CABLE-MEXICO CITY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS 12 AUGUST CARRIES FOLLUP STORY ON THAYER WALD BY PEARL GONZALEZ.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 8/12/67
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. MEXICO CITY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NEWS 12 AUGUST CITIES FOLLOW-

UP STORY ON THAYER WALDO BY PEARL-GONZALEZ. GIST FO:: ii.

2. THAYER WALDO REPORTED 11 AUGUST TO BE VORK::.

STORY FOR "RAMPARTS" MAGAZINE. NHILE A SPOKESMAN FOR "'li"ni.

SAIO WALDO HAS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE MAGAZINE, HE DULLED TO

SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE ASSIGNMENT IS OR MERE MALDO LOCATEO.

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3. WHEN THE NEWS CONTACTED WILLIAM TURNER, STATE TERR."

THE CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE AT NOON 11 AUGUST, HE SAID: "P. i ST

TALKED TO WALDO FIVE MINUTES AGO, THERE'S NO MYSTERY. ': 'S

JUST BUSY TRAVELING, WHICH IS WHY HE HASN'T WRITTEN TO MiYONE

OR WHY HE HASN'T LEFT A FORWARDING ADDRESS. EVEN AS HE HUNG UP

HE WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE FOR ANOTHER CITY. "

4. TURNER WENT ON TO SAY THAT WALDO EXPLAINEO HIS RESIGILA

TION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS (UA) AS RESUE: •ÄG FiUM

PRESSURES APPLIED TO UA OFFICIALS BY POWERFUL AMER: "I BUSINESS

INTERESTS FOLLOWING HIS TALK AT THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS CLUB

DEBUNKING THE WARREN REPORT. WALDO WENT "ON VACATIO%'" I LOS

ANGELES, IN JULY, TURNER SAID, WIRED HIS RESIGNATION TO iD.

THEN FOLLONED UP WITH A LETTER TO DR. D. RAY LINDLEY.

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OF UA. FROM LOS ALGELES NALDO CONTINUED TO SUN FRA:: iSCO WHERE

HE CONTACTED "RAMPARTS" AND WAS PUT TO WORK CH TE!"..

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TURNER CONCLUDEO BY SAY ING WILDO "DEFINITELY NOT PUT OUT OF

• MEXICO. "

5. TWO PROFESSORS AT UN SAID THEY WEREN'T SURPRIS:: AT

•WALDO'S RESIGNATION SINCE HE HAD BEEN NEGLECTING HIS JOP. ONE

PROFESSOR ATTRIBUTED THIS TO THE FACT WALDO UNDER TREM::..' US

EMOTIONAL STRAIN SINCE HIS WIFE ALLEGEDLY IN STATES W:: 16

FOR DEGREE ON DIVORCE SHE FILED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.

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