CABLE:STATION UNCLEAR AS TO PURPOSE SERVED BY PUBLICATION
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 09/24/1964
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. STATION UNCLEAR AS TO PURPOSE SERVED BY PUBLICATION

PHOTO OF PERSON NOT EVEN INVOLVED THIS CASE. SINCE OSWALD

MOTHER HAS NO COPY OF PHOTOS SHOWN HER, SEE NO NEED PUBLISH

PHOTO SHE COULD NOT EVEN PROVE HAD BEEN SHOWN HER. SEEMS

DUBIOUS THAT SHE WOULD QUERY ABSENCE IN REPORT OF PHOTO

SHOWN HER SEVERAL MONTHS PRIOR, WHICH DOUBIFUL SHE COULD

IDENTIFY AS SAME PIC IN ANY CASE. IN UNLIKELY EVENT SHE DID

QUERY, THIS WOULD FIT INTO PUBLIC CONCEPT OF HER SHREW RISHNESS.

2. IF AS MEXI PREFERS TO BELIEVE OF ODENVY SHE SHOWN

SPREAD OF CROPPED PHOTOS ALL OF WHICH TO APPEAR, NO OBJECTION

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HERE TO PUBLICATION REF PHOTO. IF THIS INCORRECT AND THIS

SOLE PHOTO SHOWN HER AND TO BE PUBLISHED AGAINST MEXI

WISHES, REQUEST EXACT ACCOUNT OF WHAT ODENVY TOLD HER.

3. CANNOT PREDICT SECURITY EFFECT OF PUBLICATION WITHOUT

ANSWER PARA 2. VIRTUALLY CERTAIN ALL ASPECTS OF REPORT AND

AFTERMATH WHICH AFFECT MEXICO WILL GET WIDE PRESS PLAY

HERE. IF ANY INDICATION TO MRS OSWALD THAT NU PHOTOGRAPHED

SAME TIME HER SON IN MEXI, NOT UNLIKELY SHE WOULD SO STATE TO

PRESS, IN THIS CASE, BELIEVE ALL REAL ESTATE AROUND TARGET

INCLUDINGALL THREE BASE HOUSES WOULD GET VERY CLOSE

ATTENTION AND POSSIBLY SOME HARASSMENT. LOCAL LEFTIST PRESS

CERTAIN TO TAKE UP CRY. DIPLOMATIC PROTEST COULD FOLLOW,

AND THIS COULD EASILY TRIGGER FORNOFF INSPIRED POLICE

INVESTIGATION NEIGHBORHOOD WHICH STATION COULD NOT FORESTALL

WITHOUT PREVIOUSLY ALERTING LITEMPO/8 AND LITALK/1 AND

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AND MAKING PUBLIC STATEMENT TO CLEAR SELF. CONCOMITANT

LIKELIHOOD IS THAT PBRUMEN AND VARIOUS NYXIS DELEGATIONS

WOULD ALSO BECOME MORE WARY OR REQUEST INVESTIGATIONS.

4. STATION CONFIDENT NEITHER HQ NOR WARREN COMMISSION

WISH INCUR ABOVE RISKS. HOWEVER IF IMPOSSIBLE SUPPRESS

PUBLICATION STATION WISHES FOREWARN BASEHOUSE OPERATORS

FOR HOSTILE REACTIONS. WILL CLEAR ALL THREE AFFECTED BASES

OF ALL TECH EQUIPMENT FOR INDEFINITE PERIOD JUST PRIOR TO

PUBLIATION.

5. MAY STATION ASSUME NO MATERIAL ORIGINATING LIFEAT

OR LIENVOY TO APPEAR?

6. STATION WOULD APPRECIATE EFFORT TO DELETE PHOTO

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