404-10188-10447 SECRET /KAPOK Chief of Station, HNexico City x “NM utvigion (Chief) Review of LIFFAT and LIENVOY Crojecta Uy KUTURE/ODS 1. Here is the KRUTUBE draft puper preoared by Pasl V¥. LEVIsTER after his recent visit to your station. It has had the benefit of Valuable sugpestions from the cesx. It hes been rend with interest by senior XUBALK officers who thins the paper tilustrates the essentials - ef gvod tap operutions. The stress uf the paper is on latelligeace collection, but some mention bac to be made of operntioual leads and CI/CE infurmation, otherwise we would have had only a partial picture ef the operations. fe will appreciate any comments or corrections you wish to mate, fe want to precent the true facts and convey the right lapression. 2. ioving paid this tribute to nonwsty, se will adait baying departed from the facts in a few instances, in tne interest of slaplie fleation. ‘ime was the .,vestion of recis anu irnaovalpie, anu reels qlone (pagea 17, Ja wou 4233 we dic not wish to confuse the reader with tnig distinetion. Vhe other wos the collection and distribution of reels ane ter2gsiationsa, which is cumeshuat mora complex taan the procedure ceserihbec in the text: we oreferrec not to cisk losing the reader anu ourselves in taose Gousle and traple winybacs formations executes by Robert §. RICCS and Jeresy A. NIARCOS on their way to york im the avraing anu eraciiues curing the cay. 3. there are a few moiuts on which we were not sure, for instance tag Summers accouet of the atatioa’s #sirengty piveu on pages 45-47. se fekt thet such an acccunt wed uecesoary Gud the fueder bee an tue of the size of the operations an the nowunt of work Llavnlved; 2 tthoul Such an secount he might have agsume: Enat tae stebivu gn -jueetinn eas (ono Of opr very Largest. There de aleo tac cvestidoa of the exaci eumpustition of the tatercept contereeat tne Start, ami now, lf tucre ig unythiz, missia, (or not accurately Gereribed) that voulo Bvlp othe. stations ty tiuprovs their own ootrations at this xey point, we woula Like very much to out at in. (continued) tlotribution: O 8 b- (URE, Hexteo City Hukw bees: oN J0 -<cember 130] } fa te hE SS AS SECRET SRA BUG 30—t—32/1
SECR&T/KA POX HMw 12220 4. Finally, there was the question of the Polish lines, on which the files are mystifying. The 1960 Presect Henewal request meations LITENSOR’s desire to cover those as well as the other two, but subso= guent correspondence omits all mention of Polish ltaea. Did he really eention the folish target? If so, how did we manage te get out of it? 5. The tough probles, of course, will be to sanitize tho peper without dowagradiag the operations. The easence of the measase is that eo exch can be done, and done well, by relatively few people, provided these few people have the right ezilis and sufficient drive. vo might omit afl references to Latia America, the Spanish language, and Cuben case o?ficera; we might even throw in a few misleading phrases like “the far-away Cuban target." Ye certainly would not eant tae location to be recognizes except by persons already fanlhiar with the operations. Ye will be guided by your wishes in this and other aspects ox tne pager. Oliver G, GALBOHD ‘Sater pore meemeeer Gr cereeseee we eoateuenieeatemmremcesnreeandtoacet —
TASLE OF COMEERTS IIRODUCTIOg: TWO CONPLERGRTARY OPERATIONS — PAR? I: - DEVELOPSSLNP OF TRE GWwo cPERATIOS PART If: THR GRRSTDR CaSTALLATIONS \R? YLT: SUATION'S UBE OF ‘TAP IXFORMATICS = .# 16 49
74-00000 ~g Seeuhl é DFTRODUCTION: tC COMPLIBERTARY OPERATIONS i The etation does not share the widespread belief that telephone tape are necessarily poor producers of positive intelligence. Whenever @ etatian officer bears of a tap operation thet produces little dissent. sable information, his inavitadle eomeent ie: “foo bad thay’re letting good infcrration slip through their fingers." he station's experience with tvo tap operations ezplains its attitudes. For 13 years 1% has had as independent tay operation that became a good producer of pesitive intelligence as well as operatiznal leads acd CI/ inforeation. ‘During ite period of maximum developement this operaticn bad 23 lings and produced some 150 dissemtuaticas por yoar. Five years ago the statien sat Up & new tap operation Jointly vita the local goverment. Thais operation became arleniou primaeriiy towels inieiligesce protustica. During the paat two years i¢ bus ealntained 30 active lings and produced come 355 disseninaticns por years ite reperting hag been ovalu- sted aa “detailed, ant of high quality and substantial quantity.” Several lines tapped by tae joint cperation had been the sost productive omas of the todepandent enpap hia isfependant operation has been maiu- taiogd,without the knovledge of ths iocal govarnmant, but it kaa beccas oriented primarily toxards targets of CI/CS interest; 4% the sage tims, ite overall coverage has been reduced, an! in recent years (t bas main- tained between 12 and 18 linas. Under these cireunstancea, datelli- gence production of ths indepesdant operation was bound to decrease; neverthelese, it has remained @ respectable producer, with an average sue his pas Usage °° -esninations par year. ‘The story of these two complementary Ca