14-00000 ‘New additions to the Embassy staff can be tabbed as KGB or | SECRET \ = Deo third national contacts of the Soviets, “| from which we must select and develop . ; \ , the access agents so vital to our oper- ot ations against the Soviet human target. ; LIEMPTY also provides us with a much : ‘@learer picture of the inner relation- | ; ships and activity patterns within the , Soviet mission itself, which in turn facilitates effective targeting. The 1 CE value of a LIEMPTY type project as a monitor of real and potential agent ; contacts is of course obvious. It is : - i ft important to note that LIEMPTY is not, as might be the case in stations of lesser overall capability, a simple , ease of photogsraphy (or observation) . for the record, Rather it is an import- fo. ant facet of a concerted high priority : effort to -get at and recruit individual Soviets," b. Station reporting has been in a similar vein. Information produced is largely for operational purposes and we often lack detail as to specific utility in a given situ- ation, although we can produce statistics on numbers of photo- graphs produced and numbers of pages of surveillance notes. It is clear that the FBI is an interested customer and they haye received from LIEMPTY a great many reports on American callers at the Soviet Embassy, and valuable support to double agent operations, . ce. During a conversation on 8 December 1967, the officer who heads the station's SB section told the branch that. LIENMPTY is basic and essential to all of his branch's operational Planning, that he “grabs the LIEMPTY material first thing in the morning" and studies it for leads, evidence of which Soviet officers have been in the Embassy ana which ones have been away, whe has used which car, who has been talk- ing to whom or going out of the building with whom, etc. etc, GRU by their associates, their activity patterns and the cars they drive. (The 1.8. men are often away from the Embassy, : while the legitimate FSO's tend to spend more time in their offices, The KGB, GRU and regular diplomatic groups seldom cross lines but stay within their own tight groups.) When ; SECRET
14-00000 . “SECRET & . ~3- “double agents are turned over from one case officer.to a new one, known to them only in alias, we are often able, through surveillance and photographs, to establish the true identity of the new case officer, as was done in the case of AEGIMMICK in the spring of 1967. . 4. %(In assessing the security of the operation, the station assumes that the Soviets realize that they are being - watched, as was.evidenced by a Soviet officer's trying to @hield-an FBI-directed walk-in from observation. There have been rumors that anyone entering the Soviet Embassy is photo- graphed, but no allegations that the Americans are doing it have come to our attention; the probable assumption is that the Mexicans are doing this. A former source who lives in the neighborhood was asked on several occasions what he knew _ about LIBMPTY/6, one of the safchousekeepers, and the Soviets have said they think he is watching them. On the security of the LICALLA safehouse there is a difference of opinion, GERENDE, the outside case officer, thinks the Soviets are aware that they are being observed from this post, but station disagrees and produces good justification for its views, cit- ing the fact that the above-mentioned FBI walk-in was not shielded when led into the back garden which LICALLA overlooks, We ‘have no evidence that Soviet interest is any threat to the operation; rather it may be assumed that they accept the sur~ veillance as a fact of life. liam V. Broe Chief, Western Hemisphere Division SECRET SPR
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1g 00000 1, ne PROJECT Lismery REQUEST FOR RENEWAL | o @ p . \ - CURRENT OBJECTIVES a A. The overall objective of Preject LIEMPTY, now in ita tenth year of existence, is to collect operational information on the FJSTEAL installation, its personnel and visitors, as well as related targets of opportunity through stationary/mobile photo- graphic and physical surveillance mechanisms, Corollary . ebjectives which are to be fulfilled through use of the LIEMPTY installations, mechanisms and, personnel are as follow: \ 1. To provide detailed operational information pertaining to the daily movements and activities of the FJSTEAL personnel, particularly those individuals of intelligence interest, as well as information on the FJSTEAL physical Plant and visitors to the premises, 2. To collect operatioual information on persons associated with FJSTFEAL persounel and on individuals known or suspected to have connections with the FJSTEAL intelligence services or other hostile groups which are inimical to the interests of LNFORT. 3. To provide operational support, counter surveillance and/or other protective services to WOFIRM personnel and operations, as may be levied upon the Station or as may be deemed necessary. B, The above objectives dee to be fulfilled through continued maintenance and exploitation of the LIMITED, LILYRIC and LICALLA basehouses, the LIENTRAP mobile unit, and the services of long- time contract agent, Raymond H, GERENDE. These objectives are in consonance with operational directives and Headquarters requirements as received by Station Mexico City. ; C. Throughout the Project year under review, Project LIEMPTY continued to contribute directly and significantly to the fulfil- lment of Station and Headquarters' requests and requirements for coverage of various targets falling within the above cited frame- work, During the project year Project LIEMPTY provided nearly all of the operational photographs and physical surveillance reports used in Mexico City Station's operations targeted against the FJSTEAL installdtion and personnel. Specific examples of the LIEMPTY Project's progress and contributions will be found in Section 3 below (EFFECTIVENESS),