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

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JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM

IDENTIFICATION FORM

AGENCY INFORMATION

AGENCY : CIA

RECORD NUMBER

.: 104-10408-10322

RECORD SERIES : JFK

AGENCY FILE NUMBER

: RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

Released under the John

F. Kennedy

Assassination Records

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Note!.

Case#:NW 53320 Date:

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AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA

FROM

: BERN

TO : DIRECTOR

TITLE

CABLE: FOLLOWING ODENVY REP AND STATION VIEWS RE

POSSIBLE CONTACT

DATE

PAGES

11/30/1963

4

SUBJECTS

: GIBSON

JFK ASSASSINATION

DOCUMENT TYPE

: PAPER

CLASSIFICATION

RESTRICTIONS

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'ER REF -B. ODENVY,REP CABLING PLAN TO HIS HOS AND ASKING

IPPROVAL.

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

HIMSELF, THEN THE NEGRO RACE AND THAT HE WANTS NOTHING TO

DO WITH THE UNITED STATES.

MAY 1976

Document Number

259-673

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CLASSYFICATION REVIEW

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C. IF APPROACH MADE IN SUISSE IT BEST DONE WITHIN

CONSULAR CONTEXT AND BY GENUINE CONSUL IN ORDER: AVOID ANY

APPEARAICE OF SECRECY OR STEALTH IN ÉVENT GIBSON PRESENCE

SUISSE AND CONTACT BY AMERICAN AUTHORITIES SUBSEQUENTLY

PUPLICIZED.

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.

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

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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 CLARIFY ALL BACKGROUND 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 DOM KELLERMANN BRIEFED RE CASE ON

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9 NOVENDER. THEIR VIEWS AS FOLLOWS:

ALTHO THEY BELIEVE

'ETTER INTERVIEW JOB COULD BE DONE BY ODÉNVY OR KUBARX REP

"HEY APPRECIATE THAT CIRCUMSTANCES MAY MAXE USE OF CONSULAR

JFFICER ADVISABLE. (FYI ODENVY REP RELUCTANT UNDERTAKE

TASK BECAUSE OF STANDING INSTRUCTIONS HE NOT TO BECOME

INVOLVED IN ANY MATTER WHERE HE MIGHT LATER HAVE TO APPEAR

IS 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.J

3. IT MADE CLEAR TO AMB AND DEM THAT ODÉNUY HAS EXECUTIVE

RESPONSIBILITY FOR OSWALD CASE BUT THAT KUBARK COOPERATING

CLOSELY. DOM SUGGESTED THAT VIEW SLOWNESS OF ODENVY

COMMUNICATIONS CHANNEL IT PREERABLE 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 KUBARK HOS,

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

AND ELMARD RE POSSIBLE APPROACHES RE GIBSON INTERVIEW, ASK

HAS DEFER ANY APPROACH TO DEPT UNTIL ODENVY REP RECEIVED

GUIDANCE FROM HIS HOS.

5. KÜBARK ONLY, ODENVY REP CONCERNED AND EMSARRASSED

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

1OS AND NO REPLY RECD YET. HE HAS SENT ADDITIONAL NIACT

CABLE REQUESTING IMMEDIATE REPLY.

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

7. ÉNANITION REPORTS THAT INFO FROM LAUSANNE INDICATES

SIBSON TENTATIVELY PLANNING GO FRANCE WHEN DEPARTS SUISSE

PRIOR TO 15 DECEMBER. DATE HIS DEPARTURE NOT KNOWN.

8. FURTHER INFO FROM IN

NITETON CONFIRMS THAT ALBERT

SCHUEITZER 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.

SEGRET

Us coramet'ts:

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