104-10414-10380 ile C. ee RQUECE LIONTON Identification. This is a technical (primarily photographic) surveillance operation against the PBRUMEN Rabassy in Mexico City. Objectives. The operation is designed to (1) furnish photographic coveraze during daylight hours.of the entrances of the target installation, (2) dispatch physical surveillance teams against persons associated with the ‘target, and (3) keep in readiness a listening post for the monitoring and . recording of eventual technical penetration operations of the target. The target installation is the PBRUMEN Rnbassy compound (including Consulate) in Mexico City. The above-listed objectives are accomplished by two trained, full-time surveillance agents who live across the street frou the target. The project is in consonance. with Priority A, Objective 1, of the current Related Mission. Directive| for Mexico. Background. This project, herewith presented for approval forthe first Line. does not represent a new operation. _LIONION activity has been going on since 1962 and costs have heretofore been charged to PBRUMEN FI funds. ‘The operation produces photographs of persons associated with the PBRUMEN Embessy, both staff and visitors. These photographs are normally reviewed for identi- fications by the PBRUMEN section at the Station, then shown separately to SEVAMTEZO) and GITAMEBETS who are (Penetrationsagents workingMinside™ CHG eb amet They are subsequently forwarded to the CI section of WH/SA. where they are .vown to PBRUMEN intelligence defectors! AMNIP-1 and AMMUG-1. Of those assets to whom they are routinely shown, (LITAMTUS9 has to dete made the largest number of ‘dentifications. The photos have!proven of great value. Within hours of the arrival of a new Hmbassy staff member his photograph is in the hands of the Station, In addition to the identification of staff and visitors, the photos (accompanied by a log kept by the | LIONION agents) reveal patterns of action (arrivals and departures) and details of personal associations (who associntes with whom) which are of great value to the Station in mounting operations against the target. | i In addition to photography, LIONION~-1 and LIONION-2 are often called won to do visual surveillance of the target installation and LIONION-1 is essential to the dispatching of the LIEMBRACE surveillance team against individuals associated with the target. Becayse of the presence of police patrol cars in tne. vicinity, the Station's mobile surveillance assets cannot come close to the target, hence the need for LIONION-1's dispatching services. The presence of LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 also insures continued occupancy of a valued piece of real estate which will be used.as a listening post when the Station succeeds in installing additional technical surveillance devices in ine target in the form of concealed radio transmitters. oo the Zant sate E / bleas Adak
13-00000 4 ° Hires aa ee A D. Operational Assets (Bersonnel), LIONION-1 is 9 young PERUMEN lawyer in exile, He left PBRUMEN in 1960, Planning to continue on via Mexico to the United States where he reside in his. early years. His two brothers are American citizens, one a desk officer ‘in the Department of Commerce in Washington, the other ag Police official in ‘Tampa, Florida, While in Mexico LIONTON-1 Was recruited, as LILILy-1, to Perform PBRUMEN operational Support services for the Station and, once having at of clandestine activity, decided to remain in Mexico, LIONION-2, (His) Operator in the LIFEAT/LIERODE technical Operation aimed at the PBRUMEN - Rnbassy. At this Same time LIONION-1 also phased into LIFEAT/LIERODE Work and the two. worked together as ateam. In 1962 LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 worked together in Processing the take of the LIFEAT /LIERODE/MRTRAP installation, now known as LIOMEN, At this time their cryptonyms were changed from LILILY-1 ana LIONION-1 was Granted an OA on 18 May 1962 by HMMW-10664, He Was LCFLUITERED on 8 October 1963, HMMW~12064,, LIONION-2 was &ranted an OA on 16 May 1962 by HMMW-~10660, LIONION-1 is the mainstay of the operation. LIONTON~2 acts as his assistant t such times as he is absent from the observation Post. Both serve Principally as observers and Photographers, LIONION-1 also acts as & dispatcher for the LIEMBRACE Surveillance tean from which he is compartmented, Dispatching is done by radio using bre~arranged innocuous code terminology; the team does not know LIONION-1 or his precise location, LIONION-1 also Processes on the premises all Photographic coverage of the main Enbassy gate through final Printing, eroppin: and mounting, Photographic coverage of the Consulate Bate is Processed through the negative development Stage, the agents, that as PBRUMEN refugees they are vulnerable to pressure Which might be brought upon them by KUBARK through the Mexican Government should they cet out of line. Motivation is &@ combination of financial necessity and violent aversion Both agents realize that they are working for PRPRIME intelligence; LICUION-1 *“Ppears to be aware is working for KUBARK. The COVer ntilia ag by LIONION-2 is that 1 LIONION-1 P&asses as al who can afford to dabble woonout nevi tea erog_ real NCCES becaus amity landholdings in Tampa, Florida (inherited m his deceased. father), which enable him to li-s ES a "rentista," one who lives on income from Sources other than &ainful emplo: nent, His rentista status ig registered with the Mexican Government. In October 1064 this cover successfully withstood intensive investigation by Mexican authorities ‘Checking on Persons of questionable Status fa tax collection Purposes. The Statio lans to bolster the cover with Supporting documents from a (lagen in New York City; these Will be requested in separate correspondence,
13-00000 a On | be. Communication is primarily with LIONION-1; with LIONION-2 only in his absence. Meetings, pre-arranged or signalled by innocuous phone calls (calls from LIONION-1 go through a telephone cut-out), are usually held at the ‘LIONION-1 safe apartment. This apartment, which would appear to-be a LIONION-1 love nest, is in another area of town, The Station KURIO? technician, Hugh T. FRANCOITE, meets with LIONION-1 at least once a week. The Case Officer, Lawrence F. BARKER, meets with him less frequently. Whereas LIONION-1 knows the true name of the Case Officer, he does not know FRANCOITE's true identity. Security Hvaluation. If either of the LIONION agents are uncovered by Mexican authorities as engaged in operations against the target, they have been briefed to indicate that they are working for an exile organization based in the JMWAVE area on @& voluntary , non-paid, patriotic basis and to stick to the story covering their income. This would probably hold up unless they were caught in flagrante with the KURIOT automatic pulse camera on the premises. This camera is of such refinement and complexity as to be difficult to ascribe to an. exile organization. In any event, LIONION-1 has a close relationship with an official of the Mexican president's office. This ‘connection, developed by LIONION-1 for his own protectio enabled him to weather the tax investigation and can be used by him to overcome an future difficulties with Mexican authorities. Under Mexican law, the principal (photographic) activity of the project is not illegal, therefore uncovering of the photographic operation would not: of itself result in arrest or prosecution. It is usually possible to stave off investigation or house search for a period of time sufficient to remove compromis- ing material from the premises. The LIONION base house was once cleaned completel. in one evening and could again be cleaned, probably in less time, if circumstances should warrant. The target installation is aware that. photo surveillance is a probability. On one occasion AMKNOB-1, a JMVAVE asset, was shown a nearby building {not the LIONION base) by a PBRUMEN Embassy : officer and told that it was a _KUBARK photo pase. LIONION-1 is known by sight to some PBRUMEN Embassy staff personnel who have observed him in the neighborhood. ‘Presumably they believe he is a Mexican. To avoid operational compromise, he cannot renew his expired passport at the PBRUMEN Consulate. For this reason the Station will request -KURIOT in separate correspondence to prepare new passports for both LIONION agents so that they may travel outside Mexico. Security measures employed in.this operation are designed to make it virtuall: impossible for any opposition service to link LIONION personnel with the Station. Coordination. Coordination with other PBPRIME elements or the Mexican government is not necessary at this time and none is envisaged.
13-00000 “operation. recruitment in 1061. ilo salary clianges are cont G. Caghe. ‘the tobelo annual es hoof beegent LEOHTOH fa Qboshye, Chieuetian- ac ohewn below: FY 95 Wl 66 Boted LICNION-1l salary -13 months € $320 wlean eaako wheco -LIONION-2 salary 13 months 2 5150 200 1059 1950 Real estate rentals: LICNION Easchouse — a -690 LICNICi# Safehouse 26): Utilities on both houses — 159 supplies ; 1170 (Fhetographic film, paper, chemicals, and miscellaneous) Totals < FT >. © E Galeries for LIONICN-1 and -2 include bonus of one wionth's salary. LIONICH-1L's schry + 220 nionthly, in 1064 to compencate in par Tox hh sates oacition in order that he might devote. LIONITCON-2's salary has .remaines. at project year. 150 © ROS LL7O aohe a She Wa ont LICHT. S160 ‘pe vionta sii .2 hes we