MATERIAL REVIEWED AT CIA HEADQUARTERS BY
HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS STAFF MEMBERS

FILE TITLE/NUMBER/VOLUME: **LOPEZ, HENRY P**

201-253203

VOL. II

INCLUSIVE DATES:

CUSTODIAL UNIT/LOCATION:

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NO DOCUMENTS MAY BE COPIED OR REMOVED FROM THIS FILE
REFERENCE: MEXI-2755, dated 11 March 1965

Forwarded herewith is the coverage of Henry Lopez' telephone for the period 17 February 1962 to 26 March 1962.

Stuart R. Pataker
for Willard C. Curtis

The following action is authorized by: R/2AR

S: John Blake Smith
R.O. 1962

Attachment:
1. As Stated (HEREWITH)

Distribution:
1. WH w/att h/w
3. Files

CS COPY

CROSS REFERENCE TO

DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER

DATE

MEXI-25595
17 March 1965
CONFIDENTIAL

Chief of Station, Mexico City

Chief, Benefits and Services Division/OP

WILLIAM

Hospitalization Claim - Edward C. VICKERS

(a) EMT - 5701, dated 9/22/65
(b) EMT - 6030, dated 12/9/65

1. Please inform subject employee that a check in the amount of $542.93 was forwarded to DZARN on 4 November 1965. This amount represents all benefits payable under subject's Contract Hospitalization Insurance policy for the claim he submitted with reference (a).

2. If subject has any further questions regarding transmittal of his settlement, he should contact DZARN.

James K. Herriott

JAMES K. HERIOTT

Distribution:
3, CIO-Mexico City

CONFIDENTIAL

OP/BSO/IB KLuchalski 11c 5109

1 ID

AC/ID

1 VII

WII/Pers.
TO: MEXICO CITY

FROM: DIRECTOR

CONF: WIL 8

INFO: VR, FILE, RID COPY, OF 2

SIG-GEN

TO: MEXI

INFO

CITE DIR

REFS: A. DIR 47834

B. MFX1 T/A 64-66

SINCE TICHBORN PAID BY STATION, LOAN SHOULD BE CARRIED BY STATION AND $125 PAYROLL DEDUCTION APPLIED.

ACCORDINGLY, HQRS T/A'ING LOAN TO STATION AND RETURNING DOCUMENTATION.

END OF MESSAGE

Sally Tichborn

201 file

WILLIAM V. BROE

COORDINATING OFFICER

SECRET

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
Chief, IM Division

Chief of Station, Mexico City

ADMINISTRATIVE/PROCEDURAL

Overt and Covert 1964 Income Tax Forms of Edward G. TICORN

ACTION REQUIRED: Per Paragraph 1

REFERENCE: MEXI 5550

1. Please query Jerome H. BALSIS in regard to the location of the 1964 overt and covert tax returns and payment check in the amount of $1774.00 of Edward G. TICORN and advise.

2. TICORN states that he passed the only two copies of each return and the check to BALSIS on 29 April 1965. Further states that BALSIS told him he would completely audit both returns to assure their accuracy in regard to mathematical computations and application of tax liability. BALSIS was to return a copy of the overt return for TICORN's retention.

3. A thorough search of Station files failed to uncover the subject tax returns and check or any transmittal record of returns or payment.

4. Since TICORN will be extremely hard pressed to duplicate the returns without a copy of the overt return, the location of the returns is very important.

WILLARD C. CURTIS

Distribution:
3 - WIP

201-253263

1947-6033

10 December 1965
SECRET 081945Z

DIR CITE MEXI 5559

REF: DIR 62414

1. 1964 COVERT TAX RETURNS FOR BENADUM, LIMOTOR 19 (BARBARA C. HUGIO), PINEINCH, SANDAMANIE BEING SENT BY HMMT 6219 IN 1st DEC POUCH. NOT POUCHED EARLIER AS OVERLOOKED IN STATION ADMIN FILES.

2. RETURN FOR CAZAZZUS SENT HMMT 5399 APR 23 (JOINT WITH DOUGLAS J. FEINGLASS). RETURN FOR LIFUED 3P, NOW RITA N. BLAZIK, SENT HMMT 5908, 28 OCT 65.

3. LINUFF 1 SUBMITTED RETURN THROUGH OVERT CHANNELS; SIGNED COPY BEING POUCHED KGS.

4. WILL REPORT ON TICHBORN SEPARATELY.

SECRET ADVIS. HMMT 5399 APR 23

CFN 5559 62414 1964 BENADUM LIMOTOR 19 BARBARA C HUGIO PINEINCH SANDAMANIE HMMT 6018 19 NOT POUCHED CAZAZZUS HMMT 5399 APR 23 DOUGLAS J FEINGLASS LIFUED 3P RITA N BLAZIK HMMT 5908 28 OCT 65

LINUFF 1 KGS

BY:

SECRET

[Signature]

26/33203
SECRET 080108Z
DIR INFO LAPA ZITE MEXI 5541
KICAFER LICOLIC

1. SINCE TICHBORN MAY WELL BE NEEDED IN LAPA NEXT SPRING,
STATION AND THOMAS W. LUND (IDEN) HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSED COVER
POSSIBILITIES WITH HIM. WHILE NO CONCRETE PROPOSAL FORTH COMING,
HAVE CONCLUDED THAT PART OF PROBLEM STEMS FROM HIS NEVER HAVING
BEEN IN BOLIVIA, AND STATION LAPA NOT HAVING PEOPLING OF HIM AND
HIS CAPABILITIES.

2. SUGGEST BRIEF VISIT TICHBORN TO LAPA UNDER TOURIST COVER TO
CONSULT WITH LAPA OFFICERS AND SURVEY COVER POSSIBILITIES.
THIS MONTH BEST TIME FROM MEXI STANDPOINT; NEXT ISSUE LIREAM
PUBLICATION HAS JUST GONE TO PRINTERS AND HE RELATIVELY
FREE TRAVEL. TICHBORN FULLY COOPERATIVE, ANXIOUS TO SERVE IF
NEEDED.

SECRET

59669 TICHBORN LAPA THOMAS W. LUND NO CONCRETE NOT HAVING LAPA
MONTH BEST TIME LIREAM

SECRET

Tichborn
201 fil
3.1. 28.3.63
PLS ADVISE WHEN HQS CAN EXPECT 1964 COVERT TAX RETURNS REQUESTED HQS-4366. IF NOT RECEIVED SOON, KUBARK MAY BE FORCED REVEAL TRUE NAMES TO IRS WHO WILL THEN TAKE DIRECT ACTION.

END OF MESSAGE

Requested 8 delinquent 1964 Covert Income Tax returns.

WH/B&F

William V. Broe
C/ND

W. J. Kaufman
C/WH/1
DIR INFO LAPA CITE MEXI 5309 (EASSY ACTING)

KICAPER LIREAM

1. AFTER EXTENSIVE CONSULTATION WITH TICHBORN, STATION UNABLE
DEVELOP ACCEPTABLE PROPOSAL FOR HIS COVER IN LA PAZ. HAVE EXAMINED
AND DISCARDED THESE MAIN POSSIBILITIES:
A. LAWYER WITH MINING CLIENTS,
B. WRITER WITH FOUNDATION GRANT,
C. PRODUCER OF POSSIBLE MOVIE.

2. IN REGARD TO CIA: TICHBORN BELIEVES HE CERTAIN TO RUN INTO:
HENRY HILL, WHO LEGITIMATELY INTERESTED IN BOLIVIAN ANTIMONY
MINING, HAS CONSULTED IN PAST WITH TICHBORN, AND WOULD RECOGNIZE
FISHY NATURE HIS PRESENCE LA PAZ. TICHBORN
BELIEVES HILL WOULD REACT BADLY, SPEAK WORD THEIR MUTUAL CIRCLE.

3. PROPOSAL IS SMELLS TOO STRONGLY OF OPERATION CAMELOT, AND WOULD
OPEN TICHBORN TO ATTACK EVEN FROM THOSE TO WHOM THIS COVER MIGHT
APPEAR PLAUSIBLE.

4. PROPOSAL IC WOULD IMMEDIATELY DRAW ATTENTION FROM ALFARO
MUTIS, CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE OF TICHBORN, AND LATIN AMERICAN REP OF.

Tichborn

001-233203
VENTIETH CENTURY FOX.

MUTIS JOB IS TO TRAVEL AREA, KEEP CLOSE TRACK OF ANY AND ALL DEVELOPMENTS IN CINEMA FIELD. TO HIM THIS COVER WOULD APPEAR LUDICROUS, AS IT WOULD TO TICHBORN-MUTIS CIRCLE OF ACQUAINTANCES IN MEXICO.

5. ALL ABOVE IDEAS ARE, OF COURSE, COVER FOR STATUS ONLY. COVER FOR ACTION WITH PROMINENT POLITICAL PERSONALITY MUCH MORE DIFFICULT PROBLEM, AND STATION AGREES THAT CLANDESTINITY PROBABLY ONLY RECURSE. WHILE MEXI NOT CLOSELY FAMILIAR OPS CLIMATE LA PAZ, SPECULATE THAT TICHBORN WOULD QUICKLY BECOME OBJECT OF CURiosity IN SMALL CAPITAL. HE DEFINITELY NOT LITTLE GRAY MAN TYPE, AND MEXI CONSIDERS THAT JOB OF CONCEALING SIGNIFICANT BEHIND SCENES ROLE IN FAST MOVING POLITICAL SITUATION COULD UNDULY TAX HIS TRADECRAFT.

6. TICHBORN HAS SUBMITTED MEMO MAKING ABOVE POINTS PLUS SOME SPECULATION REGARDING USE OF FALSE IDENTITY, WHICH STATION CONSIDERS UNREALISTIC, WILL POUCH ADDRESS.

SECRET

CFN 530 TICHBORN LA PAZ CLIENTS (MAY TICHBORN HENRY WILL ECLIVIAN & ANTIMONY MINING LA PAZ CAMELOT. IC ALFARO MUTIS FOX TICHBORN-MUTIS
NOT CLOSELY LA PAZ TICHEER SMALL CAPITAL NOT LITTLE GRAY MAN TYPE

UNDULY TAX MEMO

91
5 November 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, CI/CA
ATTENTION: Mr. Brown
REFERENCE: WH/1 Memorandum—10-June 1963
SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN
(201-253203)

1. This is to confirm telephone conversation this date between Mr. Lally of your Office and Mr. Halliwell of WH/1.

2. WH/1 again requests that a new Operational Approval be expedited on Subject. TICHBORN'S project is awaiting this action in order to undergo renewal for FY 1966.

3. Please advise this Office if any further action is required by the Branch.

W.J. Kaufman
Chief, WH/1

Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
1 - Dosier

DDP/WH/1/Zorance:bp
SECRET

Chief of Station, Mexico City

Chief, Western Hemisphere Division
Edward G. TICHBORN, Administrative

Action Req: Para 2

References: A. HMTT = 5791, 22 Sept 65
B. HXXI 5449
C. HMTT = 5271

1. Due to operational requirements a meeting was not held with Edward G. TICHBORN by an Admin representative, however, the items noted below were briefly discussed with him by telephone on 26 October.

2. TICHBORN was advised information would be forwarded to the Station and, upon his return to the Station, he should ask his contact about the items—both as a reminder and for fuller explanation. As will be noted, there is a time element concerned with c. below.

a. Reference A (Transmittal of hospitalization claim). TICHBORN asked about the claim and was advised the dispatch was received 3 October and the separate cover was received by the Insurance Branch on 25 October. The Insurance section has agreed to expedite the claim and it is expected Finance will advise the Station of the amount of reimbursement to TICHBORN within the next two-three weeks.

b. Reference B (Concerned signing the contract amendment forwarded by Book Dispatch 5178). The provisions of the 3E regarding signing the amendment still pertain. The subject was very briefly but, by no means thoroughly, explained. In this connection, it had been planned to have him read the two attached pamphlets "Your Social Security" and "Social Security Amendments—1965". If cover or operational considerations do not preclude, the pamphlets may be given to TICHBORN to either read and return to the Station or to retain.

CONTINUED...

HMS - 4279 28 October 1965

SECRET

WM/Pers/U.S. Renehan: gms 6376

Distribution:
1 = WM/Pers wo/att
1 = WM/1 wo/att
1 = WM/Reg wo/att C/WM/PERS

C/WM/1
c. Reference C (Transmitted Income Tax Information in response to Box Dispatch 4659). The Tax Committee was checked regarding TICHORN and advised they needed additional explanatory information from TICHORN prior to being able to compute an assessment and bring his under the revised tax procedures. TICHORN could not recall sufficient facts and figures to provide the required information. He was therefore advised it was to his benefit to submit the information to the Station as soon after his return as practicable.

(1) Other Income. He had indicated receipt of fees but did not state whether they were the result of work outside the U.S. or if they were received while in and as a result of work in the U.S. If the fees were earned as a result of work outside the U.S., they are excludable for federal tax purposes.

(2) Itemized Deductions. He had indicated under "other" $1400, but did not provide any breakdown or explanation as to what the amount represented. It is necessary to provide sufficient supporting information to enable the Committee to recognize the amount as an allowable item. He also indicated a loss of $2,000 on investments. Explanatory facts are required such as dates, when, reason for the loss (sale of stock at $X versus cost of $X or whatever), whether the loss was a carryover from prior year(s), etc. It is better that too much information be provided rather than too little.

TICHORN is to provide the information in writing with his certification as to completeness and accuracy for transmittal to Headquarters. If the information is received within the first part of November it is likely the revised procedures will be applied for the 1963 tax year.

Ernest A. Lushy

Attachments:
As Stated

Distribution:
2 - CGS, Mexico City
MEMORANDUM FOR: WH/BAF

SUBJECT: Transfer of funds via CCS/EC to LINEAH Activity, Mexico City

REFERENCE: DIR 33750 3 Aug 65

It is requested that $3,500.00 from Project LILIPUT be transferred through CCS/EC to the LINEAH activity in Mexico City. The details on the actual transfer from a New York bank to the Instituto Cultural Inter-American, Banco Nacional de Mexico, Sucursal Lomas, Mexico D.F., Mexico of $4,500.00 allegedly being made by Cunn Canfield, and a Cashier's check from a New York bank for $4,000.00 allegedly donated by Robert Dowling to be posted to the Station from Headquarters, have been discussed with CCS/EC.

W.J. Kaufman
Chief, WH/1

Distribution:

Orig. & 1 - Addressee
1 - CCS/EC
1 - 50-126-36/2
>1 - 201-253203 (WH/1)
1 - WH/1

DDP/WH/1/Halliwell:bp 28 Oct 65
SECRET 141750Z
DIR CITE MEXI 5027
LICOLIC LIREAM
REF A DIR 49356
B MEXI 5025 (N 72965)

1. TICHBORN ETA NEW YORK 17 OCT, WILL WAIT CONTACT HILTON HOTEL.

2. IN ADDITION TICHBORN COVER AND FUTURE OF MAGAZINE, SUGGEST HQS AND TICHBORN WORK OUT MORE ADVANCED METHOD OF FUNDING LIREAM.

PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS NO LONGER APPEAR ADEQUATE.

SECRET

CFA 315 17 OCT 5025 TICHBORN ETA 17 OCT HILTON HOTEL HQS AND TICHBORN WORK OUT MORE NO LONGER

SECRET

HQS CONSIDERED TICHBORN NEW YORK TRIP.

Nicholson 201

201 - 25-3 203
Active Records: 10,000

1. Electronic data processing methods of the Internal Revenue Service have made it necessary to effect a procedure to enter Social Security self-employment records directly into computers, transferred for more current records (Independent Contractors) who do not have an available Social Security number on their contracts. Such individuals will be transferred the Social Security number and protection applicable to other Federal employees. Instructions at this time are that it will require a change in the 1965 tax year to continue implementation.

2. The attached memorandum is for your information and includes a contract form for Independent Contractors in the new procedure. Acceptance of the individual is predicated upon a Social Security number as a lesser rate for the same period.

3. It is suggested that individual union officers acquire the above to inform the employees.

Attachments: 1. Contract

Distribution:

2 - C/PEPS
1 - W/1
1 - W/2
1 - W/3
1 - W/4
1 - W/5
1 - W/6
1 - W/7
1 - W/8
1 - W/9
1 - W/10
SECRET

Mr. Edward C. Tichborn

Dear Mr. Tichborn:

Reference is made to your current contract with the United States Government, as represented by the Contracting Officer.

Arrangements have been recently completed allowing certain independent contractors of this organization to obtain social security credits by covering such individuals under the social security tax provisions applicable to employees. These arrangements also include a provision for retroactive applicability to the beginning of the 1965 tax year. This can be done only for reasons of security since the procedure results in reducing the social security tax from the self-employed rate to the employee rate. For example, in January of 1965 the tax rates were 5.4% and 3-5/8% respectively.

As a consequence thereof, said contract is amended by deleting all reference to social security and by adding the following paragraph:

"Effective 1 December 1964, social security taxes will be covertly deducted by this organization from your compensation in the same manner and to the same extent as would be done if you were a Government employee. Security reasons make this procedure necessary. Its implementation does not imply in any manner the actual creation of an employee-employer relationship. Your legal status under this agreement continues to be that of an independent contractor."

If you receive or expect to receive full or partial social security credits from overt sources you will so notify this organization and an adjustment will be made or covert deductions discontinued, depending upon the circumstances. Further, if you should subsequently receive overt social security credits, evidence thereof will be submitted to this organization. In such event your covert credits will be erased and your covert deductions returned.

All other terms and conditions of said contract remain in full force and effect.

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

SIGNED

BY

Contracting Officer

SECRET

Group 1 - Excluded from automatic downgrading and declassification.
REF: MEXI 4855 (IN 60704)*

1. REFERENCE LOAN APPROVED. TA LOAN TO HQS.

2. OBTAIN AND SEND TO HQS FOLLOWING DOCUMENTS SIGNED BY TICHBORN.
   A. PROMISSORY NOTE IN THE AMOUNT OF LOAN.
   B. RECEIPT ACKNOWLEDGING FUNDS RECEIVED.
   C. MEMO AUTHORIZING PAYROLL DEDUCTIONS HIS SALARY EFFECTIVE 1 NOVEMBER 65 OF $125 MONTHLY.

3. PROJECT LICOLIC WILL BE SUBMITTED FOR EXTRA $3000 TO PROVIDE LOAN STIPULATING REPAYMENT OVER TWO YEAR PERIOD.

END OF MESSAGE

*MEXI 4855 Request approval TICHBORN $3,000 for purchase car in US.
SECRET 27234452

DIR CITE HX1 4355

LICOLIC

1. PRO APPROVAL ADVANCE TICKET 3000 DOLLARS FOR PURCHASE CAR IN US. WILL WORK OUT REGULAR REPAYMENT SCHEDULE. DISCUSS WITH ANGELITA.

2. TICKET MUST EXIT AND REENTER MEXICO PRIOR TO PLANS TRAVEL LAREDO, PICK UP CAR, FRESH VISA.

SECRET

CNP 4255 TICKET 3000 IN US 13 OCT CT

SECRET

Tick for 20125321

20125320
Action Required: Priority

The following agents in Mexico City are delinquent in the filing of their 1964 Covert Income Tax returns. You are requested to obtain these outstanding returns as soon as possible since delinquent tax returns are subject to 6% statutory interest on the unpaid tax due from 15 April to the date of payment, and in addition are also subject to a penalty of 5% per month, not to exceed 25% of the tax liability.

Jeremy K. BENADUM
Sandra B. CAZAZZUS
LIFEUD/30
LHUFF/1
LIMOTOR/19
Joyce C. RHEINCH
John R. SANDAMANTE
Philip K. TESSAROLO
Edward G. TICIBORN

Ernest A. LUSBY

Distribution:
Orig 6 1 - COS, Mexico City
SECRET 032232Z
DIR CITE MEXI A330
LIREAM DTDORIC

1. TICBORN WILL ATTEND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENERAL
SEYANTICS, SAN FRANCISCO, NINE TO THIRTEEN AUGUST, AT INVITATION
ORGANIZER S.I. HAYAKAWA. HE IS SCHEDULED TO SPEAK ON NINE AUGUST
AND LEAD PANEL DISCUSSION ON THIRTEEN AUGUST. AT HAYAKAWA'S
SUGGESTION HE WILL MOUNT LIREAM DISPLAY AND WILL DO WHATEVER
ELSE APPROPRIATE TO PUSH PRODUCT.

2. PLANS TO BE IN CONTACT WITH EDGAR KAISER (THROUGH HAYAKAWA)
CHAIRMAN BOARD KAISER INDUSTRIES, AND WITH PHILANTHROPIST NORMAN
SIMON (THROUGH JUNE WAYNE, HEAD OF TAMARIND GALLERY). ALTHOUGH
NEITHER TICBORN NOR STATION PARTICULARLY SANQUINE POSSIBILITY
CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD LIREAM FROM THESE PERSONALITIES BELIEVE
SUCH PROMOTIONAL ACTIVITY ON HIS PART HELPS SUPPORT HIS COVER.

3. HE WILL ALSO CALL ON WALLACE STEGNER, HEAD OF CREATIVE
WRITERS CENTER AT STANFORD AND ON ARTHUR COONS, EX-PRESIDENT OCCIDENTAL

COLLEGE, THROUGH WHOM HE HOPES TO BE INTRODUCED TO SUCH CALIFORNIA
CULTURAL FOUNDATIONS (UNSPECIFIED) AS MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN LIREAM.

SECRET

Ticborn 201

201-253203
SECRET

4. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT TICHBORN (PERHAPS IN REGARD TO
SUBJECT #1 4312) WE WILL BE BEVERLY HILTON LOS ANGELES FROM
FOUR TO EIGHT AUGUST AND AT FRANCIS DRAKE SAN FRAN EIGHT TO THIRTEEN
AUGUST.

SECRET

GEN: 4332 TICHBORN GENERAL SEMANTICS SAN FRANCISCO S I HAYAKAWA
HAYAKAWA'S LIFEAH EDGAR KAISER HAYAKAWA KAISER NORMAN SIMON.
JUNE WAYNE TAKING NEITHER TICHBORN NOR STATION LIFEAH WALLACE
STEGNER STANFORD ARTUR COONS EX-PRESIDENT OCCIDENTAL
COLLEGE CALIFORNIA LIFEAH HOS TICHBORN 4312 BEVERLY HILTON LOS
ANGELES FRANCIS DRAKE SAN FRAN

SECRET
MEMORANDUM FOR:

Chief, WA Division

SUBJECT: Self-Employment Credit for Social Security Coverage

Edward O. Stenberg

1. The responsibility for filing Schedules SE (Form 1040) "U. S. Report of Self-Employment Income" with the Social Security Administration for credit to the taxpayer's social security account has been delegated to this office for those individuals who have filed covert returns.

2. In order to discharge this responsibility and to ensure that each contract agent receives full social security credit for any self-employment tax paid through the Covert Unit, it is necessary for this office to prepare the Schedule SE (Form 1040) for each taxpayer for secure transmission to the Social Security Administration. In order to complete Form SE for Subject Contract Agent, it is necessary that the following information (designated by an "X") be furnished:

   X  Tax Name (As it appears on Subject's Social Security Card)

   X  Social Security Number

   X  Statewide address currently applicable or the address used when the taxpayer last resided in the U. S.

   X  Type of business activity to be reflected in reporting Social Security credits from self-employment, such as management consultant, translator, writer, etc.

3. Since a three year statute of limitations applies to the filing of self-employment schedules for social security coverage, it is requested that the above information be furnished as soon as possible. Any questions regarding this subject should be directed to 60/100/Covert Tax Branch.

S. M. O'Keeffe
Chief, Covert Tax Branch
MEMORANDUM FOR: CI/OA

ATTENTION: Mr. Lally

SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN (201-253203)

REFERENCES: CI/OA Memorandum of 30 September 1964
CI/OA Memorandum of 3 June 1961

1. All of the information requested on Subject has now been submitted to your office. Project LICLICLIC, which provides support for TICHBORN, describes Subject's duties as follows:

   a. Subject moves in Mexican leftist and Marxist intellectual circles with a good range of associations in this milieu; in this context, he has successfully developed and now publishes an intellectual magazine under Station direction.

   b. He is available to the WH Division for travel to other Latin American countries for political assessments or for ad hoc assignments involving contact with local political figures of interest.

   c. He is used to handle dissident or disaffected Communists or far leftists where contacts are required by other Stations and where CA objectives are involved.

2. It is requested that a new OA on Subject be expedited.

W. J. Kaufman
Chief, WH/1

DDP/WH/1/CHalliwell:1jc (10 June 1965)

Distribution:
O & 1 - Addresses
1 - 201-253203

SECRET
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND REVIEW

| TO:          | 3 June 1965 prc |
|--------------|----------------|
| WH/1 - R. Armijo | 201-253203    |
| FROM: CHIEF, CI/OA |                |
| 7th Edward P. Brown |                |
| SUBJECT: LOPEZ, Henry P. |            |

IN ORDER THAT FURTHER CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN YOUR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL IN THIS CASE, IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOU FURNISH THIS OFFICE THE INFORMATION CHECKED BELOW, OR REVIEW INFORMATION AS INDICATED.

| PRO 1 | REVIEW OF STAFF/O Dossier |
|-------|---------------------------|
| PRO 2 | REVIEW OF STAFF/O COLLATERAL INFORMATION |
| FIELD TRACES | REVIEW OF SECURITY OFF., REPORT AT CI/OA |
| HI TRACES | REVIEW OF SEC. OFF., CONCURRENCE MEMO AT CI/OA |
| OPERATIONAL AND DIVISION TRACES | REVIEW OF FBI REPORT AT CI/OA |
| RESULTS OF TECHNICAL INTERROGATION | REVIEW OF ATTACHED REFERENCE |
| GREEN LIST | OTHERS (See Remarks) |

NOTICE: FIRST | 2ND | 3RD AND FINAL |

REMARKS:

Receipt is acknowledged of PRO Part II.
20 May 1965

MEMORANDUM FOR: CI/CA

ATTENTION: Mr. Lally

SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN
(201-253203)

To further assist you in your reinvestigation of TICHBORN,
there is attached a copy of an updated FRQ Part II on him.

W. J. Kaufman
Chief, 45/1

Attachment:
FRQ Part II (1 copy)

DDP/NI/1/JZerance:jm (20 May 1965)

Distribution:
O & 1 - Addressed
1 - 201-253203
SECRET 1917572

DIR CITE MEXI 3465

REF A HMMW 13631
B HMM 261030
C HMM 26033
D HMMT 5461

REFS B AND C APPARENTLY CROSSED REF A IN POUCH. IN ADDITION
REF D IN THIS WEEK'S POUCH SHOULD CONTRIBUTE.

SECRET

CEN

SECRET
1. The Station, after reference incident, felt more strongly than ever that it really did not have a complete assessment of TICHORN in the sense of what is his real ideological viewpoint. This is not to say that the Station was overly concerned that TICHORN was flirting with the opposition. As a result of the events described below, the Station feels it has a reasonably clear idea on these points now.

2. On 15 May, being a Saturday and two days prior to TICHORN entering a Mexican hospital for a long-delayed and somewhat apprehensive (on his part) hernia operation, TICHORN was in an unusually loquacious mood for a luncheon engagement with the Station case officer. He showed little opposition to three good Manhattan and, for the first time, the Station case officer felt he was seeing clearly TICHORN "the person" and not TICHORN "the lawyer". In other words, there was no protective veneer involved in the rather long luncheon discussion which followed. The issue which brought forth the entire discussion was reaction of the Mexican intellectual to the Dominican Republic situation. In the process, TICHORN brought out very sincerely, passionately, and clearly the following points:

a. When he was a trial lawyer in California for five years, his real inclinations were what he termed "leftist". He harbored a number of "reservations" about the way that things were or were not happening in the U.S. under the U.S. system. These were private thoughts and reservations and did not translate

-continued-

Distribution

3- WH

231-253202

CROSS REFERENCE TO

DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER

HMNT-5661

DATE

17 May 1965

CLASSIFICATION

SECRET/REMARKS

DESIGNATED

NO. 5 FILE NUMBER
themselves into action, but nonetheless points of real concern to him. Then, he came to Mexico for a period to get "that" novel and writing off his chest; during that period, he saw the Mexican system and some of the Latin American Systems. At that juncture, he became very much aware of the fact that it was the "system" that counted, in spite of whatever imperfections existed, and that there "was, and is, nothing that can anywhere nearly approach the U.S. system". As he said, "Sure, there are a lot of things wrong, because of decisions made by human beings who are fallible and have their own interests to look after, but there is so much good and so many compensations on the plus side of the system and the way it works, you can afford to recognize the wrongs and work them out within the system". He said that this was so obvious from abroad that he just wondered why he ever had worried about incidents and didn't realize that it was the "system" that mattered.

b. He told about some of the discussions he had had with leftist Mexican intellectuals on these points such as, "Is the Soviet system capable of producing and absorbing such pictures as 'Dr. Strangelove' or having a John Steinbeck write a 'Grapes of Wrath' and run off with all prizes in the writing and motion picture field? Can you even approximate that in Mexico? Witness the furore over 'The Children of Sanchez' here while the 'Grapes of Wrath' was every bit as harsh with respect to similar circumstances in the U.S. and won everything." On and on. In so many words, our system thrives on "self-criticism", and there are things to criticize, but what other system in this world is not only permissive of that, but thrives on it. And so on. He has no doubts about any governmental/social/political/economic system in any combination being able to even approach it.

3. The foregoing is a very brief synopsis of a rambling and long philosophic discussion on these points in which TICHBORN concluded his statement and, even, tirade (his Latin heritage had gotten the better of him at that point) with the statement that "My philosophy on this point, and my present sentiments, have been forged in the fire of thinking as a leftist critic and having come to see and understand a great deal; and they can't tell me a damn thing about what is the best system nor on the basis of their present circumstances in their own countries have they any right or basis for criticizing the U.S. and its actions. Nothing is perfect, and I can't defend it as being perfect, but for every imperfection they try to show me in the U.S. and what it has or has not done, I can show them hundreds in their country and any other one they try to hold up as a model."

4. In so many words, at least the Station case officer at the present time is satisfied in his own mind that TICHBORN was speaking sincerely during this discussion and there is no question in the Station's mind about where TICHBORN stands ideologically even though he may be considered "left of center."

5. Since this issue seems to hover constantly in the background with TICHBORN as far as KUBARK is concerned, the Station felt it would be a good idea to register the foregoing incident and appraisal with Headquarters.

[Signature]

William C. CURTIS
AC REQ: Submission of updated PRQ Parts I and II

REF: DIP 96004, 26 March 1965

Since KUBESK is reprocessing TICHBORN's clearance, they have requested an updated PRQ Part I and a new PRQ Part II. Please submit additional biographic information since 1959 and full details of Subject's use by the Station in order that we may facilitate the reprocessing.

Chester D. DAINOLD

Distribution:
O & I - COS, Mexico City

20 - 253203
11 May 1965

SECRET

1 - RI
1 - Chrono
SECRET 112007Z

DIR CITE MEXI 3353

REF A. DIR 68802, 11 MAY 65

B. HXMT-5265, 11 MAR 65

1. REF B FURNISHED INFO ASKED REF A.

2. RETURNS DISPATCHED AS FOLLOWS: HAMMARQUIST HXMT-5170, 1 FEB 65 ITEM 48 POUCH 4517; TESSAROLO HXMT-5012, 9 NOV 64 ITEM 44 POUCH 4443; TICHBORN HXMT-5111, 17 DEC 64 ITEM 77 POUCH 4482; LINDUFF 4525

ONE HXMT-5205, 11 FEB 65 ITEM 81 POUCH 4525

SECRET

ON REQUESTED INCLINE TAX FINS,

SECRET

TICHBORN 101

201-253263
TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WHF
INFO OF 65 UR FILE

TO: MEXI
INFO
CITY OR
08802

REF: IDNS-3992, 3 MAR 65*

PLS FORWARD OVERDUE COVERT INCOME TAX RETURNS ON HAMMARQUIST,
TESSAROLO, TICHBORN AND LIRUFF ONE ORIGINALLY REQUESTED SEPT 1964.

END OF MESSAGE

* Requested overdue income tax returns be forwarded.

Desmond Fitzgerald
C/WD

Tichborn

W. J. Kaufman
C/WD/1
REFERENCE: DIR-56004 (IN 53853), dated 26 March 1965

Forwarded herewith is an updated PRQ-I on Henry P. Lopez. It was completed on a local Spanish form since this type of form looks much less official than the others.

Stewart R. Patchen
for
Willard G. Curtis

Attachment:
1. As Stated (HEREWITH)

Distribution:
1 - WHD w/att hw
2 - Files

MMMA-26033
6 May 1965
SECRET
1. Nombre completo: HENRY P. LOPEZ
   (Primer nombre) (Apellido paterno) (Apellido materno)

2. Su firma corriente

3. Nombre al nacer, (si es distinto) ENRIQUE L. LOPEZ

4. Aliases, apodos o cambios legales en su nombre (indique brevemente en que tiempo, la razón para su uso, y a donde)

5. a. Fecha de nacimiento 5/18/30 b. Lugar de nacimiento MAY 1 1930
   DENVER, COLORADO

6. Ciudadanía en la actualidad U.S.A. Raza

7. Nacionalidad al nacer y cualquier otra nacionalidad que haya adquirido después (si distinta del No. 6) U.S.A.

8. Residencia en la actualidad (dirección) SIERRA APARTMENT 249
   Dueño o inquilino

9. Dirección permanente (si es distinta de la indicada en el No. 8)

10. Su ocupación en la actualidad (puesto, sueldo) LAWYER

11. Ha sido usted naturalizado como ciudadano de los Estados Unidos? X
    Indique la fecha y a nombre de quién se expidió el certificado de naturalización

12. Parientes, amigos, personas con quienes corresponde en los Estados Unidos, Nombre y Dirección:
   MR. JOSÉ LOPEZ 5111 HUNTING AVE. LOS ANGELES, CALIF.
   MR. ALFREDO LOPEZ 3301 WILSON AVE. PASADENA, CALIF.
   MR. SANDER JENSEN 515 11TH ST. LONG BEACH, CALIF.
13. Padre - Nombre completo, ocupación, dirección actual, fecha y lugar de nacimiento, nacionalidad al nacer y nacionalidades subseguintes:

José P. López, 5201 Bullock Ave., Los Angeles, California. Nacido el 25 de octubre de 1890 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1915.

14. Madre - (la misma información que del padre)

Hermelina Martínez de López, 5201 Bullock Ave., Los Angeles, California. Nacida el 16 de abril de 1895 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1915.

15. Esposa (o marido): nombre completo, nombre de soltero, fecha y lugar de nacimiento, fecha y lugar del matrimonio, nacionalidad al nacer y cualquier otra nacionalidad que haya tenido después, dirección actual, divorcio, anulación de matrimonio. (De la misma información en cualquier otro matrimonio anterior que haya tenido)

Mildred García López, nacida el 15 de mayo de 1923 en Hermosillo, Sonora. Nació el 15 de mayo de 1923 en Hermosillo, Sonora. Se casó con José P. López el 15 de mayo de 1945 en Los Angeles, California. Se divorció de José P. López el 15 de mayo de 1945 en Los Angeles, California.

16. Hijos: nombre completo, sexo, fecha y lugar de nacimiento, nacionalidad actual y cualquier otra nacionalidad que haya adquirido después, dirección actual.

José López, nacido el 27 de febrero de 1937 en Los Angeles, California.

Gregory López (algún nombre), nacido el 6 de agosto de 1939 en Los Angeles, California.

Dorothy López, nacida el 17 de septiembre de 1937 en Los Angeles, California.

17. Hermanos y hermanas: nombre completo, sexo, fecha y lugar de nacimiento, nacionalidad, dirección actual.

Alfredo López, nacido el 5 de julio de 1914 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1937.

Joseph López, nacido el 25 de febrero de 1918 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1937.

Beatrice López, nacida el 25 de febrero de 1918 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1937.

18. Parientes al servicio de cualquier gobierno, nombres y puestos que ocupan.

Alfredo López, nacido el 5 de julio de 1914 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1937.

(Alfredo López, nacido el 5 de julio de 1914 en Chihuahua, Chihuahua, México. Nacionalidad mexicana. Ingresó en 1937.)
19. Indique todos los carnets de identidad que tiene, con fechas, números, lugar donde fueron expedidos y fecha hasta que sean válidos.

15 August

Issued at Buenos Aires, Argentina

20. Religión. Es miembro de alguna orden religiosa?

Catholique

21. Afiliaciones políticas, en la actualidad y anteriormente

Democrat

22. Viajes fuera del país en que reside - país que visitó, fechas, propósito del viaje, gente y firmas comerciales que visitó.

Several - you have all the data

23. Educación - escuela en que asistió, lugar, cursos, diplomas, fechas.

UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 1942-43 B.A. Political Sci.
HARVARD UNIV. GRAD SCHOOL 1945-46 Economics
HARVARD LAW SCHOOL 1946-48 Bachelor of Laws

24. Idiomas y dialectos (indique si los sabe bien, regular o mediocremente)

Idioma SPANISH Habla ___ Leo ___ Entiende ___

Idioma ENGLISH Habla ___ Leo ___ Entiende ___

Idioma ___ Habla ___ Leo ___ Entiende ___

25. Servicio militar - fechas, de que país, que unidad, grado, facción, donde prestó sus servicios, decoraciones, cuando fue licenciado y por qué. Dé detalles si alguna vez fue prisionero de guerra.

U.S. ARMY 1942-44 Letterman Medical Corp, Co. B, 1st

26. Indique de que organizaciones ha sido o es socio (profesionales, sociales, políticas, etc.)

Harvard Club de Medellín
27. Habilidades especiales, capacidades, aficiones, (radio, fotografía, etc.)

28. Situación monetaria - sueldo, depósitos en los bancos, bonos, propiedades.

29. Datos de empleos - clase de trabajo, sueldo, fechas, patrones, direcciones, razones para dejar el empleo. Incluya empleos que haya tenido con cualquier gobierno.

30. Ha escrito algo? De detalles incluyendo títulos de libros, artículos, casa impresora, fechas.

Enumere las personas que viven en su misma dirección, sus socios íntimos (individuos o grupos), sus correspondientes dentro y fuera del país.

32. Dé cinco personas como referencias, con direcciones:
33. Antecedentes de Corte - La Corte, fecha, detenciones, cargos, fallos, etc.

34. Descripción:

| Edad          | 44  |
|---------------|-----|
| Edad que representa | 44  |
| Postura       | 5'10" |
| Peso          | 170 lbs |
| Altura        | 5'10" |
| Dientes       | completo |
| Ojos          | marrón |
| Pelo          | negro |
| Forma de la cara | oval |
| Cicatrices    | more |
| Cutis         | brillo |
| Figura        | elegante |
| Sexo          | Male |
| Aspecto general | eleganteísimo |
| Facciones prominentes | more |
| Otras facciones distintivas | more glasser |

35. Otros datos biográficos y comentarios.
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND REVIEW

TO: WH/1 - R. Arrijo
FROM: CHIEF, CI/DA
Edward P. Brody

C NO. 201 - 253203

SUBJECT: LOPEZ, Henry P.

IN ORDER THAT FURTHER CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN YOUR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL IN THIS CASE, IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOU FURNISH THIS OFFICE THE INFORMATION CHECKED BELOW, OR REVIEW INFORMATION AS INDICATED.

| PRO I | REVIEW OF STAFF/D Dossier |
| PRO II | REVIEW OF STAFF/D COLLATERAL INFORMATION |
| FIELD TRACES | REVIEW OF SECURITY OFF. REPORT AT CI/DA |
| AT TRACES | REVIEW OF SEC. OFF. CONCURRENCE MEMO AT CI/DA |
| OPERATIONAL AND DIVISION TRACES | REVIEW OF FTR REPORT AT CI/DA |
| RESULTS OF TECHNICAL INTERROGATION | REVIEW OF ATTACHED REFERENCE |
| GREEN LIST | OTHERS (See Remarks) |

NOTICE: FIRST | SECOND | THIRD AND FINAL |

REMARKS:

**** FINAL INVESTIGATIVE REPORT

This field inv. report contained no derog on Subj. It was reviewed by the WH/1 desk officer on 6 May. It disclosed that Subj's cover since his residence in Mexico City is holding up very well re his friends and associates in Los Angeles. They report that LOPEZ is believed to be working for motion pix and legal work in Lexi. and that he enjoys a good income of around 30,000. (It's around 23th).
TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WH
INFO: C/0 A, VR, FILE

TO: MEXICO CITY
INFO: C/0 A, VR, FILE

LICOLIC

REF: DIR 90817

PLS FORWARD UPDATED BIO DATA PRQ I SINCE OCT 1959
AND NEW PRQ II EDWARD G. TICHBORN.

END OF MESSAGE

WH Comment: Ref-KUDESK reprocessing clearance on Subj.

DESMOND FITZGERALD
CHIEF
WHD

W. J. KAUFMAN
CHIEF
WH/1

FAX 201-253203
REFERENCE: HIC-3432, 22 April 1964

1. The delay in answering reference should not be construed as lack of desire or intent, on the part of TICHORN or the Chief of Station, that the case be submitted to the Board of Review for Shortages and Losses for consideration, but rather as an administrative delay of getting the facts, people, papers, etc., together and in one place for submission.

2. Attached is a statement prepared by TICHORN regarding the loss of funds and containing the pertinent circumstances of the case. The sub-paragraph numbers are in accordance with, and relating to, the requirements of paragraph 3, a of HIC 34-350. The information requested in sub-paragraphs numbered 8 through 12 is answered jointly by Stewart R. PATANEK and Jerome H. BALSIS who were assigned to investigate the matter by the reporting official.

3. PATANEK and BALSIS talked with TICHORN, at different times, regarding the shortage of funds and the happenings as related to them were substantially the same as outlined in TICHORN's statement. Since there is no other way to verify the facts and TICHORN has proven himself to be truthful and forthright in his dealings with the Station his statement regarding the loss of funds is accepted as fact.

4. Since TICHORN is authorized travel expense "on actual, reasonable, and necessary expense basis" it does not seem sensible for him to have reported the loss of funds in other than the way he says actually happened.

(continued)

Distribution:
3 - IC, w/att
5. It is recommended that TIC1508 be allowed the amount of $575.00, representing loss of funds while enroute from Parama City to Buenos Aires on 25 March 1963, and a credit T/A be sent to Station to clear the advance established in TIC1508's account by Headquarters T/A 10295A, dated 23 June 1963.

WILLARD C. CURTIS

This is to certify that the above report, to the best of my knowledge and belief, includes all information pertinent to the consideration of the settlement of the account.

WILLARD C. CURTIS
SECRET 0618452

DIR CITE MEXI 2712 (EASBY ACTING)

LICCLIC

REF DIR 78516

REF DIP 69715

TICHBORN GOING BE TIED UP WITH FOURTH ISSUE GRANITILE
FROM APRIL THRU LATE MAY IF ANY PLANS NEAR FUTURE RE REF.

SECRET

CFN
Reference: DIR 67851

Action Required: FYI

1. Forwarded herewith is the referenced amendment Edward G. TICHBORN's contract which provides for a one year extension effective 19 November 1964 and a compensation increase from $9,000 to $12,000.

2. During Subject's recent TDY in Washington it was made clear to him that this substantial pay raise and extension of his contract was on the basis that TICHBORN continue to devote 85 to 90% of his time to KUBARK activity. In view of the fact that Subject is currently handling only one intellectual project for the Station, please explain to him that in the event that his work load reverts to the 50 to 65% level, he cannot expect to continue to receive the present amount of compensation. During Subject's talks at Headquarters, it appeared that TICHBORN understands this most clearly. As a contract agent, he is remunerated on the basis of services rendered. In return for this arrangement, the government makes no claim on income he might receive from his private business activities. Obviously it is our hope that coupled with the occasional full-time assignments in other WH countries levied on TICHBORN, that the Station will be able to continue to utilize Subject's services at the high level of activity which will justify his current compensation.

Chester D. DAINOLD

Attachment: Amendment, h.w.

Distribution: Orig & 1 - COS, Mexico City

201-253203
SECRET

Chief of Station, Mexico City

Chief, CI Division

1963 Covert Income Tax Returns

Reference: HEMS 3700, September 1964

Please reply to reference which concerned the delinquent Covert Income Tax Returns of:

Otto HANMARQUIST

LIEUT-1

Philip K. TESSAROLO

Edward C. TICHEORN

Chester D. DAIGOLD

Distribution:
Orig 5 1 - COS, Mexico City

3 MAR 1964

HEMS 3092

SECRET 201-209600

RI
Chrono

WH/1

Jane Zerance: jah

4523
REFERENCE: H003-3952, dated 15 January 1963

1. Referenced dispatch has caused TICHBORN and the Station to become aware of some new problems with the Mexican banking system. As Headquarters may not be aware, TICHBORN has a dollar account with a Mexico City bank for his personal affairs. Mexican banks do not return cancelled checks to the depositor, but only provide statements. TICHBORN requested his bank to provide him with his cancelled check (on a loan basis) so that copies could be made of it. It developed over a period of several weeks that the bank could not locate this check nor had it been run through TICHBORN's account. Since ample time had expired (it was mailed in June 1964), the bank checked all accounts of persons with TICHBORN's last name on the theory that it might have been run through someone else's account (not an unusual occurrence here). It had not that the bank could discover.

2. As a result, TICHBORN is stopping payment on the check with the bank, writing the office with which he filed his overt income tax, advising that office of the circumstances, and requesting some word back whether or not, in fact, that office received and cashed the check. If the check was received, TICHBORN will provide the Station with a copy of the letter so stating and remove the "stop payment" order on the check. If the check was not received (mail is another problem), then TICHBORN will send another check and a copy of the interchange of correspondence on the matter with the bank and the income tax authorities will be provided Headquarters. It is hoped this will be satisfactory.

3. The only reason the Station is providing all the gruesome details on the foregoing is so that Headquarters will have some understanding of the Mexican banking problems should questions of this nature arise again.

Distribution:
3 - WND
2 - Files

Willard C. CURTIS

for

TICHBORN

24 February 1963
Central Cover Staff concurs in your proposal to use subject for the purpose indicated. In keeping with the requirement placed upon CCS to maintain an accurate register of current nonofficial cover activity, you are specifically requested to advise CCS/NC promptly by memorandum when subject has been activated. The pseudonym assigned subject should be provided CCS/NC at the time notification of activation is forwarded. If notification of activation is not received in CCS/NC one year from above date it will be assumed proposed use did not materialize.

☐ If check mark appears here, information of interest concerning subject or his employer is in CCS/NC files. After operational approval is received, and prior to making arrangements for initial contact thereunder, you are specifically requested to confer with CCS/NC concerning other Agency interests possibly affected and the advisability of additional coordination.

☐ If check mark appears here the proposed use of subject requires DDP approval under CSI 240-6, para. 5. Please review CSI 240-6 and initiate action as appropriate.
| 1. SUBJECT (TYPE NAME IN ROM. (FS - SURNAME IN UPPER CASE) |
|-------------------------------------------------------------|
| Barry D. Lopez 20-253303-C7/PA                              |
| 2. ALIAS, VARIANT SPELLING, ETC NUMBERS, ETC.              |
|                                                            |
| 3. DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH                                 |
| 4. 26 May 1920 Denver, Colorado                           |
| 5. PRESENT ACTIVITIES AND OCCUPATION                       |
| Legal Advisor to motion picture company Productions        |
| Marc IV, S. A.                                            |
| Mexico D. F., Mexico                                      |
| 6. OCCUPATIONAL SPECIALTIES, EDUCATION                    |
| LLB Harvard Law School 1948                               |
| Phi Beta Kappa 1942                                        |
| Writer and Lecturer                                       |
| 7. PAST ACTIVITIES INCLUDING MILITARY SERVICE             |
| ACTIVITY                                                  | LOCATION | DATES |
| US Army Medical Corps 1942-1943                            | La As, Calif. | 1945-57 |
| Attorney, specializing in trial work                      |          |       |
| Subject active in California state politics; ran          |          |       |
| unsuccessfully for Secretary of State, 1953                |          |       |
| 8. OTHER SIGNIFICANT DATA (POLITICS, RELIGION) - ADD EXTRA SHEETS WHEN NEEDED |
| Democrat Catholic                                         |
| 9. DESCRIPTION (HEIGHT) (WEIGHT) (EYES) (HAIR) (FACE) (OTHER) |
|                                                            |
| 10. SPOUSE (IF WIFE, GIVE MAIDEN NAME)                     |
| Mildred McGregor born Lexington, Kentucky                  |
| 11. OTHER MEMBERS OF IMMEDIATE FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES       |
| 12. THREE-STEP CHILDREN, SONS AND DAUGHTER (SUCH AS "DEROGATORY" MAY RESULT IN A SEARCH THAT DOES NOT FULLY MEET REQUIREMENTS) |
| See Green List 077832 April 1959                           |
| 116322 July 1961                                           |

INSTRUCTIONS: INSERT CARBON; FILL OUT FORMS COMPLETELY; SEND BOTH SHEETS TO F/D.
TO: R. Armijo
FROM: F1/D

A. SEE DOSSIER ON SUBJECT IN F1/D BIOGRAPHIC FILES.
B. A MEMORANDUM IS ATTACHED HERETO.
C. WITH THE LIMITED IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED IN THE REQUEST, F1/D IS UNABLE TO DETERMINE WHETHER THERE IS INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUBJECT OR NOT.
   Except
D. F1/D HAS NO INFORMATION ON SUBJECT. IF INFORMATION ABOUT THE SUBJECT APPEARS AT A LATER DATE, IT WILL BE REPORTED TO YOU AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
E. THE SUBJECT OF THIS REQUEST IS APPARENTLY THE SUBJECT OF THE FOLLOWING:

* Previous green list request from PP/PAD, 13 Apr 59, op, GL 77832, No record.
  WH/PO/B, 7 July 1961, op, GL 111621, No record.

NOTE TO THE ORIGINATING OFFICE:

WHEN THE SUBJECT IS NO LONGER IMPORTANT TO YOUR OFFICE, THIS SHEET, WITH THE FOLLOWING CANCELLATION NOTICE COMPLETED, SHOULD BE SENT TO F1/D.

REVIEW YOUR FILE OF THESE SHEETS FREQUENTLY, AND SEND TO F1/D THE SHEETS FOR PERSONS THAT ARE NO LONGER OF SUFFICIENT INTEREST TO DEMAND A CONTINUING NAME CHECK. PLEASE DO NOT TIE UP F1/D'S FACILITIES WITH CONTINUING SEARCHES FOR INFORMATION THAT IS NOT REQUIRED.

TO: F1/D
FROM:

CANCEL THE STOP CARD FOR THIS REQUEST
SECRET
REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OR INVESTIGATIVE ACTION

TO: COOPERATIONAL APPROVAL AND SUPPORT DIVISION
CHIEF, INVESTIGATION AND SUPPORT DIVISION, OFFICE OF SECURITY
CHIEF, PERSONNEL SECURITY DIVISION, OFFICE OF SECURITY

FROM: R. Arriaga
33/1
382607
4523

SUBJECT: Henry P. Lopes
CRYPTONYM, PSEUDONYM, AKA OR ALIASES
Edward O. Tichborn

PROJECT: TICIC
CIA/FO FILE NO.
RI 201 FILE NO.
SO FILE NO.
251203

1. TYPE ACTION REQUESTED

| PROVISIONAL OPERATIONAL APPROVAL | PROVISIONAL PROPRIETARY APPROVAL |
|----------------------------------|----------------------------------|
| OPERATIONAL APPROVAL             | PROPRIETARY APPROVAL              |
| PROVISIONAL COVERT SECURITY APPROVAL | COVERT SECURITY APPROVAL         |
| COVERT SECURITY APPROVAL         | SPECIAL INQUIRY (30 FIELD INVESTIGATION) |
| CONTRACT TYPE A                   | CONTRACT TYPE B                   |

2. SPECIFIC AREA OF USE

Mexico

During past FY subject has assisted in the development and publishing of an intellectual journal. Also political action missions to other Latin American countries.

3. FULL DETAILS OF USE

4. INVESTIGATION AND COVER

A. U.S. GOVERNMENT INTEREST MAY BE SHOWN DURING INVESTIGATION? [X]

B. CIA INTEREST MAY BE SHOWN DURING INVESTIGATION? [X]

C. IS SUBJECT AWARE OF U.S. GOVERNMENT INTEREST IN HIM? [X]

D. IS SUBJECT AWARE OF CIA INTEREST IN HIM? [X]

5. INDICATE ANY LIMITATIONS OR COVERAGE IN THE INVESTIGATION OF SUBJECT.

6. SUGGEST "COVER PRETEXT" TO BE USED IN CONDUCTING PERSONAL INVESTIGATION OF SUBJECT.

7. DO YOU PLAN TO MAKE SUBJECT WITNESS OF AGENCY OR GOVERNMENT INTEREST? [X] YES [NO]

IF NO INVESTIGATION OUTSIDE CIA, EXPLAIN FULLY

8. PR2 AND GREEN LIST STATUS

| PR2 OR EQUIVALENT, IN (2) COPIES ATTACHED | PR2 IS WILL BE FORWARDED |
|------------------------------------------|--------------------------|
| GREEN LIST ATTACHED, NO: 167603          |                          |

9. RI TRACES

| NO RECORD | WILL FORWARD |
|-----------|-------------|

10. DIVISION TRACES

| NO RECORD | WILL FORWARD |
|-----------|-------------|

11. FIELD TRACES

| NO RECORD | WILL FORWARD |
|-----------|-------------|

12. DEROGATORY INFO.

| LIST SOURCES CHECKED | DEROGATORY ATTACHED |
|----------------------|---------------------|

13. SIGNATURE OF BRANCH CHIEF

SECRET

2/11/23
Subject: Review of 1963 Overt and Covert Tax Returns

From: [Name]

To: [Name]

Date: 17 December 1963

1. Headquarters review of [Name]'s 1963 overt and covert tax returns revealed that he reported his covert income on the overt return and that the tax computation on the overt return was incorrect. The covert return appears to be correct, however, it will be necessary for [Name] to advise Headquarters whether correspondence has been received from [Office] regarding the apparent error in the overt tax computation.

2. It is, generally, the rule that a copy of the cancelled check, in payment of the overt tax liability, be forwarded to Headquarters even if covert income is reported on the overt return.

3. It would be appreciated if [Name] would forward his cancelled check, or a copy thereof, with the above requested information.

Distribution:

[Name] - Mexico City

[Signature]

[Name]

[Date] 15 January 1964

[Office]

[Office]

[Office]

[Office]
SECRET 3822457
DIR INFO PALO CITE MEXI 2132
DNDORIC OXOPERA
REF A MEXI 2073
B DIR 75171

TICHBORN HAS SO MANY COMMITMENTS FOR SPECIFIC TIMES BY LETTER, ETC. TO VARIOUS PEOPLE ON THIS TRIP IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT TO REVERSE HIMSELF NOW AND RESCHEDULE. ASSUMING LUND WILL BE PRESENT IN MEXI FOR SEVERAL WEEKS, TICHBORN COULD TOUCH BASE WITH LUND ON MORNING 23 JAN WHEN HE WILL BE BACK IN MEXI.

IF OK WITH LUND.

SECRET

CFM

SECRET

TICHBORN

Dec 25 1963
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND REVIEW

TO: WH/1 -- J. Halliwell
FROM: CHIEF, CI/DA /jul, Lázaro C. González
SUBJECT: C - 77119

IN ORDER THAT FURTHER CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN YOUR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL IN THIS CASE, IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOU FURNISH THIS OFFICE THE INFORMATION CHECKED BELOW, OR REVIEW INFORMATION AS INDICATED.

PRO 1
PRO 2
FIELD TRACES
RI TRACES
OPERATIONAL AND DIVISION TRACES
RESULTS OF TECHNICAL INTERROGATION
GREEN LIST

NOTICE: FIRST SECOND XX THIRD AND FINAL

REMARKS:

Since the original traces were run in 1959, and in light of questionable information developed, it is requested that a new 772 request for amendment with updating of all traces and new Green List request be submitted. On the 772, please supply full details of use by the Mexico City Station.

An updating of the biographic data submitted in 1959 will facilitate matters.

WH/1 is again reminded that no Operational Approval for use exists at this time.

Unless appropriate action is taken within 30 days, this case will be closed.

201-253203
IN HQS DISCUSSIONS WITH TICHBORN IT TENTATIVELY AGREED THAT
EARLY DECEMBER 1964 MIGHT BE A SUITABLE TIME FOR TICHBORN VISIT DOMREP
TO MAKE ASSESSMENT OF REID'S PUBLIC IMAGE AND RECOMMENDATIONS HOW TO
IMPROVE SAME. HOWEVER, IN VIEW EXCELLENT AND THOROUGH ASSESSMENT ALONG
SIMILAR LINES PROVIDED BY RECENT JNTUBA REPRESENTATIVES HQS CONSIDERS
DESIRABLE THAT VISIT BY TICHBORN SHOULD BE MADE AT APPROPRIATE LATER
DATE AND WITH MORE SHARPLY DEFINED OBJECTIVES. WILL ADVISE.

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**SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:**
- POCO does not have original copy of dispatch. Please locate dispatch and forward to us for 6201 file.
- Libby, POCO 64135
- Someone suggested the number should be HNMA, Mexico City.
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**DISPATCH**

**CLASSIFICATION**

**SECRET**

**TO**

Chief, WHD

**INFO.**

Chief, KUWOLF

**FROM**

Chief of Station, Mexico City

**SUBJECT**

General - Operational/Specific - Edward G. TICHBORN Letter of Resignation to William D. KIMROY.

**REFERENCE:** MEXI-1745, dated 25 November 1964

Forwarded as a separate cover attachment to this dispatch is a copy of the letter which TICHBORN prepared and forwarded to KIMROY on 25 November 1964.

Stewart R. Patchen
for
Willard C. Curtis

**Attachment:**

1. As Stated (ENDER SEPARATE COVER)  CS COPY

**Distribution:**

- 2 - WHD w/att u/s/c
- 1 - KUWOLF w/att u/s/c
- 4 - Files

**CROSS REFERENCE TO**

| DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER | DATE |
|----------------------------|------|
| IBDA-24860                 | 1 Dec 64 |

**CLASSIFICATION**

**SECRET**

**MICROFILM**

**NO INDEXING REQUIRED**

**MARKED FOR INDEXING**

**ONLY QUALIFIED DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING**

**ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES**

**261 - 25-3-603**
Dear Mr. Thomas:

Due to increased demands upon my time from other clients, I find it necessary to relinquish my duties as legal counsel for the ILR here in Mexico, and I do so with great reluctance. One of my heretofore-lesser clients has recently expanded his activities in certain real estate developments in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta, thereby necessitating frequent absence from Mexico City. Then, too, I had underestimated the amount of time and effort required to satisfactorily attend the various legal and administrative matters confronting CEDS. Should you so desire, I could recommend other legal counsel; but I am inclined to feel that the Centro's principal problems would be of an administrative nature rather than a legal one.

As for my legal fees to date, I am submitting a bill for $650.00 U.S. Cts. This represents a total of 65 hours at the rate of $10.00 per hour. My regular fees amount to $20.00 per hour, but, in keeping with my own political affinity for labor causes, I have reduced them to the lesser figure.

May I thank you again for your confidence and good will in having chosen me as legal counsel for your organization's activities in Mexico. I shall be happy to give you a personal report of my observations on my next trip to New York.

Sincerely yours,

Henry P. Lopez

CS COPY

8274  H. 24860  201-853 303
MEMORANDUM FOR: Contract Personnel Division

SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN

Please extend for a period of one year with the following amendment the present contract of Edward G. TICHBORN, which was due to expire 18 November 1964:

"Increase in basic compensation to $12,000 per annum effective 1 December 1964; and additional compensation of $1,500.00 Collyrs for full time services rendered in June, July and August of 1964."

Desmond Fitzgerald
Chief
Western Hemisphere Division

DDP/WH/DF/CRHalliwell:kte (20 November 1964)

Distribution:
Orig & 1 - Addressee
1 - WH/Personnel
1 - WH/1/Mexico (201-
1 - WH/1/Mexico Memo file
1 - WH/Registry

Dec 25 1964
SECRET 121750 Z

DIR CITE MEXI 1558

LICOLIC

REF A DIR 63360

B MEXI-QTO-1559

CONCUR ALTHOUGH REF B MAY ALTER SOME CONSIDERATIONS INVOLVED.

SECRET

CFN

AND RECORD IN C/5 AS OF 1500, 12 NOV 64.

** RE TICHBORN CONTRACT. SECRET

201-253203
TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WH-8
INFO: R/AN, CA/04, CO2, OP2, OF3, VR, B/CEN

TO: MEXI
INFO: 63360
CITE DIR

ETC/LOCIC

REF: IMMA 24353

1. EDWARD G. TICHIBORN DISCUSSED TERMS HIS KUBARK CONTRACT DURING VISIT HQS EARLY NOVEMBER. HQS AGREES PRESENT KRRXRR EXPIRING CONTRACT CALLED FOR ABOUT TWO-THIRDS SUBJ'S TIME. TICHIBORN POINTED OUT PER REFERENCE HE NOW ENGAGED NINETY PERCENT TIME FOR KUBARK.

2. SUBJECT STATION CONCURRENCE HQS RECOMMENDS NEW ONE-YEAR KRRXRRR CONTRACT PROVIDE RAISE FROM $9000 TO $13000 PLUS $3000 QUANTERS PER ANNUM. ALSO LUMP SUM PAYMENT 1500 DOLLARS FOR COMPENSATION HIS RECENT FULL TIME SERVICE FUASPEN. ADVISE IF YOU CONCUR EXTEND HIS CONTRACT ONE YEAR EFFECTIVE 19 NOVEMBER.

3. HQS TOLD TICHIBORN WE CONSIDERED HIS SERVICES VALUABLE AS WELL AS HIS EVER-MILLINGNESS DEPART ON SHORT NOTICE ASSIGNMENTS OTHER DIVISION AREAS. OBVIOUSLY THIS PROPOSED RAISE WITH WHICH SUBJECT WOULD BE MOST HAPPY SINCE STILL IMPOSES NO RESTRICTIONS ON HIS SOMETIME OUTSIDE LEGAL WORK, WILL BE WITH UNDERSTANDING HE CONTINUE DEVOTE NEAR FULL-TIME MANAGEMENT AND HANDLING ORRINE AND ORMANTLE PLUS OTHER STATION ASSIGNMENTS.

CONTINUED 201-253203
4. DISPATCH FOLLOWS ON QRMINE.

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REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND REVIEW

TO: WH/1 - J. Hallwall

FROM: CHIEF, CI/OA

SUBJECT: L/C Edward P. Brown

LOPEZ, Henry P.

IN ORDER THAT FURTHER CONSIDERATION MAY BE GIVEN YOUR REQUEST FOR APPROVAL IN THIS CASE, IT IS REQUESTED THAT YOU FURNISH THIS OFFICE THE INFORMATION CHECKED BELOW, OR REVIEW INFORMATION AS INDICATED.

| PROJ | REVIEW OF STAFF/O OFFICE |
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| PROJ II | REVIEW OF STAFF/O COLLATERAL INFORMATION |
| FIELD TRACES | REVIEW OF SECURITY OFF. REPORT AT CI/OA |
| HI TRACES | REVIEW OF SEC. OFF. CONCURRENCE MEMO AT CI/OA |
| OPERATIONAL AND DIVISION TRACES | REVIEW OF FBI REPORT AT CI/OA |
| RESULTS OF TECHNICAL INTERROGATION | REVIEW OF ATTACHED REFERENCE |
| CHECK LIST | OTHERS (See Remarks) |

NOTICE: FIRST | SECOND | THIRD AND FINAL

REMARKS:

If it is still your intention to utilize Subject, please comply with CI/OA memorandum of 30 September 1964. You will note that original OA was granted to PP/PAD in 1959; therefore, in essence, no approval exists on Subject.
1. BELIEVE 3 OR 4 NOW GOOD DATES FOR WINTERROD TICHBORN MEETING NEXT. WILL CONFIRM WITH TICHBORN WHEN HE VISITS HQS.

2. PER REP B PARA 3: HUYETTE NOW BELIEVES THAT QRMANGER SHOULD REOPEN CORRESPONDENCE WITH DTGODOWN. SUGGEST TICHBORN PROMPT QRMANGER TO SEND HUYETTE COPY QRMANTLE WITH COVERING LETTER SUGGESTING NEW YORK MEETING. THEN HUYETTE COULD RESPOND, WITHOUT APPEARING OVER EAGER, ALONG SPECIFIC LINES NOTED REP B.

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[Signature]

Robert L. Larrabee
C/CA/13

REPRODUCTION AT OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
SECRET 2322322

DIR CITE MEXI 1396

REFS A MEXI 1219 (93/63)

B DIR 53655

C DIR 56520

1. TICHBORN ETA WASH NOW OCT 25 AND WILL MAKE CONTACT INDICATED REF B.

2. ASIDE FROM GENERAL DISCUSSIONS ON ORMINE AND ORMANTLE TICHBORN EXPECTED TO DISCUSS FOLLOW SPECIFIC ITEMS:
   A. LIMULAX CONTRACT AND CHANGE IN COVER FUNDING FOR ORMINE.
   LIMULAX STILL WANTS BETTER ASSURANCE THAN DIAACOON AS SIGNATORY TO CONTRACT AND, IN ANY EVENT, WOULD LIKE SIGNED COPY OF CONTRACT.
   (ALL COPIES POUCHED TO MHS). TICHBORN TOLD TO BRING SIGNED COPY BACK WITH HIM FROM PBPRIME IF ALL POSSIBLE TO TAKE SOME HEAT OFF THIS ISSUE.
   B. JUAN BOSCH BOOK SINCE LIMULAX SUGGESTING HANDLING PUBLICATION AND DISTRIBUTION SOMEWHAT DIFFERENTLY THAN ORIGINALLY CONTEMPLATED AND STATION NOT CERTAIN COMPATIBLE WITH PRESENT ARRANGEMENTS ON FINANCING IT.
   C. TICHBORN CONTRACT PER HMNA-24353.

3. TICHBORN SENT LETTER TO THOMAS, BRINGING PROSPECTUS, AND THREE COPIES ORMANTLE AIRMAILED PER REF C.

SECRET

2001064 96921

253203
SECRET 201610Z
MEXI INFO DIR-CITE PALP 2532

DIDORIC QKOFERA

REF MEXI 1219 (10-93163) A

1. RE PARA 2 REF, WINTERROOD WOULD PREFER 3-4 NOV. WILL CONTACT STATION FIRST AS PLANNED AND STATION CAN ARRANGE MEETING WITH TICHBORN.

2. NO INDEX.

SECRET

# QUERIED IF TICHBORN COULD SEE WINTERROOD ON U.S. TRIP OR ON RETURN TO MEXI 3 OR 4 NOV.
REFERENCE: HMA-24450 dated 8 Oct 64.

1. As Headquarters is aware, Edward G. TICHBORN is in Mexico on a tourist visa and with a number of "associations" (i.e., law firm in PBPRIME, TV and movie contacts in Mexico) which have sufficed to provide satisfactory superficial cover for his presence and activities here up to this time. However, he has been here long enough now and made enough trips to other Latin American countries where a continuation of this tourist status and present cover arrangements should be changed for something more substantial. All of this became apparent when he began to try to obtain his working papers. TICHBORN's profession, of course, is that of a lawyer, but he cannot practice this profession in Mexico under Mexican law. Therefore, to find a peg for working paper approval, something else had to be found. None of his numerous present cover associations or stories had enough substance to provide a sufficiently plausible basis for working papers. The corporation being created for the QRMANTLE activity under the cover story being used (e.g., fairly affluent PBPRIME interested in culture and intellectuals trying to get something of the QRMANTLE nature started and then, interest PBPRIME foundations in picking it up) will not support an application for working papers. As a result, the Station and TICHBORN were casting about for something else with more depth and durability.

(continued)

Attachment:
1. Identity (UNDERSEPARATE COVER)

Distribution:
- 2 - WHD w/att u/a/c
- 1 - KUWOLF w/att u/a/c
- 3 - Files

CROSS REFERENCE TO
HMA-24450
DATE 13 Oct 64
CLASSIFICATION SECRET
FILE NUMBER 50-6-118/2
FFN: 1-4277
2. During the week of 27 September, an old friend of TICHBORN's, Identity A, came up with the following proposition:

a. Identity A owns Identity B which operates out of Mexico City and distributes PBRIHE shows dubbed into Spanish throughout the Caribbean and South American area. The business has been in existence for some time and, according to TICHBORN, is thriving. Identity A said that his business had reached a point where he needed legal assistance of various types, but was not prepared to turn it over to just any local lawyer since it involved a wide range of problems.

b. Identity A, who knew from conversations with TICHBORN that the latter was thinking about getting Mexican working papers, made an offer to TICHBORN. He said that he would provide TICHBORN with office space and telephone in his present office area in downtown Mexico City on Reforma if TICHBORN would just advise him on what local lawyers to see on these various legal problems and act as a very general legal advisor to him on dealings with these people. He and TICHBORN figured this would take, perhaps, 5% of the latter's time. Further, and most important, Identity A said he would provide the basis with Identity B for TICHBORN obtaining his working papers. For various reasons, however, Identity A desired an answer right away (within several days).

3. The Station checked out Identity A in Station files and found that there had been some previous traffic on him in the period, 1957-61: HOC-11-334 dated 19 December 1957; HMM-A-9445 dated 12 February 1958; DIR-40866 dated 20 May 1961; DIR-41304 dated 22 May 1961; DIR-41303 dated 23 May 1961; DIR-41298 dated 23 May 1961; and MEXI-8095 dated 23 May 1961. As will be noted, the May 1961 traffic concerned TICHBORN coming to Mexico and being employed as legal counsel to Identity A. (This never really reached fruition although TICHBORN used an association with Identity A, which was never more than close social contact and an interest in show business, as one of his various cover stories.) In all this traffic, there was not any derogatory information developed on Identity A. Therefore, the Station on strength of the timing required and this previous traffic told TICHBORN to go ahead with the arrangement since it is not only essential for his local activities, but will provide him with stronger and readily-available cover for any further Latin American trips (i.e., FUASPEH) he might be required to make. TICHBORN has been told, to transact an absolute minimum of his business for KUBARK at this office on his regular projects. (e.g., QRMIHE and QRMASTLE).

4. Hopefully, this will also straighten out the working papers problem on some sort of rational basis in the near future.

[Signature]

for

Willard C. CURTIS
SECRET

Separate Cover Attachment 41 to -

HMAA-24457

Identity A - John Nichols MANSON III

Identity B - Magnum TV and Mark IV Productions
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**TO: ACTION BRANCH**

If file no. and title shown are not proper, insert proper file no. below and forward document to RID/AN.

**TO: ALL ADDRESSEES**

Fill in Section 1 on back, if appropriate.

**COMMENTS**

- Your recommendation for subject and content.
- For information only.

**FED PROCESSING FILE NUMBER**

50-6/16/3

**NOTE:**

The file is not to be opened by the DIA. It is to be opened by the DIA only if the DIA has been notified of the contents of the file and has been authorized to open the file by the DIA.
REFERENCE: HOMA-24352, dated 22 September 1964.

1. As probably can be discerned from previous communications on this subject, the Station has never been too certain about the original understandings with Subject on his relationship with KUBARK. At least some understandings have been supplementary to the formal contract (such as his availability for extended trips to Latin American areas in election periods). This is no complaint on the part of the Station, but merely a prelude to a matter which the Station brought up with TICHBORN in connection with his intellectual magazine and QRMINE activities.

2. It has been the Station's inference, from talking to TICHBORN as well as communications on other aspects of his relationship with KUBARK not covered in his contract, that he is not to be considered a full-time contract agent. In other words, he has outside activities in the legal and other fields here which it was understood would provide additional income to him at the time he entered into his original relationship with KUBARK. As can be discerned from his biographic data, he has operated at a level and enjoyed an income outlook that would not be satisfied by the present contractual arrangements on salary. It has become obvious to the Station, however, that if he is to handle, properly, present requirements being imposed on him by the Station a very high percentage of his available time is going to be involved.

(continued)
3. Taking all the foregoing into consideration and to avoid complications with his present projects or TICHBORN, the Station asked him what understanding he had on the proportion of his time to be devoted to KUBARK activities. He said that his present contract was predicated on approximately 60 to be 2/3 of his time being utilized by KUBARK. His present estimate is that he is devoting 85 to 90% of his time to KUBARK activities; and, if he is to do the kind of job that is desired on the two intellectual projects recently acquired, he will sustain that percentage. Of course, he continues to be available for appropriate election of political assignments (such as FUASPE) in other countries from time to time; but, it has to be recognized that when he is absent from Mexico, this represents 100% of his time.

4. The Station agrees with his analysis on current commitments against his time on behalf of KUBARK. Therefore, it was indicated to TICHBORN that he should be prepared to take up this matter with Headquarters at the time he makes his late October trip to PEPRIKE in connection with the new intellectual magazine (see reference) and that the Station would request Headquarters to be prepared to discuss the matter at that time. It is the Station's understanding that his present contract extension expires 19 November 1964.

5. The Station would like to emphasize that this matter was brought up at its initiative in order to try (a) to assure that demands being placed on TICHBORN recently could be reasonably expected to be fulfilled and (b) to get a complete understanding on all aspects of TICHBORN's contractual status (written and unwritten) so that neither the Station nor TICHBORN get committed to these continuing activities and suddenly find themselves in contention about the time/salary involved. It should also be emphasized that TICHBORN has not complained about recent requirements, but has devoted whatever time required to handle them and do the job expected.

[Signature]
for
Willard C. CURTIS
Reference: HPMW-12847, 21 August 1964

Edward G. TICHBORN's contract should be renewed. Station is awaiting his return from Chile to discuss possible changes, which will be forwarded as soon as possible.

[Signature]
for
Willard G. CURTIS

Distribution:

- WHD
- Files

CS COPY

201-253203

4 September 1964
Chief of Station, Mexico City

Chief WH Division

Subject: 1963 Covert Income Tax Returns

ACTION REQUIRED: REFERENCES

PRIORITY

1. According to the records in the Office of Finance, the following named individuals have failed to file the required Covert Income Tax returns for 1963. Since the due date for Income Tax Returns is 15 April for individuals physically present in PEPRIME on that date and 15 June for individuals who are abroad on 15 April, all of the following individuals are now delinquent with respect to their PEPRIME Income Tax responsibilities:

   Otto BAHNQUIST  Mexico GOA
   LIBBY - 1  Mexico GOA
   Philip K. TESSAROLO  Project LIEBROSS
   Edward G. TICHBORN  Project LICOLIC

2. It is requested that steps be taken to procure the outstanding tax returns as soon as possible since delinquent tax returns are subject to 6% statutory interest on the unpaid tax due from 15 April to date of payment and in addition are also subject to a penalty of 5% per month (not to exceed 25% of the tax liability) for failure to file tax returns.

Chester D. DAISOLD

Distribution:
Grig & 1 COG, Mexico City

26/25/3263

4 September 1964
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/1

SUBJECT: 1963 Covert Income Tax Returns

1. According to the records in the Compensation and Tax Division, Office of Finance, the following named individuals are required to file Covert Income Tax Returns for 1963, but have failed to do so to date. The due date for Income Tax Returns is 15 April for individuals physically present in the United States on that date and 15 June for individuals who are abroad on 15 April. Therefore, all of the following listed individuals are now delinquent with respect to their U.S. Income Tax responsibilities:

   Otto HAGGARQUIST  Mexico OCA
   LIBUFT/1  Mexico OCA
   Philip K. TESSAROLO  Project LIMBOSS
   Edward G. TICHBORN  Project LICOLIC

2. It is requested that steps be taken to procure the outstanding tax returns as soon as possible since delinquent tax returns are subject to 6% statutory interest on the unpaid tax due from 15 April to date of payment and in addition are also subject to a penalty of 5% per month, not to exceed 25% of the tax liability, for failure to file tax returns.

3. It is also requested that WH/2 be furnished with a copy of any correspondence going to the Field with respect to this subject.

   Desmond Fitzgerald
   Chief
   Western Hemisphere Division
Subject's contract will expire 18 November 1964. Please advise by return dispatch whether the contract should be renewed and if any changes are desired.

Chester D. DAINOLD

Distribution:
Okl - COS, Mexico City
SECRET 122282
SAGO INFO DIR CITE MEXI 3553
FUASPE
EDWARD G. TICHBORN ETA LIMA 0700 17 AUG AND ETA SANTIAGO 1130
17 AUG VIA CANADIAN PACIFIC. CHECKED FLIGHT SCHEDULES FROM ANTOFAGASTA
AND FEARS STOPOVER THERE CAN TIE HIM UP THREE DAYS. IF STOPOVER
DESIRED ANYWAY PLS INFORM MEXI BY COB 15 AUG.
SECRET

[Handwritten note: Tichborn's 201]
PAY TICHBORN $993.30 EFFECTIVE PAY PERIOD ENDING 31 MAY 1964.

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C/S COMMENT: STATION REQUESTS AMOUNT FIELD SALARY TO PAY TICHBORN.
FUASPEX TICHBORN

REF: MEXI 9577 (IN 88422)
SAGO 7034 (IN 89145)

1. CONCUR TICHBORN MAKE ARRANGEMENTS PER PARA 1 B REF.

2. TICHBORN IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS HENRY SHOULD CONTACT WALLACE R. PARLETT AS SOON AS HE ARRIVES NEW YORK TO SET UP BRIEFING IN WASH NOT LATER THAN 28 MAY. TICHBORN COULD LEAVE FOR SAGO ON 29 MAY. PARLETT'S OFFICE EXTENSION IS 6868. HOME NUMBER IS IN VIRGINIA SECTION OF WASH DIRECTORY.

3. FOR SAGO: IN ORDER TO AVOID OVERLAPS AND CROSSING OF LINES IT IMPORTANT STICK TO CONCEPT, TICHBORN'S UTILIZATION PER REF B.I.E., HE WILL BE STATION EYES AND EARS BUT NOT BECOME INVOLVED IN ORGANIZING CAMPAIGN FOR INDEPENDENTS OR OTHER ELEMENTS.

END OF MESSAGE

C/S COMMENT: *REF RYBAT.

DESMOND FITZGERALD
C/WH/3
COORDINATING OFFICER

GERARD DROLL
C/WH/2
AUTHORIZING OFFICER

SECRET

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
SECRET 220357Z
DIR INFO SAGO CITE MEXI 9577

REF DIR 22437 &

1. TICHBORN PREPARED LEAVE FOR SAGO WEEKEND 30-31 MAY. SOME
PROBLEMS INVOLVED BUT NOT INSURMOUNTABLE:

A. TICHBORN HAS NUMBER COMMITMENTS INVOLVING INTELLECTUAL MAGAZINE
TRYING TO GET OFF GROUND. MEXI EDITOR AND NUMEROUS OTHER MEXI
INTELLECTUALS ALREADY BEING PULLED INTO EFFORT. NUMBER PEOPLE
ALREADY BEING CONTACTED FOR ARTICLES, ETC. SO FAR GONE IN THIS THAT
CANNOT BACK OUT OR DEFER LAUNCHING MAGAZINE WITHOUT KILLING TICHBORN
WITH LEFTIST INTELLECTUAL AND OTHER CIRCLES HERE FOR GOOD. FURTHER,
AT THIS STAGE, WILL NEED BADLY TICHBORN GUIDANCE IN ORDER TO KEEP EFFORT
FROM GOING AWAY. THEREFORE, TICHBORN WILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN SOME KIND
OF INTERIM CONTACT WITH THIS. PROBABLY CAN BE HANDLED BY MAIL THRU HIS
WIFE, BUT VERY POSSIBLE HE WOULD NEED MAKE ONE OR TWO VERY SHORT
TRIPS BACK TO MEXI DURING SOME PART OF THIS PERIOD FOR THIS PURPOSE

SECRET

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED

Copy No.
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

AND SOME OF THIS PRIVATE BUSINESS ACTIVITIES WHICH HE CANNOT JUST DROP FOR PERIOD. THIS COULD BE ARRANGED AT TIME DEEMED BEST BY SAGO AND TICHBORN CONSIDERING ALL FACTORS.

B. TICHBORN COVER UP TO THIS POINT ON MUCH SHORTER TRIPS HAS BEEN INTEREST IN LOS ANGELES MOVIE COMPANY AND SOME SHORT TERM MOVIE INTEREST IN AREA TO WHICH HE WENT. HOWEVER, DO NOT BELIEVE THIS WOULD SATISFY TWO TO THREE MONTH STAY. TICHBORN SUGGESTED IDEN 1 WHOSE INTERESTS HE ACTUALLY REPRESENTING AS LAWYER TRYING FIND INVESTORS, ETC. THIS COULD INVOLVE SURVEY TRIP TO LATIN AMERICA ON ITS BEHALF WITH LETTER FROM IDEN 2 WHO REMAIN UNWITTING. THIS COULD BE LAID ON BY TICHBORN AT TIME HE MAKES SCHEDULED 27 MAY BUSINESS TRIP TO NEW YORK. SINCE IDEN 1 LOCATED WASHINGTON, HE SEE IDEN 2 EASILY AT THAT TIME, GET LETTER, AND ALSO ANY INSTRUCTIONS OR BRIEFING HIS MIGHT DESIRE GIVE. THEN, HE COULD LEAVE FROM WASHINGTON FOR SAGO ON WEEKEND.

2. ADVISE.

SECRET

C/S COMMENT: WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHETHER EDWARD G. TICHBORN AVAILABLE 2-3 MONTH TOY SAGO BEGINNING ASAP.
SECRET 220353Z
DIR INFO SAGO CITE MEXI 9578

DESENSITIZED
REF MEXI 9577 (MT 54422)

IDEN 1 - SOCIEDAD ANONIMA DE LUZ Y FUERZA ELECTRICA INTER-AMERICANA,
WASHINGTON, D.C. NEW COMPANY IN FORMATIVE STAGE.
IDEN 2 - CARLOS MCCORMICK, PRESIDENT OF SALFEI.
SECRET
13 May 1964

MEMORANDUM FOR: Contract Personnel Division

SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN

Please extend for a period of six (6) months the present contract of Edward G. TICHBORN which was due to expire on 18 May 1964.

W. E. Brooks
C/WH/Support
1. As indicated in Ref B in mid-1962, it was station understanding until fairly recently that Tichborn's primary mission here was to be available for election and other political action assignments in hemisphere for, if need be, extended periods of time. In so many words, he assigned here for base operations with Mexico having right use him within those limitations. Obviously, Mexico could not saddle him with normal amount of projects requiring routine and assured management under these conditions. However, used him for number one-shot and temporary assignments plus initiating and handling project Lifizz which as much as station felt could be done without tying him down too much. Ref C in mid-1963 apparently recognized that station was using him somewhat more than originally contemplated. Project Licolic noted he would not be handling intellectual journal project. Project Lifizz or some replacement, plus remaining available for short-duration political action assignments in other areas.
IF DRACOON PUBLISHING CENTER CONTACTS IDES (WHICH PERFECTLY
AGREEABLE TO STATION), THEN APPEARS TO STATION THAT TICHEBORN WILL
HAVE SUFFICIENT TO KEEP HIM BUSY. BELIEVE HGS. WILL AGREE WITH
TICHEBORN CONTACTS AND PAST HISTORY HERE WITH LEFTIST INTELLECTUAL
TYPES THIS IS FIELD MOST SUITABLE FOR HIM AND NO POINT IN TRYING
TO PUCK STRAIGHT PROPAGANDA OR YOUTH STUDENT OPERATIONS TO HIM.
HE QUITE VALUABLE AND HAS UNIQUE CAPABILITY THIS FIELD AND IS GIVEN
NUMBER ASSIGNMENTS BY STATION WHICH WOULD FIND DIFFICULT
SATISFY WITH ANYONE ELSE: FOR EXAMPLE, CULTIVATING CEDRIC BELFRAGE
AND GETTING HIS VIEWPOINTS ON HIS CUBAN VISIT OF SOME DURATION.

2. BASED ON FOREGOING, STATION RECOMMENDS THAT PRESENT CONTRACT
ARRANGEMENT REMAIN IN EFFECT SINCE STATION MOVING HIM INTO APPROPRIATE
ACTIVITIES AS OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF AND HE BEING KEPT BUSY.
(STATION HAS AVERAGE THREE MEETINGS WEEK WITH HIM).

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C/S COMMENT: *CONCERNED HGS REVIEW OF PROJECT LICOLIC.
SECRET 688121Z
DIR CITE NEXI 2349
LCFLUTTER
REF DIR 19396 Y

1. AGREE TEST THOSE NAMED REF EXCEPT LIMOTOR 19 WHO TESTED OCT 63, LIMORE WHO CASE OFFICER FEELS UNDER NO OBLIGATION BE TESTED AND WOULD BE ALIENATED.

2. STATION NOT NOW IN CONTACT WITH LIKAYAK 20. HOPE ESTABLISH CONTACT SOON TO GET FEEL OF LIKAYAK 2 ALTER E30. ONCE THIS DONE AGREE LCFLUTTER DESIRABLE.

3. WISH ADD UMPSTAL TO LIST.

4. ADVISE TEAM ITINERARY.

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C/S COMMENT: REQUESTED CABLE WHETHER STA CONCURS LCFLUTTER CANDIDATES.
TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: W/H 8
INFO: CI/6A, OS 2, VR, FE 6

LCFLUTTER

REF: MEXI 9284* (IN 73450)

1. EDS3 SUGGESTS STATION CONSIDER LCFLUTTER FOR FOLLOWING:
   A. LIMOPZ-1 AND 2 BECAUSE OF STPESO SECURITY.
   B. CARRIER AND CONTRACT AGENTS WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN
      FLUTTERED: CLACKETT, WIMPHEN, WILSTED, REHABUR, TICHERN.
      PREPARED, LIMAYAK-2 AND 30, LIMOPZ-16.
   C. BELIEVE RIZON AND SIMONCINI WHO PREVIOUSLY
      FLUTTERED SHOULD BE REFLUTTERED.
   D. LIMOPZ-2, LIMHNET, AND LITTLE BECAUSE OF
      SECURITY OF SENSITIVE OPS.

2. CABLE WHETHER STATION CONCURS ON ALL OR HOW MANY SO
   KUBODA CAN PLAN TRIP ALLOW SUFFICIENT TIME FOR INTERVIEWS.
3. FOR APPROVED TO LCFLUTTER LIMAYAK-16.

END OF MESSAGE

[Signature: Include Service's suggestions for issuance.

[Signature: Phone]

[Signature: Draft]

[Signature: Approval]

[Signature: Coordination]

[Signature: Authentication]

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.

Copy No. 253203
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TO: DIRECTOR

FROM: MEXICO CITY

ACTION: CA/O 4*(CA/O COPY SLOTTED AT 2045 15 APR BP)

INFO: CA 2, CA/PEG, CA/PROP, CI/OPS, CI/OA, WH 7, VR

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PRIORITY LIR GUAT CITE MEX1 9020 (EASY ACTING)

REF A GUAT 3836(15 62001)

B DIP 14135 (NOT SHT GUAT)

1. TICHBORN PRESENTLY OUT OF TOWN, BUT RETURNS 17 APR. HE TRYING
GET REF 8 OFF GROUND, SO THIS NOT BEST TIME FOR ABSENCE. HOWEVER,
ASSUME TRIP WOULD BE FOR WEEK OR LESS AND IF THIS GENERAL
TIMING SATISFACTORY WITH ALL CONCERNED, CAN RELEASE SOON AS TRAVEL
CAN BE ARRANGED. ADVISE.

2. NO INDEX.

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C/S COMMENT: *ACTION UNIT DETERMINED AS THOUGH INDICATOR DTOORIC USED.

**REQUESTED TIME SCHEDULE FOR TICHBORN.

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DIR INFO PALT CITE MEXI 6739 (EASY ACTING)

STORIC QXOPERA

REF DIR 36971

1. LAST MEETING TECHBORN (T) HAD WITH XIRAU (X) ABOUT FOUR WEEKS AGO. BUT THEREAFTER HAS BEEN AVOIDING HIM-SINCE CANNOT GO BEYOND STATE EXPRESSION STRONG INTEREST UNTIL GO-THRU SOME DEVELOPMENT PROCESS. DISCUSSIONS BETWEEN T AND X NARROWED FACT X FEELS NEEDS ASSURANCE CONTINUITY AND SECURITY IN JOURNAL VENTURE PRIOR ABANDONING OTHER SIDE INCOME POSSIBILITIES TO DEVOTE TIME AND EFFORT REQUIRED JOURNAL. THIS INFERS SALARY FOR X WHICH T THINKS WILL NEED BE FIVE TO SIX HUNDRED DOLLAR RANGE PER MONTH ONCE PROJECT UNDERTAKEN T FEELS CAN GET X WORK WITH HIM ON PRELIMINARY COST STUDIES AND OTHER DATA FOR REIMBURSEMENT X'S TIME AND WHATEVER OTHER COSTS INVOLVED WITHOUT NECESSITY ANY LONG-TERM COMMITMENT. T ESTIMATES THIS TAKE AT LEAST TWO WEEKS AT TOTAL COST $700 (U.S.). THIS MUST BE DONE TO GET ENOUGH PRELIMINARY DETAIL FOR PROJECT SUBMISSION.

2. IN ADDITION, TWO OTHER PRELIMINARIES SHOULD BE UNDERTAKEN SOONEST:

A. INITIATE ACTION FOR T'S MEXICAN WORKING PAPERS WHICH REQUIRED
BEFORE WE CAN SERVE IN OFFICIAL CAPACITY WITH JOURNAL OR JOURNAL
CORPORATE MECHANISM TO BE SET UP. THIS TAKES ABOUT MONTH IF NO
HITCHES AND COST ESTIMATED $628(U.S.) IN "GRATUITIES" FOR VARIOUS
MEXICAN OFFICIALS INCLUDING INCIDENTAL TAX AND LEGAL FEES.

B. START CORPORATION PAPERS. PLAN IS FOR I HAVE LAW FIRM
HANDLE INCORPORATION IN FIRM'S NAME FOR SILENT CLIENT WHICH UNDERSTAND
IS COMMON PRACTICE HERE. STOCK CERTIFICATES TO BE BEARER TYPE AND
TO BE HELD BY I FOR ASSURED CONTROL. ESTIMATE WILL REQUIRE AT LEAST MONTH
IF NO SNAGS AND COST $180(U.S.) INCLUDING REQUIRED
GRATUITIES. CORPORATE CAPITAL REQUIRED IS $4,000(U.S.) WHICH MUST
BE OF DEPOSIT WITH BANK FOR MEXI AUTHORITIES.
VERIFICATION AT TIME INCORPORATION BUT MAY BE SPENT ANYWAY DESIRED
AFTER INCORPORATION OR IF PROJECT DOES NOT GO THROUGH MAY BE WITHDRAWN
FROM BANK AND RETURNED KUBARK. I'S STORY TO LAW FIRM WILL BE HE
STARTING CORPORATION AS FLYER IN CULTURAL FIELD NOT ONLY SINCE
FILLS IMPORTANT VOID, BUT BECAUSE HE HOPES LATER ATTRACT BIG
FOUNDATION MONEY(I.E., FORD OR ROCKEFELLER) AND, THEN, IN SOME
SALARIED CAPACITY I WILL GET CUT PROCEEDS. THIS EMINENTLY REASONABLE
HERE.

3. BASED FOREGOING, REQUIRE AUTHORITY USE $2,000(U.S.)
DATA FUNDS TO UNDERTAKE DEVELOPMENTAL ACTION IN ORDER GET X WORK
ON PROSPECTUS, POSSIBLE ASSISTANTS, CONTRIBUTORS, ETC. AND OTHER
FACETS. $400 CORPORATE CAPITAL DEPOSIT WILL BE REQUIRED LATER
WHEN CORPORATION FORMATION NEAR FINAL STAGE. IF DESIRE TO TAKE
SUCCESSIVE STEPS, THEN ONLY $700 REQUIRED BUT MUST RECOGNIZE THIS
WILL SPAN OUT CONSIDERABLY TIME OF STARTING ACTIVITY.

C/S COMMENT: "MRS ANXIOUS THOUGHT WORK OUT DETAILS JOURNAL."
TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR

CONF: WH 5
INFO: ADOP, C/CA 2, C/C1, DO/S, D/OP, VR

DECLASSIFIED

REF: A. DIR 03351
B. MEXI 8448-5

1. HQS HAS BEEN ADVISED CONFIDENTIALLY THAT TICHBORN NO
   LONGER UNDER CONSIDERATION FOR REY APPOINTMENT. NO REASON GIVEN.

2. TICHBORN SHOULD NOT REPEAT NOT BE ADVISED OF THIS INCIDENT.

3. IT ASSUMED TICHBORN NOW REMAIN IN PLACE. REPLY TO
   REF B BY SEPARATE MESSAGE.

END OF MESSAGE

SPASST/DD/P Gordon Mason (phone)

*IN 30532

J. C. KING
C/WHD

COORDINATING OFFICERS

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SECRET 6223032
DIR CITE MEXI 5455

1. EDWARD G. TICHBORN ON EMERGENCY LEAVE TO HANDLE UNEXPECTED LITIGATION CASE IN CALIF. HE DEPARTED MEXI ON 2 MAR AND EXPECTS RETURN 6 MAR. HE CAN BE REACHED THRU IDEN.

2. NO INDEX.

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DIR CITE MEXI 8458
REF MEXI 8458 (w 30666)
IDENT ALLEN KAUFMAN, ATTORNEY
BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF.
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SECRET

TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: MEXICO CITY
ACTION: C/W 5 (WH COPY SLOTTED AT 2100, 25 FEB 64 (DD))
INFO: ADDP, D/OP, DOS, VR

SECRET 26519

PRIORITY DIR CITE MEXI 8384

REF DIR 83351 P

DESENSITIZED

(CS COMMENT: REQUESTED OPINION TICHBORN.)

NO NITE ACTION

1. FOLLOWING IS SUMMARY OPINION OF TICHBORN, FROM OFFICERS WHO HAVE DEALT WITH HIM: EXCELLENT CHARACTER AND COMPLETE LOYALTY TO COYOTE. ALTHOUGH AT STATION REQUEST TICHBORN HAS DEALT IN MEXI WITH PERSONS OF FAR LEFT, THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO INDICATION THAT HIS POLITICAL INCLINATIONS ARE ANYTHING BUT COMPLETELY PRO-PBPRIME. THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT HIS ABILITY AT ANY CHORE INTERESTING ENOUGH TO STIMULATE HIM. HE IS EXTREMELY LUCID, AND HIS MIND CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS BRILLIANT. HE HAS AN EVEN, PLACID TEMPERAMENT. HIS JUDGEMENT APPEARS TO BE SOUND (ALTHOUGH IN MEXI HIS ASSIGNMENTS HAVE USUALLY BEEN OF THE TYPE IN WHICH HE FOLLOWED STATION GUIDANCE). HE IS NOT GOOD AT DETAIL, SUCH AS REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING. IN ESSENCE, HE IS A SHARP OPERATOR, WHO COULD PROBABLY DO WELL IN POSITION OF IMPORTANCE.

2. STATION NOT IN POSITION TO COMMENT ON HIS LEGAL ABILITY. HIS LOCAL ACTIVITY FALLS IN THE PUBLIC RELATIONS CATEGORY (AS A PBPRIME CITIZEN HE NOT ALLOWED PRACTICE MEXI).

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24 FEBRUARY 1961

MEXICO CITY

TO: DIRECTOR

FROM: J. C. H.

SUBJECT: CONSIDERING EDWARD G. TICHBORN FOR IMPORTANT APPOINTMENT IN LEGAL FIELD. O'BRIEN KNOWS HE WORKS FOR INDIAN AND WE MUST GIVE AUTHORITY TO OPINION OF HIS CHARACTER, ABILITY, TEMPERAMENT, AND JUDGMENT. WITHOUT ADVISING TICHBORN, REQUEST YOU CABLE DATA AND OPINIONS OF YOURSELF AND OFFICERS WHO HAVE DEALT WITH HIM. WE HAVE HIGHEST OPINION OF HIM.

END OF MESSAGE

J. C. H.

RELEASING OFFICER

AUTHENTICATING OFFICER

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
SECRET 040362

PRIORITY DIR INFO PRIORITY GUAT CITE MEXI 8361

DESENSITIZED

REF DIR 98833

1. TICHBORN CONTACTED ESGAIN-7 BY TELEPHONE AT 1700 LOCAL 3 FEB. WILL MEET AT 1730 LOCAL 3 FEB.

2. AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

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C/S COMMENT: *RE PLS CABLE REPORT ON INITIAL CONTACT AND INSTRUCTIONS WILL FOLLOW.
TO: MEXICO CITY, GUATEMALA CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: C/WH 5
INFO: ADDP, C/61, VR

DESIGNATED ESGAIN

REFS: A. DIR-97680*
B. DIR 97691**

1. ESGAIN 7 PHOSED CALGOND MORNING 3 FEB FROM MEXICO CITY
AND GAVE NEW ADDRESS: HARIANO ESCOBEDO 479, APART-
MENT 203, TELEPHONE 45 6440 EXTENSION 203. PLS HAVE TICHERON
MAKE CONTACT UNDER ALIAS ASAP.

2. IF TICHERON NOT AVAILABLE, PLS HAVE ETSINGER MAKE
TELEPHONE CONTACT ASAP. PLS CABLE REPORT ON INITIAL CONTACT
AND INSTRUCTIONS WILL FOLLOW.

END OF MESSAGE

WH COMMENTS: *Iden staying with wife at Continental Hilton.
Expects contact.

**Gives true name of Iden.
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE

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TO: MEXICO CITY
INFO: GUATEMALA CITY

FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WH S
INFO: CI, CI/3PS, CI/OA, VR

TO: DODORATE MEXI
INFO: ROUTINE GUAT

SUBJECT: REPAIR 7964

X. CONSIDER USE YICHORN UNDER ALL S. MAKE CONTACT AT ONCE.

END OF MESSAGE

CS COMMENT: *IN 08477.

J. C. KON
C/WH

WH/3/CA
WH/3/MEXI
WH/OPS

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REF: DIR 97690

PREFER NOT USE ETSINGER ON ESSAIN 7 OR OTHER OP UNTIL STA AND HQ BOTH SATISFIED SECURITY ASPECTS. SUGGEST USE TICHBORN TO CONTACT INITIALLY AND IF DESIRED, PATAKER CAN TAKE OVER ON HIS ARRIVAL. ON RECEIPT REPLY WILL MAKE CONTACT.

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C/S COMMENT: REQ CONTACT IDEN, HOGW 3547.

Fell Tichborn 207

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Chief of Station, Mexico City

Chief, WH Division

KUWOLF/Operational, Status of Projects on Principal Agents

Action: As Stated Below

REPS: A. HMA-11534
     B. HMA-21914
     C. DIR-63033
     D. DIR-61786
     E. MEX-5613
     F. DIR-55204
     G. HMA-22041

1. Now that Douglas Preapane's conversion has been approved, Headquarters requests that the Station submit a Project outline for his support. Headquarters is aware that the Station had drafted this project but was holding it until PREAPANE's new status became clarified.

2. Station is also requested to submit a project on Edward G. TICHEBORN as per references D and F. In reply to reference E, TICHEBORN is considered a Station Mexico City agent which means that his salary should no longer be charged to JUNOPLAR/10.

3. With reference to LIEBONY-1, the Station indicated in paragraph 4 of reference G, that with the arrival of SANDMANIE it might possibly drop this agent. In the event Station decides to continue using LIEBONY-1, please submit an amendment to LIPLUM Project or a separate support project for LIEBONY-1.

Oliver G. GALBOND

Distribution:
Cal - COS, Mexico City

5 November 1983
21 October 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Audit Staff

THROUGH: SSA-DD/S

SUBJECT: Report of Audit of Project JHPOPLAR/10
1 April 1962 - 31 March 1963

REFERENCES:
A. Memorandum for Chief, WH Division, subject as above, from Chief, Audit Staff dated 22 August 1963

B. Memorandum for Comptroller, subject: "Headquarters Treatment of Advances to Projects Funded Through Projects JHPOPLAR/10 and JHPOPLAR/12", from Chief, Audit Staff, dated 24 September 1963

1. The following is WH Division's reply to paragraph 5 of reference A:

a. The JHPOPLAR/10 Administrative Plan will be revised to incorporate the recommendations made in subject report.

b. Investigation by WH Division determines that the salary of Edward G. Tichborn has been charged improperly to JHPOPLAR/10. A new project is being initiated against which Tichborn's salary will be charged.

c. Appropriate Declarations of Trust will be obtained from project personnel for the University City Bank account.
d. The Division is initiating action to close the project's account at the First National Bank.

2. The revised Administrative Plan, referred to in paragraph 1 above, will include changes which reflect the recommendations made in reference 1.

(Signed) W. E. Brooks

J. C. King
Chief, DI Division

Distribution:
Orig. & 1 - Addressee
1 - SSA-DD/S
1 - FD/Proprietary Accounts Section
1 - DI/7
1 - DI/3 - Mexico
1 - DI/BF
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: MEXICO CITY
ACTION: WH 8
INFO: PG 2, CA 2, CI/CA, RF 2

SECRET 170218Z
DIR CITE: MEXI 5813
C/S COMMENT: REQUESTED PROJECT RENEWAL
REQUESTS FOR LICHEN, LICOAX, LILISP C, LILISP X, LINOCOLE,
LITAIN. ALSO REQUESTED STA FORWARD NEW PROJECT OUTLINES
TO COVER TICHBORN AND RIKON

KUWOLF

1. HMMA-21914 POUCHED 9 AUG IS GENERAL STATION COMMENT ON KUWOLF
RENEWALS. AS REFERENCE INDICATES DISPATCHES POUCHED 9 AUGUST NOT
RECEIVED MEXI KUWOLF DESK AS OF 16 AUG SUGGEST VALUE OBTAINING HMMA-21914
ASAP.

2. STATION UNAWARE APPARENTLY SIGNIFICANT LAG BETWEEN ARRIVAL
DISPATCHES HOS AND DELIVERY TO DESK. HMMA-21864, ACCORDING TO REF,
HAD NOT HIT DESK AS OF 16 AUGUST YET SHOULD HAVE BEEN RECEIVED HOS
8 AUG. PLEASE ADVISE IF THIS IS NORMAL DELAY. IF SO CERTAIN MATTERS
NOW TREATED DISPATCHES WILL OF NECESSITY BE SUBJECT CABLE TRAFFIC.

3. REF PARA TWO REF. TICHBORN RECRUITED AND BEING PAID FROM HOS.
STATION HAS AVOIDED UTILIZATION TICHBORN IN PROJECTS SO TIME CONSUMING
AS TO PROHIBIT TRAVEL, AS IT WAS UNDERSTOOD HE WAS TO BE KEPT IN
READY STATUS FOR INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT. SHOULD THIS UNDERSTANDING
BE RETAINED NEW PROJECT FOR TICHBORN, OR CAN MEXI NOW CONSIDER HIM
AS PRIMARILY MEXI AGENT?

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13 June 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Contract Personnel Division

SUBJECT: Edward G. TICHBORN (p), Amendment of Contract

1. It is requested that the contract, as amended for Edward G. TICHBORN, Contract Agent, be further amended effective 1 June 1963 as follows:

   a. Increase basic compensation from $8,000 to $9,000 per annum.

   b. Provide additional compensation for quarters procurement at the rate of $3,000 per annum for self and dependents.

   c. Extend the period of the contract for an additional year.

   d. All other provisions of the contract remain in effect.

2. The increase in compensation as recommended by the Mexico City Station is based on the manner of TICHBORN's performance and the increased amount of time which he devotes to Agency requirements.

3. The WH Division concurs with the Station recommendation. TICHBORN has become an increasingly valuable and productive covert asset.

W. E. BROOKS
Chief, WH Support
DESENSITIZED

1. LINLUCX MET BY OUTSIDE CASE OFFICER TURING 31 MAY. TOLD CASE OFFICER HE DISTRESSED BECAUSE "LEARNED DAY BEFORE DEPARTING PART THAT WIFE HAD CANCER." SAID HE BEEN THINKING RECENTLY OF "RESIGNING" FROM KURABA, BECAUSE IT SEEMED TO BE "GOOD FRIEND THAT BAD SERVANT." ADOPTED HOWEVER THAT HE HAD NOT MADE FIRM DECISION.

2. FYI AT LAST MINUTE IT WAS NECESSARY TO SUBSTITUTE LEO C.

REASON FOR TICHORN AS OUTSIDE CASE OFFICER. THIS ONE FACT LICORRY-I APPROACHED TICHORN SHORTLY BEFORE LICIETY ARRIVAL REQUESTING TICHORN MEET-LINLUCX AS SOON AS LICIETY ARRIVED NEVI. STATION.

IN PLANNING FOR TICHORN AS CASE OFFICER, HAD NOT REALIZED TICHORN KNOWN TO LICORRY BY 31 MAY.

S.E.C.R.E.T.

[Signature]

[Redacted]
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DIR CITE MEXI 4670

REF. HMMV-11562

22 MAY 1963

IN 43671

1. STATION AGREES HQS EVALUATION TICHBORN AND CONCURS SALARY INCREASE AND HOUSING ALLOWANCE AMENDMENT. ALSO AGREE INSURANCE RIGHTS SHOULD BE INCLUDED CONTRACT.

2. BELIEVE RAISE SHOULD BE $1,000 PER ANNUM WITH HOUSING AT $3,030, WHICH TOTAL MEETS TICHBORN'S OWN REQUEST. THESE FIGURES PROPOSED TO TICHBORN (WITHOUT COMMITMENT) 21 MAY AND ACCEPTABLE TO HIM.

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ACT: Cable comments on Contract renewal and amendment

1. While TICHBORN was at Headquarters in April, he said he needed $8,000 per year more than the $8,000 plus expenses he receives under his present contract. He cited the high cost of living in Mexico, and the increased amount of time he is spending on behalf of KUBARK, at the expense of his cover. He said that his financial situation will soon force him to spend more time on his law practice, limiting his availability to KUBARK.

2. Headquarters thinks highly of TICHBORN, and we regard him as an excellent long time asset who might possibly be converted to career agent in the future, when his legal practice is less lucrative, or he chooses to work almost full time for KUBARK.

3. Meanwhile, Headquarters believes that the fairest arrangement for KUBARK and for TICHBORN, would be to keep him in contract status, raising his salary. This would ensure KUBARK's continued utilisation of his valuable services, would assure the maintenance of a strong cover, and at the same time would give TICHBORN the incentive to work hard at his cover and would permit him to realise the return from his cover efforts. If TICHBORN were converted to Career Agent status now, there would be almost, if not total offset of his cover income.

(continued)
4. Headquarters suggests that when TIEGBORN's contract is renewed as of 19 May 1963 for two years, it be amended to increase his salary by $1,000 per year, and that additional compensation of $3,500 per year be included for housing. The whole amount would be taxable. A clause can also be added to the contract authorising TIEGBORN to apply for the special life and hospitalisation insurance given Contract Agents.

5. Please discuss the proposal in paragraph 4 and/or any Station ideas with TIEGBORN, but avoid making any commitments. Since the present contract expires on 19 May, it is requested that the Station cable its views on TIEGBORN's future use and proper pay.

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**File Title:**
- [Handwritten text]

**Date Microfilmed:**
- 24 April 63

**Document Number:**
- MMMA 21148
1. Station Mexico regrets that, to date, it has been unable to obtain the Reference report from Tichborn. As Headquarters is aware, Tichborn, while brilliant and articulate, is not always dependable, especially when it comes to routine tasks. It is true, however, that Tichborn has been extremely busy traveling for KUBARK, and is at the moment on another of his frequent trips.

2. In any event, Tichborn has promised to provide the report as soon as he returns from his present trip. It will be forwarded when received from him.
SECRET 842234Z
MEXI INFO DIR CITE BUEN 9288
5 APR 1963

1. TICHBORNE RETURNING EVENING 5 APRIL. PLEASE ADVISE WIFE.
   ALSO PLS REITERATE OUR APPRECIATION OF HIS EFFORTS HERE AND AT SAME
   TIME REMIND HIM THAT HE AGREED TO GIVE US A FULL REPORT HIS BUEN VISIT.

2. FOR DIR: TICHBORNE ABLE DEVELOP IN SHORT TIME AVAILABLE
   GOOD FEELING FOR LOCAL SITUATION THROUGH CONTACTS DEVELOPED ON HIS
   OWN INITIATIVE PLUS CONFERENCES WITH KEY STATION PERSONNEL, INCLUDING
   REUTLINGER AND BUCHEK.
   INTERVIEWED
   250 PERSONS FROM NEWS
   VENDORS TO SENIOR BUSINESS LEADERS. UNABLE MAKE CONTACT WITH
   BICENTER WHO INDICATED THAT DUE PRESENT MILITARY CRISIS HIS EVERY
   MOVE COVERED BY NEWSMEN, THUS HE PREFERRED NOT SEE TICHBORNE.

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S/C HOTEL PORTION GARBLED-BEING SVCD.
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Contract Personnel Division

SUBJECT: Edward O. TICHBORN (p), Contract Amendment

1. It is requested that the contract for Edward O. TICHBORN, Contract Agent, be amended to delete the current paragraph 2. Travel and Operational Expenses and insert:

"2. Travel and Operational Expenses. You will be advanced or reimbursed funds on an actual, reasonable and necessary expense basis for those expenses incurred by you in connection with such travel as may be directed or authorized by the Government and while on temporary duty away from your permanent post of assignment. In addition, you will be advanced or reimbursed funds for necessary operational expenses as specifically approved by the Government. Payment and accounting for all expenses incurred hereunder will be in substantial conformance with applicable Government regulations.

The effective date of the amendment should be as of the effective date of the contract, 19 May 1961.

2. The above request is corrective in nature as it was not intended to change the travel expense provision which had been in effect during his previous contract.

W. E. SEOKS
Chief, VH Support
19 March 1963

Paul O:

Tichborn's original contract provided for travel on an actual expense basis. This was when he was working on a daily or job rate basis.

This contract was terminated and a new contract was written in May 1961. He was given $8,000 per year and the reimbursement for operational travel section reads: "This may include per diem in lieu of subsistence."

None of Tichborn's travel claims have been processed since the new contract has been effective. All travel claims submitted by him starting in June 1961 have been submitted on an actual expense basis.

Finance takes the view that the "This may include per diem---" as restricting Tichborn to per diem only plus of course operational expenses. Processing Tichborn's old accounts on this basis would require him to refund several hundred dollars.

An amendment to the contract would take care of these old accounts as submitted.

Options:

1. Get refund from Tichborn
2. Amend contract to cover actual expenses to present date.
3. Amend contract to cover actual expenses past and future.

What are your wishes?

Currie
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MEXI INFO DIR CITE BUEN 9047.
RECEIVED
REF: MEXI 3703 (10 82504)
11 MAR 1963
IN3870

1. FEEL TOY CAN BE LIMITED TEN WORKING DAYS. PLEASE ADVISE ETA AND TRUE NAME TICHBORN.

2. CONTACT PLAN: TICHBORN (AS MR. WILLIAMS) SHOULD CALL 46-3248 DURING OFFICE HOURS AND ASK FOR KEN TO ARRANGE LUNCHEON MEETING SAME DAY AT NOGARO HOTEL, J.A. ROCA 562. WILL BE MET IN LOBBY WHERE HE SHOULD BE SEATED AND READING "TIME" MAGAZINE.

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1. Referenced dispatch was discussed with the Ambassador on 6 March. He said that in talking with Oliver G. GALLON and others in Headquarters in early 1962 as well as with Chief, INTELLIGENCE, he had expressed great appreciation for the assistance rendered by Edward G. TICHECORN. He said that he still felt that a similar survey, made a year or so after the first one, would be most helpful in assessing significant changes in the outlook of the various segments of Salvadoran society. Also discussed was the possible utility of an early April 1962 survey on the issues and personalities as they might develop during the forthcoming elections, presently scheduled for 29 April 1962. However, the Ambassador concluded that he was, of course, aware that there are other priority needs for TICHECORN's services.

2. While the Station would welcome another visit by subject, it does not appear that the need for a general survey is so pressing as it was a year ago. It is doubted that basic conditions have changed greatly, and the changes which have taken place have been fairly well covered in COMINT reporting. With regard to the pre-election estimate, mentioned above, it should be noted that there are no other parties to date in the field except the government party, the Partido Conciliacion Nacional (PCN), and only the PCN has thus far put forward candidates for President and Vice President. Unless postponed, the closing date for announcements is 12 March. In other words, at the moment it appears that the net result of the overwhelming victory of the PCN in the elections of last December has made the forthcoming elections a mere formality.

3. The Station will appreciate early advice of a second visit by TICHECORN, if his schedule permits.

STEPHEN H. KARHAN

SRK/gsm

7 March 1962

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DATE: 27 FEB 63
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: BUENOS AIRES
ACTION: C/SH 5
INFO: ADDP, C/SH 5, S/C 2

FILE

FEB 27 2215Z 63

ROUTINE

SECRET

DESPARATED

REF: MARY-7795 (NOT SENT MEXI)

1. REQUEST ADVICE ON AVAILABILITY TICHBORN FOR VISIT BUEN WITHIN
NEXT MONTH. PURPOSE TO MAKE INITIAL CONTACTS AND SURVEY LOCAL ISSUES,
PERSONALITIES AND POWER ELEMENTS TO BE FACTORS ELECTIONS NOW
SCHEDULED 23 JUNE HAVING IN MIND HIS RETURNING IN LATE MAY
FOR PERIOD THROUGH ELECTIONS SHOULD DEVELOPMENTS INITIAL VISIT
SO WARRANT.

2. EFFORTS BY RENTLINGER TO CONTACT IDENTITY HAVE REVEALED
THAT HE NOT ARAMBURU CAMPAIGN MANAGER NOR CURRENTLY DIRECTLY
INVOLVED IN HIS CAMPAIGN. THIS MAY WELL BE TO OUR ADVANTAGE
SINCE WE PREFER THAT TICHBORN CONTACT A BROAD RANGE OF POLITICAL
LEADERS AND GROUPS. HOWEVER PREFER TO EXPLORE IDENTITY POSITION
FURTHER BEFORE TICHBORN CONTACT TO REQUEST HE NOT ADVISE IDENTITY OF
TRIP YET.

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DATE: 27 FEB 63

TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: BUENOS AIRES
ACTION: C/W 5
INFO: ADDP, C/CA 2, S/C 2

TO: MEXI
INFO: KAPOK
DIR: CITE BUEN 8971

REF: BUEN 8970 (IN 75985)
IDEN IS JULIO PIACINTINI.

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UPON RETURN TICHDORN NEXTI, CARA STATION WILL APPRECIATE AS
DETAILED INFO AS POSSIBLE ON IDENTITIES BUSINESSMEN CONTACTED,
TECHNIQUES DESIRED AND GENERAL INSPECTIONS, ETC.

C/S COMMENT: "MC CORMICK INVITED TO CARA BY "GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN" WHO WANT
INSTRUCTIONS IN POLITICAL ELECTION TECHNIQUES."
DATE: 2, FEB 63

TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: MEXICO CITY
ACTION: WH 8
INFO: CA 2, CI/OPS, CI/DA, S/C 2

REF: MEXI 3290 (IN 61084)
IDENT OF REF MR HENRY (HANK) LOPEZ.

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CARA INFO\DIR CITE MEXI 3298

1. FYI: MEXI STATION CONTRACT AGENT EDWARD G. TICHBORN (IDEN) ARRIVING CARA TWO FEBRUARY FOR FOUR DAY VISIT. HIS BUSINESS PERSONAL AND NO CONTACT WITH STATION PLANNED.

2. TICHBORN TRAVELING WITH MR. CARLOS MCCORMICK, MOGUL OF DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE. MCCORMICK INVITED TO CARA BY "GROUP OF BUSINESSMEN" WHO WANT INSTRUCTION IN POLITICAL ELECTION TECHNIQUES. MCCORMICK INSISTED THAT TICHBORN, WHO HANDLED SPIDEAL CAMPAIGN IN PRIME SPANISH-SPEAKING AREAS, ACCOMPANY HIM ON TRIP.

3. SHOULD ABOVE ACTIVITY NEGATIVELY CROSS WIRES WITH CARA STATION OPERATIONS, OR SHOULD CARA WISH CONTACT TICHBORN FOR ANY REASON, HE STAYING TAHANACO AND WILL RESPOND TO "FRIEND OF DAVE'S".

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GUNTINFO DIR CITE MEXI 293911N41500
REF DIR 494554
TICHBORN ETA GUAT 2 JANUARY PAN AM 501. WILL REGISTER
BILTMORE HOTEL AND AVOID CONTACT FROM "FRIEND OF DAVE".

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C/S COMMENT: REQUESTED TICHBORN BE MADE AVAILABLE TO GO TO GUAT AND ASSESS
PUBLIC OPINION ON MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND TRENDS.
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: MEXICO CITY
ACTION: WH 8 (WH NOTIFIED AND COPY SLOTTED AT 1550 DEC 62)
INFO: CA 2, CI/OPS, CI/CA, S/C 2

PRITY CIE SITE MEXI 2748 IN29417
REF DIR 41116 (OUT 85000)
DIR 41364 (OUT 95732)
MEXI 2426 (IN) 12015

1. TICHBORN REPORTS TWO TELEPHONE CALLS TO HIS HOME FROM ARGENTINA DURING HIS ABSENCE. PRESUMES CALLS FROM SUBJECT OF REFS OR HIS AIDE TO DISCLOSE POSSIBILITY TICHBORN APPROACHING CERTAIN AMERICAN COMPANIES WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY INDICATED WILLINGNESS "SUPPORT" SUBJECT REFS SHOULD WE DECIDE RUN FOR PRESIDENCY.

2. WHAT SHOULD TICHBORN'S RESPONSE BE SHOULD CALLS COME THROUGH? ADVISE SOONEST.

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C/S COMMENT: "REF KAPOK."
1. IF REF CALLS ARE FROM BICENTER GROUP, TICHBORN SHOULD DECLINE ACT AS FUND RAISER, AND IF POSSIBLE SHOULD DISCOURAGE BICENTER FROM ATTEMPT TO RAISE CAMPAIGN FUNDS IN PBPRIME. REALIZE THIS MAY BE DIFFICULT FOR TICHBORN HANDLE GRACEFULLY. PERHAPS TICHBORN COULD PLEAD PREVIOUS BUSINESS COMMITMENTS AS EXCUSE. IN ANY CASE HQS WILL REFER TO HIS JUDGMENT RE IMPLEMENTATION.

2. HQS REASONING RE ABOVE IS THAT FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF PBPRIME BUSINESS INTERESTS COULD PREJUDICE BICENTER REPUTATION AND ELECTION PROSPECTS.

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Wh Comment: *Tichborn has received telephone calls from Argentina.
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: GUATEMALA CITY
ACTION: WH 8
INFO: CA 2, CA/PEG, CI/OA, S/C 2

REF: MEXI 2665 (IN 24747)*

TICHBORN TRIP IN JANUARY DESIRED.

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C/S COMMENT: * REQ. ADVISE IF TICHBORN TRIP EARLY JANUARY DESIRED.
PRITY DIR INFO PRITY NEXT CITY GUAT 2534 IN 20632

REF: DIR 49455 (and 99279)

WE BELIEVE AUTHORITATIVE SURVEY PUBLIC OPINION IN CAPITAL, OTHER MAIN CITIES AND RURAL AREAS WOULD BE VERY VALUABLE IN CONNECTION FUTURE POLITICAL ACTION ONS HERE. WE THEREFORE WELCOME TICHBORN ASSIGNMENT IF HE CAPABLE SUCH SURVEY.

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C/S COMMENT: REQUESTED TICHBORN BE MADE AVAILABLE TO GO TO GUAT AND ASSESS PUBLIC OPINION ON MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND TRENDS. HE IS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN IN MEXICO CITY.
1. REQUEST TICHDRN BE MADE AVAILABLE SOON TO GO TO GUAT AND ASSESS PUBLIC OPINION ON MAIN POLITICAL PARTIES, PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES, AND TRENDS. IN RECENT GUAT CITY MAYORALITY ELECTION, AREVALO SUPPORTER, VILLAGRAN KRAMER, RAN SURPRISINGLY STRONG SECOND, EVEN WITHOUT AREVALO'S EXPRESS ENDORSEMENT. DESIRE CHECK PARTICULARLY ON SENTIMENT OUTSIDE GUAT CITY; EVENTS SHOW THAT LEFTIST TREND IN THAT CITY DOES NOT PROVE SIMILAR TREND IN OTHER AREAS. PLS ADVISE.

2. FOR GUAT: TICHDRN IS U.S. CITIZEN LAWYER IN MEXI CITY WHO ALSO WRITER, HAS DONE VALUABLE SURVEY OF OPINION IN SAN SALVADOR. RECOMMEND TICHDRN CONSULT STATION ON ARRIVAL. PLS COMMENT.

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WH/3/GUAT

WH/COPS

J. C. KING
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COORDINATING OFFICER
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TO: DIRECTOR
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ACTION: C/WH 3 (C/WH TEMPO COPY SLOTTED 0400, 10 OCT) RD
INFO: ADDP, C/CA 2, C/C1, S/C 2

TO: DIR
INFO: BUEN
CITY: MEXI. 2170

RE: DIR 41118 (OUT 85000)
DIR 41364 (OUT 85432)*

DECLASSIFIED

"TICHBORN ARRIVING NEW YORK 12 OCTOBER.

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C/S COMMENT: *HOS STATED THEY HOPEFULLY AWAITING FAVORABLE WORD TICHBORN ABLE TAKE ASSIGNMENT INTERPRETER/ESCORT OFFICER.

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TO: MEXICO CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: C/WH 5
INFO: ADDP, C/C1, S/C 2

TO: OPIM
INFO: ROUTINE BUEN

C/S COMMENT: *IDEN (UNIDENTIFIED) COMING U.S. 41364

KAPOK
ON UNOFFICIAL VISIT BEGINNING 10 OCT. HOS CONSIDERING
TICHBORN AS ESCORT OFFICER 16-20 OCT. QUERIED ANY REASON HE
NOT AVAILABLE OR UNABLE UNDERTAKE JOB.

REF: DIR 41118 (OUT 85000)*

1. HOS HOPEFULLY AWAITING FAVORABLE WORD TICHBORN ABLE TAKE
REF ASSIGNMENT AS IT CONSSENSUS HERE HE MAN FOR JOB, ON
ASSUMPTION ALL FAVORABLE PLS INSTRUCT TICHBORN:

A. ARRIVE NEW YORK CITY EARLIEST DATE, IF
POSSIBLE BY 12 OCTOBER.

B. CHECK INTO HOTEL OF CHOICE.

C. PHONE METROPOLITAN 8-0469, WASHINGTON, D.C.,
IDENTIFYING SELF TRUE NAME, REPORTING NAME OF HOTEL AND ROOM
HE STAYING AND ASK THAT THIS INFORMATION BE RELATED TO
MR. NELSON. (THIS IS 24 HOUR ANSWERING SERVICE AND UPON
RECEIPT OF INFO HOS CASE OFFICER WILL PHONE TICHBORN TO
ARRANGE EARLIEST MEETING IN NEW YORK FOR COVER AND ASSIGNMENT
BRIEFING.)

2. ADVISE.

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HAPUK
UNITED STATES

1. IDEM COMING EXTE ON UNOFFICIAL VISIT BEGINNING 10 OCTOBER. AS IDEM IS OF GREAT INTEREST TO US, WE PLAN TO PROVIDE INTERPRETER/ESCORT OFFICER DURING 10 DAY VISIT.

2. WE ARE CONSIDERING TICHERON AS ESCORT OFFICER 16-28 OCTOBER. PLEASE CABLE PRITY ANY REASON IF NOT AVAILABLE OR UNABLE TO UNDERTAKE. IN MEANTIME AND IF IDEM REPORTS FAVORABLE SUGGEST TICHERON BE ALERTED TO POSSIBILITY OF VISIT AND MAKE PRELIMINARY PREPARATIONS.

IDEAL ARRIVE NEW YORK BY 15 OCTOBER. TRUE VALUE OF IDEM SHOULD NOT BE REVEALED TICHERON UNTIL ASSIGNMENT FIRM.

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FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: C/WH 5
INFO: ADDH, C/PG, C/CA 2, C/C1, S/C 2

TO: PRITY LEXI INFO LURU

KAPOK

REF: DIR 41118 (CUT OUT5000)

IDEN - GENERAL PEDRO ARAMBURU

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Cable Sec: *Pls fill in number of attached cable as ref.
DIR CITE MEXI 1927

1. EDWARD G TICHBORN HAS RECEIVED INVITATION TO BE GUEST SPEAKER AT SESSION OF HARVARD CENTER LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES SEMINAR 17-22 SEPTEMBER. UNDERSTAND THIS WILL BE KICK-OFF MEETING YOUNG LATIN POLITICAL LEADERS PRIOR TO TWO MONTH OBSERVATION OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

2. STATION FEELS TICHBORN ATTENDANCE VALUABLE OPPORTUNITY TO CULTIVATE MEXICAN DELEGATES. ALSO WOULD BOLSTER HIS COVER, AND PROVIDE EXCELLENT CONTACTS FOR FUTURE REQUIREMENTS OTHER COUNTRIES.

3. TICHBORN MUST RESPOND TO INVITATION IMMEDIATELY. HE WILL ACCEPT UNLESS HEADQUARTERS ADVISES OTHERWISE PRIOR TO 14 SEPTEMBER.

4. WILL ADVISE TICHBORN TRAVEL PLANS WHEN FIRM SHOULD HIS WISH TO CONTACT.

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EDM-10859, 2 August 1962

1. Edward G. TICHNOR is available at any time for JETPA travel. Trips of more than five weeks would be difficult, both for the Station and for TICHNOR. (He is currently handling operation JETPA, which is so sensitive that the Station would be reluctant to use an interim cut-out.)

2. In the case of Leo C. REILICH, he can of course be released as requested by Headquarters for JETPA. His absence will, as previously noted, work considerable hardship on the Station's current JETPA program. REILICH handles JETPA, which takes very little time; JETPA-16, which takes considerable time; and JETPA-15, which is almost a full-time job. In the latter project, for instance, he meets with his principal agents almost daily, and with his Station case officer at least five times a week. It would be extremely difficult to release him during the six-week period immediately prior to elections at the National University each year (usually September, October). Since REILICH, in his cover capacity, is active as a professor, as much lead time as possible is requested prior to travel requests. As an example, REILICH is already signed up to deliver lectures in September in November of this year. Reference dispatch says travel for JETPA would require a minimum of three weeks, but does not mention the possible maximum. Primarily for cover reasons, and secondarily for operational reasons, the Station feels that any travel lasting more than four weeks would be almost impossible to accept. In spite of the above restrictions the Station will, of course, release REILICH at any time for any period if Headquarters feels his contribution will be greater elsewhere.

Allard C. Curtis

3 - WED
2 - Files

DATE TYPED: 7 Sept. 1962
DATE DISPATCHED: 11 Sept. 1962

HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER: 1977

SECRET

50-123-0
1. There are a number of countries where we want to begin detailed political systems analyses as a basis for election planning. To have in mind here a "nuts and bolts" examination of the building blocks of the political parties and the political systems used in countries such as Peru and Chile among others.

2. While planning on the above is at this stage still tentative, we would like an indication from Mexico and San Juan stations as to the availability of FICOSUR and REMICIE (separately) in Mexico and REMICIE-1 in Puerto Rico to go on such survey missions for a minimum of 3 weeks sometime during the next 4 months. We understand that Remicie Station would much prefer that we use FICOSUR rather than REMICIE for this type of survey but we would like to test the capabilities of REMICIE in this field if it is at all possible to break him loose from his current activities.

3. Addressers' comments are solicited.

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Operational/Headquarters Debriefing of TICHBCRN

ACTION REQUIRED: FYI

Herewith attached are the original and one copy of the Headquarters report of the debriefing of Edward TICHBCRN which took place in ZRMETAL in early June, 1962. It is requested that the original be passed to the local ODACID chief, after the Station has insured that the report has been sterilized to its satisfaction.

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Attachment:
Headquarters report

DATE TYPED: 8 August 1962
DATE DISPATCHED: 10 AUG 1962
HSSW-1844
HEADQUARTERS FILE NUMBER
201-253203
6 August 1962

The following information was derived from a transcription of a tape made during a meeting with Edward TICHBORN in early June 1962 in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the meeting was to debrief TICHBORN concerning his opinions and experiences gained from a recent trip to El Salvador. TICHBORN spoke from notes for the first part of his report (pp 1-6) and answered specific questions for the remainder.
I would like to go into several of the things that I have previously covered in my report. First of all, I am happy to say that the radio schools started by BURON'S Group seemed to have gotten off to a very good start. There have been about 100 sets distributed so that there are about now something like 10,481 students enrolled in 1,000 of the radio schools. It's apparently had very good success. They publish books that go along with the radio classes. As you probably will remember, there was a literacy campaign that was fashioned after the idea that was promulgated by Father SALCEDO in Columbia. Interesting to me is the fact that the radio schools have received about 1,400 letters with suggestions and praise and various other commentaries. One of the problems they are having right now is there isn't a transmitter powerful enough to get much beyond the capital. I understand that a transmitter is on route and it would certainly be a big boon to them. It seems to me that the radio is probably the most effective way of getting out to the groups in the outlying areas. There are no newspapers to speak of, and once you get the listeners hooked on the radio, then of course, you can go from literacy campaigns into various other things we have in mind. Incidentally, these radios as you probably realize are on a fixed frequency, and the program is lead by a priest, named Father Manuel MOLINA SIERRA.

Speaking about the priest, it is interesting to note that there has apparently been a considerable shift in the attitude of the Catholic Church with respect to reforms in San Salvador. It would not be surprising to note that this is probably a hemisphere-wide, if not a world-wide attitude on the part of Pope John, the 23rd. You might even kind of correlate this to what is happening in Spain and also in Portugal. In El Salvador, itself, the Bishop issued a letter sometime back with the last several months calling for social reforms and for immediate changes within the social structure of El Salvador. As I mentioned to you earlier, it caused considerable consternation with the so-called ruling 14. As a matter of fact, the ambassador mentioned to me that they have been complaining recently that they have lost the big three pillars of strength that they had, the army, the Church, and the American Embassy. As was predictable and I think I mentioned this in my last report, the so-called 14 and some of
the less wealthy people in El Salvador have looked askance at the Alliance for Progress. I think you will remember that in my last report I predicted that we would have problems with respect to many reforms if they were to be the sine qua non of aid from the United States.

With respect to the Church, I think it might be a good idea to give some very detailed study as to how we can exploit to the best possible extent, the apparent change within the Church not only in El Salvador but all over Latin America. I think that it might be a thing that we should sit around or someone sit around for a considerable time trying to analyze all the ins and outs, and how we can fit this into the whole program of action in Latin America.

Now you ask me in our informal chats about the structure of these as far as the nationalities of the people involved in the hierarchy. I think it's in the upper structure, Spaniards and Italians, but in the lower structures most of the people are from El Salvador and some from Guatemala and that their natural inclination would be to go with the people. I think I mentioned in my earlier report that very frequently the priests in their early masses (say at 5:00, 6:00 or 7:00 a.m. would be attended naturally by the low-income groups) would ask for social changes and reforms. At the later masses, they would change the attitudes of their sermons because of the different economic complex of the people attending church. It's interesting to note that the Bishop's letter that was issued with respect to reforms got a very angry reaction from the 14.

Now one of the things that I note with respect to the general political atmosphere in San Salvador is that there seems to be a considerable confusion among the people with respect to some of these reforms. Let's take for example, the minimum salary. It is one of the cornerstones of reform by the present ruling JUNTA, and it will be carried through by President-elect RIVERA. As of right now, there seems to be a very calculated campaign on the part of business and on the part of financiers to confuse the people, and they have done a good job of it. I remember talking to many people asking them candidly, "what is this minimum salary all about?" Many of them told me the government has decided that they can be paid only so much and no more. In other words, they have really converted it into an idea that this is maximum salary. Also there has been a considerable laying off of all people in certain
factories and the reason being given, that the government now makes it impossible for us to keep a full staff, and therefore we are reducing. This, of course, could have very serious effects on any ability of the government to carry through its reforms with respect to minimum wage. Interesting enough, there are even people in the lower classes, who having been confused by what it means, are very definitely against the whole idea of minimum wage. I think, here again, it is a necessity for the government either to acquire a newspaper or to buy a considerable interest in one of them and also to do a job of publicizing and getting the message across with respect to the general class of laborers. However, I anticipate that this difficulty—that the people, with the economic power, are in a good position to at least partially sabotage this particular reform by the simple expedient of just laying people off and blaming it on the government. Let's face it, with respect to political reform in Latin America, the thing that is most meaningful to people is not political liberty, but "bread in the belly." We have got to constantly bear in mind that when we, with our own criteria of political liberties here in the United States, go into Latin America we have got to realize that sometimes the right to vote and the right to express our views is a meaningless concept to a peasant who really is worried about whether he gets one tortilla or two tortillas; it's the bread that is the biggest political factor in any part of Latin America. In this respect, it is interesting to note that whereas the last time I was in El Salvador there was a lot of talk about Fidel Castro that was just kind of spontaneous and extemporaneous on the part of some several hundred people that I talked to. This time I also went through many of the low-income barrios out in the countryside and talked to a great number of people, and a great number of them kept mentioning Martinez who was the president for about 10 to 12 years back, 1934 to 45. Many of them, particularly, the older people spoke rather nostalgically about the times of Martinez when there were jobs and when the prices were low and when even though the wages were low, you could buy a full meal and could get comparatively comfortable housing. Of course, it is known that Martinez is one of the worst tyrants that they have had there; and for a long time the thing they remember is not the repressive measures that he took, not the number of people that were slaughtered under his orders. The thing that is remembered now mostly is the fact that there were more jobs, that the prices were low, etc. We've got to constantly hear
in mind that the things that are mostly meaningful to these
groups of people is whether they are working, the price
structure, and just the general bare economic needs that are
met by any government. I want to talk now for a moment about
the Alianza para Progresso and some of my impressions about
how it's doing, not only in El Salvador, but in Guatemala and
some of the other countries that I observed. One of the most
immediate impressions that I get is during the last few months
is that the Alianza para Progresso has been terribly over
publicized. I think we made a serious mistake in arousing
expectations in Latin America that may not be met. As a
matter of fact, I know from talking with many of the people
there that the expectations they have simply are not within
the reckoning of what the United States has planned. I even
think it's unfortunate if we have a slogan, that the Alianza
para Progresso as a slogan is open to serious attacks both
humorously and satirically. As a matter of fact, already
many people even our friends are beginning to use the slogan
by way of criticism. I have in mind recently, that the foreign
minister of Honduras was in Mexico and in a public statement
said, "we have a lot of alliance but no progress." And of
course in the schools in El Salvador, there are all kinds of
turnings about twisting the words around by way of criticism.

What I mean by over publicizing and sloganizing is the
fact that almost all over Latin America, the newspapers are
reporting an outpouring of millions and millions of dollars,
and as you might expect they convert the figures into pesos,
or other local currency whatever you happen to be, so that
there is an announcement saying that the Alianza para Progresso
has allocated 10 million dollars and then they convert that
into 120 million pesos; it sounds like an awful lot of money.
Immediately people have grandiose ideas about what is going
to be done with all this money when in effect it is only a
request for that kind of money that has been done. We have,
basically speaking, still some problems among Congress as to
how much money is going to be allocated. Let me give you a
specific case about what I feel is an over publicizing of
the Alliance's program. In El Salvador there was an announce-
ment in the papers that three million dollars had been allo-
cated by the United States Government for the building of
schools. Now, 3 million dollars converted into local currency
is something like seven and half million colones. That's a
big sum of money down there and, of course, it got tremendous
play in all the newspapers. Well it turned out, what the
Alliance had in mind, along with the Junta, was to build one
hundred small schools. This would be 100 schools worth
around $30,000 a piece. Well, one of the model schools, right
now, is in the process of constructions in one of the neigh-
borhoods in El Salvador. While I was there, there was
considerable snide criticism by the press; by a lot of the population that this was a poor example of Alliance for Progress spending. It was a small school; it was within the desired $30,000 budget, but I am thinking that most of the people in El Salvador having talked about 7,500,000 colones, were expecting palaces to be built. Suddenly you have a very small school, and it was being criticized by the press; by the people at large. The next day, quite fortunately, the Minister of Education very obly took this issue and quieted it by saying: "We said we are going to build schools, not palaces." But I think that even this criticism could have been avoided had we announced rather that the expenditure of 3 million dollars or 7,500,000 colones, had we just announced that the Alliance for Progress, in cooperation with the El Salvador government, was going to build 100 small schools and say so without any more dressing it up, not even mention the amount of money that was going to be spent in total because then no one could expect more than a small school. Also I think it would have been better to have the first schools outside El Salvador, possibly in a little town like Santa Tecla or one of the other neighboring towns; and then build the school right next to the old school so that there would be a marked contrast in every way. You could see it immediately. Certainly there is always land available near all the old schools, and just destroy the old school when you've built the new one; and then really to do a public relations job, get statements from the teachers, from the students, and, perhaps, have the oldest school teacher in the neighborhood lay the cornerstone to the school. Really do a public relations job of it on a very personal basis rather than trying to stagger people with huge sums of money. This is what I mean by talking in huge figures when you can do a better job and arouse less expectation. When you have few expectations, almost anything is better; so I think if we talk little and act big, we're going to be much better off in the long run.

I think also a very highly over-publicized group is the Peace Corps. Here again, I think we're setting ourselves up for some possible difficulty. All of this publicizing is very good for consumption here in the United States; but in the world we're living in now, the same kind of propaganda gets outside the United States. Already there are all kinds of jokes about the Peace Corps. Its done a terrific job of publicizing here in this country. They get great coverage in
all the big picture magazines. In time there's going to be a musical comedy about the Peace Corps. All this is great stuff as far as the United States is concerned, but I'm afraid it is going to create serious problems abroad. Actually the actual observable benefit of the Peace Corps in the various areas will be very minimal when you consider, for example, they have about 29 people that will be in the Peace Corp in San Salvador. They're not going to be able to make much of a dent in separate communities, because they are separated. As I understand it, from talking to the manager of the Peace Corps for the Central American area; most of these kids will be alone in the villages they are going to, and whatever they do is not going to be very observable as far as the general population is concerned. Unfortunately, one of the things that we haven't yet learned in our thinking about these under-developed countries is the fact that we do such naive things as this: there is an elderly lady about 63 years of age that has been assigned to one of the small villages in southern El Salvador and her expertise is home economics. If you have ever been to one of these small villages and if you have seen that they subsist, and I say subsist, merely on a small supply of beans and maybe one or two tortillas; and the difference between the supply of one or two tortillas is a very meaningful one. When you start talking about balancing the diet and varying the diet and having a home economics expert to teach them this, this gets pretty ironic. This is precisely the thing that could easily be open to criticism and easily open to satire. I can imagine if I were someone in a position of Dr. Jose Rodriguez Ruiz, who was a very left leaning Dean of the School of Economics in El Salvador—if I really wanted to cede on one issue and ridicule it, I would talk about this person who was an expert on home economics; balanced dieting; and how many vegetables you should have; what variety of vegetables, how much cottage cheese you should have; and the whole thing in the balanced diet. I could murder this whole thing in very short time and make it very ridiculous.

I think these are things that we've got to think about. We've got to think about all the possible weaknesses, how this thing can be turned around. I know that in the United States, I know that in the hometown of this woman (she's from Nebraska) it sounds absolutely marvelous, and this home economics expert is going down to a little Latin American country and tell them all about home economics, but from the point of view of the Latin American it's sheer irony and it's susceptible to attack.
With respect to your question about the influence of the Church with the campesinos in other parts of the community, I think that it's probably true all over Latin America that the Church has great influence on the thinking of the population. It's interesting to note that in San Salvador and Mexico the real churchgoers are the women and not the men, but the men are very certain that their wives go to church so that they're their surrogates and that they take their children along with them. Although they are not great churchgoers, I think they are Catholics and are greatly influenced by the priests.

You asked whether the people in El Salvador are aware that there have been food shortages in Cuba and that the Castro program is undergoing serious difficulties and the answer to that is "yes". As a matter of fact I was interested in this when I talked to various people, including cab drivers and boys that shine your shoes, people working in the markets, and some of the campesinos. There is an awareness, certainly in the city, that Castro is having his difficulties. One of the things that is interesting and, of course, I think this may be referable to their Church influence, is that the word Communism per se still has a serious effect on people. I think it's one of the things they talk about--social reform, etc., etc., but, the tag Communism is still a very harsh tag in the Latin American mind. I think this is one of the serious errors Castro made from his point of view was to declare himself a Communist and a Marxist-Leninist because many people that might have gone along with him at that moment got frightened off. There is an awareness that he is having troubles and that the Revolution hasn't gone along the way it has. Also there was a lot of talk among a certain group of people that I talked with--these were some workers from a textile mill, that there had been an awful lot of killing that was done by Castro. Apparently, there had been pictures of a lot of executions in some of the Latin American newspapers; and this has had an effect on them.

With respect to the government prosecuting anyone for violation of the minimum wage law: As far as I understand, it's still in its infancy. I think the belief of the government is that if they start to impose any violations this might have a serious effect in getting the program across. But in this respect, I'd like to mention the seventh day wage that was passed about a year ago when I
was in Salvador apparently is working fairly well. You'll recall that this was accepting with the Bible that if anyone worked for six days (this was referable to the campesinos) he was entitled to the seventh day pay. I was worried at the time and mentioned my worries to Choretic (Phenetic) and also the Minister of Economics who was at breakfast with us at that time, that one of the possible dangers of any reform is that it is not carried through intelligently and forcibly. It is better not to have a reform, not to announce a new idea, not to arouse expectations, if there is going to be violation of those expectations. At that time it was contemplated that the army would administer the program of the seventh day pay. Apparently they have changed their mind on that and have a civilian group that is administering the program; there has been no real scandal with respect to violations of this. I was a little fearful that a local army guy would get paid off by some of the big plantation owners and thus be permitted to do all kinds of violations. Apparently this has not happened, and they've been pretty effective in the administration.

My big objection at that time was that again the minimum salary thing was not properly publicized. They could have had all kinds of radio and television programs, interviews with the campesinos, and asked them what they felt about this and actually doing that kind of public relations job which they did not do. I think this is true with all these reforms. I think that they have got to be brought to the people where you get reaction from the people as to the extent of the change, any reform has on their personal existence. This again is a matter of attitude, a matter of technique in public relations.

Well, it is certainly true that there has been a considerable amount of publicity about the Alianza para Progresso. I was not aware that it was this specific group that was pushing the program of publication. However, harking back to a previous statement, I think that there is a serious possibility that over publicizing of the Alianza will cause more trouble than we can at present anticipate. As a matter of fact some of the problems are already beginning to arise. I had a long talk with Ambassador Williams on this, and I think we both agreed that we ought to soft pedal much of the talk about the Alianza; and certainly to stay away from these enormous figures of millions of dollars. As far as the people in Latin America
are concerned they really think the world is going to change overnight and expect it to change overnight. When the changes aren't forthcoming, they are going to be very embittered and we may possibly create enemies we need not have had.

I have in mind talking with one man; he was a newspaper vendor and I happened to see a headline about the Alianza para Progreso, and this of course gave me an opening to talk to him about it. I said, "What is this going to mean to you?" He said, "I understand they are going to give me a new house." Someone standing close to him said, "What do you mean—they're going to give you a house," and they actually had an argument about the thing. The man selling the newspapers insisting that's what they were going to do—build him a new house, etc. The other man saying that's all propaganda, it's all demagogy; they say this all the time and nothing is going to occur. The chances are very strong that this man will not get into a house. The chances are almost equally strong that he won't even get an apartment because you cannot possibly meet the housing shortage in such a place as San Salvador, where I doubt more than 10% of the people have adequate hygienic dwellings. So here again, well at least, this newspaper vendor has gotten an enormously overblown notion about what we're going to do. It may be that in his particular case, he is more aware of the Alianza and more aware of the million dollars because he is selling newspapers and magazines and he is reading about it all the time. Here again I think is one of the dangers with respect to the publicity about the Alianza.

I think I mentioned in my report about a year ago it might be a good idea to get some experts in public relations, and that they might be recruited from such places as Mexico and Puerto Rico where you have people who have worked with either government agencies, with some of our embassies, or with some of the public relations firms such as General Rubicam & Noble Advertising and other very widely-known public relations groups in Latin America. I think it might be a good idea for the government to have someone counseling him and particularly on any wide shifts of policy on how to present it to the public. I think it would be an enormously effective way in presenting the programs of the government, and it would be a good investment they could make at this point. And I don't just mean getting the
ordinary Madison Avenue slick. I think it ought to be a person who has had some experience dealing with the Latin American temperament because any program has to arise out of the psyche of the people that are being dealt with.

Incidentally, I did see some of the pictures and some of the coverage that was given Rivera during his election campaign and whoever handled that, I think, was very effective; and I've suggested to the Ambassador that he might suggest that the same people or person he retained to accompany Rivera into his position as president.

I think one of the key persons with respect to the left in El Salvador is the Dean of the School of Economics whose name is Jose Rodriguez Puiiz. He is also the son of the president of the University. Now first a word about the young son—he gave a lecture on Marxism one of the nights I was there, and I went to the lecture. The hall was filled to capacity; there were people standing in the doorways, and I would estimate there were 400 or 500 people there. It was a rather interesting experience because from what I heard I had been led to believe that it would be kind of a rabble rouser and that he would try to instigate the people into action. Actually what I saw was—personally it was very moving, really. He has kind of the manner of a priest. His voice tends to tremble at first; but as he got more involved, he lost the tremor in his voice and sounded more like a very intense professor. The interesting thing was when he spoke about the United States, it was more in symbolic terms; there was nothing of real harsh personal rancor either in his voice, his manner, or in what he was actually saying; but it was almost as if he were referring to an abstraction of the United States. He didn't take off on the Ambassador personally. He just talked about American ambassadors and he was bitter, less inclined to be sarcastic than merely bitter. He is a very effective human being. I note as I sat there, he moved the audience that he had, emotionally. I could see one of them kind of swallowing and the tears running down eyes of the girl to the left of me. There was really no attempt to rabble rouse as such, there was no attempt to get the people out in the streets as it were. Toward the end he made a very interesting statement—he said: "We know that there are changes necessary, we know that we have got to free ourselves of the imperialist yoke of the United States, and we know that these changes have got to come through us; no one is going to help us but ourselves," but he says in making those
changes come about, let us be careful that we do not ruin and that we do not set back our program by taking precipitous action, without plan. Suddenly, it came almost as a jarring note, he said—well perhaps we're not ready to act yet, but whatever we do, we've got to do it reasonably so that we don't lose the revolution as such. I don't know whether he had reference to the fact that maybe in Cuba the revolution did not work because certainly he was very pro Castro. I think that there was a kind of note of wariness in his talk, and it is interesting.

I suggested to the ambassador that it might be a good idea for him to set up a meeting with Guillermo Moscoso with the older Jose Napoleon Rodriguez Ruiz who was the rector of the University, and possibly ask this younger fellow, the Dean of the School of Economics to come along and try in effect to have Moscoso say, "Look, I know you probably disagree with a lot that we're doing and you are very skeptical about the Alianza para Progresso; you're very skeptical about the United States per se. Maybe in many senses you're right, maybe in the past you had reason to feel that there has been imperialism, but we want to indicate to you that we have a change of attitude and just give us a chance and I need your counsel and you're an economist and I want to know. I realize that we may disagree, but I wanted to meet you anyway." I think that there is a possibility that a person in his frame of mind and I say this is only a possibility and it may be very minimal as a possibility; but there is a chance that we may be able to recreate some kind of tie with him so that he is not as bitter and antagonistic. I do not think, at least from hearing that lecture, that evening that he is entirely beyond the pale; and bear in mind that there were no Americans, there was no one in the audience (that I could detect at least) who were not from El Salvador itself. I realize that there may be various opinions with respect to this, but I did suggest it to the ambassador. He thought it might be a good idea and he may very well do that.

Apparently the father, Jose Rodriguez Ruiz, Sr. (Napoleon), is a person who is approachable. He is not as far to the left as his son. He is a liberal, but he is not considered a Communist. There is, I understand, something in the Embassy about him, but apparently it has been checked out and it is felt that he is not a Communist. In any event, there has been an invitation extended to him to come to the United States. I think, as a matter of fact, that with many of these people that if they were to come to
the United States and given some kind of chance to observe the United States first hand, they would be less bitter about us. I think that they have adopted some very domestic notions about us; they believe some of what they see in the movies; kinds of snatches of newsreels about the situation in the South. Actually, they have a very distorted notion, and some of it is a very sincere distorted notion. They really believe some of the things they've heard. I think if they would see us first hand they might feel differently. Just as I think sometimes when a lot of these fellows go to Russia or Cuba, they come back disillusioned that it isn't what they have been told it is. I know that I've talked to some people in Mexico who have seen Cuba first hand during the last year and have had noticeable changes of mind as to what it is. It's one thing to hear all the good things that the leftists say about a thing, but it's another thing when you actually go there and observe some of the tyrannical atmosphere. I think the same thing is true on the reverse that you can disillusion people by sending them to Russia or to Cuba or behind the Iron Curtain. Just as sometimes you can rub away some of the misimpressions, erroneous impressions by sending people to the United States and having them live on a campus for example, such as Cambridge, Michigan, or any such place where they can see first hand that we're not the oppressors that they have been led to believe for a long time. Much of this is really lack of exposure.

During the time that I was in El Salvador about 10 days ago, there arose a serious problem of the deportation of Salvadorans from Honduras; and it was all over the newspapers, and very strong statements were issued both in the editorials and by people over the radio about chasing out some of the Salvadorans that had been working in Honduras for a long time. Apparently there has been a rapprochement; there were meetings between the foreign ministers and I think the problem may be resolved.

It's interesting to note that El Salvador is the most heavily populated country of Central America. I think they have a population of about 120 per square mile, whereas Honduras and Nicaragua have something like 15 or 17 per square mile. Therefore, you have a very definite problem of space and overpopulation in San Salvador. The other thing is traditionally the people of San Salvador are supposed to be the hardest workers in Central America. I remember that Antonio Rivera, a very well-known attorney in San Salvador, said that the Salvadorans were referred to as the
Japanese of Central America because they're the tough workers. Also there is a considerable amount of Salvadoran capital that is in various industries throughout Central America which is an interesting thing to me. The comparison to the Japanese seems to be very appropriate in this situation.

I think that the real focus of trouble, if there is going to be any, would be either the Labor unions or I think more particularly in the University. My feelings about Central America, generally, is that your revolutions do not come from the campesinos or they do not even come from the lower classes. They generally are the middle-class groups or the low-middle-class groups. I think in Havana, for example, Batista was overthrown, not by the campesinos but by the middle classes; and then the campesinos came in afterwards because there was very little doing outside of Havana even in the Sierra Madres, there was only Castro with a small group of people. When Batista really fell is when he had so damn much trouble inside of Havana. He fled and left because he was having problems of sabotage in Havana itself and not because Castro was seriously threatening him from the Sierra Madres, for he had actually withdrawn about a month before, if you recall.

I think with respect to the situation in Santo Domingo, here again Union Civica Nacional was made up by the intellectuals and by the middle classes and not by the campesinos. As a matter of fact, Trujillo has tremendous support and adulation among many of the campesinos and his real basic political strength was from the low economic groups. As a matter of fact the Secret Police was recruited from the lower barrios where he had the toughest little juvenile delinquents you could imagine as a Secret Police, and this was a real force. The interesting thing is that right after Trujillo died, the first big mass meeting that his son had was in the poorest barrio in Santo Domingo because he knew that's where Trujillo still had basic strength.

I think the same thing is true in San Salvador. I don't think it will be the campesinos that will give you the trouble; it will be the students. With respect to the student situation, I think they might borrow leaf from PRI's book in dealing with the students. I think the government ought to make a very strong attempt to form a liaison with the universities and whenever they get some apt pupils to give them a job in the government, to bring them into the various positions within the government and the same thing with professors, to have them as economic advisors.
wherever they can. They're human beings—once, they'll be flattered and another thing, they'll need the money. I think one of the things that might be helpful with respect to the situation in the universities is to try and catch some of these students in the high school level. I suggested to the ambassador, a plan that would be something comparable to the Rotary Club's scholarships that are given in Colorado. I remember that when I was going through high school, I was given $10 a month by the Rotary Club and I was given a sponsor. I used to meet him once a month and we'd have lunch. I remember this very strongly because it was meaningful to me to have this kind of relationship. I think that many of the businessmen in San Salvador could get the bright young guys in the high schools who are actually the guys who become the effective leaders in the college. Get them on the high school level and become friends with them. Once they have gotten to know some of the people who are supposed to be the ogres that they later talk about, and have had some actual financial help from them; they are more apt to be approachable. At least the person who has been their sponsor during the time in high school can approach them. I think we have got to start working on this at a stage before they get to the university. Your leaders can be spotted, the people who are going to be your most effective in colleges can be spotted in the high schools. I think that is the time to start bringing some of the people in close contact with the government, also the business community. I talked to the ambassador about this and he said he felt it was a good idea and was going to talk to some of the people about it. I think, bearing in mind, that the universities are really power seats in many of the Latin American countries. We have got them to accept this as a starting point and then work with this and find out what are the elements that produce the leaders and when do the leaders first become observable and try to catch them at the earliest possible time. I think it would ameliorate much of the situation with respect to the students. The other thing (still on the university thing) I've observed in places that I have been is that the newspapers in these universities really are not newspapers. I think the leftist newspapers are really truly ineffective as far as appealing to the middle span. The same thing with the rightist, you have either the right or the left. The Catholics, generally speaking, have newspapers that are more costly; and they are very dogmatic to the right. Then you have the leftist students who have poorly printed or poorly mimeographed newspapers to the left. I suspect that the vast number of students who are in the middle never have any newspapers and here,
I think, is a fertile field for us to get into the act. I saw a newspaper in El Salvador called the Daily News; it's an American newspaper. I don't know who is the editor of it, but it is really truly a newspaper and it's a good job. It is well edited; it is a newsy periodical and I think it could be used as a format for many of the newspapers in some of these Central American universities. In Mexico I think you would have to have a printed newspaper because there are more resources, but a lot can be done with mimeographed newspapers if they are made into newspapers. My suggestion would be that you have actual news, gossip columns in these newspapers about who is going with whom and all that sort of stuff, have student programs, have actual news about lectures that are given; and make it about two-thirds news and about only one-third editorial. Once you get people in as readers then they will read some of your editorial comment. Also it can become the organ to the middle because none of the middle groups in any of the universities I have ever seen have a newspaper that speaks for them. I think, for example, and I mentioned this to Dave Phillips and Bill Carlson in Mexico, that there isn't an effective student newspaper at the University of Mexico. This is a place where you have 83,000 students and this is the growing middle class, these are the spokesmen. They don't have a newspaper, and I think it might be a good idea, for example, to have some kind of symposium in El Salvador where you invite prospective editors of student newspapers to study the techniques of typography; to study the techniques of what makes a newspaper readable. Actually La Quincena that is published in Mexico, for example, is obviously a political tract. There isn't one single article that appears that doesn't have a political pitch, a very strong anti-leftist pitch. Frankly, it is a boring newspaper and typographically it looks very presentable; it's an expensive project. Interesting enough in the third issue of it they had a big editorial page saying we are not supported by the American Embassy. We have gathered our own funds, etc. Well, "He thinketh thou protestest too loudly," is certainly true in that situation. As I understand it we are not really sponsoring the newspaper, but it has the look of it. None of these newspapers have any ads or anything of this nature. I think that when you don't have any ads or you don't have any (parental where-with-all) it is always suspected of being a paid-for newspaper. I think even in these little mimeograph sheets we could always find people who would give a nominal sum, say even a dollar a month, for just
an ad just so you could use an ad advertising their book store or dry goods store to give it the appearance of a newspaper that is making its own go and it is not just a paid-for propaganda piece. I think there is a great need for these kinds of newspapers in all of these universities. I would be tickled to death, as a matter of fact, for I have a special interest in this thing, to give whatever help I can. I know that the Ambassador in Salvador is very interested in this. He is a former newspaper editor. He edited the student newspaper and of course it hit him immediately as a good idea. I edited a student newspaper and perhaps that is why I am especially aware of this kind of thing, but I think we've missed the boat many years in this. I think even if we have to edit the newspaper ourselves, these organs should be in the universities.
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MEMORANDUM: of Contact and Conversation Date 5 June 1962

SUBJECT: Henry Lopez

1. Messrs. Dick Onderkirk and Porter Goss contacted Subject at the Shoreham Hotel in room 506 N on 5 June to debrief him on his current travel in El Salvador. Subject will be in Washington until Thursday, 7 June. At the Subject's request a further briefing will take place Wednesday, 6 June at 0930 hours with the benefit of a tape recorder. Subject believed that there was sufficient material to warrant a detailed question and answer type discussion and stated that he preferred this form reporting.

2. During the course of luncheon, at which the majority of the meeting was conducted, the following items of interest were brought out in conversation. Most topics were discussed in generalities in view of the arranged formal briefing scheduled for the following morning with a recorder.

   a) Subject feels that there is a chance for real stability in the Rivera government with the proper support from the US Government.

   b) Subject stated that a slight disparity existed in the direction being taken between the State Dept (Ambassador) on the one hand and the COS on the other. Specifically, Subject believed that COS was supporting elements too far to the right.

   c) The military is apparently a true "third force" and not aligned with the U.S. families, but broken up into conservative senior officers and an emerging more liberal junior officer corps. Subject believed that there may be a possibility of getting to the campesinos through the liberal element of the military, but not to the U.S. families.

   d) U.S. families are becoming isolated and have neither the full support of the church, the military, or the government. The attitude toward the minimum wage rate of the Rivera government seems to be "pay one half as many twice as much." The cooperation of the U.S. families is needed for the econo...
development of the country, but as of now they are all the way right. As for the minimum wage concept, the campesinos apparently do not grasp it a meaning.

e) The church is not so far right that it supports the 1% families and it is tending more towards the relative left.

f) The Alliance for Progress has been badly handled, as have some of the activities of the Peace Corps. Subject believes that too much has been promised through propaganda already without corresponding results. He believes the danger of the program falling into ridicule is great if the US continues to promise only, or continues its badly managed publicity play program.

g) Discussion of the student University papers yielded Subject's opinion that they are largely ineffective because they deal in polemics rather than fact and news items, and because the ones with too good format are obviously US puppets.

h) Less conversation about Fidel Castro is evident in public, although the Fidel movement is still to be reckoned with. Recently there has been a resurgence of the Martinez - dictator of the 1950's - good old days when everybody had a job. This sentiment was very expressed by some campesinos.

3. Subject mentioned that he had both high and low level contacts in El Salvador and had managed to get a reading of public opinion and private belief. Apparently it is a mistake for Rivera to delay the inauguration so long after the election, at which time a favorable image of the Col was successfully kept before the public, but which is now wearing off.

4. Subject proposed the following courses of action in certain fields that were discussed in more depth.

c) Radio is the best means of communication with the campesinos. Subject was impressed with the results of the operation run by the Catholic priest in Bolivia using pre-beamed radios. He considers that a similar operation
would be extremely valuable if properly handled.

b) Recommends that the Li families be approached on a millionaire to
millionaire basis to cooperate with a reasonable reformist movement.

(c) That the son of Rodriguez, son, is head of the Economics
Dept at the University—be approached by Moscoso and himself and asked
to cooperate for at least a year's trial basis. The son is a very moving
orator, but Marxist oriented, and skeptical about the success of the
Alliance, but not an inflammatory type—would be a fair contestant in any issue.

d) That an effective student/youth newspaper be developed which
is a newspaper and not a propaganda sheet, which appeals to the student
body.

e) That he use his newly formed contacts—the Minister of Public
Works—Julio A. — to get an introduction to Rivera when he is
in Washington. Subject claims a very intimate relationship with Julio
in Washington that would provide a close contact with Rivera.
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1. TICHBORN RETURNED MEXI 25 MAY AFTER COMPLETING SURVEY SALV POLITICAL AND EDUCATIONAL FIELDS AND HOLDING DISCUSSIONS SALV ODACID CHIEF AND COS. TICHBORN REPORTS SALV SURVEY HIGHLY COMPLEX AND AS RECOMMENDED IN SALV, HE REQUESTS APPROX TWO DAY CONSULTATION HQS TO PRESENT HIS REPORT, DISCUSS SALV DEVELOPMENTS AND DEVISE POSSIBLE ACTION PROGRAM.

2. FOR SALV HQS: ADVISE CONCURRENCE TICHBORN HQS CONSULTATION TO BEGIN APPROX 4 JUNE.

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CS COMMENT: TICHBORN WOULD ARRIVE SALV 16 MAY.
1. The Station had been aware of KELICH's association with Congressmen since 1958. Frankly, however, the Station was not aware of the extent to which KELICH engaged in political election activities until receipt of Reference and a discussion with KELICH's Headquarters is correct in considering him qualified for political action operations involving elections.

2. Perhaps Station Mexico's comments were colored by the desire not to lose KELICH's services too temporarily. His cover occupation as a professor at the National University makes it difficult for him to leave classes for CIA assignments. He is also handling the Station operations. One of them, LUCAS, involves meetings with his Station officers at least three times a week. In these circumstances, such as the present student strike situation, KELICH and the Station staff officers must meet daily.

3. Also pertinent is the fact that Howard C. TICHERN has qualifications in the election field which are certainly superior to KELICH's. (See RH-00417 for Headquarters evaluation.) Furthermore, Station Mexico has understood that TICHERN's assignment in Mexico was based on the premise that he would be on hand for just such assignments. Although Station Mexico is using TICHERN, it has constantly been in mind that he may be called on to travel at any moment, as he is doing this date in the States. Finally, the Station feels strongly that TICHERN is a personability better suited to such assignments.

4. In summary, KELICH will be available for any assignment in any area requested by Headquarters. At the same time, Station Mexico will appreciate Headquarters consideration of TICHERN for such assignments, for the reasons stated above.

Villard C. Curtis

18 May 1962

Matters:
1 = OUD
2 = Files
RE DIR 09174 (OUT 81006)*

TICHBORN WILL ARRIVE 16 MAY VIA PAA AT 1210.

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C/3 COMMENT: HQS CONCURRED TICHBORN TDY SALV TO REAPPRAISE POLIT SIT.
TO: SAN SALVADOR, MEXICO-CITY
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WH 8
INFO: CA 2, CA/PRG, S/C 2

TO: SALV
INFO: NEXTI

REP: SALV 4099 (IN 31340)*

1. HQS CONCURS TICHBORN TDY SALV PER REP REQUEST.
2. NEXTI: PLS ADVISE SALV DATES TICHBORN AVAILABLE.

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UNI COMMENT: Ambassador Williams requests Edward G. Tichborn travel Salvador to reappraise political situation.
DIR INFO RIOD CITE MEXI-0414

ALSHOOP

REF: RIOD 6974 (CIV 68985)*

FYI: DUE PLANNED PERSONAL BUSINESS TRIP IN LOS ANGELES FROM 2 THRU 9 APRIL, LOPEZ AVAILABLE FOR REF TRIP ANY TIME THEREAFTER.

IN CONSIDERING COVER POSSIBILITIES FOR REF TRIP, HQS MAY WISH TO UTILIZE LEGITIMATE LOPEZ COVER AS LAWYER WHO NOW REPRESENTING MEXI-U.S. BUSINESS INTERESTS IN PROMOTING LA INDUSTRIAL USE NEW COFFEE BEAN REFINING MACHINE.

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C/S COMMENT: *REQUESTED BACKGROUND CAPABILITIES AND COVER FOR MR. LOPEZ.
TO: RIO DE JANEIRO
FROM: DIRECTOR
CONF: WH 8
INFO: CCG 2, C1, C1/GPS, C1/0A, S/C 2

PRIORITIES

1. EDWARD O. TICHBORN (P) IS KUBARK CONTRACT AGENT RESIDENT MEXI.
   BORN DENVER 1920 OF MEXICAN PARENTS, ACTIVE SEVERAL YEARS CALIFORNIA
   STATE POLITICS MOST RECENTLY DURING KENNEDY CAMPAIGN AND AS PRESIDENT
   YOUNG DEMOCRATS CLUB. WAS MANAGER CAMPAIGNS JAMES ROOSEVELT AND HELEN
   GAGAN DOUGLAS IN EARLY FIFTIES AND WAS 1958 CANDIDATE FOR CALIFORNIA
   SECRETARY OF STATE WHICH CAMPAIGN HE LOST DESPITE GETTING MORE VOTES IN
   LOS ANGELES AREA THAN ANY DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR ANY OFFICE IN HISTORY.

2. TICHBORN HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED VALUABLE POLITICAL ASSESSMENT
   ASSIGNMENTS IN CUBA, EL SALVADOR AND DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. HE IS PERSONABLE,
   INTELLIGENT, SHREWDED, AGGRESSIVE AND APPEARS TO HAVE WELL-DEVELOPED
   SECURITY SENSE. HE OPERATIONALY INVOLVED MEXI BUT GENERALLY AVAILABLE FOR
   SHORT (UP TO TWO WEEKS) ASSIGNMENTS ELSEWHERE. HIS COVERS AS INDEPENDENT
   LAWYER WITH BUSINESS CLIENTS AND MEXI OFFICES IN LOS ANGELES AND MEXI AND AS
   EMPLOYEE TELEVISION FILM PRODUCER MEXI GIVE HIM MOBILITY THROUGHOUT SPANISH

COORDINATING OFFICER

REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
AMERICA. EGS UNABLE DETERMINE SUITABILITY HIS COVER FOR BRAZIL.

3. RIOD SHOULD DECIDE FEASIBILITY USE TICHBORN BRAZIL AFTER CONSIDER-
ATION OF TICHBORN'S EVALUATION HIS COVER WHICH MOST REQUESTED CABLE RIOD
SECRET.

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VII COMMENT: EGS REQUESTED BACKGROUND, CAPABILITIES, COVER TICHBORN.
PRITY DIR INFO PRITY MEXI CITE RIOD 6974

ALSWOOP

REF DIR 49629 (C/3745)

STATION DOES NOT HAVE KNOWLEDGE CAPABILITIES MR. LOPEZ.

REQUESTED VISIT ON ADVICE MR. LEE SMITH WHO NO LONGER HERE.

IN VIEW SERIOUS SECURITY HAZARDS NOW BECOMING EVIDENT BELIEVE

LOPEZ VISIT REQUIRES DETAILED PLANNING. THEREFORE, REQUEST

CABLE HIS BACKGROUND, CAPABILITIES AND COVER.

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C/S COMMENT: *REQUESTED CABLE DECISION RE MOST EFFECTIVE TIME FOR LOPEZ

VISIT TO BRAZIL.
1. In February or March 1961 Subject, a contract agent (Identity under separate cover) presently based in Mexico, was sent on TDY to El Salvador to make a private evaluation of general social, economic and political conditions in that country. Upon his return, Subject wrote a lengthy report which has been useful as background information concerning El Salvador as of early 1961.

2. On an official visit to El Salvador in early February 1962, the Chief, HUMINT Support, visited Ambassador Williams. The Ambassador said that he was pleased with Subject's accomplishments during the visit described in paragraph 1, above, and requested that Subject again present to El Salvador on TDY. This is the first word to reach Headquarters that the Ambassador had expressed such a desire.

3. The CGS, San Salvador is requested to ascertain what specific tasks the Ambassador has in mind for Subject at this time.

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Attachment:
Identity, u/s/c

Distribution:
2 - San Salvador, w/att as noted
2 - Mexico City, w/att as noted
IDENTITY

Henry Lopez

Separate cover attachment - 2025-1326

Dated - 26 February 1962

SECRET
| TO: | DATE | METHOD | OFFICER'S INITIALS | COMMENTS |
|-----|------|--------|-------------------|----------|
| C/WR/3 | 2 FEB 1962 |        |                   | Please detach your copy |
| DC/USD |      |        |                   | 1-3: I don't know why he wants copies at this time |
| C/WR/3 |      |        |                   | 4-6: I do see me |
|        |      |        |                   | 3 & 4: We should get the station to find out the purpose of the proposed visit |

Niles - file required and force sheet in advertising charts
MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WMD

SUBJECT: Request from Ambassador Williams, El Salvador

1. While visiting with Ambassador Williams and the COS during my recent trip to San Salvador, the Ambassador mentioned the good work done by Mr. Henry Lopez whom the Agency had sent to El Salvador for TDY.

2. The Ambassador was so pleased with the accomplishments of Mr. Lopez that he asked me to convey to you his desire that Mr. Lopez be sent again on TDY.

PAUL E. ARNISON
Chief, WE Support
DUE PERSONAL COVER BUSINESS COMMITMENTS AND RELATED SECURITY ASPECTS, TICHBORN REPORTS REF TRIP FOR APPROX TWO MONTH PERIOD EXTREMELY DIFFICULT ARRANGE. IN ADDITION, TICHBORN, IN ABSENCE RIKON, NOW HANDLING LILISP C, OTHER RELATED STUDENT OPS WHICH REQUIRE FREQUENT CONTACTS. STA SUGGESTS, WITH TICHBORN CONCURRENCE, IF OP REQUIREMENTS PER REF STILL ABLE BE FULFILLED, TICHBORN COULD ARRANGE LOCAL ACTIVITIES PERMIT WEEK-TEN DAY COLOMBIAN VISIT DURING MID FEB WITH FOLLOW-UP WEEK-TEN DAY VISIT IN MARCH.

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C/S COMMENT: QUERIED IF SUBJ AVAILABLE GO COLOMBIA ASSIST STA PLANNING CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS.