CABLE: FOLLOWING FBI REP VIEWS RE POSSIBLE CONTACT WITH GIBSON
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: BERN
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/30/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. FOLLOWING ODENVY REP AND STATION VIEWS RE POSSIBLÊ

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CONTACT, WITH

GIBSON IN SUISSE BY OSTENSIBLE CONSULAR OFFICER

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PER REF B. ODENVY REP CABLING PLAN TO HIS HOS AND ASKING

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APPROVAL.

A. JUDGE INANITION WILL NOT BE CONCERNED THAT APPROACH

TO GIBSON MIGHT EXPOSE THEIR TECH OP AS LONG AS AMERICAN REP

REFERS TO STATSIDE INVESTIGATION AS SOURCE OF INFO RE GIBSON

for FOlA Review on

CONTACT WITH OSWALD.

B. BASED INFO ODENVY BERN FILES APPEARS GIBSON GENERALLY

UNCOOPERATIVE, THUS POSSIBLE HE WILL NOT"' AGREE TALK

RE OSWALD. ODENVY REPORTS RELATE HIS PHILANDERING AND BLACKMAIL*

ACTIVITIES, CITE HIS STATEMENTS THAT HIS FIRST CONCERN IS

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C. IF APPROACH MADE IN SUISSE IT BESTEDONE WITHIN

CONSULAR CONTEXT AND BY GENUINE CONSUL IN ORDERS AVOID ANY

CRUCION FACE

APPEARANCE OF SECRECY OR STEALTH IN EVENT GIBSON PRESENCE

SUISSE AND CONTACT BY AMERICAN AUTHORITIES SUBSEQUENTLY

PUBLICIZED.

D. INTERVIEW BY CONSUL NOT LIKELY TO BE AS COMPLETE

AS IF HANDLED BY EITHER ODENVY OR KUBARK REP BUT ON BALANCE

FOR REASONS CITED ABOVE BELIEVE APPROACH BY GENUINE CONCULAR

REP PREFERABLE.

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E• CONTACT WITH GIBSON COULD BE MADE (1) BY HAVING

CONSUL GO LAUSANNE AND TRY CONTACT GIBSON AT RESIDENCE

(2) HAVE CONSUL PHONE AND ASK GIBSON COME BERN FOR INTERVIEW

(3) HAVE CONSUL PHONE AND ASK IF GIBSON WILL RECEIVE CONSUL

FOR INTERVIEW AT LAUSANNE. TEND FAVOR COURSE (1) BECAUSE

OTHER COURSES WOULD ALERT GIBSON AND GIVE HIM CHANCE REFUSE ANY CONTACT •

F. BELIEVE INTERVIEWER SHOULD NOT TRY ELICIT INFO:

FROM GIBSON BUT IMMEDIATELY INDICATE REASON FOR CONTACT IS

TRY GLARIFY ALL BAGKGROUND RE PRESIDENT KENNEDY DEATH,

THAT INVESTIGATION IN STATES HAS REVEALED THAT GIBSON FORMER

ASSOCIATE OF OSWALD AND THAT STATE DEPT HAD ASKED INTERVIEWER:

DISCUSS OSWALD WITH GIBSON.

G. IF INTERVIEW HELD IN AMCONSUL BERN OFFICE WOULD

COVERTLY RECORD IT®

2• AMB DAVIS AND DCM KELLERMANN BRIEFED RE CASE ON

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29 NOVEMBER. THEIR VIEWS AS FOLLOWS: ALTHO THEY BELIEVE

BETTER INTERVIEW JOB COULD BE DONE BY ODENVY OR KUBARK REP

THEY APPRECIATE THAT CIRCUMSTANCES MAY MAKE USE OF CONSULAR

OFFICER ADVISABLE. (FYI ODENVY REP RELUCTANT UNDERTAXE

TASK BECAUSE OF STANDING INSTRUCTIONS HE NOT TO BECOME

INVOLVED IN ANY MATTER WHERE HE MIGHT LATER MAVE TO APPEAR

AS WITNESS IN COURT PROCEEDING. THEY WILLING MAKE CONSULAR

OFFICER AVAILABLE BUT WISH HAVE INSTRUCTION FROM STATE DEPT

TO THIS EFFECT. (FYI AMB WHO HAS JUST TAKEN CHARGE DEFERS

TO KELLERMANN VIEWS RE ACTION ADVISABLE.)

3. IT MADE CLEAR TO AMB AND DCM THAT ODENVY HAS EXECUTIVE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR OSWALD CASE BUT THAT KUBARK COOPERATING

CLOSELY. DCM SUGGESTED THAT VIEW SLOWNESS OF ODENVY

COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL IT PRFERABLE HAVE CONTACT WITH

DEPT RE USE OF CONSULAR OFFICER BE HANDLED THRU KUBARK

CHANNELS. ELMARD REPLIED STATION PREPARED TRANSMIT ANY

MSG AMB DESIRED BUT SUGGESTED AMB WAIT UNTIL ODENVY REP RECEIVED

GUIDANCE FROM HIS HQS RE CASE, AMB CONCURRED.

4. ELMARD INFORMED AMB AND ODENVY REP HE INTENDED

REPLY TO QUERIES WHICH HE HAD RECEIVED FROM KUBARS HOS,

WOULD FORWARD FOR HOS INFO ONLY VIWS OF AMB, ODENVY REP

AND ELMARD RE POSSIBLE APPROACHES RE GIBSON INTERVIEW, ASK

HOS DEFER ANY APPROACH TO DEPT UNTIL ODENVY REP RECEIVED

GUIDANCE FROM HIS HQS•

5. KUBARK ONLY. ODENVY REP CONCERNED AND EMBARRASSED

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THAT FIVE DAYS HAVE ELAPSED SINCE HE SENT FIRST MSG TO HIS

HOS AND NO REPLY RECD YET. HE HAS SENT ADDITIONAL NIACT

CABLE REQUESTING IMMEDIATE REPLY.

6. CHECK AMEMB BERN FILES REVEALS NO INFO RE GIBSON.

% INANITION REPORTS THAT INFO FROM LAUSANNE INDICATES

GIBSON TENTATIVELY PLANNING GO FRANCE WHEN DEPARTS SUISSE

PRIOR TO 15 DECEMBER. DATE HIS DEPARTURE NOT KNOWN.

8. FURTHER INFO FROM INANÍTION CONFIRMS THAT ALBERT

SCHWEITZER COLLEGE, CHURWALDEN IS REPUTABLE SCHOOL WHOSE

CIRRICULUM PLACES EMPHASIS ON HUMANISTIC STUDIES AND WHOSE

GENERAL ORIENTATION IS AWAY FROM LEFT IN POLITICS. NO INFO

HAS EMERGED AS TO WHY PROCLAIMED MARXIST OSWALD WOULD

SEEK TO ATTEND SUCH A SCHOOL. .

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Cs dominents: *Station infornation or Gibson.

*Queried Station on wisdom and secirity of havine ostensible Cons lar officer vai

in. Cibson and question him ahurt a pussible corvection witt Oswald.

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