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104-10250-10200 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/21/1953)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch78326 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10250-10200  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
O     ce Memoran urn e UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
TO     : Deputy Chief, Special Security Division          DATE: 21 October 1953
PRom     Chief, Special Referral Branch
SUBJBCT: HIDALGO, Jr., Balmes Nieves
#65077
1. Reference is made to your memorandum, dated 16 October
1953, in which it was requested that appropriate inquiries be
made to ascertain the answers to the following questions.
a. Can BALMES be made available for testimony
before the Subversive Activities Control Board in the
United States.
b. If the answer to question a is in the negative,
can the FBI interview BALMES wherever he may be outside
the United States.
c. Or can questions to be answered by BAIZES be
submitted to CIA for transmittal to BALMES and the answers
given by BALMES be sent back to the FBI via CIA.
2. On 21 October 1953 Mr. QWilliam B. CALDWELIL Chief, WH/FI
was interviewed in his office. Mr. (CALDWELL)ad ised that the
Subject was yresently a Contract Employee whose services are being
utilized in Panama nder the Travel Control Project. He stated
c;. Ethat SubjeA         has been overseas for approximately one and a half
years and that his contract period will probably expire within six
months. He advised that in answer to question a, Subject can be
made available for testimony before the Subversive Activities
I   Control Board in the United States if necessary. He stated that
-Subject's position was not such that he was indispensable to the
Project and that if it was absolutely necessary, he could be
recalled to the United States within twenty-four hours. In refer-
* ;       ence to question b, Mr9(CALDWELL)advised that there was no reason
why the Subject could not TEe interviewed by the FBI at his place
of duty. In reference to question c, Mr. CALDWELL)reported that
--   this was the most desirable alternative and that he would prefer
-    the questions to be answered by Subject be submitted to CIA for
transmittal to Subject and that the answers would be returned to
1  the FBI, via this Agency.
3.  On 21 October 1953 Miss                   of Staff C
reviewed her records and determin d that Subject's true name is
i     identical to the captioned Subject and not as shown in your
memoran dum of 16 October 1953.

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