14-00000 LIEMPTY - Mexico City, Mexico ~~ Photegraphic Surveillance Team Support -- FY 1971, Cost $23,833, Fiscal Year Approved Obl igated 1986 $43,143 . $36,294 1987 43,000 42,082 1963 42,185 42,158 1969 43,520 41,416 Le7o 383,970 49,468 (Prajected) | Purpose ¢ . | Project LIigeTY supports = visual and photographic gurveillance of the Soviet Embusgsy in Hoxico City. the aim is to identify and cover the novermenta of persons entering and leaving the Rabassy, including Soviets and visitore. The intelligence collected through auch activity contributes to the Station's overall Soviet operations program, mainly in eupport of Priority A-1, but to some extent, Priority A-4, of the Operating Directive for Mexico. Deacription: i. The Project operates through two fixed basehouse surveillance posta, a anal photographic laboratory, 6 principal agent, asd six sub-agenta. A team of four sub- agents, operating from a basehouse, maintaing visual and photographic surveillance of the Soviet Embassy frent entrance. One gsub-agent, operating from a second bage~- house, coverd ap area in back of the Embassy, where Soviet officials meet, play and work. These units photograph all peraons moving in or out of the specific target areas; They also maintain loge and provide gritten reports on observed activity. All of thia material is passed to the principal ” agent, who passes the film to another sub-agent for precesa- ing at a laboratory eyuipped for that purpose. After the ‘@ilm is processed and printed, the principul agent passes the finished product, plus written reports and logs, to the Station cage officer. A brief deacription of each unit, each agent and his rolo in the operation follows.
14-00000 Ue Poet giao Ne eect seen ntnene ne re ee Ae reece oe 2, LILYRIC (MEXI-132) {8 a basehouse located near _¢he frant of the Soviet Embassy. This houge has been ia operation eince October 1966. It is rented through — ‘LEMOUSINE (201-3762), © cleared American buaineseman. He ‘46 the ostessible owner of record and, ag tho landlord, collects rent frob. the tenants and then passes it to the Station cage officer, LIENPTY-13 and bis family (see parsgraph $3 below) live in the LILYRIC house and conduct their surveillance operation from i¢ during daylight hours (6800-1800). . 3. LIEMPFY-13 (201-119961) i6 the key meaber of the LILYRIC baschouse team. He maintaine contact with the principal ageat and dosa some photographic work. However, becauge LIEMPTY-12 is employed outside a9 an industrial engineer, he ia unable to spend much time operating the LILYRIC photographic cquipment, and most of this work is dese by hie wife, LIEHPTY-14, and their sons, LIENPTY-26 and LIEHPTY-27 (see paragraphs 4, 3 and 3 below). 4. WIEMPTY-14 (201-167567) is the main photographer and observer at the LILYRIC basehouse. She works clogely with ber husband, LIEMPTY-13, in running. the operation, imciuding the preparation of observation reporta and logs. ‘She also does the LILYRIC housekeeping, as any heusevife would do. 8. LYSMPTY-26 (201-782111), the gon of LIENPTY-13 and LYIEMPTY-14¢, has been a atudent at the Hexican Technooloyiaal Inatitate. In hig spare time he operatesthe LILYRIC phoete~ graphic equipment, snd helps LIEMPTY-14 lu maintaining the arrival and departure logs of target personalities. 6. LISMPTY-27 (201-762112), another gon of LIEXMY-13 and LIEIPTY-14, has been a prep aechool etudent. He assists in operating the LILYRIC photographic equipment and tran- ascribes sotes into a finished typewritten lag of eventa,. 7. LICALLA (HEXI-03) is a baschouse located behind the Soviet Bubsssy. It has been in operation since 1957. The building, a four-uait affair, collectively Known as LIMNUST, is Agency owned. It was purchased through LINOGUSINE in September 19057, and the property ie in bis gane. The LICALLA site i# occupied by LIEMPTY-~-9 (see paragraph 8 below) and he rune the surveillance operation from it.
14-00000 &, LIEMPTY-9 (201~-136454) ie the only ayent operating from the LICALLA site. He does all the photography, main- taine loge and prepares observation reports. He algo asin- taing contact with the principal agent. LIEMPTY-9 ig a part-time insurance salesman and ia self-employed in the accounting businesa, which he conducts at the LICALLA site. 9. Raymond H, GERENDE (201~119523) has been the princtpal agent for this project. Ue ig a Mexican national contract agent who is self-employed as an English teacher and also works ag a salesman for a Light bulb manufacturer. GERENDE ‘bas been mainly responsible for wmsaintaiming contact with the LIEMPTY agents, paesing instructions to them, and collecting the product for passing to the Station case officer, He has also paid them and handled all other administrative matters. He is being terminated by the end of FY 1970 for security reasons (sce Problers, paragraph 1). 10. Bruce H, FERNALD (P) (201-0081895) replaced GERENDE (see parograph Y above) as the project'a principal agent in early December 1969, FERNALD, a U.S. Citizen born in June 1915, operates under non-official cover as a retired immigrant. He is responsible for maintaining contact with the LIEMPTY agents and collecting the product for passing to the Station case officer, ile alao handles administrative matters, tocluding agent salary ‘paynents, FERNALD is financialjy covered under Project AEMAGNIPFY. 11. The LIENPTY photographic laboratory (HEXI-137) ia located in a room at GERENDE'’s residence. It ia equipped to proceas the photographs taken by the LIEMPTY surveillance unite. The work ia done by LIEMPTY-4. (See paragraph 12 below). Since GERENDE will be terminated by the end of FY 1970, the Station ig taking steps to eatabligh a new LIEMPTY photographic laboratory at a new safesite. 12, LYEMPTY-4 (201-117967) precesges all the photo- graphic film taken by the LIEMPTY photographers and nakes the number of prints required. He does this work at night in the LIEMPTY photographic laboratory. He is self-employed ag a medical doctor, aad he is a brother-in-law of GERENDE, in whoge home the laboratory is located.
14-00000 operations against the Soviet services in Mexico City. ‘ . ae oe C7 : . Se an ts sie ode Changes: { 1. The LIENTRAP mobile unit, consisting of LIEMPTY-10 = and LIEMPLY-11, ia being removed from Project LIEMPTY and placed under Project LIEMBRACE, which supports a unilateral physical surveillance team. . The purpoge of thie change is to increase the size of the LIEMBRACE team in order to meet & growing demand for operational surveillance support from thé various Station operating sections. The tranafer will become effective at the beginning of FY 1971 and both \ FY 1971 project budgets have been adjusted to cover financial ‘mepects of the change. 2. Raymond H, GERENDE was removed ag the LIEMPTY | principal agent in early December 1969 owing to a security problem (see Problems, paragraph 1). He was replaced on 9 December 1969 by Bruce H, FERNALD, a career agent oper- ating ‘under cover ag a retired immigrant, The change hag caused some delay in the receipt of photographs because FERNALD ts unable to meet LIEMPTY agents as frequently as GERENDE had met them, but operational effectiveness is not Significantly reduced by thie delay. The key issue is that security and reliability of the principal agent have improved considerably. Accomplishments: 1. Project LIEMPTY haa provided continuous dally phetographic and visual coverage (Monday through Saturday) of the front entrance and rear arens of the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. All Boviet personnel and their visitora entering or leaving the Embassy have been photographed, , In addition, visual surveillance reports were prepared when appropriate. These photographs and reports have contributed essential operational support to the Station's Soviet oper- ations progran. 2. Recently, LIEMPTY photographs were exclusively used to produce an updated mugbook on Soviet officials in Mexico. The book has bean loaned to the FBI, AF/OSY and the 903nd Military Intelligence Group for operational use in debriefing their agents engaged in dangle operations and double agent One 902nd controlled agent wag identified from an LIEMPTY photo- graph taken when the agent tried to contact the Soviets at Re lee we + ae eee teen ne were tes eee ee