GESTETNER ELICITED FOLLOWING FROM ODENVY MATT CRAWFORD WHO ASKED THAT THIS INFO NOT BE RELAYED KUBARK HQS.
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 05/25/1963
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. 24 MAY GESTETNER ELICITED FOLL FROM ODENVY MATT

CRAWFORD WHO ASKED THAT THIS INFO NOT BE RELAYED DUBARK HOS

UNTIL HIS RECEIPT FROM ODENVY HQS OF: INFO AND COMMENTS ON

MATTER: IDENTIFIED GRU OFFICER VALENTIN VASILYEVICH BAKULIN

IS DRINKING TO EXCESS, HAS BEEN REPRIMANDED BY HIS SUPERIORS

FOR SAME, IS EXTREMELY WORRIED ABOUT HIS POSITION AND FUTURE,

FEARS RECALL AND THAT WILL BE PURGED. LOCAL ODENVY

HAS RECOMMENDED ODENVY HQS TRY APPROACH IN PEPRIME. CRAUFORD

SAID HE THOUGKT DUBARK MEXI COULD HANDLE APPROACH BETTER IN MEXI.

2. NOTE THAT BAKULIN FORMERLY C/O FOR LINEB-I OP, HE

ACTED UNPROTESSIONALLY IN HAMLING OP, STATION REPORT HIS

DRUNKENNESS AND INSECURE PRACTICES, BAX IS CURRENTLY CAO FOR

AN ODENVY LCIMPROVE OP. (LAROS)

3. HAVE NO MEXI ASSETS PRESENTLY IN CONTACT VITH BAKULINe ROUTING

COINCIDENTALLLY, STATION SURVEILLED BAKULIN RECENTLY TO GET 'RID/AN

INDICATIONS CLANDESTINE MEETS AND PERSONAL BEHAVIOR, BUT

RID/BIS

LITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.

RIDARS.

STATION HAS NO INFO IMPENDING BAKULIN DEPARTURE.

RID/PI

5 • GESTETNER NOT SURE, BUT BELIEVES POSSIBLE THAT

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6. LEAVE-TD HQS-DISCRETION HOW BEST GET ABOVE INFA

BROKEN OUT ON HAS LEVEL BETVEEN KUBARK AND ODENVY. PLEASE

PROTECT CRAUFORD THIS MATTER. URGE SOONEST HAS ACTION DO

THIS SO THAT MEXI CAN PLAN APPROACH BAKULIN.

.?: SES NO EFFECTIVE WAY BY WHICH ODENVY COULD CONSUMATE

VELL PLANNED APPROACH PAPRIME SINCE SOV STAFFERS HERE USUALLY

10 NOT LAYOVER PBPRIME IN TRANSIT USSR, AND PRACTICE IS THAT

"NO' SOV FAMILIES OR MORE USUALLY TRAVEL TOGETHER: FURTHER-

SORE, IF BAKULIN LEAVING UNDER CLOUD, MEXI BELIEVES THAT HOULD

IE: UNDER STRICT ESCORT.

8: REQUEST HOS SOONEST ACTION AND COMMENTS.

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