[1]104-10330-10010} | 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
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[5]15 May 1995
[7]FOR: David Marwell
[8]_ Executive Director, ARRB
[10]FROM: _John Pereira
[11]CIA/Historical Review Group
[13]SUBJECT: Mexico City/Sensitive Information
[17]The Directorate of Operations prepared the attached
[18]statement to assist the Assassination Records Review Board.
[19]The statement explains the sensitivity of the records
[20]related to telephone tap operations in Mexico City. This
[21]may help provide a perspective for further discussions on
[22]the subject. |
[24]John Pereira |
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[40]SUBJECT: Release of Information on Mexico City Teltaps
[42]1. Protection of sources and methods nd liaison equities \
[43]require that references to the Mexico City Station teltap
[45]activity be excised from any documents released under the
[46]auspices of the JFK Assassination Record Collection Act of 1992.
[47]While the teltap activity mentioned in the documents under review
[48]occurred some thirty plus years ago, <the joint teltap operation)
[49](with Mexican liaison has never been terminated; it continues to
[51][this day in a slightly different rent form. [7 ee
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[53]2. Release of any information that would constitute
[55]official USG acknowledgment of the existencefof the joint_teltap 4
[56]@perabken would Rave a sérious adverse impact on cufrent
[58]“eperations. Relations between the Station and the hiaison
[59]service would be affected, with the likely outcome of ——
[60]discouraging liaison from cooperating in similar ventures in the>
[61]future with Mexico City Station. Official acknowledgment of the
[62]existence of the joint teltap in the 1960's would embarrass the
[63]liaison sevice given Mexicots strong brand of nationalism and
[64]sensitivity towards the issue of sovereignty vis a vis the on ad
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[68]States. The service probably would terminate its cooperation fr
[69](with ‘the Station on the current joint teltap operation in order’:
[70]wto be ‘able to defend itself against domestic criticsy~ a
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