(od-0088-10210 + ’ . , ain yo : , . . ¥ F re omer ¢ ECs) te) 10 Feb 77 Source: tlotes nade by aA. Gsodpe sture : for John Leader, IG Staff | gh. | “Sudject: Background on Mexico Static ay ia So Oo - (Coverage ¢ of Soviet an re 4 : . (Unilateral coverage. GR gy ink oe. Station was opened in) april 1927 1947 (by Bill ma. ne Anderson III (stain in -LA/HQ) of Win Scott ‘as COS in 1956, Charles: . developed a support apparatus to Bata exploit leads. from the Soviet Enbassy.. | This umbrella type project (iaFExT) consisted of mata Line Phone taps,. three photo sites, a mobile surveillance . . i ‘team and a ail, intercept o eration “Fhone taps were placed by an’ employ ee of the delophons company 5 “RD: rand gh MA FRGAP Ca, ts vs} handled by David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of of lines a | tapped was linea “by availability of a stening s.- nearty - (since the taps were not made in the ce nd Baglish/ “these agents (mostly aan (which + eK aif they 1 WE about: shop, they would talk to each other.) - b. Three ‘photo sites were handled by Aederson with the help a “of Harry Hehoney an Wie Chicago) end TDY TSD : | | sf an Gh camera, filn, and concealnent ; | = RON Sioa LIFEAT (LIE MITED, LILYRIC, | ‘and LICarra). nROS Wi ual a Fixed site bang opposite across the street from.the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy which had ' both a vehicle and foot entrance. The ‘Soviet gat be was on ‘the Northt. ‘est’ corner. of their compound eng LIMITED was diagonally femvooe gees sree “ates” Page 234 0 319 __ COPY NO.
14-00000 SDE wane ee the Station got word Qs OL (OUSINE as the age “his site overlooked the back garden of nearby. The property vas sold (under an operati onal agreement with LI! s0USIYE ‘on this site). - LILYRIC was s planned. és an alternate photo base to LIMITED, 2 I It was in an upper storey (ra floor ~check) on the sane side of the street ‘és LIMITED ‘but in the middle of the block South. It had | a slentea view of ; | the front gate of the Soviet Babassy. The agents | in LIMITED and LILYRIC (both | | Mexican fenilies) « as far as we knew, vere not acquainted with each other, , . which the Mexico Station POY re unidentified in Mexico Station récords). The three Photo sites. were handled. by (Renon Aivarea) (Mexican citizen of U.S. <n Ho taught élezentany level - at id and LILYRIC three tind een : developed and printed A Hi ‘was for LICALLA film to ce. Ssed i inside T S man from 1957 to 1959¢ (Harper 3 coat). eet ened) could not handle the. volume and as the “unprocessed film began Port Ranon'9| brother-in-lay to process (p ovate] early 1959). Thus fRazon) became the har adler for all three photo ‘ses. 4 A sensitive staff D monitoring operation that block. LIMITED was the first bese ard it onerated strictly on an ox erinen tal besis in the early Stages. I think tke iexl Station borght ~ one storey this property. (2/Szanish Colonial A hrough LU (OUSTIE (check to be sure). Later this a a apart. This base was . closed vhen — cho — kan" was being released to the OK\ ; NY puolic by the Warren conn oN Re operators were moved to another apt for a long term lease on 1 the top. floor of a new apartment bldis ng to be built aX! LILYRIG vas a rented apartzent. . LICALLA, “the third ee es was located — 2 . in one of a row of four houses on the Soni 7g me sf oie. ‘Ssviet Exbassy compound ay ob 958 ( (check date), also using Vo? the Soviet Eobessy econ “a The purnose of this operat on “es to get good ide ntifi eat on ‘photographs of the Soviet versonnel (ho at thet t tine were largely the Americana School), Sean aN colendoctebiewechhim from LIMITED WW U a Carlos (Hexican doctoz) [ een Soevor) >. et prin t strips. The master plan 440 : to accu late, the ‘inside co (: ‘ahoney) becane disgusted and taok the filn out [Seer Pace, eae 218 _ COPY NO.
14-00000 sQrrresymenrrey oe _ Was run out of eae _Seeary 40 another ohe of these houses (erypt for the four houses vas LUNST,1, etc).. This was hardled by Glen VIDDENY (outside TSD offic ar} and Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. This opsration was also serarat te from LICALLA, The tuo houses in between vere i to uns aspecting nants. ec. Nobile oe yo oy Anderson and dater place a - under ec bean consisted of a helt dozen or so agent) )PO\WUs ys to four late model cars end ao : panel. truck « (snieh could be used on stake_outs for ‘photo covera:. ce). The plans was to activate this group by radio (tron 1 LISTED BASE) - 7 : Soviet _ , ven someone of interest left the/Enbass; x aate and” stay with ‘then until ‘they made their neetings. ‘These agents knew about the LETED BASE b t bee ause they had Lr TED photos for identification purposes. | . <This worked fairly well untit about the middle of 1958 (check date) "when one of the surveillance agents got too ae mis terget and a AS ie | was arrested by the Mexican transit He Been over tO ‘the 7 Mexican Secret Service. 2 rake) he Station could, arrange ‘through - a cleared attornevetih we coe firm), the agent: had identified Sancho (wo wes. 1 evacuated across the border at } fogales by Bob Sh caw) and the inside— cof oe wt a, Judd Austin of the Goodrich, « ane meme + marie teem - phone numb er of Mahoney (vho vas subsequently replaced by Louis Puckett). As a result of this flap, the LIFPAT project was broken : oe f “up : into several oR . Prank Gy not changed but were given . Ma ardbrep! aced Andersén 3 in handling Leon tahoney and nandled the — geie \S surveillance vean UN oe and the photo bases tirovgh{Re Re Ben). - d. ‘LIBIGHT. was the orypt used for alunilateral (unilateral (origina?ly} p mail ntercept handled by Charlie Anderson III, The a agent (Me xican) hed } ‘a seni official status and Aeeaused to obtain selected letters fron 2? : . . a . ‘ ° State 9 ORE 1g POENOEE OP CUTE NSU Or OEY 9 RIMRONAL UNSEEN SRM ORTR EOE SOI o * : . : . , eo. a . e AoE 28 oe 3194, COPY NO. _ a ame
14-00000 in the : zostal s we en “21 onso Spera ? vere Ister/Puckett, Rovert Foldmann, area - : —— - 2. \LIaison coverage ;1 was un: reliable and insecure as characteris ces ith > veh ve dealt a exe a foreigners and political invest) Politic al Inyg {eorrupt extortionists) e Of Of Gov-rnnent.\ ranent, were poorly organized ‘and often ina¢écurat a infornet tion vas developed but it could: not be cE During 1958, “was | energetic in organiz TPC» CET Ocean ear peste tet ae eeeraneaet grew into a ‘proposal Miguel Aleman (jr. son of former Nexi President) ? acting ig The Mexican in control, “son (itzvov-2) Was a as «mae manipulated control over the prineipal as first case officer was-Alfonso Spera and Jokn (TSD training offi . post where thirty tele-hone lines system (I think at + He 1berg) establ ished contact with one of them Levine De Leon (ater LIPIRE group) in ‘Bbout 1950 or 5. ‘training fa group of about five surveil] ance types) {4 | a A cote met socially some of: eal w) . me Hexican Presi dent t elect, Adolfo Topex Ambassador Robert C. HilL (reflecting 4 the policy of then Sec State 3. F. Dulles) _ ing groups to "fight communism". : cna old, and greedy. . ‘Fis. cer for surveillence and head of ‘would connect as well e [SE eee ee a te tee ‘Seege wey ae ina 3 q, and Alan White ya ed by 7 Direction of Federal | - srounsrun out of the Winistry & of its tine on con: its tire on control « of He geve them some How ak le be o r Pa not oT en Fexico)}, Vahones = 2teOS 2 During this period, the ue Ss. % One of these seeds” tap op peration} This - . Ahh See a crete, ANAS Pear distressing years of a shakedown, 8 BGs 9 ees event rotated mate ROME vet . deceit and corruption. LISLEGANT also nt of LIBIGHY mail intercest.) The inside with (Turner Smith) (retired) outside 11 APO ae 28 Beg Ow c80- OO ay a ARERR ? ’ the listening = el we uid os es .@ transeri on roon Fern SEO O BH He HET) wet at fein | o, . Beene co COPY NO.
Initially the sist ton “‘tvied to met every demand made by th ie Mexicans J si sh SE John had Janguage dif ficulties ang ers sonal protlens associated with being outside - stetionrso thet the Rexicans —— \ were. virty lly une ontrollavle, ew - equipment at enornous co ee : {production of trenscripts of Trensarigial D aul by Jack ‘Brady ‘vho found a nisl ywitte same pincer novenent of having Scott a rt of th e e bargaintin the =) dle vanted) ad y Ssera was replaced | “approve a request by LIELEGANT that Brady/had turned down by the son, GEER Finally when the cost, became exhorbitant and there was Litt tle to show for it, the. project was revanped. { Sait (Sait and John returned to the U. S. and were replaced by a TSD officer, Charles Flick, who was “put inside the Listening post to naintain -Brady was reassigned to other duties rendirg a weg sfer. the equipnent, / Scott toox over the project as case offi aeeES with LIRLEGASIT. : He designated Ann Goodpast vure to neet dailing Meier ue wer routine supervision of the ‘Listening post, picking up treaer BG NA Les. Goodpasture hed ‘no ; sas oS dealingswith the Mexicans\ exc as oo: gpote was duh or out of town, Generally, ; ~ This was. about. ate ‘1961.- : a. decisions were nade eh . 2 - “3. uy menory is a Little vague about the origins of the (Cuban Es Enbassy but. I — thi nk the staff first developed from a pro-Castro grouv. celebrating on. New _ Years eve 1959. As I recall, it was a makeshift, arrangezent of volunteers . "through most of 1960 and é2 with Ton Hazlitt produel ne ‘voluzinous reports on their activities and recruitir g agents right (\uee fb anong Cuban netionals in Mexico Cit uy. Wc 4 Personsel | assignme afl to si ‘se is “who was in Mexico during othe period prior to Osu. 2 wig : equent investigat tion by the Warren Cozwmission. To acto At Vas there and wnat they were doing I~ have grovuped rersons to: er chronologically with areas of their assig naent as the _ covering from 1550 to 1969 SO the t tfroteer names cop UP: one can tell vhat period they were in Mexico and their assignments’ “att the tine. SEGH eh
1400000 = ..,  & an | (. ernment " - 2 OSM Lp , H 8/56-6/69 COS Winston i. Scott (deceased) -_ pcos Ws ~ 2/58 Alfonso Rodriguez (retired) ‘| 0/58 — 12/62 (retired) “6 63 - 9/65 Alan White (retired)— I (20/65 - - 1969 Stanley’ Watson (retired in Mexico) 7 . COVET ae ACTION + . . VPrior to 1954) Howard Hunt (retired) 43254 J-7/5S" Williard Hill (resigned) Se “12/56 - - Of62. Stennard Short (re AA 9/61 - 3/64 i — : . 8/62 — 9/64 . + 2/64 — 6/65 - Vv 9/64, - 11/66 10/65 - 1967 66 = 68 f _ 68 - ieee SmithC(retired in Mexico) ) - CUBA OPERATIONS — es ae 56 - 4/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief EYL ) ae - 2/60 - 4/62 {Jack Stewart E (retired Costa Rizal ; ee s se 4/63 — 4/65 Bob Shaw Ch ef — OO ASS ene 9/63 - 7/65 [Ray Swider = ~— ce 20/63 - kg Torna Mackay (2% Po". $/6% — 6/65 David PhilligsiG 9/65 - 10/68 Joseph wh Picco Xs 20/65. - 12/67 (reuey Tasers iaoger  sovIET 7 TARGET | | 7 . 6/57 - 10/59 Lowise Lyon Cntareet) 6/62 - 1/67 Prentice Marheine’ > s) —9f59- 8/65 fHerbert 3 ‘anell Chief.- .. |. (rewired 2) 9/59 - 8/65 Barbara ! janell a oe 3 e co - 5/64 - 27/66 © Villian Bright ; «(AY : + 4/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann - oS | 6/65 - 7/67 Mice Pittinger ow : 7/65 - 4/69 ‘Paul. Dillon gl go hE 6 68 SHRM O | coe eGR EE BOONES AT Em red _ SOVIET. T PENSCRIBERS - . 6/56-- 8/58 Morris Gordon (resign 6/58 -— 6/63. George Misko = et en eae ‘ a - EPA TEN SITE TETANY Oe See rs ™ : .- : ‘ * eo “4 ‘'* . . a Oa a soe 7 7 6/63 ~ 72 Boris Terasorf an in i texico) ~ CHAE be - a a paces | ©3649 940° COPY NO.
1400000 ee A | ote SUPPORT ASSETS Tagg 1961 Che -rles ‘Anderson at Chief £/55 })— 4/ 60 (Pegey Ba; reard Ass 1/56 ~ 1/62 Freak Sstangona erie. 2/60 ~ 10/64, Thomas Keenan ~~ a 64 — 12/67 tickee? Farme _ ee } Unilateral) photo Cubans | : a, W 6/59 - L/6L Robert Zambernardi (resigned Mexico) | 1/99 - o/62 (Rleverd Seether 780} (retired) fina teral) photo Soviets : (3/54) - 4/59 Harry T. Mahoney | (retired Chicago) 5/57 - 8/65 64 A. Goodpasture (alternate CO — and internal routing)  . 6/58 - 6/63 Louis D. Puckett (retizea) 6/63 — 10/63, Thomas Keenan =~ Robert Hach 65 - 66 William onl an ae ge vv an a Se 7 ae Tranvot. - Liaison, hone. ‘taps 1959 ~ 1989 Winston: Scott (deceased) 1959 ~ 1960. Alfonso Spera (retired) 1959 ~— 1960 (Turner Smith) (outside, now retired) 1959 - 1960 John (Training rept resi ae 1960-1961 John Brady (retir ed) al 1962 - 1968 A. Geodpasture — . 1961 -~ 1971 Cherles Flick “o oon [nyaison}— surveillance Prior 1952. VR Robert Melherg & 3/54 — 1/59 Harey Nshoney fretsrest 4/59 -.1961 Thomas Hazlitt . - 12/62 -— 9/67 Robert Feldmann + 999 0 GapERED @ +08 ep m6 Sear cee a FAB os : ISD Gutside wit (/58 - 12/83 Gen Widden (retired) — | 3/59 -L/04 — Saseph 31, Recigno (ps) Unit blown and clesed duim [e es) aso,
14200000 ” oo “it to (Herbert anal? to take to Boris. (Herbert Nene: Hane ané and | his OD monitor who nde short ounnaries resting conversations for a daily , typed. These reels 1 were taken to another Location’ about a week behind the date af . aX. SS LAS - _-Russian conversations anergy r 3h embers of the Soviet Exbassy. During this . handled 2ll of the processi: 2 of Soviet aN Hy job involved screening “the photosrazphs as soon as ve learned % for dates a few days a as I recail, the Mexicans) co 2 Polish, “end 1 -Yugoslev ak \\ “en tening post had a live resume which was received each day ar ound, 8 a.n, _ (passed by Flick to Coodpasture - “to get to Scott before 9. a.m. ) Later (when the reel was s completely recorded) - fold transcripts were typed and passed to the station | in the seme ways however, there was usually 2 ‘time lag of a da ay Or SO. © ’ Those transcripts which hdd ‘Russien or anoth rer - languege besides Spanish or ‘English went out. of the Listening post the dey after the transe: ript (of other: conversations ee a reel)vas | clo Rees a Bre Dey were trenslet ted + % aF aah § 4 YS he: qAGhven sation because of the volune of oe “period. (fell. 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 nay have been carried : to hin by, Flick but I think r brought the reel. in and geve wife Berbara) rs ae calling hinself Oswa 1d was sa backlag because the — probably an American, . ere photos were cicked up thre EO \S 2} ones picked up were usually - te \ ee We doctor }proce. -sed the film cna 4 t cr £49) be & (et) tm ° er jwto cr Q iv e ri) ;or) cr o fe] i] © Oa bak] bet ° Lo] <q Q ky i aq 0 om po o °, os a} a a { bate mS . ° ce +) rt] 8 = 6 yy Ds mn”) ce a a -operetors cleared the casera each day vnether there was anyntiiomenxsa a full roll of film expos ed. “Instructions were. to cover office hours, photograrh each : COPY. NO. . and typed. In the case of the russteg haba Boris Tarasoff usually ran | : I i i i | i ; | i ' Oe EC CCN AS LITT RTT CNET TTT TAIT LIES! gw eee . () . , i ’ 7 . i . e on scteairtcinaamransoensoa ry Bete ? i a a tote aoe ’ : e 110d OMAP: rd amRT mR SmmMET EEE 1,0 EET . ‘ an ’ 2 ORME +8 EO HERRERE 6 TORNE BAD 2 ERED OANGMNOD 8 MIN " eo. ‘ . nr rr : “pace 23 g “ of 1S 20° -
14:00000 | ( » b a ° Laraprs cf _ i Ba 1S, nevi Soviet and family, all foreigners and fore ign lisenee plates, Fuman ; error did occur but generally the egzents vere onscientious. ‘The Guoan | . exnbessy coverage had more sophisticated frequently develozed. mechanical di us (I think) hb handled this filn “\y AN the film inside the on SS — Co ‘ am _ certain thet. a. call came to our att tention from ‘the Soviet Lina. It was Picked us end taken to Boris for a translation because (a pulse casera) but it b Zeabarnards end {Spathar| | « Lorna Ueckay screened ‘the caller vas trying ‘to speak Russian, Any delay Was caused by vaitin J to compare the Photographs with the typed transcript. There were no copies of ae trensoripts every made in languages other ‘than ‘Spanish ae glish because Win - Seott could read vonly ‘those tuo languages end rs re reened the . A ‘ wes e ' , moosuas | 3 "PAGE , 2394 313 COPY WO.