MEMO FOR THE RECORD RE MEETING WITH OPERATIONAL CONTACT ON 17 APRIL 1970.
Originator: CIA
Document date: 04/22/1970
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

SECON

22 April 1970

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

SUBJECT: Meeting With (WuSLAB/Jon 17 April 1970

I. Security and Arrangements:

The meeting was held in

the Black Beret Restaurant at 1530 on the above date. / At

that time the lounge

was virtually unoccupied. (WUSLAB/1

The next meeting will be

1400 on 23 April 1970. The

then the

blocks to the office safesite. He is still

weak after his long period of convalescence.

2. Production: During his absence from his office

The OAS Secretariat tried to

[contact W They had received a secret report, which was

not distributed to the OAS ambassadors,

that elements in the

Dominican Republic would try and disrupt the OAS Assembly

meeting scheduled for Santo Domingo in June 1970. The OAS

Secretariat did not feel its own personnel in the DR would

be in a position or have the access to verify the report.

to have the report checkea 1,&

out through UN personnel stationed in the DR. In the absence

of W/I) the OÄS tried to contact Jose Rolz-Bennett, in the UN

Headquarters. They found that Rolz-Bennett was ill with

hyperthroid condition.

They contacted Rolz-Bennett when

he returned to work and he agreed to perform the task requested.

(This comes from Rolz-Bennett).

3.

Rolz-Bennett also told W/I] that there was no favored

candidate to take the place of Morse as the head of the ILo.

Any Latin American candidate for the position would have to

be self-appointed. I asked W/1 about, hisocousin's/ chances RETURNTO CIA

he said that he did not know.

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4. Rolz-Bennett said that there was some disappointment

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in the UN Secretariat over President Nixon's invitation to

U Thant to stop off in Washington for a lunch or reception

after the anniversary celebrations of the UN in San Francisco.

• Plansao I inquired whether W/l had heard anythin

bout his own future job prospects

He had received infor-

mation from Sam Dejani on behalf of Pavlichenko that (he and

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the end of 1970.

all [other' employees would remain where for aeransterand

He was then eligible

they would be glad to entertain his ideas on the subject.

Family status: TWO Of /WUSLA/1's three/sons

graduate from their BA courses

this spring.

One will return

to his native country to undertake his military service

The other will apparently take some kindgol graduate

school education. The daughter continues at Georgetown

7.

According to WUSLAB/1'§ sources there is a relative

freeze on Bolivian diplomatic assignments this year. Walter

Guevara Arze will remain in New York and Sanjines will pro-

bably stay here. The latter had been calling Mrs. Ovando

early in the morning and passing on news of her son who is

going to school in this area.

He will then ask if it is

convenient to talk to "Alfredo" (Ovando). He sometimes gets

him to talk on the phone. During a recent call Sanjines

commented that he had heard that

there was trouble

in the

army.

Ovando admitted that there were "problems".

These

concern, according to Sanjines, the activities of General

Miranda, the Army chief of staff.

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FLOYD B. MCCULLY

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