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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO.

: Deputy Chief, Special Security Division

DATB: 21 October 1953

FROM : Chief, Special Referral Eranch

SUBJBCT:

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1. Reference is made to your memorandum, dated 16 October

1953, in which it was requested that appropriate inquiries be

made to ascertain the answers to the following questions.

a.

Can BALMES be made available for testimony

before the Subversive Activities Control Board in the

United States.

b. If the answer to question "a" is in the negative,

can

the FBI interview BALMES wherever he may be outside

the United States.

c.

Or can questions to be answered by BALMES be

submitted to CIA for transmittal to BALMES and the answers

fiven by BALES be sent back to the PEre via GIA.

2. On 21 October 1953 Mr. William B. CALDWELL, Chief, WH/FI

was interviewed in his office.

Mr. (CALDWELL adyised that the

Subject was presently a Contract Employee whose services are being

atilized in, Panama under the travel Control Project. He statec

that Subject

has been overseas for approximately one and a half

years and that his contract period will probably expire within six

months. He advised that in answer to question "a", Subject can be

made available for testimony before the Subversive Activities

Control Board in the United States if necessary. He stated that

Subject's position

was not such that he was indispensable to the

Project and that if it was absolutely necessary, he could be

recalled to the United States within twenty-four hours.

In refer-

ence to question "b", Mr'(CALDWELL) advised that there was no reason

the FBI at his place

why the Subject could not be interviewed O6Z(CALDWELl reported that

of duty. In reference to question re", Mr.

this was the most desirable alternative and that he would prefer

the questions to be answered by Subject be submitted to CIA for

transmittal to Subject and that the answers would be returned to

the FBI, via this Agency.

On 21 October 1953 Miss Helen POINDEXTER)of Staff C

reviewed her records and determined that Subject's true name is

identical to the captioned Subject and not as shown in your

memoran dum of 16 October 1953.

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4. In view of the above, no further investigation is

contemplated by this office unless advised to the contrary.

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