104-10071-10324) - aan * : ‘ § Pp T cH CE ASSHFICA TON _ © PROCESSING ACTIONS) : Ss EC R ET PMARKED FOR INDEXING — { | [io : — Chief, Western Hemisphere Division . a ONG IWS ERG BE QUIRED , aye. Attention: Chief, WH/1 ONLY QUATFHD DESK SE Chief,..WH/MHSPAWN Pia MU WIGE OF NG , i non o oe i __... Chief of Station, Mexico City | \, secon suet OPBRAT IONAL/LIANCHOR , : Hi “Progress Report for December 1967 ~ May 1968 : i ACTION & RID REFERENCES . oot ; i : Action Required: None; FYI * : i; References : A. HMMA-33670, 13 December 1968 | i B. Mexico City-5688, 25 May 1968 : : 1. During the reporting period the LIANCHOR leftist 8 t writer press service produced 35 individual articles and _ : serialized political feature articles which were distributed : to 20 newspapers throughout Latin America and are known to fi have been published regularly by at least 12 newspapers. : Despite this acceptable production rate, the project has not : achieved the objectives set for it by the Mexico Station and : in the Project Outline. i | 2. Prior to submission of a project renewal request in f late June, 1968, the Mexico Station will attempt to convert. ag the LIANCHOR operation into a more effective and politically i ‘more leftist operation. Four of,six LIANCHOR press service a i writers will be dropped and P/A\LINLUCK jwill be replaced, : i H hopefully by Identity-1, a respectedlindependent leftist t i Mexican editorialist for the prestige center-left daily . Fe ‘ "EXCELSIOR". If by the end of June, 1968, the operational : i Continued.... : Ey 4 3 es i iz ' Attachments: t =| ‘ &. Identities (u.s.c.) ‘i i ,B. Translation & Articles (u.s.c.) H Sie : C. Handbill, Brochure, Open Letter (u.s.c.) / ie i” - C/WHD wo/att Re : - C/WH/1 w/atts A, B and C (u.s.c.) . oe ai 1 - C/WH/MHSPAWN w/atts A, B and C (u.s.c.) ; # tid a: f — | ered | 7 Me i ie ro i ' Te = i oseinemeio8©6©)©6©™!™!™U™F™OFTO™~C~CS on RAP wef Dale To ~ oo = ‘ HMMA-34792 «~~ 3 June 1968 3; ee TGLASSUCATION = SSSS™~*~*~*~*~*~S”C:CSC* SFE NUMBER _ * , SECRET $0-126-38/3 f
‘CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH . SECRET | _ AMMA=34792 °°. | ~ mechanism of LIANCKOR (a cooperative and self-supporting presa gervice not subsidized by WOFIRM) does not seém operationally --~yiable, the LIANCHOR project renewal request will be submitted fe an administrative and financial roof project for the indi- vidual handling and exploitation of singleton leftist write assets. . INTELLIGENCE PRODUCTION 3. One information report wag disseminated in May, 1968, based on information acquired by (LINLUCK. ol OPERATIONAL DEVELOPMENTS 4, Formal Organization of LIANCEHOR Presa Service: a. The Reference "A" project proposal reports all significant incidents in the development of the LIANCHOR press service by'(LINLUCK)and the Mexico ; tation through the first week of December, 1967, when -0| (LINLUCK)set about bringing together the candidates for fembership in the cooperative press service. Ags Head- quarters will recall the project nvolved paying a — salary of U.S. $700 per month ta CINLucK )in return for which he was to persuade a number of leftist and center~ left writers to join together as contributors to the . LIANCHOR (Identity-2) press service. The contributing writers or members of the press service were to agree to waive fees for a trial period during which the preas gervice wag to develop paying clients among Latin American newspapers and periodicals. Q a b. (LinLucK) he1d three meetings of candidate members | : of the p¥Yess service during December in the home of a: _Identity-3. The getings were unruly but everyone at 3 the meetings agre€4™ to contribute material to the press ito editing and.control of the material by (LINLUCK)0| Howe@r, what with the 20 day Christmas festivities which aralyze ail Mexicans from 15 December to 5 January of each year, none of the LIANCHOR members other than Identity-4 submitted a manuscript to (LINLUCK) of until late January. ’ Se id Ra a 5 ol fo c. (LINLUCK) dusted off the best and most timeless of yO: his fall~1967 articles and mailed them out with a pro- :  j spectus to newspapers suggested by third country stations. i ei throughout Latin America, At the end of December (LINLUCK ) 0 is became. seriously ill and the project was dormant until | ie ; - mid-January. In the latter part of January (LINLUCK) held OS / a sober business meeting of the LIANCHOR press”group at Oe his home and by the end of January the members began to ii. submit manuscripts. o| i my 5. The Search for a Replacement for P/A(LINLUCK: , 3 ay a! INLUCK)was formally terminated in the summer ie ; of 1966.” He spent much of his termination bonus on ‘fe St: C gending hig family back to France (the wife is French) © : oe . and setting the family up there in an apartment and plac- . i ft “ 4ng his sons in school, Following the termination, INLUCK ) | SP was again placed on salary while WOFIRM subsized the~ ~ publication of a book which he had written in support of Han TATA BLE. Sh thane anata wall in Mavinrn and
ee £ iy i TE er RS ert pepstatin est Spystataitievanattersacir agen ne LOR rare es area groneretrpemerenecrree rhe ETE eligi Agen dscvne ateennener ar anat — CONTINUATION OF CT Aesth US ete pee y Me eNIL ANG TU al DISPATCH SECRET © |, HMMA=34792 \ i in South America accepted the book but would not send 0| GLINLUCK) his share of the sales, which was to be used to repiy WOFIRM the cost of publishing the book. in the late fall of 196% (LINLUCK] spent six weeks in Guatemala where he reached agreements with the Guate= malan Defense Minister, Rafael ARRIAGA Bosque, whereby the Defense Ministry was to pay LINLUCK U.S. $4,000 for the right to publish 10,000%Copies of, his first book. The U.S. $4,000 was to be paid by, LINLUCK to WOFIRM as partial reimbursement of the costs of “pub- lishing the JMROD book. During the visit to Guatemala, o|(LINLUCK) was told by ARRIAGA and other Guatemalan ._ kovernment officials that he couli expect a consular appointment by the summer of 1965. Gia sea oe eee ann ea ee b. Headquarters and the Mexico Station were agreed that as soon as he could organize LIANCHOR and find a suitable replacement! (LINLUCK) should be terminated and leave Mexico. Following the°receipt of the LIANCHOR project approval in early 1968, the LIANCHOR case officer told (LINLUCK) that he was expected to find a replacement meeting WOFYRM approval and be ready to turn the opera- tion over to his replacement by the end of March, 1968. ol(LINLUCK) proposed Identity-4, who had shown the most intéreét in the LIANCHOR press service and had been the first to submit articles. By accident the case officer was forced to listen to an hour's conversation between ° Identity-4 and,@INLUCK )after Identity-4 came to (LINLUCK's home, interrupted a meeting between the case officer and O|CLINLUCK) and the case officer sat trapped in a separate room ufibeknownst to Identity-4. From the conversation the case officer observed that Identity-4 was actually a political rightist, believed (LINLUCK)to be an LNHARP agent, had grandiose plans ‘br using’ LNHARP funds to mushroom LIANCHOR into a continent-wide anti-Communist) movement and was married to a neurotic woman who had hired a private detective agency to check on her husband's activities | (INLUCK) was instructed to quietly ease Identity-4 out of LIANCHOR, to cease holding group neet= ings of LIANCHOR writers and to try to prevent further contact between Identity-4 and other members of LIANCHOR. i c.O|Identity~5 was selected as the next candidate to replace (LINLUCK)as P/A. Identity-5 was technically, linguistically,’ intellectually and professionally well qualified to head LIANCHOR. During the period of develop- ment and assessment of Identity=-4 by LINLUCK)“lidentity-5 wrote an excellent article on Soviet intelléctual piracy. However, Identity-5 proved difficult to contact and control and turned out to be leading a personal life which would have detracted seriously from his ability to administer LIANCHOR 0( LINLUCK) was told to keep in touch with Identity-5, but to look for still another candidate. d. In early April ARRIAGA osqué’ was exiled to Miami. With the Station's concurrence (LINLUCK\went to Guatemala during Easter to confer with Guatemalan President, Julio MENDEZ Montenegro, and the new Defense Minister concern- ing his own future.,; The President said he had not forgotten (LINLUGK) but would not-be able to give him a consular post until the outset of 1969. The President _ algo said he would not be opposed to LINLUCK's) returning a to Guatemala and entering politics. ; of
SNe BRT Hehe AT ATED Tete td CONTINUATION OF ° — a os — . 7 DISPATCH . “S$ BECRET | , HMMA~34792 - ol -. Lo. 6. upon (ANLUCK return to Mexico -he asked Whether there was any possibility that he could be kept on after 30 June 1968 for an indeterminate period as LIANCHOR P/A until some outside job showed up. The case officer said he would discuss the matter with Headquarters, but felt’: ~. that in the interests of(LINLUCK'# family and his own: career it was high time’that LINLUCK gtrike out on his own. Replacements were again reviewed and it was decided that , the best candidate would be Identity-1, who had turned ” down membership in LIANCHOR because he wanted immediate fees for anything he wrote. Identity-6 of the LIANCHOR group, a friend of Identity-1, war queried as to Identity-1's personal life and, as far as can be discovéred, Identity-1 lives a quiet life with his wife and family and is highly respected in Mexican intellectual circles both as an author/ editorialist and as an independent leftist. Reference "B" and "PLANS" below report the Station's plans for possible recruitment and subsequent utilizetion of Identity-1 as P/A of LIANCHOR. 6. Production of Articles and Features Py LIANCEOR: of Separate cover attachment contains a translation of a (rnzucx) report written ] May 1968 on articles and feature articles pro- duced and distributed during. the period 15 December 1968 to 30 April 1968, Case officer comments are included along with information about articles prepared and distributed in May. o | 7. ‘LINLUCK) Involvement in Covert Action Operations Targetted Against Soviet Poet Yevgen T YEVTUSHENKO (March-April 1968); 8) a. In March (LINLUCK) drafted an open letter to Soviet poet Yevgenyi YEVTUSHENKO asking the Russian to use his influence to persuade the Soviet government to-end the persecution of Soviet intellectuals, artists, writers and - poets .°|(LINLUCK managed to obtain the signatures of stu- dents, professors, actors, dancers, writers and intellec- tuals for his open letter and then persuaded the publisher of his books to print thousands of copies, which were distributed by other assets of the Mexico Station. A copy of the open letter was published in EXCELSIOR” on the day of YEVTUSHENKO's arrival in Mexico for what was originally billed as a personal trip. Because of the open letter and critical press coverage of YEVTUSHENKO's rude behavior towards the press on arriving at Mexico City airport, the Russian Ewbassy called a special press conference the evening of the day of the poet's arrival. At the press conference YEVTUSHENKO spoke with outrage of the open letter, carefully dodging a number of questions asked by the letter, and chided the signers of the letter for claiming there was absolute literary freedom in Mexico, asking how there can be freedom anywhere in the world ag long as there ig no freedom in Vietnam. YEVTUSHENKO 's remarks about the open letter left no doubt that he had come to Mexico as a Soviet propagandist and not as a rebel poet. | - ol ; b. (nuck) also produced a handbill quoting the telegram by Soviet intellectuals to the "Consultative Conference of Communist Parties" at Budapest, asking for an end to Soviet persecution of intellectuals in the USSR. The handbill featured two pen and ink drawings of imprisoned Soviet poets Sinyaveky and Daniel. He also arranged for the printing in Spanish of an authoritative study of inci- dents surrounding the Galanskov-Dobrovolsky trial in ‘brochure form, Thousands of copies of the handbill and Lie teen men alan dintedhuégad he Gtatian aaaata during
. — ZL ". CONTINUATION OF © | oe ; DISPATCH ; SECRET HMMA--34792 sat etree ten ptiemeenttneRerrenemerss: Soman fap A Tre tee WEL ATEDD Te ATL and the open letter are submitted as Separate Cover Attachment "C" to this dispatch, Costs of the print- ing and distribution were charged to LILISP-X. c,. Via Identity-4 (LINLU K) passed guidance material to Mexico's top female poet, Margarita MICHELENA, ‘concerning YEVTUSHENKO. MICHELENA published a series of professional criticisms of YEVTUSHENKO as a poor® , poet and opportunist in the Mexican preas. In April, . immediately following YEVTUSHENKN's departure, & Con- densation of the MICHELENA critiques of YEVTUSHENKO were published in the leftist political illustrated magazine "IMPACTO" by LILISP-E. | d. Identities 3 and 6 of the LIANCHOR group also published articles against YEVTUSHENKO in the rightist daily "EL SOL", but the Station felt the articles were too vitriolic and unobjective to be a credit to LIANCHOR. In fact, because of these articles the Station plans to remove both Identities 3 ana 7 from LIANCHOR; for it is obvious that both persons have long since lost all traces of their former leftism and are extreme rightists. EFFECT IVENESS : ‘ 8. Views on LIANCHOR Effectiveness by Owner/Director of Guatemala Daily "EL IMPARCIAL”: cs) a, During LINLUCK*8) Easter visit to Guatemala City oo he was told by the owner of "EL IMPARCIAL" that the 2 newspaper was only interested in publishing LINLUCK's articles. The newspaper owner stated that (L NLUCK |was a well-known personality in Guatemala and also wrote interestingly. The owner also said that he had pub- lighed one series by Identity-4 because Identity-4 was a Guatemalan who at one time had been important. However, the owner pointed out that the other LIANCEOR writers were unknowns and did not write well. He singled out Identity-3 as being a “menace to journalism" because much of what she wrote amounted to libel or slander. b. The "EL IMPARCIAL" owner said that he received the newspapers "EL DIA" of Honduras, “LA PRENSA GRAFICA" of El Salvador, "LA PRENSA" of Nicaragua, "LA REPUBLICA" . of Costa Rica, "LA ESTRELLA" of Panama and "ULTIMAS NOTICIAS" of Caracas and had noted that these newspapers all published (INLUCK 's) articles but had not, to his knowledge, published articles by any of the other LIANCHOR writers. : - @ : o| c. When (LINLUCK) explained the cooperative nature of “LIANCHOR, the "EL IMPARCIAL" man told (LINLUCK) that he °- could never hope to collect fees for his news service . until the service became both famous and sought after. The "EL IMPARCIAL” owner advised (LINLUGH) to find writers tter known in Latin America. °'He suggested that if ’ ol LINLUCR) could not afford to pay his writers fees, he ghould’persuade first class writers to contribute to LIANCHOR purely for the prestige of having their material . published around Latin America, . ; o - 9. Effectiveness of LIANCHOR Writer Grou and ‘LINLUCK as ‘a Covert Action Production Unit: ~ we 5 - . a. LINLUCK) learned quickly that it was best not to allow meetings of members of the LIANCHOR cooperative