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S E C R E T TEGUCIGALPA 000871 
 
SIPDIS 
 
CA/VO/L/C, HQ BICE ATTENTION: OIE 428 PROGRAM 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/19/2018 
TAGS: CVIS HO CLOK
SUBJECT: VISAS BEAR:  MEZA LOPEZ, VICTOR ORLANDO, HONDURAN 
MIN OF INTERIOR 
 
REF: A. A) 88 TEGUCIGALPA 002353 
     ¶B. B) 88 STATE 053620 
     ¶C. C) 91 STATE 284952 
     ¶D. D) 91 TEGUCIGALPA 14353 
     ¶E. E) 91 STATE 340217 
     ¶F. F) 93 TEGUCIGALPA 5037 
     ¶G. G) 93 TEGUCIGALPA 4865 
     ¶H. H) 93 TEGUCIGALPA 5025 
     ¶I. I) 93 STATE 162116 
 
Classified By: CG Douglass Benning, Reasons 1.5 (b) & (d) 
 
¶1. (C) Victor Orlando Meza Lopez (DOB  02 OCT 1945), the 
Honduran Interior Minister, has applied for a visa to visit 
the US from September 20 to 25, 2008 on official business. 
His CLASS record shows a '28' hit dated May 25, 1993.  Post 
records indicate that the '28' refers solely to Meza's prior 
membership in the Honduran Communist Party.  Post requests 
Department concurrence in removing this hit. 
 
¶2. (S) Reftels show that Post requested Meza be entered in 
CLASS as a DPT 00 in February, 1988, based on suspicions that 
Meza, an alumnus of Patrice Lumumba University and a delegate 
in Honduras, Peoples Revolutionary Army, was active in 
obtaining arms for that group, was used in communication 
between Honduras and the FSLN government, received military 
training in Cuba and was a suspected Cuban agent.  Ref C 
stated that 'the Department has conducted exhaustive 
Washington area namechecks and is unable to confirm 
subject,s participation in activities described (in Ref A)' 
and requesting Post conduct further investigation to confirm 
those charges. 
 
¶3. (SBU) On several subsequent occasions, Meza requested and 
received a waiver of those ineligibilities to travel to the 
US (see Refs D, E and F).  On at least one of these trips, 
Meza traveled at the invitation of the USG under the 
International Visitors Program (Ref G). 
 
¶4. (S)  At Post's request, in May 1993, the DPT 00 hit was 
removed (Ref I), based on a lack of information to 
substantiate the allegations which would render the subject 
ineligible for a visa.  Almost concurrently, the '28' hit was 
entered.  The timing of these two events indicates that the 
'28' hit refers only to Meza's membership in the Communist 
Party and that all other derogatory information on Meza was 
deemed unsubstantiated and removed. 
 
¶5. (SBU)  Post requests Department concurrence in removing 
the '28' ineligibility prior to issuing Victor Meza an 
official visa for his projected trip and future travel. 
LLORENS