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2025 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992
MEMORANDUM FOR:
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SUBJECT:
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6 February 1997
Fred Wickham
DO Focal Point for JFK Board
J. Barry Harrelson
DCI/CSI/HRG, JFK Project Officer
ARRB Request for Additional Information
and Records No. CIA-7
ARRB Memo dtd 8 Nov 95, same subj,
sub-para (2), The Mexico City Station
(attached)
1. In his review of the history of the Mexico City
Station, Jeremy Gunn, ARRB Staff, cited the five footnotes
annotated below as possible assassination-related records
and requested copies of the source documents.
For your
assistance in identifying the documents, following the
footnote citation is the text (in italics) to which it
refers.
Footnote 39. HMMA-17494, 4 Aug 61,. sub:
Data
on Case Officer work and Operational Projects at the
Mexico City Station, WH/HO.
pg 38/39, Vol I. "The Cuban task force and
related activities caused an increase in the Mexico
City Station to 76 Americans (40 were located inside
(the Embassy using official cover, and 36 were outside
(under nonofficial cover.) Indigenous agents numbered
over 200.”
Footnote 55. Ibid. (Ft. 54. ISTHMUS No. 62,
6 Dec 63, WH/HO.)
pg 44, Vol I. "Later in the year Diaz became
the
PRI candidate (tantamount to election) which
Cassured LIENVOY of an extended six years under s
virtually the same management." (54)
"In 1963 the routine reporting
of an operational lead by LIENVOY developed into a long
investigation. A man with a US accent, speaking broken
Russian, telephoned both the Soviet and Cuban
Embasssies on 26 September and 6 October 1963.
identified himself as Lee Oswald and Harvey Oswald.
He
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This information was cabled to Headquarters for traces
and identifying data. After the assassination of
President Kennedy on 22 November 1963 in Dallas, Texas,
the Mexico City Station spent several months
investigating leads in connection with Oswald's visit
to Mexico. (55)"
Footnote 61. I&R Report, Dec 64, 185215 TS.
pg 47/48, Vol I. “A team from the Inspection and
Review (I&R) Staff at Headquarters conducted a thorough
review of the Mexico City Station administrative and
operational program in July 1964. They wrote: `The
Mexico City Station approaches the classic type station
in opportunities and in operations.' It had high-level
liaison operations, unilateral operations, and joint
operations with the host government, as well as Soviet,
Satellite, Cuban, and indigenous Communist Party
operations. There was local collaborative liaison with
other US agencies (the State Department, the FBI, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service (I&NS), and the
military attaches). To accomplish this wide range of
tasks, the station was organized into Soviet, Cuban,
Satellite, Covert Action, Communist Party, and
Operational Support Branches. The last branch was an
operational catch-all responsible for direction of all
technical, surveillance, and liaison operations. In
reality, operational support operations were an
extension of the chief of station's personal
clandestine capabilities, particularly those projects
involving Mexican officials.
(61)"
Footnote No. 139. ISTHMUS No. 29, 8 Mar 61, WH/HO.
pg 229; Vol II. “During February 1961, (the first
transmitter was installed in the office of the Cuban
Ambassador to Mexico * (139)
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“*Between 1961 and 1968, at least a dozen audio
installations were made in Cuban installations (and
residences, but all of them eventually failed.
ROMANCE and LISAMPAN are two projects which provided
for short-term multiple audio installations.
Footnote No. 190. Project LILINK, File Nos. 201-226902
and 50-6-99/1, Job No. 68-494/28, Space 60793.
pg 353 Vol II. “LILINK"
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2. Mr. Gunn will be at IP the week of 24 February to
review additional material related to CIA-7. Please provide
the documents, or a status of the search, by 20 February
1997.
J. Barry Harrelson
Att: Ref Document
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