHER CONTACTS.

ALTHOUGH SCHEDULED FOR TERMINATION ON 30 SEPT 1967, HE FINALLY

SEVERED HIS. RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COVER COMPANY ON 31 AUG 1968

AND RECEIVED HIS TERMINATION SETTLEMENT ON 12 SEPT 1968.

THE LAST

KNOWN ADDRESS (DOI NOV 1966) FOR TICHBORN WAS 5900 ARLINGTON AVENUE,:

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

APPRECIATE STATION EFFORTS TO COPE WITH REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED

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

PLACED BY HSCA, MSCA DEPUTY COUNSEL GARY CORNWELL WAS TOLD AT 22 JULY

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

C 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

SUCCESS OF THE ASCA MISSION.

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