104-10427-10044 _ 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 JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM AGENCY INFORMATION CIA 104-10427-10044 JFK RUSS HOLMES WORK FILE DOCUMENT INFORMATION CIA GOODPASTURE, A LEADER, JOHN , IG STAFF BACKGROUND ON MEXICO STATION SUPPORT ASSETS (COVERAGE OF SOVIET AND CUBAN EMBASSIES) 02/10/1977 10 EMBASSY JFK ASSASSINATION PAPER SECRET 1A 1B RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS 06/23/04 , JFK-RH14 : F20 20040330-1069359 ITEM IS RESTRICTED 104-10427-10044
10 Feb 77 . Source: diotes made cy A. Goodsesture for Joka Leeder, IG Steff “Ss Sudjects Bac! ground on Hexico Stetig sat ssets 3 1. Unilateral coverage. GR sy << ico Station vas opened in April 1947 (by Bill mAs eal ha of Win Scott as COS in 1958, Charles Anderson III (staia in LA/HQ) developed @ support apparatus tO exploit leads from the Soviet Enbassy. This umbrella tyre project (LiF LEFEAT) consisted of mult ‘ine phone taps, three photo anaes a mobile surveillance . team and a pail, int ercept operation. Be. Fhone taps were placed by an employee of the ‘telephone , company ok wae Feeattad, | “who vas handled by David WILSTED (pseudo). The number of Lines - tapped was linted Yay availability of a ‘Tstening ; ost nearby . oy! (since the taps were not made in the Pranic oS English/ Spanish (Soviet, Polish, Ps , 5 Sastietere, Generally - these ag ents (most eget eens Anerican) were relat sed (shiek 4 the aS ly tine felt. was good security in that sf they % i%ed about shop, they would talk to each other.) b. Three photo sites were handled by Anderson with the help” of Harry Mehoney ne: ‘Via Chicago) end TDY TSD people che % gt iE ier amma ¢ (LIMITED, LILYRIC, AN - end LICALLA) Y AY a fixed site bang opposite across of camera, ’ film, and concealment devices. the street from the front gate of the Soviet Enbassy which had both a vehicle and foot entrance. The Soviet gate was on the Northvest corner.of their compound end LIMITED vas diagonally. “across & double barrelled “Tern on the Southosscf,, | 7 aft ibis a eee a8 rae \ Copy Rof 7 ne
' rw é that block. LINITSD was the first Lese ard it enerated strictly on en ee ex erinentcl besis in the early stages, I think the Mexi Station bought one svorey. this property (e/Sranish Colonial s hrough LIHQUSINE (check to be sure). Later this hou aun This base was closed When ~ ne Station got word A eg was being released to the ) Pno \\ ae puolic by the Warren coastal KAD operators were moved to another apt nearby. The property } vas sold owe an operational agreement with LESOUSINE for a long term lease on the top floor of 2 new apartment biding to be built ‘on this site). LILYRIG was planned @s an alternate photo base to LIMITED. It was in aa upper storey (3rd floor —check) on ‘the sane side of the street as LIMITED but in the middle of the block South. It had a slantéd view of the front gate of the Soviet Eebassy. The agents in LEGTED and LILYRIC (both | Mexican families) as far as we knew, were not acquainted with each other LILYRIG was a rented apartaent. LICALLA, “the third hobs, a) was located in one of a row of four houses on the Sout GS okie Exbassy compound . which the Mexico Stetion pci aie 1955 (check date) » also using “LIMOUSINE 2s the achaes any xy wis site overlooked the back garden of the Savi et Enbassy “wer The purnose of this operation ves to get good identi ication photographs of the Soviet sersonnel (uho at thet tine vere largely | unidentified in Mexico Stetion -records). Tre three photo sites were handled by Remon Alvarez (4exican citizen of U.S. =i 10 taught clecentary level at the American School). Ramon co qeliioniomebienmiie from LITTED and LIL iG three tin REP ROW LS os developed and printed \N sng sent t print strips. The master plan Pp Ssed_, Faciae 4 TaD & nan from 1957 to 1959 (Harper husband, Carlos (Hexcen doctor) was for LICALLA film to ve EFolt ~ resigned) could not handle the volume and 2s the unprocessed film began ome om to accumulate, the inside CO (iahoney) becaze disgusted and taok the filn out for Ramon's brather~in-law to rrocess (srobvably early 1959). Thus Razon became the handler for all three photo tases A sensitive staff D monitoring operation [Seon > o— | es G38G04 . oe PAGE. Seer 218 COPY NO. . to . ’ Fi . Lecces mo seme Gare me wel FoEEERE SIE S el : . . ;
~—-- on e+ me ste. wee ew rd was run out of another one of these houses (crynt for the four houses vas LUST, 1, etc}. This was ha: dled by. Glen WIDDEN (outside TSD officer} and Mahoney using HQ TDY teams for monitoring. This operation ves also Serarate fron LITALLA, The two houses in betucen <i ited to uns usvecting tenants. c. iobile sur es by Alerson and later placed . under Maho i mM consisted of e half . dozen. or so we 4) panel truck < (vnien could be used on stake_outs for photo covera:e). ~ « - The plen + was to activate this group by radio (tron LINIZED BASE) ’ Soviet when someone of interest left the/Enbassy gate and stay with then until. they made their meetings. | These agents mew ebout the LE x TED BASE befause they hed LIMITED photos for. identifi cation purposes. | : This worked fairly well until about the niddle of 1958 (check date) — When one of the surveillance agents got too chose aay target and wes arrested by the Mexican sransity Sete over to the - arrested by a /< Ae | Hexican Secret Service. angel ass he Stetion could arrange through a cleared attorney eggion out (Judd Austin of the Goodrich, Little and MAS Se » the agent. had identified Sancho (iio was evacuated across the border at Nogales by Bob Shaw) and the inside — . phone number of Mahoney (who was subsequently replaced. by Louis Puckett). As a result of this flap, x LIFTAT project was broken up into several sawn AN A, not changed but were given eax . new erypts . surveillance tean. replaced Andersén in handling the unllateralpifone . pe Mahoney and handled the DES 3) the photo bases through Remon.  ~ d. LIBIGHT. was the crypt used for a unilateral (originally) mail intercept handled by Charlie anderson III, ‘The agent (Mexican) hed a semi official status and arranged to obtain sel. ected lett ters from ; = 70 . (SESE eas Os 7 « PACE 233 of p 3194, COPY NO. = ance
etaifed cy Hr-is “approve a request by LIELEGA “ANT that Bredy hed turned down by the son, LIESVOY-2. ‘Finally when the cost became exhorbitant and there was Litt tle to show for it, : He designated Ann Goodpasture to neet dailing AC of the Listeni: ng post, picking up veers aya ae Coodpasture hea ro | : dealings with the wexicans excep ae Seat’ wes ill or: out of tou le Generally, a decisions were made DS S ‘3. My memory is a suttte vague ‘about the origins of the Cuban Enbassy bat ft through most of 1960 and a with Ton ‘Hazlitt producing volucinous reports cn “nN @rny officers.) Initially the station t-ied to net every demand made by the Mexicans. Both Snith end John hed Janguege difficulties and personal problems associated with being outside the stet tion so thet the Mexicans _ were virtueLly uncentrolle vle, spendi. gene hey pleased, squirrelling away equipnent at enornsous ae iN Le NW vanes pert of the bargain in the ~ production of trancoripta® ‘c ba @ want Spera was replaced the project was revarpad. Spith and John returned to the U.S. and were replaced by a TSD of eficer, Carles Flick, who was put inside the Listening post to naintain Brady was reassigned to other duties rendirg a, ie@ister. . the equipnent -/ Scott took over the project as case offices ae a with LIELEGAIT. AD 8 routine s pervision . LG 7 $3 aed, Ree This was about: Jat te 1961. - thi ae the staff first developed from a pro-Castro group celebrating on. sew : Years eve 1959. As It recall ) it was a ‘makeshift arrangement of volunteers 2 their ectivities end recruitirg ezents right wr £% eanong Cuban nationals in _ 4. Personnel assignmer WN to ow is vho was in Mexico during nN Warren Commission. To actos fo ves there and what they were doing I equ + investigation by the the period prior to Osi: heve gro.p!ed rersons tozether chronologically with areas of their assignaent as the a covicring fron 1950 to 1969 so fest FERRRR Names vop up, one cen tell what Feriod they were in Mexico sod thet sssigment Nat t the tine. | : | - "> PAGE 235 6 319 / ; | : COPY NO. __ — 7°
[ers . Tse + vor: &/56-6/59 COS Winston §. Scott (deceased) Docs We -~ 7/58 kifsnso Rodriguez (retired) 0/53 ~ 12/62| | (retired) % 63 - 9/65 lan White (retired)— 20/65 - _ 1969 Stanley Watson (retired in Hexico) - COVERT ACTION. . Prior to 1954 Howard Kunt (retired) 12/54 - 7/53 Willierd Kill aaa 12/56 - 9/61 Stannard Short care | Ghief — 9/6. - 3/64 David Prion rea) — 8/62 — 9/64 2/64, ~ 6/65 Fanos Flaten Ae Flanner; 9/64 - 11/66 Herold Dalghre 10/65 — 1967 - Stanley Vatson\Cretired) 66 — 68 - 7. Joseph SmithC(retired in Mexico) CUBA OPERATIONS = 56 — 4/62 Thomas Hazlitt Chief we Wee Ae 2/60 — 4/62 . Jack Stewart Catire Costa Rice 4 BAe 4/63 ~ 4/65 Bob Shaw Chief — Say a : 9/63 - 7/65 Ray Swider — t 10/63 — 5/65 Lorna Mackay (Mx aan oh oe Sh | -- 8/63 - 6/65 David Prine SE wrad 9/65 - 19/68 Joseph Picco Ate 10/65, ~ 12/67 Peszy Vaggera | . - . i \ . SOVIET TARGET 6/57 — 10/59 Louise lyon Gad arsed} of _ ver Prentice Marheine’ (=) 9/59- F 65 Herbert Manell Chief— . (rewired 2). 9/59 - 2/65 Parbsra Nenell - e CO 5/64 - 7/66 | Yillian Bright ef an - 2/65 - 11/67 Cynthia Hausmann WG 6/65 - 7/57 Alice Pittinger WM SOVIET TPENSCRIBIPS 6/56 - 8/58 Morris Gordon (resigek) IW 6/58 -.6/63 Georze itisko — 6/63 ~ 72 Boris Terasoff ese) in Mexico) ~ 7/65 - 4/69 Paul een =a Ce aon ow . ° . . ' a, : CRN RS APG OY Ho + GREE OO TOP aha | GP MEPMTNGREDOTA aaa eM baninD Sibert, a - ' ; ’ ° ' epee & couse GaP Gow  ynme ~ ” ore Se neon oe ome ay EE eo oe |
SUK 7 ASSETS : Unilateral phono teps : | O49 — 1961 Cherles Anderson III Chief 49-71 tside co. . 155 - 4/60 Peggy Mazgord Asst TED (rs) ° : /5@ -1/62 Frenk Estancone Chief. > - : ° 769 - 10/ 64 Thomas Keenan _ \ tn Kescieo” | a V6L ~- 12/67 Hi ickael Ferme ee se | oo Inilateral photo ‘Cubans: a 59 ~ 4/64. Robert Zanber: mardi Ss ened Moxico) | 1 59 - 6/62 Richard Spathar TSD (retired) PORE ce a 6 By Jnilaterel photo So oviets, . ~ /5h, - 2/59 Harry T. Mahoney | "56-68 oubsag Oc. 7 (retired Chicago) Remon § wanes C gned in vexico) s/: 57 - 8/84, 4 <A. Goodpasture (alternate CO — aCe me end internal routing) \ /58 - 6/63 Louis D. ‘Puckett (retired) — 63. - 10/6, Thomas Keenan => L ofee Se + oe ; - 65 - 66 Willian Bright feb Sp fag ey Oe . Cee Lot ‘ diaison . phon 12) ‘taps ; : ; a, : oe te 959 - 1939 Winston Scott (deceased) 959 - 1969 Alfonso Spera (retired) 959 ~ 1960 Turner Smith (outside, now en 1959 - 1950 John’ (Training rept resi «A 1960 1961 John Brady (retired). an oe $62 -1968 A. Geodpasture — a | ‘961-1971 Cherles Flick "e io So os »j2ison ~- surveillence ot ae : a *rior 1954 Robert Melberg eK 1/54, ~ L/59 Harry Hehoney (retired) 159 ~ 1961 Thomas Hazlitt - 2/62 - 9/67 Robert Feldmann , ‘SD Gutside unit 53 - 12/63 Glen Widden (retired) — : f59 “4/8t Jsseph il. Resigno (vs) Unit blown and closed doen Ve aoe es eka -  8dSE438 oak ra ae : “ee oo) [¢ Le ie oO | PAGE 237, 313) Sah] 7 COPY NO. ——_—
athe, about a week behind the oats spits fection because of ‘the voluns of at to Eerbert Manell to take to Boris. Herbert Henedi and his wife Berbera handled 211 of the srocessiug of Soviet Pw s. Hy job involved screening ~ a ” . “ae ny be cet J About mid 1962 (check ca te) Lifnng i Mexi rept asked for the telephone nunvers of the Soviet, a. nd Satellite Exbass sies as I recail, the Mexicans co With this forewarning, LIFEAT (uni OS® a wes Gisconnected. Kowever,. 2 Soviet lines, 3 Czech, : 2 Polish, “end 1 Yugoslav ELON | | Se a ing post had a Live moaitor WhO nede short summaries ee on conversations for 2 eaily resume which was received each day aroucd 8 awn. (passed by Flick to Coody casture. to get to. Scott before 9.a.n.) Later (when the reel was completely recorded) full transcripts were typed ard passed to the station in the same vay, however, there was ‘usually ¢ 2 time lag of a day or SO. ° ’ Those transcripts which hdd ‘Russien or another lenguege besides Ss panish or English went out of the Listening post the day after the e transeript (of other conversations. et : reel)vas 7 atin) \' SS typed. These reels were taken to another loostign GES eat at were trenslated . end typed. In the case of the Russien.transis tions? Boris Tarasoff usually ran atin & & Wwe en > Russian conversations els Se thers of the Soviet Exbessy. During this “period (fell. of 1963). ‘the reels were probably being brought into the station end carried to Boris by one of the people from the Soviet Section or they may - have been carried to hin by Flick tut I think I ‘brought the reel in and geve the photogrepks as soon as we leerned ¢% calling hinself Oswald was probably an Anerican. ae BLD AS’ a backlesz because the <u ones picked up were usually \\ ell proce: :sed the film ona photos were ricked up PN for dates 2 few days aa vys nigkt tine basis. Fhotogrephs w made usually until one roll vas used but, t it chanzed to one day coverage on each roll — in other vords ‘the operetors cleared the canera each day whether there was ansn2iinxnxss a fall roll of film exposed. Instructions’ were to cover office hours, photog rerh e2ch - oe SEORT ee , | oe "PAGE 238 8 29 \ oe . COPY. NO.
- : . . oe a a ow 5 oe 2 se8 ome tem oe ~~ t ‘ ‘ . ‘ 2 6: Rage REAR RENTED IP | new Soviet and fanily, all foreigners end foreign lieenee plates. Fuman error did occur but generally the egents vere gonscientious. The Cuban enbessy coverege had more sozhisticeted (a pulse cazera) but it frequently develosed mechanical eee . b Zenbarnerdi end Srather (I think) handled this film wy and <. Lorna iecKkay screened tke film inside the stati Qh . — I am certain thet GOR call cane to our attention frox the Soviet line. It was picked uz eae taken to Boris fora transletion Decause the caller vas trying to sseak Russian. Any delay was caused by vaiting to | - compare the photographs with the typed transcript. There were no copies of . trensericts everf made in languages other than ‘Spanish or Foglish because Win Scott could read-only thoze tvo languages erd he seiee Wigsstreened the oo th wv . al transcripts for ‘operational leads PON R eyes Ae | wer os . . ¢ ores ; — — €003823 “PAGE 235 oe 31 COPY NO. Ca