CABLE RE ALERT STATUS IMPACT ON TRAVEL PLANS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 12/12/63
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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ZAT' 9 DECEMBER MEET, SUBJ REPORTED THAT HE HAD

BEEN UNABLE LEAVE FOR HAGUE OR BUDAPEST AS PLANNED PER

PREVIOUS REPORT DUE SPECIAL ALERT STATUS ORDERED FOR

CUBAN MISSIONS AS RESULT ASSASSINATION PRES KENNEDY.

(SEPARATE INTEL CABLE.) THIS REGARD WHEN SUBJ BROACHED

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BUDAPEST TRIP BY TELEPHONE TO FORN MIN RAUL ROA CIRCA

29: NOV, ROA VERY UNCHARACTERISTICALLY INFORMED SUBJ

MAXE REQUEST VIA CABLE. IT WAS NOT UNTILCO DEC) THAT SUBJ

ROYP(CABLE AUTHORIZATION) HE SPECULATES DELAY DUE TO

GENERAL STATE OF ALERT AND EMERIENCY PROBABLY EXISTING

HAVA. SINCE SUBJ UNABLE LEAVE WEEKEND 7 DECENBER AND MIS

PRINCIPAL HOST ISTAN BARTOS, HUNGARIAN MINISTER GNVA,

DUE RETURN(GNVA) FROM (BUDAPEST FOLL WEEKEND SUBJ DROPPED

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2. - ALERT STATUS STILL PREVAILS AND SUBJ DOES NOT

DIEM IT POLITIC GO HASU THIS TIME. HE HOPES HOWEVER GO

ROME SOME TIME PRIOR CHRISTMAS ASSUMING ALERT STATUS

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3. SUBJ FRIEND HECTOR' CARBONNEL (SEE GNUÁ JOAND STEALIN EX

CUBAN TRADE UNION OFFICIAL, IS TEMPORARILY VISITING BRUS

WHERE SON MEMBER CUBAN EMBASSY. CARBONNEL STATIONED HAVA

AND HAS BEEN DJAKARTA IN CONNECTION RECENT ATHLETIC EVENTS

THERE. HE TELEPHONED SUBJ AND SUGGESTED HE MIGHT RETURN

PRAGUE VIA GNVA. SUBJ OF COURSE URGED HIM DO SO. "SINCE

CARBONNEL LIKELY BE SOURCE UP TO DATE INFO ON HAVA SCENE,

WE REQUESTED SUBJ IMMEDIATELY CREATE PRETEXT BY CAPATALIZING

ON FACT SUBS MOTHER SERIOUSLY ILL, AND TELEPHONE CARBONNEL

WITH STRONG PERSONAL REQUEST HE DEFINITELY PASS THROUGH GNVA IN 'ORDER

CARRY MEDICINE BACK TO SUBJ MOTHER. SUBJ PROMISED DO-SO.

HE TELEPHONED BASE MORNING 12 DEC AND VIA PUBLIC PHONE BOOTH

JA TO PUBLIC PHONE BOOTH ARRANGEMENT IN GUARDED CONVERSATION

REPORTED CARBONNEL WOULD ARRIVE EVENING 12 DEC ANDÍ WOULD

BE ACCOMPANIED BY CUBAN AMB TO BRUSSELS ARCOS. WILL'HÄVE

#SPECIAL MEET TO DEBRIEF SUBJ IN NEXT FEW DAYS.

4. VIEW SEVERAL RECENT GNVA REPORTS ON COMMENTS: BY

SOVIET OFFICIALS ON IMPLICATIONS ACCESSION TO PRESIDENCY

or PRESIDENT JOHNSON, WE QUERIED SUBJ ON DISCUSSIONS THIS

TOPIC TAKING PLACE WITHIN CLOSED ORBIT CIRCLES. SURPRISINGLY

SUBJ REPORTED THAT WHILE THERE HAS BEEN COMMENT ON ASSAS-

SINATION ITSELF, ME HAS HEARD NO SPECULATION AMONG ORBIT

OFFICIALS ON IMPLICATIONS PRES JOHNSON ACCESSION. DURING

SEVERAL LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS HE HAD WITH SOVIET FORN MIN

OFFICIAL AND SUSPECT KGB OFFICER VASILIY L. BORISOV_

(281-199588) BETWEEN 22 AND 26 NOVEMBER AND IN LENGTHY

LUNCHEON SUBJ HAD WITH SERGEY I. GAVRICHEV: (201-1858782,7

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COUNSELLOR OF SOVIET RESDEL GNVA AND SUSPECTED KGS RESIDENT

ON 29 NOVEMBER, THESE WAS TOTAL ABSENCE OF SPECULATION ON

FUTURE COURSE AMERICAN POLICY, WE HAVE REQUESTED. SUBJ AT

EARLY OPPORTUNITY BRING UP TOPIC WITH GAVRICHEVJOR OTHER

WELL PLACED SOVIETS AND EXPLORE THEIR THINKING.

5. IN 29 NOVEMBER LUNCHEON WITH[GAVRICHE,) REMARK BY

SUBJ. TOUCHED OFF SIGNIFICANT REACTION FROM GAVRICHEV.]

SUBJ COMPLAINED TOCGAVRICHEVJAT LACK OF COORDINATION AMONG

ORBIT MISSIONS ON COMMON CONFERENCE STRATEGY - "EVEN THE

LATIN AMERICANS RUN THINGS BETTER" - AND SPECIFICALLY AT

FACT HE HAD BEEN LEFT OUT OF STRATEGY PLANNING SESSION FOR •

FORTHCOMINS UN CONF UN TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT WHICH MAD

BEEN HELD AT GNVA SOVIET RESDEL BUILDING EARLY NOVEMBER.

GAURICHEV RESPONDED WITH EMOTION THAT SUBS COULD NOT KNOW

HOW MUCH GAVRICHEY REGRETTED DEPARTURE FROM/GNVA JOF

PREVIOUS RESDEL MINISTER LANATOLIY S. CHISTYANOV 6981-127564)

BAVRICHEV COMPLAINED THAT SUCH OMISSIONS WERE THE FAULT OF

CURRENT RESDEL MINISTER NIKOLAY I. MOLYAKOV (201-79564)] "WHO

IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GENERAL DETERIORATION." HE URGED SUBJ

TO PERMIT HIM TO BRING SUBJ VIEWS OF SITUATION TO ATTENTION

OF CC/OPSU, STRESSING THAT ME MEANT "NOT GROMYKO BUT

CENTRAL COMMITTEE." SU?" NOTUSiTED GAVRICHEV]TO COMPLETELY

ABANDON SUCH

IDEA. CAVRICHEV CONTINUED AT SEVERAL POINTS

IN CONVERSATION TO URGE SUBJ TO LET HIM "GO TO CENTRAL

COMMITTEE," BUT WHEN SUBi REMAINED ADAMANT, ASKED THAI SUBJ

THEN AT LEAST MAKE VIEWS KNOWS TO MOLYAKOV HIMSELF.

6. SUBJ, IN FEW MONTHS AFTER MOLYAKOV REPLACED

CHISTYAKOV CAUGUS"

EPORTED OF ENTHUSIASM WITH WHICH

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GAVRICHEV SPOKE OF "NIKOLAY". THERE HAS OBVIOUSLY BEEN

SERIOUS DETERIORATION OF RELATIONSHIP. MOLYAKOV IS CURRENTLY

IN MOSCOW DUE RETURN TOÍGNUA NEAR FUTURE. WE WILL CAREFULLY

MONITOR AND EXPLORE SITUATION VIA SUBJ CONTACTS WITH BOTH

GAURICHEV AND MOLYAKOV. J

%. STILL ANOTHER UNUSUAL INCIDENT POSSIBLY SYMPTOMATIC

OF STRESS OR RIVALRY INCENVAJSOV MISSION OCCURRED

WHEN SUBVENT TO STYLIN FU NOVEMBER TO SEE OFFLBORISOUJESEE ABOVE>

WHO RETURNING MOSCOW. OTHERS AT STATION INCLUDED FOUR SOVIET

ILO OR UN OFFICIALS WHO KNOW OR SUSPECTED KGB AND SOVIET

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ILO OFFICIAL MIKHAIL I. PAVLOVT 201-67392> WHO KNOWN GRU.

SUBJ WAS INTRODUCED BY BORISOV TO PAVLOV, WHOM SUBJ HAD

ONLY SEEN AT LARGE FUNCTIONS IN PAST. [PAVLOV, JAFTER ANNOUN-

CING HE HAD BEEN GNVA LONGER THAN ANY OTHER SOVIET, ASKED

So HOW LONG SUBS HAD BEEN HERE.) AN LEARNINGfEXTENT (SUBS TOTAL 0

SERVICE, PAVLOV SAID BLUNTLY, ("THEN YOU SERVED UNDER

BATISTA?") SUBJECT REPLIED COOLLY AND IMPERTINENTLY:

(EXACTLY.") PAVLOV REPEATED: ("THEN YOU SERVED. THE

BATISTA REGINE?") SUB& AGAIN SAID: ("EXACTLY, ISAND ADDED WITH

DELIBERATE FLIPPANCY AIMED AT PRODUCING EFFECT OF SANG-FROID

AND QF INNER SECURITY: (BATISTA REGIME OR CASTRO REGIME, 08

IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME)" @BORISOV|STOOD BY THROUGHOUT

EXCHANGE WITH

AMUSED GRIN ON FACE.

8. SUBJ NATURALLY ANXIOUS FOR INTERPRETATION OF

AFFAIR. WE HAVE TOLD HIM, AND BELIEVE, THAT AS "COMPETITOR"

(I.E, ORUS TO BORISOV, AND MOREOVER ONE ASSIGNED TO VERY

ORGANIZATION (ELLO, VIA WHICH BORISOVAND KGB DEVELOPERNOCKiNG

-THEIR RELAFIONSHIP WITH SUBJ, PAVLOVIS JEALOUS AND

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THE COMPETITION'S WARES. " WHAT WE DID NOT TELL SUBJ, BUT

SPECULATE, IS THAT POSSIBLE RELATED EXPLANATION OF [PAVLOV •.

REMARKS, WHICH ARE EXTRAORDINARY AND UNHEARD OF IN DIPLOMATIC •

AMBIANCE, MIGHT BE INTENSIFIED GRU-KGB FRICTION BROUGHT ON

BY SITUATION COVERED IN DIR 69922. IT MAY BE NOTED IN THIS

REGARD THAT SUBJ HAS POINTEDLY EVADED EFFORTS BY SOVIET

RESDEL OF FICTAL IVAN I. LAZAREV,] SUSPECTED GRU, TO

CAPITALIZE ÓN SUBJECT'S LATIN AMERICAN TIES. PAVLOVIS

ALREADY OBJECT OF PRIORITY GNVA ATTENTION.

9. SEPARATE INTEL CABLES FOLLOW.

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C/S COMMENT:" : *WILL CABLE DETAILS ON MEET WITH SUBJ.

**CABLE IS MORE THAN ONE YEAR OLD.

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