CABLE MEXICO CITY NEWS CARRIES FOLLOW-UP STORY ON THAYER WALDO BY PEARL GONZALEZ.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: MEXICO CITY
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 8/12/67
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. MEXICO CITY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE NERS 1 AUGUST CARRIES FOLLOW

UP STORY ON THAYER WALDO BY PEARL GONZALEZ. GIST FOLLOWS.

2. THAYER WALDO REPORTED 11 AUGUST TO EE WORKING ON A N

STORY FOR "RAMPARTS" MAGAZINE. WHILE A SPOKESMIN FOR "RAMPARISS

SAID WALDO HAS AN ASSIGNMENT FOR THE MAGAZINE, HE DECLINED TO

SAY EXACTLY WHAT THE ASSIGNMENT IS OR WERE VALDO LOCATED.

3. WHEN THE NEWS CONTACTED WILLIAM TURAER, STAFF KITER

THE CALIFORNIA MAGAZINE AT NOON 11 AUGUST, HE SAID: "I JUST

TALKED TO WALDO FIVE MINUTES AGO, THERE'S NO MYSTERY. LiE'S

JUST BUSY TRAVELING, WHICH IS WHY HE HASN'T WRITTEN TO. ANYONE

OR WHY HE HASN'T LEFT A FORWARDING ADDRESS. EVEN AS HE HUNG UP

HE WAS GETTING READY TO LEAVE FOR ANOTHER CITY. "

4. TURNER WENT ON TO SAY THAT WALDO EXPLAINED HIS RESIGNA-

TION FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS (UA) AS RESULTING FROM

PRESSURES APPLIED TO UA OFFICIALS BY POWERFUL AMERITAN BUSINESS

INTERESTS FOLLOWING HIS TALK AT THE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS CLUB

DEBUNKING THE WARREN REPORT. WALDO WENT "O': VACATION" IN LOS

ANGELES, IN JUI

%, TURNER SAID, WIRED HIS RESIGNATION TO UA,

THEN FOLLOWED UP WITH A LETTER TO DR. D. RAY LINOLEY, "

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OF UA. FROM LOS ANGELES WALDO CONTINUED TO SAN FRANCISCO WHERE

HE CONTACTED "RAMPARTS" AND WAS PUT TO WORK ON TEMPORAR: MISIS.

TURNER CONCLUDED BY SAYING WALDO "DEFINITELY NOT PUT OUT OF

MEXICO."

5. TWO PROFESSORS AT UA SAID THEY WEREN'T SURPRISED AT

WALDO'S RESIGNATION SINCE HE HAD BEEN NEGLECTING HIS JOB. ONE

PROFESSOR ATTRIBUTED THIS TO THE FACT WALDO UNDER TREMENOOUS

EMOTIONAL STRAIN SINCE HIS WIFE ALLEGEDLY IN STATES WA:::NG

FOR DEGREE ON DIVORCE SHE FILED SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.

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