corTinuaTioN OF “LUABNIPiCei oe . BF FATE MIOT AND Ne OL SPATCH (SECRET i HAMA = 38996 1 3, Improving -Photéyraphic © Covétase. The lack of complemen- tary audio coverage continues to Tinit the effeetivenoss of the LIONION photo production li the sense of tden tl ty Lng LIRING installation visitors. -The. Station is presently re-examining the various points of view which the LIONION buschouse “provides of LIRENG in order to determine what steps can be, taken to improve the usefulness of the LIONION product. From the window in the room where the pulse. camera was previously. installed, an exeellent view cait-be obtained of the LIRING garden and walkways between the three: LIRING bulldings. (in addition to the LIRING Consulate). By having LIONION«1 :temporarily-~ leave coverage of the niatn entrance from’ time to tim and. ‘having him, on a.spotcheck basis, view the ; garden: caren, the: Station hopes. to upiate its information on the - | Vocations of ‘LIRINGer' ffices, their general patterns of move- “ment and: activity,” etc. LIONION-1 will be assiyned coverage of: this interior area of -LIRING at. different times of the day’ and ‘evening to see whith rooms.are used at night, which appear to be living quarters at present, ete. After a trial: period of about one: month,..the résults ‘Of thig new coverage will be analyzed in order to determine thé value of the information already collected, - and whether this additional. coverage is worth the effort and the time ‘taken away from the main éntrance coverage. ; PRODUCTION | Ce 4, The LIONION Production for the reporting period, L: February through 31 May 1970, consisted almost entirely of photo-- graphic coverage 6f visitors to the LIRING main entrance and logs of movement of LIRING persornhel and visitors This proved very “useful in identifying new LIRING PCS enployees in Mexico, obtaining photographs of them, and taking up-to-date photoes. of other 7 employces. This monitoring also revealed which cars the various employees usually drive, and the license plates of cach. Based on LIONION's log some information was obtained on the pattern of . these employees. This latter information is limited since the employces often arrive and depart at different hours and often switch cars. When this happens at dusk or evenings, it is impos- sible to identify the driver or passenger. | ; LIONION-1 also took pictures of what appear to be Amexvican visitors to the front gate. In the case ef Americans whe arrived in automoblles bearing U.S. license plates, the license plate numbers, car description, and sterile copies of phoFouxapns,, were given LNERGO for identification, The Station utilized LIONION-1 photographic coverage and his log to check on the reports of Station assets who claim to visit LIRING. Tn the case of some assets LIONION-1 was given a photo- graph of the agent and told to be particularly alert at certain times of certain days to confirm the agent’s entry, exit, etc. This proved particularly useful in checking AVDIME-1L'’s story. of contact with LIRING and confirmed LIRELIC-1’s ‘visits to LIRING at an early stage in’ our recontact with LIRELIC-1. The lack of photographic coverare of the LIRING Consulate has meant that the Station has been unable to check whether eer- tain groups of special interest, such as the Dominican exiles, Jamaicans, etc., went to the Consulate for visas. Through LIENVOY | however, the Station obtains information on many of the? persons or groups who are applying for visas, aud from the manifests the Station knows who -actually obtains visas and travels to PBRUMEN. In the case.ofsa critical situation and with advance notice, LIONION~ ~1 can always be asked to give close visual coverage of the _ ee  “ELASSIFICATION ae = PAGE NG. FORM 53a Ir : 8.64 USE PREVIOUS EC . a0? EvIOUS ECITION SECRET ikx| CONTINUED - ee ee ee oe woe cette gar rs pment ta re emcee ee ee mene cnet ee nee SE nr
u | : \ CONTINUATION OF _ SUASSIFICATION "SL GFaTCN BYMDGL AND NUMUEN DISPATCH 4 SECRET | HMMA - 38996 ne es - Consulate or Gatchouse, whichever is more logtcal, and report immediately to the Station by phone on certain Hroups or visitors, "COVER AND SECURITY °°)” a Se Ma. a . . S.. There havs teen no developments either during the period - of this report or during the Project Year which have affected the security of the LIONION operation, Due to the proximity of the LIONION basehouse toe LERUNG, care has been taken to limit the numberof visits by Station officers. When such visits are necessar “LIONION-1 meets the Station ‘officer outside the LIRING area and _ drives him back. to the basehouse in LIONION-1's own car. The base- “house has..a driveway. of f the street entrance-way, which facilitates —_—_o ~ entry, during non-daylight hours without being seen from the LIRING _ Complex). During the Project.Yéar, Station officers entered the . basehouse on only three occasions, PELLENENT twice, and Station --.. WOACRE technician, Walter -w, CORNBURY, onec, Regular meetings with LIONION-1 are conducted in the safesite described in paragraph 2. During the Project Year, following the demise of the LISAMPAN opera- _tion and the pulse camera production, all extraneous material, both electronic and photographic, was removed from the baschouso,. over & period of time, in order to limit the amount of compromising. - . . material located in the baschouse, . FINANCES 6. During the reporting period, routine LIONION expenditures amounted to 31,872,.00-USD, and no unanticipated expenditures were made. The anticipated expense total for the Project year will be $10,645.00, which is less than the approved figure of $11,994. An unknown portion of the difference is absorbed by Headquarters fund- ing of LIONION photographic supplies received through WOACRE Channel ' q. The following is a breakdown of anticipated expenditures ‘for the LIONION Project for FY-71 as compared with tho approved costs for FY-70: . ‘ Salaries: St Fy 1970 FY 1971 LIONION-1 | = 4,800 - 4,800. LIONION-2 1,920 1,920 Xmas bonuses , _ 560 . 560 Rents: LIONION Basehouse (observation post) 1,200 1,200 | LIONION Safehouse (for mectings 864: 864 with C/O) ' Utilities for both 800 - 500 ' Operational Expenses: Film so . 1,000 1,000 450 Paper - , 450 300 _ Joo - Chemicals Miscellaneous: Operational 150 150 Special Gift to LIONION-1* y 250 250 ° ‘TOTAL \1T, 994 11,947- | PAGE NO. — : CLASSIFICATION — : USE PREVIOUS EDITION. ‘8 fo) SE CRET ae | 3 of 4