14-00000 foo c CONTINUATION OF . DISPATCH press group. Of nine persons who belonged to the group as of 153 January, three subsequently dropped out because of differences of opinion which developed at group meet= In addition? (LINLUCK) learaed that persons he had selected partly because of their leftist records (Iden- tities 3, 4, 7 and 8) had:long since ceased being leftists and were prone to submit manuscripts with texts politically harmful to the image of LIANCHOR. Confused political thinking and poor writing resulted in rejection of over 20 manuscripts during February-April by LINLUCK and the case officer. Rejection of manuscriptslin turn angered and insulted some of the writers. ings. b. The personalities and chnracter,,of some of the writers have presented problems to (LINLUCK in directing and developing the LIANCHOR group into, a productive unit. Identities 3, 5, 6, 7 and 8 had jo be goaded continually by LINLUCK to turn in manuscripts on assigned themes. BothgIdent ty~3 and Identity-7 turned out to be emotional extremists, suffering at times from deep melancholy and at other times from inexplainable rages which were re=- flected in their writings. As of this writing the Station feels that the only reliable members of the group are Identities 6 and 9, who should be kept as members of the group as long as LIANCHOR is run as a group cooperative press service. The unreliable but brilliant and versatile | poet/writer/lexicographer Identity~5 should be continued as a contact of LIANCHOR for occasional emergency use provided(LINLUCK' replacement can obtain any cooperation from Identity-5.°| In summary the LIANCHOR group composed of Identities 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8 has proved ineffective and . not too productive and the ineffective members should be replaced. of 10. Effectiveness of p/a (LINLUCR: oo a ~ oO a. The list of articles and features by GINLUCK under Separate Cover Attachment "B" is by no means the measure of the agent's writing and production capability. After the. agent dusted off and mailed out several of his old article, series in December 1968 the case officer instructed, (LINLUCK) to reduce his production in ratio to the manuséripts of other LIANCHOR writers which were mailed out, The case officer was concerned that LIANCHOR would appear fo potential client newspapers to be primarily (crmtuck's\iengthy political essays in con- a vehicle for trast to the statement in the LIANCHOR prospectus that LIANCHOR was a press service combining articles on cultural, educational, economic and social as well as political topics by many writers, During the agent's two final months of service he has been given authorization to write as much as he can on the Vietnam issue and other topics for the purpose of building up his name in Guatemala before he returns there to enter politics. | 9] b. While production of articles was not (Linzuck's! weak point, his selection and handling of the LIANCHOR press service writers appears to have been weak. He has been too long on the fringes of the foreign exile group . in Mexico and his contacts among leftists in Mexico are ‘no longer significant. In addition, the agent appears to— have gone the way of many former Latin American Communists in that his theoretical solution to some of the political, economic and social problems of Latin America can no longer be termed leftist. ‘ AD BEPHop UCTiIoNg oS GAR Pa
D000 R otinUAtiON ork \ Wei 7, DISPATCH Joo. ge CRET | HBMA-34792 ¥ a] .c.. As a penetration of a Communist Party LINLUCK re was a singleton. - Although as a former Communist leader -he has had experience in handling people, he has not had experience in handling sub-agents for WOFIRM. There was evidence during the reporting period that LINLUCK)o| wag having real trouble managing his co-workers in LIANCHOR, However, handicapped by the fact that he was not paying his co-workers fees or salaries, (INLUCK) 9] probably did as well «ae he could in controlling his * co-workers, The real fault lay ir his poor selection of co-workers. ll. Effectiveness of LIANCHOR articles@hnd Features: in the Station's opinion os2 articles w {chCLINLUCK] wrote were forceful and effective, but too long. ‘The articles written by o| (LINLUCK' 3} co-workers apparently were ineffective to the point that they were not considered worth publishing. The Capriles newspaper chain of Venezuela apparently felt grat (LINLUCK's)< articles were well worth running, despite the fact that they had to be published in installments. The leading newspapers in, each of the Central Américan republics appeared to believe that (LINLUCK's articles merited automatic publication. It is assumed that(LINLUCK's articles were published regularly in = | Bolivia du@\to La Paz “Station assistance. However, because no 9 . newspaper felt like paying fees to LIANCHOR or answering (LINLUCK's) . ‘correspondence, it has not been possible to ascertain whether LIANCHOR articles have been published with any regularity in Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia or Ecuador. It is too much to ask third country stations to scan the press daily for articles by seven different people. The Mexico_ ation_has appreciated the assistance received from the (cardcast) Ganedge)@nd Guatemaial& City\Stations which have been the principal source of the clip- pings of LINLUCK 's )LIANCHOR articles submitted as Separate Cover Attachment "B' to this dispatch. SECURITY 12... There have been no incidents of security nature hazerdous to the LIANCHOR project during the reporting period. FINANCE AND SUPPORT 13, £Finance: During 1 October - 30 May the LIANCHOR. . project expensesyhave consisted of U.S. $5,600 in salary pay~ ments to(LINLUCK ‘at U.S. $700 per month and U.S. $119 in cost of mailing out DIANCHOR articles. * 14, Support: Reproduction of the LIANCHOR articles for mass distFibation to Latin American newspapers was done by the Station using a Xerox machine. PLANS i : ° 2 15. Replacement of (LINLUCK: = Rept Ce a, Provided Headquarters grants: POA and Identity<-1 accepts recruitment by a Station case officer, LINLUCK will be directed to approach {dentity-1 some two weeks after the recruitment .o\(LINLUCK) will tell Identity=-1 that he has come to Identity-I on the advice of Identity-6, LIANCHOR member and friend of Identity=1 .o( (LINLUCK) will . explain that he is returning to Guatemala to seek a poli- a tical career and must give..up the direction of. LIANCHOR @ RPAUA VAL
14-00000 e { . CUNEENUALIUEN Ur ‘ Poe ~ DISPATCH | SEC-RET-> | HMMA-34792 | a. . because LIANCHOR cannot properly be run. from - ol £INLUCK will describe to Identity~l the probléms which ; he has’ had in developing LIANCHOR and, in asking Identity-1 — to take over control of LIANCHOR, will suggest that Identity-~1 use the LIANCHOR name and established publica- tion outlets to broaden his prestige in Latin, America without any thought of trying to carn fees | sINLUCK) will also suggest that Identity-] retaia Identities 6 and 9 to help fill out the service, but that he gradually try to draw in personal writer friends of definite leftist fame and persuade them to contribute to LIANCHOR urely. for the reward of increased prestige. Finally LINLUCK) will offer to continue to contribute material from time to time from Guatemala which Identity-1, through his good standing in the Mexican press, pevhaps can publish in Mexico. oat oh b. If Identity-1 rejects recruitment, the next candi- date for LIANCHOR chief is Identity-10, who has already told (LIM.UCK)that he is prepared to take over LIANCHOR on a pro o|.ionary. basis to see whether it will enhance his reputatio.. The Station feels that Identity=-10 would be easier to recruit than Identity-1. However, Identity-10 is not too well known in Mexico and is totally unknown abroad, One of Identity-10's virtues is the-fact that he never formally quit the Communist Party and has done nothing to irritate the Party. As economic and general reporter for "EXCELSIOR" he offers placement potential. If Identity-1 does accept recruitment, the Station still intends to try to recruit Identity-10 as a singleton under Project LIANCHOR, possibly steering Identity-10 to Identity-1 and the LIANCHOR press service after due consideration. The Station is also interested in the possibility of recruiting Identity-10 in order to send him to the World Youth Festival at. Sofia, since it is believed by!(LINLUCK) that Identity-1 still has access to some worthwhile contacts in Central American young Communist circles. a 16. Testing for Indications of Effectiveness to Determine Future Direction of LYANCHOR Project: a. It is estimated that it will not cost over U.S. $200 to hire clipping services in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago and Bogota for a three month trial period to test whether newspapers which receive LIANCHOR material in those cities are publishing the LIANCHOR material. The clipping services will be asked to watch for articles with the LIANCHOR by=-line, the by-lines of LIANCHOR writers and the headlines or titles which are assigned by LIANCHOR to the articles mailed to the newspapers. ; aM IASI SUES Slag bestnimc Neh EE hardin NEAL IY Ate etre | | | | be. if the clipping service tests show that newspapers or periodicals in two of the above cited countries are publishing LIANCHOR material, Station will continue -to. pursue the development of a small and responsive leftist writer group as one phase of the LIANCHOR operation. The rationale behind this decision is that there is little justification in operating a press service, even a cheap one, with a readership limited to Mexico, Central America, Venezuela and Bolivia, However, if the press service can acquire, or has acquired, readership in any two of the countries in 16-a above then it is felt that the total areuw coverage is significant and worth maintaining. oF 17. Conversion of LIANCHOR to Temporary Roof Project for Singleton Le 8 riter Assets: If as a result of ciipping ne ee on sn atte PETES. DIVES SE NAN TEE enh ola ee pu, Ly Rs Rinna chee pA or ~
14-00000 " CONTINUATION OF . wee | ( SECRET HMMA=34792 © , DISPATCH service testa the decision is reached not to continue develop- ment of a leftist writer group press service, LIANCHOR will be. converted to a roof project for the administration and funding of singleton writer agents. Identity-1, if recruited, will be ~- told to use the LIANCHOR stationery and list of publishing newspapers to develop hin own prestige and readership abroad, but he will not be ask. . to find additional writers for the press service. At the cud of FY 1969 the LIANCHOR project will be terminated as such and its funds and such agents as have been developed under LIANCHOR wiil be documented under Project LILISP-E for FY 1970, a oo ods ; if whe . : ‘ \ for,Willard C. CURTIS rns
IDENTITIES: 1 7 06,8 SEPARATE COVER ATTACHMENT to HMMA-34792 poe 06,0 | . leg - Alfonso ¥MARTINEZ Estevez, ormer personal. secretary to deposed Guatemalan Communist presi> dent Jacobo ARBENZ. \ 06 6 - Manuel CALVILLO, Mexican author and editorialist, in the Sunday literary ~sections of Mexican news-— papers. ~ 06,00 “~ Francisco %*ZENDEJAS, book critic for "EXCELSIOR", Mexico City TV channel #4 and Radic Station XEW. He was once personal séCretary to Leon TROTSKY. | Chronic _alcoholic, 8 COPY a coe™ ome a é en NS