104-10178-10071¶
2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
208/02/01
DATE: 4 MAY 1959
TO: DIRECTOR
FROM: [LUXEMBOURG] 15-19
ACTION: WE 6
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE SECRET
ROUTING
INFO: COP, CI, CI/OPS, CI/IC, FI, FE 4, S/C 2
ROUTINE
IN 12839
TO: DIR 20-19
INFO REF: [LUXE]0094 (IN 10377) DIR 24181 (OUT 9823) CITE: [LUXE] 0097 20-19
-
HAD ALREADY ASKED QUBANNER 1 GET DESCRIPTION, DETAILS, ETC BUT SINCE HE UNABLE DO WITH CLARITY RABNEY UNDER HBFINCH COVER QUES- TIONED SUBJ 4 MAY. SUBJ STATES FOLLOWING IS ALL HE KNOWS BUT CON- SIDER PROBABLE HE KNOWS MOP THAN TELLING OR INVOLVED SOME DEAL FOR WHICH HOPES PROTECT SELF AGAINST LEGAL ACTION BY STATING WORKING FOR AMERICANS.
-
ARMAND DELACOUR, RESIDENT 28 RUE ERARD (ALSO RCVD EMARD), PARIS AND THREE TIME CONVICT, APPROACHED SUBJ MID-APRIL WITH OFFER FIRST RCF. STATED TWO SICILIANS LIVING PARIS ALREADY SUCCESSFULLY ENGAGED THIS TRAFFIC, ONE OF WHOM RECEIVED 50 KILOS OPIUM HONG KONG AND DELIVERED PERSONALLY IN STATES, ENTERING VIA CANADA. DELACOUR GAVE NO DETAILS OTHER THAN THAT CHICOMS PROVIDE OPTIM орум GRATIS ON CONDITION DELIVERY STATES. WHEN SUBJ ASKED RE ENTRY STATES DELACOUR REPLIED CAN FOR U.S.$200 GET FULL FRENCH DOCUMENTATION NEEDED FOR AMERICAN VISA.
-
DELACOUR ALSO USES NAME DELAMARE, AGE 47, HEIGHT 175CMS, WEIGHT 70 TO 72 KILOS, BROWN HAIR BALDING, OVAL FACE, BROWN EYES, CROOKED NOSE, THICK LIPS, HEAVY CIGARETTE SMOKER. BORN BASQUE
SECRET 5 MAY 1959
REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.
'RETURN TO CIA Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce
DATE: 4 MAY 1959
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE SECRET
ROUTING
TO
FROM
ACTION
PAGE -2-
INFO
IN 12839 TO 15-19 LUXE 0097
INFO COUNTRY. SMUGGLED NARCOTICS BEFORE AND AFTER WAR FROM NORTH AFRICA. LAST RELEASED FROM JAIL DEC 58, THEFT CHARGES. END OF MESSAGE
C/S COMMENT: SUBJECT SAID INVITED BY DELACOURT TO JOIN RING WHICH RECEIVING "GRATIS" FROM CHICOMS LARGE AMOUNTS OPIUM TO BE SHUGGLED TO U.S.
SECRET REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE IS PROHIBITED.