CABLE RE MIXED RESULTS IN EFFORTS TO LOCATE AND SET UP INTERVIEWS PERSONS WITH THE HSCA INVESTIGATORS.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 07/27/1978
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CITE MEXICO CITY WO00D

TO: PRIOFITY DIRECTOR.

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KNINTEL RYBAT

REFS: A. DIRECTOR 261715

B. DIRECTOR

261709

C. MEXICO CITY 45940 1022224

D. DIPECTOR 263821

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STATION HAS HAD MIXED RESULTS IN ITS EFFORTS TO LOCATE

AND

SET UP INTERVIENS BETWEEN THE THREE PERSONS SUAJECT KEF B

WITH THE MSCA INVESTIGATORS. RAYMOND H. GERENDE HAS BEEN

CONTACTED AND AGREES TO MEET KITH THE INVESTIGATORS.

ARRANGEMENTS WILL BE MADE WITH HIM ON T AUG. STATION CANNOT

LOCATE LIONTON/1 AND EDWARD GO TICHBORN IN MEXICO. IHEIR

NAMES DO

NOT APPEAR IN MEXICAN IMMIGRATION RECORDS AS BEING

PRESENT IN THE COUNTRY.

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STATION CHECKED LAST KNOWN ADDRESS OF TICHBORN GIVEN

DIRECTOR 261710.

PRESENT

OCCUPANT IS SRA. EMILIA LOPEZ AGUILAR

(NO RELATION) WHO DOES NOT KNOW TICHBORN.

BUT DURING THE YEAR

SHE HAS LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS, SHE HAS RECEIVED MANY TELEPHONE

CALLS FROM PERSONS INQUIRING AS TO HIS WHEREABOUTS. ONE CALL

WAS FROM A BANK IN GUADALAJARA TO ADVISE THAT TICHBORN WAS TO

RECEIVE AN INHERITANCE.

SHE HAS ALSO RECEIVED CALLS FROM DEBT

COLLECTORS REPRESENTING MEXICO CITY DEPARTMENT STORES.

ALSO RECALLED THAT NOT TOO LONG AGO, AN UNIDENTIFIED MEXICAN

NATIONAL CAME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD INQUIRING ABOUT TICHBORN AND

ALSO ATIEMPIED TO ELICIT INFORMATION FROM HER CHILDREN ABOUT

TICHBORN.

EFFORTS TO IDENTIFY PREVIOUS TENANTS AT THIS ADDRESS

IN HOPES

THEY MAY HAVE SOME INFO HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL.

AGAIN,

REQUEST HOS TRACE TICHBORN THROUGH HIS MOST RECENT ADDRESS IN

NEW YORK.

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3.

STATION OFFICER RECALLS THAT AT THE TIME OF LIONION'S

TEHMINATION THAT PAYMENT OF HIS TERMINATION BONUS WAS TO BE

MADE IN SPAIN.

THIS PROCEDURE ADOPTED IN ORDER ENSURE THAT HE

LEFT MEXICO.

THE PAYMENT WAS TO BE MADE BY A MADRIC STATION

OFFICER OR OTHER

DESIGNEE. AGAIN, SUGGEST STATION MADRID) ATTEMPT

LOCATE SUBJECT.

EFFORTS TO LOCATE LICOOKYI ALSO UNSUCCESSFUL. THERE

IS ONLY ONE PERSON WITH SAME SURNAME LISTED IN MEXICO CITY

TELEPHONE DIRECTORY. SHE ADVISED STATION THAT SHE HAS NEVER

HEARD OF LICOOKY/1.

5.

THE RECORDS OF CONSULATE IN MEXICO CITY WERE SEARCHED

BUT THERE IS NO RECORD OF LICOOKY/1, LIONION/1, OR EDWARD G.

TICHBORN.

RESULTS FROM CHECKS IN OUTLYING CONSULAR DISTRICTS •

NOT YET AVAILABLE.

6. ATTEMPTING CONFIRM AVAILABILITY OF ACCOMMODATIONS REQUESTED

PARA

« REF B FOR T AND A AUGUST. WILL ADVISE.

7. RESERVATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE FOR CAPTAIN GOODING AT THE

HOTEL BRISTOL FOR & THROUGH 10 AUGUST.

STATION PLANS MEET

CAPT, GOODING AT. THE MEXICO CITY AIRPORT AFTER HE DEPARTS CUSTOMS

AREA.

SUGGEST HE HOLD HIS OFFICIAL

PASSPORT IN RIGHT MAND TO

FACILITATE IDENTIFICATION.

B. NO FILE. EZ IMPDET.

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