“zime ro photographic base hous ¢ operations, GERENDE can doa lot to professtonaliz 7 4 Se nenameanes peat - ove emanates Oot Sc aeneeaaaner CY <C/9 (i ns [ornpater grantee DISPATCH sec ne yea Ens SURE ENESEEEEEEn GEDEDEEEE LIM MA=1 2095 MAHZED FOR teeDE IEG tO INDERIG FEQUINED INDERING Cara BE JUDGED BY QUALIFEO HQ DESK ONLY actos QUIRED HEPEGRNC O18) G. LIE MPTYs/4 and 5 - LIEMPT Y/ 4 does a truly professtona | job of dev eloping and printing the base house photographs, No significant developments occurred in relation to L/4 except that OUSLER met dircetly with him during the December 1958 period that GERENDE wag away from Mexico City, LIEMPTY/5, L/4's wife, continued doing routine ¢ ranslations in a very compe- tent manner, \ 11, Administration - Other than the fact that LUERS EY and the above~ mentioned portions of the LIPSTICK pro jects we re combined into this new project, IEMPTY, “there is nothing of significance to report to Hea dquar ters, ; 12, Outlook for Future Development - Although not meaning to be repetitive xy discuss ing again those recommen ations made above, a summary of the Stat ion's outlook on the future of the LIEMPTY GERENDE Scgment Is belicved to be appropriate ith the arrival of CLACKETT in April, GERENDE will be free to devote full Lese operations by preparing wr itten.communications proc cdure s, by thorough ly lebricfing base house operators on their methods of operation, by preparing detailed security reviews on each base and by supervising the trial of new photograph ic echniques, GERENDE will continue to be used on occas tonal sensitive in vestigations © rent operational hotel rooms and to pexform other services for the Station which vill not impair the secur ity of his primary respon slbUities, It [s planned that LACKETT will put some Jife [nto the LUERSEY surveillance team and that the Station will soon have another first rate investigative group to support other Station perations, y . “0 r. iA 7h p 4FeERB 1954 CLANS FIC ATIIEE VRE PIE IS ED. THON _. sone Bem ales SOEMS i 4 H 7 wo §3 ste a AND $179 11} connnueo | 1a) Wo Cn Ad: OSSOLETE ' {
‘N Wares een eesti . 9 Dacomber 1958 MEMORA NOUN FOR: pe jr SUBJECT case Officer Assignments in Mexico 1, Te Staff has cord [Station to ronove their liaises esse officer from handling their Number One elandes tine operetione do this in vha cass of 9 (Station's 2, my mould we not Moxico where [era nandling LIVESTOCK- most overt ena dany 3 agent) and LIFBAT (unilateral telephone %& g)? ne taps in Mexico ars 36 Treidentally, telephe are with about half the target coverage Limping aux <a CHARLES * « ‘AND SEDDON of a yeast 38% wyFt
14-00000 s seemiieneneietiad « awa SUBJECT s LIEMPIY On this mammoth project, I hava only two ideas: a, Should LICALLA be terminated? It ia a possible threat to LIMESA. : be Serende should be taken off all LIFEAT work. CHARLES W. ANDERSON WH/FI ? Gavehes ¥ wplacenaut Wradts aew on | | | 1 December 1958 “MEMORANDUM FORs WH/IIT/Hexico | | |
TO: Wi/Pergonne Oa PRO“: thief, WH) SURIECT: Request for Staff agent to Fillg PAr-9100 Slot in “Mexico City \ 1. Itis requested that W4/Persanne] LIncate a staff Agent to faly the PaP-8100 $ro (FI), S-l2 slet in Mexico City which was recently vacated by Wilfred 0, CLOER dps): This Demet 2. kis Agent sketid be bilingual in Spanish and should have font E operational exper lence, espec tally in physteal feurvelllance teciniqués, CR a gere tet fee leat eet ae “Pewee Dia cet of a Le i gs 4 4€ taste ON Ret OE OEY Kcmees , He will be expected to spot, develop, reerult, and direct surva!llanee uosate.ana He will gaxktg be given fall responsibility for organizing an effective physical survelllance tean. 3. It fis Fequested that a suitable candidate be located as snon as possibla so that, the Contract Agent wow performing thefunetiona can be Ae reliaved of this responsibility and can evote his time to be other tanks,
SECRET 23 October 1958 MEMORANDUM FOR: Coll SUBJECT s Development of Physical Surveillance Assets in Mexico a REFERENCE s WH/FI Memorandum of 14 October 1958 1. The subject of the recruitment of a physical surveillance team in the United States for use in Mexico as well as other areas within Wi has long been a topic of discussion at Headquarters, While it is palpably ri- diculous to consider the use of a surveillance team recruited and trained an the United States and based in Mexico, operationally in other areas in latin America, there ig some merit, at least in theory, to the proposal in 2a of reference, Although one of the basic factors in the make-up of any surveillance team is that ite mexbers must be indigenous to the area of op- eration, it would be possible to recruit such a team as suggested in 2a and use this team in Mexico. However, I believe this would be time-consuming and very expensive for the following reasons: a. Machine rune have already been made to spot candidates within the Agency of the Mexican/American type for the LUMESA/LIMUST project, with negative results, b. In order to make it attractive to young men of the caliber desired, we would have to offer some kind of a career with a starting salary of somewhere between the GS 7 and GS 9 level, plus travel and allowances. Without attempting to even estimate this cost one can see that the figures for a team of fifteen would run into six digits. co. it would take a minimum of three months for a recruiter to move into the southwest area and spot, contact, develop and recruit a team of a fifteen. ra pice ete" ® d. Once a team of suitable candidates was recruited, it would then teke a minimum of another three months to train these candidates in basie trade craft and surveillance techniques. e. Upon completion of the training period, the candidates would have to be moved individually into the area of operztion to become familiar with this area, the language, people, and atmosphere in general, etc. This would take another three months minirum. ff. After completion of the area familiarization period, the tean would have to be assembled and put through various surveillance exercises as a unit to check them out prior to actual operationg_ SEGEFT