104100520044] ; | oe (SECRET. - 10 Feb 77 Source: Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Staff suoject: Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverege of Soviet and Cuban Embassies) i. Unilateral coverage. From the time the 1 lexico St ation vas opened in oe ein eed . . | (April Bpril 1947) (by Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as cos in 1958, Charles | Anderson III (sti in LA/HQ) had developed a support apparatus to® exploit leads. from ‘the Soviet Enbassy. This unbrella type project. (LOFEAr) consisted of mult’ Line phone taps, (three phate sites) mobile surveillance team and a mail intercept operation. the telechore company \ Ratarnacl we % re tew) . tho vals handled by David NILSTED (pseudo). ‘The number of Lines - Be  Fhorie taps were placed “tapped was | Limted Soy availability of a 2 Listening post nearby ‘(since the taps were not made in the main central) and ay Spanish (Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc) transcribers. ‘Generally i these agents (nostly Mexican or Mexican Azericen) were related | (which the station at that tine felt was good security in that if. they telked about’ shop, they would talk to each other.) -.b. (ffhree photo sites/were handled by Anderson with. the help “of Harry Mahoney (retired, living in Chicago) and TDY TSD ‘people checking the best type of camera, § fin, and concealment . ' devices, These had sub-cripts under LIFEAT (LIMITED, ‘Lrnmtc, | and LICALLA). _ -REETED was a fixed site ban ° este across Sa ne oto oF Ht mma ge “> “ewthe street: from. th cont. gate. of” tHe , Soviet Esba: both a vehicle and foot entrance. ‘The Soviet gate was on the Northiest corner.of their compound and LINITED was, s atagonally ‘across a double barrelled. street on the Southges ee JARO Does ie, “ ~ \ iA :
14-00000 - 2 > SECRET that block. LIMITED was the first base and it operated strictly on an ex -erimentcl basis in the early stages. I think the Mexi Station bought one storey ‘this prop erty . (a/Spanish 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 tuniden man" was > being released to the puolic by the Warren Coamission. ‘The Photo operators 1 were moved ‘to another apt | nearby. The property » was sold (under an op erational agreenent with LIXOUSIE for a long term lease’ on 1 the top, floor of a new apartment blding to be built on this site). " LILYRIC was planned as an alternate photo base to LIMITED. ‘It was in an upper « storey (3rd 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 the front gate of the Soviet Enbassye The agents in LEGTED and ‘LILYRIG (vot Hexican fanilies) as far as we knew,. were. not acquainted with each other. — LILYRIC was ‘a rented apartment. LICALLA, the third photo site, vas Located. “in one of a row of four houses on the South side of the Soviet Enhassy compound. "which the Mexico Stetion purchased in about 1958 (check date), also using de LIMOUSINE as the purchaser (check). This site overlooked the ‘back garden of | |e the Soviet Embassy compound. ‘The purpose of this operation was to get good | identification photographs of the Soviet personnel (\zho at thet time were largely unidentified in Mexico Station records). The three photo sites were handled by Panon Alvarez \ (Mexican citizen of U.S. mother (who taugnt elem x” NOY ee ee . AY, one American School -<Ranoy collected * he film ‘cc acacia phaaigedaictin Carlos (Mexcicak: doctor) | \ entary level at from LERGITED § /. V/ and LILYRIC three tines a week, His sister! s husband, eg RE AAG: i Annet saheengpansagennentse develop ped and printed the Fiia Arto $0 ¢ contact ct print strips. The Raster plan | “processed, fnstae, TSD i marr ‘ffon. 1957 te 1959 ie a resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed fila bega an ve to accumulate, the inside CO ‘(Haoney) became disgusted and took the fin ‘out oe for Ganon 's jorother—in-Law to process (probably. early 1959). Thus( Ranon becane ‘the handler for all three Photo bases. A sensitive staff D nonitoring operation SEE a i ee ee
14-00000 . dozen. or so agents “who used three to fore late model cars end a i - panel truck (which could be used on stake _outs for photo c covera:. -e)e The plen \ was to activate this group by radio (fron LIMITED BASE) until they made their meetings. | These. agents knew about the LIITED - sase begause they had LIMITED photos for identification purposes. This” worked fairly well. until about the niddle ‘of 1958 (check date) . when one of the surveillance agents got too close to his target and ao , oo vas arrested by the Mexican transit police and turned over to the | ‘ | a cleared attorney ‘to bail him out “Little and Riquelme firm),} the agent. had identified Sancho {who was - _ phone number of Mahoney (who was subsequently replaced by Louis a (Ca semi official status end saranged ‘to obtain ‘selected 1¢ le atte rs from) Was run out of another ohe of these houses (crypt for the four houses was : ets). This was handled oy Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer) and. . Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. -This operation vas also separate from LICALLA, The two houses in between vere rented to unsuspecting tenants. ~ Ge Hobile surveillance vas ; developed oy anderson and later placed | “under akoney and Joseph Sancho. This cean consisted of 2 helt Soviet. : when someone of, interest left the/Embassy gate and stay with then - Mexican ‘Secret Service, By the time the Station could arrange through | a ear ie seerr eee _&sudd Austin of the Goodrich, _\ evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Shaw) and the inside—~ i‘ amon setmomet| Puckett). As a result of this flap, the LISEAT project Was broken . Frank new crypts. /estencona and Peay Haggard replaced . Anderséa in handling oe 7 up into several others. ‘The agents. were not changed but were | give no ce | intercept handled by Charlie Anderson Tit, The agent Mexican) had nS ee
14-00000 be Oa tae ot * — of - kee sabes May His case officers a Alfonso Spera, aa vere Later/Puckett, Rovert Feldmann, end Alan Unite. - 2. 7 Lilaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature of the MexZcan. service at thet time. ne Mexican DFS irection of Federal of Govirnnent. “This idnistry spent a major part of its tine on contrel of \ — 7 s48 : — : = i seen : oreigners and political Paves igetions. Their azents were vicious, venals yo Levine ‘De be faa] (Later LIPIRE group) in | about 1950 or 51. He ge ve ‘then ee oo "training (a group. of about five surveillance e types) 4 travel contre wi ke airport as well as file searches of names from DFS $ Hgtrd) where the files , OT oo oeerunan Oeeell were “poorly organized and often inaccurate. tow and then, however, some useful information was developed but it could not be depended upon. (Melberg\was — replaced by Fail B Boettinger. (resigned and remained in Mexico) Mahoney, Thomas Hazlitt, and Rooert Feldmann tv eyTes Vk Elbow) | . . During 1958, Win Sestt met socially some of: the chronies of the ) nl (Harden President elect, Adolfo Lopes ¥ateos} During this period, the U.S. Ambassador Robert C. Hil (reflecting the policy of then Sec State J. F. Dulles) was energetic in organizing groups to "fight communism" . One of these seeds = grew into a proposal | ‘iguel | Aleman (jr. son of former Mexi President) y, acting - a \._for Lopez Mateos, made to Win Scott for a joint telephone ep operation) This + | Project (LIENVOY) went through about four distressing years of a shakedown, - © The Mexican in control } (LIELEGANT) was inexperienced, old, end greedy. His. a son (LIEIVOI-2))vas a masterpiece of Geceit and corruption. LIZLEGANT also Pad ened, "- manipulat ed con trol over ‘the: princi al agent” ‘of F LIBIGHT/matl. latercept}~ The > ¥ Pp (rail. intercept} ; first case officer was-Alfonso Spera inside with Turner Smith (retired) outside. and John ' . (TSD treining officer for surveillance and head of the © Mstentng post where thirty televhone lines: would connect as well as a transcription room (RES SEET) [ 0 cE PAO OH = er TE CE ENR I TTT AT AC AA : a
14-00000 _2. SERRET ct Mexice taffed ty! ” an any officérs.)\ Initially the station tried to met every demand fade by the Mexicans) Both (Sai th) and John hed language difficulties and —" personal problems associated with being outside the stetion wo thet the Vexicand) cTwere virtually wncontrollatle, spendi:.g money as they pleased, squirrelling away\- equipment at enornous costs, and neglecting their vert of the bargain An the) £ production of. ‘trensoripts oF placing tans which we wanted) © _ Spera was replaced — es ‘by Jack Brady who found hinself in the same pincer. novement of having Scott. GIEWVOK-2 7 approve a request. by LIELEGANT that Brady ad turned own by the son, & Finally when the cost, became exhorbitant and there was: Litt tle to show for it, the. project was revanped. oatan John returned to ‘the U. Ss. ana were replaced by a TSD of fficer, Churles Flick, who was “put inside the Listening post to maintain -Brady was reassigned to other duties pending a transfer... _ ‘the equipment. / Scott took over the project as case officer meeting with LTELEGANT, He designated Ann Goodpasture to meet ailing with Flick for routine supervision of the Listening post, picking up trenscripts and tazes. ‘Goodpasture, had no ‘y dealings wr 8@ Mexicans except when Scott was 411 or out of town. Generally, - : “all decisions were | nade by ‘Scott. This was about late 1961.- . 3. My nenory is a little vague about the origins of the Cuban Babassy but ‘I. think the staff first developed from a pro-Castro group celebrating on New . Years eve 1959. Asl recall, it was a makeshift arrangerent of volunteers through most of 1960 and €1 with Tom. Hazlitt producing voluminous reports on oo Mexico City. he Personnel assignments. of interest to us now is ‘who was, in Mexico during _ the. ~perdod prior. to. Oswaldts wists . end. the. subsequent. fs estigation by. 4 Warren Counission. To ‘deternine who” vas “there and what they” ere do’ heve gro.ped persons tozeth ier chronologically with areas of their assignnent as the , covering “from(950.t0 1969 so that SRA names pop Ups . one can ‘tel what Aye ‘period they were in Mexico: and their essignnents“at tt the tine.  SEGHEL, ! their activities and recruiting ¢ agents right and left exong Cuban a nationals in - 5 1 =
14-00000 - 9f/59- 8/65 [Herbert Vaneld Chief - . (retired ?) - 4/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann 7/65 ~ 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief a 6/58 — 6/63 ~ George: Misko -" 0 =. et * 6/83 --707 Boris: Tarasoff (retsred in. | HexEeo) _ 8/56-6/69 COS Winston M. Scott (deceased) DCOS We 7 - 7/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) . 10/58 ~ 12/62 (retired) eh 63 — 9/65 an White (retired) 1/65 - - 1969 Stanley Watson (retired in Mexico) - COVERT ACTION rior to Howard Hunt (retired) 32/5 - 7/ 58 Williard Hill (resigned) '12/56 - 9/61 Stannard Short. (retired) Chief . t 9/6. ~ 3/64 David Phillips C/ (retired) — Fo «8/62 — 9/64 Asst = ae . 2/64, ~- 6/65 anes Flannery C/(retired) — | 9/64,- 11/66 Harold Dalghren Asst. 10/65 - - 1967 Stanle; Yatson C/ (retired) 6 8 68 - Tl. Joseph Smithe retired in Mexico) 56'- 4/62 Thomas Haslitt Chief fe 2/60 - 4/62 Gack Stewart) (retired Costa Rica) we ~ wee Bob Shaw Chief — ee 9/63 ~ 7/65 (Ray Swider)— . 10/63 — 5/65 Lorna Mackay: (rtind)} — poo 8/&% - 6/65 David Phillips Chief Cnet hlno dd } i> 9/65 -— 10/68 Joseph Piccolo 10/65 - 12/67 Sexzy Tasgeré) een ee are NEI ow SOVIET TARGET | | 6/57 - 19 59 Louise Lyon Cotired) 6/62 - 1/67 Prentice Marheine (ps) 9/59 - 8/65 Earbara } fanell)— ~ Qutside CO’ 5/64 - 7/66 Willian Bright os 6/65 - 7/67 Alice Pittinger SOVIET TPANSCRIBERS ; -6/56 ~ 8/58 Morris Gordon (resigned) Rane isk 3 o4% fee 8 CFE ERE Ne cae OR RRERELORE weweNeINEEe Setimeetee FREE, comer cniget cayer fete ter ones o
14-00000, | ow SUPPOR a ASSETS CREED phono ta; eps ‘te ee QreEDeMERD © #44 vas ig Anderson I 9-71) 7 Cutside CO egey Maggard) Ass David WILSTED (ps) . 4/56 = theo Frank Estancona Chief’ - retired in Mexieo- . Fo ° 2/60 ~ 10/62, Thomas Keenan — . 9/64 - 12/67 Hickeel Farmer ORTH BOF tes BEE Ed ug Sep aiee ieee (Unilateral) photo | “Cubans 6/59 ~ 4/64 Robert Zanbernardd (resigned Vexico) | U9 - 6/62 eee (retired) 3/54. ~ 1/59 Harry T. Mahoney — 7 56 = 68 | Outside Agent , (retired Chicago) - a (Remon Aivareg) (resigned in: exe) 5/37 - 8/64 A. Goodpasture (alternate CO'— '° and internal routing) . 6/58 - 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retired) — 6/63 - 1o/6Z Thomas Keenan =~ ‘Robert H. Je ld man ne 65 - 66 William Bright ga)e> ~ 6/63 - Vv. 1959 - 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) 1959 ~ 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) 1959 - 1960 (outside, now retired) 1959. - 1960 “John © (Training rept resigned) ‘1960- 1961 John Brady (retired) 1962 - 1968 - A. Gcoodpasture ~ 1961 - 1971 Charles Flick (outside TSD Staff Agent - retired) — surveillance Robert ; fobert Melber) } (retired) 3/54 “ 4L59 marry lahonse, iehoney (retired) =." ca er 12/62 - 3/67 Robert Feldmann TSD Gutside unit 4/53 - 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — _ 8/59 -L/64 Jcsepk i. Resigno (ps) re ee and clesed duwn » lt A LS : hi, 308, \4-
14-00000 TON photos were picked up three: tines. a week but the. ‘ones picked up: were | usually. - ‘for dates” a few days previously % because use (the doetor)proce: ssed ‘the film on a About nid 1962 (check date) Li oY. for the) telephone numbers of the Soviet, Cuban, and Satellite Enbassies. (HIE ERIS Forever LIFEAT (unilet ateral aT coverige)) ven Cacao, Taio) he Mexican connected 5 Cuban lines, 3 Soviet Lines, 3 Czech, utside Hexl rept asked 2 Polish,” and L Tugoslav Line. The. basehouse Listening post had a live — monitor who made short summaries of interesting conversations for 4 daily -. resume which was ‘received each day arourd 8 a. me (passed by Flick to Goodpasture: to get to Scott before 9 a eM.) Later (when the reel was completely recorded) _ full transcripts were typed and passed» to the station in the same way, however, there was ‘usually a tame Lag of a day or 50. : Those transcripts which nad ‘Russian or another ‘languege besides Spanish or English went out, of the listening post the day after the © transcript (of other conversations on ‘the reel)vas L typed. These: reels were taken to another location where they were trenslated end typed. In ‘the case of the Russian translations, Boris Tarasoff usually ren “about a week behind the date of the conversation because of the volume oF . | : Russian conversations among the swembers of the Soviet Exbassy. During this period (fall, of 1963) the reels were probably being brought into the station . and carried to Boris by. one of the people from the Soviet Section or they nay have been carried to him by Flick but I think qt brought the reel in and gave | it to ferbert Manel] to take to Boris. ( Herbert Nanell and his wife Berbar. | en - en ie — : 1 | 5 handled ell of the processi:g of Soviet transcripts. Ny job involved screening the photographs as soon as we learned that the man calling hinself Osvald was probably an Anerican. (However, /here again there was a backlag because the 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 vords the : * Lt operstors, éleared the, camera each day whether there was annie a full ‘roll of film exposed. [instructions were to cover office hours, photograph each ae.
14-00000 _ je RSahitd i new Soviet and fanily, all foreigners and foreign ligenee plates. Human error did occur. but generally the agents vere(Gonactentious,) The Cuban embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipaent (a pulse camera) but it “frequently develoved mechanical difficulties. Bob Zanbarnerdi and Scathar (I think) hendled this film - pick up and delivery. Lorna lackay screaiied _ the film inside the station. | I am ‘certain that the Oswald. call came to our attention from the Soviet line. It was picked us and taken to Boris for a translation because the caller vas trying to speak Russian. Any delay was caused vy waiting to ; | compare the photographs with the typed transcript. There were no copies of | trenseripts ever nade in languages other ‘than Spanish | ‘or English because Win Scott could read only those two languages and he personally screened the 7 transcripts for ‘operation ‘al leads he vented pursued. hs [ | Sight d ae | i |