404-10427-10090 CONFIDENTIAL. ‘SUBJECT: List of CIA Material Requested, But Not Reviewed, | by the HSCA (U) * sab A @. OP/DOA: Doris Houdesheldt compiled the list attached csp cf OLC; Susan Kessler compiled the Ist attached as Hazel K. Kearney Distribution: Original ~ Addressee 1 = DDA/RMO ] = RAB Subject 1 - RAB Chrono POASISAS/RAB/JW/ad 15 December 1978 CONFIDENTIAL.
1300000 CONFIDENTIAL C OP Files Available but not Reviewed to Date — LAGLEY, Tennent 'Pete't PERCE, William V. BUSTOS, Charlotte COBS, Viola June FLORES, Daniel rOX%, Jerome E. JUNES, Robert E, cArL, Samuel G. KEENAN, Thomas J. acNT, William M. KIMSEY, Herman I-YNCH, Grayston MILER, Newton S. MORALES, David S. MURPHY, David E. MC CORD, James WARNIEG NOTICE - “ INTELLIGENCE SOURCES AND METHODS INVOLVED C0 -OLC Number - 78-1565 78-0443/1 78-2060/2 78-0433/1 78-1455/1 78-2185/1 78-2475 78-2845/1 78-0433/1 78-2060/2 78-0070/16 78-3481/3 78-2434/5 78-2098 78-1035/1 78-1069 78-0070/40 78-1565/1 78-2735/1 78-0448/1 78-1035 78-2439/1 NFIDENTIAL 78-0070/40 — _ Letter Dated 29 March 1978 & 3 May 1978 | 2 March 1978 § 25 May 1978 ~ 2 March 1978 & 5 April 1978 14 June 1978 & ll July 1978 31 July 1978 2 March 1978 § 25 May 1978 16 February 1978 28 November 1978 Oral request (7) 11 August 1978 6 June 1978 8 & 15 March 1978 29 March 1978 § 3 May 1978 1 August 1978 6 & 8 March 1978 28 June 1978 Oral request by. ..Betsy Palmer... 24 May 1978 DERIVATIVE CL BY __, 000612 Opec. H revwon _!9 bec. 1998 DERIVED FROm___A9c5.2 me TAT tA eo tre Pfreceafet
13-00000 (CONFIDENTIAL NAME S'NEAL, Birch D. PICCOLO, Joseph S. OMITH, Joseph B. TLCHBORN | WHEELER, Robert P WIGREN, Lee H. WCODS, James S. [_ ZAMBERNARDI, Robert / OLC Number  78-2834/1 | 78-2845/1 78-0070/16 78-2475 78-0433/1 78-2060/2 78-0070/40 78-0433/1 78-~2060/2 78-0433/1 78-2488 Letter Dated Oral Request (7). 25 § 31 July 1978 16 February 1978 ll July 1978 2 March 1978 § 30 May 1978 29 March 1978 Oral Request by Betsy Palmer 24 May 1978 2 March 1978 §& 25 May 1978 2 March 1978 §& 6 July 1978
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18700000. nn ¢ a ¢ £0 Fed 77 Seurce: Hotes made sy A. Gsodyesture for John Leeder, IG Staff WW Suoject: Background on Hexico Stetig os ssets (Coverage of Soviet A SS l. coverage. GR G tHe gin Stetion vas opened in , | “hoy Bill Doyle) =e of Win Scott as COS in 1958, Charles Anderson III (staia in LA/HQ).h developed & support apparatus ta exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy. This unbrella type project (La LIFEAT) - consisted of - miltd Line phone taps, . three photo antes a mobile surveillance . team and a mail, intercept operation. - 7 2. Fhone taps were placed ae it. “who vas hendlea by David WILSTED (pseudo). The nunber of Lines - tapped vas Limted Pty availability of a Vstening . ost nearby (since the taps were not rade in the +N, English/ Spanish (Soviet, Polish, ee Hey | oiertbers, Generally : ASN these agents (nostly, RNR rete Ancrican) were relat bed ewe ** ae (chick the ne cus et WOR, time felt was good security in that af they te %ed about shop,” they would talk to each other.) b. Three photo sites were handled by 7 indersin with the kelp of Harry Mehoney (retire AGE Gre Chicago) end TDY TSD people che eC ce We e at nie: LIFEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIG, end LICALIA) pave iN fixed site bang opposite across of camera, film, and concealment devices. the street from the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy which had both a vehicle and foot entrance, The Soviet gate was on the NorthUest corner.of their compound end LIMITED was diagonally a@cress 2a double barrelled “lean on the Southozs Ta PAGE 2319 319 | | at | COPY NO. ‘TEK-OSb Ke cos EERE Copy 20Ff 7 | a CAB)
13-00000 . the Station got word I on this site). . LILYRIC was planned es an alternate photo base to LIMITED. | Mexican families) as far as ve knew, were not acquainted with each other, on : which the Mexico Station ee en < Anan 395! “(check date) 3 also using 4 - 'Ovpary - 27 OMEGRET that block. LINITSD was the first bese ard it cnerated strictly on an ex erinentc]l basis in the early stages. I think the Mex Station bought one storey this property (2/Sranish Colonial s Git hrough LIMOUSINE (check to be sure). Later this hou at This base was closed when — 2 ae £) «go was being released to the Fhoto operators were moved to another apt puolic by the Warren Coznis nearby. The property. was sold owe an operational agreement with LIZOUS DE for a long term lease on the top floor of a new apartment blding to te built It was in aa upper storey (3ra floor —check) on the sane side of the street 2s LIMITED but in tke middle of the block South. It had a slantdéd view of the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy. The agents in LEITED and LILYRIC (both LILYRIG was a rented apartaent, LICALLA, “the third Rag es) was located ce Ws ah in one of a row of four houses on the Sout 2 GRE het Exbassy compound a 4% . ‘eat LE MOUSINE as the purcha wel any oe ‘this site overlooked the back garden or the Soviet Embassy ts The purnose of this operetion vas to get good identificeta ion photographs of the Soviet sersonnel (vho at thet time were largely unidentified in Mexico Station records), The three photo sites were handled by Remon Alvarez \(Me fexican citizen of U.S. mother Ranon | AMUN ta qpldeutodechininttion fron LIATTED and LILYRIC three vine aggnn iN sis “gel | |. ct print strips. The raster plan developed end printed in was for LICALLA film to ve \pr ig d inside 7 3D man from 1957 to 1959 [| (| i resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed film began sy to accumulate, the inside CO (Mahoney) became disgusted and taok the filn out for Ramon's orather~in-lay to process (srovably early 1959). Thus Raton became the ha: adler Yor all three photo ree A sensitive staff D monitoring operation b EERET ’ bw cee ge commen eamrw sm: arene poemeniens ay came s 9° “peapmmap EERE RERETOT pan c00stl PAGE, 232, * alge COPY NO.
another one of these houses (crypt for the four houses was a was run out of LIST, 1, etc). This was ha:dled by. Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer) and Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring, This operation vas also separate fron LICALLA. The two houses in betueen vere re to uns astecting tenants. c¢, wobile frie cn oy Anderson and leter placed. teen consisted of ea nelft under ? as sod EL . dozen. or so agent TAR AY Y 2e to Tour late model cars end 2 panel, truck (snien could be used on stake_outs for photo covera-e). The plan s was to activate this group by radio (from LISITED BASE) ; . Soviet : . ween someone of interest left the/Enbassy gate and stay with then until they made their meetings. These agents mew about the LE MLTED | ESE bet cause they had LIXITED photos for identifi cation purposes. | . ‘ This’ worked fairly well until about the niddle of 1958 (check date) when one of the surveillance ezents got too Parent <A was terget and Ne Hexican Secret Service, Cel a Stetion could arrange through — a cleared attorneygte: ae 2? out ; the agent: had identified Sancho (who wes ves arrested by the Mexican acre Lae over to the 7 evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Shaw) ang, the inside-— ---[ . phone nunber of Mahoney (vho was subsequently replaced by Louis Puckett). ‘As a result of this flap, ni LIFEAT project was broken up into several others. neste not changed but vere given Frank aw : replaced Andersdn in handling new crypts. /& the unilateral one < (at Mahoney and handled the surveillance team Nes and the photo bases through Remon. | ad. LISIGHT wes the crypt used for a unilateral (originally) mail intercept handled by Charlie Anderson III, | j
1300000. kv ee eg hedp el ee em ee ee oe} emg sme e GI let BX Dee od ef ~ . 7, $4 z ain j as obo Bas 2 Q His case officers SlZonso Spera, vere lnter/Puckett, Rovert Feldzann, end Alan White. Lo 2e Llaison coverage’ was unreliable and insecure as characterise d by the nature or the Mexican services at thet tire. Tr | with wnich ve ee foreigners and a. in ~ aN stablished contact with. one of then Vine or its tire on control of reir azents were vicious, venal, corrupt extortionists - | [aeter LIFIRE group) in about 1950 or 51. He geve then some training (a group of about five surveillance tyes) j vere poorly organi zed and often inaccurate, How a infornet Son was developed but it could: not ey ey replaced s { )mesigneaasih Noosa Age xico) » Mahoney, Thomas Poe AN ahi Hazlitt, and Rovert Feldmant& Bie ee Hh, tw ow) SY eo During 1958, vt cott met socially some of the!] i . | During this period, the U.S, Anbassador Robert CG, Hill (reflecting the policy of then Sec State J. F. Dulles) _ << was energetic in organizing groups to "fight communism". One of these seeds ° grew into a epee [ | ms - TT! oo project (LIZIVOY) wen an years of a shakedown, ELEGAS = enced, old, and greedy. Eis son (LIEVOY-2) vas a a eceit and corruption. LISLEGANT also A » manipuleted control over the principal esert of LIBIGET rail intercept. The first case officer was-Alfonso Spera inside with | iKreti ired) outside . ani Jokn (TSD training officer for surveillence’ and head of the listening post where thirty televhone lines would connect as well as a transcri stion roon [eh — wo abate td L
13-O0000., he ee teres oe ce Unheetee et  a ae e an : tam ae eee % 2 @. s ‘ svaifed fc; initially the station ‘tried to aet every demand made by the Mexicans.’ Both] Pena Jonn hed lencvage difficulties and were virtuelly uncontrollaule 3 AA cersenal problems associated with being outside the ststiog So thet the Mexicans pleased, squirrelling away . g Wy t of the in inthe ~ argal . aa @ wanted. Ssera was replaced f@ same pincer rovexent of having Scott equipzent ‘at enormous co ne production of tronseriptaw b ON approve a request by LIBLEGAST that Brady had turned dow by the son, LIBSVOY-2. by Jack Brady vo found hinsdLt\ Sy Finally when the cost became exhorbitant and there was Litt tle to show for it, the project was revarped. [lena John returned to the U.S. and were replaced | by a TSD officer, Charles Flick, who was “put inside the Listening post to nadntadi -Brady was reassigned to other duties rendirg a, sfer. the equipnent. / Scott took over the project as cese peace is with LIELEGAIT. | He designated Ann Goodpasture to neet deiting vane BR ea yor i routine supervision of the liste nin 4 post, picking up prot er ahs bid Goodpasture hed no dealings with the Mexicans: except Bien Sent 4 was i11 or out of toun. Cenerally, - all decisions were made GE hse was about. ‘late 1961.- . “3. uy memory isa Little vague about the origins of the Cuban Enbassy but I think the staff first developed from a pro-Castro group celebrating on New : Years eve 1959. As I recall, it was a makeshift arrangement of volunteers | through most of 1960 and al with Ton Hazlitt producing voluzinous reports cn their activities and recruitirg ezenis right a enong Cuban netionals in Mexico City. qua a oo 4. Personzel | assignmer egal! est to laa is who was in Mexico during eauens investiscation by the the period prior to Osi TN 2 MN ruent I igati ¥ warren Commission. To act ©o ves there and what they were doing I heve grovped rersons toz rether chronologically with areas of their assignaent | 4 as the covering fron 1950) ito 1969 so that Siamkeer names vop Up, one can tell what -tot . ee Feriod they were in Mexico ana heir reslsnments nat the tine. 8 ” PAGE 235 os 319 . COPY NO. — 1?
e : tee te RS ee ee eee ~ = Seen Seem teem, 8/5%-6/59 COS Winston 4. Scott (deceased) Docs _ 7/56 - 7/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) . . 10/58 - 12/62, Mretirea) : 6/63 - 9/65 Aen White (retired) — 10/65 - ~ 1969 Stanley Wetson (retired in Hexico) - i . t) COVERT ACTION . ' Prior to 1954 \_Eouard Bint (retired) — ° 12/54 = 7/53 (resigned) 12/56 ~ 9/61 Stannard Short (ret Tay | Chief | 9/61. — 3/64 David Phim x bl . 8/62 -— 9/64 fASSt =~ rai 2/64 ~- 6/65 Janes Flanoner; 9/é4 - 11/66 Harold Dalghre 10/65 — 1967 - Stanley Watson\GAXbetir ed). . 66 — 68° en Te, 68 -— 71. retired in Mexico) | . - So CUBA OPERATIC IS - oe ; . ol po . - 56 - 1/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief ye oe 2/60 — 4/62 . (retired Costa » Riga ws whe 4/63 ~ 4/65 Bob Shaw Chief _ of aie 9/63 - 1/65 aie a\N) 9/65 — 19/68 Joseph Picco aN 10/65. - 12/67 SOVIET TARGET 7 0/63 — 5/65 Torna Mackay y Coates ai por oe ; . hg - 6/65 Davia PilLig ae Ped) lL. So 7 } | 6/57 ~ 10/59 Louise Is yon Gat aas cl} 6/62 - 1/67 Preatice Karheine’ (2) 9/59- 8/65 Harbert Manell Chief — ved ay 9/59 - 8/65 Barbsra Menell — 5/64, - 7/66: Willian Bright ot . 4/65 — 11/67 Cynthia Hausmenn _ | e/65 - W) 7/67 Alice Pittinger x 7/65 - 4/69 Paul Dillon mea SOVIET TPENSORTRERS 6/56 ~ 8/58 Morris Gordon earow 6/58 ~.6/63 George Misko — 6/63 - 79 Boris Tarasoff (retired in Mexico) ~ oo ef a PAGE 236. 31319 COPY NO.
13-00000. ise ee AG ee ae ee SUPPORT ASSETS Inilateral phono teps Qo 1961 Charles Anderson III Chier 49-71, tside co. | ; . 55 4/60 ae Asst TED (ps) : '56/~ 31/62 FSERE Estancone Chief in Mexico- F * ‘60 ~ 10/62 Thomas Keenan — \\ 64 - 12/67 liickael Farm er x a go ~ Lf/64 Robert Zanbernardi SS ened Moxico) ° + OM a PepEREEE @ +29 rag Sena as OF 6 ap lateral :photo Cubans oo 39 - 6/62 TSD (retired) - Slaterel. photo Soviets ; . 5h ~ 4/59 Harry T . Mahoney - «56 ~ 68 Ouse gent 7 (reta red Chicago) Remon 1 Ae coca ie gned in Me rico) 57 - (8/64 O24 A. Goodvasture (alternate CO — Cuaap aN and internal routing) . ah ESS 58 — 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retired) | _es Gey 63 ~ 1o/6éZ Thomas Keenan =~ pee oo : 65 - 66 William Bright © Ew ° . oo, a .2iSon \phone ‘teps - . 7 oe ; oe 7 ; a ; Te . . 59 - 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) re 7 mt sO- 1961 John Brady (retired) 59 - 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) : . 39 —- 1960 | ‘(outside, now retired) a _ oy 59 -— 1950 ° (Training rept resigne a ce 32-1968 A, Gcodpasture — oo mo 3. - 1971 Cherles Flick "ee a 2ison + surveillance | ° a wow 4 — &, Care ee te 99 —~ 1961 Thomas Hazlitt - '62 — 9/67 Robert Feldinann ) Gutside unit 5 ~ 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — ; 9 -4/54 ssepr il. Rescigno (vs) Uait blown and elesed doen | ene LP - SeGG+39 ° toe A Ate ad jet 2 y  gobse2t "PAGE 237 2187 COPY NO.
1838-00000 | _-Russian conversations ofae Be Vombers of the ‘Soviet Exbassy. During this > a . handled 211 of the processiug of Soviet AW: Hy job involved screening _ . . Sener ao oe wt te About nid 1962 (check date) Lifterg utside } Mexi rept ashed | for the telephone numsers of the Soviet, WS nd Satellite Esbassies, With this forewarning, LIFEAT Os; as I recall, the Mexicans co 2 Polish, and i Yugoslav “<S nonitor Who nede short “oo niteresting | Conversations for 2a caily CO “2s Gisconnected, However, a AN 5 Soviet tines, 3 Czech, | Se listening post had a live resume- which was received each day aroucd § a.n, . (passed by Flick to Cso0dr. rasture to get to. Scott before 9. a.n.) Later (when the reel was completely recorded) full transcripts were typed ard passed to the station in the same vay, however, there was “usuatly 2 time lag ox a day or so, - ’ Those transcripts which hdd Russien or anoth er lenguege besides Spanish or English vent out of the listening 2 s post the day after the transer ript (of other conversations 25 of GEN reel)vas typed. These reels were taken to another rocet ign Og HE} ere translated end typed. In the case of the meets tiene? Boris Tarasoff usually ran eee VeASwversation because of the volte of about a week behind the date. “period (fe12, of 1963). a reels were probably being brought into 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 it to Eervert Manel] to take to Boris. Herbert Heneli and his wife Berbara _ the photogragks as soon as we leerned + ones calling hinself Oswald was | | \\ ay << Sabackles because the  — ° weel we riexed up were usu2ll ss) x probably an en. However aN photos were ricked up v0 ei for dates a few days preio Froce:sed the film ona night time besis, Fhotozraphs were made usually until one roll vas used but later we got it chenzed to one day coverage on each roll - in other words the fo operators’ leare d the casera each day vrether there Was anyngiinxxg: a full roll of film exposed. Instructions: were to cover office hours, photozrach each YO +0. one ages. arromag omememes hye epaone himadteee ema thetends oo e . a+ e . PAGE 238 913 29 COPY NO.
13-00000  .. 4 ce a ‘ 3 3 ‘ . ® © 0 OnQURRERTEEEERSGIDREENERE ENGR sap * nev Soviet and fanily, all foreigners end foreign lieenee plates. Funan error did occur but generally the egents vere gonscientious. The Cuban enbessy coverege had more sorhisticeted e (a pulse cavera) but it 2s. b Zenbarnerdi ena] (I think) handled this filn WW S\N ay. Lorna teckay screezed the film inside the stati | wv) I am certain that HQ ‘ald call came to our attention from the frequently develosed mechanical di Soviet line. It was picked up end teken to Boris for a translation 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 trensericts: everf made in languages other than Spanish or Faglish because Win Scott could read only thoce tvo languages erd ke sgh G reened the . Qh . transcripts for operational leads he vee BY Sede” : ae : a\S PAGE 239 of 319" COPY NO. 7 aa [