attachment “Har a-12936 Page 2 _@» soviet cultural activities, - Information produced by LIFEAT has 5 given datails of Soviet activities: ‘da. conection with cultural activities. Examples ‘of ‘euch reports are; HMi=g-1159L, 26 Nove 1953, Soviet Representative at World Filz Festival peld in yexilco City, 10=28 oct. 1958 o Ivan A> PYRYEV HMA-12225, 25 peb. 1959, Soviet participants in Pablo CASALS -  [rternational Competition Held in Jalapa 18 Jan. « . 1 Feb. 1959 HUN~3923 5 31 pec- 1953, Pablo CASAIS participants HMN-+L00h, 2 Feb. 1959, pablo CASALS Competition participanta MEXI-3634, 2 Apr. 1959, Gontact with Chinese Ballet troupe ds Movement of Soviet cfficials,; . Through LIFSAT coverage a roster of Soviet personnel currently in Hexico has been maintained by Station sexice. This has been tha primary source of such information. LIFEAT has enabled the Station to determine in advances when departures can be expected and has also been a factor in determining job assignments and replacements for departing personnel. @e Soviet pmbassy contacta; eos _ , Gontact reports of the Soviets are compiled and provided for Read~ “quarters ag necessary. These reports are of casicerable operational value in identifying. regular and/or occasional local and foreign ~~ contacts of the Soviets. Following are examples of this. type of aoverage, Hat-A-12295, war. 1959, Soviet Contacts in yexico - Halle ATSBEHA, Ethiopian Hi~a-11838, 7 Jan. 1959 = Orville Me MULLIKIN ~ SECRET KAPOK
; _ Attachment SECRSP = KAPOK: "Hin a-22936 Le ek KAPOK-16312— aan a , Page 3 oe fo perscnality Reperts on Soviet officials, ’ LEFBaT has’ provided the station with the most productive ‘source’ .. of information concersing thé private and official lives of the Sovléts assigned to wiico. These. reports have been stbnitted on individuals, eege, Eiit-a-11)63; 5 Nove 1953, activities of yevgeniy Me POPOV, Third Secretary, Soviet Exbassy, wexico city, June 1957 = october 19585 Mn-a-11569, 10 pac. 1958, Boris G. PUTILIN, Exployee, wilitary attache cffies, wxico citys Hil-a-12755, 30 april 1959, Boria Me STRELTSOV, acd Exn-g-12000, 25 Jane 1959, aleksandr we BROVKINe B- Goods and Services, Information on goods and Services obtained from LIFEAT was used in Project LIMESAs He Miscellaneous activities of the Soviet embassy, IFEAT materiel] ahich dees not fall inte.any ene eategery out which Sadly Gp Sait Yotey d etae deals with the Soviets and their associates and related activities has been reported as necessarye : The Czech Iegation fhe infomation ostained on the czech Iegation during the period under review is essertially the sare as that from the Soviet Embassy. Representativa of tse reports submitted from this information are the following personrel reports; Hot-A-12069,  Peb- 1959, Alois LICEK Hini-a~12067, h peb. 1959, Jarcelay KREJZA HiGmA~12091, Feb. 1955, pedrich PISTORA and Hiot~g- 12128, 11 ped. 1959, oldrich SPORCR. fhe polish Legation Information on this installation parallels that on the Csech and Soviet installations. the largest amount of Lforsation concerning. | SECSST = KAPOE
14-0000 = a rn ee ~- an er + Le. ot - attachment | ~ _..,+ “SECRET. KAFOR . FRE AA22936 em os Page k- . ‘the ‘poldah fegation iias. ‘pen procured fros LEFEATs Following 6 are ; - Gkamples of reports frozi this sources Hati-ae12h20, 18 ifr. 1959, contacts of aleksandr BEKIERs soilan Counselor . " pt-a~10883, 20 aug. 1958, adocayslew WLODAREK; Polish Minister HMMA-12376, 11 were 1959, antonio 0+ WARCEYNSKY Hiai-g-12393, 1L war. 1959, polish Iegation publication. Mexican Communist party and communist Fronts & Significant snout of “information concerning the Comamist party . | 9m yexico and the commmist frmt organizations in yexico was obtained from LIFEATs [Information from LIFEAT has been invaluable in supple- menting agent coverage of the front-organizatd ons which exist here's Examples of this-type ‘Feporting include, Huy-a-Lljll, the Narciso BASSOLS Family and polish Legation Hiv=a-ll12, 5 Nove 1958, Travel of narciso BASSOLS> American Communists in ypecxico Most of these targets have been covered at the request of ODEAVY and the production has been partially processed by theme 4 total af $72 reels was provided them far processing during a 10~month period ending 30 april 1959. Samples.cf the reporting done from this source include, Mgi-2-12719, 2h april 1959, Nosh and ama SEBORER 28 Jane 1959, Anna and Nosh SEBORER E-g-12héc, 20 Mar. 1959, albert MALTZ HMOiA-11851, 7 Jane 1959, glbort MALTZ« Foreign pissident groups in wxico LIFEaT provided partial coverage of cuban exile groups and gave surrent information on the status of the "26 July Moverent" priar to ite overthrow of the BATISTA government in cuba and has continued to Mai~A~12013, SECRET KAPOK
14-00000 os, a oo : a _ | gt tachitient - Sos ae 2, . * SECRET KAPOK ~~ Higra=12936 . ; provids informatica on the current etaitus of the cians in ‘wexied - po, 7 TAURICLE Information ‘ ST EAT has contributed materially to several matters aring. LAURICLE interest. . eee Counter-[ntelligence Mformation cIf/c8 matters constitute a major portion of the wexico city Stationis priority cjectives. Project LIFEAT has contributed to the attalnmnt of these objectives. The two BGMORNING instal lationa have provided valuable inforzation for the responsible case officer , on the matters Involved © therein. . Conclusion - . fhe Mexico City Station believes that the product of the LIFEAT ON - Project measured against thea expenditure of KUBARK assets in terme of personne, time, security risks and finde well justifies ita Ste tbe renewals te information produced by this operation has materially contributed to several priority objectives of the Station's Related Misaion pirective. oN ae 2 Progress of the Operation Definite progress has been made in reporting m the objectives of the LIFEAT Projecte However, since LIFEAT objectives are of a continuing nature and exe not designed to be achieved, no atatistics can be cited as to the ye _porventage of coverage on each objective. A general indicatim of the fuo/' y! [coverage can be derived wien it is realised that some 10,000 pages uf raw ay text: in 10 months are the direct result of the operation from which the \:* ‘statistics cited above were derived. Except for a period in July and August 1958, following the termination of members of the Jams 0+ AYCALL family, LIFEAT has been in daily operation with’ some 17-16 lines being covered. Thase my be broken dom as follows, Soviet Enbassy § lines czech Legation 2 lines(movac during this period and only in operation for approximately 2 months) Polish Legation 3 lines (third installed in april 1959) American Communists 3 lines : . 7 - Remainder 5 linea. SECRET RAPOK