POINTS RESOLVED AT A MEETING WITH ROBERT BLAKEY, AND GARY CORNWELL, HSCA.
Originator: CIA
To: MEXICO CITY
Document date: 07/22/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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. IMMEDIATE MEXICO CITY.

NIACT MEXICO CITY.

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PITE LEESE

FOLLOWING POINTS RESOLVED AT MEETING WITH ROGERT

BLANEY, CHIEF COUNSEL ASCA AND GARY CORNMELLO DEPUTY COUNSEL ASCE:

FiSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEN LICHANT-L ON BASIS MI

QUESTIONED DEBA GARRO DE GUERRERO GALVAN FOLLOWING KENNEDY ASSASSINA-

TION.

HSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEIR KNOWLEDGE HIS UNGITTING USE FOR

¿IA THROUGH LIHUFF-I.

KSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEN LICOOKY-! AND LINIFI-;

ON BASIS THEY U.S. CITIZENS WHO RESIDENT IN MEXICO AT TIME OF KENNECY

ASSAGGINATION.

AS YOU AMARE LICOOKYAL MAS RECEIVED WIDE PUBLICIT

NÓ ELSULT JAIK ANDERSON ARTICLE IN "PARADE" MAGAZINE ON 12 AUG 196E

NÒ HAYING BEEN EMPLOYED IN CUBAN MINISTRY OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS 195:

GO AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP WITH FIDEL CASTRO.

LIHUFF-1 WILL BE

¿ INTERVIEWED UN BASIS HIS RESIDENCY IN MEXICO CITY SINCE 1949 AND MiS

ASSOZIATION WITH GENERAL MOTORS AND AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IN

MSCA WILL NOT REVEAL THEY AWARE BOTH HAD RELATIONSHIP

C WITH AGENCY.

MSCA WILL CONTACT AND INTERVIEN LITAMILOT AND 9 UN BASIS

THEY FORMER EMPLOYEES CUBAN EMBASSY MEXICO.

HSCA ADVISED US THAT

ON PREVIOUS TRIP THEY INTERVIEWED OTHER FORMER MEMBERS CUBAN

EMBASSY MEXICO WITH ASSISTANCE MEXICAN AUTHORITIES. MSCA WILL NOT

I. REVEAL THEY AWARE OF FORMER CIA RELATIONSHIP.

D.

HSCA REQUESTS THAT RAYMOND M. GERENDE AND LIONION-1 SIF

HE CAN BE LOCATED IN MEXICO) BE MADE AVAILAGLE FOR INTERVIEN IN

HOTEL ROON• ASCA SAID VOICE COMMUNICATION WILL BE SUFFICIENTO HOM

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EVER, CLOSED CIRCUIT TV EQUIPMENT BEING SENT FOR POSSIBLE CONTINGENCY

USE.

E.

HSCA HAS AGREED TO INTERVIEW EDWARD G. TICHBORN AS FORMER

AGENCY EMPLOYEE IN SAME MANNER AS DONE PREVIOUSLY WITH MR. CHARLES

FLICK, ET AL.

2.

HSCA WILL ACCEPT CAPT. GOODING'S VOUCHING FOR BONA FIDES

OF GERENDE AND LIONION-1 WHO CAN USE ALIASES DURING INTERVIEW IF

THEY DESIRE.

3. HSCA CONFIRMED THAT THEY HAD REQUESTED EMBASSY TO ASK

MEXICAN GOVERNMENT TO LOCATE ALL BUT GERENDE AND LIONION-I FOR INTER-

VIEW PURPOSES.

HSCA WILL BE TRAVELING OFFICIAL PASSPORTS. STATE

DEPT HAS NOT

ADYISED MSCA WHERE THEY WILL BE BILLETTED.

4.

IN VIEW AGREEMENT THAT ONLY GERENDE AND LIONION-1.WILL BE

INTERVIEWED UNDER INDIRECT (I.E. HOTEL ROOM WITH VOICE SYSTEM CON-

DITIONS, STATION MAY BE ABLE ARRANGE SITE WITH LOWER PROFILE AND

BETTER SECURITY.

HE SELE

AS WE SEE IT, MINIMUM REQUIREMENT WOULD BE FOR

FRIVATE SPACE FOR HSCA, FOR PERSON BEING INTERVIEWED AND FOR

CAPT. GOODING, TECH AND STATION OFFICER.

HENCE APARTMENT OR SUITE

WITH

THREE

SEPARATE ROOMS SHOULD SUFFICE.

5.

AS STATION NOTES, PASSAGE TO AG FLORES NAMES LITAMIL-9:

LITAMIL-T, LICHANTOL, LIHUFFO1, CLARK FLORES AND PALOMARES PRECLUDES

ANY STATION ACTION TO CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEN. HOWEVER.

ANY INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO STATION WHICH MIGHT ASSIST HSCA IN

SIMILAR INFORMATION WHICH MIGHT

1 (A) ABOVE, ASCA WILL INITIATE CONTACT AND NO DIRECT STATION ACTION

REQUIRED.

IN CASE OF GERENDE AND LIONION-L• STATION WILL BE REQUIRED

MAKE CONTACT AND ARRANGE FOR INTERVIEWS.

6a PER PARA 1 (E) ABOVE, TICHBORN WILL BE INTERVIEWED AS

FORMER AGENCY EMPLOYEE, AND STATION WILL BE EXPECTED CONTACT, ASSUM

ING HE IN MEXICO, AND ARRANGE INTERVIEW AT CONVENIENCE OF ASCA AND

AT SITE THEIR CHOOSING. FOLLOWING IS BACKGROUND INFO ON TICHBORN

¡IDENTITY)OFOR STATION USE:

EDWARD G. TICHBORN (P) WAS HIRED IN LATE 1959 AS POLITICAL

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ACTION ADVISOR FOR AGENCY-SPONSORED ELECTION OPERATIONS THROUGHOUT

LATIN AMERICA. IN 1961 HE BECAME FULL-TIME CONTRACT AGENT AND HAS

ASSIGNED TO MEXICO. CITY UNDER PERSONAL COVER WHICH PERMITTED HIM TO

TRAVEL ON THIRD COUNTRY POLITICAL ACTION ASSIGNMENTS. WHILE BASED

IN MEXICO HE WAS PRIMARILY A MOS ASSET BUT, IN ADDITION, ASSISTED

THE STATION BY ESTABLISHING/RUNNING A MAGAZINE "DIALOGOS" AIMED AT

LATIN AMERICAN INTELLECTUALS AND BY REPORTING ON ACTIVITIES/ATTITUDES

OF MEXICAN LEFT-WING INTELLECTUALS. FOR PERSONAL REASONS, TICHBORN

LEFT MEXICO IN AUG 1966.

DIVISION HAD OPPORTUNITY TO USE TICHBORN AS POLITICAL ACTION ADVISOR

ON ONE OCCASION. FILE INDICATED HE ALSO MADE MAJOR EFFORT TO DEVELOP

IN-DEPTH STUDY OF THE PRI IN MEXICO BUT. AS OF MAY 1967, THIS EFFORT

MAS DROPPED BECAUSE OF RELUCTANCE ON PART OF HIS PRI CONTACTS TO

DISCUSS SENSITIVE PRI AREAS AND TO INTRODUCE HIM TO OTHER CONTACTS.

ALTHOUGH SCHEDULED FOR TERMINATION ON 30 SEPT 1967. HE FINALLY

SEVERED HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS COVER COMPANY ON 31 AUG 1968

AND RECEIVED HIS TERMINATION SETTLEMENT ON 12 SEPT 1968. THE LAST

KNOWN ADDRESS (DOI NOV 1966) FOR TICHBORN WAS 5900 ARLINGTON AVENUE.

RIVERDALE, NEW YORK, HOME PHONE (212) 884-8728.°

7.

APPRECIATE STATION EFFORTS TO COPE WITH REQUIREMENTS IMPOSED

ON US BY HSCA AND OUR OWN CONCERN FOR SECURITY IN MEETING DEMANDS

PLACED BY ASCA. HSCA DEPUTY COUNSEL GARY CORNWELL WAS TOLD AT 22 JULY

MEETING THAT CAPT. GOODING, AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DCI. WOULD MAKE

EVERY EFFORT TO RESOLVE (WITH COS PARTICIPATION) ANY PROBLEMS THAT

MAY ARISE DURING ASCA VISIT TO MEXICO. IN VIEW OF THE IMPORTANCE OF

THIS MATTER WE ASK THAT STATION MAKE A MEXIMUM EFFORT TO ENSURE THE

SUCCESS OF THE ASCA MISSION.

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