FROM: DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR LATIN AMERICA
TO: US EMBASSY, MONTEVIDEO, URUGUAY
PERSONAL ATTENTION: AMBASSADOR MCGRORY
CONFIRMING TELECON BETWEEN ASSTSECTLATAM AND THEODORE J. DETWEILLER, JR., C/M USEMB MONTEVIDEO 1705 4 AUGUST 2005
MR. DAVID W. YUNG, JR., A SPECIAL AGENT OF TH
E FBI ON THE PERSONAL STAFF OF SECSTATE, IS CURRENTLY EN ROUTE TO MONTEVIDEO AND SHOULD ARRIVE THERE AFTERNOON 5 AUGUST 2005.
SECSTATE COHEN HAS DIRECTED AND AUTHORIZED Mr. YUNG TO ASSUME AND DISCHARGE ALL CONSULAR DUTIES RELATING TO THE LATE DR. JEAN-PAUL LORIMER INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO REPATRIATION OF THE REMAINS AND THE PROTECTION OF ASSETS.
SECSTATE FURTHER DIRECTS USEMB MONTEVIDEO TO PROVIDE Mr. YUNG WITH WHATEVER ASSISTANCE HE REQUIRES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO TURNING OVER TO HIM ANY AND ALL USEMB RECORDS AND FILES CONCERNING Mr. LORIMER AND ANY AND ALL MATERIAL REGARDING JEAN-PAUL BERTRAND WHOSE IDENTITY Mr. LORIMER HAD APPARENTLY ASSUMED. THIS SPECIFICALLY INCLUDES ALL INFORMATION REGARDING THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF Mr. LORIMER’S DEATH KNOWN TO EMB AND/OR OBTAINED FROM URUGUAYAN GOVERNMENT SOURCES.
SECSTATE AUTHORIZES AND DIRECTS Mr. YUNG TO, AT HIS DISCRETION, SHIP ALL SUCH MATERIALS VIA DIPLOMATIC POUCH TO STATE DEPT, PERSONAL ATTENTION SECSTATE, OR TO MAKE SUCH OTHER ARRANGEMENTS FOR THEIR SHIPMENT TO SECSTATE AS HE DESIRES.
BARBARA L. QUIGLETTE
DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR LATIN AMERICA
SECRET
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The sonofabitch interrupts my breakfast to tell me the deputy foreign minister wants to talk to him unofficially and didn’t mention this?
Goddamn him! He should have called me the moment he got off the phone from talking to the under secretary! Last night!
McGrory pushed himself out of his high-backed, blue-leather-upholstered chair and walked quickly to his office door, still holding the radio teletype printout.
“Susanna,” he ordered, “I want to see, right now, in this order, and separately—in other words, one at a time—Mr. Detweiller, Mr. Monahan, and Mr. Howell.”
“Yes, sir,” Señora Obregon replied.
Three minutes later Señora Obregon reported that neither Mr. Detweiller nor Mr. Howell had yet come in but that Mr. Monahan was on his way to the ambassador’s office and asked if she should send him in or make him wait until he’d seen the others.
“Send him in, please,” McGrory ordered.
Monahan appeared at the office door moments later.
“You wanted to see me, Mr. Ambassador?”
McGrory waved him into the office but not into one of the chairs in front of his desk.
“I’m a little curious, Monahan, why you did not elect to tell me Yung is on the personal staff of the secretary of state,” McGrory said.
“Excuse me?”
“You are the special agent in charge, are you not? And you were aware, were you not, of Yung’s status?”
“That’s two questions, Mr. Ambassador.”
“Answer them one at a time.”
“I’m the senior FBI agent here, Mr. Ambassador, but not the SAC.”
“What’s the others?”