104-10086-10009 _ nearby and the availability of langauge (English, Spanish, Soviet, Polish, - ope “ eteatl ae (SS PROLIRITED ‘Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1953) 1. Unilateral Coverage: ; From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 until the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of. Station in 1955, the Station had developed a support: apparatus to exploit leads from ie Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. This umbrella type project (upstiggteehsted of multiline Pk Phone taps, three photographic sites, a nopat@itapsai ance team and a PA A SO” mail intercept operation. ao ee aN oe , ~ Telephone taps (Lin ag. Se aces by an employee of the ocal telephone company w eestor by a Station case officer. The number Se of Vines tapped se ited only by the availability of a Tistening post 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- _ trance. The gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the northwest ‘corner of the -bassy (across the street) which had both a vehicle and a pedestrian en- 0006458 , | E2, IMPDET PPAARLTIOTALOTTaTe CL BY 604645 NSYT SP PAS EINE TS en ‘REPRODUCTE ON PROMBIT 7
PROWISITED 7" CAP PPA POP LZ LN PR ~ SUE Trou ae ey ( Sey Bs weg “He a ays L Wed Ribs HF Wy kel USA DL be. “Soviet compound and the LIMITED site was diagonally across a double laned 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 apartment building on the same side of the Street as the LIMITED site a ANG: | i s the block south. It had a. Planted view of the: te of the Soviet oN SUN ‘Embassy. LICALLA, the third Photograph Sea: as located in one of a PANY a , row of four houses on the sout gion Soviet Embassy compound. a | This site overlooked the Ne of the Soviet Embassy compound. The purpose of this 0 SO 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 ‘im like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was - Processed on the. outside by a recruited agent. ~ 0000159
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 photographs for | identification purposes. The Station also conducted a unilateral agen operation, atic: Ls . LIBIGHT, which was nandled by an American casgiern cer. A recruited Mexican agent, who had a ae. ~~ ) Pea ined selected letters _ from a subagent employed by the & Seagehbstal system. Liaison Coverage: XS Liaison nee 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 o . Pratl foreigners. Their agents were yeseuslhi las: > and corrupt. A Station | j 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 knowm as 0000160 Stee EPS yey a cee yd Ba dow Z- Sood cE) u i, REPRODUCTION
14-00000 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. Qswald Coverage: . | - . | In mid-1962, the Mexican officer in charge of LIENVOY (the | Joint tap operation) asked the American officer at the LleNvoy Vistening | post for the telephone numbers of the Soviet, Cuban Se Saeei vite Em- bassies in anticipation of possible coverage Fhe Station immediately | disconnected all of the inate ek that they would not be ge taps. The Mexicans ee connected five Cuban lines, Five Soviet lines, three Czeth lines, two Polish lines, and one Yugoslav taps on these Embassies so > an the Mexicans hooked up their line. At the listening post, a live monitor made short summaries of conversations of interest which ‘were then included Jin 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 usual ly a time lag of a day or two. ‘Reels which contained Russian ~ 4 * 00164 Jo
14-00000 ° ee REPRODUCTION PROMIBITED ‘ry a language other than Spanish or English were taken to another location for translation and typing. Mr. Boris Tarasoff did the Russian ‘transTa- 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 Amarican identifying him- self as Lee Oswald Phoned the Soviet Embassy, Miss Ann Goodpasture of the Station started Screening all Photographs. However, here PNG there | was a backlog because the photographs were picked we shea tgs) a week okt but those picked up Were usually for dates a fey atays fore since the technician who was processing the Pim, Gia on 2 night-time basis. xn any inti] a complete roll of Further, photographs were not nade iO film was used. Later this ey the operator cleared the camera AAs at the end of each day: ree Ae of amount of unused film remaining. The instructions were to cover the entire work day (office hours) and to Photograph all Soviets, their families, al] 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- Ticulties. 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 6000 coug 162 5 eyebrt PpOCHo iL