Date: JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM 02/26/05 AGENCY RECORD NUMBER RECORD SERIES AGENCY FILE NUMBER : AGENCY ORIGINATOR FROM ‘ TO TITLE DATE PAGES SUBJECTS DOCUMENT TYPE CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTIONS CURRENT STATUS DATE OF LAST REVIEW COMMENTS AGENCY INFORMATION CIA 104-10414-10406 JFK RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA. CHIEF OF STATION, MEXICO CITY Released under the John Kennedy Ws5asgsination Records oOllection Act of 1992 (44 USC 2107 Note). ase#: NW 53320 Date: He—26-2017 DISPATCH-LIEMPTY PROGRESS REPORT/SECOND QUARTER 1963. 08/23/1963 : 3 ‘ DISPATCH . JFK ASSASSINATION PAPER SECRET 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 07/07/04 JFK-RH07 F136 20040324-1064420 HW 53320 DoclId:32392990 Page 1 ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10414-10406
pty yROM : . - see : 7. ai 7 ~ , , | pees LIEMPTY Progress Report/Second Quarter’ 1963 - “MICROFILM i ee WCTION PLGLIRED - REFERENCES ° Action; For your information. Ref: HMMA - 21060 1, BA CKGROUND The LIEMPTY Project is designed to collect operational infor- mation on the LIMERICK installation and persomiel, as well as targets of opportunity, through stationary and mobile photographic coverage. In addition, the project provides the means for investigating leads from both the above noted coverages and other Station sou rees, It supports other Station operations through the renting of safehouses, providing and servicing post office box mail drops, conducting countersurveillances and pretext investigations and perfor- . "ming related tasks. 2. OPERATIONS oe | | : t H H i ' i LIEMPTY provides the majority of photographs used by the Station in its CE operations aga inst the LIMERICK target. In this phase of the operation the LIEMPTY basehouses and photo truck produced approximately 140 rolls of operational photos in support of the Station's CE program during ‘the reporting period, The Station considers the photo coverage of the LIMERICK installation as essential tool in following the daily activities of the personnel of that installation, including known and suspected intelligence officers, and individuals visiting the . establishment, | Selected exa mples of the LIEMPTY contr ibution to the Station's CE program and its support of other Station operations are as follows: a, The support provided by the two LIEMPTY curouts, Oliver G, SCANTLING and Raymond H, GERENDE, in the AMROD operation was essential to this operation. Due to the long operational expericnes of these agents in the Mexico City operational environment eee chebr_aid in both the planning a nd execution SuIges of the AMROL CROSS REFERENCE, TO : DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER DATE aan Lanfon ee a mms-21993 wo SUP 23 August 1963 fo os ty i CLASSIFICATION | HOS FILE NUMBER 58-6-74/3 DocId:32399990 Page * HW 53370
DISPATCH } ae ‘i . .  ] operation has been unique, The cutouts provided professional level — countersurveillance during the actual mectings between AMRIFT- 1 ‘and Oliver E. FORTSON (ps), passed. letters to the LIERODE instal- lation, wrote many letters and placed numerous phone calls in support of this operation and have actually ca rried on the daily activity of the operation, , (aorta ae tae en te -b. In the Soviet area the activities under this project have been many and varied, Examples of this are: Stake out of a meeting be- tween a Soviet intelligence officer and LISTEED-1; reporting of LICAL on the agitation of Aleksandr SIDOROV, Soviet Military Attache and known intelligence officer, following a Station provocation of him; LIENTRAP coverage of Lorenzo CARDENAS Barrajas, a Soviet contact a stake out of a bowling alley popular with PBPRIME citizens and officia living in Mexico to determine the extent of a Soviet intelligence officer’ attempts to cultivate these individuals; and LIMITED's radio dispatchi of the LIEMBRACE team when this team was assigned to surveillance ¢ LIMERICK iargets. fas mre c. Oliver G, SCANTLING greatly aided the Station's operation to discredit and harass ESLARD-1 when ESLARD-1 returned to Mexicc from his native country. On one occasion SCANTLING nade anonymot phone calls to all major wire services informing them ofthe location 0 ESLARD-! who at that time was in hiding under an alias. _ d, Inthe Station's continuing attempt to provide greater cover: _ of the outlying states of Mexico, GERENDE has been assigned to devel contacts in Zacatecas and Aguascalientes which can be act ivated into operational assets in future, GERENDE has already met with some success in this area, but due to his heavy workload in the operational role assigned him in the Station's support mechanism, continued ex~ ploitation of these contacts probably will be a slow process, e, LILYRIC reporting has been of great interest in a matter LAURICLE concern. . f, In the general support of other Station operations, tasks of the cutouts continue as reported in reference, SCANTLING performs as alternate cutout to LICASA-1 in a sensitive LAURICLE operation, The project cutouts service 18 P, O. Box drops used not only for Static operations but also in support of Headquarters, JMWAVE, and other Station requirements, The completion of a new 4,5 meter security wall at the LIMERICK installation was fully reported on by the LICAL| basehouse operator. _. g. Numerous investigations and miscellaneous assignments w conducted by the project agents, a sampling of these follows: an inve: tigation of a contact of the Cuban Consul in Merida, a casing of the sil ESLARD-1 had planned to use as a secluded retreat (including picture support of the DMHULK operation in arranging by telephone the conta: between DMHULK and a KUBARK statf officer, investigation in Cuernavaca of the purchaser of the Alfred STERN property located there, anda report by LIEMPTY-13 of the support of former Mexican president Lazaro CARDENAS among the troop command officers of ti Mexican Army, 3, SECURITY No security incidents: directly effecting the security of the LIEMPTY oper ation occurred during the reporting per iod. ‘ ; ORM USE PREVIOUS LOifION agk A CLASSIFICATION ; [Pace yO: 08) 53a REPLACES Fea be x. TW ye . . 51-28, 51-28A AND 457-294] CONTINULD Ae WHICH ARE OBSOPETE { Si tn Etat ned! - pe ee _. : ne a aan — ? : { Jaw 53320 DoclId:323927990 Page 3
fates Pale PSA om op ta fae a ar | a NUNUATE DISPATCH LR LIVIIVE AN HO The security wall recently erected to the height of 4. 5 meters around the perimeter of the LIMERICK installation has reduced somewhat the | area of coverage of the LICALLA base, Certa in interior arrangements have peen made, such as raising the floor of the operating room at LICALLA, which will allow. continued operation of the base. However, if some sort of vegetat to grows over the wire strands at the top of the fence, the view of the base will be shut off completely and other arrangements for photo coverage of the ~LICALLA area of responsibility will have to be made, 4, EQUIPMENT : a . No new equipment was purchased during the reporting per iod nor ig any such purchase presently planned, All assigned equipment functiones normally during this per iod, 5. PERSONNEL No change in personnel assigninents, recruitments of term in- ations was experienced during the reporting period. The performance of all personnel in the project continued to be completely satisfactory during this period, The support rendered by SCANTLING and GERENDE to the AMROD operation deserves particular mention and their superior performazce in tha: operation was noted in paragraph 2a above. In recognition of his continued good all round performance the Station recently requested that GERENDE'’s contract be amended to provide for an increase in annual salary from $US 5, 500 to $US 6, 000. This raise. not only desired, it is considered necessary to offset the continued inflation? trend of the Mexican economy. , 6. TRAINING As in the previous reporting period, no training other than continued review of tradecraft principles was conducted during this pet iod, ~ Photographic product continues to be reviewed daily and the action agents al instructed as necessary in order to improve or correct their technique in both the taking and processing of this product, 7, PLANS Since the Station considers that this project is operating at | optimum size, it does not plan to expand it at the present time. Efforts wi ~ continue to refine and better utilize the existing operational mechanism, FORM 10-57 53a AR 53320 pweld: 32392990 mpeg asee re s ON (“ tila Distribution: 137 C/WHD 2 - Files - Use PREVIOUS = . CLASSIFICATION -_ “TT 7 race REPLACES F , . . : 51-78 51-7 ANOS . [ Jcontmueo’ THR