14-00000 ‘DISPATCH LN) TUE TIONS . : FROTE NS ACTION ener get rn ie SECRET | __henenie a ASTUNG i ie PAN EUTAS TORI” Chief, i ; . ed i $ INF, : . jowr QUAD Ae i : Chief, SB j ; i TON ARSE NCLUNG __ Chief of Station, Mexico cst (ha. SUGHECE LIEMPTY Properties -_ _ a an l. Headquarters’ confusion regarding the various LIB\PTY: properties is understandable, although each change in location was duly reported as it occurred, and at various times project renewal requests, progress reports, and other correspondence has pinpointed the locations of the base houses involved, The con- fusion undoubtedly stems from the unfortunate fact that LIMITED and LILYRIC in effect exchanged appromimate locations in 1966 without changing cryptonyms., Up to this point, LIMITED had been in a building owned by SOFIRMN (with LIMOUSINE fronting fer WOFIRM)., LILYRIC had been renting an‘apartment in a building in which WOFTRM had no financial interest. In 1965, however, LINOUSINE ‘bought the property cofitaining the building in which LIMITED had been located, Vaced ilie building,-and built a new building. in which an apartment was rented to the Station (the rent, however, was to be returned to the Station for three years as partial payment oon the lean which the Station had given LIM {OUSINE so that he could buy the building), For various operational reasons it “was decided to put. the LILYRIC personne Li into the new building, instead of the LIMITED crew, LIMITED was therefore moved into the ‘ building which LILYRIC had occupied, At, this point, of course, new cxvyptonyms Should probably have been! assigned in order to ~ avoid the. confuSion which has evidently developed, (his was not, however, Simply a switch of personnel ~ each base house retained. its organizational integrity, which is undoubtedly why crypts were nol changed). AS far aS LICALLA is concerned, the confusien AaCHION REQUIRED - RUFTRENCES |. | “REFERENCE: HMMN-15952, 27 November 1967 | oo eee ee os scontinued | Distribution: 2 C/ WH, w/att, ; a 2=— C/SB, Watt. Bon i Aiacdal TY Attachment: ~ : ' ‘Identity Sheet (under separate cover) wae 5 Be “TENS PA CROSS REFERENCE 10 : CASPATCH 32301 AND NUMBER: 2 | OATE HMA -33814 CLASSHICATION SECRET | MOS FILE BU MSTR 50-6-74/2
eas Aa Epil aetas Bal ee were forwarded with HMMA} “31303, dated 7 February 1967, As” far “mentioned in LIMESA progress renewal requests, The Station undere .in each house}.,: and the persenneé] have sever been switched from ‘following reasons; first of all, utilities are an unrecoverable ‘annual basis, The reimbursement, therefore, often comes, many “apartment. was occupied in October 1966, 3,000 pesos per, month, ‘that the agreed-upon figure for the rent in this new building -to Headquarters) was that the bank which holds the ra jor. part ‘building vas lates purchased and razed by LIMOUSINE, the old CONTINUATION OF © 9p) po DESPATCH cae dS ShokET | Igita~ S5SLA - 4 = probably stems from the tact that, while sts Vacation has not changed, it is located within the "LINUS T buthd he wy whichiis: owned oy BOFIRM (with LIMOUSINE’ acting a8 “front") and which ts administered. within the LIMBSA project. As stated, -however, all of this’ has been carefully decumented for Headquarters, |" ‘The LIMOUSINE purchase of thé old LIMITED building Kenerated: ‘consid erable correspondence (see particularly MEAL Ziby and Din TITAS of January 1ludsy, we (MAH 28G22 and HMMAW}j2640% spelled out ‘the - rensons tor switching LILYRIC aad LIMITZ£D, and the completion of the move was reported in HMMA~30687, Finally, sketches and plans of the LILYRIC and LIMITED touses in their new locations as LICALLA is concerned, its location and status was never open’ to question, and its location in the LIMUST complex is regularly ~ stands that a memo describing the locations of the various base houses was attached to the most recent LIMESA project. renewal request whea it was submitted to the staits by WH/1. i 2, Personnel withia the base houses ts also well-documented (most of the LIEMPTY progpress reports have identified each agent house to house, Perhaps the best rundown of these personnel is Raymond H. GERENDE's security review, forwarded with HMMA=31164, 24 January 1967. oo 7 3. “Station Real Property reports are also, with ohne exception (MEXI-41), up-to- date and they reflect current ' condi- tions, MEXI-03 does, of course, include LICALLA, Nevertheless, the Station asked for $1800 for rent - and utilities for the expense no matter who owns the Apartment. Secondly, the! rent, even though returned to the Station because WOFIRM owns| the building, must. physically he paid by the occupant of LICALLA, He, in turn, is reimbursed by the Station via GERENDE, | LIMOUSINE eventually returng the money, at which tire it is credited to expense, This could, of course, be handled differently! but the Station has always found it convenient to tinance in this manner, largely because finances with LIMOUSINE are handled on A semle months after the Payment. 4, The Station neglected to cancel MEXI-~41, which! should be done as it refers to LILYRIC in its old location, before the move in 1966, LILYRIC is now MEX[~132, and is in the building owned by LIMOUSINE, Rent payments are, as originally lntended,; being used to help liquidate LIMOUSINE's debt, and, as Gnatructed in HMMS-4814, 15 June 1966, the Station ts crediting this money to miscellaneous receipts, There can be, therefore, no’ question of the need to include money for LILYRIC’ rent and utilities in the LIEMPTY project. LILYRIC rent is, and has been since the which amounts to $2,889 per year ($3,200 has heen requested ia order to include utilities), Headquarters is correct in’ stating was 2,300 pesos per month, Station files indicate that, the reason for. the increase (and this apparently was not reported of LIMOUSINE'’s Loan. had determined that 3 ,200 pesos was a tair price for the apartment. The Station had, of course, no choice but to go along with this, . . ji o. The ‘Station has no record of MEXI-92, but it ils Tikely that this is ere old LIMITED apartment, which was indeed purchased by WOFIRM (via LIMOUSINE) in 1955, But since’ ithat LIMITED apartment ceased to exist. The LIMITED base house was subsequently transferred to the building which had previously housed LILYRIC (but not to the Same apartsent, and LIMITED is iy } : 53a - woe PAL r& ELD Tt To re ass idan . en ree ~ nae NO. SBCRET XZ bec ne Fly 8 pe