SUBJECT: Watergate--Frank A. O'Malley

1. At 3 p.m. on the afternoon of 19 February 1974,
Mr. Frederick N. Evans and Lawrence J. Howe interviewed
Mr. Frank A. O'Malley at his residence, 6419 Lakeview
Drive, Falls Church, Virginia. Mr. O'Malley retired
from this Agency in June of 1972. Prior to retirement
Mr. O'Malley was an officer in the External Employment
Assistance Branch, Retirement Activities Division of
the Office of Personnel. It was Mr. O'Malley's function
to assist personnel retiring from this Agency in finding
post-retirement employment. In this capacity: Mr. O'Malley
had been instrumental in the placement of Mr. E. Howard
Hunt in the Robert R. Mullen public relations firm. The
purpose of this interview was to attempt to determine if
additional information could be developed from Mr. O'Malley
with regard to the placement of Mr. Hunt with the Mullen
Company.

2. Mr. O'Malley began the interview by recalling
the nature of his past Agency associations both with Mr.
Hunt and the Mullen Company. Mr. O'Malley stated that
prior to assuming his responsibilities in the Office of
Personnel he had served with Central Cover Staff in the
area dealing with the funding of covert action projects.
In this capacity he had become familiar with the acti-
vities of Mr. Hunt while Mr. Hunt functioned on the Covert
Activitics Staff primarily in the propaganda field. Mr.
O'Malley stated that he first came in contact with the
Mullen Company when he was attempting to find an organi-
zation to handle the public relations effort of a covert
Agency activity known as the Free Cuba Committee. Mr.
O'Malley related that he had arranged this cover through
the Christianform Organization and that his duties in-
volved all aspects of the funding of this activity. Mr.
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with Mr. Robert R. Mullen as being close and cordial.
Mr. O'Malley stated that Mr. Mullen was in the habit
of confiding to him information concerning other Mullen
business, contacts and projects. In response to a
specific question, Mr. O'Malley stated that during the
period of his contact with the Mullen Company dealing
with the Free Cuba Committee, Mr. Mullen told him the
Howard Hughes Organization was a client of the concern.

3. Mr. O'Malley reiterated his previous statements
that Mr. Hunt was referred to his office for placement
assistance through the Office of the Executive Director,
then Colonel L. K. White. Mr. O'Malley stated that in
view of Mr. Hunt's interests in the public relations
field, it was thought advisable to put Mr. Hunt in touch
with Mr. Robert Mullen for the purpose of gaining the
benefit of Mr. Mullen's guidance. Mr. O'Malley recalled,.
after the initial meeting, Mr. Mullen mentioned having
met Mr. Hunt some years previously in Paris, France.
Mr. O'Malley's office arranged interviews with various
organizations including Reader's Digest and the Kennecott
Copper Company. Through the offices of the Mullen Company
an interview was arranged with the General Foods Corpora-
tion, a Mullen client. Mr. O'Malley stated there was
disappointment that Mr. Hunt had been unsuccessful in
"selling himself" during any of these interviews and that
no job offers had resulted. In response to a question
as to whether or not executive level interest was still
being shown in Mr. Hunt's post-employment placement,
Mr. O'Malley recalled that Mr. Richard Helms, then
Director of Central Intelligence, was listed as a charac-
ter reference on Mr. Hunt's resume and that Mr. Holms
signed a letter of recommendation to the Kennecott Copper
Company on Mr. Hunt's behalf. Mr. O'Malley recalled being
contacted in the last month of Mr. Hunt's Agency service by
Mr. Mullen, who stated that a decision had been made to
expand their operations. In view of this expansion, Mr.
Mullen had decided he would himself offer Mr. Hunt a job.
Mr. Mullen had stated that he was interested in having Mr.
Hunt begin work immediately. However, Mr. O'Malley re-
called that Mr. Hunt completed retirement formalities and
actually started work for the Mullen Company approximately
a week to 10 days later.
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4. Mr. O'Malley stated that contact was maintained
with Mr. Hunt while at the Mallen Company on a continuing
basis, because Mr. O'Malley was interested in Mr. Hunt
for possible referral of other Agency retirees. Mr.
O'Malley also understood that there was Cover and Con
mercial Staff interest in the Mullen Company, and that
Mr. Hunt became instrumental in discussing several aspects
of the cover operations in his capacity as an officer of
the company. Mr. O'Malley recalled referring various
Agency officers to Mr. Hunt for guidance when these indi-
viduals expressed an interest in entering the public
relations field. Mr. O'Malley did recall disappointment
in feeling Mr. Hunt had generally been less helpful on
these occasions.

5. Mr. Hunt contacted Mr. O'Malley on several occasions
requesting referral of retiring Agency employees with
specific qualifications. These instances occurred apparent-
ly after Mr. Hunt had assumed his responsibilities with
the White House. In one instance Mr. Hunt requested re-
ferral of a recently retired Agency secretary. As in
previous memoranda and discussions, Mr. O'Malley was unable
to recall the name of this individual. He did, however,
state that he is quite certain Mr. Hunt turned down the
individual whom he referred. As a point of clarification,
Mr. O'Malley said that this individual had not previously
been known to Mr. Hunt, nor had she previously worked
for him in any capacity. Mr. O'Malley also recalled a
request from Mr. Hunt for an individual having skills in
the area of locks and surreptitious entry. A resume of
Mr. Thomas C. Amato was provided to Mr. Hunt at that time.
It is Mr. O'Malley's recollection that Mr. Hunt specifically
stated that a person with Mr. Amato's qualifications was
needed in connection with a requirement of the Howard
Hughes Organization in Las Vegas, Nevada. Mr. O'Malley
stated the opinion that it was his impression that the
duties involved would include the monitoring of a listening
device in an undisclosed location. Mr. O'Malley reiterated
his understanding that Mr. Amato did not accept Mr. Hurt's
offer of cmployment.

6. Mr. C'Malley then recalled request from Mr. Hunt
for a recommendation of a security service organization
to carry out an electronic countermeasures "sweep." Mr.
O'Malley recommended the Wackenhut Corporation... Mr.
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O'Malley recalled that Mr. Hunt expressed dissatisfaction
with that suggestion in part because of that Mr. ilunt
viewed as that firm's political orientation. Mr. O'Malley
did not elaborate further on that remark. Mr. O'Malley
then suggested the use of Anderson Security Consultants,
Incorporated, a commercial cover entity of the Office of
Security. Mr. O'Malley stated that insofar as this
organization was advertised in the yellow pages and that
Mr. Hunt could be assured of the reliability of the ser-
vices, he felt this to be a reasonable suggestion. Mr.
O'Malley stated that during a subsequent phone call when
Nr. O'Malley asked how his suggestion had worked out,
Mr. Hunt responded, "Yes, they had done a fine job."
At this point. Mr. O'Malley was asked whether or not from
his associations with Mr. Hunt he felt. Nr. Hunt was in
the habit of making glib comments which were not neces-
sarily accurate in order to pass over a subject. Mr.
O'Malley stated that this was categorically so. He said
he was sure that Mr. Hunt had lied to him on a number of.
occasions and that, therefore, he was in no position to
be sure that Mr. Hunt had actually, in fact, used the
services of Anderson Security Consultants. Mr. O'Malley
volunteered the opinion that he suspected the electronic
countermeasures "sweep" was to be carried out in the offices
of the Committee to Re-elect the President.

7. In response to a question as to whether he had
ever referred anyone to McCord Associates, Mr. O'Malley
replied that he remembered having referred Walter Brayden.
Mr. Brayden for a time acted as bodyguard to Mrs. Martha
Mitchell. As an aside Mr. O'Malley mentioned that Nr.
Brayden had refused to carry a firearm in spite of the
fact that Mr. McCord told him he could do so on the author-
ity of the Attorney General. Asked specifically if he had
ever referred either Willian Shea or Teresa Shea to Mr.
McCord, Mr. O'Malley stated that he did not recall specif-
ically referring Teresa Shea and that he was sure that he
had not referred William Shea to him. So, contrary to
previous statements, it is now Mr. O'Malley's belief that
in all probability Mrs. Shea was not referred by this
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8. Retning to Mr. O'Malley's pirious responsibilities
in coordinating funding for the covert action activities
of Mr. E. Howard Hunt, the issue was raised as to whether
or not the funding of Mr. Hunt's projects continued between
July 1965 and September 1966 while Mr. Huat was a contract
cmployce stationed at Madrid, Spain. Nr. O'Malley recalled
that at the time of Mr. Hunt's assignment to Madrid the
statement disseminated for consumption within the Agency
was that Mr. Hunt was retiring. Mr. O'Malley stated that
this was not generally believed. Mr. O'Malley was quite
certain that during this period his office handled no
project funding for Mr. Hunt. In response to specific
question Mr. O'Malley stated that on Mr. Hunt's return to
staff employment the projects and funding which stopped in
July 1965 were again resumed. Mr. O'Malley was not aware
of any project names or funding mechanisms or post-assignment
accountings in connection with Mr. Hunt's activities in
Madrid.
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Office of Finance Rocords B. Howard Hunt

1. On the instruction of Mr. Steven L. Kuhn, Chief
of Operations, PSI, the undersigned made an appointment
for the afternoon of 20 February 1974 to interview Mr.
Willian Caufield, Chief, Certification and Liaison Divi-
sion, Office of Finance, and Mr. Joseph Hudson of Finance
on the subject of Mr. E. Howard Hunt. At the outset of
the interview Mr. Caufield advised the undersigned that
instruction had been received from the Director of the
Office of Finance, Mr. Thomas Yale, that discussion on
the subject of Mr. Hunt was to be carried out only with
the Office of the Inspector General. Mr. Caufield stated
that he had informed Mr. Yale of the requested interview
and had received this instruction with the suggestion
that the undersigned contact Mr. Yale directly with any
Inquiry.

2. Accompanied by Mr. Caufield, the undersigned
briefed Mr. Yale on the nature of the request and iden-
tified the "Task Force" effort being undertaken by the
Office of Security in concert with the Offices of the
Inspector General and Legislative Counsel. Mr. Yale
responded that he recognized the legitimacy of the in-
quiry. Mr. Yale explained that subsequent to initiation
of the complete audit being undertaken by Mr. Quinn of
the Audit Staff, the Deputy Director for Management and
Services, Mr. Harold L. Brownman, had requested the
Office of Finance to discontinue their investigation of
Mr. Hunt to avoid duplication. Mr. Yale added paren-
thetically that it was the nature of Finance Officers
not to leave a job half done and that an "informal"
inquiry into Mr. Hunt's financial records had neverthe-
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5. A review of the circumstances surrounding Mr.
Hunt's conversion to Contract Type A employment and
assignment was then undertaken by Messrs. Yalo, Caufield,
liudson and the undersigned. The contract and payroll
filcs of Mr. Hunt were reviewed for possible indications
of the nature of the operational activity undertaken in
Madrid. A review of travel vouchers indicated that Mr.
Hunt and his family made accountings indicating departure
from Washington, D. C., on 5 August 1965 with an arrival
in Madrid, Spain, on 16 August 1965. The costs of this
travel were charged to the budget of the Western Heni-
sphere Division, Ceputy Directorate for Plans, Madrid
Station Support account. A subsequent accounting sum-
marized PCS travel expenses and included a payment for
apartment rental for 16, 17 and 18 August 1965 with a
payment in the amount of $125 to Mr. F. Reid Buckley for
this purpos8.

4. It was determined that an allottee bank account
in Mr. Hunt's name had been established at the Riggs
National Bank of Washington. All salary and other non-
operational reimbursements were made to Mr. Hunt through
sterile check to this account. An oporational account
was established for Mr. Hunt with the Chase Manhattan
Bank of New York City. A review of all payments made to
Mr. Hunt through the Chase bank account through Mr. Hunt's
operational advance subsidiary account, or 1442 account,
had been made. There was no record of any operational
accounts or advances being processed through this channel.
Mr. Yale stated that this fact defined his concern. He
felt that it was inconceivable that Mr. Hunt could have
undertaken operational activity without some transfer of
or accounting for funds. To date, no such records have
been developed. No reference to a project or project
digraph or operational FAN number has been located. Al
expenses connected with Mr: Hunt identified to date were
charged to the Madrid Station Support. A review made of
Madrid Station records has not indicated any "Developmontal
and Target of Opportunity (DSTO)" funds or "Other Opera-
tional Activity (004)" funds expended by or on behalf of
Mr. Hunt. These two accounts would normally be the source
of operational funding not charged against a specific pro-
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5. A review of all of the travel vouchers on record
for Mr. Hunt during this period also failed to identify
a project. In addition to the PCS and return vouchers,
two other accountings are ou record. One accounting
covered a trip by the entire Hunt family to Paris "for
the renewal of visas." A second voucher covered a TDY
trip from Madrid to Washington with return to Madrid
made by Mr. lhunt from 5 January to 3 January 1966. The
voucher states in the space provided for the citation of
the travel order number - "no travel order."
ing was approved and signed by Mr. Thomas Karamossines,
then Deputy Director for Plans. No justification or
statement of purpose for this TDY was given on the account-
ing.
The account-

6. Mr. Yale deterained that further review of possible
sources or identification of operational funding was in
order. Mr. Yale gave instructions that the entire 1442
advance account of Mr. Hunt be reviewed for other possible
channels of funding outside of the New York Chase account.
After discussion, it was agreed that particular attention
be taken to any items connected with publishing or book.
royalties. Mr. Yale noted that the royalty offset waiver
provision anaended to Mr. Hunt's contract was, in his ex-
perience, somewhat unusual.

7. Mr. Yale was informed by the undersigned of the
intention to interview Mr. Edward Ryan, currently Chief,
Division D, who was at the time of Mr. Hunt's Madrid assign-
ment, Deputy Chief of the Western Hemisphere Division. Mr.
Yale suggested that Mr. Davis Powell also be interviewed.
The undersigned informed Mr. Yale that this had been done
and briefed Mr. Yale on the generally negative results of
the interview. Mr. Yale then recommended that Mr. Sam
Halpern be interviewed. Mr. Yale noted that Mr. Halpern
had been an assistant to Mr. Desmond Fitzgerald when the
latter was Chief, Western Hemisphere Division and had ac-
companied Mr. Fitzgerald when he became Deputy Director for
Plans. Mr. Yale recalled that subsequent to Mr. Fitzgerald's
passing that Mr. Halpern remained on the staff and acted as
in Executive Officer for Mr. Thomas Karamessines. Mr. Yale
stated that from his experience, Mr. Karamessines would
have delegated all the arranging of "details" surrounding
un assignment such as Mr. Hunt's to Mr. Halpern. Mr. Yale
offered the parenthetical observation of his surprise at
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SUBJECT: Former Records of Ray Murphy
1. The attached documents are part of a large
collection of records held by Ray Murphy during his
tenure as an official of the Department of State.
He transferred all of his records to CIA upon his
retirement in the mid-1960's. The documents of that
collection which did not meet the retention criteria
of the DDO or the Office of Security were destroyed.
While those which were of utility have been retained
and accessioned as appropriate to the DDO records
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Cotober 22, 1936 - Page 12
EUROPE'S CRISIS; JAPAN PRAPARES
By Bensu Chan
There are numerous American journalists of
different political color and shades of opinion who are
"cooperating" in this way with Japanese imperialion, but
whoever has followed the writings of Harold Isaaca,
Alexander Buchman, Frank Class and Wilbur Burton in The
China Press, The China Weekly Review, Asia, Pacific Affairs,
New International, etc., realizes that these American
Trotskyist journalists are the most vicious and most dan
gerous of the whole lot of reactionery journalists.
Hiding behind a barrage of Marxist parasoology (which
noue of them has yet learned to manipulate with facility),
those people are energetically conducting a campaign of
lice against the Communist International, the Chinese
Communist Party, the Soviet Union, the Chinese Soviets
and the Chinese Red Army, a campaign which aims to under-
mine the confidence of the outside world in the Chinese
Soviet movement and the Red Army,
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Oct 23.1957
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DAILY WORKER
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X 4202 China.
TROTZKYITE BOOK MOURNS
OVER CHINESE REVOLUTION
THE TRAGEDY OF THE CIII of devious Trotskyite..
NESE REVOLUTION. By Isaacs book, has been reissued,
polemics,
Harold D. Issacs. Stanford Uni- partly to cash in on the hate-China
Versity Press. 352 pp: $5.
racket, arid partly because any
By ROBERT FRIEDMAN stick is useful to Big Business
The presses are spewing forth against the liberation bound
anti-Chinese books these devs at Isaacs now says he no longer
a pace which biels to match the loves Trotsky, whose introduction
anti-Soviet tonal All the old has been dropped as a liability. In-
China hands who served Western stead, he is an open defender of
imperialism as banker, soldier, spy, imperialist intervention against the
for whatever in the Orient are now people of the Far East.
busy at the typewriter, engaged
in profitable vilification of 450,- weaseling is Isaacs attack on the
But typical of his Trotskyite
000,000 people because they de Chinese Communists of the 1920's,
cided to take their fate in their first because they supported
own hands and build for them- Chiang Kai-shek despite the fact
selves.
that he was to become the butcher
of the Chinese revolution, and sec
One book which deserves, even and because they allegedly cringed
under the cynical and opportunist before Chiang when he turned on
reign of capitalism, some special the workers in 1927.
prize for adaptability is Harold D.
Isaacs Tragedy. of the Chinese
Revolution

This nonsense, which would rule!
Published first in 1938 as an tory on the chance that today's
out every political alliance in as-
avowedly Trotskyite tract (com- ally might be tomorrow's enemy.
plete with introduction by Trotsky) is ironic in view of the fact that
calling the defeat of the Chinese Chiang sits today on Taiwan, a
workers in 1927 a "betraval" by discredited gangster save only in
Stalin and the Chinese Commu- the eyes of Isaacs politics
men-
nists, the same book emerges now, tors.
refurbished, to mourn the victory Meanwhile the Chinese people!
of the very same Chinese workers will go about their business build-
Ja gencration latert
ing socialism, unconcerned by
Isaacs tears for the tragedy of
Filled with the murky intricacies 19
1927 or 1951.
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COMP.
Enclosure No. 1
To De toh No. 3317
7650-) 175/35 REM
sosed
1 Ta Yong Yi Ping Hutung
Feiping, China.
Oct. 5, 1934.
Mг. Т. А. Bisson
136 Claremont Avenue
Mount Vernon, N. Y.
Dear Mr. Bisson:
I have seen the correspondence exchanged between
Mr. Olass and yourself regarding the contributions you
collected for the China Forum. A draft for the sua in
full will be sent to you this week.
I do not know in the name of whom or what Miss Smedley
speaks of the China Forum. Since she was not in China at
the time the Forum Suspended, nor has she corresponded
with me on the subject, I consider it necessary to place
before you and the other contributors an account of the
circumstances in which the Forum ceased publication.
Since you apparently gathered the contributors together
in a meeting to hear what Miss Smedley had to say, I
would appreciate it deeply if you would gather them once
mors to hear my account. The enclosed is a copy of a
letter, sent by me last May to the Chinese Communist Party.
It has been published in China in a Chinese translation
and copies have been sent abroad but has not been pub-
lished in English as far as I know. I do not know the
names of the people who were good enough to contribute
to the Forum but their interest in the matter warrants
placing before them the story of what happened to the
magazine. I trust, out of simple fairness to me, you
will be good enough to give them this opportunity.
I greatly regret any inconvenience or embarrassment
to which you have been put in this matter. I do hope,
however, that my letter will enlighten you and your
friends and enable you to appreciate the difficulties
which have arisen. I know of no project to revive the
China Forum at the present time. Should such occur, the
resultant publication would be of a considerably different
character from the one I edited, as will be obvious from
the facts given in my letter to the C. P. I think people
who are interested in supporting the revolutionary move-
ment here should know these facts.
Once again, I appreciate all the trouble you have
gone to in this matter.
Did you ever, incidentally, receive the article
"Fascism in China" and the newsletter which I mailed to
July 13 last?
Yours sincerely,
(Harold R. Isaacs)
enol.
(Copied by FD)
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COPY
Letter of H. R. Isaacs to the C.C.P. concern-
In the cрада Гогцо
To the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party:
The two-year period of my extra-organizational col-
laboration with the Chinese Communist Party has come to
an end and the China Forum which I founded and edited dur-
ing that time has been forced to suspend publication. In
the interest of our whole movement as well as in my per-
sonal interest, I consider it necessary to record here
and publish the history of the China Forum and the cir
cumstances of its suspension. You refused me the oppor
tunity to lay the matter before the membership of the
party even when I offered to do so in your own organs and
not through the columns of the Forum. when, wrongly, I
permitted the Forum to go down in silence, you turned
around and in your organs and near organs in China and
abroad you proceeded with the usual slanders of "betrayer"
and counter-revolutionary". In so doing you didn't have
the courage or the simple honesty to state that you pre-
sented the China Forum with an ultimatum and forced its
suspension because in reply its editor raised questions
which are being placed before the whole movement today
by the International Left Opposition. Nor did you state
that you deliberately smashed the Forum for this reason
despite my repeated and extended offers to continue publi-
cation as before on a straight anti-Kuomintang, anti-
imperialist basie, leaving these various problems to be
thrashed out first privately among ourselves. In other
worde, you deliberately forced suspension of the China
Forum despite the fact, on your own admission, that its
loss vas a serious plow to the revolutionary movement in
China, that it meant the disappearance of an organ which
for two years you had considered an extremely valuable
instrument in the hands of the movement. Here, as in the
broader issues which led to our differences, your blind
adherence to false policies was once more demonstrative
of your readiness to place your factional interests above
the interests of the Chinese Revolution.
In going back over the history of the Forum, I think
the vicious character of your action becomes even moге
evident when I start with the fact that from beginning to
end I functioned not as a member of the party but as a
wiliing sympathizer who was prepared to throw all his
energiás into a job he saw he could do edit and publish
an organ in China which could help mobilise the forces
of this country for struggle against the Kuomintang and
the imperialists by exposing the regime of terror and
privation which they have in common imposed upon the
masses of the Chinese people. Permit me to recall at
this point that I never accepted any personal remunera-
tion for time or labor. You gave the Forum financial
aid but I never received a dollar from you that was not
put into the paper. I refused your offers of compensa-
tion and earned my living elsewhere. Your only claim on
me was my full-hearted loyalty to the Communist ideal and
our
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our common dedication to the struggle against a regime
of hate and misery and oppression. In the end you for-
feited this claim by ceasing any longer to be in my eyes
honest or.effective leaders of this struggle.
Although you helped the Forum financially, the part
you played in building it up from the day it started in
January, 1932, to the day of its last appearance in Janu-
ary 1934, was insignificant. My repeated requests for
cooperation in matters of circulation and material for
publication went largely unsatisfied throughout that time.
You never supplied me with the reports I so frequently
and urgently sought, particularly on trade unions, strike
struggles, the Red Armies, the Red districts, etc. Every
thing thơ Forum did and became was the fruit of the work
of a tiny group of devoted collaborators (the most im-
portant of whom had no connection with you whatever) and
myself who had to depend almost entirely on our own re-
sources for everything we did and published. At every
crisis in the Forum's existence, when it was banned by
the French authorities in Shanghai at the very outset;
when it was bounded and persecuted by the American and
Chinese authorities in the summer of 1933, when through
British police pressure it was thrown out of every avail-
able printing ship in the city; when the pseudo-Fascist
Blue Shirts again and again threatened the printing plant
which I built up partially through personally contracted
loane it was invariably through my own initiative, with
the help of the little Forum staff, that we pulled our-
selves up by the bootstraps every time and carried on to
a point in January this year where the Forum was flourish-
ing and growing daily in circulation, prestige, and in-
fluence despite the many formidable obstacles in its way.
The formation of the China Forum Readers Association,
which in the brief space of three months spread to eleven
cities in five provinces, developing into & mighty poten
tial weapon for the revolutionary movement, was the prod-
uct of spontaneous action on the part of the Forum's
readers, later sponsored and led by the paper itself.
All these were the Forum's own achievements, not yours.
By your arbitrary and criminal action you shattered then
in the full stride of their growth. Because to my bitter
disappointment I had not nor could I secure the resources
to carry on myself - owing largely to the difficult condi-
tions of work and the impossibility of getting revenue
from the paper itself - all that had been achieved and
was to be achieved was ground into the dust.
II.
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From almost the very beginning of my active work
which I date from the time I began reporting events in
China in a Communist way - a number of questions presented
themselves to me in increasingly forcible form. These
arose originally from my discovery of the gross distor-
tions and exaggerations which I found to be characteristic
of Communist propaganda in China and abroad. I defino
propaganda as the skilful, clear, accurate and wholly
truthful reporting of the facts linked to an incisive,
purposive
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purposive interpretation and a plan of action for deal-
ing with the facts in a revolutionary way. I learned
06:00 sie and work of Lenin and his Bolshevik
comrades who taught us that the truth comes from the
masees themselves and that only dienster can result from
telling them lies. I have never learned to the contrary
that it was my revolutionary duty to work in any other
way although I soon found that the present day Communist
Party press makes a practice of distinguishing between
propaganda and truth.
Examples of exaggeration and distortion most strik-
ing to we were naturally those which applied to China,
bocause here I could check allegations with known facts.
I first wrote these down to the ignorance or incapacity
of individuals. I felt that Communist editors abroad
would publish accurate facts about China if they could
get them. Accordingly with a friend I tried to set up.
an independent mail news service and sent weekly bulletins
to papers all over the world giving brief, sharp, factual
accounts of what was going on. This was in the fall of
1931 after my return from the area of the great Central
China floods of that summer. I scarcely understood then
why this service failed to secure any response from the
Communist press abroad. After about three months I had
to suspend it for lack of support. It simply didn't get
published except in a few organs which were not official,
Communist Party papers, including the New York Militant.
It wasn't long before I began to perceive, with a
deeper study of international events and the history of
the Chinese Revolution, that a consistent thread ran
through the distortions and exaggerations which I found
not only in brief casual reports of current events but
in the solemn pronunciamentoes. made by delegates before
plenums of the E.C.C.I. I discovered that these departures
from the truth were made necessary by the official premise
that ever since the catastrophe of 1937 a mighty, upsurg-
ing revolutionary movement has been marching forward in
China to the very brink of seizure of power under the
leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. I discovered
that these exaggerations were necessary because the pre-
isevas false and along with it all the basic tenets of
the policies being pursued by the Communist International
and the Communist Party in China. I cannot begin here to
give a summary of some of these distortions (which I
verbally cited to you by the dozen) ranging from partiou-
lar incidents (the wilfully false picture given of the
cotton mill strike in Shanghai in January, 1933, even to
the point of transposing it to February to heighten the
impression given of the workers' role in the Shanghai war)
to high flown generalisations like the statement recently
made before the Plenum of the S.C.C.I. that the C.C.P. has
won over the majority of the Chinese working class and
the peasantry.
In denying the factual truth of this premise, whence
flows the whole policy of the Communist Party in China, I
deprecate not a whit the magnificent militancy and courage
of Chinese workers, striking again and again and fighting
against
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4
against terrific odds in defense of their very lives;
nor the noroio struggles waged by peasants all over the
country; nor the fight of the Red Armies against the
Kuomintang, I merely respect the cold, indisputable fact
that these struggles are defensive, not offensive, that
they are isolated, desperate and unorganised. with very
few exceptions - a few small strikes here and there and
the larger exception of the Red Army - they are without
organised revolutionary leadership. Moreover the develop-
ment of this leadership, the task of the C.P., 18 proceed-
ing at a tragically retarded pace owing to the false
policies and inept tactics of the party.
In denying the presence of a mighty revolutionary
upsurge (1.6., a vast, organised march toward the seizure
of power) I respect facts made still clearer perhaps when
compared to the facts and figures of the monster mass move-
ments of the 1925-27 period. The tragio errors of the
Communist leadership in 1987 were primarily responsible
for the decapitation of that great movement and because
no lessons have been drawn from those evente to this very
day, these exrore, monstrously accumulated, are still re-
sponsible for the tragedies of today. But for the purpose
of our comparison here, let us for examplo take the single
fact that in 1936 in Greater Shanghai there were 257
strikes. In 1933 there were 82. Let us remember that
on the eve of the workers' seizure of power in Shanghai
in March, 1927, there were more than 800,000 workere,
handicraftamen and petty traders out on the streets fight-
ing with arms in hande for demande of a far-reaching po,
litical character. A close check for the entire country
in the latter half of 1933 showed me that Icas than one-
thirtieth of that number were engaged in strikes and other
disputes during any given month and that almost invariably
the demands were defensive demands against wage cuts and
lockouts. Moreover, the lack of cohesive leadership-
often in departments of the same factory or in one or more
of a group of factories - or even sometimes lack of even
the most elementary organization - has in almost every
case led to deadening failure and relatively easy betrayal
by the yellow labor leaders" and "mediators of the
Kuomintang. In 1985 the shooting of thirteen students
by British police in Shanghai was the touch-off for a
general strike which paralyzed the city and which was
Beconded by vast sympathy strikes which broke like a
series of tidal waves over the entire country. In Janu-
ary, 1932, when the Japanese imperialists used the Shanghai
International Settlement as a base for operations which
cost the lives of tens of thousands of Chinese, not a
single strike interrupted the normal course of the pub
lic or other services in that settlement. In the factories
there were no strikes but a large scale lockout to which
the overwhelming majority of Shanghai's workers submitted
without protest.
The dogged, persistent struggle carried on by small
sections of the rank and file workers in isolated instances
in recent years is tribute to the magnificent fibre of
Chinese
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Chinese workero. It is not evidence that a revolutionary
seizure of power is on the order of the day. It is evi-
dence, along with the heroto sacrifices of thousands who
have lost lives and liberty in Chinese revolutionary
struggle during the last seven years of Kuomintang re-
action, that it is possible to fight the monstrous white
terror which Chinese Communists frequently cite as a
reason for the insufficiency of their work. Yet, it is
largely because this terror has not been fought effectively
that the Kuomintang regime, despite the fact that it is
rotting and crumbling, can still keep the lid down on the
boiling, simmering hatred of the people it rules. Unless
the martyrdom of thousands of China's finest workers,
peasants and revolutionary intellectuals is to be in vain,
we must turn resolutely away from the folly of calling to
insurrection when what is needed is painstaking education,
organization and the sponsorship of day-to-day struggles
of the masses for democratic demands, the slow building up
of a party and mass organizations and a movement which
will be able to command the forces capable of carrying out
an insurrection.
In the case of the widespread but isolated and in-
dividual cases of peasant uprisings, and this includes
the Red Armies in Kiangsi, these struggles await the
leadership of a strong working class movement before they
can have a successful issue. The Red Armies in their re-
stricted and surrounded areas and with their meagre re-
sources have fought heroically against the Kuomintang
attacks upon them. But until the Kuomintang is shaken
from its bulwarks in the imperialist controlled working
olass centres, their prospect of revolutionary triumph
remains necessarily dim. No revolutionary purpose is
served by taking refuge in the fiction that these armies
have proletarian leadership because individual workers,
-undoubtedly leaders of superior quality and courage, have
been torn from their factories and their fellow-workere
and sent down to occupy key positions in the Red Army
districts and in the Red Armies themselves. Indeed, this
common practice of extracting the most conscious and pro-
gressive working class elements from their working olass
environment and sending them down to the Red districts ie
a good index to the oriminal transposition of emphasis
which has helped paralyze the working class movement in
the cities. If the White Terror doesn't carry off the
workers' leaders as they arise, the C.P. does and has done
so in hundreds of cases. This helps in no small part to
explain why it has also been impossible to mobilize a
genuine mass anti-Japanese movement in the fact of mili-
tary aggression and why the White Terror of the Kuomin-
tang has succeeded, by filling mass graves and innumer-
able prisons with the martyred dead and living, in down-
ing the anti-imperialist movement or efforts toward the
organization of such a movement and paving the way for
the ever increasing encroachments of the imperialists.
The party has not yet gripped and directed the deep and
bitter and often inarticulate hatred of the masses of the
people for their oppressors and this includes large s80-
tions of the lower netty bourgeoisie who could be won by
successful mass pressure from below. This is because the
:
Party
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Party has failed to translate the realities of everyday
evente into its program and tactics..
I cannot here go into the many-faceted problems and
issues which flow from these facts with regard to the
policies and tactics of the Chinese revolutionary movement
Nor extending to the international scene need I go into
the terrific effects of the German catastrophe nor the
storm of questions which has been directed at the C.1.
leadership whose responsibility in the disaster has be-
come nakedly clear to unnumbered Communists and Communist
sympathizers the world over. Nor into the whole set of
implications which arise from the policies of the C.I.,
with particular reference to the late developments in
Soviet foreign policy, the Litvinov-Roosevelt agreement,
the forthcoming mooted entrance of the U.S.S.R. into the
League of Nations and in a smaller but equally character-
istic way, the forthcoming association of the U.3.8.R.
with the Institute of Pacific Relations which hopes to
höld ita next talkfest in Mos```markdown
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director
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Dr. Martin Luther KING, Jr.
1. Reference is made to this Agency's out message
number 94270 dated 25 April 1968 concerning the assassi-
nation of Dr. Martin Luther KING, Jr..
1--
2. On 16 April Roderick Claflin BROWN, a Panamanian
national born 1 July 1917 in British Honduras, voluntarily
appeared at the Department of National Investigations (DENI)
of the Republic of Panama and signed a deposition, the
highlights of which are as follows:
(1) On 26 October 1962 he served as cook/seaman,
aboard the Texaco S.S. Southhampton which docked at Mobile,
Alabama.
(2) While on a shore visit to the Mobile airport
on the morning of 26 October 1962 in the company of two
fellow Panamanian seasen, he was approached by Marvin P.
LITTRELL, owner of LITTRELL Motor Co., 921-25 South Clinton
Street, Athens, Alabama, who after ascertaining BROWN was
a Panamanian seaman, asked if he knew of Dr. Martin Luther
KING, Jr.
(3) LITTRELL inquired whether BROWN was interested
in employment, the details of which were unspecified. He
went on to describe Dr. KING as "Our greatest problem who
16 causing us much trouble." He gave BROWN a business card
to use in the event he was interested in pursuing the employ-
ment offer.
(4) On 28 January 1963 BROWN wrote LITTRELL from
New York City, stating he was interested in a job and
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requested $75 for travel from New York City to Mobile.
On 2 February 1963 BROWN received a reply from LITTRELL,
restating that he had a job waiting for BROWN in Alabam,
but questioning why $75 was needed since the fare was less
than $40 by bus.
(5) After discussions with a relative and friends
in New York City, BROWN suspected that the LITTRELL job
offer was related with assassination plans for Dr. KING.
Therefore he did not respond to the LITTRELL letter and
dismissed the incident until the death of Dr. KING in
April 1968. BROWN returned to Panama in 1964.
3. Enclosed for your information is a copy of the
LITTRELL letter and the Spanish language deposition made
by BROWN, as well as an English translation of the deposition
as described in paragraph 2 of the referenced out message.
FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR PLANS:
Signed: James R. Hunt
JAMES ANGLETON
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SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF DEATH OF MARTIN
8-7
LUTHER KING, JR., IAO APRIL 1968
UFGA-29877
IN ADDITION TO THE SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE
MART IN LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION TRANSMITTED IN REFERENCE, THE
FOLLOWING SUMMARY FOR 8-9 APRIL HAS BEEN FURNISHED BY THE AMOTS
?
OM GRANMA, Ο APRIL, PAGE ONE JJMOBILIZATION OF 55,000-
TROOPS TO REPRESS THE NEGROES A THE ARTICLE REPORTED ALL THE
DISTURBANCES WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN THE U.S. AS A RESULT OF THE
DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
WN GRANMA, O APRIL, PAGE 3 A JUWITH THE ASSASSINATION OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING THE IDEOLOGY OF NON-VIOLENCE HAS DIED A AN
INTERVIEW WITH FLOYD MCKISSICK, NATIONAL DIRECTOR OF THE
CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY/CORE/. JJTHIS SIMPLY MEANS THAT
NON VIOLENCE HAS CEASED AS A MEANS OF FIGHTING. THE PEOPLE
CANNOT BE TAUGHT TO BE NON-VIOLENT WHILE WE ARE INVOLVED IN
A VIOLENT WAR, IN VIETNAM. NON-VIOLENCE CANNOT BE PREACHED TO
JHE BLACK PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO FACE VIOLENCE EVERY DAY ON THE
STREETS OF THIS COUNTRY. THIS WAS SAID IN A TELEPHONE CONVERSA-
TION BETWEEN RADIO HABANA AND FLOYD MCKISSICK. WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE
POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF THE ASSASSINATION OF KING, MCKISSICK RE-
FLIED - JJI REPEAT THAT WE ARE MAKING NO PREDICTIONS, BUT THE
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AMERICAN NEGRO IS NOT WILLING TO CONTEMPLATE IMPASSIBLY THE ASSASSI
NATION OF OUR LEADERS, OUR HEROES, AND OUR PEOPLE.
EM GRANMA, O APRIL, PAGE 3 A ARTICLE BY JUAN MARRERO ENTI-
TLED, JJTHE AMERICAN NEGROES ARE WRITING THEIR FINEST PAGE OF
HEROISI JJAGAINST ALL THAT AND MUCH MORE, THE NEGROES ROSE UP
TODAY IN MORE THAN SIXTY CITIES. AND IT IS LOGICAL TO EXPECT NEW
PAGES OF HEROISM. STOKELY CARMICHAEL, THE NEGRO LEADER, GAVE THIS
WARNING ONE DAY AFTER THE DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING
JWHAT
HAPPENED ON THE NIGHT WE LEARNED OF THE ASSASSINATION OF DR. KING
IS NOTHING COMPARED TO WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. JJ
RM GRANMA, O APRIL, PAGE 3 A JJTHE WIDOW OF LUTHER KING HEAD'S
THE MARCH IN MEMPHIS. THE ARTICLE TELLS ABOUT THE MARCH AND
SHOWS PHOTOGRAPHS OF IT.
TM RADIO REBELDE NEWSCAST, I APRIL 1755 A.M./ A JJA TENSE
CALM REIGNS IN THE U.S. BUT IT IS A PRELUDE TO SERIOUS EVENTS.
NATIONAL MOURNING DECREED BY LYNDON JOHNSON FOR YESTERDAY, U APRIL,
MARKS A LESSENING OF DEMONSTRATIONS WHICH ARE EXPECTED TO START UP
AGAIN AT ANY MOMENT
YM RADIO REBELDE NEWSCAST, I APRIL 1955 A.M./A JJ JFORWARD
WITH BLACK POWER UNTIL CAPITALIST MISERY, THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE OF
HUMAN INJUSTICE, IS OVERTHROWN SAID THE SOCIALIST PARTY OF CHILE
IN A CABLEGRAM SENT TO THE AMERICAN NEGRO LEADER, STOKELY CARMICHAEL,
ON THE OCCASION OF THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING.
UN RADIO LIBERACIÓN, I APRIL/1230 P.M./ A THIS NEWSCAST
REFERS TO A DEMONSTRATION IN WHICH 200 LATIN AMERICAN, ASIAN, AND
AFRICAN STUDENT'S WERE SAID TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN FRONT OF THE
U.S. ENBASSY IN WARSAW, POLAND, AS A PROTEST OVER THE DEATH OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING,
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DOC. MICRO-BER.
SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA TREATMENT OF THE DEATH OF
MARTIN LUTHER KING, TAI APRIL 1968
THE FOLLOWING SUMMARY OF CUBAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE MARTIN
LUTHER KING ASSASSINATION DURING THE PERIOD 5-8 APRIL HAS BEEN
PREPARED BY THE AMOT S-
QM GRANMA HAVANA DAILY NEWSPAPER OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF
5
CUBA, APRIL 68, FRONT PAGE LAST MINUTE NEWS MARTIN LUTHER
KING ASSASSINATED IN MEMPHIS, U.S.A. ACCORDING TO FIRST REPORTS,
LUTHER KING HAS BEEN SHOT BY A WHITE WELL-DRESSED YOUNG MALE.
४
2.
GRANMA, I APRIL, FRONT PAGE
TWENTY-SEVEN PERSONS HAVE
BEEN KILLED IN THE U.S. AS A RESULT OF THE FIGHTING WHICH HAS BEEN
GOING ON SINCE THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING. IN WASHING-
SNIPERS
TON ALONE THERE ARE 750 WOUNDED AND 4,186 PERSONS ARRESTED.
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CONTINUE TO BE ACTIVE IN DIFFERENT CITIES IN THE U.S. THE WHITE
HOUSE AND THE CAPITOL ARE UNDER HEAVY GUARD
GIVEN./
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FULL INFORMATION
EM GRANMA, I APRIL, LAST PAGE "TO RICHMOND TO LIBERATE RAP
BROWN... **/WASHINGTON, APRIL, ASSOCIATED FRENCH PRESS - AFP,
FRENCH NEWS AGENCY AMX LEAFLETS WERE DISTRIBUTED HERE THIS MORNING,
URGING THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF WASHINGTON TO GO TO RICHMOND TO LIBERATE
RAP BROWN. THE LEAFLETS CALLED ON THE NEGROES TO FORM A MOTOR-
CADE AND LEAVE FOR RICHMOND TOMORROW, MONDAY."
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4. GRANMA, APRIL, LAST PAGE
ARTICLE ENTITLED
PRINCIPAL
NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS IN THE U.S." BY JUANA CARRASCO. THE ARTICLE
SAYS THAT NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS ARE DIVIDED INTO TWO GROUPS
VIOLENT ONES AND THE NON-VIOLENT ONES. IT MENTIONS THE FOLLOWING
AMONG THOSE WHICH ADVOCATE THE USE OF VIOLENCE CONGRESS OF RACIAL
THE
EQUALITY/CORE/, STUDENT NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE /SNCC/,
BLACK MUSLIMS, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, BLACKSTONE RANGERS, THE ALERT
PATROL, REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENT /RAM/, THE BLACK GUARDS, THE
DEACONS, AND THE U.S... THE FOLLOWING NEGRO ORGANIZATIONS ARE
MENTIONED AMONG THOSE WHICH ADVOCATE NON-VIOLENCE NATIONAL ASSO-
CIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE NAACP, NATIONAL
URBAN LEAGUE, AND THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
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GRANMA, I APRIL, LAST PAGE - ATTEMPTS ARE BING MADE TO
BLAME CARMICHAEL FOR THE OUTBREAK OF RACIAL VIOLENCE IN THE U.S.
4.
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AND WHITE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN JAPAN.
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IM GRANMA, I APRIL, LAST PAGE
STRUGGLE.
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RACIAL CLASHES BETWEEN NEGRO
JOTHE AMERICAN NEGRO PEOPLE...
MARTYR'S OF THE NEGRO
OM RADIO LIBERACION AND RADIO PROGRESO HAVANA RADIO STATIONS/,
710
6. APRIL, UMP A.M. AND 12 NOON - THE CHIEF OF THE MISSION TO CUBA
OF THE SOUTH VIETNAMESE NATIONAL LIBERATION FRONT HAS SENT A MESSAGE
TO AFRO-AMERICANS ON THE ASSASSINATION OF THE LEADER, MARTIN LUTHER
KING. THIS MESSAGE SAYS THAT THE CRIME WHICH WAS COMMITTED AGAINST
MARTIN LUTHER KING UNMASKS THE EVIL FACE OF THE RULERS AND RACISTS
OF THE UNITED STATES. THE MESSAGE OF THE VIETNAMESE MISSION IN
HAVANA ENDS BY SAYING THAT, WITH THE ASSASSINATION OF LUTHER KING,
ALL THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY THE RULERS OF THE UNITED STATES
IS TO POUR CIL ONTO THE FLAMES OF THE STRUGGLE OF AFRO-AMERICANS,
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OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE WHICH IS FOUND IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH
HINDER'S THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE
COUNTRY.
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APRIL, REP P.M.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL,
LEADER OF BLACK POWER, SAID - WE NEGROES MUST ARM OURSELVES WITH
RIFLES AND PISTOLS AND LAUNCH AN ASSAULT ON THE STREETS OF THE
CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES IN REPRISAL FOR KING'S ASSASSINATION.
CARMICHAEL PREDICTED THAT THERE WILL BE EXECUTIONS IN THE STREETS AS
A RESULT OF KING'S ASSASSINATION. HE ALSO PREDICTED THAT THE
VIOLENCE WHICH HAS BEEN UNLEASHED BY NEGROES AS A RESULT OF KING'S
DEATH WILL BE PALE AS COMPARED TO WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN AMERICAN
CITIES.
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VIOLENCE WITH REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE.
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CWM RADIO PROGRESO, X APRIL, XP P.M. A JICARMICHAEL SAID
DURING A TELEPHONE INTERVIEW THAT A SERIOUS MISTAKE HAS BEEN MADE
IN ASSASSINAT ING. DR. KING BECAUSE HE HAD BEEN THE LEADER OF A MOVE-
MENT WHICH URGED THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES NOT TO BURN
THE CITIES, NOT TO COMMIT ACTS OF VIOLENCE.
THIS MEANS THAT IT WILL
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BE NECESSARY TO START AN ALL-OUT REVOLUTION.
SERIOUS INCIDENTS, HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN 35 CITIES WHERE THERE HAVE
BEEN FIRES, SHOOTING, FIGHTING, AND DEATHS AS A RESULT OF THE CRIME
COMMITTED AGAINST DR. KİNG. NATURALLY, OTHER SIMILAR THINGS WILL
JAKE PLACE.
GUERRILLA WARFARE WILL RAPIDLY SPREAD THROUGH THE CITIES
BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY EVIDENT THAT WE CANNOT OPENLY REBEL AGAINST
THE POLICE.
STOKELY CARMICHAEL ENDED THE INTERVIEW BY SENDING
AFFECTIONATE REGARDS TO THE REVOLUTIONARY CUBAN PEOPLE AND THEIR
LEADER, FIDEL CASTRO RUZ...
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INTERVIEW - ADR. LUTHER KING'S ASSASSINATION WILL UNDOUBTEDLY PRE-
CIPITATE THE REBELLION OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES
AGA INST ALL THE ABUSES OF WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN THE OBJECT.
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EXPRESS TO THE FAMILY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND TO ALL AFRO-AMERICANS
OUR DEEPEST SORROW OVER HIS DEATH, OUR DECISION TO SUPPORT YOUR
STRUGGLE, AND OUR DEEP CONVICTION THAT THIS TERRIBLE CRIME--WHICH
SHOWS US THAT ARMED REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY OF ACHIEV-
ING GENUINE LIBERATION--WILL HELP STRENGTHEN THE STRUGGLE OF THE
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MAY THE TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE
OF THIS GREAT LEADER AT LEAST HELP TO SPEED UP THE ARRIVAL OF THE DAY
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NEGROES, WILL LEARN MUCH FROM HIS DEATH. WE CAN ALMOST ASSURE THAT
THEY, THE AMERICAN NEGROES WHOSE DIGNITY AND DECORUM HAS BEEN
CRUSHED, WILL COME BACK TO LIFE AFTER CENTURIES OF LETHANGY AND
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CRITICIZING THE NON-VIOLENT LINE WHICH WAS ADVOCATED BY LUTHER KING,
SAYING THAT THIS LINE WAS INOPERATIVE. SAMARTIN LUTHER KING DID NOT
PREACH VIOLENCE BUT HE WAS THE VICTIN OF VIOLENCE. HE DID NOT
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LESS UNDER CONTROL--TO GO TO THE WHITE HOUSE. JOHNSON APPEARED ON
TELEVISION. HE EXPRESSED HIS ANGUISH AND HIS SORROW. HE MADE.
-INSPIRED COMMENTS ABOUT MARTIN LUTHER KING. THESE ACTIONS AND THE SE
WORD'S HIDE FEAR OVER THE WAVE OF JUST VIOLENCE WHICH IS STARTING TO
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UNITED STATES AND INCITES THE PEOPLE TO PROMOTE DISTURBANCES WHOSE
FAR-REACHING EFFECTS ARE. HARD TO PREDICT.
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Reference to "Black Power" Concept
ACTION REQUIRED: REFERENCES
1. Attached for Headquarters retention are one copy each
of statements on the death of Martin Luther King by the Dominican.
Communist Party (PCD), the Communist 14th of June Revolutionary
Movement (MR-1J4), and various trade unions. All appeared..
in the 7 April 1968 issue of El Nacional.
2. The text of the PCD statement makes reference to the
visit of Stokely Carmichael to the Latin American Solidarity
Organization Conference (LASO), quotes a statement by Fidel
Castro on Carmichael and the concept of "Black Power," and
expresses the solidarity of the PCD with the struggle of
North American Negroes. The MR-1J4 statement, only available
in gist, says that King's death reveals the profound crisis
existing within US society and shows that for the "racist
forces, "violence is the only law and is applied to internal
and external enemies alike.
3. Neither statement issues a call to violence on the
part of US Negroes.
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Martin Luther King
Dos organizaciones izquierdis lencià revolucionaria que derrum
ta's condenaron hoy la muerte del bará el sistema Imperialista.
reverendo Martin Luther King.
En comunicados separados el
Partido Comunista Dominicano y
el Movimiento Revolucionario 14
de Junio dicen solidarizarse con
ol movimiento negro de los Esta.
dos Unidos,
El PCD demando de las organi-
zaciones políticas y sindicales dès-
arrollar actividades en apoyo a la
lucha de los negros norteamerica-
nos..
Por su parte el 14 de Junio con-
sideró que el asesinato del Premio
Nobel de la Paz revela la profunda
crisis en que ha entrado la sociedad
norteamericana,
El PCD señala que el asesinato
del líder pacifista ha tenido justa
respuesta en la violencia desata
da en las ciudades más importantés Demuestra, según el 14 de Junio,
de los Estados Unidos que ha obli que para las fuerz fuerzas racistas la
gado a que el presidente Johnson hnson única ley es la violencia y que ésta
cancelara su viaje al exterior para es aplicada a todo enemigo inter-
conversaciones de paz en Vietnam, no o externo que se revele contra
Dice respaldar la rebelión, y los el imperio brutal.
pronunciamientos del líder negro
Stokely Carmichael ya que él único
camino en los Estados Unidos para
Ubrarse de la violencia de los ma
les que padece ese pueblo es la vio
Entiende la organización política
que la muerte del reverendo Lu
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para los de su raza que sufren la
opresión racista,
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DOMINICANO
(PCD)
¡Nuestra solidaridad plena
con la lucha de los negros
norteamericanos,
como parte que es de la lucha
de todos los oprimidos
de la tierra!
El régimen de los monopolios imperialistas norteamericanos
se conmueve por la acción de los pueblos desde fuera con
Vietnam amal frente, y desde dentro con el gran movimiento por los
derechos civiles sciviles y por la paz, El asesinato de Lüther King,
será presentado como la obra de la mano fanática de un racista;
pero queda clara la responsabilidad de los interesados en liqui
dar la acción civil por la violencia, de los interesados en tm.
poner la mordaza a los reclamos del pueblo que cada vez vez más
Jucha organizadamente y que comprende los objetivos de esa
lucha, de los monopolios imperialistas,
La violencia engendra violencia, Muchos siglos de explota.
ción y de represión han pasado hasta que en los últimos Imos años
el negro norteamerica.comienza a organizar sú resistencia;
y en ello el papel de her King es innegable, de los más altos
meritos, de la mas encomiable abnegación, aunque su prédica
de pas no haya sido comprensible por todos los oprimidos ni
la más aproptada como lo demuestra su su propia muerte.
:
Los negros constit en los Estados Unidos el sector mas
explotado de la clase obrera en el nivel de sueldos, en en la dis.
criminaciña social que asume formas raciales, en la propor.
ción de les que participan en el ejército, en los planes de
seguros sociales; por lo que la discriminación y su respuesta
en la lucha por los derechos civiles tiene características esen.
cialmente clasistas aunque asuma formas raciales, y por lo
que crecientemente este fenómeno es comprendido por las
propias mesas blancas que apoyan los reclamos civiles de la
población de raza africana marginada de la sociedad,
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SUBJECT: Payment to Edvard G. Tichborn (P)

1. On 9 May this office received a telegram (in the file)
from Tichborn (P) dated 5 May 1960 in which he stated that he had
not yet received his check for $650.00 from Ashmead, Hanniferd 24
Associates

2. The undersigned contacted Mr. Thomas Strange, Cover
Division, to find out the reason for this delay. After following
up this request he informed me that said check had cleared
Tichborn's (P) California bank on 27 April, the Federal Reserve
on 29 April and is now in Cover Division as a cancelled check.

3. I tried to phone Tichborn (P) late Monday afternoon (9 May)
but he was not in his office. I reached him this morning and
advised him that the money had beer deposited in his bank on the
date noted above. Tichborn (P) said he had not checked with the
bank but would do so.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Payment to Rivard G. Tichborn (P)

Tichborn's (P) accountings for the advance given him in
connection with his Cuban trip were processed and found in order.
The remaining half of his salary ($650.00) which was to be paid
upon the completion of his assignment was then processed
through the appropriate Finance and Cover channels (hand-carried).
The check, drawn on (Ashmead, Haniford Associates) in the amount
of $650.00 was cleared and left with Cover Division late Friday
afternoon 22, April 1960. Cover Division said it would be forwarded
that day to (Ashmead, Haniford Associates in Philadelphia) who
would then mail it to Tichborn's (P) California bank, on the
following Monday - 25 April 1960.

Evalena S. Vidal

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4 February 1960

MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Henry P. Lopes at Carleton Hotel. PP/PA
WH representatives were (Robert Reynolds) (Reteher) and (Philip Toomey (Thompson). The meeting took place 15 January 1960
1200 hours to 1540 hours.

He read the PP staff report on opposition groups (sanitized) and the report (sanitized) on the (Indian political action) operation.

(Lopes was briefed by Mr. Reynolds on the current situation in Cuba.
He was given a check for $1300 and instructions to call Benjamin Avana at the Embassy and use the name Fred Horse.

Mr. Lopes stated that he foresaw no problems in getting around in Cuba. He mentioned that one of his friends in the (Harvard Graduate School), Regino Boti Leon, was now in the (Castro Cabinet) and that he and (Boti) had dated the same girl who was now in New York. He intended to phone the girl on his stop-over in New York to renew acquaintance.

(Lopez) was told about security precautions and that Mr. Evens would brief him further contacts to be made. Mr. Davis asked when he would be back here and (Lopes) said about the second of February. Davis said that we would tape his remarks at that time (Lopes) was asked to keep accurate account of his arrivals and departures for accounting purposes.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: Meeting with Henry P. Lopez at the Statler-Hilton Hotel on
1 February 1950 from 1000 hours to 1530 hours.

1. Those present were Mrs. Vidal PP/PA, Alexander Hunter (Williams)
PP/EAD, Charles Penney (Twiss) WI/PW, and Philip Toomey (Thompson) H/4/PP.

2. Mr. (Lopez) have a report of his contacts in Cuba after receiving
his notes which were brought up by Mr. (Noel) and given to Mr. (Lopez) by
Mr. Coomer. Lopez said that he had given biographical sketches of
Echevarria, Rasco, Laureano Batista, Martinez Fraga, Ruben de Leon and
Sanchez Arengo to the Station representative. he had also turned over a
report of Martinez Fraga on the aims of the Recaveracion de la Revolucion.

3. Mr. (Lopez) report was taped and a transcript will be forwarded
to by PP/PA.

4. Specific recommendations made by Mr. Lopez included having
Herbert Matthews go to Havava and try to influence Castro. Matthews
has a good reputation throughout the 25th of July Novement and could
help in an approach to Castro. A visit by Ei Hurrow to do a broadcast
on Cuba was also recommended. Mr. (Lopez) feels that Castro will be in
power for a long time to come and that we should try to influence him.
He is seriously affected by any defections and these right be encouraged.
Castro can be hit by defections of overworked and countermanded officials.
Two men who were mentioned as ripe for defection are ufo in Hacienda
and Cepero in Comercio. Lopez also recommended contact with Padre
Alberto de Castro in Caracas. This padre was formerly Fidel's instructor.
When Fidel was in Caracas he was scolded by Padre Castro whom Fidel
treated with great respect according to Bosso. The Padre and Fidel spent
about one and one half hours alone together at this time. This priest
should be checked as a possible influence on Fidel. The possibility of
a split between Fidel and Raul should be exploited. Raul is cold and
mean and the fact that he is Fidel's brother does not carry too much
weight.

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD:
SUBJECT: Debriefing of Edward G. Tichbern(P)

1. Edward G.Tichborn(P) arrived in Washington from his trip to Cuba during
the night of 31 January 1960/. He was debraefed at the Hotel Statler from about
1000 to 1530 hours on 1 February. Those present at the debriefing were Messrs.
Phil Toomey and Charles Penney from WH Division, Mr Alexander Hunter) PP/EAD, and
the Undersigned. This debriefing was very interesting and resulted in a good
deal of pertinent information. The three and a half reels of tape derived fxKE
therefrom are now being transcribed by this office. Some of the more salient
points are noted below.

2. Some of the operational information and suggestions offered by Tichborn
are the following:

a. There appears to be little chance of a coalition of the opposition
groups at this time or in the near future since they are not well organized
and each group would want to be the leader of such an effort. Also,
according to the members of the opposition to whom Tichborn talked, it is
the general consensus of opinion that Fidel Castro is in no danger of loosing
his grip or the devotion of his followersx for some time to come.

b. Fidel Castro seems to become most upset and almost paniced by
defections. Possessing a "Messiah-type complex he cannot bear the thought
of someone leaving the fold. Rather than to let such defections pass on
unnoticed, he feels compelled to give reasons and rake excuses. This then
blows the matter up perhaps out of proportion and quickly becomes a matter
of public knowledge. Tichborn feels that the inducement of defactions could
perhaps have more effect on Castro than any other single, rational action we
might undertake.

c. There appears to be a relatively long-standing schism between the
brothers Fidel and haoul Castro. Raoul is the mone cold individual. As an
example, Fidel once ordered some 400 prisoners to be returned safely to their
homes, but Racul had a number of them killed. The general feeling in Cuba is
that Fidel is not a Communist, but that Raoul is undoubtedly at least a
fellow-traveller. Developing or exploiting this schism could therefore, be
operationally advantageous. (The fact that they are brothers would probably
have little effect on Fidel who has already reduced kixxxak the land holdings
of his mother and another brother in conformity with the agrarian refora
program and who failed his sister, and fired a Minister, over a shake-down
on an insurance deal.)

3. Of special operatioral interest ware several individuals Tichborn
mentioned who might have some influence on Fidel Castro and hence might be of

operational interest. They are:

a. Pather (Padre) Alberto de Castros he is a Jesuit priest presently
located in Caracas, Venezuela, who had been a teacher of Fidel Castro during
his youth. Castro was in Venezuela and saw Father de Castro there during
which time the latter criticized Fidel for some of his actions. In spite of
the fact that this remonstration occured in front of some of Fidel's men,
and they laterthe latter treated him with great respect. It was felt by Tichbern's source
chatted alone of this information, and by Tichborn, that Father de Castro undoubted
has some influence over Castro. Tichborn suggested that it would be of value to
determine whether or not Fidel has any regular contact with Father de Castro
and if so, what operational potential he might have.

b. Herb Mathewss he is a journalist with the F.V.Times and was the only
American newspaperman covering the Castro story prior to his final success.
While Tichborn was in Vuba, a front page article sa appeared in Revolucion
(the regime's press-spokesman) on Mathews. It was a sort of editorial and
praised Mathews as a "real man" and one who understood the revolution and
its aims. Tichborn feels that it might be to our advantage to get into
contact with Mathews since he appears to have the confidence of the
administration.

c. Professor Rosco: Subject is on the faculty of the Universidad de
Villanueva and is a contemporary of Fidel Castro. They were classmates and
both were debators although according to Rosco, Castro did not make the
Debating Society of which he (Rosco) was the presidentOnce after the
revolution, Rosco attended a sppech Castro made and after the oration, the
latter asked Rosco what he thought of it. Upon hearing some criticism, he wanted
to know how it could have been improved. Since Castro was leaving for
Venezuela and the United States he asked Rosco to accompany him in order that
they could discuss the matter further. Tichborn feels that Rosco (a member of
the opposition) Max probably has more influence on Castro than Rosco realizes
and that this possibility would be worth looking into.

d. Edward R.Murrow: he produced a TV program on Castro and Tichborn feels
that he might have established a rapport with Castro during this period.

4. One of the contacts Tichborn made in Cuba (the Director of Tourism) asked
him if he knew of anyone who would be interested in coming to Cuba on an all-expenses-
paid visit in order to write articles (or other similar propaganda) on present day
Cuba. Tichborn mentioned Clete Roberts, a popular radio and TV commentator in ios
Angeles as a possible candidate. (Tichborn also discussed this matter with Horace
W. Davis.) Tichborn will mention this possibility to Roberts upon his return to
Californic.

5. While in Cuba, Tichborn accidently met a young lady who later revealed to
him that she was "an agent for the State Department". He felt that this was a
security matter and that it should be brought to our attention for that purpose.
Mr Toomey did not recognize the name; it is being further checked cut with WH
Division. The incident and the details will be made the subject of a separate
memorandum for CI Staff.

6. On the administrative side, Tichherr will forward by mail his
financial accounting, one copy to the cover company and the other to Henry
W. Darkin(P). The cover letter which was provided him the the event that
he came to the attention of the Cuban authorities was returned to us and is
now in his file. (There was no necessity for its use.) Tichborn inquired as to
the possibility of receiving reimbursement for medical exponses which will
undoubtedly be incurred upon his return to California due to a possible hernia
which developed in New York on his return trip en route to Washington. This is
being checked out by this office. Tichborn departed for Los Angeles (having been
taken to Freindship International Airport by Donry Derkin) at about 1800
hours on 1 February 1960.

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Bank of America
Wilshire-Sweetzer Branch,
6507 Wilshire Blvd.,
Los Angeles 48, California

The check for the $2,000 operational advance was drawn on a
check of the cover company. It was mailed from Washington
with an accompanying letter written by Tichborn stating that
it should be deposited to his Commercial Account. Date of
writing and forwarding was 15 January 1960.

The $650 check for of his total salary, should be mailed
to the same bank and credited to his Commercial Account.

E.S.V.
19 Jan 60

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104-10174-10043 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

Dear Mr. Tichborn:

The following is set forth as clarification of your present
mission, and the procedures which will be followed in the conduct
of it. Please indicate your agreement by signing below.

A. Operational

1. You will be briefed generally on some aspects of the Cuban
situation while in Washington on this date..

2. The major briefing to be given you concerning the local
political situation, security precautions, and more detailed
instructions on your present mission will be undertaken upon your
arrival in Havana.

3. Upon arrival in Havana a tourist card will be issued by
the Cuban Immigration authorities. You will give your true name and
occupation in the United States and state that you are in that area
as a "tourist".

4. Your initial contact in Havana will be with IDEN A (name
and telephone number attached hereto). When making this call, you
will identify yourself as Fred Morse.

5. IDEN A will then give you the briefing mentioned in paragraph
2 above.

6. IDEN A will also arrange to put you in contact with about
two individuals for the purpose of starting you on your assignment.
It is anticipated that other leads and contacts will result from
these introductions, both in Havana and the interior.

7. When talking to any local contacts you make while in Cuba,
your cover story will be the following: that you are talking to thea
on the behalf of some (unnamed) American businessmen and investors in
order to assess discreetly their position and legal resources as concerns
the revolutionary laws and to determine the possibility for future
financial development and investments.

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8. We are providing you with a letter from & cover company
(attached hereto) which you will use only in the case of extreme
emergency in the event that you come to the attention of the Cuban
authorities. This letter states that you are there on a vacation
and that this company has asked you to get some first-hand information
on the subjects mentioned in paragraph 7 above while there if you
are so inclined. This will provide you with a plausible excuse for
being both a tourist and one interested in talking with local
personalities..

9. Your mission generally is to talk with as many knowledgeable
persons as possible regarding the political situation in Cuba, with
special emphasis on the opposition, its strengths, weaknesses, plans
and prograris. Of particular interest is the possibility or feasibility
of a coalescence of these opposition groups.

B. Administrative

1. While on your present assignment you will keep a record of
your expeuses which will enable you to submit the required accounting
for funds upon your return. In keeping the accounts you should note
times of arrival and departure, detailed notation of expenses incurred,
and the rate of exchange obtained when exchanging U. S. dollars into
local currency.

2. Upon your return you will submit two accountings. One will
include your salary under "services rendered", and also your expenses
and will be in true name to the following company:

Ashmead, Haniford Associates
1615 Spruce Street,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
324

3. The second accounting will also include salary and operational
expenses and will be submitted in pseudonym to:

Henry W. Darkın
P. 0. Box 8105
Southwest Station
Washington, D. C.

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RETURN TO CÍA
Background Use Only
Do Not Reproduce

27 October 1959

HEXORAMAH FOR: Chief, Cover Division
ARTIZITION: Mr. Strange (x-8264)
SUBJECTI (Henry P. Lopes)
05

1. To confirm your conversation with Garma Sprague on
26 October 1959 va request that baskstopping facilities be provided
for Babject by the following organization:

Mchawad, Zarifort Associates
1815 Cpruce Street
Philadelphia, Pomsylvania
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2. Subject will send a true some copy of blu expenses to this
orguizatica and at the same time he will suletit to P2/2, via
a post office box address, e detailci accounting in accordance with
Agency regulations,

3. For your inforsation Subject'a aadress is:

6505 Wilshire Boulevari
Los Angeles, California
08

4. Subject's pecadora is forwarded under seperate cover.

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Distribution:
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1 - chrono
1 - Subject file

Horace W. Davis
Acting Chier
Political Action Division
104-10174-10072
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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS STAFF MEMBERS

FILE TITLE/NUMBER/VOLUME: LYNCH, GRAYSON
DED FILE

INCLUSIVE DATES:

CUSTODIAL UNIT/LOCATION:

ROOM:

DELETIONS, IF ANY:

| DATE RECEIVED | DATE RETURNED | REVIEWED BY (PRINT NAME) | SIGNATURE OF REVIEWING OFFICIAL |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 A6 28 6pm | JAME | PAT ORR |  |
| 22 A6 | JAME | JAMES P. KELLY |  |

NO DOCUMENTS MAY BE COPIED OR REMOVED FROM THIS FILE

BUSINESS:
Subject is a retired CIA employee.

GRAYSTON LYNCH
8709 Bay Point Drive
Tampa, Florida

DCD-399/78
10 April 1978
MEMORANDUM FOR: DDO/ISS/IP/EIS
FROM: Ruth Elliff
DCD/FIO/PAO
SUBJECT: House Select Committee on Assassinations Request (OLC 78-1035)

1. I have searched DCD's records on the individuals listed in subject request with the following results:
a. Carlos Quiroga negative
b. Pedro Diaz Lanz Two documents for your retention. Please note that the teletype of 6 February 1977 also includes the names of several other individuals of interest to the committee.
c. Roland Masferrer File A-16-88-46 on loan and documents for retention. (Masferrer is a subject of a recent FOIA request, F-77-260.)
d. Manolo Rey DCD case 42315 on loan (also contains references to Manuel Artime). Retention copies of additional documents also included.
e. Antonio Cuesta Valle Documents for retention.
f. Antonio Veciana Documents for retention (please note that the documents also contain references to Antonio Cuesta Valle).
g. Edward L. Freers negative
h. Mrs. G. Stanley Brown negative
i. David E. Murphy negative
j. Aline Mosby Documents for retention.

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DCD-399/78
10 April 1978
SUBJECT: House Select Committee on Assassinations Request (OLC 78-1055)

k. Abraham Isaac Goldberg One document for retention.
n. Robert J. Korengold negative
n. Marita Lorenz File A-20-44-72 on loan. Please note that Ms. Lorenz recently filed a request under the Privacy Act (P-77-2794).
o. Evelio Alpizar Perez Documents for retention.
p. Antonio Soto Vazque negative

2. With regard to the four names listed together on page two of subject menorandum, I am forwarding documents dealing with Justin McCarthy and a Robert M. Moore. It is uncertain whether or not these individuals are the ones of interest to the HSCA (our files contain references to at least 15 other individuals named Robert Moore; without considerable additional information, we cannot make any positive identification). I am forwarding, on loan, our file on Grayson Lynch (A-19-44-94). You may wish to consult with DCD later with regard to releasing this individual from his obligation of secrecy.

Ruth Elliff

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD

27 February 1976

SUBJECT: Grayston Lynch, ex-BKHERALD Staff Employee

1. John Greaney called on 26 February to advise that in his judgmer.t DCD's roll in this matter is finished. Greaney has sent this material to John Kennedy, NARCOG, who has advised John Werner, Drug Enforcement Agency, who will contact Lynch directly.

2. Mr. Greaney has contacted Lynch directly and notified him thạt Mr. Werner will be calling him. We, therefore, see no further action by DCD in this matter, and Mr. Knaysi has been so advised.

E. H. WATTS
Deputy Chief of Operations, DCD

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14 January 1976

Chief, Domestic Collection Division
ATTN: Deputy Chief of Operations-(Watts)
Chief, Miami Field Office

IDEN A, ex-BKHERALD Staff Employee.

1. We met with IDEN A, a retired BKHERALD staff employee, on 7 January 1976 at his home in Tampa, Florida. IDEN A had requested the meeting through contact with an attorney in IDEN B. IDEN A sroke for several hours about his life since retirement in 1971. What follows is a long summation of his comments, and at the memo's conclusion his reasons for bringing this situation to our attention. (Forwarded under Separate Cover].

2. IDEN A, who had a major role in the Bay of Pigs activities, and who was associated with JMHAVE during the period 1961-68, has maintained many contacts within the Cuban community in Florida. LNCOLLAR, which was aware of the involvement of some ex-BKHERALD assets (Cubans) in the drug importation business, had been unable to penetrate this group in the period to late 1973. IDEN A, in the meantime, had moved to Key West, Florida, purchased a lobster fishing boat and equipment, and become a respected member of the community.

3. In late 1973, a former BKHERALD asset (AMTABY Project) who had been terminated in 1963, IDEN C, came to IDEN A in Key West, claimed he had escaped from jail in Cuba in 1970 (where he had been jailed for drug running between Cuba and WODUAL), and said he had information on drug traffic. He asked IDEN A to contact someone in LNCOLLAR and indicate IDÈN C's willingness to be of assistance. IDEN A replied he was retired and could not help. A few months later, IDEN D (ANTABY-27), another former asset, flew to Key West from Miami. He met IDEN A and informed him LNCOLLAR had sent him down to check on IDEN C. IDEN D identified his LNCOLLAR contact as IDEN E, an ex-BKHERALD 'asset and former BKHERALD contract employee. At about this time IDEN F, a former BKHERALD staff employee, moved to Key West and informed IDEN A that LNCOLLAR was being staffed with BKHERALD employees in its Intelligence Division, and that the leader of the division was IDEN G, another ERMERALD staffer.

4. A few months later, IDEN A received a call from IDEN H, another BEHERALD retires, who asked about IDEN A's access to boats IDEN H wished to purchase for a relative of his wife, the relative residing in Venezuela. He photographed every boat in the Key West harbor, and it was apparent to IDEN A he was LNCCLEAR-involved. Later, IDEN F approached IDEN A and said

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two EKIDRALD paupio in Filand wanted to meet with IDEN A. IDEN A agreed to a meeting, and IDEN F introduced IDEN I and IDEN E. IDEN-A know- IDEN I, but was aware of IDEE only by reputation, which was unsavory. IDEN E claimed to be a BKHERALD employee, as did IDER I. IDEN A, of course, knew otherwise, but said nothing. In March 1974, IDEN A got a call from IDEN J of the IDEN K, Miami. He was an ex-EKHERALD officer, and he said IDEN C wished to speak with IDEN A in Miami on an urgent basis.

5. IDEN G told IDEN A that he wanted the latter to work for LNCOLLAR to establish intelligence networks in the Cuban community in Key West. He said no one else could do it, and he promised to provide at the start US$100/week plus expenses plus money to pay IDEN A's agents. He said this money would not be reportable as income. When IDEN A asked about the effect of his own ex-BKHERALD status, IDEN G replied BKHERALD does not want or need to know of this arrangement. IDEN G acknowledged that US$100/week was a small payment, but said any information resulting in a seizure of drugs, the arrest of drug traffickers, or damage to drug rings will be assessed by a board within LNCOLLAR, and money (thousands of dollars) rewarded for this assistance. IDEN A would then be free to split the money with his agents. IDEN J, who was at the meeting, added that within a year IDEN A should be able to afford the best and largest lobster boat available.

6. IDEN G and IDEN J impressed IDEN A with the dangerous nature of his assignment. They stressed cover as the most important consideration, and IDEN G said, "I don't want to go to any more funerals". They added that if IDEN A got into trouble, there were 150 LNCOLLAR agents in Miami who would come to his aid instantly. IDEN A was given emergency telephone numbers and code names, and was told LNCOLLAR would arrange for his airlift out (through the LNTUCK Aar Station) if needed. If his LNCOLLAR affiliation was blown, IDEN G said there would be compensation provided up to US$40 thousand, as well as relocation assistance. The relocation assistance was not specified, but IDEN A assumed this meant six months living expenses and assistance in job search activities, as well as reimbursement for moving expenses. IDEN J and IDEN L, another ex-BKHERALD official, were to come to Key West one week later to brief IDEN A on the local situation. In the meantime, IDEN A was to prepare a report on what he knew about drug traffickers in the Key West area. Two weeks later, the two did appear in Key West. The little they knew about Key West drug activities was included in IDEN A's report, which also contained much additional data.

7. IDEN A subsequently set up an intelligence net, and began serding back reports. IDEN A was frequently summoned to Miami for meetings with IDEN G. Often these meetings were a waste of time, and on occasion IDEN G

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would not even show up. At one point IDEN J asked IDEN A to write a paper on-the-capability of ex-BKHERALD assets who were drug traffickers, and who had been trained in infiltration and exfiltration, to penetrate WODUAL coastal defenses with drugs. IDEN A showed how the assets could circumvent any government effort to stop the drug traffic. The paper "scared LNCOLLAR to death," according to IDEN A. At the end of June 1974, IDEN Jasked IDEN A to journey to Washington to brief top LNCOLLAR officiala on his conclusions. It was to be an all expense paid trip, and IDEN A flew up and stayed one week. Total remuneration received for the journey was only US$150. During the week, IDEN A had many meetings with LDEN G and his deputy, IDEN M, a former IDEN N staff employee. IDEN G indicated at that time he was impressed with IDEN A's reports and access in Key West...

8. Leter, IDEN A cold IDEN G he had sent lots of reports, but there. had been no arrests, and therefore no bonuses. IDEN A said he would no longer work for just US$100/week. IDEN G replied he might be able to maka "IDEN A a LNCOLLAR consultant to protect his retired status. lle also promised-IDEN A a large lobster boat (taken from those confiscated in LNCOLLAR raids), and an additional US$500/month to meet expenses and agent payoffs. IDEN C also spoke of using. IDEN A in LNCOLLAR activities in Jamaica and South America. Nothing ever was forthcoming on ary of these matters. During this period, IDEN A also provided LNCOLLAR (at its requesc) with the names of potential sources of information in the Miami area. Several persons were approached by LNCOLLAR using IDEN A's name, and a number of former BKHERALD assets were picked up in this manner. Included in this group are IDEN O, IDEN P, and IDEN Q.

9. In May 1974, IDEN F came to IDEN A at a party and, while drunk, said he had heard IDEN G wanted to recruit IDEN A for LNCOLLAR activities. In June he made similar comments while at another social gathering. IDEN A made no comment (other than requesting that IDEN F shut up). When IDEN A was recruited by IDEN G and IDEN J, they had made quite a point of saying only they would be aware of IDEN A's LNCOLLAR ties. Later in June 1974, IDEN F said he knew IDEN A was working with INCOLLAR. In July 1974, IDEN G said he did not like having IDEN L, who was IDEN A's handling officer in Miami, dealing with him since IDEN L was known to be an LNCOLLAR officer. IDEN C wanted to have IDEN A deal directly with him in Washington, but IDEN A objected, saying the arrangement was too cumbersome. In late July, IDEN G introduced IDEN A to his new contact, IDEN I.

10. In November 1974, it became apparent the drug ring in Key West on which IUEN A's group was reporting was becoming spooked and overly cautious. Through several of his agents IDEN A learned this resulted

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from a direct approach to the violators by LNCOLLAR officer IDES E. vho had come to Kay West unbeknownst to DEN A. Through friends in Miami IDEN A found out IDEN E was in charge of IDEN A's operation in Key West, had a homosexual relationship with IOEN F which went back for many years (and was responsible for the breakup of IDEN E's first marriage). had big real estate deals going in Miami, had a Swiss bank account, and was still using BKKERALD cover in Miami.

11. IDEN P, who was aware of IDEN E'S LINCOLLAR connection, and two other LNCOLLAR assets in the Miami area. had agreed to assist LNDULIAR only if LNCOLLAR officials could guarantee IDEN E would never know of their relationship or see any of their informant reports. IDEN I arranged for this through IDEN G, and the three agents' files were placed in IDEN N's safe. IDEN A subsequently has learned IDEN E routinely say ail of IDAN P's raporta. Later, when the revelations in the preceding paragraph were known, IDEN I told IDEN A there were many allegations about IDEN E, and that he had mentioned this to DEN G. IDEN C had assered hin he would be brought to Washington to discuss the matter, but nothing ever came of it. Ironically, IDEN E was taken into LNCOLLAR on the orders of LECOLLAR Director IDEN R, and it was specified that no clearance or background check would be undertaken on him.

12. IDEN I and IDEN A decided to approach IDEN F to learn more about IDEN E. During a one hour discussion, MEN F said he had been appointed the recruiting officer within BKHERALD for persons who wou'd go to LACOLLAR. IDEN F said he had known IDEN E for a long period of time, and had brought him along in BKHERALD hierarchy. IDEN A believes IDEN F also engineered the absence of a security check on IDEN Z by LACCLLAR since he did not want his homosexual relationship with IDEN E revealed. At that point IDEN A called IDEN G and filled him in on what had been learned, including IDEN F's admission that DEN E had told him IDEN A was an LNCOLLAR asset. IDEN G. denied knowing IDEN F, but said he would check on IDEN E. IDEN A met with DEN G the next day in Miami to fill him in further, and IDEN G ordered a full investigation. In the meantime, IDEN F told DEN E of his meeting with IDEN I and IDEN A, and IDEN Σ wrote a memorandum saying a fellow LNCOLLAR officer (IDEN I) had over stepped the bounds of propriety in his relationship with an LNCOLLAR asset (IDEN A), and that IDEN I and IDE A were ruaning an investigation on IDEN 5. IDEN E described the situation as "intolerable". The LACOLLAR inquiry, then, turned from IDEN E to improper actions by IDEN I in discussing an LNCOLLAR employee with an asset. The Internal Affairs section of LNCOLLAR did continue the IDEN E probe and concluded by May 1975 that the charges against IDEN & were accurate. In the meantime, IDEN I was interrogated by IDEN M on his relationship with IDEN A.

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13. 8. ii, la Cincome inen A that control of his operation was being transferred to the Miami regional office, and that his financial relationship with INCOLLAR would be terminated and then re-established locally following 1 September 1975. On 9 September 1975, a state-federal task force arrested 39 persons in Key West. IDEN A knew nothing about the arrests in advanca. He called IDEN G to find out what was happening, and IDEN G said he also was unaware of them. He asked IDEN A to continua reporting on these developmants. The next day IDEN A met with a source who told him someone had blown IDEN A's LACOLLAR affiliation to the drug ring. He described the leak as coming from an ex-BKHERALD officer who hated IDEN A. IDEN A's source, who was in touch with drug ring members, toid IDEN A the codename of his LNCOLLAR operation (IDEN S), and IDEN A. learned IDEN F had spread this word all over town. IDEN A subsequently received telephone death threats (one of the ring member's girl friend called to tell him a white LNCOLLAR informant (IDEN A) would not get out of town alive). There had been eight informant deaths in Monroe County (Key West) in 1975, all unsolved murders. There was every reason, then, to take the threats seriously. IDEN A informed LNCOLLAR about the threats. LNCOLLAR replied that. IDEN A was pushing the panic button, and askol for more information. IDEN A requested that the emergency evacuation apparatus be used, but LNCOLLAR refused. Finally, LNCOLLAR said "We don't know what you expect us to do since you've been terminated". IDEN A, who had been terminated by LNCOLLAR/Washington, had not been picked up subsequently by the Miami Regional Office.

14. IDEN A, desiring to keep a low profile, could not talk to many of his agents in Key West, but the fow he did reach were expecting a portion of the reward money since the ring that was rolled up was one the agents had reported on for many months. IDEN A checked with LNCOLLAR on this, and was informed his net's information was not used as tho basis for the arrests. IDEN A learned that IDEN F had passed the word around Key West that IDEN A was not an LNCOLLAR staff employee, which made DEN A fair game for removal. He also learned plans had been made locally for his murder. At that point, IDEN A then made his escape with his wife. In Miami, he mot with IDEN M. IDEN H claimed IDEN E had not caused any of the problems IDEN A had experienced. Concerning money assurances, IDEN M first denied any promises had been made. Later he said any that had been made (by IDEN G) were unauthorized. Ha reiterated IDEI A's reporting, although accurate, was not used in the arrests. LACOLLAR agreed to provide LDEN A with US$1800 for all his problems, and raised the sum later to US$3 thousand. IDEN A accepted the money, but did not indicate he was satisfied with this sum.

15. IWEN A snuck back into Key West and packed his household goods in one evening. liis boat was given to a fish supply house to sell. Sinca he owed the company money for supplies he had purchased, the rish house

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sold the boat for a sum equal to his debts. IDEN A's wife quit her job without notice, and he estimates his actual financial losses are US$25 thousand. LICOLLAR has indicated the US$3 thousand paywant is "all IDEN A will get", and he is determined to get more.

16. IDEN A believes many of his agents think he did receive a payoff from LNCOLLAR following the arrests, and that he took all the money and ran, leaving then axposol in Key West. The cars of two of his agents were burned, and IDEN D, IDEN P. and others in the Miami area quit working for LNCOLLAR when they learned of the treatment he had received and/or received death threats themselves. IDENT. As a result, IDEN A cannot return to Key Wost, and his lobster business no longer exists.

17. The purpose of IDEN A's contacting the RKHERALD is first to let us know what has happened to many of its former employees and assets. IDEN A believes BKHERALD should know of the false provises that were used to lure some BKHERALD employees to work at LNCOLLAR. As documentation, he provided IDEN l'a grievance letter to INCOLLAR which is attached and for retention. IDEN I has, incidentally, been taken out of the Intelligence Division of LACOLLAR and placed in enforcement work in Miami. IDEN I 1s currently seeking to return to BKHERALD employment, and IDEN A says IDEN I will verify his statements on the treatment of BKHERALD personnel who transferred to LICOLLAR. (IDEN I's home phone in Miami is IDEN I.) He and the other ex-BKHERALD employees working at a lower level ara fed up with LNCOLLAR, and are convinced they will never receive fair treatment in that organization. Since IDEN A believes the recruitment of BKHERALD officers to switch to LNCOLLAR will be a continuing thing, he feals we should know the realities of life in LNCOLLAR.

*[Forwarded Separately)
18. In addition, he notes LNCOLLAR is using many retired BKHERALD people and former BKHERALD assets in its activities. IDEN A believes these persons, in many instances, are being both used and abused. Any flap which occurs as a result of LACOLLAR mismanagement will bounce back on BRIERALD, since it appears BKHERALD is involved in the LICOLLAR operation. Indeed, IDEN G has given the impression his activities have been cleared with and approved by BKHERALD. Those assets who are being turned off by LNCOLLAR mismanagement are going to be lost to BEHERALD es well as to LSCOLLAR. Some of these persons could be significant asseis 14 years to come.

19. A flap may not be so far off. In recent weeks IDEN U, whe 18 writing a book about the role of the Cubans IDEN V and IDEN W in the IDEN X affair, called IDEN A and said he has information that IDEN G's wife and IDEN Y's business manager made a trip to Florida recently. Also IDEN U said he hae learned that a former BKMERALD man who is a

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LNCOLLAR agent is a honosexual, and that US$15 thousand in LNCOLLAR funda vare given to someone in Mizal to bail out a Puerto Rican drug dealer. The investigation of DE 2 by INCOLLAR internal affairs did reveal, according to IDEN A, that Ust15 thousand could not be accounted for by IDEN E, whose career appears to have bean unaffected by the invescigatiou. IDEN U, who obviously has a source within LNCOLLAR, also told IDEN A about many of the individuals (by name) in LNCOLLAR who are formarly BKHERALD employees.

20. IDEN U's information appears to be accurate, according to IDEN A, who recalle receiving a telephone call from IDEN G in July 1975. IDEN G was agitated, and asked IDEN A to handle a matter for him quickly and quietly. He said his wife, children, and the business agent of IDEN Y were in Kay West, and were supposed to stay in the apartment of a retired' BKHERALD employee named IDEN Z (formerly with IDEN AA). IDEN Z, a friend of IDEN F, had left the area and gave his apartment, key to IDEN F. When IDEN C's wife and the others arrived in Key West, theyccould not locate IDEN F to get the koy. IDEN C asked IDEN A to find out what they were doing, "and just how far my neck is stuck out". IDEN A learned they had checked into a local motel. He called IDEM G and passed on this information. IDEN G was relieved, but asked IDEM A to keep an eye on them and report their movements to him. Subsequently, while on a trip to Miami, IDEN A was approached by an LNCOLLAR officer in Internal Affairs. This individual said the episode was under active investigation, and asked IDEN A what he knew noout it.

21. Finally, IDEN A is giving EXHERALD an opportunity to provide whatever advice, guidance, and assistance it wishes to furnish before he takes further action to obtain just compensation from LNCOLLAR. He is thinking in terms of possible BKKERALD intervention on his behalf with LNCOLLAR. He recognizes AKAZRALD may wish to let him fend for himself. In that event, he plans to approach IDEN BB in Tampa to reveal the above story, and seak IDEN BB's assistance in petitioning LNCOLLAR fof financial relief. He will not take any action with IDEN BB until he has heard from BEKHERALD. Since be is anxious to get started on this matter, a speedy reply to his request for assistance will de appreciated.

22. IDEN A, incidentally, has docided to remain in Tampa, and has obtained a job as chief investigator for a local private security service. We indicated a reply would be forthcoming either through us or directly to IDEN A. His phone number is IDEN A. He resides at IDEN A.

BJknaysi: paw
Separate Cover Attachment to Follow

BRUCE E. MAINHARISG

CONFIDENTIAL 1614232 JAR 76 STAFF
CHE SCO/MIAMI 13076
DOD/ASHINGION
ATINI DEPUTY CHIEF OF OPERATIONS CRATES
SUBJ: DEITIES IN NAL-APE-76 DATES 14 JANUARY 1976 FORU
IS POUCH 10. 234

IDES A GRAYGILLYNCH, 8719 BAY POINT DRIVE, TAMPA, FLOA
PHONE USER: 613-884-6618
IDEN 3 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNCIL
IDEC GUSTAVO FERNANDEZ
IDEN D - AVADO CANTILLO
IDENE ROBERT MEDELLL
IDEF GEORGE OFICINAND JERRY">
IDEN ALUCIS CONTEN
IDEA - BENEDICT MATICH
1984 I GARY HATTOCKS, PHONE HINGER 279-0945
IDEX J- JILLIAN LOGAYL
IDEN K - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
IDER L - NIKE BRUN
1080 - BUREAU OF NARCOTICS
IMER O - RAFAIL GARCIA
1984 P - GONZALO HERRERA
BCTC JULIO PESTOSTI
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1-ESSAL

PAGE 2 DEO/SIASI 13076
IDEA S- (GRAY GHOST)

DEJT THE DRUG RING THAT WAS ROLLED UP VAS A MULTI-MILLION
DOLLAR OPERAT 10%, THE GROUP HAD A COUNTER HOTELLIGENCE
BUDGET OF ABOUT USSONE MILLION ANGUALLY, AP-INCLUDED
(EITHER AS ACTIVE RING FEDERS OR VITTIG 07 ITS
ACTIVITIES TE SON OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE IN FEY VEST,
THE STATE'S ATTORNEY, THE SHERIFF AD CHIEF OF POLICE,
THREE PENJERG OF THE CITY COUNCIL, THE ENTIRE POLICE
DEPARTMENT, OVER HALF OF THE CHERIFF'S DEPARTBEAT, THE
FIRE CHIEF, ALO VARIOUS CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIAS. THE
RING ALSO RAR THE PROSTITUTION, NORDERS, AD THIET BIGS
IN THE AREA. WHILE SOME OF THESE PERSONS WERE ARRESTED
(THE FLUE CHIEF, FOR ONE), OTHERS WERE NOT, AND ALL ARE
FREE OR BAIL AT THIS. TINE.

IDES V - SERWARD L. BARKER
IDEN - EUGENIOR. MARTINEZ
1024 X - WATERGATE
IDEN Y MADAR NHIL
IDEN Z - RALPH JOHNSON
IDEN AA - V80
DES BR CONGRESSMAN SAN GIBBONS

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LNCOLLAR agent is a honosexual, and that US$15 thousand in LNCOLLAR funds vare given to someone in Mizal to bail out a Puerto Rican drug dealer. The investigation of DE 2 by INCOLLAR internal affairs did reveal, according to IDEN A, that Ust15 thousand could not be accounted for by IDEN E, whose career appears to have bean unaffected by the invescigatiou. IDEN U, who obviously has a source within LNCOLLAR, also told IDEN A about many of the individuals (by name) in LNCOLLAR who are formarly BKHERALD employees.

20. IDEN U's information appears to be accurate, according to IDEN A, who recalle receiving a telephone call from IDEN G in July 1975. IDEN G was agitated, and asked IDEN A to handle a matter for him quickly and quietly. He said his wife, children, and the business agent of IDEN Y were in Kay West, and were supposed to stay in the apartment of a retired' BKHERALD employee named IDEN Z (formerly with IDEN AA). IDEN Z, a friend of IDEN F, had left the area and gave his apartment, key to IDEN F. When IDEN C's wife and the others arrived in Key West, theyccould not locate IDEN F to get the koy. IDEN C asked IDEN A to find out what they were doing, "and just how far my neck is stuck out". IDEN A learned they had checked into a local motel. He called IDEM G and passed on this information. IDEN G was relieved, but asked IDEM A to keep an eye on them and report their movements to him. Subsequently, while on a trip to Miami, IDEN A was approached by an LNCOLLAR officer in Internal Affairs. This individual said the episode was under active investigation, and asked IDEN A what he knew noout it.

21. Finally, IDEN A is giving EXHERALD an opportunity to provide whatever advice, guidance, and assistance it wishes to furnish before he takes further action to obtain just compensation from LNCOLLAR. He is thinking in terms of possible BKKERALD intervention on his behalf with LNCOLLAR. He recognizes AKAZRALD may wish to let him fend for himself. In that event, he plans to approach IDEN BB in Tampa to reveal the above story, and seak IDEN BB's assistance in petitioning LNCOLLAR fof financial relief. He will not take any action with IDEN BB until he has heard from BEKHERALD. Since be is anxious to get started on this matter, a speedy reply to his request for assistance will de appreciated.

22. IDEN A, incidentally, has docided to remain in Tampa, and has obtained a job as chief investigator for a local private security service. We indicated a reply would be forthcoming either through us or directly to IDEN A. His phone number is IDEN A. He resides at IDEN A.

BJknaysi: paw
Separate Cover Attachment to Follow

BRUCE E. MAINHARISG

ORIGINATOR, AND FIELD NO.
Knaysi/NFL 2-76
XX DIVISION SOURCE AND CHRONO
SUBJGAT FILES AND CHRONO, FILE
SUBJECT
Memo: Grayston Lynch, ex-BKHARALD Staff Employee

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FILES DISPOSITION
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TO : Chief, Domestic Collection Division
ATTN : Deputy Chief of Operations (Watts)
FROM : Chief, Miami Field Office
SUBJECT: IDEN A, ex-BKHERALD Staff Employee

1. We met with IDEN A, a retired BKHERALD staff employee, on 7
January 1976 at his home in Tampa, Florida. IDEN A had requested the
meeting through contact with an attorney in IDEN B. IDEN A spoke for
several hours about his life since retirement in 1971. What follows is
a long summation of his comments, and at the mero's conclusion his reasons
for bringing this situation to our attention. (Forwarded under Separate Cover).

2. IDEN A, who had a major role in the Bay of Pigs activities, and
who was associated with JMWAVE during the period 1961-68, has maintained
many contacts within the Cuban community in Florida. LNCOLLAR, which
was aware of the involvement of some ex-BKHERALD assets (Cubans) in the
drug importation business, had been unable to penetrate this group in
the period to late 1973. IDEN A, in the meantime, had moved to Key West,
Florida, purchased a lobster fishing boat and equipment, and become a
respected member of the community.

3. In late 1973, a former BKHERALD asset (AMTABY Project) who had
been terminated in 1963, IDEN C, came to IDEN A in Key West, claimed he
had escaped from jail in Cuba in 1970 (where he had been jailed for drug
running between Cuba and WODUAL), and said he had information on drug
traffic. He asked IDEN. A to contact someone in LNCOLLAR and indicate
IDEN C's willingness to be of assistance. IDEN A replied he was retired
and could not help. A few months later, IDEN D (AMTABY-27), another
former asset, flew to Key West from Miami. He met IDEN A and informed
him LNCOLLAR had sent him down to check on IDEN C. IDEN D identified
his LNCOLLAR contact as IDEN E, an ex-BKHERALD asset and former BKHERALD
contract employee. At about this time IDEN F, a former BKHERALD staff
employee, moved to Key West and informed IDEN A that LNCOLLAR was being
staffed with BKHERAID employees in its Intelligence Division, and that
the leader of the division was IDEN G, another BKHERALD staffer.

4. A few months later, IDEN A received a call from IDEN H, another
BKHERALD retiree, who asked about IDEN A's access to boats IDEN H wished
to purchase for a relative of his wife, the relative residing in Venezuela.
He photographed every boat in the Key West harbor, and it was apparent to
IDEN A he was LNCOLLAR-involved. Later, IDEN F approached IDEN A and said

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SECRET
CLASSICATION

DATE 29 June 1954
TO
: Chief, WIDE
FROM:
Chief of Mission, Mexico City
SUBJECT SPECIFIC-Subject of BMW-1507
GENERAL-Operational
REFERENCE: MW-1507, 18 June 1954

1. Subject is contacted by a member of this Mission about twice a
month usually on a semi-social tesis. Subject is quite familiar with the
workingston based on his experience in Panama, his frequent
visits there, and his contacts with this office curing the jaw
From time to time subject provides bits of information cr opinions ca local
affairs which he thinks may be of interest. Ways in which he could be of further
operational use have also been discussed with him in general terms. Subject
has provided his name for use in registering a station autcnobile and for
cbtaining postoffice tozes.

2. Subject appears to be well versed in some of the operational methods
of the organization and has always expressed a willingness to assist in any
way possible. This might include acting as a cut-cut, famishing general
political and Communist information, setting up cover establishments, and lie
development of informants in several fields. To date, no specific cpening for
his services has been evolved but it is highly likely that such a spot will
appear in the future.

3. This Mission foresees no strong obstacle or reason against subject's
being contacted by JUMP again but feels that if subject had any inform
tien of possible interest to this organization he would immediately contact
the writer. In addition, such a contact might possibly re-kindle subject's
previcusly expressed feeling that at times it appeared that "the left hand
didn't know what the right hand was doing". It is suggested that if KUJUMP
has ary specific type of infomation in mind, questions indicating the line of
interest could be forwarded to this Mission and placed before subject for his
corment. If KUJUMP particularly desires to interview subject it is suggested
that this Mission be authorized to so inform subject so that the matter vill
appear completely coordinated in subject's mind.

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4. This Mission appreciates the receipt of reference as an excell-
ent example of such coordination.

jmkyusan
Gordon M. Ryerson

GAR/crt

20 June 10,

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1

: Chief of Missios, Mexico City

: Chief, ID

- Operational

- Subject of T-775
AFP: TO-976

...18 1904

1. A representative of A rece tly contacted subject, a ".3. anufacturers
representative, who lives in Mexico City. After KJUMP made its standard
explanation of BARK interests, the subject said that he felt that he
should make it clear that he worked for BRK in Mexico. Fe qualified
in Mexico enabled him to set up
other cover projects for KUBANK, ACID and .

2. Subject seemed multe candid and
to laces and front offices as well es

MP had no reason to believe that he
was not teiling the truth. Subject doubted unat he could zive URL a proet
deal of information which was not available through official atencios
o orating in Mexico. Forever, he seems to be morally cledgeable on the
sitution there and feels that he & be a source of 1:08
interesting information if their contacting him would not interfere i
arrangements which your Hission wint have made with bia.

;

3. Headquarters rempestar cants regarding subject. Meese scrise.es span
as possible, since I would like to contact subject again men he returns
to this country in July.
:

:

11 June 194
Distribution:
3- Kexico City

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Chief, Contact Division, 00
Alfonso R. Wichtrica (HH-1265)
Bost 266
11 May 1954

1. A representative of this Livision recently contacted subject,
a US manufacturers representative, vao lives in Mexico City. Wichtrich
was visiting representatives of two chi Corporation which is one of his
accounts in Mexico City. After our representative made his standard ex
planatica of agency mereة عن ماذtrich said that he felt that he should
make it clear that is versed for we agency in Mexico. de qualified this
statenent by saying wat die extensive background and experience in Mexico
enabled dia to set up neeting places and "front" offices as well as other
"cover" projects for this Agency, we State Department and the Pureau.

2. He seemed quite canció and our representative had no reason to
believe that he was bir telling we truth. wicatrich courted that he
could give us a great deal of information which was not available through
official agencies operating in Fexico, However, he seems to be generally
knowledgeable on the situation there and we believe that he might be
a source of some interesting information if our contacting his would not
interfere with arrangements which the covert offices might have made with
hia,

3. We should ppreciate your comments. If you prefer, we shall not
see him again. On the other hand, if you have no objection, we should like
to contact hia when the returns to this country in July. Please advise.

E. M. ASHCRAFT

1

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SELE
CLASSIFICATION
:

TO
FROM
Chief of Station, Mexico
FLT

DATE: 1 February 1950

• WICHTRICH, ALPHONSE R.
SUBJECT: GENERAL.

SPECIFIC.
Operational
Subject of T--975

1. Subject was engaged by our field station, Panama, in October 1947
with the thought that he was qualified to organize a net directed aminot
a target of high priority interest. His services were termicated in
April 1549 when he took residence in Mexico for business reasons.

2. The Chief of Station, Fancas, corpsed its man as having great
singleness of purpose which produces aperior results in the field of his
primary interest. But the experience in anava rempaled that the subject's
primary interest - his business- business was sich that he have little time to
work as an agent.

S. The Subject or guated an inteligopos net for the U.S. Aray in
China during Ford rack, therefore, understands covert operations.
Despite his capabilities, proven reliability and his expressed desire to
to of service in caxion, encertare cos est recommend that the subjost
be enraged by field station, ico, aless there is unusual need for a
man of his background.
RECLASSIFIED
:

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por 201 43-28
m. Wheeler
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81-20
OFFICER

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INSTRUCTIONS:
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across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond with the nuser in the "To coluen. Each officer should initial
Check mark insufficient before further routing.
This Recore and Routing Steet should be returned to Registry.
FROM:
FOT
10.
TRP. A. 650
DATE

TO
ROOM
NO.
DATE
RECED
FOG'L
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
COMMENTS
1.
2.
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SECRET - ΚΑΡΟΚ
CLASSIFICATION

TO
:
Chief, Foreign Franch T

DATE:
16 Januar 1950
FROM
:
Chief of Station, Panama City, Ponаmа

SUBJECT: GENERAL agents and Teforments

SPECIFIC- Subject of TIP-A-629

The actress of subject is:

Royal Crown, S. L.
Cante #4
Mexico, D. F.

Fairte

Distribution: Tash 2
Files 1

FORM NO. 51-20
APR 1947
< tower W. Antece
Howard intell

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across sheet and each comment numbered to correspond alth the number in the "To coluan. Each officer should initial
Check mark insufficiont before further routing.
This Record and Routing Sneat should be returned to Registry.
FROM:

OFFICER'S
INITIALS
TO
ROOH
No.
DATE
REC'D
FOOD
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No. 0.
DATE
G3P 4-6 89
1622050
COMMENTS:
7.
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with Vandervoort re a recommendatio

Feild Station Medico
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}

TO
:
Chief, Foreign Branch T

DATE: 16 Jamar 1950
FROM :
Chief of Station, Panama City, Fanara.

SUBJECT: GENERAL- Agents and Intornants

SPECIFIC FOROL

The services of subject had been terminated prior to zy arrival at this
station and, in fact, subject has not been residing here since my arrival.

-
hocinace in and was introduced to me by
HEDPACD. In the course of the conversation, subject indicated a desire,
after he becomes more settled in lexico City, to have contact with our office
there.

Since Headquarters and particularly Creter J. TAPING are in a better position
to judge subject and whether he might be of assistance to our station in
Mexico City, no recommendation is being made.

The address of subject will follow in a separate dispatch.

Fairte

Distribution: Tash 2
Piss 1

FORM NO.
ΔΡΑ 1947
91-20

Foward. Antell

REGISTRY COPY

SECRET
CLASSIFICATION
01,30999

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
!
INSTRUCTIONS: Officer designations (see separate sheet) should be used in the "To" column.
Under each comment a line should be drawn across steet and each comment numbered to correspond
with the romber in the "c" column. Each officer should initial (check mark insufficient)
before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.
FROM:
FOT
ACCESSION NO.
P.A.607
DATE RECEIVED IN S. A

DATE
TO
ROOM NO.
RECEIVED
FORWARDED
OFFICER'S
INITIALS
1.
it.
2.
3
4.
Pal
5.
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7.

8.
8

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11.

12.

13.

14.

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COMMENTS

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SECRET - ΚΑΡΟΚ
CLASSIFICATION
TO
:
Chief, Foreign Branch T
FROM
:
DISPATCH NO. TZP-A-607

DATE: 4 November 1949

Chief of Station, Panema City, Panama

SUBJECT: GENERAL Administrative

SPECIFIC- HYDROL

For the completion of Headquarters' records, advice is herewith furnished
that subject's services are not being utilised by the Panema City station.
Ta wa made on to Headquarters under date of April 12, 1949 in
TZP-A-454.

No further action is contemplated in connection with this project.
;

BOS:rtp

Distribution: Fast 2
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FORM NO. 51-20
APR 1947
Bruce O. Sturgens
Bruce 0. Sturgess

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Office Memorandum

TO
Chief, Registry Division

FROM :Chief, FBT

SUBJECT:Hydrol

File No. 202-999

•
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

DATE:
15 June 1949
1

1. Subject file is transmitted herewith for retentior
in Registry. The project has been terminated.

2. Appropriate indexing has been completed.

3. Access to subject file must be cleared with the Chief
of FBT.
Noti
100t 54
Carded in Riflo

201 30999

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8 June 1949
Data

LECRANDUM FOR CHEY, CONFIDENTIAL FURIS

SUBJECT: Authorisation of Field Project Experaitures for
Panama City, Para

(field installation)

1. This will infort your of the authorization of the follodas Field
Projects and cy approval of the expercture of special funds for the following:

PROJECT

Name or Srבכס 1 Jal-30 Sep.
HYD FOL
TOTAL

LOUSES AUTHORIZED
1 Oct-32 Doc.

1949
מעל 30-Jan-il ar. 1 Apr
Tered nated
1 April 1949

2. The project expenditures hored Panama City, Pamerged agsinst
the appropriate quarterly Operating Expenses c

ec: TOFF

W. U. WHEELER, JR.

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DISPATCH NOTE-454

TO
:
Acting Chief, FET

DATE: 12 April 1940
FROM
:
Chief of Station, Fanara City, Panara

SUBJECT: GENERAL- Agents and Inforzants

SPECIFIC- RYTECT Operational Feview

ΟΡΗΕΑΤΙΟΙAL HEVTA

COUNTRY: YAR. FERIOD COMETED: October 194 March 1949.

1. Subject is no longer an active operative of this station. ile was forced
to discontinue his activities on our behalf because of the press of per-
somal business. ELCAIC is now in contact with Hi ACID and HITROL I
has been taken over by HOROFHCHIC.
1

2. During the period of his connection with this station, ane.CL failed to
submit any informational rerort which in itself merited transmission to
the Home Office. None of his operations were clean in the sense that a
U.S. Covernment influence had to be introduced into the actual activation
of each of his sources. This coupled with the fact that he lacked follow-
through has given a slightly sour aspect to all of his operations. Te
intend to discontinue our connections with Subject.

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25 Jan 1750
Woring
Grover J. Karing

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TZP-A-102

IZP-A-381

IZP-A-454
A-690
A-684
Name check
TZP-151

Project teenstel, Gyond 1945
Rj
ZP. W.975
TLP. W.976
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Hydrol
$150 for second quarter 1949

Terventet

6 January 1949
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Under each comment a line should be trawn across sheet and each comment mmbered to correspond
with the Lumber in the "To" column. Each officer should initial (check mark insufficient)
before further routing. This Record and Routing Sheet should be returned to Registry.
FROM:
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TO
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RECEIVED
1.
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CLASSIFICATION
Acting Chief, FET

: Chief of Station
Panama City, Pacoma

22 November, 1948
DATE:

SUBJECT: GENEPAL- Agents and Informants
FORM AJ.
APR 1947

SPECIFIC HYDROL Operational Review and Project Report
Ref: H No. 51
TZP-151
TZP -A102
TZP - 321

COUNTRY: YAWNER
03JECTIVES AND
TASKS:

SALARY
51-20

OPERATIONAL REVIE
PERIOD COVERED: 20 October, 1947 to present.

Subject's original assigment was the estab-
lishment of an intelligence net for the
Republic of Panama with a view to developing
infomation on our varicus YANNER objectives.
The assignment was too bread because sub-
ject is establishing a new business and has not
had sufficient time to devote to our work.
Eis activities were redirected along the lines
of cultivation of specific individuals.
His cultivation and recruitment of the
informant HIDRACTD was excellent. His hand-
ling of the subject of "ZF-A-200 was ex-
cellent. His handling of HYDRATANTAC has.
been unsatisfactory in that he has not spent
sufficient time on the project. He states
he will correct this deficienty. His latest
assigrment is the penetration of communist
circles in the Patioral University of Panama.
He has recruited an excellent individual
for this purpose who will be employed at a
salary of one Hundred Fifty Dollars ($150.00)
per month. This project is approximately
one year old.

To date subject has rot received a salary,
but has been compensated socially and by
St-Kapak
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EVALUATION OF
SERVICES:

EVALUATICH OF
INFORMATION RE-
CEIVED:

OTHER FACTORS:

COMMENTS:
making purchases for him in the govern-
ment commissaries. We plan to place him
on a salary status in the Mure.
this is done we intend that his solary be
One Hundred Dollars per month (100.0)
per monts. He no longer has cover in his
activities as concerns the C. 3. Am
in
:

tais area. This is due to the fact theyGen.
Sibert CARCarib attempted to recraft him
as an amy informant after subject hat
perfomed two week's active duty with
Army Intelligence. To avoid refusing the
General's request, subject Infomed him
that he was processing his infomation
thrown LIE. Since that date, amy CIC
men have called at sebject's place of busi-
ness inquiring for information. However,
we seen to have his real loyalty and we are
the ones who can provide him with funds to
cultivate sub-agents.

As stated above subject has perfomed ex-
cellent services but has not devoted a
great deal of time to our work. His in-
terest has greatly increased since you
permitted HYDROL to receive home office
training. He has fairly good contacts and
is capable of cultivating almost any one
we might wish. His services should become
more valuable in the immediate future.

To date subject's intelligence information
has only been valuable as a supplement to i
other sources. His operational infomation
has been excellent and is of real value.
He is more interested in the operational
side of cur activities than in reporting.

This agent has been handled as outlined
in T2F-151 subject to the modifications
of increased social contacts necessitated
by the fact that subject's wife is in-
terested in the social advantages to be
gained from her husband's activities.

We plan to continue using this agent to
cultivate other potential agent personnel.
His primary continous project will סס דפי
the penetration of communist activities in
the National University of Panama. We may
rearrange the relationship between EDROL

SECRET - Katok
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3-
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HYDRACID and 3DE in view of CORACID'S
current schooling. This project is still in
the development or probationary stage in that
HYDROL's background is such that he regarda
the sky as the limit in the expenditure of
Intelligence Mads and is inclined to commit
himself financially without real assurance
that we will receive full value for the funds
expended. Realizing that time is an impor-
tant factor in the development of high level
operations we hope this will prove to be
the most efficient expenditure of our funds.
If not we will convert the funds to other
projects. As a matter of operational er-
zacization we feel our ultimate objective
in this area should be to ferret out and
operate with a nimimun number of skilled
American resident agents. Offsetting the
criticism mentioned stove are the facts
that subject man of och e
and definitely a high level operative.

It is requested that Project FOL be
soproved to pemit an expenditure of Seven
Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00) per quarter.

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1. On 17 November 1948, the subject called at Que Building and
was interviewed by Paul P. Paxton. He had been advised to pay his
respects to Harry A.. Real by the Chief of Station, Panama City. The
subject to learn what the procedure would be if he wished to offer
his services with CIA at a future date. At the present tire he is
managing the Royal Crown Bottling Works in Panama City and is negotiating
for a franchise to distribute a milk product in that area. His primary
purpose in coming to the United States at this time was to make arrange-
ments for this latter business venture. The subject has been aiding
the Chief of Station in Panama for the past year in a manner that has been
extremely helpful to our operations. During the war he was a Lt. Col.
in United States Arsy Intelligence serving for a considerable time in
China in an undercover capacity. He gives evidence of being very well
versed in intelligence matters and shows, keen appreciation for security
matters.

2. He stated that within six or eight months his private business
affairs in Fanama would be developed to the point where he could accept.
a position with this Agency in a full-time capacity. He evidenced
interest in either the Latin American aras an in the von ",עולמן
China. Imade no commitéments as far as future employment is concerned
but I did suggest that you visit this headquarters on his next visit
to the United States providing he is in a position to accept full-time
employment. I recommend that his application be given serious con-
sideration in the light of his past intelligence experience and by
virture of his valuable assistance to our operations in Brass.

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FROM : Chief of Station
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SUBJECT: GENERAL Agents and Informants

SPECIFIC Operational Data - HYDROL

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DATE:
9. July 1948
TZP-A-102, TASH/F 8786 and PACY 188

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

1. HYDROL.

2. Subject's background has been with the U. S. Army in China,
where he crganized a complete intelligence net. He is an organizer and
planner and best qualified for the supervision of intelligence nets and
inforzants, and intelligence operations in general.

3. He is a very personable individual and has the facility for
getting along with Latins. He is very well accepted even though he has
been here only a little over a year.

4. in Latin America because of his knowledge of Spanish. He
is also well qualified to operate in the China Theater in view of his
past experiences, although he has no knowledge of the language.

5. Subject makes frequent business trips to Mexico.

6. Subject has discussed plans for expanding his business into
South America.

7. Subject has five people working for him. (a) HYDRACID;
HYDRAVANIC; and the subject of TZP-4-269. He has also cultivated two
unwitting informants, one of whom is a fairly prominent Arnulfista and
the other is a socially prominent Panamanian and businessman on whom we
will submit biographical data at a future date. (b) None of the people are
paid. The subject of 1ZF-4-269 has been informed that we will defray any
expenses which he may have incidental to our operations. HYDPACID has
expressed a desire to have a savings or retirment fund cpened for him in
the United States. This we have agreed to do and estimate that the cost
will be about $100 to $150 per month.

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8. Lo.

9. In view of the fact that subject contacted the Home Office
prior to his departure from the United States, he is thoroughly cognizant
of the ultimate destination of his information.

10. Yes. In view of HYDRCL's experience in the intelligence field
he has been given the assignment of supervising and controlling the
activities of HYDRACID who has an excellent knowledge of the local situa-
tien but lacks experience as an intelligence operative. This also serves
to maintain EYDRACID's cover.

11. Through letter drop. In addition frequent personal contacts
take place between FYDRCL and the Chief of Station. These are usually at
night at the homes of the individuals concerned. Cover is provided in
that the Chief of Station and ETROL both have children attending the same
school and the wives are acquainted sccially.

12. Subject usually reports orally, accompanying his oral reports with
brief notes. He is training the subject of TZP-4-269 and ZY-RACID to re-
port in writing.

13. During the 14 years subject has been in Panama, he has been
principally concerned with establishing his own business. He has devoted
only a srail percentage of his time to our wrk to date, however, since
he is now better established and better oriented, it is contemplated that
he will become more active.

14. Contract with subject is oral. & written contract will be pre-
pared at the time he is placed on our payroll.

15. Yes. He is attempting a high-level penetration of the Partido
del Pueblo. At the present tize, a foreign national who has been approached
by HYDRACID is attempting to buy one of the Directors of the Partido del
Pueblo.

16. Subject is quite capable of using his own judgment on the sort
of work he is to do. Since his time has been limited in the past, he has
confined his activities to projects specifically requested by this Station.

PAYLENT

17. Subject is a volunteer informant who is rewarded for his services
by the occasional presentation of exchange commodities. Since subject does
not have U. S. Government Commissary privileges, purchases on his behalf
are rade by the Station. This results in approximately 60% reduction in the
cost of necessities purchased in this manner.

18. Ies. Salary arrangements have been discussed between HYDROL and
the Chief of Station. We both agree that no salary should be paid until such
time as he becomes more productive. It is contemplated that when we actually
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start peyeont the figure will be something less than $150.00 a month and it
will probably be placed into some sort of a savings account. This plan
may be placed into effect at any time.

19. Subject has been informed that we will defray all expenses
incurred by him on our behalf.

20. No cost of purchase of information is involved but he is author-
ized to engage in this practice.

WALUATION OF SUBJECT'S WORK

21. Subject appears to be a highly dependent individual. (a) The
accuracy of his reports have been good. (b) From a security angle he is
excellent.

22. In view of subject's previous intelligence background, it is
believed he is only suitable for semi-covert work.

23. Subject is unquestionably a high-level operative and quite
possibly might penetrate any of the local social or government circles,
but again his background from China is such that it would probably be in-
come to accomplish a penetration of any leftist organizations
or foreign intelligence agencies.
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STANDARD FORM NO. 64
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Office Memorandum UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO : FBT
DATE: December 23, 1947
FROM : CSB
SUBJECT: WICHTRICH, Alfonso R.

Reference is made to your memorandum of October 31, 1947, wherein you
request that this office conduct a four way name check relative to the above-
entitled subject.

This is to advise that a four way check was instituted concerning the
subject, with the following results:

L-5 Nothing identifiable
L-3 No record
L-1 Nothing derogatory.

There is transmitted herewith a copy of a report obtained from the files
of Confidential Goverment agency 1-2 + 1 requested that this report be re-
turned to this office when it has served its purpose.

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RETTIE, BRITISH 3.B.C. NEWSMAN, WHO IN PAY SECRET SERVICE IN CONTACT
LICOOKY-1. RETTIE ACCORDING SMOTH REP READS AND WRITES FLUENT RUSSIAN
AND FINNISH, ALSO SPEAKS SPANISH AND FRENCH. FORMERLY MARRIED FINNISH
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PRESENT LOVER ACCORDING SMOTH REP. PETTIE REPORTED THAT L-1 NOT
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MARIO FONTEFORTE TOLEDO.

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L-1 INTRODUCED RETTIE TO KONTEFORTE TOLEDO ON 3 JAN 63. MEXI SUGGESTS
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/CA
SUBJECT: Response to Memo on "Council for Latin
America"

The activities of WI/I touch upon four organizations
listed below. There are no other activities as they may con-
cern organizations listed on the CA memo (attached).

1. Confederación Mexicana de Cámaras Industriales.
currently budgeted at $60,000 annually, supports in part this
organization, which also receives funds (some $950,000 yearly)
from MISEREOR, a German Catholic fund with headquarters in
Aachen, Germany. The objective of this effort is to help en-
courage model or prototype Mexican organizations designed to
alleviate and hopefully to advance the social and economic
status of the Mexican campesino.

2. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas.
The executive director of this organization was formerly as-
sociated with the LIEF project, but he is no longer an
active member of this project which is funded at the current
rate of $4,300 annually and supports LIEF-1, the Station's
only agent with access to rightist political organizations.

3. Centro Nacional de Estudios Sociales. The director
of this organization (LISIFER-3) is no longer an active LOFT
agent. The LESIFER project was terminated in 1965 and had
been funded at an annual rate of some $165,000. The project
supported a mass media propaganda effort directed at the mid-
dle and lower classes of Mexico and sponsored by a front group
of conservative Mexican businessmen.

4. American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico. The vice
president of this organization is a current Station asset,
LEUFT-1. No money is provided from KOWACE sources to this
organization, although LIIFT-1 receives monthly $300.00.
The duties of this agent do not directly relate to his

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Cluster of Commerce responsibilities. LIIFT-1's principal
duty is to gather material on rightist political organizations.

N. J. Katten
C/WH/I

Attachment:
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19 AUG 1964

TO	:	Director
			Federal Bureau of Investigation
			Attention: Mr. S. J. Papich
FROM	:	Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT:	Lyle STUART

Reference is made to your memorandum dated 1 June 1964,
in which you provided this office with several questions you
wished to have passed to Miss Viola June COBB regarding
Lyle STUART. There follows the information provided by
Do your inquiry:

1. Regarding Lyle STUART, Juan Jose AREVALO, and
Antikomunismo en America Latina:

Early in the spring of 1962, in Mexico, AREVALO told
me that STUART was prodding him about getting another of his
books translated, to take advantage of the publicity around
The Shark and the Sardines. I was already far beyond
speaking terms with SI ALT and therefore declined to have
anything further to do with him. About three months later,
AREVALO told me that STUART was going to publish
Antikomunismo en America Latina and that a young American
student, married to a Hexican, Angela delli SANTE ARROCHA
(who had written Arevalo, pensador contemporanco, published
by Coste Amic, 1962, financed by Als Badical Revolucionario
de El Salvador) was doing the translation into English.
Early in 1963, AREVALO told me that the translation hadn't
been satisfactory and therefore STUART had obtained a re-
translation, by Charleton BEALS.

When STUART was here in Mexico in June, he told
Dr. OSTGUEDA that he was very happy about the way the book
was selling.

Inasmuch as STUART has paid AREVALO only 10 per cent
of moneys received by STUART on The Shark and the Sardinen
sales (in contrast with some book contracts in which the author
receives 10 per cent of the money represented by number of
copies sold multiplied by the retail sales price) I would
assume he is no more generous with Antikomunismo.

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I know of no affiliations of STUART with foreign
political parties of government. His attempts to get close
to Fidel CASTRO in 1960 were motivated by a desire to exploit
the journalistic advantages of an interview. His original
interest in The Shark and the Sardines was apparently
motivated by money-making interests and by the hope that
he might spark a sensation - exactly what he did manage to
do with his outrageous advertising. He seemed to calculate
that there might be libel suits possible against the firms
and the newspapers he could provoke to attack him.

The original contract of AREVALO with STUART was
superseded by another in November of 1961, granting STUART
certain rights with regard to other foreign language editions
of The Shark and the Sardines and, I believe, establishing
hold here firat antion on other ARKVALO books
translated into English.

Information about STUART's dealings with AREVALO
and whatever others, could be obtained (with cutie) from
Eileen BRANT, who was his editor at the time of the firet
contact with AREVALO. She subsequently broke with him
because of deep and bitter resentment against him, then
returned not too long ago to collaborate with him. She is
his wife's sister. She is certainly working with him nov
only because he finally offered her a little better pay. For
her to have changed her mind about him would be almost
impossible, I believe, in view of the long history of incidents
that had brought her to have contempt for him, at the time
I knew her ia 1961. She knows his operation inside-out.
In order to get information from her, it would be absolutely
necessary to approach her from some angle that would give
no hint of government investigation. She is very gregarious.
She is a fortyish medium-attractive, lonely, New York single
woman (unless her status has changed since I knew her).
If
contacted by somebody she would assume to be a writer, and
who would be a bit friendly with her and see her off-bours,
she would probably talk freely about STUART. But she is
quite clever and rather worldly in some respects, so that must
be kept in mind in case she is contacted. SHE HAS A VERY
DEEP AND LONGTINE NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD ALL GOVERNMENT
AGENCIES INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATION. She was active in
liberal activities in Chicago, and if I remember correctly,
although she is certainly not communist, she considered bersed
a little jeopardised by the Ec Carthy period.

Angela Dell1 SANTE-ARROCHE could also be contacted,
of course.
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2. Regarding Lyle STUART, Dr. Baul CarcUKDA, Bartolome
COSTA Amic, and Mario ΕΟΝΤΣΤΟΡΓΗ Toledo:

Dr. OSEGUEDA apparently has had a secret longing to
get something of his ove printed in English. Ee seized upon
the opportunity of commenting BKALS' introduction to
Antikomunismo in order to write to STUART this spring.
STUART wrote very cordially back to OSEGUEDA, hoping to ment
Lim on a trip to Mexico in June. When OSEGLEDA confessed to
ne his correspondence with STUART, he sought to make me see
it as an attempt to speak with STUART about the royalties
STUART has never paid me.

When Dr. CSEGUEDA finally did see STUART here in
Mexico during the book congress in June, he only very
timidly and very, very briefly touched upon the royalty
wwohlen, and indeed went to a great deal of trouble to serve
STUART by introducing to
MONTEFORTE Toledo. (STUART had expressed interest ta
getting in touch with some publishers and writers.) CEZGUEDA
buntled about, taking OSEGUEDA and MONTEFORTE Toledo to lunch
with STUART, even managed to get the MONTEFORTE Toledos to
invite STUART to dinner at their apartment. There were
tentative discussions of collaborating in the distribution of
COSTA Amic books in the United States and of publishing
come book of MONTEFORTE Toledo's.

However, both COSTA Anic and the MONTEFORTE Toledos
told me that they found STUART offensively vulgar and were not
at ali enthusiastic about having anything to do with him.

Two weeks ago, OSEGUNDA sketched the outline of a
book (contemporary history of 1.3. and Latin American relations)
he hopes STUART will want to publish, and sent the outline
Pup to him.
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July 6, 1964

LYLE STUART
AREVALO
"ANTIKOMUSISMO EN AMERICA LATINA"

Early in the spring of 1962, here in Mexico, Arévalo told me that Stuart
was prodding him about getting another of his books translated, to take ad-
vantage of the publicity around "The Shark and the Sardines". I was already
far beyond speaking ceras with Stuart and therefore declined to have anything
further to do with hin. About three months later, Arévalo told me that Smart
was going to publien "Antikomunismo en America Latina and that a young American
student, married to a Mexican, Angela delli Sante Arrocha (who had written
"Arevalo, Fensador Contemporaneo"; vas doing the translation into English.
Early in 1963, Arévalo told me that the translation hadn't been satisfactory
and therefore Stuart had obtained a re-translation, by Charleton Beals.

When Stuart was here in Mexico in June, he told Dr. Osequeda that he was
very happy about the wey the bock was selling.

Inasmuch as Stuart has paid Arévalo only 10 percent of moneys received by
Stuart on "The Shark and the Sardines" sales (in contrast with some book con-
tracts in which the author receives 1.0 percent of the money represented by
number of copies sold multiplied by the retail sales price) I would assume he
is no more generous with "Antikomunismo". I can ask Dr. Osegueda the exact
teres, but I haven't been able to see Osegueda this week.

I know of no affiliations of Stuart with foreign political parties of
government. His attempts to get close to Fidel Castro in 1960 were motivated
by a desire to expicit the journalistic advantages of an interview. Ris
original interest in "The Shark and the Sardines" vas. apparently motivated by
money-making interest and by the hope that he might spark a sensation - exactly-
what he did manage to do with his outrageous advertising. He seemed to calcu-
late that there might be libel sxits possible against the firms and the news-
papers he could provoke to attack him.

I am sure you have it on file, but I will enclose a copy of Arevalo's
original contract with Stuart. It was superceded by another in November of
1961, granting Stuart certain rights with regard to other foreign language
editions of "The Shark and the Sardines" and, I believe, establishing that
Stuart should have first option of other Arévalo books translated into English.

Information about Stuart's dealings with Arévalo and whatever others could
be obtained WITH GULLE from Eileen Brant, who vas his editor at the time of the
:
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Published by Costa Amic, 1962. Financed by Als Radical Revolucionario de El
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first contact with Arevalo, subsequently broke with his because of deep and
bitter resentment against him, then returned not too long ago to collaborate
with him. She is his wife's sister. She is certainly working with him now
only because he finally offered her a little bette: pay. For her to have
changed her mind about him would be almost impossible, I believe, in view of
the long history of incidents that had brought her to have contempt for him,
at the time I knew her in 1961. She knows his operation inside-out. In order
to get information from her, it would be absolutely necessary to approach her
from some angle that would give no hint of government investigation. She is
very gregarious. She is a fortyish medium-attractive, lonely, New York single
woman (unless her status has changed since I knew her). By somebody she would
assume to be a writer, and who would be a bit friendly with her and see her
off-hours, she would probably talk freely about Stuart. But she is quite clever
and rather worily in some respects, so that must be kept in mind in case she
is contacted. SHE HAS A VERY DEEP AND LONGTIME NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARD ALL
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES INVOLVED IN INVESTIGATION. She was active in liberal
activities in unicago, actly, thich cho da containiv
not communist, she considered herself a little jeopardized by the Mc Carthy
period.

Angela Deli Sante-Arroche could be contacted, too, of course.
look for her address at Costa Amic's office and pass it along.
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Lyle Stuart
Dr. Raul Osegueda
Eartolome Costa Amic
Mario Monteforte Toledo

Dr. Osegueda apparently has had a secret longing to get something of his
own printed in English. He seized upon the opportunity of commenting beals'
introduction to "Antikomunismo" in crier to write to Stuart this spring. Stuart
wrote very cordially back to Osegueda, hoping to meet him on a trip to Mexico
in June. When Osegueda confessed to ze his correspondence with Stuart, he
sought to make me see it as an attempt to speak with Stuart about the royalties
Stuart has rever paid me.

When Osegueda finally did see Stuart here during the book congress in June,
he only very timidly and very, very briefly touched upon the royalty problem, and
indeed went to a great deal of trouble to serve Stuart by introducing him to
Costa Amic and to Mario Monteforte Toledo. (Stuart had expressed interest in
getting in touch with some publishers and writers.) Osegueda bustlei abait,
taking Osegueda and Monteforte Toledo to lunch with Stuart, even managed to get
the Monteforte Toledos to invite Stuart to dinner at their apartment. There
vere tentative discussions of collaborating in the distribution of Costa Amic
books in the United States and of publishing some book of Monteforte Toledo's.

However, both Costa Amica and the Monteforte Toledos told me that they
found Stuart offensively vulgar and were not at all enthusiastic about having
anything to do with him.

Two weeks ago, Osegueda sketched the outline of a book (contemporary history
of U.S. and Latin American relations) he hopes Stuart will want to publish, and
sent the outline up to him.

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WH COMMENT: #FBI requested that certam questions be given to LICOOKY
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book Shark and the Sardines. Justice is thinking of
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CLICOURT-I SPENT SEVERAL nouns COMPANY MARIO SUSA
AVARRO AND DIANA GAMES. LATTER IS HONDURAN AND FIANCE HONDURAN
COMME RODIL RIVERA RODIL. GAMES HOW DIVORCING, MEXICAN DIPLOMAT WHO
PREVIOUSLY SERVED TEGU AND PLANS MARRY RIVERA.

2. ACC L-1, WHEN ISABEL. GUILLEN DE ZELAYA, AT WHOSE HOUSE L-1 AND
SOSA HET, ACCUSED SOSA OF BEING A "RUSO" LATIER MADE MILDLY DEROGATORY
REMARKS ABOUT SOVIET UNION. SAID HIS WIFE AND SMALL SON IN GUAT
AND WIFE NOW DIVORCING HIM.

3. L-1 INSTRUCTED MAINTAIN CASUAL CONTACT SOSA IN ORDER KEEP
TABS HIS WHEREABOUTS.
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C/S COMENT: MARIO SOSA NAVARRO ARRIVED IN SAN JOSE 22 JULY.

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