'CABLE CONCERNING HSCA INVESTIGATORS IN MEXICO CITY.'
Originator: CIA
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/30/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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REF: DIRECTOR 950609 (attached)

'1, HOUSE COMMITTEE INVESTIGATORS DID NOT CONTACT

STATION AS OF 16DO HOURS 39 NOVEMBER.

2, EVEN PRIOR TO RECEIPT OF REFERENCE STATION HAS

UNDERTAKEN SEARCH OF ALL FILES WHICH MIGHT CONCEIVABLY STILL

CONTAIN INFO RELATING TO OSWALD PRESENCE IN MEXICO CITY IN

1903, SEARCH STILL CONTINUING AND WILL ADVISE RESULTS.

3, REGARDING PARAGRAPH A OF REFERENCE, WISH PROTEST

IN STRONGEST TERMS AGAINST PROPOSED FULL PUBLIC DISCLOSUPE

OF AGENCY HOLDINGS RELATING TO OSWALD ACTIVITIES IN MEXICO

AS PROPOSED IN REFERENCE, WHILE WE WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION

TO DETAILED AND TRUTHFUL SUMMARY OF OSWALD ACTIVITIES AS

SUCHE THE EFFIGIAL REVELATION DE DURE TA ISONIRELATIONSHIP,

JOINT OPS

AND AGENT TRUE NAMES INCLUDING POSSIBLE IDENTITY OF

LESSEE OF HOUSES USED FOR PHOTO SURVEILLANCE WOULD HAVE

DEVASTING IMPACT HERE: IT WOULD EMBARRASS OUR FRIENDS, DELIGHT

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OUR ENEMIES, REDUCE UTILITY AND EFFECTIVENESS OF ONGOING

OPERAT 1ONS AND EXPOSE NEW LOPEZ PORTILLO ADMINISTRATION TO

BARRAGE OF QUESTIONING ABOUT COOPERATION WITH GIAN WHE THER

SUCH [COOPERATION/STILL CONTINUING AND SO FORTH.

4, IN OUR JUDGMENT ANY SUCH OFFICIAL REVELATION OF

[DO INY OPERATIONS WITHILIAISONI MAY EFFECTIVELY TERMINATE

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NEXICO CITY 38523

DATED

NOVEMBER WHICH REFERS FO PROBLEM

WE MAY ALREADY BE FACING WITH NEW MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT.

SIT SHOULD BE REMEMBERED

THAT TE LE PHONE TAPS

IN MEXICO ARE

UNCONSTITUTIONAL.Y

AS MINIMUM, OFFICIAL STATEMENT ABOUT

[JOINT OPERATIONS]WOULD CONFIRM THE WRITINGS OF PHIL AGEE

AND JOSEPH SMITH,

5, IT ALSO SEEMS TO US THAT SUCH STATEMENT WOULD BE

IN VIOLATION OF OUR OBLIGATION TO PROTECT SOURCES AND METHODS.

IF AGENCY CAN RELEASE INFO ON SENSITIVE SOURCES AND METHODS,

AND PUBLICIZE PASY OPERATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH SPECIFIC

INDIVIDUALS, IT IS DIFFICULT TO SEE ON WHAT GROUNDS WE COULD

GRITIZE THOSE WHD MAKE SIMILAR PUBLICATIONS FOR PHEIR OWN..

PURPOSES, WHICH TO THEM, MAY SEEM EQUALLY LEGITIMATE..

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6, IN SUM, WE BELIEVE THAT ANY PUBLIC DISCLOSURE

ALONG THE LINES OF PARA EQUA OF REF WILL GET

US INTO EVEN

MORE TROUBLE THAN WE ARE IN AT PRESENT. WE VOLUNTEER JUDGMENT

THAT WE ARE IN THE TROUBLE WE ARE IN BECAUSE AT TIMES IN PAST

WE SEEM TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT WE ARE AND SHOULD BE AN

INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, PROPOSED REVELATION OF EJAIS ONI

RELATIONSHIP, JOINT OPS] AND AGENT TRUE NAMES WOULD CAUSE

WIDE-SPREAD SKEPTICISM THAT WE ARE IN FACT INTELLIGENCE

AGENCY, E"2, IMPDET.

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