CABLE RE HQS FULLY APPRECIATES PROBLEMS OF WOFIRM/LNERGO COVERAGE OF MHCHAOS MATTERS WITH LIAISON SERVICES

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• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 01475736
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: August 7, 2017
• Case Number: F-2007-00094
• Publication Date: June 21, 1969

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RYBAT MIICHAOS
REFERENCE: PARAGRAPHS 4 AND 5
1. HQS FULLY APPRECIATES PROBLEMS OF WOFIRM/LNE RGO
COVER/OE OF MHCHAOS MATTE RS WITH LIAISON SERVICES. AS
INDICATED IN PRF_ VICUS TRAFFIC, HQS HAS BEEN WOR/aNG WITH
LNERGO LIAISON OFFICER FOR MONTHS IN ORDER TO ARRIVE AT
PROCEDURES V.THICH WILL PERMIT MOST EFFECTIVE AND SECURE
HANDLING IN THE FIELD WHILE AT SAME TIME ENSURE THAT
WOFIRM'S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR COVERAGE OF THIS TARGET ABROAD
ARE FULLY PROTECTED,
2. WITH RI GARD TO LATTER POINT, WOFIRM IS HELD RE SPON-
S113LE BY WHITE HOUSE FOR ALL FOREIGN COVERAGE OF /vtlICHAOS
MATTE RS AND MUST THI RI FORE RE T.AIN COMPLY TE. FRI I DOM OF
ACTION TO COLLE CT FROM FOREIGN LIAISON SE RVICIS AND TO
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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 REQUIREMENTS
WITH LIAISON, EITHER IN CRASH SITUATIONS OR ON "ROUTINE TRACES':
3. LAST AUGUST INFORMAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH LNERGO BROKE
nowNON THE POINT OF RPONSIBILITY FOR COLLECTION FROM
LIAISON IN 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 LIAISON WITH FOREIGN
SERVICES ON ALL MHCHACS MATTERS. THIS POSITION
HAS BEEN MADE CLEAR TO LNERGO HO.S.
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I) ON INSTRUCTIONS FROM YOUR HQS YOU ARE PRO-
CEEDING TO DISCUSS REF MATTERS WITH FOREIGN SERVICES.
FOREIGN SERVICES
2) YOU WILL ASK TO PROVIDE VIOFrnM
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INFORMATION CONCERNING THESE MATTERS,
� 3) WOFIR M HQS WILL PASS TO LNERGO HQS ANY PERTINENT
INFO RECEIVED FROM FOREIGN SERVICES.
4. THE ABOVE POLICY STILL STANDS AND SUBSEQUENT
DISCUSSIONS WITH LNERGO HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TC RESOLVE
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SPECIFIC PROBLEMS OF A) COORDINATING ACTION WITH LIAISON
WHERE THERE IS AN LNERGO REPRESENTATIVE, AND B) ELIM-
INATING INSECURE AND DUPLICATING LNERGO TRACES WITH
LIAISON WHERE NO LNERGO REP IS STATIONED. (AS YOU KNOW,
THERE HAVE BEEN INSTANCES OF LNERGO REPS CONTACTING LIAI-
SON SERVICE OR crar.F3 or STATIONS IN CTI= ccuNnurs BY
PHONE.) THESE DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN CONFINED TO SITUATIONS
'WHERE A TARGET OF HIGH INTEREST TO LNERGO IS TRAVELLING
ABROAD AND LNERGO HAS ASKED FOR WOFIRM ASSISTANCE IN
COVERAGE.
S. AS A RESULT OF WOFIRM PRESSURE, LNERGO HQS HAS
AGREED THAT IF TRAVELLER IS KNOWN OR BELIEVED TO BE
TRAVELLING TO OR THROUGH ANY COUNTRY WHERE THERE IS NO
LNERGO REPRESENTATIVE:
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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(S)
� WILL BE INFORMED OF THESE CASES BUT TOLD TO
� TAKE NO ACTION.
IN ADDITION TO FORWARDING IT TO HQS,
B CCZ ;TAN, cc INFOECF1VED FROM LiAISON TO
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� REP WHO IS FREE TO FORWARD SUCH INFORMATION TO
HIS HQS BUT WITH THE PROVISO THAT IT IS NOT TO BE
FURTHER DISSEMINATED BY LNERGO HQS.
6. PROBLEM OF A TRAVELLER KNOWN OR BELIEVED TO BE
VISITING ONLY A COUNTRY OR COUNTRIES WHERE _THERE IS/ARE
LNERGO REPS IS STILL NOT SETTLED. LNERGO DESIRES 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
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FOR TI LE BEING LNERGO NORMALLY WILL NOT INFORM US OF
SUCH TRAVEL UNTIL AFTER IT HAS TAKEN ACTION. MEANWIaLE
PLEASE BE ASSURED THAT IN ANY SUCH CASES WHICH MAY ARISE
WE WILL TAKE INTO FULL CONSIDERATION AND PROTECT THE
OVERALL WOFIRM EQUITIES WITH FOREIGN LIAISON.
7. FYI: FOLLOWING PROCEDURES ARE FOLLOWED AT HQS
PRIOR INITIATING LIAISON TRACES ON PERSONS OF MHCHAOS INTEREST
IDENTIFIED IN LNERGO REPORTING. HQS FIRST QUERIES LNERGO
TO DETERMINE IF LNERGO REP ABROAD HAS ALREADY TRACED
SUBJECT WITH FOREIGN LIAISON. IF SO, HQS REQUESTS RESULTS
FROM LNERGO HQS. WOFIRM 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 ASKED
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