04-10086-10399 o EASE AS SANITIZED VAQBTL 5 BRA BT tee ete ae te is Declassified and Approved for Release A by the Central Intelligence Agency ; e Date: > A2 223 SU°JECT: elay insending the first cable about OSWALD 1. Much has been written about the delay (b the Mexico Station) ins ending the first cable requesting traces on the name Lee OSWALD.. It was discussed in Dave Phillips book as a case of laziness on the part of the Soviet case officer (which in my view was unjust and unnecessary and indicates that Dave didn't know what he was’ talking about). 2. Normally, the Spanish transcript for t convers ation would have been picked up on th egiiy 2nd of October. The Russian language portig to the Russian/English transcriber, on thé trans lation would have been returned t t at aich time, the Soviet case offices RU have aked for ‘the photographic coverage. That cog y would not have been in the station before the 7th singe the’ film was still in the camera on the 3rd of October a Sy was picked up probably ‘on. the 4th, processed and pass ed e- Station on the next work day which would have. been ve"°7 October. ‘ aken out of the camera ever day wees tayed in the camera until a full . Might take three or four days. 3; Later the fi but at that time, th rotl was completed . 4. A name trace could have been reques ted on the bas is of the name alone but that wasn't the way Win Scott ran that Station. He wanted the photographic coverage tied in with the telephone coverage ...s ometimes..there_.was..a U.S,..automo bile license number. . It was also part of the "numbers game" of justifying a project ty. the number of dis patches, cables or reports produced. — QOO0L54. Cops . lef 2 | seener.
14-00000 a oe Ae web " _ + SECRET 2 May 1977 SUBJECT: Review of Mexico City Station Files at the Warrenton Record's Center 1. On 2 May 1977 Chris Hopkins and Annie Goodpasture visited the Warrenton} Record's Center to review old Mexico City files in search of additional photographs of the - . ‘inidentified man". We were unable to locate any such eo photographs. It appears that earlier photographs may have . been destroyed in a purge of Mexico City Station files and that the folders for the destroyed material were re-used to forward more recent photographic material to Headquarters for retention. Following are the Job numbers of boxes reviewed and pertinent notations re re-use of the old folders: Job #70-236 Box 1 of 3 LILYRIC Photos pe “2 Bebruary - 1 March 1968 . 11e€a in re-use oider, LILYRIC 1 Aug. 1966 to 31 Aug 66 XN c NX . 1 apr -. 2 May 1968 Back tolder re-used LILYRIC ; folder 2 Mar 64 thru 29 May 64 | G000{ 50 Front folder re-used LILYRIC a ‘folder 1 Nov thru 15 Dec 66 Ae Continued | Kae O56 Copy lef T SEG RET
14-00000 ‘- i . om, Box #9 Nothing pertinent to our search. Box #10 Nothing pertinent to our search. Box #11 ; - Nothing pertinent to our search. “Box #12 Nothing pertinent to our search. Job #73-506 File ¥ 50-6-74/3 Box #1 70 70 70 70 70 70 Dispatch, HMMT) 11,368, dated 17 March 1972. Photos were filed in re-used subject and "P"' folders (equivalent of subject 201 folders), . indicating contents of “original” subject and “P'' files were destroyed. Ref (to previous shipment ) (FIMMA)40,562, 21 May 71. 0000157
14-00000 14-00000 ng Front ‘flap clean 1 Aug 67 - 4 Sept 67 Clean folder —_ ores ‘deJune - 3 July 1967. Clean folder 3 July - 31 Sul 1967 Back Fiap re-used LILYRIC folder July - Aug 64. 1 Nov -- 22 Dec ‘67 Back flap re-used LILYRIC folder 12 Apr 66 - 18 May 66 ‘Front flap re-used incoming cable chrono folder 1-31 Jan 65 9 Jan - 31 Jan 68 . Front flap. re-used ‘LILYRIC folder 1 July thru 31 July 1966 Back flap ~ clean Job #70-236 Box 3 of 3° LICALLA Photos - 2 Jan - 27 Feb 1967. . lap re-used LICALLA folder. 5 Nov 62 - 31 Jan 63 0000454 Continued
14-00000 14-40000. a Front flap re-used LICALLA folder 1 Bec 66 - 15 Feb 67 _ 2 Mer - 28 April 1967. . : flap re-used LICALLA folder 1 “Feb - 29 June 63 Front’ flap re-used LICALLA folder 20 Feb - 31 May 1967 * 2 May 67 + 30 Jume 67~ ‘Back flap re-used LILYRIC folder . 23 July 63 (Y-1257) to . 30 Nov 63 (¥-1308) Front flap re-used  LICALLA & 1 Sept thru 30 Nov 1966 Front flap 1 LICALLA re-used folder 1 June thru 30 June 1967 1 Sept - 27 Oct 1967 | ac ap clean Front flap re-used LICALLA folder . 1 Aug - 31 Aug 1967 . 6 Nov - 29 Dec 1967. Back flap clean front flap re-used LICALLA folder 1. July. - 31 July 1967 3 Jan - 28 Feb 1968 ; _ Front flap re-used LICALLA folder 0006155 ‘1 July thru 31 August 1966 Back flap Czech. photos re-used folder ' Sept + - Nov 64 . Continued
14-00000 14-09000 fy ” 1 March thru 29 April 1968 Front. flap re-used LICALLA () 28 Nov 61 to 10 Feb 62 ' Back flap re-used LICALLA folder ’ 1 Apr to 1 July 1966 © , 2 May thru 19 June 1968. : Back flap re-used. LILYRIC folder (y- ~907 to ¥-969) 120 Sept 61 - 23 Mar: 1962 Front flap re-used LICALLA folder ' 1-Jan thru 31 Mar 1966 — N.B. There was no coverage from 19 June .to 15 July 1968 15 July thru 30 August 1968 ront, flap re-used LI folder 23 Nov to 27 Feb 1965 Contained nothing prior to 1967. Looking for 1963. Job #70- 209 “Box #3 (Boxes 1§2 at Has) _Nothing pertinent to our search. Box #4 . : Nothing pertinent to our search. Box #5 | ‘Nothing pertinent ‘to our search. —— Box #6 6000156 _ Nothing pertinent t to our search. Box #7 ‘Nothing pértinent to our search. Box #8 Nothing Pertinent to our search _ Continued
14-00000 Sp ES Boat #9 a Nothing pertinent to our search. Box #10 - Nothing pertinent to our: search. _ Box #11 - Nothing pertinent to our search. _ Box #12 Nothing pertinent to our search. Job 873-506 - _ File F 50-6-74/3 ‘Box #1 70 70 70 70 70 70° . Dispatch HMMT 11,368, dated 17 March 1972. Photos were filed in re-used subject and ptr folders (equivalent of subject 201 folders), indicating ‘contents of. “original” subject and "P'' files were destroyed. ‘Ref (to previous shipment ). HMMA 40, 562, 21 May 71. 0000157
1400000. oO / . eg ©. cr ¢ Mexico Station Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies (1963) 1. UmTaDoverase: ~ REPROE wero RNUIB in A From the time. the Mexico Station was opened {in April 1947) un nti the arrival of Mr. Win Scott as Chief of Station(n 1955) the Station had developed a support apparatus to exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City. This umbrella type project (LIPSTICK) consisted of multiline phone taps, three photographic sites, a- mobile surveillance. team and a . mail intercept operation. % - Telephone taps (LIFEAT) were placed by TaD the” “recat 7 ‘Ceelephone company_who_ was handled by a. Station case officer. The number of lines tapped was limited only by the availability of a ‘Vistening post nearby and the availability of langauge (English, Spanish, “Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc.) transcribers. Generally, these were Mexican or Mexican- : American recruited agents._ . Three photographic sites were handled by a Station case officer > assisted by technicians on TDY from Headquarters who advised the Station on the best types of cameras, Films, -and concealment devices. These operations had sub-crypts under project LIPSTICK (namely: LIMITED, LILYRIC and LICALLA). LIMITED was a fixed site directly opposite the Soviet Em- ' bassy (across the street) which had both.a vehicle and a pedestrian en- trance. The gate to the Soviet Embassy was on the northwest corner of the 2, IMPDET. ? Py BPN Th CL BY 0046:
14-00000 14-00000 ¢ “processed on the outside by a recruited | agent. “Soviet compound and the LIMITED D site was diagonally across a double laned street ‘on the southeast corner of that block. (See attached diagram). ‘LIMITED was the first photo base and operated strictly on an experimental basis in the early stages. This base, however, was closed, When the Sta- - ' tion received word that ‘the photograph of the "unidentified man” was being released by the Warren Commission. LILYRIC was an alternate photo- graphic base. It was located in an upper story of an apartment building on the ‘same side of the Street as the LIMITED site but in-the middle of — ‘the block ‘South. It had a planted view of the front gate of the Soviet 7 Embassy. LICALLA, the third Photographic site, was located in one of a row of four houses on the south side of the Soviet Embassy compound. This site overlooked the back garden of the Soviet Embassy compound. The ; purpose of this operation was to get good identification photographs of soviet personnel. The three photographic sites were managed by a re- . cruited agent who was a Mexican citizen, the son of an American mother -and Mexican father (deceased). This agent collected the film from the LIMITED and LILYRIC sites three times a week. The film was. then de- veloped and printed into 8 x 10 contact print strips. “LICALLA ‘f44m was originally processed in the Station but in early {1959} due to the resig- nation of a technician, this film like that of LIMITED and LILYRIC was ~ CC0G1593 2 APART MrAMATSTr ~ Ciel jy PASE i ¢ eH eLeR de I ded JA z a
14-00000 14-00000 2 - 6 Mobile surveillance was conducted by two American staff officers. These two officers organized a surveillance team of six recruited agents which used Jate model cars and a panel truck for surveillance. The team could be activated by radio from the LIMITED site whenever someone of interest left the gate of the Soviet Embassy. These agents were aware of the LIMITED site since ‘they had been issued LIMITED photographs for ‘identification purposes. The Station also conducted afunilateral) mail intercept operation,  LIBIGHT, which was handled by an American case officer. VA recruited) cMexican_agent, who had a semiofficial status, obtained selected letters from a subagent employed by the Mexican postal systeny _ 2. (Liaison) Coverage: Liaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature of the (Mexican services’ at that time. The Mexican Direction enna aoe apenas tee : "of Federal Security (DFS), @With which we conducted Tiaisom, was a hip-- pocket group run out of the Mexican Ministry of Government. This- Ministry " was principally occupied with political investigations and control of foreigners. 2 . « Dre V7 > Their agents were yan ets > and corrupt. {A Station] - ee —_ officer trained a number of_them—in_name_tracing and travel control. Inj | ‘(1958,_at_the_instigation of a Mexican official, a joint telephone tap/ -  Coperation came into_existence. The operation, which became known as — C0OCigg - 3 OCHO PEMOTTAIL pee ant? 3 a“ 2 Z * “° ahe “a g t Rye Stu SEE OE
4-90000 14-00000 CIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS =@ a “CLASSIFIED MESSAGE fo ROUTING | Ww 4 | ro. s DIRECTOR a 31 él 2 FROM + MEXICO CITY » ES £4py. re | | ACTION, wi 8 (MR WHITTEN, We & NIGHT: SECURITY OFFICER NOTIFTED AND copy SLOTTED AT . 2015, 22 NOV BP) a “INFO a cl, p/ocl, DOP, ADDP, Cl, cl/ors, ciate. 2 a sR RT SAS 8, “OS Bs ‘VR i : Seorer 230353z . oe a _RINEDIATE DIR CITE heext: 7819: at REF NEXT raral ing GG: Fer ee WP es fl po de WEXI STATION. HAS- PHOTOS. SAME” @RERENY TYPE WHO. ‘Is Possis.y) oswaL er | . D ENTERE & N ENBASSY ON 15) i OCTOBER, SEARCHING FoR Possig ee oY Noro-peein ENTED wiRy ce ; oe a fi “ ¢ / S. (Comment: “*Request priority pouch: photo ¢ Oswald s 80 ‘that Station can check atl . lj recent coverage for identity,. .Forwarding soonest copies of only visitor ta Seve: ab, a8 Ort. who could. be ide atic. with » Oswald, . a averse: a seeseuh - | CLASSIFICATION REVIEW - _ conbucreo onl 6 APR ia7¢6 eZeDmenet cr sy_O/2 208 : BR ETF ABN SU . Pocument iN cre ror FOIA Review on APR 1976 =o ee Leg tt all “Fb oF 7)
4-90000 14-00000 : tay _ _C ; CLASSIFIED MESSAGE -OrIG : JOHN JOHN M. WHITT WHITTEN Jo uN: C/WH/3 CV INDEX - SECRET EXT : 5613 - C} NO INDEX * DATE: 22 NOV. 63 __U FILE IN CS FILE NO. 12-62 ROUTING TO: ype 7 Site MEXICO CITY £3 Copy FROM: DIRECTOR ne cone: WH 8 INFO: DCI, D/DCI, DDP,..ADDP, C1, Ci/oPS, CI/IC 2, Fl, SR 7, SAS 8, 27°: og. «(COS 2,.VR 7, - . ae Oo, _ (PRTY). MET 3, | Ne Ba Nv 6 AS 5 New 6 | ms MEX 7019 (aN ¥ 66846) es we _ Geom Oe SEND STAFFER Witt ALL + PHOTOS OSw > HOS. ON y NEXT C/S Comment: *Reference attagit Document Number See |S CLASSIFICATION REVIEW 2. oo 4 tl APR 197 CONDUCTED ‘iat. Hl . eS ioer of or cated : _ Mave - | (AS Te 3 ZOE Bs. op HN M,. WHITTEN_By direction’ ROUNATIN-G OFFICERS . _ GROUP E ' ar a . _ THOMAS AAR B Essie 1 “Yee bemtel yy oon downgrading sed UTHENTICATING - [ S E 24 R B Tt » Gectassification OFFICER . x é . . sees REPRODUCTION BY OTHER THAN THE ISSUING OFFICE-IS PROHIBITED. | Sepy No. sega