A007, BOO oC ‘ oop y i — Ire Rm MEMO FOR FILE SUBJECT Cc : ors (late TSD) and Jim McCord's Cuban Activities: te Ben Colling “phoned to say that one of the feLlows'in jai. is still around, and after he got out he i Anguied around and got no | indication that MeCord Was ever involved, Hone of the other OTS people oe have any recollection of MeGord ts involvement. . 2. I said that I was sure that the man who was rolled Up | night not have any idea pf NeCord' s involvement, if indeed he Was . involved. If McCord's involvelenent was nerely headquarters Blanniis on and no releasing operation was ever undertaken his role might never ‘surfaces However, we had been told that planning did involve. nD pope at the time, along wit n Pecurity. For instance, I knew that the Security man with TSD at the tine had a job of hand-yolding with, | the families of the three men; there may be some TSD record of that. 7 oO which would lead to someone who would knowe | a | 7 | Be Colling was pulled out of a staff meeting to tale to ne oad : said he would call back later. | SDB ETURNTO cA. Background Use Only Do Not Reproduce sty
14-00000 | MEMORAR DUM FOR: an OR OF CENTRAL INT ELLIGEN NCE van office in Havana in the El Medico Building which is. occupied :- vs ' ments. Shortly: théreafter, ‘tha’ ‘Havana Station obtained the con the wall of the adjacent apartment in which Mises Stacey ved. - In «7 a i Novernber 1959, the FE Division sent one case officer and one TSD . st ‘Division case officer, Robert Neet, came down to Havana; and he, {05 Oh wey sUBJES ls In 1 May 1959, the N New. Chine: News Agency (cna) opened partly by business” concerns And. partly.used for. residential. -apart f currence of Ambassador Bonsal and Miss Carolyn O. Stacey, an ” : a Exnbassy employee, to mount an audio operation against NCNA through =  or~ technicien to Havana; and the installation of a microphone and tape | “recorder was cormpleted in Miss Stacey's apartment on 29 November - 195% eR le “Be ‘By Sine. 1980, it Lhe ad becomé i evi idei that two other rooms — occupied 1 By NCNA: possibly: -howsed- comumnuric mn equipment fae” 4 were used for conferences, At that time 3 case officer, went to Havana and explo red the sossibitity e¥Se: 2 the operation, Hé managed to lease an.apar NGNA offic e,and arranged for a stay~b Db ehind ag - 3. Tn’ August 1960, ‘a team of three TSD ‘technicians’ ‘who’ were. ; in Havana on a separate SR Division operation agreed to install the...» . additional equipment required for the NCNA operation. A second FE. - together ‘with the technicians, installed 3 robe microphene and tape oe recorder in the apartment obtained Dy over the NCNA cffice, | i we ce About this time the equipment was removed from Miss Stacey's ~.. > . apartment, with the exceotion of the plasti ic probe which was lefs - - in the wall and plastered over. re
14-00000 a Lennox, an Embassy sec a _ told that access to her apartment: was 2 OnE surveillance pur then sent hayen, and after consultation with to an apartment in the same buildin S-E-C-R-E-T : 4, As an additional security precaution to provide a safe . the Acting Chief “of Station, a ke 38 leased by Mrs. Marjorie 0 ote 2. setary, was cbtained, Mrs, Lennox Was oe decided to install transmitters and switches in order to" .. permit eontinued monitoring ‘of the target from a distant listening” os BOSE, Another. three-man team of TSD technicians ‘consisting of. David L. Christ {alias Carswell . Taransky} and Thornton J. Anderson falias Danbrent} documented as tourists had been sent to Havana to install audio equipment in ‘the: Chinese Nationalist = the Chinese Comraunits. to work on the jastallation of the transmit The Station Was . then faced with end security ‘would work against holding indefinitely the lease to. the apartment over-NCNA since the owners of the buildin _cancelling sub-lessors' contracts ‘and recalling leases. therefore, eeded for photographic Tposes. _ nthe probability that time 2g. wer 2. te WAS, : » Walter E.- Szuminski {alias mbassy before it was due to be | turned overto This operation aborted, This team was ..: - | ters inthe apart-... snent over the NGNA office. oo See a ee re 6, At 2400 hours on 14 September, ‘Christ, who with th other technicians was working in the tar gs scheduled appointment with Neet. ptember, As of today the agent xerna His wife bas been relea authorities, tre Cuban authorities, 23 “on 15 September, a up BY. the Cuban autho was released.1715 hours 16 Sete to Washington where he is ef wrt st apartment, Zalled to kee ep: At 0100 hours on the 15th of © Lennox was entered into and - rere! ‘sh 8 was taken into custedy, he stay-behi ied agent and ; rit tie sand detained, , e : apartment of Mrs, “Neet, # his: ins in the custody of the Cuban” sed and is still in Havana, .Neet mber and has subsequently: veturn ped. being debriefed.. Mrs.. Lennox waa =.) Bo subsequently released and has also returned to Washington wh here she is being cebriefed, The three TSD technicians remain in confinement,” They have been seen in confinement but not contacted by an Embassy OtZicer when ha first attempted to secure the releasa of Mrs. Lennox. Christ was last ssen by Nest when they were jointly interrogated the morning of 15 Septembar. At that time Christ did not avnear - “Le — ys we Pee ° Bom Bie a ee ate LE