CABLE RE GUIDANCE TO STATIONS WHERE LNERGO REP IS ASSIGNED

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01475733
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: July 8, 1969

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1. � FOLLOWING IS FOR GUIDANCE TO STATIONS WHERE.
AN LNERGO REP IS ASSIGNED. IT GIVES CURRENT STATUS
OF HQS ARRANGEMENTS WITH LNERGO ON COVERAGE OF
MHCHAOS MATTERS WITH FOREIGN LIAISON � SERVICES. HQS
HAS BEEN WORKING WITH LNERGO LIAISON OFFICER FOR
MONTHS IN ORDER TO. ARRIVE AT PROCEDURES WHICH WILL
PERMIT MOST EFFECTIVE AND SECURE HADD LING IN THE
FIELD WHILE AT SAME TIME ENSURE THAT WOFIRM'S RESPONS-
IBILITIES FOR COVERAGE OF THIS TARGET ABROAD ARE FULLY
PROTECTED.�
2. WOFIRM IS HELD RESPONSIBLE BY WHITE HOUSE FOR
ALL FOREIGN COVERAGE OF MHCHAOS MATTERS AND MUST
THEREFORE RETAIN COMPLETE FREEDOM OF ACTION TO
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COLLECT FROM FOREIGN LIAISON SERVICES AND TO
DISSEMINATE ANY INFORMATION SO ACQUIRED AT WOFIRM'S
DISCRETION. IN PRACTICAL TERMS, THIS MEANS THAT WE
CANNOT ABDICATE TO LNERGO REPS ABROAD BY GIVING THEM
ExcLusIvE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HANDLING MHCHAOS REQUIRE-
MENTS WITH LIAISON, EITHER IN CRASH SITUATIONS OR ON
"ROUTINE TRACES."..
3. LAST AUGUST INFORMAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH LNERGO
BROKE DOWN ON THE POINT OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR COLLECTION
FROM LIAISON CITIES WHERE AN LNERGO REPRESENTATIVE IS
� STATIONED. AT THAT TIME FORMULATED THE WOFIRM
POSITION SET FORTH IN A PREVIOUS CABLE WHICH STATED:
A. WOFIRM MUST BE RESPONSIBLE FOR LIAL-3014 WITH FOREIGN
SERVICES ON ALL MHCHAOS MATTERS. THIS
POSITION HAS BEEN MADE CLEAR TO LNERGO HQS.
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11 B. YOU MAY INFORM LNERGO REP THAT:
1) ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR HQS YOU ARE PRO�
CEEDING TO DISCUSS REF MATTERS WITH FOREIGN SERVICES.
FOREIGN SERVICES
2) you WILL ASK / TO PROVIDE WOFIRM
INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE MATTERS.
3) VIOFIRM HQS WILL PASS TO LNERGO HQS ANY PERTINENT
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INFO RECEEVLD,
4. THE ABOVE POLICY STILL STAND3 AND SUBSEQUENT
DISCUSSIONS WITH LNERGO HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO RESOLVE
SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF A) COORDINATING ACTION WITH
LIAISON WHERE THERE IS AN LiERGO REPRESENTATIVE, AND
Es) ELIMINATING INSECURE AND DUPLICATING LNERGO TRACES
WITH LIAISON WHERE NO LNERGO REP IS STATIONED. (]HERE
HAVE BEEN INSTANCES OF LNERGO REPS CONTACTING LIAISON
1:SERVICE OR CHIEFS OF STATIONS IN OTHER COUNTRIES BY
PHCNE. ) THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN CONFINED TO SITUATIONS
'Vail RE A TARGET OF :UGH INTEREST TO LNERGO IS TRAVE LLING
ABROAD AND LNERGO HAS ASKED FOR WOFIP,M ASSISTANCE IN
COVERAGE.
5. AS A RESULT OF WOFLRM PRESSURE, LNERGO !MS IIAS
TRAVELLER'S ROUTE IS
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INCLUDE BOTH CCUNTRIES WITH AND COUNTRIES WITHOUT AN
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A. WOFIRM WILL HANDLE COVERAGE WITH LIAISON
IN ALL COUNTRIES INCLUDING THOSE IN WHICH A
LNERGO REP IS STATIONED. LNERGO REP IN ANY
SUCH COUNTRY (5) WILL BE INFORD OF THESE
GASES BUT TOLD TO TAKE NO ACTION.
B. IN ADDITION TO FORWARDING IT TO HQS,, COS
MAY PASS INFO RECEIVED FROM LIAISON TO
LNERGO REP WHO IS FREE TO FORWARD SUCH
INFORMATION TO HIS HQS BUT WITH THE PROVISO
THAT IT IS NOT TO BE FURTHER DISSEMINATED BY
BY LNERGO HQS.
6. PROBLEM OF A TRAVELLER KNOWN OR BELIEVED TO BE
VISITING ONLY A COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES WHERE TIRE IS/ARE:
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LNERGO REPS IS STILL NOT SETTLED. LNERGO Drsmrs TO USE
ITS REP TO DEAL WITH LIAISON ON SUCH CASES. FOR REASONS
CITED PARAS 2 AND 3 ABOVE, WOFIRM CANNOT AND DOES NOT
ACCEPT THIS. AS PRACTICAL MATTER, IT PROBABLY MEANS
THAT FOR TIME BEING LNERGO NorsAzy;ILLY WILL NOT INFORM
U. F SUCH TRAVEL UNTIL AFTER IT HAS TAKEN ACTION,
MEANWHILE PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT IN ANY SUCH. CASES
WHICH MAY ARISE WE WILL TAKE INTO FULL CONSIDERATION
AND PROTECT. THE OVERALL woFinm EQUITIES WITH FOREIGN
LIAISON.
_ 7. . FYI: FOLLOWING PROCEDURES ARE-FOLLOWED AT
IIQS PRIOR INITIATING LI4ISON'TRACES ON PERSONS OF ?..1IICHAOS
1.-:*1.1..'1UsT IDENTIFIED IN LNERGO REPORTING. HQS FIRST QUERIES
I; TO DETERMINE IF .LNERGO REP ABROAD HAS ALREADY
SUBJECT WITH FOREIGN LIAISON. IF SO, HQS RLQUESTS
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RESULTS FROM LNERGO HQS. wormm FIELD STATION ACTION
IS REQUESTED ONLY IN CASES IN WHICH LNERGO HQS HAS NO
RECORD OF A CHECK WITH LIAISON AND IS AGREEABLE TO
WOFIRM PASSING OF LNERGO INFO TO LIAISON FOR TRACES.
THE STATION THEN IS STILL A=D TO CHECK FIRST WITH THE
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LNERGO REP TO IS�r-'-` THAT HE HAS NOT RUN THE TRACE
LOCALLY.
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