DISPOSITION-CABLE: INFO ON RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON, W/TRANSLATION OF FRENCH TRANSCRIPT
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: BERN
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 11/26/1963
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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26 November 1963

Disposition - This document was denied. The document consists

entirely of information provided by a foreign liaison service. The document

also contains operational cryptonyms, information confirming the existence

of several Agency stations abroad, information confirming the nature of a

(liaison agreement with a foreign service, information identifying Agency

components and information which constitutes internal Agency filing

• instructions. The main thrust of the substance involved here relates to

the reactions of several people tu the assassination of President Kennedy on 26

were Communist but never in any way connected with assassination

activities. This denial was made under the authority of exemptions (b) (1),

(b) (2) and (b) (3) .

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ANSWERS TO INITIAL GUESTIONS (SEE BELOWS AND ARRANCED MEET WITH

INANITION 2O, INANITION 6 IN COMPANY WITH ODENVY REP BERN.

2. SUBS IS RICHARD THOMAS GIBSON, BORN 13 MAY 31 LOS ANGELES,

US CITIZEN, RESIDES LAUSANNE SINCE APRIL 63. NEGRO JOURNALIST,

for FOIA Review on

APR 1976

ACSIVE VEW YORK CHATTER FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE CFPOC,

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3. FOLL TEXI INANITION MEMO.

REFERRING TO EARLIER CORRESPONDENCE IN WHICH WE GAVE

INFORMAT TON ON GIBSON RICHARD THOMAS, BORN 13 MAY 1931

AT LOS ANCELES, JOURNALISI AND TRANSLATOR, US-PP. NO. B-1319010

ROHIORSO, LAUSANNED WE JUST LEARN PRON A DELICATE SOURCE THAT

ISSES HAS ACQUAINTED WITH LEE HARVEY OSWALD

IN A CONVERSATION SONA

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AS MENT SONED IN OUR INPORMATION A LIMIT HAS BEEN SET

TOR GIBSON'S DEPARTURE FROM SUITZERLAND DEFORE DECEMBER 15 • 1963•

ING TO THE DELICACY OF THE SOURCE OF INFORMATION, WE MUST INSIST

THAT THE CONTENTS DE LINITED IN GIRCULATION TO THE STRICTEST MINIMUM

AND SHOULD NOT BE INCORPORATED IN ANY COURT RECORDS.

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sincero Condolences, in apite of it all.

ours.

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Unknown:

Gibson: Yes, yes.

Sam not

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seat at all the cony to change

someones) ideas

Unkown:

You understand, though now,

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engage in

karagzaat a campaign to invade Cuba there are no

problems, all the same

It's very grate.

Gibson; Yes, but he is also a fellowl/to who was brought to

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my attention Il years ago, for having shouted "Long live FIDEL".

In the streets of Dallas, Texas. Well, that was quite a

story. He wrote me some letters and he became a member of

the Committee (unintelligible)

Unkown: (Are they breaking in ??) from Cuba?

Gibson:

Xes, I have the radio here, they have already

spoken of our Committee (unintelligible) and you think

(Cam imagine

poor LY( phonetic in New York.

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Unkown: It must be frightful.

Gibson:

He is in a bath and also for (tibor

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and evryone,

As for me Im very happy

to be here.

Unkown: And I like It even more, I'll bell you.

interrogators Won' tz

i Do gentlo (eamy)

The

Gibson: There is no

(unintelligible), for example,

destroyed a long truse eins.

all this correspondence has been destroyed for a long

time.

I have burned all that

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