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FBI had a "big office" in Mexico City in the early '60s...Did we know this? - Drew Phipps - 17-02-2016
I was looking at something else and came across an interview with "Halvar Ekern." He was in the Army then State Department/Foreign service at the end of WW2. He went to Sierra Leone in 1961 as part of a program to "liberate Africa from colonialism" and "see what we could do to make them democracies," which sounds like what Jim DiEugenio says JFK was up to down there.
Here's what he says about Mexico City (circa 1964):
"I was supposed to be assisting in the management of clandestine affairs. The State Department was supposed to know what the CIA was doing around the world. I also served as the FBI liaison for the State Department. We offered advice to the high echelons as to what covert operations should be approved and not approved. "
"(about the FBI) Theoretically whenever they had a foreign contact operation within the US they were supposed to come over and tell us about it. Their officers were almost spitting images of Mr. Hoover. They dressed like him, talked like him, gave the correct replies, etc. I liked the fellow I dealt with. I never saw Hoover. Not very many people did. But they were ruthless too at times. They had a big office in Mexico City and the Ambassador there insisted on knowing something of what they were doing... more than they wanted to tell him. So this image of Mr. Hoover came in and said, "Mr. Hoover says that if we don't drop that business down there he will open a file on the Ambassador." So I took it up to higher authority. The Ambassador finally decided to drop it."
Here's a link to the interview: http://adst.org/OH%20TOCs/Ekern,%20Halvor.toc.pdf
FBI had a "big office" in Mexico City in the early '60s...Did we know this? - Jim DiEugenio - 18-02-2016
Prior to the creation of the CIA, the FBI did a lot of intelligence work in Central America.
But its nice to have the fact confirmed that they had a large office down in MC.
FBI had a "big office" in Mexico City in the early '60s...Did we know this? - Magda Hassan - 18-02-2016
Even after the CIA was established the FBI has an ever expanding overseas presence. They opened offices here about 10 years ago. Other places too. WTF are they doing here? Any where outside the US really? /rhetorical question.
FBI had a "big office" in Mexico City in the early '60s...Did we know this? - David Josephs - 20-02-2016
Jim DiEugenio Wrote:Prior to the creation of the CIA, the FBI did a lot of intelligence work in Central America.
But its nice to have the fact confirmed that they had a large office down in MC.
The FBI was tasked with ALL western Hemisphere intelligence collection and analysis with a caveat - the FBI's SIS had to be sure not to tread on the Military Intelligence Units already in these areas. (ONI & MID - the two oldest intelligence agencies in the US).
With regards to Mexico City, the FBI had developed an asset not written about in any work I could find on the Evidence for Oswald taking that Mexico trip. Only by digging thru the 1500+ WCD page references which mention Mexico
In my Mexico work at CTKA I explain who this person was and how each and every item of the "Oswald was in Mexico" evidence passed thru his hands before making its way to the FBI.
It was this man who enabled the FBI to make a semi-convincing case that Ozzie had gone to and come back from Mexico with things like the FM-8's, FM-5's, FM-11, tourist Visa, bus tickets, hotel registry and more.
I was truly surprised that so many authors had overlooked this man in their dealing with the Mexico evidence. I think it's because so many focus on the 27th thru the 3rd rather than what I did with the Evidence needed to get him there and back as well as actually BE in Mexico during that time.
"Pres[B]identFranklin D. Roosevelt officially vested the FBI with responsibility forforeign-intelligence work in the Western Hemisphere on 24 June 1940. Withindays, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover had established the administrative skeletonfor a foreign-intelligence entity within the FBI and had named it the FBISpecial Intelligence Service"
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- New Insights into J. Edgar Hoover's Role: The FBI and Foreign Intelligence
G. Gregg Webb… is a recent graduate of Princeton University. This article won the Walter L. Pforzheimer Award as the most outstanding student submission to Studies in Intelligence in 2003