[toe tort-t04ag ; PROCESSING ACTION MARKED FOR INDEXING ONLY QUALIFIED DESK CAN JUDGE INDEXING Chief of Station, Mexico City {A SUBJECT ° Project LIONTON ACTION REQUIRED - REFERENCES Reference: EMMW=13207, 1h December 1964 covering the services of the two agents heretofore known as LIFEUD-22 (201-28824.38) ane LIFEUD-23 (201-30560h) . This project was anticipated in Paragraph |, Paze 9 of the LIRANCH Project outline transmitted by Refer onre, “ 2. To avoia re-typing at Headquarters the Station has taken the liberty of provisionally assigning cryptonyms LIONTON-1 and LIONION-2 to these agents, po Please advise if this is correct. f L ZA mo Willara C. CURTIS ¢fO— Attachment : Project Outline, tert Side h/t - < 1Qy Project Outline, rignt side use 6004092. tribution: ~ C/WED w/att 3 | DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER { HMMA~-25110 woe | 8 Jarary 1965 — _ CLASSIFICATION faci] HQS FILE NUMBER SECRET, __150-6-122 /1 int eh 17 705
14-0000 PROJECT OUTLINE I CRYPIONYM ___ LTONTON | FIELD CASE OFFICER _ Aurore F Auk Lawrence F. BARKER STATION Mexico City 9 ourER OF + na ilmal rts Willard C. CURTIS The attached Project Outline is presented for approval. | i 0004093. 1, eee ay alt ag ce Nace ” moe ote § Py ‘ 3 mane neIeRE VBE aru DA i oRgue 4 7 ciggad fram extgngsi i a spy ns. ca79 [ seating 2 fo -/22 a AAT Rebde 51 FEM kn 4 = one 2 Cn ceeeee oor arrestee
y4-on0g +> . Loge es , . i wate : t . ‘ tpyencpaycen TAY K Rie eee re wilt i Any Ul PROJECT LIONION Identification. This is a technical (primarily photographic) surveillance 3 operation against the PRRUMEN Embassy in Mexico City. Objectives. The operation is designed to (1) furnish photographic coverage during daylight hours of the entrances of the target installation, (2) dispatch physical surveillance teams against persons associated with the target, and (3) keep in readiness'a listening post for the monitoring and recording of eventual technical penetration operations of the target. The target installation is the PERUMEN Embassy compound (including Consulate) in Mexico City. The above-listed objectives are accomplished by two trained, full-time surveillance agents who live across the street from the target. 3 The projeet is in consonance | with Priority A, Objective 1, of the ‘current Related Mission Directive; for Mexico. { . . Background. This project, herewith presented for approval for the first time, does not represent a new operation. LIONION activity has been going on since 1962 and costs have heretofore been charged to PBRUMEN FI funds. The operation produces photographs of persons associated with the PBRUMEN Embassy, both staff and visitors. These photographs are normally reviewed for identi- a he : ane neta an : ca a = ej - es They are subsequently forwaruen vrs O : Hey are shown to PERUMEN intelligence defectors: AMNIP-1 and AMMUG-1. Of those assets to whom they are routinely shown, LITAMIL+9) has to date made the largest number of identifications. The photos have| proven of great value. Within hours of the arrival of a new Embassy staff member his photograph is in the hands of the Stations In addition to the identification of staff and visitors, the photos (accompanied by a log kept by the|LIONION agents) reveal patterns of action (arrivals and departures) and details of personal associations (who associates with whom) which are of great value to the Station in mounting operations against the target. oy ; oo gations by the U f L 7 - | 7 i “| a In addition to photography, LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 are often called upon to do visual surveillance of the target installation and LIONION-1 is essential to the dispatching of the LIEMBRACE surveillance team against. individuals associated with the target. Becatise of the presence.of .police.patrol cars: in. tae vicinity, the Station's mobile surveillance assets cannot come close to the ~~” target, hence the need for LIONION-1's dispatching services.” The presence of LIONION~1 and LIONION-2 also insures continued occupancy of valued piece of real estate which will be used as a listening post when the tation succeeds in installing additional technicel surveillance davices in the arzet in the form of concealed radio transmitters. ct ta fo Spe Det Sye fees t Abe J } shad wad Sere te ete re ern erent ie nate et NE ‘ i rere ee EEE enh =a One meee cnet sna ot atte RN eee aettnene ey ersuees a guneennunemrmit
14-0000 7 D. Operational Assets (Personnel). ' SECRETINAPOY wae LIONION-1 is a young PBRUMEN lawyer in exile. He left PBRUMEN in 1960, planning to continue on via Mexico to the United States where he resided in. his early years. His two brothers are American citizens, one a desk officer in the Department of Commerce in Washington, the other a police official in .; Tampa, Florida. While in Mexico LIONION=-1 was recruited, as LILILY-1, to perform PBRUMEN operational support services for the Station and, once having a taste of clandestine activity, decided to remain in Mexico. LIONION-2, his mother, was recruited in 1961, as LILILY-2, as a basehouse occupant and operator in the LIFEAT/LIERODE technical operation aimed at the PBRUMEN Embassy. At this same time LIONION-1 also phased into LIFEAT/LIERODE work and the two worked together as a team. In 1962 LIONION-1 and LIONION-2 worked together in processing the take of the LIFEAT /LIERODE/MKTRAP installation, now known as LEOMEN. At this time their cryptonyms were changed from LILILY-1L and 2 to Liv=UD-22 and 23, respectively. In the latter part of 1962 the two agents began the present photographic surveillance operation. LIONTON-1 was granted an OA on 18 May 1962 by HMMW-10664. He was LCFLUITERED on 8 October 1963, HMMW-12064. : LIONION-2 was granted an OA on 16 May 1962 by HMMW~10660. LIONION-1 is the mainstay of .the operation. LIONION-2 acts as his assistant and fill-in at such times as he is absent from the observation post. Both serve - principally as observers and photographers. LIONION-1 also acts as-a dispatcher: - for the LIEMBRACE surveillance team from which he is compartmented. Dispatching is done by radio using pre-arranged innocuous code terminology; the team does not know LIONION-1 or his precise location. LIONION-1 also processes on the premises all photographic coverage of the main Embassy gate through final printing, cropping and mounting. Photographic coverage of the Consulate gate is processed through the negative development stage. ~° Control is primarily financial buttressed by the knowledge, on the part of the agents, that as PERUMEN refugees they are vulnerable to pressure which might be brought upon them by KUBARK through the Mexican government should they get out of line. Motivation is a combination of financial necessity and violent aversion %~O, and determination to bring about the dowmfall of, the AMTHUG regime... An additional motivating factor is that both agents actually enjoy what for many would be monotonous work. Psychologically, they are ideally suited to this sort of work. Both agents realize that they are working for PBPRIME intelligences LIONION-1 eppears to be aware that he is working for KUBARK. The cover utilized by LIONION-2- is that of dependent mother. LIONION-1 passes.as a would-be writer who can afford to dabble without notable publishing success because (of family landholdings in 7). Tampa, Florida (inherited from his deceased father), which enable him to live as. . a "rentista,”™ one who lives on income from sources other than cainful employment. His -rentista status is registered with the Mexican government. In October 1964 this cover successfully withstood intensive investigation by Mexican authorities checking on persons of questionable status fa@ tax collection purposes. The Station plans to boister the writing cover with supporting documents from a literary agent in New York City; these will be requested in separate correspondence. ik goo nds Tot 8 Pt anette pi oe tener arernnatt ener nent ee ce ee
74-00000 s f | > Commmication is primarily with LIONION-1; with LIONION-2 only in his absence. Meetings, pre-arranged or signalled by innocuous phone calls (calls from LIONION-1 go through a telephone cut-out), are usually held at the LIONION-1 safe apartment. This apartment, which would appear to be a LIONION-1 love nest, is in another area of town. The Station KURIOT technician, . Hugh T. FRANCOITE, meets with LIONION-1 at least once a week. The Case Officer, Lawrence F. BARKER, meets with him less frequently. Whereas LIONION-1 knows the true name of the Case Officer, he does not know FRANCOLTE's true identity. E. Security Evaluation. If either of the LIONION agents are uncovered by Mexican authorities. as engaged in operations against the target, they have been briefed to indicate that they are working for an exile organization based in the JMMAVE area on a voluntary, non-paid, patriotic basis and to stick to the story covering their income. This would probably hold up unless they were caught in flagrante with the KORTC? automatic pulse camera on the premises. This camera is of such refinement and complexity as to be difficult to ascribe to an exile organization. In any event, LIONION-1 has a close relationship with an official of the Mextcan president's office. This connection, developed by LIONION-l for his om protection, enabled him to weather the tax investigation and can be used by him to overcome any future difficulties with Mexican authorities. Under Mexican law, the principal (photographic) activity of the project is not illegal, therefore uncovering of the photographic operation would not of itself result in arrest or prosecution. It is usually possible to. stave off - 4 - investigation or house search for @ perlod of time sufficient to remove compromis- 0! ing material from the premises. The LIONION base house Was once cleaned completely in one evening and could again be cleaned, probably in less time, if circumstances should warrant. The target installation is aware that photo surveillance is a probability. On one occasion AMKNOB-1, a JMWAVE asset, was shown a nearby pbuilding (not the LIONION base) by a PBRUMEN Embassy officer and told that it was a KUBARK photo base. , ; LIONION-1 is kmown by sight to some PBRUMEN Empassy staff personnel who have observed him in the neighborhood. ‘Presumably they believe he is a Mexican. To avoid operational compromise, he cannot renew his expired passport at the PBRUMEN Consulate. For this reason the Station will request KURIOP in separate correspondence to vrepare new passports for both LIONION ezents so. that they ney travel outside Mexico. “ - Ot Security measures employed in this operation are designed to make it virtually impossible for any opposition service to link LIONION personnel with the Stetion. -- M, Coordination. Coordination with other PBPRIME elements or the tlexfcan government - is not necessary at this time and none is envisaged... - ae ee ne 0004096 Td ee a cere pagers ones mete age pemcuge 2) omega are ten
14-00000 os Me * o 4 ~ snovn below: FY 65 LICHICN-1 salary 13 months @ $320 $1920 LIOUTON-2 salary 13 months @ $150 900 Real estate rentals: 600 26), total annual cost of Project LIONION is $10,478, distributed FY 66 S220 $4160 1050 1950 600 1200 26h 523 150 300 1170 —s BBO for LIONION-1 and -2 include the customary year end ts LIONION-1's sdary was raised frou $200 to compensate in part for his renunciation of a tnat he might devote his full time to the LIONTIONW salary has remained at $150 per month since her 150 Supplies LL79 (Phctographic film, paper, ehemicals, and miscellaneous) Totals $5004 Salaries fox bonus of ome month's salary. $329 monthly in 1964 to sales position in order operation, LIOnTCv-2's recruitment in 1961. Wo salary changes are contemplated during the project yeer. 0004097 ° ee eenee a