104-(0086-10011} SECRET» 10 Feb 77 Source: Notes made by A. Goodpesture for John Leader, IG Staff Suodject: Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage of Soviet and Guban. Enbassies) Ll. \ Unilateral coverage. From the time the Mexico St ation» was onened in April 1947 (by Bill Doyle). until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1956, Charles Anderson TIT (still in LA/HQ) had developed a support apparatus to REE Pe cae” exploit leads ‘from the Soviet Embassy. This umbrella type project (LEFEAT)._ +E K-OSG consisted of multi Line phone taps, three photo sites, a mobile surveillance team and a mail intercept operation, 8. Fhone taps were placed by an eailgjas Slap Sa "an ok, wwe Wisal Ca y tho va3\handea by David WILSTED (pseudo).- The number of lines - tapped was limted voy availability of ay ait post nearby (since the taps were not mae ay ah Spanish ain h, xs transcribers, Generally central) and English/ inal or Mexican American) were related GG at that time felt was good socurity in that if they ‘talked about: “shop,” they would talk to each other.) b. Three photo’ sites were hart cakp snares vith the help “of Harry Mahoney (retired, living: in Chicago) and TDY TSD people checking the best type of camera, film, and concealment devices, These had sub-cripts under LIPEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIC, and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site. bang opposite across the street from the front gate of the Soviet Embassy which had both a vehicle and foot entrance, The Soviet gate was on the NorthVest corner of their compound and LIMITED was aiagonalty -ACross a double barrelled street on the Southeast 4 Sie Sree ore C94 a co} emer a er a A ne eee geen en ~ re ’ . . + 7 tee . .
14-00000. - ne eer that, block, LIMITED was =the first bese ard at operated strictly on an 4 4 ; ox -erinental basis in the early stages, I think the Mexi Station bought one storey this property (a/Srpanish Colonial stone house) through LIMOUSINE (check to be sure). Later this house began to fall apart. This base was closed when the Station got word thet the photo of "uniden man" yas being released to. the _puolic by the Warren Commission. The photo operators were moved to another apt nearby. The property. vas sold (under an operational agreement with LIMOUSINE for a long term lease on the top floor of a new apartment blding to be built on this site). - LILYRIC vas planned as an alternate photo base to LIM ‘ITED, It was in an ‘upper ‘storey (3ra floor -check) on the same side of the street as LIMITED ‘but. in the middle of the block South. It had a slanted view of | aa eoth | the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy. The agents in LE TTR Mexican families) as “far as we knew,. were not acq awe -LILYRIC was a rented apartment. in one of a row of four houg _ which the’ Mexico Station erased in about 1958 (check date), also - using LIMOUSINE as the purchaser (cheek). This Site overlooked the back garden of the. Soviet Enbassy compound, The curpose of this opsretion vas to get good identification photographs of the Soviet personnel (who at thet time vere - largely unidentified in Mexico Station records), The three photo. sites were handled by (Remon Aivares \( fexican citizen of U.S. mother who taught elem the American School), (Ranon\ collected the film epktvestotuethwemehien Prom LIMITE eatery level at “and LILYRIC three times a week. Ris sister's husband, Carlos (Hexican doctor) developed and printed the. film into 8x10 contact print strips. _The master plan ey 4c 7 7 was for LICALLA film to ve processed , inside TSD man from 1957 to 1959 Garper ) a (Fo1t\- resigned) could not handle the volume a and as the unprocessed film’ began | a to accumulate, the. inside CO (Mahoney) became disgusted and took the film out for(Razon's era ther-in-law to process (probably early 1959), _ Thus Raton |becane | the handler for all three photo aor A sensitive staff D monitoring operation L [SECRET 0CL0165. If
14000000 7a - : . . . . , erase tT . - 3% on Noe he hee 8 é Was run out of another ohe of these houses (crypt for the Pour houses was LEST, 1, cte), This was ha: dled by Glen } HIDDEN (outside TSD officer) and ‘Mahoney using HQ TDY teans Sorvinoni toring. ‘This operation was also sevarate oS from LICALLA, The two houses in between were rented to unsusrecti: 1 tenants. “Ce Hobile surveillance was developed by iderson and later placed . under Mahoney and Joseph Sancho. This team: consisted of a half . dozen or so agents who used three to Pour late model cars and a panel truck (shih could be used on stake outs for photo covera:. -e}, The plan was to activate this group by radio (from LIb ITED BASE) Soviet ; “When someone of interest left the/Sabassy gate and stay with then until they made their neetings. - BASE 1 be@ause they had LIMITED photos, 0, This worked fairly well eae “was arrested ed x Se cet Mexican Secret Service. By the time the Station could arrange through Sy a cleared attorney to bail him out, (Judd Austin of the Goodrich, pe Little ‘and Riquelme firm)\, the agent. had identified Sancho (who was pe eee evacuated across the border at } Nogales by Bob Shaw) and the inside ---- --- | phone number of Mahoney (who was subsequently replaced oy Louis oo Puck cett). As a result of this flap, the LIFPAT project was broken up into several others, The acents were not changed but were given . Frank © new crypts. /Estencona and Peggy Mageard replaced Andersén in handling the (unilateral) phone taps. Puckett replaced Nahoney and handled the surveillance team (LIENTRAF) and the photo bases through(Remon,\ oases ' - 7 d. _LIBIGHT wes the crypt used for a\unilateral (originally) }mail a | | ‘intercept handled by Charlie Anderson III, The agent (Mexican) had
14-00000 . b oF 3 ope hi 4 Pose ON Berge ne ey Le sahals Aer che postal system (I think at the airport)\ His case officers ATP Snso Spera, were leter/Pucxett, Rovert Feldmann, and Alan White. Liaison cove rage\ was reliable and insecure as character rize qd by the nature of the \Mexican services\at thet time. the } Mexican . PS Direction of Federal { Security) with which ve dealt » Was a, hip pocxet sroup(run out of the anistyy Of Government. This inistry s nent a majer part of its time on control of foreigners and political investigations, Their azents were vicious, Robert Helberg established contact with one of then. \ (leter LIFIRE group) in about 1950 or 51. He gave them some . training (a group of about five surveillance types)\in travel control working} as Well as Bile searches of names fron DFS Eqtrs\where the files corrupt ex tortionists. thevairport. were poorly organized and often inaccurate, Mow and sone r, some useful Me information was developed but it could not be den \ Helberg \was @, a, e s replaced by Pil Rootbinger, (resigned ang oy rea) tanoney Mahoney, Thomas Hazlitt, and Robert Feldmann. & we Raolfo Lopes Mateos. During 1958 ¥ Mexican President elect, During this period, the U. Se Ambassador Robert C. Hill (reflecting the policy of then See State J. FY Dulles) was energetic in organiz ing groups to "Pieht conmunism". One of these seeds 4 + | : Jt ; i i i a] grew into @ proposal\ Miguel Aleman (jr. son of former ? wi President), acting {for Lopez Mateos, made to Win Scott for a joint telephone tap operation): This project (LIENVOY) went through about four distressing years of a shakedown, The Mexican in control (LIELEGANT) was 5 inexperienced, old, and greedy. His tee | I son (LIENVOY¥-2) ‘was a- masterpiece of deceit and’ corruption. LIELEGANT also | EE eae . | | ; i a) manipulated control over the principal a gent of LIBIGHT The first case officer was- ‘Alfonso Spera inside with\ Turner Smith, (retired) outside and John (TSD training officer for surveillance and head of the listening | mail intercept} post where thirty telechone lines would comer’ as well es a transeri ; [SORE i istion roon 16
14-00000 . . SERRET wo” dened tle § “fociean etry officers. )] Taitielly the stetion tried to m.et every demand made . by the Mexicans, Both (Gaith Jena John hed language difficulties and personal problens. associated with being outside the ste tion(50 thet the Mexicans) were virtuelly-unco nérollacle, spend! & money as they pleased, squirrelling away equipment at enormous costs, and neglecting their part of the bargain Finally. when the cost became exhorbitant and there Was 1ité tle to show for it, the project was revarped. Smith and John returned to the U.S 81 were ren slaced by a TSD officer, Churles Flick, w who was ‘put inside t Brady was reassigned to other dutie the equipnent, / Scott took over the project Prost to maintain ransfer, 34 ‘meeting with LIELEGAN?. : He designated Ann Goodpasture to meet h Flick for routine Ss pervision _ of the Listening post, piokige wtrints and tapes. Goodpasture hed no o dealings with the 4 exicans when Scott was al. or out of town, Generally, all decisions were made by Scott, (This was about late 1962. “3. My menory is a’ “Little vague about the origins of the Cuban Enbassy but TI think the staff first developed from @ pro- Castro group celebrating an New Years eve 1959. As I recall, it was a makeshift arrangenent of volunteers ‘through most of 1960 and €1 with Tom Hazlitt producing voluminous reports on their activities and recruiting ¢ agents right and left among Cuban nationals in Mexico City. | 4e Personnel assignments, of interest to us now is who was in Mexico during the period prior to Oswald * s visit and the subsequent investigation by the Warren Coinni ssion. To determine who VAS there and wnat they. vere doing I have grouped persons tozether chronologically with areas of their assignnent ; as the covering from 1950 to 1969 so that ifxeteer names pop. up, one: cen tell what i hd te . ‘Period they were in Mexico and their assignments at the time. + SEGE ET, 00163
14-00000 8/56-6/69 COS Winston M. Scott (deceased) COVERT ACTION . + . rior to 1954\ Howard Hunt (retirea) ° pee ee ee | 12/56 - 9/62 Stannaz rd Short. (retired) 9/61 - 3/64 David Phillips C/(retired) ~ 8/62 ~ 9/6L. ~ hAsst ~ 2/64, - 6/65 Janes Flannery C/(retired) — 9/64, - 11/66 Harold Dalghren Asst 10/65 -— 1967. Stanley Watson C/ (retired) 66. - 68 a 68 - 71. ( Joseph SmithG(retired in Mexico) CUBA OPERATIONS © . os oo . . . | - oe 56 - . 4/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief — | £ \A\) oO! 7 ornney i. - 3 Oe pocs = 7/56 - 7/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) 10/58 - 12/62 (retired) 6/63 - 9/65 an White (retired)-— 10/65 - - 1969 ‘Stanley Watson (retired in Mexico) © 2/60 — 4/62 (Jack Stewart\(retired Costa Rica), ‘i 4/63 = 4/65 Bob Shaw Chief — x Ww 9/63 ~ 7/65 CRay Swider Suiider\— 10/63 - 5/65 Lorna Mackay (rotorrd) ° - 8/63 - 6/65 David Phillips Cede, < 9/65 - 19/68 Joseph PiccoloWny ¥ ' 17 = salen eae Pees | SOvI8 TA TARGET G — | aan ‘57 - 10/59 Louise Lyon’ net ans s) 6/62 ~ 1/67 Prentice Marheine (ps) | 9/59~ 8/65 Cerbart Vanell Chief — fe ( (retired ?) ( ) 9/59 ~ 8/65 CRarbare Manell\- — ' Outside CO’ | 6/64 ~ 7/66 William Bright 7 _ | -4/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Fausmann - I 6/65 ~ 7/67 Alice Pittinger . 7/65 - 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief : SOVIET T TRANSCRIBERS 6/56 — §/58 Morris Gordon (resigned) 6/58 ~ 6/63 George Misko — 6/63 ~- 70 Boris Tarasoff (retired in Mexico) ~ eee er eh tt epee oe : : grager Bee eee — 0060R69. ie
14-00000 | 7 -  SUPEORT ASSETS oo (Ghitaterai\ phono teps | (T5949 1961 Cherles Anderson III Chief Co=n\3 Outside co : G/55s- 4/60 (Pegey Margard Asst David WILSTFD (ps) 4/56 - 1/62 Frenk Estancona Chief retired in Mexico: Q . ES a Cz Ire MEXLCO : ae 2/60 - 10/64 Thomas Keenan ~ a 9/64. ~ 12/67 Michael Farmer ! {(Gailateral photo Cubans: a 6/59 ~ 4/64 Robert Zambernardi (resigned Mexico) . Unilateral photo Soviets a - re - - ne | or 3/54 - £/59 ‘Harry T. Mahoney . . 56 —- 68 Outside Arent - ; (retired Chicako) ~ Remon. Alvarcgg Ayence in Mexico) =o]... 5/57 - 8/64 A. Goodpasture (alternate SO — oO ea’ a Or ie ' and internal routing) - ENN cn oe 6/58 - 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retired) | . ‘i Se 6/63 - 1o/6Z Thomas Keenan =e.) 6. L HY, Fe lely eek, ‘ = a (65.- 66 William Bright se oe eS ier: ae as (Liaison \phone ‘taps ; . 1959 - 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) 1959 - 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) 1959 ~ 1960C Turner Smith \ (outside, now retired) . oo a i 1959 —- 1960 John™ (Training rept resigned) ; ce TN 1960- 1961 John Brady (retired) 1962 - 1968 A. Goodpasture -- Ss 1961 - 1971 Charles Flick (outside TSD Staff Agent - retired)— — (2tson\- survelillsnce rior 1954\ Hobert Velberg\ (retired) < . 3/52 = 7/59 “Harry Hatoney (retired) 1/59 - 1961 Thomas Hazlitt 12/62 ~ 9/67 Robert Feldmann (SD Outside unit \/58 - 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — | 59 -4/64. JIsseph M. Resigno (ps) Unit blown and closed dow OPS Pye [; Pyrat r Antabee choa id een ene teen teen rere ah te ee err tener ne tbat tte pmenraeenereen No — O0LO179 0
14-00000 . About mid 1962 (cheek date) LIENvVoy (outside Mexi rept asked (Gor the| elephone nunoers of the Soviet, Cu uban, and Satellite Embassies. LIFEAT (unilateral coverage) Was as I recail, the He:hcans connected 5 Cuban lines, 5 Soviet tines, 3 Czech, connected, With this forevwarning; dis However ae 2 Polish,” end 1 Yugoslav line. The. basehouse listening post had a live f monitor who , riede short summaries of interesting conversations for a daily resume which was Feceived each day ar round 8 a.m, (nas ssed by Flick ‘to Goodrasture » to get to Seott before 9.a.m.) ‘Later (when the reel was completely recorded) — full tran nscripts were typed and passed to the station in the ‘same way, however, there was “usually a tine lag of a day or s0, ° Those transcripts which had | Russien or’ anoth 1er language besides. Spani ish or English vent out of the listening post the day after the transcript (of other conve rsations \\ Bem typed. These reels were taken to another locatiog® and typed. In the case of the Russig “about a week behind the AS Russian conversations amon nembers of the Soviet Embassy. During this "period (fall of 1963) the reels were probably being brought into. ‘the staticn end carried to Boris by: one of the people from the Soviet Section or they may have been carried ‘to him by Flick but I think I bro ught the reel in and gave at to (Herbert Manel. to take to Boris. Herbert Manel and his wife Ba ‘rbara’ handled all of the _Processi:.g of Soviet transeripts, Hy job involved screening © the photographs as soon as we learned that the man calling himself Oswald wa probably an hiericen, However, here again there was a backlag because the photos were picked up three times a week but the ones picked up were usually for dates a few days previously because (the dooton\ proce:sed the film on a night time basis, Photographs were made usually until one roll was used but ‘later we got it changed to one day coverage on each roll — in other words the bee operetors | ‘cleared the camera each day whether there was anynkitinxnaxgm a full - roll of film exposed. Instructions were ‘to, cover office Rours, Photograp oh each © ieee new nereennme apy 8 at ee eee aye ee ety eee tye mee eee ene