OFFICE MEMORANDUM: SUBJECT HIDALGO, BALMES.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: DEPUTY DIRECTOR SECURITY
To: DEPUTY DIRECTOR IOS/PPS
Document date: 4/9/56
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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104-10250-10179

S. ANGERE FORM NO. 84

Office Memorandum • UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

TO

: Deputy Director (IOS)

DATE: 9 April 1956

Deputy Director (PPS)'

FROM

: Deputy Director of Security

SUBJECT:

BALMES, Hidalgo

Subject is presently serving in Panama in a Contract Agent status.

le has been disapproved by this Office for conversion to staif employment.

Subject was formerly a member of the Conmunist Party and worked for the FBI as

an informant.

2. Mir. Foley and bir. Hall of the Internal Security Division, Department

of Justice, have been in contact with Colonel King, Wi, and Mr. Houston, rela-

tive to testimony subject may give in court on the Eugene Dennis case.

It was

agreed between Colonel King, Mr. Houston, and myself that subject's testimony

might very well involve this Agency if the defense counsel tried to inject into

the court record subject's employment with this Agency for the past several

King advised that subject's cover is not very strong and the CIA re-

lationship might well be established in court. Subject would come under heavy

attack from the defense counsel

in view of his having served as an informant

to the FBI.

and advised that we will bring the subject from Panama to the States for an

request that they endeavor to find other witnesses who can provide the necessary

testimony without the necessity of calling this subject for court appearance.

i set or route the necessary

If this is impossible, we must reconsider our position in light of the possible

insistence by Justice for subject's testimony.

AS anesta

.. Bannerman

OS/ FL.B: agg

(9 April 1956)

Orig - DD(IOS)

DD (PPS)

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