862.20210/1996: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Argentina (Armour)
1633. Your despatch no. 7065, October 22. Memoranda as drafted is approved, except that on page one of “Enclosure to Espionage [Page 229] Group I”,62 bottom of paragraph 1, Department suggests omission of words “at the request of the Government of the United States”.
Santiago being requested to notify you whether information concerning H. B. Reiner, the known German espionage leader of Chile now taking refuge at Hotel Jousten, Buenos Aires, has been made public. If it has, you may wish to add the information or use it as you deem advisable.
The time of presentation of memoranda to appropriate Argentine authorities is left to your discretion.
Please notify Department promptly when it is presented by sending a telegram in clear “memoranda presented” giving the date and hour; if possible, telegraph several hours in advance of appointed hour for delivery so that copy may be delivered to Argentine Ambassador here at approximately the same hour.
This memorandum should be delivered by you to the Argentine Foreign Office under cover of an aide-mémoire stating that the underlying memorandum is in reply to the memorandum presented to the Acting Secretary on October 10 by Ambassador Espil. The aide-mémoire should include a statement to the effect that in view of the terms of the Argentine memorandum, the text of which was made public in Buenos Aires by the Argentine Foreign Office, the Department feels free to give publicity to its reply.
With respect to the suggestion in the penultimate paragraph of your despatch as to enclosing in group IV a few of the PYL messages, the Department sees no objection thereto.
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