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Cryptonym: PALP

Definition:

A CIA station that has its own mailing address, probably within Langley, frequently copied on issues involving literary figures.

Status:

Probable

Discussion:

The cryptonym is probably a play on the word "palpable" - it gets a lot more real when PALP steps in.

Sources:

104-10100-10127: CABLE RE CHANGE IN TRAVEL PLANS

10/4/63, slugline DTDORIC QKOPERA: Re the first PALP memo cited above...a memo regarding this same operation two weeks earlier reveals that Choaden/Phillips was at HQ as of this date. Note that the memo is sent to both Mexico City and PALP - probably because Phillips is visiting HQ.

104-10100-10151: CABLE RE NEW OFFICER POSTING

10/8/63: "Request any WSACROBAT funding commitments for literacy seminar be postponed until...transfer to new case officer effected"...WSCHILD/National Student Association also agreed to "avoid any promise to fund extraordinary congress" until the transfer was done. "For PALP: Please advise HQs, MEXI European itinerary and...way for WSACROBAT to contact him if necessary." One of the referenced documents is MEXI-6384 - that document was described in 1978 as "missing". http://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=99892#relPageId=116&tab=page

104-10100-10226: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION

10/17/63 memo from Bernie Reichhardt to Mexico City and Paris: "Reference relayed to PALP requesting assistance obtaining clarification...in general ()LASKING traffic should include PALP...(Then we see a separate note from "WH COM:") "GOM (Government of Mexico) youth group quoted Mexi Daily asking ()LASKING out LI(). Req. HQ clarify situation and inform Station." In both notes, clarification is sought - the first time by PALP, the second time by CIA HQ. The context reveals that they are one and the same.

104-10101-10179: CABLE:LIQUIFER/7 LETTER - REQUEST MEETING TO DISCUSS

12/11/63 DIR 88294, memo from HQ to Mexico City, info to PALP, about LIQUIFER-7. He wants to meet with the Officers Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs (FYSA) and the Institute for International Student Affairs (IIYA). He wants to meet with CIA officer Raymond Laffitte to discuss future work among professionals and students, but Laffitte's travel makes that impossible.

Contributors:

Bill Simpich