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14-00000 on 10 Feb 77 Sources Notes made by A. Goodpasture for John Leader, IG Steff subject: Background on Mexico Station Support Assets (Coverage of Soviet and Cuban Embassies) 1. Unilateral coverage. From the time the Mexico Station was opened in April 1947 (by Bill Doyle) until arrival of Win Seott as COS in 1958, Charles ade Anderson III (still in LA/HQ) had developed a support apparatus exploit leads from the Soviet Embassy. This umbrella type vroject (LIFEAT) consisted of multi line phone taps, three photo sites, a mobile surveiilance team and a mail intercept operation, ae Fhone taps were placed by an employes © of the telephone company nb oh a Fide btu 5 who was handled by David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of lines rE tacped was Lintted "by avallability of a listening post nearby (since the taps were not made in the main central) and English/ Spanish (Soviet, Polish, Czech, etc) transcribers. Generally these agents (mostly Mexican or Mexican American) were related (which the station at that time felt was good security in that if they talked about shop, they would talk to each other.) b, Three photo sites were handled by Anderson with the help of Harry Mahoney (retired, living in Chicago) and TDY TSD people checking the best type of camera, film, and concealment devices. These had sub-cripts under LIFEAT (LIMITED, LILYRIC, and LICALLA), LIMITED was a fixed site bang opposite across the street from the front gate of the Soviet Embassy which had both a vehicle and foot entrance. The Soviet gate was on the Northiest corner of their compound end LIMITED was diagonally across & double varrelled street on the Southg J ge aaa : SE Aan. AAT ey iD 3 oat 5 % 4 , ‘
; oo ' “that block. LIMITED was the first base ard it operated strictly on an exverimental basis in the early stages, I think the Mexi Station bought one storey this property (a/Spanish Colonial stone house) through LIMOUSINE (check to be sure). Later this house began to fall apart. This base was closed when the Station got word 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 bliding to be built on this site), LILYRIC was planned as 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 slanted view of the front gate of the Soviet Embassy. The agents in LIMITED and LILYRIC (both Mexican families) as far as we knew, were not acquainted with each other. LILYRIG was a rented apartment. LICALLA, the third photo site, was located in one of a row of #our houses on the South side of the Soviet Embassy compound which the Mexico Station purchased in about 1958 (check date), also using LIMOUSINE as the purchaser (check). This site overlooked the back garden of the Soviet Embassy compound. The curpose of this operetion was to get good identification photographs of the Soviet personnel (who at that time were largely unidentified in Mexico Station records), The three photo sites were handled by Ramon Alvarez (Mexican citizen of U.S. mother who taught elementary level at the American School). Ramon collected the film : from LIMITED and LILYRIC three times a week, His sister's husband, Carlos (Mexican doctor) developed snd printed the film into §x10 contact print strips. The master plan & tb was for LICALLA film to ue processed, inside ,TSD man from 1957 to 1959 (Harper Holt - resigned) could not handle the volume and as the unprocessed film began to accumulate, the inside CO (Mahoney) became disgusted and took the film out for Ramon's brother-in-law to process (probably early 1959). Thus Ramon became the handler for all three photo qases. A sensitive staff D monitoring operation [SECRET