14-00000:-. Goud SUPPOR aT ASSETS Piet ae RE INOR ROY SOE ; [onsaat cell i phono taps 9d) 1961 Cherleg, snderson III t Chier 49-N. 7 Outside CO - 4/60 Sey Vargard|Asst : David WILSTED (ps) 36) - 1/62 “Frank Estancona Caief == ~— retired in "Mexico" * > 2/60 ~ 10/64 Thomas Keenan 466 - - 12/67 Michael Farmer + REE HOU Sete re MeseR es Gacety oF woe soto a finiadtocll photo “Cubans 2) OF. [(6/s9l- Lf bh, "Robert C2 senardi) (resignea Yexico)” OF [u/32)- 6/62 Richard “oes TSD ) (retired) a : (iat photo Soviets: 3/ 5h - Af59 Harry T. Mahoney en OS 6 - 68 Outside Agent ae . - (retired Chicako) Remon Alvarez a) (resigned : in \ Mexico) 5/57 - 8/64, A. Goodpasture (alternate 60 — (0% “ end internal routing) - . 6/58 - 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retired) O38 6/63 — 10/62 Thomas Keenan = Robert H. ty lal man J ne 7 65 o- 66 Willian Bright FR) E> - . han oe ae arce pistes phone taps . 1959 — 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) oF G95dl- 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) oF (095 Ji ‘1960. (furner Smith] (outside, now retired) A fr959\- 1960 John“ (Training rept resigned) . 1960- 1961 John Brady (retired) “1962 ~ 1968 A. Goodpasture — _ 1961 - 1971 (Ghories_ EL ick{ (outs side TSD Staff Agent - retired) — [i 2isoa| - surveillance - Prior fissh faovert Wernerg (retired) “6G [3/54 _ 4/59 Harry Mehoney” (retired) 59|- 1961 Thomas Hazlitt of: 2/62 - 9/67 [Robex xt velarann| sD Outside unit G38 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — a - es oseph MM. Resigno (ps) Unit blown and closed down : ; . LEONI ey . ‘ on Cea
14-00000 | DP EAT ea 31-49 DEN 5 ~ Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963) a. 1. “Unilateral Coverage: oe | oe _ le . em ay besiitaie L From the time the. Mexico Station \ was - opened infiprit 1949] uni the arrival of Mere Win Scott. as Chief of Station in 1955, ‘the Station had . 7 developed a support apparatus to exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy in aa Mexico city. This umbrella type project (LIPSTICK) consisted of mult tiline a phone taps, three photographic sites, a mobile surveillance team and. a — os mail intercept operation. ot of . . ay oo ; . | “Telephone taps: (LIFEAT) were placed by fn employee of the Tocal oe | telephone compa who was handled by a Station case officer. The number os . . Of lines tapped was Timited only by the availability of a Tistening post - | nearby and the availability of Jangauge (English, Spanish, Soviet, “Polish, Czech, etc. ) transcribers. Generally, these were Mexican ¢ or tee American recruited agents. | oe | Three photographic sites were handled by a Station case officer assisted by technicians on TDY from Headquarters viho advised the Station on the best types of cameras , Films, and concealment devices. These operations had sub- -crypts under project LIPSTICK (namely: LIMITED, LiLyrrc - art and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site directly opposite the Soviet Em- - 7 a bassy (across the street) which had both a vehicle and a pedestrian en- 7 trance. The gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the northwest corner of the | £2, IMPDET OER om ee mee oy Pee TPR Pinel Pp Tp cl BY ane@qas Dalz,
Soviet compound and the LIMITED site | was diagonally ¢ across a double Vaned ! 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- ol being, released by the Warren Commission. . graphic base. the block south. and Mexican father (deceased). LIMITED and LILYRIC sites three times a week. . processed | on the outs ide by a recruited agent. tion received word that the photograph of the "unidentified man" was 7 /LILYRIC was an alternate photo- ee Tt was ‘located in an upper story oF an apartment building -on the same side of the street as the LIMITED site but in the middle of a It had a planted view. of the front gate of the Soviet ~ Embassy. LICALLA, ‘the third photographic site, was located ‘in one of a ae a row of four houses on the south side of the Soviet Embassy compound, “This site overlooked the back garden of the Soviet Embassy compound. The a 7 purpose of this operation was to get good identification photographs of Soviet personnel. The three photographic sites were managed by a re- 7 cruited agent who was a Mexican citizen, the son of an ‘American mother . . This agent collected the Film from the - The Fim was. then dee veloped and printed into 8 x 10 contact print. strips. -LICALLA film Was originally processed in the Station but in carty A566] due to the vesig- | nation of a technician, ‘this Film like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was , ~ 2 Si
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 surveiTiance. The team oe 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 2 they had been issued LIMITED photographs, for _— oo _ Ment teation purposes. 7 py wel i ee . The Station also conducted a funitateral] matt intercept operation, ute, which was handled by an American case officer. [A recruited wo: », Mexican ‘agent, who had a semiofficial status\ obtained selected letters. —— a ef. oes ee from a subagent Exployed by the Mexican postal syste] * Geto Ebrasd yas unreliable and insecure as characterized by - Zot - ” the nature ‘of the [i exican serviced at that time. The Mexican Direction aa of Federal Security (DFS), prith wt which | we conducted liaison, was a bip- pocket group run out of the Mexican Ministry. of Government. This Ministry. | i was principally occupied with political investigations. and control of breurel, foreigners. ‘Their agents were SPP 5 and corrupt, [i station officer ‘trained a “number of ‘them in name tracing and travel control. in 1958, at the ‘instigation of a Mexican of fficial, a joint telephone tap operation came into existence. The operation, which became known as _ ad 3 : MPA er A PALAPeAIT | t as,
14-00000 an American technician inside the listening post. 24° ve Oe (Cienvoy, was run by a | Mexican officer, The Vistening post had 30 Lines | al connected at one time. The transcription room was staffed by Hexican 4 Za os - Army officers.\ In AIT, , because of mismanagement by the Mexican prin- a "cipats,\ the Station chief, himself, became the project case officer.” A : Station of Ficer assisted him in the daily supervision of the listening “post, ‘and in picking up the transcripts and ‘the tapes. There was also, a ~ 3. Oswald Coverage: oo eae ee ca AS es - In mid-1962, Eehe | Hexican officer in ‘charge of LIENVOY (the aa joint ‘tap operation) asked the American officer at the LIENVOY Vistening | - post for the telephone numbers of the Soviet, Cuban and Satellite Em= - a oh disconnected all of the unilateral telephone. taps: on these Embassies so oo that they would not be discovered when the Mexicans hooked ‘up their 7 | bassies. in » anticipation of possibile coverage.| The Station ‘immediately , a taps. ‘The Mexicans|\soon thereafter connected, Five Cuban ‘Vines, five” . Soviet lines, three Czech Vines, two Polish lines, and one Yugoslav” 2 Tine. “At the listening post, a live monitor: made short summaries: of ee os conversations of interest which were then included ina 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 ag of a day or two. Reels which contained Russian : wm 4 . ome de ns a ae xX yi j we OOOH ASL ERE he
14-00000 op a language other than Spanish or English were taken to another Yocation for translation and typing. . Mr. Boris Tarasoff did the: Russian transla ce tions but because of the volume of Russian conversations, the translations - “usually ran about a week behind ‘the date of the conversation. a | a : As soon as the Station ‘learned ‘that an ‘American identifying hime “self as Lee Oswald ‘phoned the Soviet Enbassy, Miss Ann Goodpasture of the . _ "Staton started screening all photographs. However, here again, there - “was a backlog because the photographs were Picked up ‘three times a week.” but. those picked up were usually for dates a few days before since oe technician who was Processing the Film, did SO on a night-time basis. | ‘Further, photographs were not made initially untiT 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 oo photograph all. Soviets, their families, all foreigners, and cars with : foreign license plates. Human error did occur but generally the agents o- were conscientious. ‘The Cuban Embassy coverage had more sophisticated - equipment using a pulse camera which Frequently developed mechanical aif ; ficulties. Oswald came to the attention of the: listening post: operators. . froma tap of the Soviet line. It was picked up and taken to Mr. Boris |
Tarasoff for translation because the caller was: trying to speak in Russian. - Oo There was some delay because Station personnel waited to compare ‘the : “photographs with the typed transcript. AN transcripts were made in, Le either ‘Spanish or English since: ‘the Chief of Station could read only these two Tanguages and because he personally screened the e transcripts = for > operational leads.