13-00000 ear eia PRORIBITED that block. LIMITED was the first bese and it enerated strictly on an 4 av erimentcl besis in the early stages, I think the ifexi Station bought one svorey this property .(a/Sranish Colonial stone house) through LINOUSIE (check to be sure). Later this house began to fall apart. This base was closed when the Station got vord thet the photo of "uniden man" was being released to the public by ‘the Warren Commission. The photo operators were moved to another apt | nearby. The property was sold (under an operational agreement with LIMOUSINE | for a long term lease on the top floor of a new apartment blding to be built | on this site). LILYRIC was planned 2s an alternate photo base to LIMITED. ‘It was in an upper storey (3rd floor -check) on ‘the same side of the street as LIMITED but in the middle of the block South. It had a slantéd view of the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy. The azents in LIMITED and LILYRIC (both Mexican families) as far as we knew, were not acquainted with each other, LILYRIG was a rented apartnent. LICALLA, the third Bhgts. “alts, oy) “was located - in one of a row of four houses on the Sout seer tis. Soviet Embassy compound which the Mexico Station purchase @ bose, #1958 (check date), also using ~ | | { LIMOUSINE as the curchgaei ties em ‘This Bite overlooked the back garden of the Soviet Enbassy consid. The purpose of this operation vas to get good identification photographs of the Soviet sersonnel (who at thet time were largely unidentified in Mexico Station records). Tre three photo sites were handled by Remon Alvarez (Mexican citizen of U.S, mother who taught elenentary level at the American School). Ramon collected the film epkiie=tesiepewetetm from LIMITED and LILYRIC three times a week. His sister's husband, Carlos (Mexican doctor) developed and printed the film into 8x10 contact print strips. The master plan ee C was for LICALLA film to ve processed. faside 18D nan £ from. 1957 to 1959 (Harper Folt - resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed filn began to accumulate, the inside co (iahoney) decane disgusted and took the film out. for Ramon's brother-in-law to process (probatly early 1959). Thus Ramon became _the handler for all three photo hases. A sensitive staff D monitoring operation _ EBECRET Re ge ene ee se ee nanan a gs 9
13-00000 SECRET, -~35 7 1 LES: tl was run out of another one of these houses Corypt for the four -Rouses was LIEUST,1, etc}, This was hardled by Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer) and Vahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. -This operation was also separate from LIS - The two houses in between were rented to unsustecting tenants. c. liobile surveillance ° vas developed by Anderson and later nlaced “under Mahoney and Joseph Sancho. This team consisted of a half . dozen, or so agents who used three to four r late model cars end a panel truck (which could be used on stake _outs for photo covera:e). . The plan w was to activate this group by radio (from LIMITED BASE) ; sovee . wren someone of interest left the/Embassy gate and stay with then until they made their meetings. These agents knew about the LIAITED (SAGE befause they had LISITE vhotos for identification purposes. | .This vorked fairly well until about the middle of 1958 (check date) when one of the surveillance agents got too _eloga’ > his target and was arrested by the Mexican transit pale a ead “dened over to the aa ‘Mexican Secret Service. © Pee ‘ime, nd se Station could arrange through | a cleared oe ait out (Judd Austin of the Goodrich, on eae Little and Riquét Arken), the agent. had identified Sancho (who was evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Shaw) and the inside--~ —- | phone number of Mahoney (who vas subsequently replaced by Louis — Puckett). As a result of this flap, the LIFEAT project was broken up into several others. The agents were not changed but were given. new erypts. /estancona and Peggy Naggard replaced AndersGn in handling the unilateral phone taps. Puckett replaced Mahoney and handled the surveillance team (LIENTRAF) and the photo bases through Remon. d. LIBIGHT was the crypt used for a unilateral (originally) mail intercept handled by Charlie Anderson III, The agent (Mexican) had. a semi official status and arranged to obtain selected letters from TERT - 0000166: REPRODUCTION — - PROGIBITED. PRORIBIVED veonmowee ge cameeeres epee ine NEE ER TIS EERE CRIM hd Nn AE OEE ERE PH
13-00000 REPRODUCTION. es | 7 : 0000167  onPTE / po es erge paw Yt bey nual br Le del ed, a sub-agent in the vostal system {I think at the airscrt}. His case officers Alfonso Spera, were lster /Packett, Rovert Felduann, end Alan Whi 26 Llaison coverage was unreliable and insecure as characterized by the nature or the Mexican services at thet time. The Mexican DFS (Direction of Tederal Security) with which we dealt was & hip pocket sroun run out of the ilinistry . Of Govirnment. “This itinistry srent a major part of its time on control of foreigners and political investigations, Their azents vere vicious, venal, corrupt extortionists. Robert Helberg established contact with one of them ae Levine De Leon (later LIFIRE group) in about 1950 or ale He geve them some wee gS Ge training (a group of about five surveillance types) in travel control vorking the airsort.as well as Tile searches of names from DFS } Eotrs where the files “4 ~S. were poorly crganized and often inaccurate, Now and % when’, “poxtver, some useful ae information vas developed but it could not ve cefetiea upon. Melberg was replaced by Phil Eoettinger. Crestgpaaen renained in Mexico), Mahoney, Thomas a , aie Glisn, > w Hazlitt, and Robert Feldnaaiti € AL During 1958, Quebcott met socially some of the chronies of the Mexican President elect, Adolfo Lopez Mateos. During this period, the J.S. . Ambassador Robert C. Hill (reflecting the policy of then Sec State JAF. Dulles) was energetic in orgenising groups to “fight communism . One of these seeds : grew into a proposal Miguel Aleman (jr. son of former Mexi President), acting for Lorez Mateos, made to Win Scott for a joint telephone tan operation. This project (LIENVOY) went through about four distressing years of a shakedown. The Mexican in control (LIELEGANT) was inexperienced, old, and greedy. His . gon (LIE!VOY~2) was a masterpiece of deceit and corruption, LISLEGANT also manipulated cortrol over ‘the principal agent of LIBIGHT maid intercept. The first case officer was-Alfonso Spera inside with Turner Smi ith (ret ired) outside and Jokn - (TSD training officer for surveillance and head of the listening post where thirty telechone lines would connect as well es a transcript ton room e ae) pal res ; PRORIBITED — le
13-00000 “ REPRODUCTION PRORIBITED _<- SEGRET. sta: walfed cy Ho-icen army officers.) Initially the station ‘tvied to n.et every demand made by the Mexicans. Both Smith end John hed language difficulties and cersonal protlems associated with being outside the stetion so thet the Hexicans were virtually uncontrollavle, spendi ¢ msney as they pleased, squirrelling away equipment at enormous costs, and neglecting their pert of the bargain in the production: of. ‘transcripts or placing taps which we wanted. Szera was replaced by Jack Brady who found himself in the same pincer movement of having Scott approve 4 request by LIELEGANT that Brady had turned down by the son, LIETYOY-2. Finally when the cost became exhorbitant and there was little to show for it, the project was revamped. Smith and John returned to the U.S. and were replaced by a TSD officer, Churles Flick, who was “put inside the listening post to nalrbain -Brady was reassigned to other duties rending a.transfer. the equipnent. / Scott toox over the project as case officgn eting with LIELEGANT. st He designated Ann Goodpasture to meet dailing vitin ai Sor routine supervision of the Listening post, pickin 1g up transqptpts: ang betes. Goodpasture hed no nth dealingswith the Mexicans exce miter Scott was ill or out of town. Generally, . a all decisions were made Re This was about. ate 1961. - “3. My memory is a little vague about the origins of the Cuban Embassy 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 arrangenent of volunteers through most of 1960 and 61 with Tom Hazlitt producing voluminous reports on ‘their activities and recruitirg agents right and left eanong Cuban nationals in 'Hexico City. he ‘Personnel assignments. Of interest to us now is who was in Mexico during the period prior to Oswald's visit and the subsequent investigation by the Warren Commission. To determine who vas there and wnat they were doing I have grouped persons tozether chronologically with areas of their assignnent covering from 1950 to 1969 so that atten names pop up, one can tell what i el period they were in Mexico and their assignments “at th the tine. SECRET, ge ec eG ETN & eatin senna Aen oom = -
13-00000 . . ae REPRODUCTION ty wt i] & T 8/56-6/69 COS Winston 4. Scott (deceased) DCCS _ 7/56 - 7/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) - 10/58 ~ 12/62 (retired) 6/63 - 9/65 Nien White (retired)— 10/65 - 1969 Stanley Watson (retired in Mexico) — COVERT ACTION | ; _? Prior to 1954 Howard Hunt (retired) 12/54 - 7/53 Williard Hill (resigned) 12/56 - 9/61 Stannard Short. (retired) . . ' Ghief - i 9/61 - 3/64 David Phillips 6/ (retired) — 8/62 ~ 9/64 JAsst — 2/84 - 6/65 James Flannery C/(retired) — 9/64 - 11/66 Harold Dalghren Asst 10/65 - 1967 Stanley Watson C/({retired) —_ 66 —- 68 . 68 - 71 Joseph SmithG(retired in Mexico) CUBA OPERATIONS 56 ~ 4/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief 2/60 - 4/62 . Jack Stewart (retired Costa R 4/63 - 4/65 Bob Shaw Chief — 9/63 - 7/65 Ray Swider - ~ ape 10/63 - 5/65 Lorna Mackay (ne, cakes, 8/63 - 6/65 David Philliggs 9/65 - 19/68 Joseph Picco 10/65. - 12/67 Peggy Magear SOVIET TARGET , 6/57 ~ 10/59 Louise Lyon Gatirsel} 6/62 ~ 1/67 Prentice Marheine (ps) 9/59- 8/65 Herbert ianell Chief — _ (retired ?) " 9/59 - 8/65 Parbara Manell — , ' Outside CO’ 5/64, - 7/66 Willian Bright . - 4/65 ~ 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann 6/65 ~ 7/67 Alice Pittinger 7/65 - 4/69 Paul Dillon Chief be SOVIET TPANSCRIBERS oe oo 6/56 - 8/58 Morris Gordon (resigned) . 6/58 - 6/63 George Misko — 6/63 - 70 Boris Tarasoff (retired in Mexico) ~ CPnns [CECRET, en aie rem ere Merce co aoe pin ernest neerereee mtremn wn ranean ater 0000169 —
13-00000 PROWISITED SUPPORT ASSETS Unilateral phono taps | 949 - ~ 1961 Cherles Anderson III Chief 49-71 7 Outside CO tise - 4/60 Peggy Mazgord Asst David WILSTED (ps) . 4/56 —1/62 Frenk Estancona Chief retired in Mexico: ” > 2/60 ~ 10/64, Thomas Keenan — ; 9/64 - 12/67 Hickael Farmer ee arr Unilateral photo Cubans 6/59 - 4/64 Robert Zembernardi (resigned Mexico) 7/59 ~ 6/62 Richard Ssathar TSD (retired) Unilateral photo Soviets 3/54 ~ 4/59 Harry T. Mahoney 56 ~ 68 Cubs keent Ro (retired Chicako) Remon 1 Alwabas trasi gned in Mexico). |.- 5/57 - 8/64 A. Goodpasture (alternate CO — — and internal routing). 6/58 ~ 6/63 Louis D. Puckett _Getired) | 6/63 - 10/62 Thomas’ Keenan =~ Robert Haig gal | 65 - 66 William Bright Tage Ss caoe as Liaison phone taps 1959 ~ 1969 Winston Scott (deceased) | 1959 ~ 1960 Alfonso Spera (retired) | 1959 - 1960 Turner Smith (outside, now retired) | 1959 - 1960 John’ (Training rept resigned) 1960- 1961 John Brady (retired) | 1962 - 1968 A. Goodpasture -- | 1961 - 1971 Cherles Flick (outside TSD Staff Agent - retired) — | 1 5 j Lyaison ~ surveillance Prior 1954 Robert Helberg (retired) 3/54 - 4/59 Farry Ma ahoney. (retired) 4/59 ~ 1961 Thomas Hazlitt 12/62 ~ 9/67 Robert Feldinann TSD Gutside unit 7 4/58 - 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — 6/59 -4/64 Jssepk i. Resigno (ps) Unit blown and elcosed down °° ms a? sky. hen Pati MEPS Ott ee oem me me ae
13-00000 REPRODUCTION ame - SECRET bet HI About nid 1962 (check dete) LIESVYOY outside Mexi rept asked oe \ for the telephone nunbers of the Soviet, Cuban, and Satellite Enbassies With this forewarning, LIFEAT (unilateral coverage) was disconnected. However, as I recall, the Mexicans connected 5 Cuban lines, 5 Soviet lines, 3 Czech, 2 Polish, and 1 Yugoslav line. The basehouse listening post had a Live : —- monitor who mede skort summaries of interesting conversations for a caily resume which was received each day around & a.n. (passed by Flick to Gsodr fasture to get to Scott vefore 9 a.m.) Later (when the reel was completely recorded) full transcripts vere typed and passed to the station in the same way, however, there was usually a time lag of a day or so. Those transcripts which hdd Russian or another language besides Szanish or English went out of the listening post the day after the transcript (of other conversations Sa “period: (£211 of 1963). the 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 Herbert Manell to take to Boris. Herbert Menell and his wife Berbera handled all of the processi:..g of Soviet transcripts. My job involved screening the photographs as soon as we learned thet the man calling hinself Oswald was probably an Anericen. However, here again there was a backlag because the: photos were picked up three times a week but the ones picked up were usually for dates a few days pre¥iously because the doctor procezsed the film on a. night time basis. Photographs were made usually until one roll was used but later we got it changed to one day coverage on each roll — in other words the operators, cleared the camera each day whether there was anjnkiiimxnxg: a full roll of film exposed. Instructions were to cover office hours, photograych each 0000174 - PRORIBITED cee a owen g naan Sree re Senenseee ymca “Ay aesriagatetes ema gemenne 8 - we npets ee meee ot 20
13-00000 PROUT ED . | Orne new Soviet and family, all foreigners and Toreicn lieenee vlates., Euman 3 La) z error did occur but generally the ezents were conscientious. The Cuban mubessy coverare had more sovhisticated eauipaent (a pulse cazera) but it frequently develoved inechanical difficulties. Bob Zambarnerdi end Scathar (I think) handled this film - pick .up and delivery. Lorna iacXtay screened the film inside the station. | I am certain that the Oswald. call came to our attention from the Soviet line. Th vas picked uy end taken to Boris for a translation because the caller was trying to speak Russian. Any delay was caused by waiting to compare the “photographs with the typed transcript. There were no copies of transericts every made in languages other than Spanish at lish because Win seott could read aly ” thoce two languages ard he | 2 chs reened the 0000172