INTERVIEW OF LUIS ENRIQUE GUTIERREZ
Originator: CIA
Document date: 02/20/1969
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1o COS INTERVIEWED LUIS ENRIQUE GUTIERREZ 20 FEBO

HE

WAS COOPERATIVE AND GAVE BACKGROUND DETAILS OF HIS ASSOCIATION

WITH ITK IN.

REMEMBERS ITKIN WELL BUT DOES NOT REMEMBER EVER

RECEIVING A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION FROM ITKIN TO A PHILIP

HARBIN OR MEETING A PERSON BY THAT NAME..

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DESCRIPTION OF HARBINO HE WILL CHECK NAME CARDS IN HIS POSSESSION

AND FURTHER PROBE HIS MEMORYO GUTIERREZ TO BE CONTACTED. AGAIN

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24 FEBO

20 GUTIERREZ WHILE AI SALVADORAN CONSULATE IN NYC 49-52,

MET WITH LAWYERS WHO HAD OFFICE IN SAXN BUILDING (278 BROADWAY)

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? WHOY UCKIN WORKEDO LAWYERS OCCASSIONALLY ENGAGED IN

INTERNATIONAL CASES. THEY ASKED GUTIERREZ QUESTIONS IN REFERENCE

•TO THEIR LA CASES AND ASKED FOR HELP. IN SEVERAL CASES INVQVING

SALVADORANS. GUTIERREZ GOT TO KNOW ITKIN WELL IHROUGH LAW FIRM

AND THROUGH ITKIN'S INTERESI IN A ROSA MORALES, NOW MRS. PADILLA

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LIVING IN SAL SALVADOR, WHO WORKED AI THE SALVADORAN CONSULATE.

30 GUIIERREZ WENI IO NYU, RECEIVED MA IN S1 ON IHESIS

TO DO WITH PROBLEMS CAUSED BY. SYNIHETIC PRODUCTS TO THÉ

INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES." THESIS

TOUCHED ON

SALVADOR BUT DEALT WITH OTHER LA COUNIRIES AS

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GUTTERREZ REMEN SERS FILING TO ITKIN ABOUS HIS

THESIS BUT DOES NOT RECALL WHETHER HE GAVE HIM A COPY.

40 GUTIERREZ CLAIMS HE WAS NOT IN CONSTANT CORRESPONDENCE

WITH ITKIN AFTER LEAVING NYCO. THEY USUALLY EX CHANGED

CHRISTMAS CARDS. IN 1961, GUTIERREZ WROTE TO ITKIN ASKING

FOR NAMES OF AMERICAN FIRMS HE MIGHI BE ABLE TO REPRESENI

IN EL SALVADOR. DID NOT. HEAR FROM ITKIN UNTIL 1962, WHEN HE

RECEIVED LETTER FROM SPAINS ON LETTERHEAD OF AN ENGLISH FIRM.

HE ALSO REMEMBERS WRITING TO IIKIN IN

1$ 65 OR 66, AGAIN IN

REFERENCE TO BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BUT DOES NOT RECALL

ŒETTING AN ANSWER.

5à MEMO OF CONVERSATION FOLLOWS BY POUCH.

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