104-10413-10128 e aft - [SECRET - 10 Feb 77 Source: Notes. made by A. Goodpasture for. John leader, IG Staff “Subjects. ‘Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies) 1. UELIEEEFAD coverase. From the time the Mexico Station was opened in CAprii— 1947. “ISL (ey BALI Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1958, Charles Anderson” III. (stain in “LA/HQ) had developed a@ support apparatus to We exploit leads “from ‘the Soviet Embassy, ‘This umbrella type project. (LIFEAT) . consisted of mal ti line phone taps, (three photo sites,)a mobile surveillance team and § a mail intercept operation, . a Phone taps were placed by cn enitoyes of the telephone company . anak. We AAPA CALL , ae Has) handled by David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of lines - oe tapped was Linked wy availability of a listening post nearby “(since the. “taps were not jnade in the main central) and English/ Spanish (Soviet, Polish, Czech, ete) transcribers. Generally | these agents (nostly Mexican or Mexican Anerican) were related -_ (ohtch the station at that time felt 1 was, good seoursty in that | a ae handled by Anderson with the help oe Harry Mahoney (retired, ‘Living. in Chicago) end TDY TSD | "people checking the best type of camera, film, and concealment devices. ‘These had. cub-cripts under LIFEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIC, and LICALLA). LIMITED | was. a fixed ‘site ban osite across the. street from tk rent ate of the Soviet Embassy which ‘had both a vehicle and Foot entrance. The Soviet gate’ was on the 7 Yorthiest corner. of their “compound and LIMITED was S alagonally across: a double barrelled street on the Southgs
13-00000 ot >= SECRET that block. LIMITED Was “he: first base and it operated strictly on an exverinentel. “besis in the early sta ages. I think the Mexi Station bought one storey ‘this property. (e/Spanish Colonial stone house) through LINOUSINE (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" Was being released to the “public by. ‘thé Warren Coninission. The photo operators were moved to another apt nearby. The ‘property 3 vas” sold (under an op erational agreement with LIMOUSINE for a “long term lease on 1 the top, floor of a new Y apartnent blding. to be built on this site). - LILyRrc was: planned | as an alternate photo base to LIp {ITED. : It Was in. an upper storey Gra floor. ~check) on the sane side: of the street as LIMITED but in the nidate of the block South. “Tt had a slantéd view of the front. gate of the Soviet Embassy. -The agents in LIMITED and LILYRIC (both Mexican ‘fendlies) as fer as we knew, were. not acquainted with each other, "-LILYRIG was a. "rented apartment. LICALLA, the third photo site, was located ain one of a row of four houses on the South side of, the Soviet Bnbassy compound . which, ‘the Yexico Stotion purchased in about 1958 (cheek date), also using LIMOUSINE as the purchaser (check). This site overlooked the back garden of the Soviet. Enbessy compound. The purpose of this operation wes to get sood identification photographs of the Soviet. personnel (who at thet time were largely | unidentified in Mexico Station records) . The three photo sites were handled by _ Gignon Alvares) (Mexican citizen of U.S, mother who-taught-elenentary- “tevela at, ! AW ot OW ee Aneri¢aa aa SoHOOLYA (Ramomcollected the film qpideskestetientie from LIMITED U and LILYRIC three tines a week. His sister! s husband, Carlos (Nexteant doctor) developed and printed the film into 8x10 contact print strips. The master plan was for LICALLA film to be. processed inside, “TSD nan from 1957 to 1959° (Harper) (Holt) - resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed film began to accumilate, the ‘inside. co (Mahoney) became disgusted and took the film out for Ranon'g] brother-in-Lay to process’ (probably earl y 1959). ThusfRaton became the’ handler for’ ‘all three photo oe A sensitive staff D monitoring operation
13-00000 . , a ® “SECRET, was run ont: of: another one of these houses Corypt for: ‘the four. houses was LEWSI/1, ote), ‘This vas -handled by Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer) and Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. ‘This operation was also separate from LIC ALLA. The. two houses in between were rented to unsusrecting tenants yee. “Mobile surveillance Was developed by Anderson and later placed _ tader Mahoney and Joseph Sancho. This bean consisted cf a half , dozen or So! agents who used three to four late model cars end a untal | ‘they made their meetings. These agents knew about the LIMITED this: worked fairly well until about the middle of 1958 (check date) when one of the surveillance ag gents got too close to his target and . owas « arrested by. the. Mexican transit police and turned over to the | Mex clean Secret Service, . By the time the Station could. arrange through | Cialand Rigen) > the agent: had identified Sancho (who Was phone nunber of Mahoney (vino was subsequently replaced by Louis oo Puckett). JAS a result of this flap, ¢ he LIPRAT project Was broken when som neone of interest lett the/Embassy gate and stay with them + BASE begeuse they had LINITED photos Tor identification purposes, a cleared ‘attomey ‘to bail him out (saad Rustin’ of ‘the -Goodrieh;) panel truck (which could be used on stake_outs for photo covera: ‘e). “The. plan was to. activate this | group by radio (fron LIMITED BASE) Soviet “evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Sh :aw) and the inside—~ ~~ UR into several others. ‘The agents were not changed but were given GFrank) new. I exypts. “Gestancoma ana Gener E HAGE replaced Andersén in. handling m ‘ne WAELEtEPAL) phone taps. ‘Puckett: replaced Mahoney and héndled the - surveillance, team | (LEVITRA) and the Photo bases ‘through tenon vide  EIBIGHT - was the voxypt used for a an anitatera? (sEIgiRATIy) » mail “Intercept handled by Charlie Anderson III, Que agent (Mexican) had a sent “oefisial_s statis ‘end an £0 obtain selected, letters from} SECRET