104-10054-10285 QLORET OLMeCHrHA SELENE! jochelll VE ' Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies 1963). 1. Unilateral Coverage: From the: time the Mexico Station was opened in hori 1947 untit a . the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station in 1955, the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit leads from the ATW. Embassy in Yince. ‘team ‘and a of multi ine Mexico City. This umbrella type project: (LIPSTIG phone taps, three photographic sites, Nok mail intercept operation. . . F vere placed by an - employee of the ocal . Telephone t@AS re. . telephone company who was handled by a Station case officer. The number of lines tapped was limited only by the availability of a ‘Vistening post a we nearby and the availability of langauge (English, Spanish, Soviet, Polish, . Czech, etc.) transcribers. Generally, these were Mexican or Mexican- , American recruited agents. . ‘Three photographic sites were handled by a Station case officer : assisted by technicians on TDY from Headquarters who advised the Station on the best types of cameras, films, .and concealment devices. These operations had sub-crypts under project LIPSTICK (namely: LIMITED, LILyRIC and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site directly opposite the Soviet Em- bassy (across the street) which had both a vehicle and a pedestrian en-~ ‘trance. The gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the nor tenseingayaer of the | E2, IMPDET 7 OEP BIT IQEMRTT BS 392|
14-00000 ' Soviet compound and the LIMITED site was diagonally across a double Taned street on the southeast corner of that. block. (See attached diagram). LIMITED was the first photo base and operated strictly on an experimental © _basis in the early. stages. ‘This base, however, was closed when the Sta~ tion received word that the photograph of the “unidentified man" was being released by the Warren Commission. LILYRIC was an alternate photo- | ‘ graphic base. It was located in an upper story of an  apagigent building - on the same side of the street as the LIMITED sj “ENE middle of | the block south. It had a planted Vi "gate of the Soviet Embassy. LICALLA, the on site, was Jocated in one of a Side of the Soviet Embassy compound. row of four houses Jig This site "mass of the Soviet Embassy compound. The "purpose of this operation was to get good identification photographs of Soviet: personnel. The three photographic sites were managed by a re- | cruited agent who was a Mexican citizen, the son of an American mother and Mexican father (deceased). This agent collected the film from the LIMITED and LILYRIC sites three times a week. The film was then de- | veloped and printed into 8 x 10 contact print strips. ~LICALLA film was originally processed in the Station but in early 1959, due to the resig- nation of a technician, this film like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was ~ processed on the outside by a recruited agent. 2 066.0159 Crane’ ea STE ES
14-00000 Mobile surveillance was conducted by two American staff officers. These two officers organized a surveillance team of six recruited agents . which used late model cars and a panel truck for surveillance. The team could be activated by radio from the LIMITED site whenever someone of interest left the gate. of the Soviet Embassy. These agents were aware of ‘the LIMITED Site since they had been issued LIMITED <n for identification purposes. The Station also conducted a unjlat \ae operation, LIBIGHT, which was handled by ae: “tase officer. A recruited Mexican agent, who had aage 4) status, obtained selected letters from a subagent emp] “Ny the Nexican ‘postal system. 7 2. Liaison Coverage: | - Liaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature of the Mexican services at that time. The Mexican Direction of Federal Security (DFS), with which we conducted liaison, was a hip-- pocket group run out of the Mexican Ministry of Government. This-Ministry was principally occupied with political investigations and control of foreigners. Their agents were weeks, and corrupt. A Station officer trained a number of them in name tracing and travel control. In 1958, at the instigation of a Mexican official, a joint telephone tap operation came into existence. The operation, which became known as OC-04690
14-00000 ' post for the telephone numbers of | ( OLORL roe" acces Oti od LIENVOY, was run by a Mexican officer. The listening post had 30 lines connected at one time. The transcription room was staffed by Mexican Army officers. In 1961, because of mismanagement by the Mexican prin-. cipals, the Station chief, himself, became the project case officer. A . Station officer assisted him in the daily supervision of the listening post, and in picking up the transcripts and the Tapes. There was also an American technician inside the listening post. 3. OQswald Coverage: In mid-1962, the Mexican officer in charge ¢ of joint tap operation) asked the American equi.’ ue ban and Satellite En bassies in anticipation Qf ib ne The Station immediately disconnected all of the uf teral telephone taps on these Embassies so that they would not be discovered when the Mexicans hooked up their taps. The Mexicans soon thereafter connected five Cuban lines, five _ Soviet lines, three Czech lines, two Polish: lines, and one Yugoslav line. At the listening post, a live monitor made short summaries of conversations of interest which were then included in a daily resume for the Chief of Station. Later, when a reel was completely recorded, full transcripts were typed and passed to the Station; however, there was usually a time lag of a day or two. Reels which contained Russian ~ ric | Jo
14-00000 ya language other than Spanish or English were taken to another location __-was a backlog because the photographs mt en for translation and typing. Mr. Boris Tarasoff did ‘the Russian transla- tions but: because of the volume of Russian conversations, the translations usually ran about a week behind the date of the conversation. | As soon as” ‘the Station learned that an American identifying him-— self as Lee Oswald phoned the Soviet Embassy, Miss Ann Goodpasture of the. , OO. there bh times a week Station started screening all photographs. However, ve but those picked up were usually fe days before since the technician who was proces ; » did so on a night- -time basis. Further, photographs we Latbt made initially until a complete roll of film was used. Later this was changed and the ‘operator cleared the camera at the end of. each day regardless of amount of unused. film remaining. The instructions were. to cover the entire work day (office hours) and to ' photograph all Soviets, .their families, all foreigners, : and cars with foreign license plates. Human error did occur but generally the agents ’ were conscientious. The Cuban Embassy coverage had more sophisticated equipment using a pulse camera which frequently developed mechanical dif- ficulties. | | Oswald came to the attention of the listening post operators from a tap of the Soviet line... It was picked up and taken to Mr. Boris 00C0162 c> ame | pores ta 1
ey ; vs, ha et ( areas RST ORS TLE f . oe “eg oft LAE i.) i Ly i -OLoie | POLMOUA Tarasoff for translation because the caller was trying to speak in Russian. There was some delay because Station personnel waited to compare the photographs with the typed transcript. All transcripts were made in | either Spanish or English since the Chief of Station could read only these two languages and because he personally screened the transcripts "romero feads. — go 00004 GU 6 OLONTT OEMC TT pobre Sci IQ