LIFFATAugoslavs In addition to the usual infornation-conceming hey amare? i@ Oe bead i 6 the Yugoslav officials and their daily contacts and activities, LIFEAT provided leads which could pay off in future operations, One example waz a lead-woic:. revealed that a diplomatic courler would be travelling alone and taking. a new travel route while carrying an official pouch. With this early warning, the Station wae able to plan an operation to provide access to thia correspon- derce, Althoury: Headquarters finally vetoed thie particular oper- ation, sufficient early warning was given by LIFEAT so that the opezvation could nave been carried out, Another example of this type of lead wae the data available from LIFTFAT coverage that a new location wae being sought for the Yugoslav Embasay, and which epecific locations were under consideration, Armed with this informa- tion the Station ha been able to make a technical casing of one of the prospective sites and obtain {nformation necessary for entry inte . the other sites, LIFEAT/Exile: As noted previously, LIFEAT coverage of the exile activities was the single major effort by LIFEAT during the project year, In particular, LIFEAT coverage of Juan Jose AREVALO Bermejo, whier included lengtny periods of "Live-monitoring”, on oocasion ealied for coverage of five lies, Cabled summaries of LIFEAT ‘information were provided Headquarters and Station Guatemala, It ig believed that the irportance of this LIFEAT coverages can not be atressed too much, LIFEAT Coverage of a Costa Rican Comminist exile rezident in Fexico City has lead to a wealth of operational leads ineluding the discovery of this person's envolvement in a Communist funding mechantez. Also, LIFSAT wan active in covering the Spanish Republican exile community in Mexico City during the GPIDEAL visit | to Mexico, LIFEAT. coverage in this case wan considered noceasary to reveal trmediately any renewal of an earlier planned attempt on tne iffe of an DYGVE official by one group of the Republican Exiles, Ulticetely, LIFEAT revealed the departure from Mexico of two of the Yingleaders in tre plot. LIFEAT/CI/CE: At Headquarters request LIFEAT FRXEEAES was established on @ former SMOTH agent whose past actions gave’ for some suspisian of his present activities, Preduct from thig line has revealed an effort by a group of this individual's friends to diacredit the senior Chacm official in Mexico, Early warning by LIFEAT has made possible the preparation of counter action (see HMVYA-212645), LIFEAT has also provided coverage of a suspected RIS support agent, This coverage had provided the beckground material necessary for checking on the activities of this suspect agent, VLontinuing LIrEAl reporting on tne American Communist Group in:Mexico (ACGM) has provided ODENVY with ereat quantities of information on activities of leftist friends of
ratmere abe s fan ‘of the ACOM including their travel plana to Mexico and in some cases Cuba, As noted fu paragraph 1, E, above, the local office of ODENVY considers this coverage "quite valuable”, As also noted in. previous renewals, LIFEAT ability to give the interested case officers a check on’ active and former agents inereasea the security of present opera- tions and provides greater security for long term asseta who may have - been in contact with now terminated agents, H, Conclusion It is'the opinion of the Mexico City Station that the support provided other Station operations, the CI/CE information and leads, and the , ability .of the LIFEAT operation to cover sensitive targets without revealing Station interest to the liaison forces, well justify the expenditure of funds, time, personnel and security risk, Aa it has been noted in the past, that even with the Station's envolvesent in the parallel, ILIENVOY operation, a change in attitude by the present or a change in could end KUFARK participation in that projeat, For. that reason, LIFEAT,. in addition.to maintaining its present heavy doverage, must be available to once again undertake coverage of the official Soviet and Czech official targets in Mexiee City, Therefore, LIFEAT's present orientation, though toward supporting Station operations and CI/CE mission rather than toward targets which would provide positive intelligence, leaves 1t readily available for recall into the Soviet- Czech coverage, It is the Station's firm optnion that the LIFEAT project provides a substantial and vital contribution in fulfiiBent the several priority objectives of the Station's Related Mission Directive, I, There ia attached a list of the HMMs produced from LIFEAT provided material during the period July 1962 through Fay 1963, as a by-product of the project's prime responsibility of providing support to Station = operations, a IZ. Progress of the Operation S ay The objectives of the LIFEAT Project are of a continuing nature and Ee are therefore not considered for fulfillment during, any given period of ES . time, Fer this reason percentage figures as to completion of project objectives canno®’ be drawn, However, an inalcation of the coverage : provided in working toward fulfiliment of the objectives can Le noted re , in that approximately 12,500 pages of raw text were produced in the period July 1061] through April 1063, LITEAT has been In cally opera- 4 tien during the review period with the average number of Lines covered SS per month being 18, and a high in October 1962 of 25 lines covered,
~ hyd TIT, Planning for the Puture As wad indicated at the time of the last project renewal, LIFEAT hopes , ‘to Feméin ufcoimitted to coverages that require the expenditurés of ‘3 an . & great portion of LIPZAT resources but provide coverage of but one target,,.such as Soviet Embassy coverage, It is added emphatically, however, that should the need arise for LIFEAT to again assume such ; responsibilities, it is fully able to do so, Until such time LIFEAT . wili cemtinue to enioy greater flexibility in the employment of ite — : assets, especially im the areas in which the Station does not wish to reveal | Vv. Expenditures Approval for renewal of Project LIFEAT was granted & August 1962 for FY 1963 in the ancgemt of 749,000.00, The proposed budget for FY 1964 ie broken down in the attached Field Project Outline Renewal Request, Part II, and totals?43, 43, VI. Status of Comnitments Yhere are no commitaents other than those noted in the project outline submitted herewith and in the individual contractr and oral agreements (memoranda of oral agreements were forwarded aa necessary) of the various LIFEAT pereonnel.