WILLIAM GEORGE GAUDET.
Originator: CIA
From: REARDON, RAYMOND, M, SAG
To: CHIEF, SECURITY ANALYSIS GROUP
Document date: 01/16/1976
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CONFIDENTIAL.

16 January 1976

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Security Analysis Group

SUBJECT

: William George GAUDET

SF#401 996-B

I. On 15 January 1976 the attached article concerning

Subject

appeared in

the Washington Star.

The article points

out that Subject had received a Mexican tourist visa from the

Mexican Consulate in New Orleans, the number of which immedi-

ately preceded the number of a tourist visa given to Lee

Harvey OSWALD.

The article goes on

to claim that GAUDET was

a CIA agent and claims that the possible relationship between

GAUDET and OSWALD was never brought to the attention of the

Warren Commission.

GAUDET

warhe basis for the

the story's claim that

was a CIA agent appears to be statements made by GAUDET.

He indicates in the article that he was associated with the

Agency from 1947 to 1969 and gives the impression that he

undertook clandestine missions for the Agency in Latin America.

2.

A review of GAUDET's security file reveals that he

is the publisher/editor of a news letter entitled Latin American

Report.

He was approved for contact by 00C in 1948. In 1950

approval was given to pay Subject for special reports which

his newsletter would compile at the request of the Agency.

March 1953 he was

again approved for contact by 00C and to

engage in discussions with them up to the level of Secret

information. The security file does not reflect how long 0OC

continued to maintain contact with Subject. Furthermore,

security file does not reflect that Subject was ever asked to

undertake any clandestine assignments for the Agency. It

appears that his only use by the Agency was debriefing of him

in regard to his expertise in Latin American affairs.

3.

GAUDET's security file does not reflect any conneç-

tion between himself and Lee Harvey OSWALD.

4.

After the story in the Washington Star was seen on

Warrenton

15 January 1976, his file was ordered from retirement in

approximately 1510 hours on 16 January,

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Mr. (SPARLING of SRD advised the undersigned that the file.

had been received.

Mr. SPARLING also advised that Mr. Jack

DENPSEY of The Review Staff had called requesting that the

File be sent immediately to his office since he and Mr. BOLTEN

had a meeting at 1530 hours with Senator SCHWEIKER who is

conducting a special Senate investigation into the Kennedy.

assassination.

The undersigned immediately called Mr. DEMPSEY'S

and was informed that Mr. DEMPSEY had already left for

Mr. DEMPSEY'S secretary requested that the file

the mediating the nate From die A De he expected

Mr. BOLTEN. The undersigned declined to forward the

informed Mr. DEMPSEY'S secretary to have Mr. DEMPSEY call SAG

directly in the event that he needed any information from the

file.

Rapa M Rand

-Security Analysis Group

NOTE: Mr. DEMPSEY called at 1630 hours from the Hill and was

briefed on

the contents of Subject's

file.

RMR

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