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104-10065-10047 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/31/1978)

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          CONF: C/LA-8        INFO: FILE, VR, DDOM1-, C/CI m C/EPS/EG-2, C/OG/DMS,
          C/PCS, C/SIA, C/SIA/FL, DDO/DO, ODPD-D, OLC, S   0/    (27/P)


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               1.  HQS RECORDS SHOW THAT A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE HOUSE SELECT
          COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) REVIEWED FILE ON WKSCARLET-3 ON
       -  6 FEBRUARY 1978,  HSCA MEMBERS, ARRIVING IN
          CARACAS ON 1 JUNE, WILL PROBABLY BE AWARE
          OF OUR FORMER RELATIONSHIP WITH W-3,.
          UNDER AGREEMENT WITH HSCA, THEY ARE NOT TO CONTACT OR
          INTERVIEW AGENTS, PAST OR PRESENT,
          TO DATE NO REQUEST HAS BEEN RECEIVED AT HOS,

               2,  IN EVENT THAT HSCA MEMBERS NOT AWARE OF OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH
          W3,  WE BELIEVE AMBASSADOR SHOULD TELL HSCA MEMBERS THAT W-3 WAS
          FORMER RTACTION AGENT AND HELD SENSITIVE POSITION WITHIN GOV,  HE
          SHOULD URGE MEMBERS TO FOREGO INTERVIEW WITH W*3,
          AND EXPLAIN, IF NECESSARY, THAT
          UNINTENTIONAL LEAK (BUGGED ROOM, W-3 INDISCRETION DURING INTERVIEW
          AND IN EARSHOT OF GOV OFFICIAL) OF W3tS  PAST CLANDESTINE RELATIONSHIP
          WITH RTACTION, WHILE HE HELD SENSITIVE GOV POSITION, COULD EMBARRASS
          EMBASSY AND WOULD LK     R    T IN FURTHER STRAIN IN RTACTION
          RELATIONSHIP WITHL               IN OPEN VENEZUELAN PRESS, THIS COULD
          MAKE SENSATIONAL READING DURING ELECTION YEAR,

                3,  IF COMMITTEE PERSISTS ON INTERVIEW WITH W*3, NOTWITH-
          STANDING HSCA AGREEMENT WITH RTACTION, AMBASSADOR SHOULD STATE
          THAT EXCEPTION BEING MADE IN THIS ONE CASE DUE TO 1q65 ALLEGATION
          RE W-3 INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINATION PLOT AGAINST CASTRO AND
          . IN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES, AMBASSADOR SHOULD CAUTION THEM TO USE
          DISCRETION IN TALKING WITH w*3 AND TO REFRAIN FROM ANY DISCUSSION
          RELATING TO Wc3'S PAST ASSOCIATION AND ACTIVITIES WITH RTACTION,
          AMBASSADOR COULD ALSO COMMENT THAT DEPTS pF JUSTICE AND STATE ARE
          FULLY AWARE OF W*3'S PAST CONTACT WITH RTACTION AND THAT SIMILAR
          INFO COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO COMMITTEE BY HQS, ON REQUEST,

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