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104-10175-10152 June 2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992

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29 March 1967

MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, WH/CA SUBJECT: Response to Memo on "Council for Latin America"

The activities of WI/I touch upon four organizations listed below. There are no other activities as they may con- cern organizations listed on the CA memo (attached).

  1. Confederación Mexicana de Cámaras Industriales. currently budgeted at $60,000 annually, supports in part this organization, which also receives funds (some $950,000 yearly) from MISEREOR, a German Catholic fund with headquarters in Aachen, Germany. The objective of this effort is to help en- courage model or prototype Mexican organizations designed to alleviate and hopefully to advance the social and economic status of the Mexican campesino.

  2. Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales y Económicas. The executive director of this organization was formerly as- sociated with the LIEF project, but he is no longer an active member of this project which is funded at the current rate of $4,300 annually and supports LIEF-1, the Station's only agent with access to rightist political organizations.

  3. Centro Nacional de Estudios Sociales. The director of this organization (LISIFER-3) is no longer an active LOFT agent. The LESIFER project was terminated in 1965 and had been funded at an annual rate of some $165,000. The project supported a mass media propaganda effort directed at the mid- dle and lower classes of Mexico and sponsored by a front group of conservative Mexican businessmen.

  4. American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico. The vice president of this organization is a current Station asset, LEUFT-1. No money is provided from KOWACE sources to this organization, although LIIFT-1 receives monthly $300.00. The duties of this agent do not directly relate to his

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Cluster of Commerce responsibilities. LIIFT-1's principal duty is to gather material on rightist political organizations.

N. J. Katten C/WH/I

Attachment: Memorandum

Distribution: O & I - Addresses cc - INDOREX Project cc - LIIFT-1 201 cc - LISIFER-3 201 cc - WH/I/CF

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