Francesco/who-killed-jfk huggingface dataset:
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FUNDS: $45,000 $29,020 in FY 67 $15,980 in FY 68Programmed for $45,000 FY 67Salaries $ 7,000GERENDE 23,900Others (8) 5,000Vehicle maintenance (2) 7,600Rent and utilities 500Equipment maintenance and replacement 1,000Miscellaneous operational expensesPREVIOUS APPROVALS:1 Dec 65 - 30 Nov 66 $41,5001 Dec 64 - 30 Nov 65 45,3001 Dec 63 - 30 Nov 64 49,7001 Dec 62 - 30 Nov 63 49,9001 Dec 61 - 30 Nov 62 49,5001 Dec 58 - 30 Nov 59 95,380STAFF COMMENTS: FI and CI Staffs concur in renewal.CI STAFF: Strongly urges the Station to continue its close monitoring of Soviet interest in the installation buildings and attempts to obtain information on sensitive project personalities. The Station should devise necessary contingency plans of action to eliminate any security hazards if it is determined that the Soviets are intensifying such efforts and could be getting "too close" to the project installations, personalities and activities.
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SECRET8 JAN 1967MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director for PlansTHROUGH: NFS/BGSUBJECT: Project LIEMITY1. This action seeks renewal of Project LIEMITY covering Mexico City Station's stationary surveillance basehouses aimed against the Soviet Embassy. The activity will cost $45,000 for the period 1 December 1966 to 30 November 1967. Approval is recommended.2. Project LIEMITY has been in being for six years. At present it supports three stationary basehouses near the Soviet Embassy and a mobile photographic basehouse. These are used to obtain photographic coverage and logs of Soviet movements and visitors to the Soviet Embassy. The mobile basehouse is used also to cover meeting sites of the local communist parties and targets of opportunity.3. A principal agent and eight agents are used in the LIEMITY activity. The agents are variously employed as basehouse keepers, photo lab technicians and surveillance operators.4. Security has been generally good although one incident occurred in mid 1966 which may have some impact on the future security of the operation. An approach was made to an agent of the Station, who owns a small store near the Soviet Embassy, to report on his neighbors among whom are some of the LIEMITY agents. One, LIEMITY-9-6, was mentioned by name. The Station is watching this development carefully.5. The LIEMITY activity proved its worth during the past year when check was made on conflicting stories told by two Station agents. The LIEMITY surveillance reports proved that one of the agents was lying about his contacts with the Soviets. LIEMITY is well managed and continues to serve an important Mexico City Station need.SECRET![signature of Robert E. Andersen]ROBERT E. ANDERSENActing ChiefForeign Intelligence14-00000
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# SECRETPROJECT ACTION| TYPE OF ACTION       | X   | DIVISION                    | CA            | OTHER || -------------------- | --- | --------------------------- | ------------- | ----- || NEW PROJECT APPROVAL |     | Western Hemisphere Division |               |       || AMENDMENT NO.        |     | FIELD STATION               |               |       ||                      |     | Mexico City                 |               |       || RENEWAL FY           | X   | BRANCH                      | DESK          |       || 7-68                 |     | One                         |               |       || EXTENSION            |     | CASE OFFICER                | DATE          |       ||                      |     | C. Bustos-Videla            | 18 Nov. '66   |       || TERMINATION          |     | ROOM NO. BUILDING           | TEL. EXT. RED | BLACK ||                      |     | 332 Ames                    | 3654          |       |CONCURRENCES OF DIVISIONS| ORGANIZATIONAL ELEMENT | TYPED NAME (and signature) | DATE.    | DO NOT USE THIS SPACE || ---------------------- | -------------------------- | -------- | --------------------- || C/WH/1                 | W. J. Kaufman              |          |                       || C/WH/B&F               | Robert-Carter              | 1/25/64  |                       || C/WH/SS                | George R. Thompson         |          |                       || C/WH/FI                | Thomas Polgar              | 6/8-66   |                       || WH/EXO                 | Donald C. Marelius         | 1/12/66  |                       || C/WHD                  | William V. Broe            | 12/10/66 |                       |CONCURRENCES OF OTHER COMPONENTS|          |                       | DATE      | COPY NO. | MEMO ATTACHED | DATE     || -------- | --------------------- | --------- | -------- | ------------- | -------- || FI Staff | -s/Robert E. Andersen | 6 Jan 67  | X        |               | 6 Jan 67 || CI Staff | -s/Frank W. Hughes    | 16 Dec 66 |          |               |          || C/MPS/BG |                       | 12 Jan 67 |          |               |          ||               | APPROVAL  | AMT THIS ACTION | FY  | REVISED TOTAL || ------------- | --------- | --------------- | --- | ------------- || PERIOD        |           |                 |     |               || FROM          | TO        |                 |     |               || 1 December 66 | 30 Nov 67 | $ 45,000.00     | 7   | $ 29,020      ||               |           |                 | 8   | $ 15,980      |APPROVING AUTHORITYA/DDPFORM 848 OBSOLETE PREVIOUSSECRET(51)
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SECRET,10 DEC 1966MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for PlansSUBJECT : LIEMPTY Project Renewal1. It is requested that the LIEMPTY Project be renewed for the period 1 December 1966 through 30 November 1967 for a total of $45,000: $29,020 for FY 1967 and $15,980 for FY 1968. The Project is included in the FY 1967 Operational Program for $45,000. Funds are available within WIH Division.2. LIEMPTY covers stationary surveillance basehouses targeted against the Soviet Embassy. These basehouses provide photographic coverage and logs. Two of the basehouses (LIMITED and LILYRIC) cover the activity in the front of the Embassy, and LICALLA provides coverage of the back courtyard area. The LIEMPTY project also covers a mobile photographic basehouse in the form of a panel truck which is used against the Polish Embassy where we have no permanent surveillance basehouse, and against other targets of opportunity.3. The value of Soviet Embassy photographic coverage during the past year was proven when the logs maintained by LILYRIC were used to double check on an operation involving LIRUSTIC-1 and LICOWL-1 who had told conflicting stories of certain events concerning the activity of some Soviets. Through the surveillance reports of the LIEMPTY Project against the Soviet Embassy, it was proven without a doubt that LICOWL-1 (who had just taken a polygraph without apparent deception) was lying about his contacts with the Soviets.4. The LIENTRAP mobile photographic basehouse was targeted against leaders and meeting sites of the local Communist parties as well as other targets of opportunity, particularly exile Communist leaders now residing in Mexico. LIENTRAP provided up-dated identificationSECRET
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SECRET-2-photographs of Communist officers which are of value to both the JMTIGER program and the Station's recruitment/penetration program. The LIENTRAP personnel also regularly service twenty-one postal accommodation addresses used by the Mexico City Station.5. One development which may affect the security of the LIEMPTY basehouses of LIMITED and LILYRIC occurred in mid 1966 when LICOWL-1 (who owns a small store near the Soviet Embassy) reported that a Soviet official, AEQUALITY-1, had approached him and requested him to inform on his neighbors. Reportedly the Soviet named LIEMPTY-6 (of the LIMITED basehouse) by name and also indicated all the tenants (unnamed) of the new building which now houses LILYRIC. The Soviet pinpointed the building by saying the one being built by a person who fit perfectly the description of LIMOUSINE. LICOWL-1 did not indicate that the Soviet reflected any interest in LIMOUSINE. The occupants of the LILYRIC basehouse were not mentioned. LICOWL-1 indicated to his Station contact that the only person he really suspected in the neighborhood was LIEMPTY-6 (of LIMITED) who doesn't go to work, is always typing, lives comfortably, and owns a car, He claims to have heard it rumored that LIEMPTY-6 was working for the Americans. (Since LIMITED is equipped with a radio and tips off the Station's surveillance team when it is used against Soviet targets, Headquarters has already assumed that the Soviets have identified this basehouse.) LICOWL-1 also listed several persons named by the Soviet who had no connection whatsoever with CIA.6. The Station instructed LICOWL-1 not to become an informant on his neighbors. According to LICOWL-1, he therefore told AEQUALITY-1 he did not have time to collect the information the Soviet wanted. However, in view of the lies LICOWL-1 has been caught in, it is difficult to assess exactly what the Soviets asked of LICOWL-1 and just what LICOWL-1 may have told the Soviets.. The Station is still looking into this development.7. WHD recommends renewal of this Project.![signature of William V. Broe]Wliam V. BroeChief,Western Hemisphere DivisionSECRET
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## PREVIOUS PROJECT ACTION
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SECRETDDP/FG/FI9 Feb 66PROJECT BRIEFINGPROJECT: LIEMPTY WH - MexicoACTION : ADD/P approval of renewal 1 Dec 65 - 30 Nov 66PURPOSE: To provide support for mobile and stationary photographic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy and a dispatching base for a physical surveillance team.PROGRESS: Assets included under the project include three base- houses which provide front and rear views of the Soviet Embassy, and a panel truck equipped for spot photo coverage. Raymond H. GERENDE (p), principal agent, meets the basehouse keepers regularly, maintains regular contact with the mobile photo unit and with the develop- ing and processing base. He also performs many other support functions.The photographs from all these operations have been of value to the Station in operational planning, for identification by surveillance teams, for mug books, and for Headquarters permanent files. The Station believes that this operation is essential to the fulfillment of the overall operational program levied on the Station by the RMD.FUNDS : $41,500 $25,520 in FY 66 $15,980 in FY 67(Programmed for $50,000 in FY 66)SalariesGERENDE $ 7,000Basehouse keepers (3) 10,100Mobile unit operators (2) 7,000Lab personnel (2) 3,600Cut-out 2,200Vehicle maintenance (2) 2,000Rent and utilities 7,600Equipment maintenance 1,000Miscelianeous ops expenses 1,000SECRET
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SECRETPREVIOUSAPPROVALS:1 Dec 64 - 30 Nov 65 $45,3001 Dec 63 - 30 Nov 64 49,7001 Dec 62 - 30 Nov 63 49,9001 Dec 61 - 30 Nov 62 49,5001 Dec 60 - 30 Nov 61 53,0001 Dec 58 - 30 Nov 59 95,380STAFFCOMMENTS: FI and CI Staffs concur in renewal.SECRET
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SECRET(When Filled In)# PROJECT ACTION| TYPE OF ACTION       | XX                            |                      || -------------------- | ----------------------------- | -------------------- || NEW PROJECT APPROVAL | DIVISION Western Hemisphere   |                      || AMENDMENT NO.        | FIELD STATION Mexico City     |                      || RENEWAL FY 196 6     | BRANCH 1                      |                      || EXTENSION            | CASE OFFICER C. Bustos-Videla |                      || TERMINATION          | ROOM NO. GII-43               |                      ||                      | BUILDING Ildqs                |                      || FI/CI                | CA                            | CT CRYPTONYM LIEMPTY || OTHER                | DESK Mexico                   |                      || DATE                 | TEL. EXT. 9325                |                      ||                      | RED 4506                      | BLACK                || ORGANIZATIONAL ELEMENT | TYPED NAME (and signature) | DATE     | DO NOT USE THIS SPACE || ---------------------- | -------------------------- | -------- | --------------------- || C/WH/1                 | W. J. Kaufman              | 11/29    |                       || WH/S&F                 | Robert D. Carter           | 21/2/5   |                       || MI/SS                  | W. E. Brooks               | 12/3     |                       || C/WH/FI                | Thomas Polgar              | 16/12    |                       || ΚΗΔΕΧΟ                 | Donald Marelius            | 28/12/65 |                       || C/WHD                  | William V. Broe            | 30/1/60  |                       || CONCURRENCIES OF OTHER COMPONENTS | DATE     | COPY NO. | MEMO ATTACHED YES NO | DATE     || --------------------------------- | -------- | -------- | -------------------- | -------- || FI Staff -3/Robert E. Andersen    | 4 Feb 66 | X        |                      | 4 Feb 66 || CI Staff -s/Frank W. Hughes       | 7 Jan 66 |          |                      |          ||                                   |          |          |                      |          ||                                   |          |          |                      |          |> [Figure: Blurred stamp]| C/DDP/PG | Son, Sumes | 117566 ||                                                         | APPROVAL           |                                      || ------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ------------------------------------ || FROM 1 Dec 1965                                         | PERIOD 30 Nov 1966 | AMOUNT OF ACTION $ 41,500.00         || APPROVING AUTHORITY Assistant Deputy Director for Plans | SIGNATURE Tharan   | FY 1906 $ 25.520.00 1967 $ 15.980.00 ||  |  | DATE 11 FEB 1966 |FORM 848SECRET(5)
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Assistant Deputy Director for PlansTHROUGH: DDP/PGSUBJECT: Project LIEMPTY Renewal*.4 FEB 19651. FI Staff recommends approval of the renewal of Project LIEMPTY. This project, costed at $41,500., supports the following Mexico City assets: a panel truck used for mobile photography, three base houses for fixed photographic surveillance, a contract agent manager and eight support agents. One of the base homes is used as a control point to dispatch a surveillance team. (The latter is not a part of the project, however.)2. The LIEMPTY target is the Soviet Embassy and Soviet activities in Mexico City. LIEMPTY is part of the complex of station instruments by means of which requirements from a variety of U.S. agencies are met. One of the sites provided pictures later used in the Warren Comission Report, and the publication of the report created a security hazard. The Station moved the site and it is now back in operation.3. The possibility of Soviet intercept of radio commo to the surveillance team has been carefully weighed recently by SR, the desk, O/C and TSD. The decision to accept the risk appears to have been taken with due deliberation.4. This is clearly an effective, well-managed operation serving an important need. We recommend renewal without hesitation.![signature of W. LLOYD GEORGE]W. LLOYD GEORGEChiefForeign IntelligenceAttachmentProject
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SECRET30 DEC 1965MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for PlansSUBJECT : Project LIEMPTY Renewal Request1. Renewal is requested for the LIEMPTY Project for the period 1 December 1965 through 30 November 1966 for a total of $41,500; of this amount, $25,520 should be alloted for FY 1966 and $15,980 for FY 1967. This Project has been programmed in FY 1966 for $50,000. The last Project Renewal was approved at $45,300. Funds are available within WIH Division.2. The security of this Project appears to be good. The LIENTRAP photo truck was repainted a different color in January 1965 to preserve the security of this vehicle which operates extensively in the same general areas. There have been no apparent ramifications from the publication of the LIMITED Photograph in the Warren Commission Report in September 1964.3. LIENTRAP is one of two mobile photo surveillance units at the Station, both of which are used extensively because of the many requirements for spot photo coverage of diplomatic installations, agent meetings, and current identification photos of targets among others.4. Although there are three stationary photo baschouses under this Project all targeted against the Soviet Embassy, there is very little duplication of effort, and the coverage of this Embassy would be weakened through the termination of any of them. LICALLA covers the rear of the Embassy (garden and parking lot) and is in a unique position to observe informal meetings and activity there. In May 1965 a thorough assessment was made of this basehouse to determine whether an audio installation could be based here, directed against these garden conversations. It was determined that due to the high incidence of street and other noises, this was not practical. TSD and SR Divisions are conscious of this requirement, however, and if any new equipment is developed which might make this operation more feasible it will be tested. LIMITED and LILYRIC which both cover the front entrance, provide coverage during different parts of the day, and LIMITED also serves as a fixed radioSECRET![GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downgrading and declacification]
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dispatching base for the LIEMBRACE surveillance team.5. The photographs from all these operations are of value to the Station in their operational planning, for identification by surveillance teams, for mug books, which are often used by surveillance teams and singleton agents in identifying Soviets, and for lleadquarter's permanent files.6. With reference to the FI Staff comment made last year at the time of the Project renewal that the radio dis- patching from the LIMITED installation might have made this base a target for the RIS, the problem was discussed in depth with the. Office of Communications, TSD, and SR Divisions. The Station has been alert to the Soviet's monitoring capability and they have developed a signaling system and inter- car communications system that will leave the LIEMBRACE surveillance cars on the air for a minimum of time, and with limited open conversation. The result of Headquarters and the. Station's research on this problem resulted in the conclusion that, if a surveillance team is to operate with automobiles, radios must be used if there is to be efficient surveillance, and regardless of what presently available type of scrambling or coding is used, radio is susceptible to monitoring by the opposition. It was therefore concluded that if the Station is to use the LIEMBRACE tean against members of the Soviet installation, LIMITED must continue to be used as the radio dispatching center and the risk factor must be accepted until some new, more secure yet efficient commo system is devised.7. The reporting on the administration of this Project is handled through regular quarterly progress reports. The appropriate Soviet, CP, or other Case Officers handle the reporting and exploitation of the product. During the past year there were no positive intelligence reports from this Project.8. Both SR and Wll Divisions recommend renewal of this Project.by William V. BroeChiefWestern Hemisphere Division
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SECRETMEMORANDUM FOR: Chief of Operations, DD/PSUBJECT : Project LIEMPTY (Renewal)WH - Mexico City1.  The attached project, originating in WH Division, is presented for renewal for the period 1 December 1960 through 30 November 1961. The project provides for physical and photographic surveillance operations in support and exploitation of other Mexico City Station operations, particularly those targetted at Soviet personnel and installations.2.  Authority is requested to obligate $53,000 from the DD/P-WH Division budget: $31,900 in fiscal year 1961, and $21,100 in fiscal year 1962, subject to the availability of funds. The amount includes $38,000 compensation for two principal agents, one clerical support agent on an hourly basis, and eleven surveillance and support agents; $7,000 operational expenses (safehouse procurement, post office boxes, rented automobiles, purchase of information, vehicle maintenance, and operational travel); $2,500 replacement, repair and maintenance of photographic equipment; and $5,500 basehouse rental, utilities, and maintenance.3.  The field's renewal request, supported by a covering memorandum of the Division, sets forth accomplishments of the project in the past year in terms of objectives and estimates effectiveness. It is noted that one principal agent, Simon D. CLACKETT (p), resigned in October 1960, and the four-man surveillance team previously handled by him will be transferred to project LITEMPO, consequently being omitted from LIEMPTY in this renewal. Three basehouses continue to be operated under the project: (a) LIMITED, which compiles daily logs on arrivals and departures from the LIMERICK installation, together with attendance lists of LIMERICK employees, and handles the radio dispatch of the LIEMBRACE surveillance team on LIMERICK personnel and targetsSECRET
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SECRETof opportunity. This basehouse also provides photographic coverage, concentrated on visitors. (b) LILYRIC which provides clandestine photographs particularly of visitors to, as well as employees of, the LIMERICK installation, prepares weekly reports on LIMERICK employees and their wives, and reports on license numbers of all cars visiting the installation. (c) LICALLA, which concentrates on photographic coverage of LIMERICK employees and their families, as well as providing observation on the apparent positions and jobs of the target employees, and as well as personnel changes. Additional photographic coverage is provided by the mobile LIENTRAP vehicle. Principal agent Raymond H. GERENDE (p) continues to coordinate basehouse activities; principal agent Oliver G. SCANTLING (p) continues to be an independent asset used to follow-up and exploit operational information on target personnel and installations, to case various installations of interest, to acquire property, etc. SCANTLING has managed the surveillance team being transferred to LITEMPO in the interim following the resignation of CLACKETT. The Station notes that activities at the LICALLA basehouse were suspended in September 1960 as the result of the arrest of a knowledgeable TSD technician in another area and it is not known precisely when it will be possible to resume these operations. The Station believes that the GERENDE segment is now operating under optimum arrangements and SCANTLING will soon be relieved from his interim responsibility for the surveillance team being transferred to LITEMPO and can concentrate more on his investigative and casing activities. It is not planned in the coming year to expand project activities.4. Appropriate Special Stafr components concur in recommending renewal. FI Staff notes the Division's assurance that the transfer of the unilateral surveillance team to LITEMPO will not affect its independent status, and remarks that the current project review presents a clearer picture of the usefulness of the several segments than the previous one.SECRET
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5. I recommend renewal of Project LIEMPTY as presented.S. M. HINESChief, DDP/POApproved: Richard Helms 3 FEB 1961COP-DD/P DateAttachment:Project Outline LIEMPTYFI MemorandumStaff Coordination:For FI Staff -3/R. BryantFor CI Staff -s/R. BrownFor CCG -s/F. Youngblood
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MEMORANDUM FOR: DDP/COPSTHROUGH: DDP/FGSUBJECT: Project LIEMPTY25 JAN 1961FI Staff recommends renewal, with the assurance of the desk that the transfer of the unilateral surveillance team to LITEMPO will not affect its independent status. This review presents a clearer picture of the usefulness of the several segments than the previous one.![Signature of W. Lloyd George, Chief, Foreign Intelligence]W. LLOYD GEORGEChiefForeign IntelligenceAttachmentProject