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104-10250-10179 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (4/9/1956)

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    * .  R FORM NO. 64


      Ofice- Memorandum

      TO    : Deputy Director (I0)OJ1>
              Deputy Director (PPSk

      FROM    Deputy Director of Security


      suBJE:  BALMS, Hidalgo


        1,
He has been
Subject was
an informant


*  UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT


                   DATE: 9 April 1956


Subject is presently serving in       n a Contract Agent status.
disapproved by this Office for conversion to staff employment.
formerly a member of the Communist Party and worked for the FBI as


        2.  1r. Foley and Lr. Hall of the Internal Security Division, Department
of Justice, have been in contact with Colonel King, WH, and Mr. Houston, rela-
tive to testimony subject may give in court on the Eugene Dennis case. It was
agreed between Colonel King, Mr. Houston, and myself that subject's testimony
might very well involve this Agency if the defense counsel tried to inject into
the court record subject's employment with this Agency for the past several
years.  King advised that subject's cover is not very strong and the CIA re-
lationship might well be established in court. Subject would came under heavy
attack from the defense counsel in view of his having served as an informant
to the FBI.

        3.  It was agreed that Foley and Hall of Justicp will be contacted
and advised that we will bring the subject fro4        o the States for an
interview by Justice and the FBLon this matter if they so desire, with the
request that they endeavor to find other witnesses who can provide the necessary
testimony without the necessity of calling this subject for court appearance.
If this is impossible, we must reconsider our position in light of the possible
insistence by Justice for subject's testimony.


-  O- cS/RdB:agg (9 April 1956)
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