SECRET

Chief of Station, JMWAVE
XX

Chief, WHD
ADMIN/TPIC
Station Files on Cuban Counterrevolutionary and Exile Organizations

REFERENCE: UFG-16343, 31 May 1966

1. We are returning Volume VII of the MDC file which you sent with the reference for Headquarters to review as a sample of a group of 10 files which are no longer useful to the Station. Headquarters appreciate your interest in this aspect of records improvement, considering the need for retrieval, but would like to defer a decision until IDENTITY, a REDACTED employee who is retiring soon but is now engaged in writing historical studies, can visit the Station to survey these files with others.

2. IDENTITY plans to visit JMWAVE for several days about the end of July to size up and review certain records for writing a history of the Station. Therefore, we would like the 80 background files to be left intact for his visit. Afterwards a decision will be made on their retirement or other disposition.

3. If space for storing the files is critical we will authorize forwarding them to Headquarters, but will prefer your holding them temporarily to assist with the historical research cited above.

Claude F. GOTTFRED

Attachment:
1. Identity, u/s/c
2. MDC File, b/w

Distribution:
3-COS/JMWAVE, w/att. 1 & 2

UGG-8398
SECRET

1-WH/RMO, w/att. 1 WH/RMO NOEL C. WILSON/pap
1-WH/C/RESE, w/att. 1
1-WH/C/CA/PP, w/att. 1
1-Historical Staff C/WH/C/CA/PP STEPHEN G. CHACONAS
C/WH/C/CA
C/WH/C/WO