(01000-1000) PP secure a with @ limited nuzber of people. We believe the direction of the station is of high caliber, but not all the station effort is carefully directed at priority targets. Under current personnel | ceilings, there is little hope of increasing the manpower evail~ i able for this critical effort. Ths, both Beadquarters and the Ee station mst carefully place emphasis on assignment of priorities He and upon selective execution of the activities to meet those He Seen Ss. fhe Mexico City Station approaches the classic station in opportunities and in operations. It has high-level ES operations, unilateral operations, joint operations with the host Si Party operations. It has local collaborative liaigon with other U.5. agencies: the State Department, the Federal. Burean of Investi- | @ getion, the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the military. : flo accomplish this wide range of tasks, the station is. zed i into the Soviet Branch, Cuban Branch, Satellite Brench, ae Action Branch, Communist Party Brench, and an operational catch-all = which is called the “Operational Support Branch." his latter branch is headed by a senior operations officer who has tvo assist- ante, but the branch in reality is an extension of the chief of station's personal clandestine capabilities, giving force and . effect to that facet of the chief of station's personality as an operator. The deputy chief ef station, in addition to his admin- istrative duties, also personally handles the operations of three 25 RACs (RINE OIA 1 SEGRa age week travel each way to anf from Havana via Mexico City. This | | in shaping the station's operational ectivi- (si vificautt ] ties. For example, over[ 7 cent of the station's FI reporting | gms on Cuban activitd Bs year dealt with travel, both Cuban s
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ka. - oe ‘station is heavily ‘commbcted dh the: techaiond field with @ large audio operation(Pun’ jointly with the Mexiean Govern- a4 ), oo, well as a eudio operation. (urrEaz), 2e4 fon has been imag ive in apgroechas to problems and viitig to sean aol eerie itn te urna ~af example of this 1a the fons Link between the rtetion[and ¢) the princi 24 pal agent of: which will be discussed. Rava 43. the LIgwyor operation, . ‘previously. meationed. in connection with Soviet operations, resulted froa[ | 2a After considerable discussions, the operation Waa 7 Providing ZF ae ee Government knowledgeable of all its anti-commnist opera- “ i 3 ‘tiona. Therefore, _ the station has, Somtimed ite. untieteral audio : tates. ane neti is manned by [gelected Mexican Aruy 2, . ai | vho seresned end paid high incentive wages, uoing thefs” vulnerability, ‘te bribery./ er privileges add to o bles eeprit de corpe essential to operation. fhe unit is managed by « cereer agent vio transnite tha take regularly to fhe etation by clendestine means. This project. has been fruitful imtelligence reports tod bas been of falus in eperaticoel Lea and in[GE/CX| information. The project also has @ visual surveile lance and a photo-surveillance capability. It-wes this project which provided date on the actions of Lee. Harvey Cewald in his fesous visit. te Maxico City. 4 —obviously, the station cannot’ be content to-have the “-- a ria i Rasa ge: sin - Da Not Benentuce ty
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13-00000 ve G@Msrcres . ere aseieting in Some - reduction of the personality: ‘files. - The Registry also handles the pouching. This tesk 46 aleo the largest in the WH Divisions particularly in lateral pouching. On one occée sion, at Headquarters’ request, Mexico City handled the leteral . 5 (ate one and bases of one document. cae} os “pro ry are compounded by the” Gd Celiling provided pernonnal sealgncd to the mngiatre. Persone nel problems in the Registry are many and diversified. Firet of — all, with the limited mmber of personnel and the great burden of work, a. large amount of overtime hes been required. Secondly, it haa been difficult to get people to accept an assigament to the Mexico City Registry because the tasks are dull, tedious, and infi- nitely demanding of the individuals' time. The morale in this section was poor. We made several recommendations to the chief of. ‘station pointing out to him @ conscientious effort must be made by — all members of the station to reduce the workload in the Registry. In this connection, we suggested thet individual ease officers ac-\ ' cept the responsibility for periodie cleaning of files which they | as - used, and of which they have the most intimate mowledgs., We further recommended that maximum discrimination be used ih determin- g{ __pouching to whenever possible, but that in any voluntarily event personnel be provided vith @ full weekend off from time to ee coe a terme ere re rn nt net SAREE © ere mente canton earn tener er crnneeetrtnetianetattnnetaenn 0 reese cn cece EES eee ete taken very little time off, including of his tour. We feel that one of the. should be re-evaluated for possible upgrad- © es of deputy chief ef Regiatry. thatt | Ho. 78 the Quiet, WH Division, request the Director of Personnel. to conduct « review of the function of Deputy Chief, Registry, Mexico City Station, to deter- mine vhether or not a | SECRET pale
St ome ome ee eee “a eee . wes ‘ , oe wie tec ements se ae PA ee tae tt See ERR De SEIT a PP atts pees ne ene ead eee ee MEE RL ART as ampere eee Ee tom F. Bo pormen a te ag apc re ap TTtTt Gl. We found the Registry to be o controversial matter between Reelquertere and the chief of eteticn. ‘The newly assigned deputy g 3 | Foot A i Reet cm ete sls