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![handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch19708 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10427-10076
June 15, 1978
VOL #78- zn/S
NOTE FOR The Director
FROM Haviland Smith
SUBJECT : The HSCA Investigation of the Mexico City Station
1. The memorandum from Scott Breckinridge, attached hereto, dated
15 June, addresses only one aspectDof our problem with the HSCA. In the
fall of this year, the HSCA will prepare a report for the Congress which will
be unclassified. There seems every likelihood that this report, whether we
are able to contest it successfully-either with the Committee or perhaps even
in the Courts, will contain -sensitive information,,:the revelation of which
will be very damaging to our interests in-Mexico. Not only will this report
provide evidence activit in Mexico, City, which
activitiesq, ----- but:.itatUl 1al-so]
=The best example of this, but not the only
example, i-s[_____tel-ephone tap activity, the evidence from which will be
an integral part of the HSCA's conclusions.
2. Mexico City is a focal point for Soviet intelligence operations
against the continental United States. There is a long, documentable history
of Soviet activities based in Mexico being run into our Country. -The relation-
ship thatr_ As' psa critical ingredient
in our ability to protect ourselves against these Soviet .intelligence acti-
vities. You will recall that the Boyce-Lee case was brought to our-attention
by the Mexican government.- If, as we suspect, the Committee
publishes the kind of information spelled out above, the result on this
will-be disastraus. It will seriously weaken our
ability to protect our country from Soviet intelligence activities.
3. We believe that the issues raised by Chairman Stokes in his letter
to you affords an excellent.opportunity -for you- to underiine to him- some. of
the problems whicT are inherent in an ultiurate declassification and-publica-
tion of the sensitive information :they s ve; gleaned fromour files on general
intelligence activities. in Mexico City. This may not prove to be helpful
in dampening the ardor of the HCSA staff, but it most certainly will put
them on notice that the course they are taking will have direct repercussions
not only on CIA activities in Mexico City, but on our-bilateral relations
with that country.](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.jfk/jfkarch19708&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)