OFFICE MEMORANDUM: SUBJECT - HIDALGO, BALMES.
Originator: CIA
From: CHIEF, SP REFERRAL BR
To: D/C, SP SECURITY DIV
Document date: 12/23/1952
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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104-10250-10206*DARD 2023 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

Office Memorandùm UNITED STATES' GOVERNMENT

TO

:

Deputy Cales, Special Security Marissant

DATB: 23 December: 1952

Chief, Special Referral Branch

FROM :

SUBJECT:

BALMES, Hidalgo

#65077

1. Pursuant to your request contained in memorandum

dated 22 December 1952, Special Agent James M. SPROUSE contacted

on 23 December 1952, in order to

determine the permissibility of a contact of the Subject by

the FBI and the procedures by which this contact could be

made.

2. Mr!" PAXTON advised the Agent that the Subject is

presently in Panamal and that there is no objection on the part

the FBI. He stated

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personnel and this information furnished to SSD for relay to

-FBI.!! PAXTON stated that the FBI had an agent named WARNER

in (Fanama) who recently had been in contact with the Subject.

He said that WARNER knows the Chief of station in Panama ler, it-7

would probably contact him before interviewing the Subject.

PAXTON requested that he be advised if the Subject was

to be contacted by an FBI representative and of the approximate

late of the contemplated contact. He desired this informatior

so that the Chief of Station in Panama could be alertea to the

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