FOLLOWING MAY BE PASSED AMB IN RESPONSE REF.
Originator: CIA
From: DIRECTOR
To: WITHHELD
Document date: 03/20/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. FOLLOWING MAY BE PASSED AMB IN RESPONSE REF:

ISADORE IRVING DAVIDSON DPOB 19 JAN 21 PITTSBURGH PENNA

REGISTERED DEC 63 AS AGENT FOR DUVALIER GOVERNMENT. HAS

ALSO AT VARIOUS TIMES REPRESENTED NICARAGUA, ECUADOR,

ISRAEL AND INDONESIA AND REPORTEDLY HAS BEEN CLOSE FRIEND

OF PRESIDENT BALAGUER OF DOSIREP. SUBJECT MELBER OF NATIONAL

PRESS CLUB AND WELL-KNOWN IN WASHINGTON CIRCLES, WAS FRIEND

OF LATE DREW PEARSON. HE HAS OFTEN REPORTED HIS ACTIVITIES

TO USG OFFICIALS AND AS RESULT HAS BEEN SUBJECT OF CON-.

SIDERABLE REPORTING BY STATE DEPARTIANT AND FBI. NO

RECENT INFO AVAILABLE HQS RE PRESENT STATUS HIS VARIOUS

AFFILIATIONS. AMB MAY HOWEVER BE INTERESTAD IN ACTIVE ROLE

TAKEN BY SUBJECT IN ATTEMPTING TO MEDIATE BETWEIN ANBASSADOR

TIMMONS AND DUVALIER IN LATE 1963 AND EARLY 1964. HQS INFO

CONSISTS CHIEFLY OF FRAGHENTARY AND INCOMPLETE REFERENCES TO

STATE AND FBI REPORTING. SINCE MUCH OF INFO ALSO APPEARS BE

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SENSITIVE, SUGGEST AMB WOULD BE BETTER ADVISED TO INQUIRE

THROUGH OWN CHANNELS IF FURTHER INFO DESIRED.

2. FYI ONLY: PORT AU PRINCE 2298 DID 12 DEC 63 REPORTED

EMBOFF SPECULATION THAT SUBJECT FOR OWN BENEFIT MAY HAVE

IDENTIFIED COS TO DUVALIER, BUT NO PROOF OF THIS. PILE

INDICATES SUBJECT IS FAST BUCK ARTIST AND POSSIBLE

SECURITY RISK WHO HAS SOME USG CONTACTS WHICH HE NEVERTHELESS

EXAGGERATES WHEN IT SERVES HIS PURPOSES. WHILE WE WANT

TO BE AS HELPFUL AS POSSIBLE TO AMB AND TO YOU, PREFER NOT

TO BECOME MIDDLEMAN FOR AMB'S INQUIRIES RE US CITIZENS

WHICH ROUTINELY SHOULD BE DIRECTED THROUGH OWN CHANNELS.

NOTE FR-57-1 AS REGARDS DEROGATORY INFO.

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