CABLE RE: YOUR REF MOST ENCOURAGING. IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: MEXICO
Document date: 08/28/1961
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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1. YOUR REF NOST ENCOURAGING. IT HAS BEEN THOROUGHLY DISCUSSED

WITH STATE AT DESK LEVEL AND TODAY I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW

COPY TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY AND TO IMPRESS HIM WITH THE OPPORTUNITY

WHICH I FELT THIS AFFORDED. I TOLD HIM STATE COGNIZANT OF MATTER.

2. I DESCRIBED NATURE OF OUR RELATIONS WITH/LOPEZ MATEOS AND

THAT ALL OUR ACTIONS CONNECTION THEREWITH FULLY COORDINATED WITH

AMBASSADOR. I POINTED OUT THAT LOPEZ MATEOS|DID NOT TRUSI Al

_MEMBERS OF HIS FO'AND HENCE DESIRED COVERI ROUTES FOR CERIAIN

TYPES OF ACTION AND PLANNING.

3. PRESIDENT KENNEDY MENTIONED CRITICAL PROBLEM IN CONNECTION

WITH U. N. VOTE ON ADMISSION COMMUNIST CHINA AND I BELIEVE HE WOULD

BE MOST INTERESTED IO KNOW WHETHER ANY LIKELIHOOD/LOPEZ MATEOS

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COULD IN SOME WAY BE HELPFUL IN THIS SITUATION OR WHETHER IT BETTER

TRY OUI THIS CHANNEL FIRST IN SOME WAY WHICH MIGHT POSE LESSER

DIFFICULIIES FOR HIM.

4. SUGGEST YOU DISCUSS FOREGOING WITH AMBASSADOR TELLING HIM

I HAVE NOT YET PERSONALLY TAKEN 'UP THIS PARTICULAR IDEA WITH

SECRETARY OF STATE AND WOULD PREFER IO GET YOUR JOINT VIEWS

BEFORE DOING SO AS WE HAVE THE TIME FOR THIS. I FEEL PERSONALLY

HOWEVER THAT WE SHOULD MAKE SOME EARLY EFFORI TO FOLLOW UP ON

[LOPEZ MATEOS' OFFERJAND TEST OUT ITS POSSIBILITIES.

5. KINDLY LET ME HAVE YOUR JOINT VIEWS AS BASIS FOR DISCUSSION

WITH STATE.

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