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# 13. INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES: SECRETContinuedd. On 20 January 1966 Cristobal TORRES Ponce, chauffeur employed by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, was sent to the Soviet Embassy to pick up the passport of the wife of a U.S. Embassy official who was planning a trip to the USSR. Subject talked to TORRES, asking him if he would like to visit the USSH or receive Soviet magazines, if he knew anyone who would be willing to give him English lessons, and finally made a dinner date with TORRES for 24 January 1966. When TORRES-did not keep the date, Subject called him on 8 and 9 February 1966 in an attempt to keep the contact alive.. (12, 14)e. Subject dealth with the Federal District police several times in July 1966 in regard to a radio that had been stolen from his car. On 20 July 1966 the police an (LNU) who had been handling the radio case reported to his superior, General Luis CUETO Ramirez, that Subject had offered him 5,000 pesos (4,000 dollars) a month if he would work for him. After consulting with the Minister of Interior, CUETO told the policeman to accept Subject's offer, which he reportedly did on 21 July 1966. Subject's first assignment to the policeman was to locate Venezuelan citizens Nicolas Juan BOSTROEM and wife. (16) (COMMENT: Nothing further has been learned about this case. ECSTROEM Is a native Russian employed by Stephens- Adamson de Mexico, his wife teaches Russian at the Ibero- American University.)f. Subject haв оссаѕionally been reported visiting the small general store located across the street from the Soviet Embassy. On 5 November 1966 Subject reportedly questioned the store owner about the occupants of one apartment building in the same block as the store, and on 6 December 1966 he asked general questions about the new apartment building at the end of the block. (8) (COMMENT: Both of these buildings contain base houses for the fixed surveillance of the Soviet Embassy.)# 14. NON-INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITY:a. In Mexico, Subject has consistently been reported performing consular duties. He issues visas and sees visitors to the Soviet Embassy in one of the reception rooms. (21) He makes travel reservations for PCS and visiting Soviets. He is responsible when either PCS or visiting Soviets become ill and have to be sent to a hospital. He has often attended to the needs of Soviet ships in Mexican ports. He has done considerable house-hunting for the Soviets, such as looking for a new school building and for houses in Cuernavaca that would be suitable as a dacha. Subject had to sign the dacha contract in both 1966 and 1967. Subject also regularly attends the functions of the Consular Corps Association, and on 16 February 1967 he had the Association to the Soviet Embassy for a Russian evening. (1) In September 1966 Subject was reported as having become the Consul General (6, 8, 1, 11), having replaced Pavel Antonovich YATSKOV, who left Mexico for home leave on 4 August 1966, On 21 February 1967 Subject tried to get Panamanian visas for himself and Soveksportfilm representative Aleksandr Aleksandrovich NIKITIN (known KCB) to attend a Consular Congress to be held in Panama 11-15 April 1967. (1) The visas were refused.b. On 26 January 1966 Subject attended a lecture given by a Mexican who was an exchange professor at a U.S. university.. The lecture was sponsored by the PRI. Soviet Cultural Attache Svyatoslav Fedorovich KUZNETSOV also attended the lecture and set on the platform, whereas Subject sat at the back of the room. (13)c. Subject is reported to have taken the following trips to Mexico:26-28 October 1965: To Mazatlan to attend to Soviet ship. (1)2-4 November 1965: To Mazatlan with Yevgeniy Nikolayevich GORLITSYN to attend to Soviet ship. (1)