HSCA VISIT TO MEXICO CITY FOR INTERVIEWS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MILLER, LYLE L. /LC
To: DCI
Document date: 05/16/1978
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Executive Registry

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OLC 78-1745

16 MAY 1978

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Director of Central Intelligence

FROM

SUBJECT

Lyle L. Miller

Acting

Legislative Counsel

: House Select Committee on Assassinations Staff

Visit to Mexico City, 30 May 1978

1. (U) Action Requested: None; for information only.

2. (S) The House Select Committee on Assassinations staff

plans to visit Mexico City to interview individuals in connection

with their investigation into the death of President John F.

Kennedy.

3.

(U) The Committee is sending four staff members to

Mexico City. They are:

Gary Cornwell, Deputy Chief Counsel

Harold Leap, Investigator

Dan Hardway,

Researcher

Edwin Lopez, Researcher

4. (S) This team is scheduled to arrive in Mexico City

from Houston via TIA 983, on 30 May for a four to five day visit.

They expect to contact the Mexican Government Attorney General's

office to seek assistance in locating Mexican citizens for

interviews.

They have asked the Agency to assist in locating

other individuals, and we have forwarded their request to the

Chief of Station,

Mexico (see attached).

5.

(S)

—Ot the individuals requested, Charles Flick is a form

employee and Ramon-Joseph Alvarez Durant formerly operated a DDO

photographic surveillance site.

A third individual was recently

requested.

He is Robert Zambernardi, a former TSD officer who

retired in 1965, listing American Embassy, Mexico City as

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address.

We expect to ask the Chief of Station Mexico to

assist in locating these three and to assist in providing

a secure facility for them to be interviewed by the

Committee staff.

As per our Memorandum of Understanding with

the Conmittee,

all notes taken during these three interviews

should be retained by the Station, classified Secret and

pouched to OLC for disposition.

The Committee will carry

with them a copy of your letter to Chairman Louis Stokes

authorizing current/former employees to talk to Comnittee

investigators.

Lyle L. Miller

Attachment:

As Stated

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