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104-10427-10076 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (6/15/1978)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch48553 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 aspect.of 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 of our uun~iatera~initelligencactivity in Mexico .City, which activities are against MexicanfLaw, but: Ltli also2otata proof -that el- lents of the- Mexi can Government are involvedin-activities -which-are illegal ande tbMir- ewn esiftto The best example of this, but not the only example, is .theirtelephone 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 that we ha vewiththe MexicnSecFTtyjSercets' a critical ingredient in our ability to protect ourselves against these Soviet intelIi.gence acti- vities. You will recall that the Boyce-Lee case was brought to our-attention by[7 of 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 ul-tiuate declassification and-publica- tion of the sensitive information :they .hTe; gleanedfromour 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.

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