(tod-to102- 007 Background on iexics Stetion Support Ass (Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies) Subjects Anderson III (still in LA/HQ) had develoved a sucrort apparatus to @ leads from the Soviet 2: consisted of milt a. rhone tags were clacéd aL’ pleoverece. From ihe time the Nexicoe Staticn was o-ened ta PY (oy Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Scott as COS in 1958, Charles ™~ 3, unbrélla type =roject (LIFEA ip line phone taps, three pskoto sites, a mobile surveillance téah and a tail intercept cperation. pfpenazee by David WILSTED toseud do}, The numser of lines AS we « £9 pak 7 arped was linted OY availaolii 2 2 ty of a listening cost nearby (since the taps were uct made in the main central) and English/ Spanish (Soviet, Folish, Czech, etc these agents (sostiy i (which the staticn at Do. Three choto sites re of Farry “ianhoney (retired, living in Chicago’ and TDY TED ‘people Checking the dest tyte of camera, film, and concealment devices, These had sub-cripts under LIFEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIc, and LICALLA), LISITED was 2 fized Site Sane ofrostte across a) Ghe street from the front cate cf the Soviet Hmoassy whien had ooth a vehicle end foot entrance. The Soviet rave was on the ort on. Vest v corner
Od) - = a iain taheso Eee nae as - - : a a tliat “lock. ae ee eS 28 LLTED cas6 SUG LG Steratan strlotay on an mat et Sm Fa + pep cA se 3 ~ - = ores Tee pe te Fn es aha me - wee we ME ee ae ey ve 5 * a bee a eo Wei bie wus cne storey an lan a fan a ~ 47 . . x et . TT ORR ES ooog . A tnis crecerty (a/Svanisn Colonial stone house) through LI.CUSIIE. (check to ce sure). Later this house began to fall apart. This base was closed when the Station got word thet the ghoto of "“uniden man" was deing released to the cuclie oy the Narren Commission. The photo operatcrs were moved to another apt nearby. The proverty was sold (under an operational agreement with LIMOUSLIE for a long term lease on the top floor of a new apartment blding to ke built on this site), LILYRIC was planned as an alternate photo dase to LIMITED. Zt was in an upper storey (3rd floor =check) on the same side of the street $3 qa Dot TED but in the middle of the oloek South. It had a slanted view of she front sate of the Soviet Exbassy. The avents in LIMITED and LILYRIC (coth Mexican families) as far as we knew, were not acquainted with each other. LiLcRiG was a rented apartsent. LICALLA, the third photo site, was located in one of a row of four houses on the South side of the Soviet Excbassy compound which the iexico Station curchased in about 1958 (check date), also using LILCUSINE as the vurchaser (check). This site overlooked the back varden cf “he Soviet Bntessy comround. The cturrcse cf this orereation wes to set sood Laentivication ehotograrhs of the Seviet rerscn tamteia nwt Bln Sim mages Shwe an i inigestiltiadg 2A Mexico Station recerds;. The : wet ~ tut oo, PT OS ’ \. ENLCas CLULZern si nt ot WC BLET Dain teach a collected tne fily rom LIOTITID sca TTT TA 2. : 2 aca LILVRIC three tines eek, Eis sister's so a deveicved and printed the Pilm into &x190 ecntact - Silm to Le crecessed_ “ins side TSD man from 1957 to 1949
i | t | | Ce woblle surveillance under Uakoney and J dozen or so agents Ta DReo tlt Rake Rorchalakal< Ueaiaenae Sete papecncnes meee tar Sane Maat iea Dalat et. te! rem ww wee ee eer ee ee ee ~ tw ae et le ee “ ST,1, ete}. This vas ha.dled oy Glen NIDDEN (outside TSD cffizer) and ey using HQ TDY teans for monitoring, This crsratica vas also serarate uiCALla, The tvo houses in tetueen were rented to unsusrectins tenants. as develored oy anderson and later claced £ Loos : 2 . a a + csenh Sancho, This useam consisted of a hal who used three to four late mcdel cars and a panel truck (which could be used on stake. outs for vhoto covsrae). The pl when s ™ AS - ASE c an was to activate this sroup oy radio (from LIMITED 2ASE) omeone of interest left the/Embassy cate an vney made their meetings. egause they kad LICIT=D shotos “Sovie % 4 ee " } 7 7 These agents knew about the LIMITE This worked fairly well until about the middle of 1958 (check date) when one of the surveillance arents got too close to his target and was arrested by the Mexican wexican Secret Service. Ey the time @ clea evacuated shone rucketi survel red atvuorney Little and Riquelse fif))] che G AAGHC RNS SI ) across «uf ») muncer of Mahoney (who was sudcequently reclaced t}. as @ result TTT rim _ ade dee it WES Sune RPranyT 2 a7 + waeve tS CEOG NBS Ued hone tars. vance team (LIEITPTAF) anc the shoto transit police and turned over tc the the Station cculd arranse through Austin of the Goodrich, | to cail hin ot {Fudd a ion an 7 4 = B. cep 0 o ty (@] on o 99 ul he Sorder at Nogales sy Bob Shaw) and the inside --- cor Leuts ect “wag troxen Tne acents vere not chansed but wiere ziven ancona and PEGE aggeng] erseces Andersan in hendling ooo Fuckett ceclaced lahcney and handled the vases sero gh{Renon. i yon pee an TT PATS AT z 4 ke cryru used for afanilateral ( originaligy c2il ancerson Ill, (he acent _exicen) had ) i to. obtain select | |
OOD SOE nase * . A ee At wes oF ad As sharacterized & rs “S(Direction of of contact with one of ‘rroup}) in aocut 1950 or 51, He seve them some “Levine De e Leoii|(ete: r LISIRE —— srevel cont brol information was devel elberg} ves rN Mahoney, Thomas Faglitt, and Rooért 7 Net croject (LIENVOY) went through about Zour dis corruption, LInLeGa:T also
14-00000 2 mamd Sue S22 eLon by Jack Brady who found himself in the same pincer movement of having Scott approve a. request by LISLEGA: NT that aredy Pha cane ¢ ; SSonse ia Finally » wien the cost pecaiiie exhorbitant and there was little to show for it, Ss Jana John returned to the U.S, and were replaced ey the Progect was ar emg Who Vas out : inside the listening rost to maintain siened to other duties rending a trensfer. the ceutpate' pedy Wee reese: the project as case of: So yy for routine suvervision | Goodpasture had. no (Games Rev exicans J except when Séatt was il] or out of towm. Generally, “ali deci sions were nade by Scott. This was atout late 1961.- 3. Ly memory is a little vague about the origins of the Cuban Embassy but i think the staff first developed from a srosCasiro group célebrating on lew fears eve 1959, as I recall, it was a wakeshift arrangement sf volunteers through most of 1960 and.¢l with Tom Hazlitt s¥oducing rcluMiacus resorts on = = their activities and recruiti.g egents right and left aséng Cuban natiénals in uexico City. a re Ha} is os i ad Q o H Hes +3: Q 4. Personnel assignments. Of interest to us now is who was the period prior to Oswald's visit and he subseatent investigetion by the warren Cownicsion, To détemine «ho vas shere and whet they were doing mS Sop up, ome Gan Yell. wnat LeAMents at ire
8/56+-6/69 COS Winston \1. Scott. (deceased) SOVIET TARGET COVERT ACTION . 7/53 et Uae a yp ete Ws la 10/58 = 12/62 (es tired) 6/63 ~ 9/65 Alen White (reti 19/65 - 1969 (& WEESG! nt (retired) (resigned) Short (retired) Stannatz Chief 9/6L - 3/64 David Phillips ¢/(retired) = 8/62 = 9/64 gAsstp =") 2/6, - 6/65 “Janes Flannery ‘C/ (retired) <= 9/64 = 11/66 Herold ae Asst. 10/65 i Wavso NY (retired) eg = CUBA OPERATICNS | 36 = 4/63 Tromas Hazlitt Chief _—— x7 row aS, fo oO | SES fon ee Me = yes. RayESIEaS: ches L 10/63 ~ 5/65"Lorna } lackay wac +t 8/€B = 6/65 David Phillips Chief (natured = 9/65 - 19/68 Josep h Piccolo . 16/65 - 12/679 ard: % ap= 6/57 ~ 10/59 Louise Lyon Cant are el? 6/62. - 1/67 Prentice Marheine (os) | 9/59= 8/65 Cf ies (retired ?) 9/59 - 8/65¢8 = | Outside co | 5/64 = 7/66 — - 4/65 ~ 11/67 oyntiia Rau : 6/65 = 7/87 Alice P ittinger 7/65 = 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief SOVIET » Te USCRIBERS 6/56 = 6/58 Morris Gordon (resigned) 6/58 ~ 6/63 Geotze Misko — - . 6/63 - 79 Boris Tarasoft (cétired in Méxieo) < !
CL ‘David. “MILS?ED (ps) tA a retired in Mexico: * 2/60 = ayes Thort < Pechon, ~ Raker OlE: Sa < eEEEDenote Soviets ‘  Ofree. om PR ae oienlaatod eee oN Ll Ne et ord tat ~ 1/59 Harry T. Mahoney (retired Chicago) 8/64 As Goodpasture (alternate CO = and internal routing) 6/58 = 6/63 Louis D. Puekett (retired) 6/63 - 10/62" Thomas Keenan = esbeet it a laseannk 65 = 66 William Bright “42 - wigs pte ca + ORS. ENOTES BNO EN ORN OE ODO: ON OS: OY Ue ST ON en ee ee ee ed 5 f a 7 gy Om Z Q 2 he 1 = i961 Thomas Hazlitt hae ar - 1969 Winston Seott (decéased) = 1960 Alfonso Sere (retired) th) (outside, now retired) - Training reps resigned) John. Brady (rétived) 7 2968 he Goods pasture - 4/59 Harry MaHoney (retirsd) Sitside wiit ) Unit bloWa and elesed dwn * “4
teresting ¢onversations for 2 daily resume which was received each day around & a.m. (passed oe to Goodrasture to get to Scott cefore 9 4.4.) Later (when the reel was edmel stely recorded) ists were typed and casced to the st@ticn in the cene way, however, Those trenserints which rdd there was usuaily a tine lag of e aay or so. int Russidn or another lansuege sesises Scanisn of Easiish vent out of vse listening SOst the day after thé transcript (of other conversations on the reel)was trped. These reels were taken to another location where they were trensleted - Be and typed. In the case of the Russian translations, Eéris Taraseff usually ren ecout a week behind the dete of thé conversatisn because of the volume > ve ~ Russian conversations among the embers of the Sovi ad sériod (2411 of 1563) the reels were rSocabliy seine eng carried te Soris oy ome of tre = @ from tne Seviet Section or they may have deen carried to hin oy 2 vO: sascled all of the srocess:.g ips the chotograrhs as soon as we npocaoly an duerican,.. Eowever, rere again there was a cackleg vVecause. the ckhotos were vicied up three tines bine sesis. used cust worcas ihe
frequently develoted sechanical difficultiés. the film inside the station. I am certain thet the Oswald 6811 came to our attention from the Soviet line. It was vicked u: and taken to Boris for a4 traénsletion secause Ps the Galler vas trying to sneak Russian. Any delay was daused Dy Waiting to comvare thé shotogfachs with the toed teanscrint, There were Ao coties of urenseripts every made in languages other than Scanish or English Se¢duse Win Scott could read only these to languages end hé “erschally screened the transeripts for orerational lé ads he vanted pursued.