ay a ab ti 88 9 BAe eka mil ks 2 GI _ saa, "To collect operational information pertaining to LIMERICK personnel and physical facilities through the use of photographic base houses.” _ This continuing objective is carried out by three photographic bage houses, - “ LIMITED, LILYRIG and LICALLA. During the project year, LIMITED produced : - approximately 3600 photographs and LILYRIC about 4500 pictures of individuals - entering and leaving the LIMERICK target. Most of these photographs were of non-LIMERICK individuals of which only a smail, but significant, percentage could be identified through license plate checks or other types of routine investi- -gation. The LICALLA base produced approximately 4300 photographs during the year. Most of the LICALLA -photographs were of LIMERICK employees and their families and have been of considerable value in.maintaining current and accurate listings of LIMERICK personnel in Mexico. Tho LICALLA base has recently begun taking ‘motion pictures of LIMERICK personnel conversing in the garden area. These movies are being forwarded te KUTUBE/D for the possible exploitation of lip - reading analysis. The LIMITED base, in addition to its photographic assignment, is aleo used as thé radio central for dispatching the LIEMBRACE surveillance team on LIMERICK personnel targets. All bases make routine reports on the daily attendance of LIMERICK employees at the installation which facilitates the Station's reporting on the arrival and departure of LIMERICK personnel, Also, the bases devote time to reporting the personal associations among the numerous LIMERICK employees. Some of this latter type information is valuable from the standpoint of confirming that LIMERICK intelligence officers have a tendency to associate with their colleagues, Be "To collect operational information and identify operational leads pertaining to Station targets of opportunity."' This is a broad objective and one which is contributed to by the LIENTRAP operation, LIENTRAP is used to provide photographic coverage of important Station targets which do not justify a more permanent photographic base, During the period under review, LIENTRAP has been used for the timely coverage of various Central American exile group activities, the Confederacion de Trabajadores de la America Latina (CTAL) . headquarters, several counterespionage targets, the LITACIT and LITABBY targeta and other one-time operations of intelligence interest. The operational information produced by LIENTRAP is used by the Station for increasing operational knowledge about a target and, when appropriate, has been incorporated in separate reports to Headquarters with other information about specific targets, 3. "To provide operational support to Station operations, i.e., rent hotel rooms and apartments, and conduct counter-surveillances,") GERENDE, because of his area knowledge and operational acumen, is used frequently by the Station for renting hotel rooms and apartments in fictitious names for use on other Station operations. He is also the Station's principal procurer of local Post Office boxes for use as letter drops. This objective pertains entirely to the operational support of other Station operations and is an invaluable ingredient to the security of important Station activities. SECRET
om . cm, 4, The production of operational information as represented by LIMITED, LILYRIC, LICALLA and LIENTRAP is an important adjunct to the Station's coverage of the LIMERICK target and Station targets of opportunity. It is the Station's conclusion that the expenditure of KUBARK assets, i.e., money and case officer time, is justified and that these activities should be continued. CG. Simon D. CLACKETT Segment (discussed in relation to project objectives): a. “To collect operational information and to identify operational leads pertaining to the LIMERICK target and Station targets of opportunity." Very little production has been realized from this objective in terms of CLACKETT's contributions. CLACKETT returned to Mexico in early April 1959 after receiving surveillance, tradecraft and photography training in Headquarters. He then spent the rest of April, May and part of June being trained by SCANTLING in mobie sur- veillance techniques, Then LIEMPTYs 15, lo, 17 and 20 were placed under his supervision and he began training these agents in the arts of foot surveillance and mobile surveillance, This team, known’as the LISERSEY team, is just beginning to show the excellent effects of CLACKETT's intensive training sessions. Although LIEMPTY-17 has resigned and the team consists of only four agents, including CLACKETT, the Station believes that the team will be ready within the next month to begin its contributions to the above objective. 2 Based on the training time devoted to CLACKETT and to the LIJERSEY team and the anticipated production during the coming project year, it is the Station's Opinion that this activity should be continued. i. EXTENT TO WHICH THE RELATED MISSION DIRECTIVE HAS BEEN FURTHERED. Project LIEMPTY has provided support, in varying ways, to a majority of ’ Station operations and in this manner has been a contributing factor to the furtherance of the Related Mission Directive. The project is not intended nor designed to produce positive intelligence; its sole parpose is to provide a mechanism for the development of operational information in support of other Station operations. id. PROGRESS OF THE OPERATION AND PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE. aA. Oliver G. SCANTLING Segment: i, SCANTLING's duties and responsibilities are basically the same now as they were when the original LIEMPTY project outline was submitted. Since SCANTLING is the only major factor in this part of LIEMPTY, progress, other than covered in the above section on production, can be measured only by the fact that SCANTLING ie a yeax older and has acquired aiew more helpful tricks of the trade
14-00000 — ry SECRE T/agzc=Smr =§-= and, consequently, has increased his own operational abilities. -@ Insofar as future planning is concerned, SCANTLING will continue to devote the greater portion of his time to the LITACIT operation. In addition, he will continue his work against the LIMERICK target, i.e., investi- gating LIFEAT and photographic base house leads in connection with the objectives of the LIEMPTY and LIMESA projects. The Station still plans to maintain SCANTLING ag an independent Station asset free from the responsibilities of super- vising other agente and operations, 3, SCANTLING will probably continue providing administrative support to LIEMPTY-3 (now covered under the LICOOL project), but will not be responsible for the operational direction of L-3. . B. Raymond H. GERENDE Segment: 1. During the past year the three photographic base houses have _ been trained in the use of a faster type film (HY-PAN) to facilitate the taking of photographs on dark cloudy days. One base, LICALLA, has made tests and recently begun making 35mm color slides using the new fast type Ektachrome film. This film is now processed in the Mexico Station dark room which heretofore was not possible. It ia the Station's opinion that a few color photographs of target personnel wiil be useful for identification purposes. The LICALLA Base has also, during the past year, begun taking 16mm motion pictures in color with the expectation that Headquarters can eventually provide lip reading analysis of conversations taking place in the garden area of the LIMERICK installation, 2. Other operational progress has been made in connection with relieving GERENDE of responsibility for the LITERSEY surveillance team, This mow leaves GERENDE with a sufficient amount of time to supervise all photographic base houses, LIENTRAP and the outside photographic laboratory. , 3. Future planning in relation to this segment does not call for expansion. Rather,. the Station plans te perfect some of the photographic procedures now in use and to experiment with night photography possibilities using the fast HY-PAN film with telephoto lens of varying lengths. GERENDE will also concentrate on increasing the security and communications procedures used with each base, C. Simon D. CLACKETT Segment: 1, CLACKETT's assumption of responsibility for the LIJERSEY surveillance team hag been a progressive step for the development of an additional ; and much needed support ascet. Although the LISERSEY team has been in existence fur several years, it was only during the past year, with the assignment of SECRET/E