14-00000 eta? staffed ty (te isan ean etry officers!) Initially the station ‘tvied to m.et every . y officers.) . demand /made ‘by the Mexicangi Both/S (Snith)end John hed language difficulties and personal problens associated with being o outside the stetion. Te) ‘thet the Mexicans \ tne en ney (were virtuelly v pneontrolia’ Jle, spendi ¢ | € money as they pleased, squirrelli ang away S eae pg ye ee ee equipment ot enormous cost uS, and neglecting their pert of the bargain tin the; - — iy preduction. of transcripts or placing taps which we wante ed. Spera was replaced by Jack Brady viho found himself in the same pincer novenent of having Scott approve a request by LIELEGANT that Bredy (had turned down by & e son, LIEH "TOX-2.) ‘Finally when the cost became exhorbitant and there was Little to show for it, . the. project was revanped. (Suite) and John returned to the U.S. and were replaced — by a TSD officer, Cherles Flick, who was “put inside the Listening pore to naintein -Brady was reassigned to other duties striae sfer. ‘the ‘equipment. / Scott took over the project as case BN WON with LIBLEGANT. - He designated Ann Goodpasture ‘to meet Gadling Sica ay iad supervision of the Listening ost, picking up transgr’ ay bates. Goodpasture had no — P a | Mess with the Yexicans) exce peioor: was 11 or out of town. Generally, ; all decisions were made oh te" This was about. ‘late 1961. - YY menory is a little vague about the origins of the Cuban Enbassy but L think the staff first developed from a pro-Castro group. celebrating on New Years eve 1959. As I recall » it was a makeshift arrangerent of volunteers . through most of 1960 end €1 with Tom Hazlitt producing voluminous reports on their activities and recruitirg agents right: and left aaong Cuban nationals in Mexico City. / | 4. Fersonnel ‘assignments. or interest to us now is who was in Mexico during ‘the period prior to Oswald's visit and the subsequent investigation by the ‘Warren Couaission. To deterzine who was there and wnat they were doing I heve grouped rersons tozeth ier chronologically with areas of their assignment covering fron 1950° to 1969 so that 3 nite names cop up, one can tell what tre feriod they were in Mexico and’ their assignments Wat th the tine. SeGhohr woe G000168 - 17
14-00000 . 8/56-6/59 COS . Winston 4. Scott (deceased) DCOS . Ws ~ 7/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) OS J . 10/58 ~ 12/62 | (retired) ; oh 63 - 9/65 Alan White ce (retired) — 10/65 - ~ 1969 Stanley Watson (retired in Mexico) -° > own aes emt COVERT ACETON ’ Prior to 1954\_ Howard Hunt (re tired 3 12/54)~ \- 7 J 28 Wallierd Bill) (resigned) | ‘72786 Stannard Short (retired) Chief - { 9/61 - 3/64 David Phillips 0/(retired) ~ ; 8/62 ~- 9/64 § |Asst —~ 2/64 ~- 6/65 Janes Flannery C/(retired) — 9/64, - 13/66 Harold Dalghren Asst 10/65 - 1967 - Stanley Watson C/(retir ed) ~ f 68 f Joseph Suith(retired in Mexico). CUBA OPERATIONS a of sO 56 — 4/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief : r 2/60 - 4/62 (Jack Stewart (retired Costa Riga R yr 1/63 — 4/65 ‘Bob Shaw Chiat = = 63 ~ 7/65 {Ray Swider } + Tit 10/63 - 5/65 Torta Mackay Conte @h mS Bh - 6/65 David Phill oS Ye 9/65 ~ 10/68 Joseph Piccoli \ 10/65, ~ 12/67 Reser Maggera} | SOVIET TARGET | | 6/57 ~ 10/59 Louise Lyon Cut aasel} 6/62 - ver Prentice Marheine’ (ps) 9/59- 8/65 (Herbert Manell}Chief— — _. | (retired 2) z, 59 ~ 8/65 aie Manell + 7 ' Outside CO 5/64, - 7/66 Willian Bright . cs | £/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann 6/65 - 7/67 Alice Pittinger 7/65 - 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief RO SO RD: GE SE TTEETT CUE MONEE BEDS, SOVIET TPANSCRIBERS 6/56 - 8/58 Morris Gordon (resigned) 6/58 - 6/63 George Misko — 6/63 - 70 ~~ Boris Terasoff (retired in Mexico) ~ e RE EME oe oe 6000169
14-00000 SUPPORT ASSETS (Unilateral phono taps 1949°} 1961 Charles Anderson III Chief en): Outside co 4/55 ~ 4/60 Peggy Fargord)Asst avid WILSTED (ps) . 4/56 - 1/62 Frenk Estancona Chief retired in Mexico~ ” Do 2/60 ~ 10/64, Thomas Keenan 9/64 - 12/67 ilickael Farmer + 080 Oo ERGeGED eG o+2 rere Ce ee eee es {Unilateral} photo Cubans . 6/59 ~ 4/64 Robert Zambernardi (resigned Ke xico) 199 “ 6/62 (peter Fest ar retired) Lo ; —G, ave. "4 Unilateral photo Soviets (/s4 - 1/59 Harry T. Mahoney - (retired Chicago) 5/ 57 = 8/64, A. Goodpasture (alternate. 60 — ; and internal routing) . ah 6/58 - 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retired) _ a VA 6/63 - 10/63 Thomas’ Keenan = x¢ <gehas ' 65 —- 66 William Bright — (Watson shone teps eel an 1959 — 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) 1959 - 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) | 1959 - 1960 (Tarner Smith (outside, now retired) 1959 - 1960 John’ (Training rept resigned) 1960- 1961 John Brady (retired) . 1962 - 1968 A. Geodpasture ~ 1961 ~ 1971 Cherl es Flick (outside TSD Staff Agent - retired) — éyeison-- surveillance _———e Prior 1 Robert fiber (retired) 3/54 — Pky Harry Mahoney (retired) © 1/59 - 1961 Thomas Hazlitt . a 12/62 - 9/67 Robert Feldmann LO . | | } i 'sD Outside unit =“ (/58 - 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — f59 -4/64 Joseph i, Resigno (ps) Unit blown and clesed down - 000170 e* ia ' Ssaterth tess g
14-00000 Absut nid 1962 (check date) LIFIVOY (outside Me xi rept asked Cfor_the}telephone nunvers of the Soviet, Cuban, and Satellite Embassies. With this fore: warning } LIFEAT (Qnitete ral. ral, coverage) was disconnected. as I recall, the Mexicans connected 5 Cuban lines, 5 Soviet lines, 3 Czech, However, ES - : 2 Polish, end 1 Yugoslav line. The basekouse listening post had a live monitor who nade short sunzaries of interesting conversations for a gaily resume vhich was received each day around & a.n. (passed by Flick to Goodrasture to get to Scott before 9.a.n.) Later (when the reel was coapletely Pecorded) full transcripts were typed and passed to the tation in the same vay, however, there was usually 4 2 time lag of a day or so. - "Those transcripts which had ‘Russian or anotlier Language besides Ss anish or English went out of the listening post the day after the e transcript (of other ane eats hao | typed. | These reels | were taken to another ee & were trenslated as sy . and typed. Tn the. case 2 of the Pal Ss Boris Tarasoff usually ran -about a week behind the date x __ussian conversations al ; ae of the Soviet Rube sey. During this SO : ; . period: (fall. of 1963 ). the reels were probably being brought irito the station and carried to Boris. by one of the people from the Soviet Section or they may . . have been carried to him by Flick but I think I brought the reel “in and gave at te Ferbsrt Maneli and his wife Berbera . handled all of the processi:g of Soviet transcripts. Hy job involved screening to take to Boris. the photographs as soon as we learned that the man calling himself Oswald was probably an Anericen, However, here again there was a backlag because the photos were cicked up three tines a week but the oes ricxed up. were usually for dates a few days preficusly because {the doctor proce: sed the film on a- oo comm 9 eam yemED 8 PRREY BRET 9 EORTEAIMDE ep ARSE eyes . ar | . night time basis. Photog grephis were made usually until one roll vas used but ‘later we got it changed to one day coverage on each roll ~ in other words the * bea operators, cleared the camera each day whether there was anyritiimxnxgs a full ~ Ate we Og ema ees Ae onenes . roll of film exposed. Instructions were to cover office hours, photograph each e. oo 0000474.
14-00000 Laeanrs Cf 1 des Bde new Soviet and family, all foreigners and foreign licenee plates, Euman ’ a error did occur but generally the agents were conscientious. The Cuban enbessy coverage had more sorhisticeted equipaent (a pulse casera) but it frequently develoced mechanical difficulties. Bob Zanbarnardi and/Spather ) (I think) handled this film ~ pick “up and delivery. Lorna Ueckay screened _ the film inside the station. i: am ‘certain thet the Oswald call came to our attention from the Soviet line. It was picked uz snd taken to Boris for a transletion because the caller vas trying to speak Russian, Any delay was caused by waiting to : compare the photographs with the typed transcript. There were no copies of | trensoripts cont made in languages other ‘than ‘Spenish or A... because Win reened the 0000172 ry . as OT ainemerie eto npemeeme amarante ei nemat sates are a cece a cemmeate me oye «Onn St meme ma PGR cn cernencmere ote 9 re a ae GEARY one enemy meme | eon ee
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14-00000 this visa, she can conmunicate to whatever place, this permission, for example, here or in any other place fhe) can receive it, but right now they do not have them. DURAN: ..certainly *and neither can (the Cubans) give him a letter because they do not know if the visa will be approved. . . SOVIET: They can-only give the visa according to instructions. DURAN: Then that is what she will put on his application. | SOVIET: Neither can I give him any letter of recommendation because I don't know him and pardon me for bothering you. DURAN: It was no bother, thank you very much. { 27 September 1963, Sovict FE mbassy Chancery 15-61-55 Item 295, page 3 At 1626 hours, A Soviet calls from the Soviet. Embassy Chancery . to the Cuban Consulate and asks for Sylvia DURAN. He asks “DURAN if the american has been there. DURAN: Yes, he is still here. SOVIET: ‘According to the letters that he showed. them from the (soviet) - Consulate in Washington, he wants to go to the USSR to stay a long time with his wife who is Russian, but also the answer had not been received (by him) regarding his problem. That accordingly these transactions take 4 or 5 months but without prior approval from the USSR, they have to request and even then, they could not issue the visa hep ee 4 {in Mexico City) without asking Washington. Yet accor. eS (the American) » °? Showed him a letter i American) is a member of an a not ene and said that the Cubans could not ? the visa without | the Russian visa and now the §$oy ay t know what to do with him, because he has teewatey Washington. 4% \Sd DURAN: ..with them also, be rise is that he doesmqiany is very difficd ho tay thinking of BRURS: sing his visa, because he knew it was going to take Wlong time waiting for the Russian visa in ' Cuba, and then go on to the USSR. SOVIET: ..that the thing is that if his (the American) wife were . * now in Washington (and) going to receive the visa right now or the permission from the USSR to return to her country, (if) she is going to receive her visa in Washington, then having | | L | 0000175 Wargrgs Gpy 2of 7 |) |
information.) oe ia - Item 395, ages 7 and 8 SiS . 27 September 1963, Sovict Embassy Consulate 15-60-55 Item 74, page 2 An unidentified man (speaking Spanish) calls the Soviet Embassy Consulate at 1037 hours and asks for. the Consul. He is told that the Consul is not there. The unidentified man asked what is needed _to get visas to go to Odessa. He is told to call back at 1130 hours. Item 137, page 2 ‘At 1235 hours a man named ALATRISTE (not a Soviet) from inside the Soviet Embassy Consulate calls out to number 45-37-72 (Colonial America, probably a pension or hotel but number not listed in the telephone directory) and speaks with a man named SAN ROMAN. ALATRISTE says that he is in the Russian Embassy and they need to know what day the boat "KALONIA" will arrive in Odessa, that the Soviets will also need copies of the passenger manifest. eee (One concludes that ALATRISTE and SAN ROMAN are intone CPigsontarives for the boat "KALONIA", and needed routine visa Ass First a call was made to the first listing for the Sexe Mexican telephone directory (which turned ou . They got the phone number for the Consulate aoe “address. After . ‘making a call to the Consulate rae ecrna ne th until 1130 hours, ALATRISTE wen healtiress to get the needed Just after 1600 -¥ Soviet Consulate received a call from the Cuban Consulate (Sylvia DURAN) who said she had there a U.S. citizen who had requested a transit visa to Cuba because he is going to the USSR. DURAN wants to know with whom he spoke at the Soviet Embassy because she sent him over to them telling him that if the Soviets approved the visa then the Cubans would give him one without anything more, advising the (Department of) Immigration in Cuba. She wants to know with whom he spoke because he says that he doesn't know either with what person and who told him that certainly there would be no problem.. The Soviet asks DURAN to wait a minute. After a. short wait DURAN explains the same thing to another Soviet. This Soviet tells her to leave her telephone (number) and her,name and someone will: return the call. DURAN gives her name and telephone - number 11-28-47 then says as a personal thing, she has moved and ' has not advised them of a change of address so will not receive their Bulletin and can give it to them now. The Soviet asks her to call KOUKHARENKO in order to change that address and asks for the name of the (Cuban) Cultural Attache. DURAN says it is Teresa PROENZA whose number is 14-13-26. The Soviet thanks her. | COG 175 cy in the ae Military Attache).