INTERVIEWS
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/18/1978
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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SECRET 1814502 MAY 78 STAFF.

CITE MEXICO CITY 45116 (CHAIDEZ ACTING)

TO: IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR.

* SUGGEST DISSEM TO: ICS, OLC

WNINTEL RYBAI.

REF: DIRECTOR 224314

1.

STATION DOES NOT FORESEE ANI

PROBLEMS WITH ASCA

INTERVIEWING SUBJECTS PARA 3 REF IN MEXICO AND ENDORSES

PROPOSAL CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS WITHIN THE AMERICAN EMBASSY

PARTICULARLY IF SUBJECTS ARE TO BE PUT UNDER OATH

2.

VISIT OF HSCA MEMBERS TO MEXICO RE THE KENNEDY

ASSASSINATION WAS DISCUSSED WITH THE CHARGE ON 17 MAY.

IS AGREEABLE IN PRINCIPAL TO THE USE OF EMBASSY FACILITIES

TO CONDUCT THE INTERVIEWS, BUT HE FIRST NEEDS AN OFFICIAL

REQUEST FOR THIS SERVICE THROUGH STATE CHANNELS AND SOME

OFFICIAL WORD ABOUT THE ARRIVAL OF THE HOSA/KENNEDY GROUP

SEFORE HE CAN COMMIT THE USE OF EMBASSY PREMISES.

THE

CHARGE HAD ONLY ONE STIPULATION CONCERNING THE INTERVIEWS

AND THAT WAS THAT THE PERSONS MUST COME TO THE EMBASSY ON THEIR

OWN FREE WILL.

SUT ABOVE ALLe THE CHARGE SAYS HE NEEDS SOME

LEAD. TIME IN ORDER TO MAKE PROPER ARRANGEMENTS. THE EMBASSY

ALREADY HAS MADE PLANS TO ACCOMMODATE ANOTHER ASCA GROUP

INVESTIGATING THE MURDER OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING. THIS

GROUP IS ALSO SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE MEXICO CITY OLA 30 MAY.

EVERYTHING HAS BEEN LAID ON FOR THAT VISIT BY THE EMBASSY,

INCLUDING CO-ORDINATION WITH THE MEXICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL'S

OFFICE.

AS OF COB 17 MAY, THE EMBASSY HAS NOT RECEIVED

ANY NOTICE OF ARRIVAL OF THE HSCA/KENNEDY GROUP AS INDICATED

PARA TWO REFO

RE PARA 5 REF:

MR, CORNWELL SHOULD CONTACT

MR. LAWRENCE E. STERNFIELD, THE COS.

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STATION HAS REVIENED QUESTIONS LISTED PIRA 4 REF

AND RECOMMENDS THAT HQS RESOLVE THE OUTSTANDING QUESTIONS

CONTAINED PARA 4 REF.

THERE ARE HARDLY ANY RECORDS AT

STATION COVERING THAT PERIOD AND THERE ARE NO PERSONNEL

PRESENTLY ASSIGNED WHO HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE OF STATION EVENTS

DURING THAT PERIOD.

THE FOLLOWING ANSWERS (KEYED TO THE

QUESTIONS) REFLECT

TOTALITY OF STATION KNOWLEDGE AT THIS TIME.

A. INFORMATION NOT AVAILALBLE OR KNOWN AT STATION.

B. NO RECORD AT STATION.

CO UNLESS TIME/DATE IS INDICATED ON PHOTOGRAPHS

AND TELTAPS, IT WOULD BE ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO LINK THEM

TOGETHER. FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN TODAY, WITHOUT IMPROVED

TECHNOLOGY, WE STILL DO NOT HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO INDICATE

THE TIME OF THE INDIVIDUAL CALLS MADE DURING THE DAY.

ACCORDING TO PROJECT RECORDS, THERE WERECTI

TELTAP OPERATIONS ACTIVEZAROUND JHIS PERIOD:

THE LIENVOY

PROJECT RENEWAL (JOINT OPERATION| (HMMW-11457, 4 APR 63) SAYS

THAT 30 LINES WERE COVERED.

OF TARGETS AVAILABLE AT STATION DAE OYAERE OPERATION NASTY

_IFEAT TUÑILATERAL WHICH COVERED 23 LINES.

4 PROGRESS

REPORT COVERING PERIOD NOV/DEC 63 CHMMA-22857, 6 FEB 64)

PROVIDES IDENTIFICATION OF THE TARGETS.

THIS DISPATCH

LISTS TWO LINES COVERED IN CONNECTION WITH THE: AMSTRUT

OPERATION.

WEJANNOT IDENTIFY AMSTRUT AND THUS DO NOT KNOW

IF THIS IS COVERAGE OF ANY OFFICIAL CUBAN INSTALLATION.

'ET, WE CANNOT LOCATE ANY RECORD AT STATION DE LUNILATERALIS

COVERAGE OF OFFICIAL CUBAN OR SOVIET INSTALLATIONS DURING

NOV 63.

PLS IDENTIFY THE THREE UNILATERAL TELTAP TARGETS

MENTIONED PARA 4D REF.

INFORMATION ON THE CAMERA LOCATIONS OR

PHOTOGRAPHS IS

NOT AVAILABLE STATION,

FO WOULD PREFER THAT MEETINGS WITH KNOWLEDGEABLE

MEXICAN OFFICIALS BE ARRANGED THROUGH THE EMBASSY.

ba. STATION WILL OFFER EVERY ASSISTANCE AND COOPERATION

VilTH

THE HSCA INVESTIGATORS. HOWEVER, THE FACT THAT THE

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HSCA WILL BE INVESTIGATING TELTAP OPERATIONS AHICH ARE STILL

[ONGOINGICAUSES US CONSIDERABLE CONCERN.

DURING PAST YEAR,

NE HAVÉ ENCOUNTERED INCREASING SENSITIVITY ON PART OF OURAL

LIAISON COUNTERPARTS AS RESULT OF REVELATIONS AND EXPOSES

CONCERNING CIA AND FBI ACTIVITIES IN MEXICO.. ONE OF THE

MOST SENSITLVE OPERATIONS EROM THE MEXICAN POINT OF VIEW

IS TELTAPS, LAS SUCH ACTIVITY IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL A MEXICOY

THE MEXTCANS DRAMA VERY DISTINCT LINE BETWEEN REVELATIONS

ABOUT CIA ACTIVITIES ORIGINATING FROM CRITICS AND ENEMIES

AND THOSE BEARING THE IMPRIMATUR OF THE U.SO GOGERNMENT.

THE RELEASE OF THE FBI DOCUMENTS DREW A SHARP WÄRNING FROM Z4

THE PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON INTELLIEGNCE MATTERS COFO MEXICO

CITY 43110).

ACY PUBLIC REVELATION BY THE HSCA OF LOINT?"

TELTAR ACLIVITY. JOINT OPERATIONS, OR LIAISON EOOPERATION

LOF THESE PERCE MAS ERS A HALSON SEE HAS BEEN ASIDENLY

DEVELOPED OVER THE YEARS, PLUS THE VERY REAL LOSS OF HIGH-LEVEL

REPORTING SOURCESe

8. NO FILE. EZ, IMPDET.

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